Evening Star Newspaper, March 16, 1925, Page 6

. 3 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D, © W——m ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN THE EVENING STAR{er on. | With Sunday Morning E WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY THEODORE W. NOYES. . The Evening Star Newspaper Company Busineas Office, 11th St. and Pennsrivania Ave. New York Office: 110 East Chicago Ouice: Tower Builiing, Europesn Uffice gent S Lonion, Kngland. March 16, 1925 | rried about on the shoulders of men cheering for the revolution and urged llhal arms be taken away from the | bourgeoise. In Chicage there was an anti Soviet demonstration in a theater, | Which developed into a riot between the reds and the conservatists, in which 20 persons were hurt and a score arrested. The reds got the upper | hand at last, and after the curtains | went down thronged the aisles and ‘The Evening Siar. with the Sundas morning | sang the red cong, “The Internation- edition. is delivered by cie witain the ity At ) cents per cents per month: Sl month. Orders Dhote Main 5000. Collection is made by car riers at the end of each monih. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday....1 yr.. $8.40; Daily onix 1o Sunday oul 15 e | e | All Other § Daily and Sonday....1 3T Dailr onic Sunday oy’ Member of the Associated Press. Ihe Associated Press is exclusively ertitied 1o the ‘e ToF repabiication of a1 news dis Tatchts Craditea T it or sot wherwise crediced Tn ' Shis paper and aiso the local pews pub. | Thod norea “All 'ights of pEblieation of special dispatehes herein are also rese: — The Fight for Warren. President Coolidge, it has been an- nounced from the White House, will offer to Charies B. Warren a recess appointment if his nomination to be| Attorney 1l be rejected by tiie Sena ond time. The Consti- tutign of the United States specificaily des that President shall have the power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate by rting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session.” i It scems undeniable that the vacancy in the attorney generalship “happened” while the Senate was in sion. But the construction of the langusge of the Constitution by mem- ! bers of the Senate itaelf has been that | tite President has a right to give Mr. | Warren a recess appointment under the letter of the law, but that he will | late the spirit if he does so. | The President’s announcement that { he will disregard the wishes of the Scnate and put Mr. Warren in office despite those wishes has aroused the nate. Had he kept silent, and mere- 1y given Mr. Warren a recess appoint- ment after the Senate had temporarily faded out of the picture in Washing- ton, it would have been bad enough, they say, but to deliberately cast de- flance in the teeth of the Senate is 00 much. As a matter of fact, the eourse pursued by the President is en- tirely honest. He has put the Senate on’ notice of what he proposes to do in the execution of his constitutional prerogatives. The effect of the announcement, however, has been to bring the Chief xecutive into conflict with the Sen- ate over a question of constitutional prerogatives—and such conflicts be- tween the co-ordinate branches of the Government are always bitter. The Constitution says with regard to the appointment of executive officers by the President, “and he shall nominate, and by and with the advice and con- sent of the Senate, shall appoint Am- hassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court ana all other officers of the United States, ‘whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for.. and which shall be established by law.” The contention of the Senate is that the power regarding the appointment of an Attorney General is divided be- tween the President and itself, that while ‘the President may initiate the appointment, the Senate must com plete it by “advising and consenting." When the announcemélt of the | President’s determinktion to give Mr. Warren recess appointment was read on the floor of the Senate, in the twinkling of an eye the attack shifted | from Mr. Warren to the President. Senators charged the President with violating the constitutional rights of the Senate. Criticism leveled at the Senate since its first rejection of Mr. Warren has leen that it was acting along partisan political lines. Here, it seemed, was an opportunity to take a new line of attack. But when it comes to the question of constitutfonal prerogatives is the President subject to criticism any more, or as much, as the Senate it- self? The Constitution vests in him the right to appoint an Attorney Gen- eral. Three generations of precedent are on the side of the President over the question of his right to select his own official fam The Senate, so strong in its insistence upon those uy- written Tules of precedent which en- hance its own powers and authori- ties, should be the last to refuse to rgeognize such precedents as are clear in this case. The original attack was made not by the President, but by the Senate. The President will be ap- plauded . for resisting this attack, | which has been frankly admitted to have taken the final form of partisan politics. He intends, it appears, to have a showdown with the Senate on | this issue, with the country at large as the final arbiter. 