Evening Star Newspaper, March 29, 1924, Page 6

e THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, .D. C, SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1924 WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE THE EVENING STAR y Wi}h I’inndly Mnrnin:Elthm. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY.....March 29, 1924 THEODORE W. NOYES . Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office. 11#h St. 2nd Penusyitania Ave. New York Office: 110 Fast 42nd St. Chicago OMce: Tower Dailding Buropesn (tfice: 16 Regent St., London, England. The Evening Star, with edition, s delivered by c eity 8t 60 cents per thin the Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance, Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunda; Paily only. ; IT., $6.04 HSunday only S.1¥r., $2.40; 1 mo,, $0c All Other States. Daily and Sunday.1 y Daily only Sunday on Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitied the use for republication of all news dis- gatches credited 10 1t oF not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub- Tished herein. Al rights of pubiication of special dispatches Lerein are also reserved. E Health Week. We wiil hear more than usual about ckne: 1d health during the week A May 3. It will be called !ealth week, and arrangements being made for its observance by the Washington Council of Social Agen- ies. Perhaps the week will result in benefit to some who are sick and it qught to be an instructive week to thosc who are in health. It would *seem that persons in good health are often negligent of that health, They have had no direct personal nowledge of the inconvenience and sorrow of sickness, They hear the complaints of others, but these com- paints uninterestifs. If they are healthy and polite they will say to their sick friends: “I'm sorry ¥ou're not feeling well” and “I hope | vou will be feeling better soon,” but bs in their minds and to other snds they will put the blame for eing sick on the sick person and per- haps that may be just. They may say of their sick friend: “He does not take care of himself as 1 do.” Tt may be charged that he eats too much or does not eat enough, that he works $70 hard or that he has not enough 1o do to keep his mind engaged. He| may sit around the house too much or it may be that he strays too far from home and keeps wild hours. The healthy person who says these things will have them said about him when he falls sick, Good health is a priceless posse sion, but it is hard for the healthy man to understand it. There is to be public urge that healthy persons keep themselves in good health and to be plenty of professional nd instruction for the sick as they may hope. to become healthy. There will be a great deal of discussion of hygieme. Tens of thousunds of persons will be told of the value of cleanliness, exercise, rest, good air, sunshine and of the ad- vantages of plain water as a drink. There will also be a good deal of discussion about disease and the best way of combating it. It is said that the zeneral purpose of Health week “is to promote better teamwork be- tween existing health agencies in ‘Washington, to stimulate public inter- est in local health resources and needs | and to sponsor in Washington the | program of the National Health Coun- | eil for an annual examination as a health measure for every individual the ¢ Sickness is generally a depressing topic, but a4 week given aver talking about health and thinking of it ought to help many of re th there advi 10 how to ———————— Ventilation at the Capitol. | Statesmen who have to spend much | of their time in the Capitol building. employes and others who have to work | there and the thousands of visitors who throng its balls will approve the joint resolution introduced yesterday by Senator Copeland calling for a spe- | cial committee to investigate the sub- Ject of ventilating, cooling and heating | 1he building, especiaily the hall of the House and the Senate charber. i The health of all concerned is econ- stantly menaced by the deplorable conditions of ventilation. It has been ! a marvel for years that the states-| men wounld put ap with such condi- tions for their own health’s sake. From time to time there have been effarts to improve things, but every- body knows that there is yet a’long way to go in that direction. It is not the fault of the architect of the Capi- tol, but of the lawmakers and the holders of the purse strings. By all means let the special commit- tee be authorized and get to work at once. And then, when it makes its report, let the appropriations commit- tees “loosen up” end provide an ef- fective and sweeping remedy. ° e e — By resigning, and then resuming office, Poincare facilitated a graceful exit for associates in the government. | The French premier can be tactful when he chooses. ————— There are enough congressmen not engaged in investigation to take care ©f the necessary lawmaking if they Fan get their minds off the big excite- ment. An investigation session occasionally ‘brings into importance the question of who is going to have the last word. MacDonald and Labor. It is beginning to seem a warranted Sunday morming | I | country stands. I i \tradictory opinions. At the present THE EVENING..STAR, WASHINGTON, .D. C, SATURDAY, peace for a time by “compromises’” { which practically concede all that la- bor demands, but in view of the fact that he has no majority in pariiament and is prime minister only by suf- | ferance, this 1s.a policy of the greatest {hdzard. Some day the non-laborites {In the house of commons are likely to | reach the conclusion that things have gone a bit too far in the matter of placating labor, and to withhold a vote [ of confidence. 