Evening Star Newspaper, October 23, 1925, Page 6

6 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY... .October 23, 1925 THEODORE W. NOYES...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company | 11¢h St_and Penne > i Office: 110 East 47n “Licago Ofca: Tower Buildinz Fusopean O ent St.. London, The Frening 3= wth the Sunday mi dition. 18 delivored bv carvie 0 cents mar month dar onlx. < ‘mav he sent By mail 0. Collaction is made of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. 1 vr. SR40: 1 mo. 1 ¥r 400 1 mo 15178240 1 mol. 2 Daily and Sunday 700 Dailx anlv Sunday o All Other States. wils and Sunday. ... 7r., §10.00: L mo [»,m- aniv iima: Vel $3.00 inday oniy.. 1mo.. 1300 $3.000 Member of the Associated P The Associated Precs ia exclusival 10 the uae for republication of a1l toey rreditad 10 1t or Dot ofl ited in ver and alko the local newes nihiishe in. AN riehts of publication 0t 1tihas herain are also reasrve - The Balkan Danger. While Europe and the world : joicing over the successful negotiation | of the Locarno security und arbitra- tion discordant mote sounded from the Balkans. The of war is threatening. Bulgaria Greece have become involved, have been lost. Bulgaria has been in- vaded by ireel corps. Greece h sent a note to Bulgaria demandi dress, alleging that the Bulgarians opened fire on Greek troops sevei:l days ago without provocation or tive. The Bulgarian government hus countered with a suggestion that a mixed commission be formed to deter- mine all the facts in the case. It is reported that Bulzavia will appeal to the League of Nations. War between nations, great or small. i 2 calamity. War anywhere in Eu rope. where peoples and policies are o intertwined. involves always the ad- ditiond] danger of spreading and finally engulfing a majority of the nu- tions. The World War in 1914 burst forth after a comparatively unim portant event in the Balkans. That section has bred many conflicts in the past, and promises to breed still more. The principal powers of Europe are said to be moving to check the threat ened war between the Bulgars and the England, France and Belgium are to have started to bring pressure to bear on both nations to end their differences in an amicable manner. The League of Nations, which was visioned as a preventive of wars, might well act in the present situa tion, if the two countries involved do not come to an agreement without de- The covenant of the league makes provision for stringent action by the member nations against a na- tion which rushes to arms in viola- tion of the terms of the covenant. In- deed, nothing could add more to the prestige of the league than the adop- tion of stronz measures to end strife in particular instances, such as fhat which now raises a war cloud. For years both Greece and Bulgaria have been intermittently engaged in wars with others or have been torn internal strife. Neither, it would appear, is in a position to wage war al this time. But there is always the hope that by war a nation may re- coup its earlier losses. It is a zamble with the war zod, and the mixed races found in the Balkans have continued the zamble almost as often us they have been able to find the means and the weapons. Bulzari +ih ha been one of ¥ during the dozen years. She was defeated in the Balkan wars in 1912-13, and of Germany was doomed to further punishment. reece, on the other hand, suffered severe reverses in her war with Tur- ‘key, ending with the treaty of Lau sanne in 1923, and ending, too, in the Turks azain assuming a position of veal power, from which they dislodged by the outcome of the World War The reports from the present scene conflict are meager and do not “zree in some details. With the great of Lurope on the move to xamp out the fires of war, however, 1t seems probable that an effectual check will soon be put upon the an- tagonists pacts, & ark and lives re- mo- said a powers ————. It mizht be a relief it some method were available for submitting Col. Mitchell to discipline without giving him o much incidental publicity. et Wall Street reports activities which convey assurance that not all the vrofit and prosperity is concentrated in Wall Street —————— The First National Church. Tn connection with the plans for the arection of a new home for the First Conaregational Church in this eity as # natlonal church of that denomina- tion, it was stated vesterday in The Star that the Mount Vernon Place Church of the Southern Methodist de- nomination was the first of the “na- tional” churches to be established in Washington statement is not accurate. The first national church erected by the members of a denomi nation throughout the country to be built and maintzined in Washington »s the Metropolitan Memorial M. E. Church at Four-and-a-half street, now John Marshall place, and C street northwest. It is proper to note this fact as a matter of history and in jus- tice to one of the oldest church sanizations in Washington. At the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church held in 1852 a resolution was adopted to the offect “that we erect in the metropolis of the Nation a commodious church edifice, which should be regarded as a connectional monument to our beloved Methodism.” A group of Washing- tonfans, members of old Wesley Chapel, had purchased the property at the corner of Four-and-a-half and © streets, then the heart of the most desirable residence part of the city. This site was accepted by the confer- ence as the location for the proposed national church. 