1 v a . ———— The inauguration was quiet enough, hut the United States Senate declined te permit the 4th of March to set the pace for further proceedings. ———— A Communist Red Letter Day. “The Communists in this country, noting that yesterday was the an- niversary of the French Commune of 1871, celebrated a red letter day in several cities of this country. In New York they staged a pageant in Madison Square Garden before 10,000 members and friends of the Workers' Party of America, In three hours of fiery speaking they shouted for the victory of the proletariat and the downtall ‘of capitalism. The woman chairman of the meeting, Julia Sutart | Yoyntz, was loudly applauded when she predicted the flying of the red flag from a Soviet embassy in Wash. ington. In the revolutionary pageant men | and women careeved down the main| aisle while the drums rolled. On the | stage, costumed actors represented the | Communists’ teaders of 1871, in which | the French Commune collapsed: Red | We are stin fin ale” The police tried to restore ci- {der, and cracked skulls in doing so. Screaming women protested against “American Cossack rule” and fought the policemen. “Of with the great American revolution!” shouted the editor of a Communist daily paper from a soap box in the street. Tt was charged by the anti-Soviet leaders that the riot was inspired by | Soviet propagandiste’ chiefs in Amer- ica. and that it was organized along the disciplined military lines which the present rulers of Russia effect to keep their cohorts in line. Let them rave! It is not fer the American people to worry. The voters of the land last November gave strik- ‘Ing evidence at the polls that this country is safe and sound and that it will have no part nor parcel of rad- lcalism or tendency toward subver- sfon of the present form of govern- ment. May day or other red anniver- saries can come and go without caus- ing a tremor of apprehension of the safety of American institutions. They are but froth blown away on the wind. warranted in sleeping sound o' nights, without fear of a red bogy man materializing. ——— The Scout Campaign. The camipalgn to raise the $60,000 necessary to carry forward the work of the District Boy Scouts for the next two years was scheduled to have been terminated last Friday. When it begame known that. despite the vigor- ous and efficient efforts of those who had been dedicating their time and energies to the raising of the needed funde, they were still about $10,- 000 short of their goal, there was no faltering in their rank: They know and correctly value the importance of the Scout movement to the youth of the eity. To them the prolongation of their efforts was to be weighed against a realization of the conse- quences of materially curtalling the scope of that movement. And having struck that balance tiaey have deter- mined to push forward through the current week in a post-campaign ef- fort to bring home the facts of the situation to the community. There is more at stake in their ef- fort than the mere success or failure of another local ‘“charitable” cam- paign. The Scouts are watching. Eagerly, kéenly, the upstanding, clear- visioned youngsters of the city are contemplating the reaction of their elders in the matter ,of supporting a code in which they have been taught to believe heart and soul. Honor, pa- triotism, industry. cleanliness of mind and body, are part of that code. They | Will not fail ‘with justice to tnterpret the success or failure of the Boy Scout campaign for.funds as a measure of the interest of the adult éommunity in having those principles instilled in the hearts of Washington boys. With their eyes upon us the cam- paign cannot be permitted to fail. There is ho leader of American thought in recent years who has failed to realize, and few.who have failed to expreas, the importance and value of the Scout movement to the Nation. There is no Scout who does not derive from his connection with his organiza- tion a conception of his obligations as an .American ecitizen essential to the health and sccurity of the Nation's fu- | ture. A certain number of dollars, as- sérting the community’s belief In the value and importance of such work, are required. Surely they will be rorthcoming. —————— Turns in debate arise so rapidiy that the Senate cannot always detect the precise moment at which the situ- ation appears to call for an executive session. 2 - We ‘can hear from London by radio. The messages of importance, however, continue to be - transmitted - through print, by means of mail or telegraph. —————— France is pointing to Ma Ferguson as an example of the safety that lies in woman's suffrage. Texas may yet set the fashlons for Paris. * ———— There are moments when 1t appears easier to elect a satisfactory President of the United ‘States than it is to se- cure an Attorney General. ——————— Murder investigation reveals fact that even a. typhoid germ further injure its reputation by ting into bad company ——o— Germany Invited. Ever sirce the treaty of Versailles was signed the constant plea and de- {mand of Germany in dealings with the victor nations have been for treat- ment on a basis of equality. At last Germany has won her point. If that nation becomes & member of the League of Nations. it will ke on terms of absolite equality “with all’ other member nations. - But it s0"happens. that in this par- ticular instance ‘Germany 'did not want to be treated with equality. In the application “made by the Berlin government for league membership it was asked that Germany be given special treatment, particularly with respect to article 16 of the league cove- nant, providing for sanctions in -the event of war. It was the view of Ber- that Germany,” on account of treaty limitations on’ her armament, should not be held to full account- ability under article 16. 'To concede this. the council of the league holds, would destroy that theory of equality which is the very foundation of the league's existence. Germany is told that she will be cordially welcomed as a member of the league, is practically assured of a seat in ‘the council, but it she comes in she must take over snixts and red sasheslin plenty ient a sanguinary touch of color to the K] ty of Jeague member- ship. N 2 The reply of .he council ought net - scmble. A red-shirted giant wu‘lo be unacceptable to Berlin, for it is couched \in' & tone of friendliness which must sound strange to German ears accustomed as they are to per- emptory demands and curt dismissal of contentions advanced by the Berlin government. Tt may be true, as Aus- ten Chamberlatn Intimated at Geneva, that so far the League of Nations has not amounted to much as & guarantor of peace, but the chance that it may be made of some account will be much greater with Germany In than with Germdny out, The scene now shifts from Geneva to Paris, where measures for assur- ing France and- Beiglum of security are to be discussed. It is a difficult problem at the best, but It