1t wouid seem that instead of press- ing thelr demands to the extreme the | British trades unions would regard it | as wise policy to be exceptionally con servative during the period of the| labor government's trial. In many re- | spects the MacDonald gévernment has | proved a gratifying surprise, and the record it is making in forelgn affairs and in the matter of taxation consti-{ tutes the strongest kind of campaign | material for the next parliamentary | election, which under the most favora- ble circumstances cannot be long de- layed. But if the government should | fall because of too many concessions to labor, and an election thereby be brought on prematurely, labor’s chance of winning the necessary majority in parliament would be very slight. If. on the other hand, the strikes should force the government to declare an emergency and to use repressive meas- ures to keep transport open, the fiasco, from labor’s point of view, would be | equally damaging. Interest in Oratorical Contest. Midnight last night marked the closing of the list of entries for the Dist of Columbia section of the national oratol al contest on the Con- stitution of the United States, to par ticipate in which students in public high schools and “other secondary schools are eligible. Believing that it would stir the imaginations and excite the interest of Washington students, and direct their attention to the bulwark of our liberties, The Star accepted the direc- tion of the contest in its territory. That helief in its popular appeal was justified is proved by the fact that nearly 4,000 students in high and parochial schools have enrolled as con- testants. At no time in our history has it been more important to impress upon the youth of the country the paramount necessity of understanding and re- specting the Constitution. *“Isms" are rampant, and the unrest inevitably engendered by a world-wide cataclysm such as the present generation has ex- perienced can only be terminated by a sane and studied comprehension of the fundamentals of our government. Greater, then, than &ny material award which will accrue to any par- ticipant in the contest is the spiritual advantage which must ensue to every competitor in an increased feeling of loyalty and patriotism. Indeed, those who lose, as lose, of course, many must, will be scarcely less to be con- gratulated for their participation than those who win. The Star believes that the contest, with its wide national scope, has re- sulted even in its early stages in a | great awakening of the nation's youth —and, indeed, of its manhood and womanhood as well—to those funda- mental principles upon which our | ——— Conservation and Reforestation. Gov. Pinchot of Pennaylvania, recog- nized as one of the lsading advocates of conservation in the United States, | addressing the Senate committee on agriculture yesterday heid that the ! most important single economic prob- lem now facing the nation is the adop- tion of a national policy which will make the United States permanently self-sustaining in its timber require- ments. Whether it is the greatest problem, is undoubtedly among the mos! important. It has engaged the atten- tion of statesmen and far-seeing busi- ness men for many years, and reams upon reams have been written upon it, disclosing, of course, varying and i | | me it is engaging the attention of a select committee of the Senate com- mittee on agriculture. This committee recently visited all the principal forest regions of the country and held exten- sive hearings. The McNary-Haugen reforestation bill, now pending before the commit- tee’on agriculture, deals with approxi- mately one-fourth of the land area of | the country, and has two main pur- poses; first, the extension of public ownership, both forest and state, of forest lands and lands suitable for | forest growth; second, to encourage reforestation of lands in private own ship. Senator Capper also has a bill | upon the subject. i ‘With ‘the material in hand and the} data of the special committee available it ought to be possible to work out a plan and enact it into law at this ses- sion of Congress. ——— The influence of the pugilist in mod- ern civilization must be regarded as éxtraordinary when even his photo- graph can cause a wave of agitation in the United States Senate. ————————————— A number of experienced cam- paigners are holding aloof from the current agitation and reserving their forces for the big contest next sum- mer. d ————————— Having retired from businegs, Mr. Vanderlip is evidently prepared to en- ter upon the most energetic phase of his career. Grabbing a Park. New York is having enother fight against the conguest of Central Park by buildings. There seems never to be a time when there is not some pro- euspicion that the labor unions in Great Britain are taking advantage of ‘the fact that & labor government is in office to push their claims for wage increases farther.thban the circum- stances warrant. They sre putting Premier MacDonald, in . a ‘position where he may have to appear elther 16 turn his back on bis labor following or risk a defeat in perliament, which either would force a general election or bring a liberal or conservative gov- ernment to office. In other words, in its quest of golden eggs, labor may Toolishly kill the-only political goose it bas ever hatched in Britain. ° ¥ MacDonald may - keep industrial posal to take a section of public park s a building site. Generally the pro- ponents of these plans insist that a park will not only furnish the best building site, but that the building will improve the park. Just now the plan suppotted by important influ- ences is to establish a music and art center in Central Park. The projectors say that only six acres will be needed, while the objectors say that six acres is a large plot of land; that if six acres be yielded now sixty acres will be demanded later, and that the best use that a park can be put to is as a park. A great number of people will say that if the New York demand | Though shifty is strong for a music and art center it ought to be strong enough to buy a site. An unusual feature of the New York fight is that Mayor Hylan favors the use of the park for the proposed buildings and has appeared before committees of the legislature in support of the plan. The opposition is led by representatives of the Parks and Playgrounds Association of New York, the Municipal Art Sociely and other civic bodies. Of course, people in Washington are not directly con- cerned in this matter. Tt is New York's problem. But the matter is nteresting to us because we bave like problems here. There is nearly always a proposal to turn a park or a large slice of parkland into a site for some kind of building which ought to be set up elsewhere. The Capital's park space is insufficient