Evening Star Newspaper, July 7, 1925, Page 6

“THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. July 7, 1925 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Compahy . Business Office: . 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd St. Chicazo Office: Tower Building. European Office: 18 Regent St., London, England The Evening Star. with the Sunday morn- ng edition. is delivered by earriers within {he city at 60 cents per month: daily onl¥. * 45 cents per month: Sunday only. 20 cents r month. Orders may be sent by mail or elephone Main 5000. Collection is made by earrier at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Macyland and Virginia. Patis-and Sunday 1yr. $8.40: 1 mo., aily only ... 150 $6:00: 1 Sunday only 1yr$240:1 All Other States. Dails and Sunday £10.00: 1 mo. Daily onty $7.00: 1 mo Sunday only 3310001 mo.. 1yr She 1y 15r Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is axclusively entitied 40 the use for republication of all news dis- Patihes cradited 10 1t or ot othorsise cred- Tt I (his Daper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publication f special dispatches herein are also reserved Smith and McAdoo. Will the senatorial race in 1926 de- clde the Democratic presidential nom- tnation of 19282 Gov. Al Smith, the “white hope” of the Eastern and Northern Democracy a possible, in fact, a probable candidate for the Sen Ate in the race for the seat now occu pied by Senator Wadsworth; Repub- lNean. William Gihbs McAdoo, it reported from California, is itching to get into the contest for the seat now held hy Senator Shortridge, who, like Wadsworth, is a Republican. If these distinguished Demo crats are nominated for the Senate, one on the Atlantic coast and the other on the Pacific, the senatorial eampaign of 1926 will take on a politi cal interest that has rarely been equated in an “off vear” when no na- tional ticket is in the field. The ad-| herents of hoth these factional leaders | will do their bring them victory. If Smith should win in New York, and McAdoo should lose in Cali fornia, or vice doubtless the presidential aspirations of the loser | would suffer through loss of prestige. | On the other hand, should both win and come the Senate the stage would be for another historic struggle in the Dembcratic national convention of '2S. The record made in the Senate by the two men would be carefully scanned and compared. The acceptance of the senatorial nomination by either of these Demo- cratic leaders is necessarily hazardous. Strong as Gov. Smith is in New York he would have a difficult opponent to defeat in Senator Wadsworth. Cali- fornia normally is Republican. Demo- cratic Senators from the Gelden Gate have been few and far between. It | may be that one or both of the dis- | tinguished Democrats will decide in the end that they will not be candi- dates for the Senate. But from the point of view of mere political interest and excitement the hope may be ex- préssed that they will both get into the race. Should McAdoo and Smith make the race for the Senate, and hoth should lose, as they might well lose, would their defeat not cause the rank and file of the Democracy to heave a sigh Of relief? Their defeat might well be construed as a reason for considering neither of them for the presidential nomination in 1928. And so the bitter- ness of 1924 might be removed. is two utmost to versa, set P Daytor to Have Its Day. Denial by a Federal court df an in- Junction to prevent the trial of the Scopes evolution-teaching case in Ten- nessee, sought on the ground that the State law under which the prosecu- tion is brought is unconstitutional, does not £o to the point of the conten- tion that the State has no legal right to dictate by prohibition the mode of public education. It is based merely upon the proposition that the proper legal procedure is to submit the case first to the established judicfal proc- esses of the State, and that the Fed. eral court cannot at the initial stage of the case intervene Eventually this be car-] ried into the Federal courts, even as was that of the Oregon law. which prohibited the’ maintenance of private and parochial schools in that State, which the Supreme Court recently de- clared invalld constitutional grounds. It was believed by the coun- sel for Scopes that a way could be found through injunction to secure a direct hearing of their plea that the State law transcends the constitu- tional MHmitation. They have been denied the short cut by which they hoped to reach the eventual judgment. Now the trial at Dayton will pro- ceed. That little town is naturally delighted with the ruling of the Fed- * eral court. It will have its day in the news. It will for a time be the center of public interest. It will be crowded with curiosity hunters. There will be a flood tide of printed matter about it and its denizens. Tt will bask in the glory of the great personages attend. | fng the trial. Then its day will wane, | the scene of the action will shift to | another place, and in a few weeks the name of Dayton, Tenn.. will be racalled with difficulty as the town where the evolution trial occurred issue will on ————— 5 | i A® a man who prefers silences Presi dant Coolidge does not seek the tempta- tions to sudden eloquence presented by the golf course. S, Planes and Polar Research. Amundsen and Ellsworth, who re- | cently made an unsuccessful attempt to reach the North Pole by airplane, declare that heavier-than-air machines are impracticable for polar explora- tion, and that they will not again i undertake to reach the northern axis of the earth by that means. They will not, however, cease their efforts, But will continue using other means “ of travel. The dirigible, they think, is a practical possibility for rapid transit between base and Pole. Certainly the experience of Amund- s#n on his recent trip poleward justi- fles the conclusion that the plane is not- a practicable means of transit. He failed to reach the Pole by a long | ted by the President’s coal commission | terstate commerce under the Consti- | tution, and coal is distinctly an item | have complained to the Governor of outward flight there is no assurance that he could have landed without dis- ablement or that he could have re- turned. Conditions in the Polar Arctlc