Evening Star Newspaper, June 5, 1924, Page 6

THE KEVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY.......June 5 1024 THEODORE W. NOYES. Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Offiee. 11th 5t and Peunayl Ave. New York Office: 110 Bast 430d St ' Chicazo Offiw: Tower Bullding. Puropean Glice: 10 liegent St., London, Eogland. The Evenine Star, with the Sundas morning edition. i delivered by carriers within the otz a1 60 cents ner month: daily only, 45 cenls per month. Sundar enlx. 20 cenis’ per month| Orders may he sent by mail or tele- Thoge Main 000, Colloction is made by car- viers at the ond of each month Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. M land and Virginia. v and Sunday.1yr. $8.40: 1 only 1¥r, 6.0 1 Sunday only 1yr., 82401 All Other Stat, Daiiy and Sunday.1 yr, $10.00: 1 Dails only 1yr, $7.00:1 Sunday only 1yr. $2.00:1 ) mo, nio, ma, mo. mo.. mo. Member of the Associated Pres: The Associated to the use for repu patches credited 1o ot otherwise credited n this paper and also the local news pub. shed herein Al rights of publication of cial dispatehes berein nre also resecved Germany's Paramount Issue. Chancelior Marx. who has been the 1o effect a It Chamber commissioned ministry afier a failur nalist coalition in th faced the with a pro posal for adoption of the Dawes tion plan German na- i hstag, has holdly para nd jeers of © communists without wavering and insisted that the German government ould work with the utmost vigor for just tion of the question. (er- n conditions, he indicates He met the how!: however. will be insisted upon by Germany. par- | ticularly the release of the Ruhr pris- of the occupying powers and return 1t thei homes of those the cceupying forces. of the driven out by senter Ome e the chanc s new position e the part pansi n The don polit ternatiol the nati ts* report on i 1= Duratio aad death In the overnment it this natter Gorm course of his tatk wus of B onee out I anist ra in a den’t in to th nment At coun i arest us tejoinder The & internal ant to matters of which are important alike to G man unity and German economic This changad « Teast e cher « colior s is vines. ro mait 1t a nk - how impor vield iy is a who of a at Chan a hard time votes in th n o ratify agreement upon the reparations repor But if that agreement i< not effected 2 new clection must be held. The chancellor has fixed the issue del nitely in terms that cannot be understood. The foreign relations auestion is paramount. The repara- ms plan is the first item on the zram. 1t is the best plan that can Ve secured from the CGerman point of view. If It is rejected u more severe e will be proposed. 1f another e tion 15 held on that issue it is difficult Germany aa votin r- wise than to accept that which iz of- fered rather than risk other measurs me sign ndition In “Germany the responsible quarter Marg the tor may have getting Reichst: necessary the Tased mis is 1o conceive oth ————— Misinformation. There is probably more misinforma- egarding District finances in Congress than on any other question dsspite the fact that this subject has heen constantly under discussion for ars and information has Teen given the legislators. For an example, vesterday in the Sen ate, when the ¢ erence report on the District appropriation bill was un- der discussion. 4 member of that body. her the Sen- ptinue to con- preservation of the sixt District-fuderal cont accur: o question wie wos shonld gtend for t " forty vatio ¢ temarks 1 do not how any men +“that the people out in the west Btance. wi can say for in- 1 believe it is said th: 40 16 50 per cent of the farmers are going inte bankruptey, should be compelled to pas the taxes of the people of the Dis- triet of Columbia. who pay oniy 50 cents on the §100 it that garding the financial farmers of the w rate than his reference 1o a tax rate here in Washington, his re- mark was altogether unworthy of at tention. The District tax rate is far more than 30 cents on $100. Tt has pever been as low as that. It is at Jresent $1.20 on $100. Aud that $100 §% a wuil valuation assessment. not in. many states—in fac them—a much lower tion To understate the District’s tax rate thus is neither effective as argument nor convincing as to sincerity of de- sire 10 deal justly by the Capital com- unity. The western farmers may be in a bad way, but they are in no worse condition than would be the District “taxpavers if the whole burden of Capi- itdl maintenance were Lhrown upon them, as is the purpose of those who e now fighting the retention of the xed ratio principie ar BVie sure 10 assert themselves as citi- #ens he from the ould like o mollify the * ‘out hopelessly displeasing the wets. senator's information condition of the is no more accu- as in most of ratio of valua- ——— B Commencement. We are in the commencement sea- Mean and graduating ecxercises are all ahout us. Some of the District uni- \nyersities and schools have distributed diplomas with the customary oratory and flowers. Many others are making ready to honor with impressive cere- monial those students who have earn- ed that precious bit of paper, appro- priately engraved, which some persons still cail a sheepskin. It is & momen- ¢ toua time with many young. folk,and @ highly important period with their ¥ relatives and. friends. © The stream of graduates passing through the mills of learning is larger every year, and more and more do people found their hope on education for a happy and successful life. For the young peopic who are soon to try jecthelr wings, or heads, in the rather " gxacting world - wherein older people re- | 50-cent | Evidences of 4 subconscious conflict | live there can be none who does not hope they