Evening Star Newspaper, June 10, 1926, Page 8

T ntion, areer, he had to close his doors in [ the face of the prohibition law. He 1 Aid not attempt to Aght the new i o Al THE EVENING STAR 1. With Sunday Morning Kdition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY.......June 10. 1920 u. hut vielded herey s His furnishings e sold at auet wod ornn- | $u81- ' but though | wealthy man ws u vesull of hin | ng Success insisted malntain {ing a small husiness, u confectivnery | b2 dower Buliding. jqnw. 1 the front of which sppeared | Fngiand | the tumous old nnme (hat at one time | B e | was avuony mous with New York « so- | Sr atition. 10 was perhaps just a8 well "’,“':'fx‘_ AL ety \I'Inl Sherry quit when he did the busi par monin |’ Orders may b which he had heau 5o emi carmer At the ana ol sach suceasaful, for ge had the spirit attan nud the newer taste ran along defer ent linex. Louis Sherry would never Rate by Mall—Payable in Advan have succeeded in petition with rels wid jnzz joints (hat o Maryland and Viegini ¥ Masls and Sunda, Dasit onic Sundas onls ‘tone of toduy. His staodurd wax ton high, his sincerity of service (oo Ldeep for such a change. ted Press. ! vtied | THEODORE W. NOYES. ... Editor, " " 0. Louis Sherry vedred avery The Evening Star Newspuper Company Business Office 11th St and Penom ivania Ave. New Vork Office: )1 Chicagn Ofce: Tower Eurepean Offce | il cluss, i nts i ness in nenth e ver of. Mau w d Canada. ¢ New k'8 maln colinary st o S0 =5, All Other States a Datly and Sunday <1 Darlr onie s Sundar only L | 13 1 e [t Member of the Assocl The Associated i nm to the tae for tenih FAtehea cradited (o A in thie nape: Dihlished heiein At anecial dispatch e The Summer Capital. ! ‘o | Washington's cllmate has ed.ffor a wide range of discuss often (he subject of comment by affected according | (he sewnon and the regions from which Lihey come. It ix occasionully meu foned fn Congress when the subjeci 1of adiournment ix under counsidera ton and the Summer temperat are urged ax reasons for early dissoli {tion. Now it hax come before British Houxe of Commons, {vesterduy (he subject i conuection with British Ambassador move o ou eated terin |1 jocutas { it | embassy ey o NIRRT come in ! s vis an Al Litors, variously to School Hours. "A citvawide referendum on the ques tion of langer schoul hours for children Wil he conducted the Board of PAncation. Questionnaires will be went 10 all assoclations and parent tasc o ascer tain the sentiment on the subject. In arder to make a complete and compre- hens the board will not only inelude in the questionuaire the vari sus proposals for increased hours, snch as Saturday & work o clasing on week days at four o'clock in stead of the cusiomary three o'clock, it will require that the total m <hip of the organizations passing on the proy be stated in the u swers as well ax the number attendin when it was voted upon. In this way 1the hoard hopes to get a conclusive vote. ane that will represent the de- sives of 1he entire city. The Roard of tion, in sp hy citizens . e associations the Where Wax mentioned ve o the At this Capital (o during the ce survey, the de: of e couler e pirit 1y tead of merely during (ke ier, the Americun Govervment might | moved, (v accord with the sensibilities of the foreign representatives. Aguin, It Was propused that instead of woy- ling the embaxsy un effort should be | made (0 Sl (hat estublishment with {u per capable of withstunding ithe heat of a Washi [t N nndersiond that it maintains an open ! S v, | P01, Wax mnde. and presumubly mind. and that it is merely undertak-4 ¢,y yyu usnured for the detraving of Ing this work in order (o ascertain th i i o ascertain the t . oypenses of the Summer hegiva true sentiment of Washingionians « the question 1 ha vole will show hoars for the school chiidren xeept in Le o real reason for either Wi suggested woving the Sum e sition onnel Jof the embioy, | The idew of u peripatetic Capital is not new. 1 has broached tre- *ddguently by Americuns. For almost T e fbm (e beginning of the occupation Where i ot (he “ten miles squure” (here have | that Washington wux Midsummer Ax the decades have passed, this notlon has become leas seriously cousidered. In fact, it was anticipated EVEIN | ever serfously contempluted ut wll. achool. An hardship {ppere was a period during which mould he worked to deprive them of [iqpiiul moviog” was & favorite di- School hours of nine to three | vegion of certain political person are standard. Plenty of education ean | ahout Afiy-five yvears ago & so-called e ohtained by studious Application | convention was held at St. Louis for dnring the hours and, except in the | e purpose of forwarding a plan fo case of unusually dull pupils, thex | (pe transfer of the seat of Govern- | should suffice. | ment 1o the Middle West. But it de. Provision of adequate buildings filull\olnped that there was (oo wide a proper light in which to study is far | ange of opinion as to the ideal place more important than lengthening the ! for the Capital to permit any When pupils are crowded Into ! yent upon a site. rosms not large enough te accommo- Washington's Summers have been Aate them and not sufficiently lighted. | uveraxploited. The average of the and when they are forced to work In | (emperature here during June, July totally unfit places, it in small wonder | August is not excessive. 