Evening Star Newspaper, October 16, 1925, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY.... THEODORE W. NOYES...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office g Chicako Office ovean Office 16 Rogent St.. England. The Evening Star. with the Sunday morn- o editi delivered by earriers within the City at B0 canta her month: daily onls. ity at'80 conts ner month: dally only. 45 cents per month Dar month. Ord; telenhone Main iy mail or is made by Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. ! Sunday \r.$8.40:1mo. unday. - -1 3 30:00: 1 mo- (151 82407 1 mol All Other States. Dails and Sunday....1 yr..$, 4 13r 1yr Member of the Associated 1mo Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dis- Fathes credited 10 3t or not otherwise cred. ited in this paver and e local news Dublished Nerein. Al Gf publication pecial dispatches herein are also reserved S The Security Pact. The security pact adopted at Lo carno yesterday touches the Yery vitals of peace in Europe. Under 1t France and Germany agree never to with each Great and Ttaly promise to take up which vio the war other again. Britai arms the nation lates m ord completely establish peace between France and Germany eement is made for a demilitarized Rhine zone to be forever inviolable Disputes which arise between France and Germany or between Germany and Belgium are to be settled by ar- bitration under treaties whose terms have now been agreed upon. Treaties of arbitration also between Germany and Poland and between Germany and Czechoslovakia await only the finishing touches. The success of the negotiations at Locarno will he hailed in this coun- try. President Coolidge in his Fourth of July ess stated emphatically the hope of the administration that rinst pact. to he Western Europe would settle its diffi culties and ange through some such phet as that now adopted to live in 'peace. With this agreement among the dominant nations of West- ern Europe and the four-power Pa- cific treaty nego! ed at the Wash- ington conference, in which the United States, Great Britain, France and Japan agreed to handle peace- fully problems arising in the Pacific area, the “will to peace” ave stretched over a great part of fhe world's surface and to have in- cluded many peoples. The prospect for prolonged peace among the gre; seems to nations of the world grows brighter. | It has been the contention of the United States that the nations of Eu- rope should set their house in order, | and arrange their terms of peace without entangling the United States within their own particular political field. This does not mean that the ‘United States has not heen keenly in- terested in the efforts of the nations across the Atlantic of their movement for the limitation of armaments, believing that in such a couwee lay the greater possibility in a of peace and relief for the peoples of; the world from the crushing burden of huge military preparations. The liope of further steps toward limita tion of armaments is brightened by the new pacts. now adopted. France as demanded some measure of se- some pledges that would give nfidence thut her borders would curit her not in be overrun by erman they were In 1870 and in 1914. Un- it til clear that France would not pleas or plans for further limitation | such pledges were given was en to of the armaments. Immediately after World War France sought pledges from Great Britain and the United States to come to her aid in | The | the event of future United States rat such a attack would alliance, however. not milit lieving that Luropean affairs should | e handled by Europe and that the ited States should remain in the Western Hemisphere. Following the ratification of thel security pact, which is confidently expected. Germany will become member of the League of Nations.| AS a matter of is intimately Lct, the seeurity pact linked with the league. France gains her pledge of security inst aggression. Germany, on the ther hand, takes a more independent place among the family of European wtions than she has held since the nistice signed in 1918. The membership of Germany in the Ieague of Nations strengthens great- the position of the league. Russia alone of the Luropean nations re- ains outside of the league. Ger- many’s adherence lessens the threat of a possible alignment of that na on With the Russian millions in, the future, again to disturb Europe and the peace of the world e This year's coal strike praceeds with unusual quletude. So far as the ultimate consumer is concerned there is but one answer to the problem, and | this he has learned through long ex- perience. — e Busy Wall Street. A year's record of activity was made vesterday, when 2,504,125 shares thanged hands on the New York Stock Exchange. Though this was not an all-time record, having been exceeded by 65000 shares November 20, 1924, in the reaction of reassurance from the election of President Coolidge, and by an even larger number of shares an the 12th of November, 1919, in a rush to sell at the beginning of the de flation period. it stands,as a remark. able apex of market activity induced by no unusual circumstances. It simply an index of universal confi dence in the stability of prosperity in hfs country ere s certain speculative element at work to make this record of Stock Exchange bus ness, many persons buying shares in undoubtedly a Qctober 16. 