Evening Star Newspaper, February 16, 1924, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition, WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY. . .February 16, 1924 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor ‘The Evening Star Newsp: Business Oftice. New York Ottic Chica European Offes aper (‘oxfi(nny The Evening Star, with edition, i delivescd by ty ai 60 cents yer th Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance, Marylard and Virginia Daily and Sunday..1 yr., §5.40: 1 mo.. Dadly onls 131, $6.00 1 m Sunday only 1yr., $2.40° 1 mo, All Other States. Daily and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00 Daily only Sunday only.. 1 mo. use for repu credited to n_ this paper and T'shed herein, Al specinl dispatehes b & pub, fon o Susan B. Anthony. Doubtless many of those who last night attended the local celebration of the 104th anniversary of the birth of | Susan B. Anthony. held under the auspices of the Anthony League. knew that vemavkable woman in her life- time. To others. of course, she is now | Lat me in history, particularly the history of the movement which culminated fourteen years after he th in victor for the cause of | man suffrage. Two women for a long time consti tuted the vanguard of the suffrage army—Susan B. Anthony and Eliza- beth Cady Stanton—two remark able women, the posse of special gifts for the 'k the undertook, gifts differiog char acter and together making a powertul influence for the awakening of the country to the injustice of denial of the vote to its womanhood. Miss An- thony was the flaming sword of the duo. She had rie sader, self-sacrificing. less in speech and act She was shrewd in her management of the campal She had the politi- cal sense highly developed. It was often said of her during the H the fight she and he that she had a “man’s mind. did not like this characterization, for she always maintained that there was no sex difference in matter of | brains and capacity Those who are of sufficient years o have had the privilege of acquaintanc with Susan B. Anthony will recall her on the platform, half a century ago and later, scoring with thrusts that could not be parvied the opponents of “equal rights.”" She had a wide range of vocabulary, a keenness of wit, an instant readiness of expression that made her public addresses u delight. Small of stature, and in her advancing | vears feeble of frame. she never flag- d in her task, while her health permitted. She traveled altogether an | incredible distance in her journeyings In the cause. She grasped evers portunity for a hearing. One of the annual delights of Con- gress in the seventies. cighties and | early nineties of the past cenfury was | the regular ap; B. Anthony and her colleagues hefore the committees to arzue for the adoption of the constitutional amendment giv- | ing the women the franchise. Though few members then were sympathetic ull were delighted with her presenta- tion of the case. She always showed | herself thoroughly master of her sub- ject. No man ever got the better of her in an argument upon the funda- mentals of the question. As the vears took their toil Susan B. | Anthony was forced to slacken in her endeavors. But she had recruited a large army of workers and could well afford to leave the arduous task to others to finish. She did not live to see the winning of the victory, dying March 13, 1906. But upon the founda- | tion she and Mrs. Stanton laid their | successors completed the structure. It was mainly their work that brought woman suffrage about. For they had | during the long years of thelr untiring | advocacy awakened the public con-! science and the concluding service in the final decade or two of the fight was that of shaping it to the point of action. 1t is proposed to erect here at Wash- | ington a memorial to this great Amer- ican, this woman who served her coun- try so nobly, who impressed her per- a | i cach wi in v oof the ery. intrepid, fear- m. determined. ass the op- | 1 i mind, who fought so courageously and capably for a cause that was not only just, but that made for the moral bet- terment of the entire people. This en- | terprise deserves the encouragement | and support of all Americans, as a | tribute of respect and honor to one of | the true soldiers for the right in| America. | Uncle Sam is expected to go to the | assistance of Europe just as soon as he can get a few complications in his | own economic affairs thoroughly ad- justed. —_————————— A survey of the present situation should cause Henry Ford to congratu- late himself on his early decision to} keep out of the campaign. | | sonality so indelibly upon the publh‘!h 1 i .. Enforcement and Stray Shots. The shooting of Senator Greene on Pennsylvania avenue last night was “a most lamentable accident which has ‘W particular meaning. The fact that the victim of @ stray shot of an en- forcement officer firing at fleeing boot- leggers chanced to be a member of the United States Senate gives the case perhaps greater significance than if he had held a less prominent station in life. But the fact remains that the pursuit of prohibition violators tors at that particular place. must be remembered that they are charged with the duty of catching liquor runners. They have been un- der much criticism for slackness. They But it | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1924. have been reached as to the cost of generation, and others than govern- ment engineers have sald that the cost of generation plus the cost of delivery throughout the District would not land that without ! tion by the House of the tax-reduction | the are now intent upon making captures. Here