Evening Star Newspaper, May 23, 1925, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, MAY 23 1925. THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY.......May 23, 1925 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor ! The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 11th St. and Pennsslvania Ave. e Lork Office: 110 East 43nd St. Chicagn Office: Tower Building. Buropean Office- 18 Regent St.. London, 3 England. The Fvening Star, with the Sunday morn- Ing edition. i& delivered by carriers within the city at 60 conts per month: daily only. 45 cents ‘per mant rday only. 20 eents per month. ' Orders may be gent by mail or telephone Main 5000, Collection is made by carrer at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday 1vr. SR40:1m Daily only . 1y $6.00: 1 m Sunday only 1yr. $2.40: All Other States. £7.00: $3.00: Press. Member of the Associated The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dis- patches credited to it or not otherwise cred- ted in this paper and also the local news published herein. Al richts of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. The District Commissionership. With President Coolidge now rests the responsibility of naming a District Comamissioner to fill the v: ney just caused by death. Several names hav been formally presented to him for consideration, and others will be laid before him shortly as the friends of Washingtonlans who are regarded as competent to fill this position give their indorsements and make their recommendations. Thus in a few days the President will have a large field from which to choose, and judging from the names already on the list of either active or receptive candidates his embarrassment will be one of riches. This position calls for executive ability of a high order. Under the law 1t 1s to be filled by a man who has been @ resident of the District for three years prior to the appointment, and who has meantime claimed residence nowhere clse. This latter restriction confines the choice to those who are exclusively Washingtonfans and not mere sojourners, official or personal, in the District. It was designed at the time of enactment to prevent the ap- pointment of partisan favorites at the expense of the District and to insure local administration by men familiar with Washington and its needs. It is especially important that the cholce should fall upon one who is thoroughly familiar with the District's fiscal situation. For just now Wash- ington is passing through a critical phase of readjustment with respect to the conditions of its maintenance. Congress is disposed to ignore the sub- stantive law which establishes the principle of definite proportionate con- tribution by the United States, and to substitute a lump-sum annual pa ment. is The District Commissioners are charged with the responsibility of de- fending the definite ratio principle in the framing of the annual appropr tion bills. Washington hopes and ex- pects that in the sifting of names for this office the President will select a man who is qualified by views and dis- position to make the strongest possible defense of the District’s rights under the law. It is gratifying to find so many com- petent members of this community who are willing for the sake of Wash- ington to make the sacrifice of ac- ceptance of an office which entails hard work, involves some criticism and offers small reward save the approba- tion of the Capital for services well rendered. ——— The opinion of ex-Gov. Charles Bryan on the subject of evolution should be avaflable, considering his prestige as one of the leaders of a great party ‘Willlam J. Bryan is conspicuously on record in the matter, but the support of his distinguished brother should be in evidence, to avert suspicion of a family difference. D The masterful Influence of Von Hin- denburg is indicated by the fact that the Hohenzollern family presents no present claims to the spotlight. s Field Marshal French. Unfortunately the last days of Field Marshal Johwk D. P. French, officially the Earl of Ypres, who died in Eng- land yesterday, were involved in bitter controver: the British forces during the early days of the Great War. The disputes Wwhich arose with reference to the bat- tle of Ypres and other phases of the conflict during the latter period of Gen. French's command on the con- tinent clouded the memory of the great service which he rendered the allied cause in the first stage of the war. The appointment of French to head the British troops in Belgium and in France was recognized at the time s the best possible, unless Kitchener, then in command of the British Army, had been assigned French’s handling of the “Old Con- temptibles,”” as the British forces in Flanders and France were affection- ately styled in proud echo of the Ger- man ridicule, was masterly. Over- whelmed by superior numbers, he maneged their retreat to the Marne with superb generalship. Deficient in ammunition and in reserves, itg#as his heart-breaking task to lead a rearward movement in a manner to hold the enemy to the slowest possible advance end to suffer the least loss in his own lnes. His accomplishment in that great retreat was undoubtedly one of the factors in the ultimate success in checking the German onsct. . Later at Ypres he maintained the . British lines against a furious German " aseault in which the enemy used gas for the first time in modern warfare. o Out of this battle, which was a British ~ victory of defense, and which, if lost, would doubtless have caused the col- . lapse of the allied line and probably " the defeat of the allied armies, grew ““the friction which led to the recall of ,~Gen. French from the high command ~'of the British forces on the continent. ™ Lord Kitchener criticized French's lack of offensive iniative after the bat- wrding the conduct of | troops and his ammunition to the polnt at which assault was impossible. Out of this situation, which closed French’s career as an actlve com- mander of troops, grew the investiga- tion into the ammunition supply ques- tion by the late Lord Northcliffe, which resulted in a reorganization of British industrial forces and a speed- ing up of munition making. From that time on British fortunes improved. Thus Gen. French was a sacrifice to the