Evening Star Newspaper, December 5, 1925, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON. D. C. SATURDAY....December 5. 1925 THEODORE W. NOYES. . . . Editor The Evening Star Newspzper Company Bustness Offce Lith St an ) New Fork SMre. 110 Fart ‘tand 5¢ Buildine Chicago Office: To Puropean oflm:zu Recent St., London, nglana. ania Ave “fuuThe, Evening Star. with the Sunday morn Rt edition. ia delivered by carriers within £R city at’60 cents per month: daily onlv. 4F.cents per month: Sunday only. 20 cents £ month. Orders may be sent bs mail or lephone Main 5000. Collection is made by rarrier at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryl and Virginia. Dajls and Sunday. .. 1yr. 0001 mo Daily anly .. 157 SR00. 1 mo sunday only 151 $3.00. 1 mo. All Other States and Canada. Maily ana Sundar..1ye . $1°00 $1.00 Daily “onie (RIS 3 sunday”onty 130 8100 1 me 1 mo. Imo. 35 Member of the Associated Press. . The Assoctated Press is exclusively entitl '® the ure for repablication of all Jews dis natches credited o it or not atherwise cre itral in fhis maner and als published haremn ATl rieh @f apecial riinatches herein are also resarved The League and Arms. With the Locarno security and av hitration treaties signed and rezarded as definitely accepted. the League of Nations ie planning to move rapidly for & conference on the limitation of armaments Reports from Furope =ay it is proposed to invite the United States to participate in these prelimi- nary plans and to appoint a member At the committee which will he rharzed with drafting the agenda for the conference. The United States will look with the wtmost favor on a movement desizgned to bring about the limitation of arma ments and the elimination of the com- petitive armament race among | tions which, while ostensibly for de- fensive purposes, has so frequently re =sulted war. u" in | 1 i law. 1In the compilation of statistics relative to crime in the United States it has heen strikingly shown that mercy to first offenders and the grant of paroles have contributed to crimi- nal practices. They have not served to reform lawbreakers. been broken so often that they now regarded by the police and prose- euting officials as merely opportun ties for further criminally minded. manufacture and sale of firearms I not prevention. ‘The difficulty in the | way of securing uniform pistol laws in the States is such as to make a | Federal law on the subject imperat especfally as only by Federal enact- ment can Intersiate traffic in deadly weapons he regulated will be laid before cominz session an< an effective statn Congress <hould at result the in Eldridgc Asks Repeal. | TraMe Director Eildridge has wisely | asked for the repeal of his recent edict that all taillights on automobiles should be equipped with amber-colored light. Although the regulation was design- ed to conform to the color policies laid down by the Hoover conference on ditions it would be practically impo: sible, and would work a decided hard ship on the motorist. Mr. Eldridge, therefore, has with acumen laid it aside as an unneces- sary addition to the traffic rules of Washington, realizing that in taking this action he is not only promoting co-operation between the motorist and his office, but i that nonsensical and unreasonable regulations will not be listed among those in force here. Approval by the Commissioners of { the barring of trucks from four main i President Coolidze is| highways of the District will result in represented as heartily in sympathy | speeding up trafic Washington's cir- with the plan, althoush there is some | cles, beautiful as they are in the archi- Aoubt as to his authority under ex inz laws to appoint an American or Americans to join with the represent- | atives of League of Nations in drafting the plans for the Doubtless if such authority Congress. which is about will be asked to grant it ‘This country has taken the lead in the movement for the limitatien of armaments. It set the world an ex- ample at the Washington conference a few vears that thrilled and raised the hopes of peoples in every land. It is well understood here, how ever. matter the conference. | is lackinz to convene as it must be abroad of limitation of ments the United States hay its forces to 4 minimum the size of the population the vast extent of its territory problem of land rmament | that affects particularly the nations of | Europe. It is entirely proper that it| should be handled in Europe and by | E The United States is in-; terested in the problem because of ifs ! ey, ) i i land arma- | already con- and The, is one reduce sider| dis: Suropeans. tional peace ¢ becaus desire for intern: and indirectly another war Aave-up abroad fail | affect the United States, particulariyv | it it should grow to the proportions of | a conflagration, as in the case of the late war. Under the conditions which closely knit the entire world today | here is no assurance that this country | can scarcely 10] would not be drawn into war, as it was | in 191 An agreement veached | abroad to place the question of limita- | tion of armaments in the hands of the | League of Nations. While the United | States is not a member of the league, the mere fact that the league has heen chosen as an agency to advance the interests of disarmament and peace an scarcely be considered a good rea- son for this country hold Even the most bitter opponents of the league as a political association of | nations cannot with good : wish | it ill in this undertaking | The hope here is that real steps for ward in the cause of limitation of ar- maments will be made at the proposed onference. If, however, there sincerity of the present move- ment, the cause of disarmament will suffer and little nothing will be accomplished. has been as to aloof. | | i is nol back or ———— No doubt Col. Mitchell is suffering his embarrassments. Any movie star will envy him the publicity which he is not in a position to utilize mercially. com- Laws Asked for Law Enforcement. | A grand jury in Kings County, N. Y., has