1925 ore | permanent | to find a solution | ecurity problem. The United | States took the lead four years ago ! lm considerable profit. But these ex- pectations are due to the prospect of increased dividends, and in some cases of additional stock issues. There are also numerous investment buyers who look to long holding of their securl- ties for the sake of the high rates of return, even on the bdsis of advanced prices. In other words, back of this {activity is a confident belief in the per- sistence of prosperous conditions. The stock market has been persist, ently “bullish™ for a long period. Thd bears, or depressors of stock, have had little chance to play the “short” game, There have been few faflures in business to unsettle the money con- ditions. There has been a high per- centage of employment throughout the country, making for a larger and increasing demand for goods of all kinds, keeping the mills In full opera- tion. There have been few labor trou- bles to unsettle the industrial situa- tion. The coal strike, now in its sec- ond month, has not affected business conditions. | 1In these circumstances it is alto- gether normal that the “public” should be buying stocks both for investment and for speculation. How long this condition can continue is any one's guess. Those who can most definitely forecast the time for the turn when the market will react to lower levels will reap a rich harvest. There is, Eowever, nothing at present in sight to suggest that the turn is at hand, or near. is eve R A Century of American Art. In 1825, when the National Academy | of Design was started. Washington | was a pretty poor excuse for a town, let alone a National Capital. The in- ceptors of what has since become America’s oldest and best known art organization therefore chose as their scene of Incorporation New York, al- most certain to become the metropolis because of the completion in that year of the Erie Canal. As the country grew, so grew the academy, until to- lday its membership represents not only forty-six States, but even thirteen foreign nations. At the beginning of 1923, the year { for the celebration of a successful cen- ! tury of growth and achievement, there | existed a far different Washington, a | great and beautitul city, art center as | well as political and administrative { center, visited annually by many thou- | sands of Americans and the proud pos- - of an institution, established { primarily for the acquisition and dis- | play of fine examples of American art, | which had the disposition and the | facllities to install to best advantage |the great retrospective exhibition { planned by academy officials to mark | their crganization's centennial. | Accordingly there will open at the Corcoran Gallery tomorrow night a | Gisplay of the best in American paint- i ing, illustration, sculpture ard archi tecture that the past century has pro- | duced. ‘The First Citizen of the city {and of the Nation, accompanied by his wife, will honor the occasion by his | presence. and will perform the simple, | but impressive, act marking the for- | { mal opening of the exhibition which nay be viewed by the general public { on the following day and for four full | weeks thereafter. After its showing here the collection will be taken to New York, and later, for it is intended, first, as a celebration and. second, as { a demonstration to the American pub- lic of a new, important and expensive expansion program to Be undertaken fswith the second century of the acad- | emy’s existence. Tts presence here re- | emphasizes and confirms Washington's claim to be considered a national art center; its tour will be distinctly in | response to a Nation-wide demand !apd to a mnoticcable renaissance in American art. ntutored and unskilled in art mat- ters there will he apparent by means of this unique collection the almost incredible progress that American art | has made since the early decades of the preceding century. No retrospec- tive exhibit of railrcad equipment covering the same period, for example, {could more pointedly demonstrate ! changes for the better. And to the technically trained and perspicacious lover even more marked. The Capital and the country at large will be inspired, instructed and encouraged. A vast amount of negotiation to .gather fittinz examples of the work f members both deceased and living wus necessary on the part of National Academy officials. Much physical la- bor and planning. including the post- ponement of its natlonally famed Piennial exhibition. was necessary on ! the part of Corcoran Gallery officials lin order to offer to the academy the | fullest ilities of the local institu- tion. Effective co-operative work has { been accomplished by the two groups | through the sweltering months of the ! past Summer. The result is certain | 10 be entirely worthy of all these ef- | forts. | The motor bus will not displace | electric railways, experts declare. Very few forms of transportation are | entirely ai Ibe the achievements of invention. | tully occupied. ! Defeat. Base ball's uncertainties, that make ‘it the most fascinating and popular | of sports, have just been demonstrated vesterday with the defeat of the Wash- ington team by the Pittsburghers. The Nationals, title holders and rated as the probable victors in the 1925 clésic, bad gained a three-to.one posi- tion in the race, more game to win the championship once more. Then game after game was lost by them. and the apparently impossible task of winning three in a !row was accomplished by the “Pi- rates.” Yesterday's battle, fought in ! mud and drizzle, was a see-saw con- | test. the Nautionals taking what seemed to be a commanding lead in the first inning, only to lose it. then to reguin {a onerun margin and finally in the eighth inning td yield the lead once more and, as it proved, the game. 1t was not a good game of ball. It was poorly pitched and poorly flelded, at least in major part, throughout the | Even to the eye and mind of those | of art the development will be | laced, however great may | Zven the old wheelbarrow is still use- | | atresh in the world series that ended | needing only one | which it was played. Pittsburgh's premier pitcher, winner of two games, was knoeked out of the box in the first inning. Washington's pitcher, likewise winner of two games, was batted hard throughout. He should have been taken out. But he was kept in action. It is asserted by critics of the Wash- ington management that sentiment overruled judgment. There was un- deniably a strong feeling of hope that Johnson, handicapped by a strain and the weariness of pitching three times in a world series, would win his game and the champlionship. It was not to be. The charge of sentiment is denied by the Washington manager. The fact stands that if Johnson had been effectively supported he would not have been beaten. So goes the world championship from Washington. It has a great ball team, efficiently managed and capable in better conditions of maintaining its standing as the premier of both leagues. There is bitter disappoint- ment among the supporters