are the worst Imaginable for airplane work. There are no broad spaces of | smooth ice and few stretches of open water. On his flight recently Amund- sen tried to land in an open channel | caused by a fissure in a great floe and wrecked one of his planes, and was able to extricate the other with the greatest difficuity. He was lucky to have escaped with one of his planes intact. At present the requirement of a wide space for landing an airplane is one of the chief limitations of that | form of aviation device. Starting and illnding spaces must be extensive and smooth. The plane disabled in flight is brought to earth at serious risk of complete collapse. It is this fact | that gives strength to the hope that { the helicopter, or the vertically rising and descending plane, will be devel- oped to the point of practical utility. —————————— Remedies for Coal Problems. Publicity is one remedy proposed by the Federal Trade Commission for dealing with the coal industry, its suspension of business and frequent high prices. The report, which has just been made public, contains the recommendations of the commission to Congress regarding the anthracite industry. The suggestion that full light be turned on coal mining and distribution in this country, with periodic reports on costs, supplies and prices, has pre- { viously been made by other bodies. But nothing has been done about it. It was one of the suggestions submit- a couple of years ago when a strike threatened. How much better off today the consuming public might be had the recommendation been fol- lowed. A strike in the anthracite mines is impending, where the operators and miners are at odds over wages and working conditions, and where the existing agreement expires September 1. In the bituminous industry there trouble ahead, too, it is mid. A threat has been made to call out the soft coal miners, If necessary, to help the anthracite miners win their fight. The coal problem has been before Congress for vears. But it is one of the problems which Congress has left to time for solution. Beyond a num- ber of speeches, the legislators have done nothing. Yet here is a problem which vitally affects all the people. Coal prices have gone up and down, but they never go quite down to the earlier level. The cost of fuel is a large item in the family budget today, and an item that cannot be avoided. It is not possible to burn last year's coal, as it is possible to wear last year’s suit of clothes, i there must be economy. Congress has control of in- is of interstate commerce. The Federal Trade Commission urges that a Federal agenoy be set up to publish regularly all informa- tion regarding coal. The coal opera- tors are averse to this. They contend that they are harassed today by many demands by the Government for in- formation, which it costs them siderable money to supply. The Trade Commission in its report has disclosed much interesting information regard- ing the profits made by wholesalers and others in the anthracite industry, which no doubt those concerned would e entirely willing not to spread broad- cast. For example, the commission points out, the gross profits realized by the wholesalers in the Fall of 1923, due to a wide range in mine prices charged for anthracite, were as high as $1.75 per ton in September and Oc- tober, after the brief strike, and in August, immediately preceding the strike, the gross profits ran as high as $3.65 per ton, in some cases. “The exorbitant character of such profits,”” says the commission; “is evi- dent when it is realized that these wholesalers sell in carload lots with- out physically handling the coal, and that even the gross profit allowed dur- ing the war was only 20 cents per ton in the Eastern States.” The Trade Commission recommends to Congress also the establishment of more effective competition in the an- thracite industry, rather than price regulation by the Government. The commission suggests that there has been a control of the output of the an- thracite mines which has tended to force up prices. With the fullest information avail- able to the public much may be ac- complished. Without that information it is impossible for the public to act intelligently when emergencies arise in the coal industry. — - e Biology is an abstruse subject, but more popularly interesting than specu- lative mathematics. Col. Bryan need never fear that his contentions against evolution will be as easily forgotten as were his arguments in favor of 16 to 1. con- ——— Summer showers are uncertain, and even though paraders banded in mysterious secrecy may leave off their masks they are advised to carry their umbrellas. S T Control of Flower Vandals Sought. People living in a mountain region Pennsylvania that motorists from large cities are destroying many wild plants. They represent that people from the cities are stripping the moun- tains of rhododendrons, golden rod and other plants whose flowers are at- tractive. If vandals are so active in Midsummer it is likely that they were more active in Spring, and that early- blooming species greatly suffered. The action of the mountain-dwelling people in calling on the governor and other State authorities for help has been taken, no doubt, only after long and serious provocation, and it is pos- sible that efforts of a local neighbor- hood kind have been taken to meet the situation and have failed. Tt is plausible that laws for the conserva- tion of wild plants will be enacted, and with neighborhood ~sentiment strongly favorable to them they will be enforced. With the great and grow- distance, but had he succeeded in at- taining the peint of no latitude in his ing crowds of people who take to lhel country ob holidays and days of sun.. & THE EVENING STAR, shine irreparable damage can be done to plants which have the right to live, and to whose beauty the neighbor- hood in which they live is entitled, ————rat— The St. Peter’s Robbery. According to dispatches, the crime of stealing precious objects from St. Peter's Church in Rome has been solved, the thieves captured and, the stolen property recovered. The rob- bery was given unusual publicity. For thieves to carry out their work in such a famous church was extraordi- nary, and the articles stolen were of sentimental and religious value far above