Evening Star Newspaper, November 21, 1925, Page 6

''TREODORE W. NOYES ] THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2! 1925 _— . ey <THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WABHINGTON, D. EATURDAY..November 21. C. 1825 Editer The Evening Star Newspaper Company Duviess OMen 11eh St a1d Pennavivant New York Offica: 170 Eaat Chicago Dfce: Towe: B Puiopeen Office: 14 Regent Eneland. The Fvenine Star. with the Sunday morn- g edition. fe delivered br owrrie he Gty al’ 00 ‘ants par montt 45 cents ‘Der month v ez ‘month. - Ordnra mas telophane Main 5000, Co carrier a¢ (he end of each Rate by Mail—Payabie in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sund .1yr. SR40: 1m0, 700 Y anig Sunday. 13 28001 | mos Age Sunday only. .. 1rr.%240: 1 mo.. Z0c All Other States. 1 vr. €10.00 3 mn., 850 1erl €7.00: 1 mall 40 $300: 1 mo.. 26 Paily and Sunday. Pasi- only. . Sunday only. Member of the Associated Press. nabliehrd e ¢ special cisput ———— Fighting for Arbitration. who met in on Thursday, have. it is . decided that they will sizn no agreement with the striking miners which does not contain a provision for arbitration of differences occur ving in negotiations of future wage settlements. A spokesman for the operators sald that the general impres- sfon of the mine o < that “the strike must zo on some time longer Wafore a state of mind is reached from which any settlement can come President Tewis of the Mine Work Union has, it ix under: clared that the min 1l accent no arbitration arranzement outside the 1Prms of whatever agreement the (wo ={des may reach in ending the present suspension. This indleates a some- what more accommodating attitude Inference. Feretofore Lewis has de- “lared positively against any arbitra- tion. He has held strongly for a lona- .term contract on the basis of higher avages. Now it would appear that he might accept the arbitration principle as 2pplying only to the immediate set- tlement and with a long-term iract, say, five yvears. The public interest does not at pres ~nt center in the question of how or by what means this strike can Prought to an end. It rests upon the fact of settlement. The con- sumers of coal, who are goinz to pay the bill of any wage increase, and who are now paving the bill of the strike in large measure in advancea prices for fuel, both anthracite and substi- tutes, vecognize that the operators are willing to arbitrate, though the miners - unless there has been a chanze of heart, are unwilling to do so. So far as they are disposed to cast blame upon sither side they feel that the position of the miners is less fair and logical than that of the operators. Just what the spokesmen for the operators meant when He that ‘the strike must go some time longer “betore a state of mind is reached trom which any settlement can come,” is ¢ question. Did he meun the public stats of mind? Or dfd he mean the miner.' state of mind? In other words, is the public be brought through fuel shortage and high prices for substi tutes to the point of imperatively de. manding governmental intervention and & compulsory arbitration and se( tement? Or Qid he signify thai 1 miners ure to be sturved inio a will ingness to vield to urbitration and tlement by that means? These ques tions are pertinent, but they cannot Le answered. It would zeem from the decision of the operators not to settle the strixe save on the basis of an arbitration that they are not seriousky concerned ©over the permanent loss of the marke, through the use of substitutes by the Anthracite-burning public. They per- haps feel that however many million 10ns of bituminous may be burned this Wint relieve the fuel shortage, there will be an assured market here. #ftar for hard coal. If that is true, the #se of bituminous, which 1 public’s problem. may merely prolong the strike the point where the miners are forced by their own needs 10 require their leaders to vield from their present position. —~—— Larze sums will be withdrawn trom the banks for Christmas shopping. They will serve their purpose of holi- day pleasure and eventuzlly be r-- turned to the banks to be loaned for the promotion of business, which will e the means of new savinz. Old filend Santa Claus is & myth, but none fhe less an important figure in stimu lating finance. Anthracite w Yorl operators, any nars ars’ ood. de- con- said w to solve the to R = "4 1wo-week vacation has been sug- zested for the Mitchell court-martial. 40 energetic a demonstration appar- “nuly calls for rest and recuperation. e Good Taste Prevails. Last Summer Londen was treated to a theatrical expcriment in the nresentation of the play of “Hamlet” with the performers garbed in modern dress. 1t was applauded by a series of Aiminishing audiences, with a wide -variation of opinion as to the pro- riety and the artistry of the anach- vontsm. In a short time the produc- tion was withdrawn. Financially it was a failure. Artistically it a zhastly blunder. Recently the “Hamlet-in-modern- Aress™ experiment was tried likewise in New York. The theater was crowd- »d for a few nights. As in London, & few people wiho are cast in the role »f critics raved in enthuslastic praise f the manumission of the sfage from ihe trammels of tradition: modernism in drematics was vociferously ap- proved. But the “public” that pays the bills and keeps the lights burning on the sky signs, failed to take any in- tergst whatever in the show. For two weeks it has been continued, and now it 1s being closed. Financially the ex- periment has failed here as in Eng- Jand. And here, as there, it has been vated as an artistic blunder, * Good taste is offended by the sug- zestion that the classics can be taken cut of thelr agpropriate atmosphere. was | fouting sound tradition and affront- lis urgued, some voluntary combina- conso’idatio { It is an affront to the intelligence of | the stage-supporting public of this or any other country to assume that a, | novelty, however outrageously icon- oclastic, can win patronage assured- ly. Were this “Hamlet” to be given as a ‘readlng,” in modérn clothes, and not as a veritable stage production. with the “business” and action and setting of a play, it would be one | thing. But to take it out of its true environment, to offer it in false garb, | to translate it into modern sty le niere- ly as a test of the public credulity and sheeplike disposition to follow fads, is altogther tou much for tolera- tion. Bad plars have succeeded on the Amerlcan stage, bad in spirit and in moral quality, but they have pos- sessed certain essential dramatic prop- | erties that transcended those ills. Some of them have been obnoxious to the point of challenging censorship on the score of sheer decency. Yet they have succeeded. This s because they were well done, well acted, consistent- Iy presented. They may have broken the laws of morality, but they were| true to the laws of drama. \ Transiat] of “Hamlet,” or any other Shukespearean or other classic play into modern terms and garb, ing the public judgment of values, falls because it is needless, superfiucu nieaningless. A sense of gratification is caused by the announcement that the “dinner-jacketed” Prince of Den mark has proved an expensive hor and is no longer to be ifered to view. ———— e Railroad Consolidation. ratlros ds atively Consolidation of the the country into a comps major systems, contempleted Esch-Cummins transportation seemingly is the proper solution many of the country’s tranaportation problems, under the strict regulation and rate fixing enforced by the Gov- ernment. Yet the consolidztions lag. The transportation act cal's for the submission of a plan of consolida- tions by tie Interstate Commerce Commission, and the expectation hus been that such a plan would be sub- mitted during the coming session of Congress. [t is now reported, how- ever, that the members of the com- mission so far have been, unable to agree upon plan, holding divergent views, and that Senator Cummins of Towa, one of the authors of the trans- portation act, has been so informed. suggestion. it is said, has been made that the law be amended so as rot to make it compulsory on the commission to formulate & plan of consolidation. Senator Watson of Indiana, chair- man of the Senate commitiee on in- terstute commerce, has declared him- self strongly in favor of legislation to bring about consolidations, as has Senator Cummins of Towa. Tha prob- lem always has been to find a way to bring about consolidations with- out the necessity of the Government's sctually tuking over roads. Admit- tedly, the Government cannot compel the consclidation of two or more pri- vately owned railroad properties. It cannot compel one road to sell to unother, or one road to purchase an- other. The rallroads, for one reason unother, may not be willing to consolidate, unable to agree on valua- tions of the properties, or what shall be done with the high execulive offi- cers of their companies. If no plan is promulzated by the In- terstate Commerce Commission #nd Conzress asrees not to demand it, it of Tew in the act a or tions may be arranged, with the up- proval of the commission, without a rigid plan of consolidation having | heen drafted by this Government agency The commission has given much altention to this problem of consoli- datipn. Tentutive plans have been submitted to it, and hearings have| been held fn connection with them.| But now it appeurs thal Congress, which is filled with divergent views, may have to wrestle with the con- | solidation question again. Excess ! profits taxes huve been suggested as | @ means Lo equalize earnings and to ! make some of the roads more amen- able 1o the proposed consolidation On the other hand, it does not appear quite fair to impose such burdens on a property which is efficiently oper- ated and for that reasen is able to earn more than some other railroad properties Voluntary consolidations of the railroads are proposed in the present law. If roads can be led to such a course, doubtless it will be to the ad- vantage of the entire country, which is interesied in service and rates, The more efficient the operation, the betier the service and the lower the rates. Lfficlency, as a whole, it is de. clared, is bound up in the proposed Riches have wings. Uncle Sam with all his wealth has Deen hesitant about concentrating much of it in fiy. ing machines, — ————— Soft coal, in addition to being a refuge from anthracite exactions, is a great friend to the scrubbing brush industry. e Clara Morris. The death of Clara Morris, who was one of the greatest of American actresses in her day, does not stir the present theater public profoundly, for there are not many who patronize the stage at present who will remember her a5 a gifted contributor to dramatic entertainment. She went on the stage aL the age of about fifteen sixty-four yvears ago, but it was not until 1870 that she appeared in New York in Au- gustin Daly's great stock compan In the first play of the season of 1870-71, “Man and Wit she was given a very small part, which, how- ever, was changed to that of the go erness, which another actress had r jected because she thought it was be. neath her ability. Clara Morris in that role set New York to talking, tional power. From then until 1895, when she was compelled by il health (o retire from the stage, she was rated as one of the suprems dramatic artisis of the American stage. Tneuce forth he: lifs was sad. Sickness and financial ditfculties were her poriion She was. almost blind. Actual pov- ! erty brought her to the point of acute suffering. Beneflis were occasionally given for her. She wrote numerous Looks, to eke out her income. Better times came and she was relieved of acute @istress. But never aguin could he uppear before the footlighis. Some tims ago & performance was arranged at which she might appear, but she protesied thet sh: was too crippled and helpless to show herself again on the boards where she had once tri- umphed. So now she has passed, a helpless old woman, long 2 stranger 10 the public but held in affectionate esteem by the elder patrons of the stage. She literally sacrificed herself to her art, for she threw into her work such emotional wrecked her health. she would not be rated as highly