Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1924, Page 36

Current News Events Summary of Important National, Foteign and Local Affairs Specially Arranged for the - Convenience of Students. History. A mammoth equestrian statue of Gen. Sam Houston, the George Wash- gton of Texas (which for a time as a republic), s to be shipped to of Houston, Tex., from New . The statue will be the second largest ecquestrian plece in this country. Balloting in Germany last Sunday for the Reichstag and the Prussian {ict indicates a conservative victory— i tendency which recently has been shown in English and American elec- tions—leaving France the only ultra- liberal government of Burope at the present time, The king opened the British Parlia- nt Tuesday with all the state cere- 1y and pomp which has character- ized the event for generations. He dellvered his speech from the throne, cutlining the general policies of the Eovernment. Nine letters, signed by Mary, Queen ©f Scots, and other documents con- nected with the ill-fated queen, are o be presented to the British govern- ment. A popular subseription of 511,000 is being raised to purchase the Jotters, now in possession of a private Zamlly. Tintertained in New York, Philadel- ashington by society ully unrecognized as in the United States at all, tirand Duchess Alexandra Feodorovna, whose husband some time ago pro- laimed himself the czar of all the tussians, has been in this country a k. One i5 in connection with the Socjety for Lussian Relief. \nother outstanding figure of the World War retires to private life. The Jiritish admiralty last week announced T retirement on December 5 of Admiral Lord Jellicoe, who command- 1 the British grand fleet in the Bat- of Jutland and afterward served | chief of the British naval staff r the war. ilaron Ago Van Maltzan, who has cen in the. German diplomatic serv- for many years, has been appoint- %.d German Ambassador to the United States. He succeeds Dr. Otto Wied- seldt, who announced his desire to return to private life some time ago. Communism is the question of the hour in France today. Recent dem- tnstrations there have caused alarm in some quarters. The French Cham- Ler of Deputles, after lengthy debates on the subject last week, adopted a vote of confidence in Premier Her- riot's ability to handle the situation. The French premier refused to take she agitation of the Communists too weriously. The Communists have pro- tcsted against repressive measures of the police. New York City s to have a specl- men of the architecture which pre- vailed in Palestine during King Solo- yon’s reign, some 3,000 years ago. he bullding will be one of a group hich will include the first Jewlsh college established in America. The institution is'a Yeshiva, an orthodox Jewish institution of higher learning. The United States Coast Guard does suore than catch “rum runners.” Last Year, according to its annual report, aved 2,462 lives and rescued ve: with a total value of $25,000,000. China, which has just succeeded in pouring enough oil on her own trou- bled waters to afford temporary relief srom civil war, seems to be heading for more trouble with other natlons. Tast week several American mission- arles were kidnaped and 48 Chinese teachers and students were taken from a launch flying the American flag, and taken inland by bandits. They were afterward returned safely. ‘The Associated American Chambers ©of Commerce in China has appealed 10 the Senate naval affairs committee for a strengthened American gunboat matrol in Chinese waters. rthplace of civill- zation is pictured by z University of California sclentist returned from aking excavations in Mexico. He says the Maya tribes of Mexico, which untedated by many years the Aztecs, probably had the oldest civilization in the world and evolved the first system of mathematics. The council of the League of N tlons convened in Rome Monday for its thirty-second. meeting, with Afranio Mello Franco of Brazil pre- slding. The league will discuss about 30 {tems. Among them are proposals for a conference to bring about con- trol of traffic in arms, for the appoint- ment of a commission to investigate armaments, for the foundation in Ttaly of an international institute for the unification and co-ordination of private law, as well as several questions relating to differences be- tween countries which come under the jurisdiction of the league. The league council also offered its ald to the opium conference, meeting at Geneva and which has falled of ac- complishing anything of note. The league offered to convene a confer- ence composed of the delegates to the present Geneva conference and those of the first conferehce on Far Eastern oplum questions, In the hope that to- zether they would be able to make =ome progress, Economics. The tangled question of foreign debts hits the front pages of news- papers again. Winston Churchill, British chancellor of the exchequer, in his first speech to the House of Commons, states that It s the posl- tlon of the government that any pay- snents by European nations of thelr «debts to the United States should be accompanied by equal payments on thelr debts to Great Britaln. While Y16 does not mention France by name, it 1g agreed that he refers to recent discussion here that France was pre- paring to fund (to repay in install- ments) her debt to the United State Tn the meantime Great Britain has addressed a note to the United States utlining her position on the question of whether the United States is en- titled to repayment by Germany un- der the Dawes plan of expenses she inourred by keeping