Evening Star Newspaper, January 5, 1926, Page 6

THE EVENING With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON. D. C. TUESDAY . . .January 3. THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor Hhe Evening Star Newspaper Compary Buelness Oflice 11th St ound Pennas] w York Offiee hicago Office Tower R 14 Regent St Fng d 1iding Loudou, The Eveuing Star g edition. is the vity at (0 « 45 cents m ) yer ih_ - Ord ¥ e sent By Teiephone Main 5000, Cotlection is made by the end of each montl it unday onle, Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. nd_Sunday L s0 0 only $6.00 only 3300 1 mo 1l Other * £ and Sundas..13 only 15yr ates and Canada. $12.00: 1 mo.. §1 $8.00° 1 mol. 7 Sunday 4000 1moll 35 Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitind 10 e use for republication of all news dis Ppriches credite otherwise cred ited n this the local news published herein its of of special dispate in ure also reserved hes hes Public School Arrears. Tn the supplemental deficiency esti- Mutes f expenditure sent vesterda the Presi- dent are four items relating to public totaling $137.500. de neces the construc District to Congress by school construction These additional sums by fact that ed the five n am by ¢ sress, in order to bring the District’s school equipment up to the needs of the local school system, costing more than the first estimates upon which the original appropriations were based. I the deficiencies are not ted the work will lag, and the ar- rears of school equipment will still further accumulate. It is to be ex pected, therefore, that these sums will e promptly voted to ena trict to carry t the already undertak This is a not unusual experience. Owing to the inevitable delays in the of appropriations—the lupse months, sometimes of years, the first proposals of new huildings and the granting of funds— building condi change. material prices and wages Increase nd the whole cost is advanced materially. the case of a husiness corporation it ia possible to compute very closely the of a needed extension of plant, Lecause werk started promptly upon the drawing of plans and the Jetting of contrac In Government work, however, there is always a cost- increasing lapse of time from the in- ception to undertaking of construction enterprise. Tt is fairly safe to reckon upon a 20 per cent marsin over the initial estimates of new buildings for the Dis- trict’s equipment. This margin, which is almost invariably represented in de ficiency appropriations, stands for the of the delay. If it is not promptly emered by appropriation the work lass and still further cost is added. cre have been instances in the Dis- irict of school constructions being de- laved for several vears owing to the insufficiency of appropriations, with consequent piling up of arrears in ommodations, carrying out it e ma wary the tions under ear huile adopted m e coush projects making of ma hetween ns in cost a is the actual any n gram the five-year pro- will be necessary to revi estimates and to increase allotments | from time to time as building condi- tions change. as wages are advanced, as materials cost more in the market and as the cost of sites increases in the natural advance of lard values rt, the initial estimates of the Luildings embraced in the five-year i . not definitive. The pla of maximums on building costs is futile unless they represent the mar- in of cost increase to be contemplated Leyond certain minimum figures, which case the initial appropriations hould be made flexible. In a procedure like this of to cateh up with the school ar dation arrears delays trying ommo- incident to fail- of appropriation and exhaustion of funds play havoe with the general program. If a building is not finished in season for the ¢pening of schools in September the result is an increase of congestion. Every effort, therefore, made to provide ample of course, to expend them in prompt construct should be funds and effectively One of the first suggestions made by Mussolini in his plans for a Roman restor was the banishment of strect cars from the thoroughfares. Zven in great enterprise the traffic problem asserts itself as para mount. tion s0 an S While coal contentions proceed, the uliimate consumer atiention to remedies for pneumonia and defense against carbon monoxide. ——— n be only one New Year resolution ever r: but disarma- ment eonferences can o on and on. ————— Fatal Gas Leaks. deaths illuminating occurred in the last few Washington. and in a num- her of cases persons have been barely rescued from death through prompt It is singular that these ould be so frequent just In one case it appears had a leak of gas defective main in the street. apant of the huilding says that for, sume time past the odor of the es- caping illuminant had been so power- ful that persons had been made faint oblized to walk briskly out of doors to recover. An inquest will be Teld tomesmow and full development of the cirenmstances should result. It there has Lean neglect of a broken gas wain to which these two deaths e to be attributed it should certainly le punished in some manner, PPersonal carelessness is accountable for some of these mishaps. Gas fix- tures become eroded and leaky. Stop- cocks turn too readily and are casily misplaced by accidental touches. In some cases the first warning odors are not noticed, or persons become aceus- tomed to the faint scents and lose their sense of danrger. It is not safe Ihere ¢ gas hours in 1 have from discovery aceidents this time. that there from a One o been STAR [to ignore any odor of gas. At this 1926 ;| that they are tight and always in .