Evening Star Newspaper, June 24, 1924, Page 6

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Member of the Associated Press. to the uge for republication of Al news dis- patches credited o it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub hed herein © Al rights of publication of snectal dispaiches herein are alw reserved. A Day of Harmony. Democracy’s big quadrennial party | starts today in Madison Squ: den, New k. with great e asm, with an immense with a “keynoter” of high plishm charged with party speech. All is harmony operation today The will riote of discord in these happenings. But under the surface there is much tension und It may break forth tomorrow. when the permanent organization is cffected, or it may not | come intu evidence until Thursday, when it is now expected adoption of the platform will be the order of bus ness. But according to all the indi- cations and reports it is certain to come into cvidence soon after the preliminaries are settled. For the Democratic party is not in a happy state of family union er agreement. It fact, in serious factional disturbance. And the trou- bie is that there are no distinct | in the party, no two definitely rival factio There is at present on the scorc of the nomination a broad division hetween the McAdoo and the anti-McAdoo sentiment. But running across this line of separation are other lines relating to policies. There is a sentiment against the Ku Klux Klan which is somewhat geographical and 15 at the sume time somewhat related to the anti-McAdoo alignment. There ts the difference regarding the wet and dry question. And that, too, runs across the candidate line. Further- more, there is the difference of opin- 10n relating 1o the league of nations. Anud, moreover, there is a pronounced difference of belief in respect to the socalled progressive policies which some delegates would like to see adopted as a bid for the votes sup- posedly represented in the La Folletto movement. ken altogether, by the time the convention gets to voting for candi- dutes there will have been some sharply ruffied feelings. In these cir- cumstances it is no wonder that the wise ones of the party who are not particularly committed to candidacies re looking for a dark horse who is not | ‘tied up” to any particular issue or | faction and who can stand on any platform that may b adopted. The fleld is a large one. It xpected that no less than seventeen men will form- | ally be placed in nomination, mostly favorite sons. A powerful flow of ora- tory is to be expected when nominat- ing speeches are in order, with echoes and seconding speeches that will keep the air reverberating for hours. 1t is furthermore expected that at least five or six ballots will be necessary to| shake down the list to a few real con- tenders. There is little doubt that the actual fight for the nomination will riot begin before Saturday, possibly Monday. - Gar- thusi- attendance, accom thrilling | and co- | be s a no | in. ac in “'wings —————————— It will require an interesting dis- play of literary dexterity should some of the Democratic editors now oppos- igg Mr. McAdoo as @ be called upon to support him inve. e In estimating the strength of w gacret organization allowance must be wade for the large number of joiners who g0 in because of a desire to know what the initiation is like. == ——— Park-horse promoters intimate that the relationship of the McAdoo-Smith contest to the real performance only that of a prologue. e e Risks on the River. A thrilling is told of men ll‘.c_up:hr among the rocks of the canal dam near Syeamore lsland and res- cued from drowning by the fire depart- ment. Generally the fire department is mot called out to save men from drown- ing. The specialty of that department flames, not waves, but it is a brave and versatile organization, goes where duty calls and does well what it is cailed on to do. The plight in which one man found bimself and the dangerous dilemma Wf other men who went to help him remind one that the Potomac River, although neighbor of ours, is never {0 be treated with familiarity. It has heen urged again and again that rash chances should never be taken with the Potomac, nor with any other river, in swimming and boating. The Poto- “mac holds out great pleasures to wa- ter-wise men and women, but to the treshman or sophomore in aquatics “the river is full of danger. ' The men who went to the rescue of the first man carried among the rocks by the current, and who was in dan- ger of being borne over the dam to Jagged boulders and tempestuous water below, did their duty well. They took only such chances as men should take. Fortune is to be thanked that nobody was drowned, and that part of the fire —department came with ropes by means of which the men were got ashore. . Every year when hot weather comes “ there are tragedies in the Potomac. “Men who would not take the chance of getting their feet wet in winter will go into the river, step off a ledge into '‘water fathoms deep, be caught in & story whirlpeol or be carried off by rapida.ajxa:d.hna in blue and brass may suf- | dar might have been some ezcuse.” 7 \ | it | ola da Men should not take chances, and they should know enough about the river to decide between what are and what are not big risks. They should know their ground, or their water, be- fore going swimming, and also before going swimming in wild, swift water they should at least know how to swim. The river offers many tempta- tions. Parents should be watchful of toeir children, that they may not yield to the lure of the water and meet an enemy far stronger than they. The river is here to give enjoyment and promote our health, but no person should take a senseless risk. Maughan's Thrilling Flight. Although the feat of a virtually con- tinuous flight across the American continent had alrcady been accom- plished, in May, 1923, by Lieuts. Mac- ready and Kelly, yesterday's achieve- ment by Lieut. Russell Maughan stands as one of the most thrilling and remarkable performances of men in the air. Lieut. Maughan made the flight from coast to coast from New York to San Francisco, a distance of 0 miles, between 3 a.m., castern nd 9:42, Pacific time. Accord- the log as kept in