Evening Star Newspaper, May 14, 1925, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASKINGTON, D. C. May 14, 1925 'HEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor Jrangy Rty The Evening Star Newspaper Company Office: ‘?l"":':f.f:‘?'f ‘st 36 Regent St London, Bogland. 1108 st, 0 York' | g e 08 The Evening Star. with the Sunday morn- Ing edition, is deliverrd by carriers within ife sty at' 0 cents per month dajly onlv. 45 conls por month: Bunday ouly, 20 centd P8; month. Orders wmay be sent by mail or phone Main 5000. Collection is made by carrier at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. BU?’ and Sunday B sily ‘oniy | Sindes"ohuy "S.All Other States. 10.00: A mo.. 181000 2me v $3.00: 1 mo. Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitied to the use for republication of all news dis ted to' 1t or not otherwise cred is paper and also the local new Berein. ANl rihts of publication Alspatches herein are also reserved. A pubishs of anoc Henry Ford’s Ship Offer. Henry Ford has offered to take 400 tled-up ‘merchant vessels off Uncle| Sam’s hands. If he gets them, Mr. Ford will scrap nearly all, into operation only ten or a dozen. At first blush, with America to build up a permanent merchunt marine in the interest of both Amer- fcan commerce and national defense, the sale of such a huge number of ships, with the understanding practically all of them would bhe scrapped, would appear the height of -folly. The Government, however, has today some 750 idle steel ships, tied up in the James River, the Huad- son River and other places. It has in operation about 300 vessels, ranging from the majestic Leviathan to tt amall cargo steamer. The idle ships necessarily deteriorate. They were hurriedly constructed during the war to meet a great emergency, and many | of them are not the type needed to carry on the campaign for the de- velopment of a permanent American merchant marine. The idle steel ships have in a meas- ure become a burden rather than an asset to the Government. They con- stitute a eonstant menace to the ship- ping business generally. - For they nfight be thrown on the market. at some future date at extremely low ®rices, Increasing the active world tennage tremendously and knocking the bottom out of freight rates. Ship- ping the world over has been strug- gling t0 make ends meet since the close of the war. Despite the zreit number -of merchant vessels sunk during ‘the German submarine cam- paign, the_ creation- of -the -American merchant fleet, along with the ship- building by other nations, brought about an excess of tonnage, with the carrying business .at .a low ebb be- cause of the failure of many mar- kets in Europe. ¥ Eventually, it the American mer- chant marine ‘is té continue to sail the sevén seas, there must be re- Placement of the vessels acquired and constructed during the war emergency. In fact, if American =hips are to compete successtuily With forelgn, there must be replace- ment with more' up-to-date and speedier esséls. The fact that hun- dreds of steel ships belonging to the United States remain tied up and out of commission will act ag a constant deterrent, however, - when réplace- ments are-urged upon Congress. Shc!uld war involving many nations develop today, the tied-pp fleet un- doubtedly would spring into dctive service. But war of that character is. remote. = Another decade or two and the tied-up fleet would be valye- less, even in such an emergency. It may be the wiser colrse to destroy TOW, 80 as to build more effectually. The indication that Henry Ford, Wwith his vast resources and Industry, is about to engage in shipping bus ness on a large scale is heartening to those who hope to see the Amer- ifcan m -chant marine permanent. American industries- which own their own carrie. hold out substantial guarantee of permanency, The offer of Mr. Ford for a large | number of Uncle Sam's idle yessels may stimulate’ & market which has been dull. It is axiomatic that when one man evinces a_desire for a cer tain property other men will begin to look with interest upon it. Mr. Ford’s offer for the purchase of the Muscle Shoals plant, for example, brought forth many other offers. - "o It will be & long time before France fan understand’ why so many people on this side of the earth should be more interested in discussing the base pafl score 'than in ascertaining the value o the franc. —o— { = The Bolshevik Germ. The experience of Great Britain in frespect 10 relations with the Soviet government of Russia affords . addi- tional reason, if such wers mnecessary, 10t the continued refusal of the United States to Yecognize thé Moscow or- sanization. When under the legal recognition accorded by the late Labor ministry at London in February, 1924, an official “establishment was set up in the name of the Soviet at London, with trade headquarters associated, a large staft was organized. At one time the employes of the Russian government stationed in London num. bered about 500. - They were active workers - for the Soviet. They dis- tributed propaganda literature. They even sat up. an official bolshevik pub. lication, entitled “The Soviet Union Reévigw,” Last November.the Baldwin government dendunced the treaties tentatively concluded with Russia and refused 1o submit them to Parliament for ratification. One reason for this actién was the pernicious activity of the Soviet's ggents in England in proselyting for. the Third Interna- tionale. Under the changed conditions the Soviet departments in London have now been Yeduced to mera skeleton organizations, and the British govern- ment i8 rounding up and sending back the hundreds of attaches and other # that | employes to whom residential permits to remain in England have been issued. A bolshevik book shop, where official Soviet publications were sold, has been closed, quantities of litera- ture have been seized and the Soviet review has ceased publication. It the United States recognized Rue- sia and permitted the establishment of an official headquarters in this country It would probably have the same experience as that of Great Bl ain. Hundreds of direct representa- tives of the Soviet would come’ here to print and preach propaganda, Washington would be a distribyting of the movement . to internationalize the world by the breaking down of national governments. It matters