Evening Star Newspaper, February 23, 1924, Page 6

6 . D. C; SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23 THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY...February 23, 1924 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor iThe Evening Star Newspaper Company Rausivess Oflice, 11th §t. and Pennsvivanta Ave. Vew York Office: 110 Eant 43nd St. Chicago OM. lower Building. Raropean Offfce: 16 ot St., London, England. The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning edition, Is delivered hy carriers within the ity i 60 cents per month: dally only, 45 cents per_month; Sunday vuly, 20 eents per yooth. Orders may be sent bs mail or tele- rhoe Main 7000, ~Collection is made by car- ziers at the end of month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance, Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1yr., $5.40; 1 mo,, 70¢ « Daily only. 1yr, $6.00; 1 mo., 50c Sunday only $2/40; 1 mo,, 20c All Other States. Viaily and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00: 1 mo., $5¢ Dals only . $7.00; 1 mo., 60c 5 $2.00; 1 mo., 25¢ Member of the Associated Press. The Associsted Press is exclusively entitied to the use for republication of all news patches credited to it or not otherwise cre in this paper and also the local news pub: Tished herein. Al rights of publication of special dispatches Lerein ure alko reserved, _— Education and Radicalism. Every little while some eminent educator starts something. He either Qeclares for an extremo view, close to vadicalism, or he traverses some ¢ tablished educational principle. and thus brings down upon himsclf a storm of criticism, occasionally to the point of effecting his separation trom his post. The latest of these is the president of Dartmouth College, one of the oldest institutions of learning in America. At a national Dartmouth “pow-wow" held at Chicago President Hopkins said: A man wrote to me protesting against a proposed appointment to the faculty, contending I might a: well bring in Lenin or Trotsky. I re plied that if Lenin and Trotsky were available I would certainly bring them in. This statement, according to the news report, evoked applause from the ich, it is stated, com- prised clergymen, jurists and execu- of large corporations. Dr. Hop- ent on to say: 1 know of no man or Interest I would not present if it would stir up the mind of the undergraduate. To stir up the mind of the under- graduate scems to be the first essen- tial. If that is’ to be the standard of faculty qualifications the range of se- lection Is wide open. America is full of “stirrers.” without gning to Russia for them. Many of them, it is true, have acquired their stirring qualities from foreign sources, but they v ome cases gone far ahead of their nepiration. Education, strictly speaking, is the process of “drawing out.” It would be interesting to see what Trotsky—he being the only one now available of the precious pair mentioned—would draw out of the minds of the under- graduates of any American institution. He entertains some decidedly radical ideas, some views which are quite dis- tinet from the fundamentals of Ameri- can beliefs. An old adage warns against letting children with matches. It is sound adv The sort of teaching a Trotsky would do in an American educational institution would be of the match kind Nobody knows how many fires it would start. It may be accepted that the eminent educator quoted from Chicago was speaking only in sgeneral terms—it would possibly be more correct to say platitudes. Unless he is, indeed, bent upon starting something. In which case he has doubtless succeeded. Handicapped Candidates. From lllinols comes announcement of a movement to present John Barton Payne as a candidate for the demo- cratic presidential nomination, a sug- gestion of merit, considering the man, his record of achievements and his at- tributes of character. Democrats at first blush might be imagined as say- ing, “It is a good idea, seeing that we are 80 embarrassed over our presl- dential timber."™ But then up would speak the friends of Senator Ralston with the sugges- tion that if Ralston is handicapped by his age, so would be Judge Payne, who is two years older than the Indiana senator. And speaking of handicaps it will occur to one that every demo- cratic potential candidate mentioned thus far has a handicap of one kind or another. In this regard the repub- licans are in much happier case, as their candidate is practically regarded as already eelected in the person of President Coolidge. All the republican nominating con- ‘vention will have to do, it is generally expected, will be to name President Coclidge on the first ballot, possibly by acclamation, select a running mate, frame the platform and adjourn to open the campalgn for the election. The democrats may have to spend days in appraising their handicapped candidates, unless & new man looms up. There are Mr. McAdoo handi- <capped by Doheny employment, Sena- ‘tor Underwood by sectionalism, John ‘W. Davis and Judge Clarke by their advocacy of the league of nations, Gov. Smith by being “wet,” Ralston and Payne by age, Senator Reed by ‘Woodrow Wilson opposition. It would seem a propi.ious time to trot out the dark horses. Plots to restore the HohenZollerns have been suppressed, doubtless by the ex-kaiser's friends. Wakefield and Monticello. ‘Wakefield, the farm on which George ‘Washington was born, and Monticello, the home. of Thomas Jefferson, are conspicuous in the news. There are plans for the purchase of these places by popular subecription, and to “re- store” Wakefield and ‘‘preserve” Monticello. The Wakefield National Memorial Association was founded last June, and the association feels that Wake- fleld should be administered as Sul- grave, the Washington home in Eng- land, and Mount Vernon are. The as- soclation has made a payment on seventy acres of the Washington land, and if successful in obtaining the meoney required will buy a thousand acres, which was the extent of the farm owned by Washington's father at the time George was born there. The association also plans to duild on ) the farm a house closely resembling that in which Washington was born. 1 The birthhouse was burned about 150 years ago. It was