1In 1853 the Balti- more Conference appointed Rev. Henry sxmza:em for the enterprise. Octo- or- had been | ber 23, 1854, the corner stone was laid by Bishop Matthew Simpson. Little progress was made then, and, the war intervening to disturb con- ditions, it was not until 1866 that the bishops appointed Rev. Francls S. De Haas as agent to obtain subscrip- tions throughout the country, and | with these funds work was begun on the edifice nemorial to Method- ism.” On the th of Februar 1869, the church dedicuated, and one month later it was formally organized. with Rev. John P. Newmun as pastor. In ovember, 1871, the spire, one of the most graceful in this city the gift of Thomas Kelso of Baltimore, was dedicated and chime of bells was donated Metropolitan Memorial AL Church, thus established as the first rational religious edifice in Washing- ton, has played a part in the history of the Nation. Among its members were President U. S. Grant, Gen. John Logan and Ch' ! Justice Salmon ¢l Anme pastors have been noted men :ifted preachers. The exampl et the Methodist Episcopal Ciicreh not followed by other «enoming more than half a century this wus started before other churches began in recognition of the natfonal character of this city to plan similar establishments. i O SR Changing “Stop” Lights. i Assistant Trafic Director Moller has decreed that all stop lights automobils in the District shall equipped with amber lenses instead of the cpstomary red. This is in line with the policy of the tr: ties to standardize lights and sign-. | Although the tion is a good one, it seems local authorities are getting off the wrong foot in attempting to regu- late lights of this type after they reach the hands of the owner. The place to begin movmeent of this sort is at the tactorles where the stop lights are made, and at the automobile plants where they are in- stalled. It would be an almost impossible task for automobile drivers of the city to replace the red lens with am- ber in the various types of Stop lights now on the market. Every con- ceiv le shape, every size and every thickness of zlass has been utilized, it seems, by the manufacturers for the making of stop lights. To find substi- tutes for these lenses before January 1, when the new law becomes effective, would be a task requiring the in genuity of a Sherlock Holmes. 1t is apparent that the use of red for danger, yellow or amber for cau: tion and green for speed in both lights and signs is a splendid idea if put into effect throughout the coun try. The new signs on Bladensburg road for the speed limit of 30 an hour is the first attempt part of the loc wuihorities out the plan. They ure painted green. and on sighting them ahead the motor- ist knows thut he may “step on it’ after he passes them This color scheme is the ommendation of the Hoover safety conference, and even- tually will be used in all parts of the United States. H It insurmountable difticultie: | encountered by the motorists of Wash ington in complying with the edict in regard to stop lights, it is probable that the time will be extended or the law modified so as to apply only to new equipment. There would certainly be no point in rufing the temper of { the motorists of the National Capital over such a comparatively small mat- iter. | s a * was and a it by ions, and elapsed after work on e authori colors in Dboth idea of standard that on miles on the 10 carry are ————e Rescue. A radio message came into the port lof New York from Capt. Paul Grening of the United States liner President Harding as follows: After removal of crew of 27. aban doned Ignatio Florio at 9 a.m.. lati- tude 47 degrees 30 minutes north, longitude 37 degrees 46 minutes west. sinking condition. . §. Elvin along- side when last seen Behind this simple statement is a story of hercic work at sea, of the res. cue of endanzered men from the ing ship in a storm of tremendous natio Florio until he accomplished the removal of the twenty-seven men from the wreck. He was carrying malls, and under the law he could not tarry on his route save in the extreme emergency of rescue. It was neces- sary to pour great quantities of oil upon e sea. There was extreme danger in the rescue work. One of the President Harding's lifeboats was smashed while being put overboard. The rescuing ship was herself in peril as she lay to in the violent seas, lash- ed by an eighty-fivemile hurricane. But there was no faltermg. The task was accomplished. Then the nose of the President Harding was turned westward and the mails were once i more started on their wa¥, to be de- livered forty-eight hours or perhaps more late. Nobody will complain of | lardy letters in such a cause. o Mellon has specialized on the topic of taxation. Personally he i= not a loquacious cial, but money taliss, and the people listen with re- spect when it is guided into expres. sions of intellizent responsibility. .o Hindenburg demonstrates his abil ity as a strategist in taking care of the ex-Kaiser's personal dignity with- out intruding him too far into the spotlight. Secretal e Crime as a Business. Recently a thief entered an apart- ment in a New York hotel and stole jewels worth several hundred thousand dollars. No arrests.were made, as no clues were left to the identity of the thiet. After a futile police hunt there was a lapse of quietude, and then it was announced that the jewels had been returned to the owner, through the agency of the insurance company which had issued a “theft” policy upon them. No complaint was made o the police by the company, but the district attorney of New York County began an investigation, inasmuch as the buying back of the loot from the thief or thieves was an encourage- ment to crime. The grand jur now studying the case, with a view possibly te indictments. at least the recommendation of, law enactment v is Capt. Grening stood by the 1g-| 1] IV ENING dias, wADHINGION, which will check the practice of traf- fic with thieves. Thus far in the inquiry it has been j disclosed that there is a veritable busi: ness organization amonz the jewel thieves and established connection with the ineurance companies. The latter work through detectives, who establish “contacts” with the under- world. When insured jewels are stolen the insurance detective on the case | sends word (hrough contact that Ihe 1s “interested” in the recovery of certain “hot stuff,” or newly taken plunder. The thief or “grabber’ has. in mccordance with the established [the vessel'in which James Wait sailed. [ practice, “unloaded” on 4 “pling i QU (e N0 10 W B 1 man,” who in turn has passed it on 10 [satisfy their desires with manv fine | 1a “luver,” who then “lays™ it with the [stories, vet it is a question whether | "tence Thus it has passed through {one of them has heen ax intrinsically ot i5it fouy palis o hands beforenit JiN SreNUNE LA (TNe ENIGeSHotithe Is “sel” for delivery. The detective’s| | choose this old book for review contact gets word o the fence that [today because it was the pacemaker, there Is business ufool. ‘'he fence at it were, for all these later novels, communlicates through laver and just as other of Conrad’s first stories plingman to the crook, and nezotia- set a fashion still in vogue. If vou happen to pick up any one of sre thus instituted for ransom.