Evening Star Newspaper, February 26, 1924, Page 6

r 6 ‘THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUEEDAY." ...February 26, 1924 THEODORE W. NOYES - Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company 11th St and Pennayivanis Ave. 110 Eaat 42nd St Tower Bullding Chicago OM: weat St., Loudon, Evgland. Bupopesu Ofive: 14 The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning tiou, in deliverdd by earriers within the ats per month: daily only, h: Kupduy onlv. 20 cents e sent by mail or tele- | wllection ix made by car- | fiers at th eod of enclh wonth. Rate by leuil-—-l'.‘a_"-nhh n A Maryland and Virginia. Sunduy..! yr., § All Other States. v anc Sunday. £10.00; t mo., 86¢ Daily only 7,00} 1 mo., 60c unday unl i 1mo., 25c Member of the The Assoetuted ‘o the nee fy sociated Press. is_exclusively entitled w dis- RIS Saper and al A pul shed hereis. A1l Tights of publication special dispateliel hereln ure ulso reserved. —_— ey o ot Spending Our Own Money. | Our experience painfully rind: the ssnsitive municipal L wounding and irri- Jlsewhere in America no- | but the taxpaying commu- 1s anything to say about munici- 1l taxes, He body else but e taxpayers has the say, and the “ocal taxpaying community is disouali- fed. Instead of legislating it must T, ning iis tax and it ive from e few but afien atlors © neglect gas-ty in upn ousness fact. vlse on e potitions many, tegi ity for this un-American | Treasur; ! the inv, have not elected on American prin- i ciples to spend it for us, and.who in many instances pay little heed to our wishes and petitions iu respect to the taxation which. raises or the appro- priations ‘which spend “our own money.” ——————— Piling Up Retirement Funds, Consideration of the annuities which the retired ;department workers are seeking to have. incrcased by new legislation should not be upon the. plane of regarding them as benefac- tions granted by the government. They are paid out of money furnished by the workers themselves while in ac- tive servide, nos voluntarily, but under compulgion of law. They are in a dividends upom a required investment. Tt of cowrse, pecessary thut the retirement fund should be kept reason- ably sceure from, overdraft by the i jafter long discussion public opinion, muintenance of @ surpius. It is not possible to know exactly how many people will be drawing annuities, or in what afount, a few certuinty, and there is no concelvable condition which would entail a draft 50 great as to exhaust the fund as it now stunds, even if the unnuities were | increased as the present bill proposes. The fund has since its beginning August +1, 1920, shown @ surplus of about $8,00000 & year over and above the payvments on annuity accounts, while the payments have averaged in the same period about $5,680,000. The surplus is therefore much larger than the payments themselves. 1€ the pres- eht scale is maintained in ten yea be a surplus of $50,000,000 in the probably more in view of ment of the money in gov- securities and addition ernment e jof the interest to the principal. It is conceivable that there will sovn be an investment of this character of at Ty submitted is that al expendl- ¥ spent is not District exacted from the con: - tax-burdened home uent true that Americ of the suife z from excessive and mwunieipal taxes. This taxa 1 incurred as the result of ad Lo rovide the mea muni in war-tine, som-times {0 profit grafters to meet the demand for tax-exempt < that the very wealthy might war-time confiscatory super- nicipal and be equitably ause the condi- fst here which compel of these excessive bur- We have 10 need to raise tax meney here for grafiers. We do not i to borrow money to meet our 16 inicipal needs neglected in tho war- 1t se untes and untll our Treasury #. #pius of accumulated tax money has n apniied to help to meet the Dis- s propertion of the cost of Capital upbuilding. And flnally our legislu- though slow in mak- 135 our tax surplus availuble for im- diate and eq has not for oment considered a bond issue or advance, and has, in effect, cnns. turdens of American efties ‘have no ing whajever .upon .the national m which the 49 per cent of ual cost of Capital upbutlding derived, and it is tq be remembered conzressinen that expenditures om the Treasury upen the Capital do not increase by 4 cent the municipal end state taxes of their overburdened me constituents, aond that, the na- from which the nation’s rd Capital “upbuild- exacted: separately on #« uniform basts fixed beforehand, and not more or less in proportion to amount greater or smailer which ration devotes to Capital main- tenance and development. Tinally, it is not o be forgotten that, when one taunts the Washing. tonian with ing the expenditure upen the Capital of national money ot his own, the slur is baseless. For this national fund is just ae much the District’s own as it is the own of any of the states, or as it js the own of the ¢ cssman’s outraged home constituents. Of Capital expenditures under the %0-40 ratio 60 per cent are from the Distriet's money exclusively; the re- raaining 40 per cent are as much the YWashingtonian’s money, by virtue of contribution to it, as the Texan's or the Michigander's. 1t {s sometimes as- eumed, incorrectly, of course, that the District has no part in national taxa- tfon, or In contribution to the national ravenue which supplies 40 per cent of the cost of Capital upbuilding. But the District is part of the Union for the purpose of bearing every: na- tional burden of tdxation and of life- eacrifice in time of war. It is only in lack of participation on, American representative principles in the legis- Jature which imposes and spends the taxes and sends American soldiers to war that the District is not a part of tae Union. If nationa) taxes weigh heavily on ®ther Americans. they welgh heavily on Americang of the District. In view of the objects and methods of callection ©f national taxes they ‘weigh more Yreavily upon individual’ Wgshingto- rians than upon the individual citizen «f many or mest.of the.states. Else- where in The Star is printed an ex- tract from the arguments before the Joint fiscal committee