Evening Star Newspaper, June 20, 1925, Page 6

THE EVENING BSTAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C SATURDAY.......Juns 20, 1823 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company siness Office: 31t 50 PR o ivanta A Neg, Torl Office: 110 Eugt 420d St. 4 e 3 Buropeas “Smce: 18 Revent St London, England. The Fvening Star. with the Sunday morn- tnx ~dition: 18 Aciivered by carriers’ within *he City 3100 centa her month: dails’ only. 45" cents per month: Sunday only. 20 cents per‘month . Opasca mex he sent by mall o telenhone Main 5000 Colleetion is mede by carrier at the end of each month. Rate 'Kl Mail—Payable in Advance. aryland and Vieginia. i 40: 1 mo.. 70¢ BSll &of, Sundey 4:00: 1 mo. 0c Sunday only ", .- 20e Paily and Sunday. Daily only . Sunday only The Associated Press is exclusively entitied o use for republication of all news di iited to It or not atherwise cred- ner and aleo {hg local news ANl rights of publication s herein e also £ ed Perel; of anecinl cisoatchet Two Courts Disagree. Two Federal judges have rendered decisions on the civil cases in the oll teases litigation, one in Los Angeles ruling on the California or Doheny lease In favor of the Government that the contract was founded in fraud and corruption, another in Cheyenne rul- ing on the Sinclalr lease in Wyoming in favor of the lessor that the contract was valid, with no proof of corrupt re- lationship or influence. The cpurt in Celifornta hell that the President had me authority under the law to trans. fer jurizdiction over the oil reserves from the Navy to the Interior Depart- ment. The in Wyoming held that the Precident had full wuthority s0 to tran; Wiforniz court held that t! ntained in respect to the lea he pur- ne: and the pub- om knowing what was in prog- ress. The held that the secrecy was for military purposes and was jusidfiable. Judge McCor- mick, at Los Angeles. ruled that the Secr of the Navy was merely a pas-ive instrument in the transaction. unawace of ths rature of the contracts and leases signed by him. Judgze Ken- R nne, holds that the Sec. retary of the Navy directed the entire maval oil lease policy. Judge McCore mick, in Californfa. held that the In- terior and Navy Dapartments should have zone back to Congress for specific auth ity to Irasc the ol reserves. Judge Keanedy, ta Wyoming, holds that there wes no necessity for them to scck such authority. While there arc differences in ds- tail and to some extent in principle in the two cases, they are, in the public view, virtually identical. They are phases of the same general transace, tion. The validity of these leases iy challenged by the Government on the ground, first, of lack of pre ntiel Ruthority to transfer jurisdiction from department to department: second, on the ground of public policy wronzly interpreted by the head of the Interior Department, and finzlly on the ground of a fraudulent conspiracy leading to ture from proper public v. The two css quest'ons wre, fir:t, the authorlty of the Presic dent to transfor the jurisdiction, and, aext, the Inducements causing the Secs retary of the Interior to make the contracts and leases. Judge MeCer- mick. in Calt‘ornix, sustained the Gov- ernment's contantiens on both these ground: 10 Ju Kennedy, Wyoming, rejocied them. The sp. izele | f two courts differing 21l on the same set of facts etation of the same Courts have dif- emorial. It has t they ultaneously in upen virtually ts of fact and instance “n Loener court of kecp'ng Consres: cming co av inte not uniy ' tim» im v bee: of the n* toric by ke toeresied dn dis ure of the el nee s fa which the leases were granted It is unfortunate that th should have been tried in different courts, thus producing the ancmalous condition of diametrically divergent judgments. Public confidence in the capacity of the courts to rule correctly i3 undoubtedly weakened by this spectacle, « ow the czses will o to the United States Supome Court for ciston, with the Government both ap- peilant and appellse. That that court will con: ther 1S a loglcal isfon may not be 1os unantmous court may divide in cpinion, as the two judges who have alread: dered judgment. But a decislon will be glven. It fs to be hoped, for the wake of the prestige of the law and of the judlcial branch of this Govern. ment, that the highest court will ron- e its decision mousiy. The spectacle of a five-to-four decisicn on this case, preceded by totally divergant rulings by the courts below on the same set of facts and principles of law, would be most unfor- tunate. S0 i Chicago i= a big town, containing all kinds of peo; It suffers the .cm- Farrassment of many a metropolls in finding its underworld most cagerly wggressive in matters of publicity B ntaneous Legislation. At « meeting of the prrk police on the occasion of an inspection the other day 2 member of Congress who was present was given an opportunity to address the men in the ranks, and in the course of his remarks he spoke of the differences between thelr or- sanization and that of the Metropoli- tun Police Depariment. Perhaps in- spired by the occasion without pre. meditation he called for a show of hands on the question of desire that the two police units should be com. bined Into a single organization. Scme of the park policemen Indicated their wish, whereupon the legislator prom- ised to propose the necessary change in the law at the next session of Con- gress. Out of this incident has grown & discussion on the merits of a unified police department. x will be time gnough to discuss in | the | final de. | ccally and unani. | that question when the proposal is| sctually made in Congress. For the present doubt may be expressed whether this method of starting changes is altogether happy or desir- able. An ofthand speech at an in- spection is scarcely a suitable occa- sion for legislative initiative. A more discreet way would seeq to be to talk the matter over with the heads of the organizations and perhaps with the members of the two forces, not in pub- lic, but privately, to ascertain the views and wishes of officials and men. 1t i3 easy to promise legislation. It fs difficult to deliver the goods. Sym- pathetic legislators are constantly in their Individual capacities making such promises. Carrled away perhaps by thelr surroundings and by socfal Influences, they broach plans that “listen” well at