as in her years of dramatic glory, for public taste has changed regarding dramatic technique, but there can never be & question that Clara Morris was, in her own day and generation, one of the supreme actresses of the American stage. S amen 'arking for Shoppers. Demonstrating that the automobile and modern business are Inseparably linked. ninety Boston retail stores will furnish free two-hour garage storage to shoppers. Periods of time beyond the twohour limit will he charged at the rate of ten cénts an hour. with a total of thirty-five cents for the day. Customers will bhe re. | Qquired o show sales slipe for siorage force that she Perhaps today The Office Club, considered in this column vesterday, has one serious flaw. which may be called the inabflity of the averuge man to accept others for what thev are. Ofce life would be happler for many sensitive people If vour average per- son did not resent a man’s being dif- ferent. Too many members of the Office Club—that club which is the only one thousands ever join—want thelr ftellows to be just exactly like themselves. This desire for standardized beings is the big blot on the average office, and is the one that leads to so much totally unnecessary “kidding,” joking and other kinds of low-grade humor. It 1s not peculiar to American busi- ness. Guy de Maupassant, that ferrible but great writer, in his siory, “The Inheritance,” gives a picture of a certain office In the ministry of the marine that has its counterpart every. where. One by one the clerks are arriving early, for New Year day. “the time for zeal and promotion,” is approach- inz. Old Man Savon. the copying clerk, is the particular butt of this offce. Father Savon, says de Maupassant. had not stopped workina. But for the last few minutes he had dipped his pen in the ink several times in suc -ession. and then persistently wiped it on the damp sponge, without beinz able to trace a single letter. The black liguid ran down the metal point and fell in round blots on the paper. The old man. astonished and in despair. looked at the dispatch he was copying, which he would have to do over again, as he had been forced to do so many others in the last few davs, and he said in a low, sad voice: “There’s some more adul terated ink!” A burst of exclamation lerk) was laughter followed achelin (the orde shaking the table. Maze this credits While this plan, 8t the present 1ime. is considered a novelty. it will not he long before merchants in every large city in the country will be compelled Lo adopt the same method to promote the convenience, good will and com fort of their patrons. Automobiles turnish transportation for the great bulk of shoppers. This will probably be the case as long & there is room encugh on the streets to accommodate moving traffic. Mer chants realize this fact, and, hard hit by the growing tendency to han park ing in congested sections, have heen desperately secking a way out. Garaging of customers’ cars for shepping expeditions seems (o he the solution of the dilemma. The day time storage industry is still in lts in fancy, but. as automobiles in number and parking conditions be come more acute, it will grow into huge proportions. Parking is still allowed in down- town Washington, but the daya of the syslem dre numbered. It may be one vear or it mar be five vears before it will be found that conditions longer permit the daily concentration of thousands of automobiles parked on the streets, but it is sure to come. Already one progressive Washing- ton merchant has shown the trend of the times by inaugurating a free park- ing service for the patrons of his establishment. Although several plans have heen advanced for garage apartments Washington is without a garuge catering exclusively to daytime vark ing. The first one 1o be erected will draw the cream of the trade, and will pave the way for motorist cofort when the no-parking edict is sounded from the District Building. ———— It is impossible 10 make the writer of love letters realize the fact that however sublime they may seem personal communications, thev appear ridiculous when read in cour — e Mussolini has named his own sue cessor. If the successor is competent to hold the job, he is likely to grow | impatient to @ degree that will hint at Mussolini's retirement from office. ——— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Growth. Down on the farm The mortgage grows Mid the alarm That comes and goes Concerning crops And cattle fine When profit stops Along the line. increase | { may | 1 | i Though many a thing Through dreught or May fail to bring Its keep 2nd cost. A cheerful charm One item shows. Down on the farm The mortgage grows. frost Political Economy. “Ave you a student of political acon omy ‘Iam,” answered Senator Sorghum. “'I often feel under tiie regretful neces- sity of cutting down the salaries of Government workers who have no votes in my State.” . ‘The Joyous Grafter. The grafter is a joyous elf ‘With methods ever snappy. Who thinks, while he enjoys himself, The whole world should be happy Jud Tunkins says the man who is satisfied with himself is generally pretty good-natured and easy to please. Civic Pride. “Crimson Guich used 10 be toughest town on the map." “That was before the dav of the motion picture,” confided Cactus Joe. “We're just as quiet and orderly now as possible, We don't want to be mistook for ne Alm studio.” the | President Obregon was ben: to enter in 1wo as if he were abour the chimney hackward, Pitolet was stamping. coughing. way fn= his right hand around as if it were wet and Bolssel himself was choking. although he usually 1ank things tragleally 1ather than other wise. lir But 014 Man Savon (so de Maupas sant continues) wiped his pen on the end of his coat and said: ““Thare is no cause for laughter. I am obliged to repeat my work (wo or three times. He drew another from his portfolio. adjusted bon, and began: “Monsieur tre and dear colleague * The pen now held the ink and clearly traced the letters. The old man took his pose again and continued copying The others had not stopped laugh ing. They were choking. This had been happening