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8 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25 192 THE wih [ana 1t 1s not surprising tnat troubie |0 often develops. e 7| Each one of these failures, however, WA SHINGTON, D. C. | means progress in the development of THURSDAY. . November 25, 1926 |the perfect motor. Each one teaches — ity lesson and faults are discavered Editor Which can be found in no other way. _ The art of flying is still in fts infancy, The Evening Star Newspaper Company but human ingenulty will devise the Business Offce plane and the motor that will make Biliee- 110 aviation comparable in safety and re- liability to other means of transporta- tion. EVENING STAR unday Morning Edition. THEODORE W. NOYES.. 11t e Boosts for Smith. Gov. Al Smith of New York has two boosters for the presidential | nomination in 19 Senator Oscar !'W. Underwood of Alabama. a Demo- crat and a wet, is one, and Senator " | Simeon D. Fess of Ohio, a Republican is the other. It may be | however, that there are Main 5000 Cole “nd of each month ate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. 20.00: 1 mo 00: 1 mo. 1 mo presumed, different hopes and purposes behind Darly and Sunda 0n mo.. $1.00 1y e i 1me-S19% the expressions of these opinions. | 3 gl $4.00:1mo.. 35¢ senator Underwood doubtless believes that Gov. Smith, ig he could be nomi- nated, would be the strongest candi- date the Democrats could put up in ssociated Press. exclusively entitled Member of the Associated lise for republ d 1o it 6r not otherwis 1 " local news 1928. He believes in the wet cause. lication He is strongly anti-Ku Klux Klan. In fact, it was the supporters of Senator | Underwood who precipitated the now : famous row over the Klan in the 1924 profound gratitude ; : s e ve | Democratic national convention. o i : ’mL;n Senator Fess, on the other hand, be- ¢ blessings enjoved during | : Eg e ibs s }‘ “2 lieves in the dry cause. He visualizes | 3 4 |it as the major issue of the coming Micted parts of the national com- ; national campaign, with the Repub- reserved The Nation's Gratitude. pauses Despite disaster munity the twelve months have | . i i e e ¢ licans nominating President Coolidge | et 2 s on a dry platform and the Democrats | junty. The vear has been marked nominating Smith, a wet. With faith | ! prosperity, by advinces yn yne cause of prohibition, Senator ateriai and spiritual. It has | pegy would be delighted to have the furnished additional reasons for belief et gesisirifer boalhead that the American people are espe- | perhaps he, like some of the other | blessed by Providenc Republican leaders, would be glad to irit of thankfulness is at- goe the wet and dry issue dwarf the | Issue of farm relfef, which affords the one particular cloud in the <ky cast- <ense of responsibility. ies to be performed and to be met Problems ing a shadow over the popularity of | @ soclal organization of the present administration. He may | comprising this Nation reason that the agricultural States of vait solution. The work of nation- Jullding is not complete, although in nrozre It is inde the West and Middle West are so strongly dry that they would hasten for a century and a half. \to support the Republican nominee d an endless task, requir- on a prohibition platform against a g constant devotion on the part |wet Democrat. He may reason, too, of successive generations to the prin- that the dyed-in-the-wool Democratic | ciples of government which were States of the South are also so dry | established at the beginning and and so antiCatholice that if Gov. | hiave been maintained faithfully dur- Smith were nominated, some of those | i this long time, States might break away from their On it vi ) it is meet to Democratic allegiance. | apitulate ihe exceptional ad- In his statement declaring Gov. | va *s enjoved by the people of ' Smith the logical candidate of the th try. They occupy a land of ' Democrats for President in 11~.’S,| vich and varied natural resources, ' Senator Underwood expressed a | stending through wide climatic doubt that the Democratic part: ange tdeally adapted to the devel- | could be brought to nominate him. opment of a great civilization ar | Possibly Senator Underwood is cor enough removed from other lands of rect in this conjecture. Gov. Smith, possible enmity to be secure, it is it now appears, will go into thesmext wet within range for purposes of Democratic national convention with peaceful trade and intercourse. Its!greater support than any other can- surface varied, and yet in n place ' didate for the nomination. A ma- offering an insurmountable barrier to | jority of the delegates may be for | use and communication, it affords 'him. But unless the time-honored « maximum of opportunity for culti- | two-thirds rule of Democratic na- vation. Its rivers and lakes are|(ional conventions be abrogated, channels of commerce, its hills are | Smith may never be nominated. The filled with precious mine its | greatest chance for Gov. Smith) forests have given great wealth, its | would lie, it appears, in the adoption | plains have borne the richest har- |of the majority rule by the conven- vests. Through skill and diligence | tion and his nomination on the first | after the rule had been | changed. But to accomplish this end it would be y for Smith’s | the waste spaces have been brought | ballot into utility | 'he story of the conquest of this neces: great avea from its native wildness | friends to control a majority of the is one of the epics of man’s existence. | committee on rules, in which each The 1 t heritage ever bestowed | State and territory has a representa- | upon the human race has fallen to |tive, or to be tn such strength on the | e Amecican people. They are figor of the convention that they could | rustees for posterity in their en-|,verthrow a report of the rules com- | Joyment and administration. They _ mittee calling for continuance of the | have heen