Evening Star Newspaper, October 18, 1924, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY.....October 18, 1924 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 Kast 42nd Chicago Ofce: Tower Building. Furopean Offce: 16 Regent St.,London, England. The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning edition, in delivered by carriers witiin the eity af 60 cents per month: daily only. cents per month: Sunds only, 20 ce Orders may be seot by mail phose Main 5000, Collection is made by car- riers at the end of each moath. Bate by Mail—Paynable in Advance. Maryland and Virgink Daily and Sunday.1y Daily only Sunday only . mo., L0¢ mo,, 20¢ All Other States. Daily and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00;1 mo., 85¢ Daily only 1 $7.00:1 mo., 60c Sunday only . $3.00;1 mo., 25¢ Member of the Axsociated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled <he use for republication of all news dis- sehes credited to it or ot otherwise credited ia this paper and also the local news pub. lished ‘herein. All rights of publication of patclies herein are also reserved. The Campaign Is With Us. Really it sounds like old times, and one knows that a presidential cam- paign is on. A few weeks ago people were talking of apathy! Old General Apathy was with us again! The peo- piws candidates were Walter Johnson tucky Harris, Earl McNeely, Roger Peckinpaugh, Goose Goslin, Ossie Bluege, Fred Marberry, George Mo- gridge and the rest of the heroes! Peo- ple were not interested in polit Was there really going to be an elec- tion in November? And so forth. Again the old familiar sounds are with us. La Follette charges that the radio is a monopoly, and will not pass his speeches on to a suffering world. Secretary Hoover denies that there is a radio monopoly. La Follette and Bainbridge Colby charge the Repub- lican national committee with collect- ing a slush fund to corrupt the voters of America and defeat the will of the people. Chairman Shaver of the Democratic national committee charges President Coolidge with fail- ure to reduce the “abominable” sugar tariff, and accuses the Department of Justice with maliciously delaying the prosecution of Charles Forbes. Candi- date Davis says that Secretary Hughes, in his New York speech did not know what he was talking about, and side-tracked the truth, or words to that effect. George Lockwood, for- mer secretary of the Republican na- tional committee, telegraphs John W. Davis an indignant denial that he was involved in any scheme to “frame up” Senator Wheeler, and insinuates that the Democratic candidate is no gentleman. Young Theodore Roose- velt says that Tammany is a wicked institution, and that the Democratic party never did anything but make mistakes. Secretary Hughes calls out that the Constitution is in danger, and that the only way to save it is to vote the Republican ticket. Democratic headquarters in Chicago has a “negro bureau,” and says that hordes of col- ored peopie are going to vote the Democratic ticket. The political campaign right. is on all ———— Herman H. Kohlsaat. Herman H. Kohlsaat, to whom death came suddenly at the home of Herbert Hoover yesterday, occupied a unique position in the life of the Amer- ican Nation. Starting at the foot of the ladder his genius was first dedi- cated to journalism in Chicago. His newspaper work proved the portal through which he stepped to more than 40 years of devoted and generally unrecognized service to the Nation. Other men have probably held more intimate relationships with one or an- other of the leaders of the political, literary and economic destinies of America during those years. But no man, it may be confidently asserted, has ever more consistently played an active, if silent, part in the drama where others acted the more conspicu- ous roles. During those years Mr. Kohlsaat sat in friendly conference at the side of nearly every public servant of America. Presidents, governors, the leaders of Congress, ambassadors, editors, authors, without regard to party, creed other persuasion sought his counsel and called him friend. To those who did not know him, his capacity for winning the con- fidence and intimacy of those charged with high public trust must almost seem incredible. But it is different with those who knew. For it was through the_hearts of men that Her- man Kohlsaat entered, to spread his gifts of clear vision, ripe experience and unprejudiced judgment before them, in the service of the Nation he loved. —_————— A Zeppelin glides along the sky a thing of such serene, colossal beauty that it is a shame to think of what a flock of belligerent air- planes could do to it. o Doubts are beginning to be enter- tained as to whether W. G. McAdoo will attempt to equal the convales- cence record of R. M. La Follette. ———— ‘What Next in Britain? Today’'s cable advices from London indicate diminishing prospects that Ramsay MacDonald and the assorted groups constituting his Labor party will be given @ mandate for continued power at the parliamentary elections to be held a fortnight hence. In half a hundred constituencies which last year returned Labor candidates as the result of triangular contests, there has been accomplished an accommoda- tion between Liberals and Conserva- tives, one party or the other refrain- ing from advancing candidates, and the struggle is square-cut between Labor and anti-labor. The prospective outcome is that Labor, which came into office only through Liberal tol- erance, will have its ranks so reduced in the new Parliament that the Con- servatives will be called upon to take up the burden of government, also as & minority party and at the mercy of Liberal caprice. ‘What the effect of this will be upon British foreign policy and the rels- tionships of Europe can only be con- or jectured. There is a tradition that Britain's foreign policy is a continu- ous one, uninfluenced by changes in the government at home, but in the present contest this tradition is being knocked into a cocked hat. It is true that failure to prosecute a communist editor on charges of sedition was made the pretext for overthrow of the Mac- Donald government, but all the world knows it was a pretext only. The real issue in the campaign is the treaty negotiated by MacDonald with Soviet