| ington on warning. abhieation ¢ le the Dis.! n are to be regarded merely as | in | n | Dloves. turns his patient | season of the year, when windows are normally kept closed to exclude the |cold air, even a tiny leak may cause a fatality. Drowsiness is quickly in- duced and asphyxiation occurs during | sleep. Look te the gas fixtures! Make sure On the first scent of gas find the cause and send for help. It is better to cut off the leak, however small, immediately than to risk death This group of fatal and near-fatal | cases should put the people of Wash- iarder. The New Traffic Signals. A new era in Washington traflic control begins today. At 2 o'clock, with appropriate ceremonies at Scott Circle, witch and a was thrown chusetts avenue became the puppet of Dlinking electric signals, which zoverned the ebl and flow of travel with mechanical perfection. Washington at last advances rd modern thought in traffic con It has heen a laggard for ve has passively allowed other cities go forward while it stood still. Congress, until the last session, took the same attitude. Even then, | the trafiic bint passed. it more or less n haphazard proceeding and the resultant law is not in any way adequate to deal witn conditions. At any event, today’s evolution forward and should a realization on the part Legislature that tow trol. It when was was present R a long step bel marked by of the District's while this pro highly com mendable, there are many things ye: to be done in order to rank Wa ington with other comparable cities in the regulation of traffic | Green for “go" amber for | tion” and red for “stup” are the sig nuls now being given on two of the | National Capital's main arter Al turns are made on the green signal. A right-hand turn is made as usual, a left turn is accomplished by ! stopping on the green near the right hand intersection and fimishing the turn by proceeding when the green flashes for a change of traflic direction. The only difference is that the motorist stops near the right-hand side of the street instead of in the middle, and that he cannot complete the turn until a change occurs. | In the fire engine house on K street is an emergency switch. When an alarm is sounded requiring the use of Sixteenth street this switch is thrown. All signals immediately show {red for every street. Traffic is in !stantly halted and the apparatus has a free roadway for a fast trip. Washington motorists will readily adapt themselves to the new system. i Traffic will move smoothly and there should be few accidents. Strict obedi- ence to the signals is necessary, how- in order that the tem may function 100 per cent for the speedy | movement of vehicular travel. gress sh- “eau ever, | Complete the Plaza Project! | A bill has been introduced in the Senate by the chairman of the com- mittee on public buildings and srounds to authorize the purchase of «even squares of land lying between | the Capitol and the Union Station to | complete the long-pending plaza project. It proposes the reappropria- ton of unexpended balances of ap- propriations made some years ago for | this same purpose. | Senator Fernald's object in pre- | senting this bill is to bring promptly | | to the point of action a matter that | has been allowed to Iapse for @ num- ber of years and that cannot be per- mitted to remain indefinitely in this { condition. The establishment of the | CapitoMStation Plaza Is in accordance !with a definite plan, which has been | | formally adopted and which would | | have been carried through to execu- tion but for two factors, the occur- rence of the war and the objection of | certain legislators to the procedure of the condemnation and the prices | which it was proposed to pay for some | of the 1and included in the area. The condemnation having been halted, after a number of the squares had | been definitely acquired and others {had been in effect secured and the| buildings on them razed, the coming of the war found the space partially cleared. The Government then used some of the land for hotels for the! | housing of departmental woman em. | The owners of the properties that | have not been finally purchased, be-| coming not unnaturally restive under the ban which has deprived them of | | the use of the land without compensa- | tion, have placed them on the market e. It is doubtful whether sales uld be made in the circumstances, ! with the dead hand of probable pur- chase by the Government laid upon this area. This land Is too valuable | to be thus scrapped as regards private ownership, or (o be utilized for make. shift housing accommodations for | | Government workers, when the emer- |sency which warranted their struction has long since passed. Eventually this improvement must | be made or the land must be restored | to private ownership without cloud or hindrance and the natural develop. ment of that portion of the city per- mitted to proceed. There is no econ- omy in delay and there is no justice in procrastination. The passage of the bill just presented by Senator Fernald will put this matter in the way of execution on terms that are fair to private owners and to the Gov- ernment. e Stock market quotations indicate a prosperous New Year. The obscure citizen who purchases at retail prices may find it difficult to share in the general refolcing. Grant Row. A fire yesterday on East Capitol street just east of the Library of Congress, in which three dwellings con-y ! intevest, { struction THE EVENING ment of the aréa known as “Capitol Hill"” as the social center of Washing- ton. It was not a new concept. It had been entertained, indeed, many vears before by some of the original owners of the land upon which Wash- ington was established, who thought that the residential section would be located mainly on the platean stretch- ing east from the Capitol, while the Lusiness section would be placed in the lower lands lying west and north. But the L'Enfant plans placed the White House about a mile and a half west of the Capitol, and that fact practically determined the trend of the city. Furthermore, the prices at which the land of the eastern plateau was held by the first owners were so ! high that most of the home seckers and builders perforce went westward in their first building enterp It was a little move than fifty yer ago that this