Evening Star Newspaper, October 24, 1925, Page 6

8 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Editiou. 1 WASHINGTON. D. C. SATURDAY. .October 24, 19: THEODORE W. NOYES.. 25 . Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Cor R s . \ S e T Eant 43 i e Trywer Butidme Furapean Offe . 16 Rozont St.. London. | Enzland | the owner. the Sunday moin. The Evening fare within e “dition. 18 deliversd by e TS0 6A cents mar monta: dajle only. 45 Cania por month Sunday_oniy. S0 cents see At O nav he sent by mall or Cephons Ma Colectron is rade by o U e arhy month Star, with Rate by Mail—Payable in Maryland and Virginia. S8 10 <600 3240 Advance. | 00 | s0c 200 Dails and Sunday Daits anl I ' B 1 Sals 1w 1 All Other States. 1 e Iy 1y <300 2300 ' 1 1 mo. Paiie and Sundas i Dale antx Ruinday onis. Member of the Associated Press. ted Precs ie axclusively entitled ation of ail news die- | i not otherwise cred- aleo the local naws Tehts of publication ave misn roser A Plea for Fuel. A grand jury in the borough of the Fronx, New York, has formally adopt- 1 4 resolution addressed to the Presi- Gent of the United States asking him {0 take such steps as will bring about .n immediate and peaceable setile- Jient between the anthracite operators nd miners. This resolution is based spon an investigation just conducied which shows that a “distressful Aition has arisen. and that unless im- mediate steps are taken to adjust the nresent strike untold misery and suf fering will befall many poor families countr can question of of the matter. The supplies coal, the chief domestic fuel in | 'he Lastern United States, are rapidly | hecoming exhausted. Prices are rising profiteers add constantly 1o the for small quantities. Severe weather is certain soon to he experi anced. The poor, who cannot buy in advance or in large quantities. are al- | veady hard hit by the rates, and many | of them suffering trom lack of | Jfficient heat in their homes. But what can the Prevident of the T'nited States d There is no law inder which he can act definitely end the ke. He has no specific power of intervention. iie has no au to take over the mines as a utility in the name of the Gov- ernment to operate them for the of coal. 1f he did President Roosevelt in October, 1 when a hard-coal strike had lasted for six months. it could be only to the extent | of seeking to effect persuasion Twenty-th was quite different from the present situation. The strike had, as stated, heen in progress for half a year, cover ing the period of full production at the mines and minimum demand and There were no reserves. The was on the verge of a dis- Everybody felt the pinch of <hortaze of fuel. Public feeling the Wi at the keenest point. e nezotiations for settle- President instituted emergency would nave present. warranting, even demanding, an extra session of Con sress and extraordinary legislation to e of the mines That juncture has not heen reached. point of acute emergency has arisen. There is still coal enough eep the people warm for several weeks to come, if it is judiciously and tially distributed. The profiteer irg in the retailing of this supply | con- n onr bhe the There no ency rates | | are o an, mmediate production were t . intervene as to a settlement by ¢ vears ago the case | use. country aster ihe of : | subject | Had t which a been ment failed the national g, e nit Government operation The nat tn is | fenders. But as for the opposing forces in the anthracite field, there is vet no overwhelming of public senti/ ment sufficient compel them to vield in their stubbornness and agree pon some sort of working arrange- ment permitting the production of the | necessary fuel Until that point is reached even presidential intervention, which amounts merely 10 the applica- tion of influential pressure for.a set- tlement likely 1o be ineffective. Therein lies the essential evil of the situation, that bhecome bad before it can be cured. few weeks the tempera drop to the point of acute dis for millions in the absence of mufficient heating material. the ob. =tinacy of the workers and the own- ers in holding stubbornly to their re. Apective contentions the dispute will become cause for a public out- hreak of anger which will compel amck settlement. The pity is that there is no way 1o reach an agreement hefore that time S, force to is must in- talerably Ina when tore in Circumstances do not aiways permit Falllaux to be as serenely smiling in France as he is when visiting Amer- | R Compromising With Crime. Testerday the grand jury in New York, investigating the restoration to their owner of jewels worth approxi mately $700.000 recently stolen from | her apartment. voted 1o indict the in surance company’s dstective. who was tha medium of the recovery from the thief and the pavment of $65.000 foy | the jewels. The detective was merely the agent of the insurance company, but he is the only individual whom the law can reach. Upon his trial will be | tested the question of whether an igent can be thus held accountable for what is undoubtedly technically a erime, namely, the compounding of a felony. This accusation brings sharpiy to Public attention the fact that the prac tice of compromising with thieves for \e vestoration of property is illezal. Tnnumerable instances have occurred of nwners of valuables dealing direct Iv. or through agents. with thieves Often owners of stolen articles adver fise that they will pay “rewards’ for their return, with ‘“no questions asked.” This, it is held. i= quite as Aefinitely “‘compoundinz” as a direct negotiation. So long thalr loot to the dwners ther 1 o | | is is 3 i | < thieves can dispose of will be { of them are | their sale. | offense | attack the plan of | of large fortunes. { which 1 rict {enue [ Anances. | not. be used as precedents. primarily