1t is that their aducation does not proceed | pqualed by that of several cities of as rapidly as it should. { more northerly situaiivn. Hot waves Washington schools are blessed with | affect other placex with equal inten- an unusually sficlent staff of teachers. | yity in higher latitudes. And the Sum- With enough buildings 1o house all of | mer stay-at-home Washingtonian has | the children comfortably, enough Hght | ju fact a more comforiable time than | 1o allow them to see clearly, enough | (he city-bound dweller in the higher recreation 10 develop them physically, | ranges. Nu other city has such ex- and with the maintenance of the high | panse of open Spaces in the form of | tearhing standard, there appears to be | public parks. Washinglon is near na real reasen for increasing the hours [ enough to the sea to enable its dwell- of study. erx o get to the shores quickly. It is The referendum, however, will bring ! close enough to the mountains to per- out the true consensus of District par- | mit easy access to higher altitudes 1t ix an intereating question and | and cooler airs. the serious considera-| Svimputhy in, of course, always felt 1ion of all those who vote. Only in |for those officils Who, accustomed to {his way ean the parents of those at-|cooler climes, cannot endure the nding school make known their de- | higher temperatures of this region in sires in regard 1o the education of the | Summer. But they manage to relieve future men and women of this com- | themseivex by migration, und the off- munity. cial Lusiness suffers but little. { foreign embasxies and legutivns col The clash of public opinion has be. | trive (o keep in touch with the Gov- ! By shifts of relays there in come so complicated that n defeated ' ¢ candidate may hope for subsequent in- | #lway» Cougress Aorsement. The condition revives the I8 seldum here throughout the Sum- paradoxical reference 1o a love uffuir, | wier. Yhe depurtmental persvunel Business “4f you lose, you win.” works un & vucation basix ¢ is at a lower ebb thau Juring the So It other nine months of the ye is not likely thut there will be any change of policy un the part of ny of the foreign governments in respect to | their establishments in this country. If Great Britain will grant the neces- sary funds for the maintenunce of a Summer embasxy at some north point, so much the better for the rep- resentutive of that country. ¥or he will get whut many Washingtonians wonld like to have, but cannol ufford, und what even Eostoniuns desire, de- spite the difference in latitude, » Sum mer residence. dly that the majority for in seems possible been cjy. rave cases, uppears ¢ lengthening holdinz Katurday Satnrday has heen 4 students’ holiday |y (o e time immemorial. 1t ix eagerly i pupil in unnecessary been protests warm aumd the weekday hours ¢ a morning session. years the from by every this day. honrs. ants. ould receive wment. means of contacts. —em— A Great Caterer. who died vesterday in T, wax & Tonix Kherry, New York at the age of netahle example of success gained by <ineerity In business. From Si. Al hans, Vi, his birthplace, he went as A poaor boy to Montreal, where he got 2 place as a genersl helper in # hotel. Seving a littie money, he decided to z0 te New York, and there, ufter & hard struggle, he found employment am & bur boy, or walter's helper hetel. Having a hard time to ket this b he determined to do everyihing | pessible to keep it. His faithful sery. ice’ earned him promotion a waltership. He was no ordinary walter. He served hix patrons with serupulous care and consideation. | e gained distinction as an uuusually good walter, and drew lrade. lle be came known In the hotel business and In a few seasous was usked (o (nke ~harge of the dining of & Summer hotel at then & popular resort. At the eud of the aecand season he hud $1.300 in hix pocket, and with that he opened un | establishment of hix own in New York City, Inspired by the desire (v make it the best catering and eniiug L are beginning 1o hope will interest himself in uhe it cheuper am echunism it propels. S The Tomb of the Unknown. Appreeusivn lest the completed tomb of the Uuknuwn Soldier at Ar- sl lington should tuke the form of u tail | monumentul siructure caused (he Se: fate the uiher duy to adopt au » | ment to the Jolut renolution providis | tunds for (hat purpose, requiriug the submission, of competitive designs tu the Arlington Cemetery, the American taitie Monuments und the Fine Arts e 3 Commissions. ''he purpose of thin heuse in New York. Delmonico’s Wes | oo ogiiou is to avold the erection of fourishing, also Pinard's. But Shervy |2 L0 oo ke shaft with the wWaR encouraged by flattering ussul- | ., iaph iiself as the base or pedestal. stices glven him by Summner friends |y Uiovision will be g - that they would be patrous of hix es- | ., geq. "There Is no wish for a shatt tablishment. Some of them talled him. {4\ (nat place. The tomb Itselt as it 4nd he realized that he had 1o make | ;4 ds now Is in one sense a sufficient a reputation. He had & hard time, but | o ene 10 18 simple and signifi- finallygained headway and adopted & | .qnt, But there is a desire that there wéw “idea, that of novel and timely | shouid be svme artistic symbolism of decorations for his tables. Wheu the | (e sacrifice to mark the spot whe “Mikado” was first performed in New | jjes the Lody of vue whuse nume wiil Tark he cornered the market Iu Jup- | yover be kuuwn, whose identity Is anese parasols and ornaments and | yerged In the great army of soldier with them made a sensation. After | qead, which will for an indefinite time that Sherry decor were fa- o come he a shrine of American pa- mone. His prestige was ectahlished. | jyintism, Im all his moves and developmenta he | The tomh of the Unknown Soldier Pt the standard of the hest service, | is placed immediately in front of the &nvummmmmw ammquu.m.u- Motorists Henry Ford gasoline and has muade the o s tions Pin i dewign, |10 the fact that the world, w Finalle, at the heizht of his | hle strueture of inapiring proportions. ! | The memorial for which provision t heen made will rise. the fore, with (his facude nx n bnckg when viewed from the east. 1t should be designed with reference (o thut fuct, Nave from the West it will ot atamd forth against the SKy. aud that fact should xovern All the considerat in wup of the deciston whic hus been written futo the pending leg- islation that there should be no spire or shaft and thut (he, embellishment shall be auitable (o the eharacter of the place amd its surroundings. hax } when viewed . -oe The Park Comm Naut Cupital . Masion at meeting will take the purchase sidered dedivable $i00 areas on. Pak e The Plann ul an & uinder coming con- sideration ol certain trneix oo or park use. The commission Lias in disposal. One of the 1w be considered Ix the Puiterson truct. The commission Wil also give aitention o the maiier the Breaneh rhway from Var Areelx 