Evening Star Newspaper, May 4, 1929, Page 6

1929, B = ANSWERS TO QU BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. €. SATURDAY. MAY, 4. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. 6 THE THE EVENING STAR]t will be effective, whereas the plan of | ures presented to the National Audcmy] With Sunday Morning Edition. | the Senate bill will be ineffective | of Sciences would seem finally to dis- | ~ e e In his discussion of the debenture | prove this, ‘ WASHINGTON, D. C. |plan, Mr. Wagner insists that the so-| Still there is room for argument. The | ! EATURDAY. ..May 4, 1929 | called Norris amendment, which would | members of the National Academy hm‘e[ ——— |lower or wipe out the debenture sub- |supernormal intelleets. but it is by no ..Editor | sidy in the event of great production, | means certain that genius is entirely | By the Booklover THEODORE W. NOYES. 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In particular, it was heralded | throughout the world that Ambassador Gibson—speaking, of course, for his Government—had declared American yeadiness to permit the exclusion of re- | serve military forces from any scheme of land armament limitation or reduc- tion, to the inexpressible satisfaction of | * conscription countries with huge stand- ing armies. From the most authoritative Hoover administration quarter word is now | forthcoming that no such interpretation | may legitimately be placed upon the American attitude. No position hither- to taken by the United States has been + renounced or is going to be renounced. Ambassador Gibson has not been in- structed to assume either a pro or a con viewpoint toward any phase of the land armament discussion in Geneva. The United States has always regarded, and continues to regard, military forces - @ phase of the armament problem from which we are practically, it, in other words, as a purely Euro- pean—and Asiatic—and not an Ameri- ! can question. This country’s one and only interest in what is going on at Geneva is to help | find the key—if its discovery is pos- sible—to the door which will unlock the - way to disarmament, military as well as naval. Our contribution to the current " discussion in Switzerland is attuned salely to that end. We are not jockeying for place or bargaining for advantage. ‘We are not bartering away any funda- mental American principles or purposes in the realm of disarmament for the " purpose of accomplishing this, that or anything else but the general good that will accrue to a war-weary and erma- ment-burdened universe from scme scheme which, while safeguarding na- tional defense everywhere, will make international strife anywhere less prob- | the members of the committee desire . able. 1t is intimated in Washington from a | | made the plan worse, if anything. Th 1. Possibly “ | Senator i the Treasury in the Wilson administra- : tion, continued to own stock while he | Secretaries of the Treasury have owned two Demosratic New York Scnators| [ssemingly do not reason alike. M. |tional factor—is essential to produce a Wagner's argument. however, appears | St. Paul or a Newton. Whether or not sound. He points out that the deben-|there is any correlation between this | tures, accerding to the report of the | added factor which transmutes high Senate committer, are to bs issucd when | intellectual eapacity into genius and | a certain crop. With the Norris amend- | Question. A physical disability which ment it {s proposed to shut off the de- | Festrained a man of naturally high ca- | tures in measure to the amount of PACity from the normal activities of his | overproduction. “There must be som ! fcllows might indeed produce the emo- | misunderstanding somewhere.” was Mr, | onal drive resulting in genius. Again, | Wagner's comment upon this effort u,lz'nilfi in some cases may be definitely ! make the cart go two ways at once. He | the Tesult of toxins affecting the brain. vs frankly he has no evidence in his| But geniuses are few and far be-| ion that the farmers desire t tween. They must not be confused with | ! debenture. and that there is nothing to the intellectually superior. who, the jonger education conscious. justify th= belief that it would help the | CUrves show, tend to superiority in most | farmers. The proposed bounty is pay- | Other respect able in a form of curren=y denominated | i S export. debentures. | Athletic Nomenclature. | If we are gcing to pay the farmers | Fachions in athletic “noms de guerre” | o bounty. why print new currency?” | swing this way and that. Decades ago : Wagner asks pertinently. | the bruiser commenly referred to as What is wrong with the old currency? | “The Benicia Boy” was also known per- | What conceivable advantage does the|fectly by his real name. Nicknames debenture possess except to compel the | vere common enough, but athletes went | farmer to accept a discount on the ' generally by their genuine natal names. beunty?” | Later it became the fashion for pugilists 3 G generally to adopt Irish names, irre-| The Mellon Case. [ <pective of their nationality. Many al During the recent agitation over the | “Battling Brogan™ went regularly to the | eligibility of Secretary Andrew W. Mel- | SYNagogie or, perhaps, the Lutheran lon to head ths Treasury Depariment, | Church. owing to the fact he continued to hold | TCGAY feal names, unless they be un- stock in industrial corporations, littie | Pronounceable, have come back into, has been said hitherto as to the course | “‘Sh‘z:\- “'hcliwr (ho_;br Ct;ll c‘(-h‘., lovakian or in, eeently i adi- ccently in Madi- | which former Secretaries of the Treas- ury pursued with regard to their stocs | 500 Sauare Garden, New York, the Mul holdings. It now appears that Senator | 400n-Tunney championship trophy wi Carter Glass of Virginia, Secrotary of | UnVelled. On the handsome onyx ped- oot estal, surmounted by a beautifully mod- | eled boxer, are placed in bronze names was Secretary, and that many other for. | Of he heavyweight kings of the United mer Secretaries of the Treasire did the | States—Which, so far, has meant the same thing. Mr. Glass, as did Mr. Mer. | Forld—and future recognized monarchs lon, sold his bank stock when he entereq | Wil have thelrs added to the roster. the Treasury Department. He