Evening Star Newspaper, May 1, 1924, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY........May 1, 1924 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Bosiness Officv, 111h St and Pen New York Office: 110 Bast 4 Chicaza O Tower Building, Puropean Office: 16 Regent St., London, England. The Eveninz Star, with the Sunday morniog ®dition, i dcliversd by carriers within the ity af 60 cents per month: daily only, 45 cents per month: Snn cents’ per manth. _Orders may b mail or tele. Phone Main 5000, n is made by car- Tiers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance, Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1 yr., $5.40; 1 mo. Daily only . .15r., $6.00 ; 1 mo., Sunday only. “1yr. $2.40; 1 mo., All Other States. Daily and S Daily only Sunday onl, Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusivel 1o the use for republication patches credited to it In this paper and also Jished “berein. Al rights special dispatehes bere e local news pub- of publication of also reserved. The Cramton Rider. The sudden presentation as a rider ©n the District appropriation bill of the Cramton bill to abolish the 60-40 ratio istrict-federal contribution for the nce of District d to bstitute as federal contribution an annual lump-sum payment comes as & shocking surprise and raises immedi- tely ques of propriety of pro- cedurc. This bill has been pending be- re the District committee, which has taken no action upon it. It is now sprung without warning as a proposed imendment, which would change com- pletely the entire fiscal relationship between the National Capital and the government. It is undoubtedly new legislation, in that it upsets the new organic act of 1 which provides for the taxation f District property on a certain basis, at o 6040 ratio, for five years spe- cifically. This period definitely stated in the act of 1922 as sufficing to enable the District government, by the imposition of taxes in ex: of the £0-40 requireme to accumulate a surplus of revenue adequate to meet the requisitions on that ratio at the beginning of each fiscul year after 1 The Cramton amendment, if adopt- ed, would be not merely a matter of changing the ratio. If a new law of fiscal relationship is contemplated it would be necessary to reconstruct Ghe entire plan of District finances. It is believed that this proposal is {llearly subject to a point of order as new legislation,” which is not ad-| thissible on appropriation bil The | socalled Flolman rule permitting| amendments which effect reductions of appropriations does not apply in this caso to give warrant for its con- sideration. The established policy of the government cannot be upset mere- | Iy by a proposal which incidentally | reduces or lowers a federal expendi- tare. The principle of the law of | 1922 is that of a definite ratio of con- iribution. This law declares a tax levy for five years from 1922 to meet specifically the District’s 60 per cent contribution in these years and to accumulate a surplus, -Our new organic act ought not to be destroyed | at all for at least five years and then | only by direct substantive legislation, not by rider on appropriation bill. Elsewhere in ‘The Star today is| printed a petition to Congress by the | Citizens' Joint Committee on Fiscal | Relations and its constituent organiza- | tions, which, urging the rejection o House bill the Cramton measure, | is directly applicable to this present | situation. It sets forth that the Cram- | ton proposition destroys the definite | contribution system, under the benefi- | cent operation of which the National Capital has wonderfully developed and which, after seven years of ex-| haustive investigation and prolonged | discussion, has been vindicated by re- tention in the 1922 law. This measure is is of their tribe half so quickly as can a tot with flaxen curls or sable ring- lets. It is one of the gifts of youth to know fairies and count them {riends. The Romans named this month for a goddess of growth and increase, and no doubt they borrowed her from the Greeks, to whom, perhaps, she came from a people more remote. Cen- turies have passed since May began to trim trees with green and conjure violets to bloom, yet she is still beau- tiful and young and comes to us as fair and dainty as to the peoples of long ago. Far back in the days of northern Burope our forebears went into the woods on this day and brought out flowering branches. They also brought a pole, set it up and danced about it. It became an insti- tution in England. Perhaps as young people romped about it they pressed each others' hands, and perhaps a kiss was taken, or given. When sterner morals swelled the breasts of many English the May pole fell. Puritans spotted it as a device of the devil. John Stubbs, a pious scribe, wrote in 1583 that the May pole was a “stinckyng idol” round which people “leape and daunce.” In Restoration s the May pole came back and people leaped and danced about it. Children are doing this in Washing- ton today and paying their devoir to gentle, blooming May. Washington and Tourists. Comment has been made on the un- ual number of tourists in Washing- n this spring. 1t was estimated that the Washington ter- minal from noon of Good Friday to early Easter morning. They came from every state in the Union, the majority of them arriving in special trains. In one day recently it was esti- mated that 4,500 strangers visited the White House, and last week more than 6,000 visited the executive offices and an equal number inspected the first-floor rooms of the White House. It is predicted that this will stand as a record-breaking week in the matter of tourists, Year by year the tide of visitors to Washington rises. The fame of Wash- ington spreads as the place in which interesting and instructive things are to be seen. Americans come to take a look at their Capital. A large number of the visitors are high school stu- dents. Several years ago a number of high schools in the north and middle west adopted the plan of giving an an- nual excursion to Washington, not so much as a picnic as an educational measure. The results were so satis- factory that the plan is followed by an increasing number of schools. To bring a body of bright, studious and impreasionable