Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1925, Page 6

[ THE EVENING STARhenzuc should in no way affect the With Sunday Morning Editiou. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY.......Decembeér 4, 1925 THEODORE W. NOYES ... .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Businoes Ofice 11th St and Pennevivania Ave Ny York Sl T DRI icagn Office: Lower Bulldine. Europtan Oftice:. 14 Raent St LG ; Ensland. ! don, The Evening Star, with the Sunday morn- ine adition. 1< delivered by carriera within the city at'60 cents per month: daily only. 45 cents per month: Sunday only. 20 rents Per month. Orders may be sent by mail or telephone Main 5000 Collection is made by «arzicr at the end of cach month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. and_Sunday $0.00: 1 mo. g S6.00: 1 m only £3.00; 1 mo. Dail Da Bunday 1yr. 15t L vre All Other States and Canada e 1mes W 1her Datl 400 Member of the Associated Pres The Assactated Proas e exclusively entitied o {he ‘use for republication of all news dis- atehes credited (o it or not otherwise cred- te {n this paper published herein. Al richt of special dispatches herein are 0f publiration snrved A Heavy Loss to Washington. It Lieut.. Col 0. sherrill, ector of public buildings and | 't the office manager which to he he; e Govern Nat now Clarenc of city of Cincinnati it ten him, 4 heavy Toss ment and part Capital derir Was this fect numer velopment. Unfortunately obtrude into 1 fees of ment offi offers its of $26.000 a will snfre i 8 | { nal | ren in from af- ts for Capital de- a vice parture scene of lahor seriously wil ous pro, the factor itself into this case as it has which the serv pable Govern- innati wger a salary four times that Lerrill. He 1t Mmuc t¢ the Ohio eed of competent i he will fill the post great advantage ured. His ex. ‘nse and ¥ manage: atter develop- d here justi- Cincinnati coun- pensation which is financial and « Is are inve cient ved. Cine spective n year, or which is now paid to Col h th eptably of the community perience here has be wree that o He has dealt with large portant improve: ment projects. fies t cilmen and t proposed. It the Gover priv interest as His 1e choice ¢ has heen repeatedly sta nment « come ind ter of salarie e with institutior o s commercial | to { pres d that | ! Monroe doctrine. Opponents of the entry of the United States into the league, with or without reservations, would be quick to seize upon any ac- tion now by Chile to place the Tacna- Arica dispute before the league. Should such a situation arise, the proposed adhesion of the United States the World Court, which will be sed at the coming session of the Senate, might also take on a very dif- ferent aspect. e Briand's Victory. Premier Briand's victory yesterday in the French Chamber of Deputies was @ triumph of personal prestige in an hour of extreme national crisis. Having formed his ministry as an crergency administration, he staked everything upon an appeal to the lower branch of the French Parlia- ment, and by his eloquence he won five successive votes of confidence, re- sulting in the ultimate passage of the fiscal bill by a margin of twenty-elght. Though slender, this majority sufficed to send the measure to the Senate, where, today's reports indicate, it will be adopted, though subjected to criti- cism and perhaps heavy attack. The bill passed yesterday by the Chamber of Deputies was an inflation measure frankly and explicitly, an emergency means of preventing treas ury bankruptcy upon the maturing of certain obligations which are due in a days. ven and one-half billion francs were 1 to the currency ns of temporary relief. This constructive fiscal If not accompanied by other measures it is destructive. It will, however, e followed by a finan- al reform bill providing for the re- demption of the floating debt and changes in the tax levies in substitu- tion for the temporary changes which are provided for in the emergency bill 3 now in course of adoption. It is significant that despite the passage of the inflation bill yesterday the price of the franc in New York rose slightly over the day previous, the “demand” quotation being 3, cents gainst Wednesday. This compared year ago. fow of of course, is not legislation. with 5.51% Briand cess in securing the approval of the Chamber of Deputies may prove to be, as this quotation suggests, the turning point in French financial dificulties. Heavy additional taxation will un- doubtedly be necessary to rehabliitate French finances. The French people do not relish taxatfon. Indeed, nobody relishes it. ‘The French, however, are in no y n to pay steeply. Yet they must if their fiscal system is to rescued from its bankruptey invit- The extreme Socialists the Communists are demanding a s suc- pay ng conditi ita pers It nnel loses heavily eve sequence, Yot it rets efficient and technical kers to a remarkable de ing them nigher paid p s tempted away not only by the four times greater compensation, but by the opportunity to render a construc- tive service to Ohio's second greatest city. Recttal of Col. Sherrill's good works | In Washington entails a long enumera- | ton dur- | g a the | it He has become, | He o ns e skilled, | | | | | the tempiations that | to leave vice | ces. Col. Sherrill He has been on duty here most period in im Capital's developr in fact, a Washingtonian, won e esteern dmiration and the affection of the people of this city. He has entered into their life for the purpose of making it better, brighter, happier and healthier. The sentiments that are felt for him here will doubt less be adequately expressed in public testimonial he takes de- parture for new field civie service. has | when his his of ————— Vice sident Dawes, undeterred b: the of Gen. Smedley | Butler, will undertake the speedy re- form of the United States Senate. ———— ‘Senator La Follette” familiar. Whether it will re- tain the influential significance of by- gone