Evening Star Newspaper, August 25, 1925, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. 7 UESDAY August 25, 1925 THEODORE W. NOYES. . ..Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Bustngss Office: . 11th St and Pennaylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 Eagt 4%nd St. Chicigo Offics’, Tower Bulldine. Turopean Office: 18 Regent St. London, England. The Evening Star, with the Sunday morn- e edition, is delivered by earriers within the city at' 60 centa per month: dally oniy. 45 cents per month: Sunday on! f month_ Orders may be sent by mail or hone Main 5000. Collection is made by arrier at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. All Other States. Daily and Sunday 1yr.,$10.00: 1 mo.. Dally only. 1yr. $7.00:1mo., Sunday only 1yr. $5.00: 1mo.. Member of the Assoclated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dis- patches credited 1o it or not otherwise cred- ited in this paper and also the local news Dyslished herein, Al rights of publication hes herein cial disps also reserved. The Music Festival. In annoupcing a plan for a musical fastival in Washington next May the +District Commissioners put in motion A project which has been wished for ardently for some vears by the resi- dents of the Capital. They are mov- ing in the matter with foresight to ef- fect an organization in good season. Within a month a representative com- mittee of 200 citizens will be named by the Commissioners to take charge of the details of the festival. That will give full seven months for prep- aration for the event, not too long a time if the occasion is to be worthy of Washington. This city has steadily developed during the past quarter of a century as an art center, as a community of culture. It has grown greatly in pop- ulation in that time. It has not only attracted here many who are devoted to various forms of expression, but has developed home talent of e high merit. Tt is therefore capable of hold- ing a musical festival on a large scale, which, under the auspices of an enter- prising, active citizens' committee, should attract and hold the attention of the country. No program has, of course, yet been prepared. Tt will be time enough to outline the happenings of the week which it is proposed the festival should cover after the directing com- mittee is organized. Certain possibil- ities, however, are self-suggestive; an operatic performance by the excellent anization that has been successful- ly maintained here for several sea- sons; choral singing by the groups that have been developed during sev- eral vears of community vocal music; orchestral programs by an organiza- tion that can readily be formed out of the material here available; band con- certs by the Government's musical units, which rank with the best in the U"nited States—these are some of the features which at once propose them- selves. A musical festival always stimulates the best in any community. Other cities have held these affairs on a large scale and have been benefited by them. Music brings people together, stimulates their spirit of co-operation. During the war the strains of group and community sings were a factor for victory. There can be no doubt of the suc- cess of the Commissioners’ proposed Washington music festival. Those whom they invite to participate in the organization will in accepting this call render a valuable service to the Dis- triet. The Commissioners are to be thanked by the community for putting into concrete form the plan for a week of music in the Spring at the National Capital. ————. Innocents Abroad. Tourists returning from Europe are telling tales of hundreds of their com- patriots who are stranded in London and Paris waiting for opportunities to zet back home. Some of them are without means, have been taking their chances in going abroad on finding employment on westbound steamers, and spending all their funds on the eastward trip and in travel. Others are people with means neglected 1o buy their return passage before leaving home and are now standing in line at the booking offices hoping to pick up cabins and berths. Unless ad- ditfonal ships are put in service at once and funds are sent by the home folks there will be a large contingent »f late comers and some who may not zet back at al Among the latest homecomers are eight American students who worked their passage back on a liner and who left, they say, about 992 on the other side, who are looking for similar jobs. Had these 1,000 American students adopted the principle of seeing Amer- ica first they would be now in a posi- tion to return home, for at this season of the year walking is good, and there are many motorists who are willing | to give rides to pedestrians. There is vet, however, no “flivver: service” on the high se: for Mr. Ford has not put his house fleet, obtained from the Fleet Corporation, into action. Surely there is no more sporting proposition than that of going over- seas in Summer without & return pas- sage surely booked ————— Traffic Director Eldridge has com- pleted his vacation. As a consistent officfal, he limits himself to his leave and takes no chances parking overtime. is on ———— Talking Turkey. In the course of the Democratic family row in New York over the mayoralty, which is waxing warm as _the primary approaches, campaigners are using the plain speech, not exactly of the sort that the Soclety of Friends employ in their discourse, but plain enough to express their (eclings di- rectly and explicitly. Stite Senator Walker, who Is the candidate for the nomination proposed by the Tammany- Bronx combination, made rejoinder the other night to some innuéndoes of Mayor Hylan regarding siniater in- fiuences. He did not quite o the limit of colloguialism, but he left no «doubt of his meaning. e said: There is not & lobhyist. or represent. ative of any interest, large or small, whom I can't look in the eye and tell l? go—wherever it pleases me to tell him. ‘ For a declaration of indépendence this cannot well be beaten. Senstor Walker does not exactly invite a lob- byist or a representative of an “inter- est” to walk up and get his traveling direction, but he gives notice of the kind of guidance he will hand out in case any of that nefarious