Evening Star Newspaper, September 23, 1924, Page 6

T HE _EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY,- SEPTEMBER 23, 1924, ww% DISTRICT'S SCHOOL PROBLEM 'HE EVENING STAR . With Sunday Morning Edition. — WASHINGTON, D. C. SUESDAY...September 23, 1924 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Pennaylvanis Ave. New York fice: 110 East dind St. Chicaxo Office: Tower Bullding. European Office: 16 Regent St., London, England. The Eveninx Star, with the Sunday morning wdition, is delivered by carriers within the city at 60 cents per month: daily only, 43 cents per month: Sunday only, 20 cenls’ per month.” Orders may be ment by mail or tele- phone Main 5000, Collection is made by Tiers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance, Maryland and Virginia. DPaily and Sunday..1 ¥r., $8.40; 1 mo. Daily only ..1yr,$6.00; 1 mo. Sunday ony. .1yr, $2.40; 1 mo,, 20¢ All Other States. and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00: 1 mo., S1yr. $7.00;1mo., 60c 1yr, $3.00;1mo, 25¢c Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled o the ase for republication of all news dis- patches credited 10 it or not otherwise credited in this paper and alss the local news pub- hed hervin. Al rights of publication of Patches herein are also reserved. Daily Diaily Sunday Undeliverable Votes. Senator La Follette is having the same difficu collecting on the mass indorsement of the Von Steuben Society of America as he has had in shing in on the indorsement of the American Federation of Labor. It is one non-political organi- a candidate and an- thing to deliver the goods. For some time it has been evident that the vote of ratification of the La Follette party and ticket cast at the Atlantic Ciy federation meeting did not result in a wholesale support by organized labor. Many of the constituent bodies kave repudiated the indorsement, leav- ing their members free—as ail the members are free anyway—to vote as they please, and great numbers of the members have expressed themselves as not feeling bound to follow the dic- tation or suggestion of Mr. Gompers in this matter. Just so with ciety of Amer name of th sociation « society and delegates, F and Wheeler and party platform, and ever tion n rs of it ha ing their dissent in nouncements of purposes. The Von Society posed of Americans of German or The fact that a through th ty. indorsing Mr. La Foliette is challenging the hostile in- terest of thoss who feel that Mr. La Follette's attitude during the war was ot correct from a strictly patriotic nt of view. that he unduly favored Germany both before and after the United States entered the conflict One of the declarations of the La Fol- Jette platform “an active for eign policy to bring about a revision of the Versailles treaty in accordanc with the terms of the armistice.” Just whatever that means must be left to the imagin It is difficult to see how the United States couid take the field actively to force the rewriting of the Versuilles treaty without repudi- ating the participation of this country in the Paris peace conference and en- dangering our friendly relations with the governments of Europe. There are many German-Americans, to use the byphenated title which went out of fashion in 1917, who do not hold with the demand for a revision of the Ver- sailles treaty. There are many, too, who do not denounce the Dawes pian, which the Von Steuben Society and the La Follette candidacy condemn. There are many Americans of Ger- man ent who favor at least the American loan feature of the Dawes pian, which Mr. La Follette has been careful thus far not to denounce openly, The La Follette policy, with respect to German affairs, is that, in effect, of the Nationalist or Monarchical party of Germany. A great many. probably the majority, of Americans of German descent are, so far as they are con- cerned in or with German politics, dis- tinctly hostile to the Nationalist party at Berlin. Hence the refusal of a large portion of the membership in the Von Steuben Society to obey the direction to cast their votes for La Follette and thus help to precipitate political chaos in this country. is thing for a it zation to indorse the Von uben So- which the new old German-American A: antebellum times. This h representatives stronzly indorsed La the third- nee that een evidenc and an- view and 14 is rou; its mb ve b pre contrary est Steuben is com birth descent t they favors o ‘The regular parties would doubtless be grateful to the La Foliette boosters if they would refrain from cheering when Democrats and Republicans pro- ceed in the orderly and accepted man- ner to remind each other of alleged delinquencie: ———— Tt might be interesting for psycho- mnalysts to look (Gaston Means over and try to decide just what type of *dream” he is trying to realize. Shades of Ananias! Repudiation by Gaston Means of ‘his repudiation of his testimony before the Daugherty mittee of the Senate is intimated as likely, following the publication of his *confession” by the former Attorney General. He seems to have been interviewed and to have pointed out that his statement was not sworn to by him. This suggests that he con- siders that it might be retracted or Sl a source of information. So facile and | lieved, increase Mr. Davis’ chances brazen a liar injures any case for|for polling a big and possibly a win- which he appears. ning vote in the State. It had been The only point of immediate interest [ planned previously for Gov. Smith to is whether Mr. Daugherty has been |take the stump in New York and tooled ,by Means in this repudiation, and whether Mr. Davis, 4n making the case against Mr. Daugherty one of his leading campaign issues, has pursued a line of procedure which squares with the ethics of the law, of which he is a leading exponent. It Mr. Daugherty was guilty of impropriety of conduct in office, if he used his office for personal gain or for the advantage of friends, if he placed public interests secondary to personal interests, he deserves all the scoria- tion that may be administered to him in the course of the present political campaign. But the fact remains that, so far as the proceedings of the Senate investigating