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The Washington herald., 1920-11-07
Eternal Vigilance" I"

Americans are great for setting some
thing down upon paper and considering it
accomplished.
Make law about itl' "Put it in the
Constitution" Prestol Human nature is
changed.
When the first amendment was accept
ed, when the Bill of Rights was adopted,
America settled down to the conclusion that
she had settled all matters of personal
liberty for all time
Free speech?"
Sure" says the American. "Its in the
Constitution. Seet Congress shall make
no law abridging the freedom of speech
Can't make it palmer than that"
Yet, in crisis, Congress has no great
difficulty enacting law. which actually re-
strains freedom of speech and which is
sustained in the courts.
Therefore, be not too concerned about
the exact wording of the league pact. Look
to its spirit rather than to its letter. Neg.
leet not any safeguards, but chiefly see
that there is room to- move about in it,
and to grow.
The chief value of the league is that it
gives the nations chance to get together.
Eternal vigilance" is the price not only
OF liberty, but of everything worth having.
Alas! the attitude of vigilance is such
a firing. trying one, and eternity is so long,
SO long!
The Washington herald., 1920-11-07
Says England Changed
From Old Hate Policy

Where is the mood that made England's
Hang the Kaiser" election possible? in
quires the New Republic. What little might
be left of that epidemic of noisy hatred
should forever be dispelled by the fine ges
ture of fifty-seven Oxford professors and
doctors, in letter to German and Austrian
professors. "We now personally approach
you" say the Dons, with desire to dispel
the embitterment of anirnosities that under
the impulse of loyal patriotism may have
passed between us. In the field where our
aims are one, our enthusiasms the same
we can surely look to be reconciled,
and the fellowship of learning offers a road
which may - lead to wider sympathy
and better understanding between our kin
dred nations" In world that has, to be
sure, forgotten much of its hatred, but not
remembered to renounce-it publicly and gen.
erously, these words are breath of fresh
air.
The Washington herald., 1920-11-07
Swarthmore's President Resigns.

Nineteen years of service as president of
Swarthmore College by Dr. Joseph Swain
will close next June. He represents that In
diana strain of the Friends resident in the
United States; he had his educational train
ing in the West. taught in Indiana Uni
versity and at Leland Stanford, Jr. Uni
versity, and was called from there to the
Pennsylvania College, with its co-educational
system of education and its more liberal type
OF Quakerism. In him Herbert Hoover
found one of his first and best friends when
he was beginning his upward climb. DR.
SWANS interest in religious education for
the masses of the people has led him of late
years to active service in the National Coun-
Gil OF Religious Education. He is Ga wears
old, and he prefers to devote the rest Of his
life to writing on problems Of education for
the new age. There is much ferment among
the younger Quakers now that a younger
man can better meet, ferment that challenges
both the internal policy of the Friends as
sect, and also the ancient form of demo-
cratic society. Many of them by their con-
tact with contemporary Europe while doing
war and postwar relief work have become
radicals who are far from satisfied with piet-
ism and quietism and insistence on the so
exclusive virtues of pacihsm and declara-
ton of truth
The Washington herald., 1920-11-07
Sn William Ramsay.

The local branch of the Archaeological In
stitute of America has listed "star" speaker
for its next meeting. Sir William Mitchell
Ramsay is not stranger in the country, fo-
our academic institutions long since ap-
praised him at his full worth. He combines
the best products of Scotch and English uni
versity life and ideals There are few, If
any, honors of formal sort conferred on
scholars of eminence by European govern
ments and learned societies that he has not
received. He has no close rivals among
British savants, and only a few among Ger
man scholars in knowledge of Asia Minor,
its geography. history and culture, past and
present. The church at large owes him
much for his contributions to the history of
the early church in lands later TO be held
subject to the Turk for so long a time.
When speaking here he will outline tie out
look for archaeological investigation and dis
covery in Anatolia.
The Washington herald., 1920-11-07
Marriage Painful; But
CeEbacy Not Joyful

