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8 THE EVENING BTAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, THURSDXY, FEBRUARY 25, 1928. : _— e e e —_— THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Eqiti_nn. WASHINGTON. D. C. THURSDAY...February 25, 1926 THEODORE W. NOYES. Editor TheEvening Star Nev. spaper Company Business Office: 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. Now York Ofice: 110" Eant 45 Ohiczgo Office: Tower Building. Ruropean Office: 14 Regent St. London, and. t The Evening Star. with the Sunday morn. edition. is delivered by carriers within the city at 60 conts per month: dally only, €5 cents per month: Sunday only, 20 cents per month_ Orders may be sent by mul or telephone Main 5000. Collection 1s mads by carrier at the end v! < month. Rate by Mafl—F' ble in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and 1yr., $0.00: 1 mo.. 7 Daily ouly ... 1, $6.00° 1 mi Sunday only . $3.00° 1 ms 1y All Other States and Canada. and Sunday.1yr.$12.00: L mio. $1.00 - 1 1 mo. .1yr. $4.00;1mo. 35c Sunday only Member of the Associated Press. The Assiciated Press is exclusively entitled 1o the ¥ repubiication of all news dis Jatenes'ooiited to' it o1 ot ‘tierwian ted in this paper and nlso the local new: published herein. Al rights of publication ©f special dispatches b in are also reserved. =— et Tax Reduction and Economy. In ample season for the effect upon fhe first quarter's payments for the current tax year the revenue revision bill reaches the President and, without question, will be signed by him and become law. It has been put through ®ll stages in remarkably short time, vlmost uccording to a strict schedule ©f consideration in committee, in the chambers and in conference. Providing for a larger reduction of revenues than the Treasury had esti- mated as warranted, the bill may cause some curtailments in appropria- tions for the coming fiscal year. Inti- mations have been given b+ the Prest dent that the money bills must be Jowered to a degree eorresponding with the excess of the tax cuts beyond the original estimates. It might be possi- ble to carry through the next fiscal frear otherwise without a deficiency. But the margin would be small and there would always be the possibility ©f a shortage. The policy of continuous debt re- duction is not to be changed. During the years since the end of hostilities in Europe this Government has pursued & course of consistent liquidation that has already freed it of an enormous load of interest and released a vast sum for commercial and industrial uses. With the discharge of war-time obligations in unprecedented volume has come a great saving in interest. "Twice it has been possible to reduce the taxes, which were carried to an unprecedented point during and im- mediately following the war, in conse- quence of this course of liquidation. In the framing of the present revenue bill the Senate has gone further than the administration’s pro- gram contemplated, adding exemp- tions beyond those determined upon by the House in agreement with the Treasury calculations. In the confer- ence a compromise has been effected, dividing the difference. The net reduc- tion finally effected was $387,000,000. The lower rates provided by the new bill may yield a larger revenue than has been calculated. It often happens that smaller charges bring larger re- turns. It will thus perhaps not be necessary, in order to maintain a Treasury balance, to cut the appropri- ations, this year or the next. If, how- ever, the new revenue measure yields only approximately enough to carry the Government, without ylelding a ®urplus, the day of a further tax re- vision will be postponed. Emphatic indorsement of the policy ©of the administration in effecting debt reduction and tax reduction together, through economical management of the operating costs of the Government, has been given by the people. They are intelligently aware of the fact that it 1s impossible to discharge the debts without unusual revenues, that it is impossible to appropriate extrava- gantly and at the same time to pay debts and reduce taxes, that in order to effect tax reductions and at the same Ume to pay off war-time obliga- tions there must be economy in admin- istration. Grateful as they are for this Jatest cut in the taxes, they are not impatient with the econcmies that Jay huve to be made in order to keep the Treasury fully supplied.” ————. Chi upt for modern eivi- | lization is possibly increased by recol-| lection of ti erciful old days w it was possible to settls a war by the use of fal s, sth * and fire- cracker ] The United States at War, This country is at peace with the world. Its relations with other na- tlons are good and friendly. Its Army and its Navy are both on a peace basis. Its envoys are established on the best of terms at all of the foreign capitals, save Russia, with which the United States has no reiations, peace- 2ul or otherwise. Yot a state of war exists right hers in the United States, war be- tween the forces of law and order and those of crime. Criminals to an unknown number are organized in bands headed by capable, resourceful chiefs who direct them in raids against life and property. In every lJarge city they are at work, takihg heavy toll and compeliing the adop- tlon of extraordinary measures of detense. The carriers of “pay rolls” are the principal objects of attack in this conflict. Money to the extent of hun- dreds of millions of dollars is trans- ported weekly through the streets of large cities, from banks to busi- ness establishments, shops and offices for the payment of salarles and wages. Many of the bearers of this money have been slain. Great sums have been stolen. Now armored cars are being used to carry this wealth and veritable armies are maintained by the companies that operate these supposedly bandit-proof vehicles. A large and profitable business is con- duoted in this transportation and vir- tual insurance against theft. Yet even with this precaution crimes are constantly being committed as the bandits shift their points of attack or devise strategic iioves to “bept the game.” .