Evening Star Newspaper, August 7, 1925, Page 6

6 THE EVENING STAR _ With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY. The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office. 11h St and Pennaylvania Ave New York Office: 110 Fast i2nd St Chicago Office: Tower Building. European Office ent St., London 16 R 4 The Evening Star. with the & fog edition, is delivered ! the city &t 80 cents per m 45 cents per month: Sund 20 ce per month. Orders may b by mail 0. Collection is made by telephone Main carrier at the end of each mouth Rate by Mail—Payab'e Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dailv and Sunday....] sr. $840: 1mo. 70c onl 1yr.36.00: 1 mo. A0c Sons 135 3240: 1 mo: 2oe All Ot tes. Daily and Sunday.. .1 ¥r.. $10.00: 1 mo Daily_only 1yr. $7.00 1 mo Sunday only 156 #3000 1 mo’. Member of the Associated Press. The Associated P: lusively entitled o the use for repub! patches cradited to it or ited in this paper and published herein. Al of ecial dispatches he President and-Coal Strike. According to some dispatches from Swampscott, President Coolidge is pre paring to adopt a rigorous policy to prevent disastrous suspension of the anthracite mines. Other dispatches declare th President, while ob serving the sit fully, can d nothing to pr ke. and that he has no p to such ac tion These conflicting reports, which var. with the days of August and the time for d coal strike draw nearer, are bewildering to the public. The plain ruth of the matter is that the I ent has no authority under the law to prevent a| coal strike, nor @ power to force continued oper the coal mines. The laws of United tes are made by Congress, and Congress has spent its time talking ubout coul strikes, without taking the siightest action, although entire industry has been invest 1 by a con ssion created by Congress and recommenda- tions have been to that boly An increase in the power of the Presi dent in time of emergency to take over and operate the if necessary was one of the recommendations. Perhaps the people have tired of looking to ess. At all events they are looking to the President to- day to aid them in the event of a coal strike. But it on| fair that the situation hould be clearly under stood. The President has no more authority to with an anthracite strike than he two years a thanks again to Congress—whei strike actually occurred, and the Pres ident did nothing about the matter ex- through sovernment agencies to stimulate the production of bituminous coa anthracite and to provide for priority cept proper of shipments of coal. That strike, which lasted less than three weeks was settled when Gov. Pinchot of Pennsylvania, where the anthracite mines are located, prevailed upon the operators and the miners to settle theit differences with a 10 per cent raise in wages. President Theodore Roosevelt, of big-stick fame, was faced with a coal strike problem twenty-three years ago. That strike continued for many month: before sides agreed (o submit the controversy to a commission ap- pointed by President Roosevelt to study the industry and make its rec- ommendations. Yet Roosevelt had exactly the same powers in his time that Coolidge has today to deal With a coal strike. The big stick in the hand of any President is after all merely the sup- port of public opinion. If the public is not back of the President his influ- ence in any crisis is comparatively small. In the absence of law, the force of public opinion, however, fre- quently is enormous. The public to- day is desirous above all to see that the coal supply continues unchecked. It will back the President in any de- mands he may make upon the oper- ators and the miners. But i a suspension of coal mining, always serious in its nature, follows ard the people are prevented from having the fuel they need this Winter, or are compelled to pay exorbitantly both for it, Con fay no longer be able to dodge this troublesome question Certainly there will be a demand from many quarters that some meas- ure be adopted to minimize the dan- ger of these periodically recurring coal strikes with their tendant sufferin There is a determined movement among statesmen to create enough legislative excitement to take the minds of 2 number of eminent officials temporarily off their golf scores. BRSSO The Hyattsville Grade Crossing. The point at which the Washington Baltimore boulevard crosses the Balti- more and Ohio Railroad at Hyattsville is one of the most dangerous grade crossings in the Washington neighbor- hood. The railroad company has sia- tioned watchmen there, erected gates and set lights and bells. Streams of autos cross several tracks signal of the railroad diagonally, and a driver's view of the railroad is hin- dered by the railroad station and often obscured by freight cars at rest. There has been a general demand that the grade crossing be eliminated by making the railroad and the boulevard intersect at different levels. At a large public meeting at Hyattsville it was the majority sense that the grade crossing should be abolished by extending Rhode Island avenue from the District line to Hyattsville, where it would connect with the Washington-Baltimore boule- vard without crossing the railroad. If this were done the grade crossing would be closed to vehicular traffic and a way provided for pedestrians across the tracks. A very great majority of persons who feel any concerf in this matter would welcome the abolition of the Hyattsville grade crossing by making it unnecessary that the public use it, and the closing and abandonment of the crossing would be a decided gain. Thers is a minority opinion that a substitute for | | Incitement Washington and Baltimore and Wash- ington and suburban traffic should not be rerouted and the boulevard reil- road crossing abandoned. That would be an especial gain for Hyattsville north and west of the railroad. and for communities on Rhode Island ave- nue in the District and on the exten- sion trom the District line to Hyatts- ville. 