their worth in gold. It seemed also to be a crime of great magnitude in the money sense. The loss was given as a million lire. Perhaps many persons read that as a “million dol- lars,” and few persons offhand could reduce the lira to the dollar. The par of the lira is 19.3 cents American, but at the current rate of exchange the value of the lira, leaving out small fractions, 18 3.78 cents. While the early dispatches carried the sum as “one million lire,” later dispatches, and rectification in newspaper offices of lire into dollars, put the value of the stolen property at $60,000. In the old and thickly settled cities of Xu- rope police systems are very closely and finely organized and there are not so many ways to escape as with us. It also seems that the robbery was not a masterplece of crime committed by peculiarly shrewd criminals, but was the work of quite ordinaiy thieves and a crime which the police found little difficulty in solving. e e Predictions that President Coolidge will be elected for another ferm should be managed with friendly discretion. There is nothing more precarious than a presidential boom launched several years in advance of the election. ———— A student’s ball in Paris recently ended in a riot. A Board of Education has its troubles here, but they are nothing compared to the problems con- fronting supervisors of instruction in the “gay capital.” Splendid plans are being made for the futyre of Santa Barbara. An earthquake either puts a town entirely Cff the map or on the map bigger than ever. —— Mr. Doheny revived an interesting line of philosophy in expounding the ancient and rather unpopular idea that patriotism is a virtue which should be profitably rewarded. ——a———— Europe could pay all kinds of debts if a percentage of the sums spent by American tourists could be set aside for this especial purpose. s The plain intimation in Europe that a debt is a nuisance is neither states- manship nor finance, although it is unquestionably human nature. . Germany has enjoyed a great deal of success in postponing action while al- lowing most of the filibustering to be done by other nations. - SHOOTING STARS. RY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Dignified Serenity. Our folks, in order to obtain a further light Decided on a visit to the zoo. We've done our best to get this evolu- tion chatter right. And we're resolved to see the ques- tion through. We've met so many people in a fear- ful frame of mind Lest a monkey might attémpt a so- cial call! We watched with close attention, and we're gratified to find That the Chimpanzee's not worrying at all. little He swung, head downward from his perch with elegance complete, And with his hind hand scratched his ear at ease. He seemed to say, “In Beauty Con- tests T cannot compete, But in Athletics, I should surely please.” The one who really has the most of all to gain, appears show an interest small. This Darwin hubbub has the Genus Homo by the ears, But the Chimpanzee's not worrying at all! To exceeding The Lure of Private Life. “We haven't as many fine speakers in politics as formerly.” “The competition for talent is strong,” answered Senator Sorghum. “If a man is a really good talker he can usually enjoy a much bigger in- come selling something than he can by soliciting votes.” Jud Tunkins says that there are so many ways of gefting arrested that numerous persons would rather be re- garded as lucky instead of law abid- ing. Highbrow Relief. "Most every time I turn around, Somebody tries to make me laugh. 1 long to read some stuff profound Amid the maze of merry chaff! The pictured face with bulbous nose, The patient and laborious jest. Rude raps in rhyme and puns in prose Have filled my spirit with unrest. T'll welcome any serious bluff That brings repose for which I yearn. T'Il gladly con the highbrow stuff It it can con me in return. Shrewd Politics. “I concede your point, Henrietta,” said Mr. Meekton. “We men couldn’t run the Government without letting ‘women have the vote.” “And I think you will admit, Leonidas, that we have proved pretty |- fair politicians.” > “You have. You have shown deep sagacity and rare discretion. You vote and you celebrate. But you still elect mere males to office to do the hard work and stand the fault finding.” *T has quit sayin’ ‘We's gittin' bet. tern’ and better every " said Uncle Eben, “until we gits th'oo wif one o de busiest seasons de Grand Jury_ever had.’ i THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES Some years ago I remember seeing a major of the High School Cadets who carried a small blue book in his hand. Tt was not the manual of arms. It was the “Meditation of Marcus Au- relius.” He read it at such odd moments as he had during the day and I thought at the time that he must be a very unusual young man. Since then he has gone far, as any man is likely to g:!w 0 sincerely reads the golden Mar- Of all the characters of antiquity, none is better known tod: and cer- tainly none more revered, than this !v:mperor of Rome, called by Canon Farrar “‘one of the humblest and one, of the most enlightened of all ancient seekers after God. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus perse- cuted the early Christians, including St. Cecelia at Rome, and St. Polycarp at Smyrna, yet Christians today ex- emplify the Lord’s prayer in forgiving the man, so great was his worth. Verissimus, “the most true,” he was called, after he had been adopted by the Emperor Antoninus Pius, and this feeling among men ever since has in- terceded in his behalf. Canon Farrar is one of his greatest apologists, going to great lengths to show, in his “Seekers After God,” that Aurelius was an unfortunate victim of his age. It seems to me that there is some necessity for getting this particular matter straightened out in the reader’s mind before considering at any length his Golden Book, for there has been and still i8 much point made against him as a persecutor of Christians. Theg¥.ncyclopedia Americana in its latest Bdition speaks thus bitterly: ““There is a glaring inconsistency in his character in the adoption of so icruel and monstrous a course by one who appears otherwise so admirable. In this single instance he is as bloody and heartless as a Domitian, a Nero or a Caligula; in all other things