Evening Star Newspaper, April 16, 1926, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C 8 THE EVENIN With Sunday Morning with the purpose of telling what m!lmermed In the things that denw | } {tourisis than they are in the ways| Many Americans have heen charged | and habits of tourists themselves, Yet Motorists Only to Blame nnderstands to he facts WASHINGTON, D. C FRIDAY. . April 18, 1926 THEODORE W. Mhe Evening Star Newspaper Company 11 st and T Yorl Ofee hicako OMes Ne. Buroy The Fren eitho jay morn livered by e month Sunday only. Per month | Ovders mav be seat Ly mail or Telenhane Main 3000, Collection is made by carrier at the cnd of euch month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daiir £und es and Canada <1200 Sx 00 8400 Al Other S Daite and sunday Daily i $1.00 50 35 1y 1 mo Ly 1 wo iy 1 mo, <. Member of the Associnted The Aseaciatad Pr ectusivats entitled 18 the e for Toa of Al newa Patehes credifed to it or not o 760 10 this paner and also the local ne published Lerein ANl rights of wablicatio € <perial dipatehes hecein are also reserved National Representation. Disirict many for vears heen seeking enfranchise Inok hopefully forwsrd to next when, by virtue of the con shown hy ham of the House committee on judi ciary will ¥ eoammittes in argument tion of #n amendment empowering glonal P ether citizens, who have ment Tuesd, winer tion Chairman Gra they heard before thai for the adop he joint resolution proposing the Congress o Constitution o grant nu This n. the more o be ap f the urgency of e the judiciary deration of representation 1o them. fons act ted heeanse husiness hefe committee insures cons national enfranchisement of the Dis- grict €ion of Congress This wnother Americans at the present ses inint vesolution, identical with that been introduced in the Senate, proposes a constitutional If it the two-thirds of the House and Eenate the amendment be sub mitted the Siate legislatures and yaitfied three fourths of them in order of the funda mental law. Only then can Congress proceed to enact the that remedy the injustice under residents of the District have suffered for vears. The resolution tndicates the of the which Congress may then take. Congress, under this amendment will have the power to admit to the | Klatus of citizens of a State the resi dents of the Di representation has in | | ‘ must i ‘o e hecome part | law will which many nature action rict, for the purpose | in und the electors of and o Congress among President the purpose of | suing and heing sued in the courts| of United When this | power shail have heen exercised the | vesidenis of the District shall he en-| titled nators a< Congress may determine, and Rep yesantatives in the Honse according Jopulation apportionment and pres. electors equal in number to aggregate representation in Honge and Senate. such provisions Con- | this epabling act the qualifications of voters | and the time of choos- inz the members of | the twa honses, and it will make all | 1ans necessary proper for carry 4nz the enfranchisement into execu- | tien | Thus the joint resolution upon | which the citizens of the District are #n he heard next Tuesday before the | House indiciary committee is but the Anitial step. 1t be adopted by | woie of two.thirds of each house, neni‘ 1 | Viee President and for the States. to elect one or two | wential | their | [} T carry grese Etipuiae out ma . under and manner representative and must B the of three-fourths of the Frate legislatures, and then, by major- o Jaw mnst he enacted carrving into | effect | Organized Washinzton is a ¥his nuestion vepresenta- | wion they may | @iffer on other phases of enfranchise. | gnent. are largely in agreement in the | @dvacacy of the proposal embodied in | #he joint resolution which is about to | [ in What thev | ®eek is the fundamenial natural right ®f Ame votes vote of each house of Congress, & 1S permissive provisions. unit on of national Its citizens, however nrged argument an citizenship, the right of | wepresentation in the hody which gmakes thelr laws and imposes their gaxes. and of a voice in the selection ©f their executives. No question of peliteal expediency affects or lessens ghe justice of their demand. They are @skin: that which is funda- men { only | | e Spanish operatic performers propose #0 charge twenty-five dollars a seat in INew Vark. Art is progressing. A Evanish tenor evidently commands Bizher salary than a bull fighter. is st gives discussed. The ax. gronomer to seience publicity galants which weuld make him wealthy #f he were a practical realtor, - t American Curiosity. A trail or weakness of Americans is geuched an in a4 cabled story of the {@eath of Eugene Cormiche, once a dish Awasher. founder of Maxim's, the first American har in Paris, and of other kelebrated vesorts. After telling that this remarkable man bought a Pavis | grogshop and converted it into Max fm's, the cable savs Cornuche’s next idea was that well fo-do foreizn visitors would patroni: an exclusive Summer resort where they would be sure of rubbing slbows wwitn kuropean avistocracy. Cornuche purchased Deauville, which was then & nezlected village, letting most of his riends, who were prominent pleasure. oving aristocrats. in on the deal. The pramoters made fortunes. Americans ocked there. gindly paving exorbitant rices for the privilege of watching Zuropean rovally and nobility amuse hHemselyes The Frenchman sensed that Ameri- gans would pay high to stand on the #ldelines and watch Kuropean aris. @ecracy perform certain of the Buropean aristocracy helped Cornuche @t up the places and then patronized hem as hait for Americans. There g8 humor in the narration, and writer of dispatch it and the the setx it down ot In ap effort to be droll but only ! fortable thought that they are less'seat driver Is that so often she’s right, ! Mrs. Hampson Gary. Under the chap- » NOYES. ...Editor! hud lost most of their ope !in" by the Communists, headed by The head of the | Iwith | the fact {with toadyism that tnkes the form of | iy wnd | Oxford and «n paying eat hig price to play steep nees wnd dukes, o {eren close (o dexcendants and remote “There | Fin of an extinguished nobili < truth in the charge. 