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6 THE EVENING STAR ’With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON. D. C. TUESDAY October 21, 1924 THEODORE W. NOYES Editor The Evening Star !S>i»*»*«*er Company Of&et, nth Sr. and Pormsylrania At® New York OtfW: lio Kant 42nd Ht. • Office: Tower Huiidiug. Office: 16 Regent Hi.. London. England. The Evening Star, with the ffanday morning .-•ditioa, 1* delivered by ••airiera within the eity et 60 cents pur month; daily only, 45 verts per month; SuadAr only, 20 centc. per month. Orders may I.** *#»nt by mail or tele thon* Malq 5000. Collection is made by car* Tiers at the end of each mouth. Hale l»y Mail—-Payable In Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday. I yr., J5.40;1 mo., 70c Daily only 1 yr. ?6.00;1 mo., 00c Sunday only 1 yr., $2.10;1 mo., 20c All Other Stair*. Hally and Sunday.l yr.. f ia.OO;l mo.. SOc I Daily only 1 yr., ?7.00;1 mo., Sunday only 1 yr., ?X00;1 mo., 25c Member of the Associated Pee**. The Associated Press is et.-lotiTely entitled *•» the use for repnWicatlcn of ail news dla I *tohe* credited to It or not otherwise credited it this paper and also the local ntr, pub lished heiein AH rights of publication of nj>e i 'lal dispatches herein ere also reserved. j Cure the Non-Voting 1 Evil. The slogan cn.phaoizln," the duty of j • llfte qualified. American voter to vote, j •fbioh The Star j-: carrying for a fowl cays, is that of the Lions «iub. which ; I I a vigorous NJlSon wide campaign is Usitriotically endeavoring through tl.c newsi>apers to impress upon American ' Voters the v ital importance of this i Civic duty. The Lions Club of Wash- S • lacton believes that thin duty may j .Wholesomely be emphasized in vote- j -i*ss as well as In voting America. -■ Some effective device is surely need •d to stir up lethargic voters to the Voluntary performance of civic duties X»r to compel them to perform these duties. If they will not do so velun- i tbrily. The poll tax, instead of being a ncc •ssiry preliminary to voting, should be rlrldly applied as a penalty for not Toting. Instead of exacting payment A»r. the -privilege of voting a penalty •h 'ttld be imposed for neglect of this 4uty. Disfranchisement. coupled with i •thcr severe penalties, should be in-! flirted upon habitual violators of this j obligation of good citizenship. Citizens should be compelled to vote fust as they arc compelled to pay J flaxes; though the voting obligation ] ■might easily become a valued privl-, lege to be enjoyed, while nothing prob- I ably will ever make the taxpayer's 1 obligation a source of joy. But- • -compulsion, a? experience i tcaoheSj will not fully compel, and re- j sort in the end must be had to app als I to the reason and .conscience of the . -American citizen. > -The people can always prevail in j .the United States, if they will to do so, even under the- present clumsy and , eften perverted election methods.l Everybody knows that the evils of j the present day are largely attrlbuta-; ble to neglect by the people of their ! privilege®—l-> failure to attend pri- i marles as well as failure even to go as i the citizen’s highest duty to the polls, j It is because the -average citizen at- ' laches too great weight to bis busi- j ness and too little weigh: to bis citi- ' zer.shlp that “bosses’’ and ’■machines’’ j got control. It is through the neglect j by the average citizen of his civic I duties that the great trusts, combines ; and monopolies ha ve attained strength, j The affiliation of venal and preda-I tory wealth and of predatory and : venal pauperism is the republic's dan- j ger. The great middle class can and j must control. Whatever arouses the ■ people to this sense of responsibility j and duty, and produces intelligent ac- i tivlty bn civic lines is wholesome, for ; ,the real cure is in the conversion of i the individual voter from foolish, : selfish apathy to intelligent, earnest j activity in performance of his civic functions, and not in punitive logisla- ! tion compelling him to vote. Millions of us, with power of Amcri-1 ran sovereignly in issues of v.ar and peace, of property, of life and death, neglect to exercise this high power ; and fail to meet the corresponding ; obligation. As represented by these 1 recreant millions, wp add to this sin of | omission another, in that we fail to , permit the Americans of the District 1 of Colombia to exercise the rights of ; American sovereignly which belong to i all qualified Americans. Thus we will not vote ourselves, and (like the dog in the manger) we prevent others from poling- Let us make frank confession of our gins of omission, repent, rcforml Disarmament means slight practical disadvantage to a government defin ing the term as a process of abandon- 1 Ing plans for battleships in order to ■ae the money for airplanes. A man may make money by luck, hut to contribute big sums to a cam- j gaign fund requires financial genius. According to La Follette experts .'“Abe Democratic mule never looked so *,;’lrlcky os it does this year. Instability in Europe. of the Reichstag and B*\v German elections ordered for De cember 7 operate as another set "back to the stabilizing of European political ard economic conditions. Os I the three governments chiefly con cerned in accepting and putting into operation the Dawes report, two al '•.ready have lost their parliamentary majorities and been forced Into gen eral elections, and the third, that of Premier Herriot of France, has only a precarious tenure of power. All three prime ministers were In i the same boat, inasmuch as none of them had back of him in Parliament a clear majority of hla own party, Ramsay MacDonald, the British La borlt®, came Into office only through tli® sufferance of the Liberals, and when Liberal support was with drawn his government fell. Chancellor Marx’s Reichstag majority was even more uncertain. Its backbone was the . bourgeoise Centrist and Democratic blpce, with which the benevolently , neutral Socialists generally co-opor- , ated, but even this combination did | ■ not constitute a majority, and the , government had. to seek scattered i votes bsre end there to put Its mess* \ < through. The necessary votes I , j L were forthcoming for adoption of the major features of the Dawes plan because Marx had the backing of an overwhelming public opinion, but when it came to working out the many complicated details of the plan’s op eration the majority was too