Evening Star Newspaper, December 31, 1926, Page 8

1 - remembered as the time of the actual those men still in the game, and, finally, in order to get even for an alleged grudge, forced tho base ball authorities to act. Certainly Leonard does not gain in the affection of his countrymen by his action, even if Speaker, Cobb and Wood were just as guilty as he is, which has not been proved to the satisfaction of the public. Now along comes Risberg. Spurred by Leonard’s success in attaining the spotlight, this exiled player would smirch the reputation of some more players in the game. To newspaper men he has said he will tell Commis- oner Landis “plenty,” and makes reference to the world series of 1917. Theso exposes do not make a pretty picture. They have come, in the lat- est two cases, from disgruntled men who for oné reason or another bear malice toward men who are making THE EVENING STAR| With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY......December 31, 1926 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 11th St. and nparivania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 4¢nd St. ! Chicago Office:. Tower-Building. .Ruropean Office: 14 Regent St., London. England, The Evenine Star. with the Sunday morn- fog edition. 1s delivered by carriers Within tha city At 60 centa por month: dafls only. 45 cents ver month: Sundays ouly. 20 cents ar month. Onders may be sent by mail or elaphone Main 5000, Collection is mado by carrier at end of each month. Rate by Mail—P: Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday. . by nly ..ol Sanday only . THE EVENING countries might again agree to the appointment of a joint commission for mediation. Arbitration of the dispute in one form or another may be resorted to. The United States can withdraw recognition of the Mexican government, a course hinted at in the diplomatic correspondence, withdraw the embargo on the shipment of arms and munitions to Mexico, and thus pro- vide the opponents of the Calles regime with the means of overthrow- ing the government. And, lastly, the United States can support its claims by force of arms. The seriousness of the situation should not be minimized, for all that the American public has hitherto failed to indicate any considerable con- cern in the matter, The rights of American citizens, rights which have a vital relationship to the future of the Nation, are Involved, as well as their living—in the great majority of ases an honest living—from base ball. It is their attitude, to a great degree, which has made a large section of the public rally to the defense of those All Other States and Canada. Daily and Sunday..] yr. $12.00: 1 mo. $1.00 Daily_only ¥ri. $R.00: 1 mo’. Sunday only 150, $4.00: 1 mol 3 1 Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press s exclusively entitled | accused. 1o the nea for republication of all news dis- okedness of any kind in any atches credited to it or hot otherwiss cred fied It T3 waver and aleo {he" Jocal news| type of sport or business should not of special dispatches herein are algo reserved [ he tolerated, but revelation of this 3 = | crookedness would come with better A Year of Capital Making. |odor foom people who themselves were volvi who promptly, not Washingtonians; with pride in their |10t 10V :‘;‘y“‘m‘:‘gfin Ko i city and faith in its future as a center :‘;‘p‘;:u; s x i f a Ve a seat & :; 2:;:::: Y::fi‘m‘:.!r :\:nxl :t::’ clos.| There is undoubtediy some elemeln! s : e e ball. Commis- ik yons 0350111 itabthicg b i ay ] of WIAIONSELY O SARD o el sioner Landis, zealous as he Is, can- t::e;,;dl,':; ‘i:.:’:f ;Zf:,“:hsgm"::: not wipe it out altogether. But tke S ieitileAoRAra AnsyRtiAbiort | VD10 lilisves in hass ball and sup- ~ ports it to the tunme of millions of of the ideal set for the Capital. Def- dollars a year. Therefore the raking e progress has been made in the up of a seven-year-old unproved scan- direction of the fulfillment of prom-| n % ® L O E Ty ohard and the ises long delayed of execution. DIfer-} o .oq fevelations of Risberg of a ences of opinion as to the exact de-{ ;o coargld scandal, both instigated tails of plans for the evolution of the | P T oo " Hinvers, do not im- District have been adjusted, laws have [ % 50 B0 doing anything been enacted and others have been| P (0 T v reputation of ndvanced almost to the point of enact- | TC oy neet men, with little ment, until it is now possible to look | BHINCER o ont day integrity of forward, only a little time, to the com- 5 the national pastime. pletion of projects which will make v Washington preeminent among the TR clties of the world. The Mexican Crisis. A public building plan has been With Secretary Kellogg standing adopted, contemplating the expen-|pat on his final brief note to Mexico, diture in this city of $30,000,000,]of October 30, in which he.announced which will provide the United States | that “this Government finds no oc- with its necessary equipment for the | casion to modify any of the positions transaction of its business. In imme- | which it has heretofore taken” (in con- diate contemplation are several struc- | nection with the Mexican land and tures which will be located in accord- | petroleum laws and their interpreta- ance with a plan the foundations of |tion) “and desires to be understood as which were lald long ago, and which | maintaining those positions with the was actually begun in the acquisition | utmost emphasis,” and President Calles of five blacks that have remained un-|calling his hand through his recent smproved for two decades. The Senate | announcement to the oil companies has passed and the House will shortly | that the oil laws coming into effect on pass 4lso @ bill which calls for the |Saturday must be obeyed without any purchase of all the lands remaining | extension of time, the