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THE EVENING STAB,
With vSnnday Morning Edition. j
WASHINGTON. D. C. j
SATURDAY March 31. 1623 ;
THEODORE W. NOYES Editor j
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After Stock Swindlers.
A vigorous campaign to run down j
and punish oil etuok swindlers is one [
of the most useful activities in which ;
the government is now engaged. The 1
impunity with ■which there fraudulent !
promoters have o;>* rati u has been a ;
scandal for a number of years, and it t
is estimated that since the war they ;
Lave enriched themselves at the ex- J
pense of a gullible public to the extent .
of considerably more than a billion J
dollars. Estimates of their takings, j
In fact, run ns high as half a billion
dollars a year.
b'elili g of worthless stock to credu
lous " nvostors” always has been a
profitai de and not a specially hazard
ous occupation, but it is only since the
wnr •• ■'!> a result of the war that
the business has attained its present
giga*.... i>. opinions. Under the urge
of patriotism millions of Americans
who never before had been in the in
vesting class sacrificed and saved and
bought liberty bonds. And It is upon
Tluso millions that an army of jackal
promoters has since been preying.
Their golden opportunity came during
the period when liberty bonds were
selling below par. They offered to take
bonds at their full face value in ex
change for stock which, Instead of
paying 4 : * per cent, they promised
would pay 10 per cent or more in divi
dends. And liberty bond owners by
the scores of thousands ‘fell” for it.
They long ago parted with their bonds,
but it Is u maxim of the stock swin
dlers that “a sucker once heokod will
bite again,” ar.d they keep on sending
good money after bad in effort to re
coup their losses.
Repeated exposures of the frauds
seemingly have little or no effect in
diminishing the number of victims.
The story of a laundry worker who
becomes wealthy overnight stirs am
bition in the breasts of a thousand
other laundry workers, and they send
their hard-earned savings to fatten the
hank accounts of the swindlers who
invented the original story. Their
literature, which an obliging govern
ment has carried through the mails,
Is persuasive and convincing to the
uninformed, and knowledge that
others have been plucked, or even a
previous plucking, does not hold them
hack. Like the morphine addict, they
eeem willing to pay the price for sake
of the pleasant pipe dreams that come
to them under influence of the drug.
Awakening in the cold gray dawn they
feverishly set about to scrimp and
save the price of another pipe.
The government is no miracle
worker, and it cannot help one being ;
horn every minute, but it certainly I
ought not to be a party to these j
(swindles by placing its mail facilities \
at the service of the swindlers, and i
where there is transgression of its!
laws the transgressors should be pun-!
ished. The cynical philosophy of the ]
underworld that "some one else would ,
get It” cannot justify the government
in standing placidly by while the get
ting is going on.
The Weather.
Washington, although it may shiver
and complain at the cold wave sweep
ing over the town today, must re
member that it has little ground for
grumbling about the winter as a whole.
Winter has gone, now, and compared
with the experience of New York and
the New England states our climate
has been notably salubrious. Maine
and Massachusetts have had a season
of almost unparalleled snowfall, while
we have had comparatively none. The
northwestern states, too. have passed
through a rigorous season, with tem
perature far below zero most of the
time.
Two conditions contribute to shield
the National Capital from severe
winter conditions which may prevail
in cities within a couple of hundred
miles of us. The Blue Hldgo and the
Allegheny mountains form a natural
barrier, turning most of the south
western storms on a course which
gives Washington a wide berth. Prox
imity to the waters of Chesapeake
bay warms the atmosphere.
It, is said the Lord tempers the wind
to the shorn lamb, and Washington,
in the shortage of coal, should fee!
grateful for the blessings of a mild
winter. So. if we shiver today, lot us
bo thankful for the weather wo have
enjoyed and hope for a delightful
spring.
A chart of this early spring weather
would look like a cross between a
child’s drawing of the Alps and the
Glen Echo roller coaster.
Dealers ere delighted over the
Easter shopping. So are mother and
the girls. Father just grins and
bears it.
No Shrine Week Reciprocity.
It is regrettable that there cannot
be automobile reciprocity between the
District and Maryland during Shrine
week. It would help the celebration In
the District and it would help Mary
land, in that the roads of the state
would be filled with curs and Mary
land’s beauty would bo revealed to
many, many thousand strangers from
V.
directed that during Shrine week |
Maryland auto tags shall be honored (
In the District, and the people of the i
District’s mother state will he «t lib
erty to use the District’s roads and
streets on the same terms as motor
ists having local licenses. We want our
Maryland cousins and their uncles
and their aunts, and all their chil
dren. to enjoy the festivities and help j
us In giving the hosts of the Mystic j
Shrine the biggest welcome ever given j
to a body of men. It was hoped that I
Maryland would say something along j
the line of “same hero.” and that dur
ing Shrine week District tags would
be good in Maryland, that the visitors
could bo given spins In Montgomery,
Frederick, Prince Georges, Charles,
St. Marys and other famous counties.
We wanted to show to the visitors
many of those charms of Maryland
which are worth a long trip to look on.
But it Is not to be. The local division
of the National Motorists’ Association
tool: up the matter with the iVK)*in»i |
ble Maryland authorities. Col. Baugh
man was courteous and sorry. He |
was pratlfled that the District will j
honor Maryland auto tags, but under j
the law of Maryland it was not within j
his powr to return the compliment,
lie regretted that the law is so stern,
and the regret is mutual.
Be Careful With Prices.
Members of the Washington Res
taurant Association announce that
they will not increase pri« s daring j
Shrine week. All classes of men who j
will V.e called on to servo tin crowd. ;
that will he with us in Shrine week :
should make the came resolve or take i
the same pledge. In the first place, it !
is unfair to take advantage of the fart j
that the population of the city is sud
denly increased and boost the price
of eating and the cost of sleeping.
