Evening Star Newspaper, April 10, 1924, Page 6

6 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY......April 10,,1924 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Com, Business Offce, T1th Si nd Peposy] New York Office: 110 East 42nd St. Chicazo Offce: Tower Buildiag. European Otfice: 16 Regent St., London, England. pany The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning | sdition, s delivercd by catciers within the ity Bt 60 cants Der month: daily only, 45 s per month: Sond centu’ per oath.” Orders may. be 1o tele- vlione ‘Main 5000, - Ce riers at the end of ea Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance, Maryland and Virginia. i1 mo., 0; 1 mo, 30¢ All Otker States. and Sunday.1 yr., §10.00 ; 1 mo., 850 Daily only )0 : 1 mo., 60c Sunday only Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press i exclnsively entitled to the use for republ! ion of all news dis- atches credited to it or not otherwise credited o this paper and slso the local news pub- lished herein. " All rights of publication of speefal dispatches herein are also reserved. e A Second Vindication. The Commissioners have passed the | agreement, if any, the railroads enter | Jast station beforc confirmation and . into and if it is not satisfactory to] are in sight of goal. The delaying ob- structions to reappointment and con- Jirmation have been brushed aside by the Senate committee, following the yrecedent set by the President. The experience of the Commissi ers under fire has been unpleasant, annoying, painful. But since the end {¢ vindication it is well that the dis- tress of accusation and investigation has been endured. Particularly is this ing and of special sig- nificance because the atmosphere in this era of investigations is so sur- charged with scandal and calumny and suspicion that public sentiment tends strongly to believe evil instead of good of every one. At the White House and at the Cap- ftol the accusations or insinuations | @gainst the Commissioners have been <arefully analyzed, and those protests * which raised some real issue of law or fact have been separated for con- sideration from those which in t cxaggeration of trivialties seemed to ‘reflect malice, or revenge, or disap- pointed ambition, ancient grudge. The €apital com this thorough sur «ualifications discloses that luman hum; or ne unity is glad that of the acts and whil cking or 1 liability nistered r during the fidelity, ability and their continuance tinctly in the public interest. th ure < . and with o err, they have ective ding wit und that s dis- fence, term ———— Censorship. It is as med that when t Of education’s censorship order performed effectively its funct sdmonition and warning to the diciously overtalkative emploves, the inaccurate or overzealous repo ®r at whom the present prociama ally aimtd, the board will abruptiy abandon its Eweeping censorship decree. Tt is highly i able in the terest of the schools and of the com- munity that there ¢ho e board A in 0ol news to superintende welfare ' demands the . most harmonious co-operation cen all the newspapers and fthe school authorities re should be no permanent artificial barriers, sug- gesting sugpicion and distrust, to sep- them. Press an unpopular The board ough long upon Su Ballou, unless ha £rudge against him. it ¢ is at least permi &e joyously confident that a tax re- duction argument can be definitely sttled without ealling in the services ot a grand ju ——— y four years the plans for a new party arrive as regularly in the rpring as the election of one of the regular candidates happens in the fu » It is now in order to consider the future of the Attorney General's office, us well as its past. e Railroad Switching Charges. The claim is made in Congress that railroad switching gpharges in Wash- ington are far too high and a bill has been favorably reported from the Tlouse District committce that any railroad company having tracks in the District of Columbia shall have the right to have freight delivered on two squares nmear the junction of Fiorida fivenue and 1st street northeast on payment of a reasonable switching charge. The bill recites that if the parties involved are not able to agree a’: what is a reasonable switching arge the rate shall be prescribed by the Interstate Commerce Commission. @n the report on this bill it is said that the House District committee has made an investigation of switching charges in cities near Washington and “found that the usual charge for switching cars from one raliroad to another within the city limits is nom- inal as compared with the rates in 4vashington.” ~The author of the bill, Representative Zihiman of Mary- land, said in support of the measure That “the freight rates from shipments from one railroad to another within @he District are almost prohibitive.” Of course, “almost prohibitive” is a very strong phrase, but if these switching rates-are too high torrect- ive measures should be taken at once. The questior of switching charges or the charge made by railroad com- panies or terminal companies for transferring cars from the tracks of -one rallrcad to another has been a cause of action in very many places. « There is sometimes disagreement be- “tween railroads as to what Is a rea- “donable charge and they sometimes dgree to a switching charge which ig unreasonable because tho shipper 2nd the-coRswIner pay proposition it has been found most | the public conscience to the necessity satisfactory to the public to have the | of calling & halt to the admitted evil reasonableness of switching charges | of laxily and fallure of observance. in ave. | $3.00; 1 mo, 35¢ | Commissioners | as of freight rates determined by the Interstate Commerce Commission. As a general proposition the raiiroads prefer to make an. ayreement be- tween themselves on matters of this hi~d and it remains for shippers to take tnese : with the Com- mission If, as the auther of the bill and the District cominittee sky, freight switch- ing charges are much too high in Washington, they have no doubt been much too high for many years and it is surprising that .the matter has not been brought up for adjustment Lefore. It sometimes happens that up | ahippers and