Evening Star Newspaper, November 29, 1924, Page 6

i THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON, D. C SATURDAY, NOVEMBER' 29, i924. - S Bo s VARNION, D G, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29 1924 =~~~ 00000000000 THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. JIHE With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. GATURDAY. . .November 29, 1924 THEODORE W. NOYES. . . .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Gusisess Qffice, 11th St. and Penns New York Office: 110 East Chicago Offic Tower Bullding. European Ofice ; 16 Regent St.,London, England. Ths Evenlng Star, with the Sunday worning *dition, fa delivered by carriers within the ty at 80 cents per imonth: dally only, 43 B ; Sunduy only, 20 cepts’ per ay_be sent by mail or telo- oo Maft §000. Collection is made by car- tiers at the end of each moath. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advauce., Maryland and Virginia. Dafly and Sunday. .1 yr., $5.40; 1 mo., 70¢ Datly only, 1vr., $6.00; 1 mo., 60c Sunday only. 157, $2.40; 1 1mo,, 20¢ All Other States. Dally and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., 85¢ Daily only .1yr, $7.00;1mo, 60c Sunday onl 1y, §3.00;1mo, 25¢ Member of the Associated Press. The SLssociated Press is exclusirely entitled ‘o the mse for republication of ail news di alc&»ll credited to it or not otherwise credited s Led ecta paper and ‘also the local news pub Teln. Al rights of publication of herein Senate House Cleaning. Yesterday the Senate Republicans in caucus answered definitely the ques- tions that have been repeatedly asked since election regarding the status of those members of that body, once Re- publicans, who during the last cam-| raign refused their support to the| ¥'S nominee for President, onc of iem heading a third-party ticket for same office himself. The caucus, > which did not go to record, ved that Senators La Folletts, , Brookhart and Frazier should not be invited to future Republican conferences and should not he named to fill any Republican vacancles in Senate committees. It did not go so far as to vote to exclude them from thelr present committee positions, an wction which would require a vote of the Senate itself, This action was not expected. The belief had prevalled that the caucus would for the present ignore the in- surge of the four Dbolted the presidential ticket for the opening of the i cress to fix their party The | ounsel of prudence, perhaps, dictated | such a course. The caucus, however, | ‘lected to eschew expedi and tof vroceed with a housecleaning which, | atever may I, will at lea have the effect of clarifying the ut- mosphere and rendering more definite the responsibility for legisiative pro cedure. Definition of party reguiar casy. Not many partisans are nt regular in their support wery proposal. cvery poil raucus of the ns yesterday | iid not appiy tl t of complete | Senators why nd wai I h Con- | atus. be st| is not | 100 t of support In w presid ‘ampaign. It did 3 , holding have in| *heir seats-as Republ s, counter t the past frequently gon ‘he party course in legi Senators as Borah. N on. They remai Senator the import post of the foreign relations committee. clear line of divi ably the only line t! Ingically and witk zatioh. Nomina the blicans, 42 10 independents. It stands nublicans, Democrats @ 6 ind pendents, to class the now excluded ! Senators with Johnson and Shipstead of Minnesota. 1f the Democratic ‘aucus should follow the same pro- edure with Senator Wheel who was La Iollette’s running mate ‘he third-party tic their strength | would fall to 41 and that of the inde- nendents would > to 7. In elther ase the Senate will stand at a tie on a1, Straight Republican vote again Democratic-independent vote. In the next Congre: f changes due to the election id, the party standing will ows, with Senator Wheeler % in the Democratic caucus: Repub- Democrats, 40; independ- This would give a clear R publican majority of six over the com- tined Democratic and independent vites. Should three of the Republic- sns join the united opposition on any Jote a tie would result. But the ques- | tion has been raised whether in such | the full Democratic strength | <ould be aligned for co-operation with | e independent bloc. All four of the now-evicted Senators | were clected as Republicans. Two, | from North Dakola, were supported by the Non-Partisan League, but se- ured their nominations from Repub- Jican sources. They have acted con- sistently with the independent bloc | ince taking their geats. In the cam- aign just closed they were support- ers of the third party. The present cancels their Re- | vpublicanism from the viewpoint of the Senate organization. They have thefr appeal to the people of North Dakota, Sepator Brookhart has just been re-elected on the face of the re- turns in circumstances that indicated « virtual repudiation by the Repub- jicans of Towa. Senator La Follette holds his place by virtue of election us a Republican two years ago. That all four of these Senators will seck to block the Republican legislative pro- gram