clan ap- pears. He does not specifically say that if thus approached by a wicked agent of the people-bleeding contin- gent he will hand out the short and explicit advice of common understand- ing. But he can, if he wishes. There is no corporation or “big-interest” clip on his tongue. But phraseology is not the winning factor in the fight. Greater New Yorkers are lining up regardless of language. They are shrewdly com- puting the chances of the rivals for the Democratic nomination on the one side and those for the Republican des- ignation on the other, and are taking their positions according to judgment. Some are going to be fooled. That is the fate of the voters everywhere and in all contests. Some guess wrong, whoever bids for their support and whatever the issues. Just at present there seem to be more New York Democrats gtessing that Walker will beat Hylan in the primaries than otherwise. In a very: short time the show-down at the polls will disclose the number of those in error. e The Last Week. Unless some agreement is reached in the meantime, work in the anthracite mines will be suspended one week from today. The most recent move looking to a solution of the controversy be- tween the miners and the operators comes from a committee of business men in the anthracite region, that small but important corner of Pennsyl- vanfa from which the fuel supply of milllons of people comes. John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, and other repre- sentatives of the miners will meet with this committee in Hazleton today, and the mine operators will meet the same committee in Wilkes-Barre tomor- row. The business men's committee in arranging these conferences has s'tessed the importance of laying be- fore both sides to the controversy the “ttitude and sentiment of the public. It the committee can really convey to the miners and the operators an ade- quate understanding of the public's at- titude toward a coal strike, with its consequent shortage of fuel, discom- fort and increased costs, it will have accomplished much. Both operators and miners are too close to the issues between themselves to get a clear view of the attitude of the consuming pub- lic. Furthermore, the business men of the anthracite region can visualize the distress which will fall particularly there is a prolonged strike, with pro- duction halted and purchasing power gone. The principals in a fight not in- frequently become totally oblivious to the blows that may reach the “inno- cent bystander.” The innocent bystander, however, giving more and more signs of irrita- tion at the prospect of a coal strike. There are threats in the air which both miners and operators may do well to heed. The governors of New Eng- land are planning not only to bring into use substitutes for anthracite during a possible strike and shortage of hard coal, but as a permanent supply. The Federali Government quietly is laying plans to aid in a rapid and general distribution of bituminous coal, coke and other substitute fuels in the event of a shutdown of the anthracite mines. The bituminous mines of the country in recent months have suffered much for lack of business, many of them closing or running part time. But al- ready production is increasing in the anthracite strike, and a week ago more than 10,000,000 tons were mined. The number of mines in the bitu- minous fields, scattered through the country, are more than capable of producing enough coal to meet the fuel needs of the Nation with anthra- cite off the market entirely. This is one of the matters which the anthra- cite industry must consider. If their market goes, both sides of the contro- sy stand to lose. The *public-be-damned” attitude on the part either of the workers or the capitalists is no longer one to be a: sumed with impunity in this country. oo One of the most patient performers in current literature is the headline writer who keeps on from year to year trying to startle the gentle read- er with annouhcements that next Win- ter's coal will be dearer. r—v— Bill Nye. At Fletcher, N. C., a ceremony is being performed today that should be noted with sympathetic attention by all the people of this country. A me- morial window and a bronze tablet are being unveiled at a church in that city in commemoration of the birthday of Edgar Wilson Nye, better known to Americans as “Bill” Nye, who died there February 22, 1896. Bill Nye was in his time perhaps the best known American. No politician or statesman, | no scientist or educator, no preacher or thespian was more famillar to the people of the United States than he. His works had been read by millions. Great numbers had heard him lecture, and had roared in enjoyment of his | arolleries. He had become an institu- tion. His death was untimely, for he was only 46 years of age when he passed. Styles of humor change and few humorists of earlier times survive in public favor long after their imme. diate vogue has ceased. New modés of whimslcal expression develop, and gotten. But Bill Nye, like, Mark Twain, “M. Quad” Lewis, James Whit- comb Riley and Eugene Field. made a permaneat mark upon the tablets of American memory. He may not be read much now. Perhaps the present generation reading him will find him less interesting than the current come- dians of letters. Yet there was some- {¢hing botb perennial and permagsut upon all residents of the region ifj soft coal mines in anticipation of the | the favorites of former days are for-| about Nye's work. His quaintness of expression was spontane and not forced. He was, mo; always clean and whelesome. He did not ap- AUGUST 25 192 THIS AND THAT peal (o a low taste. He did not resort’ to false orthography or gremmar for his effects. It would be well for the pesple of today in honor of a man who did so much more than 30 years ago to lighten the spirits of the country, in recognition of this ceremony of appre- ciation in North Carolina to read some of Bill Nye's works. They are, there- fore, referred to *‘Bill Nye and Boome- rang,” “Forty Liars” and the comic historfes of the United States and England, which are merely some of his collected works. — e In studying the Florida land boem the United States Government has been moved to withdraw certain