merchants who pay the freight and all other charges of trans- portation are not keen in having these charges as low as the law requires be- cause they pass the charges on to their customers and to seek readjust- ment of the rates by the Interstate | Commerce Commission involves ex- | pense and uncertainty. If Washing- “wn"x switching charges are unreas- jonable they constitute a serlous | freight discrimination against the {Capital and put the charge on its | population. The matter should be | watched to note what kind of an | people who pay the freight the matter | should be taken before the Interstate Commerce Commission. { It is possible that something. is | brewing in the whole matter of rail- | road freight rates to Washington. The j vashington Newspaper Publishers™ Association filed complaint some time {ago with the Interstate mmerce { Commission that fre | newsprint paper to Washington were (not only discriminatory but unreass onable in the meaning of the law. That case and others involving the | charge of frelght rate discrimination | against Washingtop are pending be- { fore the Commission. | i i Germany at the Cross-Roads. i Germany stands today face to face ;Tfllh her destin must make ;('lmfce betweent th orable way of { fulfiliment of obligations or accept the ‘elrr' consequ: of deliberate de- fa The report of the Dawes com- {.mue. of experts brings to an abrupt ]end the long period of evasion and | misrepresentation. By imposing upon r people @ burden “tolerable and commensurate” she can pay the debt she incurred by the crimes of war. And Germany must p | will crush her utterly. with no one to ed a tear or lift a pot i She ho offices | oss-Teads have reached is found in th omment of leading journals and guarded utterances of high offi- cials. The Dawes findings have been greetsd with no h outbursts protestation as have attended previous demands by cred here is complaint, it is true, at the severity of the terms and maneuvering | for further negotiations, but there is no demand of tonsequence that the s should be rejected. Vorwaerts, one of the inflyential of Ger- man newspaper, declares that rejec tion would be a “catastrophic pi ! of stupidity.” and even Hugo Stinnes' tor, most ! Duetsche Allgemeine 'Zeitung says it | d be any ;uer-; behooves the government to give the report “‘gbjectivg and intensive exami- nation.” Some of the papers still harp upon the idea that the Ruhr must be evacuated as a basis of negotiations, but it is doubtful if any one in Ger- many longer cherishes a delusion that France and Belgium could be brought to agree to such a program. “Can we march into the Ruhr and drive out | then there is only one path to free- dom left and that is indicated in the experts' report. | It is too early to expect an ofilcial | expression from the Berlin govern- | ment, but an interview given by Dr. i i i | i | | | | | Stresemann, the foreign minister, to the London Daily Express may be ac- cepted as indicating the direction of the wind. He referred to the report 48 a “momentous document” and said | he and his colleagues realized that it | was the.product of earnest and im- partial men. After that it would be ! difficult to make a charge of unfair- ness stick. Decidedly, there is hope { that Germany ie beginning to see the light. The Tax Reduction Bill. o It is recognized that ‘the tax. reduction bill which the Senate will eventually pass is likely to be very different in detail from the meas- ure which Chairman Smoot bas brought in. Now comes the time for compromise and amendment of the committee's plan. There are demands from repub- licans, especially the farm bloc, for & substitute schedule for the Mellon rates. The democrats will propose substitute rates, and some of the more radical republicans will offer amend- ments differing ffom the farm bloc rates, the commiftee’s bill and the democratic proposed substitute. The lifé of Senator Smoot, in charge of the bill, promises to be far from a happy one for the next few weeks as he seeks to defend his bill against a tacks from front and rear and flank. But there is comfort to the public in the thought that the country is on the fair way to getting tax reduction. ——— + Geologists say the supply of oil has limits that can be calculated. - This is evidently not the case with the flow of cil money. ———— Attorney General Stome. Harlan ¥. Stone, the new Attorney General of the United States, upon taking office announces the policy ‘which will control his conduct of the high post he holds. He says that in performing his duty to enforce the laws of the United States it will be his purpose to keep the nation “in the straight path of duty under the law. This declaration comes at a time when there is much discussion of obedience to the law. Civic societies, religious bodies and the public in gen- eral are aroused over the subject of observance of the law, and there ta b2 8 SCOCRL ABRKEOING or the allfes | editorial | of i nations. ! i Attorney General Stone alsp prom- ises to keep the Department of Jus- tice upon a stal of the highest efliciency “which will make the Con- stitution and laws of the Unrited States the shield of innocence, but |the swift avenger of guilt.” That ! sounds goed. Ths Department of Jus- tice has never lacked the respect and confidence of the people, who feel that it is their protection and the execu- tive arm of the Constitution., The Attorney General's announce- ment breathes the spirit Gf determina- tion to administer justice inflexibly, but without hint of persecution of legitinmts business or law observers. ————— April! There seems to be a cloud upon the brow of April. She is not the merry, smiling maid of other years. When this fair damsel of the spring would come to town in days that are no more the trees would burst in leaf as though to give applause. Fruit trees would fling out symbols of their joy, dandelions would splash the lawns with gold, robins would sing their welcome and Rana catesbiana, whom most men and all boys call the bull frog, would, with his sisters, wives and aunts, shout a symphony from swamps. But in this spring fair April is not herself. She came with blasts of wind, snow and thunder. In her face was wrath that