Evening Star Newspaper, October 1, 1926, Page 8

Y THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C FRIDAY... . .October 1, 1926 S AN i THEODORE W. NOYES. Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Offi ; L1th St.and Pennsvivania Ave New York Office: 110 East 42nd St. Chicago Office: Tower Buildin Europsan Office: 14 Reent St.. London, England. i The Evenine Star. Ing adition. ix delivered by c: the city At 60 centa par mont 45 conts ber month: Sundays o T month. Orders may be sent by m lephone Main 5000, Coliection i8 m: earrier at end of each month the Sunday morn- rters within Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. aily and B..xé- oty Sunday only . All Other States and Canada. Daily and Sunday..1 yr.. $12.00: 1 1 Daily oniy . 13 8800% 1 m Bunday only ...l l1yr] $3.00!1mo. 3 233 Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press s exchsively entitled to the ke for repubiication of all ne 3 Ratehen’ creited o' 1t o I ihix haper anc published herein. Al rikh Of special dispatchea herein of publication are also reserved. | Hughes and The Hague Tribunal. The selection of Charles Evans Hughes as an American member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague is entirely fitting. Mr. Hughes' experience and ability place him at the head of any list of Ameri- cans who might considered for such appointment. Former associate fustice of the Supreme Court, at one time Secretary of State, this eminent jurist is qualified both through his legal knowledge and his familiarity with international law and foreign af- fairs. His service in the cause of in- ternational peace when he led the ‘Washington conference on limitation of armaments and the problems of the Pacific was of the highest order. In the more recent discussions of the World Court and the League of Natiops, the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague has been be between Washington and Laurel, as | fit of a suit of clothes may be thought early as 1675, but in most of the books [ more important in New York than in THE EVENING STAR, WASHIN it is set forth that the first Maryland |the North Carolina mountains, and furnace was the Principio Furnlce.l That was a | which was bullt in 1724. famous furnace for at least a cen- tury. The Muirkirk furnace goes back to 1847, when it was opened by a member of the Ellicott family. About 1860 it was bought by William E. Coffin, a New England iron manu- facturer, and the ore lands and fur- nace were operated by three genera- tions of the Coffin family. It pro- duced iron as late as the World War. Below furnaces which” were running long before the American Revolution, and there is a record of the opening of mines and building of a furnace by Gov. Spotswood of Virginia at Ger- manna, a few miles above Fredericks- burg. The Germanna furnace was long famous in the colonies. oo Parasites. In connection with the arrest of the members of the gang involved in the fatal shooting of a policeman in this city the other day, several young men have been taken into custody by the police here as suspicious characters. It is explained that these arrests are the first of a series designed to rid the city of young men who have no visible means of support. This is a good move. It should be continued. There are scores of vouths living in this city today who are potential if not actual criminals, but who have not fallen into police hands simply because they have not been caught in lawiss acts. They have no regular occupation They are not seekers after employment. They are parasites who seize opportunities for ‘“easy money” just sufficient to maintain themselves. Some of them do a little bootlegging, some engage at times In “hijacking,” or the theft of illicit liquor cargoes. Some take part in a thieving expedition as occa- slon offers. Some are supported by indulgent parents, while others live by their wits and as a rule with no com- somettmes lost to sight and memory. The Hague tribunal, as it is more fa- miliarly known, however, is still a go- ing concern and capable of rendering valuable service. It sprang into existence as a result of the Interna- tlonal Peace Conference held at The Hague in 1899, more than a quarter of a century ago. This conference was called by the late Czar of Russia, Nicholas IT, and The Hague tribunal was the crowning work of the confer- ence. At the second peace conference, held in 1907, the provisions made for the tribunal were somewhat modified to meet the needs which experience had demonstrated. During its life The Hague tribunal has handled with satisfaction a con- siderable number of important mat- ters which threatened serious trouble between the nations involved. The first countries to seek its good offices were the United States and Mexico when the Piousfund claim between those countries was settled in 1902. A year later the differences between Venezuela and the United States and Venezuela and some of the European nations were handled by the tribunal. Mr. Hughes takes the place in the United States panel of The Hague tribunal held by the late Judge George Gray of Delaware, at one time a United States Senator and held in high regard as a jurist. Each of the nations adhering to the tribunal is empowered to select a panel of five jurists. When two or more nations agree to submit a question to the tribunal for arbitration they decide upon the jurists who are to make up the court, picking three, five or what- ever number they deem best. The other members of the American panel are Elihu Root and John Bassett Moore. A vacancy caused by the death of Oscar Strauss is still to be filled. The Hague tribunal was considered at the time of its creation a long step in the direction of international peace. 