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8 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY. ..June 6, 1920 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor Star N Compan: The lmuu'u“m ewspaper pany 11th St. d nnsyl 8 Ave. New Ynei 6‘& 110 East 42nd St. e e 14 Regent- St London: uropean Ofice: 4 I‘.n'lon‘. the City. 45 per month Collec*ion ma Orders may be sen! Main 5000. Rate by Mafl—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. 137,310 1791, 36 iy .. 5 on 155 8400 ay only All Other States and Canada. fly and Sunday..l yr.,$1200; 1 mo., $100 i.l nly 1y .. 78¢ a3 "onl3” ‘Member of the Assoclated Press. “The Associated Press is exclusively entitled 1o the Use for republication of cll rews dis- | ‘atches cradited to it or mot otherwise cred- Hea i this paper and aiso the local news published hereln. Al rights of Dublicarion et special dispatches herein a o reserved. A Knife in Reapportionment. After the bill for the reapportion- ment of the representation in the House had successfully run the gantlet of the Senate it is unfortunate that the measure should have struck a snag in the House itself. A combination of amendments adopted by the House in committee of the whole threatens to il the bill. One of these amendments proposes to bar from the count of the population for apportionment purposes all aliens. The other seeks to bar| Negroes from the count in those States where the Negroes are not, through| State laws, permitted to vote. The; alien amendment was adopted first by & combination of Southern Democrats and Republicans from agricultural States. Both these classes of States would lose membership in the House if the pending bill becomes a law. No sooner had the alien amendment been adopted than the Tinkham amendment, whose effect would be to reduce the representation of some of the Southern States in the House, was put through by a combination of Republicans from the big industrial States and others Both of these amendments, or either one, it insisted upon by the House, would be sufficient to kill the bill. The Senate might be expected to stand out | against them for months. The House apparently has played di- sectly into the hands of those Repre- sentatives from States which do ot want any respportionment bill. They are the States that will lose repre- sentation because in the last twenty years the growth of their population has ot kept pace with that of other States. There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it to death with cream. That is a lesson which opponents of reapportionment have taken to heart. The adoption of these amendments in the House, as Senator Walsh of Massachusetts said in the Senate while the bill was before that body, strikes a dagger into the heart of the measure. In the Senate an amendment was of- fered by Senator Sackett of Kentucky proposing to eliminate the aliens from the count in making the reapportion- ment of the House. By a substantial majority the amendment was defeated in the Senate. It was apparent that some of the supporters of the propos- al were merely seeking to prevent any reapportionment legislation and sup- porters of the bill refuse to be drawn into the trap. The House, on the other hand, spparently swallowed the bait, hook, line and sinker. . In the interest of reapportionment Jegislation it is to be hoped that the House will come to its senses and elim- inate amendments which threaten to| Xill this measure for the third time in| nine years. The Constitution provides for the enumeration of the population of the States every ten years. Upon this enumeration representation in the | House must be based. The electoral votes of the States in a presidential election also are involved in carrying out this mandate of the Constitution. Congress has neglected its duties during | the last decade in this respect. Twice the House has passed the reapportion- ment bill and twice it has been allowed | 0 die in the Senate. The row in the House over the ap-| portionment finds the industrial cen-| ters lined up against the rural sections | of the country. It finds the prohibi-; tionists lined up against the wets, for it is the Representatives from the dry rural parts of the country who are insisting upon the amendment elimi-| nating the allens from the count, hop- | ing thus to reduce the representation | in the House of States where wet sen- timent is strong. This is the claim of | the wets. But at the bottom of it all | Hes the desire of some members of the House to prevent any reapportionment legisiation. The situation which has| developed makes it all the more clear | that permanent legislation such as pro- vided in the pending bill calling for {in the final analysis. speech was found difficult. I will define it as necessary, even in its polemical points, which hit the target they were aimed at. It was necessary to clear the atmosphere, which, being too sentimen- tal, would have ended by altering the contours, character and objective of events * * * It was necessary to dispel the equivocation which allowed people to believe that the Lateran treaties would have Vaticanized Italy or that the Vatican would be Italianized.” In the Gasparri letter Pope Pius not only charges Signor Mussolini with heresy, but of remuddying the Italo- Vatican waters, so long whipped with strife. His Holiness finds the Duce’s tone not “opportune and generous in the hour of pacification.” He cals it “an unwelcome and dolorous interrup- tion.” The Supreme Pontiff reasserts the primordial claim of the Catholic Church to supervise the education of youth (in Italy) and the church's pre- eminence as the kingdom's state re- | ligion. Mussolini's reply to the Pope's blast is not likely to be long in coming. It may be expected to be temperamental and vigorous. But it is almost incon- ceivable that even a vivid verbal clash between Italy and the newly recog- nized state of the “Vatican City" can seriously undermine their laboriously achieved accord. The Concordat is essentially a give-and-take compact. Mussolini envisaged new bulwarks for his autocratic power in Italy at large through liberal concessions to the church. He may—and, if he runs true to form, he will—explode under the fire of the Pope's fusillade, but it is not likely that the Concordat itself will be ( a victim of their new hostilities. - Sl Pass the Farm Bill! The conferees of the Senate and the House have finally reached