Evening Star Newspaper, January 19, 1925, Page 6

THE -EVENING. STAR| With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY......January 19, 1925 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor Chieago Offfce: Tower Ruildivy. European Ofiice: 16 Regont St., London, Evgland. The Eyening Star. with unday merning edition, fa deliversd by carrlers within the city at 60 cents per mouth: dwiy emly; 40 -conts per month: Sundey only. 20 cents per Mmonih. Orders may be semt by matl or tele Thene Main 3000. E€ollection is msde by car- ers at the cud of each momth. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance, Maryland and Virginia. Dails and Sunday..1yr., $8.40: 1 mo., T0c Daily only .1yr., $6.00; 1 mo., 50¢ Sunday only. .1yr, $2.40; 1 mo,, 20c All Other States. Taily and Sunday. 1 sr., $10.00: 1 mo., 3¢ | Daily only Tyr, $7.00:1mo, 60c Sunday oniy. 1yr., $3.00;1mo., 25¢ Member of the Associated Press. The Aswoctated Press is exclusively entitied | fo the u<e for republication of all news dis patches credited 1o it or ot otherwise credited s paper and aiso the local news pub- | neretn. " Al “rights of pubiication of =pecial dispaiches herein are glso reserved. — The End of the Hunt. | Gerald Chapman, who is probably | ie most versatile prison fugitive on | ccord, bas again been captured. This ! wccomplished lawbreaker has been at erty now for nearly two years after s escape from the hospital ward at Penitentiary, where he was serving a 25-year term for high- way robbery. During time he ported from many places. | A few months ago, when a patrolman was killed at New Britain, Conn., in &n encounter with burglars, Chapman was identified as one of the criminals *wWho escaped. In a number of other cases also he has been reported as par- icipating, but there is no assurance * his identity. He was caught yes- terday at Muncie, Ind., after police- | had trailed him for several days. | This man Chapman, who is now vears old, is a confirmed criminal. He | one_of the most accomplished law akers this cc has known for resourcetul, intelligent, | with a prepossessing ap- pearance, capable of carrying on his | crooked work without arousing sus-| ion. He first came to public notice 13 vears ago, when he was sent to| Sing for 10 years for grand lar- | ceny. He was paroled after 8 years, within a few months he was at| his old practices, and in October, 1921, icipated in the robber of a mail truck in New York’ City which vielded loot to the value of nearly a million and a half. Other robberies | followed, and eight months after the | mail track crime Chapman and twoac- | plices were captured in & luxuri- | ous apartment in New York. He very aped from custody then, but | was finally triéd and sent to Atlanta | for 25 years. He escaped from the| hospitai ward, was caught, and es- caped again, which was the ely seen of until h. Muncie yesterday. the Atlanta has been r a anen is i efficient and, Ty nearly es ! | of complete shadow articles found in the tomb are fragile and require the most delicate han- ‘dling, Already someé loss has been suf- fered as a result of the haste of the work and in the confusion regarding priority of rights A rich contribution to knowledge has already been made by the excava- tion of this-tomb. Never before has so complete a mortuary equipment been found in such a high state of preserva- tion. The story of Egypt has been un- rolled for more compiete study than has been heretofore possible. Rich ad- ditions bave been made to the treas- ure house of antiquity. That is the gain of science. Egypt has gained heavily in the inflow of visitors, at- tracted to the Theban Desert as never before in unprecedented numbers. Now it will, pechaps. be possible to read the full story of Tut-ankh-Amen, to find out whether he was, in fact; a dwarf. as some believe, to learn, it may be, whetber he died in early youth, as some indications suggest; perhaps to determine whether, many think, he was in fact the Pharaoh of the Exodus, the King of Egypt who caused the great move ment of the Jews under Moses across the Red Séa, for the establishment of a nation that made world history more important than that written by all the long line of Egyptian monarchs. o Next Saturday's Eclipse. Exceptional preparations have been made for viewing the total ecifpse of the sun next Saturday morning.. It is unusual for a total obscuration of the sun o be visible in this country. and so an opportunity Is afforded for study of the phemomenon near at hand vith facilities not ordinarily available. For example, airplanes will be utilized to follow the track of tota This will permit a longer period of observa- tion. It may disclose some phases of the eclipse that bave not heretofore, been observable. This will be only the seventh total eclipse visible . in the Eastern United States in 300 years,; The eothers occurred in 1684, 1768, 1778 and 1806. Ordinarily . it is necessary to send expeditions to remote points . for eclipse observation. Now science can literally stay at home to study the phenomenon. Yet the path of totalit this year §8 not quite so favorable for the exquisitely fine work that is un dertaken on such occasions. The pa@ lies across' the one of the densest population in tie United States; in which the clear than cisewhere. There are no lofty eminences within the zone of totality. Hence the airpiane is pro- posed as a means of raising observers above the stratum of impurity. Yet it remains to be seen whether valuable work can be done with the camera.in flight. Airplane vibrations are severe, and the first essential in accurate photographic work in astronomical observation is steadiness. Something is gained in knowledge of the solar conditions every time the face of the sun is fully covered b the lunar disc. The study of the corana, or solar luminosity projecting 1659, 16° is less beyond the eclipsing circie, has led tc | a-fairly definite knowledge of the na is another case of a man who | with unusual native ability could| doubtless