1t functions as an arbitral body rather than as a court of law, thereby differ- fng from the Permanent Court of In- ternational Justice, the World Court. e Washington police will take target practice in order to shoot accurately at bandits. This will not remove all danger to innocent bystanders, but thegeril will be considerably lessened. N T Early Iron Furnaces. News comes from Everett, Ma that “the manufacture of pig iron in | New England was revived by the act of the President in pressing a button at Washington which set in operation a blast furnace at the Mystic iron works here.” The dispatch continues: “The blast furnace industry as started in Massachusetts in 1843 by John Winthrop, jr., son of Governor Winthrop, but it had not been active in recent yea It has been set down 1n history that the first success- ful fron works in the United States was established on the Saugus River near Lynn, Mass,, in 1643. Iron min- ing and smelting were carried on in Maryland and Virginia not far from Washington in the seventeenth cen- tury. One of the early Ma: Richard Snowden the Immig known as “the Iron Master,” and it is belleved by those who have examined into the question that Snowden was mining iron and smeiting it with char- coal on his lands northeast of Wash- ington in Prince Georges and Anne Arundel countles, near the Patuxent River, in 1669. J. H. Alexander, topographical en- gineer of Maryland, in a report to Gov. Willlam Grayson in 1840, listed the iron works then in operation in Maryland and enumerated the ruins of many very old establishments. He sald that fron furnaces were in opera- tion in Maryland and Virginia surely [and will not wear out for years. The as early as 1718, for in that year three | wearing quality of North Carolina tons of iron bars were exported to Epgland, and in 1719 an act was pro- in America. The bill was not passed, but {n 1760 the British Parliament en- acted a measure having the same [not be so confident. modes of men’s dress may not be ob- Historians write that there was a’}served with such zeal in the moun- purpose. furnace on the tract called “the Iron State was a young colony of England, posed in the House of Lords to pre- |and no man dare say it does not wear vent the erection of fron rolling mills | well. of its cut and its tailoring, one may punctions whatever regarding the law. These youths are of no value what- ever in this community. They are a menace to the peace and security of others and they should be either de- ported or put to work at honest tasks. Unfortunately there ts no means of registration of these idlers and hang- ers-on as In other countries, where complete records are kept of all indi- viduals with a view to ascertaining their relations to the law and to so- clety. In former times vagrants who drift- ed into the city, merely seeking enough to eat for their sustenance and some place to sleep while passing eventually to some other field, were rounded up and sent to the workhouse or hustled out of town. For some reason or other there are fewer tramps now on the roads or to be found in the cities. The problem of making a living is more easily solved at present. The real vagrants are well dressed Young men who abhor regular employ- ment, which they could readily obtain, who participate in criminal enter- prises whenever opportunity affords, who recruit the crook army and who are a menace to the community. There is no place for them here. —_— e An Issue of The Star. The Star, with an edition of 78 pages, yesterday established a new record for itself and for all other regu- lar daily issues of American news. paper, with two possible exceptions. The significance of this fact is in. finitely larger than a mere competi- tive achievement. It is only when one visualizes the newspaper as a vital part of the body of the communi- ty where it is published that the full import of the new record becomes ap- preciable. Regarded in this light—nnd it is in this light that The Star regards it— deep satisfaction in what has been ac- complished may well be taken. For into the 78 pages that set the new record was written clear evidence of the robust economic health of Wash- ington, its environs and the Nation at large. Into them was written the wholesome appetite of the Washington public for sincere, consclentious and independent journallsm and honest, constructive adyertising. Into them was written the healthy mutual confl- dence of advertiser, publisher and the public in the steady, inevitable ad- vance of Washington as the Nation's Capital. The value of any record is that through its achievement a general ad- vance is dramatically stressed. Day in and day out the issues of The Star tell the same story that was told yes- terday. It is in this fact rather than in the record itself that sober pride should be taken. To all who contributed by their co- operation to yesterday's achieve- ment—to its advertisers, its reading public and its employes who, in their regular stride, produced the record issue—The Star expresses its deep ap- preciation. The world serfes will soon be giving the people something to think about. Ia is soon over. Next comes Congress. ————r—e—————— - Mayor Walker's New Suit. The mayor of New York will be pre- sented with a suit of clothes of gray homespun cloth by a delegation of North Carolina “boosters,” who are going into the North to tell what most persons know, that North Carolina is quite a Sfate. The suit of clothes to be given the mayor was made by North Carolina woman mountaineers in their homes in the Land of the Sky. Thero is no doubt that the material in this suit of clothes is good. It is wool and its endurance is belleved in. It can be worn every day in the year homespun has been tested since that As to the fit of the suit, the fashion Changes in of North Carolina as in the ‘Washington, near the head ; ¢ |of Neabsco Creek, are ruins of iron New York is doubtful. It is not likely that Mayor Walker dropped into the ladles’ homes for frequent fittings and had the coat taken in here and let out there, had the buttons set back or for- ward and the collar raised or lowered. 