Evening Star Newspaper, January 14, 1928, Page 8

EVENING STAR h_Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D.C. . \TURDAY....January 14, 1928 % ' EODORE W. NOYES....Editor T — Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 11th St.and Pennavivania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd 8t. Chicago Ofce: Tower Building. L ropean Office: 14 Regent St.. London, England Within the City. T % . .45¢ per month 1 Sunday’ Star Sundars) . . .. 60c per month T Svening and Su ar ten 5 Sundave) .65¢ per month T Sunday Star 8¢ per cony mction made ‘st ihe end of each month. ,max be sent in by mail or telephone. I'ste by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. o ] s All Other States and Canad; £ v and Sunday..1 st $12.00: 1 mo T o mo.” 5 L 3 $400: 1mo. 35¢ Member of the Assoclated Press. Tie Associated Press is exclusively entitled 4 %e use for republication of ail news d Platforms and Nominations. Gov. Smith of New York, in his pre- ption for solidarity through pre- | unjustly suspected, while others, blood- guilty, were not suspected at all, while to give information usually proved fatal to the informer. After a trial lasting three months seven only were acquitted and 147 were convicted of various crimes ranging from larceny to murder. To reach the verdict took three days, but no one grudged the time consumed. The criminals arraigned were in docks heavily barred with steel gratings and guarded by carabinieri with loaded rifies. The sentences pronounced ranged from five to twenty-five years for those who get off the easiest up to hard labor for life for the worst offenders. All Italy, and particularly Sicily, s to be congratulated on the success of this vermin-extermination campaign. Thereby the kingdom and all parts of the world to which such persons mi- grate are placed distinctly in the debt of these two eminent Italians, the premier and the prefect. The iron hand has closed at last on a band whose ferocious menace was of long standing, and of ill fame throughout all nations. »aons- A Commendable Competition. When it is considered that the whole | country will thereby be paying solemn tribute to its whole Army. the sum of fifty thousand dollars. which Congress is confidently expected to appropriate for the completion of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier does not appear ex- mination declaration of principles, set the Democratic party a difficult | In his letter which was read at | Jackson day harmony dinner here | other night he stressed the need ! agreement upon and pronounce- | of policies in advance of the gath- | which names the candidates. His s on this subject should be care- | i¥ noted: | 1 venture to say that the declaration ! © party principles might well be tenta- t ely drafted at the earliest possible I believe we have erred in the | p:st by waiting for the national con- ¥°ntion to undertake the entire task of preparing a platform. In the heat and rush of a convention the platform, when finally written. is. to my way of think- | not sufficiently understandable to masses of the people. There is too great a tendency to speak of the evils that beset us and to fail to suggest any specific remedy. Party platforms of re- eant years have been too general in | their ‘terms and important questions | have been neglected by platform build- ers in the spinit of compromises with | great principles. We cannot carry water on both shoulders. The Democratic party must talk out to the American People in no uncertain terms. Just how is this suggested remedy to | be applied? Is there to be a pre-con- wvention convention, to be devoted strict- 1y to the task of framing the platform, with a lapse of time before the nom- Inating gathering? Who would consti: tute the “party” at such a meeting? ‘Would the delegates named for nomina- tion purposes be also the platform mak- | ers, perhaps making two trips to the convention city? Or would the na-| tional committee write the platform? The national committee of a party is 8 “held-over” from the preceding quad- Tennial convention. It has heretofors been regarded as fundamental political law that the nationel committee of one eampaign year must not attempt to dictate the principles upon which the mext campaign is to be fought. Of ®ourse, a political party is supposed to Rhave a continuing line of policy from Which it must not depart between elec- tions or even in tbe course of a long period. But political expediency has alweys modified this supposition and there have been numerous instances of revision and modification and “soft- Ppedaling” and compromising to meet Bewly arising conditions. To satisfy all the elements of a party fn all sections as fully as possible a piatform must be written by a conven- tion composed of the delegates who are “fresh from the people,” who repre- sent the latest expressions in the vari- ©us districts and States. Of course, it | s true that the delegate to the party eonventions are almost always chosen Wwith reference to their preferences for a eandidate rather than their views on “issues.” Aad it is this fact that makes 4 dificult to dissociate platform writ- ing from candidste choosing. Even if separated by au interval of time, the piatform would be a reflection of the eandidate prefercnces of the delegates, £f the same personnel constituted both | g2loerings. Despite its difficulties, Gov. Smith's | Suggestion has undeniabie merit in the Mbstract. It would be a wholesome ehange for a pofitical party to present M statement of principles 1o the coun- %y in advance of the nomination of the candicates, as a guarantee that the eandidates named actually represent thase principles, as & pledge that those candidates if elected would carry out Shose principles. In point of practic: the sdoption of a platform actually precedes the selection of candidates, and the nominations are supposed Lo fit the | platform. But it has occurred, as in 1904, that the candidate has declined o stand on the platform siready adopt- od and has compelied its modification. With this precedent 1o guide the Demo- @ratic party 1t may be that the dilemma which Gov. Bmith perhaps foresees in the immediately forthcoming campaign may be svoided should the convention that nominates nim, should that be his Sortupe, at the same time adopt a plat- form Gpon which he cannot consclen- Sously go W the wountry. - - Old Joun Barleycorn has his periods of retirement a IS T 1 t t t c 1 c . 