Evening Star Newspaper, May 3, 1924, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY THEODORE W. NOYES The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Penossivania Ave, New York Oftice: 110 Kast Chicago Office: Tower Building EBuropean Office: 16 Regen. 8t., Londan, England. with the Sundey morning curriers within the ents per month r month: Sunday oniy, Orders may be seat by mail or 5000 Collection in made by ¢ ters at the end of each month. cents pel tnonth, Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance, Maryland and Virginia. Sunday..1yr., $8.40; 1 mo,, T0¢ | 1 mo, i0c All Other States. nd Sunday.1 yr., $10.00, 1 mo., 88e | 1yr. $7.00;1mo, §0c 1¥r, $3.00;1mo, 2c Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclnsively entitied | to the ute for republication of all news dis. | patehes credited 1o it or not otherwise credited ! paper and also the local news pab- | Yished herein. Al rights of pnblication of afches herein are also reserved. | Jughandled and Unjust. The leaders' in Congress ought to consider carefully, the effect of the Cramton amendment before they per- it it to be inserted from the floor the House into the District appro- priation bill. The minute that an eight-million (or | any other) lump sym payment is by this | procedurc substituted for the propor- tonate contribution now authorized by substantive law, in that moment the Capital is betrayed into the hands of those who would deny all national | varticipation in Capital maintenance and upbuilding. For the effect of this radical change In substantive law under a strained istruction of the Holman rule is| | blooms than tha splendid towns claim the bay, the laurel and the apple crown. This is a dispute which the American citizens { of “the Valley” themselves must set- {tle, and in which the non-Americans | of the Capital should not meddle. The blossom festival at Winchester is to symboiize the Valley of Virginta as one of the great fruit-growing regions of the earth. ¥rom the Poto- mac south through Jefferson, Fred- | erick, Shenandoah, Warren, Page, Rockingham, Augusta and other glor- cus counties one imighty orchard stretches. The cherry blossoms of Nippon are few when set against the of the Shenandoah. wves of ¥lorida and o sweeter, brighter ppie flowers of Vir- ginta. The maple syrup orchards of New Eingland are not so vast as the apple groves of Shenandoah. Soon may it be that Virginia apples shall be sold in the fruit shops of San Fran- clsco, Portland and Seattle, and it may be that Virginiau grapes and peaches and Maryland strawberries will be shipped to California that un- fortunate people in that far-off land shall taste the flavor of fruit that is. apple blossoms The orange g California bear R Germany Votes Tomorrow. Tomorrow Germany will vote tor | members of the Reichstag. Thirty mil- lion people are qualifled to cast their for 4,314 persons have announced themselves, and most of them have conducted active campalgns. They represent no leks than twenty-three dietinct parties, which, in turn, com- | political groups. Nineteen of the | twenty-three parties represent some | shade of upper or middle class opinion | and four of them communist or so- cialist sentiment. It is hopeless to expect any single | party to gain control of the legislative body in such circumstances. A com- to put the national appropriation for pital upbuilding in a position where may not be increased without run- | ning the gantlet of the District com-| mittecs and of District day limita- | ions and delays, but may be d cased without the sanction of any | committee by hasty, unthinking pro- | P from the floor of the House, | adopted by @ mere majority of the| ittle group of our legislators who take or hostile interest in Dis- tsting c effect prohib- fted. Masty, irr s ted and f How this opportunity would be util- ized is made clear in the proceedings in comumittee of the whole when the | Cramton amendment was pending. An amendment to cut the eight. ip-sum payment to five m 1s was held in order and was de- foated by a vote of 11 to 15. An amendment proposing to make | no national contribution until the tax | rate was more than doubled, the effect | of which would be to cut down mei onal contribution to nothing, was | 1 in order and was defeated by : narrow margin in a vote of 14 to 18. When Mr. Cramton attempted to > his proposal fairer by changing other provisions of the law of 1922 rm to the spirit of his project, was ruled out of order, because he ecking to substantive law through priation Dbill | without saving or making | money for Uncle The part of his proposition which cut down th too small provision for the Capital | proposed by the appropriations com- | mittee was in order, but his proposal | to do equity without repudiating any part of Uncle Sam’s financial obliga- tions under existing substantive law | not in order and could not be| dered unless it went through the ! trict committees to enactment. The House should consider whether the Holman rule as construed today | is not vicious in tendency, though of | course not in intent. The rule seems to say in effect that in action upon appropriation bills no substantive | legislation can be altered unless | Uncle Sam repudiates some finan- cial obligation or otherwise makes money by the change. Ought not the Holman rute to do equity be reconstrued modeled or abroguted? This legislation is jug-handied, one- sided, unfair. 1t gives back to the na- tion its pledge of proportionate con- tribution, which accompanied national seizure of the Capital's power of self- taxation, without restoring to the Dis- | trict this self-taxing power of which it had been deprived. Its practical ef- fect is to place a maximum limit on the contribution of the United States and to remove the limit entirely from the contribution of the local tax- payers. Indeed, the announced purposs of the proposed legislation is to enable @ taxing body in which the District is not represented to increase the local burden of taxation at its pleasure, un- checked by the existing requirement that every such increase be reflected | in some measure In national taxation for Capital upbuilding. The maximum national contribution ts made definite during the time in which Congress refrains from dimin- tshing it in response to the invitation | to decrease tendered by the Holman rule; but all limits are declared off in respect to the local contribution, and it remains definite only in the gertainty that the local tax burden will be largely increased, and that the local taxpayers will not partici- pate at any time in the decision of the amount of the increase, the methods of taxation by which the in- crease is secured and the purposes for which the tax money is epent. 