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The Washington herald., 1921-01-30
Finds Wonderland in Texas
Few Know Big Bend Country

Rio Grande. One of his guides, who made
his home at Del Rio, had trapped beavers
for years on the river, deriving considerable
revenue from the sale of their skins.
Those portions of Southwest Texas
merit careful study by the geoIogist and
the geographer," DR.. Hill said, and they
also offer scenic beauties for the tourist.
but he must be hardy explorer sort of
person to reach them. Yet even out there,
the few inhabitants know little Of their
country, and have had sheep raisers and
goat rsisers there tell me that they did not
know even the names of some OF the high
est peaks.
Across the river, in Northern Chihua-
hua, there are sections of virtual wilder
ness and desert that arc unknown. The
country has never been properly mapped
and there arc vast reaches to which civil
liZed man has never even penetrated Ii is
the terra incognits' of the North American
continent, and yet it holds much to repay
the explorer, the traveller and the pros
pector"
Chasms, which are gigantic gashes in the
surface OF the earth, through which the
Rio Grande winds its devious way; moun-
taIns where the coloring of Nature lies in
masses that are as mysterious as they are
ephemeral, plains that simmer in the
MONDAY sun-all will some day be trans
ferred to canvas by the brush Of master
artist. When the grandeur and beauty, the
mystery and grotesqueness of the Rio
Grande country become known, hardy and
adventurous artists will travel there and
reproduce those hitherto vague wonders
in colors that will not fade Sunrise in
the Grand Canyon OF ST. Helena is said TO
b be one of the most awe-inspiring sights
that man has ever witnessed. The marrow
ness OF the gorge, at the bottom of which
the river winds and rushes, tends to ac-
centuste the spectacular appearance of the
day when the first rays of the sun strike
aslant the upper walls OF the canyon.
Where the canyon lowers into wider
and less precipitous character, the sun
strikes along the opposite banks, throw
ing The shadows in deeply and lighting
the cliffs with an ever changing combina-
ton of colors
Much of Texas scenery has been sketch
ed and painted, but the surface has, hgura-
lively speaking, never been scratched and
an infinite number of localities within the
borders of the State remain to be discov-
cred by some landscape painter whose
genius may do justice to the opportunity
offered. From the pine forest of the east
ern border of the State, through the middle
countries and out in the cap rock country
of what was once the Llano Estacsdo of
our boyhood days wealth of scenery,
Natures tribute to the might of her own
forces, geological wonders exist Artistic
opportunity offers with here and there an
appreciation of what is some day to come
in the form of some little oil sketch or the
best efforts of wandering photographer.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-30
Women Jurors.

1t must seem strange to the rest of the
United States that the women of the Dis
trct of Columbia should have to petition
Congress for the right to serve on juries
Being enfranchised and so becoming in fact
citizens, wosd seem to automatically carry
this right which really is an obligation
Few men covet this right. Most of them
are glad to be ignored. They are like the
Russian who,. when asked if the Russian
people were willing to go to war, replied:
mo, but we went willingly" =
There is a decided distinction in this and
most men while they serve on juries will
ingly would decidedly prefer not to be
called. 1t might rightly be designated as
Jury duty" 1t is function of good citi-
zenship to be undertaken in that spirit. '' e
But wanting to serve, certainly women
should be accorded the privilege, if privi-
lege it in fact is. Moreover, in many cases
they would make the best of jurors. They
have an acute sense of Justice high
standard OF honor and are less liable to
have these outweighed by appeals to Gus
tom, habit or mere sentiment
Also their intentions often enable them to
see back Of camouAsge of technicality or
smudge of circumstance. There may be
reasons why men, or even their own sex,
would object to women in the jury box,
but such reasons look to the avoidance
rather than the enforcement of justice.
The Constitution does not confer on all
citizens the duty or privilege of service
on juries. 1t merely preserves to everyone
the right of trial by jury in civil and crimi-
nal cases. The States, as rule, in fram-
ing their laws have specified that jurors
should be males" for the sufficient reason,
until now, that only males were citizens
and voters, and alone, in years past, had
full property rights.
But since the Nineteenth amendment
making women citizens and voters, along
with the usual fact of economic independ
ence and the recognition of property rights,
there is no possible excuse for longer ex-
cluding them from juries.
Many of the States, if not most, have
already given this right. Certainly the
first place, not the last, in which this
should be conceded is the District OF Co
lumbia, the seat of the Federal govern
ment and by Congress that passed the reso-
luton for the Nineteenth amendment.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-30
A Popular Investigation.

