Evening Star Newspaper, May 8, 1926, Page 6

e ~ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, T. C, SATURDAY. THIS AND THAT THE EVENING STAR| . With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY.. ...May 8, 1826 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. . Editor ewspaper Company Business Office 11th St Pennsyivania Ave New Vork' Office 4and St Chicago Ofiow: Tower Building. Buropean Office. 14 Regent St Loudon, Eugland The Evening Star, with the Sunday morn- iers_within dalty g edition The city at 60 cents §n dmi:vered by cns mon only. cents 5000, Coll ier at the end of each month —Payable in Advance. Virginia. $0.00: 1 mo 800 1 mo 1 1 &%.00° 1 mo. $4.00; 1 mo.. unday. 1 v iy, 1¥r usively entitled ation of all news dis it or not otherwise crea- ind alo the local news Al i of publicatio: aleo reserve: redit fred in this ished clal dispat The Fifth Day of Strike. * Official denial in London that there be- has been uny secret conferenc ween Premier Baldwin and J.eader Thomas looking to u-possible adjustment of the troubles besetting Great Br ot stopped reports £ efforts about a settlement nors to that effect continue to cir any apparent ain has Hlate, with though the ¢ tte are eng mmunique he issue of the declaves An organized attempt is being made to starve the people and direct the state, and the legal and constitutional as- pects are entering upon a new phase he call E attack he constitution and says “there is no constitutional crisis.” Moves of w practical re 8 similarly made by the opposing sides, | Would have prevailed if the experience e Atnb lohtslls HE0 DD Rt England and Wales had occurred cemen to guard London and the | here. In Chicago, with a population; e lerch prenare | 000,000, 1 were more 2,000,000 more men. whom they ¢ : CY ey act the fanse.” These me and if they all respond to a call the power plants of Great Britain will be serion! which affec not only ton and thy supplies. Al norning’s reports. London’s second line of de Tude e i of food to this preser according bor- een of twenty-eight ough power houses quit Wi but hey were at once replaced by volun teers it is becoming evide there are wo fact in the labor party, the more m and the more conserva- ive. Ramsay MacDonald, former la- is leader, it would seem, of the moderates even now induce the miners to relax nate attitude in their wage demands. This would seem to be a practical method of reaching a con- clusion. Still, the government has formally declared that It will not make bor premie: nd any move toward resuming negotia- tions unless and until the general strike order is rescinded w on strike in rk strike i who are no return to w e general cercion to compel rnme: n to intervene and by its own act ad e wage dispute in the mine industry by continuing ‘he Stiby the mine owners or by sranting a subsidy the miners themselves. Premier Baldwin and his ow ministers have with the assent Parliament refused on constitutional grounds to permit the government to be forced into interven: The sue now is greater than the settle; of the ming strike. It i an effort at | of Great Bri v to to An author who courts attention by alling himself socialist™ n himself embarrassed when arfses which compels him to s 10 being taken se nard Shaw h; which cannot ftppancy. s STE Relocating Botanic Garden. An attempt is being made in Con- £ress to pass at this session a bill for he relocation of the Botanic Garden. “There is a prospect that the bill will nase. The committee on the Librar has favorably reported one bill to the Senate and a similar bill has been in- troduced in the House. The Botanic Garden between First and Third treets and Pennsyl and Mary- d avenues must go. That was rec- omwmended by the MeMillan Commis- sion twenty-five ve: g0, but there !s a remarkable persistence about the historic and cherished garden. Tt is a stand-patter. Tt took more than a quarter century of effort by persons opposed to the garden’s fence before it was taken down, and now the butts of the iron bars remain and also the Jow brick wall on which the iron fence stood. The Bartholdi fountain must bha moved, because Congress has given a site in the garden for the Meade Memorial, and the fountain, heing be tween the CGrant and Meade memo- als, is sald to be in the way. A good many vears ago a plan was hit on to shift the garden south of its present site, keep it mear the Capitol, en- Jarge it. and also improve a large part of the city between the Capitol, Mary- 1an@ avenue and the Eastern Branch. The bills pending in the Senate and House follow in part the plan drawn up long ago for removing the garden south of Maryland avenue and en- larging it. The plan calls for the con- demnation of several city squares and the use of a large body of land al- veady owned by the Government. 1sly. . a situation before him | he disposed of by a nia Though the Botanic Garden may be | .| posing the Mafia were only too well - | known. moved in order that the Mall ma; tend from Capitol Hill to the Mo ment Lot and Potomac Park here may be a view from the Cupitol and the Grant and Meade m o the Washington Monument, ~oln Memorial and the Arlington Me- morial Bridge, there is a sentiment in Congress that the garden should not Lin- ricians | ion but refrigera- | { the crime. 