Evening Star Newspaper, February 9, 1924, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1924, _—————————————————_—_———————————7 ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, .D. C. SATURDAY....February 9, 1924 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor Yhe Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th §t. and Pennsyivania Ave. New York Office East 42nd St. Chicago Ofiic wor Building. European Office; 16 Regeut St., London, England, th the Sunday morning by curriers within the mouth: duily only, 45 20 ceats’ per or tele- by car- eity at 60 cents p cents per month month. _Orders mus phone Main 5000. Collection I8 ma Tiers at the end of cach mouth. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia, day..1yr., £5.40; 1 mo, All Other States. Daily and Sunday.1yr., §10.00; 1 mo., Daily only... 11w 0 Sunday oniy Member of the Associated Pres Assoctated Press is excluslvely entitied £ oall news dis Mr. McAdoo and the Press. M. MeAdoo's newspapoes for news that E. L. mony hefore (b vestiuting 1l that the orme ury had be indignation at the their di of the Doheny in his testl s committee in- naval oil said tary of the Tre 1 employed as counsel al lurge fee after he left the cabinet, not well adv 1. well gronnds timony w 1, the fact was of keen public nd the publi- n followed a8 o matter of und without any Sort Luwyer or as a pri- en for having entered Jato rve- ative relations with one of the big oil compxnies. The probuble politi- cal effect of the disclosure was natu- rally & matter of speedy and lively comment, This was an incvitable public reaction, for which the new papers of the country were in no wise sponsible, which they could not con- trol and which they did not seck to manipulate. Y MeAdoo takes occasion in chairman o1 the committ sing for a hearing tu b the press of the eountry for what was no other than a discharge of duty toward thy ting public. ation ax io the effect of t cupon M atic 3 leases, is 1 interest ourse, for the York i but in not to nomination at wide ranse, din th bee held responsi w discussel bere the hour of Mr, Doheny the newsprints had S0 immedinte was the WEDApOrS dre e, in Washin, The sub- wnioune the reaction that of Mr. MeAdoo's company con nection and expressions of opinion from political leaders that it unfave bly affected Mr. MeAdoo’s nominat candidacy appearcd simultaneously. No matter how innocent und el the conneetion between M, and the Doheny | oil interes revelation—and that word alone can apply inasmuch as the fact was known to but few people—was of acute inter- est to all the people. 1t undoubtedly called for explanation. That explans tion has been given, in part. in ad- vance of testimony by Mr. MeAdoo himself. coupled with the that the connection has been severed recently, that, indeed, it ccased imme- A the announcement f reflection upon § MeAdoo ! its | | York was the strongest candidute. Sal- mon P. Chase was another Important contestant. Simon Cameron was also running. Lincoln became an “avail- ability’ andidate, and on the third ballot Cameron’s votes were trans.| ferred to him and he was nominated. The split in the democratic party had much to do with the clection of Lin- coln. His administration was full of trouble. With Confederate successes up to midsummer in 1863 the anti-war and anti-Lincoln element in the north grew strong. The number of his cnemies increased when it became necessary to recruit the Union armies by means of draft. There was discord in the republican party. But Lincoln “carried on.® One point of attack on Lincoln was his delay in issuing a proclamation emancipating slaves. He was attacked by elements that had been strongest in hix support as a andidate, thougth the republican plat- form had stressed “no extension of slavery,” and not emancipation. In the campaizn of 1864 Lincoln's lection was an srwhelming tri- | timph, but although he had 212 of the clectoral votes to twenty-one for Me- Clellan the popular vote stood 2,216, 000 for Lincoln and 1.808.000 for “Lit- {tle Mac.” Perhaps the clearest stato- ment of why Lincoin is considered zreat. and how he came to be con- sidered great was set down by Nicolay and Hay a quarter of a century aft Lincoln's death in these words: “lt is the almost unbroken testimony of his i ries (hat by virtue of cer- ain high traits of character, in cer- 1in momentous lines of purpose and achievement. he iy the test man of The de- rate judsnient who knew s hardened into tradition. for twenty five years have fefl the bulict of tradition is alrcady ov his time. those but v complete, ———— Tax-Exempt Securities. margin of seven votes the o vesterday rejected a resolution sing an amendment to the Con- stitution to prohibit the issuance of tax-exempt arty lines were broken. 178 republicans and 69 voting for the resolution and 115 democrats and 18 republicans voting against it. The result was not junexpeeted, for it had been forecast that the amendment would be lost by an even greater margin, As @ result of this action, unle . there relieving T revenug ue of securities which are free from assessments. These se- re both federal and state. peress can, of course, prohibit by Station the issue of Treasury obli empt from tases, §té enact a law to that effect by a ma- Jority vote in both houses. action taken alone would put the “Treasury securities at a4 disadvantage in the tinancial market us against the tax-exempt securities of states and municipalities, and would make the flotation of future federal loans diffi- cult. Only by an amendment to the Con- stitution can the processes of state and municipal taxation and bond is- sues be reached. Until such an amend- democrats the an be the subject is reopened la n advan toward Treasury from the loss 1 cident to the i Zations e Congress and the votes of three fourths of the states it will be possib any county ssue loan obligations nd any ci tree from diately following Mr. Dcoheny's state- | ment before the committ —_———— Some phases of the cil investigation appear to