thé® time, but that do not stand the test of more mature thought and consideration. In this particular case no harm is done. The two police forces might ! well be considered as possible units of &n amalgamation. The matter has been proposed before and has been al- vs sufficlently vigorously opposed to check the movement. The point of importance now s the possible indis- cretion of a spur-of-the-moment mo- | “lon to amend the law. e La Follette’s Political Estate. Leadership of the progressive and radical forces which rallied around the late Senator Robert M. La Follette is the problem which political observers today are seeking to solve. Crystalliza- tion of the changed conditions will be necessary before it is possible to an- swer with definiteness. Because of his personality, his ability to bind ad- ‘herents to him and his long struggle for liberal principles, Senator La Fol- lette stood on a height, with no leu- tenants regarded as capable of step- ping into his shoes instantly. He had no understudy. But this does not mean that a leader will not be found among those who gave him their support. Senator Wheeler ¢f Montana, Lu Fol- lette’s running mate during the prest- dentlal campaign last year, appears to have definitely returned to the Demo- cratic fold. He has let it be known that he did not expect to join in the movement for a third political party, which has been going forward quietly since the last campaign, and to which Senator La Follette was expected to proclaim alleglance. The many eclements among the pro- gressives and radicals which La Fol- fette sought to fuse in the last cam. paign were held together temporarily by the personality and the political skill of La Follette himself. Soclalists and labor leaders, farmers and indus. trfal workers, in organizations of their own, gave their support to the La Fol- lette ticket last year. In the new ef- tort to organize a third party the plam has been to disregard these separate organizations and to form a political party based on representation similar to that in other political parties of { today. But with La Follette gone, the rellying point for thls new organiza- tion, temporarily ot least, eppears to have vanished. In Wisconsin the first sieps are to | be taken to Lnit together aga'n the texture of the mantle of La Follette leadership, torn asunder by his death. Within a short time, It is expected, an election will be held to choose his suc- cessor in the Senate. Some of La Fol- lette’s friends are already talking of | clecting his widow, Mrs. La Follette, or his son, Robert La Follette, jr. Gov. Blaine, a strenz La Follette ad- herent, is also declared to be a prob- able candidate €.r the nomination and | election. Of “scarcely 1 1 interest than the ! plans of the La Follstte faction to name a successor to the dead Senator are those of the “stalwarts,” the regu- | |lar Republicans who have tried in| ! vain to wrest the party organization {in the State from La Follette fn the | ipast. Whom will they put forward| against the La Follette candidate for the nomination and election? Or wiil they put forward any candidate? Sen- o Lenroot, who himself comes up | for re-election in 1926, is today the ! titular and probably the actual leader |02 these regular forces In the State. | The national Republican crganization has indicated recently its determina- ticn to stamp out as far ac possible the oppasition in the Northwest, which, they declare, has masqueraded long enouzh under the name “Republican.” Will the resulars now seek to split the La Follette organization in Wis- consin by holding out an olive branch to any of the Senator's former lieu- { tenants? This much can be said: The policy of the regular Republicans since the overwhelming election of President Coolidge last Fall has been to grant no quarter to the radicals. In the Senate the regular Republicans turned .on La Follette and his'three followers, | Brockhart of Towa and Ladd and Frazier of North Dakota, and threw them out of the party counclls and | denled them committee places as Re- | publicans. Their attitude has been “no compromise.”” If this is to be the attitude assumed now in Wisconsin a lvely political battle is on the eve of opening. In the Senate itseif, where La Fol- lette was the titular and at times the actual leader of the progressive bloc, | there fs much uncertainty as to upon whom this leadership will be be- stowed. The new leader will probably be créated by circumstance as the Senators line up on the. issues pre- sented for consideration. —_— e France is & most patriotic nation, but even her devoted people draw the line at belleving everything they read on paper money. Truck Loads. With truck owners of the District of Columbia organized to protect their interests and to urge & change in the present law with regard to truck over- loading, Traffic Director Eldridge and force are concentrating on finding 2 reasonable sojution of the problem (hat hag arisen. At a meeting recently, at which a large number of owners were present, the District code banning overloading of trucks beyond their rated capacity was roundly condemned. It was stated that enforcement of the law would re- sult in additional cost to the consumer of goods..additional cost.to the ownef, and an Increase of 40 per cent In the THE EVENING number of trucks which would have to operate through the already erowd- ed streets of the city. The contentfon of the traffic direc- tor and the basic reason for the law is that overloaded trucks are un- wieldly, breakage of an Important part is likely and efficiency of braking power Is greatly reduced. Director Eldridge and Col. Moller, his assistant, however, are planning to modify the law along thé lines adopted by the State of Connecticut, which, on putting into effect the law now fn use in the District, found it- self In much the same difficultles. This modification will allow over- loading to the extent that the manu- facturer will guarantee his truck will eccommodate. In other words, if the manufacturer of a five-ton truck will guarantee that his vehicle will stand @ B0 per cent overload and that its brakes will operate with the same efficlency as under normal load, that truck will become, in the eyes of the District traffic authorities, a seven- and-one-half-ton truck. Both Mr. Eldridge and Col. Moller are planning fn the next few davs to confer