| should have an expressly ! building, whether the offica | not seif-supporting. the operatives in this outlawry are drug addicts, men, and women too, who have lost their moral sense through indulgence in noxfous stim- ulants, who have no compunctions about killing and who are under the domination through fear of stronger persons who plan their operations. These leaders are in some cases known, but cannot be positively identified with the gangs that do their bidding. They are shrewd enough to keep out of sight and ap- parently out of contact with the op- eratives, sending their orders through two or three mediums, so that those who are actually engaged in banditry do not know from whom these orders come. korgers, check-ralsers, swindlers of all kinds, are at work as individuals. They are often caught and are sent to prison. But the great menace lies in the activity of the pay-roll bandits, who are literally taking millions and sending the greater part of their icot 17 those “higher up.” The problem of defeating this or- ganized crime is one of the gravest in the country today. Ordinary police methods are unavailing. The busi- ness community proceeds to protect itself by costly and not altogether successful measures, and by insurance. Dut lives are being sacrificed at a shocking rate and few punishments are being administered. The swift motor car is defeating justice in a sufficlent degree to encourage the criminals to continue their opera- tions. Not until those who plan and direct these plots are caught and given the punishment they deserve will this war against crime that is now raging in this peaceful country be won by society. Deeda Bnilding Needed. ; The eemlook is favorable that Con- gress will authorize construction of an adequate bullding for the office of the recorder of deeds, the House Dis- trict committee having directed that a favorable report be made on a bill under the terms of which a new struc- ture would be built. The land and other records, including chattel mortgages, are housed in cramped and non-fire- proof quarters. Indices, libers con- taining official copies of land deeds, trusts and releases and the original papers dating from the beginning of the District, in 1791, are kept in & structure built a good many years ago as an office building for lawyers. The records fill shelves in many small rooms on several floors. There is no communication between some of the rooms on the same floor. Clerks of the recorder’s office have chairs and tables in some of these rooms, employes of title companies work there and are sometimes without chair or table with which to carry on their work comfortably. There is much going and coming of the public seek- ing information. One needs to hunt out some well informed person to find where the indices, let us say, for 1840- 1850, or 1880-1885, or 1926, are kept. An iIndex may refer to Liber J.A.S. 141 and there is usually a series of inquiries to find whether that liber is in the front, back or another little room on the first, second or third floor. In most of the county courthouses near Washington the land records are better secured and more available for consulting than the records of the Capital of the United States. The condition has prevailed for a number of years and s known to thousands of persons having business with the deeds office. The matter has been called to the attention of Congress a number of times by the recorder of deeds and the District Commissioners. The bullding in which are the re- corder’s offices and the records is pri- vate property for which rent is paid, and two or three years ago the office was threatened with eviction because there was no appropriation to meet a rent raise asked by the owners. There was no charge that the rent asked was unfair. Because of fees and the great increase in realty transactions and chattel mortgages in the District the recorder of deeds’ office is self- supporting and has accumulated a large surplus in the Treasury. That is an interesting fact, but one to which too much importance can be given. The land records of the Dis- trict and the clerks charged with the registering, copying and indexing of them and with meeting the heavy nd increasing demands of the public designed or is ————— Personal circumstances of the ex- Kalser are so prosperous that it is im- possible to stifie a regrat that he could not show the same competence as a statesman that he has manifested as a financier. ——— Legislators are exerting themselves with faithful energy in the apparent hope that proceedings in - Congress will yet command as big headlines as proceedings in a night club. The National Arboretum. Consideration of the bill to establish a national arboretum in the District of Columbia for the study of tree and plant life has been postponed by the House committee on agriculture, but the hope of those who favor this project is that it will not be long de- layed and that a favorable report will be made on the measure. This bill pro- poses the acquisition at a cast not to exceed $300,000 of a tract of land along the Anacostia River north of Benning Bridge, known as the Mount Hamlilton site. There will be estab- lished, according to 'this bill, a col- lection of all native plants and trees for sclentific study. The American So- clety of Landscape Architects, the American Association of Nurserymen, the American Forestry Assoclation, the Garden Club of America, the Wild Flower Preservation Society, the Bo- tanical Soclety of America and other organizations of a like nature have strongly indorsed the bill. It repre- sents in fact the unanimous sentiment of the people of this country who are concerned in the preservation of na- tive plant life in circumstances to permit and encourage the enlargement of popular knowledge and appreciation of American flora. ‘Time is a most vital element in this numm”‘umuh»mmmm Senatoks selected for this purpose as exception- ally suited lies within the line of com- mercial use and cannot