difficult and too uncertain for practical gov ernment. Herriot still survives in France, but the various Radical and Socialist groups Which make up his majority are a turbulent lot, and the premier can have no assurance that he will not meet defeat on some minor meas ure which lias Utile or no bearing on the big issues of the day. The Dawes plan, in its essential features, is not an issue In either the British or German elections, and probably would not be were an elec tion to be forced in France, but its fate, nevertheless, is involved In the outcome of the voting. If the Dawes plan is to be successful in operation, there must be continuance of the spirit of confidence and good will which made its adoption possible. Two of the three men who contributed most to this necessary spirit now arc j fighting for their official lives, with j prospects that at least one of them, MacDonald of England, will be retired : from office. Mars may survive, may even come back with stronger and I more certain backing in his Parlia ! ment, but it is discouraging in the | extreme that the three men who | started Europe on the road to better j ' days are so insecurely seated in ! i power. * * —— , British and U. S. Elections. ; To the student of politics the fact that a presidential election in the United States and a general election in Great Britain are about to occur al most simultaneously affords a unique occasion for comparison and deduc -1 tion. On October 29 British voters will choose anew all members of the House of Commons, a choice which will de termine who Is to be the next prime minister. On November 4 American voters will choose anew all members of the House rs Representatives, one third of the membership of the Senate I and the next President. As one considers the parallel In- I voiced it should be borne in mind that I although British voters exercise direct I | control over but one chamber in Par -1 liament, the political significance of a , general election in Great Britain Is at ' least as Important as that of an Amer- I k-an presidential election. For British i sovereignty under the system of minis | teriai responsibility, and as a result of the lack of effective, balance wheels I either In the upper chamber of Parlia- I ment or In a constitution Interpreted by a judicial body, is largely concen- I trated in the House- of Commons. The House of Lords has. in effect, lost all : save the power of temporary legis’.a --' five obstruction. There is no body 1 comparable to the United States Su preme Court In Great Britain, and as a result the House of Commons alone assumes responsibility for its Tcgiela ! tive functions. Bearing this in mind, it is interest ! Ing and significant to note that the ! elections in both 'Great Britain and the United States are to be determined ' |on a “three-party”• basis. Broadly j ; speaking, their Conservatives may be ! likened to our Republicans, their Lib- • erais to our Democrats, their Labor-! ites to our La Follette-Wheeler Inde- j pendents. The possibility that a ma jority may not accrue to either presi dential candidate here, and that the House of Representatives will be or ganized without any single group in control, becomes, in the light of their I last experience, a probability in Great j Britain, so far as their corresponding i elections of a new House of Commons are concerned. In England the problem involved in the matter of functioning without a party majority 1? solved by the expe dient of the establishment of a tempo rary coalition . between two of the three parties—a union maintained j only so long as is deemed expedient ? by the respective party leaders. In I England, however. It is deemed not 1m- ! probable that as a result of this elec- 1 tion one of the three parties will dls- j integrate, its strength being merged ! into the two stronger. It is held that i the Liberals would be the ones to go. j to the obvious mechanical advantage | of the two-party, system. In the United States with its writ ten Constitution there is less flexi bility than in England to facilitate the avoidance, of a three-party deadlock by compromise devices, so far at least as election of President by the House of Representatives is concerned. • In any event the course of tho Brit ish elections, taken with our own, should enable those who anticipate the establishment of a permanent third party In the United States to draw some pertinent Inferences. By remaining comparatively silent. President Coolldge offers an Implied but influential assurance of his im pression that everything necessary Is being said. To Cure Fatigue. Scientific experimenters are looking to the prevention of fatigue. It was written in The Star: “Researches now going forward in a European univer sity laboratory hold out promises which. If fulfilled, will revolutionize human activities. They aim at noth ing less than the abolition of tiredness, enabling men to walk all day and still be fresh, to play foot ball for hours and go on playing, to think nothing of four rounds of golf on end, and to slave in a factory all day and need no rest afterward.” A cure for fatigue would be a won derful invention. Fatigue is a com mon disease, and many men have It in chronic and malignant form. It at tacks them as soon as they go to work in the morning and causes them in convenience until the knock-off whistle blows. Some men have the disease in such distressing form that they can not go to work at all, and when It comes to making the fire for break fast, splitting kindling or cleaning up the lawn they have to turn the jobs over to mother. It Is a curious dis ease, and like most other diseases baf fles the physicians. A man will suffer great stagnation and inaction from about 9 until i on work days, and will than be able to stand In front of a score board for two hours or make a howl . THE EVENING STAB. WASHINGTOK. D. U, TUESDAY. OCTOBER SI. 1924. ■ ... , r ■ Ing noise at a foot ball gams without feeling the least weariness. While the disease may retard all his motions from Monday morning until Saturday afternoon, he will be able to drive a car 200 miles on Sunday without col lapsing. So far as the aim of the scientists Is to enable a man to play four rounds of golf on end and “play foot ball for hours and go on playing” it Is ap proved, but if this medicine “will en able men to slave In a factory all day and need no test afterward” not many of us will buy «t bottle of it. The an nouncement of