with the commissioner of motor vehicles of Connecticut. A list of man- ufacturers’ guarantees will be pro- cured from him and the modification will soon be in effect. The trafic director interested only in the safety feature of over- loaded vehicles. Damage to street pav- ing does not concern his office. If the pending modification does not work out to the satisfaction of both the owners and the traffic department it Is likely that further steps will be taken to meet the situation. It is essentlal that the truck own- ers of Washington co-operate to the fullest extent with the traffic au- thorities. Only in this way can o sat isfactory solution be found. The owners of trucks should adopt rigid rules of conduct for thelr drivers, should see thut trucks ave in proper condition before being sent on the streets and to assist in every way to make “'safety” the watchword of the traffic law of the city. is Ancient Egyptian tombs are being shipped to the Fleld Museum in Chi- cago. The clty by the lake may enjoy a few monuments to distinguished demises that have not called for at- tention from the psych’atrists. ———— A communistic uprising in China is seen by Trotsky, who would gratify a number of his political assoclates by departing to take personal of it, charge Siteaioaets . 4 Less clothing is being worn this Surumer than ever before. Even the | Ku Klux Klan will parade without | masks. e i Several hundred persons will tak the cath of citizenship on July 4. No| Independence dey celebration could be | more safe and sane. o The independsnce with which Hin- | denburg proceeds has created strong suspicfon that the ex-Kafser his political pull. o o Teapot Dome secured an immense | amount of publicity. but none of the | kind that attracts the atiention of the | sagacious realtor. 25 lost Tarrytown, N. Y., the home of John | D. Rockefeller, is enjoving a real ! estate boom. “Unto him that hath | shall be given.” i .o Discovery ¢f the North P 1. all, not so Important the explorer. is. after as recovery of ———— - 1 Amundsen admits that he did not | reach the Pole; proving himsels a con- sclentious man as well as a hero. T — ! A bus when it turns takes up half | the street. A new traffic problem is ! impending. It is evidentr that Col. competent to st in making natural | history as 11 as political history. | ————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JORNSON. The Good Listener. In a sympathetic era, such as this, ‘When an incident impairs your mortal bliss From your faith in human help you neen't budge; You can always tell your troubles to a judge. | In every problem of the human race From evolution to a parking space From fights to pans for cdbyrighting fudge, You can always tell your troubles to a judge. He may not make the situation clear. At least he lends a sympathetic ear. 8o, wherefore hold a grievance or a grudge? You can always tell your trouble to 4 judge. Holding Aloof. “You don't show any i Arctic exploration.” “Why should I?” rejoined Senator Sorghum. “So far as I have been able to observe the Eskimo vote has no influence whatever.” Jud Tunkins says unless the music improves he's in favor of letting the monkey alone and going after the organ grinder. The Pocts and Chroniclers. “Do you enjoy base ball?” “Not as an athletic sport,” an- swered Miss Cayenne. “But it is my tavorite form of literature.” Words Alone. ‘Words, only words, poor Hamlet read ‘Which leads to a suspicion The cross-word puzzle is what led To his distraught condition. y saild Uncle Eben, “is sech dat we never gits over | hopin’ dat some day one o' dese here circus pesters is gineter come true.” Credit, Not Morals. From the Baltimore Sun. The adjective in “a good neighbor- hood doesn’t refer to the morals ef the people, but to their credit. | which we know i Jif they | held STAR, WASHING Folks who pine for Adventure with a big A should remember that we all are engaged In two of the greatest adventures in the world. The Adventure of Living The Adventure of Thinkin; Why should any of us yearn par- ticularly for travels afar, or picture the unknown delights of distant places, when we are living right here and now in the Capital of the United States and dally engaging in the mental life? This applies, also, to every one, evervwhere, each for himself or her- self, in the places he or she happens to be, who dally uses what body and brain he has in the delectable business of living and thinking. Each one of us is thrust into the first of these two great Adventures without any demand upon our part. We did not apply for tickets for this trip, nor did we stand in line for it. Yet we are here, and we are going to make the most of it! That is perhaps the outstanding fact in Life: we want to make the most of it. So we ses people engaged in various activitles, diverse to a degree, vet if we gearch to the bottom of each we will find the same old leading string in each one. “'I want to make the most out of"it, I want to get the most out of it,” sings the elernal heart ef man, whether under savagery or civiliza- tion. In the latter state he but re- fines the old wish, “sublimates” it, as the psychologists say. As clvilized belngs we are no less en- gaged in a great adventure than our ancestors were when they lived In castles or embattled town across the seas, fighting for their very lives day by day. * % Perhaps'the Adventure of Just Liv- ing was more exciting then than now, but certainly it was not so en- joyable. Even the hardiest wielders of the battle ax and the sword yearned for peace, and held up to universal view, in their songs, pictures of primitive times when a sort of Arcadia was supposed to have ruled. Indeed, the earth is very old. Al though one may wonder, and some- times doubt, if there ever was such a time or place as the Garden of Eden, or Atlantis, the lost continent, where peace and happiness ruled: per- haps in the ceaseless roll of Time such place: may have existed, after all. Who knows? We scarcely need the assurance of holy writing, for such dreams are acceptable to the human heart, and the length of time be. hind us §s so vast that almost any- thing may have been. Although to our eves, whose length in phyzical life is 3 score and 10 vears, the steps of human progress have been from savagery to civili- tion: behind some of those ages, of practically nothing, have been whole civili memory s even now for- * there m: tions who: gotten. Discoverles of anclent cities in old deserts—Ur of Chaldee and of the civilization fn Central Americ these bring back to us vivi s were suddenly flashed upon a screen, the possibilities of swch a Golden Asze, We live, more or less, in such an age today! What the old knights dreamed of in their castles, what the serfs within the town walls held as plctures in the backs of their heads, has more or less come true toda America. = & All of us are eng: Adventure of T I zed in this great nz, in a great age, in Press Supports Campaign for Needyi i “The scars of Flanders Field have|favor modern methods in child wel.