Evening Star Newspaper, April 19, 1924, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY April 19, 1924 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .XEditor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Ofice, 11th St. and Penusylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42ud Si. Chiicago Ofice: Tower Building. Buropean Office: 16 RegentSt., London, Fugland. The Krveaing Star, with the Sundat moruing edition, ix delivered by earricrs within the City ‘at 80 ‘cents per montb: daily ouly, ceuts per month: Sunday ouly, 20 eents’ per month. "Orders may be sent Ly mail or tel phone Main 5600, Collection i made by ca iers at the end of each month Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance, Maryland and Virginia. 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On the contrary, they constitute the strongest possible argument for open- ing the whole matter up to competi- ve bidding, a thing which it would seem ought to have been done in the beginning. 1f there were no other objections to Mr. Ford's offer, the fact that it pro- vides for & 100-year lease of Muscle Shoals ought to be sufficient for its re- Jection. It is a violation of the funda- mental principls of the national policy that no federal-controiled water power shall be leased for more than fifty | vears, To make an exception at Muscle | Skhoals for the benefit of Mr. Ford | would be an entering wedge for break- | ing down the entire conservation pro- | gram, and the grand grab of the na- | tion’s power resources would be under | way. But there are other cbjections to | the Ford offer. It amounts to a colos- | sal gift of public property to a private | citizen without any attempt to guar- adequate return in the wa; s to the public. It would turn Muscle Shoals over to Mr. Ford and his successors to do with practically | as they pleased for a-hundred yeus.! with @ return to government | which would be fairly ridicul Inadequacy. Instead of passing the McKenzie bill | or accepting either of tho other | offers which have been submitted, Con- gress should outline & definite policy for the development of Muscle Sheals, | and the government should extend a | general invitation for bids under such | a policy, which bids should be analyzed | by the government's own experts and | | service is to be held under auspices | Churches, | worth | water, With the warm and sunny Easter morning which seems likely this ro- mantic place will be filled by a crowd of people. Those who have promoted this union Protestant service have said: “It is not our purpose to inierfere with any other services planned for this hour, but to have a general place to which people can come who are not ex- pected eisewhere. Or course, the meeting is interdenominational and every one will be welcome. In case | of rain the services will be held in the Covenant Presbyteriun Church.” The of the Washington Federation of District Sunday School Council, the Y. M. C. A, the Y. W. €. A., Christian ¥ndeavor Union, Ep- League and other Christian bodies. It is to be a short servic of prayer and song, with a brief speech by the Secretary of the Navy, and it is thought that many Wash- ingtonians will attend. Save the Dogwood! - Within a few days the dogwood will be blooming in this region. This most attractive spring shrub will, if undis- turbed, give great pleasure to all who fare forth upon the roads. But it is in danger of destruction, and unless efforts now being made for its preser- vation succeed the dogwood will in a few years be eliminated by the annual raids made upon it by thoughtless Dpeople. . The Garden Club of America and the Wild Flower Preservation Society have formed @ committec, joined by other organizations, to prevent the destruction of the dogwood and other flowering trees. They have enlisted the co-operation of the American Auto- mobile Association, and some of the florists have joined the movement to prevent dogwood destruction. Most of the damage i< done by motoring parties, who, attracted by the lovely white blooms in the woods along the roads, stop and tear off great branches. These wounds do not heal. The flower is of a peculiar character, and to make a display an entire branch must be stripped from the parent tree. Usually this is done roughly, split- ting the stems in 3 way that perma- nently injures the growth. But even when the blossoming branch is cut neatly from the trec damage is done that cannot be repaired by the growth | of many seasons. Often the trees themselves are killed by this vandal- | if pena ism. | The dogwood is mot suitable for| house decoration. It is at its best ! when growing in the open, naturally, | as an object of beauty, available to gil. | It wilts almost immediately after the | breaking of a branch, and during the | dogwood season the roads around Washington strewn with these faded, shriveled branches and blos- e been torn loose | arded upon the drooping of the leaves and pef for the dog- wood will not revive when placed in is the case with 80 many other wild plants. In Maryland @ law prevails which prohibits the cutting or breaking of branches of flowering trees and shrubs. Moet of the damage done | are suffered from financial handicaps that have prevented the re-equipment of its lines with cars suitable to the volume of the traffic and the public comfort and security. 