an | agreement on the farm relief bill. By a vote of 8 to 2 the conference com- mittee has determined to eliminate the debenture clause from the measure. This clause has been the great stum- bling block in the way of farm legisla- tion at this time., Politics was at the base of the movement which brought about its adoption in the Senate. It remains to be seen whether politics | rather than the interests of the farmer will prevail in the end. The House and President Hoover have stood strong- ly against the debenture proposition, The conference report on the farm bill goes, under the parliamentary situation, to the House today. Its adoption there is confidently predicted. ‘When the conference report is sub- mitted to the Senate there will remain only one step to bring about the en- actment of farm legislation. That is for the Senate to accept the confer- ence report. No doubt exists that the President will sign the bill if it is sent to him in its conference form. Will the Senate for partisan political purposes block this legislation? If it does the farmers will get no legislation and the purpose for which the Con- gress was called into special session will have been nullified. Ever since the deflation which fol- lowed after the close of the World War, the American farmers have demanded some measure of relief from the Gov- ernment. Bit by bit, legislation has been enacted to aid them, but no great basic agricultural law has so far been put through. Many attempts have been made to do s0. Unsound and unwork- able remedies have been attached to bills for farm relief, just such as the debenture clause, and have prevented final action on these measures in the past. The pending bill proposes to set up a Federal farm board with wide | powers to ald the farmers. It provides a revolving fund of $500,- 000,000 to be used for the more orderly marketing of farm crops, the real sore spot so far as the farmers are con- cerned. It does not seem possible that any combination in the Senate will care to bear the odium of preventing the final passage of this farm relief legisla- tion. If it does, the members of this combination must answer to the farmers ‘The country would like to see a start made along the lines laid down in the farm bill. If ad- ditional legislation is required, it may be put through later, but the common- sense thing to do now is to pass this bill and make & beginning. —— e The problem of farm relief started in prehistoric times, when the masterful huntsman. The present era is one of new and courageous ideas. Even the problem of farm relief may be solved with the same astonishing ease that has marked the solution of avia- tion and other mechanical problems. Wy Precise Measurements. The annual conference of state and city weights and measures officals now 1s in progress at the Bureau of Stand- ards. However prosaic their work may seem, it is one of the essentials of modern civilization. The advancement of material culture from the beginning hes been dependent on the advance of techniques of precise measurement. The mechanical wonders which have trans- a reapportionment every ten years and | laying down the rules of reapportion- ment is needed. r————————— ‘Mussolini controls the press of Italy. ‘Me came into authority too late to pro- tect an innocent world from Boccacio and some of the other authors now re- | sented by censors. — ety The Pope and Mussolini. Evidently it takes more than the Swallow of the Concordat to make a Summer of peace between the Pope and Signor Mussolini. No sooner is the ink on the Lateran accords dry than the Vatiean publicly assails the Italian premier for giving voice to “‘worse than heretical expressions as to the very es- sence of Christianity and Catholicism. The Pope's castigation is administered n an open letter to the papal secretary of state, Cardinal Gasparri, and published in the Osservatore Romeno, official organ of the Holy See. The Duce incurred Pius XI's wrath because of certain utterances in Mus- solini’s speeches in the Itallan Chamber and Senate last month, advocating the acceptance of the Concordat. In the Chamber, on May 13, the premier de- fined the situation to be like this: “The state, supreme in the Kingdom of Italy; the Catholic Church, with certain pre- eminence, loyally and voluntarily recognized.” Addressing the Senate twelve days | formed modern 1ite—the telephone, the automobile, the radio, etc.—have not | come suddenly into existence during {the past half century entirely because | of a great spurt of inventive imagina- tion. They have been made possible | by the development of a technique of measurements down to the thousandth and ten-thousandth part of an inch. From birth to death the individual constantly is attended by measurements. | Almost while the infant is drawing his | first breath the doctor is weighing him | and measuring his height for the birth report. The process continues all the | days of his life until the undertaker | measures him for a coffin in the end | Measurement enters every human ac- tivity. Scales and yardsticks are every- | where, Until methods of measurement | have been developed there can be no quantitative analysis of anything. Science continually is striving to ex- | It is being extended from the visible to the invisible, from the tangible to the intangible. Today efforts are being made to devise measurement standards for such qualities as intelligence, imagination, will and character. The success which has attended them still is open to doubt, but they are necessary ploneering efforts. A theory arises from the scientific or philosophical imagination. Its validity | the patient | tiller of the sofl was subordinated to | tend the possibilities of measurement. | THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, Einstein theory, for example, would be pure moonshine were it not that some of the most precise measurements known to man seem to establish its fantastic conclusions. ‘The delegates now in Washington are the men who must apply these in- creasingly fine standards of measure- ment in the ordinary affairs of life where they are of most consequence to the individual. They constitute an invaluable bulwark against fraud and laxity in the discipline of life which, were it not guarded against, inevitably would lead to a serious decline in civili- zation. e The Power of Music. The convention of the National Fed- eration of Music Clubs, to