Evening Star Newspaper, June 19, 1926, Page 6

6 With Sunday Morning Edition. | WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY June 19, 1826 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor | The Evening Star Newspaper Company v Business Office i 11th St. and Pennsy! 4 New York Office: 110 | Chicago Office: Tower Building. ! European Office 14 Regent St., London, | Fngland | The Fvening Star, with the Sunday morn 1 adition. is dehivered by carriers within | Sty'31 60 cents per month | 45 cents per month: Sunday only. per ‘month. - Orders may he se Telennone Main 3000, " Coliaction 15 m (e Whe end of each month — i Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. | Maryland and Virginia. { Taily and Sunday 1y, S9.00° 1 mo. T8 | DRy nts 1 ViS00 1 mo Ao | Sndar onis SRR All Other States and Canada. 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They are ziving their services withont com ion, devoting time and to the sacrifice of their other the District the members zanization address their interests, in order: that may care properly for the unfor ones who require aid and attention These appointments consummate a | procedure that has covered months of research and | lative endeavor. A few years agoe <ome of the people of the District | came to the realization that there was undue dispersion uthority over the charitées and cor- | of the Capital. Numerous | onflicts had occurred the detri ment of the institutions and gani- | the i Differ. | developed as to | nate | many | study and | le an of supervisory ections [ servinz of judgment hest methods onfidence in the effectiveness of pub. The 1o the correetion of these eondi ions was difficult. 1t v ins aking and taetful ment o bring together all the interests in- | volved to support of a of con- | solidation. | In this work of survey and planning he Public Welfare Commission of eiti zens named by the District sioners, headed hy Justice Frederick Siddons, was the chief factor. Tt was largely due to the patient address ! of the chairman of that +hat agreement was finally upon a plan that would the main differences and lead to con solidation. And it was then due to the effective co-operation of the chalrmen of the two District committees of Con that the measure. which had been carefully drawn, was enacted into taw in a satisfactory form. At one stage of the work of secur- ing this important measure danger threatened from a source that had not bheen considered during the process of adjustment. In seeking for the Dis trict a supplementary law to provide properly for the home care of children which was necessary to complete the program of social welfare work. the proponents representing the local sentiment and desire found themselves faced with an opposition from another jurisdiction, insisting upon a different plan. But for the falthful adherence of the Senate District committee to (he Commissioners’ bill, that other plan wonld have heen adopted, undo- ing in great part the good work that had heen already aceomplished toward the consolidation of the welfare agencies and organizations. Happily that obstacle was in turn passed, and now the District is equipped with the best public welfare service it has ever possessed. The hizh and representative charac- ter of the new Public Welfare Board gives assurance that the spirit in which these reforms and changes have heen sought and secured after severs Zations wle. ences the to he employed. | i~ welfare measures was shaken iived inquiry plan smmis- | commission reached smooth out | press al vears of effort will be carried on in ac- tnal administration, and to the men #nd women who have consented to serve in this work the thanks of the people of Washington are now due, with best wishes for a discharge of their important duties in a manner that will satisfy their most conscien- tious desire to serve the community. B For the diversion of the multitude Conaress should arrange to leave at least one investigating committee on the job throughout the Summer. S, “Law, Not War!” *“Law, Not War!" is the slogan of tha eight thousand women who are today assembling in London after a march from various parts of the Brit- ish Isles. They have reached the capital in squads of scores and hundreds, clad in uniforms of blue, bearing banners, pilgrims of peace. Today they are speaking in Hyde Park, from twenty-two platforms. That famous fornm is ringing with appeals to the reason of the British people to strive for peace through law. To this appeal doubtless the hearts of the people of Great Britain r spond without reserve. They have suffered terribly from war. Today multitudes of men are bearing the everlasting marks of the conflict of 1914-18. Tens of thousands of them are idle in consequence of the eco- nomic results of that struggle. Scarcely a home in the islands is without its souvenir of death. Rut law will replace war_only when it i= obeyed by all. War is lawless. ness. It is started by some act in violation of law, by an individua! or omflp The Great War began with | Great [the question of strength. {emn i sentatives | eventually. Hdavs, committed by a group of fanatic partisans of a national cause. 1t was immediately precipitated by an act of lawlessness by one of the sreat powers of Europe. The appeal of the women of Britain, for the substitu- tion of law for war should be ad- dressed not merely to the people of their own land but to the peoples of other countries. The doctrine of non-resistance, of submission to co- ercion and conquest by lawless pow- | ers will not be accepted as the solu- tion of the problem. Nor will the principle of internationalism, as dis- tingnished from nationalism, effect the removal of the menace to peace. How can such a demonstration as that being made today in London af- fect the world situation, for the bet terment of the chances of law as against war? more than a mere gesture, an expre s<ion of sentiment, the voicing of a wish? In this country the same hope is It by practically all peoplé, that law veplace war as the means of settlement of disputes. Here, as in England, it is recognized that war jwes not