Evening Star Newspaper, May 12, 1925, Page 6

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The Associaed Press is exclusively entitled fo the use for republication of all news dis- Datehes credited to it ar not otherwise cred ited in this paper and also the loci i Dpublished herein. All rights of publication ©f snecial dispatches herein are also reserved. Borah's World Court View. Senator Borah has clearly presented his position and. it may be supposed. the position of others, in opposition to the adherence of the United States to the World Court, unless there be vital changes in the statute creating the court. In an address last night in Boston, the chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee charac- terized the World Court as at present no more nor less than a department of justice of the League of Natlons, dominated in the end by the politics of the foreign offices of Europe. It Senator Borah Is correct in his construction of the statute creating the World Court; then adherence by the United States to this court would constitute a kind of back-door entry into the league and its affairs. The United States has declined to enter the league. Furthermore, the league has figured as an issue in two na- tional political campaigns, and twice its supporters have been defeated. The league was not the only issue in those campaigns, but it did not prove to be a winning issue’for its sup- porters. The argument against American en- try into the World Court as now con- stituted presented by Senator Borah is made after close study; it avoids sentiment in the main and sticks to the legal aspect of such ac- tion by the United States. He has analyzed the statute creating the court, and painted its intimate con- nection with the league. The league he regards as political, and its domi- nation of the court makes the chief influence of that tribunal political. Reservations proposed by support- ers of our entry into the World Court, Senator Borah holds, would amount to nothing. They would still leave the fundamental law creating the court intact, The court would still continue to function as an ad- visory body of the league and, with the United States taking part in such an advisory body, the United States would become as surely involved in European politics as if it were a member of the league itself. An element in this country is fa- vorable to the entry of the United States into the league itself. It has always been so. It is not a matter of wonderment, therefore, that this element should lightly regard the warning of Senator Borah. But the country generally has been with Senator Borah in his opposition to entry of the United States into the League of Nations. Undoubtedly, it will weigh carefully the arguments now advanced by him against ad- herence to the World Court as at pres- ent constituted. As chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee, Mr. Boran will be a dominating figure in the consid- eration of the World Court protocol, which the Senate has agreed to take up next December. He makes a sug- gestion that supporters of a World Court might do well to weigh care- fully the amendment of the statute creating the court. Particularly in- teresting is the plain inference to be drawn from Mr. Borah's words that he would be entirely willing to have the United States enter the present court, provided the statute were changed so as to make it entirely independent of the league or any other political association of nations. ———— The Hohenzollern family may feel elated over the clection of Hindenburg, but they are not so indiscreet as to obtrude themselves into the spotlight. a r——— The Dollar Bill. Americans are using money so fast that a dollar bill wears out in eight months, while before the Great War it would last 14 or 15 months before being replaced with a new bill by the Treasury. These figures were brought out in a statement that the Bureau of Engraving and Printing must be run at capacity to meet the Nation's need for paper money, and that the demand for new bills to retire worn-out bills has never been so great and is increas- ing. The dollar bill is called on to-do more work than its predecessor, and it is likely that the five, ten and twen- ty dollar bills are working faster than before. Not many years ago .the dollar bill was looked on with re- spect and concern by conservative citizens. They did not part with it without eonsideration and some bar. geining. As a rule they did not part with it willingly. Some persons tried to make a dollar bill last a long time, “%nd some successful citizens did make it last a long time. When the average sort of young man came into posses- sion of a dollar bill he postponed as long as he could the changing of it for three quarters and five nickels. He feit an interest in the preservation of the dollar bill. Usually it was kept neatly folded in a pocketbook. The dollar bill now leads a taster, gayer life. There are not so many con- servative citizens as there once were without a heartache. He passes it to the man at a gas station without a look of regret. He hands it to a taxi driver with more ease and abandon than many @ man used to hand a quarter to a car driver for six tickets in a little envelope. The gas man hands the dollar to the ticket seller at a movie house and she tosses the bill to one side without emotion. The taxi driver gives up the bill for a dance, and perhaps the bill goes to the saxo- phone player, who may spend it in a lump sum for supper. Naturally with all the excitement, wear and tear put upon a dollar bill its life has been cut down from 15 to 8 months. The Government tried to take some of the hardship off the dollar bill by sending several million silver dollars out into the world. It is said that the Government tried to “‘popularize” the silver dollar, but it would not popu- larize. Men refused to carry so much weight for so.little. worth as a dollar. In simpler times a silver dollar was a thing of beauty and a joyful posses- sion. A boy with a silver dollar would jingle it in his pants' pocket