Evening Star Newspaper, May 4, 1925, Page 6

6 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY. ... May 4, 1825 THEODORE W. NOYES. . ..Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business O 11tn st.'and Penne New Tork Office. 110 Bast 45 Cieans Ofes. Tower B Zuropean Office: 16 Regent § England vania Ave St 5. London, dag morn- ers within dailz only, ¥ only, 20 cents per month. Orders may, he sent by mail or telephone Main 5000. Collection is made by «carrier at the end of each month. The Frening Sta Ing edition. is tha city at’ 60 Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday....1yr. $8.40: 1 mo Daily only ool 135, $6.00; 1 mo. Bunday only 1yr. $2.40: 1 mo., 20¢ 70 All Other States. Daily and s $10.00: 1 mo Daily fniySurdaT: 1 7540001 1 o Sunday onls 1yr 00 1 mo., Member of the Associated Press. s The Associated Press is exclusively entitled 19 the Gise for republication of all news Patches credited to it or not otherwise cred- ited in this paper and also the local news published herein. = All rights of publication ©f apecial dispatches herein are also reserved The Citizens' Advisory Council. Washington's first Citizens' Advisory Council has been created upon the initiative of the oners and through the agency of the Federation of Citizens It of a representative body of men, capa- ble of giving good advice to the Dis wrict's edministrative t cellent choice has been made, and this interesting experiment in giving the advisory privilege concerning munici- pal matters to a group of representa tive Washingtonians is begun under the best auspices. The creation of this advisory coun was an admirable plan the District Commissioners to enable them o get and to keep in touch with the community in to matters of moment to the taxpayers of the I Commi: Associations. con; ads is of cil respect trict. The only way to get an ap | of public opinion w they decided, through the Federat 2 Citizens' Associations, rough delegates from the local con- tituent represents all pections of the District Praise is due to the District masioners for this endeavor to secure the advisory co-operation of the com munity. Tt satisfaction to Yave publ thus sought, wnd it will be a of much in- Lerest to observe the resuits, not only 13 bearing on the legislative welfare of the District, but affecting the development application of the principle of representation for Wash- | fngton. | The personnel of the advisory coun- | cil is such as to command confidence. All of those named have been active | in the study of municipal matters have been helpful in the development of civic organization and the render- ing of services on occasions of need. | We are not likely to make the mis- take of thinking that we have elected + real municipal legislative council, | proximation organizations Com- is a great sentiment matter as and gven unofficial, in choosing our ud‘ visory council. Not even the Commis- | sioners, whom the council will ...mm»“\ constitute such a municipal legislative | council. Being they advise the Budget Bureau, which | advises Congress, which is the real| uncil and board of aldermen of | Washington. And the courts have said that Congress may not delegate tof anybody the exclusive power of gen-| eral legislation concerning the Dis trict which the Constitution gives it While Washingtonians welcome our adv - council and the benefits to be derived from not likely to be aistracted by considerations trom united and of the Capital's vital need of voting rep vesentation in Congress, the Distric £ exclu under Con stitution. = we are any vigorous pursuit it, | the Slashing the Taxes. Treasury als analyzing the come tax returns for the first quarter | of this vear as shown by the March installment, hold out the hope that an- | other $200,000,000 reduction can be made effective on taxes paid in 1926. While this expectation is declared to be unofficial for the present, it will, nevertheless, be received with satis- faction by the public. 1t will also be gratifying as indicat ing sound financing of the Govern ment under Secretary Mellon's most efficient conduct of the Treasury. In dealing with the subject of proposed | tax reduction by the Treasury Depart ment, it is said that present indica tions are that the Treasury will avoid making any definite proposals to the | next Congress, which, it is expected, will itself discuss the tax question Opinion among Treasury officials said to be that the Treasury will not take the initiative in urging the re duction, but will itself with informing Congress of the state of the | finances and pointing out what is pos- sible, leaving the question of rates for | the congressional leaders to decide. It is intimated that there is a strong drift of opinion among Treasury of- ficials that the middle class of in- comes and those derived from business should be favored in the next tax cut. The smaller income earners were giv- en important relief in the last tax re- vision. Shouid this opinion predomi- nate, it would mean substantial cuts in incomes from $25,000 to perhaps as high as $200,000. r——— in is content Common law needs revision to keep step with civilization, but perhaps not s0 much as traffic regulations. The Jewish Community Center. In laying the corner stone of the new community center the Jewish citizens of Washington have started & work of importance not only to their own faith, but to the Capital of which they aro residents. This will be a na- tional center, and will therefore have more than local significance and in- fluence. It will be architecturally an addition to this city and, as President Coolidge said in his address, a monu- ment to the achievements of the past An ex-| themselves advised, | of great interest and importance. development nance of the Nation. Their services and sacrifices constitute a history of devetion to the high ideals of the founders of the Republic. It 1s there fore appropriate that here in Wash- ington should rise a structure dedi- cated to the community service and interests of the Jewish people of this country. In his speech, virtually one of dedi cation, the President traced the serv- ices rendered by the Jewish people, | whose every inheritance and every | teaching of their secular history and | religious experience draws them powertully to the side of charity, lib- erty and progress. The temple that will be erected in Washington will be a testimonial to the capacity of the Jewish people for adaptation in de tail, without sacrifice of essentials, | which has been one of the special les- sons that the marvelous history of the Jewish people has taught. Washington's Jewish community is an integral part of the entire Capital community, sharing in its prosperity, | contributing to its advancement, help: ful in all ivities, devoted to the highest principles of American life. The success of this present undertak- ing to establish a center of community service is assured from the splendid record of co-operation which the Jew- ish people of Washington have made. | ! B International Council of Women. The assemblage in this city today of the International Council of Women is an occasion of unusual gnificance. To Washington come delegates from all parts of the world to this greatest gathering of women They represen} a wide range of ac- tivity and interest, as well as geo- graphical location. They are inspired by the wish improve the status of women throughout the world They afe, however, more than fem- inis thelr enterprise, for they are working along many linés for the betterment of conditions atfecting the human race. This present is likely be an occasion of strenuous encoun- ter on subjects not restricted to the questions of woman's welfare. In- ternational political topics are on the agenda of the sessions and opposi- tion has been manifested on the part of American constituent organiza- tions to the promotion of certain proposals, particularly with reference to peace, disarmament and the League of Nations. Question has been ed whether the representatives of other nations have the right to come to the United States for purposes of propaganda. It is difficult to see on what ground such a gathering, or such work enterprise, be prohibited or barred. It is up to the people of this country to defend themselves gainst propaganda, not by the pro- hibition of speech and argument, but by intelligent, organized action If the International Council of Women is meeting here for the pur- pose of promoting pacific interna- tionalism, it has its right to a ses- sion. If the constituent organizations of women in this country are prop- erly represented in opposition to such purposes they will surely be heard to register that sentiment and thus to manifest their negation No matter how many organizations from other lands may, through their delegates, in favor of the adoption by the United States of certain policies, those policies will not be adopted unless the people of this country themselves demand or approve them. As for the promotion of the idea of supine pacifism and League of Nations membership by the United States, such is being preached in this country constantly by Americans, individually and in organizations, without check and without success. Aside from the questions that give rise to preliminary dispute, the meet- ing of the International Council of Women is certain to be an eccasion To this city have come as delegates and representatives notable women of all countries. whose names are associ- ated with great works and enterprises and high ideals for the cultural and social advance of humanity. r—v— to in meeting ra or can declare There may be Some argument against military aircraft in the a sumption that war may be much less deadly if agreement can be reached to bar airplanes from participation. There would, however, be a terrific advantage in the hands of a combatant so weak in moral character as to break the rules. s The prevalent practice of rum smug gling prevents a few of our citizens who attain wealth from also achieving respectability. ————— The New Traffic Rules Traffic Director Eldridge appeals to the public for co-operation in carrying out the new set of traffic regulations which went into effect in Washing- ton yesterday. This appeal should be readily heeded, for all Washingtonians are anxious to assist in elimination of the many traffic evils which for vears have beset the city and realize that only by co-operation can this desired end be brought about. With a first-class traffic-control law devised and put into effect, a thor- oughly competent director appointed and more policemen and judges added, co-operation by the public is the only factor left to make Washington as safe from a traffic standpoint as any other city in the country. ‘Washington for the first time in its history is governed by a modern set of regulations. Congress has ap- propriated the funds to carry out the new scheme. Director Eldridge and his assistants have been working night and day to perfect new ways of promoting frictionless traffic. The statement has frequently been made during the past week that the new regulations were so involved that no one could possibly understand them. That a mistaken impres- slon. The new regulations are draft- ed chiefly from that large book labeled ‘‘common sensge” and from and @ help in the expansion of these achievements into a wider field of use- fulness in the future. The Jews of America have played a standardized and fundamental rules of traffic in other States. There is no mystery about them, and no Washington motorist need be to| THE "EVENIN( THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. with the authorities if he uses in telligence in the operating of his au tomobile. For those who drive in a “slap-bang” manner through the streets and who have consistently re fused in the past to obey the laws, a heavy set of penalties will be found waiting. Above all, the new rules are reason able. While a feeling may prevail among some factions in Washington that they are against, they should realize that regu laifons must be laid down for the benefit of all and not for the few. There has been some opposition to the parking rule, some to the. head light law, and to other items in the new regulations, but Washingtonians will find that if any of them prove to be “white elephants” in the general traffic scheme Director Eldridge will be the first to recommend