Evening Star Newspaper, January 29, 1924, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. i WASHINGTON, D. C. “TUESDAY.....January 20, 1824] “THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor o N “The Evening Star Newspaper Company Bueiness Ofice, 11th St. aud Penosylvania Ave, ~ New York Office: 110 East 42nd St. { Cuicaxe Oice: Tower Bullding. «Burcpean Office: 18 Regeat 8t., Londoa, England, A" e Evening Star, with the Sundsy morning Y pgition, fa deliverwd by carriers within the ©ity at 60 ceuts per mouth: dafly ouly, 43 st per month: Sunduy only, 20 centd’ yer * ivonth Ordees may be sent by mall or teie- plions Maip 5000 Collection 15 mude by car- [Fiers a1 the end of wonth. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia, iy and Sunday Daily only . Sunday only All Other States. ted Press. xelusively entitlec fou of il news dis- otliers e creditad iocul uews pub: ights of publication of win are ted = for repuul 160 it in tais pa dtehed fere special di. Naval 0il Lease Activity. Action of the naval oil leas becoming Lrisk and de- cisive. The Hou propriates $10 000 to enable the President to conduct 8 thorough inquiry into the legality of 3cs wnd the prosecution, through 'special coun ¥ corruption that vd. The tormer Iaterior, W1 in pses that instcad of his appearing before the Se mittoe of come to in the matter is { £ the com- panies holding a lease o il serves to cancel ii. secking to or eblest, possivl 2dmin- | istrative inquir: king to lease can- | . cellation and possible prosecution. Thes, clopments are in the lie of public expectation. As soon as the disclosure of actually improper finan- { the @ set on Sugarloaf mountain in Fred- erick county, Md., one mile beyond the Montgomery county line. In clear weather this detached mountain can be seen from Tenleytown, the Ne- braska avenue ridge and other points in northwest Washington. Some per- sons will say that the summer White House should be on the Catoctins west of Frederick, and perhaps on High Knobd itself. Some would put it farther ‘west on South mountain, in the passes of which so many men fought before the battle of Antietuin in 1862. Others ‘would have the White House on Loll- var heights, W. Va.; Loudoun heights, Va., or Jackson or Maryland heights, where the Shenandoah and Potomac merge at Harpers Ferry. Some would give the honor to Fairfax county and set the White House on Prospect hill, ‘mlle\l Carpers hill during the civil war, where the Leesburg pike goes its stony way to Difficult run, and where was a Union observatory dur- ing the civil war. Some hold that Bald Kagle hill, where the ancient Eastern branch and Piscataway road passed, would be the proper place, If view is to be con- sidered, and others say that the ridge beyond Oxon run, where mounds and holes mark where the famous Addi- son-Berry mansion stood for mo than 200 years, would be the right place. There is no deurth of sites for a summer White near Wash- ington. ——————————— Americans and American Ships. American ships are good ¢nough for American members of the Assu- clated Advertising Clubs of the World. The advertising men, it is anneunced by Leigh C. Palmer, president of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, have made arrangements to sail on three vessels of the United States lines when they their proposed vovage across the Atlantic ocean in July. The public is to carry 609, th. than 300 and the George Washington 00 of the party. 1t is a refreshing and cheering bit of news. Particularly is this true in the light of the recently much-adver- ouse ° cial relations between the former Sec retary of the Interfor and at least one | of' the lessees of naval oil lands was | made it was assured that matters | would move sharply toward a clear- ance of this unpleasant mess. Up to! that time there was to ground for ac- Hon. Innuendo and suspicion have pre- {led, but there was no proof of im- propriety. The disclosure was delayed unduly, but through no fault of the administration. The Senate undertook | the inquiry nmore than eighteen months &go. That is to sav, it ordered an in- ..vestigation. which actually did ®begin until the t autumn. The | early stage of the mvestigation was devoted to matters and ground-laying r Essential wi nesses were difficult of reach or reiue- tant to appear. Demand by the ca: one of the aspi for the repub- Uean presidential nomination that Mr. Coolidge withdraw his name as candi date is unworthy of the cause he rep-| resents. It is difficult to believe that not. rn manager of tised sclection of a British vessel by the American Association for its Suropean pilgrimage, which is to take Ppla also in July. Recently in the Semale Senator Wesley L. Jones of Washington, chatr- man of the commerce committee, who watches over hipping leglslation, took the bar association to task for its fai ure to choose an Amcrican ship. In the course of his address the senator s from Washington laid a finger on one | of radio will last, ar whether it fades 'ur of the real difficulties in the develop- ment of a successful overscas Ameri- cun merchant murine, the lack of in terest d Americans them. selv “The lack of intercst, to express it mildiy, in an Americah merchant ma ne is too prevalent in this country. and is on the greatest handicaps to building up our shipping,” he said. “Cntil our prefe American ships to allen ships for transporting themselves and t r property we can- not hope to have u merchant marine.” The ght spirit of Americans to- people 1 is sponsored or approved by his principal. The President, although by courtesy a participant in the cabinet meetings during President Harding's | term,.is in no wise implicated in the | #eandal of the naval oil leases, and it | is no less than ocutrageous now to| charge him with complicity, even by | silence. This unjust attack is likely | ,to redound by reaction to the Presi dent's interest, especlaily as he is at ! “'the first opportunity moving to the -extent of his power to correct the faults that have been committed: and to punish any who are guilty of be treying the natlonal weifare. ———— i ' ‘There may be survivors, as rumored, | emong members of roval families who @&re supposed to have perished in Euro- pean- governmental cataclysms. 