Chi- cago his flying time was eighteen hours and twenty minutes, and in ad- dition his stops at five points com- prised three hours and twenty-cight minutes. His average flying speed, is computed, was 136.2 miles an hour. In the flight of Macready and Kell the distance was 2,500 miles, covered in twenty-six hours and fifty minutes. Macready and Kelly flew without a stop, whereas Maughan made five | stops. They earried fuel for the whole | flight, Maughan stopping to replenish his tank. Muacready and Kelly were able to “spell” each other, whereas | Maughan was compelled to remain at the controls throughout the trip, with cnly the rest that he was able to take during the short refueling stops. Com- parison between the two trips is not instituted to detract from the ex- traordinury achievement of Macready and Kelly, which was a record-breaker, and which ‘still stands as the longest non-stop flight in the history of avia- tion. If Maughan could have made the flight without stop at the same pace that he maintained yesterday he would huve set the record of Cross. continent flying by eight hours and a haif below the flying time of Mac- ready and Kelly. As it was, he cov ered the continental stretch in about four hours less elapsed time, including Bis stops With these two performances it may be regarded as fully established that man can fly across the continent with- in a day; in fact, within the span of daylight. The practical possibilities of such flying are infinite. What one plane can do many can. Given a large fleet of sufficiently commodious and powerful planes a veritable army could be transported from one coast to the other within a day. No longer must one coast remain upon the de- fensive basis of its own forces in the event of war. When Macready and Kelly made their wonderful flight a year ago much was said about the contrast with the s of ploneer continent crossing. Maughan's performance makes even more vivid the astounding change that has taken place in this country since | the “covered wagon" trailed over the plains and hills to the golden west. No Radio Keynote, After All. After all, Senator Pat Harrison’s voice at Madison Square Garden not to be saved for the night radio audience. It is to be heard in regular | order at the day session. This decision | was reached, it would seem. when in- coming delegates expressed themselves strongly on the subject of being kept waiting in New York at “hospitalit rates at the hotels while listeners-in of both parties and all shades of politi- cal opinfon were enjoying the treat of the Mississippian’s mellifluous tones. The second thought on the subject of the radio as a factor of persuasion appears to have been modified by these practical protests from the men and women who have votes to cast and bills to pay. Why, they argued, should they lose half a day, mavbe a whole day, in order that entertainment be afforded to a distant multitude on a chance of getting a few votes? It isa is | slim chance, after all, at this stage of the campaign. This election is not go- ing to be determined by oratory. Not until the candidate is known will there be any real vote-getting work. Eloquent as Senator Harrison may be, his pungent, polished periods will be of little account in the ears of the listeners-in when nobody knows what the platform will be and the name of the candidates. No “cat’s whisker” is £0ing to make the contact at this pres- ent time between a wavering Repub- lican mind and the Democratic cause. 1t this were to be a short conven- tion, like that at Cleveland, a wait of a few hours for the delivery of the keynote speech might be well enough. But it is going to be a long convention and a costly one. Entertainment and speculative broadcasting are well enough, but time is precious. ————— As a preliminary to tearing down Madison Square Garden many dele- gates show a disposition to raise the roof. In addition to other requirements, a statesman js now expected to register well in radio. . Watching Vacant Houses. 1t is good to know that the police are to give more than ordinary sur- veillance to houses whose regular oc- cupants are out of the city. Vacation period has become harvest time for thieves, and the police propofal is that housebreakers shall reap as small a crop as possible this summer. It is said that the chief of police asks resi- dents before leaving the city to give their names and addresses to the cap- tain of the precinct in which they live, who will see to it that his men “keep an eye” on the property while the tenants are away. 1f police are to keep an eye on all the summer-vacant homes it is be- lieved thet more than twice as many pairs of eyes as there are police will be needed, and that with keeping an THE EVENING fer strain of vision, but it will be help- ful if the police pay particular atten- tion to dwellings that have been tempo- rarily abandoned by their tenants, Public co-operation In this important work is needed, and the police should have specific and officlal information that the family is away. Part of the plan is that & policeman shall make a daily visit to the vacant house, test the doors and windows “and look after the property in general.”” Besides this, when Officer Smith is passing.on his beat, and knowing that the family of No. 3344 is out of town, he will cast an eye and lend an ear for anything about the house that ought not to be, and it is likely that even more than once a day he will try the doors, look in a window and employ other means to determine if all is well while the folks are taking on tan and renewing youth at one of the places often flat- teringly spoken of as pleasure resorts, ————. Yankee Field Holds the Eye. ‘Washington 1s, of course, deeply in- terested in the political proceedings in Madison Square Garden, New York, but it will be excused for taking, dur- ing the preliminary days of the big Democratic meeting, an even keener interest in happenings at Yankee Field, the arena of a most important series of contests. For at Yankee Field two base hall teams are battling for precedence in the great national race, and cne of them is that which repre- sents the Capital. By reason of a suc- on of victories during June, main- v away from