Evening Star Newspaper, October 25, 1924, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR With St y Morning Editio WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY.....October 25, 1924 THEODORE W. NOYES. . . . Editor ‘The Evening Star Newspaper Com) y Businegs Office. 11¢h St. and Penneivania Ave New York Office: 110 Fast 42nd St. Chicago Office: Tower Buliding. Buropean Office: 16 Regent St.,London, England. The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning ition, is delivered by carriers within the 'y af 60 cents per month: daily only, 4% cénts per month; Sunday only, 20 cents’ per month. Orders may be sent by mail or tele- phone Main 5000. Collection is made by Tiers at the end of cach n Rate by Mail—Payable in Advamee. Maryland and Virginia, Daily and Sunday.1 yr., Daily only ......1yr,$6.00; i Sunday only .....1yr, $2.40;1 mo., 20c | —_ | All Other States. | nday.1 yr., $10.00:1 mo., 85¢ ...1yr, $7.00:1 mo., 60c | 1yr, $3.00;1mo., 25¢ Daily and s Daily only Sunday only Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled 18 the use for republication of all news dis- Patches credited to it or not otherwise credited | in this paper and also the local news pub. lished ‘herein. Al rights of publication of ecial dispatches herein are also resersed. Candidates and Confidence. “If T am elected, as I fully expect to be,” said Senator La Follette the other night at Grand Rapids, Mich. “The Democratic party will win presidential election; T am fully con vinced of this,” declared John W. Davis to newspaper men just before leaving the train in New York Thus speak two of the three candi- | dates for President. One of them must be wrong. The third candidate is say-| ing nothing. He has made no claims | of assured success. His ticket mate, Gen. Dawes, in a speech at Wilming- ton, Del., Friday, came closer to a claim than at any previous time, say- ing that “there is no question what the decision will be,” and proceeding to indicate a decision in favor of the principles for which he has been cam Paigning. Claims of victory are part of the game. If a candidate takes part ac-| tively in the canvass he must show a confident. front to the people, else he is doomed. Any expression of doubt is fatal. A man may be drafted in a forlorn-hope cause and be merely going through the motions of vote- seeking, knowing that he has no chance of success. But he must never hoist the white flag. He must keep floating the standard of victory right up to the last minute. Just so the managers of the cam- paign, the men—and nowadays the women—who are at work at head- quarters, more or less behind the scencs, must talk for publication, and even in confidence, as if there were no doubt of the result. A whisper of dubioty spreads swiftly and sets the active workers into chills of appre- hension. Everybody may know that the party lines in a certain State are 1l shot to pieces” and that this vote™ and that “vote” are going over almost bodily to the enemy and that there are bitter quarrels among lead- ers and subleaders and between man- agers and candidates, and vet noth- ing must be hinted to let the public know the condition. Away down in their hearts, of course, most candidates know how the wind is blowing. Sometimes they may be possessed of an undaunted spirit of confidence that causes them to ignore the - conditions that are inimical to them. Or it may be that they are carefully shielded from depressing knowledge. It is hard work to cam- paign at best, and doubly hard when the odds scem to be adverse. So it is not always assured when a candidate talks in the final stretch of the cam- | paign of certain victory that he is merely playing the game or is ac- tually confident. 1f these homestretch declarations of faith are sincere, somebody is going 10 be terribly shocked on November 4. ———— Russians and Poles who attack each other's diplomatic representatives shatter important traditions. Without politeness, regardless of actual senti- ment, diplomacy ceases. — et Europe may find it hard to observe the Golden Rule with so many large loans in the U. S. A. It is not always easy to love your creditors. ) | | | | i New Embassy Buildings. Washington is soon to have two new embassy buildings, one for the British government and the other for France. The British plan is to sell the embassy building at the northwest corner of Connecticut avenue and N street and build a structure on upper Sixteenth street in the Meridian Park neighborhood. The French govern- #¥nt will erect an embassy building 18 the same neighborhood. The British legation, now the Brit- | remained until i spilis ish embassy, on Connecticut avenue, long ago became a Washington land- mark. Its red brick walls, which were painted a light color three or four vears ago, have been familiar to ‘Washington people since the mid 70s. In The Star's news story telling of the proposal to erect new embassy ngs it was written: 'The present British embassy repre- sents the peak in building and general real estate speculation in the American Capital which began immediately after the Shepherd improvements and prac- " remaking of the city, which oc- curred in the early 70s. Gov. Shepherd and some of his business associates bought heavily along Connecticut ave- nue and improved the thoroughfare. Sir Thornton was Minister from and, and he had for some years oc- cupied the residence of Charles Knapp at the northeast corner of Seventeenth and 1 streets. Elisha Riggs, brother of thigibanker, George W. Riggs, bought this house in 1871, and the British Min- ister, somewhat exasperated at having t0 move, bought a tract of land on Con- necticut avesue. It was toward the close of 1878 that the mansion was completed. In 1869 Sir Zdward Thornton lived at 278 I street (old number system), and the Minister of France, J. Ber- themy, lived at the corner of Fifteenth and H, present No. 1500. In 1871 Sir Edward’s eddress was 1627 (new num- ‘ber system) I street, and the French Minister, M. le Comte Jules Treilhard, at the Hamilton House, Fourteenth and K. In 1873 Sir Edward was at the same address, and the French Min- ister, Marquis de Noiles, lived at the corner.of Tenth and K, In 1874 the dress of the British Minister, “‘the’ Rt. Hon. Sir Idward Thornton,” was given as “the British legation, Ver- mont avenue,” and the address of the