be held at Boston next week, calls attention to the great galns which the musical arts have made in the United States. While there have always been musi- clans and musical lovers in this coun- try, it was not until Theodore Thomas made Americans “orchestra conscious” that music began to enter into the| lives of the people. During the past quarter of a century the growth of music clubs throughout the land has been nothing short of phenomenal. Thousands of singing clubs and amateur orchestras have brought music into something like a real status in small towns and villages. Mechanical devices, such as the player-piano and the phonograph, while at first frowned upon, have amply demonstrated their right to a musical standing. Popular radio broadeasting, one of the electrical wonders of the age, is peculiar in that it simply furnishes a path for music, good, bad or indifferent. The term ‘“receiver” is precise. All these musical means, as they may be termed, combine to place music where it belongs, in the homes and in the hearts of home lovers. There its power is absolute, particularly for good. Good music stirs the imagination, and from it has come many a deed of physi- cal or mental vigor which it would be dificult to trace back to its origin. It is because musie has this stimulating power that those who are responsible for it should see to it that it is good music, in so far as possible. Such meetings as that of the National Federation of Music Clubs place the emphasis where it should be, upon high- class music, good music, fine music. Such music is the ideal. For lesser moments lesser music may do, but for general consumption day in and day out only the best music is adequate, oo If Col. Lindbergh is wise he will not insist on his formal title. He will favor the idea of being referred to as “Lindy.” One of the best popularity assets Theo- dore Roosevelt had was the nickname “Teddy.” e r—————— ‘The Prince of Wales brings to English affairs an abundance of popular good will, which is regarded by business doc- tors as one of the most valuable of assets. —_— German dyestuffs and American motors may show the world a finance combination that will enable the aver- age stock trader to quit worrying about a little thing like “call money.” ————— Opposition to census and reapportion- ment is regarded as due to something of a politician's tendency to overwork the adage “Let well enough alone.” —r——————— When Maj. L'Enfant planned the City of Washington, D. C, he could, of course, have done much better had he been able to foresee the need of airports. r———————— A great “debate” occasionally proves to be no more than what vaudeville managers are accustomed to refer to as “a good talking turn.” et Reapportionment discussion calls forth the hope of more and better Con- gressmen. == B SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNBON. ‘The stage becomes a picture land And genius we must thank. For every exhibition grand, You simply turn a crank. .Even in intellectual life ‘We look for showy swank, And into the emotional life You stmply turn a crank. Relief. you trying to “Are Telieve the tarmer?” “I'm having my own troubles,” said Senator Sorghum. “What I want to do is to square myself with agriculture so that I can get some political relief on my own account.” Jud Tunkins says human life is something like a horse race and many a man that should have won gets left at the post. | Intrusion. My Radio! My Radio! A lot of folks I do not know Into my privacy intrude With songs that are exceeding rude!* *Footnote — “Lewd” would have rhymed. But why be rough? Salesmanship. “Did the college professor advise you | to be snob?” asked Farmer Corntossel. “Yep,” answered Josh. “And what, may I inquire, is your | idea of a snob?” | “A feller that succeeds in selling his own self as a bogus gold brick.” Cheerfulness. “I told my daughter to be home by ten o'clock.” “Was she cheerful in considering your | instruetions?” “More than cheerful. out loud.” Bhe laughed “He who learns to control himself,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “‘may find at last that he has conquered his own worst enemy.” May Queen. Queen of the May! You brought A joyous thrill. And then, alas, you caught Another chill “De worst kind of a haunted house 1 depends upon the possibility of measur- ing the factors which enter into it. Buch & scientific achievement ag the knows about,” sald Uncle Eben, “is de one where de landlord keeps comin’ ‘Tound foh de eysrdus Fsab’ . . D. C, THURSDAY, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Lack of consideration for others is at the bottom of most instances of bad manners. ‘The desire to boil the matter down to one fundamental reason comes to most who consider this question. It is impossible to believe that im- posters of good breeding, met every day | in all walks of life, simply spring into being. There must be some reason behind their actions—those actions which do, indeed, speak louder than words. Many a man with a fine suit on his back and the most immaculate linen | nevertheless indulges in everyday deeds which would put a baboon to shame. A good jungle variety of chimpanzee would blush at some of the little ac- tions pulled, as the vernacular has it, by men who ought to know better, and do kncw better. If they know better, one might ask, are their actions not due to downright indifference, amounting to cruelty in many instances? ‘We do not think so. Cruelty is a harsh word, which had better be left to designate physical deeds of violence. There is such a thing as mental or intellectual cruelty, of course, but it scarcely functions in the small isolated cases under consideration. * ok ok X Let it be made plain that small acts are under consideration here. We leave the grand misdeeds to the psychologists, who claim that their “systems” have been worked out scientifically. One may believe that their conclusions are most- ly empiric; when their “science” is con- trasted with the true science of elec- tricity, based on effects coming from | causes, it seems much in the class of phrenology. If the true sclentific work of sur- geons and dentists is compared with the pseudo-science of psychology and psychiatrics, the average observer will feel inclined to believe that whereas the first is science, the latter is merely a clever handling of new words and queer phrases, which may evaporate after their newness wears off and