Russia, with the attending engage- ment that the British government shall guarantee a Russian loan. The bars having thus been let down, and a parliamentary campaign being fought squarely on an issue of for- eign policy. no man can tell what may be loosened from Pandora’s box. The spirit of accommodation displayed by MacDonald, and which has made pos- sible remarkable progress toward set- tiements in Europe, has not in the past animated either Liberals or Con- servatives in British public life. If the Conservatives come into power without a majority of their own in the Commons, dependent upon Liberal votes for requisite majorities, there is anger that much which has been done in the past year will be undone. Certainly the reaction, both in France and Germany, will be to the disadvan- tage of the Dawes plan and the pro- gram for the adjustment of repara- tions and the assuring of peace by treaties of arbitration as contemplated by the Geneva protocol. Forced to deal with a Conservative British gov- ernment, plus the spirit of Lloyd George, there is reason to doubt whether either Herriot, in France, or Marx, in Germany, will be able to carry on. —_— e Words Worth Considering. Although the mass of the railway brotherhoods are classed as support- ing the candidacy of Senator La Fol- lette, which involves the proposed na- tionalization of the railroads and other public utilities, there are some of the brotherhood leaders who do not sub- scribe to the La Follette policies. Among them is W. N. Doak, vice president of the Brotherhood of Rail- road Trainmen. Last night, over the radio, he spoke to his fellow railroad men—words broadcast over the na- tionally interconnected stations. While addressed specially to his fellow rail- road employes, there was much in his talk worthy of the attention of all of us. Warning the workers of the coun- try that the two cardinal proposals of the Socialist-Third Party—namely, the nationalization of public utilities and the crippling of the Supreme Court—are essentially a step toward communism and toward the over- throw of the American system of gov- ernment, he pointed out wherein nationalization of the railroads would not be for the best interests of the railroad workers in the long run. He said that railrcad employes would become Government workers and would automatically revert to a political ~status. The Government would have it in its power to put them on a civil service status, which would destroy the important privilege of collective bargaining, gained after a generation of effort. The power to strike would be, in effect, gone, be- cause of the generally accepted axiom that the citizen cannot strike against his Government. He called attention to the fact that there is nothing to cause public util- employes to favor Government op- eration when the comparison is made between the present level of their wages and the present level of Gov- ernment employes. The Government does not guarantee work and does not pay as high wages as private in- dustry. He contended that the eco- nomic independence and social wel- fare of all classes of Workers would be jeopardized by the nationalization proposal. It would be well for public utility workers to stop, look and listen before rushing blindly on to the beckoning signal of politicians with their spe- cious and unwise theories. Boys and Dynamite. It is still a hard job to put old heads on young shoulders. The pub- lic school has proved a valuable insti- tution in instructing boys and girls in arithmetic, history and, to some extent, in physics, but it has not edu- cated boys to the point where they can be trusted with giant firecrackers and sticks of dynamite. A dispatch from Pottsville, Pa., says that police found three public school boys, each under 12 years old, who confessed to using sticks of dynamite as fuel for a bon- fire. The boys said they used the sticks because they made “pretty blue flames.” The police took charge of the rest of the fuel. Congratulations g0 to the boys and their relations that the sticks of dynamite were used on a fire in the open instead of being put in a stove or furnace. —_————— Much of the country’s sentiment de- plores the possibility of throwing the election into Congress. What should be expected of Congress is not more work, but better. ; ———— Europe will gladly show any Amer- ican multi-millionaire restrained from making campaign contributions what to do with his money. Will You Have a Deer? T'he Government herd of deer in one of the national parks has grown so large that the Government in the name of economy wants to find good homes in private families for mem- bers of the herd. It is said: “Under the protection of forest rangers the deer have increased in numbers to & point where the entire band is threat- ened with starvation, and prompt et- forts must be made to reduce it to a number that can be supported by the vegetation of the Kaibab Plateau.” It is understood that the Govern- ment will give a letter of recommenda- tion with each deer which it intro- duces into a private home. It is said that the governor of the deer will war- rant each to be sound and gentle and of moral habits and polite deport- ment. He will say that while under national tutelage and supervision this deer conducted itself in a becoming maanner, had a splendid appetite, slept THE EVENING STAR, well, was not inclined to overwork it- self and would be deserving of the best that the family garden and pan- try could provide. When the Government offered to glve away buffalo it was straight and honest enough to say that it would not recommend a full grown buffalo as a houschold pet or parlor orna- ment, and that in some ways one of these creatures might rot fit well in society where all the rules of etiquette and old-fashioned conventions are ob- served. But the deer are recommend- ed for private use. It is said that though the Govern- ment offers to give these deer away there is nothing wrong with them. Some people are naturally suspicious, and when the Government offers to give anything away those of us who are not suspicious become so. But a Government guarantee will go with each deer, and it is hoped that kind- hearted and trusting citizens will come to the aid of the Government and the deer that the pretty