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6 THE EVENING S TAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY, A PRIL 24, 1924, e e e S e e —— pE—h THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edll}o: WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY......April 24, 1924 THEODORE W. NOYES. The Evening Star Newspaper Company Bisinees Ofte, Buropean Offic The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning edition, is delivered by carriers within th ty af 60 cents per month: daily only, 4 ts per month: Sunday nonth. Or phone M riers at the end of each Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance, Maryland and Virginia, Daily and Sunday..1 yr., $8.40; 1 mo yaily only 131, 36000 1 m Sunday only 1yr, $2.4 All Other States, Daily and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00 : Iy only 1yr Sunday only 1yr., 1o 1 mo., $3.00 1 mo Member of the Associated Press. h ¥ entit e Pross is escl blication of this paper and also the local ereln. ANl rights of I dispatehes berein are Congressional Pay. of New York legislat Serving is first term in Washir he tinds hat he cannot congre ional salary v » the fact t compen sation is 1ith of ot make stary al- bills here and in New York, 1 campaign expendi- al presentative Celler a courageous ton his s persomally hix official befors siays he live on 1 at stities spen the He ends mee swance ach month both hatel hor his mon paying taining his ing his bienn ires and i attempting in of in a manne the dignity Consequently introduced of 0 to $10,000 representative. Celler the “ongress from $ ve has rease no doubt that islators f the consideral is in mber House have a 1te income to enable him to accept in Congress without in most lowering = deb naress s scade of livin s a matter of fact, 1l s was $3,000 a year d then hy hecaie n sufficis up to 1007 1 it ft 1dequacy ra good many years When cent was lnerea 30 per ole meeting actual s, for pussibiy half the per But expenees have if the cor d propor s and 1y 15,000 a year perhaps fairly as far as Congress since 1907 ars, living endously men's pay had advar ti commercial w e witges of a employes gener it il 1 There tha ow Dbe at least b favorable It no expectation will pass, will even committes considera tion what ab.” thing don he of oniy is not a 1hie popularly isa can calied a “salary 5 ubject question wign year in Congress is test of the pablic 1 acid motive king, the s ) propese a salary in- crease fo tional legislaturs secretaries 19ed by than a ve wars the van Just pay depar advances contemy adjustment diustments neral computed may some look at without par salury scale day this matter in a hroad sy and put the of nment on a proper to the of t rerican gove is with living relation cost S Thaw Freed. rest in the case who e spo! of Harry rmittently b nearly haw has in t for feebl eighteen ears, is only aroused upon the innouncement of a verdiet of sanity in Philadelphia unfortunate very rendered in his favor vesterday. This man tor man your punishel doubtless has be I sorely vagaries tedl that ighment fc though he escaped that 1t he com- d fung He has now been sunced by a jury to be fully capa- Tle of louking after his estate, and un t is set aside on appeal his former wife he will restraint., Whether he ve is another matter. judgment of some of the ali pur crin the who testified in the c is likely to manifest ality and unbalance at any time. On the other hand, alienists who testified w his favor hold that he is merely sub- ject to occasional emotionalism. The general public hope is that he will now de into inconspicuous ok there is a very general wi of this perennial question. wion- subs e o New J wor prim: President the nomi of So aation is concerned, it lide a lai tooks it e Campaign Odds. Wall street has begun its campaign betting already. That is to say, money fa in hand for betting, whether offers bat are made are accepted yet or wot. One firm has a roll of bills, amounting to $2,500. which it is com- wissioned to offer against $8,750 on the proposition that Senator Ralston of Tndiana will receive the Democratic That is at the 1 to It also has $2.000 to bet against §20,000, or at odds of 1 to 10, ihat if numinated he will be olected. The same firm has $1,500 to bet against $4.500, or at the rate of 1 to 3, that Gov. Smith will be the Demo- cratic' nominee, and $1,000 to lay against, $7,000 that he will be the /fpxt President, It is noted f.. “assing a short time ago olds on this proposition were 1 to 20, indi- cating a marked gain in the Smith prospect While these Democratic odds indi- cate that as far as the two candi- Qates mentioned are concerned there 2 expectation of Success a nomination I - 700 | never { foreement small ad- | | also | ana | th | of the United S| | hope rate of | - ‘*»a arevailing Wall street bet In favor of the election of President Coolidge is 7 to 5. Wall street bets as it believes the country’s trend justifies, not accord- ing to partisan predilections, Money has no sentiment in that quarter. Odds lengthen or shorten, according to the vewpoint, as conditions change. Re- publicans will sometimes take the Democratic end of wager and 8o will Democral take the Republican end, 1t is strictly a non-partisan me. If Wall reet—that is, the political betting corner of it—believes that Mr. Coolid; has a 7-to-i chance today, it because it analyzes the conditions favoring him, It is far too early in the campaign for betting odds to affect the judg- ment of voters. Doubtiess many wielders of the ballot are influenced by the trend of the wager market, being of the “band-wagon” type of mind, desirous of voting for the win- Just now thel s nothing but i-blooded Iculation in these Wall wits and they the more niticant for that reason. is ner street are r——— To Make Washington Dry. Matters up for more vigorous enforcement - of prohibition in Washington. Commissioner Oyster and