against a brass button and a marble, and he was justified in strutting before other boys, He would go to the trouble of palishing the silver dollar that its luster might dazzle envious eyes. But now a silver dollar is only a dollar, and a dollar, well, everybody knows how little money a dollar is. Y Von Hindenburg’s Triumph. Yesterday Field Marshal von Hin- denburg entered Berlin as the Presi- dent-elect of the German Republic, ac- claimed by several hundred thousand people, with a veritable frenzy of en- thusiasm. Today he takes the oath of office and begins his career as the to guard a dollar bill and protect it egailnst being spent. The average young man thinks nothing of break- ing up & dollax bill and spends it head of the government. Descriptions of the scene in Berlin yesterday show & monster ratification of the choice of Von Hindenburg as President. But they also afford a pic- ture of a sullen, silent minority, the Republicans and the Soclalists. ‘Through careful arrangements both of these classes were excluded from the reception. Strong arrays of police had been assembled from other cities to fend against disorder. A well staged affalr, indeed. It had been announced before Von Hindenburg's departure from Hanover for the capital that the bands grouped along the line of his progress from station to palace would be allowed to play only the tune “Fredericus Rex,” the favorite of the Monarchists. Then it was announced that they would not be permitted to play that tune. But the royalist séntiment was manifest, nevertheless. The royalist colors were displayed freely. The great groups of people massed at vantage points were composed exclusively of monarchist and militarist organizations. Von Hin- denburg, though clothed in civiliag garb, was acclaimed == o war hero, the exempiar of the old regime. ‘What of the silent Republicans and Socialists? They are for the present in the background, in the minority. Von Hindenburg must, however, reckon with them, as without them a ministry organized underhis presidency canno® function through the legislative body. A general election may have to be called, and it is by no means certain that in such an election a majority for a pro-monarchist administration wouid be returned. It is sald of yesterday's affair in Berlin that the enthusiasm was even higher than at any time In the past. It was like the days of late July and early August, 1914. Echoes of the shouts at the German capital yester- day must have reached Paris. And as they reverberate the French gov- ernment is studying methods of meet- ing the debt incurred in the course of the national defense against German aggression. Von Hindenburg's triumph in Berlin certainly cannot be regarded as contributing to the stability of Eu- rope or the restoration of tranquillity to the nations so lately struggling against the drive of armies under his command. ——— The theory that human ills can be cured by Government was deprecated by Secretary of Commerce Hoover be- fore the advertising clubs assembled in Texas. His reminder is sapient and timely. It appears impossible at pres- ent to conserve the interests of the populace without calling in the as- sistance of a few grand juries. e France intends to pay her debt to America. This expenditure will not merely cancel an obligation, but will, considering good will as an asset, prob- ably represent one of the best invest- ments France ever made. ————————— A prohibition movement in Germany is finding unexpected encouregement. The “fatherland” in its perplexities is showing a willingness to try anything once. -, Julia Marlowe says she is going to retire from the stage. This is her privi- lege, regardless of the sincere wish of an admiring public. ——ve—. Germany and France have an old quarrel in which the remainder of the world is gradually ceasing to take an interest. — v The Land of Opportunity. That “Amerlca is the land of oppor tunity” 18 80 often fllustrated by prac- tical examples of success that the phrase requirds no fresh demonstra- tion. But when two cases coincide in virtually similar conditions it is worth while to pause to make @ note of the fact. Such a coincidence has just oc- curred. The other day it was an- nounced in New York that Frederick Brown had made a donation of $1,000,000 to the Federation for the Suppart of Jewish Philanthropic So- cleties of that city. It was also an- nounced that Benjamin Winter had purchased the Vincent Astor residence at Fifth avenue and Sixty-fifth street, which with adjacent properties is as- sessed at $2,345,000, and which will be the site of an apartment hotel costing $7,000,000. Twenty years ago Frederick Brown came to the United States from Czechoslovakia with his father and opened a very small retail clothing business at Paterson, N. J. Twenty- four years ago Benjamin Winter came from Poland penniless, doing odd jobs THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, MAY 12 THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. for his landiord month's rent. These are two typlcal cases of aliens who have grasped their opportunities in this country and have amassed great fortunes. The record of such in- stances i3 a long one. In every case industry, sagacity and persistence have been the causes of success. These men found in the United States their chances for improving their condition. They adapted quickly to the new en- vironment, reached forth with wisdom and succeeded. Other men born here, with just the same opportunities, tailed meanwhile, just as other men, likewise born here, succeeded. Amer. ica is the land of opportunity for those who recognize and improve It. ——e——. The Phone Rate Reduction. Reduction of the telephone rates for domestic users of the District has been based by the Public Utllities Commis- slon upon an estimate of 7 per cgnt profit on an adopted valuation of the telephone company’s properties and in- vestment. This rate is a compromise between a 6 per cent yield as proposed by representatives of civic organiza- tions and an 8 per cent eld as re- quested by the