sec- tions from free entry. This is at least an expression of confidence by Uncle Sam himself in the stability of ex- traordinary values that have asserted themselve: e —————— can be conduct- ed without fear that the “‘judges” will have to face a Supreme Court review of their decisions. There are some forms of frivolity that the Nation’s ju- diclary system has not yet been re- quested to take seriously. ————e—— The Chinese are behind the times in many ways. But their action in meet- ing the British claim for riot indem- nity with a counter claim shows they are in touch with the most modern civilizations in matters of diplomatic finances. —_————— Russian Soviets are always willing to be blamed for disturbances in China. or anywhere else. A reputa- tion for mischievous influence is bet- ter than no reputation for influence of any kind. ——————————— Julius Caesar is the one man to whom Mussolini yields admiration. It is only discreet to select an idol who is removed by centuries from a chance of breaking into the picture as a rival. ——————————— If war could be regarded as impos- sible until all the debts of previous conflict are squared up most people % .4 be in favor of extending pay- ments over a very long period. ————————_ 1f anything could make jazz un- popular it would be the recent orders of the dry agents that the orchestra keep playing while Milwaukee road houses were being raided. vt It is but matural for merchants to wish that parking restrictions at the adjacent curb could be removed for the benefit of their own particular customers. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Getting Wilder and Wilder Every Day. I've tried to dally with the fourth di- mension, A thing I never hope to understand. I've puzzied over Europe’s long dis- sension 3 With all the intellect T could com- mand. To Einstein I have turned my admir- ations, But can't remember what was the book. I've observed the League of Nations— but these traffic regulations Are the flercest thing I ever under- took. in I've pondered over puzzles so perplex- ing, Growing cross-eyed as I stared at cross-word lore. My weary brain I'm mercilessly vex- ing, Witk warlike muttering from some di=tant shore. The quest of gold by methods Rosicru- clan I follow, though suspecting it's a bluff, I bow down to evolution—a mysteri- ous institution— But they all seem plain, compared to traffic stuff. Distant Acquaintance. 1 wish you would propose a bill to make it unlawful for anybody to—"" ““Wait a minute!” protested Senator Sorghum. “I don't intend to intro- duce any more bills that the public is likely as not to refuse to be on speak- ing terms with.” Jud Tunkins says he has a good deal of respect for the weather man, even if he is one of these unrighteous scientists who don't believe there’s much use in prayin’ for rain. World Weariness. Each little invention that comes unto earth Is announced as a promise of comfort and mirth. » Each little contrivance is called a de- vice For making existence so easy and nice! Each little contraption we hailed with such pride Begins, after while, to explode or col- lide, And the way that these modern im- provements behave Make us want to turn backward and live in a cave. Unjust Insinuations. “Do you think the Prince of Wales is responsible for the latest fashions in men’s clothes?” ‘No,” answered Miss Cayenne. “I regard the Prince as entirely too seri- ous and polite a person to go in for practical joking. “De only man I know dat’s willin’ to work mo’ dan eight hours a day,” said Uncle Eben, “is some one in de neighborhood dat’'s learnin’ to play de saxophone.” ] Long-Rnn;e Shooting. From the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Chiness marksmen are fortunately erratic, but the shots fired at Canton are heard around the world. o Best Installment Plan. From the Boston Globe. g One of the best things to buy on the installment plan is an account at '# savings bank, BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Nothing shows the universal broth- erhood of man better than the fact || that the anclent Stoic philosophy fits in so well with the mood of the average American today. The practical wisdom of the old Greeks, as amplified by the Romans, needs scarcely a change to suit thou- sands of men and women living here and now. Our very dictionaries recognize this, as weil as the language of the “man in the street.” Ask the famous John Smith, “What is a philosopher?” Invariably he will reply: “A philosopher is a guy who tries to make himself content, no matter what happens.” Webster's biggest dictionary says tha term “philosopher” is now com- monly confined to speciallsts in mental and moral sciences, going on to give its third definition, as follows: “One who reduces the principles of philosophy to practice in the conduct of life, especially one who lives in accordance with the principles advo- cated by the ancient Stoics; one who meets or regards all vicissitudes with calmness.” ‘The secondary meaning of philos- ophy {tself, in this dictionary, is given as ‘“practical wisdom.” As far as the average person of to- day is concerned, no matter what his education may be, philosophy can well be taken simply to mean prac tical wisdom in the conduct of life, and a philosopher to be one who squares his ltfe according to the prac- tical theories of Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus and Seneca. The whole trend of Christianity, since the beginning, has been toward deeds, rather than mere words. St. Paul never lost a chance to tell his churches that faith without deeds was dead. The rise of various practical appli- cations of Christianity throughout the United States in the past 50 years has pointed squarely at the desire of hun- dreds of thousands of Americans for a religlon to use ‘“seven days a week,” as the saying is. The human heart today still needs practical wisdom it may apply to everyday living, whether it gets it from old books, or from new ones, whether as religion or simply as ethics and morals. No life is to be sneered at that is lived with the definite idea of trying to make the best of itself. For that rea- son there are literally millions of phi- losophers in this country, men and women—and even children—who