was a particularly flagrant case, the unloading of a still in the heart of the city, unquestionably for use in the illicit manufacture of liquor. Tt was important to catch the men engaged in this lawless act. The first impulse of the pursuers was to stop the fleeing motor car, The chance of police shots hitting innocent people of whatever rank in life is ever present in these days of bold crime in the cities of this coun- try. Are the police to be deprived of their arms, or enjoined against firing save in self-defen Such an order would make for more crime, for im- munity for the lawbreakers. They are bold and desperate. Apparently only the fear of death will deter them from their nefarious enterprises. Is the law to be allowed to lapse for lack of en- forcement? This doubtless will cause a careful consideration by those in au- make it possible materially to lower the cost of electricity generated by the coal-burning plants. This is a question that must be determined on the basis of studies and opinions of engineers, and when there is a difference of opinion between government engineers and those in private employ Congress will probably incline to acceptance of the government engincers’ estimates. Plans for adding Klingle and Piney Branch valleys to Rock Creek Park {and converting part of Patterson tract into park have been discussed | for years. The value of the land is in- creasing, and its aren is decreasing because of the spread of The valleys are potential parts Rock Creek Park, and Piney Branch valley would give a stretch of public greenery to a new section of the city and aid in making a parkway con- nection from Rock Creck Park to Sol- diers' Home. The original Washing. ton was furnished with park spaces thority of the methods whereby en- by the city planners of more than a forcement officers are to carry on their { century and a quarter ago. The Wash- work. It should not. however, ington that has grown up beyond the check the pursuit of bounds of the original city has little Meanwkile it is the fervent hope of all | parkland, and the new Northeas that the victim of last night's accident { Washington is especially deficient in will speedily recover. | parkland. In the proposal to buy —e—e—— | these vacunt lands for park uses there The 0il Inquiry Recess. is no suggestion of “graft.” The value Adjournment for ten days of the ! 9f the land is known. the citizens naval oil inquiry committee will give | OB it. and it is not proposed to pay the public a respite from the shock of | (he Drivate owners one dollar successive and cumulative sensations, | PN the Tand is worth. Ifor several weeks this investigation | s has beenvin progress, bringing forth | Honest Gasoline. shocking facts, startling situations,! The bureau of mines gives a astounding disclosures. Hints and in- | cate of good character to Washington nuendoes have filled the air. Bit-!gasoline. The price may not be °n aroused. wholly satisfactory to Washington W a recess has been taken, and |uuto owners, but the hureau says that ten there will be no more | the quality is excellent. and that surprises. unless testi- | “gasoline sold in Washington this of wrongdoing and suggestion | winter more nearly nieets government evil and corruption arise ations in every ix. of course, by no means -ular than does motor fuel sold “d that this will not happen. A eight oth ties, including ie condition has been induced by | largest cities of the country the excitements of the past few from coast to const.” It is gratifying A state almost of hysteria to learn that at least one thing s developed. Men a be all right. To such an extent has and show an just one thing after an- them. that people would perhaps have Phe investigation itseif is servine little surprise if the u useful purpese of bringing out into tl < had reported that o ope mutte d f gaso ! collected d & the bureau it bas been found that to insinu 100 per cent of them do not contain and that the produ sumably ! now being marketed under the name revealed in all of {of gasoline will not start a car, and that a car carrying such alleged gaso- line in its tank will only run down | Kl But the bureau makes no such {report. It says we are getting honest gasoline, or at least gasoline that is las nearly honest as any one has the j1ight to expect. We are to have in { vestigation of the price of “gas,” but {in the quality of “gas” we are feeding to our cars there is no scandal. —_——— more riifi- mon of has heen re “seeing thing: eagerness to tell about it other | rert mine become a bure the tales and p. 1t is ziving e It half-sup- suct form steadi any sasoline, already stamped corrupt, is still to b its details, Mearwhile the President has cured a faverable report from the Sen- te commiite the names of two men chosen as special counsel to carry on the work of lesal inquiry and a tion in the case of the oil leases, and of prosecution of who may be apparentiy guilty of criminal mi conduct. 