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already owned by the Government within the triangle. Immediately upon its enactment it will be in order to write the actual appropriations into current bills of supply, at this session, that before adjournment in March all will be in order for the immediate execution of the plan. Thus it is in prospect that within the current calendar year title to the entire area will have passed to the Government, and this great project, long pending, will have become actually sccomplished, with the | building operations in progress in the [ western portion and plans in prepara {tion for other erections. Washin indeed to | be grateful for the eventual working | out of a plan that has been hanging | in the balance for more than a qua ter 1t is on the point of a full accomplishment of the ideal of Capital making that has sustained it in anticipation during many vears of delay and waiting. | G STA ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY.....January 8, 1927 | THEODORE W. 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The Associated Press is excinsively entitled %0 tha use for republication of all n In compla to he D l":d-h’l eredited to it or l'"‘ ;vynmm L : 5 pla 0 the Dol hain” ATl riehis 'of publication | Commissioners the “hoggish ©f special dienatches herein are also reserved in front of the- | other places of assembly | Phipps of Colorado | voicea s " “Give Me London, Please! o e . % & 2 ie sentiments of thousands Trans: ¢ radiotelephony was| % nsatlantic radiotelephony - W88 ¢ vy sningtonians. Due to the tn- yesterday inaugurated, between New | S York and TLondon, with some cere se in the number of taxis and mony fnumu'u by 4 rush of business the competition of the various com- that fully demonstrated the practica- ""_“'f” j"" ~‘m’im.r .:r a theater per- bility of this mode of communication Tmance .\n:unmr. cally starts a over long distances. After the con-| Tic war at the entrance. Sersations between the heads of the | ToXicabs crowd into the front of the American telephone corporation and | 'f“‘e- "“_*’""u other cars aside, and the British post office, and between [ ™ it almost impossible for the the Mayor of Ne and the Lord of a private automobile to Mayor of London, there was a rush | ‘_“'_‘:“‘ the entrance for his ©of calls, placed in the order of appli-| SCPE€rs. Frequently overzealous t cation, for strictly practical purposes de ately stall their cars In the the conversations they pull up in front of a business deals amountir T’?u‘ taxi suddent were transacted. The « wowever, if transoceanic telephoning $75 for a three-minute of a century tates and Canada. 312.00: 1 mo.. $1.0 SX00% 1 mol, 780 §4.00: 1 mos 5c e e Crowding Taxicabs. ng of taxicabs tactics of aters and | Senator has ke driver drive when course of t % to §6,000,000 | theater regains rge for|its vigor, e ppears, high, | but if ) the zet there is a general tie-up in ent line of §25 for each add 3 | seople from ny in-| | Woe be to the timid motorist who told his better-half that he would meet her au her brother at the theater entrance at the close ‘of the 'mance! The 1t did not deter seeking this mode of prac stantaneous corresponden than could be accommodated with the facilities now available. Long-distance telephony has be established s years and is com- monly employed in business. The new ores of 1 far more | | chances are al- st hundred to one that he | will be about the last in line because | of the crowding of the taxi drivers, mode is a combination of wired land | Who Will see to it that he is blocked B i teasse 1t |from the curb 2o that even when e o b o e finally gains the entrance he is the “wired radio” serves for enter.| ° faF OUt in the middle of the street tainment overland. It is not fully | that there is no chance of stopping perfected yet. Static interferes some.| Folice on duty at the theaters are what with the transmission and audi | targely responsible for this condition. bility. In yvesterday's conversations| L.eV apparently make little effort to there was occasional blurring of the aid the private owner or chauffeur reception, necessitating repetition of his endeavor to pick up pas- words and sentences, but in the main They allow taxi drivers to there was sufficient clarity to estab- ' with outrageous tacties, Nsh the mode as practicable for com- stalling, crowding, turning mercial uses. vers that tie up Thus another marvel is achieved. | the entire traffic line. The etheric waves are used for the| 1f the individual policemen, as a transmission of the voice across the | Tesult of Senator Phipps' protest, seas. Eventually, perhaps tle voice | €annot be persuaded to keep the en- will carry around the world, Some | rances reasonably clear for private mysteries of the ether remain to be|Cars to draw up for pass probed. Despite the great advance |esulation should immediately be put accomplished within a decade there | into force to compel taxicabs to wait are undetermined factors to be re.|for call. After all, the owner of an solved. But compared with the he.