Evening Star Newspaper, January 3, 1928, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D.C. TUESDAY......January 3, 1928 i = THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office. 11h St and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd St. Chicago Office: Tower Build European Office’ 14 Rezent St Ensland. 3 London, Rate by Carrvier Within The Evening Star The Evenng and hon 4 Sunday enme anl N the City. B¢ per day Star H0e per moenth iay ‘Star #3e por month ach month telephore +_mav be sent i by mail or n B0, Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. § Sunday....1yr. SO0 1 mo. The anlx 1A s 1 1 vr. $3.00: 1 mo., es and Canada. Daile & Dar'r Sunday All Other Sundar only 00: 1 mo ax b0’ | m $4.000 1 mo.. uber of the Associated Duniehed he a1 spaial = — To Speak or Not to Speak. The silence of Al Smith is about to oken. The Governor of New Yok ers to the State Legislature tomor- | row his annual message. Pross reports are that he will discuss national issues as well as St. He has been invited to address the assembled Democratic hosts at the Jackson day dinner herc in Washington January and his ac- ceptance would call for an addr national subjects. For months Gov. Smith has main- tained a rigid silence regarding both his candidacy for the Democratic nom- ination for President and many na- tional issues. When he has spoken in- formally as to his political aspirations, or lack of them, it has been to declare he was a candidate for no office, and that he would attend strictly to the Job of governing New York State. In & measure this silence of Gov. Smith has been to his advantage. Had he come forward months ago as an avowed candidate for the presidential nomina- tion, he would have opened himself directly to the fire of his opponents. Had he discussed immigration, the tariff. and kindred subjects upon which he may or may not differ with ma other Democrats, he might have fur- . nished ammunition to the enem His supporters for the presidential nomination have gradually divided over the advisability of breaking his silence. Some of them have urged that the gov- ernor continue to say nothing. pointing to the rapid strides which his boom for the presidential nomination has made under such treatment. Others have declared that he must take a stand on national issues, that he would gain adherents throughout the country #s soon as he had announced himself. ‘When it was announced from Wash- ington headquarters of the Democratic national committee that invitations to attend the Jackson day dinner had been sent to Gov. Smith. along with all other | Democratic presidential possikilities, re- ports from Albany immediately asserted the governor would not attend the din- mner; that it would be against his policy of avoiding political gatherings outside of New York. But an invitation from the Democratic national committee. representing the party throughout the ceountry. to attend a Jackson day dinner eould not be so lightly disposed of, it appears. Whether Gov. Smith has accepted or declined the invitation to the din- mer, which carries with it an invita- tion to speak, or even whether he has made answer, is still a secret. It is not difficult to understand, however, | that the invitation may have been em- barrassing. If Gov. Smith declines to attend the dinner, sponsored by the national committee, and to address the Democratic leaders from all parts of the country, will it not offend very many members of his party? What other Democratic leader, aspiring to the presidential nomination, has de- clined sucih 2n invitation, and on what grounds? In 1912 when the Demo- cratic hosts assembled for a sim'iar oc- ecasion, did Woodrow Wilson, Champ Clark, Oscar W. Underwood or William J. Bryan find rome reason to be absent? ‘They did not. Every man who was under consideration at that time for the presidential nomination attended the Jeckson day dinner, and was heard. Indeed, Woodrow Wilson by his address that night put himself in th: forefront of the presidential race. A Juckson day dinner in 1928 with- | out Gov. Bmith might be considered “Hamlet without Hamlet” but Gov. Bmith's absence might be as difficult for the governor, i he is to be a con- tender for the Democratic 85 for the projectors of the nationsl committee - J— A number of writers assert selves as pseudo blographers work s often weakened by a refusal to gve tesl names and wddresses - R No Quitting in Nicaragua. Reports of fighting between £ Americun Marines and the rebel forees of Bendino in Nicarag cate that rebel @ Buppled with arms and amn poseibly of foreign orgin. Me Gently & Betermined ss well us 4 5 fighter He ‘ o which he ¢an with a high per centage of he must b native e, ere f Jossoes No matier yegarding the propriety o Auerican Marines i eeWling dnverne Vroutles i Nicarsgua can be Do dissent now from Lhe proposition that tijey carry on o success. They wre in "l feld Bt the request of the govern ment 8. Managus. ‘They heve not been yned 100 wartare. Thelr € teader nomination, the clearly 1t the tain is well . slien bas choen @ on operste eately from caplure There the Ane and have aken no siter that fiel n forces e a suffered g may be the e what 1 ’ bere GgEressIve wounters Wil rebel e " Bl the the e of petiolling operstion: o of which Banding b tiese Piwre 15 0o of i fe the i £ ta) the Marinee b ne extent nding Joet of cued upon with & nimber casualties, but in any eircumstances this campaign, undertaken at the re- quest of a friendly government, must be prosecuted. There must be no with- drawal. Meanwhile it will be important to ascertain if possible the sources of Sandino’s supplies which enable him to maintain himself in the Nicaraguan bush. or Obstructionist. “What have they done to my child?" cried the French forcign | Aristide Briand. according to press re- | ports, after reading the American war | outlawry pact, drafted by the State De- proposal, made on April 6. 