1o co chang an D order Virginia Blossom Festival. President Coolidge was unable to take part in the first annual blos- som festival at the ancient and mod- ern city of Winchester, Va. If the President likes blogsoms he would have found them at Winchester, and for nearly a hundred miles every way from Winchester. Winchester is sometimes called the “Apple Capital” or the capital of Shenandoah Valley, but Harrisonburg, Staunton, Charles Town, Woodstock, <Erent Hoyal and e score—of | House of Representative bination of blocs is all that is possible for the support of a responsible min- istry. And in the pecullar conditions that now obtain such a combination is not likely to be enduring. One of the dispatches from Berlin | descriptive of the pre-election situa- tion states that e trend toward mod- eratism is observable on the part of the electorate. But it is impossible to judge of the effect of the new repara- tions proposals and the declarations of the present governmeng favorable to acceptance and execution. It is, of course, greatly to be hoped that there | will be no political convulsion tomor- row that will upset present pro- gram by the on of a reactionary, set:lement-resisting Reichstag. That way would lic further distress for Ger- many and continued anxiety for all the powers. The course of Germuny making for the greatest progress toward recovery of industrtal and economic health would seem to lie alc moderatism, midway between mon- archism and communism. But just| what the 30,000,000 voters will do to- morrow cannot be foretold or even ap- proximately estimated. The Massachusetts Senatorship. Announcement by Willilam M. But- ler that he will not enter the race for the senatorial nomination in Massa- chusetts, on account of his.expected election as chairman of the Repub- lican national committee, throws the field open for a lively contest among prospective and potential aspirants. The nominees of the two par be chosen at the primaries the second Tuesday in September. The term of Senator David 1. Walsh, Democrat, expires, and his successor will be elected in the November general elec- tions. The strength developed by Senator Walsh in the recent primaries for election of delegutes to the national convention is clear indication that the Republican candidate for senator will have a real fight on his hands in No- vember, and the campaign for the election promises to be exciting. Gov. Channing H. Cox is being solicited by Mr. Butler to enter the race for the nomination. The two are reported as having bad a conference in New York yesterday, when Mr. Butler made it known that he hopes the governor | will run. Louis A. Coolidge announced his candidacy for the nomination several | But the worst of all the sinners are | Turkey, weeks ago. He was formerly assistant secretary of the Treasury, and at pres- ent is in business in Boston and prom- inent in civic affairs in Massachu- setts. Gossip at the Capitol has it that one or more of several members of the may enter the lists—Representatives Winslow, Dallinger, Frothingham or Rogers, | all regarded as strong men. e —r——————— Plasterers in a New Jersey town have demanded $40 a day. The hous. ing problem will not be readily solved unless the costs of construction can be modified. Only an Aladdin, able to summon a genie to rear a palace over- night, could afford to put low rentals on @ profitable basis. \ —————— Socialists turned the fire hose on disorderly communist campaigners in 2 German village. Water power may become a political as well as an indus- trial force. ————— Republican harmony should be com- plete at Cleveland if thorough rehear- sa¥ and authoritative leadership mean anything. Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge. Complaint is still made egainst the Pennsylvania Avenuc bridge across the Eastern Branch and, of course, complaint will not cease till the old bridge passes to that sphere where all old bridges must go. In a report to the Randle Highlands Citizens’ Association it was sald that vibration is loosening nuts and bolts, “greatly endangering the safety of the strue- ture” and causing leaks in the gas mains that cross the bridge. This bridge is old. The first horse and buggy moved slowly over it about thirty-three years @go. It was then acclaimed as a first-rate bridge and it was a good bridge at the beginning of the last decade of the past century. Beyond the Eastern Branch on the line of Pennsylvania avenue were farms and gardens and the construc- tion of the bridge and extension of Avenua would. give & short cutfjes’ slowy Lallots, women @s well a8 men. They | will have a wide choice of candidates, ! prise at least seventy-five different | s will | to Washington to many people. It was believed that a large addition to Washington would develop beyond the bridge. That belief has come true. The bridge was designed with the 80s and early 908 was the heaviest vehicle that would ever use a street or highway bridge and that & two- horse market wagon was the weight- fest thing that would cross the bridge, The “horseless carriage’ was talked about by a few visionary men, but no practical persons belleved that it would ever amount to much. The Iiastern Branch country served by the bridge has grown immensely in popu- lation Pennsylvania avenue con- nects with the road system of Mary- land. Ten-ton trucks cross the old bridge and make it rattle as though it would fall apart. People beyond the bridge call for through car service to the center of the city and the Cap- ftal Truction Company says that It cannot send ite cars over the bridge; they might fall through. It takes time to get rid of a bridge. 