of 1915 which develops idly this contentien. The yortion of the national revenus ex- vended in Capital upbyllding is not, therefore, the gift of other people's roney to' the individual Washing- tonian - or'. to ‘AVashingtonians col- lactively, but represents the nation’s expenditure for a recognized, legiti- rate national purpose - of national money in which the Washingtonians Tave the same interest, based on con- tribution o the fund, as-that of any und every American of the states, Obviously we of Washington are not welfishly spending - upon the Capital rioney not our own. ‘First, every cent of the money, including the matiomal contribution, is as much our own as anybody else’s, Second, we are not spending the money at all, even that which is exclusively - our own, as the Toczl taxpayers’ contribution, All of our own money is spent for us, with- ou$ our comsent, by others whom we least $50,000.000, netting at 4 per cent an aunual income of $2,000,000, this interest alone being about 26 per cent of the average of the annuitics pald past three years. It is thus ps two decades s fund will be so lurge that on -its government curity investments alone will mect all annuits requirements. Is it to be the policy of the govern- ment thus to pile up the money of its employes.in a vast sum I the Treas ury for the purpose of maintaining comparatively insignificant payments out of it? Or is the scule of puyments, now so pitifuily small, to be increased, to give the annuitants u fuirer share of their own savings when they have left active work and when they need funds for their maintenance. It is proposed in the present bill to make that fairer division of the fund, and to give the retired government workers @ little closer appgoximation to thelr necds. A Vote-Getting Bill. The conviction is growinz that the tax-revision bill in the House is being constructed more with an to its expected efficacy as u vote-zetter than as a revenue-raiser. The hand of the actuury is noticeably missing, as its hodgepodge character develops. That the government revenues may be seri- ously affected if the bill in its present form goes into effect is threatened. Increasing the inheritance taxes o0 per cent, as proposed by the adoption of the amendments to that effect 8- terday, is one instance which raises doubt as to the scientific framework of the bill. Representative Ogden Mills of New York warned the House that it has come to a grave condition when it was willing to make a fundamental and permanent proposition without preliminary study. He charged that this ie an effort to make up for th defleit vhich the Garner rates will create, but predicted that it will be| ineffectual. Republican Leader Longworth de- clared the amendment has had no con- sideration in the ways and means committee. He denounced it as op- posed to the very roots of the relation- ship between the states and the fed- eral government. ;Mr. Mills pointed out that without due consideration the Ifouse avas proposing to deprive ! the states of ome of their great sources of revenue in the face of con stantly increasing expen It is evident the Senate will have ite hands full In correcting the faulty House bill, if the Senate really de- sires to pass a scientific tax measure. e Satisfactory explanation by Mr. Me- Adoo of tie $150,000 he received does not prevent the committee from de- siring to hear all about the $900,000 he narrowly missed. Books which teach thc reader “how to develop a magnetic and irresistible personalfty” may have been included in the library of ex-Secretary Fall. The statesman who is in the hands of his friénds today may tomorrow be studying the finger of suspicion. The Attorney General's attitude is that of a man who has perfect con- fiderice in the administration. The Connecting Parkway. It 1§ agreeuble t3 note that progress is being made on the Waterside drive, which’is the name that has been de- cided on for the park strip {nclosing Rock creek from the Zoological Park to the Potomac, and thence by & short parkway to the upper end of Potorac Park. Wor a long time citizens have urged a parkway connection between Rock Creck and Potomac parks to increage the service of both parks, and as this corinection would be along lower Rock creek it would préserve. the creek; change the aspect of a sec- tion of city by no means beautiful and transform & stream which had become a veritalle ‘sewer, and its borders, which had become 2 series of public dumps, into an important ubit of the Capital's park system. It is now gnnounced that the com- mission named to ‘acquire this land has purchased for $80,000 sixteen acres along the creek between Massachu- setts avenue-and Q street, which in- cludes the site of Lyon's mill, one of the. early Rock creek mlills, and, the ruin-of which was long e landmark. The valley of Rock creek is wider néar the site of Lyon's mill than in most other parts of its course, and N rs hence, But | Made some years ago, and the hounds # iy possible to compute the drainyOf the drive were laid down as “Itnes upon the fund with a fair degree of | of from the start, &r in 1930, there will | THE = = = it is the largest level area in the val-' ley of Rock creek south’ of Magsachu- setty avenue, and is an essential part of the proposed drive. Years ago Washington used to dis- cuss whether it would be better to re- claim that part of Rock creek flowing through 4 settled sectfon ‘south of P strect or build an arch over it and ) continue to use it as a sewer, which during all the years would continue to pour an increasing flooed of polson into the Potomac. It was proposed that if the creck were arched the nar- row valley could be partly filled and & drive luld out above the sewer. Butl expressed through the local civie or- ganizations, was that.the creek should be restored to comparative purity, and that its winding valley should be taken over for the purpose of making a. park connection between Rock Creek and Potomac parks. It is a desirable plan from every point of view. The survey for this parkway was! condemnation” on the city map. These lines run from the south side of Massachusetts avenue, turn east to