| automobile has some rights in the ginnings of the art the present every. | Matter and commercial vehicles day accomplishments are miraculous. | should not be allowed to usurp the one ra | s¥stem been in service on that line THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, THIS AND THAT rowest of chances a great disaster was averted. Had an automatic stop the disability of the engineer would ot have endangered the lives of the passengers on any train ahead or on that particular train. The road would have been as safe as though the engineer were fully capable and fully obedient to signals. Many years have elapsed since automatic train control devices were first hrought to public attention, and hundreds of lives have been sacri- ficed through the delays due to the unwillingness of the railroads to adopt them. At last the time is at hand when railroading in this coun- try will, far as the control of trains is concerned, be safe, to the extent that the equipment necessary * prevent re nd collisions on double-track roads and head-on col- lisions on single-track lines is in- stalled. Although the outcome is re- assuringly near at hand the chapter of procrastination and opposition by the transportation companies has been a sorry one. oot s0 to A New York theater manager arrest- ed in connection with a champagne bath-tub scandal is organizing con- tests with a view to securing chorus girls, Tt may be assumed that as- pirants do not read the newspapers, and should therefore be classified as “beautiful but dumb.” e The capital of any great nation must have its moments of wickedness. It will never he possible, however, for Washington, D. C., to live up to llw reputation for wild recklessness im- plied by the occasional “Washington novel.” -—ome The Chinese ,seemed to be more peaceable before they cut off their queues. Their experience may fur- nish the most serious argument yet advanced against bobbed hair. B Recognition of a new government is a formality which has to make a very accurate discrimination between more or less official gossip and genuine news facts! —ae—e From generation to generation the Mexican public goes on being educat- ed to the contemplation of possible trouble with the U. S. A. almost as a national polic: N Business prosperity is sometimes doubled by the ultimate consumer until he comes to examine the books relating to his own business. I A 'disarmament conference may sometimes look like a sort of poker game, with a million dollars for a white chip. s e A large amount of underworld agitation has managed to go on with- out reviving any trace of Gaston B. Means. o Every American citizen agrees that the Constitution must be supported. And yet there are still bootleggers. — e It may be shown by Judge Landis that ‘base ball was in a pretty bad way before he took hold of it. v ate—. Privacy of conversation by the|Streets to .the inconvenience and wired-wireless telephone system is not | Sometimes the damage of the pri- as fully assured as by the ordinary | Vate owner. telephone service. Operators, of course, | Whichever remedy is adopted by may listen in, even as may those at | the District authorities should be the central switchboards in any city, | acted upon at once inasmuch as it &nd the radio may be heard by at.|!S & Erowing evil that.is rapidly tuned stations. Further developments | 8tting out of hand. There are only may assure complete secrecy of com. | IWO alternatives and it should be munication, comparatively easy to decide which Puck’s “girdlé round about the S the more efficacious. To Senator earth in forty minutes”' is mockeq| Phipps the thanks of Washidg- by these latest achievements. Wity | tonians are due for an effective and New York and London chatting over | timely protest that is bound to result the wires and through the ether, as | I8 the betterment of conditions. directly as though face to face, thel et conquest of space may be regarded| Old John Barleycorn was never a s accomplished. law-abiding personage. By means of e e the bootleg Patrons he threatens to Leopold and Loeb suffer from a|OF¥aDize a formidable gang of his erverted sense of humor. Their en.| "™ Joyments are strange and make it necessary for them to create a bad impression by laughing at the wrong time. ————— Advance to a Long-Sought Goal. By its action yesterday in approv- ing unanimously the Smoot-Under- hill bill, already passed by the | Senate, authorizing the immedizic | acquisition of the land between Pennsylvania avenue and the Mall for public building purposes, the House committee on public build- ings and grounds has sdvanced that measure to the point of early en- | actment. It is confidently to be expected that there will be no oppo- sition to the bill in the House, The urgent need of action Is recognized. The Government's building program in Washington is about to start with sctual constructions. In a very few weeks ground will be broken for at least one of the group of new struc- | tures under the $£50,000,000 appropria- tlon. Sites for others have been allocated in the western portion of the great triangle and as the pro- gram s developed will be ecquired, under the policy that has been definitely adopred 1o locate all the units of the new Federal ministrative equipment within triangle area. This measure making for the early execution plans for the development of apital along harmonious lines. 18 designed to make certain the| future unity of the Government's | Wild running, signal ignoring, chance- housing. When enacted it will enable | taking operation of trains. Possibly the United States to plan its em. |in that half decade the automatic placements with a minimum of loss | train-stop devices have been brought of space and a maximum of Sy Wy RN i e .venience and of architectural con- |Dpendability. Had they been installed, sistency. 1t will incidentally, but | however, in 1922, they would surely most importantly, redecm the Capi- |have been more perfect and depend- tal's chief thoroughfare from the |able now as they weré developed In blight of neglect due to the uncer- | practice. tainty as to the Government's BySeimot i, concltnce i s tentions. Private enterprise will he |same day that the Reading Railrond e b I tests were made a train on the Balti- that have been allowed to remain in |more und Ohio ran into Cumberiand a state of decadence owing to the | with a paralyzed engineer sitting at gailure of the United States to carry | the throttle. He had been stricken out its often by but as often | on the run and had no control of his postponed project of using the Mall- | engine. This fact was not discovered Rail Safety Near at Hand. On Thursday a test was conducted on the Reading Raliroad of an auto- matic train-control device which demonstrated the possibility