Evening Star Newspaper, September 22, 1925, Page 6

-6~ W THE EV NG 8’ AR, WASHINGTON, D. [UESDAY SEPTEMBER 22, 1925. e ! THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY. . ..September 22, 1925 _.THEODORE W. NOYES...Editor ~The Evening Star Newspaper Company 10 wer B 18 Regent St England ldine: . London. The Star, with the Sunday marn- TSR TS SAN o " arara, i Yhe Citr 20 centn mek month- daile ont eents Bér month: Sunday anly. 30 cen Ordsrs mast he sent he mail or #in 5000. Colldction is madé by e end of fach month. nar month. Telanhone hit warrier &t Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dally and ¥....1%r SR40:1mo.. DAy an funda . 1rrigege: fmo Sunday only. 1vr. :1mo.. » All Other States. "\&lvymal nday. ...1 r.$10.00 ) nis £7.00 Sdnday oni $3.00 700 80c 20c Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Preca is exclusivels entitled {0 the ss for republication of all news dis- Datehes credited 0 it or not athersiee cred- fted in thia paver and also the local news DUblighed Derein. ATl riehts of publication © svecial disnatches herein are also reserved The French Debt. A spirit of cordiality pervades the Atmosphere as the French debt com- niission draws near the shores of the United States. France's distinguished “sons are coming here, they make it rlear, to meet an obligation which hey recognize, and their country récog: n{zes. In the past, for one reason or an dther, particularly for partisan politi- cal advantage, bitter things have been said in France regarding the war debt to thé United States, and Amerlcans ‘have been caustic in their rejoinder: Rut With the actual approach of thé negetiations for funding the French debt this bitterness has évaporatéed 16 ‘A very great extent. An effort will bé *made to réach quickly an agréement that Will bé fair and just to thé péople of both natiens. . As thé négotiations aré about to be- gin hére in Washington, it may not | be amiss to réview in cold fizures just | what this French débt is. Thé princi- | val sum, according to a statement of thé Treasury Department, as of May | 15 last, was $3.340.516.043. Of this| amount $407,000.000 was contracted | hy thé purchase of war supplies. The remainder was covered by advances to France under the Liberty loan acts. Approximately $1,970,000,000 was ad- vanced to France before the armistice wnd $1,027,477,800 after the signing of the armistice. Tnterest which has accumulated dur- ing the years since these loans were made totaled $870,040,904, and another 573,000,000 will be due by November 1. rhe interest is figured at 5 per cent. I'rance has paid interest on the $407,- 500,000 debt for war supplies at 5 per cent. In the funding operation which i8 now undertaken all the debts will he lumped, and France will begin pay- ing principal and interest on the whole under the terms agreed to by the two zovernments. If the whole principal And the accumulated interest are placed in oné sum théy will amount to | about $4,200,000,000. f Thé éxpéctation is, however, that there will be a reduction in the accu- mulated interest to be paid by France, as was the case in the funding of the British and Belgian and other war ! debts in this country. The original prineipal sum, however, will éventu- «lly be paid in full. The French on former occasions have urged that the entire accumu- | Jated interest should be wiped out. Dispatches from the steamship Paris, bearing the French mission to the United States, indicate that M. Cail- laux, minister of finance, is prepared 1o agree to steps by this country look- ing to the immediate reduction of thé prinelpal, without seeking a morato- rium, although the payments may be sraduated so as to be easier in the earlier years. Thé United States will bear in mind, {t’ has beén clearly intimated, the ca- pacity of France to make payments, and évery effort will be made by the Americans to make the debt paymeént as easy as possible. ———— | t ".Mayor Hylan can retire to private lité if he chooses with the proud con- sciousness that he has lasted on thé | job much longeér than usual. i e The Government’s Fire Risk. Rémoval of a large quantity 6f valuable historical documents from ! the House Office Building to the Li- hrary of Congress because of the pos- «ibility of their loss through fife in their former housing again illustrates the risk the Government runs in stor- ,iug Precious papers in places of doubt- | ful security. The House Office Build- ing 18 a fireproof structure, but it is net fully immune from risk. Con- | structed as a place of accommodation for the members of the lower branch &f Céngress, its various rooms were | use would reliévé all the departmerits of a congestion of non-current files, permitting a safer disposition in the main buildings of the current files. Abandonment - of the temporary Which prolonged thé livés 6f thé two convicts at Agrama. They weré stand- ing on the scaffold, directly under the Nooses prepared for them. They were | l ( waiting the last unwelcome attentions | buildings and their replacement by substantlal, fireproof constructions should be an immediate move of the of the hangman. Then, within a min- | ute of the end that had been decréed | by law, the warden of the prison in- Government in its economy program. Repeatedly it has been démonstrated that the continued réntal of privately owned buildings is wasteful. It is evident to the eve that the continued use of the war-time buildings is dan- serous. A comprehensivé bullding program entailing a cost of $30,000,000 formed them that the hangman, indis- posed by @ Suddenly contracted cold, would be unable to officiate, and the execution was postponed for two days. It is impossible o imagine a fiction Writer or a film scenario author resorting to such a deviee. He might have thé hangman struck by lightning 1in this city could not conceivably bé | period the congestion is certain 1o in- | crease, | loss to the Government by firé or by | specific viéws of Srebrni jand the Association for Recognition of | spite ‘t Secrétary Davis.” | capitalism and the monéyed classes, | or hit by a miotor car on his way (o thé prison, but a common cold, a meré sniffle germ! It i too much for the {normal brain to conceive. Yét it de- tually happened, which