Evening Star Newspaper, April 21, 1924, Page 6

Ao THE EVENING With Sunday Morning =y ‘tion. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY.........April 21, 1924 R ficial” movement. These mass meet- ings are supposed to be spontaneous | manifestations of national pride in | what Germany has done in the past, | and expressions of hope of what she is | to be permitted to do in the future. | But, of course, everybody knows that THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor | thoy have the full assent and approval ‘The Evening Star Newspaper Company | Office, 111h St and Peoasylvania Ave. w York Chicary O o Offieo: 16 RegentSt., with the Sudav morning vable in Advance, Reciprocity Ga We which Incongruities. vill ever have gastax n wha im in view t nd tious (he Dis. tike the + purposes of e Lax and of Tocai ¢ ould, it seif-tning S to pay large d repair the + with cd with new or was figured s tax ar | of the government. Otherwise they | would not be held. | There is an important “if* in this | situation, of course. “If’ Germany is 1mnnum1 to the league of nations she may some day ask for the return of ome of her colonies. She is not yet in the league, Possibly this flaunting of L desire to win back the colonies may delay her admission. In another respect Germany is mak- ing it hard for herself. Despite the suf- fe of some of her people, owing to the manipulated collapse of the cur- cency system and the failure to ve- nize on the strength of the hope f escaping reparations, thousands of the more affluent ones are traveling the world with ostentatious wigality of expenditure. An article nted yesterday in The Star de- the doings of these Teuton ourists, who seem to be actuated by a csire to rival all others in the matter luxur d costline \ey are creating a very bad impres- ion, and making it difficult for those who are sincerely desirous of relieving suffering through popular ptions and, in this country, zovernment appropriations. rin ut seribes — e “Over the Top.” de by William M. Butler, Coolidge’s pre-convention that delegates to the tional convention favorable to his smination have thus far heen chosen This 138 cight more than enough to inate, and would seem to assure several “Coolidge Claim is n I'resident manager his nomination, as states” with large delegations will me in by April President Cool- se’s victories in the primaries, in » conventions and in district elec- have been phenomenal, a con- stant record of progre can rightly be claimed by his friends as a wonderful tribute to the wter of the man and of spon- ognition by the voters of It must be borne in mind victories were won without reous T nis merits, :t these ) t of unusual political methods s made them possible volun- it would seem, without special sleading heing necessary. Thrs, far in advance of June 10, the = of the national convention, ns find plans for practically complete ra tty well cut and : Democrats are not so & with theirs, The Democrats have A1 oni delegates. is number 218 are uninstructed, be decmed illuminative of uncertainty which exists among their probable nominee Ve arily rir nominati at any o Of t which m the to 1 respeetively: 24, and Mc- nk and file are going v about committing them- This policy promises a long ion of the Democratic national con- 1. while the leaders barter and 2d compromise. ventic dick: R of Maj. Bowie. Washington'’s “‘weather man” goes to fields and other weather. Maj d H. Bowie, who has been he Capjtal's “weather man,” or fore- caster, sinc 9, will bid the Capi- tal adicu in June and, as the ne ac- Transfer other *| count puts it, “will assume charge of ermont and Ve have u tax Lill so ambiguous in terms of provision as to conditions of wxpenrditure of the fund that the Sen ate conferees construe it in one wa s pave the way anot We do o and the House conferes to construe it in not know whether this tax bill v lates « not violate the definit proportion §2-10 plan of the new or- wanic aet of 19 money has e bas world 1 pretey thoroughly her her ineed the at rment sov at ious as her 1 he a success it s smen are 1d vonsei as proficient g ition that a bad make an ab: v and Colonies. that corr n has just come a campaign is to in that week for purpose of securing the return of of the under Thursd: countr colonies taken the treaty of it ated, 55 meetings rmany’s past e many siflles. On ics of mation-wide to be held, at which ¢ 10hiev a colonial power will be discussed, that date having been Ghosen as it is the fortieth anniversar; of del the establish- ment of colonies. This is to he an un- ffficial campaign, but launched with the full. consent of the government. Later, if Germany should enter the ichgue of nations, it would be proposed be given a mandate over of her former colonial posses- ent Germany's in on hat. she some it is hard to follow the reasoning which leads to such a movement as this. Here i Germanty not yet started s v and effeciively upon the task . ehtful Obligations im- posed upon her by her defeat in the ecking to undo the treaty in one most important particulars. Such & fovement might conceivably receive congiderate attention twenty or forty years Iater, after a faithful discharge of reparations. But now it is simply to be viewed as a further sign of in- oty to réalize defea It is to be noted this is an pcere forecast district at San because of the