1927, tha two a petual peace pact between the countrics. Tt is understood that French draft of a considerably more inclusive character has sinee been sub- mitted by France to the American Gov- ernment for its consideration. [The text of neither pact has been revealed, but it is gencr | that the American draft, while men- tioning the outlawry of war in its preamble, devotes ifs principal clause: to arbitration arrangements, excluding | questions of national honor and vital interests—that is, applying arbitration only to the minor differences, and this only at the diseretion of both parties to the treaty. France, it may be assumed m the context of Foreign Minister Briand's r a much move b | mitted, a much more pract | ment. The ding and. be it ad- al agree- United States has throughout its history boen more favorable than any | other nation to the broad and theoretic | principle of arbitration. The Jay treaty of 1794, to which w2 were a party, is generally regarded as mark- | ing the beginning of modern arbitra- tion. | of petitions in favor of arbitration were | forwarded to Congress from all parts of | the country. We took a strong stand | in favor of arbitration of the Alabama | claims against and finally won our point. The outcome | of this arbitration. which favored the | United States, brought forth congr sional resolutions—without the force of law favor of arbitration in general We played our part in the establishment of the Permanent Court of Arbitration following the Hague Conference of | 1899. The second American Conference | on International Arbitration was con- vened in Washington in 1904 and as a result the Hay arbitration treaties were drafted and negotiated under the vizor- | | ous fmpetus of President Roosevelt. In | 1911-12 President Taft sought to estab- | lish strong earbitration treaties wi | Great Britain and France, but was pre- | vented by the Senate. In 1913-14 the | Bryan conciliation treaties were ne- gotiated. Of these 21 are now in force. The relationship of the United States to the post-war treaties is o fresh in the mind of the Nation as to call for no summarizing here. A glance back through this record | establishes these truths: That the United | ern conception of ar had a strong, sentimental itration, ment of international differences. That | we have cvidenced an utter unwilling- | ness to follow, much less take the lead, | theory, due largely to the Senate’s con- | sistent refusal to ratify “strong” arbi- tration treaties. It should be said In t | great powers have gencrally felt that. !as between themselves, they could not ! safely intrust the determination of all and every dispute to arbitration, treaties | completely outlawing war between a great power and a lesser state are today | becoming increasingly frequent. Italy | has ten and France five. | The current negotiations between the | French foreign office and our State De- | partment afford an excellent occasion for sober consideration by those directly { concerned and by the American public | as to what the policy of the Nation is 10 be in the practical matter of outlaw- | ing war. Our position to date may be | fairly summarized as follows: | We believe, sentimentally, in the tion for war. matters practically to apply that theory But in matters of great moment—mat- ters of national honor and of so-called | vital interest—we insist upon our right | | But this one fact he holds most dear s a Nation to determine for ourselves the course which we rhall pursue. | The position of those who would have | us change this policy may be similarly | summarized thus The whole theory behind the effort to | outlaw war {5 that war s o horrible in its nature and awful in its conse- | quences longer to be resorted to by civil- {1zed nations. To say that one will arbitrate minor matters but will reserve the right 1o resort Lo war in matters of | interest offers no progress, for no nation has ever fought for what it did not assert 1o be a matter of vital int #h by one 1ot L0 To refuse o relingu nation’s right individualistically mine ity own courses of et a de matters of vital interest is tantamoun® | 10 refusing to admit the principle upon which the whole theory and practice of moder government, law, ethics and economy s based —that the int of all are greater than the res of the individusl. To continue to de- are ane’s right to make war is to in re the coming of the day when war will be made. Lo continue 10 point out 1hat Congress to Gerlare war 1s beside the point e hen under consideration Nation with tormula of agreement 3 eociety ests n! alone exercises the matter i this othiers which whether cun devise a abol Between the Jogic s two positions, e Blate Dey ment, the Benate and the public mus nuke their choiee. Upon the choice thst not 16 the matter present issue between France and the Uniwed Bletes, bul in the matter of & ye ternstionsl policy, depends whether or not this country is to be the Progrer leader of the world to the | prectical ontlswing of war or . rewr Lianary obetr A which both vision and com art b way and wisdom of 1 they ke eral o goul 10 mon sense call the nutions e The Vite of the Dawn ild by members of the crew Biitish sehooner Hose Anie Portland. Me, may solve the Dawn o A ol he Bellivean at Ve mystery of minister, | | France and the United States sl\mlld: outlaw war by the conclusion of a per- | Iy understood | posal of last Spring. hopes | Between 1837 and 1856 thousands | Great Britain in 1872 | | States has, since the birth of the mod- | | garded as dependent on “Sidewalks of | inclination favor- | | able to the theory of the praceful settle- | lin the practical application of that | connection that while in the past | ! sehooner proceeded partment presumably in response 1o his [yt rante by | ing would have been hazardous in the | cetved, | countered within a short time after the | as those which sent four people to | family album in pictorial print might | be regarded as having run out. | His face once showed a deep distress. theory which would substitute arbitra- We are willing in minor | | At last he's free from all suspense— | “Neither does my audience as a rule, action in | | They will invent a better one. the power | | get the reputation for a bad sense