1f this suit is brought for the purpose of increasing its financial difficulties it may be ef- fective, unless the court takes cog- nizance of the palpable fuct trat it is & tardy actior, and that failure to file earlier in complaint is tantamount to tolerance of the violation. Out of this matter should at least come some reequipment that will give the public the benefit of uniform- typed cars, putting an end to the con- stant guesswork to which the car riders are subject as to where they are to emter and leave and where they are to tender their fares. ° e e Jail for Bootleggers. Attorney General Stone has given evidence of his desire for a vigorous and effective prosecution of violations of the prohibition act, sending instruc- tions to federal district attorfeys to {urge the courts to give more severe sentences, and in all cases where a commercial viclation of the law is in- volved to do their best to have jail sentences imposed. The imposition of sentences will do much more to break down the spirit of law defiance than the levying of fines, however heavy. Fining boot- leggers is merely adding (o the final price of illicit liquor. The cost of bonds and the fines go into the reckoning as “expense.” But @ jail sentence cannot be capitalized in this way. The prisoner is deprived of an opportunity to*trans- act business. He is shut away from the traffic, and the longer the better for the community. Perhaps he feels no disgrace in such a punishment. He may even boast of having “done time” in such a cause. But he is neverthe- less discommoded seriously. In the Attorney General's letter of instruction the point is stressed that the federal attorneys use every means at their command to prosecute second violators, to demand of prohibition agents to ascertain whether defendants have been guilty of former violations so that heavier penalties may be se- cured. This is especially important. A class of habitual professional bootleg- gers has developed. As already sug- gested, whenever fined they go back to t practice and make good their money loss by heavier charges. But ities are made cumulative, with jail sentences, increasing on repeated conviction, tf trade will soon lose its lure. v —e———— If results are as certainl; advance as now asserted, most of the delegates to the big ional conven- ons are going merely for the pleasure of the excursion —rae—e According to several authorities the chief merit of the direct primary sys tem lies in the fact that it saves a great deal of mental effort in the way of guesswork. e ———— The charges against Senator ‘Wheeler are regarded by his friends as representing a vei poor piece of sleuthing. ‘ SHOOTING STARS. WASHINGTON, SUPERPOWER: By WILL P. Superpower vill make the Usited States unconquerable. Without super power and with manufacturing con- centrated in the northeastern sectionm, this country might prove a relatively casy prey for invasion by a strong enemy. Wars as conducted now are no longer merely questions of armies «nd navies. War today is a Question of entire nations. That is bgcause we have So increased the scope of warfare and made'it a gigantic me- chanical operation. We used more equipment and munitions in a single, day in the world war than in entire campaigns heretofore, All this brings us inescapably to the conclusion that we must have as a means of defense all industry cap- able of being rapidly organized and put to work on a tremendously in- creased scale. Two things we abso- Intely must have—raw materials and power. We must have them avail- able when needed. Lessons lLearned in War. . The world war made a titanic test of our productive facilities—such a test as a careful engineer imposes upon a new type of machinery to de- termine if it can stand the strain in an emergency. Careful observations and records by the War Industries Board make it possible for us to learn a salutary lesson from experiences during the war days. Bernard M. Baruch and those as- ated with him in the Council of Defense and the War In- Board did a much better job in supplying the materials nec- essary to back up the men in the trenches in quantities never before dreamed of in any nation than the people of this country generally have appreciated. This was because these industrial leaders found ex- treme difficuity in securing an ade- quate supply of energy for operating munitions factories and other plants for furnishing essential supplies and materials. It is now a matter of Army ord- nance record that alarming power shortages developed in the industrial districts of New England, New Jer- sey, eastern and western Pennsyi- vania and Niagara Falls. Emergency studies made by the Lest engineer- ing skill, which had promptly ralifed to the support of the government, showed that the troubie was mainly that of distribution rather than of generating capacity. Shortage a Sarplus. While there was extreme need for more power in northern New Jersey, there® was a surplus in New York City, & few miles away. Boston also |had a surplus of power. while prac- {tically all the rest of industrial New England had immediate need | more than the local stations could| furnish. Shortages also existed in | the reglons of western Penn-| {#yivania and Ohio. All of these in- | dustrial handicaps fm a time when {maximum and uninterrupted produc- tion meant the saving of lives o our boys overseas might have heen met if we then had had superpower systems in operation We found it necess | priorities in the use {order that the more essenti: | might be supplled at the exp. less important usern The 1 power at various |was in a large part due to lack | interconnection whereby one source | of power could have aided another The engineers of this country real- |lzed the situation and some intercon- for | | military importance. D. A NEW ERA KENNEDY 6—Superpower Essential to National Defense nections were being worked out when the armistiee Temoved the necessity for further federal activity in that direction. The chemical warfare service, which was a new and vital arm of our military establishment, faced a disheartening situation when produc- tion on a mammoth scale of nitrates, poison gases, explosives of all kinds and electro-chemical products pre- required o volume of power that the ‘War Industries Board found it im- possible to concentrate anywhere in this country, even though we then hud a generating capacity of more than 30,000,000 Nation's Vital Regon. The vulnepable situation in which wo were exposed with the major part of our essential war supplies being manufactured in a small area hard- by the ports of New York and Boston is described by Gen. R. L. Bullard, who says: “This is the vital region of our whole country. It is vital be- cause it contains all that is