years remains to be seen. e The auf such experience The name sounds »mobile might not have made rapid if it had ged to meet investigation as often | as the progress been | airplane does. et Appeal to League Denied. Denfal by cials of the Chilean government that Chile had sought in ny way to transfer to the League of Natlons the Tacna-Arica controversy with Peru will be regarded by Ameri- cans generally, and probably by the league itself, h satisfaction. Early reports indicated that Chile had filed with the secretary general of the league in Geneva what amounted to a protest regarding the handling of the proposed plebiscite in the Tacna- Arica district by Gen. Pershing. ap- rointed to take charge of that election in pursuance of the award made by President Coolidge. It is said now | that the document was filed merely as a matter of information and not as a Dprotest to the league. An attempt to take the Tucna-Arica dispute to the League of Nations after the award by the President of the United States could only be re- garded in this country as an affront It is inconceivable that the league itself would countenance such a step or would act in the matter if it were so referred. In denying that Chile had any such purpose, officials of that zovernmment have indicated, however, that a further appeal may be made to President himself, on the ground that Gen. Pershing is not pro- ceeding with the plebescite. Gen. Pershing has declared that a fal plebescite is not possible at the pres- ent time and cannot be so carried out until the state of fear and terror in the minds of the Peruvian electorate is ehanged to one of confidence and eccurity. In additfon to the resentment which would be aroused here'if such an af- front were offered to the President of the United States would be the feeling in this country that American affairs re to be transferred to Europe for decislon; that in some way the Monroe doctrine had been “scrapped.” It would be recalled that when the League of Nations covenant was before the Senate for action a reservation was oftered specifically declaring that the adherence of the United States to ”f v i v Coolidize { bill is not adopted in principie as it | | small nation hs | theater. It was on that rock that the Painleve ministry foundered. Briand's plan, which is really the plan of Loucheur, the minister of finance, has avoided that obstruction. Ther: for rejoicing in | apparent emergence of France this dangerous shoal of fiscal | navigation. Eriand has put the matter in the most forcitle terms in an ultimatum to the effect that if the| capital tax ley occasi from stands no government is possible in | France. The alternative between this legislation and political chaos admits | of no hesitation, even though on the bailot in the Deputies yester-| the margin for the government | only twenty-eight, with eighty- eight members abstaining. NS day Moroc It in 0 is not a very large coun- is represented as desiring spite of the fact that the little chance of loss hope of gain in an indis- melee, tr peace and much criminate e Mussolinl having appointed his cessor is in a slightly better pos than a king who is compelled to t the security of his prestige to the| accidental manifestations of heredity. o Washington has become so large a city that the arrival of Congress, while enjoyed as a distinction, is expected | to register no very perceptible crease in the population. — e in- The * beer de” speech has long since regarded with disfavor in the It is even more deprecated as an incident in a court-martial. s ————— China may yet succeed in making her war sufficiently important to be regarded as an international affair in- stead of a local disturbance. ——— Fate of the Cyclops. Crippling of the U. S. S. Orion when caught in monster seas yesterday off Hampton Roads may lead to the solu- tion of the mysterious disappearance in 1918 of the U. S. S. Cyclops, with 300 officers and men, which to this day constitutes one of the most puzzling sea tragedies in the history of the avy. Salling from Norfolk for Melville, L. the Orion was trapped between two mountalnous waves and nearly snapped in half. She was able to turn back, desplte the buckling of her plates and the flooding of the fore- peak tank, and s nowdsafe at her dock. Both officers and men, how- ever, admit that she is serlously dam- aged. Stmilarity in design of the Orion and the Cyclops leads to the conclusion that the dreadful fate of the latter ship may have been caused by the same sort of accident, especially if the investigation of the Orfon's hull shows structural defects, which may be pre- sumed to have been present in the Cyclops. Not a vestige of the Cyclops was ever found. Not a word was ever re- ceived from any of the 300 souls aboard. She vanished completely. It was durlng the strenuous war-time months of 1918 that the huge collier set out for a South American port with a heavy cargo of manganese. She was the latest development in Navy ships of that type. No anxiety was at first felt when she was reported overdue, inasmuch as there was a possibility that she had been captured by one of the Ger- man sea rovers. But as time went on and no information of her where- abouts was recelved, it became a cer- tainty that she had met disaster. Although no storms of large propor- tions were shown on Weather Bureau THE EVENING maps during the time she was on the sea, it would seem apparent from yes- terday’s accldent that, caught in a tropical hurricane, she must have snapped in half and sunk like a plum- met. It is the only logical explanation of the disappearance of the huge collier Stripped for war and heavily loaded, she would stand little chance to su vive if a structural weakness caused her back to be broken by heavy seas. It the Cyclops had been shelled by a warship, sunk by a submarine or cap- tured by a German craft, records available after the war would have cleared up the mystery. Even if she had been