1o Nixieenth where the Tiger Bridge cronses The Klingle Valley tract west ol oi 1 Fourteenih it i siveet (e valigy. east and necticut evenue will also be ¢ Ihe desivability for dispute. discussed for for (wenty-five of theu In the of acquiring these nent public use is heir merits have many years, cer vears, and the 18 know the ruets et above heen talnty argument in favor wll Washingloninn: the Patierss tract would preserve w wouded hiil ix n fewture of vur lwndscape Wunhingion in par- and whote of Wush- u natural beauty, Part of the Putlersvn tract hus been Cunproved” du o am s allvaction ws scenery, but the higher part vemuins, und if this is not taken public use it ix likely that steam shuvels will cut away the hili. Brunch Valley eust of Six- sireot wus u deep vule and W few years ugv wax fu the country. The spread of the city northward to Piuey Branch snd far beyond it has been rupid, and the valley became & convenient dump for earth sud ushes. Hud not the District authovities stop- ped the use of the valley as & dump would have been filled. Due dumpiog, the valley Is considerably varrower (hun it wak, but it is siill there and cun be mude Into at tractive cromstown drive, giving new entrance to Kock Creek Park tum the eust uud bringing into more extensive use the fine part of the valley between the Tiger Bridge and the Rock Creek drives. Klingle Valley has been disturbed by building, but it awaits being taken over by the Government as a drive and handsome park, alse furnishing an entrance to Rock Creek Park from the wesi. [ ~ion Wiich and give tu kast v park Geubnr, M the ot Wuy Lo destroy Piney teenth to N 'he world is getting better. Any impression to the contrary may be due ry ot hypocrisy, is willing to step up, ac- | knowledge its faults and try to im- prove. N The daughter of the late W. J. Bryan assumes a prominence in con- nection with the ballot which again calls attention to his extraordinary success in making Democratic politics largely a family affair. oo A spirit of international reciprocity asserts ftseif. American screen stars traveling in Europe receive almost as ! many uvations as representatives of Kuropean royalty traveling in the U. 8. A, = s—oo—a A New York theatrical promoter who fails to get into some sort of police complication is now suspected of lacking pelitical pull. Towa local politics too seriously to let it run the risk of letting it get mixed up very far with international affairs. oo SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. W. Mocking Bird. The mocking bird sits on a limb Of yonder cherry tree. The damage thut is dos Is often sad to see. 1 call the bird “G. Washington, Because he will confess What to that cherry tree he's done, With stalwart truthfulness. by him And while admitting he was wrong My cherries to pursue, He makes apology in song And wins respect anew. Great Problem. Mouey is & great problem.” “It is,” answered Senator Sorghum. “people are not politely supposed to use it in getting votes or making mar- riages. Mxcluded from love and poli- tics, of what use fs money going to be, anyway?" Deceitful Appearances. A motor car 8o large and grand, A thiug of polished prid Is often driven through the land By sowme rough boob inside, Jud Tunkius suys everybody wants to be a buuster; vnly we can’t all be boosting the swme thiug, and that mukes compelition Philosephic Natisfaction “Here's your glass of hemlock,” said the officer of the law. “Anyhow,” commented Socrates, “I have the satistaction of knowing that [ get my polson legally fustead of from a bootlegger All Kieking. The prices cause us grief In this evmmercial plan. The farmer wants relief, Ro does the city man. Double Standard. “Are you a wet or a dry?’ “I'm running for office in a temper- ate community,” seid Uncle Bill Bot- tetop. M. st dep whether I am speaking personally or politically,” “Ide high cost of Wvin’,"* said Vnele Eben, “is a small matter comparad ta Ae expense cansed by de crap shootin' ndi ¢ forth- | oo wt | proposed Piney | THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €. THURSDAY. JUN E 10, 1926. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. hose of ux who do not ultempt the North Pole, neve, can adventure wtill. We miay not be hardy enough to cliab Mount Everest, but we may at templ (o scale jufinity by plantng « lupine. Let Amundeen and other brave e go (o the Pole; we stay behind plant salpiglossis, xomething new W our garde lu the garden. such adventure as we are capable of achieving may be taken n duses suiled tu our quiet temperument. Every one i not fitted by Nat to sail far seas, 10il up the sides of precipices, or win ulhletic luurels for Awmerica fu foreign land. Vel the tuxte for udventure lingers n wll men and weomen. Eveu the Auieiest il ulive now and then hunkers for the unusual, the attempt 1o be wmade, the doubtful result (o be ehieved. 3 The gurden offers the best place for thix quiet sort of adventuring, 4 nuing Into foreign lunds t home, gentle toiling up sieeps in of vne's own open window, a victory Wou by the side of the old back porch. It chunce has thrown us inlo a xreal city, in & work which does not Call for Tomance. we need not en- tirely give up the thrill of adventir- ing. which \no amount of reading in books can exactly satisfy. We may trade the vicarious ad- venture of stories for the real. al- though not s exciting. adventure of fresh gurden experiences. ook care 1o helexs [ Gurdeus nre ever full of adventu tu those who take the trouble to search for them. One Sping 1t i the miner digging (helrr nests in the flower borders. Anviher season it is ants, placing thelr “cows” on the roots of the uster plants, There was that lurge, strange in- seci that seemed ufrald of no ma (hat even made the cut shrink in fear, #» it winged in und out its burrow, and as suangely disappeared us it hud come. Pleasaut memories of & humming- bird, that made itwelf at home in our garden, throng with the growing of the gladiolus. May the little fellow come once again, (v make glad the hour These we quiel sort of adventures that thrive only under civilization and cuftiva- tion, too. Just @s Peary had to have