Evening Star Newspaper, October 31, 1925, Page 6

'"HE EVENING ST AR!\\'nrktd with a similar subcommittee SATURDAY. .. ..October 31, 1825 THEODORE W. NOYES...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office . 11th St.and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 Eagt 43nd 9t. Chicago Office: Tower Buildine. European Office: 18 Rexent St.. London. Enland. The Erening Star. with the Sundsy morn- far edition. fa delivered by carriers within the city at’ 80 cente per month: dafly only. 48 cents per month: Sundar only. 20 cents per month Orders may be sent by mail or relenhone Main 5 Coll casrl 0. Rate by Mail—Payable In Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday....1yr. $8.40: 1 mo. Daily only 1¥r 24.00: 1 mo. Sundas o T15r.$2.400 1 mo. All Other States. wly and Sunday....1vr. $1000: 1 mo. Daily only. ... Tyrl $700: 1mo. €unday oniy. 1¥r $3.00:1mo.. The Assoctated Press is exclusively tion of a1l news dix © ot otherwise cred ko the local ne khts of publlcation ©f pecial T are alao reserved. — = i<natihes hes In Sight or Call. Director Eldridge pr: sioners that the 1 Traftic 5 the Comm ing-abreast modified fcles may rem ‘the middle of the strect if the ator “is within sight or call. If this recommendation is approved, the Nationul Capita will present <pectn Those unfortunates who happen find a heretofore coveted parking space *within six inches of the curb” will be running up and down ing” and “calling” the driver of the vehicle which keeps them in their little prison. Tempers will be badly strained, al- tercations will be frequent and traf- fic will move at a snail's pace, if it moves at all. Nothing can be gained Ly approval of this regulation: fts benefits to a few will be more th counteracted by the stifling effect on the general transportation. There is no doubt but that with parking conditions in the acute stage that they are in Washington, auto- mobiles should be allowed to stand for a brief time abreast of other parked cars. But this second line should he mobile and should be cour- ¢ and instantly put into action to make way for either street traffic or inside car rk- Washington rey fon in that driverless \ for 10 minutes oper s0 ve- in streets of the a unique sight- n a This condition cannot prevail with the proposed rule. Driverless passenger cars and trucks will clutter up the street. Drivers who posed to remain within or sight” will be as hard to find as needles in a haystack. No one possibly can believe that if vperators are allowed to leave their cars unattended for ten minutes in the middle of the street this time will not be stretched out to twenty or thirty minutes, according to the ratio f chance against police apprehension. Some of these violators may be caught, but the number will be pitl- fully small compared to the general nconvenience that will be caused. It is a significant fact that most mo- torists will take just a lttle more than is allowed them, and there is 10 reason to believe that they will obey this rule any more than they obey the scores of others. Some way must be found so that deliveries of goods in the downtown section may be accomplished with the least friction to the general public. Jiut this is not the way. There is no keener student of traffic problems than Director Eldridge. If o solution can be found, he is very likely to nd one. The question, however, is ene for study, and not snap action which will create havoe on the eit: streets, new re sup- ————— Felix Agnus. A veteran journalist, a veteran sol- dier, a citizen of sterling quality and comstant service for the public wel- Agnus has just assed from life at the age of elghty- X A native of France, Felix Agnus wained ripe expericnce in world travel during his early years, and served with distinction under the flag of his ountry during the Franco-Austrian war and later aided in the unification f the Italian states under the com- mand of Garibaldi. He came to the I'nited States at the age of thirty-one, just prior to the outbreak of the Civil War, and, joining the Federal forces, zained high distinction in his military services, attalning the rank of brig- ader general in recognition of his ex- ~eptional quality as a soldier. In Bal- timore, where he made his home after be war, Gen. Agnus entered journal- sm and identificd himself with the American of that city, of which he be- came editor und publisher. He was a striking figure in journalism, vigor- ous in his views, progressive in his methods, devoted to the advancement of the interests of his adopted city and always commanding the highest respect for his purposes and practices. ife retired some years ago, and yet did not relinquish his interest in public affairs or in the concerns of Baltimore. Well known in Washington, where he was a frequent visitor, Gen. Agnus will be mourned here as a friend who i3 gone, after 2 long and highly use. ful career. S The coal strike calls upon the ulti- mate consumer to be thankful for a stove full of anthracite, with the roast turkey as a secondary consideration. France’s Ambassador and Debt. Larly resumption of negotiations looking to a final settlement of the ¥rench war debt to the United States is expected in view of the report that Senator Victor Henrl Berenger, French financial authority, is to be appointed Ambassador to the United States. Official confirmation of the appoint- ment of Senator Berenger to succeed Ambassador Daeschner is still await- «d, however. Senator Berenger was a member of the French debt commission which recently came to Washington under the leadership of former Minister of Tinamos Calllaux; ‘indeed, he was a member subcommittee which attempting to emerge. | {the settlement of these of the American commission to bring «wbout an adjustment of the debt. He | is admirably posted, therefore, on the | debt question and all its angles. He lis entirely of the point of view as well as that of the Frenck with regard to the debt fund- ing. Apparently