concerned in ment of the law-breaker: i the recovery of their property. In mos ses of the theft of valuables of {on the near side inst small compass there ix a market throuzh crooked of the recent the for agencies, York well identifiable Tk thief back to In the ivwel Lnown case theft ems and definitely that the market” was closed could profit wnly New were s hy selling It this indictment results in convie on and the imposition of prison sen for practice companies dealing with the ill be atfected. Iates for the of jewels will probably rise, prohibitive “The ti tence—the maximum five penalty i vears—the of insurance thieves w insurance maybe to figures tween thieves and he extra hazardous will be fewer will result < npany Perhape 1he jewal of zreat value and | more imitations Estate Taxe . State and Federal. the led vesterd Opponent estate tay o whe preseni Federal their heavy into a and opened fire on the House ways and means com- mittee, now considering a revision of the revenue laws. The governors of six States in person and the repre sentatives of eleven others argued for a change in the law. “The opposition (o the Federal esta nee comes =uns stion B tax m iwo who that this field of taxation and rev should be left to the State gov ments. There opposed the prin tax, beliey ing that the tas should he greatly re duced entirely The principal of the gov erndrs, however in obtaininz for the Staies the exclusive privilege of taxing their citizens They point out thi provide the machinery for handling the estates of decedents, which the Kederal Govern ment d do. The States were first in the field of inheritance taxes too, for the Federal law did not into effeet until World War They emphasize the need of additional revenues required by the meet the more and better government generaliy State and taxation of estates on the zround that it is in a measure double and distasteful 1o the people The Federal estate law exempts s ates of less than $50.000 from this tax. From $50.000 to $100.000 the tax levied is at the rate of 1 per cent From that point on, however, the tax ts graduated upward until it reache 40 per cent on estates of more than $10.000,000. The Federal law lows a the Federal account of State inheritance taxes up o 25 per cent Tt has those o are isist nue n are those le of the estate or wiped out interest cent estaies of ta s not fe me times States 10 demands for school The Federal taxation also al credit on tax on been proposed as a compro mise—and the proposal seems sound that the credit allowed on the Federal estate tax on account of State inherit ance taxes be increased to 75 per cen or even to 100 per cent. Such a plan. it is believed by its supporters, would result in causing the States to brin about greater uniformity in their tate taxes, and in causing those States which either have no inheritance ta or 4 mere nominal tax to amend their laws, Opponents of estate taxes would result scramble the States to reduce or lift their own es {ale taxes so as {0 attract the owners The case of Florida not only does mot have an es- tate tax, but has placed a provision in itg constitution that no such tax shall be levied, to show lengths to which a State mayv go 1o advertise itself and to draw wealthy persons within its borders Here in the District of Columbia the only estate tax levied tax. 1f the advocates of repeal of the Federal estate tax should be success ful, doubtless Congress, which enacts all the laws for the National Capital would impose an estate Dis residents The soundness of levving inheritances has many times questioned and defended. 1in a ure ft is a “capital levy.” On the other hand, it is well understood that taxes are mot levied for the pleasure of the taxpayer, but to raise the rev required 1o maintain ment and to give protection citizens of Siate and Nation the heaviest taxpayera in tain grealer henefits from tion of their property than the owners of little or no properiy, simply be cause thev have more property 1o protect. In many of the States which levy estate taxes the degree of con sanguinity of the beneficiaries 1o the decedents Is taken Info consideration The closer the relationship the lower repeul th the Federal argue such actio in a by is cited tax on a tax on meas sover 0 s reality ob. the protec | the tax rate. Poland will be glad extend highest rank to Henry Ford if he will interest himself in that An improvement ma he devised on the old method of using a title of nobility as a means of inter United States to country vei esting fortunes senti- mentaliv. s——— Experience enabl public to meet the the patient inquiry. ten?” the coal How consuming with atrike much - e Street Car Stops and Speed. Fire Chief Watson's proposal 1o add more than 100 safety stops 1o the street railway lines in Washingion this | | Speed lim es- | | | { | | i | | {r | ent the | is the Federal | ! Oh been | Ihn‘ Many of | | He raises his the | has stirred general discussion of ihe | entire traction situation. stops,” as well as speed of street cars. are now being considered by the mu nicipal authorities in connection with Chief Watson's application Washington, before the war. had | many more fire stops than it has now When Mr. Beeler was called in to aid a really desperate situation during the war he wiped out most of the stops. because It was necessary 1o move quickly and expeditiously a great vol ume of ftraffic, regardless of th chances taken of collision with fire apparat War-time conditions no longer pre vail in the National Capital and meas. ures taken during that time should Fire stops are an important adjunct to the traffic safety of the city, apd, while the num- “Near-side | | | i 1o apeed Larier I thoroughfare at night hy me THE ~EVENIN( T | thievery. Few victims of crooks -reIh—r requested hy Chief Watson may punish- | be