Evening Star Newspaper, October 12, 1926, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR, THE EVENING STAR/|funny. A great part 8t the charm and | The marvel Is that in this barrage of the value of portraits painted in such | bullets only five people were hit. ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY......October 12, 1928 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 11th St. and Pennavlvania Ave, Wow York Qffice: 110 East 42nd St cago OMce: Tower Bullding. Europsan Office: 14 Regent St.. London. England. Star. with the Sunday morn- . in delivered by carriers within At 60 centa per month: daily only. per month: Sundaye only. 20 cents Pon month, Orders may be sent by matl or lephone Main 5000. Collection is made by earrier at end of each month. 45 _ceni h Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. £0.00: 1 mo., 75¢ Balfy snf, sundar..dvr- o8 1 o B unday only . 1115r.$3.00: 1 mo.. 26¢ All Other States and Canada. ally and Sunday..] yr.$1200:1mo.. & aily only . yr.. $800:1mo. unday only . 1yr. $4.00:1mo.. 00 7Be 35¢ Member of the Associated Press. The Amsorinted Press is excinsivels entitled to tha lisa for repuh patehen'erellied fo i o Vot atherise cred o (hin baner and also the orn onblished herein Al riehte of publication of epacial dispatchen herein are also reserved. _— The American Electorate. President Coolidge’s expression of ation of all news disd] | periods is the quaint cut of gowns, pattern of accessories and mode of coiffure belonging to those times. Going further back, scarcely less interest attaches to what Cromwell and Charles I and II and Elizabeth and Trajan and Alexander wore and carried than to what they looked like. Civil War haircuts and modes of wear- ing whiskers seem strange today, but the owners of portraits of ances- tors of that period would want them changed in no particular. Judged by modern military garb, some of Na- poleon’s uniforms are ridiculous, and perhaps seemed so to some at that time. Yet he belongs in them and not in the even more picturesque and elaborate costumes of his predecessors on the throne. Deliberately to date back a portrait by means of the cos- tume and detalls of the toflet is be- fogging and does not appear to be a function of true art. If the gre.’lt-lm“mdp“l government in that city. granddaughter of a century hence shall have had a great-grandmother who wore skirts just to the knee-pan, | Mitted to remain at large without wore no sleeves and had a boyish shingle, by all means let the latter be so portrayed. Printers have a slogan, “Follow copy.” It may well be heeded by artists. . destre for a larger representation of | The Miller-Daugherty Mistrial. public preference at the polls is not to be attributed to a partisan wish for a malority for his party in Con- gress as a result of the elections next month. He speaks as the Chief Ex- ecutive of the country, not as a Re- publican. There is urgent need of a greater response by the clectorate to the summons to manifest the popular will. " At 1he last two elections only fifty per cent of those eligible to vote cast thelr ballots. This is a poor showing in a republic with a practically uni- versal franchise. Does it arise from Jack of interest, indifference to the weltare of the country? Or does it come from a feeling that the indl- vidual vote Is of no moment in the mass of ballots? The individual vote 13 what makes up the total. Many candidates have been elected to office by what has come to be known as the at- home vote” Unworthy men have been named to office because of the feeling on the part of conscientious electors that there was no use in thelr golng to the polls. Political craftsmen count upon this lethargy or feeling of hopelessness to work thelr schemes, and many of the ills that this country has suffered have come from their success. Particularly In municipal politics 18 the indifference of the average citi- zen to the value and the duty of the franchise a factor in misgovernment. There 1s nothing that the “machine” that dominates a clty fears so much as a thorough arousal of public in- terest In an election, with a large registration and vote. Majority rule can be assured only Jt the people respond to the call to cast thelr ballots, not merely in elec- tions, but in primaries and, in those States where primaries do not pre- vall, in the preliminary proceedings of delegate choosing. The records of American elections show that most of the officials, local, State and Federal, have been chosen from the beginning by less than a majority of the poten- tial voters. It was thought that with the enlargement of the franchise by the nineteenth amendment the per- centage of possible voters going to the polls would be materially increased, but that has not vet developed. Lately movements have ganized to “zet out the vot less of parti have undertaken this task with a con- !Idl".’lhl(‘ but not yet satisfactory measure of succe There is much inertia to be overcome. There is much education to be conducted among not merely the backward citl zens but the intelligent and progres stve. They must he shown by general precept and concrete illustration that their interests us well as their obliga- tions as citi; s require them to reg- ister and to 2o to the polls on elec- tion da the issues, who- been anship. whatever ever the candidates and whatever the en in | | | party to which they belong. those States and in those cities where the re deemed for gone citizens should reg ister themselves and should vote. The fact that representative ernment has been maintained in this country for a century and a half with & minority expression public will at elections dc Jjustify the con clusfon that it ts be ray a conclusion s not gov- | | | | ! not common. {in cd Fallure of the trial of former At- torney General Daugherty and former Alien Property Custodian Miller to result in either acquittal or conviction brings the jury system as in vogue in this country once more into question as to its efficiency. After five weeks of testimony and argument, the twelve men chosen to sit in judgment upon the questions of fact found themselves In irreconcilable disagree- ment. It