nothing at all that the agents sent to London from Moseow |10 carry on this work of propaganda were kept under rigid surveillance by the Soviet authorities, that spies were sent. from Soviet headquarters to watch the Soviet employes at the Brit- vapital. Regardless of the dis- trust felt at Moscow for the agents sent out for propaganda, they are sti§l pernicious factors. It is of no moment that the present regime in Russia fol- lows the policy of the old to suspect everybody and to maintain espionage and counter-espionage In order to in- s v. However much Moscow rust its agents, they are | certain to be malevolent in their in- fluence. ish gerous contagion against tionale germi. e———— Further Law Enforcement. | Not only continpa'tion but an exten- sion of the sweeping campaign for | the enforcement of the Volstead law recently begun by the Government is planned. Orders have been given to broaden the scope of the drive against bootlegging on land and sea, with the naval organization already effected as a nucleus. - The: United States is to undertake to cut off all overseas supplies of liquor- with the blockade and to concentrate activities on the large supply bases near theé coast from which dealers within this country se- theilr supplies. Meanwhile an extensive poster campaign will be started. for the placarding of the country with graphic descriptions of the benefits of law observance. That the blockade of the bootleg- gers off the coast has been effective is evident. Large supplies of liquor are held up at sea involving the in- vestment of a' great:sum of money. The inflow through the cordon has| been megligible. - Some of the ships | have welghed anchor and departed. ders are still lingering in the hope | of discharging cargoes. Some activ- ity is reported on the Pacific Coast, but the Government is evidently pre- pared to watch on.that side as weil as on the East to maintain a de- tensive blockade. s The flagrancy with which the law is flouted In some of the larger cities in the East is a challenge that the Government must meet with the most thorough enforcement procedure. Re- peal of the Volstead act and modifica- tion of the eighteenth amendment through open -deflance, coupled with inefficient enforcement, cannot be tol- erated. If the law based upon the amendment has not the -support of the people of the country a test ean be made at the ballot box by a dee. laration of issue in a national cam- paigr. Neither of the two major po- litical parties has been willing, if de- sireus, to pitch such ‘an issue. This in itself is evidence of a bellef that | he majority opinion in this country | favors prohibition. There is no pros- | pect whatever that the Congress elect- ed last November will upon assembly take any move toward the modifica- tion, far less the repeal, of the Vol- stead act. Back of the Government's decision to nroceed-with all. possible vigor and | with all facilitiés for the enforeement of the law is a large body of public cpinion. As long as such a sentiment prevails in this country it is the duty of the Federal administration to ex- | haust every available means to main- tain ‘the law. That. is evidently the present purpose. is to maintain a | varrier the, Third Interna- cure . —————— Recognition of the gold standard by | Great Britain only indicates a willing- ness to consider -obligations on the same basis as that on which they were | contracted, 3 e —————— The Hindenburg teremonials must have had their temptations for the x-Kaiser, who has shown great dis. ! eretion in remaining out of the plc- e The rum fléet is reported to be run- ning the - strategic risk of being “bottled” in Chesapeake Bay. ———t— Curbing Wheat Gambling. Secretary Jardine is to be commend- {ed for his intention to take steps to prevent a repetition of gambling in grain futures, which recently resulted in wide fluctuations in the price of wheat. An investigation which has been in progress by ‘the Department of Agriculture, charged with enforc- ing the law, discloses evidence that | there has been manipulation of prices by speculators, but up to-this- time proof is lacking to warrant prosecu- tions by the Department of Justice. Secretary Jardine . wisely. . deter. mined, while continuing to seek for proofs of vielations, to take immediate steps to prevent a recurrence of lh! gambling which lately prevailed, . Con- gress, in Its efforts to stop the wild speculation that occasionally afflicts the wheat market, vested in the Sec- retary considerable discretionary pow- | er in the premfses. * As a practi¢al step to curb the evil'of specuiation in this commodity, Secretary Jardine has invoked ‘ the ‘aid -of - the graln ex- changes, suggesting that more strin- gent rules be put in force. With this purpose fn mind, he dis- cussed in the last three or four days with representatives of the Chicago Board of Trade, ‘including the’ presi- dent, Frank L. Carey, the desirability of the promulgation by that organiza- tion of rules preventing the develop- ment and dissemination of rumors in the nature of false, misleading and In- accurate reports, and statements to prevent actual or attempted manipu- lation or cornering of the market and discouraging " eny tendency toward center for Moscow, which is the seat| The surest way to avoid dan-| THE . EVENING overspeculation. It is the Secretary’s purpose to hring gbout a gcondition where the quotations in future trad- ings will more accurately refiect the prices Incident to supply and demand. Secretary Jardine also suggested that a rule limiting the .spread ip daily quotations would have this effect. Secretary Jardine made it clear that in the event of the fallure on the part of the exchanges designated as con. tract markets to take some effective measures he would be obliged as & matter of public Interest to suggest additlonal legislation giving to the De- partment of Agriculture authority to wmeet the situation effectively, The boards of trade and exchanges will {do well tp heed the Secretary's sug- gestions ghd admonitions. The Department of "Agriculture is | in earnest in this campaign, and if it | has to go to Congress again the wheat gamblers will be likely to bring down upon themselves still further restric. tione. l e e Finger Prints by Telegraph. Finger prints were sent from New York to Chicago by telegraph as one featyre of