1t remains for the Senate to upon these names. The sooner | commissions are signed the more | «quickly will they be able to begin their | unpleasant but important task. The hope is that their confirmations will Guickly tollow the committee’s action, more ado th tor which they have been drafted —————— The Surtax Is the Thing. The storm center in the considera. of on any en ave so h selves at present that they do not i care whose vacation they may happen { to spoil. —_—— serv- A theatrical p. {to shock the public has a P eompeting with a Senate tee. —_——— United States Dill is the amount of the surtax to be | PFoVide for a ¢ lis not getting levied, and it is a storm of proportions. ) Developments vesterday show that the | © 20 ully due vote is to be close, the democrats and | dministration republicans each claiming to “have the edge” on the tuation, with the insurgent republi- cans probably holding the balance of power which will decide the rate. With a gesture of compromise, th vepublicans have abandoned their in. sistence upen the 25 per cent surtax carried in the Mellon bill and hoisted the rate to 35 per cent. This propos tion is rejected by the democrats, who ¢ want at least 44 per cent, and 30 per cent if they can get it. The democrats | ave the whip hand in their caucus | rule binding the entire democratic | 4 5 AT S O i membership, save one who was ex-; 0 "L (€ EEIT cused, to support of the Garner bill, ! g 5l L DLl e giving them a solid block of 208 votes, | o F P with the radical republicans to draw i ' \CEUT S UE RO nd wusser upon. z 5 e wapubiicans bave) 2k vates ror | S¥ecy. Miays the 35 per cent rate. which is eight ' hoet of 2 majority of the total mern- Lership. There will be some jockey- ing for position in the order in which ! amendments are to be voted upon and | tactical advantage is at stake. Demo- | cratic leaders are confident that the igher rate will be sustained, while every day. . the republicans are hopeful that their ! The id of Teapot Dome blew off contention will prevail. ; And hit the starry skies. It is a close contest and the out-{At peace plans statesmen frankly come is important to the country, | scoft spelling the difference between a bill| And flout the generous prize. lased on sound economic ljnes and {Oh, Doc, to you our hats we doff. one based on theory, with politics the! We know you're good and wise, controlling factor. But we're getting wusser and ———————————— wusser every da: The students of relativity have never gotten far enough along to fig- ure out just what the present rela- tionship is between the price of & Dbushel of wheat and the cost of a loaf of bread. —_———————— The old political organizations threaten to split into enough sections for the makings of several new par- ties. crmanee designed rd time zating ice may inves Treasury * accoun nee fund. which thing like what is nse a SHOOTING STARS. ©BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Bad News for the Doc Since Dr. Coue left our town A little while ago. Were getting wusser ever Although' the news nay bring a frown 1 t to let him know £ wusser and wusser and wusser day. e gettd .very day. We used to sit and ruminate Without a thought unkind, of late And that is why we now declare, Like Topsy in the show, We're getting wusser and wusser every day. The faults which tempt us to despair Just naturally grow— We're getting wusser and wusser Salutation. “I understand one of the Teapot Dome financiers is now hastening homeward on the deep blue sea.” “I wish I could be out in the harbor to salute him,” remarked Senator Sor- ghum.” “What would you say?" hip ahoy!” | Jud Tunkins says he has decided that gettin’ investigated is an awful hard way to acquire riches. —_——————— ‘While the investigation goes on the oil continues to flow. An oil well has no conscience. 2 Tax Reduction. A law, to be enacted, Will Reduce the charge "gainst you Outstanding. The tax can't be contracted il ‘The conversation's through . ‘Expanding. Reform in Moderation, “How is Crimson Gulch getting on The soldler bonus is not the only proposition before Congress that had to give precedence to other business. Electricity and Parks. Among the bills of local importance lately reported favorably by the Sen- ate District committee are those pro- viding for the development of hydro- through the streets of the city in open warfare is a grave public danger. Yet the question arises whether be- cause of this sad happening, whatever the result of the wound suffered by Senator Greene, there should be any slackening in the, pursuit of law- breakers or any change of method. Perhaps the enforcement officers in this case were too “quick on the trig- ger.” Possibly they showed poor judg- @ment in firing after the fleeing _wlul'nf electric power from the Potomac, for declaring Lincoln’s birthday a legal holiday, for adding parts of Klingle and Piney Branch valleys to Rock Creek Park and for purchase of part of the Patterson tract. The Potomac power bill has behind it the surveys and plans of eminent engineers, who have measured the fall| “Don’t expect me,” said Uncle and flow of the Potomac and com-|Eben, “to say ‘Thank you, suh,’ in & puted the amount of energy that may | loud tone of volce foh a ten-cent tip. be developed. Different estimates JI ain’t no hypocrite.” 'y ‘with its plans for police reform?" “All right,” answered Cactus Joe. “But we've got to proceed careful 80’8 not to reform ’em too much. To be a success here & policeman has got to be able to act rough every once in a while.” building. | of | large | i rdworked the- | It is undeniable that statesmen and lesser mortals in Washington are ‘watching -their step” these days. INervous anxiety, bearing a cousinly !resemblance to cold feet, is in the air. Nobody is quite sure where the light- Ining will strike next or what or ‘whom. On Capitol Hill there is a re- freshing taciturnity. It will pass and| [Washington soon again will lapse back into loquacious normaley. Mean- {time o0il has unmistakably calmed the waters of loose tallk. Where there is {not uncommunicativeness there is an| luncommon preciseness of statement. [The “they-say” fraternity Is in r [treat. If it remains scared Teapot Dome will not have boiled over alto- igether in vain. | 5] * x ok * i Any number of United States sena- tors will be up for re-clection this {year. Some of them who voted {akainst the Denby ou word o ing 1f their action will come home t lroust in November, as pro-Newberry \votes did in 1922, in the case of sev eral prominent republ ns who now ]\\'rll.