Evening Star Newspaper, January 19, 1926, Page 6

rg ™ THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. 'TUESDAY......January 19, 1926 THEODORE W. NOYES. . ..Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: Lith St and Pennsvivania Ave N:_:'ank ()flylvf ¥l| E‘"}‘;\:‘f“a- cago Ofce. Tower utld European Ofice. 14 Rexent St., Londen, England. Tha Evening Stas with the Sunday morm e edition. ts delt ered by carriers within the city at’ 0 cents per month: dally only, 45 cents per month: Sunday only. 20 eents Der month Orders mar he tent By mail or telephone Main 5000. Coilection {s made by “Arrier at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sund 3 0 00: 1 mo. Daily iy "unday. .- - 137 3800 1 mo sunday onty 137285000 1 mo’ All Other States and Canada. Daily and s $12.00: 1 mo.. §1.00 Daily "ol Sunday-. 1 - S 00t 1 ot Sunday " only 1yr. $4.00i1mol 350 Member of the Associated Press. The Aseociated Press s exclusively enti fo the use for =epublication of all news dis Patehen credited to it or not atherwise oot ted in this paper and nlso the local news Diblished herein Al rights of publication of epecial dispatches herein are also reserved. Almost a Vote. Tven while the Senate was day discussing the chances of an early vote on the World Court protocol cloture came within an ace of bei effected by natural procedure. through the exhaustion of debate. The chief opponent of the resolution, having ad his own speech, found him self without reserves. His forensic cohorts were s . He stood alone on the hattls and when questioned as to the outlook he declared that a vote was poss the 10th of Feb- ruary. It was indecd imminently pos- sible at that m Nobody wa ready to take his place on the floor, and cries of “Question” arose. Then the Vice President announced that the question was on agreeing to the reso- lution. But somebody in a spirit of senatorial courtesy called for a read- ing of the statute. And in that moment reinfc arrived. A Senator charz words dashed up gained the f It was a close Seve: and doubtless now fully ed by World Court opy again will th proach to a vote 1 has been set for the For there is no filibuster. That is be ing carefully and emphatically stated by those who seek to prevent the United States from entering the World Court. There is no disposition to con- sume time simply to the end that the | vote may be postponed. That is be- ing very unced. But at least re at work on their speeches, and they are not noted for hrev Yesterd The chief of the opposition, who has declared agzain and again that there is and will no filibuster, had reached the natural period in his re-| marks. Physically he could have gone on and on for a long time to hold the floor, but to do so would have he refute his a the fi for Vice vester- le by nent. ceme 1 from with b many the lines and | ted. speeches are in pr tion they will be care- the leader of the tion, so that never b sche s0 ntil d near an ap- the day that ision arrives. is definitely ann half a dozen Senatc of expression n was dramat ¥'s situatie be establish | the cries | and with the | that “The| to the v own words ar uster Question™ Presider asa aris declarin srecing olu- | od unperturbed and| willing to let nature take i Perhaps he knew that his Pe serene, course. S were cor nd of eolleagu ring the hastening to close | i But he cut | e breach in the it prett Cloture will e fine at that . 1 if there is filibuster, however a filibuster b defined. It either through formal vote setting a date or through the exhaustion of the discussion. But possibilit protrac- 1 as o give strength that the Senate's come e a will come even so, of tion are s to the public rules be amn mand < under the the Secretary of Com- If Mr. Hoover can repeat his shed record for establishing a practical system of distribution he will add inestimably to the high re which he is already held. The British Empire the of Nation cisely an autocracy, association of attention of merce. distingu ard in s ¢ Leazue is not pre. but rather an iments. T e e The “Temporary™ Buildings. The House appropriations tee is now faced with a deficiency es- timate of §140,000 covering the cost of certain repairs to eleven of the tem- porary Government buildings erected during war time on public lands. Seven of these are in Potomac Park, three are in the Mall and one is within the space acquired by the Government fifteen y ago for departmental structure erection. This appropriation is urged as necessary to prevent these buildings from collapsing. The work will consist of replacing rotten wooden posts that constitute the underpin- nings by concrete piers and the re- placement of the wooden joists and girders supporting the floors. If the work is not done the floors of these buildings may at any time