Evening Star Newspaper, August 30, 1924, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY .August 30, 1924 THEODORE W. NOYES. Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd St. Chicago Office: Tower Building. European Office: 16 Regeat St.,Londou, England. The Evening Star. with the Sunday morning edition, fs delivered by carrlers within the city af 60 cents per month: daily only, 43 cents per month: Sunday only. 20 cents’ per month. Ordérs may be sent by or tele- phone Main 5000. Collection is made by car- riers at the eud of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunda; mo., 70¢ Daily only mo., 50¢ Sunday only mo., 20c Daily and Sunday.1 yr. Daily only ....0.1y Sunday only ....1yr., Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dis- patches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local lished herein. ~All rights of pal apecial dispatches lierein are also reserved. Germany Accepts. It is of no particular moment that the German chancellor was compelled 10 make a bargain with the Na- tionalists of the Reichstag in order to secure the necessary two-thirds vote for the railroad bill, which is part of the Dawes reparations plan under the London agreement. The vitally important fact is that 48 of that party voted with the govern- ment and that the bill was passed. The other essential measures of the agreement, requiring only majority votes, were likewise passed. Thus Germany formally and finally accepts the plan and it will be at once started in_executions Report is that the price of partial Nationalist $kpport is the inclusion of certain members of that party in the government. It would, indeed, scem only right and proper that there should be such a representation. The ministry is based upan a coalition. It might well include representatives of all the parties. Germany passes a crisis in yester- day’s Reichstag votes. As Chancellor Marx told that body plainly the other day, this is the last chance. The London conference gave the utmost consideration to the defeated nation. which has heretofore failed to meet ohligations entailed by the war. No fairer method of financing the reparations which are due unéer the treaty of Versailles could possdly be devised. France. has acted M the fullest good faith in already, in ad- vance of German ratification, with- rawing troops from the occupied area. In the face of this action for Germany to repudiate, by Reichstag vote, the course of her own repre- sentatives at the conference, who gained important concessions, would have been the last word in default. Already the machinery for putting the London agreement, which em- bodies the Dawes plan, into effect is provided. A large loan, presumably floated in this country, will be one of the first measures. American cap- ital will be invited and will probably be forthcoming in sufficient amount to put the loan across. Executives to supervise the handling of the finances will be named, having, in- deed, already been selected. Germany has thus accepted her “last chance.” Whatever results in her domestic politics is compara- tively of no concern, short of an overturn of the government and the repudiation of this agreement, which is hardly to be conceived as possible. The German people want peace and an opportunity to regain their pros- perity. Doubtless if the Reichstag had failed to yield the necessary votes for the acceptance of the reparations plan and had been dissolved a new clection would have returned a cham- ber pledged to carry through the project. —————— Time will be required by Judge Caverly to think over the evidence and the arguments, and also, per- haps, to compose a few fitting re- marks for an occasion of so much public interest as the sentencing of Loeb and Leopold. Even a judge, though under no obligation to extend his remarks bevond the words neces- sary to voice his calmly reached con- clusions, may feel a reluctance about disappointing a keenly attentive audi- ence. —— Politics once held attractions for Mr. Will Hays, who now appears to fecl that a man who proposes to make a thorough job of elevating the movies has all that one person should be expected to undertake. ———————— Among the few who appear inter- ested in reviving the Daugherty case 1s, apparently, Mr. Daugherty himself. ———— Are Wider Streets Necessary? An expression of what appears to be the prevailing sentiment of the citizens of Washington was given last night at the meeting of the Mideity Citizens' Association, when it unani- mously declared its opposition to the widening of downtown streets and the cutting down of shade trees as a means of solving the automobile parking problem. This question has, in effect, been referred to the people by the Commissioners, who have called a hearing for next Friday on a proposal to widen several streets, which would entail the destruction of the trees. Save in possibly a very few cases the streets of this city are wide enough for the accommodation of the moving traffic. There are some points where, perhaps due to the congestion of business, wider streets are neces- sary. But there is no justification in widening streets, with the sacrifice of trees- and sidewalk space, merely to afford room for more parked vehicles along the curbs. Probably at the hearing next Fri- day the whole question of parking will be discussed, because it is in- volved in any proposal to widen the streets. If unlimited parking is to be permitted, or tolerated, wider streets are absolutely necessary, be- cause in parts of this city today the assemblage of idle cars on both sides of the street narrows the roadway for running machines to the point of actual danger. For an example, Fif- teenth street north of K is during business hours so solidly lined by all- day parkers that it is barely possible to keep the traffic moving in two con- tinuous streams without accident. This is beyond the “congested’ dis- trict, and the rules against parking do not prevail there. The condition that obtains there—and this is merely an example of other stretches—is likely to be intensified by the con- tinued enforcement of the rule against all-day parking within the congested district. Street widening and the destruction of the trees should surely not be or- dered merely to