Evening Star Newspaper, April 9, 1924, Page 6

THE EVENING ST/ With Sunday Morning Editi WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY. .. THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company | Bustness Office, 1ith St. and Pennsylvagia Ave New York Office: 110 East 42nd St. Chicago Offie: Tower Tnilding. aropenn Office: 1§ Regent St., London, Bogland. “The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning edition, s delivered by caiciers within tbe eity ai 60 cents per month: duily only, 45 cents per month: Sundas ooly, 20 cents’ per month. Orders may be sent by mail ot tele. Phobe Main 5000, Ce lection is made by car- Tiers at the end of eacn moath, Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance, Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..15yr., $8.40; 1 mo,, 70c Paily only. ... .....1yr., §6.00; 1 mo., 50c Sunday only......1yr, $2.40; 1 mo, 20¢ All Other States. ¥.1yr., $10.00; 1 mo., 85¢ 10 1 mo., 60c 00 ; 1 mo. Pailyand & Daily only ... Sunday only.. Member of the The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the e for repiilicnt nil news din: tehes Crodit = oredited o Fhis paper eves pub: lghed herom Al ‘tihts of publiation of wpecial dispatches herein are also reserved. Tax Bill in Senate. With the Mellon tax | out of the tinance committ before the Semute, the Jority in t face sponsibility ki American | the from n in time There way wh sponsibility can be evaded licans have and in the and there is House w: wh pic cireu ted W N repe and 1 repubilican ma the ood promi at body war taxation in is no in a majority House in ing | measure i embodies the essential of the Metlon plan. sta { sbdicate turn princi- Under such republicans to the task of tax democrats would of a more com e people have to express their and legislation over t only the plete abe bad be forerunner ation when opportunity in- republican W H n up of men of cal belief, ades of politi ging from tive to near-radical, bu th am itra-conserva 11l must sub. ten ey republican busines Ticans. amon: fur al t have n s repub- sitt g gress There be ought tu no d the repu mentals of the is, people as a mentals. T with which Mellon tax precedent, Tr mapers in al nong its e Mell as funda tax plan. There d among the to those funda: of approval grected the without ndeed, b disec whi the country n ost uential demc parts of the ¢ and ic news n political maneuve Jective: with There are thre the Mellon plan sufficient quiremen in t zen, mee al approval. main objects The reve of the government. second is to place the lighte Lurden on small and earned incomes. The third is to o0 ad. incomes that capits from produc securities. about the Secretary bring their points before ten into law. points wh s on large e driven ve Industry into tax-fres There nothing sacred act figures proposed by Mellon. Many must many minds meeting x bill can b they wi men 1 must meet at hin the range of the purposes sought to be accom plished. If they do not, the republican party will go before the country with a confession of impotene d wh the country party in November nt suf- ficien, find out whether statesma bides in the halls of Cong have been wranglers. will will about nship still s, or whe her the iven over to petty political Half a Million! The census Washingtor 486,936 on July very close to The population at that under or over the estimate made now, but Washington is fast coming to be a city of half a million people. Not many vears ago we had some hardy praphets in Washington. might meet man who with gravity and solemnity would say, “We won't live to see it, r, the time is comipg when this city will have 500,000 inhabitants.” The man’ who said that wus apt to be set down as reckless. He was often classed with those wild-minded men who used to start an argument by saying, “We won't live to see it, but the time may come, . When a man will be able to fly from Washington to New York city, and when horseless buggies will be going through the streets.” There were just a few half- milllion-population prophets when Lin- coln Park was part of the “commons,” bureau computes tha a population of this vear. That is half-mi mark. t time may be will have 1 the on One when the 7th strect cars ran as far| north as the boundary, when a ferry boat went to Alexandria every hour during the “rush” part of the day, and when only a man of daring or carcless speech could say that Washington would grow heyond College Hill or Meridian Hill. The half-million-popula- tion prophet was followed hy the mil- lion-population prophet. The time is not distant when Washington will have a million population. It will not take so long to increase fram half a million to a million as it took to grow from 200,000 to half a million. ————————— Even Congre should admit that Secretary Mellon has done his best to | introduce a little political economy into a situation which appears in dan- ger of being overwhelmed by plain politics. University Women. The American Association of Uni- versity Women is to hold its thigty- ninth general meeting this month in Washington, and it is said that the announcement will be made at that meeting that the clubhouse debt of 200,000 has been paid. In the matter of that debt the Washington branéh has already gone ‘“‘over the top” in rdising its quota. At this meeting there will be speakers, men and wom- en, whose names must be familfar in overy home where newspapers and 500d bogks are read. Among the wom on. .April 9, 1924 2| mado | rd | writ | al an npeakers are those of national fame | tance north, Northwest branch flows in dines of endeavor to which a few |through a rugged section of Mont- generations ago no woman would have | gomery county and rises in the Oak- dared to aspire. ! dale-Norwood section south of Sandy One speaks'of “college women" and | Spring. It is joined by Sligo creek, | “university women" quite in a matter- | which rises in'the Wheaton neighbor- | of-coursq way, yet it was only 144|hood. All streams in that”part of | years ago that Willlam Woodbridge, | Montgonfery county which do not flow, graduating from Yale, created some- | into Rock