is reported that they stood evenly divided as to one defendant and ten for the convicton of the other, with two for acquittal. They were discharged after sixty-six hours of deliberation, the longest period ever known in that jurisdiction. American federal law and the law in most of the States require unani- mous verdicts from jurles. That fs likewise the English law, from which the jury system sprang. In a few of the States in this country verdicts rendered by a vote less than unani- mous are permitted. In Scotland jurfes for the trial of criminal cases consist of fifteen persons, and the verdicts need not be unanimous. A Scotch jury may in addition to the verdicts of “guilty” and “not guilty” render a verdict of “not proven,” which has legally the same effect as an acquittal in releasing the accused from further proceedings on the par- ticular charge, but inflicts on him the stigma of moral guilt. The jury system was established in this country by reason of the fact that it was part of the common law of England, which prevailed in the col- onies before the Declaration of Inde- pendence. It was written into the American Constitution, together with %other principles of law similarly de- rived. But from the beginning of in- dependent government in America there has been objection to the jury system, principally on the score of the requirement of a unanimous verdict, on the ground of the danger of dis- agreement and mistrial or the sacri- fice of opinions conscientiously held by minerity jurymen. The Supreme Court of the United States has de- cided expressly in favor of the unanimity rule. This decision does not govern in State jurisdictions, and, as mentioned, some of the States have adopted the majority rule. Mistrials through disagreement are They occur occastonally ses of such notoriety as to create ion in some minds that the ju tem is a faflure as a means of reaching conclusions. There always remains, however, the possi- bility of retrial, although there is reluctance to engage in the second ffort on account of the cost, especial- the fmpre: 1y in a protracted proceeding. It has been estimated that the Miller- Daugherty trial cost no less than half a million dollars, and a retrial would probably no less. This factor of pense may determine in the present » whether the two accused men will be again summoned to the bar o be tried by a jury of their peers. A serious misfortune in the matter of a mistrial in a notable case arises rom the fact that it becomes more difficult in the second instance than in the first to obtaln a jury of twelve men who have not formed prejudicial opinions regarding the lssues. So | widespread has been the interest in can continue on that basis. Al Smith sented to him by 1 ige in a mu- seum. It was a genuine fish, actually caught with no suspicion of imagina- tive exaggeration; therefore a le mats ¢ - Faithful Portrayal. The exhibition in London * portrait in strictly modern dress of | the two debuta daughters of a noble lord has called forth the dictum from a majority of the older British it s that modern modes | » artistic effort. The younger ration of artists insist that the scanty raiment of the mod ern younz lady is quite in keeping with art standards. They believe thut never again will women wear the long and heavy gowns that featured one we atic There is something to be said for both si The artist who can suc- cessfully subordinate the costume or draperies to the face and figure and who conventic the costume tnto so will wear wi for always bespeaks no par ticu 1l and is also ra On the and, portraits—at least good portraits—become with the sage of time historical and it would s no harm in depicting the garb of men, women and ch n “as 8. Probably similar charges of being “death to artistic effort” were made when such styles as the directoire and the mid-Victorian crinoline first ap- peared. The enormous puffed sleev, and wasp walsts of the middle nineties called forth gibes even then; they ap- pear somewhat ridiculous now, but a centusy Lom [ojw they will pot »’ o s documents, | Chi | | were killed the Miller-Daugherty trial that it would be hard to find a dozen intel- ligent citizens who have not been af- fected in some degree by the widely published accounts of the case. How- ever, it is undeniably desirable that this charge ugainst two former of- ficials of high k. e of mal- feasu and consp hould be brought to a definite conclusion and not allowed to remain undetermined with a heavy preponderance of judg- ment against the one and an equal sion of opinion in respect to the e alls attention to the in sovietism var; the styles in ¢ fact that the quite as flexibly tume or dancing. T T A Chicago War Bulletin. 1in the machine gun figures in wo's gang wars. For the sec- ond time a weapon that is supposed to be available only to public au- thorities has been emploved in a criminal vendetta in that city of con- flict. In this two men and badl, A latest ¢ hree se were wounded by fire from the window of a second-story apartment. directed at a motor car in which were seated a | number of men associated with one 1 that there can be | l of the gangs of lawbreakers, who are in open warfare with one another. One of the wounded was a member of the bar, formerly an assistant State’s attorney, who has been en- gaged to defend a gangster. Whether he was marked for assault or was merely the unfortunate victim of his association with the objects of the concealed assailants is not deter- mined. Coincident with the fire from the apartment house, there was a fugijlade from A passing auigmobile, Just how the gangsters get these guns is a mystery unsolved. In the preceding case the weapon was traced to a certain shop, but so far as the dispatches have gone there has been no disclosure of its real source. That there is an illicit traffic in these weapons, which are supposed to be available only to the United States Army and the State police forces, is evident from these recent Chicago crimes. They are either stolen from the stocks of reputable arms makers or somebody has gone into the busi- ness of making them for the criminal trade. It should not be difficult to