permit a continued encouragement of the habit of street use for the free storage of cars with- out limit of time. Let Washington try the experiment of actually prohibiting unlimited parking in an even wider area than that now included in the congested district and then determine whether it is necessary to widen the streets to accommodate the moving tratfic. That expedient of destruction should not be adopted until all other measures fail. The Prince of Wales. A considerable part of the popu- lation of Washington went to Union Station or stood along certain streets between the station and the White House today to see the Prince of Wales. Much of the population of Washington which did not turn out to welcome the prince has read that he would come to Washington and will read accounts of his visit here. ‘There is a deep and sincere interest in this prince. In America, as else- where, there is friendly curiosity to see a young and good-looking per- son who is an important prince or princess, and there is always great interest in a prince who shows the traits of character which the mass of people applaud. There is a distinctly friendly inter- est in the Prince of Wales. People have read much about him and all accounts represent him to be a vig- orous and likable man of that kind called “intensely human.” He mixes on good terms with people who are not in ‘“court circles.” He rides horses, boxes, plays ball and poker, dances and jokes and takes well the part of a good fellow in much com- pany on which the lord chamberlain of a king’s court, or some such royal officer might not put his O.K. This prince has been in Washing- ton before and got along famously with all Washingtonians who came in touch with him. His grandfather was here and old Washington kept open house for him. His father has always been an agreeable King, so far as Americans are concerned. ‘Washington gave the glad hand to this prince and wishes he could have stopped longer in our city, He will spend most of the four hours of his stay at the White House and, though that is a very good place, situated in pleasant grounds on an important street, it is not all there is to Wash- ington. ‘Washington hopes that the Prince of Wales will remember this short visit with pleasure and we have no doubt he will. The formallties of a princely visit were reduced to the fewest the Washington authorities could think of and there was no mili- tary display. It is likely that the prince, if he could do as he likes, would on reaching Union Station have hopped in a cab and said “To the White House.” Or he might have boarded a street car and asked the conductor, “Does this tramcar go near President Coolidge’s residence?"” Really, Washington is jolly glad to have had the Prince of Wales with it, for, according to his sched- ule, he was to leave Washington for New York at 4 o'clock this afternoon. ——————————————— “Frame-ups” are freely mentioned in political controversy. The average citizen would possibly welcome a re- turn to formalities of debate which did not admit the jargon of the un- derworld. ————————————— A European government may be bolder in risking the lives and prop- erty of its citizens in war than it is in facing the possibilities of a depre- ciated currency that may be incident to implacable militarism. ——————————— Possibly those young men whose fate is now in the hands of the Chi- cago judge did not accurately com- prehend their Nietsche. A philosopher only partially understood can be very dangerous. ———————————— A brave and faithful police officer murdered while in the performance of duty calls attention to the fact that there is a cost attached to *boot- leg” liquor even beyond that which the consumer pays. ————— ‘Washington is recognized as one of the most desirable places of resi- dence; and as an extra added attrac- tion its base ball club is claiming Nation-wide consideration. Going Up! By taking the second game in suc- cession from the New York world champions yesterday Stanley Harris’ entry for the supreme honors of the National game shook loose from that pasky little margin of one-fifth of 1 per cent and went forward to a full per cent advantage. In the com- moner pariance of the game, the Nationals, Senators, or Bucks, as they are variously termed, are now 10 points to the good. That is a handsome lead for & team that has come from behind. 'Tis not so deep as a well, nor 50 wide as e church door, as Romeo was told, but -twill serve—for the present. Indeed, no- body would be deeply pained if Wash- ington's representatives won the league flag by only that much of a margin. It would make a wonderful race. The only question is whether the local nerves could stand the strain for another month. As was remarked yesterday, there may be need of the services here of some of Attorney Crowe's and Counsel Dar- row’'s peychiatrists if this continues. There is a cloud, however, in the otherwise clsar blue sky. Walter Johnson was wounded in the front. rank trenches yesterday. It wra a hot-hit ball and he gamely tri¢ spear it with his bare hand, and succeed in knocking it down @ shooting over to first in time to retire’ the batter. That play cost the club his services for the remainder of the day, but hope is high that the injury was jonly minor and will not keep this “grand old man” of the game out of the lineup hcreafter this season. Sentiment has been exyressed all over the circuit to the effect that ‘Washington should win a pennant in time to give Waiter Johnson a chance to pitch in a world series.. It would be a pity if his team should win the pennant this year only to have him absent through this injury from the final struggle between the leaders of the two leagues. If both of those ifs should come true '\l would be absolutely incumbent upon Walter to remain in the game at least another year. Motorless Planing. In a motorless glider Licut. Thoret of the French air service has estab- lished a new world record by re- maining aloft without power for 9 hours and 4 minutes. This is 22 minutes more than the previous rec- ord made by a German, who re. mained aloft 8 hours and 42 minutes. Thoret himself a year and a half ago stayed up 7 hours, but that perform- ance had been exceeded in France by Manerol with an 8-hour glide, and