Evening Star Newspaper, April 8, 1924, Page 6

G _——— THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. April 8, 1924 i‘KEDDOBE ‘W. NOYES. . . . Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Comgany Busigess Office, 11th §¢. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd Chicago Office: Tower Building. Earopean Otfice: 16 R St., London, England. The Brening Star, with the Sunday morning edition, s delivervd by carriers within the city af 60 cents per month: daily only, 43 eests per month: Sundky cniv, 20 cenfs’ per month, Orders may_ be vent by mail ot tele phone Main 5000. Crilection is made by car- tiers at the end of eaca month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance, Maryland and Virginia. 1., $5.40; 1 mo,, 70¢ 131, $6.00 : 1 mo., 50¢ 1yr., $2.40; 1 mo,, 20¢ All Other States. Daily and Sunday.1 yr., §10.00 : 1 mo., 85¢ Daily only iyr, §7 Sunday only. Member of the Associated Press, The Associated Press is exclusively entitled fo the use for republleation of all news dis- Patches eredited 1o it o not otherwise credited this paper and also the local news pub. bed herein. Al rights of publication of dispatches bere The Dawes Report. can pay! That ¥ the Dawes committec's re- port. The rest, though vitally neces- sary to the translation of ability to pay into actual cash, is of secondary mportance. For the first time in the vexatious problem of reparations, the on of what and how Germany 7 pay is put upon a basis of busi- common sense, instead of being &sed about between the hopes and nolitical necessities of the creditor na- tions and the reluctance and political cessities of the debtor nation. The llies cannot afford to reject the find- ngs of the Das committee. many dare not reject them. Rejection by either party in interest would bring on the deluge. Rejection by the allies would be accepted as proof that they want to destroy Germany, not to mal r pay. Rejection by Germany would be accepted as a choice of dishonest bankruptey, and the creditor nations would hate no alternative but to step in and salvage what they could from her assets. The Dawe avoided pitfalls into which it had been predicted they would stumble. They have found that Germany, without too i retarding her economic re- Y. can pay certain annual sums. The sum total of reparations will de send upon how long such payment are continued. and the experts do not undertake to determine that. It is left for future adjustment between Ger- many and her creditors. Occupation of the Ruhr was another of the traps. It is cleverly evaded. The experts in- «t that it is necessary that economic control of the Ruhr shall be restored to Germany. There i military control. As military control reed not necessrily interfere with econom| not deem they cern with it. There has beeh much protestation in Germany against the idea of allied ontrol of finance and industry and zovernment budgeting. The experts propose such control only in case Ger- many defaults. If the German govern- ment and people loyally live up to their obligations they will be left, for all practical purposes, free to manage their own affairs. But the best all- ~round safeguard is the fact that the program of the experts makes it a matter of self-interest to the allies to keep Germany a going concern. The day the allies and Germany agree to acceptance of the program reparations will cease to be a political question and will become one of business. And n business a creditor never interferes 10 hamper a debtor who is loyally mecting his obligati Details of the financial proposals of the experts will be found in the news columns of tixay’s Star. Briefly, they 1t as the German people are free from taxation for the service of a national debt they should be taxed to a parity with the people of France and England for the service of reparations, and that such taxation would make possible payment of in- creasing annual sums, starting at one billion gold marks the first year, credit by an international loan, and reaching two and a half billion gold marks the fourth year. They found that as Ger- man industry had taken advantage of the debacle of the mark to liquidate its mortgage debt it was in a position to carry a as security for reparations, and they propose a bond Issue of five billion gold marks foun- dationed on the industrial property. “the railrcads are 1o be placed under consolidated management, with a share of their earnings for reparations service, and an internationally con- tralled bank of issue is to stabilize the currency and to be a repository for reparations paymients, such payments 1o, be exported from Germany only when it can be done without economic injufy. The experts are reported to have been exceedingly weary at the conclu- sion of their task. But they may find consolation in the fact that their work promises to relieve the world of an cven greater weariness. —————— 1t will be difficult for Congress to render any debate sufficiently enlight- ening or entertaining to reconcile the average citizen to indefinite delay in tax reduction. Gerny; kernel is had any proper con- Mussolini_contindes to do husiness without a cabinet crisis or even a resignation rumor. : Be Kind to Animals. Sunday was specially designated as Humene Sunday, and was observed throughout . the land in church and Sunday school. Days from Sunday to next Sunday will be observed as Be-Kind-to-Animals week, and the Dis- rict Commissioners have issued their annual proclamation on this subject. They have set forth their hope that “‘during the entire week the residents of the District, especially children, will give thought to the loyalty,de- votion and valuible services of our four-footed friends, particularly the dgg, the horse and the cat.” Our two- footed friends, the birds, are, of course, inclided. The Commissioners ask co- operation of the pulpit, the press, the Ger- | no mention of | ¢ functioning the experts did | rddio and the schools. Tt was pointed | out in churches and Sunday schools Sunday that by the teachings of Scripture man is morally bound to, recognize the rights of the creatures over which he has been given domin- ion, not only for their good, but as a means toward the spiritual uplift of mankind. Persons who possess what we call “a fine sensibility” are