wasteful and prodigal, but | ¢ywo_thirds rule and substitute for are ‘ning and in some respects | iy the rule of the majority. | °d the lesson of conser: of newcomers have and contributed have le tion been Southern Senator Underwood, Xy a M absorbed lions essed the view that Smith if he have would car the solid South rength as well ws some w were nominated, notwithstanding the to the body politic. Indu | prohibition and church issues. This | marked the decades of this great de- i the view of other Southerners of velopment. In many matters a pace prominence who should know the has been set fov the world in science | temper of the people of that section. A in business and in thrift. Out ¢ jg probable, however, that this of these material activities come | guestion could only be answered by | « cultwal advance. Education has|gp getual trial, by the nomination of apread until it is now universal. The | gmyth, . standard of living is higher here ——o—e———— i an in uny other land Paris dressmakers say that s It is well then that once a year i) be longer. This announcement thought of the Nation should |wag made some time ago, but F DRI ititude and | ireer evidently has not heard the | banksgtving s and suf- | o erings that have befallen the peo- SRR 3 ple are the more bravely borne for | The Hall-Mills case, demonstrating | his annual consideration of the |yt truth is stranger than fletion, is | bounties and the progress and the .yigently equipped to develop a serial nappiness that have marked the Year. | giopy that can go on for years and he Nation's thanks ar the more years. 1 fervent for the realization of the |’ sorrows of others Homeward-bound Queen Marle may | et S | miss serenely admiring attention as | Several ~sensational reputations |y, g4ceq the prospect of political vi- have recently been made by authors who wrote books on subjects of vhich they plainly knew little about. in ljterature, fact is often esteemed stimulus cissitudes. B —— A French franc {s disdained as a tip in a Paris night club. Foolish aluable only as a 1© money s beginning to perplex the magination. wise financiers. The American eagle, belng non- gome Time Between Now and 4926. edible, bows in deference to the Announcement is made of a plan to beautify the public parks of the Na- tional Capital with specimens of | quoia sempervirens Sequoia ymerican turkey. In spite of exalted sentiment the utilitles are still con- sidered or I . enite of the sudden prominence SiSantea, the glant redwoods which egained by Loie Fuller, people are | have flourished for eons on the Pa- e i " and are cific Coast, and which have, fortunate- | Iy, been saved from extinction through commercial exploitation. The director of the Office of Pubiic Buildings and Public Parks has stated that he has made arrangements with the super- 1n ton. Qoing the .- An Air Failure. Failure of the Navy's ambitious at and vivid impre |and ungratefully a | nar; in which the Army-Navy foot ball game and other important contests and pageants can be staged; some new planks on Klingle Bridge on Connecticut avenue; a central thor- oughfare from Capitol House as beautiful as it is adequate; high pressure water system for fire- fighting; a community chest plan in operation, more pennant-winning base ball teams, an artistic water front, a perfect street-lighting system. Items by the dozen can readily be added to this list by every reader, but the first and foremost that will occur to mind is the last to be set down here, name- ly, votes for Americars, who already pay taxes, go to war and perform each and every function of citizen. ship without the corresponding rights and privileges. B Approaches to Arlington. It is proposed that at the meeting of the Commission of Fine Arts to be held on the 2d of December con- sideration will be given to the ques- tion of the treatment of the Arling- ton end of the Memorial Bridge and the area between that polnt and the Rosslyn end of the Key Bridge. This is an opportune time to discuss the question and to formulate a plan for a development which is inevitable. The situation at the Virginia end of the Key Bridge is deplorable. The route to Arlington by that way is marred by unsightly structures. The highway follows a crooked course, It has long been contemplated that this would be corrected, but no steps have been taken to that end. Now it is proposed to link the two bridge heads by a riverside drive and there is hope that in this development a general clearing of the disfiguring environ- ment of the Key Bridge will be ef- fected. The entire arca from the Key Bridge to the Highway Bridge should be a public park with all unsightly struc- tures and uses eliminated. Approach to Arlington by the two available bridges is now undignified and un- pleasant. Memorial Bridge will give a direct access over Government- owned lands, upon which there can e no trespass. The project now be- fore the Commission of Fine Arts would nsure that upon the comple-| tion of the Memorial Bridge that structure will not be the only un- marred route to the National Ceme- tery A Special Thanksgiving Day Paean. On this day of national Thanksgiv- ing a special thanksgiving note will be sounded by recent American vis- itors to Europe. Suc tors record certain distinet sstons: First, the shock to Uncle Sam, who knows that in intent and is confident that in fact he has played the Good amaritan to Kurope, when bitterly and murderous Uncle Shylock. Next, admiration for the fine fight | which some of the European peoples are making to extricate themselves from the financial and industrial bog in which the World War has mired them, Next, sympathetic appreciation of the difference Dbetween which curse Europe and which bless the United States. And finally fervent thanksgiving for this vital difference in conditions, ex- pressed not in a boastful pharisal holier-than-thou spirit, but in a spirit of profound, devout and humbly grate- ful thankfulness. o