Evening Star Newspaper, July 27, 1926, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY.........July 27, 1926 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor — !‘{. Evening Star Newspaper Company’ Business Office: 11th St anc lvania Ave. New York Office: 110 Fast 42nd St. Chi Tower Building. cago Offl Suropean Office: 14 Regent St.. Londonm, England. Pennsy] Evening Star. with the Sunday morn- . I8 delivered hy carriers within per month: dafly only. per month: Sunday only. 20 cent cen| : month. Orders may be sent by mail or | one Main 5000. Collection is made by « r at the end of each month. Rate by Mail-—Paysble in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. All Other States and Canada. and Sunday } yr.$12.00: 1 mo. $1.00 yri. 3 Dalty Dally onl; 1yr., IBe Sinday” ont T $4.00:1m nly Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Prass is exclusivaly entitled o the use for reouhlication of all news ¢ credited to it or not otherwise cre: ted_In thie vaner and also the loc: published herein. Al rights of publication of al dispatches berein are also reserved Robert Todd Lincoln. ‘With the passing of Robert Todd Lincoln, the last of the family of the great emancipator is gone. The line ends. Abraham Lincoln had four children, all sons, of whom Robert was the eldest. One child, Edward, died in infancy. Another, Willlam ‘Wallace, whose nickname by which he was affectionately known through- out the country was “Tad,” dled at the age of twelve, during his father's’ presidency. Thomas dled at the age of elghteen, several years after Mr. Lincoln’s death. Thus Robert was the only one to reach manhood. He made a successful career. Serving as an officer in the Union Army with the rank of captain, he participated in the final campaign which ended at Appomattox. After the close of the war he resumed his study of law at Harvard which had been inter- rupted by his service. He entered the practice of his profession in Chicago and made for himself a high repute. In 1881 President Garfield invited him to join his cabinet as Secretary of War, and upon the accession of Vice President Arthur Mr. Lincoln was the only member of the former cabinet who was requested to retain his portfolio. In this capacity he proved to be an administrator of ex- ceptional ability. Upon the comple- tion of his four years of service in the War Department he returned to Chicago and resumed practice. But a few years later he was again sum- moned to public duty and was ap- pBinted Minister to Great Britain by President Harrison, in which office he distinguished himself by his quiet, effective work. After his withdrawal ffom public life, at the expiration of his service abroad, Mr. Linooln be- came associated With the Pullman Company and as its president was exceptionally successful. He virtuel- 1y retired from all business and pro- fessional activities twenty years ago, and since then has led a quiet life, finging relzxation in solentific and mathematical pursuits. Of his union with Miss Mary Harlan there were three children, two daughters and & sonm, the son dying in youth while at- tending school in Burope. Thus there are no male survivors of the mame of Lincoln. Robert T. Lincoln's caresr was o rare exception to the rule of the lives of the sons of distinguished men. He revered his father’s memory and was intensely proud of the great servite that he had rendered this country and the honors pald to him in life and in death. But he never discussed his father, nor did he write about him. He contributed nothing to blo- graphical or historical research. Yet he was quick to resent and rebuke any disparagements or eriticisms. He revered his father too deeply to seek any advantage through his relation- ship. In his own capacity and with his own talents he contributed to his country’s development and advance- ment, but he steadfastly refused to enter into any political activity out- side of the two offices to which he will be lively. The particular purpose of the session is to. pass leglslation legalizing certaln road bond issues, the wvalidity of which has been brought into question by judicial decl- slons. These bond expenditures have been the subject of much agitation if Texas. Heretofore the governors—for it has been accepted generally that the governorship is a family syndicate— have refused to call an extra session to straizhten out this matter because it was belleved they feared a move toward investigation of State admin istrative matters. Now that the gov- ernor, to use the officlal singular, is to resign, apparently there is no hesi- tation. Indeed, in the governor’s state- ment announcing the cail and her in- tended resignation she explains that the special session is summoned “to make such investigation of any de- partment .of the State that the Legis- lature may desire to make.” The election will be held in Novem- ber, and the new governor will take office in January. It mdy be that no investigation will be undertaken, after all, as so little time remains of the Ferguson regime. The vote cast on Saturday was an overwhelming re- pudiation of that regime, and its re- vival in future campaigns is not be- lieved to be at all likely. Still, the special session will probably furnish some fireworks. BEEERERARLETT The Bad Boy of Britain. British critics of the poor psychol- ogy of the German government in the Great War, when Berlin blun- dered at every turn in forecast of the reactions of other peoples, has a new object of discussion in the blun- der just committed by their own government in the matter of the dinner given to George Bernard Shaw by & group of friends, includ- ing eminent members of the Labor Party, on the occasion of his seven- tieth birthday. When arrangements wag iavited by Presidents of the United ‘States, and which he was highly competent to fill. Thus passes the Lincoln name, though it remains permanently in- soribed in history. It was main- tained with honor by Robert T. Lin- coln during his long life. He, the son of the poor and struggiing law- yer of Illinois, participated in a re- markable span of history as observer and as one humbly taking part, and he passes high in the esteem of the people of this country, not