young folk from a distant high schocl and lead them through the Capitol and White House, through the libraries, museums, art galleries and government workshops, and to Mount Vernon and Arlington gives them pleasure of the keenest sort, enlarges their fund of informa- tion and broadens their interest in their country and government. When one of these high achools returns home hundreds of families listen to lectures at breakfast, dinner and supper on| “Our Capital,” and the home audiences put greater faith in the words of the lecturers than in those of professional speakers. When Americans from afar come to ‘Washington they expect to see a most | remarkable city, and in many ways the Capital meets their expectations. But it is necessary that the District government, Congress and citizens strive to keep Washington in first | place as a city. Americans think of | t as a model in many ways. They feel that its local government should be the “last word” in municipal manage- ment. They think its streets should be clean, smooth and safe. They think that its street car service should be the best. They think its traffic reguln- tions should be the most efficient; that its police should be the most consider- ate and intelligent; that its parks should be the greenest and fairest;| | that its public buildings should be THE EVENING STAR versal of the deflation policy of the Federal Reserve Board™; restoration of the excess profits tax and of the higher surtax schedules on income taxes; con- scientious enforcement of the prohibi- tion law, local, national and state; op- eration by the federal government of the coal and gasoline industries; enact- ment of the bonus bill. It favors any association which would perpetuate peace, but expresses “opposition to any entangling alliance which would permit: foreign nations to draft Amer- ican boys or control American dol- lars.” This is quite a Bryanesque platform, running true to the Commoner’s poli- cies. The Republicans will not op- pose his enforcement plank, however, Support of law enforcement is not the property of either party. His league of nations plank is not very clear in detail, but in suggesting peace and American independence of entangling alliances no one will take issue. On the other recommerdations, ex- cept the bonus, the Republicans “will beg to differ.” Betrayals of Trust. A tragic scene was enacted ves- terday in a courtroom in Indianapolis when Warren T. McCray, who had just vacated office as governor of the state, received a sentence of ten years' imprisonment, with a fine of $10,000, for committing frauds and misusing public funds. It is shock- ing to see a man thus fall in a position of honor and trust in conse- | quence of his moral laxity. It is es- pecially shocking to find the chief executive of a state thus guilty of corruption. But the conviction of Gov. McCray brings definitely to mind the fact that few men in American public life are recreant to their trusts. The standard of morality on the part of those chosen by the people for their guidance and administration is high. This case is a singular exception. It therefore becomes the more conspic- uous. This country is blessed with free- dom from what is called crookedness in office. Within recent months much has been heard about corruption and betrayal of trust. A stranger to the country surveying the scene lately might conclude that these betrayals of public confidence are typical. On the contrary, they are rarely excep- tional. The intensity of public re- sentment and anger against them is | in itself a proof, if proot were needed, that this is true; that men who take office, save in the rarest instances, are scrupulously faithful. —————— A jury has decided that a lady need not pay for a marble statue herself |because it does not resemble her. How far the artist may go in interpretive effort at the sacrifice of direct simili- tude has always been one of the prob- lems of the studios, —_——————— The primary system enables a dele- gate to go to the convention with the assurance that he will not be running up hotel bills during a protracted and needless argument. ——— It is Mr. Harry Daugherty’s cour- | ageous opinion that the fact that a man is down on his luck as an office- holder does not by any means put him out of politics, | —————— | Gen. Smediey Butler lingers in ! Philadelphia. In spits of a certain | unruly element in its population no- ! body can belp liking the famous old | town. | —————— Reeipracity would cheer the average | motorist more if the extra 2 cents per galion could be so applied as to im- | prove the quality of the gas. ————— The report goes out that Clemen- ceau has written a play. The Paris dramatic critics, if they are wise, will | proceed with caution. SHOOTING STARS. | the park, | lowstone, W30, in order to obtain all | | consist of | say Answers to Questions BY FREDERIO J. HASKIN Q. From what are the following lines taken: ' The white-winged moth to the closing vine, T):f";’:; mfi::;txol':'l’lllll clover; . o the Bver the wholo world over. U —FM A. The lines are from Kipling's “The Gypsy Trail” The poem has been set to music by Galloway. Q. I would like to know what the operation of an oil well will cost to the depth of about 3,600 feet?—J. F. W. A. The bureau of mines says the cost of operation of oil wells varies widely in different parts of the coun- try. In California the cost is esti- mated at from $15 to $20 a foot. In the mid-continent field the cost ries from $1.75 to $7.50 per foot; in Kentucky from $6 to $8 per foot. Q. What is heliotropism as applied to plants?—R. F. e A. Heliotropism is the term used to explain why plants grow upward. It is the response of certain growing organs to the stimulus of sunlight by movements or curvatures. It may be positive, as in the case of erect stems, or negative, as in roots. Q. How can screens be painted so you can see the street, but those in Dassing cannot see in?