The fair dealer ought to be content
with the vastly augmented trade, lu
the second place, It is not good busi
ness. Washington alms at becoming
the greatest city for the gathering of
stranger crowds. It aims at becoming
the convention capital. It aims at be
coming the American center for
mighty celebrations, ceremonies and
carnivals. It alms at becoming the
place for athletic meets which draw
great crowds. There ought to be no
extortion, petty or grand, practiced on
Shriners or any other visitors. Each
of the visitors is a potential press
agent for Washington. He will be a
booster or a buster, according to the
treatment he receives here. Let the
treatment be fair. Let it be generous.
Make a booster of every stranger who
comes to Washington. It is broad- i
guage business. At the last inaugura
tion. or before the inauguration cere
monies were curtailed, stories were
current outside of Washington of a
remarkable uplift in hotel charges.;
Let us be sure that there will bo no j
foundation for stories of overcharging j
in connection with Shrine week.
Speed.
The air speed record has been j
broken again. In fact, it was broken j
i twice on the same day by two Ameri- j
can fliers. The highest speed now .
stands at 2SI miles an hour, but the j
official record is 243 miles for four ’
laps around a one-kilometer course, j
About two months ago a Frenchman 1
broke the record held by an American j
aviator by covering the prescribed 1
course at the rate of 233 miles an j
hour. That was a big advance in •
speed, and was commented on through-'
out the world. On the same day. and j
same course on which the latest speed j
marvel traveled at the rate of 243 i
miles an hour, another American flew
at 236.5 miles an hour. The old stan-1
dard of ‘‘a mile a minute,” which 1
seemed to many of us as the limit of ■
speed which mortals could reach, has ;
long been in the discard. We are mov- j
i Ing faster day by day, and men feel j
I that the speed limit is not reached, j
j and that there may be no limit. In j
; his spurt at the rate of 281 miles an |
| hour the flier was going through the
i air close upon a five-mile-a-minute
1 clip.
I .
Whether or not the subscribers to
! the naval holiday can change the
! elevation of their guns seems to be no
' loss moot a question than what the
' temperature is to be tomorrow morn
-1 ing. |
It Is peculiarly fitting that an Amor- j
ican Army flier should establish a now '
speed record over the course where
the Wright brothers developed the J
t airplane.
Spring fashions are so attractive
that It is difficult to blame winter for
coming hack to have a look at the
Easter style parade.
Rejoicing that this is the last day of
' the "coal year” is dampened by the
fact that another coal year begins to
morrow.
Seeing Washington.
The annual migration to Washing
ton of seminaries and high schools is
under way, and these large and Inter
esting bodies of student visitors will
become more numerous as spring ad
vances. It Is a movement which has
grown within recent years, and It Is
no doubt safe to forecast that it will
continue to grow. It is pleasing to
Washington that those student bodies
■ come. That it is helpful to them has
I been proved. Many high schools In the
adjoining states and those close to
j Washington, as Delaware, Pennsyl-
I vanla and New Jersey come to Wash
| Ington every spring. Many come from
; the New England states, and the
movement has become strong in west
ern New York. When a high school
cnco makes its Washington excursion
it comes the next year and the next.
The excursion becomes one of the big
things to which the school looks for
wtfrd and on which it looks back.
Teachers comment on the stimulating
effect of the Washington excursion on
pupils, and especially in their study
of history and government. The ex-
J perience of an excursion to Washing
ton. with two or three days of hard
work at seeing the show places, gives
each visiting pupil one of the greatest
conversational topics of his or her
career. At the school. In the home and
elsewhere the pupil back from Wash
ington talks of the things seen. Many
of these excursions are of county high
schools and the homes of the pupils
THE EVENING &TAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1923.
To a school boy or girl an excursion
to a famous place several hundred
miles away is always a big event, but
when the excursion is to such a fa
mous place as Washington, where the
President has his office and Congress
meets, it is the biggest event In the
lives of many of these children. The
idea of giving a school an excursion
to Washington is one that ought to bo
generally taken up. and it probably
will be.
The Red Fez.
The red fez is one of the distinguish-!
Ing marks of the Shriner. and citizens
not Shriners should not Infringe the
copyright. There will he groat tempta
tion to put on a red fez, for it will be
a very popular form of headwear when
the temples of the Shriuc come to
Washington for their convention.
.Many persons will put on the fez be
cause they fed that they will be doing j
honor to the Shrine, hut. Shriners may
not hold the snrnc opinion. Many
other persons may bo tempted to wear
the fez because Shriners will bo the
most popular persons of the time and
will have the right of way in every
thing, but it would be the proper
thing to allow to Shriners the exclu
sive use of the red fez. It is re)verted
that the Shrine committee has asked
Washington dealers in novelties and
headwear not to lay in a supply of
tVzzi-s for convention week. The com
mittee points out that each Shriller is ’
given a f—. on his entrance to the
order, and that ofi’cring red fezzes for
sale encourages non members and
some undesirable characters to wear
them. In Shrine week we who have
not the honor of being nobles should
stick to our own hats and let the
Shrlner have sole use of the fez.
Passed and Passing Words.
If one would be understood it is nec
essary that he keep his vocabulary
up to date. One cannot be in conversa
tional style and use hoopskirt words.
We have the old phrase “new times,
new manners,” or "other times, other
manners.” and we might just as well
have such a jvhrase as “new times,
new words.” In the matter of trans
portation we have trolley, taxi, truck,
traetor, jitney, auto, limousine and
touring car. And there arc others.
The old word ‘‘hack’’ has nearly gone
into the discard, and one seldom
hears of coupe, landau, Victoria, phae
ton. tilbury, teacart. drag, barouche or J
hansom. The family coach, the hack-'
ney couch, the carryall, the chaise j
and stagecoach arc met with in his- 1
torical novels. You do not meet them
on the road or in parlor conversation, j
Perhaps backboard, surrey, sulky,
carriage and wagon may soon be <x
tinct. Then there is old ‘ omnibus.” It ,
passed nearly to the point of extlnc- j
( tion. but has revived. But it might be i
I called a metamorphic word because it i
! has boon changed to motor bus. And. 1
| by the way, when a man says any- j
[ thing about a horse car he gives his I
I agi—his antiquity—away.
