Evening Star Newspaper, December 26, 1925, Page 6

THE With "VENING ST nday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY. ..December 26, THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper - Oee Peonsyltania Ave 110 Fast 42 St e S b Rurofean Office: 11 Regent han only cuts by wal ade by ol with th Sunday n Dails Sunday Vs 1 1 tes and Cana S1ou <X 00 IR TR Al Other iy 15 Ly of the Associnted Press. P Membe The Patehas credited 0 11 or w0t other wise Ted in this paper and also the lo nuRlished heremn Al rzhts of publ of special dienstehes herem are a0 Ton of a1l news dis red Tuesday's Strike Meeting between the lead York th Will be o de 1 aperators the nezotintions and the miners’ unic held in New effect ers which are to be fail nued pext Tuesday of and strike is con there termined public demand for explina Already that tion. the suggestion is the cortain features of will block the pros inced controversy such s check-off of mining ward the nd long term resumption miners” demand . insist In both interest the operators’ “ contract of these matters the public lies with the aperators. The check-off or com the means th the main- e 1 war L term wn of union dues by the of enance of strikers. pulsory colle fo employers unions s fo The for funds cumulaty ds ure from lic in effect which Isuming the chief A traet would insure continued pes field uninterrupted production of fuel " months of with a tremendous loss on both sides. munitions the coalce is suffere long e i the anthracite and consequently after four striking in wages to the miners and in sales the he 10 operators, for sumption of mining eall fo The strike posed a zrievous burden upon the agreement can not reached the immediate re the situation will inter Already certainly sovernment vention. has im pub- Ture of Te in the advance of prices. the f of supply. the compulsory adoption nhstitutes for I miners with in many the transformation laid who have of burden expense heaters has heavy the menths npen have lost four wages and been and the o subsist on their savings meager strike doles from the It has inflicted serious losses upon the community the havd-coal ind has imperiled the stability in aid of which husiness in district f a number of hanks, the State of Pennsylvania is now ing to fallures. No anyhody prevent a disastrous series of been by condition advantage has gained this coal from save a few dealers in who have taken unusnally larze profits. Kven they, in ence, late: I n for this syueez will have lost they profiteering by the end in conseq of the strike, for will be punished for their s of trade and retaliat ing n the to faverahle results from Tuesday's meet the hard-coal the miners They will be b disappointed if they are not al to It is evidently be hard to hold them in line for They all the circumstances con suming public has resson expect Re, from dis that seturn to work. Ing ris triet indicate expeet early terly lowed resume. coming sustained the strike. BN by the of the mines and the renewal of wage hope immediate reopening arninz, but if they are disappointed as the result of too stubborn & position their meeting the reaction the Tues by representatives at day is certain to unfavorable to the union prestige. —— n. D. (., is giving nce demonstrate 4 Con Washing mress ‘ o its the trafhic < establish itself in the ¢ the It 2 hility solve paratively pblem wnd fidence of <mall matter of a War-Cause Documents. Discovery and translation of certain contained the Library University the he Anenments in War Stanford light responsibility at throw valuable of zinning of the Great may upon auestion for the War, which has exed many people for more the Russion eleven vears. These pers ure minutes of a n of the renting ministry at Petersburg s the on the it taken desizned capital was then known 1914 which steps were ol at wonld wp that o prevent hostilities. Serbia was ad vised 1o refrain from armed resistance nd urged to zrant in reply to the liimatum of the dual monarchy. But A Hungary already Aeclined delay. not Austria-Hungary was Serhia delay Ansrr had and to grant The could the even to the extent of se- uring a lengthening of the period of the ultimatum in order the niher European pow ministers stem ide of war to permit s to uffer ation Perhaps this question will never be tion of all. Par ntrul wers will to contend the war was fostered by Russia and perhaps as Russia's seitled to the satis of the donbtless continue forever tisans « that by France Ally former to bring Serbia to her knees hefore Austria-Hungary. On the other hand, partisans of the other Tater the allies. will hold that he determination of Hungary and of Germany to force a fight. for the purpose of striking at Ru; and which would surely be drawn into the conflict by the assault From time to time doc tance disclosed siatements are made powers it Austria- was fixed A France, upon Sert mentary evi testamentary by participants of that fateful hetween the assassination Kerajevo and the first hlow of hattle % hizh throw more lizht upon the mat fer. The caze has reached the point Ahere Hinute fiems are only corrob- is and in the negotiations month at 1925 | mpany | cases much | forcea | Hoover | than | Zdth | | acted medi- | throngh deliberate failure of the | | orativ {That these items [ hypotheses of o n o doxical. the Germans. heiief. find viewed is not par: “The Austrians tw an fixed | h Jungle, may be regs | of their contention one support atiers . ed us refutation Ferhups half & hence will be of all is not ad is century this wuestion setiled to the satis faction History stve the extremints written currently The Participants in the motives the best perspective bor reat events are not of testin Judgment, and and duta of is esmential to stervials for scholarly eh by those who write the defin most trust- Mworthy causex quired analysts Bt proper lection of documents firsthand authenti Lprovide® the their iy s re o the | | ty nd scienlific reseq 0 the years o come. Hve story of the war. The Capitol-Station Plaza. Wihat with the P housing plant on the Capitol-s | it 1 ed early session of Con- to