rivaled March. In- stead of joyous showers, quick-foi- lowed by the sun, she gives us dour days of rain, Instead of filling the sky, the town, the fields with merri- ment, she covers them with gloom. Some wayward peach und pear trees have feebly garlanded themselves in pink and white, but the great family of trees that bloom are waiting for April to cheer up and bid them don their flowery gowns. We, too, are i waiting, April, for thy mood to change jfrom gray and cloudy melancholy to | sweet grace! | S S 1f there s any law of averuge |plying to climate, the rainridden {farmer may as well prepars himself !for a future breakage of the drought | record. Rellef for the culturist icannot be made certa owing to the fact that the scienti operations of %!he weather department are agr heyd | the Ger stored chopper he now resembles a man who sits on a fence and whittles, whi walting for luck to come his way. S S— e i wood- The arrangements of the republ party do not contemplate prolongi the exercises at Cleveland next sum- {mer. Only the hotel managers will worry over the program of neatness |ana aispatch. ——— During his lifetime Lenin took care |to have enough statues of himself reared in Russia to compensate for any lack of memorial trees in other { countries. | Mexico has a discontented element that sees no way of getting on any pay roll except by organizing a revo- lution and collecting from the govern- Both friends and enemies are likely to suspect that Hiram Johnson is as good a candidate without a financial | backer as with one. Forecasters are confident, as usual, that the presidential race will not close the French?" Vorwaerts asks. “If not, | without an interesting display of dark horsemanship. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDKE JOHNSON Truth and Poetry. April showers! April flowers! Sunny skies and biossoming bowers: What's become of everything ‘That the poets used to sing? April raining! Skies restraining! Sunshine from a world complaining: Now a freeze and then a flood And a-landscape filled with mud! | April folly, Once 8o jolly, Settles down to melancholy. As our hopes we vainly nurse Going on from bad to worse. April tattered And bespattered, Leaving fond ideals shattered’ All in vain the singer tries ‘To brace up and harmonize! Confusion. “A great many indictmeni= are be- | 8. ing called for.” . “Yes,” answered Senator Sorghum. “I'm getting confused. While com- posing & speech, instead of referring to ‘the Grand Old Party’ I began to talk about ‘the Grand Old Jury.'”™ Jud Tunkins says the only soil tillers who seem to be confident and heppy are the golf course agriculturists. A Step Farther. Be kind to animals! The wise and strong To weaker creatures never should do wrong. . ‘We will be kind to animals and then Be kinder to our faltering fellow men. Sentiment in the Guich. *What became of that bull fighter who advertised an exhibition?” “The sheriff got him,” answered Cactus Joe. “His careless manager booked him into the town during our ‘Be Kind to Animals’ week.” ‘Wild Waves. “'What has become of that old song about ‘A Life on the Ocean Wave? " “Rum runnin’ has killed it,” an- swered Uncle Bill Bottletop. “As fur as you can see off shore the ocean ‘wave is nothin’ but a crime wave.” “You ain’ gineter have much trou- ble wif old Satan,” sid Uncle, Eben, “if you keeps tendin' to.business as L2 T S p—" re- | 4 | { | i 1 | present capacity of the canal. | thin paste: Answers to Questions BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. Which is colder, the north pole or the south pole?—G. M. T. A. The south pole is colder, than the north pole, due to the very con- siderable elevation about sea level at this point, The north pole is com- paratively fiear sea level. Q. What do “R. A.” or “R. A. F. fean after the name of painter? A. “R. A" when connected with an artist means “Royal Academy,” and “F. A. R." means “Fellow of the Royal Academy.” Q. Why do they want the Panama canal widened?—D, McG. A. Widening of the Paname canal would greatly increase its capacity. The members of the congressional party with Secretary Denby found that extra locks would double the Tests have shown that 4 new dam® was neaded to furnish sufficlent water supply at Culebra cut. Q. Is more money spent for cigarettes than for cigars in t(he United States?—J. S. 8. A. The latest figures give the amount of money spent for cigar- ottes in this country in a single year as $800,000,000, while cigars totaled $510,000,000. Q. Please publish formula for government whitewash.—G. W. M. A. Slake & half hushel of unslaked lime with boiling water, keeping 1% covered during the process. Strain 4t and add a peck of salt, dlssolved in warm water; three pounds ground rice put in boiling water, and boil to haif & pound of powdered Spanish whiting and a pound of clear Kluo dissolved In warm water; 11 together and let the mix- nd for several duys. Keop the wash thus prepared in & Kkettle or portable furnace; and when used put it on as possidle, Painter's o ash brushes Q.. Was the money, loaned to Amer- ica by France during the revolution ever repaid?—J. W. V The United States Treasu that of the total amount of 36, 5.500 borrowed from France In the revolutionary perfod, the sum of $i.- 327,600 was repaid by 1795 and the halance or $2,024,900, was refunded per cent_and b3 per ecent | domestic stock. When it bhcame known that Lafayette's fortune wa | largely depleted by the French revo- i lution’ Congress appropriated money | for his relief and gave him lands in ap-| Florida. Q. What is the highest west of the Mississipp McE The highest building in the ed States west of the Miesissip P the forty-two-story L. C. Smith building, {n Seattie, Wash Q. Whera of th P. H The Lormer, Kaiser of Germany i1l residing 4 Dooyn, in Holland. crown prince recently returned ermany and Is making his home t his castle at Oels, in Silesia. Vi toria Louise, the ony daughter of o former kaiser. with her family joined the r vlony at Mun- are also re- building the various mem- former kaiser's family? differ with" A Whether one.says “differ with"” or “differ from” depends upon what the speaker wishes to convey. For { example, {f two persons hav agreement one says to the other. “T differ with you." "If physical differ- ences are referred to. one savs, “She differs from her sister in that she has brown eves and black hair” Please tell the burlal place of | ott Key, the writer of “The Spangled Banner."