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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-08
at 1926

Brand-new skirts of splendid mems and French
serge, Baronette satin Tafeta two and three tone
plaids introducing of new ideas There aunty
swinging models with deep box and side paits, some
have tailored flaps inset pockets and button trim
ming. Others accordion plated.
There are many lovely color combinations that will
harmonic charmngly with the georgette blouses for
Spring. These the skirts that will be worn this
coming season, it is time to act and act quickly.
Secon &
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-08

Mr.. and Mrs. Rufus W. Wren an
nounce the marriage Of their daugh-
ter Irene Thelma to Mr.. Morrell Ma
earity on February at Vienna, Va.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-08

The League of American Pen Won
en- will not hold it's customary weekly
tea on Wednesday of this week, but
has planned an unusually attractive
proeram for Wednesday. February
is. at 1880 o'clock. at the clubhouse
1922 II street northwest
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-08

Mrs Elizabeth E. Hathaway an
nounces the marriage of her daugh-
ter Elizabeth to MIR. Lewis c. Hedges
Of ventnor, N. j., on Friday, January
Ia. at Ascension Church, Atlantic City,
by the Rev. Thomas Kieffer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-08

Mrs. Archie Miller. wife of Lieut..
Col. Miller, entertained Mrs. Charles
w. Fenton at a bridge party at the
Army and Navy Club yesterday al
ternOOn.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
and thus is part of new and more
Promising LEAGUE.
Free Art

La framing the permanent tariff
act the Ways and Means Committee
will have to consider again the cues
tien OF taxes on art. In the earlier
tariffs art was ON the free list.
After the Civil War it began to be
taxed as luxury When the Me
kinley tariff was under considera
tion IN 1890 enlightened opinion had
come TO view this obstruction on the
importation of objects Of high edu-
estional value IS an error in policy,
But Senator Morrill,. Of Vermont,
father Of the Morrill, war tariff,
succeeded in retaining the tax on the
ground that luxury like art should
not come in free when food and
clothing were dutiable.
The Wilson tariff Of 1894 made
art free. It's author was consistent.
He had fought, though unsuccess-
fully, for free sugar. free coal, free
iron ore, free raw wool, etc. The
Payne tariff act was written by high
protectionists. Yet it recognized in
part the futility of taxing art as a
luxury by allowing the free importa-
tion of works of art more than
twenty years old. The present, or
Underwood. tariff was framed in
1918. 1t took the duty of all orig
-Tnal art works and taxed reproduc-
tions Is per cent ad paloren,.
There is no good reason for not
continuing the tax on copies and rep
licas, for it helps to keep out cheap
limitations. There is no less reason
to keep original art on the free list,
for the country needs all the slim
ulus it can get from the possession
and study of art works of highest
quality. The cultivation of a sense
of beauty has an economic as we'll as
moral value. 1t enrichesJ and
broadens the mind and helps to
equip the nation which has it for the
higher tasks of civilization. Art
taxation has become an anachronisn.
Congress ought not to think Of re-
verting to it.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22

that aceords with American tradi.
ton II asks for equality OF oppor-
tunity for all nations on basis Of
mutual and reciprocal accessibility.
My government writes the Amer
lean Minister to Holland, finds no
alternative than the principle of
equally good opportunity, with the
proviso that no foreign capital may
operate in public lands unless it's
government accords similar or like
privileges to American citizens"
To this policy certain foreign
countries have raised the cry mo
nopoly" and accused America of
wanting a hand in every oil district
in the world so that she could domi-
nate the industry. American inter
ests, by way of reply, have accused
the French, English and Dutch Of
creating monopolies in their several
spheres.
So it goes, while every year sees
an increase in the use of automo-
biles and oil fuel engines on land and
sea. Cotton and wheat arc dethroned.
Oil is king.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22

poor The short-lived era Of motor
car" profits for the farmer and ''silk
shirt wages for the workers has
passed, leaving many millions IN a
condition where they are barely able
u exist. They are buying less because
tEey have smaller incomes, and until
relief comes through lower prices,
lower taxes and lower rents they can
rot possibly buy in sufficient quaint
ties to set ell the wheels or industry
bumming and keep the channels Of
trade busy distributing merchandise.
Here, then, is the problem for our
leaders and teachers; for our econo-
mists and statesmen. II the aggregate
consuming power must be increased in
order to replace trade and business
depression with prosperity how can
this be accomplished? Clearly there
can be only one way: to reduce taxa
tion, prices and rents so that the con-
sumers can buy more with their re-
duced incomes.
WHIDDEN GRAHAM.
New York, May IS, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22