simply as the son of Abraham Lincoln, but as a man of high merit as an American citizen, ] L The bus has come into such promi- nence as a means of transportation that its importance as a subject for inquiry and regulation may give the railroads a momentary rest. e Now 1s the time for the American tourist who has more money than tact. o End of the Ferguson Regime. Recognizing the futllity of further contest, Mrs. Ferguson, the Governor of Texas, has announced that, keep- ing her promise made before the primary, she will resign that office. But she resigns conditionally. She first announces the summoning of the Legislature in speclal session in Sep- tember, and declares that as soon as the program of legislation proposed toit has been completed she will re- linquish office. She further indicates that she will make no further contest @®r the nomination, and so, despite 4be fact that Attorney General Moody, the leading candidate, is still @ few votes short of an actual ma- Jjority, his nomination as the Demo- cratic candidate for governor is as- sured. The third factor in the five- cornered race for the governorship nothination, Davidson, has announced that in event of a run-off primary his followers will support Moody. The special session of the Legisla- ture which Gov. Ferguson has called for the dinner were being made and the proposal was advanced that the speeches should * be broadcast by radio, it was officially announced that the radio could not be used unless Mr. Shaw would promise not to talk about controversial subjects. The least acquaintance with the Shavian disposition should have assured ‘Whitehall of the result of such a prohibition. If anything was cal- culated to evoke ‘“controversial” re- marks from G. B. S. it was. the in- timation that he could not ‘be broad- cast if he talked politics or contro- versial sociology. And equally it was just as clearly assufed that such a prohibition would lead to a broad- casting of Shaw’s remarks by other means then radio to reach a much larger audience than even that within the range of the loud speakers. But Shaw, of course, accepted the challenge, and his speech at the birthday dinner in London last night street or the Bowery reading the food price Ists and the lodging signs. It is not so uncomfortable in the steerage when the passenger knows that when he comes to the gates at home the lodgekeeper, gardeners, butlers, foot- men and maids will bow their heads off and that dinner will be served in the banquet hall. It may be that these young men will be accepted as sociological heroes, and that in their clubs their opinions on poverty and the poor will be given weight., Well, one hopes that the boys had a good time, and that they learned more about the sea and ships than some persons do who travel first class in a cabin de luxe. It is sald that the young Rockefellers on landing from the ship took a taxi. There is some- thing democratic about those chaps. One of their automobiles might have been -waiting, or one of their private yachts might have taken them out of the steerage off Ambrose lightship or Quarantine. On the other hand, to get the full force of mixing with the Four Million they might have taken a sur- face car or the subway. oo Traffic Fatalities. Eighty-six persons were killed in traffic accidents on the streets of Washington during the past year, ex- actly the same total as the year pre- coding. Seventy-two met their death through automobiles, thirteen through street cars and one was killed in an accldent with a horse-drawn vehicle. On the face of it, this latest report of the Traffic Bureau shows no im- provement over the preceding year. There are, however, many factors in the situation which must be consid- ered. Due to congressional inaction, court rulings and friction in traffic enforcement for the past year, Wash- ington has been thrown into such an uproar that it is' small wonder that many more did not meet death in the confused tangle. Congress has acted now, and from this time on there should be a steady linprovement. The director’s powers are clarified and he is receiving co- operation from other law-enforcement agencies. Motorists know now that they will receive no leniency from the court and that if they persist in vio- lation thelr licenses will be summarily revoked. There is every reason to look to- ward the future with optimism, as a reduction in fatalities is inevitable with the proper functioning of a well kbo-ordinated city trafic administra- tion. —te Modern composers arise to contend that jazz is entitled to respectful con- sideration in the annals of good musie. The question of what constitutes “Jazz" presents itself for accurate definition. The fact that eminent composers of enduring fame have employed synco- pations does not give “Jazz” an imme- was & lashing attack upon the con- servative government for its assault against free speech and for its sup- port of “capitalism.” Indeed Shaw probably enjoyed himself much more thoroughly under the radio ban than if he had been talking to a micro- phone. There were no limitations. He was quite himself. There is no suppressing Shaw. He holds nothing in respect. He has no regard for law. He is a confirmed individualist. He views government with contempt. He makes “copy” of everything. He hates restraint. Dur- ing the Great War he was frequently in hot water because of his disposi- tion to exalt the enemy and belittle Britain, The original plan of the dinner in honor of Shaw on his seventieth birthday contemplated that it should be participated in by eminent men of letters ag well as by labor leaders. But when the decision about the radio was rendered it was generally accepted that Shaw would surely en- gage in controversy, and probably it was for that reason that most of the literary lights were absent from the board. Letters of regret were re- celved at the last moment from them. Perhaps they would have declined anyway, because Shaw is not a par- ticularly popular person in his own profession. Now the British government is wondering whether it pays to try to muzzle Shaw. He will probably pro- ceed to write a play that will, of course, not receive thé approval of the censor. —————————— One