I n r -
Maybe the Easter candy manufac- !
! furors used shellac because they found j
it cheaper tha n sugar.
|
I Even 3 per cent is too high a ratio I
| of immigration of communist ugita- j
| tors.
I The British government is reported
jns still without a policy us to the
j Ruhr. The French have very largely
1 relieved the British of the necessity of
| a policy.
J
j Mussolini says men are tired of 11b
i erty. Russians are very tired of the
! brand they acquired.
! Ruhr miners at least waited until
j winter was over before going on
j strike.
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHIL.VNPE’R JOHNSON.
A Relief.
You prize the friend that prides him
self on being frank and true;
Who talks about your faults, howe’er
it may hurt him and you.
You know that It’s his sort on whom
j you’re likeliest to depend
When troubles overcast the sky and
bitter tears descend.
But just the same you sometimes
wish that he could comprehend
That no one finds perfection, no. not
even in a friend.
And though you vow you want the
truth, and want It good and
strong.
You kind o’ like the follow who will
jolly you along.
You kind o’ like the bird that sings a
song of careless cheer;
You kind o’ like the flowers that blos
som idly, far and near;
! You kind o’ like the merry rhyme
whose strains so idly fall;
j You kind o’ like a lot of things that
are no good at all.
t But there is just one fact that stands
out palpable and clear.
The thoughtless smile is always bet
ter than the thoughtless sneer.
And so many folks are ready to re
mind you when you're wrong
That you kind o' like the follow who
will jolly you along.
Spring Sport.
I tells you do excitement’s gettin’
thick aroun’ de place.
De vi’lets an’ spring beauties, dey is
gwine to run a race;
An’ de brook is all a-shiver,
| An’ de trees is all a-qulver.
A-wailin' foh to seo which one can
make do mostes’ haa’e.
We is gwine to love dc winner foh his
courage an’ his pluck,
An’ wc's gwine to love do loser 'case
ho didn’t dave mo’ luck;
We is watchin’ an’ a-waitln’.
An’ we all is calculatin’,
Dat dis spoilt is ’bout de fine*’ dat de
township ever struck.
A sound projector recently used in
New York magnified the human voice
12.000 times. It must have seemed al
most os loud as some of the conversa
tion carried on during performances
in the concert halls.—Boston Tran
script.
The least dependable of horticul
tural products is the crop of the family
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS ]
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE
Another "dirt farmer’’ from out of 1
the west has arrived In Washington. J
with aspirations to become a member
of the Federal Reserve Board. He is j
Walter 11. Chappell of Kansas, who
covets the place made vacant by the
recent death of Milo i>. Campbell of
h • ■ a ■ • <*a id date
I for the "dirt farmer” position on the
! Reserve Board when Campbell was
appointed. He and his friends, there
fore. are beginning again just where 1
they were loft off. Chappell bus the 1
support of fho Kansas delegation and
of the big farm organizations. Ho is
without banking experience, but is a
real farmer and has made u political
reputation In Kansas as ’a. county
commissioner at Chanute.
8: * 8= *
Huston Thompson, whom Woodrow
Wilson has nominated for United
States senator from Colorado, has
been contributing articles to Henry
Ford’s "Dearborn Independent.”
They deal with the policies and
problems of the Federal Trade Com
mission. of which the young Color
ado lawyer is a member. Thompson
discloses a bit of his political theory
in the latest article. He defines as
•The greatest social problem of our
time, the absorption of our political
s.nd economic philosophy by an en
gulfing mercantilism.’’
** * *
Men and organizations in charge
of welcoming the Shriners to Wash- [
ington in June arc juggling with !
some Interesting figures. Th< y •v- ,
peet the normal population of the l
capital to be doubled by an inllux of ;
100.000 visitors. Kan Francisco bank
deposits in the fortnight of flic j
Shriners’ sojourn at the golden gate
In 1822 were 122,000,000, greater than
In any previous two weeks on record.
As Kan Francisco entertained only i
ninety temples and Washington ex
pects 130 or 140 with a corrospond
inly heavier attendance, the wealth
likely to pile up in District banks is
easily calculable. ban Franciscans
raised $400,000 for the Shrine con
clave, and spent $298,000. Washing
ton is trying to mobilize a fund of
$300,000. The capital’s piece de re
sistance in the way of decorative
glory will be the ’’Garden of Allah,’’
to be planted in Pennsylvania ave
nue. past the White House, between
13th and 17th streets.
** * *
This is how the modern American
man of affairs does It —when he can
afford it. Bernard M. Baruch came
up from his South Carolina hunting
lodge this week eu route to Hot
(Springs for Easter. He planned to
Lore! Northesk. Suitor of Follies Girl,
I
Is of the Scottish Clan of Carnegie
J 1
uv mi; MAitai im: de fostenoy. •
| Lord Northesk. who has announced!
; that he iw following Jcrsica Brown,
j the American Ziegfeld Follies’ girl.
1 now on her way across the Atlantic
Jon board the Olympic to Now York
[for the purpose of marrying her In
j this country toward the middle of
| April, is the eleventh earl of his line.
! barely twenty-two years of age, ana
I succeeded to the family hethors and
Ito the extensive estates and to his
■ father’s very large fortune, in De
j comber. 1021. He i.v descended from
la younger brother of David, first
j Earl of Soulhesk, head of the house
land Scottish clan of Carnegie. He
j bears on his escutcheon a naval gold
1 crown in the center of the breast of
’th** golden eagle, which is the her
i a idle device of ail the Carnegies.ji.nd
i above It is the word “Trafalgar,’ in
’ roval recognition of the fact that the
j seventh Karl of Northesk was third
, in command of Nelson’s fleet at the
■ great battle of Trafalgar.