1If there are such they are too prudent 1o - appear In person to of their ‘luck. boast et The furnishings brought to light from the Luxor tomb indicate that life In Tut's court was a perpetual Pea- cock ulles” promenade. ———— Acgain the farmers are discontented bacause their lands as a rula develop corn ‘and wheat flelds instead of ofl welis. Summer White House. The Star bas printed a news st that “Warrenton, Va., is making every effort to have Congress accept the $200,000 willed to the nation by the “ate’ J. Wilson Leakin, noted Balti- simore. attorney, for the establishment 0f.a summer White House and also to gelect the site for this executive Mmansfon in the heart of Fauquier county, three miles from Warrenton.” Warrenton hes the good wishes of many Washingtonians who are Vir-| a born or of Virginian descent. | Warrenton has been a famous place of summer rest for a century, and no one can think of Warrenton without thinking of Fauquier White Sulphur, Bethel Military Academy, the Warren Green, the View tree and the wagon trains of ,distilled apple juice which | used to roil along the stony, hilly road from Little Washington. The memory of many of us will go back to War- xenton when It was the home of Gen. Payne and Eppa Hunton, who com- manded the Sth Virginia Infantry, was made a brigadier after Gettys- burg, served the eighth district in the House In the Forty-third to Forty- sixth Congresses and was a valued member of the House Distriet com- mittee, later sitting in the Senate. He was a brave, able and genial man, and wag succeeded by John 8. Barbour of *sentative and senator, and who lived *in the old brick house at the intersec- streets northeast. The View tree, which figures in the summer White House story, was a Confederate lookout, and it has been told many times that Col. John S. where there is a monuntent to him be- » View tree and sweep the lower coun- try with his glass for Union coms . While the glories of Fauquier are - in the summer White House matter. Som persons will sa¥ that it should “Alexandria, for several years repre- Jtion of Maryland avenue, B and 24 Mosby, who is buried at Warrenton, - fore the courthouse, used to watch at ‘mands. ‘undisputed, the county will have rivals ward their merchant marine is a great need today. YWhen they are Teady to vay as much or more for using Amer- fcan shi w they are ready to use equal or less accommodations by merican ships, when st that their employing American merchants in: business be carried in American bot- | toms, the problem of the merchant marine will largely be solved, in the opinion of Senator Jones. And why should there be this soft ness of Americans toward the mer- chant vessels of Dritain or France or the Scandinavian countrics, this pref- erence to the disudvantage of Ameri- can ships? Unfortunately rumors and reports alleging lack of service and lack of safety on have been circulated both in this coun- try and in Europe. too, there is a certain degree of snob- bishn which insists upon the use of the vessels of some of the European lines rather than the American ships. To an American who believes in Amer- jcan shipping, the suggestion was brought recently that American ves- sels, as compared to those of foreign countries, are not safe. “Have you ever," he replied, “heard of the fate of the Titanic”? —————— A few statesmen appear determined to carry certain investigations at the United States Capitol right along ianto the national party conventions. ———— There is an evident impression that the Teapot Dome region is going to develop some kind of a political land- slide. The United, States Senate is busily asserting itself on lines of advice and dissent. Gasoline Goes Up. Investigation into the sudden and material advance in the price of gaso- line is promised, and It is & Guestion that directly concerns more than the hundred-and-odd thousand automobile owners in the District, for practically every car serves not only the person registered as its owner but also a fam- | ily. When gasoline prices were suc- cessively reduced a few months ago and reached the lowest at which gaso- line had been sold for several years, there was widespread speculation as | 10 the reason, and no cnlightening and satisfactory explanation was obtained. So long as the price was downward or remained comparatively low there ‘was .no urgent inquiry as to the cause. It was said by most persons who have little faith in the philan- thropy or even the good nature of the oli companies that the reduction would not “last long They believed that the prices would soon be raised, and that it might be lifted to a higher price than that from which it fell. We have come to a period of ad- vancing gasoline prices, and there is no explanation of the reason; that is, there is no explanation which ex- plains. The Standard Oil Company of New York, the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, the Atlantic Refining Company, the Texas Company and “other refineries operating in eastern territory ennouriced advances in the wholesale prices of gasoline.” In one of the news accounts it was said that “as a result of changed conditions in the petréleum industry, including the decline in crude oll production, -the 1 Unfortunately, | THE EVENING prediction is made in the trade that gasoline will be selling around 30 cents a gallon next summer when de- mand is again at its peak.” This is ominous and discourdging. The gaso- line preducers seem: to have.the whip hand, and to be able to set the price at any figure which they think the trafic will bear. When all the com- panics operating in the castern terri- tory raise the price the same amount at the same hour it would seem that there is a very even-working agree- ment between them. It was said in the news columns of The Star that “attorneys general of the states are to convene hera s0on to investigate the sudden increases-in the price of gasoline.” Gasoline is no longer to be considered as in the luxury class. It has become & neces- sity, just as jlluminating gas, elec- tricity and many other things have become. 