1t took many vears to replace the Anacostia-Navy Yard bridge of the 70s with a hridge that does not quake under the trafic of 1924 and it took fifty years, more or less, of complaint, resolution and agitation to have the worn-out Aqueduct bridge replaced by one strong and safe. Agi- tation for a new Pennsylvania Ave- nue bridge has been going on for sev- eral years and the time is about ripe for Congress to eay to the faithful, tired old bridge that its job is done and that it may become & memory. Prohibition has succeeded In abol- ishing the cormer saloon. Its next task is to abolish the bootlegger, who takes advantage of having been driven from home to the extent of paying neither rent nor taxes. Scientists declare that the span of a human lifetime is growing longer. The lease of Muscle Shoals might be more easily managed if guarantee could be given that Henry Ford will live a hundred years. ————— Japanese statesmanship has always had to contend with people who de- light in imagining the things the Tokio government might do if should decide to become thoroughly reckless. ————— An announcement was made by Col. Bryan ag to his choice of a Demo- cratic candidate, but the colonel has restrained any inclination to be boisterously insistent in the matter. ————————————— { candidate and the building of a plat- | form lend a sufficient element of un- | certainty to prevent interest in a con- | vention from lagging. | — e | 1n leading the way for disarmament the lines of | Uncle Sam wiil be justified in lookinli | about once in a while to see how the rest of the procession is keeping up. The producing managers and the actors are not developifg much action in their summer specialty, but they are turning out peppy diilogue. The mechanical equipments for both national party conventions are perfected in a manner to insure both speed and control. induce statesmanship to consider the high cost of filibustering. ‘The supply of ofl is steadily dimin- while it lasts. SHOOTING STARS. £Y PHILANDER JOHNSON The éum Thing. | I | | i | 1¢ 1 very wrong to gamble where the | i reckless hosses ramble. a check. | You may miss your chance of heaven if you holler “Seven-leve: mah-jong will leave morals in a wreck. Any form of speculation is improper | recreation. ’ | And responsible for many w good | man’s fall. And your the sclf-appointed winners ‘Who play—but never take a chance | { at all. 11t is wrong to flip a nickel or to let i vour coppers trickle Through a game of penny ante by ! the hour. | You're a subject for correction if you I bet on an election taxing pow'r. | We're in need of grand orations and of civic reguiations, That man toward righteous man- ners to recall. ‘Who by methods most distressing lets the others do the guessing While' he wins—and never takes a chance at all. In Respected Obscurity. “What hag become of the old- fashioned orator who was alwaya talk- ing about the American eagle?” “He {8 still with u answered Senator Sorghum. “But he isn't get- ting much of a hearing at present ow- ing to the fact that the American eagle hasn’t done anything to be in- vestigated for." Jud Tunkins says some men nfke no prospect of a second childhood ow- ing to the fact that they never get out of their first one. Tough Old Sumi Sometimes when you investigate, Confusion grows so ample You simply have to clean the sliate And start a ew example. Commerce and the Air. “One thing I like about radio is that it helps fou to forget your business troubles.” “Walt,” replied Mr. Growcher, “un- til the system is further commercial- ized. T have no doubt the bill col- lectors will have broadcasting stations known as ‘IOU" and ‘COD. “Most times,” sald Uncle Eben, “de | man dat's forever braggin' 'bout bein’ slow but sure turns out to be only ) idea that a.street car of the late|. it | The selection of vice presidential | The adage “Time is money” shouid | ishing, but it is promoting 2 wild life | t is wrong to meet a margin with | That decides who's going to get the | WASHINGTON, D. €, SATURDAY, MAY Answers to Qiiestions BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. How often do Jews marry Gen- tiles?—T. A. M. A. Before the world war about 17 per cent of the marriages of Jews {u the United States were outside the faith. It {s estimated that the per- centage is higher now. Q. How can I find' & buddy who can swear to my compensation claim? I have lost trace of him entirely.— 5. R. 0. A, The American Leglon Weekly says that querles almed at locating service men whose statements are necessary to substantiate compensa- tion claims should be sent to the lexlon's national rehabilitation com- mittee, 417 Hond building, Washing- ton, D. C. The committee will be glad to assist in finding men after other means have failed, und, If necessary, will advertise through the Weekly. Q. JHow many beds were th Montfeello?—G. L. ki A. In the hospitable days of Jeffer- son there were sixty beds in the mansion. Q. When are the wheat harvests in Kansas and Nebraska?- J. A A Ka and Nebraska have near- 1y one-third the winter wheat acreage in the United States. In Kansas the harvest begins about June 15, and by June 25, in a normal year, it is esti- mated that there are 50,000 transient laborers working in the wheat fields. A number of themn have come {n from the south. upon completion of the harvest there: part of them have been gathered from the citles and other centers of employment in the east, largely by the public and private labor axencies in Kansas City and other points, and in part the army is composed of local laborers assembled from adjucent towns and cities. By July 1 harvest has begun in central Nebraska, and the harvest army, con- stantly disintegrating and being re- inforced by fresh recruits, ls busy in the wheat fields of that state. Q. Are mattresses ever stuffed with Spanish moss?—C. B. H. A, The moss is often used to fill mattresses. It closely resembles hair that is used for the same purpose. Q. How long have hundkerchiefs been used?