company. The com mission has struck an even course be- tween the two proposals. The annual saving to subscribers is estimated at $90,000. That sum will be to pay his first deducted from the earnings of the cor- | poration. In addition there will be an enlargement of the service on two- party lines. > The telephone company, it is an- nounced, will not cheapen the service, and will not, for the present at any rate, discontinue the radio broadcast- ing that is maintained as a supple- ment. It will presumably seek to make up the deficlency in revenues caused by this reduction in an enlargement of the system and the inclusion of more subscribers. The process of basing rates upon valuations involves difficulties, but is the fairest method of determining the cost of public utility services to the people. The commission has in the present instance plainly sought to be fair both to subscribers and to the corporation. It rejected the company’s own valuation for one of its own, ar- rived at by careful computations. It has rejected the prfoposal of the citi- zens' representatives that the rate be based upon a 6-per cent return in profit. It has given evidence of a de- sire to do justice to both sides. The telephone has become a neces- sity. It is not an expensive factor in the domestic equipment. At the rate as now fixed, with unlimited service, the daily cost per call becomes, in the majority of instances, a very small cherge. ——— e The value of “economy’ depends on how f.. word is defined. Economy as it relat@® to judicious expenditure with a view to future returns is beneficial. Interpreted as an excuse for indolent parsimeny, the word is entitled to no respect or confidence. ————————— Trotsky will re-enter Russian poli- tics. His experiment is a bold one. The two names “Lenin” and “Trotsky™ were linked together with potent significance. “Trotsky” by itself must establish a meaning of its own. . —_— e Feminine controversies long since got past any rivalries as to who should be queen of the May. v SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Rum Fleet Approaches! Those rum-running ships over there in the deep Have caused us such care that we scarcely can sleep. And now comes a wail from the Chesa- peake Bay, “They are coming this way! They are coming this way" From terrapin long we have learned to refrain. It might call for sherry, and even champagne. Resigned to our fate they will not let us stay. They are coming this way! They are coming this way! They'll show no respect unto title and rank. They'll grin as they make Purse and Pride walk the plank. We must shudder eand wait and turn pale as we say, ““They are coming this way! They are coming this way!"” Demonstrating a Principle. “What do you think of the election of Hindenburg?” “It was a remarkable demonstra- tion,” answered Senator Sorghum. “Hindenburg's name was the best known in the list, and his election again calls attention to the fact that advertising pays.” As the Farmer Sees It. The same old custom still we see As folks in protest join. Some people get the sympathy While others get the coin. Jud Tunkins says his wife, who has a weak stomach, isn't receiving any callers, owing to the fact that she is learning to smoke cigarettes. Shifting the Play. “Crimson Gulch has become a very sedate settlement.” “We have changed the game,” an- swered Cactus Joe. “All the fellers that used to be faro dalers has become realtors.’” Important Consideration. ‘When any project is proposed, From Art to'Rapid Transit The query-is at once disclosed “Who's going to.finance it? It any future war is planned, Some governments may chance it. But, solemnly, we here demand, Who's going to finance it? Qualified for Government Service. “Can you pass a civil service exam- ination?"” 'll say I can. And, in addition to that, I know all the parking regula- tions.” “Whut I wants to know,"” said Uncle Eben, “is whut \de North Pole is g'ineter be good for when ebody sho’ nuff discovers it foh w Memory has a strange way of open- ing doors into the past, presenting vistas adown which one gazes with Joy or regret, according to factors long forgotten. Looking at one of the first roses of Spring, 1 suddenly realized that I was once again attending the Brookland rose show, held in the Summer of 1914. Instead of that one rose I saw vases filled with white, pink, red and_yellow blooms, gorgeous specimens of the “queen of flowers,” grown by rose cultyrists of that community. Memory had opened one of her doors, you see, and allowed me to peek again at my first real experience with roses. Before that roses had been but flowers to me and nothing more. Thereafter they were to be something more. Peter Bell was the original fellow to whom a primrose on the river's brink was merely a primrose and nothing more. Yet each of us, as we jour- ney through this mysterious life, is a Peter Bell. The world is so full of so many things—and we speak only of the worth-while—that no man’ finds it possible to fully grasp everything with | which he comes in contact. A friend who has experienced a great book tries to Interest us in it, and, although we are graciously po- lite, we show him plainly that we are not’ vet ripe for that experlence. In our time we, 00, will know that book, and love it. So flowers, with most people, are ac. cepted as pretty things of decorative value, without any real sense of re- gard. It is only now and then we are permitted to’enter into the soul of a flower. Perhaps it is the lilac, whose per- fume conjures up for us the magic of love's first moments. Mayhap it is the hollyhock, whose bold flowers ex pand into a picture of a little boy playing on a gravel pile with other children in a town far away. * ok % x Maybe it is the rose! One's first communion with the “queen of flowers” is sacred, and we will no more try to enter into it. For of all the flowers, there is none just like the rose. Not that other buds and blossoms lack charm. Recently, in a Washington store, there rested upon a counter a huge basket of pink roses and pink gladi- oll. These were, of course, forced blooms, gorgeous things of the flor- ist's fancy. It was difficult to determine which flower was the prettiest. Each rose was perfect, each gladiolus perfec- tion. For a particular reason the “glads” held my attention; it was my first experience with them at their best. Our humble dooryard last year had several “glads’—but not like these! They were a revelation, leaving one astounded at their pale pink perfec- tion, wondering if they were Ameri- ca, or Panama, or Alice Tiplady, or what named Gladiolus. Our garden this Summer will see their like, if we are luck: The rose, however, remains in all its strange beauty the true queen of flowers. One nevef sees a perfect bud and blossom on one of their somewhat ugly bushes without mar- veling at the strange, unknown in- telligence that has evolved them in the midst of this old world. What purpose has the rose? Must things have purposes? 