a small frame house, one and one-half storics high, with o stone chimney at each end, and its reproduction will not be costly. The | Wakefield Assoctation would also take | under its care the Washington family burying ground on the farm. In that little cemetery aro graves of a number of George Washington's ancestors wap had lived at Wakefield, or, as it was formerly called, “the Popes creek farm.” This cemetery is in a condition of neglect. Wakefield is sixty-five miles from Washington by water, but considerubly farther by the automo- bile road, which leads from Washing- ton to Fredericksburg and thence to Wakeficld in Westmoreland county a few miles below Colonial Beach, and one of the plans of the association is to build on the Wakefield property a simple inn for the use of travelers. The National Monticello Association has agreed to take over the stately home and grounds of Jefferson at o cost of $500,000, and the association has already made a payment of $100,- 000. The quota set for the District of Columbia by the association is $50,000, and of that sum $10,000 has been su bed and paid. ° Many prominent men and women have entered upon the work of pre- serving Wakefield and Monticello, and there is little doubt that in due time the associations will take over these and that Wakefield and Monticello will be owned and managed mewhat after the manner of Mount Vernon. Naval Monuments. President Coolidge has approved the joint resolution of Congress authoriz- ing the erection on public grounds in Washington of a memorial to be known as “The Navy and Marine Memorial dedicated to Americans lost at gea.” The fund for its erection is to be obtained by popular subseription. This proposal recalls to old Washing- toniuns two other naval memorials that have been erected at the Capital. The first was that which was pop- ularly called the Tripoli monument. At the expense of officers of the Navy this monument was carved at Leg- horn, Italy, in 1806 and was erected at the*Washington navy yard in 1808. In George Watterston's Washington “uide Book, published in 1842, :s this account of the monument: A handsome marble fountain from which the water, brought through pipes from springs about two miles north of the Capitol, falls into a beau- tiful basin of white marble, and thence flows into a reservoir cased with stone, and in which has been crected a_monument to the memory of the young naval officers, Richard Somers, Henry Wadsworth, Joseph racl, James Decatur, John Dorsey and James Caldwell, 'who gallantly perished off Tripoli In 1804 That monument stood In the navy yard until July, 1832, when it was sct up on the lower terrace at the west front of the Capitol. In 1860 the Tripoli monument was removed to the Naval Academy at Aanapolis. Washington citizens seem to have kad something to do with the erec- tion of that monument. Directly after the Chesapeake affair in 1807, when war talk was high. a fund was ruised by subscription in Washing- lton for the rellef of the wounded American sailors. The fund was more an enough for the purpose and it was agreed that the balance should he used for the erection at the navy vard of a monument “in mem.ry of the heroes who fell before Tripoli in 18047 It has been said that the monument was paid for by cortribu- tions of Navy officers, but there may have heen need for money for a ped- estal or unforeseen costs. In 1877 there was set up at the corner of Pennsylvania avenue and 1st street west the Naval monument as a memorial to iand Marines of the United States Navy who fell in defense of the Union {and liberty of their country, 1841-65.” It came to be called the Peace Monu- iment. It was modeled by Franklin Simmons in Rome from a sketch by Admiral David D. Porter, and the architoctural portion, designed by Ed- ward Clark, was executed at Carrara, Italy. ———————— Indorsement of James Cox by ex- Secretary of War Newton Baker was punctual. Mr. Baker will be a grea: help if he can persuade all members of the former democratic cabinet, in- cluding Mr. McAdoo and Mr. Bryan, to follow his example. —_——— Prohibition enforcement has mnot been so perfected as to dispose en- tirely of the man who cannot walk straight nor the agent who cannot shoot straight. —————————— The Coffee-Pot. The teapot, literally speaking, and the coffee-pot are objects of rude at- tack. Hudson Maxim says he will bring suit against a hotel for serving tea and coffec because they are in- toxicating liquors. Senator Copeland, speaking before a’ Washington Bible study class, advised that “the inevita- ble cup of coffee’ be let alone, and said that coffee drinking “is simply a form of drug addietion.” Tea and coffee drinkers have been warned before, but they rush past the danger signals. When Arabian coffee was carried to Cairo its use was pro- hibited on the charge that it was in- toxicating and a violation of the Koran. A sultan who had become an addict to the vice removed the pro- ; hibition. When coffee got to Constanti- nople it was also charged with being intoxicating and contrary to the Koran. Today there are more coffee drinkers among the Moslems than Koran readers. When coffee was in- troduced into England, which one ac- curate historian says was 1653, and for which a hundred other aceurate historians have a hundred other dates, the berry. and its liquot were de- nounced as evil, though if chronicles of those times are worth much drunk- enness from alcohol was a custom. There are Americans who insist that coffee is a polson, yet there are no doubt 400,000 persons in Washington who poison themselves at breakfast and, it may be, at lunch and dinner. Many of these inebriates say that they do not feel comfortable unless they have a cup of poison in the merning. The charge is made against tea that it 18 a narcoti~, and that drinking it is a vicious habit. Yet in fairness it may y “Officers, Seamen | l l THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, be maid that most of us know some delightful women who drink tea with- out adding anything important to it. There are also men, generally old, too, who drink a cup of tea or three cups of tea in ignorance that they flirt with early death. There are physicians who insist that coffec and tea are dangerous. They