dealt a death blow in a gale and sunk slowly, there would have been some trace because wreckage, sooner or later, would be picked up at sea or on shore. So it is logtcal to assume that she met the same fate that the Orion so nar- rowly escaped. Investigation of this latest accident will be watched closely with a view to solving the greatest sea mystery of modern times. A Libel on Lincoln. What would the average citizen, learned or unlearned, of ploneer stock or just off Ellis Island, think of a man or woman who deliberately walked up to the Lincoln Memorial and splat- tered its portals with a double handful of mud? Outrageous and swiftly pun- ishable as that act would be, it is only in the faintest degree comparable with that of him, or her, who finds it in the heart to besmirch the memc American whose greatness and whose tenderness are recognized all over the globe—a memory of which the great classic marble structure, pride of every true American, is but the out- ward and visible symbol. The newly elected president of the Tnited Daughters of the Confederacy recently told the convention of that organization at Spartanburg, S. C., that Abraham Lincoln had no thought of kindness when he signed the eman- ion proclamation; that his fdea in freeing the negroes was to have the latter rise up and attack the women outhern homes so that the Con- federate troops would be cempelled to veturn for the protection of their womankind. This Southern woman, fortunately for her sex and her fellow citizens of the South, does not express the opinion of that section, nor is she likely thus to promote the popularity and ef- ficiency of a splendid organization that has done much good. She may be en- titled to hold a belief in her mind, but few. if any, will uphold the propriety, to sy the least, of voleing it pu The “nded ago, with credit to both sides an y of an in such Civ sixty years the leaders both sides. However mistaken the adherents of one cause | may have considered the followers of the other to be, they vertheless on | made it a practice then to zive utmost credit for the of their op- ponents. This practice has grown un- til now the welded inseparably together again, is proud of the’ fame and the good name of all the leaders in that long struggle. At the topmost pinnacle of that national roll of honor stands the name of Abraham Lincoln, the just, the brave, the high-minded mo ation land, above all, the charitable, the non- malicious. ———s. The reading world hopes that Rud- vard Kipling may enjoy a speedy re covery and get into his old stride at a time when there are so many im portant and interesting things to be written about. ————. Geography has become cne of the most complicated studles in the| schools, especially where such consid- | erations arise as those occupying the attention of Chile and Peru. e Prohibition enforcement is not easy. A law is hard to enforce unless some means can be found to make its infrac- tion unprofitable. ——o—. Turkey as a trouble hunter may vet succeed {n acquiring a supply of the article beyond her fondest dreams. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILA Myth Power. When you're tired an’ out o breath, Worried very near to death Seekin® profit or applause, 'Long comes old friend Santa Claus! NDER JOHNSON. He's relentless and severe, Calling for your toil sincere. Human might you may dizdain, Pausing as you seek for gain— But Imagination’s elf Is the reflex of yourself. There's no pow'r we're dealing with So exacting as a Myti Preparing a Pose. “What are you going to s you make your next speech “I don’t know,” answered Senator Sorghum. “I may be able to arrange matters so that T won't have to make any speech, and so take credit for being some sort of & sphinx.” The Corn Burners. The farmer has a lot of corn. . Perbaps it ought to bring delight, Beéause, as sure as you are born, It's worth as much as anthracite. Jud Tunkins says an investigation is like the average continued story. The first few chapters are the most in- teresting. Food Values. “What has become of the song about bananas?” . ““Who cares about a shortage in the banana crop,” rejoined Farmer Corn- tossel, “when the market reports show an oversupply of corn?” Reflections of a Reception Committee. ‘When Congress comes to town we'll cheer Once more, and say, “The Gang's All Here!” And then we'll wait awhile to see If it's & “Gang” intent on glee Or if it's @ “Gang” so tough ‘Whose aim it is to treat us rough! “Sorrow,” said Uncle Eben, “is what ‘we feels when we finds dat it's too late to do somethin’ dat might have ‘made somebody a little happier.” STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4%, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. The wages of sin are death, the Bible. But hefore death comes sorrow. This is the lesson to be derived from “Mont-Oriol,” one of the great- est of the novels of Guy de Maupas- sant, who did not deal in lessons. He tells his story, and you can make what you please out of it. What people did and what they said—these are his sole materials. When he adorned a tale he scorned to point a moral. The average American reader, how- ever, will leave this novel with some such thought as expressed above, al- though he may not put it into so many word In reviewing (viewing again) this tale, it is difficult to avold giving the reader the Impression that Maupas sant intended to present the “inside story” of what happens to a woman who breaks her marrlage vow and betrays her husband’s faith in her. says He had no such intentign in mind, | let me say again. He simply painted a moving picture, one where the reader utterly forgets he is reading black type on white paper and lives for the time being With the people portrayed. This is art, the supreme art of the novelist. 