Evening Star Newspaper, October 28, 1924, Page 6

4 Witk Susday Morning Edition. | "WABHINGTON, D. C. [ 'WUESDAY......October 28, 1924 THEODORE W. NOYES. . . . Editor The Evening Star Newspsper Company Bagiaess Office, 11th St. and Penasylvania Ave «.c +New York Office: 110 East 42nd St. Chicago Office: Tower Kulldin ¢ European Office: 18 Kegent 5t.,London, Logland. . with the Sunday mornin edition, Jn delivered by curriets within - the « SItr 8% 60 cemts per month: @ally only. 45 eats’ per ‘month: Sunday gniy. 20 ceats. por + month.”"Orders taay be seat by mail or tele- hone ‘Main 5000. Collection is made by car: ers at ihe end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance, Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday.1 yr., $8.4 Daily only 1yr., $6.00;1 mo., 50c Sunday only 1yr., $2.40;1 mo., 30c All Other States. Daily and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00;1 mo., 85¢ Dally only . Sunday only . Member of the Associated Press. The Astociated Press fs exclusively entitled fo the use for republication of all news dis- Patches credited o it or not otherwise credited i this paper and also the local news pub. 1ibed herein. ~All rights of publication of {Reclal dispatches berein are aleo reserved All Americans Should Vote. . One week from today the people of 1he United States will go to the polls @nd vote. They will cast their ballots for clectors who will vote for Pre fdent and Vice President. They will vote directly for members of Congre and for State officers. It is expected ihat the largest number of people will | «ast ballots in the history of the coun- &y, probably more than 30,000,000, Perhaps as many as 35,000,000. Inten- | sive efforts are being made to get the People to vote, organized movements by business men and others having been started without partisanship to Becure the greatest passible expression of public will at this election. American elections have heretofore been determined by minorities of the ‘people. They have been participated in at no time by more than 27 per cent of the population. The first records thome of the electlon of 1824, 100 years 8go, when less than 5 per cent of the population of the U'nited States bal- Joted. The franchise was then limited however. Now it is practically univer- * sal, save for four classes of people, In- dians, convicts, the Insane and the citi zens of the District of Columbia. The appeal to the American people ; 10 vote on November 4 will probably result in a large increase in the total | of ballots cast. But it will leave the | more marked the unjust dlxacrlmlnn»l tion against the residents of the Dis- trict, who have from the beginning | been barred from participation in all | national elections. They have at no time had a choice in the selection of . the Executive and of Congress. They have had no representation whatever in the electoral college or in the Na- tional Legislature. The hope of the Washingtonians is that as a result of the Nation-wide | plea for a fuller participation in the | election their unhappy plight will be , moted throughout the country. It is felt here that there is no disposition on the part of the people of the coun- try thus to discriminate against their fellow citizens who reside at the Na- tional Capital. It is a singular fact that few Americans realize the dis- franchisement of the Washingtonian. Surprise is usually expressed when 1his fact is stated. The District is rep- Tesented at the national conventions | of both the major political parties through the courtesy of those organi- mtions, having the same status as a . Territory. They have six votes in the Democratic convention and two in the Republican. It is, perhaps, due to the fact of this participation in the selec tlon of candidates for the presidential | office that the impression obtains gen- erally that the District actually votes | on election day. The feeling prevails here that when once this fact of discrimination of en- franchisement is brought home to all the people of the country a demand will be made upon Congress for the adoption of a constitutional amend- | ment permitting the cnactment of a| 1aw giving the ballot to the Washing- tonian for President and for members of Congress, and givinz him also the Tenresentation in Congress so that he may by such direct proxy participate i the making of Federal laws and likewise those local laws which per- tain to his own welfare. The Washingtonian joins heartily in the plea that all Americans vote next Tuesday. He believes that he, as an American, should be permitted a vote of his own. | | i R ‘There is no further need of asking a * young man whether he can support a girl in the style to which she has been accustomed. Father can discreetly satisfy the family by looking up the income tax records. —oe—e. ‘The hope is entertained that several eminent statesmen under the weather during the campaign will recover suf- ficiently to eat a hearty Thanksgiving *sdinner. ——— e ‘ Game Increase. Under the beneficent operation of .Jws for the protection of wild ani- wmals and birds that are held by man ms useful to him, it is reported that there is a large increase in game near ‘Washington. Hunters are polishing | “their equipment and making ready to { engage in their sport. In a news story in The Star it is said that “In the < wooded sections of Maryland and Vir- ginia there are thousands of quail, . Tabbits, wild turkeys and other up- 1and game ignorant of the fate that awaits them at the opening of the season for shooting, while equally as - yaany ducks, of various varieties, and ' geese_are on the rivers and Chesa- ' peake Bay awaiting a similar fate.”” "3t is better that the quail, rabbits, wild turkeys and other upland game should be “ignorant of the fate that @waits them,” and perhaps it is not . quite accurate to write that the ducks and geese are “awaiting a similar ‘We are regulating things somewhat better than before. Partridges, rab- Bits, squirrels and all the other wild ereatures that live in our woods and ' flelas could not stand against the s @portemen. As the: coveys.of par- . fridgen nod the Bumber of rabbits be- are [ grew. In that army were gunmen who gave no quarter and had no pity, but killed whatever, whenever and wherever they could. Slowly numbers of people, moved by conscience and self-interest, began to take up the cause of the few surviving partridges, rabbits, squirrels and ducks, and game laws began to get attention in the Legislatures of Maryland and Virginia. Slowly those laws were made more ef- fective for protection of game. In the demand for game protection, high- class sportsmen joined. The ‘“sports- man,” in the best sense of the word, is usually of “high class,” but there were many men wearing the clothes and pose of sportsmen and having a local reputation as sportsmen whom aother sportsmen did not accept as kin. It was hard for ordinary persons in whom the killing Instinct is not keen to draw the line between sportsman | and pot-hunter, or ruthless killer. TUnder the Maryland law the gun- ning season opens November 10 and closes January 1, except in one county, Garrett, in which the time men may kill wild turkeys is shorter. Licenses to hunt are required of State residents and non-residents, and there are various restrictions. Vir- ginia has laws for game protection, and the laws in both States relating to hunting are sharply enforced. Few persons take liberties with them, and most of them who do come to grief. It good news to persons that the birds, rabbits, squirrels and their country friends are having some rest from gunners, and if too many of the animals are killed it will be easy to lighten up restrictions on hunting—such, for example, as short- ening the season or closing the “open’” season altogether. ) Night Golf. Devotees of the ancient and honora- ble game of golf have always deplored the fact that their chance for playing it was limited by the hours of sun- any of them have played in rly morning, and many more have remained on the links until the last rays of light have faded. If only they could play at night! That seemed impossible. It was hard enough for them to follow the ball at times with the brightest light. Fortunes have been spent in the replacement of lost balls. Night playing has been con- sidered one of the idle dreams of life. Now it has come, such a bright il- lumination of the golf course that it is possible to drive and approach and putt with ease at any hour. At Briar- cliff Manor, N. Y., last night guests of the Illuminating Engineering Society convention played on a course illu- minated by 20 flood-light projectors which yielded so brilliant an illumina- tion that the players had no difficulty whatever in following the balls. This was a test, and has been declared a complete success. The lights are so installed that they ‘do not interfere with daylight games, and the cost of the installation is regarded as insignifi- cant, particularly on courses where great numbers play. Thus golf becomes a 24-hour sport. There is no telling what effect this will have upon business and domestic con- ditions. Many a business man who will now cut short his working day to get in an afternoon golf game can go to the course after dinner and thus re- store his old office schedule. Some of them may play both afternoon and night. Many men who cannot play during the day because they cannot regulate their own schedules will be apt to flock to the links after sundown. What effect will this have on other forms of entertainment? Will the number of “golf widows” increase, or will family twosomes grow in num- ber? The announcement from Briarcliff Manor says that this innovation prom- ises “to revolutionize golf.” It is like- 1y to revolutionize social conditions in this country, where golf has become virtually a national sport, with mil- lions of devotees. e ——————— It must at least be said for Gov. Charles Bryan that he has carefully refrained from saying anything that might disturb the Intentions of those whom John W. Davis has persuaded to vote for the Democratic ticket. e Throwing the election into the House of Representatives would in- evitably disappoint many people. Per- haps more criticism of Congress does not materially matter in view of a na- tional custom. ¢ ————— The fact that he was willing to chal- lenge President Coolidge himself does not prevent Gov. Al Smith from hav- ing his hands full with the much smaller order of beating young Mr. Roosevelt. —_———— Sunken Treasure. A tale of sunken treasure found after a lapse of years is told in a dis- patch from Norfolk. In 1911 the steamer Merida was sunk off the Vir- ginia capes in a collision. She had a cargo which included gold, silver, cop- per and jewels, estimated at $3,000,000 in value. Ever since then efforts have been made to locate the wreck, but without success until now. A group of men organized for ghe search and sent two trawlers to the scene equipped with a metal drag a mile in length. Back and forth they hauled it, cover- ing many square miles of the ocean’s bottom. And at last, after 10 days of constant effort, an obstruction was met. A diver went below to investi- gate, and on reaching the bottom sig- naled that the missing ship was found. Now will proceed the work of salvage. For fear of “hijackers™ exact location of the wretk is kept secret. It is not explained whether the salvage enter- prise is béing conducted by or for the steamship company that ownmed the vessel. The ship and cargo are prob- ably to be regarded as treasure trove, avaflable to any ofie who may seek and ind. No mention is made of the depth at which the wreck lies, which is an important factor in the chances of recovery of the cargo. Since the war closed many efforts have been made to salvage ships sunk by submarines, but with little success. Most of the victims of the German U-boats were torpedoed in deep waters. In somé cases the wrecks have been found after great effort only-to reveal conditions making salvage Work im- is most THE EVENING S’l‘AR; WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1924. __ short periods, which decrease as the depth increases. In a number of in- stances the wrecxage has been crushed by the pressure of the water in such a way that the steel plates make an impenetrable tangle