French Minister, M. A. Bartholdi, 1721 H street. In 1875 Sir Edward's ad- dress is given as “the British legation, Connecticut avenue,” and the French Minister, M. Bartholdi, was still at H. In 1877 the French legation, with Mr. Max Outrey as Minister, was at 1023 Connecticut avenue. The French legation or embassy has had numerous changes of address. From 1877 till 1881 it was at 1023 and 1025 Connecticut avenue. In 1882 the French Minister, Theodore Roustan, lived at 1215 K street, and remained at that' address until in 1389 or 1890 lie moved to 1901 I* street, where he Minister Patenotre came in 1892. In that year M. Fa tenotre lived at 1400 Massachusetts avenue, in 1893 he moved to 1415 Massachusetts venue, and in 1894 to 1710 H street. That continued the French embassy between the close of M. Patenotre’s service in Washington and that of Ambassador Ju bon. In 1904 Ambassador J succeeding Ambassador Cambon, cated the French embassy at, 1640 Rhode Island avenue, and that re mained the French embassy until 1904, when Ambassador Jusserand moved to 2450 Sixteenth street. = —— ~ Prince of Wales Sails. The Wale and homeward bound. Before leaving ke gave this message: “My stay in the rth American continent has been a very interesting and happy one. I am Prince of is on the sea very sorry it is over and look forward | to returning.” If the prince did not have a good time it was his fault. He received all the entertainment that is good for a man, and he seemed to like it. Entertainment is punishment to some men, but most of us can stand a good deal of it. The prince’s appetite and digestion seem to be all right, his capacity for dancing is prodigious and he can keep irregular hours and catch up with his sleep next day. He rides hor: a great deal. and he and his groom deny that he falls off them. No were reported for him during his visit to this country. quite likely tihat he had a good time. When the prince came over, and when he was in Washington, it was =aid that he was anxious to get to his Alberta ranch, where he would be safe from_ soclal festivities, but the record seems to be that he did not live long in the quiet of the ranch. The prince has been “royally entertained” by a great number of Americans who are in the social register, and if he is not a keen cbserver he may have the idea that Americans do very little outside of polo, fox hunting, dancing and en- tertaining, but it is probable that the prince has been informed by his coun- sclors that @ good many of them go to bed at 10 o'clock, get up about 6:30 and go to work. The United States is in the throes of one of those quadrennial convulsions which are a necessary part of popular self-government, and it has probably occurred to the royal visitor that it is smoother and more graceful to be born a prince than to be nominated as a candidate and elected. In our cam- paigns we no doubt overlook some of the niceties of court speech and man- ner, but they are having a political campaign in Merrie England in which they are saying things and doing things which would be shocking in polite circles. It is said that the Prince of Wales will come back to us in 1926. We will be glad to ses him. Some of the girls he danced with in 1924 Will be married by that time, but they will be dancing still, and we have a crop of new and beautiful girls every year. If the prince ever gets tired of his present job and determines to settle down in a pretty bungalow on the Potomac or Eastern Branch we will be glad to have bim for a neighbor. ————wee— Clarence Darrow says both the old parties are now on the defensive. Neither has felt its case as so urgent as to suggest effort to get him to ap- pear in its behalf. ———rt— As a discreet and respectful brother of a'man earlier in political eminence Charles Bryan appears willing to per- mit William J. do most of the public speaking for the family. ——————— ‘War is expensive. One of the ques- tions which must soon concern the Chinese is where they are to borrow money with which to reorganize when they go broke fighting. —_————————— Being advised by his managers that he has his audience with him, President Coolidge evidently sees no reason to risk spoiling & good situation with long speeches. e The Postman of St. Kilda. A dispatch from London states that a postman on the Island of St. Kilda, in the Hebrides, has just visited Fleet- wood, a town on the west coast of England a short distance north of Liverpool, where, for the first time, he saw a raflroad train, an automobile, a trolley car and a motion picture show. It is stated that he was amazed at all these wonders, but after a few days ‘was not gorry to return to St. Kilda. There are millions of people who have yet to see the wonders that the postman of St. Kilda has just known for the first time. They live in the re- mote parts of the earth, some of them in the dark recesses of savagery, others in the semi-civilized regions and some, indeed, within the range of modern conditions and in cultivateq surroundings. A postman is himself an evidence of the march of civiliza- tion, yet here is one who has just seen for the first time in his life the mar- vels that are the commonplaces of average existence. Many a person living in the midst of the facilities and wonders of mechan- ism would give much to have the thrill of first beholding them. To the pres- ent generation of elders all of them have come by gradual evolution. There are only & very few persons now alive who were living: when the steam railroad first came into use. Most of the older generation, those of middle age, have witnessed the com- ing of the trolley car, and there are many who recall vividly the -first “horseless carriages.” The motion pic- ture has come within the experience, [ like the postman of St. Kilda, be will- | lo- | | pl It seems | THE EVENING ST o S AR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1924. . ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS —————————— BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN of all but the youthful generation, The radio, which is not mentioned in the account of the postman of St. Kilda, has developed into & household equip- ment within the past half decade. All of these wonders have come so steadily, and in such logical sequence of development, that they have not found people unprepared for them. The lad in his teens today has seen greater marvels than his father did, and is, perhaps, less surprised and im- pressed by the phenomenal advances of science and engineering than the parent was by the inventions and dis- coveries of his youth. Of course, the postman of St. Kilda had heard of all these things, and was in a sense prepared for them. But imagine the feelings of a man brought from one of the corners of the world, & desert island or the heart of the Afri- can jungle, absolutely cut off from communication for 40 or 50 years, and suddenly shown the marvels of mod- ern development! He would, perhaps, ing to return to his peac after h and quiet, stupendous experience e Foot Ball. another big Saturday in the Though the game | in Fall and early the ume ate games are T foot ball goes on every Winter, Suturday the ter season. intercoll Popular interest is wide and strong. It is estimated that last Sat- urday nearly 2,000,000 persons attend- | ed those games which are called in the | sport pages of city newspapers the | “more important contests,” and it must be that several more million | persons saw intergrammar school, in- | terhigh school and intertown and vil lage games and those games between the squads of colleges famous in their locality but not of country-wide re- nown. While two of our own interhigh school games drew large crowds this week, four of our teams of prominence and promise will take the field this afternoon. Georgetown and Bucknell play at the Grifiith Stadlum, George Washington and St. Joseph play at Central Stadium, Gallaudet and Drexel play at Kendall Green and Catholic University plays Western Maryland at Hanover. The grid warriors of the University of Maryland, which one classes almost as a Washington team and surely as u ncar-Washington team, plays the University of North Carolina at Chupel Hill. The 3rd Army Corps plays Fort Benning at Baltimore. Navy plays West Virginia Wesleyan at Annapolis, Army plays Boston University at West Point, Yale plays Brown at New Haven, Harvard plays Dartmouth at Cambridge, Princeton plays Notre Dame at Princeton and Pennsylvania plays Virginia at Philadelphia. Scores of other games will be played between universities and large colleges in the East, West and South. If the games drew nearly 2,000,000 persons last Sat- urday it is quite likely that more than 2,000,000 are attending the games to- day. when ——————— It is reported that Jack Dempsey pays nearly a hundred thousand dol- lars income tax. This shows that there are still opportunities for a young man to rise by patient industry from pov- erty to affluence. e No opportunity has been neglected by the La Follette campaigners to, realize in full on whatever advantage there may be in a small campaign tund. . The only economic policy to which the former Kkaiser seems inclined to | give serious heed at present is one to the effect that the world owes him a living. ——— Germany is applauded for building a fine Zeppelin so long as she makes it clear that she cherishes no idea of building any for herseif. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Radioratory. ‘While listening to the radio I'm comfortable quite. There is no need for me to show An interest polite. If his expressions are inclined To cheeriness and chaff No one will say I'm unrefined Should I neglect to laugh. If his remarks are very deep ‘With mental strain immense, Should I perchance drop off to sleep, No one will take offense. . ‘Warning. “Do you think you will reach the hearts of the people?” asked Senator Sorghum. “Yes,” replied the speaker. “And I'm going to make the welkin ring. don’t know who Welkin i{s. But there's a growing prejudice against bosses, and if you take my advice you won't try to connect with any ring whatsoever.” Here Again! At present we must shout “Hooray!” And not be surly. The slogan next to come this way ‘Will be, “Shop early.” Jud Tunkins says a fervent cam- paign speech is what makes many a man take foolish chances on an elec- tion bet. g Must Have Thrills, On Halloween we talk of elves And simulate dismay. We then proceed to scare ourselves About election day. ! peer amid. Lost Identity. “The girls wear hats that conceal their faces.” ““What difference does that make?” asked Miss Cayenne. “With all the make-up you couldn’t tell what they really look like anyhow.” A Step Forward, The world improves beyond a doubt. ‘We hail man as a brother. Though barberous friends fight ques- tions out, They doh’t eat one another. “Don't git mad in an argument,” said Uncle Eben. “You needs yoh friendships jes' as much as you does yoh politics,” . v BY C. E. TRACEWELL. Laughing at the boss' jokes is prob- ably the original indoor sport. Cheops no doubt began it. The old fellow, pleased with the way his pyramid was going up, called his henchmen around him and propounded this merry quip: “Why is von pyramid like unto my royal self “And why, O Cheops, is yon pyramid like unto thy royal self?" queried Sema- rib, chief prime minister, smiling broad- ly, as if in anticipation of a gem of wit and humor. Ramena, chief second prime minister, made his lean mouth assume even great wrinkles of coming joy. “Tell us, O Cheops, why is it that thou are e'en like yon glorious pyra- mid, striking up into high heaven i imitation of thy glorious majesty,” breathed Ramena. Cheops wagged his cloud-striking brow. He started to speak. The big Nile flies stopped their motors in mid- air, 80 as not to miss a word. All Egypt hung in waiting: on pyramid, then, is like unto my royal self,” said Cheops, ‘“because 1 Har, har, har!” Then the Valley of the Kings did ring with right hearty laughter, as Semarib and Jamena And all the other boys laughed at the first boss' joke. ““Har, har, har!” roared Semarib. “Haw, haw, haw!" rumbled Ramena. Laughing at the boss’ joke is at once the most innocent and, merriest of pas- times, one that gladdens an office, and AN intor ook & bukliiess a* reecions] golden something that cannot be luughed away Happy is the tells jokes. In the establishment where the “old man” Is in the habit of telling stories to the hands an atmostphere of cordial- ity is apt to exist that may be sought for in vain elzewhere. The boss. belng no simp himself, quite aware of this state of affairs. He is a modern Cheops, King of all he sur- veys, and knows as well as you do that