| Were going with vou these been covered by the bloom of poppies for siz Summers. Babes, not born when the war ended November 11, 1918, now walk and talk, and pla but, as the Amerfcan Legion —ats out, the casualty list goes on.” This comment on the American Legion’s campaign to raise a five- miliion dollar endownment fund, to be in a trust forever, to establish on a permanent basis the rehabilita- tion work being done by the Leglon, by the Jackson Citizen-Patriot gives voice to a natfonal sentiment. It turther believes that while the Legion ““has assumed the obligtion of caring for the disabled and looking after the orphans, the responsibility les as much with us all as with the former service men. It has asked the public | to assume its share by contributing to the endownment fund. The work is such as the Legion can do mo: efficiently. The cause is most worth and the Legion should meet a hearty response in its call for the compara- tively small sum required.” This practical program is deserving of the support of every American, in the opinion of the Forth Worth Star-Telegram which calls it “an unselfish pl\n, and one that involves no effort of the former soldiers to relieve themselves of a share of the burden of caring for the disabled sol- diers and their dependents, an evasion which well might be excused on th part of the men “who gave the mos in the great war. Such a plan for caring for the war derelicts is in- finitely less galling and less costly to the general country than any sy: tem of pension or bonus.” The Oak- land Tribune comments in similar vein, accepting the campaign as “an assurance to an interested public, and to the Legfon itself, of a strengthen- ing of reconstruction and rehabilita. tion work among the vetergns and of care for the war's orphanr.” N The New Haven Register sees the logic of the Legion's assumption of thls task, for despite “the Gov- ernment’s magnanimity to the vet. erans in the provision of hospital fa- cilities, vocational training and other advantages,” nevertheless, “there are many cases which cannot be properly handled through Government agen- cles. There are many individuals who need personal help, assistance of the kind that can be given best through some such channel as the American Leglon. The Legion can do no finer work than to care In this way for less fortunate brothers-in-arms and the children of those who gave their lives for their country.” _Subscribing to this view the Springfield, Mass., Union, explains that ‘“the need of temporary and special help for vet- erans and their familles, such as the Government has no agencies equipped to render, is constantly arising and the task of providing it has been taken on by the American Legion as a work of love and devotion, which deserves the most generous assistance and support-the public can giv “The situation is one that should appeal to the citizen who retains a grateful feeling for the men who answered the call in 1917-18,” accord- ing to the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch, for ‘“while the Ledger-Dispatch op- posed a bonus, it stood then and stands now for anvthing that can be done for the disabled veterans of the World War, as well as for their dependents, their widows and orphans. It is the least that can be done in a cause that will show the grateful- ness of a people for those now or who may be in need in the future.” * k% % One feature in the campaign “will mot _escape notice among those who 'ON, D. .. SATURDAY, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES L. TRACEWELL. 4 this is a timely message, particularly a great country. Nor is this “flag wav- ing” in any degree. Look back over the history of the world, study it as you please, and you will see that every word of it is true. Each one of us today Is more or less free from certain great fears which beset former ages. We have more time and energy to devote to our prop- er work as men, to the very Adven- ture of Living, if you will. Each da is another opportunity for Adventure. To get up in the morning Is an Ad- venture; to work is an Adventure; to watch the Summer storm come down is Adventure; to see the purple clouds, cut through, here and there, with lighter flashes and tints; to go to sleep, to dream-—these are all Adventures. Such Adventures of the daily life are only commonplace if we think they are, for In reality there is nothing commonplace in the world, not even a grain of matter, which sclence has shown us 1o be filled with the Adven- tures of the Atoms and Electrons. % % ¥ Above #ll, it seems to me, we have opportunity (o enzage in the great Ad venture of Thinking. “T live, because 1 think,” cartes. Thinking i3, indeed. an Adventure | excelled by none. since it can include | all the other adventures of which man | is capable, with impossible adventures | of which he can only dream. Of dream adventures, however, the world has had its full share. They are recorded in many a book, and in many a_ heart, and the eternal prog- ress of their marching goes on uninter- rupteg. What we really need is real think- ing, making the best use of our minds, getting at “the truth of things fear. 1y and honestly. ‘An honest man’s the noblest work of God.” €ald Pope, in one of his bril- lant 1@~ We do not know exactly | what he meunt. but probubly he spoke | of & mun honest in matters of money, | since his uge knew much corruption in bribery "here however. Tt is Intellectual Honesty a man postesses, he has unususl. There are honest with money tellectually. To B2 honest intellectually means that 4 man really tries to zet at the | bottom of things, to know as best he can what makes the wheels go ‘round, and why, and above all, to know ali this about himeelf. Only