be appreaching the stage which develops the uncient query “What are you going to do about it —_——— The motorist might be more philo- sophical about a rise in the price of ee. gas if some of the oil magnates were | not so wasteful of their money B —————— A few of the hats once “in the ring” come out looking as if they had been sat on. Lincoln Day Observance. Lincoln birthday dinners and meet- ings are to be held in Washington, and ceremonies in remembrance Lincoln will be held in hundreds, per- haps thousands. of places in the Union. Speeches in praise of Lincoln will be made by men who by lurgh numbers of their fellows are called “great,” many who may be fairly classed as learned wise and by many who are merely oratorical er ambitious. Men of high and low rank will recount or listen to a recountal of the life events of Lincoln. It is a noble custom, to keep fresh the memory of great men who are dead and whose examples remain with us and whose spirits perhaps still strive to keep us on the path we should follow. not likely that anything new will be said of Linccln. All that ecan be known of him is probably known and has been set down in permanent form, but it is the duty of those who have knowledge of Lincoln to diffuse it. To define greatness in a man is not easy and perhaps not possible, and zeneral agreemenl as to whether a man is greal or in what degree he was great is not often had. But there is no doubt now thut Lincoln was great. A very consiierable Lody of Americans held Lincoln to be a great American while he was alive, and to- day opinion is practically unanimous to that effect. That reputation was won during a trial lasting fifty vears, and since his death.the record of his ideals, his efforts to realize them and his achievements make his greatness plain. When the convention that nominat- ed him for President met at Chicago in May, 1860, Lincoln wus a “promis- ing” man, though he had shown his quality as a whig in the Harrison-Van Buren campaign of 1840. He had tried 1wo famous slavery cases, won lhelg und had shown that he was an un- commonly good lawyer. In his debates ‘with Stephan A. Douglas in the sena- torial contest in Illinois he proved Thimself the master of his cause, and at least divided honors with the “Lit- tle Giant.” He became a republican on the organization of the party, and in the Philadelphia convention of 1856 received a strong support for sec- ‘ond plgce on the ticket with John C. ¥remont, though he was defcated by ‘William L. Dayton of New Jersey. Tn the republican convention of 1860 Senator William H. Seward of New of {sumo basis with the industries of the ! matter of borrowing i The argument mainiy raiscd against i the amendment resolution in the i House was that it would unduly inter- { fere with the borrowing privileges of the states and the minor state units 1and discourage and local provements. The fart remains, ever, that if this amendment were {adopted all states and municipalities fwould e on equal terms as between state | themselves and as regards to the fed- ! eral government, save as to variations | of the rates of intercst | As the case now stands. an immense !sum is invested in tax-exempt secu {ties for the sake of this exemption. The Industrics of the country suffer in consequence, as their securities must propose higher rates of interest 10 overcome the differential of yield. The states and the cities should be on the country in the capacity and opportunity. Such would be the effect of the adoption of the amendment. The narrowness of the margin by which it was lost in the House yesterday encourages the hope that on reconsideration it will be adonted. ———————————— i Nevada is experimenting with lethal death chamber as a means of capital punishment. The prediction may be safely ventured that noamount of research will develop any method of will be without terror. The German government has for a long time been rather difficult to rep- resent diplomatically. ‘Washington and Fountains. In an address before the Twentieth i Century Club Charles Moore, chair- man of the Commission of Fine Arts, said that Washington, in its effort to become the world's model city, needs more fountains, He said that “Rome has many beautiful fountains and y pools, while in Washington Congress { had complained dbout the expense of ’vmt(vr used at the fountain in Dupont Circle.” In L’Enfant’s plan of Washington it was noted on the map: “At the foot of the Capitol five grand fountains hav- ing a constant spout of water.” In connection ‘with that item was this notation: “There are within the limits of the city above twenty-five good springs of excellent water abundantly supplied in the driest season of the year.” The idea, of course, was that the fountains should be supplied by springs in a higher part of the city. ‘When the nineteenth century was well advanced water was piped to the White House from a spring in that square which became Franklin Square, It has but | But this | ment is adopted by twe-thirds vote in | im- | how- | arrying out the death sentence which | |Zo ry C. Meigs, engineer in charge ! of the survey and construction of the Great Falls conduit, gave a chapter in one of his reports to the subject of fountains. He wrote that the Great Falls aqueduct plan would give Wash- !ington more fountains than Rome had in the classic age, and he was enthu- siastic on the point that fountains would add to the charm of Washing- ton. 1n the '70s we went somie way in the dircction of fountains, and little, fancy iron fountains were set going in a number of parks. Then we passed to the period when eve triangle should hav vogue of the fountain declined. there turned to fountains memorials There are now the McMillan and Du- pont memorial fountains and others. The government has set up several fine fountains, one being the Court of Neptune before the Library of Con- sress, another in a semi-circular plaza or court of the west terrace of the Capitol and the Bartholdi and White House fountains are celchrated for the