|the popular fiction magazines and run Somtimes the fence fixes the amount to be paid, and when therc is a differ- into a picturesque tale having 1o do with wild adventure afloat and ashore, with magic and all that sorl ence between the insurance company |of stuff mixed up in it. know that it and the fence meetings ‘Llind"” | Was modeled upon something Joseph i Silks = = " to reacn |Conrad did years and years ago. telephono talks are necossary to reach |GHL QSR Bl Uerinddaddy of an adjustment. Eventually a settle-| tar more stories appearing today than ment is reached, a meeting is their authors would care to admit ranged, delivery is effected, the cash i« paid and the case s closed. In the latest case it is understood that the sum paid was $65,000, or about 10 per After he had shown an appreciative world how to do it, it was more or cent of the value of the jewels stolen. No knows how the money i less easy for facile writers to turn out good tales themselve: Only the reader who has read these other writers first is in position to realize this, for upon reading Conrad “split” between fence, laver. plingman and crook. All the parties to this complicated an (ous of the underworld members of he first feels that the latter is Lting the other fellows! As a mat fact, it is just the other way the chain are guilty of participation in the theft. The insurance company. (hrough its representative. is compra misinz with crime. Jewelry insurance thus becomes a system of settlement with the thieves. So long as this method s pursued there is little chanee of arrest and prosecution. un less the thiet’blunders. of course, | takes his chance with the law. Often however, he is the most poorly paid of all the gang. Now it 18 proposed Lo start the law in motion azainst &ll the participants in this procedure, which undoubtediy operates to encourage crime. ‘The present proceedings In New York may have an important effect in lessening thievery in that city. e \When Mr. Ban Johnson said there | was no sentiment in business or Lall he set the people thinking. timent fn base ball may be a doubtful quantity; an expression of transient enthusiasms. But sentiment in busi- ness is permanent; as the prosperous publicity experts among tombstone carvers and undertakers in Baltimore have abundantly proved gt s A London paper requests the pub. not to stare at the Prince of Wales. A great many citizens sup- posed that one of the chief responsi Dbilities of a prince was to be gazed upon #nd admired. ————s As Washington, lirger the necessity for expenditure increases. Congress is compelled to realize that quirements increase in the Nation's Capital just as they do in the old home town. Among the first books that Joseph! Conrad fvrote was “The Nigger of the | ‘Narcissus,”” published in 1897 by Doubleday, Page & Co. It remains one of the best things he ever did in a long writing career Contrasted with “The Rover,” as dull a novel as ever was penned, “The Niggei'' moves along with the speed of the high, stormy seas that envelop tion: or a ar o zht line on the hack of ge shows him that Conrad | ntedated imitators by many vears They ure still trving to lurn something as zood “The Nizger of the "Narcissus * The cop: transaction are violating the law inetitle The sea is the hero of novel. as well as the heroine “When one writes about the ses ne ought to write about the sea. Conrad seems to say, although T will admit that he does not do so in so many words, either in the originsl elaborate preface or in “To My Read ers in America.” published in 1914 The sea, however. completely sul merges the rs, as interest «s they even it almost inundates the trim “Narcissus” in the terrible storm which furnishes so much of the action of the stor: From beginning to end it is the sea in its varions moods that inte ested the novelisi, and which in terests the reader It seems to me | that no writer has ever put the sea on paper better than Conrad did in this book. T have read many sea stories Dana’s “Two Years Before the Mast and Cooper's famous ocean tales to some of the latest productions of Sabatini. Nor must I forget Herman Melville's incomparable “Moby Dick.” Yet it seems to me that Conrid has surpassed all of them for the authentic touch that reveals not only one who knows, but one who sees and feels deeply. No doubt, everv mar-| iner with a spark of imagination in him has had glimpses into the mighty mystery we call “the sea but few have ever had the ability veveal even a part of what they there Conrad has done it so much by telling sounds. but through his ability 1o | make the sea reflect itself in men’s | minds. In the minds of men there | rolls a vet mightier ocean than ever| swished on coral strands or leeland’s Conrad's from base | Sen. to lie saw He does it of sights and not D. C.. grows BY M. B. Europe will find it easy to borrow | as soon as various nations re from a vague idea that muni-} of war can be offered as sati v security. ————— Traffic regulations are wonderfully versatile, and yvet never quite up to the point of meeting the actual de- | mands of traffic. ——raee The public is pure-minded. Other- wise it could not continue be shocked, season after season, by pro- fanity pla mone: cover tions facto: oil stock gyppers took “the big lft.” The biz lift in crooks'| slang is a transatlantic liner. These hundred went to England and in 12 months cleaned up $5.000.000. The point is, however, that they went because America was being made too hot for them. "The American stock faker today, as never before, faces an organized fight. That makes it easier for the investor who is