1Until he achieves it, a nov- elist is only practicing. Maupassant makes Christiane, and her husband, Willlam Andermatt, and her lover, Paul Bretigny, live for us as we read. That he supplied living cations of the biblical warning. exemplin the h writer would have indignantly | o pite himse thing f and his art, he did that very The wages of sin are death, but be- fore death there is sorrow. Lively little Christiane, selfish, self- centered, is made to suffer at last only the torments that such a selfish per- son can know. On arising from this novel, one brought up on Anglo-Saxon traditions will be astonished at himself for not being offended with it. Yet he will feel that Maupassant, although handling what is commonly termed a “daring theme,” has used a great deal more delicacy in telling his story than any number of modern novelists would., and this des the reputation the French author has se- cured for being perhaps too “realistic.” His painted with cold preciston that one alm agines he is at some sort of where an interesting demonstration is being given, which in this place and at this time, before such an audience, is perfectly proper This is antiseptic prose. There is here none of the hulf gestive, morbid stuff too often en- countered in some of the gay young writers of our own day and country, who are forgetful of the great English tradition of decency in life, and writing Those thousands who were not fended with Sinclair Lewis Street,” “Babbitt” and “Arr will not be with Guy de Maupassint's Mont-Orfol.” [ have never seen it statad, but 1 imagine that Lewis has read his Maupassant long and ofte as Joseph Conrad did, and other great novelists. y such t im- interesting to admirers of Rabbitt” (which the writer of this column feels to be the nearest ap- proach to the so-called “great Ameri- can novel” which we have) to know that in "Mont-Oriol,” published in 1887, Guy de Maupassant vividly It thought | sketched in Willlam Andermatt a prototype of George F. Babbitt. Andermatt was a French Babbitt, & business man so typical the world around that you might pick him out a dozen times a day on any main street of any city of any size in almost any country in the civilized world. Andermatt is so busy with schemes to make money that he has no time for his wife, Christiane. When a new spring is accidentally discovered at the watering resort to which he has taken her for her health, he becomes so engrossed that, shrewd as he is, he is an easy victim of the crafty peasant, Pere Orfol, who induces an old crippled fraud to be “cured” in the new flow of water. Andermatt is so intent on making millions of francs out of the discovery that he willingly falls for the decep- tion, bites heartily, lets himseif be temporarily “stung” by the owner of | the lana. Not for long, however. He is a genuine business man, one of the born money grabbers. His relentless energy, his crafty foresight and his genuine sympathy with conditions en- able him to come out on top. He hand-picks his board of directors, and “packs” the business organization in a manner that would have won ap- plause from Babbitt himself. The way he calmly out-votes Pere Oriol, at the same time naming the new water- ing place after him, is drawn with such a sure hand that the reader de- lights in f{t Throughout the deception of Ander- | matt by his wife, the reader finds him ©lf sympathizing with the capable unsuspicious man of business. His touches of tenderness in relation to the wife, especially after the baby is born, are human to the ‘nth degree We like him with the same affection we have for Babbitt, who, despite his faults, is a real fellow of the Kind most Americans admire. I have al- ways believed that Lewis felt a sneak ing admiration for his creation, at the end of his writing, if not at the be- ginning of it, and the reader of “Mont- Oriol” will have much the same fecl- ing for Williarn Andermatt, although undoubtedly Maupassant had no such intention in view. P The reader who wishes to make the acquaintance of Maupassant may do it best with that tremendous short story, “The Mount of Olives,” or “The Olive Orchard,” as it is sometimes translated. If he selects “Mont-Oriol.”” however, he will make no mistake, although the longer medium perhaps does not show this author at his supreme heigh The reader will wonder, vagu om time to time while read- ing: “Where have I read thing before’ Then he may realize that every day, in the newspapers, he has been read- ing just this sort of thing! Without any sense of psychology. utterly devold of sentiment or desire to draw a moral, Maupessant tells his storfes with all the matter-of-factness Of @ newspaper reporter He g tion, he glves conversa tion leaves the reader to put su wotives into the men and women de picted as he chooses. Life is his sub. ject, as it 1s of a modern newspaper. Life, with all its pain and pleasure Crime is not pleasant, but a news paper must print it, because it hap- Guv de Maupassant for his choice of subjects (since he could pick and choose, which a daily newspaper can- not), we must recognize the sincerity of his stories, and thank him for the | craftsmanship with which he wrote | them. this sort of WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC Overmt the Mitchell-maligned Navs Department there is probably more gratification over the report of the President’s Aircraft Board than any where else in Washington. The rea son is that practically all the major conclusions of Chairman Morrow and his fellow probers substantiate in de. | findings of the special board of the Navy in January, 1% The board was appointed hy Secretary Wilbur at the instigation of President Coolidge. _Its inquiry lasted four months. It examined hundreds of witnesses, including Col. Mitchell. 1t reported, as the Morrow board has now reported, that “the arguments in favor of an air force separate irom the Army and Navy are not convinc ing.” It declared that the creation of a unified air service “would be il logical and undesirable.” It found, as the Morrow investigators have found, that the United States is in no afr danger from any worth-while power. The President’s board, in a deliciously terse plece of I-:n;.