committee went, the case against him was such as would not have been permitted of prosecution in a court. He was con- victed, in effect, by the testimony of discredited witnesses, by hearsay testimony, by innuendo. He declined to make a personal appearance before the committee, tedly injured himself in the judgment of the people. He was, however, refusing to take the stand. have been better for him if he had testified in his own defense. He re- fused, and rested his case. Now he offers a confession of perjury from one of his principal accusers. The perjurer shifts ground and seeks evasion. The further proceedings cannot strengthen the case against Mr. Daugherty, for the source of evidence is tainted beyond cleansing. October 4 at Washington. The world series will open at Washington on October 4—unless something happens which Washing- tonians hope will not happen. The monument of the 1st Division of the American Army in France will be dedicated October 4. The stadium of the Catholic University, planned to seat 60,000 persons, will be dedi- cated on October 4 by the foot ball teams of the Marine Corps and the Catholic University. The prospect is that October 4 will be a day long to be remembered. It the world series opens in Washington October 4 — and a Washingtonian writes the word “if” through a sense of caution but with confidence that it is superfluous— Washington will be crowded. It might be safe to say that it will be crowded as it has been sometimes at an inauguration. Games of a world series are a mighty attraction and somewhat of an unuslal attraction at Washington. The reunion of the 1st Division will call a large crowd to Washington, and the parade as an accompaniment of the monument dedication will be a brilliant martial affair. that the parade will be in the after- noon of October 4. The committee of | the reunion has decided that “in order not to interfere with interest in the world series games the parade will be | neld in the morning and the dedica- tion exercises completed by mnoon.” The committee believes that part of the world series will be played here. In the dedication of the Catholic University Stadium, which is a cere- mony of outstanding importance in the college and university athletic world, the foot ball game between the Marine Corps and Catholic University teams was to be fought in the after- noon. The understanding is that the schedule has bene arranged and that the game will be played at a time which will permit everybody who can get in the Griffith Stadium to attend the opening game of the world series at Washington. The Washington and Lee and the University of Maryland foot ball game, which was to be played in Central High School Stadium on October 4, will be played October 3, so that it will not interfere with, or be interfered with, by the opening of the world series. The indications are that we are moving toward mighty events, and that a large part of the American population will be in Washington on October 4, and that all who cannot come to Washington will be at the radio and around score boards attend- ing on the news from the Capital. Japanese diplomatists sagely assert investigating com- due to misunderstandings arising from according to this theory, may be con- plicity of difficult dialects. Old-fashioned battleships are begin- ning to be regarded as ostentations of wealth, while battle planes are regard- ed as demonstrations of power. Most musical shows give the patient will be very much better when recast and re-written. Rivals to Work for Davis. Yesterday was a day of disappoint- ments at the Democratic headquarters in New York. It was planned that Gov. Smith and Mr. Davis should get together for @ conference, and also that Mr. McAdoo, just landing from The program first adopted was | auditor every assurance that they kn other States for Mr. Davis, but his nomination will compel him to confine himself to the New York field. Mr. McAdoo, however, is expected to take the stump on a wide swing in the Davis interest. Thus the country will witness the interesting spectacle of two defeated candidates raising their voices in appeals for votes for the man who carried off the prize for which they fought each other so bit- terly at Madison Square Garden. e e Around the World. Back to the starting point! The round-world flyers yesterday reached the place from which they first hopped off in their wonder trip. But their work is not yet finished. They are to 5o on to Seattle, where began the of- ficial flight, and then, when they have completed the final hop, they will rest from one of the most arduous tasks ever set for men to accomplish. 1t is related that the mothers of two of the fyers, who were on the ground and thereby undoub- |, reet them, wept for joy as their sons appeared. It is also related that the hardy aviators wept in return when technically within his rights in thus| pey greeted their mothers. Through It would | the gravest perils, across frozen seas, over forbidding mountain rang great desert stretches, miles of perilous flight, these men have sat in their machines without a quiver of the nerves, without faltering for @ moment. Yet when they reached home they wept. More honor to them for their tears! Now they will go on and cross the starting line, and the American round- world flight will be history. Nobody can foretell the result of this initial encircling of the globe in the air. It may become only a “record.” It may lead to marvels of transportation. At all events, it has developed four men who deserve to be borne in the annals of fame for heroism in their intrepid- ity, their persistence and their devo- tion to duty. ——— Americans take their golf. their base ball and their pugilism with great seeming seriousness. The ear- nest interest is a part of the game. But they have demonstrated many times that the enthusiasms of sport are only incidents of relaxation, and in no way likely to prevent getting down to business with more important over | problems. —_—— Sports are fascinating to the Ameri- can public. They of opinion which involve no rancorous dispute on matters ethical or moral, relieving the critical sense without creating intellectual antagonism: A sporting event once decided is decided for keeps, and there is no thought of | a referendum. —_———— The next electorai college may come forward with one of the hardest lists of questions ever propounded to members of Congress. —_———— In accepting a cabinet position may come to be understood that carly resignation rumor goes along with it. —_————— Announcement by Henry Ford that Calvin Coolidge is a safe man is still reflected in the betting odds. