Evening Star Newspaper, December 8, 1928, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY....December 8, 1928; THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company i1th 8t New York Chicago Offi European Officy Englan Rate by Carrier Within the City. ‘The Evening Star A .. 45¢ per month and 8u 80c per month +.68¢ per month %05 .5¢ per copy e end of each month. by mayl or telepnone usiness Office: and Pennsylvanis Ave. Office: 1 42n : Tower Building. 4 Regent St.. Loridon. v e af Orders may be sent in Main 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dally and Sunday....1 yr., $10. Daily onlv 1 ¥r, $6.00:\1 mo. 50c Bunday only 13r, $4.00: 7 mo. 40c All Other States and Canada. Dafly 2nd Sunday. Daily only . 1 Sunday only .. Member of the Associated Press. The Assoctated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for repualication of ell i ews dis- patches credited to it or not otherwise cred- fted In this paper and also the local rews published herein. All rights of publication cf @pecial dispatches herein are also reserved. Hot Air and Cool Heads. *This appears to be the season for hot air in both Great Britain and France, with reference to the United States. It should be the season for cool heads, as far as we ourselves are concerned. Lieut. Comdr. J. M. Kenworthy, M. P., addressing a public meeting in London, goes the length of saying that Anglo- American relations “are worse than they have been since 1912 Field Marshal Sir William Robertson, former chief of the British general staff, yes- terday in a London speech divested himself of the pleasantry that Amer- jea's official utterances on naval policy “bear a close resemblance to Germany's claims previous to the tragedy of 1914.” Fleld Marshal Robertson likened Cool- idge policy to the imperialism of the dethroned Kaiser! While these distinguished Britons were letting off steam amid the physical fog of their own islands, M. Aristide Briand, the scholarly foreign minister of France, was publicly rehashing the charge that Mr. Hugh Gibson, Ameri- can Ambassador to Belgium, was the real author of the defunct and dis- credited Anglo-French naval under- standing. M. Briand’s alibi for that diplomatic mesalliance is that it was “suggested” by Mr. Gibson. . It is sincerely to be hoped that these British and French recriminations will not provoke reprisals in this country. The American people wholly support President Coolidge in the view, as re- iterated in his recent message to Con- gress, that our naval expansion pro- gram seeks to precipitate no new and costly rivalry with our sister sea powers. It is conceived wholly and exclusively in the conviction that nothing more and nothing less, as the President neat- ly puts it, “meets our needs of de- fense.” We can afford to rest content with that dispassionate presentation of our case. Little refutation is necessary of asser- tions that Anglo-American relations are “worse than they have been for over 100 years” and that Uncle Sam is masquerading in the aggressive garb once donned to his undoing by Wil- liam II. In both Washington and London statesmen are happily at the helm who realize the imponderables of the naval situation and other points at issue between America and Britain. We may trfist them to come to grips with them in due course and in a spirited determination to surmount the ac- knowledged difficulties with which they bristle. Secreiary Kellogg has officially and flat-footedly disposed of M. Briand's attempto to saddle on the chief of the American mission at the Geneva con- ference the responsibility for the abor- tive Anglo-French naval deal. The Secretary of State's categorical denial should, and no doubt will, banish the Briand extenuation to the realm of fancy, once for all. International relations unfortunately are seldom free of hot air. It is gen- erated amid conditions such as mo- mentarily pollute the American-Euro- pean naval discussion. But cool heads on both sides of the herring pond will be found a splendid antidote to super- charged atmosphere. ‘Human nature persists in certain well Tecognized tendencies. It would be impossible for Herbert Hoover to escape envious assumptions that in addition to diplomatic endeavors he is personally having a wonderful time. ——r———————— All that England asks of a King Is to be tactful and refrain from making himself dissgreeable at home or to national neighbors. This delicate responsibility has been marvelously met by King George. B Traffic Light Installations. “The great body of Washington motor- 4sts were doubtless gratified to learn that the traffic office is going actively ahead for the installation of automatic lights in the congested section. In the beginning, the District went about the ‘establishment of the signal system in a Yack-handed sort of way. Other cities installed the lights in the downtown sections first and in the residential sec- tions last, while the District turned its attention first to the wide thorough- Jares of the uptown section.. But now, with the long proposed plans for the network of automatic traffic signals completed for the business area, Wash- ington will soon be on a par with other cities in its handling of the heavy vol- ume of traffic. Traffic officials expect that the en- tire installation will be in operation by early Spring, unless weather conditions delay the work. The cost is estimated at nearly two hundred thousand dollars, which, in view of economies effected since the first part of the system was established, is not as high a figure as had been estimated. Work on Thir- the lights will be synchronized with the average speed of travel. Considerable experimentation may be necessary, of course, to attain the highest peak of efficiency, but this problem presents no | insurmountable difficulties. For the perfect operation of the new system after the installations are com- plete and the lights are turned on, the Commissioners should abolish the awk- ward and unsound left-hand-turn rule now practiced in Washington, and mo- torists should give a greater degree of co-operation to the authority of the sig- nals. The left turn is directly at variance with the uniform vehicle code of the National Conference on Street and Highway Safety and violates one of the fundamental rules of the road. It will never work successfully to promote the free flow of traffic which is necessary to avoid accidents and congestion. Since motorists were permitted to pro- ceed on the caution light following the green, conditions