Evening Star Newspaper, March 13, 1926, Page 6

THE EVENING With Sunday rning Edition, — WASHINGTON, D. C. BATURDAY. ... . March 13, 1026 -— . - AHEODORE W. NOY Editor e WheEvening Star Newsp: 1 TAR work, and a bl 1s about to be intro- duced at Albany for & like apprepria- tion o start New York's participation. The approved plan for the Hudson ver viaduct calls for a suspension bridge with a river span 3,500 feet long, or twlce the length of the longest span In the new bridge over the Dela {ware between Philadelphla and Cam Rustness ON ° ki|~ 1. This span will Le carried by :\'pf\“{',::'41“;‘1.4‘.(‘;’;‘,1‘ A ranite and steel towers rising €50 et G Tower Butlime eat alove high-water mark, or Wuropean Oftice 14 egont =1 LoBdUN. 45 oot higher than the Washington The Eve e edition. 8 olty at b A . nay. be Salephone Main 3000. Coilection 18 made carrier at the end of each montl Rate hy Mail—Payabl Maryland and Vil i in Advance. All Other State: unday . and "land 230 feet high | proaches on both sides it is necessary ' lend of The roadway is to be lo. ited about 5 feet above the river. will through each of the towers heneath an arch 95 feet wide Monument. In order to cbtain the proper ap- to locate the bridge at the northern Manhattan Island. on which there 1s high land. It will connect there with the palisudes on the New the floor. In the heat of debate some- times the courtesies of parliamentary order are ignored. In the Houso of Representatives ft is not an infrequent experience to see the official reperters leave thelr places and station themmselves closa te the speakers, and in case of & lively col- loquy to gei between the contestants. In the Sanate, however, this is net dune, The officlal reporters remain at thefr atatlons, and that is why even in the smalier chamber it is necessary that all remarks be addressed to the chair, S In any case 1t is interesting to note that the Vice President Is invoking an ancient rule of procedure in erder to get results, = oo All's Well That Ends Well. The Ubrary of The Evening Star contalus several books on quotstions. A mearch through them, however, falls Jersey shore. 1t would uppear that this great proj- ect {8 NOW in the way at Inst of ac- Local Welfaze Legislation. ctment of the public wel. Lout to be submit- 1t for signature. is a achievement of local This measure, the result mination and re f citizens named mplishment. New York has suffercd seriously from the lack of adequate ‘ommunication with the West, A vehicular tunnel Is now in the mak- ing. but <o long has it been under con- struction that it will be outgrown by the tne it ie put in use. The Hudson River Bridge. iv estiniated, can be finished for u 1933, Tf that is mnc- complished it will be a remarkable achievement. — e Bumpy Streets. been ative re- manner to rerous in terests, It consolida co-ordi- nates three ugencies of parvision over ¢ 5 and ¥ in the District in a m r to make & more consistent ad tion of them all &nd to yinld a larger degroe of benetit | 10 the coanuni b presents v the Commis- stoners’ bourd und citizens covperat- ing with it It was no light task to frame {t in 4 manner fuctory to all concernad. The difficulties, how- and when the Bill was prosented to the last Congress » Commissioners’ {ndorsement pped that ft would he enacted preceding session. This was 4, however. At thi < 10 the effective work District committecs, the at last on its way to be- at the two 5 come u luw. It is in order to thank those citizens at the re- rs to work slation and those legislators who co-operated to the same end. Tt is espectally gratifying to find the wish of the community, which has been so clearly stated in this measure, heeded by ngress de- pite udverse efforts in behalf of other nlans, of alien origin, and it is hoped at this same spirit will eventually vrevail in Congress In effecting the enactment of a mother's aid bill ap- proved by local interests and adapted 10 local conditions instead of one that has been proposed from outside and which is not suitable to the District situation. who =o labore quest of t out this de ithfully Comm e Color Shades in the Flag. The of Fine Arts belicves a brighter blue, a Commission that be used in the American flag. The sion belleves that in recent vears there has been a departure from the shades of red and blue originally =pecified for use in the flaz, and holds that the red stripes are not now of deep enough shade, sometimes, it says, verging on pink, and that the blue is 60 dark that it might easliy be mile taken for black in some lights. There is talk that there has been a letting down in the quality of dye, and these wmatters will presen to the ‘proper authorities, Some persons have perhaps noted that there aro diverse Ehades of red and blue in the Amert fan flaz, but it ir not likely that many Persons have attached fmportance to Bhis. It would be better if the shades be gould be standardized, if the ¥ine Arts Commission thinks a liveller blue and u more zlowing red would Bo effective, its opini bt consideration 1 is deserving It may not bo possi bls to fix precisely on the shades of ked and blue u in the flag of the| American Revolution, and it may be | fhat there was no agreement in that natter among the flags. It would be possible, though. to go back to the Priginal specification by the military #nd naval authorities as to the flag thades and have the flag makers fol- fow those specifications. it would be el to fix some reasonable regulation By which the shades of colors in @merican flags, whether used officlally ®r non-officially, would ba invariable, o Ameri supremacy in business fnay be due to the fact that income $ux returns require overy citizen to Pe to rome exient an expert ac. gountant, bt e Consuiderable legal ingenuity may e bootlegging of taxable occu- be required to depri M3 advantage as a nen pation. ) A Hudson River Bridge. For many years projects have been wnder consideration for bridging the Hudson River at New York. The dif- Roulties