Evening Star Newspaper, April 15, 1924, Page 6

THE EVENING With Sunday Morning Fi STAR ition. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY........April 15, 1924 HEODORE W. NOYES. . ..Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Busipess Office, *1th St and Ponnsylvania Ave New York olice: 110 Eagt 42ud St European Office aud. The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning edition, is delivered by ¢ within the city ai 60 r ly, 43 cents per monih: Sunday nis’ per month. Orders tay he ren mail or tele phone Main 5000, ol by cur Fiers at the end of cach monih Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance, Maryland and Vir Daily and 1yr. $8 Daily only.........13 Sunday only. 1yr in 10; 1 mo., 70¢ i1 mo., a0 1 ma., 20¢ Sunday All Other States. Daily and Sunda Traily onl Sunday 1y Member of the Assoc The Associated D to the e patehes crodit o this paper ished here.n special dispafoh Japanese Exclusion. That a situa 1 of extrem mess and deli of debate an th exclusion must at yesterday in : to all. It ind mod fleehrand he apparent i me 1izht erate il b on both side 1 ties of weir in nt wnces by ht by the not those re uz which rded to “grave con adoy could not fail t was like small boy When di sequences” war meaning int v was f < unfortun that exclusion program 1t the r th which her to fight of given it was so Acceptod that reted in + that fac mat t over to They felt that would be As position sacrif £ nal dignity annot leg veiled he vote of we re whic tiemen's extent the Haninhara of the Im executive ation bill over a pe far as is cast Apparent); neerned apanese ambassad isis w used which could have been any weakening of the to By ters is the course of omitted witk argument he such empires swaycd That war bet Tnited States is no one on this s prepared to be that one nat the pol f an domestic matter there may be sought make. smi Japan and the possible consequence ide of the ¥ ve. Tt is inconceivable ther pure mmigration. I £ de rt of w3 in are orable There hat friend possibilities ¢ n ship between the we have which h recent ¥ a whole a the friends Their civilization we miration, an tributed all we interruption of t vo countries which cult 1 so carefully, and progressed so favorably in ars. The rican people and Japanese tinely sincerely of amazin neople western watched with ad- it we have con There has been 15 we noted th to a commanding pos we progress toward ild. tisy in rapid ris one of i 1d s great The American peopl ing to do all they hongrably can to re- tain friendship of Japan, and many of them are lacking in sympathy with the feeling the Japanese have in the matter of exclt They fervent- hope some may be found to tisfy Japanese pride, without sacri- fice of American self-respect ion powers. still are will- wa A great deal is being s Just now to discourage lit in the tions ne; d and done impulse mmer. Several senators are regretful of the manner in which President Coc shattered his silence record. idge The D. A. F ing, whether di nation’s politics. has an interested hear- s own or the Justice to Retired Officers. The House military committee has favorably reported the Hull bill to equalize the pay of retired officers of the Army, Navy, N Corps, coast guard, coast and g v and the public health The bill would remove the pay discrimination against retired officers and warrant of fic al services who were retired on or b bill provides that the ps ficers and warrant office less than that of thos quent to that act, and also provides that “all laws inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed " The bill seeks 10 correct an injustice to a large num- ber of retired officers and men. Secretary Weeks, in a report Feb- ruary 6 last, said: “The fundamental question presented Dy this bill is whether or not a change in the pay of active officers made at any time should be accompanied by a corre- sponding change in the pay of officers at that time on the retired list. Re- tired officers continue to be a part of the Army, and in general the course of legislation has been to extend to them whatever changes in rates of pay were deemed essential for the of- ficers on the active list.” In the pay act approved June 10, 22, fixing the pay rate in the Army, Navy and kindred services, it was pro- vided that on and after July 1, 1923, ine service. of such of- shall not he retired subse- ac “ratired officers and warrant officers shall have their retired pay, or equiva- tent pay, computed as now authorized by law on the basis of pay provided in this act.” That was a fair proposal, but in conference before final passage of the bill there was inserted a pro- vision that nothing contained in the | act “shall authorize an increase in the | pay of officers or warrant officers on the retired list on June 30, 1922." That provision denied the benefits of the act to a large body of men who saw ervice in the civil war, war with | Spain, Philippine insurrection, Indian wars and the world war. If Congres means to deal fairly with men who have served their country well it | should make the pending bill a law. | S — ! Equitable Street Car Fares. | What street car fare should Con- s or the Public Utilities Commis- sion or both permit to be exacted? Five, six, seven or eight cents? The correct answer to this question the ascertainment of the s to be rendered by the street mpanies and the reasonable cost of rendering them, The duty rests upon the Utilities Commission, or upon Congress if it intervenes to displace the commission, to require: (1) standard of street railway Ives rvice > to the workers who operate 3) payment of such fares, nposed, and such wise and fair adjustment of taxes by Con- ess as will enable the companies to the services vequired, to pay acted, to meet other equitably nder falr