the French government has decided to continuc with the debt negotfations, although it was reported earlier that the disposition was to allow the American debt question to rest for the present. There is reason to believe that the feeling is growing in France, as well as out of it, that huge war debts is a prime essential in seeking stability of the international financiai structure, and that the internal tinan- clal stability of France must in a con siderable degree depend upon a satis factory arrangement of her foreign debts. It is well recognized in officiul cir cles that the debt will continue to figure prominently in Franco-Ameri can affairs until the problem of its set- tlement hus been disposed of. 1t is nat- ural that France should desire to have as its diplomatic representative to the United States one who is thoroughly tamiliar with all phas this lem. For many or ger hax been the aware rerican 15 years el forcmost authori | the Frenc] | meuns of | | this on finance in the French § On runk deht « ! Samisson ed next in authority ML Caillay . —one Milton E Ailes. forty u About 3 N outh « LW to cducute himself shington from Ohio d and n law. s a subsistence sought se cured a position as ressenger in the Treasury Department. At the age of eighteen he began law studies, working indefatigably both in his em- ployment and his schooling. Industry and perseverance carried him through vere task to accomplishment. He gained his degree, passed his ex aminations, was admitted to the bar and meanwhile was advanced in the Treasury to a position of confidence and importance. He learning finance as well as law. Yesterday Milton E. Alles, president of the Riggs National Bank of this city, died. He was the vouth who his was worked his way from o messengership | in the Treasury Department to the head of one of the most i financial institutions in the count to a position of the highest responsi- bility and trust. He had all his by industr tr worthiness and by strict the highest prineciples of bus tegrity. In the residence in wor successes by dev ot ty years of shington Mi E Ailes won the affection of a multitude of people. He <ed, in addition to natural ability in business, a winning personality. e was trusted and I loved. His judgment was sound made his adv life thre merit, In his four decades of Washiugton citizenship, especially during the pas twenty vears, Mr. Ailes rendered many valuable services to the community. He was never “'too busy” to work for the good of Washington, for the ad- vancement of its interests, for the bet terment of the condition of its people He was keenl: interested in all proj- ects for the development of the Capl tal, the solution of its social problems. Milten Ailes’ death at the age of 58 is a serfous loss to Washington and occasions deep grief. He did his work ably. He was generous. He wa kind. He was always helpful, and his untimely passing is the cause of a sincere sorrow. urse in W on posse N After a world tour, the Prince of Wales reports progréss and the Eng- lish public is well pleased. He danced occasfonally, but said little; thereby showing a sense of popular sympathy together with admirable intellectund restraint. i Communism 1s aggressive in Ger- man politics. The responsibilities of Hindenburg might be easier had been his privilege to edit the volumi nous economic literature of his native | land. ———— It is generally admitted that the late World War was a demoralizing | influence. An effort to measure the reducing effects of any possible “next war” baffles imagination. ———— Traffic regulations appear Lo based largely on the discovery that human nature is willing to risk a life- time for the sake of gaining a few | minutes in speed. ——————— Baltimore is a well poised old cit The arrival of John T. Scopes as student has ot aroused any percept ble commotion. B —————— King Tut's Tomb. When Howard Carter, working in conjunction with the late Lord Car- narvon, found the tomb of King Tut- ankh-Amen in the Valley of the Kings west of ancient Thebes, now modern Luxor, he added an asset of great value to the Egyptian treasury. This asset was not merely the worth of the treasures unearthed, rich as they were. It was mainly the tourist at- traction that was made available for the profit of the Egyptian people and government. No reckoning has been announced of the number of travelers who have visited the tomib. They have, it i8 known, gone there in thou- sands. Few of them have obtained a peep at the actual relics of the long- late king, the unhappy youth who passed untimely into the bliss of per- petual entombment surrounded by his earthly trappings. Some have been favored by entrance into the burial chamber. Most of them have had to be content with the view of the outside, @ bleak stretch of rock and sand, a tiny opening in the face of a hill, a guard. Now it is announced that the tomb, after some months of weather un- propitious for work in the Valley of the Kings, has been reopened, the lid of the sarcophagus has been safely lifted, revealing within another sar- cophagus upon which rest a linen pall and several bouquets of flowers in a remarkable state of preservation. Weork upon the further examination e | be | VENING of the last resting place of the king 11l be continue This announcement comes just in ! gocd season for the tourist trade. Tt {1 certain that it will mean the advent [of several thousand travelers, each | spending a goodly sum of money in tares, hotel bills, courler. fees, camel | or motor hire. King Tut's tomb will | probably bLring close upon a million dollars to Egypt this Winter. The Egyptian government was wise in retaining a proprietary interest in the tomb and its contents. It ‘was cor- rect in its deciston that the tomb itself should be preserved intact in its posi- tion. To remove it, stone by stone, to be reassembled elsewhere, would have been not only a sacrilege, but a serious business blunder. In its place In the bare hills of the desolate Valley | /f the Kings it draws as does a mag- { net. There it is a powertul attraction. { Elsewhere, in a more accessible situa- | tion, within ready reach of the wan- | derer about the earth, it would simply be just another relic of antiquity, of ao particular interest. So King Tutankh-Amen’s tomb has shrine for the curious, as s for the serious student of the past, and in Visiting It they, scholar 1nd pleasure-secking tourist alike, get something of real value in' first-hand jcontact with a souvenir of a great civilization. 