actually settle anyvthing, save 1t establish the right, in all cases. Geneva_is sitting a conference of the nations to find if possible some means of lessening the chances of war as the arbiter of affairs hetween nations. Dificulties are being met in the dis- o ing from the differehces They are fe may At cussions, a in national points of view. not insuperable, perhaps, but for the | present there is little hope that they can be surmounted definitely. Yet all these movements, whether in the form of assembiies of women, or sol conventions of national repre- mark an advance toward # common realization that war is the ible methad of settlement. worst pos “The reign of law will perhaps come | Blue, worn by the color of the costum the women of | Britain who ‘have marched to Hyde Park, is the hue of hope. May it not fade. even though this present pil grimage does not result in immediate fruits, ish marchers join their pravers with those that are today arising in Lon- don, but they are nevertheless frank in their acceptance of the responsi- bility that rests upon every nation to ! be always ready for and capahle of defense. — G A Serious Problem. Two children have heen crushed to death in this city of automobiles within the last ten These accidents str again the importance of unending watchful- ness and untiring care in the super- vision of children who play or walk in the streeis in these davs of heavy traff Concerted action must he taken to end this toll of human life by parents, teachers and motorists. In the case of the five.year-old child killed vesterday a teacher is said to have warned her entire class of the danger a few minutes hefore the tragedy occurred. This simply goes to illustrate that one warning or ten warnings by parents teachers is not enough. A daily and almost hour Iv warning should he given to ev child by every family. or impressed on the immature mind. Infractions of the rules of street conduct laid down for children should be appropriately punished. It is a case of life and death and there should be no compromises. Although the schools are doing a fine work in traf- fic education it ix apparent that it does not go far enough. The future men and women of this country must be protected and if a steady course of caution is given them many of these frightful accidents will be avoided. The utmost sympathy is felt for the bereaved families. It is a tragedy that is hard to bear. Transcending even this sympathy, however, is the feeling that drastic action must be taken to prevent other accidents of similar nature. The ma jority of motor- ists are blameless when they strike children who run heedlessly into the street. They would wreck their own cars in preference to hitting these little ones. But in most cases the child appears in the path of the motor so suddenly that nothing can be done. Since the advent of the automobile the preblem of child protection has been exceedingly serious. With these recent deaths it assumes vital im- portance to every family in every home in Washington. The conges- ion of automobiles makes.it a hazard- ous undertaking for even an adult to breast traffic on the streets. How perilous it is, then, for a child, with little judgment and undeveloped mind, to attempt to do the same thing? Parents therefore must adopt an at- titude of incessant warning to their children. Teachers in the schools must likewise impress upon the chil- dren under their care the need of con- tinued caution. Motorists must be on the alert whenever they sit behind the wheels of their automobiles. If. these three things are done a repetition of the tragedies that have occurred in the National Capital will in a large measure be averted, and childhood will grow into,manhood and woman- hood safe from the menace that the new era of transportation has created. r—— Mayor Kline of Pittsburgh adds “bread and butter” to the phraseology of practical politics. ———e—e. Archibald Hopkins. Although advanced in years, Col. Archibald Hopkins remained so dili- gent in his participation in the duties of citizenship since his retirement from active official service that the announcement of his death has caused a shock to the community. A resident of Washington since 1873, in which year he became clerk of the Court of Claims, during this half century and more he has been one of the Capital's most useful citizens. He was interest- ed in many lines of endeavor outside of his court service, to which he de- voted himself with conscientious at- tention. He promoted the organization of patriotic societies, and carried on with and through them for the main- tenance of the highest standards of Americaptam. Me Waa concerned in How can it be made | does not | American sisters of the Brit- | under the wheels | Tt is only in | this way that the real danger can be | THE EVENING the proper conduct of charitable works, and gave liberally of his means and service in thefr promotion. He was devoted fo the cause of education, and by his own participation in uni versity direction he reflected the in- fluence which shaped his own early career as the son of an eminent educa- tor. He took part in movemeats for better international understanding, and with a wide acquaintance with the foreign situation he engaged in practical endeavors to bring about ad- justments through reason rather than force. His legal training enabled him |to take part effectively in organized |efforts to promote the better applica- tions of the laws for the good of the national .community. He at the same ttme, with all other demands upon his attention, concerned in the !nm-mmmem of science and an active ember of several organizations of a sclentific nature. With all this multitude of interests, Col. Hopkins was always diligent and conscientious in his discharge of every duty, either assigned or self-imposed. Rarely has a Washingtonian displayed so wide a range of practical aptitudes or so devoted a sense of civic responsi. | bility. He was gifted with a graphic literary style, and his writings were alwavs effective. Had he devoted him- self more definitely to authorship he would have left a rich