beauty of their spr But b cause of lack of water we have the habit of turning off the water from fountains. With the increase in th water supply it will be possille to set the fountains going. And it might b j practicable to have mor fountains, md keep them playing, in the down- town tion. supplying them with plain Potomac water instead of filtered i Potomae water when @ high-pressure water svstem i instailed. —_——— Hun Equauzation Bill. igress should favorabl teation to the bill now pending before the House committe o military af- | tairs to correct the glaring injustice wrought by legiskation of the last Con- | gress against a class of officers of the {Army, Navy, Marine Corps, coust ! auard, coast and geodetic survey and public health serviee. Representativi Hull has introduced the bill and i urging its passage. No one’s interests would b hurt by its enactment, and failure to pass it would be discrimina- tion against several hundred worthy and faithful officers in these servie When the original hedule Lill of 1822 was brought in it ferred the benefits of the new may legistation upon retired officers in ac- | cordance with *he basic retirement law. While the bill w confer- ence, however, u provision was insert- ed that “Nothing ,contained in section of this act shall authorize an s in the pay of officers or war- rant officers on the vetired list on June 1 30, 1922, a statue and the Later give at- con- The effect of this pro it grants the benetits of the new legis- lation to offic retiring after June 1922, but deprives all officers re- {ti 1o that date of the sum. benefits, in clear violation of the basic their retirement. In the case of some rs this discriminaticn amounts to as much as 20 per cent of their retire- ment pay. This doe fair. Jongr not seem cquitable or ess enacted the adjusted faithful officers, and all should share on the same basis. —_————— Lioyd George, in repudiating loged interview, refers to it “con fused impression of a private con- tion.” Circumstances alter a man's mode of expression. Lloyd Greorge's public statements are b ished by their juel an al- A reduction of taxes is under con- sideration. The pressure of business in Congress, however, 'is such as to cause a fear that the matter may noc get the prompt attention it deserves. ————— ! An occasional blunder in German | diplomacy does not seriously change | i the record of recent vears. Mistakes are particularly unfortunate when {they take on the nature of a habit. { —_————— { According to Senator Reed of Mis- { souri the government may as well pro- jceed to come pretty near dismissing | all hands and shipping a new crew. { —————— { France is to send airships to the north pola to look for a new |tinent. The Arctic regions are evi I dently due for a real estate boom. ————— { When it comes to sleuthing the se- cret service is occasionally compelled 10 take its hat off to the Senate. ! : { Certain brands of oil make poor lubricant for political machinery. i SHOOTING STARS. | BY PHILANDER JOHNSON i H Happy Childhood. ‘Willie carved his monogram On the furniture. Hit his grandpa with a ham And wrecked the home, Zor sure. ‘Willie's parents viewed their son ‘With serene content Saying, “He makes life just one Comic supplement!” Drudgery Demanded. ,“Your constituents say you are not as good a speechmaker as you used to be.” “My friend,” answered Senator Sor- ghum, “in these days a statesman has got to settle down to hard work. You can’t get by simply by delivering a good monologue.” Jud Tunkins says when a man gets mad too easy it's a sign he has a sqre conscience. No Longer Humorous. There was a time when people laughed If anybody mentioned graft. “In indignation now they sigh. A joke gets tiresome by and by. Time Limits. “Crimson Guich hasn’t parking space’ enough ' to accommodate the automobiles that come to town.” “No, sir,” answered Cactus Joe. i squarc or park | s a fountain revival, and we } any | ision is that | law under which these officers gained | con- | and water was piped to the Capitol| “This here is a growing community from a spring on a farm now the site | with expenses to meet. If we can't of the new reservoir at the filtration ! ketch a filvver for speedin’ we get it plant. fur standin’ still.” In the '50s, when Washington was drawing its water supply from wells| *“De way some men loves money, and springs, and it was proposed to|said Uncle Eben, “makes de amount 'supply the city with water from Rock | of unrequited affection in dis world, creek or the Potomac, Lieut, Mont- | sumpin® terrible.” BY FREDERIC “Done for charity” is the final phrase of what is probably a unique exccitive order issued by President Coolidge un- der date of January 24, 1924, It reads as follows: . ‘Mrs, Myrtle Shaughnessy may be ap- poinied to a eclerical position in the classified service without compliance ywith the civil gervice rules. Shaughnessy is the widow of ward H. Shiughnes: formerly assistant postmaster general, who died February 2, 1922, as a result of injuries received in the Knicker- ibocker disaster, leaving a widow and second port Mrs. Shaughnessy now holds a posi- pted from amination under schedule A, of the civil service rules 1 regulations. This order is Issued on the recom- {mendation of the Postm; who states that Mrs. Shaughnessy udering efficient serviee in her preses opinion’ it won'd t to appoint her, tion e e publ ne for charity B enutor James A, Reed, in the opin- i of his admirers, made the specch of his career in the Senate on February 7, when he opencd the debate In favor of the expulsion of Secretary Denby from I,“ cubinet. The vitriolic Missourian i his best in attack. His forte is that of a prosceutor. His autobios raphy “Who's Who proudly | coras in Ul two years he was {Lrosceuting attornes of Jackson county. {Mo. he tried 2: es_and secured jeonvietions i 255 of th That's hout the ratio ‘in which " Reed's {opponents the Seus g 1 the; pon the diangerous pas- {lnn of clashing with him. On Capitol Hill the senior senator from the Show- Jme