1t would mot be so good for property owners on the Washington- Baltimore boulevard in the District and for communities on it between the District and Hyattsville. The District has spent a large sum of money in widening and paving its part of the boulevard for the accommodation of interci uburban trafiic. Settle- ments have grown® along the road partly it is a great traffic way. Bladensburg and communitics east of it have grown and mrofited because they were on or close to the boule vard, and rerouting trafic by an ex- tension of Rhode Island avenue and closing the crossing at Hyattsville would leave these places on a rcad which would be used mainly for local traffic between them and Washington. The plan wonld sidetrack communities which are now on a through road. sundry advantages : by Rhode Island d a Maryland extension of it to Hyattsville. It is believed by many that the evil of the grade crossing at Hyattsville should be cured. no matter how. Most of the people of Washing- ton are interested in getting rid of e crossing, but that part of our population between Maryland avenue and Fifteenth street and along the houlevard from the District to Hyatts ville protest against being put on a back road. 1t is very largely a Mary land que 1it is likely that the reople in the Bladensburz and Hyatts- ville sections will solve it = ———— An Encouragement to Criminals. This country is suffering under a prevalence of crime. Life is at a dis- count. Property is taken by theft | The securities of organized govern- ment are broken down by defiance and resistance of the law which are but slightly checked. Search for its cause by citizens rmed at the prevaience of crime, ds to numerous factors. {One is the failure of the law enforce- |ment processes and the consequent agement of the criminal to take Delays in court processes (and the postponements of punishments {weaken the safeguards and incite efactors. sterday a jury in Chicago, which suffers perhaps more severely |than any other American community | from capital crimi; declared insane |a man w i 1 o9 | eity 0 has been convicted of mur- jder and sentenced to death. There vas no plea that the condemned man unbalanced when he killed his victim in a hold-up enterprise. The claim was that he had lost his mental | balance while in prison, chiefly through {the alternations of fear and hope through which he had passed in con- sequence of eleventh-hour efforts by his counsel to save him from the gal lows. He will be confined in an asy- {lum for the remainder of his days, un- less he regains his sanity, in which case he will be executed, unless par- doned by the governor. 1t is just such cases as this that make for crime prevalence and dis- | courage those who seek the correction of the evil of promiscuous homicide. The law of the State is flouted and slever counsel contrive to nullify the udgment of the court. In this in- stance the plea of insanity was re- futed by capable evidence and -sus- tained only by the testimony of hired experts and the arguments of attor- neys for the defendant. The jury was almost evenly divided on the first bal lot. Sentimentality prevailed against consideration of the public welfare. It is not a question whether this miserable man should lose his life or should spend the remainder of his days in confinement as insane. It is wheth- er the law which forbids the murder of an innocent person, under penalty of death, should be enforced. To the potential criminal this disposition of the case is a distinct encouragement. The fact that Russell Scott has es- caped the gallows after a series of tricks will probably cost many lives in Illinots. The justification of capital punish- ment lies in its deterrent effect. The present practice and tendency in the courts Is toward weakening this safe- guard by a mischievous mercy toward the accused and convicted slayer. In a case of proved criminality, where there is no conceivable justification, where the motive is gain or wanton destruction, softness of judgment is an to the professional and even the casual criminal. It matters not that in this case the man remains under the shadow of the gallows even while in asylum. To the criminal class he stands as one saved 1 | from the noose, one who has escaped punishment, as one more slayer who hus dodged the law. For there is al- ways the possibility, and as the course of things now runs, the probability of pardon. While there is life there is hope, «nd in the case of a murderer hope means encouragement to others to flout the law. If the North Pole never proves use- ful for any other purpose it may yet achieve distinction as a radio broad- casting station. pEe L P e Tammany Rejects Hylan. When Mayor Hylan of New York the other day declared that he would abide by the primary result if he was named as a candidate for the nomina- tion by a majority of the party lead- ers of the big city, his meaning was clear. He would be “regular” only if he was assured the nomination, and by inference that meant that if’ de- feated in the primary he would run an an independent candidate. Tammany has called him on this announcement and yesterday the lead- ers of Manhattan and the Bronx named a candidate for the primaries to oppose Hylan, who will doubtless be forthwith formally named by the lead- ers of Brooklyn, Queens and Rich- mond. Statae Senator James J. Walk- er has been designated as the organ- ization candidate, and he has been in- dorsed, with others on the slate, as far as it has been announced, by the Bronx Democrats. Leader McCooey of Brooklyn and his allies of Queens and Richmond will, it is expected, nominate Hylan Monday, with a full slate ol other candidates, Thus the issue is drawn. It is Tam- many and the Bronx organization lagainst McCooey and the other bor-| oughs. If.Hylan is nominated at the primary next month he will be regu- lar. If he is defeated he will probably run s an independent. If he is nomi- nated he will not command the full support of Tammany at the polls in November. If he bolts the primary nomination he will divide the Demo- cratic vote and open the way to & pos- sible Republican mayor. Last November the Democratic vote in Greater New York for the governor- ship was divided as follows: Manhat- tan, 326,763; Bronx, 159,005, or a total in those boroughs of 483,758; Brooklyn, 314,540; Queens, 113,599; Richmond, 10,835, a total in the pro-Hylan bor- oughs of 438,464, This indicates an anti-Hylan strength, it the boroughs vote straight—which they will not do— of 47,204. But there are many anti- Hylanites in the boroughs across the water, and many pro-Hylanites in the Manhattan-side boroughs. 