their clev- erness grows stale. The small deeds or misdeeds which constitute everyday bad manners ar outside the fringe of the psychologists They are caught only by sensitive per- sons who through training or natural | capacities have a real regard for the feelings of the other fellow. Such persons are supersensitive Perhaps the pevehologists would regard them as S and be able to probe deeply into their souls, and to connect one word with another into a clever hypothesis. But the bit of bad man- ners which excited the other to his private investigation would have no standing with them A serves to hide the natural defects of those who lack consideration for others. They possess a natural shrewdness which tells them that the laws of polite usage will prevent others from remonstrating with them. except under very unusual circumstances. Few people who are the victims of such bad manners fail to desire to| speak vehemently to the perpetrators, | but perhaps not one in a miilion ever does 50, because he is swayed by the mi ideas of conduct which have come up with him from his mother's knee Bad-mannered people “get away with it” because their victims are good-man- nered, well bred, in other words. - Actions speak louder than words. Take three men eating lunch together. Two of them are at loggerheads, in- dulging in that civilized form of im- veneer of good manners never | politeness known as being nastily polite to_each other. The third man, the unofficial referee of this amusing bout, ished his lunch, but thought it incumbent upon him to walt until the third diner was through. The second man (party to the polite unspoken warfare) was impatient to go. The other was finishing a piece of pie; he had but a crust to go to finish. The second man, instead of waiting until the other finished, got up and left, with a murmured excuse. And the referee said to himself, “He has insulted the other by a crust.” Yes, the man might as well have walted, especially under the circum- stances, when the other was expecting and no doubt walting for just such a small bit of impatience. Had the man who got up been one who was considerate of the feelings of others, he would never have left until the other had finished. Then there are cases in which gifts and giving are involved. It is true that there are poor givers, but also there are poor receivers, t0o. Many a person will ask for something from another, only to swell up with re- sentment. when he gets it. He would be the last to admit it, but he has out- raged his own sense of independence by permitting his greed to get ahead of his other sentiments. Once he receives the gift he begins almost imperceptibly to “take it out” on the donor. In defense it may be said that he does it, in many in- stances, in a perfectly unconscious e st king to the giver, and e stops speaking e giver, if he rides downtown with him in a public vehicle he seeks some other seat; if the one beside his friend becomes vacant he does not move forward, but stays where he is. If he comes into a | restaurant, where his friend is eating alone, he is careful not to see . These small incivilities, discourtesies by omission, arise because the man lacks consideration for others, the primary basis for most cases of bad manners. If he were imbued with this essence of good breeding he would think to himself, “Somehow I dislike to sif by that fellow, but_he has been good to me, and maybe I will hurt his feelings if I do not. It is incumbent upon me, ‘hether I want to or not.” i F R ‘Whether one wants to or not! That is the core of ordinary every- day etiquette. Common sense demands that certain things be done, certain other things not done. Etiquette, _expressing fundamental training, needs no books to elucidate it. It is mostly a matter of consideration for others in the daily meetings which constitute soclety with a little “s.” ently lonely on his front porch. He thinks he will go over to talk with him for a while, When he gets theg the other comes down the steps anfl de- liberately blocks him from com| f up | by grasping the handrails on either "side. The thoughtful man finally goes away, after the other has unmistakably shown him that he does not want him to come up and talk. The other wants to do something else. If he were & man of innate courtesy he would have tol- erated a windbag, if necessary. One who borrows a book, and then shrinks from meeting the lender, is & well known example of lack of essen- tial courtesy. Those who talk of in- timately private matters to others rank themselves in the same grou they need to do, for the g of their own souls, is to start thinking of the other fellow. And that is just another way of saying the Golden Rule. BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLL Representative Bankhead of Alabama challenges the equity of permitting allens, who do not appreciate the value of American citizenship sufficiently to apply for naturalization, to have a voice in electing Representatives to Congress While non-citizens have no vote at any election of course, vet the apportion- ment of Representatives is based upon the total census figures, which include such aliens. * % In his speech in the House last Tues- day. he said “I think I voice at least the senti- ment of a very large part of the mem- bership of this House when I assert that it is absolutely contrary to the genius and spirit of our institutions to have our representation in the law-mak- ing branch, the popular branch of the Government of the United States, based upon persons in this country of that type of man and woman who are not willing to dissolve their allegiance to their old country and d> not think enough of American institutions and American protection and American rights to affiliate themselves with and at least attempt to become citizens of the United States. “I say that that number of people are not representative of the real spirit and purpose of the American Nation and that they should not receive con- sideration in apportioning the men who are sent here to represent the real Americans residing within our borders. “It has been said that there are from 2,000,000 to 3.000,000 aliens in the United States at the present time who are here unlawfully, who have been smuggled into this country, who have been bootlegged, 50 to speak, into the United States.” o * ok K K The Alabama speaker was discussing an amendment proposed to the census bill