for the last s months, and the old man could never see the joke that they were plaving | on_ him. Tt _consisted in pouring a few drops of oil on the damp sponge. The steel was thus covered with a greasy liquid and no longer held the ink: then the old clerk would spend hours in be- moaning his troubles, using up whole boxes of pens and bottles of ink; and at last he would declare that the office supplies were entirely too defective Then the jokinz was turned inio a regular obsession and torture. powder was mixed in the old r snuff. druzs were poured into the wa ter of which he took a glass from time to time. and they made him be- | lieve that. since the Commune, the majority of materials in daily use had | been thus adulterated by the social. | ists in order to harm the government and bring aboul a revolution. | As u result, savs our author, Father sheei of paper the car Minis BY PAUL } The AMexican Senate vesterday adopted the anti-alien law. restricting the right of non-Mexicans to hold ag- vicultural land in Mexico. The bill Iready passed the radical House. This opens « auestion as to what the Department of State of the United s will do in protest against wnat claimed to be a violation of the terms on which Mexico gained recog- nition for the present government un- der the revolutionary constitution of 1917, - x oo Mexican consttution is mod- onr own, and so recognizes international law regarding the su preme rank of treaties. FKor vears after the 1917 revolution in Mexico this country refused to give the revo- Intionists diplomatic recoznition. un- il 1t was expresely agreed that no act of the new government should imperil the sanctitv of American in- vestments in which legal title had been acquired prior to the adoption of the mew constitution of May 1. 1917, Upon the official assurance of that the confisca- tion or expropriation of land. as pro. vided in the new constitution. should never be applied retroactively, this country gave recognition September 2. 1923, but made that recognition conditional upon— (1) Adequate indemnification in cash | for expropriated lands: (2) non-retro- active application of the provisions involving nationalization of subsoil deposite—ores and ofl. President Carranza had previously given similar assurances of protection of titles acquired prior to the new constitution, but had evaded his obli- gations through narrow court rulings, which experience added to American wariness before recognizing the new government. Mexico “agreed in prin- ciple,” but differed as to what should constitute “adequate assurances” and acquired rights.” Now arises what American investors claim is a tangible and dangerous vio- lation of the terms of agreement to protect foreign investments. This comes in the form of a law “establish- ing rules for executing the terms of the first section of article 27 of the constitution.’ To the Mexican staiesman this ap- pears as simply carrying out the pro- visions of their constitution; to the American it appears as a very ob- jectionable violation of the assurances of President Carranza and President Obregon, under which President Calles and his administration are enjoying United States recognition. * ok ok % The, eled afte The new law may bhe summarized as follows: Article 1. No alien mayv personally acquire direct ownership of land and water within a strip of 100 kilo- meters along the horder and 50 on the seashore. nor be a parther in Mexican , corporations which shall have or ‘acquire such ownership on the same strip. Transfusion. A saxophone is full of sound That brings emotion most profound. The player simply seems to sit And doze while blowing' into it. It is & thing inanimate ‘Which, to escape the sorry fate Of silence, 'most as bad as death, and before the close of the season had made a distinct impresaion. In “Divorce,” during the second season, ghe was rated as 2 marked success, but it was in “Article 47" that she, as Cora the Creole woman, established herself as an actress of unusual smo- BEmploys transfusion of the breath. e “A man dat believes everything he reads,” sald Uncle Eben, “is mighty apt to have trouble payin’ de install- ments on what he was persuaded to buy.* Article 2. Provides that if any alien desires to so invest he must sign an agreement setting forth that he conslders himself a national (Mex- ican) so far as concerns that property, and he will not invoke the protection of his own government, under penalty of forfeiture of his property. Article 3. Provides that no Mexi- can corporation engaged in agri- culture shall be issued a permit to operate, in case the stock is held by aliens to the amount of 60 per cent or more. Article 4. Provides that corpora- BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. [ tive feelin | difference. |into a | that BACKGROUND OF EVENTS THIS AND THAT Savon had conceived a fierce hatred against anarchisis, whom he believed | 10 be ambushed everywhere, and he had a mysterious feay of some un known and terrible person. * ook ¥ There is not a member of the Office Club of America anywhere who will not recognize the penetrating truth of that picture Every office has its Savon, who is hampered in his work by the s Ned practical joking of the Cachelins. the Mazes, the Pitolets and the Bofssels Usually, in the United States, this form of petty persecution does not take such harsh forms as those enu merated above. e Generally, with us, such “kidding is confined (o small slaps at fellow workers for thelr particular stvle of headgear, affairs with the ladies, or some other convenient handle. Just how a “practical joke” differs from an impractical one is not clear Perhaps the former is the one fhat the latter the joke that “falls v say. Certain is" that thousands of hours of time are | in American offices through this misgulded form of arried to satiely by unweary inz gentlemen who ave glad, for the nonce. to have the joke on somebody else rather than on themselves If heads of American business real Iy want fo reduce lost motion. cut out loss of time und speed up produc: tion in general, they should begin where all these ills start—in the de sire of some one or two gentlemen in every office to “have fun.” Let.a man once get a reputation as a wit, he needs must keep it up at all coste. Every office has at least one such fellow. 