for park pur- poses, and it is harder to have land set apart for park uses than for other uses. Land is acquired for a park after years of argument and wrangle, and when trees and shrubs, are dotng fairly well there pops up the proposal that the park would make a,cheap and excellent site for a building of une kind or another. Of course, the building is' always *“in the interest of the people,” but when pne gets down to brass tacks and consults the people it is always found that they believe the park is more in their interest than the building, Bicycle and Auto. The number of mishaps in the streets to boys on bicycles seems large when one reflects that there are not many boys on bicycles in the treets, but the bicycleauto collision makes a rather common news item. In pedaling his way along a crowded street @ boy takes chances. He can- not keep close to the curb because of parked cars and he rides in the “runway" and goes slower than the traffic stream. Often his old-time wheel wobbles. He swerves right and then left in the path of cars behind him. The autoist watches him with fear lest he swerve in front of the car. It is perhaps only a question of time when the horse-drawn vehicle will be ruled off certain streets and it may come to pass that the foot- power bicycle will not be ridden on walin traffic way: ———— It has not been disclosed wheiher the cowboy costume assigned by artist to Mr. McAdoo is an appeal to the wild west constituency or the wo- tion picture vote. —_——— It would disappoint @ number of politicians if Senator La Follette's doctors were to require him to abstain from all excitement for the next six { months. ——————— According to Al Jennings the old- fashioned bandit had his good points |as compared with modern expone ot more insidious hold-up methods. ———— All that Senator Hiram asks is that South Dakota arise to the emergency and assert it leader of polifical fashion. ——— Though no longer Attorney General, Mr. Daugherty is willisg to give tho executive branch of the government Af as a | some advice gratis. ———— SHOOTING STAES. 1Y PHTLANDER somNsos The Square Deal. “In Crimson Gulch." sald Cu “We ain't so very strong Rememberin’ all the words that go With ritual en’ song. But through the years that come This motto wo respeck, "There ain't no good In de The bottom of the deck. Joe, 2o an’ “We can't recite the Golden Rule Nor the commandments ten, Like people does in Sunday school, But every now an’ then We sort o' sense their total sum; This warnin' none negleck, ‘Don’t never git to dealin’ from The bottom of the deck.’ “Though our instruction may be small Tn morals old or new, I reckon maybe, after ail, We'll manage to pull through folks may dumb, Your play will be correck If you avoid all dealin’ from The bottom of the deck.” Political Horticulture. “1 want to say,” remarked the ecar- niest citizen, “that we are electing to office the flower of American man- hood.” “You are right,” answered Senator Sorghum; “only. there is a terrible temptation for some of us blooming slatesmen. to imaging. we are lilies of the fleld with no obligations to toil or spin.” Jud Tunkins says knocking is so customary il his town that you can't speak a kind word without being sus- pected of sarcasm. Vox Populi. Let's hope the scandal so profound Can be allowed to cease. We're kind o' tired o' standin’ ’round An’' hollerin’ “Police!"™ A Compliment at Last, “Your boy Josh is inclined to as- sume a rather superior attitude.” “He is,” admitted Farmer Corntos- sel. “He's seen a good deal an’, of course, he's critical. The nearest I ever come to recetvin’ a compliment from Josh was yesterday, when the bull made me climb a fence, Josh said I was funnier then enybody he ever saw in the movies. . Publicity Perils. “I suppose,” said the secretary, | “‘that you want me to take every pre- caution about any publication of your letters.” “I don’t think,” answered Mr. Dus- tin Stax, “that there is anything in my letters to worry over. But do be careful about my_check baok etubs.” “De only excuse some men has foh pickin’ on de banjo,” said Uncle Eben, ‘is dat de banjo is de ‘smallest an’ can’t help itselt.” the | i nson In déemanding Daughi tion from the vabiriet, Calvin Coolidge climbed down ‘from the horns of the Eravest dilemma of his whole political career. For many weéks the Presi- dent has been the storm center of two contending ‘groups of republican advisers. Thére were ‘“actionists” who urged that the Attorney General should be retired out of hand, Investi- tion or no inyestigation. They were men like Lodge, Pepper and Borah, who saw salvation for the G. O. P. in 1924 only in ‘summary dismissal of Daugherty. The other group consist- ed of “inactionists,” who insisted that not only the dictates of fair play, but party expediency as well, required Daugherty’s reteflion till he was “proved ‘guilty.” Republican stal- warts of the wheel-horse organiza- tion type were among the “inaction- ists." " They have lost the day. The Tresident has taken the leap. Whether it was in the right direction, polit- ically speaking, remams to be seen. The "air ‘at’ ‘Washington is heavily icharged with divergent views on that score. * ok ok ¥ Men are saying that ‘the “Harding clement” of the G. O. P. fs now hope- lessly estranged ‘from the Coolidge cause. 1In a very essential sense, Harry Daugherty incarnated the “Harding legacy” which 'President Coolidge inherited. Here and there fears are expressed that Daugherty | i | revenge upon Coolidge and, either through knifing or passive resistance, turn the pivotal Buckeye state into the democratic column in November. That, is not Harry Daugherty's way. He is an organization man all the way through. Bolting is not in his polit- ical lexicon. He fought the bull moos- £rs tooth and nail in the fli-starred Taft campaign of 1912. But his party ularity this year, under all the cir- cumstances, will hardly be marked by old-time enthusiasm. That would be asking a little too much of political human nature. Wk One of the men who must have been sating their hearts out throughout the Daugherty crisis is William Howard Taft. The Chief Justice of the United States was elevated to the Supreme Court matnly at the instigation of the man just ousted from the attorney generalship, The