collapse, causing disaster, perhaps loss of life, and certainly the destruction of irre- placeable records. Tt is to be hoped that the work of repairing these structures will not be too well done, that the makeshifts of support fendered necessary by the precarivus conditions will not be too substantial. Concrete construc- tion suggests some degree of perma- nence, whereas it is in contemplation that all of these buildings will be razed within a short time. But, of course, the buildings must be made safe for their occupants and for the documents that are stored in them. They must be put in shape to last during the period that must elapse between appropriations for permanent housing accommodations for the Gov- ernment bureaus and the actual com- pletion of the needed structures. The buildings in Potomac Park should have been destroyed long ago. Some of them, indeed, actually did collapse and @shers were torn down commit- AT now j two templated | Just in time to prevent dissclution by natural decay. They are unsightly, an intrusion upon the park. The build ings on the other reservations, though somewhat more substantial, are mis erable makeshifts for Government housing. Daily risks are run in their use. Fire drills are necessary to ac- custom the occupants to the possibility of emergency Invelving the gravest peril. The dead welght of documents stored in them is a menace to safrty. The prospects of public building leg- islation at this session are bright. Dif ferences regarding the question of an “omnibus” bill have been ironed out and no obstacle is now in evidence to prevent this enactment, which is at least five years in arrears in terms of the post-war conditions at the Capital. But even with enactment at th sion, several years must elapse before constructions are ted, and meanwhils these ry" build ings must be occupied. They must, of course, be made safe. But while they are being made safe the utmost speed should be shown in legislative | preparation, and, cons with per manent durability, in construction. There remain for consideration the two buildings now occupying a portion of Potomac Park, an obstruction to the proper vista of the Lincoln Me morial, an invasion of the reservation, and so located as to be inconvenient and unsatisfactory. They listed as “temporary,” but be of concrete they altogether durabie for the ease of mind ¢ who properly regard them passers. They should Le included in the list of war-time constructions to be removed as soon us the present public building dopted. comgy “tempor ste sEram is —_— = Four Democratic “‘Possibilities.” Smith, McAdoo, Ritehie, Donahey such is the present Democratic line up for 1928, to recent survey of Three gov- and an unofficial citizen. It is not an inclusive list. There are others, and there will be still others to come as the months pass and the pre-convention n under Indeed, as long as two of thus ar the list—those two that sounded so during the {days of roil calling at Madison Square Garden—it is quite certain that other will be added. For, while those tw remain, the prospect of a deadlock increases, and therefore the chances that an outside entrant in the will win the nomination ribbon bettered. It is the obvious polit acecording the situation. ernors campa el way. names were ofte in race business of the field in is no-assured ont th Ltic national 'S to canv th manner. For there standing figure in ranks who has a who can be assured support. There potential nees with such prestige, hut they can not be certain of unity of indor either convention or the polls. Unyielding partisanship for them in the the part of their personal spells disaster Yet it in that thi wiil be indorsed, supported boomed unceas from now until the nomi: nations are made. There lies the op. portunity of the dark horse, who, in the circumstances, must be rated still ¢ sable equine even though there rly mention of his name In the nty-nine months that wiil elapse before the next Democratic con meets much, of The present alignment may changed. Differences Demo prest of un are nom nent at at convention on followings is now cel and s a vention happen be decided may be adjusted, be made. indorsin, leading urse, may binations m Those who are most vigor- supporting “possibilities™—no on speaks of candidates—know fi well the significance of the two-thirds rule that without question will prevail again at the Democrdtic convention they know how hard it is to put over a nomlnee who is opposed by another backed by many States. And so this is the time for political for maneuvering without ostentation, for quiet conferring and practical bax zaining. The addition of names, some | new and some a little n, | the 1ist of possibilities does not bother | these boom managers. They know that every