a modifica tion or elimination. —— o The Pink Brand of “Red” radicalism in {has a habit of fading to pale pink when brought out into the light, pretiy clear indication of the healthy state of the country. In New York vesterday, in famous old Madison quare Garden, which in the past has staged circuses of many kinds, in- cluding the last Democratic national convention, an attempt was made to stage a “red” rally. The the twenty-fifth | anniversary celebration of the Work- ingmen's Circle, formerly the Arbeiter Ring, a Socialist fraternal organiza- tion. Although the celebration opened with the playing of the “Interna- tionale” while 300 school children, dressed in white and wearing red sashes, paraded, it was quickly fol- lowed with “The Star Spangled Ban- ner,” and the gathering, 15,000 strong, rose in respect and applauded vigor- ously at the of the tiol anthem, It is true that Eugene \ leader of the Socialists, ¥ oned because of his activities dur ing the war, was the principal spea It is true that he urged the workmen generally refuse to fight in the case of war, and to join the interna- tional labor movement, in which, he said, was the only real hope of world peace. But the fact that Mr. Debs was allowed to make the speech is an indication of the stability of the Government and of the people of the United States. Freedom of speech ds dear to the American heart, and free dom of speech, in the open, light.of day, is a sanitary proceeding It is when criticism, growing into plot is whispered in dark that disease attacks the It Radicalism. this country occasion was conclusion na. Debs. vet eran to very corners Wy politic. that all {cans, or all the citizens of any | try, shall think alike. But there are certain fundamentals to which Ameri: cans worthy of the name adhere, the freedom to speak what they think, the freedom to worship God as they fit, equality under the law. As as Americans adhere to these mentals the threat of “red tion in the United States can scarce be s is inconceivable Ameri coun long funda revolu rious. ————— A check for $146.000.000 handed Dod: Bros. by Clarence Dillon in payment for an ‘automobile abiding faith in the industry, and puts another obstacle in the way of the | theory that problems of traffic conges tion will gradually solve themselves, business indicate r—— A visit to rum row is now the pleasures which sightseel vited to enjoy in New York. The cident is popular, although it repr sents only idle curiosity with no prac ical possibiliti among are in- e Many Senators agree Dawes that the Senate modification. at the same time insist- ing that the present vice presidential style of procedure also needs revision. with rules M need SR £ His dn ion of foreign indebted. ness brings Senator Borah forward as one of the few men who can ma the report of an expert accountant popularly interesting. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Borrowed Beauty. A billion gems are gleaming Every day in radiance bright Where the rainbow tints are streaming In the early morning light. But they melt, in self-protection, As for jewels we compete To intrude our imperfection On a beauty so complete. Refuge in Silence. “Do you approve of the election of Hindenburg?” S I prefer not to go on record,” an swered Senator Sorghum. “If 1 say ‘no’ it will sound disrespectful to the office he now holds, and if I say ‘yes’ it might imply that I consider almost anybody good enough for it.” Apportionment, The Communist in noisy pride His effort now redoubles. Since nothing more he can divide, He'll gladly share his troubles. JudeTunkins says a radical is gen- erally an 8-hour talker and e 10-minute worke: Laws and Songs. A statesman, versed in music's charm Has filled the Senate with alarm “A Nation's songs,” they say, write, But not tie Rules that we'll recite.” you Superseded. “Weren't you once a notorious bad man in Crimson Gulch.” “I was,” answered Cactus Joe. “But I found I wasn't making a success of it, so I gave it up. The movie cowboys make all us old bad men look like amateurs.” Ups and Downs. The merry May disguises Our rejoicings with a frown. The cost of food still rises. The thermometer goes down. “De best way to start economy, son,” said Uncle Eben, “is to quit talkin’ an’ go to work. First thing you know you'll find you has got started savin’ yoh money simply by not wastin’ yoh, large and important part.in the estab-|afraid. that he will get inta trouble breathy being discriminated, im- | the | | i ST She was a nice fat girl, the sort that has a double chin and still looks pretty. She got on our bus at the sixth”stop from the end of the line, therefore she secured the two seats she finds necessal for comfortable riding. She had right hand, capacity, the | “Tee hee.” {hope vou w my lunch his remark, while made to a com panion, served the useful purpose of setting the whole bus right, for we had just about come to the conclusion that “the large bag did contain the lady's luncheon It seemed about “Tee hee, lunch She lieve her. ¢« A new consignment of passengers £ot on at the seventh stop. Evidently the fat girl wanted to be on the safe side of everybody's opinion. ‘I have my lunch in this little bag, vou know,” she said, apropos of noth- ing, not even lunches. By this time, we were tired of hearing about thaf lunch Besides, really two paper bags in her one about half a gallon other one quart giggled the fat n't think &irl this big one the right size continued the girl. “My in this little one s afraid we would not v be we had a suspicion that was in the half gallon bag! * o % the it Our bus characters That fat girl is only one of them They get on all along the line, so that almost every corner is distinguished by its character. The student of hu- man nature, therefore, has what might be termed a traveling labora tory, in which he sits at his ease. His specimens walk right into his parlor, too, which makes it very nice for this student of that portion of na- ture labeled human. While other in vestigators may have to sweat all over the map, he sits at his ease and makes his studies awheel The Ardent Golfer boards at the tenth stop. He is a tall fellow who takes his golf seriously. A regu- lation