of this work, however have up Bo the present been too great to be sur- mounted. While the East River has been bridged at several points the ¥udson presents a different problem. A longer span is necessary, with an equal clearance ahbove water level. Puring the period of waiting for a viaduet tubes hive been driven under the river for transportation purposes rnd have proved of the greatest value in moving the traflic in.and out of New York from and to the South and West. Now it would appear that success is i sight for a Hudson River span. An commiittee representing both rik and New Jersey has bkeld a meeting and approved a report from a wroup of engineers on a plan for a 530,000,000 E construction to link the Port Washington section of Manhattan with Fort lLee, N. J. The State of New Jersey has already appropriated $8,000,000 for starting the prel Washington motorists are protesting aga the bumpy condition of street puvement in ail sections of the elty, and are wging that an immediate pro- gram be formulated by District offi. clals so that repairs can be made be. fore the situation becomes worse, Al- though Washington, so far, has had a comparatively mild Winter, with none of the heavy snowfalls that have maried previous Winter months, the reets are now deeply pitted and un- sven and are in urgent nesd of patch- ing. Crews of the muaintenance depart- ment of the District Street and High- wiy Department have been at work for some time endeavoring to level off the thoroughfares, but due to the very considerable amount of patching to be done and the small number of labor- ers it is not surprising that little prog- ress appears to have been made. Bumpy streets, with unavoidable Loles into which the motorist feels himself drop with a thud, are not con- lucive to smooth-running trafic. There are many streets in this condition, and this fact may contribute in a small degree to some of the traffic difficul- ties under which Washington is labor- inz. On many occaslons collisions Lave been caused by motorists turning out suddenly in attempting to avoid some particularly rough spot, and it is a not infrequent occurrence for the driver temporarily to lose control of his machine after being jolted nearly out of the car by a bad bump. If funds are available, and they chould be under the provision of the pasoline tax which turns revenue back into the street maintenance and construction fund, a comprehensive program should be carried out to bring the streets of the National Capital back to normalcy. The longer they are allowed to stay in their present condition the bigger will be the job of repairing them as each automobile does its part in spreading it. There fore remedial measures should be be- gun at the earliest possible moment, s0 that local users of the streets can again look with equanimity to the prospect of driving. ——————————— Prof. Trotsky as the head of a school of journalism will be able to instruct Russian youth in the meth- ods of propaganda. But he lacks basic experience and would never be able to tell a cub reporter how to describe a fire or a motor collision. —— 4 e Prohibition has put an end to the corner saloou. Fvenfually it may exert cnouszh influenca to compel tuilors to make trousers without hip pockets. e Reduction of taxes is the most con- really over and done Worl with. [E——— Addressing the Chair. Vice President Dawes, in his desire to make the Senate o working body, instead of, as it often tends to be, an arena of mere debate, has proposed the amendment of tho rules. To the same end he now finds it necessary to fnvoke an old rule of procedure. Y terday in the course of a debate which, by the way, is not reported in the current issue of the Congressional Record, owing to the fact that the speech in progress “will bo published entire after it shall ba concluded,” one of the Senators, interrupting the speaker, faced the latter and in doing so turned his back toward the chair Thereupon the Vice President admon- ished him to “face the chair,” He did £0 momentarily and continued his di rect address to the Senator who had the floor. Winally, after repeated admont- tions by the Vice President, he com- promised by standing on the bias, greatly to the amusement of the gal- leries and somewhat to that of the Senate. Later the Vice President wnado a statement “in behalf of the very able and conscientious reporters of the Senate,”” If Senators do not di- rectly address the chair, he said, the reporters will not be able to report them properly. But there is more in the rule than mere convenience of stenographic re- porters. Under the parliamentary rule all remarks are addressed to the pre- siding officer. No colloquies directly between members are in theory per- mitted. All references to one another ere made in the third person. By im- memorial usage the chair, Speaker or Vice President, is the medium of com- munication, the repository of all speech, the universal ear. This rule is frequently disregarded. Although through long training mem- bers of the House and Senate avoid the second personal pronoun in the main, occaslonally they lapse in this respect.’ Frequently they forget to ask permission to Interject their own into those of the ocoupant of to disclome one that is wanted in con- nectlon with & recent occurrence in Washingten baving to do with the misuse of the American flag. There may net be any, in fact, but the sentl- ment Is something to this effect: A faul' first freely acknowledged and then corrected Is an asset rather than A labtlit Perhaps Shakespeare's wonds, “Condemin thoe fault and not the actor of 1t,” are applicable also. A local restaurant proprietor was airested on ' charge of misnae of the American fluz during a parade in which he had entered a decorated tiout and posted collateral of fifty dol- tars, which, upon & full explunation ol circumstances, was returned to him. He showed no resentment; he went even further and asked co-opera- tion of the press in bruadcasting a public apology. Aany persons read the admission of his fuuit who never heard of the original offense. This Washingtonlan tought for nine months with the American Army in France. That makes bLim & pretty good Amerfcan. Hiv misuse of the flag, far from being deliberate or actu- ated by red, pink, or e the green hue of jealousy, was unintentional; on the contrary. he thought he was doing a proper thing. Ile was glad to learn better. How much less is thix man's “fuult” now than that of the man who, know- ing better, falls to uncover when Old Glory pusses by! There are literally thousands of him. How much better is he than the man who uncovers grudgingly at the suggestion or de- mand of fellow spectators! How m.ch better is he than the man who feels disrespect for the banner, but is afraid to show ft' He feels no disrespect and never felt aj He was perfectly willing to pay fifty dollars for an item <o of puatriotic education, and this fifty would have been a good, permanent investment, to be trans- mitted to his children, if he has any. It has been said that Americans feel that they are practically never wrong and refuse to admit it on the few occs sions when they are. This Washing. tonian showed up some Americans when he went to the war. He has shown up some since then. Hs is, 1o use America’s highest compliment, “all right.” ———— A German chemist claims to have discovered a new motor fuel. The hope will be general that it may prove more efficacious in engine trou. ble than turtle serum was in pneu- monia. ————ro Assertions by Senator Cole Blease that liquor can be purchased in the Capitol tend to confirm a suspiclon that the average bootlegger is a tact- less and maladroit person. ————— The weather prophet who forecast the coldest Winter on record is en- titled to littie credit compared to the the one who announced the coldest Spring. ———at. The former kaiser gathers up his astates, and is apparently content to forget possibilities of restoring mon- archy while walting for a real estate boom. ————t SHOOTING STARS. LY PHILANDER JOHNSOXN. Shanshan. My good friend Mister Shanahan, Who kept the old shabeen — He tells about an ancient plan Convivial and serene. And oh, it is a fearful thing, With prohibition strong, To find that my affections cling To ways 8o very wrong! Of “Mornin's Mornin's” he'll recite And comrades gayly met, Untll each eye is sparkling bright With dewdrops of regret. "{'ho Agents would account him now A willful, wicked man— And yet, my heart goes out, I vow, To dear old Shanahan’ Monologue. “You don't introduce as many hu- morous references In your speeches as you used to.” answered Senator Sorghum. “I got tired of having admiring con- stituents asking me why T wasted my time in politics instead of drawing a big salary in vaudeville.” ¥ The Wise Orutor. He did not seek for glory With intellectual show. He told a funny story - Across the radlo. Jud Tunkins says he's a law-respect- ing citizen. The only trouble is that there gre so many laws he can’t re. meimber ‘em all. Promotion. “Do you think you can make a suc- cess of agriculture?” “Yes,” answered Farmer Corntossel. “By-hangin’ on till suburban develop- ment comes our way, mebbe I'll git to be a realtor.” Martyrdom. The kindest heart gets in all wrong. The early robin sings a song Announcing Spring is on the way— And so contracts pneu-mon-i-a. *“‘One o’ de people dat slews down de factory,” said Uncle Eben, “is de man dat tries to make loud talk take de In order to be mean, one does not | have to be “the meanest man in the world,” tbat legendary creature that comes to light, now and then, in the news columns of the papers. The lamentable history of Pierre Cadoudle ought to convince even the most obdurate of the fact that one may be mean in a little way, and yet still be a shining light unto all those lingering in darkness. A little meanness, day by day, if persisted in, will have much the same effect, at the end of the first hundred vears, as that negotiated by the man who lumped his meanness into some one great injustice. Those thinking of taking up the practice of meanness ought not to overlook this slmple fact. By putting this theory into operation, the devotee of Meaness as o Fine Art may safely practice his professton. To be mean in one tremendous ac- tion often takes courage and other -lllulr‘lbl;‘ qluullliex that no one aspir- 1€ to distinction in meanness ought seek. " to To be meun, in the true seuse, is to be a DIt sly, a bit sneaking, so that the anclent sense of the term is best kegt. '0 be truly mean. one ought to model himself after Pierre Cadoudle. * ok ok ¥ This sublime man, after Le reached the so-called years of discretion, never escended to”uny action or word un- becoming o mean man. His best munners were nastily nice. and his greatest praise <o filled with sneers that 1o one could disentangle them. Such was Vic ioudle in the vears of his prime. From sun-up to sundown he consciously und uncon- sciously sought opportunities to prac- :(iu; !ours Art, wnd, wince the world is number of things, v had to seck very far. e young friend, for example, in the pride of intellectuality, -n-{‘ I-ls'l‘v‘?