in excess of the actual needs, the Almost 2ll | question should be studied carefully terested chiefly in the {and all requisite stops reinstalled. The question of stopping street cars 1 of the far side of sureet intersections for t wy and discharge of also being discussed. undoubted!. traffic, bec ginning easily ing type e en passengers s Near-side stops throw a safeguard around se a heavy street car be. iIn momentum 1% more controlled than one that is slow down. Additional stops of t1his should be installed wherever practicable It has be n found that Congress set of fifteen miles an hour affic Direcior Bld ridze believes that while this is a safe speed for the city, it is ridic for the suburban sections. on sireel cars 1ously I slow ix | service of detectives. go-hetweens be-| now proposed 1o recommend the same Timiy Dites. for sireet cars as for automo \Whatever the speed limit for street has been, it nt that it is exceeded habitually by motormen, especially in the outly ing districts. in Washington is Cars have Leen paced automobiles on Connecticut avenue Cleveland and Chevy Chase Circle up thirty miles an hour, which is too fast for these heavy vehicles With the installation fire stops and regula®on between Park of additional near-side stops and a holding motormen rigidly limit a step forward will In the traffic National Capital have been of taken safety ) Lock Your Car! bile per 2 Autom thicves are b comparative owners heing rey trequently of lute than for =0 This owners im of munity stolen car Cases cars are past is probably becanse motor have grown somewhat matter of locking their cled ts difficult an careless in th Al untocked the thieves have means of starting locked but they are sufficiently balked rsmission 0 a machines ar o steal. An car can be easiiy taken. True professional by g and gear stealing difficuit and ha of the car locks ake car ous. Most stealing at probably for profit, but for ding. The are usually found abandoned. Tt the credit of the police of the District that of ickly recovered. If all motor owners would be scrupulously careful to lock their whenev them in the streel, for period. there would less for the police to do in chasing thieves and is not the sake of jou is 10 wany the stolen they however he much machines leave work searching for stolen prop. ert Uniform mote safety aiready beautiful “stop lights” may not pro but they will enhance the appeara of ns of a more harmoniou The latter consideration is not important. Yet it may help the harried motorist 1o feel that in following the numerous minor exactions he may be increasing in some slight way the refinements of our civilization. S color scheme. obey™ in the recognized as The word marriage ceremony obsolete There is no more chance of giving it practical significance than there is of Affaivs mizht be enforcing a blue law. simplified if number phrases which lead only to ineffectual dispute could be as easily disposed of o . formal Caillaux will return, and a hearty welcome await him. So temperate discussion of any remains possible the danger is inconsiderable will long as matter of vi ons clash ——— does not it which The count need mare much needs that relizion so as respect avallahle more for is alveady - SHOOTING STARS. RY PHILANDER JOHNSOX The Policeman. vou remember the oid-time paliceman Who gracefully Assisting the highway With Tnpre handled his feet, ladies in crossing the courtesy alwayvs complete ve he stood like a statue so classic Our hearts were with reverence full For we knew, addition and couraze He had a political in 10 muscla poil The copper now siands wh, trafic is thickest His arms he is waving ahout. voice at a girl in a fivver Remorselessly hawling her ont. He speeds in pursuit of a bootlegger's cargo. He's worried and hurried and We can't tell our troubles policeman. ilis nerves have all gane {0 the had. mad. the unto RBreakage. Why can't this important enforced?” “Recanse. zhum, it is broke.” You mean broken No T don't. There isn't any priation for its enforcement law he answerad Senator Sor appro Handle With Care. The telephone resch A self-restrained condition, Facilitates exchange of speech, Rut spoils your disposition Jud Tunkine mays & man ought think hefore he speaks. hut layer doesn’t have to do either. unless vou o a . A Spacious Orh. “It is a small world, afier all! claimed the ox ready-made philosopher. “Perhaps.” answered Mrs. Chug- gins. “But it doesn’t seem that way when the flivver breaks down and we have walk telephone.” to miles 1o the nearest The New Mu Wiilie smashed his fiddie gaviv, With a rash. velentless hand: Got himself a ukulele. Now he's leader of the band. “Foh some reason.” said Eben, “a man i always mo' liable 15 il disccuraged ‘hant his regular work dan he Is in a crap game.’ Uncle motor | short | STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, THIS AND THAT RY CHARLES E. Leaders of society have no monopoly |on natural courtesy. It springs up Jin the most unexpected places Bowed with grief. white-haired, widow went through the gates | Union Station. on her last sad jou th the dead “’ round her flowed. few c bent figure of {ported by a few There was, however iman. wearlng a4 mreasy {stained overalls. He xtood side. Hix name is unknown widow ne W him Yet he took off his woman passed, and siood until she had gone by I suppose 1 zm the only noticed that unpremeditated act of courtesy. so 1 hasten chronicle it here as one of the m affecting. beautiful bits of action nave ever seen in this world It was a tribute of respect n gentleman It should be kept in mind that there {ave two tvpes of men. In the main, | who ave naturally polite. and | {those who are not. Today there is some danger, in our hustling. bustlin {life, of the latter class far esceeding | the formes | The external forms of politeness { may be learned, but the inner springs {of courtesy come natural The latest tvpe suit, hat in the cor rect mode, and cane will not give one the instincts of & genileman. Scores »f handsomely dressed men passed the Widow, but not n one paia « bit of attention to her One. and one anly I ness of « kind heari, a a nev ation | ¢ the | sup- | the life of the sting a glance little old lady friends. w sturdy teain | hat and | to one | and the | hat. as the | ulluv\m'flll | one who | n ural 1 . 