have difficult names for the fac- | tors in tea and coffee, difficult names for the actions these factors produce on the human system, and also diffi- cult names for the parts of the sys- tem acted on. The first thing a phy:- sician learns is hard names, and if he goes any further along the road of knowledge he must be studious and ambitious and have some of that qual- ity, not given much space in text books, called common sense. Some unlettered fellows think that it is almost as im- portant to be able to cure diseases as 10 name them, but there are contrary opinions. But even on this simple sub- Ject of tea and cofice there are phy- siclans who drink them, and other things, whether they believe in them or not. There are many lunchroom patrons in Washington who, so far from wanting to see coffee put on the prohibited list, would rather have it made a little stronger. The Typewriter and Society. The French soctal oracle has spoken, and has decreed that no man should ever send a typewritten letter to a woman except on strictly business matters. M. Andre de Iouguieres, universally accepted in France as the highest authority on social etiquette, thus responds to @ rvcent query: The most elementary proper feeling and the simplest courtesy exact that any such letter be written by hand. It "is impossible ewen to imagine typed letter being addressed to a woman, although the contents might be mere commonplaces; how much more inconceivable, then, would a typed letter be If it expressed tender affections? Such a letter is bad form in that it allows the eupposition that it may have been dictated to a third person. M. Fouquieres would doubtless be horrified if he knew of the extent to which the typewriter figures in Amer}- can social correspondence, the great number of letters written—not dic- tated, but written sometimes with painful deliberation by inexpert fingers —Dby husbands to wives, by lovers to sweethearts and by friends to friends who may eventually hold a more ten- der reiation. Indeed, the typewriter is almost the established mode of com- munication in social life in this coun- try. American society, not to spell it with a capital letter, finds the typing machine its ever-present ald in time of need There may be those who use the medium of a third person for tender or intimate missives, but they are few. Most typed letters of a non- business character are tapped out at first hand, often by what has become known as the “pick-and-hunt system™ of manipulation. American soclety will not blush for its breach of eti- quette, but will go on using the type- writer regardless of the Parisian oracle. —————— Question of &portsmanship arises in the consideration of a public official's right to invest in Wall street. There is always a prejudice against @ man's betting on a sure thing. ——————— Confidence is expressed by Mr. Van- derlip that he will have better luck with the court reporters of the nation than he had with the editorial writers. Now that Mr Sinciair has returned, a little deliberation is necessary for a decision as to just what to do with him. —_———— WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE United States senators sat through Senator Frank B. Willis' sonorous reading of the farewell address on Washington's birthday in no perfunc- tory spirit. The floor was not crowd- ed, but was well filled. Perhaps half the membership of the Senate was present, about equally divided be- tween republicans and democrats. Men were there who have weathered many similar occasions—Lodge, War- ren, Simmons, Overman, Smoot, La Follette, Brandegee and Borah, each of whom has been in the Senate for more than seventeen years. Copies of the address were in the hands of all senators and were followed intently as Willis read it. The Ohioan raised his voice to an oratorical pitch only when hg came to the passages in which Washington warned against “entangling alliances.” * % ¥ Probably never in our history has a. cabinet officer of the republic been on the floor of the Senate at & more thrilling moment than the hour Harry M. Daugherty spent thero on Washington's birthday. The Attorney General promised Senator Willls a long time ago that he would listen to his farewell address performance. When the session began Daugherty took up his station in one of the big armchairs back of the republican si of the house. Worry seemed a thing he didn’t know the meaning of. A wag in the press gallery said it was a case of an unterrified Daniel in the lions' den. Cabinet officers have the privileges of the flours of Congress, Senator Moses, republican stalwar stepped over to Daugherty for a smi ing chat. Later Senator Davis Elkins of West Virginia took a seat along- fide the Attorney General—perhaps because misery loves company. EE Capito! Hill {s suffering from an acute attack of nervous investiga- tion. In the Senate, according to offi- cial information supplied to this ob- server, no fewer than forty to fifty investigations are pending, author- ized or asked for by resolution. In the House twenty-two or twenty-five are under way or projected. The Sen- ate Inquisitions embrace oil, Russi the bureau of engraving, propa ganda, causes of the world war and 4 variety of other topics in and out of the criminal code. House investi- gations cover Gen. Wood bootiegging in the District of Columbia, ticket scalping, Washington rents, why the colored 'vote in the south doesn't vote, Alaskan fisheries and what not. There would have to be a wing added to the Congressional Library to house the printed proceedings of hearings held in recent years. Usually the volumes are read only by the un fortunate compositors und proofreic ©rs who put them into type and cor- rect the errors. * % % % Representative Arthur M. Free, re- publican, of California is about to deliver a public address in Washing- ton on the Japanese immigration situation. He is an uncompromising advocate of exclusion and for years has been one of the lecturers of the California Exclusion League. Mr. Free is doing his full duty to pre- serve the Pacific ooast for white civilization. He i9 the father of two Sets of twins. Free rofuses to see eye to eye with Secretary Hughes in the view that the “‘gentlemen’s agree- ment” of 