—D. O. L. A. If you will paint your screens with black paint thinned sufficiently with turpentine so that the paint wiil not clog the screens, you will find that it is difficult, although not im- possible, for a person on the street to sec into a roum, cxcept when the room is lighted. Q. I am contemp a trip to Yellowstone National Park and would appreciate some information in gard to camping facilities, expens and whether horscs can bé procured there—N. T. R. A. There are camping facilities all through Yellowstone Park. The ex- pense of a trip through the park de. pends upon the manner of travel There are two tours offered through the park. One is the hotel tour and the other is the camp tour. Both of these offer excellent accommodations. It will be necessary for you to com- municate with the superintendent of | Horace M. Albright, Yel- | information “concerning these trips. It takes about five days to see the most interesting things in the park. | Good saddle ho can be obtained at all of the camps and hotels. Q. What would water look like if | it was compressed to one-balf of its original size?—H. P. A. The bureau of standards says it | has never proved possible to com- press water to one-half of its origi- | nal size with any pparatus now | available. The ressure required | would be hundreds of times greater | than any so far attained, even in the | laboratory. | - | Q. What were the words that Gen. Sherman used sbout war being hell? 5 herman are attributed the words, “War is hell” "It is in- teresting to know that he himself did not recollect any occasion upon which he so expresseéd himself. Q. Please tell me how ma gates have the Democrat i publican conventions?—F. C. A. The Democratic convention will 094 dolegates; the Repub- lican, 1,031 Q. What was the Interchurch Move- ment?—H. R. A. The Interchurch Movement was an effort made in 1917 to co-ordinate all Christianization of the entire world. It was projected to raise $300,000,000 for the work of investi- gating conditions. It did not prove a success and passed into a receiver's hands. Q. What element is lacking in zar- | den sofl which grows turnips with luxuriant leaves and no turnips?— ML K. A. The Department of Agriculture that the soil contains too much nitrogen and needs potash and phos- phorie acid You should use 10 poun to 100 square feet, mixing equal parts of phosphate and muriate of potash. Q. How far can any one see from | the highest point in New York City?— | N.N. B. A. On clear days an observer at the top of the Woolworth building will have a view of land and water for twenty-five miles in every direc- tion. The area visible has a popula- tion of more than 10,000,000. Q. What is a man called who stud- ies crop production?—E. C. P. A. All farmers study crop produc- tion, but a man who specializes in the branch of agriculture that deals with | theory and practice of crop produc- tion is called an agronomist. | rignt, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1924 WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC Republican leaders at the national convention in Cleveland are likely to have a chance to show whether they're superstitious or not. The best estimate is that the convention's busi- ness will be finished just in time to adjourn on Friday, June 13. ‘The “thirteen” jinx has as many devotees among politicians as among lesser mortals. They may consider it an ominous thing to end tho Coolidge love feast on Lake Erle on such a day and date. The tentative time card for the G. O. P. conclave calls for temporary organization on Tuesday, June 10; permanent organization on Wednesday, June 11; adoption of platform and nomination of Calvin Coolidge for President on Thursday, June 12, and nomination of Vi President and adjournment on Frida 3. Jointly to soothe the su- titious and the Clevelanders, the agony may be prolonged until noon of Saturday, June 14. * ¥ ¥ ¥ Herbert Hoover has a new right- hand man, and a plutocratic one, be- sides. He is a newspaper man, sud- denly turned government official— Harold Phelps Stokes. Until recently Stokes was Washington correspond- ent of the New York Evening Post as well as one of its stockholders. Stokes had a splendfd active-service record in France during the world war as an officer in Pershing’s army. He sucoeeds, as Hoover's assistant, L tian Herter, who has ac- quired part ownership and become Jeint editor of the Independent, at Boston. Mr. Stokes has long ranked as Washington's onc “millionaire” working newspaper man. When not grinding out informative political dispatches hc managed his apartment heo s and other luerati invest- ments. For many years an admirer of Hoover and Hoover methods, Stokes will contribute real affection, as well as exceptional ability, to the Dost he is about to occupy. * % x % President Coolidgo has been enter- taining at the White House a Call- fornian who does not see red (or yellow) on the Japanese question. He is Alfred Holman, editor of the San Francisco Argonaut. Holman's position on exclusion is tersely stat- ed—the end which Congress seeks but the wav in which it proposed to be done is wrong. He believes the Senate was guilty of bad manners. He recommends to nerv- ous statesm on Capitol Hill the calm view the Union Record of Seattle, an official organ of organized | cribed Japa- | labor. which recently de nese immigration as “neither as seri- ous nor as complicated as pessimists paint it Holman is an unfailing guest at th White House on the perfodical ocoasions which bring him to Washington for trustees meetings of the Carnegie Peace Endowment * % % % If there’s to be “four more years of Coolidge” keep an eye on one “Jim” Good of Iowa, former chairman of appropriations in the House and now western manager of the Pre; and enthusiastic sup- t Wholesouled port is given by editors throughoul | the United States to the recent order | by President Coolidge's secretary, ML |, which the Lafayette Journal and | Slemp, to prevent the daily t?ak of handshaking by the Execative. Many are the editors who recall that! | no little part in the physical break- downs of President Coolidge's two immediate predecessors was due to the physical fatigue to which 2 President is subjected, no small part| of which is that of promiscuous handshaking. The only person who comes in for roasting at the hands of editors in the matter is Senator Tom Heflin of Alabama, who pro- | tested against the order on the floor of the Senate. “Sensible people want the Presi- dent protected from the time-squan- dering attention of the merely curi- ous,” declares the St Louis