the international police conference at New York. This achieve- ment which seems magical, "was per- formed by the picturetransmission service of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. Finger prints of | thrge men were telegraphed In seven minutes. The sending of signals in dots and dkshes standing for letters is @ device of science to which the world has become accustomed. Many versons do not understand hgw it is done, and many persons do not under- stand how. a street car is run by elec- tricity or how words ave carried by the telephone, but they have grown 80 used to these wonders that they do not wonder at all. It was not long ago that photographs were sent by wire, and perhaps this marvel caused many men to blink their eyes in as- tonishment. The sending of pictures by wire is now carried on as business and its use will no doubt become ex- tensive. Refinement in picture trans- mission is going on. At the police con- ference three-colored pictures trans- mitted by telegraph were shown. Then came the demonstration of send- ing finger prints by wire. These were identified by the Chicago police, who called the names of the finger-printed men back to New York, the names agreelng with the New York index. Pictorial telegraphy is making strides | toward perfection. ST | A $8,000,000 Blunder. | That these are days of big figures | in business is fllustrated by an an- nouncement just made (hat through a slight error in business procedure in the recent sale of a large motor com- | pany to mew hclders a Federal tax of $6,000,000 will be due on the transac- tion. Had the old corporation been dis- solved formaily and the sale effected by individual stockholders no tax could have been collected. By the omission of this formality of dissolu tion the United States will be bene- ficiary to the extent of $6,000,000. Al- ready the State of Michigan has levied & tax of a similar amount upon the sale, so that the transfer itseif, as a result of the error, will involve a total tax of $12,000,000. Many a man feels grestly anneyed when Ire uses a 2-cent stamp tOO; many in mailing a letter, But think of the business man who slips up to the tune of $5.000,000 by failing to ob- serve a technicality! It is truly consol- ing to those who overpay far any serv- ice to reca]l the cost of this blunder, for which there would seem to be no redress or rebate, — e France will pay” her debts and Ger- many will pay her indemnity. These | programs should prevent plana for resumption of the old feud for some time to come. e e Motion picture corporations who | desire an autocrat might try ex-Kaiser | Wilhelm, who has had experiénce and is not doing anything at present. —— et The authorities &re claiming the right to tell even a traffic director to move on, if conditions seem to warrant. IRET s - The North Pole Is always interesting owing to the facilites it provides for one discovery after another. , ————— The discovery of .the North Pole promises to become an annual ovent. s SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Pleasures of Hope. The garden is a lovely spots In Maytime contemplation. But when July Is growing hot, The weeds in congregation Arise, our feelings to annoy. They chide our derelfetion, And prove how oft our passing joy 1s but a hopeful fiction. Discrimination. “Don’t you think the Senate rules ought to be changed?” “Yes,” answered Senator Sorghum, “But there are so many things that ought to be chang Why pick on the Senate rules Proprieties. When Grandma holds her proper pose We love her style meticulous, Biit when she puts on flapper clothes Bhe sort o’ looks ridiculous! Jud Tunkins says a threering oir. cus compels a man to make three | trips to see all that was going on. A Faint Encouragement. “Does your father object to me as a son-in-law?’ asked the aggressive youth. i answered Miss Cayenne. *“I think he could learn to admire you if you could convince him that your business ability is as great as your nerve.” No Other Way. Economy they now advise In language deferential. In fact, as living prices rise 1t's thoroughly essential. \ “De man who depends on a rabbit's foot,” sald Uncle Eben, “gits super- stitious hope; but de one dat ralses Pig’s foet i3 sure of rei nourishment, BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Estey alley is proud of its position in the community. Why should it not be? Although not yet two years 0ld, it presents all the appearance of a settlement made and completed a decade ago. It has & name, for one thing. Newer alleys of the neighborhood are forced to struggle along under the painful designation of “the ailey behind our house,” or the more complicated description of “the alley between So- and-So street and So-and-So street.” To have a name in this world is a veat deal. Even an alley resents ing nameless. Give an alley even a bad name, it will.take on & certain kind of pride about it, knowing full well, in its evil heart, that it is better to be known unfavorably than not known at all. Ours is not that kind of an alley. Its name is a melodjous one, a name of self-sufficlency, a. name of pride, one in which the very back 'ds seem to rejoice when Spring puts on its en- semble dress of green to visit us afhin. > If there i3 any season when Istey alley is proud of itself, it {s in the Springtime, the merry, merry Spring- time, when the little dogs do skip and bark, and the babies tumble over each other in the grass, Ah, merry, happy Springtime, when the small and large dogs do bark and fight, and the merry babies and older children do gamhol in the grass and pummel each other over the heads! Then the dog owners do run out at leverv gate, and attempt to separate | the fighting hounds, while the mothers. pour down back steps to rescue littie Johuny from the fists of that horrid Smith boy who is distinctly no bet-| ter than he ought to be. Spring in Ewstey alley 1= distinctly better than Spring in less favored places. The term * ' of course, means more than just the 20-foot alley itself, running from east to west, with 2 gentle slope toward the center, and another to the st, dralning in won derful fashion. 