retirement of E. A. Fields, who has been seek ing for some time rclease from his long period of service.” In the fifteen years that Maj. Bow has faithfully and daily served Wash- ington no other widely read and discussed. His little | essays, though anonymous, have been of first interest 1o most persons. Much of the public credit which shouid huve =one to Maj. Bowie went else- where, for nearly everybody says, “The paper says it will be colder tomor- row.” Nobody says, “Maj. Bowie fore- 1sts pleasant weather.” Much of the | weather literature which Washington has read daily during fifteen years | has been the work of Maj. Bowie; | and the few lines which he has writ- ten every day were based on the ex- amination of many*facts, Perhaps few authors use so many facts, gathered from more and such widely separated ources, in composing @ few words'as Maj. Bowie. If it is his desire to change from Washington to Cali- | fornia, the best wishes of 500,000 Dis- trict people—and no one knows how many people of Maryland and Vir- ginia—go with him. Some folks in | California will consider that the gov- ernment promotes him to a better climate, but many people not of Cal- ifornia will oppose that view. —e———— Diplomacy’s art is a delicate one. Two words may upset a good under- standing that volumes may be needed | to restore. | —————— | The term “your serene highness, | by which the Prince de Sagan is for- | mally pddressed, sounds, at a distance, a little like sarcasm. the Frar Pacific ‘isco, ve Among the luxuries insisted upon by sybaritic junkers is imported and ex- clusive money. Forest-Protection Week. We have entered upon the observ- ance of Forest-Protection week, and in Washington 1,500 Boy Scouts have vresented a spectacle well calculated to move public interest in a highly im- portant matter. With destruction of American forests by fire, ax and saw the people are faced with a timber shortage and the thousand incon- veniences that must result. If the course which the people of North America have been pursuing for three centuries is not arrested and reversed the United , States will come to be without timber trees. Happily during the past half-century we have awak- ened to the danger of )flefore!mlon. and have set in motion forest con- servation and the replanting of cut- over and burnt-over lands. This work gains in force, but the loss in trees still far outweighs the gain. Forest- Protection week forcibly brings the matter before millions of people, and | ci campaizning upoen his part or the em- | ell | | uaii author has been so | will strengthen public opinion that we give better care to forests that remain and replant denuded areas. President Coolidge In his forest pro- tection proclamation points out that the most formidable agency of forest destruetion is fire, and that of all forest. fires reported each year 80 per cent are the result of human careless ness. There is a growing desire that a larger area of timber land and poten- tial timber land be brought under im- mediate control of the government. In these national forest areas trees are protected against® ruthless cutting, while scientific lumbering is‘carried on that the maximum quantity of lumber may be produced without destroying the forest. The Secretary of Agricul- ture says that during 1923 about 11,- 000,000 people visited the federal forest arcas for recreation. In the national forests fire is the chief enemy. In the woods of the east and the forests of the south and west great fire loss is caused by careless campers, trampers and others. One of the objects of Fi Protection week is 4o educate people against that carelessness which starts fires in the woods. ————— Ind’ctment of Alleged Gamblers. The law officers of Prince Georges County have taken determined steps toward closing illegal *resorts” which draw patronage mainly from Wash- ington and exert a dangerous influence in the county. Law authorities and law-respecting persons in the District have long complained of the overline gambling and drinking places set up in Maryland close to the District boundary and therefore beyond reach of the District law. Somectimes Wash- ington has bad e the indifference which Prince Georges County authoritie emed to feel about this matte Recently were a number of arrests for viclation of the anti-gaming law of Maryland and it is believed that nearly all, and perhaps all, of the overline “resorts” have been closed and their proprietors arrested. The grand juw for the spring term of the circuit court of Prince Georges County has returned indictments against proprietors of al leged gambling places along the Wash- ington-Baltimore boulevard near Wash. and at Bladensburg, Cottage Berwyn and Branchville. The cases will go to trial, and there is gen- eral confidence that the anti-gami law of Maryland will be enforced for the credit of the county and state and for the peace and comfort of Wash- ington. —————————— Rumors a: rt that in Washir the disappearance of liquor may b mysterious as its appearance. Prohib] tion enforcement admittedly has not yvet reduced old John Barleycorn to his proper status as an antique and impalpable myth. o e ington ton as The situation would be mor for Harry Thaw if his attention had been occupied with pink giraffes or sky-blue anacondas instead of the ani- mals which witnesses agree were per- | fectly live rabbits. r——— Fears