Evening Star Newspaper, April 12, 1924, Page 6

6 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Ed:tion. WASHINGTON, D. C. BATURDAY.......April 12, 1924 - WHEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor ¥he Evening Star Newspaper Company w York Office 2 jeago Of-e: Tower Muilding. Beropesn Office: 16 Regent St., Loudon, England. ‘he Evening Star, with the Sunda, adition, s delivered by ca eity ai 60 cents €20t per month: onth, morning cents’ per il or tele. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryfand and Virginia. Daily and Sund ¥, $8.40; 1 m Daily oni Sunday All Otker States. sunday.1 yr., $10.00 ; 1 mo., 85¢ $7.00: 1 mo., Bc $3.00; 1 mo., sively entitled e use for republication of il news dis: atches crdited fo it or not othersise credited o this paper and alw the local news pub shed herein, Al rights « pec - President Coolidge’s Stand. It was inevitable Coolidge should take a stand against congressional encroachment upon the executive branch of gove nent. Had he failed to do so the presidency would bave been on the way to utter dis- credit in the eyes of the Ame pie; and Mr. Coclidge would have stood convicted of supineness and incapa 3 for the high office he upies. 1In ress has heen prompt 1t executive encroachment upon legislative functions, and it was right in doing so. The country ap- piauded determination of the law- makers to resist coercion. The country will equa applaud the President when he for the rights and dignities ccutive ‘There a vague feeling among the people that the Senate mania for investigation has gone far Beyond the hounds of usefulness and reason. There has been about it too much of an atmosphera of political sceking and personal vindictiveness They have felt that it was time to call a halt, but have realized that any one in authority who protested would be accused of secking to cover up cor- ruption. - So the public mind is pre- pared for the be brought against President Coolidge, and therefore his accusers are fore- stalled. The American people do not believe, and cannot be made to believe, that the public service generally corrupt. There are few Americans fatuous enough to think at Presi. is t dent Coolidge has any sympathy for | corruptionists. Political ~opponents ‘who try to plant such thoughts in the public mind will overreach themselves, and their insincerity will react upon them. The specific point upon which the President calls a Senate committee to account is the employment of privately paid counsel to conduct the inquiry into the operations of the internal revenue bureau, which serves to make it a non- official investigation in official camou- flage. Here the President stands upon secure and unimpeachable ground. But the country will recognize that the issue poes much beyond the illegal employment of counsel. Secre- tary Mellon put his finger on the crux of the problen: when he wrote the | President that if there was to be con- tinuance of unnecessary congressional interference with executive furnctions neither he “nor any other man of character can longer take responsi- bility for the Treasury.” And what is true of the Treasury is true of all the ————to———— Summer Military Training. The Army i¢ making re to re- Ceive young men in the citizens' mil tary training camps, and invitations are already out. Camp Meade will be the training field for young citizen sol- diers of the District, and the time will be midsummer—July. It is the season when one’s thoughts turn to vacation, and when most persons rest from rou- tine work to play or otherwise engage themselves. The Army offers 1o capa- ble young men a stirrin tion with free board and lodging. The beard it | calls “mess” or ‘rations,” and the lodging may be in barrack, a pyra- midal or a pup tent. One sleeps most comfortably on an Army cot with an &l wool quartermaster blanket wrap ped about him. A man generally sleeps so well that first call sounds 100 soon. The bugler is an early bird. blication of | an peo- | cusations which will | cordance with- the Tyler plan, and authorizes the Federal Water Power | Commission to make modifications in | the plan that In its judgment will in- crease the electric power. It is esti- mated that this project will cost $4h. 000,000, require ten years to complete and that 120,000 primary horsepower and about twice that of secondary horsepower will he developed. It would [ be one of the large national projects fundertaken in the interest of the Na- | tional Capital and one of the large power projects of Americas 1t would be undertaken by the government in the interest of the seat of government, at Washington the government is : of the greatest users of electrleity, present coal-power plants | would be superseded by electric-power, plants. Scnator Norris said to the Senate: | 1t is estimated that with the expendi- { ture of this amount of money it will be { pos: to cut the wholesale price of clectricity in two. Note, [ say the who'e- ce. It does not follow that the to the consumer will be cut in two, | hecause it has nothing to do with the distributing system. It wou'd cut the price for use by street cars practically in two, but the electricity used in a of course, has added to it the dis- huting cost, which this does not in- fere with. Tt means that the whole g, pri tricity will be cut in vo; and at that price they would be a sinking fund to pay the_entire iture in_ thirty sears, pay 4 per cent on the investment during that time and keep the entire plant in first-class repair. In addition to that it will save the District of Coumbia 240,000 tons of coal a y . Those are the statemets made by the expert who has made the investigation. to | 1t is gratifying that this highly fm- i portant measure has had the sanction of the Senate. Development of elec- tric power from the Potomac has been inder dis in Waskington ever 2 engineers found the way to nute ater power into electri