per- haps might laygh at you if you would call them such, but who, nevertheless, are just as much philosophers as Plato or Socrates or Diogenes ever thought of Leing. It is safe to say that every person who has read thus far in this essay today is somewhat of a philosopher; for, as I have been trying to point out, philosophy is not something strange, but a way of looking at life that mil- lions of people, in all lands, already have acquired, or are acquiring. There are, of course, those who live more or less like animals, who never think about anything, never read the | papers, never know what is going on | fmmediately around them. These are the folk put down by the psychologists as “high-grade morons,” that is. grown persons whose minds have not kept up with the bodily procession. Most persons, however, of average birth and education, prefer to take life as a somewhat serious—but not too serious—proposition, especially after they have reached the so-called years of discretion. As a matter of cold fact, there is many a flapper with paint on her cheeks who looks at life in a very de- termined philosophical manner, in our way of speaking. *“A pretty philoso- pher, indeed!” you su But yes, she is a philosophér—and a pretty one, too. * ok ok K The ancient philosophers, in our sense of the term, particularly appeal to me because they talked man to man with their puplls, usually beneath the blue sky. They closely approximated that ideal of modern education set forth in the sentence about “The best school is that in which the teacher sits on one end of a log and the pupil on the other.” The ancient philosophers were th first men who wondered. Men have been doing it ever since. They did not accept the facts of nature upon their face, or as their mythologles had it, nor did they allow too free play of human emotions. Jove threw the thunderbolts, their mythologies gaid; but determined men arose to attempt to explain thunder as a phenomenon of Nature. They even attempted to explain who made Nature. They could not rest with being angry at their fellow men, but tried to reason out the passion, and why men should take steps to curb {t. In the full vigor of their primitive brains they achieved grand results, and enthroned the human mind on and for all on the pedestal from which it has never been knocked down. The niind is the only king that reigns as of old, whose sway is even greater today than in the anclent times. The original philosophers, those old lovers of knowledge, did their work =0 well that today we can but marvel, when we read words set down cen- turies and centurfes ago, so full of truth so felicitiously put they might have been written but yesterday. * k k¥ Philosophy, the universal love of wisdem, probably had its origin in Greece in the sixth century B. cording to authorities, but it seems to me Egypt deserves the honor, for some of her ancient books are begin- nings at philosophy, and were written probably long before Greece knew how to set down characters. Thales of Miletus is given the dis- tinction of having been among the first Greek philosophers. Pythagoras was another. Heraclitus taught the everlasting change going on in nature, and the Sophists later preached that the individual is the criterion of all things. ‘These concepts seemn simple today, but think of being the first men to strike them off! Socrates and Plato had great sport in refuting the Soph- ists. The ideas of these two men still live in the world. Zeno founded the Stoical school and Epicurus the one named after him. The former is something branded ma- terialistic pantheism, a terrible-sound- ing indictment, but not as bad as ft sounds! Nor is it true. Stoicism applied by Christian people of today is softened into those finer virtues which distinguish the better civilized peoples of the earth. Seneca, the great Roman Stoic essayist, was by many said to be a Christian, and there is a tradition of his having ex- changed a dozen letters with St. Paul In truth, the separate names of all philosophies vanish when applied to- day by a person with average com- mon sense. He takes the best from each system, as he is given to see the best, and welds it all together into a life. The fine art of living, with some, is a lost art. To such, Seneca is the name of a tribe of American Indians, and philogo- phy is a stuffy something interesting to a set of high-brows locked up in a library. To all. those, however, who are in- terested in the art of living well, Sen. eca is still a great man, and philosophy a great help. Americans can only speculate rm; the probable effect upon the feminist | movement of Mustapha Kemal's de- cree divorcing his wife, Latife Han- oum, but there is rather general agree- ment as to the cause. The Tu\‘»kmh President, most observers believe, simply got tired of a bossy wife. “One boss is enough, and Mustapha is to be that ome,” is the theory of the Hartford Times as to the cause. The Times remarks that “‘Latife Han- oum, emancipator of Moslem woman- hood, is herself free; faithful, fair and full of charm is she, but, by Allah, masterful. Romance was discarded for the newer cult of rationalism, and Turkish women were to find the mod- ern ideal made manifest in Kemal's household. And now it is all over. Kemal objects to the spouse master- ful.” “A symbol of the ‘new woman' in | the East,” and as such “an interna- i tional figure.” is the place accorded to Latife Hanoum by the Western ress, according to the New Yorl 18oria, which suggests that “‘we know s0 little of Turkish women, we think &0 casily of Turkish life in terms of our own motion-picture idiom, with its traditional harem scene, that when we are told there is one modern wom- an in all Turkey. and only one. we are willing to belicve it.” The World adds, however, that “there is a move- ment under way toward a new orien- tation of society in Turkey which is more than the work of any single woman.” *x % x “Why make a mystery of the Mus- tapha Kemals?" asks the Decatur Herald, with the further comment: “Probably they were incompatible. It is even probable that Mustapha got tired of a wife who addressed conven- tions on ‘Woman’s New Sphere,” and that he preferred a girl that would ive him a lot of mothering line