7 This is not merely a local issue. It bears upon the next senatorship in New York. Gov. Smith is an out-and- out anti-Hylan Democrat. He wants to see him beaten in the primary. If the mayor is beaten in the primary or as an independent gandidate in case he is denied the regular nomination and runs notwithstanding, what price har- mony on election day in 1926 when the governor, as now is expected, offers himself as successor to Senator Wads- worth? And what price harmony in the next Democratic national conven- tion when, as is also expected, the governor appears as the candidate of the Eastern Democracy for the presi dential nomination? —————————— American films are conceded to be the best in the world. Something should be done to make American celluloid a means of bringing Euro- pean rubber to more considerate terms. ———————— Interest has apparently lapsed in the investigation of King Tut's tomb owing, possibly, to the fact that there is absolutely nothing on which to base a hope of the discovery of any “pre- war stuff. SR e Evolutionists declare that the mon- key holds no ancestral relationship to the human rac This absolves the simian from responsibility for jazz or bootlegging. . o Great interest has been shown in getting the music of the Eskimos by radio before the jazz artists have a chance to exert their modernistic in- fluence. = e SPLRE £ J5 N In this era of frank commercialism it is dificult to see why anybody should insist on holding a big street parade except a circus or & minstrel show. The katydid's song, “Six Weeks Till Frost.” is never so reliable as the ice man’s bill, as it keeps coming along even into the far Autumn. ————— A prohibition official who still has his salary left may be encouraged to feel that he still has something to build on ————— President Coolidge is said to be get- ting very little real vacation. The conscientious “'good listener” is usual- Iy one of the most overworked of men. — - It might be the course of wisdom for Mr. Scopes to forget his sudden fame and make the most of what is left of his Summer vacation. ————— There is no industry in which the ultimate consumer is made to pay so heavily and in so many ways as the bootlegging business. ——— Hindenburg is evidently determined |not to antagonize the monarchistic vote should he run for a second term. et . It is now urged that New York ought to manage to defeat Mayor Hylan, if only for variety's sake. ———— The report that movie stars were kidnaped has not in the least inter- fered with Hollywood rehearsals. ————- SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON J. B. John Barleycorn! John Barleycorn! You always were a bum. And since the hour when you were born You kept us going some. But now, as you avold each tax And sneer at Law’s endeavor Your morals have become more lax And impudent than ever! Unmixable. “1 am in favor of having more re- ligion in politics.” “I don’t believe it can be done,” an swered Senator Sorghum. “As soon as you begin introducing religion into the kind of politics we have out home it begins to sound like profanity Costume. She has a hat pulled o'er her face. No one can recognize her As she reveals an unclad grace. So who shall be the wiser? Jud Tunkins says psychoanalysis is not yet sufficiently organized to keep boys out of trouble and not waiting to assist in their defense. First Sight. “Do you believe in love at first answered Miss Cayenne. “Aft- er a man has seen a girl in her bath- ing suit he should wait and see her in her street clothes.” Among the Snows. The Eskimo I long to hear In melody expand his soul. He lives a life of chilly cheer And does not mind the price of coal. “It's easy to start an argument,” said Uncle Eben. “De difficulty is to keep it f'um becomin’ & life work.” y THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. When 1 got Charles Darwin's “The Descent of Man" home, 1 discovered that the salesgirl had put on it the wrapper intended for Jerome's “Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow,” whether intentionally or not I leave the reader to_puzzle out. During the recent miscalled “‘evolu- tion trial,” hundreds of thousands of persons talked glibly of Darwin and his idea who had never read a word in either of his twe most famous book How do T know that? Because 1 was one of them! After the trial, however, 1 resolved to do tardy jus- tice to Darwin (and to myself), so pur- chased coples of “The Origin’ of Spe- cles” and “Descent of Man." If you will stick along with me for a couple of articles I can save you the work of plowing through some 1,200 pages of small type; for Darwin gave the gist of his contentions very plain- Iy, as a scientist should; but one has to do a ot of digging to get them out. Today our old book for review, then, is “The Descent of Man,” the most readable of the two. Published first in 1871, this work has been more talked about than read by the general public ever since. In college classes, it is prescribed reading, but few students ever read it, and the professors do not expect them to. Some browse through the second part, “Sexual Selection,” but most never even take the trouble to do_that. In other words, “The Descent of Man' is not easy reading. It is dim- cult reading for the person who has not been trained in just the subjects treated. Personally, I doubt very much if it is worth while for the aver- age man or women to read it. (Espe- lly when there is some one else ready to drag out the “‘meat” for them and serve it up in a few minutes! R Just what did Darwin say about man being descended from a monkey? or, rather, the great-granddaddy of all the monkeys? In the “Origin of Species,” publish- ed 10 vears previously, Darwin had said that he would throw some light “on the origin of man and his his- tory,” implying that “man must be included with other organic beings in any general conclusion respecting his manner of appearance on this earth.” In the volume under review here, Darwin declared: “The sole object of this work is to consider, firstly whether man, like every other species, is descended from some pre-existing form: secondly, the manner of his de- velopment; and thirdly, the value of the differences