of stop- ping a train within a danger zone regardless of the speed and even when no control is exercised by the engineer. A special train drawn by the fastest locomotive on the line was sent at a seventy-mile rate Into a block against the cautionary signal. The engineer sat with his hands in his lap with the throttle almost wide open. Four and one-half seconds after the engine had passed the next, red, signal, the brakeshoes gripped the wheels and the train was brought to a halt. As a test of the capacity of the system to prevent excessive speed the train was run at a rate slightly above eighty-five miles an hour, which was set as the limit. As soon as the speed indi- cator reached a hair's breadth above the eigh -mile point the steam was cut off, the brakes were applied and the train was halted. These tests occurred at a’ point near Winslow Junction, N. J.,, where nearly flve years ago five people were killed in a collision in which one of the flyer expresses of the line figured. Had the automatic device been installed then the collision would not have occurred. In those the | five years many lives have been lost 1t/ on American railways for the lack of w checking system preventing others ad- the is one of a series of! con- in- tmprove spa ached Mexico is apparently willing to try any kind of political trouble at least once, SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Brief Interval. Speed the way toward merry May ‘When stormy, skies are banished. So fast we stray upon our way A year too soon has vanished. St. Valentine with pleasures fine— The glorious Fourth—Thanksgiv- ing— Will pass in line. We'll jest and dine And vow we're glad we'ré living. A few months more, as we explore The moments glad or surly. Then, as before, we'll shout “Encore!” It's time to shout “Shop Early! Attack. “Alcohol has injured many a good constitution.” ‘It doesn’t appear to draw the line anywhere,” said Senator Sorghum. “Just now it is attacking the Constitu- tion of the United States.” On With the Dance! ‘We thought the cakewalk queer! The turkey trot was awful. But names of dances now appear That seem almost unlawful. rather Hypocrisy,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “Is exercised for the benefit of those who find courtesy so scarce that they are willing to pay for it.” Jud Tunkins says all some men get out of a five-day work week is more time for golf and solitaire. The Soft Speaker. “We should always speak gently.” “If you have violated a traffic regu- lation it's absolutely necessary. But if you're the cop you don't have to, Painful Memories. Could T remember all the things I've read I'd surely have to pause and hold my head, For it would be most seriously pained By all the seething nonsense it con- tained! “Honesty may be de best policy,” d Uncle Eben, “but out our way *tain’t allus ’counted de best politics.” o For the Last Time. From the Detroit News. A posse of Kansas farmers rounded up an escaped elephant, and it is un- derstood the matter of farm relief has been put squarely up to him. oo The Coolidge Barnyard. ¥rom the Christian Scicnce Monitor. Would it tax the imagination too severely to fancy the Vermont hens cackling, “Cut, cut, cut, cut-oh-cut s The Mounting Tide. ¥rom the Dayton Dally News. ‘Avenue triangle for its own needs. | until the train had sideswiped a yard The pending bill authorizes appro- | engine, killing a conductor, and had priations to the limit of $25,000,000 [ been brought to a halt by the inter- for the purchase of the areas x‘t vention of the fireman, By the pars The scientist who says the oceans will eventually absorb all land fsn't what you would call an ideal friend of , the parking space hunten, » . . 0., SATURDAY, TJANUARY 8, 1927. BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Old novels which present situations applicable to modern lifo must for- ever remain Such an oldnew story is “Framley Parsonage,” writ- ten before our Civil War by the Eng- lish postal clerk, Anthony T There are three points in this pa ticular novel which upon | 1927, Previously | the relation of the Rev. Mark Rob- arts and his mability to say shown in the tale, to a recent address given over radic Today we tike ing the' second of moving pie of ¢ conduct by one wnother, from presented here with every reader i some pers son. It is an old hool days, that essarily be disag Here, for instance, is an opportunity for every man and woman to receive a “les- son” painlessly, and, we hope, pleas antly. there any one living who does not, at some time or oth fndulge In some practice ov habit compatible with his position in life This is where we all come in; the novel presents the condition of the young Mark Robarts, reetor, who in- dulges in fox hunting with his friend, the young Lord Lufton, and thus achieves the unenviable distinction of being known.as hunting parson As sportloving a people as the Br ish were (and are), they could not, it seems, qu swall W the of minister of the zospel hunting the fox to its doom. Those who follow His steps, they thought, ought not to act so. new. ollope. impinge we have presented i these lecture on clersyman taken the e pplication of derived from " must ne fallacy, los enble, A * K oW ok ady Lufton, who had a hand in appointing the various members of v in her parish, was horrified the hunting proclivities of her fa “parson.” : wbout for a tivities in this line “heme of sending the v, a_ brother clérgyman, with Robar “In appearance the very opposite to He was a lean, slir with shoulders slightl pale, lank, long locks his forchead was high was narrow; bis sma were deeply sunken in nose was well formed, and his mouth expre could look at him that there was a meaning in_his countex ways wore in Summer 4 long, dusky gray coat, which ! close up to his neck, and de; almost to his heels. He was full six feet high, but being so slight in build he looked as though he were taller This was the