Evening Star Newspaper, November 25, 1924, Page 6

THE EVENING STA ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. 'WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY. .. .November 25, 1924 THEODORE: W. NOYES. . .., Editor B Office, 11th Bt. and Pennsylvania Ave. 10 F 2nd_8t. York' (ce: 110 Fast 42nd 8 Chicago Office: Tower Bullding. Europesn Ubce : 1o Hegent 5¢..Loudva, The Fyeaing Star,’ with the Sunday moraisg edition, is deilvered by carriers withia the ity .at 60 cents manth; dally only 45 cents per month; Sunday oniy. 20 cedts per month. Onders be sent by mail or tele- Phove Mafn 5000. Collection s wade by car- viers at the end of each moatb. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..13r., $8.40; 1 mo., 70¢ Daily only........1yr., $6.00; 1 mo, 60c Sunday only. ", $2.40; 1 mo,, 30¢ All Other States. Daily and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00: 1 mo., 83¢ Dally only. $7.00: 1 mo.. 60c Sunday only $3.00; 1 mo,, 25¢ Member of the Associated Press. The Assaciated Press s exciusively entitled to the ‘nse for republication of all aews d Jatches cradited to 1t or mot wtherwise credited n this paper snd alo the local news pub lished hereln. Al rights of publication of #pecial dispaiches berein are also reserved. A Venus, But Not a Leader. Demorrats who are willing to scrap the losses of the late campaign and eloction ‘and look forward to the fu- ture of the party instead of repining over the leader. They feel that they must J #ome definite commander. They figu that unless they can sccure a stand- a’l Learer of imposing stature they are doomed to an the barren fields of opposition. Many of them look to Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York as the man for their need. He has just won a re- miarkable victory. in'a re-election as a Democrat in an overwhelmingly Re- publican year. Despite President Cool- idge’s plurality of over 800,000 in the State hie won the governorship for an- &ther term by about 200,000, against & popular Republican candidate. But now comes Senator Royal §. Copeland. of New York, a Democrat of such high standing thet he was considered as & possible nominee him- self beforc the Madison Square Gar- den convention assembled, and if the first place on the ticket had gone West miglit have been the nominee for Vice President. He casts doubt upon the Smith leadership proposition. In a recent address he deplored the lack of Democratic leadership in the State during the campaign, and this etarted things going, for he has since been overwhelmed with protests by those who believe that the governor fills the bill. Now the Senator is put to explanation, and this is the way he states the case: Al Smith? Why Al Smith is a Venus de MMlio in a room—much admired by the multitude, but he is not a leader. Al ve Smith s the most popular man In the | history of American politics, and he de- erves it But & great political party like the Democratic party cannot de- pend for jts existence on an occasional success, due to the personal popularity of an_exceptional man, or build its future on such foundation. Suppose Al Smith €hould die? What then? Must our great varty die with him? Senator Copeland is going to be hard- Dressed to point ta any political party leadership that was not established by what he calls a “personal success.” True, there have been successful candi- dates in the past in both parties who have been poor leaders. And there have been leaders who have never been can- didates, who have never held office. But usually the leader is one who has at least the ability to win an election, who commands publie respect and confidence, who arouses. enthusiasm and who can himself win votes in a campaign. Nor is Senator Copeland persuasive when he refers to the possibility of Gov. Smith's-death. He surely s not looking for the superman, a political Methu- selah. If the Democratic party must have .an immortal for a leader it is surely doomed to an indefinite period of defeat. —————— Loeb and Leopold are said to ap- preciate at last the wickedness of their crime. A short stay in’ prison often has the effect of arousing cul- Prits to a realization of their guilt; 100 late, however, to render their opin- fons on ‘the subject of any practical fmportanee to their victims, o Historians of the future may -refer to 1924 as the remarkable year when the great American people were all busily engaged in solving cross-word puzzles, while the splendid battleship ‘Washington. was " being deliberately destroyed. —————— A Swindler Cornered. Capture in Halifax of Leo Koretz, motorlous as the promoter of. one of the greatest swindles ever perpetrated in this countiy, closes a chase that has been in progress for nearly a year. Koretz -advanced. from poverty to a Positior of affiuence through a lawyer's office In Chicago. He is undoubtedly 2 man of financial genius, with a vision for big things, and had he been ‘willing to progress by degrees instead of at one leap.he would probably have become a great capitalist. But he wanted to mgke his millions in.a hurry, and was willing to use crooked means to that end. He erganized land- development _gchemes in Central America and ‘élsewhere and sold stock to friends. Some of his enterprises were legitimate, others were fraudu- lent, ‘When thé bubblc broke and he digappedred from Chicago 1t was ésti- mateéd that he had netted ‘at least $2,000,000 from his -operations. With all his shrewdness Koretz ap- pears to be a rather simple-minded sort of person. He thought he could establish-himself at ifax under the disgulse of a beard and a slight change of name. He acquired an estate and sained thé wealth. But he had no evident means of incomé, and it was a skeptical bank clerk at Halifax who first suspected him becauseé of this fact. The clerk could not belleve that a legitimately wealthy man would not haye earnings of some kind, so he told his suspicion to & Chicago acquaintance, who told a lawyer, who in turn notified an of- ficer of the Chicago Trust Co. that is serving as trustee for the bankrupt estate, and that started the pursuit. Tt now develops that Koretz was on the point of slipping away from Hali- defeat are searching for u | indefinite stay fn | | applied for