—M. E. T. mix WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS Y N ——_— BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE Politiclans expect that Hirary John- son's presidential fortunes, already sadly battered, will be definitely de- termined by the primary results in his own state on May 6. If California rejects him, as North Dakota, Michi- gan, Illinois and Nebraska in turn have done, it is considered the height of unlikelthood that Jahnson will court humiliation at Cleveland. “Cali- fornia will give Coolidge- a terrific majority.” writes a Los Angeles edi- tor to this observer. Hiram's misfor- tunes in the east, it is predicted, will Prove contaglous on the coast. John- son has confounded the prophecies of his foes_on more than one occasfon. in his many-campaigns—for governar in 1910 and 1914, for Vice President in 1912, for United States senator in 1916 and 1922 and for the republican presidential nomination in 1920 Hiram piled up impsessive majorities. This time he faces entirely new con- ditions. He is del rately trying to pull down a republfean President of the United States. Unless Californians —especially southern Californians— are mightily mistaken, Johnson for the first time will drain the dregs of defeat in the land of his nativity. * ¥ * * Serators in discussion of Wheeler's indictment in Montana fecall that it was anothter western senator of the United States, the late John H. Mitch- ell of Oregon, who was indicted un- der the same statute of the criminal code as that invoked in Wheeler's case. Mitchell's offense was not un- like that alleged against the junior senator from Monta Mitchell was in the Senate from 1873 to 1879, and {for a second term lasting from 1901 to {1905, He was publicly accused of. and eventually indicted for, accepting a fee of §2,000 for using his influence with the commissioner of the general land office at Washington to secure the patenting of twelve homestead entries. On January 17, 1905, Mitchell made a long speech in the Senate In explanation of the charged leveled against him. In December of the same year, while still a member of the Senate and before his trial was completed, Mitchell died. %% Freeman, Bishop ‘of Waghing- expects to confer shortly with iliam Jennings Bryan, Signor Mar- Lee De Forest and other author- ities with regard to & grandiose scheme for broadcasting talks. The project is nation-wide in Laymen as well as ministers of the gospe! are embraced in it. contemplates a series of reguiar radio sermons by e ent men of many de- nominations. to be relayed across the continent from the National Cathe. dral at Washington. Dr. Freeman, who has become an enthusiastic and jpopular broadcaster, sees vast possi- ( bilfties In the realization of his plans. {He beileves they contain tire seeds out of which spiritual u ¥ may one day ‘tnruu( Dr. Freeman's Sunday half- jhour talks before the microphone at )Ah- Natjonal Cathedral are reproduced through “loud speakers”’ in |churehies near Washington and filling {ghem with the biggest congregations {Yhey've ever held | *x % | There's a shrinking literary violet in the California deiegation in Con- |Stone Selection Francis Scott Key is buried in’ the village cemetery Md. Q. What iz the function of the Women's Bureau’—B. K. A. The women's bureau of the De- partment of Labor is charged with the responsibility of developing pol- fcies und standards and conducting investigations in the industries of the country which shall safeguard the inter®sts of woman workers and thus make their service effective for the national good. It represents and ad- vises the Secretary of Labor in all matters concerning women in in- dustry, and is charged with maintain- ing close contact with other agencies which deal with special phases of the problem, including other divi- sions of the Department of Labor. It works with and through the state departments of labor. Q. How old was Maud S. when she made ‘the world's trotting rocora™— A. Maud S. was sleven years old when she made a world's scord of Frederick, | two minutes, eight and thres-quarter seconds. This record was made be. fors the time of the kite-shaped track, banked and rolled, and before the rubber-tired wheel sulky, both of wl&ich helfied to reduce the mile rec- or Q. How did the English acquire the Rock of Gibraltar?—F. F. F. A. The Rack of Gibraltar was cap- tured by combined Dutch and English forces July 24, 1704, and ceded to Great Britain ' by the treaty of Utrecht in 1713. Spain set out to re. capture it in 1779, and a siege lasting three years, seven months, twelve days followed. The British withstood the seige successfully and the peace of 1783 secured the Rock to Great Britain. Q. What is bob veal?—A. G. T. A. Bob veal is the flesh of a calf less than one month old. It is very indigestible and its sale is illegal. Q. Ware thg continents of Enrope and Asia named for women in myth- ology?—] L A. The continents of Europes and Asia were not named after women. The word “Asfa” is derived from the Semitic stem “acu,” meaning “to go out” used in connection with the rising of the sun. “Europe” is de- rived from the Semitic “ereb,” mean- ing darkness. Q. Did Robert E. Lee and Ulysses. Grant attend West Point at the same time?—A. V. A. These generals were not in school together. Robert E. Lee was graduated from West Point in 1829 and Ulysses S. Grant in 1843. N. Q. Is there any way to make la g“sh which has become rnncid?