Evening Star Newspaper, February 19, 1924, Page 6

[ THE EVENING ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. ————————————= i ST, AR!uo carelessly addressed that it 1s diffi- | county tell the sheriff that if he does cult, even impossible, to deliver them. K not know that the place is running in About 17,000,000 of them finally find| violation of law he does not know thelr way to the dead letter ofiice as undecipherable and undeliverable. It TUESDAY.....February 19, 1024 | costy something Ijke $1,740,000 a year to correct the mistakes made by the THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor | ;jafl users. That is to say, some of ‘The Evening Star Newspaper Company Bustness Oftice, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. - New York Office: 110 East 42nd St. Chicugo Office: Tower Bulldin Buropean Ofice: 16 Regent8t., London, England. The Evenlug Ster, with the Sunday morning edition, ix delivered by carriers within the the mistakes. All of them cannot be corrected. No matter.- how shrewd and clever and patient the post oftice people are, they cannot “make head or tall” out of many of the letters and packeges :l.f_yu-;'gflm:m' "una':';nif.iy.“gr’emi' r:: that are dropped i{nto slots and boxes month. Orders tiay be tent Ly mail or tele |and put over counters. They cannot e N N coection 18 made by car | supplement the scrawls and wrong ad- e dresses. They cannot make house-to- Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. |nhouse researches in large cities for Maryland and Virginia. | uddressees without initials and without Dally and Sunday..1 yr., $3.40: 1 mo. Jc'houw numbers. o the 17,000,000 let- Sunday oniy ters and packages that cannot be de- clphered go to the postal morgue. In 1922, in letters that reached the dead letter office $100,000 in cash was found. It was impossible to deliver these letters. There is no way to estl- mate the anxiety and even: suffering caused by the failure of these letters [atchen credited 10'4t or ot otherwite credited | to arrive at their destinations. There lished herein. Al rights of publieation of | 9 nO conception of the trouble ensuing Wscistidispatohes;hereln from misunderstandings. Tragedies === qoubtless were caused, and all because the senders of these letters were care- less, because they wrote addresses badly or without proper addresses, or, what Is quite as important as any- thing else, without return inscriptions on the outside. Better Malling weeis ought to reach a few of the careless mall users. Pub- Heity is being given throughout the country to this matter, and probably 2 good many people who have hereto- fore trusted their missives and pack- % & = e ages to the government with serene el :}1’: {:::::;:‘i;‘;a;fig‘“;’:g‘canfldem'e and faith in its abllity to & { perform miracles will see the need of elcae) Iving at least clues to the identit Secretary Denby, who could not re- | &, PRI sign in response to the Senate resolu- ofissnderiorireceivir, tlon, has now resigned of his own voli- 5 tion as an act of loyalty to the Presi.; 1he Flight of the Shenandoah. dent, to relieve him from embarrags.{ Information of an wuthoritative ment in resisting venomous partisan |basls that, should the Arctic flight of assaults. The President accepts the |the Shenandoah be abandoned for this resignation “‘with regret,” with assur- | year, Buropean powers will take ad- ances that Mr. Denby's “honesty and | vantage of the opportunity to acquire integrity are not impugned,” and with | for themselves such valuable territory recognition of his “fine sense of |as may lie in the polar regions, should loyalty.” have the effect of insuring the flight If the administration is to seek to|under Admiral Moffett. cancel the ofl leases not solely on the It is one thing to consider whether ground that they were obtained by and | it would be more expedient to spend saturated with fraud and corruption, | $350,000 in 1924 or 1925 for a purpose but on the ground that they were in-|the importance of which has never valid because of lack of technlical |been questioned, and quite another to power under the law to make them, or | decide that rather than spend $350,000 Lecause they were void or voidable on | in 1924 this government is prepared to grounds of public policy, then, of|permit territory which may prove to course, Secretary Denby's position | be worth millions to slip through its ‘would quickly become untenable. For | fingers. he believed, and still belleves, in the| Nor should there be any misunder- wisdom of the ollleasing policy, if|standing as to the basis of the cost of honestly administered, which Prest- | the expedition if it is made. Congress dent Harding, partly at his sugges- |18 not asked to appropriate any eddl- tion, adopted. And he belleved, and |tlonal funds. It was, and is, the pur- doubtless still believes, that President | pose of the Navy Department to spend Harding's order transferring the ofl-|$350,000 of moneys already appropri- leasing function to the Interfor De-|ated to it for the fiight. Needless to partment was valid in law and in the | say, Whether the Shenandoah remaing public Interest it honestly carried out. |at Lakehurst or sets forth upon the Mr. Denby retires to private life |brave adventure of capitalizing Ad- with no smirch upon his name. He |miral Peary's polar achievements, a has had the il fortune to have been a | considerable portion of the sum in party to a transaction one end of|question will have to be expended which was tainted in corruption. His|upon her use and upkeep. motives have ot been impugned. 