requiring that the census shall note the unnaturalized allens as such, who shall then be excluded from the basis of reapportionment—just like the spirit of the genius of this country as expressed by Representative Tinkham of Massachusetts, who also has an amendment to the census bill, reading in part as follows: “And the number of inhabitants of each State, being 21 years of age and citizens of the United States, whose right to vote at the election next pre- ceding such census for the choice of electors for President and Vice Presi- dent of the United States, Represent- atives in_Congress, the executive and judicial officers of a State, or the mem- bers of the Legislature thereof, has been denied or abridged, except for rebel- lion or other crime. * ok ok K Discussing this amendment, Repre- sentative Tinkham presented the argu- ment that, according to the Constitu- tion, the census is required (1) to take a census of the population; (2) make the apportionment * * * (3) to provide, in accordance with the man- datory section of the fourteenth amend- ment of the Constitution, which re- quires a reduction of the membership in proportion to disenfranchisement. He added: “Therefore, T am asking only that this census bill be made constitutional, and I wish to say to this committee that unless the bill is made constitu- tional by proving that statistics shall be obtained in the ordinary and usual manner by the Bureau of the Census, upon which is devolved the responsi- bility of obtaining such information, I wish to hear no more about consti- tutional enforcement in this House.: (Applause, except from the adherents | of the Bankhead amendment.) k] Mr. Tinkham added: “I say that if this amendment is not adopted, to provide for the carrying out of the fourteenth amendment in its full intent and purpose, this House is & House of hypocrites, of nullifiers and of men wholly lawless.” (Laughter and applause—followed by a vote of ayes, 94; noes, 103. The amendment sup porting the franchise of the Negroe: as a basis of representation was lost.) | of the recognized basis of apportioning | representation in the South, even when | they are barred from voting, according to the gentleman from Massachusetts, while the gentleman from Alabama re- iterates his eloquent plea that white aliens who voluntarily refrain from as- suming the obligations of American citizenship—a right thus taken by re- straint away from colored native-born Americans—shall not be any part of the basis of electing Representatives to Congress, nor electors to the electoral college, which must have the same | number as members of Congress. Allens mostly live in the North; disfranchised Negroes in the South. EE In an article by Prof. Albert Bushnell Hart, which appears in the June num- ber of Current History, under the head- ing, “The National Origins Plan for Restricting Immigration,” the writer says: “Nowhere in the country does there appear a demand for unrestricted im- migration; though (or perhaps because) hundreds of thousands of Mexicans have made their way across the border of the United States, and are now be- | ing distributed, not only in the South- west, but in the Northwest, and even in the manufacturing towns of Ili- nois and Minnesota. The present im- migration law contains the dangerous provision that natives of adjacent coun- tries (Mexico and Canada) may enter without quota. The result is the establishment of Mexican quarters in designated areas of several Southwest- ern cities, where they live very much |as Jews did in their ghettos in the Middle Ages. However, the greater part of them simply slip across the border, thus avoiding the record of admission (and the necessary tax, and the total limitation of possible immigrants.” | There is a picture of aliens who are 'a part of the basis of congressional representation and of the electors who choose our chief executives, but who | have not the slightest interest in be- coming true and voting American citi- | zens. e No statesman seems to have yet been mindful of an entirely different class ,of Americans which are inoluded in the icensus as & basis of representatior® in Congress, yet who have no vote at the polls. They have not refused, like the !disloyal aliens, to become America: | citizens, for they are native-born Amer- icans. They have not been harassed by Ku Klux nor any other organization with the view of browbeating them into staying away from the polls. They con- stitute about half of the total popula- tion, and really are growing in propor- tion each year, and if challenged as disloyal, they become indignant, yet they seldom cast a vote. ‘They ere counted in the census as a part of the population and therefore their number adds just as much to the representation from their States in i Congress and the electoral college as do the loyal, patriotic voters. They even subscribe to the rallying cry of our Rev- olutionary forefathers, against ‘“taxa- tion without representation.” yet they, themselves, tamely bmit to that “tyranny” year after year. * ok ox X | These are the millions of American citizens who neglect to cast their votes. They are indifferent to the value of the franchise, for which we reproach aliens who fail to strive for it and for which we expect Negroes to risk their lives in fighting to protect it. “I wish to say,” added Representative Tinkham, “to the members of both sides who talk, and talk incessantly. about the enforcement of laws and about following the Constitution, that it is theilr duty, not only as honest men but in allegiance to the oath they take every two years to sustain and support the Constitution, to adopt this amendment. (Applause and defeat of the amendment to apportion districts ccording to populaf not disfran. voluntarily or foreibly.) * ok x N Blgaw G Gl (Geomishh 42 b ey . Soliged <. Bliberto A man sees his friend sitting appar- | What | JUNE 6, 1929. Declares Krishnaji Report Was in Error To the Editor of The Star: As divisional secretary for some years of the Order of the Star may I ask you to insert this letter in your pub- lication to correct misstdtements ap- pearing in an article in your Sunday issue from Ojai, Calif., dated June 1, in regard to the head of the order, J. Krishnamurti. Mr. Krishnamurti did not leave the Theosophical Society to form the Order of the Star. The order was formed in 1911, nor has Mr. Krishnamurti sep- arated from Dr. Annie Besant. inter- national