1170 were s | sons to be taken far from the Capitol. mendations of Willlam E. Parsons on the development of the Botanic Gar- den. That report says: “The first re- Guirement of a new site is that it shall be near the Capitol. The Botanic Gar dens have been since their beginning 105 years &go a part of the Capitol group, and, in point of interest to citl- zens visiting their National City, next interest to the Capitol Building in itself.” Tart of the plan calls for using a strlp of land in the middle of Canal street, 2 wide way and not well buflt {on. It runs southeast to Garfleld Park, changes direction and runs southerly to P street, the north bound- ary of Washington Barracks. It is a tew blocks along P street from Canal to Water street, and the proposal to ! make Water strect part of the boule: vard system is taking shape. Making { Canal street a boulevard would serve several useful purposes. This done, it is not likely that Deluware avenue, also running south from the Capitol to Washington Barracks, would long re- main as it is. It is a wide way, not 50 much improved as other avenues, and it could be made into a fine street, useful for traffic and giving a lift to the improvement of South Wash- ington. b e Homicides in the United States. In the judgment of most of those who have bLeen studying the crime situation in country, the faflure of law enforcement, of prosecution Thc' report of the Library committca on the | Fess Senate bill includes the recom-!are famillar with Sicllian conditions 1 Sicillans said it just simply could not | exaggeration. but it is known that fc ticular owed Premier Mussolini thanks. On the other hand, many persons who and with the character of some of the be done, Recent dispatches from Palermo tell how far Prefect Mor| has progressed with his Horculean task. A serfes of ralds arranged by him has resulted in the arrest of no fewer than 430 per- sons, some of them high up in the Mafla. Some of them were even offl- cials, some of them women. Tefore the rajds began Mori recefved blood- curdling challenges, threatening him with death if he even entered the province of Palermo. Did his blood curdle? Maybe, but he put on no brakes. He went straight ahead. The ralds were not only numerous; many of them were simultaneous end in connection therewith regular pitched battles occurred. Morl means in Latin “to dle,” but evidently the pre- fect is not only not superstitious, but belleves in table-turning. On latest advices he s still golng strong, und Mafialsm, to coin & word, is fast los- ing effectiveness, adherents and popu- larit Things are pretty bad out Chicago way, with beer-runners, gangsters and what not. They are none too good in other places in this country, and do not seem to be improving fast. Those who ought to know claim that com- pared with the Mafia task cleaning up such sore spots as we endure ought to be child’s play. Probably this is an { secretiveness and ruthles: experts are comparable patience, ness the Ma and punishment of those who « mit capital offenses is the chief cau of this present urnalia. In pr: | ticall sdiction is are eviden {1s to be haad f | nd from the lurge cities April “Statistical Bulletin® | issued by the Metropolitan Life In-| surance Compar is a discussion of! the shocking prevalence of capital| crime in the United States. During 10 less than 10,100 homicides inental United the gures which ed in with | 1 o ole of Bngland and Wal v 40,000,000, Nat- | | -d in this wanton waste { | o life, the Metropolitan Company has i effort to discover the police \1 action following homicide g its policyholders. In the to 4 policyholders in | any to the number of 611 were slain. Inquirles that were pros ted the following fact 102 were killed b: of the law while resisting arrest or while in the act of committing crime. This left | 525 assailants answerable to the law for taking huma . It developed that 54 assailants committed suicide | and 13 died before airaignment. Of | the remaining 438 assailants 84, or 15.3_per cent, had mnot been appre- hended within one vyear after the crime had been committed. The 374 cases actually apprehended show an interesting after-history at the hands of the law. There were released by magistrates or grand juries 108 per- sons, against whom no case could be made, and 8 were declared insane. There were actually brought to trial 258 cases. or 6.3 per cent, out of an original group of 408 living assailants. In 62 cases the defendants were ac- quitted, and 9 cases were still pend. ing one year after the commission of The verdict of ‘“guilty” was rendered in 187 cases, of which ntenced to prison for terms of varying length, § cases were centenced to.death (seven executed and 1 case on appeal) and 9 were re- leased, cither on suspended sentence | or being fined. Thus it appears that out of 525 murderers in the three years noted | only 7 went to the gallows. Those who were executed, those who killed themselves and those who died before arraignment totaled 74. But 84 were never caught. Only a little more than half of the murderers twere ever brought to trial, and a quarter of | these were acquitted. : Failures of the police and failures | of the courts together allowed the | majority of slayers of these 525 per- ape any form of punis ment. What wender that life is held lightly in this country! What wonder that professional bold and ruthiess! The other day a man who undertook to hold up a bank in Massachusetts was wounded in the melee which fol- lowed his entry and on his way to the hospital he kept murmuring: “This is the first time in five years that I haven't killed iy man.” For five ¥ if he is truthful, he has been shooting and slaying as he has preved upon society. The chances favored him. Me had better than an even break. If he had been lucky enough to. get away from his latest robbery after killing another he would still have had, according to the Metropoli- tan Life Company's figures, a better than even chance to escape punish- it indeed he had been cap- ment, tured e Ancient cities are constantly being found by excavators. They make the announcements of the up-to-date realty development all the more attractive by comparison. ST T, Mori Mops Up. Karly in the present year Benito Mus- solini, intenstvely industrious Italian