Official reminiscences are almost in- variably tempered by a habit of dis- sretion which leaves most of the sen- tional work to be done by the pub- licity promoters. - s SHO OTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Back to Earth. | The clothing advertiser’s book Brings gloomy ruminations. I know that I can never look Like those smart illustrations. My motor never will appear So polished and imposing {As that which pictures, calm and clear, Aro cleverly disclosing. My house will never be as fair As catalogues have hinted. My flowers cannot be as rare As those in pictures printed [ fain would hustle with a hoe And toil, as seasons vary, And let pictorial prospects go With lectures literary. Getting Back to Facts. “What are you going to investigate next?” “I'm going to stop awhil answer- | ed Senator Sofghum, “in order to get the data on the investigations I start- ed years ago.” i Hopeless Pleb. List to the mournful ballad: From social life I pass. 1 do not care for salad. I hate a demi-tasse. List to a mournful ditty: 1 am, 'mid soclal scenes, By rights, a thing for pity; 1 long for pork and beans! Jud Tunkins says good advice is like good medicine; very frequently bitter empt to fly the two thousand two (i S UECTLE O onal Park to |t take: undred miles between Hampton . o0, 0 fve specimens here for The Card Table. foads and Color out a stop has o periment. “Do you object to being your wife's ¢mphasized again the frallty of the “ppoge o of necessity, be baby | opposite?” mechanical units of the Present-da¥ g.iuiiee for the size attained by “Yes” answered Mr. Meekton. wirplane. As in the late Comdr. JOhN 50 croatest and oldest of living | “Let's make it a whist game; not a Nodgers’ historic flight from San | el is so enormous that, as in the | family quarrel.” cisco Hawadi, the Panama-' ... of the giraffe, even a compara- | “Life would be much finer,” said down be More than tive in of the a good-sized freight ca pecies would fill | Whether the e i - trees 1o come here will be seedlings een ast um or something larger and hardier is wviators were confident of not announced: neither is their exact location in the District. In nature they are not usually found below the | But one of the motors on P -oke a connecting rod, the oil supply 1 No. 2 became cxhausted and both | §,000-foot level ‘caplanes were compelled to land. Provided these shoots or saplings Although great strides have been do take hold and thrive. think what nade {n the development of gasoline they will in all probability live to see es for airplanes. the entirely re-|in their several thousand vears of ble motor has not vet been pro-|existence! Among the items are tne .nced. Lxtraordinary performance is|change in the presidential inaugura- iemanded of engines on long-distance | tion to a more logical and suitable | fights; they must run at high speed date; an amplitude of policemen, and | vith prac no adjustment while | those all of & discreet and diplomatic | ha oAy or stadium The stress ie tramendous ! nature: a namenta 2 Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “if it were as easy to forget enemies as it is to forget friends. Unequal Distribution. Thanksgiving dzy brings solemn stuff As plaints our hearts will touch From those who didn't have enough And those who ate too much. “Is he No doubt of ft.” How high can he sing?"” “Clear up to four thousand dollars a night. “F'm what 1 hears,” said Uncle ben, “I judge dat hip-pocket licker wuss dan de bootles stuff * o to White | ailed as merce- | conditions | ! If one were asked to name the hap- plest night in the life of any public man who ever lived he might well choose the triumphal return of Cicero through the strects of Rome follow- ing the thwarting of the conspiracy of Catiline. Herd is the picture, as set forth by Plutarch, and its recital has power today to move the heart of any one who is not unmindful of the praise of his fellow men. Plutarch says: “It was now evening when he re- turned from the market place to his own home, the cltizens no longer at- tending him with silence nor in order, but receiving him as he passed with acclamations and applauses and salut- ing him as the saviour and founder of his country. “A bright light shone through the streets from the lamps and torches set up at the doors, and the women showed lights from the tops of the houses, to honor Cicero, and to behold him returning home ®ith a splendid train of the most principal citizens, among whom were many who had con- ducted great wars, celebrated triumphs and added to the possessions of the Roman Empire, both by sea and land. “These, as they passed along with I i that though the Roman people were indebted to several officers and com- manders of that age for riches, spoils and power, yet to Cicero alone they owed the safety and security of ail these, for delivering them from so great and imminent a danger.” * ok ok % There you have the immemorial ap- peal of politics. All this happened 2,000 years ago, but there ig no American who cannot thrill to it, reading in 1926, it is so real, so human. This same Marcus Tullius Cicero was one of the most human individu- als who ever lived, perhaps that is why one is irresistibly drawn to like sad end. Cicero was ever the politician, in the unfortunate sense that the word has acquired throngh the centuries. Maybe Cicero had something to do with giving it the unsavory meaning He was one of the best little shift ers the world has ever seen. In his efforts to “stand in" with all partles, lost prestige and finally his life. But what a time he had of it! The peak of his career undoubtedly came that night after the execution of Lentulus, Catiline’s lieutenant, and others of the conspirators. Imagine the way he felt as he walked through the lighted streets of Rome, his name on every tongue. day treets he trod that night looked brighter than Broadway can ever look to us. After all, electric light is only matter of