1 “ R Tie Team of Mussolini and Mori. Uy jush Mussolni & good deal Sbuut souse of Lis policies and personai Ppoculantes lurgely outside of Iaiy, bowever—yet wll must be prepured U Samit that wien he says be will do & Shing the chances are that his promise will be fulfilled Almost precisely two Yenrs sgo Lhe premier snnounced that be hed ordered -8 clesn-up of the Biwcilian “Mafis,” thet sncient and close | orgunization of greedy feudist cut- torosts, end Wid Prefect Mon of the police of the isiand w get busy. Fes- | sism, Geclared tihe governmental leader, whica had hesled s many of lalys Wounds, must ceuterize thst of Bicilisn enminelity with lron sud fire, “Go from Lp W butom 4 the very JooL of the matter, regardless of any one's feelings.” wae his crisp Inetruction W Prefect Mor News Qispslches re- | ©ently received from Home tell of the success of Lhe prefect’s messures wnd Snnounce that L notorious Mafe has LGS edly seceived s death blow st Bignor Mor found oul thet 154 | 0. vi0ua) citisens of Biclly were memn- et Tt mlone wes s wchievement, a.d\.u Lt Lurbulent sisnd many wag | - | amount, the general deficiency bill pro- | be divided equally in payment for the | Oia Dominion will be added a natural | mecca which in years W come will | now assumed widespread proporions in- | wsmiuch s the resultant investigation cessive. In fact, it might be wished that even more were asked. For more | than six vears now this hero, who per- sonifies all who gave their lives for democracy, has rested u “hunk“—there is no betier word—of unadorned stone. bearing the plainest of inscriptions. The explanation must constantly be made to foreigners and natives alike that the tomb is not fin- ished. That progress seems to have begun | definitely toward the erection of a monument which shall be a suitable vehicle of the sentiment involved is a source of gratification. The Quarter- master General of the Army, who has supervision over all national cemeteries | inthe United States, istoinvite artists both of this country and of other lands | to submit designs in competition for the | completion of the tomb. Authority for | this completion was given by Congress in 1926, but no funds were provided therefor until about a month ago, when | in lieu of appropriating the entire | | | vided the sum of $2,500 for securing | preliminary designs. This amount is to | five best plans submitted. However. the winner will be awarded an additional $3.500, to come out of the anticipated $50,000. which makes entry into the | competition well worth any artist's | while. It would be highly satisfactory if the memorial tomb could be completed and, with stirring ceremonies, dedicated on | the tenth anniversary of the armistice. That, however, seems impossible. Cer- tainly it can and should be con- pleted by the tenth anniversary of the entombment, on November 11, 1931. May the final result, in impressiveness and beauty, be proportionate to the de- lay. Its setting could scarcely be im- proved upon. A revision upward of the appropriation planned would hurt no- body's feelings. Neither would the fact that the winner of the competition be a citizen of the United States. — vt Shenandoah Park in Sight. Gov. Byrd's efficient administration has converted Virginia's deficit of more than a million dollars on March 1, 1926, into a surplus expected to exceed two million dollars by next March, and enables him to ask, in his message to the General Assembly, for an appro- priatien of $1,000,000 as the State’s contribution to the purchase of the area proposed as the Shenandoah National Park. This is good news Washington has more than a passing interest in the completion of this great Here in the Capital the plans | project. for acquiring the park have been con- sidered almost in the lLght of a local undertaking. The physical advantages to the Capital of such an area, reached within a few hours’ drive from the city, have not been overlooked. But of equal importance has been the pros- pect of obtaining this tract, unexcclled in scenic beauty and rich in historical tradition, as a national park for the Eastern section of the United States. If Gov. Byrd's request for $1.000000 is met by an eppropriation at this session of the State Legislature, ac- tual creation of the park by presenta- tion of the land to the Federal Gov- ernment will be delayed no longer. The land has been surveyed and contains ‘some 327,000 acres. The State appropria- tion requested by Gov. Byrd, added to the subscriptions pledged by private in- dividuals, will bring available funds to more than two-thirds of the purchas price, and the balance remaining will, it is understood, be met by contribu- tions from a few individuals. Wash- ington contributed something over $50000 to the purchase of the land, so that the Capital has a real in- terest in watching the final steps be- fore the park comes into existence. If there are no hitches in the contem- plated procedure, these remaining steps should be completed within & year, and 10 the many other attractions of.the draw millions of worshipers from every section of the United Batcs. R Public sentiment Is erratic and there is sometimes n apparent sdvantage in rendenng & crime sufficiently strocious W cause it 1o be well sdvertised, e raop 4 e The Result Counts. Although the specifications for brakes on sutomobiles in the District of Columbia were drawn by & commit- tee of nations] experts wnd are vech- nically perfect, a fecling has srisen that perhisps local traffic suthonities are get- tng & litte out of their depth in at- tempting o enforce strictly thelr pro- visions, Anging from the fact that one of the prominent new small cars ap- peared in Washinglon with two brakes Operating on the same mechanism when the regulations specity two separately operuted brakes, the controveisy has has disclosed that other wutomobles now being operated in the ity have the same braking srisngemnent as the new small car, 1t i freely conceded that two sets of liakes OPOIBLLE 0L BPRIIY B LBG- ’ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1928 . isms are more desirable than two sets of brakes operating on the same mech- anism, but if both produce the same result, that of quick stoppage, it would appear that on a basis of logic it makes little difference in what manner the re- sult is attained. Of course, the prac- tice of installing two separately oper- ated brakes on automobiles is for the safety factor in case one brake should fail, but inasmuch as an accident of this kind is as rare as that of the crack- ing of a steering gear this factor is al- most negligible. For some time past automobile man- ufacturers have been getting away from the use of the emergency brake as a service brake, and about all that a hand brake, on the majority of cars, is used for nowadays is to hold the car at