1 1 a @ . snew, Squirrels, Corn and Horses. | hose Who hold to the mathomati rronla about the weather of Win ter yesterday's snowfall was of sinister 30th of the ording to an belleved tradi will be no less than thirty snowstorms here imp. mont} 1d and tion It occurred on the Theref by sor tirmly before Spring comes. But the mathematical formula is not grounded in experience ¢ in reason. It is altogther too arbitrary, and at * o casual for accept- Suppose the snowfall had oc- d tomorrow instead of yesterday? Then, according to the formula, there would 1 prospect of only one visitation of snow during the Winter, that indeed e the for 1 £ Paris, whe Winter ubtedly terday's s one, fef in cast of Abbe predicted the several the severest in “nturies, hened by yes. 4l snow suf- 1d and to form was und strengt When 1 to cover the gre soupy ow et |a slush ther theory French comes hefore sugges les upon iowe th: \ which v is a decided the n the 1omer m b t bases | < pessimist diction is well founded herc whe, gives the confident opinio Winter is going to be mild. He the squirrels are not busy put ting anything by this Fall, and when the squirrels i ligent of their storgee the: forecasting « gentle Again. the husk on the corn this year is very thin, which is « sign, ing to the natural weather prophets, of a 1 Winter. still again, the horses have not yet begun to grow their Winter couts, and that, too, is a token of mildness Whether the or the squirrels, corn and horses of Virginia are correct remains to {seen. Certainly vesterday's flurry raised the stock of the French lrurr-mswr. especially as it happened on {the 30th of the month. comes a farmer interviewed in of this re. gion : i the v vester that season m be U Egyptologists bring to light the ifact that King Tut used fine linen; | but there is no evidence that he fa. jvored finger bowls or after-dinner | speeches. ! s — { The success of Mussolini may be lurgely due to the fact that he has been able to persuade the King of Italy to a policy of non-interference. e talks;” and no French statesman has been able to make his utterances more influential than an nouncements of the value of the franc, Florida realtors are sufficfently nu- “Money | | i I plans in order to house them. it! e — SHOOTING STARS. i LY PHILANDER JOHNSON i Thanksgiving. Though the snow rudely banks | Round the world and its beauty, We're supposed to give thanks As a matter of duty. Though the flivver gets friz And the price of our fuel To a figger has riz That seems ruthlessly cruel— Though crime waves roll on Where the hijackers flourish— | Though foodstuffs are gone That once cheaply would nourish— Our minds are still fit For a mood of Thanksgiving. So we'll join and admit We are giad that we're living. An Admirer of Ben Franklin, “WIll you leave office a poorer man than when you entered it **No,” ‘answered Senator Sorghum. “T believe in thrift and economy. In addition to saving his country, a statesman should save of his salary.” i i | some Extremes. The men who start trouble that none can hush One way or another go far. [f they can’t get a chance at the white- ‘wash brush, They are due for the feathers and tar. Jud Tunkins says he doesn't envy a coal baron his fortune. But he does envy him the privilege of going down to the mine with a bucket and shovel and helping himself. Dreadful Experience. “Willle Flappington 1is suffering from nervous prostration.” *“No wonde! rejoined Miss Cay- enne, “A mouse ran up his trouser leg.” Call for An Old-Timer. ©Oh, Genevieve! Oh, Genevieve! Sweet, sentimental bluff, I wish you'd come back to relieve The syncopated stuff. “De only chance of handlin’ some sinners,” sald Uncle Eben, “is to give ‘em six Sundays a week and only one workin® day.* ST nd | | sounds fairly Abhe Gabriel of Paris | snow | merous to call for extensive building | STAR, WASHINGTON, The passion for reform is deep seat ed in the human animal. We have re formed our calendars, our currency, our laws and now the would reform our language. “Remade English” iy the title of an interesting article by Joseph V. Col- lins in the September number of the Educational Review, In which a sort of modified, simplified English is ad- vanced a8 an auxillary world lan- guage, The desfre for some sort of univer- sal tongue has given rise, in the past half century or %o, to several working languages, among which Esperanto and Ilo are perhaps the best known. Several prominent people have com it in favor of sh as the inter ational auxiliary language, basing T The widespread nature of the Eng- lish-speaking races, their dominance in world trade and other factors, are instanced in favor of this stand. Now Mr. Collins favors a strictly emade” English, no_half-way meas. <1ch as those advocated by the Simplitied Spelling Board, but a com e coange, o remade” English that would be es: Ny a dialect of the old langu Text and reference books would be prepared in the new form, dictionaries would give the old spellings and ctymologies, and one fine day every body would change over to the new form of the language very much iermany and other nations chang to metric welghts and measures, Ten years from such date scholars ™ would need to famil cmselves with the orms of nEuAR: Before this enthusiasic new language that would me we use und vet not like confess [ stand aimost sarely able to v “It is vel t ain't hur only vize iAd the ision ¢ ltke the . T