covering the treas- ure chests. These deep-sca salvage operations are profitable only when the cargo of the sunken ship Is valuable and of a character not to be injured by the sea water or the pressure. In the case of metals such as the Merida carried re- covery is quite possible where the con- ditions permit extrication. Further ex- amination of the hull of the Merida may disclose that the salvage work will be urduous and costly, but the stake is big enough to justify persist- ence, and if it is physically possible this important treasure search will be prosecuted. ——e— End of a Great Voyage. The airship Shenandoah has ended a cruise of 9,000 miles, crossing the United States from East to West and from West to East, sailing nearly the length of the United Siates, up the Pacific coast and back, and doing i these things and others without acci- dent resulting in injury to any of the crew. The Shenandoah and her people have registered a remarkable achieve- ment without attracting much atten- | tion. Nearly ali the millions of peo- | ple in America are thinking and talk- | ing of the tremendous political contest that is drawing to its conclusion. It may be that the people of the coun- try are not wildly excited about the contest, but they are very intent on it. There is a tense interest in the matter, and the voyage of the Shen- andoah has not attracted the atten- tion that would have been given it in a calmer time. In some quarters there is enthusias- tic comment that “A new era in the history of lighter-than-air navigation was written when the Shenandoah entered her hangar at Lakehurst.” We shall see. In the voyages of the a plentiful mixture of good luck, and glant gas bags in the air are still more playthings of the storm than the steamship, the railroad train and the motor lorry. Travelers in particular haste and for adventure have taken passage in dirigibles, just as they are doing in airplanes, but the volume of air traffic is not yet heavy. It may be, and probably will be, a very long time before the “sky routes” and the “airways" are busy trafficways. It is certain that advance is being made in we have a great way to go before the world in general adopts air transit. ——— Every time a dirigible makes a long flight without accident the event is hailed as a remarkable achievement. The lighter-than-air ship is still a long way from being regarded as a reliable expression of the safety-first idea. ———e——— In a more conservative state of so- ciety the average reader was shocked by the divorce news. Now he is mere- ly annoyed by the interruption of his attention to base ball. —_————— In addition to the task of writing a check, a liberal campaign contributor may find it necessary to submit to in- vestigation. Wealth no longer brings leisure. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. As Times Change. To make a great name In the annals of fame He toiled while the others slumber. He craved a renown That would stir up the town To ask for his name and his number. He'd study each night By the flickering light Provided by lamps or by tapers. ‘The reward of his toil Done by tallow or oil ‘Was getting it into the papers. But when he acquired ‘The success he desired And turned to the pathway of pleas- ure, The pace that he made Left him slightly afraid Of the fame that flowed on without measure. He hated the hint ‘That alluded in print S0 often to various capers, And his present success Is attained, more or less, By keéeping things out of the papers. Studies in Tazation. “So you object to paying an income tax on your salary?” “I do,” answered Senator Sorghum. “It's not so very large and it's mighty uncertain at present. It ought to be regarded as a non-taxable insecurity.” Confession. No matter how the vote may go, No matter who may win the game, In sevéral months from now I know I shall be kicking, just the same. Jud Tunkins says he goes to church every Sunday because it's the only place he can be absolutély sure of-not hearing any jazz music. Why Fly? “The heights by great men reached and kept Were not flight"— attained by sudden And spoke from there both day and night. On the Highway. “Doesn’t your wife motor with you any.more?” 'No,” answered Mr. Chuggins. “Bhe’s too nervous. Every time a cop shoots at a bootlegger she thinks we’ve had another blowout.” Ty The Important Point. TInspect your brakes. The swiftest pace May cause the fiercest flop. The pleasure in the rapid race Is knowing when to stop. *S0 many people is anxious to keep talkin’,” said Uncle Eben, “dat it don’t ‘pear like de ‘supply of facts was|f Shenandoah and the ZR-3 there was | safety and stability of aircraft, but| They had the front porch neatly swept | I have just received a letter so |interesting that I am going to share | it with you today. I will be pardoned surely for allowing the complimen- tary references to myself to remain, because no one would dare to touch a word of it. Nothing that 1 could writ I am sure, would be as Interesting as this letter from a gentlewoman 91 years old, who, crippled with rheumatism, has for companions the great books and radio. Memories of Emerson are her con- stant companions, and the voices that come through the ether nightly make glad her hours. Here in this coay to the better thing settle down for a few {real transcript of life. follows: “Please find inclosed some lines that The Star may print in some cor- | er of an carly Issue. They were |written when Mr. Coolidge was first | elected Governor of Massachusetts, but have never been published. “A native Vermonter, having trav- eled widely in our own country and in Europe, I confess that the quiet beauty of mountain, lake and valley there is to me incomparable. “Born early in the year 1833 and educated mostly in Burlington long, of course, before Mrs. Coolldge saw the light, it has been a delizght to me | that such as she has had the tage of co-education in a e my nephews have corner, devoted of life, let us minutes to a The letter You will ask why I send this let ter to vou in place of directing it to the editor of The Star? Becaus: the first place, I have long wanted to tell you how much enjoyment your “This and That' column gives me You seem, someway, akin to Charle Lamb, and I wonder if the gentle El fsn’t one of your favorite author: Like him, your graceful and' humor- ous touch adorns whatever You no- tic esterday your topic of old books made it quite impossible for me to| remain silent. 