proves ance | more, ax has been proven on an In- finity | of occasions, that truth is | stranger than fiction. completed within five véars. In that and thé risk of irréparablé building collapse greatér. When it 1§ found neécessary to re- mové valuablé documents from such a substantial and relativély secure structure as the Housé Office Building for security’s sake, it is obvious that the time has come for a systematic to hécome much e Keep Casualty Hospital Open! Intimation i given that unléss there is an fhcrease in thé financial support construction reform, to give the Gov- fof the Casualtv Hospital, which is ernment for the first time in ifs,now under the supervision of Emér- existence a proper outfit of housing. [gency Hospital, it must be closed, in- No consideration of the requirements | asmuch as it is now costing more to of the public service in otheér citiés |operate than the income. This insti- should delay the undertaking of this | tution is maintained in part by funds vitally essential work here at the |appropriated by philanthropic institu- Capital, where are concentrated the [tions. Its ewn revenue from the pay- working forces of the Federal service |ing patronage is slender. Yet it ren and all the documentary material upon | dérs a valuable public sérvice in car. which they rely for their performancé | ing for emergency cases and in its dis of duty. “ | pensary work for thé -henéfit of per- sons of small means. 1t should not be closéd. It serves a fiéld of large area and & numerous population in its émergéncy work. To clote this establishment would bé to undo the work of many vears in its develop- mént and malfiténance. Some way should be found to supplément the révenués and insure the continued eperation of this valuable public insti- tution. e tos No Alien Reds Wanted Here. I it is true, as reported from Rome, that the Italian goverimeént has denied permission 1o Giuseppe Srébrnic, & Communist, to leave that country as a membér of the deléga- ton to thé Interparliamentary Urion conférence heré, the United Stateés is saved thé necéssity of refusing to ad- mit him, a8 it has refused to admit Shapurii Saklatvala. No report has | come, howévér, of thé utterances or who is de- seribed in thé dispatches as one of the most ardent Communists in the Cham- | ber of Deputies. Doubtless as a Com- muriist hé Sees evé to eve with Sak- latvala, and presumably thé Italian government appreciates that he would be unwelcome in this country. Explicit exposition of this Govern- ment's purpose regarding the exclu- ion or eviction of radicals on the oc- casion of the interparliamentary con ference has been made. All membe of Communists’ organizations, regard- less of their political or social rank, wiil, unless they are native-born citi- zens of the United States, be kep from entry, or if they should enter | will e sent aivay. H If justification were needed of the Government's action in refusing ad- mittance to Saklatvala, it is furnished by utterances at a meeting held yes- terday in New York at which speak. ers representing six organizations de- nouficed it. These organizations were thé Workérs' Party of America, the Civil Liberties Union, Friends of Free- dom fér India, the International Labol Defense, the Young Workers' Léague ——— Evolutionists still conténd that man descended from the chimpanzee. The theory 18 a blow to ancestor wor- mip. The conservative élémeént of so- if the Darwini verh “ascendsd. s had emploved the - < President Coolidze was near by a reckless motorist. Wash. |ington 18 assuming metropotitan pro- I portion. The time has long passed when |citizens either obscure or eminént could wander thé highways of the Capital with the same sense of se. curity with which they once strolled through a village lane 1 i | fover According to Gen. Mitchell's friends ta man may be officially demoted into popular prominence. The estate of the late William Jen- nings Bryan is estimated in large figures. It is possible to wrest finan- cial victory from the Jaws of political aefeat. - 1t would be a brave man, indeed, who tould consent to undertake a “die- tatorship™ over thit particular form of outdoor sport. the Irish Republic. The meeting was held in the open street, and the speak- ers addressed the crowd from the top of a stépladder. One of them was Wil. | liam Z. Fostér. Several of the &peakérs, in criticiz- ing the President, the Secrétary of State and the Government as a whole, urged the overthrow of the “capitai- istic Government,” but discreetly avoided the mention of the means of | force and violence to that end. Conse- quently they were not interfered with by the policemen present, under in- struetions 1o let the reds flame if they would so long as they did not sound a call t6 arms. The exclusion of Sak- latvala was denounced in a wide va- riety of expressions. One speaker, himself an exilé from India. declared: “1f the working classés of America demand thé presericé of Saklatvala in this country hé wiil bé hére within a month, in spite of Mr. Kellogg and in | N Ameticans have always been so lib- eral that Buropean diplomats find it {gifficult to understand how Uncle Sam would argue about a little thing like money. - Congre: has before it unlimited material for investigation. It will no doubt continue to pass new laws, thereby providing further reasons for inquiry as fo why statutes are disre garded. ———— The cost of coal mever The ultimate consumer is entitled to the privilege of complaint that he is paying increased charges for a rather perfunctory performance of the an- nual strike drama. | i —_—— e SHOOTING STARS. An intéresting sidelight on Saklat- | vala has beén #hed by the London | Financial Times, which déclarés that the Parsée mémber of the House of Cominons, who Won an election to that bedy by HKis dénunciation of BY Behold the triumph of a day That promised little cheer! We laugh at danger as we sav, “At least we still are here! is himself a véry shrewd &peculator and an accumulator of tunds. Specifi- cally, it 18 ni6téd that he made a rich clean-up in rubber shares which he bought ift November last and 86d in July at a handsome profit. So this capltalist-Communist, or Communist- capitalist—whichever hé may bé styled—is