Dqe the aurora Boean Indicate Vast Solar Storehouse Of
#@ Electrical Energy2
BY r. F.. Foster

earth's atmosphere is the rneostat
which checks the flow Of the electric
current and turns it into Light and
neat. The further these rays pene-
trate the hotter they set. It.may be
that the alleged intense heat of the
interior of the earth is due to the
meeting Of these rays from all sides
and their inability TO go any further.
NO, one has SC far made any sys-
tenstic attempt to anaIyze the exact
nature of the suns rays, from the
standpoint Of their possessing cleo
trical clements that are not found else
where. We have found many varieties
of emanations from various sources,
such as xrays and the subtle but far
penetrating rays that are sent out by
radium, but the secret Of the suns
rays IS not yet discovered.
Is it not quite possible that the rays
Of the sun may belong to some spccies
Of electrical. energy SO far uncharted,
and to have powers so, far not. even
guessed at? We speak OF tie sun as
being the "sustainer" Of al life, upon
the globe. Is It not quite possible that
, it may be not only the sustainer but
the origin of that life? Science has
gone back as far as it can IN the track
Of evolution TO discover the origin of
life upon this earth, but it seems a.
ways to have confined itself to the
question Of originating life from life
less things. If the exact nature Of
the energy sent out in the SUMS rays
we're understood is it not quite posi-
bic that they would be found TO con-
tain the great secret for which science
is, always seeking?
Everything must have medium
through which to demonstrate itself,
whether it be the coherer OF wireless
telegraph OF the ouijs board Is it
not possible that under certain con-
ditions certain combinations of appar-
emily dead matter might be trans
formed by the SUMS energy into living
matter? Who knows?
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22

grain to sell or real desire to buy.
This demand finds the weight of eco
nomic authority against it and genu-
inc grievances remain neglected and
unremedied,
Modern business has developed not
merely the seller, interested in
cheap pness until he buys and then in
dearness, and the seller, interested in
dea11less until he sells and then in
cheapness, but the risk carrier. The
short seller bets against the
long" buyer. One or the other suf-
fers the losses or makes the gains of
price fluctuations He is thus a risk
carrier, and while the betting
rivalry Of the groups does not affect
the price level in the long run, it
tends to make changes less sudden.
The market speculator, though a
wolf seeking his selfsh>> advantage,
performs specialized social func-
tion and is worth keeping.
The spokesmen of the wheat raisers,
of course, do not concede this. Their
feeling is that fictitious bidding
down has in some way greater infu-
ence than a similar amount of fcti-
tious bidding up. But the argument
is unconvincinp in world where ac-
tion and reaction, if of equal power,
neutralize one another
Moreover, even though it were
true that grain speculation tends to
lower prices, it does not follow that
this is fatal objection. The CON
sumer has claims as legitimate as
those of the producer. The farmers
prove too much II they are correct
in identifying the speculator as their
enemy then he is the friend Of the
bread user, and bread users outnum-
Der grain producers.
Session after session agricultural
organizations beat their heads
against stone wall, and, 50 doing,
have little energy to put into efforts
to diminish middlemen's charges, to
bring producer and consumer closer
together, to get rid of conditions IN
der which commodities rot in the
fields while, few miles away, prices
are SO high as to forbid purchases.
Some day there will come greater
appreciation of the fact that the way
of progress is to emphasize matters
of common interest rather than
those which are antagonistic.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
Oil