have materially im- proved as standing traffic has been un- able to get under way until the red signal flashes on. In some cases, how- cver, these running on the green and | caution signals have taken undue ad- vantage of their privileges and have even crossed an intersection on the red {light. This practice is not only illegal, | buthighly dangerous, and should be dis- | continued in order that the maximum of :benem can be obtained from a system | which is devised to promote safety on | the streets. i e e b The Raskob Meeting. The proposal recenfly advanced by | John J. Raskob, chairman of the Demo- | eratic national committee, for a meet- ing of the Democratic leaders to dis- | cuss plans for the future soon after the Christmas holidays does not meet with the approval of Democratic Senators and Representatives from the South. Indeed, many of these Southern Demo- crats would like to see Mr. Raskob do just one thing—take himself out of the picture by resigning his chairmanship. That is, for political purposes. But be- fore Mr. Raskob gracefuily retires from | the picture these Democrats would like to see him pay off, or arrange to have paid off, the $1,300,000 deficit growing out of the Democratic campaign. Four years ago, after John W. Davis had been defeated by President Cool- idge, some of the Democrats were all for a national conference, and some of them went so far as to demand the scalp of Clem Shaver, who had been chairman of the Democratic national committee during the 1924 campaign. But the ructions in the Madison Square Garden convention were still fresh. There was bitter feeling between the McAdoo and Smith factions of the party. No such meeting was held, and things were allowed to slide along on the theory that time would heal the wounds. Mr. Shaver continued as chair- man, and before the national conven- tion last June was able to announce that the deficit from that campaign had been paid off. ‘There is no less bitterness between the Smith and anti-Smith factions of the party now than there was in 1924. If anything the differences are greater today. There is a group among the Democrats who feel that Gov. Smith was given his day, and that it is time for him—and for Mr. Raskob—to step aside and allow others to carry on the effort to rehabilitate the Democratic party. But they run counter to the Smith supporters, who already are in- sisting that their idol be given the nomination again in 1932. Democratic Senators are asking what good could arise from a conference now, with wounds still green and feel- ing running high. They do not see either Gov. Smith or Mr. Raskob waiv- ing their leadership in the party, not at this juncture. They prefer a period for “cooling off.” Their hopes are in the future, and they believe they can be realized better by letting the future take care of itself for a time. A good many of the Democratic Senators and Representatives who supported Smith during the campaign, while feeling ran high in their own States against the New York governor, are likely to have a very hard time when it comes to their own renomination and re-election to Congress. They are not anxious to have the matter stirred further now. They fear that perhaps such a meet- ing as that suggested by Mr. Raskob would undertake to indorse Gov. Smith again for renomination four years hence. They do not intend to be drawn into such a situation again if they can help it. They are remembering Hous- ton. On the other hand, there are Demo- crats who believe it would be better to face the issue promptly and get rid of it if they can. They saw the party wait four years after John W. Davis’ defeat, with no gathering until the Jackson day dinner here in Washington last Winter. They are saying that little was accom- plished by “pussyfooting” during the previous three years. One thing secems clear as crystal. A national meeting of Democratic leaders, proposed by Mr. Raskob, would be of very wide political interest. ————- A short session of Congress often reveals little to do, but a great deal to talk about. { | ) The British Regency. It is no innovation for the govern- ment of Stanley Baldwin to name a commission to fulfill the functions of a regency during the disability of King George. In so doing, his majesty’s min- isters pursue a long and anclent line of precedents. “Councils of Regency,” to give them their formal title, are as old as the constitution itself—that palladium of British liberties which loses no whit of its strength through the anomalous fact that it has no physical existence in the form of a written document. ‘What a hoary respect for tradition is exemplified by the mere tabulation of personages who comprise the council of regency clothed with authority during George V's illness! It will consist of the Queen and the heir-apparent, the heir- teenth street between E street and Mas- sachusetts avenue will be started at once and before the first of the year these lights are expected to be in oper- ation. 4 Beneficial results have followed down- town installations in every city and there is no reason to believe that Wash- ington will not experience a smoother | flow of traffic than with manually op- | Hal,” receives credit at the hands of erated signals. Traffic is always slow- | most historlans for originating the er in business areas and the timing of council of regency. He ordained it for J presumptive, the Archbishop of Canter- bury, the lord chancellor and the prime minister. They represent “all the estates of the kingdom and the empire,” a phrase in itself, which, taken in con- junction with, the titles the council’s members bear, runs like a fragment of .Shakespearean king drama. Henry VIII, England’s “merry King THE EVENING service in the emergency of his death before the majority of his son, Edward VI. A placeholder, Lanfranc, held sway while William the Conqueror’s son hur- ried to England to occupy the vacated throne. While Richard I was fighting in the Crusades, the Bishop of Ely reigned in his stead. During the youth of Henry III, the crown was intrusted to the Earl of Pembroke. On the eve of the American Revolution, George II decreed that the Princess Dowager of Wales should wield royal authority till the heir- apparent, a babe in arms, should attain the statutory age of twenty-one. That infant, George III, was destined to be the British sovereign whose weakness and ineptitude provoked the fateful and fatal struggle with the American col- onies. It was the same ill-starred mon- arch who created