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Shopping. Oh, Gentle Salesman in the store, Forgive my flurry! I haven't many minutes more; So, prithee, hurry The sign near which my flivver stands Reads “Park One Hour.” And ijts commands Have left no leisure on my hands, So, prithee, hurry! Please do not pause to smooth vour hair, For I should worry! Don’t greet me with a baby stare, But, prithee, hurry! The money which with you I drop Is nothing, if too long I stop, Compared to that grabbed by the cop— S0, prithee, hurry! Adaptability. “Wouid you be willing to address an organization in whose aims and prin- ciples you did mnot positively sym- that human antagonisms are largely | pathize?” “Of course,” replied Senator Sor- differences in language. The Chinese, [ ghum. “T have addressed several sew- ing circles, but that fact does not im- sidered as suffering from & multi-|ply that I am practically interested in needlework. Radioratory. The oratory which we meet Has quslities erratic; For some of it is music sweet, And some of it is “static. Jud Tunkins says his boys and girls ow a great deal more than he does, excepting when it comes to makin’ a livin’® for the family. ‘The Willing Worker. Here’s to the man who loves his work! ‘We who are oft inclined to shirk Bid him with thanks our efforts view Lo give him something more to do, Slight Silver Lining. “There is no unmixed evil,” said the withdrawn. ‘Then there are indica- | France, should meet his successful | endy.made philosopher. . tions, from a statement by Senator rival for the Democratic nomination “That's right,” answered Uncle Bill Wheeler, the prosecutor of the com-|and discuss plans for his participation | gottletop. “‘Some o' these bootleggers mittee, that he had himself been ap- | in the campaign. But Mr. Davis failed | have heen able to pay their debts as to get to the meeting place in time be- | they never done before.” proached by Means some weeks ago. The short of the matter seems to be that Means has been trying to “do cause his chauffeur was detained by the police through a misunderstanding ‘The Good Little Bad Man. L over a license number, being delayed| *“What has become of Tarantula business” with both sides, that he has antiliihs cwerniciianlaoe GUAY bany. Mr. McAdoo, on landing, evinced ‘Hadn’t you heard tell about Tim?” written a statement asknowledging perjury, carefully withholding from making oath to it—as if an cath more or less matters anything with him— and that he is now in the market for further disclosures, presumably to be paid for. Mr. Daugherty cannot, of course, be rehabilitated by the confession of perjury by the chief witness against him. Nor will the case in his disfavor ‘be strengthened by further testimony from the same source. The fact is, Means is not a competent witness for either side. He has sworn himself . an indisposition to rush at once into|asked Cactns Joe in surprise. “He's the political arena, and preferred to[the only Crimson Guicher who has rest at a hotel overnight, studying the | made good as @ bed man in the political situation before meeting the | movies.” nominee at luncheon today. If matters work out as now ar- “But he was always ready to give up if anything like real trouble came ranged, Mr. Davis will gain in the|up” campaign through the services of the | ‘That's just it. He had all the style two men who deadlocked the nominat- | of the desperado, and yet any movie ing convention for so many days and | director could make 'im come down s0 opened the way for his nomination. | an’ be handled like a kitten.” Gov. Smith, according to present plans, is to be nominated for another ‘‘Enemies,” said Uncle Eben, “is term by the Syracuse convention of | what & man is liable to imagine he out of court. He is no langer to be | his party on Thursday, and his pres- | has because he thinks he’s more im- <egarded as of any value whatever as gnunmmmv’m.nuu portant dan he IS thousands of | permit differences | | an BY JAMES ARTIC With its actual classroom space considerably less than last year, Western High School reopened for the new term confronted with the greatest congestion in its history. Although the enroliment approxi- mates the same as that of the 1923 1924 scholastic year, despite a gain of 250 freshmen, ‘the reduction in classroom space portends a serious situation until the new addition is completed In erecting the addi ern, now under way, laboratory and 2 V. on to West- the chemical several classrooms were put out of use as well us one- half of the assembly hall and an equal portion of the lunchroom. Tem- porary corridors also were cut through the classrooms, reducing their size materially and at the same time intensifying the overcrowded condition. * * % 2 The contract for the construction of the addition called for its com- pletion by March 1, 1925. School of- ficials, however, do not believe that the work will be finished at that time, and Western may not have the use of its Increased facilities before the 1925-1926 school term, which be- gins next September. The annex will provide Western with 22 additional classrooms, an a: sembly hall, 2 gymnasiums and 1 ad- ditional biographical and physics lab- oratorics. Western number of y 'S system in orde ever growing has been operating for a on a double shift to accommodate its student body, with a consequent curtailment in its edu- cational program. The same plan ill be followed until the addition is ready for occupancy The morning shifts report at 8:30 and are dismiss- ed at 12:30 o'clock. The afternoon shifts attend school from 1 to 4:30 o'clock. The normal seating capacity at Western is The present enroll- ment is approximately 1,100. If the new addition could be occupied to- day. cvery classroom