- “ex" before their names. There | re two or three quaint points of per- resemblance in the ¢ of | Denby and former Senator ! They are both Detroiters. ' Newberry was Secr ry of the Navy (In the closing months of t Roose- velt administration) and Denby occu- o8 that portfolio ne th w- ul Denby are Spanish-Ameri- can war veterans, Tl roare sonal Secretary Newberry. on the s Denby's de lieu- ! Yoseniite, onl iz warshi [superior officer a jun Jtenant aboard 1. S [Which Dby seeved is a Bunners| mate. Nowberrs recounts their ex- | periences in a hook called “The Log| {of the Yosemite. Hjalmur S German Reichs in dally contact with ¢ jand the other American commissioners {Americun {years Sehacht's fatl or Life ht, president of | ik, who is now | Dawes reparation . b, the n. Beriin, For at has an many “proe- the | background s th e ient Assurance Socicty of at Berlin, As a) present Reichsbank in the Eaquitabie the United young man, d was employed the construction . fine office building ricdrichstrasse, & centh century. It Berli aper—six stories high, H | Wien e Robinson ¥ Denby's }brated lthe ¢ ment Junior Coolid was de beting the | for solution calling Nece cele- | rri- | by awp about the | enator from Alaba 2 1 S he s 1 retirement, a 0 irreconcitable ns into peals of an ironic sh statesmunship seored whe an unconditional pardon | recently o Mohan, {dian patriot. who led i Lin ! he o a rated and editors o ndhi, the In- fight for th oOut of jail| an obsteled, will prove far stable British riyr, Thr Indian nationalist obstruct th s yment had dittle | o these editors | 1o { o i that i be n . it or would of gove ring on the cas !as now.” the “whether Gandhi purpose of the - type | t remains t ork Times feels, ! has not served ti [ practical man in Indi be seen whe i fade out of the picture [the Irish le wdhi had 17 wccor hut was as rapidly oy policy and to Waorce policy of pieturesgue appeaiing st imaginary o when in ome { but an j tions of the Chase cats, 2nd all m as brother produces tragedic—and little ol By denving “that western indus trial civilization is a blessing to In- lia and advocating return to hand spinning and other primitive ways,” | i the Rochester Tines-Unic ues, hie | jwas fighting the tide of progress.” | Wthough n who has done a much as andhi toward accom- | plishing this tremendous task of cre- | {ating unity out of endless diversity imust be conceded a place among th world’s leaders at this or any other tim. ndi- * the Sven most conscientious {among the white sometimes ! question the advisability of the ‘self- | determination” urged by Woodrow { The vellow e ma Wilson. subjugated for a few centuries, but remain_in its own fit will always {lands. And a3 soon as it shows the capacity of administration it will al- ways be privileged to take over what rightfully belongs to it To which the Louisville Courier-Journal adds that “Britain will permit India to work out its own problems as far as it can, but if the “wild men’ attempt {to wreck the house built for them { Delnt and the Tndian office may be ex- 1 pected to take a vigorous hand.” ! " And the Providence Tribune insists {that “Gandhi has lost his hold upon the Indian people. and the British government does not fear his person- | ality or his ideas any longer, although had he died in jall he would have been a martyr, and that fact would have been exploited by the rabid na- tionalist leaders.” That his influence | ras gone proved a very “unwelcome { discovery™” to Gandhi, the Manchester Union holds, but he has since ad- mitted that “his meditations while in jail brought new understandings of the gravity and complexities of the problems he was trving to solve, and he is now convinced that some way must be found to a constructive pro- gram so wise @nd far-seeing that the | people need mever resort to civil dis- obedlence.” And it was because the British government “wisely” used him humanely, although ‘“breakin his personal contact with the mob, that his influence came to an end, the Los Angeles Times believes. “Gandhi became n god to those whose cause he championed.” the Springfield News points out, “but it was consistent with his methods that he accepted the prison sentence si- lently and without any attempt to lkeep the country stirred up with re- bellion during his incarceration. Just what his attitude will be, now that | he has gained his release, cannot be foretold. He has been a very sick man, and physicians have declared that the needs of a six-month rest to restore his health. After that, who knows but that conditions in India shall_have been so much improved that Gandhi's crusade will no further be needed.” The Des Mgines Tribune, however, is convinced “he cannot and will not quit his program of non-resistance. The man who acknowledged all the charges his opponents brought against him, who forgave them his trial and imprisonment, who' endured indigni- ties and_ sufferings that have bee compared by Christians to those the Nazarene, has not traded his soi &or his freedom. He Is the most in- | sota isn't exact I ments in 1 | and a !ing | predicted WASHINGTON ©OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE should extend to him the same kind of an jnvitation if he'd ask the Sen- ate to unseat Tom Heflin!" * ok ow ok Harry 8. New of Indlana, Postmas- ter General, seems to have the knack of xemaining the confidant of Presi- dents. No one in Washington was closer to Harding than the Hoosier republican, and now he ranks as one of the powers behind the