locate the source of this dangerous supply. These gang wars in Chicago may be regarded with some equanimity so long as the victims are all members of the criminal classes. Yet they re- flect gravely upon the efficiency of The identity of the gangsters seems to be well known. But they are per- successful prosecution, to prey upon the public until they fall upon each other through jealousy and in treach- ery. [Truly the city of Chicago is in a sad state when these private wars can be waged in its streets with weapons that are supposedly for the exclusive use of the forces of law and order. After expressing wonderment as to why he is - fascinating to women, it was a mistake for D'Annunzio to per- mit his picture to be published. A photograph of a bald-headed gentle- man may create the suspicion that any charm with which he credits him- self must be largely in the nature of a subjective impression. ——— et America has wealth untold. Every persuasion has been offered Uncle Sam to finance some spectacular ex- hibition of war. But the U. B. A. re- mains content to accept base ball or pugilism as an emotional relief and draws the line at human sacrifice. ——————— A New York theatrical producer, who has apparently disgraced himself on Broadway, can rely with amazing confidence on a vindication from “Main Street” in the provinces. et The jury in the Daugherty-Miller case found Judge Julian Mack no sympathizer with Henry Ford's theories as to the desirabllity of short hours. —————— On second thought, Senator Borah favors a vote which will permit the people to go on record and show whether they really meant business when they demanded prohibition. ————————————— Old-fashioned fiddles are admired, but they show no efficlency in counter- acting the influence of the fifvver in establishing new-fashioned rhythms. —_——rar— Circumstances have changed so as to make the former Kalser of Ger- many, once burdened with war guilt, look like an innocent bystander. vt French walters are said to be refus- ing American tips. The report is prob- ably false. Lifetime habits are not so easily conquered. o SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. That B. B. Oh, Busy Bee, you seem to me To make an easy score. ‘When Summer days no more you see You sleep six months or more! 'Mid rainbow show'rs among flow'rs You lay aslde vour hoard. You have reduced your working hours To those of Henry Ford! the Avoiding Misunderstanding. “Are you a wet or a dry?"” “I'm a dry,” answered Senator Sor- ghum, emphatically. “And by that I don’t mean to refer to any personal thirst, either.® Back to Business. Lazy Day! You've gone away And faded with the flow'r. Busy Day! You're here to stay And count each useful hour. Lazy Day! You seemed so gay! Men met each sportive test. Busy Day! To golt we'll stray. - We surely need the rest. At the Cabaret. “You have danced every dance! You must be fond of dancing! “I'm not so very. I'm only trying to get my money’s worth out of the cover charge.” Jud Tunkins says you can't judge by size. A ukulele makes a man more popular than a bass viol. Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, says a grafter may die respected if he is not overtaken by qualms of honesty which cause him to die poor. Musical Difficulty. composer is certain to The classic please. He baffles the mind, just the same, We can whistle his tune with com- parative ease, But we balk at pronouncing his name. Never Could. “I cannot sing the old songs:” “So your grandmother told me."” No Debate. “The microphone will faithfully transmit all you 5 And vet,” replied the controversial- ist, I feel like a coward. The micro’ phone can't talk back.” “Angels natchelly have wings,” said TUncle Eben, “so what's de hurry 'bout tryin’ to fly wif deshere areoplanes?” ———— Always Somebody Else. From the Baltimore Evening Sun. 1t the other fellow would leave his car home, there would be no parking problem. Prophecy, at best, is a hazardous undertaking. Sports writers throughout the land have had to eat their words time and time again this year, as great cham- pions in various lines went down be- fore the onslaught of the newest champions. The “experts” have had a hard time of it. The very latest {llustra- tion came whén the boys were tell- ing the world who was going to win the world series. As the series zigzagged back and forth, the Yanks winning a game, then the Cardinals coming out on top, the experts sweat mental blood trying to tell the world how the next game would turn out. If the New York team was in a batting slump, they had no chance whatever, or, at best, a “slim” one. (We quote one of the most expert experts.) The next day, after the Yanks had found their batting eye, and Babe Ruth had slammed out three home runs for that particular record, the writers had to change their tune, An expert, after all, is thus demon- strated to be simply a man who takes his life in his hands when he embarks on the sea of foretelling what will or will not come to pass. The old “dope stuff” in foot ball, in which one team was predicted to beat another hecause they had both played a third team, and the first had won by 14 to 0 and the second by only 3 to 0, has long been rele- gated to the oblivion it deserves. Perhaps this season of upsets in sports will serve to convince other- wise capable writers that perhaps Just straight observation, with the soft pedal on the prophecy stuff, is by far the best way to handle the matter. * &k % The trouble lies, not in that these capable writers do not know their game, but simply in the fact that prophecy is beyond the power of man, Who is there, in this life of ups and downs, that can really predict what the next hour will bring forth? If he is lucky, he may hit it, but i he 1s not—. Chance, after all, plays a leading role. The advent of new and un- known factors (in sports, the skill of the new champion, the condition of the old, etc.) combines to upset the dope. The quickest eye in the world, and the greatest experience, will not pre- vail against what is to be. Before the Dempsey-Tunney fight one of keenest fighters in the game vi ited both the champion and the contender and then came out