Evening Star Newspaper, October 20, 1924, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. . WABHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY.......October 20, 1924 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Eveaing Star Newspaper Company Business Offee, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave New York Office: 110 Fast 42nd Chicags Office: Tower Bullding. Eurepean Oftice: 18 Kegent 5t.,London, Eng! ‘The Evening Star. with the Sunday moraing edition, is delivered by carriers Within the ity af 60 cents per month: daily ouly. 43 ents per month: Nundas oniy, 20 cents per month. _Orders may be sent by mail or tele- nhone Mein 5000. Coilection is made by car- riers at the end of each monti, nd. Rate by Matl—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virgt Dafly and Sunday.1 st., £5.40:1 m Daily only 131, $6.00:1 mo., Sunday only .....1yr, $2.40;1 mo., All Other States. and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00;1 mo., §5¢ only ......1yr, $7.00;1mo., 60c Sunday only ...l $3.00;1 mo., 25¢ Boc 20¢ T., Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is excluslvely entitled 1o the ‘use for republication of all news dis ches eredited to it or nut atherwise credited this paper and alwo the locul uews pub- Lished herin. © Al rights of publication of epccial dispatches Lerein are also reserved. The Duty and the Right to Vote. A ul tuds conspicuous the source politi of puliti- T a ui is i S0 wa potential vot cast woes, iiu v the polls and thels right Crn i liticul vi- o spurned before power to A an creignty, highest § iege the world s known, like seriptural swine. In the election of 1912, for instance, the stay-at-home potential voters ex- ceeded in numbers those who went to the polls and voted for and clected Wilson. The political army command- ed by General Apathy was stronger than that which followed to victory General Woodrow Wilson, The Star heartily fay device to torate from ti dangerous, deadly apathy. In pursuance of this thought The Star prints on its fivst page today the slogan: “The United States expects every American to do his duty—vote! May this appeal stir the conscience of me who have heen tempted to be slothful, indifferent and neglectful! a corollary to this slogan The prints anet “The United tates expects every American to have the right to vote—therefore vote tor mational representation District of Columbia.” The Nation would be obvicusly and zrossly inconsistent if it that all Americans vote a duty, and at the sume time prevented a community of nearly half a milllon of nighly qualified Americans from vot ing. A mere oversight, & trifling sin of umission in the wording of the Con stitution, undevstandable and exeu n w of the excitement I the ailure-threatening bitterness of con- .roversy which charactegized the fram- | ing of the instrumen is all that stands in the way of the Americaniz ing of the political ajiens of the Dis- trict of Columbia. 3 This without hurt our pending constitutional amend- ment. The wonder ties, so worldiy w glad hand and groups of qualified Americ sling toward national ment, are onor and th S5 e mpions, A conspicuous political this decade is the failure of our par- tisan leaders to recognize the exist-| ence and potential pcwer of the fine strong American community collected | and organized at the seat of (u)l‘!rllvl ment. The far-seeing political leu.lerl will perceive that this community, like | the people of a territory preparing for | statehood, will at sume time surely be | raised from political impotency, not to | statehood, but to the enjoyment of | sme substantial measure of Ameri n vights and power. The wise polit cal leader will be that one who hastens head of all others to greet the pros- pective newcomers into the American political family and to facilitate their entrance into rights and powers to ! which on American principles they are already entitled. In accordance with historical precedent such a leader | will enjoy the grateful appreciation of the community which he champions, coneretely expressed when it emerges from impotency, and will avoid its en- during resentment, based upon right- s indignation, against those who slur the community and baffle tempo- rarily its reasonable and wholesome ns for Ameri zation. the pi peacls cast s every vie corrected ¢ Ly adoption overst will be to anyhod it par- in presenting the Iping hand to ns sirug- nfranchise- for ths f recog not contending [ enetlt : District’s 1oost Leipful | | lunder of | as | forccaster who insi that it's all ever but the shouting now busily engaged in trying to be| convineing without taking a chance on inviting apatay. ———————— Overcrowded China continues an ef- fort to solve the housing problem by promoting the use of cemeteries. n To Explore Sargasso. The wooden ship Arcturus will carry a party of scientific explorers into several seas, and the name of this ship may become as familiar to Washington people as the Carnegle, which lles at one of the local wharves; as the Albatross and as the yacht 1. Hirondelle of the late Prince of Monaco. The Arcturus expedition, financed by several rich Americans, will be sent out by the New York vil of to- " | special sov- | in the whole for the | demanded | { making it two all. | across the Atlantic. i charities | it was an interesting picture. | looking for perfection Is going.en a; {long hunt. said: “A great deal of nonsense has been written about this sea. Ships have gone through it without any difficulty.’ 