Evening Star Newspaper, December 27, 1924, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY...December 27, 1924 THEODORE W. NOYES. . . Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Busizess Office, 11th St. New York' Office: Kast 42nd St. Chicago Office: Tower Buflding. Europeas Ofce : 16 Regent 5+ .Loadon. 1 ie Evenlng Star, with the Sundsy moraing @dition, s delivered by carriers wit ity ai 60 cents per month tents per month; Kundi month. Orders may Dhose Maln 5000. Co Tiers at the end of each mouth. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sundas..ly Daily only 1yr., All Other Diaily and Sundar.1 yr., §1 Daily only yr, Sunday only..... 1¥r. pa lished “herein special dispatc Promotion to Smaller Pay. Discovery has been made that under ® pecullar provision of the new classi- tication tem governing the execu- tive departments several hundred of the Government workers will, after the Ist of July, suffer a reduction in salary. This is due to the insertion in the pending appropriation bills of a modification of what is known the ‘average provision” of the law. It is « complex matter, having to do with the premotion of workers from grade to grade. The tangible result will be That @ large number of the clerks will 1ind themselves reduced in pay unles some way is found to make correction. Reclassification of the Government personnel was conceived as a means of effecting an increased scale of pay. The United States has maintained its departmental pay rates for over half a century without change. In every sther line of private employm: and vccupation compensations have been increased in that period. CUncle Sam alone of all the employers in this coun- iry had maintained a stationary scal Reclassification was proposed as a raeans of readjustment, to efiect a bet- terment of the pay rates and to sys tematize the duties and compensations in the varvious departments and reaus. This work was very painstakin done, on highly scientific lines. The net result, however, has not been what the employes of the Government had teason to expect. The average ‘ease in compensation was 1. s barely g the bonus rayments that were started during the war as @ means of compensating the abnormally high cost of living. some instances reductions were fered unjustly bu- in- in aclassification. Tt works a serious in- ustice to the employes of the Govern- ment. It should be avoided i ; ing out some better scale of promotion rates. Surely promotion should not be accompanied by reduction of pay. Surely the United States should not continue sweatshop methods. The em- ployes of the Government are hard- working, faithful men and women, often drawing less for their vices than is paid by private employers and with fewer opportunities for advance- ment. No private emplovment is redged about by s0 many technical re- strictions as those that now hamper Yale’s New Observatory. Yale Observator serve the stars is planning to ob- from view- point, in the hope of overcoming the heat waves, which interfere with visibility from this planet. Dr. Frank Schlesinger of that institution is sail- ing for South Africa, where a branch of the observatory will be located at Johannesburg or at Bloemfontein. There, on the wide veldt. he lopes to get of stars not ble in the Northern Hemisphere. It has been found that out on the veldt con- ditions are better in respect to “'steady” skies than in other parts of the Southern Hemisphere. Two mem- bers of the observatory staff wiil ac- company him and remain in South Africa. The astronomers will carry with them a new 2i-inch photographic dens, the third jargest in the world. The world will wait with eagerness the result of the researches into the heavens by these scientists. Astron- omy is of absorbing interest to the majority of mankind, and fresh dis- coveries are hailed with delight. Dr. Harry L. Alden of the University of Virginia will follow the pioneers and remain in charge of the new branch of the university after Dr. Schlesinger returns. His work in the field of as- tronomy is well known and gives ex- pectation of important discoveries. Good wishes of scientists will follow the undertaking. The work will be chiefly in the field of measuring the distance from the solar system of a large number of stars, and also to ob- a new views serve them in respect to other stars. | Vale specializes, it might be said, in the field of measurement and does not overlap with the work of other ob- servatories. ¥ o The night before Christmas iz no longer foremost in holiday sentiment. Thanks to the bootlegger, the morning after Christmas is an occasion to be veckoned with. ———— The Cold Snap. Last July, when roses were a-bloom, when starched collars would wilt and when women almost left off fur neck- pieces, many persons said: ‘“Winter for me! 1 like cold weather better. It is §o bracing, you know.” Some of these folks are saying now: “In the good old Summer time one can listen to the fountains in the parks, sit on the sea wall of the Speedway in the shade of willows, be lulled by the murmurous splash of water and soothed by Potomac's breeze.” Today wonien are wearing their sables and their skunk, their silver fox and black cat, buttened to the chin. Men carry Sagir hands im the pockete of the coat. d Penusylvania Ave. | for | There is no reason to lament. The ice on Lincoln Memorial pool is smogth and strong, and if these days persist the Tidal Basin will invite those who skate, and perhaps some citizens will travel from Washington to Alexandria on skates. One fecls almost a sense of shiver | thinking of statues of men and women ithat stand at their posts these days and nights. So many. of the bronze and marble people are dressed for Summer and seem not to have bought proper clothing for December. Would it not be merciful