3 The designati includes, naturally enough, the th oughfare, the back yards, the houses themselves and the householders and their families, in. ciuding their degs, cats and other creatur It includes, by inference, the very fronts of the houses. As has been stated before in this column, the street is fmpersonal. There are no divisions between the lawns. The street, being a public thorough- fare, a-down- which automobiles and busses roll. does not belong to us. Estey alley does. It is our own private street, and if outsiders traverse it to get to their own less stately places, they do not linger, except to cast envious glances at -our soaring hollyhocks, bushy peonles, thriving sweet peas, green grass, etc., etc. , Estey alley belongs to those who live there. o Do we not wash our “smalt cars” there every Sunday morning? Some of the old school, perhaps would call us & Godless community, would be in error there. We believe in u gospel of civic righteousness whose cardinal 'prin. ciple is that cleanliness Is indeéd akin to Godliness, as John Wesley said. A second principle with Estey alley dwellers is the decency of decent labor. No one is ashamed to work in Estey alley, We have arrived at that zenith of philosophical contemplation which tells the wise that one never gets half as much fun and profit out of any endeavor as when he does jt himmself. The servant problem is no problem at all in Estey alley. but they | Mrs. Jack Pendleton, who has per- haps the prettiest “bob” in the alley, can throw a washing onto_the line by 8 o'clock and have it alf®ironed by noon. ¥ P Many of the garages have been buiit by residents, and the best ones. too. 4s for mowing the baock yards, trim- ming the borders, svery’familv at- tends to that itself. Sometimes the men mow, sometimes the women. .. We are not afraid of work, we who live in this alley. Even the small Boys work, building up thriving busi- nesses selling rich dirt to flower grow- ers-at 26 cents a byshel unscreened, 50 cents screened. ‘The result Is that Estey alley has a finished look you will not find in any other alley {n the community. Its natural advantage as the first thor- oughfare it has held steadily, better- ing its position season by season, so that today it has no rival. It this sounds boastful, remember what I sald at first, that Estey alley is proud of itself. It has prettier back yards, has more newly painted roofs, has splashed more fresh paint on its porches and trim and has more painted garages than any other alley in the section. To roll through it—and it may be stated that the District government keeps it spotlessly clean—Iis like com- ing into the old home town on the limited. There is a sense of satisfaction in Estey alley that the discriminating perhaps will not find “out front.”” By July 1 we are going to show the world a few things in the matter of grass and flowers. ° This total result has not been achieved by any concerted action, We have no HKstey alley assoclation, so- called, only that closer assoclation of dafly community life. As individual residents we are urged on to civic betterment by that greatest of In. centives—one’s normal pride in him. self and his own, * * % % In the final’ analysis that isthe greatest motivating force in the world of civillzed men. The primitive. struggle just to live, to get enough to eat, to be safe, has given place to plenty and more or less peace. The age-old motives are sublimated into what may be termed backyard rivalry, lawn rivalry, flower rivalry, ®arage competition, painting conflicts. When 1 see Tom Jones spruce up the back of his house with a bril liant green paint. the urge seizes me to get a ladder and do likewise, with mental reservations, however, in re- gard to.the tint of Jones' paint. We pride ourself on being more artistic than Jones. so 'we shall get a less vivid green. The big point, how- ever, is that Jones has forced us into painting. We are not going to let old Tom Jones get ahead of us like that! So yards that last Summer were more or less bare this Spring began to sprout grass. There will be more flowers in Estey alley this than last, too. Human nature, helped by good seed, will do the trick. Our greatest chance for improve- ment lies in the garages. We have too many unpainted tin garages. In passing, it may be stated that a garage. whether tin or otherwise, can be nothing but a necessary blot upon | the landscape. L AT A garage In a back yard looks like nothing in the world but a paralyzed elephant. It has no real right there and knows it. But what would we do without the ugly thing? So we zarages. help it. to paint them 8o that they, too, will add to the beauty of Estey alle: We cannot BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. What plorers into the Arctic reglom, now that the North Pole has been dis- covered? A prominent Washington scientist, especlally interested in meteorology, says that it can be of Jittle advantage to science for Capt. Donald B. Mac: Millan to make another *junketing trip” up there. Kven If he found a continent of a million square miles between the Pole and Alaska, it would be of no importance in meteorology to visit it hastily. It would help weather predictions if permanent observation stations were establighed there as they exist at Jan Mayen Island, some hun- dreds of miles northeast of Iceland. The enterprise has the sanction of the Government and will be financed by the National Geographic Society. Officials of the society ‘say that to prove the existence of a continent as | big as Texas would be of value. In addition to that unknown region between the Polo and Alaska there is another incognito of 300,000 square miles between the Pole and Iceland. The northern half of Greenland has been crossed, but not explored, Peary found there mountains and fertile valleys, the latter .filled with grass and myrjads of brilliant flowers and supporting hundreda of “bul oxen, and other animal: Bafiin _Land! Hundreds of thou- ‘sands of square miles never yet en- tered by civilized man—at least no record of such ‘penetration! These unknown regions -combined equal a third of the area of the United States. There are known to be.ruins of what {8 thought to have been a Norse settlement in Greenland: The Esqui- maux tell that similar ruins exist in Bafn Land. This ~exploration will visit both, in-order to add proofs that the Norweglans found even the main- 1and of America 1,000 years before Columbus salled. How important that proof may be is disputable, since per- faps Alaska and themce ail-the. Pa cific Coast and Mexico