II have met" said the princess, with
many who live single, but l never found
that their prudence ought to raise envy.
They dream away their time without friend
ship, without fondness, and are driven to rid
themselves of the day. for which they have
no use, by childish amusement Or vicious
delights. They act as beings under con-
slant sense of some known inferiority that
fills their minds with rancor; and their
tongues with censure. They are peevish at
home; and malevolent abroad; and, as the
ness and their pleasure to disturb that soci-
ETY. which debars. them its privileges. To
live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to
be fortunate without adding to the felicity OF
others, or afflicted without tasting the balm
of pity, is state more gloomy than soii-
tude; it is not retreat, but exclusion from
mankind. Marriage has many pains, but eel
ibacy has no pleasures. DIR. Samuel John
son in "Rasselas"
The Washington herald., 1920-11-07
Walter p. Eaton
To Lecture Here
Man Who Dropped Conpen-
tioaaI Criticism To
Talk On Drama.
By.oEoRoE PERRY MORRIS.

Washingtonians are to have the oppor-
tunity this season of hearing Walter Prit-
chard Eaton lecture on the drama He was
New England born and educated and New
York trained in dramatic criticism, and
through his writings on play-making, play
producing and play-acting he has come to
have national constituency. You find il
difficult to decide whether to admire him
most for his "brezkaway" from conventional
dramatic criticism when he ceased % be per-
soma grata with certain New York managers
and thereby lost his job on the old "Sun,"
or Tor the slow but sure way he has come to
the front as loving interpreter Of Nature IN
her all-the-year moods as seen in the Berk-
shire Hills, where he now lives. Moreover,
OF late he has begun publishing verse that
has merit; and for believers in Socialism he
is one OF the most important of the "intellec-
tuals" recently brought into the movement
One feature OF Eaton's comment on plays
or players is its serene wisdom, based largely
on that opportunity for reflection and com
parative thought which his Stockbridge life
affords. The hectic rush which is necessary
for the conventional comment on a play 10
be read the morning after its first night"
he wots not of-now. He takes the train
for New York, sits him down in the play
house in seat paid for out of his own
purse, the next day talks the play over with
congenial friends, then travels back to the
hills, and in due time writes. II is the best
French method and quite alien to American
traditions; but it ranks high when you do
have chance to read IL, and il will endure
much longer than the "half-cock" judgments
OF most of his contemporaries.
The Washington herald., 1920-11-07
Pennies Prone to Disappear.

What becomes OF the pennies9 About
100000 or more are made and put into
circulation every year and very few ever
come back to the Treasury Department
This has long puzzled Treasury officials.
who assert that il would be impossible 10
lose 100000 pennies a year in such out
of-the-way places that no one would find
them, and il is certain that few persons are
boarding them. The copper is a real ba-
rometer of business. In hard times thew
collect by millions in the ssbtreasuries and
when trade revives they flow out as fast
as they flowed in.
The most valuable penny OF American
issue is that Of 1899, and collectors paw
hundreds Of dollars for each OF them. The
great scarcity of this coin is alleged TO be
due to the fact that Salem firm In 400
collected all the pennies il could find. bored
holes in them and made necklaces. arm or
naments and anklets, and these were sent
with slave ships to Africa, where they
we're traded to chiefs for captiyes. The
first penny was issued in 1909 and was
very similar to the pennies Of later dates
except that a chain of thirteen links was
woven about the words "One Cent" The
white pennies" or nickel cents, were is
sued in 1857. and they are already so rare
as to be sought by collectors
The Washington herald., 1920-11-07
Wherein G. B. S. Calls
An Admirer 'Fool I"

The war caused one reporter and musical
critic, like the traditional worm trodden on,
to turn comments the author of With the
Long Bow" in the Minneapolis Journal.
Gerald Cumberland, lying around in the
trenches, started to write the exact facts
about the persons great and small whom
he had interviewed or met, and the result
is frisky and vicious little book OF reminis-
cences called "Set Down in Malice"-and
such delightful malice, too! When the horse
is on him, Mr.. Cumberland is just as free
to put it down in black and white as he is
when he has done despite to the person in
terviewed.
For example, early in his career Mr..
Cumberland started out pronounced Sha-
Wan. He wrote Mr.. Shaw letter of warm
admiration, at the same time outlining some
of his own philosophy of life. He was going
to give every penny he could spare to those
most in need of pecuniary help. Mr. Shaw
wrote back in these succinct words:
You are not prig-only damned fool.
A months experience will cure you,"
Mr.. Cumberland states that he does not
remember in what terms of panied surprise
and hurt vanity he replied to this letter, but
in few days Mr.. Shaw came back thus:
"Yes; You are an ass; and nothing will
help you till you get over that. Yes, a
hopeless ass. No matter; embrace your des-
tiny and become philsnthropist. II is not
bad life Tor people who are built that way"
The Washington herald., 1920-11-07
'Finder" of O.Henry Leaves Munseu
Plans Career as Literary Middleman