1t matters little to this humorist wheiher he tramples on others’' toes, serfously wounds sensi and lavs up himself a secret store of il will He mnst have his little in: cost. 1f the victim dare he is hranded eccentric,” wport. or some other easily epither. ioke. at Kick. oo Aung | . i< too had that o Mayvhe it we all_he alike Perhaps 1t cannot | would make life for those who somehow resent ences, who feel vazuely ill at another dares dispute opiniona. whe cannot endure friend does not like something they do. Who knows -perhaps the vreally sensitive people in offices are not those who dare to wear old hats, such as Dopey Dan sported for su long. but il these hundreds of men dressing alike, looking ali thinking alike! They are o sensitive, indeed, to whether appearance, movals, they simply cunnot stand face to face with it Immediately they must begin to try to beat the human dough hefore them shape vleasing to them They generally Whenee comes nz in office differ their that a that in minds or that fali H however. all | all the perty jeal much of the acrimony. need “horse play.” wounded faelings concealed resentments. lost fime, spofled work. dollars thrown sway The pitiless persistence in such of fice joking 1s marveious. If the sam <ticK-to-it-tiveness were displaved in the daily work. ma smart alack wonld be busines: manager almost the advertisements of the Kk | auic 1 respondenc It seems the Offic which every whether he r allow “kidding ought he on_everv d. Be kin i pity. indeed America. in member, should There + zenuine Club of worker s es it or not within doors such sign v to eaih other as well as 10 the plas out on it balonge the strost . GOLLINS. titles acquired prior constitution and o American recognftion. but it modified by ticle 5. which provides that tirles acq ed by aliens prior te this law “mav he held by the present owners until they die.”" but cannot he “villal to. nor inherited by, their heirs assigns Article Provides that unon death of the present alien hoider o agricultural land. the department of foreign relations may issue a permit enabling the title to pass “to some person competent fo receive it in the law”—a Mexican Article 7 Provides that aliens who have any rights due to purchases vrior to this law must declore thelr rights (o the department of foreign relat within one vear after v adopted: otherwise the will he void Articles & ta 11, inclusive. titles or contracts made in of the provisions of the articles, and article 12 refers to leases of other than agricnltural lands for terms longer than 10 vears, *oxox % to the present the with is s void viola an Tt ie noted that the law ticularly in behalf of lands. Mexico has real lem. faced by the revolutionists, re. garding the holding of vast tracts of land by few owne Peonage was le- gally abolished years ago. but it re mained in practice until the 1917 revo. lution. under law that peons were not permitted to leave their “em ployers” while indebted to them. The revelution provided that the government should conGiscate the great 1and holdings. paving their owners in bonds. on the basis of a valnation 10 ver cent higher than the land was ap pralsed for (axation purposes. As the value of anch honds was problemati- cal. the United States Govermmnent stipulated that in case af the seizure of any American’s land. he must he paid in cash. except that not mora than 4.000 acres. for communal pur- poses of any villaze, might be expro priated in “consideration of certain forms of bonds, approved by our au. thoritiee. The new law converts all titles into mere life interest of the owners, so that at the death of the present owners all restrictions may be walved as to the bonds payvinz for any land. This affects American titles to millions of acres of coffee, rubber and henequen lands. If sanctioned, it opens the way to furtler aggressive legisia- tion against American mines and other roperties. A bill is now pending to ationalize” all subsoil resources— oil and ore .. Much of the expropriated lands are 'S01d™ 10 peons. who have no means of irrigating the land or of farming with modern efMiciency. Peons have little or no machinery and no knowledge of modern agriculture, hence production is at the minimum. * o ow % strikes par agricultural land prob- Another example of radical legis Iation is a law which requires all am- plovers of lahor to give the em- plove three monthe' notice before discharging him, or to pay him threes months’ wages. The masses, both in the country and cities, are illit- erate and now that they appear to nave overturned the power of the! upper class and gained contre legislation there is a tenden‘c)‘!fl h‘:( ward abusing that power and mak- ing investments unsafe, except for foreizn zovernment protection (Cooyright. 1825, by Paul V. Collins.) . S | Tom | was | durk [would |bve Inever 1 {ease of the body t6 conquer the crea-| | living By the Booklover. When appear? does the of youth dis- When does old age sét in? Jast | 1= there 2 définite time in every one’s life when he realizes that he no lon- ®er thinks the thoughts nor feels the emotions of yonuth, that he is an en tirely different man from the man he used to be, that he has entered npon his last phase? Prof. St Willa Cather’s novel. “The sor's Heuse,” does cross ihls boundary line, when he fs 52 years old. He realizes that he is not old enough in time to justify his inability to become interested In new things his loss of interest in most old things. Peter, in his acute distaste for people, even or i especially those of his own family But he has lived intensely, if only a trific over half a century. ‘‘Perhaps, for a home-staying man, I've lived pretiy hard,” he says to his wife. I wasn't willing to slight anything you, or my desk, or my students. And tired. One pays, coming or going * o ox ok Prof. Si. Peier has heen feeling tremendously tlred” of averything for some time, but the tiredness fixes Jiself in his attention