for Dempsey. After the fight this - particular writer spent two or more articles in explaining just why he did that, and st how it happened to turn out the it did. His reputation as a prophet suffere§ a sad blow, from which it will hatdly recover. Yet, do we not all, in following the various games that occupy so large a part in modern American life, do ex- actly the same thing? Lach one of us secretly resolves himself into a prophet, and, if he does not exactly attempt to proclaim the winner in advance, at least to hope for a certain man, or a particu- lar_team. Thus hope becomes a sort of prog- nostication. We saw women who, previous to the present series, never knew the name of one player from another on either of the teams, sud- denly become enthusiastic for th Cardinals. From then on the prowess of the Babe at bat was greeted with groans, every good play of the Yanks sent a shudder of disdain down fair spines. WASHINGTON, D. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. the | Or it was the other way around. | Americans must take sides. ! All those who predict the outcome of sporting events, either for money or for the love of the thing, thus un- consclously take sides. The desire for one man or one side to win over the other man or side sways the subcon- sclous mind, as it were. There is scarcely any other way to account for the failure of the experts. * k¥ X X With reflective minds it is ever a question whether the sporting world would not be the gainer if spectators could regard the events in a more philosophic frame of mind. The ela- tion of spirit which comes to one when his selection wins is counter- balanced by the deep gloom that per- vades whole cities when the home team loses. Why should intelligent men, in this day and age, allow themselves to be made glad or the reverse by the success or failure of nine men play- ing a game off there hundreds of miles away? The answer is that sports, as we know them, are not to be viewed from the standpoint of the intellect, but largely from the viewpoint of the emotions. They give a safe and sane vent for the emotions of men, once engaged in high hopes in con- quest of the border, now turned to less elemental things, sports, vet re- taining distinctly elemental features. Our Inescapable conclusion must be that the great vogue for sports is natural, and good, and that it pro- vides unconscious outlets for the working of the human emotions, which, too much repressed, are likely to_spring out in evil ways. Perhaps America, with her accent on athletics, is thg wisest Nation in the world today. %o It is the very charm of the un- known (the unknown whick: the “ex- perts” try so hard to make known!) that intrigues us in watching a sport- inz event, whether it be base ball, foot ball, speedboats, boxing, or what have you. Ruth {s at bat—will he knock a home run? Why, Ruth himself doesn't know! He hopes so; so do all the members of his team: so do all the Yank rooters, no matter where lo- cated. The opposing pitcher fervently he will not; so do all his team- 0 do all the supporters of the Cards, Here away, listen | br t. Here we have our { pinned on a sound coming to us across | Tlinois, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Maryiand, of hundreds of miles to the game heing we ing the District Columbia. It is the ver oice of fate, | chance, the mysterious, the unknc able, whether the Babe will hit it or not. There are too many factors in- volved It suddenly strikes us as the strangest thing in the world that we should be sitting here, tense, eager for the happening that is about to hap pen. If he hits it for a home run something in our mature will expand. We will turn to our companions, smile broadly and say: “Did you hear the crack of that bat? Atta boy, another home run!” If he is given a base on bals we will groan. And our elation and our depres- sion are largely unintelligible to us. We are the children of our age and are playing with our latest sclentific playthings, with brawn, and skill, and the human mind working for our amusement as of old. They st thus, with bated breaths, in the Roman arenas 2,000 years ago. But in this life- the turn of events all hardly be known until,the turn comes. of | | | Cotton Group Warned Only Hope Is Co-Operative Control Cotton produc taggering through a crisis, with the price of their staple falling below the cost of production in the midst of general prosperity, again are being warned by Southern newspapers that their only hope for the future lies in co-operative control of production and marketing. “Memory of last year's big crop and too vivid,” the TtemTribune. = “The ased their acreage. Next vear, after this yea bitter experi ence, they may reduce it. Then the price may rise. And that will inspire them the following yvear to overplant again. It is a viclous circle, an eco- nomic folly. independent or its prosperity sound until this is broke “Southern farmers have passed through several crises similar to the present, in which cotton prices pre- vailing are under the cost of produc- tlon,” explains the Birmingham Nev “but what makes the immediate ex: tory of Southern economics is that at this time the price of mearly every other commodity 1is higher than normal. In other years, when sur- pluses of cotton appeared, American industrials were at low ebb. In this vear there is a high tide of prosperity save only among those who carry on the most ancient and essential indu try of all—agriculture. That is strange state of affairs. a It does not help matters to grant that the pres- ent situation is in very large part the fault of the farmers, that they them- selves are to blame for the overpro- duction—which, of course, they are. What must_be done now is for the farmers and the whole South to do what may be done in the way of ex- tricating themselves from the un- pleasant dilemm. The News be- lieves that “the movement to lend money to the farmers up to 60 per cent of the market value of thelr product is eminently sound and prac- ticabl “Leaders in the cotton trade have said publicly that the co-operative associations prevented a disaster las vear by holding more than a million