Q street just south of Sheridan Circle, then run southerly to the mouth of Rock creck and then southwest along 27th strcet, with the Potomac river on the west side, to the north end of Potomae Park two blocks west of the | Naval Museum of Hygiene. The lines | of condemnation on both sides of Rock creek are at Vurying distances from the creek, the greatest width beiog between Q street and Pennsylvaniu ivent Novth Massachusetts avenue lund for the parkway has been wc quired on the east side of the ereck | to Connecticut avenue, and there the rarkway Jjoins the Zoological Fark. On the west side of the creck north- ward from Massachusetts avenue the land already acquired for the park- wuy extends to within two squares of Connecticut avenue. ——— In his blography Tfotsky refers calmly to the humber of times he has been taken to prison, and his present activities indicate a ceadiness to go again rather thau change his plans. ——— present staté of -agitetion there may be u senatorial inclination tb infer that even to have been on speaking terms with ex-Secreary Fall Implies some possible culpability. ———— Historians say o great em: brings forward the man to meet President Coolidge has the confider of the country as he faces grave and extraordinary responsibilitics. ————— Mr. Doheny may be able to pathize with the small investors in various cil enterprises unrelated to his who spent considerable sums for which they Treceived nothing. e Friends of Mr. McAdoo take pride iz the fact that they are not offering to the country the services of one who in private employment would be rated as u low-salaried man. ———— Bulgarian conununists are rioting in & manner which fndicates a readiness in that section of Eurepe to provide a pretest for another war promptly on demand. : ————— Refusing to’ consider resignation rumors has become w matter of per- sonal custom with Mr. Daugherty. o the it In sticking to. the ship of state, Mr. Daugherty shows ull the fortitud Casablanca. SHOOTING STARS. EY PHILANDER JOHNSON. “None o' My Business,” “It’'s none o' my bus'ness,” 1s what I would say When turmoll was rising In lands far away. It's none o' my bus'ness When grafters draw near, So long as with me They do not interfere. It's some o' my bus'ness When taxes T pay And see reputations Fade swiftly away. When perils so grave To my country I note, It's some o' my bus'nes¢ To get out an’ vote. Trying Hard to Be Cheerful. “Don’t you appreciate the man who comes into your office with a cheery word, trying to dispel the gléom that may hover about us in our daily lives?” asked the enthusiast. “No, I don't,” andwered Senator Sorghum. “He's liable to make the gloom only worse. One of his kind was- in here this morning. He asked me what one of my political friends’ favorite flower was, and when I gave it up he replied, ‘the oflyander.’ " Jud Tunkins says some men are led into temptation; others spend thelr lives hunting it up. ‘Wasted Kindness. - Oh, where 1s the lobbylst gay- ‘Who once was the joy of the throng. His heart’s in the right place, they sy, But his pocketbook got him wrong. - ! | | n Trustfulness. ‘*Are you sure you cen confide your ‘happiness to this man?” {nquired Miss Cayenne. - “You are prejudiced’ against him, exclaimed the impressionable girl, “‘be- cause father doesn’t lke him." “His opinion is entitled to consldera- tion. For my part I never could un- derstand why so many girls are per- fectly willing to trust a life's happi- ness to some man whom their fathers wouldn't trust with a two-dollar bill.” Joking Aside. ; “Don't you think jokes about pro- hibition are stufid?” “I do," answered Uncle Bill Bottle- top. “Bootleg licker is becoming more an’ more a subject not for epigrams but for epitaphs.” “It 'pears to me,” said Uncle Eben, “like too many folks was neglectin’ reg'lar employment an’ dependin’ on gittin® most of de work done by de grand jury.” A Series of Articles on the Cost of Government; " BY JOHN F. Author of “Can Europe Hold Together?" CHAPTER II. The Latest Methods—For A.D. 1790, Young Alexander Hamilton, first Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, occupled that great position 134 years ago. Ho installed & complete set of books. They were right ‘up-to-date—then. e put in the latest bookkeeping wmethods— then. A double entry system. Most men, like the ages, change elowly. Torty-seven men since his day liave occupled the seat vacated by Hamilton. A new sclence of ac- counting has come along. All modern business organizations use it—they cannot get along without it. But the government of the United States hobbles ulong under the old system of bookkeeping. A modern svstam of keeping ac- counts must have two objects con- stautly in mind: (1) " To furnish an open, clear and concise record of all financial trans- actions, so that the people may al- ays. have accurate information as the real condition of the public reasury and of each transaction; und 2) Mo furnish the means of hold- Ing the disbursing officer to u fulth- ful discharse of his duties. In the days of Hamilton the second function wus primary. The double entry bookkeeping, plus a starching voucher system, was adopte 1t was cureful and met successfully the sce- of the abjects of good bookkeep- in Bul the first object, which, so far us the people are concerned, s by far the more fmportant, has ever been seriously neglected. Complaint has heen made of this Weakness from time to tinue for more than fifty years. but up 1o 1921 noth- ing was done to remedy the condi- tion. Six Mg Wenk Spots Picked. It is true that in 1911 President Taft crested tho commission of ccon- omy and cfliciency to inguire into the condition and methods of government accounting and tinanco. Dr. Freder- fek A. Clevelund, u recognized finan- alal expert, was made chairman. The commission made an_ exhaustive study of the sftuation. They saw the 4 d did not hesitate to em. hat was wrong with the government's accounting methods, anyway? Six shortcoming (1) The government of {he ates bad never hud a budge he government of the United bad never hud u balance Us i States sheet. () The government of the United States had never had un operating