intendant, told Signor Mori, prefect of police of Siclly, to get busy and clean up Mafla conditions on that historic and obstreperous island. Signor Mort was teld further to keep things clean after he had once cleaned them up. The idea was that fascism, which had “healed so many of Italy’s wounds, must cauterize, with fire if necessary, that of Sicillan criminality.” Not only Italy but the rest of the world realized the job that was handed to Mori. The long intrenchment in power, the viclousness, the elusive- ness of the thugs and assassins com- The United States of America was especially interested, for over here we have a transplanted but cven more vicious and venal offshoot and | variation of the organization called the “Black Hand.” At that time the opinion was expressed that the world in general and tMs country in par- A ! qotlar pr It is perhaps to be » departments | did not | 1 to Red Indians observers meth o | People are walking to work in n- don. The “human element” disturbs the calculations of mechanical experts. But it Is the human element that must finally be depended on for the faith and determination that keep affuir: moving. et - | An author has refused a thousand expluining that he regards pri contests as unfavorable to lit erary development. Anyhow. what is » mere thousand dullars to a veally successful author | R 1l retains the attitude n what Unele Sam sf of the person who is intere may happen next in G and is in obedience to the radiv : nouncer’s admonition “Please s wr o Pennsylvania will bring the {ssue” directly into politi John Barleycorn is trying to a himself as a bigger man than William Penn himse ) Whatever may happen. the England will remain pepular. owing to an intelligent realization that he is wishing for the best and that if any thing goes wrong it is not fauilt. i N The obscure Government worker looks forward to i nods pensio The fact that this is the richest coun- try on earth is not accurately reflect- ed in his affairs. e O All the great minds of England are agreed on one point: The situation is serious. e Delay in presentation of American debutantes at court is deplored. The dressmakers are compelied to suffer along with the rest of the general pub- lic in the present crisis. —— et SHOOTING STARS. ! PHILANDER JOHNSON | BY Placid Ease. Amid his grandeur siept King Tut Unheeding “if"" or “and” ¢ but.” The World rolled on with storm and stress. He dozed in co! Perchance he dreamed, as said Men may when wakeful life has fled, And in imagination spent The_hours in revelrous content none the less. ort, Hamlet And we who all inertly dwell In splendid safety, guarded well Are free from care and danger— “But,” Fate whispers, Tut!” e sport and Politics. “Why don't you quit work and go fishing?” J “r'd like to,’ answered Senator Sorghum. “But none of my constitu- ents are fishermen. If I want to re- main popular as a eport enthusiast, I've got to keep on playing golf.” 0's vour old King Fashion on the Capitol Dome. Miss Ireedom hears the various “probes" BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Carrie the cashier carries on her work from behind a counter of fake circassian walnut. Carrle herself is not altogether genuine, but no one minds that, least of all the gentleman patrons of the restaurant. These get their change and a smile from Carrie; only a few grouches hand her the exact amount called for by articles of food consumed. Day in and day out she sits there, on her high stool, clanking the cash register and shuttling forth coins and smiles. As far as our observations 80, she is a permanent fixture, too. One would as soon expect the cash machine to be absent as to miss Car- rie from her accustomed seat, where she presides with ail the verve of Venus and the wisdom of Minerva. If you should mention, in an un- guarded moment, the name of the latter goddess to Carrle, she would chide you for glving publicity to a face creum. Greeks are not among Carrle’s familia Her efforts, rather, have been di- rected toward the study of life on the spot. Gods and goddesses play {no part in her cosmography, except in g0 far as men and women may resemble those fabled creatures, which 1o doubt many of them do, since the former were only mental imuges of the latter. * Carrie would be astonished, too, if she were to be told (let no one tell her) that she is a past master in No dou in she would lock at you | the art of making people feel at home. | extreme astonishment, wondering what brand of “apple sauce” this wa you were “handing” her. Carrie simply fulfills her mission as a born restaurant cashier. She knows nothing of psychology, or character reading--she simply is a! psychologist by necessity, and « reader of character through putting one and one together, thus dexterous. 1y_making two. © one, therefore, least of all yonder slick drummer, can slip anything over on Carric. She fs proof against all such. Her fame has preceded her, and even the siickest traveling salesman no longer tries it Every one accords Carrie her due, which is to be recognized as a real good pal of the moment, and to be let go at that. There i% something “homey" about Carrie that makes all feel at home Especlally men Women, somehow, do vt take #uch & shine to Ler. uithough all admit her winuing ways. Cairie is popular, and popular woman aly: Las a hard row to hoe, as the saying is, with her own sex. Carrie knows her business all. Carrie Las deep hrown hair deeper brown eyes, and cheeks pir with the hues of the true dawn, that itself. With ail these beautles f a touch of shyness, : sadness, that dis a thousand restar bet that no lonesome ate breakfast in ever forgot the e: © been years as It is a safe male who ever |1ite lLave brought forth many changes, but in the back of their memories carry a beautiful plcture, frumed among the lumber that clutters up the place. It is a photograph of Carrle, of course. She sat there on her stool on the cold da; when the snow is | | { a smile ltke the radiance of the sun ! 