elaborate row of build- ings—then quite the most imposing residential structures in the city as v group erected. Its designer W builde, us an ideal location for foreign legations and the eminent Government offl Indeed, he actually designated certain of the houses of the row for specific occupancy. His project, how- ever, failed. None of the foreign rep resentatives was willing to go so far the center of diplomatic the State Department, and « disinclination developed on the part of weaMhy and socially Washingtonians to be detached so far from the White House. Still the con- decided contribution to the appeurance of that portion of the city, and, though Capt. Grant was disappointed of his ideal great 1 center, he at least had the satis faction of realizing that he had aided greatly in the development particular street and that neighborhood. The row is a ind its injury through fiv fortune which is greatly ploved. ses. in was coneeived it homes of cials. an from was a of a gene andma is ul a mis to be de- ———— In order to meet an anthracite crisis people burn soft coal and find com- fort. In case of unreasonable exac. tons by bakers the public may find satisfaction in renewing acquaintance with that delectable food primitively known as “hoe cake.” E, e investigations in rezard continent in the Pacific languish in popular in- terest until they develop something to inspire the ad-writing talents of the realtors. Scientific a lost Ocean will e Europe is jealous of American films, which seems a little narrow, consider- ing the welcome Amer! acee Eng- lish comedy, French fashions, German opera and the Russian ballet. ——o— There are no reports from Dayton, Tenn., to indicate that an evolution controversy, with ail its publicity, can be relied on to promote u real estate boom. ———— Interest manifested by Henry Ford in music has not yet developed a pros- {pect that artists may hope for a De- troit violin that will rival a Cremona. o Even old friend Santa Claus fails to eliminate the element of chanc The boy who wished for skates won and the boy who wished for a sled lost e = The bulls in Wall Street are happy. Prices are high. The ultimate con sumer in Main is not exuberant. e France discovers that it s easier | to change a minister of finance than it is to change the value of a franc. | SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Adaptation. We try to mind our manners With methods well arrayed, But “boobs” display their banners, Directing the parade. Ten dollars for a cover Where Ragtime Joy is rife! Obsequiously T hover, I'm eating with my knife. I'm trying to be humble Where newborn splendors gleam I don't intend to grumble At any social scheme. New customs are arriving Replacing old-time life; To meet them I am striving, I'm cating with my knife. Colloquial Expression, “Did the new play remind you of anything simple and human?" “It did. It reminded me of the hired man trying to drive a mule.” A Conservative. “Why do you insist on tr ing to oppose reforms in the Senate? “I'm not trying to oppose reforms,” answered Senator Sorghum. “T'm simply seeking to hang on to the old troubles we understand, instead of starting in on new ones that may land us, the Lord knows wher, i No Communist, A “Communist” I would not be; At such as these T scoff. The greatest, it appears to me, Have got their heads chopped off! Jud Tunkins says one of the penal- ties of mew money is compelling a man to struggle with bridge whist when he’d rather be playing seven-up. Katz. “The’ ancient Egyptians worshiped cats. “It’s different in these bootleg days,"” rejoined Uncle Bill Bottletop. “What we fear now is “katzenjammer."” Unromantic. “King Cophetua married a beggar mai “She may have been a beggar maid,” answered Miss Cayenne. “And then again, she may have been a vamp in disguise.” were seriously damaged, recalls to mind a singular fact in the devel- opment of the National Capital. The blage occurred in what has for yvears been known as Grant Row, a name attributable not to the former Presi- dent of the United States but to an energetic real estate promoter with a vision. His vision was the develop- > One-Way Traffic. Our taxes—we can't shift 'em; They cause us many a frown. It's easy to uplift 'em, But it's hard to bring 'em down. “A politician,” said Uncle Eben,” is a man dat knows how to talk senti- ment without lettin’ it interfere with business, aspirant | of that | so | STAR, WASHINGTON Another group of the unhappy com- prises those serious gentlemen who are lured into taking up “kidding" in self-defense. This is but another instance of men being untrue to themselves, for if one is by nature serious, he by no means or under any circumstances ought to allow himself to be frivolous. Rather he should be himself. But what is the truth? In many cases, more through the sheer welght of social factors than because of any real reason, men permit themselves to be- come jokers. They, too, although mendou against the grain, use “kidding,” sometimes called *‘spoof- ing,” to counteract the hurtful effects of the same brand of false humor used nst themselves. After all, the thing resolves itself into an attack. War is not confined solely to huge groups of men, marching and counter- lmarching against each other, but be- kins when one man meets another. The nasty something in humanity which makes men, in the midst of a world filled with wonders, do their best (at almost stated intervals) to put a cevtain other number of their fellows “out of their misery”—this nasty some thing has its ablding place in the in- dividual. If you would know the causes of wars, seek not for them in printed documents, or soclal conditions, eno- nomic factors or the like, but look deep into the heart of man, and there vou will see, it you look far enough re honest with yourself, enough ons to account for all the con- t ever have been and ever it goes tre- * ok ok Just why the everyday intercourse of human beings should be blurred in its outlines