commonwenlth is sometimes ealle the “buzz- and_ antagonists “mon- '\.' at corresponding peril, Senator Reed's employment te pitent-infringement proceedings andard Ol Company in no fuvolves him in any of the overument or private oil i now engaging at- [tention in Washington. The Cniversal H *rodu Company, which R represents, neither owns oil fields nor refines oil. It merely controls and inl.ns«-s a process for “cracking” crude a@ in that with men this obse W score of other newspaper ver accompanicd Wood- row Wilson throughout his triumphal tour of Rurope on the threshold of the p crence. At our daily audicnees with him—whether aboard his train. his cross-channel ship or i an embassy of the United s a kink's palace in London or or P a n Rome, dent of i hwa u Stories, Freg hest of news and 1 he chose tory um of conveying his me ticklich polit tion. At Ron Premicr fervently attempted to prop President Wilson into appr 1taly’s territorial elain Albania and the Trentin them upon Italy’s right to i sovereignty over lands w habitants, language and institutions ! | ! ! iBY E MARQUISE D : Giermany’s government, {since the arrival of Gen. Daw sion in Europe and its visit of inves ltigation to Berlin, has found it ne lessary to take some steps to cheel ithe scandal created by the ostenta- {tious extravagance of Teuton tour- jists, expecially of the profiteer cl I®ho are crowding out the ordinary foreign visitors from principal !svinter resorts, especially in Switzer- |land and in nerthern Italy. by their Inumbers and by their aggressive he- for. Just at the time when IGerman government is sending ap- Ipeals to the United States and other gruuntrit‘s for charity to relieve t FONTENOY, the leged poverty in the Vaterland and | ithe loudly beralded destitution and cven starvation which are decimating !the aged and undermining the phy- isique of the rising meneration, the !wild estravagance of the German Ivisitors in Swiss und Italian resorts {constitute a flagrant scandal. i The result has been that the Ger- {man government has shut down with ia heavy hand on the grant of pass- iports, which it is now only issuing iwhen proof is furnished that sub- ietantial grounds exist for 4 journey New Dassports. moreover. a number of drasticly worded {instructions for behavior of their {holders while abroad, especially in ithe matier of ostentation of wealth {and cagance. In addition to this, the German thoritie have established of secret agents at those Swist {Italian resorts where German guc abound in order to Keep track |their conduct and, whenever their ro- ports show that a Cecrman tourist |has been guilty of unduc extrava- gance, he is coufronted on his return {home by a judicial investigation at {the instance of the treasury depart- ment to ascestain whether his in- come as assessed for taxation in his inative land justifies his extravagance labroad. The Berlin government at ilength has realized that the extrava- igance of its citizens in foreign ilands, and especially in thermal and | pleasure resorts, is of a ni\lllr’ to raisc_the gravest doubts as tolthe Islnceril)‘ of the official _insistence upon Teuton poverty and the alleged inability of the nation to pay its tawful obligations. * %k ¥ % is'no truth w u- There in ithe stories that have been cabled to this eountry to the effect that the {thi to the effect that the mind of Empress Marie of Russia has given way and that she is living in iseclusion and under restraint at the charming and spacious villa of iHvidoere, in the vicinity of Copen- hagen, surrounded by large grounds, | which she owns jointly with her sis- {ter, Queen Alexandra. She spent the greater part of last summer and autumn in England with her sister, the English queen mother, at San- dringham and in London at Marl- borough House; also visiting certain country houses, such as Althorp, the historic country seat of the Earls of Spencer, and all sorts of public insti- tutions and exhibitions in the metrop- Jolis, returning shortly before Christ- imas to spend the holiday season in Denmark—that is to say, the land jof her birth—with her youngest daughter, Grand Duchess Olga, and ‘the latter's children by her morganatic husband, Col. Koulikowski. According to the present plans she will be joined there about Easter time by Queen Alexandria, who, after a stay in Denmark of a few weeks, will take her back with her to England for the summer. The widowed empress, now seventy-seven, that is to say, several ears younger than Queen Alexendra, Yas retained, like the latier, fo an astonishing degree, her physical and mental vigor, amazing when one bears in mind the sorrows and the trials which she has been compelled to endure since the outbreak’ of the revolution In Petrograd in 1917, the loss of her throne, the greater part of her fortune, the butchery under the most atrocious circumstances -of her eldest tsoever minor daughter without means of sup- | when | way | WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS WILLIAM WILE were predominantly Ttalian. “Well" Mr. Wilson explained to us, “I told Signor Orlando I hoped he wouldn't extend that doctrine to Manhattan Island, which, as King Victor in- formed me, contains more Italians than in any city in Italy!