Coolidge throne. Politiclans were quick to note that no other member of the cabinet was Invited by the President to accompany him to New York for the Lincoln day speech at the Na- tional Republicin Club. The friend- Dbetween the Coolidges and the < dates back to Senate days, when the President wus employed on itol Hill. What New doesn't know hout polities Isn't worth the trou- e to learn. These are the times in which Calvin Coolidge has use for hardheadedness of the New brand. * ¥ x % political was once 1 of Boies Penrose sycophantic admirer: ruess all that known Ponnsylvania G. O. P. leader) knows, you taught him.” sollloquized a moment, then said may have taught him all he knows, but I didn’t teach him all T know."” know told ‘Senator Eminent ) England. ston, a goodly company, over the proj stablish yside Inn at Sudbury turn it inte a shrine o tive Americ histor. Quite dently, they say, Uncle Henry longer ics “history is bun Cabots and the Lowells are be conservatively chagrined o - in Wa are qu of Henry Longfellow's Mass., and “compari- to re a n evi- no The 1l r the {spectacle of o mere middle westerner ng the Pilgrim count purpose of revivi terest in Ame born in Mich forebears a for the g its lunguished in- Ford wa n and had no known rd the Mayflowe Senator Copelund Do who basks democratic pr Williara J. Ma con of Rock est medical is not the in the sunshin dential boom. . world-famed ster. Minn., is the lat- favorite Minne the camping zround party, which has plotted out in ahor uph rfends could nation-wide e s 7 the enory ance his operative pr Vot wiven b i Lrother William Ma f being “enior of his brother. He h held politieal offi Medical wical socleties th have showe the Mayos w ors. In 1915 they established u $2, 000,000 foundation medi edu- cation and rescarch at Rochester sight. 1924) only of Dr. a1 son of the pract State rut think never st workd h hon- Gandhi Qut of Jail Less Perilous . Than Incarcerated, Say Editors cresting livins man the world ed that . then millions of Hindus who have joined ith him in ca ff machine-made ptton, gone hun, rather than to cat bread made of British milled flour, 1wt g hundreds of mile o cmpioy modern methods transportation are insane, 100" Ty of T i-British pect no en- couragement from the Macdonald ministry™ much to do with th decline of the Gandhi influence, the Butte Miner insists, while the Pitts- burgh Sun ar; hix release “will countéract the plans of the agitator ist in maintaining order dur- & the pr. ‘ritical period in 1 *Th » admire the men D t Free Press, willing Lo entertain the sug- tion that the natio idol, hav iken his medi will eclipse If.On the contrary, they look 1d to a new «xplosion of nation- more to be reckoned - ximple at here- popular kept natiog hi d v will have the Swaraj sislators. close to the doors of th 11 palace, at its service view meets opposition rk News, which feels movements now tak that Brit om that the igland e has in ry confi- dence. The element that =t f 1w and order unde the m v at home and the main- tenance of the empire abroad arve he ginning to fecl case in their sad- dles again. sh rule is in the the ‘disintegration the. < that so many would follow the w; phably Illiterate Shoemaker Rose to Be Physician o the Eaitor of Some forty or more years ago, in a small shop near the Capitol, an in- dustrious young Italian pegged away from early morn late at night mending shoes and fashioning, en- tirely by hand, the original product; and, because of his uncommon ability Star: in the latter particular, enjoyed the | patronage of several congressmen fastidious in the matter of well fit- ting and comfortable shoes. One of the smen—an altru- istic soul particular inter- esat In the shoemaker, inspired, no doubt, by his industry and apparent ambition, undertook to have him study for the profession of medicine, contributing to this end several books on the subject, though how he di- vined the illiterate cobbler had in him the makings of u doctor is a matter known only to himself. How’ ever, the cobbler was a man of more than ordinary determination and re- solved that he would reach the goal thus arbitrarily set for him, how- ever remote and distant it seemed. Accordingly, under the patient tu- selage of his congressman friend, he first mastered the simple principles of reading and writing and then at- tended school to pursue other subjects which would be necessary to him pre- liminary to the study of medicine, After more than eighteen years of ceaseless study, always carried on in the wee small hours of night, for he did not close his shop till late, he was finally rewarded with the degree of doctor of medicine. Nothing was dearer to the heart of the man than this degree, for which he had wdrked 80 long to obtain; and surely he was most deserving of it. The doctor began to practice here and prescribe for a number of friends he had formerly served in the ca- pacity of shoemaker; he was elected physician of several Italian lodges here and altogether enjoyed an ex- tensive practice, particularly among his fellow countrymen. But today the doctor is dead. The years of hard work and study under the most trying circumstances took their toll from what was once a pow- erful body and left him with little to fight off & most persistent enemy. But the memory of him shall long linger in the minds of those who knew him; him who rose from a humble sho aker to respected physician. His name—Frank A. Mazgel. JOS. FRATANTUONO. 