in British history the record of having succeeded and been succeeded by a regency. George III's son, George IV, took over a regency crown when his father, in 1810, though still alive, had ceased to be mentally re- sponsible. Even into the Victorian era councils of regency thrust themselves. The Duchess of Kent, Victoria’s mother, was vested with a regent's rights for use in the .event that the sallor King, Wil- liam IV, should quit the tempestuous sea of life before Victoria reached eighteen. There was as little need for the Duchess of Kent to don the crown as there was for Queen Mary, consort of the present King, to do likewise, had she been—as in all probability she would have been—assigned the duties of regency before the Prince of Wales, now heir-apparent, crossed the threshold of manhood. T S — A simplified inauguration is found by many persons as hard to understand as “simplified spelling.” Custom is not easily conquered. The brass band and the street parade remain a cherished tradition. ) Several historital critics are frankly inclined to regard Woodrow Wilson as a memorable actor in the theater of world politics, with some deficlent mem- bers of the supporting cast. e A child labor law affecting pages in | Congress would be enforced in disregard of the fact that in the halls of legisla- tion a youth may attain wisdom far beyond his years. ) One of the incidental expenses the speculative public has to pay is the wear and tear on that delicate mechanism, the stock ticker. ) Aithough Al Smith’s life is an open book, it has its silent pages. His caddie on the goif links is not encouraged to talk freely. ‘The “bulls” and the “bears” frequent- 1y make it evident that there is no reliable animal trainer in the stock market. ———————— ‘Though, fortunately enough, a battle- ship is not required in war, there are still useful methods of keeping it busy. ——————r——— An advance is made when motion pictures that talk find a way to say things of public importance. R R R “Call money” may disclose rates of interest entirely independent of those legally announced. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. A Winter Bougquet. Weeds that were neglected In the Summer hour, ‘When the fragrant flow'r Joyously reflected Sunshine and the show'r, Bring us sweetest pleasure, As Time goes his way With a spirit gay— Memories to treasure ©Of departed May. Chance to Practice. “A short session will leave you with- out active interest?” “Not at all,” answered Senator Sor- ghum. “During the days of rigorous endeavor my golf game has gone off terribly.” Jud Tunkins say an airplane is the only means of travel that leaves it safe to go over the head of a traffic cop. Having It Her Own Way. “A woman always wants her own way.” “Not always,” answered Miss Cayenne. “I told a man never to speak to me again. Now he doesn't notice me.” Defying Nature. A Big Volcano scattered flame Upon a vine-clad slope. The peasants lingered, just the same, And planted with new hope. The Big Volcano said, “I try To stop wine at its source, But, prohibition even I Have trouble to enforce.” Parking Overtime. “How much does it cost to run your car?” “I don’t know how much it costs to run it,” answered Mr. Chuggins. “But it has cost me fifty or sixty dollars to leave it standing still.” “To live long,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “consult your conscience and your common sense, as Well as your physician.” Quick Delivery. Old Christmas customs, without doubt, Are fading fast away. 0ld Santa brings his fiivver out And never minds the sleigh. “Don't worry too much,” said Uncle Eben, “if you isn't always 'way up in front. De most comfortable place on a freight train is de caboose at de tail end.” v A Whale Constellation. From the Dallas Journal. That epidemic at Hollywood proves that even influenza is willing to hitch its wagon to a star. e That Seems an Age. From the Arkanses Democrat. Automobiles are nearing the plane of perfection. Most of them now run longer than the payments do. vt In the Histories. From the New Castle News. The hardest job a kid faces is that of learning good manners without see- ing any. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. “The guilty flee when no man pur- fiueth. but the righteous are bold as an on.” So sald the writer of Proverbs, and he was a wise man. Yet today many people think such a good maxim has application only on Sunday, or in special connections. The fact seems to be that there is no moralistic saying in world literature which has a wider application than this, or one which applies more squarely to everyday living. Many wise maxims have an air which strikes the reader as being reserved for the grand occasion. Others are so ho;nely that they seem to fit peasants only. Some are so cynical that their appli- cation is limited to those few through the ages who specialize on the bitter thought. Their opposite are those optimistic utterances which appertain only to certain temperaments by nature bright and cheerful. 5 * In medium ground, however, comes the sonorous line, “The gullty flee when no man pursueth, but the righteous are as bold as an lion.” Much of the divine flavor would be lost if the charming King James' ver- sion were changed to modernese: “Guilty men run away when nobody runs after them, but good men are bold as lions.” ‘We must insist on that “an lion.” To use the simple “a” would not do at all. No, it is “an lion” which the righteous man is like. We have not to do here with ex- cessive guilt, or paramount goodness. Perhaps more and greater mistakes are made in considering Bible texts from the pinnacle viewpoint than from any other one consideration. “The guilty” are simply those who do acts and say words of which their own consciences do not approve. “The righteous” are those who in- variably attempt to live up to the high- est and best they know. Here, it may be submitted, is the solution for all the problems of na- tional, international and individual life. Yet it will be many a decade, alas, be- gnre‘ such a solution is carried into ef- ect! Whereas general and universal edu- cation once seemed to point the way to the solution, by giving every one the basic standards of right and wrong, as deduced from a study of religion and common everyday sense, it becomes increasingly evident that intelligence, without a good heart, is almost worse than ignorance. S He who acts in lesser manner than his heart and mind tell him is right is guilty in his own sight. He who lives up