cause. He had probably reached the limit of hls powers, however, at the time of his relief. He had done a great work in a great manner. He had established the prestige of the British troops In a series of engagements the equal of which had never been fought in the world’s history. He had made the “Old Contemptibles” a ringing slogan of patriotic enthusiasm. He had stemmed the enemy tide. It remained for other men to carry on from that voint. ———— Watching William G. William G. McAdoo s in a position which Invests every personal action with a political significance. As a leading candidate for the Democratic nomination a year ago, and the re- ciplent for more than a hundred ballots of the largest number of votes cast for President, he, though defeated then, und In the absence of a peremp- tory and specific withdrawal from the field for all time, remains a potential candidate with the prestige of a large and devoted following. Consequently every movement he makes even now, three vears in advance of the conven- tlon of 1928, s regarded as a part of a campalgn. This may be unjust to him. Things political may be far out of his mind. He may be enjoying life as a private citizen, attending to his own personal affairs and leaving the political situation to develop as it may for the next couple of years. But it is the natural tendency to think other- wise, and to attribute to him a pur- rose to keep his lines in order, to strengthen them If possible, and thus to prepare for another, which would be the third drive for the highest honors of his party. Thus when Mr. McAdoo came to Washington a few days ago specula- tlon was immedlately aroused as to the purpose of his visit. The fact that he met a number of people closely assoclated with him In the 1924 cam- palgn gave substance to the bellef that he was talking things over with reference to 1928. And naturally this has caused some concern on the part of those who hope to see the firre- pressible conflict which was staged last Summer In Madison Square Gar- den avolded three vears hence. Up in New York Gov. Smith is carrying on after the fashion of a man who has his own Ideas about the 1925 cam- paign. The two-thirds rule still pre- valls and unless revolution is elfected in the Democratic organization it will continue as the governing principle of that party in the selection of a candidate. If the McAdoo-Smith line- up is repeated at the convention, it is feered, the November result will also be repeated. One phase of the activity attributed to Mr. McAdoo at this time is partic- ularly regarded with question by those Democrats who are prone to say, as to the two malin contestants of 1924, “a plague on both your houses” and to seek elsewhere for a candidate, in order to avold a weaken- ing contest. That is the suspected purpose to secure the nomination of congressional candidates in 1926 who are friendly to the McAdoo cause. A factional Democratic fight next year for Congress places would probably insure a continued Republican ma- jority in both houses. Democratic hopes for success in 1928 are largely based upon the possibility of a con- gressional overturn in 1926, and hence a possibility of a definite McAdoo cam- paign next year is causing chills to course the spine of the dear old lady whose kindly features beam when Democratic fortunes rise and are clouded when they fall. e Soviet Russia has decided to give Trotsky enough local employment to prevent him from going blick to the Bronx and resuming his career as an editorialist. ——ee—s Rum runners have rendered.it no longer necessary for the gallant Coast Guard to depend for excitement on a storm at sea. e 0ld John Barleycorn is making a hold atgempt to supersede Father Neptune as the presiding power of the seas. N Diseases of Business. There is food for reflection in the views of Elbert H. Gary, the steel master, on “the diseases of busines expressed vesterday at the annual meeting of the American Iron and Steel Institute. This practical man of afairs and profound philosopher on economics is always heard with interest, and his opinions carry great welght in the business world. Judge Gary joins the chorus of de- mands for further relief from the stranglehold on business expansion maintained by excessive taxes, levied by national, State and municipal agencles. Income and inheritance taxes he regards as speclally burden- some, hampering business prosperity. He knows by personal experience and by the statements of reliable business men that business activities have been decreased, and not infrequently aban- doned, as the result of the heavy bur- dens of taxation. He appreciates the sympathy and understanding of President Coolidge, members of his cabinet and leading statesmen in Congress with the trou- bles of the business world and finds that while business men are sincerely grateful for what has already been done and attempted in tax reduction they still feel that taxes are much too high. He thinks that those per- sons who have been unreasonably standing for high and higher taxes do not realize that they are building up conditions which have been and will be detrimental to themselves. The philosopher-economist finds that one of the Infirmities of busineaz, prob- tle, by virtue of which the Germans had opportunity to intrench them- selves securely. French contended that his defensive Zght hald exkausted his ably the worst disease afflicting the business structure of the United ‘States, 18 the abzormal, unnecessery, timid and {ll-poised mental ltlltm‘le‘ of managers themselves, including the steel executives. Business men are becoming too easily alarmed at minor reeessions, with their fears at times becoming contagious to the point of panjc. He advises a more optimistic viewpoint merely for psychological ef- fect. Other diseases of business he classi- fies as a natural post-war reaction, political agitation against sound busi- ness policies and excessive living costs, resulting In high wage rates and destructive competition. R The Civil Service League. Organization has just been effected in this city of a Civil Service League, formed for the purpose of advancing the merit system and improving the administration of the civil service. This 1s, in effect, a revival of an old organization which was