\f Dossassion, ¢ to Mr. Cadoudle to display o fancy new mechanical pencil of the very latest type. It was, in truth, a lordly writing implement. Tt took milllons of years to evolve that peni-fl. “Do ‘vou think 1 will be able to write better with this fancy pencfl?” asked the young i “'You couldn't w Pierre, Why didu't he sax write better'? In the reply of Pierre (adoudle is demonstrated the quintessence of meanness, both wpplied and pure. To convey a slight sneer, under the cover of the double meaning, is to merit the master's degree. When some one, in the innocence of youth and experience, comes to the master with something with which he is well pleased, the proper is to look absolutely unin quickly think of some remark will cause a laugh at the ex d then ‘“‘get it « quickly as possible. Having demolished the ener expeditiously the Meun Master » at once to his ment when interrupted it matter to him that he mu been shown or told something new? o worse,” replied “You could not BY PAUL When the Senate ruied a rew aays ago that s certain appeal from Hal (which Senator King of Utah posed to read) wus out of because all our foreign relations must pass through the D'resident via the Department of State. the suppression plgued curiosity. e appeal was referred to the committee on foreign affairs, which action took it off the floor of the Senat According to the Haitians and their champions, the appeal, in the form of a letter ddressed to Senator King, disclosed a chapter of Amer- foan imperialism The writer of the appeal, Percival Thoby of Haiti, states: “The 61 committee of the Union Patriotique have intrusted me with the mission to lay thede facts before you: ’ “The indictment of present condi- tlons in the Haitian republic falls under five main heads: “1. Popular elections deferred in violation of the econstitution, and election of the Haitian President by the unlawfully constituted council of 1l debt. 3. Changes in land laws, depriving peasants of their land, resulting in Increased emigration of Haitian work- ers to Cuba and elsewhere, ‘4, Increase of prostitution and so- cial ev owing to military occupa- tion. “5. secret and unlawful extension from 10 to 20 years of the treaty 1916, between the United Stat Haiti.” s and ¥ ok k¥ The Thehy appeal is a bit confusing to one mot previoucly familiar with the story of the United States rela- tions with Haiti, but the story fis given more in_ sequence by Rev. Father Raymond A. McGowan, @ho has recently returned from that conn- try, and whose facts are discussed by M. Thoby. Tather McGowan thus summarizes the history “1. Free government and civil lib- erty have been destroyed 2. The City National Bank of New York, a. Rockefeller institution, has ac- quired complete dominion over Hai- tian finances. “8. A natlon of independent farm- ers is rapidly being transformed into a_ nation of plantation laborers, and their farms are being absorbed into plantations owned by American cor- tione," Father MeGowan cites the fact an investigating committee of the United States Senate reported in 1921 that 1,600 Haitians had been killed by the United States Marines, including women and children, but the commit- ten justified the killing as “necessary to preserve order.” The Nuvy Depart- ment officlaliy stated at the same time that there had been “no unncces sary force used.” According to Father McGowan, to the Marines the rebel- lious natives are “bandits’; to tho Haitlans they are “paisiots,” fighting for their country’s independence. s ok ok ¥ Our relations with Haiti began in 1891, when our Navy sought a base on Mole St. Nicholas, which was rofused by the Haitian government, on the ground that it would impair Haitian sovereignty. Sinoe 1881, the finances of Haitl had managed by the National Bank of Haiti. The bank was re- organized in 1910 and certain French banks acquired an interest in _fit. Later, our Secretary of State, Mr. Knox, called a conference of banks in New York, at which he suggested that some American banks should be included in the Haiti bank, and, fol- lowing his advice, several New York banks bought its stock. ‘When the World War broke out, Secretary of State Bryan urged that Amarican interests should acquire 81l the European holdings In Haitian finance, and the National City Bank of New York bought the French stock and subsequently bought all American interests. It was then that the United States to Haiti that this Govern- ment take over control of all Haitian opliectips and sxpending them that THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Newness, being up and doing, being progressive, and’ totally lacking in meanness, is something to esteem as BACKGROUND OF EVENTS totally lacking in worth. So Plerre Cadaudle esteemed fit. Living in the midst of wonder Cadoudie resolutely set his fa them. . Mr. against % ¥ k % It must not be thought that our hero acted thus in the manner that one steers his automobile. The latter is an act of volition, if the rider lives o the prohibition amendment. ve Cadoudle, however, some- times, in the secret recesses of his heart, asked himself why it was that the retort discourteous always sprung to his lvs. It will be rea zed, therefore, that Cedoudle was not entirely a villain. His meanness, his best friends averred—those few that life left him —procecded rather from & critical out- 100k on the world 6f men and things. In the minds of those who disliked him (and they comprised the large majority) his perpetual meanness was not %o easily explained. not get into such habf they sald, without working one into them. ning and sin is necessary, they secretly man can attain any profession. One doe: plicatton declared, hefore any to such cminence in Without much thought, it Was claim. the very sub- rty was tender invariably touch upor Ject that the third upon? Was it at all possibie, these infmical ones asked, that a man could so unerringly leave wounds and rank- lings of the spirit behind him, unless long and assiduous study vs of wounding others? * % ¥ ¥ So we pass the early and middle nian- subject, and_come to the when the shadows deep- must for all of us, and he had ni of the hest w hood of ou end of his li ened, as the, pleasant passed him by long ago. Where other men had found taith, faith answering back to faith, he had found only dis- trust echolng buck distrust. Whers other men, lesser men, éven, had tasted of the happiness that gives & foretaste of heaven, Pierre Cadoudie ssed from bitterness to bitter- had nes: Turning and rankling his self- made barb in his victims, he had found, by the justice of 1, that the wounds in reality had been made in himself! This was the lesson it took him a but which any one, discover for himself, trouble than reading. For here, in brief, we have spread out the petty meanness of a life, in order that §t may be scan in all