Evening Star Newspaper, May 29, 1926, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Editien. WAESHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY........May 20, 1926 TRFEODORE W. NOYEI.’. . . Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Compauy | Rusiness Offe: The Eveming Star. with the Sunday morn Ing o in denvered by carviers withi the cents nee month: duily onlv 43 cente per month: Sungay only. 20 cents per month. Ordora may ba seat bs mail or felenhone A Lin A0GO. Collect: carmar st tie end of each m made oy Rate by Mall—Payable in Advas Maryland and Virginis. Dasts and Sunday D.00: 1 0o, Duily anly $6.00° 1 mo. ~nndey $3.00° | mo. .. 35 A0c 23e 1y 1 1y ANl Other States and Canada. lte and Sundar.t ur. %000 1 mo. 51 Daile o 3 I mo o e, $400; 1 mo 3be tor ren natches credited 1o it or ired in this paper puhlished herein 97 anacia) dfapatehes herein not atherwise cred of ublication » wito reseried. John Ericsson. I"nveiling today of the memoriul to John Kricsason in Potomac Park ac anires an nusual significance from | the pressnce of the Crown F Frleason was b land. Sweden, July 31 fore his arrival in the U'nited States in 1838 he had gained renown as an | enginaer through his remarkable dis. enveries in physical science. At the age of twenty-five he made rthe frat! application to navigation of the prin ciple of condensing steam and return the water to the hoiler. He ha alsn invented an automatic Runloc for the Aring of naval cannon at any alevation regardless of the rolling of the ship. Three vears bafore leaving hie native land he revolutionized nu\- tgation by his evolution of the screw | propelier. So that this young Swede, seeking tha land of larger opportunity, came 1o these shorex with a remark ehle vecord of inventions of & prac | tieal nature, ! The fest upon which the fume of | Kricseon chiefly rests, however, was | 4 combination of his own idea with that of Theodore R. Timby, to whom ! 2 patent had been granted by the 1'nited States Government for a re- volving turret. Ericason’s contribution was the almoat submerged huil and the use of lron in its construction. Timby's turret, which he had pre-| vionsly nrged upon the notice of Km- poleon 111 of Krance, wi superimposed upon this virtual metal vafi, In ordering the constr Monitor by a company of patriotic citivens, the Federal Government =ought to defeat the aims of the Con federate authorities, who were engag- | #d in the construction of an ironclad a1 Norfolk, using the hull of the frig- ate Merrimac, aunk in the navy yard there upon its abandonme: ensied hetween the two shipyards, that at Greenpoint, . 1. where Fricason. the engineer enguged by the construction company to pertect the novel craft, was rushing to accomplish | the apparently impossibie, and that at Norfolk. where the Contederate na forces were rushing the armoring of the Virginia, as the former Merrimac wan atvied. The Confederates won | the race by a day, in terms of initial action. While the Monitor was mak- ing ita way around to the capes the | Virginia, or Merrimac, as it is mont | femiliarly known, was raiding and #inking Federal ships lying in Hamp- 1on Roads. . The battle of the fronciads toek Place the following day, for the Mon- ftor errived during the night. There was panic in the North, ewing to the ease with which the new craft had Aestroved the heavily gunned Fed vessels. Would the “cheeas box on & raft,” as the Monitor was stvied in aeorn by skeptica, prove equal to the emergency? The story of that en- gagement i history. The Monitor proved ita worth and the hopes of the Confederacy for naval supremacy we destroved. Jehn Briesson's genius in the con struetion of the Monitor In record tima, sn experimental craft defving a)l the known laws of navigation, has heen universally recognized. Timby's centribution to the result has not been adequately acknowledged. But 1o feanon this country I8 not unduly grateful, not alone for this specific, history-making achievement, but for his invalusble gifts to the service of #umanity in the sphere of science and nvention. The memorial which rises on the banks of the Potomac is a tangible token of the esteem in Which this adopted son of America is held by the present generation and will attest ) n the time to come to a remarkable eereer of the higheat vaiue. ventor. i peror ction of the | —veo Ity always finds admiring in- terest in America even though it is never quite strong enough to move the conntry to desire some of its own. R A Warning to Woman Motorists. A timely warning for woman own ars of automobiles may be gleaned from a recent decision of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, which held that a married woman with a car vegiatered under her maiden name ce of {avalluble 10 persons who would con- Sweden. the native land of the in-|sult them. at Werm- | 1803, and Uf-' L &nd construction that will improve the | | The Government should not construct ) exposition traveied, save over very the registration office. no longer ex- | weather = predictions and dramg: isted. 1t seems a amall technicality | quite as a matter of course. on which to dismiss & suit for dam-| Whet will the BSesquicentennial | 4ges, but inasmuch as the Massachu- | vield ss the extraordinary outstand. {aetta Supreme Court |there 15 the likellhvod thut oth | courts, contronted with the sume sor i of case. would make similar rulings. of uclence and invention? Already rudio pictures ave being transmitted, {not yet pertectly, but with sufficient Of co e, la i essential (hat the distinciness o promise rare resuits | registration office should know ex- in the near fut Radio powe iaetly to whom each molor vehicle be- (ransmission Is also Ju the siage of | 1ongs and where the owner can be lo- ' development. Fiving machines are lcated. For this reason, women. so frequently seen that few people {upon marriage, showld lmmediutely | (urn their heads to note them, and [ straighien out their certificates. Al from the fiying machines men talk to {(hough It was probubly an oversight | peopie on the ground and recelve mes- {on Mrs. Bacon's part, and an expen- sages from them. 