home, the local aggrega tion of hall tossers are up in front with a veritable chance to assume and to hold the lead. Yesterday they took two games fn a double-header from the New York champions, dragging them down from first place and, paradoxi- cally, sending into that much-desired rank a team that was idle for the day. They themselves advanced to within a single “point” of the erstwhile pace- makers. The three clubs are bunched within the range of four points, which is to say four thousandths. Inasmuch as the Nationals and the Yankees meet again today and tomorrow, while the roars of the delegates are resounding at the Garden in the keynoting and resolution-passing stage of the conven- tion. attention cannot fail to be divert- | ed somewhat to the northern end of Manhattan Island. Base ball history is being written in New York this week, as well as political history. ———————————— Golf scorers are liable to be confused in their impressions as to whether the real damage was done at the thir- teenth hole or in the eighth round. —————————— New York is willing not only to en- tertain the delegates, but also to help out with suggestions as to the most desirable candidate. ——————————— While it may*not come up for for- mal discussion, the delegates will tackle the housing problem on its most practical terms. ———————— Italy does not hesitate to provide new occasions for Mussolini to demon- strate his extraordinary ability in meet- ing a crisis. o Ku Klux promoters will not be con- tent until one of the great parties an- nounces its assemblage as_a “klonven- tion ———— 1f Mr. Dawes has his way the only chance for a demagogue will be on a radio amateur night. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON A Personal Privilege. A man will kick about the bread, The coffee and the pie. He'll say from home the joys have fled Like those of days gone by. He'll talk about his native town In terms of discontent, And even murmur with a frown About the government. Yet if with him you sympathized ¢ And said his home was sad; And that his town was undersized And going to the bad; And that his government today ‘Was not the best in view— Oh, friend, I hesitate to say ‘What he would do to you' The Promissory Life. “It used to be regarded as the privi- lege of the politician to promise any- thing.” “Those days have passed,” sighed Senator Sorghum. “The facilities for communication are now such that if you promise a group of men spme- thing this afternoon there's a delega- tion waiting on you next morning to make you promise to take your prom- ise back.” Relinquished Tasks. It is the way of humankind From effort to be shrinking. Each hopes some other man to find To toil and do the thinking. Jud Tunkins says the fact that a delegate has been previously instruct- ed does not necessarily keep him from learning a lot of new lessons mighty fast. The Platform. Let every chapter be thought out. Let every sentence solve some doubt. Let every word be weighed with care; With, for good measure, words to spare. By light of day and through the dark, Study each punctuation mark, And when the task is all complete, A thing both erudite and neat, Retain it for a week or two Respectfully in public view. And then the old waste basket bring. There set the pages fluttering, Till they in sweet repose shall lie *Mongst platforms of the days gone by. Effacing Distinction, “Woman now has the proud privi- lege of voting.” “Yet,” suggested Miss Cayenne, “if she goes to the polls wearing knicker- bockers and short hair, and smokes & cigarette, what's the use? People wh. merely think it's another man.” “I never could forgive Adam,” said | any STAR, WASHINGTO. TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1924 CONVENTION OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE NEW YORK, June 24—Quoth a Cleveland man, observer of the pass- ing show in the Waldorf-Astoria lob- bles: “We drew the wrong conven- tion; this is the real thing.” In truth, there’s as much difference between the somber G. O. P. aftalr and this throbbing Democratic pageant as be- tween proverbial night and ! day. Every moment in New York is alive with excitement. There Is the scent of battle In the air—as to both plat- form and candidates. Uncertaint reigns supreme. The convmtlonnll’: self is completely swallowed up in the life of the great city. Iven the throngs in the hotels and in the streets soem no bigger than usual But the atmosphere, nevertheless, heavily —charged with electricity iayety Is the prevalent note, and in finite good humor. A Democratic convention somehow seems a more homespun, folksy affair than a Re- publican nationai conclave. The wo Eeous weather, summery but oI, may have something to do with the blythe apirit in which the great un- terrified settled down to business in Madison Square Garden today. * ¥ k % William Jennings Bryan recelved a call from a Roman Cashollc priest, who reminded him that the Demo- cratic national convention of 1595, Wwhich the silver-tongued orator from the Platte stampeded, adopted an “anti-Kian" plank. Tt was directed at the “A. P. A" movement of the day. The plank read: “The Constitution of the United guarantees to every one rights il and religious liberty. The Democratic party has alwa: been the exponent of political ty and roligious freedom, and it recognizes its obligation and reafirms its d votion to these fundamental princi- ples of the Constitution, Mr. Bryan thinks the 1896 plank adequately meets the Klan situation of 1324 and he will offer it to the resolutions committee. rE Ed H. Moore of Ohlo, James M. Cox's victorfous floor leader at San Francisco in 1920, won a stiff con- vention battle in New York on Mon- day. He was elected national com- mitteeman on a third ballot over Democratic wheel-horses like George White and W. W. Durbin. Although | Moore is {dentified with Cox's some- what hopeless cause in New York, he is likely to be a facter when be- hind-the-scenes decisions are made later in the convention. Brennan, Taggart and other bosses acquired 4 deep respect for the Youngstown lawyer's political acumen after his skiliful generalship at the Golden Gate four years ago. *x % Gray Silver, fleld marshal of the American Farm Bureau