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All rights of publi-aiion of special dispatches herein are also reser e Raymond Poincar A fiery little patriot has given his best for France. And France, spurred to greater glories during the World War and virtually saved from financial ob- livion through the wise counsel, firm ac- tion and far-seein~ mind of this states man, will go do ‘hrough centuries paying to him its .vibute of glory. As France pays tribute so will those na- tions that fought by her side. Raymond Poincare, whose flaming spirit of patriotism as President in- spired his cohorts and heightened the morale of & naticn when France had her back to the wall, lies stricken in Paris. Through sheer enthusiasm in giving his all to his country his body is broken. Another has been lled to serve in his place as premier. long as there is a France the influence of Raymond Poincare will be felt. His name has been engraved in France's history and will for all time remain among her immortals. It was Poincare who called the famed old “Tiger of France” to the premier- &hip during the critical hours of the World War when all appeared lost to the allied cause. It was Poincare's Judgment. and not his council that t the patches credited to it a ....July 28, 1920 But as | of conquest or the smoother slopes of migration, the stream continually is augmented by other streams flowing into it. At the same time it gives off rivulets into other streams, so that the language system of the world be- comes eventually an extremely com- Also the character of the current itself changes with the nature of the terrain of ideas through which it flows. It passes from the wild, forested hills of inspiration into the flat country of dullness and plenty. At any point in the course of such a stream it is possible to determine the courses followed by the language and its affuents in the past. The history of & people can be deduced from its Ianguage. The streams of languages | bear the records of racial conquests and disasters, weddings and divorces, migrations and counter-migrations, | days of starvation and days of plenty, dissipations and devotions. Always the | 1anguage is forced to adapt itself to the {channel of environment throtigh which it flows from the mountains of its birth | to the sea of dread tongues which is its ultimate destination. The English language in the United States is flowing through interesting country. It is changing continually to meet the needs of the people whose { ideas it conveys. It is receiving and |making integral parts of itself ac- | cretions from nearly every other stream | of language in the world. Whet the end result will be it is impossible to predict, In this connection the American | | Council of Learned Societies will | launch this week a monumental study | designed to determine the influen | which have affected the language up to the present—the results of the ac- cretions from other tongues and from the continually fluctuating social levels | of the American people. It will atudy | a language in the making. This study, | which will last for approximately 10 | yesrs, seems certain to be fundamental | In future American scholarship. | i Canada and Rum Running. If her minister of national revenue | speuks with suthority Cunada has cendidly outlined the extent of her ability to co-opsrate with the United | States in putting an end to rum smug- |#ling from Canadian ports. And Can- ada’s atditude seems to be that she is | doing all she can do now and the lion's share of responsibility is Uncle Sam's. | brought this to pass. Subordinating | He must meet it alone. personal feeling and possibly prejudice., In the first place, Canada, speaking | Poincare knew that i there was on® | through W. D. Euler, minister of na- man in the land who could. fire the | tional revenue. believes that nearly 100 courage of all people and spur them to | per cent of tae rum smuggling is done renewed cffort. the man was Clemen- by Americans, and not Canadians. ceau Canada requires them, when they clear | Though great military figures of from Canadian ports with liquor on | France may have been given credit for | board, to obtain clearance papers. The the eventual overthrow of Teulonic #s- | law stops there, and if a twenty-five- pirations, it truthfully must be stated foot motor bout with & cargo of liquor that the very force and character of on board clears for London or points | Poincare and Clemenceau were, in the | East, the law does not look into the | final analysis, the vital factors. HEI’P-{pmblhi]hy of the boat's altering its there and everywhere they urged. plead- | course and landing at Detroit, If | ed, prodded and demanded an even |Canada sought to cancel clearing of more vigorous spirit of resistance. They | jiquor boats, Mr. Euler declares, it | defied critics. ‘They Touted defealists. | would mot only require parliamentary | They inflamed French patriotism by |action to make the prohibition effect- | sheer eloquence. Who is there 10 sayv | jve, but would present a source of that had it not been for their efforts | temptation that would lead unnum- Germany would have won in the early | hereq Canadians into the evils of cor- days of the war? ruption, and Mr. Euler contends that Poincare retired from the Elysee Pal- | (hey would resort to the practice of | ace fatigued and almost broken by War- | gptaining liquor from the government time effort, though gloriously happy | siores and shipping it surreptitiously in accomplishment of his wartime .., the United States by truck, auto- ideal. | mobile. camoufiaged railway cars, planes But lherhe was to be no rest for this {,nd in boats from many places | man who had done so much in the in- | it ing | terest of his country. One government ":I::::m::‘:-. bOnOA R TR | followed another in rapid succession | Gunada’s suggestion to the United during the critical hours subsequent 10, gyqieq 5 that legislation be enacted by ;::HX"‘L"W:':‘-W A"m‘:a O:Z:Z‘ly“’“'::‘mu country similar to the Canadian | - g !laws that require clearances for all ve financially. Spirits were at the Jowest * 1 o0 uing Canadian ports carryin ebb. There seemed to be no one who ! including liquor. Such \ merchandise, could take the ship of state and guide |)opy 15 4ion it is contended, would give | its course toward complete renabilita- | b * £ O T ek | O e, A e, o Tnellon the activities of American boats. | oincare, vell past the years when most | o e A€V ! i vs T lear- statesmen desire (o retire, was called to AGCERERE mz‘;:’::: :fi“:é:;n:"u ] form a new cabinet. il e | FishliaaNascn thervalus obitheifane | Co TN YesHAREON, | INStE rel b sink almost