Evening Star Newspaper, January 22, 1927, Page 6

6" THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO (., SATURDAY, THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY. January 22, 1927 THEODORE W. NOYES. . . . Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Busingss Office _11th St and Pennevlvania Ave, BE(‘:"’\urh Offica: 110 V-:n‘t‘x -l\’,;m] St. “ako Ofiee. Tower Bildme Buropean Office; 14 Rexent St.. London. e Sunday morn. carriers withir The Fvenine Star. with g edition. is deliversd tha city at’ 60 o 45 cents ner month per month Orders may phone Main 5000 carrier at end of each month. by mail or tion is made by Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. lthey are of no immediate moment. Wet and dry! That is the lssue at | present which will have to be met by the national Democratic convention seventeen months hence. Memories of Madison Gar- den are revived by the announcement that MeAdoo is enlisted “for the durs tion of the war” against the adoption | of a wet policy the Democ party. That he is not a quitter w proved by the great shindy of 1 That Smith is not a quitter is proved | v all the facts of his political career, not to mention that same ruction. The | is in for a very interesting | year and a halt. Square a by wtic country a Save That Million! With the closing of “Thrift week” comes the renew:d warning against | Maryland and Virgin o 1yr 1m 50c tes and Canada. | $17.00: 1 mo.. $1.00 Rog e Sia $4.00: 1 mo.. All Other S Iy and i Member of the Associated Press. | s is exclngively mm!;fl’ redited 10 it 1 this paper Ter fispate The Chinese Crisis. | Interception of the American Min- ister to China, on his way home for with orders to return to| s explained as due ng every of vacation Peking forthwith, to the need of mal provision to protect China in the flame into a general attack upon fo eigners. Doubt is felt as to the abilit ‘! of the central government at Peking | authority for the protec- tlon of the foreign residents. Neve theless it is urgent that the repre- sentative of this country should be on | hand in person to do whatever is pos sible to prevent of the tragedies of 1900, when the Boxer re- bellion swept China and took a heav. toll of ltves. The present extremely delicate. foreign interests and been fomented by faction 1t is suspected, by the Russ ment. The disorder in the admini: Licn due to the conflict of the military chiefs has seriously weakened the prestige of the foreign powers. A false move might precipitate a general outbreak. Nevertheless there is ur- gent need of protection. In 1900 it was not possible to forestall the anti- foreigner demonstrations by the plac- ing of troops in the affected areas. Nor is it possible now, without the virtual invasion of China by the powers, acting in unison, and the pre- cipitation of a state of war. In 1900 the legations at Peking were besieged by mobs of fanatics. The city ftself was beleaguered. An expedition composed of troops representing sev- eral of the governments of Europe, Japan and the United States was or- ganized and advanced to the capital, relieving the legations and preventing 8 general massacre. Meanwhile the Boxers had slain many foreigners, chiefly persons attached to missions in the interior and business repre- sentatives at the more remote points. A far different situation exists to- day in China from that of 1900. Then here was at least the semblance of an established central government. Now there are several rival govern- ments. Then the Peking government was weakened by intrigue, but it was nevertheless recognized, save by the Boxer insurgents. Now the country is overridden by bandits and by “armies” headed by rival aspirants for the central. authority. A specific geographical and political division of the country has been undertaken. Peking no longer stands for suprem- acy in authority, vet it is the sole governmental center which is recog- nized by the foreign powers. This country has scrupulously ob- served its treaty obligations toward China, and is in no wise derelict. Its nationals are in China on legitimate business and are entitled to protection. | To a great number they have with- drawn from their posts of duty to of greater, though not abselute- ured security. It has not vet! been considered necessary or advisable to order them out of the country for their own security, upon pain of los- ing whatever protection the home government render them, but there is in progress a steady move- ment tow: , and unless the | anti-foregin agitation gains a sweep- ing momentum they will be safe in the treaty ports, where warships are stztioned and to which troops can be sent from the Philippines in case of desperate need. The situation is one of danger, and the orders given to Minister MacMur- ray to return to his post are indice tive of the gravity of the emergency. ————— A beauty contest does nothing what- ever toward deciding the prospects of a useful and remunerative career as a typist and secretary. s — possible | Americans in case present disorde to exercise s a repetition situation in China is Agitation against influences has stimulated, an govern ta can rd the coas Alimony has in seme muysterious way become mixed with motion pic- ture art. Lining Up. Willam G. McAdoo is in the East on & business trip. Business will not absorb his time and attention com- plefely. He will have opportunity to do #ome conferring on other lines and he is scheduled for a speech at To ledo next Thursday which is certain to take on the semblance of a political e discourse. There is cagnouflage about Mr. McAdoo’s § He tells hig friends and political admirers that he is for the Demo cratic nomination in 1928, but that he is determined to fight to the end to prevent the Democratic party from nominating a wet candidate on a wet platform. It that his Toledo speech, which is announced in advance as entitled ““Prohibition, Nulli- fication and Lawlessness,” will set hi: course clearly. Thus do the opponents of 1924 line up again, The Smith campaign for the nomination is pitched distinctly in the wet key. The McAdoo campaign —let it be so called despite all dis clajmers inherent