! ’ The original titles of the first Earl ;
jof Northesk were Earl of Ethie. of
i Ethlo Castle, Arbroath, in Forfar
’ shire, and Baron Lour, also Lord
Egtrlismadle. But none of these three
• titles, created by Charles 1, appealed
; to Lord Ethie, and accordingly he sc
cured from Charles 11. in 1667, per
-1 mission to change them into those or
Earl of Northesk and of Baron Rose
! hill, retaining, however, the dates of
1 their original creation. The present t
! earl was known as Lord Losehill
j until ho to the family hoii
j ors on his father s death. ’
Ethie Castle was at one time the
home of the celebrated Scottish Car- (
I dinal Beaton, who played so great a ;
) role in tho history of the northern
kingdom. But It has been in the pos- :
session of the Carnegies for many
hundreds of years.
** * *
j Rome centuries ago a lady of tho :
• Carnegie family murdered her two
; year-old child in its nursery, which 1
afterward bore the stigma of the as
sociation —so much so that it was ■
closed up. tho door fastened by screws j
■ and heavy wooden shutters nailed to :
the outside of the windows. Those]
I who occupied the rooms above and
1 below this gruesome chamber would |
• often hear. In the watches of the |
1 night, the pattering of littlo feet over :
I the floor, and the sound of little
i wheels of a child’s cart being dragged
Ito and fro, a peculiarity connected
i with the sound being that one of tbo
wheels creaked and chirruped as it
j moved. . , ,
1 Generations rolled by, and the room
(continued to bear its sinister char-.
I acter until the ninth Earl of Northesk, I
i grandfather of the present peer, and ,
a colonel of the Scots’ Guards, deter- ,
I mined sometime after his accession to
! the honors and estates to probe the j
ghostly story as to Us truthful or ]
‘fictitious basis.
Consequently, ho had the outside
shutters removed from the windows
and the heavy door unscrewed. Then,
in the presence of several members of j
his family and retainers, he forced .
open the door. When It was opened,
and the windows had been raised, the j
room proved to be quite destitute of |
furniture or ornament. It had a large
hearthstone on which a quantity of j
ashes still rested, and some fragments (
of small bones, including pieces of a
IN A FEW WORDS
Tho beauty of the league of nations ’
is that It is always there to save a na
tion’s face. j
—MRS. OLIVER STRACHY.
I There Isn’t a newspaper in this conn- )
trv that has a competent military critic, i
but on the other side every paper has
one. —ADMIRAL KlMrf.
In breach of promise cases the spirit 1
, of revenge and wounded pride prcdoml- I
nates, not the agony of broken hearts.
—JUSTICE McCARDIE.
In Mexico, as in tho rest of the world,
there will be In tho future two political
parties, that which looks to the future
and that which looks behind.
, —PRESIDENT OBREGON.
Thero is more real poverty in this
countrv than In Europe. The nations
there arc merely trying to get money
1 from us to fight each other.
. —HARRY BACHARACH.
The reason you rarely* ever see one
■ of the upper classes drunk on the streets
; of London is because they go home in ;
cabs.
—J. SEXTON, M. P. (labor party), j
The strong and masterful man who I
lays down the law and Insists on Its be
■ ing obeyed, by virtue of the right of his
r manhood, is enjoying a new popularity
among the fair eex. i
—HOWARD CECIL*
I entertain thero his youngest daugh
i ter, the apple of his eye, and a couple
sos her friends. Hot Springs hotels, he
found, were bespoken for Eastertide
j since Christmas. Baruch thereupon
tarried in Washington just long
i enough to long-distance a private
Pullman compartment car to be pul
at Ids disposal at Hot Springs. In It
he and his party arc now luxuriating.
-f * * >3
If Europe finds Itself In a maze
i about America’s international inten
i tions tho old world can hardly be
■ blamed. No sooner does Hiram John
i son arrive on the other side with as- |
surances that the "isolationists” hold )
the fort In the United Stales than |
Henry J. Allen, former governor of;
Kansas, breezes along with contrari-j
w ise assertions. To interviewers in i
Paris tiiis week Allen said that to- j
operation with Europe will be the (
keynote of the republican platform in
1324, "aloofness from world affairs"
having been abandoned. Ko now
Mother Europe, having promised some
day to pay her money, can lake her
choice,
V
Canton, Ohio, which sent William
McKinley to tho House and to the
presidency, and Atlee Pomorene to
tho Senate, may be the next to dis
patch a woman "congressman” to
Washington. Buckeye gossip is to
’ the effect that Mrs. Joseph If. Hlmqs,
I wife of the "lame duck” representa- i
! live from the MdKinley district, as-I
I pir. in 1024 b> (be place tier spouse
! rcei fitly lost. Lik> him. s I,* is arc
-1 publicoll, She was a Miss Ellen i.Vji
-1 field of Los Angeles, and is young and
! good-looking. Husband Himes began life
1 ;,s a cinder pitman in a steel mill and
i ended up a .millionaire. Mrs. Himes
! is a comrade of Alice Roosevelt Long
j worth and, like the latter, haunted
i the galleries of Congress on big days.
# * 4= *
Early in April tho trial of our big
$1.000,000,000 claims case againstGcr
inuny will begin. A mistaken idea
prevails that the Germans have the
privilege of filing counter-claims.
That right is specifically denied them
in our treaty of peace, as it is in the
treaty of Versailhs. Nor arc Ameri
can claimants in any danger of hav
ing to collect in illusory German
marks. It lias be n decided that, for
claims purposes, tit** mark snail be,
deemed to bo worth ils exchange
av. ragc for the tlm*. months pr* - j
ceding our entry into the war. The ;
rate works out at 17 cents and u frac
tion. which is roundly 7 cuts below
the mark’s pre-war wort it.
(Copyright, 1*.03. >
'child’s skull and. of thigh bones,
, while by t! e.side of the hearth was a
1 child’s little go-carl on four solid ;
! wooden wheels.