Secretary Hughes in his report
transmitted to the Senate or the
worlds oil industry makes it clear
that it is the policy of the Admins
tration to maintain the rights Of
Americans to participate in the de-
velopment of foreign oil fields Pc
troleum has become respectable and
is the concern of statesmen.
In the Yukon and the Ganges, in
the Himalayas and the Indies, in
Oklahoma, the Garden of Eden and
Mexico, and even across the Hudson
under the Palisades, geologists are
searching, prospectors are sounding
and oil men are drilling. The gov
ernments of the world are SQUAD
bling over oil rights and making.
claims and counter claims and APP
plying prohibitions. Mexico is
warned not to bother the oil men.
Colombia receives S25, 100000 for a
theoretical wrong committed in con-
nection with the Panama Canal be-
cause she is supposed to have oil
rights to sell. Mesopotamia is the
subject of diplomatic note writing.
Holland is requested to let American
interests help develop oil in the
Dutch East Indies. France reserves
oil development in French territories
for French citizens. etc.
The world is realizing more and
more the part that economic forces
play in international relations. Who
ever controls the sources Of naechani-
alpower wields big stick over
his less fortunate neighbors. The
desire to own coal mines led the
Czechs to fight the Poles in 1919 for
the occupation of the rich Teschen
coal district. Believing that mine
in their possession is worth dozen
belonging to Germany, the Poles
made the attempt to forestall the
Silesian settlement.
But oil is more elusive than coal,
and perhaps for this reason is even
more jealousy sought. Too many
wells have run to salt water to make
the supply constant and to quell the
feverish search for new sources.
Washington has tal1en stand
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
Agricultural Grievances

In 1888 farmer drove into the
prairie village of Chicago with sew
enty-eight bushels of wheat. lie sold
it and told his neighbors, and they
wagoned in their wheat. In 1889 a
brig carried 1878 bushels of wheat
to the foot of Lake Erie. BY 1871
$50 lake boats left Chicago every
month with grain. The farmer got
81 at Chicago. while Peoria paid to
him but 40 cents. Then came the
railroads, making every station
wagon market, and Chicago grew
into the agricultural capital of the
world.
The early Chicago market was
open to all-comers. But in 1859 the
Illinois Legislature Incorporated
board of trade. Buyers and sellers
discovered they could trade only
through its members. AT first the
initiation fee was $5, but soon it be-
came $25, and now it is $25, 900, and
the board is a club which may ex-
clude. Not long ago it refused
seat to farmers cooperative society
on the ground that, inasmuch as the
society proposed to return its profits
TO its members, the dividend consti,
tuted a cutting Of commission fees.
Is it strange that farmers are
angered and insist on free markets,
with their rules not written by fee
takers but by all Of the parties in
terested or by impartial public au-
thority?
The reasonableness of this demand
seems scarcely challengeable. The
board could make little headway
against it. But the leaders of the
farmers, not satisfied with getting
free market, also ask for legislation
limiting trading in futures they
would eondne tradiRss to those with
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
Shakespeare in Germany

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: The article in Sundays Tribune
on shakespeare in Germany" recalls a
conversation I once had with the late
Carl Schurz on the merits of the Eng
lish and the German languages as me-
diums of Shakespearian expression. He
declared that the German language
lends itself to Shakespearian verse
more fuidly and gracefully than the
English. This, he said, is especially
true of the noblest and stateliest OF the
poets utterances.
German is superior in the singing
and ringing qualities, in the power to
sweep reader aud hearer along from
syllable to syllable, line to line. BY
reading half q dozen famous passages
first in Enlish, then in German, Mr.
Schurz overcame any natural skepti-
cism or reluctance / felt in admitting
his contention E. G. HOLDEN
Trson, n. g.. May is, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
Drug Control Needed