that Henry Ford will make money out of Muscle Shoals are war- ranted to this extent: There is not a chance that he will allow any enter- prise with which he is associated to go bankrupt. ——t—— The “dark horse,” once so interest ing a possibility at a national part: | convention, is expected this summer to confine his attention to the vice presi- dential race. ————— Wealthy German tourists are grad- convincing Europe that the surest way to Graw money from the defeated nation is to open @ hotel de luxe. _ SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Reliable, ‘The Ship of State has swung along On billowing hopes and fears; She kept her course still going strong For years an' years an’ years! ‘We chose a cap’'n an’ a mate To mind the way she steers, The crew has kep' her going straight For years an' years an’ years. The passengers will sometimes scold An’ say she heaves an’ veers, But just the same her course she'll hold For years an’ years an’ years. An Open Mind. “We have called to see you about organizing a new party,” said the spokesman of the delegation. “Are you in favor of the idea?” “That depends,” answered Senator Sorghum, “on which’ of the regular parties it's liable to take the most votes away from.” Jud Tunkins says he never tries to get the last word in a political argu- | ment because out where he lives there ain’t any such thing. Daylight-Saving. Sun time is going cut of date. The clocks—we stop and twist 'em. The Senate should investigate The present solar sygtem. Conversational Compromise. “As soon as we are married,” said the happy girl, “‘we are going to have a radio set in the house.” “That is a very good idea,” an- swered Miss Cayenne. “It is always desirable for two people to have some- thing to listen to occasionally besides each other. . Oblivion. “Nobody seems able to give me a clew as to where liquor is being ob- tained in this neighborhood.” “That's perfectly natural,” declared Uncle Bill Bottletop. “One drink of it makes a man forget everything.” Conserving Talent, “We need more real practical agri- culturists in the legislature.” “No, sir!” protested Farmer Corn- tossel. “Regular farmhands are too valuable right where they are.” “Satan don't have to chase most sin- ners,” said Uncle Eben. “He simply gives his address an’ dey locks him up:* to complain of | there | BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Answers to Questions Q. Is there an organization of tin can tourists?—A. M. A. “The Tin Can Tourists o World” was established three ago. It has no dues, no fe officers receive no remunerat Q. How high did s many rise?—W. H The emergency stamps, because of constantly depre v valu Ren disp m. amps in s high as 50,000,000° m sfennig stamps, which cing the provisionals, run Q. What is the bource of from which young trees origina logged-over lands w. Al ready in the ground and litter under the trees and | destro d by fire following the €ine, immediately germinate and duce In other are left suflicient in restock the are comy s takes, as a rule, this reuaso it iIs ortant that a meth posal be adopted which destroy: duff on the least possible ared. Q. or in the h How tall was Jumbo?—>. A. Jumbo, Barnum's circus phant, was 11 feet 6 inches in h and weighed 6 tons. What is the earth in nautical mile. cth circle of latitude? The circumference of the circle is approximately tute miles or 10,i85.3 A Q. At what temperature will bend?—0. H S A. The burcau of stand that there is no definite te at which glass Lezins to bend. glasses soften at very much temperatuic than others and i ¢ bending is » matter of ti temperature. Ordinary glass tubi jallowed to stand diagonally agui |wall will Lend of its own weight a few weeks' time. Q. How ne; the earth?—s, H, nearest ches the It will reach 1924, Q. to rain?—w. p. A, Bees are prophets. At that Mars this point in Au remar the able we approach | wathering honey and make a bee tor home. Q. Which Is incressing more i4i¥. the death rate or the birth The death rate ic increa while the birth reasing What wages rge farm w ates | moenth with board crease over the wages of the before when the average was § ges in 14 were $33 Q Where ar . o the subtreasuri nited States K. G. * Department 10 subtreasuries at present 'he Treasury i nited States They have federal re hav over their 5 Q |02, How did Bar-le-Duc jelly name?—a. 0, W, The original Bar-le-Duc de of selected white . anufactured in rance. The term no. [ £ooseberry, | Taspberry presery | usually served with | @ wn | the Tnitec 1 A Xth | Stat i ine strawherry at part of the total ar 1 States is Alaska?—C Alaska includes more th n f the total arva of the What causes 1he Hot Springs, Ark.?