to the vanishing polnt, Hs | *tPiions, possibly used to advantage by | had witnessed the reconstruction process | STUSlers and rum runners. These in devastated France slow up from the | SXCMPt achls or othiers not engaged | Iack of funds and shattered courage, He |\ Passenger service or trade and un- | had seen France openly ignore her for ! der filteen gross tons from the neces- &l ehligations; PHAnCIAD kil doe. |71 9 SBISIBIGE wismnce oo Aving | port, although some must obtain re- | entry on return from foreign shores. | nomic chaos prevailed all about him. It was but natural that he should demand THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. ©. JULY 28 1929—PART 2. "SIGNALS ENING STAR [ the plains of culture over the cal racts | land production possibilities and pop- ulation. A committee of economists and scien- tists, headed by Frederic A. Delano, president of the American Civic Asso- ciation, has just completed a prelim- inary study to determine the probable 'state of this balance in the year 2000, The result. is reassuring. - In the first place, the population will not increase so rapidly as it has in the past. Immigration has been reduced greatly and there is a narrow- ing margin between birth and death rates, which is calculated to result in a stationary population long before there is any strain on agricultural produc- tion to feed the increasing millions. From present indication there is little likelihood that the census of 2000 A.D. will record an American population much in excess of 200,000,000. The probability is, that it will fall some- what below this—say 180,000,000. At the same time there are unde- niable possibilities of increased agri- | cultural efficiency whereby mors food will be produced on less land. Food habits are changing. Scientific methods of packing and refrigerating are elimi- nating much of the scandalous waste of the past. The committee feejs that it may be necessary even to add an-' other acre to produce food enough for 180,000,000—largely concentrated in enormous cities, Ultimate prospects also are reassuring. Japan supports its population in com- parative comfort on & quarter acre per individual. ‘True, the standard of living is not as high as in the United States— but people live and prosper. Allow- ing four times as much land to pro- duce food for each individual, the| United States if pushed to the limit zould support a population of 973,000,000. But there is scant likelihood that this enormous figure ever will be reached. the committee, in fact, sees a sta- tionary population at about the 225,- 000,000 mark. S0 there seems no need to worry over any widespread lack of food in the United States at any time in the future, ) Great inventions were encouraged in order to promote the comfort of hu- manity. Even that recent achieve- ment, television, is no exception to the general rule that where there is a great invention, there will be a correspond- ingly large law suit. R Aircraft enterprise is in the course of competition, stimulating all kinds of de luxe additions to raliway pleasures | and comforts. In spite of the fascina- tion of the clouds, Old Earth is still in a position to assert some advantages. - [ Poincare finds that the prospects of | a nation’s prosperity may become so closely associaled with a statesman’s dentily that he must be denied even the ordinary privileges of sick leave. e It appears to be a waste of energy when vast regations of people threaten merciless hostilities when all of humanity ought to be getting to- ether and praying for rain. r—.e—e After an airship has stayed up be- vond a certain length of time, endur- ance fiying threatens to appear as easy as swimming the English Channel. - SHOOTING STA“. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Sunday. ©Oh, Sunday is a day of rest! The flivver hits the pike, And toots a horn and does its best ‘To frighten those who hike.” Perhaps to church it's on its way. With paces far from slow; Perhaps it seeks the village gay ‘Where dwells the movie show, fierce explosion here and there Denotes the busted tire. ‘here’s gas enough spilled through the air To set the world afire. And now ana then a cop steps out, A badge upon his chest, And pinches folks, or bawls them out— All on a day of rest. Conflicting Opinions. The world’ eeting show. We're glad That we are here to see. On whether it is good or bad ‘The critics disagree. The Tyrant Custom. that France's war-time enemy. who had brought to pass this catastrophe, should | pay and pay in full. Victory was not sufficient. Glorlous as might be itz name, it could not restore France's eco- nomic equilibrium. France could not survive unless there be just recompense as long as physical damage inflicted during the war remained. Poincare distrusted Germany's prom- ises. He distrusted the treaty of Ver- sailles. He wished for practical result; He desired guarantees. At his orders the French army invaded the Ruhr. Germany would know beyond all doubt that her debt must be paid. There was criticism then, and there is criticism now, of France’s Ruhr oc- | cupation—but Poincare felt that he was right and moving in the interests of France—and after all France's irfterest ‘was Poincare’s. In 1926, after a short period during which political vicissitude had forced him from the cabinet, he again took up the task for which he will ever b2 famed—the rehabilitation of France's finances. France was on trial in the eyes of the financial world. New fiscal Jaws and strict economics were rigidly enforced—so rigidly enforced that today the franc is respected in the marts of the world. France's budget was balanced and her debts were funded in a great measure. Instead of a welter of financial enaos. foreign capital, attracted by the courageous efforts of the Bank of France, began to aid the general res- toration process. His crowning achieve- ment was piloting safely through a stormy course the Mellon-Berenger debt agreement. He gave all the strength that remained in him to bringing about its ratification. He stood for it because he believed it was right. Criticism and attack failed t~ eway. him. France's Antegrity %as at stake, He leaves his country an unblemished record. st — The American Languages. Living languages are like great rivers flowing through the minds of men. They start as mountain streams from | where the food-producing capacity of | and labor one-fiftieth the springs of primitive dialects. Their | the Jand wiil not be sufficient to feed all | *aise sl that dough! sources are the gropings of isolated peoples for mediums to express the Other small boats and types of craft |'A man makes a bold demonstration, are