8o far as unquestioned records go, the Sargasso Sea was discovered by Columbus and named by him “Sar- being the Spanish word for It is the famillar weed ropical grapes” and ‘“grape and which nearly all ocean travelers know as “gulf weed.” In parts of the Atlantic the weed fs abundant, and where especially abundant that water is called a Sar- gasso Sea. The big Sargasso Sea is betweén the Azores and the Antilles, or between the 20th and 38th de- grees of north latitude and 30th and 65th parallels of west longitude. It shifts from one part of that wide area to another. Exploration of the seas goes on. Its fishes and minute organisms, in which the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms merge or closely approach, are brought from great depths. Bits of the ooze from the sea bottom are brought up and samples of blue and red clay are lifted from the “deeps” or giant abysses in the sea bed. Every now and then a new { “deen” is found. Occanography has been developed into such a vast sub- that it has been divided several in which wise men the cuse in geology into § sciences, L as s and astronomy. In the science of hydrography and| ience of oceanography @ man well known in Washington was a leader and made stupendous contributions to man's knowledge of the seas. He was Matthew Fontaine Maury, who was born in Spotsylvania County, Va., in 1806 and died at Lex- ington, Va., in 1873, while serving as professor of physics in V. M. I. He entered the Navy in 1826 and was for many years in charge of the Naval Observatory in this cit e The Shenandoah. The Shenandoah is sailing south and east today. She bas made a won- der crulse from Lakehurst to the Pacific, and after flying south from her New Jersey home crossed the con- tinent by the southern route, turned north from Los Angeles and reached Tacoma, Wash. She is now sailing on the return trip. The cruise of the Shenandoah will mark a page in history, but she has not had as much public recognition as ! {is her due. She left Lakehurst Tuyes- day, October 7, and America was then more interested in base ball than avia- tion, the world series standing two games to one in favor of the Giants. When the Shenandoah mailed over Washington and traveled east to west not high above the Avenue the popu- lation of the Capital stood around elec- tric scoreboards and radio loudspeak- | i ers. The Natlonals were pounding ont the 4 score of the fourth game, Thousands of our people locked up at the Khenandoah, | but turned back to the mighty. b ness then in hand, the shouts of tens | ¢ of thousands of fans drowned the roar | { of the ship’s motors and she went her | way. As she traveled south and west | popular attention was diverted by the | salling of the ZR-3 from Friederichs- | fen and with news of Ler flight | While the Shen- andoah is sajling cast the presidential campaign increases in violence, and | not many persons are thinking of aviation. When the Shenandoah re- turns to Lakehurst, after twice cross ing the American continent and sall- ing néarly around the United Stat she must be gfven a reception appro- priate to her great achievement. — b The Tax Dollar. It was an interesting graphic chart which the District auditor drew show- ing how a dollar paid in District taxes is divided between the various agencies of government. The chart shows that 33 cents out of the dollar goes for education, $7-10 cents for the Po- lice Department, 67-10 cents for the Fire Department, 10 -cents for! health and sanitation, including the | Sewer Department: 10 cents for high- | ways, “Including sircet improvements, | bridges and lighting: 11 cents for | and corvections, and so| forth. The Star printed the chart, and A tax- payer likes to know what is done with his dollar. He is also interested in how many dollars he must give up. A tax- payer is interested in knowing how many cents of his dollar go for educa- tion, police and fire and health and sanitation, and he is also interested in knowing how much of those things he gets for his dollar. The average Dis- trict taxpayer helieves that the Dis- trict government is more efficient than most other municipal govern- ments, and that he gets more public service for his dollar than most other citles get. Ie feels that the District government serves him well. Not per- | fect, of course, but the fellow who is | i | i | —— ‘The Thanksgiving proclamation will appear on schedule time, but if the election is thrown into the House of Representatives there will be some dis- tinguished mental reservation -t Mr. McAdoo’s Support. William. Gibbs McAdoo has written a letter-in support of the presidential candidacy of John W, Davis. At least, the letter is addressed to Senator Swansen, -chairman of the. speakers’ bureau of the Democratic natjonal committee, and given publicity by him, so it must go into the records as a let- Zoological Societs. Une f the many wvbjects of the expedition will be te examine and determine certain ques- tions about the Sargasso Sea, The terrors of that sea have shaken the nerves of many men, but we know that tke dreadfulness of that part of the Atiantic has been amazingly overdrawn. There was a moving pic- ture entitled he Isle of Lost Ships,” or something like that. which had a long run and which was in Washington a year or so ago, and it ter in support of Davis. It would have been dreadful had the letter foynd its way into the public prints under other auspices, for the average reader, who judges men by what they say, and not by what they are supposed to mean, might well have been led into the er- roneous conclusion that Mr, McAdeo was writing {o support of the candi- dacy of Senator Robert M, La Follette. The erstwhile candidate for the| Democratic presidential nommsuonj breaks his long silence to say that| Senator La Follette “deserves admira- represented to millions of people the Sargasso Sea in a shuddering way. For "hundreds of years there have heen stories that this sea captured ships and held them for all time. DO"' of the scientists in the party ~which will sail in the Arcturus has tion and respect for the courageous fight he has made against intrenched privilege and the invisible forces of ernment.” and that he “represents: a vibrant and wholesome movement in public lite.” One searches Mr. Mc- THE EVENING praise of the Democratic candidate; ex- cept, at the very end, he refers to him as “a man capable and courageous to lead.” Mr. McAdoo regrets that the “pro- gressive and liberal” forces of the re- public could not have united in oppo- sition to the “reactionary” Republican ticket, but failure to unite being an ac- complished fact, he takes a practical view