Federation at Washington, is a frequent visitor to John W. Davis headquarters. Sii- ver and Davis are fellow West Vir- ginians and once taught country schools in the same neighborhood. k% % The only free drinks dispensed at the convention’ are on tap at the headquarters of the driest kind— William G. McAdoo. In the lobby of the Vanderbilt Hotel a California orangeade bar has been set up, over which Los Angeles beauties, Iike Spanish senoritas, preside. Huge bowls of iced juice squeezed from sun-kissed Callfornia oranges pro. vide refreshment for endless streams of thirsty patrons. Visitors also are asked to help themselves to orang Extreme radicalism after all seems to be confined almost exclusively to Russia, in the opinion of those | American editors who are comment- ing on the election of Gaston Dou- mergue over Paul Painleve as Presi- dent of France. The sentiment is summed up by the Philadelphia En- quirer, which sees in the defeat of Painleve “a reminder that extreme radicalism cannot go far in France without provoking reaction,” and says it “calls a halt upon the pro- gram of the Left.” This latter sug- gestion is amplified by the New York Herald-Tribune, which remarks “the Left was unduly intoxicated with power when it declared the Millerand boyeott,” and, “while its factions could unite for the negative purpose of personal revenge, it was always doubtful whether they could unite on positive or constructive pro- gram The unseating of Millerand im- presses the Columbus Dispatch as more or less revolutionary from the American point of view, although it recalled that “in Fran the presi- dency occupies no such’ important position in the constitutional sys- tem as it does in our form of govern- ment. As the Dispatch analyzes the result, “Millerand tried to make the presidency more important than Frenchmen wanted, and that is per- haps one of the chief reasons for the flurry which resulted in his resigna- tion,” although “he could not give it any’ constitutional powers, and so was compelled to mix in party poli- tics.” Following out this phase of argument, the New York Evening Post thinks “Gaston Doumergue will remember Millerand's fate and be willing to reign without governing, so that Herriot, who bécomes pre- mier, will wield the real power in the state so long as he can command a parliamentary majority,” but, “when Aristide Briand gets ready to resume the reins he will use the same steam roller on Herriot that he used against Millerand and then will be-able to take up once again the conduct of affairs Millerand forced him to drop three vears ago.” * X *x * It is the future developments which will prove most interesting, as the Chicago Daily News views the outcome, because “Millerand may be clected to the Chamber of Deputies, Poincare may be the next president of the Senate and the Radical-Social- ist bloc may face moré friction than it anticipated immediately after the election. The basic fact in the French situation today is that the parliamentary majority is more Left- ist than is the sentiment of the na- tion, just as the Poincare cabinet was more conservative and more stub- bornly anti-German than was French public opinion, so that the Herriot government will have to move cau- tiously in order to reassure France and command _the confidence and Zood will of the allied and neutral Bations.” Because this is the case the Buffalo News considers “in the circumstance with the crossing lines in the French parliamentary situa- tion, the promise that France under its new government will contribute something to the peace and stability of Burope would seem to rest in a large measure on the lap of the gods, and it remains to be seen whether the French legislators will play poli- tics much longer before getting down to work on modifying the rule-or- ruin policy of Poincare.” * K k¥ On the other hand, the Springfield eye ow traffic violators, liquor law | Uncle Eben, “foh bein’ tempted by an | ypion thinks the “new regime will violators and other evildoers the|apple. If it had been a watermelon |pe somewhat more reasonable, al- \ . though it is too early to prediet the clad | and walnuts. No other headquarters in New York compare In magnitude and bustle with the McAdoo camp. Nor is there any that is manned and womaned by so large, energetic and optimistic a crew of workers. “Jim Ham" Lewls of Illinois and Mrs. J. Borden Harriman of Washington are among the distingulshed volunteers. * K ok X Tom Taggart, who is in politics for fun and in the hotel business as an ocoupation, is telling an 1896 conven- tion anecdote on himself. The Democratic gold bugs, who bolted Bryan and nominated John M. Palm- er for President, held their national convention in _Indianopils. Their headquarters were at Taggart's hotel. A fellow townsman asked Tom if 1t ‘didn’t feel pretty good to have his tavern crammed with Democrats from top o bottom. “Democrats, hell, ejaculated Taggart, “theso fellows aren't Democrats ~ They all want rooms with baths. * % ok % The Sob Sister, volume 1. number its bow at the convention. title speaks for itself: “How- do-you-do from New York newspaper men to writers from other towns." Anne O'Hagan Shinn, Mary Chamber- lain and Eleanor Booth Simmons, who meem to comprise the stockholders and board of directors of the “Hos- pitality Publishing Company,” are the godmothers of the Sob Sister. With the advent of women into the political arena, newspaper women &re becoming s numerous in national convention press sections as men. As yet they confine their activities to the doings of woman delegates, but eventually the “sob sisters’ are bound to’ invade the realm of “situ- atlon stories’ with which male scribes have so long disported them- selves, * ok ok ok | Complaint general as to the |scarcity of convention tickets even among these entitled to have them |A Democratic leader of national re- nown laments that this is the first occasion in twenty-five years that ho has had to content himself with his own delegate's pasteboard and badge. Na- tional committeenten, who usually are well stocked with tickets; find them- selves rigidly rationed in New York. There’s an undercurrent of suspicion that Madison Square Garden will be systematically