The general agreement, in which the
Attorney General concurs, that the Depart
ment of Justice ought to be investigated
naturally raises the question why this
method hasn't been employed. before as
way of determining whether the serious
charges which have been made against
this department are or are not justified.
The brief filed with the Senate Judiciary
Committee signed by twelve well known
lawyers, the report on the. deportation
cases issued by commission Of the Fed
eral Council of the Churches of Christ in,
America and the remarks of Judge .Ander-
son in dismissing the cases brought against
group of aliens by the Department of
Justice, constitute, a very grave Indictment
Of the Attorney Generals department
If the charges are groundless Mr.. Palmer
ought to be given an opportunity to make
a more effective denial than is contained in
statement that these allegations are 'un-
doubted. fslsehoods." The Attorney Cen
eral and his assistants are entitled to pub
lie vindication il such is warranted by the
facts in the case and the public should be
assured that a precedent has not been es-
tsblished under which in times of unusual
tension the agents of the government may
violate constitutional rights which it is
their Office to defend
The Washington herald., 1921-01-30
Shaw and Eruine
Called TypicalIrish

fell to thinking of St. John Ervine as,
late at night, l walked, depressed and. dis
appointed, from the Abbey Theater to my
Dublin hotel Here, said to myself, is a
typical Irishman; that is to say, pushful
man with brains man who, at all costs,
will "get on" in the world; a man who
saves and is careful; a man who works
with an almost desperate energy. He has
all the qualities with which the traditional
Irishman is not endowed. But the tradi-
tional Irishman never existed outside the
novels OF Lever.
Bernard Shaw also conforms to type
Only the other day l saw him in Leicester
Square, clad gravely and respectfully in
black and almost extensively clean, the
Puritan in excelsis. The Irishmsn Of ira
dition is fond OF leaning against the bar of
a public house, but Bernard Shaw does not
even take the whisky bottle from the eel
laret w. B. Yeats thinks inns are pictur-
esoue, but has not George Moore recorded
that in the old days this poets refreshment
at midday was bun and a glass of milk?
No, the feckless, jolly, generous, drinking
Irishman has been created for literary COM
mercisl purposes. Synge's plsyboy is the
result of two generations of careful fiction
and deliberate lying.
1t is in St John Ervine and Bernard
Shaw that one sees the typical hishmzn;
a fellow who, despite his imagination and
sympathy, lives with one eye on the Muse
and the other on the cash box.-Gerald
Cumberland in the Century Magazine.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-30
What Was the Origin
Of Prohibition?