do Governmen aiion | plaza Is announced, Is to be con- sid in this zrexs. Sowe of these buildings are on and owned by the Government. | ! Others which are land within the on thoush of contemplated con hase, still is in pri Vite ownership. sule” signs are in property, 5 doubiful on ae of evidence market count this for wh of the | the dund by on atter virtual pre-emption nt. standing on this the Goy The “hotels” now in a belated provision of housing quar. pu | o {au | By i fully s for women of the service ing the wa f fe the time i time they hed and upied the congestion from { Which Washington was suffering had begun That congestion lis the Government greatly reduced “hotel” the plaza have been closed in consequence. There js today no urgent the of the living quarters wre uvailable at ble rates in this city. The Gov- ernment ve. were to decreaxe. at end, has been very and two of the units on reason for mmintenance others, for \ | \ i i vea “hoteis” furnish accommo- | dations at lower rates than elsewhere, { «nd thus the United Sates is in a po- tion of unfair competition with pri- e realty owners Congress will be asked to decide this Winter s whether maintain these’ It should at the same { time decide what is to be done with {the land on which they stand, both | that already owned by the Govern- | ment . that is in private { ownership. 1t is not fair to the latte; hold this land under the i possivle condemmation for public use indefinitely. of the Capitol plaza plan was interrupted by to i { hotels longer. an which {10 han of Development | the war and by a controversy over the | price to be paid for parcels { which have not yet been ucquired. The {war emergency has passed, and on the { score of equitable prices there is no i sion for protracted p « those The | tand. overnment can condemn process a 10 both buyer and selle the nd tiis The condemnation sures equity In present condltion | between the Union Capitol is unsightly its space Siution the It er | bad impression upon new L city, whereas with the project of an jenlarged Capitol execuied ! the vision of the Cupital City first ob- | tained by visitors would be one of | The time has come to carry this plan into effect Plaza fully spiration. ——— Christmas Casualties. From all paris of the country ports of accidenis and casu cident to the observance of Christmas, ing fives, drown ings. shootings. Children plaving with grade-cros disasters | | toys have lost lives. Claus trees have | dangerous their | Adulis imy | have suffered. onating Santa Christmas ised destruction. | famed ana some cases crimes huve been o Browing Christmas arry | These tr it ted out of disputes over e cdiex mur the record of a which should e of hay 1 Lis no especinl reason why | day e of juy and | peace. ss wnd lov they should pax day save (h vceur on Chrisg con ditions are somewhat I yet the [ tions sho of those & condi- and usnalness i ke f harmony and agree u w placidity | culm, for rent. ! This country a a has come (o expect decided increase of casualties holida s sraph” of misfortunes for the veur upward fmp on crimes and would show Ises in the line for every h ordinary busines i the people are free (o en i day on w s sns- pended in out fexial themselyes « observances. The saddext feaiure of all these D Christmas casvalties is that many of incident to the The spirit of themw were directly celebration of the day. [ manifest. sion ix not universally | The nese endeavor to pay all | their debts at the end of each year. {"'he custom has not been adopted by | of the nations of more modern tion. ——we——— Demand for a substitute for anthra- ‘ite has not vel encouraged the soft | coal industry to organize a strike of it own, Twenty Million Motor Cars. | Surprising fucts regurding | Awerican uutomobile industr | shown in a chart just made public | the Motor mug There are now 20,200,000 mote in the United States, according o Motor, and of this number the State of New York has | 1,500,000, three-fourths as many as are be found in all of Europe. | the are by ne. cars “lovida showed the largest increase | in registratibns over the preceding | vear, 50.1 per cent, while the District fof Columbia reporied the smallest, 3.1 More than 1,000,000 moto thrown per cent. vehicles heap during 1 1t will be hard to convince the aver. Washing thraads his Wi maze of traffic U scrapes | tenders with his packed-in brethren, llhfl' the smallest increase in regisira- tion ix reported from the National Capital. From the appearance of the streets during the mapning and ave. were on on ¥ | age motorist, as and al ning rush bours even/the most con- !eleven months to economiz There | ace which should prevail on that e | the scrap | pies. he | in and out of the | holding {in the wa another fever, wna | ponement. | wles n very | pmers 1o the | | willing | { i !'server {ant remained. has been led to believe that vate both | theve are at least (wice as many au- | tomobiles in other I figures how re ix much of consolation to them. Suppose fidu's fifty per would the i city as in any If the th he Aeceived Washingion had cent increuse. What parking situation then, und how long eduld Trafic Director Eldvidge retain his pleasant judiciul den he gave way under the strain there ix a bright side to everything, und 1f Washinglonisng think that they are in u pretty bad way, they should ponder seriously over the plight of Flovidi Califo wno probably believe that District residents are “sitting top of the (raffic world.” are accurate, from be nor hefore So us and ans, ——ee Waste of Christmas Trees. walk th igh the shington on the day mas W A of after Christ st e that stocks of Christmas trees being depleted with & rupidity which bids fair to send prices rocket- ing ux the vears roll on. In almost every vacant lot, in yards L und in front of dows, are piled high a left over and forlorn appeuring of trees. Although prices this vear were considered high, continuation of the wanton waste of trees will make it 1m- possible for the uge person to enjoy typical Christ symbol iously deplete the availeble streets convince the suul ob- are NEXt (0 grocery sid shop wi pile av the and will ! suppiy. Taking alnost twenty veurs to ut tin ity full growth, the number of ¥ represenied in th stupendous unused trees is u one. Conservation | must immediately be incorporated into the Christmas tree industry if the pub- lic ix to enjay, at cheeriness of a gayly Yuletide. small cost, the colored tree at —r———— ntury of Service. has just A Ce A woman died at Pau France, uged 110 years, who for 9% vears of her long life had been u servant in the swme fumily. 