the discovery may be premature. So far the wonderful preparation has been tried on guinea pigs and mice. It would be more con vincing if it were tried on men. In some parts of the city are able-bodied men who might be turned over by their neighbors for experiment. Holes Against Jaywalking. The Jaywalker may be slated for trouble in New York. Heretofore this species of pedestrian, who Ignores the regular crossing and makes diagonal cuts from one side of the street to the other, has had only automobile* to run Into, and it may be that he will soon come in collision with tho police. The Folice Department of New Tork will ask the municipal council for the right to control pedestrian traffic as it now exercises control over vehicle traffic. The police commissioner says ! that arresis and fines for Jaywalkers j ought to reduce the number of accl j dents. The Jaywalker makes quite a : largo contribution to street accidents | in Washington. In the narrow mean ing of tho word a Jaywalker la ho or she who strolls across a street diag onally or “slaunchwlse,” but In the broader sense of the word it is the pedestrian who bucks his way against the traffic stream at a policed croes ing. It might be fair also to classify a® a jaywalker, or worse, the gentle man who steps from the curb, looks to the right Instead of the left, and then leisurely and confidingly strolls across the street reading a newspaper or deeply dreaming of something among the star*. Commissioner Enright says; ’’What has been accomplished by the scientific regulation of vehicular traf fic in this city is obvious to every one, and a similar result in my opinion can ( be accomplished in the regulation of pedestrian traffic." If results “obvious to every one” have been “accomplished by scientific regulation of vehicular traffic” in New York, the plan of that ! city might be tried in Washington. I Regulation of the movement of auto- j mobiles Is needed for safety of motor-! lets and pedestrians. And it would also 1 eeem desirable to do something about | the jaywalker. - ■ ■■ ■ in i. ■ Many philanthropic people are wish-1 ing China would secure the composing ' effects of a little congenial recreation, j The psychological- effect might have i been valuable if China had years ago J organized a mah jong championship I series. „ r Seldom has a campaign offered more : suggestions for political mud throw- j ing. Thera have been recriminations,; but none so violent as anticipated. 1 ! The public has reason to bo proud of i { its candidates. ) • Not nearly so many motor accident? ! arise from commercial traffic as from j i pleasure driving. The comparison may ' help to point a philosophic distinction between pleasure and true happiness. | The trial of "Kid” McCoy follows so f closely on the heels of the Locb- j j Leopold affair that tho expert testi- j I mony Is liable to be scrutinized with j i especial care. • ••• • • Exceptional interest may yet be i found in a report describing an elope-! ment in which nobody is mentioned os j a prominent figure in society or in the j films. SHOOTING STAHS. 1 RT PHILANDER JOHNSON. Is It Not Sad! | The Autumn leaves blow here end; there And also there and here! 1 The blooming trees will soon stand j bare Out in the atmosphere. • i Those Autumn leaves, once so esteemed 1 Drift ’round the old garage Like bygone thoughts that lofty seemed, And prove but persiflage! As Usual. ‘‘Do you think the best man will win in this election?” “Yes,” replied Senator Sorghum. “That Is, the winner will be hailed as the best man for tho first few months. Then the customary criticisms will be gin to go round.” Metaphor Mixers. The Nation may some day be called on to start A specialized branch of constabu lary For authors ifho talk about Morals and Art While using a prize-ring vocabulary. Jud Tunklns says he doesn’t have to go to any shows to be shocked. The billboards are rlskay enough for him. Departures Approved. The Straw Hat had to go. Far from this scene perplexed; And we are glad to know The Straw Vote’s going next. Questionable Transaction. “I understand Mesa Bill won a mule from Three-finger Sam. “There’s a good deal of suspicion about that,” declared Cactus Joe. “BUI now rlainis Sam stacked the cards on him.” Unerring Retribution. The copper cannot be alert To all the deeds of human hurt. The second-story worker may With favoring fortune get away. The bootleg bandit In a scrape May throw a smoke screen and escape. But he who porketh overtime Is surely punished for his crime. “Put yob trust In Providence/’ said Uncle Eben, “but don’t depend on so doin’ to win you any race boa* or lot tery tsonay.” . > • 6. , ' - ■ . . . «• .- -V .r'-vv.A i.; ■ | THIS AND THAT | BY C. E, TRACE*EII. Why do the birds fly South? If I could answer that, I could tell you what God and man is, to use Wordsworth’s phrasing. Urged on by ths mysterious power that rules the universe, ewayed by a primal instinct which tb»'y obey without question, the birds are flying south over the District of Columbia. Word comes from nearby Maryland ■that the squirrels are unusually busy laying In their supply of nuts. Old hands say this means a cold Winter. However that may be, Washington basked recently In some of the most beautiful Autumn weather ever known, weather that was unusually easy on coal piles and gardens. Birds flying South—squirrels stor ing up nuts—warm, sunshiny days— so Fall has laid Us hand lightly on the gardsns of Estey alley. *♦ ♦ * A garden In such an Autumn has beauties no less welcome than those of blooming Summer, when the asters shone like disks of pink and white and the zinnias gleamed In all sbadet of crimson, a.id the great sunflowers held their bloasoma aloft for the beet to dine therein. All that Is changed notr. The sun flowers have withered and died, the zlnnlar are on their la*i legs, the asters are only a faded memory. But residents of our alley, who lovo their little are happy, because the season gives opportunity s f° r now communion with the mystery ; of growing things. • It Is bulb time! i It is one of tho great felicities of i this, our life, that there i« an infinite j variety of combinations and permuta , tlons in the world. Throughout the whole chain of life it runa: there Is not Just one kind of animal, there are scores of different kinds: there Is not Just one sort of flower, there are families and families of Towers, each different, each lovely after its kind. W* might grow tired of our