essential to,keep the country alive—agriculture, industries, wealth, population, lines of communication. It Iy thé region, therefore, which must be the final ob- jective of any power that should ever make war against us. It is also our most vulnerable region. Any good, strong enemy would find it compara- tively easy to get in because there are iots of landing places here, and, once landed, he'd find it easy to cut lines of communication that lead from New York everywhere." One of the most important—proba- bly the most important—factor in making power available In any simi- lar war emergency in the future will be the co-ordination of our large gen- erating plants into great interstate systems whereby we can get the full- est utilization of all our plants in- stead of the partial utilization which is possible if they work as isolated units. The steps that are being taken now in linking up adjacent plants and in getting water powers developed will put this country in a far better po tion in the future than it ever has been in this respect in the past. Bearing on National Defense. What was said in previous articles in this series regarding water power decentralizing industry and leading to the establishment of factories in towns and small communities inland has a direct and very important bear- ing upon the question of national de- fense. It requires but slight study of strategy to realize that the bulk of war supplies for future wars ought to be produced behind our nat urai lines of defense—the Allegheny and the Rocky Mountains. With dis- tribution of power in these communities made readily available Ly superpower systems, and with the manufacturing plants ‘thus brought close to sources of raw material, it will be readily seen that the United | States will be in % position to guard sential supplies aAd protect pro- duction of them from any hostile in- terruption behind natural barriers that no amoun ith or engin- ring skill could =upp The charge of our national | defe ve nuw before them u chart Baum, hydro- . showing w future stem for the entire with interconnec ructed as economic ot United linex to | Iy justified. Army engineers, now engaged cir peace-time work on river and or improvements and flood cor are familiar with the super- er plan and impressed with its | Naturally they will co-ordinate their own hydraulic work with the water-power develop- ment s part of & great nation-wide plan. inland | h | my garden. _ SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1924, The Library Table BY THE BOOKLOVER A life most rich in literary activi- ties and literary associations was that of Mrs. Humphry Ward. In her “Life,” by her daughte:, Janet Pen- rose Trevelyan, we are given a pic- ture of a precocious, imaginative child growing up in a family of lit- erary tastes and traditions, to be- come In early womanhood herself an author in the midst of a scholarly circle at Oxferd. Mary Arnold, after- ward Mrs. Humphry Ward, was a granddaughter of Armold of Rugby and a favorile niece of Matthew Ar- nold, “the sad poet and gay man of the world.” Her father was the intl- mate friend of another poet, Arthur Clough, and sometimes Mary, a child of nine or ten, would accompany the two on their walks through the val- leye and across the streams of the English lake region. dancing on ahead or lingering behind to watch the birds or the flowers or the rush- ing streams, Her early love for this lake country impressed itself later on the settings of many of her novels. * %% Mary Armold was fourteen when her parents settled at Oxford. She soon began to work with hor father at the Bodleian, and before she was twenty was deep in research in early Spanish literature on her own ac- coupt. Some of the friends made in thede Oxford days were Jowett, Mark Pattison, John Richard Green, Ed- ward Freeman, Mandell Creighton and T. H. Green. When she was twonty-one she married T. Humphry Ward, fellow and tutor of Brasenose Collego, and for eight vyears after- ward they continued to live at Oxford. * % x x Then Mrs. Ward's life shifted to London, and became for forty years an existence of ceaseless activity, crowded with interesting pursuits and people. With “Robert Klsmere’ she began her novel writing, and al- most never afterward was she with- out some mnovel in process of crea- tion. Her home was changed from time to time, as health and work de- manded, from her London house o her country placs, “Stocks,” or to a cottage in the lake region or a villa in Italy. Wherever she was, her home a center not only for rela- tives but for friends, English and for- olgn, most of them of literary or cs1 distinction. She corresponded ars with Henry James, and he visited her at “Stocks” Lord Acton, Gladstone, Lord Morley, Mr. Asquith and Sir Gilbert Parker were other friends of this period. In 1919 “the & of war taxation” or her to wive up on house in Grosvenor place. | . last night there she wrote to daughter: I had many thought. about it—that last night there—of the people who had dined and talked in it—Henry James and Burne-Jjenes, Stopford Brooke, Martineau, Watts, Tadema, Lowell, Roosevelt, Fage. Northbrook, Goschen €0 many more.” Ak It wouid uever occur to most of us to notice a resemblance between the rames of flowers and the names of Giseases, but Susan Erts has pointed it at in a quaint passage in her novel, “Madame Claire” She say “Did you ever stop to think that the names of diseases and the names of flowers are v similar? For in stance, I might say, ‘Do come and see 1t is at its best now, fnd e double pneumonias are really wonderful. T suppose the mild winter had something to do with that. I'm very proud of my trailing phiebitis, 100, and the laryngitises and deep purple qui ies “that 1 put in last year are a joy to behold.” Tho bed of asthmas and malarias that you used Q. Why is Easter o called? A. The name “Ostara,” or was the name given by tho ancicnt Norsemen to that season of the vear in which the festival of Ostara, god- dess of life and spring, was cele- brated. Although since the time of Christ Easter has come to have a| very different significance for the| majority of peoples, the old name has still held. Q. Who was first to r mit of the Matterhorn>—W. A. A party composed of Whymper, Charles Hudson, Lord Francis Douglas, and Hudow, th der, st and Peter Tangwaider, jr. made the first successful ascent of the Matterhorn on July 14, 1566. On the descent four of the party were lost. . Peter Tangwalder, ir., the last survivor of the expodition, died cently Zurmatt. Switzerland, at| Lhe age of eighty-ope. In all, he had ascended the Matterhorn 1 times. Q- What was the dats of the fire “hat destroyed Herzog's Theater, &nd E streets northwest?