Turning to his only daughter. Lady j
Helen Carnegie—afterward Lady J
Hejen Lacy—the earl asked her to,
wheel the little go-cart across the)
floor of the room. \\ hen she did so j
it was with a strange sense of some- J
thing uncanny that the listeners j
heard one wheel creak and chirrup aa I
it ran. |
Tin- room is now devoted to ordinary j
uses, and the ghostly sounds are no |
longer heard. The remnants of bone j
and the ashes found on the hearth ;
have been consigned to consecrated (
ground in the family mausoleum, j
while the little go-cart is preserved j
with reverence as one of tin- relics and :
i treasures of the historic house o:’ Car- j
negie.
one cannot quite reconcile oneself
to the idea of this go-cart—this I
pathetic relic of so cruel a tragedy of ’
hundreds of years ago. coming into 1
tie; possession of one of the Zi. gfeld 1
Follies’ girls, who. while endowed
with exceptional good looks and fasci
nation, can scarcely be expected, in
view of her antecedents, to look
■ upon it or to treat it with a fitting
spirit of reverence. Sentiments of
’ reverence and of Veneration are not
precisely the characteristics and
qualities for which the New’ Y'ork
Ziegfeld Follies’ girls are the most
conspicuous, and one wonders what
will be the fate of this memento of a
’ particularly atrocious crime, and of
; the marlrydoin of a two-year-old
i scion of the great house of Carnegie,
Ito which the great American iron
master and philanthropist of Pitts
burgh. the laird of Sklbo Castle, was
so proud to belong.
* * *
I Few families have furnished a
: larger number of distinguished ofil
i ccrs to the royal navy. Thus, In ad
dition to the seventh Earl of North
; esk, who took part In the battlo of
| Trafalgar, there was his son. Lord
j Rosehlll, who was lost on board the
battleship Blenheim, and his brother,
■ the Hon. Swynfen Thomas Carnegie,
who was a distingusbed admiral,
while the eighth and ninth Earls each
j married the daughter of an admiral.
| The Lords of Northesk, like the Lords
j of Soulhesk, are descended originally
I from a certain John de Baliahard,
! who flourished in the fourteenth ceu
| tury, and who. on receiving from
1 King David II a grant of the land
and of tlie barony of Carnegie, in
Forfarshire, assumed the name of do
Carnegie. Os tho origin of the de
Balinhards. no record remains, all the
early family charters having perish
ed in a fire at Klnnaird Houso in
1452.
| Lord Northesk has no seat in the
• house of lords at Westminster, his
j peerages being exclusively Scottish.
[ Indeed, he will have to wait years be
• fore there is any probability of his
j being elected by his fellow peers of
I Scotland to be one if the!” sixteen
representatives in the upper chamber
; at Westminster.
Lord Northesk by reason of Ms
I youth, is so little known, that a few
| months ago he was obliged to publish
an advertisement in the English
I press, warning people against a swln
j diet- who had assumed his name, and
organized a number of frauds in the
! western counties of England, espe
cially In Devonshire. The man was
I subsequently caught, and is now “n
--i dorgolng a terra of penal servitude.
We must revise our idea of success
in this country or every boy will
grow up with his ambition centered
on being a base ball player or a prize
fighter who can get $500,000 for a
single fight.
—REV. PERCY STICKNEY GRANT.
Abolition of divorce by constitu
tional amendment is a long way
ahead, because there are unfortu
j nately so many middle-aged men who
i want new and younger wives.
—JUSTICE MORSCHAUSER.
Our alleged naval experts are ten
years behind the times, and are evi
dently toying with tho idea that our
two strongest rivals on the seas—
Japan and England—will never fight
us.
—REAR ADMIRAL W. F. FULLAM,
U. S. N.. Retired.
The world of commerce is poor
ground for a woman to leap off from
into history. One cannot play Juliet
in cuff protectors or Helen of Troy
with telephone receivers clipped over
the head. —AN*N VENNING.
! Art is anything that is well done.
—STANISLAVSKY,
Moscow Art Theater.
France will have another revolu
tion on their hands If they attempt to
follow America’s example of pro
hibiting lovemaking in the parks.
1 SIMON BEN.
The Library Table
By The Booklover
Among the many novels of each
year whoso interest lies In the treat
ment of Individual characters and
situations, without any broad or gen
eral significance, there is occasionally
one of epic quality. Such is Knut
Hamsun’s “The Growth of the Soil.”
and such also, in a somewhat less
universal way. Is Sheila Kayc-Smlth’s
"Sussex Gorse.” Tho subtitle of “Sus
sex Gorse” Is "The Story of a Fight.” j
Tho fight Is not between Individuals,
but between a man of Indomitable
purpose and a monster of tho soil—
the great, shaggy Moor of Boarzell.
“The moor was on the eastern edge '
of the parish, five miles from Rye. j
• • • It was hummocked and tus- (
socked with coarse grass—here and :
there a spread of heather, growing, i
like ail southern heather, almost j
arboreally. In places the naked soli I
gaped in sores made by coney-war- |
pens or uprooted bushes. Stones and j
roots, sham, shards and lumps of,
marl mixed themselves into the j
wealden clay, which oozed in red j
streaks of potential fruitfulness i
through their sterility. The crest of
Boarzell was marked by a group of
firs, very gaunt and wind-bitten, ris
ing out of a mass of gorse, as the
plumes of some savage, chief might
nod manglly above his fillet.”
** * *
At the age of tifteen Reuben Back- |
field, despising his father, whose I
philosophy of life was summed up ;n ;
tile words, "I've no ambitions, so I’m '
a happy man.” resolved that one day I
ho would own Boarzell moor and j
subdue it. Five years later, when his i
father died and the farm of Odiam, j
on the edge of the moor, became his 1
property, his task of conquest began. ]
Year by year he worked and saved
and purchased section after section
of the moor and brought it under
cultivation, meanwhile sacrificing to
hia great purpose all tho joy and
kindliness of life. His ageing mother,
his brother, his wife, his children as
they came, his second wife and her
children, his one real friend, who
was tho only woman he over truly'
loved, were all sacrificed to the moor.