remain avail- able indefinitely. Should it ever be in- cluded in a real estate development project it would be destroyed for scientific purposes. The existing growth of trees could never be re- placed, nor could the soil, which is especially adapted to the purposes now in: contemplation, be restored. The arboretum proposed will be more than a park. It will be a veritable labora- tory. This is a national, not a local, project, and its indorsement by the leading sclentific organizations, includ- ing the horticulturists and the for- esters and constructive conservation- ists of this country, should insure the passage of the pending bill at the pres- ent session. —— The Departing Rumanian Envoy. Washington regrets the departure of Prince Antoine Bibesco, Minister from Rumania, who has been recalled by his government and leaves tomor- row. He has been stationed at this Capital for five years and in that time has established himself on the basis of friendly relationship with not only the Department of State but with the people of Washington and other cities. In his personal qualities ad- mirably fitted to the role of envoy, he has won the high esteem of a great many with whom his relations have been wholly unofficial and per- sonal. In the conduct of the pre- liminary negotiations for the adjust- ment of the war debt owing to the United States by Rumania, Prince Bibesco rendered a valuable service to his own country in correctly ascer- taining the possible terms and in in- forming Bucharest of the true situ- ation with respect to the established policy of this Government. Criti- cism in Rumania of his course, in- spired, it is evident, by political mo- tives, has not impaired his standing here, where the situation is perfectly understood and where the real value of his service as minister is correctly measured. The hope prevalls that later Prince Bibesco, whose talents as & diplomat must be recognized by his own government, will be returned to the United States, where he and his charming wife are regarded with af- fectionate esteem. f Deference 13 still shown to the con- servative impression that the only moral turpitude this country has to fear is the imported variety. } One of the impressions which Egyp- tian research leaves is that King Tut pald es few taxes as possible and hoarded his wealth. i Germany wants to get rid of Berg- Qoll. This fact establishes him pretty safely as the champlon undesirable citizen of the world. i Prohibition does not prevent repre- sentatives of gay European life from selecting the U. S. A. as a place for staging demonstrations of spectacular hilarity. i At least the demand of German stu- dents for the privilege of dueling is more moderate than the previous Teu- tonic urge for a world war. ! American wealth has been much more successful in choosing bright young men as business lieutenants than in selecting sons-in-law. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Prosperity. Prosperity is going strong. That's what the wise ones say. Such wealth we'll have ere very long That we can all be gay. So bring your bathtubs of champagne And Charleston steps so light. Our daily toll is fraught with gain ‘That livens all the night. Father, Dear Father! “'George Washington was the Father of His Country.” “He was,” answered Senator Sor- ghum. “But the assertion of paren- tal authority is a proposition that gets harder every da So Passes Glory. How oft a very splendid bluff Turns out to be a dummy King Tut appeared the real stufl- And now he’s just a mummy. Jud Tunkins says he has read a lot of investigations that don't do much except leave him free to suspect the worst. Compliment Questjoned. “The boys in Crimson Gulch have nominated you for sheriff.” “Yep,” answered Cactus Joe. ““That shows you are popular.” “I dunno. Around here a sherift gets shot at oftener than anybody else in the State.” Going Some. The wicked flee when none pursues; The righteous join the race, To dance the Charleston or Blues— And it's an awful pace! the “When Moses handed down de Ten Commandments,” sald Uncle Eben, “he made a great record as the leadin' law expert dat was satisfled to work hard wifout sendin’ nobody a bill."” Motors and Horse Sense. From the Los Angeles Times. Not only has the motor car super- seded the horse, but for a lot of drivers it seems to have banished horse sense also. S A Plutocratic Plural. From the Greensboro Dally Record. The price of meal is putting on as many airs as if the word were plural nowldAyl. Another Celebrity. From the Albany Knickerbocker Press. What do you know about Kansas City, except that it's the town Marion Talley comes from? Well, there's Jim Another Screen Artist. From the New Orleans Times-Picayune. We sce the inventor of the smoke screen is dead, and, remarkuble 1o be Mrs. Hennessy, her hands red from hot soapsuds and her eyes from Wweeping, clumped into Mary Roque's office, where she found that dainty creature solemnly drying a huge plle of nickels on a towel. Mary looked at the woman critical- ly. She had mused over the theft for a moment, since recovering her colns, and had thought that perhaps she was wrong in not threatening the charwoman with arrest. “What have you got against me, Mrs. Hennessy?" asked Mary, drop- ping into the vernacular. “Why did you steal my money?" “'Oh, don’t say that, don't say that!" moaned the woman. “Well, why did you take all these nickels, then?” Mary modifled. “You've got such good clothes—-"" “Why penalize me for that?” “Well, you see it was this way— you got so much, an’ I got so little, an’ you didn't seem to want them nickels, you just let them lay around on the floor, an’ I thought you wouldn't miss 'em. maybe—-" “You might have left me at least one,” broke in Mary, gently. “These are not ordinary nickels, you know, Mrs. Hennessy. The woman smile. “T know they ain't, miss; that was the reason I kinda thought you wouldn’'t care much. I just thought vas o sort of a—sort of a—" managed a half- “‘Oh, admit it, Mrs. Hennessy. But, still, that wasn't any business of yours, was it?" “No, m'am.” “Well, don't