a standstill when parked on an incline. Experienced drivers use the hand brake when starting on a hill, but it is sur- prising to note how few motorists realize the benefits of this method. This circumstance can be accounted for in part by the inaccessibility of the hand brake on some makes of cars, and be- cause it is of absolutely no use in an emergency, as to reach it the motoris would have to burrow almost out of sight behind his instrument board. It is for this reason that the feeling has arisen that the time spent on in- | vestigating automobiles that stop well within the regulations, no matter how | accomplished, might better be spent on machines that do not meet the rules | of quick stoppage regardless of the type of brakes they carry. After all, the re- sult is what counts and not the man- _ner by which it is reached. There are plenty of automobiles in Washington today which by no stretch of the imagination could comply with the rules governing stoppage, and it seems idle to stir up a controversy over cer- tain makes of cars that amply meet all | provisions of deceleration, but in a | slightly different way than the tech- nical specifications that the code pre- scribes. N Of course, there is no doubt that Houston, Tex., will give Al Smith’s name rousing cheers whenever mer- tioned. There will have to be wonder- ful energy displayed if he receives the | ovations to which he is accustomed in his own home town. ——— A wreath was placed by Andrew Mel- lon on the’statue of Alexander Hamil- ton. The act shows a bond of under- standing. It is a pity that the span of | human life is too short to have per- | mitted two such men of financial un- derstanding to meet in conference. e Small countries seeking fame without | substantial reward easily accomplish their purpose by the simple process of neglecting substantial industry in order to set up a trouble factory. —r————— Human sympathy is not always log- ical. In solicitude for sentenced offend- ers the fnnocent victim of the crime is likely to be forgotten. - There can be no doubt that capital punishment is wrong in the degree that the public is made to suffer by inti- mate reminders of the harrowing details ———t———— News that Lindbergh has taken cold inspires a universal fear that the pneu- monia germ will set up an impudent struggle for historic prominence. . Evidently Senator Borah has no use for the statesman who thinks he can take an eighteenth amendment or let |. it alone. et " SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, January Respite. Golden sunshine for a while! January brought a smile Like the smiles that Summer wore In those happy days of yore. Now the seasons take a chance And extend a small advance. Buds will soon be squandering All their prospects for the Spring. Skies will hover gray and chill; Storms will sweep across the hill. “Where's that golden day?” we moan— It was just a lttle loan. Opinions. “Every man is entitled to his opin- ion,” remarked the friend. “Yes,” answered Senator Sorghum. “But in politics it’s just as well to select th* kind of opinion that is likely to make you friends and not enemies.” Myth Economy. In Pebruary, verses fine Are uttered without pause. We'll rhyme about 8t. Valentine Instead of Santa Claus. The Christmas saint’s expense was great, But cheer need not be lost. Bt. Valentine we celebrate At very little cost Jud Tunkins says there's not much satisfaction in trying to measure last night's good time by this morning's headache. Substitution. “Bome women think of nothing but clothes.” “And some,” commented Miss Cay- enne, “appear intent on making nothing take the place of the clothes.” “An idle man,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, "Iy experience trouble In fnding enough other idle men W keep lim from being lonely.” Early Sunrise. 1 talked whout & sinrise there, With all its beauteous gleam. 1'd overslept. ‘That sunrise fair Was Just & lovely dream. “De way to beat u hoss race,” sald Uncle Eben, “is Lo fohgit It an’ go Lo de movies Airplanes and Autos Fast Displacing Camels From the Oakland Tribune Going, golng, almost gone, 15 the service rendered Lo man by the camel. Not only has the sutdnobile with its vastly superior speed and efficlency tended Lo displace the picturesque “ship of the desert,” but enters now also the airplane Lo complete the work, A dozen airplanes, it is announced, are being sought from an American concern by the Hedjaz Pilgrims Trans- purt Agency, each plane capable of cariying “20 or more passengers for the Gansport of pilgrims from Jedda (o Mecen, from Mecoa 1o Meding and from Meding Lo Jerusalem during April, May wnd June, 1928 he stir and whirr of & new age is overywhisis waking sl uuuu? e A -l BY CHARLES ‘The great French story teller, Guy de Maupassant, with that terrible hon- esty of which he was master, in one of his short stories speaks of certain types of people who, he says, are “ignorant * * = not suspecting the fact that the simple are always deceived, the sincere made sport of, the good maltreated.” Later, in the same story he says “Some go on till the day of their death in this blind probity and loyalty and honor, so pure-minded that nothing can open their eyes.” Thus it is seen that this cool chron- icler of life as he found it recognized the essential happiness of such char- acters, despite the fact that they might be deceived, made sport of, and mal- treat In another of his justly famous short stories (many of them simple sketches, hardly deserving the title of ‘“short story,” as we know it), Maupassant re- counts the love story of the colonel's daughter, who ran away with one of her father's soldiers and lived with him for fifty years on the rugged isle of Corsica. “How sad!" remarked one of the hear- ers, in the story, as she listened to the recital. “Yes, but remember,” said an- other, “she was happy!"” ‘This second story gomplements the first. It is seen even by this hard realist that happiness, within certain limits, is its own reward. T Are the simple in heart always de- ceived, and the sincere invariably made sport of, and the good constantly mal- treated? Many will rebel at this stricture, be- lieving it to be too inclusive, but this is a fault of all writing. No statement can be made which does not have its exceptions. truth as a generality. He realizes, as he writes, that many exceptions to his truth will immediately occur to the cultured reader, but for the life of him he will change not one fot of it. He gives his reader credit for kno ing as much as he does. The only dif- ably possesses the power of self-expres- other. ‘This is why a reader so often says to