relations of the within the great triangle, so that all | United States and Mexico will tomor- the structures soon to be erected will[row assume a new phase. be asbured of sites in harmony with |carry the poker simile somewhat the Government's existing outfit and | further, the calling of a hand down 1n proper relation also to the park de-|along the Rio Grand has ever been velopments of the near future. a business fraught ‘with possibilities. The interrupted development of the | For contrary to the normal etiquette Capitol-Station Plaza has been put in [of the game, the call is there often the way of early completion. An|the signal for the beginning rather enactment provides for the cutting of | than the termination of serious busi- & boulevard from the station to the|ness. Mall and thence, alongside the central| The positions referred to in Secre- reservation, to the Lincoln Memorial | tary Kellogg’s concluding rote may and the Arlington Memorial Bridge. |be briefly summarized as follows: That This will clear away disfigurements at | this Government copsiders that the the Capitol end of the central stretch |land and petroleum laws promulgated of Pennsylvania avenue, and.assure|in Mexico toward the end of 1925, the eventual, probably the early, re-|under which foreign oil companies demption of the whole of the Capital's | must exchange their present vested chief thoroughfare from the effects of | property rights for fifty-year leases long neglect and the blight of an un- | by January 1, 1927, amounts to con- fulfilled project of Mall-Avenue im.|fiscation in the case of property ac- provement. quired before 1917. That it is the City park plans have been placed right and the duty of this Government in the hands of a competent commis- | to protect its citizens against any sion working in harmony with the|invasion of their rights of person or Public Building Commisslori and the | Property by a foreign government Commission of Fine Arts, assuring|and that this right may not be con- that the loss of valuable areas es.|tracted away by an individual. That pecially suitable for preservation as|the declarations of the American and park spaces will be checked and the Mexican commissions in 1923, subse- development of the Capital as the quently ratified by an exchange of world's chief park city will proceed. | notes betwecn the two governments, During the past year, as enactments constitute solemn and binding under- £nd decisions have succeeded, all tend- | takings, “which formed the basis and ing to the early executlon of long-|moving consideration for the recogni- considered plans, an expression has|tion of tho Mexican government by become & commonplace in this city: |this Government.” That vested rights “7The mext ten years will Witness a|May not be impaired by legistation transformation in Washington.” Con- mv;ec’lfl character or confisca- fidence has succeeded despair regard- | '®’ 2 ing the fruition of plans. Forces have| TO each of theso positions Mexico, become concentrated, whereas hereto- | throush its minister of forelgn aftairs, fore they have been dispersed. And, has taken exception. The fundamen- best of all, it is assured that the re.|tal contention that the application of oults' of the works which very soon|th® Dew law Wil 'in many oamce will begin in actuality wili be In the :fi{”“g:‘l::dc“s“fl”“‘:“ ":‘;2“’:; b";‘ l:::;emu:::fl;;oz‘; ‘:l:fx:‘l:’a:::: dicate concrete cases where recognized ssmcition ¢ indivitus) butifing proj | Pinsipies of Sernational law have ects, i ony is guaranteed by the been or may be violated, as “in such cases it (the Mexican government) co-operation of the various agencles. | Bariiy iths year 1928 'will e mmarked | 1} DS dispossd to replc #uich iola- in the annals of Washington as a tions.”” The right of an individual to e contract away his right to diplomatic vear of great progress, always to be| . yion by his government fs in- sisted upon. The agreement of 1923 is held to have been a mere state- ment of the purposes of President Obregon, under whom it was negoti- ated, without the qualities of a *‘prom- ise” binding upon President Calles. The retroactive nature of the hew laws cannot, according to Minister Saenz's viewpoint, be objected to until it produces conflscatory or other harm- realization of a vision cherished for more than a generation. ——te. One of the things a beneficent Santa Claus should have attended to was the astablishment of a traffic cop in De Russeys lane. ———— Another Base Ball Expose. With the announcement today that | ful effects. *Swede” Risberg, the former Chicago So matters stand today, with the American League shortstop, who was | United States insisting that the con- banished from base ball in conse-|version clauses of the new laws 1d- @sence of the 1919 world series scan- | volve “‘a forced exchange of a greater @21, is about to make further revela- | for a lesser estate” and that it is its dlons as to the alleged crookedness of | duty to protect its citizens from such the national game, there is likely to|an invasion of their rights, and Mexi- be many a gesture of disgust from the | co replying that a definite change in base ball fans throughout the coun-|the ownership system hitherto In ef- try. Coming on top of the Leonard-|fect in that country must and will be obb-Wood-Speaker affair, with its un-| engineered, and that the new laws savory aspects and its peculiar han-{and regulations essential to this end dling, the promised expose of Risberg | will not be changed, but that any will not be received with any great|harm which may result to American degree of delight by the public, which | citizens from their application can be <upports the game. repaired under those laws. Regardless of the gullt or innocence Under the disputed Mexican laws, of Speaker, Cobb and Wood in