is assumed. Whether they suc- ceed or not the action of the caucus will at least serve to place responsi- bility where it should rest. It un- doubtedly simplifies matters on that score while it may cause complica- tions in other respects. —————— Egypt is evidently determined to prove that her modern palaces have something of interest to dig up as well as her ancient tombs. —aoe—s. Blunders at Cairo. The Egyptian situation is a series of climaxes. First came the killing of Gen, Stack, then the British demands, next tHe refusal of the Egyptian min- ‘istry to accede to all of those de- at could be drawn | ut causing dem this action was | mposed of | s and 43 Re- Senate was D now op on | Just + cas { pletion | direction and extent of the soft mass | { combination i “pock ling a " between a hundred and four hundred Egypt. - This, it was thought, would lead 1o a period of compurative quiet, especially as the Cairo government ordered the Sudanese native troops to yield to British force and evacuate without resistance. But the natite troops disobeyed orders. Two platoons of them at Khartum mutinied, attacked the military hospital, killed a British doctor and two other physiclans and were in turn subdued by British forces in a short, but bloody, engage- ment. This outbreak has been quickly suppresscd, but it may have sinister consequenc The terms of the Cairo govern- ment’s order to the Sudanese troops to withdraw were such as to inflame them rather than cause them to vicld peaceably. They were told, in effect, that the British are aggressors and that the demands made upon Egypt for the Stack crime are unjust. They were to withdraw simply because they would be outnumbered and outarmed. The giving of such an order to troops of this character was calculated to lead to just such a tragedy as that which has occurred at Khartum. It would seem that poor judgment is being displayed at Cairo. The Egyptian policy of the British gov- ernment has been clearly one of benefl- cence. A large degree of autonomy has been granted to the Egyptians, and while certain powers have been retained by Great Britain they have been of & nature to insurc stable gov- ernment and to permit the develop- ment of a larger degree of independ- ent administration. The killing of Gen. Stack has checked this process, and all of the actions of the Egyptian government subsequently have been of a nature to make more difficult the re-catablishment of that large degree of autcnomy that was possessed be- fore the crime. e The Tunnel Slide. Work on the water tunnel between Great ¥alls and the Conduit road near the Anglers’ Club has been im- peded lide.” Completion of the tunnel will be delayed, but the en- gineer: not delay com- on's enlarged , it is be- » operative by January The slide, which began sev- ago and has continued in is attributed to a “poc K in an otherwise solid form -xpected that xtl will soon cxhaust itsclf; though the | eral days of soft ro have not bee: The bulk uf the tunnel i In some old book is » have bee xon word Our Poto n 1t is a granitoi having much the same mineral con jeome sword-swallower: s an arch classed as o 1t rock, or one t! is g generall > . is for the a high grade of the hiill are exten k, s boring tien © most | s and of clc e ar also i eral of which and much of t with free-milling gold been found in in white and ir but one of the stamp built on that ridge by a gold company crushed ti and passed the “sludge plates ccated with quicksilver. At an other time quantities of this brown rock or “ore’ were sacked and shipped to a smelter, or one of those works | in which gold occurring in combina- | tion with iron and sulphur, and form- | “refractory” ore, is recovered various processes. Large bodies of soft rock were found at depths carries gold non-precious mi of the small | ned | mills T N erals. region quartz, b thi; feet. Let no one get the gold fever from | this. There have been of lucky men who have made mones from Great Falls gold mining, but it is @ matter of record that most per- sons who have tried their fortune in that way have lost money It 1s no doubt this | which the tunnel digge have come, | and whether they have struck a small “pocket” of it or an area several acres wide and a couple of hundred fect decp is a question of luck. r——en—s Blasco Ibanez may not derive any direct personal advantage from hi political activities, although they can- not fail to be a considerable help to his publishers. ———————— The Japanese are said to have difi- culty in learning aviation. The num- ber of airplanes they are building in- dicates that they are nevertheless fond of the sport. ——————— Sinking the Washington will be well worth the sacrifice if it sets the fashion of destroying war material the world over. ———————— An Eclipse Excursion. Solar eclipses have not heretofora been regarded as entertainment fea- tures, but action just taken by the president of Smith College may put these celestial phenomena in the cat- egory of divertisements, On the 24th of January next the body of the moon will pass between the earth and the sun in such a manner that the