must speechless, be Alr. Collins, but Ne eith Before I go on in this matter 1 from the articl Mr. Collins say advantages have over anguage are en and 1t would nglish, ive my opinion will quote some more imder consideration iy manufactured s, and the diff in the w ts adoption are ¢ due to mere prejudice whi should be brushed aside.” He says that the frst advantage English has is that It is the mother Biticae of deatl 10,000,000 people scattered all over the globe. He de lares it to have more extensive rela tions with other languages than uny sther tongue. Because of its huge abulary of more than 400,000 words it provides a lu means of conveying thought than any other language. English has an fncompar ible literature which is being added o daily all over the king ) rning to the we find it truct numbcr and exp langua omparatively simple little intlected, a its everyday words essed in detters and familiar to many other itself, he How b is not to offer English as a world langu language ren in its speliing, gr: mar and t extent in its lexi ifled body of ex ze & au so be en gaged in this lahor orming Eng lish, instead of going after a false god in the form of i handmade languag Mr. Collins continues, 1. follo ling great reason ‘It is that English must be remade in order to remove an incubus from jour education and life.” The teaching f reading, writing and_spelling in schools, he says, instead of being a jov. as it should be, is nothing other than a scries of repressions and in cties should of re or the { | | | | | their arguments on economic grounds. | | tury | templat 1 | two | | heart | D. €., SATURDAY, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. hibitions and corrections carried on almost ad infinitum, dulling the dull minds still more and boring the bright- © are those who | est puplls, owing to the difficulty in learning and using English, especial- ly its spelling, pronunciation and fr- regular forms. The movement for spelling reform, the writer continues, fafled because “a language camnot be reformed a litle bit at a time. The process is too {rritating. The plan of the Brit- ish Simplified Spelling Soclety to go trom the present form of the lan- guage to an entirely new one is the right plan.” * okt T wish the writer of quoted article had gone more into detail as to just what is proposed to he done. Certainly our language could stand some modifications, but I fecl they must come about by nat- ural growth and decay rather than by operations upon the living body of the English language. Truly we are prejudiced in favor of English us we know ft! We are prejudiced in favor of forms en- dowed by centuries with color, mean- ing, beanty. If this be prejudice, then we ‘are prejudiced, and proud of it! PPerhaps a greater change in forms, ete., took place from the twelfth cen on than any that would be con 1 by the reformers, but those were the result of slow op. of cause and effec They were not put on with a putty knife, or cut away. They were lusty amplitudes, or else natural with erings away It seems to ¢ that our 4¢ word vocabulary, and our i parable literature, are perhaps the atest reasons why we should with the greatest cave “yemaking” our language. Only recently, in this column, I wrote: “We need these little slips of tongue and pen in order that we shall never forget that our glorious Ler tongue is a growth, and not n achievement; a going forward and not a standing still, an outgoing tide, not _an incoming. ‘We ought to mispronounce words at tlmes and to siip up in our gram- mar in order to realize more nd more that the English language is sentially human, not scientific; lova bl ‘efficien (as the so-called ‘efficiency exper! knows the mean- & of the word, although it is tre mendonsly effick in the better measi- ings of the word)."” English was not tor and T am n be emade” there. the above changes eration procee in the sure that Tt was made made not in the open air, in many a rude hall| Danes, the Celts. A a hand in it and the Romans, and the L8 was hammered it of thews sinews, from brains and beauty, over stretch of centurfes. It gro up from shadows, to he compelling flower petals whose rarity hearts of men today The Pole who took the name of Joseph Conrad learned to look unde neath those petals, to get at the very of words, to spread them with loving care on the pages of his great novels Sh: Britons, the ¥ of the ton and erest- ifold enchants sspeare, with page”—what would “remade’” English? Milton, Tennyson, Words Addison, Coleridge, Dickens eray, Johnson, Pope—what they think? inglish “as is” presents no bus” in education and life. Tts dif- ficulties are something to love and wrestle with, its beauty something to love and treasure. Let us not be too hasty with thi old thing, our incomparable Engiis language. \ all its faults, we love it still. his “purple he think of @ worth, Thack- would “incu GREECE AND BULGARIA BY FRANK H. SIMONDS. When two races have been fighting | one of the great prizes of the Near ver the same territory for rd thousand years, of a new conflict is relative gniticant. Not only have the Bul gars and the Greeks be Macedonia and Thrace for this span centuries, but Serbs, as well as Greeks and Bulgars, have over many centuries been in the presence and under the yoke of the Turk. Nevertheless, the causes | present flare-up in the § may be set down to the new acces- sion of bitterness growing out of the Balkan and World Wars. In 1912 the Greeks, Serbs and Bulgars united in upw of { common alliance to o i consequence of threc Bulgarians the Seri entered Turkish rule in Eurcpe was restricted to the narrow penins on Constantinople stands But the Greeks and Bulgars had made no advance disposition of the territorial spoils, while the Serbs and Bulgars quarreled over their shares. In an evil moment the Bulgars, flushed with victory, assailed both the Serbs and the Greeks, hoping by a treacherous attack to destroy their rivals and acquire both