'The other day a sive oversight at that, she can 80| great airshlp salled over the North {least gain the consolation that her . pole from Spitzbergen to Aluska gnd | experience will probably save man¥ 'yen( bulletine by volce of the progress | teminine motoriata from such unfor-lop (huy amounding voyage. A short [ tunate epinodes. !time before an airplane flew from the ! A same Island, clrcled the Pole and re- The Archives Building. “turned in leas than Afieen hours. | The Publle Buildings jasion Perhaps the Sesquiceniennial will his entered prompily on ia part of | Produce no thrilla equal 1o that given five-vear Bftymiiondollar Gov. '8 1876 by the whisper over the wire, ¢ bullding program at Wash. | PUC i will be in that event possibly It has decided that the frat €'e" Mmore significunt in the estab- of the structures to be begun will be , !I®hed use of devices and aids and line Archives Bullding for the safe. facilities that half a century ago Keeping of public records not needed "o'® 2!l he dreams of men. ! oaees 8 {10 the current conduct of Government < = © e ]m.-lnm. “rhis building will protect a o e : s tal to defense. The fact that the [turge collection of valuable Govern- '\ oq"eu”on o o for many ment records trom fire and damage = by other causes and will make them thousand vears has no bearing on the matter. ‘There is no chance of re- tracing the course of evolution in warfere and going back to the bow and arrow and the spear. cmon o “There are many clubs in existence, bul none of them succeeds in proving e Public Bulldings Commission as ingenuously entertaining as the allorted $2,000,000 for the Archives Pickwick Club, personally conducted Ruilding out of the $50.000,000 author- by Dickens. re provides the ma- ized. This is agreeable in that it indl- (ertal but art provides the touch of cates that the bullding is 10 be not of 'erernal intereat. warehouse avchitecture, but of design These papers. not imme- wanted by the Government and not ofien called for, occupy space in Government buildings that is needed by the working forces | diately hi - Farm reliet has been a. problem Capital. 1t indicates that the commis- ' ever since the first peasant tilled the sion means 10 reverse the policy of the soll. The present age is one in which Governmeni. entered on at Washing- science works wonders and new Ideas ion several vears ago. of erecting Na- | may assert themselves in political tionu] buildings not unlike ordinary economy as well as in chemistry and private office structures. 1t is desir- | gngineering. sble that future Government bulldings S 8t Washingion ahould be of that archi- | Scopes is suppesed te be patiently ture conveniently called “monu- and sincerely studying somewhere in wental.” and which is represented by | Baltimore. His home town insists on R |the Patent Office, I'reasury, old Post | continuing = huilabaloo caloulated te Office Department, new National Mu- | disiract his attention and possibly re- seum and the House and Senate UMce | tard his development as an Intellectual Bulldings, and the new city post office. forc e other national buildings on the archi. The League of Nations has effected tectural lines of the Interlor Depart- & frank disclosurs ef the fact that be- ment Building and the Arlington |T0re IVing peacefully together nations Bullding, which houses the Veterans' InSist on knowing whether the lion s Bureau. A very high class of private 8enuinely capable of attaining a lamb- or semi-public architecturs s mani. ; ke disposition. test at Washington, as ln the bulld- e ingn of the PamAmerican Union, | Feuosylvania must admit that af Deughiers ol the 'Smsinn Tavelu. | B8 wers gl whsa Do Sen tion, Red Croms, Corcoran Ggllery of T9% Was on hand to resch a decision Art, Freer Art Gullery, Union Station | 204 Put il intv effect. i ooes- the United States Chamber of . o\ igation hes a perpetual Comme: Government arcbitecture luve of adventure. Kven when dis- should not be below the level of excel- | ' = o\ TL0 T s opportunities lence of private architecture Ju the el sl iy Cupltal. There should be sgreement | O & 20ries of Tecmeoverien. 1n architecture beiween natioual build- | g ings. Too much jndividuslity ought | reasin; t 1o be' aveided, and dissimilar archi. [POFted 1o he decresmior At & | which must sconer or lat teclure such as t‘ofll!lfilll.dI by the ! & c“! i ched egg or & aslad. Pension Office, Post OMce Department | 'M® e : and the old National Museum ought | o and ebbruidte 8 . | Fundamentalists L develop as much debate as if the is- The site of the Archives Bullding !,,q affected taxation or office patron- has not besn announced at this time, | yzq but limiting the cost of the bullding s to $2.000,000 indicates that & Privately | gccasionally an investigation proves owned square south of the Avenue ygjuable not because of disclosurea will not be taken. It is, however. gr culpability, but becauss of sus- against public policy and contrary 0 | piciong that it allays. plans of the several Cupital improve- ment. commissions that any parkiend | Lo Lk ai her enterprise, shall be used as & site. The proba | "h':" gl et still bility is that the Archives Bulldln'|.m.