1 | | | i from « { be of the good under o and | stood A well known business man iells me that 2 fine example of 17e courtesy is shown him each mesiing by the o —a office rh between them orced same. alv id | | i | dialozue i always nt interlude i matters Good morning with sm Good morn you? Lam very plies the Thet {business man in que it the [ e more | st savs the ror i How vell. th on. sir,” e min i the contrasting s hetween thinks that them all with the habitual greetin mseIf and his associates an far exce n0eus courtesy rdinary deference the in position to the superior. he says. | | will ot 2t all account for the different {sort of greetings—or lack of ordinary | { courtesy, such hurry and worry | often blunder into- received from | I many associates | It is natural enouzh. the executive {101d me, that the janitor should be po- lite. The man. however, carries it off | o pleasantly, the officer declares, that | he shows Instinctive breeding Alwsys my areeting from this man | is the same,” he went on. “Always | my welcome to him is the sgme. 1| have come to look upon this morning | | salutation as a sort of rite. and I am | | all the more pleased with it because of | [the humble position of my partper in | this daily example of how human be | ings ought to treat each other. “No matter how thai man feels sreeis s kindly morning the nexi. - can | the colored in spon The erion | | | he | one ax [ 1 do otherwise? I ot fe ! ming | people hive @ phrise, {ought 1o stop. now and then TRACEW ELLI. “With some of my so-called equals, on the other hand, 1 preserve the most boorish relutions, simply “he- cauke they force me into it. ‘Often our hurry compels us fo not speak to cach other at all. If we do | like speaking, we don't, that is all. Now, I think that Is all wroni Courtesy is courtesy, and it ought to he unvarving and universal, don’t vou think? + % * ¥ 1 did 1 told the gentleman that I tell such portion of the reads this column that 1 do. 1t seems to me that ordin: every day interconrse between human be ings ought to have the sugar of cour tesy applied to it freely We can live without it not s well. After all amount (o more pleasant? One night #s well e« sawage, and have the henefits the primitive man Knows, such as freedom from disease, ete., if he is to live more or less a savage in civilizitio Civilization has many am suffering from one at a cold), so that tome sary 10 offsel then. 1" submit that inary, evervday courtesy is the thing we need ‘There ought to he fewer ladles jum their elhows into vou to get on the strect car fivst, “There should he others on the part timable gentlemen. “There should he win the hearts of used to phrase it Not long age an told me the follow vas typical of the hild 1t seems he dence siveel stopped the but certainly civilization muke life does ne it does Avnwbacks (1 this writinz hir ix neces lese mocking at of otherwise es 1ha ad e children all,” as an pldes niz. which he said modern American was zeing ‘ wlong 4 vesi he ~uddenly o 1 + ol torn paper idewall picture had o would think that was 1gh action v halung wn a1 i plece of paper What von steppin sereamed @ little girl sitting in a window To & ill-bred little thing 10 1alk about fired bach the elderly on A his eve. N normal look vears about § old £iv sirls some. immediately man. as he on evervhody med. relating A0t even stop in without being intent e Fivery body business the incident. “One the street any more subject 1o discouriesy Certainly there is something to what the old gentleman sald’ Old-fashioned bronght up iv nhts such children very a stable well. 1t act il they stable.” wh fathers and act that children s up in for many were brouzht shall we say mothers who way? One is just as teous children ment as in habitatio evident indications of zood breeding Courtesy. s previousiy stated. is not something one acquires from the out side. but a quality that has its birth within, and works from the inside out In onr active lives of today all of 1 and con sider this matter in its personal impli fons. Are we the them 1o likely 1o find discon imid scenes of refine s showing les. he polite one too busy 1 as courteous to as 1o Ave we really civilized” BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PALL ) bellizerent. obex Nations ul i i i Will Greece. ihe (he edict of the League to cease her aggression garia? Will she withdra {trom Bulzarian territory | to mobllize her forces. or to take any other steps antagonistic. as obligated hv her membership ‘in the league? | he league mav occupy six montha | in its inguiry, and hostilities musi wait three months dafier the <!rw|| sion. Within rejoiced ference of rinst her and | had con Locarne veek after the wor result of the powers | whereby Germany on side and ! France and Belgium the other agreed to arbitrate all differences and respect the present international | boundary (an agreement i | by Great Britain and Italy as | ties) there came an unexpected out i hreak of actual hostilities in the { Balkans plainly pointing 1« n 1he af the For x vears the world has waited | for the League of Nations 1o function in its war-prevention. but hitherio it has stopped no wars. It failed to {prevent the aggaression of against Turkey or the terrible punish [ ment of the Greeks by the Turks | which followed. 