of by talk when he came home with & headache after a hard day in the office.” A distinct “advance in meth- 0d” is pointed out by the New Haven Register, which recalls that “Turkish rulers used to throw their wives out into the Bosphorus done up in gunny sacks.” The new method, neverthe- less, leaves much to be decried, in the opinion of the New Orleans Item, which asserts that *if every man could divorce his wife thus easily, the sta- tistics would be appalling,” while the Providence Bulletin thinks it astoh- ishing “that a man should have the ‘power to decree his own divorce in a country that has adopted a republic- an form of government.” But “Kemal's divorced wife is not cast down,' remarks the Raleigh News and Observer, which quotes her @s saying: ‘“Like Josephine, I am only too happy if our parting will work toward his success and happi- ness.” Yet the Springfield Union suggests: “If the case follows quite closely that of Napoleon, it may mean a difficult future and a fatal outcome for Kemal. Napoleon had his best days before he put away Josephine.” The Omaha World-Her- ald also comments: “From all one hears about Latife Hanoum, Kemal would have done better to keep her and be proud of her.” P “The trouble with Latife Hanoum,” {the Aberdeen World believes, “ap-| pears to have been that she carried | things with too high a hand. She| did not understand moderation. “It is not so much a rebuff to the feminist movement in Turkey as it | is the masculine desire of one hus- band to rule his own household, him- self and his country,” the Albany News states, while, on the other hand, the Lincoln Star deglares: “History is rich with the stories of great men Most Americans Think Kemal Simply Tired of Bossy Wife who have possessed ‘masterful’ wives. It was a good thing for Socrates.” After setting forth that the ruler of Turkey “goes at once to the point, it all there on that one saying that his wife is_‘too " the Charleston, W. Va., Daily Mail says: “We can commend Mus- | tapha Kemal for the frankness with | which he tells us the cause, and let | it go at that.” So western has Turkey become,” the Richmond News-Leader observes, | “that its President can divorce his| wife, an intellectual young woman from Smyrna, as casually as he buckles his belt. This divorce is no unimportant proceeding. If the' wife can suddenly pack up and go back to her parents, the act which pre- ceded the divorce, may not every dissatisfied Turkish wife do as muck The Boston Transcript not possible that a sign is visible here of the inevitable failure to! achleve any lasting westernization of Turkey The Charleston, ening_Post, after citing the report that Kemal divorced his wife for interfering with his private affairs, adds the com ment: “Yet Americans think the Turks are behind the times.” ——— Learning to.Play. | mind NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM L G M SPELL OF ‘ORMANDY. Francis Miltoun. L. C. Page & Co. There are some travelers—a few of these—who are like the worker bees of the swarm, unerringly keen to the choice places of their desire from which they select and gather and store away the very heart and soul of the lovely objects of their busy flight. True, the likeness between the two falls apart a bit from the fact that this partioular sort of traveler works directly from the beginning for the benefit of others as well as for his own delight, whereas it is only under duress that the bee delivers over its golden gtore, But up to this point of ultimdw intent, they are much the same, both wizards among f00d producers—the one, out of flower Jjuice and the chemistry of its own in- sides providing the most delectable of aliments; the other out of the artistry of his own brain re-creating time and place and circumstances which he sets down before one fresh and alive and whole to feed the mind and imagina- tion of the reader. The importance of this kind of traveler to those who are place bound is incalculable. And there are many of these. To be sure, the current fic¥ion is generally afloat that everybody travels nowadays. Not true, not by a long way. And even if it were true, no skimming over inviting parts of the earth in a tourlst’s rush to be back home for the Fall opening of business can take the place of these seasoned and rounded wayfarings that are now and then projected for the vicarious adventur- ing of the stay-at-home traveler. * x % x Francis Miltoun and Blanche M- Manus, working together here in print and picture, offer us a Summer pligrimage through Normandy. Leaf- ing the book as a part of the estab- lished ritual of setting about the busl- ness of reading, one is brought to sharp attention’ by the McManus sketches. Both bits of penciling that taper off and melt away along their edges into elusive suggestions of much more than mere marks on paper could be expected to set down. Here are bits of Normandy landscape and little reaches of its coast; a donjon, now and then turning later into a chateau; an ancient cathedral and a cloister, red- olent of Romanesque or Renalssance art; a quiet farmhouse with the pigeon-loft near by; a native man or woman in the fleld: a hand-breadth of the Normandy forest and a run of the tamous cider-apple country pointing to one of the prime industries of the province as against the wine produc- tion of the rest of France; the home of Millet at Fruc Mont Michel, made familiar and deeply significant to American readers by Henry Adams, Oh, more and more of these sketches there are, all lving so sentient under thelr drift of Normandy clouds, and all giving a real {llumination to an al- ready well lighted text. * % x % Thrifty folks setting out upon any new enterprise just naturally take stock of what they already have in hand bearing upon that project. Far. ing toward a strange place. they like- wise ask themselves what they already know about that place. And we, be- longing to this forehanded clan, ask ourselves here what we know about Normandy. Almost nothing. Freak- ishly enough, out of the limbo of for- Rotten schooling a_certain date has survived—1066 A. D. So we do know that along toward a_thousand years ago one Willlam of Normandy slipped over to the conquest of England, a triumph which gave him the sounding