suggestion that Taft should be named to succeed White did | {e Practically the whole American legal profession was a un ing for Taft's appointmer augherty who, & most universall to President Harding the repre: tions that directly led to Taft's nomi- nation. Taft and Daugherty were comrades in the rough-and-tumble of | Ohio_state and national politics for the better part of a generation. In the chorus of condemnation that ac- }companies Harry Daugherty into po- litical oblivion, it is certain that the voice of the Chief Justice is missing * % ¥ x Representativa Fred A. Britten of litnois, who discovered in Cuba that America’s good name is falling into repute abroad, needn't worry. Kuro- i and his Ohlo supporters may wreak | )t originate exclusively with Daugh- | | ment and economic v h i Britten w 'La Follette or a | 1 { In view of the possibility that Sema- tor Robert M. La Follette will accept a | third-party nomination, editors are re- {calling the Roosevelt revolt of 1912 and diseussing the chances of a duplicate of | what happened at that time. Opinion. however, is considerably divided as to that possibility. In the opinion of the Lynchburg News, | “it now appears well nigh certain that I history is to repeat itself, and that Cool- {idge is to share with the now Chief { Justice of the United States the doubt- ful honor of having split in twain the | organization upon which he relies for re- election and the more certainly insure its protracted pilgrimage in the wilder- The Little Rock Arkansas Gazette { teels “there ean be no doubt that an in- | deprndent repubiican ticket, which is the {La Foliette plan, will hurt the republican iparty in the next presidential election, rding to the measure of strength it | lope, for the very same reason the bull moose movement brought T to the republican ticket in H Az the Detroit News sees it. “La {Wollette on a third ticket. appealifg to {the great liberal vote of the northwest, |is a vision to strike alarm to both old { parties. 1t may well be that a La Fol- {lette ticket will hold the balance of {power in the November election and |throw the election to either cld party, iput the choice of President up to the | House of Representatives, or, in case of pronounced national disaffection. make | the persistent Wisconsin senator himeelf | | President.” This is also the opinion of the Wichita Bencon. ERE { The Birmingham News suggests “he | has it within his power to hold a big stick over Mr. Coolidge's friends and make them write planks fit for Bob’ La Follette to tread upon without soiling- bis feet.” Although “La Fol- lette, with strang support in Wis- consin, Minnesota, Nebraska, the Da- Kotas and possibly lowa, Oregon and Washington at his back, may never be able to be President himself,” the New Yark World maintains, “he will come nearer than any other political aying who else will not be” The Bangor Commercial agrees “athird party movement will not be successful in_electing La Follette to the presidency, but it would certainly have a great influence upon the re- sult of the coming national election.” The Butte Miner refers to the pos- sibility of a double wet of republican presidential electors being submitted to the voters in some of the states, and it claims “at first glance It looks as though it might be put into exe- cution.” = His scheme of an {ndepend- ent candldacy not launched by a na- tional convention, but put up inde- pendently in various states, the Phil- adelphia Bulletin admits, “shows in- tent. to strike at the regular ticket wherever it shall appear that there is a chance to profit by the damage. It La Follette's plan to increase the strength-of the “bloc” element in both houses of -Congress worked out succéssfully, the Omaha World-Her- ald says “he might be defeated for President, as: he probable expects to be, but his power in the next Con- gress would be much greater, and the country, with .Congress split three ways, would continue to dance on a red-hot griddle,” The Knoxville Saentinel, however, is confident that Tz Follette would only bo dangerous o the democratic party in the event that the democracy should present a candidate . of the. same political type whd - school as that to which Mr. Coolidge belongs/ i o S0 far as the domocrats are con- cerned, the Cleveland Plain Dealer insists J‘the most effective means. of keeping La Fellette out of the White House is the nomination at New York of a man whom the country will recognize at once as progressive, able, honest and eourageous, and the adoj tiom of -a platform to harmonize— against such a candidate and platform ia Folisite would .appeal to . the) coun in _vain."” Fhe Ban Francisco Bulletin is con- vinced that “when a political leader has openly insulted ail who died or ‘were injared or served, their coun- try in the late war by calling them ‘a” bunch of boobs.'flms‘tono:mg ed met be taken seriously, and, as :e\m‘n-t.qr _of_fact, the La Folietts Born, has heen full of national polit- ical scandals as malodorous as our oil affalr. France has an entire litera- ture dealing with the corruption that accompanied the De Lesseps Panama canal project. Two cr threc years be- fore the war Great Britain was rocked from Land’s End to John O'Groats by the Marconi wireless telegraph case, involving cabinet ministers of the em- inent rank of David Lioyd George and Lord Reading (then Sir Rufus Isaacs), In Germany, about the same time, the directors of "Krupps were publicly charged with bribery of war depart- ment officials for the purpose of | ceasing sales of armament. Another group of “German munition makers ‘was. impliitated in systematic subsidiz- ing of the Parisian press in order to p Krench hatreds against Germany aflame. : Uncle Sam's adventure in oil has reflected no new glory on the Stars and ipes, but neither has it led *“abroa into temptation along ‘new paths. * ¥ ¥ % Sir Esme Howard, the new British ambagsador at Washington, observed in his recently arrived London papers that there died in Ireland the other day the descendant of the man who commanded the British forces at the battle of Bladensburg, in the war of 1812 His name is Col. John Ross, to whom there had come down from two Renerations the surname of “Ross of Bladensburg.” It was conferred upon