frankly| The first on the list—he who reigned admits. however, that he continued (o | SUPFOMe from 1882 to 1802—is Sullivan or “John L. was| be the largest individual stockholder 1n | 2R Lawrence® | an industry in his own State, | good enough for the old gladiator. Next It is quite true that becaus ! comes James J. Corbett and following 3 because former | ;o pobert Fitzsimmons and James J. | Jeftries. All these are real names. But | i stock in industrial corporations does as well as| geographically, detached. We look upon | | not necessarily legalize that course un- der the old law to which enemies of Mr. | Mellon have resorted in their attempt to unhorse him. But it will have its ef- fect when the vote is taken in the Sen- ate judiciary committee and in the Senate, if the matter reachcs a vote in | that body. Reports on former heads of the Treasury Department show that William G. McAdoo and David S. Hous- ton, both of whom served during the ‘Wilson administration, did not feel con- strained to give up stock ownership while in office, and that they did own stock. The same course was pursued by George B. Cortelyou in the Roosevelt administration and Franklin MacVeagn in the administration of President Taft. Debate in the Senate committee over the eligibility of Mr. Mellon to hold of- fice Tuns on, apparently, like the brook. The members of the committee have Recently the discussion has turned largely on the question whether the ccommittee should undertake to investi- | gate Mr. Mellon, calling him and other | witnesses before it, or whether the com- | mittee shall simply construe the law as |it affects a Secretary of the Treasury and report back to the Senate. Some of to bring Mr. Mellon before it and hold discussed the matter for days and days. | quarter which should know whereof it | &0 open investigation. But a majority speaks that misrepresentations of Amer- | Of the. committee members, it is now | ican procedure at Geneva are being | reported, are opposed to that procedure. | number five is “Tommy” Burns, the| | first a nickname and both of them en- |tirely fictitious, for the gentleman’s | genuine name was Noah Brusso. “Jack” | Johnson follows. This is not so far off, | the infant Negro having been chris- | | tened John Arthur. “Jesse” was the ! real given name of the Willard popularly | | called “Jess.” Doubtless Dempsey | | and Tunney appear elsewhere, though not shown in the picture. Probably they | arc on as “Jack and Gene.”. Such & imixture of genuine names, of stage names and of twisted first names is re- grettable on a trophy as handsome as, | this one s, but consistency in this re- spect seems impossible, due to the social and professional vagaries of various title, | holders. There seems today to be little or no racial prejudice in connection yith | athletics, and it appears lkely that there | will be no more reason in the future for |a Selby to call himself McCoy or a Brusso to change himself to a Burns | than for an Adrian C. Anson to trans- form himself for sporting purposes into a Pat Murphy or a Walter Perry John- | | son into an Izzy Vogelsang. . - In order to play cards it is necessary to study the game as others see it.| Hugh Gibson has had the advantage | of long European contact and, no doubt, a good knowledge of how hands are usually managed from deals to discard, e e broadcast for mischievous purposes. | The werd that now comes from the White House should relegate such tales | to the limbo of fable, where they be- | long. —_— e Berlin is apparently engaged in an| effort to transact all kinds of political ‘business, ranging from local to inter- national at one and the same time. —— e = Politics and Farm Relief. “Politics takes precedence over farm | relief,” said Senator Wagner of New | York during the debate of the farm bill | in the Senate. .The New York Senator was gently chiding Republicans from farm States cf the West for favorinj the old McNary-Haugen bill last Spring | and running to the support of President | Hoover in the campaign last Fall. The New Yorker, in the vernacular, “said a mouthful.” Politics has played | hob with farm-relief legislation for years. Ncr has it ceased in the Senate of the United States today. His col- Jeague, Senator Copeland, announced he | would “hold his nose”,and vote for the | so-called export debenture plan, with! the Norris amendment. Senator Cope- land not many days ago was dead set | 2gainst the debenture plan, and ap- parently even today he is mnot en-| amouied of the proposal. But the | Demecrats have undertaken to line up for the plan, a plan to which President | Hoover has announced his opposition. So, good Democrats, whether they be- lieve in the debenture—which is in ycality a Government subsidy—or nct, | are now called upon to support the de- | benture. Put the President in a hole— | with the aid of a few recalcitrant Re- | publicans—is the tactics of the Demo- cratic leadership. Further, the Demo- crats are gambling on the chance that | the Hoover farm-aid plan is not gmngi 10 aid the farmers as they wish to be| aided. If that should be the case, then the Democrats will point with pride to the votc for the debenture plan, ard| call attention to the opposition of the | Republican administration. Senator Wagner was right; “politics takes pre- cedence over farm relief.” Senator Wagner, judging from his ad- | dress in the Senate, is not able to stom- ach the debenture plan, to which Mr. | Cepeland hes succumbed finally. Mr. Wagner preferred w omer a substitute bill of his own which omits the deben- ture, but, provides for the establishment of a single stabilization corporation, to be own=d and operated by the Govern- ment. The Senate bill provides for a number of such corporations to b2 owned and operated by the farmers some of them by co-operatives. Mr. | Senate. It is likely to lead to much | | the case should be made. | in violation of the law, because he con- One reason advanced for the delay in settling Mr. Mcllon's case is the desire to have the farm bill disposed of before a report on Mr. Mellon is completed by the committes and submitted to the | Geographical limitations are effaced meteorologically as w:ll as politically. | Cyclones no longer concentrate their most energetic attentions on Kansas. ey It has become necessary ‘for Col. Charles A. Lindbergh to take himself seriously. Fame is as difficult to pilot | as an airplane. dcbate, and that might postpone action on the farm bill. However, in fairness to Mr. Mellon, a prompt disposition of R SHOOTING STARS.