“ ke cieTBRR, will be given a site on one of the. ™ 1 ——— st squares owned by the Government and occupied by tenants in the section | SHOOTING STARS. of the city between Pennsylvenia — e avenue and the Mall and Fourteenth | BY PHILANDER JOHNSUX, and Fifteenth streets. re- ate Prices of farm products R The “Next Wa "|Fhe times are different we hear o serve as a Federal dry agent a | Since days before the war. man must in some communities jeop- Yet fashions queerly persevere. srdize his pop ity to an extent that | we wonder what they're for. may interfere with his poHIcal Pro-| e jeft the heop skicts long 850 fRotion. | And “Mother Hubbards’ which we . e 3 know A Half Century of Wonders. | Were deemed a mest audacious show More than half a century ago the | 'Way back, before the war. Centennisl Ezposition at Philadelphis, | o, jet's have peace and talk no more held in celebration of the hundredth | Gr gays before the war! anniversary of (he signing of the Dec- | poee eccentricitios of yore laration of Independence, was for-| e faithfully abher. mally opened with impressive cere-| Ang let us seek a saner bent monl Next Tuesday the Sesqui- | gor mmuners and hablitment, centennial, in celebration of the one- | Ayoiding future discentent hundred-and-fiftieth anoiversary, will| For “‘davs befors the wa be dedicated and opened to the public | Same 01 World. in that éity. In 1376 the Centennial | .. =0 10’0 not tike it ysed to be.” Exposition wes markeé by the dl-nlly‘ eauit ity eciarea TRenater or- and demonstration of some remark- |, ., A}l we need to get into its old able inventions and I‘Vlllo.. in in- %llrll' is 2, tew peopie with the pep of ustry. The telephone, for instance, | Goo oo weghington, Tom Jeferson, was firat used in public there. What | go xrankiin and a Tew gthers.” a change ia svident today! T ibat apan of ffty vears the | Joy-Ride. world has gone ahead marvelously | ‘.‘W'.m d~|°a you unde s “,"'“h':m‘“ “""’: | w“-:.\ Jr:::nr trip,” answered Miss Fitty vears ago visitors to the [Pis Sl e scared haif to death, except & moron oot ment. short distances, by raiiroad traini “ slowly in comparison with present. driver- day speeds. Today the Sesquicenten- | Frem the Amsateur Gardener. Sial will be visited by perhaps millions | Man doth a patient pian disclose. of people traveling in motor cars. Un-| He humbly delves. doubiedly many of the visitors will go The insect says, ““The I.ord helps those by alrplane. Who help themseives.” “From that first faint volce over the | jud Tunkins says the man who talks wire of Alexander Graham Bell's in- | gpout himself can at least be relied vention, which so startied Dom Pedro, . on never to make any uhpleasant re- had no right to sue for damages. The cane arone from a collision between a car of the Boston Elevated Rallway and the automoblle of Mrs. Alice Wil- lard Bacon, which was registered un- der the name of Alice Willard. She suad for damages to her machine and personal injuries to herself and hua hend. The court ruled tha As a matter of law, after her mar- risge in 1921, her legal name was Alice W. Bacon. The stalute contem- icle shall be of its owner. manifest from the uncontradiet- ed evidence that at the time gf the accident the automobile was Dot le- sally registered and was a nuisaoce upon the highw . 80 it behooves all ed ‘women W see thal they have the proper reg- fetvetion on their personally owned @ars. Although the car indubltably helenged 1o Mrs. Racen, according to faet, Nt legally was owned hy Mise Willard, who, according to law and the Emperor of Brazil, to the present marks, development of the telephone is a long | range. Then it was an achievement regurded as a marvel fo send apeech | . by a metal conduotor over & Shorl |~ .ye,y jiie,” answered the explorer. distance. Now the voice travels across '\, |} "c5iq detect in that line was the continent and under the sea by ' "Uouo Tor oo iation.” this same means of & thin wire. And. | more marvelous s, it traveln through | infinite distauces without any “con ductor” at all.. Unfortunately for the | **!! 5 point of historid contrast, the radio 20" 8it de best of an argument with has come inte ordinary use ahead of | Mi® OWn consclence. the Sesquicentennial. 1t is now a e commonplace. Rudio sets are in al- A Natural Result. most every home aiid daily, nightly | Frem the Muncie Star. The proceed.| A sympathetic strike generally B mhi'“' .G, "";‘Ll pe | Sionnten whatever sympathy the pub- ings at the Sesqulc uial wi lic might have had. broadosst. They will be sent uto the ¥ air and received by countless multi- z . e rituout a theil of emation ofes| . ¢ ¢+ Protty Neisy! _ | Prom the Springfeld Uplon, ¥ . ' | the marvel, just as they receive musi. The North Pale can't e iiuch . of el ‘concerta and. speaches, hase ball |, plsas mowadays in which to get & niShLS Bleeh reports atd filfl‘ Quotations, ! sood undisturbed nishts ~ Polar Pun. S “Find any politics at the North “When a mean biaga about how honest he 18’ said® Uncie Eben, “it has 30 held, ing achievement of man in the reaim | | seunds Iike he was tryin’ to talk loud | P Letters and numbers mean more in the District of Columbia, perhaps, than in most cities on account. of the system of naming our streets. The numerals 16, for instance, in most cities have merely a mathematl- cal sort of sound, denoting the num- ber of ounces in a pound or some- thing along that ordes In Washington, however, “Sixteenth street” conjures up a whole world of pictures and im h: ere as much as time. It is impossible to escape from tl distinction of Sixteenth si is a Washingtonian. The implica- tions of the term are so many that one might write a book upon them. | Utterly beyond the mere msignifi- cance of the number is 16 when it is followed by the word |that by the designation !ten, D. C.” | This has been so feit that tempt made some years ago 1o gNd the | renuming Sixteenth streel as “the Avenue of the Preai- dents.” Another suggestion cherished by some was ecutjve avenue.’ avs have felt that such well meant but mistaken attempis de- served the fallure they achleved. for their proposers uniformly forgot the us of the oviginal planners as t in the course of decades. e ought 10 more (o change the name of Sixteenth street than we should de#ire a man by the name of Jones to ditch his monicker after he had arrived at wealth and honors. * x x % he characters of city sireets are ved at through growth and accre- tion, so that when a thoroughfare becomes as old as most of the main acterles of the Nationa] Capital in most instances it has taken on well defined characteristics. Among these, its most precious asset is a good name. Like a man in the prime of life, the name stands for something. How can any other be quite 30 good? A rose, the post sald, would want the ‘““Thousand Beautles” called thing else? ‘The splendid climbing American Beauty, which recently has transformed hundreds of fences and the sec THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. rolis hourly the wealth and beauty of our fair city. 2 It was slong this street that the late President Roosevelt so often walked. 8ince that time Sixteenth street has been extended many miles to the morth, retaining its distinctive character tl whole way. Washington-—the city where num- almost have so There is soul of Seventh eet, for In- No roed in Washington is tly like this one. business character does not wholly explain it. Once we tried for a coluian to put Seventh street into words, and seemed to have succeeded fairly well, judg- ing from the response of readers; yet any one may get a better idea of it by walking along from Pennsylvania avenue (o the Public Library at New York avenue. There is Ninth street, again. ihoroughtare is lke vet unlike, its predecessor of the ¢ quantity. It, (0o, is devoted gely to siness, but there is a subtle difference--perhaps just as much as there is”quantity between 7 number 14, multiple of the mystic 7, has as certain a character as any street in the city. It forms perhaps Lhe longest business thorough- fare in Washington, lined solid on both sides with stores of all sorts, housed in edifices of various heighta. Runulng through the Columbin Heights section, Fourteenth street takes on the aspects of a carnival| at night. It i« alwaye Christmas eve on upper Four(eenth street, some one has well sald. (It was ourself, thank you.) Then enpecla there i= Eighteenth street, in the vicinity of Columbia ere a number s a great deal more than two integers. 1t has life, | movement: it siands for people in a pecullar way of its own. * ok k¥ When we come 10 the letter streets. we arrive ax a whole dictionary of meaning on one letter. Take F streei. Every one who has ever set foot in | ages, would not be exactly the |J street’—each h 1 t of the old |character is somewhat muddled at the ““The Old Refiain," | nmortal by Fritz Kreisler, stands for definite essociations and memories, so does the old name, the old familiar name, mean more than any other name. It is true that succeeding genera- tions would come to make their own assoclations with & new name, and that gradually the old one, like a loved memory, might fade from the minds of men Yet such a made lightiy after a st tain number of years old, unless it be that a definite change in the charuc- ter of the street makes a change of name advisable, There are, for {instance. certain streets in ‘ashington which might weil be renamed. on account of past assoclations. The thing works both wavs, of course, * ok ox ok street, lined with noble trees, fine Abd-el-Krim, chief of the Riff tribe, has surrendered to France, and the war in Morocco between the -Riffs, on the one side, and Spain and France, on the othel What the Morocoan Sultan could not do—what in a five-vear struggle had cost Spain millions of money thousands ef Iives of her France within one year has accom- plished. Abd-el-Krim now is a prisoner of but it is predicted by dip- who know the history of France in Africa that shorily the prisoner will be free, to live a peace- outside of Morocco, Keen , familiar _with conditi eclare that Spain would lv bargain with France o surr all Spanish possessions in Morocco for a fair payment in gold, but that ch a transfer could no more be ade without arousing the jealousy of both Greal ftain, with her Gibraltar, and Ltaly, with her Fascist ambition to tore Roma lory and colonial prestige upon the Mediter- ranean, than could a transfer of American possessions be made from out arousing the Monroe doctrine. % 2% France entered African coloniza- in 1830, and in the y e has demonstrated genlus in developing the count and malutaining good E lations with the natives, in spite of the difference in religion and in char- acteristics. ‘T'his record has bad its influence in winning the confidence of the Moroccans, so that even the Sul- tan has leaned upon French protec- tion. * K x The present population of Morocco dates back to the Arab conquest of the seventh century A.L., when the Mussulman invaders made friends with the Berber natives, and to- gether they invaded Spain and crossed into southern France. In the eighth century, the Berbers revoltea from Chalifate and drove out the Arabs. | In entered in the | tweMth century, but a Berber Mahdi. Mumin, established a Moslem empire which covered Morocco, Algeria, Tunis and Tripoli, overfiowed Into Spain and conyuered Cadiz, Cor- dova and Granada. . At different times, in succeeding e warred with the Berbers, ao that today there in (raditional hatred be- tween the races. Portugal heid from 1684 up to 1769, but 0 no-foreign power held any of that country, .except that Spain retained certain. smail islands a8 _convict seitlements. In 1830 France gained possession of Algeria. In 1843 Abd-el-Kdder of Al- ria. rebeHed against French rule and, ing defeated in battle, he fled into Morocco, where he was gi' by the Moroccan Sultan. wi and Moroceo, 1243-4, which euded in a trea efin- iug the boundary beiween F' slers and'Morocco. i In 1869 another war broke wut. be- twesn Morocco and Spain, by which Spatn, in the treaty of Tetuan, gained ossession of westerni Moroccan terri- tory. This gradual extension ef power in Morocco by Spain and Frauce was watched with jealousy by. other Eu- ropean nattons. Bu mara against Asi In the midst of the anarchy which fol- lowed, Mulai Hamid bin Raisuli, a notorious but able bandit, caused ter- ror among. the people. He captured and held for ransom™ a mnaturalized American _citisen, Perdicaris, which