1t ix not clear, thoush. that this weakness ix singular streets are I ix use of devo o London parades. is beg Amevicans wded when royaliy suid that th patriotism of the tion 1 | ; monly populace the crown, ete. ity (hat fills an Ame which & royal per- will be me curio thi A can steet son Paris street h @ Montenegrin prince or what { voyxlty ride from the raflvoad 1L is said thai to show not station to hix lodging. the crowd {for the foreign government and ex press the friendship of the Krench people for the other people. The prob- «bility ix that the crowd turns out for thrill zetling « peep al the | prince. Human neture is not vastly | different in Washington, London and but e less cautious spenders than Kurepesns |und are able wind willing to pay bigger able in 4 restaurant Amer! and are will- wras out the . « Amervicans abroad may | prices (o sit at a L where nobility sometimes eats [ cans have the curviosity ing 1o give up wids of money to sat sty it o i Communism in New Jersey. Beginning on of Janu Paswaic textile strtke | the morning ary 25 lust. the w9 a feature of which some little chil | dien were sent to Washington vester in an effort 1o invoke presiden intervent i% in fuct the froiv of an 0 in | Lawrence, Mass., known as the Un | Front | the creation of & man wh | Lis life to radica | He went 1o Pseveral lay lized there. duy o ton formed veur ago ted mittee is ted tion. Committee. This vt haus dev 1 labor orguniz saic, wh there are e textile mills, and org: As a result of the depres sion in the textile business in the past two years, the huve been run ning on part schedule last Sep. t of them 10 per On the 25th of Janu ary delegation representing the United Front Committee went to the Mills and of the for mills «nd tember me made a cent wage cul. a management of the Botany asked fo reinstatement mer waiting for a discy the commit- lett office went through the buildings throwing off switches and t the The strike spread to other mills and in a the lurger establishments Kt foris have heen made by thicd parties wages. a n tee the and calling ol workers, few davs tives, | to secure arbitration and adjustment Lut without success The United Textile America, the textile union affliated with the American Federation of Labor, has refused to tuke part in the strike or to assist the Passaic strikers on the ground that it does not repre sent an effort to help the textile we ers. but is a move o “bore from with the Workers of leader of this strike. American Federation of Lebor has an nounced that the United Front Com- mittee has no swundink tha( can be The Annociated Silk Weavers of Paterson, also affliated the American Federation of Labor, has similarly retused to recog- the United Front organization. of the speakers at meetings in Passaic and elsewhere are well known as Communists. This fight recognized conservative labor leaders and organizations as a part of the radical campaign to gain control of labor organizations. The latest move in the matter is an appeal 10 the Governor of New Jersey, the strikers seeking his intervention. He has sought from the attorney general of the State an opinion on the power of the executive to intervene, “he “children’s crusade” to Wash- ington proved a failure. It did no more than briefly arrest attention, It did not distract public thought from that this industrial confiict in New Jersey is part of a campaign for Communism in the United States. —atee. is by Polar expeditions will probably con- | ue to be organized until some relia- | ti ble system of transporiation is devel oped which will permit reliable calcu- lation as to itinerary. The fascination f the North Pole lies in the fact that it is alwavs in waiting for rediscovery. r——e—s - The Stillmans are sald to be study Ing psychoanalysis. A family colle tion of complexes may be made quite as interesting ancestral portraits and plate. P — L Hotel Men as Tourists American hotel men are well ac- quainted with the tourist type. They ertertain millions of sightseeing i travelers in the course of a single | vear, making them comfortable dur- {ing their brief stays in their own Llr\wm‘. guiding them and giving them the fullest opportunities to see the points of attraction” within their lown field. Now American hotel men are doing a little sightseeing on their own uccount. Some dozens of them are now in England in attendance upon @ convention and are being treated by their fellow British honi- faces especially honored guests and afforded every facility to see the sights. A dispatch from London tells of a characteristic day. 'The Americans left London early in the morning, “did" Oxford in two hours visited Stratford, suw evervthing theve of interesi and rewirned london in (he evening o dine and donce uulil « late hour, Probably every one of them in his heart fel( bit recreant (v the Grst principles of good hotel keeping. The idea of a visitor to & historic point of in- terest flitting between meuls s anathema to the host of a place of public entertainment. Suppose the party of Britishers were (o come over here and cover within the xpan of & single day the most famous seal of iearning in the United States and | the greatest literary shuine! From the hotel man's point of view Oxford alone should have had two dava and Stratford a week. Perhaps, afier ull, hatel men are veally zood sighi- seers, 1t is semewhat of an uncom- as to in 101 probably | nmed with French Republicans to | vespect | il | Upon denial and without | the strike | hours at Strat- must be suid that two alternoon than nothing. e A Novel Filibuster. | hirteen members of the RBritish | House of Commons have been sus pended for five days for blocking pro- {ceedinga. A bill was under discus sion reducing the stale contribution to national health insuvance, which pro posal the Laborites have been consist The house divided on {4 motion wnd the members went jnto the A long deluy ensued, | Fro the afficmative lobby the Brit lish commons “divide” hy going inte | different and paseing be- tween tellers. came faintly the strains £ “John Brown's Bodi,” which has Ibean udoptea by the extreme Social ists as & war song. Investigation was started and it was found that thirteen of the Laborites were holding up the vote by Sing o pass the tellers. “This a novel situgtion. There were rules governing it The speaker of the house wan ill und in bed