it a way to lose much of the sympathy which he has gained through the refusal of his admittance to the big Novémber meeting ih Wash- ington. The motors wind the merry horn. New weapons men contrive To make us nervous and forlorn; But we are still alive. So. ask fio tribute of renown Nor vast reward of wealth. Be thankful and restrain a frown If you still have your health. ! Censtitutionality. “You have studied the States Constitution carefully “Very carefull. rejoined Senator Sorghum. | *“And A e o United Uncle Sam is regarded by several European diplomats a& strafigély in- different to hi8 6pportunities of figur- what conclusion do you mot designed as possible repositories | for valuable papers, and the fire risk ¢ was consequently not reduced to the | point essential in such a use. But it | i= fir and away a safer place of docu- | ment storage and preservation than | many another Government structure in'Which irreplaceable files and historic archives are now kept. | .. I most of the Govérnmeént build. | fngé in this city the firé risk i§ &6 ! high ‘that if insurdncé were séught | the rates would bé almost prohibitive Papére are stored in quantities in in- flaraMmable rooms in easily burnable buildings. Especially risky are the so- calléd temporary bulldinga erécted Auring the war, which have been re- taified In service deepité the passing of thé emergency Which called them .inté Being. In séven yeéars they have Bechre decrepit, With théir founda- ‘tions insecure and trussed up by | jacks. Floars are uneven, walls are | weafing into holes. The invitation te total loss by fire {8 constant. Yet Aaily documents of priceless char- a2rtéF, upon the preservation of which immense values depend, are eXposed to dédtruction in them. “Thé proposal for an archivés Build- thz has lagged for many years. Such 2 atfucture would not be devoted to the Kéusing of current files of value, but énly of those papers that havé #2sééd out of curréncy into the char- acier of permanent dockéts for occa- cional reference. Its construction and | selves in térms of préfanity (6 indi- | cate their opinfon of bad audiences. ing as the financial backer of a great military drama. -t Audiences used to throw eggs at bad actors. Now actérs express thém- |reach?” “The same conclusion everybody |6lsé reaches. Any law I happen to idisapprove of is absolutely unconsti- llutlnnalfl' i i Sad But True. SIS Though Youth.our admiration moves Cohgrédk wisely defers the date nl; With subtle charm. its as8embly until after thé base bail |The Infant prodigy oft proves enthusiasm has subsided. A false alarm. B Saved From the Noose. Nothing in all the range of fiction or drama quite equals the climax of a piblié éxécuflén that Was schéduléd Jud Tunkins saye thé man who talks 166 fueh makéd a harelip seém like a lucky equipment. The One Request. “De you 6bject t6 bobbed hair?” ciety might have héen bettér pleased | run | Beduty contésts lead to dissensions. | grows less, | to také Place at Agrama, in Croatia, the othér day. Wé have oftén read in storiés or 86eh {ipori the movie creén, sometines upen the “spoken” stage, the incidaiit of tHe reprievé at the last moment of condemned persons, in- tensified in the film by “atmospheric” flashes of speeding horsemen or motor- ists, altérriating with the stéadily ad- vancing progression toward the final act of the tragedy. These “thrillers” are very effective. Usually the last- second rescué from death is caused By the discovery of new évideérce, thé confession of the real criminal, an effective outburst of tears from the heroine melting the heart of judge or govérnor. But névér in all of the range of fictitious narrative or of ac- tual happéninz hds a éondemnéd man | béen savéd in tl\t'ycirc\m\mncss ;,% “No,” answered Mr. Meekton. “If women desire t6 1iltdaté men it's their privilege, all T ask is that Henrietta Won’t ififist ofi Copying me so closely as to get baldhiéadea an@ wear a skull cap.” Tinmunity. The bootleg man s on thé trail. He has a plan Which cannot fail. ' Heé gayly laughs While gathering pelf, But never quaffs The stuff himself. “Lové yoh enemies if- you Kif," #id Uriclé Eben, “but don't 16t '&m turn you again’ yoh real friends.” BY CHARLES E. TRACEW ‘Thomas Heod, “humarist and poet” (a8 one biographer called him), save about as good an éxplanation of something that has pussied us since childhoced a8 an PR I8 S e Y And i Sk hélr erudities. 1t {8 not as a humorist, however. but a& 4 poet that Tom Hood lives 1t 1§ trué that the among ué teday. He B poétry, in thé proprtion of about ‘héther it bé in thée form of the 1 1_rémétibar, | o TE Rt e win ne £ igh the mght ’ a Th['?m'u‘:z 59 o “Those How where mé brother set Thé tree 16 M winlt naw rémiember. T hér. er ?, rémem| 'lfl". ndér topa Wers cloe sgainkt the sk: m' arthe oif from heavan ‘I'here are many people much far and smong them, certainly, are the ture of restraints and suppréssed deé- is what all of us feel, now and then. of the anthologies today. One would bulk of Kis humorous versé far éx- ceéds (he amount of hi§ sérlous 100 to'1. Yeét 1L (8 the one parl that lives, “S6ng of te Shirt,” or in those lines tfamiliar t6 all: o, 3 ing _if ft motrn: rame “4: ink too sbon, L" Jong & das. ad Ifume' my bréath awas! 1 rfmiémbar, 1 remembér, hite, b ers de ot i H T'lxr}:f c‘,c iére ( robin built, The laburnum birthdas— ing set! T rés 'lllnaht 1 remm| 'TI'. . Ang thon il e e ‘“g:‘ benmer posle coud hardls cool 6 {p¥ér on my brow. 1 1 ge (YRR f 1WAl 4 ehilslah fenorance. Rut now tie el v when 1 was a oy ok ox ok ther off from leaven today than Thomas Hood evéer thought of beine, bright peycha-anaiysists who solemnly “analyrze” this very poém Into a_pic sires. What Hood meant. however, we do, “I remember, 1 rémember has lived, and may be found in most hardly call it a great poem, but it is a very good one, at any rate. 0 saw o nbt tair Ines? Shes gone into the west Itions. We refrain from quoting it, he- | cause we like better the serenade: ! An, sweet, thou little kriowest how i wake and mate watches keap Ang et.” while”1 addreas thee now. Meihinks {hou smilest in (hy sidep i eweel enoqeh o maKe me wtep. That ténder {hoiight of lote and {hes: That while the world ‘s hush'd so deep Thy soul's