a passport. ‘So far the search has gone only $119,000 of the $2,000,000 -that Koretz is supposed to have netted by his swindles has been found, a little fess than onbitenth. Either the swindler has effectively concealed his loot, or he did not profit as greatly by his operations as was thought. Yct there is no doubt that $2,000,000 was lost by his victims. Where the missing $1.800,000 is or how it has been spent may later be disclosed. The case of Koretz freshly illus- trates two facts. First, that people are easily fooled by a plausible sales- man and promoter, and second, that much. veritable financial. talent is wasted in crooked dealings. The bait of great profits tempts investors against their judgment. There is something especially attractive about schemes in distant lands. A rich gold fleld, a productive oil well, a fertile tract of tropical soil, are potential gol- condas to the man with a few thou- sknds in bank or with credit where- with to-borrow. Maps, plans, tables of low expenses and high prices for products complete the lure. Often ad- vice is shunned, and the swindler gets his victims easily in consequence. Now Koretz is caught and faces a long prison term. He has had a brief career of adventure, a few months of hiding, and now ruin. Even if he had escaped he would have lived a miser: ble life, always in fear of detection. Perhaps he welcomed arvest as re- iease from a sitaation that was grow- ing Intolerable. | —_——et—————— An Advance. Yesterduy the 58 patients of the Washington Home for Incurables were transterred from’ their old quarters, in Georgetown, to their attractive new home on Wisconsin avenue. This bulid- ing. recently completed at a -cost of $415,000, is the gift of the people of Washington .to an institution that has rendered a most humane service to the commaunity in the care of unfortunate vietims of disease for whom there is smail hope of recovery. The task of raising this fund was a great one, but it was successfully accomplished through successive appeals. Now a bullding of artistic deslgn, located on an ample site in the suburban section, replaces the ancient structure that has inade- quately served for years in an unattrac- tive location. This development is a sign of Wash- ington’s advancement in matters of this kind. Only the best should be provided for those who are wards of the com- munity. They should be all housed and cared for adequately, comfortably and in surroundings making for their hap- piness and, if possible, their recovery from iliness. The public and semi-public institutions of the city have been greatly improved in recent years, yet much re- { mains to be done in this respect, 8o much, indeed, that occasionally despair is felt at the delay. There are estab- lishments where helpless people mnd children are housed which are veritable firetraps and are even insanitarr. They funds by private subscription or by pub- lic appropriation to provide substantial, clean housings for tnese charges. The successful effort of those who have in their care this beneficent insti- tution for the succor of the feeble to gain a new and suitable home for them should spur others who have similar charges and responsibilities to move in the same way and in the same faith in the willingness and ability of the people of this District to provide proper means for carrying on these essentiu]l works of charity and benevolence. P — The French Loan. ‘Within 46 minutes after the opening of the subscription lists in New York vesterday the new French loan of $100,- 000,000 was oversubscribed. Indeed, the subscription wae, it is estimated, at the rate of about 5 to 1. That is to say, the offers for these bonds, which are to Tun 25 years and bear interest at 7 per cent, with a floating price of 94, mak- ing a yield of about 715 per cent, totaled about $500,000,000. This was a further proof of the fact that there is abundant capital at present in this country seeking investment. The stock market has ever since election been giving evidence to this same effect. Hundreds ‘of millions have been poured into Wall Streeét in payment for securi- ties of- all kinds, industrials, utllities, ralis, mines and ofls. There has. been a veritable rush to buy, and mostly. it is to be noticed, on a cash basis. A large percentage of the buying' orders have come through banks rather than broker- age houses. These facts indicate that the purchasers are, in the main, genuine investors, not speculators. Yesterday's oversubscription of the French loan is at the same time & sub- stantiel indication of belief in _this country of the stability 6f European af- fairs. While this loan is amply secured, it would not -be floated if there were fear of an unsettlement through inter- national complications. Sa the successful issue of thege bonds attests to good conditions both at home | ant abrosd. The, rhonsy is here avatia- ble. eager for investment; and there is confidence in the ability of France to maintain this transaction in good faith. Such epectacles as a five-times oversub- scription of a foreign loan are signs of sound health. ——eeee The police are determined to balk any effort on -the part of reckless motorists to demoralize a perfectly good base ball term and play a “hit- and-run” game. Z —————— Egypt is evidently convinced that in the lexicon .of the British govern- ment the word “uitimatum” has lost none of its old-time significance. —————— Quantico. The -commandant of the Marine Corps east coast expeditionary force would have the Government buy the town of Quantico, and -he puts up some good reasons why this should be done. He says, “The existence of this town adjacent to the Marine barracks and not under control of the com- manding general of that post creates conditions which are highly undesira- ble, and which affect adversely the morale of the command.” It would bave been easy to buy the town of Quantico when the Marines settled there, but the Marine trade has built up quite & town where stores ' [ are makeshifts, pending the raising of | fax to Soyth America. He had urudy] and eatinig places are prosperous. Per- haps there might be some other way by which the county or the State might deal with conditions that are objectionable to the