power. Surveys have been made at he instance of private capital, and | the matter got into Congress a quar- |ter of a century ago. Twenty years ago Congress appropriated money for | the survey of the river, with the aim, | possibly, of forestalling private enter- {prise and building a government ussior | power plant. The War Department de- ! tailed Col. Langfitt to make the eur- | and the Senate passed a bill to carry out the Langfitt plan, but that | bill died In the House. After a lapse {of time the Senate passed the same bill again, and a bill of different terms was passed by the House, and in con- ference it was decided, as so much time had passed since the Langfitt { survey and report, that there should be another survey. The conferees’ re- | port was adopted by Congress, and a | bill passed authorizing the Secretary {of War to make a resurvey | Tyler was assigned to that duty the Senate was told by Senator ris that the T is probably the most complete and detailed report of the proposition that has ever been made.” ————————— Senator Johnmson's Statement. Administration republicans are re- ported to be at a loss to understand | the aim of Senator Hiram W. Johnson jof Californfa in so bitterly attacking | the republican party as he did in his statement published yesterday. The 1\'iulwnru of the language he used in assailing the part was inexplicable to lthem. What is he driving at, they !agk? It seems at this time that his | nomination is impossible, on account | of the lead the President has obtained, | but he is regarded as certainly seeking { country in the republican party, lay- i Ing the foundation for trouble for that | organization next November. | The query is heard, is he thinking possibly of a third party developing, which he might be called upon to {head? If he has that in mind he may | have to contest with Senator La Fol- {lette, it is thought. The Wisconsin statesman is looked upon by poli- ticians as the logical candidate of a lmim party, although he has not de- ! clared his attitude toward such a move- | ment. At the same time he does not | say anything to dampen the ardor of { his friends. who are talking about him § ,and a possible third party. | Senator Johnson's attacks upon his |own party furnishes water over the ! wheel for the democrats, and they | must be enjoying themselves hugely as he lays so lustily about him with | eriticism and invective. In the cam- | paign they can just quote his state- | ments and “submit them without com- ment.” —————————— The report that the former Kaiser of | Germany is not on speaking terms | with his wife is depressing. The popu- | lar sense of the picturesque is jarred | at finding the discussion of a man who | once figured large in world affaits nar- to undermine the confidence of the | Tho Army guarantees that acceptable | FOWIng down to mere neighborhood guests will be entertained free of ( S95SIP . charge, and many persons know that | e e Army chow is good and filling. Dur»i Investigation of an investigator may ing, this vacation the guests will get |lead to investigation on new lines, in- @ reasonable share of military train- | yestigator's investigators. There is no ms;- and '-hcrle Wg:r:satrle;lc‘; in m:any | 1imit to the possibilities of a very re- and in manly , including base | ion. ‘ball and swimming. There is also the | m”k‘m’_— patriotic side. One can learn the ele mepts of a soldier's Job and proceed 1o greatér heights or greater lengths in study of the military art if he have within him talent and the martial urge. The purpose of the citizens' military training camps s well under- stood. ' There is military training to help fit a man for what may happen. | There.is body building and there are some mild lessong in discipline. The camp officers are laying plans to care for 3,000 guests, and it is certain that 4 regiment of District' boys will an- swer, Here, when the roll is called. Col. John' Scott, in his office in the Grabam building, will answer all ques- tions put to him about the camp. ———— Tnquiries that 'began at Teapot Dome have expanded all over the map. Henry Ford referred to President Coolidge as a safe man, and after re. | ferring to the primaries the forecast- ers all say he is. Roadside Signs. Conservation of the roadside is one of the many movements that are be- fore the people. It has to do mainly with roadside signs. There is an or- ganization the name of which is the | National Committee for the Restric- tion of Outdoor Advertising, and this «ommittee has been making a strong «ffort to achieve its purpose. It has Leen announced that fifteen corpora- tions have agreed to-abolish billboard wnd poster advertising on the. high- ways, and the firms which have made this decision are very large sellers of gasoline, oil, tires, tobacco, soap and veast. The Standard Oll Company of New York seems to have taken the lead in saying that it will erect signs only at garages and service stations, and that its last roadside sign will be removed within elghteen months, The president of the company said: “It is the desire of this company, to co- operate with the various civic organi- zations and women's clubs in its terri- tory which are seeking to improve the natural beauties of the highways. It occurs to me- that there are many other constructions than billboards which spoil the appearance of high- Potomac Power Bill. ‘The Potomac power measure moves along its legislative course. A bill to carry out the plan made by Maj. M. C. Tyler, Corps of Engineers, has been considered by the Senate as in com- mittee of the whole, its terms briefly explained, reported to the Senate with- out amendment, ordered engrossed for @ third reading, read a third time &nd passed. . And all this in & few minutes.. No word was spoken against the meas- ure and no vote cast against it. The Bill, introduced and sponsored by Sena- tor Norris of Nebraska, authorizes the | ways. There