Macedonia and Saloniki. But the Bulgars were beaten and not only did their aspira- tions perish, but they lost Adrianople to the Turk, all of Macedonia to the Serb and Greek, and also Kavala and half the Thracian coast to the Greek as well. Finally Rumania invaded Bulgaria and annexed the southern half of the Dobruda. T Two years later, in 1915, in the midst of the World War, the Bul- garians took their revenge by joining the central powers. The whole of the Dobrudja was retaken from Ru- mania, all of Macedonia from Serbia and, while the Greeks long remained out of the struggle, the Bulgarian forces encamped all along the forti- fied outskirts of Saloniki. Once more, however, Bulgarian triumph was short-lived and following heavy defeats in Macedonia, Bulgaria surrendered. This time she not only had to return all her conquests of the war, but Greece also acquired all of Thrace, including _Adrianople, and Bulgaria was cut off from the Aegean. But Greece, in her turn, was presently forced to surrender to Turkey Adria- nople and Eastern Thrace and accept the Maritza as her eastern boundary. Nevertheless, she still held all of Western Thrace and thus blocked Bulgar access to the Aegean. It was stipulated in the treaty of peace, however, that Greece should provide free commercial access to the Aegean for Bulgaria and the natural outlet was Dedeagatch, near the mouth of the Maritza, which is served by a railway line conecting with the Orient route which comes south from Sofla through Adrianople to Constantinople. This part of the treaty Greece has not vet carried out and it is one of the chief causes of present friction. * % % % At the same time the Greeks and the Serbs have been in controversy be, cause the Greeks were also bound to glve the Serbs free port facilities at Saloniki, which is the natural gate- way of all of Macedonia and South- ern Serbia and so far the Serbs have remained unsatisfied. Greece has of- fered very considerable port facilities, but she has declined to give the Serbs the title and control of the short stretch of railway between the Serb frontier and Saloniki. Actually, of course, both Serbia— now become Yugoslavia—and Bulgaria desire to possecs Selonfki, which is y decisive vic approached toc the immediate | Ma the | ruma region | the East. Serbia desires it as the outlet of donia, Bulgaria hopes to regain Macedonia, and Saloniki with it. But 3 at the moment it is Dedeagatch and| contesting | not Suloniki which 1s the real outlet | for the Bulgarians, who have no rail- way approach to Saloniki. Another cause for present disturb- ance grows out of the transfer of the Hellenic populations of Asia Minor to Europe, a detail in the settlement of | recent Greco-Turkish conflict. Hitherto the whole of Macedonia has | been dotted with villages belonging to different races. Now the Greeks, in ad- | dition 1o expelling the Turks, are driv- which | the Turk. As|ing out the Bulgarians and establish- solidly Greek population ughout their territory. This is an Mon- | inevitable consequence of the Asiatic sSaloniki. | migration, for on thelr own narrow territories the Greeks are compelled to make room for 4 millfon and a half of Asiatic Greeks. o Thus the Bulgarians see many thou- sands of their own race uprooted from Macedonia and driven back into Bul- garia, while the Serbs are carrying on the same operation in their part of Macedonia. These Bulgarian popula- tions have been the basis of Bulgarian claims for Macedonia and Thrace and if they are finally replaced by Serbs and Greeks then Bulgarian hopes dis- appear. Moreover, there is the imme- diate domestic problem for Bulgaria incident to the influx of these destitute Bulgars. Finally both Greece and Bulgaria are in a very chaotic political condi- tion, Greece has recently had a revolu- tion and Bulgaria has been the scene of very great disturbances and one bloody tragedy. All in all, there is nothing very surprising that the guns should go off on frontiers, which have been changing rapidly for the past decade and a half or that hatred a thousand vears old should find new expressio; Nevertheless the main fact is that a Balkan disturbance now has no menace for general Kuropean peace. No great power backs either country, no_contending groups face each other behind_the two small_powers, as_in 1914. Moreover, the League of Na- tions, which was paralyzed in the presence of the Italian attack upon Greece at Corfu, because it had neither the authority nor the resources to deal with a great power, has today an ad- mirable opportunity to perform a use- ful service—it can actasthe agent of a united Europe, of a concert of Eu- rope. Balkan imbroglios are only dangerous when great powers take sides, but all the great powers are to- day on the side of peace and neither Greece nor Bulgaria after recent dis- astrous defeats in war and long periods of disturbance is in any condi- tion either to make a war or resist the inevitable pressure of the great pow- ers. Despite all alarming rumors, therefore, the new trouble in the Bal- kans is not‘likely to reach consider- able proportions and can hardly in- terrupt the rapid progress of Europe toward organized peace. (Copyright, 1925.) A Backslider. From the Harrisburg Telegraph. The weather man seems to Le on the side of the consumer, but he's wavering, men; he’'s wavering. Foolproof. From the Seattle Times. After all, the armored knights of the Middle Ages had the best hunt- ing costume yet devised. OCTOBER growths, | it! 1t and | 31, 1925, THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover. English critles as a lterary group ars not very different from the cor- responding American group. We are in the habit of thinkink of them as possessed of a feellng of superiority, an alr of “our traditions are other than yours; you are after all making use of our language and iiterary prec edents.” Whether this is their real attitude or is a fiction of our chip- on-the-shoulder Americanier