have carried far in legiti-| awful work had he chosen the | prosaic life. He has nene of the | ristics of tiie confirmed crim- ! inal of tradition. He is soft-spoken. | urteous, well informed, a student| and remarkably quick at understand- ing. In business he would have been high sueccessful Now, unless he should escape again, he is probably doomed to prison for life, for in addi- 3 to the term which awaits com- pietion at Atlanta he must stand trial other including a charge | { murder which may lead him to ows. The usual obvious less ht by this man’s caréer. He rime his life's w ie is sure to pay the penalty, | nad about five years of actual liberty since be first went to Sing Sing m 1912, and during at least hal at time he has been mate, more charact crimes, the | on. i faug! has chosen as i | | i a fugitive with \c hand of the law reaching out for | vim. Perhaps he has enjoved his ad-! ven but it I perience, for ail its thri e, a sorry ex | experienced ST | A a plain economic it th propesition whlesale be 4 is more important than e small, retail The destruc tion of contraba: ids 18 move leg business t trade. a _prehensive in 1 lare as nearly as possible ce the source. fluids lected at The situation nd workers ave s one whi Yexperts and busines to tackle in ‘whi involved in Germany 1 the be h the owners 1 eve dest efficiency | { | i | { | tate | tors. he ——— of Tut-ankh-Amen. The T;omb ! 1t is announced tract hae om. Caire ‘that entered “into tween the Egzyptian govermment and | Howard Carter for the resumption of work at the tomb of King Tut-ankh- . Amen,” which red by Mr. warter a Fhis apparen as r be- was discov over. two ends a controversy | ged for move than a year, | which h: scien or the late Lord Ca ‘tract with the Egypti for explorations in the Vahey of the | Tomb of Kings, neax Luxor. found the | tomb of the youthful Tutankh-Amen. b importance of this find lay in the fact that the king's resting place, | iiough it had been entered by looters was virtually intact as | d 1o cause a| Mr. Carter was the | ection of | . with a con- | government | to ce centuries ago. to contents, in exception to the rule. | Lord Carnarvon died soon afterward, | and in the later developments a dis- ! pute arose between Carter and the Eigyptian authorities regarding cer- 1ain press rights that had been grant- ed by the excavators and culminating | #0 a virtual seizure of the tomb by the Cairo authorities and. the exclusion of | niembers. of the excavation -organiza- | returnin | trary tire of the great combustion f: which comes the heat that makes life possible on the earth. This year it i hoped to determine the présence in the sun of a certain suspectéd element to which has been given the name of coronum, Lay observers of the eclipse wil content to view the phenomenon with smoked glass. They will see none of the - giant - prominences that shoot | thousands of miles into space beyond | © | the cdge of the sun’s dise. They will, Jate to what Russia will do with Trot | know nothing of the swirls of incan- | SK¥. {descent: gas that rage in-vast heaps | if incandescence against the blackness of the void. But they will get an un- 'usual thrill from the knowledge that in { Sam ought to ¥ {the incomprehensible dispensation of | in the nature «f ature three celestial bodies are for a few minutes draw the great inimensity called space. and that for a.little time, a very littl time. indeed, compared with the age e planets themselves. there will be darkness here on earih. b - disappointmnent ‘he may is insufficient to Miram Johnson the slightest idea of 2 to private life. his evident field to Any have On the con- intention that of world is his broaden com- | A quarrel has arisen between the Prince of Monaco and the stockhold- in the gaming casin Any nme: erm amall, presents its moments of dith- ek cult The Arboretum. The Federation of Citizens’ Associa- tions. has- indorsed .the plan for es tablishiment of a national arboretmm on.the Mount Hamilton tract, which has been appr: a large number of scientists and civic leaders and is | favored by a congiderable number of members of ngress. z at Washington such a floral collection has been repeatedly given voiee during the last 50 years by men aualified to address themselves to this subject, and it seems likely that in time, if not at this time, a national tree plantation will be started and rried on the proper le at Wi Many « out se shington vears ago it was sought to set out in the Capitol Grounds. repre- | sentatives of as many American tree families as possible. Quite a number f species were planted, but there were iimitations. Trees were chosen for their ornamental effect, and planting bad to be done to conform to the landscape architecture of the grounds. Not much progress was made toward a national avboretum. Also, the plan was attempted on a smail scale in the grounds of the Department of Agri- culture and a good many species of of conifers were planted, and a majority | om | into exact Hne in | of Monte | however | The idea of | THE EVENING a desire to establish a natfonal botanic garden. which would be comparable with extensive botanic gardéns in | America and with government gar- | dens in Europe. A bady of men emi- nent in the natural sciences and in which the science of botany and its sub-science dendrology - were repre- jsented by famous men was chosen to make a report on these matters. The commission examined many sections of the District and decided that the large tract of country between the Washington-Raltimore road and the Eastern Branch was the best adapted. That section of woodland and farms has been generally called the Mount ‘Hlmllnun tract, because the wooded and rounded hill bearing the name {uoum Hamilton rising east of the road and opposite Mount Olivet Cem- etery is the most conspicuous feature of the landscape. At various times this tract has been recommended by scientific and civic bodies as the best site for an arboretum and a national botanic garden, and its advantages