and soured in its depth by intermittent “kidding” and insane jok ing is something that the serious soul finds it hard to understand. Perhaps such a person puts too much stress on a disugreeable feature? No. fwo men are hardly able to get to- zether bhut what one of them launches into a variety of joking against the othe It is an American habit. The man who tells you he does not mind “kidding” is a llar by the clock, you can take your en the born “spoofers” do not like to have the joke turned on them; perhaps that is the reason why they carry the attack so persistently to others, having unconsciously learned that first principle of war, to be on the offensive rather than on the de fensive. Sine one our life i§ a wa €, a8 some said, it follows that all of humanity is engaged in a battle, al though by the various artifices of clety and civilized life in gencral we ve managed to conceal the fact wh other. Yet each person, when he is alone with himself, knows the truth in this matter. Some, therefore. resolve to make it o war to the knife. Other with more humanity, determine fight fair. So we may account, in a rude way for the various brands of humanity we meet every day. There is no per: son, however well protected by money, etc. hut finds himself at the mercy, now and then. of one who does not observe the “riles.” What does the fellow know of the rules, anyway? So ‘all of us, almost every day, are face to face with the “kidder.” the blithesome gentleman who is violating our rules of conduct, who does not zive a hang for our regulations, who takes real delight (although It may be malicious) in poking fun at us Now the point is simply thi If the festive fellow reaily were funny, we could put up with him. If he actually found some absolutely to D. ¢, - THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. comlcal situation, even if we wers the butt of it, we could smile with him, although it might hurt us to do it. ‘We llke a joke, too, none better. But what does he? Usually he picks upon some per- sonal flaw, something which we can- not help, and proceeds to poke fun at that. Or the lunkhead manages to put us into an unseemly position before friends, and then actually has the temerity to enjoy himself. Here {5 a standard joke among such individuals: John and Bill are “good friends,” whatever that term may mean. John lives at a certain boarding house. He is an exemplary young man, and has his landlady’s O. K. BIIl, on the other hand, has never seen the landlady. John_goes home to his rest, and about 5 am. there comes a mighty ringing at the front door bell. Mrs. L.. the worthy landlady, answers it. There stands Bill—whom she has never seen. remember. “Does John Dolitely aske Bill. “Yes, sir, she replies. . “Well, he is wanted down at the police station,” solemnly states the other, to the consternation of the woman. And Bill thinks this funny! * Kk ¥ * live here?” There recently lived in this town a £o0d, kind-hearted man, who has gone to his eternal rest. One day a high government officlal, who knew him by reputation only, had his secretary call the man up and invite him to be his guest that afternoon at the ball game. He was 1o meet him on a corner. And what did this good man do? So used was he to “kidding.” as a normal course in life, that he sus- pected the sincerity of the invitation, and, before he would meet the offf- clal, found it necessary to cruise up and down for half an hour in an automobile in order to convince him- self thut he was not to be made the victim of some friend with a per- vertag sense of humor! The gre irity of people, there. fore, it muy be said, seem to take up “kidding" in self-defense. It is not natural to them, it does not even seem sportsmanlike (2 term which the kid- ders hurl on the slightest provocation), but they do it because it scems the only way out of an unpleasant situa- tion. What s more, the youth of America is being trained in it. Every high school. every college, 1s a training ground. Perhaps this is well, too, for the youth, when he becomes a suc- cessful business man, will meet the same thing in his luncheon club. “Kiddir ntially un-Chris tian, since it negates the Golden Rule, and also provides for “meeting fire with fire,” utterly unlike the provision made by the Master for turning the other cheek. | Joking, therefore, whether of the so- |called practical or’ “kidding” variety, stunds convicted on all counts, There i$ scarcely a good point about it, or ny good it accomplishes. It makes for rancor, hurt feelings and i1l will, and consumes time in business, where time is golden, indeed. Business organizations that permit idding” among employes during working hours are sponsoring inef- ficiency. The practice is a waste of man power, and a watering of the milk of human kindness Most to be pitied, undoubtedly, are those serious souls who allow them. in self-defense. They have adopted what they de spise, und do what they would not do. They are living exemplifications of St. T'aul's words, “'I do not do that which do, that T do.” Americans Not The recent somewhat vague an- nouncement by the premier of Ttaly that an Italian empire I8 to be devel sped which will be worthy of the old Roman imperial tradition is pretty zenerally regarded in America as the m of an ezotist, drunk with his ¢ power over a naturally lib- rty-loving race, or as merely »f modern advertising. remarks the Los zeles Times, “is word of varied ineaning, though one naturally thinks »f it as referring to a broad territory zoverned by an emperor. Mussolini applies it to Ttaly as being the expres- sion of an ‘attitude of mind.' If he confines his imperialistic activities to w mere attitude of mind, all will be ! \well for the peace of the world.” List- ing the monarchs that have fallen be- \fore the march of democracy in the ast few yvears, the St. Joseph News- Press infers that “the emperor busi- {ness was rather put ‘on the bum' by the late war,” and adds, “Maybe Mus- solini