golfer’s cap tops his head, and the remainder of his costume is strietly correct | Knickerbockers Sweater? Exactly How could one them? As for his looks tremendous, 1o our non-golfing ey It fairly oozes clubs. There are chubs with metal ends, and wooden ones with fat wooden strikers, or whatever it is you cail the business end of a golf club, We particularly fancy the wooden headed clubs. They are all slicked up with black enamel, and have such a general air of suffici Any golf ball hit square on the bean with one of those clubs ought to sail into the “rough We suspect terms is very has most interesting the bus > Of course! play solf biug clubs, it without our application of golf rough, indeed. but it is the best we can do, inspired by the formidable array of sticks lugged aboard the hus every morning by the Ardent Golfer His mien is portentous. to say, “This is a serious business I am in, friends, one that takes the best a man has, believe me. To play better and bigger golf I have to put in a lot of time, and have to have a lot of clubs We feel that if we gave him half i opening he would be zlad to ex plain to us the full uses of every one of the 1% clubs in his bag. But we | do not give him even a quarter of a chance. We look out the window the Talkative He seems At gets on What a Talkative Girl she is From the moment she gets on bus to the second she disembarks, e never lets her faithful tongue get a minute's rest stop eleven Girl to be here has never been a case of mortality in Congress marked by so strange circumstances as those con nected with the recent death of Rep. resentative Arthur B. Williams of Michigan. Mr. Williams is the third | Congressman in succession from the same district to die before serving in | the Congress to which he was elected | William H. Frankhayser was elected | from the district of the well known jattle Creek-Kalamazoo constituency |in November, 19 He passed aw: lin May, 1921, before he could ente the Sixty-seventh Congress. John M. C. Smith, who had represented the { district in the House for many yvears {and voluntarily retired, was recalled to fill his old place, but died in March, 1923, prior to the opening of the Sixty-eighth Congri to_which he had been elected. Arthur B. Williams s thereupon elected to fill the un- mith term in June, 1923. In November, 1924, Mr. Williams was re elected, to sit in the Sixty-ninth Con gress, and now, seven months before it will assemble, he, too, has joined the permanent majority. Representative Williams was one of the co-authors of the Capper- Williams marketing bill. He refused a 10-vear contract at $80,000 a year 0 remain at the head of the Postum Cereal Co., preferring a public ca- i ¥k k% There’s no more significant sign of the political times in Washington than the chumminess which has sprung up between Secretary Kellogg and Senator Borah. It may alter the whole face of our international policy. It seems to be a case of once a Sen- ator, always a Senator, and Frank B. Kellogg, in consequence, is likely to trot in harness with the foreign re- lations committee of the Senate more handily than any of -his cotemporary predecessors. The new chairman of i that committee and the new Secretary | of State were colleagues on the com- | mittee practically throughout Kel- logg's senatorial career. They did not see eve to eve on the League of Na- tions, no more than they today agree on the paramount issue of recogniz- ing Soviet Russia. But friends they have always been, and friends they remain. Borah comes and goes at the State Department nowadays as he has not done for 12 years. The heartiness which marks his confer- ences with Kellogg is bound to facili- tate & harmonious working arrange- ment between the administration and the Senate. ** * Former Gov. Charles W. Bryan of Nebraska, who may be remembered as the late Democratic candidate for the Vice Presidency, is about to fol- Jow in some more footsteps of his dis- tinguished brother, Willlam Jennings, and mount the chautauqua platform. He has obtained a lucrative contract for the coming Summer, and will in- vade the tents on June I. “Brother Charles” has the avowed, though the not yet proclaimed, purpose of run- ning for Governor of Nebraska again next year. The chautauqua cam- paign is designed to keep him in the national limelight, with an eve on an- other term in the State House at Lin- coln. The little brother of the “peer- less one” is going to eschew high- browed issues like taxation, the World Court and agriculture relief when next he assaults the helghts of public favor in Nebraska. Issues like gas- filling stations and coal yards for the plain people are things on which he purposes laying paramount stress. * ¥ k¥ John Garibaldi Sargent is no after- ner star. He made his maiden ap- a8 & banquet. speaker before most of-it. AR, WASHINGTON, D. C MONDAY, This morning she is engaged in re counting a conversation of the night before. Her eyes glow. Her hands wave. Her tongue clatters away like the limited mail. “And he said I ought to see it, and 1id T would be glad to, and he said 1y night that would suit me, and I suid T could go to the show tomorrow evening, and he said he would be glad to get the tickets, and I said thut would be grand, but any night would suit me, and he said it might as weil be tomorrow as any other evening, and 1 said not to get the tickets for | tomorrow evening if he had anything else to do, as I could go any evening, 1 row evening he would be sure and get them for tomorrow evening, and 1 said not for him to misunderstand me. if he had anything else to do, an he said he didn't have anything else to do, he just simply wanted to suit me, and I sald on any old evening would suit me and he said well, then, do you want to go tomorrow evening or not, and I said, oh, well, tomorrow evening would suit me, and he | said——"" There is no topic under heaven that this young lady cannot talk about. Things were made principally to talk about, if one can judge her reaction to them. That old Hindenburg, she says, ain't he a pretty looking old bear, the old simp, to be a president of anything! Bet he will have the Kaiser back in a vear. No, ensemble dresses are going out, she wouldn't