packed with natives who know how to sing “The Side- | walks of New York" at psychological moments. Some of the disconsolate petitioners for places wonder if, d spite all precautions, Broadway pec- ulators haven't managed to bag large | gobs of tickets | * x % x | Senator Ralston is about the only | prominent candidate, dark horse or | otherwise, who has absented himself from the scene. The Hoosier hope is literally playing the Cincinnatus role, down on his farm in Posey County. walting for the scene call from Manhattan to summon him from the plow. Nearly everybody elge, ex- cept Davis—and ‘he is within tele- phone call—is personally looking after his fences. McAdoo, Smith, Underwood, Glass, Copeland, Robin- son, Ritchie and half a dozen others are here, nursing their booms and inspiring their boomers. “Jim" Cox and Gov. Sllzer maintaln headquar- ters, but are looking on from afar. * * x % Though New York hotels aver and avow they haven't raised prices for the convention, half a cantaloupe at the Waldorf-Astoria calls for an ex- penditure of 65 cent: French Election Evokes American Editorial Comment result, inasmuch as the leaders must of necessity take a prudent course and conciliate, In so far as poseible, both wings of public opinion.” It is useless to look for anything revolu- tionary from M. Doumergue, accord- ing to the Detroit News, because “he has never been bold In his life and if he had been he would never have received enough votes to take him. to the Elysee” In the same view, the Baltimore Sun says “Doumergue IS a perfect representative of the Jovial, sunny, pleasure-loving south- ern Frenchman, so much more typical of the heart of France than the cal- culating northerners, who have for many years been dominating Gallic politics. The triumph of the liberal, honorable and generous France was very marked in the elections a month ago, so that M. Doumergue’s election "to the presidency fs thor- oughly in harmony with the prefer- enco then expresmed.” “Both President Doumergue and Premier Herriot favor a prompt set- tlement of reparations and foreign debts,” says the Brooklyn Eagle, and. "both are more intent upon policy than upon prestige, and are practi- cal politicians with’ a less legalistic turn of mind than that which ham- pered their predecessors, so that it is safe to predict that the European settlement will progress steadily under their administration.” Admit- ing that this is so, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, however, suggests that “as president, Doumergue's tenure of office will be uncertain and, anyway, he is a figurehead so long as he oc- cupies the Elysse Palace and can exercise only a negligible influence on_the politios of state.” The New York Evening World feels “the followers of Poincare and Millerand have won a victory of a sort, for while Doumergue is a Rad- ical’ Socialist, he is considered & mod- erate in comparison with Painleve, the real choice of the Herriot fac- tion. The crisis is over amd France is_on her way again. Changing presidents in France is not so spec- tacular or impressive as in the United States, but ft seems to be much easir. Space at Horse Troughs. To the Editor of The Star: The attention of the writer has been called to the practice of parking automobiles in the vicinity of drink- ing troughs in such @ way that horses cannot be driven up to the troughs to get a drink of water. 1 am sure that no person would in- tentionally deprive a work animal of water. during these extremely warm days, and have no doubt that all who read this article will in the future leave a space at the drinking troughs for our dumb friends who have no voice to speak their woe. Of course, 1 cannot close this ar- ticle without again asking that all horses driven singly be equipped with breast-collars. Your horses will not run down as much this hot weather if they are permitted to work com- fortably. In proof of this, I would call attention to the fine condition of the horses belonging to prominent busginess firms in Washington which ,hnve been provided with breast-col- ars. And once more I must beg that the checkrein be loosened. OverchecKing of horses is simply due to thought- lessness—and there is no sense in it. Several drivers have told me that their horses pulled so hard on the bits going home that they have put alJ. IC. n them. Here is where “horse sense” comes in. The animal knows that when he gets home the torturesome pain in the muscles of his neck will disappear. Uncheck your horse and you will find no need for the J. L C., and the animal will stand or drive gui lg 3 MRS. C. K HUNTINGTON, NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM TAKING THE LITERARY PULSE. Joueph Collins. George H. Doran Company. Joseph Collins, M.D. Student and critic of current literaturs as well. Despite one's inability to link Im- medfately these two seemingly di- verse pursults, there is in actuality a very real bond between them. FHere is & man whose professional business for thirty years has been an inten- sive study of the human. To the limit of natural capacity and special- ized traiming he has, during this pyriod, traced many of the sources of man’s maladies and aberrations, gathering up along the way a store of highiy useful knowledge concern- ing both the secret and open springs of human behaviors. A zealous reader of distinct literary bent, besides, the doctor's mind _turned naturally to checking up wAiters on tho basis of their fidelity, not only to the tech- nical art of construction, but to_the truth of #uman nature as well. It is by way of this combination—profes- sional experience and keen literary interest—that the doctor of medict takes a hand here At the diagnosis of current literature. £ x % x “The Doctor Looks at Literature” is a last year book by Joseph Col- lins. In it the author places the really useful and generaily availdbie Psychology in the hands of the novel- ist. That which is feft, a limited amount, belongs to the specialist in morbd psychology. It is to the nov- elist that we look for pictures of human life. Tt Is he who deals in human behaviors, manners, customs, vices, virtues, hopes, aspirations, 4 feats and triumphs. It is the novel- ist who must sharpen and discipline | his wits upon psychological truths as one of the first essential steps in the art of novel writing. In both of these studies—the one of last year and the one in hand—it is the psy- chology of the author, of the reader and of the publisher that engages the attention of the doctor. %% “Taking the Literary Pulse” is, in the main, an outlook upon caurrent American novels. Prior to a consid- eration of these, however, Dr. Collins stops for a consideration of the greatly agitated question of the im- proper, the obscene novel. His strong- est condemnation here is directed against the agitators themselves, against the purity hounds, with passing thrust at certain publishers besides. 