in doubt, or who should be| in doubt. to find out beforehand. The work of one agency alone. the Better Business Bureau of New York, | js said to have saved the public §$100 000,000 in a vear with the co-opera- tion of county, State and Federal| prosecutors. And the Pennsylvania State Bureau of Securities in a little over a vear refused to permit the sale in Pennsylvania of 544 offerin almost a third of those for which p mission was asked. It prevented ef- forts to markel, in Pennsylvania, £400.000,000 of questionable or entire- 1y worthless securities, out of appli cations aggregating $525,000,000. That brings up again, however, those whacking big fixures which are hard to grasp. Can they be reduced 10 a scale easier to handle? Trenton, N. J.. is a city of 125,000 population. The gvppers were busy there. So the Chamber of Commerce hired a de- tective agency and began a fight. The saving to Trenton's public is estimated at $300,000 a vear. That is $4 per capita. It is about 8 per cent of what it costs to run the whole City of Tren- ton for a year. Visualizing Loss. Reduce the problem still further. Those 418 typical losers who were tabulated in the survey previously mentioned put in _altogether, in 3 vears, $435.000. Such figures help make the billion loss easier to under- stand. Those who are leading the fight say the situation today is no worse than it was. That is, it is at & stand- still, or perhaps has even receded somewhat. But this standstill was brought about only after the loss had risen four times over in the course of 10 years. According to President Simmons of the New York Stock Exchange, the problem is one of understandins, education and_vigorous enforcement of the laws. Yet he, like others who know. admits the difficulties are zreat. The average loser is ashamed and reluctant to talk. The penalties for the bucketshop thief and the secur- ities crook are not heavy. in the main. And conviction is difficult. A detected swindler may get off with 30 or 60 days. The chief remedy is publicity. First Blue Sky Law. The first blue sky law, that of Kan- sas, dates back to 1911. Since then about 40 States have adopted blue sky laws or fraud acts covering the sale of securities—yet the gyppers kept on increasing their business: Opinfon on the subject today is divided between blue sky laws and fraud acts. Under the former, which may have many ardent champions, the general principle is for the State to license the security seller before he starts selling. Critics of blue sky laws say the crook too often holds his company’s license as an ace up his sleeve, using it in last resort to induce a prospect to buy. “See,” he says, “the State says the company’s perfectly all right.” The State doesn't; it has merely given sanction for sale | if the goods are as represented, leaving the road clear for fraud prosecution later if that should be necessary. _Those who don't like biue sky laws except as a substitute for something they regard as more effective point also to State license departments A hundred to N 1t is the privilege of the theater to collect money at the box office for language that would call for a fine it uttered on the sidewalk. —— —a—— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. On Our Way. Autumn skies ave dreary, So they sav. Autumn days are weary: Never gay Yet the brighther And we trudge lighter On our way woodland scene grows with hearts much Poets have misled us By a lav. Gloom has overfed Day by day. ‘When each Autumn tree is flinging Lavish beauty, let’s go sinzing On our wa us, Line: decided will on the pursue line of Con- “Have argument gress?” “No,” answered Senator Sorghum. “What 1 say will be decided by my influential friends. What T expect to deliver is not a line of argument, but 2 line of talk vou you As Winter Approaches. The Arctic realms since long ago We've toiled in patience to explore. Let's wait a while, and ice and snow Will be delivered at our door. Jud Tunkins says he is tired of Jjazz bands, but they don’t put him to sleep like classical music. Baleful Effects. “Aren't you afraid bootleg liquor will ruin your health?” “Yes,” answered Uncle Bill Bottle- top. “I never touch it. But every time T see a bottle of it I get so agitated about the possible fate of my friends that I'm on the verge of nervous prostration.” Superabundant Legislation. Bach Law is a reminder grave Of how all persons should behave. But when too many laws are passed Each tries to make his own at last. “De world is zittin’ better an’ bet- ter,” sald Uncle Eben, “but it’s got to improve mighty fast to make up foh some o' de people dat's gittin wuss and wuse.” & o THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. | near LOST DOLLARS where, they say, 98 per cent of the D. €. FBIDAY, TRACEWELL. iey mountains. It is this sea in the brain that a writer s if he would have us grasp the in- mensity, the grandeur, of the living ocean that rolls around the world. * ok K K The moods of this fickle misiress all suilormen Conrad sets before in colorful page after colorful pag replete with images all the more subtle because their birth pangs arve hidden from us. It is the sea revealed to us through the minds of its interpreter man, the psychology of the sea, it you will, that Conrad places before us in that long- drawn-ont but none too elaborated description of the great storm that furnishes the climax of “The Nigzer of the ‘Narcissus’.” Forty pages is noL too much. We could wish it were longer, except we are glad lo see the sailors get back into their water-swept forecastle at OCTOBER 2 must set before | of | us ! 