gar dens if it were not that In them, as in all tho other fields of life, wc find something new and Interesting at every turn. It almost seems as if the Creator, knowing our fickleness, made provision for tt. So we have the bulbs, seeds in a new form, from which a new auid strange race of flowers will Issue next Spring to first make glad our newly awakening garden. From these queer, brown, gnarled things will come the very first breath of Spring, the smile on Nature’s face 1 that welcomes the season. It will be as that first real smile from the face of a little baby, something unique, never to come again, although it may give place to better smiles. Here in our hands we hold these gnomes of the garden. They have come to us In stout brown bags. ■ hustled to our door by the faithful 1 parcel postman. ’ j Who that did not know could guess j that from them win come glorious ; colored flowers, standing aloft on 1 bright green stalks? These are the I Ugly Ducklings of our garden, these I bulbs, to become the White Swans of i Spring. I There are two distinct classes of i bulb planters—those who have plant ; ed them before, and those who are l planting them for the first time this |season. j Most of us In Estey alley belong in } this latter classification. You who i have "been there before”—do you ! envy us or pity us? 1 Probably there is a bit of both emo- I tlons mantling your countenance, as you think of us beginning the- ar duous but pleasing task of making | our first selection of Darwins, breed , ere. cottage and other tulip*. 1 It 1b in this as in making one's 1 1 '■ ' ■ ' ■' ■" 1 11 ( Press Sees More Than Praise i < Due Round-the-World Fivers i I Something mor» substantial than j passing plaudits. In the opinion of (the press, should be’forthcoming to j reward the six intrepid young Amer j loan aviators whose flight around the ' globe has brought honor to the Army j and Navy and practical lessons to the whole world of science, i “No authority at present exists for i tangible recognition of their service j to their country In a project so baz ; ardous,” remarks the St. Paul Dis i patch, but “President Coolidge will 1 havo the country with him in his at tempt to win congressional recognl ' tlon and reward.” For certainly, the Milwaukee Journal adds, “there | should be reward for these men. who j I have brought honor to America for ! all time.’* If the Government department can't I . find a decent sum In it# reserves, the | • Duluth Herald also thinks, "Congress j ; ought to loosen its purs" strings and ' give substantial expression to the 1 j country’s pride in these young men, ' | who have braved and overcome every j I peril of air and land and sea to write j | it down in history that America was 1 ( the first nation to fly around the j ! world.” At the very least, the Bus- j I falo News Insists, "a medal should be j struck to commemorate their great achievement, because America is im- j mensely proud of them and tho Govern ment should give fitting expression to its pride.” Indeed, says the Day ton News, it would be “a most short sighted policy that caused Congress to neglect this great adventure and its successful conclusion, and public opinion must not be permitted to neg lect the Nation’s gratitude to these six men Who first sailed around the world in a man-made heavler-than alr flying machine.” “The feat is an inspiration to every American,” the Kansas City Journal declare* "and It should result in a measurable and sustained stimulation of military and commercial aviation In this country.” #♦ * * The round-the-world flight, the Portland Exprede believes, “has also demonstrated that euch a trip may be taken with comparative safety and that a fairly definite schedule may bei maintained.” Furthermore, the In dianapolis News finds, “the ability of planes to operate under various con ditions has been made evident, and that, it Is thought, is the lasting value of the trip.” It should be no fifty-year problem, continues the Grand Rapids Press, "to criss-cross the polar regions with short-cut com mercial air traffic between the con tinents; to link North and South America by regular cargo lines; to connect cities with "ia network of trade and passenger service; hence the Army, and Navy achievement is a pioneer proving test, shaming com merce, with its far greater resources and possibilities of organisation, to a fuller everyday utilization of the air.” Thus, aside from the prestige and glory of this first world flight, the New Orleans,- Tlmes-Picayune feels’, "It promises practical benefits and advantages to the civilized world,” for ’’it should stimulate the develop ment of aerial travel everywhere," and bring “a reminder that the coun try which mothered aeronautics should make haite to provide some thing more adequate than mere ‘swaddling clothes' for that husky and marvelously growing youngster.” To those who would express doubts sa to the success of the exploit, the Boston Traveler says: “The flight taught a great many lessons. It showed that weather stations are too ter apart to heap airmen. posted on storm areas. Better facilities for alighting on land and water; a more effective method of signaling than by rockets from a fdisabled plane, „ ne»t. There la many a aucceaaful ! mam housed in a great home who i would give up all he has to be able to know again the happiness which ■ was hia In the little apartment of . long ago! ■ So. all you who know your tulips : by their first names, mi* aome envy , with your pity at our Ignorance. 1-• As for us. we admit blandly we • know next to nothing at all about I bulbs. We are willing to learn, how ever, and when a man is willing to learn, he Is on the high road to bet ; ter things. e* * * i Some weeks ago the bulb catalogue* began to arrive from the seed houses. What kindly men they must he, those ■ men who run seed establishment*! Every Spring and Fall they eend us tho most delightful books, replete with fascinating descriptions of plants ; and flower*, bulbs and shrub*. The i gorgeous illustrations make us wish i we were millionaires, »o that we it might buy every slngl* thing the >ooks tell about. We willingly forego beefsteak for ■fix weeks to posoess ourselves of 60 giant Darwins, which we fondly ex pect to see jgrow at least six feet high. Lost In the maso of names, we end ! up by sending In our order for the “great trial offer" of 40 bulbs for 1 JL'.’o, which, after all, Is a mighty 1 ; goc<i way of trying out the various \ Sorts of bulbs and colors. Next Spring we will know a great deal more about tulips and cro- J . cases —or should It bo croci than we do this ■* >* * « i Before these trolls of the garden ( can be planted, however, the old flowers must be. uprooted. ..’ This might he a melancholy task If it were not for the fact that there , Jb nothing melancholy about a gar- ( 1 den at any season. Those lines about “tho melancholy days are here, the ' saddest of the year,’’ were products of the contemplative study, not of 1 the clods, and the cold wind and the ' ; falling leave*. In the activities of tho garden 1 there is only peace—ls not the peace * that passeth understanding, then a 1 a peace that is easy of understanding j 1 for us creatures of Mother Earth. We take the old stalks, with their )* withered leaves, and yank them out i of the soil, for they have done their duty and must give way to their children. Here are their children, these bits , | of black and brown, crumpled out of j their seed pods, to be stowed away j I in marked envelopes until the Spring. It Is not necessary to take a whole flower and hold it in the hand, to be able to wonder, with Wordsworth, 1 I what it Is. ‘ Just one of these tiny seeds will j do well enough. Man can make | radio instruments, but he cannot make an aster seed. He can fly * . through the air In the "pride of the American Navy”—made, manned and j 1 flown by Germans—and can ride un- r j dcr the sea, but he cannot get down | 1 ;as deep as the bottom of this seed.)* I No chemist ever made on aster yet, j i nor duplicated th“ growth of the, tulip. When he doe?, he will know | ' why the birds fly South each Autumn | 1 and how come the squirrels do store !' i up extra nuts In such warm weather • t for an unknown cold Winter. \ Walt Whitman, erstwhile Treasury j 1 j clerk, leaned and loafed at his ease, j | observing a spear of Summer grass, j jWe use the Autumn grass, with it* J feather of seed, for the same purpose, j 1 .Brown and fading the grass stands,! 1 ■but it will bloom again in the ever- 1 i returning Mystery Play of Spring. ) ■' \ ; ( so me form of fehelttr on the craft, j' where the crew' may sleep in comfort i > —these are but a few of the neces- ;i sitlea which were revealed by the ' large-scale experiment. Let no one j' call it a failure.” Indeed, it was ”a 11 crowning triumph for American j 1 genius and enterprise,” adds the 11 Bellingham Herald; “the more so be- h cause every expedition undertaken at [ 1 about the same time—and there were !i several representing nearly half ai i dozen nations—met with disaster.” | • — j' Differs With Wile. | I ( Reader Says Asbury's Horse Is i dipping Foreleg. To fbe Editor of The Star: 1 The appreciative remarks of Fred • eric illiam Wiio concerning tho 1 i equestrian statue of Francis As- i ; bury, first American Bishop of the j Methodist Episcopal Church—which : i : waa unveiled Wednesday afternoon ■. i last —lacked careful discrimination In i | one particular. The intention of tha I ! sculptor, Augustus Lukeman, was to j j present In the horse, on which As- 1 I bury traveled some six or seven i j thousand milea a year, a pose of fatigue. A fatigued horse, so it was stated when tho statue was well on the way to common acceptance and admiration, almost always bent his head and nipped at his foreleg. Though many hours of itinerant life were in my earliest manhood spent Ji on horseback, and one of the nage I j had once covered 80 miles in a single i day’s drive to a light buggy. It was ! seldom I noticed carefully this al- I leged equine habit. Yet 1 do recall the foreleg nipping, as I bring be fore me from the past the actions of the several steeds I rode or drove. Bishop Asbury swam his horse across strong currents, traveled many Indian trails through the unbroken forests; and from tha vicinity of Baltimore to that of Charleston. S. C., and through Tennessee back again over the Virginia hills and valleys to the great State of New York, made his ceaseless rounds of preaching and administering the affairs of tha new but rapidly ad vancing Methodist denomination. His horses shared with him ail the dangers, privation* and weariness of his endless search after the spiritual welfare of the colonies and of the new republic. And quite harmoni ously with this idea of fatigue on the part of the animal, and at the same time of the lofty and unbreak able determination of the great bishop to "endure unto the end,” the horse is cast in the attitude of languorous repose, but the man in the posture of expectant, further travel —sitting his steed in erect attitude and With a look of spiritual musing and conquest in his eyes. The horse is not rubbing his nose, as Mr. Wile stated. His lips are parted and bis teeth just catch hold of tho skin of his knee, in which position It would be impossible for his nose to be in contact with his leg. Further, the foreleg rests on the forward point of tha hoof, in evi dence of the strain of travel, and as giving the neck less effort In reach ing the knee for the teeth to nip. S. REESE MURRAY. Lauds D. C. Courtesy. To the Editor of The Star: A word of appreciation for the an. falling courtesy which I, a visitor in your city, have received from con ductors. guides—lndeed, from nil em. ployes in the public it rloa - '5 ■ ’ Stiha-' sSSKBLutX -agfe.iW' :«■ NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM THE LETTERS OP ARCHIE BUTT. [Awrenrq F. Abbott. Doubleday. Page A Co. Tou remember It—that tangle of ordered greenery, not far below the President's house, the one through whleh a faint sheen of marble gleams. And you recall the Summer day. not so long ago, when the little pathway leading to It beckont-d you Inside — into a quiet chamber walled by tree and shrub, whose leaves at play with j sun and wind were dappling the big i water-brimmed bowl and the grassy ! floor and the tawny tree stems with a j dancing, movement of joy. And how [ the birds, confident of safety and wel come, came darting in to drink and | dtp and fly away again, scattering I rainbow drops a« they hurried out I on some prodigious bird busy-ness of | their own. Ar.d how In one of their Interludes of flight you trailed a questing finger around the lettered brim of the wide marble basin, spell ing out two names as you rounded the circle. And how then upon you. watting, the spirit of the little sanc tuary fell, the spirit of peace and ful fillment. But the mlr.d Is ever