to hand a quilt to the golden girl who stands tn Judiciary Square? Reflect upbn the thin-ciad women of bronze in Lafayette Square! Thinlt of the metallic heroes who hold the guard in many parks without the comfort of & campfire or a tent! Con- | Template the poor but illustrious states- imen who stand on blocks of granite without respite on half day on Saturday! One looks in vain to the Weather | Bureau for help. The forecaster says it may be a little warmer today, but | that colder time is coming. Weather is bearing down upon us from the West, where thermometers have groaned under a temperature of zero. The tweather man does not think that zero will come to Washington, but he does belleve that men ought not to wear duck trousers tomorrow. Colder weather is predicted, and when colder weather is predicted in De- cember the preafetion often comes true. e Germany's Bad Faith. . The council of ambassadors at Paris Germany, which has not yet been made public, announcing that the { Cologne bridgehead, occupied by Brit- ish troops under the Versailles treaty, will not be evacuated on the 10th of January, as stipulated by the treaty. The reason given, it is understood, is that Germany has not fulfilled its obligations in the matter of disarma- ment. Reports from the interallied mili control commission have indicated for some time that Germany has not been scrupulously observing the treaty re- quirements in respect to armament, and recently these reports. according to creditable information, have a flagrant disregard for the t Gne instance has just been | by the allied investigators recently going through a factory ostensibly de {voted to the manufacture of sewing i | shown recorded machines and agricultural impiements in the village of Karlsruhedorf. One ing that had apparently not been in- spected. Tt had no doors or windows. | governments had a hole bored through of the walls, and in storeroom were found 40,000 machine gun barrels, hidden there for assem- one This is but one of numerous in- stances of the secretion of newly made war materials. The other day it was noted that at the Krupp works lathes for making the giant long-range guns much as were used to bombard Paris during the war were still in existence, although the destruction of such tools was required under the treaty. In the the guise of police organization, too, tionably been f: the letter of the disarmament clauses of the treaty. In the face of these disclosures Ger- inany can have no ground for protest- i Cologne bridgehead. It cannot justify | the secret manufacture of guns. 1t cannot excuse the steady drilling of | so-called police forces on the basis of short enlistments, thus creating a large potential military reserve. If Germany is treating the Ver sailles treaty as a scrap of paper in respect to disarmament there is but one reasonable deduction, which is that it is the purpose of the German government to prepare for another war. There is no need of national de- fense. No cnemy menaces Germany She is in no danger of invasion. x vears have now passed since the armistice. In that time Germany has shown little or no disposition to fulfill scrupulously her requirements as the defeated power. There can be no ground of objection now to main- taining the occupation of the bridge- heads. The date set by the treaty for the evacuation was based upon a full compliance by Germany with the terms granted her by the victorious powers. She has failed and must pay the penaity of continued occupation of her territory. She must not be per- mitted to brew another war. —r—————— The week’s Christmas tree display will make the average small boy even prouder than ever that he may grow up te be President of the United States. ———— An impression gathers ground that vou can believe nothing you hear from Russia, except when the news is par- ticularly bad. - ——————— Reproducing Music. According to a review by the Na- tional Electric Light Association of the progress of the industry, just is- wes constructed 51 years ago this month. This was an invention by C. P. Shelton of New Haven, Conn., which was referred to at the time by the Scientific American as a “ma- chine-made strip that will faithfully reproduce on an organ the original tunes recorded.” This was the fore- runner of a long line of devices for the reproduction of music, most of which have come into vogue within the past quarter of a'century. The desire to reproduce music by mechanical means has long been feit by man. A tune is played or sung and passes into the ether, to be preserved only in memory. Without some methed of fixing it is gone forever. It may be sung again by another voice, or the same voice, or played again by the same interpreter on an instru- ment, but without some mechanism it then, too, goes into the ether. The electro-music’ reporter of 1873 did mot lead to @ widespread use. It was adaptable only to organs. Many today adopted the'text of a note tof ry { caty. | of them noticed a portion of the build- | Despite the explanations and protests | of the owners the agents of the allied | the secret | . | maintenance of military forces under | the German government has unques- | to the spirit if not | ing the continued occupation of the | j sued, the first electromusic reporter | years later the principle of air pres- sure was utilized for the first of the player-pianos in which, by means of a perforated strip, the keys were actuat- ed. As soon as this device was estab- lished improvements came rapidly, until the present day player-piano renders selections with all of the ex- pression of the first performer, and still gives the operator a chance for individual expression of his own. The other form of music reproducer, the phonograph, or graphophone, de- veloped from the, Edison “talking ma- chine,” with