'As matters now starid, Congress has Now he has done the .straightfor- | merely been asked by the President ward, or as he puts it, the sportsman. | to indlcate its approval or disapproval like thing, in quitting an office injof putting the great Navy dirigible to which his usefulness has been im-|a use which the bureau of naval aero- paired, not on account of any misdo- | nautics believes to be entirely prac- ing on his part, but by the abandon- | ticable and promising of large bene- ment of the policies which he advo-|fits to the nation without any addl- cated and by the partisan clamors of | tional expenditure of money. enerties of the administration. The| In arriving at its answer Congress day will come when his part in this | will not fall to bear in mind the de- affalr will be viewed with judlctal | pressing effect upon the morale of the calmness and In a spirit of fairness to | naval alr forces should thelr carcfully & man who has always served his|matured plans be scrapped at this late country to the best of his ability, who |date. And unless there are other fac- has sacrificed himself and risked his|tors in the program than those with 1ife in its military service in two wars | Which the public has been acquainted, and who has been, and continues to | the congressional answer should not be, held high in public esteem as a|be difficult to predict, and the spring man and an officer of the government, | should -see the Shenandoah at Point Barrow, ready to add the culminating chapter to the record of naval Arctic enterprise, of which the nation is Justly proud. ——————— ‘When so many men are by their ac- tions contradicting the teachings of the Bible there is-no apparent reason for Col. W, J. Bryan's concentrating on the evolutionists. ° ————————— Wall street showed the effects of All Other States. Daily and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00; 1 mq Dally only . Sunday on! Member of the Associated Press. The *Assoclated Press {5 exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all neww dis- Secretary Denby's Resignation. President Coolidge refused to call for Secrctary Denby's resignation, firat, because the Senate had no right to ask it, and, second, because the first preamble of the Senate resolution imputed fraud and corruption to the leases which Secretury Denby had per- functorily signed without clearing Secretary Denby personally from the imputation of inality or of con- nivance at eriminality. “I do not pro- Special Counsel Fees. ©One of the items in the, supple- mental estimates of the Commisgion- ers now before the House committee deserves especlal consideration. This 1s for $4,500 to enable the Public Utill- tles Commission to employ special counsel to aid in cases before the local courts. The history of this case is in- teresting. A former corporation coun- sel, Mr. Conrad Syme, on his resigna- tion from that office, was employed by { th¢ ©il sensation, not because values the commission to represent the | Were actually affected, but because so District in certain proceedings filed in | M2NY traders are naturally tempera. court by utility corporations. This | Mmental: employment continued until the end e R T A of the past fiscal year, and was then| Objection by Mr. La Follette to an discontinued because of a limitation [ @Ppointment may be regarded as com- contalned in the appropriation act of | ing from & man whose faith in human the current fiscal year which pro-|Rature has been very sorely tried. hibited the employment of special —— e legal services by the commission. The; When so many people are willing cases which had been instituted under | to tell all they know, Mr. Vanderlip the prior arrangement were then and |should have realized that there is no ere still pending. The able counsel in | room for gossip. charge of the District’s interests in B them was thoroughly familiar with| If prohibition agents are to shoot on them, and his continuance was essen- | sight, innocent bystanders have & tial to a satisfactory prosecution of |right to demand that they qualify as them before the court. He continued | expert marksmen. ‘without compensation by the District, —_————t————————— Tt is now requested of Congress that{ Proper care of & political machine the limitation be removed to permit | requires great attention to the matter the payment of a proper fee for this | of Jubrication. service. It is desirable that the District whould be represented in these cases by aedequate counsel, especially by ‘There is a degree of efficlency in the counsel famillar with them. It is not | l@W-enforcement officers of Mont- desirable, as it 1s not cquitable, that [ EOMery county which calls for praise. such services should be rendered with. | The county police ralded a “resort” a out compensation, inasmuch as they|mMile beyond the District line, broke require the devotion of much time,|down doors, interrupted a hundred <hought and energy. men at games and arrested & man said to be the proprietor and ten of his as- sistants on a charge of permitting gaming on the premises. The police seized gambling outfits and money that was on the tables. According to . the report it seems to have been Better Mailing Week. rather a clean clean-up. Another “week” is in progress. It is| The remarkable thing to be said in not & Thrift week or a Music week | favor of the Montgomery county ofi- or Fire-prevention week or Street-|cers is that they cleaned upa “resort” safety week. It is “Better Malling | near the District line without being week.” The hope of the Post Office De- | prodded to do it by the press and au- partment is that for seven days the | thoritles of the District and by the country will have ‘its attention called | law-obeying people of their own coun- to the costliness of careless malling, | ty. Usually it is otherwise. An over- that some millions of American peo- | the-line resort becomes notorious. The ple who have heretofore been slovenly | District police tell the county sheriff or {ndifferent in the matter of writing [ ebout it. The sheriff sometimes seems addresses will begin to acquire the|never to have heard of the place and habit of greater care. aves nut delieve tnet tners 1s such & Every year about 200,000,000 pleces | place. The newspapers publish articles {1 matter reach the post offices Jabout it. Respectable citizens of the Raid in Montgomery County. ‘Teapot Dome suddenly arose from comparative obscurity to remarkable political influence. I THE EVENING ST anything, and that if he does not put it out of business they, the respectable people of the county, will put him out of business. A raid is made and the place is found closed. That is the way it sometimes happens. But in this Mont- gomery county raid there was no cam- paign of complaint against the place, and nobody seems to have carried word to it that a rald was to be made. It was @ thoroughly successful affair from the viewpoint of citizens who have a high regard for law and order. —————————— Mr. McAdoo