1 love them all. And | a person who has &pent more. than 91 | years upon this changing planet has vigor enough left to know what she {likes. And she does not care for most | jof the ‘free verse, even though signed | v Amy 1 herself. | | ““Did read some time ago |long screea by t lady, written | upon the ghastly visit of a mother midnight to secure the bare hone her criminal son, through which the wind howled as they hung from the | scaffold? My antidote was to repe ruse some of Shelly's lines to the sky lark and “Hymn to Intellectual| Beauty' ere her poetry (?) could be forgotten. “And you | quote lines of w in pigtails. Him I used to see in New York and in Boston and other places. 1 saw Lowell and visited with the authoress of own house while listening to the dis- scrtations of her father. Heard Walt | Whitman read his own verses, time and again heard the gentle tones of dear old Emerson as he tangled | the pages of his lecture to find the | right place. He, indeed, was the in- spirer of my early life, and is still| {revered and beloved. | “You will continue, I trust, and not | forget the sonorous words of Gray.| Yet why enumerate them, so many | that are yet incomparable. (o on, | Mr. Tracewell, and give pleasure every | afternoon to & ‘shut-in,’ crippled for | ism, with her ble of hold- | many years by rheum. right hand almost incap ing a pen. “Her companions are her books and | {her memories of active, i ted |years of a full and varied life, now rendered happier than once seemed possible by the little crystal that gives her solace in lonely hours. All her own friends are gone into the invisible world, where she must soon Joyfully join them. Yet her interest in’ whatever affects humanity and her love of the true, the beautiful and Borah’s Loyalty 1 | Satisfaction expressed by the Re-| | publican press over Senator Borah's !decision to stay within thé party| { lines is marred little by the cam- paign methods of the Idaha Scnator, | whose free speech concerning cer- tain conditions in the party, and re- iterations of his independence of | thought and action are the subject of pointed comment from the Demo- | crats. i “Senator Borah lct it be known at | ithe outset” mays the Minneapolis| Tribune, commenting upon the open-| ing of the Borah campaign at Idaho [ City, “that he is going to stay on the | Republican reservation, and that he | will continue to fight for good, clean Government from within the party. It is hard to see how any one could have expected anvthing else of him when it is recalled that he stuck to the Republican party as headed by Willlam Howard Taft in the political schism of 1912 Referring to the fact that many newspapers, some of them Republicans, emphasized that Borah made no actual reference to Coolidge, the Manchester Union (In- dependent Republican) remarks: “He did an infinitely more useful and significant thing. He pointed out that the way to cure conditions within the party was by staying with the party and voting for men whose character and record are a guarantee of party renovation where renovation is needed, men who have not hesi- tated to denounce crookedness, re- gardless of party, no matter what label they wear. Staying with the party this year means voting for Coolidge and Dawes. This is the in- tended and unmistakable purport of the Borah address and the Senator was tuch more effective a champion of Coolidge in his own manner than if he had adopted the customary meth- od.” * ¥ x % The Senator has left no room for Goubt as to where he stands, agrees the Portland Express (Republican), which adds: “He is a Republican and he is for Coolidge for President—not grudgingly nor with reservation, but as a man who has performed an in- comparable service for the Nation. Senator Borah made it plain that in his opinion the Republican party and the present administration are not to be condemned because of the evil doings of individuals who may have been connected with eithe His il- lustration of this point was an apt one. ‘If the Savior could not choose twelve men, all of whom would prove true against corruption, how shall it be expected politics will always be clean of individual betrayers? he asked.” The Scranton Republican (independent Republican) also is sure “no stronger, more sincere note has been sounded recently In behalf of Presidént Coolidge than that of Sen- ator Borah.” The Springfield Union (Republican) declares the Idaho Sen- ator “does not- sacrifice any of his independent principles, but he does draw the line at pretending to be a Republican and at the same time try- ing to undermine and destroy the Republican party—the party label means something to him.” The Kansas City Journal (Repub- lican) thinks that while “it is not especially matter for enthusiastio raise that Borah declares heartily Dawes, it is never- for Coolidge and |and r: | trom the | which has ! mfllw-nwb&koi‘ifm\fi Ry 3 : ; THIS AND THAT BY ' C. E. TRACEWELL the good are keener as life rolls on. And so she closes to listen to voices over that wonderful radio that may help the evolution of the world. “Forgive this long letter, will you not? Most sincerely, “(Mrs.) HESTER M. POOLE.” * ok ok ok Here-is where I slip one over on the editor of The Star by publishing | here before he gets a chance at it Mrs. Poole’s poem: VERMONT—AN IMPROMPTU. Dedicated to ‘President Coolidge. On, land of dale and hill, Of ‘woods and murmuring rill, Of mountainy xouring high Into the deep blue sky, Of picturesque vales, where nooks Beside the babbling brooks Shelter g hardy race, Wiere sturdy strength and grace Adorn fuir Nature's face— mont, to thee T bring A wreath of oy and pride, A tribute true and tried By all that's worth the name Of an enduring fame, “Though we may roam afar Where shines the Western star, Or “neath the stately palm Where skies are soft and calm, Oh, ne'er forgot will be