—g A To renovate lard that has be- come rancid, it should be rendered over again, placing pieces of raw potato in the vessel, which will tend to absorb the rancid taste (Readers of The Evening Btar showld sond their questioms to The Star Tu: Jormation Bureaw, J. Haskin, Director, 1220 North Capitol street. The only charge for this service is 2 cents én stamps for retwrn postage.) In a Few Words Judging from the size of the brains of the Cro-Magnon cavemen, I have every reagon to believe they could enter any branch of the intellectual lite of Columbia Unlversity and com- pete on equal, if not superior, tarms whl!h any of the 30,000 students ere. -LDR. HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN, I believe there is no natural en- dowment that a man at birth to a life of crime. It depends on how, in infancy and youth, his propensities are molded by the ircumstances of his life. —DR. GEORGE W. KIRCHWEY. Borne down under the weight of taxes, the German people are unin- telligently turning to the old regime. I believé that they will find no balm in that Gifead, but for the re- crudescence of the royalist spirit France and French financlers : are alone to blen BUSSELL. Tixcept for a slight disappointment expressed by editors of the middle west the appointment of Harlan F. Stone, former dean of Columbia Law School, as Attorney General of the United States is met with widespread satisfaction. All agree, however, that no political considerations deter- jmined the choice and that Mr. Stone is a man of exceptional ability and | particularly well fitted for this office. Editors believe furthermore that Mr. Stone will have the fullest public confidence. “Decidedly reassuring” is the way the Brooklyn Eagle and Scranton Re- publican view the appointment. The New York Times declares “in char- acter, in legal attainments, in the approval of his brethren of the bar, in physical vigor and ability to cope | with the severe labor which will be {laid upen him in the Department of | Justice, Mr. Stone is unusually well qualified” Hoe ought to know his business both in theory and practice, according to. the Baltimore Sun, which feels “he is personally and po- litically an absolutely different type of man from his predecessor.” The Boston Transcript declares “he comes to the President's cabinet W!th clean hands as well as a clean mind. His 1 influence will permreate the whole de- | partment.” 1 * It his record is any indication, the Indianapolis News believes he will go about his task with no thought of political effect, but only with a wish i to provide efficient service to the gov- { ernment and the country.” The Spring- {field Republican maintains “no com- plaints will be heard that President Coolidge has named some one who is more a politician that a lawyer.” The El Paso Herald claims “he has-all the qualifications cne could ask of an At torney General—in fact, he loo: arger tham his position.” The New ark News holds, furthermore, “if Fithin the eleven months of assured incumbency he succeeds in bringing comparative order out of what now Scems chaos he will be doing mucl |The Louisville Courier-Journal is con- fident “the country has no reason to doubt that under his administration the Department of Justice will regain and maintain the prestige it deserves £5 hold In the enlightened judgment of the country.” The gist of the opinion of the Min- neapolis Tribune, the Topeka Capital, The St. Joseph News-Press, the Sioux City Journal and the St. Paul Ploneer Press may be summed up in the words of the Duluth Herald when it says “there is no use disguising the faot that the middle west was keenly interested in the association of Judse Kenyon's name with the position, and that it would have greatly strength- ened the President in this_section if he had been appointed.” Eut in re- gard to Mr. Stone, there can be no Foubt the President has found two Very important things—“first, an At- torney General that he could trust and that he could expect the people fo trust; second, an exceptionally good lawyer.” B0t rana Taplds Herald “is not that this distinguished New York lawyer- tducator has been selected, but rather that some great outstanding figure—like Borah or Kenyon or Beck iready favorably knowr to all America, has not been the nominee. The Milwaukee Journal agrees that Mr. Stone “is not known to the coun- 2ry, but it he has a vigorous sense of What is due the country he can over- come that, and it is very important that he should” The Lincoln Star points out that “his record commends Rim as a lawyer of sterling integrity and splendid attainments, and he will Bring to the Department of Justice the confidence and faith of the peo- ple." To which the Lansing State Journal adds, “Politicians and the peo- Ple havo too long thought that only Politicians who have ruled may be in- Prusted with ptiblic duties, when as matter of fact the better Service may be provided by those without such ex- vt Xhe RElng a3 * religious | several | grese. His name is James Henry Mac- Lafferty of San Diego and he is a poet . of acknowledged distinction, though his occupatipn is the prosaic one of an automobile insurance man. MacLafferty is 'serving his. second term in the House. He has written three or four volumes of, verse main- ly devoted to glorification” of the golden west. They were pronounced by the late Joaquin Miller to be meri- torious in the highest degree. Mac- Lafferty began life as u commercial traveler and latterly has been active in fraternal work He s fifty-three years old and the son of a Baptist preacher. TR Gen. Lord, director of the budget, not only preaches economy, but prac- tices It. He scorns the handy little memorandum blocks turned out by the government printing office for every department, division and bu- reau of the government and uses In- stead the wasle puper that accumu- ates on his own desk. Letters not needed for the files are torn up and used for scratch pads. Lead pencils are never thrown away till they Are whittled to the last inch. One of Gen. Lord's minor accomplishments is his memory for figures, no matter how long. He can teil you, off the reel that the annual budget for 192 before Congress, totals $1.645, 97106 and is exactly $318,410,916. less than the amount of the pr liminary estimates. To the precise penny, Lord knows by leart every major’ figure in the budget sinoe it wus established three years ago * k% % Barbara Frictehie up to date, as she was rendered on a place card at a re- cent Washington luncheon-party, where a certain Chinese malady, now epldemic in America, was the piece de resistance: “Who touches a hair on yon bobbed head like said! Dies a dog—mah-jong, she ey At Tokio there's a sentimental ef- fort afoot to