mer- ciful, in this pitiless; in his general ad- ministration, just and humane; in this, singularly unjust and even vindictive. * ¢ * 'His policy in this instance was utterly inconsistent with his gen- eral character.” b Listen, then, to what Canon Farrar has to say: “That he was a cold-blooded and virulent persecutor is utterly unlike his whole character, essentially at varlance with his habitual clemency, alien to the spirit which made him interfere in every possible instance to mitigate the severity of legal punish- ments, and may in short be regarded as an assertion which is altogether false. “Who will believe that a man who, during his reign, built and dedicated but one single temple, and that a temple of beneficence; that & man who so far from showing any jealousy re- specting foreign religions allowed honor to be paid to them all; that a man whose writings breathe on every page the inmost spirit of philanthropy and tenderness, went out of his way to join a persecution of the most in- nocent, the most courageous and the most _inoffensive of subjects? “The true state of the case seems to have been this. The deep calam- ities in which, during the whole reign of Marcus, the empire was involved caused widespread distress and rous- ed into peculiar fury the feelings of the provincials against men whose atheism (for such they considered it to be) had kindled the anger of the gods. “To what extent is Marcus Aure- lius to be condemned for the mar- tyrdoms which took place in his reign? Not, I think, heavily or in- discriminately, or with vehement sweeping censure. Common justice surely demands that we should not Somebody, who makes a specialty of definitions, has stated that “Boston is not a place; it is a state of mind.” Like the Einstein theory, that may be too intellectual for ordinary mentality to comprehend, but if it be diluted, so that it shall read: “Boston is in a state of mind,” it becomes simpler and more comprehensible. There still would be some question as to the politeness of the plain, blunt inquiry as to what had put Boston into that state of per- turbation, or, in short, who had spill- ed the beans. It is beyond the possibility of un- certainty that the shot which was audible around the world, wherever any one tuned in, was not fired by the the author of the Pageant of “Lexing- ton,” which all Boston—meaning all New England and all New Englanders, wheresoever they may have made temporary pilgrimages—were applaud- ing since June 15, until some be- spectacled patriot actually read the {text. Attention was thereupon called to the astounding fact that the author of the text which had so thrilled the souls of descendants of “Infuns” who had once “poured tea” in the Boston Harbor was one of the well recognized advocates of red literature in America. Boston celebrating Bunker Hill with “Red" literature! Using words of one or two syllables in which to slip in doctrines of socialism and anarchy and bolshevistic hatred of capital, Sidney Howard “got by” all Boston censors of patriotism. * * ok x In the foreword of his text of the pageant, the writer encourages his Boston pageant managers with these naive stage directions: “The acting presents no difficulties beyond that of securing actors with £00d voices who have troubled to learn how to speak the English language.” ‘Was he fearful that Bostonians |could not speak English—or had he in mind Russian immigrants too freshly admitted? As If the general betrayal of the learned sons of Cambridge were not contumely enough, let it be known that even that Bostonian of the Bos- tonese, alias the Boston Transeript, “fell for the trick” put ovér by the soclalistic propagandist, for, in the regular course of human events, the literary editor reviewed the text of “Lexington,” beginning with: “A new note in pageantry is struck in Sidney Howard's ‘Lexington’! By the book it {8 not the conventional pageant bf the American seminary of the anniversary amphitheater. * * * Through it runs a scarlet thread of symbolism. * * * a ‘pur- poseful motif which translates Lex- ington’s day into the usages of today and tomorrow in American life.” Six columns of similar laudation! “‘Scarlet thread,’ indeed! Why, the whole woof and web is as scar- let as the cap or banner of any bol- shevist orator!” declares Mr. West, the secretary of the American De fense Society. i * ok K K down the cities, Knock the walls to pieces. Break the factorles and cathedrals, ‘warehouses and homes Into loose piles of stones and lum- bér and black burnt wood: Ye are the soldiers and we com- mand- you. “You péople, * What are you to Freédom? ‘What is Freedom to you? ‘You have no rights but only duties. Produce! Faster and faster. Harder and harder. It doesn’t matter How tired you are. Produce, do you hear?” . - “You people! Sk TRACEWELL. confuse the present with the past. st In short, he was in this matter ‘blameless, but unfortunate.’ It is painful to think that the ven- erable Polycarp and the thoughtful Justin may have forfeited their lives for their principles, not only in the reign of so good a man, but even by virtue of his authority; but we must be very uncharitable or very un- imaginative if we cannot readily be- lleve that though they had received the crown of martyrdom from his hands, the redeemed spirits of those great martyrs would have been the first to welcome this holiest of the heathen into the presence of a Sav- for whose church he perseuted, but to whose indwelling Spirit his' vir- tues were due; whom ignorantly and unconsciously he worshiped, and whom, had he ever heard of Him and known Him, he would have loved in his heart and glorified by the consistency of his noble and stain. less life.” A Such was, undoubtedly, the ancient emperor, who preached abstinence, not only from evil deeds, but even from evil thoughts. His life could not be all consistency. Whose life can? His “Meditations” must be regard- ed as the true man. What he re- vealed there he was, and still is, for the spirit of this good man goes marching on as surely as John Brown'’s does in the song. He was born at Rome April 29, 121 A.D., and died at_Vindobono— now Vienna—March 17, 180 A.D. Being adopted by the Emperor An- toninus Pfus, also one of the bright lights of antiquity, he turned stoic at the age of 12. He became