Finally, when he was elghly-rlx his :
victory was complete and the last i
acre of the crest of Boarzell became I
his; hut he sat in his lonely kitchen,
deserted by a’l except his Mind, idiot
brother. Os his two wives and his ■
eleven children all had lied from 1
Boarzell or had been killed by it.
But “l'\ e won.” ho said softly to him- :
self. . . . "I’ve won—and it’s bin |
worth while. I’ve wanted a thing and i
I’ve got It, surely—and I aun’t too old
to enjoy it. nuttier.”
*♦ * *
The recent unhappy events in the I
Levant makes especially timely “A !
Short History of the Near Fast,” by !
William Stearns Davis, favorably :
known as historian and novelist. ]
Commentating in his final chapter on |
the latest bloodshed, tho author says \
that of all the treaties designed to i
liquidate the world war. that of i
Serves, between the western powers !
and Turkey, was the one most obvl- i
ously writ in water. "At this mo
ment,” he says, “it seems probable ,
that, to the outraging of all western
public opinion, and especially that of
America, the Turks will be granted
a circumscribed and tenuous occupa
tion of Constantinople for at least a
little longer . . . This is a pitiful
fulfillment of the promises of many
Kranco-Brltlsh statesmen during the
world war. It represents apparently
a non-moral temporary arrangement 1
dictated by sordid expediency and
promises new wars in the not dis- l
tant future.” The history gives the i
background of the age-long struggle !
between orient and Occident, showing '
how European ambitions have com
bined with local jealousies to perpet
uate the contlict.
♦* * *
“The Best Short Stories Os 1922 and
the Year Book of the American Short
Story,” just published, is the eighth
in the series compiled by E. J.
O’Brien. The stories chosen are twen- |
fy in number, and some of the
authors are Sherwood Anderson,
Katherine Fullerton Gerould, Joseph
Hergeshelmer, Ben Hecht, James Op
penheim, Wilbur Daniel Steele, F.
Scott Fitzgerald, Ring Lardner and
Waldo Frank.
*♦ * *
A life-long devotee of extreme real
ism in fiction and an opponent of the
classic standards imposed by the
French Academy, Edmond de Gon
court, at his death in XS9G, left a
fund to establish an annual prize to
be awarded to the young writer pro
ducing the most remarkable prose
work of imagination of the year. The
award of the Goncourt prize of 5,000
francs by tho ten members of the Gon
oourt Academy always causes a storm of
discussion in France and a milder flurry
in this country. In 1921 the prize went
to Rene Maran, a negro writer, for a
I ‘strong’ hut disgusting novel of the
Jungle, “Batouala.” The prize for 1922
| was given to Henri Beraud, because
[of his two books, “Le Vitriol do Lune”
• and “Le Martyre de TObese.” Beraud
•Is thirty-seven years old and eor
j pulent. He was formerly dramatic
critic of the Mercure de Franco and
at present is on the staff of Lo Pel it
Parlsien. The first of his two books
I crowned by the Goncourt Academy
• is a tragedy of the events leading to
! the death of Louis XV: the second is
a farce of the adventures of a fat
man, and Is dedicated lo a number of
fat celebrities, Including Marshall
Joffro.
** * ♦
Tho first Issue of a. new bi-monthly
magazine called Orient appeared in
February. It is to boa magazine of
(art and culture, with the purpose of
! showing the spirit of tho present
renaissance In Asia and making
I known to western peoples the art,
! literature and philosophy of tho cast.
! The initial number contains an article
1 by Remain Holland entitled “Homage
I to Siva.”
** ♦ *
In a recent letter to Christopher
Morley of the New York Evening
Post, Georgo H. Locke, librarian of
tho Toronto Public Library, says that
he asked the question of the students
In the Ontario Government Training
j School for Librarians—" What dozen
I books of prose fiction would best rep
j resent the works of Canadian authors
! to readers who wish to know something
|of Canadian life?” The books chosen
i were as follows;
! ICirbv, “Golden Dog”; Leacock,
“Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town”;
j Parker. "Scats of the Mighty”; Hem
-1 or. “Maria Chapdelaine”; Duncan,
i “Dr. Luke of the Labrador”; Thom
son, “Old Man Savarin”; Connor,
"Black Rock”: Hallburton, “Sam
1 SllckV; Laut, “Lords of tho North”;
Wallace, “Salt Seas and Sailor Men”;
Connor. “Sky Pilot,” and Plckthall,
“Tho Bridge.”
* * * ♦
A volume of unliterary letters by a
literary man has just been published
In "Tho Correspondence of James
Fenlmoro Cooper,” edited by his
grandson. Cooper’s most vital In
terests were not literary, but political
and social, and his letters are con
cerned with public affairs and gossip.
•Almost his only comments on Amer
ican writers of his own time arc slurs
upon Washington Irving, of whom he
was perhaps jealous. His own books
he mentions chiefly in connection
with their commercial value.
If is reported that the Russian
soviet government has placed Toistol
on the index. Tho playing of a Tol
stoi drama tn Runian U expressly
I forbidden,
CAPITAL KEYNOTES •
——■— ■ ' ■ ■ ■■■ ■■■ i ■
BY PAUL V. COLLINS
"Hitch your wagon to a star,” espe- [
dally if gasoline goes to $1 a gallon, 1
as predicted by some statesmen. • .
A brilliant and imaginative writer
Washington, star-gazing, has con- I
ceived the notion that all that is ncc- j
essary to break the monopoly'of the;
Standard Oil Company is to "harness i
the stars." He even professes that the |
experts of the United States bureau j
of standards have rigged up the nec- !
essary harness and prepared to start!
the machine. Let us see how a 1
star-driven machine—an automobile '
hitched to Jupiter or Venus, or the
double team—would go whizzing past!
the traffic policeman.