ought to be rendered less difficult by thé new spirit shown by and toward Germany. | The need of Europe and of the world for some guarantee of a period of tranquillily is so great that hope is warranted that a way will be found. e Marking Historic Sites. The Dagghters of the, American Revolution, who have been active for many years in marking places which have unusual assoclations with the American Revolution, plan to enlarge thelr work with the {dea of marking, or encouraging the marking of, places identified with all great phases of American hisiory. The national chair- man, of the D. A. R. committee on preservation of historic sites recalls that 2 number of States have come to realize that historic spots are an a set to them and are stimulating to a knowledge of history. She points out that Oregon and California have been active in marking their historic places and meking them accessible, and she | Pays a compliment to Tennessee and Colorado. In many States chapters of the D. A. R., the Society of Colonial Dames, other ancestral-patriotic usso- ciations and local historical - societies tave carried on extensive work in preserving, restoring and marking Listoric buildings, graves and sites. There is no question that it is desira- ble to present reminders of big facts connected with America’s past and to help keep in memory men who served their country with distinction. There is a strong desire to make historic places in the country accessible by 8ood roads. It is not long that Mount Vernon could be reached over a good road, and quite recently the State of Virginia, at the appeal of the Wake- field National Memorial Association, bullt an automobile road to Wakefield, hirthplace of George Washington. 1 the former Kaiser ever had ideas of & coup d'etat the time has long passed for him to make the attempt. He is apparently satisfied to present as a private citizen an example for the benefit of his fellow countrymen of ecéhomy and thrift. ———s— What Theodore Roosevelt referred to with delicacy as “the short and ugly word” has become so familiarized by the cross-word puzzle that it is lidble to creep into even the most dis- tinguished conversational Interchange. ———ae— New York has decided that the restaurants, as well as the theaters, need censorship. The day may come when a regular New Yorker will have to cominute in order to have what he regards as a good time. ————r oo A vote for play censorship might be as emphatically afirmative as the vote for alcohol prohibition was. The public sometines demands that it be protect. ed from its own bad taste. ————— French economists declare that their country needs 4,000,000,000 francs. The sum Is large, especially in view of previous indebtedness. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Negation, Not enough laughter and too many tears. enough sneers. Not enough tofling’and too much com- plaint. Not enough ardor and too much' re- _straint. Not smiling and too many Too much of hinder and not enough ot Too much aic bubble and not enough dough. The state of our alyzed thus; Too much of Minus and not enough Plus. minds may be an- The Last Word. “A woman always: wants -the last word."” £ “1 can't blame her for that, said Senator Sorghum. *'So do some of the greatest of us statesmen.” - Serene Inccherency. The cross-word puzzle now I choose With confident delight. All kinds of language I may use " And never start a fight. Piracy. The small boy used to want to be A'roving pirate on the sea. Adventure's path has greatly changed And picturesqueness is- estranged. For he who cn the'raging main - Would break the law-for sordid gain, To new conditions must succurab And. run a boat that peddles rum. Reformation. “Has the new sherift, Mesa Bill. i'c- tormed Crimson Guloh?” : “No.” ‘answered Cactus Joe. “T'lie. gests that Dawes absented himself at Gulch §s gotn’ on as usual. But clectin’ Bill sheriff . lids' Guleted him . down quite considerable.” N Triumph! My mathematics ar§ byt poor. My memory is bad. My legal lore is insecure— And yet I am not sad: My income tax I figured out While often turning pele. For years I've been besat with doubt— And still I'm not in jail! e “De subsequent procecdingd of de legislature,” said Uncle Eben, “mighty seldom: 'pears likeah “answei ‘to de . prayer dat opened ‘em.” 1f only we could read the minds of others, how much more we would know than we do! Kindly nature, however, has drawn a veil over each mind, through which no one can see, although he may play peek-a-boo. Whence comes so much of the mis- understanding common In everyday life. In real life matters are not worked out 5o well as they are on the stage, where “mind reading” is a vaudeville necessity, On the stage, some woman with nothing ticularly distinguls! about her, far as we can see, easily reads the minds of others, tells the man In the first row where he lost his wateh, and what the girl two |seats away wrote on the piace of paper. How (nteresting life would become if this magical abllity, so common- place on the stage, should be given to you and me and all the rest of us. It is a toss-up, in that event, whether universal peace would result, or uni- versal war. Probably, the latter. Truth is & bard master. a zealous friend, an uncomfortable companion, n many instances. = The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is often more than mere man can bear now. What would life be, if, amid the tolerant wall of bunk which men have bullt up to make living mare amtable, the white light of pitiless publicity suddenly should be turned full upon all our minds? £ * Petish the thought! Let us live as foollshly &s ever, and as happily. * & %o Man looks at his dog and wish he might be uble to peer within its | brain, that he might actually know what the animal thinks, if it thinks. He might look at his wife In mucit the same way, because he is almost as far from kpowing what she thinks. So, she, too, might look at him. So, too, each man of us may look at each fellow mortal. The impossibllity of getting within the mysterious brain of the cat holds 800d of the more mysterious brain of man. We only know what others think by