of the situation and points out that Davis, being assured of the elec- toral votes of the solid South, has the better chance to win, and appeals mildly for progressives cisewhere to vote for him. ‘Taken as @ whole, Mr. McAdoo's let- ter is one of the most remarkable con- tributions to a remarkable campaign. Mr. Davis might well be excused were he to paraphrase an historic remark, and exclaim: “A few more such sup- porters and I am undone.” ——— New York’s Budget. New York is @ big town. It glories in its size, its millions of population, its vast concentration of wealth, its congestion, its problems of transborta- tion, its bigness in every respect. Just now, however, it is amazed by the bigness of its budget. According to the latest figures, the cost of running the city for 1925 will be close upon $400,000,000, und that does not account for the virtually assuved increases, in- ident to further development. At the same time the Board of Estimate is reported to stand veady to cut the fig- stimates have a way of ures. { shrinking In the first stage of appro- | priation and then of increasing in the final stage. But whether the ultimate amount is $400,000,000 or only $350,000,000, it will stand as a stupendous sum to spend on municipal maintenance. If the population of Greater New York is 6,000,000, ag the latest available estimates indicate, at the lower figure it costs close upon $60 a head to run things. At the higher figure it costs close upon $70 for each Greater New Yorker. The average New Yorker will prob- ably say that it is worth $70 a year to be a New Yorker. But there are ‘some who feel doubtless that the rate is rather high. e As a reminder that the war is over and affairs are progressing on the old lines, the German-American vote is fearlegsly mentioned by ex-Secretary Nagel. Years ago we were relieved of the necessity of saying “liberty cab- bage’ instead of “sauerkraut” along with other substitutions of phrase. The old Teutonic contributions may all be rektored excepting, of course, refe erences to “a stein on the table” and words of the general significance of “prosit.” ————————— The governorship of New York will content. Al Smith for the loss of the nomination at Madison Square Gar- Gen, and he appears to regard it as assured to him. To the practical man a certainty is better than a prospect, however dazzling. ————— Financial experts may be expected to make mere rapid headway .in straightening ont Iuropean affairs than the dipicmatic experts, however accomplished. e Campalgn managers are expected at this point in the proceedings to claim everything. Only the Coolidge man- agers can include in their claims ref- erences’to the New York betting cdds. e r————— There is a brisk market for Ger- man bonds. But there is no use try- ing to buy an interest worth men- tioning in one with paper marks. ——oe— The world has become accustomed to dealing in enormous figures, except- ing in the matter of campaign con- tributions. B e L SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHXSON. Standards of Taste. When poetry I pause to read I say it must be good, indeed, 1f it is of a hazy kind Which mildly mystifies my mind. On wings of thought I float away Into the nebuleus display, | And as I fail to understand, I sigh and say, “lIs it not grand.” But when I meet some flowing rhyme Of this or of an olden time, Which breathes a melody untaught To words with simple meaning fraught, I love it, but I do not lend The verses to my wiser friend. So readily they're understood, I fear they can't be any good. Eternal Grind. “I suppose you will rest when this campaign is over.”. 'No, sir,” replied Senator Sorghum. “As soon as one campaign 18 over you've got to go to work immediately preparing for the next one.” Jud Tunkins says there's a great deal of talk about what schools shouldn’t teach and not much con- cern about what the scholars are not learning anyhow. Joyous Immunity, Each ache I will forget and never fret, Since it is sure that health must long endure. I've never known a malady as yet For which some ad did not an- nounce a cure. : Matter of Routine. “I will lay my fortune at your feet,” said the man who was proposing. ““That doesn't mean so much,” an- swered Miss Cayenne. *I understand you are in the cement and sidewalk business.” Jumping to January. In Januery T shall tell Of blossoms and of bow’rs, And branches ‘where the song birds dwell And greet the rainbow show'rs, Since no cards, *Twill be the proper thing In January fer /‘us bards™ To carol of the Spring. “A barkin’ dog never bite Uncle Ebenj “leastways met if w kin we choose our Christmas dp0's letter in vain for any such high [run zycg . STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (., MONDAY THIS AND THAT BY C. E. TRACEWELL After a trip along 10th street between the National Museum and New York avenue if one were asked what he had seen in all probability he would reply, “Why, nothing in particular.” Yet it is this very nothing that makes this section of the street interesting, for here is your average downtown business thoroughfare, duplicated scores of times in Wash- ington vet ever colorful. The passerby sees “nothing in par- ticular” until he stops to dissect this “nothing” of which he speake so glibly, then he finds that nothing becomes something in the mysterious way peculiar to life. Why, business, romance, history rub shoulders on Tenth street and jostle each other for pluce, although they do it without commotion, The shade of Abraham Lincoln hange over this street much as the statue of BenJ min Franklin overlooks it. As for business, this {s perhaps the most traveled sireet into Washin ton from points north, farmers track- ing it from the wee small hours of the night, as they come in to Center Market and the wholesale district Iying just north of the Museum. Nothing, indeed! A most precious bit of nothing this market area, one end of W ington’s famous Center Market, - is <h- now jment of Agriculture, showing up down at Ninth street. | Innumerable crates of chickens | stand on the sidewallcs of Tenth. strect