proper temperament 1o go 1o the North Pole, o must the garden ad- Venturer be properly equipped men- taily. Oue cannot say, out of a life de- voted to other things, “Well, now 1 will %o into the garden to seek ad venture.'” It s not discovered thut way. Every man is not equipped 0 ko a-venturing in the garden, but every garden lover is! Such ix the happy faie of the gardener. If you have the temperament to genuinely like to garden. you have all the bag and baggage of the zarden explorer, The garden bees, is At once vour great ship. In which to make the adven- ture, and also the unknown land which 1t to be discovered. For each new garden, each Spring and Sum- mer. i an unknown continent to the gardener. o oxox sight | adventures, one and all, | the | zarden Ye An sdventure in itself, hut the (rue one comex in planting new flowers and vegetables each year. o #chieve the only lupines in your neighborhood ix not that an | ture? | The world will give you for growing them, hut you voursell & reward of earned faction. | Whence, no doubt, the child cried, | “Mother, mother, mother, pin a rose | on m Ever thereafter, you will pause at th the plant rail, and remember when we had | heve? | I much the same spivit, undoubt lealy, Amundsen recalls, “Do you re- member when we sailed over the Pole? | Byrd winged | coveted spot in | We xuved at | o medal an hand satls your garden, third sectioy of vemark, Do you the lupines hix way acr the his plane. home and planted mulpiglossis, Winging hix way over the North Pole suited Byrd better than staying howe und planting salpiglossis; on the other hand, growing salpiglossis from seed in our back yard took our fancy much more than did North Poling. While men were roaring all over the world In swrange places, Henri Fabre spent hours, days, months and vears obwerving the ways of his heeties and other “bugs.” | Restless Americans swarmed Into the far places of earth, but Luther Burhank stayed in his California and worked hand in hand with God in L evolving new plant creations. i We shall have a memorial to Bur- | bunk in our guiden this Summer, in the form of his gladiolu We | did not know which bulb it wax, ax | we planted it. but we shall know it | when we see it fuce to face. 1C Wil be an adventure in our gar den, an adventure of the spirit, wheu | Blorw unfolds her whitepink petals, like stained gluss, and we shall look | down upon its beauty and know that here is the lord's approval upon the life and work of Luther Burbank. ko Our garden adventures 1o more in- | variably turn out successful than do those larger onex afar. Success 18 something that every one may aim at, | but not always hit. Perhaps lite would be too monotonous it we never | tatled Wherefore we have transplanted enough zinnia seedlings to fill in the | spaces between the struggling salpi- | glossia plants. The latter do not seem 10 be doing very well, and we are tak- ing no chances on that particular spot in the horder. We belleve we are discovering for ourselves just why so few gardens | have saipiglossis. Evidently it is such | & poor grower, or such a slow grower, | that few gardeners feel justified in ex- | perimenting with it. | 71t we get one good flowering plant, however, we will feel repaid for thix adventure, A glorlous Kaiserin Augusta Victo. ria_rosebush, laden with roses 5 and 6 | inches across (believe it or not!), has been a high spot of our garden to date. Later we expect Hibiscus bushesx beur wonderful blooms a foot across. The coming up of thess “marvels,” ax they are called in most seed catalogies, has heen a pleasant adventure this Spring, and | their blooming will he more exciting (10 us) than the discovery of the North | Pole. Anyway, every one seems 1o he | going to the Pole these davs, while |very few seem to have discovered Hibiscua! to see our five The very making and keeping of a 'American Goif Ha Arrived Say Admirers of Sweetser Proof thut “American golf has ar- rived” is seen by enthusiasts in the victory of Jess Sweetser, who won the British amateur championship over the best of the plavers across the water., Sweetser is the first na- tive-born American to gain the cov- eted title, and It is felt that the jinx for Americans has at last been overcome. “Ihere I8 joy clubs, deep gloom in the British proclaims the Chicago Dally New “For at last a native-born American has won that most cherished of golf- ing honol': lh‘t British amateur mplonship. Jess S 3 (;'holrkp nln\'e‘:l his way brilliant through the fleld of contestants at Muirfield, Scotland, and won the co eted cup with a rather easy victory over Simpson, an able Scot, who carried the lmhm-m;n hopes. xpressed by the S, Phere 1 something which com- pels admiring attention in the spec- tacle of an American journeying to u land where golf s l‘onulflfljfll the national game and there proving his PrOWess wheu pitted lx_ull it lht Iul.t ihat land can offer. Sweetser's vie lory 1% somethiug akin to what would happen If u British base ball «e-..‘n should come to Amerlen und win the world series “The British recalled by the winateur title,” it in Jersey Uity Jevwe 3 't of ‘jinx Journal, “had been a sort of x Tor "Amiericans. The beat amateurs from this country hnfll :v‘len:“::me‘”fl‘“e in to take the title, . e combined assaults captured the team’s trophies and the open title Wwas carried off, o nativeborn Amevicht Ccould shake the amateur crown (o W British head. Only one Amefictq ever won the title before und 0o wax Walter ‘Travie, un jmpor roduct from Australia.” product from Australls o lle ‘Times feels that the Asheville imes (800 g “the New Yorker's L was uncanny.” nlndl\\“ov‘:rusll‘;m‘:;:' Sweetser's superlority OVEL Rl e defeated in the finals feore of 6 and b, fa said to have beeu even greater than chs iros in dicates, He not only Shpoueit, a repuled KLrOUE driver.” “dds yhe Times, “but he showed hith Yelt ih every way his equal vu th greeun.” he neun,’” ews, ? oes not necessarily (hat the victor is the best golter, Ly uny weuns. [t doen BrOTE Suite ikeiy that he bus Lhe reaters amount of stamina 1o underge e u grueling ordeal. It is uisu possibIC thil Bobby Jones, or somie uvlhel e the Americans entered. could h"me- Sweetser in three out of five gamer und et the betier of him.’ CHC Providence Journal ulsy belleves (Bat “ihe fact that he survived (v col in the finals is & tribute to |le“l. certainties of the game rn'hu Lot \o his abilities us compared Wi Great Britain’s best knows olfers. Of Bobby Jones, the Kansas <y Post cltes (he fact that he ‘aufleret trom rheumatism and continued o suffer during k;:l.l mn:c:n“‘t:::_n ‘l:m.! R ieson."” while Sw e icapped by & lame knee, & touch of influenza and a homesick but very excited bride.” The New York Her ald Tribune also points out that Bobby Jones falled weakly in the round before the semi-final, the play at St. Andrews showed that he has recovered his best form. hia amazing over Cyril Tolley being th outstanding feature of the Walker matches.” * ok k% The Roanoke W 4-News finds cause for pride that “thase voung Ameri- cane. representing amateur sport at its vary highest level, have been un oficial ambassadars. of good will from in American goif | weetser of New | Williamsport | America to Great Britain.” The Nash- villa Banner's ‘simflar tribute is that “they have exhibited splendid sports- manship and have won or lost with becoming modesty,” while “they were met with just as fine a spirit as they came.” “It was a dramatic performance,” according to the Lynchburg Advance, “which gave a native-born American a title which is recognized almost gen- erally as the most prized In all the world of sport.”” In commenting on qualities displayed by Sweetser, the Worcester Telegram describes him as vouthful, strong, so blithe of spirit as to be undismayed by an injured knee and a cargo of grip,” while “he drives, he approaches, he putts, and lo, he is the amateur golf champion of Great Britain!” The Cincinnati Times-Star adds that “the play ix on a strange course, | pheric conditions, and the game is one of sustained exactitude that makes every possible demand on the plaver's nerve.” The tribute of the Litile Rock Arkansas Democrat is that Sweetser “plaved a wonderful £ame, displaying an amtunishing en- | durance under the tremendous strain of tournament play. | *“The American gume has arvived.” | 1% the verdict of the Milwaukee Jour- | ual, which declares that “Scotch and English amateurs have lost their | power to chill us.” The Atlantic City i Union offers the testimony that there are “millions of them on this side who say they're in golf for their health. but in reality play the game hecause they love the sport.” THINK IT OVER Might Be Worse. | i | Perbups 1t By m _Mather Lewis. President. George Washington University Is the world, and particularly the youth(ul part of the world, headed straight to the dogs? Or does man- kind just find a mournful pleasure in being pessimistic? Vote ves on the second intervogation. ln Constantinople fs & tablet on which wn Kgyptian, 6,000 yvears ago, registered his solemun belfef that within vue generation civilization would puss intv chaos because childreu did nut respect thelr parents as of yore, Shakespeare put into the mouth of one of his characters (he statement “I would there were no age beiw ten und three-und-twenty; or that youth would sleep out the rest.” In 1661 v. Rogers delivered himself of this optimistic idea: “I tremble to think what will become of the glorious work we have done when ‘the ancients shall be gathered with thelr fathers. 1 fear grace and Llessing will dle with them. We grow worldly everywh Ev one for himself, little the public good.” Brethren, let's cheer up! Can it be that the world has been going down- hill for 6,000 vears and hasn't struck bottom yet? No, indeed! We're headed the other way. Of course, we slip back occasionally when a dead limb gives way or a stone slips from under us, but we are going up. Let's not get sour as life goes on. “Grow old along with m "The best Is yet to be (Copyright. B Saturated. m the Columbns Exsning Dispate England's rejection of our Charles Edward Russell probably means that she simply feels that she has enough of her oym to tolerate, adven-: in strange atmos- | HE NORTH WINDOW By Leila Mechlin. ! 1 he annual exhibition of student ! work at the Corcoran School of Art | which marked the closing of the sea son, called attention anew to the im portance of learning to draw. This is something which is apt 1o be lobked nowadays, partly wing unnecessary and the tend: v 18 to disregard the academic—In . to more than disregurd—condemn. Doubtless this 18 to an extent the | long swing of the pendulum. It i8 a [ diflcult thing (o keep in the “strait | and nwrrow path.” even in art; one [ muk “watch one'’s step. | | iifty years ago those who wished to study art spent their time making exquinitely finished drawings from | custs und statueltes, reproducing in a | measure the technique of a fine litho. | graph, spending weeks on learning {how (o diaw 4 mouth, & nose, an exe, an ear, u fool, @ hand. and forgetting. | perhapx, that it was necemsary 1o eurn how 10 put these different parts of the body together. But they did learn to draw, and a_work which was ill-drawn was not to be considered; an error in drawing was a crime. Thirty vears ago the students in the ! Corcoran” School of Art made life jdrawings half life size, stumped them in with charcoal, covering the entire surface of the paper with a back- ground, modeling and remodeling until oftentimes the spirti was gone, but the drawing was good—very good. Now the students use amall sheets of charcoal pape: work rapidly and give first attention to action, to ch acter. But the Corcoran School is are still taught to draw, and thev | draw very well. Also this year they | ¥howed excellent paintings from life goud in color, well modeled, the in- structors apparentiy having forgotten or overlooked the fact that drawing and modeling are out of style and that distortion has taken itw place. Distortion, sald a modernist exponent is essential at times in order to strens special significance, but the art that_has come 1o us down the ages and been acclaimed great has not heen an art of distertion; it has held to truth, and truth in the highest form. I Curlously enough, at this very time when the art of drawing, of good draftsmanship. 