will succeed. Success is differently defined by dif- ferent men, and suggess is surely of different kinds. With many persons success means fame and wealth. Suc- cess of that kind comes to few, and many who have achievzd it have de- clared that it is not the bappiest suc- cess. Some wise men bave told us that it is @ disappointment. A com- petence, & home, @ merry and affec- tionate family, good friends, a calm mind and gentle spirit, years of health and perhaps a little gurden grown with roses, constitute what many per- sons call & very happy success. It is somewhat commonplace and lacks in luster, but it is quite satisfying. And generally it is a success that may be | bad by those who want it A large number of young folk now robed ih cap and gown or graduation dress are highly ambitious. They have had dreams for years. They have dreamed of having vast author- ity with men and using it well. They have dreamed of mines of riches and of spending gold as freely as wny char. |acter in mythology or history. They have dreamed of the world's applause and of being crowned with a chaplet of bay by unanimous consent. Very few of these dreams come true, but it reams and ve dreamed 1w better to have had fine lost them than neve b at al Nearly ling from | proper aln the w ce in the world 12, confusion and disappoin at length there will be and in a few years they ¢ VOUDE POrsOns pass 0 fnd theis here wi e sii ment. 1 ' Jjustment, in | very much as we are today. Gener lally they will be a great deal better for the training they have had than they would have been without it. and the school period of life will remain with them & happy memory. Bryan Goes to the Party. Wi Jennings Bryan's Florida vesterday in his alection as dele rge that 1o the national Den am in from state L ence at Madison Syuare Gar whos I national century pacnee would be =orely missed I en nventions for a third of a 11 was present in the Dem oeratic conventlon in Chicago in 1896 {as a delegate from Nebraska. and as such he made & speech which won for im the nomination. Since then he has been constantly a factor in Deme cratic affairs, three times the candi- te of the party for pre: d alwaye an influence in its coun In 1912 he virtualiy named the nomince Mr. B situation clis 5 New York in give him an be a figure of outcome of that W which exceptional «hanee prominens The meeting cannot be of the two lending nomination, it make the (wo-thirds grade lock is in prospect. T 1 is afforded for a r the 1896 | drama in Chicago with a | ringing speach may win the prize, ax | Bryan did then and there. 1t may not | be Bryan himself. His silver tongue | is not as persuasive as it was twenty | eight years ago. but he remains easily the most forceful speaker cf ail those who are now prominent in Dem. ocratic aff: His eloguence i ed effectively for an other On one subject o New Yo pose. {or compromise wil! foresveen ates for the now believed, A & 0po candid is can dead tunity ion of me one [ Lo e Mr. Bryvan will k with a fully defined pur in the platform on prohibition. He will, it is understood demand a bonedry plank. He will | oppose the nomination of any candi- date who does not stand 100 per cent square with such a plank. He may not have a “following” in the sense of & personaliy-conducted bloc of dele- gates, but he will voice the political judgment if not the conviction of a large percentage of the convention He will probably be the spokesman for that sentiment. Decidedly it is (0 be expected that the voice of Bryan will future. ——e— a Iuropean custom that cught not to be imitated. What thinkers say about the matter i%, unfortunately have siight influénce in checking the inroads of an imported custom. The not be made to conform to intellectual considerations. . -——— A feeling that he can conduct a periodical on lines that will fill a long- felt want is a part of every true states- man's natural equipment. - In many instances it has been brilliantly vin | dicated e r—t—————— There is now more than the weather to be talked about. Every one is hop- ing that the days for keynote speeches will be favorable for radio transmis- sion. —_— e A trank interview with von Tirpitz on what he thinks about the posstbili- ties of & “next war” would be timely and interesting. - ————— Derby Wins the Derby. England's greatest horse race is the Derby, so-cailed from the fact that it | was established long, long ago by the Stanley family, lords of Derby. One hundred and thirty-seven years ago a Derby horse won that race, and not again until yesterday did another from the same stable take the trophy which i8 the supreme height of the ambition of British turfmen. The Derby entry, 8an Sovina, won by six lengths. Enormous fortunes have been spent by British horsemen during these many years in the hope of winning this highest honor. Some great estates have been reduced, some have even been ruined, by the effort to gain this sporting title. A racing stable in England is an expensive luxury. It is rarely remu- nerative. The only ones who profit, as a rule, are those who win in wagers on the results of the big races, and, to overbalance them, are more who lose. Great sums change hands on & Derby race. Betting is universal among the people. The Derby itself is an occasion of soctal moment. Royalty attends in Yesterday the king and.queen, ~ A be again heard in the land in the near | With Japanese thinkers regard Rissing as | likely to | " | kiss is essentially emotional and can- }ing from start to finish. the Prince of Wales and his brothers escorted the Queen of Rumania. On Derby day Great Britain takes a re- cess, and the millions who cannot wit- ness the race follow it from a distance. ANl business is suspended