at this point. The chickens keep up a running fire of comment as ona walks by them, as if they were critjcizing tall who passed. They are volcing a plea for release without a doubt, but their release will only mean their undoing, so in some ways they are better off hud- dled together in their crates than they ever will be out of them. So wa pass a sced store and other types of business establishment and come to historic Pennsylvania ave- nue, wide and open in the light of a calm October morning. Every sort of parade, from that of Gen. Grant's men to Bucky Harrig' pennant-win- ning Natlonals, hus passed down Pennsylvania avenue. It is wide enough for them all. Over there, in a concrete triangls, stands a statue of Benfamin Frank- ln, patriot, philosopher, printer, in- ventor, diplomat, writer’ The passing of the years increases the respect whic the American people have for the memory of this great American. Me was one of the truly great men of the Revolution, human being like the rest of us, but of greater abllity und achievement than most. His {ncomparable #hows the simpliclty and honesty of the man. Most p. i familiar with the somewhat condensed version of it, as used in the schools. To get hold of the “unrevised edition,” how- ever, after one has grown up, is like discovering a new book. It seems to me that Benjamin ‘Frhnklln i1s one of America’s real writers. Ilis ability along this line of course, {8 commonly recognized. but not to the extent which it ought to be, perhaps. For sheer handling of the English language Franklin was hardly ex- celled by any early American. MHe «aid what he wanted to say in a style at once clear and interesting. Sin plicity in writing is as naught unless the intereat of the reader is held. This ability Franklin had, and it s found in all his writings, striking eplerams in autobiography run by Unele Sam through the Depart- | Almanac to his essays and papers. His letters were masterpieces of their Kind, in a day when letter writing meant more than it does now. ‘The cat in gloves catches no mice,” said Franklin, antedating Theodore Roosevela's “big stick.” And here is another good one, not so well known: “Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.” * Over there to the right is the office of the gas company, where monthly thousands of Washingtontans journey to plank down their colored bills and money. Behind Jittle windows th cashlers or receivars or whatever they call the men who take the money, stand while men and women puss in a file before them, Across the street, between E and F, is the house {n which Abraham Lin- coln died, now. presided over by Col John Oldroyd. Inside the visltor finds a glorfous cellection of Lincoln relics. What memories this block must re- call to the old resident, especially the man or woman who was living here upon the mnight when the great | Lincoln was shot: { During the past vear a determined | effort has been made by hietorians to show that Abraham Lincoln was not (& strange “sport” from parents of low birth, but was the logical descendant a long lne of successtul men when one reads thit Atest of all addresses, 1 At Gotlysburg, one s incline BUintion to the new theory work as that dock not come out of thin wir. There has lo be sometiing | behind it per- 1ade to give * % % Crossing busy ¥ street. thers lies St. Patrick's Church, ivy-covered, and the First Congregational Church, in its red brick vestments. Here passes an old lady in a blue And white polkadot dress of silk, much favored by old ladies, whose g00d sense tell them that it {s a be- coming and seemly costume for them, She wears a purple hat, also appro- priate for elderly ladfes, most of whom know it Here is a horse and wagon. This antiquated combination is- engaged in hauling trash away from the serv- ice cntrance of a great department store. Truly the horse dies hard: { Just when we are about thinking he Is extinct he pops up hauling trash | us of ol Dark red bricks of the Webster School greet us at H street, The tragedy of the grade school is that when it has done | Individual child the child and man is {done with ft. One's lovalty to ulma mater does not go buck that far | through the vears. “Therc is whe I went to school,” wa duclare, with an alry wave of the hand, as we speed past. How many vears it ha {been sinca we stevped inside! No {doubt we would find it just as we left {11, even to the old janitor who pre- {sided In the basement. * | An impetuous youth brushes us | moro than necessary under the pas sageway made In connection with a { rebuilding operation on the opposite {corner. He is i u terrible hurry. | Not feellng so hasty, we walk up to | the splendid little park at the fnter- {rection of New York avenue and 10th street, expecting to find a beneh upo { which to rest curselves. b | Vo find Just one bench, with a colored coal” heaver occup¥ing the exact conter of it. So wo leave him to his meditations and stand on the corner, wondering wh. re is only one hench in a park large enough for a dozes * 'Daugherty Condemned i For | Harry Daugherty awakened no triendly echo in his own party when {he challenged John W. Davis and gave new life to the scandal whicl partment of Justice. Republican newspapers, even though many of them say Mr. Davis' reply did not Jure Presldent Coolidge or the party's chances {n the campaign, have no kind words for the former Attorney General. “Mr. Davis rightly charges Harry Daugherty with degrading the De- partment of Justice by utilizing men such as Means to do its work,” de- clares the Chicago Tribune (independ- ent Republican), as “it is degrading {for any government to use the meth- !ods of a gang of touts and plug- | uglles, but Mr. Davis omits some im- [portant considerations from his de- { nunciatio ® ¢ ¢ 3t Mr. Davis iwould look the facts in the face, he would admit that misdealing and cor- {ruption shaw their signs as much.in {one party as in the other.” Inasmuch as Mr. Davis “does mnot convlct the President of any connection with Mr. Daugherty's methods or any sort of sympathy with his ‘boon companions,’ but, on the contrary, makes it newly clear that in dropping Daugherty Mr. Coolldge was repudiating these meth- jods and connections,” the Boston { Transcript (independent Republican) |thinks it is “justified in saying_that Mr. Davis has helped, rather than |hurt, the President's cause by his {letter.” Furthermore. the fight facing Davi “has been made more dffficult,” con- cludes the St. Joseph Gazette (inde pendent Republican), because, ‘“re- gardless of how honest he himself may be, his use of the cabinet scan- dals as campaign thunder is bound to react against him in the light of the {recent dfsclosures, be they true or false.” L On the other hand, the Republican Buffalo News concedes that “Daugh- erty serves no good purpose in thrust- ing himself forward at this time,” and the St. Paul Ploneer-Press (indepen- dent Republican) thinks “Mr. Davis' answer should convince Mr. Daugh- erty that the better part of discre- tion in his case is silence, for the fundamentals of his position are in- defensible.” The Ohio State Journal (Republican) {s sure also “the injec- tion of Gaston Means and his various lles into the campalgn serves merely o remind the public of the low stand- lards which prevailed in certain de. partments of government when Mr. Coolidge became President and before the necessary changes .had . been made,” all of which ‘“affords Mr. Davis an oppertunity to make an un- answerable and effective statement on the issue of common honesty in offl- clal life.” Referring to the diseussion of Sena- tor Wheeler of Montana, the inde. pendent Republican Des Moines Reg- ster declares that no matter what the facts prove to be about Wheeler, “no- body can In this campaign escape the crushing effect of Mr. Davis' re- joinder: ‘Why was it that no_effort to find sueh an indictment had been made until Senator Wheeler assumed |a leading part in the criticism of the administration and of yourself?” And the Register concludes that “to the extent of his nfluence Daugherty has contributed Ruel to the Davis campaign war! - that former At- gherty il:lld have T, The hagt t3u G ral fone, If he depird to helpl the Re- ‘smpaign,” suggests o blican ' (iddepend- (h |caused a heuse,cleaning in the De- | Letter to Davis and grow whiskers," s Jetter to ’Juhn W. Davis, containing an alleged {repudiation of former testimo: by | Gaston Means, n only prove a {practical embarrassment to the Re- publican party s a further reminis. jeence of the ‘Ohfo gang. " WOk The Democratic press welcomed tle Daugherty letter and the prompt re- ply it drew with jubilation. “If Mr. Daugherty had set out to confound the virtuous Republican en- emles Ly leading them into & snare, he could not have done it batter than by writing h!s ponderous and wmus: Ing letter to John W. Davis,” in the {opinion of the Hartfora Ti (inde- pendent Democratic). *“It was a if a second-rate lawyer had sought to trip up Paniel Webster and had su ceeded merely in giving him the makings of a reply to Hayne.” For {in John W. Davis, declares the New | York World (independent Democratior. jDauglierty was not dealing “with the jundeeided men L bLullyragged for three years in Washington, but he was dealing with a much more powe ful personality than he has ever hin self_encountered. Mr. Daugherty has statement, suggests the Clevelan Plain Dealer (Independent Demooratie). “Is to make himsel? again an issue and to throw Into the campaign question which might otherwise have been forgotten—why did Mr. Cool- idge so long defend his Attorney Gen- eral and then belatedly dismlss him on a pretense™ The former Attorney |General, “who has never been de. nounced by the President,” adds the | Charleston " Post (independent - Demo. cratic), “has virtually presented the issue to the Republican management 10f Justifying or condemning him.” It {will be Interesting, a ording to the {Omaha World-Herald (independent). |“to see if Daugherty will hLe l6ft to {continue this unequal contest with- |out assfstance from his close friends, leaders of his the candidates and party. %ok ok The Louisville Courler-Journal (Democratic) regards Mr. Davis' re- {Ply to Daugherty’s letter as “a mas- terplece,” for “it presents the case agalnst the former Attorney General tersely, comprehensively, damnably. The Milwaukee Journal (independ- ent, adds that “Mr. Davls’ answer cuts like a clean breeze off the pralr: Or the sea mcross the mass of pre- tense that dishonesty in government must be accepted, and we must be content if there Is only 30 per cent unfaithful and ‘incompetent service.” Why Daugherty forced such a.rebuke is a mystery to-the Baltimore Sun (Independent), but, says the "Sun, {"there is no mystery about Republi- jcan embarrassment, it not dismay, at being faced at this stage of the cam- Palgn and in this dramatic fashion by & scandal the Republicans have en- deavored earnestly to keep in the background. It means that the elec- torate will ence more have brought sharply.to mind the position assumed by the President and the leaders of the party in power to the White House none o = ing_indignation that was ;Z"u::?el;;- tively called for.” X Mr. Daugherty, continues the Lynch- burg News (Democratic), “has thus performed a disservice for him party 8o pronounced and so obvious -that there will doubtless be many sys- plclous Republicans to wonder whether he did not deliberately (ntend to pr,- duce just the results which are n@w being witnessed, whether his fury fat Coelidge for removing. from ofg-c did not operate to indice him $, throw a monkey wrenchlinto the | publicap machinery.” ) OCTOBER ANSWERS TO QUESTION BY FREDERIC J." HASKIN. Such | its work with the | al 1924, 20, FLOWERS For the Living Frank A. Vanderlip BY JULIAN STREET As an antitoxin for radicalism and a tonle for youthful American am- bitlons T know of nothing better than a little dose of the life story of Frank A. Vanderlip. Vanderlip’s childhood was that the typical barefoot boy on a little Oignofs farm, with a two-mile walk to the little country school und a two-mtle walik home. When he was thirteen his father, who had been