way for France to encourage interest over here in her finances would be to give the pacifists more influence in the government. Notables in the Steerage. Two sons of John D. Rockefeller, Jjr., made the trip home from Europe as third-class passengers on a slow ship. “Third class” is late parlance for ‘‘steerage.” It may be that the young men have inherited the desire to save money, but it is rare that young men inherit that talent. The thrift instinct of rich ancestors is not often passed on to their descendants. Children of an ac- cumulator-ancestor are often speedy spenders. Perhaps the young men thought that a few days of rough living would be a rellef from the monotony of wealth. One may have heard now and then that a man gets bored by butlers, valets, mushrooms and salads, and that it seems a picnic to drink out of a tin cup, lay out his own soéks and put the buttons in his morning shirt. One sees in the “movies” that once in a while the daughter of a miilion- aire wearies of marble halls and runs away to live in a cabin in the pines and make corn pone for the noble truck driver to whom she gave her h . But that is in the movies, and generally before the show is done dad finds his wandering daughter and takes her back td Fifth avenue or Sheridan Circle. It is not likely that the young Rockefellers got aill the kick out of poverty that is in it. Perhaps they had the feeling that if they got tired of plumduff and canned corned beef hash they could buy the ship, fire the cook and move/into the captain's cabin. They felt that when they got to New York they had a place to go and need not wander along West diate claim to consideration on serious artistic terms. Its present assoclation in public attention is usually with crude expression and commonplace 1dea, leaving no sense of value to it as a means of expressing tragic dig- nity or witty felicity. ———— The private wealth in France is sald to be ebundant. But like private wealth the world over it objects to being taxed. However, traditions of that country point to an amazing response in definite emergency with money from more or less sequestered resources. According to some financial experts, the famous stocking under the mattress or the teapot in the hidden corner of the cupboard has not been touched. e e That champagne bath in New York is proving to be a series of occasions corresponding to what the librettist described as “the oold gray dawn of the morning after.” Pa Ferguson has demonstrated that a husband can be more of a hindrance than a help to the wife in politics. o SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Friend Thermometer. 014 friend Thermom, you've had your day. On you we gazed with deep dismay. Your face, in humble fear, we saw And bowed our heads in suffering awe. You found your chance to be The one whom all with dread must see; You were the terror of the town. Now, be yourself, old friend; come down! Be the companion of an hour Of perfumed breeze and rainbow show’r. Bring back the mocking bird we love From where he's hidden in the grove, You've' held a tyranny supreme, Forbiddirg us to smile or dream. ‘Where is the worth of such renown? Come! Be yourself, old friend. Come down! Human Nature. “Are you sure Europe dislikes us?" “No,” answered Senator Sorghum. “I can't belleve Europe sincerely dis- likes us. But in a big game or a little one, you can’t expect the party ‘who holds all the I. O. U.'s around the table to be universally popular:” ’ Test of Heat. On Sunday unto church I went. Though I forget the creed, The thoughts I gained of punishment Were orthodox, indeed. Jud Tunkins says a man who be- lieves in ghosts has at least the sat- isfaction of cultivating friends who never gossip or borrow money. “Good words,” said Hi Ho, the Chi- nese philosopher, “are most abundant with those who weave them into a screen, for bad deeds.” Extraordinary Standards. We shudder as from time to time Bold bandits bring distress, And what was once denounced as crime . c They view as’ business. “A enemy kin be forgiven,” said Uncle Eben, “but you never kin be sure he's gointer ’'preciate what you's doin’ an’ reolprossicate.” i Looking at familiar things from un- famillar standpoints always has been a favorite occupation of discerning men and women. In no other way can one keep the familiar interesting and make the commonplace thoroughly worth while. And it is necessary to do all of this if life is to keep its zest, What is life without the zest of lite? ‘When one thinks of all the mourn- ful list of suicides, he is moved to pity, for practically every one of them might have saved himself for a life of happiness and usefulness if he had known how to see the familiar from the vantage ground of ‘the un- familiar. There must be a zest to life, the same thing that German philosophers called the “will to live.” This curl- ous “will” must have the sauce of interest, the thrill of novelty, if it is to make the most of itself, it would seem. Every small boy knows instinctively the value of interest. He calls it “pep.” 1f you have plenty of “pep” you will get a big “kick™ out of the game of living and never be bored at all. Being small boys no longer, how- ever, most of us will have to find some other method than kicking tin cany along the street, scooting on wheels and firing off firecrackers for two weeks before July 4. The only way left is to see the fa- miliar from the viewpoint of the un- familiar. * kK * % Do you remember when you stood in the big barn door and turned around to look back at the house? How strange the familiar looked then! Could that possibly be the old place? Why, there was something so differ- ent, so unexpected almost, that one had to pinch himself to make sure he was not dreaming. Years later you step across the al- ley to speak to a friend who has just run his car into his garage. You stop in the wide door and, casually talking away, turn to look back at your own place. How strange it all seems! Can that possibly be the old yard? Sure enough, it 18! Why, the place some- how seems foreshortened. The very shrubs and flowers take on a new look. You didn't know the lawn looked quite so thick and green, although you had more than a suspicion that it was a pretty good-looking outfit at that. You hardly suspected the shrubs looked so bushy. And how imposing the sweep of theédroof line. Come to think of it, that sweep had always attracted your favorable comment, but In recent vears you had become 8o accus- tomed to it you never stopped to think about it any more. ‘What was that you were saying, Bill? Oh, sure, yes—yes—— The paint job is pretty neat, too; mighty good for having been put on more than a year ago. At times you had seen it too closely and imagined it looked pretty shabby, but from across the alley here it looks very good indeed. * ok ok % The best way to see the familiar from the standpoint of the unfamiliar 1s to look at it from a restricted area, lterally and figuratively. Put a frame around your object by ! Whole Country : . THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1926. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. placing yourself just inside a barn or garage door, or peer at it through an aperture, such as a small opeping in a mass of leaves. This is the way to transfigure the familiar, to arrive at the apotheosis of the commonplace. This was the sys- tem of a famous person whom his students once caught kneeling down with his eye glued to a knothole in a solid board gate, “What are you deing there, profes- sor?” one rather bolder than the rest demanded. “I am looking at the garden,” re- plied he. for “Would it not be easier to stand up and look over the top?” smiled the beloved student. “It would be easler, no doubt,” said the professor, arising and brushing madkneel. “but it would not be so good.” Painters long ago learned thistrick, that is why practically all paintings are confined within four boundaries, commonly-called a frame. The charm of windows lles in their restrictive value. One sees out the windows a picture, bordered by the window frame. If you want to see anything in a new way, approach it from a different angle. If you have been used to see- ing something from a low place, go to a high place, and look down on it. Conversely, if you have accustomed yourself to seeing a thing from a high place, look at it from a low one for a time. * Rk % So far we have considered only the physical aspects of things, the sight of the eyes and the mental reactions to.the same. There remains the no less im- portant purely intellectual seeing, done with the heart, as the Good Book says. Here, too, one may see the familiar from the standpoint of the unfamiliar, if he will really try to look at things from the other fellow's standpoint. How often have we been told to do that, and yet how few of us ever do it, especially when we get “mad,” as the phrase has it, and then are most in need of doing it! You know all the time how your friend Jones feels upon a certain question, but the moment he broaches his opinion, you “fly off the handle" and allow an angry tone to manifest itself in your speech. How dare the fellow disa, ‘with you, the wonderful, the all-knowing? Is it not a sort of lese-majesty for the simpleton to voice a contrary opinion? Is pot your opinion the last word, the law, . the finished product of mentation, the alpha and omega of thought? . It most certainly is not! Look at the thing from the other fellow’s viewpoint for awhile, and, as strange as it may seem, you will be delighted to see new beauties in an old topic. Put a frame around the subject— the other fellow's limitations—restriot yourself deliberately to his vantage point, whatever it may be, and find out for yourself what new aspects may be given a subject you imagined was all cut and dried. Nothing is really cut and dried in this world, if we may judge from the appearances of things and the progress of humanity towards its un- known objective. Everything moves, and puts on new aspects every day, and If we want to be sure of seeing them, we will have to look at the famillar from the standpoint of the unfamiliar. Is Stirred By Need of Traffic Remedy A chorus that is growing louder as the Summer season advances until ft threatens to drown the honk of the motor horn has found an echo in the press from all parts of the country. Fublic opinion is demanding a cure of traffic ills in the interest of increased safety for human life and improved transportation conditions. The magnitude of the problem, now and in the future, is indicated by the Birmingham News, with statistics showing that ‘“there are more than 20,000,000 automobiles in use in the United States,” while “those who have given the question study say the coun- try can absorb another 20,000,000. What will happen when the present traffic is practically doubled?” asks the News, with the further sugges- tion that “if cities could be made to order, the model community would probably have streets 200 feet wide, with a parkway in the center, and about every three or more blocks a parking place reserved behind stores, but the cities are already here, and values are so fixed that little or noth- ing can be done to change conditions. These are becoming such that traffic matters are coming to the front as of major importance. It is an interest- ing field for speculation as to how the stutdtion is going to be met,” says the News. * ok ok * “The city of Detroit is in no small degree responsible for the traffic prob- lems today vexing the world,” admits the Detroit - News, which, however, points out that the Michigan metrop- olis has its own problem which “is as grave as any; has become, indeed, so emergent thaf discomfort and catastrophe and exasperation forbid a day's delay in addressing the com- munity’s best energies to the solution. It is too late,” adds the News, “to make over Detroit’s downtown section. ‘What Detroit needs is a base highway immediately adjacent to and a part of the very heart of the city, stretch- Ing out east and west for'5, 10, 5 miles, a super-highway on which would be based all the feeding ar- teries north.” “We are making grade crossings of ‘all our streets,” declares the Rochester Times Union, “and they were never intended to .carry any such amount of swiftly moving traffic. Perhaps the ultimate solution will be interior speedways and slow-speed side lines for main traffic. arteries, with