record of valu- able matter in contribution to Ameri can Mterature. As it was, he gave abundantly to the hetterment of Wash- ington and of the Nation. His passing is &n occasion of deep sorrow and of the most sincete sympathy for his widow, herself a devoted worker in the | cause of public good. e e The margin between the maximum annuity figures proposed by the con- ferees on the retirement bill may not seem large to the average observer, but it makes a tremendous difference to the people who are to get the/ e The ageold irrational social dis- tinctions and inequalities between “gentlemen” and “players” are slowly breaking down in British cricket cir- cles. Now the former will not feel 50 badly when the latter hand them a good walloping. S e committeemen throw ink but, according to a former the Tariff Commission was | more refined. It leaned toward to- | bacco pouches. If a soft answer will | do it, why not a soft missile? House | botties, | membe: . If Mr. Briand adopted as many pre | fixes as his sequence of premierships | justifies he would be the world cham. | pion “Ex.” R e | SHOOTING STARS BY Y‘HIZTA’ DER JOHNSON, The Dyspeptic. I think of happy days gone by, When T was gay and free, When I could order apple pie Or tell the cook an oyster fry Was suitable for me. | But now I murmur with a sigh, “A little toast and tea!" When tiny bubblas laugh and d: Like other jovs that flee, When sunbeams gathered from | sky, | By thrifty grapes unfettered fly | To gild the reveiry. | The only toast that I may try is | “Down with toast and tea! the | The rarebit’'s perfume mounts on high, | Delicious as can be! Broiled lobster-—teprapin—Oh, my! | How they do haunt my wistful eve, With dreams of vanished glee! They still exist, I'm told. Oh, why Must T have toast and tea? “De reason,” said Uncle Eben, “why de elephant an' de mule figures so much in politics is dat one allus wants to be on parade an' de other ir allus ready to kick.” Advice. “A woman should always depend on her hushand for advice,” said the de. voted wife. | “Yes.” answered the visitor, “but it | does grow monotonous not to get any | advice except to economize.” The Candid Declaration. “What I want,” said the man of politics, “Is reform.” “What kind of reform?"” “Well, I suppose it's the kind that & lot of people are after: the kind that'll put the other fellows out and | my crowd in.” Timidity. “Don’t you dislike the smell of gaso- line about an automobile?’ “I used to. But now I'm so thank- | ful it isn’t arnica or some other lini- | ment that I don’t mind it.” | The Real Satisfaction. “I suppose that when you took out Jife insurance you feit relieved to know that your family was provided for?” ““Yes, but rot as relieved as I was to learn from the examining physician that my family s not likely to collect for a great many years.” —r—o—. The Big Money Game. From the Dayton Daily News. It would seem more appropriate if those men who arrange boxing bomts ‘were called cashiers rather than man- agers, S Sesqui True to Form. ¥rom the Omaba World Herald. It is now a well established tra- dition that an exposition must not be fully ready on the opening day. —.—— An Asset. From the Dayton Daily News. The French might solve the debt problem by sending old Abd-el-Krim (én a lecture tour through the United tates. r—————— Back to the Bushes! From the Nashville Banner. This is the canning season for base ball managers as well as housewives. e eee " Will Solve Ttself. From the Peoria Transeript. 1f these cool nights continve sl Summer the corn will probably be ne particular problem after all ), STAR. WASHINGTON. D..-C. ———————— e ————————— THE EVENING STAR{A crime, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Recently we quoted tho praise of an elderly booklover of the dreaded “dime novels' of several decades ago. Several communications have in- formed us that others heartily agree with the old gentleman. Finding our- selves in this group, we began think- ing over some of the “shockers’ we read years ago. A high regard for the truth com: pels us to say that the “dime novels” of yesteryear were shockers In name only. Good mothers applied such a term to then nay, used much worse designations. To the average mother copy of "0l King Brady” or “Nick Carter” or “Tip Top” was a publica- tion stralght from the private presses of the Devil himself. Boys of that day and generation had to read the 32-page booklets sub rosa, behind closed doors, or beneath the covers of the big school geog- raphies. his only added spice to them, of course, and called the attention of thousands of nonreading boys to them. Boys then, as now. were broadly divided Into two classes— those who read and those who did not. In those days fond mothers took a flendish delight in sneaking up on their offspring and apprising them in the mossession of the latest issue of "'I‘l[') Top." ‘John,” mother would say, in her best stern manner. ‘“John, what are you reading?" John, trying his best to conceal the lurid cover in red, green and yellow, would indifferently reply: “Oh, ‘Tip Top,” all about Merriwell.” of 1900 a Frank * K K K “I have told you many times I do not want you to read such trash,’ the herolc mother then asserted. Good soul, she thought she was doing her dut “Why, maw, it's all about Frank losing the game because he wouldn't cheat to win!" You sald it with the forlorn hope it would carry conviction, but you Knew, from past experfence, that the argument would fall on deaf ears. Morality was one thing, when ex- pressed in real life, and ouite anoth- er when set forth in the career of the redoubtable Frank, it seemed. “I don’t care what it is abou mother cried, “you give me that thing, and don't’ you ever lst me catch vou reading one again.” Reluctantly you handed the copy over. Daggone it—and Frank was just coming to the bat in the ninth with the bases full and his team three runs behind! A home run and he would win, after the crude gang opposing him had tried to cop the game by every foul device known and unknown to base ball. “All right, then.” vou sald. in suriy voice, “But vou won't lef me read, vou ought to give