convention has it large cor and ously 10w shopw! those They are convenient reservoirs reserve supplies. for - ————— The jazz composer who married an nst the wishes of her fam- if mischievously disposed, revenge by n-law Blues. T — | Sclentists who foretell an exhaus: { tion of coal deposits at least promise a definite termination to some very un- comfortable controversies. e High School Congestion. In an article in The Star yester- day was set forth a situation regard- ing the present congestion in the high and junior high schools of the Dis- triet, in terms that indicate the ex- treme urgency of speed in providing new buildings in relief. Of these fif- teen schools ten have an enrollment in excess of capacity, while five are under capacity. The total excess 1,896 pupils, and the total deficiency 203 pupils, leaving a net excess of 1,693, or about 15% per cent of the capacity of the buildings. Provisions have already been made for additions, remodelings and new constructions which will in great measure relieve this congestion, pro- vided the work is completed before the natural increase of the school population overtakes the additional accommodations. In the major high schools themselves there is, with a single exception, an ex- cess of 'school enrollment over ca- pacity. Practically all of the net excess is in these schools, the largest being in “Central” where the en- rollment is 673 over the normal ca- pacity of the building. Were the situation reversed, with the excess mainly in the junior schools rather than those at the top of the system, the prospect would be brighter. But these major high schools being all overcrowded with one exception—and that one is prac- tically at capacity—it follows that as the students move up from the juniors 5 diplomacy, i to| crop of favorite sons, and indeed in | ‘avorite scns lies often the real | strength of a nomination campaign. | reserving the ri | | reaching THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, the need of new buildings becomes | more urgent. The necessity of making appropria- tions strictly in accordance with the five-year program that has been adopted by Congress is evident from these figures. Washington now ix growing rapidly, and the schools, even with the five-year prog aithiully carried out, are hardly keeping up to the increase in the general popula- tion. Indeed, the prospective need of ten years, or preferably twenty. should be contemplated in a five-year building plan, considering the time required for construction and the in- variable delays encountered. The hope is that this statement of the high school situation will receive attention in to the writing of the school-building appro priations in terms ¢ stent with the both present and am ¢ Congress insure ns District's needs, prospective. S How Do They Do It? Swimming recently con ducted in arid n according to that women than men. Whilé women around in the freezing ten or fifteen minutes and glowing with ‘the of health, men were unable to more than Tew fests r Paris demonstrate, rseas dispatch, cold better frolicked waters for emerged perfect ay in moments, and on ere blue with cold 1k for the chattering an ov can stand zir k a hore ) and unable to t of their teeth. Physicians who examined the swim mers explained that better because of fir delicate and bette: blood be larger ar- women are able 2 yer to stand cold texture of protectin ~tion their 1 muscles, a th ind supply of cause of elatively teries Althouzh the obtained without to such a coolish day Paris ime re: subjecting the test was con ive, ilts could be poot strain. Take Wash ame amount by the Engage a room in the male any Dres clothes h in in the worn nston any man of being Intest madel flapper. hospits waiting. Then is a Have an ambulance in send him out the safe bet that he will I the symptoms of that he will be blue with is teeth will chatter rickly to the and he will his family best on streets, pital apply ot inses beloved ratives, have from “denrly o to sy death notice: in the s of a ewspape ——— Berliners whistled on keys to their ¢ show nistic v of maki bad disar : whic may oval a mode was o what have been a The Ame ion for incipient art ht matter her wor: of patient tole to forget it and go to the m tical and considerate. e in the vicinity of Naples hed bandits who had been sys tematically robbing them of their erops. Should Mussolini be compelled by {ll health to relinquish his respon- sibi Cincinnatus may yet be summoned from the plow to super- sede him. vies nitely more prac ities a new e By allowing him to preside in a tem- porary capacity, the U. Senate courteously demonstrated to Mr. La Follette that it is not particu- larly afraid of him. el 0 O Less indignation would arise in the mind of Cole Blease if the