—V. B. A. The handkerchief is one of the refinements of Roman civilization. It came into general use in polite so- clety during the reign of Henry VIII of England. It is probably connected with ecclesiastical costumes and may have been an outgrowth of the man- iple, which was originally of linen and worn over the fingers of the left hand, and used for the same purpose for which the handkerchief is no used The pocket handkerchief wi used to a certain extent in France in the eighteenth century. At this pe- riod handkerchiefs were richly orna- mented. Women adopted the use of colored handkerchlefs as soon as the taking of snuff became an established custom. | Q How a radio me: N. D. V. A. The Radlo Inspector says that it every one were waiting and ready to take the message sent around the world, it would take approximately | five minutes. The message could be sent as follows: From Annapolis, Md., to San Diego, Calif.; then_ to San co, to Honolulu, to Japan or Islands,’ to Australia, England,’ and across to & would it take to send age around the world?— Q. What part of the mone: lected in taxes Is income tax?—J. E. A. About 40 per cent of the 1 total was income tax. The tariff provides about 11 per cent Q. Are all babies blue-eyed at birth? A. The children's bureau says that nearly all bables have biue eves at birth, but the permanent color ap- pears in the first few weeks. A baby does not shed tears until it s about three months old. same?—W. A. The quail is a small game bird of the cld world of the genus Cotur- riy allied to partridges, but having a more slender bill, & shorter tall, longer w epur, and no | red space above t Quail never perch on trees, but always slight on the ground, and far excel partridges in their power of flight. Q. What kind of wood is used for canoes?—R. P. A. Cances are made of basswood, cedar. and other woods of the sime type. Q. Where is the largest Catholic church in the world?—J. K. . Peter's at Rome. seati ¥ | mateq, as much of it consis: |ridors, etc. "The building covers near- |1y four acres of ground, and is said | to be the site of the torture of Chris {tians by Nero and thc martyrdom of | St. Petér. | Q. From what ¢ | walnuts?—L. B. & The Department of Agriculture that the following countries ex ts to the United State ‘rance, Chile, China and untry do we get | I port w Italy. Q. What kind of sait is put on | gravel roads and what is it done for? —D. F. J. . . The burcau of publio roads says that common table salt —sodium chloride—is used on gravel roads to absorb the night moisture, in order to keep the roads packed and flat | and so that the; Il not become sO | dusty during the d lands are there in e A. Barbadoes, or Barbados, s a single island, the most easterly of the West Indfes, Its name is Portu- guese and means “the bearded” so called on account of the bearded fig tree, which is found therein. Q. What is meant by “higher criti- cism”?—A. W. A. Higher criticism is criticism of the Biblical writings with the aim of sscertaining their authorship, dates and general character, mainly by such evidence as peculiarities of style, historical allusions and domi- nant fdeas. The term is used to dis- tinguish this form of research from lower criticism, which aims to recon- atlrgxlct the autograph texts of the Bible. Q. Shouid oriental rugs be washed in water?—O. H. D. A. Genuine oriental rugs are im- proved by such washing. An expert gays that lack of washing causes a dry rot which wears out the rug. (Readers of the Evening Star should send their questions to The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Dircctor, 1220 North Capitol _atreet. The only charge for this service is £ cents in stamps, for return postage.) In a Few Words Tt is the great wish of the German people to get back to normalcy. The average German is humdrum, not romantic. He wants to get on with his work like the average American. We have our own type of Babbitt in Germany and he dominates Germany. —COUNT HARRY KESSLER. Statesmanship is nothing but house- keeping—the only difference being in the ‘size of the family. —GOV. ALFRED E. SMITH. The Washington conference estab- ished a naval ratio of 6-5-3; England, America, 5; Japan, 3. Today the -3 ratio exists on paper only. In reality it is §5-3-1, America being the 1. —WILLIAM B. SHEARER. 1 never do a stroke of work that I can_avoid. Are quail and partridges the | The largest Catholic ciurch in | Willlam M. Butler, who is to be generalissimo of the Republican preeidential campaign, has boundless faith in Calvin- Coolidge. Eleven years the President's senior, Butler has known Coolidge’s political career #ince its inception, and watched it de- veloped almost as sympathetically as Frank W. Stearns. About the time Coolidge was entering politics, Butler (in 1894) was president of the Mass: chusetts senate, & post Coolidge him- self filled twenty years later. It is one of the elements of the President’s political character that he likes being surrounded by his intimate friend: His fight for election in 1924 will directed very largely by a quarte of which he himself is one and t others Butler, Stearns and Attorney General Stone. Mr. Coolldge sum- moned Stone to the Department of Justice in the spirit of a man who wants an old and tried comrade near him in times of distress. They were boyhood cronies, their friendship ripened with the years, and In an hour of great political emergency Coolldge called the companion who had stood alongside him in the test- ing days of youth. ® % k¥ Leonard P. Ayres of Cleveland, sta istician, is glven credit for some of the basic ideas written into the Dawes reparations report. He accompanied the American commission to Europe as its statistician-in-chlef and wres- tled with the figures relating to Ger- many's capacity to pay as if they were regular mathematical diet. During the war Ayres was the stat- {1stician of the War Industries Board, | chief statistical officer of the United States Army, and later functioned in the same capacity for the American mission at the peace conference. Child hygiene is one of the side lines | with which Ayres coucerns himself when he Isn't dabbling in figures. His present occupation is that of a trust company officer in Cleveland. xx & * This is the season when presiden- tial candidates suddenly burst upon the literary horizon as blographlcal subjects. *“McAdoo,” by Mary Synon, a Chicago newspaper woman, is the latest. “The man and his times—a panorama In democracy,” Is the book’s subtitle. The author cites as one of her pleas in extenuation the inclusion of “MeAdoo's important let- ters