1 doubt it. Some who always look for “reasons” for things often fail to find them, cudgeling their brains over their failures, when all the time i Tomorrow is_the birthday of the “Lady of the Lamp,” who came to earth May 13, 1820. Her parents were wealthy and chanced to be sojourning a while in the “City of Flowers” when the little girl was born. So they named her Florence, in memory of her Ital- ian birthplace. Blossoms and birds should ever remind one of Florence Nightingale, for never was there a name that so fittingly suggested what life should bring to one so sweet in person and character—so gentle and sympathetic and kind and pure and beautiful. Her father was a wealthy land own- er—a great man in his own county of England, for he was Squire of Embly Park, mpshire and Lea Hurst. He was an aristocrat whose lineage traced back through the centuries. Noble suitors sought the hand of his daughter, Florence, as she grew to ‘womanhood. EEEE It is unnecessary to recite the bi- ography of Florence Nightingale, the best loved woman of all England, or perhaps of all the world. Her example and spirit of sacrifice for others drew all civilization almost to worship such womanhood. She turned aside wealth and high social privileges, and for the first time in the history of the race she and her little band of nurses went to where men were fighting and dying of plague as well as wounds that they might bring the touch of woman- ly sympathy, the tender, soothing and intelligent care of nursing. Her ex- ample and spirit_lived through not only the Crimean War, but every war since. It lived in the Salvation Army and Red Cross and ambulance nurses in the World War, as millions of vet- erans testify with grateful tears. Let the veterans call back the “Lady of the Lamp"—the one Who was ever moving from bed to bed, through the dark hospital wards at every hour. Let her be their guest in Washington. Her eyes ‘were dim when, at the age of 90, she passed on, 15 years ago. She never knew the great World War, with its gas and submarines and unheard-of cruelty. But in Washington today, what would she read? “Go to war, if you want to! “What strange expression—'if you want to!’ " she would exclaim. *‘Does anybody who knows the bitterness of sacrifice—the heartburns of mothers, the suffering of wounded, as I have seen in the miserable hospitals of the Crimea—does anybody who is human, who is sane, who is devoted to love and the uplift of fellow men, ever ‘want to go to war? Why does this say, ‘Go to war If you want to?” What further does it say? ‘But know this: “We have pledged ourselves not to give you our children.’” Imagine Florence Nightingale as she read that deflance. “Who have pledged not to give— give me?—their children? Why, it was to bring back their wounded and sick sons who were dying in the to life and the love of mothers and wives, that we nursed them—that we carried the lamp into the gloomy call me ‘The Lady of the Lamp." But this pledge goes on to say, ‘not to encourage Or nurse your soldlers.’ Hark! ‘I was sick and ye ministered unto me.’ But this pledge says the pledger is_superior to such an obli- gation. She pledges that she will not ‘knit a sock nor roll a bandage!” “Oh, the spirit of the Crimea! How it lived in America throughott the World War! See the millions of American women Kknitting socks and woolen helmets and sweaters, and the many American women at the front—in France—scrubbing hospital floors—women of wealth, in many BACKGROUND OF EVENTS ~ BY PAUL V. COLLINS. they have been looking for something that does not exist. “What did God make mosquitoes for?” is a common question. Or why are there such endless suc- cessions of creatures that feed upon each other? The Althea bush is cov- ered with black lice, but soon “lady- bugs,” looking for all the world as if they had been enameled red, with black spots, come to devour the aphids. * ok k¥ The rose, then, exists in itself for itself. It has no solemn purpose of being. For itself, and in itself, it is enough. It man manages to get beauty and encouragement from it, those are ex- tra qualities the rose throws in, be- ing so rich in itself. The rose grow- ers manage to get a living out of them, but such is not the purpose of the rose. Roses bloom for themselves, not for us. If we are able to love their beauty, so much the better for us! They have been known since the time of Sappho, the encyclopedia in- forms one. That poetess no doubt wore one in her hair when she fn- dited with her stylus one of her fine- Iy etched poems which few have read. The Romans, in, fact most of the anclents, were rdsarians. The fa- mous Cleopatra, who, by the way, had three children. one Known by the pretty name of Selene, spent many good Egyptian thalers (or what- ever-they-called-them) upon roses. She liked to’ strew rose feaves all around, @ pretty but wasteful habit. Nero, too, notorious Roman emperor, the moron who fiddled while his city burnt, signed huge imperfal checks in payment for roses. . 