its enormity, nd in order that, being seen, its like be shunned. Life is so full of a number of things (as the said) that it is nothing short of ridicnlons to refuse to praise and wonder a bit now and then. To steadfastly refrain from seeking every opportunity for sneering at other: this is to travel the road of wisdom, as far as we are given to see the way. lifetime to learn reflecting, may and at no m m thus ins interest to the rican hank. 1is advice was five times rejected by Haitl. In the midst of a revolution United landed at Port au touk possession of . removed its funds, $500,000, to the wunboat, and thence posit in the National City Bank, in New York. This fied by testimony of the Sen ind ing Marine: States unt_is_veri- ger L. Farn- atlonal City investigat- ham, president of zank, before the ing committee. It s justified ‘as necessary. in order protect the stockholders, the National City Bank in wi owning the controlling interest the National Bank of Haitl. * ¥ x % In the revolution of 1915 President Sam of Haitl was killed by a mob and United States Marines took pos- session of the capital to restore or- Jer. Ry direction of Secretary Bryan, Admiral Caperton, in command, de- manded that the -Haitians elect a President who would consent to the United States control of cugtoms and to American advice fn foreizn affairs. This resulted in the election of President Dartiguenave, who made such a treaty. The Haitian Congress, or Assem- Bly, was dismissed. When the time came for a new election of a Presi- dent by the Assembly, according to the Prestdent of Haiti, Instead of following the con- stitutional channels, decreed that a Souncil of state, appointed by the act ax adviser. rouncil of state, was given, the the constitution. President, should Subsequently the instead of the Arsembly, by decres, the power to elect President. A new constitution was prepzred by Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt and adopted by Haiti, by decree of its President, acting as dictator. * ok ok X dent Borno in 1922. Tt is claimed that he is ineligible to serve as President, eines ha was the son of alien French, although he was born in Haiti. The decree establishing the council of state was for a term of 10 years, which term has now expired, but Borno. a candidate for re- elsction next April 12, has decreed its extension for another 10 yvears, and it is alleged he has filled several vacan- clea on it with his own relatives and cabinet officlals and expects it to re- elect him. In the meanwhile the peo- plo have not been permitted to vote for & new Assembly, whose constitu- tional function it is to elect the Presi- dent. President * k¥ ¥ The treaty of 1915 with the United States has been extended by presiden- tial decree until 1936, without coming hefore our Sonate. This extends our control over Haitian finances. The National City Bank is negotiating an additional loan of $16,000,000 to Iaiti, 1he bids for the loan having been ad- vertised by our State Department. n 1922 the Haitian foreign debt was $6,971,874. ¥ ok k¥ Haiti has a population of 3.000,000, mostly small farmers. In 1924 there was an emigration of 21,013 fiom THaiti to Cuba; in 1025 there were up- ward of 80,000 emigrated to Cuba, and many more to the Dominican Repub- lie. Sinee American occupation, it is I stated, 160,000 natives have migrated, so that today there is a scarcity of labor. g It is alleged that President Borno has decreed a policy of confiscating land holdings of the peasants, where they are unable to show deeds, and, as the ignorant peasants have occupled the land for generations without re- cording titles, many are losing thelr farms, the land being then bought by Americans for extensive plantations on which rubber is to be exploited. In addition to the flanncial interests of the National City Bank of New York, there are large holdings of land by the Haitian-American Sugar Co, the Hai- tian-American Pineapple Co. and the United West Indies Trading Co.—all financed by American investors, now owning in excess of 200,000 acres and Y ed, was it at ali Ukely that one couul man-—in this case represented by Pierre | riod of the American Revolution and Cadoudle—sgoes to his last long home. | i located in New York and Florida. All the swift voung dreams, the|andrew Beard, going to Florida for his ministers of thought, had The council of state elected )‘r‘\‘ Ebom“u. ao‘imu 2 gv Vg THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover. The historical romance, with its swashbuckling heroes, its adventure: its mysteries and its crimes, has its ) writers and its readers in all age< Some story tellers are inevitable ro nancers, like Dumas, Scott and Stevenson. Others are occasional, ex- perimental romancers, who try ro- mance as one of many possible literary forms. Of the former are Rafael Sabatini, father of innumerable ro- mances, and George A. Birmingham, who 1s really Canon Hannay, author of “Spanish Gold." Of the latter class Is Stephen Vincent Benet, who has re- cently attempted romance in “Spanish Bavonet.” ¥k ¥k x The most recent romance of G. A. Birmingham, “The Lady of the Ab- is of the “Prisoner of Zenda" type. It centers about the restoration of the legitimate heir to the throne of Karnonia, a. small Balkan kingdom. Probably the cholee of scene is due to the fact that Canon Hannay has of late been a professor at Budapest. The legitimate King of this fictitious king- dom is u boy, son of the former King and the daughter of 2 Chicago million- aire, The former King of Karnonin had not known his own mind during the World War, or at least had tried alliznces with both sides in the com bat, with the result that at the peace conference he found himsel? without a throne. He solved his problem by dying, but his widow was not the duuvghter of old Si Hook of Chicago for nothing. She applied her heredi- tary ability to the recovery of the throne of kKarnonia for her son. The efforts of this ambitfous mother and their results make a