of of the | ctioniet tn the path W Hhe wimphian b ie generally o mao” dan a bad man his Suere miy be mois plane, wiich sterted 711 recently on an beed discovervd attempt to cross the Atlantic in Wi ter and from which no word has since boen heard. The schooner wWas making way around Cape Cod on the night of December 23, when at a point eighteen miles northwest of Nauset Beach light the sound of airplane motors was heard. followed quickly by a crash into the sea. This time would place the plane at about the position it should have occupied in its flight from Roosevelt Field to Harbor Grace, Newfoundland. The hour was seven-thirty or there- A storm was raging and visi- was low. It was impossible to . to make a search. to Salem, learn- radio that the Dawn missing. but, having no sending her commander could not report h> had heard. On reaching no member of the erew men- tioned the circumstance because, as t" > commander explains, “no one asked about it.” Though five days were spent in Salem. the story was not told, and it was not until Portland was reached that an account was given of the strange sounds at sea. While it is extraordinary that no mention was made of the experience, it is quite possible that this is a true version of what happened to the Dawn. The accounts of the ditierent mem- bers of the crew as to the happening agrec. There is no incentive for them to invent the tale. Indeed, one of them. the wireless operator, adds a detail of particular interest, saying that he heard the Dawn requesting a bearing | from the Chatham wireless station and later picked up a message, “Planc | down,” after which there was silence. | It is known that the Dawn went into heavy weather shortly after taking off from Roosevelt Ficld. All the ships that were at sea at the time reported adverse conditions. It is probable that slect formed on the wings and fuselage and that the weight became too great to bear. The wind was high and fiy- abouts, bility lower a boa was what Salem extreme for even the stoutest plane. If the Dawn went down as described by the schooner's crew she probably sank, leaving no floating wreckage. This account of the fatal flight may be accepted. There was no trace of Mrs. Grayson's party north of Cape Cod. Some radio messages were re- sut they were confused and virtually meaningless. It would seem that the peril, which was obvious to all when the Dawn took off, was en- beginning of the flight. Kuowledge of the exact circumstances in which the Dawn went down is not necessary to demonstrate the folly of this flight. It was a wild enterprise, contrary to all the rules of aviation safety. Even had the airship reached Harbor Grace, the chances were greatly against further success if the flight across the Atlantic had been attempted. Winter flying overseas may be ac- complished, but its achievement will not be advanced by such foolhardy xisks their death. ——— e e America is often accused of laxity In artistic sense. Gov. Al Smith is re- New York"” and “The Star Spangled Banner” even though it is. frankly doubted whether he would be able to sing either song correctly. . et In addition to capital punishment the penalty of being debarred from the be advantageously inflicted on unscru- pulous criminals. B Presidential candidates wish one an- other happy New Year, but as the year goes on toward the Summer conven- tions, many of the good wishes must - Calendars are generously distributed, b.. there will not be enough of them to prevent the absent-minded person fromn writing “1927" in his check book for the next week or s0. e A S”HOb’IXNG STAR; BY PHILANDER JOHNSON January Joy. S. He's now dicposed 1o brag. He lifts a shout of cheerfulness; “I've got my license tag! Gifts that the holidays brought near Forbade his Joy to lag. He has his license tag. “Those mournful moments of suspense— How slowly did they drag! He has his license tag. Discreet Subordination. “Do you always know what you are talking about? “No,” answered Senator Sorghum. and it is always dangerous for a states- man to aspire to a superior intellectual level” And So, to the Discard. My radio! My radio! Just now you lead the list T know But ere six months or o are done, Jud Tunkins says & man who' can Jaugh At his troubles s linble only to humor. Unsignable. 1 cannot sing the old song 1 caught the current slant That jazzed them dnto bold rongs. T'm rather glad I can't, “We rence what 1 old,” said 1 To, the sage of Chinktown, “Bul we mhabit and ride i the new Aeslte Lo wen things thit are Good Wopk. “Lindbergh ttended bullfights “1t was good work.” answered Miss Cayenne, “He proved that s first-class ace can take popular attention away from the bull " In the Crowd. “Ind you see the big Christmas tree?” wsked Menrietta YL saw L7 answered Mr. Meekton CWhint did you Uik of 102" St get w chince W think. You Bandling the car that | forgot wll ahout Bants Claus and con cntnted on the GaMe cop” were 5o hisy “When pone wiong we Lotk whout w good man wald Unele Bhen, “de fact The | / THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. We found four books bencath our Christmas tree, three of them written in 1927, and the fourth about the year | 1350 We like the oldest one best. 1t s “The Little Flowers of St. Francis.” Perhaps it fs familiar to most readers, but it is the first time we ever read it. and we fecl as if we have made a_discover Somehow, the book brings the hu- manity of human beings closer together, | or makes it more of a picce, as it were. Take chapter II of the life of Brother Gile: Brother Giles went_once. in_ the process of time. to St. James', in Galacia, and in that whole journey he only once broke his fast, because of the great poverty of the country “And as he went asking alms, and | finding none who would give it to him, he came one cvening by chance to a barn, where a few beans lay scattered on the ground. “These he gathered up, and supped on them: and in this barn he passed the night, for he loved to abide in tary places remote from the haunts of men, the better to give himself to watching and prayer. “And God so strengthened