would be filled to capacity. The entire school, of course, would go back on the tradi- tioral five-hour program. Business High School also opened the new school year facing virtually the same conditions as last year—an enrollment about 400 greater than its accommodations. There e 962 scats in the building with 00 pupils clamoring for them | Two hundred and twenty-six fresh- | addition to about 50 who were pro- moted in June from the ninth grade of the jJunior high schools. The new students, however, did not in- Cre the enroliment over last years peak, as virtually the same number were graduated from Busi- ness in June. Business, like Western, is running on the two-shift stem in order to accommodate its excess enrollment. This emergency measure was intro- 1 “Dick” Jervis, veteran chief of “the President’s Own"—the White House Secret service squad—says that crowd of 73.000 or 100,000 addressed by Mr. Coolidge on the Monument lot on September 21 was by far the big- Zest face-to-face audience to which {@ President of the United States ever {talked. Few who observed the vast | Holy Name Society demonstration {ever glimpsed a more impressive ene. On the outermost rim of the throng. at the base of the Monument four figures were silhouetted in con- spicuous relief. They were nuns. Roman Catholics are the worid champion cheerers. They volleyed | their approval of the Presidents | principal points in well regulated clusters of three cheers on each oc- sion. * x * % Republican and Democrat faced each other in lively debate at radio station WRC in Washington the other night when Frank W. Mondell of Wyoming, the former G. O. P. foor leader in the House, and Senator T. bill. Each watched the other's per- formance before the microphone. [ First Mondell heard Caraway call the out of the criminal code. Then Cara- way listened to Mondell in praise of the unparalleled blessings of the Fordney-McCumber tariff, especially for the farmer. When it was all over they walked out of the studio arm in arm, a symbol that after aul politics isn't a game in which all friendship ceases. * o ox % Controller General McCarl, who wants Uncle Sam's workladies who have husbands to acknowledge It when they sign their names, has been extending his sphere of = activities across the Atlantic. More than two years ago Congress voted $150,000 to rehabilitate the Pierpont Morgan gift houses in London, which the United States accepted for embassy purposes. The property still stands in a state of dismal disrepair, with cobwebs on the windows and tall weeds in the front yard. The controller general's department, it would appear, has had a finger in the pie. Mr. McCarl ruled that the funds voted by Congress couldn’t be regarded as a “continu- ing” appropriation, but would have to be provided for afresh each fiscal vear. As there were legal delays in taking title to the London houses, the appropriation, under the McCarl rul- ing lapsed. It was jammed into the deficiency bill last Spring, but, as the bill failed ef passage, there is still no money for the work. Secretary Hughes will try his luck again in De- cember. * % X ¥ Prince Caetani, who has asked Mu: solini to relieve him as Italian Am- bassador to the United States, will be sadly missed in Washington society. The prince's “parties” at his luxu- rious Massachusetts avenue apart- ment, adjoining that of Secretary Mellon, were among the most sump- tuous the Capital has ever known. The Ambassador is a millionaire, and able to do that sort of thing. In Rome last Summer there were reports that Prince Caetani's failure to “deliver” Mr Hughes in that city, In connec- tion with the visits the Secretary of State made to London, Paris, Brussels and Berlin, had undermined his po- sition with Mussolini. The Fascist dictator bitterly resented Mr. Hughes' “boycott” of the Eternal City, al- though the Italian government was advised long beforehand that the Secretary’s sixteen days in Europe would not permit an excursion so far afield as the Tiber Valley. * X ¥ ¥ M. Stephane Lauzanne, editor of the Paris Matin, has been digging up some Franco-American history apropos Edward N. Hurley's project for refunding of France's debt to the United States. M. Lauzanne discov- ers that in 1778, when the young American republic was on the eve of bankruptcy and had $140,000,000 in paper notes in circulation, the paper dollar was worth only a sixth of a gold dollar. At that grave juncture France made the United States a loan of 18,000,000 livres for re-es- tablishment of American credit. Lau- zanne quotes a letter written by the King of Frapce, in wnich the mon- arch announced that he had taken the American situation mto consider- Inadequate Facilities for Education of Youth a Re- proach to the National Capital. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE the |adays,” H. Caraway of Arkansas were on the | Republican party all the names in and | E. CHINN. duced at Business several years ago when the student body passed the building’s classroom facilities. The alumni association of Business for some years has conducted an in- tensive and concerted campaign for a new and larger building for the school. The Board of Education rec- ognjzed this urgent need and has for several included items in the school estimates for an appro- priation to begin the construction of a new school, only to have them stricken out either by the Bureau of the Budget or Congress. The school budget for the next fiscal year, it is understood, carries an item for the preparation of plans for the new building which it is proposed to erect on the Government owned site at Fourteenth and Upshur streets near the Macfarland Junior High School. This item has vet to be approved by the Budget Burean and Congress * ok k% Both of Washington's colored sen- ior high schools—Armstrong and Dun- bar—started the new school year | with student considerably | larger than last Armstrong, with 1,225 pupils, an increase of 100 over last year, and Dunbar with 2,000, a gain of 250 over the same period, have been forced to conttnue the emergency relief measures instituted several years ago Armstronz, the most seriously | gested of the two, is using 17 able buildings, which