—O. D. A. The fire occurred at December 5, 1886. Q. When was the first practical ma- chine gun made?—dJ. A. A The first modern, practical ma- chine gun was invented by Dr, ling of Chicago in 1862, and it was Put into general use about 1876, Q. What is tho Gaelic form of the name “Patrick”?—J, J. A. Padraic is the Gaelic equivalent. | o Was ll‘mr‘; ever 2 time when foreign artists wers unpopul Rome?—N. W. St . The master painter Masaccio disappeared in a street of Roms, and his death is still a myste b entile da Fabriano died equally mysteri- ously while painting the Lateran frescoes. Siguorilli’s son was crueily beaten whil ) Q. Did th Roosevelt Theodore Ro A. The first Mrs. Theodore Roo: veit died October 14, 1884, within a fow hours of the death of President Roosevelt's mother. Q. Has the Coliege of Cardina ever had four American cardinals be- fore?—B. N. G. A. This is the largest representa- tion that Roman Catholics of the United States have ever had. The four American cardinals are Arch- bishops rConnell of Boston = erty of Philadeiphia. Ha. | York and Mundelein of ¢ th | g Theodore | same time as| Q Do the children of Japan saluts L flag as our children ¥s Japansse ch flag with a bow | g3 What part of the pric quart of milk goes to the dueing it>—R. 3. C. A. The Department of has investizated the si and finds that about & the retall price is received milk roducers. The split prod s arnd distribution a | runs about in most citie that have m ¥, Producer T4 cents on a l1i-cent 1k delivered on routes hy butors or soid through single-uni | peeries and delicatessens and 6 | cents on a'13-cent quart sold throux f.chain stores. guides. Michel Croz, Pefer Tangwal- |V ANSWERS TO QUESTiON S BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. Is the United States Chambe Commerce supported by the gov ment’—C. JL B. A. The Chamber of Commerce the United States has no official co nection with the government. It | purely a voluntary organization 4 business men, or, more strictly men's organizations, i= a federation. It is contro IL€ organization members. ed by the dues it receives from non-voting individual and associat members Q. Why them?—1). A, A Tho De t of Agriculturs says that they die because the in bark and living rapwood is gevered. al connection is thus cut off be he roots. which absorb Water t 1, and the leaves, watér and materia does it kill trees to girdle | into elaborated plant food Q. How deep ix the decpest w IL L A The despest oil drilled measures 7,578 known as the I }L. Lak 3 £ the Hope Natu West Virg well was started drilled to a depth of 6. September 11, 1917. New c not secured until October 31 and operations wers resumed The well was finaily plugged large caving of its walls, which cov- ered up the tools at the botiom oif the hole. While attempting to_with draw them the cable parted. or gas was found. Q. What color reflects light?—J. W. J. Yellow reflects more light than any other color in the spectrum barley 3 well hole ever No oil the most How A A. Parley sugar is one of the rec ognized stages in the cooking of sugar. Granulated sugar aid on a bot pan, without water, and stir the sugar lden brown color. is sugar made? A write7—S. M. In the course hi wrote thirty-seven plays thought that he wrote h of sonnets between 1503 den, ity into Worl 1t collection 8. Dow- the great Shakespearean author- has divided the dramatist’s lifo four periods, called “In the kshoy n the World.” “Out of Depths” and “On the Heights." How wide is the Red Sea? A The distance varies from 100 to 2 Q. T have lost m papers. Where can —H. T. A. A copy of your discharge papers n be obtained by applying to the adjutant general's office, War Da- tment, Washington, D. C., giving former rank and organization, ate of enlistment, date of discharg: address. cross the Red Seas Army discharge get a duplicate? (Frederic J. Haskin is employed by *his paper (o Randio the inquiries of o “caders, and you are eivited to call upon m as frecly and as often as you please isk anything that & a matter of fnct 1nd the authority will be quoted There s no charge for this servioe. Ask what o4 want. sign your full name anc iress and inclose = cents in 5t eturn postage. Address The ormation Bureas. Frederic J lirector, 1220 North Capitol stre<: Reaction Upon G. O. P. Is Seen If Attack on Wheeler Fails lndictment of Senator Whesler ~ who pushed gttt > 3% |around Washington is in that state, | the best ens mcesptel. AIer the ol o e amia rilngt 6h Epod | disclosures the people are not likely to | contemplate with patience further bar- | Fo2ds therc. The hope is now felt i deay . esiie for“""?“ Maryland will be able to enforce @iher pulitiond or cthier ratsons. this law by punishing those who break | | dogwood branches. The District has | | but little dogwood left, owing to the | 10 admire is finer than ever this sum- : L mer, and the dear little dropsies are |Meets With' various interpreta all_in bloom down by the lake, and |So far as editors are concerned. frake such w peetty aliowing with, ths 5 suggestion that it was the result of a 2 e ‘cuns.plrzry ™eets -approval of editors = R & icf his faith. Republican editors sug- The Power of a Lie,” by Johan |gest “frame-ups” are difficult. Inde- Bojer, is a fiction sermon of great im- pendent editors think Senator Wheeler, th Tribune (Republican) Lis chance to e of his loyalty and 3 devotien to publie 7Y PHILANDER JOHNSON Busy Day. ad to 2o to work. Wouldn't dare to shirk Early in the day, WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE 55 (I if he has done The Border Smugglers. Congress is at last awakening to the | evils of the smuggling of allens and of liquor across the Canadian and/! Mexican borders, as evidenced yester- day, when the House adopted an amendment to the bill making appro- priations for the Department of Labor | for an additional expenditure of $1,.