me a nickel fo get somethin® to eat.” Tucking the paper emissary Old Nick in her apron, mother glad to hand over a nickel to aid you in the further ruin of your digestion. Mothers didn’t have much sense, did they? With poor grace vou accepted nickal and forthwith proceeded to the newsstand on the corner, where you instantly purchased another copy of “Tip Top.” to fird out whether Fr: if of BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. The Soviets of Russia feel grieved at England, for the vatives of England are so “op- pressi that they Interfered with the general strike and stopped the freedom of the Russian Soviet fed- erations in sending millions of pounds sterling to help their English “class brothers” in paralyzing in- dustry and overturning the govern- ment of Great Britain. “This interference of the KEnglish government,” protest the Soviets, “in Con s the mutual relations of the Russian | and English workers is an attempt to infringe the freedom of our worl ing class to glve fraternal ald to the workers of other countries, in what- ever form and to whatever extent it is deemed necessary. The Union of sioviet Labor Federations expresses a decided protest against the interfer- ence of the English government in the affairs of the Russian workers and declares that organized labor in our working republic will not allow any one to dictate its line of con- due by k%% Some six or seven decades ago a posm was wrtiten, purporting to deplet somewhat the same attitude: . d by a_ dismal swamp e e oF ke i ‘the dark and damp, And at eversbody as passed that road b A stick or & stone this o0ld cov throwed: And venever he flng Tus stick o % vei b o song of ‘Let me alone & aulet old cove.” says he, w A“ T axes is, et me alone’ “The Soviets have done a great deal of talking about their program to or- ganize @ “general strike’—meaning & complete and simultaneous strike of all industries throughout the world, in would array themselves on one side and the “capitalists,” together with civilized” governments, on the other. A1l they axes is, ‘Let us alone. * ok kX In the midst of the coal strike of Bngland there came a “general strike,” more or less successful at first in tying up all transportation and that stopped food distribution. This general strike, while it lasted, was just what the Soviets had been long. ing for, and this is how it turned out The magazine called Industry and Labor Information, which is an organ of union labor in England, said, edi- torially, May 10, 1926: “During the later stages of the dis- pute (the coal strike) thé General Council of the Trades Union Congress intervened, in order to find a formula which would permit the continuance of negotiations, and it was as a result of the rupture of this body and the government that the area of the dis- pute was widened by the calling of a general strike.” It is noted that when the general strike was called it was at once a strike, not against employers, but against the English government. Tn a speech by President William Green of the American Federation of Labor, made in Denver, June 15, Mr. Green sall “A general strike means that the line of Industrial conflict is immedi- ately changed so that the conflict seems to become a contest between employes and government, rather than between employes and employers. The real issues of the strike are sub- merged and are lost sight of in the maelstrom of public opinion and pub- lic_inconvenience.” So the actual occurrence in Eng- land, as reported in the labor organ, is recognized by President Green as inevitable in all general strikes. It in- volves the general public, whose spokesman , is their government; hence, he argues, in our republic all general strikes would be revolts against our “‘Government of the peo- ple, by the people and for the people” —all the people, not a class—inclusive of the wage earners. About 10 days after the general strike in England had been called it collapsed, and the same official labor organ reported the coliapse. After de- which fhe wage earners | | | was | | | i the | nk 'ange! ag- scribing the | marning of | 1 | cept after Merriweil lammed out that home run, and were delighted to find out that he did, just as you had anticipated. * x ¥ % Mothers of those days called them “dime novels,”” but the fact was that they sold for 5 cents. Every Satur day the boys hung around the stand until “Tip Top” came in. It was the refgning favorite. Frank Merriwell became %o popular with the boys of America that the publishers kept him In college for at least 20 vears, m rather remarkable record, now that one stops to think of it When Frank got so old tha: even the publishers, for very shame, could keep him at base ball and other sports no longer, his young brother, Dick, took up the task of furnishing whole some reading to the youth of the land. Maybe it Was because we were grow- ing older, or perhaps it was because Dick was only an imitation of Frank, the fact remained that the latter hero never appealed to us. Krank was our first love among he- roes. He had two young ladies clam- oring for his affection, the sweet and gentle Mary and the dashing, dark eved Tnez. How many readers remember the contest that went on for the hand of Frank, and how readers of “Tip Top” voted on which girl should be allowed to be his wife? We have a hazy remgmbrance, at this far date, that Inex became Mrs Frank Merriwell, when we ourselves had wanted him to marry Mary, the blue-eyed. LR mothers had taken the trouble to read a few issues of the “Tip Top” undoubtedly they would have hecome as interested as we were. But they never did. They had heard, somehow. that “dime novels” were full of villains, regularly repeat ing “Curse vou!" and they judged without hearing. They never got past those colorful covers, It was a woeful literary misfudg- ment the mothers made. A boy was allowed to read the great “shocker.” by Rider Haggard, “She.” but if he got hold of something quite as good, in its way, in the “Pluck and Luck library it was awfy Those old “dime novels” were good stories. They were written by men in little dingy rooms, who turned them