figures that it will profit Italy o put on a lot of dog. and if the ltal- thing for the rest of the world to do but watch the show.” | * %% * The whole idea is simply to better Hartford Daily Times, which declares: “Nobody in this part of the world is very much worried about Mussolini's grandiose plans for a risorgimento. |'They are recognized for what they are by a people which appreciates good salesmanship as fully as any people on earth.” Comparing the Italian dictator with “other megalo- maniacs suffering from delusions ot grandeur,” the Springfield Republican derides him for his “half-crazed vision of a revival of the ancient Roman su- premacy, which is really as dead as Julius Caesar nand has as little chance of resurrection.” The Kalamazoo Gazette in its study of the “man who would be Caesar' suys of him: “He hopefully envisions himself as the great Caesar who once held undisputed sway over all of the known world. Never once does his mind's eye conjure up the other pic ture of that same Caesar, ‘with his mantle muffling his face,’ falling at the base of Pompey's statue.” The St. Louls Post-Dispatch calls the dic- tator “an _anachronism,” and consid- ers his political philosophy ‘‘medieval if not ancient.” He talks, says the Post-Dispatch, “in the ‘shining ar- mor’ accents and_saberrattling pe- riods of that pinchbeck Napoleon who brought Germany to ruin,” says this paper. * %k X % “Mussolini may be wronged by the notion that he is in more belligerent mood than any other influential states- man of Europe, but it is a notion that is widely held,” observes the Manches- ter Union. “As a matter of cold fact,” the Columbus Dispatch points out, “the industrial development of recent times has made Italy just about the last country in the world which could safely assume an air of military ag- gressiveness against her neighbors and attempt to enlarge her boundaries at their expense.” The reason for this Is, according to the Dispatch, the fact that “the iron ore, the coal and the ofl which are such absolute necessities to modern war are not to be found beneath Italian soil.” Observation of the acts of Italy’s dic- tator to date causes the Norfolk Daily News to remark: ““One cannot help wondering what part in the black- shirted premier's scheme of things the By Dreams of u plece | An- | iuns are agreeable there fsn't any-| advertise Italy, in the opinion of the | Impressed Mussolini average Italian will play. The premier does not explain this, but if we look over his past history we are forced to the conclusion that the interest of the average citizen will have very little consideration.” ~The Portland Oregon Journal also laments that “liberty is dead in ltaly,” and exclaims, “This is brought to pass in a nation of 40,000, 000 people! | ® X Xk K Suppression of a free press in Italy tors. subject: “‘Mussolinj is a step nearer to his dream of absolutism through the the Milan Corriere Della Sera. It was the last of the influential papers of Italy, pursuing an independant course, which had not heen suppressed. For the time being Mussolini is supreme. But his action in suppressing the last remaining powerful organ of criticism is evidence of the storm that is brew- ing." “As the Elkhart Truth points out, “a new law gives Mussolini power to suspend any journalist in Italy whose ‘moral qualifications,’ in his opinfon, are not sufficient to enable him to hold his job." Commenting on the Ttalian premier's proposal to extend his long arm across the seas, the Brooklyn Eagle explains that “he seeks to continue control of Italians who have become American citizens, and thus he is a danger to peace, a danger to democratic institu- tions and a danger to American inte- gration.” The Chicago Daily News is certain that “attempts of any pean country to retain a firm grip upon its emigrants to America, even when the attempts are legitimate, are bound to fail in the end.” Although it acknowledges Musso- lini’s present power and his suppres. sion of the liberties of the Italian peo- ple, the Indianapolis News points to dictators of the past who found that democracy could not be kept sub- merged. “The instinct for self-govern- ment is inherent,” affirms the News, “It represents one of the yearnings of the human soul for kinship among men." ——— {New Confusion of Tongues. From the Sacramento Union. All hopes of a universal language have recelved a serlous setback, if they have not been completely shat- tered. Once German, French and Russian represented such hegemony as exlisted in Europe. Today a hun- dred different languages demand rec- ognition as the voices of natfons. Some have emerged from beneath the conqueror’s yoke, some from the tomb of dead things, some from am- bitlons to make literature the founda- tion of political permanency. “Official languages” now exist for Esthonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, a part of Poland, the Ukraine, Geor- gia, Azerbaijan and Armenia. There is an attempt to revive Gaelic in Ire- land, and in Spain the Catalonians are demanding the right to teach Catalonian in the schools. There is a struggle in Czechoslovakia, in Bchleswig-Holstein and in the Balkans for supremacy or at least autonomy among Czech and German, Danish and German, Croatlan, Rumanian, Serbian, Greek, Bulgafian; between the Latin and Cyrilllan alphabets. In Palestine, where they are seeking a national language, there is contest among Yiddish, Hebrew and Judeo-E: panol, the latter much used by Span- ish, Jews of Constantinople and Sa- loniki, | ward Eve selves to be lured into kidding" others | | deluge of the Jack I would, but that which I would not | istudy instead of the s is widely condemned by American edi- | Says the Lincoln Star on this | forced withdrawal of Senator Albertini | from the post of managing director of | Zuro- | UESDAY, JANUARY §, 1926 NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM LG M. Paul Revere Miffin EDWARD EVERETT, Frothingham. Houghton, Company. Biography