1907 sufficiently safeguards ‘alifornia, Oregon and Washington state from yellow inundation. “The Proof of the pudding,” he says, “is in the eating. In 1907 there were 30,000 Japanese in the United States. Today there are 117,000.” | * k% % ' Sinoce he recently passed from the Scene, many untold anecdotes of Woodrow Wilson are galning cur- jrency. For years he carried a copy |of Rudyard Kipline’s (nspirational poem, “If,” in his wallet. Often Wil- son told his intimate friends that Kipling in “If” had' epitomized the whole Wilsonian philosophy of life and politics—the determination |keep on fighting when the fighting was hardest, and to smile through defeat as valiantly as in triumph. Once in a while Wilson would say that his favorite stanza In “If" was: If you can mpke one heap of il your win- And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss And lose and start again at your begins nings And never breathe o word about sour locs. * ok ok % John Stiles, speaking on behalf of the Rotary Club of Ottawa, Canada, in Washington the other day, told of the astonishment of a distinguished European visitor in Ontario, as he was shown a map containing the unfortified “imaginary line” between the United States and Canada. The European was a military man. to value. he asked. he was told. “What is there?" e old world denizen persisted. Nothing but hydroelectric stations for peace-time industry,” was the re- ply, whereupon his Canadian host preached an eloquent sermon on what ar mad Zurope oould learn from v erica’s “unprotected” - tor of 3,000 mites, T o ed” fron ® o ok ¥ Representative Meyer Jacobstein of Rochester, N. Y., seized upon the 192d anniversary of George Washington's birth to make a timely argument in favor of the soldiers’ bonus. Mr. Jacobsteln has been reading Wash- ington’s diary and there he discover- ed that the Father of His Country cor- dially approved of the payment of a revolutionary war bonus, not only to the enlisted men, but to the officers 5f the Continental Army. Gen, Wash- ington himaelf was voted i grants of 1and In token of his serv o in the Indian wars. including vast slices of what is now the state of Oklo. But he returned them for in usion in the domains of the pubiic nds. (Copyright, 1924.) ——————————— e Unjust to Annuitants. Protest Against Proposal to Per- petuate Errors in Salary- Fixing. To the Bditor of The Star: The prolonged infliction of injus- tices upon a considerable number of clerks employed tn civil service by indiscriminate classification and un- Jjust compensation finally arrested at- tention that resulted in legislation and decision that payment to one clerk of $1,800 while another was be- ing paid but $1,000 for similar serv- fce must be discontinued. More unjust, however, and more pathetic, Is the scheme now proposed to have Congress fasten upon clerks now retited a renewal and continu- ation of the (llogical and cruel class- ification from which they were fin- ally delivered by merciful legislation while yet in the service: practically The average citizen will be content [to declare that the fact of thei with a tax reduction without offering | Wrongfui classification as clerks is any intimations that it ought, in jus- tice, to be made retroactive. ———— All his regal exclusiveness could not prevent King Tut from yielding raphers. ——————— Occasionally a senator neglects to express his appreciation or esteem of an official until writing a note request- ing him to resign. —————— SHOOTING STARS. 17 PHILANDER JOHNEON. The Rumor, A resignation rumor Has hovered day by day, Though some were in the humor For chasing it away. The person designated Exclalmed, “Old friend of mine, As pals we've long been rated, So why should I resign? ““When you decide to name me, Publicity’s my due. Oblivion might claim me, If it were not for you. Since your career's depending, Friend Rumor, upon mine. 1 would not seek ite ending By trying to resign.” Jesting With Serious Matiers, “You Americans often speak of play- ing politics,” said the friend from Lon- don. “How do you play the game?" T1l tell you,” answered Senator Sorghum, “if you'll promise not to drop your h's when you repeat it. At present we're playing it according to Hoyle.” ’ Jud Tunkins says a lawyer Is known not so much by the company he keeps as by the company that employs him. Pointing With Pride. Hamlet sald, “Though things are sad In this state gone to the bad, This T'll say for home, sweet home; Denmark has to Teapot Dome.” “In the old days Crimson Gulch wouldn’t hesitate to hang a man for stealing & hoss.” “I remember all that,” answered Cactus Joe. “Them was the days of simple innocence, when stealin’ a hoss was about the crime limit. Now a man’s got to get away with a hundred thousand dollars before the grand jury will notice him.” “A dishonest man,” sald Uncle Eben, “is always liable to look de foolishest Jes’ at de minute when he thinks he's actin® de smartest.” jat last to the reporters and the photog- | a proper reason why they should be {80 classified as annuitants; that the fact of Mr. A having been paid $1.300 while Mr. B was paid but $1,000 for similar service is a gnod and suffi- clent reason annuities should be paid them in the same proportion, and not on_the basis of service rendered. Justice demands discernment and intelligent consideration of the fact that for years during the service of present annuitants they rendered service to the government just as valuable as the similar service now performed. for which double the sal- arfes th:y received are now being paid. For instance: The clerk who a few vears ago entered the railway mail service at a salary of $800 now immediately receives $1,600 and per- quisites. Although no percentage for maintenance of retirement was de- ducted from his $300, as the value of his services was equal to that for which $1,600 is now pald, the gov- ernment, ‘imperceptibly but actually, retained’ $800 each year from his real earnings, the total amount of which vastly overbalances the amount of the perceptible 2% per cent retained since 1920 from the $1,600 being paid to his mome fortunaté young success- or. * K k¥ The purpose of the retirement law wasg declared to be a comfortable pro- vision for civil service employes