rigid restriction of automobile speed on all other streets. Certainly we have not yet even attempted to cope with this growing menace.” The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times feels that, under present conditions, “‘a perma- nent code of regulations, even though there be-admittedly bad_spots in it, would be more acceptable and be more easily enforced than one which no citizen could be sure he knew. It is to be kept in mind,” continues that paper, “that the purpose of any regulation is to make our ¢ramped ‘street _space serve the greats num- ber conveniently. This will most certainly achieved by making the traffic rules as rigid as is reasonable.” s kK ¥ 5 “The facts of the present condition of traffic in this and every other State in the Union,” in the opinion of the Nashville Banner, ‘“are obviously such as to demand improve- ment. The death toll exacted by automobiles is fearful, and any move- ment which holds promise of reduc- ing it deserves the attention and ap- proval of society as a whole.” The New Orleans Tribune cites a demand by the Association of Commerce “that traffic ordinan be more strictly enforced, that all violators without ex- ception be fined, and that citizens show more interest in upholding these laws. Any challenge to the recorders to fine every convicted violator is timely,” in the o‘plnlot; of the Tribune. But the ) suggests: ‘‘Personal caution . the one fact that will control. If the people who ‘take a chance' or ‘don't give a hoot' would drive as they ask the other fellow to drive, the long list of accldents and frequent fatal- fllfs would dwindle to the vanishing point.” - The Canton Daily News quotes from the National Bureau of Casualty and Surety Underwriters and re marks: “The statistics of motor accl- dents for 1925 read almost like battle casualties.” The News contends that ‘“there are few unpreventdble acci- dents in traffic, whether by rail or road. Most of them are due to care- sessness and, In the case of motor cars, due to the attempt to operate them on the open road at train speed, without thought that trains run on tracks, operated by trained engineers and with the most careful guldance by dispatchers,” the News points out. * x X ¥ early all the distressing fatali- * in the opinion of the Syracuse Herald, “occur in sections of the city where motorists, released from the central crush, are going at an accel- erated pace to ‘save’ the time they had lost in the downtown impasse. These reckless mortals must be taught that their time is not nearly so preclous as the lives they jeopard- ize every hour of the day and every day of the year.” The Morgantown New Dominion observes that “a great many accidents come from the inex- perienced driver and his overpacked car,” while the $Ann Arbor Times- News is convinced that “the private operator easlly may be a public menace” and would hold him to the requirement by which “the driver of almost any public conveyance must have a license which is testimony as to his_fitness to drive.”” The Flint Daily Journal's judgment is that “it is a waste of time to argue for more and stricter laws until the public fully realizes that safety-first prin- ciples exist in a state of mind rather than in hard and fast rules." “The grade crossing appears to be losing none of its deadliness, despite persistent efforts to safeguard hu- man life at the crossings,” says the Anniston Star, which advises greater care on the part of drivers, while the Oakland Tribune would punish even “reckless drivers who beat the train and escape.” The Bluefield Telegraph sees hope of the ‘standardization of grade-crossing signals.” Economy or Brutality? From the Oklahoma City Dally Oklahoman. If it be true that the mutiny in the Kansas penitentiary has been due to the policy of the management in re- fusing to furnish sheets for the beds in which the convicts have to sleep, then' it is quite evident that a most radical reformation is needed quite gs much in the mind and heart of the warden of that institution as in those of the occupants of the felons’ cells within its grim walls. If the Commonwealth of Kansas— whose ' people are not always free from a justifiable pride of attainment and prosperity—is too poor to furnish the inmates of her penitentiary with clean bedding, of however coarse ma- terial, she might at least pass the hat sndhraxuwnmn Mdl'ionllb funds for such a purpose by pop subscription! Seriously, society owes an obligation to its most unfortunate and most wayward dependents. The men who are responsible for such a petty pol- icy should be enlightened or elimi- nated from a position of such power and far-reaching Yesults. — e Nocturnal Fuel. From the Wall Street Journal. University of Illinois students were burning too much “midnight oil” in gasoline form. ular | 88 my father could remember reading AV(I:E. George Moore. D. Appleton & ‘0. Neither a new book nor one chosen at random, yet “Ave” ia not so clearly an intruder here as appearances indi- cate. By common consent the fact atands that George Moore s perennial- ly new and fresh. Therefore, his en- trance at this particular point bears at least a colorable legitimacy. That “Ave” is not chosen at random sets special purposs for the'moment above the casual cholce regulariy impiied by the column caption. Now, the proper excuse having been made at each point of apparent error, let us move on toward the reason for such a throwback away from the immediate literary surroundings. Summer vacation is a seasonal topic of unfailing interest, whose approach begins in the anxious calculations of late Winter and early Spring. Where to go and with whom? To Eufope with the Smiths? To Egypt with Tom Brown? Over® Into Asia with the Greens, or to see America first in the good company of Bill Jones? These are the unvarying lines along which speculation runs, demonstrating that in its essentials the vacation is a mat- ter of change, a matter of place and companionship. Supplementary to these essentlals, however, must counted a veritable scourge of accom- paniments. Hurry and crowds and weather insure unhappiness of body and mind. Then there are the tantaliz- ing half views caught in the rush of passing by, the jumbled history, the scrambled art, the swiftly seized and unintelligible present, the whole 2 medley of impressions fondly assumed to be cultural and therefore desirable. Is there no way out of it? Is there no way of eating the cake of vacation and having it, too, without these fa- millar harassments that so beset it? Thinking it over, and having had a mere touch of the reality, I invented a vacation of which I am tremendously proud, as every inventor and dis- coverer is rightfully proud of his achipvement. At this moment I'm on vacation, though nobody knows it but me. I'm In evidence as usual, and the copy goes in without interruption. 