wages e - | expenses of economical administration nd to make reasonable return in in- dividends to those whose is invested in the roads. Commission, by author- ngress, has by action indi- ffecting wages and affecting - working conditions and serv- to be rendered, determined in offect the roads’ monthly outgo. There in equity from a cor- | responding obligation in respect to the | roads’ income. Power of control and | responsibility go hand in hand. It is urged by some that the Capital ac fare be immediately cut to cents on the ground that on that | rate it can meet all the requirements pect to equitable fare which have itie: s no escape inr heen re and F sher to cost ectric car fare be left figure, which will be enable to meet its Railway the h equired it far greater trackage of now unprofita- suburban lin Advocates of this discrimination be- °d, and that the Washington | of operation, due to fits| tween the car fares to be charged by the two are indirect advo- os of the zone system of car fares :mder which the passenger's fare proportioned to the distance he tra Analysis of the conditions and s involved shows clearly that in | fairness and in the community interest nination in charges should not between the Capital Traction engers and Washington Raflway and Electric passengers indiserim- inately, but between long-haul and aul passengers on both roads | under a thoughtfully devised zone or v transfer But there are considerations of pub- lic policy which cause the community to disregard the equities of the zone stem, to prefer the flat rate system. ind to favor correction of any result- ing inequities by equitable tax read- justment, including the ta arning system instead of gross The Keynoters. Today is the day for the delivery of { party keynote speeches in the New | York republican and democratic state | conventions. respectively, and politi- | | cians are looking forward with interest | to hear the big guns rcar. The demo- | eratic convention is meeting in Al- bany. where that old-line democratic | D. Cady Herrick, will party’s keynote. The con- vention is meeting for the purpose of inz cight delegates at large to the national convention and as many alternates. New York has long exer- cised great influence in setting the pace for national declarations of party policy in both parties. But more interesting still will be the launching of the presidential bopm of Gov. Alfred E. Smith, which, reports i for today. His boomers will start him off with a hurrah de- signed to let the country know that Gov. Smith will have to be reckoned with in the national convention. He has been making progress in the mid- dle west, it is said, and after today’s expected spectacular event he will be recognized as a formal candidate for the ncmination. The republicans will meet in New York city tonight, and Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes will make the republican keynote speech. It is said that he was asked by New York re- publicans to make an old-time political address, and dwell upon the adminis- tration policies, linking up the New York republicans with the administra- tion and demanding its indorsement and the support of President Coolidge. ————————— Contradictions of a rumor that Mr. W. G. McAdoo would not be a candi- | date continue to come from one state after another. —————————— It is only when a statesman is re- covering from illness that friends can conscientiously report that he spent a restful night. — et “Listen to Our Tale of Woe.” The Association of Native Trees met in a wood near Washington yesterday. Delegates from the Redbud, Dogwood, Cherry and other branches of the order attended. Redbud spoke first and said: “The Jap cherry trees in Poto- mac Park are getting all the patron- age and applause. It is up to us to show the people of the District what native-born trees can do. We must put our effort not into talking, but into blooming, and we must ask the vandal nature lovers to give us a chance.”™ Dogwood then addressed the meet- ing. “It is true,” he said, “that these foreign cherry trees are good bloom- ers, But there are others! And we are here! How can Washington expect us to compete with these Asiatics when gardeners nurse them and police guard them? We have to rustle for our food, and every villain who likes our looks breaks us. If we had a law to protect us we would stand some chance!” Miss Cherry got the chairman's eye | souna his ;, is stag in People are going nutty over these foreign cherry trees. They are rather pretty in their way, but I'm sure that I, and my friends the Misses Peach and Pear and Mrs, Apple, are as good-looking In our spring gowns as they. I know that we are much more useful. When these Japs drop their blossoms they are done. When we toss away our bloom we set to work te offer fruits to man. Germs and insects may beat him to it, but we are not to blame for that. If we had half the encouragement these foreign artists get we would outbloom the world!"” Old Locust raised a thorny finger and said: “My dears, many Washing- ton men are fascinated with these Geisha trees, but I believe they love us still. If we could draw up a peti- tion to our friends not to break us and rob us of our blossoms, and if we could get a piece about us in The Star it might help our cause. 