called forth nt Rooseveit's famous cabled ultimatum. ‘‘Perdicaris alive or Raisull dead.” The Sultan tansomed Perdicaris with $70,000, and made Ratsuli & gbvernior of a province cartaln ouher part nerquisites. includ- & year 330 lavaded ! | ange ought not to be | | | i { A wide, stately way is Sixteenth | of the Appian way—let us keep it in homes: a thoroughfare along which | aad numbered streets. BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. | one European power to another with- h centurien, the Spanish and Portuguese | % | France for protection, he wi Washington knows the combined busi ness and parade aspects of this na- tionally known street. Just a block north lies G street, rapidly becoming a second brother-— or should it be sister’—to F street. It hax, however, an entirely different ai- mosphere. a tang all its own. H street, 1 atr hy is therg no its own features. K street is in the throes of u chunge trom residence to business, so that its present writing. Its ancient and hon- orable name, however, atill is its best triend. For many, many vears Q street has et. We might g0 on through the ‘entire aipl similar manner—why s there no X more num- 30 would require w bit more frankness than we willing to expend at the present time. Life is @ queer thing: it seems to 1 in streets, in & sort of give- manner, giving some teristies to some streels quiring others from th activities of the (hurougl A s is & way through imes men have a forest path is simply a little street. Streets ave eternal and timeless. It is easy to realize this, when thinking wmind when talking of our own lettered ing the freedom of aill of Raisuli's ad- herents then fn captivity, * ok ox % In 1908 Sultan Abd-el-Aziz faced a pretender — his half-brother Muiai Hafid--and although he called upon forced to abdicate. Four years later Suitan Mulai Hafid was aiso forced to abdi- ate in favor of another brother, Mulai Yusuf, but_before doing o, lafld had captured Bu Hamara, leader of the rebels, and thrown him to caged lioos, and then, as the lions failed to kili him promptly enu.u.h. had him shot. * Since 1900 the “Moroce question” has been of international interest. Italy first intervened with claims, but settied her claims not with the but with ¥ agreeing o e free hand in Morocco in éxchange for free Italian hand in Tripoll. In 1904 KEngland made a similar pact with France and gained freedom to treat with Egypt as she would, Engiand at the same time rec- “zone of influence"” le both Spain while France and Spa tween their sone delimited and Spaiu's ownership of a section called Ifni, which had been secretly ceded to her in 1360, was sc- knowledged. Thus Morocco was actually parti- tioned between S and France in eed to use the Sul- ‘ning power, so long a8 he held his authority over the na- tives and ruled according to the French-Spanish power behind his throne. A year later (1906) Kuiser Wilhelm sent & mission to Fez, the capital, and asmered Gorman rights. This stiffene of the Sultan to France’ treaty between the boundary be- of influence was conference at Algeciras in 1906. Ge: many was induced to withdraw h interference in Morocco by the same diplomacy as had won with Italy and Great Britain-——concessions as to other regions in Africa. The German - meddling, howe had stirred unrest among t Berbers, which resuited in attacks - upon ed by - K ma jesty pealed to France for pro- tection. France sent a relief expedi- tion, driving off the rebels and puttin the Sultan further under French obligation. Again Germany set up claims for a shure of the “booty” of the subjugated Sultan, but was bought off by concessions in the French Kongo—concessions recaptured in the World War. In 1912 & new treaty hetween France and Spain mibre clearly partitioned Morocco between them, but it resuited in mutiny by Sherifian troops, sup- " the people of Fez, culininat- numerons murders of Euro- pesus and finally sbdication of the Sultan in favor of Mulal Yusuf. - Lyautey—a diplomat 1] a1 the pacification of Moroceo was_proceeding at the out break’ of the World War. During the war Germany used every effort to arvuse the Moroccans against the French, but in vain. France had gained their confidence. When the protectorate was proclaimed in 1912 it covered 88,000 square kilometers, when in 1917 a French resident took open control France held 235,000 square kilometers. P Abd-el-Krim rebelled at first only against Spain, for Spain’s zone of in- fluence covered his mountains—E1 RIif. ‘He was so h.uee-ml in M‘::ltln‘ th: Spaniards that he grew reckless, an French gons, The imaginative man must alw lead a divided life—the life of fancy and the life of actuality-—-and some- times the life of fancy becomes to him the more 1eal of the two. Car lyle, in his “Esssy on Burns, noted this conflict and attributed the pa thetio failure of Burns to his inabili- ty to rise above the sordid facts of his poverty and lose himself in poetry Sherwood Anderson makes this the central thought of his sutoblograph ical volume, ‘A Story Teller's Story He calls it “the tale of an American writer’s journey through his own im- aginative world and through th ‘world of facts.” He believes that on has some freedom of choice in t division of life between fact and fancy; but if he chooses to give fancy the better part he must alwayvs be willing, if need be, to accept the room, or no room at all, seanty fare the garb of the tramp and the com- panionship of vagabondia. “In the life of the fancy there is no such thing as good or bad. There are no Puri- tans in that life. The dry sisters of Philistia do mot come in at the deor. ‘They cannot breathe in the life of the fancy.” 