what they schoose- to tell us, elther orally or in writing. Even then we never know when we are getting the truth. Man has evolved a complex sys- tem of desires and repressions. The resultant mind, the product of vas centuries of time and thought, lives with each one of us. What we say is not exactly what we_think. Even when we try to say what we think we find it a very hard task, as witness the dificulty of the young man proposing to his sweetheart. Or doing such a prosaic thing as buying the engagement ring. See this group of men talking about another who is absent. Lach man wants to curry favor with the absent one, Dach knows that this ter fs a churl, utterly unworthy. Each one knows that every man in the group knows it. Yet each talks openly in praise of the man, ¥nowing full well that al- though the other fully realizes what he =ays is nothing but the veriest untruth, each man will not dare to sa ything. Watching such a conversational feat, one s struck with the futllity of it all—and its essential humanity. As long as we are ay we are, long as it is impossible to know the real thoughts of any other person, such conversations wili go on, must go on. Human nature will not change until the next world—If then, Oh. see the happy grou: “Jim is a great fellow,” says Bill ‘What he really thinks is simply thi; “It will sound well to cay (hat. Of course T know he ain't, and the rest of them do, (6o, but—oh, well—I wonder 1f T will have time to get to that engagement? Gee, that sunshine is pretty. and | THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. “Jim {8 a great old fellow,” chirps in Ben, not to be behind in the uni- | versal paean of praise to the virtes of Jim. Could his mind be read. here {s what he thinks: "“Jim {8 an old bore, it you ask me; but I hi Bot to chime in, or some of these birds will say. I sald somsthing against Jim. Horace, over there, the tattletale, probably would go and tell him I did. Where on earth did I read that about James 17 Oh, T re- member now, it w: in that story I read.” “A fine scout” declares Bob. fine scout” ' The repetition make his contribution particularly impre id twice as much ither Bill or Ben. He 1t twice as much i &00d three favorable state- ments will be three tim good. “A fine scout,” he repeats again— and immediately loses ground. He overdid it. What he really thought was something llke this: . “Funpy old world, where 1 have to sit here and say something I know isn't true, and that Blll knows isn’t true, and thet Ben knows lsn't true, and that I know Bill knows lsn't true, and that Bill knows I know fen't true, and that I know Ben knows isn't true, and that Ben knows I know fsn’t true. Whew! Sounds llie that old thing about the woodchuck— let's see—How much wood could a woodehuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chugk wood? A woodchuck could chuck all the wood a wood- chuck could chuck, if a woodchuck cowd chuck wood." Somebody 15 looking diretly at him. It {s Tom. Tom has been speaking, but Bob has been s0 busy chucking wood and woodchucks that he did not hear & word. Yet, intultively, he knows what Tom must have sald. No doubt of It, Tom old scout, a great old What else could he & * % When the youns man talks to his charming girl, the sweet may listen intently, but probably she is thinking in a wildly different strain. my department next week,’ he says with modest pride. “Oh. won't that be splendid!” she replies, with the bubbling enthusi- asm, which is second nature to healthy, pretty girls. He then proceeds to say something after this fashion: “Yes. they looked around. and it narrowed down to me and Sam Johnson, and perhaps .l ought not to say it, but they decided I was the best man, so they gave ma the job. 1 go in Monday, and I'm £0ing to show them a few things, I've got some Ideas I think are new no- body has ever pulled them before, I'm going to make them sit up and take notice, T'll tell you. It Is & great chance for me, as the old man rald when he called me in on green carpet and informed me of my promotfon.™ Although the girl had smiled and nodded at several points in the course of the above address, what she really was thinking ran about like thi “Let me see—shall I get one thoss ensemble suits, or shall I @ sport coat with fur around bottom? Of course, all the girls wearing those sport coats with fur around the bLottom, but they pretty, they certainly are pretty. of get the are are 1 gvay fur around the bottom, would Just suit me down to the ground But that énsemble suit I sgaw in the window downtown vesterday certain- Iy was a beuwuty, and would just go with my new <clivpers and those light strawlerry shade stockings. Thos: were @ rcal bargain.” He is hanpr. She !s happy The invioiate chafracter of the heaven. which we should value high- 1y and us: accordingly WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Calvin Coolidge is described by those nearest to him and with experience in watching him weather & crisis as & natural philosopher. Worry 1s not in his lexicon. The storm that is raging around him in connection with Mr. Warren s probably the most tompestuous the President ever fuced. But the barometer of hls temper: ment, in the midst of it, is reported to register “no change.” It {s not that he is exactly Indifferent to tribu. lation. He just doesn't let ft un- nerve him. It tightens up his innate taclturnity a bit, and he Is not quite as ready for diversion. But Coolldge never lets the clouds look any black- er than they are. He relles pretty imphcitly upon hix proverbial good fortune. Lady Luck long ago adopt- ed him a8 one of her favorites. When things look the worst, Coolidge is bolstered up by the thought. that she seldom deserts him for long. *H ok E Detroit has had an unfair propor- tion of senatorial excitement and limelight these pasf threc or four years. About every major crisls that has animated Capitol Hill since 1921 has had a citizen of the mator me- tropolis “for its hero—or its victim. First came Truman H. Newberry and his troubles. Then Henry Ford, with his Muecle Shoals proposition, bound- ed into the center of the stage. Laat year Edwin