form a in the rear of Dunbar, thr away from the school. Armstrong has ‘seats for 565 pupils, and its en- rollment has passed the 1.200 mark. With a capacity for 1300 pupils, Dunbar today has an enrollment of | 2,000. Tt is not using portables, like Armstrong, to meet the congested situation, but has adopted as a tem- porary expedient the staggered hour plan. Offictals at Dunbar have fought vigorously against the dual shift system which it may be forced to adopt if additional accommodations are not soon forthcoming. * x % % Armstrong’s deplorable overcrowd- ed condition will be relieved with the completion of its new addition, now under construction. Work on the addition was started last January It was expected to be ready for oc- cupancy at the beginning of the sec- ond semester on February 1, next { year. A deeper foundation than erig- inally planned hid to be dug, and the completion of the sorely needed an- nex may be delayed until next Sep- tember. Dunbar's only hope for relief at | the present time is dependant oa the construction of the proposed new | building for the McKinley Manual | Training School. The plans of school | officials call for the transfer of the Shaw Junior High School into the | present MeKinley building, leaving the old M Street High School build- ing, now occupied by Shaw, available for' the commercial department of Dunbar. It will be three years and perhaps longer before this shift can be made. port- colony blocks ation. Thereupon he gave the order | and the bankers carried it out. “Now- laments Lauzanne, with one ye cocked in the direction of J. P. Morgan & Co. “the bankers take the | lead, and governments follow & o i Brig. Gen. James A. Drain of Wash- |flows free ington, D. (', the American Legion's newly elected national commander, | has long borne a scar. which he did | not achieve in war, but in connection With a science, in which he is an ex- | pert. He is minus his right hand, | Which the general lost some years | 4go while handling a gun. Drain is | one of America’s foremost ordnance | experts. Even though he has a hand | ssing. Gen. Drain was one of the first officers brought to France by Gen. | Pershing. who put him in charge of important activities associated with | the American Tank Corps | * % ¥ 3% The Democratic Boston Post's dec- laration for Calvin Coolidge for Pres- ident brings the disclosure that a {number of prominent New England Democrats are casting party lines to the wind and coming out for “home | pride” James J. Phelan, a member of the banking firm of Hornblower | & Weeks, Boston, is one of them. | Another is Francis J. Horgan, well known in the Irish movement in New | England. a member of the Massachu- ts State Senate when Mr. Coolidge | was president of it, and a former candidate for Representative against George Holden Tinkham. Roscoe R. Moody, a Springfield banker-Demo- crat, is also out for “Cal.” (Copyright, 1924.) Discusses Accidents. To the Bitor of The Star: Your editorial of Wednesday on “Roller Skates,” written in connec- tion with the death of 10-year-old Homer Burch in front of the Y. M. C. A. on Tuesday, suggests the elimi- nation of skates, bicycles and wag- ons as a measure of safety to chil- dren. You suggest likewise a greater degree of care for both children and adults in going from sidewalks into streets. The dangerous playthings may be withdrawn from children, and preach- ments may induce more care in adults, but no fiats, however solemn, and no campaigns of safety will ever change the instinctive tendency of children to dart into the street. If we retain our modern motor cars in our cities, organized as they are, we do so with our ecyes open to an inevitable toll of the life of playing children. To every parent there must always be present the possibility that his child may be the next. The most carefully sheltered child will be a victim as well as the little Arab. Death will overtake the agile as well as the awkward. The little Burch boy was a bright, resourceful little fellow, just returned from the Y. M. C. A. boys’ camp at South River. One might dream of a drastic re- organization of city life which would reduce danger to children to a mini- mum, but the dream can hardly come to pass. Business and residential zones might be strictly marked off one from another, children being ab- solutely excluded from coming afoot into the former and vehicular traffic closely limited to the latter. Houses in the residential sections might face on large open areas not traversed by Vvehicles, vehicular passages existing in the back, fenced on either side like some of the street car tracks in St. Louis. The childish instinct of play could then vent itself in the space free from traffic. Esthetically we are approximating a parallel in those rules which for- bid business in residential sections. But the practical obstacles in the way of a similar segregation of chil- dren from traffic are well nigh in- superable. It means the abandon- ment of that lucrative business of renting old residences which sur- vive in business districts. It means that parents cannot take their chil- dren afoot to the shops. Many other practical difficulties suggest them- selves. But without some such rad- ical rearrangement it is impossible to see how we can avoid the shocks that such an incident as that of Tues- day brings. . CHARLES V. IMLEY, NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM THE DREAW. H Macmillan Company Progress comes, so we are told, through the discontents of man. This one or that one, so the story runs, both dissatisfied and unsatisfied with the little handfu! of toys granted him by life, begins, restlessly, to re- assort and rearrange them. By acci- dent usually, by design upon rare oc- casion, he hits upon a new combina- tion in his meager store, one that offers some use or some beauty hitherto undiscovered. And a little halting step forward is made in the huge stagger performance that is called progress. It is the discontents, therefore, who, according to this story, are the accredited sponsors of an in- creasing civilization. And these stand out by name and date in ever: Letters, as well as industry; the arts, no less than politics and