who had, in the performance of thirty or more years' of valuable service to the zovernment, become worn and en- feebled beyond the ability of further usefulness, and who because of con- tinued scantiness of compensation have been unable, even by afflicting economy, to accumulate means against the necessities of a “rainy day,” from twhich their only reliet would have been beneath the eod and the sighing winds of the city of the dead. But now comes the robust person of forty-six who entered the civil service as a messenger, not qualified even now to reader the service of the classes that sequire superior abillty, with the advantages of the higher salaries of later years, not received by the most capable clerks now re- tired, and the assurance of a reason- able 'annuity at a reasonable timo, and in disregard of the fact that the civil service is meither a nursery nor a preparatory - institution. He de- mands that from the fund provided for the relief of those now incapaci- tated and in nesd he be pald a larger annulty than retired clerks or the lower salaried employes yet in serv- ice can_receive, declaring a right theréto because of the larger amount of the percentage yieided by his larg- er salary than that deducted from the smaller salary of his equally capable associate, for the mainte- nance of the retirement fund. L Does it not appear that in all cases wherein clerical duties have been similat and clerical abilities equal, but compensation unequal, 8quity and justice would require payment of the larger annuities, if any, to the em- ployes who recéived the smaller sal- aries, as & slight compensation for the injustice of the inferior condition endured by them in the service? Or are the friends of the annuities im- pressed by the argument ¢ the &vm.um;}:nu u:alfi-t 126 tor ul 3 the retiremont fund is worthy of phy- sical comfort of which the aged an- Duitant should bo. Qeprived, wotiin standing the fact that within thirt yoars he contributed many times $120 in “doing his bit" for the govern- ment? In view of facts readily apparent, the experienced student of economie affairs protests that the “world un- rest” which would revise oremaic laws, remake the best federal Consti- tution that the world war ever aw. and overturn tems essential to civilization, should be restrained in its uneasy striking at the civil serv- ice law, seeing the changes now so vehemently urged in formidable as- sembly, with a single cxception, if pproved by Congress, could not but impair the civil service, affect annui- tants seriously, and ultimatel prove disastrous to the retirement system. As 8elf interest in action, though for notoriety only, cannot detect a fal- lacy. it'is belfeved that the conditions throughout the public service shown by the illustration presented by the railway mail servicé cannot but ap- peal to the moral and refined sensi- \lities of those who are interested in the general welfare. Kind and thoughtful consideration is respect- fully requested. . C. M. POTTER. For “Better Mailing.” To the Editor of The Star: When we realize that 17,000,000 pieces of malil reach the dead letter office annually because letters and packages are improperly addressed, it 1s important that the attention of the public be called to it by observ- ing the “Better Mafling week.” It costs approximately $1,740,000 a year to correct the mistakes of some of these careless, uneducated people, Notwithstanding, $100.000 was found in letters that were sent to the dead letter office during the year 1922, Some of this money might be used to_train tho carcless, uneducated public how to address their letters and prepare their packages for the mail. Largo s'gns like an addressed en- velope could be placed in every post office in the oountfy. — LiKewise, signs showing a properly prepared and addressed package or box might bo placed in every post office. A clerk might be emploved In every large post office to see after care- less and unceftain mail and as far as possible enforce the proper ad- dressing and tying before they are mailed. . We weldome now, however, “Better Mailing week.” teene SYLVIA E. CINCLAIR. Labor’s Literary Cabinet. The labor government in Great Britain contains. more authors and the authors of more books than any previous administration. Rameay Macdonald himself had pub- lished eleven books before becoming premier. Sidney Webb and his wife have published an entire shelf of books, as has Philip Snowden. Jo- siah Wedgwood has written several volumes on pottery, land taxation. India and local county history. Sir Sydney Oliver has published poetry and books on social problema. Noel has writton books on the Bal- Buxtnnl'la' Thomas, John Wheatley . W. Jowett have also been au- thors, and, of course, ‘Visoount Hal- dane and Lord Parmoor. It is & government made up largely of laborers who have long been en- Faged in the work of thinking. For many years most of them have been using pens rather than picks and planes. As writers they have been intellectual leaders of thought in social probiems, and their pub- lished works have done much to cre- ate the public opinion which has brought the labor party its success. But with a certain class of oritics it will be deemed a reproach that the members of the government are more likely to have ink than blisters on their fingera. Nothing would suit some critics but that labor, to be genuine, should present itself at Westminster in overalls and peaked caps, carrying dinner pails. This lit- erary cabinet, they ocomplain, isn't the real thing. It is, of courwe, not at all the sort of cabinet the opponents of labor would like it to have been. In men- tal equipment it stands remarkably high among Britigh cabinets. It but remains to be seen how competen it is to deal constructively with about the most difficult pile of work that ever confronted a newly fopme: only are its problem: fMeult, but as a minor in the house its footing ir NP“IL All its su- will bé Imperatively ity part precedented] Derior entallty Desded—Toronte 2 924. BY THE BOOKLOVER The tragedy of a finally wrecked marriage after years of happiness, because of changing personalities, is well (llustrated (n the “Autobiog- raphy of Countess Tolstoy (Sophle Andreevna Tolstoy).” A