Post- Dispatch; “the Heflins need not be considered.” To which the Bay City Times-Tribune adds, “The American who stops to think about it will re- joice because this country has a President who will not permit his is| Editorial Comment Approves Coolidge Handshaking Ban WILLIAM WILE dent's campaign. Good was intrusted with the job of keeping the west “safe for Cal” five months ago when it was admittedly anybody's terri- tory. Hiram Johnson was convinced it was his Good's task was to show Hiram the error of his reckoning, and right smartly has he done the trick. Barring South Dakota, every strip of western bacon has been brought home for Coolidge. Good is now a successful lawyer in Chicago, but the secretaryship of the interior or the postmaster generalship might look tempting to him in case of a reorganization of the Coolidge cabi- net in March, 1925. * % %% Magnus Johnson recently nml.nded the Senate that he, “Jim" Couzens and Gooding of 1daho are the only “immi- grant boys" in the upper house. Gooding arrived from England with his parents as a lad; Couzens came from Canada before he was of age, and Magnus left Sweden about twen- ty vears ago. There are several “im- migrant boys” in the House. Martin B. Madden of Iilinois was born in England: Kahn of California in Baden: Michaelson of Iilinois in Nor- way: Sproul of Illinols, in Ontario; Berger of Wisconsin in Austria-Hun- gary: Voigt of Wisconsin, in Ger- many; Sabath of Illinois in Czecho- slovakia; Sinclair_of North Dakota in Canada, and Crosser of Ohio in Scotland. Relatively few ocongress- men were born in the states they now represent. Charles Lenmore Richards, Nevada's lone representa- tive in the House, proudly recites that he's the first native Nevadan sent 1o Congress Rinco the state’'s ad- mission to ithe Union. % * When Mr. Coolidge was Governor of Massachusetts, it is his proud boast, Do bill ever was passed over his veto by the state legislature except the so- called “salary grab” act, by which members voted themselves a 50 per cent increase in pay. Representative Emanuel Celler, Democrat, of New York has introduced a pay-increase bill, calling for a boost in congress- men's wages from $7,500 to $10,000. The President is said to be death on salary grabs, dating from his unsue- =ful bout with the statesmen who gislate beneath the sacred cod at Boston. *x % % Ira Nelson Morris, diplomat and lit- terateur, who now edits Public Af- fairs at Washington, expresses won- derment that the Nobel prize com- mittee announces it will not award its annual peace prize this year, con- sidering that Mr. Bok has crowned | Dr. Levermore with golden laurels. Morris thinks the Nobel peace prize should be bestowed upon Charles | Evans Hughes for his achievements |at the Washington conference. As s now in Europe and was for v years stationed at Stockholm Amcrican minister, perhaps Mr. Morris will util ontacts” with | the distingulshed Swedes who be- | stow the Nobel awards and turn their | gaze Hughesward. (Copyright. 1 Ithe papers on his desk and attaches | his signature, let the procession move.” * * % % { Courier adds: “So long as they could |see that the President was hard at | work, attending to the public business, | those 1,200 tourists who failed to shake | | the Executive mitt must admit that the | | industrious “Cal” had the better of the | situation. The President is not on the big job merely as ‘glad-hander.’ " “It is Dot necessary,” declares the New York Evening World, “to kill our Presidents with handshaking or make them absurd by putting them on a par with the gorilla at the z00.” To which the Roanoke World-News adds: Handshaking under any circum- stances is little more than a silly’ habit. The world's worst pest is the man_who seems to think cordiality involves attempting to break some of the bones in_your hand when he greets you.” Handshaking is a pleas- ant, primitive custom, in the opinion of the Binghamton Press, “suited to the pastoral simplicity of an_earlier day.” The Press continues: “But the country probably will survive the passing of that particular form of official bunk.” The Wall Street Jour- nal observes that there is such a | one of the gallery | hand to be shaken and squeezed and | thing as everybody attending to his The North Window ' BY LEILA MECHLIN The National Gallery in London is just ore hundred years old, and the centenary of its founding has lately | been cilebrated with appropriate ceremony, There was a reception glven in the galleries, and a great dinner at which the chief speaker was the prine minister, Ramsay Mac- Donald, the leader of the Labor gov- ernment, wlose address was of 3o notable a claracter that it called forth enthusiastic approval from Lord Curzon, than Whom few have 8o per- fect a command of English or better appreciation of literary valuee. In this speech Prenjer MacDonald em- Phasized not mere'y the prideful side of possession, for hs boasts not at all, as he might have with justice, of the importance of the British National Gallery, but spoke rather of the valne of art to the people avd as an element of inspiration in naional life. It was a fine speech and 't get a stand- ard for other nations, our own in particular. * % % % ‘The National Gallery in London was founded in 1824 with the purchase by the government of the Angerstein collection, for which £57,000 vas paid. The present building, which was de- signed by William Wilkins, royal academiclan, who incorporated in the facade a portico, the pillars of which were relics of Carlton House, was not occupied until 1838, The marble stair- case and vestibule, which are famou: were added in 1885 and '87. Suec sive governments have helped toward the making of the gallery. In 157 Mr. (Gladstone's government pur- chased the Peel collection for £ g in 1885 Lord Salisbury’'s gave 81 for the Ansidei Raphael “Charles T”; in 1890 d £25.000 toward the purchase of the Radnor, Velasquez Holbein and Moroni; and in 1899, £12,500 toward the Saumarez Rembrandts. In 1908-9 Mr. Asquith's government gave £22,500 toward the purchase of the Frans Hals group, and the Norfolk Holbein, and again, in 1911, toward the Mabuse “Adoration.” In March, 1919, Mr. Lioyd George's government made a timely grant for an important purchase of French masters