the superintendent of police are willing to take ponsibility for mak- ing Washington indi- cated certain would aid them in that work. The corpor unsel counsel are shuping dry and have measures which and assistant cor tion ¢ an of long snce m of liquor in been called into has been the wet- No doubt exper pr cases the Police confe made that test city there Court have The charsze Washington 1 the was gross is country.” and but Wash- not charg most other There has been for this conditi and they res they ington, lik i is bone dry.” blame n polic that iree the law March directed of late to on District t the do not en Late in nolice police 1 Capi and every for he poi under implication cannot or the super there campaign r endgnt uld the AL forthwith of hootl o d ¢ which Sulliva dact apolice and that of that sho Eers commercial viee one grave i e that u the lova said 1 n may only the ar cution must be con nts the thought that their ition, of He to federal governmen the dack of power act on own it to the p ress W ative i a serious drawhack enabling act n uld us ve us an 1o maké thout the agent the t dry rmitting an arrest o « assistance of ask of maki would a federal W plificd Re shi be sim asked for an nthority law Evidently mmissioner Oyster Counsel Stephens on » how additional ¢ Distr in Han or a made A confe Connmissioner Oys| f Michigan @ report has been by the cor poratic en Representative Cramton Maj. Sullivan and Assis tion C Hart and coun a late hetween ant Cor unsel the situation sone Dist I now law giv it all the prohibition i with An used fet needs a 1o the o de power ed in en- forcement agents to enable thy e and W in it appropriation to make sts - in- by ereased the 1 evidence s and Commissioner Oyster law officers recommend of that 1y be prompt trial of all liquor poin wo mor thy cases Mass vors ol in the Distriet the ther the shadow of it in the Capital here is defiance t em fa- anee of law. as well as all laws. and uld not 1 ason f or is that re s in the enfor it of believed the - given the additional authority r aids they to correct trade in whisky e Should luxurious junker th A. in their 1sily that regard as nece the evils of illicit in Washington tourists in- itinerari persuaded as the whole-hearted efforts to assist their fellow countrymen who are in need, clude te - e It is the earnest conviction of Mr. James Cox that the G. O. P. is facing defe On this point he and Mr. McAdoo are in a - agreement. v When the housing problem is finally disposed of the parking problem may be considered with a view to provid- ing for the homeless flivver The District at least for enough of an income tax reduction to offset the increased motor tax e New York Traffic. New York has traffic problems that dre formidable, but it has the wealth and enterprise to meet them by stu- pendous measures. New York's traffic problem involves not alone congestion, but transit. People by choice and necessity live so far from shop and of- fice that they have had to find new modes of transit to get to and from work. There is congestion in Wash- ington streets, but despite the growth of the city the people live relatively close to their work place Fifty or so years ago New York met its problem of getting to work and home by building elevated railroads. Little steam locomotives drew three- r trains along the iron trestles. Con- struction of these ways called for capi- tal outlay that at tHf§ time seemed staggering. Then came the subway period. Tunnels were bored under street and river and under acres of monster buildings. Td our fathers the cost of such work would have “stag- gered the imagination.” Still New York's traffic demands ! grow, and the transit commission has approved a plan for the removal of the 6th aveffue elevated and the boring of a four-track subway under that ave- nue to Central Park, then under the park to 86th strect and thence east and under East River into the Bor- ongh of Queens. New “tubes” may tendency | ap- | prohibition | police | connect the south end of the subway with Brooklyn. The cost of remov- ing the elevated railroad is estimated at $12,000,000, and will be largely borne by property holders on the street. Tearing down this elevated line is a big thing. One thinks of the many millions of dollars invested in its con- struction and of the tens of thousands of people who use it every day. But New York says the old thing is in the way and makes ready to scrap it, per- haps without “batting an eyelash Then New York proceeds to the con- sideration of a new subway to cost about $60,000,000 in what appears to be a very calm and matter-of fact way. This is surely big business and New York city may justly claim to be a very important and progressive town. —— Queen Marie of Rumania. Queen Marie of Rumania is rated as one of the ablest “statesmen” of Europe. She Js not only a highly successtul matchmaker for her daugh- ters, but she is accredited with a re- markable political sense and with an efficient capacity for business. One | of her daughters has had rather hard luck in the deposition of her hus- band, the King of Greece, from his throne. The other one, however, is the wife of the reigning monarch of Jugoslavia. A third one, not yet six- teen, remains unmarried, and gossip has played about her name as a po- | tential queen of a number of the | European countries still addicted to monarchy. It is now announced that the King and Queen of Rumania will soon pay @ visit | Queen Mary at London, and | diately rumor gets busy with the idea | that Princes Tleana is to be the bride of the Prince of Wales and, therefore, the future Queen of The Rumanian Qe { pring She the of Queen Vie toris of the late King Edward and a coudin of the | pre: Frank Carpen- ter, The Star, with f a imme England. an English daughter of n i the zh, a Duke wats 126 n, and hence a nic it King George, in a article telling of Bucharest, recalled th the Duke