—_ If the committee and 'the Scnate should find that Mr. Mellon held office BY PHILAN] i tinues to own stock in industrial con- DR Jonnsan, | cerns, and action should be taken to oust him in the courts, it would be no | mere matter of eligibility, It would be ! in reality a penal offense, punishable by | ismissal from office and a fine of | $3,000. That a majority of the Senate | would wish to put the Secretary of the Treasury in such a position does not| appear possible. ‘ A Question. | I try to love my neighbor And wear a kindly smile; But when your neighbor greets you In supercilious style, And says you are mendacious And maybe stupid, too— When you have such a neighbor What zre you going to do? I try to love my neighbor— But when he seems to seck For pastime to compel you To turn the other cheek: When he picks up a hammer, And thinks it's up to you To be the anvil, always— What are you going to do? Pessimists who said Germany was | preparing for another war will hardly | venture to claim credit as prophets be- | cause of the fact that Commiunists | have made necessary the use of armored | cars, ——— — Brain and Brawn. Probably no other group of two hun- dred and fifty human beings in the world has a higher intellectual level | than the National Academy of Sciences, whith met here last week. It is a highly selected body. Every | member has made some notable contri- | bution to the advancement of knowl- edge. Election to this august assembly | ful earth, | depends entirely on merit and mem-| There's one we most marvel to see. | bership is restricted to undisputed lead- | When we're sad his performance will ers in each field of science. Outstand- move us to mirth; | ing intellectual accomplishment is the| When were glad he will temper our | one and only qualification. glee. | For the past two vears various exact | He sIngs in the choir off. the key, very physical measurements of these men| _ loud: have been taken and correlated with | He €polls the good cheer when you similar figures for the population at | sup: large. 'The results show a decided su- | H® is sure o break into the happiest | periority for these intellectual giants in Erowd, size. strength, health and longevity. The fellow who musscs things up! Thus. apparently. 15 shattered the | pis yearnings are constant. cherished popular idea that brain and | are vo'strange brawn do not go together. The mathe-| That to guess them you struggle in matical curves show exactly the oppo- | vain; site. The superior individual in one|when he gets his own way, his ideas respect is -likely to prove superior in | will change | most other respects, the figures indicate. | And he wants it all over again. ‘True enough, history affords plenty | vet for power he longs. He will eagerly [ of excepttons—physical weaklings whose claim : | intellectual attainments are among the| Ambition's infoxican!, cup— greatest glories of the human race. So| And we hail him a man well entitled striking and colorful are these excep- to fame tions—men like Sir Isaac Newton, Spi- noza, Nietziche and Napoleon—that | = they have made a deep impression on The Spring Investor. he popular mind and are largely re- | No gold mine in my avaricious glee Conflicting Impressions. Mistoh Robin, keep awa Even if yoh voice is sweet. Tl fohgit yoh song some day, | ‘Cause you's mighty good to cat! | The Troubled Spirit. | Of the wonderful men on this wonder- | | His moo ‘Wagner admits that his substitute wiil b= open to the charge that it puts the Governmert into the business of deal- -ng in farm produce, but declarcs that sponsible for the common belief that My vagrant dollars shall suffice to | and respected. For his genius for mussing things up! | ome other factor—most likely an emo- | to be getting all the publicity it is well | only ! to remember that America is still filled | showed that American college men and | women, with “enthuslests of learning. We came across that excellent phrase in Boswell's “Life of Johnson” in the passage wherein he describes where the excellent Sam lived while at college. “No man had a more ardent love of 4senerunenth | thore is a surplus, an overproduction of | bodily infirmity still Yemains an open jjterature or a higher respect, for it than Johnson,” said Boswell. “His apart- ment in Pembroke College was that upon the second floor over the gateway. The enthusiasts of learning will ever contemplate it with veneration.” Y there still are enthusiasts of learning, not just base ball enthusiast and motor car enthusiasts, and golf en- husiasts, and tennis enthusiasts and radio enthusiasts. Education has got 0 a point in this country where it is just accepted. As a people we are no We make a great pow-wow about our sports, be- cause most of us come from people who had little time for such recreation. But every one, more or less, has undergone the educative process until the wonder of it. the very heart and enthusiesm of it. has been worn off in the popular mind. Even the children never rebel against going to school, it has become so uni- | versally understood. The schoolhouse, to the little child, is as preordained in the scheme of things as his own home. He no more questions the one than the other. When the mysterious time comes for him to “go to school.” off he goes. It is true that he may not like it for a time. and may even rebel to the ex- tent that he will say that “he doesn't want to go to school.” but the idea never occurs to him to dispute the right of the school to existence. Few young- sters have ever been known to ask their astounded parents the pert- inent question: “Why must there be ! old school, anyway e and on the eem to have its enthu- in educational circles. indeed, Superfically learning ma siasts only or she would be a poor teaches who could not work up a marked en- | There are, of who ‘The have thusiasm for his job. course, some misplaced persons finally get out of the professicn. generality of teachers, however, a rteal enthusiasm for their they hed in their minds and hearts the real quality of enthusiasm .of pride in learning and the things of the mind.