—\ |. A. The source io he [hot springs is betieved 1o bt one L of igneous rock |the carth’s crust by volcanic aman | Deep-seated watérs converted 1pors by contact with thi &S probably ascend th toward the surface where cold springs which are vapors, Q. How did the fo ceive its nam o liot evrin COM. intrul they get-nge-: —M. W, Nermo of Englan ok | @8 the “forget-me-no Hower it Q. What is meant by sion, "_‘1':, Lent and the the exp flag's do A. Many years ago theaters ited flags on their roofa o ) that performances Lent there were auently no flags, g plays, Q. Why is the word “tresses" in"speaking of women's fei, Kl'. H A. The origin i is uncertain, b i from a Greek | old. It was first | > hair divided into | ns and braided togethoer. | age has exte lude lock or curl of hair et this A. The word has the same de: as cingle, the in cing meaning a belt or girdle, The ease often manifests itse! | of small blisters around | e | Q. What is the name of th hich a L!':nan climbed up a lr.”e‘}’ A. The city through wi passed and in which publican or tax gatherer, a,lree_,_l,:\ order to see Him, was cho. is is rélated in La 3 | nineteenth chapter, i | w Q. What meaning is attached t —H. M. A. Carcassone is use: fplacre to which every ticular desire to go. | generic term, as it were. The a | town has lured many visitors, it ranks as “one e able monuments existing.” one has a of the Middle | (Have wou asked Haskin? He not know all the thin, him, but he knows Try' him. State your write plainly _and inclosc 3 cen; stamps for rcturn postage. Information Burcau, street.) ‘Q. What were the toms of the Jews in H. L. D. A. The Seri interesting details concerning method of Jewish mourning. mourning is of brush rin bees will drop their busines This was an as was soon known | f the f the vears and its Ger- ued ing of the old paper mark, ran in arks. arc from 3 pfennigs to 100 pfennigs in value, seeds te on In many cases the sceds are al- duff £ not log- pro- cases num- ey, many ighly dis- s the M. S, ele- eight circumference of in_the ok 12, nautical glass ower ng if nst a after r does Mars approach ap- carth Is 34,000,000 miles. wust, Can bees tell when it is going ather of u s of line rap- | ratd ing in rate do farmers pay?— 23 in 18 a in- vear 7. es of says n the tim tinued and thy aken ¢ get pre- cur- Bar-lo.- iudes nd . Bar-le-Duc W cream’ cheese, ea of ACE. nited ge at f the the great «d_in rcies, into heated rough fiss sures meet heated by the t re- this viens his ress- wn xhib- ) signify were going on. in conse- used hair?—w. ut s | word used three Mod- nded the meaning | does the disease known as inappropriate riva- gula, dis If in a series the waist, ty in o see [ hich Chrisi Zacchaeus, a climbed up Jer! ospel, verses 1 to 10, 0 the | pame of the French town Carcassone? d to express a par- It is a kind of ctual since of the most-remark- Ages does 0s that people ask cople who do know, question bricfly, ts in A Frederic J. Haskin, Dircctor, nf"éfii 220 North Capitol cus- early times?— ptures set forth many the The next of kin closed the eves of the deceased; the corpse was bathed, and if a person of any consequence the body was laid for a tim in spices, or was anointed with them, swathed in linen bandages and deposited in a tomb. The mourners went headed and barefooted, covered bar their mouths and kept silence, wore black cloth and sat in ashes. Fu neral songs were sung by hired singers, and splendid sepulchers contaj numerous niches were carved o rock. As a niche was filled, a was Q. C. C. A. This is a collection of one dred short stories by Giovanni caccio, published in 1353. Ten of tales are represented.as told one day for ten days by seven women during the plague Florence, Italy, in 1348, tious, an description of the plague. ining ut of stone rolled against the opening. ‘What is the *Decameron”?—W. hun- Boc- f the each three men and near They range from the;athellc to the grossiy licen: are preceded by a powerful APRIL_ 21, IN TODAY’S This is Forest-Protection week and next Friday will be Arbor day, as proclaimed by the President. All over the United States in all public schools and in many public ceremonies the thoughts of the people will be di- rected to consider the importance of conserving the forests. Not alone the country people are interested in pro- tecting forests but equally are the in- habitants of the cities. From the for- ests come wood for fuel and for Tum- ber; from the forests come the springs which are the sources of the brooks which make the rivers. In the forests—especially the forests primeval—lies the charm of nature which makes outdoor recreation de- lightful. There are the odor of the woods and flowers and the songs of birds—the rest of tired nerves and the renewal of joy in life. We are destroying our forest in- heritance four times as fast as na- ture can renew it. At present rates In only a few decades America will be denuded like China. The charred | stumps where fire has de tated will 4l stand ble blackened cemetery, the most woeful sight in 1 natur The hills will be | gullica flonds, destroying their 17r Uity. the brorks and then the | rivers " will overflow. later to be | parched with drought; grass will yel- | low and die. hat is not a picture of the next usand vears nor the coming cen- It applies to the next twenty yes . In some regions it is already | upon ‘us, and in many other parts the next ten years will find all timber Bol nd the sawmills removed 1 cause there is no more devastation for their work where they have wrought * K % % The President has appointed a epe cial committee composed mostly of whose object is to means of encouraging outdoor recreation for all the peeple. What greater lure can be devisod than the great forests to draw men from hot brick walls of the citi T)m”:ru\-«: were God's first tem- Ah, why | Should we in the world's riper years, negleet | God’s ancient sanctuarics, and adore Only among the crowd, and under | That our frail hanas have raised? Ml of | devise ons Americans uastion have asked in recent 1y have