in the presidenti no esent position. not a candidate is expected |to tempt the buyer—if it is actually | good investment. fraudulent securities, involving, it is estimated, the loss of at least a mil- lion dollars a year in this community During this past at meetings have been reiterating the wdmonition against the and hasty buying of unsound stocks and »onds, couched in the invest stigation week speakers 4 unwise b ¥ striking phrase vestigate.” is possible in case. There is no urgent hurry about buying securities High-pressure salesmen may seck to persuade their s that time is golden and hour of delay adds to the the profits. “The price today is so-and-so, but tomor- row it will be so-much higher,” they may urge. That is simply part of the bait. There is no legitimate investment security that will stand investi gating, none that will appreciably ad- vance in price during the time ssary for inquiry and careful consid eration. The stock that is jumping up from hour to hour in a manner fore Inv vou every cost and lowers is not nec: jumping in fact and not merély in the specch of the salesman—is not a It is a speculation | bark mings swelled ages. Mussolini, fixing on the most effi clent Roman emperors as his starting point, could easlly have worked backward as forw and in a few centuries would arrived at the early of republic when beards, good, robust | beards, too, common. Delving | further into the past, he would have | the of kings as Romulus, Tarquin the Proud | and Amulius, all of whom apparently | wore facial fringes. Were those boys | Not o0 you could notice it. | working forward through ‘the Middln how about Charlemagne, Barbarossa, Alfred the pat and Blackbeard the Pirate? Signor Gius aribaldi not long ago did a for the Italfans. A pair of rs was all he | needed to keep himself in trim for fighting and for interviewing princes | and potentates. And ibaldi has even been compared not unfavorably to Mussolini. Whiskers and in and any glven territory has diminished through the as rd, have day, the Roman and wore come to days such ancient decadent And, and Age sppe are a matter of taste nothing else, although the daily of the razor said to be noticeable factor in military morale IEven now London barbers prophesy that not only mustaches, but even modest beards, are coming back as | a badge of “mascullnity, what with women cropping their hair, smoking and clothing themselves not far dif ferently from the Sex. As so often in the past, the Italian pre- inextricably confused what with what is proper. He happens to have lived a largely whis ess Had he been guiding the destinies of Rome against the strategy of Hannibal the chances are that the Punic War could have been amicably settled by the two lead- ers measuring b it B When Senator Reed of Missouri delivers a speech, he makes it clear us is a opposite mier has he pref simply in ) age. And the investor, who is bent upon putting his money to work to earn dividends during a long period of time, should have nothing to do with speculative issues, “Stop, look and listen!” is the warn- ing given to road users upon ap proaching a grade crossing. The driver who does not follow it often comes to grief. Sometimes he gets across in safety, because it so hap pens that there is no train at hand to hit him. Often he gets halfway over and the coroner’s jury renders a verdict of death’ by carelessness. Every investment purchase is grade crossing. It is flagged and guarded. Its warning sign reads “Investigate.” It is easy to halt tHe machine for a short time in order to find out the situation. There are always those available who can give the facts and dependable advice based upon the facts. Any bank official will be glad to serve in this capacity Any business man who is not him- self a speculator—and few business men can speculate and remain suc- cessful—is in a position to answer questions reliably. It is possible to save that million a year that is now wasted in reck- less or thoughtless speculations to sound investment and useful service. It can be done if every person with a few hundred dollars to invest in income-earning securities will “Stop, look and listen! A Capital Airport. An intensive drive for the estab- lishment of a municipal airport in Washington is about to be under- taken by the District chapter of the National Aeronautical Association. At a meeting held in this city recently it was decided to prepare immediate- ly a bill to be submitted to Congress authorizing a site for the field. The filled-in ground between Hunters and Gravelly Point-on the Potomac River has been selected by the association as the most desirable location for the airport, inasmuch as it is in close proximity to the city and will be ade- quate for four-way airplane landings. Despite the press of other matters in the short session of Congress, fa- vorable consideration should be given to this proposal. Washington is one of the few large citles without ade- quate landing facilities. The time is not very far off when airplanes will be almost as numerous as automo- biles ard it behooves every city to set aside some convenient space for the use of this. new kind of trans- portation. With buiflding operations going feverishly forward delay in se- lection and authorization will result in desirable sites being lost for the new alirport so that action is impera- tive to assure that the National Capi- tal will be represented in the new era. Tt Another arms conference may be valuable in calling attention to the ws of arithmetic as they relate to proportion when Uncle Sam’s war ships are counted. N A Fallacy on Facial Foliage. “I am anti-whisker. Fascism is anti-whisker. Whiskers are a sign of decadence. The Renaissance was a beardless period. Glance at the busts of the great Roman emperors and will find them all clean-shaven. When the decline of Roman glory be- gan whiskers came into style. It is| true of all period Guess who Is talking? You win— his first name is Benito, and he tells his public that “my shave comes be- fore I put on my collar.” In that he is correct, from the standpoint of sartorial perfection and old-fashioned comfort, but when he begins to gen e ize on the subject of hirsute facial adornment a number of persons, at the risk of being forever barred from {sunny Italy, will claim that II Duce has gone off half-cocked. o probably spoke the Cro-Magnon man of the Iberian Peninsula in the year 50,000 B.C., when re- ferring scornfully to the bewhiskered Neanderthalers whom his own ances- tors had sent to the sidelines. How voung Mr. C.