7This is perhaps the world's longest record of continuous voluntary duty single employment. This the age of twelve became helper in Mexico. Later moved to France and she with them. The vider mer family died and a second came into domestic authority At under woman ut a domestic the family went there bers of the a generation The sery fourth ed and still the vet 1 and a generation suc eran continu less became 1t virtually age deprived her serve. She doubt “ pensioner h was still re Now sh age of of hut stren o per form her dutie she lained as a servant. 3 the for hax passed, at vears, and more eluquent than “always faithful of constant chs such ord worthy of note, remarkable there snificant her can be no epitaph In these davs restless or s and 1ess a re is xignificant The United States Senate, far from recognizing the need of speech limit tion, o take ax is evidently much time preparin, £ may be required for ing the Vice President u few things Philadelphia pointed in findin < evidently disap Smedley Butler ofticing un to forget his cares in order 1o develop the arc of fter-dinner speaki r———— Weather for Chris suspected by the s influence in fav sleds. pheis <day are n who snow w being of 1 boy of exerting v the market for In wishes for a happy may be that permitted reser ue of N ——— New Year, it Borah relat ssumed himself ing to the Lea enator ions tions A “green Christmas” is not regarded as conducive to general health. How jever. it averts the tragedies that result abnormal then. | i | i | | !bring happiness. from skating on fragile ice, e~ et A live Florida real estate promoter might show ¥ way t dull fmzncial condition into an ance a turn a clive boom. Europe regards Uncle Sam as a s of Santa Claus who clings 10 reindeer and a sleigh, velopment. regurdless of aircraft de- e Philadelphia is the City of Brotherly Love, but Smedley Butler evidently got into the wrong lodge. ——— A ton of anthracite makes a fine !holiday gift, but a string of pearis ix | more easily available. ——— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Better and Better. IU's merry Christmas for a day, And happy New Year next; So swiftly speeds the yvear away, Through hours serene or vexed. The resolution now we'll see, In formal phrases cast, To make the Christmas vet to be Sl merrier than the last. ““I observe that you are on courteous terms with the men who most vigor- ously oppose your opinions.” ‘Of course,” answered Senator Sorghum. “That's my quiet way of showing them that I don't take their opinions seriously.” A Harmless Avarice. 1l gaze where the signs of the zodiac Join (Though I never have learned which is which), Il imagine each star is a well polished coin, J And so feel amazingly rich! Jud Tunkins says money doesn't Even the most prosperous hootlegger has a lot of wor- Prejudice. “*Ave vou in favor of the old-fash- ioned dance “Not at all,” answered Miss Cayvenne, “The things my great-grandmother told me ahout their immodesty has prejudiced me against them forever.” Christmas comes hut once a year,” said Uncle Eben. “which leaves vau 1o tell- | promised | We continue today our check-lis of great autuors, taken from the table of contents of “The Story of the World's Literature,” by John Macy. The fourth part of this book deals with the writers of the nineteenth century and today, with whom most of us ure fairly familiar, by name, at leust. Very few have ever read anything Ly Malherbe, w French post. but mosi are acquainted with Kipling. Those Who have not read Browne will have pecused the pages of Scott. All of us should be able to give our selves u higher rating on the follow ing list than we did yesterday: "art 1V-—The Nineteenth Century Today. Chapter 34—The Homantic Reviva “nglish Literature: Poetry —Words- worth, Coleridge, Scotl, Byron, Shel ley, Keats, Landor. Chapter 35, English Novels of the Nineteenth Century —Scott, ten, Dickens, Thackeray, the sinters Bronte, Mrs. Gaskell, George K Reade, Trollope, Other Popular elists, Meredith, Hardy, a Living Noveliai Chapter 3 Elish Essayisis wnd Philosophers ‘of the Nineteenth «en tury—Lamb, Hunt, Hazlitt, De Quin- cey, Southey, Macaulay, Carlyle, Rus- Kin. Arncld.” Mill, Newman, Spencer, Huxley, Pater. Chapter 37, Victorlan Poerry nyson, Browning, Mis. Browning FitzGerald, Arnold, Rossewti, Swin burne, Meredith, Christina Rosselti Hardy, Jumes Thompson. Henley Some Later Poets, Francis Thompson Chapter 38, French Piose of (he Nineteenth Century —‘hateaubriand Balzac, Hugo, Dumas, Gieorge Sand. Nainte-Beuve, Renan, Taine. Flaubert Maupassant, Zola, Anatole France, Stendhal, Merimee, Dauder, Lex Gon courts, Huysmans, Loti, Bourgel, Rol land, Proust, The Critics. Nov Note on * ok x % Chapter 39, French Nineteenth Century the Be Poetry of henier Musset. Brizeux, Barbier ter, Baudelaive, de Prudhomme, Heredig tichepin, Ma larme, Verigine, Rimbaud. Verhaeren ck. de Regnier, Louvs, Fort Samain, Jammes. Chapler 40, the Classical Perio® of rinan Literature ‘The Forerunners, immelshausen. Klopstock. Wieland {erder. Lessing. Goethe, S ler ture Since apier 41, Germun Liter {Goethe Novalis, Schopenhauer Kleist, Grillparzer. Heine, Hebbel Keller, ievse, Mever, Nietzsche. Lill encron. Dehmel. George. Hofmann sthal. Rilke. Sudermann, Hauptmann Schnitzier, Mann, Wassermann Chapter 42, Russian Literature the Nineteeuth Century - Pushkin | Lermontoff, Gogol, genev. Dostoy- ekov. Gorky., An evsky, Tolstoy, « drevev, Kuprin, Korolenko, Artzy Lasheil Nerval, Gau Buoville, Sully 43, Ttuliun Literature Since sissunce — Guarini. Tassoni no. Campanella, Galileo. Cesarotti sanova oidoni. Alfieri. Parini