little ani- mals shall not suffer from hunger and cold. Winter is coming on.' Lack of School Facilities. The Board of Education has author- ized the drafting of a bill outlining & five-year building program to relieve the crowded condition of the schools. This is @ question that has been dis- cussed from every angle by all the school associations and by most of the other” civic bodies of Washington. It is believed to be the proper way—the only way—to bring the school plant to the point where it will meet the needs of the schoolage population. Treat- ment of the shortage of public school facilities by piecemeal has not met the situation, and probably will not meet it. Meanwhile in every issue of The Star is 3 note of dissatisfaction by the public with the inadequacy of public school accommodations. The Sixteenth Street Heights Citizens’ Association at its latest meeting directed its commit- tee on schools to proceed with the movement to have the District con- struct a school building in its terri- tory. It was said that in the past two years the population of the section represented by that association has grown to a degree which entitles it to school facilities. Under present conditions the children travel a long distance to attend school, and the buildings to which they go are crowd- ed far beyond comfort and safety. At a meeting of the South Washington Citizens' Association it was resolved that complaint be made to the Board of Education that the Fairbrother, Amidon and Smallwood Schools are overcrowded. Complaint of inadequate school accommodation is general throughout the District. — re————— A prisoner at Great Meadows, N. Y., was stabbed to death while in line with 145 other inmates of the peni- tentiary. Even the most rigid dis- cipline may not suffice to thwart the killer in quest of another thrill. —————————— Loeb and Leopold have succeeded in living several weeks without a thrill. Prison routine offers induce- ments to aspire to perfect behavior rather than to the ‘“‘perfect crime.” R It is impossible to take in unques- tioning faith the suggestions that Ja- pan is deliberately looking for trouble. The earthquake was an accident. A fight would be her own fault. —_——— The mere fact that a campaign can- not possibly be as explosively sensa- tional as a senatorial investigation should not cause serious apprehen- sions of apathy. e e Enough restraint has been shown by Gov. Charles Bryan to give him re- nown as one of the best listeners that ever campaigned for the vice presi- dency. ——— In order to keep tab on the cam- paign funds a liberal allowance will have to be set aside for a staff of book- keepers. —————— Still refusing to keep pace with the rest of the world, China refuses to recognize that war is out of date. ————— SHOOTING STABS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSO! The Near Future. Only just a little while ‘Till election’s over. Then the world will wear a smile As it dwells in clover. Every politician brave Shows in his oration, How to make us all behave And preserve the Nation. Contest is a part of life. ‘We the people revel In most every kind of strife If it's on the level. Now emotion rises strong. Faith is undiminished, For it won't be very long Till election’s finished. Harmony. “Why don't you give us some of your old-fashioned oratory.” “Got to keep up with the times,” answered Senator Sorghum. “Old- fashioned oratory doesn't fit in with the new-fashioned facts.” ‘The Distant Sun. Long centuries have been required To bring your light to Here from Thence. And when it's here, though much ad- mired, It seems to make small difference! Jud Tunkins says he has voted for the same political party. ever since he was 21 years old, not having changed his mind near as much as the party has in several respects. Keeping a Secret. ““How will you vote?” “I'm not mentioning as yet,” an- swered Mr. Meekton. My wife hasn't much respect for my opinion, and I don’t want to prejudice her against e good man.” Anxious Inquiry. Our radio is erratic. ‘We wear an anxious look. ‘Was some one stopped by “static,” Or did he “get the hook?” —_— “Success ain't allus satisfactory,” said Uncle Eben. “When a mule kicks it's luckiest foh Lim to miss :X! aim." WASHINGTON, D. BY C. E. TRACEWELL. Next to the food one eats in a res- taurant or lunchroom, there is noth- Ing to be found in them as interest- ing as the people one meets there. Thus many & man becomes all uncon- sciously a student of human nature while he is meeting the demands of his insatiable innards. If it were not for this keen Interest in others it is questionable if a cer- tain curious tribe of beings ever would have come into being. I refer to those whose greatest interest in life is seeking out new places to eat ‘Washington is not one jot behind New York in this matter. The Na- tional Capital has its full share of cultured men who daily make the necessity of stoking the human fur- nace a time for mental observai(on of others engaged in the same indoor sport. This is no petty, sneaking, med- dling in others' affairs, in any sense, merely a wholesome interest in life as exhibited in the biped technically known as Homo Sapiens, commonly Yas “that guy over there.” * X k% Some delight in Chinese restaurants, others like small places with unusual names but quite usual dishes, while sti’l others go in for expensive hotel dining rooms, with their bright lights and music. Not a_one of these seekers after new cullnary thrills, however, but has run the gamut of all sorts of eating places. He has sat in many a place known familiarly to its habi- tues as “The Dirty Spoon,” and eaten from quick lunch counters at railroad stations. Just why the innocent spoon is singled out to bear the in- dignity of the name is not known, for this particular article is no more be- smirched than the forks and knives. Who can forget the devot res- taurant where one ordered ¢wo roast beef sandwiches, being somewhat hungry, and got enough food as the result of that order to feed a small army? The “sandwich” was really four sandwiches, so that instead of two normal sized combinations of bread and meat one faced eight of them, all clamoring to be devoured instanter. Who can forget that day in.the armchair lunch, when he was wrestling with & hot pot of