definitely the Summer when his wife goes to Europe with one of the daughters and her hushand and the professor lives alone in the empty old house, deserted for over a.vear by his family. He cooks for himself. he works a little—a very little—and he spends hours stretched on the sand among the pines on the lake shore and other hours in a re. clining chair in his walled garden, doing nothing but “half-awake loafing with his brain.” Gradually two thoughts emerge from his dreams, that he has “fared well with fz1e"” that his life is about 1o end. “He wouldn't choose to live his life over he might not have such good luck again. He had had two romances: one of the heart. which had filled his life for many vears. and a second of the mind—of the fmagination.” The first was e romance of his wife, and the | 5o nd of his Outland near the conclusion was an instinetive convietion, s “s we have when we waken in the and know at once thal it is near morning.” Perfunctorily he con <ults his physician, because he sup poses it is the proper thing to do, not becanse he Is ut all Interested in hi« health. The doctor finds nothing ‘he matter with him oo \ Then Godfrey St. Peter has anoiber adventure of ‘the body and of the mind. His life almost does come 1o un end. through his own carelessness of il. but after a lapse in his con iousness he comes back o realitv—a new and clearer reality, if a sadder one. His period of readjustment is over. He h crossed the border line into old 2ge. He had never learned 1o live without delight. And he would now have 1o learn to, just as, in # pro- hibition country, he supposed he have to learn to live without sherr: Theoretically, he knew that life I8 possible, may even be pleasant, without fov, without passionate griefs. But it had never occurred to him that he might have to live like that * ¢ ¢ He doubted whether family would ever realize that he was not the same man they had said good to: they would be too happily preoccupled with their own affairs PR The daughter of .John Symonds, Mr W. W. Vaughan, has Written a_sketeh of her father called Out of the Past.” It is an attempt to picture him in the environment of his family and literary life. Symonds was one of the heroic invalids of lit- erary history, who, lke evenson allowed the weakness and dis: The brilliant studen feeling rhat he of his life Addingion tive mind. of his life, like Stevenson again. go- ing from place to place in search of modicum of health so that he could continue his work. He lost out in the end, but not before he had justified hix fight by the preduction of his de- lightful essays and poetry. Symonds was never a seeker for pity and never complained of his handicap. but was versationalist, interested in attairs of all’ sorts and especially in the lives and work of his friends. In Mrs. Vanghan's book many of her father's friends and literary associates <hare the picture and help to show |Symonds in his best milieu * o ox ok Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, Mrs. Dolly Madison. Mrs. Jefferson Davis, Mrs. Benedict Arnold, Mrs. Benjamin But ler, Mrs. James G. Blaine and Theo. dosia Burr are expounded as domestic characters by Gamaliel Bradford in his book. “Wives.” Six would have been unknown but for their husband and Theodosia Burr but for her in famous father, yvet Mr. Bradford con- tends that all of them were at least the equals of their masculine connec- iions. All were zood household man- agers. good mothers. adequate to thelr social positions and loyal and devoted through misfortunes, scandal. danger and disgrace. Mrs. Benedict Arnold. Theodosia Burr and Mre. Jefferson Davis were placed in situ- ations which severely tested lovalty and devotion. Mary Todd Lincoln seems especially to interest Mr. Brad- ford. His opinfon of her so antagonistic nor so sentimental as the opinions of some Lincoln bioj raphers. * ® o ox An old Irish lady, returning to visit in her native County Clare after 40 vears of life in Nebraska, passed the week of her voyage in quivering, jo- ous anticipation. On the cold. misty morning when she landed at as she sat in the dingy station wait- ing for one of the Infrequent trains ont, she turped a disappointed face to her son and sald: “It isn’t so nice after all.” This same kind of d luslon appears in Johan Bojer's ve- cent mnovel. “The Emigranie.” The people of his story are Norwegians who. because they could not make a as.herdsmen and crofters and fishermen from their own rocky soil and cold seas, have crossed the At lantic and many miles of new country and have settied in North Dakota. Here the. soll is rich and easy to cul- tivate and after the initlal struggle prosperity comes. But, though life is less difficult. homesickness is al- ways present—Ilonging for the peaks and fiords of the northern country. It i8 only when they revisit Norw and experience again the precarious- ness of life there and find_themselves in new revolt against Old World prej- udices and caste system that they be- gin to love North Dakota. They re- turn gladly 1o the home they have made on the fertile plains. Yet there js always a lingering nostalgia for Norwav. Thek can he completely happy neither in the old nor the new home: o x imaginary Pope and the trial he found it to be “the prisoner of +he Vatican” is invented by Mar Raymond Shipman Andrews her nevel, “Pontifex Maximus.” This Pope happens to be a great lover of ve outdoors, especially the sea, and after a _time of the elegant seclusion of the Vatican he nearly goes mad. So he arranges a gecret journey on which he has many adventures. oKk x A view of the Prince of Wales a very hard working young man is given by Generave Parkhurst in her book, “A King in the Making.” The An in a gay, pleasureloving bachelor that tions holding real estate for agri- culture shall dispose of it within 10 vears. Thic is retroactive action against Silent Efficiency. From the Wall Streat ‘Journal. A _“live wire” stock is net kmewn by the it <putters, i him readv 1o be the hes: modern Kinas His joh land.” He precent is even more Profes. | definite | now T seem 1o be tremendousiy | and | his | He spent the greater part | known to his friends as a genial con- | men and | is neither{ Cobh, | prince is so popular everywhere as people are inclined to forget that his travels are all for a purnose—{o make posaib e of BY FREDERI ! congidered hrain food? A. (There is a widespraad helief that fish contains a large proportion of phosphorus. and hecause of this is | particularly valuahle hr fond | The percentage of phosphorus | specimens studied ure no as in larger than are found in the flesh of anin for food: therefore fish is no more vz uable than meat for the nourishim | of the brain. The opinion of eminent physiologists is that phosphorus is no more essential to the brain than nitro gen, potassium or any other element craps?