licensed by the Secretary of Com-| And says he was born to be free. merce and not required o obtain clear- | In spite of his proud protestation, ance and re-entry, the exceptions be- | He is easy to tame as can be. | ing framed on the basis of convenience | When the sun blazes fiercely above in to law-abiding and legitimate owners. | the sky But it Is doubtful if the rum runner,| And the highway is covered with who violates his country’s laws by dust, smuggling liquor, could be made to| He walks out in July with & collar and | abide by them by tightening regula- e ~ tions concerning his departure from | Because somebody says that he must! d return to American ports evades and breaks several laws when he smuggles liquor. By requiring him | Ito obtain clearance and re-entry, he | would merely b2 put to the inconven- | ience of breaking one more law. The | rum runner does mot regard the law's | All vainly he seeks information Concerning who makes the decree That s mortal must meet observation In garb so pathetic to see. To leave off suspenders he never would try; No garterless hose would he trust. He walks out In July with a sweltering | sigh— Because somebody says that he must! Free. Although a busy government A tax to all things would apply, The railroads never charge a cent For leaving cinders in your eye. e R i | inconveniences as an insurmountable barrier, S Perhaps the farmer will take his turn at an effort to loom large in financial | importance. He should be no excep- | tion. Everybody else tries it. ——rat———— Land and Population. Man must eat to live. The single important source of food | | is productive land. | Hence the maximum number of human beings who can live in the world, or any circumscribed part of the world, 1 Unraveling Chinese. From the Terre Haute Star. One Russian in favor of an imme- diate settlement is the official who has to unravel those Chinese notes. | — R, BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES Bishop of ‘When transatlantic liners are leav- ing port, putting out to sea, it is customary for incoming liners to signal them concerning conditions they have met with on the voyage; weather conditions; icebergs, sighted wrecks and other useful information are given by the incoming ship to the outgoing. The value of such information is obvious. It enables the outward bound steamer to take all the necessary precautions which the experienced ship transmits. lllll is an analogy that has application to e. ‘The value of counsel and advice which those who are older and more experienced give to the young as they| put out upon the voyage of life resides in careful observations made, experience that has tested and tried the seasoned navigator and the perils and mis- fortunes that he has been able to sur- vive and successfully overcome. We are | all bound to recognize that kind of | counsel and advice that proceeds from actual experience. As a matter of fact, it is the only kind that has value. When we study the teachings of the Great Master we note that they are based upon the profoundest knowledge of human life, d they have their challenge and authority in that “He knew what was in man.” To think of His teachings as being solely related to some misty future toward which we are hastening on'and as unrelated to the common experiences of life here is to misinterpret them. True, He bids men prepare for a larger, fuller existence, but He makes more clear (o their vision the realily of such an existence by empha- sizing the methods and designs by which @ wholesome, efMcient life is Lo be | lived here and now. The great purpose of His ministry was so to emphasize the true and abiding values of life that it might be worthy of an eternal exist ence. Those who have been His real ex- emplars have inevitably been men and women who have tested out His pian of life, found it effective and by example, as well as plec?rl, transmitted it to others. The proof of the value of any systém of living is found in its adapta- bility as well as its capacity to_serve under any and all conditions. Young lives that are setting out on their voy- age very properly Jook to those of wider Originator Give For “Outlawry of War” Idea BY WILLIAM HARD. I Tt was a graceful gesture of rec-| ognition that the Secretary of Staie and the President of the United States | extended the other day at an otherwise | wholly official affair to a purely private | cltizen. Alone among diplomats and other similarly highly placed official dignitaries in the east room of the White House, and at the luncheon afterward. on ths occasion of the celgbration of the coming into for of the Kellogg-Briand pact, was th private-life personage, Mr. S. O. Levin- son_of Chica Thus, at length, through the personal courtesy of the President and of the Secretary of Siate. a little measure of governmental awakenment was mani fested to the fact that without Mr. Levinson there never probably would have been any peace pact at all. The pact is appropriately named after Mr. Kellogg and M. Briand. Thev | negotiated it. They gave to the idea when they understood it. their whole- hearted support. Without them. natu- rally. their governments would not have come logether in agreement. There can be no purpose anywhere to mini- mize the value of their service to man- kind or to detract from the credit which the world so properly heaps upon them. It remains true, nevertheless. that when they first addressed themselves to the “outlawry of war" idea which M:. Levinson has initiated and which for vear after year through many years he had_diligently popularized in widening circles of knowledge through both hemispheres. they were well-meaning but bewildered novices at it. Starts in Imagination. M. Briand started by imagining that an “outlawry of war' treaty could signed between two countries: France and the United States. He started by imagining that the “outlawry of war” movement in the United States and Eu- rope would tolerate and applaud a bi- lateral pact which would set France and the United States off by themselves in the world and which cordingly would amount to an exclusive alliance. Though it was not at all known the time, it became necessary for men who had learned the true philosophy of the “outlawry of war” conception. di- rectly or indirectly, from Mr. Levinson to enlighten M. Briand. It became necessary for Mr. Levinson, himself, in Paris to give courteous and gratefully received lessons in his philosophy to offi- cials of the French foreign office. Not till then did the French government truly realize that an “outlawry of war” treaty, in order to reach the end pur- | posed, would have to be not between