perhaps awake to me' Sleep on. sleep on. kwest bride of slesp! With golden visions for thy dow While T this midnight vigil keep, |, And bless thee in thy siléent how | To me ‘tia sweeter than the power |, O ‘sieep. ‘and fairs dreams unfarled That 1 ‘alone. at this still hour. | in patient love outwatch the ‘world ! That last line is one of the finest to ! b6 found in all poetry. Thére is no {necessity to plow back through the {ages for a great line. There it i: | Somehow or other it reminds me of | George Eliot's “Choir Invisible.” There fs another of Hood's songs hat has perennial appeal. The titl “I Love Thee," was taken for the “bi { it Vicior Herbert's early oper étta. “The Serenade,” with an éntire Iy differént set of words, by Harry B. | Smith. T am sure thai had Hood's | version béen used it would havé hean { better all around. {1 10%s thée—T] love thee' 1. “Tis all T can may 1o 10 iy vision 40 M reamiing | FTRe v eoher of | T ene esaing when 1 {1 love thee—T] love thee' S T e Bt the night thea—I love thet ! my tonguk ndest poces I Sl e sung. 1t js the verdet of my eves |, Amidst the zas and sounk 11 iove fhbet love ihte! i 11 10ve i " THIS AND S0 hegins another of Hood's Ivries, | fincluded in most of the better colléc. | jrd bazel glance; lo"’ upon lhn..s lipd, iwe ténder tones entrance. By, Meart of hesrts. thy proofs &t olifl A be ] 1he W enhance ot Tova" thes Hatever s thy chance. % x A 2 In rénew’rid our acquaintance here with ofié ¢7 ihe léaser poéts, we must not forget: the “Hymn to the: Sun,” which ends: God 6f ve Delphic fane, No_more tH i lidléndst to hemné sublimé g:x they vl léave wine L A solemn "Sfi"r (@ ine end ot ume. Many =’ leod's poems will leave similar ¢éndes. Beésides thé ones al- ready RiSsd. théré are ‘“The Death- bad,” ir %3ilch thé poét reminded his réaders ithat the dead have “another morn thati yurk; 4 fantasy, “Flowers,” in which Ie praises the rose for all time: “Fush,” beginning with the | striking( “ités, “She stood bréast high | {amid thy, ehrn, clasped hy the golden light of ¥'iirn;” that ballad beginning, | “It was net in the Winter,” the fa Sy7g of the Shirt” and the more reihiried “Bridge of Sighs.” Befors:wa consider them let us také a sflance at Hood's attempt at “blank veras in rhyme." Here is the way he id it: Evén is ‘oné: and from the dark |1lrl|‘,l i ! & signai of (he setiing sun—oné Tron It Yomes Sod" Wl fer snes Dringa Such e | | | i gk with his poetic tongue, Young Tazes with its bright white The parcétic watehmén prowl howl grow! Alotit (1P aliacta and take up Pall Mall Sal, Who. ha* {016s 10 Bes MO job. rois fobs thistes to enter for your cash, smash, ot sh roay Chariey. in 3 desp éleep, riviiensd by Policeman B 3. fiée whit théy ré gomz whisper low] Ba puss, t Now Pact But, And | ~ep: | { Now ‘! And P while folks are in their 08 18RS, o ¢ waking, frumbla, Drat’ that beds, | cuiter catérwants. soualls. | Enotiyh-—enough! we will take our blahk verse blank, in the future, if you blease. | We paiticularly like the ballad it Wyt ot in the winter Ol tdving g & lot wa east! 1 g it season never on. 5™ Tne Warla Was fewls erownsd W fovers hen mhav e ne Taac veilizht. Brr s you 10 e She fime 51 homes Wi nucked (hém a5 we passed Thé (émous (and justly so), “Song of thi Bhitt,” suffers today as all | poem# must ‘suffer that are written |to heli: right wrongs. When the wrong.: are righted, and the ills no longet present, we somehow fail to enter smo_the spirit of tha poem But “fhe Sonz of the Shirt” yet re- mains Jthe plea of those who are forced to work until “the brain be- gins ‘¢ swim.” as Hood put it; and the mirch of lesser hours of toil and more (bt leisure in lif2 today is testi- mony ;o the fact that Hood did not write In vain. His ‘masterpléce, undotbtédly, was and i that powerful curiositv of literatfire, “The Bridge of Sighs,” be- | ginni frowned 1 bade o o, me fas | | i One more unfortunate Weary of hreath Rashily 1mportunate Goné to her death | Take her up tenderly. Lift her with care— i Faghion'd eo slenderiy. i Young. aid so fair Hal divin: jevery like. i not been suffused with vmpathy. and touched at ne with a pity almost God- "he Bridse of Sighs” would {ing more however, infinitely more. 1t} is a #feat poem, a strange thing that our hearts the same time it catiivates our fancy. 1t is Thomas Hood 1t his by ?King Cotton’ | | King Cotton is on his throne this | vear. A record world crop is prom- | ie2d, of which America will grow half, and from the cotton Stdtes come joy ful acclamations of prosperity A marked ‘recovery in Europe's buying power, with consequént favor- abie affect on the textile Industry,” is noted by the San Antonio Express, which forecasts “a day not far dis- tant when the American grower will he hard pressed to keep pace with the worid démand for his product.” The Express. further statee: “Before many vears Old World spinners will be fightlng for a chance to buy Ameri- cin cofton, under which conditions the grower should bé in position to name his own price. Of course, the industry will be fostered in other lands, particularly in the British colo- nizs and dependencles. but_that is a slow, uncertain procéss. is esti- matéd that other countries this year will grow 14,000.000 balé&: with the like Américan vield the total is 28.- 000,000 bales—the largést world crop recordéd. That clrcumstance has not affected the market adversely bécause of the growing defand.” The Philadelphia Inquirer tells of significaht devélopments abroad, re- ferring especlally to réports of in- creased acréagé planted in India this year. “Similat nes may be expect- ad,” thé Inquirer continues, ‘“from the AfricAn protectorates where cot- ton growing is possible on a large commercial seale. Italy, Bulgaria, Al glers, the Sudan and Uganda, Chosen, Brasil, Egypt, Pefu, Mexico and Asi- atlc Russia all have thelf shar, freat of small, in the world's total cotton crop now, ‘and the general tendéney is toward expanslon. Indla aloné has héén producing 8 third as much cotton as the United Statés.” * X £ % In spite of the néw eompétition. we #till have a_grip upon this crop,” says the Tolédo Blada, presénting the fatts that “of the 24.700.000 bales of cot- ton grown on thé globe last yéar the United