the true psychologist knows what a lot of tomfoolery there exista in the world, wherewith man soft- soaps himself into believing things which he wants to believe. It is a poor act, Indeed. which the average man cannot justify by u host of per- | fectly good reasons. | A striking instance of this ability of | man to fool himself, to be intellectually dishonest with himself, is the absolute- ly divergent opinion held upon cer- tain political matters. Two men, equal in innate cranial capueity and educa- tion, hold opposite views upon some greut issue, and each has a pack of fine reasons why his view is correct. Each knows that both eannot be right, and so claims that he alone is correct | in his statements . The unprejudiced outsider may be | forziven for wondering if either is rizht, until he realizes that neither is tntellect hongst. Each has an aim he to achieve. and marshal his “reasons” to uphold his purpos He wunis to vindicute rather prove. { Any one of uw. then, has a wonder- | ful opportunity to engage in u really | great Adventure of Thinking. If he will | be intellectually honest with himself | and others. said Des- another <ort of honesty, | i which, if something thousand men 0 one honest in- 1 Legion | tare” observes the Springfield Illi-| nofs State Journal. “The Legion, in its appeal for this money, gives | its pledge to keep intact, if' possi-| ble, the homes of service ‘men from | | which one of the parents has gone. Evidently the natfonal organization of | the Legion does not believe in the | orphanage, except as u place of IV‘ln-i porary detention pending placement | or adoption in a real home. The sig-| nificance of the Legion's pledge will| not be lost on the public mind.” | ““There are 35,000 children left desti- tute on account of the sacrifices of | their fathers; and the effort being | made by the surviving comrades to} care for the helpless ones is the noblest work of the Legion,” says the | Fayetteville Observer. “The Fed- eral veterans of the War between the States were paid generous pensions. the veterans of other nations were remembered handsomely, but the nig- gardly dole of this country is a blot upon Its annals.” “However,” the Observer continues, “the members of the Legion are not spending thelr time in murmurings of discontent over the ingratitude.” e Hits Local Conditi(;ns. Sees Better Traffic Handling Needed. To the Editor of The 8tar: Two editorial items appearing in Wednesday's edition of The Evening Star deserve unlimited praise from every reader of your paper. The first takes the form of a call for support of the director of traffic. Certainly Writer so when we consider the recent shameful action of the Commissioners in rgscinding a much needed traffic order to meet the petty whim of a few. The second item concerns the tragic bridge accident and incidentally calls attention to the condition of “another bridge” just this side of the Zoo. The authbrities might do well to heed your suggestion and remedy an al- ready too dangerous situation. Provi- dence alcne may be thanked that this bridge has not collapsed long ago. Another subject of local importance which I expect to read of daily on your editorial page relates to the police situation. There are many phases of this topic, some deserving much praise, others criticiem of a con- structive nature. One of the latter class is that of the traffic squad be- ing under control of the traction com- panies. I write “control” because the conditions existing at every street car crossing merits the word. The traffic officer, though wearing a District of Columbia uniform and receiving his pay envelope as other policemen do, from the proger officials of the District government, knows well that his money came from and is labeled in spirit “Paid by the Traction Com. panies.” These things being so, he must show prefersnce at crossings, and he does, and because he is not to blame. he is to be pitied and excused. This is an evil of the first magnitude and reflects itself deily, yes hourly. At every crossing it is common to see from 10 to 20 automobiles held up and countless pedestrians as well, while lone street car (sometimes empty) gets JUNE {turns in the only trouble which has {thing. The Hebrews made woman an 20, THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover. After an interim of 25 years, Ridgely Torrence has published his second volume of poetry. His first, “The House of a Hundred Lights,’ appeared in 1900. Since then he has published three volumes of plays and occaslonal poems in magazines, but no further volumes of poetry until the present time. Now his second volume has been glven to the public—"Hes- perides.” It is a slender volume of short poems, each rich in lyric beauty, delicate thought and perfe phrasing. The title poem, “Hes- perides,” shows a_poet standing on a May morning in Washington Square, discouraged and bitter, but suddenly heartened by a dream of the Garden of the Hesperides, symbolizing life itself where the fruit is “bitter at first but afterward sweet. He awakens from his vision to realize: “But here where he breathed was the island, glittering-shored.” The poem “Legend” represents a wound- ed seaman who remembers a mysteri- ous island on which grows the fruit called “the mind's’ desire”—the fruit which shall bring peace to u war- worn world. Earth shall end her hating through the apples And be healed at last Some of the most charming shorter Iyrics are “Santa Barbara Beach.”! ““Menotone Triumphant " “The Birdand | the Tree” and “Jean Singing.” The| last two poems in the volume are | elegies or ritual poems—"Ritual for | Birth and Naming” and “Ritual for the Body's Passing.” Both are full of religious feeling. The following lines from the second illustrate their quality: Though now_the brief pavilion of our dax Fades as we toil to build the unfinished |- wall, Though now no Autumn orchard, yielding all, Fulfills the flowers of May. Yet on the pinions of immortal yaarninz. Beyond the shadow of the unreturning. Above the star that gives us wise fore- warning, How wide the dusk enrings the steadfast it Wi reilew and gather and requite, shall “pursus and seize again morning. And be found ne more by night o ah We the Ridgely Torrencé is not one of the| there were 14. There were also seven | [ nitra-moderns among poets and for | colonel: this reason will perhaps many of us the more. f i In “Franklin Winslow Kane.” Anne Douglas Sedgwick has created a man. an American, us selfless us most of her women, in this book and others, are selfish. In fact Franklin is too| selfless; he is a continual temptation | to every one else to be as selfish as| possible—a temptation to which they all yield all of the time. Althexs Jakes, his~ compatriot, accepts his unreci. procated devotion of years as her right and decidedly resents his con- sidering the possibility of marriage with another woman, even though she herself thinks him too meager. com- monplace and comic to marry, except as a last resort. She whistles him off and on as she needs him and he al- ways comes: finally to save her pride she demands of him the sacrifice of | the only romance which has ever!