man Lady Luftc lected to be her amba o handsome, youns, am Mark Robarts, who had “take rs,” but might as easily have commis sion in the Army or into Navy, or set up chambers. Lady Lufton found Crawley did not mince matte her; he told her frankly that not feel it within a woman's provir to give counsel to a clergzyman such a subject, “unless she be v near and dear to him—his wife, o mother, or sister;” and told the lady that if he consented to speak to 1lob arts, he must do it in his own , “using such words as God mhy me at the time.” Continuing, he “I hope I am harsh to no man; but it is worse than useless, in all cases, to speak anything but the truth.” “Of course—of course,” hastily | agreed Lady Lufton. “If the ears be too delicate to hear the truth the mind will be too perverse 1y to correct she hit upon It r to reason | was | he (Crawley Mark Robarts. meager man Nobody | secing and W the zot a gone ¢ as a barrister in that the Rev.| he give said | w 1 Chr to profit by it.” And then, Trollope tells us, Mr. Crawley got up to take his leave. R He walked seven miles through the mud to the vicarage, ate breakfast with the Rev. Mark Robarts and fam- ily and then took his brother clergy- man off to the latter's study. “Mr. Robarts.” he said, “I have called upon you on an unpleasant busi- ness. But, as a brother clergyman, one who esicems you much and wishes you well, I have thought myself bound to take this matter in hand.” What matter is it, Crawle: “Mr. Robarts, men say that your present mode of life is one that is not betitting a soldier in Christ's army.” Men sa What men?" “The mgen around you, of your own neighborifiod; those who wateh your life, and know all your doings; those look to see you walking as tide their feet, but find you cor with horse jockeys ht galloping after hounds, and taking vour place among the vainest worldly pleasure-seekers. Those who have a right to expect an ex uple of good living, and who think t they do not see it.” “And ‘have such men deputed you come here?’ The Rev. Mark Robarts, In the language of 1927, was tiing a bit riled ‘No one has, or could, depute me,"” replies Crawley, and the reader is forced to confess that no one could, not even Lady Lufton, had the man not wanted to of his own free will. “I have to speak my own mind, not that of any other. But I refer to what those around you think and say, because it is to them that vour duties are due. You owe it to 10se around yon to live a godly, clean fe—as you owe it also, in a much higher way, to your Father who is in Heaven. I now lamp 1o g wting come make hold to ask you whether you are doing your hest to lead suc a life as that?’ Robarts replied that there were few who could mswer the question in the affirma- re there many, think us who would find the » unanswerable as your: fied to be a castaw you, ques 2 Ar afte = | vou have taken upon yourself Christ rmor? 1f you will say so, I am mistaken in you, and will go my way. to me, brother, and ogen your if it be possible. from his chair, Crawle cross the room and laid his tenderly on Mark’s -shoulder. 100 much for the young man. s head to sink upon his s, and he buried his face between hands. Ca on the s rible in through hecome is a terrible falling off,” went AL elder clergyman, “ter- the fall, but doubly terrible the difficulty of returning a hunting parson, and happy mind among blas id mocking devi have spoken so often and so well of the duties of a minister of Chris vou, who can argue in your pride as ) the petty details of your church, s though the broad teachings of its an simple lessons were not your t cannot have a hypocrite beside me hese eager controversies!” 1 hypocrite—not a hypo- said Mark, in a tone which was almost reduced to sobbing. “But a castaway! Is it so that I ust call you? No, Mr. Robarts, not castaway; neither a hypocrite, nor away, but one who in walking has stumbhled in the dark and bruised his feet amonz the stones. Hence- orth let him take a lantern in his hand, and walk cautiously among the thorns and rocks—cautiously, but yet Loldly, with manly courage, but tian meekness, as all men should walk on their pilgrimage through this vale of tears. Let the mockers mock, and the scoffers scoff—the world needs such men as this dut crite,’ Favorable Comment Is Heard On Plea for Cleaner Stage Almost unanimous belief that the American ktage needs cleaning up, one way or another, is reflected in the comment of the press on Mayor Walker's effort to check salacious- ness and vulgarjty in New York theaters through appeal to the man- agements. “Mayor W know,” according to the (iazette, “that the theat o can censorship only by, making it necessary. jon of good bad tasta are pecessarily hard to de- cide at times, but the men who fuide the destinies of the theater should be fully capable of perform- ing the task. It will be better all around if they are wise enough do it themselves.” The Albany Ev ning News declares “there have been evidences in the past that the peo- ple will attend decent plays if they Are good. The most successful plays in the history of the stage have been “lean and wholesome,” that paper adds. “Appealing to the porno- graphic may bring in dollars tor a time, but not for long. “Despite the conte ufli;o,l producers,” says the Provi- Jence Bulletin, “that they must oc- “asionally brace their declining for- tunes by putting on a risque shcw, clenn plays pay. Statistics prove it; theatrical men know it, and so do the rest of us. There is unquestion- ably a faction which chooses the un- clean for its amusement, and appar- ently relishes it immensely; the fac- tion is usually composed of good fel- lows out for a lark, visitors to town bent on seeing the sights. That is what especially complicates the problem In New. York Cily. But the Tajority of prople know twhere to draw the line, even if they do mof always draw it. A little encourage- ment of the right sort from the men Who