Stands Pat. Willlam G. McAdoo remains, as he has been for several months, a candi- date for the democratic presiflentlal nomination. He chose to call together his most ardent admirers znd most as- tute political managers, who in con- ference assembled and in his presence aver that he has not been disqualified as a candidate by his embarrassing but not improper connection with the oil interests, a connection which he promptly severed when it was dis- closed. It remains for the future to show whether two-thirds of the democratic national convention will approve the clean bill of health given him by his personal supporters and political man- agers, who were gathered together for that and no other purpose. Yesterda: action of the conferees was discount- ed; nothing else was expected of them, for it was inconcelvable that they would turn their backs upon him in the hour of need. Mr. McAdoo's course in calling the conference and submitting his case to | this partial jury was regarded as an unusual stroke of strategy, the wis dom or unwisdom of which will be shown later. Certalnly he obtained a vast deal of publicity, but it may be questioned whether it was desirable, after all, for the proceedings certainly serve to accentuate the reason why he felt it necessary to follow the line he did. It can be said, however, that hie has succeeded in getting his platform be- fore the country so that everybody knows what he would like to accom- plish if elected President of the United States. The list of achievements he sets forth is certainly to be commend- ed in every point if it is possible to realize their accomplishment. Pennsylvania’s state board of mio- tion pleture censors has dropped six employes from its pay roll. The news does not make it clear whether the films are less in need of supervision or the censors are growing discour- aged. Sifted down to the simple facts, the troubles of the farmer ure those of the general citizenship; too much out- lay and not enough income. This im- pression of disproportionate relation- ship Is common to’all walks of life. Smédley Butler forsook Washington for Philadelphia just when Congress appeared to be most in need of high- class talent for tarning light on the paths of iniquity. ‘Those who mention La Follette as a. presidential possibility do nat realize that a man may have so many irons in the fire as to give him no time to throw a hat in the ring. Possibly the Bok prize winner has acquired some ideas on the impor- tance of income tax reduction that would be interesting. The taxpayer has at least the satis. faction of hearing numerous states- men admit that he ought not to be obliged to pay so much. All that remains for the pedestrian ‘who is neither a bootlegger nor a rev- enue agent s to adopt tho slight pre- caution of wearing a bullet-proof vest. According to some observers Iliram Johnson's boom is still extant, though inclined at present to hibernate. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSOX. The First Robin. The Robin is trying to sing us u song And make us forget our dismay. But the Elephant trumpetsand starties the throng; The Donkey responds with a bray. In Europe the Dove lifts a doubtful re- frain. Existence s fraught with new cares. The Monkey and Parrot are both rais- ing Cain And so are the Bulls and the Bears. The poor little Robin, whom all love to hear, His utmost is willing to do, But he finds his melodious message of cheer _Drowned out by the noise of the Zoo. In Peril. ““What would you say if a man told you he could show you how to make a few hundred thousand dollars?” “I'd feel myself in such danger,” an- swered Senator Sorghum, “that Idon't believe I'd say a thing, except my prayers.” . Jud Tunkins eays @ man who is al- ways making excuses soon finds the supply is away ahead of the demand. Midnight Oil, T would not burn the midnight oil, For fear next morning I may find, Instead of wisdom,all my tofl Has left @ grease spot on my mind. Timely Warning. “He dances beautifully,” sighed the impressionable girl. “Take my advice,” answered Miss Cayenne, “and don't deprive soclety of his accomplishment. It would be a shame for him to get married end have to stay home nights.’ - p : Chances. “A bootlegger takes a great many chances." “Not as many,” rejolned Uncle Bill Bottletop, “as his customer.” ~A man occastonally gits Into trou- ble,” said Uncle Eben, “by mistaking a temptation foh an oppartunity. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC Edwin Denby's resignation fromjtermination to leave the cabinet he |[RIGHT OFF THE CHEST. the cabinet i{s regarded by Calvin Coolidge's supporters as bringing out in stronger rellef than ever the un- tarnished figure which, they say, the President cuts in the oil mess. They concede that the administration h: been affected, if not besmirched. They acknowledge, as practical poli- ticlans, that the republican party as a whole has been put on the de- fensive. But out of the miasma and fog resultant from the fumes of oll they declare the image of Coolldge stands forth, unassailed and unas- sailable. They profess confidence that the President will continu® thus to loom in popular estimation, particu- larly if he guides later developments in the courts with a firm hand. Den- by has gone, but Coolidge's refusal to be stampeded {nto dismissing him, White House adherents think, will permanently redound to the Presi- dent’s credit. * % ¥ % It was in the m!dst of the Roosevelt administration that Edwin Denby first achleved national prominence. By the irony of a fate he could not have contemplated, Denby was as- signed the role of a presidential scourge. He was then a member of the House of Representatives. Roose- velt had asked Congress for an ap- propraation of $30,000 for twenty ex- tra secret service men. The appro- priations committee démurred. Re- ports were current that the secret service was being used for purposes 1ot contempluted by the statute under which it was created. The presiden- tial recommendation was rejected. “T. I." thereupon wielded the big stick. " He sent a message to Capitol Hill insinuating tLat members of Congress were afraid the secret serv- ice might be assigned the task of “shadowing” ‘them. This made the congressionul blood boil. The House ippointed w special