him by his supper that if he had caten of ever so rich a banquet he could not have been so well refreshed. occeding then upon his way, he met with a poor man, who asked an alms of him for the love of God. And Brother Giles, charitable as he was, had nothing to give but the habit he wore. “So he ent the cowl from his cloak, and gave it to that poor man for the love of God. and so journeyed on with- out his cowl for 20 days together. “And as he was returning through Lomba a man_called to him, whom he went willingly. expecting to receive an alms: but when he stretched ot his hand, the man put a pair of dice into it, inviting him to play “Rrother Giles replied very humbly, ‘God forgive thee. my son!' “And as he passed through the world he met with much mockery and insult, and endured it ail in peace.” * ok %k Most of us. as we pass through the world, meet much mockery and insult. but how many of us endure it all in peace? Happy is the man or woman who can attain to the state of mind of Brother Giles, who said, “God forgive you!” and passed on. Is it not the sublime triumph of hooks that they ean bring us any good message undimmed by time? Some person unknown wrote this anecdote of the friar 500 years ago. Had it been a diamond. it would have been lost, lo. thea» many years! Had it been a beautiful painting, its colors would have faded. The faces of Giles and of the insolent young man. who asked him to play at dice (wi would call it craps today), would have lost the freshness which the artist | originally gave them. Had it bren a song. it might or might not have been sung in the twentieth century. But because it was put into words, and written down on paper, it arrives to us here in Washington, in the New Year of 1928, quite as alive, as warm with life, as when first pictured. In unfaded colors, with a glimmer as bright in English as in Italian, the homely story of how Brother Giles BY PAUL V. COLLINS. | Found--Terra incognita, named Brit- ish Honduras, by Col. Charles Lind- bargh. Owner may recover by describ- ing property, proving title and paying for the expedition which made this discovery. The press dispatch from Belize, Brit- ish Honduras, December 30, contained this paragraph “Before Col. Lindbergh could reply deafening cheers rose from the crowd Lindbergh smiled boyishly and bowed in acknowledgment. He said he was glad he had come to British Honduras. and laughingly admitted that there were a few in America who had never heard of such a colon: British Honduras is the only country in Central America which is not a re public, the only one which is not peo- pled by Latins, and the only hold of Great Britain, or any other Europran power, in the great isthmus between North and South America It is about the size of Massachusctts and has a population of 45317 which 1,000 are whites, the rest West Indian negroes, Mi Indians, Caribs and a few Guatemalans Great efforts were made immediately after our Civil War to induce South- erners to emigrate to British Honduras, yet the fact that even today there are | only a thousand whites in that country | indicates that there was never a stam- pede in that direction. Nevertheless, the climate is salubrious. the soil. aside from mountains, extremely rich and productive, and the lines of communi- cation with the commerce of the world almost unsurpassed, considering the de- velopment of the country .ok The chief indigenous resources of the region— logwood, mahogany and chicle are not increasing in commercial im- portance. Logwood was used for dyes until conl-tar dyes displaced the sap or julce of the tree, Mahogany continues to be prized in furniture, but it is no more valuable today than our own black walnut. Chicle 1 the base of our che ing gum, and, now that so many of out ladtes have taken to *moking, how can they continue to masticate chicle “Honduras” means the “region of great depths,” wnd, with these staples losing thelr demand, the name seems befitting to Honduran hopes —but for modern developments of bananas and sugnr and the possibilities of other ag- ricultural production The total exports in 1013 were $3.- 126 and In 1921, $3,045450. Half the exports are re-exports of goods orlgimating n_Guatemala and merely passing through British Honduras. The imports in 1013 amounted 5,308, and In 1021 to §3,3943.1 docs not indicate much progress in the lust 12 or 15 years, especially in view of the fact that the dollar In 1921 was vilued wt only wbout 67 cents. In 1921 the exports were less than in 1913 and the imports about $157,764 greater The best customer durns 15 not Great Britain, but United Btates of America The total vilie of exports to the “mother coun- try in 1021 was $401.370, while to the United Btates the wmount was $1,- 007,941 the R 1t wis on the shore of Honduras that Columbiin first touched the continent Later Corter and Alvarado invaded 1t took posseasion, founding a ity i which was destioyed by a flood In 1541, but was rebuilt and named La Antigun In 1638 & Beoteh buccaneer named Wallace, with his band of pirates, dis- covered mecoss o the mainland at Belize, through dangerous channels which would serve as a safe retreat aft- or @ piraticnl rald, where war vessels could not follow The location became known as Wallece Wallla - Vallis and, wn sounded by the Bpanish, Belige. The Bpaniurds had never really occupled the netghborhood of Belige, bu clulimed its soverclgnty until the Heoteh encronehing upon and capturing the Bpanish settlements involved (el mother countries fn war. This was i the reign of Cromwell The fist regular eatablishiment of Enghsh loggers seeking logwood and malogany was made in 1662 War fol Jawed 1 1067 between Bpain and Kng Tand vesulting in- English victory, and i 1670 Bpain ceded (o Kugland, by e Godolphin treaty, the soveroignty over all lands 1 Ametica and the Weal Indies, hield by Bpain at that time Yet, thereafter, despite that Godule plrates, oli- | to | of British Hon- | found refreshment at the barn comes to the modern reader. We watch him give his cowl, and see the approach of the young feilow who thought to take