troops on the Rhine. Great Britain has questloned this right on the ground that the United States Government officially has never been a party to the Dawes plan. The United States, in an an- swering note, contends she should be treated -equally with other world vowers. Cash subscriptions for tife United States Treassry's offering of about £200,000,000 worth of .4 per cent, 30- vear bonds reached at least $1,000,- 000,000 before the books wre. closed, s demand that is greater than that for any bomds issued by the Treasury wince the Liberty bonds. ‘Thirty million board feet of lumber have been cut to meet the require- ments of toy makers for tRe Christ- mas trade, the American Tree Asso- clation points out in a bulletin call- ing attentlon to the need for con- servation of forest redources. ‘The third party, headed by Senator Ta Follette, spent $221,077 and re- ceived $225,936.50 in the last cam- yaign, according to the Teport of its treasurer to the ¢lerk of the House. America promises. to have the be; wgriculturak yeur it has expericaced merlca as the ¢ the objects of her \Visit | | manage their own farm¢ and speclal- | see whether homes of that type can- | key" experiment. | since 1920, the Department of Agri- culture announced, with the prospect that the agricultural products total value might reach about $12,000,000,~ 000. Uncle. Sam scores again as an hon- est old gentleman. Last week he re- turned to thousands of taxpayers more than $100,000,000 in overpay- ments of taxes. A regular old London fog settled over the British capital last week and caused a loss to industry estimated at $5,000,000. Every business suffered demoralization on account of the fna- bility of men to go about their nor- mal pursuits. Ships were tled up, rallroads paralyzed and virtually all means of transportation except the subways brought to a halt. The fog lasted two days. Man has more lelsure on his hands than he used to have and a great body of men and women from all par(s of the country have banded together to formulate a national policy of recrea- tion. Addressing the advisory council of the National Conference on Out- door Recreation, Secretary of Com- merce Hoover last weck sald the need for such.a policy las arisen to pre- vent “an idleness which will generas a disastrous train of degeneration.” The councll adopted a brogd program which has for its object (‘E populari- zation, as well as the facilities, for outdoor recreation and sport in America. Woman's entry into the professions is far from bounded by school teach- ing and stenography. According to the Bureau of Vocational Information there are more than 1,000,000 women in the United States engaged in farm- ing. Some 200,000 of these own or ize in dalrying, poultry raising, flower growing and bee -culture. John D. Rockefeller, jr., is to spend several million dollars in the next few years to build decent, itvable, modern homes, by way of an experiment to not be rented to working men and women &t prices within their income. Science. Did Ben Frankiin realiy send a kite into the clouds and hold a key in his hand, thereby discovering some of the | elemental principles of electricity? A Boston professor says the tale is bunk, that the electriclty would have killed | him. The officers of the International Benfpmin Franklin Soclety hasten to the defense, however, and assert that available correspondence between Ben- | Jamin Franklin and Peter Collinzon ol'} London describes the famous “kite-and- | The Carnegie Institution of Washing- ton will spend $1,380,000 the coming year in scientific research. This amount Was appropriated at the annual meeting of the board of trustees in Washington last weelk. 1f science can learn more about the | evolution of the jimson weed it may be able to learn more about the evolu- tion of man. Anyway it would be on the track of making corn and wheat bear more abundantly. That is why Dr. Al- bert F. Blakeslee of the Carnegie Insti- tution of Washington has salled for Peru to pry into the secret of the jim- son weed which, he asserts, holds the secrets of plant evolution. Americais mistress of the air, if the holding of aviation records be the meas- ure of her prowess. The Federation Aeronautique Internationale of Paris which I8 to aviation what the A. A. U Is to amateur sport, announces that this country has 47 of 63 world records. Thirty-two American records are for land planes and 15 for seacraft. Radlo is to play an important part | In Knitting a world-wide longitude net—a project which is to be under- | taken in the near future to fix more accurately the extct latitude and longitudes of places and to find out | whether land masees are “staying | put”’. The continents, for example, are belleved by some physiographers to be shifting slightly—it they are the | average citizen should worry, but the railway engineer and the steamship | captain want to know about ft—for | accurate timing requires exact longi- tudinal observations. The United States Navy Depart- ment is considering plans to have this country’'s two rigid airships, the Shenandoah and the Los Angeles, used for observation and photograph | vehicles during the total eclipse of the sun, January 24. Naval Observa- tory scientlsts state that the obscur- ation will be visible here as a partial eclipse beginning at 8:58 a.m. and continulng until 10:08 a.m. Three pleces of apparatus used by Pasteur, who proved the germ theory of disease, have been received by Co- lumbla University and are to be placed on exhibition there. In a statement about them the museum curator sald: “Until Pasteur studied and pondered