the|a failure on the part of American oil regular game between Detroit and |interests in that country to make the Cleveland in 1919, it would certainly [ indicated exchange of vested 1 shts appear that Leonard, their accuser,|for ffty-year leases by tor .row is the chief offender, not only in a|will automatically cancel thel: vested legal but in an ethical sense. He ad-|rights. Yet, with the strong Lacking the dignity of our national diplomacy. With these as the stake, the disposi- tion of the, American public to un- ruffled composure in the face of President Calles' heavy gambling should not he misinterpreted in Mexico City. For when once the cards are spread on the table it will be disclosed that those held by Secre- tary Kelloge, representing the people of the United States, have not been used for a bluff. S — Base ball is a noble sport. What- ever s@spicions may attach to certain inner incidents of the game, the pub- lic remains loyal, enthusiastic and STAR, WASHINGTON A FRIDAY, If it ‘were not for a certain unfor- tunate snobbery which affiicts it, the world of books would be a wholly happy one. We refer to the strange inability of the average person to say “No” when he s read a par- Now, this same world of ' largo that no living human being can have read everything in it, but mos educated persons seem to go on the theory that this is necessary. some one as ‘Oh, yves,” they cry, in chorus, as disgrace not to have read y not 10 persons in world who have read everything h wrote, und not one out of every thou- sand ‘who has read a single one of his stories sked if he uthor the if he has not, and lct the ques think Dim' ignorant, if he This is the unfortunate part fon—that on the part of most persons it s thought to presuppose complete knowledge, Nothing could be farther from truth. The great benefit of edu is that it acquaints one with a bi the fund of knowledge in the world. Tho second benefit is that it shows one where to go to find out what he wants to know. Because courses clude certain authors, most of those }\‘h'? “take” uch courses are ashamed, in later life, to admit a non-acquaint- ance with any author or book treated has read a cer- in literature in- pure-minded. Idealtsm s wonderful and serves to bridge over many chasm which yawns between player efliciency and public confidenc B — Nicaragua is a friendly natfon. It has been remarked by experts that in every game there is a point where friendship ceases. It ls the duty of aiplomacy to look out for this point and prevent it from asserting undue influence. e et A Christmas tree fades and withers before the first of January. Viewed from the position of the forestry ex- pert, the loss is considerable. Old Santa Claus may vet have to protect himself against the imputation of vandalism. r—t— Christmas carols call attention to the fact that vocalists worthy of the old tunes are becoming scarce. It may become necessary to adjust the carols to drum and saxophone in order to give them new vitality. Senate rules still occupy the atten- tion of Vice President Dawes. In the holiday season serious purpose must be patient and display temporary def- erence to the “lord of misrule. - ‘When film stars are divorced, the public regards the event as a pub- licity demonstration. Buildings and trains of cars are wrecked to create scenario interest. Why not occasion- ally a home? —————— After the first of the year bargains will be advertised. The slogan “Shop early” will still hold a significant force. ——————— In all the researches of Tut's tomb nothing has been discovered so re- markable as a sewing machine or a typewriter. ————— It is not remarkable if a number of the more energetic Filipinos have fallen into the error of mistaking practical politics for patriotism. ————————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Financing Santa Claus. They took the pretty Christmas tree And threw it on the dump. The candle that shone forth In glee Is now a waxen lump. The decorations that were fine Are tangled in a heap, And dear old Santy must resign The sway he could not keep. And yet, old Santy lives, they say, In philanthropic might, To help the strugglers every day, Apart from Christmas night. The great Financial Leader bold ‘Who helps a human cause, Says, “I'm no money iender cold; I'm just poor Santa Claus.” Cold Criticism. “You were greeted with song and compliment,” remarked the admiring triend. “I was,” answered Senator Sor- ghum. “The singers were off the key and the complimentary orators did not know what they were talking about. Otherwise, the occasion was a grand success.” A Pacificism. They threaten war once more ‘With grewsome bluff. , The one they’had before ‘Was quite enough. Jud Tunkins says a sinner who repents 1s very likely to envy the bootleggers who failed to do so. Christmas Customs. “Did Santa Claus arrive at Crimson Gulch? “Yes,” answered Cactus Joe. “But he was a disappointment. He spe- cialized on hoot-legs instead of stock- ings."” “We reverence our ancestors,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown. “Be- fore the new generation we are left in doubt as to whether we shall be reverenced in turn, when we are only ancestors.” Bolshibusiness. “Business is business,"” ‘We've heard the anclent phrase; But bolshevists bring dizziness ‘Which throws the course of business Into a hapless maze. “Happy New Year!” said Uncle Eben, “and I hopes you will try to think it, instead o' swallowin’ it.” sthop Is Ambiguous. From the Chicago News. mits that he participated in the bet-| which Secretary Kellogg has afforded 1ing, yet he was perfectly willing to | them, it is highly probable that many condone his own dishonesty as well | will refuse to make the exchange. as that of the others as long &s they | They will then hold their original con- remained friendly to him. When he | cessions; the Mexican government will was released last vear from major |claim forfeiture of the properties, and Jeague base bail he thereupon dug up | it will devolve upon the United States the seven-year-old correspondence and | Government to aot. in effect waved it over the heads of! Several courses are open. The two Bishop Manning says the end of the jazz age is in sight. The only ques- tion s, Which end? Rich Man—Poor Man. From the Los Angeles Express. Because the countryis too prosper- ous to wear cotton, the cotton growers have no prosperity. 