of the game in the Capital. There is some criticism. There is even some sus- plcfon, unfortunately given blatant ex- pression by hard losers, that the game is not “‘on the square,” that the series was “fixed,” the players “bought.” This foolish talk, unsupported by the slightest evidence, is unfortunate. It betrays a complete lack of understand- ing. In the old days, when Washington was persistently a trailer in the league races, the hopes of the local patrons of the game were sustained by promises of better things ‘“next year.” Now, with the world cham- pionship so gallantly won in 1924 sur- rendered to @ team worthy in every respect to bear that title, there is the same promise for 1926. It must not be forgotten in this hour of disappoint- ment that the Washington team dur- Ing the season just closed made a markable race and a gallant winnin, it is still, notwithstanding yesterday misfortune, the pennant bearer of the American League. et e The determination of the MacMillan expedition officers to keep the “dra matic” out of their reports as far as possible showed good judgment. The element of theatricism was supplied to a degree that should suffice in this connection for all time to come. e French women are learning to trim their daughters’ bobbed hair as a mat- ter of economy. The family hair cut has been the horror of the small boy. Perhaps the small girl will learn to like it. . - ——— It will not be long before the as- sepablage of Congress, which will en- able Washington, D. C., to lopk bac on the result of the world series as one of the least of its troubles. ————— to see Walter Johnsen have a base Dall team of his own. Tt will be a won- der if he can teach the members all he knows about the game. ———t—— 1t is the privilege of a creditor among nations or individuals to see that the money is not likely to be used recklessly before making further loans. o Germany s making every effort {to have her industry so organized as to be able to supply this vear's Christmas toy market, just as in the {old days. ————— If France knew anything about base ball, Caillaux would not have never met Walter Johnson. e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Blues. Talkin' ‘bout Blues: | We're full o' bad news { "Bout the wi Yesterday All the sky turned gray An’ started in to cry ‘Cause why, That ball team left us sad As the score went to thé bad When the players took a skid— That's what they did. | The radio keeps moanin’ And it's no good telephonin’ In the hope the news is wrong— We were goin' mighty strong— Talkin’ 'bout Blues! They needed rosin on their shoes, But the players took a drop And they handed out a flop When they should have made a run— That's what they done! The Urge for Legislation. | “Do you take any interest in evolu- tion?"" T'm keeping perfectly quiet, about answered Senator Sorghum. And yet it is very fascinating.” i ‘That's what makes me apprehen- sive. I'm afrald some of my constit- | uents will get so enthusiastic they'll want me to introduce a bill to make | it obligatory Merely Postponed. To win the geries, It is clear, We'll have to wait Another year. Jud Tunkins says brains don't count. Nobogdy puts out bulletins when he and 8i Simlin are playin’ the rubber to decide who's the champeen checker playe Fascinating Fiction. “How did your investment turn out? Badly,” admitted M Cayenne. “The value was only imaginary. It appears that the man I consulted was an unrealtor.” . A Defeated Muse. All hearts are joyous now and gay. The banners flaunt in proud array. The brass bands gather 'round to play In Pittsburgh. | We thought to pen an ode sublime Unto the heroes of our time. We can’t. There isy’t any rhyme |~ For Pittsburgh. | “De school book states dat man is an animal,” said Uncle Eben, “but dat mule o' mine ain't never yit recog- | the hope of further advances and sales | due perhaps to the bad conditions in | nized no ‘be kind to animals’ week. American base ball fans would like | dared to go home and admit that he | " THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Action of the American Gladiolus Soclety recently in adopting an “offi- clal” pronunclation for the name of this beautiful flower came as a god- send to its thousands of admirers. The writer of this solumn is happy | to state that the pronunciation adopt- {ed was that advanced in these col- umns last Spring, ‘gladi-o-lus,” the accent on the third syllable, long “o,” in American fashion. The writer, last May, wrote: “There are two ways of pronouncing the name. If you prefer the Latin, you say ‘glad-eye-olus, with the accent decidedly on the second syllable. 1If, on the other hand, you are addicted to good old English, as I am, you say ‘gladl-o-lus,’ with the accent on the ‘0.’ “The matter resolves itselt down to the old one of which way one prefers to regard Latin words in our lan- Buage, whether it be better to treat them as Latin still, and so give them the Latin accents, or hold them to be 80 much a part of our language that they shall be given the normal Eng- lish accents and vowel sounds.” Who, in the past, has not had the following experience: You started to tell a friend about your latest “glad" purchase. “It is a wonderful gladi- olus,” you sald, enthusiastically. *I would like to see your new glad-eye- olus,” replied the kind friend, with freezing emphasis. Official adoption of “gladi-o-lus” will end this form of mental snobbery, and give a wonderful flower a real ‘“red- white-and-blue” name. It is to be hoped that *“‘glad” fans throughout the United States will lay aside their Latin proclivities and unite in the | common-sense, nogmal English pro- | nunclaton. The soclety also cut the Gordian { knot by fixing the same spelling and pronunciation, “gladiolus,” for the plural. Thus one says, have one gladiolus,” and “I have two gladi- o-lus. Making the singular and plural forms alike is a happy stroke, and one that the average person will take to readily, after the strangeness of it wears off. It is the same as saying fllll?a\'e one fish” and “I have two sh.” A This matter of pronunciation is a one than it may seem. I am ced that hundreds of flower lov- | ers have been scared away from the | cultivation of gladiolus on account of the confusion as to