Barbot with one of 8% hours, Great advance has been made in the past two or three years in mo- torless planing, as the figures just noted indicate. But the question re- mains whether these flights are of any positive practical value. They must be viewed for the present as strictly experimental. They are made under especially favorable con- ditions and confined to a restricted area, the planes riding generally in circles. It is undetermined whether it is possible for an aviator to make a chosen objective at a distance with- out a motor. It would seem to be necessary to have power in the plane to overcome changes of wind. Little has been given out to the public with reference to the speed at which these gliders travel. Time is the sole element in the records thus far The utter improbability of a motor- less plane, or glider, competing with a motored plane is evident, Yet it is imporant to continue these experi- ments to ascertain the flotation limits and possibilities of the heavier-than- air machine without power. Much can be learned undoubtedly from them regarding the effect of wind currents and the science of aerial navigation. The glider is to the motor plane as the sailing ship is to the steamer And yet it was a glider, Lilienthal, who made the first success in flying in the early stages of his experi- ments which ended in his death. ———————— The adoption of the Dawes plan might not have been so long delayed could Dawes himself have been on hand to stimulate procedure with a few remarks, both enlightening and forceful. A The ‘“‘superman” fantasist who af- fects to despise effrontery always has the inconsistent effrontery to assert in the course of his remarks that he is trying to do something for it. ———————— Grain quotations at least guarantee that next Winter will bring no repe- tition of the uncomfortable stories about Western farmers using corn for fuel. ——————— When & “Klansman” insists on voting for his favorite candidate he is requested to keep on his disguise while doing so. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Lingering Farewell. “Good-by, Summer!” Sweet and long The soprano sang the song. “Good-by, Summer!” The refrain From a tenor sounds again. “Good-by, Summer! At the call We respond, “So say we all!” Hotter grows the sunshine's glint. Summer will not take the hint! Self-Expression. “You had a very friendly audience. Regurdless of what you were saying they would break into prolonged ap- plause.” “Yes,” answered Senator Sorghum. “I'm beginning to wonder whether some of my friends wouldn't rather hear themselves cheer than me talk.” Surcease. Now, let the lusty drummer boom ‘While horns re-echo daily. You cannot play a campaign tune Upon a ukulele. Jud Tunkins says there are a few people who never can learn to take an election as serious as they do a big base ball game, Fragrancies. “What became of the mint patch you used to have In your back yard * “It's still there,” said Uncle Bill Bottletop. “I haven't any use for it, but I haven't the nerve to revive fragrant and melancholy memories by puttin’ the lawnmower across i Radiology. “After all their trouble the sci- entists didn’t hear a thing from Mars.” “Perhaps they are as well off,” said Miss Cayenne. “The people up there probably haven't a jazz band or a reciter worth listening to.” No Rest. A prince once sought a holiday. He never had a chance, For every lass who passed that way Insisted on a dance. “I believes,” said Uncle Eben, “dat every man should hab de privilege of speakin’ his mind; an’ dat every yuthuh man should hab de privilege of not payin’ tention if he doesn’ feel ! Answers to Question.s BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN /, How much higher is the land «teand the Chevy Chase Club than at Fourteenth and Pennsylvania avenue. —E. T. B. A. The Chevy Chase Club is about 360 feet above sea level and Four- teenth and Pennsylvania avenue is about 20 feet above sea level, making la aifterence of about 340 feet. Q. Will the ZR-3 bring mail from abroad?—H. D. A. The Post Office Department says that so far as known the dirigible coming from Germany will not carry mail. Q. What hymns were sung at the funeral services for President Cool- idge's son?—L. T. B. A. The hymns that were sung at the various funeral services of the late Calvin Coolidge, jr., were “My Faith Looks Up to Thee,” “Savior Like a Shepherd Lead Us,” “He Lead- eth Me,” “O Love That Will Not Let Me Go,” “Still, Still With Thee.” Q. How many college fraternities are there now?—M. D. A. There are 62 collegiate, 52 pro- fessional and 30 honorary men's fraternities. Women's fraternities number 31 collegiate, 20 professional and 8 honorary. Q. .)\ruvexecxrxc fans used in Egypt? A. The Department of Commerce says that electric fans find many users in Egypt. owing to the five or six months of warm, humid weather. As the nights are cool, there is not the demand for them in homes that there is in the United States, but in business offices they are considered indispensable. Q. Why are naval stores so-called? —J. E. H. A. The origin of the term “naval stores” which commereially is applied to the great turpentine and rosin in- dustry s uncertain, but it is prob- able that it is derived from the fact that these and other materials broadly included in this designation were at one time chiefly used by ship- ping. The Forest Service says that the term “naval stores” in olden times referred to pitch alone, which was carrted on the old shipping ves- sels for use in calking the seams of the boat. This term now includes tar, turpentine, pitch, rosin, etc. Q. What are the requirements for a caddy to become an amateur golter —B. A. A. The rules of the United States Golf Association prohibit any one who is over 16 and who has carried clubs for hire from becoming an amateur golfer unless reinstated. Q. What American soldler exe- cuted the etching of the resting place of France's nameless hero which has lately been purchased by the Luxem- bourg Museum?—M. L. F. A. This striking etching of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, with the figure of a solitary woman bowed over the tomb of France's unknown soldier, Is the work of A. C. Webb of Nashville, Tenn,, a former A. E. F. second lieutenant. Its purchase by the Musee de Luxembourg, Paris, an unusual distinction to be accorded a foreign artist Q. Does the cedar of Lebanon grow in this country?