get one of them dresses now, she would get one of them swell dr s down at Wefitems's. So she runs on, faster than the wheels of the bus. After all, it is none of our business how fast she talks. But we are glad we do not have to sit across the breakfast table from such a line of chatter. * % % Miss Serious and Miss Flirty, get on at the next stop. Of the two, we vastly prefer the former. That is where we split sharply with the bus driver. e likes Miss Flirty. She smiles at him when she gets on, and never fails to turn her head to look at him when she alights. If we were bus drivers, going back- ward and forward on the same route all day long, undoubtedly we would have a preference for girls who would smile. )t being bus pe however, we remain true to Miss Seri- ous. She never cracks a smile, as she fully tucks her green cloak around her light stockings, and sinks down into the luxurious depth of the seat. She remains placidly interested |in_the landscape. Well, well, well! 1t here isn't the Comedian! He rds us at his usual corner, his gray felt hat tilted at his best rakish angle, his bright eyes agleam with the happi ness uf life. His best girl accompanies him, usual His wit is aimed at her, suffuses the bus. If he bumps his | head in getting in, we all know about it a split-second afterward The weather, the people, the uni- verse, anything and everything is a topic’ for his wise crac 1t they often are not as witty as he aims them to be, at least they register well in the brain of his girl. Any one can tell that by looking at her grin at After all, what is our opinion of them all, as compured to each pas. senger’s opinion of himself or herself” | Each looks out upon the rest, and each makes his mental pictures. Some of them are just, some perhaps unjust, since we can look but as through a glass, darkly, at those we do not know. The student of humanity, pictured |by the Fat Girl, might turn out the funniest character in the bus! as | but WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. the American Law Institute in Wash ington on May But even ardent admirers of what the toastmaster, Mr. {Justice Stone, called “a bit of the Green Mountains,” could not claim that the new Attorney General cov- ered himself with post-prandial glory In that respect he proved something of a disappointment to the eminent |company of lawyers assembled from all parts of the country ‘What they expected was a little typleal, if grim, Yankee humor, Vermont brand. What they got was a learned but rather aca- |demic dissertation on the necessity of |restating the common law. Mr. Sar- {gent's remarks, too, were read from a | manuscript, which never enlivens an |afterdinner talk. The Attorney Gem eral has the frame, the aspect, the background and the native wit for an ideal banquet speaker. Some day | here’s hoping he will leave his notes behind him and let himself go. PR President Coolidge every now and | then receives a visit from a comrade {of his youth, and nothing gives him greater joy. Such a caller the other day was Charles D. Hazen, professor | of history at Smith College, Northamp- | ton, who had never before paid his r | spects to Mr. Coolidge in the Jatter presidential capacity. In the years between 1898 and 1905, when the | President was still a_bachelor, he was one of a trio of three young men whose favorite hang-out was a North- ampton tavern known as Rahar's Inn. The others were Prof. Hazen and Alfred P. Dennis, whom the Presi- dent recently appointed to the United States Tariff Commission. At Rahar's Inn the foundations of Calvin Cool- idge's political fame and fortune were Jaid. There with his cronies the gov- ernor and President-to-be thrashed out the great local, State, national and international issues of the day, as they loomed over the Northampton hori- zon. S William Tyler Page, clerk of the House of Representatives, is one of Washington’s foremost authorities on the German constitution. He is con- vinced, from his expert study of it, that Hindenburg is far too effectually “hedged in" by the prerogatives of the cabinet and the Reichstag to permit the President of the republic to tam- per with its foundations. Mr. Page's connection with the House of Repre- sentatives dates from 1881, when he was a page—this looks like a pun, but isn't—in the office of the clerk, the very post he himself now occupies. Seven years ago Page tried to break onto the floor of the House as a mem- ber from the second district of Mary- land, but was not elected. He is a lineal descendant of Carter Braxton, a signer of the Declaration of Inde- pendence, and a collateral descendant of President John Tyler. (Copyright, 1925.) Pope Pius XI Retains His Hardy Constitution Pope Pius XI' retains the hardy constitution he acquired years ago while climbing mountains.” Recently during & snowfall (a rare thing in Rome) he started for his usual after- noon walk In the Vatican gardens. An attendant insisted upon carrving |an umbrella over the pontiff, but it was firmly refused. The small bit of out-of-doors confined within the walls of the Vatican is all that remains to the Pope for the rest of this life of the great world nature which he used to love. He is determined to make the SSRGS B i, and he sald If 1 wanted to go tomor- | MAY 4, 1925. John Singer Sargent ‘Washington is fortunate to number among its art treasures several pic tures by John Singer Sargent. This greatest of America’s artists died re cently in England. His infrequent visits to Washington have always been made in the interest of art. usu- ally for the purpose of executing a treasures include a Theodere Roosevelt He also painted of Woodrow House fine likeness of done by Sargent. an_impressive picture Wilson, which was sent to Ireland and is proudly displayed in the tional Gallery, Dublin. Another gent portrait of Roosevelt is owned by James Parmelee, trustee of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in the City of Washington. Mrs. Breckinridge Long and Henry White each s the proud possessor of landscapes by Sargent. The Ireer Gallery of the Smithsonian Institu- tion owns “The Weavers,’ ‘“Break- fast in the Loggia,” and “Landscape With Goats,” medium-sized canva: painted “in