1f the producers of gasoline show a disposition to charge rates that will bring them other than a fair &and reasonable return they will hasten the time when their business will be regulated by the government. | Radio Talk and Techmique. Radio talk is heard everywhere; not the broadcast talk alone, but talk about radios. It is heard on the street cars, where “radioc fans” meet by chance. Tt is heard in groups whe out of a number of people there are sure to be several who are owners and manipulators of “sets.” It is heard on the streets, where men walk together. This talk is about radio mechanis: about wave lengths, about the hun- dred and one things—or perhaps thou- sand and one—pertaining to radio. It is technical talk, highly tech 1t { dlsplays familtarity with processes of | one of the most complex of arts. i This {5 an interesting manifestation. | These people who are now talking radio like scientists were ouly a little while ago not versed in such matters. They have learned it, as a rule, within the last two or three vears, some of them within a few months, or even weeks. And many of these radio fans |are youthful. Some mere 1 Some of the bo; indeed, have shown remarkable ability in making radio sets. A news item has just been print- ed about a local lad of fourteen who has just finished making a “match box 1set” out of a door bell buzzer, & crystal, (u “cat's whisker” detector and odds and ends, the total cost being 80 cents Whether this interest disple in the e | are bovs. 1 | | | ved by | hanism | i | thousands of peop! lafter a while, it will have been good It will have made for advancement, | { for mental development. It is always | { well for @ man to have a hobby toat | {is instructive. It is well for hlm o | have a mechanical hobby that invelves | ! the making of things, cspecially intri- | | cate things, instruments of precision. | { This makes for exactment efti- | clency. When the hobby works end of giving pi ny othe as the radio does to members of the famiily and friends, and i | as t i most Lene- an expensive course, one can go pretty into with elaborate seis and equipment, but then one of t chiet joye of the game is to produ with the east expenditure. something to boast about to Pittsburgh “Fort Worth" with a set that costs The Washington lad who made « ma- chine for 80 cents is happier than it he or his parents had epent $80 on an outtit. ————————————— that sbby. Of § “'get { | Perhaps the power is always sur face demands | for investigation by the party out of | power is one of the things that safe. | guard the republic. ————————— a party American ships | The value of Halian money as com. ! with neighboring num-n«wg constitutes as much argument as Mus- ni needs against rotation in office. I —_———————— ! Now and then Congress is compelled | to interrupt its lawmaking in order to gather around in serious mood and} talk a little scandal | Diplomacy used ta feature the cham- | pagne glass. Now it tends more and | more toward abstinence. SHOOTING- STARS. i BY PHILANDER JOHNSOX. | i | i { i { i Oil and Water. Little drops of water Trickling into stocks, In financial circles Cause some scrious shocks, Little drops of water, ‘Though they flereely boil, Cause less agitation Than little drops of oil. Modern Improvements. “Did you ever stop and fisten to e still small voice of conscience?” “Yes,” replied Senator Sorghum, “but nowadays the still small voice doesn’t do as much business as it used to. You've got to get busy with an in- vestigation and use megaphones.” o | 1 Jud Tunkins says it isn't going to do a man much good to have every- thing his own way if he plcks the wrong kind of a way. Spring Styles. She faces the blizzard with never a frown. In fact, she is beaming with smiles As she puts on her furs and goes trip- ping along To lovk at the latest spring: style: Going Up. “This ¢il agitation is terrible. “Yes,” said Mr. Chuggins. “Even the price of gasoline is getting jumpy.” Admiration, “Why don't you get Smedley Butler to come out to Crimson Guich and clean up the town?” “If a reg'lar fightin' hero Ifke Smed ‘was to hit the Gulch,” answered Cac- tus Joe, “we wouldn't need no clean up. There'd be no time.fur vice. Everybody 'ud be too busy marchin’ in parades an’ holdin.' receptions.” i “De trouble 'bout de man wif an ax to grind,” sald Uncle Eben, “is dat after you has ground de ax fur 'im he most likely tries-to git you to do de ‘wood choppin’s” % l S 1To {times, |federal offices with his own relativ Yet 1 !mn time and th TAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, JANUAR “WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC Albert B. Fall's deal In federal oil leases recalls to Washington the only recorded instance of corruption implicating a cabinet officer. Belknap, Secretary of War in Grant's first ad- mintstration, was Impeached for ac cepting “graft” from dishonest man- agement of western Army posts. Be- ifore Belknap could be tried by the Senate, President Grant, his devoted friend, allowed the Secretary to re- sign and the incident was dropped. Grant's private secretary, Babcock, about the same time was involved in frauds twhich cheated the govern- ment out of its revenue tax whisky. It was in the same era that the notorfous “whisky ring” formed by government officlals and distillers, defrauded the Treasury of millions of dollars before it was discovered in 1575 and broken up. ¥ ok % came into noxious odor during the Grant administrations, too. Many members were bribed by the Credit Mobliier, the corporation organized to bulld the Unlon FPacifle railroad. Under Grant, also, occurred the celebrated “star route” seandal, whereby western stagecoach lines, in league with corrupt post office officials, made false returns of the amount of business done along their routes, and seeured