account which showed the surplus or detlcit of operating expengcs (4) The government had never known how {t etood financially. %) The government had never had anv means for reviewing ite contructing and purchasing relations L (8) The rnment of the United States hxd' ever 4 the information essary for considerin Lestio: o economy and sfictency. © O 0O of | This " amazing revelation of Dr. Clevelgnd was ven oWt in 1011 Thirteen y passed since then, The gre; pringing In its train | seial load ever car- | 1o Treasury, has come and | Enter the Budget Bureau. Tits fs 1924, Still no balanee sheet, no operating aceount. no ethod for determining Tow the government tands finuncially. «nd | | ion_ of econa its ‘report led into o The conmis efliciency ma mendations But we suved one financial machinery that may to be warth (ts weight in gold. be_the beginning of better da Ten years land report was i tablished, in Department, th get, with Gen. Charles Dawes as first Giractor general, Even this important step forward would not have been taken had it not been for the t work of the In- stitut der the v ship of D is a private organization of citizens Who for vears have tried to give the government every assistance in lay-. ing the proper foundation for this fundamental and Important next step. Willoughvy deserves special men- ve 1t may i WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS— BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILL Monday's ofl matinee in Washing- ton—most patronized theatrical at- traction of the season—drew a “ca- pacity” audience, with C. Bascom Slemp as top-liner of the bill. The atmosphere of the Senute hearing room was heavily charged with mixed emotions. They fluctuated between republican auxietics that the White| House might somehow be dragged into the oil affuir and democratic hopes that it would be. The assist- ant to the President—the formal title of his private .secretary—conducted himself with that reticence which befits so confidential & position. Sen- atorial inquisitors, on their part, did not seek to break it down. Mr. Slemp is no slouch at congressional investigation. H helped conduct many & one himself when a member of the House. Several of the Senate committee were hiz one-time col- leagues there. _ E R Mr. Slemp said the “Volstead act,” not the oll scandal, was the principal theme of conversation at Palm Beach when he was there in December and January. \ Prohibition, not petroleum, he suggested, chiefly fired the emo- tlons of that plutocratic winter re- sort.. Public men in Waehington gen- erally &ay they don't hear.the lquor questioh sq uaiversaily discussed as It used 6 be. Drys pronounce that a good sign. They think it means that ‘the eighteenth amendnient is coming to be.gccepted more-and more as the fundamental law of the arid| land. Jt'is the prohibitionist. claim; that all of the talking 15 done. by | the wets. Which incited an ally of Wayne B. Wheoler to Gbscrve, that “thé wets. do tho talking, but: the! drys will do the voting.” < * W kK There is in Washington on United States Supreme Court business a well known California lawyer who nar- rates @ tragl-comic episode in the courts at San Francisco recently. Counsel in important litigation had occasion to cite various state deci- sions on & vital goint of law. West- ern land rights were involved. ARt instances were found in a number of Mississippl valley commonwealths, But the best and most comprehensive was _dlscovered in the decislons of the New Mexican courts. It was de- termined to utilize it, until some one found that it was a decision handed down by Albert B, Fall when he an associate justice of the suprem court of New Mexico. Counsel co ferred and concluded to’use some- thing else. & * xR Harry M. Daugherty was taking his morning constitutional a day or :wo after republican semators called for his retirement from the cablnet ‘Where the Money Goes, and Why. | peallng from the decision of the bud- [tion= betw EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C... TUESDAY, FEBRUARY .26, 1924. CAN YOUR TAXES BE CUT? NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM THE ROVER. Joseph Conrad. Double- day, Page & Co. A trickle of action, easy enough for & pair of cupped hands to hold. Its % visible source, a sluggish backwater il ::t:p;-" & bl;_llledt;!s; m‘fi?’.‘f:}; : Helot torgotten days whose hours here perience, tact, resourcefulness, ag-|8ather up incidents rather than gressiven Ho prepared thelovents. A story of unarresting move- ground wi He even wrote four Books (two were written jointly with | :eAb of almost no movement, or so his distinguished brother, W. W, Wii- {It seeme to one at the moment of loughby) on the subject of govern-|coming out from “The Bover” A ment budgets. snap judgment, to be sure, with no He had a vision. He never quit. He |more ‘welght than deciglons of this nover lost -hope. To such men—the [sort are 1fkely to have. But, you sce, constructive genluses of our history— ! in the company of Joseph Conrad one monuments of public gratitude willlis used to the sailing of endless seas some day be raised. If we can af-|weeks und months on eng ford to erect monuments to heroes of | uged to the canopy of immeasurable destruction, why not ever greater ones | ekjes, used to the lure of widening to heroes of construction? events ever beckoning to further out- A Modest Step Forward. farings, used to the mystery of sheer But to return to the budget bureau | beauty encompassing ‘the whole. It of 1921. Mark the date. It will bejcomes about, thereforg, that the bare famous as the beginning of a new |Physical Iimitation of “The Rover" era in oyr flnancial history. tukes one with a jar of surprise and In & modest way It was a step for- | momentary misleading. It seems, ward In_government accounting. It |upon the surface, 8o out of the run of was at last to recognize in our life |the Conrad tradition. the function of “open Informatlonal PR accounting,”- referred to as No. 1 T of our objects. Its introduction has e romance carries one back a century or more, to Lord Nelson's cleared the decks for more competent two-year blockade of the port