™ * ok % ok There were many amusing episodes during Wilson's trip through Italy. The President knew no word of the country’s language—which causcd the Ttalians 1o placard .his via triumphals in Rome with red-white- and-blue posters printed in English letters three feet high. One, a cita- { tion from a Wilsen speech in 1917 at Baltimore, read: We have all used great We have used the words right and justice. The time has come to show Whether we mean what we sid.” Which cynics might eall a gentle veminder. At Milan, Wilson, resnond- {ing to frantic calls for a specch, peared upon the halcony of th ing where he was bei en® h t peht was piece of talian, Tltaliano! Tho He « mob sheieked with mirth. A Turin paper published an Fingligh tion in the Tresident’s honor. Its compositors had a toash time of it. A “stri headline the front page ilson’s visit will strengthen the historic lies that have always united our two countries * ok kX William (. MeAdoo said in his ict- ter to Senator Lenroot that “no law- ver cun take @ eabinet office unless {ne be rich enough to give up al) pro- | fessional employment in business when he comes out of office”” Th | British government gets | by ute, in t {principal e officer, | ehancellor,” who ides | house of lords. is provided that {no man who has “sat on the wool- ! sac the historie chair filled by the lord chancellor—may ever re-enter te law practice. In lieu of that i remuneration, he receive a pension’ the full amount g alury lord chancellor—$ |a vear. " Several distinguished lords | chancellor are still alive, living the prescribed life of lelsure. * ok % % | Wilmott Harsant Lewis, Washing- {ton correspondent of the Lendon Tim ords in a rece the Thunderer” that an athicte and | Rymnast now repre America in | Britain the person Frank . This Lewis' pen pleture ¢ ambassador, Kellogg is a white-haired, sort of nervous as lost the sight of does not interfers B 0 Washington (often with hi the ner). | poiut, 1t a. 1 ents in of the 1 Mr. | middle height, alert, lertnéss. He but it 1f and friend, ate President Harding, as a part - he r of the carries ba no man of ~pare [ there Ithy mind without s b enough to u <k » b able modestly state that he can place h: n the floor and rais body 100 times in althy and truth- ands o 1924.) Shi Berlin Takes Steps to Check ! Extravagance of Nationals pay bill in the spirit of reward to son with his consort wnd children and massacre of 0 many of her rela- * % m.fi‘(.u breakdown | emanate from Varis, anfl are purposely tdesigned to offset her disapproval of |the attitude of her mephew Cyril in jputting forth his pretentions to the throne Peter the Great and to the { chieftainship of the | which are e | eralissim staries of he sted LY former Gen irand Twuke Nicholas Nico- | laliviteh d by the majority of the | surviving members of the dynasty. jformer empress especially resents the species of mony which took place labout thne wecks ago at the suburban ounger brother morganatic wife, thy =seeff (nee Rasch the Russians in Paris willing to countenance the e invited to tend a species ation ceremony—without the which those present were to swear allegiance to Grand Cyril as the “lawful czar,” this regard to the popular belief by the widgwed empress that i and Duke Micharl Alexandrowiteh, the only brother and heir of Nichola: il, in Whose favor that monarch ab. licated, still ve and in hiding. Neither the widowed empress, nor yet the former generalissimo, Grand Duke Nicholas, nor yet most other ‘members of the former im- periul family and of the old Russian aristocracy ever can forget that Grand Duke Cyril was the only mem- ber of the dynasty who, on the mor- row of the revolution in 1917, has- tened to congratulate its leadars on their success and on the dethrone- ment of the czar, to renounce hi duke and as sky), i who affair fof cor crown— | required Dk when all were like the Philip Ega- lite, Duke of Orleans, on the outbreak of the greai French revolution and imprisonment of King Louis XVI and of Queen Marie Antoinetts at the close of the eighteenth century. Grand Duke Cyril is married to a sister of the Queen of Rumania, namely the divorced consort of the former soverelgn Grand Duke of Hesse. Born as a princess of Great Britain and England and as a grand- daughter of Queen Victoria, also very remotely in the line of succession to | the English throne, she has occasion- ally pald private visits with her daughters to England. But Grand Duke Cyril has remained ever since the war on the French side of the channel, and has been given to under- stand that he would not be welcome ther by his English royal relatives or the people of Great Britain. In fact, there are several influential so- cieties of former Russian nobles and former officials in England who have formed organizations quite hostile to the pretensions of the formerly revo- lutionary Grand Duke Cyril, notably those of which Serzius Bolotoff and Prince Wiamsemski, son-in-law of Gordon Selfridge, are the leading spirits. | Wants Fair Treatment For Howard Univers To the Bxitor of The Star. “While I was musing burned.” The spark that caused it is the re- cent vote taken in Congress that the appropriation asked for Howard Uni- vereity be made less. Why? Because of the sermon of the Rev. Grimke, who addressed an organization not a part of Howard University but meet- ing in the building. Assuming that the man too freely expressed his opinion as to white folks, are white folks showing any great superiority or magnanimity in depriving a whole institution of needed funds to carry on its work? Inasmuch as the institution is to in- crease intelligence and make better citizens it would seem the part of statesmen to forward any move that would benefit not only a race but the country at large. It is to be vegretted that the min- ister in_question should have so im- prudently used his tongue, but isn't it to be deplored that those “in the seats of the mighty” should make hundreds suffer for his indiscretion? Is it ‘@ equare deal? MAVCIADDIE P. FARRINGTON. y the fire i ‘ words. | tsrue of ! body. | ping-rope | house of Romanoft, | The | of the| The Library Table BY THE BOOKLOVER Many of us consider “The Life and Letters of Walter 1L Page,” by Bur- i ton Hendrick, the most valuable 1i- brary work growing out of the war. The personality of the distinguished ambassador of our country to Great iritaln during those trying years was such a fine one, as revealed in “The Lifo and Letters” that it is a pleasure to continue our ac- | auaintance through an earlier book of Walter Page, now published in a new edition. “A Publisher's Con- fession,” originally published anony. mously, aroused much interest at the time, but will cause much more now that the author is known to’be Wal- ter Page. As successful an editor and publisher as he was