out at so much per issue, but who made them tell a stor Their style was not exactly classic, hut it was grammatical, and it hung together. No boy ever vet was harmed by reading them. The situa It any of the |tions, in the main, were natural, and the moral tone .unimpeachable. When we think of some of the really shocking stuff we have réad between cloth covers, and contrast thix moral filth (and a great deal of it is still being published) with the hon- est clean sport of the “dime novels,” we are convinced that the mothers of America owe the latter an apology. In our youth we resd a stack of them as high as the Washington Monument, and we cannot recall a word In them that was not fit to print. or an fdea that was not decent. Contrasted with some of the stuff the bovs and girls buy and read today, the old “dime novels” were veritable 15 of light wonderful solidarit of trike. as seen in the its ecoliapse, the report the general said ‘““Then came the astounding news that the three rail union secretaries had signed an agreement that * * ¢ acknowledged the right of the com- panies to sue for damages and prom- ised to call no strike in the future ex- negotiations—thus preclud- ing all possibility of a future strike in support of the miners or any other in- dustry ’ The London tlerald, another labor organ, also conceded the complete taflure of the general “a dis- trous defeat, compa ack Friday' is only a joke. e SR This demonstration of the imprac- ticability of maintaining a general strike in just one country is taken by sociologists as conclusive proof of its absolute Impossibility as a_world strike. Conflicting interests of wage earners in various nations and in industries conflicting with the farmer producers of food, and the mutual |interdependence of the various classes within the circles of wage earners preclude a concert of action against any other class.’ To attempt such, say labor leaders, becomes at once a revolution, justifving society’s mili- tary defense for the feeding and pro- tection of all classes. Several of the leading authorities upon labor conditions in the United States, being asked what possibilities there are of ever seeing an attempt at a general strike here, agreed in their opinions that such a disaster is inconceivable, owing to the general intelligence of American workers. Pressed for more detailed, though imaginative, consideration, they point- ed out that a strike involving all industries would at once bring as great suffering to our wage-earners s to any other class, for indus- trialists are also consumers of food and clothing, dependent upon trans- portation of coal and all other indis- pensable supplies. * K kX The most vulnerable point of attack to lead to a general strike would be the cosl industry. agreed all the authorities. All anthracite is mined by 40,000 producing miners; these are attended by 110,000 clerks and other assistants, who do not need to be trained as miners. The anthracite miners must be licensed, under the Pennsylvania law, before they can enter a mine, and practically all an- thracite is mined in that State. So if the Soviets could gain the adhesion of 40,000 anthracite miners they would 'stop all anthracite production. But bituminous coal miners need no licenses, and while we consume 90, 000,000 tons of anthracite, we use| 560,000,000 tons of soft coal, and thix soft coal Is what runs our industries and transportation. Anthracite is used mainly in domestic heating. There are 700,000 miners in bitumi- nous mines, half of whom are non- unionists, and all are unlicensed miners. If they all struck, transpor- tation of food supplies would be para- lyzed, and the fdle miners would suf- fer as acutely the lack of food as would others. Use of gasoline trans- portation would be inadequate to sup- ply the lack of rallroads in this huge country; and, besides, the production of gasoline would also be stopped. Expert authority states that starva- tion conditions would begin within two weeks, in many parts of the country, and idle wage-earners would be the first to hunger. - (Copyright. 1926, by Paul V. Collins.) ——o—t Next Winter. From the Portland Evening Express. Along about next January we may hear the appeal, “Buy your Spring - Proof Tells. From the Toledo Blade, Feminine intuition must he some- thing like the masculine hunch, good when. it comes t.ru..., SATURDAY., JUNE 19, 1926. THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover. In the combination trinket and book shops and in the little outdoor book- atalls in Devonshire towns on the edge of Exmoor two no stand side by side. One is, of course, Deone,” for nearly every one who visits the Doone Valley n -1 ‘esh his memory of the stirring story he terrible Doones and the beauti ful kidnaped Lo ‘The other, by an author. who was very popular in the mid-Victorian period, is less well known than Blackmore's romance of the times of the Stuarts. Yet “Kater- felto,” by G. J. Whyte-Melville, is squally full of the atmosphere of x moor, and a reading of it undoubtedly adds to one’s pleasure in golng ahout the moorland places. “Katerfelto” is A romance of a later historical age than “Lorna Doone," the reign of George I111. The action starts in Lon- don with a brawl in a tavern in Co- vent Garden in which a man was killed, but it shifts quickly to Exmoor and there continues for most of the course of the narrative. Katerfelto Is a charlatan, whose silent, shuttered house in Deadman's Alley, London, is the scene of many strange events and encounters. Here John Garnet, the hero (and a hero of the real. old-fash foned kind) staggers on the night when he has killed with a sword thrust a Mr. Gale at the Covent Gar- den tavern. ‘This unfortunate occur rence, for the duel in which he killed his opponent had been forced on Gar. net, starts a chain of dangerous ad ventures for the hero, during which his life on more than one occasion hangs by the proverbial thread. As the romance is an orthodox one, he comes through everything safely and marries the beautiful heroine in the last chapter. His experiences at the house in Deadman’s Alley, whers Ka terfelto