committec three, of which nby was a member, and “which became known as the “spanking committee,” for the pur- pose of rebuking Roosevelt. His ssage was refused a hearing and returned to the White House—said to be the tirst time on record that u presidential communication to Con- gress ever encountered such a fate. ‘ * % % ok This observer was at St. Augustine with President-elect Harding, almost three years ago this weel, when Ed- win Denby wus summoned from De- trolt to be appointed Secretary of the Navy. He was an entirely dark horse. His name had not flgured in the orgy of speculation over the muke-up of the new cabinet. Asked {the why and wherefore of his sud- den’ projection into the pieture, the mariie said: “Guess John Weeks did i™ Denby and Weeks were in- timate colleagues in Congress. * ok ok % During the critical days and nights of heart-searching which Edwin Den- by underwent preceding his final de- Preeldent Coolldge’s sharp reply to the Senate resolution demanding that he force Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby to resign added still additional fuel to the fire Initlated by the Tedpot Dome explosion. Par- tisanship runs wiid, and the _:iticlsm of the President on the one hand is balanced by the pralse of editors who are convinced he did the right thing. “The President’s firm refusal to dismliss his naval chief will doubtless win the approval of those who ap- preciate the importance of a strong. independent executive in the Amer- ican scheme of government,” the Cleveland Plain Dealer (Independent democratic) holds, although "It will not relleve the admiistration of the embarrassment of having Denby at the hoad of the Navy Department.’ This is, in part, the opinion also of the Roanoke . Times (independent democratic), which asserts “it s a statement well befitting preetdential dignity and thoroughly aocords with the public eonception of the pro- prictics. The Senate may not like it. but the country wil Yet the Syracuse Herald (independent) sug- gests “time and the judicial pro- ccedings will tell whether the judg- nent was as wise as it was mani- festly courageo * ok ok % In the opinion of the Nashville Banner (independent), ‘“President Coolidge has shown that he does not propose to be stampeded,” while, In {addition, the Albany Knickerbocker Press points out, he “is wholly right in considering the action of the Sen- ate as one of intrusion by the legis- lative branch into the province of the executive.” There s no question that Denby should resign, the New York Post (independent) says, but “the Coolldge determination appeals to the nation. He is not looking for trouble. but if the Senate is spoiling for fight it has found it in this at tempt to usurp the Executive's pow- ers.” Because the matter wasallowed to “drift” the Milwaukee Journal (independent) argues, the President “must aesume responsibility for Mr. Denby, not only as to his present con- duct, but for his mistakes in the ‘Harding cabinet” This opinion isap- proved by the Louisville Times (in- dopenillont democratic), which insists, “As_Mr. with interest and his candidacy will progress, affected, who knows how, by his declaration of responsibility and independence and by what may occur as a result of his telling the Senate who's who and what's what' * ok ¥ “We do not belleve the courageous actlon of the President will prove bad politics In the long run,” says the Adrian Telegram (independeny repub- lican), “though it may prove advan- tageous to his political enemies for the moment.”” The issue “is joined,” however, the Raleigh News and Ob- server (democratic) Insists, “and it now goes to the people of America |to decide at the polls next Novem- ber.” The Senate’s order was “im- prudent,” as the Boston Trlnmflrt (independent. _republican) sees it “and if the English system of - llamentary government is to be substituted for the American sys- tem of three separate branches, is it too much to ask that it shall be done in orderly manner, by constitu- tional amendment, and not by a sena- torial ‘lynching bee'?” While the de- cision “may offend political expedi- ency,” the Buffalo News (republican) sees In it something “agreeable to the spirit of justice.” * * K ¥ “The vote on the resolution was an outrage on the face of it," asserts the Cincinnat! Times-Star (republican), and the “chief motive of most of the senators was not to stand for right and justice, but to express their par- tisan views, and, {f possible, to further their own partisan ends.” ‘If the Sen- ate wanted to remove Denby it hould have impeached,” the Colum- 'h - (Independent) points ont, President is right in standing firmly on his constitutiona Tel rogative in this matter.” But the %u:h‘burs News (democratic) fee! e mere .ur ment of the facts su: of | Coolidge has adopted Mr. . Denby, his course will be observed | WILLIAM WILE found solace in the avalanche of as- surances of good will that reached him from friends and neighbors in Detroit. Their copfidence in his abil- ity, in his Integrity and even in his political future is apparently un- shattered. Beveral suggestions were made .that if “political hysteria” drove him from the Secretaryship of the ‘Navy Michigan would embrace the earliest opportunity to send Den- by to the United States Senate. That chance will come this year when the #eat now occupled by Senator Couzens in to be fllled by the November elec- tion—the unexpired Newberry term running to March, 1925. Senator Couzens presumably s a candidate for re-election. If Denby should dis- place him the Senate would inevitably face unother contest. It is hardly lkely—at least as at present consti- tuted—that that body would vote to sent & man whom It hud [reciovuly pro- nounced unfit to hold ,ublic cHice. * ok %k *Prectdent Coolldge has a favorite plece of music, It's neither clnssic nor jezz. Its name is “Lord Geoffrey Amherst” and it is the college song of the President’s alma mater. The other night the Navy Band, which plays aboard the Mayflower, gave & concert by radlo from WRC, Wash- ington. The, finale was ‘‘Lord Geof- frey Amherst,” and it was announced that it i3 always rendered when Mr. Coolldge is afloat. Lord Geoffrey Amherst, as the stirring song re- cords, was “a soldler of the king. He did herolc service in the British