his paternal ancestor by the King of England as & reward for his martial prowess at the gates of Washinzton in August, 1814. Bladensburg, which is Just across the District of Columbia line in Maryland, was once a famed duel- ing ground. Nowadays it is chiefly known because of the automobile pike named after it. * % % % Senator Thomas Sterling of South Dakota, just defeated for renomina- tion in the republican state primaries, is winding up his second term in Congress. Probably his reputation as a too stalwart republican organiza- tionist at Washington proved his un- doing, as it proved the undoing of an- other Dakota senator, McCumber of North Dakota. These are not the times when old-time party loyalties mean anything in the region of the great open spaces. Labels count for little as against policies and panaceas. Hence, Ladd, Frazier, Shipstead and Magnis Johnson. Senator Sterling is an Ohio lawyer by origin. He was dean of t 1 Dakota S to the Senat ¥ teaching profession in 1925 * x5 % niator Eorah backs his new t for an international disarma- conference with the same enthusiasm he applied to the triumphant proposal for the Washing- ton conference, his friends are certain he will again be « trail-blazer. In De- cember, 1920, the Idahoan introduced his Senate resolution in favor of a naval limitation conference. In Ju it was called. By Februa) t had become history. Borah ded that ope and Asia, as . only await an American lead When Washington's thoughts can be attuned to other things and other hemes, Senator Borah plans to Ko to )at vigorously for his new conference. Third Ticket . it proje Viewed as Old Party Menace party should be welcomed as 4 means of purging the other {wo parties of their undesirable members" Any thought that La Follatte has the hope that he will be elected President on any ticket. ‘the Sioux City Journal dcclares “may be dismissed imme- diately.” Likowise the Burlington Freo Press concedes that ‘such a third party as he will be likely to establish will never lead the fcan people into the promised land vill the Senator from Wisconsin ce the American people that it Furthermore, ‘“‘when he &t- tempts to hitch up the offspring of the republican olephant and the democratic donkey, he is likely to find that he has a team which is hard to drive.” The Duluth Herald belleves “only one thing could possibly make a third party formidable at this time; that is, a nation-wide reaction of disgust at | the disclosures in Washington, tak- |Hng the form of profound distrust | of both the should the La to anything, in the opinion of the New York Evening Post, “it would sorve only {0 aggravate the nauon's present political disomder and make even the Sixty-eighth Congress seem a very paragon of statesmanship and legislative abilit: And the Chicago Daily News concludes, “The discus- sion of third-party tickets,should not divert attention from the problem of restoring party leadership in Con- gress, of hastening the dissolution of obstructive blocs and taking all legitimate steps to obtain teamwork and harmony in the federal govern- ment.” COURAGE “I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.” Y —HENLEY. major parties” But Jan Christiaan Smuts was born on & lonely farm in South Africa, and while attending a nearby school worked in the flelds and roughed it on the veldt. When sixteen he en- tered Victoria College, in Stellen- bosch, and when twenty-one won a scholarship that took him to Cam- bridge, where he achieved extraor- dinary honors in law. Back in Africa, when twenty-five, he practiced law. England was un- popular there and he made speeches in her defense. Then came the Jame- son raid, and it was like an aoct of treachery to Smuts, but little heed was paid to the pale-faced, hungry- looking youth, until Oom Paul Kru- ger appointed Wim state attorney.for the Transvaal, and in 1899 took him to Bloemfontein to the conference Wwith Milner that resulted in the Boer war. . Entering thé conflict against Eng- land as a private, he distinguished himself as a guerrilla strategist and became commander-in-chief , of the Boer forces, only to see his country defeated. In the following Vereenig- ing conference he fought for peace, and, as coloflal secretary of the do~ minion government, he united his dis- couraged countrymen; then, in 1906, ‘went to London and secared self- government for the Transvaal. Botha Was made prime minister of the new Union ‘of South Africa, and Smuts, as minister of the interior and of de- fense, aided him in gulding the new ship of state. Then came the world war, and he uppressed the revolt set up by Geus, de Wet and Deventer, then broke @own German resistance in Bast Africa. Summoned to England to act &s South African representative in the cabinet, - his- sagacity and military genius took him into.the inner “war cabinet,” and honors were poured upon him. In the Paris peace con- ference hie signed the treaty, .but filed a protest. When Botha died, in 1919, Smuts was made prime mister in South Africa. Botha's political enemies had & majority in the South Afican par- liament, but by clever statesmanship BSmuts united other political parties and now at fifty-three is stronger in power.and esteem both at home and in England than ever before. Amer- | Follette revolt amount ! P ——— —_—— The Library Table BY THE BOOKLOVER The ehilling realism of Johan Bojer's novel, “The Last of the Vikings" is attested by the comment of a recent reader: “I folt oold all the week that 1 was reading it, and at night I dreamed of blustering winds 2nd driven snow, of gray seas with ioo floating about and of drowning men.” This chief work of one of tbe fore- most present-day Norwegian writers is a tale of the last of the Norwegian fishermen who sailed in their own boats, similar in type to those used by the Vikings, to the lLofoten fish- eries in the Arctic ocean. Kristaver Myran, the last of the Vikings, after years as one of a crcw, finally sails to Lofoten as proud head man on his own boat, the Seal. His crew are all men from his own district. With well provided sea chests, they sail out of thke fjord which shelters their cot- tages toward the open sea—and cold, storms, hardship and probable death for some of them, but also toward ad- venture and possible good