pronunciation. In other words. one has to feel “at home™ with anvthing to enjoy it. The inability of the average person to rightly call the name of the flower undoubtedly made many regard it as something of an exotic bloom. These small confusions often have far-reach- ing effects. Tt is to be hoped that universal »ption of the standards set by the American Gladiolus Society will lead to more widespread plantings of gladi- | olus, for no flower now available to | the average home gardener pays larg- er dividends of pleasure and beauty. | 1 have no hesitancy in saying, at the | |end of my first season with this glo | rlous flower, that it has completely | usurped te place in my affection the | | rose, queen of flowers, once held. The gladiolus possesses so many i points of interest that to me it com- | | pletely outclasses the rose, wonderful | flower that it is. The cultivation of | the “glad” is easier and surer,and the resulting blooms more beautiful, in many wWays. Perhaps I should not say more beau- tiful, but simply declare that the gladi- olus'is more beautiful to me. That is a statement with which either gladi- olus or rose lovers can agree. To label one flower ‘‘more beauti- ful” than another is much the same as calling one melody ‘‘more beautiful’ than another. Let us all call both beautiful and let it go at that, for 7 “God is good, and T am His child,” wrote Samuel M Ralston a few weeks | ago to a group of friends who wanted him to attend an Old Home week in his native county of Tuscarora, in Obio. The late Hoosier Senator was reterring to his iliness, to his confident hope of overcoming it &nd to his resig- | nation to whatever fate might await him. Ralston was a deeply religlous soul. Few men in American politics ever evoked the real lave the people of Indiana had for him.® As sure as| {anything in politics can be, Ralston | !\would have carried Indiana for the | Democratic ticket in 1924, if he had been nominated for the Presidency. |This observer spent a memorable |morning with “Honest Sam™ at his {farm home outside of Indianapolis at | the end of August. The Senator was | {up and around, attending to his law {practice, though mostly from his lfv- {ing room. and was hopefujythat by De. !cember he would be able to resume his duties in_the Senate. Hoosiers ! will enshrine his memory along with that of Hendricks, Morton, Gray, Turpie. Voorhees, Fairbanks, Colfax {and the other political giants of yes- iteryear. To none of these did Indfana | lever cling with more genuine affection | than that it gave to “Sam” Ralston. | * kX K ! ip's tongue always rolls off ea- | gerly those morsels which concern the political cronies of Calvin Coolidge. | Now that old lady who Imn' her grand | central headquarters in Washington, | Dame Rumor, is busy with the name of John Garibaldi Sargent. It is to | the United States Senate that she con- | signs him—eventually. The Attorney ’(:sneral. who is an old bird in Ver- | mont politics, is said not to be a\'!rm[ | to suggestions that he would be an | ideal successor to Frank L. Greene, | Sunior Senator from Vermont, it and | when that victim of bootlegger sharp- | shooters does not reaspire in 1 . The Sargent rumor is associated with President Coolidge’s own political plans in that year. The G. O. P. high command is required to envisage the possibility that Willlam M. Butler may be defeated for re-election by former Senator David I. Walsh in Massachu- setts next vear. If Butler succumbs, and there's another Coolidge presi- | dency after March 4, 1929, there would be a strong desire at the White House for some representative in the Senate as close to “Cal” as “Garl" Sargent. * ok kX Somebody was introduced to Mrs. Charles G. Dawes in Washington this week as “Dr.” so-and-so. They'd met before, but the Second Lady of the Land didn’t know why the title. It was explained that the man in ques- tion recently became an LL. D., at the hands of his alma mater. been an LL. D.” said Mrs. Dawes, ‘‘since girlhood. Two brothers names Dawes used to be seen at my home pretty often. They were both tall and lanky. My father called them the ‘long-legged Daweses,” and I saw 80 much of them that he said he was going to call me ‘LL. D.’ One of them has been my husband for 36 years.” * ok ok X One of Everett Sanders’ callers at the, White House offices the other day was a Washington newspaper man, who was chinning with the President’s secretary while awaiting an appoint- ment with the Chief Executive. The | other occupants of Mr. Sandevs’ spa- cious office were two ladies—one a | voung matron, the other a white-hair ed, motherly looking person. “Ever- | ett,” piped up the correspondent, “I want to come in some day and ask you about a guy in the House named Alben Barkley of Kentucky.” The younger of the two women.turned arqund sharply at the mention of the each has its place, each its devoted admirers, and each its proper society to make for ‘“bigger and better” flowers. * ko % At this season of the year the gladi- olus grower, whether he be expert or amateur, whether at the end of his fortieth season or of his first, finds himself in possession of a satisfaction: utterly unknown to the rose grower. Today he is digging up his bulbs, for the gladiolus is one flower you en- Joy and keep, too—in fact, more than keep, for it multiplies for vou. Now we are digging up our plants, to find two bulbs where we planted one, to say nothing of hundreds of bulblets. Deep into the cooling earth sinks the trowel—down, down, well under the root system—there is a tug at the till green tops of the plants; there is a glving away of the earth—up, up. up come the big bulbs, moist earth clinging to them, some of the bulb- lets dropping back as if loath to leave the embrace of their Mother Earth. What a pleasure it is to let the bulbs air for a day, then take them in, to cut off the tops close to the bulbs, then to let them cure for a couple of weeks, after which we will take off the old, withered bulbs, atop which the plump new ones are growing, and place. the latter away for the Winter in a cool place. ‘We intend to plant the bulblets, for in two years they will give blooining size bulbs, and thus we can keep our collection fresh and vigorous. The big