contrast. Torches and lamps made a show in the first Christ. A great leader of today would get sreat century before Cicero undoubtedly got from those lamps and torches set up by the BY PAUL ¥V A billlon dollars of American invest- ments fn Mexico are jeopardized by the Mexican law which demands that the foreign owners of stocks in any in excess of 49 per cent of the com- pany’s Issue within 10 years, and all forelgn corporations which own in fee the mining or ofl rights of prop- erty in Mexico must before next January 1 exchange that ownership for a mere “concession,” good for 50 years, and the owners must walve all right of protection by their native governments against the Mexican government. The Mexican govern- | ment claims that that law is not a violation of international rights, that it is not retroactive against investors who bought fee simple ownership of property prior to the new constitu- tlon of 1917 and the new law, or if, as even the Mexican Supreme Court decides, it is retroactive and there- fore conflscatory, no offense should be taken by any foreign government until some concrete case develops in which the owner is wronged. On October 30, Secretary of State Kellogg wrote to Mexico a brief re- statement of our claim, so concise that it amounted to an ultimatum, and since Mexico has made no fur- ther rejoinder, it s almost certain that diplomatic relations will be severed soon. “My Government has not failed to appreciate the gravity of .the situa- by the Mexican gov rnment,”” wrote Secretary Kellogg. “with respect to the negotiations of 1923. As my pre- vious communications to Your Excel- exchange of notes between the two of my Government. solemn and bind- ing understandings which formed the basis and moving consideration for the recognition of the Mexican gov- jernment by this Government.” * ok Xk %k President Calles quibbles that that is not so, because that agreement was I not put in the form of a treaty. He does not deny agreement. However, since the agree- ment was the basis of United States recognition of President Calles’ gov- ernment, and no power can limit our | withdrawal of any recognition. the significant part of the present ulti- matum is that Secretary Kellogg, as | the mouthpiece of President Coolidge's administration, will act upon our in- terpretation, and not Mexico’s of the inviolability of a pledge whether in the form of a treaty or a conference commission. *No retreat by President Calles {8 expected, and without it our recogni- tion is almost certain to be with drawn. When that happens, our con cession permitting the Mexican gov- ernment to import arms and ammuni- tion across our border will cease, although it does not follow that the ports will then be open to opponents against Calles to so import arms. is said to be more likely that all such traffic will cease, so far as the United States is concerned. Tt has been rumored that American | mining and oil companies have al- | ready armed their own employes to | resist bandits who attack their hold- |ings in force. The State Department | denies any knowledge of such action, | however, * k% % Mexico, under President Calles, is | given over to communistic influence | to such an extent that it appears to | be following the experience of Soviet Russia, with blinded eyes. The prole- tariat has taken absolute possession of affairs and property, and owners | have 1ot been compensated. Tt is al- !leged that, behind the opposition to | Calles and his communistic trend, are not only the Catholic Church—Calles 'himself is a Catholio—but all the op- portunist politicians and the Porfirlo Diaz aristocrats, who veil thelr own 1 THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. him, acknowledged to one another | the man, and to glory in his triumphs, | and to sorrow over his defects and | especially eminent men in power, he ! Lighted streets were rare in those | To Cicero, away back there, the | no more “kick* out of floodlights <han | BACKGROUND OF EVENTS corporation must sell all such stock | tion arising from the position taken | i |lency have amply ~explained, the, | declarations of the Mexican and | | American commissioners on_ that occasion, subsequently ratified by the | governments, constituted, in the view | the facts as to the! It} By Leila Mechlin. That the Modernists are evidently becoming a little less violent, a little more sane in their form of expres- sion, is undoubtedly one of the things for which there is today occasion for thankfulness. 1f one were to visit the International Exhibition of Modern Art assembled by the Societe ‘Anonyme, now on view in the Brook- lyn Museum, doubts might be engen- dered as to whether jor not grounds for thankfulness on this score actually existed. But even here indication of a change of heart concerning old tra- ditions 1s to be noted, if one looks | close enough, and elsewhere one sees | it planly. women of Rome to celebrate his great- ness, * K K K i It is a mental adventure of no little vonsequence to be able to throw one's self back through the centuries, tc | walk with Cicero in his triumph of | the moment, to share in the sensations | of greatness. | Always it is a good thing to share in sensations of greatness. No matter what may be one's definition of great ness, whether of the mind, spirit o: body, he must of necessity, if he i actually human, admit that the earned applause of one's fellow human beings s admirable. The desire for praise is one of the earliest cravings demonstrated by the human infant. At an almost un believably early age the average baby manifests an appreciation of applause. The lure of the stage depends upon this natural streak in human nature Politics, in all countries and all ages, has depended greatly upon it. What man can resist the offer of an office, if he is made to feel that it is |the will of the people? What normal individual does not thrill to the political demonstrations the torchlight parades, the buttons