2 L3 Disagrees With Writer. Correspondent Declares Letter on Treaty Misinformed. ANSWERS TO to sur- | the | nd sur- | ther | .l reached by in that country i To the Editor of The Star: A writer in The Star on Sunday, February 10, speaking of the Nica- raguan canal route, remarks: “A treaty between this country and Nicaragua gave sole rights In the proposed canal to the United States as far as Nicaragua was concerned, but as part of its contemplated route would have touched Costa Rica, that country for many years objected to Nicaragua trying to dispose of a waterway held in joint use without Costa Rica's permission. The Central American court of arbitration re- fused to consider the dispute, because the treaty already was in effect.” 1 assume that the gentleman réfers to the Bryan-Chamorro treaty of 1916, refers to the international boun- dary river, along which the route was projected, amd refers to the Central American court of justice, These are the only things to which he could refer; and yet his facts about them are subject to correction. It is not true that the court “refused to e sider the dispute use the treaty alveady was in_ effect” The court did decline to assume absolute juri diction because the United States @ party to the treaty and not a party {to the court. (W. R. Shepherd, “His- panic Nations of the New World,” Do 219 But it did express its opinion” against the propricty and validity of the treaty. Al comm tators” on the subject cized the United St American-mide governi ragua for thus damaging the pres- tige of that hody. which might have seful toward a pacifie O and rd a useful in- . Thomas rs of the Monroe charges the court. xico and the ¢ iversity Address thut the Nlearaguan it was set up and directed 3 United States. Graham H. Stuart (“Latin America and the United tates,” ) says that the “Brya {Chamorre’ “treaty” indirectly caused the downfall of the Central Ameri court.” Latane (“United States and Latin Amerfe 287) declares that the court cived its coup de grace j{from the United States.” sett Moore (“Principles of Ameri Diplomacy,” pp. 401-402) states that court’ rendered judiment again caragua, which Nicaragua declined o accept. Whether the United States is to he d for the actions of Nicaragua for inspiring Nicaragua, it iteresting at least to notlee that Eovernment did not press the ceptanee of Judgment on Ni FagUR as Strenuously as Mr, Hughes % 6f the Lo osta Rica- Coto terr ragua cinto Lopez ibbean tory upon th do ot critie probably was misled mass o mizinformation in existence concern ing our Latin American relations, 1 o not criticize the poi country. | merely am int secing’ that so far as pos readers and the American peopl }whole become “somewhat and more fully ed concerning those foreign relations which always concern the natic ELBRIDGE COLBY Sees Great Benefit From Power at Falls Jo the Fditor of The St I was much pleased to read your leditorial of the 11th on the subject {“Potomae Power Project,” one which joor Lous: holde id, in- jdeed. every person in the District and {in the adjacent portions of Maryland. {Many of them must gratified by your strained though it | be erns every approval, | ® person thought to this proje istruction of & hydre lat Great Falls th light and power sreatly i every unprej H that,” if pr jcontrolled. costs teut in two. This e mere i tudy of rates €re electric pow I have before » lished by the Chamber of jof Pasadefia, Calif. in it i {men who has miven necessarily that clusion is agination, ne but by a {w this state- "he cents lizht lp r KWH." Is this an ifor Californi ot at all. Another booklet of “Authoritative Infors {tion™ states that the average cost i hydro-electric power in the | state of ' is—what* jeents, given sonable rat senator? Five and nine-tenths cents, estimated by the Tyler report? | Four cents? Three cents? Two cont % One and two-thirds cen ikilowatt hour. Ele tricity so chea s widely used throughout th ate by farmers, It is true that ma ny of | fornia companies have ady. {the way of selling wats { tion. but not all. Same of them municipal owned, but by no means all. If this tter faet it eaus it is a most po rful ment for municipal ownership. California enjoys one other advan- age over benighted Washington and it is probably a more powerful fae- tor in securing low rates than ny other. In that state the rat [and services of ail electric’ goner nies are regulated the road commission: a fon which actually regulate the interest of the welfare of the whole people of the state. When that commission orders rates reduced, the are reduced. What happens The company merely slips the into another drawer and grins public. Aside from this suc evasion of reduction in rat are many who feel that to the hoard of utilitics, the welfare of the com- panies always looms large, while th jwelfare of the whole people, {whom all the utilities are conducted, does mot loom quite so large. Th View may be unjust, but it is widely | held. ! I take it that most people have a ! good Idea as to the cause which has Blocked and does block the Poton power project; a cause which ac Secrot like the great ol compan nd profits by piacing @ double tax ion that commonest necessity—light. { What is now needed Is more lght: both on the cost of electricity at places <ituated like Washington, and o0 the causes which obstruct so plain aple an improvement andistinp LOUIS C. DUNCAN. Dower rites from 4 electric 3 cents to to plionally low rate }that it {s the ( 1tag B argu- In a Few Words. The modern spirit has descended to the indescribable mental degradation of trying to abolish the abuse of things by abolishing the things them- wolyee: —G. K. CHESTERTON. As a nation the English are in- dividualists, they are not co-op- erators. . F. EASTERBROOK. * It will continue to be my object {to support by every means in my power the steady growth in influence f nations. o tislsaEes ot I NG GHORGH, There is no more unhappy tendency in our American life than that to persecute those individuals and those doctrines with which we ourselves do not happen to agree. 