a diplomat, Fage was well aualified to write on the profession and business of pub- hing. His standards were unusual- high, and he had no respect for the publisher who is interested only in Lis bookkeeping nee, the pub- l'sher who uses “brass band” meth- ods, or the “vanity publisher.” The publisher who fleeces the innocent but vain author, by putting out at the author’s expense books which he knows will mever scll, calls forth from Page the vigorous eplthet ‘heartless pirate” The reason why some novels are accepted by pu lishera and some are not and why ometimes a bad book suceecds wnd #00d one does not are discussed fram the vantage point of an expert. This book has the same readable qual’'ty as “The Lifo and Letters® and is enlivened by man fotes of authors. cditors 1shera, - nd pub: k of the same type u8 A Publisher's Confes “Remembered Yesterday by Robert Underwood Johnson. Like Paj Johnsoun's memoirs are contribution to the subject of American publishing. Robert Under- wood Johnson began his editorial work on the old Seribner’s Monthly, afterward the Century Magazine. G. Holland, the poet and novelist, was at that time editor; Richard Watson Gilder followed him, and at.Gil- der's death Johnson becams editor. Throughout his vears of editorship shuson became intimately acquaint- i with many of the most nd intercsting literary people of al- most two gencrations.” The pages of “Remember are filled with such n rte, Mark Twain. Charles Dudles Warner, Ma- n Crawford, Frances Hodeson Bur- wtt, Juel Chandler Harris. John Ha: Kipling, Th 1 3 Stockton. W roushs, Mary Mapes Do, osevelt and Maurice Franeis Esa ctive part plaved hy the Another b Valter Page's o Is f this book. The Cen- s eoterie fought tireless vice reform. Tree arty fo conservation, international ht, international {refmem of tenement abuses, the gold {standard and the Australian ballot jthex fought with cqual zeal against all farms of graft and poli ism. Like Walter Page, derwood Johnson served h country in diplomacy. He was amb, ador to Italy during Presldent Wilson's sec- ond term tury { for civil < D rhitration, the works of fiction ht Dbe called atmospheric, that is, they have i such reality of place that the reader, if he have any imagination at all, finds himself living in the scene of the story. sometimes quite regardless jof the characters and action. “The Judge.” by Rebecea West, is a novel of this type. burgh s seen, felt and lived in com- pletely by the reader; part the lonely home standing aloof alike marshes and dunes of th the sordid villas of the almost equally visualized. A wri who has had slight attention fro the critics and is not as well kno as he deserves, but mevertheless to a high degree ing atmosphere ; Many of Marian, from the coast and town Frederick Niven. n his preface to Niven's “Justice of the As Edinburgh is the protag- ‘Ellen_Adair' (by the sama author), S0 is Glasglow in ‘Justice of { the Peace.” I ve that there is no other novel in the English lan- guage in which Glasgow is sb marvel- ously rendered. The close streets, the smoky air, the sky thick with {moving cloud, the tea shops with | their surging customers, the strange mixed whirl of art and Presby- the little pletures of ountry life, all these things into one beantiful whole.” ok ok % Samuel McChord ay “The Leisurable | Hours of John Wesley,” in the volume | “The Cheerful Giver,” the founder of Frederick Peace onist_ in { terian | Seottish | compos H According to | Crothers n his es {Methodism was, outside his hours of ! | religious devotions and impassioned { exhortation of his large audiences, a i gay adventurer in the world of books. | John Wesley read much on horseback, | | and commented in his Journal on the fact {that his horse almost never stumbled | fwhile he rode with a slagk rein, Mr. Crothers says: “He gradually adopted ! the philosophy of the loose rein {his_reading ¢ * The fervent preacher seemed to have felt no re- sponsibility for the guidance of his thoughts between sermons. * . He reads the works of Bolingbroke, Chesterfield. Voltaire, Rousseau, and catches no harm, though many a plous convert migl.t have been shocked to see what volumes were in the fervent !itinerant's saddle bags.” Some of the other books carried about In the sad- dle bag library were Tasso's “Jerusa- lem Delivered.” Ariosto's “Orlando Furioso,” Herodotus, Dr. ' Bride “Practice of Physic Sir Willlam Penn, “Tour 'Through Dr. Johnson's Scotland,” John Knox's “History of the Church of Scotland.” Swift's “Letters,” the Meditations” of Marcus Aurelius, and “The Life of Ignatius Lovola" Con- cerning Marcus Aurclius, Wesley commented: “What a strange emper- ort And what a strange heathen! . * 1 make no doubt but that this is one of those ‘many’ who ‘shall come from the east and the west and sit down with Abraham, Tsaac and Jacob’ while ‘the children of the kingdom,' nominal Christians, are shut out” Of Ignatius Loyola he said: “Surcly one of the greatest men that ever supported a bad cause. * * %X X 0. Henry's New York city dialect does not seem particularly adapted to translation into a foreign language, especlally into such a difficult lan- guage as Russian, but a Moscow translator has recently attempted the task. One passage in the story “The Greater Coney” speaks of the joy of Dennis _Carnahan. in the sights of Coney Island, including “the chutes and the short change and the green, corn silk between the teeth.” ~Not being familiar with corn on the cob or its silk, the translator has ren- Qored the passage,” after seeing actresses with silkk ribbons in their teeth.” * k kK Robert Frost has been for the past two years a visiting professor at Ann Arbor, but is now teaching philosophy and English at Amherst. He has a farm in Vermont which he often visits, as one of his greatest pleas- ures is working the soil with his own hands, One of his daughters lives on the farm and runs -it. Another daughter is already winning success as & writer, under & pseudonym in order to avoid any false glory on her father's fame. 2 l ood anec- E amous | In the first part Edln-' in the msxi in i “The Life of | BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. 