-n:h.“o“ serts that “the mnext war may Start tn the alr, but in all probability will wind up, as the last war did, in the mud.” The Navy board said “Highly extravagant statements and predictions have been made that the future battles of the world will be fought in the air. But at present this forecast appears fanciful.” tail the There is another important point on which the Navy hoard in January ja telligently anticipated what the Presi dent's board reports in December. That is the question of commercial aviation, which Mr. Morrow and his assoctates advocate as the soundest defense policy. On that subject the Navy board said: “The development of commercial aviation will nrove of Very great value to the Army and Navy by stimulating further develop ment of aircraft and expanding the wdustry. It should be encouraged by all the appropriate agencies of the Federal Government.” The senior member of the Navy hoard was Ad miral E. W. Eberle, chief of naval operations. Iiberle is one of the dis- tinguished officers assailed at the Mitehell court-martial as “hide-bound, unfit and uneducated.” That is a taunt which the officers of the United States fleet are not going to forget in @ long time. Meantime, the vindi- cation which the Navy's aircraft views have received at the hands of the Morrow board goes far toward balming their wounds. They also de- rive undisguised satisfaction from the understanding that Navy testimony considerably influenced the Morrow board's primary recommendations. * kX kK Nothing in Col. Mitchell's various diatribes against the Army and Navy embittered the Morrow fact-finders more than his allegation that Ameri- can aviators are sent aloft in “flying coffins.” The board was disturbed ana annoyed by this innuendo be- cause of its demoralizing effect on the morale of our flying men. Chair- man Morrow has pointed out that in no concelvable actlvity 8 there such need for unimpaired morale as avia- tion calls for. Men in planes must make instantaneous decisions. Their own liives and the safety of count- less others may depend upon a spur- of-the-moment _ conclusion. They must be imbued above all else with the alrworthiness of the machines they're sailing. If the notion takes root, because of an allegation from a man of Col. Mitchell's prestige in the Air Service, that Uncle Sam orders his intrepid birdmen to take the sky in death-dealing planes, they cannot be inspired with that self-confidence which is the basis of morale in the air as well as in less romantic realms. * * % X While Army and Navy men gen- erally are breathing more freely be- WILLIAM WILE. aircraft inves- t have pinned no medals on | “Billy” Mitchell, most of them re- oice over the unprecedented atten- jon that has been drawn to the | whole subject of preparedness by the | coloner's crusade. Mitchell himself, his friends say, will leave the fray fully satisfled, no matter what tides him, in view of the advertising the entire air proposition has re- cefved. All concerned feel that it will be relatively easy henceforward to obtain adequate recognition for the fiving service, including appro- priations from Congress. Likewise there is universal prayer that the country will speedily be given a rest from the air controversy. It has been raging move or less incessantly for two years. ! cause the President' tigators ¥ ¥ ¥ x Admiral Mark L. Bristol, American high commissioner at Constantinople, is returning to Turkey after a pro- tracted stay in the United State: Officially he was on leave of absence. Actually Bristol put in most of his time trving to educate public opinion, in- cluding members of Congress, as to the desirability of ratifving the treaty of Lausanne and recognizing the gov- ernment of Turkey. Both questfons will come up during the impending ssion of the Senate. Admiral Bristol left Washington, feeling that the pros- pects for affirmative action are favor- able. But he found that the Friends of Armenia, organization, headed by former Ambassador James W. Gerard, is very active in opposition and de- termined to prevent resumption of re- lations with Turkey if it can. The United States is one of the few na- tions in the world that have not recognized the Angora government. Admiral Bristol vouches for the state. ment that every American com- mercial and religious element In Turkey heartily favors the earliest possible bonds of friendship and busi- ness intercourse between Uncle Sam and the Ottoman. * ok ok % In leaving the directorship of the public buildings and parks in the Dis- trict of Columbia to become the city manager of Cincinnatf, Col. Clarence O. Sherrill, U. 8. A, is following the example pursued by scores of Federal officials in recent times. Early in his administration President Cool- idge pointed out that there is no pos- sible method of keeping $25,000 men in underpaid Government jobs. The President recognizes that Federal service {s so unexcelled a training ground for specialists that it is hope- less to think of permanently retain- ing them at the salaries Uncle Sam can afford to pay. It is an open gecret that many persons seek Government employment for the deliberate purpose of equipping themselves for the vastly richer remuneration which business life holds out. Treasury experts in income tax are periodically snapped up by corporations willing to pay them 10 times their Government wages. It is computed that such men can easily earn their salaries three or four times over by using the “in- side knowledge" legitimately obtained as Federal employes. * x ¥ ¥ Dr. Hubert Work, Secretary of the Interior, has been nicknamed ‘a $186,000,000 cabinet member.” This doesn’t mean that he has accumu- lated personal wealth on Henry Ford lines, but that during the three and a half years he has served as head of two Government departments their joint operating costs have been re- duced by $186,000,000. Dr. Work saved $57,000,000 while Assistant Post- master General and Postmaster Gen- eral, and since March, 1923, when he was transferred to the Secretaryship of the Interior, he has brought down the uxrndll.