precaution could be taken of sending only tee totalers as diplomats to this country. Activities of prohibition agents may vet revive an ancient idea of etiguette to the effect that ladies ought not to drink intoxicants in public ———— Debts are delicate affairs. Among nations, as among persons, they as more likely to lead to fights than friendships. s largain announcements are unusu- ally interesting. About the only thing never mentioned in them is a ton of coal - SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON A Performer. I wish 1 could play con amore; 1 wish I could sing to high C I wish I could tell a great story Or paint what me. comforting cheer me, As Winter's cold hurricanes blow. seems charming to One thought comes to The neighbors approving draw near | me: TI'm a good hand at shoveling snow. I touch in a mood all artistic The snow shovel placed in my care. With rhythm unbroken and mystic 1 scrape till the sidewalk is bare. Life’s pleasure remains unabated As pulses seem swift and aglow. After all, it's worth while to be rated A good hand at shoveling snow. Brevity. ““What was the greatest speech you ever made?"” “It was a monosyllable,” answered Senator Sorghum. “I voted ‘aye’ on a question which meant all kinds of fu- ture influence.” Victims of Duty. ‘We are determined crime shall cease: We'll say it with out latest breath, Regardless of the poor police, Already worked well nigh to death. Jud Tunkins says he loves Grand Opera because it shows him a ‘whole lot of highly picturesque family trou- bles that are so much worse than his own. Servant Problem. “Have you a good servant?” “We have quit looking for one,” answered Miss Cayenne. 1 we hope for now is to find a considerate boss.” Rags. With new syncopations they storm us Where swiftly the paces are led. The dance is a rag, they inform us; The clothing is scarcely a shred. “Laziness,” said Uncle Eben, one of dem enterprises dat requires more capital dan de average man kin collect.” method | voung | One of the best speeches ever heard in Washington was made in Yiddish. Perhaps few in the audlence under- stood o word the man suid, yet ever one went away thoroughly satistied. Why? The satisfaction was due solely to the power of the human voice, The orator possessed the art of voice con- trol to 1 marked degree, and was able to influence by tone alone. It is not for nothing that the orate has held a high place in human so clety since the beginning. In the Bible one may read a great oration of the lawgiver Moses. It t little imasination to picture the scene, and see the white-bearded patriarci laying down the law. “This d ce before vou life and death, said—ana his words ring stiil. day I { you life and death—this is the eternal decree of the public speaker. “Listen to me!” he seems to shout. “Out of tha amplitude of time [ hav sought out the true, | the wheat from the ch | sentinz to you. here and now bhest that I have been vle to gather. | This day I place before you life and I death i So much for the mental attitude of | the orator. His big card is the power | of the human voice to move, to induce tears, to jolt into laughter, to work upon the emotions. When all is said and done, the pub | lie speaker plays upon our human hearts as the musician upon the kevs an organ. He may make s tense of appeal to r . but effect is negligible. The real app is to the heart. aff and am pr th back over tl of the centur! 1t one nowned or the primitive emotions were not ppealed to. Antony's oratlon over the Lody of ¢ apoleon’s short in the <hadow of the pyra lcero’s ot gainst Gettysburg re 1led to the hea n Antony traded on sympath dead. Napoleon on pride, Cicero wriotism and Lincoln on gratitude 1wh of these great oritors (and the st cou extended almost indeti nitely) struck some chord in the heart of his hearer One may well of intellectuality over the ciaim of the m {of such overwhelming we are ruled, in the L { our emotions. “As @ man thinketh in so is he.” said Solomon (or he is given the credit The modern tendenc is to rephrase { that sentence to read, “As a mat thinketh, so is he,"” here is a feeling | that the use of the word “heart” is tly scientific, ter of nal all thinks tons each ap or se, in the pride quie the fi evidence that nalysis, Ly pa his heart, least for that saying) very cold fact, per phrasing is nearer since much of our the fons the truth, after “thinking e or “heart,” as we Some races place the seat emotions in the stomach, | with more truth than poetry. t. of all this s man’s brain, as well heart, is means of his dislikes shown in reason, with eme of pe The up ply is that the way the inception find their > | or aifuted. Wherefore Palestine was | pure * x the gentleman able to make * fro a dandy There is a song with a refrain, “There's