felt the to re to the inspiration “the groves” without Conscious rec- ition ot devoutness, for while in there were 3,000,000 visitors to public forest reservations, scat | tered throughout the land, in 1923 | there were 11,000,000, of whom 9,006 400 sought the parts inaccessible b rail, for they traveled in their auto- mobi . rha | o * % Ask any of these travelers whether the forests should be preserved and Ul will deg eir rapid depie- tion by the sawmills In the United States forest bureau a story i= told of a forest ranger out west who was taking photogra the great primeval forest when chanc note two ong a road. An hour later a forest « was discovered in the vicinity of that road. The ranger, next day took a powerful magnifying glas nd examined his negative, and he was able to read the numbér of one of the automobiles in his picturc. | By wireless the number and descrip- {tion of the tourists were broadca {and 100 miles away the part tarrested and charged with careless aused the for tfi had burned over many acr the fire-fighter could arrest They confessed th | had been tossed ‘:ude the trail | A fool there | Even as you and 1, | Carelessly down on a sun’dried patch Giving no hoed that a fire might catch ’.\nd spread to the timber with quick disp h, Even'as you and L The ‘rmu passed on with .wondering ok, Even as you and I, He couldn't explain the fire that took The forest away and dried the brook And left the rexion a place forsook. He was a fool—that's why. IR e ate aving e which s before it t a lighted cigar o the leaves be- | In the last seven vears there have !been an average annual number of 36,100 forest fires. In 1922 there were 51,891 fires, destroying 11,500,000 acres of forest. It rained more in there were not so man: President Coolidge’s admonition to the Senate on the course it is pursu- ing in its investigation of govern- ment departments, particularly the bureau of internal revenue, is re- | garded by a section of the nation press as probably the severest rebuke ever administered to the Senate by a Chief Executive of the Nation. Many editors commend the President for his | courageous message. Others criticlze im and say it will be a boomerang | that will react on both Mr. Coolidge |and his party. | . The spirit and method of the sen- atorial inquisitors from the first, the Chicago Tribune (independent Re- publican) declares “has shown that their intent was nei to_correct, but to discredit, and the Couzens ' pro. posal reduces itself to the absurd. The attempt to cust a Secretary, sa. the Boston Transcript (independent -Republican) “by such means as the Heney raid is illegitimate if not un- constitutional, and it is an_excellent thing that we have a President who is capable of telling the Senate so.” Heney would become an agent of pri- vate interests and “as such has no business meddling with the affairs of government,” continues the Salt Lake Deseret News (independent), which says “the sooner such ‘unwarranted intrusion’ is brought to an end the better it will be for all parties con- cerned” The Duluth Herald (inde- pendent) agrees the Senate “is going too far.” 1f one senator can do it “others can and the wayfaring man though a fool can guess the resulting chaos,” asserts the Portland Express (Republican). ¥k K % The Flint Journal (independent) insists “there must be an end to this (hing and the precedent set by Sen- ator Couzens must not be allowed to become established.” As the Newark News (independent) sees it “reckless irresponsibility had been displayed in the effort to pull Mr. Mellon down from the place he helds in public esteem, and it called for rebuke.” The resignation of Prof. Adams of Yale from the position of technical adviser of the committee because the inquiry was to have_been glven over to Heney, the Springfield Republican (independent) holds: “will strengthen the administration’s position so far as muck-raking in the income tax di- visfon Is concerned.” The opinion of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram (inde- pendent Democratic), the St. Paul Dispaten (independerit) and the Al- )y Knickerbocker Press (Repub- lican) may be summed up I the . o BY PAUL V. COLLINS k and desolate, like a | automobiles | was, and he flung a match, | Coolidge Message to Senate Considered “Severest Rebuke” 1924, ' SPOTLIGHT fires. but still 80 per cent of forest fires are caused by the acts of care- less men—campers, brush burners and incendfaries. One out of every 900 tourists in California set fire to a national forest lust vear by leaving & campfire ungnenched or by tossing a cigar or match among dry leaves. “He was a fool—tha Twice as much timber is inexcusably burned up than is used for lumber. * ok ok ok Forest-Protection week was first ob- served on the Pacific coast years ago. In 1971 President Harding proclaimed it as a national movement, and again In 1922 and 1923. It is aimed to bring home to the public generally, and especially to tourists and farmers, the importance of greater efforts to check | forest destruction. It is a movement | apart from Arbor day, which aims to | encourage tree planting—a movement which was originated by Gov. J. Ster- ling Morton of Nebraska, later Secre- | tary of Ag iculture. | In_Burope the nportance of con- |serving forests and even indiyidual |trees is so fully recognized that in some countries it is unlawful