3 * x ok An amusing episode of “A Story ‘Teller's Story” illustrates how the im- aginative man often so confuses and fancy that he is himself not quite sure what is real. The practical, every-day person is not mo easily he- fuddled. At one time Sherwood An-| derson was a factory worker in a dirty industrial city, and lived in a dirty rooming houme with other ls- horers, Hungarians.a Swedes, Irish, Italians. He and the deughter of the woman who ran th ente into & desultory mental friendship, which in no way interfered with Nora en- gagement to marry s young sallor on a lake bhoat. In the eve nings, while they walked along the docks on the lake front. or in the parks, or the length .of some fine residence stree(, the story tel - ticed his art upon Nors and related to her his own heroic exploits. highl: colored by his imagination. ning he told her of a fight he hed had at the warehouse, when four men had attacked him, and he had ‘leid 1hem all out like dead men by “‘making feints with my right and whipping my powerful left to the jaw of my opponent.” Nora listened in silence until they came to a street lamp, when she took his left hand and turned it to the light. The hand was unmarked by any bruise, and Nora. the unimaginative, merely sald “Huh!" senti- * xox Sherwood Anderson's futher also of the storv-teller tvpe. but never succeeded making his stor telling bring in an income. Rent was rarely paid and the family was con- tinually moving from one wretched house 1o another. Aleo. while father waa touring the country giving entertainme; at districy schooi- houses the n obliged 10 resort 10 queer expedients Lo obiain food. On Halloween night it was c! was he tomary in the Ohio town for the boys 10 raid the cabbage fields in the coun- try sround. bring the cabbages 10 town in buggies and with them pelt ihe doors of houses along ihe streets. If the residents made on demonatra tion. the revelers passed on. but if #ny houaeholder came 1o the door and protented, called nam d threst ened the law, a veritable shower of cabbages wouid follow. 8o on Hal- loweens when the Anderson family larder was very low, the mother wait- ed behind the front door, the knob in her hand. When the cabbage came she burst forth and hurled de- nciations and threais at the boys. thev returned again and t was worth while throw- ing cabbages at such a house.” When the sport was over the mother and her smail sons fell to and gathered in the spoils. The next day a long trench wae dug in the backyard and the cab. bagea were buried for the Winter foed supply. “Offen as many as 200 or 300 cabbages came our way and theae were all carefully gathered in." * x x % A literury hoax. clever but not clever enough 1o have deceived the critics, is the “Diary of a Young lady | of Fashion, In the vear 1764-1765, by Cleone Knox,” edited by her kinsman, Alexander Blacker Kerr. Known hrough her dlary, the young lady of 164 seems surprisingly like a young lady of 1926. In his foreword, her supposed kinsman, M Kerr, - says that Cleone Knox was an ancestrees of his mother, was the daughter of & wealthy Irfsh landowner, and was born at Custle Kearney, County Down. Ireland, in 1744. Her diary, oon- tinues, was written in a fine Jtalian hand and was contained in leather-hound note books. The perfod of the diary was one in which a love affa impoverished neighbor of good family, had reached a. crisis. Mr. Kerr men- tions the poor grammar and spelling of his ancestress. without apology, for such deficiencies were c nal: ““I'his mo 3 pleasant interview with my father. ‘The cause of the unpleasantness was that her father did not favor the st- tentions of the dashing but impecunl. ! Ancaster, whom he had tempting (o climb up (o his s window by way of an fvy ki ortly after, the diary records that her father a should see more of the world than is possible in this uncivillzed country, and thus be enabled to enlarge and cultivate our minds.” ' Cleone con cludes quile correctly that Mr. An. caster will not e invited to accom- pany the party, and write Would the sight of the finest. churches and | palaces bé more agreeable to me than a loving glance from hie wicked biack eves? Plainly no.” The tour is de- sorvibed with humor and complaints suggestive of Matthew Bramble's ac- count of his tour in Smollett’ “Humphry Clinker” Father Knox' plan for removing his daughter from danger is {Mm:(lv' of disastrous re- sults to his son. On May 22, in Venice. Cleofie writes: ble catastrophe has fallen on wus. A Am thankful poor dear mama s in heaven and not able (0 see the disgrace . her favorite chlld has brought upon us. In short that damunable intolerable fool Ned has run off with & nun? And, after all, Cleone escapes her father's vigilance and elopes with Mr. Ancaster. who has secretly followed her to Venice. Mr. Kerr tells of this denouement in his “envol"” and adds: ‘“‘Cleone An- caster herself had 12 children, eight of whom were boys and’ four girls. Contrary, no doubt, to general expec- tations, the long married life of David and Cleone Ancaster appears to have happy and pros- From the Lowell Evening Leader. It may console Gen. Smediey D. Butler to reflect that he left Phila- delphia before the deluge. intending to overthrow the Sultan. If peace and order can be main- tained in Morocco under French con- trol there is promise of very rich de- in resources, agricultural ustrial. There are ofl and iron and great abundgnoe of water to be developed both for power and irriga- thon. . (Copyrighs. 1926, by Paul P. Colths.) rooming house | ! One eve- | the | four | with'a Mr. Duvid Ancaster, an | NSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. What waa the vast engineering | iplan that Nero planned?—D. G |- A. The engineering pian which Nero concelved was to cut through the ! fsthmus of Corinth 8o as to open ship ! communication between the lonian and the Aegean seas. Nothing more was done than the loosening of 3 feet of earth with a great ceremony. { Q. What does the name Oshkosh {mean?—U, P. B. { A. Oshkosh, W was named for {an Indian chief. ‘The word was said 1o mean “the nail, claw or horny part of the foot of beasts.” Q. How long have we celebrated Decoration day? If it comes on Sun day is it celebrated on that day?