1 feel extravagant paying $10 for rose bushes at one clip, but Nero thought nothing at all of ordering $100,000 worth for one roval blow- out. That is one difference between me and Nero. * o %% Perhaps in no activity is the old maxim “If a thing is worth doing at all, it 1s worth doing well” more ap- plicable than in rose culture. The amateur rosarifan had better have two first-class, 2-year-old plants, than a dozen or two dozen l-year plants. He had better spray, cultivate and feed those two good plants properly than neglect his dozen or two dozen smaller plants. He had better give time and at- tention to his two plants than half. care for his more numerous bushes. T If he goes in for roses, he should do the thing right, or let them alone. If he does not, he will find the bugs will run the plants to suit themselves. It he goes at roses in a half-hearted way he will get only half-way results in the form of blooms of poor color and texture, and not very many of them. On the other hand, if he will get a few good bushes, and treat them properly, and spend enough fime on them, he will be rewarded with mag- nificent flove's, each one of which will win his neart. These lines are written as the re. sult of one year’s sad experience, at- tempting to grow roses like zinnias. It simply cannot be done. The rose is a jealous flower. It de- mands attention, and plenty of it. If one is not willing to watch it cease- lessly for the first inroads of lice, fungus and black spot, he had better grow petunias or nasturtiums. If he is not willing to feed she plants with bone meal and other fer- tilizers, he had better let roses alone. With roses, perhaps more than with any other flower, the old saying is true, that you cannot get out of a thing any more than you put into it. cases—women of heart in all. They, too, were ‘ladies of the lamp.’ All hours were their duty hours! They were today's Florence Nightingales —all of them. They never pledged ‘not to knit a sock, or roll a band- age, or drive a truck, or make a war speech, or buy a bond.’ " Could any follower of the age Florence Nightingale subscribe that pledge? It was proposed in 19822 as a “condition precedent” to membership in the Women's Inter- national League for Peace and Free- dom, but a member of the executlve board explained in 1923: “The pledge was not made a test of membership in 1922 because the. prevailing opin- ion was that such a test would keep possible new members out of the W. L L. You know that we all hold the pledge in our hearts. If not, what is the reason of our existence?” * x x x Among all loved heroines, who has stood so high as the Lady of the Lamp? Is Joan. of Arc loved as Florence Nightingale? One fought for a king and led in conquest; the other smoothed the pillow of the dying and nursed for humanity. We have had our American heroines, but none who so blazed the way into new realms of service as she did a cen- tury ago. X Here is what Florence Nightingale wrote 65 vears ago for the inspira- tion of women of her day—and ours. It was before our own woman leaders in reform and service had come upon their stage. “1 would earnestly ask my sisters to keep clear of both jargons now current everywhere (for they are equally jargons)—of the jargon, namely, about the ‘rights’ of women, which urges women to do all that men do, including the medical pro- fession, merely because men do it and without regard to whether this is the best that woman can do; and of the other jargon, which urges women to do nothing that men do, merely because they are women and ‘should be recalled to a sense of their duty as women,’ and ‘these are things which women should not do,” which is all assertion and noth- ing more. “Sprely woman should bring the best she has, whatever that is, to the work of God's world, without attend- of to Crimean hospitals—bring them back | ing to either of these cries. For what are they, both of them, the one just as much as the other, but listening to the ‘what will people say?' to opinion, to the ‘voices from without? And,as a wise man has sald, no one has ever done anything great or useful by lis- tening to the voices from without. ® * * Oh, leave these jargons, and go your way straight to God’s work, in simplicity and singléness of heart * ¥k * In the World War the heroines had a great advantage over the heroes, be- cause there was no drafting of women; all who served had the honor of being volunteers. The Red Cross called for 25,000 trained nurses, and that gave opportunity for every able-bodied train- ed nurse in the country. In an ap- published in 1918, in the $t. Louis hospitals. That is how they came to|* ispatch, appeared this: “Without a sufficient number of trained nurses, America’s young men will languish and die. This will have the effect of prolonging the war, thus rebbing the country of thousands of men who otherwise might not have to be sacrificed.” . It is sald that more women served and died behind the lines in the World ‘War than in any war before. More ways of service were found. More of service are found for after- war duty, More ties international have been knit than mere pacifistic pledges, for the example set orence Night- 1925, NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM LG.M. i ALONG THE PYRENEES. Paul Wil stach. Bobbs-Merrill Co. A scant handful of names. A vague panoramic conception of jumbled peaks and crumpled passes over which throughout old centuries Goth and Visigoth, Roman and Saracen strug- gled in’ desperate ordeal of battle under the immemorial urge of con- quest. Just o few names—Joffre and Foch out of the present. Three hun- dred years behind this heroic twain, the gallant and romantic Henry of Navarre. Lourdes of plous connota- tion. An old peasant of Limoux whose plaint that he never had “seen Car- cassonne” Gustave Nadaud wrought into a verse whose cadence has added years to the life of poet and peasant and place itself. Nothing at all—but just about the sum of common Know edge of the Pyrenees. Enough, never- theless, to serve as the nucleus of in- terest and desire, enough to turn me in welcome upon the man who here bids me go adventuring along with him among these mountains of South- western Europe. The Invitation is in itself