president of the Theosophical Soclety. Dr. Besant in the International Magazine of the society makes this statement: “I ask you not to believe stories about quarrels, about separations. Krishnai and I are bound together by tie that nothing can break.” It is absurd to_state that the order is dis- solved. It is well established with centers throughout the world. The message of Mr. Krishnamurti is a world message, and the order exists to draw together all people interested in his message. It is also a mistake to speak of him as a Messiah. The term be- longs exclusively to Jewish history. BLANCHE K. POVELSEN. ———— Professor’s Advice to Students Backed To the Editor of The Star: Prof. Rogers’ advice to the graduat- ing class of the Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology did not astound me, surprise me, nor shock me. Let's be honest. The professor simply exploded the usual hooey and blooey stuff heard at_commencement exercises. The fact that the professor advised the graduates to aim high and m the boss’ daughter instead of his stenog rapher shows that the professor is not sentimental, but clear-headed and class- conscious. That boy sure knows his economics! I beg to differ, however, with his advice that the young men put on the “dog” and become snobs. This does not pay. tions as they are today. the professor would have done much better had he advised the young graduates to become adepts in the “art of handshaking” in order to succeed. This does pay. PHILIP EBERT. oo Suggests League Meet West of the Atlantic From the Buffalo Evening News. Since the Council of the League of Nations finds it convenient to hold its June session in Madrid, there are those who ask why it cannot arrange to hold a meeting on this side of the Atlantic— say, in Canada. There is a possibility that Senator Raoul Dandurand, repre- sentative of the Dominion, may extend an invitation to the Council to meet in Ottawa before Canada’s term as a mem- ber of the body expires in 1931. ‘There is much to be said for this idea. ‘To begin with,.such a meeting would establish clearly the universal character of the League of Nations, which is too commonly regarded as an institution concerned wholly with affairs of the Old World. Then, a tneeting in Canada might have a good nffect in the United States—not that it would strengthen gentiment for membership by this coun- try. but that it would perhaps develop here a more sympathetic attitude to- ward the League, many of whose activi- ties now engage the unofficial interest of America. ‘The League of Nations has been a {going institution for nine years. It is too much to expect such an experiment as it represents to be established com- pletely in so short a time. If it has appeared to make slow progress, the fault lies with the national govern- ments represented in it. * > Fer- ps the League would gain increase of spiritual force if the Council were to come to America for a session. o Sees Canada Tiring Of U. S. Dry Problem Prom the Charleston (8. C.) Evening Post. Our Canadian neighbors are plainly tiring of the problem which our pro- hibition laws have brought to them. Doybtless a good deal of the feeling which is finding expression across the border against these laws which affect Canadian centers materially is due_ to the recent case of the schooner I'm Alone, sunk by the Coast Guard on the high seas. * * * The utterance of the Canadian min- ister of national revenue in the Com- mons at Ottawa, protesting against the proposal that Canada undertake meas- ures of enforcement while the United States apparently was doing little enough itself, was significant of the growing dissatisfaction of our Northern neighbor with the conditions which have been developed. His statement of the situation on the border, the con- nivance of American enforcement offi- cers with bootleggers, the ease with which great quantities of liquor are | brought into country, taken to- gether with the recent testimony of Commissioner Doran, head of the Unit- ed States enforcement service, as to the spread of the new criminal system engendered by prohibition, presents matter for serious consideration. It is not possible that we can ignore the irritation which Canadians are show- ing toward what is approaching a | state of international nuisance in this phase of prohibition. ——————— Dodging Freckles. From the Rochester Times-Union. Yet 90 per cent of those who bought violet ray lamps last Winter will soon be hunting a shady place. ——os That's True Enough. From the Terre Haute Star. A driver may have a license but still no license to drive. e State of Security. From the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel. Al Capone may not know his history, but he doubtless understands why they called it the Penn State. —ors. Yeah! Dead Angels. From the San Antonio Express. Los Angeles has abolished trafic | speed limits. Does it aspire to become |'a veritable City of Angels? e T Something for Aviation. From the Buffalo Evening News. Aviation is safer. When you fly, are strapped in, but on & rumble seat you trust to fate. that other damyankee, James Rus- sell Lowell: “But consistency still was & part of his plan— He's been true to One party, and thet is himself.” Purthermore: “We're the original friends of the Nation, All the rest air a paltry and base fabrication. “Constitoounts air hendy to help a man in, But afterwards don't weigh a pin.” If the censys recorded how manv! citizens despised their right and duty of vote at the previous elections, and all such were penalized as slackers, worse than allens and the victims of forcible disfranchisement, in their influence in support of our Government, how would the tens of millions thus exposed com- pare with the 2,000,000 or 3,000,000 aliens who fail to seek citizenship, or the thrice that number, aps, of blacks who are deprived of their con- PFacing actual facts and condi-| Many readers send in questions signed only with initials, asking that the an- swers appear in the newspaper. The space is limited and would not accom- modate a fraction of such requests. The answers published are ones that may interest many readers, rather than the one who asks the question only. All questions should be accompanied by the writer's name and address and 2 cents in coin or stamps for reply. Send your question to The Evening Star Informa- tion Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, direc- tor, Washington, D. C. \ . Q How tall is Charlie Chaplin, what { does he weigh, and what color are his hair and eyes?