bulbs tend to ‘*play out,” of course, else we would have perpetual motion, something to be found neither in the physical world nor in the world of plants. * ok K K 1 append some of my notes on my modest back-yard collection. It may help even younger gladiolus “fans” than myself, who might like to know some good ones, as well as which ones will bloom first. Schwaben—Bloomed in 96 days from planting, one of the best, six blooms open at once; good for cut flower. May be regarded either as yellow or white. Shell Pink — Excellent primulinus (butterfly) type. Bloomed in $1 days, tall spike, long blooming. Kunderdii Glory—My favorite, round flowers, in bloom full two weeks, tall, sturdy, real American gladiolus, bloomed in days. Panama—Excellent large pink, open blooms, up in 82 day Mrs. Francis King—Fair, 91 days; do not like the combination of red and yellowish-green blooms. Glory of Holland—Falr, days. Willie Wigman—Excellent, striking red blotch on yellow cream, bloomed in 71 days. ary Fennell—Good, 78 days. Fairlawn Yellow—Good primulinu too much green in yvellow, 62 days from planting. Elora—Beautiful, large, earliest of all, blooming in 48 days from planting; is not a good cut flower and will not stand strong sun well. . J. Shaylor—Excellent, deep rose red, many open at once, 72 days. Halley—Excellent, largest of all, tall spikes, somewhat bendy; bloomed 65 to 73 days from planting; one of the earliest. Le Marechal Foch—Excellent, large, 7_days. Maiden’s Blush— Good primulinus, nat as good as Shell Pink, long bloom ing, 62 days. Lucetta—Excellent, lavender line, 71 small, 84 Wild Rose—Very good, §9 days. Kirtland — Excellent, good * | American right and interest. WASHINGTON OBSERVATICGNS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Congressman’s name and smiled, but said nothing. “Well." retorted San- ders, “‘the best authority on that sub- Ject is here right now. "Let me intro- duce you to Mrs. Barkley.” She was the younger of the twain of women in the room. Tableau. * % % * Somebody will have to invent a con- venient method of distinguishing be- tween the two Secretarfes Davis who are now in the cabinet—Jumes J head of the Department of Labor since 1821, and Dwight F., chief of the War Department since this week. *Labor™ Davis savs it's easy. “Call me Jim," is his suggestion, “and call Dwight Mr. Secretary.” ' “It's a long time since any President had two cabinet members by the same surname. “Jim' Davis figured last week in another double_entente, as the French would say. Elwood. his old home town in Indiana, plaved foot ball with Moose- heart, in'Illinois, where Davis’ frater- nal affections are centered. Moose- heart trimmed Elwood by the score of 62 to 0. “Jim” cheered for the Moose. Elwood was unforgiving. *“Why, your name’s on the city hall,” the Hoosier rooters said, referring to the begin- ning of Davis' political career as city clerk of the tinplate metropolis 27 years ago. * k x % Representative Albert Johnson, Re- publican, of Washington, chairman of the House committee on immigration, is authority for the rather startling statement that of the 7,500,000 aliens now in the United States fully 1,500,- 000 can’t prove they entered the coun- try lawfully. Johnson made this as- sertion in a recent address before the thode Island League of Woman Voters. Some of the foreign-born here {llegally entered years ago before the immigration laws were as strict as at present. Still others crossed the Mexican and Canadian boundaries be- fore the establishment of quota regu- lations. Many of these have caused their names o be changed so that they cannot be identifled by reference to steamship passenger }ists, Accord- ing to Mr. Johnson, it has been found that even the strictest regulations are inadequate to prevent the smuggling in of large numbers of adventurers. ‘The immigration chairman will have some telling material on this score when he advocates his bill for alien registration at the forthcoming ses- sion of Congress. * * k% November 10 will be the hundred and fiftieth birthday States Marine Corps. It was on that date, in year 1775, that Congress enacted a law creating the marines. The first marines were enlisted at Philadelphia in the famous old Tun Tavern, which became the most cele- brated recruiting rendezvous of the Revolutionary War. The old struc- ture was torn down in 1900 to make way for a modern building, upon which the Marine Corps plans next month to afix a bronze tablet in honor of the history that was made on the spot. Leathernecks all over the world will celebrate the sesqui- centennial of the corp: (Copyright, 1025.) Y - _ College freshmen, after being for- mally welcomed by the faculty, are well aware that the ceremonies have wot been finished.—Sioux City Trib- | une. ——ee—. ‘When international politicians bury the hatchet it's generally a sign that they think the time has arrived to trot out the heavy artillery.—Colum- bia Record. of the United | AMERICA and the World Court By Arthur Capper, Senator from Kansas. Whether the United States shall join the 47 other nations that have signed the protocol of the World Court 1s to be determined in the Sen- ate this Winter. Under agreement, the World Court proposal comes on for Senate conslderation December 17 next. I have at no time made a secret of my opinfon that the Washington Gov. ernment should become a member of this peace tribunal, if such member- ship could be attained under terms that kept us free from the League of atlons. After a visit at The Hague tew weeks ago, after talks with members of the court and its officlals, tafter my observation of affairs at {large in Europe, that opinion has be- come a firm conviction. Evidence is overwhelming that if the structure of civilization is to endure, justice and not gunpowder must be the bond that holds it together. The Court of International Justice that functions at the Peace Palace is a court of justice and not a court of ar- bitration. It is dfstinct from the Hague Court of Arbitration. This in- stitution, in existence since 1899, also holds its sessions in the Peace Palace. It functions at intervals as specific causes of misunderstanding are sub- mitted to it, the partles having agreed in advance to be bound by its