in his chambers in the liwment buildings. He was hastily summoned he dressed and hurried (o the house, where he heard a report (rom the ser geuntatarms, then he the mutineers, whose suspension was moved and carvied amid | Breat disorder. ‘The incident has |caused W revival of Laborite senti- ment. The ministry in not yet out of | the woods. “The bill, which proposes as u of economy the reduc Uon of the state contribution (o health Insurance, may vel be defeuted that cuse @ change of minlstry is po | sible, though this is not now believed | to be in prospect, us the Liberal party {18 4t low ebb und the Conservatives {are in great sirength. However that | may be, the spectacle of members of | the opposition going out for division and refusing o return is altogeth in the history of British pariia- mentary procedure. ‘I'here have been exciting scenes in the House of Commons. Filibusters have been | conducted there through protracted speeches and maneuvers of delay, but never before have the membe gone {out to vote and blocked the lobbies. | The adoption of this device may indi- jeate that the Laboritex ure becoming | militant o i at | fora ave netter | endy opposing. ia lobbies, chambers vel was no and “named”’ a measu in new Facetious comment on President olidge’s silence longer justi fied. The Prexident has demonstrated | that when he feelx like it he can com- | pose w three or thousand werd speech ax easily as anybody. - % no four | | When last heard from Ponzi was in | Florida. He hus not yet been able 1o { show the expert financiers there any | new investment devices that suggest | originality. { I ‘The Weather Bureau relinguishes the coal problem and renews its atten- ! ilon to the annual question of whether % the fruit crop is going to be a failure. | —oe—s .- Chicago voters may have slightly confused in voting McKinley when the League of Was put up to them as a local ) hecome Natlons issue, i SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHWNSON | Burbunk. | He sieeps in the garden, near friends | that were true, | The trees and the flowers, shine and dew. Near friends who remote from con- tention may dwell, Who answered his thought and whe loved him so well. the sun- Defining a Position, “Are vou in favor of blue laws? “Yes," answered Senator Sorghum. “Leastways I'm as much in favor of ‘em as some of the people who pro- pose 'em and just as willing to take credit in the popular mind for su- perior righteousness.” ! Home, Sweet Home. There's no place like home.— So runs the old song. Afar I would roam, For the place seems all wrong. The house has grown queer And my feelings are sad, For all that I hear Is a radio ad. Jud i man inkins says it's funoy to hear a complain about carrving a suit case when you know that before he got rich he was a piano mover. Physiology and Behavior. When my friend does something queer That seems his character beneath, 1 shall net criticize or sneer. He may have trouble with his teeth. The conduct which mav devastate I.Me's bliss, which should be alloyed, We must forgive. The trouble great Perhaps is due (o adenoids. un- Playing the Game. “What kind of relief do you want?" “Well.” answered Farmer Corn- tossel, “I s'pose it gets right down to this. What we farmers need is a few reliable tips well in advance on {the grain market.” “Prohibition.” safd “depends on creatin’ a demand foh ice water de night before instid of s0 much de next mornin’.” R ihcks and Crops, om the Durbam Sun, A good garden will save money, if you don't have to pay a doctor to straighten out your back. -- e Can’t Get Enough. | From tbe Boston Travele, 1Us easy to see what the convicted person thinks of trials, He is always ! asking for more of them. - : Preventive, From the Rochester Times Univo. A good substitute for a juvenile court would be compuisory training for parents. Uncle FEben, s —oes " She Often Is From the Harrishurs Telegcaph. The frritating thing about the hack- | « acene of | against | BY CHARLES | Has urt anything to do with me- i rality? | The Post OMce Department, in itx | supervision of what is mailable and what is not. sesmm to belisve that it {has, in o far an art meuns writing. | The debarcing trom the mall cently of a copy of a curre atter the entire edition had been sold out_brought to many minds u. pleture of Fdgar Allan Poe threshing out the ®ame question i vears ago. Poe was one of the firsi, if not the fivst, in literary America to stand up and declare withont equivocation that « poem’s & poem for all that, no mat ter whether IU Inculcates a truth or nof Thuk he precipitated in our liter: bistory the tight hetween the didactic and “art for art’s sake,” which is stil | caging, as shown by the aforemen tioned case of locking the stable after tha horse is gone. 1t i8 true that Poe confined the dis- cussion largely 1o poetry, hut the prin- ciples he then ser his lecture, “The Poetic Prineiple,’” re- main today the rallying cry for those who believe that writing mus! be judged on what It is, not so much A% on what it attempis (or does not attempt) to do. 1n considering those principles brief Iy here today we do not find it neces sary to state our own beliefs on this mooted question. Poe, we feel sure will prove more interesting. ko ok { | | Written in the last year of Hin life, {and not published until atter his death, “The Poetic Principle,” delivered in Richmond hefore « large audience, gave the poet opportunity Lo set forth theories which he had held all his ma- ture life, ‘These principles. then. mav be re gavded as Poe's last word to us upon the subject. If the last vears of his lite were simply an attemp!, on his part, to reason himself into believing that' he was perfectly sane, as the latest view of Poe seems to assert, then ull we can sav fs that he did u vemarkably good job of it in “The Poetlc Principle.” is a well reagoned. logical and kee attempt on the part of the writer to set forth his innermost views on poetry ~—what it Is, what it should contain what form it should take. ‘The Brst part, which we will treat briefly, deals with the faisity of the Idea and worth of the so-called epic poem. Poe's contentlon was that a long poem does not really exist. ‘I maintain.” he said, “that the phrase, ‘a long poem. is simply & flat con. tradiction in