circumvent the “scrap- ping"” provisions of the Washington naval treaty. Among the baftleships which Japan must dismantle is the veteran Mikass, Admiral Togo's flag- ship when he defeated the Russian fleot in the battie of Japan sea. Ee | cause of the patriotic memories at | tached to the Mikasa, it i desired to preserve her from complete destruc- tion. To that end it has been pro | posed that she be kept afloat like an- | other “Ironsides” and, denuded of her obsolete fighting equipment, serve henceforward as headquarters for the American-Japan Society. The Tokio |navy department frowns upon the scheme, fearing it may look like an attempi (o save a ship pledged to scrap. ¥ % ¥ % The “Thirteen CIub” of Bosto Mass., has conferred honorary me bership upon Curtis D, Wilbur, Presi- dent Coolidge’s new Secretary of the Navy. Only people whose given name, middie initial and surname total thir- teen letters are eligible to Boston's anti-superstitious organization. (Copyright, 1924 ) Japan is Approved Generally by Press of U.-S. gests that “lack of political motive in the choice of Mr. Stone may prove the best polities in the end.” * x * % The North Window BY LEILA MECHLIN The scornful reference to Roose- Yelt's honesty on the part of a wit ne.s appearing at one of the Senate investigating committees not long ugo gave the contributing editor of The Outlook opportunity to call at- tention again, not meérely to the in- tegrity but the ideals of this great American. In the course of his article Mr. Jawrence Abbott quotes a state- ment made by Col. Rooseveit to the offcct that one might be as g0od as one pleased if at all times ready to fight for it. I'ndoubtedly this is precisely what Royal Corlissoz means in hig essay on “Theodore Roosevelt and_ the Fine Arts,” published in his delightful newest book on American &rtists, vhen he says that “it was Roosevelt's way with the fine arts to range him- self on the side of the angels and then to fight with all his strength for the realization of their aim And then Mr. Cortissoz makes this statement: “Save for Jefferson, we have had no other President so ciear- ly committed to ideals of good taste in the sphere of public architectural design.” And to prove his conten- | tlon the critic points to numerou i notable accomplishments—the re- i modeling of the White House; the acceptance of the Freer collection | when offered and on the verge of re | Jection; mmission along the lines of that now In e stence, though not the ame; the sion of the coinage of the United States, through the co operation of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, €0 that It" was brought within the flold of the fine arts: his advocacy of the park commission plan, £o often threatened. But among all these he s | put the eemodeling of the Whi first. “The work done at the | House,” he says, “was McKim's it is important fo remember that in { the dofng of it he could count upon | Rooveselt "as upon a tower of strength 'mpathising with his high atms, giving every' possible aid their fulfillment remodeling had been mooted vears before. The idea was not invented Rooseevlt. But it was nothing less than a godsend to the American peo- ple that when the decisive step was taken he was there to influence its direction.” How many times in ms t e Hous White think of it as a work of art, a work for which oné should feel hot only veneration but gratitude? To explain quite fully what the great architect, Charles McKim, did, ir. Cortissoz quotes Mr. Hoot's words spoken at the McKim memorial meeting, as follows: “McKim, with ihis roverent spirit, his self-restrai I sought in the history of the White House and the history of the time from which it came the spirit in | which he was to work. Time and | time again he has come to me and | talked about what he had found at Monticello, what he had found here d there all over the country in the uy of rgmaining buildings that ex- pressed the spirit of the time of Washington and of Jefferson. He sought for the foundations of the old st wing, which was destroyed, suppose, and never rebuilt after the i fire of 1514: at all events, it had long | disappearad, and he put back the { White House as nearly as possible las it was originall xcept that he took out all the poor material and put in the best material; he took out {all of the gingerbread confectioner's work that had been put in in the course of vears and repluced it b simple and dignified wor i he left us the White House. a perfec example of an American @entleman home on the banks of the Potomac. * k% % | How little we realize the part { public men Mave taken in the fo ing and the support of tha our public men of today late yesterday, as well a: past. The tendency is deery our knowledge of such amd to cling with a cert vainglory to our cruditi Yet it is true, as 3 points out in his chapt {York As an Art Center.” our or- r thinzs the appointment of an art | But | to | The project for the | passing the White House does one | I vants of the U “Of recognized ability, unhampered | the facts are known, America has The disappointment of | by political debts and with & courage that knows no defeat, Mr. Stone should do a fine fob of housecleaning ir the Department of Justice! as- serts the Little Rock Arkansas Demo- crat. says, “Stone has his chance and the position of Attorney General. The Springfield News assumes that “he is a man with iron nerve, else he would have no liking for a mess which is his to handle—men are he- roic who step into such a job.” Alban$ News mentions further that “Mr. Stone accepts the office at a large financial sacrifice and the pub- lic will bo generally pleased by his appointment.” The Albany Knicke bocker Press characterizes Mr. Stone 'not only a lawyer of outstanding ability, but a scholar and courageous idealist.” The Philadelphia Bulletin is convinced “the President has found & man who answers all the require- ments, who has a satisfying record and I8 not lacking in hearty indorse- ment.” The Cincinnati Times-Star thinks the appointment is not a showy one, but admits “it will probably impress the people as a very reasonabje and satisfactory choice, particularly un- der the conditions now existing in