between the so-called races of man.” (Were he writing to- day he would leave off that “Iy” after first, second, third.) It is notorious, the author says, that man is constructed on the same gen- eral type of model as other mammals. He has diseases in common with them is under the same laws, such as those of birth. The similarity of pattern, he ays, between the hand of man or monkey, the foot of a_horse, the flipper of a seal, the wing of a bat, is utterly inexplicable under any other view than that there was a common progenitor. Darwin says that certain muscles are abnormally found in man which are normally found in certain apes, and declares: “It is quite incredible that a man should, through mere ac- cident, abnormally resemble certain apes in no less than seven of his muscles, if there had been no genetic connection between them. “On the othet hand, if man is de- scended from some apelike creature no valid reason can be assigned wh certain muscles should not suddenly reappear after an interval of many thousand generations.” This is the first use of the word “ape” in this connection. * o At_the conclusion of the third chap- ter Darwin sa “In regard to bod- ily size or strength we do no know |minds refuse to accept as the result of | whether man is descended frecm some small epecies, like the chimpanzee, or from one as powerful as the gorilla; and, therefore, we cannot say whether man has become larger and stronger, or smaller and weaker than his an. cestors. ““We should, however, bear in mind that an animal possessing great size, strength and ferocity, and which, like the gorilla, could defend itself from all enemies, would not perhaps have become social: and this would most effectually have checked the acquire- ment of the higher mental qualities, such as sympathy and the love of his fellows. Hence it might have been an immense advantage to man to have sprung from some comparatively weak creature.” In the next chapter he says: “Judg- ing from the analogy of the majority of the Quadrumana, it is probable that Ithe early ape-like progenitors of man jwere likewise social.” Later he de- clares: “In order that primeval men, or the ape-like progenitors of man, should become socia!, they must have acquired the same instinctive fi ings which impel other animals to live in a body.” Concluding the fifth chapter, Dar- | win says: “To believe that man was aboriginally civilized and then suffered utter degradation * * * {g to take a pitiably low view of human nature. It is apparently a truer and more cheerful view that progress has been much more general than retrogres- slon; that man has risen, though by slow agd interrupted steps, from a lowly condition to the highest stand- ard yet attained by him in knowledge, morals and religion. In Chapter VI Darwin warns the reader: “We must not fall into the error of supposing that the early pro- genitor of the whole Simian stock, in- cluding man, was identical with, or even closely resembling, any existing ape or monkey.” Now hear the conclusion of the whole matter, as given in the final chapter: ‘“The main conclusion here arrived at, and now held by many naturalists, who are well competent to form a sound judgment, is that man is de- scended from some less highly organ- ized form. Facts, says Darwin, “all point in the plainest manner to the conclusion that man is the co-descendant with other mammals of & common progeni- tor.” He continues: “We thus learn that man is descend- ed from a_ hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits and an inhabitant of the Old World. “This_creature, If its whole struc ture had been éxamined by a natural- ist, would have been classed among the Quadrumana, as surely as the still more_ancient progenitor of the Old and New World monkeys. “The Quadrumana and all the high- er mammals are probably derived from an ancient marsupial animal and this through a long line of diversified forms, from some amphibian-like crea- ture, and this again from some fish- iike animal. In the dim obscurity of the past we can see that the early progenitor of all the Vertebrata must have been an aquatic animal. This animal seems to have been more like the larvae of the existing marine As- cldians than any other known form Darwin, having written one book a ready along this line, knew well that thousands refused to agree with him. “I am aware that the conclusions nounced by some as highly irreligious, but he who denounces them is bound to show why it is more irreligious to xplain the origin of man as a dis- !tinct species from some lower form, through the laws of variation and nat- ural selection, than to explain the birth of the Individual! through the laws of ordinary reproduction. The | birth both of the species and of the in- dividual are equaMly parts of that grand sequence of events which our I blind chance.” BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. What is all the talk about Wash- Ington's becoming the Art Capital of America? We have our National Art Museum and, like “pearis cast before swine” (or the bones of antediluvian ani- mals) the pictures are crowding the stuffed specimens of science, and there is agitation to induce Congress to finance a new and appropriate building for art, and give the needed space in the Museum to what it was origineily intended, and for which it is now much needed. If there were adequate room in the Na- tional Art Gallery, millions of dollars’ worth of pictures and objects d'art would come from patriotic bequests. * ok ok K There is the ultra-precious collec- tion of the Freer Gallery, a little high- brow for the masses, but ‘with stand- ards to which even the proletariat may vet be instructed. The average visitor whispers in wonder as he passes the great Japanese screen and glass- ed-in vases, and is astonished at the gilded peacock room and the mystic little canvases of Whistler—some dark to discern, but beautiful if discerned. And then the joy of the Thayers and the Metcalfs! Yes, there is beauty in the Freer collection—chaste, correct, marble-cold, austere, mystic! Even such a high-brow show appeals to the common people. ik e And last, but most democratic, is the Corcoran Gallery, with its Ameri- can and European canvases! To the Corcoran Gallery has now come the special