1925. Peace and Arms Limitation 1 League, To ths ditor of The Star: Your editarial league and Locarno In Monday's issue seems ( me to point to the wrong conclusion | The next step after the almost unbe. | lievably happy outcome of the Lo- {carno conference should, indeed, be a conference on the limitation of arma {ments, but that this conference ought | | to Le held in Washington rather than funder the- auspices of the League of Naticns is not so clear. If the league {chould issue the call it could hardl | be accused of trvinz 1o seize 1he lead- | {ership in the movement from the United States, as vour editorial as |verts, for the leagne If took the| llead 'fn that movement when i in- {corporated Articles VIII and IX in| its constitution. Tt is not a super-| fluous thing to call attention to thes larticles, for we cannot be credited. as a people, with knowing what that constitution provides. The fight on last and greet there the ship’s cat “The cat 'came out from nowhere He had an ovation. They snatched him from hand to hand. caressed him in a murmur of pet names. They wondered where he had ‘weathered it out’; disputed #bout it. A squabbling argument hegan. “Two men brought in a bucket of fresh water, and all crowded around it. but Tom, lean and mewing, came up with every hair astir and had the firs drink.” Conrad knew his cats as well as his men, you see! To every one who owns a cat that st about Tom puts the seal of authenticity upon thix whole story. A writer who gets his cat right will zet the rest of it righ Wherefore, T accepted. as thonsinds upon thousands of readers have hefore me, “The Nizger of the ‘Narcissng'* as @ breath of the very sea itself. as as any human being can put it into a book Puttinz the rather man-s about it! It is rhis that Conrad does Read this book. and vou will know why the critics have united in sing his praises through the vears puts wet water on a dry page, accom plishing a miracle in writing. And so easy! There is no effort. The man knew his sea. and he knew his medium of expression, and he knew how to work hard. He loved the Eng- lish lunguage. It fascinated him powers of expression that are in it the sound and color of words, the ap peal of sentences, called to the zenius that was in him. Wherefore he evolved for ns an un e of a storm. in which the old captain stuck to his post, refusing to allow the masts to be cut down: in which the sailors clung hour affer hour to the water lashed decks. in which the malin ing James Wait, the “nigger,” lay in his_cabin The “nigger” became the pet ohses sion of the sailors. in that strange psychology which Conrad makes real to us. They put him to bed, and cared for him. and then, when he demanded, after the storm. to be allowed to work they clamored for the captain to let him work. Whatever Jimmie wanted 1o do was right with these sailormen I have made no attemnt here to tell the story of this book. but rather to set forth its total effect, in the hope those who have not read it will do 0, and that those who have wili be glad to share with me this belated praise of a great book. Here is what Conrad said of it “Its pages are the tribute of m unalterable and profound affection for ocean into a hook i a e joh. if you the ships. the seamen. the winds and of my| the best | molders of the great ses—the vouth. the companions vears of my life.” A BILLIO! LEVICK. V—Plugging the Leak. force's time is taken ing the data in applic: mate companies, leaving a small mar- gin for chasing crooks. In many States, though. a new bond qualifies automatically if it has been listed by the New York Stock Exchange, which rutinizes all securities before letting them be traded in on the exchange. Legitimate companies sometimes re. sent the red tape of getting qualified under the laws of this or that State, <o bond bootlegging has sprung up. The bootlegger may have a gilt-edge offering, but its sale may be illezal in the State if it hasn't qualified under the State regulations So. in- stance, a house on the edge of Illinois will take bonds approved in Tllinois. hurry them over into Indfana. sell them there despite lack of Indiana approval, and then hurry back to Illi- nois. Meanwhile. it is objected. a frandu- lent company may have had time in this State or that to camouflage bal- ance sheets and earnings statements, get & permit and sell securities with reduced competition from legitimate companies. Maryland a Model. The fraud laws tend to use the State’s machinery for police work rather than for clerical work. Action is taken only after suspicion is aroused. The theory relies largely on co-oper- ation between honest business men and the -authorities. Maryland's is a model for such laws. In Baltimore bankers and others co-operated to make it effective. If they heard of a suspect opening an office, they gave information. A policeman appeared as the crook was moving in. He had a questionnaire. If the newcomer ob- jected the attorney general stood back of the policeman. As a result, Washington for a time was overrun by fly-by-nights from Baltimore. New York's Martin law, recently amended, is an anti-fraud law. It does not provide for registration or licensing. ~Sellers of securities must publish notices telling of securities they are golng to offer. This is a simple check. When suspicion exists, the attorney general may ask for an injunction and the appointment of a receiver. The Martin law Is credited with stopping some frauds which had passed blue sky requirements. Want Broker Control. Sound conservative business as a whole does not like regulation. Im- portant banks have heen known to retire from the bond market in a neighboring State which had a blue sky law. There are other people who favor regulation. District Attor- ney Joab H. Banton of New York County (comprising Manhattan) advo- cates State control of brokers. A few months ago he cited the failure of 89 brokerage firms of standing, within three years, at a cost to their clients of $100,000,000, with further losses in a hundred smaller failures. This loss, he said, was due to market rigging and manipulations such as stock wash- ing, blind pools and rumor mongering. That, however, touches on the bucket- shop and its allled evils, and is off the track in this discussion. The present object is to inform the in- dividual who thinks of himself as an investor, not as a speculator. ‘What can he do for himself when the wolves come prowling in sheep’s ¢lothing? up with cheek tions of legiti- (Copyright. 1925.) Tomorrow—"What to Ask.” e Pairing Off. From the Huntinzton Advertiser. When vou see two men in the front seat and two women In the back seat you can rest assured that i is & mar- ried couples’ outing. 