of the nineteenth century. Note that the last was but one year after the closc of the great war. In" addition to these government grants the National Gallery of Lon- don has received numerous gifts from private individuals. As Prof. John C. Van Dyke points ou “Guide to Old Master: it seems to have been the “natural heir” of the | great masterpieces that England pos- sessed and still possesses, master- pieces which were secured in the early days when “travel to Italy was a fashion of the rich, and bringing | back art piunder through Belgium and Holland was a more or less pa- triotic du getting these pictures year by year, either by purchase or bequest. The collection now comprises over three thousand exhibits Among re- cent benefactors, the National Art Collections Fund des: tice as the body most critical occasions, to quote from s official publica- tions, “has concentrated the efforts of British art lovers to save important works which would otherwise have been lost to the nation.” When some | day we have a National Gallery buiid- | ing in Washington there is every rea- son to believe that a similar fund to | secure exhibits of notable worth can be established among art patrons. * ¥ k% It is generally conceded that in no gallery in Europe is the average ex- cellence of the pictures shown so high, and in none European painting illustrated with so near an approach to perfection. Since the war all of the pictures have been rehung, the galleries have been re decorated, and the showing is extraor- | dinarily fine. Perhaps the chief glory of the gallery is its unequaled series of works by the great Italian masters of the fifteenth and sixteenth | centuries: but the collections through- out are well balanced and the student of the history of painting passes from one to the other with complete satis faction. % %+ % The group of Italian altar pieces and religious pictures, for which this gallery is famous, is placed in the ro- tunda under the dome and given in this manner a setting which is pe- culiarly appropriate, the arrangement and placing creating, as it were, a de- votional atmosphere such as that in which early Italian art was produced. In the two large galleries given over to Italian paintings one notes espe- cially the marvelous portraits of the Renaissance — Titian's “Ariosto”: “A Venetian Senator.” by Solario; Bellini’s “Doge Loredano”; Palmers “Poet" 's “Prothonotary Apostolic Juli Moroni's “Tailor” and “Lawyer” —her: in his London | And the gallery keeps | ves special no- | which on several | is the history of | HOGVER UPHOLDS FISHERIES BILL Challenges Opponents to Base Ob- jections on Merit of | Measure. “ARGUMENTS PEBSONAL” Secretary Says Whole Nationm Backs Conservation. Secretary Hoover, striking back ag what he terms a campalgn of pere sonal abuse, has challenged Senator King, Democrat, Utah; Delegate Suthe erland of Alaska &and the Hearst newspapers to declare speeifieally whether they favor or oppose the flsha eries "conservation bill” passed by the House and pending in the Senate, an- actment of which he has advocated. Mr. Hoover's administration of Alaskan fisheries has been criticized frequently by Delegate Sutherland, and Senator King was prepared last week to introduce a resolution cali ing for an investigation, but decided to withdraw it. Ciiing “renewed ate tacks upon the Alaskan salmon fishe eries conservation by the Hearst press quoting Senator King and Delegate Sutherland.” the Secretary, in a s ment issued late yesterday, asse that “this publicity campaign cax have no other purpose than to aid the defeat of tho pill, for ther. not been a word in these s.atem favoring the measure itself.” Committee’s Approval. “The test of the character of the renewed attacks today upon the Alas- kan saimon fisheries conservation by the Hearst press, quoting Seaator King and, Delegate Sutherland, is very simpie and very direct.” said Mr. Hoovers statement. ‘Does thn Hearst press or do these gentlemen | favor the conservation bill reported | unanimously out of the House com- | mittee on merchant marine and fish~ eries after weeks of Investigation. | and reported unanimously out of the Senate committee on commerce after ,Dsrsonal investigation on the ground by members of that committes? | “Here are sixteen senators and twenty-two representatives on these committees, of both parties, unani- | mously agreed on a measure for thc i!zvlng of these fisheries. It already | has passed the House and is before | the Senate. The bill was drafted by | the gentlemen of the House commit- tee with full collaboration of the De- | partment of Commerce. It the character of legislation for ing these fisheries from continued ex- | pioitation and destruction that Ihave asked for from every session of Con- gress for the last three vears. Un- less such legislation passed the greatest salmon fisheries in the world will be lost to the American peopie. Prevents Momopolies. “Ome of the features of this bill is to prevent monopolies and special | privileges in the fisheries. The de- { partment is on record as having pro- 1tested on frequent occasions against {any growth of such monopolies or {privileges. This measure is backed {by all of the important bodies in the | United States interested in conserva- tion—it is opposed around Washing- ton today by some groups of canners and some groups of fishermen. “This publicity campaign can have no other purpose than to aid in the defeat of the bill, for there has not {been a word in these statements fa- voring the measure itself. In these days of credulity the smooth and ar ful way to destroy legislation th interferes with some pecoples’ Dri- vate interests is, not to oppose the measure on merit, but to slander the. men who have the responsibility of protecting interests. If these mer are against the bill let them say so and give reasons why they do o approve of it. Let the public have argument based upon the mert of the measure itself.” | Sees Suburb Ignored Eastern Resident Outlines Ways of Improving Section. To the Editor of The Star: Your editorial in last Sunday's issuo on “Development of the Capital” was very much to the point. No one ap- preciates its truth more than the writer, who is much interested in the suburban development of