to President Wilson on the great questions that arose during 1917 and 1918 These communications, hith- rto generally unknown, refer for the 08t part to Secretary McAdoo's ac- tivities in connection iwith Treasury loans to allied governments. In & letter dated January, 191%, following the accession of the Soviet govern- ment, McAdoo wrote the President: “I take the liberty of making a Sug- gestion to the Secrotary of State to the effect that shotld mal condition of recognition of any Epv- ernment in Russia that its obligations to the United chould be re- spected, and so f« + * The President has bLeen publi Great Britain. “The Price of dom—Speeches and Addres: vin Coolidge,” is th Free- title of the | The press of the country generally 22 a delegate at large from Pennsy vania to the Republican national con- vention. A majority of editors, how- ever, attribute the “punishment” given [ uim as a rebuke from his party i lon, which, as they it. was a roundabout slap at President Cool- idge himself. Little credence is given | to the governor's claim that the de- |cision was administered by enemies of prohibition. Some editors frankly at- tribute the defeat as a case of “too much Pinchot.” | From the immediate scene of the | battle, the Harrisburg Télegraph (Re- publican) offers the following ex- planation: “When all the speculation is sifted to the bottom there is found a strong undercurrent of opposition growing out of the governor's part in the pro posed investigation of Secretary Mel- s department’und the suggestion J. Heney us the chief This becomes more evident as the final returns are tabulated and the sentiment of parts of the state is analyzed. | see dependent) attributes the “repudia- tion of Gov. Pinchot” to no-single cause, but says “it wus due pri- marily to the deep-rooted antagonism of the party workers to the man who threw a wrench into the machine and overthrew its leaders and their pro- gram.” In his pre-election statement, according to the Reading Tribune (independent) the governor charged that every bootlegger and law- breaker in Pennsylvanla was lined up against him. “His statement was 80 worded,” the Tribune adds, “as to carry the intimation that all those against him were in that class” To which it adds, “A great many of the state's best citizens were on both sides in the fight and good oitizens were irritated at being grouped care. The Soranton Times (Democratic) de- plores the result, with the fear that “Gov. Pinchot's defeat opens up & new era of gang control and gans domination {n the Republican party and Pennsylvania generally. ¥k % torial viewpoints look more at the national aspect of the Pinchot de- bacle. For instance, the St. Paul Dis- pateh (independent) sees in the three-to-ono vote against Pinchot “in part a revolt against fanaticism or radicalism in prohibition or in anything else” While the Buffalo News (Republican), with an air of finality, declares “the count in the Pennsylvania primary indicates that politically Pinchot {s as dead as & doornail.” On the prohibition side of the ques- tion, the Bridgeport Post (independ- ent) says: . “The attempt to explain his down- fall on the basis of the wet and di issue is actually funny. That hi nothing to do with the matter, and Gov. Pinchot knows it as well a8 anybody else.” To which the Grand Raplds Press (independent) adds: “If Pinchot had clearly possessed the right on his side, there is no reason to believe that the people would not have risen as before to take his part,” while the Minneapolis Tribune (Republican) re- marks, “The governos would do well to ask himself if it might not be pos- sible that the voters of Pennsylvania discern {n him some {mportant short- comings or if he might not have given them reasonable cause for offense.” “Pinchot was the ‘nigger in the woodplle' of the Senate Couzens com- mittee” asserts the Anaconda Stan- dard (Democratic), “that attempted to employ a muckraking attorney to in- vestigate the internal revenue bu- reau,” to which the Duluth Herald (independent) adds, “He was defeated n large part because he was under ? the | The Philadelphia Public Ledger (in- | lessly with the forces of corruption.” | Outside of Pennsylvania the edi- it alof the lat hed in | Mr. Harding v by Cal- | his return from Alaska. Editors See Many Reasons - For Pinchot’s Severe Defeat presents a combination of reasons for | cisco Bulletin (independent) declares the defeat of Gov. Pinchot in his race | flatly that: te for his fight on Secretary Mel-| | ! stomach.” The St. Joseph News-Press | Hcan), WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE ume just issued in London, a counter- part of the American original. This 15 what a critic in the Sunday Times says of it: “President Coolidge's volume is val. uable and interesting, not because of any inherent profundity—on the con- trary, it is rather pedestrian—but as an index to the mind and motives of a man who holds so potent a Dost as President of the United States, with all that that implies for the outside world. The American Chief Execu- tive is Calvin by name and Calvin by nature.” * % %% There was a little episode at the ‘White House today which illustrates the growing independence of Canada. Miss Agnes MacPhail, the only woman member of the Canadian Parliament, was presented to President Coolidge. The introduction was made not by the British ambassador, but by M. M. Mahoney, who represents the Cana- dian department of external rela- tions in Washington. Mr. Mahoney makes his headquarters at the British embassy, but is in practical charge of Dominion affairs here. The Irish Eree State maintains Washingtton offices on premises of its own, with Prof. Timothy A. Smiddy in charge. Australia has a commissioner, Donald MacKinnon, in New York. Canada, Ireland and Australia all hope some day fo have their own direct ¢jplo- matic relations with Uncle Sam. * ¥ * Chauncey M. Depew, who was ninety yedrs young on April 23, has ac- cepted an {nvitation to make a speech at the Republican convention in June. He says it's his ambition to repeat the trick when he's 100. At Chicago, in 1920, the eighty-six-year-older en- livened proceedings for half an hour while “Jim” Watson was getting ready to bring in the report of the