1t may be thaf those mountain girls are better tailors than city men, and that they know how to fit a man without faking his measure and giv- Ing him grequent try-ons. Mayor Walker is a dressy man. His collars fit as collars fit in an hdver- tisement, and his neckties are color- ' ful and natty. His pictures indicate that he has several neckties. . His coat fits like those in the pictures that hang in taflor shops, and his trousers are pressed and creased, “sprung” to the foot, and have the elegant little “break” at the instep How the mayor will get along in his | homemade suit of homespun is a ques- tlon. Some of his New York friends may make comments. If the mayor of New York were in politics in North Carolina, he could make votes with that suit. He could wear it every day for seven years and snap off the buttons with pride at having a suit “made by the fair hands of the beautiful women of this noble State.” Walker s a snappy dresser and will he be happy in this new suit? ————————————— Harsh words are used in legal ref- ences to the Teapot Dome case. However, it seems impossible to get the thrill from unsparing denuncia- tion that is present in some of the proceedings of the United States Sen- ate. When indignant Senators get through with an acrimonious incident it sounds forever after like an old story. ot There is said to be a fashionable fad for nudity in central Europe. Sad stories about people suffering for lack of clothing may have to be examined to ascertain whether exposures to the bitter blasts are due to misfortune or vanity. —oe—. There are symptoms of resentment concerning the manner in which, though far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Aimee McPherson man- aged to keep the contribution plate passing. e One of the most remarkable fea- tures of Hindenburg as a statesman is his sustained ability to remain in easy reach of the spotlight without once making a grab for it. o It is evidently Mussolini's praise- worthy intention to secure for his country the prosperity of modern busi- ness before devoting himself to a re- vival of the glories of ancient Rome. . The former Kaiser of Germany was a painter and a poet, with some aspi- rations as a statesman. His success In retaining extensive properties marks him, first of all, as a financier. ——————— The general leisure planned by Henry Ford means additional toil in certain lines of industry. There will have to be greater radio programs and more movies. ) French and German diplomats shake hands, and wait to see whether the people at home will shake their heads. ) SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. In the Beauty Contest. Autumn day, lovely lass Came strayin' through the lane; The folks all stopped to see her pass In beauty through the lane. The blue reflected from the skies Is something fair to see, The flowers turn in glad surprise And whisper, “Who is she?" She has a wonderful bouquet Of gorgeous golden rod, The toiler, p]oddlx‘g on his way, Is grateful for a nod. And as you grace the land anew ‘With color’s finest trick, Fair Autumn day we christen you “Miss Pohick on the Crick.” Effectual Suppression. “No politiclan now goes into an edi- torfal sanctum for the purpose of chastising the editor.” “Certainly not,” answered Senator Sorghum. “My method now is to or- ganize a company of friends and buy the paper.” Channel Swimming. The sunshine of Summer is dimming, New feats with great fame will be fraught; The Senate rules soon will be swim- ming Through perilous channels ot thought. Jud Tunkins says he's going to or ganize a spelling bee and give prizes to the people who can spell the most radio stations. “Power,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “is dangerous when it en- ables a man to make a wrong decision and then stick to it.” “Pride is bound to be humbled,” said Uncle Eben. “I jes' been observ- i’ my old mule tryin’ to kick a passin’ fifvver.” o Right on the Jog.~ From the Worcester Telegram. The English Channel, whether vic- tor or vanquished, is always ready for a return bout immediately. Real Test to Come. Prom the Sioux City Daily Tribune. Registration is heavy at all of the principal colleges of the country, in- cluding State institutions, but the line- bucking ability of the students is yet to be determined. Would Sound Better. From,the Bangor Daily Commercial M:my‘: m:;l ‘\“:I;:d hav appreclation of his home w estate saleaman to write an it for sale, betts real how this suit made by the ladies of the mountains will fit the mayor of Yesterday we praised radio; toda: we knock it. Turn about is fair play Too many letters of praise and no “panning” make. ABC a dull broad- casting statlon. Radio, through its very perfection | today, harbors one large, malignant germ of {ll will, which may grow to threatening _proportions . when least suspected. (The brewers once laughed at national prohibition.) In a letter recently received a cor- respondent discussed the relative mer- its of the phonograph and the radio, and ended by saying “T believe it is | fair to say that the Interest in radio is not increasing.” At first glance this statement may {not seem true. Manufacturers would {face one with a flood of statistics showing a steady increase in sales of high-class sets. This would be offset, in all probability, by a large decrease in_the sale of ‘‘par In the early vears of broadcasting, as the average person knows it every one -was making sets. The craze of the hour was to purchase a boxful of