Washington.” notes that it will give to the admin- istration even a more decidedly anti- progressive caste than it has hitherto had, because “Mr. Stone types the ultra-conservative school of the re- publican party.” But the Hartford Times imagines that “the ultimate verdict swill be that President Cool- | idge has chosen well.” tady Gazette insists “it will be a small man and a small cause that will quarrel with the President over the man he has selected.” The Buffalo News concludes “his appointment re- establishes public confidence in one of the most important departments of the government.” Two Kinds of Peace Available for Nation There are two kinds of peace ad- vocates in this country—those who desire a peace of preparedness and those who demand a peace of unpre- paredness. , In the latter category are found the persons who propose to abolish war by disarming their own The Schenec- nation physically and morally. Many : of them are sincere, but most of them are dupes of clever propagandists serving foreign paymasters. These idhcllflfll of subtle men and women who work urnder carefuily prepared secret orders, having become more fascinated by an idea, scem to have abandoned their rezsoning faculties when they pinned their faith upon a supposedly magic formula. “We will neither arm nor fight if iwar comes,” many of them say. That IIB 2 direct invitation for war to come from any quarter. It is a notification {to the world that so far as these par- | ticular Americans are concerned the |nation is waiting to be plucked. American principles have been some- what highly regarded by the world at large as well as by certain Amer- icans of some renown—Washington and Franklin, Lincoln and Roosevelt, for example. But some pacl s of the present-day type do not deem them worth fighting for or-even worth supporting against destructive. prop- aganda. The insidious poison at work in this country has been implanted by master hands at the business of destroying demiocracy. It should be recognized for what it is. The many od peo- ple who are migled, or half misled, by those who administer this poison should recapture their reasoning pow. ers and so shake off the influence of the . poisoners—Chicago Dally country will pray that he improve the | The | The Lynchburg News | { always striven for the best. He puts it: “America ha? a passion for learn- | ing. Tt will examine into any new | thing. But artistically America has {had a wonderful instinct for main- { taining a high standard in art.”" And { he adds, “We have too poor an opin- that sober truth.” | | For tnstance, there is a chapter, an delight | ; THE EVENING STAR, “WASHINGTON. D. @, THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1924. \COMBINE 1S DENIED . BY RADIO CONCERNS Six of Eight Companies Accused Dispute Validity of Trade Commission Complaimts. {SAY U. s. BACKS PACTS Admit Certain Agreements in De- veloping Industry. There is no combine in the radio business which is detrimental to the { public interest or in violation of laws ito the extent that the Federal Trade Commission has the jurisdiction which it alleges in its complaint against eight companies dealing in radio equipment manufacturing and selling. This is set out in answers to the complaint, #ix. of which were filea today with the commission The respondents named in the com- plaint were the Gegeral Electric Company, Westinghousé Electric and | Manufacturing Company, the Inter | national Radio Telegraph Company | United Fruit Company, Wireless Spe cialty Apparatus Company and Radic | Corporation of America, which filed | their answers early today, and the |American Telephone and Telegrapt {Company and the Western Electrt Company, Inc., which are to be heard | from before the close of busin | day. mit Certain Agreements. denying the existence combination against the public in- jterest, several of the responder: |nevertheless admit certain agreement: between them separately and sever- ally. However, both the Radio Cor- iporation of America and the Genera |Eleetric Company, in substantially the same language, say th: the de- velopment of radio communication under the agreements named in the {complaint, and admitted except as tr specific terms, was brought about through the sanction and at the i stance of officials of the United S ays the Radi 2 {America in its®ans ‘Respondent ulleges jcreated in order to carry out the ex | pressed desires and wishes nd a i the instigation of officials. officers and iservants of the United State: tha |respondent . wus created {with a ice of makin vide cation system of radio in which the most {mportant) in the comp ‘l,‘niled States of America and American citizens; that certain of the | acts and arrangements (and those ti i{most important) in the complaint {complained of were taken under su | pervision of offic s, officers and . Ji ed States; that |acts and arrangements which are ithe complaint complained of have been in the public interest and to th public benefit, and have been entirely | reasonable and have greatly contrib- uted to the rapid growth of the art { of radio {” Through them and because | respondent (the Radio Corpora {America) the m rn_art of | cominunication now exists, | Have Iaterlocking Personals. | There are admissions in severa! | the answers that the directors of corporation were officials in the ot | While admitting certain agreemen {between the sfveral corporations | While it w and mmun!