bearing one's picture, the excitement of election tim All these are bred into the blood and bone of Americans; that is why we can understand how Cicero felt that night so long, long ago. * K ¥k They called him ‘“‘the Father of His Country." He was the first man in the worlc to receive that wonderful title, one that honors George Washington as ‘ashington honored it. Cato, the iron man of Rome, gave }it to him in a speech the next d: in save him from the detractions hurled at him. a good line, and the public | took it up. Y it was a {very human public, ruder, but much | the same as the dear public of tod: No sooner had it given Cicero | torchlight procession, and holloed it-} 11, paje frond of a fern.in a dark | self hoarse in his praise, than some = hi ward to the light tHERE et i | bei he society on this picture w; | The hard part of it was that Cloero | 2imal ‘me ooty B et S ings alike | partly brought it on himself. e ey Yes, we all do. EEE O X To revolt is comparatively simple, | but to keep up a continuous state of revolution i3 not so easy. For instance, the New Society of Artists, formed eight vears ago as a protest against the National Academy, has taken into its ranks in these later days a gen- erous number of the more conserva- tive artists—painters and sculptors— {and is showing at the present time in lits annual exhibition only a sparse sprinkling of what might be called unacademic work. Heretofore this society has held its exhibitions at the Anderson Gallerles and has included in them some genuinely shocking things. This year it is exhibiting at the Grand Central Galleries, and is not only milder in character, but sur- rounded, as it were, by works of those outside the fold. The good things in this exhibition would be found acceptable anywhere. The freaks and monstrosities, rather than detracting from the interest, lend attraction by contrast. For instance, in the place of honor on one wall of the main gallery is to be seen “The White Church,” by Gari Melchers—a beautiful picture painted a good many years ago and as lovely now as it was then, the interior of a Dutch house of worship. The place of honor on the | opposite wall is occupied by a painting by Guy Pene Du Bols, entitled “The Opera Eox,” showing a young womang| | with pale lemon-colored hair, flesh and| sown, rising in undulating curves ! from her seat in ‘an opera box, like | Plutarch, old scandalmonger, de- ign iding i | clares: | The star picture of this exhibition “At this time, therefore, his au. |is undoubtedly “The Net Wagon," by thority very great in the city: |Gifford Beal, a work hich recalls a Ibut le created himself much envy ! litile, through its vitality and strength, ! the works of Winslow Homer and of | | Rockwell Kent, but is distinctly an | |individualistic expression. Mr. Beal, | who is one of the strongest of our | vounger men, has never achieved a | and offended very many, not by am evil action, but because he was alway: lauding and magnifying him “For neither Senate, nor as { of the people, nor court of judicature | could meet, in which he was not heara | better result. Here i3 a work which |to talk of Catlline and Lentulus,” | combines modern force with traditional A very human sort of man, indeed’ | Deauty Hiw ey a ndeed | "There is some excellent sculpture T [in this show—Edmond Quinn's por- know who spoll it all, as the saying i, | by insisting on talking about them | selves all the time, in season and ou | of season, as Marcus Tullius Cicero {did In and out the Senate, in the tralt of James Stevens, for ‘instance, and Chester Beach's series of sketches of a baby 2 days old, 3 days old, 3 weeks old, gurgling. ! ¢ and Schofleld, Randall courts, or wherever he couid get a | Ougherty and Schofleid, % crowd of persons together! Davey and Robert Henri (.:llnx(nlmkc;or;fi‘l mirable contributions, Sloan's picture of the concourse of the Grand Central Station is an ex- | ceedingly clever page from cotem- { porary life. But even the water color: which are the most extreme in hand- ling, are by no means startling. One might come across just such works in any of the big exhibitions. No, these revolutionists seem to have come back to the fold. | " “Now, boys, when I discovered the | conspizacy of Catiline— ". COLLINS. * ok Kk ok This is not to say, however, that the [ revolt was In vain, for it was not. Cotemporary painting today is un- O wHat e e doubtedly more vital, healthler than and esired. W o | 1€ Was 20 yeb s Wi ¥ “Hanced €0 bo o\wned by Torelgmers. the | nainiers. were ol (rying (0 follow n :,‘(’:fi:ll:n f‘li‘r:x’;n({l ll:;)r;):)rnly\;)nuimlon has | tho footsteps of those a dgg;\orallq; sefzures of land have been made under | In other words, one of the good effects fovernment sanction, with the prom- |of the revolution has been to induce comeien o Te duly | dieiatietn fo tialln SIS Wi R0 Not: ofie ,,;;“d‘"‘h,mbgg;"{,"e;m lh?nd» |lite of today, to seek for truth ur:ii ;'.},I,d l‘h,, Dpretonss for the dem"» :?1“}21( beauty in that*w};lcl; Iiclou at hand. The bonds- 1o Yot been appratsed. | The question 1s, has the public kept hence the wholo proceeding is held tg | 2P With the artists in this purllc]u: bo conflscatory: Uouaity oaly \d t0|lar? 1s it doing what it can, not only of the land of a larye sstate L foay|to applaud, but to encourage, effort? | taken, but the result is that the ewe | ObViously the great art of the past 1s ers of the great haclendas have ceaseq | INfinitely precious and should be pre- Lo cultivate the rest of their holdinge, | Joryed and cherished, but if the artists | under fear that whatever crops they | Of the past had not been encouraged sow will bo confiscated upon maturite, | o Produce, had not been patronized The peons—ignorant, unoreaniacy, | 2nd appreciated, where would that art without farm tools or capital—have | P¢7 Italy is not reckoned great today not been able to cultivate the land |Decause during the Renalssance she they "have thus acquired. Hence, | Prousht to her shores great works while the rightful owners have heey | Produced by Greek artists or rein-| robbed, the new holders have not bena, | Stated works by Roman artlsts of the fited. 