1 know that Dogwood, Redbud, Shadbush and Viburnum are cruelly assaulted by roughnecks from the city, but I believe that if we made an appeal to the right-minded people of Washington that we be not torn to tatters in the spring we might live in peace and bloom!” e The Opening Game. Not “Once more unto the breach, dear friends,” as King Henry said to Exeter, Bedford and Gloster, but “‘once more into the base ball park ™ The Natfonals hegin their annual war today, and will strive to make the Sriffith Stadium a field of carnage strewn with the Athletics. The sun is shining now, and may no cloud dark the heavens nor cast a shade upon the diamond till the day is done and won! The President of the United States will to Walter Johnson. and then Bishop will try to knock its cover off Beforé this a brass band will play, there will be a parade of the gladiators and the flag-raising ceremonies will be carried out. The Secretary of the Navy | and Clark Griffith, whose middle name is Calvin, will have much to do with putting the flag to the top of the pole. Most of Washington will be in on the old ball lot now magnified into the Clark Griffith Stadium, and much of our population got there before the gates were opencd We extend to the | visitor 1 the good wishes of the sea- son, uprearious happiness and the jol liest of lives. We wish to practice to- ward them the amplest and tenderest rites of hospitality, but all Washing- ton hopes mightily that the home team will win. —————————— There might about leasing Muscle Shoals to Henry Ford if science could arrange a way to give its development the benefit of his personal supervision for the next hun- dred years. S Greece is r.ow a republic, and is to elect a president during the summer Owing to the absence of a good p | mary system the Hellenic forecasting is not as lively as it might be. ——————————— ‘When Mr. Dawes has time to secure a little needed rest he might be per- suaded to lend a hand at straightening out the books of some of the oil in- terests. ———————————— Both the nationa! party conventions ought to be quiet and orderly affairs. There will be no use of trying to cem pete with preceding political sensa- tions. e —e———— Magazines dealing with police topics have become numerous. Evidently the Congressional Record is not fully meet- ing this phase of literary demand. ———————————— Affairs may come to a point where a man not threatened with investigation may feel that the importance of his position has been slighted. Depriving Bergdoll of his citizenship relieves him of something for which he has never had much use. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Response to a Call! “The Country Needs More Fisher- men!" Says Secretary Hoover. You find a statesman now and then Who is a time improver. When energies have run to waste And queered each public question, It's great to hear @ man of taste ‘Who has a good suggestion. The willows bending by the stream, Where soft the breeze is straying, Invite the mind once more to dream While sunbeams bright are playing. There is a.summons in the skies To greet the season’s beauty; So by the thousand we will rise And volunteer for duty! Punctuation, “Why don’'t we have great oratory with fine periods’ “Periods!"” echoed Senator Sorghum. “What have we to do with the full stop? What we are now engaged in supplying are interrogation points and exclamation marks.” Jud Tunkins says after looking back over the past three months he has de- cided the folks who said, “Happy New Year,” didn't know what they were talking about.” Ultra Feminism. Let women boldly save the state From strife that threatens slaughter. The favorite son goes out of date. Let's have the favorite daughter. The Impractical Adage. “You can’t unscramble an egg,” said the ready-made philosopher? “Who'd want to,” inquired Miss Cayenne, “considering the trouble and delay in getting the cook to serve one?” ' Dangerous Deliberation. “A man should always count ten when angry.” « “Tain’t gafe in Crimson Guleh,” re- plied Cactus Joe. “Before you can count as many as two the other fel- ler's liable to be through shootin' “Cold an’ hunger,” said Uncle Eben, “‘was put in de world to remind people dat dey's expected to do sumpin’ in dis life besides sit around an’ argue,” pitch the first ball | Max | be more enthusiasm | among governmental conservationists | SUPERPOWER: By WILL P. No. 2—Solves Coal and Waters run on forever. They are an inexhaustible Mesource. Fuel once burned is gone forever and never can be replaced. Efforts should be di- rected toward using as far as eco- nomically practicable the inexhausti- ble water power rather than the ex- haustible fuels. We have in this country around 50,000,000 horsepower of water pow- ers, distributed about 25 per cent east of the Mississippl river and 75 per cent west. Early industrial developments in this country were built up around the mill sites, and the best examples of this are the little grist mills and saw mills and cotton factories such as were found in Lowell, Lawrence and Holyoke, Mass. These were mostly small stations and the only sites that could be used were those near towns, because there was no means of transmitting power. From Water to Steam But coal could be transmitted and 80 came the second step. We went almost exclusively steam and that big industrial development came or near the coal-producing states. The coal mine fixed the loc tion of our major industrial activity in the northeastern section of the United States. Today over § per cent of the bituminous coal produced in the United States is used in five states—New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. | Bear in mind that more than three- fourths of the prime mover capacity of the United States—the steam en- gines. steam turbines and water wheels—employed in manufactur n central electric stations and in ele {tric railways is found t of the | Mississippi “river, and nearly two- | thirds east of the Mississippl and north of the Ohio and the Potomae. In this region also is the greater part our railway trasi nd ur rail- W &ln:‘l* almost exclusively steam | onerated The net result of this has been | fast using up our most available fuel | T sure and overl, ling our trans- portation system to the breaking Point in distributing coal. Severs times