Washing- ton, having invested his earnings are portraits amazingly alive, personalities immortalized, works of art of superb quality which not only allure but fascinate the eye and be- come as familiar friends. There are other portraits in this gallery of own business. including the Presi dent, and adds, *“This humdrum sug- gestion _is advanced tentatively and with diffidence, but there really seems to be something in it also destroys the unrepresented Cap- ital's safeguard against excessive and | Srander than those of Athens and old unjust taxation; it destroys the fiscal | ROMe, and that its private buildings peace settlement promised by the new | 9hould be substantial, handsome and | pocsibly disjointed by overardent ad- - i i irers of the Chief Executive.” With . Is wood cut in the winter time | J'00H %y Heflin, the Times-Tribune | e e T 2ads, “When he holds his next re- A. The forest products laboratory |ception we suggest that he put Sen- BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Wildness of the Wilderness. “A lodge in some vast wilderness™ there. It is quite true that in thc present extension of the city little or no attention is being paid to parking organic act; it teaches a false theory concerning the relation of the nation 10 the Capital: it reduces to & mini- mum or destroys any chance of equita- ble proportionate contribution by the United States in appropriating and spending the District's accumulated ®reasury tax surplus. If the Cramton measure were being eonsidered on its merits apart from the improprit of its presentation now as a rider on an appropriation bill it would be subject to unanswer- able objections founded in equity and Justice. For the present the hope of the District is that Congress, so lately evidencing its belief in the righteous- mness of a fixed proportion of federal contribution, will not now repudiate its own procedure and by a left-handed move, accepting this proposal, destroy the structure of law which it erected Jess than two years ago. Statesmen are at least in agreement on the proposition that it will be a fine tax reduction when it is finished. B May Day. Since the human race was young folk of the northern clime have ex- pressed joy in revels on May day. Children of Washington are celebrat- ing the day with grace and mirth re- calling the very olden time. They are dancing about May poles, and the brows of many children are garlanded with flowers. They will hang sheafs of blossoms on the White House door, and in the playgrounds are ex- crcises commemorative of the day. Many fairies, elfins, sprites and other members of the mystic brood of dear and charming little creatures have roused from winter rest and are play- ing pranks in the woods and fields and sky. No doubt they flit and carry on. their merry games in park and garden of the town, as well as dis- tant dell where big trees and tiny flowers grow. Most of us cannot see them, because grown-ups have not such keen eyes for fairies as little children have. Our eyes get dimmer harmonious. In the residence sections and sub- urbs these legions of strangers look for certain things. They do not think to see the splendor and show of sub- urbs of rich cities, because the news has gone abroad that Washingtonians are not rich, but all the world has heard that as a class they are well schooled and well read. These strang- ers do expect to see homes which have the expression of good taste and the spirit of quiet and content. They expect to see lawns or grass plots and little gardens which tell that their owners love them and give them an oc- casional caress. They expect to see as good schoolhouses as they have at home, and they expect to see crowds of merry, clean and well nourished school children with health glowing in their eyes. Washington should be the leader of all other cities. ————— ‘The reckless Mr. Trotsky talks of Japanese ambitions with the reckless- ness of a man who has made a life- time habit of facing grave conse- quences. e ‘When Judge Gary ennounces an era of national prosperity, the steel in- dustry does not hesitate to hack his opinion with authoritative figures. ————— Ohio voters registered sentimental regard for Mr. Cox as a favorite son and a logical candidate, B — The Bryans’ Platform. Gov. Charles W. Bryan of Nebraska, brother of Willlam Jennings Bryen, is presenting to the Democratic state convention today a platform dealing ‘with national issues, which is said to embody the policies which he snd his brother will demand that the Demo- cratic party shall adopt in its na- tional platform. Bryan senior expects to be heard when the resolutions com- mittee sets out to frame the platform and to exert his personal influence with delegates in the convention. Of course, the Bryans’ platform de- nounces the Republican tariff law and Is what the poet sighed for. It disappoints him more or less, The lodge that he applied for. Although to rural haunts he's gone ‘To foil the gossip vandal, His folks now turn the radio on And still he gets the scandal. Though he shuts off with cunning care ‘The source of information, He knows the circumambient air Is full of sound vibration. It's useless, any poet knows, Of calm content to prattle. He might as well get down to prose And mingle in the battle. Art and Nature. “Do you think art ean improve on nature?” ; “What’s the use of trying to deny it,” rejoined Senator Sérghum, “when our most intelligent people insist on turning the hands of the clock around in order to improve on sun time?” Jud Tunkins says they used to warn boys that a rolling stone gathers no moss, but now we encourage 'em to compete for a marble championship. + : Politics and Finance. The elephant and donkey play A game that suits the plodder. The bulls and bears go on their way And get the real fodder. Discipline. “What has become of the old bar. tender who opened a soda fountain?” “We had to deal severe with him,* replied Cactus Joe. *“He kep’ puttin’ up signs that looked like advertiso- ments of the old-fashioned mixed ‘drinks till finally we had to run him out o’ town fur obtainin® money under false pretenses.” Unbroken Line of Criticism. “Your grandmother says the clothes now worn are absurd.” “Yes,” answered Miss Cayenne. T understand that is what greatgrand- mother used to say about grand- mother’s clothes.” “A little luck spoils some folks,” ‘with the years, and men with gray|demands repeal of other “clase legisla- | said Uncle Eben. “I knows & man hair, er no hair at all, cannot pick | tion,” not specified, adopted by the Re- | dat dreamed o winnin’ hoss an' now ,mw & wasts “tmmediate o Gen't, went ¢ do mslin’ 2 | try into.the Philippines?