solar surface will be totally obscured over a portion of the United States. The limit of totality runs a little south of Nérthampton, Mass., where Smith llege is established, and so the head of that institution, in recognition of the educational value of an eclipse, has announced that a holiday will be granted on that occagion and has ar- ranged for a special train to be run down to Windsor, Conn., which lies some soft rock into | !inconceivably terrible has been made | The toilsome hills mands, followed quickly by the resig- | within the zone of complete cbscura- natjon of the Zaghloul government, theéfi"the arrest of four alleged con- tion. Astronomers travel thousands of E‘TENING STAR spirators against British influence in | miles to gain good vantage points for observing eclipses. Great sums of money are spent in these expeditions. Instruments are set up in the most remote places, sometimes in danger- ous conditions. The astronomical sta-| tion must be within the zone of to- tality and in a region of clear atmos- phere and a high percentage of fair weather. It must be remote from urban influences, vibrations and at- mospheric befoulment. Thus there is no novelty in going a long way to see an eclipse, but so far as known this is the first time it has been proposed to run an excursion for students to see the sun slip out of sight for a fow minutes. —————t———————— The New S-nate Leader. Election of « Curtls to the Senate leaderst to succeed Mr. Lodge i8 a promotion well earned by years of service and by ability. He was in the sixteenth year of his House membership when he was elected to the Senate to fill an unexplred term in January, 1907, Thus he is now in the cighteenth year of his service in the upper house. In that time he hag been one of the most diligent workers. Scrupulously faithtul to his committee assignments, thorough in his study of all questions involved in legislative proposals, he is today one of the best-informed men on congres- slonal practice and on a wide range of topics affected by congressional ac- tion who ever sat in the law-making body. Not a showy man in debate, not u raetorician in argument, his con- tributions to the Senate's discussions have always becn valuable, and as he has gained in experience e has beer steadily advancing in influence as a speaker. He has always been a par- san, faithful to his political organi- zation, and yet with @ breadth regarding public interest not lim by political expediency. His selection as leader upon the declination of the dean of the Senate, Mr. Warren, to assume the reeponsibilities of that role, is a logical choice and, judging from Senator Curtis' record, un em- inently wise one. ————— A Plea in Abatement. Counsel for Charles R. Forbes, for- mer dircctor of the Veterans' Bureau, in, Lis opening address to the jury at Chicago that will try the case against him, enters the plea that his client, | instead of being fmplicated in and re- | sponsibie for frauds ageinst the Gov-| ernment and the veterans under its care, actually sought to prevent such As an instance, he says that Forbes took over the bureau he discovered such wrongful practices s the filling of veterans' tecth with s instead of gold and the mainte- nance of a vocational training school to teach former service men to b Certainly if these points could be ned ot the trial and are v other matters, Col. benefactor rather than This matter of brass and teaching sword- somehow escaped pub- . perhaps merely because of other alieged dere- the Veterans' Bureau ud- It ertainly be to| " credit is established such cruel it as brass teethilling and such wa ful cxtravagance in vocational tr: & the teaching of the mterest- | but hardly profitable, art ',f: sword-swallowing. | of in ing a — e r——— "The fact that another war would be so0 plain that it hecomes impossible to | understand how any nation could be | foolish enough to start it. 1 —r————— It is perhaps to be regretted that compel the reading public to take their | llfes kind und another =o| - meriously | \Whatever may be the restrictions | imposed by the landlord of an apart- ment he cannot deprive the tenants of tho right of assemb —— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOINSON. Says Hez. “You can't he thankful all the time,” Said Hezekiah Bings. “You can't preserve a mood sublime White wearing angel wings. And he who wears a constant alir Of gratitude intense, Is what a lawyer might decl A case of falsc pretense. “You've got to recognize the thern While you admire the flow'r. You ought to know the house forlorn As well as pleasure’s bow'r. we've got to climb Where care its shadow flings, We can't be thankful all the Said Hezekiah Binge. Sphinxes. “They are now referring to you as a political sphin “Which kind, inquired Senator Sorghum, apprehensively; ‘one of those that is expected to know the answer to a riddle, or just @ landmark with @ broken nose, neglected among the sands of time?” More Thanks. Had a home Thanksgiving In the good old-fashioned way; And we're thankful that we're living After dining yesterday. Jud Tunkins says he knows too