we have had coal famines be- cause the railroads were unable to move the coul to consumers. to power in Vanishing Fuel Supplies. Under these conditions it was quite | Proper that we should feel deep con- { cern at the rapid depletion of our fuel resources and at the difficulties tendent on supplying our fuel mands, Our fuel oil reserves were fast |disappearing, and even it we could as that our ultimate coal resource could be measu.ed in centuries of sup ply they were at such depth beneat the ground, at such distance fro. at- de sume points of use, that in cost of produ. A NEW ERA KENNEDY Transportal\ion Problems tion and in difficulty of transportation they were becomifg constantly less accossible. Mark you that the railroads alone use over 50,000,000 tons of coal a year and one-third of their freight equip- ment just for the purpose of hauling coal to market and not for transporta- tion of general merchandise. The rail- roads alone have been using one- fourth of our total coal output and one-seventh of our petroleum pro- duction, The development of water power is not going to make it possible to dis- pense with steam power in the east- ern half of the United States, because there is not enough water power in this section to supply all the power demands. But there are many million horsepower not being used, and when they are used they will automatically stop the increase in the use of coal for power purposes and reduce the burden of the transportation. Eastern Water Power Arcas. The places where these water Pow- ers are available and where develop- ment is now going on and likely to expand rapidly In the future in the eastern part of the United States are in three big areas: (1) the inter- national boundary streams; (2) the mountain ranges between Virginia and West Virginia, and (3) the south- ern end of the Appalachlan ranges. It will be seen that these areas, roughly speaking, extend from the St. Law- rence on the north to Georgia and Alabama. There are from 2,000,000 to 1,000,000 horsepower on the St Law- rence and Niagara on the American side; hundreds of thousands mor horsepower In the small streams in New York, western Pennsylvania and West Virginia. There are blg water power possibilities in the upper Tennessee basin, On_ the Paci are re portion_of th is Water power, and will be indefinitely greater in the future because there are located there tremendous water power resources. In the eastern part of the United States fuel is the primary source of power, while on the Pacific coast it is merely an auxiliary source. lleetrification of Railroads, Electrification of the railroads, in the superpower age, will still further greatly relieve ‘the situation In the east. Prac- tically all railroad men are now agreed that electric operation is the best pos- | sible method of increasing the carrying capacity of a railroad system. Most of sur railroads today can carry little more team-pullevd traffic because they are w operating the maximum number of at the maximum speed m of iiroads_shou'd very noticeable reduction in ransportation costs So the situation now is this: Both abic 1o transmit po he increased cost through the e do_the work with and efficiency, while at e relieving the demand .pen our coal and oil resourc WASHINGTON OBSERVA BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE | It Bdwin Denby opposes James| Couzens for the republican sematorial | nomination in Michigan Secretary | | Mellon's arch foe may find the | Coolidge administration forces in the | state ranged against him.. Denby's | friends are ready to put him, in the | race. They are sure to be encouraged by the storm now raging around | Couzens' head in Washington. The | | President’s stock in Michigan is ur | commonly high, as the recent pri-| maries there-disclosed. If the former | Secretary of the Navy is pitted against Couzens with White House backing | Denby would be in strong strategic position. But the G. O. P. will have | to ponder well whether his connection | { with the oil leases Is not a fatal han- dicap % ¥ Federal judgeships are coveted about as much as any jobs within the | President's gift. There are said to be | no fewer than twenty-eight aspirants | for the post shortly to be vacated by | Albert B. Anderson of Indiana, who is | to be promoted to the seventh circuit of the United States court of appeals at Chicago. Judge Anderson has been the terror of Hoosier wrongdoers for twenty-two vears. He achieved na- tional renown in 1912 in the dynamite conspiracy case and focussed public attention again in 1919 when he de- manded revocation of the United Mine Workers' strike order. Ander- son has the reputation of being hard- hearted. His friends deny the alle- gation. They say that Anderson's the best judge in the country for an inno- “nt ‘'mon. but “hell let loose” for a suilty one. * * % x % Herbert Hoover has discovered what's really wrong with the world. Ho asserts that it needs more fisher- men. Hoover is a disciple of Izaak Walton himself and steals away often to the streams and lakes near Wash- ington. When he isn't fishing he likes playing at dam-building. It is in con- templative moments with the rod and reel or when toying with amateur reclamation projects that Hoover works out some of his deepest prob- 1.m> Thaere are two fishermen in the Coolidge cabinet now. Attorney Gen- ©rai swone is the other. Britain's most famous international statesman, of Fallodon, puts in all of his's time at fly-Ashing. * % % % Somebody who has more or less regular and official occasion to com- mune with Calvin Coolidge has dis- covered that he considers two a com- pany and three a crowd. That is to say, he opens up volubly when there are only four ears present. Anything beyond that usually goads the Presi- aent into a purely listening