for an wwner of trees to cut on= down with- at a licen nd he is required to r all =0 destroyed What is the practical solution the situation, since mere scolding the destruc n is not constructive? The followin ragraph, ta n from a recent publication of the Dcpartment of Agriculture, answers that demand for constructive suggestion 11 the available s and forest types, cf European experi- ence, lead to th onclusion that, un- der intensive forestry, our entire area of 470 million acres could ultimately produce an average of 58 cubic fect per vear to the aere, or a total the country of 27 billion cubic fee Included in this would be I:ulmn board fee or 15 cuble feet, of saw [timber, seven times the ' present growth’ of such material. The total f 27 billion cubic feet would exc our present consumption by 43 lion cu “t, but it would excecd our present drain on our forests by the re ively narrow margin of ap- proximately 2 billion cubic feet.” * F % ¥ It does not follow that our present rate of consumption of timber must be uniformly maintained. Better fire-prevention methods will save | great percentage, and, In addition, | |there are substitutes for lumber which will be used—more brick and concrete in building, more iron and furniture and vehicles. Wall- now made sometimes of sugarcane stalks: it can be made of cornstalks and other fiber. The pro lem all such substitutes is the cost of bringing the crude materisl to the | factorie These substitutes are not so comforting from commercial andpeint as they are theoretically | nada is about to put an embargo on | the export of pulp wood and Cana- dian pulp makes e-1ifth of our print paper in the United States. * X ¥ % Probably next Wednesday the House will begin the ideration of the MecNary-Clarke bill “To provide for the protection of forest lands, for the reforestation of denuded arcas, for the extension of national forests, and for other purposes, in order to promote the continuous production of timber on lands chiefly suitable | thereto This measure will empower the cretary of Agriculture to co-oper with state authoritics in develop- a forest policy al governm will ap- cqual to what the re- invest in forestr and municipal fores lition to giving greater to the care and planting of | federai forests. The aid of states will take into consideration what pri- vate owners do in caring for their own woodlots. The measure carries appropriation of 10,000 to for- ward the projects. * * ¥ An editorial in the current number of American Forests ang Forest Life, published by the American For- estry Association, says: “Leaving oil to the Democrats, whose rejected platform contained no conservation plank which.a faithless donkey might have to walk, our eye becomes fascinated by the Republi- lcan declaration of 1920: “Our most pressing conservation question re- lates to our forests . | Four rs of ernment! Four vears of opportu- nit Four years of inaction with respect to forcst legislation! * * ¢ | What will the Republican platform of ils:l say about forest conservation!” ‘opyright, 1924, by Paul V. Coliing.) of | at on the a B * Republican gov- words of the Oakland Tribune (inde- pendent Republican), which says “the President has spoken courageou out of the needs of the time and ha voiced* the national sentiment for a return of sanity and the maintenance of constitutional and legal rights.” What is more, “President Coolidge has rendered the country a notabl service,” acclaims the Seattle Times (independent Republican). Indeed, “President Coolidge is right, @ right,” according to the Kansas City Journal (Republican), which feels “every clear-thinking American who loves justice and wishes our in- stitutions to survive will be with him 7 the stand he has taken And pos- sibly the exhortation from the Presi- dent, “set forth ent spirit_yet with earnestness,” Butte Post (Republican) claims “may serve use- ful purpose The Baltimore Sun (independent Democratic) believes “the attempt to fix upon the President a purpose of choking off all the in- 4 essentially an attempt d into his message implications he never thought of placing On_the other hand, the Des Moines Reister (independent Repub- lican) maintains “the Senate has a re- sponsibility and the question is whether we should at this time take the President’s word for the conduct of the Treasury Department as against an affirmative vote in the Senate in favor of making an investigation, particularly when the national com- mittee insisted with great vehemence that the President stand by all his cabinet officers and defy investiga- tions.” ok K % The Lincoln Star (independent) claims that “because Calvin Coolidge failed to take steps to clean up Wash- ington, waiting until senatorial in- vestigations forced his hand, his mes- sage to the Senate, protesting against continuance of the methods has been correctly described by Senator Walsh as ‘the most arrogant message sent by an executive to a parliamentary body since the days of the Stuarts and Tudors,’ furthermore, ‘he could not have choten a more inopportune time to have raised the issue.'” The Reading Tribune (independent) also does not understand why he can re- buke a body like the Senate for an act that he stood by silently and watched perform several weeks ago, for “it isn't quite compatib'e with £ood republicanism.” In addition, the Charleston Post (independent