'Mexico is demoralized. s wag | Classical period, but on account of Russia under stmilar communistic | What the artists who lived during the plundering. Renaissance produced. Our only hope of remembrance in the future rests The first confiscation by th - ernment for the salo to peons was|On What we produce today, not what we save. made while crops were maturin the land taken. The peons, et fore, got crops as well as land, and that year they were “in clover.” After that year, the land has lain fallow. both that taken by the peons and that retained by the great holders, for the peons could not cultivate it, and the hacendados dared not. So production ‘eased. Land owners, unable to keep up their taxes, have suffered further [ns{::ea on thath:mcount. 'ommerce has been paralyzed b the church boycott of x;nercimndlne)t That boycott is reported through our officfal channels as proving far more meimve than Mexican propagandists zonfess. activities behind the open opposition | of the Catholic foreign clersy. Peon bandits have ranged at will over the country and taken possession | | | | | | | * ok kW Among our American art museums, the most revolutionary is, and has been since the first, the museum in Newark, N. J. This came into exist- ence as the child of the Public Library, and developed under the care of the librarian, John Cotton Dana, a man of original and forward - looking thought. It now has a home of its own, given to the city by a public- spirited citizen, a Newark merchant. It is essentially an institution of the people. In an admirable paper given at the annual meeting of the American As- sociation of Museums, held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art last May, Mr. Dana set forth some of the | ideals of his museum, urging the necessity of a change of attitude on the part of the museums to accord | with the changing world in which we live. The difficulty of such change he did not minimize. ‘“Most of us,” | he said, “being conservative by birth and training, are uncomfortable in the presence of a new idea”; hence, he argued that a majority of those who visit museums today prefer those of a “modest, gazing sort.” His ideal of an art museum is one which is “an effective factor for more wisdom and happiness in its community.” What could be better? o “Art,” says Mr. Dana, “is not in a museum save in relatively unim- portant quantity; art is where it is seen and not merely where self-con- stituted experts have placed it.” It is on this theory that the museum under his direction proceeds. For instance, | in the Newark Museum one may come across an_ exhibit of everyday art— ordinary household objects, a glass of water, a copper kettle, a cup and saucer, so placed in the light and in relation to its surroundings that it cvinces beauty—the beauty which at- tracts the painter to interpret it plc- torfally. The painter opens' the eye | * Kok ok Not even the Mexican government has profited by its commission, for, with the farm land {dle and unproduc- tive, Mexico ceases to maintain a |favorable trade balance in exports over imports. Formerly, she exported coffee, bananas and other food prod- jucts, besides rasing all the corn she needed for home consumption. Now Ithe coffee plantations are run down {no new coffee trees are planted and ! the productive life of a coffee tree is | only four or five years. Coffee hacen- { lados dare not invest in new trees, for | ownership is too unsafe. The result is that Mexican exports of coffee cease. | Petroleum wells are becoming ex- |hausted, and although that does not mean that the petroleum resources of | Mexico are run out, it does mean that | American operators will put no money {into sinking new wells. The same ap- Iplies to metals—silver, copper, etc. So metal exports are shrunken. Corn must now be imported from the |United States; cattle ralsing ceases to be profitable. The loss on exports of metals and cattle combined, for the first six months of 1926, compared with the! first half of 1925, amounts to 142,000,- {500 pesos—about $70,000,000 gold. | | Total decline in exports for the first ihalf of 1926, compared with 19 amounts to 873,230,000 pesos—over £400,000.000 gold. To this loss must be !added the “invisible” loss in steamship traffic, bank charges, insurance, etc. The total loss in trade balance cov- |ers the range from 172,000,000 pesos |tavorable balance, plus 95,000,000 {pesos unfavorable’ balance—a total | shrinkage in the balance of 267,000,000 | pesos—about $133.000.000 gold, in the | first six months of 1926. According to officfal figures from 1the National Bank of Mexico, the gov- iernment revenues for the first six |months of 1926 amounted to only {159,700,000 pesos, as contrasted with 1165,100,000 in the corresponding perfod | of 1925, and this 5,460,000 peso loss is in spite of a new source of revenue— an Income tax which brought receipts i Mr. Dana would have these objects | sharpen the vision of the visitor not | only to beauty in the museum, but un painted beauty in his or her surround |ings. “If you look at an object,” he says, “and feel that it is to you, as | you look at it, beautiful, you have at once an esthetic reaction, which means that your whole body is a little stimu- lated, your heart beats a little more vigorously, your breath is a trifle deeper, you are for a moment exalted and probably have a cleaner and broader view of life.”” What an ex- cellent summing up of the joy which a work of art engenders in those who have seeing eyes! * ok ok Undoubtedly appreciation in this f 13,436,229 sos—new since April, 9525, Lo Pril: | feld is retarded by & constant misuse i «Coprri/t. 1988 by Paul V. Colins ) and misapplication of the word re.” - £ | ba 324,947 foreigne) of the sensitive observer to beauty. | Q. Who played Irls Storm in “The Green Hat” in London?