ranging away ! from the thing at hand, be It never j so. urgent and dear, seeking for con nections and relativities. And so Into the quietude of this lovely retreat there obtruded the picture of a great ship In the North Atlantic come upon Us last moment, going down, how ever. In glory through the presence of a group of brave and gallant gen tlemen facing with steady front that which was so soon to be. Among these. Maj. Archibald Butt and Frank Millet, whose names you had just traced around their memorial fount. ** * * Here at hand Is "The letters of Archie Butt," whose prompt and posi tive effect Is to make denial of that ship lost at eea and to dismiss as the mere workings of one’s own ro mantic Imagination the spirit of peace and fulfillment that so flooded the little sanctuary seated just off the roadway, not far below the Presi dent's house. For of a certainty you are here face to face with a live and living man. The dozen years lying in between you and the sub stance of these letters have fallen out, or else they have narrowed to yes terday, wherein the same persons and places and Incidents are still a i part of the day's doings around the President's house at the Capital. Not Iterally true, to be sure. But that Is the clear and striking effect of these letters written over a dozen years ago. * * =* * The gossip of courts and kings, of great and ne»»r-great folks the world over is of general and persistent ap peal. Everybody sits up to it, to this little talk about little things which translates the greater ones Into terms of the lesser. Our nearest approach to court and king Is no approach at all. But we do have a President and a White House and certain formalities and dignities belonging to these. And about them circles a keen and un failing interest. The letters of Archie Butt—simple. Intimate, eerious, as tonishingly frank—satlsfv this natur al curiosity and Interest in full measure. Indeed, one wonders If i they, set up beside well known rec ords of this kind, will not hold their ow« with grace and distinction. ** ♦ ♦ By the time and terms of his as signment to the White House, It is the personality of Theodore Roose velt and the quality of the Roosevelt family both at home and in the open that chiefly, engage the interest of this correspondent with the home folks. Chiefly, but not wholly, for Archie Butt becomes a sort of liaison officer between the White House and the Immediate world roundabout— society. And he takes his job serious ly. becoming under its demands and exactions a quite magnificent figure of correct and Imposing front. Once turned out. however, he dis misses himself, so to speak, and moves over smartly and efficiently to fit himself Into the strenuous and varied hours of the President's dailv life. Hundreds of swift sketches here reanimate the White House with the eplrlt of Theodore Roosevelt. Many of these sketches are new. All of them are fresh. All, too, quite in character and keeping with what we already know of the man himself.* And, besides, there are passing views ' of many another—this one and that— i views astoundlngly frank and reveal- ! Ing, as directly applicable, too, many j of them, as they were 12 years and more ago. One easily envisages a great sour- [ Tying through these pages In hopeful , mood that this "As In a Looking- : Glass” may prove kind. Better keep 1 away. Else you may find yourself 1 "still rather pretty.” set down by ■ name and place. Or that one may j find herself dressed upon some grand occasion much as Oscar Wilde habitu- j ally found hla wife to be—"as If her ! clothes were made in a tempest and put on In a rage.” Here a great man may read himself as responsive as “a Cuban potato”—an uncommonly pallid and wooden spud, one takes It. Senator So-and-So—the real name writ down—ls not a man to be be lieved and that particular Solon Is a small, mean man. If not worse. And along the way Archie Butt gives Mr. Roosevelt's own explanation of the famous "Ananias Club.” A plausible interpretation. One is not certain that It Is not altogether sound, though a hit involved in metaphysics. It Is easy to see that no end of folks will have a deep and personal Interest In ! this Intimate accounting of momen- ' | tons matters sent back to his South- ! ern home by Archie Butt from his I vantage point of chief aide to so pic- j turesque and forceful a President as Theodore Koosevelt. *» ♦ « The enduring quality of these let ters—and they clearly possess such quality—lies, however, In their pre ponderant attention to President Roosevelt and his family. Immedi ately upon approach to any or to all of this group, Maj. Butt becomes serious, devoted, loyal and sincere, revealing much of ultimate historical value which he alone, by virtue of his position, Is able to disclose. Frank at this point as he is throughout the letters there is, consequently, no such t\ung in them as "blind praise” of the Roosevelts. There} is, however, an attitude toward them Induced primarily by confidence* and admira tion. Therefore, where one more re mote finds some things to question in the acts of the dynamic President Maj. Butt as a rule, finds for the same acts a background of reason and good statesmanship. Sometimes, however, he accords to Mr. Roosevelt a plain streak of human nature and lets it go at that. But with Mrs. Roosevelt he concedes no limitations either of heart or mind or personality. For her he has an exalted admiration and certainly a meet chivalrous hom age. And if an idyl of family life has any attraction for you, you can not do better than to read what Archie Butt has to say about the life at Sagamore Hill, where Mr. Roose velt—who might have been one of the farmers round about—and his wife and the house full of lusty youngeters, gave him one of his most Joyous experiences, about which he writes here In a genuinely lyric strain. Only a touth, this, at the many appealing features of these let ter* which are bound to have a good tenure of life and a wide Immediate distribution both on account of their genuine substance and the admirable spirit of sincerity and charm and idealism in which they are projected. • • I. O. M. '■ , ■ ' "' 1 ■ -■■ ■ ■ ■ ■ - ■ ♦ ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. BASKIN. Q • Whw was the rule passed which , gave the umpire permission to put a new ball In play at any time? — . M. A. O. A. A rule w»i presented and put In force In 1888 which gave the um -1 ptre this authority. Q. What is shown as the greatest . source of income, according to per sonal returns filed?