—C. A. A. Shortly after the Civil War a was set aside as Memorial or in honor of the sol- | who fell in the Civil | Ny obaerved bv pro- | in honor of the | g the graves \¢ . Originally different days selected for this purpose in vari- ous States, but Iater May 30 was set aside and made a legal holiday in most States. Memorial day is now ob- j served in both the North and South. | When Memorial day falls on Sunday it is generally cbserved on Monday. Q. When did the exploration of in- or Africs begin?—F. McG. Until the seventh century A. D. the desert w: | betw ! and central Sudan. The first African | expedition on record is mentioned by Herodotus as having been sent ont by | Pharsoh Necho, about the seventh century. B.C., to circumnavigate the | { continent. ! Q. Is the golden spike which con nected the Central vacific and the Union Pacific still joining them? M.' E. A. A good many misconceptions iat as to the final disposition of the golden spike which’ was driven at | Promontory, Utah, May 10, 1869, con- | necting_the Central Pacific and the | Union Pacific and the tie into which | the spike was driven. The apike, the | t tie and the hammer used by the | tinion Pacific Raflroad sre now in ! Stanford Uiniversity Museum, Palo | Alto, Call | | Q. What cuuses some agge to crack | when the water in which they have been put 1o boil gets hot?—W. M. A. Various things may cause this. i If the eggm have been preserved in & limewater preservative the wmhells [ should be punctured with a needle; otherwise they are apt to crack as | soon as placed in hot water, owing | 1o the pores being closed. Q. What memorial has Mrs. Roose | veli erected In_ France to Quentin | Roosevelt>—P. B. | A. On one of her trips to the place | of Quentin Roosevelt's burial Mrs. Rooseveit found that the little French town nearby had an inadequate water supply. Rather thun erect an elabo- | rate memorial over Quentin ve, | elt had pure water piped ! nce to the villa, ! | | | Q. How much sweet food should a | | "A. Sweet foods inciude sugar. mo-! lassee. sirups. honey and other aweets. | An ounce of sugar or it equivalent | in sufficient for a day for & child. Thix i| THE HATED G ‘The apparent ease with which the | Marx cabinet slipped into the place; | of that of Dr. Luther, with no other | | significant change than the substitu-| tion of a new for an old chanceller, unhappily does not mean that the in- coming premier is likely 1o have a longer or easier time than his prede- ceasor, who lasted two years, but was liy defeated more than once. e fatal weakness in the situa- tion for any cabinet in Germany lies in the fact.. which is practically the same in most continental pariiaments. | that there is no majority. {contrary, there are a number of groups. widely separated from each | other, but compelled to work together | {on occasion. In Germany, for ex-| {ample, there are hardly less than a | acore of political ties, although | not more than & half-dozen have any | real importance. In point of fact, the parties which count are the Socialiats, Nationalists, People's, Center, Demo- cratic and Communist. Following the revolution there was for a time something approaching ma- jority government, for the repub- | liean parties, which had made and accepted the Weimar constitution. worked together coslition. They were the Soclalists, Center and Demo- crats. But they lost control of th | Reichstag in the election following {the French occupation of the Ruhr. * % & ¥ Although at a later election the Weimar bloc somewhat improved its i situation, it did not regain control. and in addition it has already begun to dimintegrate. ‘This disintegration to the fact that, while all were overwhelmingly Democrats were con- 0 issues, am were a part of the Catholic Center, while the Socialists were radical. sithough by no means as radical as name might suggest to an { ! | | rican. us, while the republic was in dl'v‘::or and before it was established | irmly, at least for a considerable period, the Weimar blec could func | tion. But when the issue of republic us monarchy was temporarily eliminated and the live issue became that between labor and capital, the Soclalists and their Weimar partners n to drift apart. Ml‘: this situation a new bloc formed between the Democratic, the Center and the People’s Party. which was ade up of the big industrialists, ‘had strong monarchist leanings. but rec- ognized that for the moment. any at- tempt at restoration would mean ruin to Germany, since the two great needs of Germany were foreign loans and the evacuation of the Rhineland. * K KK his new coalition was frankly bourgeois, but it relied upon getting Socialis. votes when the question was between republic and monarchy and Nationalist votes when it was between capital and labor. The thres parties making up this group, which might be called moderate, had between them some 165 seats in the Reichstag, just about a third. The Socialists and Communists, who were again widel separated, held another third, while the remaining third was split between the Nationalists with about 110 seats, the Ludendorff-Hitler extreme Na- tionalists with less than 20 and a number of smaller parties, the largeat of which, the Bavarian People's Party. had strong Catholic leani and about 20 sea It is obvious, then, how difficult has been the problem of the chancellor who has just gone and how difficuit wust be that of Marx, who, wnilke Luther, is & politician, and has, there- tore, political oppouents, Luther, by contrast, was an oid official, had been mayor of & Prussian city, and was an administrator rather than a politician. In theory it might be easy for the | compounds BY FRANK H. § On the | allowance should include the sugar used in cooking and also that adde to foods at the table. Q. Are St. Paul and Minneapoli= in corporated as ons city and if so whar T. H. % Department s : < Minneapolis known as the Cities. but the: are incorporated a= separat and have separate city gov Q. What were the original names of New York, Chicago and loe An gelen”—B. B. A. New York was formeriy rcallad New Amsterdam. Chicago s the original name of that city. which the Indians gave it. Los Angeles was for- merly known P Niesatra Senora la Reina de 3 Q. What s the origin of Rrethar Jonathan?