bales off the falling market,” accord- ing to the Atlanta Journal. “They n accomplish even more toward get ting a fair price when their member- ship increases and when they control a_larger perce e of the supply.” The Journal suggests to thosg who now are urging a holding movement as a necessity* that they i and see If the co-operative associa- tions are not plish this purpose better than any movement take the form of paign to inc the co-operative associations increase the amou marketed by them “Did co-operat tions of the have control product,” savs cam cotton s of onethird of the always of production, season there was an abnormal carry the next crop. Wrong Kind of Stops. From the Muncle Evening Star. There are plenty of stays of execu- tion, but too few cases of staying be- get better prices for their cotton," some one should “pes The South will not be | tremity absolutely unique in the his- | vestigate in position to accom- hastily organized machinery that | GOn amotner omes ; wstily inery 2 er oecasion Chicage might be set'up. If this is true, and | clorgyman receivad & toiegimm ooy if retiring a larze part of the crop | hin to- address A Crammaskin is the thing to be done, then let the | sembly. The honorarine o inter. 1se the membership of | and to | of cotton to be cotton-growing States the Columbia_State, “the price for the whole crop could | be maintained above the cost It at the end of the | over the cotton growers would know | the exact condition and would meet the problem by reducing acreage for The State refers to the suggestion of a correspondent that because thousands of cars in the South “would have to be turned back to the dealers if the farmers cannot made Henry Ford or General Motors & buy a mil-- 'ion bale: pinion The State expresses the that motor integests *“could afford. as a plain businéss deal, to {buy. at present low prices, supplies to last a year or two.” | “The only solution of the cotton | | problem i peration among the | | cotton farmers of the 11 States in| { the South which produce virtually all | of the cotton in remarks | the Little Rock Democrat, | and, supporting demand by a leading Texas banker, the Port Arthur News suggests, further, that “the cotton farmer is not the only sufferer from lack of marketing or- ganization and methods.” “The farmers are faced with the f organizing a holding move- advises the Charlotte Observer, | “When they stop feeding cotton | the market they will see a ¢ | taking place in their situation.” | Observer contends tHat “e | duty | ment, abling fa ers; to what extent th | clined to avail will be in. themselves of these | facilities remains to be seen.” Com- ment on the holding movement from the Louisville Couri em- phasizes the fact that “it has a chance in the course of a year, provided the acreage is cut down,” and directs at- tention to the fact that “finished cot- ton goods and materlals in process of manufacture have slimped as well as the raw product.” THINK IT OVER Mr. Chairman! By William Mather Lewis, President George Washington U versity The chalrman of a meeting can or mar the success of the occasion. Frequently he chooses the second alternative. A professional man was invited to a neighbe ity to make an address Upon | vl he discovered that he usually make the “opening number” on the first lecture course they had ever had He was led to the platform of the church by its pastor and gazed with him into the ey faces of an audienc hich was present because it had se son ticket: inally the clergyman said, “As you Kknow. this is the first number on our first lecture cours We have never had anything like thi {Kind in_the church before, but we wve this man with us tonight, and if you like him we will try to get a | better one next time. rose and esting and the clergyman sought the first train for the designated place. ‘When he was ushered into the big tent he was delighted to find it crowd- ed. He was also very much tered until the chairman arose and sald, “1 am certainly glad to see so many of our neighbors here this afternoon, but I am likewise sorry to announce that on account of a railroad accident {Johnson's Trained Dogs cannot be with us. In their place I introduce Rev. Blank of Chicago.” What is the ideal introduction? Well, it is customary for the person who presents the Chief Executive of the Nation to an audience simply to say, “Ladles and gentlemen, _the President of the United States.” Usu- ally an occasion upon which the President appears is perfect in its ar- t | rangements. Therefore the introduc- to | ange | The | cilities are at the hand of the farm-| 0., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1926. LG M. MAPE: The World of Illusion. Andre Maurois. Translator, Eric Sutton. D. Appleton & Co. Talking of books in his own charac- and seasoned judgment upen them, Dr. Joseph Collins touches at one point on beauty in writing. It is through choice of words and arrange- ment of phrases that proselike poetry takes on the tone and rhythm, the color and cadence of musie itself. Now practically every one feels to some degree the charm of music. In such measure, therefore, does every one find joy in writings that wake up and tune in with his own rhythmic sense—a joy that lies unaroused under the rough and stumbling effects of the tone-deaf author. And by impli- cation the doctor commends writers in the cultivation of this musical sense. In part it is an achievement that enhances their own art; in other part it contributes to the deeper ap- preciation and pleasure of a multitude of readers. He cites examples for emulation in this respect—Walter Pater of yesterday, Havelock Ellis of today. “When Anatole France died”—the doctor still talking—"he was probably the most widely known author in the world, and he owed his reputation more to the manner of presenting his material than to its substance, even though there are plots and situations in some of his storles that are great in conception. He did with words what Toscanini, by use of an orches- tra, does with a score—makes har- mony that blends us body and soul with the beauty of the world. Words were the orchestra of Anatole France.” According to