maintained here for many years and which did much to stabilize and develop the clvil service upon a principle contrary to the spolls system of former times. Washington 1s more deeply concerned in the maintenance of the merit princi- ple in the civil service than is any other American community. For here work and reside the largest number of Federal employes. In former times, when the civil service was the prey of spofismen and patronage dispensers, there was no stability in the depart- ments and bureaus, and hence no stabllity in the population of the Capital. The adoption of the merlt principle and its maintenance against great difficulties and despite obstacles and opposition gave Washington a permanency of civil as well as official tenure. Employes of the Government were encouraged to establish them- selves here permanently, to acquire homes. Though retaining their “voting residences” in the States of their appointments, they became Washingtonians in fact. The revival of the Civil Service League through a new organization 13 occasioned by the belief that in some respects the true merit principle is Daing ignored in departmental ap- pointments and promotions. Whatever the situation may be in that regard, it is well that there should be a close observation of the practical workings of the civil service law by disin- terested persons, competent to judge of conditions through intimate ac- qualntance with the situation. Civic organizations did much in the past to maintain the merit system against pressure of patronage and favoritism. This present association will carry on the work for the benefit of the government and the Capital community. ——ee—s. Madison Square Garden is demol- ished, but memories of the Democratic convention are not effaced. Diana of the Tower may be removed to ob- scurity, but Gov. Al Smith will for many years be preserved to an ad- miring public gaze. »—on—s France is willing to pay her debts. Her problem lies in the difficulty of persuading taxpavers to manifest as much enthusiasm regarding a peace- time obligation as they demonstrate in warlike emergency. ———— A vote of confidence in the govern- ment by the Reichstag implies that the experience of Hindenburg has already enabled him to secure a little dis- cipline. s Traffic experts are in favor of elim- inating vehicles which may be rated as junk. In considering ship purchases Henry Ford unreservedly indorses the idea. - Airplane travel contemplates the North Pole merely as a possible way station. now ———— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Reward. A Twilight Sky with beauty strange Intensified by subtle change Denotes the closing of the day Which, with so many, goes its way. A Glimpse of Dreamland in the West; A Gateway to the Realms of Rest— Each weary day will still disclose The promise of a sweet repose. Trying to Please. “Are you aware that portions of your recent speech sounded a trifle llliterate?"” “Yes,” answered Senator Sorghum. “I wanted to show that I'm liberal minded toward rules; even the rules of grammar. Canada. “Our Lady of the Snows,” Once all austere A mood doth now disclose Not all severe. ¥or in a bold arra; Of Art so fine, She putteth on display A Bock Beer sign. Jud Tunkins says he'd run for office it it wasn't fur the way his wife laughed the last time the boys tried to boost him as a Great Man. Consistently Morose, “Where conversation lags, talk about the weather.” “Well,” replied Farmer Corntossel; “‘that ain’t no comfort to us agricul- turists, neither.” people Berlin, From Head to Foot. Mustaches decorate each face, Like Hindenburg's they say. The Goose Step cannot set the pace. Perhaps the whiskers may. “I aln' worryin’,” said Uncle Eben, * 'bout whether my grandfather was a chimpanzee. De consideration dat monopolizes my solicitudinosity s whut my grandsons is g'ineter be like." . But Settled at Last. From the Boston Transcript. About the only time a man is satls- fied with hix lot fs when he is buried in it. —.e—s. Work Is the best advice for one man to give to another, unless_that|by man is your rival.—Charleston Daily Mall. {1s THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. A small book that every amateur gardener ought to own is “The Little Garden,” by Mrs. Francis King, and published by the Atlantic Monthly Press. Perhaps in no other volume will the reader be able to get so well some of the principles which underlie every worth-while garden. These 94 pages are dedicated to one thing—beauty. The light of beauty never fails in ““The Little Garden.” The reader of discriminating taste will find his un- conscious actlons verified and rein- forced, while those who naturally are somewhat shy on these principles— nothing to be ashamed of—will find the book a veritable light in the wilder- ness. A small garden, be it known, can be a real wilderness to unwary feet. Fools, it has been said, rush in where angels fear to tread, and in no place Is this truer thau iu the average city back yard. A family takes a home, moves in, then decides to ‘“plant something.” No thought is given the matter, no time Is allotted to the proceeding. A few bushes are stuck around here and there, some seeds planted in beds. The result, in a couple of nfonth: not such as to please even the careless gardeners. They know that something is wrong, but they do not know exactly what is the matter, “The Little Garden™ will tell them. It will give them some of the fund: mental principles of gardening, in the form of a pleasant dissertation by a woman who occupies one of the front seats among the writers on the sub- Ject. Jnder her guldance, the reader comes to have a higher conception of gardening, “that oecupation for which no man is too high or two low This book, the original “Little Garden” book, is a feminine presenta- tion of the subject of beauty, that beauty for which men and women of all ages and races have striven. There are two ways to write books on gardening. One is to concentrate on the growing of plants, resulting in such a book as “The Gardener,” by H. L. Bailey, recently reviewed in this column. “The Little Garden,” on the other hand, s more concerned with the final picture, the garden in bloom, especially the garden in relation to the house. Mrs. King leaves minute direc- tions to