3 o~ op to think | The | azainst the league in this country {wae hased on the assumption that we | would not read Article X for our Peelves, und that we wonld accept a | dgistorted version of it without ques- i We repudiated the league, and for | reasons ihac strike at the vers es | sence of conterence and co-operation {of any kind. We could not go in, we <aid. hecause to do so would involve { the surrender of something of our na- | tional independence. As though we | did not know that every act in which {two or more natiofls or two or more individuals co-operate involves the surrender of a certaln amount of In- dependence for the sake of the renter strength that comes from con- certed action! If _“Red” Grange should come to feel t he wus mak- inz too zreat a sacrifice of his inde. pendence in follosiing the foot hell signals he would find it impossible to remain on the Iliinols eleven. Not that. He would find it impos to play on any-eleven. Least of sl could he aspire to the leader <hip or training of a team. 1 * * ¥ ¥ | We have pretended 1o believe that {‘he leazue was concerned only in European affairs, but no one is o |ink to e able 10 get away with that ort of thing much longer. We hate #lso pretended 1o believe that we had no concern in European affairs, but le.perience is forcing us 1o confess {that we knew better. Year v oveAr we find ourselves compelled ‘to co lonerate more and more actively with {1he leagne. The davs are passed when {we could refuse 1o sit down with | those who were trying to solve prob lems in which were were interested and vet assume fo send anomalous observers” to look over thelr shoul dere and tell them what we wanted Burt with what sort of grace can we remain outside the league and in vite the nations of the world to sit down in conference with us? How can we make good a claim for world \eadership so long s we stand out- side, with only Afghanistan. Egypt, Russia, Turkey; Ecuador and Mexico {0 sustain us, while all the rest of the world has chosen to go in? “The league Is nndoubtedly imper fect, like any other human contri vance. bu' the only way to show our Gincerity is to accepi the agency upon which the worid has united and to do our share in making that ency all it was hoped 1o be. MAUD G. SEWALL. RUSREDES % The Square of Pegasus. To the Editor of The Star: The starry square of Pegasus. named |attar the consteliation Pegasus. al- !thottgh one of its four suns is in | \ndrameda. is now sparkling toward | the Zenfth. 1t will be found southeast- | ward from the northern cross in Cvgnus and northeastward from the constellation Aquarius. Alpheratz of Andromeda. at the northeastern cor- !her of the great square. is a double, | cecond-magnitude star. white and pur- | piish, which. two centuries ago, was |known as “Andromeda’s Head.” The three other suns forming this square are Bata, Alpha and Gamma of Pega- cus, or Scheat, Markab and Algenib. Beat. or Scheat, shines at the square’s northeast corner: Alpha, or Markab, at the southwest corner. and Gamma, or Algenib, at the southeast. This four-starred firmamental out- Jine is large and symmetrical, not dif- ficult for any one possessing eyesight to find. From its northeastern corner where extends. northeasterly, the con- stellation Andromeda: from its south- western corner, Markab, the western of Pegasus. Respecting solar Scheat is deep yellow: Markab. white, and Algenib is also white. All of these other stars shine with second to third magnitude brightness. Each of the four sun gems in the great square is distant trillions of miles, their rave of light taking many vears to reach us. Compared with this re- moteness of Alpheratz. Scheat. Markab and Algenib, we should consider the distance to our own sun, whose light reaches us after a journey of only 439 seconds. CHARLES NEVERS HOLMES. ———————— He Made Thousands Laugh. From the Warren Tribune. 1f told Maurice Bernard is dead in Lancaster. Pa., the average person would probably ask who the decedent was, But announce that Max Hugo is dead and thousands of elder per- sons mourn. Max Hugo was the pro- fessional name of Maurice Bernard, the greatest of all clrcus clowns, who died a few days ago. Hugo was one of the pioneers of his profession. He was made famous by P. T. Barnum and heiped to make Barnum famous. Hugo was with Barnum's circus when Barnum gave utterance to that classic declaration, “the public likes to be humbugged,” but Hugo never humbugged his au- dience. Many of the tricks and stunts em- ployed by the modern clown were the invention of Hugo, developed by him through half a century of funmaking in the sawdust ring. To him is given credit for making the clown acts a circus feature. Men and women who as children watched with infinite Hugo disport under the heard with sorrow of the tragic end- ing of the great clown's professional career some years ago. Hugo was giving his clown act in an Edinburgh theater when the building caught fire. In attempting to rescue Hugo's dog the show manager, a friend of Hugo, was killed. Hugo never returned to the stage or tent. s Index to Prosperity. From the Cleveland Ne: The proceedings of the American Federation of Labor are an excellent barometer, registering the degree of our industrial stability. In refusing to entertain any measures which would embark the organization upon a career of European syndicalism or industrial unionism, the American or- -anization announces to the world that the United States is funda- mentally sound, that factories are in operation and wages and hours satis- factory. X When American labor agrees to any program differing materially from its | activities of the past quarter centur then there will be time enough to seek for sources of national disunion. Hap- | chronological list of transla { When only . ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ~ Q. In how many fongues is the Bibie translated?