until the result is announced. Yesterday the success of the Derby colors must have given a thrill to the ‘tradition-loving Englishman. . Democratic Convention Tickets. Tickets entitling their holders to seats at the national Democratic con vention in Madison Square Garden are on sle in New York at $100 cach. These seats are some that have been turned back from the quotas of those who contributed to the fund which won the convention for New York They will be good for all sessions of the convention This is a high price from one point of view and a low price from another. If the convention were a mere formal- ity. as will be that in Cleveland, $100 a seat would be u siiff rate. But this New York show I8 going to last a number of days and will be interest- Beginning on the 24th, it is quite possible that it may continue for a fortnight. Ac- cording to present expectations there will D ten dayvs of action, That will be ut the rate of 810 a day, | not « high in fact, for a per- forthance “that stand as one of ting in political [ price, may livelivst and most inte of the the res 10 history American | marties | mission | that will be traveling along in the world | | victory | eratic convention | | whis den on the 29ih of m figure | + constant attendant at | of | | winl l1ra go | He will stand for no camouflage | of have Indeed purchiaser $100 ud will reket an y far as known, there is na in admission tickets, Prob- he scalping ably speculators would be delighted to | get hold of 50 or 100 seats and m: ket them at top rates. But the party organization is keeping the “paste- boards” strictly in its own hands. 1If there is to be any profiteering it will do it % as “timid” during 1 spite of all the by a program mand for con- | highly onomical | Money is dey 4 cnmpaign summer suving contemplated s down the ¢ ons to mum — B i “There is no doubt the mar intrusted with the honor of mak ation speech for Presi will have his witir him from that the nom dent Cooli usiasticaliy start to finish .- 5 Having worked out a satisfactory | alescence on his owr B la ¥ hopeful that both ties will suc account Renerously he old political par- | - .- n inclined identally 1o give much-quoted renark £ talesmen are Mr. Dawes her and ge: somewhere e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Duylight Saving. strong for dayvlight said Theocritus Mac Although I've never quite Just wh show how (which 1 am sav an made out t the figures mean ‘That nkerin with the elock akes nerve) serve. indicate a ments to ike 10 keep a upon 1 m mo- bit of shining sky | Corked up in readiness to friend enjoy himself 1'd like to bottle breez fume of the flow’r i And liberate them when we nieet the | dark and dreary hours the al es and the per-| | I made a little garden.’ critus MacBean n't something great to glorify the scene. | 1t was filled With homely biossoms, mi | | said Theo- [ | (7 designed | | whose petals now are drawn The splendors of the tw ftness of the dawn And here and there a vellow bloom— which withers all too soon— jovous ostentation brings radiance of the noon an unpretentious garden, a cherished spot. As near to daylight saving (hat. as vet, I've ever got.” The Word Screen. were given us to conceal nt and the the it's but it is “Words thoughts, philosopher. “Occasionally.” ghum, “we have to try and make them something | bably sell for a higher | gentle. | audience | 1 | | 1 remarked the ready-made ‘ added Senator Sor- | g0 even further, in an effort to con- | ceal the thoughts.” fact that there are no Moronology. The moron brings us comfort scant His mind is not well gaited. He's bad enough when ignorant, Ana worse when educated: Jud Tunkins says this announce- ment of a tax reduction is a tough ordeal for the feller who says he's never goin® to believe a thing he sees in the newspapers. Inviting Contrast. “All the boys are bragging about | what a safe and orderly place Crim- son Gulch is.” “Yep," said Cactus Joe. “There w: a good deal of complaint till T worked out a scheme that ‘ud make the old home town ghine out by comparison.” “What's the scheme?" “The city gives an annual excursion to Chicago.” Convention Time. The gentle congressman must turn Unto the motion to adjourn. Though long he toiled our praise to win, His hardest work will now begin. Easy Familiarity. “How do vou know the lady is re- markably wealthy?” “By her conversation.” replied Mise Cayenne. “But that does not indicate extraor- dipary advantages.” “Oh, yes it does. She is rich enough to refer offhand to a genuine pearl necklace as a string of beads.” “No political job is easy,” said Uncle Eben. *Dar is bound to be a heap o' bhard work gettin' it an’ still mo' in heidin’ on to it" : | \' | M | Marylana Answers to Questions BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. Can an air mattress be used for a raft in a swimming pool?—A. N. A. An air mattress is made for camping purposes that can also be used in swimming pool or surf. It is fitted with a life line around the edges. Q. Is more foreign money invested in the United States than there was in pre-war days?—R. 5. T A. The Department of Commerce ays that accurate data on the sub- t aro difficult to obtain, but that the accepted estimates of foreign in tments in the United States are 2,500,000,000; Q. s the tiger & native of Africa?— Class TA A. It does not inhabit Africa. It i found in Asis, where it has an extensive but rather localized dis- tribution. Westwardly its range ex- tends to the lower Buphrates and the southern shores of the Caspian: but it does not oceur in Persia south of the Elburz Mountains, nor In Belu- clilstan or Afghanistan. Northward, it 18 to be found throughout southern Siberia and Mongolia, castward. in the Amur Valley to the sea of Ok- hotsk, In Sakhalin and Japsn. The elevated Tibetan Plateau has no ti- uthward the Species ranges ut China, Stam, Burma, the Sumatra, Java and 1l of India, but its unknown 0. This is evidence leading ddists to conclude that the tiger paratively recent immigrant the south, and tot naturally a tropical g Q@ % argument please tide later in ix in Boston.