| 238,000 to cstablish = border patrol.| The inability of the department prop- erly to cover the vast border lines, through paucity of funds, has been the cause of great concern, and the House acted wisely in loosening up the purse | strings to tighten the border. With the money provided it has been | possible, it was testified by the officials of the department appearing before the committee on’ immigration of the | House, to turn back about 10 per cent | if the smuggled aliens, while with the new sums proposed to be granted they axpect to head off 75 per cent. The| startling statement was made that the | estimated number of immigrants b legally entering this country across | the border is five times greater than | the legal quota. Tt is hoped, with the increased ap- propriations for the border patrol, to | check in some degree the smuggling | of liquor. Since the breakdown of | state enforcement by New York state liquor running has increased by leaps and bounds along the New York Canada border line until it has become @ national scandal, —t———— The idea that a fortune disintegrates =0 fast that it is only “three genera- tions from shirt sleeves to shirt leeves” originated in days when lawyers were not s astute in manag- ing large estates. —————————— Easter Sunrise Service. The aim of the union Protestant Easter service on Temple Heights is to quicken the spirit of churchgoing Chris- tians, and especially to awaken others 10 @ contemplation of the miracle of the resurrection and to guide their thoughts to God. It is believed that a holy service at such an enchanting spot will call together a concourse of men and women who piously follow their religious duties, and that it will also call together a multitude of men who by affairs of the world have been drawn apart from religious meditation. They call it a sunrise service. It is not strictly that, but the sun will not be long risen when the service begins. Seven o'clock is the hour set,and that is not too early for most persons, and certainly not too early for those who feel that they can find comfort and refreshment of the soul in prayer, haly word and sacred song. Temple Helghts is a noble park hemimed in by new North Washington. It over- looks the trees and housetops of the old town, 2nd from this height one’s view travels to distant hills. The river, far away, is seen. On Temple Helghts old cals grow and men may rect from jaswing noise of the.city. | sion is not properly equipped to super- extension of buildings, and also to the | breaking of the few remaining trees, and it hopes now for a better under~ standing by the people of their re- | sponsibility for the preservation of | this beautiful spring flower, both at| home and in other places. e e The Japaness government is now | wondering whether a rather blunt style | of dipiomacy is not responsible for | kicking the “Welcome™ off the United | States door mat. —— e Efforts of immigration experts t enable foreign mations to comserv their manpower are not highly con- sidered by various statesmen abroad. | ————— After becoming acquainted with the ideas of Mr. Dawes, the citizens of Germany are more than ever inclined to get together and get somewhere., | | 23 e It has been decided by leaders of | both parties that there is room in the ring only for one hat at a time. Street Cars of Wrong Type. Complaint has been filed in court by the corporation counsel for the Dis- trict that one of the local traction companies has repeatedly and pro- tractedly violated an act of Congress in operating open-vestibule cars. It is estimated that if this charge is sus- tained the company will be subject to a fine of from $1,350,000 to $6,750,000. One count of the complaint cites the operation of one certain car without an inelosed vestibule for 150 days. ‘This case brings freshly to mind the fact that the Public Utilities Commis- vise the services rendered the commu- nity by the corporations under fts control. It is lacking in facilities for inspection. In most instances defauits of service are reported by the people, who, after long suffering, finally are brought to the point of asking for re- Hef. It may be asked, reasonably, why the viclation of the car-vestibule law should be permitted for so long a period -@s 150 days. That means five months. If the law was designed to be enforced at all it should have been en- forced within five days. It must be as- sumed that the use of tihe open- vestibule cars was well known at the District building, or else it must be accepted that the Public Utilities Com- mission is not acquainted with the menner in which the car lines are being operated in the District. The former assumption is preferable, as mare reasonable. A confusingly and discouragingly wide range of street-car types prevails in Washington. There are front- entrance cars, rear-entrance cars, side- entrance cars. There are large cars and smal] cars. On the same line may be run two or even three styles of cars. In short, there is no standard type of car. The company now brought under complaint has for some Getting under way. Flivver hit a rock, But survived the shock Almost bumped a cop— Called on me to stop! Said in accents hard, “Where's your license card Once more under way, After much delay. Got confused compietc In a one-way street. Found my shop at last But went driving past Flivvers everywhere Hugged the curb with care Saw a vacant space In a distant place; But the sign so queer Read, “No Parking Here Still I persevered. "Round the block T steered; Then 'round three or four, Then 'round several more— Drove