Denby gave the Senate oppertunity for a certain discussion that monopslized national attention. This year—Saturdey, March 14 of in- delible memoyy—two Detroiters, Sen- ator James Couzens and Charles Beecher ' Warren between them usurped the time and thought of the Senate (and of the country) to the exclusion of all other fssues. Hollywood will have to lgok to its laurels. Detrolt, having mada‘the front page, seems to | nave; the habit of keeping it. 7 * k¥ There's one sidelight on the Warren squabble_that has- escaped general notice. Vice Presldent Dawes figures conspicuously in it. At the Repulli- can nationsl convention in Cleveland in 1924, when he was nominated as President Coolidge's running mate, the Michigan delegation of 33 voted solidly for Dawes except one lon delegats. That delegats was Charle: Beecher Warren. The vote was 32 for Dawes and 1 for Hoover. On Maxch 10, 1925, almost nine months later to the day, it was a single vote (and that the vote of Charles G. Dawesj in the United States Senate that pre- vented Charles Beecher Warren from becoming Attorney Genetal of the | United States.- Nobody seriously sug- the critical moment out of revenge for what happened at Cleveland, al- though some waz dld" say, in the midst of the carnage, that every Dawes has his day. 5 * & % % C. Bascom Slemp, former assistant disinterested bystander at the h tilitles between his one-time chief and the Seénate. It is a situaglon in which Slemp would have reveled. and one in which, by general consent, he vould have been a tower of strength ! for Mr. Coolidge. American politjcs has producad few shiewder memsurers of distance than Bascom Slemp. He is not known ever to have leaped be- fore looking. Councing of noses in advance of wuncert: ‘events Is his speclalty, His princi disappoint- ments and disillusion: ts.in. latter- @ay times concerned himself. Where to President Coolidge, is an officlally | | the fates of others were at stake he made few missteps. Mr. settled promptly into his tice at Washington. His friends re- port that already enough business has streamed. into his office to keep him busy for the next year. law prac- [T Bevond .all question the heavier oratorical and debating artillery in the Senate is on the Democratie side. The Warren affair proved that to President Coolidge’s friends with dis- concerting-. clearness. Except for Borah, who is in opposition, the Re- publicans 'have no match, when it comes té rough-and-tumble fighting, for men like Walsh of Montana, Reed of Miesourt and Robinson of Arkan- sas. Not have they anything to pit against the callous and caustic Cara- way of Arkansas. Carter Glass of Virginia is aleo a Democratic foeman with few equals across the aisle. Pep- per of Pennsylvanta is probably the biggest wdministration gun, but his forte, whieh Is clear-headed argu- ment, does not avail much against the barrage which the attacking Democrats let down with so merel- less force. Senator Watson of In- diana is.another Republican who sometimes throws a good deal of metal, but, by and large, the Demo- erats unlimber the deadliest How- Itzers. * % x % Scene: Regent meeting in Washing- ton of the Kentucky State Soclety. Dramatis personae: Loyal sons and daughters of the Blue Grass Com- monwealth, Business in hand: Wind- up of the evening's proceedings, with everybody Jjoining in the chorus of “My Old Kentucky Home.” President of society spies a gentleman evi- dently overcome with emotlon as song ig over. He approaches the tearful pergon. “My friend,” he s “you seem to have been very much affected by this singing. Are you a Kentuckian?” Rejoinder: “No, I'm a musiclan.’": * % * o Ameriea ~ ish't the only Anglo- Saxon country in which political mud is slung. Sir Auckland Geddes, for- mer British Ambassador to the United States, has been functioning for some time as head of a commission to in. vestigate British food prices. ‘The other day Geddes was attacked by F. W. Jowett, M. P., a member of the late Labor administration, in these_terms: “Geddes is evidently apalitying to fill the ,place previously filled by the late Lord Mersey as janitor for cap- italistic governments and rich peo- ple. There is always a sultable man to allay public discontent when ft disturbs the peace of mind of the comfortable classes. The truth abou. the Jameson raid was hushed up by one. The scandal of the (drowned third-class ‘passengers In the Titanic was burled by one. The facts re. lating to the sinking of the Lusi- {a were glossed over by onme. In like manner, Sir Auckland Gedde: the food commission, is doing his job. By browbeating witnesses and clos- ing the doors ggainst the public, he is clouding the issue, as his prede- cessors did.” (Copy: Must Be Some Acrobat. . Ffom thie Boston Transerlpt. /Instead of looking before he leaps, he who crosses the ‘street in the later days must look god leap at th same time, t. 1925.) | | creature | “I am' going to be made head of; the | the think a strawberry colored one, with| human mind is a God-vend, a gift of| Slemp has | I | consider such a plan as practicable. | Sees Nation Aided. Hopkins Says Inaugural Fetes Bring People Together. To the Editor of The Star: The comment of The Star March 4 on a communication in regard to Inaugurations 1 sent it, and an cx- tract from it, failled to bring out the principal considerations which led me to deprecate not so much simplicity fons, though the peopie long and everywhere demon- strated that they are fond of and en- Joy showy pageants, to regret that, instead of remaining as they have been, national in fheir scope, expre; Ing national feeling and i t in the occasion, they were in danger of bécoming provincial and local in their observance and influence. The President said in his inaugural address: “It is true that we could with profit be less sectional and more national in our thought.” What method more effectual to bring about so desirable a result can be. devised than to bring together, even if it be only once in four yes the largest possible number of peo- ple: from all parts of our widespread domain, to mingle with each other in ceremonies, pageantry and rejoc- Ing over