| come into his life and he makes it cheerfully. Helen, the other woman, uses him. with equal unscrupulous- ness, taking him on for a time as a | means of support for her unprovided | future, but, although she becomes fond | of him, never really changing her first | opinfon of him as funny little | man.” Gerald Digby, the other man, | also finds Franklin funny and insigni- ficant, but it i= to Franklin that he appeal to| | come into hi shallow life. and. of | rcourse, Franklin helns him. though in | doing =0 he is obliged. as usual, to suppress all his own feelings. Anne| Sedgwick's grt is shown by the fact! that the reader does not once find Franklin ridiculous. His personality | and character, €o underestimated by all the selfish friends to whom he de- | votes himself, are revealed as so! unique that to the reader he has all the charm, all the lovableness which the two women find in Gerald, but be- | cause of their blindness, fail to find in' Franklin. | PR ! o You're Going to Ital by Clara Taughlin i« somethine between a | de book and a delightful dascriptive | The subtitle reads: “And if 1| are the | The four | E. Ui essay. things I'd invite vou to do.” sections are devoted to Naples, Rome, Florence and Venice and their en- virons. The morning for regular sight- | seeing, a short rest alwavs after | luncheon and the afternoon for strolls and drives—this seems to be the au- thor's general rule. Bits of political and art history. not long enough to be | tiresome, amusing incidents, anecdotes | about people and places, literary al. lusions and brief descriptions all add to the interest of the book. Certain of the chapters. especially, make one who has heen in Italy long to return, | and one who has never been determine to go at once: for example, “On Vir. zil's Shore.” “First Impressions” in Rome, “Some Drives in- and About Rome,” “Your First Stroll in Flor- ence, “Across the Arn After Ven- ice.” The {llustrations are from fa- mous drawings and paintings, as “The Sabines,” from the painting by David in the Louvre; ‘“Boccaccio Dis- cussing.” from e miniature in an old manuscript: “Tasso Reading His Poem: from a painting by Domenico Morelli in the Gallery of Modern Art| in Rome: “The Borgia Family." from a painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; “Vittoria Colonna,” from the portrait by Michelangelo, and “The Burning of Savonarola.” from a painting by an unkncwn artist in the Museum of San Marco in Florence. * ok K x W. L. George, who has often assured | his public in his own country and ours that he is an expert on feminine psychology, has recently published a book on the evolution of woman, called *“The Story of Woman.” In spite of Mr. Bryan's opinion, he traces woman back to the ancestor ape. In the neo- lithic period, he says, began the in. tellectual revolt of woman .which, contrary to general belief, is no new important part of the life of the na- tion. The Greeks kept respectable women subordinate and uneducated; only the courtesans were companions of men. Christianity established mo- nogamy and strengthened the position of woman in every way. The women of the dark ages, of the renaissance, of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centurfes are all discussed and placed as regards their evolution. In the nineteenth and twentieth cen- turies woman has won in her struggle for equal recognition with man in eco- nomic and political life, Three men, Mr. George rays, have done more than any -others to help woman in this struggle—John Stuart Mill, Henrik Ibsen and George Bernard Shaw. * % k8% Two inveterate romanticists whose pens seem to be never idle are Saba. tini and Jeffery Farnol. Both have just published new romances. Saba- tini’s, “The Carolinan,” is located in South Carolina at the outbréak of the American Revolution, and pre- wents a Loyalist husband with a Tory wife as two of the chief characters. Jeftery Farnol's “The Loring Mys tery,” is a tale of crime in England of the early nineteenth century, fol- lowing the end of the Napoleonic Wars. It Is full of adventure, fight- ing, murder, ghostly visitations and, of course, love. ————m— daifly record the shooting at, and sometimes of, a fleeing motorist and the “go-go” sign. Instcad of eliminat- ing congestion and speeding up traffic, we seem to be jamming the highways and hindering progress. Here is another and then I'm through. It hac to do v‘r}:h the seem- ing ever readiness of some policemen to use their gun. To my mind such a weapon is intended to be used only in self defense or in pursuit of one gullty of & grave offense. The papers others, who probably committed a minor offense. The pursult of these petty offenders seems to be an open- ing for a coveted desire on the part of the officer to use his gun. Wound- ing a prisoner or killing him, when not necessary, is outside the scope of police duty. All officers are not guilty i means: | The answer will perhaps be den ANSWERS TO QUE STIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. Is “after-dinner speaking” taught at the Naval Academy?—L. T. M. A. A course in after-dinner speak- ing has been glven there for a number of years. Members of the first class recelve instruction and are given op- portunities to practice in connection with the regular academy mess. The plebes receive the same opportunities in their recitation rooms. ! | tami Q. Did William Howard Taft make his famous trip around the fore or after he was nominated Jor President?’