have been set forth. L The Departmental Force. According to figures just compiled | the Government employes of the Dis- :n-u*t of Columbia at present total 6.224. This is a reduction of 51,536 | since the armistice in 1918. The re- ! duetion is greater than has been real- | lzed. About two years ago it was esti- mated that the permanent force of | the Government service would not fall | much below 73,000 when all post-war ! reductions were effected. It has, it ! would seem, gone to nearly 10,000 be- {low that point, and reductions are | still continuing. These figures indicate th: | time of the armistice there were under { the civil service in Washington 117 1760 persons. Others not under civil § service rules. but in «He Government | service, probably brought the total | number to 120,000. There has there- fore been a reduction of nearly one- { half of all those working for the Gov. { ernment, not in military services, at | the Capital when the war closed. | Before the war the permanent de | partmental force here in Washington {was about 36.000. There has thus been ‘a net in the departmental population withi | mately 30.080. | The violent fluctuation of the Gov. i ernment force has caused a considera- | ble dislocation local conditions. | When the war started great numbe t at the ase in in | of people were added to the civil es- | 1 in from The | tablishment, coming here | parts of the United States. | erease was about $4,000, or | 200 per cent. To accommodate these { newcomers put a severe strain upon | Washington's facilitics. Tn the later shrinkage it was necessary vead ! just. The shrinkage, however, did not | come as rapidly as the increase. That {is one of the reasons for the unsettle- | ment of housing conditions at the { Capital. With all the reductions, the i number of persons accommodated { with living quarters in this city who |are engaged in Government work is nearly double that before the wa ———— A resignation may be due to the de { his turn at arduous service, but v few people are g to accept | simple and straightforward an planation. = willi o ex- - Not long ago there was curiosity as | to what Trotsky would do with Rus H Now. the question appears to —— Reterring to debt collections, many European statesmen insist that Uncle p organize something credit men’s asso | eiation SHOOTING STARS. BY PHIL In cultivated style. And then to rest from all She stays at home a while this toil, far awa we view to delay o, Three days a week st 4 | And when her face Her time permits her For but an hour or With us the trouble seenis to be hat we are rather crude Our clothes don’t fit her family ! They do not like onr food lhe Cook! The Cook! She 1 land With a disdainful look I would not he a monarch I'd rather be the Cook. srand, Rumorlessness. | are - always “There rumors, Not aiways” answered Senator Sorghum. "“Occasionally the resigna- tions come so fast there's no time for {a ramor.” resignation New Price List. | Departed are those days so fine Which we in memory prize, When we on pork and beans could dine | _"And thus economize. | - Jud Tunkins says he admires the truth, but too many people pretend to tell it who don’t know it. Hard to Follow. At Diplomacy's fame Plain people may balk. The rougher the game, The potiter the talk: Point of View. “80 they have converted brewery into a soft-drink factor: “To my way o' thinkin',” said Uncle Bill Bottletop, “it ain’t converted. It's backslid, the old | 16 years of approxi- | mere than | sire of an official to return to private | {life and allow gome one else 16 take | STAR, WASHINGTON, BY CHARLES E. Will radio broadcasting be as dead as the music box in five years? I hope not, but—— The question is worrying me—a rabid radio fan, but one who, unfor- tunately, is not quite so rabid as he was 18 months ago. T say ‘“unfortunately” because something has happened to my radio enthusiasm. The trouble lies partly with me, partly with the broadcast- ing. And I am sorry about it. My case must be that of thousands of others. In that belief T am going to set down here some honest, frank opinions as to broadcasting, its merits and demerits, as I see it. When a man first gots a radio set, no matter how small, he finds it the most fascinating thing in the world. He sits up with it later than he ever did with his best girl. He listens en- raptured to the biah-blah of the dance orchestra: drumming out 10| tunes that sound for all the world like variations on one. He has “catwhiskeritis,” or, owns a tube set, acute pains pocket nerve as the A batter worn out. Nothing feazes him, how- ever. The wonder and mystery of radio, as well as the entertainment of it, holds him absolutely enthralled. He grabs the radio section of the paper in his left hand, his watch in the right, waiting anxious for 7:20, when WCAP or WRC comes onto the r. These were great pights, friend and they come but once to the radio fan. Ror radio, as everything else, must and does suffer from the bore- | dom witich assails every human crea- ture when he has “too mueh of a good thing.” Listening to the radio i= a habit— a habit which, like that of cigarettes, is so insidious because it iz =0 ea Turn a rheostat, “twirl a dial,” as one fan said, in she comes, as neat as you please. - Roam the ether from coast to coast. in the end you come back to the local stations, which furnish as geood pro- Krams as any broadcasters in the United States, if not just a little bit better. You can only listen to one station at a time, anyway - But now a glory has departed from | the scene, to paraphrase Mr. Words- worth's lines. Maybe it was that Democratic convention, which was an awful blow te broadcasting. Thou- sands of listeners-in never got over it Hundreds of crystal sets have never been the same When the hard-working announcer says, “And now you will have the | pleasure of listening to Representa- { tive Moomoo speak on the need of zood roads in the great State of Wahwah, we carefu hang up the headphones or turn off the loud speake