terms.” He takes a few “hot shots” ai *“Para. and concludes, on this topic The day of these artistic xnomalies is over. If, at any time, anv very long poem were popular in reality— which | doubt—it is &t least clear that no very long poem will ever be popu lar again.” Three-quarters borne Poe out in that . oaon To get down, however, 10 “the heresy of ihe didactic,” as he called it “It_has been assumed. tacitlv and avowedly, diveetly and indivectly, that the uitimate object of all Poetry is uth (We give Poe's capitaly.) Every poem. it is sald, should i culcate a moral, and by this moral is the poetical mevit of the work to ba adjudged.” Poe goes on. “We Amari cans especially have patronized this happy idea. We have taken it into our heads that to write a poem simply WASHINGTON 8Y FREDERIC of & century belief. * have Not in lette of shining gold will the name of Calvin Cooliage be en “hrined when Senator William B. Me- Kinley site him down some reminis {cent day to indite the short. sad story of the Illinois primaries. The first | casualty in the anti-World Court fizht i« a vietim of plighted faith, reluct- anuy pledged and relentleasly exacted. ‘That, t least, ix the Senate cloak Kinley's colors were lowered. On the eve of the World Court vote in Janu iavy, Senators \Vatson and Robinson, Republicans, of Indiana notified Mr. Coolidge that sentiment in their Stat made it impossible for them to bac the court. The President was in formed that court stock was equally low in neighboring [inois and that Senator McKinley faced certain defeat {for renomination if he voted for the court. As the administration had all the votes it needed to pass the Swan- !son resolution. it was suggested that McKinley might safely be released from his agreement o support it | But President Coolidge was not In re- lenting mood. He insisted that Mc- | Kinley stay put. “I'm gome, col- {leagues heard the Senator may when he voted “aye" on the World Court {voll call. MeKinley preferred political ! auicide to a broken word, That is not an inglorious exit from public life *okox ok Nothing is being allowed 10 escape from the State Department about Secretary Kellogg's attempts to bring Chile end Peru together on Tacna- Arica. But (he settlement thought to mske the livellest appeal to the {United States revolves around the i scheme to hand over the disputed avea to Bolivia. If the Chileans and | Peruvians could agree on that method of burving their age-old hatchet. this Government undoubted - lv would breathe a sigh of deep re- Mef. 1ts joy might even be tinged with a golden lining in the shape of a substantial American loan. to enable Bolivia to finance railroad, harbor andsother enterprises essen- tial to acquisition of her .coveted corridor to the sea directly across Tacna-Arica. Our intersst in the Chilean-Peruvian squabble ir indi- rect, but vital. It it's not composed | through our good offices, it's certain | to be deposited on the doorstep of | the Teague of Nations. And that is not a_consummation devoutly fo he wished for by the parents and guard- | fans of the Monroe Doctrine. * ok oK % homas F. Woodlock. now sefely in harbor at the Interstate Commerce Commission after tempestuous voy- age across the Senate, Is an Irish- man by birth, an Fnglishman by early environment and an American by adoption and livelv preference. He did not come to this country until middle manhood. having prac- ticed the profession of a wriler on economies in London before embark- jug upon it in New York. After 30 vears among the bulla and bears in Wall Sireet, Mr. Woodlock finds the stmosphere of Washington restful {in the extreme. He considers the Interstate mmerce - Commission one of the genuinely vital organs of the Government d holds that no Feders! officiale a charged with higher responsibilities than those re- posed in it. Probably few men ap- poinied to the commission since its foundation were ever equipped with voodlock's scientific knowledge of ansportation economics. LR Franklin Gary, a junior at Prince- lon, and Helen Gary, a Washington debutante of the season, are given re- markable mention in ‘“‘Allenby of Ar- | | leav child matie he press. 'The young people are n of Amexica's war-time diplo vepresentative in Egvpt and forth. embodled in | an | From beginning to end the lecture | dise Lost” (for which we thank him), | room tale set in circulation since AMc- | | mageddon,” the latest war book to | THIS AND THAT E. TRACEWELL. for the peem’'s sake, and to wcknowl- edge smuch to have been our design, | would he 10 confess ourselves radically | wanting in the true poetic dignity and | force—but the simple fact is that would we but permii ourselves (o look into our own souls we should imme | diately there discover that under the sun there nefther exists nor can exist {any work more thoroughly dignified more supremely noble, than this very poem, this poem per se. this poem swhich Is # poem and noth.ng more, this poemn written solely for the poem's sake."” Having thus steted his thesis, Poe says thal. with as deep & reverence for the rue as ever inspired true, becanse of the very of his nature), he would nevertheless Hmit, in mome measure, jis modes of | them. The demande of Truth ave severe 8he has no particulsr sympathy with the flowers of poetry. “All that which is so indispensable in Song is pre- {elsely wll that with which she has | nothing whatever to do. It ix but | making her a flaunting paradox to | wreathe her in gems and fowers | “In eatorcing w Uuth we need severity rather than efMorescence of | language. We must be ximple, pr | clse, terse. We must be cool. calm | uniripassioned. 1n a word, we must | be in that mood which, as nearly as | possible is the exact converse of the poetical. ‘He must be blind indeed doex not perceive the radical and chasmal difference hetween the truth tul and poetical modes of inculcation. A ox ok ok Poe divides the world of mind. as he calls it, into three distinctions, Pure Intellect, Taste and AMoral Sense, “Just 84 the Intellect concerns itself with “Truth, so Taste informs us of | the Beautiful, while the Moral Sense is regardful of Duty,” he asseris. It by no means follows, however, Poe continues, that the incitemenis of passion, or (he precepts of duty, or who | | | intreduced into 4 poem. and with ad | vantage (as he himself dfd in “Tt {Raven”), “for they may subserve in- |cldentally, in various wavs. the gen- eral purpose of the work; but the true artist will always contrive (o fone them down in proper subjection to |that Beauty which is the atmosphere |and the real essence of the poem.’ The true desire for beauty, on the | part of the poet, who represents man- kind. is “but a wild effort to reach | the Beauty above,” Poe tells us. *The struggle 1o apprehend the superna Loveliness- this struggle. on the pa of sonls Attingiv | (the world) has ever heen enabled at |once to understand and to feel as poetic.” He recapitulates, as follows would define, in brief, the Poetry words as The Rhythmical of Beauty. | With the ‘Intellect or 1 of Creation with the Con | sclence it has onlv collateral relations. | Unless, incidentally. it has no concern | whatever eithér iwith Duty or with Truth.” | 1t was not long afier P | these words that he ithey may be regarded as statement on & matter had spoken s dead—so his final dear - I heart He thus threw into relief, once and | for all. various fundamental states of ! mind, which, in all probability, time | shell never change. ‘ So it is not 8o long a jump as it OBSERVATIONS L4 I‘I.LIAM WILE. ter heading. ““The Morning of a Arma geddon,” Capt. Ramond | Savage. au- | Beld marshal's personal staff in Pales tine, writes | Mr. Hampson Gary, the Ameri- | esn diplomatic agent in Egypt, and his wife were warm favorites of Lord Allenby, and so. too, were their children. a bay and a girl On the day Allenby was about to start his final campaign ail four were asked to breakfast at general headquarters. and the children asked the chief what his plans were. Without a moment's hesita- tion, Allenby sent for his maps and then and there showed the two children just what he proposed 10 do and where he intended to get. Surely there can be no other in- slance in British military history of & commander-in-chief in the fleld Jteking two children into his confi- dence. If. as I hope, thoss two youngsters still remember the oec- casion. they may store it in their memories as a unique and historic honor. * ok ox o Reports from the Biological Survey on prevailing duck conditions around Washington may account for the lam- ing of 5o many of the species during | the Spring political season. Dr. Harry | C, Oberholser, ornithologist of the sur- vey, whose business it is to keep track of the migratory game birds, says there have been more canva back ducks on the Potomac.this vear than at any time within his memory. On a recent trip down the river to the neighborhood of Quantico he esti- mated that he saw about 125,000 ducks. of which about 45,000 were canvas-backs and about 55,000 scaups or bluebills. Most of the others were black ducks, though there was a good sprinkling of mallards. pintafls. ruddy ducks, baldpates and a few gadwalls: something over 100 Canadian geese and 110 whistling swans. % % x Hopsewives who were newly-weds earlier in the century remember a popular cookbook which was not missing from many kitchen sheives pantry cupboards in those flap- perless days. It fell into disuse long @go. but the second-hand book market, Washington just learns, now being combed for coples, no mat- ter” how dog-earer or grease-begrimed. rohibition is to blame. The obsolete compendium of recipes, now listed in the book trade an “scarce and in de- _mapd,” contains, it appears. an inform- ative chapter entitled ‘“The Home Brew.” How to make dandelion and sarsaparilla wine, raspberry cordial, ginger beer and other drinkables is there set forth in terms that even a freshman in a college of cookery can- not fail to grasp. * K K % “Silent Cal” has an appropriate “gpokesman” in the United Stotes Senate, who has every right to be known as “‘Silent BiIl." At fortnightly intervals installments of the index to the Congressional Record are insued. They provide detailed evidence of the "The latest index discioses, under the heading “William M. Butler, Senator trom Massachusetis,” and opposite the caption “Remarks” the word ‘“‘None, The President’s chief political lienten- ant has vet to make a speech in the Henate at this session, though 'few members are more regular in their attendance. Representative Blanton of Texas, ever-spouting geyser of the House, held forth 150 times on 53 sep- arate topics during the first 13 days of March. The bleating lamb of the Alamo plays no favorites when he takes the hot-air line. His outpour- |ings in the period above mentioned |ranged from George Washington's [ beer-racipe to the woes of the Chip- | pewa Indians. (Coppright. g. the | hosom of man (which was not exactly ' limitation | inculeation, He would limit to enforce | even the lessons of truth, may not be | constituted—has | | given to the world all that which it : 1ts sole arbiter is Taste. | to his thor of the book and a member of the | ebb and flow of talk in both houses. | For Traffic Confusion To the Editor of The Star: Your editorial on trafic regulat in Wednesday's Star hits the bull leve. Washington motorists have only themzselves to blame fo ecent in {crease in arrests. They were coddled | 80 1ong under the old regime that they | seem even vet not (o realize (hat the | | | rules apply (o them. Many of these alleged trivial provisions are coniained in the unitorm vehicle code adopted lest month by the National Confer | ence on Street und Highway Safety | as the best judgment of $00 experts, from all over the country. In one respect | think you are in Py o You say Washington is now Ketting enforcement. Large a» has been the increase in arrests, ihere are numeious important provisions that are hardly enforced at all. This fx trie f most of the provisions vital 1o th ety of pedeatriuns. Although Pllegai and dangerous to pedestrians. over:| taking al interaections is « constant occurrence. Though the law forbids parking within 20 feet of an inter- section —a necessary provision to enabls pedestrians to see oncoming | trafe—parking right up to and fre. quently on erosswalks Is done con- stantly. ‘The papers annonnced recentlv that | the police were going to enforce the vile probibiting the right-hand turn iwhen the sign savs “Stop.”” They are | not doing it. Every dav | witness the | amazing spectacle of