1 | this dia not happen oft down along the restaurant window, and the gales swept the street, and the hungry came trooping, slamming the door behind them. Carrle greeted them with a smile. She sat there in the Spring, when trees were leafing, and lilacs were transforming the world into fairyland, the dogs were wagging their tails, and men and women were glad to be alive, Carrie greeted them with a smile. In the hot days of Summer she was ever the same. Cool and collected, her smile unwilted by the heat, Carrie sat in the path of the electric fan, and smiled, smiled, smiled. Maybe the man wrote the song about her. It was in the brisk days of Autumn, however, that she carried over best Perhaps it was her nut-brown halr, or those nuttier-brown eves; anyway, she seemed to positively chime in with the crisp air, the sparkling suushine, the fulling brown leaves. Perhaps she hersell was an Autumn girl. Maybe it was her natural time of year, just as cer- tain plants grow Dbetter in tahe Autumn _than at any other period Maybe her blood circulated more freely at a given external tempera- ture of the air, which, reacting on her smooth cheeks, made it un necessary for her to apply certain ingredfents. It was in the days of Fall, there- fove, that Carrle shone. Then. in- deed, she was at her best. Then. if ever, came perfect Carrie davs. wheh our heroine seemed at peace th the world. The wistful quality of Ler mout sich appealed to all, almost van ished from the picture. It is hiue that one sometimes caught her dropped eveiids and a 1 Most of the tinie she w girl R What memories of golden pumpkin pies throng, and what® how many tumblers of cold gleam' Such pies as be met with every was a work of art felt wure Carrle Lud a hand in ma ing. Verhaps she never did, but she got those net day were the credit just the ne, for such | pies helonged to Carrie as s! them. To eat that pie, and to d that milk, and to look ut Carrie all at the same ti was more than he patrons deserved Mar fell this deeply v suits and yell heir bre Tunch checked gr rightly regarded a privilege, thel thefr dinner as a Lose were not spice pies! They were genuine filled, with a taste sweeter honeycomb, and a color that of the great god Pan necessit led for r the & was experience which ¢ the same. Nor must Ik be forgot. It milli, and very cold Then there was Carrie's smile 1t any wonder that they near and far to eat those drink that milk, and to basi sunshine of that smile? Lest any one mist 1s came from ! nies, in the siasm, let us s R et restaurant i at least 15 vears ug nd v as we choose to pictur n memory's tints deserved an imn ortality BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. “The government has resigned, but did not fall.”" Those were the closing words of Prime Minister Skryzinski of Poland, in a bulletin to the press on Wednesday. Skryzinski and his cabinet faced the inevitable when the Soclalists of the coalition withdrew April 21, refusing to support the policy of retrenchment of national expenses. which had re- Guired the discharge of 17.000 unneed- ed railway employes of the army from | 213,000 to 190,000, and of the salaries feven of cabinet officials) about 6 per cent. 3 The resignation of the cabinet has cen in the hands of President Wojeiechoski. for two weeks, but the President deferred acceptance until the cabinet had formulated and the Parliament had passed appropriations covering the budget for May and June, thus completing the fiscal vear. * ok ok ¥ Prime Minister Skryzinski is also minister of foreign affairs—he held that portfolio under Prime Minister: Grabski—asd, whoever becomes his successor as head of the government, Skryzinski will continue to be min- ister of foreign affairs. The cabinet which now goes out of power was a coalition of all parties of the Right and Center, including even the Socialists. It had a mafjority of 60, in a House of 444 members. The Polish Diet (House of Representatives) has no less than €1 parties, with no party stronger than 100 votes. No government, therefore, can live except with the consent of several parties in coalition. When the Soctalists with- drew their 41 votes, the majority be- hind the government was left too small for carrying the general policies of Skryzinski, but no new cabinet can be formed which does not include him as forelgn minister, because his own party (the National Populist Union). with 100 votes, is able to dictate that much or kill any possible coalition. Whilo there are many £o-called *par- ties,” they are mostly mere groups divided upon racial lines, rather than And sighs, “Tl watch my shape. They may remove my flowing robes And dress me in red tape.” Jud Tunkins says a film star is sometimes obliged to have a good press agent to counteract what is said by his wife's lawyers. Grass Widow. “What is a grass widow the stranger in our country. “One who collects alimony,” an- swered Miss Cayenne. “She made hay while the sun shone.” No Selection. My radio has won my heart, As tunes are set afloat. I once took music a la carte. It's now served table d’hote. nquired English beverage experts say that tea has a wonderful kick in it. It had in the days just before the Revolution. Spring Song. Old themes are bringin Loveltest lays. The frogs are singin’ “Hoppy days! nuffin’ “‘makes “De man dat can't make sald Uncle Eben, troubie.” The Perennial Bar. From the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch. The plan for an early adjournment of Congress may be wrecked on Muscle Ehoalw. B upon broad differences in political doc- trines. There are the National