addressed a presentment to Gov. Smith and members of the Leg- | islature asking for an amendment of the penal law of the State to permit imprisonment for life for first degree burglars and robbers. It also asked l‘,paal of the law creating the State bhard of parole and repeal of the law permitting indeterminate sentences for first offenders. In addition to these recommendations, the grand jury urs- ed the enactment of a Federal law regulating and controlling the manu- tacture and sale of firearms. These recommendations are in line with the developing thought of those who are studying the crime problem in this country. Stiffer and penalties are required. The man who enters premises to steal is a potential ver. He is armed and primed to shoot if he Is detected or disturbed or resisted. Just so the highwayman, | the hold-up man, works with a zun and Is ready and quick to shoot upon the first sign of resistance. He, too, is a potential murderer. Both of these eriminals should be treated with the Hiwatet couckity When ewiga el their guilt proved. It was, indeed, pro- Posed some years ago during a some- what similar outbreak of crime in this country that burglary should be pun- lehed by death, regardless of happen- ings Repeal of the State law creating a hoard of parole and of the law pérmit- “ing indeterminate sentences for first offenders, likewise recommended by tha Brooklyn grand jury, is in line with the thought of members of the | Xational Crime Commission now surer that in the ! | vance | rate was 1- | tectural sense, cannot be said to aid in | the traffic problems of the present day. They conzest traffic and delas i the transportation of the city It is for this reason that every p sible plan must be tried to effect cure. Removal of slow-moving trucks and wagons from the four main arteries which are interrupted by ci cles will be a contributing factor ¢ the frictionless traffic era, which the aim of cvery traffic student throughout the world. Al trafc regulations how beneficial to the zencral are likely adversely to affect certain inter It is unfortunate that such is the case in the new truck rule. The traffic divector and the Commissioners, however, are looking at tk problem with a broad vision, lieve that its benefits to the ma will outweigh its harmful the few. a no matter public sts. entire and be- jority effects on e French Finance. Approval of the emergency fiscal measure the French Senate assures that countr against a treasury crisis when the im- pending obligations mature this month. 1t serves 1o guarantee the new min- istry a chance to proceed with the suc- ceedinz financial plans which will pro- vide the 10 meet Briand-Locheur by revenues necessary { the budzet. Continued improvement ‘n the franc exchange rate resulted from veste day’s action. The quotation for Friday was 3.8874, as against 3.783% on Thurs- day and 3.87 a week earlier. This ad- of a small fraction is very slight, but it is significant. The franc restored to parity, which is 19.3 cent 1t is now considerably below the quots tion of a vear ago, when the exchange 5.40%. Not until the taxa- tion question is settled and the foreign debts are placed upon the basis of payment will there be any marked {advance. In the of Great Britain. the vestoration of the pound sterling prac tically to parity accomplished through the adoption of tax measures, added 1o the arrangement of the war debis to the United States. As soon s the debt plan was adopted G iritain became. in effect. a creditor nation as rezards the other Buropean powers, and this fact was reflected in an immediate improvement in sterling rates. . France will undoubtedly feel the benefit of a debt settlement in the same manner. Germany, after a long period of gross inflation, in the course of which the mark went to almost worthless. ness in terms of foreign exchange, has stabilized the currency, and yesterday the quotatior-was a shad> above par, 23.81 cents. This was accomplished by a stroke of finance tiat was as arbitrary as was the issue of fiat money during the inflation perlod. With the German mark at par and the British pound at practically par, the position of France, standard of currency about one.sixth of par value, is one of serious disad- vantage. This fact is. of course, fully appreciated in France. It will be triumph of statesmanship if the franc can be restored to parity through wise measures of taxation and through debt adjustments. The present infla tion measures are paradoxically pre- liminary to stabilization. case was e The G. O. P. is considering a "prodi- gents will be expected to be well re- hearsed. e The Last Mail Wagon. The last horse-drawn mall wagon In Washington, a suburban one, went | out of commission a day or two ago. It was but a few short vears ago when mail wagons were considered quite dashing vehicles; their passage, while not comparable in thrill to the appearance of the fire engines, tended to make persons, especially small boys, stop and look. These latter had visions of one under the next Christ- mas tree, neatly and accurately painted and drawn, more likely than not, by a dapple:gray horse or two. Nowadays. <tudving this problem. It is recos- nized that paroles have been zreatly abused and that ‘he indeterminate sentence weakens the efficacy with her | gal son" demonstration, but it be. | comes evident that the penitent insur- | marauding by u\-; This subjeet | traffic enforcement, under present con- | makinz plain the fact | will probably not for a long time be | except for very little boys not long graduated from blocks and first pic- Tihik EVENING and wagon would seem almost. as archalc as a pair of copper-toed boots. Perhaps these boys will grow into men who can recall wonderingly and somewhat tenderly a youth wherein mail was transported by anything as ! 