Foscolo, Leopardi. Manzoni. Carducel. Verga. D'Annunzio. Marinetti, Chapter 44. Modern Spanish Litera- ture Echegaray, Fernan Caballero [ Alarcon, Pereds. Valera. Galdos, Valdes, Pardo Bazan. Espronceda Campoamor, Baroja. Blasco Ibanez, Unamuno, Valle-Iclan, Azorin Dutch wnd Flemish Lit sm Spino: Willem el. van Roesbroec. van de ndel. Bilderdijk. Perk. Cou Conscience, Schleekx apter 46, Scandinavian Literature Holberg, Oehlenschlager. Andersen Drachmann, Jacobsen Brandes, Wergeland, Welhaven. Jonas Lie sen, Riornson Krag. | Hamsun, Stierhjelm, Tezner erature the Min Noodt, Reputation Hu American discussion indicates that [if it_were not for the {the Turk, he might {support in hix desire ! Mosul area. The decisio jcil of the League of to clafm the of the coun Nations {#in has been the xubject of wide- | spread comment. in which sympathy { for Turkey has not been prominent however much American editor differ o the xi:bject of mundates. ity toward the League of Na | tions is helieved by the Chicago Daily | By News (0 be responsible for statementx | the moving cluuse in the lausanne | nished the stimulus for the greater ne Aus- | o, | voluminous, Darwin, | prisiog ranger, Lamartine, de Vigny, Hugo de | reputation of grounds. have had better | that | their case, | Mosul, with its oll, should be included dbelieves * in the lrak mandate under Graad Brit | wouid may | THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Strindberg, Lagerlof, Key, Heldenstam. apter 47, American Fiction—Irv- ing, Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, Stowe, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Howells Henry James, Other Writers of Fic- tion. Chapter 43, History —- Emerson, Thoreau. Foe, Holmes, Lowell, Franklin, Jefferson. Webater, Lincoln, Prescott, Parkman. Chapter 49, American Poetry-—Poe. Freneau, Bryant, Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes, Emerson, W hittier, Whitman, Lanler, Later Poets. * o ox How many of those writers do know ? Even the best-read person will And many names strange to him in the above list, and in that given in this column yesterday from the book under dise knows, he will find s he has scarcely touched A fragment of a poem—that, for instance, is ull the present writer Knows of Verlaine, several storie perhups, by Chekov, one novel b D'Annunzio. The reassuring thing about such a list is the immensity of the subject. The world's literature ix ko large, so that no one person can know it wWould he a wasle atiempt to try. The literature of one's own native tongue Is, after all, the real liter- ature. What uny one can hope (o &el i another tonzue ix small, in- dead. excepling. of course, a few u verasl geninses. Most Americans can well he co tent with English literature, com our own American branch and such trunslations of the grea! works of other lands as time and scholarship huve brought us ok oxox need be “stuck up’ be- hus read a few books not a meihod of posing “highbrow.” but solely the cream of the human mind Men have tried to suv in words the thoughts thut came to them, und the lasting result is the worlds Hiersture. To fully appreciute uny wne literature. one must be u native of that country Numes thai sound strunge (o us in the lisix given are fumiliar enough no doubt, 10 thousands of human beiuks. If they are unknows ever, we should worry! Even the greatest hookworm hax hix pet ntipathies in his own liter- ture. The writer of this column would much rather read a big mail order house catalogne than Milton's Paradise Lost.” The glories of that not glories o me. wonderful scenes in the gurden of Kden make me langh, while the phraseciogy strikex me as emineniiy #Uff and utterly unnatural, and 1 can Bive scorex of instances from the poem 10 prove this, il any one is interested AlL this. he it remembered. in the fuce of having read Joseph Addison's praise of this poem i0ld many times poem. A zreat for me Yet the very person who reads FParadice Lost” with approval will ba unable to find any merit in Blakes poems, the starling simplicity of which appesls very much to me. So it goes As Mr. Macy points out. who enjoys hooks the most unto himsell. ~ He studies, reads, weighs carefully the critical opin- ions, and then read #x suits his time and taste. \ many whose possihly it of lime to No one cuuse he Literature « n 10 us, how- eut poem are he supposedly that it Ix u great poem—well—hut not the man is A law rts Turks | Side in Mosul Oil Fight the higher law. if upon ne orher ‘The Providence Journal also laves that if it i< true that the pori on atrocities influenced the final award, “the Turks fatally prejudiced while the Altoona Mirror Turkish possession of Mosul probably mean the assassina 1 of itx inhabitants. * o ox o rkish army ieuvers on the border of the territg ¥ in dispute leads the Canton Daily News to assert thy this act Turkey certified that thut Greui Britain gets the Mosul ofl | treaty means no more to her than the | fields because of diplomatic under tandings with other nations sented on the league council. Dally News brands such assertions as unworthy of attention. It that “Great Britaln, a8 a mandatory, is bound to refrain from selfish ex ploitation of Mosul or fis oil.” Fur- thermore, according Dally Eagle, “the tusk Great Britain assimes In agreeing 1o stay in Irak for 25 vears is neither easy nor pleax ant,” and the Kagle continues: “The council’s command that she grant the !Turke a favorable commercial trea for all of lrak will give her an oppor- tunity to make concessions to Angora, which should take some of the sting out of Geneva's decision.” * K % K Remarking that “Turkey l'in & position tv quibble over the pow ers of the arbiral body it helped to select, (he St. Joseph News-Press say “No doubt the council’s finding repre- senis us cloke an approximation to practicel justice as Turkey could hope to get from any other avallable urbi- | tration agency.” But Mosul means ofl which in the Ottoman view may out- welgh mere justice.”” The Albany Evening News also declares “while the league's decision giving Mosul to Britain under the Irak man- !date may