Justice Collins, of the Children S
Court, describes as alarming the
present lack of effective control of
the narcotic drug traffic. He says
that ''it is absolutely necessary that
some steps be taken to avoid serious
consequences" Differences of opin-
ion exist as'to the influence of prohi-
bition upon drug habits. But it is
undisputed that the illicit use Of
narcotics is widespread and is in
creasing.
A few years ago careful legisla-
tive investigation resulted in the
creation of state commission to
deal with the drug evil It's course
provoked much controversy, and this
years Legislature abolished it as an
improbable servant; unfortunately,
however, no satisfactory substitute
was provided, There was irrecon-
cilat3lo conflict between the members
of the medical profession, who hold
that drug addiction is often q spe-
cific disease and Individual cases
should be treated as such, and those
who, declaring that the medical pro
fession has been tried and found
wanting, insist on commitment to
institutions. SO now we are worse
off than before the Whitney investi-
cation,
In these circumstances. two re-
courses are open. One, urged by
Justice Collins, is for the State AS
sociation of Magistrates TO prevail
upon health officers throughout the
state to deal with the emergency as
best they can through sanitary codes
until new legislation can be secured.
The other IS for the AIeyer commit
tee to investigate thoroughly and ar
rive at some sort of judgment as to
which control method promises the
more-that Of doctors and the mag
istrates or that of the institutions.
There has heen too much beating
the air with catchwords and slogans,
about ambulatory treatment" and
institutional trea tment' and "trip
licate prescriptions" and what not.
1t is time to get down to bedrock
facts about this portentious evil, to
find out who are the real authori-
ties, and then to let them deal with
it, under the fullest responsibility
for their fulfillment Of great and
vital trust And, above all, the law
should be most stringently enforced
against manufacture, the importa-
ton and the possession of the dope" )"
AS long as the stuff is around it viii
be dealt in and reputable physicians
and druggists should not ask the
public to assume that all physicians
and druggists are to be trusted.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
For a Peaceful Anthem
The Star Spangled Banner" Re-
garded as Too WarIike
0 the Editor Of The Trihunc.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
SIR: Now that the question of
adopting "fhe star-spsngled Banner"
as cur national anthem has come up
in Washington it would be well for
the citizens to procure copies of this
song to see If it is really what they
want for national anthem, Take the
words:
And the rockets red glare, the bombs
bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night. that our
flag was still there"
would like to have continual proof
that our flag is still there by the
intelligence Of the people to keep it in
It's place at the head Of nation whose
high ideals and adherence to the right
make it the foremost nation OF the
world. I do not want bombs" to prove
the power Of my fag. We have had
! bombs enough in this country al
ready!
we have come to time in our his
tory when we are helping to solve
world problems. Our diplomats are
meeting with foreign representatives.
in council Imagine the effect when
the song is sung and men stand out
Of respect for our national anthem
Englishmen included--and hear our
representatives lead in singing q song
whose bitter enmity against England
must make them al easp.
I We were compelled TO break away
from England at the time when "The
Star-spangIed Banner" was written,
but England does not recall to our
minds the disagreeable experiences
+ that happened ther. She greets US as
. neg &c Wal without le,ference to the past.
/ We viii have eoag9aG up and cease
dwelling upon our Infant footstepss
/ com N eraaDle and worthy though they
I then were. we must take our stand
! as a fuIl-grovn nation. with a national
anthem worthy OF cur ideals.
We cannot preach about universal
peace and sing about war. We must
al Ieasr be consistent.
Let Us also give Francis Scott Key
al the glory that belongs to him. He
was filled with JOY to see the flag still
flying after a night of hard fighting,
while he was prisoner, and he wrote
out his feelings on "a scrap of paper
on top Of barrel and sang it to the
tune OF an old drinking song, not
thinking that it would be made ma
sional anthem.
I bslieye he would be one Of the drst
, to cry out for peace anthem, because
he knew that war is he'll"
Let US not be hasty to adopt ma
tional anthem that could offend another
country, or that we feel VIII incite
our young boys with the lust Of war
as they sing it in our public schools.
NEW ROCHELLE.
New Rochelle, n. Y, May 10, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22