-M. got rid of his, whether with a quartzbladed safety razor of a pair of pincers made from slivers of reindeer bone, does not matter, but, according to the best au thorities, he none. Whiskers have been waxing and waning you wore situation—is specifically in the dri key. Therq are other matters, b throughout recorded history just as the pepulation oL xabhits or jeme that he can interest his audience. Missouri used to be the State of which it was said, “Show me!” Reed is ap- parently willing to undertake the task of showing them something. e e With two presidential claimants in | view the Nicaraguan public may re- vise the old song, “How Happy Might | I Be, Maybe, With Other Dear Charmer Away!” ———— The radio announcer is a new figure in artistic affairs. His position en- ables him to speak in terms of con- descending patronage of Chopin and Beethoven, o Mexico does not desire war with the United States. The United States does not desire war with Mexico. Nothing could appear simpler. s Many statesmen admire Ben Frank- lin's thrift, while admitting that he would have been a disappointing backer of a campaign fund. R $risee - So It is not believed by Clarence Dar- row that Leopold and Loeb will be llberated. There is a limit even to luck. ———— Clues have become so numerous that it grows difficult to assign each clue to its particular case. Sl S War in China should be left to fts classification as a local habit and not an international calamity P Police find many clues which lead | only to 4 “scare head” in the news columns, e A flivver marked “Congressional” may linger without any time limit; the same as a speech.- o Nicaragua experiences a situation not pncommon—a surplus of presi- dential material. e A good show causes surprise. A bad show is accepted as an incident of the ordinary grind ooEe s Motorists have paid liberally and without complaint for good roads. The “detour” still persists. e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Hibernation. The Christmas card neglected lies. The New Year resolution fails. A storm cloud gathers in the skies And Winter heartlessly prevails. The tinseled trees as firewood serves Crumbs of the feast are swept away. The toys are getting on our nerves. So are the tunes that once were gay. Old Santa Claus, sagacious elf, No longer seeks with genial zest To make each one enjoy himsel?. He knows this old world needs a rest. Great Faith. “Why don’t you arise and tell your public what is wrong with the way the country is being ‘run’?” “I don't want to remind ’em that anything i3 wrong,” answered Senator Sorghum. “I have taught the folks to have great confidence in me. If I tell ‘em anything is wrong, they will simply turn on me and ask why I don’t correct it.' G. W.'s Portrait. George Washington, whose birthday now draws near, Calls us his truthful practice to re- vere. And yet that two-cent stamp asslsts, we know, In scattering lots of talk that isn't so. Jud Tunkins says overwelght is al- ways associated with genlality and comfort. A fat man is one of the greatest of opti illusions. In the Lists “Men used to fight for the love of a lady.” s, rejoined Miss Cayenne. “That was before so many ladies were busy engaging lawyers and fighting for ali- mony." Aleoholic Aphorism. 'Look not upon the wine,” we're told, Lest headaches you may nurse, The bootleg stuff, present sold, May hurt you even worse, “Dere is so many musicians,” said | there | provocative THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. The sad fate of Sergt. Maj. Jiggs Marine Corps bulldog, who died of overfeeding, brings home a lesson to every owner of a pet. The temptation to feed a pet much and too many kinds of food is one which must he resisted at all times, especially if one is very fond of animals, The more one s for dog or cat the more likely h to indulge the animal in the matter of its appe- tite for food. This is the animal's heart, one sure way the sure-fire ing the creature. Dr. perintendent of the Nation: cal Park, has been quoted as that wild beasts do not miss th *dom so long as they are safe and plenty to eat. While we are the truth to an y of ann, Zoo! ay not willing to admit of this statement in its entirety, especiaily in regard to free dom, certainly Supt. Mann is right concerning food, as perhaps he is on ull points, at that. The creatures in Nature face stern necessity of finding “‘their m from God” or dying in their trac or being consumed by other creatures as the result of inability to fight or flee. R Food, with them, iscovered. There time, and certainly amount, Regular eating times and amount of food per meal are essen- tially creations of the creature man Who, with his brother animals, must eat or die, too, only he does it with a difference. the it eaten as it no set meal no stipulated is s fixed * % Household pets—and we speak par- ticularly of the dog and the cat, the two most popular ones—are animals, - no doubt of it, Yet it would seem that some such hald assertion of fact is necessary, in the face of the common treatment of these pets. The tendency to humanize them is seen everywhere. Dogs are spoken to in terms applicable only to bables sweaters are placed on warm-blooded bulldogs; cats are adorned with collars. Joth dogs and cats are kept in the house, an unngtural envircnment for them, and then threatened with respiratory diseases when allowed to €0 out into the cold of Winter. It is commonly forgotten that dog: and cats normally run a high tempera- ture, as compared with that of the human’ being, and that their heart- beat is largely in excess of man's. Their fur grows with exposure, in most c Cats out in zero weather Al night long return to their ho in the morning as warm as walking stoves In the ke matter of eating, pets re quire a natural treatment, in so far as compatible with human nature This exception is made, for it impossible for a human béing who car for a_pet to treat it in all respects as Nature would.