government, present advocates of advance, all ery ing for a better world, each to measure of his power seeking achieve it Wells. The to * ok x ok writers, writers, Among the considerable the « current H Wells | stands in this particular the prince of propagandists, the prime minister of some modern political Utopia, the oracle of a dream brought to earth and set, usually, in a future so dis- tant as to give flattering credence to the theory of human perfectibilit More than half a hundred books bear witness to the enviable mental ac- tivity of Mr. Wells, to his vision and the courage enturer's range enterprise daring, to the industry that, finally, objectifies these mental and spiritual forces, setting them to current drama for immed nd vital attack upon the substance of modern thought and purpose. And these books—novels, fanciful inventions, short stories, sober diseussions of religion, politic economics, the great “Outline” itself— all in one way or another bear upon the need for man's conscious and de- liberate progress toward an infinitely better state than his present one. Al- legory, fable, fantasy, satire—these upplement the more solid program of plain statement and the sequences of logic. Uneven work, in its bulk some of it tremendously important and impressive. Some of it lighter in texture, almost negligible by contrast. It is in these lesser moments that Wells casts for himself the role of omnipotence absorbed in the busi- ss of creating new worlds out of shreds and patches of our pres- shabby existence, turning these off to fit his vision of human society as it ought to be, as, in accord with his faith, it is ultimately bound to be is in these acts of creation that Mr. s less than his best. One must have a prodigious sense of humor to turn himself into a god and get away Mr. Wells has no humor. He heart a reformer. And the one 1 power which a reformer can- not possibly possess is that of laugh- ned upon himself in his pre- ion of making bad folks over into good ones. ¥ =i suggests that in its making Mr. Wells may have taken a trick from the movies. By a device familiar to that art he enabled not only to present his text and preach his sermon on a beautiful world beyond our own, but it is per- mitted besides to develop as a com- ponent part of this message a plain- Iy believable tale—an earth-bound story of the present. A trifle sketchy that other world, as it would be, set | 2,000 years ahead of us. But we know, in an instant, that we are in | one of Mr. Wells' worlds, for nobody | is wearing clothes and there love of the pesky inhibitions hat <o bedevil society on the present plane of existence. The denizens of this new world—those whom we mee are a group of \ and_women. Sarnac, Sunray, Radiant, Starlight, Willow, Firefly.” Yes. men and women, | negative namings. despite their grouped in pleasant cir- of is Thesa are cumstance around Sarnac, who is_tell- ing to them his dre And his dream is the story. These demi-angels of new heaven are but a point of var tage from which to see over and comment upon the sad do- ings of this hard world after its long, long experience in the business of being human. The! ve the bright contrast to our pres- ent. It is by way of this contras Wells delivers his vision of humanity n of Sarnac, so vivid point, o linked throughout to re-embody an individual life, is the story of Henry Mortimer Smith, lower class English youth period of the great war. cidents of voung Smith's life, faith- ful in every detail, pass screen-like in review to give to the listeners some adequate view of that far past, which our present. The story itself—the substance of Sarnac’s dream—is pure realism. Tt must needs be this since its purpose is to provide this new group living in a new world the justification and joy of its existence. The dull boyhood of Smith in a poor and pious household, the family jeal- ousies and bickerings, the defection of his beautiful sister and her flizht | into a sinful but more beautiful life, the boy’s own out-reach for room to grow, his love for Hetty and her faithlessness under war strain, di- vorce, re-marriage, prosperity—the sudden death by a pistol shot from Hetty's other husband, these are the stages in the life of one man set down in the common complex of family, friends, work. success or failure, that the dream of Sarnac un- folds so faithfully. e The dream is finished. The story is told. It serves more than a single purpose. Primarily, it throws into the high light of sharp contrast with that future world much of the un- wisdom of the present one—its Indi- vidual preoccupation with self out of which grows the modern madness for money and place and things and more things; out of which grows a bitter cruelty both toward one’s fellow men and toward the helpless animal world as well; out of which grows a hard ohastity that sits in pitiless judgment upon the many weaknesses of the flesh; out of which grows a neglect of beauty in both nature and art. AIl of these false growtns cul- minating in silly or vicious laws and in governments that are impotent and repressive. Having thus again fulfilled his mission of projecting a brighter fu- ture, Mr. Wells must feel an addi- tional glow at having produced so good a piece of literary realism—a lifelike and interesting story that, supposing it had had no ulterior in- tent, would have been received and applauded as a consistent picture of youth making its precarious way through the bewilderments of this crowded and exacting and relentiess present. None the less realism, this story, because it glows here and there in the colors of romance, refusing the dullness that is, almost always, the stamp of the simon-pure realistic method. In addition to Mr. Wells' usual propaganda. this time happily pro- jected by way of a good story, the author has also presented the theory of the dream as an authentic and valid bit of experience passed on from one stage of existence to an- other. Take the theory or leave it, as you choose. It serves here not only to identify Sarnac, telling the dream, with Henry Mortimer Smith, living his life 2,000 years before, but it serves also to open the way to a fascinated probing into mysteries that haunt us with their elusive ap- proaches to our consciousness and thelr swift recessions into some un- reachable depth of our Individual being. The ir LG M field. | the | of its pursuit, to an ad- | nd | | and wonder | , in their setting, | BY FREDERI Q. When the Prince lunched with the President, what was the order of service? M A. The head steward of the White House says that the procedure of service was as follows: President Coolidge, Mrs. Coolidge, the Prince of Wales. of Wales Q. When were base ball players first paid for their services?