are refreshment hooths Secretary.of War to construet the [und so-called hot-dog stands which are &p.vmmcmc power | works in ac ! generally unsightly, being old poxes THE and odds and ends of lumber pieced | together." H There was a beauty in “bad rouds” which most “good roads” do not have. They climbed hills and went down steeply to ‘brooks over which it was not thought worth while to build a | bridge. With us the road was bordered ' by cedars, by locust trees that were | gay and fragrant in spring, and with | persimmon trees whose tawny fruit| and colored leaves were among the; pleasures of fall. Wild grape, trumpet, | bitter sweet and Virginia creeper gen- | erally tralled along the roadside or strung their vines from tree to tree. | There was beyond a view of fields if | the road did not happen to be passing through pines or woods of cak. A few | jtin signs were nailed to trees telling | |of tobacco, medicine for man and -horse and a few other things. Little | damage was done that way, but maqy | counties forbade the putting up of | those signs. Along the railways men | began to cover barns with praises of pills, soap and paint, and then to build long tines of billboards across | fields. Objection to these rural bill- boeards began to develop at about the | time when we looked with offense on | y billboards covered with alleged likenesses of varicty actresses. When | the good road came, and automobiles | became as thick as blackbirds and par- tridges used to be, there came what might be called an orgy of signs. One sign became taller and shricked louder , than another, and the competition has | | gone on until there are so many signs they shut out a view of the country, and men do not notice any particular More Coffee. | 1t is known that we drink a good 'deal of coffce in the United States, and an energetic statistician has com ! puted that the yearly average in this ! { country is 514 cups per person. The statistician takes the number of | pounds of coffee delivered from ware- (houses to roasters, finds that one | pound of dry coffee makes forty cups 1 of liquid coffee and divides the whole {number of cups by the estimated population of the United States, 111,000,000. There are elements of error In the process. The population |of the country includes several mil {lions who have not reached the coffe drinking age, several millions who take tea instead of coffee and also those persons who take a cup of coffee at break who “only take a small after-dinner coffee,” who “never drink coffee at night” because | {they “would not sleep a wink” and | | those who drink neither tea nor coffee. | { The statisticlan takes no account of the “coffee” consumed which never came from a coffee warehouse and | which was not grown in the tropics. He does not take into account those | cautious and conservative lunchrooms | and hoarding houses in which pound | of coffee is forced to yield more than torty cups, A statisticlan cannot get at the number of real coffee drinkers who call for two cups at breakfast, dinner and supper. i It is shown that we drank more coffce in 1923 than in 1922. - Every day statistics are published showing that we are using more of this and that. We are using more sugar, more tobacco, more gasoline, more silk stockings, more ecandy, ice cream, soda water and rouge. Perhaps if the tea statisticlan would get busy he would prove that we are using more tea. On the other hand, sta- tistics might show that we arc drink- ing less coffee made from the beans of the Kentucky coffee tree, from the chicory tangle and the sweet potato patch than we used to. It might surely be shown that we are drinking less sassafras tea and spicebush tea than our ancestors drank and that we are consuming less maple sirup and sorghum sirup than once upon & me. “only —_—— No semator thinks of arranging a “Be-Kind-to-Animals” week for the special benefit of the republican elephant or the demoeratic donkey. —————————— The new Attorney General, if not perfectly comfortable, will make allow- ances for_the fact that he arrived dur- | ‘'ng one of the busiest spring house- | :leanings on record. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. A Long Enterprise. When you go delving in the past With mingled joys and fears, Investigations sometimes last For years and years and years. ‘We find an old Egyptian king ‘Who gathered lavish pelf, And didn't seem to do a thing Except enjoy himself. He made the working man afraid To own a union card, And built big pyramids that made The housing problem hard. He would not look for any way ‘To have the taxes cut. ‘We're busy even to this day, Investigating Tut. Restrained Enthusiasm. “Do you believe republics are un- grateful?”’ . o “Not exaetly ungrateful,” answered Senator Sorghum. “But a republic is more or less like an intelligent person. After it has been imposed on a few times it gets kind of suspicious.” Jud Tunkins says he's glad to see the base ball season approaching so's he can hear some cheering or heckling that has nothing to do with politics. {in their own {pound of grocer’s Wrapping cord’— ‘Answers to Questions: BY FREDERIC J, HASKIN, Q. How many" miles of rallroad | track are there in the' Washington | navy yara?—s. A J. $ ; : A. ‘There are’ eight and one-fifth miles of railway . trackage in . the ‘Washington nayy yard, 3 Q. Mr. Work &peaks of a conven- tion called. .“the asgist in auction bridge.” What g he mean?—A. | A. Milton C. Work. says that “the; assist” means raising a partner’'s suit rather than making any other declar- ation after an intervening adverse bid. “The jump" 15 ralsing the part- ner's bid in the nbsence of an inter- vening adversebid. Q. How soon should lawn be' mown In the spring?—A. G. R. | A. It should be cut as soon as the grass has started to grow. It should then be given a dressing of acid phos- phate, three pounds, and sulphate of ammonia, one pound, to each forty square yards.. Q. When did we get the Philippines | and what is the total population of | the Islinds?