— te an whether high Franciseo than it an [0 A. The sayx that later by there ix when it | Howeve 1 peode three hous time, tic and coust t I Boston a high tide at Boston at will be 10:30 in Boston high tide at San Francisco. be only 7:30 standard time for th ple in San Francisco. The tide gher at Boston, th mean range being 9.6 feet, while at San Fran¢isco the mean range 3 fret Q W the Cont A survey halt is, if were the presidents nental Congress.—J. H. Peyton Randolph i the only man who seems to have served more than one term. The other presidents wers: Ienry Middlet lohn Han cock, Menry Laurens, John J uel Huntington mas Joln Hanson »udinot Min, Rich orham. Arthur riftin Q. How Tou M Kean Thon thaniel Al dn 19 Mury v amoun marketed n V' i Compiris ind. o T harreis were 1120, and 1918 murks at Bel r memb. pligrimage magazine and news und amateur sport the "Stone Crabs © its head rtoof qui ar. ship Relleai P w men belo) oree Ade is iy e Many itere = to be When wer I Q troops first used in u lines A n h W record 3 derick th formed his troops in I The French nies during leonic wars need and at the time of terioo a doubls line of fighting System em- Grea He the customary Whera Mall K. L. The well of pall mal modern pr ad Pall et known Lendon from the old f which croquet Do Q. What percentage deaths in airplane accidents are caused by the performance of stunt K. A. It is estimated that more 40 per cent of airplanc deaths injuries are caused by stunti A sireet zame the than and Q Is the noun aco ral form the varb which follaws tics in the singular or plu- K, E. E singu form ustics is a branch of p! *orra_Harr) Chandler Harris? A Mrs H the honor of being Q. What i M A. The ysies a niece of Jo w. G s that she b elated to him Is < ideal garden soil?— A garden soil is a mel- low, weil drained lc As a rule sandy loams will > early crops. but the stiffer clay loams usuaily give larger yields Q. When was the first pleasure park laid out in America?>—R. E. A. The frst pleasure ground for the public was dedicated in Ph delphia in 1651 Q_ What does luke mean word lukewarm?—\W. S. O A. The word luke is de the middle English iuke, wh extension of lew and also warm Q. What animals beside hibernate in winter?—A. H. A. Among the mammals which hi- bernate are the dormouse, badger, bat and hamster. A number are in- complete hibernators, as the prairie dog and squirrels. Q. Were songleaders in the Army during the war connected with defi- nite units? If so, with what rank.— G. A. B. A. The War Department savs that songleaders were not attached to definite units, but to camps, and that they had no rank in the Army, being civillans employed by the commission on training camp activities. in ived h me: the bear (Did you ever wrile a letter to Fred- erie J. Hoskin? You can ask our In- formation Bureaw any question of fact and get the answer in a personal leiter. This is @ part of thai best purpose of this neiwcspaper—SERVICE There is no Charge ereept (00 conts in stamps for Yeturn postage. Get the habit of asking questions of Frederic J. Haskin, director, The Stor Information Bureou, 2ist and C sts. nw.). In a Few Words. We can't blame the present con- tempt for law upon our failure to observe any one particular law. We are just as lawless {n music and phil- 3sophy as we are in our attitude as citizens. The difficulty is deeper and more fundamental than any one law. Tt'is becaune we think too greatly of joy r own livea enIRNANE MAWKES (Columbia Univer- sity). No man in Congress should be al- lowed more than thirty minutes in debate. The average member takes up more time discussing a post office appropriation than Jesus occupied With the sermon on the Mount, ¥ REPRESENTATIVE ROBERT LUCE (Massachusetts). stamp America with the dollar ni“rno doas not represent the America of today at all. On the whole Amer- fca is an idealist nation inclined to be sentimental; but I sometimes wish ghe had more brains to go with it. —DR. . HARRY ' opinion of t | Mat WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. George Brennan and Charles Boe- chenstein of Illinois, Homer Cum- mings of Connecticut. Norman E. Mack of New York, George White of Ohio, Bruce Kremer of Montana and Isidore B. Dockweiler of California were among the king-pin Democrats who foregathered In Washington this week on national convention affairs. Representing widely divergent sec- tions of the country, they radiated a common confidence In Democratic vie- tory in November. They were of one mind on another score. Opinion among them was unanimous that the outcome of the contest for the Democratic presi- dential nomination is as uncertain and Incalculable as 1t & mix months 4go. leaders have their hopes and their preferences, but confess, in their candid moments, that they are re- duced to mere guesswork s far as prophecy is concerned * % % % 4 Lowis of Indiana, president of the United Mine Workers of America, has bounded into the among-those-mentioned class for the Republican viee presidential nomina- tion Lewis qualifies geographically, for he is an lowan by birth and a Hoosier by residence. His availabil- ity underscored on another and more important aceount belief that as Coolldge's runn mate he mig placate organized lator, which is notoriously in unfriendly mood toward the G O, P With ex- tion of Secretary Davis