s open to discussion. Certainly some of them | who have landed in New York for a seven-day tour of the United States have patted us on the head in a most patronizing way. The roll of Eng- lish critics is as extended as the Amer fcan roll. So long there s noj | nineteenth amendment in either Eng land or the U'nited States to limit the i manufacture of litera eriticism, =o i | long will any one who can use the Eng- lish language at all easily feel free to become a critic of literature and life PR It has probably caused great | burnings among the eritics themselves | that any one so important as "rk’"; Bernard Shaw should have assigned |the premier position in_criticism to | G. K. Chesterton. In a recent article | in the Student Leade: published by the Labor Club of Glasgow Univer- sity, Shaw says of G. K. Chesterton | that “by sheer literary force” he “has {taken the position in London created n the eighteenth century by Dr. Johnson and left vacant at his death | until the accession of G. K. C.”" Ches- | terton, he continues, repudiated social ism “as an elephant might repudiate set of to chains nd reinvented it for himself ns the distributive state, more aceu and pedantic term than collectivist state, the Soctalists of hix vouthful days call " “The people adore (hesterton’s frreleva he save, and “invent affectionate ories Ches! ton’s travagancies, The literar: dicta- torship of Chesterton is thus attested. Perhaps one reason for the following he has wcquired is his versatility. His mind doex not partake of the heavi ness of his body. He darts rapidly from one form literary produc tivity to another and one never knows where to find him. Author of the “Father Brown" storles, poct. writer of centric history of England, political controversialist, defender of | { Catholicism and producer of some of ithe bhest p ent-duy causerfes and riticism of the writers of the Vic- | torlan age all thes Chesterton. His style is as var as his types of work. Me is sometimes serious, sometimes frivolous, times de | nunciatory. sometimes blandiy approy {ing, but always always paradoxic { Al heart- | @ e less cfes,” | { 1 e s Hiluire rdinul {lay Catholic mind in the w shares promine Chesterton. Son of a jand an Lnglish mothe Amerifcan wife, he | for appreciation of int |lems and literature ment after two ters : k the party system side than within it. So a paper of his own, in which he vigorousiy own political, r beliefs. One of of these beliefs | dogmatic religion, ! thinks civilization would fall His most important work |and the Falth,” was the rest study of the Roman Cathol {in Europe. Belloc sually {ous and takes himself so seriously {to be almost heavy. licks light and easy handling which makes Chesterton popular o Stracheys may be mention- though entirely unlike. rtton Strachey in his “Eminent Vic ** and the “Life of Queen Vic illustrates the critical method ich is the exact opposite of Carlyle’ “Heroes and Hero Worship.” For {him there are no heroes, only men and women in whom fine qualities jand great powers are balanced b faults. Queen Victoria, Florence Night- |ingale, Gen. Gordon. Cardinal Man | ning are all shown to have been rather | difficult persons to get zlong with, | { despite their achievements and reputa- tions. John St. Loe Strachey. editor and proprietor of the Spectator, is an editor who has retained his high {ideals and his jov in life and litera- ture into his 60s. His autobiog- raphy, “The Adventure of Living,' gives the history of his career ! author and editor, which began when he was 14 with the phblication | of a pamphlet of original verse. His character full of enthusiasms are reflected in all his criti- French father d with an equipy onal prot left 1 he fou New Witn supports nis and literary pronounced which he Furop: t of long ence He sious - most in the without 1s 1 S0 seri: The two together, almost forgotte or at L him with Brander M to the tic of our minds. who has maintained preeminence fifty year ne we b claim personal quaintan Yet Gosse is still writing, and some good thing: volume ilhouette: pen portraits first publ London_Sunday Times. is a fair ex- | ample bf his later work, combining| sound erudition and tinished work- manship. He is not as brilliant, as witty, as caustic, as complex, as mod- ern as many of the other English ] critics; but his balanced judgment, his sense of real literary values and his delicate irony, free m cyvnicism, are perhaps qualities rarer today in eriti- | cism than the should be. Some of | nis “Silhouette: re appreciations of | his cotemporaries, as Mr Humphry Ward, Andrew Lang George Moore. ) * The veldt above Cape Colony, called Little Karoo, is the scene of the short storfes of Pauline Smith published in the volume “The Little Karco.” The author, a daughter of an English phy- sician, spent the early years of her life In’this region and it has impressed itself on her stories. The simple, prim itive life of the veldt, close to the soil, Is similar to that portrayed i Knut Hamsun's “Growth of the Soil’ and Ladislas Reymont's “Peasants. The happenings of the stories are not unusual, are_even commonplace, vet are thoroughly moving. An . old couple, united by 50 years of devotion and peaceful, pastoral life, sadly await death together. A tobacco grower finds too late a wild love which is fol- | lowed by bitter awakening. A pastor's | daughter is frustrated in her love and knows only sadness in her fidelity. | The tragic, the pathetic, the grotesque, the romantic are mingled in these stories as in life. * ok o % ‘What is happening to the novel is a subject that is exercising and rousing alarm in the minds of many. To Philip Guedalla “the novel appears to be a dy- ing form of art.” In the eyes of Mar- jorie Bowen, in a recent number of “The Author,” it *“has become too popular, too easy, too debased, too much discerned, for it greatly to at- tract a rare or choice spirit.”” To a nere observer the answer would seem to indicate lack of leisure, increase of cheap cars and radios and consequent slackening of demand of the ‘good solid novel” of Victorian days—but not necessarily decrease in avallable supply. e, is ¢ recent | collection of hed in the d ™ * e A mystery story, with Palm Beach as its setting, is “The Pleasure Buy- ers,” by Arthur Somers Roche. Into the balmy tropical resort, filled with seekers for pleasure, tragedy creeps and strikes down one of the most suc- cessful of them all, in his bachelor establishment at Seminole Lodge. Of course, there is a detective at the hotel 14 ! thronghout " the ! for the zood of the | Mu | the leader | cluding | Stfange ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERI Q. What is seal?