committee on platform. At St. Au- gustine, in February, 1921, while Prestdent-clect Harding was cabinet- making, this observer met Mr. Depew in the lobby of the Ponce de Leon Hotel. The veteran politician had just seen Mr. Harding. “I've been offered a place in the cabinet” said Depew, in & mock stage whisper. “Harding says T can be secretary of the ex- terior.” * ¥ ¥ Washington 1s full of emissaries trom colleges and universities at this | Beason, bent upon inducing statesmen to deliver commencement orations in June. Honorary degrees are usually attached. Senator Ferris of Michigan will be the principal speaker at the University of Notre Dame, and will be made an honorary LL. D. ok ok On Thursday evening, May 8, the Vancouver Press Club of Vancouver, B. will present to the National Press Club of Washington a portrait President Harding. The presentation will be made by the Brit. ish ambassador, r Esme Howard, and President Coolidge will receive the picture in the name of the club. the guest of the Vancouver newspaper men when he was in British Columbia last July on President's candidacy.” The San Fran- %% X “The Pinchot type of politician fs one of the misfortunes of our national life. It talks loudly of uplift, human« ity. progressivism and kindred sen- timents, but is actuated solely by po- litical ambition and when accorded | any measure of local success takes| on a mhost irritating arrogance, as though the honor of its state were the call 40 national leadership.” While the Birmingham News (Democratic) sces in Pinchot's progressivism “a| trifie more than the old-timers can (independent) sees in the Pennsyl- vania result “an indorsement of President Coolidge's crisp note calling a halt in scandal-mongering.” “The form of so-called progres- sivism. which has insinuated itself nto th® republican organization with | the purpose of diverting the party | from the safe and sane principles of | its founders has been weighed in the balance and found wanting,” declares the Kansas City Journal (Repub- while the Cleveland Plain | Dealer (independent Democratic) bes lieves that “it may be doubted whether in any other state a man as | high in public life as the governor- | ship could be as signally punished | for so slight an offense as that at- tributed to Gov. Pinchot.” The Sy cuse Herald (independent) sees in Plnchot's defeat the passing of the old Progressive faction within the Republican party in the east, and adds, “Whatever insurgency there is now is in the west and northwest and {s marshaled under the lcader- | ship of Robert M. La Follette.” The | Charlotte News (Democratic) believes “the truth is that Pennsylvania politics is not ready for u man of Gov. Pinchot's type, clean-cut, out- standing, law-abiding and _liw-en- forcing.” The Baltimore Sun (in- dependent) declares in his defeat Pinchot “may have the satisfaction that other reform cxecutives have an_improvement in govern- al conditions that will not be lost entirely by the machine's return to power.” ———— World Flight Proves Many Dreams Remote The four crews of American avi- ators, who are now some two weeks behind in their schedule appoint- ments along the chain of the Aleu- tian Islands, are giving an ample demonstration of the energy and pluck which pervade the entire alr service. The delays lie in causes out- side their personal control. But while they are giving evidence of so much that is highly creditable to their own qualities as’ airmen, they are dlso demonstrating how far we still are from the dream which many enter- tain of & time when a regular com- mercial air service will be maintain- ed around the northern borders of the Paolfic between America and Asia. On the basis of all the weather data available, this trip was planned for the time when the probabilities of da- lay from bad, weather seemed least; and vet the delays from this cause have been considerably more than the supposedly ample allowance that was made. The planes were constructed and fitted out with extreme care. And yet at least one of them has caused coneiderable delay from defects that have developed during its progre: The flight will make it plain that fore commercial service could be seri- ‘ously thought of 'a chain of well equipped stations must be estab. lished all along_ the route, where everything needed for repairs, includ- ing skilled mechanics, would be con stantly available, All this, of course, would add heavily to the overhead cost of the service; and with the com- ‘paratively small amount of freight which any plane can carry the chance of any commercial justification, in the form of profits, canuot be said o be a5yt in ‘Dispatoh l The Library Table BY THE BOOKLOVER ‘When Macbeth s told of the death of Lady Macbeth he gives utterance to a bitter denunciation of life, end- ing: “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player . That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more: it isatale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.” It is from this soliloquy that Rose Macaulay has taken the titl for her novel, “Told by an Idiot,” which is really a sketchy social history of England from the late Victorian era to the present time, with the large Garden family as the chlef demon- Strators of the ideas and customs of the period. The four part: t the novel are headed “Victorian,” Siecle,” “Edwardian,” “Georgian,” and the last part is divided into three periods—"Circus,” “Smash, “Debris.” In many ways the book t Kathleen Norrie' sunilar ireatment of American life from the civil war to the twentieth century, in “Certain People of Importance” Rose Mac- sulay's s the more satirical point of view. She seems to agree with Mac- beth that all life is “a tale told by an * ¥ ok * Through the experiences of “Papa’” Garden we are given glimpses of all the various religions, old and new, which have attracted followers during the nineteenth and twentieth cen- turies, for “Papa” tries them all, At the age of cighty, he has led “a long life of spiritual adventure.” “He had believed so much, he had believed so joften, he had fought with doubt so ardently and with such repeated suc- cess, he had explored every avenue of faith with such adventurous zeal, that | he had at last reached a tableland from which he could survey all creeds with Joving, impartil pleasure. * * * And now, in some strdnge, transcend.