art collection bequeathed by the late Senator W. A. Clark, The Metropolitan Gallery of New York re- jected it because it was stipulated that the collection must be kept intact for- ever as the “Clark Collection.” It could not be split up and distributed among other works, where it would fit into the Metropolitan's own scheme of classifications of pictures, perjods and schools of art. So we are to have, as our Capital's treasures, 22 Corots, Cazins, 21 Montecellos, Fortuny's masterpiece, “The Choice of a Model"”; Jules Breton’s ‘‘Harvesting Poppies'; works of Turner, Gaines- borough, Daubigny, Diaz, Rembrandt, Ribera, Hals, Greuze, Le Brun and the choice of 125 other pictures from the great Clark collection. * %k x What real interest has Art (spelled with a big A) for the common masses who do not paint, nor even buy “hand-painted” pictures, for private collections. What is Art? If one might glibly answer that most famous question of Pilate: ‘“What is Truth then, in a line, he could answer, “What is Art?” for Art is Truth, and through all the centuries men are seeking essential truth. Every art student knows that Art is not imitation of any scene or object in nature. True Art is truer thanany actual scene nature ever achieved, for Art selects only the typical, the es- sential facts, with which the particu- lar beauties of a scene are to be im- pressed upon the beholder. The acci- dental details, which distract attention from the real spirit, are eliminated, for adventitious details are ugly blots upon pure, essential truth. All the arts are alike in that par- ticular. Musié never {mitates nature, but suggests its spirit in the bit of bird warble or the roar of thunder or the tinkling of dripping water or the sigl wind. For a ure to resort to gold leaf for the brilliance of a set- ting sun would be neither Turner- esque nor natural. The painter who tells the story of the beauties of na- ture, points out what no untrained eye ever discerns until it is so directed. That is the mission of Art—of all the arts—as is often illustrated by the story of Turner's retort to the woman who protested that she could not see in a sunset the brilliant colors he painted. “Don’t you wish you could, madam?” ‘Turner replied. * & x % ““The Appreciation of Art” is the title of a most inspiring book by Eugene Neahaus, associate professor of art in the University of California. The author “classifies the public, in relation to art, as follows: The man who has esteemed art as effeminate; the man to whom everything is use- less that cannot be applied to some practical end; the Puritan, jealous of his morals lest sensuous art corrupt, and the proletarian who has thought art merely as a luxury for the rich. ‘The author finds that since the World War all these classes have tended to overcome their prejudices and to show greater comprehension of the aims and functions of art. The first class is discovering that painting the essential beauties of nature, selecting truths and sepa- rating them from ugly accidents, re- quires all the brain power of men of ability; the Puritan discovers that art can be clean; the proletarian finds | that what {s beautiful 1s coveted by the many, hence beauty has a direct demand in commerce, and to produce it is profitable as well as up- litting. Not only from that sordid consideration does the proletarian begin to appreciate art, but its in- fluence is becoming better under- stood by the masses as speaking di- rectly fo every one. “The poor, as -may be observed everywhere,” says Mr. Neahaus, “are not destitute of a sense of beauty, as many think. While they may be compelled, by force of circumstances, to gratify their taste by modest means, they offer many convincing evidences to the observing student that they possess e love of color and of form: and their love of music needs no comment.” “On the other hand,” adds the au- thor, “In the case of the rich we can- not ignore the fact that often wealth has increased faster than taste. “All the arts become intelligible and enjoyable through study of basic principles. That training fin the perception of beauty, in rich and poor alike, is fundamentally a problem of education becomes evi- dent when one recognizes that dis- cerning appreciation is the result of awakened desire, of knowledge of those principles evolved by long usage and common understand- ing. * * * Fortunately, all the arts are dependent for their appeal upon demonstrable qualities and laws which may be understood in a it meas- ure by any serious-minded, intelli- gent person, without the absolute necessity of technical experience.” * kX ok Two blunders are common in mis- judging art: One is that the man who declares that, while he is no artist, he “knows what he likes"— as if it were not necessary that his likes be correct and informed; the other is the proneness to accept anec- dote {llustrated on canvas as neces- sarily artistic. The most popular picture at the Chicago exposition was *| Home Ties,” because its story struck home to most hearts. But it was never accepted by artists, for it was Y arrived at in this work will be de-| VACATIONS Dr. W. S. Savage, Authorlty on Physieal Training. There are two ways to spoil your Summer vacation: The first is the passive method. You decide that you must have a com- plete rest, that you'll loaf and invite your soul. You leave the stale, tor- rid air of the city and establish your- self in some comfortable hotel by the sea or in the mountains. There you spend your days in an easy armchair or stretched on the sand, or being wheeled up and down the boardwalk. The change of air stimulates your ap- petite, and you take kindly to the hotel table d'hote with its multitude of courses. There are picturesque little places to have tea where the pastries are tempting d the cin namon toast comes in buttered stacks. You go back to town with a surpri ing expansion of waist line and a strong disinclination for any active pursuit. It {sn't the best way to pre- pare for another year's work. The other is the active way. You plan to crowd Into a few weeks all the golf and tennis and tramping that you haven’t had time for st home. ‘This, after a sedentary Winter, when the muscles have grown flabby. If you are a golfer you set 36 holes a day as the