—C. O. P. A. According to Statistics of In ‘ | come In 1921, 77.09 per cent of per- I sonal Income comes from personal ’ services and 23.91 per cent conus from property. The general deduc tiona are approximately 18. OS per cent Q. What Is our duty on diamonds? ■ —W. K. T. A. Upon loose clones the United States duty is 20 per cent and upon stones set In gold or platinum the rate Is 80 per cent of the original price abroad. I Q. What Is raisin bread day? K. C. A. Raisin producers have endeav ored to establish Wednesday as raisin jbread day by persuading bakers ev ( erywhere to bake it especially for that day. Q What Is the record for speed In loading lake freighters"—C. A. P, A. The freighter D. O. Kerr, Capt. Mcßlroy, master, loaded 15,000 tons | In sixteen minutes In a test to es- I tabllsh a record. With modern dock j equipment the average time for tak ing on a cargo of that.size is less i than three hours. j I j Q. How long ago did Howard Pyle I paint the pirate picture “Marooned”?— ! H. l. A. The first reproduction of the paint ing was published In September, ISS7. Q. Will the Government test samples of road materials?—H. T. A. The Bureau of Public Roads dis continued on July 1. 1924, the general practice of testing samples of road ma terials for any citizen of the United States. Samples are still tested when i submitted by Federal. State, county or municipality authorities, when accom panied by a statement to the effect j that the sampling was done by a dts ! Interested person. | Q. What Is the oldest church In Rome? | -G. C. I A. The church said to be the oldest In Rome Is Santa Pudenziana. Q. Is it known where Virgil was when he wrote the Georgies?—T. R. J. A. Virgil wrote the Georgies while living at Naples. Q. What should be planted near straw berry beds and orchards to prevent dam age by birds ?—T. T. D. A. The Russian mulberry may afford protection not only to strawberries and ! cherries, but to other fruits and vege- j tables. Rows of these trees, also early i June berries and shadberry trees should i be planted near the orchard, along roads | and between green fields. Q. What causes scabies, or the , “seven years’ Itch”? Does it really; last seven years?—C. K. A. Scabies Is a common contagious skin disease caused by the female “itch mite" burrowing Into the skin for the purpose of laying her eggs. This disease will undoubtedly con tinue for a long time, but if an In fected person takes all necessary i precautions and a prescribed course : of treatment it usually lasts only ] three days and three nights. Q. How many freight boats are there on the Great Lakes?—G. L. B. A. There are between 600 and 700 freight-carrying vessels of all sizes I on the lakes at the present time. j Q. Where were the first free pub- • lie schools located la the District?—i T. V. i A. The first appropriations by Con- j j gress for free public schools In the 1 j District provided for an Eastern and j j Western School. The Western School , [ was erected first on the present site of 1700 I street northwest. January, j ISOS. It was built of wood, 50 feet i j long. £0 feet wide, one story high, j ' and cost 11.58X.11. The first teacher; WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILL. " Eugene Meyer, Jr.. managing dlrec-1 | tor of the War Finance Corporation j i declares that the "Golden West" for I i several years has not *o richly de- j served that appellation as it does to- i ! day. Ho instances North Dakota as ‘ i a case In point. Meyer estimtes that I with one crop alone, wheat. North ; Dakota Is about $85,000,090 better off j at this date than it was In October, j 1P23. and the economic barometer ‘ still reads; ‘‘Going Up." The War j j Finance Corporation's bookkeepers j j are busy these days crediting coun- j | try banks in the Mississippi Valley : | with repaid loans. Os some 4,1100! banks accommodated since 1921, 2,500- j odd have now paid off in full or in j part the loans that were made them ' to help tide the farming community ; through the deflation period. The j number of individual rurallsts dl- i reoily aided runs into the tens of i thousands. Meyer's general conclu- j slon Is that the West and Northwest have hobbled to their feet again. j •X * * <= Herman It. Kohlsaat. veteran Chi- j cago editor anil publisher. Just gath ! ered to his fathers, considered that | the outstanding political episode of his latter-day life was his ' run in" j with Henry Cabot Lodge last year. Senator Lodge took umbrage at the reference in Kohlsaat’s memoirs, ‘‘From McKinley to Harding." to the Insult Mark Hanna offered him at the i St. Louis Republican convention in 1596, Lodge categorically denied the author's narration of the episode. "But he did so." Kohlsaat once ex plained to this observer, "on the understanding that all the other wit nesses of the occurrence were, like Hanna, no longer of this life. He forgot that, besides himself and my self. there was one other still alive — a distinguished university president— and I could have produced that man j as a witness. If I had cared to con - i tinue the controversy." Kohlsaat; liked to chuckle over his admission j to guest-membership in the ultra-; exclusive Athenaeum Club of London. A famous Englishman proposed him j for that unusual honor because he; thought the “gold plank,” which) Kohlsaat wrote Into the 189tj G. O. P. j platform, was the name of a success-. ful American novel! ♦♦ # * When campaign chairmen, treaa- , uren* and miner gold-diggers tell 1 Senator Borah’s Investigating com-1 raittee of the millions they have I raised or expect to get. they don't, refer to money required to 'buy elections. In a presidential or con greesional campaign money goes In countless directions It seldom finds its way into the pocket or hand of a venal voter. The eventual ob jective of all campaign barrels Is to "get out the vote." Homer Cum min gn. former Democratic national chairman, says one of the most un romantic but extensive items of cam paign, expenditure is tho coet of automobiles on election day. These have to be hired for tho solo pur pose of transporting vote slackers to the pollr* In a single semi-popu lous city it's not unusuaL to havs to charter a fleet of Ul cars at 110 apiece for the day. That rasa • into money rapidly la a State,- say, *-- ; .v' ■*. i ; ~ , i appointed was Richard White, at [ salary of fsoo. Q. W’hat Is the term applied to I dandelion which signifies that i . will grow anywhere?