of was still the | heir presumoptive to the throne of Eng. land. during the lifetime of his grand mother, Maric was proposed to by his brother George and declined the honor. Lat - Duke of Clarence died and A the throme on the grandmother and his she recent in an interview L react of his Had b dat Gec | death father, would now it accepted him Queen of England. As ter, if ip is well fee and he said that “1f Con- | founded. may reach that place of emi. | nence in her stead. S of Diversion | Thaw in a cabaret | hard work. baret { imagine that they are getting in touch | with the carefree and merry life. Evelyn speaks sluving for calls Most visitor ac | S e that Sinclair to de- concessions in Persia has led a few sian officials figuring on prospect of money. | The doubtl be report ol | to in ready ——e— “Reciprocity” is calculated oothe torist when called leasant word District mo- pon for more t to ti xes e °g quotations announce a drop |in the price of whisky. so that the | profit is now only 500 or 600 per cent. | s Tux difficult, but the reduction of an appropriation estimate | mpt and easy | | Boc | reduction ———— There is no present demand for busi | ness in polities so far as the oil busi- | ness is concerned r————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Momentous Questions, {1 met a man of serious mien, | Who wandered pensive o'er the | A man in a position great | Connected with affairs of state. I muttered, “I know what 11l do! I'll try to get an interview And by deft conversation find Exactly what is on his mind®” scene; “Good sir.” quoth 1, “so many lands Have pressing problems on the To which You've given patient care! I'd like to ask you, if I dare, What question now absorbs thought?” He said in tones with sorrow fraught, “Just now this question leads them all: Why do T always top a ball vour Abashed T loitered. Then 1 said, “But surely other things have led Your mood to such a serious turn.” Said he, “I'm striving still to learn The answer to a problem great Which brings anxiety of late As expectations fail to thrive— Why do T always slice a drive?” Realms of the Abstruse, | “Have you given any further atten- tion to the Einstein theor: Yes," answered Senator Sorghum. “But I find it's like 2 number of things that have come up of late. Ttll take a tremendous amount of investigation to make the general public under- stand all about it.” Jud Tunkins says he's afraid he'll have to encourager his wife to gamble a little so as to have a chance of get- ting back the price of the mah-jong set. Speed Supremacy, you boast of the wonderful speed you can show, Dear friend, you are courting dis- aster. Remember, no matter how fast you can go, The motor police can go faster. Domesticity. “You enjoy having your wife make Lrampaign speeches?” “Very much,” declared Mr. Meekton. “They have led to‘our having many pleasant evenings at home, while I re- hearse the points where I am expected to break in and lead the applause.” “Everybody,” said Uncle Eben. “feels de need of all de money he kin rfl. honest. An’ at de same time every- ‘When body thinks mos' everybody else has more money dan he ought 'fl require.’ to King George and | Answers to Questions BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. How can a man of thirty-two who has moved about in Virginia and who has not always paid his poll tax qualify for voting?—J. H. P. A. The secrotary of the common- wealth of Virginia says that a man thirty-two years of age, who has lived in Virginia for two years, in the county or city one year and in the precinet thirty days, and who has pald his poll tax for the past three years prior to the 1st of May of this year, can register and vote in the November election. Q. Are the sounds caused by laugh- ter made entirely by the vocal cords? —W. V. A. Laughter @ combination of the sound produced from the vocal cords by a series of short expiratory blasts 4nd very characteristic sounds from the vibrating structures of the larynx and pharynyx. Q. Are the hairs found on chickcus really hairs or are they embryo feathers?—V. B. L. ..\. The body covering of birds is, without exception, comprised of feathers, and by this character alone birds may be distinguished from all oOther animals. There are several dif- ferent kinds of feathers; the filo- plumes are degenerate structures, having a superfic resemblance to hairs, but they always bear & minute vane t the tip. They occur in all birds, in elusters of varying number, about the bases of contour feathers, Q How m by the gov service?—1 | A Under |are’ 548531 pay roll is ny people are employed rnment through eivil classified persons ervice the there federal on Q. How does the tonnage of cargo using the Panama Canal ecompare with that of the Suez Canal?—D. O. P. \. The tonnage of cargo passing through the Panama Canal in the | fiscal v 1923 was 19, 5 tons While that of the Suez Canal for 1922 was 20,743,245 tons Q. What is the correct name for | the ‘mineral known as fool's gold” |aB A. This is a name for chalcopyrite and sometimes for pyrite Q Vinal | Jone: A. Ti ielding it known Sophie M1 wife of was' the who was the orig- Western, in “Tom the author, Henry original Q Wiat is the differen, light operi and comie ope: A. Comi tion of the which is oy | ing and spoken | piece ceen W. E yrera is a literal transia- h opera comique 4 having a happy end- which the dialogue is It is not necessary that the introduce any comic i cretta weter. one and n for inally ope T The series of (ilbert operettas set the fash of the kind in two Q. What used for?—»z A The t serviee says that alpa. wood is a hard wood and is used principally for fence posts, us it is ver. In a test report of catalp: ted post lasts for venteen vears and a creosoted post lasts for twenty wood of ¢ Q. 1s there anything th soften hard putty in cracks?