Btates—between eastérn Vir- ginia And western Oklahoma and south 6f this line—produced 13,619,000 bales,” American pro#ipects inspire the Savannah Prééf t6 aéclare: “As in formér days 6f glory, King Cétton Again ~holds &wAy ovér Savannah's businésd world. No moré will hé bow his head t6 thé puny pest of thé bell weevil nébr curb hi# power t6 unfavor- able {nsignificance.” Shrevéport 4i86 hailé & récord érop for 1836 and annources: “Plans for a cotton earnival of & néy kind have béen proposéd. A Shreveport man urges that the people of thé city taka a day oft and hie to the cotton félda, there to labor industriously from drly morn unti] late ini the afteFficon 4nd Help harvest the carp. Let's taks 4 day and pick cotton.” More than A millieh bales for Alabamia are pre- dicted. dnd thé Anniétén Star Save: “Despité drought and hisgh "W tures; @btton erops of 13,740, .fl the 86uth and mére than 1.000, bales in Alabama Aré indicated. Show: ing that the wholé South., and éspe- fally Al 2, hive. very Mttle #round f6f worrying over edttén cron profnécts”’ ., Texas Al8o 166m8 up in the survéva. “A néw cétton aréa has come to the front.”” observes the Wall Street Jour- nal. ““That 8 wéstérn And nérthwest. érn Texas, which last véar came ints prominencé with 1.200.000 bales. With greatly increased acreagé, its prox. Power Grows In Widening World Fields ent prdspec are 1.700,000 haleg. Ther: fi not another State in the whole._ chtton belt with an indicated | crop #pproximating this new section except Oklahoma.” The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, however, calls atten- tion 14 the “charge-off ” of the Depart- ment of. Agriculture on September 1, and *hé warning by the department of pissible additional deterioration: and faggests: “IL is reasonably cer. tain sthat the September estimate | | (for Zhe country) is half a million Dales? 6 high. A crop of a flat 13, 000,049 hales ix much more likely than that fforecast by the Governmpent re POFL:: The importance of thiv distinc- tion s Texas cotton growers is (hat a 13 40,000-bale crop should mean 30. cént cotton. * 22 ox “T%0 hundred and fifty bolls of cot. ton pn a single stalk!" exclaims the El Fhso Herald. “That's one stalk. of valldy cotton. Every stalk is not like tHat, but the vield is good enough to ama® cotton growers anywhere else. Cottoy in the El Paso vallevs has madr. fnany a farmer independent fihar<ially already, and will do the samé for more.” “Fing: Cotton can lift a high head whes glvén a chance,” the Charlotte Obsecver remarks, and it continues: “The Observer has made frequent ref- efentes to the fact that the cotton ‘belt: if, this State has moved to the fdot -5f the mountains, and in some caset ha# crépt up thé slopes, but it was only this week that we discovered that: colton can be grown on thé mioubtain tops.” A -factor ih new conditiont which is récognized by the Brooklyn Eagle is tii> Aght against the boll weevil, In view of the reported siuccess of dustiug from airplanes, the Fagle comnlents: “All Americans will be pléastd ahd cotton ralsérs will see a néw future.” ——— Better Druggists. NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM 1. G M. BY FREDERI Q. What part expenditures goes for good of the Governmeént roads CHINA. Frank G. Carpenter. Double- H.T. A. day, Page & Co. The travel books of Frank Carpen- ter stand out conspicuous among books of this class by virtus of the single purpose that so obviously con- ! trols them. Never once In his work | does this author siray from the com- | plete fulfillment of that purpose. And | to it he gives the best of his years. A. During 1924 2.3 per cent of the Federal expenditures went 1o road building. Q. What is the weight of a wild zooke egE?—L.. (. § A. The Biologicnl Su the weight of geese eg the ey save that aries with n | corrigible Ituresque content and implication. | production the best of his seasoned powers. Traveling the world over, not 6nce but many times, Carpenter's sole ob- Jective was to deliver it, reglon by region, to book travelers, not only in the true form of its ph¥sical existence. but in its manifold meanings and general spirit as well. To meel Such full and exact portrayal this author chose for his travel writings through- out one of the basic methods of all teaching—that of comparison and con- trast. We learn of remote and un known things only by way of the near and familiar ones. And this is Mr. Carpenter’s constant method of getting far places across to the imme- diate consciousness of readers. Every page of his illuminates distant regions by way of the near ones. The Sudan, Afghanistan, South Africa, India, Patagonia, all these and other coun- tries set up in one aspect and another beside our own Maine and Montana, California_and the Carolinas, Michi- gan and Mississippi. It is exactly this method in its perfected use that produced the Carpenter readers on the geography of the world which thousands of school children ing with astonishing zest and under standing and profit. A fine teacher in es€ence. a trained journalist. an in- traveler, a man of singie and_definite_purpose, such was—and is—Frank Carpenter. deservedly fa- mous writer an travel themes. * X ko “China” is of a piece’ with the whalé of this man's work, an immediate and vivid picture of the new China emerg- ing from immemorial vears of tradi- tion and custom. The book repre- sents Frank Carpenter's sixth, and last, visit to this country. Theréfore, it 15 an uncommonly wavwise man that here invites us to go along with him into this part of the Orient. When Carpenter made his firat trip into China, 40 years agzo, the Manchu | dynasty wa still - strong in its medieval splendor and power. Or so it seemed. Only six years later, bow- ever. he found there the Boxer rebel lion just dving out. Subséquent visits have shown (o him the passing of the enipire, the founding of a_repub- lic—in theory at least—and the Chi- nese making swift advances toward the ways of the Western world. It Is this modern, this swift-changing China, that steps out to meet readers here in realistic portrayal. * K % £ In the comfort of going along with Carpenter, without the many discor forts of actually doing so. we advance upon China through the British gate- way, Hongkong—an