creek or the Patuxent run thing of a sensation by taking as the | to the Eastern branch and much of the subject of his graduation essay “Im-|rainfall of eastern Montgomery and | provement in Female BEducation.” { western Prince Georges enters it he- | Soon after that Woodbridgo opened an, tween Hyatteville and Bladenstarg evening school, where girls Were |and passes through a narrow channel | taught grammar, geography and “the | bordered by low, flat land. art of composition.” It was revoiu- | tionary. Before the American revolu- ! tion there were a few little scheols for | girls in New England called “dame | i schools,” where girls were taught to) read and sew. The principal text book | was the New England primer. Shveailidaneds After the revolution it was decided | ¢HHCE W *‘:““ A Sor iy in some towns to! admit gliis) to] S0y csiebrate Arbor day within, that ! week. Conservation and réstoration of chools at hours of morning and eve- eorant: 1 e X ning, and at times of year when such | [0fst bave become one of our prob- schools were not needed for boys, and instruction, was given girls in elemen- | tary subjects. The age of the female | " of B | academy in the north; came 1 mround | Week for ‘discussionidt and thought Ta00, thoush two or three of Such fn- | UPOR this matter will add countiess titione e of rarlier date, About | COBVErts to the cause of trees and to 1520 the female academy idea had|the allied cause of conservation of sxroad wide. anfll our Lancestars\were | Seams. flle\ Prenidant fells ithe) peo: hearing some theories, to them won- | plg that forests are among their great derful and fancitul, about higher edu-| AE N ey Sl f SRR o for women. The names of the | Widely distributed and maintained in a Itev. Joseph Emerson, Zilpah Grant, |condition of high productiveness, are Mary Lyon, Emma Willard and Cath. | essential to the prosperity of the peo- [ erine d3esaiier: hecame faemilia, About | Do~ Ky Piints qui gEl a1cHouEn we 1530 female academies were springing | 8r¢ making some effort toward pro up throughout the south, and among | tection of forests and reforestation of evarine r and burnt-over lands “we are of timber Forest Protection Week. President Coolidge has proclaimed the*week of April 21-27 as Forest Pro- tection week, and urges upon gov- ernors of the states that whese not in { nized by a large and increasing num ber of the pecple, and setting apart a i cut- 7 Idmwmg upon our supplic i four times as fast as they are renewed | through growth.” The sawmill and g trees at a dan- a heavy protection forest ne carly colleges was W male College at Macon, G ume the founding of Mount Holyoke minary by Mary Lyon. The period hefore the civil war was marked | the ax are destroyin the increase. in' the: mithben iof LSErouS: tafe, and flre takes Jemfes and seminavioa,/for: women| 'Ol Of timber. ‘Effectivo and the attendance at them, and a few | AEaInst fite 18 given to women's colleges were authorized to | grunt degrees A historian has said that the last three decades of the ninetcenth cen- tury were marked by an advance in | women's education such as the world | had never known before, and that dur- ing that period three types of insti tution were highly developed, these {being the separate women's college, { the women's college ailiated with al | college or university for men and co- ducation in universities which had | heen exclusively for men. The change ! fhat has come over the condition of women in our country is remarkable. } In education, industry, professions, | |arts, science and business the best| women take place beside the best men We are all happier for the change. just by some protection to all the woods of the coun- try. The United § without trees. tes cannot prospel —_——— Government ownership will not he considered necessary for the regula- tion of radio. However, when cam- paign speeches are distributed it may sary to keep the antenna on a f political neutrality. The wire- heckler, who conceals 'his iden- lac disorderly . the intruder who rupts a spees e When Borah consents lend his influence to a political move- ment he makes it clear that the ar- rangement only to- stand what he regards as good behavior. ——————————— nator The American Civic Association. | A host of leaders in civic develop- | ment from many cities are in Wash- ington, and are in session today under the auspices of the American Civie Association. That association and the ommittees created through its influ- ence in more than fifty American cities are pledged to labor for the de- velopment of Washington into the world’ most splendid Capital. The American Civie Association has taken its stand for the bill which would create @ commission con isting of the Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary ['of War, chairmen of the House and | to get into debt, and then face the | Senate committees on public buildings | With conscientious industry. and grounds and the Engineer Com-! missioner of the District “to acquire| About the only sign of sympathy be- lands as in its judgment shall |tween France and Germany is a slight ary and desirable in the Dis- | tendency of the franc to imitate the riet of Columbia 2nd adjacent areas | mark in Maryland and Virginia.” The pur-i’ pose of that bill is to preserve scenery { and forest near Washington, conserve the flow of streams, prevent pollution of brooks and rivers and provide sstematic and continuous develop-| Thanks to Mussolini, Italy regards ment of parks and playgrounds. The | herself as having no need of 4 third tion stands for carrying out. o i party, or even of a second party, it can be done, the Capital plan snfant, and applying certain | features of that plan, or the | of the plan, iv the eity, which | is to grow be- | In addition to arousing interest current issues of the Record the § ate inve ators are creating mand for back numbers of the gressional director! in a ¢ con- ———————— Nobody is going to investizate the impetuous public that went to see the fight films without asking any ques | tions to whether they had been { lezally transported | ———————————— Germany will now proceed on the ©01d theory that the way to prosper is debt | —_——— | | | —_————————— The fierce gorilla quartered in a New York hotel may rely on getting service without giving any tips. SHOOTING STARS. magor plirit grown and which yond the bounds of the Washington t was surveyved in 1791, A year ago the association matured its plan to press for Capital develop- ment, and to secure co-operation of ! Americans in all parts of the country. ; When the patient mechanism To date more than fifty committees ! Indicates a little shock have been organized in more than |myeress o startied paroxyem | ifty cities to aid in the promotion of | - a° & ZOFL G FETRTE rnockt the association’s plans for Washing- | v 5 ! { ton. The present meeting in Washing- { | But machinery has never ! ton is of representatives of those com-{ To a perfect state been brought mittees. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Knock. When serenely you are gliding | And the motor’s hardly heard, ‘With a smile you go on riding And you scarcely say a word. { 1 { | ! | | That will make it run forever ‘Without much attentive thought. '0 the tool box you should hurry, And the monkey wrench unlock, i Though you shouldn't feel a flurry Every time you hear a knock. — ——————— After hearing the evidence, Mr. Mc- | T' Adoo is more than ever convinced that the White House needs an energetic and diseriminating lawyer in its busi-| 1 We can't all keep “boosting” hourly, —————————— | Disregarding fact so plain. 1t will be very difficult for Senate in- | When the fates are frowning ‘sourly, vestigators to reveal anything that! We must seck and strive again. will remove the impression that the!If we want to keep existence worst has already been told. Enonias mueoi byl aelock: ————————— Though we hate its dull persistence, As often happens, campaign man-{ We must listen for the “knock. agers regard the primary results of — <ome states as more significant than Abandoned Classicism. et lolhes “You used to use classical quota- { tions in your speeches.” | “I quit that years ago,” answered Senator Sorghum. “A classical quota- tion implies a disposition to be polite and elegant, while the present idea of oratory out my way is to treat every- body rough.” | 1 i ness. i { | { ———————————— If Smedley Butler were as much ot a sailor as he is a soldier he might do something with the rum-runners. ——————————— Suburban Floods. Recent rains caused the overflow of branches and the flooding of Maryland villages adjacent to Washington. Part L ¢ Bladensburg was under water, and 1’8 ROt customary to criticize a.man a scction of the Washington-Baltimore § f0F d0ing much regular work. boulevard and other roads were closed | As the Wicked Flee. to trafc. It is a condition that has: e bootlegs fill the stealthy cup. happened many times, and the county The highjacks come to fight "em. of Prince Georges or the state of imhe footpads holdsthe highjacks up; Maryland might devise a plan to save! And so, ad infinitum. | that section from future flood losses. The boulevard might*be raised and a Matrimonial Critique. concrete wall built along Northwest{ “Her marriage was a failure.” | branch and the Eastern branch where; ‘“Her alimony is liberal enough,” | they pass through lowland. Bladens-commented Miss Cayenne. It was Jud Tunkins says he’s going to run { | | Eastern branch, and the water flow of ; financial success. ion joins the ri a large section joins the river there. Looking Up {he Law. Indian creck heads in the ancient] ., : onsining At nesy Ml | s &y W Apdimst artyion and runs southerly by Beltsville, Col- '°°'.'.'f‘::§n"::°“; " c"h'"‘f:"l?';‘fh: lege Park and Hyattsville. A large| o o P s:m (';’;i! Jeoe ;’E ;Dm". number of streams join it, and impor- Hessst 2 s o 1o Pamvor Do ertek, | 10 10se precious time If he has to reach e P o a"::‘lem % | around in his clothes fur it. The only streams, Between Hyattsville and ';: h'::“;,z’:;‘:fi‘m’&‘:; AoRbR Bladensburg Northwest branch joins 3 “De man dat gits fooled Jese days,” Indian creek, and the stream from that junction is called the Eastern|said Uncle Eben, “is de one dat gits branch, though that name isalsogiven | hisself a political job thinkin’ he's gineter have an easy t|lme." to Indian creck for an uncertain dis- 4 ! lems of high importance. This is recog- | areas, and it is possible to give such | even the slight respect due | inter- | during | for the legislature so's to be where | | proce burs is near the head of tide in the: Perhaps a heart failure, but it was a | WASHINGTON BY PAUL {' Two Americans have been murder- put ‘under martial law in order that |may procecd without interference. Rumors attaching political signifi- cance to the tragedy involve even a former member of the cabinet, al- though upon what grounds has not [ been divulged. Dispatches indicate that the only political motive possi- ble was to disoredit the ruling admin- tration 50 as to prevent jts success in borrowing millions of dollars from the United States and [nteresting | American investors in the undevelop- ©d resources of oil and minerals. | It is seamingly a_strange situation but the-little country, called Albania, is filled with strunge and wild con- ditions. Resting between Greece and italy, Albunia has neither literature wr art, alphabet nor money of its own, neither civilization nor real rovernment of the people s 0 whole. It population is still bearing tribal rather thagl national organization. It has an arce of about 150 by $0 miles, largely broken by mountains, yet thers are millions of acres of rich dluvial =oil which has never b put to crops—at least not in rec centuries. Lts population is estimat- wd between 850,000 and 1,000,000, Ite hepherds range the hill-slopes with their Hocks, and its peasants rudely ch the =oil as did the ancients, sing moager crops. Tobaoco, 0il. wool and mutton are prac tieally their only products. Two-thirds of th people are Mos- lems and the rest are nominally Christians—part_Roman Catholic and part “orthodox™ cek Catholics. Whether Moslem or Christian, all are extremely superstitious. he mountain fastnesses give the tribea