and T V | O'Connor, chairman of the Shipping ard, it 18 sald that virtually every 1 labor leader of quality is for the Democrats or for the a FMollette ticket this year. When asked what particularly rankles in the labor breast, as far as the Re- publicans are concerned, leaders us- ually say: “The Daugherty railway- labor injunction of 192 John L. Lewis is young — forty-four — and looks enough like Senator Borah to be the Idahoan's brother. oo ox Twelve thousand patriotic young American women are ready to strew roses in the path of a Washington newspaper man, Paul J. McGahan, de- partment comman8er the Ame! an Legion in the District Colum- Senator Smoot has publ y re orded that It was solely due to the of Motz fled with the Senate ce committee at the eleventh ir that put into the bonus bill the Women who voluntarily enlisted for erv n ¥ d Marine Corps 4 1917 and 1 The iouse bill had ut in the cold. Now ry bouus prive and i 2 m cetle John L. is is th b an enjoy wilors Depa d e women rende t xervice un- der the classification “Yeomen they were known as “yeomaneties, and, in the marines, as “marionettes” McGahan is a bachelor. bui may weaken under his new claims (o il rimonial eligibility. s When the tens jof milllons uf ra fans throughout the country sre ing in on the natlonal conventions, their benefactor-in-chief will e “Jim" Preston, superintendent of the press galleries of Congress “dim the gulde, philonopher and friend of w meneration of Wushinglon corre spondenty, will not do the actus! an nouncing at Cleveland and New York, | but ho will be the o5 braink of the expert yadiocarior the microphone, who will send stuff onto the ilimitabla ether Preston knows everyhody of any consequence in every political party of the land. He has forgoiten more about national conventions than politicians ever will know a utory worth putting on the alr from either great conclave, Preston will know it and will “tip” the radlo man with accuracy and dispatch ) When the name of John W is mentioned as the Democratic a0 un and ears wnd at Duvis dark horse, it's the former ambassadors Wall street law connections that are | 1lways trotted out ax hix oniy handi- | cap. Robert Lansing retary of State when son Davis to the James, recalls to thi« not only ( member of s son, Jennings, & Ru: to which Davis now bLelongs, when Cleveland was elected President the sccond time, but that Da today oc cupies the identical desk which Cleveland used. Somebody was re lating that coineidence in Washing- ton the oiher day, when it was nar- ruted that Charles IZvans Hughes' last public address, before being nomi- nated for President in 1916, was a commencement talk at the Gunston Hall in Washington. One of the Democrats’ dark horses, Huston Thompson, was commencement _orator at the same school a week or two ago. %o % When Masanao Hanihara, Jupausse ambassador the United States, leaves Washington soun. the capitall will lose ane of its expert bridegs| players, Another gilt-edged bridge ! player is Dr. Alfred $ze, the Chinese minister. Hanihara and Sze are fre- quently at each other's card table, | with American friends making up a foursome, To watch them, often as who e President Court observer wil of aent 8t thiet | Clevelund a | firm (Stet New York) was | said tha pan and China wer inseparable cronies, (Copyright anything but Pacifie Flight of U. S. Airmen‘j Wins Praise Throughout Nation A X and Nelson for being the stors Wade, Smith firet to com- voyage across the Pa- This feat of daring and has fired th agination ¥ one throughout the couniry, added und interest in future progress (o the west- Should their adventure end triumph, the nation’s editors they still would have scored of the greatest expioits of the an air Ocean endurance their has zest ward with t agree. one “The flight At 1 Pacis tendant of th Army licut wenther destroyers f the out-nearted n hut nts across the put the at- thelr mettle atest that the New York 7T The “took them from un island & to Alaska American territory, across the Pacific Ocean to a Japanese island_and over a part of the world of which most of us know next to nothing.” the Pitts- burgh un declares “‘adds greatly to the thrill of the adventure” for “the azards of this part of their journey great, and the interest which n the story is multiplied by the strangeness of the lands which are stopping places” To think of @ well, reflects the Miami News ropoliz, “fiying through uncharted at _the mercy of capriciou 878 miles throuzh snow- storms that whipped aboui and bhind- «cd. gives one some idea of what k 0 be overcome,” but, to picture the cxperiences in the hu man mind. Heavy air fogs prevalled and “storms and ice threatened if a forced landing we " con- tinues the Springtieid & which contends “these cOUTaZeous American pilots have finished the hardest par. of an exceptionally hard flight,” aud “barring unforseen accidents t should be able to forge ahead now and complete their historic trip % %3 “1t achievement apparent- iy more hazardous than spectacular.” according to the New York Herald- Tribune, which mentions “the prog- ress was slow, and on the maps the individual jumps do not look particu- lariy long.” but unbappily the maps do not record the gal snowstorms and general abominab! combina- tion of vicious weather against which the fiyers had to contend.” The Atlan- ta Journal points out: “The toils and perils of weather encountered by the fliers were an utmost test of their mettle. Hardihood and skill. as well as sheer courage, they manifested in full measure. It those immense and stormful wastes of ocean can be com- passed. as they have been by the American aviators, there is no region of the airplane world which men can- not essay