1In the first place, he con- tends, there are very few of these novels; that the most of them would die early deaths were it not for the clamor set up against them by social uplifters, on the one hand. or by the sly suggestion of an occasional unscrupulous publisher that a ceriain issue prom- ises hectic thrills without number. In the second place, he denies to these self-constituted censors the competency to judge either the qual- ity of the literature or its effects on the human mind. He challenges any one to come forward with the con- fession that he or she has been hurt by reading one of thess condemned books. Again, he reminds us that the standards of one age are mot those of another, pointing, in evidence, to the joyous and joy-giving Rabelais. hidden now behind the respectable books along the library shelf. “We suppressed ‘Jurgen' until England showed us how stupid it was to do it, and we are still too Puritanical to sell openly ‘Susan Lennox/ a story that should take its place beside that of Mary Magdalene. I never see Corregglo’s ‘St. Jerome,’ with its por- trait of the agdalene, whose face and attitude are so divinely expres- sive of all-embracing love, without being ‘reminded of ‘Susan’ Lennox.’ That Is a sample of what bad books do to me!” The doctor maintains that “literary artists are dealing with the stuff of life, with people’s genuine thoughts, emotions and conversa- tions. not with _their censored thoughts, their sterilized emotions. their affected conversations: that the are fealing with the intimate thing: of life, not those .of the public square. Pointing ~out the ignoranés and, therefore, the futility of attempted in- terference with much in letters and other forms of art, the doctor turns around with something worth while that these promoters of purity could accomplish. They could agitate for an intelligent, @ane, comprehensive and ordered 'program of teaching children the lessons of sex: what to tell them and how; “what means should be utilized to keep presenting the complexity of the subject to the childish mind as it goes from bud to flower. ‘There should be committees in every state drafting plans for this work. These plans should be sub- mitted to a supreme court made up of psychologists, biologists, priests, pedagogues, philanthropists, for in- terpretation, simplification and prac- tical applicatio: Let parents stop being ashamed of themselves in the sex life. Let them believe and teach that the family is “the institution of which the world is proudest” En- gaged in this honorable and useful occupation, they can afford to leave literature to ita own ways, certain that the stupid and unseemly will die of its own rottenness, equally cer- tain that the soundly based, well de- veloped novel will live, as it ought to live, no matter how intimately it deais with the truth of the human heart. They say that this doctor is a suave and urbane gentleman. This agreeable fact, however, has not soft- ened his speech. For a more forth- right man in the expression of his solid convictions it would be hard to find. More power yet to this unafraid man! * % ok x Women will look up after reading his chapter on ‘“American Woman ‘Writers.” Among these he counts a “big four” You may not agree with him at this point, but you will listen to him. Hard to imagine any one tarning an indifferent ear to this man. Edith Wharton, Agnes Rep- plier, Amy Lowell, These, Wwith reasons, are the “big four” Among the women he pavs special attention, besides, to Fannie Hurst and_Ethel Kelley, and Willa Cather, and Zona Gale, the lady who makes “wonderful music on a violin of one string.” * 8 Be sure to read the chapter on Sherwood Anderson, advertised as a. new force in literature, 2 new planet in the literary firmament. The doc- tor finds here, as elsewhere, that a man is what he Is from heredity and his environments. Mr. Anderson is, therefore, Puritanic in blood, middle west in surroundings, in_literary trend motivated by ideas of sex-ob- session. “At times I- have thought that Mr. Anderson has no {dea 6f what he is trying to say or to do. He is like a man who believes he has an important message to deliver, but who stammers when he begins to speak. The stammering at length becomes #o rhythmic and musical that many of his auditors are fascinated, though they have no glimmering of what he is_ struggling to say.” “A verbal artist, gone ‘a little mad with the life of his times’" Read, too, the chapter of ‘“Heredity in Fictional Literature,” & chapter wherein Joseph Hergesheimer figu well. Read ‘“Unpleasant Noval with Aldous Huxley at the head of this class, and the author of “Arlie Gelston” crowding him hard—would have beaten him, too, except that Huxley was clever where he himself was merely dull. Here is a chapter on reading matter for invalids. And there are other substantial topics thrown into chapters here. It is, however, the man himself who counts, for he has opened a fresh line of observation and comment, something deeper than the college professor's outline of something more vigorous and er could possibly ach: eve. LG M ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. What was the first newspaper to publish a Sunday comic section?— L B. P A. The American Newspaper Pub- lishers’ Association says that, as far a8 it knows, the New York Sunday Journal was the first. It featured R. F. Outcault's “Yellow Kid" Q. Do the President of the U States and the King of England income tax?