perhaps his joke did not merit such approbation. Yet he is glad for it, just the sarme, being & human being just like the boys.” He knows that his entire thought was to share & good thing, to please others, and that such an aim is worthy of applause. The nice thing about being a boss is that the applause is always forth- coming When the boss tells a story, every body laughs up good and hearty There is no doubtful laughter, no at- mosphere of now-l-dare-you-to-make- me-luugh. Everybody joins in with a will, the boss leading the band. A sympathetic thrill goes through the entire circle, binding boss and em- ployes in a magic chain of oneness. This is an eminently worthwhile thing. office where the boss is * % %% Nor ix there any real hypocrisy in this business of making merry when the boss gives the word to go. obody is a hypocrite when he realizes fully what he is doing, and when every other person realizes it and realizes that he realizes it This is the happy state of affairs existing in this matter. Before the boss starts his latest story he knows full well that it is going to get a good hand. The charmed circle of auditors knows it, too. The hoss knc they know it, they know that the ch knows it. It is in this as it is In telling a s called “white lie"—there is every exc in the world for it, and practically noth- ing to be said against it by any one who has looked deeply into the matter. The euperficial philosopher, viewing merry growp, may sneer mightily at the merriment that goes up, but did he probe deeper into the complexities of this daily occurrence he would come to the right conclusion, as set forth herein. You see, the boss represents every man, In that he is in & position that every man feels he could fill, or would like to try, anyway! They say that a newspaper man can handle almoet any Job in the world, because he has seen so much of the inner workings of men and affairs, and they are right about it, too, as witness the positions held by men who at one time or other were journal- ists, Now the point ix, that, since the boss is the prototype of cvery man, he gets what every man ought to get, as a child of the most high God : Respectful _attention. The more 1 see of life the more 1 feel that this is one of the deepest cravings of the average human heart. There are far too many men today, even in our glorious America, who are made the butt of ridicule, who are never appreciated, who pine their hearts out walting for the respectful attention their hearts crave. Think of that wonderful scientist, Prof. Langley, who actually was laughed into hie grave because he was right! They called his aircraft “Langley’s folly,” and refused the old man the re- spectful attention his transcendent merits demanded, Ignorant, unrespectful world ! When we laugh at the boss’ joke we are according him the tribute of re- spect which we ought to give to all men that deserve it, no matter what position they hold or do not hoid. That ie the biggest merit laughter. of such o “Here's a good one Thomas Edison Zot off recently.” savs the boss. Biil Smith crowds in close, in order not to miss a syllable. A long-winded prison reformer visited a prison, when all the prisoners marshaled into the hall to hear * begins the boss. “He poke for a solid hour, and had started on his second when a colored prisoner could stand it no longer. He let out a tremendous whoop, which was eilenced by a guard, who cracked him on the head, putting him out of business for the time being. “When the man came to about an hour later, the speaker was still at it. ‘Hit me again, boss. pleaded the prison- er, ‘I still hear it." " Bo the boss gets off a good one and the crowd laughs loud and long. Maybe Bill Smith, afterward, wondered if he didn’t overdo his “haw haws” a bit, but he recalls that old Sam Jones was laughing even louder than he was. It was a good joke, anyway, no doubt abaut it. Maybe the bos fessor of whom Chauncey Depew tel hie autobiography. Perhaps he ha: fuvorite joke, which he tells with ever- sing appreciation. The whole office rd it many times, but it never fails to draw a laugh. The professor had & pet joke on the Chinese. He said an army was be- a city, and decided to with- ¢ secretly. It waited until a dark night, then marched out, each soldler carrying a lighted lantern Ho, ho, ho! 1 know a Government official who never fails to teil the following etory, which always draws official laughter. He read it in The Star years ago. A col- ored man, who had been sentenced for a felony, after serving petty terms in the local jail. was on his way with other prisoncrs to a big penitentiary. “Cheer up. Buddy,” said an old offender, pat- ting him on the shoulder. “You is in de big league now." As for the boss who never tells a joke, he has one great merit. You do not have to laugh at a joke that has no point, or.haw-haw over a tale that falls fat. is like a certain pro- in WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor, is probably the first person in the world to have a radio broadcasting station named after him. The big new station of the Supreme Lodge, Loyal Order of Moose, at Mooseheart, TlL., has been offi- cially christened WJJD, carrying the usual “W™ and after it the initials of “Jim the Puddler.” Davis made the Moose the vast fraternal order it has become. When he was appointed its director general in 1907 there were 257 Moose. Now the order numbers more than 500,000. The increase in the fam- fly is ascribed exclusively to Davi qualities as an organizer and “mixer. WJJD will waft Moose tidings to the world of listeners-in on all_public and many private occasions. The station is to be unveiled and put In service on October 27, when Secretary Davis cele- brates his 51st birthday there and sends out its first message. x k% x 1f Pennsylvania’s plutocratic Republi- cans are doing thelr full share in the way of Coolidge campaign contributions, they are making a better record than they achieved in 1920. President Hard- ing never forgave the Keystone State for falling so far below its quota in the campaign from which he emerged tri- umphant. His displeasure over Penn- sylvania’s poor showing was expressed on a certain occasion when a famous Philadelphia Republican club sought Mr. Harding's acceptance of an invitation to speak there. The late President never assigned that reason