1 ' Paroles have | snaillike and ineflicient as s motor are | truck. But older Washingtonians will ever hold the memory of shaded streets traversed only hy the clicking shoes of horses. forever, and That town is gone obably for the hetter, Recommendation that a Federal law {but it was pretty nice while it lasted, | be enacted to regulate and control the | when the mail wagon. the police pa [ likewise in line with present thought [able herdic—bus. not cab—were i1 on this subject of crime reduction, If [ fic features not to be regarded with-| L. the ambulunce, even the vener 2 out interest and a sense of civic pride. The sang played “shinny” in the street then, the intersecting roadway at either end of the block providing an acceptable, it somewhat spacious s0al. Only, the, passage of some very important vehicle, like the mail wagon, interrupted the gsame. It was a mighty mean driver who would not either slow down or else get his team ont of the way as quickly as possible They had all been boys themselves something that seems not true of many motor drivers perhaps modern mechanical requirements make them forzetful. “This spondent” remembers dis ing a perfect shoi for a goal interrupted by the forehead of a placid grocery horse. and both animal and driver were exceedingly about the mutier. The passing of the old 1ype of mail wagon calls 10 mind ful lest of the days when cars went in pairs. and operated 1o be corve netly ha shinny nice an ever sireet some were painted cream white. vou say of that street car, comes,” or ‘Here she comes'” Oldsters can remember the answer without difficulty. Youngsters adays arve such vackers’” the right will he taneous “Would Here it now that instan. w answer Young Mr. La Follette may easily contemplate the question of his seut in the Senate chamber ence. His position will be determined sits, but by with indiffe in public not by W he stands affairs he where There is u certain creating a situation volve the difficulty portant nation for Court. e hesittion about n of citinz whicn may in- v oim contempt of World War crime sible another is veferved 1o in chuiches as a The churches shoula all upport avert erime have e in an effory wave. to B Trotsky " writer seats himself before and has managed 1o give ' type. He ce asserts his o new signifi to the reminder for so0d aid of his party that now is the time every man to come to the in the theater restric to Profanity teast the “‘Helen Maria” term which represents the e treme license of ot of statesmanship. should be gation in i Germany has sent a shipment of an thracite beiquettes to this country This experiment in finance may prove a success. Her paper marks were no good. but a lump of fuel has tangitie value. N The United States Senate may sratulate itself on having a presiding officer who is not likely at any time to allow it 1o fade from public attention. e, by the streets at con Damascus ordering Americans ot night, has attacked the jay-walking problem in a rather peculiar and arbitrary ———— fashion A reduction of taxes ix a method of economy of which any country may be proud. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER Delay. Sunta Claus is-on his way: But he doesn’t use a sleizh. He's a traveler up to date Airplanes set his proper zait. JOHNSON Santa Claus may have (o stay For a little while, they say. While authorities so great Halt him and investizate. Personal Viewpoi “What is the principal ques before the public?” “About the same as usual” swered Senator Sorghum. ‘It down to the inquiry. are vou going to vote for me or for the other fel- low.” ion now an boils Fuel Problem. The World we've struggled to reform. With dreams of bliss to come. 1t we can keep the old home warm, We will be going some. Jud Tunkins says he can’t get over the. idea that every foot hall game ought to be followed hy a peace con- ference. Lendership. “Who is the leading citizen in Crim. son Gulch?” “Mesa BIIL" “T thought he was a lawlr “He fs. Bill's the pathrinder for a posse this minute.” Delay. traffic rules 1I've hent my head With gentleness seraphic. And while I read, a copper said. “You're pinched for blocking traffic!” Working Out. “How is prohibition working out in your county? ““All right,” answered 'ncle Bill Bot- tletop. “The illicit traflic has got to stop. Purty soon the moonshiners will have money enough to enable them to retire from business.” Halloweenitis. A pumpkin face was reared on high. For lighting it was hollowed. And since T ate a pumpkiu pie, 1 think that's what 1 swallowed. “T has known men.” =said Uncle Eben, “who got credit foh pein’ brave simply because dey didn’t have sense of the 'ture hooks, any ecombinatior of horse |enough to know when to be scared.” purely for the transportation of mail, | it ran. | at STAR. WASHINGTO i 1 BY CHARLES E. ‘T I Mare {firm of into his elevator Being = Wittenberzer, head of the Wittenberger & Co.. dropped bullding late one night. The was stlll running. in a hurry, Mr. Wittenberger did not pay much attention to ihe | operator other than to respond to his sreeting. | “Good evening. Joe.” sald the head | of the firm. | | He got out at hix floor and started | down the corridor, lit by a high night | light, which shone down faintly on his | thick-set figure. arraved in a nobby | | suit of the gray affected by so many | succeseful business men. | | Mr. Wittenberger grunted suddenly. | Blooca: There was blood everywhere! His | were in a pool of i, while as | as the eyve could reach stretched | of gore. disappearing at employes' locker room. ‘The bloody path led direction to the elevator. berger. feeling # constriction at his | throat. grasped his sides hastily, to see if Ly any chance he could have heen stabbed he came along I street. He had read tales of daggers so thin | that a man might have his head cut | off at a single slice. and vet scarcely | vealize it until he couzhed. when he | would suddenly find himself in two | sections. Hands at his fatclad ribs. however, assured the head and senior member »{ Wittenberger & Co. that his Inter costals were intact. while a vigorous bobhing of his head reassured him | in the other direction Joel” he called. hurrving elevator. “Oh. Joel” One. two times he punched the hell PR When the car slid into the landing