a ship going back every day.” 1t is sung for the enlighten ment of such immigrants as have slip- ped into the United States unlawfully lor, since com ve developed into undesir s It Is a gr army t £ eastward —equivaler several battalions a year, and zing nearly 1,000 a month. army of retreaters will be ugmented if the measure now in Congress be passe the power the ureau of the Department The bill has been rate by Mr. House by Cha committee on . to ac Immigrat of Labor. introduced in the Wadsworth and in th rman Johnson of tk immigration * X ox % The act of 1917, working very n imended in 1921, is satisfactorily in redu ing selecting the immigrants pe mitted to enter this country. The slection is made in foreign ports by immigration representatives, so that the former mad rushes of steam- ships at midnight on the first day of each month §s no longer necessary. The quota law is approved by the offi- it but there remain: the great blem of how to handle the 7,000,000 unnaturalized aliens in ‘the countrs. No other n rries 6 per cent of its population owing legiance to foreign powers. he new ar of immigrants are t, but they constitute only 150,00 {a vear. Ti e largely in intelli- gent sympathy with American ideals hefore they arrive. The trouble id to lie with aliens who southern Europe and fror with no appreciation of th I beyond a land for ¢ means of accumulating wealth. They may rot develop lawlessness until { s after ving, but the profi of bootlegging entice many and the propaganda of Bolshevism many others. It is for such that the law {will be amended to add to the powers of deportatlon, regardless of how long the aliens have been in this country. R At present, the law recognizes a three- jvear limit of liability of depoftation. A violation of law by an alien shall not be ground for deportation unless it can be shown that there was “moral turpitude” in the crime. What is meant by “moral turpitude” is inter- preted according to the various standards of the courts. Some courts have held that bootlegging does not in- volve “moral turpitude,” while others inciuding the District of Columbia Su preme Court, Rold that violation of our liquor laws is clearly “moral tur- pitude” in its defiance of the laws of the country. Under the pending bill the whole limitation of “moral turpi- tude” will be taken out of the law. Whenever an alien is sentenced so that the accumulated prison terms amount to one year, total, he shall be deported. The old law required that two sentences must total a year, in order to involve a construction of “moral turpitude.” An_instance is cited of one petty offender who had been sentenced 30 times in a brief |period, though no two sentences, alone, amounted to a vear. Under the new law, the total of the 30 sen- tences will be consldered. The crimes must be committed subsequent to the passage of the act of 1926, but the length of residence of the non-citizen in this country will have no bearing on his deportation. * X Kk X Any sentence for an act committed after the passage of this law which, if added to sentences for acts previous to this law, will total 18 months will make the alien liable to deportation. In cases of indeterminate sentences —as “from one to three years'—the law will count the maximum period, for purposes of deportation, and the offender will be immediately deported after serving the sentence though it be reduced for good behavior. Another phase of the proposed law will penalize, by deportation, an countr 00d wages or othe kes but | place before ' have winnowed | for the | on! Russia, | D. ¢, TU JANUARY 19, 1926. BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. specch, the best that I have ever heard anywhere. With an infinity of gesture and volce modulations, he ‘ble to put over the one big idea, that he was tremendously in earnest about something. As all of us there (this was several vears ago) knew exactly what he wis ing for, we had the high satis of not being disturbed ideas, but simply enriched by changes of pace, low and high tones, cadences and cadenzas of speech. The power of the human voice is elous. A famous singer once said that he could read a billof-fare in a that would compel tears, and the story goes that he proved his case, | too. Imagine one reading, in tearful tones, “Potatoes au gratin, fille de sole, roast beef with mashed potatoe Hungarian goulash, baked white fish, lemon ple, coffee, tea, milk!” The thing would sound impossible, on the face of it, and yet any one who has ever been influenced hy the human voice—and who has not?