such a light eater and slept on so bare boards that for a time he injured his health. These things he did because he believed in them. Ever afterward he lived fru. gally, temperately, under circum- stances and in surroundings which later bred a race of monsters. His philosophy. therefore, has a touch of austerity about it which is forbidding to some, making his words somewhat hard to understand. This i partly accounted for by the fact that his thoughts were put down privately, being rather disconnected and fragmentary. We of today can scarcely claim to be Stoics. Yet in the “Meditations” lie many a beautiful thought, many a helpful idea, ecasily understood and appreciated today as when they were cut with the stylus centuries ago. One does not have to be a Steic to appreciate that “it is thy duty to order thy life well in every single act,” or that “everywhere and at all times it is {n thy power piously to acquiesce in thy present condition, and to behave justly to those who are about thee, and to exert thy skill upon thy present thoughts, that nothing shall steal into them without being ‘well examined.” One is under no necessity of sub- scribing to the old Stoical doctrines to realize that “Whatever any one does or says, I must be good;” or the worth of that tremendous paragraph: “If any man is able to convince me and show me that I do not think or act right, T will gladly change; for I seek the truth, by which no man was ever injured. But he is injured who abides in his error and figno- rance.’ What a wonderful world this would be if each one of us would actually take this advice “Try how the life of the good man suits thee, the life of him who s sat- isfled with this pertion out of the whole, satisfied with his own just acts and benevolent disposition.” Try, indeed! BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. To hell with your duties! Do you want Freedom? Well, then, organize! Wealth is labor! Property is labor! Capital is labor! Organize!” Shall the treasonable propaganda in the above be explained as mere liter- ary counterpoint against which glo- rious patriotic sentiments will con- trast, as Wagnerian discord is used to emphasize harmony? Patriotic critics say there is no such justification at any part of the pageant. Instead, there follows: “You masses! ‘masses! Do you know your power! Do you know your. meaning” Do you know what vou can do? We're Freedom! We're Russia! We're God! Awake, masses! You are the state' You are the world! You are the universe! Take what is yours. Freedom— “Lost! Lost! Lost!" (The desperate cry pierces all the tumuit and brings complete silence on the scene.) “O People, my People, my People, ‘Where are your wits and your hearts and your souls? What have you done with the destiny 1 left you? Fools! Fools! Fools!" * % x x That the author of the above appeal to class passion was not unaware of the meaning of his words, the Amer- ican Defense Soclety cites his numer- ous articles scoffing at patriotism and especially ridiculing Defense day as a militaristic movement. The man who was thus honored by the Leéxington patriots who played his nt of revolt wrote in the New Republic Sep- tember 17, 1924: “1 cannot today i ne the circum- stances under which I would again fllfhi for this or any otqler. country. I am ly ¢ertain that'I would never fight either to further or Oppowe 8 s0- cial revolution. I believe all wars to be" wrong. % “Neither as an annoyance or-an ob- servance does Preparedness day of it- ;ewr rfluflémmuu-. :t Quhu‘:nl!ter, o , from one or.{wo rathér more prx‘u,nfl angles. - “Out’ of deféerence to the revolution as patriotically scheduled—to the Zeppelins which are now tugging at their Russian moorang: has been reschristened National nsé day or something of the sort and advertised as an experiment to prove how quick- 1y we could get our maximum fighting force under the colors. It isn't that, of course. It is an army gesture to atone for the pretty thorough falling down of the post-war reserve organi zation. * * y guess is that the reactions will fall pretty evenly into the last two categories: ‘It was a ?od war while it lasted’ and *"What the hell?” * * * And the truth of Defense day lies in the recognition, by a pompous yet hangdog army, of the fact that it has irretrievably lost i ¥hat such a-bolshevist as Sidney ‘Howard says gives its own measure,” says the n‘gnau;‘“of the American Defense Soclety, “but it takes on spe- cial significance when the writer be. comes the recognized spokesman of the patriots of Lexington, whose for- bears first voiced American independ. ence by declaring: 4 k¥ “*If they mean to have a war, let it begin here! " That somewhat explains why and how Boston now is truly “in of mind,” Yet, unlike Hancock’s idea of the tariff, patriotism is not a “local issue. i 1 4 You mass You ‘WASHINGTON, D. ©, TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1925.° NEW BOOKS ‘AT RANDOM | S THE RIVER OF SEVEN STARS. Arthur O. Friel. Harper & Bros. \ The modern wise man, having dug back into an inconceivably distant past, has discovered that the earth, upon coming to light, spent centuries and ages and aeons on merely getting things to grow without apparent ef- fort to separate these growing things into plants on the one_hand and ani- mals on the other. And, indeed, they all looked much alike and behaved much the same, so the wise man says. Their basic processes were identical— food, self-preservation, reproduction. hard to distinguish them one from an- other. ~And, despite the enormous changes that time has wrought upon each, they are in essentials not so far apart even in the present. The one] deep-seated difference between them lies in the fact that animals finally achieved the pewer of free locometion, ‘whereas the plant remains immovable in its original location. Other aiffer- ences are chlefly superficial. Coming forward abruptly to the man animal, 'one cannot fail to see among an oveér- whelming majority of these a truly vegetative fixity of. place that suggests a generally distributed throwback to an ancestry antedating the period of cleayage between plant and animal life. The soil, the home, preperty, the family, governments, have been the agents of this persistent vegetable ex- istence. On the other hand, it may-be, that