farce of political and ocial intrigue. Among the per- souages interested in assisting Sophv to put her son on the throne is the Abbess Irene, who gives the title to the romance. * ok ok Benet's romance, Stephen Vincent belongs to the pe- “Spanish Bayonet,” health, in the days when real estate had not. yet developed thers, stays on the indigo plantation of his father's friend. Dr. Gentlan. Andrew soon be gins to suspect evil mystery behind the obvious life of the plantation, whose owner i: explofting laborers from Greecs, Italy and Minorca. Sen- develops, includ- blood-feud, a secret stajrcase, a “judas hole,” shootings and stubbings and a thrill- ing escape. Finaily Andrew, with health presumably improved by all his experignces, returns to New York, after the battles of Concord and Lex- ington, to take his part in the Revolu- tionary War. S 2 0 N sation after sensatiol ing black magic, sadism, The life of Lincoln up to the time when he left Sprinzfield, TIL, to be- come President of the United States is told with both scholarship and po- etic emotional vigor by Carl Sandburg “Abraham Lineoln: the Prafrie Years.” Perhaps one rea- son for the very sym ment, full of historical imagination that Lincoln’s section of the United States is also Carl Sandburg’s. In thi blography, planned for many vears, the poet i interested in Lincaln the country lawyer, the pratrie politician, of stories, “the stalking and o would have been in his blography coln, " w worth _writing about had he never been President. Amy Lowell turned hiographer just hefore her deat now Carl Sandburg has pr pecally able in the f Amer: self ography. Will other follow their example? * % ¥ poets Dr. Vernon Kellogg, secretary of the Natfonal Research Council, has in Work a striking the March World article entitled “Some Things Science Doesn’t Know.” A thorough-going evolutioni: nd the author of perhaps the best popular book on evolution, Dr. Kelloge reaffirms that there is a cumulating proof of evelution, includ- ing more proof of the evolution of man, but he admits that the old ex planations of evolution do not explain ma jor of life it, so that biologists face two biological mysteries, the origin and the controlling causes of evolu- tion. Other present mysterfes of hu- man biology include “the conscious ness of human beings, their altruistic and actions going beyond all biological advantage, their imagina- tion and. above their spirit or Other striking passages in this interesting artlcle include the “Selence has not enlighten- ed me to any satisfactory degree about my consciousness or my con- sefence: nor, and perhaps this Is the question T put to it most often and most inelstently and most want an- swered whether T have an immortal roul or mot. What does science . - have to say o us about immortality? The answer is. in effect, nothing. But whether this ends the human—or for that matter the plant or animal in- dividuality-science does not know. P Science may be truth and so may religlon. emotions soul." most following Science and religion coexist. Roth are realities fn human 1tfe. They should not be looked on as antagonistic or as other. They should be looked on as complementary. A full human life in cludes both, depends on both. The cause of things may be called God: the manner of things science. Seience has never explained ultimate causes. - Primal being and ultimate he. coming are beyond the purview of science. They are truly something that science doesn't know, and I very much doubt will ever know." * ok ok % The real aristocracy of the T'n; States 15 to be found west of N ’Sfi Platte, Nebr., according to Mrs. Kath- arine Fullerton Gerould of Princeton. 8he proves her thesis, at least all Westerners will believe that she does, In her book, “The Atistocratic West." 8he is at great pains to emphasize the fact that she does not include the :\;flddlfl \v‘(;inz in her aristocratic sec- ion: on e contrary, she cons ' the Middle West the home of thne"t:,r:‘ns- monplace, of self-righteous “up- 1ft" campaigns. and of governmental fallacies. Among the Far Westerners Mrs. Gerould finds dignity, self-re- spect, respect for the rights of other: courage, honesty, chivalry. She doe: admit, however, that the Far West- erner is usually something of a4 brag- rt, but, then, he has a. country worth ragging about. Southern California Is excluded from the trans-Rocky Mountain aristocracy. TLos Angeles she soorns as no Western city at all but-a heterogensous mixture of all ale- ments to ba found in the United Htates. Reno is also no part of the aristocracy, but a mere divorce¥manu- facturing town. Over Salt City, on the other hand, she becomes rhapsodi- cal, and has considerable admiration for Mortnonism. San Franeisco, of course, she loves, as nearly every one else does, In spite of its earthquakes. It is not likely that Boston and New York and Philadelphia will become en- thusiastic over this book. * ok ok ok An interesting book to read as a supplement to Kenneth Murdock’s “Increase Mather” is “Witchcraft and the Black Art,” by J. W. Wickwar. It deals with the psychology and folklore of the witches. A summary is given of the history and development of witcheraft in England and the bring- ing of its traditions to America. Mr. Wickwar traces the descent of witches from the ancient female worshipers of Diana at the crossroads, patroness of virginity and fertility. Many modern superstitions have thelr origin in witcheraft, as rapping wood, the asso- clation of horseshoe with good luc:kE counting out in games and dock- dlsplacing each | Universal production. ANSWERS TO BY FREDERIC Q. When 4id Lon Chaney appear first upon the screen’—P. R. A. A. In 1912, bhe made his screen debut as a slapstick comedian in & Q. _What was the first name given the White House?