baked beans ,and a kindly stranger, without a word, grabbed the pot, turned it upside down, spread out the smoking legumes upon the cool plate, and bade one begin? “There, that is the way to eat beans,” declared the old hand, calm- ly, while you speechlessly gave him thanks from a full heart, your mouth being full of very hot beans, your only hope of salvation lying in being able to swallow them before they burned your month through. What a tough bird one's trusty esophagus is, to be sure! Once within its precincts, the hottest coffee or soup gives no indication of its pres- ence, but goes on its way rejoicing. * * * % What is funnier than a man eating corn on the cob? Nothing, except a lady trying to hold a tumbler daintily! In a lunchroom the student of hu- man nature meets all kinds and con- ditions of men. Let us look at a few, and see what we have in the way of | humanity. This is a cross section of life, remember. What this is, all the rest shall be, more or less. Here, in this white tiled place, men are off guard, for the moment, to- tally lacking any of the pose they may think it necessary to put on be- fore their stenographer or their boss, as the case may be. Posing Is one of the primal attributes of man. When he grabbed his club, struck an atti- tude, and told the dinosaur to come on, h4 had a fair lady hiding in mind. He was hoping she was peeping at him from behind the rock. At his | meals, however, probably on the same dinosaur, he fell to with a will, leav- ing the lady to do likewlise. Rattle, clatter go the dishes throughout the restaurant, mingling with the hum of talkers and the shouts of the counterman, “Hold it! Hold it!” You might think he was playing foot ball, but he is merely telling the chef to retain that order of poached eggs until the customer comes up. Over at that table sits a typical Government scientist. How do I know he is a scientist? I know it, that is all. That scraggly white 'beard, that ZR-3, mistress of the air, happens along at a moment designed to attract attention to the Govérnment's helium gas bill, which has led a fitful exist- ence in Congress since 1922. Fathered by the Interior Department, it aims to appropriate $5,000,000 for acquirement of helium gas reserves and for erection of production and repurification plants. America Is indisputably the world's first helium power. Our monopoly of the substance wish which Zeppelins are stuffed would enable us, in dase of emergency, to fill the air with great dirigibles on a scale no other mation could approach. Gas fields nmear Fort Worth, Tex., are the region in which the Government would center its helium activities. Dr. Richard Bishop Moore, former chief chemist of the Bureau of Mines, told the House committee on public lands that America could easily keep a couple of hundred glant airships aloft 4 or 5 years. The hellum gas bill is again ready for submission to Congress. *x k% Our relations with Mexico are likely to experience a rebirth on or about De- cember 1. Senor Elias Calles, the new President-elect of Mexico, having been declared by his Congress to be the true and lawful heir of Gen. Alvera Obregon, will take office on November 30. An appointment of an Ambassador to the United States is expected promptly to ensue. 1t is several years now since Mexivo had anybody in Washington above the rank of charge d'dffaires. The new American Ambassador to Mexico, Frederick R. Sheffield of New York, has just taken hold at Mexico City. There is even a new deal in the Mexican divi- sion of the State Department, where one of our accomplished young ‘‘career men,” Franklin Mott Gunther, has re- cently become chlef. Gunther returns to Washington after four years at the embassy in Rome. He has had con- siderable experience in Latin American affairs, both in Washington and South America. * * % % One of Washington's noblest Romans, Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, has just turned 80 years old and friends in the local Academy -of Immortals, sometimes called the Cosmos Club, are glving a testimonial dinner in his honor. Dr. Wiley is a loyal son of Indiana. but ever since he achiev- ed celebrity with his pure food cru- sade at the Department of Agricul- ture 40 years ago, he has claimed Washington as his home town. Time rolls gracefully over him and every once in a while he grinds out a new book or treatise on dietetics, agri- cultural chemistry, food adulteration or one or other of the score of things which are his specialties. Wiley has a string of honorary degrees, scien- tific honors and other distinctions, domestic and foreign, that put him in Herbert Hoovers class. He bears them modestly and s vigorous enough to aspire to s fresh crop * * ¥ “If the echalk marks and other legends that adorn the long trains of coal cars goming out of West Vir- abstracted eye, those neat gold eye- Klasses—all these can mean but one thing: The man works in the Bureau of Chemlistry, or some similar oftice. There s no mistaking the type. If you were to walk up to him, and demand to know his business, he would tell you, “I am employed in the Bureau of Chemistry, sir.” But why trouble him? He has science written all over .him. His neat gray suit is the color and cut worn by successful men who have made thelr mark in life and are content to let the young men try out the latest cuts and drapes of coats and trousers. Ciothes are for him an adjunct of living, not a real part of life. His true life he lives in his mind, where there are neither trousers nor press- INE (TOUSETS, O COALS OT OVercoats, or any of the other necessary things of the physical world. The life of the mind, after all 18 said and done, is perhaps the best life there is, in that it possesses pleasures and rewards not known to the physical man, with a freedom from damage unknown to other forms of life While there are unfortunates In whom the mind is deranged, the great majority of men go through life with a brain that never goes back on them, within the limits of its inzerited ca- pacity. The brain takes no colds, has no rheumatism, scarcely ever gets tired, except as a reflex action from the body. It is about the one best friend a man has. Our scientist, beard of scientific cut, eye glasses of gleaming gold, his blue eves shining frostily behind