4 —DR. N. MURRAY BUTLER. Women make better jurors than men, particularly where they sit in judgment on women, because they understand their own sex. Men will not convict women where there is the slightest excuse for letting them escape, —MRS. CLARENCE M. SMITH. 1 " 1worked principal | T AL LRI | QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. For whom was Bolling Field named?—R. E, A. This aviation field was named for Col. Raynal C. Bolling, who was the first American officer of high rank killed during the world war. He dled on the field of battle, March 26, 1918, as a result of a hand-to-hand pistol duel with overwhelming numbers of the enemy. Q. How many farmers have radlo sets?—G, E. K. A. It is possible to get an estimate only. A questionnaire was sent out, to which replies were recefved from 780 counties. These figures were av- craged, and that figure projected for all of the 2,850 agricultural counties in the country. This gave an esti- mate of 145,000 sets on farms at t time of the survey, S Q. What do the words “ahoy" and “avast” mean?—D. D. A. “Ahoy” is merely an interjec- tion used in hailing ships. “Avast” I also a nautical term which means to e, stop or stay. Q. What A M. H ptember 1, 19! is the glider record?— Algeria, last year the 1ade a record of eight seven minutes in his sured course hours and thirt glider. Later over a me at Deauville, France, he covered 1 miles in six hours and four minutes [ Q. When should the rolled ln. singing?—L. S. A. The Etud fstrictly to musie [the roiling of the {short, is invariabl ble of the word and accentuated if it falls on 2 music nt, but not prolonged on the second or third syl- Jable, unless followed by a vowel: then @ short roll is used, unless, as hefore stated, it falls on a musical accent. Q. When w censuses taken in —A. . H. A. Many of the European countries had crude methods of taking a cen- us in very early times. In England as early as 1051 William the queror took what may be terme an_ agricultural census, the re being embodiecd in the Domesds Book. The modern census origin in Sweden, England and the United States, In 1746 the Swedish Acade of Sci directed the elergy complle statis W populatio In Great Brita {estahlished in 1800 cial census taken census of the Un Russia_in hureau did th Prussi nd Belgi Q. Wha of the Gree A. In the Florence S lis ' schoolboy's slate 2.500 years ol {Prof. Halbherr savs this is the most i perfect specimen of an ‘54"'.:-!] ta for school exercises in Europe. twenty-six letters run in P'hoen rom right to left and i an form of the ( k brought to southwest i ubovran colonists. avs that adhering and phonetic rule, " whether long or n the first sylla- crn general nces 1802 purpose. - the T olution Austria 1828, the phabet ex m is t specimen useum there @ How ancien I plaving with dolls A. Laura B. Starr ubject, says not £o back to the re were no dolls.” the world The: L. hority on d history time when oldest dolls Brit und in E; more tha th in are wer e are ep is the canal at New B. L. -mile canal Mississippi_Tiver to Lake train. just helow New Orleans, Q. Orleans? from the Pontchar- which a1 of thirty fect “I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul. ~HENLEY. J. J. MNPs Hopex Were Blasted. James J. Hill wanted to 1 he had dreams of all were s died and he his mw 1 Guelph, a doctor. fe in tie ttered when had to leave sther ! and lorient—but h ither school to support i He w born in @ {lonely f {Canada {rrom the n the woods stud t R stopped when four- ars old, and h clerke the vil store. He had lost an eve in an accident, was undes ithe work was hard, but he enough to help his widowed mo When cighieen, without money ifriends, he made his way to St. Paul ound w shipping clerk for camship agent. He studled and saved, and when en was te ent for tern Packet Com v, Jhul resigned when it was me with the Davidson Lines and w {into the warehouse and fuel husiness {for himself. Within ten years he had la line of boats and carts operating to | Winnip 'lans and h wel fulfilled who took over the w jand Pacific Iroad, 2 > jand its 3,000,000 debt Fourteen years later it, as the Great Northern Irailway, reached the Pacific coast Ihad 6,000 miles of track. Tk fadded the Northern Pacific railroad | | ontario, boy learned home, rest near few books at and His wood Acad- ermy W jteen Northv His dreams of the orient were vived when he xty-thre in the Great Northern Steamship Company with its palatial vessels, but killed when the government's policy neces- sitated withdrawal of the service. Plans for a mighty railroad tem of the west, to include the Bu lington lines, were started with the nization of the Northern Secur mpany and stopped when the government dissolved | When he died Hil the “empire builder, great territory he' developed. as rallroad king, as a multi-millionaire and as a public benefactor. (Copyright, 1823.) Seen As Moral Uplift. Writer Commends Church Con- ference on Motion Pictures. ‘To the Editor of The Star: ! At the Raleigh Hotel February 13 and 14 a very important and inter- esting motion picture conferenge will be held under the auspices of the largest religious denominations of the country and other moral and up- lift organizations. The General As- sembly of the Presbyterian Church, in session in Des Moines, Towa, in 1922, passed several resolutions for the motion pictures. The possibilities for good which lie in clean, Inspiring pictures will be pointed out and the many, many evils of the degrading iones 'will be hit hard. Moral fare, the publication of the Presby- terian moral welfare board, states: “Certain interests in the motion pic- ture industry in screen presentations make light of marriage, woman's virtue, the Lord's day, the eight- eenth amendment and chastity, thus spreading a moral blight ~across America and striking at the vitals of the nation in suggesting to the youth of the land habits and atti- tudes of life that tend only to ruin. Further .on it rays: “The morality of our children is the vital blood of our nt?