—A. H. W, 4 A. Mr. Taft left on his trip to the Philippines, which he made practical- ly a trip around the world by return- ing through Russia and Europe and across the Atlantic, in August, 1907 His nomination to the presidency oc curred in June of the following year. Q. What is the estimated amount of hardwood timber in this country?— | G. A. G. A. In 1920 the total remaining stand | of hardwood timber in this country was estimated to be 460,000,000,000 board feet. The annual drain for all purposes, including losses from fire, | disease and insects, is in the neighbor hood of 16.000,000,000 board feet, almost 15,000.000,000. if the losses are | eliminated. Some estimates of the amount consumed are even larger than | this. “Tiffany’s founded A. Tiffany, Young & Ellis, the fore- runner of the present firm, was founded by Charles L. Tiffany in 1837. Q. How can cherries that are can- ned in tins be treated so that they will not discolor’—J. D. F. A. The National Canners’ Associa- tion says It is necessary to can red fruit and vegetables. such as cherries and beets. in lacquered cans in order to retain their natural red color. Q. How many Welsh ger in the Revolutionary Army?—D. A. H A. Representative I. M. Foster savs The number of Welshmen in the ranks is conjectural Q. How many there?—F. O. T. A. Hoffman says that there are 434 genera und 1.925 species. They in- habit all parts of the world except the cold temperate and frigid zones. inds of lizards are Q. Has Tennessee public school kin dergartens?—N. S. M. A. Knoxville is the only city in the State which has. There are now 14. Q. What is the motto of the House of Windsor?—P. O. A. This motto is: “Honi soit qui maly v pense” which translated. Evil to him who evil thinketh.” Q. How long has butter been made? —-8. W, A. It has been historic times. in use since early It is mentioned in |, Q | India?—G. T. T. world be- | 00! Genesis. It was first made from the milk of sheep and goats, later fron cows’ milk What _languages are spoken in A. India has vernacular lan guages of extraordinary variety. The lunguages spoken by 316,056,000 per ons In 1921 are grouped in seven lies. The principal ones are West Hindi (spoken by 96,714,000 per . Bengali (49,295,000), Telugu (23 601,000), Marathi (18,798,000), Tamil (18,780,000), Punjabi (16,231,000), R Jasthani (12,681,000), aftar which come Oriya, Kanarese, Gujarati, Burmese ern |and Malayalam. Hindustani, a dia. | lect of Hindi, has become the literary |language of Hindustan and s thy | lingua franca of India. English is un * | derstood by many. Q. In hanging bunting, which colog | g0es at the top, the blue or the red” - C. 8 ! ing bunting the order should be blue at the top. followed by white with red at the bottom Q Paul D. | _A. Bryan. in his “Dictionary of | Painters and Engravers savs that | the amount of Rubens’ pictorial work | was prodigio A list records nu fewer than exclusive of 434 drawings. It was Rubens’ practice 10 employ many student assistants. It is not possible to say exactly how many of the paintings are still in ex istence. How many paintings by Rubens are in existence” Peter R Q. How far toward the zenith doe the sun come on June 21 and Decem. ber 217—C. R. D. A. The Naval Observatory savs tha sun’s altitude at noon on June may be found by subtracting the lati tude of the place from 113'; degrees; the altitude on December 21 may hs found by subtracting the latituds from 661, Q. What Christian name iz borne the most people?—2. N. D. 1t a public school in one citv might bhe taken as representative John takes first place for bove, with William yecond. Margaret is first for |sirls, with Mary second. (The Government is spending your | money to find out how to do things | The Star, through its Washington |information bureau, is ready to tell | vou what the Government has found {out. There is information availoble |on practically every subject affecting the daily life of the American citizen Ezperts of the highest order are de | voting their entirc time and energy to | this great work of promoting the put |lic welfare. What do you want to | know? What question can the burcan answer for you? This service is free. Just inclose a 2-cemt stamp fo cover the return postage. Address The Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Has | kin, director, Twenty-first and € | streets northwest.) BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. What is the difference between an nvestor, a speculator und u Kambler? by the next Congress, in re the grain and cotton markets, in case the ex | changes do not see fit to draw the dis- clearly befcre the so tinction very of the farm oC called ‘*‘radis undertake the job. Never before has public sentiment been so aroused upon the subject of grain speculation and gambling in non-existent wheat as Is manifested oday, in connection with the last Win ter's violent fluctuations on ‘change. The Secretary of Agricluture, Mr. Jar- dine, has been investigating the situ- ation, and the findings, as stated in a preliminary report, “clearly show that the wide fluctuations were primarily due to the heavy trading number of professional speculators; likewise that their operations were facilitated, to a considerable degree, by the lurge participation on the part of the public after material advance in prices had occurred the last half of Januar; A single member is said to have “sold short™ 50,000,000 bushels. Prosecutions of the speculators are promised, to the extent of prasent 1aws, but the Secretary “is particu larly concerned in the development of tion of such destructive price changes may be obviated.” No specific plan has yet crystallized, but in general it is saild that sone bills which will be proposed in Con- gress by the farmers may go so far as to close all grain exchanges and throw the handling of grain into the hands of dealers who will be strong enough to buy it outright and dispose of it, without ‘“hedging” with “fu- tures.” What such a measure would do to the price of grain received b: sidered in the light of economics and the history of experiments in certain States. SR Ordinarily the price of grain. in ‘change, does not fluctuate more than 2 or 3 cents a bushel, except in case of some world-wide catastrophe, such as a serious war or widespread de- struction of growing crops. One pr posal now under consideration is a law forbidding fluctuations exceed- ing 2 cents a bushel on any one day, though 'it is argued by opponents that one might as well legislate against