take them again.” Before heaven, T won't!” said Mrs. Hennessy, with great conviction. * K ok & She looked with sudden interest at the automatic virtue machine, with its two dozen pictured boxes, each la- beled with some desirable quality, each with its proper slot. “‘Mayhe I htd better buy something from that there machine of yours,” said Mrs. Hennessy, reaching into the capacious pocket of her black skirt. “What can I serve you with, Mrs. Hennessy?" courteously inquired Mary Roque. The woman stood helplessly before the big board, her eyes taking in, in turn, Honesty, Purity, Devotion, Af- fection, Love, Hope, Charity, Decency, Common Sense, Courage, Fidelity, Faithfulness, Persistency, Peace, In- tellectual Honesty, Spirituality, Kind- ness, Kindness to Animals, Smiles, Wholesome Fun, Prudence, Foresight, Proper Daring and Judgment. “I thirk,” she said finally, with a face of shame, “I'll tuke some of that first one,” and she pointed to Honesty. “A remarkably good choice, Mrs. Hennessy, grinned Mary whole- somely. ““Two nickels, please,” Mrs. Hennessy gingerly dropped two coins of the realm into the slot. They fell on the floor with a clink, one after the othergapd then lay si- lent. Mary had a ion that they had been behind there before, but did not say anything. “Now, you ought to feel better, my dear,” said Mary, engulfing her with one of her most glorious smiles. “I do, already,” said Mrs. nessy. Hen- * ok ¥ % Mary stayed at the office to write a letter, and then to sit and think awhile. It worried her to remember ‘THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. the woman's remark, “You have got such good clothes.” Suppose she had, what of it? She had earned every square inch of them. “You have got such good clothes.” 8o that was an excuse for stealing her money! ““You bave got such good clothes.” So that was an evasion for theft. “You have got such good clothes.” Oh! that was her inner resentment. “Poor woman!” sighed Mary; and then to herself: “What do you know about the inner resentment of the poor? To such a one you are a wasteful creature, with your preclous virtue machine, which seems to work up strange lack of virtue—'" Mary broke off her thoughts, like a stick of peppermint candy. She began to sweep the pile of nickels into a Boston bag, which shortly was filled to overflowing. The thing was heavy, but Mary was no weakling. She turned machine, What did she stand in need of? Mary hesitated, undecided between Kindness, and Kindness to Animals, each priced at one nickel. Then she dropped her coin into the former slot, reached behind, plucked forth the three coins she found there, two of them contributed by Mrs. Hennessy, and put them into the bag with the others. and confronted her * E Kk It was quite dark when Mary came to Mrs. Hennessy's apartment, in another section of town. She crept up the rickety stairs. The hall was dark, with a darkness Mary Roque did not like. There was a musty smell in the air and no win- dows open anywhere. Mary knocked at a door facing the steps. The flimsy panel finally opened. Miss Roque!” Mrs. Hennessy! May I come in’ Mary eased herself through the opan- ing. The charwoman shut the door and then faced the intruder. “What you want?” she growled, pleking up & sharp meat knife from & table. Mary felt her good resolu- tions wavering. She wished she had put in five nickels for a plate of Cour age. She looked around. RBeneath the bed was an empty milk bottle and a portion of a loaf of bread. Soiled clothes were lying around everywhere. The flickering gaslizht showed dirty window panes, a broken chair, the unpainted table. That was all Mary shivere What you w: Hennessy. brought you those nickels, id 'y calmly, showing her the bag. thought perhaps after all you might need them. nt?"” reiterated Mrs. d forgive me!” breathed Mrs. Hennessy, dropping her knife. “I thought you was going to arrest me.” “You are very poor?” inquired , poor, and worse." Worse?" “Yes, alone, miss.” “Won't you take these nickel: asked Mary, with a royal pity that became her. “If you want me to, miss.” And Mrs. Hennessy accepted the heavy bag of coins with trembling hands. She started to weep. “Don’t cry, Mrs. Hennessy," said Mary. “I—I don't deserve—" “No one does, Mrs. Hennessy,” said Mary Roque. BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. Russia is ready to recognize all her debts to America—"in principle’— hence she wonders why the United States still hesitates about recognizing the Soviet government. That is what the Soviet foreign minister, Tchitch- erin, asked recently. And he added: “We attach the greatest importance to our economic relations with the United States, and these are only ca- pable of development if diplomatic re- lations between the two countries are restored.” He explained that his “government was willing to arrive at an adjustment of the pre-war debt as well as the Kerensky loan.” But that is “in principle” only—not gold. The United States Government is hoping, as a condition precedent to restoration of diplomatic relations, that Soviet “principl may be re- duced to a gold standard, for Russia owes our Government $187,000,000, with more than a decade of accrued in: terest, a total exceeding a quarter of a billion gold dollars; also she owes private American holders of bonds about $86,000,000 and interest, and American ~citizens, whose property has been confiscated, In excess of $400,000,000. It will take more than a billion gold dollars, besides Soviet “principles, as recognized by the Bolsheviks, to square the account. * K X X In a recent article by Christian Rakovsky, Soviet Ambassador to France, the writer appealed for the opening of foreign credits to stimulate Russian industries, arguing: In any case, it is a great mistake to believe that Russia hus any more need of foreign capital than foreign industry f{tsell has need of raw mate- rial and Russian orders.” Ambassador Rakovsky protests that the Soviets have no desire to interfere with the home affairs of foreign gov- ernments, and that all propaganda of world