is the heart of history. At every broadly vital focus of circum- stance, at every momentous turning point, national or international, it is man, individual man—acting and re- acting within events—that gives to history its only serviceable content. History links great movements to- gether in long backgrounds of cause and effect. Blography vitalizes these with human motive and achievement. Blography is_personal, warm, inti- mate, alive. It interprets history by way of these qualities—by way of character expressing itself in love of country, in public service or disserv- ice. The chronicle of a greatly in- fluential life, like a chemical reaction, precipitates the essentials of history allowing the non-essentiuls to floa away upon the surface in broken bub- bles of inconsequence. x Kk * The biography of Edward Everett s through this personal medium one of the crucial points in the history of the United States, the greatest point beyond that which declared the colonies independent of Great Britain. This period marks the certain ap- proach of Secession with its equally certain sequence of Civil War. The blography revives also the zenith of that imported New England culture, classic in quality, that embodied itself in scholars and poets and philoso- phers, in social theorists and experi- menters, in austere advocates of high thinking and plain living. In large part, therefore, the fmportance of this individua! study lies in its general coincidence with the political crisis upon which this country was so rapid Iy advancing. In smaller part it interest rests upon its identification with a vanishing phase of classic learning and culture. * ok ox % A scholar and an orator—when ora tory was in its prime as a valued asset of “statesmanship—Representative in the Congress of the United States, Am bassador to the Court of St president of Harvard, v Massachusetts, United or of s nator such is _the scope of Edward Ever- | ett's public service, such the high points in this distinguished career. * * x % In so far as it is possible, Mr. Froth ingham makes use here of origins material. There is not much of thi not much for a man of such man: sided mervice. However, letters—for mal and official on the one hand, in formal and {ntimate on the other— speeches in C‘ongress, orations upon vecasions of moment, addresses to in stitutions of learning and to bodies of political thought—these provide a fair nount of direct contact with Idw verett, adding vividly to the study as a whole, From these personal com munications emerge important pictures of domestic political agitation, of na tional apprehension. Many a picture of foreign life also both from the view point of the official representing his abroad and from that of the traveler as well sevond the immediacy of such direct contact there is kpread out here the line of national interests in which 1d ett_took so conspicuous and able a part. This the period when the safeguarding policy of the conserva tive was being stormed by the open. r demand of the radical. This the time when the spirit of democracy wis stretching itself to larger inclusions han had hitherto been conceded it The time when Adams—withholding by temperament and political theory o make way for the D 4 on administratio A period of great hittern tute of intrigue conspicuous and b tant with political crimination and re crimination. Such is the stage wher the political service of Mr. Evi rendered. %% > & But it takes the whole of any man's life to make the man himself unde standable. So, here with Edward Everett, one must count the years when he was making himself into a scholar with the seclusion necessary to that purpose. with the sensitiveness that such seclusion breeds, with the endless common exclusions that absorption in study implies. This web early circumstance evokes the con- servative, such by instinct and train ing. It produces the palitical arist crat, the orator of impussioned classic perfods, the deeply man much concerned over the effect of this or that which he has sald or done an exclusive man, schooled by the reet. In part by virtue of this equipment, in larger part in spite of it, Edward Everett ren- dered valiant and distinguished serv- ice, whose record leaves any American the richer for its study. One little story at the very end of his public career. The dedication of the battlefleld of Gettyshurg as & monu- ment to the slain soldiers of that en- agement. In a speech of great cl quence and power Edward Everett for two hours lifted occasion to the level of great histol Then. a gaunt man arose and in a few short sen tences gave out the golden words th will live, long as man mortal Gettsburg Everett wa this and to s man _who speech. speech. Edward utterance to * ox o For more than one reason—for the time and circums the period. for the quality of the man himself, for the biographic excellence of this story in its historic insight, its human sympathy, Is dispassion, its story qual- ity—this biography is certainly of the most important, ane of the most interesting that come to hand in many a day or vear. * % % RECOLLECTIONS OF THOMAS R. MARSHALL. The Bobbs-Merrill Co. A later day than that of ceremonial gesture as a part of the ritual of poll- tics is represented by these recollec- tions. Once, not so long ago, a plain man, a true philosopher, a genial humorist, became Vice President of the United States. In the course of time, brought down from this high altitude by the tides of election day, he in great joy sloughed off the desiz- nation and duties of his lofty political estate to become again just the plain man, the good philosopher and the genuine humorist. And one day these three—this one, in fact—went a-sailing down the stream of memory. And as he went he talked to himself—so great ‘was his happiness over this freedom— talked of the old Hoosier days when he was a boy and of the later days when he had grown to be a man, A ram- bling talk in sum, that includes men and