of Tou- and leul \A‘u;uls{ulhexémlnafl on 4;: ap- o s By o 5% o> |1on in the war etween England and the French republic. Carries one fur- done something along the line of co- ordinating government purchases. It ther back than that even, since cer- taln of its vital characters are has for the firet time in our history| poignantly reminiscent of the atroc- taken vast chaotic figures of the ‘Treasury Department and shaken themidown luto classified totals "’-(["IQB of the French revolution itself. These points of time serve, though In unequal measure, the double purpose begin to tell something. Already it has effected modest savings and cer- of historical background on the one hand, of spiritual atmosphere on the tain economies. other. SINCLAIR, On July 1, 1922, the director of the budget buréau iald down & uniform classification of aecounts for the sev- eral depurtments. This work was all prepared by the Institute for Gov- ernment Research. From this record the annual summaries of 1823, of 1924 and of 1925 have already been made. ¥rom these records the burcau of government research, in co-operation with the Treasury Department, is now | #t worlt preparing the first compre- | thore 1ifts sharply in beetling hensive government balance sheet|Crag und furrowed wall, sloping off ever complled, It Is nearly completed. | therefrom into fleld and farm. Here We have made on! a start. 1t |l!les the farm of Ercampobar. Es- seems eriminally late to begin. Bil- |campobar and below it the motched Ttons of dollars of the people's money (€48c Of the Mediterranean become have alresdy run over the financial [the stage of this adventure of which dam. But the Important thing to re- | Citizen Peyrol, once the “Rover,” 18 member is that the beginning has {clearly the hero. That Is, he ls the Deen made. ~And 1t is in the right|hcro if a situation to generally ine direction, & forward step. significant may, in reason, claim a Congress Holds Deeislon. ;Afr“:ebfq "11‘”0"& Nothing happens I say that beeause the budget law | (255, 8AVE the ’°“\~“fl},7’,‘1‘,‘,"°;f;‘§,,,.°,’ prohibits any department head A&p-|except that having come to Escampo- bar from long sea sailings, the Rover, after 4 (en-yvear anchorage in the farm harbor, goes out again, finally. be way of 'the sea. A great esit that 1f, however, to waintain balance fn the midst of toppling human ruins then Cltizen Pesrol is a "ok oo The sca to the east of Toulon, Eometimes in play and eometimes in dark unger, has nipped and bitten the coast into a perfect hidc-und-go- seek of inlet and cove. Above, the | to Congress. In as o appropria- . Secretary ent d budgaet Work may appeal from the decirion of Gen. Lord di- rectly to the President of the United States. But Secretary Work cannot |the farm folks with a plain and steady appeal to Congrees. Of course, Con- | CUUrage; if to Possess great common gress itsclf may cither increasc or de- |gense and to hold it staunchly againet Grease. With Congress rests final |the fmmense no sense around it; if, in power. N £um, to be sane where the others are "Fherc i< no question that definite |obviously not sane—if all this {8 not constructive forces are already at [of the stuff of herolsm, then the rover work -ahich wil bring about changes |is not a hero. But he is. You your- Ffor the better. These forces, first, |self will gladly, and I take it a bit will deal with the strict technique of [humbly, grant Citizen Pesveol that account ethod. But they will [ honor. reach furt They will pe ute 10 the very foundations of our gov- ernment finenclal structyre, And they should. No org: business fu the world i$ &0 b get bureau direct] case of u be herofc, hero. If to offset the daily terrors of % A motley assemblage. this at farm Arlette the iast of the ge Busiuass i the macl 18 Uext | tions of Escampobar. Arlette u beau- of the Lnited States government. | tiful wralth, her mind under & cloud, Throughout our wholc history our|her eves stll filled with the hor- government books have been kept ac- [ rors of the Toulon massacre, where, furate. This accompliched in the |at he Llood-mad men bel kindergarten days of national finance. | haad r father and her The average man employed by Unele [ mother, Arlette's comp and Sam fs us honest and as efficient as | guardian at the farm Ix Aunt Cith- the uverage man emplo by private } erine, 2 ghost of thwarted vouth und b e Make no mistake about|stricken maturity. Then Scevola, th revolutionary funatle, consi io; (Lt the far more important ebicct | caward, puiveyor of ‘the gailloting of furnishing an open, clear and con- [ qrj 3 ; O o of AT Sanclal transacs {pornker of blood. who by virtus of tions, ‘o tho people may have ac- curate and up-to-the-minute informa- { campobur ha 3 elf af h tion as to the actual cr;nducuonc:rl our | Carn, wher:shsculleda:;'r:z—f Sulhe overnment as 4 growlng_concern, is | X e Ko Frep for Amleriea. “That tcp i | estures to the s ert that the fuels now being made, The ground work [haiong to the victor. Besides thic insane trio there {8 only Citizen Peyrol, and now and then Lieut. Real | comes ‘up from Toulon on some er- rand of espionage directed toward the English _eentinel ship offshore that is “watching the Toulon blockade. | Down in the cove s the Rover's little tartane, modest link between his une | eventful present and u gorgeous past of salling, fighting, winning, losing— Off in the eastern teas ulong with the others of the lawle brotherhood 4 ol o longest ized ilder- having rescued Arlette at Toulon and of having brought ler back to Es- is completed. The superstructure, under the inspection of Willoughby, Brown, Lord & Co. is slowly rising It 18 extremely interesting because it is_non-partisan. x . In our next artlcle, we will see just hat the bureau of budgets has done 1 is trying to do. right, 1924, in United States and Great ortlh American Ne All rights ress l | wi Alliance. Tomorrow—The Bureau Tt a New Das: of the coast, It is th that serv finally, to bre socret bondage of Citizen Peyrol, set the Rover free for the of all his sailings. * % v ¥ That's all. That's the stor unpleasant tale of no great m according to this clipped account of