1t failed to prevent Ilraly from bombarding Corfu after ! the murder of the Italian general— |4 member of the League of Nations | lrflmm(sslnn to determine the merits of the dishute of the boundary be I 1ween Greece and Albania | No powers of the league have pre vaiied 1o stop the French and Span iish wars against the Riffs, fzhting for independence, nor the French against the Druses. nor the British | azainel the Kurds, nor the Chinese | | vebeitions. | | Greece in a membher state of the Jeague. hound by all it< obligations | 1o refrain from war, vet Greece, with ‘[ Lout referring its claims to the league, | | proceeded in the old stvle of “diplo- | | macy at the cannon’s mouth,” to in-| | vade the territory of lts neighbor, selze cities and bombard unarmed and un: fsting citizens. What will the league do in the cage Greece now re- fuses to obey its direct orders io with draw Its forces and cease all move- | ments of troops” H * ok ok ¥ | | an he no underestimating the hurden put upon Greece since the debacle in Turkey in 1923, when | Girece was so disastrously defeated. | As & resull of that rout Greek refu-| Sees poured Into Greece, and by the mutual exchange of natfonals between ! Gireece and Turkey Greece now finds Within her houndarfes more than a million refugees, homeless and unem ploved That Influx amounted 1o one-sixth of the normal population 10 bs cared | far--a most tremendons burden. T | would be paralleled in the United | {States If the entire population of| P \lextco—15,000,000 or 16,000,000— | | were to march into Texas and gradu- |ally spread over the other Siates mostly the near-by States. With all{ of our general prosperity, such an In fux of refugees, distressed. unem- ploved. helpless and desperate through suffering, would cause a panic and Would perplex the Government and all charliable organizations to find! ways and means for i1 care i The condlilon of Greece afier fts! partelpation fn the World War, | Jowed by lis great defeat by Turkey, | cannol be compared wlth the finan.| clal and soctal condiilon of the nited States: hance its predicament under the burden of the m{llion refugees is in inverse proportion to the ratio of itx ability 1o meet the situation. Greece felt that she must possess all territory she could claim under any pretext in order to locate her added population. Its government leaders thersupon paraphrased the -y of old "Come-over into Macedoni | and help us,” by erving "Get the Bul- There frs fol- | 1 | regulars . COLLINS. garians our of Macedonia and we will [ help ourselves of when Montene Greecy I th alkan war The fir tury cam united with | . Thesealy again« Turkey in That v resulted in adding of Thessaly t Epirne and Thr ceriain islands in the Aegean Sea population gave her even now Mgar o and .. 10 all th [ v doubled eece. h nearly of Jlems it bt <he Macedonia oslavia t of themselves suits Greece them n encouraging of Grecian Maced! Bulgarians have practi; forced ont by Greece the r and they have gone over the border into Bulgaria. losing nearly all their property in Greece and for ever hatinz the Greeks for their ex pulsion. The Macedonian Bulgarians are seeking fo unite the ihree seg- ments of ancient Macedonia into one province to be governed by Bulgaria. The refugees have scitled close to ihe Greek houndar nd it is alleged by the Greeke that it they who constitute the “Commitedii or v now raiding over the hor der into Greece. The € eeks further Slaim that the Bulgarian zovernment t upholding 1k iy regulars” In their alleged brizandage upon Greek soil. upon which zround Greece is =ending its punitive ex pedition” into Rulgaria. The case has been likened to that in which Pancho villa and his Mexican brigands raided the United States and our Government sent Gen. Pershinz upon his punitive chase upon the hot trail” of the brizands. Interna tional law justifies such a repuls whether made by irregular “hrigand or by the government de facto of the nation harboring the ude: Hence, upon the surface sustained by law in suppr gartan raids. even by invading fertltory of a “friendly nation.” that the actual invasion. in iteelf. is not “war” upon the country entered, sn long &8 there is no conflict between the punitive expedition and the regu lar forces of the government invaded territory. But ihat s hetween Bulgar inh Bulgarians them ‘nia been since <plit ind G its Jitants it At least 100,000 1y World W interna tional law existed before there was a League of Nations * The purpose of the league was an nounced in the preamble of its cove- * % | nant, reading as follows “The high contracting parties. “In order to promote international co-operation and to achieve interna- tional peace and security Ry the acceptance of not 1o resort to war ‘By the prescription and honorahle relations tions. “Ry the firm establishment of under- standings of international law. as the actual rule of conduct among govern- ments and by the maintenance of justice and a scrupulous respect for all treaty obligations In the dealings of organized peoples with one another, agree to this covenant of the League of Nations.” Both Greece and Bulgaria are members of the league, hound by the above preamble and all other pro- visions of the covenani. Among those provisions is article 12, which says “The members of the league agree that if there should arise hetween them any dispute likely to lead to a rupture, they will submit the matter to arbitration or to inquiry by the council, and they agree in no case to resort to war until three months after the award by the arbitrators or the re- port to the council.” Gresce alleges that Bulgaria at tacked her with irregular hands of marauders, and that the Grecian ad- vance was in sel(<efense, requiring obligations of apen hetween na- of the | F50 inst OCTOBER 24, la { Kenworthys™ is