mood. Harding is said by the same author- ity to have been that way, too. * kX * John T. Adams, chairman of the re- publican national committee, has made up his mind about the role he will play in the 1924 presidential cam- paign, but isn’t saying anything about it. A recent White House utterance indicated that if the Iowan wants to retain the G. O. P. chairmanship there would be no objection from presiden- tial quarters. Reports that C. Bas- com Slemp, Mr. Coolidge’s secretary, is slated for the chairmanship find no credence at the Executive Mansion. Some man not a national committee- man could succeed Adams under the republican rules. Neither Frank H. Hitchcock, William M. Wilcox nor Will H. Hays belonged to the com- mittee when he was chairman. The democrats require their chairman to be a national committeeman. Adams is republican comn%,eemnn from Iowa, but that is puresoincidence. * % % ¥ George W. Norris of Nebraska ranks with Senator La Follette as the only member of the Senate recently tri- umphant in primary contests. A year ago the veteran progressive from the Platte country was sour on polities and determined to return to his first jove—teaching or the law. But Ne- braska republicans of his particular kidney prevailed upon him to seek renomination. Norris lists as his banner achievement in politics the leadership of the fight which over- threw “Cannonism” in the House of Representatives, where he sat for five terms before entering the Senate in 1913 * % x % Gen. Dawes, who is busily garner- ing laurels in the allied capitals prior to his return to America at the end of April, is claimed by three states He was born in Ohlo, grew up in Ne- and achieved fame and for- tune in lilinois. The “cussing briga- dier” has always been lucky in the choice of his comrades. at Marietta, Ohio, was White, former chairman of democratic national committee. At the Cincinnati College of Law, in 1886, Dawes was graduated in the same class with Atlee Pomerene. In Lincoln, b., Dawgs' crony was a young Army lieutenant named John then instructor in mili- at the University of Ne- As soon as he moved to Tili- s attracted the attention of William McKinley. * % & % During the debate immediately pre- ceding the House's passage of the im- migration bill, Representative Fair- ¢hild of New York cited from “A Cen- tury of Population Growth—1790- written by Dr. North, former tor of the cemsus. Representa- Jacobstein, York ongressman, thereupon observ- have discovered, by consulting that work and checking up the mem- bership of tnis House, that there a e us who cannot trace our origin back to the surnames listed in 1790. There are, therefore, at least 150 of us who might be declared to be for- eigners by those whose ancestors were here 134 years ago.” (Copyright, 192 COURAGE “I am the master of my fate, 1 am the captain of my soul.” —HENLEY. ) Poverty was ruthless to James B. Duke when he was a boy, but in later years he used its lessons and volun- tarily denied himself. Born on a farm near Durham, ho was motherless at four. was eight his father returned from fighting in the civil war so impoy- erished that he and his children slept on a straw tick in the log cabin. The boy left school when nine to work in the tobacco field. Then he peddled the leaf, and at fourteen became superintendent of the little log factory with its twenty workers. When he was eighteen his father urged him to go to college but the youth demanded a tnership in the Lusiness, and got it. The concern soon afterward moved to Durham. Three years later W. Duke, Sons & Company added other members and gave up tobacco growing to specialize in curing and selling. Profits jumped to $7,000 a year. The father retired and within five years the sons’ plant covered five acres. James was the head and he re- membered the value of capital. No one was allowed more than $2,000 a ar compensation. In New York, ter, to_establish the business there, he lived frugally. Even when he earned $50,000 a year he had a small bedroom and ate in the Bowery. Making of paper cigarettes by hand was costly; he sought machines to turn them out, and was told his at- tempt would bankrupt the firm. Three years' effort produced a me- chanical device whose output almost palsied competition. Then he formed the American To- bacco Company, sold the Duke busi- ness to it for $7,500,000 and became its president, English concerns were fighting, he bought Ogdens, Limited, of Liverpool, fought its rival at a cost of $20,000 a week, sold out at a profit._and headed -the British-Ameri- can Tobacco Company to handle the new combination’s export end. Then the United States government dis. solved the American Tobacco Com- pany, and he resigned as its head. He invested in other flelds, made many more millions and obtained two homes; one is on Fifth Avenue, New York, the other is an estate of 10,000 acres in New Jersey. (Copyrip™ 9242 His boyhood | NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM INTERPRETER'S HOUSE. Charles Scribner's THE Struthers Burt. Sons, The “House” is the city of New York. Its engagement in this connec- tion is to interpret its own hectic turmoil and perpetual hullabaloo in terms of plain human objective and pursuit. It seeks to set out in in- telligible order the monstrous confu- sion of this mammoth clearing house of modern aim and activity. Upon its face, however, the matter bears no such burden of design. To the reader out for mere diversion it is the story of Gullan Eyre, between his home- coming to New York and his conclu- sive wooing at the hands of a capa- ble, single-minded young woman, who, sick to death of such eternal shilly- shallying, suddenly lands her catch in one neat decisive twist of the wrist. The story closes with this triumph set out in the victor's own words: “Oh, Gilly! Oh, my blessed one! Oh, my dear! You're such a damned fool!” * ¥ k ¥ The two-in-one novel—serious les- son on the one hand, diverting hour on the other; remedial pill sugared to the tongue—binds fits author in the double bondage of rigid exaction and dubious outcome, Its primary purpose, as a rule, is to project some menacing aspect of current life, for warning, conviction of sin, salvation —these transferrcd from the field of religion 1o the ethics of common ex- unselfish—the world ent place to live in, a sharp con- t to the pious self-centered reach some celestial reward of con- But grown folks who instinctively ¢ from thé doses signed for their curing. They re- st the healing of their lives Ly ang obvious “message,” whether this he administered from the pulpit or the | Printing press. o the novelist, along | with the preacher, must often, for- sooth, lodge his lesson by yielding to the familiar urge of young and old alike, “Tell me a story To give the world of story lovers its way, and at the same time to have his own way with them, Struthers Burt writes down a story of one of | the ten thousand distinet groups that | £0 into the make-up of New York. | One whose like, too, may be found | in any other city, in any considerable | town besides A representative, re- | ling group. A family of conse- | ce, this—its men influential in | | matters of substance, its women pos- | | £essed of brains to back both beautsy and soctal charm. This is the famil of ‘Guliun Eyre. Besides him: there are the father and Aunt Vie | Kinia, who refuses, properly sub- | | ordinate ranking whatever. | | too, an older brother and | praxiding Gutian with a atisfactory in-law. A family floats an aura of tradition, at least as much of tradition as a young orld has becn able to generate and | project. ~Around the Eyre family is| the familiar circle of social and hus ness assoclates. This selection, in it- self, promises hopeful easement from | ng waste of fiction cast in of mid-west aridities, or Air sex close-ups, or underworld | exposures of squalor and obscenity It promises children, faces a that relief mie 5o from the fic- social butter- | both of these prom- | the letter but in | of the spirit as in A | gets ahead with Gulian | Eyre the center of its propelling power. The aim is, at first, an Immediate and personal one, for Eyre is secking, eriously, to place himself in what is| to him a brand-new situation-—old ! and familiar elements thrown into | new and strange combinations. At | the moment he is merely rubbing the | out of his eves, suggesting | v, very vaguely, that man of i who, after a twenty-year | | among the hills of the Hud- found himself waked up to a and bewildering life, Not that s man is old and weather-beaten is only just turned thirty, uncom- too. Nor has his | been passed in period, instead. | in pointed travel and the af- erwards of a world war. But, some- how, he has not counted on this revo- lution in the old and famillar things of his whole life and rearing. The first_instinctive move of Evre is to- ward getting himself shaken down comfortably into his new fashion for the old ways of life. Gradually this immediate objective lengthens and reaches out to compass the common alms of the family, the group, the city. the whole people, as these aims out of the confusion and take on definite shapes. From this point on the story is one of adjustment and rebellion, the balance greatly in favor of the latter. x * story | | The quiet rebellion of Guilan Eyre rises out of the city itself, out of its final revelation and interpretation |of the great dementia that is said to afilict sorely both society and busi- ness. He searches out the malady first in its bearing upon those of his immediate aflictions — family, friends, business associates—spread- ing therefrom out into general contagion. In its deepest purpose the story deals with men and women who, in years, stand between vouth and age. The old are out of the turmoil of these new and strange solicitations. The young, boys and girls alike, have thrown' their caps over the wall and are going after them—clear the way! It is the woman neither old nor young—like Drusilla the lovely sister of Gulian— imbedded in old reticencies and re- | sponsibilities, who hesitates and yet yearns for the new freedom so in consonance with the desires of the heart. It is the virile business man of matured success who seizes upon measures of larger success rather than upon those of a finer justice. * ¥ ¥ X It is within this sphere of metro- politan success, business and social— a suave and attractive sphere—that Struthers Burt develops a novel whose definite purpose is to set out along its way certain momentous matters that are gow influentially shaping the next stage in the story of the country as a whole, the story of the corld as a whole. The rush for wealth, its methods growing more subtly questionable, its effects more disruptive of any real solidarity; the madness for social freedom and a never-ending playtime; the general breaking away from old anchorages of obligation recognized and ac- cepted—these points and their kind give the substance of this novel of disclosure and implied protest. * ¥ ¥ X Sounds serious—and so it is, Seri- ous in definite and useful purpose, in an intelligent seizure of character working out through externals, in a fine picture sense of place and in- cident. Serious, too, in a good con- science of plain industry bent to the job in hand. And out of these various and fundamental seriousnesses you are given the chance to sit down with a novel whose people never betray the intelligence that they are sald to possess; people of wit and good manners and good sense: people who, like everybody else in these bewilder- ing days, make some mistakes, com- mit some deliberate sins, enterfain some moments of repentance and fresh resolution. A brilliant and en- tertaining story throughout. Some may say that Gulian Eyre, delightful and lovable man, may be overloaded with a sense of public error, but that Is not so. And even if it were, that could be forgiven. For there is not a dull, nor an inept, mor an empty age in this delightful and bellevabie ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN Q. President to pardon only upon the recommendation of the Attorney Gen- eral?