—A, 1. - } A. The Philippines were ceded to| the United States by the treaty of Parls, ~1898, following the Spanish- American war. There are 7,085 {s- lands. The largest, Luzon, contains 40,814 square miles, and Mindanao, | the next, 86,906 miles. The popula- tion i3 estimated at 10,350,640, Q. Where was the Burnt War De- | partment?>—T, F. C. A. The Wur Department was housed | in a building on the sofith side of ' Pennsylvania avenue between 21st and 22d s ets, and this wa d stroyed by fire in 1807. The black- ened walls stood for many years and the building was Known as the “Burnt | War Department.” i Q. How long have rats been in the| ited States”—M, V. W. | . Thé date of introduction of the | rat into America is very doubtful, but | the black or Alexandrine rat seems to | have come first and was gradually driven westward by the larger ro- dents. They were doubtless conveved stroyed by fire in 180L The black- rat found its way to Europe about the beginning of the sixteenth ocentury, but the brown rat did not reach Eng- land until about 1728. Q. Why do the gold and silver coins | i t of the United States have a milled edge?—L, L. D. i A. They are milled to make it easy to detect a loss of welght caused by scraping the edge. Q. How many negroes are in busi- ness for themselves?—J. R. C. A. There are estimated to be at the | present time §0.000 negroes engaged | usiness and manufac- | tories, with a volume of business of $1,500,000,000. Q. What is an iconoclast?—N. M. A. The word “icomoclast” is derived from a Greek word “ikon.” meaning | “an image breaker” Figuartively usel iconoclast is a term applied to a person who breaks down estab- lished customs and beliefs, Q. friend Please scitle an argument. A claims that the word “ceme- tery” was first used in this country and that in England they “churchyard.” Is this true?—H E A._ Both the word cemetery and the word churchyard have been used for many centuries {n England. The word cemetery was originally applied to the catacombs in Rome. It is found as early as 1387 in England. = The word churchyard, on the other hand, appears in the old English choronicles at about the year 1154. Q. Could you look up for me the grades made in a civil service exami- nation by a few applicants for posi- tisns®—L. H. A. Civil service grades are not made public and the only way to find the percentages made by applicants is to inquire of the applicants. Q. Ts the Beaux Arts. Paris, 2 gov- ernment institution?—E. P. A. The Beaux Arts is one of the five academies of the Institute de France, It is subsidized by the goy- ernment. The general fund of the institute is managed by a committee of ten under the presidency of the minister of public_instruction. Each of the academies has an independent government. The subjects taught at the Beaux Arts are painting, sculp- ture, architecture, engraving and mu- sic. | Q. How many yards are there in a A There are several weights of grocer's wrapping cord; however, there are about 200 yards In a pound | of lightweight wrapping cord. Q. Please give date of first Spar- tanburg Officers’ Training School?— ¥, BE. D. A. The first ofMicers’ training school was held at Spartanburg, C., from May 18 to August 14, 1917, Q. To what extent did slavery exist | in Nebraska before the civil war?— G. M. ! A. Slavery existed only to a small | extent in Nebraska. The first census| of Nebraska, October 24, 1854, showed thirteen negro slaves. From | to 1860 ten to fifteen slaves were | held in Nebraska, mostly at Nebraska | City. There was one auction sale of | slaves on December 5, 1860, in the| streets of Nebraska City, when two . slaves were sold. The legislature | abolished slavery in 1861 Q. Why is ruler'’s cabinet so called?—C. L. M. A. The term “cabinet” referred originally to the closet or private | apartment of a monarch, in which he c?nsulufl with his most trusted ad- visers. Q. Is there such a thing as a milk snake that sucks cows?—M. H. A. There are snakes which have been found to obtain milk by sucking the teats of cows, The so-ca ilk- | lo¥ing snakes, in the United States, are known as the black snake, or racer; the milk snake, or coluberexi- nuis. Q. Does any plant that grows have a black blossom?—W. §. ‘A. The Department of Agrieulture | says that there is no flower that has absolutely black blossoms. Certain | varieties of pansies are almost black ' and Scablosa is very dark. Q. What stuteBhnlg the most miles of railroad?—F, A. In 1922 Texas led with 15721 miles of railroad. Illinois ranked ond, with 12,840, and Pennsyi third, with 11,270’ miles. (Have you asked Haskin? Ho does | ot know- all the things that peopls ask | him, but ke knows people who do know. | Try him. State your question plainly gnd briey, Inciose 2 conia . stamps return postage. ddress Frederio J. b 3 Star Information Burcau, 1220 North Capitol a’t‘v’vcc.) In a Few Words American political life and the needs of the people of this country ‘| have become "so complex that no . Too Much to Ask. A robin in the early spring, Recovering from the blizzard, Exciaimed: “How can a birdie. sing ‘With snow balls in his gizzard!” “If we were to marry,” said the young man, “of course, I should. not want to take you away from.your parents.” (182 “Are you proposing,” inquired Miss Cayenne: “‘or trying to solve the hous-| ing problem?” g “Sentiment,” said Uncle Eben, “isa queer thing. Some men dat wouldn’t notice a hard-luck story will_feel real sad an’ sympathetic when dey hears & soodluneonlm': party can begin to meet the demands of the public. The result will be that every four years the government in| wer will be thrown out. . This wii] Be™a Rew political procedurs for America, but a long-recegnlized one in European countries. . —HBENRY F. HOLLIS, Soldiers hate war. The best anti- roilitarists in the world today are to be found.among the officers -who fought in the late war. Militarism is 8, creed that appeals only (o histo- rlans: above military age. ~—BRIG. GEN. THOMSON (Britain' Alr Minister), It is one of the advantages of party government that on ical party vigilantly watches and criticizes the other. I hope that will always be. $ ~-SENATOR BORAH. 