Pea: ant party, moderate (50 votes); Chris- tian Democracy (41), Pollsh Socialist. Jewish Club, Radical Peasant party, National Christian party, National Workmen's party, German Club, Peas- ants' Party Club, Ukrainian Club, Peasant Union, Independent Peasant party, Labor Club, Communists (Rus- sfans), White Russian Club, Catholic People’s Club, Ukrainian Agrarian Club, White Russian Workers' Club, Radical Peasant Club and Non-Part! san party. These groups do not hy- phenate their titles, as “Russian- Polish,” but frankly gather according to tles of race. Nevertheless, these small groups are able to form coali- tions along broad lines of political principles. The prosent crisis marks the general dividing line between the Conserva- tives and Radicals. The former seek to balance the budget by strict econo- mios; the radicals demand the seeking of foreign loans or inflation of the currency. The Skryzinski Conservatives, who have been in power since the fall of Grabski last November, point to the fact that Poland has funded all its foraign debts, including the $270,000,- 000 owed to the United States gnd which is funded on the basis of 62 years for payments. ® ® K ¥ - When the Versailles treaty re-cre- ated Poland as an independent nation there were some thousands of Polish raliroad men employed on Russian rallvoads, and when the war followed between Russia and Poland practically all of these returned to their father- land and found employment on the Polish government-owned railroads. They were not needed, but were taken on as distressed patriots, and at that time the government expected to build additional railroads, which would require thelr services. Financlal stringency followed, pre venting the plan of new railroad ex- tension, yet the 17,000 extra employes have been kept on the pay rol!, rather than belng turned into the mass of unemployed. The Soctalists demand that these n shall still be kept in government employ, at the ex- pense of general taxation The alternative i3 the dole to the unemployed. Poland today, with its population of 30,000,000, has less than 1300,000 out of employment; some are recelving sniall doles and fed at soup kitchens. That appears as i small percentage, but it is pointed out that as 70 per cent of the population lives on farms. the entire unemployment is from the ranks of the 30 T —9,000,000—industrialists. Harvests will increase the demand for labor and it is expected that the relief will nearly wipe out the necessity for doles. One of the political issues is the | compel 0 acres question of legislation to owners of more than 130 or of land to sell the surplus. with a maximum limit on price, so that more farms may be created, but there has been no expropriation of land to be compulsorily taken over by the gov ernment for resale to peasants, in spite of the predominance of the peasant class ir the Diet. * % With all the struggle which Poland has had to face, not only throughout the century when she was partitioned and submerged, but since the World ‘War renaissance, she has, toda. her credit and prosperity upon firmer ground than have some of the older independent nations. For example, the Irench franc is depreciuted to less than 4 cents of American gold value, while the Polish zylote, which has a par value practically equal to a franc, is quoted in international exchange at about 10 cents. All for- elgn debts of I™land have been satis- factorily settled. She has solid wealth in her farms, go that there iz less fluctuation in her money due to dependence upon forelgn markets for her industries. The international monopoly of potash, negotiated between France and Ger- many, will not long affect Poland, be- cause she has a vast amount of un- worked potash in a strip 70 miles long, which has not yet had 10 per cent of development. She needs 200,000 tons of potash annually and in 1924 produced only 81,480 tons— the largest output hitherto. But in 1925 the production amounted to 178,803 tons, and in the immediate future she will be producing a surplus for export. No longer is the demand for a fox- oign loan popular; she will prefer to develop her own wealth. * ok kK The constitution establishes the Roman Catholic Church, but protects all other religions, Statistics indicate that the people are exceptionally sober, for they consume an average of only two liters of alcohol per head annually, as oontrasted with France, 20.7 Mters; Italy, 15.2; Great Britain, 10.6, and Germany, 9.2 liters. ‘With the view to proteoting home industry and preventing wasteful lux- uries, the laws forbid the importation of ples, sweets, rum and other spirits, lquors and wines of all kinds, oysters and other small fish, cosmetics and perfumes. Special permission to im- port euch forbidden articles may be granted to citizens of countries having treaty arrangements with Poland. There is a general policy of high protection in the form of customs * " | cal writing, in tracing the evolu toi Iach one | which customers | 0| . GRRL built | MAY 8, 1926. THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover. There was a time when man's re- spect for print was 8o great that to see something stated as a fact in 4 newspaper, and still more in a book of history, was to give general belief to the truth of the statement. A more literate, a more sophisticated age, be- lioves less wholeheartedly what it sees in the masses of print which sur. round and almost engulf it. Why we should doubt or believe our books of history is ably and interestingly set forth in “The Historian and Histori- cal Evidence,” by Prof. Allen John- gon. The author was until recently professor of American history at Yale, and editor of the ‘“Chronicles of America,” but has within a few months come tc Washington to edit the great American ‘“Dictionary of National Blography.” *“Doubt,’ says Prof. Johnson, “Is the beginning of wisdom.” Among the many kinds of doubt which the historfan must enter- tain are the doudts of the memory of eyewitnesses, of propaganda, of deliberate forgeries, and of the mo- tives of historians. All of these points are fllustrated with interesting and illuminating examples of the mistakes, {nnocent or intentional, of historians. To the student asking whether this or that recorded plece of history Is “the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth,” Prof. Johnson replies: “To say that a historlan should tell the truth is a counsel of perfection. It assumes that there is absolute truth to which he may attain. * * * The most that historians can know is that ! historical past which has been | ceived and reported by human intelli | gence. * * & each mathematical certainty, and s fortunate, indeed, if he can reach a | hizh degree of probabilit ty beyond reasonable doubt.”” 1In the face of such an answer inquirer may be inclined to agree with the cy ical remark of the French Foutene quoted by Prof. Johnson, is only a fable upon which men have agreed.” But the author does give a systematic and flluminating anal of the basis for judgments of hist ‘that history e: of historical study and record from the hen history was a subdivision iilosophy to the highly scientific thod of modern times. As euch it is |of interest not only to writers of his- |tory, present and prospective, but also to an intelligent reading public, sirous of riminating between his 5 and books which masquerade as In Charies G. Norris' novel. “Pig »f the “'touches of ! ake he whole | s knows human fortabie liouse. d old friend. | home to dinner. to kee his house, and particula pretty wife. takes his vior Evane. noveli “He wanted Te his style of 1i his ng favor with John | W. Oates, tl A fer. He is | disappointed that Taylor does not ex { press more enthusiasm, eith the beautiful Paula or abo count of business success. Ta; wants “to talk only about himself his wi e s just completed { other which he b ‘h Lie is sure So 10 both men. Each wants to talk of him- self and his achievements, and each ders the other lukewarm in ap- preciation and egotistical. How many conversations between friends dupl cate this one between Sam Smith and Taylor Evans. Most people find talk- ing about themselves and their own work more interesting than talking r friends and their friends’ work. Samuel Smith also often fails to receive the attention which he thinks he deserves from his own fam- ily. One evening when hLe has re- turned late to his fashionable apart- ment on Riverside drive he finds his wife out. the maids out. his children and their nurse asleep and his father- in-law snoring loudly in his small bed- the end of the hall. He is grrieved, partly because he is hun- v and there is no ore to get him { fomathing to eat, but even more be- | cause there is no one around to whom he can tell the story of a clever deal | he has put over during the day. “It | was a good story. Jerry on Monday morning would get a great laugh out of it—Jerry was a prince * But damn it, 4 man ought to have a wom- an to tell such things to. A man ought to come home to a wife who would laugh him, praise him, be indignant where | he felt indignation, be elated when elation was in ordasl’ Yes, Samuel Smith was very human. | In nis “Adventures of an | trator,” Joseph Pennell, who has died { since the publication of his booik, tells ceveral interesting anecdotes about his travels in Russia while he was seeking eubjects for illustrative treat- | ment. He visited Berditchev. the fa- mous “Jew city.” without permission, i novel, ‘sweated blood, s the best work he the evening is a disappointing c 1lus- | {n Siberia as a result. When his book, “The Jew at Home,' was published, | Joseph Conrad told Mr. Pennell that {he people of Berditchey, Conrad's na- tive city, had said that if the author iof that book ever came back they | would crucify him. At Kiev Mr. Pen- | nell was a witness of the spectacle of festival. The monastery, had come to see and draw, stands high !above the city, within the walls of the fortress. As he ascended to it, many pligrims from all over Russia were approaching in swarms. Some had come from Siberia and had been 18 months on the way. ¥rom the gate- way they crawled to the church and there stretched themselves on the floor to wait for the service. After describing the festival and the serv- ices, with keen appreciation for all that was beautiful about them, Mr. Pennell says: “But as I Jooked, a great stone in the floor was rolled away, and leading downward was a flight of steps. One by one, the worshipers near descended, and, as I, too, was near, 1 went with them. The stairs ended in a small crypt, lighter than the church above. In the center, on a great stone slab, covered with tap- estry, lay a richly-robed metropolitan, wearing his crown, holding an icon. He was very still. By his side, read- | ins & book, also on the slab, was seat- ed a monk, who soon was brought a plate of food by other monks. He moved slightly, and as he moved there was a clanking, and I saw they were chained together, and then I was touched and motioned to rise from my knees and leave to make room for others descending the stairs. And by dark passages, through horrid cata- combs filled with dead monks in their robes, chained to the walls till they moulder to dust, I.came out. When that night I told the British consul what I had seen, he gasped and said, ‘My God, you have seen it! It is the living death! You have seen what we have only heard of. The live monk chained to the dead priest will stay with him until he, too, dles. That place is only opened,once a vear.' " I Time Limit. From the Duluth Herald. An alien should live in America at a before denouncing ) No Rivalry. | From the South Bend Tribune. We wonder it there is much of a per- | ‘The historian can never . a probabil- | de- | the evening he also enjoys telling Tay- | at his stories, sympathize with | and might easily have found hlmse!ll the living death at a great Autumn| which he | ANSWERS TO BY FREDERIC Q. What will the Sesquicentennial International Exposition cost the United States Government?