—2M. B3 a leopard ‘It is the Pacific coast varlety of the common or harbor seal, which fs more often spotted than is that of the Atlantic. Q Inw guus publish hich are based Christian er A. AD. 526, vear did Dionysius Ext- his caleulations upon the years of B. & Q. What is the new method of tak ing soundings now used on shipboard? ~H. T. B. A. It s called the echo method. Tt has several distinet advantages ovar older methods h as fnereased ra pldity, lower operation cost and great r aceur: he outfit employs no ad or line and consists chiefly of an electric transmitting unit which sends sound vibrations through the water. s they rebound from the ocean’s floor th ire registered on u receiver in the ship. The depth of the water is determined by noting the lapse of time between the sending and receiving of the signals. The operation simply by pressing a buttc The results are registered visually, s that the navigating officer can deter- mine the depth as easily as he can tell time by looking at a clock Q. Is it the pheasant or the par- tridge that makes a drumming sound? -A. R. W A. The Riolig the ruffed grouse produces the tridge and pl pplied in that sense tie partri called phea Q. Is there a gem knowt cinth?—M. X A. Zircon which cate when clear and orang ored is used for the gem known as hyacinth 1 Surve the sttt is which ing asant ru be said ruffed 1he it t ma that Loth and The e I partri of telephono poles "—C. M. R. telephone companies country have found e poles impregnated with cou osate give the longest service i electric power lines are ze number of vellow pine and fir poles which have heen What sort . the best service Large Q th impregn nstend of which were mites. These reated for the pen-cell press prevent bleeding creosote Al ened with e vei clopes, which were threat tinction in Canada a fe have been successfully pre. ed Newmiskam ic F When this prese established n 1915 there were n the herd frors of t 235 In the her is milk nly 45 1 How chorolate Q A A Commer milk choeol PO round cocon bLean, seve red cane sugar, nine BACKGROUND the | pparatus Is set into | made?— | C J. HASKIN. | | parts; milk powder, six parte; eocc | butter, three parts. The matertal { very finely rolled at a temperature « { from 66 to 70 degrees Centigrade. The { finished mass is immedlately molded | Q. Wkat colontes has Denmark 1 | side Greenland?—J. F. D. LA Denmark occuples the Faroe heep Jslands In the Atlantic Ocear about 300 miies northwest of the She lands. Denmark’'s other possessio: the Danish West Indles, was the United States in 1917 Q. What does “Lackawan -=J. D. 8 A. Tt is an adaptation of the wor chauwanne, in the Lenape (Del dialect, and signifies “strea L ware) new Axminster N. L. C. wheat, developed Manitot the istant? This new | Samue! Larcomhe of Birite, | shows almost perfec { no claim iade that rust resi whr Q. Who was known as the eye Blacksmith? —W. F. B. 8 A. This was the nickname of Jot | *. Bear of Zanesville, Ohio. H |came into prominence during tl | campaign of 1530, and was a sens: | tional orator of the Wh: His nick name was derived from the fact t at his initial appe e at the r cation meeting dt Columbus he Buck i " the ¥rar April 20, 1903, whe unt T rashe nto the valley and «pread n 2 miles. As e slide in the first part of it 1 portion of the to arried away Sixty five en und children were killed How n out b Over granted to mated that are held race islide A irred on of M urtle n ‘patents have 1 R W have Q mar - negroes?—L. 800 vatents negroes, and it is more than 2,000 pate rembers of the colc taki 7 v iterlaken o naie owes its name to its n Lakes Brienz and 0 tion betwe Switzer (The cbje The Star Inf tion Bureau at Washington is you, 2 churge hate may want to ki deavors (o cor quest a way that the greatest wour ‘ "The bur alue. It riiry by personal lett @ espondence as confide irged to consider the this ser rela problems—personal, hou business. Ask 0ur ilied the bureau They ar your qu stamys Ir ny all You are Vilities your « hold of This ice in ce about its value Send i and " r the cou The Star Information Bureau, J. Haskin, director, Tu and € streets northuwest OF EVENT BY PAUL V. COLLINS. echo of Locarno, with assurances of peace in Europe omes the voice of Mussolini dema ng power! He talks not of men, who re created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable -nl;h"‘\v among which are life, liberty and t pursuit of happiness. He talks of h individual tice himself In his re that Fas- In the very e cech in Milan he said “ism “intends to control the destiny of taly until overthrown by force.” This fiance was made on the third anni versary of the forcible seizure of pow 4 man who had been a leading only # few vears ago, but led opposition to com munism and socialism he achieved dictatorship. ou have lost Trotsky of the Russ the Italian socia who has the ir trump card n Soviet told in 1919, when solini left the Socialist party to lead the black-shirted Fascists into Rome to demand of the King the power o govern Italy. would have led our party to victory mourned Lenin. Yet as soon as Mus- Jini won the dictatorship he bec the opposition to soc ists opposition ree parties s the communis rined control of all industries taries and business of the county