its tinfoil strip. It was at first a scientific toy. then through the use of ylinder, it became a practicable business aid. Not, how- ever, until the invention of the hard disc, the contribution of Emile Ber- liner of this city, one of the most eminent of American inventors, was it possible to reproduce music or other vibrations on a large scale and in quantity. With that discovery the art of music reproduction progressed speedily Now comes the radio with its whole- sale broadeasting of music through the air to countless receive Here again, however, there is a limitation. The song that comes through the ether and is caught by the antenna and transmitted through horns or ear- phones passes as soon as rendered. It is reproduced merely in the sense of transmission to an unlimited audience. There is yet no means of preserving it for reproduction. Wonderful advance has been made since the invention in 1873 of the fir: electro-music reporter. What will the |next half century bring forth? Who can answer such a question? Who in 1873 could have foreseen the hun- dreds of thousands, perhaps millions, player-pianos, of “talking machines, of radio sets, that have made virtually every home in the country musical? v Ilis present somewhat controversial attitude Is no doubt So congenial to Senator Borah as to make him glad he did net favor any cffort to steer his cou into vice presidential | quietudes A Cnited $ a happy N j as indic yet one dence. ——— ates Senator for Year must be accepted ng a generous state of mind, drifting into overconfi- wis’ not Promises are freely made that the Congressional Record will not feel obliged to put in a cross-word puzzle section in order to make its pages in- teresting. . It is not believed that Gov. Charles Bryan, in spite of his cons start, will ever hecome the brilliant and industrious candidate his brother { William has bee picuous —— Aunouncement of a drop in temiper ture merely serves to malke it that one cold wave must finish order to another a chance i start in give to, e Research may vet disclose some one either in public or private life Who is thoroughly content with the way in which the income tax has worked out. r——— Even trouble has its linex of con- servatism. T'nto this very day people 1e to look to the Balkans for signs of international disturbance. i R Business prospects in the U. S. A. were never bi day. TUncle nta Claus m shakes hands with ————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON The Winter Bird. Out yonder, a bird on a telegraph wire Ts huddled, too chilly to sing. He patiently waits for a chance to admire The annual message of Spring. There's wind and there’s rain and there’s snow and there's sleet. No carol he offers to start. Says he, “I'll do well to hold on by my feet, Regardless of head or of heart.” But some day his song will rise honest and clear. And we who all humbly aspire May gather a message of hope and of cheer From the bird on the telegraph wire. Disinterested Demonstration. “Did you enjoy the Christmas carols | we sang under your window?" “Very much, indeed,” answered Sen- ator Sorghum. “‘After the recent cam- paign it was a great relief to find a crowd willing to gather round and make a little demonstration without any expectation whatever of political reward.” Jud Tunkins says he can’t under- stand how old Santa Claus ever be- came so popular without being a base ball player or a pugilist, Transformation. A bootleg gentleman drew near. His mood was very Jjolly. | But what he named as Cheer” Proved next day’s melancholy “Christmas The Real Test. i “I didn’t think much of your Santa Claus make-up.” “I was a hit, just the same,” said father. !‘A Santa Claus these days is judged not by his whiskers, but by his check bool An Abandoned Philanthropy. ““What became of the new jail Crim- son Gulch was going to build?” —~ “We gave it up,” answered Cactus Joe. “The plans all made it look so much more comfortable than the livin' quarters any of us was used to we got afraid it would prove an inducement to crime.” Theories and Facts. We seek for theories exact To pacify these earthly scenes: And then there comes an ancient fact That punctures them to smithereens. “When a boy believed in Santa Claus,” said Uncle Eben, “he had to be satisfied wif what he got. Now he kin square up an’ ’spress his opinion to de "sponsible party.” ghter than they are to-| . THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. How would you like to go to a news stand and pick up a magazine with the following list of contributors: Robert Louls Stevenson, Heine, Du- mas, Kipling, Gaboriau, Bret Harte, Richard Harding Davis, de Maupaseant, Tolstoy, O. Henry, Mark Twain, Owen Wister, H. C. Bunner, Anatole France, von Heidenstam? Well. you can do it! It is ‘@ magazine with a brand-new idea behind it, No. 1 of Volume 1, dated January, having just made its appear- ance upon the Washington newsstands. 1t is called the Golden Book, and is published by the Review of Reviews Corporation. Henry Wysham Lanfer is the editor, assisted by a®distingulshed board composed of Willlam Lyon Phelps, Stuart P. Sherman, Johit Cotton Dana and Charles Mills Gayley. The original Libro D'Oro, the Golden Book of Venice, the editor ex- plains, was the official list of the Venetian nobility, who alone could vote or hold office in that remarkable republic of aristocrats. “The n e# in this Golden magazine,” Mr. Lanier states, “will represent aristocrats of letters, an arfstocracy not of birth, but of per- formance. They will be drawn from the whole range of world literature, from its beginnings down to yester- day, for the prompt and hearty co- operation of the most famous living writers, and the great publishers have already extended the range of the magazine to cover practically overything