impenetrable retr against enemies, an they have profite by the centuries of tighting th Turk- ish ppressort d fighti rival tribes. They the ferocity of savages, with perhaps greater cun- & and natural intelligence * o K * Albania is sometimes spoken of as “the foundling nation.” It has wstry, The pemce conferenco sailles dubbed it a natfon when its own delegates in their most san- zuine hopes expected only to be pro- tected by a mandate from dismem- bership and absorption into Greece, Jugoslavia or Macedonia. Before the Christian part of Ulyvria century A. D. b The Slavie co | era Albania which in the a Homan on in the of the weon(d province <ht there for cen- ered the towns the mountains. Turkish rule continued until the Balkan war 1908, when the Al- banians joined the revolt. and in 1912 lcclared their independence Turkes people mountains ries, Turkey 1178, but nev. and from * ok * % But t ropean independence from Turkey trading Moslem for Eu- oppressors. The great pow- s of Europe took conptrol as soon the Otton fost his grip, for tive factions, by opposing each opened the way for foreign quite in line with only i * * * deliberate poli since 18 ul Hamid. to school, any wapaper or book means of Turkish o reign ania was the ! {m ! t deminatic So long had the: urks that the ma: sive welght been ruled by the s could hardly of the bur th lea in Europe and a whole nation Is | zovernmental search for the slayers no of Eu- | ‘D. C, WEDNESDAY IN TODAY’S SPOTLIGHT V. COLLINS they were carrying, and, in_spite of the urgeney of Bulghria that they join the other Balkans in fighting the Turk in 1876, most of the Albanians them. ~Again in 1877, when Russia fought Turkey, the Albanians were on the side of their Moslem oppres- sors. At the close of that war they had their eyes opened when Turkey | plotted M to divide Albania between tenegro and Bulgaria. She was ved” by the great powers—Eng- land, France, Germany, ltaly and |der Turkey until her independence in 11912, In the second Balkan war | bania remained “neutral.” and was, therefore, invaded by Greece and Italy, which did not trust the Alba- nilan Moslems. * k % ¥ In 1913 the great powers selected Prince Willlam of Wied as Albanian king. He was a captain in the Prus- slan army, H“ny-flve years old, with no administrative experience — a nephew of the Queen of Rumania and cousin of the Queen of Holland. Heo lasted less than a year, and was quick to flee back to Prussia when the world war came on, the next year. ' N more imported kings being available during the world war, Italy practically took possession of the country with her army, for no con- fidence was felt in Albanian faith. though she, promised to fight with the allie At the close of the war it looked as though Italy would claim all of he land, but the p ce conference ruled otherwise, not ‘out of lov Europe, but to maintain the “balance of power” and prevent Italy's excess kain while she wis demanding Fiume ——just north of Albania. * ¥ k¥ overnment is neithor The peo- | Her present g a monarchy nor a republic. ple vote for an assembly of seventy- cight members, the assembly votes for four regents. The regents select !a prime minister and the prime min- ister selects his cabinet, and the cabi- net initiates all legislatoin for th approval of the assembly. The pres- ent government has been duly recog- nized by the great powers of Kurope ind by the United States, and all have ministers at th Albanian capital. Albania has only a consul here—lo- cated in New York. £ x ¥ ¥ The little country has a true friend C. Telford Erickson, D. D.—the first missionary sent thero by the American board of forelgn missions. Dr. Erickson does not limit his mis- sionary work to preaching, but has recently gotten from the government a concession of 3,000 acres of fine land, on which he establishing an agricultural and vocational train- inic school for 200 boys, and (in separate part of the school training girls in : w The government is permitted thi six fres scholarships for boys girls of its own choice, and a few years the governmen subsidize the institution. After twen ty-five years nll the property wil revert to the public, unless the American management is still held to_be desirable. Under the present country a system of schools with a high scheol and a technical and a normal school have cen established. Negotiations for an American loan are under way, with the understanding that part of the loan will support the schools and art remain on deposit in the United ates as security for an Albanian currency to be created During the war, occupying armies —Austrians and Italians—built some good roads The country possesses | neither railroads, telegraphs nor tele phones, bhut is hoping for bet things—if American capital will help. (Copyright, 1924, by Paul V. Collins.) of the common resime Sinelair Indictment Meets With Approval of Editors When Harry F. Sinclair was indicted Columt answ lof the Distric he refused jto challenged { authority. ion of 2 because te committee’s This raises an in concerning the mi of r in the hands of a Senate com- i mittee. Most of the editors who hav. discussed the question agree that the snate took the proper and only { course open to it if the dignity of the i nd the right of that body to tnesses are to be upheld. In the opinion of Springfield Republican “public attention should be called to the fact that the public lands committee of the Senate w ! unanimous in its decision that Mr. nclair was without right to refuse even on the ad- re Senate summon the to answer question | vice of counsel. The Senate has pursued the only possible course to protect its own dignity and safe- ! guard the public interest.” Although the right of Congress to summon and question might easily be abused, the Knoxville el intains that “dénying it the authority to summon would undoubtedly ~ hamper any honest and warranted effort at get- ting the facts of service to ‘the ipublic welfare. Nobody but those whose hair has been singed doubts that even though the questions at itimes did seem to go afield, the irevelations in the various inquiries ! have been