gravitation as to pass laws suspending the relationship of “sup- ply and demand.” How much had supply and demand to do with the Jumping of prices last Winter? On Nevember 1 the Chicago price of wheat was, $1.45; by January 28, it rose to $2.05 All through De cember and January the innocent by standers, the bleating lambs, the un- sophisticated public were eagerly hitting their savings into the gamble. Bootblacks, clerks, widows and or- phans were “selling short” thousands of bushels of wheat, when they had never seen wheat growing in the flelds. They were selling short for alleged dellvery in May—what the market terms, “May wheat." Then the gamblers and speculators began to “shake out the public’ and wheat fell on March 4, 73 cents; March, 6, 1214 cents; on March 7, I*advanced 4 cents and dropped 8 cents; March 11, fell, 7%; March 13, dropped 15 cents and continued to drop through- out April until it reached bottom at $1.36. That squeezed out all margins put up by the fnnocent suckers of the public, but by the rise and stagger- ing drop, it gave the gambler an opportunity to clean up scores of millions at the expense not alone of the grain raisers (who seldom sell on a rising market, hoping to gain by holding on for a still greater rise,) but alse the millers and bakers and “ultimate consumers.” At least the ultimate consumers theoretically would suffer loss in the great rise of the speculative infla- tion of prices, but aside from eco- nomic theory, it is interesting to note how little the market price of wheat has to do with the price of bread at the bakery. Was bread higher at retail last February, when wheat was costing the millers, 2.05%, than in May when it cost only $1.86%? Did bread prices fall with the drop of 69 cents a bushel or more than $1.10 a barrel of flour or half a cent on the flour in each pound of bread? How much has supply and demand of this conduct, but too many are, and a little less 1s iy to be desired. A. MAHAR. to do with wheat, in the unrestricted market of our grain exchanges, since each day. throughout the late specu- by of a limited | the producers will be seriously con- | lative craze, from 100,000,000 to 12 000,000 bushels and in 10 days more than a billion bushels were sold. while the entire wheat production of the United States was only 826.000.01 bushels last year? x oo The United States abolished lotteries se but while seversl grain § 4 undertaken to k#l grain gambling. and prohibited trading in “futures their success has bLeen guestionable, largely because the production is in other States than the location of the gambling mar It is a matter of interstate commerce, therefore, and can be reached only hrough Federal regulation. overnment * k8% L Economists warn of the danger of fll-considered methods, twhich, while aimed to stop the gambling, may cause such demoralization of the legi timate markets as to ruin the very producers it is aimed to help. To de- stroy all grain exchanges, it ‘is ar gued, would be to throw all grain | handling into the hands of a few | firms financially strong enough to bux | it outright and carry all risks of world-price fuctuations until it was sold. That would require a far wider mar | some new method by which a repeti- | 8in of price—a far greater reduction |to the tarmers—than they now suffer. | between the investor's buying and selling prices. At present every deal- er who buys actual grain immediately | “hedges” by selling’ the same amount |and grade for future delivery, hance he buys only on the price of a ‘fu | ture,” unless he is a miller ready to |use the spot grain immediately. | The “future” price is fixed by the | bidding on the basis of speculation. | That is legit'mate sveculation—a very different thing from grain gambling and, it is claumed, it serves as the hal jance wheel of the markets, keeping them steadier than possible without | hedging. Hcdging is litke insuiance aguinst losses, enabling the speculator to operate on closer margins than would be pcssible on a mere Invest ment basis. (n all legitimate spe~ylx tion buying the buyer obligates him self to receive the ictual wheat, nd the seller agrees to deliver actnal wheat within the month named In grain gambling no wheat is owne by the buyer or seller, nor is it ex pected to be handled. The transaction fs not based on real wheat nor on known conditions. hut is a mere be on the rise ¢r fa]l of prices Bucket snaps gamble in differences of market prices, but they never de liver real wheat. That is “bucketing but all bucketing is' not confined to bucket shops; more is done in ihe “legitimate exchanges,” where the cloak of lezitimucy covers them under the camoufiage of regular dealing nn til_the transactions become too scan dalous. A standard author, T. Henry Dewe: of the New York bar. writes: ““The speculator deals—that is, huys and sells things for a difference in prices—and the gambler ‘deals in dif ferences in prices. * * ¢ It follows that the test of whether any giver state of facts constitutes speculatior or gambling on prices is not whethe actual delivery was made or intende but whether the right of the buyer require and the seller to make actus delivery, existed.” Under that definition it is gambling to sell more of any commodity thar exists, or is accessible to the seller. Albert W. Atwood of Columbia Uni versity thus dlstinguishes between speculation and gambling: “The gambiler acts blindly and sumes risks whether the exigencies the situation require that course o not. The speculator, however, s sumes those hazards which must fal to some one's lot, if not to his own Every businesk teems with risk and chance. and the speculator is best fit ted, by his training, to cope with them adequately. It I8 not a question of artificial institution; speculation is ar inherent aspect of commercial inter- course and must be taken into acconunt willingly or not. Moreover, specula tlon presupposes intellectual effort gambling only blind chance. * ¢ The speculator assures the farmer the receipt of a definite sum and thus re moves the element of risk from his shoulders. As recompense the specu lator gets the profit, it any exists, and a loss if the market goes against hix expectations. Will the farm blocs seeking to bei- ter farm profits abolish the specula tor's price insurance im the operation of destroying gambling? 4 (Copyright, 1998; by Paut @ Gofttme.®