—W. S. A. It is hardy in the United States only in the South and in Cali- fornia. England has some noble specimens that were planted there in the seventeenth century. Q. What s the deepest dive on records?—D. E. C. A. The diving record for depth and endurance was made by Ed Har- rison, depth 58 feet; under water 3 minutes, 48 seconds. Q. Ts the cotto e of comparati S. H. A. 1t was orlginally Mexican, hav- ing been found around Monclova, State of Coahuila, Mexico, where as early as 1536 to 1562 it did such dam- age to cotton that cotton Erowing there was abandoned. In 1885 the boll weevil crossed the Texas border into the United States. It en- croached steadily from year to year until, in 1922, it infested practically the entire cotton-growing region of the United States. The only exten- sive uninfested territory lies in west and northwest Texas. 0ll weevil a men- recent times?— S. Q. When is a boy too old to be eligible for West Point?—F. W. A. The maximum age for entrance to the United States Military Academy is 21 years. Q. Did the congressional commit- tee that investigated the steel strike ot 1919 recommend an anti-strike law?—G. M. A. A. The Senate committes on educa- tion and labor in its report of its in- vestigations of the steel strike of 1919 did not recommend anti-strike legislation, but did suggest the estab- lishment of a board or commission which it believed would minimize the danger of strikes. Q. At what age can women vote in England?—D. W. E. A. In England the voting age for women is 30 years. Q. Do various thrive anywhere G. R.. A. The Department of Agriculture says that conditions vary greatly both as to climate and topography. All breeds thrive on rich, level pas- tures, but some are better adapted than others to rough, hilly land and scant pasturage. Some cattle With- stand the extreme cold of the North, while others are suited to the almost tropical heat of some of the South- ern States. Q. Under what sign of the Zodiac was Caruso born, and were any other famous signers born under the same sign?—T. K. A. Caruso was born under the sign Pisces. Geraldine Farrar was also born under this sign. breeds of cattle in this country?— Q. How many men did_ Germany lose in the World War?—N. G. B. A. According to what are said to be the final authoritative statistics concerning the losses of Germany in the World War, the lost dead num- bered 1,808,545, of whom 52,006 were officers. Nearly 25 per cent of the officers participating in the war are on the death roll Q. Which is the best picture of Christ?>—J. D. A. Art critics are almost unanimous in agreeing that the head of Christ in the picture of Titian (Christ with the Tribute Money) now in the Dresden Gallery is the best. The figure and face of Christ, contrasted with that of the Pharisaical tempter, gives the former a sublimity not found in any other work. Q. Which is the older process in steel making, the Bessemer or the open hearth?—R. L. I A. The Bessemer process dates from 1856, while the open hearth process was developed in 1864. (It is certain that you puzzlo daily over questions that we can answer for you. You are comfronted by Pproblems, grave to you, which can be answered easily by us. Our at- tention {s directed chiefly to matters of fact. In matters legal, medical and financial we do not give atrictly professional advice, but even in these we ocam often smooth your way and provide the comtact you need with technicians. Make o prac- tice of asking us what you do not know. Addresss The Star Informa- tion Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Twenty-first and C atreets northwest. Inolose 2 cents is stamps Jor @ direct reply. D. C., SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1924. GENEVA OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Hotelkeeping is still Switzerland's principal industry. The hotel busi- ness is nurtured by the government as carefully as our protective tariff looks after our industries, infant and otherwise. Nobody can go into the hotel business without the permission of the state. This prevents over- crowding in the industry, and aiso enables those citizens of the republic who are fortunate enough to be mine hosts by occupation to keep up prices. Americans and British, chief- ly Americans, aro the main props of the Swiss hotel trade in Summertime. In the winter, when Alpine sports prevail, Europeans predominate. * k% % Owing to its occurrence at the mo- ment American public attention was riveted on the Democratic national confusion in New York, an eplsode at Geneva escaped general notice in the United States. On the Fourth of July the municipality of Geneva of- ficially changed the'name of the Quai Mont Blanc, skirting Lake Geneva, to the Qual Woodrow Wilson. A tablet of marble, five feet long by two feet wide, was ceremonially unveiled on the Quai, immediately in front of the palace of the League of Nations. It is inscribed (in French) to “Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, Founder of the League of Nations.” * % x The State of North Carolina has sent an “unofficlal observer’ to the League of Nations. He is Philip S. Henry, who was commissioned by Gov. Cameron Morrison as “the special commissioner of North Carolina, to act as unofficial observer at, and re- port upon, the actlvities of the League of Nations” In addition to attending the sessions of the Geneva Institute for Foreign Relations be- tween the 10th and 16th of August, Mr. Henry planned to remain for the fifth assembly in the first week of September. * k% % One day the League of Nations will possess an imposing set of buildings of its own. The headquarters of the secretariat, or palace of the league, are the only existing premises, but the new $600,000 building of the In- ternational Labor Office will presently rear its head, and on some future occasion it is hoped to erect an equally worthy structure for the meetings of the annual assembly. At present these are held in the anclent Hall of the Reformation, lent for the purpose by the City of Geneva. Tk ok ok o The land on which the International labor office will stand