—F. M. O. A. ‘The Bible has been into 835 languages, #cs to just | published by Dr. R. Kilgour, superin tendent of the translating and edi 1 department of the British and | Foreign Bible Society. Dr list shows that when the society formed in 1804 the Scriptures available in only 7 tages How old was Ole M. F. He died in 1880 a1 the age of 70 1 vears old. he attemp suicide because all his belongin cluding his violin, were stolen. A wealthy woman gave him a violin and necessary funds for a new start. Dur ing his lifetime he amassed fortunes only to lose them. The last ve his life were spent in c: of the time in Cambridge the rest near Bergen. Nory he died. | was Buill when he Q died? part sx.. and where M Q has the most perfume What eity 2,7, D, A. Paris is said to have more than | all other cities in the world com bined. There are 10,600 perfume establishments in Paris, and aboul 15,000 hair dressing shops which carry perfume s a slde line Q. What I8 u street certificate Wall Street parlance’—A. £. A. A street certificate is tbe stock broker's mame for a certificate of | stock, or other similar paper, which has been transferred In blank. A cer- tficate of this kind may be passed from hand to hand without furiher in dorsement or transfer upon the books of the company. It musi have fhe requisites set forih under “Good De livery.” Q. How lonz are used in mail planes A. The Post OMce Department sayve that the Afr Mail Service uses Liherty motors which after 750 hours of fiy- ing are overhauled and sometimeg re butit Q. In playving an < used to produce i higher than ordinary pl A. The harmonic stop. pipes double the usual pierced midway. produces Why is a hoax or extravagan called a canard?—S. W.( “The story was of French origin was o the effect that a flock of ducks practiced tannibalism. eating of their number cach dav, until they were reduced (o a single survivor. in rean what tone stop octave o which has length and | this effect A Q tale A and one and such a state | “Avold who, it contended, had eaten all his| companions. The story became com- | mon in Paris until when any marvel- cus tale was told the listener would | shrug hig shoulders and exclaim, “(“est un canard!” (That's a duck)| Is it true that ants kil cows?” A. There is a solitary ant or mutil- | Jid of Texas known as the cow-killer ant. It is erroneously thought to sting cattle to death Q. What was the daie of Louis Stevenson's death”—W A. Robert Louis Stevenson December 3, 1544 tobert W. T died on E. M What was the d in Dayion, Ohi A. The Dayton (Ohio) fle on March 31, 1913, The lives was 415 Q floc number Q. Was nilitary 2 cornet ever a rank A. Formerly this commissioned rank cavalry, so-calied because carried the standard. rank in the infantry was ensign 1871 the titles of cornet and ensizn| were changed to second lieutenant.| the lowest the British the cornet | Its equivalent was Whe was Huzh Conway"—R. ¥ A. This is the pseudonym used b: Frederic John Fargus. part of which may have been first suszested to him by his student life on ithe 1 frigate Conw Q. Q Why does a star seem to chan, color—C. B. A. This is due the refraction of to irregu’ its rays while pass ing through strata _of varyl densities. This is also the cause of twinkling, which ix especially notice able in the case of stars seen near the horijzon. Q. Why don't in the Wintertime?’—E. M. L A. Leaves are a temporary part of WASHINGTON Impevial Japanese royalty will the luster of its presence upon Wash- tngton early in November. —The| Prince and Princess Asaka. u been touring the world and recently were in Europe. will arrive in the United States on November 2 or 3 After tarrving in New York a few days, where thi at a gala dinner by the ciety of America, their imp: nesses will come to Washington Prircess Asaka is a sister of the Em press Yoshihito. The august visitors are traveling incognito as the Count and Countess Asa. The Japanese Ambassedor and Mrs. Matsudaira, Whose house guests they will be. will entertain in their honor, and they will pay their respects to the Presi dent and Mrs. Coolidge. * % ok ox Arthur G. Robinson. the new United States Senator:from Indiana, is almost a complete stranger to the powers-that-be in Washingion. diana politicians here, Sanders, assistant to the President, know Robinson, but for the most part he will have to be introduced all around when he takes“his seat in December. Robinson will join the ranks of the “boy" Senators like Pat Harrison, Peter Goelet Gerry. Henrik Shipstead, David A. Reed, Clarence a Japan Ralston's successor is a tali, slender, rangy fellow who is described by a local fellow Hoosier as of the “zo- getter” type. He has been inordi- nately ambitious all his iife and prob ably hasn't the smallest notion of ending his career as a stop-gap Sen ator. “Joe" Kealing, Republican na- tional committeeman from Indiana. who was in-Washington when Rob- inson was appointed, vouches for the latter's unwavering regularity as a party man. The young Senator’s friends are busily dissipating the no- tion that because Gov. “Ed" Jackson named him Robinson is a Klansman. They say he may have plaved with the Klan on occasion for reasons of practical politics, but that he has never been considered in Indiana to be identified with the hooded organi- zation. * ok ok ¥ Vice President Dawes has sent word to Washington friends that no- where in the Republican North or ‘West was he ever received more cordially than the Democratic South received him at Atlanta the other day. Party lines seemed not even to exist. His entire audience arose in support of his advocacy of sena- torfal reform. Senator Walter ¥. George, Democrat, stated at a din- ner In Gen. Dawes’ honor, that he| agreed with the Vice President “in pily, no dangerous clouds are upon the horizon. Business is in a healthy condition. Labor is occupied. The American workman is poor material for the specious arguments of Euro- pean agitatere. principle” and was ready. to support | any move designed to remedy pres- | ent conditions. Dawes canceled his e d occurred | them of | M. C. | i of In ipe | query. plants have leaves|Frederic J. Haskin. director. Washis - jton, D. C. hed | o have | ¢ will he entertained | | China conference. and with Silas C. Dill and “Young Bob” La Follette. | racent Indianapolis address out of respect for enator ~ Ralston's| wmemory. D?'v plans to speak in BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. the plant. ery plant has a period | of rest due 10 annually recurring and translated | unfavorable conditions of temperature | and moisture, or both, when the activ- ity of life in the plant it ceases to feed or grow. In aves have no function d are therefore needless. 