men wnd women proceeding with the ¢ sign having to run and dodge for r lives while {soma matorist is hearing down on {them und making this illegal turn un- | molested by the officer. And, of course. many of those that do not make the | |turn are permitted to run halfway over the crosswalks before they stop. As for the unofficered intersections, {ihe average motoriat regards th pedestrian right-of-way rule as a joke. | He blows his horn and steps on the gux, regardless of the number, age or sex of those trving to cross on foot. | except that if the pedestrian in an old {lady and uncertain on her feet he ix more fmpatient, and bhonks louder. |The fact that the intersection is blocked 30 he can't get across does | not deter him in the least from crowd {ing upon the crosswalk so the pedes- | trian cannot get through. | Of course, the Washington motorist takes his cue from the police. And, in this city, the show place of America. | visited snnuallv- by thousands and tens of thousands, many of them dis-| | tinguishea people and ali of them mov |ing about necessarily on foot a great desl, so that in Washington of all places the pedestrian should he pro- tected. the police, in general, regard him as the scum of the eurth, #nd {ignore him completely. i Is it not about time to face this is- | sue squarely and mavshal public spinion to a noint where the Police Department will be compelled o admit | that traffic contrel means something more than heiping the wheels moving tegulate the pedestrian—ves. But pre tect him when he obays the regula tions. . W. STARK. | | | . -oee Too Much Law-Breakin Too Much Buck-Passing: of The Star: The 1one of vour Wednesday's paper. respecting the trafic and police mess in this eity, will find sympathy with those of ns who have municipal welfare next 1o ol hearts. Plain citizen s mueh longer the authorities, from Congress (o crossing cop, are going to play with the traffic and crime question before thay either get down to husiness. 1t is bad enough to | have to depend on tardy and uncer- 1ain legislation by a ‘‘common coun- ofl”" the most of whose minds and ! {nterests are daily elsewhere than on !the city for which it legislates, but | with the executive and judiclal branches amusing themselves with showing up the other fellows’ short- comings. and careless newspaper and movie gossip and jokes about the law, we have come to a disgraceful ftuation for a city which considers itself “civilized.” We have had re ulstions made, amended. twisted. un enforced and wrecked by those sworn to uphold our civilization. Too muich brain wasted on “‘buck-passing.” e Incline 1o the fmpression that those in authori much as we re- spect them, must have gone daft on their jobs for fear of hurting the feelings of the criminal. We have plenty of officials, including To the Editor aditorial in wondering how police ! plenty of regulations. plenty of law breakers, but are short on courts, | erned by | Countess | The ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. Does the evown prince of any country lose his right to the throne it he marries a_commoner?’—J. O. A. The marriuges of members of the royal families are generally gov- the laws of each individual fn moxt European roval member of the reigning house can by law contract a perfect marriage only with a woman of equal vank. If the woman be of lower rank the ‘marriage is morganatic. There have been instances where the heir {0 the throne has contracted a mor- ganatic marriage. but in such u case the wife and the child must renounc all rights to the succession. ~An in stance of this was the late Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria, whose assassination helped (o bring about the World War. He married the Chotek. who was created Princess of Hohenberg. Royal mar riages in Great Britain are governed by the royal marriage act of 1772 Q. When was the last eruption of Vesuvius?—R. B. The last one noted 68, 1926 country. houses a was Janu- vary Q be Can matting and window shades ven u coat of paint?— . M Both matting and window shades can be painted to renew them. The secrei of success in this work is to upply two or three very thin coats of paint rather than a single heavy | coat. Q What is “cracked” gasoline? Can it be used un a cleansing agent?— L E. G, 4. When erude oil is subjected to ordinary distillation by fire the lght products distill off up fo a tempera- ture of 572 degrees K. Above this temperature the hydrocarbons un- dergo partial decomposition, with the result that some light products are produced. This ix “eracking” and the Hght products ure “cracked’ gaso line. It is suituble for cleaning when properiy treated to remove objec tionable color and olher constituents. Q. Where and when was William Locke horn” —E. A A. W. 1. Locke was born in British Guinea in 1862: hoth parents came trom pure South of England families. novelist was edncated wt Trini dad. «1 Queen's Royal College and at { 8t. John's College. Cambridge. Q. How many negroes were killed in the World r>—A. R. T. A. The compilation does not in clude officers. Among the enlisted men in our s ice the baftle deaths of negroes amounted to .47, while the total deaths were 9.765. About 200,000 negroes went overseas. Q. Does more than on grow on # hush?—A. T. ¥ A. Four varieties of Public Upho kind of tea tea | picked from the same bush—Pekoe | trom the very voung leaves, Souchong { from the smallest and Ovlong and ‘ongo from different grades of the same leaf—and the leaves picked early in the morning ha better flavor than those picked later in the day What is the motto of the Prince L. B. motto of the Prince “Ich dien,” meaning Q. of Wales? A. The Wales s serve. Q. For whom was dy Wirdar mere’s Fan" written? W, T A. Oscar Wilde wrote this for Lily Langtry, Q. What proportion of the heds in hospitals are constantly ocenpied? C.0.H | 'A.Leaving ont the hassinets and ‘bnb,\ ribs, 66 per cent. or 52,363 of the toral 802,065. In 1920, 67 per cent fmere occupied, and in 1923, 64 per | cent. | . Q. How much damage do forest fires do to trees and to the land>—P. 3. McE A. The Forest Service says that the amount of damage caused hv a fire to forests depends entirely on the type of fire. There are three classes of fire superficial fire. which hurns leas of the trees and