standard, and religiously fol- low the schedule. Or you join moun- tain-climbing parties and drive your- self all day over rough tralls because you know that a free, outdoor life is what you were really made for. At night you may be too tired to sleep soundly, but you console yourself with the thought that it's all for your best good. Nevertheless, when the vaca- tion is over your reserves of strength are more depleted than at the start. Obviously, the answer is to find the golden mean. All intelligent people should realize that exercise is essen- tial to retaining the full vigor of our faculties. It is a necessity both to young and old. But it should be an everyday function, not a luxury to be crammed into a brief vacation. Tt is not a matter of season, but a part of_each day's activities. Prepare for your vacation before- hand. If you plan a walking trip in the mountains, start, a month or two before you go, to walk more at home. Begin with two or three miles a day, working up to five or six or more. ‘Then, on the trip, schedule two or three days at the beginning, leaving the all-day tramps for later. If it's golf or tennis, don't play yourself stale the first week—stop before you've had enough. Keep up your exercise when vaca- tion is over. Gain all you can in physical condition, then retain it (Copyright. 1925.) et Taking Profit Out of War People who peer suspiciously at the whole world, who sniff conepiracies everywhere, who belfeve that wars are fomented by financial interests for the purpose of making profits, per- haps will not be satisfied with the in- formation that Bernard M. Baruch has agreed to give from $250,000 to $300,000 to finance a three-vear study of war profiteering and its effect on wars. For Mr. Baruch is a multi-millionaire. Ob- viously to the suspicious breed, he ought to be in favor of war profiteer- ing and ought to be doing everything that he can to keep the methods of profiteering hidden. Therefore. there is something suspicious about his gitt, too. But Mr. Baruch is a man of com- mon sense. He knows that there is profiteering in wars, that there is not as much of it as some people believe, and that, regardless of whether profit- eering has any effect on wars and the making of wars, there are a great many who believe it has an enormous and sinister effect. Therefore he is giving money to throw light on the subject, to get at the truth, so that all the world may know just exactly | what effect profiteerfig has. Again, he knows that the cry of many people for “taking the profit out of war" has its basis in a commendable idealism. He is in favor of taking the profit out of war, if it can be done with- out imperiling the Nation's chances of success. In other words, he is in tavor of taking as much of the profit out of war as Is practicable.—Fort Worth Star-Telegram. FetEon - S Women Who Plot. They say that the women want to bring back the German monarchy. The ex-Kaiser's wife, Princess Hermine, tours Europe intriguing for re-estab- lishment of Kkaiserdom. The spouse of the once Crown Prince of Germany is similarly active. Another who schemes is the wife of Crown Prince Rpprecht of Bavaria, Princess Antoinette of Luxemburg. She thinks her husband, long a rival of the house of Hohenzol- lern, should be Emperor. The fourth is ex-Empress Zita of Austria-Hungary. Her son Otto is 14 years old. She has six other children. She would like to see Otto on the throne of Hungary. She lifts high the banners of Hapsburg. She thinks that Admiral Horthy should good-naturedly give way to her ambitions and resign his direction of Hungarian affairs. In all this feminine plotting there is no proposal of gun or poison gad. The ‘women love the clothes and pomp of militarism rather than militarism it- self.- They love the glitter and the dress of court life. They love the adulation. But the pleas of the quartet of royal feminine schemers in Europe sound a good deal llke a call back into that yesterday to which people who have had enough of kings will not willing- ly return.—Portland Oregon Journal. Fixing the Fashion. Shell-rimmed glasses used to signity an American, just as a_monocle sig- nified an Englishman. Since the in- ternational tennis matches at Wim- bledon, however, where Queen Mary appeared in regular tortoise shells, you can't tell an Englishman from an American. Harold Lioyd made shell- rimmed glasses popular in America, but it took Queen Mary to make them popular in England. Needless to say the tortoise will now have a hard time holding on to his shelf.—Los Angeles Daily Times. not essen:lally beautiful in its depic- tion of either form or sentiment. Anecdotes are more appropriate to literature than to painting. On the other hand, many modern art tendencies are toward freak technique, as expressed in cubism and futurism, with no semblance of beauty, but only eccentric tricks of form or color. There are none of these mod- ern freaks in the Clark collection, nor in any standard art gallery, and what the experienced jus of art have thus discountenanced may be safely ignored by serious students. Two @ictures in Washington gal- leries may be taken as contrasting types: In the Corcoran gallery, “The Helping Hand” shows a little girl beside a sturdy sailor in a boat. The child's tiny hands are tugging at ti huge oar, alongside : of the - strong grip of her grandfather fisherman. It tells the story, and visitors seek it out with great interest. It is anecdotal. Art? Yes, but not ideally beautiful art. Its interest is not in its art. In the Freer Gallery is a small pic- ture by Metcalf, “The Lilacs,” as seen in moonlight. It tells no romance, but Its exquisite beauty is superb. Not great art, but true art! How often have we seen lilacs at night! Yet why have we never seen “The Lilacs” until Met saw them— thus? Forever we 1 see lilacs in moonlight as Goes Metcalf; his art |30 years has been made around Wood- row Wilson and Willlam Je: hes opened blind eyes. (Copyright, 1935, by Paul V. Colltas.) | sides of the river at Niagara Falls? Q. Will a person get a rebate for electric light charge even if he doesn't file a claim for it?—E. L. H. A. It is necessary to fill out, sign| and submit within three years the blank provided for this purpose by the Potomac Electric Power Co., Q. Is an umplire allowed to put & new base ball in play whenever he chooses?