findings. Judgments Based on Law. In international affairs, as in rela- tions between individuals, arbitration is one thing and the processes of jus- inother. Arbitration is compro- Arbitration in one case does not establish a rule or precedent in another. The court of justice, on the other hand, has fixed rules of pro- cedure, and fixed principles of law as bases for its judgments. The distinction I have pointed out does not mean that the World Court may act as a court of arbitration Partles to a djspute, mutually agreed to arbitrate their differences, may submit the case to the court. But the disputants must submit it under the rules established by the court and with full knowledge that the judgment of the court is to be ren- dered according to law and to prir ciples of justice and by judges— members of the court—chosen, not according to nationality, but because of their known integrity and recog- nized eminence as jurists and author- ities in international law and rela- tionships. A distinguished American John Bassett Moore, recognized the world over as an authority in inter- national law, was elected to the bench of the World Court even though this country was not and is not yet a member of that tribunal. A Step Beyond Arbitration. The purposes of the World Court are broader than mere arbitration. Although arbitration is a long step toward civilized relationships between nations, it solves only the immediate case in hand. It can function only by mutual agreement of disputants. It not established in the worll a consclence that the rights of na- tions as well as those of individuals should be under the strong protec- tion of the aegls of justice. There- fore, the Court of International Jus- tice—the World Court—was called linto existence—a tribunal to func- tion under and to interpret and to mete out justice according to inter- national lawt Our adherence to the World Court under the terms of the Harding- Hughes-Covlidge reservation, in my opinion, would amply rafeguard every The reservations keep us out of the League of Nations, yet they open tan avenue for our approach to a concert of action with the enlightened | naticns of the world toward foster- ing principles of justice and equity the foundations of enduring peace We should not hesitate to take that course. (Coprright. 1925.) v Welfare Work Defended Association Upholds Medical and Dental Clinic Facilities. To the Editor of The Star: ‘The Woman's Welfare Association D. Ha- ¥~ hastens to reply to Ruth ( vens’ article in a recent issue, by ing that at their headquarters at 10: Eleventh street are provided special clinics for white women and girls un- der the direction of the most eminent physicians, surgeons and dentists in the District of Columbia, any clinic costing the nominal fee of 50 cents. ‘We regret that ethics of the medical profession prevent our publishing names of directors of these clinics, but gladly say that many of them have had wide experience in European cities as well as in our country and all of them are deeply sympathetic and inter- ested in their profession. Busy as they are they do not hesitate to devote | certain hours per week to the Wom- | an’s Welfare Association. There are | free wards in all hospitals, where some of our extreme cases are assign- ed by these specialists. Our dental clinic is absolutely mod- ern and complete and is under the direction of one of our city's best known dentists, assisted by three others. We have three consulting surgeons who are ever ready to help any of our most extreme cases requiring surgi- cal care and our director of internal medicine is unerring in his ability to {assign patients having diseases of the ear, nose and throat, of the eve or sus. picion of a cancer, to the specialists in these diseases. We invite all working white women and girls to call at 1022 Eleventh street any time between 9 and 4, where all questions will be answered by a nurse in charge. Our special clinics are as follows: Dental clinic, 9 a.m. daily except Saturday; cancer control, Mondays and Thursdays 3 p.m.; internal medicine, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 11 a.m.; ear, nose and throat, Tuesdays and Fridays 2 p.m.; eye diseases, by appointment: gynecologist, Mondays and Fridays, 12 m. dermatolo- gist, by appointment; neurologist, by appointment; consulting surgeons, on call; pathologist, Mondays and Thurs- days 8 p.m. MRS. WESLEY MARTIN STONER, President Woman's Welfare Ass'n. ‘Old-Fashioned Familie Large Groups Still Exist, Census Statistics Show. One hears much speculation about the disappearance of the “old-fashioned families,” which economists reckon in numbers at five persons. Maybe, in some sections and among certain classes, there is justification for the apprehension, but there is good reason to believe that it will be a considerable time before ‘‘old-fashioned families™ become extinct in the United States. The occupation of father in relation to the average family of children re- cently has been the subject of study by statisticians of the Federal Census Bureau, who found that- “Considering only fathers aged 45 to 49, and only those occupations rep- resented by at least 50 births, the high- est average number of children ever born (8.1) appears for foremen, over- seers and inspectors and for coal mine operatives; the lowest average number (3.3) for dentists, physicians and sur- geons; the highest avarage umbes of Q. fish bulld nests?—C. M. A. The stickleback, a small gas- terold fish of fresh and salt waters of northern regions, builds nests for the reception of the spawn, which the males defend until it is hatched. Is it true that some species of Q. What is the ™"college board™ which prescribes entrance require- ments and prepares examinations for admission to numerous colleges?’— G. M. R. A. The College Entrance Examina- tion Board, the wsecretary of which is Thomas S. Fisk, 431 West 117th street, New York City, is a society of colleges and preparatory schools for the purpose of establishing: First, a fair degree of flexibility in high school and college curricula and en- trance requirements; second, uniform- ity in standards of high schools and colleges; third, ‘adequate and uni- form administration of policies. Stu- dents passing such examinations are entitled to enter a. college which ac- cepts the standards of the College Entrance Examination Board. The board is authorized and recelves fi- nancial ald from those colleges and schools that constitute it. Q. What was the phrase on the subject of Civil Service Reform, made by Daniel Webster, which is so widely quoted?