a blacksmith and superintendent of a wagon factory, died, leaving the fam- {1y very poar, znd that summer V. 1ip went to work on a farm. | sixteen he was doing a ten-hour day at a latie in machine shop and {was at the same time studying John Stuart Mill and teaching himeelf shorthand. He has told me that in 0dd moments during the day he would practice shorthand in chalk on iron base of the lathe. Hungry for education, he started for the Uni- versity of Iliinois with which {he had eaved. Recently his wife showed me, as one of her chief tre. ures, the account book of his college | year—he could afford b fand 1 thought to m | many young men and | €ince educated by Mr. afd Mre Van- 1 devtip a good deal to that little P book and the struggies {t records | 1e wanted to study electrical Eiucering, but forty years ngo ti was no such course at the U of Nlinois, and his subsequent cation for work with the voung genfus, Thomas A. Edison, was answercd by discouraging form letter. At twenty a journeyman machinist equipped with some knowledge of economics and the then unusual ac- complishment of shorthand, he went to Chicago, where, after some years in the office of a well known econo- mist, he graduated to the financial editorship of the Chicago Tribune. The Tribune's fight against Yerkes, the corrupt traction magnate, was Vanderlip's fight, and it remains a monumental eplsode in the history of American journalism, At 32 he was appointed private sec- retary to Lyman J. Gage, Secretury of the Treasury in MeKinley's cabi- t, but within a few weeks was pro- Assistant Secretary of « post which he heid for four vears, after which the late James Stillman, who admired his handling of the popular Spanish war loan, made him vice president of the | National City Bank of New York. | 'When, eight years later, Vanderlip { became president of the bank its d | posits were two Lundred millfor i\\‘lx.n he retired after % as president, statement , I the meantime to perform many { public services, chicf among them, verhaps, the planning and establish- ment of the war savings stamp cam- paign of 19 18, which in one year raised a billfon dollars fn competi- { ton with the Liberty loan. Lnergy, originality, resourcefulness and rurage are the qualities which have made Vanderlip not merel man of wealth, bu an outst 1 figura in world economics and in | manner of philanthrop movemen rticutarly edncation. 0 me the most wonderful about him is his faculty for turning dreams into re; 1e Most of us are satiefled with castles fn the ir, but Vanderltp's alr castlen Lave a way of jturuing into brick and econcrete ow {ene tinds Lim spending a fabulous I aum upon a school at arborough, N. Y, where he lives, in order to put Iinto practice certain of his ideas on {education: now his interest in the drama leads him to build a complete- 1¥ equipped theater on his Scarbor- | QuUEgh estate; now one hears that he { 1= buying up an old. dilapidated vil- age, rehabilitating it and transfor: { ing it into a model community; again ) one sees him sectting up in Washing- | ton & bureau for the study of execu- i tive branches of the Government and | their administration finds him writing a In the early part of 1919 Le went | abroad, visited seven countrles, ob- erved conditions. talked with states- men and economists, and after three months salled for liome. Wall Street was then talking optimistically of conditions in Europe, but Vanderltp Saw & black picture, and, believing that what he conceived to be the truth should be put before the world, determined suddenly to write. His prophetic “What Happened to E rope” a book of §0,000 words, was dictated in five days on a transat- lantic Mner, and, though his prog- nostications at the time irritated the financial world, their accuracy has since been demonstrated. The book is dedicated to his six children, and there is in the dedic tion, with {ts expression of kindll 165 good sense and patriollsm, a key to the man. “To my children rung, “with the hope that they and their generation will grow up pos- sessed of an-abundant sympathy with their fellows and u sufficient knowl- cdge of economie law to enable them to make a liberal and wise contribu- tion of service ta rocfe (Copyright, 1924.) At ygelf that the young women en thing Yorktown’s Memorial. | | : | Americans Pay Tribute to Colo- | nial V ictory on Anniversary To the Editor of The Star: Yorktown monument, erected. b: the National Government at Yorktown, Va i rommemorates the last battle of the | Revolution fought here which won inde- I pendence and created New World Gov- {erument. ‘Lord Cornwallie, after a des. perate sicge, finally surrendered t Washington October 16, 1381, thus end- ing British hostilities in tho colonies. Gen. Washington experienced inexpres- tble joy at that eyent, with the remark “The work 1S done, and it has been done well.” Tn 1781 the first Congress which met after the Revolution ordered an appro- priation of $100,000 to erect an im- Pposing monument to pay lasting tribute and evidence American gratitude for victory and the birth of freedom. Nearly 100 years elapsed before the idea of a suitable memorial was carried out. Tn 1880 R. M. Hunt and J. Q. H. Ward, artists of New York, and Henry Van Brunt of Boston modeled this most beautiful conception of “Liberty and Peace.” Its_corner sione was fald in | Octobver, ‘1881, during the centennial bration. The Yorktown” monument js built of The four sides of the base are to inscriptions delineating the 4 victory on this llustrious bat- tefield, the narration of the siege, a treaty of alliance with the King of France, a treaty of peace with the King of England. Over these four eides, near the base, are the carved emblems of nationality, emblems of war, emblems of alliance, emblems of peace. The base is devoted to ipseriptions or historital statements upon the sources of Amerl- can Government. Grouped on the circu- lar produm are 13 female figures, rep- resentative of the 13 original ‘colonies. beneath their feet are these words : “One country, one destiny, one Constitutio The 38 stars on the column represent the States which up to the time of un- veiling had been admitted to the Unlon. “The Branch of Peace” Is adroitly chiseled midst the stars. This was the heritage of which the Yorktown shield was symbolic. Surmounting the column the Goddess of Liberty, star crowned, extends to the o of all nations fortheir service and loyalty to sbare Ameridan peace and’ proeperity. The monument _occ high. given valor a of | the | t one vear— | ten | the inscription | Maine granite, standing 100 feet & inches | Q. “Why is the waiting room for the use of actors and actresses called “the green room”?