Attention has recently been strongly
attracted to the coincidence. Of sun
spots with the aurora boreslis and the
apparent effect Of this aurora upon our
electrical systems, especially in dissr-
ranging such delicate adjustments as
the telegraph and telephone. obserga
tions made on the present disturbances
seem to confirm previous experiences
as pointing out some direct connection
between the" appearance of any unusual
aurora and electrical transmission,
which naturally suggests that the
aurora itself is Of electrical origin.
Going a.stcp further back, if any exag-
gerated AURORA is coincdent with ex-
aggerated sun spots, the sun spot
must be an electrical outlet of un-
usual proportions, and the sun itself
must,be one vsst.storchouse Of electric
ity Of some kind.
This would seem to confirm the opin-
ION that long has been held by many
thinking persons, that the sun is not
ball of fire, in the sense of being 8
burning gas, generating the same sort
of heat as an open CRATE in a sitting
room. Instead of this, the sun is
simply an immense storage battery,
the basic source of supply for all the
electrical energy in the solar system,
4 generating heat only when meeting
! with resisting medium.
The wires along which our electric
iity runs are stone cold. 1t is only
when the resistance of the film in the
vacuum lamp is encountered that it
glows with heat and light. The upper
atmosphere of this earth is just as
4 cold, in spite of the suns shining upon
it. 1t is only when the. atmosphere
thickens and resists the passage of the.
suns's rays that we get heat. 1t is
also quite possible that there lis u no
/ light either until that resistance is.
met with. No one ever has been up
high enough to Investigate.
1t is a we'll known fact that heat
which is radiated from fire of any
kind rapidly diminishes as the dis
tance from the fire increases. Place
thermometer four feet from an open
fire. and the effect is very marked.
Move it across theEroom. and there is
no effect whatever. On a summer day
we can get about 120 degrees of heat
in the direct path of the, SUMS rays.
To generate heat enough at dis
tance of 100000 miles to give such
3 temperature as 40 degrees here
would require such heat as would dis
sipate itself in gas and vanish into
space instantly If the sun were
heating apparatus on the order of an
open fire the closer we got to it the
warmer we should be, but after going
UP 10000 feet we find this heat is nos
strong enough to melt the eternal
SHOWS on our mountain tops.
This would suggest tnat so far from
being ball of burning gas the sun $
l,nothing buta sort of wireless dlstribu-
tor of electrical energy, and that the
heat and light we get from it are due
to precisely the same causes that give
ius the heat in an electrical toaster os
the ligat in an Edison lamp. The
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
Under Consumption
To, the Editor of The Tribune.

To, the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Why are over 100000 workers
iole? Why are thousands OF mills and
factories closed or running or half
time? Why are wholesale and retaiI
merchants everywhere complaining OF
decreased sales? Why are the rai.rosds
d.scharging large numbers Of their en-
ployees and reducing wages?
The current explanation is over
production. The real reason IS Under
consumption. II the 1oo,o0o,00 con-
sImers are unable or unwilling to buy
it, is not because they do not need more
goods of all kinds. They could use
far more of ali the staple commodities
than they are buying. They want more
and better food, clothing, furniture and
books, more necesaries and mora
luxuries. They do not buy them be-
cause the burden Of high prices, OPP
pressive taxation (national,I state and
local) and high rents, due largely to
excessive taxes, has cut down thei1
purchasing power 80
Despite the seeming prosperity of
the war period, with hign wages for
labor and high prices for farm ped
ucts, the great mass Of the people
are poor; as relatively. but actually
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
PADRAICK CoLuM.
Holy Writ
from poetrV

* fOAt ScGTNf
IT DOES not seem SO many years sss-4
- Those nights when I lay shlverins
in nay bed
And saw the candle-Hght round my
aunt's head
Casting its hazy sanctifying glow;
And heard her read strange story after~
story
Of Jonah, Adam, Moses. Esau. Ruth,
OF Solomon's old age and Davids
youth
Things haunting, tender. terrible or
CORY.
still can see the Queen Of sheba's hair;
And al real hons are but mockeiy
To him who once knew Daniels; there's
no tree
That can with Ewes great Paradise Tree
compare:
a golden light cleaned through thss
ancient air
That leaves me homesiek in modeSnity.
ARTHUR DAWSON RIcKE.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
Precedents

fFfoas The BuGGIo Eaprcssj
British and Irish leaders evidently
have been studying the history OF the
United States very ninutely for prece-
dents. Here is Sir Hanar Greenwood
citing the examples OF the separation
Of West Virginia from Virginia and of
North Carolins and South Carolina.
The history of the United States at
fords presty good guide Tor the work
ing out Of just policies.