revolution in the early days of Bolshevism was due to overenthu- siasm of the Soviets, and should not be confused with today's peaceful n- tent. He adds a claim that the Soviet revolution was a protest against war, and that although the nmew economic policy inaugurated by Lenin permits private enterprises, the co-operative, state-controlled businesses are out- rivaling all such private concerns—a statement flatly contradicted by the highest authorities among foreign observers. The state monopolies smother private competition on every hand, says an American observer, who is in a position to check such matters without bias. * ¥ ¥ K In the pioneer days of Sovietism, the government conflscated the agri- cultural products, leaving to the farmers only enough for self-suste- nance. The peasants thereupon, find- ing no reward for industry, ceased to grow a surplus. Under the N. E. P. the peasants were released to sell their crops. In an analysis of the Rakovsky article by Walter Duranty, a cor- respondent from Russia, who is now in America, the writer says: “The rulers of Russia have little or no money available for buying either foreign goods or foreign ma- chines, except that which comes from the sale of agricultural products, or, in other words, from the peasants. But, as matters now stand, the peasants won't part with their products unless they get cheap goods. And their r\ll;rfl 3!}'! mve“tgen; cheap goods unless the peasan! rst part with their agricultural products. The result is a deadlock which can only be brokzx by the purchase abroad both of goods and m money—that is, on qr it for extension of credit, to stimulate a buying market preserve hungry ever engage starving $21,000,000. Russians at a cost of * %k % The Soviets have suffered dissension within their own ranks. Upon the death of Dictator Lenin, his power was taken over by a triumvirate— Kaminieff, Zenoviev and Stallin. Trotsky,, who had stood closest to Lenin, was deprived of his command of the military and sent into banish- ment, under pretense that his health required a rest. He was not expelled from the supreme council, called the Political Bureau, which has power of veto over all other functions of the government, but that leniency was due to the support af the moderate, Stallin. Within the past year the triumvirate has been abolished, and Stallin, as secretary general of the Political Bureau, is highest in Rus- sian power. Through him Trots has returned to power and is now in charge of all industrial concessions. In a speech to the heads of several enterprises a few days ago he de- nounced their inefficiency and dishon- esty. Matches, he gaid, sold in boxes supposed to hold 60 counted only 656. He declared: “I am tired of matches that almost strike, of pencils that almost write and knives that almost cut. Unless quality of production is radically im- proved, some of you fellows are go- ing to be ‘almost’ dead.” That his threat was more than rhetoric is Indicated by his own ar- ticle published last December, in which he boasted: “In Russia, officials unfaithful to their duty are punished by death. The other day we hanged by the neck 12 grafters. In England such men are remembered by the King on the occasion of his birthday; in Amer- fca they are considered great states- men, and if they die they are given sumptuous burials, while in France they erect statues to the memory. That is where we Bolsheviks are ‘cruel and ruthless.’ When we enact a law it is not intended as a joke. We do not allow some distant tri- bunal to set aside the express will of the masses because the printer has omitted a comma or semicolon.” * ok k% The proletariat—working class of the cities and villages—have one rep- resentative in the law-making Con- gress for each 25,000 population; the peasants—illiterate and ignorant of statecraft—have one for each 125,000; the bourgeoisie—the intelligentsia, the former property owners and business Until recently all prosperous peasants were congidered parasites—called “Kulaks" men—have ho representatives. ‘Trotsky, dor Rakovsky: capitalistic foundations? not. “Can the European proletariat in the near future make use of the shaki- ness of the European economic con- ditions and the crisis in the bourgeols state for the revolutionary movement? That, and only that, is the question. * ok k% Stallin, the new Lenin in power, ad- dressing the Fourteenth Congress of the Communist party, as reported in the Moscow Izvestia, December 20, 1925, thus contradicted Tchitcherin's allegation that the Soviets would rec- ognize Russian debts “in principle.” Stallin said: “‘The; that our -war jmdebt- hines without | edness to Ex fa 000 lw be taxed and persecuted. 1in all, thus, [lleve, he was not a United snmln is recalled tbat in 1921, under tholless than 7,000,000,000 rubles.” (Copyright 1636, by Paul V. OColitns THE NORTH WINDOW By Leila Mechlin. There was no art on the program of the Neational Education Associa- tion's meeting of superintendents and others, held In this city this week, but last year, when the meeting was held in Cincinnati, art was given a promi- nence never before attempted by the department of superintendence. There the entire last day of the meeting was given to the consideration of the edu- cational mission of beauty, and so, to use the words of one of the foremost of the superintendents, “the masters were sent back to work with a fresh flq'hula upon the great gospel of ‘What a pity that the experiment was not repeated'—for, after all, art cannot be divorced from life or life from art, and as Supt. McAndrew of Chicago has said, “Iit seems logical to argue that a Nation founded to se- cure to man life, liberty and the pur- suit of happiness, a Nation proposing to secure this, as the founders pro- posed, through public education, must make much of art in its schools.” * ok ok k Undoubtedly the habit is growing, the idea taking root. Several of the States now employ a State director of art. It is the business of these men to see that the subject is prop- erly taught in the public schools, taught in such wise that the children are better equipped for life’s demands, more certain to win success, at least, in the pursuit of happiness. Despite the fact that art had no place on the great comprehensive pro- gram of the meeting fust closed, mor attention s being given to art in the schools of the United States today than at any time in our country’s his tory. More attention is being paid to the designing of our schoolhouses, not merely from the standpoint of utility Q. At dinners attended by the Pres- ident and Mrs, Coolidge do the ladies wear gloves at the table?