man and a woman love each other and for many years continue to love each other, create a well ordered home, bring up happy children and are themselves happy. Then “love begins to sicken and decay” because husband and wife |have become two entirely different persons from the ones who married ach other some vears before. Both have changed. but each thinks the change is tirely in_the other. So it was with Countess Tolstoy and her great husband, Leo Nikolaevich, as she ealls him throughout the “Auto- blography.” * ¥ k% The first chapters of the “Auto- biography" tell & story of prosperous, happy domestic life, full of the care of children and hard literary work, in which the countess bore her share, for she was her husband’s copyist and critic almost as long as he con- tinued to write. In addition she was the business manager of the family, directed the education of all the children and managed to find time for music, painting and authorship on her own account. Several of the thirteen children died and after the death in 18%5 of the youngest son, Vanichka, the countess writes: “After Vanichka's death our famil lifo was no longer happy. Graduall the other children married and th house became empty. change in Tolstoy s v which was finally to wreck their married life. He had come to be- lieve in a doctrine of renunciation of all private property and luxury and a return to the simple life of the peasants. He withdrew himself more nd more from family interests and iooked upon his family as an obstacle to “his carrying out his dream of a of an act of renuncia- times he threatened start a new lifc with the peasants. Of this change the countess writes pathetically “But nobody and nothing ratisfied Leo Nikolaevich or put his mind at rest. A spirit which rejected the existing religions, the science, art, family, e miankind had _evoived centuries, had been growing stronger and stronger in Leo Nikolaevich, and he was becoming gloomier and gloom- fer ® ® ¢ ] did not know how to Iive with such views; 1 was alarme frightened, grieved. Bul with nine dren 1'could not, like a weather- cock, turn in the ever-changing direc- tion of my husband's spiritual go- ing away. With him it wac a pas- sionate, sincere seeking; with me it would "have been a silly imitation, positively harmful to the family he_climax to the tragedy came with Tolstoy's flight from his home in 1910 and his death soon after. £ x His side of the sad story appears in a letter to his daughter and in extracts from his diary. Writing to his daughter he eaid: “The chief thing is that they (two of his other children) sghould realize and try to suggest to her (the countess) that this perpetual spying, eavesdropping, incessant complaining. ordering me about, as her family takes her, constant managing, pre- tended hatred of the man who is nearest and most mecessary to me. with her open hatred of me and pretence of love—that a life Tik: this is not only unpleasant, but im- possible: and if one of us is to drown himself,” let it not be her on any account, but myeelf: that there is but one thing I want—freedom {rom her, from that falsehood, pretence and =pite with which her whole being is permeated.” in * % % The Clinton twing, Joan and Nancy, created and guided from childhood to womanhood Ly Afchibald Marshall, in his four series-novels, “The Squire's Daughter,” “The Widest Son,” “The Honour of the Clintons” and “The Old Order Changeth,” have been revived by Mr. Marskall in his latest book, a col- lection of short stories, entit'ed Clinton Twins and_Other Storfes.” At the end of “The O!d Order Changeth” Joan and Nancs had both come safe'y through ail their childhood misde- meanors and mishaps and the 'ove fairs of their girlhood and were hap- pily married to devoted husbands. Now, in “The Clinton Twins.' they are brought back to the age of twelve and €ome more of their pranks are related. Never were there chi'dren with such in. ventive minds. children €o clever in re- partee, chi'dren so mischicvous without being malicious, o {mpertinent without being offensive, as these two, and yet they seem thoroughly real and not mere book children. The four stories which fare added to their record tell of their |attempt to remodel an ancient attic wing at Kencote, the Clinton country house, into a_home, inc'uding a chapel, for their old nurse Nanny: of their training of their new maid Hannah, to her great discomfiture; of their unigue attempts to earn money for a home for crippled children, and of a fortnight’s visit from two other little girls, which provides occasion for a uccession of quarrel * X% ® That leisurs is a necessity of life, not a luxury, Is the view of Samuel McChord Crothers in his essay, “Lei- sure While You Wait,” in the volume “The Cheerful Giver.” According to Mr. Crothers, leisure is an attitude of mind. “The mind is its own place,” he says, “and in itself can create a driven feeling in the Vale of Arcad. To illustrate the fact that leisure’ is compatible with a great deal of work, if only the work is not allowed to drive the worker, he tells a story of an odd custom in_the home of his aunt, the busy mother of twelve chil- dren, who was vet never in a hurry, When anything was lost the aunt would say ou'll probably find it on the as-you.” The as-you was a landing on the stairs between the basement Kitchen and the living room, on which members of the family were in the habit of dropping articles in transit, to be picked up on some fu- ture trip. “The remark that vou would find a household article ‘as you 80 up,’ or ‘a8 you go down,' had been, t last, contracted into a piace-name. Mr. Crothers concludes: “I think that evety well ordered mind ought to have an as-you. There are auties which you lay down temporarily be- cause you have your hands too full. You have a feeling that you have car- ried them as far as you are able to- day. As you come that way tomor- row it will be a pleasure to take them up again. In the meantime they are quité safe on the as-you. L Many peoplo who formerly did much walking, now, it is feared, get only such exercise as comes from driving an automobile. Let one who at times drives a car, but none the less habitually does muck walking, urge all such not to let the seduc- tions of