fat appropriations from Con- kress for carryving the malls ome members of Congress foll so far from grace that they tock large blocks of railroad stock as “n present” from capltalists who ' needed legislative favor: for pment” purposes. cap the elimax- of those venal Congress passed the “salary saluries of its mem' n high federal ofi s were raised from the Legin- ning of thefr terme of office. Public opinion was 8o shocked that the “salary grab act” soon repealed Not the least the. sensationa charges that roc the Grant nd ministration was the accusation that the civil war generalissimo filled Congres grab Grant elected in 18 w s triumphantly re. * * Henry M. Lor: Gen udeet, director of the has always kept a personal Iie thinks that account Ing system that fs good for govern- ments is good for men und women and vice versa. (m» torrid night in the ea nmer of 1922 Lord, col- tarless and in shirtsleeves, was work on his persenal budget at home. It was forty-seven cents out of the way and had been for several da Lord's expert caleulations to the trary’ notwithstanding. His phone He Interrupted his fig- to receive a message from the White 1 dent Harding had just selected him to succesd Gen. Dawes as director of the budget. When he broke the news to Mre. Lord, she congratulated him with the 4 T Lope ble with v Sam's - have with your own X budget us Mrs. Ruth McCormick, wife of Sen- ate tele- | or Medill McCormick of Tilinois, has | WILLIAM WILE turned her back on Washington's giddy society season and “dug in" at Chicago to conduct her husband's bitter campaign for re-clection. The stately old-world mansion on I street which the MeCormicks occupled— once the home of another distin- gulshed Tilinoisan, Chlef Justice Mel- ville W. Fuller—has been leased to other tenants, and Kuth McCormick has sent word to Allce Longworth and her other cronies that Washing- ton will see her not until Medill's fortunes are decided. Senator Me- Cormick describes his wife as “the politician of the famlly” a compii- ment which befits the daughter of Mark Hanna. Somebody once said to Mrs. Hanna that she ought to be proud not only of being the widow of a President maker, but of having a future President in her family. “On," replied Mrs. Hanna, “I_don't think Medill's ambitions mount that high”~ Whereupon her friend re- jolned: *I @ldn't mean Medill. I was thinking of Ruth.” * kK ¥ Magnus Johnson will essay a new role at thls year's natignal conven- tion. He will be a reporter. A big newspaper orgauization has engaged the farmer-glassblower with the cyclonie voice to “cover” the repub- lican and democratic conclaves. He will do so from the press section. When the conventions arc over Mag- nus ‘will make his first visit to Min- ota since he descended upon Con- ss5. "My boys'll have things In shape for harvest by that time,” {Johuson says, “and I'll help ‘em get {it in” Magnus s overbanqueted. |He Jaments: “Ain't been home but six nights since I came to Washing- ton.” * xox % Theso aro stirring times in Wash- ington. O political hands recall few days more bristling with grave possibilities for men and Dparties. Yet a senator of the United States, representing one of the populous commonwealths, has chosen such & juncture to announce his departure from Washington “for two weeks at his shooting box in Florida” The senator was recently a bridegroom. That may be an extenuating circum- stance. But a colleague observes that it is such stuff that revolutionary dreams, even in a democr sometimes fuade of. * ok ok K At Fashington's de luxe |hotels @ New York congressman has {bis hubitat, One day this week a distinguished fe 1 officiul tried to ch Representative — by tele- 1t was early in the morning— Ju the congress- }lh‘;i\i chauffeur™ the switchboard {uperator chirped. A flow of lunguage ensucd from the other end of the lina, ot dammed by the operator's nation that she had been in- !structed to ask the question of any- one who called up. The Gotham tesman is =pending his first sea- |son in Washington. Ilis manners {will probably mend as time rolls by. (Copyright. 1824.) Senate Investigation of Bok Fails to Appeal to Editors “Just apother he verd estigution.” seéms f the nation's edi- ters on the action taken by th ate forelgn relations comm and cut what w hind" the Bok peace prize plan and award, The attl- tude of the Philadelphia editor while {on the stand met with commendation or criticisin exactly as the views of the writer on America’s foreign policy affected his ana But there 18 to be a general agreement that no good purpose, and littie new infor- mation, has been developed by the in- quiry he Bok peace h the people could " the Appleton Post Crescent ar- By and the senatol inquiry has also’ emphasized that congressional comment “reflects the fixed, unalt able convictions—In the majority of ses, prejudices.” of the members. To which the Cinclunati quirer adds “there is plenty of important business before the Senats to occupy energles of the sena- s. It is the obligation of the sen- ators under their oath to attend to it. When the world court proposal comes up In the ScRate they may rant and roar, as they no doubt will. The Bok peace plan is not hefore tho Senate. 