others, rather choosing that better part which green lice and other garden pests cannot wholly destroy The beauty of the garden is interests her, and it is, In the las analysis, what interests us, no matter how new to the art we may be, or how raw we are as gardeners. It is in gardening, as in other affairs, we might as well know something before we begin as to find it all out by pain- ful stages later. Some of these important facts Mrs. King gives the reader in “The Little Garden™; that is why I regard this book as one of the essential two for the beginning gardener. She begins her book with sentence 1, paragraph 1, chapter 1, a very good place to begin any book, by the way. Yet how few really do ft! “If I were asked to say what word [T thought the most vital to success in and it any garden, little garden, particularly would be the in the word ‘relate’,” she “declares. Not until one has had some experi- ence in gardening, perhaps, will he be able to realize just what a good beginning that is for a garden book. In it the writer sounds the keynote for all that is to follow. Hereafter we will not be able to forget relation- ship. For the sake of the soul of our garden, we must not! “Relation of the elements in the little garden is the secret of all suc- cess,” says Mrs. King, advising that one ‘should secure the services of a landscape architect hefore those of an architect. She deplores the necessity for a garage on a small lot, as any garden lover must, and speaks well of red clay, and tells how she mows her lawn, but behind all this advice lies the idea of relationship of one element to another. * K ok K It is the lack of plan that is re- sponsible for most that is ugly In America, she tells us, golng on to state her preference for formal treat- ment of the small garden. The rec- tangular idea, closely followed, pro- duces best results, she believes. Then, in the chapter on “The Plan,” she declares: “However, whether we advocate formal or {nformal plans, one thing Is needdd in either case; and that is some line or border of kreen growth which shall encircle the lot—shall make it into that garth, or inclosed spot, which gives the word garden its old first meaning. The garden must be inclosed, pref- erably by a_ wall, If not then by a fence, even by a wire fence, suitably clad in green. “I often wonder how long it will be before the smaller householder in America will be able to understand the necessity for the beauty of privacy In his own grounds and gardens,” Mrs. King say: The “beauty of privacy”! There ou see the author true to her leading light, even when discussing privacy. Privacy not for itself alone, but for beauty’s sake. Gates, the trellls, garden furniture are treated from the same standpoint As for the trellls, she says that the little garden calls for “a most deli- cate use of this most delicate garden decoration.” Of sun. dials, of bird baths, she says succinctly: “Think twice before overcrowding a small garden. * * * Keep out of it if you can. Your garden wiil be better if extraneous objects are few.” * x ox x Other interesting chapters treat of flowers in the little garden, color in the garden and the care of the zarden. No reader will agree with everything Mrs. King says, but he will find much that is helpful. 1, for instance, think she rather overdoes it when she advocates, for ipformal planting, an odd number of plants in a group—five, seven, nine, even three, declaring: “This gives a quality of ease, of naturalness, due to the absence of all geometric sug- gestion of the even number.” Try my @est, I have been unable to see "any geometric suggestion in and I doubt very much if flowers, ny. King prefers blue as the “peacemaker” in the garden, although admitting that white is perhaps more often spoken of in that role. A striking example of played by white flowers secently in the grounds partment of Agriculture, pansies were set out. pansies set off all the other colors without the white ones the blues, vellows, mahogany and other shades would have lost much of their charm Mrs. King speaks highly of the gladiolus, saying that “no flower, of all those at” command, catches and holds more interest than the gladiolus in its nearly endless types, varieties and colors.” “The Little Garden” is a valuable book because it gives one a true per- spective of the garden as the best the role was given of the De- when the The pure white part of the house, and a good book. for those who love books, because it 1 well written. “Certain unalienable rights!” Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes said that the first right of a_human being is to be well born, but there appear now to be other rights which laws of American vilization are heginning to take into onsideration, such as requiring that if @ baby be “transferred” from par- ents to others, whether foster parents or institutions, the transfer papers must be legally made out and duly re- corded, just as is done with valuable live stock or personal property. In New York City a great wave of in- dignation has swept over the public hecause a perfectly dutiful wife, being childless in a_comfortable home where | both hushand and wife longed for a family, bought a baby for $75 and foisted it upon her husband as their own progeny. The supposed “father” learned to love his “own blood” until the investigation of the institution which had sold the baby for $75 com- pelled the wife to confess to him her deception. Now he orders her to give up the fraudulent purchase, although she has become deeply attached to the helpless victim of *'c * ok x X It has long been a mooted question as to whether an illegitimate child should be taken from its mother and given to a home, private or a public institution, where it could be properly cared for: or, whether the child should remain with the mother, in the hope | that maternal love would be developed and lead the mother into a reformed life. Whose welfare is to be consid- ered first—the delinquent mother’s or that of the innocent bahy? The laws of Maryland were so amended in 1916 as to undertake, at least partlally, to answer that ques- tion, and a forthcoming review made by the Children’s Bureau of the United States Department of Labor throws the spotlight upon astonishing results of the Maryland plan. The key to the amendment is that no baby shall be taken from its mother within six months from birth, except upon the certificates of two reputable physi- cians showing that the separation necessary for pathological reasons. 