Demo- cratic) regards his lecture to the Sen- ate ag “not impressive, in view of his own failure to take effective meas- ures against just such a development has come about” The Omaha as World-Herald (inde; t) admits ‘Prexident Coolldge ?:.u‘..dever poli- | sador Hanihara | in sub | publican COURAG “I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.” —HENLEY. Early in boyhood Albert J. oridge, though his parents struggling with poverty, set United States Senate as his g and it took him years of gruel hardships to attain it. From the Ohio farm on which he was born in civil war times the fam- ily moved to Illinois, where h A life of privations. Plowboy at twelve, railway laborer at fourteen, logger and teamster at fifteen, he joined his father in renting a wheat feld, hoping to for an cation, but the torrid suns burned the verge of beggary. st _Point, but laughed it « joke during the examination and was penalized several points, losing even then by only fth of 1 per cent. Edward Ander: a local lumber- man, offered hia $50 and ordered him off to the university. Long before his reer there ended ho had repaid the rking as steward ub, selling books winning many h achie bachelo: ’ Tee at Bev- were the al— ng was in acollesc In vacation and prizes "did he and then o m Pavw Universits Laking $300 for his senfor v determined to win all the cash offere xcepting the iatin, he took all of the a in- cluaung the $100 prize for orato and when earried off the intercollog.- ate oratorical trophy. As a lawyer in Indianapolis foushy the riachine. made m big litigations, and w- n Stutes senator by the Indiana ure in 1589, when he X. Re-elected at the Lis first term, ho lost small margin Beeoming a Progressive, 1 feated for governor in 191 then he vain to to the Senate. In he was nated in the prim but fail election. He has heen writer, and he crowned his work in 1919 with the g of John Marshall, first Ch of the United States, that written nriz 0s it g was thi expir: in 1410 = d of an indefa (Copyright. 1924.) Japanese View Backed. ation Entitled to Treatment Like Others, Says Editor. It is diffien't to understand why the House failed to heed Secretary Hughes argument on the Japanese exclusion question when the immigration bill was under consideration on Saturday Either it must have closed its mind to reason or have become utterly panicky fore the picture of horrors that is common'y drawn by the members the Pacific coast. In accordance with the request of Japane throug Hughes s: Japan basis as nat: adm from the rnment, Mr. stance that th the same other countries this country. sound + nightmare to the P coast, but what does it mean in fact? Simply that under the general terms of the tmmigration bill & quo per cent of the Japanes this ry according to the 18 n:us may be admitted in any one year. does that me Simply 3 Japanese might enter in upon it wiil not be arzued that 146 year entering the United with i puation of ever 11 persons, is 4 menace. Such i number might be ded co taken by But there are gained by tr - Japan we nationals of the We save the pride of the ion of the orient, and incline instead of to We make the human ness that ma and make permane formal relations that g ren put_ourselves in far bLetter p xpect the aid of Japan in the tection of the open-door policy i orient, to which we are comm initely and which Japan may wree 1t may be argued that the 146 Ja nese who wou'd be admitted each if Japan were given the same tr as the white nations under the immigration bill, will not be Japanese who will that to them must be added those smug- gled in from Canada and Mexico. whatever the number smuge'ed, no reat harm can Le done by adding 145 legal entries. And it is quite probable th Japan's interest wou'd be eniisted reduce smuggling if her pride were saved by the terms of the immigration act; whereas she mas be indifferent Lo smug- £ling, or even encourage it, if her pride be offended s to be hoped that when the re- senators meet in conference on party policy today they will proceed more soberiy than the House, and give thought to the plain common sense of the situation.—Baltimore Sun ———— In a Few Words Modern schools cerned with refinement, le called, and not to friend and sy ture of we to i t ted de ar, ment Houce all th are too much con- ideals for and culture. so ; nough with the ideals of active participation in the politi- cal and civic life of a nation —DR. WILLIAM McANDREW, Without Greek literature the world would be pretty much what it is to- : without Greek mathematies our tern civilization would not exist. —BERTRAND RUSSELL. Biology will set as its zoal the abo- lition of disease. Abolition of discase will make death a physiological event like sleep. A generation that has lived together will die together. —J. B. S. HALDANE. T regard it as frankly debatable whether it is a greater benefit or in- jury in life to be born of a stock from | which much is_expected —LORD BIRKENHEAD. Germany at her next elections will select another kaiser, probably Crown Prince Frederick William —SENATOR TRAUFFLIEB (French senate). It is doubtful whether there will ever be less than half a million un- employed in England. —J. W. MUIR, M. P. tician surrounded by clever advis however, “he knows what he is doing—in what direction he is headed; but he Is treading on dangerous ground.” “The most significant phase