himself, “Why, that is exactly what I think.” The writer expresses for him something which he, the reader, “feels,” as he puts it, but never h: put into words before. or possible never seen put into words before. * X % % “Not suspecting the fact that the simple are always deceived, the sincere made sport of, the good maltreated.” Even the most tenderly nurtured per- son, who has been handled very gently by life, will recognize the underlying truth of this statement of Maupas- sant It refers, not to the necessary reac- but to the too often indulged-in reac- | upon’ observation Perhaps Maupassant was a Maybe a pessimist. Yet it rema fact that such men often utter truths which ought to be stated. no matter how much one inclines to resent them It does no one any harm to realize, now and then, that the world is filled with people, both men and women, and some children, alas, who delight in de- the sincere, and in injuring the good THIS AND THAT All a writer can do it to set down the | ference between a good writer and a good reader is that the former prob- | sion to a more marked degree than the | tions of human beings to one another, | tions, which tend to make one cynical | eeiving the simple, in making sport of ' E. TRACEWELL. Ever since the world began, evidently, the good, the sincere and the simple have been subjected to attack by those who delight in sneering at these quali- ties. Since these are improvements over the c) animal state, it is diffi- cult to figure out just why they are maligned. Is it because mankind better appreci- ates the animal virtues, or is it jeal- ously, or is it because some hypocrites have brought these fine qualities into disrepute? Probablysa combination of these causes results in the attack. Today the thing has got so bad that often men skulk about being good, as if the theory and practice of virtue were things to be ashamed of. * ok ok ok ‘Those of the natural disposition of which our author speaks, however, never sneak, because they simply do not realize that they are any different from any one else. Imagine such a person saying to him- self or herself, “Why, I see by this dis- cussion that I am simple-hearted!” Or another, looking at himself in the mirror and saying to his image, smile answering to smile, “So this is what a sincere man looks like, eh' Life isn't that way. The very point is, as Maupassant pointed out, that these good. people almost invariably are ignorant of their own perfection, and thus perhaps re- main in exira danger of not realizing that others may “put one over on them” if they are not careful. The simple in heart are not always deceived, nor are the sincere invariably | made sport of, nor the good always | mistreated, but these things have hap- pened enough in the history of the world to justify the story-teller's hard statement. As long as there is unworldliness | here will be worldliness to take ad- vantage of it: as long as the simple | remain in their simplicity there will | be duplicity to “take them in”; as long as utterly sincere persons insist on being sincere there will be plenty of insincerity to make game of them. It is well, then, that those who have even a tinge of these good qualitie realize the extent of their opposites, | and the crude cheeriness with which | they are wielded, for by doing so they | will save themselves much misery. | Those who have no guile in their | own hearts make the best victims of | those who practice deceptions. Those who live narrowly, as it were, content | with their own lives and those of a few | friends, find themselves in danger from | the sharp duplicity of scoundrels. It is here that the daily mewspapers. by | | recounting facts, render a real service to mankind. | Everywhere one sces the sincere per- son made sport of by those who seem | | lo feel, in some peciliar fashion. that | ife s a thing of jest, not to be taken | 1v. The man with the “single- | track mind” has so-called “fun” poked n perpetually. If he will simply that he will meet this, the rea n will help him to meet it. It is unpreparedness, ignorance, which hurts | | him most . The crown of the simple, the good | and the sincere is the very thing that | Maupassant points omt, that they are | at first, “What's left to me now | the easy and quiet evening w | “so pure-minded that nothing can open | their eyes.” So they go on “in this | lind probity and lovalty and honor. ssly Maupassant told the | gh probably he did not | personally put much stock in such per- | sons. he recognized their worth and essential happiness. American newspapers find little to | say on behalf of the religious organiza- tion which canceled speaking engage- ments of Miss Maude Royden. noted English evangelist, on hearing that sho laxation. One of the defenders of the action. the Chicago Tribune. concedes “it might have been more gracious to have ignored differences of habit,” but in- sists that “it is the privilege of a re- | igious conviction to avoid sceming to give sanction to practices people of that conviction disapprove, even by so small a concession as giving ear and atten- tion to & preacher whose words might not offend, but whose known views and habits do.” As viewed by the New York Herald- Tribune, “the cigarette and the ‘eman- cipated’ woman arrived at about the same time and have been coupled ever since. And if Miss Maude Royden is ‘emancipated,’ then the Jadies of th Home Missionary Society would rather | not Lsten to her. They prefer,” con- tinues the New York paper, “lo hea their old-fashioned religion expounded by cld-fashioned girls. It is a matter of taste. Excuseitplease.” “It must seem rather amusing to the visitor from Mars," the Des Tribune-Capital suggest icans selling more thas smokes cigarcties. 