1f the mother Is so diseased that she cannot feed her child, it may be put with foster parents, temporarily or permanently, but the foster parents must be investigated and %he condi- tion of the child supervised by offi- ctal agents until it s of age. * k% % How many lives have been saved by that “six-month law?". While the law affects children of legitimate par- entage, as well as illegitimate children, the result is far greater with the la: ter class. This fact shows that the high mortality formerly found ameng fllegitimates during their first vear was largely attributable to faflure of the mother-love and maternal care for the unwelcome little ones. From the Children’s Bureau report: “Infants born to unmarried mothers in 1921 must have had better care than such infants born in 1915, for 1 in every 3 such infants born in 1915 died before he was 1 year old, and 1 in every 4 before he was 6 months old, whereas 1 in every 8 born in 1921 died before he was 1 year old, and 1 in every 12 before he was 6 months old. The mortality rate of infants born out of wedlock in 1921 showed a reduction of more than 50 per cent from the corresponding rate in 1915, “That this reduction was influenced by conditions which did not affect in- fants of legitimate birth is shown by the fact that the rate for these in- fants was reduced less than 20 per cent.” The report of ‘the review before mentioned of the working of the “six- month law,” referring to the approval heads of reputable institutions, states: “All remacked on the advantage of BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS, | proved the plan the law from the point of view of s ing bables’ live: One person ap- or the sake of the babies’ health, but feared that in some cases too great a burden might be im- posed on the mothers. A arge pro- portion spoke of the social henefit which the child derives from being re- tained by the mother through the first six months. In most instances the contact extends to the mother’s fam. ily and other relatives; their affection and interest are fostered, insuring to the baby a permanent home with his own people—the people who are mor- ally obligated for his protection and care. The Influence of the law in es- tablishing the paternity was men tioned by several persons. * ¢ * Results show a decrease in the num- ber of foundlings—23 abandoned in 1916, 16 in 1917 and only 6 in 1923." Contrast the attitude of American sentiment toward developing parental love for the baby and using that love as a lever in elevating society, with the Soviet law forbiddinz its recogni tion or tolerance. In Russia all chil- dren are “nationalized”—legitimate or illegitimate—and the plan is to take them all from their parents and put them into national institutions. All are not vet so taken from parentel contact, simply because of lack of ca pacity to receive them: but if a mother whose child is so taken visits it—as she may once a month—and there dares show the least motherly love, or tries to win the child’s love even hy gIving it fruit or candy, future con- tact Is forbidden. * X ok * There is no law in the District of Columbia regulating the keeping of mother and child together, nor is there any law providing aid to mothers with dependent children. The Chil- dren’s Bureau of the Department of Labor has been urging Congress to meet the need of legislation for the District, but action is delayed. The Children’s Bureau states that Wash- ington is the only large city in Amer- ica without a mother’s pension. The policy of the Florence Critten® ton Home is to require a pledge from expectant mothers entering the home that they will remain and care for the child six months after its birth, but in the absence of law this pledge is not binding, except as a moral obligation. When-a mother needs to seek employ- ment she may leave the baby in the home and pay its board, at $25 a month, but this arrangement is not encouraged, for the management fully agrees with the Maryland plan of keeping the baby under the direct care of the mother during, at least, the first six months, and uses all possible in- fluence to hold mother and child to- gether permanently after the six months’ abiding in the home is passed. It is argued that it is not only bene- ficial to the child’s health and welfare to remain with its own mother, but it is of great influence upon the’ future course and character of the mother for, in the words of Robert Browning, ‘Womanliness means only motherhood: All love hhe:!ml and ends there—roams enough, But, Taving' run the circle, rests at home. The local branch of the National Children’s Welfare League is planning to hold a conference in Washington next Thursday to discuss the prob- lems above outlined. (Copyright, 1025, by Paal V. Collins.) R Not Any Rush. From the Birmingham Age-Herald. Nobody is going to be trampled to death in any wild rush of European debtors to pay up. ——— Somebody is blaming the inception of bobbed hair on Shanghai, which is too far away for investigation.— Rochester Herald, THE LIBRARY TABLE BY THE BOOKLOVER Life is love and life is work. With- out love work soon becomes a mere grind and without work love soon palls. The story of ‘““Soundings,” by A. Hamilton Gibbs, illustrates this by no means new philosophy. James Hawthorne, R. A., loses his wife, Nan, his beloved companion and fellow artist, just at the moment when they have found a perfect home in a thatched, honeysuckle-covered cottage at Brimble, a village “strung out along the ledge halfway up the great hill where the ancient Druids had carved a mighty cross into the chalky face of the earth.” He loses her just at the moment, too, when a long-desired child has come to them. In a frenzy of despair, over the debacle in his life, Jim flees to the Continent, where he wanders about restlessly, seeking to weary himself to the point where thought will be deadened. Finally he is able bitterly to think out his future and his conclusion Is: “All T know is that I'm here and likely to be here for some time, because of the instinct