the personal view of Joseph Collins, the leader of this word orchestra today is George Moore in England; in France, Jean Cocteau: in America’ there are three outstanding leaders, Edna St. Vincent Millay Sherwood Anderson and James Branch Cabell. * ok ok Ok It vou have read “Arfel” and “Mape,” you feel quite secure, I'm certain, In opening to Andre Maurois the door behind which stand these other recognized music makers of prose. And this, too, despite the fact that a translator steps in here be- tween author and reader. Eric Sut- ton has in the role of translator moved happily and triumphantly into the common current of French think- ing; he h ed appreciatively upon the genius of the French idiom: he has hoarded every grain of Gallic flavor while moving Maurois over intc tinctly to the spiril All that counts ir things that bring thi: est point. The rest is rubbish to be thrown away and forgotten. Whether the life be no great moment save to its possessor, or whether it be of any life are those fe to its high- the scanty few that claim general consideration, this fact holds. Such is the theory of true biography held by Andre urois, € d out, the theory becomes clean-cut life pointed upon a goal, adventure of the highest and most exciting kind. Under this concept the author pro- jects Goethe, Balzac, N Siddons. Not till these great figures withdraw from the world of fact into that of fllusion are they able to interpret reality truthfully and poignantly to “The Sorrows of the Young Werther.” That is his pinnacle reached in_ the world of illusion, and Goethe's life is significant only as it _peoples this do- main with truth. Nothing but this counts in his life. Only this does Maurofs consider. And it is only when B: y and fat in his daily existence, goes away into the world of dreams that he creates characters %o real as to make the second of these studies a plausible and interest- ing thing. This is the story of a vouth who steps bodily into one of the Balzac characters, there to live out the aims and habits, the failures and successes of that character. There is nothing to Balzac for the hiographer save that part of which he togk with him into his dream world: So Maurois believes and so he be haves in respect to the great French writer. The famous Mrs. Siddons, model of respectable maternity, deeply concerned with food and flannels for the bables, hecomes truly a genius only when, deprited of the children, she takes refage in the illusive wor of the stage, where for the first time <he pours out in a divine fire of act- ing the bitter truth of a broken heart. A great tragedienne at last. And only the influences toward that end con stitute the life of Mrs. cording to Andre Mauro hiography of the really convincing sort. Here, besides, is a music- maker of modern prose. * ok kK THE SILVER STALLION. James Branch Cabell. Robert M. McBride Co. And here's another one. This one receives not only the seal of Dr. Joseph Collins, but the stamp as well of every tone-true reader of fiction today. ~ Not everybody. however, reads James Branch Cabell. So. not body knows what symphonies he can create with words. In the first place, Cabell goes too far back for his themes to be interesting to a public that wants a famous candy. “fresh every hour.” Pesides, he writes in p they parables?—and folk: reading to follow a str: want their ight road, with ““danger” and “detour” set up against ible bewilderment on their ien, again, parables and alle- gories belong to the Bible and other ancient and more or less occult ways of delivering religious and moral in- ruction. No, ot have him. ot all of them ally the tribe of “Tumblebug” nothing of him. “You are offensive!” cries the King of this tribe, citing so many ways of offense that one instinctively reaches for the book—"The Silver Ilion” or “Jurgen. The old days from which the Cabell tales are likely to emerge give the Jauthor tremendous latitude, every which v They provide sumptuous, i matters whose only acceptable vehicle is a rich and embroidered speech. They allow a plain speaking that in a current time and theme would be as unseemly as a beggar astride a beau- tiful oned steed. They permit a reaching forward Into the present “) with a satire that looks as innocent as a s = babe. I can recall no writer who delivers so many knock- out blows to the endless hypocrisies of the present as does this man, writ- !ing from the glamourous di e of the Middle Ages. Gorgeous this man composes from the atmos- pheres and human follies of the past— IrumPtliP step off with today as {if they were made for it. “The Silver Stallion” i3 the story of !Dom Manuel, the high Count Poictesme, and his nine lordly follow- ers above whom floated the black banner blazoned with a silver stallion. Under this, the Fellowship of the Silver Stallion rode far and near, doing deeds of valor in its own way i excelling greatly all other herofc bands of the known world. Mishap comes to Dom Manuel, then to an- other and to another. Indeed, the tion which he recefves cannot be far wrong. it tales are all those not only of hazard, but of misadventure and disaster. Nothing at all like these happenings ' forth. teristic vein of intimacy with them| English. Fqually, his enthusiastic ceptance of biography, according to | the author's theory of it, adds dis- | of this book. others. Only when Goethe moves apart and away from his own egotisms and amours and rending griefs and ! casy consolations does he have the vision, the sense of likelihood and pro- | portion in human_ behaviors, the de- tachment to build his great cathedral, ts fiction to be, like | of ANSW Q. What would happen if an irre- sistible force came In contact with an immovable body?—P. R. K. A. The Bureau of Standards says that the existence of these two condi- tions at the same time is impossible according to all known laws. As the very existence of the two conditions at the same time cannot take place, it is necessarily impossible to state v would happen if the conditions did exist. Q. Why are called?