the height of the artist In the Corcoran Gallery is 'he Oyster Gatherers of Cancale,” a splendid French seascape which has an especial appeal to the young artis for the reason that it was (h('_ X}rfll of Sargent's pictiires to be exhibited in the Paris salon. It was painted when he was but 2 years old and shows an astonishing maturity of technique and treatment. To France and England it doubt- less seems strange that the United States regards Sargent as representa- | tive of her genius, for he was neither born, educated nor trained in art upon our shores, nor did he make his resi- dence on this side of the Atlantic. He nevertheless, an American always in his point of view, though not in manner or appearance. The art critics are agreed that his style of painting was characteristically American. John Singer v sargent was born in Florence, Italy, January 12, 1856 His father, who was of New England stock, had just retired from the prac- tice of medicine in Philadelphia. His mother was Mary Newhold of the well known Philadelphia family. She was artistically inclined and painted well in water colors There is no more romantic cit Europe than farfamed Flo Were it possible for n artist to choose his birthplace he could not se- lect better. This happy augury was characteristic of Sargent's lot all through life. Fortune smiled on him at every turn. It is said that his ex- istence was almost idyllic and that he never knew the slightest hardship or trouble. His genius was recognized almost at once and fame and fortune followed swiftly in his footsteps. X * %ok Young Sargent early showed his in- clination for art and the cultivation of his talent was eagerly fostered by his parents. After spending some time as a pupil in the Academy of Fine Art, Florence, he went to Paris and_sought admission to the atelier of Carolus Duran. Sargent, then 18, exhibited his portfolio of drawings with a modesty nd diffidence that were lifelong characteristics. Duran, uring him that he not only had nuch to learn, but also much to un- learn, nevertheless agreed to include the young American among his pupils. Sargent soon dissipated any doubt as to his ultimate success. Not only did he readily acquire all his master could teach, but presently began to excel Duran in technique In 1878 a canvas then titled, “En oute Pur La Peche" (The shing Excursion) was accepted by tHe Paris salon. Sargent w: then but 21 years old. Two years later his work was that of a fully mature artist, and be- fore he had reached 30 he was far on the road to fame. The story of great is popularly believed to be one of heart-breaking struggle for tardil accorded recognition, a lifetime o poverty, misery and tears. So often has been asserted that suffering is essential to great art, the saying is almost axlomatic—no great art with great SOrrow. Sargent’s story belies th dition His was a smooth, sure progress to the goal of his ambition, a rather un. jeventful and comparatively easy ex. istence, almost a sheltered life. Art did not perish in his personal affiu ence but grew hardy and more cer- tain. Consequently it has been said by many writers that Sargent was not liver of life but only an ob. server; that he saw everything but felt nothing: that he always on the outside of the human show ing in, never inside participating; and that, as a natural result of this with- drawal from the harshness and tur- moil of life in the raw unfeeling and unsympathetic It is hard to believe these things of so great an artist truth of the matter is that due to his bashfulness and inexpertness as a conversationalist, as well as on ac- count of his undoubted modesty, he cultivated a somewhat impersonal manner as a defense against bores and the oppressively effusive. least he was hospitable to his in mates and his studio was always open to friends however busy he might be. During the World War he did much for the Red Cross and other relief organizations, Samuel Burtis Baker, who has al ready gained considerable distinction among the younger American paint- ers and whose pictures have been re- produced and highly praised in many “foreign lands, is in active charge of the Corcoran Art School of which Ed- mund Tarbell of Boston is the d rector. t x % Mr. Baker says that Sargent is be- vond question essentially what is known as a painters’ painter, a su- perb technician, a master and individ- ualist in composition and design, a genuine colorist. The portraits of General Sir lan and Lady Hamilton. Lady Agnew, Mrs. Carl Meyer and children, Asher Wertheimer and Miss Octavia Hill were named by Mr. Baker as representative of Sargent's best period. Tite street, Chelsea, London, where John Sargent lived, has long been fa- mous. James MacNeil Whistler, Thomas Carlyle, Leigh Hunt, William Morris, Edwin A. Abbey and Oscar ‘Wilde all occupied houses there from time to time. Sargent lived in or near London since 1884, except for a short period when he returned to France and the odd years he spent in traveling or in the United States. The English dispatch announcing his death incorrectly stated that artist had not visited America since 1903. Ever since 1890 Sargent has been vis- iting Boston each year in connection with his decorative work in the Bos- ton Public Library and the Boston Museum of Art. For the symbolic paintings in the Boston Library, the execution of which covers a 25-year period, Sar- gent received but $30,000; a sum which would now be insufficient to purchase one of his best portraits. Sargent was a personality little sug- gestive of the ancedotes which are apt to spring up about great men. It is sald, however, that he was not popular among his feilow art students for the reason that he had a rather cynical knack of seeing people as animals and later drawing sketches of animals, which, while first-rate drawings of the animals, in some way suggested likenesses of people he had met. A more flattering story is the one illus- trating his keenness of perception. A certain physician who had failed to diagnose the aflment of one of Sar- gent's sitters later saw the finished portrait. At once the doctor recog- nized the subject’s trouble as mental. The artist had, as it were, drawn in the face the innermost secrets of the mind. lin the United States compare with the he was rather | ¢ The probable | Q. How do the bus lines manage about the gasoline tax?