many folks who are prohibitionists at heart, but not at stomach. The Loud Speaker. “At what station is this reciter lo- cated?” “I don't know,” answered Mr. Growcher; “but if you ask me it ought to be the first precinct.” Confession of a Constant Reader. Diplomacy chat leaves me blue And science embitters my life. t T'll read for a column or two ‘When somebody poisons his wife. B “Some folks,” sald Uncle Eben, ‘“‘don’t get ambitious 'bout tellin’ de truth till dey discovers some of it dat ain’ none of deir business wigtever.” Chess still holds {ts anclent own against cross-word puzzles, radio, poker, bridge and “put and take.” By the way, what has become of that spinning top, anyway? Only a few days ago Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, who Is in the vicinity of 80 years old, and proud of it, suc- ceeded in being the only one of 30 Washington chess players to defeat Edward Lasker, champlon. This news was duly printed on the sporting page at the time, but I play it up here to call attention to chess, rather than to Dr. Wiley. Aud in this jplacing of emphasis upon the game, rather than the man, no ons will agres quicker than the man who made his name und that of pure food synonomous, “Pure food in five letters—," that might be a proper cross-word puzzle definition. ~ The solution would be “Wiley,” of course. When & man can play a gams for as many years as the former chief of the Burewu of Chemistry has played chese, and at his present age be the only man of 30 good plavers to win a game from Ed Lasker, when the latter fs playing the eroup simul- taneously, it speaks mighty well for the Intersst and charm of the sport. Chess, let it be recalled, is almost tho only purely intellectual game to win a place for itaelt on the sport- ing page, whoro sports of the great outdoors, such as base ball, foot ball, golf and tennis, hold sway. It has dono this, not oaly becauss of the large stakes attending master play, but ulso by reason of the fact that fts evolutions are bleturesque and charming, in the best sense of those too often abueed words. In addition to belng us picturesqun. on its scale, ag foot ball, the unclen me {8 charming in t rnse @ great painting possesses cha he intinits combinations po on the choss board remind the slelan of a symphony, writer of the colorful word combi- nations of Conrad, the basket player of the plays possiblo in favorite sport. That 8 why we may spe proprioty and exactness of the of chess, much as we talk of the oharm of beautiful women. Kor chess Is us variable as a beauty, as stern and relentless as a citing as warfare its If this seems a bit too ay, let me remind you tha 110ts of the World War, ; victories to hiy credit In anrial combat, went on record in the clous Atlantic Month that nothing in ite tho thrill of great * x % A who feal that chess fe high brou ht to look rosstbilities out of falrness themselves and to a gama which 1 o0ld that 1o man positively knows origin Think of a game the very least. an intelle ston that has besn played 1 all races and climes down thre ages! Chess s that some cently in a bit int to ot an upst clever ma order to art—something invented r himselt on | eusy street, as the saying fs—but has @ lineage more anclent than any king. | It pocsesses an enormous which appeals to those wt t6 Looks—and who does not? has a great history. It has po interest almost any one who wiil do himself the service of investigating it You might think, then, there need for an appeal for the ga this late date; but there is, o count of the feeling among & that chess is too | them. Tt {e a great dea! easler game than Sen tdge a couple of hours publican senatorial Folletts, Hrookhart, La zler out of the G. O. make prime reading to know what the most independ. Congress sald to the titu; the Republican organization about the biggest bombshall sprung in Washington for many a moon. Bora has never uttended a caucus minc s read la and I It OVEr COPPRT [ the police and divorce court news|came to the Senate 17 yc He doesn’'t belleve in Neither does he beliave In demotlig man for declining to swallow par platforms, hook, lina and sinker Borah's own political digestion has always rebelled agatnst that kind of diet On the present occasion, he is known to espouss the theory that a far morc feasible plan would have been to adopt a legislative program, put it up to the ‘“renegades” to a cept it, and, if they refused, let them automatically read themselves out of the party. * % x x Western progressives of type fear that the Republican high command forgets party lines have lost thelr old-time meaning beyond the Mississippi. They hold that to Le true, despite the recent Coolidge landelide throughout the W count The revolt of the Fol- lettes, Lrookharts, Ladds, Frazier Norrices, Borahs, Howells et al has not, it I8 argued, been so much a: uprising against the Repullican or any other party as it has been a demonstration by and on behalf of the great West. That section for a generation has been struggling to obtain “equality” in Washington with the long-intrenched East. Whether ‘Western radicals