—will immediately accord it credence. The subtle changes in the volce that make for laughter or tears are not within the power of all of us. Most re automatons when it comes ssing these qualities. Perhaps h is nearer the growls lize. st of our | people 1o po | our spee s of animals than we re pared with a real orator. spealc in a4 monotone through. The fact that a publi misuse his powers is against those abilities * k% * | makes spe | bearable fs listening to the vo | ity of the varlous speaker: | they say does not interest us as how they say it. | Muny w aignified gentleman | tening with intens { who Froadeasts Sir H | from New York in jehain of shoe stores, the zrown up fosted n b 1y in the sw f the tel . child ity thit makes @ blg uppes More men than realize d their wives on the choice has f listening to a raucous-voiced ale for the rest of one's diys local girl who some months ldren’s bedtime sto ulio possessed a fresh something Volce that made ntich the same of ay Her “turn to s of the icasters this mon us life ker mav argument spes no What iio hes o e qu What > much listeners are e .’wl He h it 1 in th dled, in e the over the on those who ' hecau him a talk ard dlo he was giving Whit fascinated this far vibrant quality of the and 4 certain peculiar dropp his v wi,'” sl i ips the way on such most striking moderr instance of the power of the human that of the broadeast an s, young gentlemen who have ¥ into nation-wide favor and simply through veice ap The power of the human used, is great, and should he in schools more than it xtent, at least, we should all tor voice. L ‘ is | To this | of us be BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLI jalien who conspires to ald another | alien, unlawfully, to enter the country In ‘question to whether an | had entered unlawfy | proof is put upon the alien. If he is not rezistered at port of entry, it is as ~d that he was smuggled in, ur lawfully. In cases prior to 1585 such proof cannot he required because all records at Ellis Island were burned that year. Heretofore, an alien who had lived | in this country three years, or longer, could 1ot be required to prove his lawful entry, but the present bill sets aside all time limit. There are fewer tragedies in con- nection with immigration restriction than u old laws. The 1924 law permits immigrants to bring in their children, outside the quota. * x x % ¢, the burden of There is one pecul feature of the 1924 partment is desirous nated bhefore will go into effect. It basis of nationality on which each country’s quota rests, Section 11 pre vides that the annu quota of an; nationality shall be 2 rer centum o the number of foreign-horn indivi of such nationality resident in conti- nental United States as determined by the United S es census of 1840, but the minimum of any nationality shall be 100. That is clear, but how ahout the following paragraph? “(b) The annual quota of any na- fonality for the fiscal year beginning and for each fiscal vear, hall be a number which bears the same ratio to 150,000 as the number of inhabitants in continental United States in 1920 having that r tional origin (ascertained as herein- after provided in this section) bear: to the number of inhabitants in conti nental United States in 1920, but the minimum_quota of any nationality shall be 100.” (This does not count aliens ineligible to citizenship.) The mystification arises in trving to ascertaln what was the ‘“national origin” of native-horn Americans who have descended from long lines of mixed ancestry. According to immi- gration experts, this will furnish raany a puzzle for genealog The fact that one's forefather was an English cavalier, and his foremother perhaps a Dutch maiden, will have to be in- vestigated and proved in order to as- certain_the proper quota of Hglland or the United Kingdom. * ok ok ok In Washington, the work of Amer- icanizing the aliens is progressing with great enthusiasm and success in the Amerieanization school, under the principalship of Miss Aiton and her fine corps of teachers. What was an experiment three or four years a has developed into a school of 2,000 pupils of many nationalities—adult men and women—who assemble in the evenings for classes in general edu- cation and American ideals. The school building is already overcrowded. In addition to the school, the stu- dents have co-operated in organizing a club with a fine library and a clubroom where they meet, or spend their leisure. They publish a students’ weekly paper and hold debates upon American topics. There is never any manifestation there of any but the best spirit of American patriotism, without “‘dual citizenship” or dual al- legiance. (Copyright. 