—c. J A. Putty may he disintegrated by use of a 25 per cent solution of acid. This does not soften %0 that it may be used will break ces and from the which | the | muriatic the putty it it 1 it H...-V paint that are of the religious greatest of subje | A while there are | that are lowing 1 est paintings, connected with religion “The | Supper.” Leonardo da Vinei: Last Judgment,” Michelangelo; scent from the Cross. Dan Volterra; 'Sistine Madonna Ra- | phacl: “Assumption of the Blessed | Virgin Titian; Holy Night," Cor: | reggio: “Communion of St. Jerom | Domenchino, “Aurora Preceding { Chariot of the n," o Reni: | “Immaculate Conception. Murillo; ! “Descent from the Cro: Rubens; “The Transfiguration aphael; | “Sortie of the Civie not literally famous religious, of the d twelve great- re of subject true, since 1s ward’ fow can color be set in wash 1s7—J. A. V The household mord: vinegar, sugar of I alum, used in the following ons: To one gallon of water add cne-half cupful of mild vinegar, or two cupfuls salt. or one tablespoonful alum, or one tablespoonful sugar of lead (poison). Vinegar is best for pinks. Small pieces of cloth be tested in each of the above solu- tions and ice made after test. The cloth of which the is to be made fast should be left in mordant solution overnight and be left in for several days with gond results. 1t sho thoroughly dried before being was blue and lavender may in alum water, 2 ounces to a Black, gray and dark biue should soak in strong salted water. Q. What is meant by drinking a heel tap?—D. W. A. Drinking a heel tap means to drain the glass to the bottom. A heel tap is a shoe pex stuck in the heel and taken out when the shoe is finished. Where s are ad and propor- brine Q. is Cape Wrath?—E. H. F. A. Cape Wrath is at the northwest extremity of Scotland, in Sutherland- shire. It is a pyramidal promontory 523 feet in height, noted for its wild- ness_and grandeur. lighthouse is situdted at this point. Q. What is meant by “Quo Vadis?" —J. J. D. X In the Vadis®" the Latin phrase word “quo” ‘means whither and s” goest thou. In modern English it would be trans- lated, “Where are you going?" (Did you ever write a lettér to Frederic J. Haskin? You can ask our Information Bureau any question of fact and get the answer in a personal letter. This is a part of that best purpose of this news- paper—SERVICE. There is no charge eacept 2 cents in stamps for return post- age. Get the habit of asking questions of Frederic J. Haskin, director, The Star Information Bureav, 1220 North Capitol street.) Both to Claim Credit. From the Baltimore Sun. At any rate, they will get the tax bill through in time for both political conventions to claim the credit. The Real Politics. From the Birmingham News. A shrewd politician is one who can make farmers believe the law of sup- ply and demand was passed by the other party. “Quo Keen Competition. From the Kansas City Star. A man with a few simple facts to state hasn't much chance to get the floor when a man who is a fisherman by instinct, a lawyer by profession and a golfer by cultivation is already contributing to the conversation. Propaganda Defined. From the San Francisco Chronicle. 1t fem't propaganda, however, unless 1£_favors something you oppose, is | Orig- | paintings | foi- | should | ;| phase of the Japanes When he stressed thp “law of serv- ice! in his New York speech on April the President took a ieaf out of the notebeok of Henry Ford Not in a plagiaristic sense, but metaphori- ally speaking. In the two biogra- Dphies of Ford, both more or less per- sonally authorized, there are chapters dealing with the “law of service.” They are said to have been written almost textually by Ford himself. | “Service” is the key to his philosophy | and outlook on life, the motor mag- . nate has always averred. It s the| “law” by which he claims his whole career has been directed and gov- erned. Ford seldom engages in ani- mated conversation with people with- out soomer or later discussing his “law of servi i * ke Rulph Beaver Strassburger Pennsylvania Republican, who has just bowled over Gov. Pinchot, has gone into politics with the avowed | purpose of becoming a leader. Four vears ago-he hitched his wagon to| Hiram Johnson’s star at a cost, as| Strassburger himself publi ad- | mitted, of $200.000. At the end of 1923, when the 1924 presidential cam- paign began to loom, Strassburger is- Sued 4 remarkable statement in which he deprived Albert D. Lasker and other plutocratic backers of Johnson of the glory of putting up Hiram’. war chest. A little Jater trassburger came out publiely for | Calvin Coolidge. _Since 1922 Strass- | burger fias been the proprictor of the | Norristown, Pa, Times - Herald, | published on ¥ outskirts of | Philadelphia, and 1 an ctive part in_Pennsylvan! publican poli- ties. rnorship of the state or the United States senatorship is his ultimate aspiration. He is | young, immensely rich, of attractive personality and illimitably umbitious. * % * * the | | A word to the country large. | When Washington nowadays speaks of Mr. Johnson it doesn’t mean Hiram or Magnus or Representative Albert| Johnson of .he House immigration | committee or Representative Roval C. | Jehnson of South Dakota. It means | | Walter Johnson, pitcher extraordinary of the Washington American League ball team. Mr. Johnson has § | embarked upon his eighteenth succes Sive season with the Senators. He |began the 1924 cycle twirling a 3- victory against Philadelphia, | |and, in - the same week, beating | {the' New York Yankees. world | champions Johnson haiis from Kansas, He is & modest giant. The verage 1 rict of Columbia small thinks “Walter” is considerably more of i person than the President | of the United States * ¥ ba t | arl & Vrooman, for secretury of agriculture | ington en route to his farm in Iliinois | after a two-month trip through E [rope. He saw Ramsay MacDonald in | action in the House of Commons and | | was immensely impressed with Condemnation and