—A. . A. He may introduce a new ball at his discretion. Such a rule was made and put in practice in 1886. the number of balls used in a game varies considerably, it is said to av- erage about three dozen. Q. Are Rhodes scholarships popu- lar?—V. M. A. In 1924 there were 507 candi- dated for 32 appointments from the United States. Such a scholarship provides a stipend of £350 annually for a term of three years. Q. How many decisions has th Railroad Labor Board made?—W. S A. Since its organization in_ 1920, up to December 15, 1924, it had ren: dered 2,772 degisions. Q. In what language are the Jew i?thhildren of Palestine taught?— A. Nearly all Jewish children at- tend non-government schools, where :-llebrew is the language of instruc- on. Q. How much reclaimed Holland?—J. H. A. Through reclaiming land frdm the sea, within the last 200 years, Holland has increased her area from 8,000 to 12,000 square miles. A project i8 now being entertained to drain the Zulder Zee. This is an inland sea covering some 900,000 acres. At least 500,000 acres is fertile and worth rec- lamation. land has Q. How is “dead reckoning’ tained?—A. G. A. Recourse to such reckoning is made when astronomical observations are impossible. It is computed from the following data: Latitude and lon- gitude sailed from or last determined; the course .or direction sailed—by compass; rate of sailing and time elapsed. ascer- &, What were the Cinque Ports?— A. This was the old collective name for the five English Channel ports— Sandwich, Dover, Hythe, Romney and Hastings. They were enfranchised by Edward the Confessor, and granted special privileges by William the Con- queror. Up to the reign of Henry VII their chief duty was to supply the country’s navai contingent. In the time of Edward I they provided 5 fully equipped ships and often ex-| tended their powers by equipping pi- ratical expeditions. Dating from the revolution of 1688, their privileges and powers waned. Q. Has the Cinderella legend any foundation in history’—M. T. B. A. Like many of the fairy tales, it has such a foundation. Rhodopis, & Greek courtesan, was the recipient of the king's favor when he fell in love from the sight of her lost slip- | per. Q. Is there a public park on both —D. T. A. There is an international park 80 established by the joint action of the Legislature of the State of New York and the Parliament of the Do minion of Canada. 52. F.‘\re oranges native to Florida? A. Orange trees were found grow. ing wild when the State was settled, but it is supposed that they were introduced in the early days by the Spaniards. It is presumed that their native home was southeastern Asia Q. What is the fastest that any one has ever flown?—W. H. 8. A. Lieut. Alfred J. Willlams jof the United States Navy, on November 4, 1923, set a new aviation speed mark of 266.59 miles per hour. Lieut. Wil- liams was forced to divide the honors of the day with J. H. Brow, who at- tained a speed of ‘miles an hour in one of his flights across the course. This is the fastest speed that any hu- man being has ever passed through space. Q. Is sun light better than gas light to read by?—G. M. 3 A. The National Committee for the ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]J. HASKIN. in | order to be eligible for this refund. 1 While | Prevention of Blindness says that “any light may be good—whether it be sun light, gas light or electric light—provided there is enough of it, that it is steady, and that it 18 prop- erly shaded or dfifused. No light is good—whether natural or artificial if it fiickers or is unsteady if it is of | insufficient or of too great intensity, | if its source, when on the level of the eye, is unshaded, or if it produces glare.” Q. Just what is the so-called “law t verages 1. A A. The law of averages aims to demonstrate that while the trend of { human affairs cannot be forecast with certainty, it can be worked out to & considerable extent arithmetically by arriving at averages based on statis- tics relating to the event. This law is not universally accepted hy econo. mists. Q. Has Tom Mix's cow pony Tony died?—B. N. M A. Tony is quite all right, but he is reaching an age when he must be spared some of the hard work he has done. Mr. Mix has had a colt in training for some time to share the arduous labors of the movies with Tony. This horse's name is Napoleon, and he has just participated in his first screen release. Q. What is block tin?—A. P. H. A. Block tin is tin cast in ingots. The term also applies to pure tin as distinguished from tin plate. A large amount of tin is used for making roof ing plates, but tin in such uses is usually alloyed with lead, the result- ing plates being known technicall as terne sheets. Q. What are the principal flowers that bloom in Florida?—O. C. A. Among the innumerable varie tles are the hiscus, the poinsettia, oleander, bougainvillea, allamanda, crepe myrtle, flame vine, Mexican coral e, orchid, hyacinth, i canna and irf Q. To what extent did the Assouan Dam increase the amount of fer land in Egypt?—K. M. C. A. It nearly doubled agricultural Egypt, putting into use more than 6,000,000 acres of new land Q. In what way is the water that plants use held in the soil?’—J. E. A. The Bureau of Plant Industry says that water is held in the sofl by capillary attraction as a film on the soil particles. Q. Does any freight reach Great Lakes ports without transshipping? —C. E. A. While the largest ocean freig] | ers cannot pass through the Welland | Canal, smalle; vessels do make the trip across the ocean, then through the Gulf of St. Lawrence, St. Law- rence River and canals, Lake On- tario, Welland Canal, into Lake Erfe and other lakes as desired Q. What is the American Institute of Co-operation?