variometers, coils, con- densers, etc., and with pliers, solder- ing tool and assorted lengths of bus wire fashion the lot into a radio re- celving set. Many men and boys throughout the country gifted with the peculiar genius of the so-called handy-man ldid manage to contrive very good radio sets. If they were perpetually getting out of whack, that simply made the fun the greater. To he eternally monkeying with a homemade radio set was a mark of achievement. “Learn and grow” was the motto. All that is over now. FEven the most intrepid set buflder has been forced to admit that one can buy a better receiving set for less money than he could possibly make an in- ferlor one for at home. * ok ok ok We know personally several per- sons who owned crystal sets who, no longer being able to hear their local station, have simply quit radio cold. They are not_interested in buying a larger set. They are getting along very well without any radio at all. A letter from a correspondent reads, in part, as follows: I take the liberty of writing to tell you to what a great extent your letters voice the senti- ment of the readers of The Star, and how those same readers lije for you to speak for them. I refer particu- larly to your articles on music. With regard to the radio, as you s band has no place in the home. the military band has become a bore. ¢ s+ How the charm of the gypsles, the troubadours, ete., 1S some- times murdered by an announcer who tries to be funny! * * * In my boarding house, where there are 12 radios, hut two out of that number get anything over the air.” The writer of the above letter does not say so, but we infer that the sets are mostly crystal or one-tube. From our own experience with the smaller sets, we can sympathize with the owners. With crystal or one-tube we never got WRC worth listening to. With five tubes, on the other hand (or should it be ear?), we got WRC better than WCAP, now of memory. It will not do to say that a radi listener must purchase a large set. There is no compulsion about it, and many of them will not. Many in hos. pitals, etc., cannot. In this day of superpower the answer {s more “pep” fat the sending end—at least, that is part of the answer. What we are getting around to is A report that the resignation of Garrard B. Winston, Undersecretary of the Treasury and Secretary Mel- lon’s strong right arm, is to be forthcoming, shortly reached Wash- ington this week from New York bankers with financial connections in Pittsburgh and Chicago, and received considerable credence here. The date of Mr. Winston's retirement was fixed as “before the first of the year. He proposes to return to Chicago and to resume the practice of law. He is the senfor partner in the firm of Winston, Strawn & Shaw, widely known through the Middle West, with a large and rich cligntele. The undersecre- tary s silent on this report and no comment is forthcoming from Secre- tary Mellon, his chief. But friends of both testify to the fact that Mr. Win- ston's plans to retire have been in the making for the past year. He is rep- resented as feeling that he has helped pilot the Treasury ship through some troublous waters and that calmer seas are ahead and his services can now be spared. His Chicago law partners are keen for him to return to them and he is keen to return to his profession. * %k ok * Silas Strawn, another member of Secretary Winston's Chicago law firm, has also been an absentee from his regular pursuits, and has devoted the past year to his country’s service, sacrificing a_quarter-million-dollar an- nual professional income to serve at a stipend of $666 per month as the American member of the special in- ternational committee which has been investigating the administration of justice in China, with particular reference to the extraterritorial juris- diction maintained there by the world powers. Mr. Strawn is now on the Pacific Ocean headed for home after vear in Peking. The committee on which he served was one of the by- products of the Washington Disarma- ment Conference. It was determined that each of the nations which exer- cised extraterritorial jurisdiction in China should send an emissary there to investigate and confer jointly as to the situation and to report in- dividually to their redpective govern- ments. Their alm was to make sug- gestions for the improvement of the administration of justice in China, with a view to ultimate abolition of the special prerogative exercised there by the outside nations. Strawn ac- cepted from President Coolidge this mission. Little has been printed about it here in the year which has elapsed. But he will reach Washing- ton soon with his report. * ok ok ok A simple marble headstone, with no other marking save the single line “Colonel Willlam J. Bryan,” has Just been shipped from the Lee Marble Works in Massachusetts to Arlington National Cemetery at the Capital. It will mark the grave of the great Commoner. In shape, size and _simplicity the plain, white marble slab is uniform with the thousands of stones which mark the graves at Arlington of the soldler heroes. In death, as in life, the great Democratic leader, who came 8o near to the presidency, will be simply one of the “common people.” * ok ok % Official Washington welcomed the news that Queen Marle of Rumania had decided to bring along with her on her forthcoming American tour her son, Prince Nicolas. For by dothg so she has relieved the official etiquette experts of great embarrass- ment. Their greatest problem here- tofore in connection with the Queen's visit was to decide who should take Mrs, Coolidge in to dinner when Queen Marie entered the White House dining room on the arm of President Coolidge. Until the an- nouncement that the Prince was coming, too, there was no one i sight of equal rank to be