as an explanation of his failure to go to Philadelphia, but it was always at the back of his mind. x e Ex It is expected that the campaign- funds investigation will be prolonged right up to election day. The La Follette organization is feverishly anxious to_make good on its charge that the Republicans have a $10,- 000,000 slush fund. To date it has not done so, but the chief inquisitors, Messrs. Untermeyer and Walsh, have a week left in which to unscrew the inscrutable. The sparks fly fre- quently at the hearings over which Senator Borah is presiding with an even hand. “Your electoral votes are already in hand,” remarked Charles D. Hilles, vice chairman of the Re- publican national committee, in com- menting_upon one of Senator Cara- way's Democratic thrusts. “And yours,” flashed back the cynical Ar- kansan, “are yet to be bought.” Sen- ator Borah insists on the absolute relevancy of testimony. Several at- tempts to drag up the G. O. P’s 1920 campaign funds have been quashed by the chairman on the ground they are not pertinent to this inquiry. * ok x ¥ Imperial Wizard Evans of the Ku Klux Klan, unbeknown to most peo- ple, is a resident of Washington. He lives in the fashionable new Massa- chusetts avenue extension quarter, beyond Sheridan Circle, and, judging from the number of his callers, is one of the buslest men in town. A Klan ocatechism, entitled “Questions Answered,” and issued by the “De- partment of Publication and Educa- tion, Washington, D C.” answers the question, “How active is the Klan in politics now, directly and indirectly?” as_follows: “The Klan is and always will be active politically. The form of its organization and the form of its ob- jective automatically insure that its chief expression will be found in the political field. It is not, however, ‘in politics’ in the usual sense of the word. , That is, it has no political ambitions or desires for itself or its officials. If it should ever make the fatal mistake of identifying itself with any party, or with any cause except the . fundamental fssue o Americanism, it would invite divisiog ! in its ranks, destroy its power insure its own destruction.” ¥ Ak o Harry A. Wheeler of Chicago was the hero of the recent United States Chamber of Commerce festivities in Washington. Tt is due mainly to Wheeler's initiative that the cham- ber's magnificent new marble temple at the Capital was converted from a dream into a reality. Probably the first work of art to be installed in the building will be a bust of the Chicagoan, who was for several terms the president of the United States Chamber. Wheeler is a banker by profession, and declined appoint- :ncr;xg‘x‘o the Federal Reserve Board n 3 and Tk The Joan of Arc of the La Follette forces is Mrs. Henrik Shipstead, wife of the senior Senator from Minnesota. Like her youthful husband, Mrs. Ship- stead is a type of the powerful phy- sique which is characteristic of the Scandinavian race, though both of them are natives of the Gopher State. Mrs. Shipstead is in charge of the woman’'s branch of the Progressive party. She shares her consorfs boundless admiration for Senator La Follette, who was a district attorney in Wisconsin before Senator Shipstead was born. * ok k% ‘Washington politicians, especially of the Democratic persuasion, are smil- ing over a story about young Dudley Field Malone, the New York Demo- crat who s out for “Al” Smith for governor and La Follette for Presi- dent. Malone was active in the pre- convention campaign which resulted in the nomination of Woodrow Wilson for President in 1912, Later he was rewarded by appointment to the Third Assistant Secretaryship of State, and afterward to the collectorship of the port of New York. One day—so the story goes—Malone turned up at the White House and sald to Mr. Wilson: “Mr. President, you know, don’t you, that 1 was very largely responsible for your nomination at Baltimore, and for ‘your subsequent election?” Mr. Wilson acknowledged his gratitude, and observed that he had attempted to manifest it by making Mr. Malone & member of his administration. “Well, Mr. President,” Malone is al- leged to have continued, “don't you think I am entitled to expect your help in promoting my candidacy for the presidency in 19167” Mr. Wilson smiled benignly upon his vivacious caller, and, assuming a fatherly mien said: * “Now, Dudley, now, Dudley! Which ended the incident. Lax Law Enforcement Called Crime Breeder Yo the Editor of The Star: You keep writing and urging that Wwe hang the fellows that kill. Hang- ing will not stop killing. 1If it would we would have less murder. As long as we allow minor laws to be violated and not punished, that long will we have an increase of major crimes. I T«fx this after a long study of the sub- ect. If you punish severely small law violation you will have less serious crimes. If I had my way I would give a man six months for traffic vio- lation and from one year to ten for bootlegging. Stop the thing at the beginning. It's just got to this pass that we see so much crookedness and law violation that we all have been tempted to do something just to see what we can get by with. In sight of my place bootlegging has been going on openly for two years; the police and enforcement. officers have not made much, if any, effort to stop it. The Library Table BY THE BOOKLOVER Andorra is a small independent state lying in the Pyrenees between the borders of France and Spain. The peculiar life and usages of its farmer citizens form the groundwork of a recently translated French novel by Isabelle Sandy, “Andorrs.” The land is the religion and the life of the An- dorran peasant, and, because the mountain measures out the land 8o parsimoniously, it is never divided, but descends from father to one son in each family. The son who is to be the heir, or “hereu,” is not neces: rily the eldest, but the one designated by the father at a time when the sons have reached marriageable age. The other sons are given small sums of money and either become priests or are helped to marry wives endow- ed with land. The name “conco” is reserved for an unmarried son who remains under his father's roof, with a position similar to that of an upper servant. When there are no sons and a daughter is heiress to the family lands she is called a “pubilla” and is naturally much sought in marriage. The valley