came into league possession under unique cir- cumstances. A Swiss war profiteer— a munitions manufacturer — was proved guilty of false profits-tax re- turns. After having paid his fine and otherwise squared accounts with the Three issues of the campaign—the progressive movement headed by Robert M. La Follette, the world court, and the League of Nations— are dealt with by Gen. Charles G. Dawes in accepting the Republican nomination for Vice President. “With characteristic directness and clarity” they are treated, according to the Seattle Daily Times (independent Re- publican). And other issues are prom- 180d full discussion during the coming months, “That the issue is drawn clearly between Republicanism and La Fol- letism is the most important conten- tion of the vice presidential can- didate,” the Democratic party being interposed between two armies of progressive conservatism and of rad- icalism,” the Cleveland Plain Dealer (independent Democratic) points out and adds, “a startling feature of the | speech is the frank admission that the result of the La Follette candidacy may be to deadlock the contest and make Bryanism succeed the Coolidge policy.” When Gen, Dawes “centered much of his fire on La Follette,” he “was do- ing a real service in recalling that red flag message,” the Birmingham News (independent Democratic) main- tains, for “most people did not see it, perhaps, and did not know that over the bunch of political mongrels backing La Follette floated the banner of anarchy.” Considering Gen. Dawes' declaration of the *“unimportance of the Democratic party” in connection with his state- ment that “this is a campaign of brass tacks—not lambast,” the Baltimore Sun (independent) remarks, *“This may not be precisely bombast—though it Is something akin thereto—but it is cer- tainly not brass tacks.” But opposed to this opinion is the Republican as- sertion, through the Kansas City Jour- nal, that the declaration that the cam- paign is “between radicalism and Re- publicanism” has been ‘“instantly ap- preciated by Republicans, radicals and Democrats alike,” and “the Democratic ticket has been virtually waived in view of its own negative character and the two positive but diametrically opposed viewpoints of the real character con- tenders.” * * X % The press does not deny that Gen. Dawes' great claim to fame lies in his conception of the solution for for- eign problems embodied in the Dawes plan. But the Democratic papers, among them the Great Falls Tribune, voice amazement that although, “at the time of Dawes' appointment the Presi- dent sent out from the White House a statement that he had no official con- nection with our Government at all,” still Gen. Dawes “now seeks to carry the impression that the Republican ad- ministration should be credited with the results of the investigation that now bears his name.” As the New York World (independent Democratic) puts it, “When Gen. Dawes leaps from a Re- publican ‘approval’ of a cry of distress to the boast that a Republican adminis- tration has saved Europe, he is acoom- plishing one of the longest jumps on record and one that hurdles facts.” Typical of the view of the inde- pendent papers is that of the Lincoln Star, which sympathizes “how it must have wrenched Charley Dawes to place his approval on the ‘do-nothing’ policy of Calvin Coolidge” and to ad- vance “the amazing proposition that President Coolidge and Mr.. Hughes are entitled to some credit for the now settled reparations program.” For, as the Chicago Daily News (in- dependent) holds, “Mr. Dawes is no timid isolationist. But, the Illinois State Journal (Re- publican) explains, “Mr. Dawes ex- presses the opinion that had his com- mission been an official body or if the President and Secretary of State had taken the attitude that such commis- sion should be official, Europe might not today be facing away from the chaos and hatred of war.” * X ¥ ¥ That only three issues of the cam- paigh were treated in the speech is the complaint of the Lynchburg News (Democratic), which feels that, “like Coolidge, Mr, Dawes {5 apparently dis- posed to dismiss the indictments against Fall” and “the evident i Icination of Coolidge to discredit at- tempts at investigation into the con- duct of guilty men connected with his administration as trifles light as air.” The Milwaukee Journal (independent) regards “the phrases that come from his tongue as those of the ordinary politician, willing to ignore funda- mental ills in government for the sake of winning an election.” But, among Republican papers, the New York Herald-Tribune believes that both Coolidge and Dawes “hold fast 0 the best of the past and have open treasury, he presented the govern- ment, as a voluntary act of penance, with a valuable tract of land for use as a public park. The government thereupon presentsd the property to the Leagwe of Nations. Later on the City of Geneva, not to be outdone by the federal government, gave the league a piece of property adjacent to the league palace. On this land the assembly hall some day is destined to rise, * x & x ! The Swiss franc, along Wwith the Dutch gulden, is the only thing in Europe approximating United States dollar parity. Its normal value is 5.20 to the dollar, and this Summer it ranges between 5.25 and 5.28. The League of Nations' budget is drawn up in gold francs, In order to translate other currencies into gold francs, Uncle Sam's dollar—worth 5.1836 gold francs—is made use of. The league treasury collects on a gold franc basis and spends on a Swiss franc basis. * X X % Numerous League of Nations facts and figures, new to most Americans, were brought out at the Geneva In- stitute for Foreign Relations. It was disclosed, for instance, that voluntary American contributions to league work by the Rockefeller Foundation and other American institutions amounted during the last year to $240,000, which is much more than the annual subscription of a major- ity of nations belonging to the league. Incidentally, it was revealed that the league always has on de- posit In New York banks between $400,000 and $500,000 of its fluid as- sets. * X X X Travel is a tremendous lesson in geography, after all. When you come to Geneva and are lucky enough to have a clear day permitting