the auto ¢ntiréely supplant the health and pleasure-giving exer- cise of walking. The case for pedes- trianism is well stated in the very small beok, recently published, enti- tled “Walking for Health" by Dr. Ivah H. Doty. A Tk x % A new life of Robert Louis Steven- son is by Rosaline Masson, daughter of David Masson, who wag professor of English literature at Edinburgh University when Stevenson was a student there. Much new material has been discovered since the earlier livés of Stevenson were written, so there is a place for this additional biography. Miss Masson treats Ste- venson with admiration, but without that_hero worship which made Hen- ley attaok Balfour's “Life” as pre- senting not the real Stevenson, but “g mseraph iR . ey~ sigar efigy.” l Alreudy the | federal soldiers, that was used in the we had begun, | sicge of Charl ) ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. In what occupations are goggles worn, and do they contaln correcting lenses?—F. P. C. A. When rivetng, acid making, manufacturing explosives, grinding. chipping, blasting and mining, em- ployes of many concerns are request- ed to wear goggles. When necessary correcting lenses can be fitted to the goggles. Q. What metals are more precious than gold?—A. O. D. A. There may be a few others that are also more valuabie than gold though we can list but six: Radium irtdium, rhodium, platinum, osmium d palladium, Q. Is the St. Lawrence rivar an in- ternational boundary ”- v A. Fecr 113 miles, from Lake Onta- rio to St. Regls, the St. Lawrence is the international houndary, in which Canada and the United States have ecquality of right and possession. From St. Regis to the Gulf of St Lawrence, Canada has undivided pos- session, but both countries have equal rights of navigation Q. Has the Alaskan railroad been completed?—A. H. G. A. It was officially declared com- pleted on July 15, 1923, when the late President Harding drove the golden spike at Nenana. The first official action toward building the road was taken in 1312, when President Taft appointed a commission to look into the feasibility of the undertaking. Q. What was the “Swamp Angel”? A. The “Swamp Angel” was an eight- inch Parrott cannon, so-called by th It burst sent to Trenton, N. J., where it now occupics a granite bass on the corner of Perry | and Clinton streets, Q. Why is the called “Big Ben”?—A. A. “Bic Ben” was christened “St. Stephen.” In 1851 the new houses of parliament were erected. Sir Benfa- min Hall, president of public works, had much to do with carrying out tha plans of the architects. When in 1856 the question arose as to the name of the bell to be hung in the tower, a member shouted, “Why not call it ‘Big Ben'?" Laughter and ap- plause followed, because Sir Benja- min, on account of his enormous height and girth, had often been call- ed “Big Be Q. What is the amendment?—J. B. L. A. The Lucretia Mott amendment is the so-called equal rights amend- ment to the Constitution of the August 11 on parliament w. Lucretia Mott United tes, advocated by the Woman’s Party and introduced in the Senate by ator Curtis and in the House by Representative Anthony. It reads: “Men and women shall have equal tights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction. Q. What was the highest price at which Steel stock sold last year?— VT A. The highest stock exchange (uotation on United States Steel coni- | mon last year was 109%. High for | Steel preferred was 125%. Q. Who inv in auction bridge? % A. Maj. C. L. Patton, president of | the Knickerbocker Whist Club of | Naw York City, introduced the double of one no-trump. Later the conven- tion was carried further and made to include the double of one in euit bids, ted ‘lhe double of one 1 and fnally includes some orf bids of more than one. . 1s Scvres a pottery or a poree lain?—D. P. i A B0 A. The celebrated productin Scvres are porcelain. Old Se: the fost body is th and valuable porc duced, the ecarll being dated 1753. Q. What s meant by the projec A. The “acr f the ter Tocation in a motion pi ing machine is th of the light sourcs the condenser lenses, and th is located in this positio Is the most efficient 1o croms-section of the con area at this use of the possib obscuring shutter i, hence resulting in the greatest iy able amount of light reachin scroen. point, narroy« -l In lh;-r«' more money sprnt nen’s clothing than for men L M. J A. Figures of manufactu clothing show that the vaiu products of concerns turnin men's clothes for u recent year $1.155,007.000, while women's clothe amounted to $1,154.699,000. the ‘continenital wireless ork means of r tele Moy or land worl means of click tion of cight letters, practic the Q. Which is more of beer or a cup of coff A. The burcau of c that it s diffiizult to compare the harmfulness of one heveraee with another because of the widely differ- ent effects beveras ve on d ent people. It says that some p seem to have an (diosyncrasy will result in making one subs more harmful to them than Q. What —H. G Gen. Pershing has the same that Gen. G hile Gen, hic allowance about $1.000 or more. At present h allowances are about $8,000. ph and s emistry savs Gen. Pershing Jefferson fir ¥ “Rip Joseph in this famo 1565, His 1 What is a geophor Y. The geophone 18 an insirura 1 during the world war purpose of deteoting enemy mir ations. The firet one was by th h and had a radiue of ard: d S veloped on near third greater range. ay have @ question wou anewered, send i to The Star Inf: mation Buveaw, Fre ic J. Haskm, directo 1220 North Capiiol ='re Inciose 2 cents in stamps for re postage.) ing mad €9 del had Py Denby’s Resignation Accepted As a Matter of Cour Secretary Denby's resignation from | the cabinet is accepted as a matter | of eouree. The Senate investigation, | even if it has proved nothing against | Mr. Denby's personal honesty proved that he is unfit to be trusted | with cabinet responsibilities, in the! opinion of the nation’s press. Editors | unanimously agree that the success- i ful drive against him should be but| the beginning of a relentless prose- cution of the oil inquiry and further housecleaning on the part of Mr. Coolidge, if the odor of ofl and many | other things are to disappear from| his official household. “To