1s being cast into the! masters are being assiduously collect- ed, not only by individuals, but by Mr. Plimpton. the di- rector of the Minneapolis Art Instl- tute, in an address at the recent con vention of the American Federation of Arts, emphasized the desirability of museums making such collections. The drawings of the great mastars are living documents of their faith! and of their skill, also, perhaps, of | their industry. lLeonardo da inci, Michelangelo, ‘Raphael—how siduourly thev drew. striving alwavs | toward greater facility, greater ac-| curacy, greater freedom, and how | beautifully significant many of their | | drawings ar | What is if, moreover, that makes| the paintings of the great Chinese! and Japanese artiats of worth? Their i skill in drawing. the beauty of their: Hne. The Orientals have alwave! recognized the value. the potential-| fties of line, and children from the| fenderest age are taught fo use a| brush in order to command line. Al Iine is like a note in music and it has | for those who are sensitive a power| to produce keen pleasure. What is it that s so pleasurable in Whistler's work, what sats it apart and places it on a high plane? His command and | use of line, his ability an a draftsman. | o ow o Tt is interesting to note. further.| more. that while the modernists are | going gayly on their way to some- where. believing that they are mak.| ing progress, declaring that they are leaving the world behind and that the | academician is little other than a| mummy, the most advanced are get.! ting back to the starting point and are discovering that drawing is an ex- sential of art. Thix was one of the most significant indications of develop { ment found in the exhibition of Ital ian modern art shown here in our Na. | tional Gallery this past Winter. Fu.| turism was horn in Italy; the Italians| have adventursd more holdly and! further in these new fields than al-| most any others, but they are com.| ing back—they have come back. not to vesterday, but to the days of Hpl- beln and Durer. and it will not be long before the majority of the mod-| ernists will holst the banner “Back to Holbeln:" This s well. Herein lies the real value of the modernist movement: it will reinstate dra(taman- ship: it will inaugurate a return to simplicity. * ok ox ok Charles R. Nevinson of London has been the outstanding cubist for the past 15 years. Announcement is made in a current British publication that he has recanted and is following the older traditions of painting. It is remarked in the same paragraph that to the enthusiast for modernistic art this is something of a biow: but Mr. Nevinson 10 years ago told the present writer that cublsim was dead: that it had done its service; that it had no more to say. | Mr. Nevinson's cublstic drawings of | war scenes were the finest things of the kind that were produced in this| stvle, and they did much to lend im- ' petus to a sirengthening of structure | in the matter of draftsmanship. | Cublst or academician, Mr. Nevinson | was always a strong. good draftsman, He is now, it is reported. “by way of | becoming one of the bhest English | landscapists.” A knowledge of drafis. manship 1= a pretty sure foundation on which to build an artistic career. *ox ok % There is a tendency today on the part of some of our colleges to stress modern art at a sacrifice to the art of the past. Here again Iz digression from the “strait_and narrow path” of wisdom. It is absurd to think that if one knows the works of Raphael and Michelangelo, "itian and Velasquez, one will not appreciate the works of (oday, or, should vne have talent, not develop originality. It would be quite as fllogical (o argue that @& kunowledge of Shakespeare would be detri il to one’'s English unless the Enghdh vne wished to con mand was that making largest use of the slung of toduy. After all, how ever, it 1 not what ene fs taught, but the way one is taught that signities. In an address made before the Col lege Art Assoclution svme vears ugo Kdward Robinson, divector of (he Metropolitan Museun of A high tribute to Charles Kliot 48 teacher—a teacher of the history of urt. “L was fortunate enough,” he said, “to begin my studiex with him in the first years of his lecturing at Harvard, and though in after years | studied under some of the most eml- nent authorities in Europe and learned many facts from them which had not been taught by him, no one of them gave the same interest and fascination 1o the subject that he did, nor aroused anything like the same enthusiasm for it as & vital part of a liberal edii- cation rather.than a field for special- ists.” “At the time when I took his first course.” Mr. Robinson continued, *I was half way through college, and within a few uths I was surprised to feel the extent tu which he wax pulling other and disjointed courses T had studied into line, co-ordinating them with his own. llistory, Ia guages, literature. philosophy, all xeemed to have a hearing npon what he was teaching. all were affected hy it. =0 that in the end the studies T had (ollowed in those four years shaped themselves inte s well rounded whale, & unit, although even then I had'np { asters. the odors and feeling ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. Q. Has the 1 eclaimed?