Thy old-time witchery. atient sires, the Green Mountain Boys, ght | bravely for freedom from tyrant and foe. . warfure forgotten, no peacefuller joys han dwell with thy ehtldren no péople can show by fashion, God-fearing, serene, ng their Lread by the sweat of the and gentle of mien, ir word is us good as 4 bond or a vow v stream, And city awellers fl Find there a Oer Mansfield” 'y height, Where Titans in their might reared a massive skield beauty stinds revealed ! And he who once its spell Has feit, he knows full well t ne'er igmored can be X State, &0 free, So rugged and so strong Jn all that should belong To those who firm would stand For God and Howe and Native Land ! I have taken the liberty of pub- lishing this letter because it brings out strongly just what good books lio means to one, no matter what It seems to me there is a natural » | aflinity between books and radio, in | that both are enjoyed in the home. No one can come into the fullest communion with the great books until he takes them into his own home. No matter how cheap the binding, a great book is a great book still. Bryant | A8 for that incomparable wonder, the | ch I learned while my hair hung | F4dio. the humblest crystal set is as | great in many w multitul upe: They great corporations have s as the grandest say itile Women' fn her |70 Soul, but I am sure the Chesapeake | and the otomac Telephone Company and dio Corporation of America st “get a kick” out of a letter like above. In broadcasting programs daily these corporations are true philan thropists, in spite of any tender mer- cantile shrinking from such a claim they might put up. What a joy the radio must be to the shut-ins! And what a pity It is to think of any such person being unable to.take air the music and voices that are there free for the taking! Whether one s 6 years old or 91, the wonder and mystery of radio is much the same. Like the great books, ¥ this science and art ever be de- voted to the true, the beautiful and the good of which the writer of the above letter speaks. There is but one quotation appro- priate today. It is from Browning: th Grow old along with me, The best is yet to be, : The last of life. for which the first was made; Our re in His Who saith, “'A whole T Youth shows but’ half: be afratd.” to Coolidge Gratifying to Republican Press highly beneficial effect tlroughout the® Northwest,” for “Borah has been playing an fdaho game' rather than | for | a national Republican game years, and has built up a following made him - a powerful figure In his section.” The Idaho etatesman is a remark- able combination, however, suggests he Detroit News (independent), for @ is at the very forefront of con- structive progressive thought; yet he is the most ardent constitutionalist in Congress.” Viewed by every rule of present-day politics, the News con- cludes, “Mr. Borah is a strange con- tradiction, but he happens simply to be a man who reasons clearly, then does what he believes to be right.” While not all voters of independent mind may not agree with Senator Borah regarding the best way to im- prove politics, the Boston Transcript is sure that “every citizen would be wise to ponder the Idaho Senator's attitude and viewpoint,” because “stimulating thoughts for the voter were contained in his address.” * X X X Democratic editors do not fail to emphasize the Borah attitude toward the administration. Says the Atlanta Journal (Democratic): “His Independence is one of the greatest thorns in the Republican party. It is one of Mr. Coolidge's greatest sources of weakness in his present campaign. The Republican party has lost its solidarity. Mr. Borah has made it painfully clear that Mr. Coolidge, in the event of election, cannot look to him to fol- low blindly a leadership in which he evidently has little confidence. Sen- ator Borah's explicit declaration that in this campaign the Republicans are on the defensive is not likely to ap- peal very much to the President, whose impotence and indecision in dealing with corruption in office are the grounds for Mr. Borah's critl- cism The Cleveland Plain Dealer (inde- pendent Democratic) regards the Sen- ator's attitude as “just another dis- turbance in the family party, of a kind ~which Mr. Coolidge appears miraculously able to survive so far.” If only Idaho's four electoral votes were at stake, the Plain Dealer holds, “the party managers could wipe Borah off their slate of troubles and forget him,” but “the danger lies in the fact, well recognized at Repub- lican headquarters, that Senator Borah speaks for a great mass of sentiment in the West, which formerly support- ed the high tariff party, but now openly threatens to bolt to La Fol- lette.” Since the Benator is denunciatory of the conduct of the present admin- istration for the scandals and dishon- esty in Government practiced, vet finds an excuse to remain with the party 6n the theory that he can do more good within the Republican ranks than without, the Dayton News (independent Democratic) declares “No bareback rider in a circus can be comparable with the versatile Sen- ator of Idaho, for he is a political acrobat de luxe. But the price he has had to pay for straddling .has been gradual decline from party leader- ship. He has played into the stand- patter’s hand 8o long. %Y i | { | | to pass. | the | blood of a broken head, and in our| lane by night policemen solace them- | selves by smoking cigarettes into the 'NEW BOOKS . AT RANDOM THE GREEN HAT. Michale Arlen. George H. Doran Co. A most casual young man, Michaet Ar ——or 80 it seems. He strolls into a story of his own, loiters around on the inside of it, picking up in easy diversion this odd bit or that inter- esting one, forgetful—so one thinks ~—that he has any specific business on hand, unmindful, therefore, of any of | the accented ways and ultimate Hat.” really considerable story. But, take “The Green Hat" as example of Ar- len's desultory and casual manner of literary procedure. Just over the doorsill of this narrative the eve of Arlen is holden by the sight of & green hat, “bravely worn.” One has @ right to expect something of this at once, and sits up to a pursuit and