lands belong in this man- ner to the Andorran familles, but the mountain sides, including the pasture lands, belong to the community. Against this background Isabelle Sandy has developed a peasant drama of fratricidal hatred caused by the di placement of an older son as “here in favor of a younger son. * % ¥ % Four generations of Xiriballs live at La Solana, the old russet stone house built into the mountain side. There old Anton lives on, bowed with the welght of years, but still rugged, selfish and scornful of his son Joan, the present Cap de Casa, who has grown old prematurely under the family burdens. There also are the two sons of Joan, the evil, vicious Nyerro and the beautiful, educated Angelo, whose four sons are to carry on the Xiriball family. Hardship, se- cret, gnawing sorrow and bitter trag- edy are woven into the lives of the Xiriballs, but through everything persists the idea of family unity and progress. As Joan nears his end he says to his daughter-in-law sadly, but bopefully: “I was not the man needed to save the family. 1 was not very intelligent, so 1 had to make a great effort, Conchita; that is why 1 am going a little before my time. ¢ * ¢ Our family is strong and it will be strong for a long time if you bring your children up aright—in the love of the land—in the fear of God.” * %+ % Willlam Montgomery McGovern, the author of “To Lhasa in Disguise,” did three things never before accom- plished by a white man: He crossed the Himalayan passes from India into Tibet in Winter, a feat theretofore considered impossible; he lived six weeks In the,Forbidden City, Lhasa, and that during the crisis of intoler- ance induced by the Tibetans' holiest religious festival of the year, when the civil government of Lhasa resigns its power to two monks; and he took the first motion picture films which how the life of this holy city of the amas. He is an uncommon combina- tion of adventurer and scholar. Born in Georgia, he spent most of his voung life in the Far East. He is an Oxford man, and was considered one of the university’s most brilliant speakers. Most interesting of all, he is an honorary Buddhist priest, a dis- tinction granted him in recognition of a treatise on Mahayana Buddhism. He has said that this sacred office proved of use to him in gaining the respect and confidence of certain of the higher officials in Lhasa, after he had revealed himself to them as an Englishman, while it may have saved his life by preventing his betrayal by one unruly and disloyal native serv- ant. There can be no question that his knowledge of Buddhist customs and bellefs immensely contributed to his safety in that terrible land which he penctrated, where, he says, it is sacrilege to walk around a temple or sacred wall in one direction, while to walk the other way is a distinct merit. * % ¥ ¥ Whenever Bernard Shaw writes a new play, no matter whether I see or jread the play itself, I am always keen to read his preface, for in it I always expect to find not simply good writ- ing, but clever and trenchent analysis of some present-day questions, salted with Shaw’s crotchets and prejudices. From his latest, “Saint Joan,” the setting of which is, of course, me- dieval, 1 cull these intensely modern sentences: “She was the most no- table Warrior Saint in the Christian calendar, and the queerest fish among the eccentric worthies of the Middie Ages. Though a professed and most pious Catholic, she was, in fact, one of the first Protestant martyrs. She was the ploneer of rational dressing for women. As her actual condition was pure upstart, there are only two opinions about her—one was that she was miraculous; the other that she ‘was unbearable. Joan got a far fairer trial from the Church and the Inqui- sition than any prisoner of her type and in her situation gets nowadays in any officlal secular court; and the de- cislon was strictly according to law. Joan’s other abnormality, too com- mon among uncommon things to be called a peculiarity, was her craze for soldiering and the masculine life. She was the sort of woman that wants to lead a man's life. Had Joan not been one bf those ‘unwomanly women' she might have been canonized much sooner. John was persecuted essen- tially as she would be persecuted to- day. As far as toleration is concern- ed, the trial and execution in Rouen in 1431 might have been an event of today; and we may charge our con- sciences accordingly. 1f Joan had to be dealt with by us in London, she would be treated with no more tol- eration than Miss Silvia Pankhurst, or the Peculiar People, or the parents who keep their children out of the elementary school, or any of the others who cross the line we have to draw, rightly or wrongly, between the tolerable and the intolerable.” * ok kX The Roman pro-consul Gallio, be- fore whom St. Paul was arralgned, “cared for none of these things,” that is, he was indifferent to all the ordi- nary considerations of life. W. L. George has attempted to create his modern prototype in the character of Holyoake Tarrant in the novel, “The Triumph of Galli ‘This modern Gallio is not, however, entirely con- sistent, for he is not indifferent enough, and one finds it hard to dis- cover his “triumph.” His progress from the situation of radical street corner agitator to that of itinerant peddler, then to success as a ship chandler and in the management of tramp steamers and then back to ped- dling again, may be a triumph—but how and why? He marries a rich wife and she deserts him. Which is the triumph, his marriage or the de. sertion? Altogether, Mr. George's last novel needs explanatory notes. violated and not much done to stop it at the roots. It all tends to tempt the young to evil habits. Stop minor law violation ‘with severe punishment and establish respect for law, and then you may expect less serious crime. On every corner you see men in automobiles stopping girls and at- tempting to induce them into their cars, and but little done to stop that most serious evil. If I had my way a man would get 10 years for attempt- ing to take for a joy ride an innecent girl. I am no saint myself, and I can tell how it all affects me, and I judge the world by the way I am myself— the way I feel. It's come to pass that we have very little respect for any law. Erase half of the laws and en- force the rest to l:::y loI:u ::l fr!luu will diminish qu! my ! '~ —___._. BB DUDDING Q. How leng will Mars be a con- spicuous star in the sky?