affairs, human nature in its many counterfeits and disguises, human ef- fort in its many failures and in its equally many triumphs. The man talks all the time, the philosopher much of the time and the humorist once in a while. It is & fine combina- tion that turns out a stirring body of £00d sense, and humne feeling, and tolerance for everything sincere and honest. The way to read these recol- lections is to open the book anywhere —consecutive reading spoils this brand of reminiscence. Opened at random the book offers some statement, some opinion, seme observation, some good understanding, that one carries around ‘with him all the day long, thankful to this plain man for the courage to be simple and direct and, above all, to be kind. e A Mechanical Remedy. From the Wall Street Journal. Government machinery could be more smoothly operated by turning cranks out. James, | . not desti- | erett was | sensitive | lives—the im- | s the first man to recognize | it also to the great | that | one | Q. Did Russia ever mine gold in Alask O. A. The only Russian attempt at gold mining in Alaska was at Cook Inlet in 1854, { Q. How much per for the Hessian soldiers?—s. S. A. The several princes who sup- plied the German mercenary soldiers received $30 for each man. Q. How far from Jerusalem is Beth lehem?—R. . W. A. This village (now occupied al- most entirely by Christians) is 6 iles puth of Jerusalem. It was called by Micah “the least among the thousands of Judah, man_was pald Q. When was the Cullinan diamond found?—L. V. A. This diamond, which in many re- Spects i3 the most remarkable In existence, was found January 26, 1905. 1t weighed 3,024% karats, or 1.37 pounds, and measured 4 by 2.5 by 1.25 inches Q. Ple: give ames of the outh Amer B. . A, Argentina—Spanish, Silver Re public. Brazil—from the Portuguese Braza, a live coal, from the color of its dyewoods. Chile—probably wning cold. Christopher Co. by from Biru, a noted Indian chief of that part of the country. Venezuela—so named on ac- count of its supposed re: o to th City v The ex plorer dis A un Indian village in which the houses were built on pile: Bolivia—named for South American pa the full name is Reput meaning Republic of s g v and Uruguay—both {for rive the Ner means der water''; latter waters,” r the tributaries. the various the in origin of countries lumbus. uator, named “the river fe the ferring to Q. Please philosophy.— A. The Yogi svstem of ph s said to have been founded by ‘. imed that re necessary in the ment of the soul before it reached that condition in which it npt from further transmig These stages elf-control, ous ser nces, breath regulatis of senses, making the mind firm tation, deep contemplation. Q. may medi How large an amount of money be sent Ly mons J. 1 e maximum amount of | money order is $100, but as many § | money orders can be issued to | individual as desired a Q. What was the Washington, D. ¢, in 1 A. It then had u population of 131 he census estimate for pop In the anthfacite str the leader of the aperators, w as Divine Rights Baer. ( Q Baer known from is a 1led f time but it Greece ip of Gen. Pericles der the dictato announces thi he dissolved s will not be reconvened, and has ceased attempting [.nw\' government base upon the con stitution 1 its Parliament. Here. |after he will depend upon milita { fore \d the “public conscience ! Just what he finds in “public con- seience” in common with a Napoleonic dictatorship s not explained * ¥ X % pangalos, backed by the army, ast June los which | 1ast July Gen, seized the government and on July 2. upon di Hament, proclaimed that | preserve the constitutional parliamentary government ble.” On January 2 the dictator, speaking at a_dinner given him by ary League. declared that no longer ‘“‘possible” to govern Parliament representing the | people, as provided the constitu. tion, There are G {that a new Par iat an earl he form it possi | liament is dissolved. the act of disso- |lution shall then and there designate | the date tion of its s w | By Pangalos’ announcement, the con titution is set aside and the Repub- lic of Gireece has become an oligarchy in the grip of a military dictatorship ble neither to King, President prople, but only t are some obser the dictatorship of the Mili- igue constitutes n imminent menace, not alone to the liherty of eece but to the peace of the Balkans nd of Asia Minor "o understand he nature of the menace one must erstand the character and hi tory of Gen. Pungalos, former com- muander-in-chief of the Greek army, land recall the histor of Greece, {it overthrew the kingdom and be 1 republic ers who al- as ime e EE the World W Constantine underto the neutrality of ccused of being pro-German, while the then premier, Venizelos. was in sympathy with the allies. The allies took possession of the Greek fleet and | When r came, King maintain He was k eece, | ceeded by his second son, Alexander, with Venizelos continuing as premier | The whole country then divided into the other the Venizelists, or Liberals. To this day the Liberals are called | Venizelists, although they do not all { support_the ideas of Venizelos, who lis in exile. Between September, 1922 and November, 1924, eight minieters {held power, anaverage period of three months each, while public excitement zrew intense as the political changes followed in quick succession. At the election, December 16, 1923, the government had so manipulated martial law, according to the Royal- ists, us to make the election one- sided. The Venizelists won a sweep- ing victory, the Royalists refusing to that time the Venizelists had subdivided, and although all the 399 members of Parliament who were elected were all Venizelists, they rep- resented three factions—250 Progres- sives, clvillans who really favored a monarchy but desired stricter par- liamentary limitations, as against the Republicans and the United Repub- licans, openly opposed to the dynasty. Although totaling only 149, these lat- ter two factions were much more ag- gressive, and, being composed mainly of military men, they were formi- dable opponents of the Progressives. The leader of the Progressives was Kafandaris; of the Republicans and United Republicans the leaders were George Kondylis and Gen. Theodor Pangalos. 