Mr. Wittenberzer darted in hastily “Where did that blood come from?” he snapped, pointing to the floor of | the 1ift ! Joe, thinking hiz employer had heen | suddenly hereft of his reason. never- | theless, dutifully looked down. s a | od_employe should when his boss tells him to. “Good Lord! “1 don’t know, “There wasn't | i | | ! feet far Lo trail in the other | b the three bre: Then sir. Any thed Joe senffle or fight | | e “Do von remember if anvbody was sick | ‘Not as far as | know “Well, how could all that there and vou not know it” s on't know, Mr. Wittenberzer wu must have been asleep.” sus- picioned the pr ietor, heavily, “May- be they drusged you. Jo mentally set that down for o lie, but didn’t say anvthing. He was as mnch astontshed s his emplover. | The latter got out of the car and! stepped his office. in which he trned on the desk 'ight Seating himself. still with hic hai he bezan to think. He did not to call the police until he had Sometimes that one 1oo {much publicity. Once you call in the | i police you never can el what will| bload zet want 1o happen I he con just enough what. he thous ring to headqus dways time for that But, darn it said Mr. Wittend fger aloud, “I'm no detective * x % % ‘Then he had a bright ides TN eall in Mary Roqgue who helps you out A< he picked up tind it he ers | s thing himsell out what could There il the the telephone : i ‘r | the shrieks of have arisen from pulpit” a few collegiate | senerations ago at an announcement that smuking was officially accepted las one of the recreations of the sweet zirl undergraduate, the comment of | editorial writers today seems mild in- | deed. There are plenty of editors will- ing to venture the opinion that Bryn | Mawr's new smoking room will make for a temporate use of the weed Irather than encouraging it. The Bryn Mawr action ered by the Omah e of A When horror we consider that would i | {“press and { is | -neral development. Bryn Mawr,” accord- ing to the Omaha paper. “has recog- nized the prevalence of feminine | smoking by setting aside smoking rooms in its dormitories ought to be sufficient to indicate to what - extent {the practice has grown. Feminine | smoking I8 just one phase of that sreat and growing movement for eater freedom. especially a freedom { from followinz a moral standard es- { tablished for her by the male.” As a matter of fact, in the judgment of the Manchester Leader. “there is nothinz immoral about smoking, although there may be something unhygienic, nd there certainly is something un- esthetic.” The Leader continues: {““Whatever seems out of keeping with !the old conception of womanhood de- {strovs the real reverance men have had for women and constitutes a loss {10 the world.” | * ok K * “The cigarette is plainly gaining.” the New York Herald-Tribune believes. nd it advises that “the open-minded Brvn Mawr decision” should be ac- cepted as “a wholesome example in fa- vor of letting college girls smoke when, | \Where and if they want to.” The Her- | a1d-Tribune adds that “‘wherever wom en want to smoke they should smoke, {ana “the candid comments of the Bryn Mawr authorities confirm the impres- sion of parents and others that they will, anyhow.” While admitting, how ever, that the habit “does not add to { teminine charm.” and “is not one to be recommended. either in men or wom- *the Elmira Advertiser savs that “moderately used. tobacco may not be injurions to health.” although it must dmitted “that it i seldom moder- Lately used.” The college action is interpreted as | “practical institution of a course in | cigarette smoking,” in comment by | the Charlotte Observer. which state: further, “If the authorities expected to set an example for emulation, they have found that they made a false move. Bryn Mawr is destined to get considerable advertising out of the | departure made there, but it is evident that the Bryn Mawr faculty will zet some disappointment out of the nature of the advertising.” Still. it is up to the parents. as viewed pv the Spokane Spokesman-Review. “As Bryn Mawr, it suggests, “is a privately endowed in- stitution, mot supported by public taxes, these are matters to be deter- mined by the authorities of the insti- tution, the student body and the par- ents of the students. Parents who do not approve unrestricted smoking by young girls at Bryn Mawr or other col- leges of like practice can refuse to send their daughters there, or with- draw them from such institutions it they are already enrolled.’ * ok ok X ““Whether women should smoke.” in the opinion of the Indianapolis News, “i& a_question for them to decide. The real issue, it seems, is the effect such a ruling will hive on a college like Bryn Mawr. Such institutions frown upon smoking and realize that much of it is done. Brvn Mawr seems to have cut a strong tie that bound it with the past.” But the Evansville Courier points out that “the college suthorities helieve it Is better to have | Mr. Witten- | | than and TRACEWELL. vision of a slender, through his mind. Al he remembered of her were two starry eyes. a smile worth at least » million dollars and a voice. but it was enough. “Miss Roque?” he asked, heard the receiver click at end of the line. “Yes," came a sweel volce, which he immediately recoznized. No matter if one had never heard Mary Roque say but one word he never forgot her voice. “This is Marcus Wittenhe Rogue, of Wittenberger & a big joh for you, around to my office? 