1f cigarettes are wrong, then why is the United States expanding the sale of them by some 10,000,000,000 a year?” The Topeka Daily Capital, quoting the evangelist's statement, “I certainly do not concede that it is & matter of religious impor- tance,” adds its comment: “If it is, a ood many good church communicants fn this country, of both sexes, will have to change their ways.” - xx “The crux of the matter is that Miss Royden's cigarettes aren’t Miss Roy- n any more than her face says the Hartford Times, the Columbia, Ohlo, State Journal ask: “Why cannot we leave these comparative trifes to the individ- ual conscience, doing as we think right ourselves and not feeling it our duty to proclaim our disapproval of other ma- ture persons who do not see exactly as we do?” “Were all the women who smoke to attend a lecture by Miss Royden,” re- marks the Boston Transcript, “the audi- torium which is to be perched on the Boston & Maine station would not be large flmush to hold half of them. Doubtless they would agree with the dictum of the preacher that smoking is not & matter of religlon. Others may not_agree, but the new order is here And there are men who take comfort in the fact that while & woman smokes cigarette she cannot very well chew gum or use i lpstick.” “Wonder how many of the ladies who canceled the invitation and who con- curred In the cancellation,” observes the Passalc Dally Herald, “know how many of thelr daughters, of high school and college age, have lighters and clgurette Roiders in_ their handbags “The Port Arthur News believes that “there are milllons of Americans who are in hearty accord with the conclu- sion of this foremost woman preacher of England who ‘smokes clgarettes b cause she enjoys them and because they rest her nerves.' " “Miss Royden in not a smoking reacher,’ affirms the Ann Arbor Daly | ews. “Bhe 15 & preacher who happens to smoke. Bhe probably is no better nor worse as & lecturer on unt of to- bacco. ‘There 18 no logical connection ™ The News also luys down the principle raining from smoking does not make 8 man or woman morally good, and Indulgence does not make a man or woman immoral,” and records thut “some very nice people smoke and vil Iains have been known not to tndulge o v Going back futo history, the Francisco Bulletin vecalls: “Fobacco was ot & habit &t the tine of Wilting either the New or the Old ‘Testament The nearest reference (o the fragrint weed 13 thut discovered by w Muscovite thealogian concerning whom Voltulie makes 0t I hin e of Chat XU of Bweden, ‘Thcre had becn @ d e AR s e smoked cigarettes in moments of re- | Moines | “to see Amer- | 70,000,000 000 | cigarettes this year and then read the | protest against & woman lecturer who | Ban | o iy Ban Put on Woman Evangelist For Smoking U. S. Press Topic ! pute of many days as to the of smoking and dri taken on both issues. wi spirit. There was a deadlock not to be broken until the theologian, who did | ot care for tobacco. chanced upon the | t: “Not that which goeth into the outh defileth a man. but that which | cometh out of the mouth defileth a man’ That was taken as permitting vodka and prohibiting tobacco.” | he furore has proved inconse. quential.” declares the Newark Evening News. which states also: “Opinion that | moking by women is wholly admirable | by no means unantmous, et the con- | ensus puts it in an inconspicuous place | | | | te compared with the world estimate of {a famous woman of splendid accom- plishment * The Springfield Union ob- serves: “Had Miss Royden been pre- | ceded by an especially resourceful press | agent. he could hardly have done better than to have induced some organization to cancel an engagement because of & e te. which, if occasional with Miss | Rovden, s quite common with her sex in England and on the continent. and ! which. in any case. comes much nearer to being a saving virtue than intoler- | ance of any kind * | “Prankly, Puritanism gone to seed lost to spiritual values, is about a | amusing as anything in all modern {vilization " asserts the Brooklyn Daily which concludes: “If it makes icn & laughing-stock for older calm-minded persons here can | rin and bear it As the late Ar- | lands only g temus Ward sald. ‘Bearing it is easv enough, but the grinning comes hard.’ * ‘The Waterbury Republican sees in the situation “the common enough mistake of confusing manners with morals.” UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today. German spy caught red-handed in an attempt to blow up an Army mag- azine while posing as an American Army officer. Was formerly an oficer in the Germany army and will prob- ably be the first German spy caught in this country to face the firing squad. * ¢ ¢ To keep its military situation strong _until American aid Is ready Great Britain will recruit 450,000 more men at the earliest possible moment, even going so far as to take them away from munitions work. * * ¢ American Red Cross reports it has spent $4,771,- 990 on Italy alone from November 1. Unexpeeted military reverses had de- moralized the civilian population and the Red Cross was a real friend in need. * ¢ * Big shake-up in Herlin predicted und @ military dictatorship is talked of, with political crists coming to u head. Kalser, Crown Prince, army commanders and envoys all gather in Berlin. Peace party now overwhelmed und conquest alms are no longer hid- den. Rumors of preparations for west- ern_ offensive are borne out by reports ;llnl Germany 18 rushing men to that ront Drives for Southern Railway Offices Hit Marlotte Obwerver about removal of the head- guariers of the Southern Railway Co, rom Washinglon to some Southern lo- cality has been revived and Asheville 1s umping at it The Times tells of reso utions adopted by Asheville’s “Optimist Club” in this case appropriately named - to organize n community move- nt to bring the headquarters to the untain eity, and President Harvison 1 be hearing from that locality betore other Houthern points are aware of | what I going or The Obaerver some months ago put in A bid for Ohiaslof and that bug s | U buesing i the presidential ear up | o the big bullding on Pennsylvania avenue, which, i due comse of time, st be vazed (o give way to the re auirements of the new city plan ordered by Congress. Hut as to sending dele- gulions W Washinglon and peatering | Talk THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover Sufficient to shake the resolution of any middle-aged man contemplating the acquisition of a young wife is the discouraging picture in Ellen Glasgow's “Romantic Comedians.” As if to sup- plement this warning and to show that the incompatibility of youth and ad- vanced maturity is typical, Ernest Poole treats the same situation in “Silent Storms,” with the same conclusion of disillusionment. Youth departs, to seek other youth, and middle-age is not al- together inconsolable. Wedded to Wall Street and in his leisure hours perfect- ly happy with golf, bridge at his club, a book in his comfortable man's apart- ment, or the congenial soclety of Charlotte ‘Wheelwright, his mother-in- law, in her snug little house near Gramercy Park, Barry McClurg ought never to have married a second time, after years of contented widowerhood. He never intended to marry again, but somehow it happened. If it had to happen, he should have married Charlotte, “for Charlotte was one who made you feel how good it is to be ma- ture.” Marie Madeleine sweeps him suddenly and tumultuously into a swift stream of youth such as he has never known even in his youthful years; but