—B. G. L. A. It will remain a brilliant object in the sky all of this year, but will fade into comparative obscurity next year. It is now visible in the south- east immediatety after evening twi- light. Q. Why can't packers make or cure bacon without the hide?—J. A. J. A. It has been found more prac- tical to cure bacon with the hide be- cause in this way the meat is better protected both for curing and for keeping. The hide, moreover, is not worth enough to pay for the trouble of skinning the animal. Q. Who was called “Single Speech Hamiiton"?—C. P. D. A. Willlam Gerard Hamilton (1729- 1796) was called “Single Speech Hamilton.” A speech which excited the admiration of Walpole won for him the sobriquet. Tt was his maiden speech in the House of Commons made during the debate on the ad- dress. His nickname was inappro- priate. Q. What is the explanation of the fact that automobiles will run up “Magnetic Hill" near Hollywood, when the engine is not running’— A 8. A. The Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce says that the grade at this hill is an optical delusion. While it appears that it is an upgrade it is in reality a 2 per cent downgrade. Such cases of deceptive grade are common in mountainous country. Irrigation ditches viewed from a dis- tllnC!, sometimes appear to run up hill. Q. Who built the Eiffel Tower and where did he get the idea’—G. k. A. The tower was built by Gustave Eiffel, a French engineer, who died December 27, 1923. Eiffel constructed the interior framework of tho Statue of Liberty and while working upon it he conceived the idea of the Liffel Tower. Q. How many times has a Vice :re;‘ldenl succeeded as President?— A. This has occurred six times, at the deaths of Harrison in 1841: Tay- lor, 1850; Lincoln, 1865; Garfield, :gfi;. McKinley, 1901, and Harding, Q. Do the Chinese people have in their literature many nursery pocms? —J. L. H. A. Prof. Isaac Heodland, on the subject of Chinese nursery lore, says, “There is no language in the world, T venture to believe, which contains children's songs expr of more tender and keen affection than some of those sung to children in China. There is no literature in China, not even sacred books, which is so gen- erally known as their nursery hymns.” Q. Does the Government allow turpentine on any of the national for- ests?7—T. B. A. The chief source of income at the present time in the Florida Na- tional Forest, located on Chocta- whatchee Bay in West Florida. The local forest officers have devised and perfected a plan of turpentine oper- ations which allows of a profitable production of crude gum without checking the tree growth or reducing its value for lumber. writing Q. What do a secco and a fresco mean when applied to paintings®— P C A. The first is the name applied by Italians to murals—painted on dry plaster. The second is the term given to a painting executed on wet plaster. Q. A weekly magazine savs, “Al- though it has never happened in Amer- ican history, there is no constitutional barrier to prevent the son of a Presi- dent reaching the White House.” Is this true?—C. A. A. It is true that there is no such constitutional barrier. However, Presi- dent John Quincy Adams was the son of President John Adams. Q. Has merchandise becn carried across the ocean by an airship?— R W. R A. The first package of this kind was brought over by the ZR-3. It contained a small consignment of toys. Q. What is the difference between biting and sucking insects?—M. R. T. A. The biting or gnawing insects are those which actually masticate and swallow some portion of the solid substance of the plant, as the wood, bark, leaves, flowers or fruit. They include most of the injurious larvae, many beetles and the grass- hoppers. The sucking insects are those which injure plants by the gradual extraction of juices from the bark, leaves or fruit, and include the Anatole France plant bugs, aphides, scale Insects thrips and plant-feeding mites. Thes: insects possess, instead of biting taws, sucking beaks or bristles. Q. Where do we get the helium used in airships?—G. E. M. A. A plant for isolating heliun: has been constructed at Forth Worti, Tex., since the armistice. The source of supply is natural gas. The plan turns out 10,000 to 15,000 cubic fect daily and is capable of a maximum of 35,000 to 40,000 cubic feet. Q. Has Germany adopted a mew coat-of-arms?—S. J. B, A. The coat-of-arms has becn changed, althongh the eagle is still retained. This is not the imperial cagle, however, but one similar to that of the Emperor Rudolph of ths thirteenth century. Q. How many members has the Rotary Club?—E. 0. W, A. ‘At the beginning of 1924 the club membership was 95,500 in 1,587 clubs in the United States, Canada, Newfoundland, Great Britain, Ire« land, Panama, China, India, Cuba, South America, Norway, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, the Philippines, Japan, France, Denmark, Holland, Spain, South Africa and Belgium. Q. Where does the greatest rain- fall in the world occur?—H. L A. A. The rainfall in the mountains of Kauai (Hawaiian Islands) is the greatest, Q. Who invented the Punch ani Judy show which is popular in Europe?—J. J. This show is %aid to have been invented by Silvio Fiorillo, an Ttalian dramatist, before 1600. A Chinese version of the show dates about 1000 B. C. Q. What is the popular name given to the small, bound feet of the Chinese women?—C, S. 8. A. The name applied was “lillies.” Q. Who invented mask in base ball? A. F. W. Thayer, the Harvard club, in the catcher's mask. Q. Is there exactly a mile be- tween the District of Columbia boundary stones?—J. T. S. A. There is not an actual distance of a mile between the stones. Some- times the ground was swampy, or otherwise unsuitable. Q. As I have read about the Somerset House I would like to know where it is located?—R. H A. Somerset House is situated in the Strand—London. It stands on the site of a palace built by the Protector merset about 1549, re- built in 1776 by Sir William Cham- bers. The building now accommo- dates various government offices Q. What coast in_Africa is known as the Slave coast?—B. T. A. The Slave coast is the coast of Upper Guinea, between the Volta and Lagas Rivers. Q. Whe ufactured?