1t is before the public.” And the San Antonio Light fecls the suggestions that “baclc of this plan there is a dark conspiracy,” are ~at least fetched,” while the Fort Wayne Jour- nal Gazette argues “there is nothing 10 prevent all the opponents of Amer- ican participation in an international court or other instrumentality voting agalnst the proposal.” » % ¥ ¥ Tho opinion of the Pecria Tran- seript, however, is different because it feels “Mr. Bok will be able to pre- sent to Congress a ‘winning plan’ bearing the nominal indorsement of a large number of people, but the vote will not prove anything.except an ad- mitted desire of tie people for umi- versal peace.” Which fact seems to ob- cenvince the Corning Leader that if | the senators continue devoting their time “to a hunt for dark and devilish conspiracies they won't have much time left for Secretary Mellon's tax reduction plan. Propaganda indeed! Every man who expresses an opinion on tax reduction or the bonus bill is spreading propaganda designed to_fn- fiuence _public oplnion and the Sen- ate” Which brings from the Fort ‘Worth Star Telegram the suggestion that “If it should ever become appar- ent that the votdrs of the nation re- sent the practice of playing politics with our national honor the lame duck club- would acquire a number of lusty members.” -Then again, if the Pok plan, why not other inquiries? - the Springfield State Journal demands because, if this is propaganda “it is an filustration of the wild tangents“on which the legislative mind has taken flight. Of course the country is full of prepaganda in which party and in- dividuals are seeking to "influence opinion. National. sentiment almost without- exception is favorable to the Melfon tax reduction plan. 1If the Senate wants a subject to investigate let it consider why it does not pay ‘attention to public opinion. Fully agrecing with this position, the Balti- more ‘Sun believes. “it appears that about the only matter into which the committee may not inquire is why congressional investigating commit- tees are falling into ~contempt throughout the country. Yet that matter probably needs the attention of Congress more than any other. * % * X «We thank whatever gods may be fnr’v:l:e tl‘:\cm\quzruble soul of Senator “Tim' Reed of Missouri, as spacious as the basin of the Father of Waters from which he hails and as constant as the baked catfish that give epicur- ean celebrity to his home town, somewhat poetically asserts the New- k News, which is certain Reed will nd propagandists,” and sarcasti- cally inquires “isn’t he a propagand- {st now with his committee loaded with Irreconcilables? Isn’t he trylng with all his might to offset the effect of Mr. Bok's ‘peace move? = Honest Injup, aren't you, Jim? Giddap Ros- inante.” 4 “'The Wilkes-Barre Record, however, refuses to treat the inquiry lightly, - “far- | haracterizes it &s “Insulting,” and insists that in it “the Senate stoops to small business”™ The Brooklyn Eagle likewise saw only “discourtess In the treatment of Mr. Bok by the committee, especially in its refusal to accommodate ftself to his already ar- ranged plans. “Of course it is to | laugh,” asserts the Dies Moines Tri- { bunc. “but-aiso it is to wonder what cute and malevolent anti-league fire- cater invented this particular strate- gic idea. Anyhow, Mr. Bok is now the target. The Krupps, Schneiders and du Ponuts of the world are given clean. biils, and the anti-war Boks | are - suspectad of = heaven knows what” Incidentally the Winnipeg | Tribune calls attentio to tk fact that “propaganda real implies the spreading of opinione and principles with regard to thelr quallty. The irreconcilables them: ves engaged in | propaganda four vears ago when they ! defeated the league proposals. So per- | haps they, too, should be subjectad to | investigation for having sought to | influence the | Cnited States. | In conclusion ‘hicago Dail News holds “vision: or academic reforms have been subjected to much criticism _for investigating the ob- vious and defending the undisputed. The Senate is supposed to ba i« thor- oughly practical boedy and vet it wastes money, time and energy on three silly investigations.” “I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul” —HENLEY. PERSHING'S GREAT SORROW. Born in a shanty, four miles from a frontier boom town, John J. Pershing slowly earned his way to success and happiness—then endured one of the greatest sorrows cast upon a man. As a lad, ho attended. the Lacleds, Mo., one-room school. Neighbors sald he was “just on uneventful boy.” At work on the farm at thirteen: then leaving home, when nineteen, he taught at the littlo Prairie Mound school. . Savings from his salary of $40 & month, less board, took him to Kirks- villo Normal School. His father was Laclede’s postmaster, the offico was {robbed, and young Pershing went Jhome to give his savings to help make { good the loss. l Taking the examination for ap- | pointment to West Point, just to {learn, he won by a point. At West {Point he made & record in military tactics. In Inglan compalgne, ho won the ititle of Taptain, Instructor at West {Point when the Spanish-American war began, he accepted the reduction to regimental quartermaster, just to #0, and his conduct in Cuba won I high praise. Quelling insurections in the Philippines, he again earned the captaincy, and Presldent Roosevelt , praise. i His wedding to Senator Warren's accomplished daughter was attended by the President, other government officials and Washington soclety. ‘Three years later he was made a brigadier general. As military gover- nor of the Philippines he won dis- tincton. Success was smiling and the future looked bright. At Kort Bliss, near the Mexican border, he prepared to bring his family. Then came the tele- gram that his wife and three daugh- ters had been suffocated in a night fire at the Presidio, San Francisco. Friends feared for a while that he would lose his mind, but he never relaxed control of himself. Commander-in-chief of the Ameri- can expeditionary forces, he led his troops to victory, was honored by his and other countries and, today, as chief-of-staff of the United States Army, 1s one of the most.popular military men in the world. Next-Eastman Often Faced Ruin. P (Conyrighy 1024.) ‘| with distant friend foreign policies of the | Y 29,.1924 NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM EVERYDAY MYSTERIES. Greeley Abbot. The Company. If the bellefs, attitudes and prac- tices of only a little over 200 years ago could for the moment be re- viewed, how the witch fires would rekindle around the discoverers and inventors of {nnumerable things that, then beyond the llmits of Imagination even, now stand as everyday facts of general acceptance. What a com- mon unfon ot zeal, In that case, there would be to rid the world of clearly bedaviled agents of sin, striving to open up the deep secrets