'l tell the eleva tor hoy to bring you righi up? will? Fine! Thank you." He was so excited, when Miss Roque . that he utterly foreot to take s big zray felt har, with iis blue- folded band. is 12" smiled the chic. vlishly thin young lady who wafted his office, her clear, blue eves minz like stars on 4 Wintar's hi. “Murder! atically Perrible.” ied “Why did vou do it Her childish face the joke. “Seriously, Miss Roque is full of biood. Didn't ‘1 smelled it blond lady flashed when he the other zer. Miss I have Can you come right into &l nij said Wittenberger, dra [ Mary Rogue smiled him inu the cor you see it? Have you wn the hall? That's the haven't vet,’ Let's do’it M looked into that reom locker room—ne [ Mary sarid * Rosuie. . Gingzerly the two entered the lock 1id the il hey in evefythinz, as No. 411 1t hegins here radiant eves takin she stopped in tront of locker *Whose locker is th ST don’t know. 1 will have up,” replied Wittenherge Luckily he had interested sonally in the to ook 1t hastily. mself per filinz svstem, and knew how to find what he wanted. He rather yprided himself on his speed, although no doubt his fiie clerk would have inwardly branded him as terribly clumsy. if she could have seen his thick finzers going through cards. “Here we clerk, home west, locker “Good! Can you tell me when Miller left the office today?” “UN ask the elevator boy. he ought to_know.’ The car sped up at the Joe. when did yon take home today “Why, he left T remember MW7 Was he that J ~Millet 6 Nutm. a Henry Q. 1y : street north. Mr Mr. Miller My Witten Weedinzg? far his eye “There is quite 4 pool of it in here isn't there. " asked Mary Roque t once she stooped and dipped finger into the stuff. held drippinz. to her no Then she stuck out ssted the blood Mr. Wittenber in unison ay—you'll former Running back te Mary Roque =at dowr She called. She talked eves began 1o twinkle laugh as she hunz and said: Mr. Mille pound of liver She i her tonzue and t i zasped the 1t the phone Her luminous 1 broke into a up the phone I Wittef Mi Cigarette in College Draws Only Mild Fire he girls smoking furtively In frankiy and openly their own rooms nd remarks that it may be true that there will he less n<e of cizarettes if they are not forbidden than when they are.” The further opportunity for choice is seen by the Utica Observer. Dispatch, with the explanation that it no doubt well that there are colleges where smoking i permitted where it is forbidden The par- ents or guardians of the vounz women may settle in their own minds to which institution thev will send their girls.” The ment, as vight of student seif govern indorsed by Miss Parks, president of HBryn Mawr com mended by the New York \World which feels that “Miss Parks helps us believe that we are living in an ase of reason.” The point especially made by the colleze head ix that “if a rezulation prohibiting anything can no longer depend on the autho of conscience and convention. then it is no longer effective * koo is ity The purpose to 1 among the students is edited, how- | ever, to President Parks by the Ann Arbor Times, which arsues: “Recog- | nize the privilege and much of the | lure will be gome. That is human nature, which cannot. of course. be permitted to run rampant 1t to which an occasional concession must be made.”” The Akron Beacon Journal goes still further in its s estions and proposes: “If the thing were put upon a compulsion 1 and they were made to study how to do it, this terrible menace which the woman- | hood of the country has dozed over might disappear. Anything that pro ceeds by compuision must be defied It is granted by the, Knoxville Sentinel that it took “courage for Bryn Mawr to change an edict that | had been upheld uthority for years,” but the Sentinel asks: “W, it the omly course to be pursued, if the institution was to make any pre- tense of administering to the spiritual. | mental and moral needs of the modern younz woman”’ The Schenectady Gazette, however. emphasizes the thought that it was “better to vield with restrictions than to attempt to enforce rules which would be broken.” So long as there are girls, according | to the Rock Island Argus. “to find a ick in the smoking of a cigarette. | stubs will be found in the corners of our schools and college: smoking | . Mad Dogs on Two Legs. | meetinz i1s | Honore Willsie Morrow in her e THIS AND THAT THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover. 100, love the country,” suid Les lie Stephen, “but I love it besi in hooks.” Charles 8. Brooks quotes this, with a measure of approval, in his own delizhtful book about the English ountryside, “A Thread of English Road.” But Mr. Brooks evidently ex the country itseif. as well as the vniry in literature, for he traveled by bieycle over much of Southwestern . walking the long hills, lyving for a bit of rest on the downs and nod dinz off 1o sleep, wa 1o pedal on for more miles to some small, pictur- esque village in search of bread and cheese e or a night's lodging. His nare his travels is coniinvally enlivened with humor, without which tales of the most interesting places e likely to he so dull as to discoura ny one from planninz a visit. Com. mentinzg on English breakfusis, says: “We drank tepid tea and ate the pallid toast of vesterduy. Awuinst the chance that some zenial warmth might linzer, this toast was set up, piece by piece. between the slats of a metal cooler. T know not the orlzin of the phrase thal we are warm toast, bt surelv it comes not fron English stock.” Also, “John and T went 10 breakfast without walting. It w the jJusual hacon. Some day I <hal 21" a piz upon the hoof and thank him for his incessant Lospitality.” 1 leseribes his visit to the shrine of Gil bert White at Selborne. with irony di rected azainst himself, hecause he always heen privately bored by the f mons “Natural History.” it: I suppose that nearly every one has réad White's tural History of Selhorne,” or hax intended to vead it 1t i one of those zood intention- of Which the devil nikes his cobble- stones. and is undeniably 4 book with aut which no zentleman’s is complete.” Tix feeling abom White's zreat study. kept time, ix: “Gilhert White have tossed up the window wind blow in.” R In his first chapter Mr. Brooks acts < the prologue to his play and tells what he purposes writing about in succeeding chapiers. He disclaims ‘high-hrow™ intentions and forswears ide hooks «nd histories, though later he oceasionally Japses and indulges in 1 few zuide-bovk details. He does not onceal the fact that he, like other travelers, was frequently tired, and when tired Was sometimes cross. nor that hunzer often made him