| The United States stands today on a ! great bulk of the students do not. | very much there surface, | He | | to make it and advertise it by laughing work. | | Heaven help them if they haven't! The | daily annoyances incident to handling and training so many precious little | animals would drive them crazy unless | recently secured data which in the main, are as'serious- minded as young people have ever becn. Raccoon ocercoats only seem to cover the entire student body—one raccoon coat will be remembered, naturally enough, when h hundred plain wool coats are forgotten. * ok ok % So it goes all along the line. In a college of 500 men there will be a small clique who get drunk, but the actly the same thing may be said of cvery great business establishment. There is always a group which drinks, but as long as its membersi manage to keep the drinking out of the office nothing is said about it. Yet it must be admitted that a -visitor who should be waited upon by a drunken employe would probably carry away with him a none too favorable impression of the firm and its emploves as a whole. Such an_impression, however, would prove unfair to the scores of workers who did not get drunk. The serious, sober workers would still be in the ma- | jority. the huge majority. Exactly the same thing may be said of “the enthusiasts of learning.” Al- though sometimes and in some quarte: the emphasis is placed upon the unin- telligent at the expense of the intelli- | gent, and the absurd at the cost of the serious, it will be found in every cas> that the intelligent and the serious are Everv one knows this. but sometimes the ballyhoo is so great that even the most_ardent_enthusiast is thrown off his balance by the noise. All he has to do, however, to get back his faith in humanity is to open the pages of any one of the great mag- azines and read the advertisements. Here is a picture of a bespectacled young man who has invented a new sort of alloy. Surcly he is an en- t of learning. He never found lloy and got a great business firm like an idiot every evening at the night club antics. No, he must have known his chemical symbols. He was an enthusiast about higher things and it will do no good to call him a “Babbitt. What does he care? Certainly there is nothing particu- larly “peppy.” or “snappy.” or “mod- ernistic” about this good enthusiasm of which we speak. It is as old as the hills, exactly as old as human beings, to be more precise. Its dev- otces do not shock the community by displays of nakedness, but go about slippery precipice with the good and |their business of being interested in tried things of human decency and true | learning fighting a battle with the forces | fine old busine: of evil and indifference. There is noth- ing wrong with music, in itself, but there | health, wealth and wisdom. may be when it is teamed up not oniy with indifference to good taste but also | promise a startling uniform which will with ridicule of common grammatical | make every one stare. In many of the walks of life|the best word, is something into which a man | rules. indifference to the best. things of past ages is joined with ridicule of thosz2 | who believe in them at the present time. | again himself. Out of this conglomeration comes & shamefaced acceptance, on the part of many, of what the world has agreed to call fine and nobie. jectives are coming to be soft-pedaled in common conversation, as if it were taken for granted that every one who | used them were a_hypocrite. So much for th2 general impression | which one is likely to gain who accepts | 311 the blah-blah current at its face value | clubs occupy a place in found by their milllons—but they don't | New York night the New York mind which one might wonder at until he recalled that t hundreds of New York churches have no_such heavy means of publicity The misdeeds of flash-carrying youngsters have been so widely circu- that there are plenty of A-1 kids left. The speculative person will wonder who | or what is attempting to create an impression which facts do not uphold These very ad- | the acquisition of knowledge. It is a one which does not guarantee its disciples any short road to It does not say that “no effort is required,” or Learning, in sense of an old-fashioned {may put his whole self and come out You can’t do that with | You go in whole some phases of life. They do harsh and come out in part. things to one. Learning never leaves any marks on 2 man except good ones. It has to deal with the things of the mind and t spirit, and carries with it all the dw able satisfactions of life which throughout the ag's have agreed to call good. to be Learning’s are enthusiasts make so much noise about it. True he | modesty is one of the things learning teaches. She has a sincere contempt for bluff and bluster. Even if she and her friends know that others are secur- ing the hog's share’of attention. thev {iated that one might expect to see no will not resort to the trigks of the opposi- | decent boys and giris left, but any one | tion. They who lives near a big high schbol knows | o | study and read a book, tried it once, and felt very ashamed. = They turned back to th~ thercin peace and happiness. - The en- thusiasts of learning will ever con- template it with veneration. Law Enforcement Message Wakes Wide, Varied Comment When the newspapers of the ecountry | the ene who reverences the laws of his had fully digest on the prevalence of law violation and “the subsidence of our foundations,” | out they, for the most part, accepted it in | | rrinciple and found it goed. But many note a lack of particularization, an ab- sence of practical advice, and some dif- fer widely as to detalls. ThRe Roanoke Times finds in the President’s statement that “the very essence of freedom * * * is the obedi- ence of law,” a sentiment worthy of comment. as does the Duluth Herald, which develops the idea with the fur- ther observation that “without law and public respect for law, human life and | property—the property of the humble as well as the great—have no protec- | tion. That is the folly of those who are complacent toward law violations | The Government | of any kind. * needs to enforce the law more vigor- ously, but the need that every citizen take a firm stand for law and against lawlessness is at least as great.” The Schenectady Gazette feels that {while the President sald nothing new, he is performing a public service in doing his part thought that our laws must bs enforced With our leaders in all walks of life constantly advocating this, public sentiment will certainly be awakened some time to the need of defi- nite action.’ the high tide of criminality in this country.” and that “the future will bring reform and betterment, under the high leaderst his pleadings to his covntrymen will not go unheeded.” “On the whole it is the speech of a conscientions American, anxious about life and property. and determined to find the best way to improvement.” conclndes the Indianapolis News, while the Philadelphia Record is convinced that “when Mr. Hoover declares he is all set find a way to decide the future of the ‘noble experiment,’ he is making an irresistible_appeal to all sober-minded | citizens.” The Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch | fecls that law violators is well made: will never be brought about by prohi- bition enforcement, but only by prohi- bition observance.” The appeal of the nress inspires the statement from the Worcester Gazette “There are journals which. in their opposition to the eighteenth amend- ment. appear at times to overstep the hounds. There are journals which, in their search for the sensational. throw overboard good sense and good faste in order to overplay crime stories. But he apoeal to prohibition that their error is one of the head rather than the heart.” “Every editor and every citizen of every political faith,” declares the Raleigh News and Observer, “ought to uphold the President in every step he takes to uphold all laws, and inasmuch as the eighteenth amendment is most flouted, specifically to enter a crusade to uphold the law unleg it is repealed in the orderly and consditutional way.” Taking note of the charge of “a decay of moral health, or, as he puts it, ‘a subsidence of our foundations,’ " the St. Paul Pioneer Press agrees with the President, stating that the ‘“real prob- lem is to cultivate the moral sense.” “Newspapers that owe their obliga- tions as well as claim their rights un- there is some sort of automalic balance catch. between brain and brawn so that onc best investment now nust drop as the other rises. The fig- ‘nterest in & good pears to be » to patch. der guarantee of a free press” in the opinion of the Los Angeles Express, “perform a great service in holding up before the people as the ideal citizen ed President Hoover's | remarks addressed to their colleagues | | News . states that | stincts of brutality, lowers the value of | human life, weakens the sensitiveness to drive home the | The Spokane Spokesman- | ! Review says that “we are viewing todav ip of Herbert Hoover, for | for a four-year campaign, a | steady drive to bring out the facts and | prohibition | such journals happily are but a small | minority; and of them it may be said | country.” The Topeka Daily Capital contends that “it is time the myth of a huge and constantly extending web of laws spun w Legislatures fettering and clog- ging the ordinary man’s activities, were Iaid along with other baseless imagin- ings on the shelf.” Holding the var responsible for some of the existing lawlessness. the Datroit “war lets loose in- the egotism of men and and increase * What the President peoples. * * | bewails is only the working out of the {lew | whereby love breeds love, hate breeds | hate, and violence breeds violence.” of moral action and reaction. As another cause the Rock Island | Argus says that “were it not for the press. the people would often be in ignerance of the gross acts of injustice that are sometimes committed by en- forcement. officers.” and that “it is a matter of common: knowledge also that technicalities of a piffiing character save criminals from the gallows while minor offenders get the full penalty of the law.” “The more administration of law we have which reaches the lowly seller of a pint of moon but cannot reach—and apparently is indifferent to reaching the wholesale plunder of the public property, the less respect for law en- forcement there will be” in the judg- ment of the Milwaukee Journal, = The El Paso Herald., along the same line, assert: “There are many person: reputable in position and general man- ner of living, and often of good social standing. who pay little attention to certain Jaws. It does not seem as if Mr. Hoover in his address outlines a practical method of changing the atti- tude of such persons.” “The cscepe of a murderer here and there by his wit or through loopholes in the law, the defiance of a big bootleg- ger, the wise cracks of a night club hostess, are not things as conducive to | breakdown of law_enforcement,” | the avers the Lynchburg News, “as_the escape of multi-millionaires and high public officials from the consequences of acts decided by the highest court to have been fraudulent.” “The President’s address.” as analyzed by the New York Evening World, “is a strong pronouncement on the side of | law and order, and on the whole will meet with hearty approval, but it fails to disclose any real comprehension of the problem of prohibition enforce- ment.; » Quite So! From the St. Paul Dispatch. Michigan Lower House favors whip- ping for criminals, but the difficulty there as everywhere else seems to be to catch them and make them stand for the whipping. e A Horror Remains. From the New Castle News. The horrors of war are almost for- gotten, but occasionally you see some- body in spiral puttees. - Without an Umbrella. Prom the Nashville Banner. Into each life some rain must fall, of course, but some of us seem destined to live in & perpetual waterspout. £ o The “Ayes” Know. From the Butte Daily Post. All those mn favor of going to Wash- ington and helping Eddie Gann (hrow a stag parly say “Aye.’ The “Ayes’ have it, Ex- | feels that she is cosmopolitan and will | Her in the background. | men | | Sambo | showing Tub all the best restaurants, and_found | | Hebraic managers. that | as good as Broadway. | just merged with the Unit Automotive | Co., on his hands, and allows himself to b2 enticed to Europe for an indefinite stay Zenith and all its small-town activi- ties. Because she has once spent some i time in Europe before her marriage. and because she considers herself of | far finer material than her Zenith neighbors, including her husband, Fran find her proper milicu in Europe. superficial adaptability saves her from most errors, but therc are a few. On the steamer, after she has been airily poking fun at fellow Americans abroad, |man on whom she has been trying to | make an impression. “Why is it,” Fran ! says, “that the traveling American is | such a dreadtul persor “And why is Lit,” Lockert replies, “that you Ameri- cans. the nice ones. are so much_more | snobbish than the English?” When ! Fran comes into conflict with an oid | Count | | Austrian countess, mother of Kurt von Obersdorf. Fran decidedly loses. ~All her European adventures both’ frivolous and scricus, come to a drab and tawdry end. * ¥ * Sam Dodsworth, having no | always made him realize how little he | has), and almost entirely lacking in self-consciousness, does rather botter in Europe than Fran. do not seem to mind if he docs talk 2bout automobile manufacture and his new scheme for motor caravans. Italy. by himself, with Fran back Berlin, he achieves such intimacy with the Baron and Baroness Ercole and friends N acute envy. proud of his ne it is when his old , from Zenith, come wife that Sam a European habitue. inowledge of Europs riend, Tub to Paris with his mes the role of a He hastens from {on his arrival. “Sam waited in the Gare du Norc, excited, but pleasantly no American tourist, the voluble Parisians. He knew 'em! He could say {0 a por- ter, ‘Apportez le bagage de monsieur a un taxicab,” just as well as old Ber- litz—almost as well as Fran. He swung his_stick, strolled along the platform and nodded to the gathering porters, after the lest game of the foot bail | season. When the lcan, swift Frenci | locomotive tiashed in, hurling its smoke up to join the ghosts of smoke-palls that lurked under the vast roof of the train shed, he chuckled aloud. ‘Old {Tub! ~And Matey! First time in | Paris"" " Then he sees Hub and Matey { handing their bags out of a car win- dow, and rushes to the scene to give | expert aid. The greeting is vociferous | on* both sidss. “They banzed each | other's shoulders, Sam kissed the sud- ly beaming Matey, and they went down the plaiform togethor, Sam with one arm about Tub’s shoulder and one about Matey He said sharply to the porter, ‘Un taxi, s'il vous plait'—just as the porter was waving to a taxi_on his own—and Tub clamored, ‘Well, I'm a son of a gun! Say, you've certainly Jearred to parley-vous like a native, '" Then folows the thrill of afes and bars of Paris. Tub demands something lively”;" the famous Voisin's displays too little gilt and marble to des Quarante Vents, Tub satisfied jee, this is some place!" he exuits, especially staged for Americans. “The Caverne was so large, so noisy, with such poisonously loud negro jazz bands, cuch cover charges, such coatroom charges, such abominabie champagne at such atrocious prices, such a crowded dancing floor. such a stench of cigarette smoke and perfume and perspiration, such a sound of the Worth and Milwaunkee, girls inviting themselves to one’s tables, siuch rude Hellenic waiters and ruder was almost After half a nlaces. Sam and Matey have reason to | inyment of Parisian drinks and to re- | flect. that as a general proposition he is | better off in Zenith. ] * ok Kk K (R ccrapers and the Men Who Build | Them,” by Col. W. A. Starrett, treats of the skyscraper as “the most distinctively American thing in the world.” Pioneer | builders of skyscrapers, which were un- | known a little over 50 years ago, were | John W. Root, William Le Baron Jen- | ney, William Holabird and Daniel H. | Burnham. Col. Starrett describes the | building of a skyscraper from the first | calculations of engineers to the finish- | ing touches by plumbers, painters, car- penters, electricians snd decorators, | * %ok % Lorna Moon has drawn a group of characters indivilual in their simplicity in her first novel, “Dark Star,” The dead little village of Pitouic is their home, where they live in its insignificant houses, congregate in its noisy market place or along its single street, or walk on its encircling cliffs. The characters | are Nancy Pringle, who does not know | who is her father: Harvey Brune, the | musician: Divot Meg. the harlot: the | | beruffied Miss Clark, Andrew Morrison, | the erippled librarian, and the colorless | minister and his quarrelsome wife and mother. i * ok ok * | “Defeat.” by Ricarda Huch, is a his- | torical novel of the Garibaldi movement. { of 1848-49. Mazzini, essayist and phi- | losopher, who conceived the idea of an Italian republic, and Garibaldi. who fought for it, share honors in this story which is almost pure history. For scme | weeks Mazzini and Garibaldi held Rome | | against the trained armies of France: | and Savoy. Garibaldi and his depleted and finally he alone found refuge as an exile in the United States. A compan- ion volume, “Victory,” tells of the uni- fication of Ttaly, | had such an important part. * k% W %k Dr. Emil Ludwig tells us in his new travel book, “On Shores,” which has been translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul, that the sulphur mines of Sicily bear the same relation to the coal mines of Western Europe or the gold mines of South Africa as a wind-jammer docs to |a White Star liner. “They are of an antiquated pattern,” he writes “and produce rather a ludicrous impi | For the most part, exit from the shaft is provided only by flights of stairs. Dust is rife. Nothing has been don> to temper the heat or exorciss the dan- gers natural to these underground work- ings. - But the miners are kindly, cheer- ful folk.” * ok ok X | Arnold Bennett's novel “Accident.” is in his lighter. style, which all who know | him at his best must wish he would cease to employ. Probably Mr. Bennett needs relaxation. It would be urea- sonable to expect him to write books like “Lord Raingo.” “Riceyman’s Steps.” “Anna of the Five Towns 1da -Less- “Clayhanger” and “The Old Tale” con-inuously, but