and the land of the Incas were peopled by the Asiatics thousands of years before Eric the Red came to Greenland. * Kk % % Who knows what commercial values He in that ice-bound region? Are there coal and oil and precious met. 1s? *'& the route across the Pole, along the great circle of the globe, a practi- cal way for future commercial flyers from Kurope to Australia or Asia? It is well known that the great circle is the shortest way from point to point around the world. Some theories al- lege that-the Arctic Is not cold in Summer, except upon the ice surface, and that it is the ice radiation close to earth that chills the air until an altitude above its radiation Is reached. That is not accepted by sclence, but an heory” it is interesting. ‘Altl- tude even in the tropics insures cold, and sclentista declare that the rule holds good equally in the Arctic, ¥p to the level of the stratosphere, seven: or elght miles high, beyond which the warming radiation of the -surface ceases, and increasing helght: adds nothing to the cold. * ok k% Never before has the attack upon Arctic rxyn-ry been made with the aid of afrplanes. This time there will be three of the largest and strongest hydroplanes of the Navy, each with a radlus of 1,000 miles. The ground or ice surface In much of the Arctic is absolutely impassable in Summer, for it 13 covered with slush eften seven or elght feet deep—too dense for boats of any kind, too slushy for sleds or foot pammese. Slush will have no terrors or airplane explorers, and the plane: will ‘cover more terrjtory per hour than previous explorers have ever covered per week. Before the actual is the use of sending ex-)flights of exploration begin, seven or' eight trips by plane will be required between Etah and the base, 300 miles to the western coast of Grant Land, whera food and gasoline will be stored. From that uase, the main tours of di covery will be flown over the unknown region between the Pole and Alaska, and possibly additional bases farther west may be ultimately established. With a flying radjus of 1,000 miles, no plane can go farther than 400 miles trom base in safety. * & ¥ In addition to the airplane the Mac- Millan expedition will carry map cameras, so that, as the airplanes pa: over new discoveries, the terrain wi be accurately mapped. There will be a meteorologist in the party, whose work will Include the designation of strategic sites for future permanent weather observation stations. will also be an expert color pho- tographer, who will make photographs v mico-photographic process, natural colors. This wark ctacular, when it color- photographs the ' so-called “pink snow.” A tiny vegetable growth of pink flowers seems to make the snow itself appear colored. A botanist .in the party will e scientific ob- servations of vegetaBle life, and bring back invaluable collections. He may even collect some of the “pinkness” o the snow. ' * % % % One of the most important members of the sclentist group will be the ichthyologist, who will study the fish of the Arctie. It is known that the plankton of the Arctic waters supplies the food which nourishes the small fish of the oceans, which small fish become, in turn, food for the large fish- which are important sources of food for man. Plankton is the pas- sively floating or weakly swimming life of the ocean—diatoms and algae, which are “connecting links” between animal and vegetable life. It does not exist in tropical waters, and fish feed at the southern terminal of its great mass. Little is known about plankton, vet the fish supply of the world de- pends upon its prosperity and abun danee; the Arctic Ocean, therefcre, is the ‘world pantry. * ok ok =% Not the least fascinating feature of the MacMillan expeditiori is the radio outfit, under the charge of the amateur wizard of radiography, Lieut. Refnartz, who has done more with the short wave than any other man. With a wave of only 20 or 40 meter: the human’ voice may be sent broad- cast directly from flying planes to the station at Etah, there amplified and broadcast to all America. It does not:require the powerful and massive equipment that the ordinary wave lengths do for broadcasting. Within the last week demonstrations have been succeasfully made with the short wave in broadcasting in daylight—a most important feat, since all the Sum- mer in the Arctics is uninterrupted day. it is expected that Eskimo folk- songs rendered at Etah will be “picked up" at thousands of stations throughout America. The flyers’ ex- clamations of wonder when they find a continent will be audible in Wash- ington directly out of the Arctic sky. Or, mayhap, we may hear the crash of ' plane upon a meuntain or a glacier—and the roar of a polar bear at bay. The one scientific ald that is not yet ready is the Jenkins radio appa- ratus for sending vislon as' well as sound through the ether, whereby one might see what the explorers view even while they are seeing it. Mr. MacMillan asked the Inventor for such an outfit, but it % not yet equal to the electric conditions of Arctio transmis. "'“h’dnw, 100, Wy Pat ¥, Colliaay << What we ean do, though, is| ‘| ehijan There | THE NORTH WINDOW BY. LEILA MECHLIN. Dean Inge, before leaving our Bhores, sounded a note of warning with regard to immigration. The fear he expressed was that our Anglo- Saxon clvilization might be over- whelmed by the influx of a people of an alien race. © This fear is by no means groundless, but it should be held {n mind that many of those who come to our .shores as immigrants Ibring. with them rare gifts. This is particularly true {n the field of art, sgaln and again what migat be call:d our native talent has been. supple mented and strengthened by the tal- ent of the foreign-born, and if one will Yake the time to look Into the matter, it will be found that not a faw of the greatest sculptors that America proudly claims as her own have elther come to these shores as immigrants or been born of immigrant parents. Of these, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, the greatest sculptor that America has yet produced, is a shining example. He was brought to this country when an infant by his parents. His mother was an Irishwoman, his father g Frenchman, an humble shoemaker, who for long after his arrival in New York continued to work at this trade. The boy, who showed an aptityde