—C. E. E., Jr. A. The President pays such a tax The. British royal family does not pay income tax. The exempting statute provided that any property belonging to his majesty or to any of the royal family is exempt. Q. How can you tell the age of alligator?—N. M. A. The Department of Agriculture says that the age of an alligator can only be determined by oné who has had experience with thess’ reptiles Alligators grow very slowly and it is estimated that at fifteen years of age they are only two feet long; therefore, a twelve-footer may rea- sonably be presumed to be eeven- ty-five years of age. The rate of growth varies with animals in their wild state d those Kkept in cap- tivity, and it is also governed by the amount as well as the tvpe of food given. . Q. What to ‘the conference armaments?—E. M. A. President Harding invited the follagving countries to attend the conference: United States, Great Britain, France, Belgium, Japan. China, Ttaly, Netherlands and Portu- €al, all of which. sent delegates. Q tia plant be put ited pay were invited limitation of countries on Q Please tell me what is * by “Tho Potteries.” M M. o0 A. This Is a district of north Stas fordshire, KEngland. It is the chief seat of the china and earthenware dustry. The principal centers are Bur slem, Hanley, Longton, Fenton, Tun- stall and Stoke-on-Trent, all of the:, being amalgamated in 1910 as a gin gle municipal borough under tn, name of Stoke-on-Trent. The Wellg. woods and the Mintons are ths m famous families connected with china industry. Q. Are pige naturally dirty mals?—M. 0. A. Pigs are the cleanest of all farm animals if they are allowed to be =0 Pigs will not sleep in filthy b unless compelled to. Th should no be made to wallow in dirty holes Germs of hog cholera may® remain alive and active for six months in such places. If tha pigs are to hav. allow, it should be constructed o [ te, and should be drained and cleaned frequently. ani Q What is the difference batwee a (:nflumbn and a chifforstte?— w. A. A chifforobe has a compart supplied with hangers and hang! ace, while all the space in a chif tte §s arranged in drawers ent Can you tell me where the war can be found, and its mean G J . The word “mizpah” mewn “watch-tower.” In Genests, xxxi there is the story of lacob and brethren, who made a heap of s {which by Taban was called “J sahadutha.” The story And Laban said, 'Thie | witness between me and day.’ Therefore, was tho name called Galead; and Mi oufdoors during the summer months’— G. W. H A. During the summer, poinsettias | may be out of doors in full sun- | light. ¢ should be repottcd fre quently, as not to become pot- | bound. The temparature should naver go below 55 degrees at night, | As soon as the plants begin to show | color. the temperature may be in- ereased 10 or 15 degrees. The plant | should be fully developed the early | part of December. | | | Q. With whose troops did Mme. Schumann-Heink's L. R. A Mme. Schumann-Heink had one son in the German navy and two on the side of the allies during the world war. sons serve?—H. Q. Frank La Forge seems to play accompaniments without notes. How | large a repertoire has he?—H. O. R A1t said that he remembers more than 3,000 musical compositions. Q. What birds are so rare that | their nests have never been found?— | L W. A ! A. The biological survey says that | among them are: Surf bird, | petrel. Nelson gull, duck, Yuma rail, Morcom humming rd. Hornby New Mexican | Q. Can a notary fee be charged in connection with the filing of an ap- plication for adjusted compensation? —N.D. H. A. No decision has yet been ren- dered on this, but it is to be brought before the Attorney General at an early date. However. the law pro- | vides punishment by fine of not more | than $500, or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both, for any person who charges or collects. or at- | tempts to charge or collect, either di- | rectly or indirectly, any fee or other compensation for helping a veteran or his dependents in obtaining the | benefits, privileges or loans to which | he may be entitled under the law. Q. Who brought down the most alrplanes during the war’—J. R. A. Capt. Rene-Paul Fonck of the French ~army brought down the Ereatest number of planes during the world war. He has seventy-five | planes to his credit. COURAGE “I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul” —HENLEY. Csrus W. Fleld's rise in life was | rapM, and he retired: then came his | hardest years; and after he had won world fame he faced defeat. Born in modest Stockbridge. Mass., he attended public school and at fifteen became & clerk in the store of A. T- Stewart Company of New York, earning $50 a year. In six| vears he was in the paper manufac- turing business for himself, and his success was so great that he retired at fifty-three and traveled. When an inventor was forced by lack of funds to give up laying a submarine cable across the Atlantic to Newfoundland, Field became in- terested. Securing the charter rights he formed a syndicate and built a line 400 miles long across Newfound- | land. Forty miles more were laid | across the Gulf of St. Lawrence. A | storm struck the ship and to save the | vessel the cable had to be cut It| took a year of preparation before work could be resumed. Next, in England, he spent many months in organizing a British com- pany. Then came a long fight to win from Congress at Washington the right to proceed from this country. After three years' effort he started to lay the cable from England. The cable broke after 335 miles of it, worth $500,000, had been laid. He tried to splice the sections, and met with another failure. Once more he tried, and succeeded in landing the wires in Newfoundland Queen Victoria sent a message to President Buchanan and a public demonstration in honor of Field was held in New York. That day the cable broke again. - Then came five years of dishearten- Ellen Glasgow. | ing work. Every member of the yndicate but one qui, and then the civil war started. Finally, in 1866, the Great Eastern laid the cable, messages were sent and the world again cheered. Then Field laid lines to South America and other parts of the world. At sixty-seven he tried to specu- Jate in Manhattan elevated railroad stock in New York, was caught, and had