with confidence.” Although they flew across the Pacific at the narrowest place, the Chicago Jour- nal of Commerce holds, “in the pres- ent stage of airplane development they are taking more risk than if they had tried tof fly directly from | San Francisco to ' Tokio. for in the latter case there would have been no risk at all” because “the upshot would have been sure—it would have been a thing calied death.” In any event, the New York Sun suggests, “they have carried their machines mafely through terriffic storms, bitter cold ‘and blinding fog. with but one unfortunate occurrence—the crash of Maj. Martin in the fourth plane—to mar a successful trip” and, “the to- tal results in breaking ground over 3,000 miles of unflown territory are very impressive.” The Boston Transcript calls atten- tion to the fact that “the crossing of the Pacific at this time and in this way leaves transoceanic honors even- ly distributed within the United States, for the American Navy was first_to fly the Atlantic and now the Army gains a like position in the Pacific,” furthermore, “it is a source of particular satisfaction and pride that both flights were accomplished with alrplanes and engines of purely American origin, deriving from no foreign product.” The Milwaukes Journal observes “they have struck out an air route which some day may be the path of a regular service be- tween America and Asia and along which swift planes and aerial liners will pass each other by day and by night—when man's _conquest of the on as one o 5 feats aviation has yet recorded” in . imes fact that their <o belon i felt was an air is complete.” The Newark News agrees “they have accomplished what they set out to do on the first divis- fon of. the fiight, rient: they have explored new routes through places little known: 1k have made a place for others to foi- Tow.” €+ * Hands across the igurative phrase which impl ternational friendship and the Lansing State Journal asserts, but “today there is reality in the close connection between widely separated lands.” The Detroit Free Press con- cludes “the American aviators beut- ing their way up through Alaskan wilds and across the Pacific Ly the A and Kuri Islands have been flying under most adverse co tions. The sea’ was or ian discoy i grue have At the complets conguest of the air is far from an accomplished fact. But they have revealed, above all else, possibilities that point to ul imate mastery of the upper spaces he Huntington Advertiser applauds heir feat of daring and endurance and i« glad that the heroes of th adventure, the first to complete an air voyvage across the Pacific. are citi- zens of the United States.” While the Jersey Journal finds that “on cach hop of the long flight the in- trepid fivers are adding another chap- ter to the remarkable romance of the have were ing shown ays Washington Should Be First Seen. #) REPRESENTATIVE SOL BLOOM of New York. ter six months of continuous se sion of Congress I am more sold than ever on the idea of “seeing America first,” and to my fellow townsmen and women who crash the booking offices of the tranzatlantic liners to ! et choice accommodations to Europe during the rush period may T suggest that, it they have not done it her tofore, they ought to give some at- tention to sightsccing at home—and | Washington should top the list of places to be visited. I have done my share of European | traveling, and 1 hope to do more. but not until the last few months did 1 realize just how much there was to see within six hours of New York Washington is a liberal education in arts. in science, in human nature and in the glories of our own country. 1 am not in the real estate business in Washington, neither bave 1 anything to_sell here: therefore if I read like a Washington Babbitt it is becauss [ want the folks to see the Main Street of our nation WHen Gene Buck was in town re- centlv he presided at two “authors nights” at the National Press Club. Every time he would present Irving Berlin, Earl Carroll. Sousa or some other music writing notable he used this expression:—“I want you fellows to meet and get acquainted with ete. That is _the way 1 fecl about Washington. Some da¥ I am going to try to work out a scheme Whereby ways and means can be provided to' run large excursion parties of peor | boys and girls from all of our New York schools to the Capltal. in ordar | that those “fellows can meet and get acquainted with” Washingion As a means of making better Amorivar out of the younger generation ot Ne Yorkers I know of nothing better Sights are not all to be seen around Washington; thers are notables gm- lore, but the average notable hore attracts about as much attention as a préminent actor, for ttl{ngl., at- tracts around the Tambs' Club. Cen. gressmen anfl senators wander around the Capitol corridors unmolosted, and it is only on extremely rare oocasions that the Capitol guides do any of us the honor to say. “There goes Repre- sentative Fuller Bunkum.” We are just plain folks in Washington. The fact that there are Democrats and Republicans in Washington does not mean at all that the Democrats and Republicans are bitter enemias, personally as well as politically. To the contrary, some of the warmest friendships in the Capital are be- tween men of opposite political par- tles. An_aislo -divides the political faith of the members of both branches of Congress, but it takes more than an alsie to cause men to overlook the good qualities, personal, mental and political, of the fellow who sits on the other side and throws a monkey wrench bs'mg the machinery of your pet ho ust when suc- cess is in sight. & new Kind from the New Vart oy i e A e T ST o g ~CLAiatel frum e, Mg e Teberram | dia | expression | Tire | view of which he | mark | man a {eity I but T can wish the traveler no better | some reason | 1ite . The North Window BY LEILA MECHLIN The munificent gift of $1,000,000 by Mr. John D. Rockefeller, jr., for the restoration of the roof of Rheims Cathedral and the repair of the foun- taips st Versailles and Fontainebleau, together with these famous palaces, which was announced recently by ¥rench government, witnesses a growing comprehension of the fact that great art is, as M. Poincare puts i, “the artistic patrimony the whale world.” Iheims Cathedral, which was so terribly destroyed during the great war; the magnificent park ut Ver- snilles, nid out by Le Notre, the great ¥rench landscape gardner, and mag- ficently decorated by the works of rench gculptors: the Palace of Fon tainebieay, with its beautiful grounds, arc all great works of art, which for generations bave werved as inspira- tion to the artists not only of France but of all nations, and if they were permitted to pass away throukh the ruvages of time and the temporary poverty of the nation which brought them (nto existence the whole world would be impoverished. It would be our loss as well, almost equally, as that of France An American traveler in Europe in of the early years of the nineteenth cen- ( tury notes in his unpublished journal a conversation which ne had with Lafayette, whom he had met st Ver- #nilles, in’ which the great patriot of | the days of the revolu concern lest the creation nificent park, one of the Ald works of landecaps in the world, had Leen #n extrava- gance of rovaity h, despite it beauty, should be yned upon. It was an extravagance, hut Lafavetie not take into consideration the thousands of persons. many of them travelers from America, who would find untold delight in this extrava- gance of the monarchy. *x % x Eut to return to Rheims. What would the strict sect of Baptists, even fifty years ago, have thought if it had been ruggested that one of their members would help to restore by lavish gift one of the great Roman Catholic cathedrals of the world? Yet today so general is the recognition of these great Gothic cathedrals monuments of that Mr. Rock feller's gift is regarded in the sa 1 light as a ximilar donation to an art museum on expressed of thic mag most splen- architectur as art Again art serves as a me- dium of common fellowship In & discussion of what the greatest service th rendered to art in Ame the recent convention o can Federation of Arts president of the Detroif Art Inst if it were a personal matter him and he had the means he build & great Gothie cathedral Ving such to be the most perfe. of art, and nlated to most largely serve the peopls. ne ¢ of this but of the ages ve » come. View of the great cathedral e world is one which many ieaders of ught and beauty have shared Many are familiar with Henry Ad- ms” book o0 the Cathedral of Char- s—beautifully written. sensitively appreciative of a gr k of art AS his niece raid ducation® Bives an nt Henry Adams in the world h glimpses per- hape only to these who knew him of his inner shrine, whereas the ‘life he- hind a veil' reveals itself in the mon- ument in Rock Creek cemetery, and in the volume. ‘Mont St. Michel Chartr Reading again his cription of the western rose of Chartres, one realizes how powerful was the influence of this cathedral upon the mind of this representative son of New England. a5 Less familiar, perhaps. is the praise which another New Englander, He James, the great m cave Wells Cath the thus charmingly de- pleasan things the rarest Things are often to find them tor may mizht A today. a He Armer Ralph Booth witl English, to dral scribes life, gre worse The and perhay e surpr than and when the ot in we expect they are b day with a white These refiections are as applica a tourist to any phase of his destiny, and I recently had occasion to make then the ancient city of Wells I knew in a general way tha t had a great cathedral to show, hut I was far from suspecting the precious picturesque- ness of the little town. The immense predominance of the Minster towers as you &ce them from the approach- ing train over the clustered houses to in lut their feet mive you indeed an inti- it, and suggest that the thing if not ecclesiastical; mation fortuna than to stroil forth in the early evening with as large a reserve | of ignorance ss my own and treat himself to an hour of discovery ¢ e e 3¢ is a wonderfnl fact that the great towers from their lofty out- look see never a factory chimne those cloud-compelling spires which o often break the charm of the soft inglish horizons and the general at- mosphere of Wells seemed to me, for peculiarly luminous and | sweet " % % To Nathaniel Hawthorne a cathedral seemed “the most wonder- ful work which mortal man has vet achieved—so vast, so intricate, profoundly simpls, with sach, strange. delightful recesses in its grand figure, <o difficult of comprehension within one idea. and vet all so consomant that it ultimately draws the beholder and his universe into its harmony— the only thing in the world that vaat enough and rich enough *x xx Henry Adama Henry James, N thaniel Hawthorne and August Rodin were all of ono mind on this subject. Rodin, the greatest sculptor of our day. s reported to have said: “All our France i in her cathedrals,” add- Ing: “Refore 1 leave this world I want at least to have told my ad- miration of these marvels 1 have been privileged to love them and to have tasted the best pleasure of my in their presence. 