® Nature is crue at least, that is the way Nature has impressed many. Love not found in it, but comes from living, breathing creatures, and from the Creator of all these. In making this statement, we pur- posely confine “Nature” to all things except the living, breathing creatures which properly may be classed as out- side, in a special sense. This is not at all scientific, but we are not scien- tific, either. is e R The natural treatment of household pets in relation to their meals calls for as near a duplication of natural too | feeding as is possible, under the cir- cumstances, it will need every mental which the pet owner pos sist the lure of pleading watering mouth L Dogs and cats, like little children, learn how to wheedle what nt out of their f s, The trick of standing on the hind legs and “hegging” for food has led many a good dog to an early demise Most of us find ourselves unable to resist our fur nds when they “pull” some especially cute pose on us in an cffort to get more dinner than is good for them Do are omnivorous, their masters. They thing, or, at least, tr One of the most comical the world is a dog Arying picce of salt-water taffy. The dog owner, however, who really cares for his pet will never repeat the offense. In a larger sense, he will never glve hs pet candy at all. This.is some thing a dog would not get in Nature, and he should not have it in the home Too much cane sugar causes intesti nal eatarrh and later vavious forms of tumors. The food of the dog has been worked out very nicely by dog men, any one of whom can’ tell you just what to feed your dog and whaf not to feed him fo keep him in good health. Generally, one meal a day is held to be best for the dog, since mankind desires to work on schedule. Lack of exercise and fresh air militates against the dog's health, and because of such lack the amount of food should be lessened over what it would be if the dog were given a good, long run every day. * k ¥ ¥ The house cat, under domestic equires especial care on the part its owner, if the animal is to be kept in the best of condition. There is a mistaken idea that a cat can be fed almost any old thing but in Nature its diet is principally and almost entirely raw meat, which it catches itself, thus adding the sauce of capture to its main dish. Raw meat, then, is the cat’s nat ural diet, and every such pet should have a generous helping each day Cold milk allowed to sit around is frowned upon by authorities. A health requirement commonly overlooked by those who keep cats confined, especially in apartments, is plenty of gras Grass is the cat's medicine, and if he is not allowed to run at large, speeial care should be taken to bring him in a.supply of fresh grasses every week, at the minimum. s clippings from the mower are not what is meant, but the long, ranker grasses, whose blades will fur- nish the emetic which the cat craves. Catnip, too, in moderation, is good. A on day, every now and then, is good for a cat, although he will mot think so, and will put up many a meow in protest. The greatest danger of all for household pets is the tendency of every member of the family to feed the creatures. Only one member of a family should be allowed to feed the dog or cat. To carry out this rule will require all the will power and self-control each member of the household pos sesses; but it will prove valuable training to the human members of the household, and will add to the health and lengthen the life of the pet “If you do not master him, he will master you.” Such is the warning of the veterinarian. quality to re- cyes and quick they after any taking will eat to eat it sights in to eat a . BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. Last Saturday the rules of the Rus- sian Soviet organization were publish- ed in-this column. They had been compiled in Russia and sent secretly to this country. Among those rules is found a_section headed “In the Do- main of Economics,” “To ferment and assist general strikes, damage ma- chinery and boilers by systematic sabotage, and to_that end disseminate and incend litera- ture.” There have been strikes in this and other countries which involved meth- ods just as destructive as demanded by the above Soviet rule, both before and since the Soviet conspiracy was formed, but that fact does not detract from the measure of loss by the action of the Soviet-Communist domination in the recent strike of the Fur Wor ers’ International Union of New York, which was openly and brazenly con trolled by the Communists receiving tion and direction from Soviet Russia, according to charges by the officers of the American Federation of Labor. e e sday, 100,000 garment makers of New York, members of the American Federation of Labor, quit their work an hour early, in order to attend meetings in denunciation of the interference of the Communists in the affairs of the trade unions. Several meetings at which from 5,000 to 10,000 angry earners were crowded listened to flery speeches against Soviet methods and in support of the “Right Wing of the American Feder- ation of Labor.” The loss of 100,000 hours of labor cost from $30,000 to $100,000, whether that loss came at the expense of the wage earners or the employers. Mr Hugh Frayne, vice president of the New York State Branch of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor, declared at these meetings that the Communists are “a threat, not only in New York, but a menace to the entire country,” and he referred to charges of briber: of the New York police which, it w alleged, had demoralized police protec- tion of workers. b 3 He had in mind certain serious charges recorded in a long report of a committee of the Americ: ) tion of Labor charged with investi- gating the conduct of last year's strik of the Fur Workers' International Union, of which committee Vice President Woll of the American Federation of Labor was chairman. e report sayvs: Tt the inception of the strike a_lawyer named was hired. He was supposed to handle the court cases of those who might get into trouble with the police de- partment, but the evidence shows that in addition to this it was his duty to buy members of the police depargment, the district attorney's office, the in- dustrial squad and even all the officers in at least two station houses, so that the authorities would be on the side of the strikers. He received a total of $51,156.50. “At this time there was a very audible demand by the strikers for strike benefits, but they were put off. In the meantime many acts of violence were taking place, not enly upon the streets but particularly in the halls where the strikers gathered. It was charged that workers not in sympathy with the communistic ‘Left Wing’ were summoned into those halls. In one hall in particular they had an inquisi- tion room known as ‘Room C.’ Your committee has sworn affidavits of per- sonal testimony of 58 kers who me before your committee and ac- cused the picketing committee with having beaten them up. The testi- mony showed that these sluggers were largely Greeks and were equipped with metal knuckles covered with a black glove. In ‘Room C' many strik- Last Uncle Eben, “dat befo' long we’s liable to find everybody on earth eitifsy play- ers received severe beatings, some until they became unconscious. * * ¢ “Resnick, one of the three men in charge of the picketing committee, n Federa- admitted under cross-examination that men were beaten and that some of these men had union cards and that a policeman was present in the hall when these men were beaten. When asked why men carrying union cards were beaten, Resner and Mencher re- plied: ‘They were not members of the union. When a man scabs he is not a member.’ In other words, the pick- eting committee took the power into their own hands to automatically sus- pend or expel members of the union without respect to the rules or regu. lations of the organization. * * * Prominent members of the union, who not only were on strike, but actually did duty on the picket line for weeks, and at least one international officer were severely beaten.” President Schachtman, who worked with the Left Wing (Communist) and whom they supported for president, charged Gold, the manager of the joint board and leader of the Left Wing, with lying, double-crossing, taking or- ders from the Workers' party (Com- munist) and that they did not want a peaceful settlement. Gold is alleged to have replied, “The Communist party will shape the policles and con- duct of this strike.” o In the Soviet program referred to in the opening paragraph of this ar- ticle is this explanation: “By methods 5, 6 and 7 to cause con- fusion, industrial upheavals and so- cial unrest; to precipitate the collapse of the body politic and thereby ob- tain the sympathy and active support of the proletariat for bolshevik coups d’etat and seizure of power.” * k% % The report of the investigating com- mittee of the A. F. of L. describes the effort of the Left Wing (Commu- nist) to pass a resolution at the Fur Workers' international convention in Boston, demanding the release of all political prisoners” held in prison in “capitalistic countries.” When it vas proposed to amend the resolution 80 as to ask for the release of political prisoners in all countries, the Com- munists opposed the amendment, as that would have asked the release of political prisoners in Soviet Russia, who were “enemies of communism. * ok ok ok After the close of the Communist- led strike of the fur workers, two auditing firms were employed to make independent audits of the funds. The auditors say the records were largely kept from them by the Communist leaders, but the auditors found ‘“Total disbursements of $838,203.55. Of this the auditors had an opportunity of au- diting only $194,745.09, leaving a bal- ance of $643,438.46 which the auditors had no opportunity to audit. One item, audited only in part, was, Meal tickets, $45,117.31.” Another “Lawyers' fees and expenses, $78,- 906.50." The report adds: “The prolongation of the strike increased the expenses by approximately $549,844.91 to the union and resulted in the loss of wages to the employes for (an added) nine weeks.” The union, before the strike, held in trust a fund of $98,000, which had been put up by employers as a cash guarantee that they would adhere to their contract with the union, the money held in trust to be returned to the employers at the end of the term of agreement. During the strike, ac- cording to the investigating commit- tee's report, that $98,000 was trans- ferred to the strike committee, and it is not yet accounted for. The union is still responsible for its return to the employers, and is wondering how it is to be replaced. So there is war within the ranks of labor, for President Green and the rest of the “Right Wing"” of the American Federation of Labor are de- | THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover. Lyonesse, a legendary country the coast of Cornwall, is supposed to have been the scene of many of the adventures of the Arthurian romances, Tristram, the lover of the two Iseults is often called Tristram of Lyonesse. It was in Lyon e that the final con flict between King Arthur and his treacherous nephew Movdred took place, and there “‘the last great battle of the West” was fought, in which Arthur met his death. According to legend, Lycnesse suddenly disappeared beneath the sea. I’erhaps some of the gged black rocks off the h' coast are the high points of not quite submerged s been brought back to a charming romance by Mackenzie, entitled “Fair It is called the County Pala tine of Lyonesse, and during the World War became the scene of a military and naval fiasco in comnection with the defense of the southwest English coast. Most of the story take place on two islands off the main land, Roon and Carrackeon, which may easily be identified with the Scilly les, if one does not demand too great accuracy of detall and remembers the requirements of romance. The Ar thurian land of Lyonesse stretched | from Scilly Isles to the present main land- “A land abyss By fire, to sink into the . . The real