'Nature made man and woman dif- the Woman's Party cannot —PROF. FELIX D. C, SATURDA WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE Democratic presidential candidates Wwill-be as: thick as ‘files at the Jeffer- son digner of the National Democratic Club {n. New York tonight. No fewer {than six of them are on the list of speakers. They include John W. Davis, Senator Robinson of Arkansas, Senator Copelend of New York, Gov. Smith of ew York,.Gov. Riichle of Maryland and Gov, Silzer of New Jersey. The banquet will be a monster affair of 1,600 covers. Democratic presidential campalgn keynotes are to be sounded in stentorian tones, strongly mingled with a militant optimism. Party lead- ers from all over the country will attend. In addition to the full demo- cratic membership of the United States Senate and national committee, the club has invited as guests Newton D. Baker, Josephus Danlels, David F. Houston, Bainbridge Colby, Represent- ative Garner of Texas, Gov. Donahey of Ohio and Joseph P. Tumulty. The magnificent new wigwam in Madison ayerlue, where the Nutional Demoeratic Club is now established, will be the scene of important campaign con ferences during the week end. * ik % Are the voters “back home" wreck- ing vengeance on Congress, and the Senate in particular, in the spring primaries? Varlous senators were roughly treated by their supposedly loyal and grateful constituents. “Jim” Reed fell by the wayside in the presidential primaries In* Missouri. enator Sterling was rebuffed and de- feated by thg republicans of North Dakota. " Senator Ferris ran behind Henry “Ford in the democratic presi- dential poll in Michigan. Medill McCor- mick has been overcome in his native but faithless Illinois. And Hiram Johnson, exceot for South Dakota, has been shown .the cold shoulder evers- where La Follette is the one member of the Senate who has recently soughc a vote of confidence in his own state, and obtained it. Opinions differ as to whether radio is going to prove a boon or a bane to politicians in the 1924 campalign. Senator George H.' Moses, who faces ithe stern ordeal of trying, as chair- man of the senatorial campaign com- mittee, to for the G. O. P., thinks radio is more lik to prove a nuisance. He doesn't believe it will at all take the place of the front porch, the rear platform, the courthouse square or the ward meeting. Folks, savs Moses, are soing to keep on wanting to see the fellow they’re asked to vote for. He imagines that Calvin Cool- fdge, because of his conspicuous prominence and the fact that a man running for President cannot meet the voters of every state, may bs able to use the radio advantagioysly from the White House. But comrhon senators, governors < ants for office, Moses is convinced, will have to canvass in the old way—face to face with an inquisitive and discriminatng elec- torate. * x5 %% One of Albert B. Fall's unremem- bered rulngs while Secretary of the Interfor has just been invoked by Senator Tasker L. Oddie of Nevada. It appears that Japanese, now sub: American Press Deprecates Acquittal of von Ludendorff The great assistant to the lord” has been acquitted. His putsch” was unsuccessful. The Mu- nich beer garden revolt, which caused much Immediate alarm, then reas- surement, and, finally, laughter, has ended with the acquittal of Field Marshal Erich von Ludendorff, chief of staff for Kaiser Wilhelm during the world war, although nine other defendants indicted with him were convicted and sentenced to ridicu- lously inadequate sentences. Naturally it is suggested that when a jury allows a “military question mark” to go scot-free, the responsi- bility rests on the government itself. Therefors, the Newark News argues, “the {nfant German republic has war | stumbled at a moment most inoppor- tune to its own welfare,” and it has emphasized that “in Germany appar- | ntly the basic idea that any move to overthrow the existing government is treason, no matter by whom perpe- trated, has not become sufficiently in grained in the people or the court To which the Cleveland Plain Dealer adds, “the triumph of Ludendorff is a final fndication that the Germans | wish an_establishment of the old re- gime.” The Detroit Frec Press, indors- ing this opinion, suggests “if Luden- dorff was not as guilty as his fellow revolutionists, he must have been their stupld "dupe.” To this the Springfield Union replies that, after all, the developments “emphasize that the old leaders are coming to the front and the weakly constituted re- public soon may be replaced with a monarchy.” £ * k% % Any nation “has the right to the form of government it desires,” ar- gues the San Antonio Light, “but Ger- many cannot be conceded the right to place back on the throne the Hohen- zollern: This_view has the indorse- ment of the Fort Worth ar-Tele- ep the upper house safe | and | The Library Table - | | BY THE BOOKLOVER L \ ! ' | | Je | ject to eviction from California un-| An English rector who loves ease | der the new land laws, are migrating and luxury, who has such a distaste to :'Al:iggbor;lng;l Nev.ldn ?j‘" -e(t’llhf for work that even his weekly serv- on e Newlands reclamation projecl ' , Oadio Is seeking an order from Sec- |ices are a burden, who is altogether retary Work to prevent such an lacking in human sympathy, who is gf?fn";?bn !:: luu“ %:’:flbfhs.cv::{akr;‘m other words, completely selfish, s | Fall prohibiting fw-ne-e from leas- |the subject of May Sinclair's novel ing Indlan lands. Meantime the:“A Cure of Souls.” So artistically is Japancas have again ln;lok:tfi e | the