in grief profound 'Round and 'round and ‘round Till the gas gave out. Heard the angry shout ¥rom a flivver mob— Made my pulses throb— “Don’t stand there all day Blocking people’'s way!" Pushed the fliv along Past the threatening throng Got more gasoline. Roamed the crowded scene; Looked for parking ground 'Round and 'round and ‘round. Night began to fall. Did no work at all. Yet, I want to say, Had a busy day! 1 bad done my best. Through my troubled res: I kept driving on Till the early dawn, In my sleep unsound, "Round and ’round aend ‘round! Not a Proper Gamble. “I never like to play any game merely for the fun of it,” remarked the man of sporting inclination. “In that case,” remarked Senator Sorghum, “you want to keep away from politics. That's one game you can’t play for money these days.” Jud Tunkins says a man who is well satisfied with himselt is gemerally harder to please in other respects. A Tenant’s Impression. Of hard-earned pay I take my bit TUnto the landiord grim and strange. He gathers in the most of it And gently murmurs, “Keep the change.” Sharing a Disadvantage. ““Women’s clothes have become man- nish.” “They have,” answered Miss Cay- enne. “Some of us now wear skirts so tight they bag at the knees.” “A good speechmaker,” said Uncle Eben, “is liable to find de p'litical of- fices goin’ to men dat don’t pay so much 'tention to givin' free entertain- - bt R . L:l & *chief radio supervigor,” bat the Years with a "4" in them have | played a curious role in the wars of | | Japan. It was in 1894 that Nippon | waged her first great campaign—| against China. Ten years later, in| | 1904, she went to war with Russia. | At the end of another decade. in 1914, | Japan declared war on Germany, and | after a short and relattvely easy cam- | paign in China won for the allied |cause its first important victory| | against the common foc. Geoffrey | |"Drage, a well known member of Lhel ! British Parliament and an authority | on military and naval affairs, wrote | | to the London Times the other day | that “Japan is getting ready for = | war {n 1930" Mr. Drage bases his | calculations on new preparedness pro- | grams adopted by the Japanese Diet |and the probable period that will | elapse before the country has recov- | | ered from the consequences of the! | earthquake. 1 * ¥ ¥ ¥ Joseph C. Grew, who has just be- come Undersecretary of State, took | office under peculiarly distressing, personal circumstances. He had only ! been in Washington a day or two| | when cables announced the sudden | death at Venice of his eldest daugh- | ter, Miss Edith, aged eighteen. She| | and her mother and three sisters had | remained in Europé, intending to join Mr. Grew at Washington next Summer. Scarlet fever overtook Miss Grew whilo she was touring Italy | with a schoolgirt chum. She was to | have been presented at the English ! court with her mother in June. Mrs, Grew, who was a Perry of Boston and in . descendant of Commodare Ferry, spent three years of her girlhood in Japan while her father was a pro- fessor at the Imperial University. * * ¥ ¥ Most members of Congress are be- | ginning to revise their plans for the | summer. They expect to be sentenced to spend July and August in this oquatorial clime. Only optimists think taxation, bonus and the other ills that the Sixty-eighth Congress is helr to will be out of the way by the time House and Senate adjourn for the conventions recess. If Capitol Hill functigns over the summer and the President carries out his inten- tion to remain at the White House, Washington will have a busier hot season than at any time since the war. 1 * * * % General Dawes' vice presidential toom, coyly launched by this ob- server ten days ago, has received exalted indorsement. The New York Herald-Tribune, ‘Republican organi- zation oracle, gives the suggestion its officlal blessing, amd is now ener- getically boostirg the “cussing briga- dier” as a suitable running mate for Calvin Coolidge in 1924. The Herald- ‘"ribune’s argument is that Vice Presidents must no longer be momi- pated in haphazard fashion. but chosent with a view to their sminent fitness, so that emergencies will not find a second-rater coustitutionally elevated to the White House. Dawes, in the Herald-Tribune's opinien, qual- ifies. * ¥ ¥ % Mistaken opinions prevail that the United States government exercises some form of censorship over radio programs They are as untrammeled as the air itself, as far as Uncle Sam {s concerned. Hoover's Department of Commerce has & radio division (in the bureau of navigation), in charge | peoplo th. incumbent of that office, William D. Terrell, is not a oensor in any sense. Broadcasting stations use their own judzment in the character of matter they send onto the ether. Their iicenses must be renewed every three months. Tt is conceivable that if | stations were in the habit of grossly abusing the privileges of the air re- | monstrances might be made. But as broadcasting concerns are essentially dépendent on popular good will, it is the government's theory that the selves are in” position to censor the wrong kind of radio stuff. ¥ % x> Comnelius Vanderbflt, jr, who is stirring up the journalistio animals on the Pacific Coast with his illus- trated daily papers in San Francisco and Los Angeles, has adopted a sprightly editorial page slogan. It's intended to clear the Vanderbilt fam- ily name of an aphorism which has unpleasantly clung to it since Com- modore Willlam H. Vanderbilt a gen- eration ago said, “The public bel ed!" Jlis great-grandson’s bat- | > cry in bis new mewsMapers is| “The Publio Bo Served!” *x ¥ 3 Alva A Adee, grand old man of the American diplomatio service, is wind- ing up his fifty-fourth successive year in the State Department’'s em- ploy. The vensrable Second Assistant Secretary of State, who has survived ten Presidents of the United States and is now serving his eleventh, will be eighty-two years old in September, 1924, He still functions in the State Department, and in certain matters he has long made bis specialty there is