1926. by Paul V. Collins.) A Mere Parking Place. From the Chicago Daily News. Home is the place where the young collegian spends small sections of his nights during the holidays. riy aw which the de of having elimi June 30, 18 when it The Poor Pedestrian. From the Birmingham News. Proof that pedestrians are poor is that none has endowed his pet emerg- ency ward. refers to the | NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM 1. G. M. THE HEAVENS. Jean-Henrl Fabre. J. B. Lippincott Co. In an important sense, science, no less than trade, demands the middie man. Like comierce, science is sourced in great bodies of accumu lated fact. To produce intelligible and useful contacts hetween the general public .and this bulk of scient knowledge there is need some uzency that corresponds roughly 10 the middleman who in trade operates between producers and consumers. The broad function of this new i termedis office is so to illumin: the wide field of science as to brir it out into the clear light of dav; to translate it into ferms plain speech: to interpret it by way of its countless and varied manifestation common daily life. Increasingly by day, science comes closer to 1 directing and contrc 1K eve form of industry. It ers into the sim plest as well as into the most comp) of human activities. It is, on the other hand, the great magician, pro ducing in the modern world hithe undrear arvels of achieveme Of itself stic and hid Its researches are highly spe clalized processes, open only 1o the v. Its language is technical quite unintelligible to the average. The nature of its countless applic tons to daily life is the deepest Were it not for the fact that here and there the man of science is also the poet, the dramatist, the story: er, the painter of pictt the Freat world of n: al law—brought to hand by man’s insatiable curiosit by his quenchless zeal for knowle: ~would still e the fearsome m that it was to primitive n 1, that even yet is to remote and untaug trit Among the 1o the gene creating ir the ab: |standing as inspired m! the world of nature man himself —is Jean-Henri s and flowers and b and ants, on his own t I'rench acreage, have vielded to him the intimate secrets of the free-handed an ange 1sel on his them d sntists to whor debr living thi lifelon interest s more he man i< like a world of thinzs ind jovously uho i the whol n. H spont A ~ s th nship wi A wider he adventure, th and and impos One not 1o reduced ! laws. Ir be spre sure eramped zid m wings of natior reads with the cle sh pre t it 12} ght ning ve n story which smce opened out the soul r and searche and the li A great st of expanding rather than t lesser dimens; ently its own, * o x % GLE PEACE. W The Modern Library v whose power is th man to its measure 2t of confining it to ns than are inher | |t n Beebe | Another 1 bly ar science who nota- habitually and usefuli stands in between scientific learni such and the need of the aves man to touch at least the hem flowing robe of that learnir lay taking over human affairs. There doubt, s of exact v te the account of Wil entist, by more than one stitution dedicated to the research and invest Beeba is authority of sout the world 1 n o 1l motion with all sorts capture of new forms subjection to microscoy serutiny, for their various to chemical and matk ment. Yet—worthy and useful this indubltably is—here is a little to handle and ecarry arette case, that gives liam Becha—the poet, ker. the loafer alor coasts, the easy hobnobber every kind and condition of mah, provided only that the man be s0_to speak. in a state of nature. A book of heautiful adventures along the coast and in the near inlands Dutch Guiana. Adventures, these, t make no count of personal discor | fort—soaked clothes, nt food. shelter, all means of transportation quite shut off ¢ the worst—but right off this broken-down and crum bling pier—relic of prosperous old trad ing days—right out there, thing floating, or swimming, or strug gling in the water—and William Beebe is off. Nothing on earth, in ich case, could lure this man from his perch by the waterside while he settles this problem of sea travel by some creature obviously designed hy the Creator for other means of locomo- tion than the sea requires. Now this may not be the exact situation. But it serves. And while William Beehe is apparently engrossed with it. there are fringes of him that sense the col ors all around him—colors of tree and flower and sky—that feel the secret spirit of that particular place, dividing the purpose under the hushed movements at this hand or that one And it is these fringes of sympathy nd enjoyment and deep understand- ing that make William Beebhe the osen companion in many an hour like those covered by the various ad ventures making up the deep beauty of “Jungie Peace, * X X * SERMONS OF A CHEMIST. E. Slosson. Harcourt, Company. A preacher—this middleman—with text, and firstly, and in conclusion and the rest of the familiar formuls The initial discourse indicates som thing of the nature and quality of the whole. This is a sermon on the mir- acle