Mrs. Cool- idg: escort. Now that difficulty country takes official precedence, in The Ambassador of & GTON, D. C., FRIDAY, THIS AND THAT OCTOBER 1, 1926. BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. simply that radio is a tit-for-tat propo- sition. What is sour sauce, unfortu- nately, for a radio listener may in | time turn out to have bitter taste for a broadcaster. ESE I The big fly in the radio ointment to- day,’as we see it, is simply that of annoyance. Perfected radio sets are likely to become a public nuisance. The present tendency of stations is to broadcast late at night until mid- night or later, making the welkin ring with dance music at late hours. Now, the new sets are powerful- so powerful, indeed, that one or two in a neighborhood can keep a whole community awake. Thus, unsuspectingly, there have been introduced into qulet residence sectlons instruments of torture to all those who belleve with Ben Franklin that “early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy (perhaps) and wise (maybe).' One of these big radio babies can be heard over an entire nelghborhood. John Jones, proud possessor, is fit as a fiddle and loves the jazz dance music. So he opens the windows, turns on the set at 10:30 p.m. and lets i’er rip until midnight. Absolutely, the effect of a dance orchestra in the neighborhood is given by this radio set. It is not a radio merely; it is an orchestra, it is a plano, it is a band, it is whatever or whoever is_broadeasting. The voice of the announcer booms forth with the power of six men. He 1s posttively uncanny. He permeates the very atmosphere, gets right down into your ears, trickles through your brain. All the will-power in the world will not help you. He cannot be blotted out. * k *x % e has behind him 1,000 watts—or is it 5,0007 He has new and perfected tubes, the last one carrying 135 volts at a minimum—or maybe 240 or more. So radio threatens the long-suffer- ing public with perhaps the greatest nuisance ever developed in the land of piano players, phonographs and automobiles. Whereas one might concelvably play a new piano player one night a week until midnight and run the phono- graph similarly late until the novelty wears off, the radio is always new! One does not have to pump a radio or hop up every four minutes to put on a new record. One pull of the switch—the radio operates hour after hour without one second’s attention. This ease of operation tends to amount to a vice, something similar to the cigarette habit. We know an estimable gentleman who turns his set on at p.m., or whenever the station begins, takes his seat in his favorite chair, and listens until he goes to sleep. As long as the music runs he sleeps; when it stops he wakes up. This is nice for the gentleman, but how about his poor neighbors? Now, we are well aware that radio men in general will laugh at this plea of ours for earlier broadcasting and some sort of curfew arrangement for city use of powerful receiving sets. Yet we have to our credit several fulfillments of predictions along this line, and we say, here and now, that unléss something fs done about this, cities are threatened with one of the greatest nuisances that ever added to the ever-ncreasing nolse of America, the greatest and noisiest land in the world. And a public nuisance is not a good seller in the long run. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS Washington society at least, over a Crown Prince, ‘since the Ambassador the personal representative of the reigning monarch. When the Crown Prince of Sweden was here last June that question bobbed up. But the ex- perts decided that since Sweden was represented here by a diplomatic rep- resentative who was not of ambas- sadorial rank—a mere minister—the Crown Prince would outrank him. The same situation exists as to Ru- mania. So Prince Nicolas is sure of the seat of honor beside Mrs. Coolidge. * ok ok % The Senate seat now occupied by Dr. Copeland of New York is the real goal of the political ambitions of Ogden L. Mills of New York, accord- ing to Capital political observers. In accepting the Republican gubernato- rial nomination in New York, Mills is leading a forlorn hope. No one can see the slightest possibility of Mills defeating Al Smith. Probably Repre- sentative Mills, in his heart, shares the common view. But he and his friends, with the New York senatorial election in 1928 in view, balanced, on the one hand, his return to the Na- tlonal House, and, on_the other, his leadership of the New York State bat- tle thidyear,and decidedthat the latter would better serve to put Mills to the fore in Republican politics in his State. Besides, Senator Wadsworth’s political fortunes are at stake this year, and rumors are rife that Mills, as a reward for his “sacrifice” this year, which it is anticipated will aid the Wadsworth cause, will receive the Republican senatorial nomination two years hence on a silver platter. Senator Copeland, up for re-election then, the New York Republicans figure, will be a weak opponent. * ok kK No doubt there will be many New Yorkers who will vote next month for James W. Wadsworth, ir., the Empire State’'s present Republican Senator, now up for re-election, without a full realization of his virtues. But, if so, it will be through no fault of Henry F. Holthusen, whose biography of Wads- worth is just off the press of a leading New York publishing house, nor the fault of Ellhu Root, who contributes the preface in the interests of the cause. The volume is something in the nature of a campaign textbook, though published in conventional form and to be distributed and sold through the book trade in the regular way. It presents in chronological order a de- tailed life story of New York's senior United States Senator, and reveals much about the man that even his friends did not know. It may be sus- pected that the emphasis placed on Wadsworth. the dirt farmer and Wadswortb_ the cattleman is for a purpose, It is true that Senator Wadsworth outside of politics is a farmer. His blographer with consid- erable naivete suggests that, despite this fact, “‘Senator Wadsworth has never been invited to become a mem- ber of the ‘farm bloc’ in the Senate.” Maj. Holthusen is a New York City lawyer and a life-long friend and ad- mirer of the subject of his book. He comes by his title of major for service as judge advocate of maritime affairs during the war. (Copyright. 