aving. “Ne, we will not have the pleasure listening to Representative Moomoo. " “You have | million parsons,” the aunouncer in- forms the Representative after his 30-minute tatk. But [ wonder how many hung up or tuned in another station! Tt the truth could ps Representative to a very slim audience indeed way, he never talks to e one radio spoaker he United-ah States-ah of | ca-ah” T am off radio speakers. Maybe 1 listen to thé Presiden the United States and that man | the National Museum who alks entertainingly of barn ow but the rank and file of speakers over the ether lose my ears. ‘They talk too long and they their =yllables, or else put fter every other word. Th are ] e the after-dinner speakers who | arise and say “I have nothing to say, | but—" and then talk foran hou The trouble with radio broadcasting | today i= that it is like @ phonograph with only seven records, and single- sided records at that The records are Band concert Song recital fano recital Jazz dance mu Addresses. . Organ recitalt Hawailan mus What would you? { if he in his s are been eaking to three he knowr Moomoo per- talked at hiss | Well, I do not | Evening srar.” | phone on | tive ears | not to be allowed D. C, . TRACEWELL. know, I am frank to confes am terribly fed up on these seven records, and 1 belleve that every other fan is who has listened stead- ily for so much as a vear. We want gomething else! Every evening we get “Marcheta, Bartlett's “A Dream” and “The Medi- tatfon,” from “Thais” Als ner's “To the Evening Star” Nevin's “A Day in Venijce.” It to be Dvorak's *‘Humoresque,' Drdla’s “Souvenir” and “Carry Me Back to Old Virginia,” played by evgry violinist in the United State.. Tately “Carry Me Back to Old Vir- ginia” has given place to the song setting of the largo movement from the New World symphony of Dvorak and soloists, quartets and other com- binations fill the air with lugubrious lamenting about “going home.” A pianist comes on the air and plays the aforementioned “To the Sweet Fifteen minutes later hits the air with—you would never guess it—“To the Evening Star Why couldn’t the program manager ha side-racked that latter rendering” Why must the announcer bore his steady listeners by giving the com- plete title of the piece, composer, artists and station call letters both before and after a number?” For those who have just tuned in Frankly, I beliave nine-tenths the “invisible audience” for any , but T a tric of one station on any ene night listen to the, program practically from beginning to end. If this Is so, why bore nine listeners to plcase one Why continue to grate the micro- an off, shocking the sensi- of the “three million” of Henry wrote. or blurt out “Stat-ion XYZ"? which O. suddenly Gently, gently are long-suffering, but cast fron not made Today in broadcasting there seens lack of, study on the part of broad- casting stat of the effects of dif- ferent groupings of instruments and singers on the ultimate ea The blare of « full band, especially if there is plenty of brass and drums. is too much for a microphone. It ovarloads the instrument: also head- phones and loud Epeakers Drums ought never be allowed ad- mission to a broadcastinz studio. “No Drums Allowed” ought to be placed on a biz sign at the door. All ensemble singing tends to make the microphone blast. Quartets seldom come over so well as the Euterpean mixed quartet on the night of Janu- ary 12 from WCAP. Reception was unusually geod that night Some voices are terrible over radio. Especially those which hiss like snakes or are too heavy. Such ought to broadcast. both £00d and that of lis- for their teners. AN vibrate™ drums broade own the “vicious lassed with admission to Program man- singers who use olight to b and refused sting studios. | agers ought to read speeches in ad- and rule out such as bore then to talk over 10 vance No speaker ought inutes No program should same musical selectio reed orchestras ought the air, similar to that symphony orchestra from ahout a month ago. alr side The piano comes over perhaps bet- ter than any other instrument, and should be on the air even more than it is, since it is truly the king of all instrumen The harp ought to be heard more. And dear old Roxie less! The problem of the stations is to retain the interest of the listeners- in, especially the older ones. The lure of distance is waning. More and more the listeners are tuning in their local station Musie, music week—song lude the More be put on fine little WEAF s the thing for stations to con- isic, saven nights a Tec & recital— Army Band Navy Band, Marine Band! Why. it would bore Beatho- Listening to music seven nights is an unnatural proceeding in the final analysis. There is the crux of the thing' The solution is- Mix "em up! WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE Roy A. Haynes' disappearance from the prehibition commissionership will mark still another of the seemingly | unending breaks -with the Harding iregime. Maj. Haynes, like the late President. is an Ohioan, and a brother editor besides. For cears preceding his appointment to the; prohibition job by President Harding Haynes ran a Ccountry newspaper at Hillsboro, Ohio. Which is the ances- tral home of the Anti-Saloon League of America. Thus Uncle Sam's liquor liquidator grew up with the dry movement. Havnes' friends cousider his impending saverance from the prohibition enforcement service the | latest victory of the ‘“politicians { These, Haynes’ supporters contend. have hampered his administration from the hour of its inception. It is | binted that when his lips a® un- padlocked, Haynes may one day spin a yarn of “political interference” with the prohibition law that will make Teapot Dome sound like a Grimm's fairy tale. One of the commissioner’s acknowledged handicaps 1€ {he fact [that he has three £eparate “hosses,’ not counting the President of the United States. They are the Secre- tary of the Treasury, the Assistant Secretary in charge of revenues and the internal revenue commission Armageddon and other classic (IIS!; of war had nothing on the battle Which the inaugural committee is waging with President Coolidge fo induce him to permit a little pomp| and pageantry in the inauguration parade. 