army's campalgns agalnst the French in Canada, and & town in Mussachu- setts was named in his honor. * ok % Senator Frank L. Greene of Ver- mont, the victim of last wrek's prohi- bition artillery battle in Washington, |is the most brilllant: raconteur in Congress. His stories in dialect are | gemsa. Indizn is one of the languages tn which he can tell them. Though a newspaper man by trade, Greene has always had a fondness for the stage, and many of his companions for years have been actors. It was al- ways a question with him whether to adorn ths theater or clavate poli- tics. Being under firo on Pennsyl- vania avenue Wae i new War ex- perience for Senator Greene as far as Washington is concerned, but he faced Spanlsh bullete throughouat our skirmish in Cuba twenty-six years ago, emerging 2 fuil colonel after enlisting ;a8 a buck private. The House commit- tee on military affairs never had « more enthusiastic member than Greene, and he was assigned to the same committee in the Senate immedlataly upon taking his seat in the upper chamber. A £ %k k% Current ¢vents in Washington have given a new reading to the old maxim. They're now saying a man ought to look before he lips; and a certain garrulous financler has been rechristened Vanderslip. (Copyright, 1924.) Coolidge’s Refusal to Fire Denby Adds Fuel to Fire of Oil Scandal fices to {ndict Denby «nd Fall. Mr. Somebody besides It sufiices to indict Coolidge for an entirely inade- quate conception of the duties de- | volving upon him, an utter misappre- hension of the gravity of the sltua- tion {n which he- finds himself in- ivolved, and a lamentable lack of courage In meeting the entirely ob- vious requirements of an_ appalling political scandal which is shaking the | very foundations of the faith of the American people in the integrity of | thelr government as at present ad- ministered in Washington.” To which the Plttsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph (republican) replies that the Senate actlon “was a partisan attempt to embarrass the administration and not designed to promote the cause of jus- tice.” The Topeka Capital (progress- ive republican) feels that both “Den- by and Daugherty should go." * ok ¥ % “The Senate’'s action may not be ob- constitutional sense,” the New York Evening World (Independent) admits, “but i he now retains Denby he as- sumes & burden that he is too politi~ cally frall to bear.” The Muskegon Chronicle (republican) insists *the passage of this resolution must be set down as & part of the political hysteria that obsessed that body after the revelations brought to the sur- face by the Senate investigating com- mittee. The trouble is that the dem- ocrats see an opportunity to make po- litical thunder out of the proposed action and republicans fear the con- sequences, and mere considerations of ustice, and’'a_man's honor, do not stand much show under these cir- cumstances. It 15 & pity. COURAGE “I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul” —HENLEY. In Greece his royalist foes called Eleutherios Venizelos the “Madman of Crete” and spoke of the “mad ex- ploits” of his youth, Born to affluence, he sacrificed his fortune and position to become spokesman of the poor and oppressed in Crete, which was then ground down by Turkish misrule. Leading the “barefoot party,” he #ained control of the Cretan assembly and in 1897 started an insurrection to throw off the sultan's rule. The powers' warships rained shells upon his banner of freedom, dispersed the insurgents and drove Venizelos to the mountains. A price was placed on his head, friends joined with foes to assassinate him In his refuge, but he defled them and they gave up in shame. His momentary failure awakened Europe to the shameless rule of the sultan, and eventually he gained for Crete a modified independence. As premier of Greace, he saved the monarchy in its moment of peril, brought King Constantine into popu- lar favor and reorganized all depart- ments of the governmen! ~. In 1910 Greece annexed Crete; in 1912 Premier Venizelos formed the Balkan league, which defeated the Turk in & great war. Later he form- ed the league which saved Greece from Bulgaria. When the world war started, Con- stantine refused to keep the treaty pledge to aid Serbla when warred on by an aggressor, and, with his gen- eral staff, wanted to join with Ger- man; Venizelos saw Greece's opportunity if it united with the allies; he estab. lished an independent government at S|alanlkl and invited thelr co-opera- tion, The war won, Veniselos was a prominent figure in the treaty of Versaliles negotiations. Later, through the treaty of Sevres, he se- ured so much from Turkey that its lelegates insulted him. Later an at- ‘empt was made on his life. He was sravely wounded, but recovered. Then Greece again turned against um and called back Constantine. ce that time the emplire ne created s been crumbling, and it again ed for Veniselos. ligatory on the President in a legal, | AR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1924 NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM Nellte Revell. George H. Doran Company. Were a mecting between the two {posaible, my literal old ‘grandmother land the familfar slangwhanger of the present would come to speedy loggerheads over the content of this title. The former, matter of fact and distinctly dogmatic withal, would de- clare—ae if any fool could see with- out having it pointed out—that to deliver anything “right off the 'chest” tmplies “lying flat o' the back.” 1And the slangman, smiling superior- i1ike, would retort: “Not nowadays, igranny. It means just unloadin’ |Your mind." Like most disputes, this {one would finally prove both to be ‘right in part and, equally, both in ipart wrong. The exact truth of the ymatter {s that “Right Off the Chest” was written with its author lying flat as a flounder, while into the book she unloaded some of the experiences and thoughts of that long stretch of su- pine helpleseness. * ok ok k¥ By this time a great many people know Nellie Revell and her story. A host of friends came to the sound conclusion that for his own sake everybody would be doing well to get acquainted with this woman. Out of the agreement there sprang up one of those blessed conspiracies -of friendskip that now and then