—J. M. H. A. The automobile division of the District Building says that bus lines of this city have to be taxed on gaso line the same as the individual cars and the tax is turned over in the same manner. Q. How old was Chief Justice Taft when he was appointed Solicitor Gen eral of the United States?—M. W A. He was 33 years old when pointed to that office in 1890. ap- Q. What is the word that signifies fear of lightning?—C. K. A. It is “astrophobia,” while some of the other ‘“‘phobias’ are: agora- phobia, fear of beirg in an open place or gtreet; claustrophobia, fear of be ing shut in a room or house; muso- phobia, fear of defilement, pollution or contamination; pryophobia, fear of fire; anthrophobia, fear of society. Q. How does the number of horses number of automobiles?—V. K. A. In round figures there are ap- proximately 19,400,000 horses and 18,000,000 motor vehicles. financial H. M of the Q. When was the fi panic in the United States?—J A. The first small panic United States occurred in 1791 fol- lowing the boom in business after the close of the Revolutionary War and due to overspeculation in the se curities of the new Government and in the stock of the newly nized banks. The first great commercial crisis was precipitated by the War of 1812, followed by the capture of the City'of Washington by the British on August 24, 1814. the decorations given y?>—H. A. ( Q. What gre in Army and Nav A. The authorized decorations of | the United States awarded by the War | Department are: Medal of honor, dis- distinguished-service medal, distin guished-service cross, oak-leaf cluster and citation star. Those awarded by Navy Department are: Medal of honor, Navy cross, distinguished - service cross Q. Who was known as “The Belle of Epping Forest?”’—K. § A. Mary Washington, the of George Washington,” was ~The Belle of Epping Fores She 4vas born in Lancaster County, Va. 1706, and died near Fredericks: burg, V August 1789. She was a beautiful woman, sed_of a remarkable f cter. Her marriage to Augustine Washington oc- curred March 6, 1730. In April, 1743, Augustine Washington died. The management of his affairs fell upon his widow. She reared her children in simple piety and under strict dis- cipline. mothe: called Q. What is the stor; expression “It's a drinks?"—J. M A. The Governor of South Carolina required the return of a fugitive slave he Governor of North Carolina hesi- tated because of powerful friends of the fugitive. He gave a banguet to his official brother. The Governor of South Carolina in a speech demanded the return of the slave and ended with “What do you say?” The Gov- ernor of North Carolina replied, “It's a long time between drinks.” The phrase is also attributed to Judge Aedanus Burke back of the long time between Q. Will a person die who stands in a bathtub and turns on an electric lght?—E. F It is not necessarily fatal for a person to stand in a bathjub filled with water and turn on an electric light, although this is a dangerous practice. Such cases are only danger- ous when the ball of the socket is ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN the socket through the deterioration of the insulating material. Q. What was name?—T. O. T A. Ada Rehan's was Crehan Q. Why are peacock feathers cone sidered unlucky’—R. M. A. There hive bheen various the- ories concerning the origin of the superstition relating to peacock feath- ers. According to the Mohamme- dan tradition, the peacock and the snake were piaced at the entrance to Paradise 1o give warning of danger. n seduced both and subsequently they both shared his punishment. According to another authority, pea- cock feathers were usually used as funeral emblems, hence the belief that they cause bad luck Ada real tehan's name originally Q. Has there ever been an English Pope”—D. A. P. A. Nicholas Breakspear (Adrian IV) was elevated to the Chair of St. Peter in 1154. He was the only Eng- lish Pope. ias the Karolvi family —A. R. E. family has beer of Alexander Q. How long been distinguished A. The Karolyi noted since the time Karolyi, (1668-1743). Q. Wh “stela?—T. A. Usually, pillar erected ir Q. What is q ksand solid he purpose stela was clent times. loose hodies are composed sand readily of ordinary gethe like a mon in glacial encountered almost the region invaded ice sheet. Q. What is the m ality?’—G. T. I A. Dr. Vizetelly says of the word ‘It is sometimes considered to mean articles of personal does not. It is a leg contradistinction to cludes all movables nal property of a as household goods; ¢ personal; things mov zuishéd from realty or tened, beha deposits anywhere within the continental g of “person Q. When were sidews on Broadway, New York D. Y. A. Sidewalk Broadway in Q. Is there a piccolo than en the piano? A. The highest note on is A4 with 3,520 vibrations per sec ond, or sometimes C5 with 4,224 vibra tions per second On the piccolo 1 is A5 with 4,752 vibrations Q. What occasioned Browning's ind Elizabeth Barrett's friendship’— 8 W L. A. Tradition says that a_reference to Browning in “Lady Geraldine's Courtship” first led Browning to write to Miss Barrett in 1854. laid along the note on M. T the piano (\J. Jll-:,\' warm does it get on Mars? —W. L. A. During the past opposition Dr oblentz of the Bureau of Standards made measurements of the tempera tures on Mars. He found the planet warmer than formerly supposed, its daytime temperatures being at times s high as 40 degrees to 60 degrees nheit. Photographs were made red and by viole Both sets 1 indicate a dense: (Readers of the Evening Star should send their questions to The Star Infor- connecéted to one of the wires. With lan alternating current it is possible | to get a current from either wire to| ground. The wir accidentally connected to the shell of | Comment Fro oomy” Dean this country as a ‘]inrmv able p imist foot on American soil w of friendly comment on his person |and notions was launched. His witty shafts and frank estimates of affairs rred the imagination of the United States. The spectacle of British church leader indorsing the “wets” in