helpful to the public in { exposing admittedly bad conditions.” {“"The Grand Rapids Press does not doubt that “the Supreme Court will in a general way uphold the estab- hed tradition that Congress may carry on such investigations and Subpeona witnesses. To deny this | Tight would be to withdraw from the | people a vital provision for aggres | Sive action in the support of public { Interest.” B The Scranton Republican points out that while “the right of Congress to question witnesses and punish those who refuse to answer is beyond cavil, a mew clement js introduced when a witness bases his refusal on the ground that the government has already begun Dproceedings against {nim in another jurisdiction.” And j while Sinclair will attack the statute as unconstitutional and carry it to the Supreme Court, the Wichita {Bagle feels “there is a big chance {that the Senate will lose out and Sin- {clair win. The Senate has its own % for punishing contumacious Witnesses and it missed a bet when it dian't use it on Sinclair instead of referring the case to the courts.” Qs the Louisville Courier-Journal ees It “Sinclair seems to have reach- {ed the point at which he is willing to { resort to an expedient that will con- {vince the country of his guilt pro- vided he may lh“s'li pe the legal equences of guilt.” 1S5t Seems to the Birmingham News that the questions Sinclair is evading “are moral questions involving -the American commonwealth” and it be- lieves that “every legal means should be used to compel Mr. Sinclair to make every revelation concerning the Imatters that are of vital importance to the nation.” And if he has no fur- ther information, the Cleveland Plain Dealer thinks “he should not hesitate to submit to questioning, but if he has information of value he should be compeiled to answer.” The Sioux City dournal agrees that the Senate las “the right idea in appealing to ! the courts to force him to tell what ! he knows. His is a case made more fiagrant by what has gone before, and his impudence now is such as to | and turned over to the Supreme Court | r questions he | resting | arouse public epinion strongly ainst him.” The Lynchburg News hopes man will be brought to book—that senators may fizd it within their power to punish him for | tumacy in a way that will teach him that he can afford to affront decent public sentiment and the upper branch of Congress only at the price | of being flung into jail and kept be- hind its bars as the commonest of prisoners for a term that will fitly respond to the ends of justice and the dignity of the Senate.” The Mi- ami News Metropolis insists “h fusal to testify has presented favorable tuation before the and “if the committee's ty can be successfully chal- lenged it without saying that no on apt to produce an thing in the way of impressive evi- dence involving the higher-ups will be willing to come before the inquisi- torial body—for reasons which they may consider good and sufficient.” L i s IR The significant thing, according to the St. Joseph News-Press, is that “it is practically certain that the en- tire structure of committee investi- gations by Congress must stand or fall on the outcome of the proceed- ings that. are now in their initial stages.” If conditions are as evil as some of the witnesses paint them, the Lansing State Journal considers the ~heaviest possible penalties ought to be inflicted upon the guilty, but thus far too much of the e dence has seemed to be mere gossip, governed by political considerations, and the court action In the Sinclair affair may serve to settle the status of the entire investigation, which is needed.” . .The Springfield Union is confident there was well grounded criticism when the Senate with a zeal and pre- gipitancy in strange contrast to its habits in regular business, o definite Judement on. acts the mailt and illegality of which had yet to be shown in the courts,” and ‘it must have become painfully evident to the Senate committee that it seriously curtailed its own' opportunitics ana powers for further usefulness when it too precipitately declared the leases a violation of the law and called for the sect et prosecution of those Canada Taking Over even more | n un- coun- au- I The Canadians will soon recognize Russia, according to a communication conveyed to A. Yasikoff, soviet agent in Montreal, from Premier King. The decision of the Dominion government may be regarded with surprise in the United States, a surprise that might be mingled with amusement. But since the Canadians have bee; - ¢d a minister at Washington: and since they have taken an influential place in the counciis of the British empire, dconomists will view the latest ‘manifestation of eapnomy as u&g[phmum.m & e world has not yet ed th fact that the British empflr%udtsld: of India and a few insular posses- sions, has ceased to function. In- stead, Great Britain is chairman of a British commonwealth of nations, an organization in more than name only. The dominions bled for the mother country in the world war, and after the armistice they obtained a voice in the imperial councils as a rewara i The mother even engaged not to ente into a war or alliance without the consent of the children,, In the light of this, Canadian recoghition of the soviet governent is neither amus ing nor surprising.