portrait of Clement Chamberlain | a courts, couple i , e, | contraetors have fied suits in Lo 4rawn, so free is it from caricature, | Angeles, one alleging that the 1923 that the reader, though legislative amendment to the anti-|that he is most unfit to be a physic alien land laws is unconstitutional: | o' o re“an o 50 the other, contending that a bonus | 8, oenuo! feature attached to 1824 crop con- [Ing sympathy with him | (rulcls dls 1vnlld_ :Ven ir th?sc“w_ri’r": ment of the good thing: entere nto etween “ineligible v Ao aid i wean, his avoidance of its dis:on the moment when be awaker 100 early a morning hour P Nobody iIn Washington, OF 8nY-|y.g with scents of laven floating in at his open wi where elso for that matter, is closer | to Chlef Justice Taft than Gus J. ; he sinks into the same Karger, veteran Cincinnatl néwapa- | = 558 U0 U0 000 & per man. Gus helps Taft yun the(y o0 g0 00 0o 00 Ohio Soclety of the District of Co- | S SR e | lumbia and one of his duties Is to|Yoted to the attainmen: |keep the Chief Justice from becoming {31d mental comfor:. ifs absent-minded ‘about meeting - dates, | KC10U8 esthetic pleasire {The other night Mr. Taft phoned |in brushing his hair with 1 Karger and said: “Gus, I'm justDrushes, and in the few Betting Into my dress clothes, The | his pric-dieu, when ho tric | Society meets tonight, doesn’t {t7’|Gad for the day. Even o Clus replieds e B anient: next |his pleasure in the two pea Monday night” “Well, what'll 1 do?” [he eats from a tree s S % # en before hreak! queried the Chief Justice. “Undress,” | Walled garden before breakfas pared by his treasure of a co. sald Karger. ler. His long, tranquil a joy, too, when he Is ur and is able to spend ther French novels either before place in his study or sire garden chair under a hig A lunch to sats n epl drive over the ngll tea with delicate it er to charming idow day—one of Fuller's dinr his days could full of peace rest entirely dispropor amount of work ever ds tor would have been happ * ok * % The Eden of Canon Chamber had, however, its serpe would not let him alone. They | Inslst on cxpecting things of him— duties they thought he ought to per- | form or advice they wished him to give. The senior curate had religious doubts with which he bothered the rector, and the junior curate was so energetic that it wearied the r merely to have him in the room before he began to propound &chemes for. men's clubs and village bands and extra week- | Hilda Wrinch, one of b workers, was given to ¢ out at ‘inconvenient 1 the middle of a dying parishioners, usvally did die until a or ten days Even Agmes Lambert, devoted vstie, slave to pa him. was a nuisance, Foster was_a finished proposi- | reports which .m(.] Gen. Bragg, spectacu nr,(nw the price ell Clayton was probably the best | dured her only because = poker player in the entire bunch. him an extra curate. Kit ‘Conger was one of the few linguists | cock, delightful widow, ha ‘Washington ever sent down here, but his | for a time to be the solace a stay was brief. Probably the best busi- ness man and most succeseful ambas- sador was David E. Thompson.” (Copyright, 1924.) admitting | no * ok ok ok There's a kink in the indictment of Senator Wheeler of Montana that in- | erests cvery congressman in Washing- | ton. Technically, under the federall statute invoked in Wheeler's case, it's felony for any man elected to Congres to accept professional business that in- alings with the United States | government, from and after the date of | his election. Now congressmen aro elect- d in November of one vear, but don't take office till December of the next year. Should they be debarred—if the: happen to make a living out of repre- senting people with government busi- ness—from benefiting for _thi months from what may be their source of incore? * * ¥ x In Mexico City there's a sprightiy pub- lication called the Anglo-American. This is its recent “who's who" of .the Americans who have been ambassadors to Mexico in cotemporary times arles B. Warren, the new Ameri- | can ambassador, has arrived. During his attendance on the special commission here last year he made a good impres sion. He strikes the average American citizen as the sort of a person who de livers the goods. “We have had some first-rate United States representatives here, starting in with Joel R. Poinsctt, the first, and Henry Prather Fletcher, the last, Mr. Nelson had an easy job. coming just fter the fall of the Miximilian flas when American stock was high, because | we had just finished doing something for the Mexicans. Mat Ransom was the only minister who cou'd walk on a | Basket of eggm without breaking their | sl = have b 1 new nes—once i night—to visit her labors ulus he necded for his leis but then he had become unp aware of her five nolsy hi had quietly ceased his visits i Kitty misinterpreted them | Molly Beauchamp came into his | the faminine counterpart of hin !a cushiony, ease-loving producing woman—and h the gods had again been him. _ Still there remained | testable irreducible minimur i1=l| work, and as long as he he could not be quite happy loved his c¢omfortable rectory, garden, his beautiful medieval churct ch Wh dor® Is suually, laughable as a trav- | S0 ionged for a life in wh The fleld marshal “wore. his med- | Deed only -rest and dream |als,” recalls the Norfolk Ledger-Dis- | should he do? | patch, and his “Hoch der Kaiser | speech convinced all his hearers that | | he was deserving of reward rather than ‘punishment.” The occasion of the trial, likewise, was “All Fools' gay in Muniche says the Scranion | phrase-maker, is shown by Frederick ities to avoid severity toward the con- | of Queen Elizabeth.” In welcom spirators” | The ‘Sacramento Union |a delegation of eighteen tailors. ukes a decide ifferent view, be- | & " = . “Good caise it faels the “great industrial. | CATile asserts, she said: = “Good | ists, who at.the present time are mas. | morning, gentlemen both.” She threatened Lord Burleigh thus = x % That Queen Elizabeth, in as to being many other things, bot dition po- litical and socfal, was also a skillful | FAVORS COMMISSION TO PLAN FOR CAPITAL IKing Tells Citizens’ Federation Provision Should Be Made for Future Crowth. RAPS MISFIT BUILDINGS Backs Plan to Increase Comm} sioners’ Powers. 