be questioned. the league could hardly do otherwise, and prob- ably it was the wise course. Britain's control,” continues the News, “will do ! much for Irak and Mosul, and Tur- ! key's would not.” World approval of | the league's action is assured in the L opin of the Wheeling Intelligencer, which expresses the further judgment that “it is onlv unfortunate that the | from Europe altogether at the Ver- | sailles peace conference.” “Prior to_the World War.” the In- dianapolis News recalis, “when what is now Irak was a part of the Turkish | empire, text books of the time in- I cluded Mosul as u part of Mesope- |tamia. That conception appears to have been xenersl umong ull authori- tiex. Certainly it was held by Turkey then. The weight of evidence th supports the decision that has been arrived a * % x % The incident and the further wettle- | ment_of the dispute between Greece und Bulgaria are deciared by the Buf- falo News to have greatly enhanced the prestige of (he League of and that paper continues: ‘“They prove its great potentiality for peace. If it had not been for the good offices | of the league, Breat Britain and Tur- | key would long since have been at | war, as would also Greece and Bul- | garia.” | " In further justification of the action {of the league, the Knoxville Sentinel son why it would be impossible to make any other decision. ‘‘Poasibly | the Turk is robbed of hix former hold- ings. az he claimse.” the Sentinel re- markse. “but his massacre of the Chris. 1 pepulations places him without the pale of the law, and demands their that | | unspeakable Turk was not banished | {finds in the reported massacres a rea- | mainiaing | to the Brooklyn | i to | Christians, | | s hardly | | when | Sevres | powers.” reaiy or any other, cident gives little encoura the United States to enter into treaty obligations with ® government on which the obligations a sacred The in- gement for pledge rest sy lightly.” The New York | Times «lso points out that “the fron- tier bhetween Mesopotamia snd key, lefi undetermined in the Tres of Lausanne. does.not affect the re- &ion now assigned to the former. but liex far 1o the north of the oil fields. The Memphis News Scimitar. how- ever. declares: ““That is all there ix it. It is not concern over the but the concern of Christian nations over o To this the Seattle Daily Times adds: *Hold ing no brief for the “Terrible Turk we nevertheless confess to a mild curiosity concerning the extent of the ‘massacre’ he Is said (o be perp truting on_the frontiers of Mosul, while the New York World remarks that *“w frunk statement is murel better than a formal decision ? an atrocities report,” and that latter technique smucks of war days, atrocities reports sccompanied new claim from ambitious “‘the esch ireat Britain must ‘accept’ the mandate for a definite period of 25 vears.” the San Francisco Bulletin savs satirically. This, adds the Bul- |letin, “is & sort of medicine that will not be hard to take, considering the rich petroleum possibllities,” = And the La Crosse Tribune comment: “‘Consent’ ix good. Can't picture the relief with which Great Britain would weicome a decision which relleved her of the mandate immediately - New Reforestation Plan. From the Oakland Tribune. Michigan was once the leading pro- ducer of coniferous timber. Now it ix practicully denuded, and men are trving to remedy u deplorable it tion by passing laws. The statute which came out of the lant session of the Michlgan Legislature is called the most redical of any of those 7l important forestry laws passed by 26 States within the year. It takes lnd which is being reforeated out of the land tax Eroup and makes the timber subject 10 taxation when it is removed. In oiher words, the grow- ing timber crop is not to be taxed, but the State, to make up to the counties for the loss of revenue, will pay 5 cents an acre Into the county treas- uries for all lands dedicated to refor- estation. - An Oversight. From the Indianapolis Sunday Star. That fortune teller recently con- victed apparently did not look into her own future. SO The One Crowded D From the Nashville Bannes. ‘The motorist’ protection in the name of humanity,|one where every dayds Sunday. American Essays and | Of the wuthors he | and having heen | plus | vou just | woret dream is the | THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover, “The Trial of Ji a drama by John Masefield. something between ¥ and « modern my terv piay. The prologue. in which Wisdom " attempts to point out to Jesus the inevitably tragic and of the way He bas chosen, suggesis the old | moralities, and the co.irse of the trial, |ending in the crucifixion, is akin to the old mystery plays dealing with the life and death of Jesus. The spirit of Masefield's play and its language j4re very modern. Kor example, the court procedure and phraseology are i hardly those of 30 A.D. When Jesus {Is brought before Pilate the office of prosecuting attorney is taken by Petronius. who presents the charges. Petronius: “Here all of vous the governor, Pontius Pilate, Procurator of Judaes, deputy of the imperial power, in here present to give audi ence. All who have charges (0 bring before the imperial power should here | present them. | command you to keep silence In the name of the Emperor. Pilate: 1 declare thin place & court of the imperiul power. What charges do vou present, Petront Petronius: ““The priests send you a prisoner, Lord Pilate. The name is given ax Jesus, u builder. Here . the depositions.” Pilate: ““Fhis court cannot accept depositions from a native court. Is | this the man?” | Officer: “Yex. my lord.” veraaiion of Herod when he | visits Pllate and his wife, Procula, is also very modern. He savw: “Before wa sit I Wish 10| thank vou. Pllate, for your courtesy | this morning. Your husband, Lady | Procula, did a very charming thing. | He sent me one of my subjects. who had come 1o be tried before him. It is a little thing, perhape, but it was sepupulous, 1t charmed me. 1 thank vehi for that. I'm afraid 1 should not have been so scrupulous had one of your subjects heen brought before