its bare surface movement. Not so0 at all, in reality. Instead, a story that gocs down deep into the places where the lieart of the human burrows, al- waye in complete secrecy, alwiys in utter loneliness. From the super- fictal outlook also “Tha Rover” stands us_a distinct departure from the { familfar Conrad romance of fhe sci. A fitful wind ruffing the Mediter- ranean shore, & prowling craft under 1azy sails, a 'darting tartane—this is 10 sea stuff. A pure in-shore inven- tion, or 0 it seems. But Citizen Pey- rol 'possesses memories that crowd and press and clamor. Theee memo- ries talk. And from the day when we come upon the rover at Toulon, mus- ter-gunner of a worn and battercd prize ship, delivering his craft to the authoriti and thereafter betaking himself summarily to parts unknown, from that day to the other one when | The Attorney General met a congres- sional friend, who asked what be was going to do about it. “I know what I'm not going to do,” he re- plisd. “I'm not going to be hanged without & trial” * k¥ Stnee Calvin Coolldge's sudden ac- cession to the presidency, republican candidates for the vice presidency have blossonied with the frequency of the flowers that bloom in the spring. The number of G. O. P. United States senators who have not run up light- ning rods, or who are not ready to ercct political aerfals, Is rapidly de- creasing. Meet the latest Barkis— % . s on the little tartane he scts out for Senator Richard P. Ernst of Kentucky. | the most dictant of all ports, wé are, The Hlue Grass delegation is ready |in his company, never far from the to boost and boom him at Cleveland spectacle of those old days of dfll}g&r > and adventure. In effect, this is a {u June. Ohlo is expected to line up|prime sea story hauled from the held with 1o less enthusiasm, for although {of the rover's mind. And the romance Ernst halls from Kentucky, living at | &6 & whole is, despite its sceming dif- Covington, his business ofices arc | {SFence, aulte of the ueual Conradian . texture and pattern. Here, too. as in across the river at Cincinnati. Ernst's | the most of Mr. Conrad's novels, one alma mater is Center College, Ken-|finds that leaning toward the areas tucky, habitat of the “praving col- | 1¥ing between the known and the un- onels” He is a lawyer and has never known, where the mind exercises before held public office. At the recent | Eifts and powers that remain inert, G. O, P. state conventlon in his state, unawakened, in the turmoll of the Senaior Ernst was elected national Outer day. ’ -t committeeman, appointed a delegate- PTMS deep vgrsgnnlx|y '}’\il‘;f.‘,‘fi'é at-large to the national convention, and | Peyrol 1s the real man indorsed for Vice President. out when the otcasion for emergernce . arises, « A strength and wisdom gath- i jais cred out of years and years of sca “Jim" Wright, chairman of the |solitudes, out of immense spuces of standing committee of correspond- - tranquilliiy.” Such s the man and . such his squrces—a white-haire ents, s Dbusier these 'daye than anfhero that ,m?e comes to know and oil investigator. His committes hus {o\'e {n:re.‘h]v. {8 in ‘\lug sf:'frtmp?:f' charge of the press sections at the | 100, that there springs Do snr forthcoming matfonal conventions, | Bri¥e and dismay of the rovern the Teeling for Arlette that determines Every newspaper from Maine to Cali- the end of this action. A shadowy fornia wants accommodations. Wright | feeling, vaguc, *elusive, such as Mr. 15 u kindly soul, but how to solve the | Sonrad & likely to creiie Arours roblem of jamming 5,000 scribes|thoss emotions that arise between man Pito kpuce designed comfortably o | taa weaman Here, aguin, one comes accommodate 500 {s keeping ~him | 4non i Guthor's deep-scated preoc- awake nights. Demands for places | ohol cn S Wi vhe" universal homesick- at New York will probably be livelier Lneglin which every mortul finds himself than In Clevelands It's the difference |inyolved, The rover embodies it here, between a row and a ratification. | jpyndoning years of sea adventure and * the tralning of the sea for a d:ll land Senator Ralston of Indlan retuses |iife on the soll of France, Just bcaicn; to let anybody turn his sage Hoosier | he had trod the stony and ungenerous head with the assurance that, McAdoo | soil that had starved his mother, lead: having blown up, he 18 now the un- |ing him to run in terror from her de body lying in the straw where the two beatable child of democratic destiny. | of them had slept. Withont even know- Ralston says he has no press agents, ing his own real name the waif had no publicity campalgn, no authorizea | & ed to the sea and the ships from which sprang his subsequent life as a sailor. drumbeaters, or anything elsc savor-|in the main a happy life, certainly an ing of - organisation. His friends | {nteresting and active one. But mo declare the senator is under no illus | matter. His roots were in the soil of glons. He s sald to measure at its | France, and to it he homed for those full’ importance the fect that he|years fhat are spread hero beforo us passed his sixty-sixth birthday a{Thet s the universal 2 impulse—that week before he was sworn in as|homing flight. Ay lsu ith !‘“‘:wrfl:lthfllo ‘t!uy credit him with teeling 6 dom- I Conrad in its essentials, this ad- Seratic Darty Ought to DOMINALS ® | vemtuie Sane Ramerr And bermuse 1t man young enough to be eligible to | jy g0 characteristic of his work in gen- a second_term. At completion of algral one falls heir to an adventure in first term §amuel M. Ralston would|the reading of it. The test of this is be in his sevent cond year.. But|the fact that out.of it steps Citizen these ‘considerations are not deter- | Peyrol, the rover, to take his place-in ring growing mumbers of democrats | one’s heart as a man, four-square in from looking upon him as their best |all the manly qualities, to go about with bet. b By one, 8 ce ghed upon the actual- itiss of dally. ltving. LG M * % ok & ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. How old Is Miss Ishbel Mac- donald?—G. B. H. A. The young hostess of 10 Down- ing street i twenty vears of age. Q. How fast do people on skis &o and is a_seventy-foot leap a large one?