of the President’s attempt at_ intimid: in the opinion of the New Yors ning World (Democratic) too evident resentment, not only of this investigation, but of those that have preceded it.”” Indeed, the Pre. ent's injection of the reference ‘partisan criticism” in his message “rebuking % matter in which Demo- crats had no part” the Knoxville Sentinel (independent Democratic) considers, convicts the FPresident of ‘partisan’ animus himself in his mani- festation of wrath” Furthermore. “any attempts at this time to ward off or hinder investigation” the Ro- chester Herald (independent) believes “will give rise to fresh suspicions and curiosities.” At all events, the vannah Press (Democratic) suggests the spectacle of the President trying to stifle the investigation of the upper house of Congress Is a very unusual one, and his attempt to call them down to_constitutional precedent is ame and halting.” While the New Orleans Times Picayune (independent Democratic) thinks the issue will have to be fought out at the polls, but “it is, unfortunately, an issus which will' lend itself to distortions and misinterpretations promotive of heat and confusion in the public mind rather than of life,” therefore, it adds, “it i9 to be hoped this vital issue will be made perfectly clear to the Ameri- can peopl o R s =1 | United States of the bir enter the countrs; | But | FIGHTS CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS OF JAPANESE Exclusion League Embarks Upon New Crusade Affecting Nip- { ponese Born in U, S. ;MGCLATCHY REVEALS PLANS ;Debatex Project With Dr. Gulick. | Who Represents Churches “ BY FREDERIC WILLIAYM WiL1 To deprive Japanese born | American project of “m:u:m citizenship the “Japa Encouraged with other | barrea froj | has now in | ituti | nationalize sutomatica Asiz the irurated & mos la cons ns in New by V. to this ¢ York at t McClatehy latchy | mover | movemen | Californlans before the s mittee. It | tion of Califor Japanese, they declare m ‘a the aved the MBIty is their strong neil 1 of Churches * Dr. Guliek ipanese in hig nt immi- problen concerned. Embark Upon New Crusade, Mr. McClatchy did not seek to con- j ceal at the necting trat the triumph { of the exclusionists in incorporating x Japanese in new 1unched titutional matic of the lender fundamenta f government t the Culifornians tory that they Started out e, “These surs” Mr. M tre hardly less more and to omatie- reme lifornia’s American Opinion in Japan. American public opin repre- sented in Jap tiser T tori lis 111y newsp per. o Japan Advertiser, on A ) the United S United Sta the From ne other tous in the J as <harply, but a Americ 1t is a tri to the friend throuzh trou- times in_the ! justitied in the prese ht handicap and endure ture s no regard iration with wh pan always re zard { worl helping | stagger | Raps Washington Po | “But for Ja : | clusion that |a thing of the ous volce ¢ true voice would be stea blow 4 friend. iticiuns. con- can titution, it is but siderations, ne ot 1+ o ratic and respol to the will of the B 1 | formul: i | the public, t | gather at Wa It seems ome few this, but the mas (Copyright 1924) A School for Your Boy and Girl BY JOHN CARLYLE “The {deal the abilities, ment and aspirations which full-g women need to posscs: try to develop the young human heing So savs Prof. Franklin Robbi the University of Chicago. Pr bitt is engaged upon one of t important picces of work that possibly busy himself w is tryinz to over the schools i rtain an_citice. He has empl curticuis most hopeful of all_sizns the times is the eurnest efforts tha are being made in many towns awnd citles to change their schools and to fit_them to the actual needs of the bovs and girls who are sent (o these schools to get an educatior In the old-fushi most of them are still of that kind- the boy or girl with v an capacities is held b ir abillty of the under-rs forward. We try to p and lassies throush th labyrinth and we exp product, uniform and course, it can’t be done In the first place (i cold storage knuwledie, printed pages, is not s sure a youngster whs tion. The ideal school must awaken the love of knowledse, the desire to know. It must awaken in the youth the scnse of responsibility for gotting his own education. He must first and last be taught that the education he gets out of school depends exactly on the work he puts into school In the second place schools in the future—ideal schools—will grade boyu and girls according to their natura! abilities. The aquick, responsive youngster will have thé cpportunity to Ko as fast as he c: If he senses that he is on his way to get somewhere and to be some body he will be given the opportunity to go quickly. The duller youth, on the other hand, will not be allowed to lose all that an educational system has for him by reason of the fact that he can’t keep up and droops in discour- agement by the wayside. He, too, will have his ewn chance at his nat- speed The success of democracy depends, above all clse, on the picking and training of leaders. A school which develops leadership, u sense of re- ponsibility, & sense of values and of Jjudgment is the ideal school. It Is never a school of mere maps and muitiplication. & (Copyright, 1024.) schoal h action, would discover bits, powers of judg- appreciations ol n man th, He Am ed to re usefu acquisition of wisdom from t to ir we call educs