two | countries, but between the countries of all the world. | Parallelly, in Washington, Mr. Kel-| logg was 50 unacquainted with the tual nature of the “outlawry of war”| ides that for month after month, after M. Briand had transmitted it to him. he { let it lie on his desk without any aware- ness of the immense research and of the | immense meaning that had been ac-| cumulated beneath the world “outlawry” | and behind the agitation which was| promoting it inlo world-wide popular | acceptance. It became necessary for the senior Senator from Idaho, M Borsh. who for nine years had bee familiar with Mr. Levinson’s personality | and with Mr. Levinson's philosaphy, to | inform Mr. Kellogg. This was done in | unrecorded but repeated conferences be- tween the two men. Critieal Stage of Progress. { ‘Those conferences marked the gen- uinely critical stage in the negotiations. | If Mr. Kellogg had be narrow man. if he had been a shut-.ainded man. if: he had been a man inhospitable to ideas | not his own and not sanctioned by tra- | dition, he would have recolled from Mr. | Borah's instruction. Mr. Kellogg eagerly | grasped it and completely mastered it ! and then with enormous energy and; with admirable adroitness led M. Briand | along to accepting the “outiawry of | war” point of view in the full complete- | ness in which it had been developed by | Mr. Levinson in his study and preached | by Mr. Borah on the Senate floor. | There can be,*therefore, no question | of any disparagement of Mr. Kellogg ' by any observer and narrator of na-| tional * and international events in ‘Washington. There can be at the same time no disguising of the historical fact |act. it would have been & paralyzing | ‘he will be immortal. | from the fuel problem. | by 138,000 to a total of 9.796.000. Wwith E. FREEMAN, D. D, LL. D, W ashington 3 experience for suggestion and direction. Training and education may help in | part to equip them for their voyage, but transcending these is the valued advice and counsel of those who have put to test life’s supreme maxims. Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborne had this in mind when he sald that “our modern system of education needs a reafirmation of the great imperatives of religion.” The mis- carriage of many a young life, starting out with hope and promise, is due to faulty signals, comprising inaccurate in- forma and unworthy counsel given by one whose maturity and richness of experience should guarantee better things. We are talking much today about the deficiencies as well as the excesses of modern youth. If such things are con- spicuously evident, it is reasonable to believe that they are due to the care- | lessness and indifference of those whose | mature, riper experience should enable them to be finer exemplars and truer | | exponents of the highest and best | maxims of navigation. After all, we are governed more by example than | precept. A single’ life frequently dis- | closes more of power and influence, re- | served and unpretentious as it may be, | than the voluble, self-assured expres- | stons of another, whose counsel is un- | sustained by the fine things of char- acter. | Some of us have reached that stage in life where the final port is in sight. What have we to give, out of the ex- | tended and practical experience of life, iw those who are just embarking; set- | ting out upon unknown seas. The| | young men and women of our day dif- fer little from those of other times! | They are quite as susceptible to sound and sane counsel and direction as those of another generation. That which needs to be emphasized today is the responsibility which those of an_older generation owe to the younger. If the | practice of Christian virtues has profited us, let us see to it that with | meticulous care and out of the rich- | ness of a large experience we give to those who are younger that kind of counsel and direction that will guar- antee to them a safe voyage and a | sure haven. n Recognition individuals whom he personallv ad- dresses can withstand. He is by the greatest missionary whom this re porter has ever observed. Convents Made One by One. One by one he converied the key-men | and key-women in the American peace | movement to his views. They wer most of them pro-Leaguers. He was not. They were prejudiced against him. He battered down the prejudices. Little by little he made the “outlawry of war" movement into a movement encircling the world; and Mr. Borah, whose con- tributions to its ultimate form were vital and fundamental, kept it alive on the Senate floor through timely resolu- | tions and through not infrequent dis- cussions. 1f ever two men gave to the world & | universally international accepted idea which without them might have per- ished not only unaccepted but unknown, they are Mr. Levinson and Mr. Borah. If ever one man was solely responsible for the initiation of a philosophy which has revolutionized international rela- uonship, it is Mr. Levinson. Indeed the i matter can be put more positively. Mr, Levinson is the only man who ever lived who. without any public office | whatsoever, has united the world in a public act. 1f it had been only a little achievement. The act being what it is. | the achievement is almost incredible: and, if hardly anybody noticed at the White House last Wednesday that Mr. Levinson was present, it will be differ- ent at the bar of history. There. as a| rich reorganizer of corporations, he will be dust. As an inventor and promoter of a craziness found to be a salvation, (Copyright, 1920.) s c——— Power Spells Growt To Canada Industry, BY HARDEN COLFAX. Ambitious estimates of hydro-elec- | tric development in Canada spell not | only an industrial expansion of the Dominion, but increasing independence If, on the other hand, United Blltes’ dollars are contributing to the develop- ment of the water power resources of | the Dominion, this very development |15 adding to the difficulties of the coal | operators of the United States, These | operators for many years have found | Canada their most important export market, one worth very close to $13.