to be helped by Jay Gould. But at the time of his death he was rich and was honored by the world as “The Columbus of Modern et (Copyright, 1924.) Whose Land Lies at The North Pole? The 6bjection made by an talian aviator who will pilot an airplane at- tached to the Amundsen polar expe- dition to the exclusive use of the Nor- wegian flag on the journey .raises a gelicate question. Premier Mussolini has donated one plane, which will be handled by an Italian aviator. Also an American fiyer will be in charge of snother plane. The expedition, therefore, has an international char- acter Wwhich cannot be entirely over- looked, although it Is proceeding un- der the authority of the Norwegian government. The question, “Whose pole?” nat- arally presents’ itself. That imagin- ary point situated at 90 degrees north latitude undoubtedly belongs to America, but as Peary found no land amid the palecrystic ice, he was com- pelled to plant his flag amid the hum- mocks and_pressure ridges. It is-denied that the United States has any claim to circumpolar land by | ters’ | government. sald, ‘The Lord {and’ thee when | from another.’ ™ words are the common terpretation of “mizpah Q. Is & milking machi ‘as hand milking? Sho done quickly or slowly? A The Department o says that nothing has boer which compares with the b as an lent milking mas quicker the milking the riche provided the work is done w pletely. Q. How many patents are the patent office In a year’ A. The patent office number of patents issued a the United States vears a greal man than in oth are. zranted; 1 nnualil Q. How often does a riveti mer strike?—D. R N A. Riveting hammers are m: six, eight and nine inch strokes spced of the piston depends or on the length of the hammer. T of the piston also depends on th of the piston: the short pist moro rapidly than a long pisto piston speeds will vary from ten teen blows per second, or from 67 1,000 blows per minute. The fa speeds are commonly found in ship! ing and carbuilding _plants, and slower speeds are found in boiler s Q. Where were the “Chesterfleid 1= —W. R G A. The Chesterfleld letters were wr:: ten by Lord Chesterfield to his £o Philip Dormer, for the improvement his manners. (Any reader can get the answer to any question by writing The Star Informo tion Bureaw, Frederic J. Haskin rector, 21st and C strects north west. This offer applies strictly to i formation. The bureaw does not attemp to_settle domestic affairs. nor to undes take ezhaustive rescarch om amy sul ject. It cannot give advice on legal medical and financial matters. Wris your question plainly and briefly. Give full name and eddress and aclose > cents in stamps for retym postage. All replies are sent direct to the inquirer.) fully determined. However, it has been the practice for centuries (o claim any new land found on explor ing expeditions fof the country ren- resented by the discoverer. Should the Amundsen exped sight new land while crossing great unexplored region of the Ar tic Ocean, it s an open questior whether he could claim it for h To make good the t tle he should descend and go throush the time-honored ceremony of plant | ing the flag in the ground or in tho ice cup. The possibility of the exi a great land mass in the polar r gions has long been recognize’ Should land be found it may ne be worth anvthing. However. discussion of air routes across tl polar sea from North America Europs has created much interest the unsolved problem. A landir place would come in mighty- hand for airships plying between Americ and Europe. It is idle to dispute title to. land as yet undiscovered. The more pra: ticable way would be to wait nnt land was found before its ownershin was dectded. Perhaps if the aviator wait_until next vear the American dirigible Shenandosh will solve the mystery of the Arctic regions, or the world fivers now in the far easi might decide to have a try at dis covery. Then it may take a dec of the World Court to determine wh owne tha new land.—Seattle Timc Remember the . . ) Thirsty Animals! To the Bditor of The Star: Much of the crueity to animals i not intentional, but is the result of thoughtlessness. One of the great cruelties this tima of the year i= glect to give animals plenty of clear, cold water to drink. Imagine yourseif on a Hhot dar. with your (hroat parched and your tongue dry and not being able to ask for a drink of water. Horwes, cats _and dogs, in _cities especially, suffer during the hot weather. In the country there are springs and little brooks, as well a® other places where water is available, but in the city the hot streets stretch for maay weary miles without a single place where a thirsty animal can secure a much needed drink unless aided by some one who understands and Gares. Sometimes in homes where cats and dogs are cared for and given plenty of food water Is not given as often as it is needed. The best way is to have a pan or dish of water, frequently replenished, wherse the animal can drink whenever and as often as he wants it. Many a stray dog is called “mad” when all that he needs is a cool drink of water and a quiet placs to rest after being driven from pillar to post through the hot Streets in search of a much-needed friend Each one of us can do fométhing worth while each day, if 1t is only giving & cool drink of water where 1t 19 so badly needed. RUTH W. FORNEY. Is Grammar Archaic? To the Bditor of The Star: Seldom has better advice been given than that of Gen. Lejeune to the Marine Corps, urging every. mem- ber to bscome, to some extent, a pupil in the M. C. Institute here. He says wisely that “the man with trained hands only will fall behind the one with a trained head.” Tt scems to be trus that while edueational facilities were never so plentiful or so cheap, the privileges ‘were never so neglected or so lightly esteemed. Let any one who doubts this count the grammatical errors in his dafly paper or his masgasine, or in next Sunday's sermon. When such, in the report of a bureau chief, were pointed out to him, he refused reason of the Peary discovery. sanction of international law is not to correct them, saving, “I don’t care. ‘than the teach-| Whether this contention- has -the- Grammar is archaic.’ RUTH G. D, HAVENG.