\ll' of that department by $129,000,000. His admirers describe Although we may quarrel with | 1925. Borah’s World Court Contention Challenged To the Editor of The Star: 1t is sald that Senators do not read the letters and memorials which are sent to them by their constituents. From his letter to President Hibben it would appear that Senator Borah does not even read the daily papers. There Is one inaccuracy in that let- ter which is too glaring to pass un- remarked. “I think,"” says Mr. Borah, “that the people of this country want a court, but they want a court inde- pendent of and untrammeled by the league or any other international po- Ittical institution.” 1 know that the people of the United States want their country to join, not. *a court,” but the existing Permanent Court of International Jus- tice with the innocuous Hughes-Hard- ing-Coolldge reservations. We have it on the authority of the Honorable Elthu Root that “the court is absolutely independent and subject to no control by the League of Na- tlons or any other political authorit: Former Attornev General Wicker- sham says: “The judges, once clected, hold thelr office absolutely free of the league.” Mr. Borah talks about his party's pledge to keep this country out of the league, but convenlently forgets that in 1920 31 of the most eminent mem bers of the very same party urged the obedlent voter to support that party’s candidate as the quickest way of getting Into the Leaguo of Nations. How about that pledge? Or was it scrap of paper” The United States is to be congratu- lated on having 75 Senators quite as learned as Mr. Borah—and rather mora disinterested —who, with the entire en lghtened portion of the voters, adve cate jolning the “World Court” with the Hughes Harding-Coolidge reserva s It would be well to rex talking about reservations ing to the Idaho or's arguments for “divorcing” the court from the league that the 47 natlons that have already ratified the court protocol may have something to say on the subject. R. PARKS. Little Compton, R. I. ————s Brookland Grade Crossing A Death-Trap Menace To the Editor of Tha Star: I read with much interest your re- | cent editorial in reference to the ur-| gent need for viaducts in the msmv-n' Your apparent deep interest in this subject has led me to present to you { our problem and to solicit your sup-| { port | The Baltimore and Ohio. tan branch (a Metropoli- double-track _line), crosses Michigan avenue between Eighth and Ninth streets northeast, | just east of Catholic University. This! is & very much traveled street, and the | ! appfoaches to the crossing are very | | hazardous. not only because of the en- | | tire obstruction of view of onocoming | | trains, but also because coming from | | the west there is a_considerable drop | in the roadway. The protection at| | this point is the usual crossing gate | and bell | About six months ago a situation | arose fraught with considerable danger | ! to life and limb, and on'y through an| | act of Providence no lives were lost. | | A frelght train had just passed and | the bell was still ringing. The gate- | { man let up the gate, and just as the | | trafic was on the tracks there was | | startling whistle from 4 fast passenger | | train sweeping down from the north. | The flagman. in his excitement, sud | denly lowered the gate entrapping sev- eral cars, but, fortunately, ralsed it| again in time to permit those caught | to get out before the train thundered | by." The trouble undoubtedly arose from the fact that the gateman as sumed that the warning bell ~as still | ringing as a resuit of the freight train | passing. As a result of this our asso- | clation increased its efforts to procure | a viaduct at this point, and the Citi-| zens’ Advisory Council did recommend | such a structure at & cost of approxi- | mately $228,000, but it was eliminated | from the estimates because a special | act of Congress was necessar: | Our association recently took a count | | of the traffic crossing these tracks on| | Michigan avenue over a 10-hour period | which resulted as follows: Thirty-three | . passenger and freight; 437 pe- | destrians; 1.897 vehicles, practically | all automoblies. 1 A large portion of the vehicular traf. fic on this avenue is that coming into the Bistrict from Maryland and re- jturning. This avenue is used a great | |deal as a means of egress from the | District to the Baltimore pike and!| return. There is a great deal of local | trafic which will necessarily increase when the large buflding projects, now | under way and to be started, are con- | cluded. It is our understanding that the District authorities propose at | some future date to make Michigan | avenue Into an 80-foot boulevard { street, but we have been informed that | nothing will be done to effect this un til the viaduct is installed. This viaduct is sorely needed, and a personal inspection of the conditions existing at this crossing will, I am sure, convince any one of the great 3 essity for a v, s L ¥ for a viaduct at this We are striving hard to hav introduced at tha coming r:c‘s:lon of Congress to cure this evil and your support will be of incalculable value us. . ROBERT R. FAULKNER, President Michigan Park Citizens’ Association. e What Is to Become Of the Animals? To the Editor of The Star: Referring to your article in last Sun- day’s Star about conditions rr'n"th!el‘yl?e Kind to Animals Rest Farm,” the first question T want to ask, being a lover of animals, is how long do these piti- ful creatures have to be left in this condition? ~And is there no law by which they can be relieved of their misery? Secondly, I want to say, because I know, that these good people have the best of intentions, but good intention is