- 000 & year under normal price conditions, First-hand -investigation this week of the industrial situation in the; Dominion and of the expansion which has attracted attention on both sides of the border, without approaching anything smacking of a boom, dis- closes that many of the factories which ve being set up in the industrial cen- ters of Quebec and Ontario Provinces | are branches of powerful United States firms. These were attracted hers not only because of the dian mar- ket which they thus may serve with- out payment of tariff duty on thelr products, but also because by export- ing from Canada to other parts of the far-flung British Empire rather than shipping to the same destinations from the United States, they are able to get the substantial benefits of the prefer- ential tariffs which all parts of the empire extend to one another. The Dominion bureau of statistics announced at Ottaws this week an estimate that the population of Canada increased during the last al year \ Ontario and Quebec, the industrialized provinces, getting the lion’s share of this increment. ‘There is small disagreement in Cana- dian and United States figures on the financial investments of the latter in the Dominion. Of the $5.706.000,000 of foreign capital invested in Canada at the close of the fiscal year just ended, | ptivate financial authorities of Canada calculate $3,313,000,000 to be from the United States, and these figures are viewed by the United States Depart- ment of Commerce as accurate. This sum 1is 57 per cent of all foreign capi- tal invested in Canada, 39 per cent be- ing British and only 4 per cent being i from other countries. But while the United States capital | helping to return to this country Amer- is limited by the amount of food the land will produce. Population always must be relative to food supply. When | the balance is disturbed seriously the result is war, pestilence and starvation. ‘There i8 no occasion for concern in the United States at present. The American food consumption habits ad- mittedly are wasteful in the extreme, but still the population is not great enough to eat all the food produced from the land under cultivation. There is always a surplus—one of the chief causes of farm distress. But what Will be the condition of a century hence. The population is in- creasing. If it increases without in- terruption it is reasonable to presume Is This a Smile? From the Charlotte (N. C.) News. President Hoover has instructed his Farm Board to go solve the farm prob- lem, and while you can le: board to 2 problem, not even the President can make it solve. e e Argument Falle. From the Santa Barbara Daily News. The argument against going to ex- tremes seems to fall down when you ob- serve a head of hair that is neither long nor bobbed. — —emees Fast Working Henry. | From the Omaha Evening World-Herald. | It they fine Henry Ford the maxi- mum, $500, for writing that 2-ceat that eventually a point will be reached the people. Such a condition would re- sult inevitably first in & lowering of the check, Henry'll have to buckle down of a second to ] High Minded Business. fresh ideas which arse from their en-| standard of living and eventually in|p .. ine Sioux Paills Daily Argus-Leader. vironments. 48 .0 Jonguage moves adnward into close eheck on actual famine. It is well to keep 8 this balance between as the a amash records indtend of Blants 116 40 FiEB that the true comprehensive title of this | is still pouring into Canada, with a net peace pact the Levinson-Borah-, investment of new money in 1928 total- Briand-Kellogg_pact. !ing $98,000,000, British money, slowed This writer has a detailed recollec- (dawn from. overseas investment by war tion of the incidents of the days just after the great war and during the struggle Dbetween ro-leaguers _and anti-leaguers in the United States Sen- ate when the whole of the idea now enshrined in_the peace pact was trans- mitted by Mr. Levinson to Senator Knox snd Senator Borah. He has a detailed recollection of the scornful rejection of the idea by virtually anl Senators_except Mr. Knox' and Mr. Borah. He heard both those Senators and _post-war conditions, again has struck a longer stride, and new capital from that source is coming here more rapidly in proportion to existing in- vestments than is United States money. iAnd, incidentally, Canadians last year iare calculated to have invested some $$101,000.000 in the United States, which ifigure includes securily purchases of 1 important rallroad plrer. which is con- :ne‘ct:,d with major lines in the Do- minion. expound the idea on the Senate floor in| With one exception 1928 was Cana- speeches which were the first to be da's greatest year for installation of made on “the renunciation of war | hydraulic turb{nu, 550,000 horsepower as an instrument of national policy” | oeing installed last year, while develop- in the history of the world. ments which when completed will bring He subsequently saw Mr. Levinson.|in 1,200,000 horsepower capacity ad- who is a lawyer of vast commercial | iitional were under way and are bein and financial practice in Chicago, find | carried forward this year. Severa time to propel his idea unceasingly and | huge developments and some smalle: irresistably inst the wall of | ones are in prospect and are exncud 1 incredulity and indifference. Mr. | to reach a more definite stage before is & man whose itual ex- Problems altation s backed table body. He never tires in his body ahd it car- ries his viger of mind and his warmth of heart to & powerfulness which ew srnments hat mhmhym- aciria devidbment whieh In many "% Capital Sidelights o BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Senator Walter E. Edge of New Jersey, who at the close of ths extra sesslon of Congress is going to Paris a: Ambassador, is almost as well known in the French capital as he is in Wash- ington, having had a European head- quarters of his world-wide advertising business there for many yea Known around the world as Lusi. ness man with a business plan,” which is the slogan on which he has ridden to success in public life, to the governor- ship of New Jersey and into the United States Senate, and especially on the continent on account of the legislation he fathered to finance American busi- ness in Europe—it is not so weil known that a few years ago he was one of the leading amateur bicycle riders of the country and that he is one of the Nation’s most ardent fishermen, Mr. Edge was in Europe when the World War broke out and he worked with the American committee in Lon- don for some time in caring for and icans who were stranded abroad in 1914—so the work of Ambassador will be no novelty to him, He started to earn his own living at a tender age in the humble though turesque position of “printers’ denb and his success in the publishing and advertising business has made him one of the real business romances in the American Congress. At the age of 15 he secured & job in a hotel advertising agency which he has since bullt into international scope and power. He made Atlantic.Cily and Florida famous as the American pl b- lished branch office: g ce, Germany, Italy, the Argentine Republi and other foreign countries, But this man