—C. W. T. A. Cincinnati was the first city to organize a team of salaried base ball players, in 1869, during which year they did not lose a single game. Q. What is the “Milk and Honey” Express?—E. H. M. A. This is the popular name given to a through train between Cairo and Jerusalem. Q. Who was the youngest officer in the United States Army ™ W. S A. Secretary of War Stanton be- towed a commission as lieutenant upon Thaddeus (Tad) Lincoln when | young Lincoln was 9 years of age. How long does the ordinary of East North America live?— L D. A. Under favorable conditions toads will live approximately 30 years Q toad H Q. Why do some soaps float while others sink?—S. W. F. A.—The s0aps that float are those in whioh air has been dissolved dur- ing the manufacturing process. Q How did its name?—N. G A Sing Sing name Ossining. the prison is lo from the Indian place. Q age CMH A. The vocabulary of the average educated person seldom exceeds 2,500 words, which comes “stony village in The name and means How many words does the person have at his command?— Q. Why did the Indians masks at ceremonies?—S. S. K. A. According to the Bureau of American Ethnology, tribes of In- dians throughout North America wore masks at religious festivals and at some &ocial gatherings. Sometime: the priests alone were masked, wear pany would appear in masks. The false faces generally represented su- pernatural beings. The simplest form of mask was one prepared from head of a buffalo, deer, or some other animal. The mask stood, not for the actual animal, but for the type of animal and its supernatural harac- teristics, and the person wearing it was for the time being endowed with the distinctive quality of the animal Q. What is “midshipmen’s butter" T. 0. H A. In the days of sailing vessels this name was given to the edible portion or pulp of the alligator pear, or avocado, because the pulp is soft and somewhat like butter. Q. What makes a heat and cold proof?—J A. A thermos bottle is walled receptacle. The space between the walls is complete- ly exhausted and the walls are sil- vered like a mirror €o as to reflect radiation. This guards against the access of heat or cold from without. . a double- r in the Q. Please give a recipe for date sticks. A one that Beat three eggs t cup of sugar, contains one teaspoonful lla, one cupful of broken meats and one cupful dates have been cut in small pieces orough cup add 1 nut which Bake No phase of the paign has shown editorial com presidential cam- partisan lines nent more sharply drawn than in the discussion of John W. Davis' Omaha speech. Newspapers favoring the Democratic ticket say Mr. Davis presented a definite pro- £ram to meet the needs of the Ameri- can farmer. The Republican view that the speech gave the farmer only empty promises in a hopeless effor to get votes in the agri States. Typical of the favorable expres- sions is the comment of the Portland Oregon Journal, which speaks of the wide difference between the pledges of Mr. Dawes and those of Mr. Davis to the farmers of the nation, and adds: “The talk of appointment of a commission is admission that the ad- ministration does not know what the matter with agricuiture, in spite of nearly four years in office other hand, Mr. Davis has a program. He pledges a reduction of the tariff He proposes a reduction in freight rates on farm products. He pledges a reduction in taxes and stimulation of the co-operative marketing move- ment, both intended to reduce cost of operation to farmers. And. above all. he pledges a revision of American foreign policy in order to open the markets in Europe to American farm- ers”” To some “this will seem a good and satisfactory program: to others it may not.' suggests the Omaha World-Herald (independent), “but, anyhow. it is a program. It if de! nite and frank. The voter is not ask- ed to buy a pig ina sack. On the other hand. a pig in a sack is all that Gen. Dawes offers in behalf of his party. Another pig in a sack, rather, for several others, in the form of pre- vious ‘commission,’ have been pur- chased and found to be only scrawny runts. The farmer, and all the rest of us who are partners of the farmer, will do well to think it over.” e e While conceding that not all of Mr. Davis’ suggestions will be easy to act upon, the New York Times (independ- ent Democratic) is convinced that “he shows that he has the root of the matter in him when he contends that the great need of the American farmer is, first of all, to get rid of a tariff which is only a burden to him, whether it be or not a benefit to anybody else, and then to secure a market for his wares that is national and international rather than re- gional or local—here is something di- rect and constructive.” The Pitts- burgh Sun (independent Democratic) contends that “he went to the heart of the Nation's problems in his inva- sion of the West when he declared that the need is for a ‘blocless’ gov- ernment.” The New York Evening World (in- dependent Democratic) declares that “no one even among the agricultur- ists has presented a more graphic description of the tragedy of the farmer or shown a more sympathetic comprehension of its meaning than John W. Davis in his Omaha speech.” In fact, the Norfolk-Ledger-Dispatch (independent Democratic) declares “at one fell swoop Mr. Davis takes the wind out of the sails of La Fol- lette and puts the Coolidge-Dawes ticket on the defensive by calling for the reasons for the delay in doing something for the farmer in the last three and a half years, when the Re- publican party was in power at the White House and at both ends of the Capitol.” * % x % Comments of the Republican pa- pers of the East deal largely with Mr. Davis’ attack on tariff. “One of the chief measures that Mr. Davis proposes for the benefit of the farm- ers,” says the Springfield Union (Re- publican), “is a reduction of the cus- toms tariff, which last year contrib- » Sing Sing prison get| though in other cases the entire com- | the | of tour | ultural | On the | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS C J. HASKIN. |in thin sheets | hot oven. and roll Q. Will the corn borer live on ans other food than corn?