Marine Corps, but it Is likely that the Marine authorities have tried other plans before coming to the {dea of having the Government buy a town which the Marine Corps has almost wholly created. - -Quantico had quite a future when it ‘was the north terminus of the railropd from Richmond and Fredericksburg to the Patomac River, but terminals on that railroad did not last long. The railroad was bullt from Fredericksburg to Potomac Creek, where steamboats from Washington met the trains. Then the railrogd terminus was moved north to Aquia Creek, where Washington steamboats made south- ern rail connection. Next the road was extended to Quantico, and that place remained the terminus until the rallroad was extended to Alexandria. As a railroad terminus and as g land- ing place of passenger and mall steam- ers between Washington and Quan- tico, hotels, livery stables and saloons, as well as quite a number of dwell ings, were built at Quantico, Then it declined, and for many years its prin- clpal trade was as a shipping point for timber, ties and cordwood cut out the Chappawamsic Forest. Tt once had a boom as a river resort, and a hotel was buflt on the heights back of the town. Quantico was a quiet, drowsy place when the Marines gave it.the great boom. If the Government should buy Quantico the town will be run as the Marine authorities think it should be, and it is powsible that Virginia wil oppose the plan. There is a wide ex- tent of country around and near the Government reservation where an- other town, or other towns, might come into being. ————e Fhe “tourist” is a comparatively novel incident of our civilization. To his list of achievements Henry Ford had added that of enabling a man with a small capital to see the coun- try. be his own boss and defy the landlord. — o = A noted film comedian says he is going to Mexico to get married. Mex- ico is the scene of so much turbulence that it will be congratulated if it can modify its record by promoting aen episode of placid domesticity in movie land. ————————— There is one market which never fails to remind the U, 8. A. of a large | European demand, the money market. The Old World is willing to absorb almost any loan that the New World is willing to make, ————— As a peace Influence, the destruction of the Washington may perhaps be interpreted as a reminder that Uncle | Sam is mot afraid, and where a prin- ciple is involved does not hesitate at expense. ————————— Shooting up a battleship is the means of obtaining valuable informa- tion, though not in the line of how to get more battleships should they happen to be needed in a hurry e Only time can tell whether the prize winner in a beauty contest will grow up to be a help to her country in bal- loting of a political nature. —_———— Conditions never change so far as to remove the tariff and its allied methods of revenue collection from consideration as a great political issue. ——————— ‘The tall buildings of America will be described to Paris by M. Jusserand, but not in terms of admiration. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Dear Teacher. Mlss Experience teaching school With a manner stern, All her lessons as a rule Are mighty hard to learn. Had a headache for a while Had a heartache, too— And yet each false and fickle smile Looks just as good as new, Horses and_the stock exchange Left me sore dismayed, And yet, .what seems ° strange, The same old tips I played. exceeding Miss Experience teaching school Fills my soul with strife— Puts me on the dunce's stool, And keepg me in for lifel Alcohofic Content. “How high a percentage of alcohol do you think a beverage ought to con- tain?" “As a scientific proposition,” " an- swered Senator Sorghum, “I should say the amount was varjable, depend- ing on. how much aicohol the person who does. the drinking can contain.” Sad Philosophy. In human mature. traits, we see Which bid us stay prepared— Some people peaceful be Unless you keep ‘em scared. Jud Tunkins says it may need a lit- tle moderation. to make the spirit of Thanksgiving day last over the first 12 or 14 hours. Educational @bstructions. “Why are you wrangling over a new schoolhouse. for Crimson Gulch? There are no youngsters in the com- munity.” Ad : “That’s as it should be.” answered Cactus Joe. “We're workin' for the future, and so-long as the board of education: keeps fightin® the way it does we may &8 well admit thé town ain’t no place for children.” Cost of_ Conveniences. Inventors show devices new, And yet but slightly I enthuse. They merely put more things on view ':“I&l I ‘cannot afford to use. early- all de folks dat knows Happy is the family where there are ‘plenty of pets but no petting D.l\‘“elk Every household ig the better for hav- Ing among Its members some furred animal, such as a dog or cat, or a bird. maybe a parrot or canary, upon which the surplus affection of the tamily may be lavished, Surplus * affection, .like pets, s something that every family ought to possess, and most of them would, !f they had something to take them out of themselves. This is what a pet animal does, Not only does a dog, for instance, furnish inexhaustible topic of conversation for the whole family, but he teaches the children the mean. Ing of kindness. If you think there Is no necessity for the latter, stop and recall some of the terrible ex- amples of meanness among American youthe which of recent months have attracted world-wide attention. Dogs, cats. rabbits, white mice, ponies, parrots, canaries, jove birds, chickens, pigeons, even raccoons, are among the favorite pets of boys and Birls of the United States, and of the men and women who will never out- grow entirely their childhood. ‘Wherever you find one of these creatures well established in a family, you find a little community, truly the primary social group of our land, In 1 Which life is better than in the tamily next door where no dog barks or no cats meows. We suspected of having a fondness for animals. Yet this man had unutterable woe in his eyes one morning, }nn much so that he was asked what Was the mat. ter. “Some cussTan over our little dog last night.” he burst forth, as it glad to unburden his feelings. ‘“Just a little poodle that had been in our family for years, not much