who next November when he goes to Paris as Ambassador will be 55 years of age has not spent all of his time in making money and ad- vancing in politics by leaps and bounds. He was aclive, fun-loving, venture, and fond of sports of all kinds. here are several gold watches, pianos and building Jots in various parts of the country that he acquired as trophies of his skill as. a bicycle rider. He still enjoys horseback riding and presents a fine figure on the bridiepaths about the Capital. He has ridden in many parades in Washington and other parts of the country as well as when enjoying his favorite pastime of hunting. He is a thorough sportsman. e belongs to the famous Blooming ve Hunting Club in Pennsyivania and the equally renowned Norias Shoot- In’l Club in Texas. He has shot and fished in practically every country. He has crossed the Rocky Mountains on horseback and killed antelope, elk, deer and mountain sheep. He makes period- | ical salmon fishing trips, only he speaks of “killing” them. He visits Restigouche, the famous Imon stream in New Brunswick, to put himself in shape for | the strenuous pace he leads in business ' and politics, * * There is quite an official rendezvous from Washington on Jamestown Island | in Narragansett Bay this Summer, with Speaker Longworth and many naval officers and members of Congress gath- | ering there. There is quite a naval, sottlement with Newport as a bsse in | the Summer time and many officers make their headquarters at Jamestown | and Beavertail Island, so named on ac count of its shape, with Narragansett Bay on one side and the ocean on th H Willlam Tyler Page, clerk | of the national House of Representa- | tives, has been a Summer sojourner for | more than 25 years and 10 years ago established a Summer home, which has been a meeting place for Republican party leaders from all parts of the country. Mr. Page will reopen this cottage on August 20. One of his near-neighbors, who has one of the! most beautiful Summer homes in that part of fhe country on & rocky promontory with the surf beating at its ! foundation. is former Representatite | Ambrose Kennedy of Woonsocket, R. I. | * * x % | Even though the House and Senate ! Dhave been in recess during these warm Summer months it has nol meant a respite for the Capitol employes. One of the m st important tasks which the clerical and financial force of the| House and Senate have been wrestling with is the new pay bill for employes | for something like 3,200 employes, more than half of whom are clerks to mem bers of Congress. The increase i salary for the entire legislative estab- | lishment amounts to nearly $800,000. ! R One of the jobs that have kept the clerks of the House busy has been the | preparation of the five contested elec- | tion cases. Yesterday the testimony | was opened in the Wurzbach-McCloskey | case for the House seat. Mr. Wurzhaci, | the only Republican member from Texas. Was apparently unseated by | Augustus McCloskey, Democrat. The | testimony is very voluminous. The clerk of the House and his council are now deciding on what part of this tes mony should be printed for the public record. This then goes to the Govern- ment Printing Office. following which | €opies are furnished to the contestants. | Mr. Wurzbach will then be allowed 30 ! days in which to file his brief, follow: ing which Mr, McCloskey will have an other 30 days in which to file his answer. {and then Mr. Wurzbach will be allowed | another 30 days if he desires it in which | to file supplementary matter. The en- | tire case will then be transmitted to the Speaker and referred to an elections commiitee of the House. The other four cases are ready for House consideration. They are those of Lawrence against Milligan, in Mis- souri; Hill against Palmisano, in Mary- land: Lawson agamst Owen, in Florida and Updike against Ludiow. in Indiana. All of these five cases will be read: for transmitial to the Speaker when Congress reconvenes in December. * % % x The peanut industry is one of the romances of the Civil War, with Ya kee soidiers making this formerly neg- lecled Summer crop popular through- | out New England and Northern States. according to specialists in the United States Department of Agriculture, who emphasize how closely the humble pea- nut is allied with American history. Today the peanut crop is worth more than $40.000,000 in commerce. Secretary Hyde's specialists on this subject point out that this vegetable is not really & nut, but a ground pea, and is a native South American plant, which found its way to North America via Africa, as food for prisoners on board slave ships in the early Colonial days. Up to the time of the war between the States, the plant was neglected by the Southern planters, and was grown mainly in small patches by the slaves. During the war, New England and other Union soldiers, foraging for food, came upon the “goober pea,” and found it palatable and nourishing. After Appomattox many of the Yan- kees carried the pods home with them and_the nut won immediate favor in New England and throughout the Northern tier of States. The demand thus aroused has resulted in cultiva- tion of the peanut commercially and in consequence the industry has had great development in the South to supply Nm;’mnn markets, and even for export trade. ts parallel those of the States the Federal Government south of the ler, and announcement Wwas made this week of plans for a con- r;relnoe on the subject to be held next all. ‘The tendency there is toward de- velopments for central station use: that s, for distribution to general ind: B to householders and to rural lines, as the great rper and pulp mills have about rteached the capacity of their sower demands for some time to come. iis old is a derog: TOURIS T MANNERZ re {N EUROPE BY FREDERIC J]. HASKIN. American exuberance, American hustle | and the various other hearty llll’lbulu] which have caused Europeans to refer to us as barbarians are taking on a serious aspect, which is causing ex- | porters and manufacturers o the United | States no little concern. The reason is | that it is touching their pocketbooks. | ‘There is a very old adage which ad- | vises that when’ one is in e, one | should do as the Romans do. Americans have never taken very kindly to this idea. And now that American tourists each Summer are overrunning Eu- | ropean countries in such hordes and there is plenty of company, they have | the courage to take American ways | and mannerisms with them and to feel | that if one hails from East Cul de Sac. Wis,, one should follow the manners | and customs of East Cul de Sac| wherever he goes. As the sun never sets on the American