—S. L. A. When the White House was provided for in the original design of the city it was known as “The Palace.”” When it was first buflt it was “The President’s House.” After it was burned by the British during the War of 1812 it was painted white, and in popular parlance was soon called by its now famillar name, al- though officially it was known as "“The Executive Mansion” until the late Theodore Roosevelt became fits oc- cupant, He gave his sanction to the title “The White House” and this is now its offictal name. Q. What does _the “Sayonara” mean?—H. C. A. This phrase, used ) may be translated “if it must be so.” Q. Please tell something about the lighting of the way for the night air mail—C. . T. Japanese L. Douglas of in ing the (which prohibited territory of the Loul north of 86 degrees left the inhabitants free to form mestic nstitutions in thelr own way. Abraham Lincoln was a stanch sup porter of Federal righta QUESTIONS J. HASKIN. ham Llnrolgm ishes 8a Indleated the Kansas-Nebraska bill repeal Missouri compromise ect slavery from the stana Purchas 30 minutes) and thereof perfectly and regulate their do- How many negrees are there Q. in the United States?—E. W. A. There are epproximately 12- 000,000. Q. Why is & coat-ofarms st called? —B. T A. Knights wore tabards or ocoats over their armor and on the coats were placed thelr armorial bearing* ¥From this came the expression coe’ of-arms. Q. What is the largest bird?>—L. C A. The ostrich is the largest of living birds, an adult male standing nearly 8 feet about 300 pounds. high and weighing A. The electrical engineers provid- the Winter when I keep no ed five stations with aerial beacons | i mm ‘Lefrigerator gets @& Stuffy aptly nicknamed “midntght suns of | o™ What . will prevent i’ the air mail.” Each beacon 1s a high-| 1o g p. Intensity arc searchlight, mounted on a 60-foot tower, and it revoives three times a minute. Set at an angle of one degres, the §500,000,000-candle- power hbeam from each of these land lighthouses sweeps the sky just above the horizon. Pllote have sighted beacons 130 miles away clear nights. At 100 miles the diameter of its beam s about 2 miles if weather conditions permit it being seen at all. On 34 emergency landing fields along the night alrway, large guiding light= have been installed. There are smaller light guides every 8 miles. A continu- ous light lane 1,900 miles long con- nects New York and Cheyenne now. Q. What was the ground for the debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas?—H. J. A. The reason for the debate be- tween Stephen A. Douglas and Abra- ARTICLE VI When the Government goes after a tax dodger, he is regarded as just one of 112,000,000 American citizens His wealth, professional status, so- cial rating, or other desirable tainments mean nothing to the eral intelligence operatives. Wha ever the tvpe of the suspect of will- ful evasion the operatives have or- ders to get the goods and bri man to headquarters. And are orders,” and they are obeyed with rupidity and sureness. Tragedy and often death m: athway of Government operatives out in the field hunting for traud Lawyer Takes Life. " Hiding behind a record thut was h professionally, socially and pa cally, a distinguished lawyer was suddenly trapped as a tax dodger a =hort while ago in a Western city. His townspeople do not know to this day he was crooked In tax matters and i other private dealings. Death wealed | his career of eriminal wmisconduct. | The only thing his neighbors knew was that the liwyer, presumably de ranged, commitied saicide. His 1i less form, oufstretched on the cush- fons of his limousine, was found in his garage near his fashionable home one cold December morning. Intelligence agents spent the pre- vious day quizzing the man about falsffication of his tax returns to the Treasury. By epecial appointment with this man agents went to his of - fice the next morning to have their final chat with him hefore taking him into custody, and this card posted on the office door “Closed on account of death of Mr Rlank." Caught With the Goods. The lawyer realized he had been | caught with the zoods. He had him- <elf gone to his office, after a racking | Ay of torrld grilltiz, And tacked the | death card” on his door before going | to the garage and firing the fatal | «hot into his bruti. He mnde an oath that he would tot willingly turn over to the Government important evi- dence, In the form of private records they sought s an ald to eriminal] prosecition [ = the A= a lawyer, he knew | death would #eal these records from publie gaze. And the public never knew, Investigators had delved deeply into the man's disordered airs. It meant disgrace and financlal wreck age for him. Te was guiity of per jury for falsifying his tax return and| of other penal crimnes. e stoutly dis- | claimed his guilt in the ea but finally collapsed and marde confession. Like so many other cases, the u that led to this lawver's door heganu fn 2 far distant State. 1.000 miies away. The first eclue was that failed to include in his return income from rentals on certain pieces of real estate. If he had pald the extra as- sessment. the case as it then stood probably would have been closed. Fought to Last Ditch. | But the lawyer showed fight. He | went to the last ditch to stave off that payment. His stubhornness caused an inquiry into all of his finan- | olal dealings. Then the agents were | amazed In their discovery that he also had embezzled large sums as the | trusted oustodian of the funds of a re- liof organization that is nationally known. He had converted to his own use tens of thousands of dollars of | the relief money. originally set_aside | for benefit. of soldiers of the World | War. He used the funds in bad| stock speculation. Tle left his fam: | jly practically penniless after full] payment of buck taxes was made 10 | the Government. Tacts developed in this case led to | ¥ an overhauling of the fiscal methods | of the relief organization. Its ac-| counts over the country were checked up and the character of ita extencive personnel carefully surveyed to insure absolute safety of contributions made | generously by the public. illustration of the Iabyrinth of ave- nues through which a seemingly small clue of tax law violation may lead. Hundreds of other cases, not all of them with such tragic background, but most of them with soul-stirring elements, are recalled by Treasury in- telligence operatives in their review of the larger fraud cases with which they have had to deal. BEATING THE INCOME TAX Uncle Sam Says It Can’t Be Done. BY WALTER H. ATKINS The lawver's sad case provides an |? ‘A. The Bureau of Home Eoonom fos says that when an ice box 1a not being used the opened and no food in it ecald it out with hot water and keep the doors open and remove any food that you are keeping in it. doors should be should be placéi box is stuffy, If your fice Have we had the pleasure of seri- ing wow through our Washington nformation bureau? Can't we be of | some help to you in your doily prob- lems?