Bob" Davis is leaving the employ of
Mr.. Munsey and is to become an independ-
ent "middleman." For twenty years he has
been the best known discoverer of celebri-
ties in the world of copy producers for our
magazine and book publishers. 20. Henry"
first found in Davis a man who knew
genius going unrewarded and there are
many writers now living with more than a
national reputation who rise up and call
him blessed" To rare discernmcnt he has
added personal affection for his talented
proteges. Their triumphs have brought
him JOY. 1t stands to reason that when
he opens his new offices he will have many
clients; and also that publishers will listen
to his recommendations.
For twenty years George Ernest Bow
man has been studying genealogical data
having to do with passengers on the ship
Mayhower that sailed into Plymouth Bay
in 1920. He recently has had thrill such
as antiquarians only know. He has found
that there was boy on board the vessel
named Richard More, who was in charge
of Elder William Brewster. He grew up
in Plymouth, moved to Salem, married
twice, and when he died at the age of 81,
was buried in the Charter Street Gene
terry. Proof of all this personal data has
just been formulated in a way to make it
possible to add More's name to the forty
nine other PilgrimS whose descendants are
known; and now the scurry will begin to
gain admission to the exclusive order of
Mayfower Descendants by showing that
More was family ancestor. There were
fifty-four other Pilgrim passengers, who
were most careless in leaving evidence as
to their doings and their descendants. May
Mr.. Bowman live to have another thrill
Americans who met A. F. Whyte, one
of the editors of New Europe, when he
was in this country in IoI8-Io. will be
much interested to know that this Scotch
Liberal has been assigned by the British
government to go out TO India and be the
first president of the legislative assembly
of lao members-most of them natives
who are to function in the newly created
Indian Parliament. His duties are not only
to be those of presiding officer, but also
those of laison officer between the as
sembly and the officials; and one of his
. first tasks will be to help shape parlia-
mentary rules of procedure Educated at
the University of Edinburgh, he has had
a most varied career in and out of office,
serving as private secretary for ministers,
The Washington herald., 1920-11-07
The 1920 Nobel Prize Author.

A former North Dakota plowboy and
Chicago street car conductor and Newfound-
land fisherman, Knut Hamsun, has been
awarded the Nobel prize for literature. Fic-
tion is his medium, and he is said to have
been translated into twenty-three languages.
Honor bright, did you ever read one of his
books? Manifestly he needs better publicity
in the land to which he migrated and later
left, enriched with material" for his ulti-
mate conquest. There is nothing odd about
the fact that having once lived among us he
decided that the home land was best. Jacob
Rms, another Scandinavian, stayed with us,
became popular as an author and as a trans
muted alien, and his bones lie In Amer;c.,
soil But he was not primarily an artist
rather social uplifter. Hamsun dreamed
the visions Of an artist. and neither South
Dakota, Chicago nor Newfoundland stimu-
lated productivity. Ergo, he went home.
Likewise did Clemenceau and Maseheld.
The Washington herald., 1920-11-07
Knitting in Jazz.

If mother is fussy. peevish or nervous
Don't criticise her!
Maybe she has embroidery nerves."
DR.. Louis r. Welzmuller, physical d.
rector of the New York West Side Y. W.
c. A, predicts that the new disease is
about to announce itself.
And why? Because, as Dr. Welzmul-
Ter explains the mother of today, and even
the daughter, is whirlwind with the knit
ting needles. They fly in the train, at the
theater, on the front porch and everywhere
else where mother has chance to sit down.
Not like the old days when gradma took
her own sweet time on that shawl Her
movements were rhythmical. Those seen
today are jerky, and rushy.
The Washington herald., 1920-11-07
Ban on Priuate
Land in Capital
Cdnberra, Seat of Austria
lian Government, to be
: Model City.