to the best he knows is righteous. Neither is “holier than thou,” in ary sense. The divine common sense ot the ancient Hebrews worked in an everyday medium, the human spirit. In their eyes, one did not have to commit murder to be guilty and to feel an intense sense of shame. As they saw it, a man did not neces- . sarlly have to be a prophet to be a | righteous man. | These extreme cases were rather startling examples of general truths. One could find righteousness nearer at home. He might meet meanness at his own front door as easily as half-way | across the village. ke Let us take a very homely and com- | monplace example: Book borrowing is something indulged in by every one. Often one has a book thrust upon one by an overzealous friend. Too often, however, one’ borrows a book simply because one wants to read it. And much too often, alas, one fails to return it! ‘Thus one automatically puts himself-— or herself—in the position of the guilty, fleeing when the owner approacheth. ‘The real owner of the book is as righteous as “an lion.” He has done a good deed and was glad of the oppor- tunity, but naturally wants his book back some time or other. The guilty borrower may have some excuse for failing to return the volume for months on end if the rightful owner lives clear across the city. In such a case he may find it highly inconvenient to return the book. He puts it off several weeks too long, then finds it increasingly difficult to do what he should have done many days before. Here is where the element of guilt enters. It is not high guilt, it is not a grave misdemeanor; it is far from tragedy. Yet any person of ordinary sensibility will feel that he has, to a certain ex- tert, done wrong by himself. He has been untrue to the best that was in him! L This is the severe indictment which | character makes against itself. The grand episodes of life are few and far between, but everyday occur- rences come thick and fast. It is in them that a person is either righteous or guilty. It is in relation to them that he faces life “bold as an lion” or as the guilty who “flee when no man pursueth.” The aforementioned book borrower finally comes to return the overdue volume. She apologizes. It is for herself that she apologizes. She flees when no man pursueth. The righteous owner, “brave as an lion,” actually feels sorry for her. He is embarrassed by the plenitude of her guilt. He knows that she, as a person of sensibilities, has done wrong by her- self. He thinks of the times when he put himself in similar positions, until he realized that one should so conduct himself that at any time and under any circumstance he might be able to face the world with a clear conscience. “The guilty flee when no man pur- Tpem' but the righteous are bold as an lion.” Message of Hope for All Lepers Heralded by Cure of John Early Another triumph for modern medical science is hailed in the cure of John Early, formerly uneasy inmate of the leper home in Louisiana, who is to be free to go wherever he pleases, after years of treatment and efforts to es- cape from the authorities. It has been suggested that the success in his case, through the use of chaulmoogra oil, will give impetus to the campaign started by Gen. Leonard Wood to wipe out this ancient scourge in the Philippines. The incident becomes more important, in the opinion of observers, by reason of the fact that Early already is widely known. “Indeed, if it had not been for John Early,” says the Cincinnati Times-Star, “the public would hardly have known that this disease of the Middle Ages still lingered in our West- ern civilization. The leper colony in the Hawailan Islands had become fa- mous, but the fact that a great hos- pital was maintained in Louisiana to house our lepers became known only because of John Early's irequent out- breaks of nostalgia.” “He did not like the confinement which authorities put upon him,” re- calls the Savannah Morning News, “but it was best for the world, as it was best for him. He is no longer a leper; he is John Early, free citizen. He ought to be one of the strongest advocates of the need of limiting personal liberty for the general good.” In this connec- tion the News explains that “he had the idea that he should not be locked up and treated”; that he “conceived that it was his right, his right to personal liberty, to go and come as he pleased.” Referring to Early's boyhood in North Carolina and to his service in the Spanish-American War, the Columbia Record says of the disease: “He is said to have contracted it in the Philippine service. Seventecen years ago the dis- ease appeared under the most trying circumstances. Early was living with his wife and two small children on a &mall tract of land near Tacoma, Wash.” Recording that the community was shocked at that time, the Columbia paper observes that “his frequent es- capes from confinement and efforts to return to his boyhood home appealed to the sympathy of the whole Nation.” The New Orleans Morning Tribune remarks that the announcement of his leaving the leper colony ‘“does not arouse the alarm created by similar announcements in the past,” for he “leaves this time by the front door and with the permission of the health au- thorities.” Referring to the cases of others who recently have been dis- charged from that colony, the Tribune states that all the cures are “credited to the chaulmoogra oil treatment” and that “its technique has been ‘mproved so that it is not so painful to the patients, while retaining its effective- ness.” The South Bend Tribune also points out that the treatment “has been avail- able for some time, but until recently all but the most heroic victims of the biblical scourge felt that the cure was worse than the disease.” The Tribune adds that Early’s “happiness ought to be complete, because there is hope for his friends within the refuge.” The Portland Oregon Journal declares that the cure “has given a message of hope to thousands of sufferers in the tropics and has assured white people of in- creased safety if they live winter- less zones.” “Nothing is of more genuine impor- tance ih the news of any day,” in the opinion of the Nashville Banner, “than word that a leper has beea cured suf- ficiently to go back into the ranks of soclety, Every such incident irarks a splendid triumph for -medical sclence and for the public which has supplied the funds to carry on the infinitely careful experiments. * * * There are today in the world about 2,000,000 lepers. Early's case is ample