—W. A. There are square miles in H. smal heen | Lo now this swamp, Swamp less than 750 which originally covered 2,200 square miles. in North pine. and drained ix now devoted culture., Q Kngland, W.E A urh its age of London, | southwest of St. Paul's. tion in 1911 was ‘retl something southeastern Virginia. and Originally | Decause GUl | hic ract was covered with bamhoo, friends the moderniats seem to think 'y Nl UL Ll Gille cedar, reeds and Carolina. ‘The part that has been cleared | pu'( SOC to ag of Wimbledon, e and population. — Wimbledon is a residential sub- | . situated & miles The popula- 38,003, The anclent name of Wimbledon was Wibbadune. It was supposed scene of a bat Ceaulin, King of berht, King of Kent. to have been the tle in 368 between Weasex, and Ethel- At Domesday _ 20. Thix calendar exjsted until Jan- uary 1, 1806, Q. Has a graincleaning device | aver been proved successful’—R. G. | " A. Apparatus, called a Bates as- pirator after itajnventor, K. N. Bates, market specialist of the Department {of Agriculture, automatically removed smut and light dockage from grain | a8 & part of the threshing operation. In this attachment the grain as it is thrown from the thresk er elevator is spread out into a thin, |even siream by being directed anto | low inverted cone. The cone cansex | the grain to pile up and flow evenly over its edge. Suctlon from ahove draws a current of alr through the thin sheet of falling grain and lifis out the light materfal. Q. How are there” —p. M. A. An unofficial estimate shows that there are 1,840 1o 2,400 civilian civilian airplanes it formed part of the Manor of Mort- | aircraft in the United States. lake. the manor was t ber of persons. corporated in 1965, Q. Please send During the following centuries | ransferred to a num- Wimbledon was in- me a map which has on it the Kingdom of Graustark and mark it—W. G. A. The Kingdom of Graustark is a |burg in Had George Barr Mec- fictitious one. Cutcheon hased kingdom the facts of ita plot would | undoubtedly ha: hotly. his story on a real ve been contested Q. Somewhere I have read or heard of a building known as the Powder Horn. (‘an you tell me whers and | what it was, or is? ~H. J. R. | A. The Powder Horn ik an octage nal brick building constructed nnder the direction of Gov. Spotawood of the Colony of Virginia, at Williams 14. 10 ha used as a powder magazine. Tt is still standing | phiszi Q. About how many seals ave caught around Newfoundland?—T. 6 A. Final figures on the Newfound land sealing season, just concluded, Q. Are game regulations made by | show a total catch of 205548 pelte, i still academic: the students therein | national Jaw in Canada’—H. 8. G | the largest number in 14 vears. The A. There is a movement to stand- Steamer Reothic, formerly the lake srdize Canada. provincial laws, tional parks. Q. In peuple were the fi can mowing-mac A. Konrad Bercovici, writing on this | subject, says: I the first to use the iron plow, Ameri- | n mowing-machines, binders, thresh- | of intention papers 2 ers and cream se| the game ‘These are now regulated by southeastern laws throughout except In the na- Kurope, which irst 10 use the Ameri- ine’—G. K. D. 'he Rumanians were parators.” Q. How ol 1 Museolini?—M. A. He was bor not yet 43 years n July 29, 1883, o is old. Q. Why can an electric spark be produced by touching a plece of =teel | discard the drawings of the great|,fiar strenuous exercisa’—J. K. MeN. A. The Burea that this is mel produced by frict Q. What. percentage of automobiles | Includ meet with accides s stat andards save e electricity u of ely fon. nts?>—F. M. H. A. The National Automobile Safety Council ace accidents are du mave that The majority of e 10 motorists using one hand when driving, to poor vision Q. “Primaire” A. “Primaire month emploved in ¥Fira lutionary perfod. { was from Novemher What time was as.|and to smoking when at the.wheel, indlcated by P was the name of a in the revolutionary calendar nee during the revo- The time indicated | 21 to December 1 ont of every 34| automobiles suffers with some kind of | nt each vear. | Como, set the season’s record for a single vessel with 485000 pelis. the second largest catch ever hrought inta port at & John's, Newfoundland. Q. Why do Cathollc priests wear black shirte? K. A. They wear them meraly ta he uniformly dressed Q. 18 a person holding declaration required ta fir. I nish a certificate of entry Inta this country?—B. R. | "A. In order to ebtain full-eitisen ship papers a person must ha able |to prove legal entry into the T'nited | States. Q. What kind of a card game fe All Fours? 8. N. 5 | "A. All Fours i= the ariginal farm of | the game called Sevenup or ‘014 Sledge. The All Fours family alsn such variations as California Jack. Auctlon Pitch. Smudge, Pedro, and Cinch or Double Pedra. Take advantage of thia free service It you are not one of the thousands who hare patronized the hureau since its establishment we want you ta atart now. This is a service maintained for the benefit of the readere of The Eve- ning Star. and we want you to get your share of benefit from it Kend | your questions to us. Inclose 2 cents in stamps for return postage. Address The Evening Star Information Ruregu Frederic Haskin, divector, Waeh- ington, I. BACKGROUND OF EVENTS Would that I mive. If Wordsworth could s “little flowers™ what would he sav he could have gloated over hown in the third an- the country. geous heanties nual exhibit cultural Socie night? Flowers of rem ers such a There were h spectators, while until too f the brows, late. such as culture, and Dr. specialist of the specialists BY PAUL flawers wera harn to live { Conscious of half the pleasure which ther ppreciate of his dav and now if the gor Horti last the National which ended rkable size and hue, s Eden never knew undreds of delighted today there must he | thousands of disappointed non-visitors { who did not realize what they missed And the enthusiasm -the floral high- Dr. F. L. Mulfos | botanist of the Department of A D. Victor Lumsden. department and vice president of the Natfonal Horticultural Society * One phase of thusiasm had 1| science of floriculture —it was h in what the crippled buddies of Wal- | Hospital ter Reed under his teach * % Dr. ittle to do Lumsden’s en- with the joy had accomplished ing, in producing 60 varfeties of flowers of raresi beauty—- 30 prize winner: duced to relinqu nell University afier the war b: He had heen in- ish his chair in Cor the opportunity to heip the “helpless” dis- abled veterans find that there is life in cultivating heauty One who has lost hoth legs joy in flowers. can win prizes w Out in Wis who takes for ma he i the varieties. In the vrchids shown exhibit vet of ith 1 xes and peonit onsin there is a blind boy ny prizes with his s expert in smelling the shapes of finest a some ‘of the \ad been grown by former glass blower whose hands had become so cut up could no lonker p by the glass that he work at his trade. What sacred memories are incased in the <oft petal