those are of the most advanced development among men who have achieved the greatest freedom and scope of movement—the out-farers, the explorers, the discoverers, the ploneers., A word here for the hobo and the tramp. It may be that the vanguard of civillzation is truly with these wanderers over the earth—from Norse sailor down to polar explorer, and still on down to the mere adven- turer of yesterday and today. Not much of an hypothesis, this, but let it stand. It covers many a good name —the Raleighs and Drakes and For: bishers, and, nearer, the Nansens and Amundsens and MacMillans. On land, a hundred of these adventurers also admit us to a partaking of their strange experiences. * kK It takes little or even nothing at all to start one of these freed shoots of life off on the trail of adventure and romance—a mere rumor, some half- told tale, a dream, the fragment of an old song, the lilt of a tune. Any of these, or less than any one of them, suffices. Tt was the unsubstantial lure of legend that set Arthur Friel out, hot-foot, for the Alto Orinoco. Some- body, long ago, had told somebody else—thereby forging the first links in the endless chain of “‘they say”—that in the far Guayana land around the headwaters of the Orinoco might be found the remnants of a lost white race. A thin lure, it looks to us of the settled plant tribe, but to Friel it in- stantly became a properly executed document—signed, sealed ‘and deliv- ered to him as passport into a land of mystery, he appointed by Heaven to Dbe the agent of its clear disclosure. * * % % And here we are given the day-by- day account of that 6,000-mijle adven- ture into the hinterland of Venezuela. A waterway throughout, in craft rang- ing from the dugout type to that of some degree of advance over this prim- itive mode of travel. The crews were rivermen of the region. Up the Ori- noco to its great tributary, the Ven- tuari, then east upon this stream into Guayana the reputed home of the lost race. Curious streams, these two, whose prime output appears to be a mammoth crop of raudales— rapids—each a field of white water, rock-frenzied, lashing out venomous- ly to escape the barriers set up against it, Beside these there are the little rapids—raudalitos—dimpled and smiling things of guileful and wicked heart. Excitement keeps steady cempany with this adventurer and not a little of risk and hazard give extra point to a generally en- livened situation. The back of Friel's mind is, to be sure, pretty well oc- cupied with plans for the discovery of the lost white people. The front of it, however, is wide open to the passing events around him. And these are many and of wide variety. There is, first, the country itself in & new arrangement of mountain and plain, of stream and bordering jun- gle, new cloud patterns in the sky by day, by night a brilliant em- broidery of stars. There is, too, the glamourous haze of atmosphere play- ing strange tricks upon the eyes in many a false appearance of beckon- ing beauty. Next comes a real rich- ness of plant and animal life. To all of this Arthur Friel gives & whole- hearted attention that becomes com- municable and most interesting to one going along here. A true lover af the open, this man, upen whom no essential part of it is los® A busy man of leisure, with time enough to spare out of his real en- terprise for a thousand wayside things that make up the full picture of the land through which he is |traveling. A human person besides, who finds no small part of his pleas {ure in the folks around him, even when these hinder and delay him through their allegiance to “tomor- row” and their small concern for today. Glimpses of government and no government In this region are given, and sketches of high-handed business methods that include con- fiscation and murder if need be to meet the desired end. Good sight, an open interest, good humor and wit go along with this lone adven turer into far places. And the lost white race? No such thing, it turns out. Only here and there a far throw-back to some blue-eyed ‘an- cestor of a speclally tenacious brand of indigo blue for the coloring of his eyes. They are Indians, all right, these few and scattering examples of a “lost white rac Informing and eénjoyable in a high degree, this story ot an untraveled region opened up by so zestful and intelligent an ad- venturer a8 Arthur O. Friel. « T MOUNTAINS OF MYSTERY. Ar- thur Friel. Harper & Bros. This romance was inevitable. With setting all provided out of Arthur Friel's Venezuelan adventure, with motive and plot rurming out to meet him, what else was there for him to do’ except to turn the notion of a lost white race to account for the enter- tainment of those who delight in mys- tery and hazardous adventure and a web of the strangest of strange do- ings. With almost no departure from the setting of his actual journey into this region Friel sets up the discovery of the lost race as objective and sup- port of the novel in hand. He does more than this to sustain the realism of the whole by transferring into this fleld of fiction some of the compan- fons of his actual adventure. Con- spicuous among these is Portonio, geod scout, waywise countryman, ho: est man, fine friend and capable guide to Arthur Friel in his journey along the rivers and, later, through the Jjungle of farther Venezuela. We wel- come Portonio as the best among those of the earlier expedition. A good touch. of realism, this man, among many others which the author uses In a fine on -of romantic in- vention. A thrilling part of the story lies in the curious lure that appears to be set up before this group of ad- venturers, a lure leading toward the mysterious and forbidding mountains of the interior. After much of hazard and no end of suspense the mountains open to them—and there fies spread out the mystery of the lost race. Then follows a most desperate encounter re- vealing. "2 nister of the *old than mountains,” the lead- RO T S ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKI Q. Is Earle Sande an American?