Australia is building new national cap
ital. federal district, known as Canberra
and composing 900 square miles. has been
set aside for the purpose Canberra is be-
tween New South Wales and Victoria, is
2o4 miles southwest of Sydney, 42o miles
northeast of Melbourne and I23 miles from
Jarvis Bay.
/. The plans for the new city are unique
and reflect the progress of Australian opin-
ion. Competitive tests for the design were
participated in by architects from all over
the world, and an American, Walter Burley
Griffin, was successful The work, which
was halted during the war, is being re-
sumed. -
The Commonwealth will not allow any
OF the lands within the federal district to
become private property. Individuals may
lease whatever lands they wish to use, but
none may be purchased. Lessees may build
or make other improvements, and these
buildings or improvements will be the
property of the individuals and be free of
taxation, but the building sites will remain
the property of the Commonwealth.
The rental value of all land within the
district will go into the public treasury to
pay communal expenses. Consequently, it
will not be paying investment for any
individual to hold land that he does not
put to its most productive use. At the
same time the INDIVIDUAL VINO makes proper
use of the land he holds will not be pen
allied by taxation of his improvements.
By this provision, the Commonwealth
of Australia hopes to protect its capi-
tai from land speculation, unemployment.
slums, monopolies and poverty. A writer
in the American Economic League Bulletin
expresses the opinion that if the United
States had done the same in Washington
and the District of Columbia, conditions
therein would be different from what they
are.
"The people of Washington, through
their industry and enterprise have made the
land of Washington valuable" he says,
, "but the values they have created are ap-
propriated by the landlords who hold title
to Washington sites The people of the
United States, by making Washington the
seat of the Federal government, by erect
ing there magnificent public buildings and
making the locality attractive in other
ways, have increased the desirability of liv-
ing and doing business in Washington.
| This has vastly increased the value Of land
here, but the financial benefits go entirely
to individual landowners"
The Australian plan includes proper
housing arrangements, with ample gar
dens, parks and other attributes of pleas
ant city.
The Washington herald., 1920-11-07
The Thing to Do, But.

"Electrify the railroads." said Dr. Charles
P. Steinmetz, the great authority -on cleo
tricity, in an address before the Chicago
Electric Club in discussing the ultimate
solution of the fuel problem, the freight
congestion and the inadequate transporta-
ton facilities generally. ..-.
The case for identification is, of course,
powerful one on paper and in discussion.
The railroads are the greatest consumers of
coal on the continent, and coal is now
precious-to say nothing of the plague of
dust, cinders and sparks in the cities and
along the dry countryside where the danger
of forest and grass fires persists. E1ectrifi-
cation, too, saves considerable yard space
and makes for dispatch in business. But
And in this simple word "but" lies the
difficulty. The roads already need hun
dreds of millions of dollars for equipment,
extensions, double tracking and numerous
other Improvements, and hundreds of mill,
ions more would hardly cover the expense
of electrihcation. Capital is scarce and in
great demand at high interest rates.
But if electri6cation is going to pay. as
uhoOhOtSNiy h thC iOHS run IL VIII pay, IL
is certain to come about. Who would have
thought, at the beginning of the present
century, that such vast numbers of $1,000
to $4,000 automobiles could have been
sold? Nearly everyone predicted that the
cost of cars would be prohibitivei But the
results have proved quite otherwise What
the public wants, it will have somehow.
So little by little, and in surprising ways,
the electri6cation of the railroads, if it is
found to pay, will come about
1t seems likely that electri6cation will
be the ultimate solution of power for the
railroads and perhaps of the coal problem
for the rest of US. And as more problems
than one are involved in the change, so the
sooner it is likely to come about when once
the needs of the situation become pressing
and they already are quite powerful When
soft coal sells at present prices, it becomes
question If it is not about as cheap to be-
gin to electrify as to blow this expensive
fuel out of hundred thousand locomotive
smokestacks.
The Washington herald., 1920-11-07
A Flower That Lures
By Beauty-and Kills