—F. J. W. savs that the time of cutting wood | s very little effect upon itx dura- | bility if the timber is properly cared for afterward. Late fall or winter cutting is simplest, as the wood sea- sons more slowly and with less check- ing, and by warm weather is sea- soned enough to be less susceptible to borers and fungi. There is, how- ever, practically no difference in moisture content of green wood in winter and summer. Q. What accounts for yellow stains appearing on clothes when being ironed. I am sure they are not iron | rust stains.—J. R. H. A. When a material has not been rinsed sufficiently and is ironed with soap still in the fabric, vellow stains sometimes appear. Ordinary launder- ing often removes them, and bleach- ing in the sun will help if the stain | is persistent. This condition may be avoided by thorough rinsing of clothes. Q. Who introduced the sugar indus- A. Sugar cane has been grown in the Philippine Islands since time im- memorial, but it is considered prob- able that the sugar industry was in- troduced by the Chinese, since many of the early implements used came from China. Q. Please tell me what is meant by “pieces of eight” when used in speak- ing&ot pirates of olden times?—W. MS. A. The expression “pieces of eight” has reference to the Spanish dollar, the peso duro, whose value was § reals. It was so called because of the figure 8 engraved upon it Q. Is the Arctic or Antarctic Ocean larger?—L. B. A. The Antarctic Ocean has an area of 5,731,350 square miles, and is larg- er than the Arctic Ocean, the area of Which is 4,781,000 square miles. Q. Does the King of England have to belong to the Episcopal Church? A. It is required that the ruler of England be 4 member of the Church of England, which is,Episcopal. Q. How can I raise angle worms?— S A A The burean of fisheries says angle worms may be raised by plac- ing a.number of the worms in a large wooden box filled with rich loamy soil that is kept quite moist, but not wet.. This box should be kept in a dark corner in the cellar. (Take advantage of the free informa- tion bureau which this newspaper main- tains, If there is a question you want onswered, don’t hesilate to use tM‘: {of his ator Heflin in line as an understudy and let him do the handshaking™” with the conclusion..“We venture to say the senator will soon be con vinced that it is no schoolboy joke. The Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch con- siders the rule such a good one that it favors its permanent adoption as a White House custom. It declares: “Sensible people will readily recog- nize the necessity of the President's conserving his strength for the duties high office. The anti-hand- shaking rule should continue in ef- fect, no_matter who is the occupant of the White House.” A To which the Duluth Herald agrees and adds: “It- has always been unfair | to the President, and the practice has been stopped none too soon. He will be a very foolish President who ventures | to renew it” The American people will be resentful for 2 while, in the opinion of the Illincis State Journal, which believes they will “then rec- ognize the humor and the futility of what President Coolidge has had the courage to stop.” The Milwaukee Journal is glad to see Mr. Coolidge saving his arm this shock, and adds: “If he goes farther and uses ome of these contraptions which will let bim sign 100 commissions simultaneously, so much the better.” Not all the editors are willing to concede to the tourists even so much as the privilege of passing through the Executive offices and watching the President at work, as has been done since the order was put into effect. For, says the Chicago Daily News: “It is to be hoped that Mr. Coolidge will not long permit streams of visit- | ors to wander through his office dur- ing his working hours. That must be distracting and a trial to his nerves.” ‘l“gdwh[ch the Waterbury Republican s: “It seems extraordinary that the thousands who are capable of getting the same kind of thrill out of looking at the President of the United States, or a tattooed man in the circus, or the only in captivity, will jus- tify themselves rding the first on the lofty ground that in a democracy it is the citizen's right to fraternize with the chief of state, and never see its analogy to the other two. By an- nouncing that he will do no more handshaking, Mr. Coolidge has vir- tually told the sightseers that they are a nuisanc “T'ndoubtedly the President had to accustom himself to the experience of being gazed at like a caged lion in a circus,” remarks the Duluth News- Tribune, “but if he succeeded in doing that, the new form of reception must have been a great relief to him.” The Boston Transcript, however, sees no objection to the ~If ‘want s‘m:m&*- reads COURAGE “I am the master of my fate, I am the capuain of my soul” —HENLEY. While all England was preparing to receive the future Queen Alexan- dra she was living in near poverty gowns. |she shared the lot of the impover- ished family, and her rearing was as | modest as that of the peasants nearby. When seven she met the future King Edward at a child’s party and her quiet simplicity won the heart of the then haughty Queen Vie- toria. ‘Ten years later the Prince of Wales again visited Denmark and the ac- quaintance was renewed. Not long afterward preparations were made to announce their engagement, but it had to be postponed because of the death of the prince’s father, Albert, prince consort. Queen Victoria with- drew from society and mourned the death of her husband. Soon afterward social conditions de- manded that there be a Princess of Wales and the engagement was quickly announced. Money was lav- ishly spent in preparing for the com- ing of the young princess. At her home there were not enough funds for a dowry or a fitling trousseau and she feared the magnificence into | which she was to