late suppers, night clubs, crowds of cager, reckless young people, sure of themselves and their ideas, always talk- ing. talking the night away in his apartment, leave him feeling worn and old. Even more, the emotional storms, ecstasy and antagonism, between him- self and his young wife make him unfit for his high-power work and bewildered at his own inability to manage a mere 1 EE * ¥ %k ¥ Charlotte sees from the start how things are going and what the outcome must be, but only slowly does Barry come to admit the one solution possible for him. The complete relief and re- laxation he experiences when he spends | a fortnight, without Marie Madeleine, at Charlotte’s Summer home in the Berkshires should have revealed much to him, but Barry is not introspective and more time is needed. On his way to Sharon, in the Pullman, he leans back in his chair and dozes. “What a uxury to doze like this. He had never | dared doze with Madeleine.” Back in New York, more and more often he is only too satisfied to have her go off with her crowd of young friends for a | round of evening amusements, while he settles down to an evening of work. with “a curious little sense of relief at being left in peace and quiet.” When the end comes. and he sees the Olympic, | with Marie Madeleine on board. swing slowly out into the harbor. he wonders but soon realizes clearly that the greates. of his interests is left—the making of money. And after a day of complicated finance in his office, as he prepares to 20 to his apartment for a nap before an evening at “The Mikado" Charlotte, he thinks “of the nigh! when he had gone back to the excite- ments and demands and torturing troubles of his young wife: and w a curious mingling of regret and a dawning relief, he compared them to ich lay before him now.” * ko % E. M. Forster showed that he knew W to write a novel when he wrote A Passage to India”; in “Aspects of the Novel” he tells something of his tistic faith. The chap! of the book were first delivered as lectures at Cambridge, where he is a Fellw of King's College. Like Prof Lyon Phelps of Yale. Mr. Forster bow before the Russians as the greates' novelists of the world. He thinks that England has never produced a as great as Tolstol or Do: Thinking of the morbidi and the lack of compression in method of both of these fiction masters, we might recall points to the advantage of the best of the Eng novelist Thomas Hardy. Mr. Forster believes proaches nearly to the Russians Like them. Hardy is a fatalist, but his fatalism is external. whereas theirs is ernal and thus more profoundly in- table. ould be qualified. Certamnly the Lves of Hardy's characters are often swept along to tragedy by external circum- n thought traits constitute the fate and make tragedy almost certain. Michae! | Henchard's brutal egotism ruins his | life, Giles Winterbourne’s gentle del cacy permits him always to be set aside. Eustacia Vye's discontent and refusa! to admit any restraint upon her own | well worthy of its world-wide audition, | will lead her into a situation from which there is no way out. However, whether or not we agree with all his canclusions, Mr. Forster's discussion of Hardy is one of the most suggestive parts of his book. % m Healy. governor general of Ire- land. was started on his adventurous career by Parnell. Healy had come from his Irish home at Baatry to Newcastie-on-Tyne. where he re Parnell, at the height of his im- portance, passed a little time whil» waiting for a train in talking to the original young Irish clerk. Becoming interested in him. Parnell aided him to take up the study of law. later em- ployed him as his secretary, and in the en of Commons. This story is told in “The Life of Tim Healy."” by the Irish novel- ‘st Liam O'Flaherty. The title of the | biography is explained by the reply of | Healy to'a question whether he intend- | ed to take a title, as governor general “So long as the Lord spares me I want to be known simply as Tim Healy * As years passed Parnell and Healy found themselves less and less in harmony Parnell's tyranny over his political ad- herents, the scandal connected with Parnell’s personal life, Healy's flery Celtic temperament. and his consclous- ness GF supertor mental ability on his own account all had their part in the final break. All of the later history of the Irish home rule movement finds a place in this biography. IR Perhaps for relaxation after the seri- ous effort that must have gone into the writing of “Lord Raingo.” a novei | almost on the level of “The Old Wives' Tale” Arnold Bennett has in “The | Vanguard” produced what he calls “a fantasia t belongs in the class with “Burled Alive," if we wish to place it relative to his other works. One epi- sode, extending over only & few davs forms the plot. Lord Furber. a noble- man by grace of his industrial success, has a yacht in the Mediterranean, The vanguard. When the vacht puts ou to sea, there are two kidnaped g on board and their amusements at sea and in port and, of course, the outcome of the mystery make w pleasantly absurd lttle narrat! . His theory of blography. which has resulted in practice in such thoroushly readable studies as “Napoleon * “Bis- marck,” and “Wilhelm Hohenrollern,” 18 explained by Emil Ludwig tn his book “Oentus and Character,” translated by Kenneth Burke. His aim is (0 give lving portrait of a personage. not a list of the detalls of his life and achieve- ments. The result. whether or not satisfuctory to the scholarly historian, 18 eminently satisfactory o the gen- eral reader who wants entertatnment as well as information. Mr Ludwig thinks that the whole biography should deal with rfl!n pality. or soul, and that nothing which (nterprets personality is untmportant. 1t ts B the mtroduction to “Cenlus and Character” that this theary 18 discussed; then follow bio- graphical essavs on 19 men. most of them well known Perhaps the best of hese exsava Are thase on Frederick the Great, Qoethp. Halzao, Shapespeare Leanardo da Vinel, and Cectl Rhodes headquarters with petitions, 1t might be reminded that Faifax Hatison knows all about every town on his line and iy BOINE 0 Keep mum until the time comes e out the ward Then we will Knaw that future location of Southern Radway Genernl Meadyuaitess South, with It seems as 1f this judgment | As a young man | employed in the railway station. | secured his election to the House | This is a special department devoted solely to the handling of queries. This paper puts at your disposal the services of an extensive organization in Wash- ington to serve you in any capacity that relates to information. This serv- ice is free. Fallure to make use of it deprives you of benefits to which you are entitled. Your obligaton is only 2 cents in stamps inclosed with your in- quiry for direct reply. Address The Evening Star Informaton Bureau, Fred- eric_J. Haskin, Director, Washington. Q. What is the real name of Mary Astor, the movie actress?