less convincing. There | ated this 1 | | like | Fourth of | [ wife), | gentleman | | | | i | | | son> ! has | them. i =iven up 1o public activi The beauriful esizte on the top | sidered it land there he is buried | worthy family would have won it for | P 192. THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover. If Margaret the Pulit: lin family Wilson had not taken | v prize with her McLaugh- | it ix doubtful if her «en-; | her. The pioneer McLaughlins, strug- | Washington meeting* gling at the same time to conquer the stubborn soil and to control their own | unruly emotions in the effort to found homes and a community in the Middle West, make “The Able McLaughlins” vigorous piece of reallsm. “The are six of the Kenworthys in the siory They live in a small [linols town from 1904 o about 1915, Mrs. Kenworthy | is 80 slightly sketched thut we havo | not sufficlent evidence 10 agree with | her daughter - in - la il hen she save. “She was really a ! woman She never did anvihing | great. She was # shy person. She never had much strength and she was | ill & great deal. sShe left 4 widow von know. whe| unele was | an poor, ter lived alonz. as we by And sh- it poor And she just 1 do. And ver when she was buried, | 1 tell wou, Bronson. thai there were | more cars and carriages in the of this town than there are on the | i Lvervhody knevw her | * % ok ow ior | e i Kenworthy's twa sons, Holb Tim em singulari inelfective the sons of such a mother i husband of Emily, is blunt, well i ing. Insensitive. fe haw a very limited | and vociferous vocabulary., “My God! Emily Damned old fool!" “Praned | =l litile viper!™ (of his brother's | “The rotten little siunk® some of hix favorite exspressions > told. Is the mosi noble and sensitive of men, but moves through the he lacking in judgment and rather ob tusa. When his son turns to him in need and he fAnally realizes thai the boy is almost frenzied by doubt of his paternity Jdim fail< him pathetically—ll the more pathericall because the author seems 1o (hin « onson’s which ga 1o the lim can yeply What —what “Why. my dear ho N here and i futilitie Jin has heen rous as to mit his adulierous wife to obtain divorce from him on the ground of de ] and to Lkeep the child some time afterward does it da his acute lawyer's brain that justice to the chila was invol this chivalrous action. Emilx, th of Bob. ix wise, zentle, patient. frue all that a woman should be. Her ch fault, from the reader’s point of view | s that she is so crudely drawn th=i | except in a few insiances she lacks reality. Marthe, her dsughter e] the two Kenworthve of the thir i eratlon negligible | * % & b gent story seems adequate. things Pronson’ . hert Wh [ 100 other S0 chiv ilar for on n * The Kenworthys saved from being character of Bronsen, Jim's son i 4 superboy. vet intensely When he faces Jim and demands 2 v. how do vou know I'm vour own we hardlv wonder at Jim's men- | tal paralysis. \When he reproaches his father But if you had wanted me bad, if 1 was vours. vou could have come and stole me!" we agree with | him. When he assures the two Chi- | cago lawvers who are siranded near | lin's camp. that as soon as he his his dinner he will fix their disabled motor | boat. over which they have been st gling for hours. we are sure t will do it without any trouble be tells his father that he will return to his mother, courts no onrts, we know t he never will You've got the funniest old dome on vou'" he savs indulgently to .Jim. | Yon can't get anything through it!| T bet if I've told you once I've told vou | 0 times I'm not going back there. | And vou begin all over again just as | if T hadn't told you You make me laugh When he receives a le from his dear friend Bill. the chauf. feur. saving that his mother has gone | 1o France, and exclaims. ‘Mre. Veile | gone to France. Gee' 1 lhope | torpedo her!” we know that he is voung savage, but. considering his her’s conduet toward him, we have | mpathy with hie savagerv. | een-vearold Bronson by the | force of his character dominates evers | one ¥ 1remy 1o dominate him e ns. Not even the threat of death I him. He glaves at the #nd ~4yS. Yo needn't think me that way ommonplace by vever | the | e | veal | it he When neves they n hiens doc MccChord quaint. whimsical essav ober Atlantic Monthly, en. \ugusins Bagster. Thought ve Like most of essavs this helps to <anits reader. (sin Samus) Crothers has of the titled his Oc of thousht in ihe language of Wall stree and investment advertise. ments. Dr hers discourses versationally on the value of thoughts as measured 1 those who sponsor on give and take. especielly in religious matters: on 100 per cant Americanism. on panaceas for world peace. the various temperance issnes fundamentalism and modernism aititude parenis toward vounger generation. and on for Congressmen. nsually propagsnda the P lefferson book desls with 1he side of .lefferson’s life. espe that part of it passed at Monti cello. 1t i= “Jefferson and Monticello by Paul Wilstach. Monticello was the chief jov and personal interest of the life of a4 man whose time was largeiy ex. A new personal elally hough mountain eat fnancial burden 1o he never seems to have con other than warth while. Tt as the center of his family and so cial life: it was the scene of his death Mr. Wilstach zives the history of Monticello. from 1770, when .Jefferson first built a few small houses on the mountain and be gan lving in one of them. until the present time. when Monticelio is own. by the Thomas .Jefferson Memorial Foundation and is » national shr visited every vear by hundreds of peo- ple. some admirers af the political | philosophy of the early President and some not. but all glad that the unique estate has been preserved for the fu was a Jefferson o ox o 1. St.