them, comes bearing a tray of ome- let as if he were walking on eggs. No wonder! He has been walking on eggs all his life, trying to bring up his family on the salary meted out to him by Uncle Sam. * ok x x Here is young man, & young man of the usual type. Does that mean anything to you? Does it bring up a picture of the average young man? He might be a clerk or a stenog- rapher or a bank clerk or a bonds salesman or any one of a hundred different occupations. There are at least 50 other young men in this restaurant who look just like him. He s well built, well dressed, well groomed—but he has no distinction. When he enters the gathering does not sit up and say: “Who is this?” He does not attract attention be- cause of excessive grooming .or be- cause of the lack of it. Maybe he has reached that happy golden mean of which the philosophers wrote. Maybe be has—but it would be better for him if he could attract attention some way or other. There is a man over there at that table who is a dead ringer for Charies W. Bryan, Democratic candidate for Vice President. He has a bristling white mustache, staring eyes, clean- cut appearance. His mustache wriggles furiously as he eats. “Well—well—let us.go— let us go, he says, at last. The words remind one of a radio message sent out from the Navy Department: “Navy Department—Navy Depart- ment—take this—take this—135— 135—uniforms—uniforms,” etc. A snappy girl enters, one of the few in this place. As if she had the heads of all the men on wires, her entrance snaps forward their eves. So it was when Julius Caesar made one of his triumphal entries into Rome. He kept turning around in his chariot to look at a black- eyed Roman maiden in the crowd. “Ah, ha! Yon damsel hath the great Caesar by the neck!" admonished a friend. Here is a broad, red-faced public chauffeur, consuming an Irish stew. Here is a Government clerk, eating apple pie with ice cream upon it. His proud boast is that he has eaten this very lunch for 30 years. Slides now down the aisle the “wipe-up man,” short, thin, old, whose duty it is to take up the used dishes and give the white-topped tables a cleansing swipe with his rag. Like all men who have a place in the world, he seems happy at his Job. Let our last look be at this very pleasant trio, this countryman, his wife and little girl. The child has a flaming red ribbon on her hair, the mother is drab and friendly in brown, the man is husky, hearty, laughing all over hls face. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. ginia these days are any critert John W. Davis' home State Is safe for him. “Three Cheers for Davis» Vote for Our John,” “Give Weat Virginla a Chance in the White House.” “Davis Is Good Enough for Us,” and similarly affectionate leg- ends are the kind of messages that the bituminous miners of his native heath are speeding over the raile roads of the country. West Virginia's coal is carried on long hauls and Davis' miner friends have hit upon a Dretty effective bit of advertising for his cause. * x *x % H?ru:e Green, one of Calvin Cool- idge’s staff of biographers, in his new book about the Presidegt, has a passage that is of current political interest. It refers to the hotly de- bated question of whether Gov. Coolidge did, or did not, settle the Boston police strike. Green cites a letter which Mr. Coolidge wrote to his stepmother on the eve of the celebrated manifesto. In it he said he was about to take action—mean- ing his intervention in the strike— that might mean his political extine- tion. The President's friendly bio- grapher permits the conclusion to be drawn that Gov. Coolidge was the man who broke the strike. * ok % % Kentucky has a Republican candi- date for the Senate, in whom Senator George H. Moses, chairman of the senatorial campaign committee, has a personal, as well as a political in- terest. His name is Frederic M. Sackett of Louisville. Sackett was an undergraduate at Brown University when Moses was at Dartmouth. They were| the representatives, in their senior years, of their respective uni- versities on the board of the Eastern Intercollegiate Athletic Association. Not until the present campaign—35 years later—have Sackett and Moses come together again. Mr. Sackett is a Rhole Islander by birth and was war-time food administrator of Ken- tucky. . * ¥ k% Idaho has retaliated for the intro- duction of Japanese into the public schools of Hawaii by introducing Russian into the Idaho State Univer- sity. Probably the influence of Sena- tor Borah had something to do with it, for he is the arch-protagonist of Russian recognition. A senior stu- dent at the university, named Serge Serebrennikov, who came to the Idaho Agricultural College three years ago from the peighborhood of Moscow, will teach the Russian course. As nearby Seattle is the gateway to un- developed Russia, the University of Idaho hopes to attract young Ameri- ea.n.!f lr:n '.hc‘ Northwest, who look ‘orward some day to engaging in the Russo-American trade. . (Copyright, 1924.) —_—— Now is the time to start letting your whiskers grow as a prepared- ness against Christmas neckties— SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1924. of President Coolidge and Mr. Davis in this election year of 1924 often become somewhat heated in their arguments and an occasional protagonist may resort to epithets, but at least superficial good nature is the rule in practical discussion to- day. In the days'of Washington and Jefterson, when opinions clashed over affairs of Government, good nature was considered a mark of indiffer- ence or cowardice and few were either indifferent or cowardly. Vir- ginia planters, who, over their toddy bowls and card tables, discussed the differences between the Federalists and the newly arisen Republicans, needed to choose their words with caution or they were llkely before the evening was over to find them- selves choosing seconds for a In Joseph Hergesheimer's novel, * isand,” which gives a striking pic- ture of life in the Virginia Tidewater during the administrations of Wash- ington and Adams, Richard Bale of Balisand feels that nothing in the weak new Nation, which he has fought to establishh, is safe and per- manent, except Gen. Washington, Equal to his devotion to Washington is his hatred of Jefferson. “Just