Praise, Both | Strong, for Immigration Bill ditors are heaping cgndemnation | upon Congress for passing an immi- | gration bill which they feel will re- | new hard feelings with Japan just when the relations with the United | tes were more amicable than they have been for many vears. Other editors are just as emphatic in com- | mending the action as the only wise course to pursu H In the opinion of the Brooklyn agle “the Senate has done much to | destroy the belief that it is the sane and sober balance whee! of govern- ment—it has proved itself just as re- sponsive to jingo sentiment as the House of Representative The New York World declares would not | be possible to sponsible perforn i { Americans, according 1ot Fort | Worth Star-Telegram. “will regret | deeply the development of the late | erisis in our foreign affairs, invol our country in a diplomatic ‘incident’ ‘\\ilh Japan. emperate | * * The Reading Tribune holds that the Senate “has committed an act as egregious as the German invasion of Belgium, because it interpreted advice |as a threat, treated what has always | been looked upon as a treaty between | the ited States and Japan as a S ¢ paper. ” The Duluth Herald that Congress is only helping the Californ agitators who “are in- | sisting on giving the Japanese people in the face.” This view Is in- by the Albany News, which “It cannot be decided on the basis of the feeling in any one section of the country The most serious reaction to the | Senate’s adoption of the exclusion | policy, the Boston Transcript con- siders, “is the common assumption of the Tokio press and public that a ‘clash’ between the yellow and the white races in the Pacific must even- tually come.” * * The Omaha World-Herald admits that the action of Congress, “but- tressed by defiant words spoken in the Senate debate, colliding head-on with the bitter opposition of the Jap- anese government, aggravated by the indiscreet note of the Japanese am- bassador, has all the makings of a bang-up cause of war, and the reason it is not expected to lead to war in this instance is that Japan cannot afford it" It at least means, con- tinues the Indianapolis News, “that we are in danger of forfeiting the friendship ‘of Japan, which surely is worth retainin The Des Moines Register agrees that we may “out of stupid spite, not suited to the dignity of our nation nor to the supposed gravity of our national legislature, set our nation on the road to eventual wa The Detroit News maintains “there is a sensible solution of the Japanese difficulty which would per- mit the Japanese to retain their self- respect,” and “that lies in the nego- tiation of a trenty between Japan and the United States by which each country withholds ts labor from the other.”” At any rate, the enactment of “questionablv law in heat and pas- sion.” the Springfleld Union claims, “would appear not only to destroy years of diplomacy and the effect of the Washington conference, but it might e worse situations than now hold. % * eate Kok % The Charleston Post concedes “the situation s bad enough, and the way out is not easy to find, but there Is no reason for elthor or both countries to lowe thelr heads and rear up agalnut each othor over a mad effort to compel ansoolations which are not dosired.” Tho St Joseph zette points out the danger in yielding to the req ont of the pAnese govern- ment “in w danger of precedent.” and, “If the principle were once establish- ed of admitiing yellow men on a quotk parity with white men, then if the quota percentage for Europeans wero ever ralned, it would have to be raiwed likewise for yellow men.” And while the people = of the United States “huve no prejudice against the Japanese, nor underrate their many excellent” qualities” the Salt Lake Deseret News Insists “they cannot be- come citizens of the United States and | he | ter: | the views - WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE British labor premier's p; deportment. “Never si says Vrooman, “has a man of Mac- Donald's culture been ai the head of his majesty's government. He con- arliamentary ce Balfour,” tinues to disappoint his crities by re- | fraining from mistakes. In manner and manners no greatér gentleman has ever presided over the ‘govern- ment bench' in_the historic hall of Westminst Responsibility, as al- most always happens on such occa- sions, has manifestly tempered and sobered MacDonald, who has already conquered the respect and admiratio of one-time implacable political foe * ok ok # Alexander Sidney Lanier of Wash- ington, who has iade a literary repu- tation by “letters to the editor” when- ever topics of stirring interest are engaging public thought, has con- tributed a timely essay to the Vir- ginia Law Register. He entitles it ’An Unpublished Letter to the For- eign Affairs Committee of the House of Representative the proposed $10,000,000 ap for the relief of needy Germarn and children. Writing_as paver, a world war veteran and a loyal ‘American citizen,” Lanier pro- tests against the proposed grant on three grounds: (1) because of its un- constitutionality: (2) because, even if constitutional, “there is no justifiable r ‘the appropri the appropria » “an unjust imposition and burden upon our already overtaxed people. * x ¥ * The British seldo! s« a diplo- trick. A recent visitor to Washington was the venerable chlef rabbi of Jerusalem. Palestine is ad- ministered by th date from the league of nations ain recognizes the World Zionist or anization in all matters pertaining to the upbuilding of the “Jewish na- al home.” As soon as Sir Esme Howard, the British ambassador at Washington, heard that the rabbi of usalem was here, King George's envoy paid the visitor an official call and was received by the rabbi in an cient ceremonial garbh. The event had an unusual character from an- other viewpoint. = Sir Esme is a Ro- man_Catholic and the distinguished foreigner is the principal