—W. F. A. The reference is to Washing ton’s reliance for advice and suppor! on .Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of Connecticut. whom ha termed “the fArst of patriots.” Q. What is the present condition of the Tidewater trail from Fred erickaburg_on?—D. G. A. The Tidewater trail from Fred erickaburg to Norfolk is reported 1o he in excellent condition, altheugh 2 ttle sandy in spots. 3 Q. Did Germany ever furnish war materisls 1o other nations which were at war? B. A. Germany has exported munitions of war to the belligerents in all mnd ern ra. particularly during the va rious conflicts in the Balkans. Ger many supplied Great Britain with arms during the Boer War, when the Boars were shut off from suppliss by sea. These suppliex were purchased from Ehrherdt by private negetia tion, Q. What does Delamere mean” 8. 1. €. A. Tt mesna of the mea or of the pool. Q. Are there organic compounds nf iodin 1. McC. A. The Burean of Chemistry save that there sre sny number of organic ot iodine. Among the mosi. common ones are: Jodoform methyl iodine and phenyl iodine. All of these and many others have heen produced in the laboratory. Q. How many peoplé live in Nems. Alaska?—K. P A. It has leas than 1,000 inhah- itants. Q. What is a “point” in measuring type?—IL. T. A. A point is one-seventy-second nf an inch, that is. there sre seventy two points to an inch. Hare 1we had the pleasure ol sory- g you through our Washington In formation Bureau? Can't e he of some help 10 you in your daily proh- lema? Our dusiness is to furnish you with authoritative information. and we invite you to ask us any question of fact in which you are interested. Send your inguiry to The Evening Star Information Bureau. Frederic .I Haskin, director, Washington. N. € Inclose 2 cemts im stamps for return poatage. ERMAN CRISIS MONDS sticking to the republican emblem or taking 8 long step toward restoring the ol banner—he could pot satisfy either the Republicant Socialiste, wha were for the new flag withont modifi cation, or the Nationalists, who wers for the restoration of the imperial colors and would sccept no comprn mise. Actually Luther feil hecanse the Socialists snd Communiste voted gainst him and the Nationalist« either abstained from voting -r a'sn voled against him. The fall was a sucprise and it dic closes the fact that minority ministry is always working with a rope round ita neck and can easily hecome the victim of any sudden sweep of pas sion on either mide of the house. As the situation stands, a combina- tion of the Communists with either the Socialistsa or the Nationalisr« against the cabinet would aimost cer tainly doom it. And. momente when estions of the utmoest im portance for Germany internationally are under consideration. the cabinet may collapse over some entirely trivial Reichstag quarrel. The departure of Luther and the col g of Marx does not mean sny change in German foreign policy. he. cause despite Nationalist fulmins ions the mass of the German peopls want peace and approve of the Toecar no agreements. It does not maan any present peril to the republic, bacause Marx is far more compietely repuh- lican than Luther snd because even the .opponents of the republic other than the extremists know that sns attempt at restoration now would be |suicidal from all international aspects. * o xx But what the upset does mean ir that parliamentary government in Germany remains fincoherent and el that no strong policy and nn firm course can be fellowad —indeed. that no consistent line can be taken Tather and like suecesd him, will be a minority chancelior with oniy & third of the Reichstag votes hack of him. Every dav to survive Marx must_get votes either from the Na tionalists or the Socialists. but if he incliner markedly in efther direction he will lose all chanoe of getting votes from the other quarter and his own following will begin to protest. becat it it s republican it is net radical. Luther had to go bacauss the Socialists made up their minds that he had been co-operating too close the Nationalists. Merx ma easily fall in a short time because the conservative ‘wing of hia awn follaw ing feels that he is acting.toe much in sympathy with the Socidlists. More. down, for the Germans are intensely and insistent upon German LR not a great anan. but he ne, solid, utterly’ well inten- an. He was owershadowed by “Stresemann, the foreign minister. who is also leader of the Pasple's Party, and Marx will not he less aver- shadowed. Stresemann is today the real power in German politics, the cleverest pelitician Germamgy ham yet produced, perhaps Bismarck, but strongly of Lloyd George. His party, party of the industrialists,, holds the balance of power. It wants peace abroad and conservatism a is for the republic, at least ally, but it is against all extreme democratic ideas and metheds. Marx was not too succ ul in his last cabinet, although id bring the Dawes plan through. He sub- sequently suffered much loas of pres- tige in his unsuccessful race with Hindenburg for the presidency two ears ago, and for his less well known struggle in the Prussian Pagliament. chancellor to mainta himself by taking votes now from the Right and now from the Left. but both the Right and Left are weary of this sort of operation. LR Luther fell becuuse on the issue of the flag—that is,gpn the question of But he is certainly an honest. man, a sincere republican and a cenvinced champion of the policy which ix com- prehended in the Locarno pacts. But he s in no real sense prime minister, has no authority and is unlikely .to have a long or smooth passage In o (Coparight. 1926.)