the glowing he rich red Pernet.” and an low—in men Claudius. Both ing their father France. victims of battle, und aged father finest roses in m sonx, Souvenir s and enriched with s of roses! Behold de Georges ther—a golden vel- v of his brother, boys had been help- breed roses in Lyon, ey were among the first . and now the bereft produces unaided his | pemory of his patriot Not Flanders popples alone be- token sacrifice of the war In_ Maryland the widow of a rose breeder was hopeless of ever overcom- ing her grief, until she undertook to | keep alive the roses her husband had bred. Today h spired with interest life developing whole in er those roses In sacred memory of the departed: prizes in the exhibit. Somefimes fAowers 1s an av folks. One of th vrehids i Phila pork pucker. Mayor I, N. ¥, s a ix the breeding und he His greatest which he callx, Mrs. . E. Piers five gold medal major exhibiis, One of the th leads ull success s a0 went to her flowers hreeding of fine weation of the leisure e famous breeders of delphia I8, or was, a . e rson of Tarrytown, | willlonaire whose hobb: of peonles und roses, in winnlog prizes. red rose after his wife, “the on roxe’: it has won s or first prizes at st successful breeders i* Mr. Peter Bisset of the Department of Agriculture, who carried off the “first-class certificate” of the soclety for his fine irise Ofttimes the * the past bhecome s and new roses. ‘common flowers” of rare beautfes. Dr. Lumsden is now working in the de. velopment of a morning-glor Yoy Yet, after all t fringed and double * x o he =kill of the scien- ist, when has. man exceeded nature in marvels? A few years ago, a nat- uralist exploring an ‘insect - with Lldea of maki fession in life.” the benefits il Robinson said: Is the ability to appreciate. onr travels abroad and our with this. leisure hours at ten timas more p without i+, an through pure en, oat kind.” in Africa discovered an exluordmlrfl.\; \g the fine arts my pro- Later, referring to rectly derived, Mr. “The real possession “quipped home can he made rofitable than they are d profit s ained joymant of the high. 1s in- | V. COLLINS. [leng proboscis, and he wondered what | nse it had for such a long snout, since no known flawer kept its honey so in- {accessible as that prohoscis {ndicated Next vear he found the flowar whose {trumpet was so extremelv extended thai no other insect could reach it= nectar. Said Dr. Lumsden. “What a «ermon might be preached upon that Aower and ingect. and the Creator who had designed the ane for the othe Then he demonstrated another mir acle of creation. There was a magnifi- cent orchid —the highest development of floral life. ““There is hut one hes that can sip the nectar of that or {chid.” said the scientist. “Ses whar | happens when that hee enters to get | the ‘honey."” The doctor poked the sharp paint af his pencil into the petaled flower, he neath the stamens. and withdrew ir. | There npon the pencil point was a morsel of pollen, more than an eighth of an inch in diameter. which ad. hered firmly to the peneil. with a ziue like substance. just as it sticks fast to the head of the hee. In nature the hee. with it precious hurden glued to its head, would seek more nectar in anather orchard—perchance a fe male flower—and as the hee poked ita | head heneath the stamens. the pol- len grain would adhere 1o the flower. With that orchid no powdered pollen i blown' from flower ta flower. and if the special hee fails to distribute the fertilizer pollen no new orchid ere- ated. All breeding of the orchids out- side of Venezuela or Colombia. where the bee flies. must he done by florists on the points of toothpicks. which v forward the life-giving pollen. *ox ko | Here are some horticultural nuts to crack: Flowers which are indigenous {10 their environment and are trans- ported to other surroundings and cli- mates radically change their habits and even their colors and shapes. If | they had thorns and then are planted | where there is no use for | thorns. the prickers disappesr. | ution? Plants are humcrists, for they ! mimic live animals and insects, tak- ing on the exact appearance of snakes or insects’ which are shunned hy the enemies of the plants. In that way they scare off their enemles. Strange- Iv. they never imitate a snake or insect which is not familiar in that immediate environment. Surely an artist_ must have his model visible while he shapes his clay or paints his {colors. Thus the spider orchid looks like a lot of deadly tarantulas upon @ stalk, and a moth orchid resembles mothe on a twig. Some look like rattlesnakes; some even shake their dry seeds in imitation of the warning of the rattler. Do flowérs think? Not only do they mock the caution of their enemies with appearance and sound of rattling seeds, but also in udors. They believe in advertising. onie of the most offensive odors at- act certain insects which become cacrlers of pollen, and the odors do not appear until the pollen is ripe for disteibution. | | i | ERE I rheolugi, report that there hax never heen found a people wholly de- void of n sense of their Creator. Florists and historians report that all races, however primitive, love flowers. The Amerlcan Indians were devoted to their brilliant beauty. When nat ural gas escaped through veins of earth and caught five. the Indians named the flanies, “Fire-flowers of the prairie.” The Aztecs had mag- nificent flower markets before Cortez’ conquest—even floating islands in the lake about Tenochtitlen (Mexico City devoted to the growing of flowers for the emperor and for market Flowers are clvilizing—taming— even for hardened criminals. They comfort the sick and carry fondest messages of love. Robespierre loved their beauty in the midst of his bloody regime. While Solomon could not ar himself in such glory as the 1y, yet flowers were loved before his' day, as is testified by recent ex- cavations near the City of Abraham-— Ur of the Chaldees—where exquisite oms created of stone and shells heen discovered. Th are than £.000 vears old. Mahdmet, “If 1 had but two Toaves of bread. | wonld sell one ta huy flawers, for hread feeds only the . while flawers feed the som)."