give u new lease of contidence to a shat- tered belief in the boasted brother- hood of man. * kK k But—let's go back to the beginning of a career, to the time when, like all girls that amount to a hiil of beans, this one stood scanning the ways of life In order to choose one that prom- ised both happiness and success. Out of them all to her two seemed good— that is, for her. One of these was journallsm, the other the drama. The newspaper was a wonderful thing, every day bringing the world together in a community of inter- course and outlook.. And the stage was wonderful, too, in its power to entertain, to divert, to delight the work-a-day world. She . set them both on a high plane—one to mold public opinfon, the other to interpret ife itself. So this girl went into a newspaper office, where, in the course of time, she ran the scale of the wide-awake reporter's experience, covering everything from tea fights to encounters more brawny und bru- tal, if not finally more deadly, than their strictly feminized counterpart. A successful newspaper woman emerged from such exacting appren- ticeship. This, however, included but half the original dreum. Always her mind still turned with desire toward the romance and color bf the stage. In the meantime Nellle Revell be- came wife, mother, widow—a cre- scendo of obligation that _made greater earnings Imperative. So in- genuity stimulated by necessity and inclination working together sug- gested a combination of the theater and the press as an approach to the early ambition. The plan carried and she became the firet woman publicity agent covering a fleld hitherto pre- empted and held by men. Then fol- lowed work and more work. Along with it went heavy investments in friendship among newspaper and theater folks, an enormous e di- ture of vitality as well. But Nellie Revell was gay us a lark, for she was proving herself, and the future stretched long and 'bright with in- Creasing dctivity and assured success, * % k ¥ Flat — helpless —is Nellle Revell. Three measly little bones of the spine threw down their tools and quit work, leaving enough interferences'and ob- structions to throw the entire human mechanism out of gear. “Hopeless” was the verdict—whlich goes to show that the pronouncements of even the bigwigs will sometimes bear a bit of patient skepticism. For, so it is sald Nellle Revell {s getting well. And this is the book she has made while engaged—pretty thoroughly engaged, onc judges—in thie long four-yea job of turning finally toward rec ery. Flat of her back, with writing ad laid on her chest and pencil in Band, she miade “RIght Off the Chest.” No, she does not here “tell us all about it.” It is distinctly not a story of suffering and exhausted patience and hope deferred. Ixcruciating suf- fering was there and hope deferred, but never exhausted patience. A gal- lant and unconquerable soul Invites jus here. There is a God in heaven. Nellle Revell says. And for good measure, she throws in, “and all's right with the world.” Can you beat that for 2 tried and triumphant spirit? You cannot. For about fifteen hundred days now her sky has been the ceiling of a hospital room, her outlook a small window facing a blank wal might be worse,” and. reaching down into the rich store of herself, she fur- nishey the “sky” with zenith and far horizons, the window with remember- ed vistas of the bright old days of work and achievement. That hospital room has become, in turn, news trafl and clearing house for the world's doings, stage, salon, banqueting hall, rendesvous_for the great friendship clan, Speaking of friends, much of Nellie Revell's time here has gone into counting of her gains. Such huge dividends have been accruing from her big Investments in friendship that, were the lawmakers to get wind of the matter, there would be an in- vestigation calculated to make all the other investigations look like plain pikers beside it. * kX ¥ Day after day they come flocking here, the old friends. Journalists and reporters, actors and managers, prima donnas and chorus girls, so- clety and mere folks, gods and half- gods and no-gods-at-all among the politiclans; rich man, poor man, beg- gar man, thief. And the gayety of it all! And the flowers and feastings— those “spreads” when Nellle Revell, for the occasional once, hurling de- fiance at the whole dietetic business in the challenge, “Who Invented spinach? Who invented carrots?’ falls to in a good make-believe of consuming piles of French pastry and buckets of ice cream—just to keep the fellows feeling all right about their entertainment. Then the movie man comes with a picture and, without doubt, could one look in upon Nellie Reveli at this moment she would be tricked out in ear muffs—a radio fan. Friendship, love, laughter, the brave heart, the vallant soul—these came out upon every page of this story of a tlme that, without them, would have conquered even Nellle Revell, “the bravest living creature I ever saw In my life.” (Irvin Cobb talking.) * % ok K These storles, set down just because they were inside this woman and had to come out, were pronounced good for the rest of the world to have. Irvin Cobb sald they were. And the publisher said he'd like to help. And he did. So the book is yours and mine, ours for all the finely herolc things that this terribly tried woman found heart to put into it. Every page is & wonder of courage and hu- mor drawn from some source too deep for suffering to put to rout. Ir- vin Cobb introduces the book. Let me give his conclusion: * ok Kk K “I claim Nellie Revell deserves well of her country, Her father was a gallant volunteer soldier in the civil war. The Spanish war widowed her; her husband, wearing a captain’s uni- form, died in service down in Cuba.” The story goes on to say that her father had himself been a successful writer and publisher. On his dea bed he wrote farewell letter i which he said, “Nellie, you've been = good daughter, a good wife, a good mother, and _youre a damn’ good newspaper man.” To which Irvin Cobb adds, “Yes, and & soldier, te0, Nellie Revell. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. About what date did the District¢ bullding move from John Marshall place?