fishing. Year after vear the perilous voyage s made to the northern seas, while the anxious wives and the hopeful chil- dren at home watch eagerly for Lofeten leiters. If the fishing s good the letters contain mone if it is poor the women and children have to get on as best they can. Nearly every year when the boats come back some fisherman is brought home in his coffin. * * * % Marya, the wife of Kristaver, hates the sea and the fishing and longs for her husband to sell his boat and move inland to a little valley farm. “The sea, with its terrible, howling storms that raged all through the winter, the waves that day and night thundered and foamed upon the sand and sea- weed, foamed, too, in her mind and made her sleepless, and would one day, she felt, rob her of her reason. ¢ ¢ * Every winter he risked his life upon the Lofoten sea, and if one year the fishing was good, it was eaten up by the seven bad years, and they were always in poverty. But to hope to draw him from the sea to the land was like trying to change @ fish into a bird, and he turned the children’s minds in his direction.” * ¥ % ¥ The end of the fishing comes through the changes of time. When Marya's oldest son comes back to visit his native village, “there was not a sall to be seen on the fjord. There were steamers, and the ‘doonk-doonk* of motor hoats could be heard. The gray boathouses were still standing, but no Lofoten boats protruded from hem. and no sailing vessels were an- |chored near the shore. The day of |sailing boats had gone by: the Lofoten vovage of hundreds of miles was a |thing of the past. The men who rn motor fisherman is an industrial workman on the sea, who smokes cigarettes and is a member of a trade union.” * % % % of Mrs. Gaskell's “Life | of Charlotte Bronte” remember the bleak moors as the dominating in- fluence in the lives of the three | Bronte sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne, | Southwart is entirely devoted to the | native moorlands of the Brontes— | “Bronte Moors and_TVillages From | Thornton to Haworth. Miss South- wart says: “The Bronte country from 'Thnrntnn to Haworth js a stretch of wild hills and rocks and yawning { quarries: of harshly outlined fields, | with the relentless moors creeping { up to their black walls—a country of whistling heather and slapping. howi- | ing winds—a merciless country that | takes its toll of life on snowbound moor, the pit and the quarry.” From this environment Emily Bronte drew | the inspirationy for her wild an | gloomy novel, "Wuthering Height | and Anne for her weaker novel, “The | Tenant of Wildfell Hall"” Charlotte, | the most gifted writer of the three, was also deeply affected by the moors among which Both “Jane Eyre” | only have the moors for settin |in their emotional morbidness also i show the somber influence of the moors | on their author's mind. | * ¥ ¥ ¥ Having made a success of his jest- ing satire on books of South Sea travel, “The Cruise of the Kawa.” and a little |less of a success of his satire on polar Ivoyages, “My Northern Exposure,” {Walter E. Traprock has tried the same |sort of thing again in “Sarah of the Saharn” This last extravaganza tells desert meeting with { rah Wimpole, tall, romantic, by moonlight. Roaming {about the same desert are also Lady |Sarah’s husband, Lord Wimpole, and lan evil Arab named Azad, whom Trap- Tock vanquishes. Incidentally to the istory the author contributes a wealth of information about the flora and fauna of north Africa. as reliable and |scientific_as the similar information {in “The Cruise of the Kawa,” and no {more so. Accompanied by his faithful Iservant Ab-Domen and with camels ihaving an excellent mileage per gal- lon of water, Traprock courses about the desert, having many adventures and visiting the tomb of the great Ceyptian king Dimitrino L Alto- |gether the fun is very good. * x ko A real romance is to be found in the biography “Pierre Curie” by his widow, Marie Curie—a romance of marriage and of science. The Polish [girl Marie Sklodowska, student of mathematics and physics at Warsaw and abettor of rebellious activities for a free Poland, met in 1894 Pierre Curie, a poor imstructor in physics. They found common interests in sci- ence and plans for the betterment of humanity. Finally Plerre proposed that they unite their lives. “It would be a lovely thing,” he said, “in which 1 hardly dare believe, to pass through life together hypnotized in our dreams; your dream for your country; our dream for humanity; our dream for science. Of all these dreams, I believe the last alone s legitimate.” At least, it was the last dream which the two followed through their life together, and fortunate was it for the world that this was so. For several years they struggled along on 300 francs a month, combining domestic drudgery at home with scientific ex- periments in an old shed converted into & laboratory. The discovery of radium was announced in 1898 and in 1903 M. and Mme. Curie received the Nobel prize. Again in 1911, after her husband’s death, Mme. Curie received the Nobel prize, this time for discov- eries made after 1905, and especially for her isolation of radium in a pure state. This interesting blography is translated by Dr. and Mrs. Vernon Kellogg and contains an introduction by Mrs, Melony, editor of the De- lineator, who brought Mme. Curie to America and led in the raising of the fund to purchase the radium pre- sented to Mme. Curie by the women of the United States. * K ¥k All readers duced one of Knut Hamsun’s plays, “In the Grip of Life,” and a trans- lation of it will'soon be published. 1t i8 & story of a poisonous serpent and is a decided “thriller.” It is the only play by Hamsun to be produced and published in this country, * K ¥ X Readers who have had difficulty with the pronunclation of the.name of the famous English diarfst, Sam- uel Pepys, will enjoy this jingle by Ashby Sterry: There are. people—I'm fold, some say there are heaps— " 2 Who call the delightful oid diarist Pepys. Rut those I think right, and I follow their salled them were dead or aged, and | the boats were broken up. The mod- | A recent book by Elizabeth | lithe and | The Moscow Art Theater has pro- | ANSWERS TO ‘- QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J; HASKIN Q. How is the Victory Memorial buflding financed’—W. P. K. A. The site for the puilding was donated by.Congress. It occuples the block on the Mall, facing B street, Le- tween 6th and 7th streets northwest, The money for the building—$10,000,- 000—is being contributed by the states, the quota being apportioned according to the number of men in service during the world war. A permanent endowment fund of $500,- 000 is to be provided by contribu- tions of patriotic pesple the country over. Q. Are they building an airship in Germany for the United States?