me. And, ax it happened. | had heard of this man bef He Is one of those heslers. He would not hea! Le fore me. He xeemed a little mad. | sent him back to you. What became of him?" travsl is the most ure of the play. The character of Jeaus is reverently and somewhat conventionslly treated. He is the Idealisi, the healer, the former, the revolutionist. I brin no peace hut u sword.” he savs Pilate. Annes. Caiaphas and Zadok in their conversations show the preju dices. the narrowness and the fears for their own power of the Jewish vriesthood. Pilate ix (he same cvni cal. ruther kindly Roman as in the | Bible narrative, willing 1o be merciful | it mercy doex mot involve too gr danger 1o Roman authority &nd po icy. His wife, Proculs, In, aside frcm lesus himself. the one Idealist in the play. She does her best to persuade Pilute 10 release Jemus “He ix not a dungerous man, Pilate I good.” | Pilate replies: “A man may have | tanltless morals and vei be like Greek |fire 1o his community. * ¢ * 1 { shall have him killed, whether he says bewutiful things or ugly things. even Ui it end the world. That ix what 1 | have sworn to Caesar. There may be | & higher law than our law * * ¢ Procula: ““There is. there is. There's the law that all know when they are [ deeply atirred. In love and art and jov there's a higher law. i Herod is a dilettante and &n epicu rean. with no feeling for duty, no real | belief. Procula says to him: “Your people helieve in hope not to die at death.” . He responds: “Yex. We actuaily pay people to keep these old super stitions still alive.” In his conception of the cha of BarAbbas and Judas. Mr. Mase field deparis from tradition. Ba: | Abbas is a fanatic patriot and revolu-| | tionist. who is condemned for murder Auring a pro-lewish riot. There is a | suggestion that Judas is mentally !bulanced. He savs to aphas Annas “Masters, T not well in my head. Iam a very violent man. AU leust. he is a man of unstable amotions who is passionutely devoied o Jesus until he is revolted by the claim to divinity, when he becomes as violently hostile. His betrayal of Jesus is not prompted by cupidity. ! - o % | That the gresiness of America has from the beginning been rooted in gold #nd the love of gold I= the thesis of Sydney and Marjorie Greenbie in | their hook, “‘Gold of Ophi; The | Lure That Made America.’ t was the gold of the Indles that led 1o the discovery of America, then the treasures of China and the islands of t Sast and of the mea itself fur- | | | l | God and | cters | un. | and am i | part of the trade of New England for | several generationk. 1t was greed on {the part of Great Britain for the | wealth of colonlal and West Indian trade which caused the American | Revolution and resulted in the begin- | ning of the United Niates as an inde pendent Nution. later the lure of the fur trade and the desire for more land drew m: v settiers from the Atlanti- | | States fart and farther westward. { With the discovery of gold in Cali- | fornis the westwood movement became {« rush. Alaskan gold in recent times tempted the adventurous to the last Wesiern outpost of the continent. “Gold” has been represented sometimes by the precious metal ftself, sometimes | by the silk, porcelain and lacquer of | China. sometimes by fish and whale | oil. sometimes by fur, sometimes by {1and. but always wealth has been the | ohject of the explorations and settle ments which have made Amer great. i * oxox ok Judge . president of (he United | States Steel Corporation. is eulogized us the hero of the stesl industry by |Tda M. Tarbell, former muck-raker { pany, in her book, “The Life of Elberi I H. Gary.” Only the business life of | | Judge Gary is treated by Miss Ta beil. Of course, ita climax is the uniting by Judge Gary, with the heip of J. P. Morgan, sr. of numerous large and small companies dealing with steel and its products into one gigantic corporation—a billion-dollar combination. Judge Gary is shown as a man of the highest ethical busi ness standards, from his vouth to the present time. As a young man., mem- ber of & Chicago law firm, he studied nights while other lawyers plaved poker. As a judge he had « reputa tlon for scrupulous fairness. As a leader of big business he has always stood for frankness and willingness to have the Government and the public ' know the full truth ubout the affairs of his company. Miss Tarbell savs that he has always wanted hix busi ness to be clean, ax he wanted his ears to be clean when he was a child. *x ok E Andre Maurois, the author of “Ariel.” has written & book in dialogne form, suggestive of Walter Savage Landor's | “Imaginary Conversations.” called “Captains and Kings." The two con versationalists are a Krench lientenant in the eastern service, home on leave, and his former teacher of philosophy | in a Paris lycae. The captain is an aristocrat and the professor is a radi- cal. There are three of the dialogues. ‘The first discusses the qualities of the | true leader, the second the nature of | genius and the third the need of | knight-errantry in modern life. * K k% The Celtic poet “A. (George W. | Russell), in his latest volume of poems, “Voicea of the Stones,” seems {o pre. | sent a good deal of hix matured philos- | ophy. He is greatly influenced by the Platonic philosophy, especially in con- nection with beauty and immortality. In some poems there i an attempt to mingle the Platonic and the Christian conceptions of immortality, | vear | have | and accuser of the Standurd Oil Com- | ! ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. mude trees?. A How are the fancy bright halls that are used on Christmas o1 - % They are blown by a glass blower. After they have cooled they are covered with a coat of silver nitrate, then dyed Q. Is the Yule English celebration R. O. A. The Yule log log 8 part of of Christmas the not custom of hurning on Christmas eve is generally observed in Englan custom iz still followed In some the rural sections, It i more pr alent in the Scandinavian countries. Q. Nrat use A, The Christmas tree is from Egypt, and its origin dates from a period long antervior to the Christian era. The palm tree is known to put forth a branch every month, and a spray of this iree. with 12 xhoots on it was used in Ezvpt at the time of the Winter solstice ax a symbol of the year completed. 