—H. V. Service Reform was debated and Daniel Webster ex- pounded ‘the following proposition: “The theory of our institution is plain; it is that government s an agency created for the good of the is the agent and servant of the people. Offices are created not for the good of those who are to fill them, but for the public convenience.” Q. Why was the Society of Offi- cers of the Continental Army called the Soclety of the Cincinnati?— 8. C. F. A. This organization which was founded by regular officers of the Continental Army at the headquar- ters of Baron von Steuben on the Hudson, 1783, was named for & tradi tional Roman dictator, Luctus Qui tius Cincinnatus, born about 519 A. D. The name was adopted in allusion to the approaching change from mil- itary to civil pursuits and referred to the fact that Cinclnnatus when named dictator was discovered by the deputies sent to apprize him of the honor, digging on his farm bevond the Tiber, an occupation he was loath to leave ‘and eager to resume after much military glor: Q. What plant_is known queen of ferns’—L. D. S. A. This name is given o the lady- fern. Q. Was Lincoln ever defeated by the direct vote of the peopie’— D. W. T A. Two weeks after Lincoln re turned from the Black Hawk War as the ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS* BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. people and that every person in office | he was defeated in the election of State Legislators. Wayne Whipple, in his blography of Lincoln, says that Lincoln afterward mentioned this as being the only time he was ever defeated by a direct vote of the people. Q. What is the average life of a star?—S. D. A. The Naval Observatory savs stars endure for immense periods of time. Nobody would undertake to estimate the average life of a star. Q. When did Omar Khayyam 1ive’ -G M. A. The date of his birth is un- known. He died probably in 1123. This Perslan poet was born in Nisha- pur in Khorassan. Q. Is Walter Johnson of Swedish ancestry?—A. S. A. He has no Swedish forbears. Some of his ancestors were Scotch. Q. Why is Fire Prevention week held in October?—H. C. A. It commemorates the anniver- lll:;i' of the Chicago fire, October 9, Q. Are there many glaclers in Can- ada?—F. N. . The Rocky and Selkirk Moun- tains support thousands of glaciers, generally not very large, but having some 50-100 square miles of snowfield. All of the glaciers are now in retreat with old-tree-povered mcraines. Ona of the most important is the IMeetl lewaet Glacier on the Columbia River. Q. What are gamma raya?—3a, 1., A. They are radiations frem rafium and other radio-active substances. They cannot be deviated by an electric | or magnetic field, and are considered to be a “hard” type of Roentgen rays Q. What was the earliest industry in the United States>—W. W. T. A. The first industrial enterprise was a glass bottle factory erected in the Virginia Colony soon after 1607 The works were about 1 mile from Jamestown. The second glass house was erected in 1622 for the manufac- ture of glass beads for trading with the Indians. (The Star has taken the service of Frederic J. Haskin in Washington, D. C., for its readers. It is the great- est personal service in the countru We will feel repaid for maintaining this elaborate organization if our readers will feel that it is their own land use it. You can get all the free | information you want on any subject from suggestions for a Summer party to the relative prices of wheat any- where in the world. Xo matter what your work is or where your interest \lies, Mr. Haskin can open up to you all ‘the information available on that subject. Write The Star Informa- |tion Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, direc- | tor, Tuwenty-first and C streets nortl- west, Washington, D. C. Send a 2-cent stamp for reply and your answer will come to you as a personal { letter.) President’s Plea for Tolerance Wins Universal Praise of Editors Fdir play, broad and a sincere idealism are still quali tiea that America admires and af- firms, despite the unpleasant insinta- tions that have arisen in the after- math of the war, if the universal comment on the speech of President Coolidge before the American Legion may be taken as proof.’ Regardless of political affiliation or prejudice, the nded tolerance editorial writers of the country have | set their seal of approval on the President's plea for a renewal of faith in the principles that have made this country great. Analyzing: the President's speech and describing it as “an_impre ve plea for moral unity and toleration at home and enlightened and con structive _helpfulness abroad.” the Chicago Daily News expresses the judgment that the address “admira- bly sets forth the ethical and po- litical fundamentals of modern demo- cratic government.” It breathes the spirit of high ideals, according to the Salt Lake Desert News, “and mar the straight path along which Am ica_ must follow fn order 1o serve her | own best purposes and contribute to the sanity and safety of the world.” The President's faith that “‘the world is steadily moving on to better things” is recognized by the Buffalo Evening News, with the suggestion that “his message for America is one of service. EE “The President sees for America, the San Francisco Bulletin remarks “opportunity for world leadership, which is in our hands if we shall hold ourselves worthy of it. But great as is our opportunity it will be lost, vast as is our obligation it will be discredited, it we shall permit bigotry and arrogance to develop in us the spirit of an overweaning pride and an overmastering selfishness. In his appeal, the President rises to an intellectual and moral height. There will be those to criticize this appeal as idealistic. True, but it is idealsm of a kind that marches with feet on thé ground.” Mr. Coolidge said much, by the Birmingham News, “‘that was