a prohibition country has aroused deep interest, and his caustic demnation of dembcracy has been viewed with equal admiration for the courage of his convictions. His at- tack on clergymen who seek applausc | in the pulpit is one of the most strik- ing of his utterances. William Ralph Inge, Dean of St. Paul's, is the administrative head of the Cathedral Church of the City of London. and in that capaci tually independent of h superior. the Bishop of Londén. ‘“Ameriean interest has { whetted,” according to the Philadel- {phia_Bulletin, “by the recent action of Nicholas Murray Butler, president | of Columbia University, in summon ing the dean to the witness stand in his onslaughts on the eighteenth amendment, and taking from his lips the declaration that the prohibition of some harmless act, such as the con- sumption _of alcohol’ is an tinence. He regards democracy as ‘wasteful, inefficient and generally corrupt.’” But in England they re- spect him as a scholar, a disinterested, honest and fearless thinker, entirely unselfish, an exemplar of the simple life, and they forgive his socio-political extravagances.” The New York Eve- ning Post observes that the “Gloomy Dean,” at the gang-plank was ques- tioned about flappers, moderism, sex in books and plays, evolution, fem- inism, America’s place among the na- tions, the next war, new Bible trans- lations, the movies, birth control and the New York skyscraper. course,” continues the Post, “the dean will have to answer them all over at every interview in succession. We are inquisitive people and we like to know what our visitors think about every little thing.” * ok ok ok The dean is described as “‘possessor of a flashing wit and a faculty of ously sympathetic, and to a lesser ex- tent with women. With these as sub- jects he naturally painted his best pictures. Excepting Penrose, the architect; Stephenson. the author, and a few others, his pictures of men are not sympathetic in treatment, but rather keen, revealing ecriticisms, sometimes, as in the case of Wert- heimer, rather unkind. For this rea- son he has been accused of being too susceptible to painting weaknesses. William Lyon Phelps, professor of English at Yale and one of the three great authorities on English in_this country, in a preface to the catalogue of Sargent's paintings exhibited last vear at the Grant Central Art Galler- ies, New York, makes this impressive statement: “Sargent belongs among the great portrait painters of all time, his pictures revealing the mysterious, but unmistakable stamp of genius. In fact, everything he does shows his quality, which makes his painting the envy of competitors and the pride and glory of American art. He has no successful living rival, but is in a class by himself. . . . So true is this that if I were asked to name the greatest living American artist, I should * unhesitatingly name John Singer Sargent.” : s are apt to become | service is - | his name inter con- | | The mation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskins Director, Twenty-first and C streets northwest. The only charge for this tiro cents in stamps for re- turn postage.) “Gloomy Dean” Evokes Cheerful m Press of U. S. epigram that have d s a discussion b “He is re zfield Union shingly sound on topies ateés the Union, unsound and superficial on ot artful dodger and again a bold sooth sayer. He believes that the American Constitution and the British Empire represent the two greatest ments of all history crisply remarked that people is the voice colorful, vital personality deal to say worth fhe say sured of the most co here.” The New York that the dean is ‘the ulating and perhaps the most powerful preacher of his time.” source of his_‘‘gloomy” title sought by the Knoxville Senti which then explains: “He gets nickname, we are told, from his favorite theme of the downtrodden middle classes of the United Kingdom The dean can scarcely be so gloomy as he is painted since he makes such brave efforts at cheerfulness and hu mor. “He e of the with a great , he is as welcome is ial Times’ is estimate most sti is is a kind of second Roosevelt suggests the Pittsburgh Sun, “with his almost unique capacity for keeping his eves fixed on things idealistic while his feet dig up the sod of reality.” Plato’s place in the philosophy of the g churchman interests ‘the Erie Dispatch Herald. “It is rather interes that paper says., “to hear one the great churchmen of the world quote Plato as to the eternal values of life. When asked what side he took in the bat- tle between the liberals and the funda mentalists, he replied: ‘I am a fol lower of Plato. His values are eternal.’ Then when he was asked what the values of Plato were, he answered: ‘Goodness, truth and.beauty.” He not only said what he believed wis true but what thinking men in all ages of the world have believed.” The Tulsa Tribune credits the dean with a “spirit of droll satire when sur- rounded by interviewers, and thus he managed to parry making a direct answer to many perplexing questions which the reporters hurled at him.” The Tribune helieves he gave the New York press platoon “the trim- ming of the year.” » Kk The dean's statement at the Yala Divinity School that “preachers, it they are applauded, are as happy as if they obtained a kingdom, and it is this that ruins churches,” is taken up by the Indianapolis Star, which belleves that he “imparted sound ad- vice which might be heeded by some veterans of the pulpit as well as those who are still students of theology.” The Youngstown Vindicator is in- spired to remark: “And so, it seems, English preachers are very like those | much nearer home.” The Sloux City Journal adds: “If there is anything in Dean Inge’s indictment, it is a plea for greater sincerity and higher cour |age, not alone in the pulpit, but alsc {in the pew. It is a question whethe: | singerfty and courage are not more | needed in the pew thun in the pulpit Certainly if there were less fear of the truth in the pew, there would be less hesitancy in the pulpit and less reliance upon beautiful intonations and fine phrases.” The Detroit Free Press finds that “eloquence too often substitutes in the pulpit for real power ‘and earnestness.” g