the coming to power of the new ruler they have selected. It enables them to see their Presi- dent, to visualize in a way their Gov- ernment, to foel that it is their Gov- érnment, and to understand more fully what it means to be an Amer- fean citizen. It is good for them, It broadens them and softens their prejudices to get out of thelr ruts occaslonally, see something of their country, and experlence has shown they like an opportunity to come to the Capital and take part in an nauguration. and it costs the tax- payers nothing for them to come. Why not let them come, as many as want to, and let them celebrate on any scale they choose? It is the peo- ple who are celebrating. Washington was striving to pro- mote the same end when he repeat- edly urged the establishment here of a non-sectarian university, which would bring together young men from all sections and make good Americans of them. So much for the national peint of view. Now for the local. It is not true, as some of the press of other cities have more than intimated, that our desire for an inauguration com- mensurate with the extent of our do- minion and the number and lovalty of our people is because “Washington wants the dollars. The dollars that are scattered here benefit very few except the hotels, and they are not Washington. 2 It is not from any sordid motive, nor from any desire for pomp and display that we urge national inaug- urations. We Washingtonians love and take pride in our Capital, and experience again shows that the peo- ple who come here and see it and feel that {t belongs also to them, share In those feelings, and from their widely scattered localities in- fluence their representatfves to help to make Washington what it Is sure- ly destined to become—ths grandest, most beautiful Capital that has sver been on earth, radiating love of country, respect for law, refinement and education throughout the land, and a potent and abiding influence for peace and good will to all man-| kind. Those are the considerations which move us. ARCHIBALD HOPKINS, ——————— Upholds Present Schools. Student Objects to Proposal of Master High School. To the Editor of The Star: As a senfor In one of the District high schools. I was surprised at the proposal to combine all of the Wash- ington high schools Into one great! institution. No one who has ever at- tended one of these schools would | | | i | I would protest for the following rea. sons Firet, it is a generally known fact that most educators advocate a de- crease in the size of the great col-| leges and universities in order to| have & more efficient working sys- tem. In these great schools there is Httle oppertunity for a close under- standing between the faculty and the student body, and there cannot be co- operation between the students them- selves, and it is impossible even for classmates to know one another or to co-operate in making suggestions for the good of the school. Instead of recelving individual at- tention, the students in this proposed high school would be handled en masse, nor could this be avoided, for it would be nothing else than a great crowd. Even if such a school were centrally located, it would be diffi- cult for many of the students to at- tend, owing to the great distances some would have to travel, causing loss of time as well as greater ex- penditure of money for transporta- tion. Although the primary object of a high school is to educate, yet this & not its only function. The object of the High School Cadets is perfection in military drill, and this is furthered by campetition. Althaugh the annual competitive drill is really between company and company, yet students both in and out of the Cadet Corps take pride in the accomplishments of the cadets of their school. Where there Is great school spirit there is usually good scholarship, and vice versa. 1f all high schools were made into one, the friendly competition now existing between these schools would stop and the morale of the Cadet Corps would be ruined. The same thing is true of a Educators agree that athletic carried too far, are a great benefit not only to individuals, but to schools “weli. If there were but one high school there would not be much more Interest manifested In athletics than what is now shown between inter- class games, and intercity games would be almost impossible, owing to the expense. It might be advocated that the ex- pense of administration would be re- duced by having fewer principals and- assistant principals, as well as subordinate employes like those who are in charge of the l.eating plants and lunchrooms, but the enormous size of tlie proposed High School would require a board of adminis- tration, the salarics of whose mem- bers would probably mmount to as great a sum as that which is ex- pended under the present system, and the number of teachers could not be reduced unless there was a sacrifice of efficiency. These arguments I offer as a stu- dent interested in the success of our high schools, particularly my own, and of Washington as a great educa- tional center of our country. D. WADE SAFFORD. hletics. it not Just the Reverse in U. S. From the New Orleans Times-Picayune. It is said that in Holland girls dress like their mothers. How differently we do. things in the United State| Model husbands, so a young lady tells us, are not built for sp Worcegter Post. Fame is much like vegetation. If it grows quickly, it seldom lasts long. —Baltimore Evening Sun. L e - Ethies are things.a man uses until he gets into & tight place.—Birming- { ham News. ———— Still _1llquor burns deep. — Fort Wayne News-Sentinel. | mode of preparation Q. How long was Senator Smoot's speech that was made against a_bill wbout shipping which President Wil- son favored?—O, N. L. A. The fillbustering speech made by Senator Smoot was made the 31st o January, 1915, against the ship-pur- chase bill, a measure greatly desired of passage by Presideit Wilson. Sen- ator Bmoot spoke 11'2 hours. Q. Who live the or office workers? A. Dr. Louls 1. Dublin, the distin- guished statistician, recently stated that the life expectation of industrial workers is eight years less than that of office workers. onger, C, M. T. industrial Q. Why is hard wheat used in mak- ing breakfast food W A. The Bureau of Chemistry says that hard wheat makes breakfast foods that do not become mushy like those made from soft wheat Q. Why did the Sioux carry a pole | with a certain number eagle featners attached?