* * *
"If you should taka a teaspoouful
of water, and focus upon It all the i
heat coming from a blue star and'
could conserve all the heat, it would!
take a million years - to raise the tern- ]
perature of that water one degree,"
says Dr. Coblentz of the United States
bureau of standards, the expert who
has Invented an instrument for meas
uring star heat. Ills instrument is
so delicate that it is sensitive to the
heat of a tallow candle lighted fifty
miles from It. and it detects the pres
ence of unknown dark, and therefore
invisible star, billions of miles away,
so he knows how near it would come
to running a machine. He lias not '■
confirmed the report of running John |
I>. Rockefeller out of business with}
starry competition.
"All the heat, from all the stars in
the sky," says Dr. Coblentz, If it had
been focused upon a thimbleful of
water when Liberty Hell first rang,
and left so focused until today, would
not have raised the temperature of
that thimbleful more than 1% de
degrees fahrenhelt, That, too, is with
the assumption that all the heat had
been conserved and accumulated."
♦♦ * *
The same day that witnessed this
alleged hitching of wagons to stars,
also brought more scientific news, j
along parallel lines, in a cable from |
i Haris reporting that Jules Guillot of j
Vichy had succeeded in harnessing t
the electricity of the sunlight, sol
that ho was able to extract power and
light without cost of operation.
There have been many partially
i successful efforts to focus with mir
> rors the direct rays ot the sun upon
tanks of water, thereby creating *
steam power, but this capturing of f
the electricity—rather than sun heat— ‘
from the sunbeams, is quite different, 1
and may be revolutionary.
"With an apparatus measuring *
ithrc-e yards square,” lie says, "I light!
ten lamps of fifty candle power each ‘
and heat my fiat. With a larger ap i
paratus, it would bo easy to fight a!
whole town.”
Presumably, ho means bv accu- i
mulatlng electricity gathered while I
| the sun shone, into a storage batterv.!
from which It would be used In the
night for lighting, in addition to the
all-day use of the power. A home
equipped with such a wireless light
and power apparatus might even be
come independent of certain inunici
i pal monopolies.
** * *
! The Inventor's scientific explana
tion of his discovery is. that, while
the atmosphere is full of both nega
tive and positive electricity, ft has
been impossible, heretofore, to sepa
rate tlie two kinds, and they neu
tralize each other. It is known tiiat
ultra-violet rajs, striking an elec
trical current discharge it, or ncu- !
tralize it. The sun's light is rich in
ultra-violet rays, and so Jong as they
could not be extracted out of the
beams, these neutralized the power.
He has raptured these ultra-violet
rays with special antennae. The
ultra-violet acta upon the negative
rays onlj', so. when he controls their
action, and then "pits the two cur
rents against each other" he gets
light and power.
That is far simpler, surely, than
Einstein’s theory of relativity, and
almost as clear as his later theory j
which he "cannot express in words,"
EDITORIAL DIGEST
Proximity of Andrew Jackson to
White House Once More an Issue.
If Shakespeare had ever carried
out his threat of laying a curse on
any vandal who would move his
bones it would probably have been
a tame affair whatever form It
might have taken compared to the
storm that has been raised in the
press and elsewhere over the pro
posal to move the statue of Andrew
Jackson that stands across the ave
nue from the White House gates. It
seems a far cry from 1923 partisan
ship to the bronze reproduction of a
national hero who died more than
three-quarters of a century ago.
Nevertheless the storm has a decided
democrat-versus-republican tinge.
"President Harding wants the
equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson
removed," reports the Scranton
Times, to be replaced with one of
Washington. Although the paper
sees "a certain fascination, hard to
describe,” in the famous statue in
whicli Old Hickory, "doffing his
j plumed chapeau ” sits astride of a
horse ha lanced on two
slender hind hoofs, the President, it
siys, regards it as “an unfitting
monument for Washington's most
beautiful square.” and his desire to
have it removed "to a less conspicu
ous site” has no partisan animus.
"As a matter of cold, non-partisan
fact,” the republican New York
Tribune announces, the sole concern
of those who advocate the change
"Is that the statue of Jackson Is an I
abomination. Replacing It by the I
figure of Washington—a mediocre I
statue by the same sculptor—will j
rot boa great Improvement but It j
will at least place in one of the
most conspicuous parts of the capital
it statue which does not call forth I
the jocular comments of most of .
those who pause to look at It.” How
cviT aside from its esthetic phase, J
the Tribune seems to bo entirely j
safe In the prediction that if_ the
statue of ‘one of the heroes of the ’
i democratic party is removed during
i a republican administration there J
I will probably be no dearth of good
I democrats who will rise in vehement
denunciation of the act as one of j
wanton partisanship." In fact ac
cording to the Oklahoma City Okla- i
honian (democratic), "tho country in •
being stirred from one end to the j
other by the insidious movement" |
Organized opposition to tho pro- i
posed change comes from tho Nash- I
vllle Historic Society, which sends to
President Harding resolutions to the j
effect that;
"When Andrew Jackson and his
brave soldiers were fighting for tho 1
freedom of America • • • the British
had burned the White House and torn
down the American flag. And os
Colored Mammy Design Opposed.
To the KOitor of The Star:
As you know, there has been money |
I appropriated for the erection of a :
statue commemorating the colored j
mammy of bygone days. »
A picture In The Star of March. 23. j
1923, portraying a suggested design j
ter the aforementioned statue, created
but must rely on the mathematical
high sign to make clear.