—Brooklyn Daily Lagle. e sided with the Turks and fought for | | Russia—and continued a5 a unit un- | for | Albania, for she had not a friend in t wifl heip | “this | his con- { Her Own Diplomacy | APRIL 9, 1924, Politics at Large BY N. 0. MESSENGER \ Politicians are unable to under- stand why, In the face of events of [the last few weeks, Senator Hiram | W Johnson continues In the contest for the republican presidential nomi- nation. Things have been going | steadily against him right along, and | | his rebuffs at the hands of the voters | force. They are also curious as to who is holding up the financial end | of his campalgn since William Wrig- ley quit. Senator Johnson's defeat at the | primaries in Michigan, in Nebraska and, at this writing, apparently in| | Illinois, foreshadows the loss of other | presidentia] primaries states, depriv- ing him of his hope of gathering enough delegates to be able to make a demonstration in the convention of even ‘an obstructive nature. * k %k % The loss of Michigan was a stag- gering blow to Senator Johnson. When it -Is considered that In the preferential primaries of 1920 he car- ried the state by more than 44,000 i plurality and that last Monday Presi- dent Coolidge won at the primaries | by more than 0,000, it must be as- | sumed that there Is something radi- cally wrong In Semator Johnson's policies and method of campaign Complaint has been made that Sen- ator Johnson does not have any con- structive policy to advocate and can only scold at the President in terms | that do not seem to carry conviction. The failure of the senator to con- vince the voters in the states that have thus far registered their choi | for President can in all fairness be taken as an indication there must be a country-wide sentiment in oppo- sition to him upon basic principles. * ¥ ¥ % | | defeated in Illinols yesterday by the faction which is opposed to his nom- {ination, and which fs aligned with { the faction that is supporting Gov. Smith of New York. Mr. McAdoo also lost yesterday in Rhode Island, where the democratic state convention in- strugted Rhode Island’s fourteen del- egates to the national convention for{ | Gov. Smith. It looks as if the anti | McAdoo bloc in the party is steadily strengthening and tightening its lines. ¥ x ¥k The new political movement which has just been born among women, under the title of the Woman'’s Committes for FPolitical Action, is attracting the attention of politiclang. At first glance it has the appearance of being a woman's auxiliary to the La Follette mov. ment, judging from the nature of th policies this new group advocate, and at any rate is regarded as a third- party undertaking. Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch, who is the New York representative on the committee, in an interview said she favored Senator La Follette for the presidency and Jane Addams for Vice President. She went on to ex- plain _that “our committee is not starting a woman's party. We think the time has gone by for women to talk about getting things for women. That ved out. We must work that arg good for all lone.” 1 { humanity, not just for women P The object of the Womans Commit- tee gor Political Actiof to be to “stimulate women to cre- ative activity in politics and to af- fora a medium through which women can join in the progressive movement. ome of the policies the commits tee advocates are: Public control and conservation of national resobrees. Secured by taxation on all land ilues; public ownership with demo- atic eontrol of all means and tra portation; pub- of the nation's abolition of all r lic control nd credit; patronage 1t is proposed to raise government revenue not hy tariffs but hy taxes on large incomes and inheritances, on land values, by profits on government banking and by savings from reduc- tion of armament. . It proposes “resto- ration of civil rights and guaran- tee to all citizens of full economic, \legal and political ‘rights, including right of childhood to natural de- velopment: right of workers to or- ze, right of minorities to pro- portional representation, Legislation is demanded to prevent courts nullifying acts of legislatures {and to correct other judicial ahuses. It demands progressive reduction of armament by international aeree- ment, judicial settlement of disputes organization. * ¥ ¥ X David Mulvane, republican national committeeman from Kansas and chatrman of the subcommittee of the republican national committee in charge of arrangements for the na- tional convention, announces that the subcommittee will meet April 30 to perfect the temporary organization of the convention. 1t will be necessary to recommend the temporary chair- man and to decide upon the “keynote under.” The choice of permanent chairman will be left to President Coolidge, who will confer with party leaders. There is something like an “insur- gent” movement on. directed agajnst what is complained of as being “too much senatorial domination” in the convention direction. with a demand that layvmen politicians be given larger participation. * * * Mre. Sylvester Wells of Kansas City, a speaker for the republican na- tional committee, Who is in Wash- ington, says that college and univer- ity women are going into politics in greater numbers than ever before. Mrs. Wells made an address at the Maine republican state convention In series of addresses in Texas. “Woman graduates of Wellesley and other colleges and universities,” said Mrs, Wells, “have told me recently they are ashamed because they have been inactive so long in politics. There were as many women as men at Maine convention and the women Showed themseives to be intensely in- terested.” * £ % % Kansas City has one of the strong- est women's clubs in the country ana all of the 300 members aré “practieal politicians.” Bach one of these wom- act as judge or clerk on election day | and to handle all the practical work of politics. They. are drilled thoroughly and don't propose to “allow the men to ut over anything on them” through gnorance of the game. It is known as the Tweritieth Century Club and is said to be surely up to date. * %k * X Former Secretary Denby and for- mer Attorney General Daugherty are showing themselves “food sports” since they left the cabinet. Both have dectared thelr intention to sup- port President Coolidge for the nomi- nation and to work for his election. Mr. D;uxhem 18 to undertake a se- ries of political addresses very shortly. have been delivered with stinging| Willlam G. MecAdoo was signally | in Washington | is declared | of com- | and a democratically controlled world | Portland last week and has made a ! en is said to be able to poll a precinct, | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. Is there a place that people send money because they have at some time cheated the government?