- th r = € | several letters mentioned in the o almost tor jinal complaint, the answers |as a whole say that the te |tioned in the complaint are vague {and indefinite to permit them to make 1. They, how- [ lever, ask to be permitted to present | the originals for proof All object to the complaint on the Iground that it does not state facis !sufficient to constitute a violatio the federal trade act, and that 00 indefinite and uncertain to informn | the respondents of the nature of the icharges. All request the dismissal At any rate, the Wichita Eagle | ion of ourselevs if we fail to rewlize|af tha complaint on the ground that * ¥ * ¥ | But to return to Washington., There ‘ is in this book of Mr Cortissoz’ much that is of special interest to us here. | d | an extremely interesting one, on the | Freer Gallery; a chapter which does | not attempt to be descriptive, but | which gives us the spirit of the gif and points to the enjoyment to be: had from it. He speaks, top, sym- pathetically of the joy Mr. Freer got out of his collecting. He tells us| how hard he studied in order to know what to get; of his tiresome jour- ne; of hi; any disappointments: | of how, all the time he had in his | mind the erection of a home for his treasures which would enshrine i them “for the benefit of every Amer- ican and European inquirer, a true| fountain of knowledge and for posteri And then he asks, | “Could any piling up of money in the ordinary paths of industry or com- merce yield a sensation half as thrill- | ing as that which this devotec of | beauty sought—and found? x ¥ g It is this element of beauty which | evidently draws Royal Cortissoz to! art and which he makes a necessity of art expression. It is this element which he stresses in his chapter on | “The American Academy in Rome, which, as many know, chartered | by Congress and has an office here in the Octagon. The work of the men who have held fellowships in the American Academy in Rome and re- turned to work in this country has more than ‘proved that the founders | were right, that the institution was | | &, valuable one for America and that Charles McKim and those others who | {had to with its founding did not| dream dreams that could not come true. They, as Mr. Cortissoz tells us, ! protested that Rome never could mean a_system of teaching, that it meant inspiration, beauty and that “study there was indispensable to the imagination, a divine adventure | which brought an artist closer to | the secTet of art” ‘The artist who | goes to Rome,” he says, “may take | some littlenessesywith him, but onc there they will.fall from him. You cannot be common or vulgar in Rome. It is unthinkable. You acquire there | {—if it is born in you to acquire such things—a broader horizon, a nobler outlook, a higher ambition” and, to prove his point, he continues with an | | instance: “Think of John Russell! Pope, who built the superb Scottish Rite Temple in Washington. Did not his Roman studies help him to make that masterpiece?” * X ¥ ¥ Another academy-in-Rome man is not only mentioncd but given an en- tire chapter. He is Puul Manship, and the “Dancer and Gazelles, owned' by the Corcofan Gallery of Art, is reprojuced as an example of his best work. There are chapters also. on Frank Millet, one time .secretary of the American Academy in Rome, and first secretary, as well as an organizer of the American Federation of Arts. There is also a charming little essay on Louis Saint-Gaudens, the sculptor of the statues on the Union station, in this city, an artist, Mr Cortissoz says, “with a streak of inspiration in him, but because he would not speak out the world passed him by “It is sorrowful,” he says, “to think that ‘Augustus’ Saint-Gaudens could not have seen the statues for Washing- ton. He would have been the first to acclaim their merit, always cager, as he was, to acknowledge his brother's power and to crave for him the rank that he deserved. Another engaging chapter is on the work of Thomas W.Dewing, the naEites the commission has no jurisdiction. The United Fruit Company de: that the Wireless Specialty Apparatus Company is a subsidiary. It savs that 1t 4id have an agreement with this com pany which permitted it to get wire- less sets, and that in 1917 it ga such financial support to the company as to enable it to me war contracts. and thus acquired controlling interest When 1 Radio Cerporation of | formed it sold one-hait ¥ the General Electric Company 1921 it has not held a controllin terest in this company. Says Wireless In Incidental This company goes into the de of its fruit business, and says thai the wireless is merely incidental, as there is not ernough business in the Caribbean to warrant another o pany. It saye that about March 1921, it acquired 200,600 shares preferred stock and 200,800 shares of common stock in the Radic Corpora- tion of America, paying $1.000,000 for it, and that on December 31, 1822, it owned 200,000 shares of preferred and 160,000 shares of common stock of the Radio Corporation of Amsrica. It admits that George S. Davis, gen- eral manager of the radio depariment of its company, is a member of the m- 1, of {board of directors of the Radlo poration of America. {Canada Asks Repayment Of Rum-Pact Courtesy Approval by the Canadian parlia- ment of the treaty governing the e forts of this country to deal with rum- running outside .of the three-mile limit has been granted upon the grounds of morality and interna- tional good will, but a yoice has been ralsed to suggest that if the people of the British commonwealth are to sct upon motives of that kind they are warranted in asking a little reciproc- ity. Specifically the complaint is that this country interferes with Canadian affairs unduly when it refuscs to pere mit the shipment of liguor across American territory {rom Skagway to the Yukon. When people on this side of the border consider how the great prolongation of Algska southwand cuts off Cahadian tertitory from the sea, this complaint seems reasonable. and it is all the more reasonable when one remembers how Skaxwav stands at the head of a navigable bay that reaches across American territory al- most to the Canadian line. Surely If this government could find a way to permit British vessels to bring stocks of liquor under seal into American harbors, it can give far-western Can- ada a little leeway on the narrow strip of land that separates the sea at Skagway from Canadian _territory just beyond.—Detroit Free Press. ———— e Freer Gallery, which owns no less than twenty-seven of his oil paint- ings, eleven of his pastels, and three of his silver points, and there they are to stay forever, “a fine feather for a living artist to wear in his cap.” But, best of all, perhaps, is the in- troductory essay, “The Gritic's Potat of View,” which' begins with an ef- position of beauty and ends with & denunciation of those ~who either through deliberate maliciousness or mental confusion, offer to the world an art which, to put jt most kind] and wory faisa.