¥ 'it + v
"Buy your coal early.” cries a coal
distributor. No one who undertake*-
to foretell wiiat any market is goint
to do with prices, is entitled to re ,
main at large. But prices have no)
I yet gone down materially. Th-j
j public Is educated up to currer, -
j prices, and so SIC a ton shocks no
: body too rudely. There are many
| nervous ones who are overanxious
- about the future; they know that
"Christmas is coming.” But about
; the time the thermometer touches Po
: in the shade—or 100—there will be
a lot of folks Who will forget tha*
they are going to need coal next
1 winter, and so they may not be form J
ing in the line of would-be buyers,
j There will be a bigger rush to "buy
long" Immediately alter the first 50
cent drop, than will be crowding
counters while they arc dodging sun
strokes.
The mine operators have ooatracta'f
with the miners which run to Sep
temper 1. What conditions will be
after that dato no one now can pre
dict. Some retail companies aro ac
cepting orders for summer delivery,
subject to September current prices
The thankless Job of advising any
I one when to speculate on coal prices
[is not ours. These aro just u few
suggestions to think over. it. is a
!in but I,- who sues ”Buv vour co.
1 early." ' jf
If i-s but a. few days since a num
ber of poodheaxted American ladie
insisted that thffe government should
immediately and unconditionally rec
ognize the present soviet government
of Russia. They were quite peeved
with Secretary of State Hughes fo
not coinciding with their sentimental
views. Xow that the soviets have
condemned to death a Roman Cath
olic archbishop and a number of other
prelates because they persisted In op
posing the wyvernrnent ban on teach
-1 ing any religion, it befalls that, fn-^
| su ad of rushing to honor the soviets"
I this government has occasion to pro
test against their barbarity and
; remind Russia of how America had
| fed millions of starving natives of
! that distressed country. If such hu
maniiarian acts of sympathy fall to
impress the soviets with the obliga
tions of civilization there can cer
tainly be no consideration by civilized/
governments of admitting Russia into
the family of civilized nations.
•* * * *
To sonic- candidates for American
! citizenship the new law seems a hard
| ship, which requires that the wife of
a foreign-born citizen must also stand
‘l examination before she, too, can be
i naturalized. It is well known that
j some men rely on the fact that the'.y
1 wives are members of church as cn-
I titling them also to all the benefits
lof proxj - , hero and hereafter. It
• won’t work.
*+ * *
For a while it looked au if there
was going to boa close rac© in
Washington between a great Hall of
Literature (a sort of pantheon where
authors will be commemorated, not
buried) and a stadium which wilf
seat 100,000 spectators of athletic
games. Now it doesn't look so close.
In classic language, “it’s a cincdi”
i that the stadium folks will take up
all the slack in the advertising which
the literary pantheon lets out. They
know It pays to advertise. It is just;
that which constitutes the main dis-
I ference between highbrow literature
and a whooper-up foot ball game
which pulls 100,000 spectators fit
spite of the rain. Why, a treatise on
“Ether: Its Properties and Life His
tory." which ran 100.000 would causa
its writer to gasp for oxygen. That’s
literature. A foot ball game in a
stadium like Washington is to have,
which did not hang out "S. R. O." be
fore the game started, would be a
polar wave renewing the Ice age, if
not a jar of liquified air down to ab
solute zero. That is the difference
between a college professor's salary
j and Babe Ruth’s.
(Oopjrijrht, 1923, by P. V. Collins.)
T
i Jackson was one who restored the
hite House and its flag to the Amer
ican people we deem it most appro
priate that his statue remain in the
place accorded it by a grateful people
who erected It in 1853, eight years
after his death.” /
That, comments the Plttston (Pa.>
Gazette, one of the few republican
papers to defend the present location
of "Old Hickory.” "is saying in detail
what could he said with even mom
force in general terms. It Is this —a
public edifice or monument Is part of
the record. Those who come after the
record has been made and half-for
gotten are not always fit judges et
whether a statue or building should
be preserved. And the presumption
is always in favor of the statue or
building."
In the dispute as to whether
Washington or Jackson should oc
cupy *be prominent position opposite
the White House if either wore now
without memorials, "the greatest
distinction should be given to Wash
ington. of course.” the Raleigh Newt
and Observer (democratic) concedes
"but there is not honor to any man
in Washington equal to the stately
Washington Monument, which
its over all else in Washington m-
Washington towered over all other
Americans. No additional honor is
needed or could bo given the great
Virginian. It would add no whit to
his prestige to give him a distinction
long ago conferred upon Jackson and
v. ould be an affront to the memory
of tho Tennesseean,”
Granting that Jackson "should bo
memorialized in tho city of Washing
ton,” tho Chicago Post (Independent
republican) is. nevertheless at a los-t
to understand “Just why an atrocity
1 In bronze should be allowed to do tho
memorializing.” To this position tlm
Buffalo Times (democratic) repll#*
that “the statue, we are told, la a poor
j work of art. That is neither here nor
I there. The only valid excuse for tak
ing down Jackson’s statue would bo
to put up a better statue of Jackson
in Us stead.”
1 The important question to the Cln-
I clnnatl Enquirer (democratic) ip the
controversy is, "what good purpww
can such removal and substitutif n
I serve?” In tho absence of convinchiig
reply to that question, it asks again,
I "Why not permit the stern old demo
, crat, statesman and soldier to sit hi-:
, charger there in perpetuity? Every
• body expects to find him there. It It
: there that ho belongs. In any other
! setting he scarcely would bo the same
. to the thousands and thousands who
annually look up to him with friend
ly, reverent approval. To move hiu»
I aside even to make place for thegra<>t
■ first President seems an ungracious
j humiliation to the memory of a man
I who In his lifetime never made way for
! anybody or anything when he be
! lleved himself to be in the right, nor,
perhaps, when he may have suspected
himself to be in the wrong. Eet tho
general remain!"
i a groat deal of adverse comment
| among the well thinking colored
: populace of the city.
The picture in no way depicts the
i true type of colored mammy. .»•
} verscly it gives the colored race a
| chance for complaint, and I for one
would suggest a truer, nobler model
1 than the one shown. J A
1 EJUMKaf A. SWA^X.I