1 want to colobrato these stones so tenderly wrought to Deauty by humble and wiftel Artista these spaces of beanti- Tul shade, whera gentleness sleeps in strength. these fne. powerful “ribs Which run ta the vaulted roof and are bound 1nto the (ntersection of a fower. these rese windows inspired by the setting sun ™ LR All this is of the more interest to us in Washington today because of he faot that here, on Mount St. Albans, is being reared in our own time a great Gothic cathedral which shall, it is believed, be as perfect an ex- pression of art as any of these great cathedrals of Furope—a building which will become a world posses- slon, a source of inspiration and joy 1o untold generations. .- % To return for a moment to the other artistic beneficiaries of the Rockefeller gift—Versailles and Fon- talnebleau, once royal palaces and pleasuregrounds, now reckoned as invaluable Do fons of the peaple At Fontainebleau beneath the palace roof. which it seems has been leak ing dismally, is lodged the American Schools of Music and Painting, sup- ported by the Fremeh government and administered by committoes of PFrenchmen and Americans The money at_Ver: luuufin ellufl“ t: the repair andl eonditioning of the foua- s0 ry | first | its | other | Grothic | BRADDOCK’S LANDING SPOT NOW IN DOUBT Committee Named to mm« Where British Troops Really! Debarked. TRADITION IS QUESTIONED Historians Believe Rock Ni Naval Hospital Is Wrong. r The Association of Oldest Inhal tants of the District of Columbia wiil undertake to settle the question pf where along the Potomac Gen. Bray dock landed his British troops |in 17 This difficult task of research wi assigned to Jon Claggett Prostor and James F. Duhamel at a meetihg at Union Engine House last night after Mr. Duhamel had raised a doubt as to whether the English forces |really landed at the so-called Brad- dock rock, near the Naval Hospital Plans for Tablet. Duhamel said he had heard the Daughters of the Americar on wers preparing to place nd he v ade 1 Mr | Reve |a marker on the that bhe n the landing The s that Brad | he doctared it barked at 24t} his men up and down Rock Creck when he avoided that Inconvenience ing nearer to That same que as to Plymouth Rock,” observed M Proctor, but you couldn’t convince 1t Yankees that the Pilgrims did land there Will Refer to Rambler. Washington Topham recailed The Rambler once wrote of Br: The Sunday Star that researchers that in their inquiry Nine! befare legge but in America i Washington co 2 ich thirsi quenc i whisks cou s a glase b the (- presented to 1) Britishe t and ills Rock al | goute he the b to & guide nt 1831, and bitants for 1w < made | received s | spectivaly Mistory of Corner. e northea | riace | cupied | [ We 4 som prior to 1819 and ¢ the o ructures in Wash Proctor the his erect | according to Mr wha {read a paper night [tory of that The house was | o nre in 1861 | Evans delivered a Walker, member Who died ten dave operation. Mr e laundrs ington business in Washington The following new members were elected: William A. Jack, William D Windom. Charles S Domer, Francis . Boucher, Frank A. Law, Robert Klotz and William Hendricks. Albert Harper, newly elected vice president presided. and J. Iliot Wright, secre tary, was present. on wil hold its Fourtt the grounds - Chureh, G street be th streets southeas at 11 Independence da | Wiiliam Page £t House of Hepresontatives, | princt Freder | ba » Decla depen | tween & 3 clerk will be t! k 1. Fish on of 1 speake read t COURAGE “I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul | —HENLLY. i | striving | airplane. | brother [old suc | snubbed. and {do the big pat insulted, Born from boyhood to Wright, the ached n w when the thes “heliocopter make a fl through cc brake for manufacture | aid not forse Studying four years chine that carry any one. lnter could make grasshopper-like Migh in it, and jn another vear. Wilbur | December 17 flew for Hfty | seconds at Kitty Hawk, N. | Returning home. “iher, and experl they fiy bu rs mad, more would e Two th ey tried to g no the was = day second, an exhibition ficient wind the firs went wrong the crowds smiled disparagingly. Anoti vear of effort and the machine flew twelve miles carrying an operator The bicycle business had dwindled and funds were low. Father sold b farm and Sister Katherine gave 2 her savings to help. Patriotism ed, and the boys offered the inver tion as 2 gift to the United State: government Their letter was no: Answered. They Wrote again—and Wers told that the War Departme: had no time to send any one to in Vestigate the claims of “a couple o cranke” 8 Charles R. Flint of New York, loan ed them $10,000. Wilbur went t France. The French called him th: Yankee Bluffer,” saw him fly, then named him the “bird man.' and h: fold the French rights to the machin for. '$100,000. The Italian rights brousht $200.000. ) The United States wanted a two- passenger machinc. Orville perfected one. In the trial Might the propeller o operate properly and the A or wan killed and Orville in- red in the crash. U he nited States became interest- ed. the brothers began to make &ir Slanes and won international fame Pien ‘Wiibur dled and Orvilie had to alone. et ecomber 17 " Orville was howared in & nation-wide _celebration T ememorating the twentieth an nhvarsily of the first fight of the Wright alrpiane. ¥ (Oenrright. 19940 O motc thase glorious fountains which joy and marvel of mul poor and the rich alike “uindAys when they play veat park to find quiet he vahibition A€ Ihix sort is today reck W posseasion, and that Wy for its protestion for (he hewert wf futuro generations i shared by all alike. was demon- rtrated 1essnily By the protests mads By @F1 foverw N America againat the plan, wenecwualy suggested by the Greaka, th BriRg (0 our country fer s # S e tains. have heen th tiudes the who, on () ook to © pleasute | That art oned a= 4 W tha rerpons