island whose city is named Victoria, though never called by this name. It is all Hongkong. Then through the Portuguese town of Macao, the Monte Carlo of the Far East. From here to Canton, amazing, picture of the ancient and modern sét side by side. On up to Shanghal, to Soochow. the Athens of China: 10| tions and adopts Hankow and Peking and Port Arthur. This, roughly. outlines the course taken here. The outline, however, in- innumerable happy delayvs and for the gathering in of signifi- ecant and interesting features in this | Chinese progression out of its ancient 1. The cities, each in its peculiar stamp of appearance set in the oceupa- tion and habit ®rdained by its =ur. roundings. are, literally, moving p. tures—fine buildings, paved streets, extensive parks, actually springing into existence under Western initiative and besides these the donkey carriers, and coolie porters, and Jinrikisha bear- ers, pagodas and temples and tea houses—fascinating realities of pic- The industries of these localities engage the interest of this writer. What the people do to keep alive is brought up beside our own efforts in the same direction in China as well as in our own South And the contrasts in its culture and and manufacture that these two cotton-growing areas show is & highly interesting commentary on the ways of the Ea: hére, the woman questfon gets on its feet. That Is, it 18 literally on its feet in China. since the women are fleld workers at a few cents a day. In America, of course. the question has taken wings that lift the women nto they upper air of ease ard comfort. Not only industries but the allied &ub- Jject of economics have place here in | the comparative 6utlook that Carpen- ter so exclusively makes his own. And religion and education and poli- tics are swept into these inclusive pic tures, The book opéns right hére at a passage that illustrates the Carpenter method. He has given a description of the great Chinese Wall, dwelling upon the difficultiés of its making, the | have comparativél time consumed, it durability and age. In reference to the last point: “The Chinese Wall wag begufi sévéntéen hundred vears before America was discovered, at a timé, when our an- cestors half nakéd and altogéther savage, were wandering through the wilds of Northern Europe; when Rome was &till a republic fighting her last battlés with the Carthaginians, #nd more than two hundred years before Christ was born.” Much more to this comparison, but so much Sérvées as illustration of the illuminations that Frank Carpenter produces by way of | China begged the his method of comparison and con- trast. A great travel Americans honor and whom we shall in this | country and elsewhere are today read- | ‘There is a land of cotton | | i i jea” { Baltimor From what does Well © Bungay" derive its title’— A. Toro Bungay patent medicine. the wide advertising of which brought a fortune to the hero of the story. Q. In England. can a hushand re lieve himself of (he liability to meet his wife's bills by advertising to tradesmen not to supply goods to his wife?—A. B. L. A. While this is done in the notice is not sufficient to relieve the husband of his liability. Intima tion must be given to each individual tradesman. novel L. A England, Q. Al the furniture polishes T use | . seem to leave the furniture oily, What can I do to avoid fhis?—T. 0. R. A. Yurniture polish containing ofl or wax will not be needed if the wood is washed occasionally with clear warm water, not hot, without soap. and rubbed dry with chamois or a soft cloth. But if furniture polish con taining fixed ofls is used the furniture must he rubbed vigorously and kept in condition by daily rubbing to pre vent ol ac ilating so as fo be left r seen. Furniinre oil should be us<ed sparingly and the wood rubbed to high polish or unti it does not h: any greasy feelin Q. Do foundations organized the purpose of loaning money to hoyvs and girls for a collegé ed ion have any troublé in collecting their notes? —8. T A. Loans grantéd tn studénis on a characier basis and for the purpose of &tudy are reported by the Harmo: Foundation to be good pay. Mor than 40 per cent of the $26.385 loaned to students during the year 1922.23 hag been paid. though, according t agreement, only 20 per cent was due on February 1. 1 The feundation reports that mot a sinsle account likely to defa Q for How D, C. A. The Smitheonian Institution savs that maple sugar was known to the Indians. They were adept at making both sirup and sugar nd the latter was an article of barter among them. The white settlers imitated the Indian processes of tapping the trees and boiling down the sap. Q. was maple suzar discover 1 have heard that Esperanto may is the name of a | is | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS C J. HASKIN. )eventually be the world language. | Please tell me something about 7 P. A R | A, Esperanto was | by Lazarus Ludwig Zsmenhof, « Polish eye specialist. In 1887, under | the title, “The Language of Dr (he who hopes). There are first published | Espranto about 2,900 reot words in the ordina | literary’ Espersnto and some technical and scientific ne the World War the | gained o tar dly. pariicularls Ausiria, Hungar echoslovakia, Brazil Argentina, pile and Uruguay. 1t is estimated an educated person can learn Espéranto,sufficiently well for reading writing and conversation in threée [ montns. favor nd. German: a2 | ¢ ‘ | Q. How far have commercial afr tplanes flown? The American FEnginéering Conn- e s that about 30,000,000 miles | have been flown in regular commercial {air service throughout the world Q. What men's clothing” New Yark makes R. &P 4 City manufactures ore than 41 per eent of all men's clothing made in the United States Chicago coming. second with about 16 per cent. The men's clothing indus try is the second largest in New York, the women's garment industc standing first. cf most of the Q. Where are goldfish propagated that are sold for aguariums?—G. G A. Frederick County, Md.. produces more goldfish than any other part of ! the United States Q. What bec of the stland which capsized at her L. B. W A. After the disaster. the steamshin d was raised. repaired and sold. Eventually &he was turned over to the uses of thé naval militia of the State of INinois. Q | 80 pounds pr { steamer ek ' me If an automobile tire inflated to ure i heavier than | one inflated to 20 pounds, how ean it | be more bu nt?