In all this discussion of the Eighteenth
amendment we have heard no one talk
about the origin of prohibition. 1t is
question that has long given myself no lit
tie concern, although, feeling sure that like
cuckoo clocks and celluloid cuffs and other
appurtenSnces of our modern life, il was
invented in China. confined myself to the
solution OF more enhancing ,problems-like
which came first, winter or spats and
whether Amy Lowell was made for poetry,
or poetry for Amy Lowell But the Chi
nese have kept conspicuously silent about
the, matter of prohibition, and therefore l.
Tecently instituted an investigation that
thus lar has been more fruitful in revealing
where prohibition did not originate than
where it did. Just as an example I spent
a month upon the theory that it was born
in Ecuador, upon the principle that our
South American. neighbor once upon a
time had called itself .Aeuador, but my
friends reminded me of the Monroe doc
trihes and asked, Why pan American -
Also, spent. a fortnight upon the in
; trigiiing question Of whether hops were
made, for the brew, or brew for the hopsL
but here; l. encountered only mystery, and
the question degenerated into an argument
Of pre-hops versus perhops. ThA Anearest
l have come to anything like an 6rigin is
to the fact that there was likker on the ark,
little thought confirmed by Noahs put
ting it in the dictionary Well, not the
nearest, either, for we know that Cain
sniote his brother hip, and thigh, both ana
toniical references clearly Indicating the
existence of a bootlegging business away
back there. The apple in the garden might
seem to, offer clue in the direction of
home made cider except that the account
OF the temptation does not mention the ex-
istenee. OF worm in the apple or of the
apple in worm" And besides, Adam
only saw one serpent, and who would be
tempted by cider anyhow? Adam un-
doubtedly tell, but not for, apple juice
Cartoons Magazine = ~ y 80
The Washington herald., 1921-01-30
The Return.

Down the silvery, sodden lane,
Through the pale gray mists of evening
Comes the old blue buffalo.
Upon his ample back
A little golden child
1.azily sprawls at his ease,
Singing the ancient song
Ot the returning buffsloes
They move as though in a dream.
The child scarce knows he rides
And the buffalo heeds not
The idle whacks
From the small ones willow. branch
The buffalo dreams Of night.
When the little ones are asleep
And the lights in the huts 90 oot
Then he will wander down -. ..--
To certain stzgnant pool :.
And sink deep in the 'ooze-> -.
The cool, delicious slime
There will he lie submerged So
And bark to a thousand frogs
On thousand lotus iesyes -
Lit by the emerald lamps
Of myriad twinldipg frehies
There will he czuse the bright stars
To dance on the wstery hoor
Covered with magic rings,
Rings Of black and gold
Which he makes by blowing through his
nose.
And the great round moon looks down
Into his deep brown eyes; -
For the kind moon loves. us all
Poets and buHalees.
BY Alan w. s. Lee, in Asia Msgszine for
February. 30
The Washington herald., 1921-01-30
Not Pointed This Way.

Japan has published in full the treaty
with Great Britain covering their mutual
interests in the Far East. 1t is in effect
defensive alliance as applied to those
interests. 1t tells nothing not already
known.
Great Britain has it's interests in India
and Asia to protect. 1t was understood
at the time the original treaty, that the
British purpose was to relieve the neces-
sity of keeping large naval feet in East
ern waters and so allow feet 'concentra-
ton in home waters.
On Japan's part the object was to secure
the friendly cooperation of Great Britain
in its national aspirations in the East. 1t
was a clear case of swap; of mutual sup
port confined to that side of the Pacific.
= 1t had no relation whatever to the
United States nor even to the Philippines,
or to Hawaii. 1t carried no menace to
this country's interests. 1t did not involve
Great Britain in any antfAmerican nor
non-American alliance. 1t was not case
of perferring Japan to America.
1t could not involve this government
unless it interfered on that side OF the
ocean or undertook to balk Japan there.
If we were half as punctilious as to
Oriental affairs as the bitter-enders insist
we must be as those across the Atlantic,
this treaty would concern the United
States no more than if it covered South
African interests.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-30
Mixing Comedy With Tragedy.