Seilly Isles annually supply hundreds of thousands of narcissuses to Covent Garden. And after the war Vivien Romare, daughter of the lord of the imaginary islands, marries the man she loves—not the suitor wh has money—and she and her husband raise flowers for the market, to help them keep the islands from falling into the hands of the creditors of the old Knight of Roon. The island setting of “Fairy Gold” is fragrant with the odor of flowers—daffodils, bluebells, fox gloves, sweet william, poppies, roses and lilies. Woodbine and bittersweet and ivy twine about the trees and climb the hedges. There is a wide stretch of heath, covered with heather, gorse and bracken, There is an aromatic pine wood where all vege tation is stifled by fallen pine-needles “so that.the surface of the ground was of a_ uniform brown except where here and there the granite nosed up through the drift or a scarlet toadstool spread its parasol.” There are green lanes and shadowy avenues of trees and “great undulating fields that dipped toward.the sea. on either side There are turf-covered cliffs dropping sharply to the sea and pebbly beaches in sheltered coves. There are 00zy, dripping caves, reached either from above by descending subterranean passages whose entrances are con cealed by ferns and brambles, or from below by boat through black mouths level with the high tide, In short, the islands of Roon and Carrackoon are a complete fairy land. It is no wonder that Venetia Romare, child of the islands, should say solemnly to her new friend, and believe what she says: “You musn’t joke about fairies . . I've seen them on Roon—often and often. So I know.” .. “The World’s Best Short Stories of 1926" contains 16 tales selected by the editors of some leading American magazines. The title seems somewhat dogmatic and its validity might easily be questioned by any one inclined to be argumentative. Almost any reader will probably think of storjes of the year not included in this collection which he considers better than any so included. The stories represent, of course, the tastes and prejudices of the selecting editors. Some of .them are sweetly sentimental, some are thrillingly ~mysterious. Few seem subtle, few distinguished. The au- thors represented are: Booth Tark- ington, Peter B. Kyne, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Achmed Abdullah, Mary Ray mond Shipman Andrews, Maxwell Struthers Burt, Lois Montross, F Tennyson Jesse, W. C. Tuttle, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charles Saxby, Edgar Wallace, Benjamin Richard Sher, Richard Connell, Raymond S. Spears and Honore Willsie Morrow. What Mary Wilkins Freeman has done in the short story is one of the things which Amy Lowell did in verse—perfect, small pictures of ec- centric New England characters living an abnormal, repressed life. In one of the posthumous volumes of Amy Lowell's verse, “East Wind,” is a se- ries of such pictures. Two old-maid sisters, one an invalid, live alone in a small town in the old house left them by their sea-captain father, and in a winged chair by the invalid’s bed al- ways sits a large wax doll with staring blue glass eyes; when the invalid dies, the remaining sister moves the doll's chair to the window because “it dull for her after Jane died. old man owns the finest house on the Main street of the village, but has kept it shut up ever since his young manhood when he failed to marry as he planned; he keeps the outside of the house freshly painted and the vard “redded up,” but allows the in- side to fall into decay. A neighbor comes in unexpectedly and finds an old maid about to drink a cup of wood alcohol because she is “so tired o' seein’ th’ path to th’ barn,” and when she goes up to make her father's bed she gets seasick, “thinkin’ I'll have to see that old check spread agin.” A wife dies of consumption, resisting death to the last, and screaming “I'll find some way o’ livin'. Even ef they bury me, DIl live.” Soon after her death her husband begins to sicken with the same disease and soon dies. Then the neighbors, fearing witch- craft, open the wife’s grave and burn her heart, which they find “fresh as a livin' person A middle - aged woman who has from her childhood secretly hated another woman finds relief from her suppressed hatred by kicking her enemy’s grave. A tomb- stone accidently cut with the name Joseph instead of James is kept by the thrifty family underneath the stairs, awaiting the death of the other son Joseph, who runs away from it and is drowned at sea; thereater, be- cause of the waiting tombstone, no other boy in the family is named Joseph. In some of the pictures eccen- tricity becomes insanity, as in “The Note-Book in the Gate-Legged Table, “The Rosebud Wall-Paper,” and “And Pity 'Tis, "Tis True Lyonesse ha reality in Compton Gold. of old upheaven from the syas again.” . . P e The character of Jesus has been many times discussed critically, with- out the bias of faith in the inspiration of the Bible story. Renan and George Moore are among the creators of this type of characterization. A similar critic is J. Middleton Murry, editor of the London Athenaeum, who has re- cently written a volume entitled “Jesus, Man of Genius." Mr Murry selects, rather arbitrarily, it seems to a casual reader, certain events in the life of Jesus, as related in the four Gospels, and pronounces them authen- tic and certain others to be discarded Jesus seems, according to Mr. Murry, a genius of the extreme kind nearly allied to madness. He is a lonely wwstie, not without sin, who plans his own death, to take place at the hour of sacrifice in the temple on the day of the atonement. e Leader of Fashion. From the New York Herald Tribune. Hang Andersen’s king who wore a suit of clothes which nobody could ANSWERS IO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. Q. How many speciess of birds are | there in the United States?