kind to ani- mals. Only men who are coarse and gross in nature can be cruel. A man who is cruel to an animal has cruelty in his nature and will be cruel to man. And cruelty to an animal may be de- | fined as giving suffering to an animal | or neglecting to relieve suffering when it is possible to do it. Within historic | times we have made mighty progress in charity to men and in charity to animals. Men give freely of their goods for relief of hardship among mankind. They give freely of their | goods for the care of the feeble and | the old. the poor orphan und the | widow. We have not gone to the lengths in charity which we should {80, but we are moving in the vight In of animals we In thousands | s of good people d to prevent or alleviate suf- | | tering among animals. In Washington | { we have the Humane Society, the Ani- | mal Rescue League, the Human Edu- cation Society and perbaps others. A very large number of persons not members of these societies practice kindness'to animals, contribute to the and call on them when a| suffering ca, a wounded, hungry dog | ng horse is found. | of soul impels a man to be | kind to animals, and if he has hard- £ soul, instruction in kindness to animals will improve his nature. the protection de great strid ——————————— Grade Crossing Bill. The Commissioners’ biil for doing away with three of the remaining five grade crossings in Washington goes to Congress with the approval of the bu- | reau of the budget. The bill carries an appropriation of $200,000 for the erec- tion of bridges or the cutting of un- derpasses at Varnum, Van Buren and Chestnut streets on the Metropolitan | branch of the Baltimore and Ohio rail- {read. One-half the cost of the work is {to be paid for by the railroad com- The legislation sought would in part, a situation which has called forth general interest since the | | four grade-crossing tragedies in Octo- {ber and March. Very many persons | {believed that there were no grade ! crossings in Washington. Some be- !lieved that a grade crossing might | exist here and there in the District of | Columbia, but did not know that the | lcity of Washington is co-extensive | with the District. Most persons know | that the city has extended to the Dis- trict line along many of the wagon i roads, as for examples along the Con- duit, Rockville, River, Seventh Street, | Bladensburg, Good Hope and Walker jand the Giesboro and Livingston {roads, but did not know that the city has “built up” or is fast building to { the District line along the steam rail- iroads. The Pennsylvania runs through settiements and subdivisions which are parts of the city until the | railroad crosses the District boundary, | and the line of the Baltimore and Ohio east and its Metropolitan branch west also pass through sections of the city until the District boundary is crossed. The remaining grade crossings in the city or the District are on the Metropolitan branch in the growing section between Brookland end Ta- koma, and there are only five of these. The city has made fast growth in that direction, but little thought seems to have been given to the railroad | crossings in that part of the city until three men were killed last October {and one in March at one of these cross- ings. Then there was a public awaken- ing. The Commissioners drafted a bill ling for an appropriation sufficient to build a bridge or underpass at each of the crossings, but the budget returned the bill for revision down- ward, and the present bill is a com-| promise. Tt will rid the District of three grade crossings, but at the earliest opportunity we must return to the matter of doing away with the last two. i The Michigan Primaries. The results of the republican and democratic preferential presidential primaries are interesting as well as significant. Take the indorsement by | the democrats of Henry Ford as their { choice of the democratic candidate for dency, in the face of the fact Ford has come out for the romination of President Coolidge on a platform of “Safe With Coolidge.” What are the Michigan delegates go- ing to do when they get to the New York convention? Present Mr. Ford" name as Michigan's choice? It is an odd situation. The real significance of the results on the republican side lies. of course, in the sweeping victory of President Coolidge in what was called Johnson territory. Four years ago Senator Hiram W. Johnson swept the state by a plurality exceeding 44,000. Up to to- day President Coolidge is 73,000 ahead of him. This is a remarkable change of sentiment and can have but one meaning—that President Coolidge has impressed himself upon the voters in Michigan, as he has in other widely mseparated states, as the choice of re- publicans, and thdt Senator Johnson has failed to present a constructive policy. ———— Much discouragement has confront- ed Magnus Johnson in his effort to feature the Golden Rule in the United States Senate, but everybody hopes the Minnesota senator will not weaken. Highway Robbery. ‘Washington, on March 24, suffered one of the boldest hold-ups and rob- beries in local crime annals. On that morning four men masked and armed drove their automobile against one in which two men were riding, threat- ened them with murder and took from them about $14,000 belonging to a chain of grocery stores. It was said at the time that the thieves “operated with a daring and swiftness unparal- leled in criminal annals of the Distrint of Columbia.” It was an amazing daylight robbery.’ In tracking the per- petrators of the crime the District po- lice assigned to the case have been i unrelenting, and they believe they have been successful. ¥ive men, taken into custody at different times, are now held by the police in connection with the robbery, and one man charged with complicity in it is at THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM large, and the police believe that he |THE STORY OF THE RENAIS- will not escape. Of the $14,000 stolen | SANCE. Sidney Dark. George H. { making an appeal for $: ( by the handits $7,200 has been re.