advantage of him. With the innocent faith of the Mid- dle Ages, Brother Giles held out his hand, and the practical joker—yes. they had them then, too--made as if to_give him a coin. Picture the friar, opening his hand, to find in i* a pair of cubes, emblazoned with sets of dots. Did he become en- raged, or throw the dice at the fellow's head? He did not Brother Giles knew how to act. “God forgive thee, my son!" he said. and went on. And as he passed through the world, he met with much mockery and insult, of which this was just a sample—and he endured it all in peace. #A The enduring it in peace crux of the problem. It applies to us today, in Washing- ton, D. C., or in Alexandria, Va., or in | Hyattsville, Md.. or wherever you may b2, quite as much as it did to him who was call:d Giles so long ago. There is no business in which one will not receive a mental or physical jolt every now and then. Some get one every day or so. The early years of most young men in business is a silent fight between the urge to succeed and the desire to back out Women are not the only ones who | make “catty” remarks. Nay, nay, brethren! The world of endeavor is filled with those who somehow have got the | strange idea that their own triumphal march will be aided by the forcing of others downward. Presidential aspir- ants are not the only ones who must meet “whispering campaigns.” If a_young man, however. can en- | dure all this in_peace, he will be able to triumph at last. and at the same time he will have retained command of his own mind and soul 1 The difficulty lies. of course, in keep- | | ing that mind at peace. Most of us are | | not saints, nor are we blessed brothers, | but just ordinary mortals, trying to | farn “a living. i Neither are most men what are com monly referred to as “philosophers The rub comes when such men, even | after they recognize the problem, at- | tempt to work it out to a successful | conclusion. This requires the best that a man has. It necessitates quite as much thought as the “job” itself. Often | enough it is a part of the job. From some standpoints, Brother Giles this is the | of high position, of great intelhg AT RANDOM Trem The Story of J. Anderson THE JOYOUS FRIAR Fra Filippo Lippl. A Frederick A, Stokes Co. “The story goes back more than half a thousand years in_theme and char- acter and setting. Yet, unvarying from century to century is human n fture in its escence of feeling, motivs and behavior, that the n . holding fast to this fact, delivers over to the reader men and women o at are no different from those around h no different from himself. Such epiration on the part of a few novelis that of devoting their powers to the unchanging quality of the human. serves o resurrect many a historic figure, serves to lift him out of trappings of an ancient and forgotten grave, to set him down alive in the present, forever cotemporancous, vivid, comprehensible and illuminating. Such point of departure tends toward the good effect also of modifying haish and hasty judgments against a p: that, save for surface non-cssentials, t no different from the precent. Its peo- ple the logical product of their times not monsters of deliberave as some would ha us in- A shining example in this new way of telling the historie tale is John Erskine, who has brought back to life Helen, Galahad, Adam and Eve. Here is “The Joyous Friar” to a degree cast in the same mold, with perhaps mors obvious effort to tally romance with history than John Erskine feels the urge to make. Mr. Anderson has not moved quite so definitively into the realm of the universal human as has the unacademic author of “Helen” and the others. The elate spirit of the buddir Renaissance pervades the story of Fr Lippi. Italian painters are here leadi the world of art. Florence and environs are the animating and g ing center of such achievement ready Giotto, Fra Angelico, Uccello Masaccio have preceded the painter Fra Lippi and to follow Botticelli. Leopardo da Vinel, Filip, Lippi. Michelangelo. But, this i not a chapter history of Italian art. save a urced in absorbing passion. Rathei is it the romance of a Carmelite frio and an Augustinian nun of the Con- vent of Santa Margherita. It is the love story of Fra Filippo Lipp:i and Lucrezia del Buti, a Florentine maiden o the chief in- t achievement and beauty, who stands 2 spiration of Lippi's high in painting. as more than one of famous Madonnas by this art bear witness. | had the advantage of modem men. | One _cannot go around today saying. | “God forgive thee, my son!" At leas! | | one does not. | | , Today one often is forced to “laugh | it offt.”" Ridicule is a powerful weapon | | that has grown with the centuries, and | which has been aided. in the United | States during the past half century, by | the standardization of men, clothes, habits and living in general. | Perhaps the most that can be done | today is to recognize the problem, its | very necessity, and then to determine | that one will, to the best of his ability. | endure in prace such mockery and in- | | sult as comes his way. The recognition, the determination, helps. ! | the model, BACKGROUND OF EVENTS | | | phin_treaty. Spain recovered dominion | {in 1779—while England was busy with | {our revolution——when the Honduran | Spaniards attacked Belize, captured its settlers and carried them off as prison- |ers to Havana, where they were held | | until 1783-—onc of the great tragedies of Colonial America. In the treaty of peace in 1798 Spain | relinquished Belize to the Fnglish and | | thenceforth it became a colony of the | | crown, ruled by a governor general ap- | pointed by the King. It has continued | | to have that status ever since. 