-Loe Strachav. owner and ed itor of the Spectator and author of the delightful autobiography. “The Adven- ture of Living,” has just completed his first novel, a_romance of the French Revolution of 1845, called “The Ma- donna of the Barricad Mr. Stra- chev is announced to give the Found- ers’ day address at the Swarthmore, Pa.. Quaker meeting. on October 24, PR “Arthur Stanley Riggs. F. R. G. S, newly appointed director and secre- tary of the Washington Archeologi- cal Society and editor of Art and Ar- cheology. distinguished as an ar- cheologist, a lecturer and an author. Two of his most interesting books of travel are “Vistas in Sielly and “France From Sea to Sea.” summary action, that it was impossi- ble *o wait until the league could in- uire and act. But the obligation savs: In no case” shall war follow until three months after arbitration In case the arbitrators of the league sustain Greece's allegation and make Bulgaria the aggressor, it will then be necessary to support Greece against Bulgaria, not onlv with armed forces, but with' a world-wide hoycott by ali nations, whether members of the league or not—provided the league can com non-members to adhere 1o the hoveott. It would be necessary to draft_troops from Italy (which fought Greece within the last two years) to fight the enemy of Greece, alongside of Greek forces. (Copvrighted, 1925, by Paul V. CofMftns.) | ganization | mons | thires | ma | ordey { used [ scheme [1he sures ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC Q. How many thirty-third-degree Masons at th B T. W ‘This {8 a meeting of the South Jurisdiction, which includes the Stalen south of the Mason and Dixon line and west of the Mississippt. | There were 231 men elected to be ini- | vear into thirty-third-de gree Masonry. This is a limited is the Knights Com the Court Hanor, from are chosen. This will make totul of 2.221 thirty-third-degree Ma in this jurisdiction. Also second-degree Masons have heen 1o Knights Commander of the Court of Honor, bringing this 1o tal up 1o 3916, The Southern Juris diction a member<hip of has an of Decel a1, 19 A ern mander of which they elected Q. What i population of Ja A. The total 5 xou accord the present and n?—J. K f dapan The population of Oct Ve 1o the miles con 100 are the The Finge western part of are paralicl ith diree e nearly i The vz north Lakes ave neariv 40 mile miles wide lary nd eac Iong and lkes were fo [ from damming vallevs materials Ho doms live H G The American ised that the average life of a fox rlev s ahout 10 although o number live (o he 14 Q teriier A long Kennel Club has How home The i< impe w milk . tha B. R urenn of Dairyinz sa ible for individusls 1o fophilus milk hecanse of the behasvior” of haciilus In m:king prepara milk has the orzanisms unless mosi the fermentation enouzh 1o overcome the hich affect os. Therefore that you handiing acidophilis it e peculiar acidophilis tion sterile he this in wetl and caref ave tormaiion of iis therapeutic it he neces D prite He is han wed ha silve pignn erstition to Irish sn ac nikin fn eeciies ording described feet high. dressed laced coat, knee b buckled shoes. ey erally 1 an s were Q - What emperziure in A. During nila, Philippines, December. Januar mean _monthly from 75 to 80 degrees lowest recorded temperature, in Jant ary, is 60 de Fahrenheit. The nights are se nfortabiy ho Generally comf ligh M at Ma embes the nd February, the nperatire ranges +'ahrenheit. The n &h w W It N A w i 16 m de Vizming the en War W admirs the -World during Q tire J. R A There of all naval vessels during was no admiral Which city York or New York telephones he world. but country fn the world. more tele City not i than any it According oth any City ing ative commitiee J. HASK Q to M A. The plentiful son are maose i this vear tempting of es party United from Hor Sp arr parts of the Le; A Leag Dandm Who i gue of Na The of ons present Nat of @ Hou store for A. The says ander 0 e e as well keeping Departn tons ed for wastage What N It mear Wholesale S of vears tional ¢ rling tional | Q does R W A s on the holesaling sent i ale or ic laws for Wh ) y esale Society turned 1o the cen There were of Toronto, Canada n o Only < qptamen ted « presjds men are brcoming | to statistics compiled January there were 1.186.5 York City. for Nova nd for their mains more American hunters than ir previous vear 2 »n and went o the province to hunt n few 1m0 3 telephones in N 8,496 In Are many American hunters Nova Scotla moose” Scotia thai wild are re. o davs ago from the Yarmonth western mocse ' 1 nil rent tral International congress glum. last Co-operative W hol officially set in mot Q. How and States much port H port P Unite A man Germany impor United States, returns more vear. 1he new e ior [ the iance guestion st each nat « tentat an International Co-ope nd 2 wholesale societies signed them and re office. in 1 . G trade M [ 1k 1 i« the United States duri amounted 1o German expor Q W omans i number Endd blessed mar upon its prey not headwar can be iperstition ir ton I use our readers are ulormation Star Was) husiness and queries n tie rine ors studen s their Mer ted and a hunidre iny to the burcan authorita Government wroblems and L bitious nformation ni training their careers that must be J. ti they Haslk Frederie Star Information Eu 7 Streets Inclose return and nort n cover the to molest mad making of the are all s B er e hile he slept i efforts tow subiect intes has f interna Spring »nal wholv At Ghent nternationl Socier rman off ofiftih from the an sales to the same pe ent of 100l age neither re. estimit e wind tha ~ them e ihat tie A as a shade o ho place warning it. T against 1 spiendii T iduals teaci icted b Do story Wamen are ask ris ca themselves What problem have you d or postane. young men are 1 to a idre help thew choos tied? Write c ol Tir Wasiington stam