Mayor O'Callaghan would not need the
hout-which-not-Irish sense of the absurd
to enjoy the humor of his trip to the
United States and his stay. here. While
enacting supposedly tragic role, he cannot
well help as an Irishman, laughing while he
weeps, and thoroughly enjoying both the
contretemps of his own situation, and the
gyratious of American officials.
NV He must have had great satisfaction in
lodging the Mistress of the Seas, as stowa-
way and then as seaman. Arriving in this
land of the uncertain and home of cross
purposes, he has been tragic figure in a
rip-roariug farce. He has been on the way
every hour with no assurance of destina-
ton.
According to one department he was
foreigner without a passport. According
to another he was a seaman temporarily
in port With two authorities of equal
official rank debating his case, he carried
on.~sHe met whom he wished, went where
he NiIled, spoke what he purposed and ac-
complished that for which he came.
J Finally he was ordered deported and it
seemed that the last scene of the last act
was about to curtain with the hero ta-
-%blesued as heading straight to the British
Lions jaws. But again the comedy part
intrudes; the official tug-of-war is resumed
: in the background; and as seaman he is
TO choose his own vessel for shipping un-
der his own arrangement.
: The play will end when the O'Callaghan
Cork bobs up alongside De Valera in Ire
land. He will ship-no one will know when,
The Washington herald., 1921-01-30
An Exhavagant Alliance.

1T does not seem to have occurred to
Senator Borah that his disarmament
resolution, if carried into effect, would
q, create restricted league of nations. His
sincere desire to end wars, or to make them
less probable, is leading him into a position
. Of Inconsistency.
20 If it is good for the United States, Great
Britain and Japan to enter into a treaty
q of disarmament to so far as possible as
sure peace, why object to the league upon
the basis of entangling alliances? If it is
we'll for the good of this country to become
entangled with Great Britain and Japan,
why is it so bad to exclude the lesser
lights?
Senator Borah apparently has no objec-
tion to the inclusion of France and Italy
in this particular instance, other than that
they are unnecessary to the end sought,
and that they would inevitably follow the
lead of the trio. Yet it might be we'll to
have their influence to that end.
1t might be better still to have the
weight of insistence OF all the lesser ma
lions who look upon the huge armaments
Of their big brothers as a constant menace
to themselves. There is no room for doubt
that all the small nations are sincerely de-
sirous that vast ornaments shall end.
They have a double reason for this. 1t
is not only that if the great powers get
INTO war between themselves, they are quite
sure to be dragged in with them, but even
if they keep out they cannot escape the
economic consequences.
Also they know that if the money used
in big armies and huge navies could be
turned to peaceful investment, they would
largely profit This vast fund would partly
come to them in credits and in investment
IN What was saved in taxes, would seek these
other fields
~ But Mr.. Borah has also conclusively
demonstrated that the United States cannot
do things alone All international action
must be mutual 1t must be based upon
mutual action, on understandings definitely
expressed in treaties, or written exchanges
The United States cannot say to other
nations: DO this" or DO that" 1t must
reach agreements with them as to all
matters which concern them. This is ex
sctly what the Senator has maintained we
must not do, and what he is now trying to
10 MS lOILuCI postum II Dul
states in the narrower field what the league
Of nations expresses m the broader field.
What the United States cannot dictate
alone, by mandate, precept or example, he
would entanglc it with two or four others
ito do How vastly better it will be to join
with all nations to say: "We will" rather
than with the few to say: you must?"
One is democratic; the other is autocratic
The Washington herald., 1921-01-30

where or how. On the other side ) a
boat from one of those labyrinthine wiids
of the West Irish coast will meet him! at
sea He, will land in one of the. innumer-
able spots of mystery where even the sea
fowls lose themselves.
The flag of Dali Eiresnn will unfurl,
there will be another hot time in the old
town. The shamrock will take on
greener hue and for an uncertain period
Ireland will be assured she is a republic
and that England is back number.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-30
Poetic Americans
Seek Real Leader
Free Verse a Failure as
Poetry Drifts INTO Sphere
OF Popular Song.