is not necessaril ! dungerous: crown fire. which hurns through the branches and kills them | and is very dangerous and disastrous deep ground fire, which hurns off the roots deep under the trees and de stroys the trees znd makes a vary dangerous fire. In burning land the fire consumes all the rotted leaves and destroys the soil. leaving the min eral element Q. What is musk used or>—D. P. A Small quantities are used in medicine., but the greater part Is |employed by perfumers. Gennine musk has the valuable property of adding to the permanency of other odors, Our Washington Information Ru- reau does not take a vacation. It on the job every day during the year answering questions for our readers Its special service is to ansrer any question of fact on any subject for any reader at any time. It is impoa sible to make a complete cnumera- tion of subjects giving an adequate idea of the scope and range in which the bureau can serve you. Its activities can only be summed up in the ghrase whatever you want io know’” Send your question and oet 1he vight ansiwer. Inclose a °-cent stawp_for return postape. Address The Evpa- ning Ktar Information Rurean. Fred- eric J. Haskin. director, Washington b.e | Ilds President’s Coal Legislation Desires Prasident Coolidge's expressed desire that Congrsss should enact coal legis. lation in order that the public may be protacted during future strikes has received general approval from the [ press of the country. The newspapers | tinues with the comment point out the need of preparedness to henefit consumersand producers, Many favor giving the President power to mediate and assure maintenance of production. 5 As the President lacks “real author ity to do anything.” the Bollingham Herald (independent) is of the opinion that “it is high time to correct this situation,” Viewing the situation as it exists, the Herald sava: “Two definite proposals stand out in the President’s mind as essential to effective legisla. tion —presidential authority to appoint a strike mediation hoard and machin ery for coal administration in the event of a strike. Whenever there is paralysis in the coal industry. and it nvariably comes at a time to injure tha public most. there is a vociferous demand for the President to ‘do some- thing." " The Columbia Racord (Demo- cratic) asserts that “the Congress will he recreant to its fundamental duty if it should adjourn without having es- tablished a protective policy whereby the Executive may deal effectively with emergencies arising from coal strikes. Legislation should be enacted empowering the President. first, to appoint to convene a board of media savs he “could affard 10 ignore noisy criticism from men who had neglected to give him any means of intervention |in the hard-coal strike. and who are still neglecting that duty.” and con ““The inter vention orators can harly expect the country 1o take seriously any longer their loud and empty complaints of presidential inactivity.” | “The miners and the operators in the anthracite field have signed a five vear contract and have resumed pro duction.”” remarks the Abilene Report er (independent Democratic). “but this ‘dnos not mean at all that the industry cannot again be shaken by upheavals. |Laws to prevent such disturbances have been demanded by public opinion for vears, but so far Congress hi made no definite move to enact them The Buffalo Evening ews (Repub- lican) adds that “if legislation to re. lease the Government from the ‘atti tude of humble supplication,’ as Presi dent Coolidge puts it. is not enacted at this session. the public will he left | without protection when the Jackson viile agreement in the bituminous in dustry expires.” And the Worcester Evening Gazette (independent) calls attention to the fact that “the Presi dent found himself no better equipped %o protect the rights of the public than President Roosevelt had been 2 quar ter of a century before Further more. the Belolt Daily News (inde scheols, ash. garbage and trash col|¢jon (o effect » settlement of coalfleld | pendent) asserts that “it is the public Let us have a few mora magistrates to bring the dockets up to date, so that judges can hear instead of motions to postpone. ‘Convict the criminal when arrested, instead of losing him on hail to mul- tiply his offenses and swell our arrest totals. Is it not true that because there are 100,000 arrests locally one in five of our citizens Is u lawbreaker? A few thousand keep the courts busy because they can compromise their offenses with a little fine or get “out on bail” until the cases are old enough to be dropped quietly. There have heen plenty of sugges- tions capable of reducing aryests. The card system for autoists used else- where for an age is one, bhut is 100 18004 to find welcome here. “Obe: the law " is another. Convict the la breaker is a third. Why not stop chatter and do something besides knocking fellow-employes? Tt is time for the three branches of the Gov- ernment (o stop making faces and remarks like spoiled children, and show some manhood by co-operating. o government can sow the wind and escape reaping a whirlwind. Dis- cord has been nursed for several ars, but even the good nature of ‘America has its limits. One man wants a regulation abrogated so that he can raise hob with his auto and charge all his offenses to “accident.” Another wants his liquor stronger 50 that he can get drunk and beat up his family, as used to be the custom. Another wants a wife with- out the responsibility of marriage. The way of civilization is not to can- cel laws to please the breakers, but compel them to respect the law. “They also serve who only stand and wait.” Huh! That is not what they draw pay for. w. lectors. t | | E. ALLEN. All Great Movements Have Been Opposed | To tha Editor of The “Thank heaven!" T sald when I had read the editorial. “Faithless Entorc- ing Agents.” in The Star of the Tth instant. 