| P°ran Company. covered. This is a piece of detective or police work that calle for prfaise. Prompt action of this sort ought to discourage banditry in the District and serve as a check on what seems to be ‘a rising tide of highway robbery. Salvation Army Campaign. " The Salvation Army, or the District of Columbia division of that army, Is 00, which is set down as the District’s quota, and which i estimated to cover the needs of the arm gelistic, social and rellef work in the District for the year. This money % to be administered under direction of the advisory board of Washington eiti- zens. The Salvation Army needs no introduction nor any recommendation to the people of Washington. It is one of the effective agencies for good among people who need spiritual and physical relief. A large part of the sum sought to be collected will pent for the army’s fresh-air summer camp for children and mothers, -amp, which has proved its useiul- nege, is in great, need of repair and new buildings must be built. The Sal- vation Army needs the small sum solicited for practical Christian work and its statistics for last year of Christmas dinners given to worthy persons, poor children supplied with Christmas presents, persons supplied with work, meals given to men out of work. lodgings iven to shelterless men, persons given clothing and shoes and grocery orders given are impres- sive, be —————— About the only satisfaction Bergdoll is likely to get out of the present state of affairs lies in the confident predic- tions that whatever clse may happen there will not in this generation be another war. . —_—— Fears that something is wrong with the government prove groundless when t becomes manifest that any tricks attempted with it are sure to become matters of active public concern. ———— A household recipe announces that kerosene will soften boots. This fact does not wholly account for the oil transactions, involving some close imi- tations of gumshoe work. ——— No fear is expressed that investiga- tions will so monopolize the attention of statesmanship that the regular busi- ness of the summer conventions may be neglected. ——— It may be assumed that if bobbed hair had been a traditional fashion men would be making trouble because wives insisted on wearing their hair long. ————— According to leaders of both parties, i the forecasters must be kept occu- pied they may as well busy themselves with the vice presidential selections, —_———— Followers of the turf may yet find of this division for evan- | The | Not interested in the Renaissance? Not surprising. For it carries none of the appearance of gencral current appeal. It is too far to the rear, in the first place—three centuries and a quarter at the least. And upon the face of this intervening distance there is no likely promise of vital | points of contact between that period nd the present. A mistaken view his, according to Mr. Sidney Dark. Again, the Renaissance, along with the rest of formal knowledge, belongs to the painful period of schooling, a process that serves \:lcnr_h‘v though incidentally, to knock full of holes at least one time-honored truism! For vducation as a process does in fact not only lead its pupils to the fountains of knowledge, but it makes them drink, as well—till, swollen and puffy from these forced over- draughts of learning, they arc finally pronounced “finished.” Looking the part, and feeling it too, they are then' turned loose into « world of multitudinous fact and implication and obligation. Here they spend priceless vears in the effort to find a working connection between educa- tion and the business of making a go life. This familiar experienc sours | hem against the burden so labori- ousl, Zathered. now so deplorably useless. Wrong again, says Mr. Dark. And, once mor the world is so {crowded with arresting things, spec- tacular’ exciting things—the airship, {the radio, the Congi as examples— | that the wholc past, or any part of | 1, is remote, irrel nt,” alien, dull. | So, along with the rest of the past, the Renaissance has dwindled to a name, used in loose designations of jeertain derived forms of art, or used to give to gesture an implication of ‘modern culture. All wrong. * In the obvious intent of both au- thor and publisher “The Story of the Renaissance” is offered In support of the new movement in educat a movement existing almo: wholly outside the formal institution of ed- ucation itself. Among the active sup- porters of this fresh departure are James Harver Robinson, Wells, Van Loon, & goodly group of naturalists and some others. Willlam James be- longs here. So does John Dewey. Old rasmus began it, but between him in his bright vision and these its latest | proponents the black clouds of malism intervened—thinned some- ‘what but still intervening. The source of this movement lies in the assumption that all knowledge Is some form of human experience, hat, as such, it is forever vital and potent. That it is a legacy handed down for continuous use. That it is a flaming torch passed on for perpet- ual guidance. That it is perenniall of the moment, alive and importun. to be incorporated at this receiving point or that one with the full body of which it is an essential and in- fluential part. * x4 “The Story of the Renaissance” shows this theory working out in ac- tion. Just a moment. Our common notion of the Renaissance, a sketchy one to be sure, is that it was a period | of splendor whose definite influence is | still strong in certain lines of art— architecturc, painting, literature. This impression is, of course, a true one. And this phase of the period Mr. Dark presents in sumptuous pic- jtures of great men and great achicve- jments. Important as is this aspect of the Renaissance in its influence upon all subsequent art and general’ cul- ture, it is not the one of prime im- portance. The supreme contribution of the Renaissance to the world as a | whole, particularly to the world in its present stage of development, is a political one. Tt is at this point that | Mr. Dark begins his story. The point of beginning _alone | would identify the author with the ] i | for- | { I {national convention. jachieves the governorship of New {lan ¥. Stone (Amherst '94) to Calvin {to oust Seeretary Mellon on the charge some way of modifying a horse race {new movement to make & vital con- to enable it to be classified as an |nection between the present and the aquatic sport. ———— Britons are proud to be able to as- sert that the Prince of Wales' states- manship