which has demonstrated its enduring quality.” *® ¥ W A pleasant afternoon with this first number of the Golden Book has con- vincd me that hers is a monthly publication which no lover of good literature afford to mise. For many years 1 have thought that it was a shame that so much “good stuff” should be lost after one print- ing. The best in literature, Iike the best in music. is as good today as it ever was, in the main. The ore printing ought not to end it. If it was worth printing once, it is worth printing again in this world of ours, where generation succeeds generation, but where the best seems eternally the best. Many a fine essay by Oliver Wen- dell Holmes lies lost to us in the old files of the Atlantic Monthly. Steven- son wrote many stories, but ho many own complete sets of R L. 8.2 The publication of this first num- ber of the Golden Book, a truly ap- propriate and pleasing name, seems to me to be an cvent, not merely the appearance of a new magazine upon stands already too cluttered up. The artistic cover caught my eye. The Golden Book stood In the news- stand rack immediately alongside an- other new magazine, a representative of the school of filth which during the last two years has grown tre- mendously in this country. What a contrast was thers, my countrymen! On one hand, a real book of 160 pages, sewed back—so that the magazine opens flat—beau- tifully printed on good paper, filled with the work of some of the mas- ters of literature, and on the other hand. a cheap, flashy article, poorly printed, filled with pictures of the nude and semi-rude I wonder if there will be as many buy the oue as the other? But It makes no difference, I suppose: there are never as many of the genuinely ated as there are of the vulgar. Golden Book ever brags on its cover, 500,000 this {ssue,” we will be disappointed. A genuine success, however. which means a _subscription list and news- stand sales suffictent to' “make a go" of the venture, will be wished for the Golden Book by ail those who love good books, good magazines, gond newspapers. - What have we, then, in this firat number of the magazine of “fiction and true stories that will liv Well, there are two serials, “Prince Otto,” by Robert Louis Stevenson, and M. Lecog,” by Emile Gaboriau, the first a little read story, and the latter 2 well known detective story, introducing a master detective. One of the fine points of magazine comes in right here. Book this Most | of us have heard of “Prince Otto.” WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE Diary of a Washington correspond- ent:' Brother scribes and country at large will soon have e familiarize themselves with strange names in ‘Washington diplomatic corps. Daesch- ner of France, Von Malzan of Ger- many, Matsudaira of Japan and Tel- lez of Mexico nre names of some new Ambassadors whom 1825 will bring us. Italy’s not yet informed Secretary Hughes who will succeed Prince Caetani as Mussolini's amba sadorial envoy. Changes in lesser ranks of Washington's big diplomatic tamily of 600 or 700 souls are‘con- stantly taking place. An _ Oriental beauty, Mme. Toshihiko Taketomi, wife of secretary of Japanese em- bassy, is about to become a San Fran- clscan, her husband having just been appointed Nippon's consul general at the Golden Gate. Mr. Taketoml is hur- rying to his new post, in order to do the honors when the Japanese train- Ing squadron disports itself in Call- fornian waters early in the new vear. .+ Met a friend, who has gone far to- ward curing me of my pet aversion in the United States Senate—a common scold from the Southwest. Says the solon in question, despite his parlia- mentary manners, is in fact one of nature’s noblemen. In substantiation of that compliment, friend narrates that Senator once saw & poor girl working in a cornfleld. She was of humble origin, comely and intelli- gent. He interested himself in her. He saw that she had a first-class edu- cation. She is now his wife and one of the most popular figures in the con- gressional set. * ok k% Hear that Edward W. Bok, prophet of peace and world court crusader, recently tried his new national an- them on “Bill" Borah. The new chair- man of Senate’'s foreign frelations committee spoke in Bok's Philadel- phia forum. In his honor, Stokow- ed the an- them, “Our United States,” with words by Bok and music arranged by Leo- pold Stokowski. The text (copyright- ed by Theodere Presser Company of f thee, e ding of thee nd Whose fruited hills mber ‘Selds, Bun-kissed and ocean-we We love thy name: we For evety"atate s glowing st T every & glowiag sta Our bome; our own United Si Across the seas we ‘stretch our hand In brotherhood of man, In Freedom's name the' dream make true; A human bond unbruised by strife, Ot homes undimmed by woman s t Unmarked by chairs. w0 great and free, ‘song; 73 of peace we pled it To God and our Ul?' flll'l’.l?‘r 2 The melody Is a folk song from the Transvaal—Bok was born a Dutch- man. . * %k * Am continually encountering hum- ble chore-doers of Uncle S8am who are hiding their real talents beneath bushels. Came such a one acros my path Christmas eve at a Piran. @elio play in the Chevy Chase Scheol Theater. That night, and many |attention of the prime minister, who | but many of us have never read either one. We just never happened on them. Now We can run into them on our favorite newsstand! It is a real idea, you know! The first story in the first number is “French Mons” by Verner von Heidenstam, whose first name strikes us as very familiar, until we realize we are thinking of a radlo term, “vernler.” Von Heidenstam, Mr. Lanier tells the reader in his interesting foreword, “Some Persons of Importance,” has for 30 years been considered one of Sweden's greatest llving men of letters. He was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1916. And 