— F. L J. A. The ZR-3 is under construction in Germany, and will be completed within the next three months. It is a rigid airship similar to the Shen- andoah. It will be used by the United States 'government for commercial use. It {8 660 feet long, with a max- imuni diameter of ninety-two feet. The volume of gas cells when in- flated is 2,400,000 cubjc feet; it has five Mayboch engines, with 400 horse- power, which attain a speed of Sixty miles an hour; it can fly 000 miles without stopping. This alrship i slightly larger than the Shenandoah. Both ships will take part in a naval alr circus this summer at Lakehurst, Q. How many people will the Cap- Itol, Theater, New York city, hold’— A. Tt id the largest theater in the United States, having a seating ca- pacity of 5,400. Q. When was the Order of the Gar- ter established?—D. W. H. A. Authorities differ concerning the establishment of the Order of the Garter. According to Seldon, it was instituted on the 23d of April, 1344. Nicholas places It in 1347 and Ash- mole in 1349. Q. Can water be compressed?—B. N H A. Water can be compressed very ttle. Q. When will the bridge connecting Philadelphia with Camden be fin- ished?—F. W. A. It is planned that the bridge be finished in time for the sesquicen- tennial exposition in the summer of 1926. This bridge will be the largest suspension bridge in the world. Q. How thin is tortoise shell cut?— {G. P.F. A. Tortoise shell is used as veneer- ing in fine cabinet work. It is cut for such purpose in exactly the same manner as any of the fine woods. There are two grades of thickness, the saw cut and the knife cut. The first, averaging from one-thirty-sec- ond to one-sixteenth of an inch in thickness, is cut with a small saw. The knife cut makes from 60 to 100 sheets to an inch. The knife is used something like a plane. The object is fixed on a table and the knife blade works backward and forward. Tor- toise shell was formerly cut by hand, about one-eighth of an inch in thick- ness, and then planed. It may be softened by gentle heat and may then be cut readily. Q. What is the purpose of the piece of iron which is placed across the end of a magnet>—F. W. S. A. The picce of fron placed across the two ends of a horseshoe magnet is put there to retain the magnetism of the magnet. Q. How did the expression “Ma name perish” originate?’—C. C. A. In ancient times there was a belief that a man was assured of immortality only as long as his name was known on earth. The building his WELDING THE FRAGMENTS BY JOHN CARLYLE Are you one of those people who believe that their particular troubles are unltke those of anybody else? Do you look with something like envy on some of the known troublas and griefs and perplexities of your triends? You think you could stand up well enough under their troubles. You think their griefs are simple. You think their ills are curable. You think their burdens are bearable. But you fancy that you have been singled out for unique grief. There is no trouble quite so sad as yours. There is no burden quite so heavy, no shoulders quite so bowed. This i a mistake of thinking com- mon to most of us. Let us under- stand that what we bear, others bear. What we_ suffer, others suffer. Our problems have been faced by others— and solved by others. The main thing in the struggle which is life is not to avoid troubles, not to_evade burden: It can't be done. There is no escaping life The main thing is not to be over- come by our difficulties. The thing we must not do is to sit down by the side of the road and cry . There is no achievemgnt in the world without mistak No mis- takes, no progress. No blunders, no achievement. No_missteps, no for- ward steps. ‘After every disaster there are frag- ments to be gathered up. Our job, then, is to weld the fragments to- gether into a new whole. We learn to be strong by doing what we can With little. Often the mew plan, the new life that we shape from the frag- ments of the old ‘is a bigger, finer thing than we had Vefore. Often it is bigger and finer than anything we could have made or done if the mis- fake had pot been made, if the dis- aster had not overtaken us. = A blind man comes somatimes into ffice. He'is not an unhappy man. &o ';heucanu-av' , _he is a singularly contented man.\ He misses the sight of the world, misses it sorely. Forhe could see up until-a Short time ago. ot Se has pleked np the fragments of his lie and he i making a fine, ul, new life. - e B to you whether you Wil it down and mourn for what you have lost, or whether you will make up your mind to be happy With what you haye e ou have made that deefsion | and made it right you are on the way true contentment. = (Copyright, 1924.) In a'Few Words e who are tich, people who uf«“@}i.?‘annnm. who are extrava- Yostentatiousiy vulgar. people, have not the sense of finer things—these are the powerful people in omodern times, which we are so rashly inelined to boast of. < 7 ZRAMSAY MACDONALD. yman's activity is limited to the .u?f}é":"im Jie witpin- the‘range of her love.. She srives first to serve her home, her \fa then her raily, i ends, neighbors, her fellow coun- g;men. To solve the riddle of life to seek to understand the basis of knowledge—those are things which do not concer‘:l har"Hnd to which she' : rself. will not give hers G AXIM GORKL It is impossible to pursue a succes ful foreign policy unless a country {s disciplined and also armed. It is use- less to put faith in humanitarian and pacifist ldenllnla.d We ‘m\;sl have an army, & pavy and an air force. Y & P PREMIER MUSSOLINT. Given the Américan problem, given the American climate, I think if I were an American I would be a pro- hibitionist. Fortunately I am not given the American climate. —SIR AUCKLAND GEDDES. of monuments and the naming of sons for fathers are traced to_this superstition by some writers. “May his name perish” was the anathema of an enemy. Q. ‘What is n i e oo N?egl by the big féuw A. This term is someti to the American Telephons and eles graph Company, the Radio Corpora- tion of Amerioa, the General Eleotric Company and the Westinghouse Elec- tric and Manufacturing Company. Q. How many members did the / churches gain last year?