1 L s % | | Of what special value to Great Brit- ain_is this little slice of the peninsula | of Yucatan? It is not fortified and is not even a naval base or supply sta- | tion. If Great Britain undertook to| build & naval base thereon ndw, would | | not the Central American countries and | the United States raise the diplomatic | query as to her friendly or unfriendly | intentions? The Monroe Doctrine would | not apply. but the unfeigned dominance | | of the United States in the Western | | Hemisphere would require a full ex- ‘plnunnnn. since we _carry the burden | |of defense of the Panama Canal, as well as of our own continental shores | In 1850 the United States and Great | | Britain entered into a treaty by which | |the United States was outmaneuvered | | in every respect. This was the infa- mous Clayton-Bulwer treaty, by which | the two countries mutually agreed to | protect the route of any interoceanic ' canal across the Isthmus, particularly | across Nicaragua. By the terms of the | treaty, neither country was to build or | maintain_its _own fortifications any- | | where upon the Isthmus- except that | | Great Britain reserved the right to| fortify British Honduras and its whole | Mosquito Coast region. | This treaty stood as a barrier to our {ever bullding & Panama or Nicaragua canal and in 1902, under President | | Roosevelt, it was superseded by the | | Huy-Pauncefote treaty, which bears | | no such exemption as to fortifying Brit- {1sh Honduras. Why did Secretary of | Btate Clayton consent to exempt Relize | from the prohibition of British fortifi- | cations While no dispute lies as to British sovercignty over British Honduvas, any {more than over Newfoundland or Can- | | ada or British ‘Guiana, times have so | {eh.nged that today it appears incon- | celvable that Great Britain would un- dertake fortifications anywhere on this L hemisph without diplomatic protest | from the United States, the dominant | power of the Western Hemispl The | objection would have no application ta the Monroe Doctrine, but would rest solely upon our right to wak againat whom such warlike preparations were tended, so near the United States. | \s would be especially pertinent, in case we undertook Lo exercise our pey petual right to bulld and operate a Nicarngua canal. Diplomacy recognizes the right of uny nation. believing its | safety menaced by the act of another, | even In peace time, to demand an e planation, Today, we are interested in seeing British Honduras, as well as all the ve publies of Central America. prosperous and peaceful. Theit prosperity witl add to our own commerce, regardless of | where the'r political affais ate con- olled (omiiehe 1S UNITED STATI IN WORLD WAR Ton Yours dga Toduy W Al Vo Catl ) Provost-marshul Gen. Crowder wrges that war aervices be confined (o men of class 1 One milllon such men ave avallable from the draft and 700 000 more annually from those veaching 21 yeurs of age. He would employ only those without dependents LA Government awards contract for 20,000 Hrowning machine guas. ni being diafted to provide for new cab netmember (e Known ea secretary of | mnitons, o divect purehase of all wa materials ws the result of Heaate | veatigation showing that members of supply committee of National Couneit of Detonse had partiipated o con Cacts tolaling SUIRA30 000+ * Great Beitain needs man power ao hadly that 10 will he necessary o vecruit lavge NUmBeEs af men fom munitions fae tories * 0 AMeAdye vequests 1l [ | ing idea, to_be sure, for | was the scandal of Lucrezia | d | lesser one than his zreat father. [ mand | or are to exercis The story develops. simply and nat- urally. Fra Filippy was t of the convent, Santa Mar; plous abbess greatly desired painted “by the greatest Tuscany” as a panel for the of the chapel. Clearly, Fr the artist for such a task, as more than one beautiful and graceful Madonna in “fresco and on wall made plam. And Fra Lippi said he would be glad to do this fer the good abbess provided t nun, Lucrezia, might sit as the mo: for such a pious undertaking. A shoc' nun to act as model. But, remember, the painter was a friar—and so, after many timid- | s eon- | ities and_fears, the good abbes sented. Then the sittings—the artist the quiet room. the com- munity of interest, between the two, the dawn of personal interest, the growth of human love. the | tremendous passion that forgot vo and dedicated lives and ich otk safeguards against the er of frail human nature. “abduc- tion,” there was her life with Fra 1 and the birth of little Filippino Lippt ined to be an artist, ton, though a Th by a convenient, and proper, dispensa- tion from authority Lucrezia was made A respectable woman through formal marriage with Fra Lippi. An exem- plary life together, some of Lippi's grent- est work, a_sober and even sain death to the Fra—these are the extenu- ations that cluster round. that should cluster round, to modify the judgment of succeeding generations upon a day so different from this day, wherein then as now, human nature doing its to conform to the regulations that are set upon its conttuct in behalf of the safety of society as a whole The author has be inctilious the matter of histo facts and curacies. But he has also o wise and sympathetic student of th natura and personality of a great genius, to whom all the world is in- debted for a beautiful and enduring a: Which shall it be—the great arts whom all time is in debt man who did his best to correct the ills of his own creating? Here is a finely vivid picture, carefully drawn in its accuracies and. yet, remaining a portraval as deep in Insight as it is tensely dramatic in situation and de- ac- | velopment. ook % STORY -LIVES OF MASTER WRT ERS. Charles Harlow Raym Frederick A Stokes Co. The author of this book is Master of English_at Lawrenceville School as {n all sehools the students their Shakespeare and Seott s ley and Keats and_Tennyso: st on down to O. Henry Burnett. This book is, without de a reach toward every teacher's of putting personality. life. v the studies that tend around succeeding gene dents women whose lferary work is to constitute & n education this author life-saving expedient of making stor aut of the lives of the writers under constderation Shakespeare steps hix deep profundities of thought speech into the streets of London where at this and that and the other activity he comes upon the happy knack of put- ting together plays that the Londoners of Elizabeth’s day de ok upon A very human low, this