is better than his horseman- ship. ———— Agitation over oil rights in Turkey locks like going a long way for a style of trouble available at close range. ———————————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON The Old Highw: The primrose path he meant to tread. The storm in wrath broke overhead. ‘With anxious mind compelled to stray He longs to find the old highway. ‘When sunbeams fade and night draws near ‘e turns dismayed and longs to hear The simple song of work-a-day And plod along the old highway. For Main street glows with friendlier lights By far than those of starry heights. Despite its dust and its delay, ‘We learn to trust the old highway. The Sound and Its Source. “He has a mellifluous flow words."” - “He has,” assented Senator Sor- ghum. “He represents what I regard as the ukulele school of oratory. It's astonishing to note the amount of sound he can get out a little bit of an idea.” Jud Tunkins says he doesn’t know whether mah-jong is a game or only q means discovered by his wife for keep- ing him out of the conversation. No Versatility. The weather man, with meéthod slow, Is causing general pain. As soon as he quits saying “Snow,” He starts in saying “Rain.” Culpable Inadvertence. “I understand Mesa Bill is being socially ostracized.” “He is,” answered Cactus Joe. “We don’t allow no scandal in.the Guich. He talked about the oil investigation when there were ladies present.” Avoiding Waste, “‘Henrietta,” said Mr. Meckton, “if I were to run for office would you vote for me?” “Leonidas, you've been telling me to economize, and I'm going to do'it. I wouldn't waste ‘even a vote.” “Dar has been so much rain out our way,” said Uncle Eben, “dat some of de drinkin’ population has reformed. Corn licker looks so much like water dey gits mad at de sight of it.” > Unintelligible. From the New York Tribune. Gen. Dawes has been talking sense But it's a strange tongue in Europe. over there. of | past of that particular present. Here |the author sets out the Renaissance as |the origin and true parent of modern | \nationalism. Step by step he Ithe effect of the new learning, led by the fall of Constantinople {ing refuge chiefly in ltaly. {learning preaching jov. | { i | jdom—the gospel of individual happi jness. The individual, free and happy, {becomes the individual daring and then encroaching. The seeds of mod- ern nationalism, rooted In individual {initiative, individual triumphs, indi- y¥idual tyrannies. The story pictures the great Italian cities—Florence, Milgn, Venice, Rome—rising to splen- idor and power in commerce, art, {learning. At the head of each is some {masterful prince, let loose by this inew freedom of pagan revival to fos- {ter its own powers and advantages o ia degree that was bound to prove ex- iclusive of the lesser powers of leser individuals. This great® Renaissance prince, @ son ready to take his place, is the seed of the modern dynasty of | kings, the modern political invention of nationalism. Out of the Renais- sance the author moves on through the succeeding, and dependent, years :oi the flowering of this idea of the na- tion in western Europe. To the Enge land of the Tudors and the Stuarts! on to Cromwell. And, in our own lday, to the modern nations—all born lof the Renaissance spirit, all rooted in individualism whose great impell- ing force is, of course, self-achieve- ment—therefore the clashing of rival- ries between nations, the modern po- | litical expression of that old pagan !freednm of the Renaissance. * ¥ ¥ ¥ You will go along here—convinced, delighted, assenting. You will have a glow of self-esteem in following the | logic of this situation from the Re- naissance to the present. Any one, outside of this new movement, so you say, would never have seen this logi- cal sequence or, seeing it, would have buried it deep in words.. This is a highly dramatic passage as well as an orderly one. It is filled with great figures and high deeds and the march iof progress, with all of which vyou will have the sense of a personal par- taking. This effect is due in the main, of course, to Sidney Dark's own sympathy with the subject, to his own convictions about it, and to the keen sense of drama that causes him to set aside all the clutter of detail in order that the great moments here may haye ample space and freedom. All through the story you will ap-i| preciate, deeply and personally, the purpose underlying it. You will count it a superb contribution to the hew plan of making knewledge, all know]- edge, a vital part of life—“human- izing knowledge.” Them, at the very end, you will find yourself unable t step. up beside Sldney Dark’s conclu- sion. - You will say something like this: “Looking upon the Renaissance, just as it is presented here, it is not possible for me to look upon it as a backward step in political growth— as something decided]y Jess beneficial than the middle ages, which it suc- iceeded. True, in the great religious community_ that constituted the most of Europe' before the Renaissance there were not the sharp distinctions that, increasingly, set off class from class thereafter. To be sure the good monks did minister, In work and dole. to the peasantry. The middle ages in the most of Kurope constiftuted a ! great collective community. The rein appears to lie in its superior excel- lence with' Mr. Dark. .Let us suppose that in some future the present clash- ing nations will merge again into a {nuge collectivism, such as Mr. Wells advocates, and Mr. Dark and others of socialistic trend, will it not through the’ general life of humanity that ‘in- dividualism secured, a lift in general intelligence, in a better gen- eral sense of common rights and ob- ligations, be & better and richer and truer brotherhood than it could have been’ without the Renaissance.and its o & of individualistic nations?” You are likely to leave Mr. Dark at this point, g LG M UESDAY, APRIL 8, 1924, WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE If history repeats itself, Senator Borah’s broadside aguinst campaign contributions from peopls who have axes to grind will bear frult. The Idahoan has a reputation and a rec- ord for starting movements that ar- rive somewhere. It is because he not only has a flair for “sensing” the popular, but gets the ear of