are supposed to catar to public {aste, but who have it ip their powe {5 markedly shape that taste, would Ineet—and does meet—with a whole- gome response. o * opt i doubtful if it will necessary for the tuation ‘viewed with alarm Danville Register, “for Walker's straightforward talk producers of the ‘eve thlvmll“ enter: Painment, the ohjectionable feature: of their little skits will be removed, and the talk of censorship subside. Mayor Walker knows as weli as nother that these-shows subsist en- tirely upon the patronage of what in New York is spoken of as ‘the prov- inces, Hugene O'Neill's “The Great God Brown' is off Broadw the Provincetown Playhouse is in Green- wich Village, and the genuine stuff of art 1s entirely away from the white lights. It is at Mr. Shubert, Mr. Ear] Carroll and others of that sort that Mayor Walker is talking.” + ! Responsibility for much of the “prevalence of crime’ is placed by the Newark Star-Fagle upon “the im- moral show and the immoral hool,” and that paper argues that “if these cun be eliminated a long advance will have been made toward curtailment of criminalit¥, although the con- tagion already created muy take years to cure” The Pasadena Star-News holds that “the movement should er is wise enough to Kalamazoo avoid un- and to tions of some * ok K er be to be ts the Méyor | to the | other, { the have started years ago, and it should proceed swiftly to the eradication of the performances which are unspeak- ably nasty and wholly demoralizing. The Columbus Ohio State Journal ob- serves that “the stage has a place in American life and should be saved from the w kers who would destroy it for a season of profit.” The Tulsa World is impressed by the fact that “even the rounders and the mental and moral bounders are revolting at the so-called realism being put on the stage for doll profits.” the Christian Science Moni- tor comes the suggestion that Mayor Walk hould “turn from the finan- cial beneficiaries of indecency to the owners of the great newspapers who profess to deplore—and we believe honestly ‘do_deplore—the decadence of the stage. If he can persuade them to ignore any play which flatly shocks 1blic decency,” says the Monitor, e will have the managers turning to a higher type of drama almost at once. They live on publicity. It is the breath of their nostrils. Sooner than lose it, even the worst of them would be decent.” The Flint Daily Journal also raises the question hether “the producers and theater managers possess the sound sense to purge their business of unworthy ele- ments before the good and bad alike ccme under the ban.” The Journal feels that orship, once tab- lished, is 1 to sway in the direc- tion of intolerance.” 'EEE rom Objections to censorship are voiced by the Ann Arbor Times-News. “No artist, be he a playwright, producer, actor or painter,” insists that paper, “can develop to the utmost of hi ability if his ideas are to be under the restraint, of people who are not versed in art. When the artist be- comes a machine, his product will not be art, and censorship is a step toward machinery. However, there certain reasonable limits, involv ing the question of morality, beyond which the artist should not’ be per- mitted to stray.” i Adding to the weight of opinion ainst censorship, the Utica Obser er-Dispatch finds merit in a plan “for those concerned, who cannot come to 1zreement and who cannot trust each to-agree upon a dictator or czar, as the base hall people have done in the selection of Landis and motion picture interests did in choosing Hays.” Rut the Chicago Daily News suggests that “the solu- tion of the difficult problem lies not 1 arbitrary censorship, nor in a ar of the theater,’ but in the es- hment of an enlightened, culti- vated, experienced committee of vol- unteer judges of plays.” The Erie Dispatch-Herald, however, dismisses the movement with the statement that “on the whole we have little confidence in the reform of the New York theater. It is a commer- cial theater. The producers cater to the public, which, in the last analysis, is the real censo “When the undressed musical shows sell out weeks in advance and the plays of real merit have discouraging houses,” declares the Asheville Citi- zen, “one does not have to condemn ght the nude in drama to be- ¢ that ‘the stage has fallen upon evil days. Blame the public equally with those who are commercializing money-getting.” But the St. Paul Ploneer-Press concludes that “in the end public opinion doubtless will demand clean plays to the exclusion of others. THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover. Our saints and sinners are all dis- appearing, taken away from us by the modern historfan. George Washing ton, with all his virtues, has been proved human; Cesare Borgia, with inhuman than early writers painted Rafael Sabatini in his “Life of Borgia” claims not to be “white-washing” this son of Pope Alexander VI about whom have gath 80 many storles of assassinati polsoning, licentiousness, rapine and tyranny. Sabatint’s thesis is that both Roderigo Borgia (Pope Alexander VI) and his son Cesare men of their time, no better than their 1 poraries, but no worse. If Pope Alex ander VI was gu of simon, nepotism, €0 were most other of the fifteenth and th turfes. If Cesare Borgia against other tyrant d prived them of their territorie sacked towns, took vengeance on h encmies, and was a man with wh no woman of youth and beauty was e, well—he was only one of mar tyrants of the Renaissance of wh all these things were true. Alexan VI was a ‘“si unquestions ¢ ¢+ and one; but human sinner, a an incarn devil,” and his wor son. Pope not * ok K not an in- many So Cesare Borgia was human monster, There occasions, says Sabatini, on which he did not behave as badly as he might ny other: t the crimes which were have done, and m on which he did not rumor and scandalloving chroniclers have attributed to him. There is evidence whatever