—J. G. A. The “Conscience Fund” is a pop- ular name referring to moneys recelv- | ed by persons unknown at the Treas- ury Department. This money is re- ceived from versong who have cheated the government. Annually this {amounts te a few thousand dollars, For 1923 the amount was $2,804.23, {This money is used for miscellaneous expenses. bury their sons” is a saying ats tributed by Herodotus to Croesus, ’l\lng of Lydia, after he had bedi | conquered by Cyrus, | @ What is Eicorialz—P. B. ks The is the large: building i Composed of menastery, church, college, tomb an palace, it ix built on a height 2,700 “et above the sea, about twenty seven miles northwest of Madrid. 1 \was built betw and 1584 by Phillip 11, and the bodies of all the { Ypanish kings since Emporer Charles | ¥, are buried there, with the excep tions of Philip V dnd Ferdinand VI Q If the earth rotate, would bodies | weigh more or less now’—W. F. B, A. If the earth should e \ shoy eame to mbie the welsht of bodies at the equator would be incrased by the 1-285 s ed by the 1-28! Q. Who originated movement to give city | mer vacitions in the cc A. The F herg of New York nay tarted the movement in 184§ Q. When was Frederick Funstor made a brigadier zeneral™—R. it T Frederick Funston was made a brigagicr general of volunteers in commanded the expedition that cap. tured Aguinaldo he was made brigadier general in the Regular Arms. s | Q. 3 Willlam 3. Bryan were electea | President next *fall, would he be the oldest man to take the office?—0. C. A. Willlam Henry Harrison would | still head the list. He was sixty-eight years old when inaugifrated, while Mr. Bryan will be sixty-five on the| 19th of next March. Q. What is the utility of the odd little picce of skin in the corner of the eye? %, A. It no longer has any use, Tt is th remnant of a third evelid, which in ages past was used to dust the ball, should cease to the equator han they do fresh-air ldren sum-~ try?—J. Y. A. Muhlen- credited with first -air the b Q. How did Illinois get its the Sucker state?—M. H. A. One authority thus explains the origin of the name “Sucker” as to people of llinois: ¢ nature of the land ttlements by the rich bottom. full of mudfish of the lampr order, and their manner of fee suggested the nickname. with the coincidence that, suckers ascend the stream and return i certain seasons, the native Egypt’ around Cairo, went up work at times in the Galena m came home to till their farms, i name as Was Whistler t._a native of North the famous art 1 Carolina are invent Q. Who M, Th cen the f the Sen the Mac HRighlanders? Camph S by crigin of the 1 and b tributed consecut 10 *hinese, Arabs, Greeks and Etrus ibut it is not absolutely certain how r these accounts are correet, The in ‘ntin of the compass was partly due to the discovery that a lodestone for a piece of iron which has be ! touched by a lodestone will direct | itself to point In a northern or soutt lern position, depending on its posi | tion north or south of the equator. Q. What is pointed fox?—W. V. A. “Pointed fox" is imitation sil- {ver fox. It Is ordinary fox dyed | black into which white badger hairs are glued one at the time, giving the appearance of silver. Q. factories are there in san M. S. A 360 factories in San Pr. ans, Highlander's costun. SPOrran or purse ag, jacket, plaid and bor Maclachlan clan has for its biue snd black. The ors are biue, green and difference between vulture?—J, H. betweer and group of birds vultures is that the for- living tHings, w In other far removed er structure or and a main A known as attack wil eag vultures in sposition. $ n How man Francise There cisco. H the do Unite Q with |E E. B | A The has an area while continent {an area of w Australia compare Stat 2 are 2, o eommonwealth square miles. nited States has square miles, At the la censu: st a had a pop- tion of 4,451,000, while the United n t populatipn w Aust 4 Q. What will remove paper that has | stuck to furniture?—J. E. H A. “Dip a plece of flannel cloth in warm water; saturate the paper by rubbing with the cloth, You will find that the paper rolis off the polished | surface. Dry the table thoroughiy and then polish with any good furni-; ture polish. Q. On what book or work did Ana- tole France win the 1921 Nobel prize? —D. A. B A. The diseased parts of served relessly such a diseas person e { ) { { commu them?. A sa { do (Readers of The Evening Star should sond their questions to Tha Star Informa- ton Bureau. Frederic J. Haskin. direc- The Department of Agriculture the diseases affecting the potatu not affect the human system: publication which gained Anatole France the Nobel prize in 1921 ntitled, “La Vie en Fleur.” Q. What is th the quotation about fathers burying their sons in time of war?—A. F. E. o [tor, 1220 North Capitol street. The only { A. “In peace the sons bury their [cliarge for this service s 2 oemts in 1!&!?\;‘!’5. but in the war the fathers stamps for retwrm postage.) i |Care Urged in Harnessing | Breast Collars Declared Best for Driving Horses. | To the Editor of The Star PARIS, April 8.—Taxi drivers are| wThjs js Kindndés to Animals week. the only workers in France who ever | The street cars 3 e Ahe | strike. That is, practically speaking l.siogan and probabl y person in | But they strike on all occasions, and! the city who reads apers has | even without occasion. | had their attention to the | Just the other day they struck be- | mayter. | cause they were asked by their em-{ (f all animals, horses suffer the I ployers to collect 20 centimes more!most, and in innumerable instances | from each customer than was shown | ynis suffering could be avoided by on the meter. The Increase Was au-| simple using common sense. Some thorized by the prefecture of Police, ! paople think that being kind to work but' the companies had not had the| animals s ol he . " i well and not whip them unreasonablyy meters corrected. The drivers there- | ¥ell and not whip (hem unveasonthisy fore called a one-day strike and held | qp Enows their every gesture, and a big mass meeting. while th suffer much from the crue} While the strike lasted there wasn't| ®RID TR0 ff“"r_(ar more from im- a taxi to be had; and the streets of | "'y parnescing of horses