not all that is required to run a farm for animals. The first requisite is sclentific knowledge, which costs money to procure. It is my opinfon that a baby farm would be run with more success by the average human than a farm for animals. The reason for this is the lack of interest that the average per- son extends to the animal unless he happens to have a pet of his own. Thirdly, the animals on the farm are confined in close quarters, which is not necessary, to my mind, on a 75-acre farm. There is also no segre- gation of the diseased animals. Nevertheless, the time is here when these creatures of God's universe will make themselves heard, and open the hearts of the people, so that some day we shall have a rest farm for these four-footed creatures which will be conducted with a heart of love, to- gether with wisdom and understand- ing. MARY E. CLARK. Gallantry. From the Shreveport Journal. Los Angeles swain willed $10,000 to the girl who jilted him, thereby show- ing in most substantial manner his ap- vreciation of favors extended. | a bill | Work's feat as unique because it was | accomplished in two Government de- partments _which required prac- tically no demobtlization of World War activities. Among economies in the Interior Department was reduc- | parts garden loam, one part cla ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q When was the battle of Oriskany | half part sharp sand and one-half part fought?- JAT powdered sheep manure. The palm can A. It was fought near Orl stard various degrees of temperature, © Y., on the 6th of August, but it always suffers greatly when between British and Indian and Amer-|the temperature is bel degrees. ican forces. The Americans were un-| It thrives hest fn during der Gen. Herkimer. It was one of the | the day and 60 degress 4t night. To most cruel and bloody engagements|control scale and funcous growth of the Revolution, and each side 10t [ wash the palm with @ sponge with a one-third of its number. The Ameri-| solution of fish or whale ofl soap in 2 cans remained masters of the field, but | common bucket, adding three table Gen. Herkimer was wounded and died | spoonfuls of commercial lime sulphur. a few days later. Allow the plant to stand for @ @ay and then bathe with clear water. Q. Why fs mistletoe bad for a tree? AL A. The mistletos plant fastens itself upon the tree, penetrates its tis- sues and draws nourishment from it, deforming it and sapping its vitalft Yet the mistletoe is a green leafy plant; that is, it possesses the plg ment’ chlorophyll, which gives the green color of normal vege 2 Q. Is there honey?—H. J. A.” Repeated attempts have been made to duplicate comb honey, but | they have all been entirely unsuccess ful, and such a product has never been placed on the market. Q. T am making a small model of - the Leviathan, and wish to know what Fuel was so scarce in France colors to paint it?—G. 5. M. | that during the Winter of 1217-1 A. The Leviathan is painted in the | the amount of coal allowed to domes colors of the United States lines, the | tic consumers was approximatelv 11 funnels of which are red, white and | kilos, or "24 pounds, per month blue, & a blue horizontal stripe 5 the top with a white horizontal str under it the same width as the blue The balance of the f nel down the sea Is red. The super i T £a white, the hull black, the low the water line red are cith Jff or some neu pla utive years? § b N on three mer who were all- American foot hall pi ers for four consecutive years, only three who have been all-Ameri 0 barrels, can foot ball players for three con-| p.rrers secutive vears. They are Brown of | Yale, Hare of Pennsylvania and Hef- | felfinger of Yale. Q Q. Whan was the first Year Book of the Department of Agriculture published?—H. T. A. It was published in 1894 Q. When born and when under the 1 H. E auncey 1860, years of age peared under August Pitou in 18 Q. What was the ratlom of conl allowed the people in France Qurirg the World War? M. was Chauncey Olcott * did he first appe 15 bora therefore Olcott first gement o [ ap- or n artificial comb He Mr | @. What is the size of this yag apple crop?—C. A. S The D £4.000 a0 000 reach r rea however, s that the quality, proportion in rttally iction, oftee s of 1 less thar will go te for manufacturing portion known as the op will reach mpared with 28,687,080 What mer [ foot hall for four conse: A. There ha Q can vers f Q W | broadea io programg 1t heoause n? F ol 7 S are given i most important broadcast e it is pos nber of people the electHo radio works be ne prog but prog What enroliment in A. The six colleges having the hig ular full Un ity York Unive Chicago the greatest L. A 1d univer: nrollment of reg s for 1924 w imps in a fic world's longest w > ‘plow PoL —J. K of Agricultur Where is stomohile speedsw: A. The world's longest within 1ts own prope Indfanapolis Speed miles long. However, Traly, com ing the speedway and |plow the highway, the automot course of 5 miles Q. Ho cared for’—H A. A perfect water 1S of t to the successful order 1 inch of the were plowed i seven ac (The Government spending how to do thing throuah Washingto the Government has fou formation available o merican citizen. Ez o th 7 the publ Jou want to kno the burcau a service is free tamp to co stag iress The Star Bureau, Frederic J. Ha Washington, D. 0.) i a w inage of be be The Inf ¥ palm Star what a hairand | you insure this broken pots or even small stones at the pot or tub. Cover materfal with sod fiber decayed leaf mold, just encugh vent the soil from sift throuzh the rough n 1 al- | Ju ways insure proper The bes soil for the palm c 1 cocoa f re and energy t What do What ¢ 1o pre can o or you? This t inclose a 2-cent A 7 drainage. Briand’s Success With Cabinet Gives Him Golden Opportunit}' BY FRANK H. SYMONDS. Briand's success in net after many more his conse: which was at ractive repu Briand saw forming a cabi- He per ttempts, and ndertake personally for