for art, was apprenticed to a cameo-cut- ter, and from this modest beginning rose to the highest rank in art and universal esteem. , To his genius America owes some of her most beau- tiful works In sculpture—the statue of Farragut, a great admiral in the American Navy, In Madison Square, New York City, and of Sherman, a great American general, at one of the lower corners of Central Park, in the mame city, besides’ the splendid statue of Lincoln, the great emancipator, in Chicago, and the superb Adams me- morial, in Rock . Creek Cemetery, ‘Washington; D. . * F x & Karl Bitter, whose equestrian statue of Gen. Siegel may be seen on River- #ide Drive, New York City, gnd whose Thomas Jefferson {s to be-found on the campus of the University of Vir- ginia, is another immigrant sculptor who 'attained great distinction and whose story is even more romantic in its way than.was that of Augustus | 8aint-Gaudens. He was born in Vienna 1in 1867 and studied art at the Vienna Academy. In 1889, however, he re- solved to seek his fortune in the New World. Arriving in New York City on November 28, he two days later de- clared his intention of becoming a citizen of the United States, from that moment casting _ his, lot - completely with people. of his adopted country. The first thing he did was to go to work as a stone carver for a firm of {architectural decorators. There he | heard about a prize offered by the | Astors for a suitable design for bronze jdoors for Trinity Church. He enterey | the competition and to the surprise of all, some months later, was declared winner. Thus he almost immediately leaped i..0 fame. His success in this tcompetition: brought him to the atten- | tion of prominent New York architects {and led from one commission to an- other. He was a great idealist, a bril- | liantly talented man, and his death by jaccident in 1915 was regarded as a | ndtlonal calamity : £.% % % There are other names to he added to' the list, natably that. of. Victor {David Brenner, a Russian by { whose beautiful plaques and medals | gave him high rank and admission not only to the foremost exhibitions, but to jmembership in the leading American art associations. To him was in | Sodlety the eonunission for the John Payl Jones plaquette. and,other no. table. works.” Butzod and the late | Solon Borglum were the sons of a | Danish woodcarver, who brought his | fargily to this country and settled in ren. have not only done original work of genuine merit, but served other sculp- tors as stonecutters, are Italians— seven brothers living together and |as though they had never been trans- planted. To visit their atelier, sit at their generous board and accept their | simple hospitality is |a real privilege. dolph Weinman and | Albert Jaegers. both of whom have | produced monumental works adding | to the beauty of more than one of our | American cities, are of German birth; Isidore Konti. another whom America now claims and to whom one may | confidently look for-fine aecomplish {ment, is by birth a Viennese: while |among the younger men of foreign | birth who have won success are Leo Lentelli of Bologna, Italy, and Albin | Polasek, a Moravian by birth. Mr. | Polasek was fortunate enough some years ago to win in competition a tellowship in sculpture at the Ameri- can Academy in Rome, which enabled him to have three uninterrupted years of study in the Eternal City, and travel abroad. - He is now instructer of sculp- ture at the Art Institution of Chicago. * ko % { Curiously enough, out great painters have been until quite recently aimost invariably native-born, and in this department of art we have since the earliest days of our Republic been able {to. lend to Toreign -nations- as well as borrow from them. Every one is familiar with the story of the ro. mantic life of Benjamin West, that rearllest of American painters, born of i Quaker stock, who became president of the Royal Academy of London and won the patronage of .the Britigh crown. - The recent death of John Singer Sargent has brought vividly to mind the fact that thig_ Breat American fz‘"‘m was shared By-us with Great ritain. In the National Gallery, London, in the section devoted to the British school, are to be found works not only by _West, but Whistler, Miilet, Schofleld and other Americans by birth. Elihu Vedder |lived for many vears and_produced his best works in Rome. "In [later days, Mary Cassatt; Elizabethr | Noursie, Frederick Frieseke, Hdward Gay, Alexander Harrison and esteem in Paris. From the days of St. Memin to the present time forelgn artists have come . to our shorea exhibiting their works and securing commissions, but in"the majority of instances they had already attained reputations in their own lands and,come as Visiters rather than seek permanent _residence, however, exceptionss— striking ones. Emil Carlsen, the great marine painter, was born in Denmark, so also was John Johan- sen, painter of portraits; Jonas Lie Witz, the etcher, was born in Russia, as was Maurice ‘Molarsky, the paint- er of Philadelphia: Willlam_ Ritschel was born in Nuremberg, Germany; Scarpitta, Gleuseppe Trotta and. Gio- vanni Trocdoll were all of Itdlian birth. ‘Sp ach ‘nation has contributed to_the genius of America. In evey larger meagure, however, we hl»nro among the crafts-by the gift of those who have come to our”shorés seeking asylum. Hven to- day.the -best” architectural modglers [are_ofe-foreign birth, and if one- will caretully look into the art trades— stone cutting,. furniture making, wood carving,. jewelry manufacture, industries requiFing skill of*hand and appreciation —of - beauty. in design, it will be found that the majority work- ing therein are of foreign birth or parentage. This value to us in our indusftial progress and we would do well if. we took greater pains to conserve' the gifts | trusted by the American Numismatic | f the Far West when thex were little | The Piccirilli brothers, who] anclents. “It is believed that Thales working as happily in the new land | s “esteemed by all Sargent, | these | )investors by high rates of - interest. o | But. score of other Americans have lived ' and painted and.been held in high| {from any obligation to its fellows, n can one ‘withdraw from effort to main- | was a Norwegian by birth; Meyero- | Lalnce it contains a thought that has silversmithing &nd all of those other. is of inestimable | §00d_effect along ‘these lines' which immigrants | flower ot u 7%5,1 I “Peal Lwnm*m’my.