none who outranks him in ability. Until & year or two ago Mr. Adee spent kLis summer vacations on long- distance tours. (Copyright, 1924.) Regrets Hanihara Note Basis of Senate Action To the Editor of The Star: Anent the Japanese exclusion mat- | pressiv ter, permit me to raise my voice in- protest—not against the ill advised letter of the Japanese ambassador, but against the childish attitude of the Senate in allowing his words to sway its collective action. Our high- est representative body should never permit its better judgment to be warped by the indiscreet utterances of any man, no matter who or what he be. Even though it be assumed that the ambassador spoke with au- thority for Japan, we should be great enough to make due allowance for a perfectly natural sensitiveness and be unmoved by an indiscreet outburst. The exclusion or admission of the Jap- anese should rest on higher ground than 2 single Japancse utteran however objectionable. Are we wfils: ing to break down the friendly re. lations built up with so much care and patience, to bring nearer the possibility of war with its unspeak- able horrors, to jcopardize the peace of the whole world, to weaken the safeguards of Caucasian. supremacy, because.of one hasty, ill considered expression? God forbid that we should be so small! HENRY OLDYS. ‘Whiere Coueism Fails. From the Kansas City Star. We wish we could get our child to smile as delightedly over a plain, nn- buttered slice of bread as the. kids do in, the baker's advertisements - Knut Norby, a prosper- ous old Norwegian farmer, is an up- right, kindly man, whose chief faults are pride and some irritability under his wife's nagging. His pride in him- self as one of the two chief land- owners of hia district and his fear of his wife's tongue cause him to con- ceal the fact that he has Stood surety for the note of Henry Wang who has become bankrupt. The ne is that. when questioned, he denf t it will be well | to “wait and see.” | In the opinion of the Springfield | | Republican (independent), “the situa- | don is such that the indictment of | Senator Wheeler will be very widely |resarded as an effort to terrorize the Senate into a relaxation of its inves- tigations, unless the indictment can be backed up; and in case it cannot be |backed up, the Senate will be con- | harged. he ought to have cuted before”: however, comes a little late. a when its political effe apparent.” The St Louis patch (independent) agree surfaca indications of a coi acy to lacken Senator Wheeler, use a sinister aspect of the evidence al- ready secured is activity of George B. Lockwoo cretary of the Republican national mmittee, and employes of the committee in con= nection with the indictment; mored ere are s i Then the rumor starts that Wangen | fronted with the question whether its | OVer. if Senator Wheeler is not guilty, has forged Norby's name, and Norby first does not deny it and later con- | firms the falsshood. So the lio starts. and, once having committed himself to it, Norby is too proud to confess. The 'matter of the supposed forgery comes to court, and the whole dis. trict is divided in its sympathies be- tween the two men, but most of the influential citizens stand with Norby because he has always been prosper- ous and respected. Norby's son, who has discovered nis fathers lle, strug- zles to force himself to rescue the ac cused Wangen, but gradually gives up under the pressure of family af- fection ard the family atmosphere, and acquiesces in the prevalling opin- | ion that his father is the injured per- son. Norby hiruself, as the trial pro- gresses, comes to believe in his own innocenive. At tho end, when the power of the lie has accomplished its work, Norby is given a dinner by his fellow citizens as a testimonial of their confidence in him, dinner he heads a subscription for the benefit of the destitute wife and chil- dren of Wangen, now convicted and in prison. *x ¥ * Dr. William 8. Sadler, an eminent Chicago physician, who has written several excellent books on popular medicine, after having given many years to the study of spiritualism, has recently published a little book, entitled: “The 'Pruth About Spiritval- ism,” that well states the case against a belief in that cult. The following extracts are from his final chapter, summarizing' his conclusions: “I am prepared. finally and deliberatel after a quarter of a century of stud observation and personal experiences with mediums, psychics and sensi- tives. to record it as my deliberate opinion that all of the physical mani- festations of spiritualism are a fraud. ¢ ¢ * Trances, visions and speak- ing with tongues * ¢ * are fully explained, well known and estab- lished psychologic data, ® * ¢ The employment of either hypnotism or the methods of psychoanalysis, in 80 far as these methods have been ap- plied to mediums, bas served to show that their spirits or images originate in their own suhconscious minds: :Rl:. 1.{:}' l-l;e ul{;l‘eeelved ‘humans; at there is nothing supernatural about the Ehosts they see oF the meo: sagps they purport to receive; that the whole thing js a trick made pos- sible by the mscious—by mean: of the well known psychic laws of mental transference and psychic pro- Jection. ® ' "¢ Scidnce has not ac- cepted, and does not accept or in- dorse, spiritualism.” A One of Woodrow Wilson's last let- ters was a request #o his publishers to send a set of his “History of the American People” to the Meiji Uni- versity of Tokio, which is collecting books to replace those destroyed by the Japanese:earthquake. A copy_ of this, the most extensive work by Mr. Wilson, has gone to Japan. * % ok % Ellen Glasgow recently said that she conai the six greatest Eng- lish novels to be: “Tom Jones,” “Van- ity Fair,” “David Copperfield,” “Jude, the Obscure,” “The Egotist” and “An Old Wives’ Booklover would cut out the Obscure” and substitute VYAdam Bede” and would add & seventh, “The Forsyte Saga."” and at the | | legislative has been | independence wantonly attacked.” Referring to the revelaticn |an agent of the