overtaking, all of seemly and deco- rous quality. of egress. chievement. ‘The Green Instead, Arlen Young man of his story off s the into a rambling account of his change from | one house to another of more com- fortable promise. This one grows pensively reminiscent of a ‘“mean lane” to be left behind in this transit. A lane of joyous and regretful mem- orles, for “I have seen men arrested there, and I have seen a heavy con- stable worsted in a fight with a little Jew pickpocket who was for some time responsible for a rag shop in our lane. I have seen two butlers fighting in our lane. I have secn a | very old nobleman woo a flower girl in our lane. body One night of a woman 1 I fell in over the rowns of their helmets, while cats, I must tell you, will never cease to sport together all about it” And more and still more about this lane till Miohael Arlen suddenly wakes himself to the saying of H. G. Wells that “there s no money to be made out of any book that cannot bring & woman in within the first few thou- sand words.” So, Arlen, already much in arrears as to the essential lady in his case, sets out, hot-foot, after the green hat, beneath whose dipped brim he had glimpsed a fair and luring face. Just a word about this incorrigibly vagrant strain in Miche ael Arlen, writer. It marks, really, a top notch in his literary work. For Arlen is never more engaging, never sounder either, than when he steals away from the straight road of in- vention into one of the many by- paths of his shrewd insight, and del- fcate analysis, and ready acceptance | of whatever truth emerges from his rigorous reasoning and, when, over the whole of this he throws the spell of his highly sophisticate manner and the charm of his genuine word artistry. Young? Oh, yes, very young. A pose? Without doubt., A youth of many poses, but, withal, a | most astonishing and prodigious youth. One that has become the fashion in Mayfair, one who has already had minted for him the word rlenesque.” One suffers his many vagrancies gladly and goes with him into the side paths in joyous expec- tation. » * ¥ K % But—"The Green Hat."” This is the story of Iris March. Allof a woman's enchantment belongs to Irls March— and much of a man's gallantry. A lady of good degree, this, whose friends. are sir and Jord and lady. So . the behaviors and misbehaviors of Iris | March are cloaked as much as may be in the silences and ignofings that well reared people assume as part of the general suavity .of their lives. But the girl makes concealments diffi- cult, since she careers-quite distress- ingly in the open. To be sure, it is hardly her fault that her husband commits suicide on the night of their marriage; that is, it would not have been considered her fault had she not stepped out in open acceptance. of the burden of blame. ntirely in char- acter this attitude of Iris March. qually, to be sure, it is not the girl's fault that her next husband, an Eng- lish officer, is shot in Ireland; where it is quite easy for Englishmen to come upon their destiny. - Neverthe- less, Iris March comes in for censure here, as she does for every misfor- tune or calamity that either directly or indirectly bears upon the prestige of the family to which she belongs and the soctety -which it is her plain duty to adorn. She accepts it all, proving finally in this acceptance that the male has not cornered and ab- sorbed the full quality of chivalry. | The last. of Iris March glorifies ‘her gallantry so .clearly and o splen- didly that one shakes himself awake to a recasting of his first impression of the girl. Throughout the course of the story one gathers here and there through delicately elusive ap- proaches to many incidents in the life of Iris March that here was a woman no better than she thould be, despite the aloof and delicate and aristo- cratic quality of her largesse. But at the end of the matter one takes himself to task for this clearly coarse interpretation of a very elusive and subtle business. We leave it for you to settle. As for us, we repeat, we grow rather ashamed of the casy ven- sure that of a certainty: bespeaks for us an evil mind: At any fate, be your decision what it may, Irls March, in the face of her final triumph, clears away much of the clamor againit her, though she may: not absolve herself entirely in the eyes of perfect chas- tity. - X x % x Do you know. Michael Arlen? Have you -read his books? “The Green Hat,” ‘and “These Charming People,” and “Thé -Romantic " and “Pi raey” .and “The London Venture"? Do, you know : what, songs he can make out of a woman's narhe? Just Shelmerdene—“by the grace of God, Shelmerdene”—one lady is christened by -Arlen. And he makes chiming bells ‘of her name and songs that run like Jaughing brooks afnd ptayers that croon:like far sea waves. And all of his ladies are fair. ' The most of them are big, with a man's robust quality of courage and free:-grace. All of them are escaping—vertainly now and then—into the larger pastures of life. Whatever they do, whatever they are, they ever walk in the grace of Mich- ael Arlen’s spesch—bitter speech sometimes, sophisticate speech ever, and always the speech.of music and enchantment. - “The London Venture,” separate from the romances, is a per- sonal memoir, a confession, reminis- cent of George. Moore. Indeed, some asserted that Moore had taken to re- confessing his earlfer confessions. In “The Romantic Lady" there are two brothers, both loving the “lady”—one her husband, the other just an in-law. This situation provides the’'avenue for a deep and subtle 'study -0f jealousy between these two, ‘not jealou the lady, but ® deep congenital strain more deadly, mare .annihilating than man’'s passing. love for ahy woman could possibly cfeate. A superb plece of work this, outstanding in the gen- erally fine texture of Arlen’s work. * % x ¥ Grant Overton tells us some things about Michael Arlen—that he is a young man, only about 35; that “Mich. ael Arlen believes in working hard land living hard. He lives in Mayfair. Most of the Summer he spends be- tween Deauville and Biarritz, and most of the Winter he may be found on the Riviera. The Spring he spends in Venice. He likes dancing and bac- carat, and 8 a tournament tennis player. Though no human eye has over seen him at work, he has written five successful books. ‘Londoners’ know him as a dark, handsome, suave R eie s’ " Absurdly futile name for a|f Nothing like that comes | Q. Where Is the highest tunnel In| the world>—W. T. H. A. The new tunnel surveyed in the Andes will probably be the high- lest in the world. It is located near | Antofagasta and has elevation of 14,765 feet. line between Argentina and Chile. | Q. Is the ability to swim required of college women?