the thought of Thomas Jefferson, or, rather, of his principles, inflamed Rale's anger.” * x x % ‘When Bale goes to the house party given by the Todds of Todd Hundred to celebrate the engagement of Gawin Todd to Lavinia Roderick of Henrico County, he admonishes him- self rigidly that there must be “no politics” for Gawin Todd is a fol- lower of Jefferson. Then the second night of the party, over the wine after dinner, Gawin Todd declares: It goes back to Washington’s ambitions—he wants a monarchy where he's mon- arch; he doesn’t seem to vealize that his service—and it was very credita- ble—is over. He has no ability for public affairs; he can’t fathom a free peopl He's after power and a crow: Then Richard Bale feels a familiar sensation overtaking him— “one he had had cause to regret. It seemed to him that all the elements of his body were congealing in the intense cold—like water in the act of turning into ice—of a black rage.” Without moving a muscle he .says with ominous coldness: “After this, Mr. Todd, when you speak to me of Gen. Washington, see that it s at least with the form of respect.” Gawin Todd does not believe in duel- ing, but on this occasion he is nar- rowly saved from a duel by the in- terference of his brother and friends. * ok ok k¥ The hostility growing out of this political difference and a greater hos- tility on account of that universal cause of trouble, a woman, endure for over a decade and then these two meet again. Richard Bale. a broken man_ physically and soclally, perma- nently out of public life, but arrogant and hating as ever, and Gawin Todd, the successful Republican-Democrat, sxulting in Jefferson’s election, con- tront each other on the “field of honor” and the long postponed duel is fought. * x % x The chapter in Horace Green's “Life of Calvin Coolidge” to which readers of the book will turn with most interest is the one on the Boston police strike. Opinions vary all the way from the view that Gov. Coolidge had everything to do with breaking the strike to the view that Mavor Peters was the man of action while the governor sat on the fence, from which he climbed down at the appro- priate moment to assume the credit which he did not deserve, and that his friends built on this incident the “Coolidge myth” and started him on his way toward the presidency. Mr. Green gives an exceedingly judicious account of the episode, distributing the credit with apparent fairness among the mayor, the police commis- sloner and the governor. To public opinion Mr. Green gives first place for breaking the strike, but he holds that the public opinion of Boston, of Mas- sachusetts and of the United States was focalized by the ringing words of Calvin Coolidge: “There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, at any time." * x x % A very mixed menu is provided by W. J. Locke in his last novel, “The Coming of Amos,” and one likely to pro- duce mental indigestion. An English painter with a French name, an Aus- tralian *rough diamond.” son of mis- sionaries and nephew of the painter; a Russian princess, a Spanish villain and a few minor characters are all jumbled together in a setting of Cannes, Rome and England. David Fontenay. the painted, is middle-aged, blase and epi- cure, does not like to be bored—and Amos bores him badly. Amos is big, gawky, blundering and has Australian manners, which to his fastidious uncle seem no manners at all. Princess Nadia Ramiroff is just the conventional Rus- sian princess living in exile on her jewels; she has. of course, been ill treated by the bolsheviki. Ramon Gar- cia, the villain, is a blackmailer, a thief and a general crook, as. of course, a villain should be. The painter, Amos and the villain all fall in love with the princess, of course; that is why she is there. Only ome of them can marry her, also of course, and she postpones her decision until the end of the book for the sake of suspended interest. * % x x ‘This column has recorded from time to time the new ventures in the fleld of book reviewing. The latest is the New York Herald-Trib- une's Sunday supplement entitled “Books” It promises to be a val- uable addition to organs of liter- ary criticism, since it is conducted by Dr. Stuart P. Shermah, who has left the professorship of English literature in the University of Illinois to become its editor. Prof. Sherman is well known as one of the sanest critics of the day. He combines the equipment of full knowledge of classic etandards with open minded and eager appreciation of all that is really good among the moderns. The recent tendency is distinctly toward signed book reviews and all of the more important reviews in the early numbers of “Books” are contributed by competent critics, including Prof. Sherman himself, Hugh Walpole, Carl Van Doren, Henry B. Fuller, Harry Hansen, Harry E. Barnes, Montrose J. Moses, Gregory Mason, John Ers- kine and FElinor Wylie. What promises to be an especially valuable feature is a department devoted to the reviewing of children's books. This page, headed “The Three Owls,” is edited by Anne Carroll Moore, supervisor of work for children of the New York Public Library. The Booklover joins in the cordial wel. ven to the Herald-Tribune's * % x % “The Life and Letters of Mary Putnam Jacobi,” by Ruth Putnam, is one of the books announced for early publication. The subject of this memoir was one of the ploneers in the fight for recognition of women in new fields. More than a half century ago she entered into a lengthy struggle to secure entrance to the Ecole de Medecin in Paris. After completing her courses there with honors she returned to America where she devoted the remainder of her life to work among the poor of New York City. Older citizens re- member her clearly. The memoir should appeal to all those interested in the movement for the emancipation of women. * % *% That “woman’s place™ was not alto- gether in the home, even in colonial days, is shown by Elisabeth A. Dexter book “Colonfal Women of Af- She gives authentic informa- tion of many women in the American colonies who were successful in trades and professions. ' ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. Who was the first movie star to &0 to Europe on location?