Are you lover OF orchids? Then, know,
that along the Rio Negro there are orchid
thickets, miles and miles of orchids, like. Our
blackberry at home. Can you appreciate the
color of it?
But here is the fly in this sweet tasting
ointment Among the orchids that grow
there, most fragrant perhaps the most beau
tiful of all is the yellow orchid, the van
lila orchid, the blossom of the vanilla plant.
1t is the siren among orchids, for by its
fragrance which carries a great distance II
attracts birds, among them, the little ones
with shimmering breasts
A few breaths of the aroma of the vanilla
orchid is fatal to the little birds.-The Bra
lillian, Rio.
The Washington herald., 1920-11-07
Sonnet

- me, fair friend. you never can be old
= For you when first your eye / eyd
- Such your beauty still Three winters cold
Have from the forests shook three summers pride;
Three beauteous springs to yellow autumns turn'd.
In process of the seasons have seen,
Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burnd
Since first / you fresh which yet are green.
All! yet doth beauty like dial hand,
Steal from his figure and pace percevd;
So sweet your hue, which methinks still doth stand,
Hath motion and mine eye may be decevd
For fear of which, hear this thou age INBRED
Ere you were born beauty's dead
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Washington herald., 1920-11-07

gong on special commissions of inyestiea-
tion to foreign lands, sitting in Parliament
as lawmaker, active in the navy during
the war, and latterly journalist with an
international vision. During his stay in
this country he got very close to the life
of the people in many sections of the land
and wherever he is and whatever he does
the United States will always have in him
sincere friend. Now he is to help lay
the foundations of home rule for India, so
that its future may be evolutionary and
parliamentary and not revolutionary and
communistic.
The name of E. H. Sothern among the
contributors to the treasury OF the League
to Enforce Peace at once attracts atten-
ton as you run down the list of donors
So many Of them are business men, in
horitors of large fortunes, highly paid pro-
fessional men and the like that it makes
more conspicuous the name of an artist
actor and manager. OF the educators,
President Lowell, Of Harvard University,
seems to have given the largest sum, s., 400
That is what is possible when you happen
to come of an old New England family
associated for generations with leading
sectional industry.
Thomas F. Millard is to proceed to
Geneva to attend the first meeting of the
dsSSHnUiy Vi llc league OF ndtiOnS mcet1nS
there next month. China, as at Paris, will
have him as an adviser when she reopens
the Shantung question. Mr.. Millard was
one of group of American correspondents
whose experiences in Tokyo during the
first stages OF the Russo Japanese war
were educational on two points. One was
the new theory of handling war corre-
spondents so as to reduce to a minimum
their efficiency as gatherers of news for
the world. The lesson Japan then set,
Europe adopted 'in IoI4-IS. Most of the
Americans came home mad but acquies-
cent Millard stayed in the Far East and
has been settling the account ever since
Robert Bridges, Englands poet laureate,
has emerged from unproductive privacy to
give his support to professors in Oxford
who recently have urged reconciliation be-
tween German and British scholars Bridges
was not the choice of his countrymen for
the post he holds, Kipling was. Kipling's
attitude today no doubt, could it be ex-
pressed, would not be for reconciliation, at
least until there had been contrition and
works meet for repentance"
The Washington herald., 1920-11-07

When fails the soul, fight as we
win, we die; but while it lasts, we can
not wholly end.-M. Arnold.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-03
Car Fares Must Be Uniform.

In sumrnoning all the other trac-
ton companies to Join with the Wash.
ington Railway and Electric Company
tns applying for an increase Of fare.
ne Commissioners merely Indicate
tfsAt In their action they win consider
the two main systems as.one for the
purpose of: fare regulation. This sig.
miles THAT whatever the fare may be
II WI Be uniform throughout the Dis.
trict- .-..
II the application Of the Washington
Railway and Electric Company for a
higher fare were to be considered sole
ly in terms of the ability OF that COM
pany to pay expenses and earn rea-
sonable dividend, at the present rate
Of fare. regardless Of the financial ca.
pacity Of the Capital Traction Com.
: pauy, the Commissioners might be led
to the point where, IL the law per.
nditfed. they could order differential
for the. applying company. leaving
others at the present rate, or possibly
a lower rate than now prevails. This
would be- most unfortunate in its eff.
feet upon. the applying company. 1t
would put it at a great disadvantage In
bidding for patronage in those parts OF
the CITY where the two systems are in
competition.
This order to join applications mere.
siys emphasizes the difficulties Of the