Jewish dig- nitary of the Holy Land. * % % % a matic Brit- One of the arguments urg d b sinistration leaders Mo~ ry-Haugen wheat-export corpora- n bill is the probabitity that it will d to reprisals by foreign nations anada and the BEritish Empire gen- erally, it is asserted, would be almost d against th ties on our agricultural produce and erhaps cven on our manufactured sds. When nations begin to subsi- €xports. they are unsheathing a e a sword. That is said par- ticularly to apply to an international pmmodity like wheat. If Uncle Sam were the only wheat grower on earth might t liberties. But the others. They are ti-Me Haugenites think, tand with folded arms while Ame ica gets rid of surplus grain stocks on terms peculiarly advantageous to our own farmers pyright ‘, diz t i 19241 a large alien popuiation i to the welfare of this co g to the views of “a real American spirit.” City Journal believes “it can now b aid in pride that America does not sta awe before a nation admi tedly powerful, that America promises to serve the best interests of her own people reg: of ‘grave conse- quences, such as those to which Mr. Hanihara has allude: * * < 4 menace ntry.” Re- e Senate as the Sioux The Lincoin Star thinks that “Chair- man Lodge of the Senate foreign re- ions committee very correctly re- flected the sentiments of the people when he said that America conld not afford to establish a precedent arting an immigration policy to of interested forcign n use “America alone can be of who shall be admitte country.” The San Franci Bulletin ax “it is not a question for outside interference, and with the full courage to assert what in inter- national law is admitted (o be our sovercign right, we fearlessly face whatever tiay be meant by the ‘Erave consequences’ likely to follow exer- cise of that right.” Whatever the consequen: the Memphis News- Scimitar goes on, “the issue must be faced and we must either have a na- tional policy of our own or permit Japan to fashion our polic hich Would be an unthinkable situation.” + % o x The New Orleans Times-Picayune adds its opinion that “foreign at- tempts at dictation and interference serve as reminders that this declara- tion and exercise of our national right is already overdue” Moreover, “if we have not a right to say who may come here and reside here as citizens,” the Birmingham News feels, “then we have no right to exist as a nation at all” After discussing the various angles of the question, the Portland Express concludes “the best way and in the end the most peaceful way, perhaps. is to do Congress proposes and make the w unscalable”; furthermore, “it is cer- n ot wada will soon follow for Asiatics and Nordigs are no more assimilable there than in the United States.” a " hec g Recalling Ambassador No Longer Vital Step Time was when the recalling of an ambassador meant all sorts of dire things. In diplomatic usage there were certain gesturs certain phrases, certain practices, all of which were as well recognized as the moves in a chess game. The recalling of an amb; dor, in those classic d. was about two steps removed from an ultimatum, which in turn was the next thing to a declaration of war. But, curiously enough, nobody to- day Lelleves that the impending re- 1 of Hanihara means either an ul- tmatum or war. It Is a move in the game, 1o be sure, but the game is no longer played according to the classic rules. The ambassador, who used to be a major piece, is now not much more highly regarded than the low- llest pawn. As a matter of fact, he is & messenger boy and very litte else. Governments are so closely connedted by cable that the chief function of an ambassador s to carry the messages of his home government to the government to which he is ac- credited and to carry the reply to the cable office. Recognition, another great diplo- matic move, has long since ceased to have the importance once given it. Refused recognition by most of the major powers, Russia managed to get along 8o well that the politicians had to recognize the soviet gevernment in order to save their own faces. We had a somewhat similar experience with Mexico, The truth is that the great game of diplomacy has fallen on evil days. People are not impressed by diplo- mats as they once were. They are beginning to extend to them the same scorn and contempt which they bave learned_to to ans,—Bal- timore Bvening Sun. British under man- | ain to impose countervailing du- | by | The North Window BY LEILA MECHLIN Announcement has recently been made that the great Standard Oil Company has determined to abandon oillboard advertising and will join with the belligerent forces who are insisting that the highways of the country be rid of these disfigurements forever. Was it the National Com- mittee for the Restriction Bill- board Advertising that brought about this result or the Women's Clubs or the American Federation of Arts, all of which organizations have bee active in the meritorious cause, was It public opinion that has ¥ awakened and has expressed itself in opposition to this intrenchment on private rights, the right of the individnal to an enjoyment of nature unspoiled by the greed of man { |, Not only the Standard 0il Company | but clghteen other great corporations | that have employed country bill- ards for advertising purposes have | joined the ranks of those who would Dow protect the country from such | misuse. In r definite in- auiry some of these firms' have de- clared that their action is taken for | purely business reasons, country bill- | Yoards having been found an unprofit- able form of advertising because their multipli or possibly housewife's hoyeott. Also, and this is something that has not been men- tioned considered, the heads of groat corporations are men in most instances who have the means to ac- quire works of art, and in not a instances are numbered among rons of art in America. How absurd, how utterly