1 v Where were Chri o B mas trees Q. When were Christmas tree used in the United States? A. Christmas trees bhecame popular in the United States about the same time that they were introduced into England. In England the first Ch mas trees were set up in the royal palace of St. James at the time Queen Victoria married the prince consort, in 1840 Q. What is the origin of Xmas? L. C. A. The X used in the abbreviation mas is derived from the fact that Christ was crucified. The symbol of the cross was thus introduced into the word Christmas. The custom is ancient as to be lost in antiquity. Q. gener K Is the celebration of Christmas A. A E. Although the celebration « masx was at one time forhidden by the Puritans, it may be said that it has heen generally ohserved throughout Christendom for man years. It ix regarded as the feast of the Protestant, Roman Catholic and Greek churches. uch customs as those of having a Christmas tree, dec- orating with holly and mist ve are almost universal. In many ppean countries carol singing is a feature Q. Is Christmas celebrated in Ar- gentina with a Santa Claus?—H. S D. W. A The American consul general to Argentina says that “they do not have a Santa Claus in this country we practice it in the United States, but on each &th of January they dress up to 4 very limited extent what they call ‘Los Reyes' (the kings), wearing a Santa Claus heard and a red or colored coat, but the perform ance is very tame and not at all gen- eral, Q. Please explain about men's Bureau.—R. H. B A. The Freedmen's Bureau was ex tablished by Congres< in 1863 as a temporary azency to provide for ex slaves and refugees. The work of the bureau was concluded in 1570, Over $20,000.000 wasx expended by the bu- Christ the Freed The | irean. When it was discontinued $21 1000 of its funds were unexpended. A recent bill introduced in Congress pro- posed to use this money for the erec. |tion, in the Distriet of Columbla. of a {home for nged and infirm colored pe sons, Q. What i the average age of the trees cut for Christmas trees?— A A. They are usually cears old. A years old. from 5 to 19 tree 6 feet tall is about | Q@ Wwhy Lizh in the Winter and Summer?— . H. L. A. The Naval Observatory says the [ full moon is alwavs nearly opposite 1o the sun. It is high in Winter. when [the xun ix low, and low in the Sum mer, when the sun is high does the full moon sail low in the Q. Are 1 [toes?— G, K A. Buttons have heen potatoes, and it is sald that such hut tonx can scarcely be distinguished {from those made of ivory, horn bone. ttong ever made of pota- made from Q. Which nomination the largest branches’—I.. . R. A. According to the Federal Council of Churches vear book the Lutherans have the largest number of individual hranches, numbering 23. The next largest is the Baptist with 1% third Methodist, 17; fourth, Presbyterian, Protestant the U'n number religions de 1 States has of different in Q. In walking along a public read should a person walk with the traffic or againat it?—E. D, A. The American Antomobile Asso ciation savs that it is best and proper for pedesirians to walk on the left hand side of the road 8o that they may be facing the oncoming traffic. Al though there is no uniform regulation to this effect, thix i the method this assoclation is advocating. many policemen have New York City and London?—J. W. L. A. On November 1. 1974, the palice force of New York City 1otaled 12,964 This included 8 caplains, 498 lieu tenants. sergeants and 11.613 pa trolmen he city police forca nf London October 1. 1924, numbersd 1180, The metropolitan police farce numbered 20,517 Q. How (What do you wish 1o kuow? Ho to raise canaries? How o can fruite? How to patent an invention? Hor swim?® The quickest and hest route | for an auto trip? How to resilver mir- rors? How to make breai® How fo run the home with fewer problems and wmore content? How best fo dn the hunmdreds of other things that come up each day? 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Tiwenty first and (' streeis morthwest, Wash ington, D. €. tn in art BACKGROUND OF EVENTS l Speaker Longworth of the House of Representatives declares that the British monopolistic methods in cor- nering rubber exports amount to “a crime.” Secretary of Commerce Hoover declares that within the la the British monopolisix have gouged from American consumers of rubber not less than $700,000.000 excess over what they themselves had conceded to be a “fair price.” Congress will investigate British market control and report upon its unfairness: but so long the sh government enforces penalties 1o prevent increase of pro- duction and limits exporis to a fixed percentage per acre. there will he no increase of available rubber. perts state that the average cost of production ranges from 1§ to cents per pound: the producers, vear or two ago. conceded that cents a pound in London was a “fai price.” Within the last few months the price in the London market has jumped eight times. until it reached $1.28 a pound. It cen's, because some of eseen break through the indignation of the world of consum- ers, and. according to official servers, have begun to unload. * ko x It takes at_least seven years for a newly planted rubber plantation to come into profitable production. That is not longer than it requires for a voung apple orchard. but there never has been such a sudden demand for apples as there has been in vears for the new product Britain produces 70 per cent of the rubbe the world and the United States uses 80 per cent of the world production. hence the market crisis lies between Great Britain and United States. The Firestone interests (in which it is understood Henry Ford is a promi- nent factor) are developing a great rubber plantation in Liberia. Africa. but it will be nearly u decade before that can materially help. Who can foresee what will be the demand long before that development