and saw the light, we were helpless in the presence of any septic, rotting sore—and didn't know what to do with it. The apparatus is | such as any tyro in chemistry might use—and break. But consider to what v'r;‘llhty effect the man of vision used | em.” i The present-day American, on the average, lives to be 56 years lod. In 1870 the American’s life span was but 41 years. At the close of the eight- eenth century, it is estimated, this average was less than 25 yvears, Art, Music, Literature. A portralt of Lady Astor has turned into a white elephant in the hands of the British Parllament. The portrait was -accepted from Lord Astor by a former government . to adorn one of ‘the stalrcases leading to the House of Commons. Now the present Parllament has found that it is “undesirable as a matter of prin- ciple” that pictures or statues of liv- ing persons should be displayed there, The portralt has been covered with a _cloth -ever since ths Parliament reached fts last decision, but what will become of the portrait remains a puzzle. Art leaders of national prominence are planning.a display of Washing- ton's art treasures. publicly and pri- vately owned, at an exhibiiton next April. They are particularly anxious that the school children of Wash- ington should be instructed in the beauties and educational value of real art. The American Federation of Art is sponsoring the movement. As a gift. to the Natlon the New York Times has offered $500,000 for the preparation of a dictionary of American blography under the au- pices of the American Council of Learned Socleties. The work wiil consume four vears to start and there are to be 19 volumes issued at the rate of three volumes 2 year. The book will be comparable to the “Dic- tionary of National Biography” of Great_ Britaln, and the “Allegemeine Deutsche Blographie” of Germany. Czechoslovakia, - which has been sending us matches and toys con- tributed a new opera which was giv- en its first production by the, Metro- politan Opera Company, New York. Its composer, Leos Janacek is a Mora. vian. Jeritza sang. 2 ‘A rioh‘maw’s whim, which will be a source of gratification and a help to scholars for generations to come—a. portion of Plerpont Morgan's collec- tlon of original manuscripts and drawings by British authors, is placed on display’ in the New York Public Library. The complete collection and the marble edifice which housed it, in all valued at $7,000,000, was deeded last year to trastees as a memorial to his father by the present Plerpont Morgan. So great the crowds which came to see {t, the collection, for safety's sake, was thrown open to only accredited scholars. The present display is the choice of the lot. It contains, among many other things, the original manuscript of Milton's “Paradise Lost” (Book 1), as he dic- tated it; the warrant which kept John Bunyan in jall while he wrote “Pil- grim's Progress,” and the original of Thackery’s “Vanity Fair,” with illus- trations by the author. Anotier “peace plan” is suggested, and Dr. David Starr Jordon, president emeritus of Leland Stanford Univer- sity, educator, naturalist and author, wins a prize of $25,000 for suggesting it. The award was offered by Raphael Herman of Washington and Detrolt, Mich., and the contest was conducted under uuspices of the World Federa- tlon of Education Associations. Dr. Jordon's plan is one of gradual edu- cation and development of an en- lightened public opinion effecting mu- tual understanding among peoples. His specific recommendations concern the appointment of a number of com- mittees In every country, which shall Investigate and report on actions tending toward international concord, He sets the teaching of history down as an important step toward eventual world peace, and suggests that the teaching of history should be “just and true so fur as it goes.” History, he says, should not be perverted in the supposed interest of ‘“national honor” or partisanship. The boy or girl who is & “shark” at Latin is apt to outdistance the boy or girlewho never studied that ancient and honorable tongue, according to findings of the American Classical League and the Bureau of Education. The superiority, it is sald, is due to “the study of Latin rather than to | greater initial ability, The Congress. While the Senate spent the week in what has almost become an annual struggle over what to do with Muscle Shoals, the House put in some hard licks on the appropriation bills. passed the Interlor Department ap- bill. The Navy appropriation bill s next on the program, Between debate on Muscle Shoals the Senat pproved a Naval construc- tion bill authorizing a program ex- pected to cost $110,000,000. The. bill Wwas passed last session by the House and Senate, but was held up in the Senate on a motion by Senator King of Utah to reconside: His motion was defeated Thursday. There is apparent, in Congress a determination to pass legislation granting postal employes an increase in pay. Congress last session passed a bill increasing the tal employes by $6 dent Coolidge vetoed the bill and the House passed it over his veto. There are rumblings of a similar effort to be made in. the Senate, and President Coolidge last week summoned admin- istration leaders in the Senate to the White House to talk the matter over. ‘He Is anxious that Congress devise a method to raise the necessary revenue. An jncreaso in postal rates is a pos- sibility. Geography. Is the camel doomed to disappear in the desert as the horse has been banished from city streets? Follow- ing the ploneer, now-famous Citroen caterpillar tractor expedition across the