that he killed his brot the Duke of Gandia, nor the hushand of his sister Lucre Duke of Biselli. There is, other hand, overwhelming that two of the ladies whom I accused of abducting, Dorotea (2 0 and the Lady Panthas Ba i d'Alviano, were the victims, not Cesare, but of other less adventurers., If he had Paolo angled and perhaps connived with father in poisoning Cardinal Orsini, “it is unfair to consider the Qeed in any but the light of a politica execution,” as the Orsini had plotted the overthrow of the Borgis T did, it is true, make against Rimini, Pesaro, Imola orlty, Camer- ino, ¥Faenza and other states, on the pretext that they had not pald their vearly tribute to the church; but th of those territories were as bad as Cesare himself and some <o much worse that the populace wel comed Cesare a deliverer. So, Cesare Borgia if not ‘““white- washed” by Sabatini, at least palnted a medium shade of gray instead of black. comn he on_ the w known Orsini str ¥k ok X A New England not made up of Mayflower descendants, with Puritan traditions, but of ghettos, little Italies, little Polands and Portuguese, Lith- uanian and Armenian peasant ings, is the New England described by Chauncy Brewer in “The Conguest of New England by the Immigrant During the past eentury the native New Englanders have been moving out, going westward, and the I pean immigrants have been mov in and taking possession of the citi and the country. First came the north Europeans, the English, Irish and Scandinavians—the “old immi ation” wave. The ‘new immigra tion” of later years has brought the south Europeans, and until checked by a_more stringent immigration law was ‘a veritable flood. Much “old immigration” passed on to the West, though the Irish and cities. - More of the “new immi- gration” has remained in New Eng land and now operates its shoe tories and textile mills and buys up its abandoned farms and makes them productive. Mr. Brewer the New England of the future as a lit- tle Emrope—a little Europe of unde sirables—unless something is done to solve the problem. * & o® ok In answer to a question put to Dan Streeter, author of “Denatured Af- rica,” concerning the ideal condi under which an author should write, he said: “Though new to this work, I have become very temperamental. For example, I can do no writing if 1 have had mulligatawny soup for lunch. Neither does the spirit move me unless 1 wear a pair of lavender socks and have two buttons of my vest unfastened. Recently, when I found myself completely stymied, I em ployed a girl, chosen because she was easy to look at, whose duty it was to play on a one-strirged Hungarian lute, This removed the stymie at once, and I was able to put my mind on my work in a way that would surprise you. You can see at once that I am an author.” 135 ons When Theodore Roosevelt came to England in 1910, after his return froni big-game shooting and travel in Africa, it had been arranged for him to go on a walking expedition with Viscount Grey to hear and study the songs of English birds. Lord Grey and Roose velt, knowing that the success of their trip depended on making themselves as inconspicuous and unobtrusive as possible, asked the newspaper report- ers not to accompany them. They went alone and for some 20 hours were lost to the world. Viscount Grey was at first apprehensive about Roosevelt's interest in birds and thought an hour or =0 would find the American satisfied, But, he writes in_“Fallodon Papers,” “I need have had no fear about his liking for birds. Col. Roosevelt not only knew more about American birds than T did about British birds, but he knew about British birds also. What he had lacked was an opportunity of hearing their songs. When a song was heard 1 told him the name of the bird. As soon as I mentioned the name it was unnec to teil him more. He knew the kind of bird it was, its habits and appearance. He had one of the best trained ears for bird songs I ever have known. If three or four birds were singing to- gether he would pick their songs, dis- tinguish each and ask to be told each separate name."” A Du Bose Heywadrd’s “Angel” is an unconventional story of the Great Smoky Mountains—of moonshiners and revenue officers, illegiiima fire preaching and revivals, conviet highway gangs, real ite booms, and a great deal of personal freedom for the individual--unless h is caught. Angel is the daughter of a re- ligious fanatic in “old time religion,” and the beloved of a moonshiner of the third generation in a family of moonshiners. Naturally her_ life be- comes one in which the dangerous principle of conflict has a prominent place. She is represented as a rebel, yet she seems to yield to some one at every crisis—to her lover, Buck; to her father, the Rev, Mr. Thornley to her husband, Stan Galloway. * ok ok Kk Spiritualism, which has been the chief subject of the writing of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle since {he war, has now inspired him to write its hisfory. “A History of Spiritualism is said to be the first complete treat- ment_of the record of psychic re- search, early experiments based on supesstition to modern scientific {all his vices, has been shown to be less | - | buila hold- | of the | have gener- | ally remained to rule Eastern States | TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. In what countries United States own embassies?