to look at, but a real member of the family, you know. “We thought the worlds of that little dog. And last night some mean bird deliherately ran over it when it was playing out front. Why, that dog never hurt anybody In the world —and then a creature called a man bad to murder it." So, you see, this thing of seeming | deliberate automobile murders has not grown from nothing. The man who would dellght in intentionally running down dogs and cats would {soon want to try his prowess upon larger game. There is nothing surer, in this 1d, than that most acts have some n of being; that they had an inception some time, somehow, some place; and that they did not spring out of nothing, like Minerva was supposed to have done from the head of Jove. Thus the big problem of prevention. In all the walks of our complicated {1lfe, runs far back to little things, small things often laughed at by those who have given no thought to the matter. | Show me a man wpo will deliberate- {1y, for no reagon at all, kick a dog, I will show you one who is all ready to run his automobile full tilt into some innocent pedestrian. That is one important reason why every family should have a pet animal. { Possession of such a pet allows the ob- serving parent to discover any mean streaks that may develop in his children and so makes it possible for him to tempt to correct these faults, which, 1if allowed to develop unhampered, might lead to prison or worse. Besides all this, a pet teaches chil- VITAL THEMES Mussolini’'s Credit Account By Robert Underwood Johnson. Former Ambasaador to Italy Whatever may be the outcome of the present political agitation. - in Rome, history cannot fall to reeord Im the everlasting credit of Benito Mussolini two colossal achievements— the utter frustration of the Soviet at- tempt to bolshevize the Peninsula. and the destruction, at least for the time, of the “bloc” system of govern- ment _in the Chamber of Deputies. I say this despite two paradoxes which have marked the action of the Italian premier; first, his recognition of the Russia of the later tyrants and, /| second. his apparent condonement of lawlessness in the conquest of dis- order. From the peril ists Mussolini of the revolution- ed Italy and the saving of Italy saved Western Europe. Thoughtful Itallans—and Italy is full of thoughtful men—saw the ‘| futility of “bloc” government, but it was left to Mussolinl to show the way out of it. He did this by dem- onstrating the numerical predomi- nance of the Fascisti, who included the intelligentsia (thank Russia for that word!), the veterans, the uni- versity students, and other classes, who, in protest against the old sy. tem, rose to the national conscious- ness of the stirring days of the lib- eration. but bring sordid elements in its wake, and at times it has seemed that Facismo was about to illustrate the saying that “political partles, like fishes, are steered by their tails.” Say what one will, in showing a way out of the quagmire of irresponsible gov- ernment Mussolini patriotism and a new hope. Thus the march to Rome was not a revolution so much as a revelation. It showed that there was & power of public opinion greater than any or all of the Chamber of Deputles, and that if there was an assertion of the strong arm it was the strong arm of a vast majority. His majesty, with his customary good sense. recog- nized this fact, and gave the Facismo "lhp opportunity to demonstrate its representative character and its abil- ity to serve the country. How far Mussolini has justified the confidence of the King and the coun- try is a matter of dispute. He has certainly grappled ruthlessly with economic and administrative prob- lems. But we must not be misled by the word “dittator.” -There are two kinds of dictators. - First, the one who attempts by any means at hand to enforce his will against the inter- est of the people, and, second, the one who likewise enforces the inter- est of the people against the will of others. It is generally admitted that Mus- solini is courageous, sincere and pa- triotic, but it is not so generally recognized that he has shown himself capable of being taught by events. He impulsively announced that the Corfu incident was = family affalr between Greece and Italy, independ- ent of the League of Natfons, but he had the good judgment to reverse this. decision, recognising his coun- try's obligations to the league and thus showing a decent respect for the opinions of mankind.” A dictator who. can learn, a dictator who has second thoughts, a digtator who can take advice, fails far short of the tyrannical dominance which we asso- clate with the word. The taking of the oath to the King by the Fascisti an organization minimizes any fear of a revolution against the House of Savoy,._which _ was never stronger than now in the favor of the Italian le. e (Copyright, 1924.) may live without pets, of course, but surely not as well * % % I reeall a well known local husi- NESS man. ® person of many affairs. | whoin his ussoclutes perhaps never ' Such a movement could not |/ gave Italy & new, dren to complete what they start out to do. This, t00, is & most important thing. What household has not had some such experience as the following? “Oh, paps, T want a dog,"” says Jimmle. “You wouldn't take care of one if I got it for you,” replies father. ““Oh, yes I would. paps,” implores James. " “I would feed It every day and give it plenty of water and—" “Well, we'll see,” declares the par- ent, in that mysterious tone that savs very plainly to his wife, “Well, I'l bring a dog home tonight.” Sure enough, that evening here comes father with an appealing bundle of fur in his arms. Shrieks of delight greet the advent of the pet. For several days no dog could get better treatment. Then the novelty of feeding and otherwise caring for the small animal wears off. Jimmy wouldn't deliberately neglect his pet—oh, no, not for the world, but when the fellers come along with their foot ball, well, Spot can walit for his dinner, T guess. S0 Snot goes hungry. and auite often without any water to drink. Ther mother seas that ‘the inevitable has ar- rived—and If Spot Is zoing to be cared for. she is the membér of the familv upon whom the duty devolves, as usual To make a child properfy care for a et is the best kind of character train- ing. It is a form of home discipline that bears great returns. Think of a'l the families sitting around bored to tears! 