proof of the efficacy of treatment. The two facts together are a challenge to the humane and charitable of this and every other land.” The importance of the case as a precedent is emphasized also by the Saginaw Dally News, with the com- ment: “There is in this proof of the invaluable work done by the late Gen. Leonard Wood in behalf of the numer- ous lepers of the Philippines. He es- tablished at Culion a splendid station for reception and treatment of lepers, and lived long enough to see results that. Jjustified his magnificent efforts, as well as the appeals to this country for funds to carry on the work. * * * Aside Daily Herald also holds that “there is reason why sympathetic souls should contribute to the $2,000,000 fund be- ing raised for the leper colony at Culion —a_memorial to Gen. Wood.” “It seems strange,” says the Toledo Blade, “that, almost coincident with John Early's cure, Dr. Henry T. Hol- mann comes to this country from Hono- lulu. Dr. Holmann is credited with discovery . and development of the chaulmoogra oil treatment for leprosy —treatment which often arrests the progress of the disease and cures in many cases. In proof is the reduction by 50 per cent of the population of Molokai, world-famous Hawailan leper colony. Leprosy, which has prevailed since earliest times, and which was carried to Europe by the Crusaders, is conquered by a modern crusader in the realm of scientific discovery.” “If surgeons and physicians had pos- sessed in the past anything like the knowledge now at the command of the medical fraternity,” concludes the Al- toona Mirror, “our ancestors would have found their average lifetime greatly pro- longed. Even more marvelous things are still in store for the race.” - Apes Are Religious, Educator Believes BY E. E. FREE, PH. D. That apes are religious and the be- ginnings of religion traceable even far- ther back in evolution than the first man is the conclusion of Prof. A. L. Kroeber, distinguished anthropologist of the University of California, ex- pressed in a review of pre-human be- ginnings of what we call culture, com- municated to the Quarterly Review of Biology, edited by Prof. Raymond Pearl. In an experiment by Dr. Wolfgang Koehler, Prof. Kroeber recounts, chim- panzees were seen to express what can be described only as awe, a feelind which he regards as important, if not essential, in religion. The awesome object was a rag-doll animal, somewhat like a donkey, but obviously artificial, probably even to the untutored eye of a chimpanzee. This artificial animal had features in common, the California n.nu:mmlogm believes, with ghosts and spirits and weird idols and other ideas or objects associated with human religious ideas. Like them, the stuffed rag donkey did not occur in ordinary experience. It was conceived as both simi to living creatures and different from them. “A dummy donkey with button eyes,” Prof. Kroeber writes, “is literally super- natural to a chimpanzee.” The apes were_enormously interested, but thor- oughly respectful, an attitude quite dif- ferent from those shown either toward living creatures or toward lifeless things. Even when much-desired food was placed close to the awesome image it was taken only after long hesitation, hastily and with evident apprehension. Chim- panzees do not have a religion, Prof. Kroeber concludes, but they act at times as though they were religious. ———— Banana Stalks Make Substitute for Cotton Alfredo E. Balingao, young Philippine chemist, has evolved from banana stalks a substitute for cotton fiber, which he believes will soon establish an important weaving industry in the islands. He calls the process - “balingarization,” a term derived from his own name, and says it resembles mercerization. He “cracks” off the cellulose binding of the fiber, leaving it pure white and ready for weaving machines without the necessity for spinning. He also gets similar fiber from other native plants, including Manila .hemp, which is very abundant and has for scveral years been a source of cloth fiber in Japan, where it has been shipped from the Philippines for that purpose. e And Then the Deluge. From the Tororto Daily Star. Another explanation of Mr. Hoover's trip to South America is that he wants to get one long, last look at a popu- lation that will not ask him for Govern- STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1928 THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover It seems hardly permissible to sug- gest that a veteran novelist like Edith‘ Wharton may have received an idea from one younger in the fiction cnn.' but the family of Wheater children in Edith Wharton’s novel, “The Children,” recalls Sanger's circus in Margaret Kennedy’s novel, “The Constant Nymph,” and Judith Wheater is spirit- ual sister to Teresa Sanger. Both fami- lles of children are the victims, not consciously unhappy, of parents whose responsibility for their children ends with bringing them into the world. | The artistic Sanger, in his life shared | between the Muses and the Bohemians, has no time for the prosaic duties of parenthood. Cliffe Wheater and his wife Joyce start as a conventionally happy couple, produce Judith and the twins, Terry and Blanca, and even when ro- mance wanes jog along comfortably for a time. Passing quarrels become seri- ous when Joyce meets the wicked Prince Buondelmonte and insists on marrying him. Cliffe, divorced, marries the movie actress, Zinnia Lacrosse, and their child, Zinnie, is a replica of her mother. Then both Cliffe and Joyc: divorce their second partners and de. cide to remarry. Cliffe keeps Zinnie and, in the temporary kindness of her heart, Joyce brings with her the two neglected children of Buondelmonte by a former marriage, Astorre and Beatrice, familiarly known as Bun and Beechy. The result of the remarriage is thc} plump cherub, Chipstone, or Chip for | short. The reunited Wheaters, finding | their family of seven children a ham- pering circumstance in their life at fashionable resorts on the continent, | send them all off in charge of the 16- year-old Judith, with a governess and two nurses. to travel or settle down 'n, quiet pensions according to their will. A e e Whether or not the children of “The Children” could exist outside the mind of a versatile novelist, they are original and fascinating. In spite of | their daily quarrels, the members of the little troupe are devoted to each other and have sworn never to be separated, taking solemn oath on “Scopy’s book.” the ‘Cyclopaedia of | Nursery