'm on vacation, nevertheless. I'm seeing all sorts of places the world over. I'm in the best of company, not company thrust upon me by the misadventure of necessity, but, instead, company se- lected with great care and discretion. It is here that George Moore comes in. I have learned to take vacations as a rule with George Moore and a few others, a very few others. Wouldn't you like to see how my vacation works? Well, as early as this late July I have motored all through France with Mr. E. V. Lucas, a scholarly man, who is also a most companionable one. Not a common combination, this, as scholarship is likely to shut its "wssessor up within its own exclusive belongings and mediations. Not so with Mr. Lucas. In such leisure and freedom of will as the motor provides he becomes o great hunter and a great companion. Wherever a rare plcture or other work of art has abiding place in France there he turns his wheel, talk- ing all the tim® in the simple way that a man uses when he speaks of the things he sincerely loves. A beau- tiful journey, this one, lifting up from the widespread landscape of France an {lluminated aerial layer of art, which, shining through every period of French history, glorifies the coun- try and contributes to the happiness of people everywhere. No hurry, no confusion i{n this Summer wayfaring. Just beauty and clarity and joy spread out before me. Some other time I'll with some other inspired companion. But there's no hurry. Again, I've been to Spain this Sum- mer with a poet. Oh, he’d been there many a time before, so many times that a certain spirit of the country had moved into him ard taken com- plete possession. Wandering up and down the land for many years he had, under the tutelage of this spirit, come into the state where he translated the whole of Spain into the terms of its virginal powers of soil and sun combined. The history of Spain was to him but the offspring of these two. Iberian and Moor and Greek and Roman and Visigoth were but dif- ferent moods of “virgin Spain,” of its mountains and plains and deserts, of its rivers and skles and atmospheres, all translated into these successively conquering tribes and peoples. If you want to go to Spain for a Summer vacation go with Waldo Frank. Sometimes I vary this vacation by just sitting, cool and shaded, with a good friend in talk. George Moore is the one who so commonly beguiles these Summer days into ways of contentment, a sparkling content- ment of keen enjoyment and appre- ciation, such as George® Moore is likely to stir up in a prodigious show of innocence and simplicity. Any one of his other books would have done as well as “Ave.”” It just chanced to be this one that came along in re- sponse to my rather idle out-reach- ing. I'd read no more than a page or two here when, greatly surprised and touched, I found myself in the company of a really pathetic George Moore. A strange role for this par- ticular man, but his own for the mo- ment at least, since his Irishman | from Mayo is least of all a poseur, | least of all any approach to a hypo- crite. Here I came upon the modest man. And it seemed to me that so rare a phenomenon ought to be set out before us all. In his surprise ov the success of “Esther Moore talks a little about himself: ! “For it is difficult for me to be- lleve any good of myself. With-; in the oftentimes bombastic and| truculent appearance that I present | to the world trembles a heart shy as a wren in the hedgerow or a mouse along the wainscoating.” Then in a touching manner he goes back to the source of such timidity. And here is something for the parents of chil- dren to think about. “This inveter- ate distrust of myself goes back to the years when my father and mother used to tell me that I would certainly marry an old woman, Honor King, who used to come to the door be; ging. This joke did not wear ou it lasted through my childhood; and I remember still how I used to dread her aj nce, or her name, for either was’ sufficient to incite some- body to remind me of the nuptials thn? awaited me in a few years. I understood very well that the joke rested on the assumption that I was such an ugly little boy that nobody else would marry me. I do not doubt thdt my parents loved their little boy, but their love did not prevent their laughing at him and persuading him that he was inherently absurd; and | it is not wise to do this, for as soon as the child ceases to take himself se- riously he begins to suspect that he is inferior, and I had begun to doubt i I would ever come to much even before I failed to read at the age of | 7, without hesitatioh. a page of English written with long ff’s, where- the Times aloud at breakfast when he was 3.” Right here I almost weep_in sympathy for that little boy and I'm certain that the father was ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ). HASKIN. Q. What significance have the col- ors red, white and green on the rib- bon attached to the Interstate Com- merce Commission medal of safety?— W. J. McC. A. The red, white and green colors on the medal are known as signal colors. At the time the act was drawn up in 1905 the colors signified: Red, danger; white, safety, and green, cau- tion. At the present time the white has been abholished entirely and the colors signify: Red, danger; yellow, caution, and’green, safety. Q. If I buy an automobils in Au- gust will it be this year's model or next year's?—R. D. P. A. It might be either. Cars which are actually manufactured in the lat- ter part of the year are often termed models of the coming year. For in- stance, automobiles are being put out now which are called 1927 models. Q. When were needles first made in the United States?