—C. T. B. A. Since the tire Is héavier it wonld {not ‘be more buoyant except in some {medium heavier than air; to illustrate —water. (Government aslalistics bring out the fact that the uneducated man has only one chance in 909 in attain dis | tinction. There is no reason 1whi any one showuld live undey such a hapd | cop in these days of frec sciools ano free infarmation. This paper supporis lin Washington, D. C.. the largest free nformation burcaw in existence. II ,U‘V” procure for yow the answer to any question yow may ask. Avail® wourself of its facilities for your self- improvement. Inclose a 2-cent stamy for return postage. Address The S'ar | Information Bureau. Frederic J. Has- | Kin, director, Washington, D. C.) BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. Whén 1§ a conference not a confer ehce? When it loses ihree-quarters of its membérs, and then reverses fits origi nal agenda forbidding definite resolu numerous ‘“where aseés™ telling the nations of the world, and the (nitéd States in particular, what ought to happen in international | policies. 2 ox o According to news digpatches and State Department summaries, such ap. pears to have heen the casé in the Johns Hopkins diagnosis of what ails China. The cansultation®of business men, officials, missionaries and others interested in a greater and mare prosperous China opened its dis- cussions at Johns Hopkins University last Thursday, with the declared pur. ipose of listening to the problems of China %o that all lants to the ques- tlons invelved might be compared, but no fixed policies be adopted. 1t is reported that practically all the diplomats, public officials and busipess men left soon after each had preSent- ed his own views. and by Saturday night all those who remained were missionaries. These worthy workers then got together on Sunday and adopted the report of a former inter national missionar. préssing also the sentimenis of the and West. Right | confarence, This report declared for abolishing | egtraterrifortality in China, but with out agreement as to when it should beé abolished. leaving missionaries and othéi foreigners at the mercy of Chi- nese “justice” and protect It is declaréd that the United States should take the lead—"vigorous leadership in these international negotiations —but only ifi agreement with the ather pow ers. They qualify the above by add- ing: “Our Government should not de- pend upon the complete agreement of all these powers concerned, for the simple réason that we think that eur Govérnment should not be delaved in its poliey by the acilon or failure to act of one or more, of thé powers who mall interests in the East and in China.’ Anothér réecommendation was that our Government should per- suadé China, Japan, Great Britain and France 16 keep step with us, hut it théy-are too stubborn fo do o, we should “kéép step alone” just as vigorously. A minority present op- posed even that overdecisive conclu- sion of the report, but wéfe overruled by a more determined majority. writér whom all | weré made. = ok k% In his speech at the opening of the confeterice, Ambassador Sze from onference not 10 deal in barren generalities, but to be specific in whatever recommedations He suggested. also, that “should the United States or the other miss more and moré as we realizé | powers decide that steps should be more fully the loss that wé have sus- tained. THE BOLSHEVIK der Berkman. right. This Berkman diary begins in anger, gets on it& way in a spirit_eof high hopé ana closes in despair. with Berkman by thé Unitéd Stateg Gov- YTH. Aléxan- oni and Live- ernment upon his releasé from ths |fic. re- | powers held atother sertful at the tréatmént accordéd him, | Généva—and Atlanta prison. An angry man, It promises to be more difficult to bécome a druggist in the United Statés after January 1 next than it is now. This 18 thé information that comeés from thé Authorities in the drugs, High.r standards havé béen adopted in th:: revision of the United States ]’glrl.‘mcoposh. which is to becorie officia] with the néw vear. Th¢ changéd standards will comeé officisily before representatives of the count*y's 50,000 retail druggists at the twerily-sévénth convéntion of the Na- tional; Association gt Retall Druggists, whicki will bé héld at Memphis, Tenn., confident that he still has a message | busineéss 1 ‘America—the messagé of an-|taken to make éffective their agree- for aréhism as an agent bf government, or n6 govérnment, howeveér, his mind turned toward Rus- sia, wheré he was going, to a coun- taken to satisfy the desires of the Chihidse pébple for equality And reci- procity in international treatment, the un@értakings to this end should be specific in character and not stated in the form of general or qualified in- tention.” Mr. Sze cited the case of the désire 1t bégins | 6f China to rid herself of the opium ! the deportation of Alexander | curse, and he told how the powers in | 1912 agreed to put a &top to the traf- Thirteén years latér the same conference—in thén && “unfinished " asked what stéps should be ment of 1912, but refused to pledge On_board_ship, | themsélves to any spécific action. * * x % Two things affliet China, according try at that moment trying out an ap- | to Ambassador Sze. The first is ex- proach at least toward his political [traterritoriality, whereby all foreign- ideal. rich fleld for thé sowing of his par- If not exactly that, surély a |ers aré exempt from thé operation Chinése laws and of Chinese courts, conference as ex- | adopted | ticular brand of political seed. This|and are governéd according to the book I8 a day-by-day account of Bérk. [laws of their own several nations. The man’s observations and attempts and | second is the limitations of customs experieficés in-Russla. Covering the |duties by forelgn powers, so that the country in a hopeful zeal of co-opéra- | central government of China is cur- Se;lh ber 21 to 25. ¢ Tevision kéeps step with prog- ress soward world ufifty in pharmacy prlcl%e, Which will bé quickened by the Iatérnidtional Conférénce for thé lfiedtion Formulae_for Patent , Meeting in Bfussels on meédids, le%flnhr 21. . Wil viéw with delight the dnnouncemert of {ncredsed effi- clency among thé druggists. One who follows this. profession eanhot bé too well verséd in it.