name of Willlam the Conqueror, name whose clarion quality maybe accounts for the persistence of that date in one mind at least. - And we know. even more -yaguely, that the effect of Wil- lfam’s conquest was to England mo- mentous and lasting. Getting back to Normandy, the spot of immediate con. !cern, we find knowledge and plain in- formation tapering off to the vanish- ing point of deep ignorance. Cher- bourg, of course we know that point in the province, since there we land to hurry away to Parls, And we sense, dimly, that away to the west is a dividing line between Normandy and a curiously enticing Brittany What “a humiliating _examination this would prove to be if it were to hold any official bearing upon our place in this world, or the next. How- ever, there is hope, for ignorance be- comes unforgivable only when it is cherished and held to in the face of proffered light. And light is here at hand. Moreover, a balm for our con- fusion and hurt pride goes along with Mr. Miltoun’s bid for us to g0 with him in a Summer journey through Normandy. Right at the start he tells us that he chese this region for the very reason that it is generally so little known; that it offers many a delightful bypath off from the beaten along which the rest of the rushing Paris-ward and on to the Mediterranean coast. He assures, besides, that there is a renewing of the spirit and a refreshment of the in these old cormers of Nor- mandy that have been left in a com parative solitude to mellow in their own ancient brew, to ripen in their own patch of sunlight, to season in their own wash of the sea, to nod and sleep and waken and doze off again into the same immemorial dreams of Normandy. x xix = The first point here in a long se. quence of assurances for the whole success of our Summer journeyvings Learning to play is the chief prob- lem of the age of machinery. Work was once thought the all-sufficlent remedy for the mischief which Satan proverbially finds for idle hands to do. But no more! Work no longer occuples all the time of even the busiest hands. Some degree of leisure is mon lot of all of us. hands” consist of everybody's hdnds, for an important part of every day. And Satan, notorfously, is finding plenty of mischief for them to do. The only remedy is for us to get even busier than Satan, finding good things to do with leisure, in place of his mischiefs. The same machinery which provided the lelsure can also provide the things—Ilibraries, parks, social centers, athletic flelds and dancing halls, radio, movie and theatrical programs—but the tastes, knowledge and disposition to use these things cannot be made by ma- chinery nor bought for money. These must begin with the schools and continue through every organ of adult education and leadership. The schools would be omitting half their task if they prepared pupils only for the working part of life. One of their most useful functions {s to teach the “useless. And, with everything inviting, peo- ple must learn to prefer wholesome pleasures, or it will make little dif- ference how efficiently our machines do our work.—Ann Arbor Times-News. Over-impulsive. Tracked to his hiding place, Charles Schwartz, California chemist, charged with murder in a plot to swindle an insurance company out of $180,000, killed himself as police smashed the doors. Foolish man! Unseemly haste! He lost hope too soon—before giving the lawyers, the alienists and the women & chance to weep over him and save him from the penalty the law once in a while exacts for murder. He didn’'t even allow himself time to acquire “cell shock,” that most con- venient disease just recognized. This unfortunate murderer was too im- petuous. Unfortunately most of that type are not equally so.—New Orleans Tribune, through Normandy with Mr. Miltoun is that at the outset he is the pure workman—businesslike, definite, ex- act. So that here in this unfamiliar corner of France, we, in no time at all, know exactly where we are—an enormous advantage whether one is exploring a country, or a province, or merely trying to find his way back to bed in a coal-black room. No matter how much of a spell one hopes to cast, how deep a lure he pro- poses to set, he must first establish the reality of certain foundations be- fore, out of these, he can aspire to draw that blend of fact and imagina- tion, that interchange of substance and sentiment, that constitute the un- escapable thrall. * ik ‘This groundwork of fact the author has set in an admirable preparation for a subsequent effect upon the mind of the reader. The face of the proy- ince in its definite delimitations stands clear. One knows all the time where he is, both in relation to Normandy itself and to the great centers of France besides. Here are pointed out the ways in which the land and its mighty partner, the sea, have in im- memorial usage shaped the outlook, the work, the habits, the cusfoms of the people. Such is the foundation of the adventure. Upon this, as the weaver works on some finely pattern- ed design, this author sets the history of the province, in fortified tower, in a softened chateau life, in the com- mon industries of the common people —industries wherein the resources of the province determine the nature of these industries as the character of the people themselves set their ex- tent and permanence. By this donjon or this tower an historic name is set— William the Conqueror, Richard Coeur de Lion. In this hamlet a great name—Millet. At that city, Rouen, the deathless name of Jeanne d'Arc. In gracious chateau. Mme. de Sevigny. At that place the tomb of Chateaubriand—and so on, back and forth along a reach of high: way, more frequently in untraveled paths we go the Summer long in an adyenture whose clear refreshment lies in its fine blend of established fact and the bright clouds of senti- ment sourced Ill. faoty, 3 ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. What proportion of the gasoline produced in the entire world is used in the United States?