—0. L. 8. A. The word “tamale” comes from the word “tamal,” a word of Mexican origin, meaning a dish made of crushed malze, mixed with mince meat, seasoned with red pepper dipped in oil and steamed. It is be cause of the seasoning that it is called “hot” tamale. Q. What does the Latin motto “Omnia vincit amor” mean?—H. W. ‘A. This Latin proverb means “Love conquers all things.” Q. Why are ingrowing nafls usually on the great toe?—G. T. K. A. Because this toe is subject to constant pressure of the adjacent soft parts, often aggravated by a tight shoe. Q. How many names did a Roman citizen have?—F. N. A. In early Roman history, men had one name. Later they had three— praenomen, nomen and cognomen. Conquerors were sometimes compli- mented with a fourth name or agnomen. Q. Was the flour obtained -by the Indians as fine as that made by mod- ern machinery?—N. O. B. A. Although usually such was not the case, by passing grain from one mortar to another, some Indians ob- tained flour comparable with the modern machine-made flour. Q. How did Scott happem. to write “Lochinvar”?—M. N. A. 1t was a part of the metrical romance, ‘“Marmion.” For this ro- mance in verse, Scott was offered £1,000 before it was begun. Q. What are illuminated seripts?—B. E. R. A. They are those whose texts are brightened and heightened by vi- tamales” so ot ‘manu- Certain newspapers of the United tes appear to attach great im- portance to the fact that dual citizen- hip is discovered in a dozen cases cherein France claims the right to force naturalized French-Americans into military service in the French army—as if these instances marked a new departure in international rela- tions, and were especially flagrant abuses by France. i Belligerent editors of metropolitan dailies are crying, “The Government should insist that the rights of its nationals traveling abroad be re- spected in their full integrity.” Even the Literary Digest opens a discus- slon of the alleged infringement of American rights with this paragraph: ‘It was a fighting matter in the |days when our Nation was much vounger and perhaps more belligerent, When European nations impressed American citizens into their armed forces. In fact, that was one cause of {our war with Great Britain in 1812, Now France is doing that very thing.” * ok ok ok According to high authority in the Government, France is not doing what Great Britain did prior to our War of 812, and the failure to dif- ferentiate on that point leads to most of the present confusion. The Brit- sh stopped our ships on the high < and forced American natives into the Rritish navy. France has never undertaken to molest an American upon American soil, but sets up a claim—not fully conceded by Amer- jca—that she has a right to force native Frenchmen into military serv ice, when they come into French ju- risdiction, regardless of, their having under and become naturalized citizens of the United States. Further th: that, France claims that a grandchild of a Frenchman, although the child was born in the United States of a naturalized French father residing in America, is sub- ject to French military service, in ase he be caught while visiting | France or any of France's colonies. But France is not gathering in nat- uralized Amerlcans who are discreet enough to keep out of French juris diction. Tt is claimed that any gov- ernment may, If it sees fit. forbid emigration, or permit it only with limitations, reserving rights to claim his sons. * K K K The critics appear not to know that the United States also makes claims upon its natives, even after they be- come naturalized citizens of other countries. enforced, except In time of-war; the United States s not so desperately in need of personnel for its Army and Navy as are the European coun- tries. Under our law, who fs an American national? 1. Every man or woman born in the United States, regardless of the nationality of the parents. This in- cludes Chinese and Japanese, as well as Europeans. 2. Also, every child of an Ameri- can father, no matter where the birth takes place. This includes children of missionarfes and merchants resid- ing abroad. 3. Legally naturalized allens, so long as they remain in the United ates, or are only temporarily broad. The British law fs similar to ours, for ours is derived from the British. the British did not recog- turaMization of British in —they remained under Brit- obligations, if they were found sry—but in 1870 Par- llament changed the law, and now when a British subject becomes | naturalized American he ceases t | obligated by British laws, military or other. France, Italy and most qf the other nations of Kurope have never agreed to waive their hold upon | their nationals, regardless of the elti- zens’ efforts to expatriate themselves and become naturalized citizens of { other countries. | For more than a year Ambassador Fletcher has been in active negotia- tions with Ttaly and France, under ion of the Department of State, Jking to treaties adjusting all ma of dual citizenship and recogni- alization of their re- These negotia- ish in British ter ter tion of our natu {spective nations {tions are progressing favorably and, | when agreed to, will become the mod- I els for treaties with all other nations. The question of international law ————— could come about today, so the stories but for a single element would lack sadly in point for even the most dar- ing man among us. element in these nine tales of ruin is the wholly malicious influence of he stands on the side of adventure he sits quietly by asking only for peace. while you are enjoying the very great beauty in which these tales are sent | ERS TO QUESTIONS - BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. ken to expatriate themselves | military service of the emigrant and | The claims are not usually | This steadfast | woman in the life of any man, whether and ambitious enterprise, or whether That is a point to consider e e e e e I e NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM gnettes and otherwise decorated in col ors, or in gold and silver. Fifteen centurles hefore Christ the papyrus rolls of the “Hook of the Dead” were flluminated with brilllantly colored scenes. Later, as writing became al: phabetic, the important letters were illuminated. Q. What vitamins are found {n cod liver oil?