—J. W. P. A. The odds are the caster Q. a member Board”— A. The and controller [ officio member: Q. Is ¢ par nowaday A. Canadian money goes ahove par nsually in the early Fall 27 it was quoted ar $1.0015. The fiuc Tuation in the exchange is caused in the balance of trade 251 to 244 againsi Is the controller of the cirrency of the Federal Reserie Secretary of the Treasin f the ervirrency are ex nadian monex ever ahove il How did the Helveiti dress We find no definite information as 10 their drese, Probably they wore trousers, tunies and skins many of the eariy inhabltants of Gaul and Germany did. Q. What causes glass o acquire 2 bluish tinge after exposure 1o lizht for a period”—-T. A. G A. ‘This bluish or zenerally attributed chunge the state of oxidation of the manza [ nese in the glase, which is produ; by ultra-violet or actinic violet 1inge i= light What and where wae Coxey W, W A As one Coxav of Massillon the plan to lead Commonweslth of Christ Wash inglon in 1894 16 propose a Gavern ment issue of $300.000.000 in sreen backs 10 be pald out for work upon the public roads. in order that the countrv might ai one and the same tima be supplied with servicesabl highwaye. On Mav 1 of that Cosev. accompanied hy 330 men rived in Washington Q Army N bisterian Ohin, an “Arn <avs, “one originated of the ar Q. How many eggs have the same calory value as a quart of milk” M P A. Eggs furnish 635 calories pound. while milk furnishes ories per pound. One quart is approximately two pounds the calory value 620. One eggs depends upon the s possible that eight epgs wc one pound. thus making equal 16 one quari -of milk value Q. If mules are so hard for men 10 handle. why are they such a great extent? M. M A. Those whe ipporiers of the mule say, in A with the horse. he lives longer. endures more {work and hardsnip. requives less at tention and feed. xnd is less lable to | digestive disorders lameness and dis {ease. The difficulty is to know how i to handle the mule becanse of the fact of a combination of stubbornness and willingness. temper and sullenness slyness and docility, faithfulness and waywardness. The mule must be un- derstood. and gently but firmly per uaded 1o do things ont of the ordi nary. Q. In what gin7—S. J. B. A. No definite vear can he assigned | per 0 cal ¢ milk making pound of but it is i 2ht in calory veizh ! horse | used to ison i i vear did the drama be What are the odds in shooting | On Octohar | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS C J. HASKIN. 10 the beginning of the drama. 11 wax emploved by the wncient Greeks and omans from verv early-times. Thera is also rvecord of the pra-historie drama employed the Incss ef Peru Q. Shouls aitaita hay {rozen be fed 10 stock i A. 1t shold not. The tast curiing is usually made in Augus. 1h ing any danger of frost or mold Q Who was scuiptor, honored the Natiémal A D ivelyn Beatiice Lougman by that has neen E.H. A first member Academy hip Design in Q. Why for [ a | Latin | penny is the English abhie penny or pence z 4 D" is the abbre word denarins 7 What fAre w rveligions denomin hird The tnites on The iarges nomination in the Roman €atholic estimated membership The second larges: membership, £26225% Baptist, membershin n single da the Tnited which the and the e has an 18,104,504 Methodist hird s Q. 1s danzer of friction zasoline cloth in cleaning floors” k. F A. The Bureau of Mines sa there is no dange: e gasoline is used on a clo | ing floors if the hou | during and after using it he danger of “zasoline if the fumes are too dense there when on is nsed well aive T Q harmonic [ AL It foot of What s matian F motinn exec: ha 1 perpendicilar diameter of a circle from & with nniform velocii It mas enzine a erank particle circle also be motion turns the piston 1o approsimalec uniformly Q. Does hurterny pillar AL W A. The adult female h: egRe which after a week or leas develop Frowing caterpillare. each molts several times hefore it full stze. The animal at this sia known a8 a larva. After a few weeks, the caterpillar ing and begins 1o spin a cocoon. in which he ast molt. This stage is known as the chrysslis or pupa. After a or more of inactivity, the exoskelet plit and the adull butterfly Q. Is it true that brass and are tempered? If this true does each compare with copper steel in hardness’—J. T. & A. The Bureau of Standards that brass and lead are not the sense that steel Br nnealed to remove strains. but nealing for long times or at higk Deratures canses a softening ¢ material Iave stops e ha untit 1 emerz ead and temny in i is an (1 its efforts 10 be 0x uscful o sible 10 its 113.000.000 people, the ernment of the United States tinually carrying on practical gations in many fields. These figations produce results of o value. Our Washinoton burcau a position fo pass on 1o Star the valuable knowledge collected | Government agencies. 1t is to mutual benefit of boti the propl au the Government to have this rat agency which brings thewm tooetier This service is free to all. Make of it. Inclose 2 cents in staw | return postage. Address The Sta | formation Bureau. Frederic . Has. | director, Washington. D. € tor 1 i | America s frankly pleased tha Tlhxh < debt 1o the United States has i been settled. as indicated by commen lof the m ity of the newspapers of this country. Such criticism as is found is not inclined to be captious | but_confines itself mainly to conjec |tures as to “what Congress wilt do | with the proposals,” or to speculation | as 10 “what Borah will say.” togeth: with some concern over the fact that the people of the United States will still have to shoulder a large part of !the interest on the <ums loaned to |!