—A. B A. Great speed can be attained by experts on skis. It {5 possible for euch persons to travel at the rate ot & mile in & minute and a half. Leaps of eevénty-five feet are no longer unusual. One of the greatest leups ever mude was by Regnar Omtvedt of Chicago in 1916—x distance of 192 feet 9 inches. Q. Who_founded the Chicago Trib- une?—J. P. A. The Tribune was founded June 10, 1847," by Joseph K. C. Forrest, James J. Kelly and John E. Wheeler. One month later Kelly withdrew. Thomas A. Stewart became editor. On June 18, 1855, Joseph Medill se- cured a_ one-third interest "and Charles Ray & one-fourth interest. From this time on Joseph Medill was for many years the dominant force on the Tribune. Q. How fast does a dream take place?—N. B. A. Sofentfsts have conducted vari- ous experiments to demonstrate the rapidity with which a dream takes place. In one rticular instance the sprinkling of a few drops of water on a man's face caused au dream in which tie events of a whole lifctime pussed before him. The whole process took but a second or two of time. The great rapidity of dreams is due to the fact that in the unconscious all the individual's life gxperlences are on view us if In onc Q. When was Camuridge Universit founded?- E. K. i A. The origin of Cambridgs U versity {s obecure. It probably grew out of u local educational movement during the tweifth century. The first of the colleges was founded by Hugo Bishop of Ely in 1257, At present seventeen colleges compose the university. Q. Did Jack London renounee so- clallem during his lifetime?--J. J. S. A. Mrs. Jack London says that Jack London did not renounce soclallsm during his lifetime. He did, how- ever, sever his connections with the socialist party a few months before his death In November, 1916. Q. Give gome information vegard- ing the Ferris wheel—W. A, C. A. The Ferris wheel which operated at the world's fair in Chlcago was designed and bullt by George W. Fer- ris of Pittsburgh, Fa. It had ameter of 230 feet. The ends rcsted upon two skelelon iron towers sup- poried upon concret foundations. Two wheels in combination formed the revolving structure, which de- vended for strength upon the bicycle wheel principle. Iron rods two and one-half inches in dlameter wers substituted for wire. It Lad thirty- €ix carriazes with a seating capacity of forty each. The total welght with paseéngers was estimated at 1,200 tons. Q. What 35 th crescent on the A signiticance of the urkish flag?—1J. G. The device on the Turxish fla, adopted when the tured Constantinople fu 14 originally the bol of Diana, who was the patroness of Though orixinally a Pagan remained throughout the velopment of the mark of Constantinople. The in of the quarter moon dates from time of Emperor Philip, the fa- | While | ther of Alexander the trying to take the city, he set his soldiers on n dark night to undermine the wall, but the crescent moon ap- peared and revealed the design to th rear. Turks cap- | 1t was | Greek Churgh a | inhabitants, In acknowledgment, they erected a statue to Diana and made the crescent raoon the symbol of their cits. Q. 1s Australia an island or & con tinent?—A. B | A. Australia is both an lsland and 4 continent. It 18 classed among the continents on account of its enormous size. Q. For whom was Leland Stantord University named?—B. O J. . The Leland Stanford Jurior University. was founded by Leland Stanford and hls wife Jane Lathron as a memorfal to their only child Leland Stanford, jr., who dlcd tn 1 Q. What is meant b¥ the houee flag of a vesstl?—H. B, L. A. This cmblem bears the device of the company owning the vessel, cor- responding In & way to & trade mar 3 nWhu is used to color candle:? Aniline dyes, 1n liquid form, ars d to formulas for candles i to give the desired color, 1 When does a thing that Las | been hot become cold?—T. M A. Cold is the relative want of heat, and therc are no determinate boundaries between cold and heat. By a mere arbitrary distinction the degrees of a thermometer below the freezing point are sowectimes called degrees of cold. | Q. When were the first jury tricis !hx America?A. H. D. A The first jury triuls wers thos when Jehu Robingon and John Sm! ,amnd the deposed President Wingfi: of the Jamestown colony on Eepter. i ber 17, 1607, and recovered damager. | Q. Wasn't the Homestead etrike v a lockout7—R. H. he famous Homestead cor ke was crdered for t when the manag 1 works learned « this and gfter I C. Frick had been burned in efigy, the plant was sh down on July 1. Technically it m be said to have been both a str and a lockout. The strike was not officially called off until November 29, 1892, but the works had been in op- eration with new men long bLefore that date. Q. How should & wool sweater be washed?—A. R. D, . Measure th: ! warm water and {1t by cezing rather and keep it under wute possible. lifting hand under and put it Rinse until the last water ie ¢ Squeezo out the water either w the hands or by putting through wringer, keeping the hand undef th garment to prevent stretching fro weight of the water. Put throu the wringer several times, changing the folds to take cut as much wate as possible. Place on a covered ta ble and strétch or pat it into the orls- inal shape and size as €hown by the measurements. If desirable, it may be pinned or factened in place b th weater. Use luke ap solution. Wask han rubbine Q. {ro; A. Whitew from a brick w }a wire brush to remov | Then ccrub with dil muriatic acid, one part water, as iy @ Le removec 1t by scrubbing with all particle: lution ot nous. The brict be thoroughis arm water. have o question you 1o send it to The Star T _answered mation Bureaw, Fréderic J. Howiil . director, 1220 North Capitol strect Inclos : stamps for r posta. Romance of Centuries Descends To Court Fight Over Tut’s Tomb The glul the centuries, dis closed when for a few brief moments the sacred tomb of King Tut-ankh- Amen was opened revealing the bizarre glories of the dead and dusty past, has very prosaically descended to a common law suit. Great shades of ancient Egypt! When Howard Carter was compelled to enter court to