—D. G. W. A. The Bureau of American Eth- nology says that many Siouan tribes carried as & standard & pole with eagle feathers attached. Sometimes there was a crook at the top of the pole, but there was no specific number of feathers. It was used In keeping the men in order {n hunting the buffalo. Q. Do prisoners in Wilmington, Del., receive whipping or the lash for | some crimes?- A A. The New Castle County work- house says that the Delaware laws call for a certaln number of lashes at the whipping post as part of the punishment for specified crimes, and this law has been in effect for a very long time. The whipping post is used only to carry out the sentence | fmposed by the several county courts. Most of the whippings take place at the New Castle County workhouse, located at Greenbank Del., about five miles outside of Wil- | mington. | | Q. Who made original plan | of the City of Buffalo?—L. L. L. | A Maj. Charles Plerre L'Enfant.| Q. Are more men or more women | color blind?—K. E. C. A. It is said that males are far| more likely to be color blind than females (16 to 1) Only 1 woman | in 400 is color blind. The reason for | this is partly, at least, that the de- velopment of the gra,-perceiving | constructed the scale of 1 inch to 1 foet, the conténts baing worked to that ratio: The helght ir little over § feot and beneath' the building are four drawers holding & garden witl: Nowers, shrubs, etc., and & garage With motor cars. The 4olle 4re a'fo madé 1o scale. The bulld ing contains a wine cellar stocked with ‘wine. The walls can_be raised to the roof and lowered.” In struc ture it is modern Renaissance. A large number of artists have con- tributed decorations. It contains electric fittings, telephones, typewrit- ers, planes, etc.. two bathrooms and library of books. All the keys and matal fittings are perfect. The idea was conceived by Sir Edwin Lutyens. Q. What species of tree largest?—D. S. P. A. Sequoia trees grow the largest the average height being ahout feet. One of the glant redwoods of California known as the “Father of the FKorest” has a circumference o ands 485 feet high and i probably 5,000 vears old. the is sulphate of am 'ns?—B. K. K Sulphate of ammonia is used as tertilizer primarily for golf cou especially putting greens. By v of the fact that it is an acid reacting fertilizer, it helps to keep out weeds Q 1 must go abroad father's estate, but n't second papers. Can I arrange it so I will no have to come within the quota When | return?—T. B. A. Any ajien about to depart the United States for a temporar visit abroad desirous of having status determined prior to departu thereby enabling him to return as a non-quota immigant, or of being re- lteved from the necessity of estab- lishing that he is entitled, upon ap plication for re-entry, to be resarded as occupying exempt status, may ap ply to the commissioner general of ir migration for a permit to re-enter the United States upon a form 1o be pro vided by the commissioner general fo that purpose. to settle m Q. What s the sign de. key note fn music? —E. G Q. 1Is it true that ice frozen on water will melt into soft water?—I. A. The Bureau of Stand: that as the water fieezes the crys formed are nearly pure water, the dis substance is favored by practice and | color education | Q. Was payment he Louisi- | ana purchase made A. Payment for purchase was not gold coin or bullion. The exact cost | of the purchase was 64,000,000 francs | In the form of United States 6 per| cent bonds, representing a capital of $11,250,000. The ultimate c would include not only the par value | the Loulsiana made in actual solved impurities that make it hard remaining in the unfrozen part. sea fce is nearly fresh Q. What is meant by “gag rul the House of Representatives?—C. I A. This refers to the regulatio for the limitation of debate, Q. How extensive 1 mon?—G. G. A. The Common ing acres. It ston Com is a_park embrac 48 has been reserved of the bonds, but also 10 years' in- | for public use since 1634 terest, the cost of surveying, of | Government exploration and of sell- ing the lands. In addition, American Government agreed fo sume and pay the obligations France to American citizens French attacks on American ping. These obligations were mated at $3,760,000. making payment of $15,000,000. Q. How many farmers’ children do, ot _recelve high school educations?— | A. The Bureau of Education re-| cently made a survey of six States in the various sections of the Union and it found that less than 29 per cent of | tarmers’ children of high school age | (15-19 years) were in redited high | schools and that less than 32 per cent| were in any kind of a high school Q. What is the difference between | black and green tea?—T. S. R | A. Teas are classed as green and black, according to color, flavor ana | The leaves for green tea arc heated or roasted slightly in shallow pans over a wood fire almost as soon as gathered, after which they are rolled with the hands for ship- esti- total do n L { upon a table to decrease the moisturs | it and to twist them. They are again roasted and quickly dried. The leaves | for black tea are spread out in the opén air for some time and then toss- { ed with the hands until flaccid, roast- | put through cylindrical hot rolls. ed & few hours in a soft and moist state. They are finally dried over a charcoal fire. - The operation of roll- ing and roasting is sometimes peated several times until the leaves have become the proper color Q. Pease describe Doll House—C. § A. The Queen’s palgee in miniature the Queen’s | Doll House a The building is | ruary I Q. In what country are “The Klc | aike gold fields? —F. K A. Kiondike is a region in the Cana | atan territory of Yukon, lving chief to the east of the Yukon River, wher it recsives the Klondike Creek, nea the middle of the Alaskan bound: 1 The mining district includes t1 basins of the Klondike, India MeQuestion Rivers, about $00 miles in area. Q. How are they the buflding of the Island tunnel? w A. The Staten Island tunnel ing copstructed by the City York. Just now there is no con struction work under way, the water front shafts in Brooklyn and Ricl mond having been completed on F 15 and September progressing wit Brooklyn-Stater is_be of Nev Q. Is it detrimental them?