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6 THE EVENING STAB, With vSnnday Morning Edition. j WASHINGTON. D. C. j SATURDAY March 31. 1623 ; THEODORE W. NOYES Editor j The Evening Star Newspaper Company j *jilne«« Offl.v. Ilth at. ami lvnn*rlv«nia Ave ; New yorlv OfHce; I'** N:»ks«m St. . I i'hloaeo Office: Tower fluildtas. Office; Kegent St.. la'luK-d. Kurland. . Die Evening Star, with the Sun.hiT morula* j *sit!on, is delfiered by turners wtthlu tin* city at 00 cents per month: dally only, 15 lyr T.outh; Sunday only. 1!0 i*c*nth i»t*r month. Or •lern ciav Ih* *<»nt bj mail, or tolophnco Main 8000, Collection i* made by carrier* at the ead of each month. Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily ami Sunday. .1 yr.. $8.40; 1 mo., TOo Daily oaly 1 yr, $6.00; t mo., 50c Sunday only 1 yr.. $2.40; 1 mo.. 20c All Other States. Daily and Sunday..l yr, $10.00; 1 mo.. 83c ! Daily only 1 yr.. ST.(id; i mo.. 60c 1 Bunday only 1 yr. 53.00; I mo.. 23.; J Memlter of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclosKely entitled j t» the ok for reynblloatton of ail news .Its- j patches credited to It or not otherwise credited [ fa this paper and also the local news pub- j llthed herein. All rlfUta of publication of •pedal dispatcher heroin are also reserved. j 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