—0. M. N. A. Paullne Frederick was the first. Ten years ago she was engaged by Famous Players to play the part of Donna Roma in “The Eternal City, the company journeying to Rome for several shots. Q. Why did Detroit purchase the Buffalo team?—I. C. A. Detroit purchased the Buffalo team in 1885 in order to get the “Big Four”—Brouthers, Richardson, Rowe and White, Q. Are birds instrumental in the destruction of the cotton boll weevil? —E. 8. T. A. Special study by the Department of Agriculture resulted in finding that about 66 species prey upon this insect pest. Q. I have a number of 1-cent postal }clrdn. Can I redeem them?—A. T. T. A. According to the postal laws and regulations, uncanceled, unser iceable and spolled postal cards not treated by bronzing, enameling or other processes of coa; deemed in postage or other stamped paper only at 75 per cent of their face value when presented by the original purchaser. Q. What is the literal meaning of “paragraph?’—A. T. G. A. The word means “a writing be- side.” The sign was used to call at- tention to something in the text. It generally indicated a change of sub- Ject. Q. What is verjuice and how is it used in cookery?—C. V. C. A. It is the acid juice of green ap- ples, crab apples or other unripe fruit and was formerly used as a condi- ment. It has survived in modern cookery in a limited way and may oc- casionally serve a useful purpose when lemon juice is not readily ob- tainable. Q. What signature does a woman use in signing a hotel register>—J. L.L A. The name which appears on her visiting card. Q. While traveling in India T ob- served that the Hindus carry small brass bowls. Why is this>—L. D. A. Every Hindu, even a child, car- ries his individual drinking bowl. The bowl is generally filled with water. The custom arises from the fact that no Hindu may drink water which has been drawn by a person of the wrong caste, nor may he drink water upon which a low-caste person has looked. Q. How long is the Lincoln High- way and is it all concrete surfaced?— J. S, A. According to the latest reports, this highway has a total mileage of 3,142.6. The Lincoln Highway types as follows: Concrete, 505.1 miles; brick, 110.9; macadam, 450.3; graded gravel, 1,205.4; natural gravel, 187.5; graded earth, 387.3; natural earth, 74.6; paved city streets, 220.5. Q. Give some Indian names appro- priate for a country place.—G. S. P. A. Mekunna, meaning the Road Home; Wanaki, the Peace Dweller; Minooki, the Good Land, and Wash- ara, Beautiful. Q. What fuel was used in the bra- ziers found in ancient Egyptian houses?>—V. D. A. Charcoal was the fuel employed. Q. Who painted the portrait of Countess Potocka, which is so popu- lar’—T. S. T. A. The artist {s unknown. Q. What is a yam?—H. H. A. The term yam is applied collo- quially in the United States to cer- tain kinds of sweet, potatoes. In real- ity the yam is the edible tuberous root of various plants of the genus Dioscorea, which is used largely as a substitute for the potato in tropical countries. Q. What is the origin and signifi- cance of the colored lights in drug sore windows?—W. S. C. A. These lights originated in Eng- lish apothecary shops. The streets were not lighted in the early days, and the drug store, being an impor- tant place to locate in some emergen- cies, adopted the colored lights as a distinguishing mark. Q. For how long a term is a gov- ernor elected and may he be re- elected?—I. M. C. o A—The terms of the governors of Country-wide delight over Wash- ington’s victory and Walter Johnson's “come back” is reflected in editorial comment on the dramatic world series of 1924. Never has the annual base ball classic attracted so much and such favorable attention. Through nearly all the comment runs the thought that belief in the sportsman- ship and honesty of the national game has been vindicated. “A more nearly perfect result,” the Charleston Post points out, “couid not have been devised for the world series than the victory of Washington in the 12th Inning of the seventh game, with Walter Johnson pitching out his ca- reer in 2 death grip on the Giants— it was a high romance of sport.” The New Orleans Times-Picayune declares “the struggle of the Senators against o0dds, their unbeatable spirit, their marvelous courage and sportsmanship that sent the twice beaten Walter Johnson in as relief pitcher at the most critical moment of the decisive struggle have rarely or never been matched in the history of sport.” That is base ball at its best, ac- cording to the New York Herald- Tribune, which holds “the popularity of the victory in New York is good testimony that the base ball public likes its ball plaved in the Washing- ton spirit.” New York “congratulates Washington upon its well earned laurels,” adds the New York Times, for “never was victory snatched from the jaws of defeat in a more gallant and ‘sportsmanlike spirit.” Although the “Giants are our own, and we sor- row when they lose,” the New York World admits “this time, we frankly rejoice with Washington, for we know how they feel, and it is a feel- ing like which there is none in this vale of tears.” ok % The Cleveland Plain Dealer is sure that “never before in the history of base ball has there been so popular a triumph, because the New York team was an old story; and besides, it represented base ball plutocracy, while Washington had a club of just everyday players, drawing moderate salaries and playing base ball ear- nestly, but mot as.great luminaries. The Chicago Daily News agrees that Washington’s _ victory pleases the patrons of the game for many rea- sons, but frst and foremost because it breaks New York's long-main- tained monopoly of the highest base onors. “It is not good for the game,” adds the Daily News, “that two teams in one city should win championships in both the major leagues as consistently as the New York teams have done.” Taking the title from New York “proved that money to buy players alone will not win,” says the St. Paul Dispatch, which is confident also it did more than that, for “it showed, in its desperate fluctuations and in the grim efforts of both teams, that the American gospel of honmesty in base the States vary. In some States the term is two years, in some four and in some six years. Some States allow re-election, while others do not, Q. Why do buzzards han a peanut fleld7—B. G, N, © wound A. Buzzards gather near a place where hogs are kept, and they will seldom be found over a peanut fiald unless swine have been turned into Q. What does q. v. mean?