of Republican hue, ltke the quartet just excommunicat- ed from the party councils on Capitol Hill, will be bereft of any real power through such ostraclsm re- malns to be seen. They will still be on important committees, though senfority may be denied them. The will have a vote apiece, as before. For all practical purposes, their Samsonian strength will not be shorn, * % ¥ K A vista of interminable possibilities is, of course, opened up by the history made by the G. O. P. caucus on No- vember 28, 1924. What will happen, for instance, {f Senator Borah, new chafrman of the foreign relations committee, puts his broad Idaho back up and says he will have no truck or trafic with President Coolidge’s World Court scheme? What will hap- pen if Borah indulges not only in passive resistance to the administra- tion's major foreign policy, but goes out gunning for it, in his committee and on the floor of the Senate. What will happen if the Demosthenes of Congress conducts a sort of La Fol- lette campaign against the World Court on the rostrums of the Nation? Will Senators Curtis and Watson, the new G. O. P. leaders in the Senate, read Borah out of the party? That would indeed be a spectacle which would cause the gods, perhaps, not to weep, but to rub their eves. * % kX Calvin Coolidge must have given his blessing to the excommunication procedure which leaves the ‘rene- gade" four outside the breastworks from which the star-spangled banner of regularity now flies. Ostensibly and officially the President keeps his hands off of matters for which the legislative branch of the party is singly responsible. But a schoolboy in politics knows that action fraught with such significance would not have been taken without at least tacit White House approval. From the moment Coolidge’'s eweep of the agri- tile Borah | |\ bridgs—oven easler than checkers, that mechanical and wooden game whose only relationship to chess is that it is played on the same hoard of 84 squares. Any one can play chess—in a fash- fon—s0 that he and his playmate can got a great deal of fun out of it. Even at the beginning he will seo that the game offers infinite possi- bilitles for expansion. One can never play it 8o well that he cannot play it better. Using an adequate-sized board and tho Staunton pattern of chessmen of a good size there is no more beauti- ful “layout” among games. Lven the much-heralded mah-jong, however one spells it. with fts tilcs, counters, etc., 15 no more picturesque. Chess 18 perfect. Fven tho begin- ner feels this as he learus the move of the knight, the bishop, the other pleces and of the pawns and senses the centurfes and centurtes that have gone toward perfecting it The violin. according to musiclans, is an instrument {ncapable of further improvement. 8o, too, chess. As ar- chitccture {s sometimes called frozen music, #o chess ix war reduced to small size and made purely intellec- tual, rather than a combination of brawn and {ntellect Men have tried to improve upon chese. They have devised eluborate games, With cight boards, sometlmes set one over the other. They have complicated the thing beyond all com- prehension; but, when all ls maid und anclent game, with one squares and its ments of pawns and ple , Tema the one and only ches. It is be. improven or 1 many other hings can 1& he ALl Amerfeans interested lectual purduits ought knowledge jthat in 1 United Stafes p great 1 b4 expres: diversion Greeks, and times, ‘wnd a Gangee, That he ended his balanced m hess, but ruther is at undivided use of the brain upon pursuit is i to end thus The well Lalanced man of today w great deal from the f poor aul Morphy, who out- chess the masters of Eu- from the gr actuall order & beate lay the w eration. He and nigh uscs them | his busin For choss is a who think the requiring to b if p keep pace with - chooses to ir the best {80 intriguing ti liable to take the gume This lany o < Still st of th played nd a pert v E us and abs of far-gone banks of the the perfect days with un- » reflectfon upon warning to all I= and aunton d be in wy chess s«pend his , but golf und de off [ Those -word puzzle is the To ying nees les this n the press Houee, where the vdds of a queen 2 of roosn £o0d pluye to the of purn ing pastim a advisers turn the rascals unt Repub he President | counseled that to . jEDeakers W man, iibrarian publie system of Columbia, will be honored commuuity in which he has s at a receptlon in eek. Somebody asked Bowerman what was the harc Tk done in Washingte 9 tting Congress to do justice to the book-reading public of the District.” he replied. “On the average. I spend from u quarter to a third of my_time on that particular job. From 5 to 7 vears of my 20 at the library mi thus have been more profitubly Dr. Bower man s in 1 the $30.000 whicl he needs properly to staft, equip and open the new branch library just completed out in the fashionable Mount Pleas- ant resldential district of Washing- ton. That section is a city by itself, with a population of from 100.000 to 150,000, Prohibition Commissioner Haynes, who is constantly hearing from for- eign countries