of God Himself, challenging, In cffect, the very omnipotence of divinity. An astonishing change of front, this, brought about In much lees than these 200 yoars. Indeed, Jt_is only within” the past century that tho great maxiclan has rieen to fall a ceptance of man as co-worker, there- by opening up the commonplace to a thousand daily miracies, packing the | plain and unproblematic hours with marvels of performance with be- wildering mysterfes of achlevement. On the one hand, science, the mod- ern magician, Is. today, setting out a prodigious spectacie—doing away with distance and time, Hnking up earth and sea and sky to a partners ship of practical serv changing the face of nature itself, increasing the functions and offects of ever phase of art, lifting fndividual man to the equivalent of o host through the multiplication of his powers and opportunities. On 'the other hand eclence is working in a thousand un- heralded ways to secure for man daily conveniences and comforts that leave, or ought to leave, a larg margin of lelsure and spirit for mak- ing himself into more of 2 man than ardurous unrelieved toil can possibly produce. One wonders about that —about what is really done with the new leisure that science has placed at the disposal of mankind. How- ever, that {s quite another story * % % % It is with a mere handful of these commonplaces of sclence that the book in d engages itself, and us. Science nowadays s a democratic £ low dispensing”favors to all alike. Any buflding—almost any room— gives evidence of his good service One presses thls or turns that, and light or heat flows in from Fome remote and only half understood source. A long call, this, from the tallow dip and cherfshed firebrand of little more than a century ago. Nowadavs, too, one takes up a simple contraption of mouth-and-ear piece, thereby talking as if face to face Or, one settles into earmuffs for the gathering in of music or speech made half around the world aws One winds up a machine for the reincarnation of Caruso or even Willlams through the magic of thelr rong. We accept these things, probably s no more than we deserve, forgetting to wonder and to question, neglecting to turn, finally, upon ourselves for our own part out of the great ema that science kes brought to all * %ok & everyday acceptances, that Dr. Abbot has this book. Pots and pans cheese; old shoes; the flo spigot; the prodigious presence of the plumber; the doorbell family truth about soap; rags and v gowns; a 2-cent investment—these | are some of the themes. Dry-as-dust | excursiong behind the: casual | themes? Not at all. True adve instead. ~Selections for the children. written down to their aseumed capac- ity in the familiar blend of maudlin stmplicity and plous appreciation of God-and-all-his-works? Not cven a bowing acquaintance here with that gort of stuff. Thess are straight storfes. so plainly told and so w articulated with everyday concer as to ofter both information and the touch of drama needed to d them to the full interest of grown folks and children alike. P Charles Macmillan It is of as these, made | “Take us the foxes that spoil the vines have tender grape the littie foxes, | for our vines! this writer tells tho story of “The Little Spoil-! jers” An account, this, of the most| {dramatic, certainly of one of the most fmportant, of all scfentific discover- lles: 1531 a farm, Poullly le Fort, {France; chief actor, Louis Pastenr: {audience; farmers, vetcrinaries, doc- tors, £cientists, officials, newepaper- | men: action: Pasteur's triumphant | demonstration of his theory of germs as the source of disease. Around them lay the dead cattle s, a weck {earlier he had foretold when, in the presence of the same audience he had | {moculated these animals with the virus of anthrax. Here took ite start the sclence of bacteriology, inaug- urating a new era in the theor treatment of disease, a new element | |in scientific agriculture, a new es- isential in the consideration of health from whatever point of view. An ab- sorbing story in this telling—simple, concrete, dramatic. cpening toward a vision of the future. There are! twenty of these stories, each an! “everyday mystery” unfolded to com- mon ° understanding through the medium in which this “mystery” | operates as part of the generall economy of existence in these won-| der-working days. ok ok % Dr. Abbot stands out here as one in| a new group of pioneers. By virtue of this book he takes a place with those scientists who, in Increasing numbers, stand as & connecting link | between the simon-pure scientist and the general public. In other words, He is here engaged in the essential | work of making scientific knowledge { fit for daily human use, so -that the average man may incorporate this! knowledge with the general sum of agencles and opportenities around him. This is the next step to be taken and a few scientists have al- ready set out along the road of com- | mon usefulness. * ¥ ox ok i ‘When science was young it was haughty and exclusive, necessarily haughty and exclusive. For its chlef business then was to breed a new type of man—the sclentist. A work of special construction, this new man, | whose sole functlon it was, and i, to | discover and register absolute truth. Naturally, as this new man grew in the powers which sclence demanded, and to whose perfection he was dedi- cated, he graduay lost many of his strictly human_qualities—sympathy, flexibillty, acceptance of the human need, conformity, understanding. But he was a perfact machine, a perfect conservator as well of the secrets of science, clothing these in cryptic signs and symbols, in unintelligible terms—in ail the arts of a complete concealment. But here and there in the ranks was one that failed to shed entirely his human qualities. In epots he stayed human. Very likely this, at the time, caused such occa- sional man great anguish of spirit, for_it must in_those earlier days of high enthusiasm and singleness of purpose have been a deep disgrace, an indelible stigma, to swerve to- ward the human