1In a de suspended Kilgour's | ciduous plant the leaves suddenly a conspiciously ed cvergreen fall off: in others. most of the leaves in the zreen condition gradually replaced b until ne retained they are Q W % the 4 Loandon-New V. K The % that the capacity ew York freight vhere from 100 freight & York porie [ A Department of Commerce of the London ranges 100,000 hoats tons to ton« Q. What is meant by the expressior “dressed up lke 4 Jibhy horse’?—D).D A The definition of jibby horse the meaning clear. A show horse In its trappinzs Enzland 4 Jibby hor makes man's i in Q ven £ These were Whai were Wise the mottoes of Mea of Greece W w. A Temple m: in wge vhich in later ribed in the Delphian follows: “Know thy self,” 8olon: “Consider the end.” Chilo: “Know thy opportunity,” Pittacus “Most men are bad,” Bias; “Nothing ix impossible to industry excess,” Cleobulus: ship is the precursor of ruin.” Halex Q. When did Egypt cease io be British_protectorate? w. A. Egypt became a kingdom ruary 28, 1922, when the British tectorate ended. Q . What s “meant b mefal ?>—W. A. C. A. The ierm has heer de name for German of nickel, Nevads used ue n silver. which copper, and Q. What —J. E. B. A. The ierm iz applied tellectual awakening of interest” during the latter par the 19th and the beginning 20th eentury, in the languages ture, history afid customs of the na tive inhabitants of Iréland. the Sco tish Highlands. Wales, Brittany, Corn wall and the ¥sle of Man. This move ment mav be said to have started with the publication of J. €. Zeuss' Gram matica Celtica in 1833. The Sociei for the Preservation of the Irish Lan guaze was established in Ireland fn 1877 and this was followed by Gaelic League in 1833. The mave ment was not confined 10 Europe spread to Canada, the United Siates Australasia, Argentina and other localities inhabited by persons of (e tic strain. Q. How i the Celtic Renalssance” to the nd the ren lonz have been known?—A. M. D. A. Public parks ar zardens were known from the earliest times. The Figyptians had them, as did also the Assyrians and Persians. There were a number in the various towns of ar cient Greece. In Rome, in the time o the Caesars. there were 30 parks he longing to the citv. During the Mic Azes little thought was given but during fbe Renaissance many public parks were laid our i Furopean cities. Q. What will remove 1 from the teeth?—L. A. B. A. Place a small ampount of fluoriis ammonia on a piece of absorbe: cotton and allow to remain on 1he teeth for about a minute. Care shon'c taken net 1o let this touch gums or get into the throat. Afie the cotton Is taken off. the m: public parks haceo st | should be rinsed with cold water. 1 rLet us help you. There is son | thing The Star's Washington bure | can do for you—some question it cou school | answer. some fact, some piece of ¢ act and authoritative information i Aacill be of use to you—that youw co | "ayc for the asking. Our Washingto larities in| ireau knows just chere to find e Jacts Yor which you are scarching maintains an organization of mear 100°people who are. trained in the ari of procuring information. Submit you The far-reaching machinery « this bureaw 1ill find yowr answer. A« dress The Ster Information Burea. Inclose 2 cents in stamps 1o cover return postage.) OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. the Hnosier metropolis between new and December, also in _Leuisvilla and Cincinnati. The Vice Presidant’s next Fastern barrage against sena torial loquacity will bhe released a dinner of the Pathe News' organ! zation in New York on November 14 * ox ok ¥ Dr. Stanley K. Hornbeck, formerly of the State Department and now an instructor at Harvard Universiiv. has heen drafted for service by the United States at next week's China conference in Peking. Hornbeck wa< traveling in the Far East on privaie business when the conference was decided npon and Secretary Kellogg commandeered him by cable. He one of America’s foremost author- ities on Oriental affairs, having been # professor in Chinese colleges four y before the war. Ho beck was one of Presideni Wilson's Far Eastern experts at Paris and Versailles. He is now at Peking conferring with Minister MacMur- ay, our principal delegate at the H Strawn of Chicago, the second dele- sate. * % % % . Senator rank l. Greene, Repuh lican of Vermont, who was per- forated by prohibition sharpshooters in Washington early in 1924, has just returned from a trip to the Philip- pines, where he and Mre. Greene hava a _son in the United States Army. Mr. Greene was improved hy the Pacific vovage and snorts wiih glee at rumors (current in Wash- inzton) that he may shortly leave the Senate for a less strenuous Joh. The senior solon from_ Coolidge s home State notifies Washington friends that he is ‘zaining all the time.” His arm and leg will proh- ably never get back to normal, hut his speech is improving steadily. No major arteries were injured Greene was shot. and if it h been for the tiny bone splinters m would be well today. His doctors tell the Senator he is making good progress. and that in a year, or at most two vears, he can talk as well as ever. He already speaks -well enough to do his office and commil- tee work, but anything like a speech is out of the question for the pres- ent. Senator Green's term doer not expire until March 4, 1929. * % X X Iter R. Gherardi, U. 8. N, Secretary Wilbur's naval aide, has two o) One goes to Harvard and the other to Princeton. They ar. both soccer foot ball players and on their respective 'varsities. The teams are soon to clash. and the brothers will be lined up against each Gherardi is going to sec the game : swap sides during the halves. a Capt. W | youngsters were educated in Swi land, when the captain was a naval attuche in Europe, and were brought up en soccer. (Covyrishy. TORE)