>—M. N. N. A. The American, Tallulah Bank- head, played the part. Q. How many foreigners live in China?—G. E. ers In its population of 1,000,000. In the entire republic there are said to Of these 201,704 14,775 are Japanese, 85,856 Russian, British and 9,356 American. Q. What State had the first large well developed State-owned park that was accessible to a large population? —F. M. A. The Palisades Interstate Park, in New York and New Jersey, was the first to be developed. Work toward it was started as early as 1895. Q. Who was called “the father of the postal savings bank in Ameri- fea"?—H. L. T. A. This title was given to the late Victor . Lawson, owner of the Chi- cago Dally News. Through that paper he inaugurated and for many vears maintained a campalgn for the establishment of a Government sav- ings bank. . Do Eskimo women have many children?—W. W. A. Stefansson, the Arctio explorer, says: “It 18 a fact that there are few Eskimo women who have many chil- dren. Four children is considered a large family.” Q. Why is it easter to swim from France to England than from Eng- land to France?—L. D. A. There is a difference in tide. The shore contour on the French side results in an offset tide that helps the swimmer toward England, but retards one coming toward France. Q. By comparison with the length of lite of animals after reaching ma- turity, how long should a man live? L.J. F. A. An article In Hygela says that man should live 125 vears instead of 70. This figure is based on a study of he relation of maturity to life, it being contended that “other mammals live about five times as long as it takes them to become mature, as determined by the ossification of their hones. A man is mature at about 25 years, and at the same rate should live to be 125. This 70-year plan cramps him so. He has barely raised his family by that time."” Q. How long is a mad-dog bite in incubation before being effective in an animal? If a cow has been bitten, is it safe to use its milk?—T. W. . anywhere from three v months before having effect. The Pub. lic Health Service says it is inadvis- able to use the milk of a cow bitten by a fnad dog at any period. Q. How is olive oil made?—W. S. A. Olive ofl is prepared from the fruit of the olive trees. The olives are gathered just before the period of maturity, then they are crushed in a then filtered. The best edible oils are not heated. Q. What the world?—C. the smallest book in E. est book in the world is a Bible four and one-half centimeters in size, owned by the Chicago Historical Soclety. Q. Who colned the expression “Every inch a king”?—W. M. A. This is found in Shakespeare’s “King Lear. Q. Can silage be fed as soon as it is ready?—D. T. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. A. Peking has about 4,000 foreign- .| absolute desert A mad-dog bite is in incubation | ecks to three | jon " pufralo mill; expressed in a hydraulic press, | A. What is belleved to be the small- | A. The Department of Agricultur: says that it may be fed as <oon as th silo 1s filled, but that it is better thre or four weeks later when it has time to ferment propevly Q. Do persons look their normal size to A. The Blologi comparative impression on the retin. and the optic nerve. Should man ap pear three times his normal siza 1 animals, all other objects would als be magnified three times. Q. Will gasoline free: R. B A. The Bureau of Standards say that gasoline has no definite freezing point. It stiffens up slowly like meitad wax at temperatures far helow thos. ordinarily encountered even in th Arctic, How many loaves of bread wi el of flour make?—R. J. A barrel of flour makes approx 285 of bread. This ure will vary according to the rformu! used by individual bakers, but fs t! estimated average. heard at miles fro: greater distance than its origin. Q. Are the Premier Diamond Mt still producing?—K. McW A. George F. Kunz, an authortt on precious stones, says that tha Pre mier Diamond Mines do not only pri duce, but in the year 19 monds sold totaled 1,271.0 compared with 1,027,110 of tie ing year. The number of loads was! and the number of ats fo showed a corresponding incre: | Q Why lucky A. the opal consider B. H The ‘opal has not alwais ben | regarded as an unlucky stone. Ti | superstition regarding its bad lick b | gan in_the fourteenth century at tl. time of the Black Death, particular {in Venice. At that time the opal wa {a favorite of the Itallan jewelers, bu | it was said that opals worn by tho stricken with the disease suddenly came brilliant and that their lust departed upon the death of the owner thus the opal became assoclated wit} death and an object of dread. Q. Are tho I »f South Dakot aking, he The term is some the land is fert!ls A. The Bad I cannot, strictly sy s u desert region. at misleading, ¢ cept where it is tion 1s washed & In level grows and herds of cattle. Good lv found in shallow rable farming s ear por sup great or Is usu iwells and cons! | ried on. | por Q. Which is the oldest of the fin: s?