and away from the abstract integrity of pure knowledge. It looks now, however, as if these half-breeds, 80 to speak, are to prove the salvation of the world as human conduits of a vast store of knowledge that has been hoarded carefully by the anxious guardians of truth. When they really get their motion, all of them, these human beings each trained to some aspect of the great world of scientific knowledge, then, and only then, will education move out of a carefully nursed dotage into the free adventure of a gallant quest of life wherever this may lead. Must be a grand feeling to be heading a procession of this kind. One won- ders just how it does feel. Dr. Ab- bot and a growing company besid: him could tell us about that. | chants along with old Sclamon as he | S i tim ANSWERS TO e e e e e et e e e e e QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. How did nectarines originato? E. W. A nectarine is a variety of peach which s distinguished by the smoothness of its «kin and its pulpy flesh. The Department of Agricul- ture says that nectarines are sports from mutation of the peach. They sométimes occur on a single branch and specimens have been seen one- half of which are peach and the other half nectarine. Nectarines . occur chlefly in California and Oregon. Q. 1 have a cloe Thomas, Plymouth Is this the same place as Thomasto! ~H. R. H. A. The original name of Thomas- ton, Conn., was Plymouth Hollow. The name was changed to Thomaston in honor of Seth Thomas, the famous | clock manufucturer. Q. What is the average life dog?—S. J. G. A. The American Kennel Club says that the average life of u dog is ahout ten years, though many dc live to be much older. Q. How does the with the mile?—K. D. A. The statute knot 5,082,668 feet, the British ot, 6,080; while a mile 5,280 feet. 'The statute knot is de- termined as follows: The circumfer ence of the earth s divided ir 6 degrees, each degree containing therefore, there are 360X6 knots to the circumference. Twenty-one thousand six hundred divided into 131,385,456, the number of feet in the carth's circumference gives 6,052.66 feet Q. What country amount of exports ") A. New Zealand average of $154.54; with §100.63 per canita States exports onlv Q. Whera the Unite A. The hi States are average rise and two inc Q. At the timo tho United was formed, what proportion of the population was EngHsh?—J. M. T. A. In 1780 the English peop! the United States formed $3.5 cent of the population; Scotch, per cent: Irish, 1.5 per cent; Dutch, 2 per. cent; French, 0.5 per cent, and German, 5.8 per cent; all others, 0.1 per cent. The entire population at | that time numberéd 2,510.2 Q. What is the cross between the | buffalo and the cow called%—T. L. G. | A. The animal s called the cattelo. | Many ranchers prefer keeping the | strains pure | Q_ Whi war?- According of o knot compare | dmiralty | stands first in per capita?—W. Teads with an rada is second The U 95 per capita e the higheet t H. 8. T. o5 fn the Tr astport, Me., Wher and fall is elghte es in ed wero guns first used In to Frofssart. guns re first used at the siege of uesnoy, in 1340. He reiates that the French were repuised by weapons which made a great noise and shot pleces of fron. This fs belisved be the most authentic account of the first use of firearms in warfare. Th earliest use of gune on ships is picted -in an’ old Japanese paint o repulse of the Mongol flee the shores of Japan about 12¢ A D, Q. How much of the tim in San Francisco?’—L. E. O, A. During the vear 1921 there wers 1,148 hours of fog, according to the record ut the San Francisco Lght ve 18 fogzy Q. T stuttér and would like tc whether I can be cured.—T. 5. W A. The public health scrvice that stammering is frequently over- come by comparatively short treat ment. It is generally due to & ner vous condition, which does not affe. the general health schools where puplls a overcome stammering. Q. s the Alaska hair seal s used for garments?—W. A. 1 A. Caps and slippers are often humble fur. How is the ancient manuscript determi A. In the oldest -manuscripts the ords usually join each other without break or separation. Manuscripts with- out punctuatfon marks of any kind generally are accented as predating the elghth century. Those which have no r othier divisions are always ery fewer and easicr th ablreviations, the older it Je. The most anclent manuseripts still pre those written on papyrue w been found in k. 1 tombs: to them in point of aze INANUSCHDLS found a1 Her How do the vessels of our coal when the from colllers; from such as thoss at San Ju Pearl Harbor; iawati, Samoa; Cavite, ne from coal “piles tained at several points in by purchasing it wherever ht, ln ecase of emergen Whit Q. the v A. On a nermal basis of exch: Japunese yen 15 Worth 49.8 ce Q. Is a special kind of coal requ: for coking?—3L. D. T. = A. Coal from the Connellsviile se:- tion in Pennsylvania, from the Poc:- hontas £ Virginia, and from the Colorado field is generally usc coking, but with the use of product oven it is possible to cok most any kind of coal. (Any reader can get the ansicer %0 any question by writing The ttar In fogmation Bureauw. Frederis J. q&- , director, 1220 North Capi stréet. This offcr applies stricily ¢ information. The bureau cannot gi: on legal, medical and Jinagr atters. It does not attemp! ¢ e domestic trouble, nor to unde €xhaustive research on any Write your guestion plaily Inclose 2 cente in & Patrician Now Foreign Minister For the Republic of Poland BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Count Maurice Zamoyeki's appoint- ment as minister of foreign affairs at Warsaw does not mean any new departure in the foreign and domes-| tic policies of Poland, but merely) serves to still further emphasize the se and intimate character of her relations with France. who is the head of the house of Zamoyski, which has play-, cd so important a role in the h of Toland throughout the last five centurles, has been acting eve: ce the recognition of independen of Poland by the congress of Versaliles in 1919 