‘“n} mwfifl”thr new H J - < A - ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Q. How mmny acres are there in Lafayette Square and in Farragut Bquare?—G. R. H. LA. Thers are about 7 acres in La- fayette Square and 1% acres in Far- ragut Square. % Q. When was the Connecticut ave- nue bridge built, and what are its the Connecticut avenue bridge- over Rock Creek was completed March 6, 1907, by the District Construction Co. in conjunction with other companies. It was considere¢ one of the largest concrete bridges in the United States in general dimension: ‘The total length of the bridge is 1,341 feet; approximate height at center, 128 feet; height from the springing line of the arch to the roadway sur- face, 89 feet. There are seven spars of arches, five of which are 150 feet each; thickness of crowning arch, 5 feet. The two end-arches have §2- foot spans. . : Q. “Does the fact that the Distriet have reciprocity with Virginia make it lawful for a person Hving in Vir. inia to drive in the District withou & driver's permit?—C. E. W. P A. The State of Virginia does not require a driver's permit, some:imes called operator’s license, and, as the regulations in the District are recip- rocal, it is not necessary for a resi- dent ‘of Virginia to have a driver's| permit when driving in the District. | | E Q. Why can't Arizona grapefruit| be bought here’—J. B. W. A. Arizona grapefruit are shipped to the Western markets. Q. When will the old German bank notes cease to be legal tender? A. All German bank notes issued before October 11, 1924, must be re- deemed by June 5, 1925, after which | date they will cease to he legal ten- der. ‘Théy dre to he converted at the rate of one trillion paper marks for every" reichmark (gold mark cur- rency). Q. What per cent af the children born are twing?—M. §. A. The American Genetic Associa- tion says that in 1917 it was esti- | mated that 1.07 per cent of the num- ber of babies bor® in the United States were twins. Twenty per cen’ of these are said to have been twins of the identical type. ° Q. Did Florida promise to drain |the Everglades when the United Etates gave this territory to her’— EEE ‘A When the Everglades were| ceded to Florida, in 1852, there was no special obligation taken on Ly Florida to provide for their draina There was, however, an implied obl gation to make use of the land. The Florida Internal Improvement Board has taken over the drainage. Q. When a person serves himseft from a service dish which Is accem- | panied by a fork and spoou, which implement is taken in the right hand? —C.E. B. | A. The fork is held'in the right hand and the spoon in the left. Q. What is done with the ol rugs that junk dealers collect?—C'. O. B. A. Old rags, such as are collected by junk dealers, are for the magt part used in making paper. { @ better grade of paper than the col ored materials. Q. Please give an Indian equivalent | | for “paradise” and “little paradise’? | —A. W. W, - A. Inthe Dokota language the word for pamadise is “mahpiya” and for lit. tle paradise “mahpiyans,” the suffix “na’” meaning Httle. | | Q. How long has electricity been | known to exist?—W. Y. A. Electricity was known to the | 1.776,000,000 The white [ g0 Violor | rags are sorted and-used for-making | 3 irth, Tany ~ subject: BY FREDERIC J. HA_SKIN information -was atquiréd; however, until the close of the thirteenth cen- tury. In 1600 Willilam Gilbert pub lished his book *“De Magnete,” in which he used for the first time the terms - electric force, electric attrac tion and @istingulshed between elec trics and non-electrics. 3 . Q. What falth are people who cover wiirrors: as a: sign of mourning?=—W {A’f:{h an article of Jewish ritual that for the .seven days succeeding ¥%e burial &l mirrors should " cov ered and no_ shoes should be worn by tligse who are not obliged to conform to modern. custom. “/Q."How many people are affectel by the postal pay increase bill?—J. C. W A. The Post Office Department says that there are approximately 258,000 people in the classified civil service who were affected by .this bill. Q. Is there an easy way that: the height of a tree can be computed by measuring its shadow ?—31. S A. Take a stick of definite length and measure the shagow -of the tree Find the length by the shadow of the stick by holding it at right angles to the ground. Multiply the length of the tree's shadow by the length of the stick and divide by the length of the stick’s shadow.- Q. How much meat does an Ameri can consume in a year’—E. T, A. The Department of Agriculture says that the total estimated consump | tion of meat in 1924 was 18,484,000,000 pounds, excluding lard, which ~wasx pounds. The amoun consumed per capita in 1924 was 1644 pounds, excluding lard, which was 155 pounds! Q. About whom was this said ““Age ‘cannbt wither her, nor customr stale her infinite varjety” ?--D. A. 1t is a description of Cleopatra from Shakespeare’s “Anthony anl Cleopatra.” Q. Please give the name of the Czech who wrote “R. U. R.2"—M. ¥ w. A. Karel Capek Is the author of the play. ¥ Q. How many post offices are there in the United States?—M. E. P. A. The Post Office Department says that there are 51,266. Q. What does mean?—V., M. A. The Post Office. Department says that these words mean post office box. Many people make the mistake of thinking they are a person's name because they appear at the bottom of many letters from Cuba. Q Please give some information about American Samoa.