a chant, a litany. “Carcassonne, Perpignan, Mont Perdu, Pau! Cau- terets, Ax-les-Thermes, Lourdes, Ron- cevaux!" These names march and shout and wave beckoning banners. They set the lure before me, they cast a spell upon me and I am off ad- venturing with Paul Wilstach in the Pyrenees 'R A good guide, this. A companion- able man whose ways and words have the easy fit of a worn coat. Young, enthusiastic, Imaginative. Not an his- torian drearily tolling off dated events in the long march of time. Yet touch- ing these here and there with a true instinct for their perennial human quality, linking past and present in a single vital kinship. Not a sclentist engrossed In the primal causes that lifted these peaks in such stupendous thrusts of rivalry. A good deal of an artist, rather, pointing out over yonder the mergence of sky and mountain- top, or, right at hand, the sharp chal- lenge of immediate heights to reach, of dlzzying ledges to be crossed, of hungry chasms to be eluded. And all the while there is a deal of talk rising, in part out of the discoveries that crowd each moment and, in other part rising out of Mr. Wilstach's full and live readiness for every demand. Tou- louse, “the rose city,” midway between the Mediterranean and the worn west gate from Bayonne and Biarritz, is the point of entrance, a fresher one than that by way of the Atlantic coast. Here at Toulouse from the hill of the column the Pyrenean kingdom and the glories thereof spread out in a magic splendor. % S From such panoramic starting point the adventure consists thereafter in taking the splendid picture apart, in seeking out from this general view certain places of speclal call and ap- peal. Here a fling of ‘natural beauty, aweful, but irresistible. There, an historic out-cropping from the moun- tain f{tself, an anclent fortress set high, from which stories and great figures emerge and parade. And here, truly, is Carcassonne itself, old and new. - The old town aloof, forbidding, a shade sinister, packed with true tale and legend. The new town, down below, a cheerful and sunny place, whose people at the moment are much pleased and excited over the big open-air film, whereon one “Char- lot” out of America s disporting him- self. 1In the twilight I thought I saw the beaming®and contended face of the old peasant of Limoux. Maybe not. In -the valley and climbing the mountain sides is the whole of the Midl, redolent still of the undying glamour of Provence. Warriors and troubadours come to life again. A thousand names call. A thousand events crowd around. Not possible, in a fleeting world, to give eye and ear and heart to all. But Paul Wil stach is truly a man of ready accom- modations. So when I own up to a deep passion for the troubadour of those old days he sits right down and tells me the most beautiful love story out of that time that I ever heard. That anybody ever heard. * k% % From the land of Languedoc—this ldyl—among whose hills rode trouba- dours and their jongleurs, seeking a patron and singing their lays of love. And here is the way of love between a certain troubadour and the lady whose knight he ‘“fain would be.” “So the -poet told of his heart's sick- ness and how his lady was of such great station, and he so unworthy that he dared not tell her of his love lest her refusal kill him, albeit he should else die of the fullness of his unspoken love. ‘Then,’ said the lady, ‘by all means tell her.’” ‘Then,’ con- fessed the troubadour, ‘vou are my lady.” ‘Then,’ replied the lady, ‘you are my knight' Than which few instances of love are simpler or briefer.” A beautiful adventure throughout, this Pyrenean up-faring. * ok ok % NEW ENGLAND HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS. Thomas D. Murphy. L. C. Page & Co. You have a choice here. On the one hand, by way of a motor, you may transform this book into actual experience. On the other hand, you are permitted to sit under a shady tree, or other where of ease and com- fort, in a vicarious enjoyment of “‘do- ing"” New England over a good sys- tem of motor roads. A choice of the former places in hand full informa- tion for making the trip. There is the general plan, prime essential of every'undertaking. Within this, point by point, there is information on every possible aspect of this kind of travel— the season, the roads, the best hours of the day, good places to stop named and described, as well as the frank and proper naming of places that do not ‘come in the category of ‘“good.” Only a single drawback to the use of this admirable guide, as a guide. It is far tgo fine a book to take out in the weather, to subject to the com- mon vicissitudes of this particular kind of experfence. A book of most impressive front and bearing, entirely remote from the familiar implications of tourist camps and picnic grounds and the usual rough-and-tumble of motoring. It is the second choice, clearly, that gives Mr. Murphy’s book its proper setting and use. A big book, finely made in every particular. Espe- clally is it admirable in its {llustra- tions. More than 20 of these repro- ductions in color of paintings by well known artists, as many more half tones of high illustrative value both from the side of historic allusion and from that of the natural beauty of the region. ‘This second choice secures, also, the sense of leisure that is wanting in the Journey itself. To cover New England in one month constitutes an unbroken hurry call, notwithstanding the pres- ent speed of the rolling wheel. Read- ing, one pursues the way in happy ease, loitering as he pleases, lingering under the invitation of some specially inviting circumstauce. Reading, one stays long with the places along the coast—Gloucester, Newburyport, Mar- blehead, New Bedford—retasting old tales of seafaring men, and cities up- built out of their adventures, and of those same cities adjusting themselves to a new time.without loss of their best savors. A new taste of maritime New England comes out of this motor- ing story. But, whether one takes the first or the second choice, there is Ruthor 6 encourage Ameriens 1o ses a see. ANSWERS TO QUE BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. What is the name of the trees residents, and some of the fi in Rock Creek Park among the dog- wood, which have pinkish blossoms E.J. D. A. The Bureau of Plant Industry says the tree in Rock Creek Park having pink blossoms and among the dogwood ‘trees is called the red bud or Judas tree. Q. What countries recognize Soviet Russia?