2 No wonder they have to run to movie shows the minute dinner is aver. They have nothing to talk ahout at homs, that is the trouble {with them i *ow ¥k | Tnto such a family a dog or cat |enters like a four-legzed angel in disguise. Tts comical tricks, Its wants. its vagaries, give the whole family something to talk about. Something to talk sbout! There vou have a crying need of mankind, because a man is a talking anima’', as well as a laughing beast. Men and women must have some- thing to talk about. It is & need of their nature, and a pet animal fills the bill astonishingly well. For ani- mals have {ndividuality, the same as vreople, and no dog or cat is mo hereft as not to be able to play his part in the home. . Such a pet takes people ant of themeclves, makes them think of something else besides their precious se'ves—and aches. Truly, it rounds out the family circle. Think back over our beloved pats There was old yellow Tom. who came to us a stray. resided with us for three years and then left as suddenly as he came. He was a great fighter and had his ears chewed up in many battles of the alley. There was old Rover, white bulldog. who looked more feroclous than a lion, but who never harmed any o For 10 years he held an honored place by the fireside, then went the way of all dogs. having been overfed and underexercised. There was Jimmy. the raccoon, who spent a pleasant Winter on the end of a chain. He is remembered for his ability in climbing sereen doors and his insatiable appetite for soft coal and potato pee'ings. Anthracite held no charms for him. Rituminous had a flavor entirely its own-—was more soothing to the stomach and cut the cost of a meal considerably. Country children have pony, cow, even pig pets. but city children can get along very well with their dogs, cats, rabbits, etc. The important thing i¢ not so much the particular form a pet takes as that it takes some formr In every family. No, a baby Is no substitute for pet! * + Lauds Text-Book Fight. ‘Wriler Cites Case of Own Boy in Local Schools. To the Editor of The Star: I note with pleasure vour articles about the condition of school books in our public schools. At present my youngest boy is a student at the Bryan School, Fourteenth and B streets southeast, In the BA grade, and he has not had a geography fit to use for the semester. At first he had one with 2 number of pages torn out and then about one month ago they condemned that oné and since then when he has any geography to 'study at home, ne has had to hunt up some classmate who Is fortunate enough to have a text book even though it shows that the German Empire 15 still in existence and that a number of other like conditions ‘| still exist in Europe. I. of course, should know from my personal experfence with civie af- fairs that we have very small chance of getting what we really need in {this town, yet. If the citizens' asso- ciations would eall upon the various members of our District committees in both the House and Senate they will find that a number of them were school teachers in their time and that they will be ready to listen to any plea with reason and surely we ought to be able to give our children the proper school books, so that they may have an opportunity to they wish. - Bl I hope that through your columns it will be possible to arouse the sleeping multitudes and get some sort of a campaign under way to not only request but demand that our children Je given an opporunity to become educated as we expect Americans to be, Pt ! MILTON B. SMITH. Reduced Speed Limit Urged as Safety Move To the Editor of The Star; In the discussions relative to traf- fic accidents I note that much is said concerning the movements of pedes- trians on the streets here. It is safe to say that practically all the people of this city are pedestrians at least | part of cach day. This is now and always has been a necessary custom 8nd largely a custom of necessity, and T feel that all regulation in this matter must, in strict justice, favor those who choose to walk. The pe- destrian has lawfully the right of way and he should be protected in that right. The speed rate of autos in this city is much too high. Why such speed in ordinary business?" Ever since the auto first made its appearance I have been a pedestrian in this city, and up to this time I have never been physically injured by a vehicle. Of course, I am care- tul, and find crossing the street saf- est at some place between intersec- tions, where I have to watch only two ways—right and left—whereas at intersections one must watch du- biously and nervously in at least four directions. Cut down speed-rate, encouraging pedestrians to cross streets, when possible, between intersections, and severely punish reckl. ind drunken drivers, and thereby materially re- duce the traffic accident list. JOHN R. WEATHERS. Heard Just the Same. From the Boston Transcript. It is said. that the President- will not read his Mmessage to Congress, but there Is no doubt that he will make himself heard. J THE EVENING STAR; WASHINGTON, D.- C, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER ' 95, 1924 THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM THE WIND AND THE RAIN, Thomas Burke. George H. Doran Com- pany. All over Burke o' nights and never a sus- picion that he was.other than.an un- commonly.clever chap with a perfect dog scent for the allen corners of the East End—Chinatown in Limehouse Cawweway, the Jewish quarter in Whitechapel. the French in Old Compton street, the Italians in Clerkenwell, workmen from all n tions over on the Isle of the Dogs. Wonderful “nights” these, with this pale and quiet youth, so modest- seeming, yet a master hand at draw- ing out the essence of these tran: planted little nations, each in its origimal savor and tang. Among these unforgettable nights one above all others stands a shining memory— & “music night,” when, sitting along- slde this young man one was flung headlong into the lyric raptures of Enrico Caruso, for the moment Puc- cin's Rudolfo, the