strain at Denby and swallow | ¥ Daugherty will scem an extraordi- | nary act of discrimination.” as the! Baltimore Sun puts it, for “Mr. Denhy apparently had too much self-respect | and too much loyalty to his chief to! remain any longer where he was un- | welcome or an embarrassment, hut | Mr. Daugherty has a much thicker hide and it may be necessary to han him his hat before he takes the hint. The difference between the Falls and | the Denbys scems to the Newark! News “to be that between unworthi- ness and unfitnese and the case show t unfitness may bo about as dun gerous. * % ¥ Here, there and everywhere throughout the country, the Boston Transcript claims, “there is growing a feeling that if President Coolidge is to have the fair chance that his countrymen wish bhim to have, a cub- inet of his own selection is an essen- tial that cannot much longer be de- nied him.” The resignation of Denby, the Knoxville Sentinel declares, “can only mean the realization by Coolidge that Denby was involved and can only be the beginning of the end—the shaking to earth and downfall of the entire administration concerned i so colossal and unheard of a scandal This is also the opinion of the Bir- mingham News. As the matter stands, the New York Times afirm tary Denby was calied upon {o fce himself for the good of h and the sdministration in Washing- ton, and has done so.” Tpartial persons, the Fhiladelphia Bulletin belleves, “will defer their judgment as to the moral quality of the Secretary's ucts until the legal experts have finished their examina- tion and any proceedings involving the retiring Secretary that they may tnitiate have run their course.” Be- cause so far a8 can be judged from the evidence that has transpired, the Cin-l cinnati Times-Star finds “the most seri- ous accusation which is made against | Secretary enby Is that he was wea and became an uneonsclous instru: | ment in the hands of men like Fall And Sinclalr and Doheny and the speclous swarm of political ‘attor- neys' who were In thelr lobbying en- tourage.” The Manchester Uhion, however. maintains that “good judgment is as desirable as good intentions in a cabinet officer, and Mr. Denby's qual- ificatione for successfuily meeting the tricks and_maneuvers of experienced and wealthy would-be exploiters of government have been brought into Question” so “he does well to get out” The Lynchburg Advance points out further that “Denby's continuance as Secretary was entirely inconsist- ent with the President's efforts to prosecute the oil contracts.” But his futile effort to hold on in the face of the volume of criticlsm aroused by his acts and his blundering d fense of those acts the Brooklyn Eagle insiete, “only (llustrates the lack of comprehension in Washing- to For the country the main point is that Mr. Denby is out.” in the opinion of the New York Evening World, Which asserts further “nobody sacri- ficed him; he sacrificed himself when, having reversed the national polic of conservatton, he declared he would g0 on with the reversal.” The resig- nation of Denby, according to the Hpringfleld Republican, has two |18 ! examined as ! oflice the reput well as the demc cratic lawyers of the Senate that t} il Ie; ere iilegul, v ounced that to come before him : do exactly pla Plain Dealer the same view, admitting *his sealed the certainty that he would be obliged to leave the cabinet hefors the case advanced much further.” To which the Ohio State Journal The Roanoke World-) further that “suspicion tence or crookedness, or both, attached itself to his name, resignation “will eas for President Coolidg publican party.” In News York Pos nd wrongs of Edwin well with as in. He may reiv upon the fact that judzments of men are in the long run just. If he merits vin- dication, h will get it." And the Albany Knic rbocker Pres: con-~ cludes that “Mr. Denby can afiord to await his d in cawrt and should not fail in a confidence that rneith there nor in the tribunal of S10 I opinion will he suffer gt frot injustice.” COURAGE | “I am the master of my fote: I am the captain of my soul.” HENLEY. Lic last Peary Fought Ice and Poverty. For twenty-three years Peary battled (o gain the nerth pole His struggle war not alone with c and bunger, blinding snow and per: of treacherc A poor man, de- voting most of his income as officer to his expeditions, he was un + der the necessity of finding additional funds for every trip. He was born at Cresson, Pa., 1856, and was threc vears old when his father dicd. He passed his boy- hood with his mother in Portland, Me, Graduated from Bowdoin College, ho became a land_surveyor, and when twenty-three joined the eoast and geodetic survey. Later he was a na. lieutenant. On leave in 1836, he want to Gree land, caught the “Arctic fever. resoived to win the pole. In 1% companied by his wife, he mad first try for the goal. After a thir month™ 1,300-mile great ice cap, he north latitude. In in_ the north twenty-five months Again Mrs. Peary accompanicd him, and in Greenland their eldest child was born, the famous “snow baby In ail, he made eight expedition In 1889 his fect were frozen and sev toes were amputated. He began his last expedition in 1909, Soon the natives began fto get ner ous and some had to be sent bac Many times Peary and his companio were in imminent danser or death from great cracks in th . When 133 nautical miles from the pole he and four others started the final dash. When the pole was actuaily in sisht,| Peary was too fatigued to take the last few steps. Sleeping for a few] hours, he pressed on The pole at last.” he wrote in hig Qiary. “The prize of three eenturies) My dream and goal for twenty vears) Mine at last! 1 cannot bring mysell 1o realize it. It srems all and_commonplac 5 When he wirelessed bac ang| Stripes nailed to the narth polc,” he received word that another was be. Robert 1: ice. tecti- he remained 3 i pects: “personal and political. Om the personal side it 1s tragedy. On the political side Mr. Denby made an impossible burden upon the adminis- tration when, in the face of an ap- parently unanimous opinion among ing honored as the discoverer, ang Peary had to prove his accomplish. ment. This he did and was given full credit he deserved. (Oopyright, 10833