—M. P. | A. The Federal Government has ap- propriated the sum of $2,186,000 for its own participation and for an auxiliary building. Of this amount $1,000,000 has been allotted for expo- sition’ butldings other than the Gov- ernment pavillon. The remainder is being used to finance the displays which will be sent by Government bureaus and the Army and Navy. Q. Has the famous rore window of the Cathedral of Rheims been re- stored ?— LG A. M. Henri Dwneux, architect in charge of the work, recently reported that all the windows have had their mulifons and their rose work restored, the bindings of the glass have been repaired or remade, and the glass itself, for the riost part modern, will soon be completely inserted. Q. On a raflway journey 1 saw a party of Japanese eating, from @ tin box, thin strips of green substance. | It was probably a confection. Can| you tell me what it war’—G. L. G. | A. The Japanese embassy says that the thin strip of green substance re- | ferred to is not a confection, but a cooked rice at any hour of the dav usually at mealtime. The delicatel salty flavor derived from the sea- | weed, combined with the indescrib- | | able taste of the “shoyu,” whet the| ! appetite much es caviar this way it is regarded as tizer o a relish Q. What part of the grain is cr of wheat made from?—IilL. F A. Cream of wheat {4 n purified middlings” of wheat. ied widdlings” is the white kernel |broken into chunks. {rom which the | | is mada into purses, week end cases |and other novelties. Since ostriches | are tuo valuable to kill for thelr skins, | Are cocklel {1ca or have they orted from | foreizn countries M | A. The Bureau of Plant Ind\:sh_‘; s that re are three common spe- | tura two are Kkleburs: One is 1 ses. ! re 1 es: | a-guay, meaning a | )—resembling a | n na at ds like a bird's til. Pa means the golde! water. possibly from the water fov | called paragua BUDAPEST.—When | Smith—born, to his veracious pass- | port tells, at Dover, N. H.—came { Budapest as the agent of the Leagu fof Nations and in general repre sentative of the sound if old-fas ioned financial idea that iwo and tw. I. Jeremiah necessarily made four, it was | urally first of all necessary to & {him a title. It was difficult | 25 | impossible, and in the end he w decorated for all time with the mag nificently adequate “Infallible O Mister. The business of Dover was complex. task to restore the finances of a state which had fallen a pre) Buropean delusion that m was governed by astronomical rather than liquid measure. He followed ,tl.e extravagances of war, the wmac ness of the red bolshevist era and i the highly feudal monetary cc tions of the post-Soviet time. His was the job to apply the principles of Ca vin ‘Coolidge to the country of Kos- suth and all the great heroes and pa triots of the most romantic realm on |this planet to * ok oW History tells, Budapest history, imade in the music halls. that for |many weeks and months. passing al. | most into the fixed and enduring | {form of lines in Shakespeare or | “Charley’s Aunt.” the one joke sure |to provoke a laugh was—"Yes, but| i what do you do?" All Budapest roared, | | perhaps “stil lroars, at these words | lin proper Magyar. But the story is| this: | When the “Infallible One, Mister.’ had seated himself for a time on tie | hill from which one conqueror after| another has looked down upon the| Danube since the dars when the Ro man himself sat there, he bestirred | himself and passed through many of-| fices, government offices, and inter-| rogated many officials, government o ficlals. Always, so the legend goe the conversation was like this: “Wha do you do?" inquired Smith of Dover, N. H. “I am,” responded the official. | with ‘all the many courteous hand-| shakes and bows and polite word currency of {which are the small chairman Hungarion life, “T am there followed many titles, man words, describing rank and position. No." responded Smith of Dover,| who managed at least one Harvard| foot ball team, and has a way with him, withal. “No, it is written on this paper which I hold in my hand, who you have the honor to be, but| what, T ask vou, what do vou do | Then, if as frequently happened, the answer was vague, there came this. | “But beginning next Monday. you do something else, not this.” In a word, | the third assistant keeper of the offi- cial roll of it-mattersnot-what wa “fired,” “canned,” “zincked,” by Smit of Dover. Whereat the common people who frequent revues in Buda- pest, and laugh at their betters as they do elsewhere, laughed and still laugh. * ok kK But in the end a subtle revenge wis prepared. It was written in the pro- tocol that the “Infallible One, Mister,"” should be provided with a house to| cover him against the cold nights When the wind blows over the Car-| pathians from Rusia, and even from Asia. But no house was available until in the end he was offered noth- ing less than a wing of the ro palace itself. It might have tempted a less loyal son of Dover, this place looking over the river and guarded by sentries who salute without inter- ruption, and with the *zip” which/ John Pershing taught. But the lure was hung in vain. Consider then the sequel: For the wise government to which Smith con- tinues to pay allegiance ruled in its wisdom that Americans living abroad should pay taxes at home on the basis of the renting value of the premise which they inhabited, and had he ac- cepted hospitality in the palace of the Hapsburgs, temporarily absent the “Infallible One, Mister,” might have been called upon to pay in pro portion to the renting capacity of a | building hardly smaller than Buck- | | ingham Palace or the Capitol at | Washington. * ok ko, | Always as the American wanders any chickens th: | through the Chicago C; ond?