—L. W. A. The United States owna em bassy or legation buildings in the fol lowing countries: Rio de Janeiro, Bra- il bassy: embassy; Peking, Chin, Jose, | Costa. Rica, legati Cut | em Czechoslovakia, le ation; Paris, Franee, embassy; Lon- i don, England, emb Takio, Japan, masy (destroyed by earthqu and on which ther bullding, for 000,000 has xico Clty, Mex- | ngier, Morecco, 15 in W diplomatic agent and consu al reside; Oslo, Nor- I Panams an r, legs ngkok and Constantinople, does the gation: Sa R on; Hava en | Government ow [ will be con: | which a little [ been appropr {ico b more tk mm, | , legitio wtion, athletes could a each’ event in the in 19247—A. M. rican Olymple Associa. fon was permitted in e h event in rwk and field “tates won the number of first places and points against 166 for Fin our nearest competi- Tow rmes A en our athlete Olymple The United 24 t did the seawall at (o e entire ulf of steel re high, 1t erest, > protec exas granite facing the conerete, 17 it v tloment 16 hase, 5 fi cave face, its riprap of huge Liocks. It cost §2,000.000. Which kind of t fuel value per ounc A. milk has th fuel value, containing 58 1 ounce Buffalo milk ran ith 30, while goat's milk con calories and cc s mil 's milk contains but 18 cz Q. What rallroad now goes over what was the original Oregon Trail?— E. M. B A. The Oregon Trail, which about 2,000 miles long, from Independ- ence, Mo., to Oregon City and Fort Vaneouver, on the Columbia River has Its course now practically covered by that of the Union Pacific Railroad from the point its (Oregon Q. ores per second ins bidt Wom- ies per Q. Please give some information ahout the Carnegie pension for college . 1 Insurapee and ail) | | Intendent of Insurance. This associa tion was organized in 1916 at the in stance of the Carnegle Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. —Tes charter specifically stipulates that the businesa of the assoclation i3 to be conducted without profit to the cor poration or to its stockholders, and this enables the association to offer fnsurance and annuities to collexe teachers at cost without the custc ary loading for expenses. Q publie f When was the Argentine Re 0d?—W. 0. H. A. The patriots of Argentina met and announced a government junta This assembly took place May 25 1810, the date which the Argentine Republle celebrates as its birthday Q. When was Fort Barrancas estab lished?—C. 8. B A. Fort Barraneas, near Pensacola, Fla., was established by the Spantards fn 1669. It was ceded by Spain to the United States on October 24, 1820, 1 has been used as a fort ever sifice. How many games have Warner d teams in the past 10 H. 0. B A. Glenn Warner says, as near as he can figure, teams he has coached have Iost § games in the last 11 years. In 5 of i1 years teams he has coached hiave gone through the season undefeated Q coac! years’ those & How many rural delivery routes there i United States and people are served by them? Q Ww. 8 On December 1 )71 routes, serv 590,000 fam 925, there wi s approximate’ . Is May Allison married?—D R. M. A. Her marriage to James R. Quirk editor and pub the magaz Photoplay, occurred recently. Q. Is it true ti ere is alum in baking powder? 1880 H w wround ed in baking as an dient, but | 1s been entirely abandoned | ed, water-free material 1m aluminum sulphate, is the oniy suminum compound used in baking powder. alum | | Take advantage of you_are not one |who have patromized the bur e its establishment want | to start now. This is a service main tained for the benefit of the readers of Evening Star, and we want you to get your share of benefit from it. Send your questions to us. Inclose ia free serv 187 the thousa The achers’ Annuity Association of regularly incorporated company of New York, to the supervision of the State S A. America is a life insurance nd is subject iper- BY PAUL ¥ -d the British t the in- to wander at will cession, trusting to 1e Chinese general to vided the foreign- tives.”” All ey have lowe! sented to pe preserve order, “pr rs do not aggravate the na sers who can get away from hkow are hurrying te do . for | there is no confidence in its safet Throughout China, the spirit of na- | tionalism and natred of foreigners is | increasing, and antipathy seems to be | directea particularly against the Brit- fsh. Thus closes a long chapter in the story of foreign aggression fin China, first: made manifest Dby the fritish in forcible introduction of the opium trade, about 90 years ago. PR In the sixteenth century the Pope undertock to enforce peace between the nations fighting_over the discov- eries in the New World, and he de- creed that the Portuguese should not o west of .the longitude 100 leagues west of ‘Azore Islands, and so their voyagers turned their attention to- ward the Far East, and succeeded in finding their way around Cape of Good e and by sea to India, and eventually up to China. There they ctablished the first European trading ports in South China, near Canton. { Spaniards followed them, but found {rading opportunities in pines. Then in the later decades of {he sixteenth century the Dutch came to Formosa, and last came the Eng- ish traders. This was during the reign of the Ming dynasty. That was followed by the Manchus—tribes from Manchur o conquered nese in 1644. The Manchus held the same contempt for all Europeans as the Chinese had always professed, for most of these pioneer traders from Hurope were piratical buccaneers. The English established the British | East Indian Co. in India, giving it a | monopoly of all Far East trade, ex-! porting from China tea, fine cottons, silks and china ware, and sending into that country opium and silver. The first American ship China in 1784—the Columbia, Capt. Grey—exchanging _furs for Chinese merchandise. A little later Johm Jacob Astor founded a depot at | the mouth of the Columbia Ri called Astoria—from which he b up an extensive trade of furs Chinese products. ek Trade was carrled on with much friction, tha Chinese rulers being utterly out of sympathy with the “bar barians.” When England and Hol- land sent ambassadors to attempt to make treaties, they were received only as vassals coming to pay tribute. This state of affairs continued with | little change up to the end of ti fourth decade of the ninetcenth cen- tury. The monopoly held by Indian Co. was then dissolved Parliament, and all traders of Eng: land permitted, so far as the British nment went, to share equal inese markets. Britain then (1834) sent a rey