1 never even heard of him! How about you? Here is our chance, we finish “French Mons” we realisd von Heldenstam can write. His pic- ture of the two insane sisters walk- ing around in the daylight with their lighted lamps is unforgettable. But why do they have to write about things such as that over there? Mere is an O. Henry story, “The Phonograph and the Graft,” one of the early faker storles. Personally, I wish the magasine had given this or some other story by an American or Englishman the “lead” position in the first number, as I hope the domi- nant note of the magazine will be English pure and undefiled, not trans- lations. There have been several magazines containing translations. Where each failed was in a too- European flavor. The Golden Book should, and undoubtedly will, avoid this stumbling block. Here is dear old Ik Twain with his “The Famous Jumping ¥rog of Calaveras County.” That will jump many a reader back many a year, and make him look forward to the num- ber when “Tom Sawyer Abroad” be- gins as a serial, if it does. - Rudyard Kipling appears with a Mulvaney story, “With the Main Guard.” Anatole France, who left us but recently, is here with “The Com- edy of the Man Who Married a Dumb wife.” “They still do,” says some one. Heinrich Heine tells the reader about the Flying Dutchman, Guy De Maupassant narrates “The Sundays of old Montaigne has one of his pleasant essays. If you like horror, here it is in plenty, with the terrible story of poor Solange, by Alexander Du pere, and “In the Lion's Mouth,” by Sir Harry Johnston. The latter gives an awful picture of a hunter who sneaks up on a lion, shoots it while it sleeps and is himself disembowled by the wounded monster. 1 must confess my sympathies were wholly with the lion, . Even Don Marquis is here, with a page essay on “Loneliness” The reader walks up the Avenue with Richard MHarding Davis, rescues a black-eved senorita with James O. a great Indian fighter of a v ago, and enjoys the wit of Bunner in “Hector.” What a picture De Maupassant gives of a French government clerk in 1854 “Through a peculiar trait of his character he was unpopular with all his superiors, who let him languish in the eternal and hopeless expecta- tion of the clerk’s ideal, an increase in salary. M. Patissot, that was his name, imitated the emperor, until finally he looked tremendously like Napoleon IIL The matter was brought to the then. When laughed, an really funn: The upshot was that the following day Patissot's Immediate superior recommended that his subordinate receive an increase in salary- of 300 francs. He received it immediately. “From that time on his promotions came regularly. The presentiment that some high honor might come to him some day caused his chlefd to speak to him with deference.” Good luck to the Golden Book, a golden 1nagazine, indeed! And may T make two suggestions: One, that the editor's remarks be extended each is- sue to take in all the contributors; and two, that the cover be made heayier, for this is a book worth keeping. “That's funny, nights, he is a most charming and gifted actor. By day he is a book- binder at the Government Printing Office in Washington. His name is Theodore Hardy. Once he was a professional player, and has trodden the boards, a vounger man than now, in many a town and city of the . The Library Table RBY THE BOOKLOVER Barrie's “Admirable Crichton,” in an emergency in which lifs suddenly reverted to the primitive, dominated by his superior character a whole party of supercivilized Londoners. Heo seems almost abnormally self-re- strained and ambitionless, however, it compared with Ted, the steward, in the first novel of Dale Collins, “Or- deal.” The pleasure cruise of a party of rich American and English dilet- tantes on the undermanned and un- seaworthy schooner Spray is a fail- ure from the start, and soon becomes a traglc adventure. At Honolulu a polite Japanese d sought out Thorpe, a rich American who had won distinction In sclence, and had ex- plained “with hissingly indrawn breath how easy and how romantic it would be to sail home to New York by way of Panama,” Thorpe, partly to please his capricious wife, Viola, had bought the schooner and had invited his British friends, Howard, Dorothy Daley and her old aunt, Lady Daley, to join the cruise. So here they are on the deck of the Spray in mid- Pacific, all wondering how they came to be €0 foollsh. While they play bridge on deck, the mongrel Arme- nian steward, Ted, up in.the bows with Petersen, the Scandivanian cook, expresses his opinion of them. “They think it's goin’ to be romantic. * ¢ @ They'll get to hatin' this craft and themselves and us. 1 know them! I haven't had my eyes shut the twenty years I've run and carried for the likes of them. * * ® Their kind on shipboard need a hell of a lot of ex- citement, I'll tell you. And here, shut up of thelr own free will—to enjoy themselves—say—goin’ to be a funny job. S ® ¢ Yes, nplayin’ bridge! * ¢ What else are they good for? Nothin'! They're—they're —they're parasites. * * 1 tell you, they fair make me sick! * ¢ ¢ What can we do to get even with them—everythin' on their side—po- lice, laws, parsons, everythin'! But they're swine, just the same. damn them!” From the start the steward, a man compounded of bitter hatred and suppressed ambition, with a grievance against life, dominates the mate, whose unsavory past he know the cook and the other men of the crew. Then the trade winds die, the sails aroop and “thunder and calm gripped the sea and sky, ship and soul.” After many days of stifiing heat and crack- ling thundgr, during which the Spray lies motionless, “like a ship without a soul,” the nerves of all are strained almost beyonod endurance. Old Lady Daley alone retains complete sanity. She