2 * koK ok On the day following the election Gen, Pangalos demanded that King George II (successor to the deceased Alexander) and Queen Elizabeth “take a vacation” and leave Greece ‘‘free” to decide on a form of government. The King and Queen, fearing the army, fled to Rumania, and Admiral Koundouriotis was appointed regent. Venizelos, although in exile, was elect- ed to the asgembly by 10 constituen- from the - | straint - | ro: tutign stipulates that whenever a Par- | the army. | dethroned Constantine, who was suc-y | two parties—one loyal to Constantine, | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. at it was he sald that vou tell me w b that name led to nis being given 0. C. W. A." George F. Baer was known Divine Rights Baer because statement in which he sal rights and interests of the laboring man will be protected and cared for— not by the labor agitators, but by the Christian men to whom d in Hi infinite wisdom has given the control of the property interests of the cour £y Q. Why has the apples swung from ireenings to such v tosh, Cortland, Delicious and & —A. N, A. "Cold ‘storage makes it possible to keep these more perishable varic ties through the Winter. Ifowever, Baldwin and Greeninz still hold their own In spite of the trend to new varieties. shion in Winte Russets rleties as Melr arking Q. When the F «deral f'm\'brnn‘w‘rv‘ sends prisoners to city or county jafls does it pay for their maintenance C. 8. R. A. The Federal Government is no using one-third of the city and count ails of the count without paving any rent for them, but it does pay for the hoard of the 7,000 prisoners thus farmed out. The board rar g:-w from 20 cents per day in five jails in Porto Rico to $3 per day in ihree ¥ Alaska, while the average i close season he birds bekilied T. K. S on ends December until the mig ulations are amend ed to allow the killing of swans dur ing a stated open son it will he nlawful to kill birds at any time Q When the ns ends ca the ihe area of the Pa G! a name applied t id regions of the West western South T Bad s of kota embr square mile: > an of about What s the principal silk ¢ of Japan?—A. C. ing D. interior of the earth been K s of the je?—A. The of the earth tend below 10 m per cent of of reliable ohserva A I upon it as ofte heing maintained hi Jou (The resources of our free Burcaw are at are invited to ca | 1w please. 1t ] The Lvening Star sole What question you? There 2 conts in s 1adress your Ie Star Information Haskin, director, u to serie turn postage to The F n. « mps for re Bureau Wash BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. | cies and was recalled to | de fende ¢ | noun: and Queen proclamatior Greece on Ma {the 103d anniv pendenc ¢ | March | This v was made by two gene ngalos—by v, though. to made subject which was to follow. follow three weeks later alists rest |outcome was inevitab | * | Then follow erimin: | which the war were promoted while th heroes were fgnored. Pappan | siou was premier and Gen. Kor minister. Charzes of a ter were made against lis and the scandals which swept the cabinet out of pow Press reports charged the Ve lists with robbing the relief funds ir | tended for the refugees fror ind out of all the turmoll Pang: zed the premiership possible return of the n ipposition to the rule ¢ |ted by Gen. Toannis of staff of the Helleni victorious Balkan v to the campa agai which ended in o flasco Kish hurning of Smyrna * An election did fn which the were =0 icted that the Kon fol Turks, the T Americans have 10 of Greece since the m: Mrs. Leeds to the brother | Constantine, and the marriage of her n_ with King Constantine’s niece. Princess Xenia. The latter are living on Long Tsland, and in their | homie ts now visiting Prince Paul of Constantine, to whom Veni- zelos offered the throne after the death of Alexander: Paul declined | the ofrer. In connec | 5! it | ion with the Greek | feat in Smyrna and Asia Mnor, there is a bit of history of direct terest to Americans, as related hy 3. P. Salmon, head of the relisf | organization, American Friends |of Greece” 1le states that M Venizelos informed him that it was at the suggestion of President | Woodrow Wilson that, the League of | Nations took the mandate ove | Smyrna from Ttaly and gave it to | de- iree This has not hitherto heen published. * x ¥ % I While suspended cuts little figure, so long as it { maius inoperative, it is signifi | to note that the prc Senate in the Reput tion is based not en torial distribution of but is similar to the basis Soviets. One-third of the Senat are elected 1 community vote, the ! rest are chosen by trades and fessions—doctors, university profes sors and workers' guflds. Much of the present opposition to the con- stitution is due to polit 1 disap proval of this Sovietism of class con- trol. There are some who expsct the Assembly to be re-elected soon—the Senate this month and the Legislattre March 7-—and that it will convena March 25, the national anniversary Yet Dictator Pangalos, last Satur- day, in a speech to army officers | said that, “for reasons that he would make public, he was compelled 1o modify his attitude as from tomor- row, and henceforth he would assume entire responsibility for the govern- ment of the country, and rely solely upon the power of the army and the national conscience in order to save Greece. It was Pangalos who commanded the Turkish campaign: it was Pan- galos who was dictator during the recent invasion of Bulgaria, stopped and penalized by the League of Nations. He is alleged by his enemies to be a “jingo,” trusting dan gerously to military power. (Copyrizht. 1925, by Paul ¥. Colline.) constitutior ican con: rely on the & ter enitte