Sahara, in December, 1922, to January, 1823, four motor caravans have been organized in France for early attempts to traverse Sahara. Two will strike south from Africa’s north coast; two others will travel from west to east across the l\:v:)nlh’lcn'. at its broadest part. After a Bip Van Winkle sleep of 18 years, a treaty according Cuba full jurisdiction over the Isle of Pines will be taken up for considera- tion in the Senate next week. § Tangier seems temporarily to be a country without a status. terms of a convention (treaty) Tan- | Kier has a Legislative Assembly, on which are representatives of United States, Belglum, Holland, Italy and Portugal. These countrles {are not represented in the assembly, | therefore there arises the question of | whether Tangter can legislate. Aviation. | Aviation as an industry is lagging in the United States and the Govern- ment should see that there is at least “an adequate nucleus” developed ca- the | Under the | the | | ment to adopt a fixed program. for aviation development, with its needs known a year in advance, in order to give proper incentive to private industry. The worst accident in the history of naval aviation happened Wednes- day near San Diego, Callf.,, when the H-16 dropped into & tail spin during target practice and fell into the Pa- cific, killing five of her crew &nd in- juring six ochers. Insurance companies who will not insure. the life of an aviator heard an address by Maj. Gen. Mason M. Pat- rick, chief of the Army Air Service in New York last week, in whieh he prophesied that the time is soon com: ing when the life of an aviator Is as good a ‘“risk” as any other. He cited statistics to show that airpla: travel now is fully as safe as the railroads, that hazards sre largely cut down and that in the years to come future generations will marvel at the tiny planes with which the world-flying aviators encircled the globe. They will be looked upon then as the present generation compares the cockle shells in which Columbus set to sea with the glant Leviathan of tdday. Obituary. August Belmont, a sportsman of world renown and a great financler, died Wednesday night in New York. He was 71 years old. A creator of great engineering projects, he count- ed the construction of the In(:rhvur- ough Rapfd Transit lines in New York and the bullding. of the Cape Cod Canal as among his geatest achievements. He was a lover and breeder of dogs and horses and play- ed a leading role in American yacht- ing circles. Former Justice Mahlon Pitney of the United States Supreme Court died Tuesday at his home here after a long illness. He was 66 years old and re- { tired from the Supreme In Court in December, 1822, because of 111 health, |WILL OPEN LR NEW SCHOOL. ‘Manor Park Citizens to Hold Ex-| i ercises in Portable Building. Opening of the one-room portable ! school at Fifth and Sheridan etreets [ will be celebrated by the Manor Park Cltizens' Association at the school this It [ pable of immediate expansion in time | afternoon at 3 o'clock. of war, according to the annual re-| An elaborate propriation bill on Tuesday and sent | port of the national advisory com- planned by the association, which will it to the Senate carrying a total of $238.000,000, and then took up and passed the Department of Agriculture mittee for | transmitted { The aeronautics, which was to Congress last week. committee urged the Govern- | include music by the high school orches- |tra and an address by Commissioner | Bell. Ernest H. Pullman, president of ONE ANSWER To Every Gift Question— JEWELRY Gifts of jewelry are the choice of head and heart.- Nothing else so exquisitely expresses the loveor friend- ship of the giver. Nothing else so well survives the test of time. Select gifts that last- -at your favorite jewelet’s. His Christmas assortments match every ideal of fitness and every idea of cost. Let Your ]gweler Be Your Christmas Gift Counselor The Retail Jewelers’ Section The Merchants and Mahufacturers” Association program has been | the organisation, who led the fight for temporary school faclities in Manor Park, will preside, assisted by members of the school committes of that body. They are Dr. T. T. Reed, H. §. Bryant, L. H. Reeso, Mra. E. B. Smith and Mrs. 3. M. Hall. ‘The school will be appropriately deco- rated for the exercises. Senatcr Tasker L. Oddie of Nevada and school officials have been invited to participate. e Helmets worn by divers weligh about 20 pounds, their shoes about 16 and their belts in the neighbor- hood of 82 pounds. ZIHLMAN’S PLAN FOR D. C. Proposes People’s Counsel to Aid in Managing Utilities. An extra pounsel for the Public Utllities Commission, to be known as the people’s counsel, should be au- thorizsed by Congress to meet a very important need in the District, Rep- reséntative Fred N. Zihlman, Republi- can, of Maryland, ranking Republican on the House District committee, who will probably be cheirman in the next Congress, said yesterday. He pointed out, however, that this legislation must await fts chances because there fs more urgent legislation to coorrect the grave traffic situatfon and school needs which may delay-action on the people’s counsel until the next Con- gress convenes. The legislation provides for the sp pointment of such counsel by the President, to serve four years at a salary of $4,00¢ per annum. His dy ties would be to represent the public in all valuation hearings In petition- for lower rates and better servioc Wireleas broadcasting e to-Be d. veloped in India and Burma under licenses issued by the govéramont. 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