— 3 A. Her real name is Lucille Lang- hanke. Q. In the devastated departments of France how many houses were com- pletely destroyed?—T. S. B. A. About 300,000. Almost as great a number were partially wrecked. Q. When did the study of botany develop?—B. C. A. Among the ancients Aristotle, the Greek philosopher; Theophrastus, the Roman naturalist; Phiny the Elder, and the Greek physician, Dioscorides, left botanical records of historical interest but botany as a modern science has de. veloped in the last four centuries, dat- ing from the Reformation. In 1583 Cesalpino, an Italian physician. pub- lishe hensive classification of plants. Q. Is the Emden still sailing the seas? V. D. G. A. The Emden was a German cruiser which operated on_the Pacific Ocean during the World War, attempting to destroy finally commercial vessels. It was sunk by British ships near One of the new sailles named in peace honor of this old d treaty was troyer. Q. Do all singing birds in South | Dakota leave in the Winter?—E. V. | A. The Biological Survey savs that | generally speaking the majority of Sum- mer song birds of South Dakota go | south in the Winter, but their places are taken by other song birds from the | North. | @ How large is the Nationa | tery at Gettysburg?—G. W. W. | A The National Cemetery consists of | 1487 acres. There are 3.749 graves. of | 1 1 Ceme- which 1.641 are the graves of unidenti- fied dead. All of these graves are marked with Government headstones. Q. In what country is the garden ! that is farthest north>—C. L. N. In Greenland, at Umanak. is the northernmost garden in the world. | Q In what line of scientific work are the most people engaged’—H. N. A. More persons are engaged in the pursuit of chemistry than in any other science. There are over 22,000 chemists and assistants in the Unted States. Q. What colleges country before RDH A. The colleges of the colonies were, there in this Revolution?— ! Havana. Cuba lized world. wherever there receiving set. at 11 o'clock bv ou iern st ne. li n may hear the voice of President Coolidge deliver- ing. in Havana. his message—the word “heard ‘round the world.” (In Wask- ington connect with WRC.) For ers who better understand Spansi same speech will be heard s¥nultane- ously in that language. delivered to _the ¥ an interpreter. The the approval of the repre- ves of all this Western Hemi- sphere. . Never in the history of the world has any speaker had such a tremendous 1 | stances, but in other cases inherent |audience as that one which will hear | President Coolidge—from Argentina to | Canada and Alaska and from Cuba to | all Europe. the Near East and the Far | East—all the world listening in. | The subject of that speech and jthe All-American Conference will of be | for it will be the consideration of how | this hemsphere may co-operate, nation ! with nation, in bringing peace and good !'will to both Laun and Saxon. ~x e x The Pan-American Conference has been likened to the League of Nations whase headgquar ¥ is called the tions,” yet 1t difers fundamentally from | the principles of that European com- pact. The European League of Nations knows no higher means of rVing nations (o g0 10 War whenever any one member is attacked by an * S nation.” The recent ex] of the inadequacy of M. Briand's proposition that France and the United Stales make a treaty to forbid war between thase 1wo nations is a cemonstration of the radical difference between the “Ameri- can League of Nations™ and that of Geneva. France refuses to make the | compact broad enough to include all nations and to forbid all wars, but wants to limit it to “aggressive wars,” without clearly defining how conflicting claims of combatants are to be judged. con- cerming which nation is the aggressor. | France fears that our broader proposi- | tion would kill the League. No such difficulty seems to arise | the Pan-American Conferences, because they are particularly concerned. not | ! involving all members in any war, com: pelling them to avoid neutrality and joig the belligerents so as to combat the “aggressor.” as does the League of | Europe, but rather to further peace by | mutual co-operation in the affawrs of | peace—commerce, sanitation. education, | | communication, international law. to be | agreed upon and codified, to control all | international relations in this hemi- | sphere. Very lttle attention is to be | war in this hemisphere, except that it {will be agreed that all nations of the | conference will recognize boundaries lnx\d governments of all the nations as | they exist now in this hemisphere. 1f at be agreed upon. wherein will any gETeSSOr nation” have room to swing a battle-ax® The Pan-American Unton | whose headquarters are i Washington, enables all Minusters of all the Ameri- | can nations to meet manthly and dis- | cuss their problems amicably. | s ‘The conference of next week is called the “siXth,” but in fact 1t 8 the seventh. | for more than 100 years age the great | Wberator, Sumon Bolivar, who hmt 15 | five Spanish colontes 1 revolt against | Spain and had created five republics i Central and South America, dreamed of & united Latin America. and. to tha end, called the At Latn Amercan Cunference to be held at Panama w June, 1836. Bollvar was the greatest internationalist W the histary of the Americas, yel his horison excluded all exvept Lating He did not include the United States I his Arst invitations, for that was Tbe w union only of the Latin republics whose people spoke the same language and had the same religion. Nor did he neclude Braal for that country, of Portuguese origin, then was empire and was held neutral tn the war | tween the Spantsh colontes and Spai, Nevertheless, Mextoo and Argentina | Inatsted that the United States must be | meluded, and the mvitation fnally came. but our delegates reached Pan- ama only after the confervive had ad Journed. e Our President then was John Qutiey Adaims and the Seeretary of State, Henry Clay Hoth were enthusiasiie SUPEErs of Sueh & unian as Balivay !;mlhm\l and would have been glad to e Wi oounliy S Jha Quiney ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. the first formal and compre- | authorized by the Ver- | BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. prese: world peace than to bind all its member | given to the posubility of international | in the order of their f Harvard, William and Mary, Y Princeton, Pennsylvania, Brown, Rutgers and Dartmouth. Q. Does the crystallization of honey < indicate an adulterated product?