3 ngto tion of grow pop! are skould Criticizes Misfits Here t the spe L'Enfant is being some instances are not being pla ntage to Too many misfits the District ot improve and I B » the interest senat r said Says Congress fe The me Cong “Ton't dren tees of omission vened rks al en “District Flag” Presented. The topic for on a fie was a pa double cross declared, w Suter oiph and e made a brief read telegra ters of Germany and want a ‘strong’ | : | Eovernment, may be cxpected to unite have been strong enough to lift ¥ou | With the royalist groups to secure it | out of the dirt, and I am still & | This is as well the opinion of the|to cast you down again”” Wh Oklahoma City Oklahoman, because | dean of St. Paul's wandered fr “Ludendorff still is a hero in the eyes | subject in preaching the quee: of the German people.” 3 jcalled out sharply: “Leave that The Brooklyn Eagle insists “if the { podly dieression and return to you | reactionary elements throughout Ger- | text.” When, early in her reign, the| many should consider the time ripe | commons suggested that she marry for a movement toward Berlin they | gha replied: ~When I received this | will Took to him for leadership. The | sine | (Whowing her coronation ring) | result. also, may be “perhaps a useful ) solemnly bound myself in marriage travesty. in the opinion of the (‘m-!m the reaim, and it will be quite cinnat! 'imes-Star, while his cquit- emorial to my fal, after the forms and Eestures of | SAMCICRt for the e rie Bavarian justice, may be & fitting end.’ name and for my l;dory o Jaen 3 i n be engraved on a Pity has not supplanted humor. It is | Sorrin o onsing: Siere lieth difficult to realize that only six years | [iizaboth. swhich reigned a virgin and ago Ludendorff was rocking the world | Fiase oot WHCY with the impact of his battalions. To- = day he leads the beer cellar squads * & ¥ and cannot rock even one of Ger-| An earnest and powerful tract—al- many's several states.” Summing up 3 ges long—in the all’ of the suggestions, the Rochester | DOl more than 300 pages loBE-=r 178 Herald , feels that the outstanding |Cause of eugenics, is he 2 _ point is that “the v'var-‘g thing that (logue of Science,” by Albert Edward could come to pass for Germany and | wiggam. Before enunciating his new e Tt O e Momarehy " °° ® T~ | commandments the author, in what toration of the monarchy.” he calls an ethical challenge com- CO[IRAGE pares the new biology and the oid statesmanship and gives five warn ings, which are: That the advance “I am the master of my fate, races are going backward, that he- redity is the chief maker of men, that 1 am the captain of my soul.” —HENLEY. the Golden Rule without science | wreck the race that tries it, that med- icine, hygiene and sanitation will | Journal, |ent order of things a Approving this argument, the Spring- gram, which feels the “effect upon al- lied relations of any monarchistic movement must be considered.” Char- acterizing the entire trial as of an ‘opera bouffe character,” the Spokana Spokesman-Review feels it also “dem- onstrates that the German republic is on a trembling foundation because a large part of the populace is still e. amored of the old order and at heart After strenuous effort, Michael Pu- pin reached America. A stranger, un- | able to speak the language, he be- came homesick, but could not go back home. | Born in Iavor, Banst, Hungary, he | order weaken the human race and that morals, education, art and religion will not improve the human race. 1 to bring about an ethical transition from the “fearful mess” of the present to something better, the author makes a plea for "lh‘l' new Mount _Sinai—the laboratory. With the ground thus prepared he devotes successive chapters to his ten new commandments of science, which are e iilendorir, Stinnes & Co,»|Was tralning at fifteen to bo an ofi- the Boston Transcript says, and “Ger- | cer in the Serdian army. The ideals many has made up her mind not to|of America appealed to him and he pay because the Ludendorflan way,ran away. of looking at things suits the country.” | Working his way to this country, ' Not at all, suggests the Minneapolis!he landed, when seventeen, at Castis Tribune, because “military giants | Garden just one of hundreds of im- greater than Ludendorff have fallen |migrants. His hat had blown into the ' in the wrecks of their own dreams.” | Atlantic and his headpiece Was a red Yet, after all, argues the Kansas City | fez. A bootblack jeered at him, news- “Ludendorff was as guwilty |boys and ragamuffins followed him. as others,” but “powerful hands must,He could not speak English, so he have plucked him from the entrance:pummeled the leader into respectful- to the cell which has opened for those ness. less fortunate.” Treason, “masquerad- | W ing as loyalty,” is the thing tha: most menial work at Delaware City, Del. impresses the St. Pqul Ploncer Press, |He was lonesome, miserable, home- although it also declarcs “the truth |sick. The foreman's daughter taught is that Bavaria does not like the pres- i him Englis i in_Germany.” | " Homesickness passed and ambition ' Agreeing, the Reading Tribune iiso,K grew. New York attracted him. feels “the peopie, judging from their There he did odd jobs, worked in a elation, would much prefer to serve!cracker factory, in an iron foundry: under a benevolent despot than und:r [and in a laundry. Then he became a vacillating republic. a clerk in a store and at night at- b o s tended Cooper Union. He read, read: epublic must be considered as|fead and went to