brings him back to life only to establish a lien on his future, and where he meets the wild gypsy xirl waif, form from the prelude to his| adventurex on and around the. Fx- moor. *xox % These adventures of John Garnet begin when he holds up the coach of Lord Bellinger on Marlhorough Downs. For an honest man, Garnet is forced Into a good number of dis- honest situations. He goes into hid- ing at Porlock Bay, an arm of the Severn Sea, or Bristol Channel. It was on his return over the moor from Porlock market that John Ridd's| father was slain by the Doones. Here John Garnet passes many days, hid- ing “among these western wilds till the indignation of tHe government had blown over, the hue and cry be- come somewhat dulled.” He is obliged to exercise his good gray horse. which he has named “Kater- felto." after the charlatan. on the sands at midnight, because the hand- some gray coat and long mane are too well known on Exmoor. “But a man of his habits could not remain indoors all daV. Soon gathering courage from impunity. he would leave his humble lodgings betimes to | wander about the neighborhood, drinking In its beauty. making him: self familiar with every winding coombe, darkling forest and stretch- ing mooiiand for half a score of miles around.” Here he meets Nelly Carew. Here he lingers too long and | almost falls into the hands of. his wnemies. who are plotting his death almost but not quite. The climax of | interest of this really thrilling ro- mante is a description of a stag hunt on Exmoor, where today the Devon ind Somerset stag hounds hunt the red deer as they have for over 300 vears. The hunt in “Katerfelto” starts near Porlock and the stag is brought to bay at Watersmeet, above Lynmouth, nearly miles from | the starting point. “Facing his death | in the deep wild glades and rocky glens of beautiful Watersmeet. the stag seems undaunted still and unde feated, as when fresh from his leafy lair, bold and triumphant, he spurned the red mountain heather on the moor by Cloutsham Ball." Following the stag hunt there is another hunt—the hunting of John Garnet on his gray Katerfelto by Abner Gale on his black Cassock. Over the rolling moors, through bogs, down into deep | coombes, across rushing streams and | up steep banks. all in a blinding snow: | storm, Parson Gale pursues John Gar- | net, to avenge his brother's death; but the quarry escapes, through the help of his brave horse Katerfelto and the wild gvpsy girl waif. * % ok ‘W.B.Maxwell,in his essays published under the title “Life,” shows him- self to be a keener and more sympa- thetic interpreter of women than the late W. L. George, who long advertised himself as a leading expositor of the feminine, Mr. Maxwell disclaims any unusual knowledge of women. in fact he doubts the possibilit f any man’s possessing it. He says: “It may be that men are not intended to under- stand women. Perhaps, after all, there is mot such a great deal to know about them, and some of that may not be worth knowing. Obviously they do not fully understand them- selves. A husband of the kind Mr. Maxwell prescribed would he satis- factory to the most exacting woman. “Compared with men, women aie self. reliant, self-contained: and there are few things we can do for them that are of any real use to them. Perhaps the only certain thing is being kind to them. On the rare occassion when they seem to ask for help, one should abandon any other task or thought and spring to help them. It is unkind to suppose that any labor of your own can be more important. . Yes, 1 said that a man cannot do v much for a woman: but there are scarcely limits to what a woman can do for a man. She will go on believing in him when all others have lost faith in him, and by her belief will save him from the immense danger of losing faith in himself. She can keep him alive when the ‘whole world thinks him dea * kX * ACossack general has written a long historical novel, of over 800 pages, covering the period of the reign of Nicholas II of Russia, the Great ar and the Russian Revolution. “From Double-Eagle to Red Flag.” by Gen. P. N. Krassnoff, was published in Russla about five years ago and has been since transiated into German and English. Though Gen. Krassnoff is hardly to be considered a great literary “artist, his picture of this tragic period, so crowded with events, is both interesting and valuable. A young officer in the Imperial Guards is the central figure. FHis devotion to the Emperor and the old regime, his high position and his personal bril- liancy make him a marked person, and the holshevists show him no mercy. His death at their hands s accom- panied by horrible tortures, adminis- tered to him by his own illegitimate son. 2 { | ok k% Its picture of South African life, among ranchmen, traders, miners and missionaries, made the chief interest of Sir Harry Johnston's novel, “The Man Who Did the Right Thin His new novel, “Relations,” has a shift- ing scene—England, Ireland, South Africa, Australia—but the Australian parts are those for which the hook will be remembered. Rupert Cuth- bertson, the leading character, has the misfortune to marry a wife with a large number of ‘relations” (not the best word for the meaning, by the way). His problem is made still worse by the fact that his own list of rela- tives is not a small one. He is one of seven children, and his wife, who was Lady Adeliza Parkyns, is one of eight. With such a famlily connection the forecast is not r“‘“l 1 It is no wonder that Rupert comes to look upon his brother-inlaw, Henry Brightholm, with real affection, as one ‘not ever lkely to want to borrow money,” / ithe current projects ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. Q. What was the weight of the largest turtle ever caught’—W. B. W. A. The Smithsonian Institution says that the largest turtle that h: actually been ighed tipped the scales at about 1,500 pounds. Q. Does anything except the sun produce infra-red rays’—M. L. R. A. Infra-red rays are those having fess than 350,000,000,000 vibrations per secand. Al of these rays are heat ravs. A piece of iron being heated produces different rays as it loses its cold gray coler, first the infra-red (im perceptible), then the red, which are visible, then orange, vellow, etc., to white, which includes all of the colors. Q pick colored?” 