4 in them. * % Tho most unfortunate part of this sorry business comes through the trait of human nature which makes one perpetually shy from an author who is popped ‘at him in one of those questions, “Have you read So and Even the mos st man often unthinkingly repli h, " be. fore he gets up his cour to say No™; and once he has put himself in this false position he immediately takes on a grudge toward the author in_question. Thus, if one asks whether another has read Anthony Trollope, and the other replies ““Yes,” but has not read him, this latter probably never will read a single novel of Trollope's in the remainder of his reading life. Such is human nature. Belng slyly reproached with igno- rance, he transfers his secret dislike to the author who has thus allowed him to be reproached, and ends up by stealthily refraining to so much iook within the covers of a Trollope novel, In order to start a reform in this matter, the writer of this column here and now confe 2 il two weeks ago, he read a sin- gle story by Anthony Trollope; in fact, scarcely knew the names of any of them. A chance acquaintance with “Fram- ley Parsonage.” one of the Cathedr series, so enchanted him that he is going to secure as many of Trollope's novels as he can find. Yes, Trollope always has been a great writer—but not for this reader. This is the fate of all writers, great and small. If one will not read him, he writes for others until that one determines to give him a show. Then one is pleasantly delighted with his “find"—and a find he is, indeed, as hon. the | honest man will say | | veyor” each reader discovers him. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. At this holiday season, when we are all in debt to the postal service, it is pleasant to recall t the gre lish novelist, Anthony Trollope, W postal clerk For 32 years he w the postal s an employe of fon of Great 2 s aps the only 1 employe in history who became a great novelist. i he gaged in_h visory duties office. He took up a clerkship in the post office at London in 1834, and stayed th seven years, with no particular credit to himself, according to the cords, not being rauch interested in the w i All the time, however, he was quiet- studying h n nature. In 1841 he was appointed clerk to one of the post office veyors, as they we od, in Ireland. Evidently this “s was what we call in the United States today an “inspector.” L result of this work Trollope out two novels of Irish life, wrd of v more, il 'he MacDermots of D nd “The Kellys and the *in 1848, Perhaps there was bit too much Irish in those for the publ to A historical work, > in 1850, met no better fate Trollope was just trying out } hand. It was after 1851, when he v sent to sou ngland to reform the letter carrler system there, that he conceived the idea of writing novels about clergymen as human Leings, result in the Cathedral ied on while en- d later supe general post ar in the This series, upon which_his fame solidly rests, includes “Barchester Towe “The Warden,” ‘“Doctor Thorne,” “Framley Parsonage,” “The $mall Touse at Allington” and “The Last Chronicle of Barset.” The writer here has read but one of these novels as stated, “Framley Parsonage”; but can say that, if the others are up to the standard of it, the series is a knock-out, to use the language of the moment. It is no wonder that Prof. Cross of Yale declared, “After suffering briet eclipse, Trollope now come to be regarded as ranking perhaps next to Dickens as a great chronicler of Eng- lish life and manners among the mid- dle classes. Somewhat deficient in the artistic sense, he possessed wit, humor, pathos and a keen intelli- gence.” From our one dip into Trollope, we would say that he is just the antith- esis of Dickens. Hle seems to u A cross between Jane Austen and Wil- hackeray amley Parson- lacks utterly any of the tend- toward car tion which and so well. their vices, and his villains their good points. Now, this is real life, and in picturing such men and women Trollope is nearer to the truth than Dickens. Trollope, without flourish, has a strange power to present real, moving situations. His women—we speak of “Framley Parsonage,” of course—are lovable in every sense, as women ought to be. All in all, we are quite sure that we have been missing something, in the reading line, when we neglected Trollope all these years. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Senor Dr. Don Ricardo Alfaro, the Panamanian Minister at Washington, is proceeding to his country to argue before its National Assembly for the ratification of the new American-Pan- amanian treaty. He was especially in- vited to do so. There is considerable opposition to the pact and Dr. Al- faro’s personal support of it will be of influential aid to his government in the Assembly discussion. It happens that the treaty was concluded under the foreign ministership of Dr. Al faro’s brother, Dr. Horatio Alfaro. The Minister to the United States was him- self foreign secretary of Panama be- tween the years 1918 and 1922, and it was during his regime that the nego- tiations, now successfully. terminated. were begun. Dr. Alfaro has repre- sented Panama in Washington for the past four years and is looked upon as one of the most skillful and brilliant