—c. W, A. There are 800 distinet kinds birds in this country. They are d vided into 69 families, of which familics are classed as waterfowl, 7 s shore birds, 4 as upland game birds as birds of prey and 33 as land birds. Q. How wide is the Strait of Gibral tar’—H. B. A. The width of the Strait of Gibral tar varies from about 9 miles at the entrance to about 13 miles at ast entrance. The channel miles wide through the center of the strait. Q. Please tell something of the origin of the wholesale grocery busi- nes; . M. W. The early history of the whole- ale grocery husiness is confined prin- cipally to England. The immediate forerunner of the grocer was the pep- perer or spicer, whose trade was well established in London by 1180. The carliest use of the word “grocer” oc- curs in 1310 in the eity r report of Lordon. During the Middle Ages 1l trades were formed into guilds, and therefore the Grocers’ Company London was founded in 1345. From this time the growth of the trade was rapid Q. How clean will air be that has been drawn through a water-soaked closely woven cloth?—A. D. P. A. Air that has gone through such air-cleaning apparatus has had prac- tically 80 per cent of the dirt taken out of it. were Robefit Q. Who parents?—C. H. N. A. Robert Browning w Robert Browning, a clerk in the Bank of England, and of his wife, Sar Anne, daughter of a Hamburg owner named Wiedemann who Browning's has j asks settled . Dundee, Scotland. Q. Which is the largest pa pier in this country”?—E. B. A. The largest passenger pier in the United States is Com onwealth Pier. No. 5, Boston, Mass., 0 & feet. enger by Q. What fs the best road to take to go by automobile from Pittsburgh to the Panama Canal Zone?—C. A. The American Automobile Asso ciation says that it is not practical or possible to make a trip from burgh, Pa., to the Panama Canal Zone. Some of the roads after leaving the United States are impassable and in some sections there are no roads at all. Q. Please give the e nation of the reason that the Mississippi River may be said to run up hill.—>M. G. C. A. The Coast and Geodetic Sur says that the foundation for such a statement {s that the mouth of the Mississippi River is farther from the center of the earth than is the source. This is because the earth the Equator, due to centrifugal force generated by the earth’s rotation. However, in measuring elevations, which determine the force of gravity, all elevations are referred to sea level, or zero. Surface measurements show the Mississippi’s source to be several hundred feet above sea level surface, while the mouth is, of course, at sea level, or zero elevation. Thus, the river runs down hill, or from a great- er surface elevation to a lesser. If the earth were to cease rotating, scientists believe it would take the shape of a nearly perfect sphere. Then any two points on a sea level D! | same ‘k:n.» a as the son of | ship- | Pitts- | bulges at | surface would be approximately the distance from the earth's cen- ter. Int event, some rivers which now flow in one direction might actually flow in the opposite direction, Q. Waere were the scenes filmed in the movie “Old Ironsides,” showing ack on the pirates’ fort?—L. L. he Tripolitan pirate fort, built the shores of Catalina Island in cific Ocean, is more than a mile and a half long and towers 250 | feet above the sea. It is the most stupendous set ever built for a mo- | tion picture A on th. Q. Who is the present laureats of England>—H. D. L. A. Robert Bridges Q. How many volumes have been published by the American Bible Soclety?>—L. T. T. A. During the 110 year: tivity its total issues ha 174,121,599 v of ments of its ac e numbered mes jibles, Testa- and portions Q. Where organ? A. The organ in I 1 Cathe | aral, England, to be the lar; It was completed only a few weeks ago, having been started be- fore the war. It has 10,934 pipes, | and electro-pneumatic action. = The pipe playing the lowest note is a yard in diameter and weighs more than g ton. is the D. E world's biggest is st that are acid when tn the system? | Q What caten rema fru ms and lepower of the r than Flam me: metric that it 00.000,000,000,000,000 | cana The amount of light re- ceived from the sun is equal to that 600,000 -full moons. | to | Q. What is a geode A one?—C, Geodes are rounded, hollow ag- gregates of mineral material, or in- durated nodules, either empty or con- taining a more or le 1 and free nucleus and having cavity fre- que ed with stals. The: are sometimes called “potato stone: on ac their size and shape. The nam ms to have been given | them because they are occasionally found filled with soft earthy ocher. Agate is a geode built up of conms centric layers of chalcedony. T. N. the unt ¢ Q. How many accredited schools of nursing are there in the United | states?—p. E {,. A According to the last report of {the Americ Nurses' Assoclation) there were on January 1, 1926, 1,806 accredited schoc in 48 States—that is, they meet the requirements es- | tablished by law. There are 774 students in these schools. Letters are going cvery minute from our free information bureau in Washe ington telling readers whatever they want to know. They are in answer to all kinds of queries, on all kinds of subjects, from all kinds of people. Malke use of this free service which The Evening Star is maintaining for you. Its only purpose is to help you, and we want you to benefit from it. Get the habdit of writing to The Eve- ning Star Information Bureau, Fred- eric_J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. Farm-Relief Measures Again Attract Nation-Wide Interest Farm relief in the form of a new measure again is a subject of country- wide discussion, with’ the old line-up for and against the McNary-Haugen bill still in evidence. For, notwith- standing the introduction of the Cur- tis-Crisp bill, with its appeal for joint support from West and South, the McNary-Haugen provisions continue to interest the advocates of farm legislation. “Into the halls of Congress has now come the official farm-relief gold brick of 1927,” exclaims the St. Paul Dis- patch. “Last year it was the Fess bill. This year it goes under the snappy title of Curtis-Crisp. The de- tails are really unimportant. It is not meant to become a law. The function of the Curtis-Crisp bill is to accommo- date the weaker brethren by making it easy and supposedly safe to side- track the McNary-Haugen bill.”" The