1026.) The Ace. From the Savannah Press. Hornsby is certainly the winning Card. Go Up, Young Man. From the Worcester Evening Post. The young fellow who studies avia- tion is the one who is bound to rise to the occasion. e New Women. From the Eureka Humboldt Times. Woman's place used to be in the home; then it was at ghe club and in gfldfl' this Summs seems to be the English THE NORTH WINDOW By Leila Mechlin. Many definitions of merit in a work of art have been given, but one of the best the writer found in a cur- rent novel recently put by its author in the mouth of the leading racter. A good picture was one, he “opined, that did you good to look at, and the kind of good that he had in mind was similar to that which one derives from bright sunshine and mountain breezes. 1If one is not benefited by looking at a good picture there is something wrong either with the plc- ture or the one who does the lgokln;z. Writing “Of Many Things,” Otto H. Kahn, in his most recently pub- lished volume by this name, declares that “art means far more to the peo- ple than is generally realized by those who are but superficlally acquainted with the lives and sentiments of the broad masses.” Probably that is so, but there are times when those who really appreciate art to the extent of finding keen pleasure in it seem to be few and far between. For instance, what chance has an exhibition of co- temporary art in competition with a popular moving picture, a vaudeville show, a base ball ganre or a prize fight? Even less than the symphony orchestra has in competition with the jazz band. This is not to say that those entertainments just mentioned are essentially evil, but that they are more popular with the masses than art, and probably they always will be. * K ok K An Eastern traveler in aur Far West this Summer wrote home en- gagingly of a Yosemite night, describ- ing with the utmost vividness the hordes of tourists at Camp Curry, the jazz which accompanied the din- ner, the spectacular entertainment thereafter, the vaudeville show in !h(‘ open, with more jazz and dancing until after midnight. Our national parks were conserved largely because ¢f thelr surpassing grandeur and beauty, but tae thousands of campers who visit them must be entertained with vaudeville, artificial spectacles, azz. . the great ocean steamers today those who travel are as little con- sclous as possible of being at sea. Their surroundings are those of the sumptuous hotel, and the steamship company spares no pains nor effort to insure their entertainment—more mov- ing pictures, more jazz. It 1s true that one of the steamships has lately announced as an additional attraction an exhibition of paintings in its salon, but is it not to be queried whether those who do not recognize and find pleasure in the beauty of the sea and sky will be appreciative of and sus- ceptible to the beauty of these works of art? e Perhaps it was, in part, the Indif- ference of the masses that provoked modernism. _ The public should through startling expression be made to stop and look. It was necessary to be nolsy to be heard. But a motive of this sort would not-satisfy a true artist for long. If the public is not interested the public may pass, has been for centuries the attitude of the most gifted of the painters. And it is still so. New phases of art are born not through a desire on the part of the artists to be different but be- cause things seen have taken on new aspects. There is a_general supposition that the world at large is eager for change, crying for something new, but the fact is that the tendency is toward con- servatism, and radical change must win acceptance through strife and with long patience. This is why cer- tain painters who now hold high place were at first seemingly persecuted. No great innovation is ever accepted on the instant by acclaim. Doubtless this tendency keeps us from galloping too free and too far. * ok K K Confirming the conviction that art means much to the people at large is a statement made by the Secretary of Labor, James J. Davis, in his stir- ring autoblography, “The Iron Pud- dler.” Speaking of Mooseheart School he sa; “We teach art, too,” but he urges the necessity of learning first to earn a living. Art to his mind comes as a reward. He recalls how the Russians worked and the great art collections they assembled, which, when they lost their grip on civiliza- tion, passed into the hands of others The moral is, he says, “Keep work ing and you will get the chromo, adding: hat I want to emphasize is that we are not opposed to art and literature—all men want them, need them; we teach how to get them.” EE There is one thing to be remembered in connection with art, and that is that it affords extremely inexpensive entertainment. There are few con- certs that can be enjoyed for 50 cents, but even on pay days it only costs a quarter to see all of the paintings in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the National Gallery of Art is free at all times, 5o also the Freer Gallery. Not only are these pictures good in them- selves, the kind that it would do one good to look at, but they are shown in appropriate