ntative to China to negotiate directly with the government—not through th native merchants at the ports .u‘lxl he _vlv— manded the privilege af importing into that country on a basis of equality with all other nations— ecially the ri t to import opium from India, which debauching drug was very strongly opposed by the Chinese_government. In 1839 the Chinese conf the opium found in the port of C; ton, and treated the English importers with contumely. That led to war (1840-42), wdrich was won by the Brit- ish, it being fought exclusively b he navy bombarding the coast cities hus opium was forced into China, to the profit of the English exploiters of India. As the reward for that victory, Eng- land was given Canton and four other ports south of the Yangtse River, including Shanghai; also the island of Hongkong, which was then unpop- ulated, so that the English had abso- lute control of its development. Eng- land also gained the stipulation that no tariff in excess of about 5 per cent ad valorem was to be charged at any of the treaty ports—the first conces- sion of partial surrender of Chinese | sovereignty; also a_comsiderable in-| demnity In_cash—the first example that when China lost a war with the western powers she must pay money indemnity, as well as territorial con- cessions.” The final penalty was that thereafter official correspondence be- tween the two nations must be con- entered under fol ated all BACKGROUND the Philip-| the Chi-} = 2 cents in stamps jor return_postage. | Address The Evening Star Informa- Ution Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, di rector, Washington, D. C. OF EVENTS ’. COLLINS. The firs} oplum war with England, with its resultant concessions, was followed by treaties with the United States and France. Cantonese re- sented the coming of foreigners, but as the treaties now gave trading rights to other ports there was less opposition there than in Canton, for the newly opened ports were glad to share the profitable commerce. * K ok % In 1856 the Chinese gunboats fired on a small British vessel bearing a cargo of opium, which narcotic was contraband under Chinese decree. This another war, known as the Arrow War, because the boat was named “The Arrow.” This, too, was won by the British, who exacted 10 more ports and the right to travel on the Yangize River and a guarantee of toleration of Christianity and opium, the latter having become most profitable. Misslonaries have been permitted to penetrate the interlor of the country ever since that war, ex- cept when pative antagonism has risen against their safety. During the nexotiations for ending the Arrow War the Russian Minister offered his friendly serv ator and later collected from China ssia’s fee for those friendly serv ices—a. long strip of territory south rom _the Ussuri River toward Korea, for Russia was ambitious to find a seaport for her Transsiberian rail way which would be ice free. She therein built Viadivostok, as a ter. minus, and later fought a losing war with jealous Japan. * k ¥ *x When the British representatives returned in 1859 with ratifications of the treaty of Tientsin, settling the Arrow War, they were accompanied by representatives of France, Russia and the United States, the latter to demand “most-favored-nation” treaties. They were barred from the capi tal, Peking, and when the British and French war vessels undertook to force passage they were repulsed. The Chinese Emperor, fearing that they would succeed, fled from the capital and sent back his brother t offer the British a piece of the main land opposite Hongkong as the further The victory of the allies was made easier by rebellian in Squth China under the leadership of a converted Christian who proposed to set up a new dynasty to succeed the Manchus a dynasty to be called T'ai P'ing which means “the gre peaca.” This T'ai P'ing rebellion enlisted the support of Englishmen, including Maj Charles George Gordon—"Chinese Gordon"—who took command of a Buropean corps after its original com mander, Gen. Ward, had been killed. This rebellion inaugurated for its own support the system of tolls, or internal provincial tariffs, knowr “likin,” which system has contin to this day. Recently the powers agreed to permit Chinese autonoms s to tariff on imports to be restored on condition that likin be suppressed Likin has been the means of provin cial independence from the central government, and a source of graft. * ok Kk The later wars of China—the ex pulsion of the Manchus and reign of the Queen Dowager for some 20 vears (during the infancy of the Emperor Who died, and the later infancy of the dowager nephew), the Boxer Rebel lion against forelgn aggression, the r with Japan, the war with Rus and the establishment of the public—all these more modern wars and-revolutions need not be detai The persistent aggressions by the British and later by other natlons now culminate in deepest hatred of all foreigners, especially the opium importers and leaders against the for mer glory and independence of Cathay Today internal anarchy leaves the re public powerless to fight foreign n tions, but the very condition of an archy makes it especially hazardous for foreigners out of range of the war vessels of their nations. Within the last month, the State Department of the United States hus received a report of the Mixed Cor: mission on Extraterritorality in China, made up of representatives of the United States, Relgium, the Bril ish Empire, C irance, Denmark. Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Nov way, Portugal, Spain and Sweden This investigation finds that versons in China are enjo traterritorial privileges punishable only by the laws and courts of their investiga§jons of phenomena which cannot explained by the physical ducted as of equals, a provision which y to recognition of con- own countries, no matter what crime they may commit in China. | (Copyright. 1927. by Paul V. Colllos.)