'hank heaven, we have a paper in the Capital City of America not subsidized by the brewers and liquor sellers of the country who want to be In centrol of politics again and lin the saddle to ride roughshod over any laws regulating the sale of their product paper whose editors realize we have grown to larger estate and a concept of the misery and economic waste from the supremacy of those who are fostering degeneracy. And, in the reaction from this. a great movement has been born, and, like all | great movements from Christianity down, this one has its opponents. Some months ago the North Amer- an Review published some articles on the prohibition problem, and in referring to these the New York Times in an editorial said: “Everybody ought to be interested in the effects of prohibition as seen by a vepresentative business man. The point of view of the working man who favors prohibition is presented by 2 member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and his ar ar: disputes. Tt should add a section giv ing the President the power to declare an emergency. upon reports of his factAinding commission, and thereby force production. as well as prompt distribution of this public necessity e ox % ‘In time of peace prepare for war' is held by the Indianapolis Star (inde- | pendent) to be a maxim ‘“peculiarly ap- plicable to the fuel situation.” The Star, however, states that “‘the Presi- dent is undertaking a difficult problem in attempting Federal legisiation ad quate to meet the situatio and ex- plains: “The simpleat plln'bould pro- vide for a board of mediation, to be #ppointed by the President. and authority to operate the mines in the event of a strike. The latter proposal presents the difficulties which attended Federal control of the railroads during the war, but it would at least assure a suffclent supply of fuel during an emergency. The danger of the plan lies in the deliberate efforts of many miners to get nationalization of the mines. with all the waste and ex- travagance that would entall.”” The Indianapolis paper advises “fhe abandonment of the system by which production costs are based on the ap. erations of the poorer mines and the elimination of the excessive number of men employed, necesfitating part-time work." “We wani an uninterrupted flow of coal from the mines, and we propose to have it,” proclaims the Providence Bulletin (independent), which savs of the present movement: “It will not be the fault of the President if there | is no legislation on coal at the present session of Congress. The facts have been presented to Congress, andgaction has been requested, but there is a dis- position to do nothing now that min- ing has heen resumed in the anthracite regions. The subject. however, should not be dropped. for the possibilities of further trouble have not been elim. inated by the recent settlement.” New York World (independent cratic) furthermore asserts that in this fleld of activity “the Government of the United States has apparently broken down. One strike Is settle continues the World, “the public has paid the cost of the strike and added handsome profits to the industry, and there s no sane reason to assume that we shall not have another. And Con- gress does nothing.” Y Upholding the President, the York _ Herald-I'vibune New (Republican) cle is supplemented N part by homas N. Carver of Harvard Univer- sity, who writes of the way in which prohibition has led to the command of a greater purchasing power by the working classes particularly. Another article which ought not to be over- looked is that of Cornelia Jane Con nor on prohibition in relation to the younger generation. while Horace D, | “Taft, one of those originally opposed to prohibition, testifies that in his opinion an enormous amount of good has followed its adoption. “The prohibition guestion is not go- ing to be settled one way or the other by such discussions. But they are of great value in bringing out the facts and helping to form public opinion.” LUC‘ PAGE STELLE. The | Demo- | pave.” as it takes notice of the fact that “the anthracite operators give notice that the cus tomary Spring reductions on hard conl | will be dispensed with this yvear.' ok % ¥ “President Coolidge s plan for legis 4lation to protect the public from = | shortage of coal in the event of future strikes.” states the Kansas City Post (independent), “‘appears temperate and reasonable,” while the Schenectady Gazette (independent Democratic he Jieves that “a few emphatic words from Mr. Coolidge will have the de sived effect. for this dilly-dally Con gress will not dare to fv in the face of public: sentiment and the demand of the Chief Executive.” The Ithaca Journal News (independent) analvzes the situation with the statement that ‘when a strike is in progress it is gen erally held that attempts to legislaie would make the trouble worse instead of better, but when the strike is over Congress finds It easy to shirk a dis reeable tamk.” which invariably e | Be-Kind-to-Animals | Queries and Answers To the Fditor of The Star April 11 to April 17 is called “Re Kind to Animals week.” Wil we he any kinder this week than we were last? We will not. Do any of us think that the slogan in intended as a reminder to us to he kind? We do not! Wil the owners of horses see that their teams are permitted to work comfortably and not be compelied to endure unnecessary pain from checking and had harnessing? will not! Will the owners see thal long tugs are shortened and dangling hreeching made smaller and raised high on the flanks in order that their horses may be enabled to handle their loads more easily? They will not! ‘Will owners provide straight rubber. covered bits for their horses and j mules in place of Rockwells. J. I. C.'s and jawbreakers? They will not! Will owners and drivers remove all checkreins from “nervous’ horses and permit them fo_work quietly, which they will do when free from pain? They wiil not! Will owners and drivers believe that short checkreins and too small hridles cause the iron bit to saw deep- 1y into the horse's mouth at the cor- ners and oblige the animal to work in pain all day long and also make eat- ing painful when the horse is in the barn? They will not! Do drivers know that a horse will drive or stand quletly unless he is in pain—either frcm overchacking or A sore under the harness? They do not. ‘Will they loosen the checkreins and give the animal & chance to prove his case? They will not! Will owners put their single horses | in breast collars during ~tne hot | weather and relfeve them from the nn- necessary torture of the hame. collar? They will not! MRS, CARRIE K. HUNTINGTON. | | i aver They |