8 A. This coloring of citrus fruft which has attalned physiological ma- turity without taking on the color generally associated with ripeness is obviously a legitimate practice. In the course of the experiments it was found that grapefruit and oranges can readily be colored by the exhaust from a gasoline engine, by ethylene, How are clirug fruits which are M As well as by the gas formed by the in- | complete combpstion other similar petroleum product. Grapefruit colors more readily than oranges, and early oranges, such as Parson Brown, assume the character- tic golden-yellow color more quickly than does the Spring-maturing Va- lencia. Oranges hegin to show the de sired color within 48 to 72 hours after treatment is begun. of kerosene or Q. Are France and England willing to waive visa fees”—M. B. A. France has declined 1o enter into a reciprocal agreement for wajver of fees. e British government has not 8o far accepted agy proposal for either reduction or waiver of fees. Q. When was the first e; fitted out to find the Northwlst sage?—N. G A. Probably the earliest attempt to discover the Northwest Passage and incidentally (o define the location of the North Pole was made by a Portu guese named Corte Real ahout 1500 In 1585 a company was formed in London called “The Fellowship for the Discovery of the Northwest Passage. Q. Where was the first garden established?—( A. One in Padua, Italy in 1545 i considered Q. Pas. hotanical M. established first. Who started shoes?—J. P. G A. The game of horseshoes is hased on quoits, which is & pastime resem bling the ancient discus-throwing of Greece. Few traces of a game resem- bling quoits can he found on the con- tinent of Europe and its origin may he sought for on the horderlands of Scot land and England. There are refer- ences to it in the Midlands, dating trom the heginning of the fifteenth cen tury. Ascham. in his “Toxophilus™ (1543), refers to the game as being plaved chiefly by the working classes who often used horseshoes for want of quoits, a custom still prevailing in country districts. Q. Do travel Sea? E. & V. A. The Dead Sea has bheen navi- gated in the past, although not con tinually or for commercial purposes. It was navigated by an Irishman named Costigan in 1853: by Molyneau in'1847. " An American, Comdr. Lynch, explored it in 1848, It related that the sea was navigated by the Knights of St. John during the tweifth cen- tury pitching horse ships on the Q. Where is the snowfall heaviest in the United States?—F'. J A. The Sierra California is one of the regions of greatest snowfall in the I'nited States. Snowfall in the highest portions of these mountaine often measures from d before they are entirely vellow | edition | Dead | Nevada Mountains in | 400 to 500 inches annually, and it sometimes accumulates on the ground to a depth of 30 to 40 feet. Q. How much tobacco did Amer lcans use last year’—C. E. A A. The Office of Tobacco Investiga- tions savs: * nsumption of tobaceco {1n 1925 can only be approximated on | the basis of leaf tobacco consimed in | manufacture or the quantity of to bacco products actually manufactured |during the vear. From available data lit_estimates that about six hundred and eighty million pounds of leaf to- bacco were used by domestic manu- | facturers during the past calendar | vear. Avillable data indicate that there were produced from this quan- tity of leaf about four hundred and ten million pounds of chewing and smoking tobacco and snuff, two hun dred and thirty-nine million pounds | of "cigarettes, and one hundred and fifty million pounds of cigars, a total of seven hundred and ninety-nine mil | lion pounds manufactured tobaceo lf)’ this quantity of tobacco products {about 95 per cent was ratained for | domestic consumption, the remainder being exported.” | Q. What star is it that is said te | weigh tons to a pint?>—C. A. E A. The Naval Observatory says you probably refer to the companion of | Birlus. ~ Recent investigation= ind} |cate that this star has a density | 70,000 times that of water. i . | @ Was Clem. “the drummer ho of Shiloh;” a Pennsylvanian?—J. 0. A. John Winton Clem was a native of Ohio, having heen horn in Newark in 1851 Q. How Drinkwater A. water is the surname of John pronounced’— M. B. H In England the surname Drink is generally pronounced though spelled Drink-a-ter—that is the “w" is elided. In the United States, however, the name is general Iy pronounced just as it is spelled. Q > M A. The Department of Agriculture uses this term to refer to practices designed to increase the growth and |vield of crops through electrical treatment, such as the maintenance of an electric charge on a network over the plants or an electric current through the soil in which the plants are growing. What is “electro culture”’- | Q. Why are cantaloupes on the mar- | ket so0 early>—W. T. K. | A. The first Imperial Valley (Calif.) {melons were shipped East on April 30, one week earlier than last vear and three weeks earlier than any other year Q. Can a mirage he photographed? M. A. The Bureau of Standards says | that it believes that a mirage can he photographed if clearly visible. The Weather Burean has not taken an photographs of a mirage. and it does not know of any phetographs that are considered good. There have besn some poor ones made by individuals J Q. Why do men's coat collars al- ways have a nick in them?