—P. W Japanese food made from seaweed |t and seasoned with “shoyu.” It is| generally eaten in soup or Wwith | where the QUESTIONS J. HASKIN. Q. Which hen is the mother of a chick, the one who lays the egg o the one that hatches $7—J. H. P A. The Poultry Division says tha' the hen that laid the egg is the mother. Towever, hens will mother they hatch Q. Is there any city in the Utilad States where the traffic Zoes to the left?—J. L. N. A. The American Automobile Assc ciation says that as far as it knows there i3 no place in the United States or Canada where automobile traff goes to the left. This an English custom and probably was used in Canaua some time ago. Q. Are there polar bears around the South Pole?—M. M. A. Stefansson, the explorer, sass that so far as is known there ars no land animals on the Antarctio Continent. This continent, he states is larger than Australia. Q. Iow many gallons of water pass nal per sec B. A. The Chicago Association of Con merce says that the present legal flow through the canal under the permit of of War of March 8, 1925 feet per second, which, in gallons, would be about 61,600 ga! lons per second. Q. Why called a dru The v ch word sh stuff coarse woolen covering rich means lied to = and A the: ment of living con sclous endeavor in order {bran has teen removed and from |cient human beings n which the fiour has ‘heen removed.|with race improvement through he The remalning particies comprise | redi cream of wheat. T Q theor Q. Are ostrich skins ever made into | proved” - leather? R.K. .. | A. The Naval Observatory savs the A. Leather made from ostrich hide | coriectness of the Copes i9 as certain as tha discover ed only the particular muscle throwing a ball in good conditior What do you ne ? Isthe some about uour business o personal that p s you? | there something you want 1o kno without delay? Submit your questio to Frederic J. Ha d:rector of o Washington Information Burea i is empioyed ielp you. Addres your inquiry to The Evening Star | forination Bureau. Fre J. Hask director, Washington close 2 cents in stamp postage. THE INFALLIBLE ONE. MISTER BY FRANK H. SIMOND> he even American eff seem more tolerable and less 1 Herbert Hoover was such his days of B 1 relief No one can he limits. define unction, mea: the n o anything bu ossible, what he does at ¢ a basis for an whom all trust conti he trustee of reaso to whom in the last analysis refer because ail believe the honest d sin ple good falth of the f t is S Ii.. later of Harvare many far d famous < For more tha sat on the L the American bar two vears he I old Tur d to watch the plain; he ha unobtru iently Hungarian finances and stabilized Hungarian cucrency. He has protec ed the Hungarians from the desig as well as the suspicions of the litt entente. MHis guarantee of the justice of certain suspicions has kep invading armies at Lome. Disarmed and helpless. with three open frontiers which invite, Hung has escaped other threats, if not actual invasione becaus last analysis there was the One. Mister,” sittine on the hill hard by the thousand-yea old Coronation Church ministry a best of him, all of it—and it is both a good deal and 4 high best—to the Job in hand Simple. shrewd. kindly witha neither buying gold bricks nor seliing grcen goods, Smith of Dover has sa on the old hill of Buda and done for one country a service the value of which can hardly be exaggerate And if vou think of Budapest, 1} most romantic capital of the las feudal state in Europe, nothing is a‘ once so appealing and so satisfy as the thought that there, amidst a the relics of grandeur and evidence of past preatness. in the most I ropean thing left in Europe, o Smith of Dover sits calm and con petent, prepared to raise the salary of the regent or forbid the advan of the armies of the liitle enten as once he might have decided tha Harvard would not play Dartmout during the season or that, in the Yale game, Brewer would carry tie vall. b We have no viceroys and no pre consuls: most of the best represenia tives we send abroad never figure In our diplomatic list: Kurope knows them on the whole far better than do we at home. But of the gres servants of the Luropean reconstruc tion who have done honor to the own country in doing service for othe _nunons. far and away not the leas' is Jeremiah Smith of Dover, 100 pe cent Auerican, without one singir Fourth of July brag in any one of the percents. (Copyright .t The Criminal 2 f’er Cent. 1026 | From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Assoclated criminologists, after 4¢ 000 tests, have arrived at the gene: alization that 2 per cent of the peo- ple commit 90 per cent of the crimes Such & conclusion carries the coro! lary that it is possible to ascertain within reasonable limits whether o: not an Individual belongs to tl criminal 2 per cent without wafting for him to show it by committing crime, We are not vet ready for some day social knowledge will n it 2 rule to isolate potential crin inals before they become actual crimina That, and the progress which continue to be made nt coirecting mentul atiitudes and habits _that produce criminality dnties, both on imports and exports. | contest for ocoroner of Willlamson | through Europe, in obscure corners|eventually, will dispose of the prob- 1926, by Paul V..Collins.) 4 (Copyright. County, T little known to fame or front pages, lem.