of self-preservation, which won’t let me snuff myself out without a struggle. I suppose I've got to do something, otherwise time will seem so damned long.” Thus he turns to work as his salvation from grief and reaches out to his art, “because it was the only thing that he knew.” He has hitherto had indifferent success but soon he is surprised to find that his pictures are being talked about. Gradually fame comes and he finds it good. When his daughter is about § years old he awakes to her existence and love again enters his life. When Nancy is 20, fate involves him in another tragedy. He is run down by an auto- mobile and when he comes back from the hospital to his cottage on the hilly lane it is to spend the rest of his days in a wheel chair. By this time he has become a philosopher and his despuir is brief. Soon he remem- bers to rejoice that his arms are left to him, that he can still work at his art, and, thankful for this, he almost forgives the brutal chauffeur who knocked him down and “hadn’t even stopped to see if the poor devil were dead or not.” * ok ok * Nancy's life is sheltered, serene and happy, passed in the drowsy country where every flower in her garden, every bird outside the window, the pool” of the river where she swims and the green turf and shadowy woods of the Druid Hill where she wanders, all give her ecstatic jov. Her father’s love and companionship and the adoration of fat Mrs. Weeks who “does for the 'Awthornes,” sat- isf I her human needs. But when she 18 20 she meets Bob and “the cyclone hits her.” Happiness ends, for Bob Is “vellow—a ‘rotter’—or, as his best friend Lloyd Evans tells him, “a damned outsider, a low-down scut, a cad of the first water.” Then, after she recovers a little from the stunning hurt she has received, Nancy too, learns the value of work as a refuge from sorrow. Under her father's delicate, concealed guidance she paints pictures—pictures that good. When Jim casually sugg “It's almost time that you had an hibition at the Gainsborough leries,” she is suspicious. After think ing it over she asks Look here, dad—did you suggest an exhibition and—and all the rest of it, as a real possibility, or were you offering the moon to a sick child?” Jim means it, the “Exhibition of Water Colors by Miss Nancy Hawthorn” takes place and soon Nancy is making a good vearly income from her art. Lovers of romance are glad, however, that Nancy's life is not filled with work only, that love comes when almost given up hope of finding it. P The University of Virginia has be gun the publication ofy The Virginia Quarterly Review, the first number of which has recently appeared. The prospectus variously describes the purpose of the quarterly as a national journal of discussion, published in the Sa an organ of liberal opinion . th, and a journal of independent thought in the field of society, politics and lit- erature. Contributors are by no means confined to the university circle. The initial number includes articles by Gamaliel Bradford on “Dolly Madison™; by Archibald He derson on “Civilization and Progres by Luigi Pirandello, who confesses why and how he wrote “Six Char ters in Search of an Author ator Willilam Cabell Bruce on Democratic Party™; by President win A. Alderman on “Edgar Allan Poe and the University of Virginia™; by Joseph Cullins on “Anatole France,” together with other article: poems and book reviews. terly is handsomely printed, recalling in this respect the Yale Review and in general starts off well. * ok % ¥ he qua The Sanger family in “The Constant Nymph." by Margaret Kennedy, is in the jargon of reviewers: elightfully unconventional.” Albert Sanger, a musical genius but an unsatisfactory family man, lived with his children and an ever-changing group of mu- sical friends at the Karindehutte, an overzrown gmalet in the Austrian Tyrol. Few people could recollect quite how many children Sanger was supposed to have got, but there al- ways seemed to be a good many and they were most shockingly brought up.” They were, in their own orbit known collectively as “Sanger's Ci cus.” a nickname earned for them b their wandering existence, their vul- garity, their conspicuous brilliance, the noise they made and the kind of naphtha-flare genius which illumi- nated evervthing they said or did. Their father had given them a good, sound musical training and nothing else.” The two eldest, Caryl and Kate, were the children of Sanger's first wife, the long-suffering Vera who had endured Sanger’s Infidelities until she had finally died begging him not to marry her latest rival, Evelyn. Antonia, Sebastian, Theresa and Pau. lina were the children of Evelyn, Sanger’s second wife, who had be: longed to a highly connected English family and had been able to stand the vicissitudes of her life with Sanger for only six vears, dying on the eve of jher 30th birthday.” 1In a multitude of disasters she revealed a constant fortitude, and to the end, though a little battered by {1l fortune, she never quite lost the carriage of a ntlewoman.” Susan, 7 vears old, wholesome, plebeian-looking brat, pink and formless as a wax doll, garnished about the head with tight clusters of vellow curls, was the child of Linda, called by courtesy the third Mrs. Sanger, but having no legal right to the name. The four children of Iyn were, through force of cir- cumstances, compelled to come to England to live with the highly re- spectable relatives of their mother and, as might be expected, many com- plications came about through the placing of these young pagans, with. out any of the accepted standards of conduct or morals, in the super-civil- ized milleu of a refined English home. * * ok X English soclal life of the 60s, a perlod of conventionality and solidity, forms the setting for the courtship of Catherine Ormond in Michael Sad- leir's novel “Obedlence.” Catherine is the young and pretty daughter of an autocratic Victorian father. Her mother is weak and complacent, which is perhaps just as well, since she must live with Sir Harry. Cath- erine’s lover is plebeian, and this causes all the family trouble and makes the story. In depicting his herolne, Mr. Sadleir shows that spirit independence and daring did not origi- nate in the twentleth century but were to be found occasionally among the carefully guarded, properly Lr:l:ed daughters of Victorian Eng- she has | i|has been sketched for ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]J. HASKIN Q. Will weevils in one kind of cereal spread to other cereals?