— dian race, that was rapidly becoming 0. C. W. A. The jockey Earle H. Sande was born November 13, 1899, at Groton, S. Dak. Q. How many civilian airplanes are there in this country’—J. H. | A. The Manufacturers’ Aircraft As-| sociation Yearbook approximates the number of civilian planes to be 600. This is not accurate, sinee there are a | great many planes in commercial use of which no record is made. Q. Are alligator pears grown in the | United States>—G. A. L. A. Their culture is a thriving indus- try in southern California and Florida It takes from six to eight years for an avocado plant to bear fruit. The fla vor depends upon the varietv. The variety grown in the United States is very, good and compares favorably in flayer with the imported fruit. Q. How many consecutive times has Rogers Hornsby won the batting championship of the National League? —H. M. C. A. The official batting records of the | 77 B OF Natjonal League players for the sea. son of 1924 show that Rogers Horn of St. Louis set a new record by lead- ing the hitters for the fifth conse: utive time. This betters the previous 'mark for four successive hatl{ng cham- pionships made by Hans Wagner of Pittsburgh, who led the league in 1906.07-08-09. Q. What is oft>—O. R. the Wend-over Cut- A. It is a highway which has just | elgn-born white population in been completed across the mud flats { and salt beds of the Great Salt Lake Desert between Salt Lake City and the Nevada line. the road opens the way for transcon- a avel between R s T ond |latitude and &4 degrees 43 minut Salt Lake City and nofthern central California. and successful conclusion a five-vear e fort to bridge the age-old obstac the salt desert. Q. How is cottage cheese made?— H. 8. s & A. Methods var recipe fol lows: To a gallon of sweet milk add | a cup of sour milk as a starter and warm the mixture to 75 degrees . by setting the container in a pan of hot water. Cover it with a cloth and let it stand at room temperature over night. Cut the curd in squares and heat to 100 degrees F.. holding it at that temperature for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally the curd on a piece of cheesecloth over a bowl and drain for 30 min utes. Add salt and a little sweet or sour cream if desired. Q. Please give information about the Carnegie insurance for old school teachers.—C. H. - A. The Teachers’ Insurance and Annuity Association of Ameriea is regularly incorporated life insurance company of New York and is subject to the supervision of the State super- | intendent of insurance. This associa- tion was organized in 1916 at the in- stance of the Carnegie Foundation for the. Advancement of Teaching. Its charter specifically stipulates that the business of the association is to be conducted without profit to the corporation or to its stockholders, and this enables the association to offer insurance and annuities to colles teachers at cost, without the cus tomary loading for expenses Q. Who wrote “Where nature wants to drill a man, and thrill a man, and skill & man”?—M. C. R. A. Angela Morgan wrote this poem. the title of which is “Where Nature Wants a Man.” It is included in “Con temporary Verse." Q. With whom did the idea of im- porting negro slaves to the Americas originate?—L. D. A. The early exploiters of the New World, largely Spanish, native Indians and the death rate w appalling, particularly in the Islands of Santo Domingo and Haiti. In 1517 Las Casas, a benevolent Spanish di- vine, suggested that negroes be im ported into the West Indies from Af- | stamps for return postage | | extinct. Q. How many industries use refrig eration’—P. B. M. A. Refrigeration is said to be used in 218 industries. Q. How often does the balance heel of a watch vibrate?—V. V. M. A. The balance wheel vibrates 18 000 times an hour and the ff to which it is secured rotates more than any other in the watch. Q. Can_you tell me something of the history of the guinea piz’—H B. G A. When the Spaniards first in vaded the Andean region of South America the animal was found do mesticated and living in large num bers in the houses of the Indians whom it was used for food. The cavy was carried to Europe by Dutch trad ers during the sixtéenth century Since then it has been kept in the 0Old World and in North America chiefly as a pet, and until recently has been generally regarded as an animal of little practical utility. The is readily suggested by its form, but the origin of “guinea” as applied to it is unknown, but may be a_corruption of “Guiana pig.” Q. In playing horseshoes what is the distance between pegs’—J. R. A. The standard pitching distance from_peg to peg or from peg line to peg fMe is 40 feet of for the Q. Where was center The completion of | a8 determined by the Burcay bri. to a |seconds longitude, or e vear ef.|part of Allen Count of | miles east of } Pour | with my mistreated | the 0 censu A. The center white population in the United —C. A. H. of the foreign-borr tates | Census on January 1, 1820, wa 1 cated 41 degrees 31 minutes 45 sec Vhr:; in the Ind., ahout 1° ew Haven and 16 miles l“al! of Fort Wayne. | Q. Have scientists ever determined | of ‘what the interior of the earth ix made?—B. C. D. A. Recent trend of opinion has been toward the theory that the core of the earth is metallic. The range of reliable observation and deduction however, does mnot extend below 10 miles or one-quarter of 1 per cent of one-inch | the distance to the center | s Q. 1 much trouble when washed have had so hose fading |How can I prevent this?—D. C | A. Rinse them the first time water in which a teaspoonful vinegar has been put, and they | not fade so readil in of will | Q. What are the derivations of names California and Arizona E. B. | A. The meaning of |from the Spanish word “Caliente For |nalla”—"hot furnace.” Arizona is |word formed from a description desert conditions—"arid zone.” Q. How many kinds of snakes are there?—A. R. A. In 1896 there were 1639 forms of snakes in_the world. The United States has about 162 species. Q. How did the MacPherson Blues originate?