—L. T. T. A. “Stage-glare” caused by the.ar- tificlal lighting of a theater affects the eyes.of actors and actresses. The iwall "of the waiting- room used by | them during the intervals of a play were colored green because this Is a good antidote for the affection of the Hence the name. Who was the first Yale student? E. 1. was chartered on October The first student was Jacob Heminway. Q. How long wa: Bowdoin held by the HarLor?—aA. S. A. Donald MacMillan's schooner Bowdoin was held by the ice for 322 days. sehooner Refuge | the | ice at + How fast can a worm travel? 0. B, A. There are no recognized estab- lished recorfls, but an army worm has been known to cross an 80-acre flald, a distance of one-fourth of & mile, in 24 hours. Q Q —P. 15 there any kind of metal that will absorb moisture?—K. N. A. A. A form of bronze has becn per- fected in the laboratories of the Gex | eral Motors Corporation that is porous thut it will £oak up oil like mge. The quantity of oil brorb equals one-fourth of its « Miass Q Tioes the King of England | that the ident of the United States has?—> { A. Nominally, he has, but there | has been no instance of a veto from since the reign of Queen Anne. Q. Was the expression “a scrap of paper” first used during the World War?—W. W. S, A. It was used as early as 1878 On January 17 of that year Baron Jomini, the Russian minister, used these words in a letter to the Ru- manian forelgn minister in reference to the passage of Russian troops through Rumania. Q. What material is most general- Iy used for clothing?—. M. £ A. In 1921 it was determined that cotton fs most widely used, about 90 per cent of the world's clothing being | made of cotton materials. For every pound of silic produced there are 50 | pounds of wool, ard 200 pounds of { cotton Q. can M. P A, The last census showed that over 300,000 peepls in Treland were able to speak Irish. How many people in ITrel speak the Irish language | | What ts a “Texas Leaguer’?— s. i_Q |T. L. s. A. A “Texas Leaguer” is a bat- ted ball that loops just over the in- fleld but not far enough for the out- fielder to catch it | Just what is & “tube nose | o Tube nose is the name applied to the harpy or a species of East Indian bat remarkable for the fact TODAY’S | BY PAUL ¥ i | | | A Chinese war exists within the [ jurisdiction of the United States which {1s independent of the war in China. Fatal'tics have already occurred In | New York, Brooklyn, Schenectady and { Philadelphin, and are seriously threat- iened in Washington. [Tt 15 ulleged by G. F. Lee. assistant editor of the Chinese Herald of New York and head of the Hip Sing Tong, that the On Leorg Tong has offered « reward of §2.00 per head for e ussassination of certain members of the Hip Sings who had been expelled from the On Leongs and then bhad joined the rival tong, carrvirg with them secrety belonging to their for- mer afliation. This is denied by the On Leong Tong, with an offer of $1,000 reward to" any one who wil prove the charge. To the Chinese mind it appears perfectly natural, in case of a tong disagreement, that one tong should proceed to fight and kill members of the rival tong. What right, they ask, has the government to interfere? In Clina the tongs are above governmental control. The six men already murdered in the present war had nothing to do with the expulsion of the objection- able members, nor were they the ex- pelled members themselves. That is immaterial—the belonged to the rival tong. Such & feud takes no ac- count of the individual—it involves {the whole tong. Through the intervention of the Chineso Minister, Dr. Sge, an armi- ctice has been discusseds although it has not yet been accepted, hecause the Hip Sings demand that the On Leong Tong shall bear all the ex- pense of getting arrested members Gut of the hands of the American au- thorities, and the On'Leongs have objected to the expense. The feud is {qulet, but not dead. * * x The On Leong Tong is the organi- zation of capltalists. or mone: {ers. clalming to be interested in atd- ling the poor but honest Chinese with | capital with which to embark in busi- ness. It is sald that its rate of il |terest is often usurious. but that lis necessitated by the fact that the | security 18 hazardous. backed by tong | boycott fn case of default or dishon- !eety. but by nothing more tangibie. | The Hip Sing Tong-is made up.of the proletariat. So there is more or less of ground for the world-wide jealousy of capital and labor. x The word “tong” aneans “union,” or “brotherhood, are the trades and business {nteres claimed that it has been found for centuries in self-pro- corrupt government A tong usu- 50 mem- is necessary tectlon against offictals—the mandarins. ally is limited to from 30 t bers in a local “chapte; chapters are bound together in wide- spread groups. There is no other fraternal organization in the world which binds members so closely to- gether as does the Chinese tong. A Chinaman who does not affiliate with any tong is ostracized and boycotted. The tongs have heen falsely likened to our Musonic lodges, but there |resemblanee, beyond the fact of se- crecy of their meetings—which is not peculiar to Masonry. Every member upon joining a tong takes an oath, sealed in blood, to stand by all other members of that tong in trouble and in husiness, and that oath seems to enable them to look upon their fellow- members as hlood ‘“ceusins,” or “brothers,” whem to desert would be pace upon a beautiful bluff overlooking York River. Ex-President Taft visited | Yorktown some years ago while Secre- | tary of War, and upon his suggestion the Government then put the grounds about the monument in order, grano- lithic walks were laid and an iron fence instead of the dilapidated wooden fence incloses this hallowed elte. Throughout the year many thousand visitors pay homage to this most iliue- trious scene in American history. And in the annual celebration on October 18 onice again_ the last battlefleld of the Revolution beco the center scene to mmortalize _Slorioua &nhu-h on in final - for American the crown upon a law of Parlfament | | Hostllities exist between two tongs. | -lend- | In no ‘other country | so fully organized as in China, and it but the ! no that the qostrils «re in the form | two extended tubes projecting above the upper ha, Q. Will you tol, e Just what i« meant by the Metropolan district London?