try to enforce his rights under his agreement with the Fgyptlan govern- ment edftors sympathized. Naturally they took sides. But there were great many who also took occasion to discuss the - discoveries and thefr bearing on latter-day science. “The world loves a true sport Carter has shown himself to be the opinion of the New York Times and “apart from the archeological reasons for completing promptly the work he has begun and patlently carriod for the sake of sclence, it will be Loped by the great body of readers in Eurcpe and America that Lie will zet to his goal.” The person who killed the goose that laid the golden eggs, according to thk Seattje s no more foollsh than the y officials if they could not understand that Mr. Carter's pres- ence and the remarkable pubiicity given his discovery were what sus- talned interest for nearly two years.” and hereafter scientists probably 11 be content to let Egypt's an- tiquities remain buried {n the shifting sands”” The Newark News suggests further that the “expedition has been immensely valuable to Egypt, not only In the treasuries it has un- earthed, and which will be left in the country to which they belong, but in the stimulus it has given to the tour- ist trade and the interest it has awakened in everything Tgyptian.” LF R R x The Des Moines Tribune admits that on the part of the Egyptian officials “It was @ selfish insistence, taking no account of the rewards that are due the expert who devotes his whole life to such work with no adequate compensation except the satisfaction of finding such a nest of knowledse as Howard Carter found.” The Springfleld Republican, claims further “the obligation of BEgypt to the interest, adventurous epirit and large fortune of the English explorer and to the knowledge and skill of his American assistant are unmis- takable. That the government will come to a practical realization of the fact and that Mr. Carter will go on with his work will be & sincere and world-wide hope. The Detroit Free Press sympathizes “pretty thorough- 1y with Carter, and it is certain that he brings some serious charges against the ‘Egyptian goverfiment, charges which, if substantiated, will create unfavorable feeling all over the civilized world.” Although granting “the Egyptian government s perfectly justified in doing everything it can to prevent the exploitation by forelgners of what-is, when all {s-sald and done, an important part of the national inheritance of Feyptians’ the New York: Herald insists “the lessons, of the pust to be read in the tomb of Tut-ankh-Amen are more than nation- &l possessions—they belong to the civilized- world.” To which the Povi- dence Journal sdds “it Is not rever- ence for its own ancient traditions that actuates the Egyptian depart- ment's course, but only too obviously & combination of racial jealousy wnd avarice. Upon such quibbling values rests the fate of a whole chapter in the story of mankind." In the judgment of the Columbus Dispatel, ~ “salentifio archeologists, nd the world-of scholarship in gen eral, would prefer that this wonder- ful discovery from such ancient times ehould hayé had mors of the spirit N == it and les The Lincoln on to the attempt to = news from the tomb, whi out of place in connection undertaking that is engaginz wide attention.” Because, th Davenport Democrat maintain % restriction on the publics ribution of news t it would be and was certain to antness that has the recent work s E enforce result in the unpl Cleveland Plain a little more consldera- . good deal less jealousy probably have ettled the mat- Besides, the New Haven Register ich &quabbles and the petty s of the Lgyptian offi- cluls as “trifling” when compared with the importance of the work, “be- cause of the light it sheds on an an cient art and culture which are Iinea ancestors of our own art and cultur The land (Calif.) Tribune furthe: mere fecls that “those who know of the sacrifice und Jubors of other mer in the name of ecience cannot but fal to be disappointed in the way t job was handled.” But *Mr. Carter will not he bullied,” the Hartfora Times declares, for “he ha position and ability to ni rights. COURAGE “I em the master of-my fat I am the captain of my soul HENLEY. fastidl Pasteur’s Long Wait for Recognition. Not until. he was forty-six vears old, and after he had suffered paralytic stroke that mads him prac tically a cripple for life, was Louis Pasteur rfcognized as more than z=u average teacher of cliemistry. Born In s humble home, €on of & tanner, at Dole, France, he erew up. & quiet, inconsequential Loy who liked to draw pictures. Sent to school in the Latinh Quarter of Paris when he was fifteen s old, he becume 50 homesick: t had to go back home. He W nervous and excitable that his faths placed him in Besancou College, neur at_home. Taking the examination for admis- sion to Ecole Normal of Paris, he wa fifteenth of twenty-two applic: and the examiner =uid he was o “mediocre” in . ut earned his w throueh the ins tion Ly teaching. While professor at the Lille, he discovered that fermenta- tions in wine und beer, were due to Iving- microbes. _This Wpset all mwe- vious theorles. Friends advised him to abandon the idea, but he clun to It until he had developed the new scicnce of pasteurization” and other benefits for humanit; While making a six-year cffort to stop @ scourge that was killing the silkworms and ruining France's si Industry ho was stricken, but, drsp: his suffering, went to fhe fields, tr ished his experiments dnd sunouse success, Latem ha foand the v to_cure anthrax {n Hve-stock Discovering & vaceine that Wwou cure rables, ho fsared to use it o human beings. had been fatal ap; ings of a mother ciused him to ine ject the serum inta’ her nine-vear-old oy, then to spend days and nighte of care and apprehension,- until the lad's recovery proved his flicory cor- .rect. Three years later the famous Pa teur Institate was opened. Toda there is in v\'e? large “com- ore his death Pisteur 3 3 by the world \us a scientist and a benéfactor. Lasisvear the world celebrated his centenary, | France Baving a six-month program. (Copyzighy, 1020) 1 s hat he he Gty i H Colleze of