>—G. D. 8. A. He is 5 feet 4 inches tall, weighs about 125 pounds, and has blue eyes. He had dark hair, but it has turned quite gray. Q. What are the longest odds ever paid on a Rentucky Derby win- nc;?—lg)o, T. 9 nerail, in 1913, paid the highest —891.45 to 81, i e Q. Can you tell me what year the first automobile was used in New York?—R. T. N. A. According to the November, 1895, issue of the Horseless Age, a French- man, Roger, brought three horseless carriages to New York in June of that year. They were run around the city streets to advertise R. H. Macy's de- partment store. In 1896 Barnum & Balley advertised that they would ex- hfiblt a horseless vehicle as part of their show. Q. Have seals sense?—E. C. H. A. According to animal intelligence, seals rate fairly high. They are tamed easily and possess considerable capacity for being trained. However, for rea- soning ability they do not compare with dogs wolves or foxes. ?A AWhn is meant by a dry wine? A. Wines are referred to as “dry” when completely fermented, only 0.1 per cent of sugar remaining. Q. In what fire in the United States have the most lives been lost>—O. B. W. A. 'Il‘k;;: uoqex::g Theater fire, Chi- cago, , cos most appalling loess of lives. Five hundred and uven?y‘-mu.r perished. Q. Does extracting caffeine from cof- fee leave the coffee oil in the bean intact?—E. D. B. A. The’ coffee laboratory of the De- partment of Agriculture says that all patents calling for the removal of caf- feine advocate its removal by means of a solvent, which also removes the fat. Later the caffelne and fat are separated and the fat is returned to the coffee. Evidently no one has yet been able to perfect a process that will re- move the caffeine alone, Q. What is the advantage of the modern system of teaching children to read before they can spell>—R. E. L. A. The educational experts claim that in teaching children to read before they are taught to spell . great progress is made in the first of the school work. For instance, under the old system, in teaching the word “cat,” a child would have been taught first the alphabet, then the combination of letters “c, a, t.” Then he would have been taught the picture of the cat in connection with the word. Today the teaching is just A picture of the cat is drawn o) Underneath the sen- tence “I see & cat” is written. The child assoclates the EM“" with the sentence, which is then broken up into words, and at the end of the lesson, instead of knowing just one word with three let- ters, the child knows six letters, four words and s sentence. The next day a ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. different animal is taken and as & re- view the child gets the repetition. It is easy in watching the demonstration to see how quickly a child learns to read under the present system. Q. What proportion of the losses taken by firms through extension of credit are caused by fraudulent fal- . The ures?—R. C. A. This varies with the National Association of Credit Men says that the actual credit losses of 1924 were close to $700,000,000, of which probably $250,000,000 arose from fraud- ulent failures. The total for 1925 was smaller, as & result of the deterrent ef- fects of the association’s cam] against commercial crime, Q. What is the significance of wear- ing a Phi Beta Kapps key?—B. B. A. The Phi Beta Kappa key is award« ed for scholarship in college or given to men and women who have achisved distinction in some particular fleld allled with learning. Q. How did ships called “schooners” get that name?—W. D. A. The first vessel of this type is said to have been built in Gloucester, Mass., about 1713 by s Capt. Robinson.” When the vessel was launched a bystander ex- claimed, “O, how she scoons!” Where- upon Robinson said, “A scooner let her be!” “Scoon” means to skip or skim on the surface of the water. Q. Is'it too early to say what the éuhlomb]e colors will be in the Fall?— 8. . L. A. Manufacturers are now making up their Fall stocks. One firm says that independence blue will lead, reddish browns and wood shades come next, then dark green and claret. Black will be fashionable, especially when com- bined with the new shades. Q. Are rabbits edible only in the ‘Winter?>—I. H. A. Domestic, hutch-raised rabbits may be eaten the year round. Raising rabbits for the market is now a flour- ishing industry. Q. Are the Rocky Mountains grow- ing higher?—E. A. Probably. R. L. ‘The Rocky Mountains are fairly new. Scientists know this because they are so steep. Old moun- tains are more worn down and have & few inches in a thousand years. Q. How much did the Oversea Rail- ;lyE (gex the Florida Keys costt— It was constructed b7 Benry M. Flagler and cost $49,000,000. Q. Who bas won the golf champion- _ ship of the Columbia Country Club the most times?—C. P. A. M. B. Stevinson has this honor, having won the Wardman Trophy in 1922, 1926 and 192 Q. How many theaters are now equipped for talkies?—L. H. A. There are more than 2,000 in this country and over 500 theaters outside the United States equipped with Ameri- can talking spparatus. Q. When vnlkl% for_exercise how fast should one walk?—P. C. B. A. For an ave person in good health the rate of 3% miles an hour is about right and the daily walk should measure from 34 to 5 miles. Q. How old is the Freiburg “Pas- sion Play"?—T. 8. A. The Preiburg version traces fts history at least to the year 1264, Q. Must & Coast Guard vessel keep its lights burning at night?