poet. On the one hand no actual partaking, on the other no supreme service of poet or painter could surpass the enthrall- ment of this music night in the com- pany of Tommy Burke, who, finally, Instead of saying “Good-night,” sai “The simplest people can understand and enjoy Puccint and Caruso and Melba because the simplest people are artists. And, clearly, if beauty can- not speak to us in our own language and still retaln its dignity it is not beauty at all.” But—1 must be getting on ok & & For—"The Wind and the Rain"'— gives rise to a thought which the “Nights in London” of a year or so 8o failed to suggest—that these were not mere excursions into an allen element on the part of a clever and ambitfous artist trailing a fresh quarry to satisfy the appetite of Jjaded readers. Not at all. “The Wind and the Rain” stands as evidence that in those earlier days Tommy Burke was, at this point and that one, turning the' warp and woof of his own young days into these dramatic and illuminating “nighta.” What was then presented as touch- and-go contact here and there is now offered aw a full story covering the high peints of Tommy Burke's pil- grimage through East London and out of it up to the 23-year limit. Now, if this be true, if there be no subsequent reservatfons and Te- tractions—which, of course, there will not be since Tommy Burke is neither a coward nor a fool—why, then, “The Wind and the Rain” may. challenge without fear any self- avowal that for any purpose whats ever has hitherto stepped out into print. ¥ % ok “The road is long, says the East- ern sage, but it has many corners, and my London road has corners at Limehouse Causeway: at a court in the heart of Bermondsey; at Cale- donian road; at Greenwlich: at Pad- dington Station; at ‘The Barge Aground’; at Lyons' tea shop in Hol- born; at Belgravia, and the Borough High street; each corner a symhol of those other symbols of life which we call facts.™ So the story opens, serving thus the double purpose of a greeting hand to the reader and as bits of frame- work for the fitting in of périods that, togather, inclose the seison of boy- hood and early manhood. In this “confession” ,certain oqut-- standing and inescapable effects reach out and seize one in a Jasting hol. One s that this is not-@ book all, not a story about @ boy. It instead, a set of emBodisd,~ tanginle facts at the vital center of which is & living boy. And within thege facts you take a modest place beside the boy—following, standing by, waiting, ever close ‘o this.boy so gloatingly in love with the multit dinous sights and sounds and’ smells of Limehouse Causeway. And this sonse of reality persists throughout the experience, deepening your actual fntimacy with a child who, deep in his heart, is in love with beauty. hungry for it, untiring in an uncon- scious quest of it. And this hunger. fed at first on' the exoti¢ flavors of Chinatown, continues and is_ finally Joined with the real a@ony of con-- verting the beauty of things into a counterpart of lovely and revealing words. The effect of this insatiable ardor of artistry is a strong and beautiful and impressive simplicity. * ow k¥ “Before the window of Quong Lee a child stands by the half-hour, por- ing upon ghe ideogFaphs, then fms now) fuller for him of hidden beauty than any painted picture. About him & narrow street and through its mist move the calm faces of Canton and Malaya. Above his head hangs the lantern of Quong Lee, and b the window sits Quong Lee himself, gezing out as the boy gazes in. All day and all the evening he sits‘in the corner seat of his counter, gazing through the window with unwinking eyes, as though caryen. His temper ts fixed. aloof from the disturbance of delight -or distress. He seems as set as his ginger-jars, as permanent and tranquil es the expressionless face of his seven-stomached lord of right living. ‘But it was not so. Fluent as his road had.been, it had a sharp corner. -His shop fs there; his lantern is there; maybe his spirit Is there; but'the English law hdd not the child's feeling for the perdurable, and all that the child now.has of him in material shape is an old silk-cap, tasseled with devil chasers.” And now among the writings of Tommy Burke is “The Song, Book -of -Quong Lee of Limehouse”—tribute of affection for Quong Lee from the bdy who,used | to sit so happily in the silence of the little store over whose doorway swung the lamp painted with the chop of Quong Lee. % R ok ¥ “It seems that in those days things were always happening. Life was a shower of coloreq stars—Christmas days, Sundays, bank holidays, tram rides, bus rides.. O course; being poor, we suffered greatly, at the hands of the interferers and all' thoke old women and earnest young. wen fram the universities who want to leave the world better than they found it. For such people the E#st Bnd of Lo don was their hunting ground. No pious youth from college ever seemed Lo think of doing a little settlement work in Curzon street or Portman square. Always it was the defense- less, voiceless poor. who were the vic- tims of the whims’ and theories of the educated; and what with the dis- trict visitor, the provident visitor, the school board man, the curate, the in- fant welfare visitor and the settle- ment worker, our homes were far more public than any public house.’ * k % X Oh, don't neglect to read about the nights with Uncle Frank in *THe Barge Agroynd.”. . And surely you will want to know of-the Orhpanage. “Getting into a home is almost as hard a business as getting out of one. They: lure you by prétense of refusel. There are forms to be fllled"—dozens before one {s even considered as a candidate, And here is the story of the Har cress School. Then the getting away rom it and into the city. Then the story of “Gracle” and later the story of “Cicel. And by and by *as I rode back to Battersea, I knew that I had turned another corner—this time into the straight” Read it— read it for its beauty and.its truth and for the boy at the he;rtco:“(t. 1 ; !‘mh erculosis? ond Thanksgiving first ;'h.;‘::ved as a national holiday?