—C. T. B A. It is a new organization now holding a session in Philadelphia | Students are enrolled for the meet- ing. and lectures and addresses are made before them by men experi- enced and versed in the various | phases of co-operative buying and elling. Such organizations now have {2,000,000 members, apd will transact 1$2,500,000,000 worth of business this | vear, approximately one-fifth of the total agricultural business. Q. What per cent of the boys who | enter West Point are graduated from | the institution’—H. D. B. | A Since its establishment in 1794, |about 55 per cent of the entrants | have been graduated | Boys and girls should not overlook | the Information Burcau. It can help |them in @ hundred ways. LIt can ad- wvise them how to get training in any | trade or profession It can give them linformation about the birds in their neighborhood and explain how to | build a bird house. It can tell boys | how to raise ravbits, | pigeons and other pets. and how to sell these things prontably. It can teach girls how to make new kinds of candy. We want the young folks to | get the habit of calling on our Wash |ington Bureau whenever they need help. Send in your question and in- close 2 conts in stamps for return postage. Address The Star Informa- tion Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, di- rector, Twenty-first and C streets ! morthwest. guinea pigs Many Ask But “Who Will None Answers Succeed Bryan?” Many ask. but no one answers the question, “Who will succeed to Wil liam Jennings Bryan's influence in the Democratic party One view held within the party is expressed by the Asheville Times (in- dependent Democratic) thus: ““The memory of Bryan will endure, but the Bryan wing as a separate unit of the Democratic party will hardly survive the loss of its spokesman and inspira- tion.” On the other hand, the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette (Democratic) confidently believes, “The Democratic party cannot remain Democratic and abate its mission to hold the country a Democratic nation. The notion that the object of our Government has ceased to be at all political and has become entirely business is dangerous. That is the philosophy of the Republi- can party: The living or the dying of Mr. Bryan or of any leader can in no wise nor to any degree alter the ne- cessities which confront the Demo- cratic party.” “There is not even a shadow on the horizon,” in the opinion of the Wheel- ing Intelligencer (Republican), ‘“‘that promises to resolve into an apostle of the politico-social philosophy that came to be known as Bryanism. No really able man in the Nation today seems either willing or capable to as- sume the peculiar leadership that Mr. Bryan left.” The Muncle Star (inde- pendent Republican) also takes the view that ‘there is no recognized leader, and until one appears who can inspire confidence, the policy of the party is sure to be one:of opper- tunism.” * k Xk % is needed,” concedes the Decatur Review (independent Democratic), “but when real issues face the Nation there have always been divisions of opinion and leaders for the divisions.” A denial of the opposing theory, that “the day of leadership is past, and that from this time on political action will result more and more from the average view, or a composite of what every- body is thinking,” is made by the Lansing State Journal (independent), with the assertion that “the world never has seen a time when it made ::"sblc strides forward minus leader- e % “Probably the Democratic party for a number of years will not select as “‘Leadership a leader a man of the Brvan tyvpe,” suggests the Bangor Commercial (independent).. “It seems far more likely that it will come under a more conservative leadership, leaving its radicals o suppsrt the third party, if that organization survives the blow that it received in the death of Senator La Follett The future frankly is a puzzle to the Little Rock Arkansas Democrat (Democratic). ‘“Democratic history for et Bryan, and both are gone,™ jArkansas paper. ‘“‘Around whom will {it be written during the next 30 years? There is a question that will puzzle the most sagacious of political proph- |ets.” The Democrat mentions John W. Davis, James M. Cox, Willilam G. |McAdoo and Al Smith as possible suc fcessors, but it adds: “Davis and Cox have been defeated. McAdoo never could poll the East's vote and Al Smith couldn’t win the South's." % “If the Democratic party expects to live,” in the judgment of the Columbia Record (Democratic), “it must pick up the flag from the dead hands of the fallen chieftains and call for soldiers from all parts of the Nation. A Demo crat should be a Democrat in the real sense, regardless of where he comes fro: whether his eves are brown or blue; whether he is a Jew or a Gen- tile; whether he is a Catholic or a Protestant; whether he is a_teetotaler or loves a glass of beer. The conclu- sion needs no proof. Wilson led such an army to victory. Coolidge led such a division to the goal, and every fac tional candidate from John Quincy Adams to Calvin Coolidge has fallen by the wayside at least 2,000 miles from the breastworks.” “Mr. Bryan's removal,” declares the New Orleans Item (independent Demo cratic), “will have political implica- tions withtn his party, quite ap: from the latest ideas to which he has devoted his time. The general direc tion these will take is obvious. But we think some time will be required to measure their extent and effect.” The Charleston, W. Va., Daily Mail (independent Republican) declares: “How much of Mr. Bryan's thoughts and ideas will survive the eloquent tongue that gave them utterance no man can tell.” * % ¥ % Belief that “crises create their own leaders and that America, in emer gency, will be found fully as well equipped as ever,” is expressed by the Grand Rapids Herald (independent Re- publican), which, in response to t query, “Where are the lieutenants replies: “Perhaps our first lieutenants are simply waiting for public neces- sity to uncover them. That would be the happy philosophy. We are short on dynamie public leadership in terms of national expression. And we seem to be getting shorter all the while, We need more first lieutenants. Nay, more—already we need more of them as captains. The Philadelphia Bulletin _(inde- pendent Republican) observes that “a real leader who could restore some- thing like the national viewpoint ‘would serve the country and promote healthy partisan rivairy.” The New York Evening Post (independent) adds to this that “the Democrat who can unite the party, who can somehow tuse Bryanism and Tammanyism, radi calism with conservatism, and replace sectionalism with nationalism, has not lifted his head above the political ‘horizon."