flag, so it never need set on Americanisms. However much Europeans like Amer- ican money, they do not care for Americanisms and what is worrying | Ameri manufacturers is that there is reported to be growing up in Europe the suggestion of a boycott of Amer- ican-made goods prompted by resent- ment against the ways of American tourists. | It already has been reported from | Rome that the Pope has been consider- | ing issuance of & formal statement ex- | postulating against the way in which | American tourists conduct themselves in | Rome. The Romans may be a light- | hearted ple, spending much time | singing “O Sole Mio” in the streets, but they take their churches and historic edifices with much seriousness. To | many Americans, the fact that a thing tory fact. To the Ro- man antiquity is in itself a religion. Americans Are Irreverent. ‘The Latins have an age-old reverence for their churches. They are a part of their daily life, In America, most peo- | ple go to church on S8unday and for the | rest of the week churches to them are | buildings with closed doors. But the | Italian workman, the Italian housewife, | even the Italian child will drop in if | only for & moment to murmur & rever- | ent prayer before the image of some | favorite saint in & dim church or set alight & eandie before some shrine. | Church doors are never closed. S0 it is quite natural that the sight of & group of American tourists from Whatcheer, Oreg. noisily rambling through a church nave is unwelcome. ‘The “unseemly behavior” reported from Rome consists of such reported inc: dents as American women powdering their faces, using the shined brass of holy fixtures as looking glasses. Sitting | casually on altar steps to write picture post cards home to Harlem is offensive in the eyes of devout Romans. No one ascribes any malice to the Americans. It is admitted that they are well-intentioned and, for the most | part, good natured. They simply do not 'understand, the Europeans com- plain. A tourist being shown some ancient palazso will find occasion to make caustic comments, contrasting the | quarters being inspected with modern American apartment houses. The lack f plumbing is a source of never-ending amusement. too often expressed with scorn. Not infrequently one hears the dvice given by Americans that the Romans should come to America and learn how to live. To the descendants of the Caesars, this is not happy ad- | vice. Occasionally a long-suffering | guide 1= even moved to retort that he would come if it were not for the im- migration law, which, while keeping him out of America, nevertheless does nothing to prevent Americans from making fun of his cherished antiqui- 5. Exhibitions of what Europeans re- gard as bad taste on the part of Amer- ican tourists are by no means confined to Italy. The same thing is true in France. The south of Prance for many years was a paradise of pastoral beauty, Telieved by ancient cathedral cities and Roman remains. Most tourists saw Paris and let Prance go at that. {mw the southern pro n': more and more American touriats 80 1t has become the custom for every Frenchman who can possibly afford to do 20 to remove to some remcte and s yet undiscovered reglon for the period of the tourist season. Visitors Should Be Adaptable. Paris is the great shopping mecca of the American tourist. and while the Parisians, eager for American money, have done many things to accommodate the American trade, it has been impos- sible to remake the whole city, with the result that there are many misunder- standings. The American is accus- tomed to have very prompt deliveries of purchases. Distribution is not so highly organized there. There are many complaints regarding service. Successful business men and their wives seem to be very fond of telling French shopkeepers, hotel keepers and other tradesmen that they “are & hun- dred years behind the times.” The ob- vious answer, of course, is, “whose times, ours or yours?” But the average tourist seems not to think of that. Although there is no language dif- 3 ficulty to overcome in England thereete almost as many differences in customs and in idiomatic expressions. Britith and American slang are poles apart. What is & casual remark in one coun- try's slang i an insult in the other's. And. of course. not even Rome itself has a greater reverence for antiquities than England. 1t will be remembered that the body of William Shakespeare lies beneath the floor of the memorial at Stratford-on- Avon. The slab which bears the famous epitaph, written by Shakespeare. him- self, beginning: “Dear Friend, for Jesus sake forbear, etc.” is fitted even with the floor. An authentic story is that concerning the American visitor, in a great_hurry. who bustled ahead of his dignified guide into the sacred place. He demanded in a loud voice to be shown instantly where Shakespeare's tomb was located. In a carefully modu- lated voice, but one filled with stinging scorn. the guide replied: “You are standing on it.” ‘What trade experts. attempting to ex- tend American trade abroad. are Te- porting to the Department of Com- merce, to Chambers of Commerce and to manufacturers’ and exporters’ or- ganizations is that there has been &0 much of this sort of thing. due to the vastly increased numbers of tourists in the last few vears, that when a Eu- ropean is offered an American product he instinctively turns away from it. These organizations deciare that. in- stead of hurting American trade, every tourist could be an indirect salesman. A bit of advice offered them is that they stop to think what they would feel upon seeing & French baker. for example, filing his nails at the tomb of Wash- ington. It is also suggested that if Americans would leave as much of their language at home as possible and use straight English, a better impression would be given and it would not be necessary. as it is now, for Parjsian shops to have sogns. readin, American understood. Fifty Years Ago In The Star Despite the studies made during the vellow fever epidemic of 1878 and the application of many Yellow Fever precautionary mens- Outbreak. ures which 1% was be- lieved at that time would be effective in preventing & re- currence of ihe scourge, the Summer of 1879 witnessed another visitation of he disease, appearing first in Tennes- | see. The outbreak began about the first | of July, and daily thereafter the| columns of The Star contain news dis- patches telling of the spread of the plague in Memphis. In The Star of July 22, 1879, is printed the following report: PP to noon yesterday seven yellow fever deaths were recorded in Memphis. | In the afternoon 21 new cases were re- | ported and one death. The Cincinnati Commercial's special yesterday from Memphis ys: ‘Over 100 refugees rudged into the city from the country | today, thinking that free rations were | 0 be issued to the inhabitants, and hoping to get a share. Nothing of the kind is coniemplated. A man named | Longar shot the back part of his skull off because he could not induce his tather and mother to leave the city. He sald he preferred death to & three months' siege of the scourge. It is| thought he will not die. The bridge over the Nonconnah Creek, 8 miles, south of the city, was last nigat de- stroyed by & squad of citizens (night hawks), thus cutting off communica- tion except by dirty roads. The Howard Association met tonight to prepare for tie emergency. and it is thought the yellow fever will be declared epidemic tomorrow or next day, for effort is be- ing made to establish & camp for poor people near Huntsville, Ala. The rail- road companies offer to transport the r free of charge.’ “At & meeting of Board of Health yestel h of quarantine was considered. the ‘Tennessee rday the subject | A dis- | patch was sent to Memphis ordering that the rules of the national board be immediately put.into force. ‘The following was sent to all towns in West ‘Tennessee: “The State Board of Health. now in session, has declared quarantine against Memphis for the whole State, | and it is now being enforced. Addi- | tional rules will be put inlo operation | tomorrow.” Gov. McCreery of Louls- ville has called & meeting of the State Board of Health. to be held in Frank- fort next Thursday. The meeting is to | consider matters pertaining to the pos-, sible invasion of Kentucky by yelow fever, In Indiana quarantine has been | ascending | During the succeeding days of the week reports show the disease spread- ing to Alabame, Kentucky and in New York two deaths occurred of persons who had sought refuge in that city from Memphis. The following dispatch from New Y.ork appears in The Star of July 26, 1 i “The case of yellow fever developed ! esterday in the death of Mrs. Johanna irenmn. late of Memphis, and the two cases sent to quarantine, have created no little uneasiness in this community, and some of the morning papers are calling for rigid enforcement of quaran- tine law on the land side. It seems Mrs. Brennan came here from Memphis iast Tuesday with 10 others and took i | This and That By Charles 7}7:. Tracewell. Blackie and two of her Little Nipper and Blondy found themselves suddenly lac n a wicker basket. The mother cat had paid no ate tentjon to the tall man who had en- tered the living room. Then she found he-sel: ir the basket before she could have caught a mouse. : After her came black and gray tiger- striped Nipper, and light gray and white Blondy Belle. Impetuous young Nipper instanuy thrust forth a paw, while her sister crouched down, t00 surprised te dc anything. The ways of this world were far past the understanding of Mrs. Blackie and Blondy. They took what fate brought them. But Nipper struggled —and squirmed. never having liked to be held by anybody or anything. * X oKX Then came & journey. and later a placing in a crate, liberally floored with straw, and provided with a water- ing pan. Mrs. Blackie and her children set forth for the biggest journey in their lives, up to the big farm where they were to catch mice without restraint. ‘They rolled along in the express wagon, and they came into the station. It cannot be said that they enjoved, themselves, especially poor Blondy, who is & timid creature. They were placed in a car, and soon there was & clanging of bells, and the roar of a whistle. which made the trio jump around. Then the world began to move with & rush and a roar, with a mightier rush and roar every minute. Some unseen monster was making & great noise, chug-chug-chug-chug, and clouds of acrid black smoke at times poured in. When Mrs. Blackie tried to wash her face she got her mouth full of coal soot. It was not nice, but cats are not at all finicky. Occasionally & man in- blue with & cap would stopp down to poke his fingers through the crate, but he stopped doing this when Little Nipper, alive as ever to moving objects, slashed them with her sharp claws. “You little cuss!” said the man, as he tily withdrew. v Life was now one continual banging, and rattling, and roaring, and strange noises, mixed in a confusing melange, unlike even the wildest feline dreams. The mother and her pale child ac- cepted it all, but Little Nipper, dark and impetuous, kept running around— as much as she could run—clawing at the sides, trying to poke her head through the top. She took a drink of then, and found it * % % % After & long time the noise ceased. There came a tramp of feet, and the cat family felt itself picked up in fts confined home and carted away. The feel of fresh air smote their nostrils, which they wiggled freely, ine tent on absorbing as much of that con- tact as ible. Ah! That was good. “Well, for th® Lord's sake, look what’s here!” eaid a voice, as the cats went into the auto- mobile. So they drove away to the farm. down roads lined with green, away up in Pennsylvania, and came at last to Blackie’s new home, to the new home of Little Nipper and Blondy Belle. Mirs. children, Belle, water, now and rooms in a tenement house where nvzl Wildly they looked around them, as other familles were living Mrs Bred- |the crate was opened. Blackle, dark as nan. who had been alling since het | midnight, showed no effects of her long hat her friends sent for Dr.yco':ib e e ey Belle He called at the house without any sus- | ‘lgfn";‘ h‘}m"‘ y the worse for wear. ety o S’ Datero o€ ihe paave| e wads, owsves. ses thed A brief examination of her | theiT T eelings, and large bow] Bowsvecsishes wanieuffue=i} G (oAl Ik SIGdeNciemy oruet Shile ing from yellow fever.” The inmates of | f"h‘;‘““‘fi" R i ,l:;;“hflnm = the apartment then admitted that they | i through the wild it were Tefugees from Memphis. Mrs. | Peof wood, limited lon bility of widespread l develop- Brennan died yesterday morning and | the body was hastily buried.” -_.‘7F|rn|-(Ilnl: l;ien. From the Detroit News. ‘We are considering having nothing to do with the Chinese-Russian dis- patches until they number the players. Maybe They Tarnish Easily. From the Grand Rapids Press. Some a0 afraid of tarnish- an"m‘ they never use - e Decadent Chivalry. From the Florence (Ala.) Herald. Slow moving films may have been suggested by watching some fellow rise to give his street car seat to a homely woman. e Some Consolation. Prom the Montana Record-Herald. Another way to beem:e cheerful is to visit the country observe the -aumd-eruonnnmm‘t.mv’ s mow, 4 o