the coun- try more quickly than any other man in American public life. What Borah says today usually happens, if not| tomorrow, some time. Horace Green, a4 Washington seribe who recently as- sembled between book covers a.col- lection of Borah's speeches under the title of “American Problems,” ob- served in a prefatory note: “His viewpoint on a great number of ques- tions—whether or not we agree with Borah at the time—seems to have become, sooner or later, the viewpoint of a majority of the people.” Green lists the fight against the treaty of Versallles and the league of nations; Borah's stand for restricted immigra- tion and for release of the political prisoners; his attitude on the bonus, and his ploneering work for limita- tion of naval armament as evidences of Borah's habit of blazing trails £k K % Yluropean governments are awaiting ) with lively interest the definite an- nouncement of Secretary Hughes' d cision to visit Jurope this summer. Ie plans, conditions permitting, to attend the American Bar Associa- tion's convention in England in July. Barring Robert Lansing’s attendance at the peace conference, there is no record of an American Secretary of State crossing the Atlantic while in office. Ellhu Root, Philander C. Knox, Bainbridge Colby and Mr. Hughes himself visited South America | Answers to Questions By Frederic J. Haskin Q. What is the inscription on the FORFIGN POLICIES * his tenth year as a partner in J. P. Morgan & Co., has long been a be- liever In Stone as well as Coolidge. grave of Woodrow Wilson's first wife? —J. 8. At Amherst the New York banker, in student days, picked Calvin Coolidge as the man' of the future, though | “Cal” himself divined that Morrow had the most brilliant life prospects | of any member of the class of 1895.' Lower Manhattan Island is. full of | Amberst men. President Charles E. Mitchell of the National City Bank was graduated from Coolidge's alma mater in 1899, and former Gov. Charles 8. Whitman of New York in 1890. ok kK Secretary Wallace was asked the other day about grapefruit produc- tion, a relatively mew industry in American agriculture. has grapefruit become that the out- put in Florida, its chief gource, has increased from less than 25,000 crates in 1901 to an estimated crop of 8,000~ 000 boxes in 1923-24. “The very rapid enlargement of commercial produc- tion of grapefruit in Florida, Wallace informs this observer, “has been one of the most spectacular fea- | tures occurring in our horticulturnl industry, especially during the past ten to fifteen year=s” A little grape- fruit is grown in California, and re- cently there have been heavy plant- ings in the lower Rio Grande Valley !in Texas. Thereds also a considerable Isic of Pines and production_in the 1 of in Porto Rico, substantially all which enters our markets. | * K % % President Coolidge's breakfast par- ties for congressional leaders follow a precedent established by David Lloyd George, when he was British prime minister. Lloyd George ac- complished many strokes of politics and statecraft while entertaining friends and co-workers at No. 10 in ‘their official capacities, and Mr. Knox went to Japan and China., But | a trip to Europs is almost a novelty. | While Mr. Hughes has made no ar rangoments outside of Great Britain, | continental statements, especially France, are sure to urge the desira- bility of a call at their capitals. In- ternational comity may require Seec-| retary Hughes 1o do comsiderable traveling. * % Fred H. Brown, Governor of New | Hampaiire, is expected to have a vice presidential lightning rod in working | order by the time of the democratic | * % A democrat who | Hampshire, as Mr. Brown did in 1922, | 23, | is a phenomenon. He has acquitted himself so weil that there is a healthy movement to abandon the state tradi- | tion of a single term for a governor | and renominatt him this year. Brown, Who is a Dartmouth man, was a_ star base ball player at college, and for several vears plaved professional with the Boston Americans. He was | a pitcher and_a catcher by turn,| being equally skillful at either end of the battery Now he practices law for a living. Gov. Brown is only forty-two years old. x ¥ ¥ X | 1 Dwight W. Morrow (Amherst, "95) is said to be the man who “sold” Har- Coolidge General (Amherst '95) as Attorney Morrow, who is completing | | & “clean desk ma Downing street between 9 and 10 am. Englishmen always have been fond of breakfast parties. They've been the thing at Oxford and Cam- bridge for centuries, and after the future rulers of the British Empire leave those incubators of statesmen they perpetuate the habit. EE Seretary Wilbur has taken hold at the Navy Department in a manner which inspires the confidence and en- thusiasm of the professonal sailor- men on duty there. Judge Wilbur is He has made a prompt hit with his subordinates by indicating that he belleves in a strong ¢ and in an efficient one. To that end Secretary Wilbur is said to be giving special attention to constantly recurring reports that the morale: of the service is not all that it should be. 1f he runs across corroborative evidence on that score, Wilbur prom- |ixes “a corrective program.” * X ok * Herbert Hoover has a new job. He has just succeeded Dr. Walcott, sec- retary of the Smithsonian Institution, as president of the National Parks Association. In an inaugural statement, Hoover advocates “the reservation of camping grounds and other recreation opportunities in the public lands and forests for automobile campers and tourists.” (Copyright. 