— A. Thanksgiving was not celebrat- London “with Tommy |ed by the entire United States until|A 8fth shall close the drama 1864, when President Lincoln ap- pointed a day of thanksgiving. Tyis was the beginning of the custom of the Preeident issuing a Thanksgiv- ing proclamation. The last Thursday in November has been the day gener- ally designated. Q. Are the deserts of northern Af- rica policed in any way?—B. C. A. The whole of the great Egyp- tian dezert is now under the super- vision of the famous’ “Camel Corps,” which is officered by the British. Q. Where is there a big negro in- surance company?—K. R, A, The largest negro insurance company in the world, the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Com- pany, was organized and now has its headquarters in Durham, N. C. Q. What volcanoes are active in Italy at the present time?—O. O. L. A. Vesuvius is the only active vol- cano on the mainland of Italy at the present time, although eruptions have occurred in the Alban Hills within historical times. The great cone of Mount Etna is located in Si- cily, and Stromboli dominates the Lipari Islands. Both of these are active volcanoes. Q. What is & jetty?—P. M. C. A A jetty s an embankment which extends into a lake or ocean for the purpose of controlling the b ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS —————e BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN . (¥ Bishop Berkeley, an English-philoro- pher, is: Westward the course of -mpl‘f:ktl ita war, he drat four acts aiready p‘vfl" the 417, Time's ooblest offepring is the last. This refers to America and was writ- ten about the year 13820, Q. How is the word derby pro- nounced?—C. H. A. In. America the word is pro- nounced as spelled, while in England the usual pronunciation fs, 8arby This (s the most Important annusl horse race of England, founded in 1780, by the twelfth Earl of Derby, and run at Epsom, Surrev, {n_the Spring, -generally on the Wednesda before Whitsuntide. Q. Does gasoline. give off vapori— A. C. B, A.” Gasoline gives off a very explo- sive vapor even at ordinary tempera- tures. This vapor is heavier than air and may be present in a layer near the floor of a room in which the odor of gasoline |s scarcely notlce- able to a person standing. 14 a pro-cathicdral?-—R. by a bishop and used as hiz chief |church when there {s no cathedral in |his residential city is called a pro- cathedral. Q. Do all the countr! America touch Brazil?—E. F. A. All the countries except Ecuador and Chile have Brazil as boundaries. t South sand drift that would _otherwise shoal up a channel 6r encroach on the shore. Jetties ure usually built of large broken stone, or timber- work; concrete blocks, ete., can be used Q. What does “Ultima Thule mean?—F. V. R A. “Thule,” which means Norw was the most distant land known to the Romans. The adjective “ultima” means “utrgost.” United, theé two words ultimately came to mean “the extreme end.” Q. Can you give me any figures which indicate the popularity of “Evangeline”?—C. G. A. Thirty-seven thousand copies of the poem were, sold in the first ten years following its publication. The poem has been translated into ten languages. Q. Who was the first ate chosen by —M. V A. 1na Coolbrith of Califarnia. Her appointment to the Jaureateship was ratified by the State Legislature. Q1 find reference to a “syliabub.” Please explain this term.—S. M. A. “Syllabub” was a dish made by aixing ale, cider or wine with cream or milk, %o as to form a curd. This Mmixture was sweetened with rose wa- ter or lemon juice. Q. How long ago was the term “coffee house™ first used in thtis coun- try?—W. 8. T. A. The Widow poct laure- any State in the Union? Robert's Coffee erence is found. The notice appeared | in 1745, Q. When did the Empress Eugenie { die?—W. 0. H. A. The ex-Empress Eugenie France dfed on July 12, 1920, Q. Is it true that ‘Atianta, Ga., has two other names?—G. A. E. A. In 1837 Terminus was the name; it was then changed o Marthasvilla in 1843, and, finally, to Atlanta in 1845, - Q. What percentage of cattl S. 8. “During - Kugust 451336 cattle were tested for tuberulosis by the Bureau 0f Animal Industry, in co-ep- {eration with the various States. ~Of { this number 18,780, or about 3 per | cent, reacted to” the tast, indicating that ‘they were Infected. Workers for the eradication of bovine tuber- culoels now have more than 8,000,000 ‘cattle under their supervision Q. Who wrote “Westward the { course of empire sets its way"?—C. E. F. A. The first verse of a poem by BY FREDERIC 1f President Coolidge appoints his pérsonal secretary, Edward. T. Clark, to be Admiral Falmer's assistant on he - Emergency ¥ieet Corporation. Ted" will be, as it were, the newest chip of what somebody has calied the “Amherst bloc” in Washington. The Amherst shadow across the Capital widens from day to day. Looming within it, most conspicuous of all. of course, is the President himself. Then comes Frank W. Stearns, power behind the throne. Then there is At- torney General Stone. Soon there will be Senator GmexY of Massachusetts. Over at the Interstate Commerce Com- mission are two Amherstians—its chairman, Henry C. Hall, and Commis- sioner Joseph B. Eastman. A non- official member of the administration Amherst svndicate is the President's Congregational pastor, Dr. Jason Noble Pigrce. Mr. Coolldge’s closest advisep on finance and economics is & Co.,. the President's classmate at Amherst. This observer once asked Stearns how it happened that a rank outsider like Senator-elect” William M. Butler. a mere Boston University man, squeezed into the Coolidge high command. “Well." said Stearns, “you know ' the world kinds. of people—those who went to Amberst and those who wish they had.” = ok Col. Thomas W. Miller, alien prop- erty custodian. is salling for France early in December to attend an ex- eeutive meeting of the Federation In- teralliee des Anciens Combattants To enable the world outside of France tovady ‘all ‘that at one gulp, the fed- eration has been nicknamed the #Fidacy’ a word coined by taking the first letter of cach of the five French ‘words in the official title.” The Fidac 1s, in effect, an international legion, being _composed of the principal or- ganizations of ex-service men in each of the allied and associated couptries. The Heidquarters is in Paris.” “Col. Miller, representing the American Le- glon, was’elected