—B, F. A. Butterine, substitute for butter, was first manufactured in France, but is now cxtensively pro- duced in Holland and America. Q. A. the catcher's A. G. S. a member of 1876 invented re was butterine first man- M. a Do snakes charm birds?—C. O. Snakes do not charm birds in the understood sense of the word “charm.” The instinctive fear that a bird or small animal, such as a rabbit, has for a snake, paralyzes the muscles of the bird or animal and prevents its escaping from the snake. Q. How long is the boundary line between the United States and Canada?—H. L. B. A. The boundary line miles Jong. 1.600 miles by 1,400 through water. is 3.000 land, and Q. Who originated Santa Claus? —T. L. A. A. The American “Santa Claps” is a corruption of the Dutch San icholas. G. H. DMcHughes says Santa Claus, the name derived from aint olas through the familiar use of children in Teutonic countries, crossed to America. The direct route followed by him is somewha: open to question. On the way be traded his gray horse for a reindec and made changes in his appearance (The Star maintains for the ploasure and. profit of its readers an informatson service under the directorship of Fred- erick J. Haskin. The scope of the bureau is national and international, and no subject & too elementary or too droad to enlist the persomal attention of a specialist. Addresss The Star Informa- tion Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Direc- tor, Twenty-first and C streets morth- west.) Is Extolled By Press Throughout America “Anatole France,” says the Buffalo News in expressing a sentiment found in most of the American newspaper comment upon the passing of this great man of letters, “belonged to the great tradition in French liter- ary history. His death will be re- gretted the world over, for he was among those very few who, as Have- lock Ellis has put it, ‘have added a little to the sweetness of the world and a little to its light’" In his art, the New Orleans Times- Picayune explains France typified the limpidity of thought that is characteristic of the French people. “France the nation early recognized this fact and took France the writer to her heart” the Times-Picayune adds, “lavishing an affection upon him in the way of other literary loves. Just as in his day Victor Hugo repre- sented, in France, French literature, so during the past half century Ana- tole France was the last word in literary charm.” He became “the ex- pression, the incarnation of the French genuis,” according to the Boston Transcript, for “he had all its exquisiteness of style in language, its justness and fairness of logic, its smile and, strange to say, its skepti- cism interwoven with its faith.” Few men, declares the Baltimore Sun “have ever lived who have done more to plead the cause of beauty in all its phases; none have ever urged the doctrine of true hedonism in writings more melodious and mellow.” No Comparison Possible. Although the American public knows him not well enough, the Wichita Beacon feels, “his disiciples will bring more disciples ‘to study him and to appreciate the wonder of beauty and thought fused into a deli- cate whole. France cannot be com- pared to other writers. His work is distinctive, individual. One Kknows only that in his works abound deft satire and rhythmical prose; one knows that a master has observed the world and set down his observations ironically.” Not even the most casual reader of Anatole France, the Minne- apolis Tribune avers, “can fail to be struck by the fineness and acuteness of his perceptions; he had reflected deeply on life, and his observation is rich with that maturity which only a small minority of minds in any given generation arrive at” With this same thought in mind, the New York Herald-Tribune say: ‘He had the insight of genius, and with it the common sense which is developed out of a feeling for human contacts and things. He leaves behind bim no philosophical system, no eritical formula, but the more-enduring legacy of an indi- vidual spirit and a supple, ingratiat- ing habit of mind. Is he really illu: trious? We do not know. We only know in modern French literature there is no other type so gently provocative, so diverting, so likable.” The Knoxville Sentinel declares, “he was a skeptic in religion, meta- physics, politics and sclence, yet genial skeptic, who poked good- natured fun at time-worn doctrines and even at his own doubts.” The Little Rock Arkansas Democrat also notes that, “With thelogy he had lit- tle patience, which brought upon him the wrath of the churches. He es- poused the bolshevist cause, but upon. further investigation just as quickly rejected it. But above all he was a patriot. During the World War he enlisted as a private, but his ad- vanced age prevented his seeing-ac- tive service.” Loved Life Intensely. “He would tear life open to find it inner workings,” the Birmingha News recalls, “but his skepticism wa not the skepticism of a Voltaire, nor| of an Ingersoll. He loved life in- tensely, exuberantly, confessing onc: that his close touch with the mean and sordid lives of his poor neighbors! in the obscure little French village/ where he lived offered inexhaustibl material for his novels and essays." | In France, the Detroit News ref marks, “the humble, the oppressed, the persecuted minority could alwayd find a champion,” because “it was enough for Anatole France that tha whole world was in opposition; it gave him a chance to make the world) question whether, after all, it mightl not be mistaken, but wherever hel wounded, he poured balm.” The searching criticism of Anatole France.' the Omaha World-Herald considers “has undoubtedly had a great influ- ence upon his country and elsewher. apd it will continue to have while its author enjoys immortality in the lit- erary Valhalla with such other great smashers of existing formalism as Voltaire, Jean Jacques Rousseau and Victor Hugo.” When France's out- put “is viewed as a whole, when h work as novelist, poet, essayist and historian is surveyed,” the Kansas City Journal is sure “he needs no comparison with the greatest men his namesake nation has produced. The Des Moines Tribune believes “Anatole France may be put down— it cannot be extravagant judgment in his case—as one of perhaps a half dozen great writers of all time. That he lived in our ung:gu our pride and civilization,” )