and mules Paris were like Sunday in a improved wonderfully in receht England village. Some people rs. We no longer ses the short they preferred things that way, breast straps (except semeétimes on wished the taxi di would farmer's horses). The breeching is on strike forever. But what u strs higher and fits oser, thus ehablin, Paris that would make! It wouldn't|the horse to hold and baek his loa really be Paris without the wild ca-! easier. We still see dangling breech- {reerings of the little red cabs, the ink, but the cases arp fewer. Owners | shrill squeaking of horns, the ¢ rnal | horses are discovering it doesn't jand incessant squabbiing and quarrei- ays of high wages to {ing.of cabdrivers and police, and the | w: in endeavor- i thrill of Knowing that you are likely | ing to make a team back a heavy {€o .he transported suddenly into|ioad by the tops of the necks. Har- another and perhaps better world | ness makers are learnfg that leather |each time you cross the boulevard. psed in big breeching is wasted * % % leather—vyes, worse than wastéd, be- | cause it is of no use to a hors A Paris humorist has had a dis-| The 0ld, time-worn- prejudice | concerting; experience. Some months against breast collars is dving oui, @ D i owners of work -anfmals ard |ago M. Georges de la Fouchardiere, | j,5rning that breast collars will not commenting.in his daily philosophico- | “kill" their horses Just tho | comic “column” on the wave of “bun- | horses that are equipped with breast | eo 5 o h coll they are the happiest and co” games, expressed astonishment | o BTVt horses on streets, that nobody had ever tried the|and will wear the long |simplest one of all. He suggested| !J\sk 'all fi_‘;nfl;‘“’ | 5 - s singly to o |that by simply buying a cap Ay mrc. AT \tesn expens | breidered with gold lace and with the {initials “P. L. M." one could travel torturesome hame prove ‘their value { e ot veathe ! handsomely as an_inspector of the Tha ot weatiicr ! Paris-Lyon-Mediterranean _railr {and make a lof of money be: ; European Letter { BY WILLIAM IVY. eve the p called animals means only to feed them money political th orses driven collars. than the nd wilf trial is ning—get overtight cheaig hreast em- busy—loosen that Sdes One | rein and release the i Sour “trom_ Paris to the Riviera | bellyband. = Make your {and up and down the coast as much | SEUON T 5, Py las one liked. One could even installl CARRIE K Snes amily in & comfortable frst-, ARRIE K. {class compartment, at no cost. But| more than that, by examini the | itickets of the other travelers and col- lecting the regulation supplement | o oo ome Siar, {fopin oach one who was Tiding in m| TotheBllterotThediast o oo i 58 !claks higher than he was entitied I deem the resolution o 1 one could ily pick up sev 1 hun- ! Clarence Mcleod ¢ Detroit in Cons jnf thl‘vl‘"uu(:h:xn re o.y}un“; followed | tions a very wise d just resolutian, littie zoid- providing, as it that on every main thoroughfare the word Stop, ia the advice. le bousht {trimmed cap, and had the mystic {no- three-foot 1 painted in white paint. |itials embroid on it. And for 'thia: monthe he had things all his jown wa Nobody knows cxaetly how many free rides he took, nor N0 how much he coliected in the way of Street, zhuppx-meme. And 'hn‘h:dd |:)m of it was “9u!r;:l iy at he might not have been discov- & complete S svatam wh ‘ere:l. even ot, If it had not be , X bive scen thiy system worked i {He -carelessly committed some ather ' It certainly would be of veldable mie {erime that was not quite so safe. He ¥ e, MlcLend's. resolution tlirough with a big majority WILLIAM J. SCHEYER, |tried some clumsier bunco-game on a |fellow townsman and got arrested for 1 —_— ] nima; it will halp MRS HUNTINGTON. Backs Traffic Plan. does, small the cross conveyance to come ta matter all the g0 hat. A search of his home revealed |the telltale cap and & notebook In iwhich some of his voyages were re- | corded. } It is indeed remarkable that more brilliantly in a test jH\;’I conducted By a Pa ewspaper 'he paper sel | bl Gon'e take AAVARCARE OF BUGH | Nin i ek o hoickme StAmOY 80 ealN facilities, T met a man from Buffalo o 100 persons chosen at randofm | a short time ago who told me that he | Zmong twenty different professions. | had been all over Europe and g0t OVer | The gecompanying letter said thab | all sorts of seemingly impassable ob- | ¢, five francs were in payment of [stacles by simply showing & police | gubt which the writer beileved he badge which was given to him hon- | G((ig but was not sute. If there was { oris causo by a police official of his|; mistake, would the recipient be so { home town. This little piece of metal, | kind as to return the money. | enrried with an air of assurance, Bot | X Na 1o half of the reciplents sent it | him into places that were closed to ck right away, saying there was a ordinary tourists, and got nim out of | mistake. In the remaining cases an- | places ‘that were decidedly uncom- oiner letter was Sent, saying that the | fortable for ordinary mortals. Thed, real creditor had been found, and ask- | there are passport visas—why do $0 | ing the return of the five francs. Af- lmnny people ' waste good time and!tor this second letter a few more | money getting. them, when all YOU | gent back the money. But thirtyw need is & rubber stamp and a rather| four out of the oniginal hundred o | illegible handwriting to fill in the | crinately kept the cash, even afthr iblanks? 1 have never secn a Visa|they weré certain that it did not be that the merest novice in fOrEery jong to them. couldn't Imitate in a manner satistac- | “Mombers of parliament were said tory for all intents and purposes. to be the most honest of all th speaks well for the fundamental hon-| {\enty professions, with chimmens esty of the human race that these|sweeps a close second. Tailors aed Gpportunities are not abused. tors, manufacturers and saloon Kecpe * ok % % ers wwere ut the foot of the list, - Jut the general average o But. the.well Known human race's | sont of dlshonesty 18 Nt po vars coms honesty ‘doesn't come off quitc so|forting, alter all v =