tries to explain to heir niece the incomprehensible behavior of Howard. “Iie’s not sane—none of us are. You mustn’t hold him responsible—or an body else. At the moment we're in hell* and T've never heard that the damned were happy or that they could be expected to behave like the reasonable and eminently likable peo- ple they used to be.” During this period of madness Ted has completely terrorized the crew. Then comes the welcome rain, and the water tanks, dangerously low, are filled. After the first gentle rain breaks a terrible storm—a storm comparable to Joseph Conrad's “typhoon.” which leaves the Spray a derelict. Reid, the mate, has gone overboard, either a suicide or murdered. No one except Ted knows which, but Lady Daley thinks she knows. Ted is the only one who can handle the ship. His hour has come. He sees himself as an all-powerful tyrant, a “sultan,” ruling this group of useless people by his superior ability and by terror. “Christ,” he cried, “I've got 'em! Me—the poor steward! The reign of terror commences, and for weeks, while the derelict rolls on her anchor chain, the three remaining members of the crew and the five aristocrats cringe before the awful Ted, beseech him for water, plot to kil him, but fall back before his two | revolvers, almost lose all their man- hood and womanhood in their despair. Again only old Lady Daley remains sane. Perhaps she 5o old that nothing matters much to her: per- haps she Is so completely the aristo- crat that no mere steward could ever intimidate her. In the end it is she who frees her companions from the horrible domination of the madman, Ted. ¥ & Although the United States has not yet become a member of the Perma- nent Court of International Justice, one of the judges of the court {s an American, the wise and witty Dr. John Bassett Moore, probably the world's foremost authority on inter- national law. Judwe Moore has just published his ripest opinions in a book, entitled “International Law and Some Current Ilusions and Other Essays,” the object of which, “and particularly of the paper which gives to it its distinctive title, is to con- tribute something toward the restora- tion of that sanity of thinking and legal and historical perspective which Union. Hardy sa he would prob- ably be an actor still if his father hadn't taught him, in youth, the art of bookbinding. So when, like sev- eral generations of stage folk before him, he was overtaken by unpros- perous times, he found refuge in the only other thing at which he felt he could make a living. But the foot- lights sing a siren song to him ever and anon. e In pages of this chronicle where I inscribe names of new acquaint- ances unmistakably worth while there now appears Elon H. Hooker, president of the Manufacturing Chemists’ Association of the United States. A great, tall American of the doer type, whose forbears founded Hartford, Conn. Muscle Shoals brings Hooker to Washington. With another American engineering genius, J. G. White, Hooker has laid before Con- gress a project to lease the Shoals for 66 years, in accordance with the Federal water power act, ownership to reside wholly with the United States. The Hooker-White offer would assign Uncle Sam 75 per cent of operating profits. Hooker for 30 years has been engaged in applica- tion of hyd: lectrical power to in- dustrial chemistry, and now heads one of the biggest electro-chemical businesses in the world. He is Rochester, a graduate graduate of Swiss and French polytechnic colleges. In the Bull Moose campaign of 1912 he Was treasurer of the Roosevelt na- tional commttee. * ok ok % Discovered a man, Capt. Charles D. Dravton, Washington lawyer and Carolinian, who resents at least one of the Christmas cards he got. was from an undertak “greetings” Dray- ton, who has been a soldler in his day, and 1s not easily unnerved, says he draws the line at felicitations from morticians. (Copyright, 1924.) An Up-to-Date Zoo. From the Detroit New; A grison, a tayra, two kinkajous, two bassaricyous and a bassaricu have been added to the Canal Zo: Zoo. Obtained, no doubt, from & The New Issue. From the Mizneapolis Journal. As the Governor of Wyoming said to the Governor of Texas, “What are we §oing to wear at the inaugural?” One of the 7 Wonders. From the Baltimore Sus. ‘When a man expresses great falth in the courts, you wonder what he was acquitted of. the so-called World War has 8o Seri- ously disturbed.” He especially con- tests the judgment. so often given. that one of the results of the recent war was that “the distinction between combatants and non-combatants has perished.” Among the questions dis- cuseed by him with fullness of knowl- edge and great sanity of viewpoint in this noteworthy book are arbltra- tions, the laws of war governinig sub- marines and poison gas, aircraft and the radio and the Permanent Court of International Justice. R The Nobel prize in literature for 1924 has been awarded to the Polish writer, Ladislas Reymont, for his four-volume novel, “The Peasants.” The first volume, “Autumn,” has just Dbeen published in translation. Though Reymont is little known in this coun- try at present, the award g0 him of the Nobel prize will undoubtedly cause his former work to be trans- lated so that American readers may soon become familiar with it. Rey- mont was born in Russian Poland in 1868, of a lower middle-class family. His education was far from thorough or advanced, and he was early obliged to earn his own living. He published his first story when he was 26, and from that time has devoted himself entirely to writing. His own experi. ences form the basis of several of his novels. s chief novels are “The Comedian” and “Lilly,”” stories theatrical life; “The Promised Land, ‘whose background is Lods, the great est Industrial city of Poland; “The