1924 Blocking Attack on Mellon Acclaimed as Wise Decision| The nation’s press is unanimous in | its approval of the Senate's action in tabling Senator McKellar's resolutigm: that he had violated an old statute which prohibits the chief of the na- tion’s fiscal affairs from engaging in business and commercial enterprises. “If it is part of the plan of dem- ocratic campaign strategy to ‘pick off’ the Coolidge cabinet, one by one, by fair means or foul.” the Grand Rap- ids Herald (republican) hopes “the quick explosion of McKellars anti- Mellon balloon may give the conspir- ators pause.” An inquiry against Mellon, the Lincoln Star (independ- ent) points out, “would only succeed in clouding the real issues which have been raised in the other investigations and all the good that will come out of the cleaning-up process might have been lost.” But the democrats and insurgents “had too much sense to demand action on it,” according to ‘the Roanok World-News (democratic), which say the attacks on Mellon and the others “inevitably will react against the democratic party, if they are pushed. What is more, the Manchester Union (independent ' republican) asserts, “from all parts of the country con- gressmen are receiving plain advice that it is time to get down to real business, and that mere political at- tacks on first-rate persons for nothing but partisan purposes will not be tol- erated.” Because “it possesses little of appeal to the common sense of the nation” the Philadelphia Bulletin (in- dependent republican) assents. To continue the attacks, the Scran- ton Republican (independent republi- can) declares, “would make the fact too clear for democratic comfort that they were actuated by the base mo- tive of petty party advantage” In short, the Chicago Daily News (inde- pendeént) claims “that would be likely to bring the whole government into discredit.” > * % % “Fortunately, there are democrats in the Senate of sufficient political sense, if not sense of decency, to realize that to pursue the course that they have been following,” according to the Portland Express (republican), would only be to invoke a storm that would burst over their own heads and submerge them politically.” The New York Times (independent demo- cratic) is pleased to note “an im- provement .in the intellectual and moral health of the Senate, because both sides are reverting to common sense.” The Brooklyn Eagle (independent | democratic) suggests that McKellar's | resolution served “at least one useful purpose in_enabling a presentation | of Mr. Mellon’s case 8 a public offi- cial unjustly assailed.” \ Because “he can stand up against duy criticism the democrats may see fit to direct, against him,” in the opinion of the Buffalo News (republican), which feels “he has the strong confidence of the public. The Detroit Free Press (independ- ent) Insists “he has been a veritable godsend to the country at a peculiar- Iy eritical time—his general admin- | istration of the financial affairs of the | nation has been masterly, and he has | gained the gratitude of 'all America | by formulating. and forcing Congress to consider, his plan for tax reduc- tion.” The Indianapolis News (inde- pendent) continues, “It would be not only poor politics to launch a cam- paign against the Secretary, but it would be a' wrong to ‘the country,” and, “the democratic leaders showed their gogd sense in making it clear that_they.were not in sympathy with the McKgllar mov S The Baltimore Sun (independent democratic)- maintains the responsi- ble democriitic leaders have recog- the opinion of the Spokane Spokes- man-Review (independent republi- can), which adds, “The opposition ‘may o¥erreach itself and ultimately strengthen the administration.” * ¥ * ¥ The Kansas City Journal (republi- A. Herbert Adams’ memorial to Mrs. Wilson bears the following inscrip- tion: “Sacred to the Memory of Ellen Louise Axson, Beloved Wife of Wood- row Wilson, Born 15 May, 1860, at Sa- MAYBE 124 1SSUE Pepper’s Move for Parley Brings Question Into Po- So popular Mr. | sioner; president of the New York po- vannah, Georgla, Died 6 August, 1914, | at Washington, D. C. ‘A traveler be- | tween lifo and death, The reason firm, | the temperate will. Endurance, fore- | | sight, strength and skill. A perfect | E¥ DANED LuWRANON. {woman, nobly planned. To warn, to | FOrelgn affairs, the world court and comfort and command. And yet a|tl® league of nations—heretotor: {spirit still and bright, With some- |ToWded off the stage by Teapot Dom: et b and other domestic disturbances in gl |the realm of party politics—may. get Q. Please name the positions that |back into the drama of the 1024 cam Teddy Roosevelt Held—A. P. R. | patgn. A. The late Theodore Roosevelt held | soluti the’ following positions: Member of | The resolution of Senator Pepper the New York legislature; delegate to [©f Pennsylvania, republican, calling the republican national conventio upon the President to summon & similar to The litical Picture Again. United States civil service commis- |world conference |Hague conference of 1307 and pres vious years, has precipitated a de- jbate in the Senate of no casual fm- appointed special ambassador from Portance. The republican lcadership the United States at the funeral of |did not connive with Mr. Pepper to King Edward VII of England in 1910. | bring up the subject of a world court, with its collateral question of league kinds of engineers {of nations parenthood. Only a few days ago S on, the democratic Senatc ¢ Cabot can with lice board; assistant secretary of the |Navy; Governor of New York; Vic {President of the United States: Presi- dent of the United States. He was Q. How many are there?—N, R A. At the present time about ten well defined clas most important engineers ar chanical, electrical, chemical, | the v, hydraulic, railroad, highwa; valuation and military There are numerous other branches of enginee !uhu'h shade off into the busine: lines, such as economic engineers and efficiency engineers. nator Rob leader, accu Lodge, republi having pigeonholed there are | = of the the Senate by Harding and Secretary and_indorsed by President as the only practicable plan it before the world. It had been hoped by republican leaders that. |the world court plan might slumber lin committee at least until after the { campaign. Whole Inwue Revived. But Mr. Pepper has revived thé whole problem of foreign policy | There is no doubt that while his moves !was criticized as indiscreet and with- out the authority of the republicam: leadership, it does represent an effory ¢ part of the Pennsylvania sen- ' nswer the criticism that the party, having pledged <If 1o an association of nations ir did nothing about .it° Eveu | though it might keep peace inside the ropublican family to forget this, the democrats had no intentien ignori the issue and are preparing to accuse their republican brethren of failure to fulfill pledges. the late Q. How many Mohammedans are there in North America?—M. C. A. It is timated that there are about 20,000 on this continent. Q. of the Romans?