Latin-American diplomats stationed on the Potomac. He expects to tarry on the Isthmus for about a month. * koK It's a curious coincidence that the heir-apparent to the throne of Japan and the prime minister of Australia should have arrived in the United States on the same ship and*sojourned in Washington within the same 48 hours. There’s about as little love lost between the Australians and the Japanese as there is between the resi- dents of our Pacific Coast and the chil- dren of Nippon. Premier Bruce pro- claims that his country's relations with Japan are “admirable,” but deep down in the hearts of most Aus- tralians there is a formidable fear that the banners of the Rising Sun will some day be carried to their shores. The commonwealth of Australia main- tains its own navy, mainly with a view to “the yellow peril.” At last accounts the fleet consisted of four light cruisers and a corresponding flo- tilla of destyoyers #@nd other auxiliary craft. In 1924 Australia adopted a program to build two 10,000-ton crufs- ers and two ocean-going submarines. One of the reasons the British govern- ment has gone ahead with the great naval-base project at Singapore is the defengive necessities of John Bull's vast possessions in the South Seas. * ok %k Great importance is attached at the State Department to John W. Davis’ support of the Lausannc treaty, which comes up for discussion in the Senate on January 3. Demo- cratic opposition to_ratification is the danger Secretary Kellogg principally fears. At thelr “national dissension” at Madison Square Garden in 1924 the Democrats put an anti-Lausanno plank in their platform. Davis stood on it, but now, after two years and more, has recanted. The adminis- ati es that the views of the | > O momatic presidential candidate | doesn't often get the limelight when will prove contagious among the Sen- ate minority. * ok X % One of the branches of the Govern- ment that believes in_taking time by the forelock is the Medical Depart- ment of the United States Army. Its chief, Surg. Gen. Merritte W. Ireland, has just been informed by the Ameri- can Red Cross_ that the department has been awarded the gold medal of the international committee of the Red Cross as first prize in the compe- tition for “wound cards.” The com- petition was held at Geneva. Many natlons toak part. The winning “wound cards,” submitted by the United States, are the official “em gency medical tags” and “fleld medi- cal records” employed by the Army in the field in ticketing the sick and wounded for evacuation and record purposes. * ok ok ok ‘Washington is about to be invaded by a couple of rival “metaphysicians from mystic India. One of them is A. K. Mozumdar, who says he hails from “Calcutta and Los Angele: He calls himself the “message beaver of the Messianic world message—the completed message of Jesus the Christ.” A day or two after his forth- coming public appearances in Wash- ington, Mr. Mozumdar will be follow- ed by Swami Yogananda, who also claims both “India and California” as his residences. Mr. Yogananda, other- wise known as “the Swami,” is the patentee of a system for ‘physical, mental and spiritual perfection.” - The bearer of the “Messianic world mes- sage appears to be one up on the other gentleman from Indian in that the former is being sponsored in Washington by the wife of a_member of Congress from the Middle West. * ¥ ¥ % Suggestions that Peter Augustus Jay, American Ambassador to Argen- tina, is relinquishing the post revive the anclent question of underpayment of our foreign service officers. Buenos Aires, where Mr. Jay has been sta- tioned since March, 1925, is' probably the most expensive capital in the world outside of Paris. In many re- spects life in Argentina is even cost- lier than in France. Buenos Aires is one of the great world capitals in which a niggardly Uncle Sam expects his envoy to camp out on luxurious premises at his own expense. Whether theso considerations have moved Mr. Jay to apply for service in other flelds has not been disclosed, but it is well within the range of probabilities. Every once in a while the State De- partment is asked by the head of a diplomatic mission abroad to transfer him to some place where his meager pay (without allowances for repre- sentation) will permit him to make both ends meet on behalf of the rich. est nation on earth. Senator James Couzens, Republican, of Michigan, who is lined up with Democratic leaders planuing to slam the Senate door in the face of Frank L. Smith of Illin ame to Wash- ington in 1922 on the crest of an anti- slush fund wave. He was appointed succeed Truman H. Newberry, who gned his seat in the Senate after it had “vindicated” him in connection with his celebrated $195,000 sexatorial contest with Henry Ford. Couzens, who now and then is a Republican in- surgent, is determined that Smith— and presumably also Vare of Penn- sylvania—shall never cross the thresh- old of the Senate as long as the senior solon from Michigan can pre- vent it. Senator Couzens is one of the numerous Canadian-born citi- zens of the United States who have achieved distinction in our public life. Franklin K. Lane was a son of the Dominfon by birth, and Admiral Sims happened to see the light of day for {the first time in Canada. * K K ok The House of Representatives the Senate has big doings. But with the impending fight for cruisers for the Navy, Speaker Longworth’s de- bating society is bound to become front-page stuff till further notice. The fray will be on as soon as the House resumes business on January 3. (Copyright. 