—R. N A. Architecture is the most anclent arliest dated architectural re | mains are those of the Rabylonians from as far back as 6000 1.C. The building material was brick and the: 1were the first to construct vaults and arches, Have we had the pleasure of ser: ton In be of |ing wou through our Washii formation Bureaw? Can't w some help to you in your daily prob lems? Our business is to furnish you with authoritativ information, and we invite you to ask us any question lot fact in" which you are interested | Send your inquiry to The Evenming | Star Information Bureau, Frederie J Haskin, Director, Washington, D. ¢ Inclose 2 cents in stamps for return wostage. Many practical people are interest- ed but not convinced by Thomas A. Edison’s dream of the future city. The inventor's suggestion that science will take the place of politics in municipal management is considered debatabl and his idea that general d eventually will be a defense against noises stirs no enthusiasm. “That is a strange, but not un- believable, picture of the city of th future that Thomas Edison paint says the Jersey City Journal. “It i a picture of a giant city, its rumble and roar of noise increasing; its build- expected; its congested streets made passable by expert allotment of traffic time; crime decreased with the coming of the scientific policeman and its pop- ulation half deaf. perhaps, is the inventor's additionai prediction of low taxes.” On the sub- Journal belleves “it is only natural that eventually the people who live in cities will come to the conclusion that politics, although now a vital part of city make-up, costs too much money, toys of politiclans, but as business corporations, dealing with millions of money and millions of people each year, are run.” * K W ox “The fact that some American cities, Including large ones lke Cincinnati and Cleveland, have cast out the I eral system of Government and erect- ed another system on a scientific foundation,” in the opinion of the In- dianapolis News, ‘“proves only that, it well led and honestly educated, American people can be induced to {apply their pusiness sense to munici- pal problems. the Federal system is wrong, for seme citles are well governed under this system. Nor does it prove that the business management plan is right, for a well organized political machine can take over city government under any charter that leaves the choice of choice of the voters.” The News con- cludes that ‘‘the problem is not one of business management, but of party life”; that “it will disappear when party organizations in cities can find something to live on besides Jobs.” Conceding that “there will be great future, and these changes naturally will be in the direction of time-saving and efficiency,” the Terre Haute Star, nevertheless, reminds its readers that “human nature has changed very lit- tle sinte the dawn of recorded his tory, if it has changed at all, and the modern city is composed much more ings large, but not as tall as might be | Strangest of all, | ject of sclentific management, the | and that cities should be run not as| It does not prove that | the responsible governing body to the | clty | physical changes in the cities of the | Press Rather Skeptical About Edison’s Dream of Future City of human nature than it is of bricks and steel and mor nd oline. | The Star asserts that the s | “would shrug his shoulders con: | bly at Mr. Edison's sere (human eflicleney.” The Utic: server-Dispateh, howeve Imits that c has 1y built cities very {different from what they used to be, |and there 1s no question that the | future metropolis will be just as it ferent from the pr t one.” K * Nevertheless, “with the whirl dvises the Omaha Worll | Herald, “there are still fl j principles which it will always be ad able for mere human b | o { ehange,” some ognize. Whatever may be the pros ress of invention and whatever th | contrivances to amuse, facilitate and |employ during business and e | hou there 1s the age-old relation of {the human mind and heart to the | procession of change. No achieve | ment in sctence or advancement | what we cail civilization will chang: | the position of the human hear Sciance may make our way of living | universally er and more interest ing, but our capacity for genuine hap nothing to do with ng civilization, i | ping which ha | the noise of ad the thing to considel Mr. Edison's helief that increase noise will be permitted to lead to general deafness among the peopl | 1s challenged by ral newspapers | The St. Paul Dispatch declares the | iden “that deafness is an advantage ! will not be readily accepted,” and | asks, “What will become of his phonograph or the dio or m i in general, when most persons can not hear? The Mor | Dominion wants Kknow engineers “soften nd d racket more and more hereafte along lines already started? ] | Harrisburg Tele aph asserts that wreat majority of American people have reached the conclusion tha | there is no reason for useless nois and that it must be stoppe e | Pasadena Star-News also argue that “with due respect to the great inventor, it is not improbable tha science will find ways and means to make the city of the future les notsy than the city of today—b: muffiing paving: by envelopes upot wheels of vehicles to deaden sound by ways that perhaps now are not even dreamed of, yet which may be wholly practicable and effectual. A- science achieves marvels in man ways, it may be able to evolve the silent city, with noise extracted by | scientific, workable processes.” pribotibobans il To verify this statement it is only necessary to note the advertising signs visible from a car window en route from Washington to New Yo Re. liable manufacturers, endeavoring to testify to the fine quality of their produce, are resorting more and more to such terms as these: Beds,” “Fine Art Lace Co.,” * Art Rugs,” completely uncon: otch ous o! but a noun, and that used in this sense it is meaningless. How such misuse can be corrected it is difficult to say, but unless it is prevented we wili have to find some substitute for the real thing. Perhaps some one will start a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to the English Language. If 8o, we recommend that those who misuse the word “art” be the first penalized. » ‘Art Metal | the fact that art is not an adjective | Minister Pavichich Denie~ Intervening in Contracts To the Editor of The Sta My attention has been drawn to dispatch from the Belgrade corre spondent of your journal regarding the question of awarding cert municipal contracts to Mr. Cha | B. McDanlel. In this dispatch alleged that T matte in a | McDaniel | There is not the slightest founda | tion for the statements contained ir he dispatch. I have never intervened |In any shape or form in such matter. lDR A. TRESICH PAVICHICH. Minis ‘e intervened ton hostile M t