hasten by some historic abbey or tempting byroad. fere and there 1 shall jot down o page of weary hills at whose Lreathless top some 40 winks of sleep the briet profit of a vasi expendi And now and then 1 shall vaph to tell of hunger that is itfed with bec? juenched from pewter « ful inns and the long 1w dinner.” His derpest inter however, ones that must be those of every appreciative traveler with a hackzround of culture—heauty ind ase ciation. “These that 1 shall string on my castle and tankard The n reinembrance « far-off battles the fancy, books that a but vivid in our vi poets who once Rourished in countryside and wenat on thei ourney.” So he takes us with him 10 the arli Hall Wi i suppos ound table of King Arthur and knizhts: to the spot in the New Fore where the cruel William Rufus w. shot in the hack by the arcow of one of his own retainers: o Bath, where the heroes and heroines of Smollett Fanny Burney and Jane Austen went o drink the waters and to find matri- mon rtners. and over heather- vered Exmoor. through the scenes “Lorna Doone.” to Lynton on the top of the cliffs overle Bristol Channel and Lynmouth at the bottom of the cliffs, where the rushinz Lynn tnmbles into the channel. The Thread of Engzlish Road™” begins and nds with London. as all reads de Enzlar He says o Tive, n his « 1re e 4 D ps. of peace zht afler ats thread platter of nd 1 u omme events hills ancient whe chester, the i * % o his the Ariz * Wil tions dwellings drawn e most Cather e of spent vrehist. and Hpon wledge and 1m ions zained there for one of the intellectually thrillinz parts of t latest novel. “The Professor's Hous Tom Outland. the dominant “pirt of the novel. thouzh he has lonz been dead. once, while i cattle herder, discovered some of these cliff dwell- inzs, and sold all that he had to finance their exploration. What he found there in the honeycomb of the cliffs. atter he had scaled up the one sible entrance. ‘makes a narrative of intense interest. One of his help- ~rs, the camp cook. 2 poor old dere- lict, comes face to face with a rattler as he draws himself by his hands up {10 the 1op of the ledge e ir Gilbert Parker's romance of La Salle. upon which he has heen at work for a lonz time, is now publish m; under the title “The Power and the Gloj is essen: history as Iy the La Salle of rom: it has been revealed in letters and jour As a story of adventure these old Jesuit papers could scarcely be improved upon. The of La Salle and his patron. Count Frontenac, at Quebec, is the hezinning of the narrative. and its end is the death in the Texan wilder- ness of the brave explorer, murdered Ly disaffected members of his party. The climax of La Salle’s career, the discovery and claiming for France of the mouth of the Mississippi River. made one of the most dramatic cenes of the romance. “Early in April they came upon three broad channels. * La Salle took one, Tont: another. and D'Autray a third. they drifted down hetween the low marshy shores, the brackish water changed to brine. Then at last came the broad bosom of the Gulf, and La alle saw for the first time the waters destined to be the center of tragedy and the source of sorrow and im- mortalit ntie * ok ok % The strugglg for the possession of the territory now Oregon in the eighteen-thirties is made the ground. work for u historical mnovel by “We Must March." The great fur com- panies coveted for exploitation wild, rich country west of the Rockies. The Hudson Bay Co.. largest and best in organ n, was established in this territory and was warning off From the Cincinnati Times-Star. A dangerous lunatic is at Toledo, this State. 1is eves are rim- med with red, which he has daubed on with a paint brush. He lurks be- hind trees and benches, and approach- ing his victims, always women, from behind, batters them over the head with a club. Five have been nearly killed. From all accounts he is an es- caped inmate from the State hospital for the insane—a clubber who already had two murders to his credit When he is again apprehended, he will go back to the hospital, for insane men are not executed. He will eat as much as anybody else. When oppor- tunity offers he will kill a nurse or guard. It may be he will again es. cape, and crush other skulls in Toledo. Society will cherish this mad dog, and in effect will require some sane, decent workman to toil for him as long as the maniac lives. Of course, the buri den will be distributed to all the peo- ple of the State in taxation, but that is what it amounts to. Its four-footed mad dogs society puts out of their misery, protecting itself at the same time—a demonstra- tion of good sense and common hu- large in all other aspirants. Among the vari- ous groups of pioneers of the new American nation who made trouble for the big British company none was so troublesome as a band of m sionaries from New England. under the medical missionary, Marcus Whit- man. It is about the conflict between these missionaries on the one side and the Hudson Bay Co. and the Scotch governor of Ruperts Land on the other that the plot centers. Many of the historical facts of the novel are taken from the journal of Nar- cissa Whitman, wife of Marcus Whit- man. * Kk %k The excellent influence of cooking, dish-washing, floor-scrubbing, laundry work and baby-tending on character is extolled by Edith Barnard Delano in her novel “The Way of All Earth.” Selfish, spoiled Anne Denison becomes a model of self-denial and efficiency through the necessity of doing all her own work in a suburban cottage, and | taking care of a vegetable garden in her spare time. Her day's work fre- quently begins at 4 o'clock in the morning, but her health does not seem to suffer. This would be a novel to manity, which for reasons inexplicable it is nnwilling to copy where homicidal| mani; are concerned, recommend to girls contemplating matrimony followed by & suburban cottags. he as | Githers | and let the | find | and mutton, of thirs | ire the thinzs | The La Salle of the romance | the | ANSWERS TO Q sior A B, A To be sent up Creek) or 10 row up River Creek) is a slang expression mean- ing to be defeated or to fail in anyv- thing: espeelally applied to political candidates who fail at elections. with iu supposed reference 1o small {stream in Kentucky What to be is meant sent up b by the exj n Salt River Salt It River the United France for the trenches the war?