the theater to arting toward the rocks” im the|bear actors and perfect his faulty pinion of the Baltimore Sun, and Pronunciation. that such a situation should be true| Five years in America and he had in a eivilization which has so thor-|saved 3311 Ho entered Columbia oughly subordinated nature to its in- | University, but kept -Job. Making ferigence is Incredible, but .such js|marked progress In mathematics and the fact» True, adds the New York | Greek, he soon was tutoring to pay Hhe actet “the contrast is sharp be- | expenses. While a sophomore he de- tween: the ludicrous punishment|feated a Hel man in a which has. been maufl’outxm mons,m:;l"nr bout, then taught wres-; irators of the Kapp and : B : a:ihel:éof-&nw ““ua the mfi"_ng | He won prizes in his studies, studied terrible punishment which descended 'higher ‘physics. in Europe and_ took wpon the Liebknechts, the Rosa!up electrical engineering. ~When PP embourgs and the spartacide in- |thirty he married, and the next year | surrectionists of Berlin and the Ruhr.” | he became professor at Columbia. He invented the Pupin coil, radio appli- ances and other devices and was waraded the Edison medal. Now sixty-three, he is in his forty-, fth year on the Columbla faculty, and he says: “Men: who are likely to sucoeed are the ones who_ find in spiration” in the necessity of doing a difficult thing In a new way and other Immigrants he found' field News [eels “in this instance the democracy of the nation fumbled, and | & it may turn out later that this will prove disastrous to the well-being of the country.” Ludendorff “ciaimed immunity because he wag the victor of ‘Tanpenburg,” continuesithe Louis- ville Courier Journal, “and there is never a hint of regret that he em- barked on a crazy enterprise. The Bavarian ‘putsch’ was an opera bouffe alalr and the - and sulk because the old way fsn't good ef > Caprcight, 1904 W G G Powedy | entific research, the men who fail are those who baric| . The duty of eugenics, the duty of sci- the duty of so- cialization of sclence, the duty of measuring men,. the duty of human- izing industry, the duty of preferen- tial reproductfon, the duty of t intelligence, the duty of art, th of internationalism and the duty of philosophical reconstruction. But' the first_and greatest command: the duty of eugenles and the others are elaborations and applications of that duty. The author adopts the definition” of the department of ecu- | genics of the Carnegle Institutio which describes eugenles as th science which “seeks to improve the natural, physical, mental and temper- mental 'qualities of the human fam it The book is concluded with a plea for the othical outlook on life, | for mental habits directed toward new approach to human affairs, for an educated intelligence. He pleads for a revolution in education—a revo- | lution in what s taught. “Education does change people.” * % ¥ % The late John Morley took his de- gree at Oxford in 1859. In that| same year .were published Darwin's “Origin of Specles,” Thackeray's “Virginlans,” Dickens' “Tale of Two Cities,” George Eliot's “Adam Bede, Meredith’s *Ordeal of Richard Fev erel” Ruskin's “Two Paths” Mill's| “Liberty," Tennyson's “Idylle of the! King” and Fitzgerald's translation of | the “Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.” * K k% The life of both the African na- tives and the French troops in French colonial Africa has been portrayed in a number of novels by the two brothers, Jerome and Jean Tharaud. One, which has recently been tran: lated, “The Long Walk of Samba Diouf,” s the story of a Sénegalese who makes the long journey from hix e.jungle of Dakar, in Senegalese Africa'to join the 113th Black Bat- tallon and fight in the trenches in I rance i | 1ess, Kindness to Animals. Writer Plead= Cause of Dumb Creatures. To the Kditor of The Humane Sunda church and that the Creator right o lower ¢ has comn and that guardianship vances his own are in the midst of 18" week this year ways. known over ther growth tion, radio ‘hool princi [ masters to mak before their re and to give noti mane poster co! and cartoon ture, and, pe all, the Boys' pel show, at the sireet northwes ¢ p.m,, for b their pets. event will t Easter holidi to 5 p.m., b eighteen are faithful, th friends 'to the ° the United St nary Surgeons Veterinars northwe: tice of this However features ha tain, the workers in t imal welfare wi less. The whol is to make the that it will not stimulate winter are 3 mer bring their own ing to the litt to unfortunate One M Veteri- Robinson © strec : further no the above mentions o served merely to e efforts expended by s cause of child and be practically frait of weel { Take some tired overw of the poor and b fret an occasional aut to the wonderful fie plead for plenty o shade for toiling horse where thirsty dogs, can drink; be alert to ¢ deserted or unwant and kittens, singly or in take them to the Animal R League; provide well for your pets when away: have hum: on petent veterinary tention wh ’11 y are sick: npPris ng l‘. life freedom-loving creatures of jur- gle and mountain; consider the su 2 fering endured by food imals and poultry in transpertation and slaugh ter to provide flesh for your able; i you will eat meat at least insist th {he victims' suffering be reduced to the very minimum; and last, but not least, remember that thousands o helpless animals are annually used in experiments in the name of scienc investigate their conditions and pr st. 3 eqh short, let the impression of this “Be Kind to Animals” week extend until this time next year in real ef- forts by individuals to respond to tho many Still crying needs in our city, at least. Let us act ourselves for the animals, and be kind enough to our Children to teach them the happiness Fesulting trom following the Grea Teacher's example of gentleness and mercy toward the whole creation. VABGINIA W. fountains mor A puppies Rbscur owt com