interested in the prog- ress of prohibition in the United States, learns that Japan is now in the throes of n campaign to bring It about there. The “National Temper- ance League” s the motive power behind the crusade. At first, mercly more drastic regulatory laws are pro- posed, 10oKing to eventual prohibi- tion. Bills are to bo introduced into the Japaneso Parliament imposing restrictions on the salo of sake, the national drink. Among the reforms demanded is the rafsing from 21 to years of the age limit now applicabl to purchasers of sake or other alco- holic drinks. Another Dill calls for the teaching of anti-liquor and anti- tobacco doctrine In the public schools, Still another bill would prohibit eale of liquor in the army and navy, in dining cars and in raflway stations. e r Gilbert . Grosvenor, president of the National Geographic Soclety, is a member of the non-officlal “Am- herst bloc” in Washington. He got his A. B. at Calvin Coolidge's alma mater, magnum cum laude, two years after the President’s graduation. A twin brother, Edwin Prescott Gros- venor, now of the New York bar, won the same honors on the same occa- sion. The “Geographic's” master mind was born in Constantinople, the son of an American missionary, and his wife is a daughter of the late Alexander Graham Bell. The Janu- ary number of the National Geo- graphic Magazine, grown to a glant during Grosvenor's 25 years of editor- ship, will publish a record issue of mre than 1,000,000 cpies. (Copyright, 1924.) —oe—. Pistol Totin> Passing, From the Boston Transcript. With another great mail-order hous barring its sale, the parcels-post pistol is ceasing to be sign and symbol of American ctvilization. His Compelling Word. From the Boston Transcript. | same ¢{On the las The Library Table BY THE BOOKLOVER A house as the central themo of a novel is not new in literature. Dick- ens’ gloomy, mysterious “Bleak House," with its walk where ghostly steps are heard at night, is a striking example of a setting which dominates all the characters and shapes the ents of the story. In “Kenilworth" ott made permanent the fame of the Elizabethan castle, where the Earl of Leicester murdered his young wife, Amy Robsart. Compton Mac, enzie's “Plasher's Mead” is a gabled, corridored old house, surroundcd by meadow and garden, agalnst v lovely background {hwarted Youns love scems supremely d. Archibald Marshall's “Watermeads' is a ram- bling cld hall on « rambling old place of meadows und woods, where doors, windows, fences and gates all clamor for the carpenter's care; and the fumily fs as rambling and im- poverished as the y The: are also Trollope's “Orley Farm” und “Framley Pargonage,” Lmily Bront: “Wuthering Heights” and J. D. Beresford's “Hous Demetrius | Road.” | ¢ B Foreter's novel, “Howard's describes another delightful which, in spite of various circumstances which become connected with it, is a haven of rest for various members of a family. { Helen Schlegel, on a visit to the Wil {coxes of Howard's Bnd, describes the iplaco in @ letter to her sister, Mar- #aret, who afterward, much to her OWn furprise, becomes a member of the Wilcox family. She writes: “It | is old and little, and altogether de- | {ilghtrul—red brick From hall | ou o right or left into dining room | drawing room. Hall itself is prac- Jtically a room. You cpen anot door fn ft. and there are the stairs nel to the | End, house tragle isn't all the house, rewily that one notices—nind w S you look up from the front itself is the least part of the place; the best part lies outside, as Mrs. Wilcox, who has inherited it from her family and loves it, very well appreciates. There are a big wych-elm, leaning a little over tho house; also ordinary elms, caks, pear trees, apple trecs and a vine Thera ure’ al 1 where the Wilcox sons pl where Mrs. Wi ered flowers in the morning, adow which causes Mr. Wi cox and Charles to suffer from ha of How for its occu ¢ the knowledge that “all the London’s creeping.” Over yond, cight or nine meadows from the house, is a Hne of red rust—the lieap houses of @ new chegp Lon suburh. ¥ rd's End ., how- Osborne con- | pter of his Look | e has given it| | Fermer Gov. | esses in tr ! adagasca ling Tree,” decldes tha or h," but to capture the reader and fo t known ; : an excead- book, in which the on his own observa- | ttor writings of thoss who {have preceded ¥, en-| tertaining deseribes’ thal P island, its| i : - 18 before h There are | on Ma Robinson | Robert Lrury and on nd his pirate republic. !s entertaining, abounds tersp, with {ing -nt of the tie i Speaker of the Evening,’ Rev, M. Wolsey & | word at « religious servi \. Y., they were dedicat i the wervices lasted eight dave ¥ ax, Dr. Stryker I was <peak la With foresight based on experience he g¢ the two were to precede him to agree to a 20-minute limi The firet kept his bargal v well by epeaking for only 30 m 1 , but the second spoke an hour and half and sat du happy good measure. an anxious pause. Dr, ker walked forward. He looked coldly at his | predecessors. He looked compassion- ately on the wilted rows 5 He spoke gently as follows: “This congregation looks very much dedi- cated. So I will say nothing to you Uticans beyond suggesting that vou all go home now and read that chap- ter in the New Testament vohich tells hov preached all night and Zutychus fell out of the window.” * @ church After 30 vears of proscription Ber. s play, “Mrs. Warren' is at last, €0 reports the Living Age, to appear upon the Lon- don stage. Tt has been produced in the United States, France, Russla and in Germany, where Shaw has alw been popular. In Kngland, though it has leng been published in book form a rigid censorchip of the stuge cow ing stralght down frem Shakesp day has till now forbidden 1its duction. The event has brought from Mr. Shaw this characteristic com- ment: “This news is ouly too true. Now that I have reached the vener able aga of 68 in the odor of sanctity, the lord chamberiain lets loose on moe a terrible play written 30 yea ago, when I was a young tiger fea ing neither God nor man—a play which 1 was depending_on him to keep locked up so that I might end my days In peace. I canot forbid its performance, becauss it is as true and needed today as in 1894, but my per- conal feeling as to the license is ‘Bet- ter never than late.'” * % s “First Aid to the Reader” might be a good title for the volume “A Read- er's Gulde Book,"” in which May Lam- berton Becker has brought together the lists of books on a great variety of subjects, which were originally published in the Literary Review of the New York Ivening Post and more recently in the Saturday Review of Literature. Mrs. Becker has an almost uncanny book sense. Iler lsts are brief, they are up to the minute, they are confined to books that are read- able, and they a set forth with such a delighttul personal touch of com- ment and criticsm as to make them at once suggestive and instructure as well as rellable—a most unusual feat in the making of book lists. They cover a wide range, including liter- ature, writing as an art, travel, his- tory, the arts, children and education, religions and the drama. d* ok kK American sclence has reached the point where it has a distinguiched past as well as a fruitful present. “The First One Hundred Years of American Geology,” by Dr. George I’ Merrill, head curator of geology in the United tSates National Museum, was first issued as a government pub- lication 20 years ago. It has now been revised and reissued in handsome form | a process na ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN many children in the Jlumbia wear glasses . Nefther the Board of tion nor the Unlted States Public Health Service has any information | on the number of children in the District of Columbia wearisg glasses. | insoluble or curd. Tl It is stated, however, Ly the Public| hardness of natural waters fs princ Health Service that 22 per cent of 1y due to the salts of caleium a the children having defective cyesight | magnesium, ecspeclally calcium car do not wear glasses. bonate which produces hardn ter which o certain sul o with the s g with it dissolved stances which tion of soup 1 Jator La Follatte be | of the Republican party? |y, D. acter Should Senator La Follette Lelg publican caucus United States Senate, or should Republican mafority refus give him committee assignments as : Republican, it might be euld that he has heen read out of the party Republican national convention also take action denyving h 2 tion and standing as a Republi Q. Who ch -BB A. Mrs. Denby, wife retary of the Navy at christened the Z nent hardne d by the abstance n of lather wit How old doe ish-Americ: Governn a veteran of n War have to t to pensfon hir nish th says t Am toned : istened the — idvise how the fea wved e from a du Q. How many Ur ed to remain for sev- posts are therc in A. There is only one China. This United Sta during the 1900. They have m there siuce this date. Q. A, are recognized the moisture of tl dew may be eald t densation of watery from the carth (when de the moisture exhal army post in ntsin. The ntained troops Does dew fall?—J. T Three concurrent sources of dew the condensation of atmosphere (whe fall); th VDO rises), and plante has often played How old do to yleld & ton ¢ <. D. A. A good vineyard will produce this amount in its fifth year. 1 theory is t! 1 exists between t of an i I evolutior s explaine ceordir Q. What proportion of the s on our £hips ar A. During the lasi £ 280,142 officers and men fore hipping commission were native Americans naturalized Americans, or in all nipped be- | T 116,421 nd 41,195 | per cent limited « animal due Light” writ- environme of the course of de nfluenc does one secure Q. Hov | pretection for phonograph re G The Copyright O ¢ protection pre rec th tion 1 ords are » Bureau of Stondards says | hecn developed r the rapid and ccon ids grou Hshments, and th nd boiled t now in succ eral plants. lawyer get 1 el foreign Q. T need a touck country. How with & good o A. list of 8,000 neys in foreign complled by th and Domestic Co is available to turers and thet! Q. Why than the North Pole?