Remedies” of Miss Horatia | Scope, the governess. Judith and Terry | and Blanca, who, with Chip, rejoice | in the same parents, patronizingly call | Bun. and Beechy and Zinnie “the | steps,” but love them none the less. All the children refer to the parental pair enjoying themselves at Biarritz, the Lido, Paris or Cowes, as “the Wheaters,” and talk freely about Sally | Money, the symbolical person who | always figured in the various divorce | cases. “Judith's never been a child— | there was no time,” Miss Scope says. | Terry, delicate boy, longs for an edu- | cation, but no one else seems to think about this need of his. Judith, mature as she is, has all she can do to find, pensions which will take her noisy charges and, having installed them, to keep them amused and fairly quiet. Blanca has her mother’s beauty, van- ity and love of clothes, but beyond everything else she adores her twin; what Terry does must always be right. And really Terry is the only one who | has standards. Bun and Beechy, chil- | dren of an Italian prince and a lion- tamer mother, are a pair of savage littie acrobats, whom the other chil- dren call “wops” in their quarrels, but openly admire as the chief entertain- ers of the group. Orange-haired Zin- nie, whom Judith calls “that little red devil” is avid for presents and excitement, and, like all the children, sophisticated beyond her years. ‘When urged io return to her mother, now become Lady Wrench, she bengs her little redhhc-d nx;ii lqo‘l’:: so\;e\;."_“st;lg- gling with a problem beyon« T - crs,” theri says firmly, “I should like to consult my lawyer first.” * - ' koK kK Katherine Mayo, author of “Mother " till being answered. C. S. Res. 1ok € 'ber of the Indian 3 Miss Mayo jon-hunting tourist, especially seeking 8ex: swiff, and with the second- ary purpose of proving that the In- dians are not worthy of ‘self-govern- ment. some abuses in the United call for reform and uses as proof cer- tain passages in Judge Lindsey's “Re- volt of Ynmh."t He then charges. thal * % * An enlightening contribution to in- formation about the last days of Tolstoi, after he had fled by night from his home and family, is-a small volume published in the Hungarian language, “The Tragedy of Tolstoi” by Arpad Pasztor, based upon the diary of Tol- stol’s physician. This physician, Dr. Dusan Makovicky, was a fanatjcal dis- ciple of Tolstoi and followed him_on his flight from Yasnaya Polyana. The cause of that flight, as given in the doctor’s diary, was the conflict between the Countess Tolstoi on' the one side and Tolstoi and the group of disciples who surrounded him on the other. The countess, quite naturally, since she was the mother of a large family of chil- dren, was determined to secure poOS- session of the diaries of her husband for publication, and resultant royalties, in order to support her family. The doctrine of Tolstoi was that literature | should be free to all humanity and that | copyrights and royalties were unethical. He and his followers wished to use the 1 friction. é t there ‘are { Scandina States which | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. \ 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. Failure to make use of it deprives you of benefits to which you are entitied. Your obiigation is only 2| cents in coin or stamps inclosed with | your inquiry for direct reply. Address | The Evening Star Information Bureau, | Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washing- | ton, D. C. | Q. How many nations will be repre- sented in the first International Aero-) nautics Conference in _Washington, | D. C.. in December?—S. N. A. Representatives of 59 nations, in- cluding the British dependencies, are ex- pected to be in attendance. This con- ference has been called by President | Coolidge to commemorate the twenty- | fifth anniversary of human flight. Q. A. Owing to the high cost of nico- | tine as an insecticide, scientists in the | Bureau of Chemistry and Soils have evolved neonicotine, obtained from crude dipyridyl. As a substitute for nicotine it has been found to be even | more deadly to insects than natural nicotine. Q. When was compressed air first used for work in tunnels?>—L. R. A. Compressed air was first used in tunnel work by Hersent at Antwerp | in 1879 in a small drift with a cast- iron lining. In the same year com- pressed air was used for the first time in any important tunnel by D. C. Haskin in the famous first Hudson River Tunnel, New York City, N. Y. Q. What is the per capita wealth of the following countries: United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Great Britain?—A. McK. A.In 1922, according to the latest | census statistics, the per capita wealth of the United States was $2919. The World Economic Chart, 1927, gives the other countries as follows: Canada, $2,662.40: Australia, $2,599: New Zea- land. $3,371.70, and Great Britain, $2,690.10. Q. Which of the Alexanders was Alexander the Great?>—E. J. A. Alexander III, named the Great, was born in 356 B.C. and died in 323 B.C. Q. What qualities should one have to become a successful engineer?>—D. N. A. John Hays Hammond in his book “The Engineer” says, “The important qualities with which nature must have What is neonicotine?—V. C. | \ endowed the prospectve engineer are imagination, integrity »f purpose, ac- curacy of thought, capweity for judg- ment, ingenuity, curiosiy, the creative instinct and an innate nterest in the working of natural laws.\ Q. What 'sacra cmversazione” mean?—1i. A. M. A. Clara Clement in “Sants in Art” says that conversazione dos not as- sentially mean a conversatin in the sense of speech, but rathe: a com- munion; thus, a “communiot of holy boings” is the best definitior of the phrase as here employed. . May more than one coicil be | added to a will>—S. 8. A. There may be as many codsls to a will as a testator cares to makyand where a provision in a codicll is feon- sistent with a provision in a wilithe provision in the codicil governs, asthe | purpose of the codicil is to express he | testator's latest wishes. Q. What was the coloring substare used by old-time cooks in baked fruil such as pears, to give them the beautifi, | deep rose color? It was different fron the pink vegetable coloring purchasable today.—H. N. H. A. Cochineal, a dried insect, was formerly much used as a coloring. also as a dye. The color, though brilliant, was not enduring and it has been largely replaced by coal tar products. | Q. What became of the Monitor?