environment. And ap- preciation of art does not stop with plctures; it opers up to the most timid adventurer many avenues of enjoyment. It is not necessary to own a work of art to find pleasure in it, and whereas there are few de Medicis there are many with sufficient means to enter into the joys of modest and worthy possession. L If the masses are not educated in art today, it is largely because they do mot choose to take advantage of the opportunities offered. The Metro- politan Museum in New York devotes its current bulletin to an account of the educatiomal work which goes on continuously beneath its widespread roof. This consists not only in expert guldance but embraces many courses of lectures adapted for the use of persons in various walks of life. There are courses for children, courses for buyers, for those who sell, for de- signers, for the deaf and the blind. Moving pictures have been espectally designed and produced to bring to the people a knowledge of the art of the past and an appreciation of the art of today. Few schools and colleges out- side of New York have so large a potential citizenship to serve. ‘The Metropolitan Museum sets the pace, but almost every other live art museum in the country is actively en- gaged in some such work. What should be the result? That in two or three generations a knowledge and love of art and of the great artists of the world should be a common posses- sion among our American people, as it has been for centuries with those in Italy and France. * K K K The editor of one of the leading British art magazines mado a visit to this country and to our city, among others in the United States, last Spring with the purpose of visiting our art museums and reporting on them officlally. Mr. Grundy's report is published in part in the current number of the Connofsseur. In it he says: “The United States has be- come one of the great art centers of the world, so that it is now as neces- sary for the serious student to visit that country as it is for him to go to some of the older seats of European culture, such as France, Germany or Spain.” He points out at the same time as a distinguishing difference between the museums of Great Britain and of the United States’the fact that whereas in his country they are almost altogether under government control, national and municipal. in this coun. try they are almost entirely supported by private munificence—numerous small subscriptions and large, gener- ous gifts. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. Is the crapple fish known by any other name, and where are they found?—N. J. A. The crappie Is commonly called bachelor, camp-bellite, new light, sac- a-lalt, tinmouth, crapet and chenqua- pin. Its range is from New York and Vermont westward through the Great Lakes region and the Mississippi Val- ley to the Dakotas and south to Texas. Q. How many train accidents have there been this year?—T. M. O. A. The latest figures to date are for the five months ending May, 1926. These show the total number of acci- dents to be 8,424—110 killed and 1,485 persons injured. Q. In an ancient history which I have there is the statement that the story of Cinderella was written ex- pressly for the amusement of the small son of Rameses 1. Is this true, and, if 8o, can you give me the story from the original Egyptian?— B. B. A. Ap authority says that the story of Cingerella is founded on fact, and that she lived 2,000 vears before the Christlan era, being known in history as the Rosy Cheeked Queen. The story runs as follows: “One day a lady named Rhodopis was bathing in the Nile and the wind carried one of her sandals and laid it at the feet of the King of Egypt, who was holding & court of justice in the open. His curiosity was excited by the singu- larity of the event and the eleganca of the sandal, and he offered a reward for the discovery of the owner. Rho- dopls claimed: it, and the sandal was | found to fit her exactly. The King married her.” Q. Is the number of motor busses in the United States increasing’— M. A. R. A. An’ estimated analysis of busses in use in this countr 1925, and on January 1 an increase. In 1925 there were | 52,925 and in 1926 69,426. This num- ber includes motor busses of all kinds. | Q. For a number of years my hus-| band has been recefving a pension | from the British government. He is now thinking of becoming a natural- ized American citizen. Will the Brit- ish government continue to pay his pension?—F. H. A. We are informed that a British subject does not forfeit his pension upon becoming an American citizen. anuary 1, | 11926, showed | Q. How do the total internal reve- nue collections for 1926 compare with those of 1925°—A. E. M. A. According to a statement just tssued the collector of internal revenue, the total ¢ ternal revenue from the fiscal vear e were $2, 9,8 for the fi $2,584,140, Q. Do stage people still put bella. donna in their eyes?—H. W. I A. Present-day actors and usually put makeup a eves instead of using hel similar things in the ons of sources 30 n- for 19286, ns Q. Please advise me why the city of Chicago is so named.