— A H. * A. Granulation does not imply adul- teration. The truth is that crystalliza- tion is more likely to occur in pure than in impure honeys, and some pure vVa- rieties, especially alfalfa honeys, granu- late so easily that they are often sold to the consumer in solid form. The crystals can be easily dissolved by heat- ing the honey, which should be done in" a double boiler or other kind of water bath. If the temperature does not go beyond 160° Fahrenheit, there is little danger that either color or flavor will be affected. Q. What was the first recorded Eng- liahA ;ednlnz on American soil?— A. Mistress Ford brought her maid, Ann Burras, to Virginia in 1608. The latter soon married John Lawdon. This | is the marriage mentoned. Q. What can be done to wood to make it burn slowly without bursting into flame?—O0. M. A. When wood is impregnated with an iron salt it will carry fire more [ readily, but will not break into flame— that 1s, it acts more nearly like punk | in that it continues to glow for long periods of time. There is also a poss: )bm:y that the impregnation of wood | with a solution of sodium nitrate might | be heipful, although in this case the | wood would be more apt to cinder than | to break into flam; | Q. How is a sorority estal ed?— S. A. Banta's Greek Exchange says that “there is no question more asked than the one concern: mation of a national sorori! is no cut-and-dried metnod of estab- lishing any sort of a sorority or fra- ternity. A group finds themselves in close unity and in thorough harmony and drift together without particular intention to unite. Later the thought of a fraternity comes into their minds | as furnishing them a little stronger bond of union. The detail of such work | cannot be catalogued or listed. It de- pends in every way on condition, on | location, and personnel. In short it is not a machine-made t It does not go by rote rule. The Inter- | Sorority Conference of 1905 defined a | national sorority as one having at least five chapters. all of them at institu- tions of collegiate rank. Q What that includs in the night”?—J. McD. A. ~Ships that pass in the speak each other in passing” from “Tales of a Wayside Theologian's Tal v new movemen ishop Antonin. roe’s administration and he is gen- credited with paramount for the ~Monroe Doctrine.™ 1 was our warning to Europe that America was no longer to be considered a fi for European colonization. Boli- var desired a similar deflance of Europe, 0 be voiced by the Latin American re- publics: he wirtually adopted for them all the same atiitude as our Monroe Doctrine, yet there has never been any ical policy which has been so mis- understood or maliciously warped in mean:ng as has the Monroe Doctrine by the very peoples it was primarnly in- tended 10 benefit and protect. s That Bolivar-Latin American Union met in Panama on June 32 1826, with two delegates from Colombia (which then inciuded what is now Panama, two from Central America. which umt | is now divided into five independent re- | publics; two from Peru. of which Bol- | var was President, and one from Mexico —seven delegates in all They met and made grandiioquent speecnes 0 each other and, after 10 sessions, agreed on a “treaty of perpetual gnion. league and confederation between the repudics of | Colombia, Central America, Peru and | the United Mex:tan Stales.” They also agreed upon ure meet- ings t0 be held every two years. i Peace, OF every year in time of war, ane on Contngents ' mean: and a special seeret agreement relaling 0 & confederated army and navy. In shar. they proposed a supergovernment for all Laun America, with iis army and DaVY. recognizng the futlity of such a supergovernment without power to | enforve its ordinances. Perhaps thev were 100 years ahead of ther day in that regard—or rather many centunes ahead—for the present League of Na- tens, with headquarters in Switzerland where every citizen is armed refuses | 10 face the dilemma of & worid mibtary and naval power to enfarve its decrees | as a government of governments, What happened to Premident Wilsan's | League of Nations in the United States Senate in 1920 happened a century de- fore t0 Gen. Bolivar's Panama agree- ment Lo create & supergovernment, for it was not ratified. Even Peru e | President Bolivar, refused to matify, as did also the cdngresses of Guatemals and Mexico. There have been bditter isan reproaches nst our Senate or 1ts refusal to ratily President Wil- SN commitments in Paris as to the League of Nations, and the Senate has been accused of “breach of fand’” as if 1t were under odIgations to indorse the Decause the President had promised it. in spite of the fact tha: | the Constitution Iimits the power of the President {0 make any treaties ex- cept by and with the advice and con- sent of the Senate.™ e ow When Prasident Adams urped Con- Bress 10 accept the Ddelated Haton W send delegates 1o the Bolivar-Pan- ama conference, he declared T may be that i the lapse of many centuries Y Other oppartunity so favoradie wul De presentad to the Govermment of the United States to serve the denevolent purpuoses of Divine Providence to dis- Puse the promised dlessings of the Re- ..1«:-:? ot nmtl‘\.xmd. 10 promote the prevalence in future of on earth and good 'fll'l‘»“m":l“-\“ now De placed in thelr power by pars ucipating W the deliberations of s | congress | Alter the Balivar failure, we had our war with Mexko, which would have | au "\\:lh:l'd“ AL the Bolivar idea had " AdPL And by that war Mexteo \b; 10 us hall her arva. | There was not again anvy o frevive the idea of unton Mwfl‘u’:« | American countries until there was | held 1 Washington, in 1889 what was termed the “Fust Cunference of the | American Repudlios” - not Latin repud- | ies merely, but all i Amertcw, North, | Central and South. And that Weluded | L which had ceased t© de an em- [ Rire and bevome & repudlic. Later | President Rovsevelt 53.-« Centra! | American repubdlics 10 agTee 10 recog~ nwe RO guvernment of any of thelr | countries which achieved power b & | ooup dwiat and o protet all dound- | avies then existing L Every effrt we have made n reln. T 10 Latin Amercan countries has DA TOWATE (helr WRITING. Wi the ex- GO Of our war - with Meaxteo Dought o throngh the struggie fo WA sMve Siates Thal was 89 vears AR AN Ehe lventive of those davs ne longer eniis Our own palvy o the Wl 80 vears has deen L\u\ld w m Mervasing the paaperity and poestige o all-Amerwa AV Bl S B Pawl V. Dwiies ) Mon: erall; {