untengble was their position! But, whatever the cause, the result is happy. Country billboards, no mat- et how cleverly or ally posted. inju nd depri of or en andseape { one of th and ree- | reation. That it is the ts and the | |art lovers of the country that were |first to recognize this fact and have | been foremost in urging jon_the advertisers and the publ show the value of such as ci | % 0% Returned travelers from abroad re- |port all of the countries in Europe |financially in a bad way. In | Britain, every ome knows {taxes are aimost unbearally heavy;| as reached the high- nark, yet, with a courage and ht which are amazing, prep- ations have been going on for the L vear for a great exposition | be heid this coming summer at We bley, near London, wherein all mem- | bers of Britain's colonial ramily will e another great white | y Is at very moment being completed i of the Brit mj;l]l]l;:— tors, writers and craftsmen—that in he face of world perplexities a group as cogne together and created for the | exposition an amazing doll's house, to |be presented to her majes |Mary as an appreciation of her work on behalf of women and children, It | is a miniature palace. More than 600 | artists have contributed. The de: izn’ was made by Sir Edward Lutyens; Orpen has paintad miniature poriraits | of the king and queen for it; A. J.| A\;ulr‘:m(ntx the well known painter of | sporting scenes, has done ™ of the Prince of Wales: the siiver: by British craftsmen of note: Barrie | has contributed an origina autobiog- |raphy: Kipling has illustrated a s | tion of his poems with origin draw ings: the books are bound by distin- | uished binders, and it goes. To | ome this may seem the height .».'" folly, but it is the kind of folly where- in one finds an element of tha divine, | that kind of which Erasmus wrote i | | the | praise. | | art and literature, closer, perhaps, ihan many are aware. {been a revival of interest in Brontes, those three interesting eis- | ters whose fifty or sixty years ago. |Tivea. it will be - ge | Wuthering Heights, b writings. Percy Smith, the British ctcher whose “Dance’ of Death” series i« owned by the Library of Congress and other national print collections has long been an admirer of Emi Bronte and has now brought out | series of ctchings showing: views of Wuthering Helghts—home! and dreary enough, to be sure. but | with the bieness the breadth and the solemnity of the place. It is rather an amazing thing that a little line can interpret so vividly | the bigness of nature, the austerity | of life bound by physical conditions t Percy Smith is a strong etcher. a man of original gift. of distinct Dersonality. The Brontes remembered, on which dreary £ 5 E = It is often asked why people should buy pictures when thex can see them in exhibitions and when there are so many other things that are at- tractive and pleasure-giving. The answer is, because some people find more pleasure in them than in any- thing else This was exemplified recently b workingman_who visited an e: | tion at the Chicago Art Institute and | | expressed a_great desire to acquire | one of the works shown. The price | was $175 and he dismissed the pos- | sibility because of his limited mean: But the picture.proved haunting, and | he so greatly.coveted its possession that he returned and asked if he might be allowed to pay ten dollars down and a certain amount each week until the total amount was paid, the institute retaining the pic- fure until then, and standing sponsor to the artist for-the purchase. That man was one of those who realized ihe pleasure to be found in a real work of art. It is such who make the best, the truest art patrons P One of the principal art galleries in New York, that of the Painters | and Sculptors’ Association, has adopt- |ed as its slogan “Art Education by Ownership,” and is doing all it can to induce the sales of works of art by American artists as a means where- by may be created an art-loving American public. And what could be better? Can one possibly know the real pleasure to be found in a work of art until one has such a work to live with? This pleasure is not one, furthermore, merely for the wealthy. Beautiful efchings can be had for from $5 to $30 by some of the fore- most etchers of today. Water colors of extraordinary merit and pleasure- able quality can be purchased for from $25 to $150, and oil paintings are s0ld at some of the great galleries in New York for no more than $250. And what is more, the people are begin- ning to purchase. The sales in the Chicago Society of Etchers’ exhibition this season amounted to more than $6,000, meaning that several hundred people acquired etchings because they wanted them, and took them into their homes. The art museum is & means to this end—not an end in itsell. As Homer Saint-Gaudens has recently put it, “the function of such an institution is to offer a guide to the beauty of the world, to bring art into the every-day life of the layman, to convince him that it is not something to revert to as a holiday pleasure, for seasonal interest oni but something of as live and continu ing interest as the front page of our newspapers.” . * ok kX t Hawthorne, in his “Marble Faun,” compares religion to a stained glass window, the beauty of which is mani- fest to those within and quite incom- prehensible to those without. Art is much the same. A deaf person cannot enjoy music_nor a blind person paint- ings, and there are none so deaf as those who will not hear, or so blind as those who will not eee. To under- stand, to comprehend the enjoyment of art one must Wgawee enter in. Per- - | | little thought is | woula | had % | There is a close connection between | 3 ' During the | last twelve months or more there has | writings were so popular | ands distinctly influenced their | various THE NATION’S WEALTH BY ELIOT WADSWORTH, Assistant Secretary of the Tregsury In Two Parts~Part I ‘Warfare, constant and aggressive is waged by the United f2.