1f “Cal” could have his way, the procession would be just long! enough to pass a given point in three | minutes. The President is dead set| against any military turnout worthy of -the name. It was intimated to! him that it might make a turesque feature if each of the States sent its | crack militia or National Guard com- | pany Then, with a quizzical smile | and an unmistakable reference to the | foibles of a certain governor, Coolidge | said: “Wa-al, I'm afraid you couldn't | induce Gov to"send anyihing less | than a regiment'” l * # | No more vital subject cropped up: at the Washington meeting of the; American Society of Newspaper Fdi- | tors than the matter of the English in the *“comic strips.” A Western school teaeher (a lady) petitioned the | society to use its influence in mak- ing the “funnies” more “grammati-| cally chaste.” She pointed out that | hundreds of thousands of children | throughout the land are getting their mental inspiration seven days a week | —and_especially on Sundays—from the “funnies’” These, she n||ezes.; are not only crammed with grammati- | cal errors and bad spelling, but| slang that sometimes barders closely | a | i | | | i l | | | Wit | remarked | interested i to loaf for months in countr: the better part of six various parts of his cwn Hughes wishes he could make holiday abroad. especially in Switzerland. which he used to visft almost annuallv. He has a record as an Amateur Alps-climber and Alpine All records for Barkises willing to take cabinet jobe have been broken I the patriots who aspire to be Sec- | retary of Agriculture after March 4, When the President was sasked at the House the other day If he had so under consideration, it was on his behalf that he ‘probably had.” Then it was ex- plained that there lay on Mr. Cool- idge's desk a sheaf of 23 or 30 pages of recommendations for the agricul- tural portfolio. averazing about six names to the vage. That tota's ba- tween 150 or 180. None of ths names or the recommendation® woull have the President if Herbert l:ad consented to take the Hoover's abpointment would ve heen a bold throw fer Coolidge. The Secretarv of Commerze's name makes many farmers and farm organ- izations see red. It's a war-time hate they've never buried “0-an Toov post. r Col. Thomas W. Miller Le alien property custoc much longer. expects to who n so emvloy won't very a @00l deal of his,time henceforward | in_promotine {he intercsts of tha Interallied War Veterans' Teawne. of which he is president The known in Europe as the “Fidac” (be- use that word is comwosed of the first letters of the five French words comy ing its title), is conducting a drive on behalf of the World Court. So Col. Miller ts going to campaign for it in the United States. He spoke under American Legion aus- pices at Indianapolis the other day. shortly after his return from Turop and will speak in Boston and Pitts. burgh before the and of the month. * * x % Those two able young millionaires. E. Roland Harriman and W. Avere'l Harriman. sons of the late E. A. Harri- man, have added a country newspaper to their vast holdings of railways, banks. steamship lines, Ruséian con- cessions, skyscrapers and New York real estate. It's the Middletown Daily Herald of Middletown, N. Y., and the Harrimans are giving it their personal attention. Here's the “defi- nition of policy” they put at the masthead the day their names ap- peared there: “We believe that th a successful newspaper is the publi- cation of live, Interesting news— news that is new—news that fs true— news that is readable without smack- essential of Our auditory nerves | of The blend in the | league, | VITAL THEMES France Will Pay When It Can. By Robert Underwood Johnson, Ambassador to Italy, 1920-21. | | | onsidecable sgepticien s precailed regarding the o n the Thktter o ‘wart debte, itoport Cnderwaod Johnson presents an interpretation of the French pronouncement on the qestion that auickened the suspicion here she the racent fnanc: emorandum rom M. . French minister of fnance The swift developments of the Allied Financial Conference in Paris are one more indication of the punctili- ousness of France in regard to the financial arrangements in which she is nvolved. The participation of the | jUnited States in German reparatioms | |payments for the American army of occupation costs and for war damages has had the support of France ever since the preliminary conversations on the subject two months ago. The re sult—a settlement in Paris that cam with a speed expected by no one— makes it easier o examine impartiall the unwitting indiscretion _of _ the | French minister of finance, M. Clem- entel, in his presentation of the budget for the new year and to see what was really said. The indiscretion had two counts: First, in omitting from' his statement the debts of France to Great Hritain and to the United States, and, |on the other hand, the debts of Bel- gium, Jugoslavia, Rumania and others of the allies to' France herself: and, |secondly, in discussing in the market place certain French points of view concerning the propriety of mitigating | her own debts. Yet he admitfed that the debts were sacred obligations, and | what he said was not less downright |than Millerand’s proud declaration at |the San Remo conference, ‘France |always keeps her word.” Unfortunately, | he buried the admission in the context He should have accentuated it at the {outset of hjs proneuncement: while the discussion bf details should have been reserved for international negotiation. | The position of France is both honor- |able and natural, She virtually say We recognize the obligation to the ut- most and we shall pay it when we can. But in view of the unique conditions under which the debt was contracted and of the terrible situation in which, five years after the war, we