— E. L T. does A M. A. She sank off Cape Hatteras on | December 31, 1862, during a stiff gale. | Q. Which State has the most pine trees?—B. L. A. The Forest Service says that there are probably mo# long-leaved pines in Florida than in other States, more short-leaved pines in Mississippi and Texas and more white pines in Minne- | sota. | Q When was opium introduced into China?—O. T. | . A. Opium is said to have been intro- | duced into China by the Arabs, perhaps | in the thirteenth century. It was orig- | inally used as a medieine. Opium smok- ing was introduced in Chima in the | seventeenth century. It was first pro- | hibited by the edict of the Emperor | Yung-Cheng in 1729. Q. What becomes of the dirt that | comes out when a ground, hog digs its hole?—J. F.'S. - : A. The dirt the ground hog digs out of its hole is on the ground around the hole. He does not pile it in a mound, but _distributes it over an area so that | it looks level. BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. ‘The theme of this “movie” is a neigh- borhood dispute, magnified. ‘There was a group of neighbors liv- ing peaceably and sociably together in a very desirable locality. It was a beau- tiful park, well favored by nature with trees, rivulets and gardens of flowers and fruits, and . everything to make life enjoyable. The neighbors were or- ganized for mutual benefit and used to get_together. to talk over their domestic problems, (including that ever-embar- rassing. dilemma when uninvited com- pany arrived in Such numbers as to overcrowd some of the homes. In such events, it became the custom..to share | the visitors among different neigh- bors, until evén that led to a bit of ok K K OIev,Olson had a number of relatives who éame and were easily n care g:'d.lohn‘ Bull, with his great mansion, enoud] 0 0~ date all! his %m,:mwm snd Irish edusins- (Pat” And in BT B R rel W fact fo g‘?h ‘mindy. rr:&uu(umd 50 "mg?',' ‘mean- ing relatives) 5"& his British and vian neighbors, sothe made no en—oh, as many visitors as all the rest of the community combined! Very nice people they were, except that there were so many of them and they took up so much room, demanding a place in the sun on every occasion. One day, there cpme a tremendous horde of folks right off the steamboat, without an Hhour’s warning. And they were a strange lot—yery different from the British, German, Scahdinavian and French visitors.' They newcomers had different dress, different speech, differ- ent manners and different ideas as to how this happy community should be run. They poured down the street look- ing for the residents who would take them in, without even setting up much of a claim to being blood kin. They dumped their baggage on front porches and their children began twisting the house-dogs’ tails and munching the apples in the orchards. Tinally so many of them trowded onto the porch of the Hon. Samuel Yank that he steoped over to his neigh- bor, Col. F. F. Virginia, to propose that they should call a meeting of the com- munity at the council houge and see royalties on his old writings for the spread of their beliefs and to publish the diaries without copyright, for the use of all readers at a low price. This plan ignored the question of any pro- vision for the countess, Sophia Alexan- dreyevna, and the children. Having borne most of the burdens of the prac- tical affairs of the family throughout her married life, -acted as her hus- band’s secretary, and adjusted herself to the eccentricities of a visionary genius, she considered that she was en- titled to means of support after her husband’s death. She probably often reminded him that the sons and daugh- ters were his as well as hers and in other ways interrupted the reflections of the philosophic life with unpleasant practical truths. The doctor’s diary also reveals that she became hysterical, at- tempted suicide or pretended to at- tempt it, and never ceased by all these means her attempts to obtain posses- sion of the diaries. Finally Tolstol con- fessed to the doctor that he could not much longer tolerate life in his home. Then came the escape by night, the | journey in a third-class carriage, the wandering from one place to another to escape publicity, pneumonia and a lonely death in a monastery. * ok ok ¥ Benito Mussolini, “II Duce” of Italy, in “My Autobiography,” pays a tribute to America as a Nation of creative workers. “I endlessly admire,” he says, “those who make out of creative work a law of life, those who win with the ability of their genius and not with the intrigue of their eloquence. I am for those who seek to make technic per- fect in order to dominate the elements and give to men more sure footing for the future. America,” he continues, “is a creative Nation, sane, with straight- lived ideas. When 1 talk with men of the United States it does not occur to me to usc diplomacy for winning or persuading them. The American spirit is ~crystal- line. One has to know how to take it and possibly win it over with a watch-} ful responsiveness rather than with| cunning words. As the reserves of wealth have gone now from the conti- nents to North America, it is right that a large part of the attention of the world should be concentrated upon the activity of this Nation that has men of great value, economists of real wis- dom and scholars that are outlining the basis of a new science and a new cul- ture.” * ok ok % ment jobs. R Ours, Either. From the Muncie Sunday Star. If tularemia can only be acquired by from its humane aspects, this war upon s cleaning diseased rabbits, there is one enormous _economic leprosy has an The Passaic value for the world.” g‘liom that will never boost our doctor A 50-pound. turtle, a shark and a dolphin, with some smaller fish also caught, by the way, eked out the scanty rations with which John Cameron and his two companions had managed to stock the little open boat for their escape from Sand Island in the South- crn Pacific. 