Dispatch, however, declares that “the bill is welcome, in that it establishes one or two things of importance for genuine relief. It proclaims on official authority that $250,000,000 is not too much to advance for farm relief. It exposes the insincerity of objection to the McNary-Haugen bill on grounds of price-fixing, since this claims to be just as much of a price-fixing measure as the other.” The Rock Island Argus points out that “the House agricultural commit- tee has approved the McNary-Haugen bill by a vote of 13 to 8, defeating a motion to substitute the Curtis-Crisp bill,”” and insists that “the representa- tives of the agricultural interests of the Middle West want the McNary- Haugen bill or nothing, and if this cannot be passed they will, so it is reported, carry the issue to the people with Lowden as their leader in 1928, From this point of view the Curtis- Crisp bill is just a sop thrown to the farmers with motives of a political character behind it, 'the idea being to save the face of the administration.” * Kk ok K “A deep-seated conviction” is ex- pressed by the Houston Chronicle “that adoption of the McNary-Haugen principle will serve to rehabilitate the American agricultural industry; that the adoption will check a progressive decadence in this greatest and most fundamental of American industries, will bring prosperity again to the American farm, and consequently wil} turn rural civilization from retrogres- sion to renewed progress. Every bus ness is interested in the welfare of the farmer,” continues the Chronicle, cit- ing the fact that “while constituting about one-third of our population the farm community’s share of the na- tional income in 1921 was only 10 per cent and is now probably not more than 7 per cent.” Quoting a statement that “the Cur- tie-Crisp bill is a loan measure and does not contain the equalization fee principle,” the Des Moines Tribune ‘What has got it into the think- ing of the Eastern leaders that more loan money is what is wanted in the farm West nobody seems to under- stand. But every time the admini tration shows its hand, it is to loan the farmer more money, rather than get a better price for him. Just why Senator Curtis has gone into the loan plan is not plain. But he does come from Secretary Jardine's State and he is an administration leader.” Recognition of existing opposition to the Haugen bill “on the ground that it will not give the relief desired and will at the same time set a dangerous precedent in American governmental methods” is given by the Lansing State Journal. As the matter appears to the Portland Oregonian, “the nat- ural disposition of the farmer will be, it assured that the surplus will not depress prices, to increase production until the surplus becomes unmanage- against this danger,” concludes that paper. _“As for our part,” says the Colum- bia Record, condemning both old and new bills, “we cannot understand why Representative Crisp is fathering th strange sort of legislation at the ex- pense of the public. If the farmer is to be pensioned into prosperity, why not the newspapers, the candlestick makers and every other organization? And if every organization is to be boosted by law into prosperity, re- gardless of the old theory of supply and demand, then who is going to pay the fiddler ultimately?"” * ok ox ok The New York Times admits that he case of the farmer calls for sym- pathetic dealing,” but insists that “it must be intelligent dealing, lest their last estate and that of the country be worst than the first.” The Schenec- tady Gazette remarks that “the rem- edy, and the only one which will not impose a burden upon all the other people of the country, lies in reducing the tariff."” Quoting a “city farmer's” statement that the purpose of certain farm-relief bills is “the disposing of surplus when surplus occurs, but they make no pi sion for the prevention of surplus, the Birmingham News sa ‘Assur- edly, he is right in saying that when this sort of benefit is assured the pro- ducer for his overplus the law down as to re the following vear, the conceivable safeguard ingly greater yields vear after such volume ~that the world not possibly consume them.” Prospects for the passage of such legislation appear to Indianapolis News to be doubtful, that paper adds: “How much legislation can aid, or ought to be depended on, is an s portant phase of the situation. Vary: ing opinions on that, a 1S certainty as to the eflicacy differs ent solutions suggested, add to the tangle.” The Kansas City J viewing the situation. sus Lowden plan, indorsed a convention of the m eration, provided for nment financing—a Government | 1 merely would collect needed money from pri- vate sources to care unwieldy surplus, enator Curtis and Repre- sentative Crisp go much farther. They believe Congress will acc idea. But will the' President? Wil Ameri- can commerce and industry? It i@ important that reasonably united M dorsement be accorded a move- ment."” can could 11 Post, Te ests: “The Chicago u Fed- Bu ——— Ends in Smoke. From the Philadelphia Public Leds Young women and thei will be allowed to smok dances at West Point; and in pacifistic age this will be about as near to smoke as some of the cadets will ever get. o No Cause for Alarm. From the Boston Herald. The Nicaraguan situation is not alarming so long as Sacasa has time to say, “Once more I reiterate the categoric statement,” etc. ——— Unanswerable Query. From the Boston Herald. » Senator Heflin put another un- answerable question when he asked the Senate, “Why should I be mealy- mouthed?" ———— Holiday Daily. From the Philadeiphia Record. able. If some means were provided by which financial aid in handling the termined that Communists shall be| see ngver dreamed that he was only | surplus of one crop would be condi- eliminated from that organization, (Covyright. 1927: by Poul V. Collins.), about & year ahead of the 1927 styles for wom X jonal on restriction of acreage sown for the neyt crop, it Would guard brisk If Nicaragua celebrated the anniver- saries of her revolutions as piously as the United States does, life would be one long, bright holiday in that | little country, .