- A. The most important were the catapult, the ballista and the “wild ass.’* The last was not used until after Caesar's time. Q. Why does a plant which wilted in the daytime usually revive at night even though no rain fall B. N. A. The Department of Agriculture | says plants which have wilted dur- ing the day recover ai night because the increased atmospheric humidity during the night greatly reduces the | loss of water from the leaves, while the continued absorption of water by |the roots enables the leaves to re- {Kain the lost water and again be. | ome turgid. However, i the water | ontent of the soil is below the mini- | i i mum at which the plant can absorh | T° the friends of international co- water from that particular soil, no OPeration any sort of conference recovery takes place even in a satu- | wkich takes America out of her fsolu jrated atmsophere. P ition and Imngnhhcr into conference | Q. How does Ireland compare in|Officially with the other powers of size and population with small Eu- |se World is looked upon as hopeful e L apuiatons it {The Hague conferences contained i —C. § code int t! T, it- A. Ireland is larger than Belgium, |ed in effectivencss but far mbre ad- |Hoiland, Denmark, Switzerland of {vanced than the views of the fola |Armenia. Austria, Hungary and |tionists, who Oppose agreements of Tt hias Bl pos e Ty | Sy Ainam it B ouariguves ety of the world. {Armenia, Norway, Denmark, Finland S or Switzerland. | | What were the torsion hurlers | \. B. Will Win Demoeratic Aid. 7 5 The democrats probably wil sup- co%'ar‘fif(r:"a‘:i?ol omer g 3 2K€ t° lport Mr. Peppers move, largely be- A. Four thousand three hundred |C2uSe they know it will mean em- pounds of paint are mixed when the {barrassment within the ranks of the dome of the Capitol is painted. It |republican party, and anything which s Ly e (Ten, &bout three|oyn be done ta split the ‘republican {party still more is democratic strat- Q. Are there as many alligators in |egy, just as it was republican tac- the United States as there used to be’.‘!::; “’."m, Telikus of Rulsian fght —C. M. D. : A, The number is constantly de-i The Coolidge -administration has greasing. Alligators are found in the | had other plans. Awaiting tho report low coastal regions of North and of the Dawes-Young advisory com- Sl Loy e hope has been exprassed Q. Are there” locks the Suez by officials that a rehabilftation of “fi“;;;;fi H. -’<l fthe European economic —situation . This canal is at sea level and |, el by ¥ vo- contains no locks. It is 108 miles i | ¥OUld be followed by an erd; of po- length and connects the Mediter- |litical stability and that international ranean with the Red sea. { conferences must await a settlement in can) agrees “the people are growing | weary of the vicious partisanship dis- | hoth chain and plate armors—D. . 5. — | Q. Did the “knights of old” wear TSt | vice president in charge of opera- played. There are insistent demands | that Congress resume the transaction | of the business for which it was elected instead of making democratic capital for the presidential cam- paign.” But having failed “on the | one hand to bring about the desired | political results and on the other to | unearth reasondble charges,” the ! Springfield Cnion (republican) b lie “the era of indiscriminate head-hunting at Washington is prac- tically over.” As the Newark News (independent) sees it, “in the tariff, the oil scandal | and Daugherty the democrats have { plenty of campaign material in all conscience without playing with fire by gratuitous attacks on the cabinet, and they would be in still better shape before the country if they could read their title clear as the friends of true tax reform.” At any rate, the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times (republi- can) concludes that while “the d ings in Congress this winter and e pecially in the Senate have been suc! as to cause the public to feel disgust, it is well that the situation is coming to be recognized by those most di- rectly affected.” COURAGE “I am the master of my fate, 1 am the captain of my soul” —HENLEY. i | Daniel Willard's boyhood ambition was to be a locomotive engineer. He achieved that ambition sooner than he expected—only to find that he worked himself into a rut. Born on a farm near little North Hartland, Vt. he was graduated from high school when seventeen. He de- cided to go to Dartmouth, but he had no money, and had to go to Massa- chusetts Agricultural College, where tuition was free. He studied law, then medicine, but his evesight failed from too much study, and he had to go back to the farm, He got work as track laborer on the Vermont Central railroad, with pay 80 cents a day. At twenty he was made an engineer.: The wages were sufficient to live on, his home and friends were near, so the future looked pleasing. But time proved it all would not suffice, and he drifted. An engineer on the Lake Shore and Michigan Central railroad, with a1 run out of Elkhart, Ind., he received ' 13100 a month. Then the road retrench- | ed and he was out of a job. = Road after road told him he was “too green” or “t00 young.” His sav- ings dwindled and be lived frugally.: He became “brakeman” on ‘a line two ' miles long, and he cleaned coaches: and did other odd jobs. Today the road . is known as the Minneapolis, St.: Paul and Sault Ste. Marie. The rail- road grew, he became general fore-! man and later assistant superintend- | ent, in which position he stuck eight | years. H Then, ‘at thirty-eight, he became as- | sistant to the general manager of| the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. Two : years later he was general manger of | the Erie, where he remined three! years, until James J. Hill made him | } tions of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy road. 3 At forty-nine he was elected presi- dent of the Baltimore and Ohio rail- | road, which position he still holds. nized that “Secretary Mellon stands high in the: estimation of the coun- try: that his administration of the Treasury ' Department has been one of .the. ments of the the public may | sort of thing :%fi_w‘; those responsi ve- After the United States entered the world war he was appointed by Presi- dent Wilson to run the railroads un- overnment control. y, at sixty-three, he has a large income and is respected as ons ’#’fiu best railroad men in the coun- (Copyright, 1924, by ©. C. Powell) | Egyptians?