a view of Mont Blanc, you are amazed to be told that that glorious peak doesn't rear its head into Swiss skies at all, but is wholly within French territory—in the Savoy Alps. To visit it you have to cross Lake Gene- va into France and take your pass- port with you. * % x X Mrs. Hamilton Wright of Wash- tington, D. C., a daughter of the late Senator Washburn of Minnesota, has Jjust made her tenth successive visit to the League of Nations as one of America’s representatives on _the Oplum Traffic Commission. Mrs. Wright's late husband was one of the world's foremost authorities on the opium evil, and she is carrying on, through league activities, the crusade to which he devoted most of his life. The State Department sent one of its permanent officials, Mr. Neville, to this Summer’s opium con- ference at Geneva (Copyright, 1924.) \Dawes’ Speech Treats Of Just Three Issues minds toward the progress of the fu- ture. While the Roanoke World-News (Democratic) says that “it was a typ- ical Dawes speech, with the cuss ‘words left out” and “very little politi- cal buncombe,” other Democratic pa- pers, chief of them the Wheeling Register, contends that “this is a dif- ferent general than the .ome with whom the nation is acquainted,” since “from one who has heretofore never failed to speak out comes nothing but a multitude of vagaries and plati- tudes.” Still, Savannah Morning Press (Democratic) allow: it is one thing to speak out in meeting as a patriotic citizen and it's several other things to be all at once a candidate”; more- over, “if he doesn't actually cuss, the general is going to have his patience and his hearty disposition to use more profanity sorely tried, as he must face his own arraignment before a congressional committee of the party he now defends and champions.” Although the Kansas City Star (in- dependent) believes that ‘fin his straightforward, sensible discussion of the issues of the campaign, Gen. Dawes has proved a worthy second to President Coolidge,” the Evansville Courier (independent) describes the speech as “lacking in specific state- ments.” ‘The Cincinnati Times-Star (Repub- lican) declares the speech to be “for all men in all parts of the country, and filled with “dignity and cogency.’ The general “has revealed himself a political strategist of first-rate abil- ity the Boston Evening Transcript (Republican) continues. And par- ticular commendation is paid to his acceptance of the nomination in his opening sentence by the Oakland Tri- bune (independent Republican), which asserts “it was to the point and em- phatic,” and allowed him the rest of his time “hitting the high spots in party accomplishment."” American Tendency Toward Great Cruelty To the Editor of The Star: The Loeb-Leopold killing of the Franks boy seems to so many people remarkable in crime annals. They seem surprised to find such intel- lectual minds conspiring to do this gruesome act, as though the veneer of intelligence of this civilization could offset subnormal inherited in- stincts and make up for the lack of the power of inhibition of psycho- pathic motor tendencies. Over the radio a month ago a general of our Army in celebrating the attack on Cantigny told of the complaint of the French of the Americans who were killing Germans and taking no pris- oners because one German had slain a former popular Princeton athlete, who was advancing under the white flag. This act tore down the inhibi- tive power of soldiers trained to ob- serve the rules of warfare. Thou- sands of Americans with all of our culture and Christianity have in- dulged in the great ‘pastime of lynch- ing human beings. Women and chil- dren have gathered for miles to wit- ness the disemboweling, the mutila- tion, the severing of limbs, boiling in pitch, burning with oil, hanging or shooting of their own kind in life for little less motive than actuated the killing of Franks, which was not par- ticularly cruel. The other morning I saw two men stretched on the concrete dead, after a wreck on the outskirts of Baltimore. The police and most of the specta- tors indulged in hilarity and seeming indifference. In the selfish, material, each for himself and his small group age, we are edging to, if not already (ntered into the path that marks the decline and fall of all civilizations. What is needed is some new humani- tarian move to stimulate the spark of human brotherhood and real Chris- tian unselfishness in our dealings with individuals, and peoples of the world at large. Then will come the motivating influence that will make for the power of inhibition to a greater extent than peoples in Amer- ica now have. E. B. HENDERSON. ———————— The man who can “lose his head” about a woman is never capable of thinking until after he has lost his head.—Columbia Record. Every decent adult must feel com- passion for a little girl who is trying to_remember her table manners be- cause guests are present.—Lexington Leader, : THIS AND THAT BY C. E. TRACEWELL. “May you live unenvied, and pass many pleasant years unknown to fame, and also have congenial friends.” So Ovid of old summed up, if not the whole duty of man, at least much that goes to make true happiness in this world. The ages have not changed the basic things. Most men are rich, but do not real- ize it. While they sweat away ac- cumulating a little pile of dollare to leave to somebody else, the rea £old is ying at their feet. Even the most thoughtless de gather much of this gold, rubbed oft by mental osmosis in the mere act of living. It s a sour individual who, faced with the words of Ovid, will n;t admit that he is somewhat well off. In this sense all of us can be said to be rich men, a pleasant thought in the face of giant corporations and the secming {mpossibility of millions to garner more than enough to live on 4ay by day. * %8 *“May you live unervied.” If a fairy godmother wers be- sought to grant a child a wonderful gift, one that would go far toward making its progress in this life smooth, she could be asked for no greater gift than this. Envy is a sickly yellow monster, sister of jealously in her green gown. Jealsouly has done much harm in the world, but for day by day trouble making, envy easily outpoints her. Envy is the black feeling that comes to one simply