—K. F. A. The Forest Servic | properly done, the toppin, c | es is beneficial and improveg the | pearance of trees Q. How is cretonne treated to a shiny surface for lamp shade S. H. | "A. Starch is appiicd to the surface the shiny, glaz al is starched ane 1t | is not practical for an amateur to do {this. Cretonne glazed in this < | chintz, and the material is not | able to | eretonne to prod | eftect. The mate Infor in, D cets morti - thix servic eturn postage ) (Have you a question wou swered? Send it to The Sta tion Burcaw, Frederr J. Ho. tor. Twenty-first and C s west. The only charge f is 2 conts in stamys for a Editors Recall League Battle At Death of Medill MecCormick The sudden death of Senator Medill MoCormick of Illinois on the eve of the closing of the Sixty-elghth Congress set the editors of the country to reviewing. the career of the man as an outstanding figure in American *life. Mr. McCor- mick's association as one of the group of Senate irreconcilables for the time eclipted in the minds of many editors his more constructive work in the Sen- ate. Editorial comment throughout is very largely commendation for a sincere and promising career cut short too soon. “Defeat for most officehoiders of mid- | dle age means their retirement to com- piete privacy,” says the Neéw York World, which observes, however, “Sen- ator McCormick was not one of these. Therefore his sudden, shocking, pre- mature death divests the American scene of an often useful, frequently in- teresting and always lovable man. Whatever the effect on the fortunes of mankind of the Senate fight against Woodrow Wilkon and the peace of Ver- sailles, Medill McCormick was among the first to initiate it and among the last to leave the victorfous field. fought hard, but fair;.he was sincere and straightforward beyond the wont of politicians ; he was too young and use- ful to die, and there is no public figure with quite the same activity or appeal “Following the recent deaths of Senators Lodge and Brandegee,” the New York Herald-Tribune reflects, “that of Senator McCormick, reduces by one more the little group which started after the peace, the apparent- 1y hopeless fight against the ratifica- tion of the covenant of the League of Natlons without reservations. Of that band McCormick was the stormy petrel. A man of broad international experience and of extreme agility of mind, he was able to dart ahead of many of his colleagues in spying out channels along which that memorable assault could be conducted ‘until the country caught up.’” The Cincinnati ‘Senator McCor- P ng means that another of the irreconcilables has been removed from the stage of life. It is now only a little over a vear since Woodrow Wilson died. And within the past three months three of the irreconc! ables of the Senate have died— Brandegee, Lodge and McCormick. ‘Stc transit gloria mundi,’ as well as the partisan anger of men.” * % ok % “Although a bold, persistent fight- or” in the opinion of the Apaconda’| Standard, “he was, withal, a ‘square shooter’ 'and numbered amonz his political opponents many-per-onul frionds.”” The Des Molnes Capital adds. 0 one ever questioned Sena- tor McCormick’s whole-hearted devo tion to his country. America needs such men and would have called He | upon Senator McCormick many t in the future If his 1 spared.” The Kalamazo clares “If Medill Mc done nothing but make his winning Aght™Mh the 1920 Republican conven- tion against any sort of indorsement of the League of Nations, his posi tion as an important factor in the American history of the twenti n century would be secure Rightly wrongly, the decision of that conver tion was to determine America’s ut titude toward the league for at leas a decade and perhaps for all time Senator McCormick, vs the Phila delphia Public Ledger ‘was one of the sponsors of the McCormick good budget bill. the measure i whicl the long-detired and long-debated budget system took its final form and was approved by Congress.” Yet, the Public Ledger adds, “Senator McCor mick will be remembered for what he opposed rather than for what 1 created.” The St. Louis Post-D ! patch observes: “Politically, of cour he had come a-cropper in his defeat for re-election to the Senate. Ap parently, too, he had been disap pointed in his hopes for a diplomat appointment. But defeat in his would have been a mere cpisode. man hi the stuff for public ser in him, “His death just as his senatoria term was closing.” thinks the Po land, Oreg., Journal, “came at a time when it seems as if those who op pose a parliument’ of man to end war are a dwindling influence.” In the opinfon of the Roanoke World N “his death serves as a grim reminder of the fact that tragedy and political disaster have made heavy inroads into the ranks of, Mr. Wilson's Senate { foes. Medill McCormick's political | fortunes were at a low ebb wher Ihe died. However, he was not yet 150 vears old, and if he had lived | there is every reason to belleve that {in time he would have fought his wa | back to the top) he istrust of all things foreizn eflects the Decatur Herald, usually looked for In ignorant men |who have never traveled nor read | widely. Medill McCormick was well read and he had traveled extensively, 'yet he remained, in the matter |foretin reiations, one of the most out- |standing irreconcilables. The scholu! { whose friends were savants and dip lomats appeared to have the interna | tional philosophy of & small | resident, ‘who had ‘never read- i | Barnes " History."~ The indianapo! “Star-thinks, ~“The ‘extentfe which he was out of touch with sentiment mong- the “Republicans of his own tate is shown by the fact that he was defeated for renomination at the primaries last year.