—H. W. S. bamboo. M T. Jormation Bureaw, Frederic J. Haskin, A. Plate armor was worn in battle | and tournament, while chain armor | was worn at times when there was possibility of chance encounters and | to prevent assassination. { Q. Were pyramids built as tombs by any other ancient people than the { A. Outside of Egypt the pyramid did not assume the national impor- tance that it had there, but a sort of | pyramid was built in the early civili- zation of Central and South America. There were also some pyramids in Greece, Assyria and Rome. | Q. What is brimstone?—A. D. L. | A. Brimstone was a name given to sulphur. It was literally “burning stone," sulphur having been consid- | ered by the alchemists as the prin- | ciple of combustibility. Q. Are there diphthongs in French? | A. There are no true diphthongs in | Prench. There are combinations of | semi-consonants and vowels. 1 | Q. What is a rip tide?—D. H. | A. A rip tide is a tidal current| which is roughened by passing over a shoal. Q. What is used in the manufacture | of fiber phonograph needles?—w. H.| V.S A. The forest service says that in most cases fiber needles are manu- factured from foreign tropical woods | which are closely associajed with | Q. What is Basil King's real name? —H. H. A. Basil_King is listed in Who's ing. (William Benjamin) .Q. What the article of food known in Ireland as “stiraboul s A. Stirabout is a colloquial Trish name for a thick zruel made of mixed oat- meal and corn meal, or of either one, | boiled with milk, whey, broth or wa- ter. 1t corresponds to the “brose” of the Scotch. Q. Were the Capulets and Monta~ gues real people?—. F. i A. Capulet and Montague are the English forms for the names of Cap- pelll and Montecchi families. It | has not been proved that the exist- | ence of these families, on which many sStories have been built, is more than a legend. Q. How large is the largest pearl in existence?—S. O. A. The largest pearl of which there is a record is in the Hope collection in the British Museum. It weighs three ounces and is four and one-half inches in circumference. (Any reader con get the answer to! any question by iwriting The Star In- | Qirector, Washington, D. C. strictly to information. The - reat does not aitempt to settle domestic troubles, nor to undertake ezhaustive re- on any subject. The bureau can- | not give advice on_legal, medical and | Ainancial motiers. Write your question Plainly and briefly. Give full nameo and and inclose 2 cents in stamps for roturn postage. All roplies are sent di- rect to the inquirer.) President’s Attitude On Radio Discussed ! To the Editor of The Star: Noting by the issue of The Eveuning | Star of yesterday that President Cooljdge had made haste to announce himself as against the proposal of | Columbus has been settied: | and courage, of the reparation problem bs {direct agrecment between thé fnte ested powers. 1 Another conference to limit armi- ment. especially that of submarines and aircraft; was proposed a® a part of the naval appropriation bill In the House recently, but the President, while in sympathy with the purpos of the measure, did not feel anything Could be accomplished on a reduction of armament until the deeper ques- fions involved in the ecomomic and political relationships of European Countrics to each other were ad- usted. The summoning of an international confcrence would, of course, if it led to a successful meeting Mke the Washington arms pacts of 1921, help e prestge of the Coolidge_ admin- ration, but the chances are that all proposals, including that of Sena- for Pepper, will be held in abeyance until after_the national conventions in June. There is no republican de- re here to hand Hiram Johnson an issue on a silver platter (Copyright, 1924.) Columbus Had Nerve BY JOHN CARLYLE The controversy over the hones cf There was never any doubt about the spirit of Columbus. His soul goes sailing on. A few weeks ago I stood in the an- cient cathedral of the oldest ity in the new world. Santo Domingo Cits in the Island of Haiti, in the W Indies, wag founded by Bartholomew Columbus, the brother of Christopher, The tomb of the great mavigator i9 in the cathedral. An irom box in- closes the casket whers lie the bones of the world's most intrepid mariners A few years ago a casket marked with the name Columbus was taken from its cathedral tomb and carried to Havana, where it has been Teveres as the body of the man who save a whole hemisphere to the life of men, Later another casket was found in the Sahto Domingo Cathedral. Un- like the other, which was so simply marked, this one bore an ornate in- seription to “the Renowned Admiral and Discoverer, Christopher: Colum- bui:ut gpeculation as to the resting place of the mortal frame of the dis< coverer was worthless. In this cass even the truth is of minor Importance | compared with the immense signifi- cance of the H‘(‘e“:nd ‘works of the first great nav: . b courage of Columbud Jawern above every other characteristic. is easy to be courageous when friends are urging you on. It is the hardest thing in the world when friends and enemies are telling you it dan’t be done. It i3 not an easy- metier to go forward in face of the Steady pre= dietion oé;}elfl;. i );b s ‘When Columbus 00}k behind at the comfortabla Pl Spain and sailed out into the gray seas of the west he sailed on nerve It was a superstitious aga - Mar- iners and landemen alike believed the farther seas to be inhabited by un- speakable monsters and fegfors in- Gescribable. They believed that the edgse of the world lay off beyond the horizon. In spite of his mighty netve how little Columbus realized how well he salled! Ho made a new ' world and, the Senate finance committee to plac a federal tax on radio receiving sets, one {s led to the conclusion that he is in . entire accord with the White House tomcat in the matter of oppo- sition to silent nights. RALPH S. DODDS. knew it not. His triumph ‘was the triumph of courage. % ) There are triumphs fust ad ' might. to be won today. It is & mhtter of nerve and the courage of cofiviotion, (Copyright,*1924) T fl