because he sees somebody else doing something that he has not done or cannot do, or pos- sessed of something he does not pos- sess or possibly never can possess. Everywhere envy sticks up its ugly tace. It is rampant in the govern- ment departments. The man on the Federal pay roll for $3,000 is the tar- get of those getting $2,000 per annum, and the one drawing down 2,000 iron men a year is a mark for the $1,800 men and women. The same thing holds true in other walks of life. School teachers read that red-necked bricklayers were getting $15 a day. Envy cropped up, in this case perfectly justified. The trouble with envy, however, s that it is an emotion which, however justified, should not be harbored, for its physical and mental effects are anything but pleasing. If one can wipe envy out of his men. tal life, he has gone a tremendous way along the bright road of happiness. If, as Ovid wishes, others do not envy him, his’ cup is indeed full. * k% % “And pass many pleasant years un- known to fame.” Sitting in one's home, under the yel- low lamp, listening to the aspiring candidates for national political hon- ors make their addresses of accept- ance, is as near to fame as the aver- age man ought to want to get In the quiet of home the radio brings the average man or woman into intimate touch with great events, yet allows them to remain unknown to_fame. One gum-shoes into the midst of great assemblies via the air, traverses the ether lanes with almighty forces, yet never stirs from his fireside. Now it Is the fate of most of us now living, as it was the lot of most of those of past ages, and as it will be the fate of men and women in| ages yet to come, to remain utterly unknown to fame. Perhaps that is the reason all those who get a chance to “step out” do S0 With gusto. Very few, if any, have been known to turn down a nomination for President or Vice President of the United States. There was no doubt in the minds of millions of radio listeners recently when Former Represemtative Jef- feris of Nebraska asked Gen. Dawes if he would accept the nomination of the Republican national convention for Vice President, No listener turned to another, and, with bated beeath, inquired: b wonder if e wil! take it?” No fair radiac gushed: “Oh, wouldn't it be simply awful if Mr. Dawes would refuse to accept the nomination!” Mr. Dawes did not refuse. If there were any such unsophisti- cated persons in the United States, the first sentence of the musical gen- eral dispelled their allusions. Most of us, however, never get such a chance. We are literally and figuratively “out of it.” We may cut quite a swath in our little road, but it is a small road, after all, leading from a small white house in the suburbs to a large gray buil- ing called the office. There we pass the time of day with several, and know a few inti- mately. There are perhaps 20, or maybe a hundred, persons one will nod to downtown. Even if one drums up trade along this line by telling all that he is a hale fellow well met, in the end his list of ac- quaintances will loom pitifully small in comparison with the 500,000 per- sons {n Washington. When the other cities of this land, and of the world, are drawn into the picture, the breath s taken away. Unknown to fame most of us are, indeed, s0 let us be glad of it—and for it. * * ¥ x “And also have congenial friends.” Whence comes the paradox, that although a man knows few, he must know some. Congenial friends are a necessity if a man is to be as happy as he may. It is not enough to live un- envied, as most of us do, and pass many pleagant years unknown to fame, as the great majority must. A few friends to while away the hours with are necessary adjuncts to a life lived in conformity with the true wealth of human experience. They are not necessarily to be found in clubs, although one may be discovered there, hidden behind an old magazine. That unprepossess- ing chap there playing solitaire by himself—oh, let the Irish bull stand —may be the very man you have been seeking. Nine out of ten men at your place of business may be good acquaint- ances, yet fail to come up to the mark of congenial friends, as you have been given to see the light. One would not be as the editor of a new magazine who blandly informs the world in fair type that there are not a dozen persons in the world he cares a whoop about, and as for the rest, “they can go hapg.” If his readers cared a whoop one way or the other his magazine would go up in smoke. The gist of it all is that the very thing that most are forced into, by necessity and the working out of life, is the very thing that is eminently worth while. 1 doubt that Gen. Dawes will ever experience any real joy out of running for Vice President, or becoming Vice President, compara- ble to what he got in composing his sunny “Melody in A Major.” (Not “minor,” as the radio announcer said—Gen. Dawes is distinctly not a composer in the minor mood.) To live unenvied, then—as most of us do, and pass many pleasant years unknown to fame—as do the great majority of us; and also to have con- genial _friends—not many, just a few—this is as much as most of us deserve, and certainly all we get. —_— e The reason some heads never get a call to higher things is because op- portunity never knocks on wood.—* Flint Daily Journal. At any rate, the time has passed when presidential timber is found only in a log cabin.—Baltimore Eve- ning Sun. Perhaps fat men make the best salesmen because they have the bulge on the slender salesmen.