—S. T. A. The Department of Agriculture says that one weevily food will con- taminate another. Particularly in warm weather, cereals and flours should be bought in small quantities and used promptly. Q. What are the crown colonies of England?—M. S. G. A. The crown colonies of England are those without responsible self- government, which are more or less completely under the control of the home government. They include— Gibraltar, Bermuda, Malta, Cyprus, St. Helenaj Hongkong, etc. Q. Are lobsters plentiful this year? —0. M. A. In some localities they are. yarmouth, Nova Scotia, reports ship- ments to Boston of nearly three times as many this March as a year ago. Q. What is the population of the Bastern Time Zone and the Central? W B A. The Bureau of Census says it has not taken the population of the Eastern Time Zone and the Central Time Zone. The population, however. has been estimated as follows: t- ern Time Zone, 49,000,000; Central Time Zone, 47,000,000, Q. How Many community trusts are there in the United States?—A. W A. The American Bankers' ciation says that there are now such trusts in the United States and one in Hawali, Bequests have been made, or arranged for, through 39 of them. Q. How much money is spent daily for luxuries’—C. T. F. A. There is no way of determining just what constitutes luxuries. Con- sidering theatrical entertainments, to- Lacco, soft drinks, chewing gum and candy, the daily total is near $10,000,- 000. "The average each day is: Chew- ing gum, $120,000; candy soft drinks, $1.330,000; cigarettes, $1,- 480,000 cigars, $1,780,000; tobacco in other forms, $1,380,000; movies, thea- ters, etc., $2,230,000. Q. In making parchment lamp- shades, what color outside and inside will produce bluish green when the lamp is lighted?—T. G. H. A. The outside blue, inside yellow, will' produce bluish green. Outside vellow, inside blue, produce yellowish zreen. Outside red, inside blue, re- sult in reddish purple: blue, red, blu- ish purple; red, yellow, reddish or- ange: yellow, red, vellowish orange. If the same shade of color is used both inside and outside, the shade will look nearly the same lighted and un- lighted. Q. Who introduced French opera New Orleans?’—H. H. in A. John Davis opened the first two gambling houses in w Orleans in 1827 and 1828, and it is said that with the profits he introduced French opera. He was probably the first im- presario in the United States. Q. How many food animals are slaughtered in a year?—T. L. M. A.In 1924 there were 119,980,500 animals killed for food, an average of 1.1 animals for each man, woman {and child in the United States. Q. Who first issued the 1623 edition of “Hamlet” R. | A. This edition was first issued by {two actors named Heminge and Con- dell. Q. What will prevent copper wire screening from _staining in damp veather S $1,120,000; | ing. It can be diluted with alcohol to such a consistency that the coating of shellac will be of desired thickness when the aicohol has evaporated. Q. How much ground is devoted to public playgrounds in the United States?—H. S. C. A. Four hundred sixty-six citfes re- port 15,019 acres as the total area used as playgrounds. Schoo piay- grounds, aggregating 6038 acres were reported by 238 cities; park play- grounds of 5,295 acres were reported by 184 cities, and other playgrounds of 1,804 acres by 130 cities. Q. Please suggest an Indian name for a Summer cottage—R. A. Appropriate names are: Min- neota (plenty of water), Taychoedah (camp on the lake), and Casco (resting place). Q. Where did Charles Eghert Cr=2- dock die?—J. A. Mary Noallles Murfree, who for vears concealed her identily under the pen name “Charles Egbert Crad- dock,” dled in 1922 at the age of 73. Q. What is the leprosy Hawaii?—E. W A. We are situation in informed that for the past 30 years there has been rigid segregation of all persons affiicted with leprosy in Hawaii. Due to the very careful and efficlent work of the Territorial Board of Health, which maintains physiclans in all districts of the islands, and to the co-oper of the United States Public H Service, the number of lepers at lar; may now be said to be nil. It has been demonstrated that leprosy in its early stages fis curable. This segregation have put the under such control that th are in a fair way to be entir it before long. At the leper settle- ment on a peninsula, bounded by sea and mpassable cliffs on of Molokai, there remain 4 These are mostly elderly persons and the number is decreasing steadily through natural causes. They have no contact with the outside world and are supported by the territorial government. Q. Is it proper to say “I feel —S. V. A. The sentence is not correct. In this construction the speaker needs |to cha the ect rather |than to modify the verb, hence the sentence shouid read, “I feel bad.” A helpful rule to remember in this connection is, “verbs of the senses are followed by adjectives rather than adverbs. Q. How many cities are there in the United States named Pittsburgh? —R. 0. S. A. According to the Postal Guide there is only one city of Pittshurgh This is In Pennsylvania. There are cities by the name of it z in California, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas Kentucky, Misseuri, New Hampshire, Oklahoma' and Texa Q. How long has the factory in vledo, which now turns out “Tole B in existence’— ent fac- tory In Toledo Q. How can there A. There are never more than three in a year. (Have you asked Haskin? He does not know all the things that people ask him, but he knows people who do | know. Try him. State your question briefly. write plainly and inclose 2 cents in stamps for return postage Address Frederic J. Haskin, director, J. 8. C. A. Shellac is suitable as a protec: tive coating for copper wire screen The remarkable career of Nel- son A. Miles, veteran of two major wars and hero of Indian campaigns. the present generation by editors all over the ountry since the general’s death at ashington recently in his 87th vear. “No more energetic and capable ivolunteer officer than the late Gen | Miles served