Wil Shak hereatter to give a new slant upon the study of Hamlet and King Lear and the | gathering w of the London streets Henry did later from thoss of New York And here 18 Stevonson. gallant indomitable man, unconquerable sy creating ad- ventures - the very body of lusty health and outfar wave And so, With each af the others, there th purpose and the achievement o e these writers up with the datly Interests af the bove and gty who de some sueh - canesssion Lo thety own full personal programs i thes writers of the past and (he present are to have any sort of heaving from 1l st of o Acquatnt Lok, or on rest. And here is Dicken long fame out something as O hter any i the making of Lterary 1 should think that th of 1 like purpose and excellence of prowe | ton of the d would prove to b on Hnks be. sivable, but usually lacking tween the vobuat and greatly preocen pled atudents of any achool and the material which 1s used to urge on then appreciation and acceptance of good writers and thetr work The simplicity of this book s 1ty great point It runs along about Dickens or another just like talk about some one 1 the town or over the way il Dickens comes and st down with the bovs telling them a few of (he things that they would most want to know about young fellow who could pull stores ot oF the strect mueh ke palling hares Out oF ® WAl You may not b a st Aent anywhere except i bfe but vau Ao bound o like the natural hanan auality of this ook Toidt brather hoods ta work avertine and move (e I view of acute b ANOEEARE. DIASHIe Cults i passenser erviee wre beig mase o alleyiate coan westion of freight Austians are helpleas e Fioneh on front and Petain's wen Gake mor Dosaners Ahan they Bave vops en woned heart | the | the silent speech | r an erring | k- | Aalian NSWER Government statistics bring out th fact that the uneducated man has only | one chance in 800 to attain distinction. | “There is no reason why any one should | | live under such a handicap in thes: | | days of free schools and free Informa- | | tion. ‘This paper supports in Washing- ton, D. C., the largest free information burean in existence. It will procure for you the answer to any question you may ask. Avail yourself of its facilitie for your seif-improvement. Inclose ent stamp for return postage. Ad- dress The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director Washington, D. C. 0. Tsaw a statement that the Larkin Building in New York City will be 108 stories high. Can clevators travel as | high as that?—G. N. A. Vertical travel depends upon_ the efciency of the elevator zervice. In a building of 108 stories. the limit of | travel for a single elevator is estimated | to be 82 stories. Above that a shuttle | car is used. | Q. Give some of the traits of the | German shepherd dog?—R. G. A. The German Shepherd breed of dog is noted for its watchfulness, hon- esty, courage and loyalty. Q. How did Lincoln Beachey meet his death? —W. G. A. Lincoln Beachey was killed on March 14, 1915, while making a flight ! from the Panama Pacific Exposition Grounds at 8an Francisco. He started on a perpendicular dip from a height of 3.000 feet. As he attempted to straight- en out the wings, the monoplane col- lapsed. Michael Q. Andreas de A’ Micheel Andreas Bare a Russian field marshal from 1761 to 1818. He of a Seottish family cettled In_Russia in the seventecnth | century. He served against Napoleon in the campaimn in Germany. Later he was commandet-in-chief of the Rus sian Army and for his service was made a prince. He died in Prussia in 1818 hy did Comdr. Bvrd reenive the ional Medal’—A. T. E A. Comdr. Richard E. Bvrd received the Congressional Medal of Honor and he Distinguished Service Cross as an award for the Pol ight. de Tollv . Q. Is the number of Christians { the world increasing or decreasing? D. T A. The number of Christians in the world increas In 1910 the | mate 477,080.158; in 1926, 5686, ted correspondence <pondencs back Lo the e of T The real d 1eation ginn: fellow 1867 Q. Is Ingersoil's wife still living?— Eva_A. Ingersoll. widow of t G. Ingersoll. died on Febru- Vhat is the ratio of accidents in | th's country?>—H. T. Y A. One person in every nine in the United States me with an accident every year and one out of every 10 deaths to accidental TO QUESTIO BY FREDERIC ). HASKIN. causes, according to a survey made by the Reconstruction Hospital of New York City, Q. Will a small water kly pool in a “";.“";l‘ near a house breed mosquitoes? A. Tt is advisable through the Sum- mer season to keep several goldfish in such a pool who will feed on any larvae of mosquitoes, if present, well as add to the attractiveness of the ponl Q. How many eo-operat there in the United States A. There are approzimately 2.000 co- Tative storez, more than half of ;‘rr,hrh are organized among the farm- e stores are ¢ o 5 A Q Which was on the market first Postum or Grape-Nnte7o 4 B K. T A Postum cereal has heen on the market for 32 years. Grape years, and In Postum, 16 y Q. How does a con bership in the Leag: w. H A. Any fully self-governing sta‘e dominion or colon v obtain m: bership by a two-thirds vote of | Assembly. . What is the meaning of the let- tersO. H M. 5.7—N. T A. These ini' Q. Which is the taller. Mount Jeff: con in Orégon. or Mount Jeffersan ir New Hampshire’—B. T. A The peak in Oregon, is 10,200 feet i peak in the White M Ilamwlnrw. reaches a height of ee Q. When was the la Rider Haggard knighted? he born?>—W. F. A A. The English novelist =as knighted in 1912. He was born at Bradenham Hall, Norfolk. Q. What was Farragut's flagship the attac’s on New Orleanz’—J R A. The Hartford was the flagship in which Admiral Farragut made his at. tack on New Orleans. in April. 1352. She was also his flagship in the attack on Mobile, ©. What kind of | snow"?—R. C. m is applied to a Ligh ngz. after the robins h: Whers wa: in ow is “robin Q. What is the color of the flower of the crab cactus?