ps LOST DOLLARS BRY M. B LEVICK il;“-llal to Ask A BILLION A YEAR America mors You expect Finanelal crjmes cost than crimes of viulence crime from a hurglar but the basis nereial violatien of trust confidence That is the wa summed by H. J. Kenner of the Better Busi ness Bureau of New York The individnal investor thing for his own witht fidence till he I . e out? He can the highesi of com s it worthi find that can he credence ithhold authority on the Pacific with recenily, offe cent dividends on the s “God commitied @ ceeding rich zold quar company i which active. God, said the | gave guarantee. More pertinent Iv. gyppers have been found to nse letrers signed with such names as I J. Morgan's—forged —and the indorse menis of hig banks. forzed also. An oil gang cleaned up $300.000 not jong ago on the supposed indorsement of E. L. Dohenv., who promptly made denjal when the profect came 1o light of even Stock selling asi. inter ed 600 per itement that fered rgyman ospectis Looks Convincing. have gilledge in les kit. but that doesn't show where or how he got them. He may have what look like reputable financial papers. praising his project: the manufacture of sich papers, imitating real periodicals and often printing withint authority ad vertisements of nationally known j financial houses. is someihing | industry. The compantv whose stock is offered may be highly praised in news bulletin mafled by some inves ment reporiing service: ihere are honesi and unbiased services of (hi mort, and there are others whose let 1ers of advice are known as dope sheets. Or the salesman may show | an imposing leiterhead there was one firm which had a cable address and branches in 11 cities, but ite head went in brisen the other day with & 10-year term Ink. then. may mean nothing. What of talk? Does the salesman tell vou of the $600 in zas-mantle stock that made $500.0007 The $100 in a type setting machine that made $127.000 in seven vears? But even if his propo sition is a good invention. whar does that tell of his company's facilities, its financial soundnese. its knowledge of manufacture and markeiing? Tt doesn’t even show whether the com pany is getting $5 net out of every $100 the sales force raives The Usual Approach. Does a voice on the phone call yon a favored customer? Does it tell of a purchaser waiting for your stock—if you'll just buy a little more to add 10 it and make a block? Does it urge buving more before the price goes | up? That last is known as raising the issue—getting the egg (o go in deeper. Does it mention a happy error by which too much was hought in your name—all to be paid for be- fore you get the profit. “under the exchange rule: Or ask for a quick check, promising the profiis check will cross it in the mail? But all these are only hints. Evervthing may be all righi, but it may not. A New York dealer in radin secari ties offered new shares for old. One man out West who sent them. having received no new ones, asked the New | York Better Busincse Rureau ahout it. He tounghout what was what in dorsemenis ! hank | of course iv Where e Bette There more There are as well. There a ties commissioners ave in a position formation frequent y value. thouzh have some are n source inguirer knd whose Investment fought fraud activ inepeciors hear but thes service. the i interest Many Chambers Brokers te o ask f he all ree = nev accu of ma serve information he connsel Bankers eiy reliability he As: EY asls 3 The sociation h. he post off. zo0d deal of frzu are wn inforn pecialized Efforts. that the Betier 280 Rroadw has made the against financis York Stock most Business Nev specialized effo. way. fraud. Excnange months ago established vean. with fis in the burean has and complaints over the connt: it the invest good deal for questions to pui for your monex by ‘the Retie New York What are the lonz have they b With what ences? What were of 1he company ing sold. at tion the rom The een members investigation handled of 1 Burea York « The New also fow special b co-operating frand: thie 200 inguir the public can himeelf to the man who were compi Business in bank does vour business and what are its other assels in which stock the date of its organiz and what are the asgets now’ What are the company What are its earnings Tlow many dividends on earned in the times has this security issiue baan past five vears? find Here are awks Bureau of names and princina [ Addresses of vour employers and ho busines< m dd rafer (real worih) in he s labilities” interest or Who are the officers of the compan: and what is their record of businesc |activity during the past five vears What experiance have these officers pany is engaged? | had in the businese in which the rom Is this security accepted as rollat eral for loans at hanka? What is the markat for this seeurits in the event I want to dispoae of if” Are Answers True?® Those 1en questions all hear an the | chief elaments of investment Xa oy of principal. satisfactory income and salability. Ask them. And then- and this “and then” is as important as all the 10 rolled together—and then find out true. Investigat Be if the answers you get are suspicious Don't lei vourself be stampeded into a boom, whether it's a regular boom or just a little solitaire boom somebodv may be trving to put over on you And don't just look for some author ity to reassure you after you've made up vour mind to go ahead. Don't think of the billion a vear loat to gyppers. It's stowed effectively a00. 100 big inside Think instead of the 418 typical suck ers who got stung altogether for $435 You can grasp that. | want the billion, all you need to do i to get it vour head And if vou &0 on adding up successive 415'= rill You get the aggregate—for the billion is there, a whole billion déllars with twe billion wings. (Copyright. 1988, (THE D.)