43 days, through fog and storm, tor- what would be the right course to take with this dilemma of unigvited new- comers. Nobody wanted to be in hospitable nor rude, but, between neigh- bors who owned these homes, who had built these residences and who had families of their own to care for, it seemed to be their duty to hint to the Im.erlfirs that they were boo fresh and too numerous and too—téo everything that was not comme il faut. Besides, Hon. Samuel Yank already had his own cousins visiting at his howse—11 or 13 of them—and Col. F. F. Virginia had some too, but not so many, and down- street most of the houses were already overrun with visitors, unewnly divided among the families. e o | At the council meeting some one proposed that the communty should adopt a rule limiting the visitirs to just so many per family, accordirg to the national origin of the respecive fam- ilies who were settled there \n their own homes. Under that rule ome of | the Germans would have to wijt, but | it would affect the queer ne ers more than it would any of the Qusins from Great Britain, Germany, di- navia or France. Those who would be most string\ntly barred had come from the 4 Poland and Russia, from Italy Spain, and these folks overheard.a bit of whhpefln{hin the community, a\d so got wind of the discussion, and thiy crowded about the windows and doon | that almost one-quarter of the present population of the United States has immigrated since 1890, you realize why the problem of restriction is such an important political issue today.” “H'm! Yes—it is a bothersome. issue in my State,” muses the statesman. ‘The votes of the Hyphen Societies are cut- ting into majorities. They declare that our. immigration restriction is cruel and inhuman; for we separate families, and bar their relatives who have as much right to come over when there is room in the steerage-as our forefathers had to come over in the Ma; T and the Dove and be scalped by the native Indfans. But, after all, the present mesthod, based on the for -born 1890 census, takes no account of‘the descend- -ants of the passengers of the Mayflower and.Dove. . The ‘fleopb borp-in America don’t count at in the ‘2 per cent of each nation’s fo!elsl born living in America in 1890. It looks 3 as their ‘mat st 7 all, maybe the Balkan stone-throwers are not the only obstreperous newcorers who fail io see any rights of Americans to hold a part in a law g America for Americans. at—eh?—the Senator from Pennsylvania is saying something, and what came we here for to see? A Reed shaken in the wind? The gentle- man from Pennsylvania does not appear very shaky right now, although the wind is blustering, and might blow up a storm.” i * ok ok ok ‘The Senator from Pennsylvania i quoting a resolution of the American ‘Legion supporting the 1924 law on im- migration restriction. Maj. Reed is himself a Legionnaire and so has re- spect for the sentiment of that element of the population which offered life it- self to make the world safe for democ- racy—spelled with a small “d.” Senator King of Utah, rises and remarks: “Mr. President, I would like to ask the Senator from Pennsylvania if he understands that the resolution is aimed at Mr. Hoover, who, as I understand, opposed the ‘national origins’ provision, and whether he understands that it includes Mr. Hoover in the category of alien blocs, who are seeking to emas- culate the provisions of the law.” Mr. Reed of Pennsylvania: “I am not sure whether it is aimed at Mr. Hoover or Mr. Smith, who opposed all restriction based on anything but' the foreign born of 1920. * * * I fancy the resolution is. aimed at anybody who tries to weaken the present immigration poiicy of the Nation. * * * The number admitted by the quota is 164,667 per- sons, but our total immigration is over 400,000 annually. On the first of next July, if we can- preserve the law from any change, the enforcement of the national origins provision will reduce the quota number to 153,685, a reduc- tion of more than 11,000 in the quotas. “The reason of the agitation,” con- | tinues Senator Reed, “against the na- tional origins plan is that it cuts down the quotas of certain groups who are now receiving far more than they are entitled to. At the present time Ger- many has a quota of 51,277, or nearly one-third of all the quota immigration into the United States. According to the census of 1920, the proportion of persons in this country of German origin was only 16.21 per cent. * * ¢ I have not heard anybody suggest a fairer scheme. The temporary law of 1921 fixed the quota at 3 per cent of the foreign born in 1910, ignoring everybody born in this country in the calculation of the quota. The present law, with its temporary basis, fixes the quota at 2 per cent of the foreign born in 1890; in other words, saying that we will determine the col tion of our of the council house and began boister4 ous shouting and caterwauling. To' them, so accustomed to wrangling at home, it appeared perfectly natural that they should begin throwing stones through the windows of the council house. So the first reel of this thrilling movie ends in a tragic situation as its climax. In a few seconds the operator will change reels and the scene will shift to the hall of the United States Senate, where the immigration restric- tion law is under consideration. A | The staid Senators are assembled and the clerk has finished routine read- ing of the minutes. One Senator, =it~ ting at his desk, paying little heed to proceedings, opens a letter from a con- stituent, Mr. Edward R. Lewis of Chi- cago. Who writes: n_you stop to consider, Sen: tured sometimes by hunger, alvays by thirst, they reached Honolulu. Cam- eron’s account of his eight months on future citizenship, not by looking to the blood that made America and saved America, in its repeated wars, fput by taking account only of foreign- born and naturalized citizens—both— n apportioning the future quotas. If Sme recently arrived alien who is not Mt naturalized has a right to have his reflected in the quotas of our im- miration, I say that we, whose an- cesyrs made this couniry and fought forit in every war, have at least an €qud right with that recently arrived, unniuralized immigrant; and that is all tht ‘national origin’does—to take | us alkinto account, native and foreign born. ftizen and alien. all of us alike, and the quotas on the blood of m;";llcc p;uaunn that was in 3 e ik o g atest available census, * X ok ¥ Over th fire there has stood a pot throughot, the last 80 years. It has seethed an ‘boiled over at times, but now sometdy is upsetting it and it is may crack. What had Sand Island, with a mutiny and a typhoon to break the monotony, is as | thrilling as anything in the absorbing tale of his life. . He tells it all with vigor and lusty humor in “John Cam- After a perilous voyage of “ eron's Odyssey,” tragscribed by Andrew " end. Farrell. boiling dry \nd be dok with that old “melting best "h* DIaY Yoses, and the audience Tson:‘fts‘;‘ mcel p u”rmc‘z‘hn. for, like the he story 15, Iy weitiout 8. comentiy (Cousright. Ly by Paul V. Cellipsd F )