Poetic America needs a leader. He is
being sought avidly, feverishly, almost des-
perately,, All distress signals are flying,
for, the nations poetry is drifting into the
sphere Of the popular song, Novelty is
the wstchword of the literary day. A new
poet springs up, but, he sets no standard
He is new. mereiy-a variation on an old
theme In a short time he retires to live
on his royalties, occasionally signing his
name to a lot of petty balderdash to satisfy
public. demand And while he rests, dog
ing upon his 1aurels, another new note is
struck. 80 e.
How long can America endure this
higgledy-piggledy situation in its litera->
tdre? For the dcplorable, silly fashion has
extended through American writing as a
whole, and really is more definitely pro-
nouneed in novels than in poetry.
That free verse has failed in the United
States is a fact, highly valued as Amy
Lowell and Edgar Lee Masters may be-
Its failure serves to emphasize the need
for native poets of higher csliber Free
verse might have become something more
than butt of ridicule for the great mass
of American readers-more than an ephem-
era for true patrons of the arts Today a
poet does not win genuine distinction. He
attainS vogue" And, what more is the
reward OF the popular song" writer?
a.. =.
few years ago our national poetry
showed signs of vitality. Robert Frost
published North of Boston,. Edgar Lee
Masters contributed Spoon River An
thology;" Vachel Lindsay fsred up, waving
the American flag and whistling Yankee
Doodle"
Lindsay displayed promise; but recog-
milton went to his head, and he dared His
writing turned hectic and lurid. The
Tough, .clanking product, he sets forth to-
. day is far cry from the sauve, gentle
beauty of The Chinese Nightingale"
Masters may be dismissed with word
The Anthology" is his only production of
worth to date. OF the three, Frost is the
only one able to maintain the pace; even
at that, none of his later work is particu-
larly striking.
Our adopted Alfred Noyes apparently
reached his zenith with the three men
toned above, in his Tales OF the Mer-
NOSCS SHUT NCTSc lCQSy Is
as prinky and melodious as ever, but it is
toned in minor key and its golden rap
ture is fed. In. its various distinctions,
this same truth applies to Sara Teasdale,
Wytter Bynher and others.
Very infrequently today does poet merit
his name. For every hundred lines of
euphonious inanity, there is one line of un-
adulterated truth. The poetry lover who
must read is. rufflng the pages of Bryant
and Shelley and Lowell and Swinburne for
something OF value. If these do not curb
his appetite, he runs to Tennyson and
Longfellow.
Americans with the true artistic sense
will not waste their time in reading the
Paradoxical prattling, of present-day poets
OF this country-paradoxical because at
once-the yerse-is puerile and sophisticated
Poetic America does need leader. Sad
to say, the outlook is dark Only one
vague hope remains, in the fact that
America is the land where the unexpected
usually occurs
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Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-06-23
For Our ChiLdren's Sake!

The State hearing of
the conceved school bonds for the
erection of much grade schools Indianapolis
The engaged the services
of Fred planning desperate
fight o block the bond issue
Legislature amended the tax make the decision
Of the bond issue final one
the hearing becomes Of the most
portant as been set by the tax board
At hearing question whether
dnapois the richest will Of its
will admit that lacks the financial courage to
keep pace growth
time schooling owing
vide To this total must be added
children and abnormal increase Of
approximately 1900 due to law passed by the last
the excusing of compulsory education act
present that when Mr. Sims arises before the
the bond issue designed build school buildings
housing of 10000 children whose right to
public be denied by
Mr. there disposition
on the part children being
of the demonstrators with the possible exception
Of Alfred Potts has set forth the theory that schoo houses are not n
fOndy the log cabin schools of the past
derived from the sale of such modern
Sims however prevent 10000 children
education vigorously though he advocated
permitting will his opposition
polite education;
viii nevertheless argument against the interests Of these 10000
children
Opponents of this bond issue may present many
opposition
children the education that the community
TO
Proponents all with the
program There Indianapolis
people realize
schools
opponents
wfuy determined the children
they their the
consideration of the bond issue
to whether the law conemptes
monao find faacOus for blocking the efforts
of the school schools c children
schools
injury that will last unto the second generation