—I. €. 8. A. The Wur Department savs thai the United States has never paid rent to the Q. Did ¥rench government or 1o # French citizen for the oceupation of trenches in the battle line. The » mors In regard to this matter have probubly orizinated from the fact that the United States rented ground ining purposes, and paid a cer mount for damages (o property when training trenches were con structed. the United Q. What zeozraphical center States?— H. N A, Omabia, Nebn mated population of is the closest Terge ciiy is of with an esti mmon in China and Q sprosy Japan’—M. E A In Chi ver 1600000 [ with leprosy. Ja [lepers a titile over ) that affected 20000 estimal sons are an had a a decade a Do people eat ostriches? M . The flesh of the ostrich ix used food 1o a limited extent in the of the world where the ox bred. 11 is used f3 ire by the Arabs. w < most wholesome and The value of the feather akes it improbable that will ever be used 10 any extent. for trich i< [ anentiy howaover the ostrich | considerinle oil that the vezeiable refined from the How nse erude oil |D. A I AL The Department of Azriculture [ suvs that the impurities in the crude 1oil have been removed hy eaustic sodu, and the oil hasx heen hleached with fuller’s earth and deodorized by superheated stexm under hizh vacum, is the for food pressed e : - rom seed 1 the was it members has ind where How many me Sociely B.J. G A. The Holy America was Brst es i York ity in 1 present membership and hovs, divided rish branches Q. o Q Holy > started | Name Society in ished in New he approxinate 1.S00.000 men et 7,00 is into | \When did Dunean Phyfe live He and home He lived from 1790 to 1847 | operated « furniture factory store in New York and bullt a QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. J.. where he workshop, prob Classical feet, and at New Market, maintained a small ably a private hobby linex, sweeping legs, claw lyre hack mark Phyfe’s Q. How were dino:anrs” M.D. ¥ A, They v larze ried in size, the largest having heen from 60 1o 70 feet in length, 10 to 20 feet in height, and weighis estimated from 20 to 25 1o What was a warn by R. A s a piece of armor pro- of the helmet worn ar the century gorzel w the junction I was seventeenth 2. When puttinz awav « traveling bhag for the season, should oil be ap plied?—C. R A. It is better to give it saddle soap. This soap contains the ofl that should he used on leather "he bag should then wrapped with paper ta keep out air tecting and enl 1 coat of Al the e the ealskins and othe BT, ©. Where are fine furs tanned? A, Until about 8 or o almost all of the dr dveinz of sealskins was abroad. but throuzh steps taken the Department of Commerce a d nd dyeinz plant was establ Louis. This firm is known ke Fur ANl sealskins taken Pribilof Islands are now resi prepured for market at this Other furs are tanned at va ex, althouzh the majority are 1 to furriers in New York City 10 years ing and pertormed by hed the larly place ious pt Shipp there in o pumpkin?--0. D : A The number of seeds varies with the variety of pumpkin and one can Solv. msss.a% toiihe muimber.s The ~ize the pumpkin has very H_!'!t 1” Ao with the number of seeds 1"=uall there are more than a the and and Jess than three thousand seeds invite onr s Burcan especially 2 Intormation our Washington might be done hetter or more casily that you think might be done awav hureau about it. Ants babies and hundreds upow women who care to send their que tions ta the bhureau. Inclose 1 ceut Address The Star Information Burean Frederic J. Haskin, director, Tirenty Do make free o some rmation i care of undreds out of wnoton BACKGROUND OF E BY PAUL} The Spain has hee | chanzed | fre civilis | Kims sovernmeni of the dictatorship Yet the remains within last two davs milary to a m ministry Sanie X1 constitution n (Altonso the dictator inactive on the whicn throne. and the military vears remains The dictator R prime minister the fvilian” cabinet. In his} proclamation the announcement is | mude that under the restored eivilian +dministration the constitution will he “maintained integrally” slthouz remaining in suspense. In the 1 that promise, it is noted that !lvf v explains that “integrally means v function of variables thul remains constant, or a_set of equa tions that remains 1istied ne the differentiuls of the bles lisfy a given differential equation = * * x ¥ That definition fits the conditions in Spain at this date, for the tyranny i of the milltarists continues the abso- Inte tyranny of the civilian admin- istration, with the same suppression of speech, the press and the rizht ot | bublic assemblage or protest. Oniv| threa weeks before Gen. de Rivera | had publicly stated that the mili-| tary dictatorship would assuredly Jast at least three vears longer and until certain reforms in social con- ! ditions and amendments to the co stitntion had been completed Why the change is now made suddenly remaine a mystery to all ontside !h.v inner confidence of Spanish politics * o % x 1t has heen thought by many out-| side of Spain that the seizure of | e dictatorship in September. 