still find ourselves through the contumacy of ermany in defaulting on the larger part of her obligations, we feel that | we may properly ask for a generous re- consilleration of the whole subject. She might go even further and say in the words of poct Keats, Cry_your mercy. pity. love. ah, Is there anything montrous or i this? Certainiy there are many Americans who would be glad to see our fine his toric record of altruistic actions sup- | plemented by liberal concesslons to a people who stood between us and the sordid ambition of Germany for th conquest of the world. Perhaps they would not go so f4r as Dr. Hibben, who would have us forgive France every debt but that of the spirit. But they |remember that we owe to her our very existence as a nation: that, after the war of 1870, she paid without a whimper every franc of her indemnity, anticipat- ing the date of each payment so that| Bismarck regretted that he had not ex- | acted a greater sum: again, they re- member that Great Britain and Amer- ica, either by what they did or what they failed to do, are not without large | moral responsibility for Germany's failure to pay the reparations, in de- {fault of which France, courageously and with great sacrifices, has had to bear this burden herself; and. the brunt of the colossal confl |upon her—that her dead outnumbered those of Great Britain, Itaiy and the | United States all together; that her soil, chiefly, was the battiefield, and that her scars will be the last to heal. | | Those facts may not constitute grounds [for a waiver of the debt, but they do put us under bonds to treat her with | the utmost consideration—with patience |sympathy and understanding. Thus we may show that we have not forgot- | jten our comradeship of idealism with | Ler, which will live in History as our | {most glorious chapter. | (Copyright, 1923.) alance Clemen. ! | | | | | | 1 | e we— distosorable finally THE PUBLIC LIBRARY 6. On the Reading of History. “It is sheer presumption,” writes | Frederick Harrison, “to attempt to iremodel existing institutions without | the least knowledge of how they were | {formed or when they grew. to deal| iwith social questions without a | thought of how society arose, to con- | struct a social creed without an idea | ot fitty creeds which have risen and| | vanished before.” A view of the past showing us “something of the advance | of human progress, and putting us in touch with the mighty spirits who | have left their mark on all time,” is | necessary not alone for statesmen and | politicians, but to each person who| {would be a useful citizen, for each {contributes to that public opinion®on | Which the fate of the countrr and civilization ultimately rests. History performs many services to {even the casual reader. G. O. Trevel- yan. himself a most distinguished | historian, suggests some of these ! values. It trains the mind of the| citizen so that he may be capable of | just views ofwpolitical problems: it| molds the mind into the capability of | understanding great affairs and sym- | pathizing .with other men; it en-} riches one's assoclations with historic places; it presents the ideals of other | times; it makes one feel the pdetry] of time. The pageant of history fades and shines according as he who looks has power to see, and this power to see is quickened by the reading of history, not those dull recitals of i successions of kings, wars and date ibut 1he record of the past struggling |up from barbarism to & higher and higher corporate life. { We need to read history so that we {may “extract," to quote from Frederick | | Harrison again, “the esseuce of all| older forms of civilization. to combine | them and harmonize them in one, a | system of existence which may pos- sess something of the calm, the com- pleteness and the symmetry of the earliest societies of men; the zeal for | truth, knowledge, science and im- ! provement which marks the Greek with something of his grace, his life, his radiant poetry and art: the deep social spirit of Rome, its political sa- Zacity, its genius for government, law and freedom, its noble sense of public life; above ail else the constancy, ear- nestness and tenderness of the me- dieval faith. We have to combine these with the industry, the knowl- edge, the variety, the humanity of modern life.” Next week's article will list some books of history which will prove in- teresting to the general reader. ———— Should Be Able to Read. From the Birmingham Age-Herald. Intelligence is said to be necessary for motor driving. At least, the driv. er should be able to read his speed- ometer. | | { born [in the p: ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC Q. In the National Gallery of Art, Washington, there is a pai “Holy Family with St Can you tell me who was the mode) | of the latter figure>—A. W. M. - A: This canvas is by Peter Paul Rubens. The artist's mother is repre- sented in St. Elizabeth Q. Are bananas allowed vipen on the tree for local consumption T.5 B, banana reaches its highest perfection in food value and flaver when harvested green and allowed to ripen after being severed from -the plant. When consumed locally in the tropics it is cut green, for if allowed to ripen on the plant it loses its delicious flavor and becomes insipld. Q. What city pays its city super intendent of publie #chools tie high- st salary—J. A. C A. New Ydrk city heads with a salary of $12,000. Q. When and where will the dog~ led derby be held—D. B. Q A. The Eastern international dog sled derby has been scheduled to take place February 38, 20 and 21°in Quebec. Although the course hasTot vet been decided upon, the distance to be covered will be approximately 130 miles at the rate of 40 mfles, mare or less, each day. Practically the same rules and cenditions ae prevailed last year will be v effect, Q. Where wag Paviowa trai a dancer?