were ge end of th th ind th Tz arks the would, in th cartel des ga ion of the Ra ists which has ruled F fall of Poincare nearly the combir ¥ both the inet W upon recent British er th by o forthwith b ithout LaweE anale Frencth expe too much there is m e < procedure e to wha gland. In the e was impossible to 1 and of MacDon: was beaten ed out of off the same national opinio: which t down the first Baldwin cabinet in Britain and opened the way to_the MacDonald government In both Britain and France the ¢ servat who had ruled since th war had made a rather appalling mess of things. British prestige had fa very low at the moment when France | went into the Ruhr; the French situ- ation was equally badly compromised when the Ruhr developed into a lo drawn-out battle with little pr of profitable victory. * w ok Thus in the Spring elections o France returned a Chamber in whic there was a majority opposed to the old Nationalist group, which had been elected in 1919. But, just as in Brit ain, the majority against the Tories was made up of Liberals and Labos- ites, the former much more conserva- tive than the latter, so in France the majority was composed of radical Re publicans and Social the same differences. MacDonald's stay Nutionalists bor, t their suppor binet fe which minority In F fofta temenabing House of Commor e has been mo election, but the fallats are isclated in ‘the same fashion, and the radical and conserva Ve Republicans are coming togethe: to support Briand government which will vastly falisti than the two previous ministries nee, like Eritain, made 11 of giving Socialist ent i i . in Br the result has bec ktho 2 th cases the extremisis | of lement have not or ve used t! power in a manner to awaken tional apprehenston and to destroy t | alliance on which political contre |rested. But both in Britain an a Trance the existing state of popul ts with about | sentiment made it necessary to mak In power in|ile experiment. It was mfi part o visd )t to opposa socialistic hol Britain was always contingent hpon | vo i,‘,\,’."'\enr"fi,:m.lr.p'm o e L o his success in keeping together | ke office and discred Labor and the Liberals, when the Lib. | (i2ists, to take ofice and di * whe 1 themselves. erals came to hate or fear Labor more than the Tories, then Labor| was bound to Eo out. The moment actually arrived when the Russian treaty was about to be considerad. In reality the Liberals wers at heart | mare conservative than radicals and after a_short space of time they turned their votes over to the Tories | and Labor_went out. | Now in France the situation was a | little different, for the combination of radical Republicans was stromger than the Socialists; that is, the more conservative wing of the combination was _stronger; neverhteless; -it could | 14 ; o ossbility do nothing save as it had Socialist| Tho danser lies in the possibilit votes. Without the round hundred of | that Briand may be obliged for red Socialist votes both the Herriot and) S8 of health to give up nis great the Painleve governments would have ) {ask, as the late Bonar Taw was ' fallon instantly.” As’ a result, the Britain. If Bonar Law had lived, the Soclalists sat in the seat of power, | L&tbor experiment might have bes In the end what they demanded had)POStponed. it not avolded. If Drlaz= s ety Should have to abandon his fob, it i< Moteovar i antime inassenl the)So- | I8 tojgees ancthien man IWHA conk) clalists’ demands became more and | €ATTY it on, and there might be cor more far reaching. They had an able | 1Uslon agaitl. Nldietoes " - leader in Leon Blum, perhaps the| .But not since Clemenceau came : ablest party leader in’the Chamber. |the moment of despair and saved They had a strongly disciplined group | F'rance and the victory has any maw and they could waik up to the prime | faced a greater opportunity or & more minister and s “Do this or we will difficult task. Briand is not Cleme: throw vou out. That, in effect, was | C6aU: he is lhli antithesis ()f the Tirer what they did do when Caillaux re.|in all respects. He does not crush, Tused 1o mccept fhelt pet prajast ot |ne mameuvers; he is not overbearing. capital levy . Then Painleve -aas|he is suave.’ He is not so much forced to wbandon Calllanx. ratner | Strong as clever. He knows men ani oy o e ol | public life; he is Willing to walt; he quite futilely. never stays after he feels that his e s | time is passng. But he has enor. T s e | mous charm, tact; he never kilied a crisis the Socialists | 5 or a foe—as the Tiger has killed most of showed themselves still more arro-| )i cnemies—but he has survived ali gant. They were now prepared (o] e Ol dominate the Cartel dos Gauches. | “groics They demanded seven seats in_the |, Moreover, as the e Do cabinet and virtual control. T > In Burope, while demanded almost unquestioning obedi. | 45 (e forel&n minister who brougs b 1o thest oudets and they rte-| JINSS SOFSEN, Thoouss ihe Tiideh fused to deal with any of the possible | Elarantee has a popularity in prime ministers who did not begin by | ¥rance eaual to that of ho old Tigdk pledging this subserviency. ~They | YN Mo Was ho fathor of victory es X less s | expe been = France | soing mu * * Briand now lacks a He has to ¢ the conser which f 1 Tn theory jority in the Chamber. tpend wpon the votes of ative and national groups lowed Poincare and Millerand in fact Poincare is only a little discredited than the Socialist extrer ists, and there’i$ every reason to b ve that what will now happen i that there wHl form a group made up of the moderates, both among the | radicals and the nationalists. Of suc a combination Briand is the naturs | leader. tion of the number of Wrr‘llnent. em- Dloyes by B bt 1010 believed that the moment had come cally, he may very easily prove the when they could control France, al | 0% U0 [Na¥ VO, easily AR though they numbered only a hundred members in a Chamber of over 500, ' CCPTTIEht 192507 the McClure Neweotpmer