—B. G. A. The Bureau of Navigation says | that swimming for women is re-| | quired in 22 colleges and universities | | @8 part of the college work. Cornell | University, lowa State Agricultural College, Rockford College, Syracuse University, Cincinnati Universit University of Wisconsin, Wells Col- | lege, Western Reserve and Wooster College refuse to grant a degree to a student who fails to pass a fixed |swimming requirement, which { be ability ta swim 50 feet, strok | Kood form, ewimming for two jor swimming 120 yards and diving. { The most frequent requirement, how- j ever, is swimming 50 vards | Q. When was Donatl's comet last | visible?—M. E. F A. The Naval Observatory says that Donati's comet was visible in Sep- tember and October, 1858, and was the finest of the century. It is due to return after 200 years. The head | was 250,000 miles across and the tail extended more than half-way from the zenith to the horizon Q. Does the Leviathan hold i record for time in crossing the | lantie?—S. W. | "A. The Atlantic record time of the | U. 8. 8. Leviathan from New York to Cherbourg is 5 days, 8 hours and 38 | minutes. " The Mauretania holds the | | record as the fastest ship on the At-| lantic route. It has made the trip in 5 days, 1 hour and 49 minutes. ! Q. What are the duties of a god- mother?—J. B. C. A. A godmother is a sponsor in baptism. She makes herself a surety for the religious teaching of the child. the At- Q. How many men took citizens® military training last Summer-—J. R. A. The number of men in attend- ance at the citizens’' military training camps of 1924 was 33,975. Q. Was the first mint of the col- jonles authorized by England?—G. M. | A. The first colonial mint was es- | | court of Massachusetts, which author-; |1ty from the crown. The general| | court of Massachusetts which author- | |ized it, evidently proceeded with the | expectation that the pressure of ne- |cessity would outweigh in the minds | of the royal minister consideration of the enfringement of the royal pre- rogative of coining money. The {operation of the Boston mint went on | {unnoticed, due to trouble between | { Cromwell and Charles II, but was closed | |in 1683, after an existence of 30 years. | Q. Where is the largest Moslem university? How long is the | | course?—G. A. D. | | A. In 985 the Mosque of Al Azhar| was changed to a university. There | are now about 10,000 students in at- | | tendanoce, making it the largest Mos- lem university in the world. The course is from three to six years. | Q. Who said of a vice presidential | | candidate, “He is big enough and ! sound enough to be President, should —V. S, T. occasion require’ | _A. Judge McCamant spoke thus og| | Calvin Coolidge in nominating him | for Vice President. Q. How does fuller's earth get its name?—P. T. D. ] A. Originally this material, which resembles clay In appearance, was used "in fulling cloth, and took it ‘ name from this use. Other uses ar made of it, such as clarifying or fil- tering fats, greases and oils; for | |bleaching; in manufacturing of pig- | {ments for printing wall papers, in detecting certain coloring matter in some food products, and as a sub- stitute for taleum powder. Q. Does the Government sell tim- | | President Harding had to play the {role of peacemaker between Henry | |C. Wallace and Herbert Hoover | before he put both of them in his cabinet. The late Secretary of Agri- | culture had a ypar or two previous| [had a battle royal with Hoover in| the latter's dapacity of food ad-| ministrator, and 1921 found the two | men still at daggers drawn. Their controversy ranged around the famous wartime “eefn-hog ratio.’ Mr. Harding knew. all about it, and, when he invited Hoover to become Sccretary of Commerce. the Presi dent-elect said that Waliace had already boen deslgnated as Secretary of Agriculture. “Well," said Hoover, “wallate was right and 1 was wrong.” Harding asked Hoover if he was willing to say:as much to Wallace, and, when the -Californian freely acknowledged his readiness to do se, there was plain sailing. Their friendship as cabinet colleagues riperied into Intimacy and mutual admiration. * ¥ ¥ X Norbert Prendergast, a New Jersey Democratic politician and Wall Street banker, is authority for the statement that the railroad men of the country are far from being a unit for La Follette. Mr. Prender- gast was once a locomotive fireman and still carries a brotherhood card. He has just completed a 11,000-mile trip through the Middle West, most of the way in an engine cab. “Any. body who thinks the brotherhood vote will be delivered en bloc to La Follette,” Prondergast says, “has run off the track. Government ownership does not fill working rail- roadmen with enthusiasm. My heart- to-heart talks with hundreds of them during the past month convince me their allegiance to the Progressive ticket mythical.” Prendergast thinks Datvis will get a big vote among brotherhood men, though not nearly as large a one as McAdoo could have counted on. * k k% Another of Washington's historic homes will disappear when a modern hotel .goes up at 16th and H streets on the site of John Hay's old resi- dence. When Lincoin's private secre- tary decided to build in Washington, he and his bosom friend Henry Adams arranged to buy and improve adjoin- ing property. For the purpose they commissioned Richardson, the Bos- ton architect who was then at the zenith of his fame as a master-de- signer in brick construction. Rich- ardson had recently bullt for the city of Pittsburgh a massive brick court- house and jail which were intended to stand as a grimly imposing emblem of the power and majesty of the law in case of another Homestead riot. The author of “The Education of Henry Adams” built around the corner from Hay the house in H street which is now the Brasillan Embassy. Until its recent sale, the Hay home was the residence of Senator and Mrs. James affix to Michael Arlen the name Dikran Kuyumjian,” for Arlen is of Armenian blood. And Mr. Doran has issued the five Arlen books in uniform voluines. Michael Arlen is sald to be the fashion, but certainly he is of & sub- stance and grace of manner to out- ny & season in ‘the may | | gentile? | some | and it wiil be | @ two-cent stamp with your query. and H!E_E EVENING ST. AR came smaller the army of gunmen | possible. Divers can remain below only ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. berland in the National forests> he Government sells only 1l iber standing on the stumn. 