—D. G. A. The office of the Attorney Gen- oral says pardoning power rests with the President and it is not obligatory | for him to consult with the Attorney | General. 1t is, however, quite ous- tomary for such consultation to take place. Q. Wonld it be possible to find trees after fifty years which have been blazed for a trail?—G. W. H A. The forest service says that blazed marks are discernible for sev- eral hundred years and if made deep enough will last as long as the trees on which they are made Q. Why is Cunal street, New leans, so called?—J. W. W A. Canal street, New Orleans, de- rives its name from the canal which formerly traversed it The water- way was Intended to unite the Mis £issippi with Lako Ponichartrain. The cinal had been partially filled in by 1838 and completely filied in by 1878, The filling in of the canal created a neutral zone along the center of the street, which is now used by the street cir tracks. Q. Does a po quills at its enemy The quills of a quite loosely attached to the and when the animal slaps with tail (its usual mode of defense) some quills may be flirted quite a distance It is this fact, no doubt, that is the foundation for the popular notion that the porcupine shoots its quills at an enemy. or- o shoot ¥ its Q. Can a person cut a stamp from a stamped envelope and use it on an- other envelope?—F. G. A. The Post Office Department says that a stamp which has been cut from a stamped envelope cannot used on a blank onc. Q. Is it true that the body of Em- peror Fraderick the Great was not embalmed?”—N. D, A. By the express wish of the em- peror, his body was not thus prepared for burfal. Two regimental surzeons bathed the body and prepared it for interment. Q. Where is the Boston fish pier and how does it rank?—J. J. J A. The Boston Chamber merce says that Boston i: up-to-date fish port in th In production is exceeded Grimsby, England. It has on argest fish piers in the world at the cost of $3,000,000, is square feet in area, with a capacity for eimultaneous dicharge of « vessels. On and adjacent to it largest fish-freezing, cold - ant in the world, with a capacity of 000 pounds, ity of 230 tons daily and storage of 10,000. The Boston fish pier is locat- ed at Northern avenue, Boston. Q. ¥ vivors are G A. On_June 120, 1922, there were about 67.000 soldier survivors of Spanish-American war on the rolls of the pension office However, there have been changes since that time, th rolls are being materially creased. Q. Which card curse of Scotland Tok of Com- the most world and or state how many of the now on soldier Spanish-American the pension rolls.— Resen 0’s Stand. Is it the rule or custom of the, | | porcupine are | body, | | not 50 making capac- | the | A. The curse of Scotland name applied to the nine of 4i The origin of the n. Various explar fered, as follows: The nine of dia monds is the “Pope” in the game of Joan, and hence the symbol o to the Reformers. It is card in comette, whict ru r milies ir Scotland. It g the ninc enges on the arms of the Earl of Stajr, ) Was responsi ble for the missacre of Glencoe Tradition says that the Duke of Cum 1 while drunk and gambling or befor, ttie of Cullo to be givern is th ot n n the following da Q How assinated Washingtc A, Mr ington in long did to iv before % house wh ecame the meeting place of the 1 planned the assination of President Lincoln. Q. How much w doe coffec lose In roasting A. Coffee us per cent in wei ually Ic b ht in roasting. Q. In evenson” the st pronuncia Q than dark one A. A light-colored necessarily signify a mild cigar It is the filler which detern the trength, and both light and dark t baceo may be bitter and stro hus not been properly ripe cured Q it wrapper does Why are first prizes given tt ribbon?—K. B. R The custom originated with the cu or blue ribbon first-class cooks, The blue neient Fren and was first female cook stion of Mme b thicker in or f the tempera er burean says that i 2180 the same no difference the Other condition h. For instance low water at ¢ deep at the allow water has water. Indeed no fee the hickne the may diff ry mu only bat per Jedze at the back the side, of an purpose (Ha you want an- ¢ you a que The oniy i Frederic rth Capitol s v return postege.) Kindness to Animals. U. S. Within Rights in Exclusion }] Writer Cites Work of American Policy. Says Writer. To the Editor of The Star: As an American I keenly resent the | letter of the protesting the migration pending before Congress, which ap peared in a recent issue of The Star Bristing as it does with dictation arrogance and threats, it mazing, to say the least, and 1 doubt if such a communication was ever before ad dressed by one friendly Power to another in ti except as a preliminary to 2 dec tion of war or the commencement of hostilities Concerning as mestic policy of the United upon which it assumes to dictat us with an accompanying grave and serious should we dare disregard her protest, I think the Secretar: e wounld have been amply jus refusing to receive it Our relations with Japan for several years past in regard to matters that concern solely our domestic affairs, and her attitude in respect there raise seriously the question whether or not we are, in her estimation sovereign nation, in posscssion of the attributes that are of the very o sence of national sovereignty The note in question harps upon our friendly relations, and the d susceptibilities of the people, as if we were withou ch traits, gpeaks of the houor their government, and immed follows with this veiled threat “T realize, as 1 believe vou do, the grave consequences which the enact- ment of the measure retaining that particular provision would inevitably bring upon the otherwise happy and mutually advantageou «tions be- tween our two countries.” 