—O, P. A. The art of making needles was introduced into this country in 1566 by Elias Grouse, a German, who taught the art to the English. Q. What varnish can I use on my table o that hot dishes will not leave a white mark?—C. A. R. A. Any varnish will melt and spread if concentrated heat and p sure are applied. Some varnishes withstand _ hot water being poured upon them, but if pressure were ad- ministered a white spot would result Q. What size are the icebergs that get into the lanes of ocean traffic?— E. M. C. A. They differ in size. The largest one of last season was at one time 267 feet above water, 512 feet long and weighed a miilion and a half tons. Q. What proportion of the co: farming is charged to labor power?—A. E. A. Together they account for ap. proximately 60 per cent of the cost of farming. Q. How do earthworms multiply J. W. E. ] A. Earthworms multiply by pro- ducing eggs, which are lald in cap sules in the ground. The young be come fully grown in four five months. of and Q. When will the next meeting of the Institute of Politics be held at Williams College? s, A. The' 1926 session of the institute will be held from July 29 to Augus 26 and will consider some aspect international relations. Q. Does Portugal 1 —H. T. B. A. Portugal has a navy of three protected cruisers, four gun boats, four transports, two tr: ships, a mine-layer, four dest six_torpedo boats, four submari and one salvage vessel, with & nav personnel of 6,000. aintain a na consisting Q. What was the amount of Frank A Munsey's bequest to the Metro- politan Art Museum’—T. A. R. A. Mr. Munsey bequeathed the bulk of his estate, estimated at $40,- 000,000, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exactly what the Metropoli- tan will realize from it is net yet known, but it is the largest bequest ever made such an institution. Q. How many fourth-class post offices are there in the United States” A. Approximately 35,000, Q. What s the population of Mexico?—T. G. M. A. The officlal census ®of 1921 showed the population of Mexico to be 14,234,799, of which betwveen 85 and 90 per cent is Indian and mestizo (mixed blood). Q. How long has guttapercha been produced in this country?—aA. D. A. The manufacture of itta- percha was begun in the United States in 1848. In that year the first sub. marine cable in this or any eother country to be insulated with gutta- percha was lald across the Passaic and Hudson Rivers for the telegraph I!;m between New York and Philade! phia. Q. Were there ever any camels on this continent except those imported or bred from imported stock?—T. B. M A. Scientisf v that camel fossils were unearthed in the Pleistocens lakes of Oregon Jast year. Q. How many States have Farm Bureau Federations?—R. W. A. At the close of last year there were 46 State Farm Bureau Federa tions, with 1,800 County Farm Bu reaus and more than 12,000 commu nity units organized and in operation. Q. When was patent leather first | produced in this country?—N. T. T A. The first specimen of patent or japanned leather produced in this | country was made as an experiment Seth Boyden, Newark, N. J., in 19. In 1522 he commenced its manu wcture on a small scale and estab lished a large factory a few years later, about 1826, Q. Is it important that a cow be milked at the same times each dav and by the same person’—P. H. T. A. The Bureau of Dairying savs that experiments lead to the belief that neither is an important factor in the quantity or quality of milk. The time may be varied a little when necessary, and the personal equation negligible. It is much more im- ortant that the cows be fed with Find out whatever you want to There is no room for igmo- in this busy world. The per- who loses out ig. the onme who “sscs. The person who gets on {s glrays the one who acts upon reli- | Able information. This paper em- ploys Frederic J. Haskin to comduct an information bureaw in Washing- | ton for the free use of the public | There is no charge except two cents | in stamps for return postage. Write to him today for any facts you desire | Address your letter to The Bvening | §tar Information Bureau, Frederic J Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. s BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. American tourists are mobbed in the streets of Paris, and exagzerated rumors forecast the nee: police protection of the Ar bassy. What is it all about? account for the radical alit French and ‘Americans when dent Wilson first arr i aid In the Versailles se World War? The F the service of the Am n tionary Force and American financial and diplomatic aid in the st crisis that country had ever fac An official of the United -Government, familiar with France, rates the responsibility, as divided between French hoodlums ican snobs, at about 50- leaves out of the caiculation prac- tically all of the average citizens of both countries, as well as all the offi- clals of any standing; likewjse most of the press. * of the n lauded * k% There is a picture comes to the mind of any one who has ever seen fishermen draw a net at sea, and beheld the catch writhing and tearing each other in indiscrim- inating desperation. There is no dif- ferentiation in such a net between | friend and eremy; every touch be- comes a deadly attack, and one fren- zled fish snaps at the tail nearest, or another stabs its friendliest cont France is writhing in the net drawn by her political partisans in power, and as there is no party or bloc strong enough to face the opposition of the combination of all other blocs, the net wraps around all, and the writhing passes al] degrees of desperation.