—M. D. B. A. The MacPherson Blues company originally formed whisky insurrection. It was raised in 1794 in four or five days by Col. (later Gen.) MacPherson of the Revolutior ary Army. Originally it consisted 150 men, but it was afterward exter ed into a regiment. The members were mostly Federalists. the ifornia is was a for the Any reader can get the answer 1o any question by writing The Star In- formation Bureau, Frederic J. Hask: director, Washington, D. C. This offer applies strictly to information. The bureau cannot give advice on leval. medical and financial matters. It does not attempt to settle domestic troubles nor undertake exhaustive research on any subject. Write your question plainly and Briefly. Give full name and address awd enclose 2 cents in All replies rica to save the remnant of the In-|are sent direct to the inquirer Has Check on Immigration Hampered U. S. Industry? Reports on the experiences of 10|work, and a very months under the United States im- migration law have led to discussions of the effect of the law on the labor supply of the country. There are dif ferences of apinion on the subject, some observers belleving that the pro- visions ought to be modified. Attacks on the immigration Jaw are 1aid to those who want cheap labor, the Portland Oregon Journal, : “Many of our forelgn-horn make high-type citizens. Many them are superior to numerous Ameri- ean born. promiscuous and indiscriminate. Tt went that way too long.” On the other hand, the Boston Globe predicts that the country will face a new and acute labor supply problem, and that soon.” The Globe refers to the report of Assistant Secretary of Labor Hus- band that “while Ttaly in the 10-month period was sending us but 5,503 im- migrants, an emigration of Italians from the United States took place and subtracted 24,000 from our popula- tion.” * % % % = An unexpected effect of the 2 per cent law is observed by the Schenectady Gazette. “In bygone days,” it states, “it was customary for an immigrant to work here until he earned enough to bring his wife and children or par- ents to this country. But now he finds the quota makes it a matter of vears before his relatives will be permitted to enter. As a result when he has earned what he considers sufficient, he returns to his native land. first 10 months of the new law, 16, 500 more unskilled workers left this country than entered it.” That there is a shortage of un- skilled labor in Florida is asserted by the Miami News, which, however, points out that its situation differs from that in other parts of the country. “The Northern and Central Atlantic seaboard,” it states, “draws its unskilled labor - chiefly from Furope, and sends its surplus to the Middle, North and Far West. The border States count largely on Mex can labor. South Florida, on the other hand, depends almost entirely on the imported negro labor from the Bahamas, and the restrictions placed on this class of immigration have worked a very real hardship in this community, where an increased amount of man power is needed, both in the flelds and for industrial and condtruction activities. * ok X ‘The contrast between reported con- fitions in this country and those across the water, where “‘more than a million industrious Britons are tramping the streets in search of [ — bléod that still remains in his people after untold years of black blood pre- dominance. Another uncanny figure comes out here in the person of an- other white man who has fallen into the trap so artfully set by this old ty- rant of the tribe. A story packed with thrills and expectations, based on a perfectly good theory and projected the very setting and-atmosphere of of | upon But Immigration cannot be | tic supply. For the | large number receiving government aid,” impresses the Santa Barbara New “It is un- fortunate that there could not Le a better adjustment between the labor supply and demand,” in the opinion of the News, “but if we must choose between too mueh labor and too lit tle, unquestionably the latter must be chosen. - The situation in America is preferable to that in England In reply to the suggestions based reported labor shortage, the Newark News emphasizes the domes “Though there is shown “un actual decrease in alien unskilled manpower,” declares the News, “it does not follow that there has been a national decrease in such man pow- er. In fact, the opposite is almost certainly the case. For there are ac- |cretions to the ranks of the hewers of wood and drawers of water by the coming to working maturity of scores of thousands of native born and the children of alieds, who are equipped for no other work % One influence of the which is noted by the Indianapolis News is in the National Industrial Conference Board's deduction ‘that the, purchasing power of American labor has been improved 30 per cent over 1920, which means that the con- dition of the American industrial worker is probably better than that of workers at any period in the his tory of the world.” The News em- hasizes the “‘poor distribution of la or in this country, the gross figures showing a national oversupply of la bor.” Another phase is noted by the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times with the statement: “There is good reason to believe the prospective shortage will not materialize in troublesome form. As time passes the demand for com mon labor will decline rather than in- crease. This because, more and more, {machinery is dispiacing the hand worker. The question of quality to some observers. ‘“Those who have been reading,” suggesis the South Bend Tribune, “about the illegal dis- tilling, the violent eriminality and the menace of a large number of unassimi- lated aliens who composed the mem- bérship and directorates 6f some of Chicago's gangs can see reasons why some aliens already here: should be deported if they cannot bécome law- abiding citizens. We have.passed the point where immigration® questions can be decided solely on the basis of a labor supply.” Pointing-also to the aliens arrested for crimes, the Water- loo Tribune asserts: “Our laws are nothing to them. They are after casy money. Basy money is in the liquor business just now. What we should be doing is deporting the alien leeches and criminals. * ok ok X Canadas flexible law designed to meet labor émergencies is cited by the Sioux City Tribune as “worthy of con- sideration.” In sppert of the Ameri- can system, however, the Oakland Tribune calls attention to “other im- migratién rules” and tells the stors{ of the American woman, a secretarial quota law s paramount 3"; country that sustains it. Both of | expert, who on going abroad was “‘per- these books are high entertainment, | mitted to see Europe only through a ct, the other as porthole,” because she annoumeed that- she-