Republican national committee was at the scene of the in- | dictment and in telephone conversa- | | tion with the party leaders in Wash- | ington, the Pittsburgh Sun (Demo- | | cratic), declares “the average citi- | | zen will be inclined to withhold juds- | | ment, but it is clear enough that the | | circumstances are such as to give | Senator Wheeler benefit of more than the customary presumption of inno- cence.” The accusers will have to | Present an alr-tight case again® the | | Montana senator, the Hartford Times | (Democratic) maintains, or the in- { dictment will prove one of the worst imaginable boomerangs to the Repub- lican party.” If he can prove his in- nocence, the Wichita Eagle (independ- ent) insists, “the people will show ihis enemies and the world that the prosecuting arm of the government cannot be used for private revenge.” ¥ ok K ok Aside from Wheeler's explanatios, which carries the ring of “cundor and truth,” the Lynchburg News (Demo- | cratic) says, “the affair bears the ear- marks of politieal persecution, inspired by the administration.”” While the Knox- villo Sentinel (independent Democratic) regards it as “ome more incredible blunder against the administration by reason of its apparent co-operation with and active encouragement of the dis- | credited Daugherty in making his war on the offending Senate and senators.” The New York Evening World (Demo- cratic) considers “the motive for animus on the part of the department he has 50 glaringly exposed is plain enough.” The Butte Post (Republican) is con- fident “in this region there will be no rush to conclusions as to the merits of the legal proceedings involving Senator Wheeler or the outcome of them; the | community where he lives is ready and | willing surely without ice to re- serve judgment while the affair follows the usual legal course.” The Spokane Spokesman-Review (independent Repub- lican) also does not want to commit it- self as to whether he is innocent or guilty. The Seattle Times (independent Republican) points out that “he will havo full cpportunity to present his de- fense in & Court where tha rules of evi- dence ars well established, and in this particular he will have a fairer deal than he has given others.” Since Senat-r Borah is chairman of the special cummittee investigating the indictment, the Brooklyn Eagle (inde- pendent Democratic) and Louisville Courier-Journal _(Democratic) feel he may be depended on to get at the facts, and that the country will be guided by the findings of his committee. The New Orleans Times-Picayune (independent Democratic) claims, fur- thermore, that “neither a Senate com- mittee nor a rabidly partisan opinion should undertake to acquit him, en- dow him with a halo and canonize him as a political ‘martyr,’ until the facts in‘his case are duly established by fair.and impartial trial before a court of justice” ~ Fair play will work {ts ukual way on these cases, according to the Duluth Herald (in- <ependent), which believes, “if they are purely political, if they are mere- ly.a way of getting back at Senator | Wheeler for what be is .doing in Washington, they’ will react’ \nwnl that | | brand of poiit the department is utterly corrupt and needs cleaning out from top to bot- ton Just how had the situation looks for Senator Wheeler, the Sioux City Journal (Republican)’ would not at- tempt to say, but “the deévelopments at Washington are beginning to move along with attention given to the old rule that turn about is fair play, and the pubiic now will have the opp tunity to see how a Democrat can con duct himself in the role of the fox with the pack after him in full cry.” In view of all this the St. Paul I patch (independent) asks “Can Sen: tor Wheeler expect more considera tion than be gave to Daugherty Answering this the San Antonlo Light (independent) says, “If it is all right for Senator Wheeler to investigats, his enemies for political purposes, it is the right of Wheeler's political enemies to investiggte him for po- litical purposds. Hoéwsever it is nel ther the best nor highest kind politics, but it is difficalt to find hat cannot be b.) News (inde- ought now to be to julge { ed by both side: The Norfolk pendent) thinks in a little better position | how unfair it is to judge u publid man upon meager and untrustworthy evidence.” And even though the charges agdinst him fall. the Scran- ton Republican (Republican) sug- gests, “he is getting a dose of tha medicine he has been so industriously mixing_for others” The Lansing State Journal (independent) indorses this sentiment and adds, “the moral, if there fs any, is that when you start throwing bricks you want to have your own iron haf ready.” Regardless of the outcome, the Cot lumbus Ohio State Journal (Republi- can) says, “Let no one assume or pre- tend that to accuse a Democrat, or. to prove him guilty, helps to absolve a_ guilty Republican—politics that way, but not patriotism.” Dartmouth to Teach Art of Ingratiation , Dartmouth College bas called a Pullman porter to its rostrum to § struct undergraduates in the finesse of understanding buman nature—the art of getting along with people to one's profit. This art is one of which the col- leges can weil afford to give an ink- ling. Thousands.of.graduates other- wise perfectly equipped have a hard ! row to hoe because they have failed in its application. They have lacked the simple, primary qualification of common humanity. They bave taken no course in the valuable science of getting next to the other fellow— ingratiation. They have not learned that to interest one's self in one's neighbor, unobtrusively winning grati- tude and friendliness, is a vital move in_the great game. The Puliman porter knows this be- cause he has no other way of making a living than by its direct applica- tion. His tips are an expression of gratitude. They may also have come o be an expression of a sens social obligation: but if that It is because by the p his art, the withholding here and alacrity there, Las mesmerizéd the mj Rapida Press. - he servanmt er—Grapd l}