—K. F. L. A. This pest, which was brought to thig country from central Kurope or Asia, seems to be able to subsiar upon all herbaceous plants and has already been recorded feeding upon no less than 167 kinds of plant= in this country. Q A. or buttered Cut in strip in powderea s pans i while warm ugar. What was the hornbook?—M. V This is an elementary echoo! book in use in England down to the time of George II. It consisted of a single leaf on which was written the alphabet in large and small let- ters. the Roman numerals and the Lord's prayer. Q. At what period was the Roman Empire at its height? A. The rule of YTrojan. 98 to 11/ \. D., marked the height of the Roman Empire. The rule following. that of Hadrian, wis memorable for 1t8 peacefulness and for the fact that it was the most splendid era of Roman architecture. Q. Can pumpkins canning?—D. L. b A. Pumpkins may be kept fresn until Spring if fully ripe when gath ered, if the storage place is dry, coo and protected from frost. The bes method is to place them aneives seeing they do not other. with Q. Has it ever | D. | “a." Darwin | be kept without in t 4 dry [ originated the natural ed, but an extraor Alfred F selection theory he himself was concer. s a curious fact that b dinary coincidence Wallace formulated the same theory at the very same time of its ntter ance by Darwin. Both men published articles presenting this theory in the same number of the Journal of the Linnaean Society in 185 Q. Who was the “professor of things-in-general in the University | | Know-Not-Where?—A. V. N A. Car “Sartor { such a character | (Mr. Devil's Dirt) | Q | name A fro | Zamen atise ng it | aEse le's Resarty Herr Teufu has rockt How did H speranto Esperanto get received ic the Dr subje Esprers there more £ ardwood wood It growth of P hard | annuall cubic fee thermos bottle | cabs have abo » and local levies to paj in many (The Star snvites ite readers this information service frecly. Am ex tensive organization s maintained serve you in any copacity that relaies to information. Failure to wse the service | deprives wou of benefits which you are entitied. Your obligation is only o two-cent stamp. inciosed with vour tn quiry for direct repiy. Address The Sta | Information Bureau. Frederie J. Haskn | Director, Twenty-irst and ( northwest.) to us Davis’ Omaha Speech Excites Sharply Partisan Comment uted over $300,000,000 to sary revenues of the Davis has only a best upon a gene duction. President strongly emphasized cconomy ernment and u consequent in taxation as the most imp. mestic policy for public we e the President that handi Mr. Davis wo which protect in this country bor emploved in it ew York nece. Mr id elaim of tax has Government second Coolidzr in reductior ant de are. B ap busi 1d strik business enter and thus the Tn addition t Herald-Tribune (Republican) takes exception to M 1s’ criticism of Mr. Dawes' state te solution of Problem ought to be -parti and it f “he is v to criti Dawes' agricultural relfef plan on its merits, he at lipert to criticize it on the ground that implies an evasion of party rcspor sibility and opportunity k% ¥ s Pit ublican) of 1t Mr. terprise those prise farmer's t along no: that while cize Gen On the whole. t zette-Times (Rey believe “the ti be impressed with edies, and princip are in the midst « that ecor laws into temporary di working then o And, thouzh nearly 2,000 purgh does o wiil ren a demonstration Which got th aity heir trouble: Davis travel miles to talk to Western Armers the New York Evening Fost (independent) believ “he had littie to te m that they have not heard m: marn times, and, “if they are looking for a new farm Moses to lead out of the wilderness, they must look further. for John W. Davis had precious little to offer them other than a look at his handsome self and a discussion of his own political philosophy In the Middle West, th Paul Dispatch and other leading papers unfavorable to Mr. Davis speak their minds sharply. “After Candidate Bryan's confession on Labor day for his part he had nothing to of on the subject of ag ulture,” says the Paul Dispatch, “Candi Davis' expressions on the subject were awaited with considerable in terest and hopefulness, but what Mr Davis had to say on agriculture at Omaha frustrated those hopes and disappointed that interest.” After all, this paper feels his speach “was what might have been expected from a fastidious and urbane scholar of the law, whose interest in and knowledge of the agricultural West is confined to the fact that he will probably get no votes to speak of from that di- rection.” In fact, Mr. Davis had no settled ideas about the agricultural question according to the Topeka Capital (Republican), which says: “Thers no reason to suppose he had given it studs. He had never been heard from on the subject during the entire agricultural depression. He has a floxible mind, as exhibited by hi Labor day speech; he has the.faculty of taking on protective political col- oration in a campaign, almost (o a marvel, and he caught up at Chicago agriculture as a sponge soaks up water. But in his Omaha speech he betrayed the newness of his approach to this subject. The speech was su- perficial and full of conventional | catch words.” While “he may prom ise to repeal the law of supply and demand, to legislate cconomics out of existence and to put into the pocket of the farmers what he takes out of the pockets of others” the Kansas City Jourral (Republican) is sure “the promise cannot be fulfilled because the cure would only make the country all the sicker, including the agricultural patient, whose eco- nomlo health depends upon - that of every other jndustry.” ut of Mr. ther