—A. A, . s A. The \Metropolitan district of Lo: dou comprises the cities of London and Westminster and the buroughs of Soutl wark, =bury, Marlebone, Towe Hamlets. Huckney, Lambeth and Chel sea. I= Ger, Point 1 A, He is not from Harvard Medical Sehae au firet appolntment in the United State Army was as assistant surgen Q. T Go Pywest addated Q. What is burgoo?=Jf M. A. This is an catmeal pudding thick gruel served Lo seamen on sh board. z Q. Tsa man born in"Candi classr as a foreigner in the United States? ar P A. Ho is classed as a forcigner this country. Q. Can a pitcher throw a strafght line for a certain « then cause it to drc turn to one side’—}F This {8 possible ball “ranc. What nationalit an timcn v e Was bt e <1 country whi ns | The British Embas for instance, is legully Brithi | tory, and a child bern there In Great Britain Q. Why do they raise the | surrise and lower it at suns: the Navy?—G. C. L A. The Navy Department say |the flag is raised at s o'clock in | morning and lowered at sunset the Navy. This is in accordunce wit a naval regulation. In the the flag is ru t sunrise und ered at sun Q. for L. o et Is papler mache a safe cond small clectric current AT, A It fuirly good when dry, but would. abs and cause trouble if we Q. Where Is the_phrase “eat and be merry, for tomerrow Y die” to be found? I A. This expressic Luke xi Q. Did the three and fou a number No made by ar ma the ever (Did you ever a tetter to Fro eric J. Haskin? You can axk -our fermation burean anu question of fu and get the answer tn o personal etts This s @ part of that Lest purpose of this newspaper—SERVICE. There is i charge except 2 conts in wamps for o twn postage. Get the habit of ask questions of The Star Informaiion I ‘cav, Frederic J. Hashin, director, Tue ty-first and C st SPOTLIGHT V. COLLINS. e1s norghwest.) It is ‘men prait a member to the tong between his own two names, - For ox ample. Wo Lee would thus hecomé | Wo Hip Lee, indicating that bLe |longed to the Hip Si Tong a shame. Somea 1 lout in C | Hop Sing m | Sing man, manded her tong w A mist Stolen by berere y or hisindemnit cation. - Beth demmids avere tefused and the respective tongs took up t fight, us they-aure swarn 4ns blood 1 |do. The eonmiet in | where there wer. 00 all Known 10 the environs were t the war without in namen migritéd to Sdu where, mingling with the 30.600 Chi nese fn the metropoljs, their jdentit would not he s quick!y recoghfzed Immediately six Hop Sing membes and four Sucy Sings wero.murdered and many others wountled. Neithe lof the two original disputants wer among the victims. An arrangement was made to U-a pitched batth all Suex Sing men to line up on oi. slde of the street wnd ali Hop Sins men on the other. The Sue¥ men a1 [rived, each carrying o revolver ip o1 {sleeve and a k the ot ot | when the Hop Si hud counts off they deeided 1 the {number of tir . {eretion the 1. |they fai | terence o Chines. A% U carry o 00 Framtis i n San Jo {a member ¢ |the garden of !wng. Fhat ca thousands |lasting for killed the were slain | In Los Angeles two gan reled over cards, and thr up the fight. Itesult several wounded. but neith {was hurt. Among. clement. made | sins and tougis {lead in iho viul {thugs, but eve joaths of o i the toug, i chii ton, me 1 for war tong mem months Tt trecy ber ssed i of anothe Not any met chilcken, blers qua tongs too deart the to . I a highhine vowed Esl P assus sal nos wrong. Telv upon i e ght o general impression gof a o acter that it is impassive unemotional aud non-quarr. | The |nese ¢ suave, some | tong w aracteristic is just {the reverse, A.Chinaman is ultru sensitive to affronts, and quickly re sents what he takes to’ be ah insult or abuse of his rights.. I is not o individual quarrei that ensues le tween Chinamen, but a tong war. It has beeh said that a tong was without parallel i betng above the control of courts in China, and 8o the members felt that they should be above all law restraint in America and be permitted to scttle their dif- ferences by thefr tons wars. The tong s not un in independ- ence of GOUFs-cyen Liere in America, so far as internal aets g No court undertakes to direct u grain exchang. |or stock exchange what it shall adopt jas its rules or how it shall pengliz its members by fines or other fimt plinary penalties. Fraternal organt zatlons also are independent of court jurisdiction in making rules over their members. But no American o:- ganization construes that independ- ence to cover criminal” llcense, as does a tong. The Chinaman cannot comprehend the line beyond which the law restrains the indepcndence of tong law. Civilized nations exertise: fn CThina what is_known as ' extratersitorial rights of justice to maintaln their vn courts for trial of their respe tive nationals. It has been serfous! {proposed that if in American court trying a Chinaman there sat a Ch {nese judge alongside the Americus judge to try the accused, even exclu sively under American law, the effect would be efficacious in impressing Chinamen with the impartiality of American justice, which from their standpoint seemg to be lacking Igpe as it forbs tghg vengean R \dea is not JAnded Ly Amerl) Nowevern )