—Savannah Press. Then,! ain, Otherwise. From the Kal: azbo Gazeétte, Childrén raised with great caré someiinés do jukt as well a8 those “whé just happén to srow. i tioh the record shows that at every |tailed in its revenues and is unable to turn the man met the barriers of bar- [ maintaln & strong control over the barlsmi itself—not only ignorance, but | many provincial governors. He urged the worse blight of intelligent sinis- |that China should have full power 'tér crueity and selfish amibition, So |OVver all peoplé within her boundries oftén does thi# senténce slip in from | And, éspecially, that the révenues be oné sourceé afid dnothef: “It was mtich | incréased through tariffs on imports, bétter under the taare.” A most in.|to bulld up a strong unified govern- terésting study, though it is. tinged, | ment. 100 dechlyr Sith tot pergonel paedr “The Chinese. developmen ance of the author himbeit. Duthe | | Chind." said the Ambassador. a Vigorous thinker, alfhg his spécial | MAY Put it that way, will make for liné, and a strong writer. The utter | Péace, If only because the whole of condemnation of the Russian plah and | s e — its originators and supperters by this advocate of anarchy in theory as he |and rather dispassionate summary of saw it working out in practice is a | the situation itself accompanies tha bodk of value to those who Want more | diary without making a part of it. light on the terrible &xperiénce of | This is as worth whils in its way as Rugsia trying to make {ta way out of | 1s the personal and passionate sub- the evils ‘that #0 involve iL,"A clear ! tance of the diafy. itself. culture vests a belief in the power and appeal of moral force. The entire body of Confucian teaching centers around that concep {tion. We hold material force meanly that the soldier is the lowest |order in our social heirarchy. And {this Chinese valuation will remain unchanged long as the Chinese people are allowed to progress and dévelop along the linés of their own | national geniug There were some listeners who read {into these words of peace “so long &= the Chinese people are allowed in { progress,” an implied hint as to { What might happen if the Chinese be | lievéd that they were not to be per- | mitted to mature a “Chinese develop- {ment of China." They quoted the | words of Napeleon Bonaparte: “When { China. mov she will move 1he | world." . with her 400,000,000 | people! Chinese upon s0 na, * X ok % It will be recalled that at the time | of the Washington conference of the | nine ireaty powers, September 1. a | “ldentical note” was sent to China b each of the powers, indicating a readi- ness (o modify the extraterritoriality treaties as soon as China could give | evidence of (he power of her central ign\vrnme—m to protect foreigners As to the tariffs, the identical note cited that the limitation of tariffs has been in effect since 1842, being agreed | o in order to put a stop to the uncer | tainty of tariffs fixed aftér shipmeni« | had arrived—fixed at the whim of offi cials without warning to the import ers. Since 1902 the United States and the others of the nine powers have | watched every evidence of Chinese re {form which could be taken as assur {ance that the old cause of interna- tional friction need be no longer fea ed. and that the conventional iarlff | could be abandoned. A commission is | to be appointed by the nine powers to | Investigate condiiions in China which |may justify steps to meet the desires ;0( the Chinese government. %Rk In his speech before the Baltimore jconference Secretary of State Kellogg called attention to the fact that the ion would have met in Chinn to investigate conditions on which to basé a revision of treattes. but it”was postponed a vear, at the request of China: since then the pow ers could not agree as to a date. The meeiing has now been arranged and will open October 26 in Peking. This Government is ready to consider with China a comprehensive revision of the tariff. Our relinquishing extraterritorial rights depends upon China’s demon strating her power to protect our citi zens. Secretary Kelloge. in his speech called attention to the fact that within the last few months there had been riots and anti-foreizn demonstrations which have caused loss of life, noi only of foreigners but of Chinese, and the powers have been compelled to protect their nationals by armed force There has heen a recurrence of anti forelgn demonstrations such as has not existed since the Boxer rebellion. Mr. Kellogg added: “I_am very sure that the people of the United States do not wish to con trol, by treatv or othérwise, the inter- +hal policies of China. to fix its tariffs or to cstablish and administer couris, but that they look forward to the day | When thig will not bé nécessary.” * o % i Thé Léndén Timéé. commenting upon the “idéntic note" abové referred o, spéaks of genéral sképticism as o its usefulness, and adds: “But what are the alternatives?’ ‘Thé troublés that are damaging Eritiah and aimogt all other foréign interestd aré the va- rious manifestations of a growing Chi nese national consciousness, fostered for their own unscrupulous énds by the bolshevist agitators. This growing and deflant nationallsm has assuméd a particular anti-Britlsh nature, under the sime malignant guidanee of Mos. cow, which sees in the British Empire the most solid bulwark agalnst its crazy scheme of world revolution. Merchants dnd missionaties alike e tify that the native mevement 18 fift &conomic—as the begasion of 1t& out- break suggested—but social and pa- fitical.” The Times -¢laima that the special Advantagés gained by foreigners haif 4 century ago have brought prosperits to China, as well as to the forelgneérs, but “Young China” how belléves they can manage their own affairs. It éx- presses high commendation for Secra. tary Kéllogg's &péech at the Baltimore conférence, and general approval of Amerloan policies in China, &8 outs 1ined by our Racretary of Staf (Copyricht, 1975, by Paul V. Collini.)