—H. M. F. A. The District bullding was mov- ed from John Marshall place (then 4% street) on June 25, 1857. It was then housed In what Is known as the Smith bullding on 1st street, until May, 1895, when it went to 464 Loufs- fana avenue. From this office Build- ing” it moved to its present location on Pennsylvania avenue in June, 1908, Q. Can a city's water sup) utilized to furnish electricity? A. A station located at the base of Wachusett dam in Clinton, Mass., 18 & hydro-electric power plant gener- ating electricity by natural flow of water through four turbine units, de- veloping 3,000 horsepower. In doing this, practically all the water which goes to metropolitan Boston Is used as well as some of the “spillway” water. It cost approximately $125,000 to install the plant. This plant is the first to make use of water for the development of electricity and the water afterward used for domestic purposes. ply be B, C. Q. A man assuming to be wiil in- formed asserts that to obtain the color known ag “mummy brown” real mummies were ground up and used as paint. such a statement?—3L. H. " A. It is true that in the past real mummies were used to make the brown pigment known as “mummy brown.” Bones and other parts of the mummy were ground up together. A London colorman stated that one Egyptian mummw furnished enough material to satisfy the demands of his customers for twenty years. This plement was used as an ofl paint at east a5 early as the close of the six- teenth century. Q. What Is aspirin made of?—J. V. A. The United States Dispensatory says that aspirin is made of salicylic acid and 76 parts of hydrous acetic acid at about 302° Fahrenheit. It is then purified by recrystalization. Q. Please explain the process of re- producing a photograph in a news- paper’—G. A. R. A. The plcture to ba printed fs tacked on a board nd, under the glere of an electric arc light, is pho. tographed. The plate is then remoy. ed and developed. The film is tough- ened by the application of chemicals and stripped from the glass, reversed and deposited on another piece of glass, heavy and clear. It is then laced in & printing frame with the Im side tightly pressed against a polished plate of zinc, the face of which has been sensitized. Exposure of a few minutes to electric light which | is then taken from the frame, rolled ! ink and subjected to a bath, | prints the picture on the z! with which removes most of the coating, leaving only the reproduction of the icture, When dry it is covered with dragon’s blood and finally immersed in a bath of nitric acid. It is then ready to be sent to the make-up room. Q. Through what medium do the Hertzlan waves travel?—J. T. C. A. Hertzian waves are waves radi- ated in all directions in the space surrounding the conductor. The: therefore, travel through the lumin- iferous ether. They travel with the same rapidity as light and show the same phenomena of refraction, po- larization, etc. Q. ‘Who wrote the blind Milton's translations of the documents pre- pared for Cromwell by Milton?—H., J. E. 1s there any foundution for ! feluded in this compilation, Q. What is tionality ?—F. A. Emmy_Destinn slovakian. BEmmy Destinn’s i8 a_Czec She was born in Praguc. Q. To settle an argument, pleass advise which {s colder, the weather i~ our coldest climates or the ice we buy for our ice boxes?—H. D. 8. A. The temperature of ice at the melting point is 82* Fahrenhelt and the temperature found in some of our coldest climates {s 40° and 50* below zero; therefore, the tempera- ture of our coldest climates {e coldar than the ice we use for refrigeratior. Q. Will pine poles cut and peeled in winter when sap {s down outlive poles cut in summer?—J. C. B, A. The forest service says thut there Is just as much £ap in green pine poles in the winter as in ths summer, therefore the durabflity would not be increased as far as any particular seagon for cutting them (s concerned. Q. What {s pumice stone made of?7—W. M. C. A, Pumice stone {s hardened vol- ?Elc glass froth and {s found in lava eds. Q. What is the total membership %( lll'}e labor unions of the world?—G. ‘A. It is estimated that there are 4,000,000 workers in the United States who hold union cards, although per- haps 10 per cent of that number may not be dues-paying members of unions, being on strike or out of * work. The “Labor International Year Book" gives the membership claimed by the International Federation of Trade Unions, including twenty-four countries, as 21,991,616 for the year 19: The United States is not 80 the trades union membership ' of the rorld would be approximately 26,000, Q. How many times was the = plane refueled that made the recor out in California and how far did fily?—G. J. K. A. During the flight of Capt. Smit and Lieut. Richter at San Diego the plane was refueled fifteen times and the total distance covered was 3,293.26 miles in 37 hours, 15 minut und 42.8 seconds of continuous flyir Q. When and where did billfards and pool originate?—P. H. A. The origin of the game of bii- Mards is shrouded in mystery. B liards has been played In & crud way since the beginning of the Ch tian_era. Pool is a modern ve of the anclent game. Q. Is any animal similar to a key or an ape mentioned in the E ble?—A. D. 8. A. In the First Book of Kt there is a passage, “Once in thr years came the navy of Tarshls bringing gold, silver, {vory and ape and peacocks. Q. Where did Russia leather get fts name?—J. F. A. Russia is a calfskin leather fin- |ished by & process originating In the country which gives it its name, and was usually dyed a deep red, althoug: it is now produced in tan, brown and blaclk. Q. Who suid that we should speak only good of the dead?