—F A. It Is du» to the ve: elevation above sea level stand for several day thus prepared in a kettls igated attor-| el countries has been 3 Bureau of Forelgn erce, znd this list American manufac- director, ! advisers. " nsiderable | service is 2 VITAL THEMES|| Business on the Upward Bound. BY CEOR(;'E?L': ROBER | Blography o | in literature er's or 1 (Reader: send their Lot formation e tha South Yule ¢ THE PUBLIC LIBRARY | | 2—The Value of Biograpby. It {8 evident that, regardless of politi- | cal differences, the result of the election has been accepted with confldence and signs that | mpleting a situa more favorable to general prosperity than any t since the war. There sponsive b than the New York Ste Not becatise prosperity made there. but bec Pl tocks and bonds repr genting the ownership and credit country's principal corporate indust —industries which enj t prosperity w iroughout the co periods, personag. t lighted up by th | tury | more vivid p! {of th her story married not only mes, cu of the pe es to kn and 1 ch has men, and Let dter H shlems ar her romance stion of oncains an 1. co relations 1t or the & servicn great the been mil- | hut 1 twica th st the buy active marke has been more than November 4. This i exchange traders, 4 flow from ail parts of the countr when in a single day they include stoc In over 500 Separate companies engaged In almost every ess it can- not be doubted nstitute a very practical expres- | on of opinion. Twice in the last been situations simil. The first was when th : fully resumed gold parments in and the other was following the election of 1895, Each time the election proved to be the turning point, after which the country entered upon the period of « velopment and prosperity un our previous history. In both cases an unbalanced relation had existed between agriculture and the other industries, depressing both. An era of rallroad bullding following the Civil War had caused a gres ansion of agricultural production, and the same thing occurred in the decade fol- lowing the revival of 1879-80. It was | commoniy said that the country was overbuiit and overdone. and never could | his kinsman, transports us into pay the indebtedness hanging over it. | humbls home and puts us in to Then came the revival, and develop- | with a spirit animated Ly sclen ments that went beyond the most san- | interest, to whom every little 1 guine. Wealth, productive power and |was a subject of utest stud consumptive demands increased togther, | take the tirst volume of Darwit until factories and railroads had to be | “Life and Letters,” with its portrayal built over to give enlarged capacity and | of inte 1l hone; and patie to take advantage of new ideas, new | industry in spite of very bad healt! methods. Best of all, biography furnishes The aggregate value of e with friends, the very best and mo cluding buildings, in the United States |interesting, who have lived at doubled from 13900 to 1912, according to | time or in any place. We census figures, when the value of ma- |longer forced to live in a narrow « chinery and tools increased from $2,500.- | vironment, but are the peers of : 000,000 to $6,000,000,000. Ferhaps the [the great and good through the ag most telling figures of all are those of | We may know intimately Joan « rallway tonnage, tons carried 1 mile | Arc or Beatrice d'Este, the charming increasing from 95139,022,225 in 1897, | little Itallan lady who exerted m which marked the term, to 141,5 - | influence_upon the politics o 161 in 1900, from which there al- | time, or Mme. Geoffrin, who W most constant increase to 301,398,752, | friend of the encyclopedists in Fr 118 ton miies fn 1915 The number of | in the pre-rcvolutionary d: tons of steel made in 1897 was 7,15 | Petrarch, the most dclightful of and in 1912, 31,261,303, Mcanwhile the | ter writers, or Mme. Le Brum, In the o 1¥ natiox periods in ho find his ding, wars and lines 1d in biogTaphy an agre cquiring Listorica the res uccession, ble way of formation, for around the ck ments and ti is used only ting, T | decper into he peets. or! s a ba setting, : sl stdes satisfying t er, who wants something deeper | the history reader who wants som. - thing more readable, biography hos several other chara 0 commend it develops our une standing nd makes us have mors sympathy, opens up new channels of nterest and is also a great nspiration. The “Life who by the Yale University Press. Dr. Merrill's book is en interestingly written series of skotches of the leaders of American geology since President Coolidge will not wield the |its early days. Anecdotes and com- big stick, but he may o occasion spesk | ments are many, and i}lustrations, es- the compelling word, ( A pectally portralts, are numerous, \ cou increase of population from the census | went painting from court to of 1899 to that of 1909 was about 21 in the various Kuropeam co : per cent. These figures show how this | and gives in her memolrs plctures of 0 the great personages of her day, o country can go forward when the con- ditions are right and the epirit of con- fidence prevails. — 4Copyright, 19241 Washington, as Owen Wister shows him to us in his “Seven"Ages o Washington.”