—T. T. % A. The following countries recognize Soviet Russia: Germany, Esthonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Finland, Persia, Afghanistan, Turkey, Poland, Great Britain, Italy, Norway, _Austria, Greece, Sweden, China, Denmark, Mexico, France and Japan. Czecho- slovakia has a trade agreement. Q. Will olive oil boil?—E. J. T. A. Culinary oils, such as olive oil, will not boll, neither will they ignite When the ofl becomes too hot it will throw off smoke and decompose. Q. What will remove red clay from stucco, where rain has splashed it?— H A A. If the wall is a white Portland cement stucco it is recommended that it be washed with a hose stream of cold water and a fiber scrubbing brush. If this is not effective used a mild soap and water while scrubbing, then rinse with cold water. Q. Are there States in the Union in which toads are not found? O T A. Some form of toad can be found in each State. Toads were formerly more numerous. They are now becom ing rare, for they are destroved by all classes of vertebrates and by drought in Summer and severe cold in Winter. Their value to man lies in the number of insects and other invertebrates which they eat. Q. Are there some cheeses in which the holes are made by worms?—J. C. A. The Bureau of Dairying do believe that there is any cheese in which the holes are made by worms Most cheese in which holes are found is made in such a way as to develop gas which produces a specific organ- ism which causes holes. Q. What is the approximate cost per mile of an underground trolley system similar to that used in Washington?— H. B. McR. A. A local street railway company Sa) that the approximate cost per mile for underground trolley depends on what is to be moved, the number of sewers, pipe lines, etc. For exten- sfon work the cost at present ranges from $150,000 to $175,000 per mile of single track. Q. How does the amount of gasoline being used now compare with the amount used last Spring?—W. C. R. A 467,181,088 gallons of gasoline were consumed, and for the month of March, 1925, 620,635,551 gallons. Q. Did England pay France for trenches and entrance duties on sup- Plies and equipment for her army? A. The following question and an- swer was made in the House of Com- mons by Sir Robert Horne, a_member of the Government: (q) “Col. L. Ward asked the chancellor of the exechequer the total sum paid by this country 0 France from 1914 to 1920, in- clusive, for railway services, dock and harbor dues, billeting, rent of houses, hotels and public buildings, rent of trenches, compensation for damage and disturbance—in short, all services connected with the war. (a) Sir Robert Horne: A very rough calculation shows the amount in question to be approximately £32,000,- 000. It would not be possible to give exact figures under the various heads without a disproportionate amount of labor and expense. I ought, however, to point out that compensation was not paid in respect to trenches dug in forward areas in France.” Q. celebrating Mardi Gras leans?—C. E. G. A. The custom of the carnival originated with the early French Public Opinion When _did the custom start of in New Or- For the month of March, 1924, | are Paris. carnival roverry. after the fetes of the -earliest time the was celebrated with high The leading figure of the season is King Rex, who rules the city. Mardi Gras has been celebrited in New Orleans for nearly a hundred ears. Q. Is patterned From brown sugar sweeter than white r’>—0. A A he sweetness of sugar tested by diluting each kind of sugar with an equal amount of water until only one tastes sweet. It is easy to confuse the sense of sweetness with other qualities of the sugar, one be ing the melting quality—that is, if the sugar meits easily in one's mouth the sense of sweetness comes more rapidly than if the sugar dissolves slowly. All in all, it is beljeved that white sugar is sweeter than brown. Q. What kind of an apple is the Early Melon?—H. C. V A. The Early Melon apple is a Rus- sian variety not commonly known. It has a yellowish color striped with crimson. The texture is medium fine, good quality and the apple is juicy. Q. Are there any secular songs in the Psalter’—P. B A. Prof. Bewe ture of the Ol “Among_all one secular song (Psa ode composed by a court poe marriage festival of a king foreign princess. Q. Please John Drink A. John Drinkw T Was 1st of June, 188§: He attend School and holds d from the 1 y_of Birming and-the University of Athe years he was connected Northern and « panie: He publist 1= R Time 21; “Robert tributed poetr periodicals. 5 robot” t opposife “moron” ?—W. ¥. H A. The term “robot’ speakir n antonym Robot Karel ( ‘The term descr tomata which the millions to attend to labor and walfare is not, stric world's v having M. L. United that manager plan Oni nts have tusks? found in Afric th sexes of African elepha . which contribute to the g of the species, as the females are as liable as the males to be killed for the sake of the ivory. the H old name for ‘Hamlet” written blank verse?