1t a lows the cutting of the n ber for continucd growth Q. When was the oil boom in Ca fornia?—H. S A. Th production of Californ rred in 1876, was a rise in the production but the largest productior 1902, Q. Is the Yule English E. O, A. The custom of burning the Yu 1og on Christmas eve is not gener observed in En T custo still followed i the ru seetions. It valent in the Scandinavian ec Q. Please oring a pipe. A A. Ordinarily, the pipe is boiled for coloring in a preparation of wax which i absorbed, and a thin coat ing of wax held on the rface of the pipe, an to take a high polish. Under the wax is retained the oil of tobacco, which is absorbed by the pipe, and its hue grows dark er in proportion to the tobacco used A meerschaum pipe at first should be smoked very slowly, nd before a lighted the y This is to keep t Lowl as pos will and log celebration of a part of Christmas is more ntrie tions for pipe ould doors in extrem smoked ou cold weather Q. Exactly what feant by —F. " B. A. The term gent eanings among differ. To the Jews, it is one of ish nation or non-Jewlish faith; w the Cbristians, one nelther nor a Christian—a heathen; non-Mohammedan; among non-Mormons. is n as different people: non-Jew- Q. When and where was the first mail carried between towns in the United States?—>M. A. The first 1 continent started from Boston, January 1, 1 Q. What offic of the Rev D IC. A. The War Iic an act of the C passed Ju chaplain be ment in the that their a $3%- 0 montt pains in th the Re ascerta tained wheth same for all tinental Army whether the militia of ghe States that fu war. hold?- s ngress, 5, 1 ovided that & appointed for €ach reg Cont rmy, and d, nor has it the ra rins been ascer- k was the in the Con- in the several colonies o shed troops for that Q. We cat our farm in 1o, T turpentine tine, why water taste A. The I that this i< a and chemicai be likened ne pond a it can whe bein, readily is appli ter that it can 1 it slowly and sy absorb it sted. Othe erceptib that po which are «c interest Any reader question he profound Inclosr (Space can be given in this ° only a feu que into our ofice daiiy believed to be of are selected for pubiic is privileged to chooses, however Th Lio any trivial wered dire as address The Stag Information Burcai. 21st and C Streets N.W.) WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE Wadsworth, jr, of New York Mrs. Wadsworth was Hay's daughter lair of the tigers untry’'s most inter a tos ny terms mayor is a Dem r re-election Rev. Charles A. Eaton, publican, of Plainfield, who once vas John . Rockefeller's Baptist pas- in Cleveland. The other night nator David A. Reed of Pennsyl- vania spr bombshell at Prince ton by advisi his I ublican au dience to vote for “Coolidge, Edg- and Browne of '86.” Reed is himself a Princetonian, and, as he was speak ng in Alexander Hall, on the varsity ampus, he couldn’t resist the tempts tion to indersc Browne. The Jerse G 6 P. c paign committee, sadly perturbed by the incident, has pro- duced a half-hearted recantation fron Senator Reed, which has not seriousiy damaged R sentdtive Browne, w though a Democrat, was one of Pr dent Coolidge anti-bonus suppor ers. Browne and Reed were bud at Plattsburg training camp. John Wanamaker, former Postsga: - ter General and iate merchant [\nifif adelphia and New York, is to ubject of a qnonumental hiog by Dr. Herbert Ad ibbom< It will partake of an analytical stufiy of the development of retail merchar - dising_in the United States sinca the Ctvil War. Dr. Gibbons r ntly fe turned from London and Paris, whare he went in search of material abou: the origin of the modern departmant store. The Bon Marche, at Pari claims to be the world's pioneer in th- realm of genetal providing on a bis scalc. - ‘Charlie” Brow of the univers [ * R % The revelation that Calvin Cool idge, while Vice President, recejved $260 for a speaking cngagement . Bridgeport, Conn., does not shokl public men In Washington, who long have been accustomed to obtain fees for such services. Willlam Jennings Bryan, while Secretary of State, in- augurated the custom. United States Senators, of both parties, add regu- larly to their incomes by speechmak- ing, particularly during the Summier recess, when many of them do profit able turns as Chatauqua stars, 1n charging for his speaking services Mr. Coolidge had a direct precadant in Thomas R. Marshall. Marshall ion. told this observer that an underpaid United States official of his rank was faced by thr alternatives—to “graft,” to live heyond his income or make money honestly on the side. Marshall wrote and spoke, to make both ends meet in Washington. * ok % Every politician in Washington is anxiously calculating whether the in- come-tax publication episode is going to help or harm his own particular party. Opinfon is as divided as party lines. themselves. There are Repub- licans who say it will do Davis no good to be revealed as the payer of $84,000 income tax. Democrats are plentiful who declare that the muddlc as to whether publication was legal throws fatal light on Republican claims of “efficiency.” The La Folt letteites are the only truly happy ones. As their duty and delight i8 to oak the rich,” their joy over.the indignation of blg business is unal- loyed. b 4