—8. C. F. A. Continental United States used approximately 79 per cent of the total world gasoline consumption, which figure corresponds very closely to the American percentage of the total world motor vehicle registration. Q. What are the receipts to the Gov- ernment from the sale of seal and fox skins>—W. R. &. A. On the basis of warrants issued (net) the recejpts to the Government from the sale of seal and fox skins in 1924 were $110,958.00. In 1923 the re- celpts were $400,445.76. Q. What is the meaning of the word “kilocycle”?—A. T. A. It is a measure that is taking the place of “‘wave length” in radio. While wave lengths are measured in me- ters, kilocycle is measured by fre- quency. The rule for changing wave length into kilocycles is: Divide 300,- 000 by the wave length in meters. The answer is in kilocycles. Q. Was there ever an anti-Masonic political organization of any strength in this country?—B. G. A. 'In 1826 Willlam Morgan of Ba- tavia, N. Y., a Freemason, who was preparing a book revealing the secrets of the order, disappeared, and it was charged that he had been abducted and drowned in Lake Ontario. Long trials were held, but no one was ever convicted. The affair led to the for- mation of an anti-Mason party, which controlled over 30,000 votes in New York and secured the electoral vote of Vermont in 1832 Q. What did it cost the ancient Egyptians to make a mummy out of & dead body?—D. C. T. A. The Egyptians employed three methods of embalming, according to the wealth and position of the de- ceased. The most costly mode is esti- mated at a talent of silver, or about $1,250. Q. Are women more emotional than men—M. M. T. A. Psychologists estimate that 30 per_cent of the men are as emotional &s 50 per cent of the women, but this is in a measure offset by the state- ment that for generations the female has been encouraged from earliest childhood to express her emotions, while the male is taught to repress his. Dr. Thorndike of Columbia Uni- versity, says: “The individual differ- ences within one sex so_enormously outweigh the differences between the sexes in the intellectuhl and semi. intellectual traits that for practical purposes the sex differences may be disregarded. Q. How did the expression “‘dough- tace” originate’—N. H. A. Edmund Randolph of Virginia applied the term doughfaces to those slavery supporters who voted for the Missouri compromise. It was later applied to Northerners with South- ern principles Q. What was the Kegs'>—S. T. A. During the Revolutionary War an attempt was made to destroy the British fleet at Philadelphia by float- ing kegs of powder down stream upon a raft, with attachments for exploding them when they struck any object. The plan was evolved by David Bush- “‘Battle of the f Henry Ford bas tasted the blood of victory in his fight to put the horse out of business and now he with the gentle and useful milch cow. He will have quantitative production of mechanical cows, which by the mere turn of a faucet will give syn- thetic milk 1n abundance. Whether his tin cows will be called Lizzies or Fordson Lizzettes has not been declared, but, according to Mr. ¥ord, the old style flesh and blood cows must go. They are alleged to be inefficient. Like horses, which had to be fed oats and hay whether they worked or not, the Bossie of old has kept on chewing her cud whether she “gives down" or kicks over the bucket just after being “stripped.” Instead of clover hay, the new cow will consume soy beans and peanuts. The familiar soothing call to quist restive Bessie—'‘So—So-0-Bessie,” will be interpreted into “‘Soy, Bossie! Soy! Soy beans, Bossie!” The three-legged milking stool will be relegated to the antique shop, along with the spin- ning wheel and the flail. It may all be a scheme to get the stools for furnishing Mr. Ford's New England roadside hostelries. o However, there are old-fashioned folks in the Department of Asgricul- ture, and they do not take kindly to Mr. Ford's soy bean fodder. They declare that as the cobbler should not go beyond his last, so_the self- starting Lizzie should not think that because she can bawl she can give milk. * ¥ ok ¥ Mr. Ford says the cow is inefficient. { with scorn at that statement and then at the following table, which proves that the cow is the most efficient animal upon the farm, for out every 100 pounds of feed consumed she returns 18 pounds of milk. the acknowledzed “ideal food” for man. Agricultural authority states that “the dairy cow returns through her consumed than are recovered In the flesh of meat animal the following figures as to human food produced by farm animals from 100 pounds of digestible matter con- Edible solids produeed—lbe. oultry (exgs) . .. Fouliry (dreased) amb (dressed ) Bteer (dressed) Sheep (dressed)’. . “Why then should Mr. on the cow?"“they ask. before: making quantitative tin repro ductions of all the farm animals? He has already put the veterinarians out of business. Let him call to the tin chanticleer weathercock to come down off his perch. should be made of tin, so Mr. Ford might make his peace with them if he would introduce tin lambs in quantita- tive production.” . * * * * Mr. Ford is making ducks drakes of his chances of political pre- ferment. Both political parties are on record against his radical views of farming. Farmer Calvin Coolidge said in a speech at the World's Dairy Congress of 1923: “As a food product, there is no substitute for that which comes from the dairy. It contributes an im- portant element to the growth and development of both body and mind, for which there has never been dis- covered an adequate substitute.” To show that the cow is non-par san, one may quote from the Demo- cratic Senator from New York. Dr. Copeland, former health commissioner of the metropolis: . “There is no finer article of food than milk, whether for children or adults, and T am a strong exponent of its use.” The man who has fed more babies than any man in the world, Secretary of Cc;‘mmcm ‘l:o::crtNHJ::::. in ‘: made 1] al Farm' school, sid: b announces that he will do likewise | The Department of Agriculture points | of | ‘milk more of the nutritive elements | Jordan gives | ‘Wall Street brokers | imagine that the ‘lambs’ of the market | and | nell of Saybrook, Conn. The British vessels were moved just before it was put into effect, and so escaped injury but great alarm was caused in Phila delphia by the explosion which occur red when the raft hit floating ice. Q. How much loss is