—Wichita Dally Times. The Library Table BY THE BOOKLOVER. “A study in salvation” might be a subtitle for Sheila Kaye-Smith's novel, “Isle of Thorns,” an early work recently published in - his country. Sally Ofiarne, a youns cockney with aspirations toward authorship, has abandoned the sordidness of London and taken to the road with Strangern Show, to find fresi air and to ho fred In the fields, and perhaps to pick up literary materfal. “Nobody in London cares a twopenny blank for any outside it,” she say; ouwd th England was all London and nothing else. And every one's got the &z deadly conventional way of being conventional. Oh, I felt that if I stayed in London a day longer I'd lose my soul” Certain elements of her tramp life shock Raphael Moors and he determines to save her from her vagabondage. His efforts, after many vicissitudes, meet with such complete success that Sally, the con- sclenceless, consents, under his infiu- ence, to go to prison for her own crime rather than to let some one else, who is under suspicion, pay the penalty. * Kok % Raphael, on the other hand, is in need of salvation from too great righteousness—perhaps self-righteous- ness. Sally tells him this, without convincing him. “‘You came out, says Sally, ‘to save my soul—you hav failed; but in the struggle I shoulds wonder if you hadn’t saved y own! Moore was speechless. He stared at her and for the first time she saw actual rage creeping into his es,’ she continued, ‘I shouldn't wonder if all this hadn't been the making of you—given you the shak- ing up and dressing down ' ‘My God, Sally! This is the limit’ ‘How nicely you swear! It’s just as I said —you've saved your sou Late Raphael gradually comes to reali the truth of her charge and at tf end he says to her: “In life, Sally, you will always be m one, my honored one lifted me out of my past, who sa me from my prejudices, who tau me to play the man, to use my fi to love my child—thé woman who re- deemed me. * ko x The making of anthologic come an important indus Booklover wonders whether the ply is not outruning the demand. Time was when anthologies w chiefly composed of poetry and that too, of verse that had survived f. some little time. All that s now been changed. We have no not only annual books of the best v perhaps several competing volu but each year bring: Aerican Short St British Short Stories Moving Pictures” of the annual volume of “Best Sermons’ announced for publication. To all these other annual garnerings of grains of wheat from the superabun- dant chaff is now added the “Bes News Stories of 1923.” edited by Jo- seph Anthony. The compiler states that about 400 newspaper _editors were invited to submit from three to fifteen of the best news stories of ths year. The stories selected are pub- lished under the names of the authors and the newspapers in which they were published. They include exam- ples of straight reporting, foreign correspondence, sports, “human in- terest” stories, features, interview: obituaries and personality storie No doubt such a book will be of i r- est and value in schools of journalism and to other beginners. Others will probably be content with the new stories of today and will pass up those of last year. * ¥ ¥ ¥ The malignant, almost diabolical quality of Africa is the dominant ton of Liewelyn Powys' book, “Blac Laughter,” a record of som of his experiences in primeval parts of the Dark Continent. The book is grue- some, but fascinating. It is not a book to give to a nervous invalid. It is full of night-roving lions, crouch- ing leopards, moaning hyenas, yelp- ing jackals, coiling, writhing ser- pents, stabbing heat, forest fires, thirst, famine, torrential rains, pesti- lential swamps with vaporous mia: mas, witeh doctors, wild spells and incantations and always the screams of the blacks and their “black laughter.” At night, Mr. Yowys sayi “the soul of Africa would become ar- ticulate,” and its cry was “Kill! Killl kill! * * * “Often at night, when We went to draw water from therain tank at the back of the house, we could hardly hear each other speak, so audible had the great continent i become, that continent which all day long lies in a dull sleep under the hypnotic rays of an evil sun, only to in the high noon of midnight , so merciless, so alarmingly has be- The is ok % x If the books were to be absolutely closed for Shakespearean criticism, the scholarly critics would probably not be much disturbed, for they have sald about all there is to be &aid, but what would be the predicament of the candidates for A. B. and A L degrees who contemplate writing theses in English literature! M gled on library shelves with the val- uable commentaries on Shakespeare by Furnivall, Furness, Dowden, Hud- son, Kittredge and others, are many volumes of nonsense, often scrious enough in intent. written to prov some personal theory or prejudic Such is the volume which explains the tragedy of “Hamlet,” by the theory that Hamlet was too fat to move about easily and that the inertia of fatness, not weakness of will, pr vented a prompt vengeance on h part. Support for this view found in the line— “O that this, too, would melt!” Now comes a book by Lillie B. C. Wyman, “Gertrude of Denmark.” which attempts to rehabilitate the character of Hamlet's mother. The author oonsiders Gertrude a high- minded, unselfish woman, the victim of circumstances, and that, believing Claudius innocent of her husband's murder, she married him simply with the motive of keeping her son Han let the foremost prince of the king dom. This argument would h more weight were it not for the fact plainly emphasized by Shakespear. that Hamlet would have been king in his father's stead if his uncle had not usurped the throne. The author also overlooks the famous indictment of his mother by Hamlet, in which h accuses her of being far from high minded and unselfish. R The psychiatrist-critic, Collins, in his volume, Doe Looks at Literature,” treated & group of authors who made almost as ir teresting studies from the point « view of abnormal mentality as fro that of literature. He has now wri ten another book, “Taking the Liter ary Pulse,” which the subtitle labels as being “psycholog: studies of life and letter.” In this volume he discusses some of the most thor. oughly sane and stable ' American writers, such as Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow and Agnes Repplier, as well as others who might e caiwy wt least excessively temperamental Some of his chapters “Purity and Pornography,” “Sophism and Sherwood Anderso Feminism and Fotid and Foolish Literature,” “Luna- tics of Literature” and “The Big Four of American Women Writers. His diagnosis of Sherwood and others of his type is very unfavor- able. He believes that they are analyz- ing sex and giving information on the subject to the public as only scien- tifically trained men, that is neu- rologists and psychiatrists, are quali- fled to do. As a result most of their too solid flesh _'information is sensational and false,