- ent manner, hie belleved themall, * ¢ * The sunsct of lifs was to 'Papa’ very lovely, as he journeyed west- , into” it, murmuring, I believe, I believe! Catholicism (Roman and Anglo), Evangelicism, Ethiclsm, Uni- tarianism, Latitudinarian Anglicism, Seventh-day Adventism, Christian Sclence, Irvingtism, even poor Flossie (a medium) and her chat, he did very happily and esrnestly believe.” * x ok % Victeria Garden (Vickey) is “a merry, skimming matron,” enjoying to the full the life of her era and not worrying over its defects. Rome Gar- de: the only unmarried one of “Papa's” six children, finds “the com- edy of the world too amusing to be bitter. . . . Life was a good show to her”: but “her brother Maurice calls her “a cynic, the basest of God's crea- tures.” Stanley s a reformer. always fighting for some cause—votes, women's trade unions, the welfare of factory giris, continuation schools, penal reform, clean milk and the de- crease of prostitution. She has no time for pleasure and thus, as Rome ¥s, gets “all the dry bread and none the jam.” unaffected by reigns and periods.” She is elemental woman and loves the soil, her Yeo- man-farmer husband, her handsome children, her dogs and her garden. Maurice Garden is a sincere but vitri- olic journalist, editor of the Gadfly. He discusses the problems of his day with unsentimental frankness refuses to call prostitutes “white slaves.” “Tosh and elush he would not stand.” Irving Garden is a suc- cessful business man, “always cheer- ful, except when he Was Cros owns a town house and a country house and two motor cars, enjoys eat- ing, fishing and shooting, and com- plains a good deal about the land taxes. The conclusion of the whole matter as Miss Macaylay sees It is | given in the last few pages in the re- ections of Rome.” The brief pag- nt, the tiny, squalld story of human life upon this earth, has been lit, among the squalor and the greed, by amazing flashes of intelligence, of valor, of beauty, of sacrifice, of love. A silly story, If you will, but a some- what remarkable onme. Told by an idiot, ad not a very nice idiot at that, it an idiot with gleams of genius and of fineness." * & % ¥ The disturbance caused in domestic life by changes in the fundamental beliets of a husband or wife is il- lustrated by the case of Count and Countess Tolstol. A similar situation, not ending in so complete a tragedy, existed in the life of Thomas Arnold, father of Mrs. Humphry Ward. His story is told, incidentally, in “The Life of Mrs Humphry Ward” by her daughter, Janet Penrose Trev: yan. Thomas Arnold seems to ha |been a man to whom religion was a | most serfous concern, but not a man Who was able to_adopt and hold a lifetime belief, His granddaushter calls him a “sentimental idealist.” Originally an Anglican, he found himself more and more drawn to- ward Roman Catholicism, and in 1856, while living in Tasmania, he was re- ceived into the Roman Catholic Church.” His poor wife, in whom her Huguenot ancestry had bred an Instinctive and invincible loathing for Catholicism, felt herself over: taken by a kind of black doom. Prejudice in Tasmania was so Strong against “Popery” that Thomas Arnold | was obliged to give up his govern- ment appointment as Inspector of schools, and, with his wife and three children, return to Lngland. There he was able to earn only a precari- ous living by teaching at the Catholic Tniversity in Dublin. But by 1865 his religious feeling had undergone another reaction and he left the Church of Rome. His family were all delighted and littie Mary (Mrs. Ward), aged fourteen, wrote to her mother: “My darling mother, how than thankful you must be!” This new change opened up better prospects for the Arnold family, and for some years Thomas Arnold met with consider- able success as & tutor and lecturer at Oxford. Then he began to grow restiess again, and when he took his younger children to church they would hear him muttering under his breath Latin prayers. In 1876, just when a professorship of early Eng- lish was pending for him at Oxford, he returned to the Roman fold. The professorship was voted to some one else, and from that time the worldly fortunes of the Armold family de- clined and Mrs. Arnold was obliged to take boarders to help support the large family. Five years later, when suffering from an incurable disease, she wrote her daughter that she fore- w what wal in store for her—'"a hard ending to a hard lfe.” One could wish that, for the sake of Julia Arnold, Thomas Arnold had been able to be ecither a stable Anglican or a stable Roman Catholie. * ok ok % World's Work for May contains a briet and interesting article on evo- Jution by Dr. Vernon Kellogg, in which that distinguished scientist grgues that some evolutionists and some churchmen are needlessly at odds. The following quotation gives the author’s viewpoint: “Evolution concerns one category of human re- alities, religion another. Evolution concerns man as a link in the chain of animate matter. It does not con- cern him as a repository of spirit. goul and religious yearning and faith. * * The evolutionist Is no antichris He may be, and usually is, & God-fearing man of honest con- victions with regard to certain proved facts, and of open mind with regard to things still crylng for ex- planation.” T A “The Land of Art" is the title of a book by Vincente Blasco Ibanez soon to be published. 