the government let them hang them- selves with their own rope by mitting them to discover them selves their incapacity to do bu without capital, organization or mar- ets. After a few weeks of futile fort the communists and socialists were glad to surrender their captured factories, when the _ “peaceful conquest of Rome,” thre years ago. ¥ the Fascists met the Populari (People’s Christian party), led by the clericals of the Catholic Church, who depended on._hopes of uniting moral support of Catholics all over the world. Their “moral support” proved to be confined largely to sympathy with “hurch ideas, but with' little tangible aid for the political upbuilding of Italy. The third oppusition came from Freemasons, who. departing from the fundamental principles of Masonry as known in America, opposed the church nd the socialists, but had no sympa thy with the Fascist proletariat. The bitterest opposition in the last three years has come from the Italian Free- masons, for they have been without constructive policies and have centered in opposing the spirit of nationalism. The secretary seneral of the Fas Council of Eighteen is Farinacel, who leads the fight against tho other op- ponents of Fascism, the Freemasons political party, the Free- masons, who in America are no more likely to be counted as political than is the Y. M. C. A. or the Independent Order of 0dd Fellows. Just as Mussolini 18 accused of having deserted the socialists, so hi consists of The first h secretary general of the Fascist Coun- | cil—whose office may be likened to that of our Secretary of State—is a former Freemason, hound by usual oaths of memberships. Secre. tary Farinacci confesses that he was a Mason, but his defense is that he joined in order to be in a position to help force the King to enter the World War, though his opponents allege that the date of his joining was later than that of Italy's enter- ing into hostilities, hence his defense is yoid. These personal facts of history in- dicate the bitterness of the con- troversies raging in Italy during the last three vears, following Mus solini’s “peaceable conquest.” In a recent article by Count An- tonio Cippico, Senator, he deprecated the prevailing idea that Fascism is dependent upon force. He declared “the Mussolini regime is not one of dictatorship, although it has been too many times so misrepresented abroad. Very few countries enjoy such free- dom as the Italy of today. Count Cippico defends the recent nearby and another turns up with the usual remarkable abilities and discovers the truth. expulsion of an American newspaper correspondent by asserting that he was carrying on a deliberate cam- .| per- | Fascists made the | the | | paign of misrepreser cism of the pulsion was based on of Cippi suppressi government had mnot thi suppressed the second most fmport= Tta daily, the St £ i | had published oting of vil homes 1y soldiers ut the time maneuvers. The later suppr n of that great organ of fre speech de profound tion among the press and pol of Italy, but it is upheld by news of While Senator Cippic | idea that | upheld by | guage is Sec solini: 1 760,000 tions, in ilitar legions and syndicates 1d force, quoted from General Farin: speech cf to M a have 9,000 member with Fascist sectic 590 women’s mhe We I organizati 2,000 vanguards, natior of a million men ssoctation $0.000. to Il - life or arn ¥ of first Muzss 1 Signor cussion a power maneuver reply to tha Mussolini_said t ranks of Fascism was because it implie most _serious one. it moral superiority over all |and imposed upon it the duty | strictest intransigeance. “Intrans geance” means political ex | uncompromising icalism flattering spee to fight in tb a high privileg crifice, often This gey others | ‘In the three years of Fasclsm ti party has introduced in 1 1,990 bills, mostly of extremel or revolutionary nature. It now has n | program for the coming session, w {the leaders confident_they the power to put to passage. { The first will exempt the prime min {ister—Mussolini and his successors | from responsibility to the Parliament “l will leave him in office, permaner ly, beyond parliamentary recall, unti | the King dares dismiss him—an { which would rock the throne of Itals ce the dictator holds the backing ¢ | the masses—the intransizeants. { The people will no longer he permit | ted to elect the mayors of any « {less than 5000 population—they wi ppointed e Fasci over: ment—"carpetbag’ podesta No of | fice can be held by one who fai T | uphold the Fascist government. Fres | speech and a free press no longer ar: to be tolerated, if they criticize Fas | cism of the Fascist government. | In an article written by Rober Cantalupo and_officially indorsed Mussolini_(published in the Oc number of Foreign Affairs), it is « | plained: ‘In the case of Italy it is to pre serve her as a_cnstitutional stat against corruption, decline and ruir Such ruin might befall as a result of granting the citizens of a parliamer tary state a degree of liberty incor | patible with the functioning of such « | state. Liberty within a state mus serve to co-ordinate for the common weal all the energies of a natior Granted that a people cannot be hap Py or prosperous or respected if the state to which they belong is not strong and respected, the so-called ‘re actlonary’ character of Fascism dis appears. * * * If we admit thut there cannot be civic happiness sien the state is not thriving, the Inter tionalist and class-conscious theor of socialism which would set class it terests above national interests : ceive a serious setback.” It is the aim of Fascism to mal Italy strong nationally, to subordinate the classes as well as the individ to the paramount prestige of stat and to make Italy one of the great powers. Mussolini, the strong, defies opposition, and declares that only force can dislodge his party. 1o will crush the power of Parliament, first- perhaps of the throne later. (Copyright. 1025, by Pau! V. Cot™ne.) |