president at its con- gress in Lopdon in September. Its principal purpose Is to crystallize world opinion in favor of outlawing war by substituting judicial settle- ments for battlefield decisions. The Fldac is considering the creatlon of an ex-service men’s section at the League . of Nations ‘and the admis- slon. of exiservice men. from: former enemy countries. Col. Miller has re- crived a month's leave from. Presi- @ent. Coolidge to enable him fo atténd the Fidac meeting in Paris. * k% K *~ Austen Chariberlain, the British for- eign secretary, who has won fame over- night by bringing Egypt to terms with- in three weeks of taking charge of John Bull's_foreign affairs, once visited the United States under romantic circum- stances. -He- came: to- Boston to act -as best man for hjs.father, the late Jogeph ‘Chamberlaln, wHen, that fighting states- man took as his zecond wife Mies Mary Endicott, daughter of Grover Cleve- land’'s first Secretary of War. For time the friends of the Chamberlains weren't sure whether it was father “Joe” or son Austen with whom the * House is the first one to which ref- | of | has 1 WASHINGTON OBSERVATIO Dwight W. Morrow of J. P. Morgan | made up’ of two, Q. Who said ‘We love him for the :CHQIXHPI he has made” R. A. D, A. Gen. Bragz of Wisconsin | this of Grover Cleveland in a xj {befora the Democratic national |vention of 1884, and this is said | have helped in his nomination. J Q. Is color blindness curabl | A" This condition is not curabie land sometimes exists in eves that are otherwise normal. It is found in 3 t0 4 per cent of men and less than 1 per cent of women. It is particularly iffportant that rallway and marine employes do not have this defect, since the safety of the traveling pub- lic depends in a large measure upon the accuracy with which red and green signals are observed. { Q. What is the meaning of Brin Mawr?—-L. B A. Bryn Mawr, Pa., was named after |the town of the same name in Becc County, Wales. The Welsh word Bry means bill and Mawr means big. Q.. Where does the greatest amount of snow fall’—C. E. B. A. Snowfall on the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Mountain ranges is tl greatest known in the United States The average annual amount of snow- fall there is in excess of 30 feet, Q. How much of the world's of ail is in this hemispher A. The supply of oll is about evenl As divided between the he pheres in_the case of coal, much more will be developed mnorth of the equator than south of it. Q. Should palms be kept quite wet —S.P. B. A. Regular watering is essent but it is better to keep palms & ytie dry than to overwater t | Browning of the tips of the lea | indlcates trouble at the root, pre ably overwatering; possibly worn lack of plant food. A palm which grows three new leaves a vear is doing very well. Q. Who are the Gideons® A. They are an organization ¢ travellng men, who are banded tc gether for the.purpose of pro every -hotel guestfoom with a Bibl Q. What'eaused ‘Anne Rutledge's death?—P. J. L. A. Brain fever cgused the death of Abraham Lincoln’s Brst flancee. (Inform antt ehtertath yoursclf making constant use' of The Star Iu- formation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin difector, - Twenty-firat and C strects northwest. There is a wealth of in formation at the command of Star readers. There is no charge for service ezcept a 2-cent stamp, which should be inclosed for direct reply.) WILLIAM WILE | bride-to-be was the more in lo | Among Mr. Chamberlain's ne to dis | tinction is the fact that he is the fir | British foreign minister in max | who speaks French, the langua | diplomacy, fluant * Now that the smoke of battie 1 cleared away, and politicians are dr ing back to Washington for the sess many are asking who principally i that killed. Cock Robin Davis and ¢ Robin La Fpllette. -Some it Hughes, with his eloquent bow and row, that terrified the country on t overthrow - of - the - Constitution issuc Others claim that it was Dawes, will hammet blo esipp! Valley, that hit lettelsm” eufficiently hard to drive States confidently clalmed by the Pr gresstves into the Republican colum: Still a third group contends that Wil liam M. Butler, Mark Hahna of i campalgn, did the trick with an org zation fay more powerful than friend or foe, imagined to be in ence. Wiat happened in California typical of Butler's methods Johnson's’ loyalty ‘th Coolidge jfully trusted by the Republic s jagers. In every city of county whera | Johnson men controlled the organiz { tion, even if it was ostensibly for Cool- idge, a secondary organization, wl Butler trusted- to_ the hilt, was formed. | on” the “safety-firat” principle. * ok xCk Admiral A. O. Wright, ranking office among the survivors of the Confeder navy in the Civil War, is engaged in an interesting search for.records of men ho sérved in the Southern fleet. Ti “onfederate Navy Research Bure: has just established héadquarters : Birmingham, Ala. in charge of Cap W. H. McElroy, Admiral Wright's aid The records of the “gray nav, lost when Richmond :was ‘evacuated in 1865, and it fs desired to revive and complets. them. At its zenith the Dixie navy contained about 1,500 officers and 5,000 men. " wers * ok ok K North Dakota's departure. from FarmervLabor and Non-Partisan Leaguc reservation on November 4 lends interest to news from Bismarck that the Flicker- tall State plans a nation-wide “booster” campaign. The purpose is to advertis: the virtues of North Dakota, soft-pedal ite past political vices and gencrally set it right before the country. Greater North Dakota Association, of which Herman: Stern of Valley City is president, has taken charge of the movement to show the United States there's nothing wrotig with' the great wheat Commonwealth that s bigger than all New: Engtand, with Delaware thrown in for good measure. * * ¥ % Statesmen arriving from Texas and Wyoming, which are to be ruled by women for the impending gubernatorial term, say ‘that the philologists of the Btate universities are cracking (their ¥ aver the proper designations for “Ma” Ferguson and Mrs. Ross. ) The very latest suggestion is that “governa’ 1s the only.title justified by etymolog: One contention is that “governante” I8 the thing. (Copyright, 1024.)