—V, M. | 1had years | urgent need of federal regulation of | Wel- | To what tribe did Pocahontas belong?—E. C. A. Pocahontas belonged ‘Wahun-Sona-Cook tribe, her father was chief. the English of the attacks Indians and furnished food to the famishing colonists. but it is the rescue story of Capt. John Smith fo which she ‘is chiefly remembered. to the which virn ed of the of She Q. Which nations have the largest army and navy?—S. B. A. Russia has the largest stand ing army, numbering 1.300,000 n. Her reserves, including amount to 2,500,000. Great ¥ has tho largest navy In the world— 712 vessels with a tonnage «f 2,412,146, Q. W is a lanista?—J. H A. This was a term applied to 1 trainer of Roman gladiators; also t. a fencing master. Q. Who invented the ‘“rule « eleven” used in auction?—M. R. W This rule was invented by . I* days when whist Tt is, of course, equalls able to auctic Q. Hag a British ambassador hecr handed his passport in this countr in the last fifty vears?—D. H. A. Sir Lionel Sackville-W, handed his passports in 188 that time Britain's repr was a minister, not an ambh The ministe wrote hom nd's re-election would roous . whe ident Clev felt' it ne nd Sir his passy a he nd Lionel In pearl foun AL E | round pea found fleshy portion of the m inh; nt or exhalent ¢ erally near the Q. What do the Philathea mean?—J A. These are the international Bible means blessing and of truth. There are ¢ classes fn Protestant cf include thirty-two denominations and the membership exc Q. What in cabinet A. AR I in ntle near t and g clas: would be the imp, al?—L. V impeachment in_motion in the House made on the floor on the of a member or dele- g8 preferred a me- y is referred to : ion: by dent: the a gra loped and ating com- byt 3 hefor procesding set Ly e which u ttee for from from de reported by an mittes of the Ho peachment has k | House the trial of the ca the Senate. Who were the “learned ladies —K. R E. A. You have Q : evidently been cor fused by the translation of Moliers 1 know: Les Femmes Sa- | vantes™ ita lively raille at abidin Q. Monument A. The How much the Washingt: weigh?—P. K. total welght is 81,120 ton rays?—G. Rt Harkins of through Ze D Q. What A. Prof. University Chicago, analysis of 41,000 pho atomic collisions discover | which he named “Zeta | were formed as the partial ¢ lision with Alpha par of helium atonm are w. of (If you have a question wou want answered send it to The Star Infor- nation Bireaw, Frederic J. Haskin. director. 1226 North Capitol street Inclose 2 cents in stamps for returs postage.) n. They must at all hazards be proteeted from demoralizing moti pictures, which today are the scourge of the world." needing 15 either de- nimals outright, which appare: uffer- lst of have cau: th to hat these miine 1 know in t allowed rd of hand and heart toward helpless ereatures, witl little or no education in Sympathetic ohservation and treatme the Creator's b 1 wor nimal and plant life. are not likely to be- come the men and _women consid- the oppressed of hum and girle roping Natu many ho with and evin that may a1y thi to the n fata men prove be ontinual eruelty ercation {1ower W conf thit tion _pictur We 1 naid ass 1t worke heast as wel of evils elean-up plann The Wt th thoron: most_vit the Chr f our great land. £ = vouth will make ou row, and whose duts them for that citizer b but tnelr parent religious dueational instructo eAueAtiont RGINTA. W, —r—e——————— Music for People. impo | tinn citizensh | whe hut toda the mc is it to nrep: Jaws of | Free Organ Concerts in Glasgow Arc Described. To the 1 re: with considerable interes in Sunday's Sts ccount of i a and last of & series of chamber music concerts in the Freer Gallery which will rejoice the hearts of “the great body of music lovers in Amer ca” 1 had just been Thursday night to an interested au- i dience the successful efforts of the munieipality of Glasgow, Scotland, to terest the people of that city in good music, the “invited guests” be- | ing all the people of the city. Ore ‘ooncerts are g n every turday I night by the municipal authorities in | the benutiful sculpture hall. the « i contril hall of the splendid Glas Art Gallery, a hall 125 by with a height of 0 feet, grand organ at one end There no charge at the conecerts excep for the program, for which the nomi Inal sum of 1 penny is collected In tre “Winter Gardens of gow Green” orchestra concerts are given for the people, and these also |are in the rinz when the greate part of the population is fi Would it be too much of a good thing for Washington to boast of evening recreation facilities in art and music for the common peo among whom “government clerks,” 1 presume, do not object to being in- cluded? The experience of the Library of Congress in_opening until 10 o'elock at night and from 2 till 10 o'clock on Sundays justifies the policy advo- cated by the then new librarian of Congress. Mr. Herbert Putnam, wlh apparenti s broken ground { this new movement, which it is to be? hoped wlill spread to great propor tions for this beautiful city of wh we will some a. be even more proud than we are tord; Hal describing with the