Vampire,” with London for its set- ting. and “The Peasant,” a great sofl novel, comparable to Knut Hamsun's “Growth of the Soil.” * kK X This anecdote Is sponsored by the Sunday Times of London, a weekly newspaper containing much gossip Sbout celebrities. At a dinner” table many years ago the conversation turned on Hardy's poems. Lord Kitchener was among the guests, and, listening impatiently for a while, he broke in with, “Who is this Thomas Hardy you're all talking about?” Softly came the reply, “Mr. Hardy, Lord Kitchener, is, like your- self, a member of the Order of erit. ¥ * % k% A speclal anthology of verse for hours of lighter reading and frivolous literary recreation is ‘“’An Anthology of Humorous Verse, Herrick to Owen Seaman,” selected by Helen and Lewls Melville. The volume contains many of the best known humorous verses in English_and American literature, as Charles Lever's “The Pope,” Gray's “On the Death of a Favorite Cat” Gold- smith's *““The Haunch of Veaison, Holmes' * “One-Hoss Shay,” Leland's “Hans Breltmann's Barty” and Bret Harte’s “The Heathen Chinee.” A de- fect is to be found in the omission of cotel American humorous verse, though considerable English verse of that type is included. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN Q. How should one address a pack- age to be sent to the boys at Walter Reed Hospital?—W, M. A. It should be sent to the Red Cross House, Walter Reed Hospital, with a card directing its disposal. Q. Is Lopez a Spaniard? - any orchestras on the road?—V. L. M. A. Vincent Lopez was born in Brooklyn, Y., therefore is an American, but is of Spanish descent He has several orchestras outside New York City—in Buffalo, Syracuse, Providence and Miami, and has three on the road. Q. How many automobiles and trucks are there in the City of Chi- cago?—H. M. T. A. The city's license bureau re- ports that there are 296,441 motor vehicles in the city at present. Q. What is the massacre of innocents?—W, M. T. A. This was a popular subject with Flemish and Italian artists. The pic- tures portrayed the slaying of the children of Bethlehem by the soldiers of Herod. Among the famous can- vases on the subject are those of Reni, Tintoretto, da Volterra, Breu- ghel and Rubens. Q. How much money has been paid the Civil War veterans and what is the average age of those still living? —IJ. H. B. A. The amount of money paid to date is 36,427,106,586.49. The average age of the survivors is about 81. Q. Burton Harrison?—J. O. A. Francis Burton Harrison, after his resignation as Governor of the Philippines in 19 traveled for a time and then devoted his time to the writing of books on the Philip- pines and other subjec He is now residing at Teanineach, Alness, Scot- land. Ha the What has become of Francis s, Q. How were men who committed crimes—for example, larceny or for- gery—punished in Milan in her hey day?—T. L. T. A. Sometimes a fine was imposed for larceny; at other times the foot of the criminal, was amputated. In cases of forgery the right hand was amputated, as a rule. Burial alive was the fate met by some forgers. Q. What will make thin mus. cuffs very stiff’—E. B. K. A. To improve starch add to each bowl one teaspoonful of epsom salts and dissolve in the usual ¢ by boiling Articles starched with this will be stiffer. Q. Is Siberia a part of the new Russian government’—R. E. L. A. Siberfa fs an integral part of Soviet Russia, but it is semi-autono- mous. Q. What is — H. McK A. A “wild goose chase” is a pur- suit after something that is as un- 2 wild geose chase likely to be caught as a wild goose. | The term alludes to the difficulty in shooting wild geese. Q. Which minaret in Cairo is the tallest’—T. C. M A. The one remaining minaret be- longing to the Mosque of Sultan Has- san is the tallest in the Egyptian capital. It is 280 feet high. Q. What is the average income tax paid per individual’—W. A. T. A. According to a Secretary of Treasury report of income returned for the calendar year, Decembe 31, 1920, thes were 944 personal re- turns made on incomes ranging from $1,000 to $5.000.000 and over. The to- tal paid was $1,075,053,656. The aver- age amount of tax per individual was $148.05. Q. We of Gen. largest United read that the Sam Houston is_the second equestrian statue in the tes. What is the larges new statue Lee's statue the largest. Q. Is the statement true that the Girl Scouts organization came out of the South?—N. F. A. The Girl Scouts organization was foundsd in 1912 by Mrs. Juliette Low, in Savannah, Ga. The original enroll- ment was but a handful, but now the complete registration of the Girl Scouts, Incorporated, as they are call- ed, with headquarters at 189 Lexing- ton avenue, New York, amounts to VITAL THEMES The Charter of Religious Freedom. in Richmond is BY EDWIN A. ALDERMAN, President of the University of Vginia. However men may differ as to the gifts and virtues of Thomas Jefferson, one supreme distinction must be ac- corded him. He remains the fountain of liberalism, every spring fresh and clear,-in the life of this republic. All the world is familiar with his famous self-written epitaph, in which, with noble restraint and poetic instinct, he sets down the three greatest things he conceived himself to have achieved for mankind end omits the myriad honors mankind had bestowed on him. The second item set down in this trinity of service is the statute of Vir- ginia for religious freedom. Jefferson knew that the supreme foe of liberal- ism is intolesance. Intolerance was the dreaded tyrant from whose power mankind was freshly emerged in his day. There are to be seen from time to time, even in this age, ugly in- nj 203,762 members. The extraordinar development of this movement can be explained by one thing only; the tre mendous demand and appreciation of the work it accomplishes in taking mirls at a formative period in their lives and instructing them in mental end physical hygiene and in the use yof their minds and bodies to the bene fit of their communities, and, beyond these of their country. Q. Are bear cubs smaller than other new-born animels?