there weight when coffee is roasted ’—B. A. “All About Coffee” says there a shrinkage of green coffee after roasting of about 16 per cent ir weight. The coffee expands slightl in size. Q. What is proof reading”- A. It is the reading und corrections in printer's proofs. Thy proofs are the printed trial shee showing the contents or condition matter in type or otherwise ready fo: printing. Printer's proofs are usuall taken on sheets of paper with wid margin in order that correction ma be made thereon. Q. Why s there a little notch ir the boundary line between Masss chusetts and Connecticut’—L. G. B A. The Geological Survey says tha the reason for this peculiar deviatior from a straight boundary, known &< the “Southwick jog,” 18 that wher adjusting errors in the boundary line between Connecticut and _Mass chusetts as previously run com pass a long, narrow strip of land wa given to Connecticut, and the Sou wick jog ceded to Massachusetts w intended to be an equivalent area Q. What kinds of wood are for handles of tea ketties and pots?—J. P. T. A. Beech, birch, maple, and sap ar red gum are reported as being usec in largest quantities for these pu poses. It should be possible, howeve to use other hardwoods and woods, which do not contain too muct resin. Q. Why are rainbows always parts of a circle D. S. M. A. The rainbow from the sun pa: water and out again after reflectio from the far side. The light is re fracted, as we say, both where it e ters the drop and where it leaves ti drop, and thereby split up into ! original colors. Now, the red, sa: any other given color, T eve of the observer only when straight lines from drop to sun drop to eye make a parth with each other: the reason for ti comes from the laws of refraction. Q. In what States did women ¥ for President before the Iede amendment was passed?—W. H. I A. Wyoming, Colorado, ah, Idal ‘Washington, California, Kansas, Ar zona, Illinois, Oregon, Montana, an Nevada E.V. T mak (Find_out whatever you want t know. There is no room for ignorancr in this busy world. The person who loses out is the one who guesses. The person who gets on is always the onc who acts upon religble information | This paper employs Frederic J. Has kin to conduct an information burea: in Washington for the free use of the public. There is no charge except cents in stamps for return postage Write to him today for any facts you | desire. Address The Star Informat Bureau, Frederic J. Hoskin, direc Twenty-first and C streets northwe: Washington, D. C.) BACKGROUND OF EVENTS. BY PAUL V. COLLL we do not feed o children enough milk. They mus have good milk aad plenty of it There is no substitute for milk nation. we ought to have our consume twice as much milk | de “For one thing, H. Starling, an English authorits on nutrition, was sent from Englanc to Germany in 1919 to investigate Ger man conditions of nourishment, and his report was that because the babies of that country had been deprived o milk during the four ve: of the war the coming generation will marked with weak and crooked bo The American Denta} Associat two years ago, reported that its years of effort to stop the decay of teetl by the use of improved tocth powders had been in vain, for the remedy lay only in greater supply of lime through feeding more milk to children. Milk contains lime which makes bones strong, and teeth are bones Many industrial establishments h: adopted the practice of supply bottles of milk free to all workers for they find that it so increases effi ciency that it is a profitable expense * k% Mr.. Ford talks of ‘nthetic milk” in place of cow’s milk. It is true that a synthet chemist can take soy beans and pes nut oil and a few other ingredients and produce a liquid which will loo like milk. taste like milk. analyze like milk. But it will not be milk, more than oleomargine is butter. baby fed on Ford synthetic Jiquid w get the rickets just as surely us if fed exclusively on any other non-vitamine food, say the experts of the Depar ment of Agriculture. Iis teeth w decay prematurely and his bones wi break or twist, or he will develon tuberculosis. Milk is rich in vitamin A, whi absolutely essential to life-giving fc | Oleomargarine and “‘synthetic | have none of that element. except | the degree that it is mixed witl | butter “or real milk, and then. o {course, 1ot in the full proportion a the true articles of fool It has sometimes been said that the | Chinese do not use milk, and that their babies are not troubled with loss. On_the other hand. it is custom of Chinese mothers to bre: feed their babies until they are tv or three years old—or older. Ch get some vitamines by eating leaf vegetables, and tree leaves and buds but they would profit by letting cows eat the leaves and convert them int milk, say the experts. Besides, Orient als do use milk—the milk of asses goats, camels and sheep. * * *x The most outstanding authority_in America, on nutrition, is E. V. McCul lum, Ph. D., Sc. D., of Johns Hopk Tniversit: In a 500-page book ewer Knowledge of Nutrition lisheq in 1922, Dr. MecCullum (page 433): “The system of diet which can be confidently recommended with |ances that it will go a long w | ward improving the physicak of the ation, is a very one, * % “The first and most important pri: ciple is the extension of the use of dairy products. Instead of the pres ent consumption of a half a pint of milk a day there should be at least a quart per capita. Somewhat more than this would probably be nearer the optimum.” Dr. McCullum adds leafy vegetables to the desirable diet, and then he re turns to milk: “Milk also serves, through its en couragement of the growth of lactic acld-producing organisms (which cause | souring of milk) to bring about the disappearance from the intestine of those types of bacteria causing put refactive decomposition iof the food residues with the production of sub stances which are a physiolomica! abomination. This principle enunciated by Metchnikofr, is found by bacteriological studies to be sound Milk has, however, dietary properties which the famous bacteriologist did not discern, and which make it the one foed for which there is no effec tive substitute.” 4Cop3Tiehi 1825, 2 PaukBaColtand substituting A pu says fitness simple ’