—F. A. M. A. The White House says that at formal dinners given by the President and Mrs. Coolidge or for them the ladies wear long white kid gloves to the table. The gloves are then re- moved or the hand portions turned in. Mrs. Coolidge removes her gloves en- tirely. Q. M. L. A. The Rev. Wallace Nutting is still living. Q. What is the story of the ex- pression “It's a long time between drinks”?—R. R. L A. The saying, d the Governor of North Carolina to the Governor of South Carolina, ‘It's a long time be- tween drinks,’” concerns the Governor of South Carolina who required the return of u fugitive slave. The Governor of North Carolina hesitated because of powerful friends of the fu- gltive. He gave a banquet to his official brother. The Governor of South Carolina in a speech demanded the return of the slave and ended with “What do you say?” The Governor of North Carolina replied as above. Q. What is intuition?—A, L. Y. A. Intuition is applied to direct or immediate knowing, whether mystical, perceptional, intellectual or moral, and is, in general, contrasted with speculative, reflective or medlate knowing. Q. Were the mound builders the ancestors of the Indlans?—G.O.J. A. The mound bullders are gener- ally believed to have been a race sep- e and distinct from the Indians, Is Wallace Nutting alive?— and sanitation but from that o ol ape ai o bewuty. The subject of the decoration [ fnee, (here ate differences in - the of th schoolrooms is also engaging reveili—ap. attention. It is the declared purposs| . Why does coal turn to clink- of the great natlonal organization, the American Federation of Arts, to in- duce the placement of a work of art In every schooicvom (n the iand, Chicago an active public school a socletv has done much to accomplish this end. Much has been accomplished through the fnstrumentality of what might be called missionaries in this field. Lorado Taft, the sculptor, has been indefati- gable in his efforts to bring art to the people and In particular to the teach ers in the schools, and, through them, to the school children. Henry Turner Bailey, for many vears editor of the School Arts Magazine and now head of the Cleveland School of Art, {s another who has converted many through his eloquence. The late James Parton Haney, director of art in the public schools of New York, was another whose name should not be forgotten because of the service he rendered in the rreat metropolis, not only teaching the teachers, but bringing the school children in direct contact with the art of the museum, the sources of art in spiration within thelr reach. These are a few who are known to ms All over thls great land there are to day teachers in the schools who, with a large consciousness of beauty und the significance of art, are spreading. through their own enthusiasm and efforts, like appreciation. The movement is not confined to the East but is steadily gaining strength in the West, and it is taking to the children there a knowledge which they can only have in such wise. Said a lady from New Mexica to the writer not long ago: “You not imagine what pictures anc study mean where no great w. art are to be seen, and comparatively few dare hope to ever visit the great but galleries, not of the Old World, even of our own Eastern States. the vearning for beauty is as among these people—in fact, perhaps more insistent, than among those who have had larger opportunity. * k k¥ It must be understood, however, that the art to which reference is made is essentially and unmistakably interpretive of beauty. The French make ‘this evident through their phraseology. They do not speak do we, of the fine arts, but of the beau tiful arts. Beauty in art, to be sure, is largely derived from beauty of ex pression, but beauty there must be it the work is to endure. This desire to perpetuate beauty was the motive of the great masters Whistler once said, “Art is the sci- ence of the beautiful,” adding: “The parts of nature bear a certain rela- tion to each other, and this relation is as true as a mathematical fact. * * * Nature contains the elements in color and form of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. But the artist is born to pick and choose and group with sclence these elements, that the result may be beautiful.” Galsworthy goes so far as to say that “only beauty in the largest sense of the word, the yearn ing for it, the contemplation of has civilized mankind.” And the fault of all this he declares to be that ‘“beauty, the knowledge and the love of it, has been kept as a preserve for the few, as the posses castle or a clique.” He insists that addressing a meeting of textile workers last January 21, con- tradicted the peace talk of Ambassa- “Can the European bourgeoisie hold back the revolution and re-establish economic progress-on No, it can- ess to Europe equals 6,000,000,000 rubles; the war indebtedness is cal- The correspondent thereupon argues culated at 7,000,000,000 odd rubles— 13,000,000,000 rubles. in Russia and to|Counting the fall of exchange and de- the peace of the world|ducting from this the share of the gainst hungry Russians, for only the |border states, then it comes out that in revolutions.| we owe Western European states not an immensely larger proportion of than ma suppose are C: appreciating beauty, and he urges t all be given a chance to do so. sets up the pursuit of beauty as national ideal, and commends it to all, not merely to educators. He does not foolishly suppose, however, that it I8 an easy task. “Idlers need not apply,” he says. “Consider the rank growth which must be cut down, the stumps and roots to be burned out and cleared, the swamps to be drained before even the foundations can b laid.” But how great the opportunit how certain the reward!