'Has Mrs. Harding an active in- terest in the Marion Star?—G. A. H. A. Mrs. Harding retains an inter- iest “financizl, official and editorial” in the Marion Star. She expects to| act as associate editor and write for tit over her own signature. 0. What J. D. A. The use of sate new. Tt is a Creak {salvation, Tt derives ite meanine fram | itwa other Greek wards, one meaning | Aeliverance or safety: the ather rosene from danger. Therefore the Fnelieh word mav well have the full meaning of safe deliverance from, danger. does soterin mean?—G. 0. Where is the oldest university | still in existence?—T. C. L. S A. The fomans T'niversity of Ra- |1nzzne at Raloene, Tralv, was foundad {in the ele Tte fonnda tin 495 ie the aldest in the world The Univer- Igity of Paris i< the next oldest. jvard is the oldest university in United States. i ©.3s it nossihle for a |lorée to weigh three tons?— A The burean of anim induetre | jesve that a former answer to this {effeet is erroneous. The “three ton<” jehould have read “three thonsand {pounds Q. What is [Franca?—F, G | A, Feance has {The ehureh and : White Tel 1 state religion of state relimion. | re entirely laree in the south, ar no state ther, Cathalies in_ Q. When was ntroduced into the United States?—D. F. 1 | A. The first “Enclish setiers in rica found some cotton being grown by natives. The firet authen- tie record of cotton cultivation in the ited States was at Jumestown, Va., in 1607, Q. What is the origin of pression “cat's-paw”?—L. G. A. There is a fable in which a monkey used a cat's paw to draw roast chestnuts from the fire. This faneiful tale gave rise to the use of the term “cut’s-paw” for dupe or tool. Q. Can fruit trees be saved that| have been girdled by mice or rabbits? —F. A. G. A. The Department of Agrigulture says that fruit trees that havd been injured thus mav be saved by bridee grafting. A bridge graft is made by using scions to co L the two nor- tions of the bark a stock or limh which hav The the ex- injured area the cnds of which unite uninjured parts ahove and helow the wound in such manne t a connection between the ssues i established. Bridge grafting is rly spring about the time starting into_growth. the same as in cleft grafting for the purposes of top-working. It does unt Inatter whether the ftrees 1o be bridge-grafted hatve started slichtly. < of great importanoe th ons be perfectly dormant 1ces of s s are materially wed if the buds on the scions have aretd appreciabl; It is often neces- Sary to secure the ons some time _in wdvance of the time they are to be | uged in order to have them in a dor- | { mant condition when needed, storing l!ht‘lll meanwhile where th, will not | drv. out and where It is cool enough to ‘kei‘p them dormant. 1 | Q. Why was Mrs, Lewis Morris call- | {ed “the beautiful rebel”?—E. A. H. | A. While Charleston was occupied i by the British Ann Eliott Morris wore | | | | No tale of the exploits of “Old| Wing Brady” was cver richer in thrilling and romantic incidents than | that of the mysterious death of Phil- lippe Daudet, fifteen-vear-old son of Leon Daudet, the rovalist leader, and grandson; of the famous author of “saphe. The affair has provided clements of passionate interest not only because of the buman factors involved, but because of the strange political rev- elations it has produced. One of the most picturesque dis- coveries is that the Paris police long Rave been linked intimately with prominent anarchists of the capital, notably with a certain anarchist book seller named Le Flaoutter. This sin- gular individual merits being made the subject of a novel. 1t is now disclosed that Le Flaout- ter, while moving in the inner circles of 'Parisian anarchism and holdin, unarchist meetings in hix hookshe all along has been an intimate ec laborator of a Paris detective chief, whe in turn, it_is revealed. is a hro- ther-in-law of M. Raymond Poincare prime minister of France. R In other words, Le Flaoutter has been a “stool pigeon” for the police— and it is naturally suspected, also, that he has not been above acting as a spy on the other side as well Indeed, the experiences of the war have shown that nothing is common- jer than a secret agent who works for { both sides. Young Philippe Daudet, on the day of his death, went to Le Flaoutter's { book store. He had been assoclating | with the anarchists for several days, |having run away from his super- patriotic royalist home a week be- fore. According to the bookseller's testimony, the boy came to buy a of Baudelaire's “Les Fleurs du Mal,” that perversely beautiful rc rd of moral decay. The book was| | out of stock. “Come back this after- noon,” said Le Flaoutter. “and I will, have it for you. F 3 Then the boy, without revealing his identity, drew a pistol from - his| pocket” (Le Flaoutter says) and de-; clared that he was going to assas- sinate some high reactionary poli- tician. The bookseller counseled him to be sensible and not to commit an act of useless folly, which could not help the anarchist cause. : When the boy had gone. th book- seller rushed at-once to his friend the detective Inspector. “Have a guard stationed around my shop this after-, noon,” he urged, “and you can pinch him when he comes back to get )lnil book. He is a young man of fifteen wearing a tan overcoat.” That afternoon there were twenty plain clothes men outside the shop.} They were all over the place. They stopped and questioned several boys in tan overcoats. * % % But oddly they didn’t stop young Daudet. “It's becauso I was mis-| taken about the ocolor of the over-: coat” Le Flaoutter explained later. “It was gray, not tan.” For. he says, Philippe entered the shop at tho ap- pointed hour and exclaimed, “I am being followed. There are cops all up and down the street. I am going and shoot & few of them,” at the Oume time brandishing anew hisj pistol. Le Flaoutter again persuad- ed him to be calm and the youth went out unmolested. An hour Jater he was found dying of a pistol shot in a taxicab. Suicide was tho natural conclusion when the boy's father identified the body two days later. The affair was hushed up st the request of the fam-| ily, seconded by M. Poincare. ~ But after the pompous royalist funeral i ist daily “spilled the Lcoal there is in a bin?