® Our business is to furnish you with authoritative information, and we invite you to ask us any questing of fact in which yow are interested Send your inquiry to The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J Haskin, director, Washington, D. Inclose’® cents in stamps for retwrn postage. Treagsury of the proposals made to him. With the full knowledge of the Internal Revenue Bureau's Intelli- unit, he permitt the self i tax experts to go ahead. The jed his true income by con- icting an entirely new set of books 1d dest 2 d ones. » correct amount of his tax was v His incoms would n the crooks nearer the point of exposure, he paid them $5,000, a art of their retainer, for thelr serv By that time the intelligence nder-cover” EyE. unit, through its tem. had built up enough evidence practically to cloge in on the crooks Th ntants were paid their final bLut it was in “marked bills.’ ceceivetl from the hands of a revenue intelligence agent, NOSINg as a repre tive of the manufacturer. Thelr rd was a sentence of fine and im Offceed Aid in 200 Cases. Gavernment _agent: office files and found which "thev had offered 200 cases it aid to taxpavers to defraud the Gov- ernment through Mling of falsified tax returns $1,000,000 addi esed and col- rament in such More than cases, The revenue service plays no favor. tes. The b the revenue force is to prot vernment 1t is this same motive that governs them in the ds of cases that confront t Revenue of frank in their admission that some of the worst es they have handled have resulted from .ollusion with Government em- ployes too weak to withstand the temptation of bribe money t such nsures have inval 1 followed up by rigid tightening nf the revenue machinery, and v prevents invoked an ¢ repetitions of others success by Government employes somewhat like the one of the Treasur: a \zht attempting to connive ¢ taspayers, through an erate.” a trusted friend The auditor, on the know the liability of the larger fncome associate. fnside, would taxpavers in hrackets. we Ts Disclosed. fhe auditor sent his friend to wealthy taxpaver, Whose income tax mors than $600.000. In Conmiv revealed, howaver, that act coneider than So, the m confided to the 1 consideration of § auditor wonld tur per the original re al related papers oyed in order that uld have no eviden friend 000 the dist over to the tas turns and tF would be des Tovernment wi of additional taxes due another case in which the s failed to realize that the. ng with an honest man. The promptly acquainted the with the proposals mad- orrespondence betwee rs and taxpayer ensued. weak spot in the schem~ This wa and to him, the conspira Hera was th Letters emlodying confidential plans of the conspirators came into the pos session of intelligence agents. Later they appeared at conferences batwee the conspirators and the taxpayer, and at the proper moment, revealing them selves in their true light, apprehended the guilty ones The dishonest income taxpayer. whatever his status, or method, 1= shown by actual experience in t Government's intelligence system somehow unsuspected to th: serson, the missinz link tha connects up with fraud. He always leaves some definite mark somewhe showing up evasion. It may be the most minute circumstance. It may be some ill-advised word of hoasting. T may arise in the taxpayer’s misplaced confidenca in a confederate. It may he 1msy accnmuiation of fraudule: operations, that some day will reves| on (heir very face the full scops of the fraud attempted or accomplished Violations Decreasing. Exposure of frauds has had a stron- deterrent effect. against continue! abuses under tax laws, and from ye: to year actual violations have been decreasing. This is particularly tru of attempts of the unecrupulous to Government Employes Involved. How w!fltrl:fr individuale have sometimes connived with Government employes to rob the Government of taxes is illustrated in a number of cases cited by revenus officials. ‘There was the case of the prosper- ous manufacturer in a Middle Atlan- tio State. Ostensibly, he entered into & _conspiracy with members of a firm of accountants and a revenue inspec- tor by which he was to pay $10.000 for the preparation of a fraudulent return for income taxes. The manufacturer was an honest taxpayer. He permitted the would- be conspirators to proceed with their ying out of the scheme. They had hooked him in on 4, hewever, be opprised the use Government einployes as aids i lawless ventures. The systemati elimination from the Federal pay roli= of such conspirators and their swift punishment have had a wholesome ef fect in reducing this type of fraud. The intelligence svstem maintaing ¢ remarkably efficient check upon the honesty of Government employes i trusted with handling income tax ma ters. There are checks and double checks to insure faithful performanee of duty. At no time since the income tax law was enacted has the Govern ment service heen su free of the ele ment of dishonesty, and so MHtrle susceptible to the influence of dis honest interests secking to set up un- plots or conspiracies te cheat Government. Tawful the (Consiishe, 10208 - -