‘or gn governments during the war “It {s misleading to talk of the Gov ernment’s war loans as if they were ordinary banking transactions. or 1o try to appraise the .settlement on 2 strict counting-room basi<” in the opinfon of the New York Herald Tribune. which believes that “viewing the debts as transactions hetween al lies in time of war * * * the norma! | protect the principal and 10 make such_varyving interest concessions as the financial capacities of the respec- itive debtors justify.” That “this pol icy has been followed intellizently in every case so far.” the journal affirms * * % % The Pittsburgh Gazeite-Times sums up the situation with a typical com ment: “No reduction is made in the prircipal amount of the debt,” it ex- plains, “our lenience appearing in the almost negligible interest rate.” This interest rate the Atlanta Journal sums up as follows: ““Accrued interest 41, per cent up to December 15, 1922 3 per cent to June 15, : a mora torium on interest for five vears (from that date), after which the rate will begin at one-eighth of 1 per cent and increase to a maximum of 2 per cenr.” That these are “‘uncommoanly liheral terms” this journal concedes. Two important factors thai reacied in Ttaly’s favor in the nggetintions are mentioned hy the Scranton Republic an-—her frankness as to “her capar ity to pay and her recognition of the justice of her indebtedness 10 Amer- ica.” As the Albany Evenine News puts it: “Ttaly came to America with a ‘will 1o pay’ her war debt. That was the proper attitude and the United States met ltaly generously The Champaign News.Gazeite ndtes that “a_sincere but almost bankrupt debtor did business with a genarous creditor,’” and ‘“sharp differences were ironed out, because the spirit of fairness democratic than his grandfaiher and father. e QOne of the foremost American writers who has made reality appear through romance and symbolism is James Branch Cabell. according to the estimate of Carl Van Doren. In a small volume, “James Branch Cabell.” Mr. Van Doren has tried to explain the philosophical meaning of Cabell's serles of romance: igures of Earth.,” “Jurgen,” “Domnei.” ‘‘The High Place.” “The Cream of the Jest" 1nd the :‘Biography.” He considers Cabell a romanticist equal to Ilaw chorne and Melville. LI ) A short history of the Jews, from sarliest times to the present dav, by Liawis Browne, is called “Stranzer Than Fiction.” The persisting qual- ity of the Jew throughout the ages is what impresses Mr. Browne. Though reveatedly conquered, despoiled. per- secuted, scattered to different parts of the earth, the Jew still lives and mul- tiplies and possesses a large part of the goods of the world. The latter vart of the hook gives considerable at iention to Zionism. thing for the Government to do is o at | !Italy Viewed With Favor As She Undertakes to P.y | dominated the conference ™ wh..a the | Kansas City Star compliments Itah in the words: “‘Henorable men n | every effort to pay their debts. So (o | honorable nation: The Providen: | Journal likes the “straightforwar: | businesslike manner” in which | gotlations were approached. : |taken also by the Lowell Evening | Leader, which credits the Italiar missioners with having * countrv’s position frankly without any attempt at with no desire dodge obligation. he ne an. evasio o ox % “Poorest of the entente resources and facinz the woret orders after the war, lialv h covered more rapidly than them except FEngland.” < Richmond News-Leader. which tinuing. declares. “She ha by the stiffest sacrifices sternest discipline. Her record titles her to all the consic America showed.” In this asili ihe Philadelphia Evening Bulleiin concurs, saving of Ttaly, “that conn | try has set its house in order. 1) anced its budget, introduced economy into the national admin tration. and is making an admira effort to meet all the difficulties its economic position. That attii invited the sympathetic consideration it has received.” concludes the Bulle tin. “Italy is offering to do the hest it can toward meeting obligations to demand more would he 1o demund the impossible.” according 10 the Chicago Daily News In hasing iis deht capacity to pay, the United Siatac is mot acting blindly. for the Part Huron Times.Herald points out “ihe United States Deht Funding mission knows somethins about capacity of these nations.” and not disposed to take the last ‘pouré of flesh."” According to the Souih Bend Tribune. “ahout all that the American people expect is recozni tion of these debts. so that the validity of contracts and the pledged honor of nations will mean thing in the future”* Under these circumstances, “magnanimity i not only high virtue, but sound business and political judgment,” savs the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. R The hope eXpressed by the & mento Union that “the funding azie ment should be aitended wiih ihe same patience and liberal considera- tion that marked the azreements with Great Britain and Belgium’ been more than realized in the opin ion of the press. which agrees with the Lafavette Journal and Courier that in the Italian sertlement this country showed her “sincere and well meening generosity and more than fairness.” However, there are some snags still in the way of final disposition of the debt situation. “Of course, 1he settlement 1is only tentative.” the Hartford Times points out, for “it must be ratified in Congress and it will be quite interesting to hear what Mr. Borah has to say about it when he learns that it is influenced by the attitude of private bankers, who want to loan Italy money a1 6 per cent.” The Milwaukee Journal wonders why “settlements are h ried along avith the result that fhe American taxpaver takes on his owin shoulders a_large part of the comt of the war,” and this paper thinks the “answer appears tn ha sa private loans can he made.” ite settlemenic an 1 | \