— Lingly | Wanamaker & Co., a bonnet decorated with _thirteen small plumes as evidence of her at- tachment to republican principles. Q. How do the Chinese elassify th. different sounds in nature?—A\. L. W A. They list eight—the sound skin, stone, metal, baked earth, wood, bamboo and gourd. as be pronounce: A. There is'but one correct w. pronounce Arkansas. The pronunci tion was officially adopted ahon- thirty-five vears ago. The accent is first syllable. The third «y] pronounced as if spelicd Q. Has there been any great lc handed golf p ? . American Golfer sav, been no great left- slayer. The percentage of lefi-handea players is very small. Some few left handers are very good players, hu many are be the avers On reason advanced for this is that about 20 per cent nf those playing with left- I 1 clube are veally right-hand should be playing that way. Q. How can T cstimate how K. A. The bureau of mines says that roughly gucssing, forty cuble fe will hold one tor of anthracite cox and forty-five cubic fect one ton of bituminous coul. muel Q. How long a pri given the neero Garvey?—A\. E. H. A. Marcus Garvey, negro coloniza- tion leader, found guilty of using the ails to defraud, was sentenced Jun Jto five years of mprisonmen: v a fine of $1,000. n sentence was leader, Marcus : at was the date of the ae lent wt Denver in which members « Harding party were killed?— Harding reache: v June 23, 19 the aute le accident in which Sumner Cur tis of Washington and Thomas Frencl of Denver were killed occurred tha same day at Bear Creek canyor twenty-five miles from Denver. Q. Does the Washington elm &til! stand at Cambridge?—E. A. S. A. 0ld age ended, last October, th life of the elm tree on Cambrids: common under whose limbs Was inzton took command of the Continen tal Army. Q. 1s the widow of Gen. Logan stil living ?—AL A. H. b in A, Logan, widow o and ex-senator, died § Februar, last, at the What A, 3. are H. ember and rogatior r and fast annually. the twelve ning of Wednesday, the first in Lent : after the feast of Pentecost— summer; after the fes- autumn, and Lucia, wi oceur on _the gation da; 5 April and o1 t. Mark. | the three days immediately preceding Ascension day. €Any reader can get the answer to any question by writing The Sta Information Burcau. Frederic J. Has- kin, director, 1220 North Capitol sireet. This offer applies strictly 1o information. The burcau cannot give edvice on legal, medical and fine cial matters nor ndertake exha tive rescarch on any subject. Write wour question plainly and briefly. Inclosc 2 cents in stamps for return postage. All replics are sent direct to the inquirer.) Baffling. Mystery Surrounds Death of Royalist Chief’s Son beans” and rovealed that youns Daudet, whose identity they did not know at the time, had been in their midst for several days prior to his death. Whereupon Leon Daud not suicide but murder. his admirable genius he has erected a very strong circumstantial case. % * He declares thut Le Flaoutter wasa party to the murder, but that to creat. an alibi for himself he had the police summioned as witnesses to the fact that he was in his shop at the time th murder took plice, It also is discovered that LeFlaout ter had in his shop a secret room, t entrance of which was concealed be- hing heokshelves which were swuns cn hinges, What this room? Le wus intended 10 for erotic not_displ: served as a hiding place for detectives during meetings of the anarchist The murder theory is a very inter- esting_hypothesis, but will be exceed ve. Tt is quite likely i - last days cf Daudet will remain an eternal Philipy mystery. COURAGE “I am the master of my fate, “I am the captain of my soul” —HENLEY. WANAMAKER, THE ERRAND BOY. John Wanamaker, the boy, was a frail. studious lad that did not reveal any special promise of doing much in the world. His father was a bricklayer, and the little fellow had to help after school hours, When he was fourteer vears old he was compelled by cir- cumstances to leave the Philadelphia public school and go to work. Rirst an errand boy for a publish- ing house, carning $1.75 a week; then for a retail firm, at $2.00, and next in the then largest retail store in | Philadelphia. A promotion and he was a clerk At twenty-three, with money he hasi ved, he and his brother-in-law started o clothing store just befors the offects of the civil war hit the city. He tried to enter the army., Was rejected because of the frailty of his health. " Weathering the storm of war times. the concern struggled and grew Then his partner died. Forming John he continued the Lusiness. When he founded the department storc idea its failure was freely pre- dicted. When he started to advertisc extensively and when his co-opera- tive payment svstem gave employe °$100,000 & vear in addition to salaries the old-timers at each step foretold his ruin. Then to New York. Buying the once succossful A.°T. Stewart & Co business, Wanamaker. threw every effort into the revival of the corpse. Critics said his Philadelphia_ideas would not xuceeed in Manhattan, and for some time it looked as though they were rizht. Then success smiled and he built a large addition to the store. Offered many honorary appoint- ments, he accepted few, one belng that of Postmaster General in Presi- dent Harrison's cabinet. Tendered several nominations for national and municipal offices, he declined, but ran against Senator Quay to beat the machine and was defeated. At the time of his death his stores were among the largest in the world Tiis fortune was rated at many m lions, and his great benefactions hi! 4 made him known to nearly every partof the world. (Copyright, 1923.) f\