—H. O. A. The saying, “De mortuis nil bonum” (“Of the'dead be nothing sa but what is good”), Is of un authorship. st id (Have you a question you o answered? Send it to The Star I formation Bureau, Frederio J. Has- kin, director, 1220 North Capitol street. There {s no charge for this A. Milton's undersecretary, Andrew Marvel, did the work. service ercept 2 cents for retur: postage.) Be Patient With the World BY JOHN S There are a few leaders of an in- tellectual group in America—in world, for that matter—who do mnot understand why this nation of ours and the other nations of the earth do not readily co-operate with each other to better the affairs of man- kind. They long day and night for a new and complete expression of interna- tionalism. They are Impatient for a millennial day when the people of the earth shall be in 100 per ceut working accord with each other. They read H. G. Wells and other: who, with fine logic and quite answerable argument, point the way to a United States of the World, and are amazed at the Inertia of the mul- titudes of the earth. These impatient ones unfamiliarity with the history of the | race. They forget the incalculable slowness of the primitive individual in moving out of his complete ind viduality into any sort of co-opera- tion with the herd, with the tribe. They forget the centuries of the crudest sort of tribal relationshibs before anything faintly resembiing national solldarity was gained. Men's gradually growing ability to co-op- erate is of unbelievably slow forma- tion. In his early, bitter fight with the unrelenting forces of nature, when he first fought o way for himself, he was equipped with a full quota of Federal Workers Should Retire at Sixty Years To the Bditor of The Star. In your issue of the 1ith appears a statement regarding the injustice of a compulsory retirement at the age of sixty-five, and this remark: “Simple justice, however, cries out against thelr being dismissed on the ground of age alone, especially at an age when so many men are physically and mentally alert.” ) The undersigned secured a retire- ment after thirty-three years' service, and feels assured after this long serv- ice that sixty, not sixty-five years, would be of greater benefit to the service. Why old men and women should desire to go pottering about their dutles until they become ab- solutely decrepit, instead of enjoving their few remaining years in com- fort, is one of those enigmas char- acteristic ‘'of government life. If employes with $3,000 per annum after thirty years’ service have been 50 shiftless as to be utterly depend- ent on the proposed civil service re. tirement stipend of $1,200 per annum, then the writer of this article has serious doubts of the value of thelr services during that period. In conclusion the writer of the ar- ticle of July 11 says, “What young man with a scientific or technical training, etc., can be attracted to the government service etc.?” There is not a branch of industry— excepting the new craze, radio—that is not now overcrowded with so-call- ed experts working at the wages pald to common laborers, and they won't be, as Mr. Wolcott asserts, “doomed to be passed in comparative penury. For when normal conditions again prevail the present insufferable status will be a thing of the past. J. H. STEINER. Ex-Public Officials. To the Ed!tor of The Star: There is no law to prevent an ex- official of the government from being employed by an individual or a cor- poration except the limited prohibi- tion contalned in Section 190, Revised Statutes, United States. This section makes it unlawful for any former »ficial of the government (o prose- ‘ute, a8 agent, any claim against the Unlted States within two years after iweaving the service, But corporations have much business outside of claims, CARLYLE | brute instincts and only the thinnest soning power. Little by |titte reasoning power hus devel- oped, but he has not even vet fo | gottén his hard-won battle, his hard- {won individualism. As psychologists are always tel us, the herd can move only us fast “as its preponderant mass” The leadership of far-visioned individuals is a hopeful and an Inspiring thing, | but that leadership will have to be | patient and persistent. International co-operation quickly | appeals to the reason of the thinking | group, but we can neither deny nor overcome the enormous pressure of inherited instinct. And {nstinct is still driving men to look out for’ themselves first and last. Instinct makes them suspiclous of co-opera- tion except in emergencies and to limited degrees. Association of na- tions, international agreements of | any sort, have to be achieved by slow pressure against the instinct of dividuallty and for personal preserva- tion, Téo few of us, in our {mpatient hopes and yearnings, are willing enough or thoughtful enough to take | into due consideration the history of our own kind. Said Victor Hugo: “In the twentieti century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead.” So they will—but not in the twenti- eth century. Let us try to under- stand man and be patient. {Copyright, 1924.) o that this law is not applicable to the most important cases. Many government officiale have grown rich after leaving the service. If Congress considers that it is wrong for a government official to capital- ize his inside information, experience and personal influence, and sell it to a corporation as soon as he leaves government office, then the laws should be changed to cvover such cases. Public_sentiment is forming on that subject now. THOS. W. GILMER. Let the Shenandoah Sail ! To the Editor of The Star; I read with much interest your ed. ftorfal article in Sunday's Star, under the heading, “The Shenandoah’s Arc- tic Trip” This is & matter that should interest every citizen claim- ing allegiance to the Btars and iStripes. It appears that there e danger of Congress not appropriat- ing the funds for this expeditton. If such should be the case, it would cer- tainly be a calamity to our natlon. Wo are all proud of our flag, and most assuredly it should be the first | to fiy over the Arctic regions. Other natlons are drawing encour- agement out of the way this under- taking is being handled, and if, as your editorial states, actlon is not taken within ten days, one of them will, in all probabllity, deprive our Navy of the opportunity to add an- other bright chapter to its illumi- nated history. Let us hope that Congress realizes ‘what this trip will men to our Navy and to our glorious United Stat GEORGE P. GROVE. In a Few Words. The greater part of human misery 1s mental. —DR. A. E. NASH. 1f soclallsm was either practical or 1dealistic T might go In for it, but so- winlists do not face facts and they are aot practical or idealistic. 3 —LADY ASTOR. I look upon immortality rather as & prize to be won, than as a birth. right. —H, M. JACKS. I¢ it were economlcally possible, every one ought to spend at lea ten years of his life just thinking. —OLIVER BALDWIN,