as her ambassadoer in | serving without pay and taking upo: his shoulders the entire burden of the xpense of ng the diplo matie representation of his country in France and the pavment of large staff of secretaries and milit and commercial attaches. Porsessed of great wealth ha was! In this way enabled to relieve the! national treasury st Warsaw and its annual budget of the heavy draln upon its resources at a time when it| was at its wits' end for money. Nat- | this piece of patriotic ger erosity on the part of the count had | the effect of giving him & very| welghty voice in the aftairs of his government, and this, taken In con junction with his prestige among all of his countrymen as head of th great house of Zamoyski and his in- to relations w the Freach republic’ with its premier. and leading ttatesmen, with its great | captains of industry and of finance as well as with its military leaders, | all combined to place him in such a! position that he virtually dominated and directed the entire national and international policles of Poland from| his stately home in Paris, at 12 Rue Marigon. l Pari s i i | * e % 3 And thus it has happened ti though much capital has been made abroad of the democracy of the pre- miers of Poland, who in several cases have been drawn from the masses in- stead of from the classes—in fact ne of the most notable of the num- ber, Farmer Witos, absolutely® refus- ed even when in office to wear white collar or & necktie and tuck- ed his trousers in his boots—yet in reality the government of Poland has been dominated by the patrician chieftain of one of her great hou: of the territorfal nobility which has been famed throughout centurles for | its unselfish and self-sacrificing pa- Merctofore the principal affairs of Poland have been conducted by the various for-! clgn powers on the banks of the Seine. Thanks to the transfer of | Count Maurice Zamoyski to \\'ar-} | | triotism. international saw, they will from henceforth be conducted on the banks of the Vis- ‘n 1 ith the president of | & eighteenth century, scrved under t Saxon line kings d unde: Stanislas IT (Poniatowski), witnessec partition of his native land, com- d 1 code laws and 4 at Zamoysk in 17 The new er of foreign affairs = great-great-great-gr: Edward VII was very and his n the ot e of Wale ad in of “his Dagmar < 1865 minus be driving b profoundly disappointed an grined. He expiained that got together an absolutely team of four Orloff trotters f purpose it tc prince, but that during the prece dght one of the horses had suddenls ana “I wish,” ¢ could know how what I could do t pleasure that I ¢o a Tt some tn it Without British b apparent you will do th You the tion Russis But whereas Andrew, who had been revolutiomarr minister. of the interior of Poland, had mansged to cffect his escape ! France, Stanislas had been captur agddeported to the most remote « negof amchatka as a dangerou liticad copy' his Wales t Palace gave of his royai should buck from full liberty name ‘marrie, line' of Bourbor Andrew to the Princess Car. of tho Naples-Two-Sicilies line, a union which shows that the Zamoy. kis are regarded us qualified to mate on a footing of equality with the royal and imperial dynasties of Europe. The princess is a sister of the royal Countess of Casaris, whose husband is the lexitiinist ¢laimant to the throns of Naples and the Two Sicllies. Her the Count of Trapan!, was Ko of King Francis I c queen, the whila' Pri iother W Isabelia of A tula. Count Maurice Zamoyski. who is married to one of his cousins, Prin-| cess Marla Sapleha, of a famil which is well known in the United tates, belongs to the so-called ‘Uradel” of the nation, that Is tal say,*which has ranked as noble since! before the dawn of its history. Its, members have on more than one oc- casion refused to accept thelr elec-| tion to the throne of Poland, nota 1 John Sarfus de Zamoyski, who ial 1587 stood aside and, caused Sigisei mond III, a prince of the Swedish; sovereign dynasty of Wasa, o be proclaimed as King of Poiand his stead. This John Zamoyski had ye earlier headed the cmbassy that had proceeded to Franca to hand the crown of Poland to Henrl de Valpis, Duke of Anjou, who relgned ' as King of Poland at Warsaw for a few vears before abdicating im.order to ascend the throne of France as Henry 111 on the death of his.elder brother, King Charles IX. Jean Zamoyski was also the grand chan- cellor of Poland throughout sut« sive relgns, was a celebrated gen- al who repeatedly defeated the Russians 1n battle and who in 1588 founded the now flourishing and prosperous manufacturing _town of Zamosk in the province of L.u‘hln, re=- nowned for the number of times that it was unsuccessfully besieged by the Russians. - * * d Then there was Count Andrew Zamoyskl, who was grand chancellor of Poland in the ¥ | Crimean war, celebri e lot the Zamovskis s the marriage of Za royska to Prinee Beurbon, also of the Nea- ftan branch of t dynasty, 2 nephew of the ex-Queen of Naples Another of the Zamoyskis, Count hn, was on the point of wedding Zibah Nubar, daughter of the late Nubar Pashs, Armenian premier of Egypt. but subspquently was married instead to Leuise Hugenie Pelissier, the eccentri¢ daughter of the famous Marshal Pelissler, Due de Malakoft of y. This ma: risge, @fter. sovera} years of liti- gation in Frange, in Austria, in Hun- ®gary, in Russia, and at Rome, was ultimately -sundered by divorce and by . ecclosiastical annulment. “Her pnother was a Spaniard, a pro- tege of Empress Bugenie, and she was some forty years the junior of Mar- shal Peligéler at the time when she Bocame-hie wife. Some years after hi¥ death she wedded an Italian of the mame of De Nanega, thereby for- felting the pension of $2.000 a year to which she was entitled as the widow of a field marshal of France. But she did not find her Itallan husband to her -liking-obtained « judicial separation from him and when last I heard of the eccentr gx-duchess and of her caually ed untess Zamoysi they wereliving Sogether In tan - ¥ Rene of daughter, the ex-Ca