1926.) o There Were Others. From the Flint Journal. orge Washington liked fish, we learn. In their modest ways so did Ike Walton, o The Steel Melon. From the Omaha World-Herald. Usually think of it as pretty hard stuff, but sometimes a steel melon tastes just as good as watermelon. oot The Afterthinkers. From the Springfleld Republican. People who recall when ‘“‘Steel com- mon” was being kicked around at $§ a share are now kicksg themselves. DECEMBER 31, 1926. Present Age Marked By Traitors’ Absence From the Yakima Daily Republican. One. of the rather curious commen taries upon our modern ecivilization is the practical disappearance of traitors from our midst—at least, in| the complete sense which the term once implied. Of course, men still be | tray causes and governments to which | J they have pledged allegiance, cither for “thirty pieces of silver” or for some misguided alteration of their | ideals, says a writer in the Independ ent (Boston). But still, where are the ors of modern days who can take their places with those perfidious char- actors of history whose names have become almost synonymous with the ? Possibly, it all comes down'to atter of the complexity of modern ivillzation. In other times, when life and government were of simple con struction, betrayal of a leader often meant the collapse of a cause or of a nation. Now, it usually happens that so many factors must be considered that betrayals are too difficult to be peally su ful. s prototypes of Vi stand Judas Iscariof ciple who betray who gave Samson his frst hair cut Esau, who sold his birthright for a mess of pottage—these and other Bib lical character e afforded ex- amples ness proverbial through the ages. rom Rome, whe tyrants executed as traitors the vas s whose presence they found incon venient, come the stol of Tarpeia, rious betrayers the trusted dis Master; Delila [ 3 the epic of Caesar's death, the melo. dramatic tales of Tarquin—themes in which iiterature has found its most poignant ressions. Legend has told of the glorious fate of Roland, the tragic death of Robin Hood: history has reveled in such names as Joan of Are, Benedict Arnold and Olivér Crom Can the projectile fired from a 'h gun be seen in the air? 1t jectile > of 234 s time rds is 128 se nnot be seen in but came jectile ¢ th the eve atch it. Q. From what opera is the “Hall lujah choru N. B A It from Hande “The Messiah.” It is the of joy at the birth of Jesus se . Is “Australian” a racial name “R. M it A Aus as En, their moth Q. What England?—G, A. The p land® a Grimshy Portsmouth Liverpool. not. Immigran lia_are listed in our ish, Irish, ete., act 'r tongue. re the best hi M ncipal harbors of F Neweast T London, Folkestone Southampton, I during the las A. enorme ter tast 10 State le compared to 865 has the butter j however, but th creamerfes have becor clent. In 1920 the nun cows was 1,359,000, and output 120,000,000 pound there were 1 000 dairy cc increase of only 15 per cen butter production increas: 000,000 pounds, or near] cent. well. Already betrayers and betrayed both have become enveloped in a de- lightful halo of antiquity, and as an antidote to the libel, murder, breach of contract and heart balm litigations which fill our periodicals a few of the more immortal cases of betrayal are here recalled. .- Value of Prohibition Is Seen in Life Saving To the Editor of The Star: The sale of Christmas seals to help save lives from the ravages of the white plague touches the sympath: of every right-minded person. Appeal for aid for children's clinics tug at the heart of even the careless and indifferent. The call of the Near East in behalf of starving thousands unties even tight purse strin One of the most su for sa man life is shown in the dec prohibi > records t up to the adoption of na- tional prohibition there has been a falling off of deaths from alcoholis of 37.3 per cent. Moreover, the general death rate throughout the Nation has declined almost 10 per cent under pro hibition. Al authorities recognize that the drinking of alcohol reduce: general resistance and thereby shortens life. Prohibition has, there- fore, made a major contribution to- ward the saving of more than 1,000, 000 lives. It is all right to scold because pro. hibition is so indifferently enforced. But, following the old proverb, “Give the devil his due,” it is praper to note that even though poorly enforced prohibition has saved an immense number of lives. It is, therefore, a good law. It has produced good re- sults. Good people should observe and help to enforce it. MRS. R. E. TRICE. R Eight Millions Paid Farmers From the Roancke World-News. While distressing reports continue to come from the dark tobacco belt of Virginia, there is good news that after a succession of lean years re- newed prosperity has come to the bright tobacco belt of Virginia. The Old Belt markets opened in October and closed for the holidays on Fri- day. In that period on the warehouse floors, in Danville alone, 37,000,000 pounds of tobacco had been sold for payments in cash to the growers of more than $8,000,000. Money has been put in circulation, debts are being paid, merchants are prosperous, homes more comfortable. Prosperity has again been extended over a con- siderable area. Both in the quality of the tobacco and the price paid, it is the best year since the record- breaking season of 1919, when, after the war, prices soared beyond all ex- pectation. ‘While there must be deep concern at the poor conditions in the dark- fired section, where sales are small and prices low, it must be remember- ed that that section has not had the succession of bad years the Old Belt has suffered. For, on the prosperity map of Virginia, the Old Belt has been the most deeply shaded area, what with poor crops, poor prices, un- favorable seasons and the failure of the Tobacco Growers' Co-Operative Association, now in the hands of re- ceivers. It is good to know that this area is again coming into its own. The condition in the dark tobacco area should point its warning. There is danger that the high prices of this