1t is an account of the author's first visit to Italy, as a young man. when he was exiled from Spain because of his activities in con- nection with & liberal movement in politics, at & time when the gOveild= ment in power Was réactiopary, d She is | and | He | EXPLAINS “18 YEARS” IN CHILD LABOR BILL National Committee Says Age Limit Was Kot Intended to Be Arbitrary. PROVISION FOR ~ FUTURE Set High Mark to Allow for Un- foreseen Developments. In order to correct an erroneous impression in the minds of many per- s0ns regarding the eighteen-year age limit in the federal child labor amend- ment, the National Child Labor Com- mittee today made public the fol lowing statement: “The amendment is not & law. It is an enabling act, giving Congress power to pass a law. If governmen- tal power to pass laws had meant the passing of them, we should long since have had an entirely idle population, for all the states have always pos- sessed power to prohibit labor. The amendment is simply the extension to Congress of & emaller fraction o the power which has alwaye been ! the hands of the states. “A definite ags limit bad to be corporated In_any amendment g ing Congress power to regulate nd prohibit the labor of children. The term “child" had to be translated into a language common to ull the states, for they all interpreted it differently In some tates a child means a pers under twenty-one years of age. in some under eighteen, und in otlier. under sixteen. Some common di- nominator had to be found Eighteen-Year Limit. he choice of eighteen years the limit had no connection whates with the passage of any federal law: either now or in the near future. The federal law, which every one expects —provided the amendment is pass- ed—is one similar to the first twe federal laws. In neither of these do we find the word “eighteen” mer tioned. They concern children of fourteen years and of sixteen. Thes forbid the labor of children in fac tories under fourteen and provie for an eight-hour day, and prohi night work and work in mines unde sixteen, These laws reflected the wil of the peopie at large at the time they were pussed. We believe that they reflect the will of the people at large today. No 8ne would meditats tampering with them until the peo ple at large see fit to do so. | “The eighteen-year limit was because of the supreme importance of permanence in the Constitution of the United States. Any change i this document must be lasting. 1f | is to be in any way related to indus- | try, it must allow for the cnprmous and rapid chauges which are takinge | place in our_industrial methods | Production. Mechanical Invention i radical changes in our ma | chiners almost daily. These chang: | have meant a distirct increase in the | element of danger in industrial pre | duction. Already we have machiner | which s considered highly dangere for any persons under sixteen. deed there are some who hold then | dangerous for any under cightee Some people have in fact crystallized thi= opinion into law. The state of Massachusetts, for example, forbids any ‘juveniles' under eight yeur of age to take part in the followin occupations: Blast furnaces, oiling o cleaning machinery in motion. we aromad rallroad tracks or on raflra trains, work around boats as firemer or engineers. operating any motor ve hicles, working in any establishment where explosives are manufuctured Working about rapidly moving eleva tors. | Effect of Amendment. “Let us suppose that the state go% ernment of Massachusetts had pos- sessed no power to regulate the labor of children and a century und half ago the peoplc had passed &n amendment conferring upon it the power to control the labor of childre under sixteen—or under fourtee: Such an amendment would have ad: quately met the needs of that tim: The long list of occupations now heid 8o dangerous were not even in exist ence. Consider a few. Within own lifetime the motor vehicle come into being, the manufacture « explosives (with the exception gunpowder) was unknown, the fi ruilroad had not set forth on its first journey. There were no steamboats. The nearest approach to an elevator was the hauling of loads up and down by handpower. Such an amend- ment in Massachusetts would have S00n to have been amended itself. “It is because of our reverence for the Constitution that we want to avoid this experience in connection With the federal child labor amend- ment. Who knows what the next tweniy years, even the next ten years, may bring forth in the development of machinery? Let us not make an | amendment which will have to be dis- |carded like an outgrown garment |after a little while. On the other | hand, let us make one which allows |for the rapid growth of this child in- dustry. As one glances through form- er amendments, one observes that they are all made thus, with con- sideration for ‘the future. There is elastic quality about them all. The thirteenth amendment, the one most child labor | | | closely resembling the amendment, reads as follows: ‘Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude * ¢ ¢ ghall exist within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction. = Congress _shall have power to enforce this article by ap- propriate legislation’ —Note = how vaguely the powers of Congress wers here defined. People did not seem t: be possessed by fear of legislatio Congress might pass. They belie Congress—really the expression their own will—would use its pow: in the Interests of freeing a peopl Events have proved that their fai was justified, Can we not place th same faith in' Congress using its power wisely in freeing our children” Praises Compositions Of Mary T. Salter To the Editor of The Sta: It was not my good fortune to hear heard the concert recently given ir Washington of the compositions of distinguished American women. In reading the criticisms of such rend tions the impression was recelv: that some of the most effective songs of Mary Turner Salter were not given place on this program. Through professional work I havo come in close touch with many of these compositions and they would seem to reach a high plane of emo- tional expression, sincerity of dignity and skillful musiclanly treatment. They run the gamut of feeling and must have been profoundly felt. Among such songs may be mentioned “Last Night I Heard the Nightingalc,' an expression of yearning love through the atmosphere of moonlig! and the voices of the night: “Co Into the Garden, Love,"” a torrentis sweep of first passion; quisite in its tender, human note. In “The Cry of Rachel” there the undertone of anguish that comes to us all in the first moments of part- ing and sorrow, and again, in “The Lamp_of Lovi taken from Brown ing’s Paracelsus, “I Hold the Lamp of Love Close to My Breast,” the larger love, that must overwhelm in finali is treated with alternate tenderne: and power. So, many of us are grate- ful to Mary Turner Salter for her gifts und soul stimululions, Glas that she so well represents Ameris ca &moDg the Woman composers.