—C. XK. A. Bear cubs are smaller in pro portion to the size of the adult an mals than the young of any other mammals except the marsupials. The bear cub is from 1-200 to 1-250 of the weight of the mother; deer, 1-30; dog 1-25; human being, about 1-20; por cupine, 1-15. Q. What did the mother church of the Christian Scientists cost, and what is it now Wworth?—W. 8. A. The original cost of the land on which the mother church of Boston Christian Science, was built (gift of Mrs. Eddy), was $20,000. The cost of the original edifice was $200,000, includ Ing the organ, which cost $10,000. The estimated present value of the lot, with its extension, is $150,000, and the cos: of the temple extension $2,000,000. It< seating capacity is 5,000 and it was ded- icated in 1906, Q. How can green bananas be rij ened?—W. F. A. In order to ripen green bananas it is well to keep them in & warm, moist cellar or warchouse under a tempera ture of 20 degrees centrigrade or be tween 65 and 70 degrees Fahrenheit. | takes about one week to ripen them. | the conditions are right, the bananas {could be ripened on a ground floor a well as in a basement Q. Why has February only 2§ days K. C. A. The fact that ordinarily the mon of Februafy has only 28 days is due {the arrangement of the calendar by ti Romans. This month had originally days, but when the senate decreed tha! the eighth month of the year should be named for Augustus, a day was taken from February and added to Augus! which had then onlvy 30 days, so that it might not be inferior to July, named for Julius Caesar. Q. What was the name of the who died of yellow fever, after ha {allowed himself to be bitten by an i fected mosquito’—P. S. A. This was Dr. Lazear. Severa other doctors, including Dr. Carro and Dr. Walter Reed, submitted them selves for experiment, and after coi tracting the disease fortunately recos ered. An Army nurse, Miss Clara Maa« of East Orange, N. J., died as a result of these experiments Q. What is meant principal tens: A. By this grammatical term is mea the tense of the principal verb or verb: of = sentence. Q. Are any trees taller than the 320 foot Tedwoods found?—W. F. A. The eucalyptus tree of Australis lis a competitor of the redwood and o casionally specimens are found a littl- higher than the redwoods Q. What is fluo . 0. H. F ar used for?— 3 rspar is a very import | produet, since it is used in the manu | facture of glass and of enameled | ware, in the electrolytic refining of antimony and lead, in the productior of aluminum, in the manufacture of hydrofivoric acid and in the iron and steel industries. Q. How much of Lake Champlain be longs to Vermont?—H. W AT the lake mont Q. How much of the building tha goes on is for the construction of homes —A. B K. A, Norn about U0 per cent buildings constructed are dwellings Q. For short distances, flies the fastest>—W. N A. The Blological Survey says tha the humming bird is the swiftest short flights -thirds of the entire area o is within the borders of Ve what bird | (Have you asked Haskint He does | not know all the things that people asi him, but he knows people who do know Try Mm. State your question briefly. write plainly and inclose 2 ceuts stamps for return postage. Address Frederic J. Haakin, director, The Bta: Information Bureou, Twenty-first and C streets northwest.) stances of its reappearance. A scheme of society in which men cannot seek God’s truth patiently and declare it when they find it fearlessly or rever ently is a society branded with the chiefest infamy possible to the huma: spirit. The deadliest blow ever deliv ered against intolerance in America was the statute of Virginia for reli- gious freedom. Most of us have been talking about it all our lives, but few of us have ever actually read it. 1 any American wants to experience ar intelligent a moral thrill T advise him to hunt out Hening's “Statutes of Virginia,” printed 110 years ago, a have a look at that yellowed page with its noble preamble beginning “Whereas God Almighty hath created the mind free” and flowing along with so passionate a statement and argument for mental freedom that the ancient print seems aglow with moral light. If Thomas Jefferson hai done nothing else besides this graet analysis, he would still deserve the praise and gratitude of every man free or striving to be free, in ail the world. This enactment is no formal “The Virginia House of Delegates do en ac It is a sacred poem, an un answerable argument, a bugle cal the letter of it inclosed in the dusty tome, the spirit blowing about the world the breath of freedom (Copyright, 1824.) ANGELA ‘\ MERICA'S WESTMINSTER ABBEY By The hills of all the world their witness bear o One Supreme, Invisible, Divine— MORGAN The essence of our being and its cause. In far cathedral, synagogue and shrine The tablets of the ages bid us pause, Beholding how the burdened race may wear The future’s glory in its hour of prayer. So let us build this temple of our land’ though the Nation's valor, swift and warm. The Nation’s soul, iike heaven-leaping fire, Had towered into great, enduring form. Fach noble window and new-risen spire [Through burning centuries of faith to stand. A symboled promise and a pure command. Thus shall America deieat the sword, With taller truth than any Gothic door; An abbey where the people’s soul shall speak Its mighty legend for the future’s lore: A temple where the warring shall be meek And sundered nations find their true accord This i3 our country’s dream. Perfect it, Lord.