—R. H. A. This fashion dates hack to the | seventeenth century. The tops of men’'s coats were cut so that they could be fastened up around the neck and the V.shaped nick in modern coats is a survival of this custom. Have we had the pleasure of serr- ing you through our Washington In- formation Bureau? Can't we be of some help to you in your dail + proh- {lems? Our business is to fur ish you with authoritative information. and { we invite you to ask us any question | of fact in which- you are interested. Kend your inquiry to The Evening | Star Information Rureau. Fredevic .J ! Haskin, director, Washington, D. €. | Inclose 2 cents in stamps for return | mostage. Mammoth Cave Pleases the Mammoth Cave. Kentucky's wonder of the world. with its hundreds of miles of underground passages, cham- bers and streams, at last is to become a nationai park. The especlally the East and South, and the approval of the cave area is linked in discussion with the Shemandoah and Great Smoky projects, which are ex- pected to give the country east of the Mississippi parks comparable to those of the West “It is altogether fitting.” says the Philadelphia Public _Ledger, “that scenic areas in the South should be thus conserved. even as tracts of the West, widely varying in dimensions, have been purchased and protected. The fact that the national parks al- ready in existence were used by nearly 2,000,000 visitors last year. with 32 000 motor ears traversing their won- derlands of forest, waterfall'and moun tain, appreciation of natural beauty which or parks in the South are to realize in a new and most desirable region.” Expressing satisfaction that “the Kentucky delegation In Congress won | its fight for the inclusion of the Mam moth Cave area.’ Courier indicates the scope of the Eastern projects with the statement that the ithree represent a total of 1.300.000 acres.” Of what remains to be done, the Knoxville Sentinel says: ‘‘Assurances have been made and re- ceived that help from the Nation at large will be generously given when the parks should reéeive the recognl- tion and sanction of the Government, and that stage we have reached. But a campaign will have to be waged to realize on these promises and pros. | pects for aid from the friends of the parks evervwhere.” P ¢ The Fort Wayne News-Sentinel points out that the Federal Govern- ment is to take over the Mammoth Cave preserve, including 70,618 acres, n fee simple and without cost to the | ational Treasury,” and remarks that he Government is extremely nate in being able (o acquire a p erty so plcturesque without any ¢ The new parks are described by Charleston Evening Post as “priceless possessions to Americans.” and the Post feels that “it is a great satisfac tion to the people of the South that these regions of rare natural beauty and delight are to be preserved for- ever.” 'The Port Huron Times-Herali also remarks In a discussion of the Mammoth Cave that “these great nat- ural wonders of the earth really be long to the whole people and should be made public property. It is well,” continues that paper, “that the Gov- ernment has at last been put in a po- sition to acquire the control of this. one of the oldest and strangest of the country’s natural wonders.” Great benefits to their State are seen by the Kentucky papers. The Louisville Times thinks that with Mammoth Cave as a national park, and Cumberland Falls as a State park, Kentucky “will realize hand- somely upon attractions which have been. to a considerable extent, u recognized even within the State. The Lexington Leader adde its ap- preciation of the benefits: “For many years, for several generations, travel- ers have visited the caverns of the region from every suarter of the globe. 1In years to come, with more rapid and easier.means of communi- | cation with the iIncrease of wealth and the growing tide of travel. multi- tudes from eyery State and from idea pleases is an indication of the general; the Bristol Herald- | fortu- | " | against us. Park Project East and South | every foreign country will journey | to Mammoth Cave. Good roads, good | hotels and every accommodation | which the Government ean provide, . together with the publicity which the park will receive as time goes on, will make it a place to which literally milions will go.” * B The Watertown Daily Times de- clares “the Mammoth Cave is a great natural wonder of America, as much 80 as Yellowstone Park or the Yosem- and the Pittsburgh Sun, with tro same thoughts. adds: “Un questionahiy il the Mammoth Cave had been discovered comjparativelv late in the country’s histo: . as the Yellowstone geysers were, it would hive Leen sct aside as 4 puntie reser- vation at the outset. It was discov ered, however. in 1809, at a period in { the country s history at which littles thought was given to the advisabil ity of the Governments acqu and praserving sceric wonders natura! wonders should he property.and praise is due tha public spirited persons who sacrifice their time and speni their moreyv to Pring such xifts to the people Viewing the task still citizeny of the State, the Louisiile Courier-Journal refers to the tra { ditional optimism of Kentuckians, and declares that ‘“they can succeed if they choose to succeed.” The Colum- bus Evening Lispatch feels that “Ken tucky pride is not likely to iet such an enterprise fzil.” THINK IT OVER We Are on the Wa, before the By William Mather Lewis, President George Washington University America, which has glorified motion, | will do well to pay more attention | to direction. At the erossroads civilization the stop sign turnea The person who popularized has much to answer for. It lated that a European visitor to New York. shown by his proud host tha subwayvs and the elevated railroads, | when told of America’s supremacy is time-saving machinery, asked, | what do you do with all the time e | i re- Ane 1 | save | _ That is a pertinent question indeed. Tt we are slaves of the machine, all the products of inventive genius are worse than useless. If we are masters of the machine, if time-saving ma- chinery saves time which enables us Jreally to live, then we are blessed indeed. The specialist in medicine. who. be- cause of his training and skill. gains merited popularity, is making a tragic mistake when he takes more patients than he can thoroughly consider, when he turns from the day's work without time or energy to keep abreast with the latest developments in his field. The great lawyer is he whose judicial mind will not be hur- ried. The successful merchant is the one who values science more than sales. “We don't know where we're going. is a poor m ’hll( we're on our way,” | tional anthem. (Coprrishin 1925.)