—for finaliy we shall see rise “a fair edifice of human life upon this earth.” * ok ok % In his most recent novel, “One In- creasing Purpose,” Hutchinson has Sim Paris declare that the lack of understanding between capital and labor rests on the fact that neither regards the other as human. It is likewise the lack of an appreciation of the human quality of art that bars its way to common understanding. There are those who overestimate the significance of pure technical achieve. ment; there are others who stress merely the subjective side. Neither is right. Technique signifies a means to an end, subject merely as the substance of things unseen. Unrelated to life, art would cease to be. “What is the use of us—what is the ‘meaning of us?” asked William J. Locke one time as an artist ad- dressing artists, for this great Eng- lish novelist, it will remembered, 1s also an architect and was for many years secretary of one of the leading socleties of architects in England. “Are we, or are we not, a vital prin- ciple in the motives of a world grop- ing its way through chaos to the light?” Answering himself, he re- plied: *“Man does not live by bread alone. The spirit must have food or it perishes. Ever since the world be gan, mankind has craved some revela- tion of beauty; he has demanded that the life around him should be inter- preted in terms of beauty. There- fore the artist matters so much in the continuous regeneration of the world that every man living today who practices any form of art should take counsel with himself and search out his own sincerity. He is dealing not with words or b{lckl or pigments or vibrating catgut. He is dealing with the destinies of mankind.” * oE ok % What was it that most attracted young Michael Pupin, the Serbian im- migrant, who, having educated him- self in America, was continuing his education at Cambridge? The stained- glass windows in King's Chapel, which, through thelr art, lent color and beauty to that house of worship er: J. R. W. A. Clinkers are caused from the fire getting too hot. The only way to overcome this is to carry a deep fire bed and not allow the fire to get oo hot. Carry large fire at low tem- perature instead of emall fire at high temperature and regulate the tempera ture by reducing the draft. Q. What is the difference between the marine insurance terms *“With particular average” and ‘‘Free from varticular average”?—H. E. A. Marine insurance is determined on 80 per cent average loss. It exempts an insurance company from the payment of any partial loss or particular average insurance which exceeds a certain per cent of the value of the property. The particular aver- age clause is sometimes applied to the value of each parcel or package or serles of parcels and packages, accord- ing to invoice numbers. The differ- ence between “With particular aver- age” and “Free from particular aver- ge’; is that the former has a particu- average and the latter has not. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. How old was Marie Antoinette Q. A. She was almost 45 vears old. She was imprisoned for more than u year kefore her execution. Q. How much spraying material would it take to spray 1 ton of toma- toes?—C. W. B. A. The Bureau of Plant Industry sys that allowing 10 tons of tomas toes to the acre, it will take approxi- nately 30 to 40 gallons of Bordeausx mixture to spray one-tenth of an acre, or 2,000 to 3,000 plants, Q. What is the average daily growth of & bamboo tree?—p, 13, A. The Bureau of Forelgn Seed and Plant Introduction says that the aver. age daily growth of the bamboo tres 1s 12 inches. The fastest growth is from 21; feet to 3 feet a day, Q. When was the Sketch Boolk wri:- ten?—W. O. H. A. Washington Irving wrote th Sketch Book during the years 1819. 1820. Q. What 1s an encyelical?—c. T. A. An encyclical is a circular letter and in an eccleslastical sense means a letter addressed by the Pope to all the bishops in the world, who are in communication with him. Q. Why are I. W. W.'s called Wob blies?—A. M. E. A. Varifous explanations have beer offered. A plausible one that Chinese cook in an I. W. W. cuan was asked what he was. t E pronounce the I. W. W. cle made his sympathies plain b; “I Wobbly Woob! Q. What course doe. bill have 1o take to become a Federal liw?’—C. H. B. A. 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Just inclose a 2-cent stamp to cov: the return postage, Address The Evening Star Informa- tion Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Di- rector, Washington, D. Editors See Only Humorous Side of Bigelow-Wells Tilt Not since the threats of a duel that followed Chimmie Fadden's facetious picture of Richard Harding Davis in 4 horse show box stall, says the Brookiyn Eagle, has the English- speaking world seen anything quite so funny as the hostilities between Poultney Bigelow and H. G. Wells. The famous American writer and lec- turer in a series of reminiscences safd Mr. Wells looked like “a lucky stock whereupon the British author that his American cotempo- a bore. Now it is announced Bigelow will seek $50,000 damages. “The gallant old American, who as a boy punched the head of young Wil- thelm Hohenzollern and afterward ran up against Theodore Roosevelt on [’51131:)B Canal conditions,” is advised by the Brooklyn paper to be calm. “Our great intellects should take as thelr motto, ‘“The shallows murmur, but the deeps are dumb.’ Knowing instinc- " continues the Eagle, “that they belong to the deeps, they should make quarreling taboo. Let us ex- press the humble hope that the Bige- low-Wells slander suit will never come to trial. The burden of proof is on Wells. And how could he ever offer demonstrative evidence that the scin- tillating Bigelow is a bore?” * % * % “Wells and Bigelow have made a start which can only be called fair-to- middling,” declares the Philadelphia Public Ledger. “It might develop into a battle of clever wits that would be worth the price of admission. But so far it promises {ll. At any rate, thelr start leaves a great deal to be desired. Where are the quips and auiddities, the sallies and the sallent repartee that the world has been given to expect from such as they? Cun it be that they actually take themselves seriously? If -so, it is all off, so far as the gate is concerned.” The Fargo Forum, however, finds that “great writers very frequently make them- selves ridiculous and always over nothing."” “We do not envy the British jurist who will be forced to hear the testi- mony," remarks the Hartford Times. ‘There are some situations in which the judicial solemnity would be tempt- od beyond its strength. What the Jegal standing of the word ‘bore’ is we have no knowledge, and leave Mr. Poultney Bigelow to his interpreta- tion, but it would seem difficult to make it a tort for Mr. Wells to be bored by Mr. Bigelow, unless it is an injury for Mr. Bigelow to bore Mr. Wells. And, after all, Mr. Bigelow did say that he mistook Mr. Wells for a stock broker. At this distance the sanest thing to do would seem to be the exchange of $50,000 and an agree- ment to keep the rivalries of literary lines out of courts.’ * k k% The Omaha World-Herald laments that “the famous hands across the sca seem to be engaged for the mo- ment in a good deal of pinching, gouging and hairpulling” and sug- gests that “apparently all the trouble s due to a lack of understanding. What we need for a perpetuation of this interoceanic bhandclasp is more of a meeting of minds.” “The suit has all the appearance of a cheery jest,” declares the Baltimore Sun, which asks: “Why should Mr. Bigelow really fear that his after- dinner oratory will be less popular now that Mr. Wells has called him a bore? The fact that he dug into the Britisher so hard in his published reminiscences proves that he was not bothered about what Wells' friends may think. Of course, he is a bore from H. G.'s standpoint. The only way in which Wells could have harm- ed his standing with the anti-Wellsian crowd would have been to call him an and made it a place of inspiration to the young mathematician. This is a day of revolution, of anarchy, and the tendency is to dis- count that which has gone before; but in art, as in other realms, we have a tradition, a great tradition, a tradition of beauty and nobility which is precious. This tradition may well be handed on to our school children, and if handed on will mean not only an_extension of privilege but an en- zichment of our national life. earnest seeker or a pr or something like % % Quoting the Bigelow am I gomng to make a after-dinner speaker if I bore?” the Asbury Park “Search us! But, on th suppose Mr. Wells rises how he is going to make an idealistic author wher scribed as looking and talking like ‘prosperous sto broker genial Mr. Bigel ly to ggt along their dwn lines th each other in public quer H livin Is it really a p asks the Springfield U man describes another mien and carriage of prospered on the stock market odium attaches to the designations The air of success, of financial we being, seems to be one that rather than scorned place, 1s it libelous to man is a bore? The there are bore: eral, it would seem, weight of infamy." But the Boston Tran: “each man com the other’s accoun “What is the use man if one cannot make a coveted re bores and The term is too ge carry t to zation stic Ao “A novelist who is kuown to have made himself a millionaire and who can command any sum in reason for remarks the New his writings World, “can assuredly chat of the ject without danger of heing acc of vanity. And why should Mr low be =0 angry because Weils him a bore? Let him I Outline of History’ good company he i5 in. Bless 3 Bigelow. half the great men of hi have been called names Ly ¢ this gquarrel not erious as it looks. In this tame Mterary age a little valorou - ding is a refreshing speetacle’ The New London Day concludes that “the suit may result in som: ort of a decision giving anybody the right to call anybody else any kind of a name he wants—barring probably lh‘(z conventional Slurs on one'’s ancestry. Not So Black as Painted. From the Pittsburgh Sun. During the recent strike Eastern cities were inclined to paragingly of the fuel that them out in a pinch. They vere In their comments on bituminous coal. But why so distinguish it? Let other varieties take a qualifying word as charcoal, cannel coal, anthra- cite coal, but the softer mineral is Just coal and was so known centuries befores its rivals were in use. Philadelphians should not forget that in 1912 a man trying to sl a load of anthracite there was thrcat ened with arrest on a charge of pretense. The citizens nted coal. In 1803 200 tons ha to the same city, but, be sold, was thrown aw still e ler, in 1778, anthracite had been tried at some forges along the Delawaro and was found to be a stome tb “would glow but npt-burn.” It w first discovered, according to Winsor, when 'two hunters, havin started a wood fire on what they b lieved to be a black rock, were sur prised to find the rock on fire. Josiah White and Erskine Hazard wire makers, tried a load of hard coal at their works at the falls of the Schuylkill in 1912, but found that it did not give the necessary heat. One of the partners, more persistent, or- dered a second load and after trying all night to make it burn closed the furnace doors and went home in dis- Half an hour later & workman awakened him with the announce- ment that the coals were all red hot. That was the beginning of anthracite as a commodity. Soft coal is not as black as it is painted. When used in poorly adapt- ed furnaces or stoves as a substitute for the harder variety it may have its faults. But with a fireplacs, a hearth, a well ventilated room and flue that draws well it is at its best. An open grate, armchair, a pipe real d heen sent it could not n or a book—or both of them—and the longest Winter evening passes joys ously. i