- *xxx Can any American fancy seeing a foreigner in a hotel, railway station or street in Washington openly sneering at American institution: ridiculing American policies and cu: toms, laughing at our public officials in a toplofty, insulting, supercilious manner, without resentful indigna- tion? There are obsequious Ameri- cans.who deprecate the best of Amer- ican institutions and apologize that we are not equal to dukes and counts of Europe, but let even such snobs overhear similar insults from a for- eigner and their faces will flush with anger. If the odds be not too over- whelming at the moment, there is likely to be more than verbal protes: If the insulted Americans chance to have been fighters in the war, few of us would be surprised to behold the policy of ‘“treat-’em-rough” put into action by the Would-be “patriots.” In Paris there are American tour- ists who seek to display their con- tempt for the French by plastering the windows of incoming railway coaches with depreciated francs. They sneer at the French statesmen—as if they themselves were past masters in world economics. At the park of Versailles they feed the carp with whole loaves of bread, forgetting that it was there that Queen Marie Antoinette lost her head because she, too, failed in com- prehension of the desperation of peo- ple who Jacked bread to feed their settled and funded for 62 years’ pay- starving children. F R T There is another picture of France not too old to retain clear outlines. Not a hoodlum is in this picture, but it is more truly typical. Time: January, 1918. Location: “Somewhere in France,” where an American soldier boy had been acei- dentally killed while from the top of an electric light pole he was watching an American game of base ball be- tween. doughboys In camp. Being a Protestant, he was buried in uncon- secrated ground, adjoining a Catholic cemetery, the bit of fence being taken down by the considerate French, that there might Be less mark of shutting out the American from their sympa- lying about his owp attainments. Then I recall that I'm on vacation, having a good time, and that this sub- ject, so patheti - brought up, on child psychology and duty of par- ents is a Winter and workaday theme. ‘Then, too, I see that T am through for this. time—but I've only commenced the story of a quite wondertu! vaca- gt I made up for myself and I am having a won- thy. The A. E. F. had not yet begun to~fall by the thousands. A week later the “flu” took another American—a Y. M. C. A. man—and as the military cortege carried his body to an open grave alongside the first, it was noted that that first American grave had been carefully smoothed and upon the mound there was a little heap of white pebbles, in the center of which was a bunch of fresh violets and a card bearing only these words: “Une Mere Francaise.” which easily Somehow it {s hard now to hear the hoots of the Paris hoodlums for the tender music of “Une Mere Fran aise.” * kK Kk The barbarism of the hoodlums is the most rious stab at France's weal for a generation. It is amaz- ingly inopportune and ecostly! It came at the moment America | & at Brest the beautiful monument by Mrs. arry Payne Whitney, representing | an eagle perched upon & rocky peaik, ready to soar, while bearing upright between its outspread pinions an | American soldier with hand uplifted, | holding aloft a great sword, like a holy cross—"“The Crusader.” . The mobbing of American tourists comes in the face of the estimate by the French national tourist office that last year tourists spent in France 7,600,000,000 francs. It comes even while the American Legion is organizing the holding of its ninth annual meeting next year | in Paris, with Gen. Pershing as na- tional commander of the Second A. E. F, when another “bridge of ships” would be needed to carry over the boys who once so lustily sang: “We won't go home till it's over, over there.” Will the French greet the Legionnaires with: “Bienvenue, nos amis?” or will hoodlums send the .message: “France wants no Ameri- can tourists, and will not welcome the men who saved the Marne and turned back the Meuse-Argonne in- vasion of the Huns"? * K o* % France is not bankrupt; it is rated industrially and commercially as one of the richest natfons in the world. Its devastated regions have been r paired. All its industries are work- ing full time, and there is little unem- ployment. In view of the over- demand for labor, foreign workmen are invited to enter the country, and | the net immigration over emigration of laborers and skilled mechanics amounts to more than 3,000 a week. The inflation of currency, while reducing the exchange value of the frane, is not felt seriously in do- mestic use, though that fact gives false economic security to the finances. Manufacturers make great “paper profits” while making up the raw material imported . when the frane had higher exchange value; but when in turn they seek to reinvest the profits in additional raw material imports they discover that they are actually producing at a loss. ‘Wages have increased, as compared with those of 1913, but not in pro- portion to increased cost of living— certainly not when measured in world exchange. The average retail price indices, based on 100, in July, 1914, . show as follows: Fyance Groat Britain United States i 170 1919 193 4 182 Direct tax amounts to only 80.43 francs per year. Tax on real prop- erty is 10 per cent of its rental in- come. The hooting hoodlums pay less than $5 a year tax. Yet, while cost of living has multi- plied by five, since the beginning of the war, wages have not kept pace, even as measured in paper francs. In 1911 compositors in Paris were paid 45 of a franc (9 cents) per hour: in 1925, 2 francs (6 cents). Plumbe: in 1911, .90 of a franc (18 cents) pe: hour;'in 1925, 4 francs (9 cents). Car- penters in 1911, 1 franc (19.5 cents) per hour; in 1925, 3.50 francs (8 cents). Laundresses in 1911, .40 franc (8 cents); in 1925, 2 francs (5 cents). In 1911 & franc was worth in exchange 19.5 cents gold: today, outside of France or in exchange, it i8 worth only & little over 2 cents. Nevertheless, tourists find even Paris almost the cheapest place to live in the world, if payment be made in, American money. A room with bath in a respectable hotel costs only 50 francs (about $1.10) a day; a table d@'hote- dinner, inclu wine, served not far from the Arc de Triumphe, costs 9 francs (about 20 cents), though at a really fashionable hotel -cost as high as 356 francs (80 cent From the standpoint of living econ- omy the American at home might ex- claim: “Lafayette, why are we here -—uuzud» of in Sunny (or Sulky) TCopericht, 1026, by Paal ¥, Colisa)