—A. C. A. A. The crab cactus is a handsome cactus with red flowers risinz from the ncate tops of the branche:. There scveral cultivated varieties with purple, roscate or variezated Q. Who was known as “Peter the —T. T. E sobriquet was apphed sant. Governor of tn New should honey bs kept m in a sealed parkage, honey hould be kept in a drv place: other- t = likely to absord moisturs and spoil. for when diluted it will ferment or sour readily. as will any other sim- tlar sugar sirup. Heat and drymess are found together in the and ordinari the safest r honev are the warmest the lcast desirable is the re- frigerator. S. Steel Seen ~ As Asset to Nation’s Industry ' A fortunate solution of the manage- the United States seen by the public { in the election of J. Pierpont Morgan as chat n of the board to serve with | James A. Farrell, president, and Myron C. Taylor, chairman of the finance | comm as a triumvirate at the head { of the affairs of the organization. “Vision and sound policy will cor:- tinue to rule the af. ce in American ustry,” says the says. regardine | the place which was occupied by Judge | Gary “In a sense to be no succes- sor to him, the unusual circum stances that ended Elbert Gary's connection with the birth and develop- ment the corporation placed the dge In A position almest unique in | American corporate organization. H: not only as chairman of the rectors, but performed a of the executive duties as nterest in PHILOSOPHIES BY GLENN ¥RANK demagogue always professes to the people. demagog follow N A& poser campagn_ and A pirate mpaign, he follows the e for the loaves and fishes. 8o, here, back of the men and | demagogue’s think 1t s unsov The crities who criticize the dema- gopue's theory of a leadership that follows the people that all prog- ress 1s born i the brain of lonely and gieat leaders who dream dreams see visions and think thoughts far | trom th owd and then bring the | truit ot aloofness down into the arketpla There sense fn which all great mature thetr dreams in the od coolness of meditation, the o serves mankind i the hur- e of the valley needs now and to retire to the mountain tops but 1 should hike to challenge the o t that timate contact with the people 15 dangerous to high dreams or that it dulls the fine edge of far- stghted leadership. were ts, 1 think, an une under the demagogue’s cation of the people as the overlord aderahip The demagogie may flatier the peo- ple far votes | The gveat prople 1o sust Vitality for Walk ol ¥y mta the then leader walks with s vertty and see s vison froam the hoprovert, nigh 1w S than aftice < U trae of art for an art that DAN A studio (hat iy insulated from contact with the life of the poople be comes arty and artificial T trae of sctence, for the selen Ust who shuts the Bie of his time OUE Of NS laborataey s Bikely to e come but the manufacturer of weap ons that Kl men's bodies an battles | felds o sterilize thelr spinits by put Ug WHRID Bens teach & ton cheaply | Won comton 11 tue af education g hat does not aink it SOl of s Lme becames teaves lite barren 166 fhue of religion Bl does o Wik iy e of (he peonle evaies by e thenlaioal webapanings of mean [ who are more lagiciana (an ophets Andl pricsts e demagogie follows Al w Bcames & xveopliant Phe statesinan walka With the pes [ AR S0 Bavaries AN ARt spiv Al leader “ L MUCiiee en i S peaple.” and savs you an wali aure, true of eeking mer for A learn ooty the boakish wnd o A el weims of e e peaple e wey dus Sreal many vears been Margan's taking the position.™ ing to the New York Times, “arose from A certain perplexity how & danker en- waged financ! duet the pal e of thase palicies necessit of responsi st had ences between agers on cerned al indispensadble officer in the af Rreater corporations tatton fHuence b rogand this the detailed management of ¢! poration. the judge was at pains 10 rep- resent brm explain the corporation ‘o the public.” Of the members of the triumvirate. the Albany Evening News saye “Mr. Farrell worked as a laborer in a when he was 15, He is called the t working executive in Amu ica e is a romance of business. He is proud that he learned to work with his hands. Mr. Morgan is a finan- cier in whom the country has the greatest confidenct Mr. Taylor is a builder of corporations. These th: represent unusual force of character and ability. and carty United States Steel forward and make for wire held sway.” observes Courter-Journal. twentieth century g business h all cred: however, 1t was the J. P. Morgan cor- poration that he evolved. for without was content with a seat wheicier he happened to be assigned one §°s tableboard--is requested t ce At the head of the tadle antry rejoices that this is the case. neans good things for the steel in- sy, It means no dad thing for the se of Morgan Finance as well as hould advantage by this latest Whatever is of good re- S commercial. in- tal life has for a ustly aseribed to the integrity of the Morgan name.” “The rather general surprise at Mr. accond 1 many other and very exacting ! tasks could find time to con- of the immense and 1 Corporation. The ans ns (0 De that the very complexity dvision Since there chief. whose word the case of duffer- the o~ DALE mar restions of policy which con- (ments. the chaurman e doard has bevome & new and rs of the atricate St should be fnal of e e Speaking o nterpreiad as For o kg as J person nawd d States name i Ame Gany ather the Uait and noe o v, o same Kind of chaiman Judie He will telv o others foe Ve condiet Of Ehe SRy af Which s what many really dg le TONTEANIS LI eved by ihe Asheville s, Wil confiewm and strengthen United States Steels repui- fOrindustrial power and And thatl paper expiains that 1A A NAtter of deep ancern e the COUNTEY AL Bige how (s conporation s [ A are managed. (0 the ntmate telation of this company eral Sate damanial ot W ohe gen ndistral wellate of the Uaited Das g Beel aovepied as & fune Aeriean dusiess The Maugautown New Dhunimon sees 1O ATTAIARIMRE TR CWMBNRISe the baitle within the board of dives s W I8 Knowm 10 have beew Progress fehaive af (AIYS sueces \ B several WManihs ovey i The Syracise Heralt canctudes that e KDOWING anas i Ihe teabm of g WA A e Wy B expeeied Mgenions atheeation ab singulacly sagaciows and Nawers A Teliottoun™