—A, G. B. A. Mme. Paviowa, the dar n Russia, _trained Imperial School of Dancing at P grad and later by Cecchetti, director of the Imperial School of Warsaw who devoted three years to her train- ing, excluding all other pupiis. Her first visit to America was made in the list | 1910, Q. What country has tlre largest lifeboat in the world?—T. W. K A. The William and Kate Johnson has just been launched on the Mersey is said to be the largest, being 60 feet long, 15 feet heam, 4.6 feet deep and 40 tons displacement. This boat is intended for New Brighton, England Q. How many letters are there the Hebrew alphabet?—C. A. B A. There are 22 svmbols, senting the consonar oniy. vowels in Hebrew are indicated system of points. Q. What are the nationa of Holland and France’—W. A, Holland's flower is the that of France the fleur de 1 in repre- Al tulip What are used to put oakum or -R. H. Y. Hawsing mailets are used Q. Who composed tl ‘Adeste Fideles . A. D. A. The composition is ascribi John Reading, organist of Winchest Cathedral, 1675-1681, and of the col- lego to 16 The air at once became popular. Q. Are dwarf trees shorter lived than standard sized trees?—J. M. P A. The Department of Agricult says that the longevity of dwarf and standard sized trees has not yet been thoroughly tested. Some dwarf fruit trees may be shorter lived t standard sized tree Q. Who were the “Barnburner P. D. A The nburners" i applied to a progressive section of the New York Democracy from ahout 1844 to 1852, Tt retaliated by calling the other party “Hunkers”” The Barnburners favored the extension of the canal system. They belonged to the free-soil wing of the party stool for local control by the Regency.”." = Q. Who was the President of United States when the Grand Duke Alexis_visited this country? A. The Grard Duke Aloxis of Rus- To thie Editor of The Recently oppone rent legislation for the Columbia gave as rentals and tar an proposed District of reason for the present high a jus fication for manded by many agents lords that the cost of is approximately 100 per cent greatsr than in 1914, and that. of course, this must be met by tha tenant Also, he stated, that the expense of maintenance and has ereased in like degree, and that this. too, must. “of course, be up to the renter.” I am much interested in the of organization pledged study of existing conditions, that its members may form ments which shall be fa to_tenant and landlord alike In their behalf, as well as my wish to inquire why the course”? Why should all she increased den be passed onsto the tenant? it on the principle that—“to him hath shall be given, and from that hath not shall be taken, that which he hath”? One of the questions asked certain member of the joint com itee ‘at {ts hearings for the tenants was, “Is it not a fact that propert values the District have dou 10 years?” Suppose grant that they have, is it quite £ that landlords should demand double rate of interest on a doubled valuation? Isn't that making it a bit strong? But. to adopt the phrase- ©0logy of the distinguished legislator, is it not a fact that no such increase in values has actually oceurred: but has only been made to appear so by manipulation? Is it not also that much of the recent construction is of such poor quality and of such poor material that even with the in- creased cost of inaterial, and the being de- land- constructio! creases now and operation in- charged work in an to the der judg- own of bur- is even by a d we in ting called | Pre lizabeth.” | that time Lmen regulatp traffic | the site of this | r and just | | unju | employe: | me act | added wage to labor, many apartment | buildings represent but little more in | the way of actual investment than in it not a further fact that| 19147 Is maintenance and operation have been curtailed until in most apartment houses they exist only in name? Visit a few and vou will find this to be the case, A further question posed legislation is character that it will, provement In rental is, if the pro- =0 vicious in “stop all im- property, stop practically all new building construc- | tion, cause all values of every kind and class of property to slump at least 3313 per cent, cause wages to decrease, stop all growth of the vity and reduce its population,” how is it. | that while it is still pending, permits for building operations aggregating £1,100,700, were fssued in the. past week, all but about $13,000 of which is for new construction? In addition to this a $750,000 apartment house (permit previously issued) is to be begun at once—thip in addition to work already under way. These figures are taken from a recent issue I. HASKIN sia. visited the United ent Grant was ho long st Q. How' alarm _and W. 0. H Striking clocks nents are as old a cal clock itself. whi cen invented b g o Germa at A. An illuminated d a packat batter¥.is in the hand. Q. How there any me of the ba So recently 2 monument @ in Is memory as tori occurred September §. ite boulder, intp whi Bronze tablet, was unv. Q. What is meant b catch?—J. O. L. A shoe-stri when the ground in order o catc o Q. dava notaries publ A follow for the appc hich United States more than 21 ve of t some inf. IR, '3 the State, a reside or she des appointed be ap as notary count making app governor in writing, in member of the Legisla probate judge of the or circuit in which residents A bond bunty claris in the T of Col are appointed b: of the Dnited should be made th the President, addresse tary to the Executive Off mus did tha countr of Arkans The date o is suppo Mississ Stat A that Q. How burg?