of the creation of man. “And God formed man out of the dust of the earth.” The opening out of this miracle at the hands of the preacher is so simple and plausible and con- vineing that one secretly chides him- self for not having solved it for him- self. For, as it turns out, we are all formed out of the dust of the earth. Every birth is a creation. The soil transmuted into plant nourishment becomes the only sustaining power of all animal life, indeed without it life could not be produced. The preacher presents this topic with argument and illustration and new approach frem one angle and another, with repeti- tion and fresh example. All this the essence of creation itself. Pleturesque speech is the habit of the Oriental. And may it not be that many another miracle, as well as this one of the creation, is, as it were, a form of speech, inherent in the genius of Oriental language asa whole? Whether this be true or false, the sermon is a most provocative one, setting the read- Edwin Brace & | States | for BY FREDERI Q. Is a man’s own name a valid de mark?—K. . A. Yes, i written, printed or im sed in a phrticular or distinet ner, or in association witk of the individual, and it will be registered by the 17 Patent Office upon anplic registration When made into a Q Farm was N t the Lincolr tional Par President Wilson made ance speech of the Lincoin | near Hodgenville, Ky., as 4 Na Park, on Monday, September 4, 19 Are left?— 1. A. We which the left. cards always deait .1 know of ards ar no card 2 not game it What is the carth ca sponds 1o the word atmosp The solid earth is ealle phere and the water the loes the producti ith the proc was an i of the fol veur production the last Col wheat, ric on, seed, odible beans, sweet bacco, cane, hop Apples, pears, grapes, [ ip beans, cant flower, celery, sw Iettuc= and tomato: U rye, flaxseed soy bear cotton sug orunges, aspar erant green peas, watermelons What ne is found —J B A. The prof the conditions turpentine is ¢ Q pe tine ort ur the amou gum. It th the an 20 per cent of whick o ahout W » less than at s, 1 i1 make s a grea during the y est se the 14 cold Jat 1 duri son w desrees Ar H the Winter ANSWERS TO QI C J. HASKIN Promised by American railroac represent - th no | | ploves of an g ration | subm to Congress is | the public i he goal of permanent rail world. The prospe wanty of continued oper portant peace 1 satist the example ring coal m it no eland News tion of the plan, but, when sup Co! s, Railway nflne £ differenc says in an “is its main featn lemented by o do ror Board, system and national boards, recognize the p provide publicity of fac strikes or lockouts unt public opinion is officially That seems to fill the bill, hearty support and promise welfa Its complete ac the arbitration principl nr ing contrast to the attitude triking anthracite miners.” The Spokane Review point not compulsory but compulsory enforcement of the awards of arbi tion, where hoth {parties to a dispute submit to arhitra- tio; The Spokane paper, while cc ceding that the scheme “may not arry the country to the desired g of insurance against railway strike believes it is “progress in that dire tion. it is w natic eptance it is ation * ok k¥ “Elements of hopefulness” are seen in the plan by the Altoonn Mirrc which declares that “to create impar tial arbitration boards which will pa tiently hear and impartially s 10 find the proper solution for & misun derstanding between labor and capital s to go a long way in the di ending ugly and expensive disputes The vital thing, however, in this de- velopment, in the opinion of the 11l nois State Journal, “is not the plan itself, though it is intended to serve and insure peace, but the al ity of men at the ends of an ag controversy to move up together.” “This feature of the agreement especially Impresses the Birmingham News, which remarks: “The most siz- nificant part of this formal plan for agreement fs that it has been reached by the parties in interest without undue pressure being brought to be: upon them. They haive without heat or anger, apparently con- vinced that since various experiments er off on adventures in thinking that are exciting and tempting. The other sermons are like this first one in in- dependent thought, In courage, in fresh approach, in clear pursuit; original and greatly stimulating. deliberated | Labor Peace on Railroads oyree New A ment of | may w dustries, the Jersey Ci more posed to er i way void rall s convinced th hat will proba respect to ti rishurz Tel raflroad brotherhe conservative and holds the view that rced upon the hooks re dealings with their employer factory both th | ployers, a taken tov of all to e Sprin vinced 5 ness may e means of preventi transportation, bu 1 for ar- rangements in other lines of husingem,