on the Union side in the Civil War,” says the New York Times. “He belonged to a family of soldie His great-grandfather and his gran father both fought in the Revolution- ary War. He had great physical strength, and In his face there was resolution which no pered with. Several times he was wounded during the Civil War, most iseverely at Chancellorsville, where his bravery earned him the medal of honor. It would be difficult to match |his record of service. He was the conqueror of Sitting Bull, Chief Joseph. Geronimo and Natchez. He was a survival from a_historic period, but in the sense of physical well being he was never a relic of the past.” Referring to Gen. Miles' n IR tonish- appeal to the popular imagination, for they were conducted with masterly en- ergy and skill. He does not stand beside the great generals in the Civil War, but he deserves remembrance for his rapid and thorough grasp of military tactics, his brilliance in lead- ership, his courage in danger, his icoolness and alertness in emergencies of major importance.” ¥ x e An incident which the South remem- bers Is cited by the Chattanooga News, which, however, pays tribute to Miles as “one of America’s spectacularly brilliant soldiers.” The News refers to the fact that the general had under his command “the prison in which Jefferson Davis was temporarily con- fined and subjected to the humillation of wearing irons.” The paper contin- ues: “But he was a young man then. His subsequent service in the Army was of the most honorable and dis- tinguished character. He maintained his_interest in military matters and affairs generally throughout the whole of his long life.” The Raleigh News and Observer, mentioning the same incident, remarks: “It may have been the one act that kept Gen. Miles from going to the White House. It is the one thing that mars his military rec- ord, and while he acted under orders, they were not peremptory. The scholarly qualities of Gen. Miles are emphasized by the Tulsa Tribune. “He was unusual among soldiers,” the Tribune observes, “because he always kept his interest in academic things. With all his soldiering he possessed the scholarly mind. His recreational tastes were literary. He was a reader, a student of the poets and the philoso- phers.” The Nashville Banner adds: “All in all, his career was brilliant and inspiring.” * Xk X X The Boston Transcript recalls that “Like Dewey he listened a short time to the promptings of the politicians, and would have run for President on the Democratic ticket; but even great soldiers, like Grant, who have attained the presidency, have made their mis- takes in civil life. Massachusetts will mourn Nelson A. Miles as one of her best loved sons.” The Butte Daily Post says, “he rendered enduring serv- jce In directing movements which brought the subdued Indians to peace- ful vocations, and hastened the indus- trial development of the Rocky Moun- tain region. | “There was always confidence in one ever tam-| ing and unique success in the Civil War,” the Baltimore Sun adds that; his campaigns against the Western Indians were not less calculated to| The Star Informatign Burcau, Tienty Vsirst and C streef® northwest.) Tributes to General Miles Paid by Press of Nation | Gen. Miles on the part of the peo. ple, when he was in command of a |army or an expedition,” the Re a- |zette states, and the Flint Jot {calls that “he gave his cot | tinguished service in two n | fiicts, The Louisville Post thus concludes |a review of “A Romantic Career”: “Here was a_man who might have lived out his life a merchant. He | would have been, no doubt, a success- | ful merchant. His thoroughness would |have advanced him in any ca * '+ "¢ He was outspoken, He was repri- | sometimes indiscreet manded for expressing his opinion as |to Admiral Dewey's report of the Schley case. He provoked controversy by his report upon milit: |in the Philippines. It bec: {ion among newspaper | dulge in pleasa conditions w to in- ies about his love of |the limelight, and the splendor of | military trappings, but h o~ | nized as a remarkabl nd capable officer. The Boston clerk who volunteered in what the North |lieved would be a brief war. and w |a fignter for more than three score years, had indeed a romantic career.” ;Capilu]ism’s Cause | Is Pleaded in Work Capitalism, having been screeched at by oratory, written down as a | cross between’ the shark and the tape worm. and even legislated out of o great country, has at presented its defy The work is that of a Harvard pro- fessor, and wisely he has devoted him self chiefly to analyzing the charge that the vast development of capitalist enterprise and the increase in na- tional wealth have been for the bene fit of comparatively few persons. He d traces the history of the wage earner upon this continent for a hundred vears, showing that where the pro- letariat of a century ago lived a harsh and narrow life his successor now has more luxuries than did the rich imme- diately after the Civil War, that op- portunity has enormously broadened and that wealth has been more widely distributed here than at any other time and in any other place in the career of mankind. Whatever the defects of capitalism it is vet a natural institution, con- forming to the instincts of humanity. Every attempt to replace it with some theoretical state of human society has been disastrous and brought in a train of tyvranny, misery and violence. —Newark Star Eagle. ————. The Glamour of the Past. Dean Willlam Ralph Inge, the most recent English visitor to look us over and tell us what he thinks of us, speaks about the “increasing stu- pidity of modern life.” It would be interesting to learn just how such a thing can be judged. Did our for- bears make no mistakes? Was life in the past, even a few years ago, less dull than it is now? "Are there good signs showing that human be- ings are acting more like geese than they used to? It is a common habit to clothe the years that are gone with bright and shining garments, The golden age is never the present one and it will not come in the future, It has always been in the past. This is why regrets will be expressed until the crack of doom that people and life are not as they were once, even though there be 10,000,000 evidencas of betterment.—Toleco Blade.