«tes against an invisible enemy tnat daily and hourly threatens our people. The enemy is dis "he opposing force —aided by state and local health authorities—is the bureau of public health service, a branch of the Treas ury Department So accustomed is the average Amer- n to take for granted the health- ful conditions that surround him that €n to the causes ely. But the price health eternal Should the bureau of pub- lic health service, state and muniei- pal agen for detection and pre- vention of diseuse ce ton even for a s toll would be imm such safeguards increase to ble to estimate Little s heard to great plaguc diseases—cho phus, yellow fever, bubonic and smallpox. Yet they e kept out or held in check only by inc sing watchfulness. Many times during t last fifteen years cages of cholera anu typhus have been detected on ves sels arriving at ports in United Sta . but t diseases have not been allowed enter and gain a foothold Smallpox in t ably would ha agn if vacein - that insure b of the nation's vigilance. is Without and death extent impos- asurable, iliness an of the five .ty piague o e United States prob- ween eradicated long tion and revaccination been dly “enforced. There 742 deaths from this disease in the United States during 1923, every one of which could have been pre vented by vaccination. we Yellow Fever Barred. of the into the dur spi in ion fever the its introduction United States t ¢ighteen vears, de- Imost continual prevalenoe nd Central and South nother example of the afforded by quarantine. ow fever ships have frequently reached our sho but so far the bureau of public health has not fail- ed to apprehend them The United States maintains, prob 1y, the om line of sdni- fense in the world. In every port and on cver jer ure mel trained to re &nize and repel the in- vaders—ger discase. 1ts double stem of inspection circles the globe. ¢ s are in foree in nder the super rers attached to of these s suffer- or contagious on vessels ates By foreign in- are saved this coun-™ defense is in our own qu stations, of whieh thero are in this country, Hawaii, the Philippines, Porto Rico and the Vir gin Islands approximately 100, Mexico America, is protection consulat ificers is to dis for ases f ports in ns of this spection, many from try i ntine disinfecting spitals and detention ts. During the » Is and 1,511.000 smbers of crews ontinental sta- ular sta | s 0 pas and members of crews des d for ports in the United States - inspected. and 7.890 vessels were e the 75,000 re inspected. | Protection in the United States. the | Almost as important as the work of | preventing the introduction of formgn- | bred discase is that of preventing the | spread of disease from state to state Congress in 18 uthorized the use o the public health service as the federa for the prev of the inter- spread of cholera, vellow fe Ipox and bubonic plazue. 189 b Etended o resulate) the £ all persons sufferi us and contagious dis- the work to be done co-opera. | tion with state and local health author: ties. The success of the burcau in com hating threat ns of vellow fever and plague Y. In co operation with st cal authori |t particulariy work of rura sanitation, the alth service | ticipates in th | tagious diseases as theri; scarlet fever urn fever, which formerly o | stat 11 | eit has | years (1910-1923, | to 3.15 per 109,000 population. Otlice! of the pub! when called upon, are alwi: con diph from 19.59 spread rapidly. were 883 cas presentatives of ervice and the stat were asked to inves that the epidemic w tion of the city water suppls, germs having gained entrance to water as a resuit of this pollution Pure Water Supply Vil While the public has become edu- mted to the fact that polluted water causes typhoid. 100 much stress can-, not be laid upon the necessity for Xeeping pure the water supply. For some time the public health service. in e ation with state heaith au- th chopsfl’-lh__\ nspected the water ®f trains and river and lake No jonger may water be dip- ped from any creek. river or pool for such use. The practice was a common breeder of disease. The service will not now permit any in- terstate commerce railroad, or river carrier. to use ter for drinking or cooking the of which has# not been in und sat- isfactory. s are now in force in m aies with egard to common carrie I3 :\nfi‘rl‘\\' within the state. there- fore not subject to national auihority. The growing industrics of the country brought other water pollu- tion troubles. A e ago indus- trial plants unhe ingly discharg- ed into creeks and rivers the rotting remains of canned vegetables, and wastes from chemicals used in vari- ous manufactures. Nearly all such Wastes wero harmful and some acd tually poisonous. The problem was to protect ¢ health of thosa dependent upon the streams for drinking water without interference with the industries Tt differed with each c of industry The service established principles and methods of disposal and is polnt- ing out to individual concerns how the various wastes can be so handlea or utilized as to be rendered harm- less. Investigation of pollution of ovster beds, due to sewage and in, dustrial waste, has resulted In then preservation — the haps the best way, the surest door of entrance, is through ownership, through possessing _and living with real works of art. The next best is the oppor- tunity afforded for acquaintance by the museums’ collections, which are o Tap- idly increasing in richness here in An_ interesting thing about this 1o of art, furthermore, is the spirit of ternity which it engenders. At a ner given in London recently in memoration of the centenary of - founding of the British National 4 lery of Art Premier MacDonald “The great international spirit whi shared by all who love art is the re- rnanuns- spirit which in due time wijl o infinite good ir the world."” R sk 3