why does he not go hunting in Scuth Africa or Siam while he rests, instead of writing books like “Accident”? ’ . TR & Some Are Pretty Low. From the Santa Barbara Daily News. A civilization is no better than Jjuries. —om—s its o 3 Why Stop at a Mile? From the Akron Beacon Journal. ! Sky writers usually make the capital “I" a mile long. Wouldn't Mus:olini enjoy that? Revelation’ Automobile Co., which has | finds himself with a little leisure | y his wife, Fran, who frankly hates | she receives a reproof from the English- | high | opinion of his own culture (Fran has | People like him and | Berlin to Paris in order to meet Tub | feeling much as he had on the evening | suit him. But when, in the late eve-! ning, they arrive at the Caverne Rus:~ | oblivious of the fact that it is a place | incredible | 1o | bureau cannot give advice on medical and financial maiters not attemnt to seit} nor undertak any subject and briefly. Give ful ad in for return pos direct to th» ning Star Frederick J. Haskin, di ton, D. C. Q. When will the S'one Mountain memorial b> completed?— A. The Stone Mountain Confederate Monumental Associat | will depend upon ho! { tion is able to resume the carving. The first group of sculpture consists of cquestrian figures of Jeficr: { Robert, E. Lee and Stoncw | This group is something over |ished. The essocintion cxpects 10 finish it in 12 months from the date of the resumption of In addition 11 thes figures, there will be in the con- tral group four additional cquestrian figures. which prcbebly can b carved !in two to threc years from the dato when they are commenced. Q. Where do « | portance as a crop? A. They s cle all United States crog fruiis in value and o Q. How long docs it taks submarine cab.c?—C. A. D. A. If no accidents or tang! an Atlantic cable may be liltle over a wec | clair Lewis' novel “Dodsworth.” Sam | applies siric | Dodsworth, successful president of the | s in coin or Teply A the gssoci nd in im- H h in value of Appl:s lead 211 nges are second to lay a Q. What Is meant by Lampson pro- fossor_of English at Yale>—E. J. L. A. William Lampson of Leroy. a graduate of Yale, a died he left his entire for university h instruetions that o three profes one of ish. ' The money in 1901 and the professor in honor of thc man money for it. Q. What was the Roman secal which | sealed Christ’s tomb?—J. B A. The scal at th> tomb of Christ | {was a clay scal bearing the arms ef Caesar placed at each end of a cord stretched across a stone which barred the entrance. il Q. Who owns Mount Vernon?—F. L A. Mount Vernon is owned by the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association. Q. How much coal does it take to | {run the largest locomotive?—E. F. A. The Railroad Trainman says that the Jargest steel locomotive in the world has been censtru ¥ Pacific_Railwi s and was bullt by the American Loco- motive Co.. Schenectady, N. ¥. In working order with coal and water, it weighs 1.116.000 pounds. It has a mechanical Stoker which is capable of closing, delivering and distributing 1o | the firebox hourly a maximum of 45,000 pounds, or 2215 tons of coal. Iis| tendor has a-capacity of 22 gallons of water and 27 tons of coal. i Q. What is the proper gallon of ice cream?—J. L. A. The Bureau of Standards sa; the weight of a unit volume of creom depends upon the character of | the ingredients and the proportion of air incorporated in the product. Fruil 2nd nut ice creams, also chocolate ice weight of a} that ics In the present conferences looking ! to a possible readjustment of the terms | of settlement of the war indemnity of Germany, it has been prop: he German representatives that all her e e O - | colonldlipossessions, "which Were tak v ee, such moist | away from her by the Versailles trea at the end of the World War, should now be restored as part of the modifi- cation of the war penalties. Herr Schacht, the head of the Ger- | man cvlegation, disavows that demand, BY PAUL V. v all the judg on the United Bench graduates ity of them ary ‘degrees from seve frem which follows Van De MeRevnold Univer: on Colleg~, v of T sia t Union Info 5 h to advise v formation abou bouts, but one of thr the Sovie t we have n Maria Bo'ck e tand ! living ¢ he i tside of rib> “The Appral to the F. McC. a magnificent bronze eques- ¢ Dallin. It is composed »d Indian rider whose ed in a moment of prayer. Q. What causes ivory beads to crack and develop faint dark lines?—H. M. what appear to be tead what a_jeweler calls cheeking.” The process of aging some- imes results in surface cracks. There are natural flaws in tusks due to the ¢s and the drying out of natural crack Q. How are and bell buoys 1 A the automatic beacons ted at night”>—B. L. device for lighting the lights 1ess comes on and ex- them on the approach of is the sunvalve Q. What is the meaning of Toc H?— C. C. A. ““Toe H” wa restroom back of “Toc” was th o for “tea breviation for “hou R s a sign on a soldiers' the trenches at Ypres. British soldiers’ nick- nd was the ab- e It was in this teahouse that a sociely known as “Toc H" originated. It is a young men’s movement with the following ideals: To | eonseerate humanity; to conquer hate; to create harmony. It is a protest inst the old evil traditions which a world war possible. States have B. B. e following 23 States have the Ink model statute, or elabo- rations of it withont substantial change: Colorado, Idaho. Illinois, Indiana, Towa, Kansas, Kentucky. Louisiana, Michigan, <souri, Nebraska, Nevada, sey, New York. North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, Virginia, Washington and Wyoming. Other States which have advertising laws are: Alabama, Arizona, California, Connecti- cut, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, rth Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Caroiina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia and Wisconsin. Q. Dces the professional blood eeller or coner have to eat special foods?