season in the bright tobacco section may cause a more extended planting next year, and so bring on another surplus. The tobacco farmer has been as slow as the cotton farmer to learn that true prosperity lies in raising his own food and feed crops, whatever he may venture on such an uncertain money crop as tobacco or cotton. -~ ———————————e— Back to Jesse James. From the Watertown Dally Times. Modern bandits are invading the territory of Jesse James. Six staged 2 hold-up on one of the busiest corners of Kansas City, Mo., with thousands of Christmas shoppers about, stole $79,000 from a bank messenger and escaped in a stolen automobile. It was done quietly, without a word being spoken. Jesse James and his crowd did not operate in the cities. They preferred the wide open spaces, holding up a stage coach and getting a few hun- dred dollars, and at comparatively rare intervals riding into a small town and holding up the bank. And when they escaped, they escaped on horse- back, riding to their hiding-out places and when necessary fighting off a posse. Ono, sympathizes with the Detroit police official who ordered his patrol- men not to refer to these present-day hold-up men as bandits. That term, he said, belonged to the days of the old West, when there was romance connected with a masked bandit hold- ing up a stage coach and rifling the passengers. The bandits of those he said, had some sense of de- They did not shoot down un- armed people, they dld not slug m®n from behind their backs. He referred to the present-day hold-up men as “yellow = cowards,” and instructed patrolmen in thelr official reports to refer to them as_ “thugs” and not glorify them by calling them bandits. Incidentally Detroit is meeting the hold-up menace in good shape. Ivery patrolman_ has his orders to shoot to kil when he sees hold-up men operat- ing. No particular effort is to be made to capture them alive. The methods seem harsh, but it is the only way to deal with the conditions. The hold-up mep show no mercy for their victims. o should have no compunction in taking the lives of the crimingls. s ® Q. 8. R. A. One of the windows | palace was left for the Sultan to f His treasure gave out and the wi was never completed: hence the ular allusion to an attempt to something left unfinished by a gre man. Q. What is the “life” of a magnet —M. 8. A. The life of a permanent mag net, magnetized in any manner what ever, has never been determined. A magnet made of the best quality of steel, properly heat-treated and and used under the best conditions of service, would probably deterlorate only a negligible amount in the lifc time of a single observer. Q. Why is there no more alcohol in near-beer? A. The Bur that in the » beer is made duced to one: Q. Where do the lecturer, 1 A. Ho and home at Meran What {s an “aladdin window 2. S, his Alto Adige, Q. Why can checks be made for less than $1 when there Fed eral law stating that they are not lawful?—M. P. A. Many Individuals, and even the Government, make checks for an amount less than.$1, but they are not intended to circulate, being only intended to pay the amount of the check to the person the check is made payable to. A check is not law- ful money and consequ be passed as lawful money is a personal credit instrument used in place of mone: Q. Who built the Virginian Rail way?—A. S. A. It was the project of Henry H. Rogers. Q. Is the new road to Annapolis done?—E. D. A. The American Automobile sociation says that the o completed. It is open to tr cept for a detour of about 300 yards around a concrete bridge which has not set long enough for use. Q. What plant produces the red berries that are much like holly berries, that appear in market in the | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Winte sh be negroes call them G. C. llex verticillata, & s leaves fall in the 1 is the holly around. led “La . a Pu . “a maid or vir French in.” | term | mea difference in belief ind Modernists? ve that the s is closed and not now made ef in the mirac h are related fr they are of divine hat the Bible was writter 1 divine inspiration and fs mot to modern interpretatior s believe that revelations are made and that it is quite : to developments of account for the sc reulous happenings in the do n; cept such doc 15 that of the virgin birth with 1uestion riptur name of the Australia E. B. of W which, wit e Darlin, whing the Sout! Masor . K near Nin . is the olde: State: ed i It he Battle of th C. name given to The date wa-« 1 nis popular > battle of Austerlitz. December 2 and the battle was bety the French Army with Na leon and the combined Russian and tralian armies. depth Q. To ivers go?—C. 0. H. Depths greater than 200 feet have been reached by divers. Chief Gunner’s Mate Frank Crilley, U. S. N., broke the record for diving when ho 1 ined a depth of 288 feet to locate ¢ sunken submarines F-4 in Hono . rbor. Thirty-five fathoms. 1 to a pressure of about a hun- | pounds, is regarded as the aver- 1 for divers of experfence and what can deep-sea the Washington City wate ¢ use in automobile bat many people in Wash and apparently have \d results. The Bureau of however, does not recom- d the use of anything but distilled ¢ for this purpose. > this Q. Wh are people from the United States known as “Americans” when even North America includes other countries?>—P. N, A. The habit of calling inhabitants of this country “Americans” probably wrose from the fact that any other listinctive title is awkward. Canada ends itself easily to the forming of he mnoun ‘anadians,” Mexico to “Mexicans.” Citizens of the United States of America are most conven- iently designated as “Americans.’ Lee said: “The thoronoh education of people fs the most efficacious means of promoting the prosperity of the Nation.” These words of the distinguished Southern ocneral are none the less true now tihan iwchen he spoke them. Our Washington Information Bureau {s one of the greatest agencies for the | distribution of free information and -ational data in the world. Its ervices are free to readers of this paper. All you need to do is to send | in your query together with two cents |in stamps for return postage. Ad- | dress The Evening Star Information Bureaw, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. Gen. Robert Public Seeking ‘What is happening in professional base ball's latest scandal prc again the value of a good name and rather upsets the theory that the base ball public is heartlessly fickle. Opinion as reflected in the press is overwhelmingly in favor of a full ex- position of the facts before passing judgment on Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker, whose records have been be- smirched by a 7-year-old story of gambling and suggestions of "a “thrown” ball game. “Both these veterans have been giving their best to their teams for upward of 20 years,” says the Wickita Daily Eagle. “Their best v the best in the base ball world, for they stood unrivaled in their classes. Now that they are closing the books on a life's work, it is unjust that their characters, always unblemished, should be questioned without the most absolute and damning evi- dence.” The Muncie Star also contends that “charges assailing the integrity of such outstanding players must neces- sarily be sifted to the bottom, al- though more should be produced th has been divulged so far to justify the slur against the two stars after their formal retirement from the game.” “Cobb and Speaker are known to all” declares the New York World “Considering their high repute, is it likely that either of them would have lent himself to so dangerous a scheme, especially since the evidence shows that the most he stood to make out of it was a few hundred dol That either of these high-salaried men would jeopardize whole ca- reer for such a paltry gain seem fishy.” The Watertown Daily N agrees that it is hard to believe that Cobb would throy a a1t b it indorses the stand of Commis: Landis, with the assertion t base ball is to draw its gate re of millions it must be kept s lously honest.” . * * * “The personal conduct of Cobh and Speaker in the game which is al- leged to have been bartered away seven years ago was apparently un- impeachabl observes the W¢ bury Republican. “If they had in- deed previously agreed that Detroit was to win, they seem to have cov ered their tracks with a good deal of cunning. And it is difficult to con- ceive how the game could have been “thrown’ to Cobb's team without their personal collusior the players were n on the al- leged bargain.” The Decatur Review believes that “everything in the long and honorable careers of these two men tends to refute ball fans have giv the Hornsby trade. decided on the innocence ind Speaker.” Recognizi or a desire not to believe the cl on the part of persons who have commented, the Knoxville News-Sen- tinel this “is echoed in the hearts of boys between 8 and 80 all over the The Port Huron Times-Herald makes the gomment: “We will al- ways have #rmental pleture of Cobb at “if eipts rupu- They have land.” s the rest of | the ages of | Facts Before Passing on Base Ball Scandal | trying to win with every ounce of | strength in his lithe and active body | It he slipped a little seven years ago, | we are sorry and we're willing still to | say he is the greatest ball player the world has ever known. We believe the trouble with professional base ball lies much deeper, or much higher up, if you prefer to put it that way | In’ our humble opinion the deal by w Rogers Hornsby is turned over | to New York by the Cardinals is a | greater blow to professional base | ball than the Cobb-Speaker scandal.” fa opinion of the Hornsby trade is expressed by the Rock Island » much is at stake—not for Tris ker or Ty Cobb, but for the ican _public,” & Bir- m im News. “If found that thes s have clay feet e gods of the diamond, after 111, were for a moment obsessed with the passion for owning things to the ent they would sel! out on provo- ation—then something will be killed |in the hearts of sportsmen every- | where—something indefinitely more precious than money can buy. Repu- tation. Honor. Faith. Americans | zenerally must hold fast and hope 1 that Cobb and Speaker will ve themselves guiltless.” * o ok % Spe Ame The Pittsburgh C that “profe: zette-Times re fonal base ball which supports it has an ir st equal to those whose money is ed in the promotion of the ame, the public interest being as surance that the business is con- ducted on_the square by both play of the league will be widespread sym r Cobb and Speaker,” says News, “but there me time, a strong ven to Commisston v, as he rec . is to the trusting follow- sreat American sport.” A < inst any “whitewashing” is uttered by the Ann Arbor Times News, which, however, feels that “or the other hand, the reputations of Cobh and Speaker cannot be tossed overboard w perfunctory gestures.” Protesting inst a public tend enc consider “notions against as_ “old-fashioned,” the Lincoln State Journal satirically asks #Why pick on any particular doer: send men to jail for breath 3 t ing blights every thing it touc e ball, to pre serve its in |it in its own even amon The Po Oregon Journal con- cludes: as faith in its purity that made base ball great. Through long yvears no taint touched its ho rable record. But a jazz age let t3e | blow fall. A taint on’lesser lights of the game is followed by charges { against two of the grand old men of the sport. If base ball topples fros. its anclent heights, it isn't hard to find_the reason why. An aroused public sentiment will presently take a hand and bring the country back to its old-time civic purity.” . patrons.”