—J. & M A. “Chlcago™ is an Anglicized form of the Indian word “she g." ordinarily meantng skunk, but whose uses were {ntended so as to m. synonym for “mighty. s appli onfon, to a line of Inc thunder, and, among that which ru city of Chica name was not men the magnitudo of merely commemc tradt that one of the Shegahg chiefs h some remote perfod been drow its waters, Q. What is the largest which there is any record . The Department of Agri the record app v ashorthorn steer 90 pounds. He belonged named Harrls of Champels about 40 ars ag rs, to Gen. Rodert E. Lec said : “The th ough education of people is the 7 eflicacious means of promoting prosperity of the Nation. words of the distinguishzd South general are none the less true no than when he spoke them. Our \Was) ington Information Bureau is one o the greatest apencies for the distribu tion of free information and educa tional data in the world. Its are free to readers of this paper. All you need to do is to sead in your query, together with. 2 cents in stamps for return postage. Address The Eve ning Star Information Bureau, Fre: eric J. Haskin, Director, Washinaton, D.C. serwices Section of Press From Smash The question whether the disaster to Capt. Fonck’s plane, which under- took the flight from New York to Paris, will affect other attempts in the immediate future ‘s discussed by the press of the country. There are many who feel that the fice of two lives will endow such undertakings with new vigor, but some do not disguise their fear that this failure will halt our progress in the air, for a time at least. “Two brave and eflicient aviators have lost their lives,” says the Wichita Beacon, “but if their spirits could be visualized, no doubt they would be seen flying on ahead through space, beckoning on the living toward greater triumphs. The deaths and ¢ asters are but a part of the bitter price that is paid for advancement. The flight from New York to Par will be made. Out of that flight will come new discoverles and mnew in provements. The world will move on The air and its baffling mysteries will be conquered. The Seattle Daily Times also, while doubtful of another attempt this year, quotes Capt. Fonck as asserting that he will make another attempt, and re- marks that “the series of misfortunes ending in the death of the mechan and the radio operator would have di couraged a less resolute man.” “The disaster, costly and unfortu- nate as it wa; declares the Fargo Forum, “will teach its lesson, always, and the next time the tors hop off they will be better pre- pared for the flight.” The New York Evening Post takes notice of the fact that “the conquest of the a drives steadily on past all obstacles, while it also finds “renewed evidence of the full acceptance of flying as a commonplace factor in modern life.” Remarking that “France and Ameri- ca had much in common in this pro- posed flight, because it was to be commanded by a Frenchman and an American,” the Ann Arbor Times- News states that “a successful flight might have strengthened the friend- ship between the two nations,” ar also makes the prediction he de struction of two planes and the loss of two lives will not prevent a repe- tition, many repetitions of the experi- ment. That is a fortunate fact, else the world would have stood still long ago. Nothing has been accomplished without sacrifices from men.” Himin e “France is deeply disappointed over this tragic fallure,’ recognizes the New Orleans Item, for “a successful non-stop flight would have been a national honor. Capt. Fonck's per- sonal disappointment naturally also fs Gleans Hope - of Fonck Plane keen. tin. son, So is that felt by But the most disapp: and perhaps the mo: e concerned, except t » survivors of the two dead men, is the Russian who de signed and built the big plane. triple-motored plane for this was his masterpiece. Other aviat ve it high expocted of it for the future were centered “The fearful loss of life and injury 1h. and the tr. - *h have a in the of 1ij ice,” whis progres: are emph: the Cha ning Post, which feels that almost as numerous and eston five. they are auite a shocking as in_the essays avigation of the air Syracuse ald expresses the opinion that the French navy radio names of ( xpert the ind Rus of Islamoff, graduate Naval Academy an World War, who j flames, must be en heroes of the alr. the cause of s Herald, “Is as truly had made it in t which they p: ot ultin purpo is the establishme permanent schedu between this count and deplores the fact t the airships ne ive experim “At best, under conditi at the present state of de in the judgment of the Brooklyn F “the trip from New York to without stop les heyond the li safe fiving. It can q concefvably be perf ned, and mi, well have been performed under slightly differ ent tonditlons of atmosphere at the of fI take-off in the flight th ame 80 suddenly to gri ut the une ¢ of the undertaking puts it em- cally in the elass of feats and in that we are yet 2 long way short of inaugur afe acrial transit nd the cont Cleveland N need that, while “it would be hard to fudge whether the outcome hurts the canse of air navigatlon as m might have helped it.” th to conclude ti afrcraft is every new disaster, tion’s greatest utation for its exponents themselves about t extent of refraining too much.” reg and n this city rope.” Tha ty, but to hother to the smpting The Ingrate A Reply to KipWng’s Thankless Rhyme By Anthony J. Griffin, M. C, N. Y. “At the eleventh hour he came, But his wages were the same.” That was the scripture Good-will was equal to code, indeed— the deed. “At the eleventh hour he came, But his wages were the same.” But In these degenerate days The master no such wages pays. At the eleventh hour we came With generous and unselfish aim When their backs were ‘galnst the wall At the eleventh hour we came With not a thought of praise or blame. ‘We grudged them neither gold nor bleod, As by their side our Legions stood. At the eleventh hour we came And saved the Allled Ca Though some may squ e from shame. irm, there is no doubt We helped the jaded Allies out. At the eleventh hour we came, Nor thought of profit from the game. We didn't get a rood of sofl While others gobbled all the spoil. At the eleventh hour we came, But our pay was not the same. We asked for naught And now our service and naught we got— is forgot. “At the eleventh hour he came, But his wages were the same So it was in ancient times Ere the age of ingrate’s rhymes