—J. K. M A. American Samoa, comprising the Islands of Tutila, Aunuu and others, has an area of 57.9 square mile population of §324, including 266 Americans. The capital is Pago Pago on the Island of Tutila. This town is the most valuable harbor in the So; Pacific. It was ceded in 1872 by ti fative king to the United States as a asilla de correos | naval and .coaling station. Samoa is 4,160 miles from cisco. The natives are Christians and are regarded &% the highest t thé “‘Polynesian race. All of the lands i§ privately owned. The chief product” s " cvconuts. Fruits are also grown, but not exported and (The Star Information Bureau iwili answer your question. This offer ap- plies strictly. to information bureau_camnot give advice on ‘medical and finawcial matters not Gtteinpt to settle domestic tronble | mor wndertake exhaustive rescarch on Write your plainly and briefly. Give and address and inclose stamos for return postage. All replics are sent direct to the inquirer. Ad- question full name cents_in | knew that amber afer being rubbed | aoquired the property of attracting “lh:hl bodies. . No definite scientific Ambassgdar Houghton's warning to ! Earove that America expects the Old i World nations to seek a real peace bazed on faith and good feeling is fully suppbrted by the public at home. | His speech is accepted as an accurate istatement of the countrv's attitude, even in - quarters where the Govern- | ment’s foreign policy is most severely condemned. Fraught with meaning is the Ari- bassador's warning, in the judgment | |of the Cincinnati Times-Star. "It is at once a promise and a threat,” de. lclares that paper. “We wili support the werkmen of Europe and their em- ployers. We will not support the soldiers of Europe amd their generals. We are willing to stoke the furnaces | of European industry: we are up- willing to load the howitzers of Euro- pean warfare. The furnaces will be stoked.” . The blunt, and rugged phrasing” of the Hougiten -address is{ prajsed by the New York Evening Post, which asserts that every word of it "mirrors the feetings and el opinions of that America with which Europe must reckon and to which the Old World-must make answer." * % * % Moniter, | ‘The Christian Science however, holds that the penalty pro- posed by the Ambassador for Eyfope’s possible failure to heed the warning would fall almost as heavily upon America as upon Europe. “With ne desire to be hypercritical,” it -says, “the Monitor would suggest that at some point it would have been fair and proper for the Ambassador to note the fact that the European loans are_made wery inviting to American -even admitting that therg is profit to America in its heavy.ad- vances of capital to Europe, c still attaches to the operatien a cer- tafni degree of international good will. No one nation can declare itself free tain wotfd-wide harmony without causing injury to itself -‘almost as much as to those whose fellowship it spurns.” ‘v A An expression of general , American | opinion ie credited to the Ambassador the Seattle Times, which cofitinues: ‘Good faith and a real desire for peace are the first requirements of Ameri- cans who invest thely money in Euro- i pean securities. Europe would do well to ponder on the Ambassador’s speech, | heen slowly crystalizing in the Ameri- can mind.” The Louisville Herald's judgment is that “asked to continue to help Burope—to do what w& gan for” the French situation, to aid all countries—we have a right to ask as a condition of the contract ‘that peace, not war, be bought.” Houghton's-wbrds | “will prove more potent thidn afmijes and~fiavies in checking -miligiristic, imperialistic ambitions and tenden- cles,” according to the San Antonio News, which holds that the address | fshould lead us not.merely to restrict immigration but to that the precious “gifts which thé fmmigrants bring in their God-given talent and artistic tradition are not wasted, but are put to € the dreas Frederick J. Haskin, director The §tar Information Burcau, Twenty- first and C streets northwest.) fioughton’s Warning to Europe . Approved as National Feeling “recalls those of Woodrow Wilson in the decisive days of the Great War." * % % x Commendation of the addréss is given by numerous papers. “Echoes of it will be heard throughout Eu rope,” says the Kansas City Journal. “It was plainly marked ‘Parls, Berli Rome and Brussels papers plea copy,’ " according to the Sah Fran- cisco Bulletin. ‘4 straightforward and commotr-sense utterance, the most vigorous that has been delivered b an American in Eurepe for a v remarks the Providence Bulletin. “The decisfon is with Europe, as the other decision—how far we can go on help ing—rests with us,” the Indianapolis NeWs explains, denying that coercion is implied. “It 18 no affair of ours to get Europe on its feet again.” the Memphis News - Scimitar believes. ‘Back of his declaration is a nation of more than a hundred million people utterly. ¥ired and sick of war,” savs the Portland, Oreg., Telegram. “If Mr. Houghtdn's speech has any effect It wiH apoelerate the return to rformal and appease American commerce,” adds the Reading Tribune. ““The American position, as defined “| by Presidents Harding and Coolidge, is one ‘of sympathetic consideration, but also of expectation that Furope will shoulder her own responsibilitias,' the New York Heradd-Tribune de- clares. 'The Harrisburg Telegraph thinks: “The President must be credit- ed with having his ear very close to the ground, for the speech is an echo of the sentiment that may be heard wherever Americans discuss European affairs:” - s = Voicing the feeling of many critics 6f the American foreign policy, the Chattanooga Times asks: “‘Coming from the representative of a govern mfent that deserted Europe at the most <eritfeal juncture in~its history. is it any wonder that the wise, but courte. ous ‘,hgluhmen listened and held their i “Ambassador Hoeughton made h debut in London.” the Charlotte Ob- server notes, “With an assurance that séntiment in the United States is for the Buropean nations to get together. and fix an established peace, otherwise there was possibility that the part the United States had plaved as an in- terested and sympathetic participant ‘might give way to a lesser role.” It did that some time ago when it reject ed membership in the League of tions."” N * kT ¥ “What has this country done to con cilinte the other nations and persuade them to ‘function as a' whole'?" in- quires the Wewark News, and the Omaha World-Herald adds: “But 1ok %t us—we ape the richest, most en- lightened natfon in the world,and we are as ‘trustful’ as is consisteht with .sound busingss methods and always ' { have beeh..Ambassador Houghton his indicated the path that leads to Para- dise.” In the same vein, the Charles. ton Evening Post remarks: “The moral phase of the speech Is just background, a screen on which to project the pic- ture of a world of cash.” A milder view s expressed by the’ Hartford Times. ‘“‘He unquestionably intended his address should have the jeffect of further cementing the Anglo- American relations as well as give a brief outline of the position of -the R ¢