1923 wis an act which was antagonistic| to the throne of Alonso XIT—i| near-revolution endangerinz the | {crown in an uprising to protest| | gainst the Spanish maladministra- | ton of the Riff war. It followed soon | after the terrible defeat of Gen \|-j ester in Morocco—known as the “Annural disaster”—when Spamn | suffered 10,000 casualtiex d the| { commanding officer. Gen. Silvester | suicided in humiliation. It ha transpired that the entire respons bility lay upon the King. This w proved in the investigation which followed, disclosing a letter and tele- gram from the King to Silvester di-| recting the tactics and secretly | overruling all plans of the war de- partment. | Public grief and resentmnet rose | to such a pitch that some scapegoat | was necessary to save the throne The King had long chafed under the | restrictions of the constitution, and in a speech at a_banquet at Cordova, shortly before the military coup, he volced his dissatisfaction and told his astonished hearers thai he in-| tended to become absolute master of | Spain suspended two 1=0 military hecomes Gen. Prima of dictiona vari ™ | | i | | s EE The military juntas took their cue from that speech. and attributed the Morocean disaster to the fact that the |cabinet consisted of civilians. The King and officers thereupon proceeded with their plans to set aside the con- stitution and set up a military dictator to rule, under authority of the King, in_absolute control. i The dictator chosen was Gen. Agui- lera, but he falled to rule even his own “‘unruly member,” his tongue. In the course of an exciting debate in the Senate, of which body he was a member, Gen. Aguilera asserted that “the honor of an officer is a much more serious matter than the honor of a civilian.” Immediately a former prime minister, Sanchez Guerra, aged and irritable, gave the general two resounding slaps, proving how sen- sitive Is a_civillan’s honor. A duel followed without serfous results, but the outcome of being slapped by a civilian was the complete elimination of Aguilera as a prospective dictator of Spain, and Gen. de Rivera was sub- stituted by direction of his majesty. * ok ox ok The coup d'etat was accomplished by the officers, alone, while all pri- vates were kept within their barracks. The first act of the military dictator was 10 suppress the free press, and to offer rewards to all who would volun- teer evidence against others on | Rifr | lona, charges of non-allegiance to the dicta- torship. Judges were dismissed from the bench—even from the Supreme . COLLINS. Court—tor refusi dicti ion in the adminisiration of the law In a famous book by the exiles Spanish writer, Vicente Blasco Thanes entitled “Alfonso Unmasked,” the author savs “The monarchy was flatter the army and shape it 1o own likeness so as to be sure of support. As soon as the army disco ered it was indispensable 1o the rulers it demanded. throught its juntas. in creased pay and extravagant privi leges, and. finaily. succeeded in esial lishing in the very heart of the nation 1 special class With certain definite privile As a result. the Spanish irmy has sncceeded in making its po ion both intangible and impreznable In Spain one can freely argue against anythinz. even the Almighty, hut the man who ventures to eppose any act of the military is at once hustled off to prison apd brought up before a mili tary tribubal. even thouzh the o fender may be a civilian “As soon as the officers of the army became fully conscious of their power their arrogance swelled to such di mensions that they began to treat with the King more or less as an equal, and finally to give him orders. But Al fonso XIII. looking on the army as his own creation. more or less, or at least as that of his family, gave in re nedly to demands which he believed were of a temporary nature. Surely he would be able to control the country much better through his soldiers than he had ever heen able to do through his civilian subjects.” the military dictatorship the i has not been brouzht to a victorious conclusion. as had been d more than two vears agu. vears Spain has maintained in orth Africa an army of from 100,000 25,000, fighting semf-savages num bering only 5.000 or 6,000. It is claim. ed that owing to the uncontrolled ex travagances and graft of the military and the recent increase of the pav of officers the budzet has nearly doubled in the last two years and taxes are unendurable There has been zrowing discontent even in military circles, and @ month ago a_con against De Rivera was discovered. The Military Cluh was raided, resulting in the arrest of several officers. including a of De Rivera's own staff. The Catalinian culture committee formed in opposition to Dictator de Rivera, has published a letter charg ing “political persecutions” in Liarce caused by “the group of in- surgent generals which seized the gov ernment of Spain in September, 1923 and formed a dictatorship, after suj pressing the constitutional guarantees violating the most elementary rights of man and destroving every vestige of personal freedom. The Culture Club’s letter adds tha: “the right of criticism is non-existent, as it is considered an attack on state policy, and it further cites that Parlia ment has been suppressed for two vears and all provincial and municips! ficlals elected by the people have been replaced by “obscure individuals appointed by the military.” Under such conditions the Culture Club arzues that Spain is “violating the democratic principles and ideals of all civilized countries,” and, there- fore, “has no right to be tolerated hy the League of Nations.” In fact. the “League of Nation: is ally 1esponsible before the world for a situation in direct contradiction to the league’s principles, ideals and interest determined to its * * Under War colonel * ok ok % Under the policies of the military dictatorship, a “tariff war” between Spain and Germany prevents ship- ment of Spain's grapes to Germany, her best market, except the former one in the United States. The result is that upon the docks of Spain 300, 000 barrels of grapes are now decav- ing. All but two provinces are suf. fering unprecedented stagnation of industries and commerce, while taxes show no tendency toward reduction Some time ago De Rivera began or- ganizing a Civilian Patriotic Union, and he has promised that he will turn over the government to that body. The new cabinet, which he heads, is com- posed of voung men, and it is openly charged that the new government, with a suspended constitution, will be the tool of the King and Dictator de Rivera, even more thun was the mily itary regime. (Copyrizht. 1825, hy Paul V. Celine.)