—W. H. A. In the main, written. The except in which Hamlet fei insanit those in which he converses with Rosencrans and Guildenstein, ‘with the actors and with Osric and the scene with the grave diggers. All these are in prose entirely in “Hamlet" ons are the scenes is so (If you have a question you want answercd send it to The Star Informa- tion Bureau, Frefleric J. Haskin, di rector, Twenty-first and C streets northwest. The only charge for this service is 2 cents in stamps for return postage.) Changed Little by Wheeler Verdict Public opinion does not seem the other by the jury acquital of Senator Wheeler of Montana of the charge of illegally appearing before a Federal Government department on behalf of a home State client. The re- sult was not surprising. It is pointed to as the expected vindication by the large section of the press which firm- ly believes political motives inspired the prosecution. Other papers ques- tion the completeness of the vindica- tion and some suggest awaiting trial of the indictment by a District of Columbia grand jury for a different offense. “Doubtless former Attorney General Stone, whose uprightness no one can question,” says the Springfield Re- publican (independent), “was con- vinced that the evidence which the de- | partment had in reserve warranted carrying the case to trial, but it is now shown to have been evidence that a jury would not accept. The administration’s pursuit of the Sena- tor through the agency of the Depart- ment of Justice may mot be fairly condemned as vindicative, but the prosecution promises to be unfor- tunate for the administration's pres- tige and to strengthen Wheeler's standing with the public.” On the other hand, the Chicago Daily News (independent), contends that only prejudiced partisans will “‘assert that the Federal Department of Justice was not warranted in in- sisting that a jury be afforded an op- portunity to pass upon the evidence in the case.” The Daily News con- tinues: “Harlan F. Stone cculd not have known the legal worth and the credibility of the various items of testimony that had been gathered be- fore his appointment. It was his duty to demand a trial and in so doing he really did Mr. Wheeler a great serv- ice. Senator Wheeler has Attorney General Stone to thank for that vindi cation.” “Possibly if the blind goddess that furnishes the figurehead for the De- partment of Justice has not lost the capacity to blush,” remarks the Knoxville Sentinel (independent Democratic), “she mad suggest to her ministers that this capacity for prose- cution they have developed against the Montana Senator contrasts so pointedly with the Government's fail- ure or inability to bring Fall and Sin- clair and Doheny to trial for alleged bribery and conspiracy that to spare her blushing they desist from their shameful course.” * * x % Attention is called by the New York Times (Independent Democratic) to the second case against the Senator brought in the'District of Columbia. “His indictment by a Washington grand jury,” as pointed out by the Times, “was for an entirely different offense, as alleged. The charge was that he and others had entered into & conspiracy to obtain lands from the United States by fraud. Obviously, this was a much more serious crime, if committed, than the one of which the Montana jury acquitted him. Being a resolute shampion of publici- ty for all other public men under charges, he cannot really wish to have the indictment quashed on the ground of mere legal scruples. He ought to demand his day in court, so as to emerge once more a shining proof of the purity of the administration of - 4 to | justice in have been affected greatly” one way or | S the United States.” The yracuse Herald (independent), be lieves that “whether the Department of Justice will now prosecute this sec ond and independent case remains to be seen.” The Herald adds: “It will be likely to de so only in the event that it has a more plausible and bet- ter fortified ground for procedure than was revealed in the Montana prosecution.” * x The proceedings relating _to this case before a senatorial committee are assailed by the Cincinnati Times-Star (Republican) a “mock tral,” and the Times-Star continues: “The mock trials and the use of senatorial power in behalf of Senator Wheeler mer availed to raise a presumption of gu But a Montana petit jury the fees Senator Whee were for practice in the and not for practice before the In terior Department. So be it. It too bad that Senator Wheeler did no approach the bar of justice with an eagerness that would have been com patible with the finding of the jury." The St. Paul Pioneer Press (inde pendant Republican) takes this posi tion: “The jury decided that Senator Wheeler was not guilty of an illezal appearance before a Government de partment. But this verdict does not affect the main question in which the public is interested, and that is the ethics of the things which Senator Wheeler undeniably did do.” L The Baltimore Sun (independent) however, quotes press reports of the trial in justification of ‘“Senator Walsh’s statement that on the evi dence submitted a ‘jail bird would n have been convicted.'” The prose: tion gets no support from the peka Capital (Republican), which points out: “The prompt acquittal of Wheeler by the jury following his ex oneratibn by the Borah committee bears out the general opinion that the Government had a poor case. It would be a calamity if the Govern ment appeared more diligent in prose cution of Wheeler, as a side issue of the Teapot Dome matter, than in fol lowing up the case against Fall, Do heny and_Sinelair.” The Charlotte Observer (Democratic) also emphasizes this in the statement: “There were cotemporary cases of much more moment to the public than was tha against the Senator, at its worst, and the way would appear open to the Government to finish with these to the end that it may have a cl slate.” “The Senator is to be congratu lated,” says the Manchester Union (independent Republican), “‘on the re sult, and the public at large will be satisfied that the legal processés have been followed.” The Indianapolis News (independent) suggests that “perhaps it is not Improper to say that the judge who tried the case is a Republican; the trial, as far as is pos- sible to judge, seems to have been conducted with fairness.’ Discussing the belief that Senator Wheeler has been a victim of perse cution the Hartford Times (independ ent Democratic) declares’ that “‘when men find it plausible to heifeve that they may not raise tHeir voices against corruption. in . high places without risking ‘framed’ prosecutions and persecutions, Democratic govern- ment s indeed sick.”