—G. K. ¥. A. The Christian Herzld says thaf there was a gain in 1923 of 680,000, This bringd the total membership ug to 45,457,266. Q. How many matches are used iy the world?—F. O. M. A. About 7,500,000,000 matches arg used daily. The daily output of twe match districts in the United Stateg is about'1,000,000,000 matches. Q. Who was the challenger in t Burr-Hamilton duel?—C, F. v A. Aaron Burr In the year 1804 was a federal candidate for Governog of New York and would probably have been elocted but for Hamilton'q opposition. This opposition agera~ vated by certain uncomplimentary epithets which Hamilton i3 alleged to have applied to Burr gave rise to & quarrel which culminated in 4 duel July 7, 1804, Burr being the chal- lenger. e [ Q. Where was the saxophons in- vented?—W. H. O A. The saxophone was invented about 1840. It was introduced ofii- cially into the French army bands on July 31, 1845, and registered ¥ Sax on Juna 22, 1846. & 1, woula Tike to know' ind of rock “Plymouth Roclk' i) 5 A. Plymouth Rock boulder. Q. Where from?—A. E. M. A. The ordinary garden geraniums are species of pelargonium, which are natiyes of South Africs. Q. Why is the region of Mesopo« tamia, once so fertile and productive, now a barren desert?—C. Z. A. In the early bistory of ths world Mesopotamia was an important, populous country. Certain small parts are naturally fertils, while the more arid regions were made to pro- duce by good Systems of irrigation. As the land of the country declined these systems fell into disuse and the country became more and more of desert. what is & granita 1eIni geraniums coma ’ ’ Q. How long does it take an ice- berg to melt>—H, B, A lIcebergs last for difforent periods of years, depending upoun their ize and construction. lcebergs have been known to take as long as 200 years to melt. Q. What are floating gardens ¢ of Mexico City?—A R. G. A The La, Viga and other canals connect the 'City of Mexico with Zumpango, -Xaltocdn, San_Cristobal, Texcaco, 'Chalco and Xochimileo lakes. On these waterways so many flowers grow that. they are called flcating gardens (Did you ever write a letter to Fred- erio J. Haakin? ¥You oan ask our In Jormation Burcau any question of fuct and get the onswer in a personal leite This is & part of that best purpose of this newspaper—SERVICE. There ia no charge exoent 2 cents in siamps for ri- turn postage. Get the habit of Gaking queations of Frederic J. Haskin, director The Star Information Bureww, 1220 North Capitol street.) Memorials That Help Humanity Advocated To the Editor of Toe Star. While in Washington a few weel ago, 1 heard a rumor in regard to erecting ancther monument to Lin- coln. I just want tg say a few word and make some suggestions, hoping I may find a goodly following why agree with me. 1 don’t believe Washington, Linc Leo and other great men, who hav had many cold stones erected to them, if they could have been consulted, would have chosen the monuments erected to them. Their greatness was {due to the fact that they loved the » other fellow. They were modest to |great degree, and did not care for the pomp and vanities of this world; t were not rich. Now, I would like to suggest a fit ting monument, and one I think Lin- coln would highly approve of, and that is the uplift of the Blue Rid Mountain children of Virginia. also thinking of the great man of 1 day, who has just passed info Great Bevond—Woodrow Wils: There is going to be erected a mony ment to him. I would suggest th same cause for this monument als He loved humanity, and had a won- derful idea for the peace of the world, but the world was not ready for /.. 1 don't see why we can't do for our great men the thing: and that would appeal they lived. Christ's most wonderful monument is the Bible; and the most costly Bible could be bought, many tim for the cost of the Lincoln Memoria These great piles of stone, t ¢ 50 much, do Tot stand for graatness, and instead of our yvoung people ting inspirgtion for higher ide they seem ‘to. disregard the real meaning of them. Yeung and old of today, when they ntand before a won- derfuily costly momument, ask “How mueh did it cost?” - When told tha value, same make. no reply. Others say, “How much good that money would have done, If uged in tbe causa of_humenity.' Mr. Corcoran’s -beautiful monument, “The Louise Home." stands for a won- derful spirit. I beljeve in monuments but, in my opinfon, they should al- ¢ ways stapd for the helping hand. Let's raiseour standards, and get on the right side of justice. goodness and truth! M. L. WOOD. ™ The Power at Home. From the*Omahs World-Herald. When a' jnan gets to be ninely vears old, depend on it, there is somebody to blame. When he reachet that stage with his shoulders throws back, his legs straight and strons, his wind good and his pulse normal, it ought to bs made a sudject fot investigation. s - If the truth is cyer (o.Uo arrived at the investigators must spply that) cynical but useful oid ¥French maxim, “Cherchez la femme. When friends and neighbors of Chauncey M. Depew recently served 4 summons on him to appear at a great birthday party and show cause why he shouldn't be congratulated upen arriving at ninety years he just aboul let the cat out of the bag. He said he did not think it likely the “powet at home which has ruled my life se well that I am in this magnificen| condition today” would consant to hig going out to dinner on the wyening before his birthday. He asked for g continuance of his case at a latet date. Instead of frittering away their time on the effect of intoxicants and tobaceo the inquisitors might learny something to their advantage and by prylog into “the power at > All honor to Mr. Depew for making public ‘an unashamed ac- knowlsdgment of his complete sur- render to°lts gentle tyranny. to them as