—T. . F. A. This stands for quod vide, a Latin phrase translated “which see. Q. Who was known as the “Kin- derhook Wizaraz o b e " A. Martin Van Buren, who was born in Kinderhook, N. Y., was given this nickname. He was also known as the “Little Magician. Q. Are there more heathen in the world that Christians?—C. T. W, __A. About two-thirds of the world is non-Christian, but there is a very Tm?” percentage of the world’s popu- ation tnat does not profess religion of some kiod. * Q. When was Oxford University founded?—W. W. F. _A. There are legendary stories of its formation by King Alfred. As early as 1117 there are notices of continental scholars lecturing at Ox- ford and it was certainly a center of learning in 1185. Cambridge is prob- ably almost old, although its origin is also obscure. t is dry farming?—W. D. F. y farming is a scientific farmi of land where there is a limited o@ unfavorable distribution of rainfall Irrigation is not practiced, the fer tility and moisture of the soil being nanaged by a system of deep cult Vation, rotation of crops and ths “plowing in” of green crops. Q. What kind of a fraternity is Tau Beta Pi>—F. K. R. A. This is an honorary technical fraternity. It derives its name from the initials of three Greek words which formed its secret motto. Tau Beta Pi bears the same relation to engineering and related studies, that Phi Beta Kappa does to literars scholarship and that Sigma Xi does to original research in science. Q. What is the origin of the word “Shibboleth” >—E. N. P. A. Shibboleth has the meaning of “test” or “watchword” or distinguish- ing cry or phrase of a party. It was the word by which the Gileadites di tinguished the fugitive Ephramites at the fords of the Jordan. The Ephram- ites were not able to pronounce 'sh and called the word “sibboleth” (Judges Xii.5-6), whereupon they were slain. Q. Does creosote contaminate silage? —D. C. S A. The odor of creosote in wood-stave silos is not serious after the first ve: if the wood is well seasoned before the silo is filled. The slight contamination of the silage does not seem to affect the health of the cattle. Q. What was tae correct date that the conscription law went into effect? —J. H. T. A. The War Department says that the conscription law which included the drafing of men for the first draft ou June 5 1917, became a law on May 18, 1917, Q. Who first called Ireland Emerald Isle>—M. E. M. A. This name, given Ireland on account of the richness of its ver- dure, was first used by Dr. Drennan in a poem entitled “Erin.” Dr. Dren- nan lived from 1754 until 1820. the Q. Please give me the history of tha almanac.—Mc A. The history of almanacs has been traced back to very early times as been ascertained that Alexan- reeks had them, though it not exactly known when they appear- ed in Europe. The oldest existing al- manacs in manuscript form date from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, whereas the earliest print- ed almanac was by the Astronomer Purbach, and appeared between the vears 1450 and 1461 (Take advantage of the free informa- tion bureau which this newspaper main- tains. If there is a question you want answered don't hesitaie to use this serp- ice. Al replies are sent direct to the in- quirer. Address The Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Twenty-first and C streets morthwest Inclose 2 cents in stamps for return postage.) Nation Reflects Delight at D. C. Base Ball Team’s Big Triumph ball is not undermined or lacking a firm foundation.” “But stronger than anvthing the Indianapolis News believes, < the wish that Walter Johnson might crown his honorable career with vic- In fact, the Minneapol bune is certain “the country—all but New York, mavbe—loves ‘Bucky’ Har- ris for giving ‘the broken old mar his chance, and it loves Walter for what he did in his ‘come back.' " While Earl McNeeley's hit was worth not far from 00 to each member of the Washington team, de- clares the Kansas City Journal, “it ‘was worth vastly more than that in the eyes of the fans throughout the country, because it not only brought in the world's championship run, but it brought in Walter Johnson the win- ner and crowned with success the ame bition of a lifetime, apparently thwart- ed forever when he lost his second game." Thus, when Walter Johnson came back, “it wasn't Washington fans alone who went wild,” accord- ing to the Birmingham News, for “the passion of joy swept from the Cana- dian Rockies to the Florida E glades, perhaps from Atlantic ships to ships in the Eastern Sea. The come back of Walter Johnson, who had been drinking the lees of bitter de- feat, brought marching songs to the lips of Americans.” The most nearly dominant emotion. as the United States settles back to business after seven days of hectic excitement, the Nashville Banner sug- gests, probably is “joy that Walter Johnson came back with all the pitch- ing wizardy which has made him justly famous to realize his ambition and win a world series game.” * ¥ ¥ ¥ The Cincinnati Times-Star says: “If we had written the scenario of the world series, we don't think we should hhave changed a play. Dame Fortune showed a keen sense of the dramatic. And, best of all, she gave the battle into the hands of a good, clean growd of young men, the kind that ake the sport the national game of a great republic.” The Port- land Express agrees that “it was a splendid battle, perhaps the most spectacular and dramatic that ever has marked the sport’s vearly classie, and among other good things will help to make the game even more popular than it previously has been.” For both teams, the Anaconda Stand- ard is sure “played the finest kind of ball at all times concluding with a hair-raising finish that will shinc in base ball history forever.” The Newark News concludes that “base ball, as the national game. isY entirely recovered from the black eye it received toward the close oi¥ the season by the efforts of two mis guided members of the Giants to bribe a Philadelphia player to throw a game. It is enshrined today in the hearts of millions of fans as it has not been for years." v