fine and splendid and thoroughly American, that could have been ut- tered in no more appropriate place than at a convention of veterans who fought America’s battles European soil. They were the flower,” continues the News, American citizenship—her finest and strongest vouth, who fought shoulder to shoulder without regard to the creed or religion of each other.” In similar vein, the New York Herald- Tribune states: ‘“Bigotry and pro- scription have mno proper place in American politics. That was the at- titude taken by President Coolidge a year ago. It is one which he can appropriately reaffirm when recalling ta the American Legion the lessons of the war.” * k% % “Tolerance can tolerate everything but intolerance.” the Jersey City Jer- sey Journal observes, “and if its spirit-_is to guide the progress of America, the idge tries to teach must be learned by all—not only those native Americans at whom his address was particularly directed, but also all those who make America their home.” With®simi argumenBs, the Wichita Beacon quotes the President's phrase to the effect that we are all “in the same boat™ and asks: “If we cannot maintain peace among our own constituent ele- ments, how can we pose as the lead- er of the movement for a world peace’ Of the same phrase in the s viewed on children living (6.6) appears for coal mine operatives and the lowest num- ber of children living (3) for dentists, physicians and surgeons.” The day of large families is far from past. North Carolina, Virginia and Pennsylvania, each, in 1923, boasted of mothers who had given birth to their- twenty-sixth child, while in Maryland and Virginia were mothers who boasted of their twenty-fifth. In 10 States 87 children were born, in each instance the child being the twentieth, twenty-first. twenty-second, twenty-third and twenty-fourth. Of course, the birth records do not tell the story, for there are many fac- tors that influence the number of babies that survive the perils of in- fancy and reach maturity.—Atlanta Journal, of | lesson President Cool- | r | s | speech, the McKeesport News: states | that “it is the literal truth and it nnot be controverted,” and that | “perhaps no other passage in the | speech he delivered will strike the | popular fancy as squarely as thet |1in which he referred to the real spirit of Americanism. | An outstanding feature of an ap- | peal “that should sink deeply into the public heart and consclousness” is seen by the Syracuse Herald in the President’s “eloguent condemnation of the American fomenters of religious and r: hatr A plain talk “fo { peace, fair play and tolerance,” it I ed by the Oakland Tribune |an address “typical of a President | Who resolutely holds his course to the | solid and homely virtues.” Yet a point | of the speech which is emphasized by | the Seattle Daily Times is that in which “the President recognized the difficulty in attaining the ideal he er visaged, but contended that none tt less it was toward that goal that the © | country should strive.” * ok ok % “His studied avoidance of any state- ment which might be construed as a direct slap at any individual or class,” says the Davton Daily News, “and his calm analysis of the growing evil and its dangers will go far toward stimu lating that sober, dispassionate thought Which will help to bring the nation to s senses.”” A further belief that ‘America would be better if all Amer- icans would obey the President’s in Junction” is voiced by the Cleveland News, A verdict that the speech “compares favorably, not so much in eloquence but in “sanity and soundness and breadth, with some of the best utter- ances of American Presidents.” is of. | fered by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, while the Flint Daily Journal is of the opinion that “he sounded a note or optimism that is encouraging,” and the Boston Transcript hails the utter- |ance as the “most noteworthy of all | President Coolidge's messages to the American people.” The warning is also regarded by the Rochester Times. Union as revealing “a trenchant qual- ity that is almost epigrammatic.” “The President's address was & splendid utterance well worth becom- ing a code of.ethics in every human life,” declares the Portland Oregon- Journal, and as a, *“bold and timely deliverance,” it is viewed by the Tren- | ton Times as throwing a “new light upon the President.” = Furthermore, the appeal to “mobllize the conscience of mankind” is accepted by the M ark Evening News s thought “te which every sound American can say ‘amen.’” The eloquence of the a dress, adds the Kalamazoo Gazette, ‘lay in its simplicity, its thoroughness, its lawyer-like logic and anticipation of possible counter-argument.” * ¥ ok ok As to idealism, the Fort Worth Star Telegram says the President ‘“‘caught & part of the vislon that Wilson saw s0 clearly, and followed with such heat of spirit’ and rhetoric.” The Star- Telegram continues: “But Mr. Cool- idge's idealism Is strangely commin gled with a large doubt as to the pos- sibility of putting it into effect with- out serious damage to political chances. Mr. Wilson had no sich doubts ta the practice of his idealism. Right right to him, justice was justice, humanity was humanity, and here were issues broader than the narrow considerations of the puny success of a political party. However, which of the two men manages his idealism along the worthier course is difficult to say. Wilson's course broke him. It achieved great results, it is true, but it made a martyr in doing it Coolldge's idealism canters at an un- inspiring gait, but may not such a mount carry its rider with fewer jolts and without broken bones?" The Omaha World-Herald also finds that “the President voiced the senti- ments and used many of the phrases that Democrats have been aceustomed | to hear from such leaders as Wood- row Wilson and John W. Davis,” and the Omaha paper notes “almost a uni- versal chorus of praise from the press of the country.” On the other hand, the Lynchburg News utters the warn- | ing fhat “while the world is progress- | ing toward the millennium, and while America. is leading it on the road. thére are other and more immediate tasks ahead, one of which Is to bring the world together in union against LU L4