1 desire my country to live in peace and amity with all nations, but 1 am frank to say chase the Japanese government is sovereign e of peace, ara- does a purely in endship of Japan, or any other country, at the sacrifice of ou self-respect, and the surrender of one lota of our sovereign rights, 1 am perfectly willing o foreso suc friendship, good will and commerc intercourse with any such nation The Japanese know well do, the statement in the note to contrary notwithstanding, that bill is not aimed solely af them that it is not intended as any reflec- tion upon them as a people. 1t is de- signed to preserve to us our own neri- tage and to prevent ourselves from beng inundated by alien peoples whom we cannot ass or_amalgamate intc our body Our people have alw feelings for the Japanese. been slad of their prosperity, and marveled at their unprecedented development and Drogress within the last sixty-oaa years. It Is not a question of their superiority or inferiority to us, but solely one of racial, religious, politi- cal and social differences that make it impossible for us to meet upon any ground of common understanding, or occupy the same territory upon terms of political, social and economic equality; and what aid hera of them applies equally to all Asiatic and other peoples of kindred racial characteristics in whatever part the world they may be founc It is well known as a biological faet that should we permit any very considerable immigration of oriental into our country they would pre empt it in a “comparatively generations, for we could no hold our own against the oriental’s standards of living than good and bay money can circulate upon a parity within the same jurisdiction. The Japanese talk of honor, pride and susceptibilities (and 1 do no mean they are without these quali- ties) is all camouflage in regard to this question of immigration. The trouble with Japan is that she is overpopulated, and the question of population and food supply is bes coming more and more serious with the Jdpanese every year. Immigration is_indispensable to her future wel- fare, progress and development. There is abundant room for her to expand on the Asiatic mainland, but no, the Japanese are not pioneers, and every gioneerlng effort they have ever made as been an ignominious failure. What she wants is to enter upon and enjoy the fruits of the labors of others. She sees our Pacific coast a fair and In- the and Dolitie. picture of one of- the ten thousand aspects of life I the big Manhattan town., & G viting land for her surplus peoples. where the hardships, toils, sacrifices and privations, the inevitable inci- Just | that, if we are to pur- | late politically | ys had kindly | more | bill now | | we as we | | | | | | | | Humane Association. o Star: Twenty-three states have passed humane educa. 1t tion will ed into all of To the Editor of in the s ard Martin began nd in 1822, when h age of first st legislative body which recog- duty prevention of nimals, mankind has beer ng and arduous conflict Sinee work in F th a cured the from nized the crucity to engaged in The crusade Hemry Be s not yet ended e Richard Mart er work for th American on Crue ned April, 1566 who love animals try fare ciety A nd those with whom we the lot this Be-K sful 1. week a suc calling imals wide movement, the care nimals w crueity peoplé is needed to provide animals, adequate clinics for and \rms whic for ers should be emplc but for the elief may b orly overlook Another good thi the American Humane headquarters in Albany bers in all parts of th who pay $1 a vear the National Humar gives its roaders heing de animals all over h sick hurt on, with ‘mem ates, monthly Rev whieit al idea of wha said about FORNEY Base Ball Monument Hailed as Good Move ¥ known that great acorns grow and that to its present ational gamo ngs. Which to drawing at of Senator nent recog 1l and the tional re- a site a monu- one of the parks is gene from little ball only swelled i position of being the from the humblest is by way of pre tention the Pepper to hav nize the g lace it zard by nent to th in_Wash . That is nator Congress to just say that the monument can be erected on govern- ment property. One of the two major leagues will do the Te provid funds for the memorial. And If pop- ularity is autk for monumental :ognition, ball should have a tue. The s a fine one and as a Young America has been a potent influence along the lines of manliness and health. Base ball is something more than a mer sport. It symbolizes the democracs of the nation and on the field and In the stands all the daily barriers of place and honor are temporarily leveled in the free masonry of a com- mon enthusiasm. A monument to base ball would probably gratify national sentiment and be viewed with interest by most visitors to Washington.—Knoxville Sentinel —_— donating sport i Pepper asks dents of ploneering and developing a new country, have all been done by our own people, and where her peoply can come and enjoy this.promised land, already prepared for them. The present immigration bill fs jn- dispensable to our peace, prosperity and national safety. and should by passed. And if Japan takes umbrage. and ceases to be our fricnd on that s’ count, why, then, so c . count why . 50 much the worge ALEXANDER SIDNEY LAN