—H A. Hay soldier had taken Union side A. zen tates the What does the T slem. the erescent. A. The Turkish the erescent na was orig e symbol of of Byzant the tin father of Alexander th he was trying to take his soldiers to . to undermine cent moon to reveal the In zratitu the city symbol, treness howeve pla 2 What M. mea W ard Q misere” A. In some s a declaration engages to losa misere is to piay, it belng the cards appa tha a trick nave Afocks on was catcher bends are ntment of notarfes pu hold good p Presiden appeared In t States in 187 olding office at attachments? and afarm at & the mechan was believed to the Monk Ge po ight =0 worked M ttle al Sabine Novémber veiled le, whi. A gra 156 ch d ¥ a shoe catch s near the h the ball ormation ak Q Tegy ctically zen o sublic dorsed by o ture, circuit « ounty; distr the applicant fs t be filed wi sum of $1.00 smbia sotarte the Preside Applicatio h the office d to the secr Fasc ngto urkish natic sign inally Di bie a paza na. the pa n. Its org of Philip. t e Great.. WI s. The cres ¢Readers @f The Evening Star she send thrir ghestions o mation Bureau. Freds, ector, Twenty-first an west. The only cha have papers of about accidents troll while ‘a passenger tion car en route to Twelfth avenue, I noticed down the hill grounds and it that saved the into the middle streets were as when the driver his auto skidded car and & mplately arou The above is mpthing motorman asked Where he go would ar. for been res to from street anc 2epl righ some fr. ¢ toy a strike He him hcught 1 T wa whe after motorman shouted getting was him ari had apened “Good trolley he the d sarcasm for hi t L stopping and passed him § The autoist is almost for any accident and t. for in the abo @ matter of indWTeren of the motc or mot. It xeems Capjtal Traction Co. take some active part to use the avoiding accidents. that this motorma 1 be hurt 1 Lie never cared in happen o the sengers. Had the aut truck and the colli no doubt some passe been hurt. Possibly t tude of many street ca it ald be 1 cannot help but driver is often unjustl the blame is alwa The motorman has no but what is in front car does not have whereas the autoist to wou but would h Washington autc corrected The Star I c J. Haskin " streets no this ser ~eturn posta |Answers Rent Bill Foe Raps Careless Motorman here hiles Last n Capltal T Union Stat 1 Pennsslvar through ied t 4 withe ssual, but ver tur: 1 the at n. alwdys bia it s o 1 ce the par whether it happene > that the should at least in teaching its utmost care in 1t occurred an felt sure h by the impact the least what driver or pas 0 been a large taken place ers would have his is_an att r employes and by all means feel the auto v adjudged and shifted to hi thing to watch of him apd h 10 be guided as to wateh i | front, back and both sides and has 1 | | | guide his car -besides solutely unfair Dlay as is almost an accident such have been, when criminally careless. noticed, the motorman th onsidered to have been FRED -t Declares Many unfailingly the me seems wl the autoist the case i he above migh motornian | o far as I ha has never bee at fanit HYNSON Parents R. Lead Children to Ruin ‘To the Editor of The St A vouth, who cam and whose mother grief at his conditio spair as to his future, and saic “The first time I & e home drunk expressed n and her , answered ot liquor .1 it in this house and from; you.” I wonder how manwof the parents of them are growing there today. On establishment of Rock Creek Park| there was a plan to have a national | arboretum Jdn- that park north of Mil-| tary road. and a beginning was made, tion. It is of no particular matter who | pracceds with this unfinished work of | jextracting the treasures and perhaps | finally exhuming the body of the sonarch of ancient Egypt, if that is|and while various genera and species decided upon as desirable and proper. Amer trees were set out the I'he point of impoitance to science is | plantation was not carried to the point | that the work be carefully and|where it might Ue called national. thoroughly done. Much damage may It was about five vears aga that the | i caused by smexpert procedure. The |arboretum plan came to be Joined with | / !ing of journalism—news that is un- * o ox % | tinged with personal belief or preju- Hughes is going to take | dice. a long vacation before resuming the | “Our stand will be unbiased by any practice of law. He probably willl commitment to, or afliliation with. not be in the offices of his old firm | any organization or faction, which in New York until Autumn. Hughes ) will leave us free to discuss and de- B {has decided to rusticate at home, and | velop each and every point fearlessly and independent’y. We cater to no busy dodging dinner-and specch-mak- | one—we have no axes to grind—but ing invitations in foreign parts that,| we as:ure to our readers a paper |from the outset, he would cease to|conceived in sincerity and dedigited be among the sons of rest. So the|to veraclty.” retiring Forelgn Secretary 1s going: (Copyright, 1925.) on the vulgar. p ——— { It isn't really a masterly speech unless people read it before looking up the club standing.—Jersey City Jersey Journal Every man has some weakness, but ihe has to become famous before any- body pays any attention to it.—Ilii- nois State Journal. $iine of The Lvening Star. One more question, and T shall have done. Does the person who bu from Tom, Dick or Harry a bond or stock in some undertaking, and pays, lwe will say $375 for a 3100 par value, expeet to get his dividend on the $335? If not. why should" he expeat to get rental return more than the mctual value of property, because he has alfowed some one' to sell it to him at a fictitious valuation.? MRS. M. M. VI West who are now in practical conspiracy Wwith the bobtlegger’ to violate the law of their country and wha- think themselves smart, will, within the next 10 years, find themselvesdn the position of tha:i inother. 1 Rear a great deal of bunk about the faults of the law. The fault is not with the law, It with the individual citi- zen who puts his stomach abgad ToxaMy 1o his country and the fvelfare of the bovs and girls of foday, the men and women of tomorrow. FRANK G. CAMPBELI, Modernization, For classic music, d may state, 1 seldom have the time. Until they bring it down to date And add some foolish rhy Secretary of n not abroad. He feels he would be so “De man dat's puflickly satistied wif hiss€f,” said .Uncie Eben, “mos’ | sonerally has pore @ste 4n" some re- specks.” s Dawes doesn't keep his ear to the ground, but he keeps a lot of other cars there.—Bfuncie Evening Press.