matures? * ok ok x ubber experts say that the British monopoly and iis extortions are a world challenge o science to invent a rubber, synthetic rubber, which will have all | the qualities of the genuine, but which can be produced out of substitute ma als. Scientists may show how to make ‘“rubber” out of cornstalks or maguey fiber, mixed with oil, molasses and blue, and vulcanized with sulphur. It was an American, Charles Good- vear, who. 90 year method of vulcanizing india rubber gum and making it hard, elastic and | 1t had been but a curiosity before. It was another American. N thaniel Hayward, who improved its lasting toughness. Shall the descend- ents of those pioneers in rubber pro- duction surrender to a foreign mo- nopoly without progressing with a synthetic substitute? ey Car wheels made of paper are harder and tougher than wheels of the best of steel. Flivver tires may be better of synthetic material than of Good- yvear rubber. During the W useful. ld War the Germans used metal wheels set on springs in the tires, for they could not get rub- ber tires. In London. when sasoline supply was short, great “featherbeds filled with fuel gas were mounted on top of automobiles and supplied the power. Necessity. the mother of in- ventfon, still lives Must automobiles forever run on tived wheels just Lecause vehicles have been on wheels for three dec- ad There appears no reason for assuming that they cannot be put on “caterpiliar” bands, such as proved efficient for carrying tanks in the war, regardless of any obstacles. The bands may be of fiber, soft and re- silient. Added springs and shock ab- sorbers may eventually displace the air-filled tires. So suggests a resource- ful Yankee inventor from the same State that produced Goodvear and Havward. i There are many wavs of meeting the rubber monopoly besides waiting a decade for trees 1o grow. The rub- ber restrictions and resulting high prices, says Mr. Hoover, may bhe cquntered by greater economy in the saving of tires by automohilists, even without reducing mileage. This sug- BY PAUL } the | ix now around 95 | the dealers | ob- | recent | the | ago, first found a | COLLINS. gestion strikes the average driver as being all right for the peaple who can not afford new tires at the increased | prices. but Mr. Hoover insists that it is the patriotic duty of all in stop waste, just 23 it was with consumers of meat and flour during the war. Automobile manufacturers fizure in fractions of « cent in reducing costs of production It is related that one maker of high-zrade automobiles has expressed his despalr in the face of | the exactions of the London rubher | market He savs he was trying to 1figure H03 of a cent on bolts and screws in his sutomebiles when the rubber corner jumped prices of tires $20 on a car. A single outfit of tires ‘fon a passenger omnibus $1.000. I the averaze automohile user 15.000.000 in the Inited States wauld save their tires to the amount of 1 2 a vear it alone wonld almost cause a break in the corner. costs over * o ox x The British refort 1o American pro tests against the rubber exactinn: that after tne World War the Ameri can Government urged the farmers to decrease their wheal acresze order 1o maintain the market price of wheat by preventinz a glut supply. Our officials point difference hetween the overprodu- tlon of wheat and the cornering of rubber Our vernment never ‘‘cor nered” wheat nor permitied the mar ket manipulators 1o corner it. Agri | culture wasx facing hankruptes - in fact. our farmers were in hankruptey and wheat was heing overproduced when the selling price did not cover cost of production Today's selling price of wheat —$1.74 in Chicago—is claimed to be 50 cents under cost of production, measured by the purchas | ing power of the dollar. It is recog | nized as the legitimate function of our Department of Agriculture to ad | vise farmers as to the demands likely (o figure in the markets and to coun sel them in diversifying their crops. Yet when the McNary-Haugen bill asked that the Government take con trol of grain exports, on a Socialistic | plan. capitalizing the monopoly out of | public money, it received no support | trom the administration. Our Con- | stitution forbids any tariff on exports, | hence there has never heen any parallel in American Government 1o the rubber export control exercised by the British government, or the coffee export control of the Brazilian government. The Brazilian government todav is seeking a loan of many millions 1o enable it 1o hold the entire coffee supply and control its marketing. It announces that. owing to the opposi- {tion of Americans to the rubber mo | mopoly—in which Brazil also holds an |important interest—the loan will he | sought in London rather than in the | United States. Birds of a feather | have been known to “flock together” even in tradition. Soviet Russia has adopted such control of its markets, in both selling land buying. Chile monopolizes her | nitrates. Yucatan her sisal, Germany | her potash and the Netherlands her | in to the radical quinine in Dutch East India. Ger- many once tried a similar monopoiy ) dyes, but American chemists broke it, as American rubber chemists hope 1o break the British monopoly of rubber. Secretary Hoover has suggesied that one way to meet the monopoly of the sellers of rubber would be 10 pass a law creating a monopoly of rubber purchase. If one buyer held in his grasp the entire market of American consumption of rubber he might sit at & conference table in Tondon and attempt to dictate terms. The attempt would be an experiment perhaps of bluff in the market, but at least the one buyer would eliminate competition, far better than a thou- sand competing customers. American financiers are alarmed over the possible sudden collapse of the artificially rigged rubber market, since our rubber consumers always have from $300,000,000 to $400,000,000 in stock bought at current rates. A rubber panic in London might have a serious effect even in America. Prices have fluctuated from $3 a pound in war time to 141; cents in 1322 (Copsright. 1925, by Paul V. Colline.)