— M. D.T. A. The man who makes 2 business of selling blood rhould live on a scientific diet of blood-producing foods, espectally eggs and ircsh mi advertising BACKGROUND OF EVENTS COLLINS. hauer, “This stream of emigrants going out with &ll it has, furnisning knowl- edge and skill to our national enemies, X of gold and blood paid by Ger= many to foreign lands!” Yet at the sam= time there was an nnual excess of 600,000 births over ths, and Germany was overcrowded, d y h a shortage of food and of employ- * & R v 1883 the agitation for a colonial night of the Caverne and other similar | | be ashamed of Tub's untestrained en- ! y had taken form and organizations created which drew adherents from all political parties in the name but it is understood that his disavowal | pol is Machiavellian, and is to be with- | were followers escaped over the Apennines | | up of a strong na in which Garibaldi | Mediterranean | | When Prince Ad ssion. | drawn if an opening should appear for | renewing the effort, as part of a general | compromise. At all events, ‘it makes material for trading. There is hardly |a chance for the allies will give the | demand ,any serious consideration, but the fact that Germany craves the r | ration of her colonies is in itself inter- | esting and significent. Why should that “ruined” country | want colonies, which never came near | being self-supporting, and would now {only add millions of marks per year {to her tax burden? What are the | colonies and how did Germany acquire them? What use could she have for % ok % When Prussia and the other German states won their war with France in 11871, Prance made a desperate effort | !to trade her own Chinese colonies to the victor in lieu of Alsace-Lorraine, or | even on condition that those provinces | b> made independent buffer states. | Bismarck refused the offer, and de- clared: I will have no colonies. For Gel ss colonies would be cken Polish nobleman ac- quiring a silken sable coat when he needed shi Bismarck’s that time, wa: aversion to colonies, et in accord with the gen- new union of the German Empire ¥ intent on solidification of the emp: and with the hope of developing gri entente cordia reat Britain, to isolate F 3 rivalry with the Br policies. n opposition to that attitude of Bis- marck was th ntiment of the navy. as voiced by | the navy. and Vice Admiral Livonius. Emperor William I favored the build and a navy must have coaling stations all over the world, but still Chancellor von Bismarck op- posed all efforts toward a colonial policy, and when Livonius compiled a report arguing for such coaling sta- by order of Bismar ert. in 1 spector of the navy, declared in sup- port of a strong navy, requiring and supperting colonies, his report, too, was cuppressed. was pigeonholed * oKk ok In spite of the policies of the gév ernment in opposition, German ent prise in the hands of privafe concerns established business in Brazil, in South Africa and in the Western Pacific cupport of their undertakings. Bismarck's on to private colonization seemed to end abruptly in 1575. and thereafter he gave motice to other countries of Germany's protecii-n | of her own merchants in foreign parts. and in the years 1876-1879 tre; of “irade and amity” were several nations, including the United States. Yet even as late as 1877, when Tongan Islands of the Seuth Facific, the treaty contained thi 3 “This should not be con cstablishment of a colany. an the government disiinetly and larly repudiates Gradually, the colonial parties in Ger: many acquired influence and power in government policies, and the subject be- came a leading political issue. With it came the question of emigration out the ultimate absorption of all German, by cther peoples. Between 1875 and 1880 more than a million emi: left G y &ad came to the Unite! Siates, R One cn"»;as raised by Herr Molden- l them now? | nce Adalbert, chief of | Gern of h tions and German colonies, the report | that ca in the conduct of Germany acquired a coaling base in the | ticularly ¢ : of forc tion continent the cmpire. tol weakened her beyond hope of recovery; of Germany 1o other nations. and the | what they have done is to steel her ery of agitators that that would mean |spirit and inflame her nationalist fires. of natioralism and German expansion. The result was that Bismarck showed himself to be an opportunist, for he reversed his former opposition and be- came a leading colonization advocate. ‘When ene Luderitz, a merchant, went to Africa and obtained treaties with rative chjefs whereby he got control of a great tract of territory, including bor on the southwest coast, Bis- secretly prom d him govern- ment protection and aid: the promise was secret because of divided political sentiment in many. Official in- structions were sont to the German consul err Luderitz can count on the protection of the imperial govern- ment, long as his actions are based T won rights and do not clash with the legitimate claims of others, be native or English The Lud tz ente se failed for of sufficient capital, but the Bis- k policies were thus committed in 1883 to encouraging private colonial en- prises, so that in 1384 and 1885 the nan holdings in Africa grew to a total area of 910,150 square mules, whioh 50 per cent greater than the tes, including Alaska, or one-third all the area of Continental United States. All of that African ac- eral official sentiment of Germany. The | quisiticn was taken by Germany within iwo_years. In addition, in the years e acquired in the Pacific 96,145 square miles of nd witen Chinese at= rman missionaries in cquired” a 99-year with its area of ion of 60.000 Chi= from 1884 to 1889, came ruler over 12,192,600 mn_accord with the prin- h President Wilson phrased s for the Versailles treaty, that be based upon rmed, but by not Is resent claim for restoration colonies been one n Ocean, and thence beseeched the gov- ' ¢ ernment for protection and subsidies in | penalty is forbidde: b S-hnee. Gt Lt Africa, athos threatening lang: of made_ with | sayi “Half the mistakes made by the th> war, and -alculations and sight > bo nt i 1 due to a disposi- to underrate Germany's streng.h m -power and, will-power. ¢ * * Tha bi that, beaten and, for the mn- . weld in restiaznt thousa sne 1s, Ay dominates the European and conditions the peace of the a way she never did under The deprivations of terri= imposed \dpon her were to have Moreover, the Germans, after a1l, are only expressing a divine afatus, th ¢otermination of the best type of 1 10 ) world." (Gowyrieht, 1920. b3 Paul V. Collins)