—Q. &. A. It is not required t do so. Denial of citizenship to Rosika Schwimmer by decision of the United Btates Supreme Court, with three Justices dissenting, raises again the question of the status of the profes- slonal pacifist. Supporters of the ma- Jority opinion emphasise the point that an alien seeking citizenship is not de- manding a right but seeking a priv- ilege, and that nationalism requires s willingness to indorse the principle of taking up arms in the national de- fense. Those who accept the minority opinion of Justice Holmes, concurred insist that tolerance and the American principle of free thought and speech are endangered by the majority attitude. “We take young men and send them to war without asking their leave. We send men to prison who refuse. That is on the principle of national self- preservation,” says Milwaukee Journal, with the query, “If we re- quire this of young men born citizens, can we welcome to citizenship any one whose influence would be in favor of their refusing?” The Savannah News ob- serves as to Mrs. Schwimmer: “She would not without effort permit a per. son to take from her her personal be- longings. Why should she not be in favor of fighting for her country, when country means the protection of the life and liberties of its people? The most prominent thing about pacifists is their inconsistency.” * ok ok ok “Those who would accept citizenship with reservations should be barred,” declares the Indianapolis Star, while the St. Louis Globe-Democrat calls the decision “sound and just and thorough- Iy American,” and the Syracuse Herald contends that “the principles of sound and loyal citizenship apply to all alike.” ‘The New York Evening Post com- ments: “As the majority points out, Mme. Schwimmer is asking not a nat- ural right but a privilege. She pre- | sumes to impose a condition upon her acceptance of the privilege that she asks—the privilege to disregard the Nation's first law, that of national self- preservation. “Every true American.” in the opinion of the lLong Beach Press-Telegram, “cherishes a sincere hope for peace, but 1t is coupled with a willingness to defend the Unifon against all foes. ‘That this is a better brand of pacifism than that which is militant for in- grafting of alien theories on the body politic of the repuhlic is a safe con- clusion, in which all good citizens will join.” “The Texarkana Gazette offers the further conclusion that “there are enough conscientious objectors already holding American citizenship without formally bestowing citizenship on aliens who are avowedly opposed to taking up arms in defense of the Nation, should occasion arise.” Similar views are held by the Savan- nah Press, Fort Wayne News-Sentinel and Columbus Even Dispatch_and numerous others. The Charleston Daily Mail feels that “the Nation has no place and small use, if any, for the citizen who is willing to enjoy all the benefits of the country without, when the Na- tion is in peril, serving it to the best of his ability in_such ways as he can. The Lansing State Journal argues that “to have admitted Mme. Schwimmer to citizenship, after she had declared, as she has declared, of record, that she had no sense of nationalism and only a cosmic consclousness of belo: g the human race, would have n to | absolve practically every citizen of al- legiance to the Government.” * 0 in by Justices Brandeis and Sanford, |s: Judgment of Nation Divided On Schwimmer Case Decision to expel them because they believe more than some of us do in the teachings of the Sermon on the Mount.” On this point the Asheville Times states: “Jus- s op! of past virtually wholly adopted by the ma- jority of his colleagues. He may not live to see his ph! hy of freedom to think incorporated. into the law of the land. Surely, however, that rea- ;om:liv liberal doctrine will some day revail.” “While the patriotic duty of citizens ship is to support the country in times of p"enl. going to the very last sacri- fice,” the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin s, “There is no interest of national fety nor any tradition of American patriotism to be endangered by the ad- mission to the Nation of men and “it really requires more courage to be an honest and intelligent conscientious objector than it does to follow the crowd and g0 out and fight, and we need all the moral courage we can get in this coun- try and all the various points of view that thoughtful people take.” * ok ok % “A Benjamin Pranklin who could be proved to have said ‘There is no such thing as a good war or & bad peace’ would have to remain an alien,” says the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, and the Bir- mingham News , “If the Govern= ment in time of war lets off thousands of Quakers who are men, why should the Bug:eme Court of the United States | proscribe this lone opponent of arms bea.rmq. ‘who in this case is a woman?" ‘The Cleveland Plain Dealer comments: “Millions, we believe, hate the thought of the ‘uncompromising pacifist,’ but will regret to see the great Supreme Court make that thought a bar to American citizenship. at branch of Government, even if no other, should be a d;f:‘n;er olfto;:rl;ls:" " b lers of the orif inion of the court, which defends ’th? case of consclentious objectors,” suggests the New York Sun, “may be struck by the ironical thought that it was written by the sole war veteran on the Supreme Court bench, one who bears the scars of wounds received at Balls Bluff, An- tietam and Maryes Heights.” ~ The Springfield Republican also points out that “it is with that background of gal- lantry under fire that Justice Holmes declares in the case of Mme. Schwim- mer: ‘If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other, it 1s the principle of free thought. Not free thought for those who agree with us, but freedom for the thought that W h}lll thssemin in “The opinion of Just: Holmes,” asserts the Little Rock A.rkl‘lf—e sas Democrat, “not only is a ‘golden text of liberalism,’ but it is & whole sys- tem of morals in goverhment. Written with that clarity which marks all opin- jons by that glfld old liberal, it fur- ther typifies the man, in that it con- tains common sense, free from petty prejudices and artificial patriotism,” Let’s Hope Not. From the Lincoln State Journal. The Chica Medics succeed in TAKING. iines. jess xpeny sive, but that will not make it any more popular. et More “Ghost” Writing? From the Detrolt News. Another uncertain moment must be when Victor Emmanuel begins to read his periodical address from the throme stitutional rights? Such “slackers at the polls” number at least $0,000,000 or 30,000,000—ten times the mumber of slacked allens—yet they are part of the basis of res:reunutlnn in our Govern- ment—wholly hidden by the present census. In the dissenting opinion of Justice Holmes is a plea for free thought and the statemen T would suggest that the Quakers have done their share to make the country what it is; that many citizens agree with the applicant’s be- | Hefs and that I had not supposed s regrelied ous inability - and wonders what it is going to say. T e me Well, That's Different! From the Worcester Evening Gazette. ‘The British litical parties have agreed to ignere liquor as an {ssue. But how about it 88 B beversgel