be thrust. Then the people of Denmark collected 100,000 kronen among themselves and gave to the little princess, that she might have the necessities for the great event, The wedding took place in St George's Chapel, Windsor, when she ‘was nineteen, and London raved over the beautiful new princess. Tea months later, while she was attend- ing a skating party, 'the Duke of Clarence was born. Two later she gave birth to Prince rge, the present king. As Queen Alexandra she was be- loved by the people and her train- ing gave her charm and simplicity that never left her. Her popularity grew and her life with her children was happy. Her first bereavement was when the Duke of Clarence died at twenty- eight. ‘The nmext was the passing of her husband. ‘With his death she, at sixty-six, re- tired from first to second lady of the she still was beloved | perlative merit—Rembrandts, Van Dycks, Velasquez, Holbeins, Durers, Govas, Ingres, to say nothing of the great English school. And here lately have been placed the Sargent por- traits of the Wertheimer family, which will later, however, g0 to the Tate Gallery, which was originally purposed for the exhibition of co- b temporary British paintings and has lately enlarged its scope to include cotemporary paintings by the great artists of other nations—among them our own. R o Over six hundred thousand people and was making her own Wedding |visit the National Gallery in Len- don every vear. As Prof. Van Dyke Born the eldest daughter of Prince | gays, “the average tourist may ‘do’ | Christian of Glucksburg, Denmark, |is in an hour. but the student can spend weeks or months there” For the student of art it may be regarded as the greatest of all “laboratories,” 2 term Harvard University has lately 2ppropriately applied to its own Fogg Museum. In order to make the col- jections of the utmost value to resi- dents of London and chance visitors, lectures are given every morming in the galleries between 11 and 1 o'clock by expert lecturers, and for the benefit of those who cannot attend these lectures the gallery issues an illus- trated handbook directing attention to certain paintings indicative of the characteristics of the several schools. EE In matters of art it is habitual to consider Europe long in the lead, and it is quite customary for us to ex- cuse ourseives for artistic short- ings because of our extreme Southe To realize, therefore, that the great National Gallery in London is only 100 years old gives us pause. It was just fifty years ago on the 29th of April that the Corcoran Gal- lery of Art first opened to the public all of the rooms in its old (then new) building on Pennsylvania avenue and 17th_street. Next year in New York the National Academy of Design will celebrate the 100th anniversary of its fflnwnfi The Metropolitan Museum was blished in 1870. Our own national collections in Washington, which are as yet homeless, have been assembled almost entirely within the last eighteen years. To be sure, the number of masterpieces is not un- limited and many have already found permanent place in the great national collections, such as the National Gal- Jery, London; the Louvre, the Pittl and Uffizi Galleries and the Metro~ politan Museum of Art, but many still are In private ownership and now and then come into the market. In other words, there is vet time for the United States to assemble a great national collection, since a beginning has already been made. And with the example of the British National Gallery before us there is enough hope to make it an inspiring task. ‘The National Gallery of London is one of Great Britain's richest assets. On this, radicals, interests, and the eastern portion of the District of Columbia has hereto- fore been almost totally meglected by Congress. No influential interests were at work in its behalf, as else- where, and one would think, to seo what has not been done there, that no one lived in that section who was worthy of consideration at the hands of the government, and dollars have been spent there while millions were poured out in other sections for street extension, etc. And yet that section of the District looking toward Baltimore and Chesa peake Bay is bound to grow in im- portance. A parking system to ex- tend from Baltimore to Washingtorn has been advocated and worked foi by prominent people in the Marylzne metropolis for some years. and yet nothing has been done to meet them at this end of the line. The eastern corner stone of the Dis- trict of Columbia, erected in 1796, stin stands in a low, wet and neglected spot, while a moderate amount of work in draining and otherwise im- proving and beautifying the place would work wonders and make. it an ornament as well as an object’ of historical interest. The owmer of the tract on which it is located, a Wash- ington attorney of public spirit, has offered to sell the land to the gov- ernment for much less than its mar- ket value to be used as a park, along with several blocks of land, the lay- ing out and paving of which in an e: tension of the street system would cost many times the sum now de- manded for it. Just over the District line at that place, Maryland is about to erect a high school building, and it would be right and proper for a park to be located on the Distfict side Instead of allowing it to grow un @s a tenement area in an already overgrown city. Thanks to the regulations of the ‘Washington Suburban Sanitary Com- mission, the president of which is a progressive Maryland lawyer, no plats for Maryland suburban subdivisions within ten miles of the District can be approved unless the streets are of proper widths and other features conform to the orderly extemsion of Washington. What a pity this com- mission was not on the job a genera- tion ago, when suburban develop- ment began with thirty-foot streets and other abominations! Let Congress look out for more sub urban parke, soon to be part of the Capital itself, and come to_the rescur of the castern portion of the Distri heretofore almost as badly neglectec by the government as though it wers part of the Libyan desert, althouygh some of the most populous suburbs, notably Seat Pleasant, with thou- sands of progressive inhabitants, are growi in _that direction. P& WP JINDEAY S, PERETNS,