—G. W. T. A, A plant which grows In prac tically all regions in light or shad* t moist or dry conditions, as the dand* • lion does, is termed a üblquist. Q- Are forest fires often caused , by carelessness?—C. C. P. . I A. Thousands of forest Area ar« , so caused. The Government is ask , ing the co-operation of all citizen* , to lessen this menace. Jt cays “tor est fires cost millions a year. Don' 1 start one. Don’t throw fire away In the ’ woods or along the road. When yoi. smoko In the woods don’t start a foren 1 fire.” Q. Why did Roscoe Conkling resign from the Senate shortly after Gar field was elected President?—P. G. R A. President Garfield appointee William H- Robertson to the post ot / collector of the port of New York, arousing the opposition of Senator Conkling of that State, who finally resigned his scat la tha Senate or this account. Senator Platt, his co; league, did likewise, both asking the New York Legislature to return then as a Justification of their course. This was not done. Senators Miller an- Lapham being elected after a blue! j contest. / Q. What is “long Sunday”7—S. L K A- When the last day of the old year came upon the Sabbath. In old*! times. It was called “long Sunday a* worship and prayer lasted until midnight, at which hour the "watc meeting” waa dismissed. Q. Where did corduroy goods get Us name?—N. G- Q. A. This corded cloth was ram— from a finer fabric* manufactured !' France and used In the hunting ha blliments of the King and his suit-- then called “cord du rol,” translate “the King's cord.” Q. In the 1912 election did Pre* dent Wilson receive a majority of Un popular votes?—V. J. M. A. In this election it was the d. vision of the Republican votes, fol lowing the formation of the Progrev slvo party, which made President Wilson’s election possible. Wllllan Howard Taft received 3.482.922 vote* Theodore Roosevelt, 4.128,02 u vote while Woodrow Wilson receive \ 6,288,214, and 1,135,bi1l vote.-* wer cast for other candidates. Ahrahir Lincoln was elected In 1880 by sue a split In the Democratic party Douglas and Breckinridge dividing th- Democratic vote. Q. What is tha Trogsachs?—T T. McC. A. This Is a beautiful valley It Scotland, which, since the immortali zation by Sir Walter Scott in th J “Lady of the Lake” and “Koh Roy has been a great tourists’ rfisort. Q. Where did Wall street get 1* ; name?—XV. ft. C. , | A. Wall street. New York City, e\ 1 tends from Broadway to the East | Rivc-r and follows the line of the earl, city wall across Manhattan Island. Q. Will you please explain how p is that age varies tha lines of lano In measuring.—M. L. XV. A. The magnetic declination of the ■ compass changes a few minutes each 1 year, a different amount at different j places. In some places It amounts to | a degree In 15 years. Q. ‘To settle a bet, tell me whether cockroaches can fly.?—A. T. E. A. The Biological Survey says a fully matured cockroach develop wings so that it can fly. Such roaches, i however, arc seldom seen fadoora, j {The per on who loses out is the per ' son who guesses. Tho person who get* * ■ on is always the one who arts upon r ; liable information. This paper emplo i 1 Frederic J. U skin to conduct an i j formation tvrthw for the public. Thcr. 1 | is no charge except 2 cents in stamp * far return postage. Xl'ri 4 o to him tod< ; for any farts j-ou desire. Four inquire j should be add.-ssed to The Star tn i formation Bureau., Frederic J. Baskin. ; diree-tor. Twenty-first and C street 1 northwest.') | where ther* are ten or a (Jozen sur? cities* ** * * I If the fates are kind so him or 1 November 4'. "Ted” Roosevelt, o course, will forthwith assume pres: dentist stature. He is not the on!' son of a former President of th■ ; United States with ambMtons to r new the ijeenes of childhood in the Vt hlte House. None other than younc , Richard Folsom Cleveland. ton o ! Grover Cleveland. Is credited bv his i fHcuds with the aspiration to scab ; dizzy political heights twic. climbed by his late father. ‘ - Di'k ; is a stalwart Democrat, just abosc !of tho constitutional age which presidential candidate must be and ; according to his admirers, ready i ; embark upon a professional politico I career. ♦ ' * ♦ ♦ Washington’s diplomatic corps afte . January 1. lf*2s. will bo almost mad. | over, with no fewer than five r.ey Ambassadors among chiefs of mis , slons of that rank. M, Jussefand wilt* I quit the United btates. after 22 y. ar of faithful per Vico to France, alon v-ith the Ambassadors of Italv an.) Germany. Abyut that time, too. .Jap;y and Mexico will be stationing nev Ambassadors here. M. .lusserand wir be succeeded as dean of the Washing ton corps by Senor Riano, "Ambaesa dor of Spain, who is in hie eleventh ! consecutive year in the United fltatet $ No diplomat ever served his countrj so long at one post as Juseerarol has: and probably few diplomats of any country ever did, at any poet There are suggestions that the dl* tinguished Frenchman may make h. home in the United States. His wife is an American (though born in 1 Paris) and their middle life has been passed In our country, where their i deepest friendships aro rooted. M | JusScrand would adorn the faculty i of some great university. Bclles-lct : tres aro his fort.*. ! La Toilette claims two distinguished ; Republican - coftyerts in Greater Kev j York —{-'uprome Court Justice John j Ford and Representative Florello II i La Guardia of the "Little Italy" die j irict. La Guardia is campaigning so 1 re-clectlon on the Socialist ticket and iis out for La Follette. Hie populous ; bailiwick along the Last River o.«- | ualiy follows MaJ. La Guardia's load j and the Progressives are counting J heavily on a big vote there. La i Guardia was an airplano bomber io ; the American Army on the Italian I front, and he is dropping high ex plosives nightly from the stump in Gotham on Republican and Democrat 1c heads alike. «** * j Whether Japanese should be per mitted to become naturalised citizen is to be discussed at this weeks moot ing of tho American Academy of Po litical and Social Science at Phil: delphla. The academy has no in top. tion bf taking sides on this burning issue, bwt thought a useful purpoT might bo served in airing various as pects of it. Raymond F. Crist, coil* • missioner of naturalisation, in bis last annual report r«coromended granting naturalisation rights t<» Japanese. > ■ (Oeßyright. UWJ . \