—J. A. A. It contains vitamins A and D. Vitamins B and C are not found in appreciable amounts. Q. What university established the sabbatical year?—D. A. E. A. Prof. Palmer, in his blography of Alice F. Palmer, says that Harvard was the first. Q. How long has Efrem Zimbalist been playing in public>—E. M. F. A. Zimbalist, who is now 37, was first violinist in an orchestra and a soloist at the age of 8. When he was 17 he made his first concert tour of Europe. Q. What are con: requisites for safe flying? A. The Aircraft Yea Rook savs ithm there are six requisites for safe flying, and that all of these must be approximated before aviation can hope to enlist practical business in terest. They are as follows: A machine, sound aerodynamically and structurally; a reliable engine of suf- ficlent power: a competent, conserva tive pilot and navigator: air ports an emergency landing flelds, sufficiently close together to insure gliding to safety; nationwide weather forecasts specialized and adapted to the need of fiyers, and adequate charting of air routes. Stop a minute and think about this fact. You can ask The Evening Star Information Bureau anwu question of fact and get the answer hack in a per sonal letter. It is a great educational idea introduced into the lives of the most intelligent people in the world— American mewspaper readers. It is a part of that best purpose of a news paper—service. There is mno charge except 2 cents in stamps for return postage. Get the habit of asking ques tions. Address your letter to The Evening Star Information Burcau. Frederic_J. Haskin, director, Wash- ington, D. C. and dual citizenship is one of tl most complicated problems of Gov ernment. As an illustration of how complicated it may become, fs cited the instance of a native Califormin lady who married a Canadian living in California but not naturalized. She thereby lost her American citizen ship and acquired that of her hus band—Canadian. TLater the husband became a naturalized American. but the law, at that time, did not permit the wife to be naturalized, although a born American. She lost her Canadian rights with out acquiring American rights. If she wanted to travel abroad she |could not get a visa either from America or Canada, and if she were imposed upon abroad she could not claim protection from amy country— not even of her native land. (See Mackenzie v Hare) The wisdom of the United States Supreme Court found that the lad ad not been compelled to marry Mr. Mackenzie, hence she got herself into all that tangle by her voluntary act—she should have married a Yankee—which raises the question a Supreme Court know as Kipling says about maid: Indian v The latest subject of e with the in comparison with the mar- ble act, passed in . which was critietzed by Prof. Garner in the course of a discussion in the meeting of the American Society of International Law last April: “First of all, it produces a number of stateless women, which it ought | not to do. Any country, in my opin | fon, which deliberately enacts legisk tion the effect of which is to denation- e any class of its own cit the nation: of other countr offense whatever, it scems to me, | committing an act of public immo ity. That is what the Cable act de “In the second place, it produces a s of women who have two na- | lities. T do not con | serious. Any person who is blessed with a doubl | Not all state | ble nationality I a . nor th |it 1s consistent with sound publ policy, for citizenship involves al- | legiance and duty aside from war or property. In the swme discusston, Prof. Phillp Marshall Brown said: ‘Mr. Chairman, this subject has in- | terested me enormously of late, in | view of the rather large list of appli- cations which the Permanent Court of | International Justie has recelved | from individuals who are without any redress whatever In regard to their ality, property rights and other " ® ¢ * “who find them not only without any rights but without any agent to represent them.” Mr. Richard W. Flournoy, assistant solicitor of the Department of St opened the discussion above men tioned. and in the course of his anal- ysis of the situation he criticized so-called “model statute,” evol the International Law Assoclation a basis for international law codifica- tion. He found that the proposed model statute made natfonality at hirth based primarily upon jus solf place of birth—rather than jus san- guinis—parentage. He added: “It appears to the writer that the rule proposed by the International Law Assoclation is also subject to the second objection mentloned ahove, to the rule proposed by the American Institute. It does not seem reason able that a person born within a country should, while remafning | domictled therein, be divested of the | nationality of that country, either by + his own act or the act of his parent. “As to our country, there are mil- lions of persons in the United States who were born in this country of alien parents. It is belleved that this coun- try would never agree that such per- sons should be divested of thelr American natlonality while they re- | main domiciled in this country. “The subcommittee of the League of Natlons seems to have despaired of devising any rule for preventing or terminating dual nationality which would be acceptable to all or most countries. ‘The proposed conventlon prepared by it merely contained a statement in Article 1 to the effect that a person having dual nationality cannot be protected by one of the countries claiming his allegtance against a clalm made by the other,and statements in the following four ar- ticles, concerning the status of chil- dren of diplomatic officers and other | officials, children of unknown parents | or parents whose nationality s un- known, children born abroad who have not their parents’ nationality and persons having dual nationality who are in third countries."s Where the League of Nations fears to tread, some critics rush in, to de- mand war, i Europe touches one of our naturalized “duals” who failed to keep out of foreign jurisdiction. “Let us have peace!” (Copyright, 1926. by Paul V. 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