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Evening star., 1922-10-09
Back to the Soil in Russia

We are told that there has been a
genuine back-to-the-soil movement
IN Russia this year, as a result Of the
sending Of american corn to that
falnine-stricken country.
If this is true. we may feel that
American charity has accomplished
a much bigger thing than simply the
saving Of the lives Of some thou
sands of Russians.
We are told by one Of the super
vfsors of American relief in a famine
stricken district that villages have
grown up over night in sections
where only weeds were flourishing
formerly. built by the people return
ing from the cities, whittier they fed
in panic when the famine came
They have built themselves crude
earth houses, like the sod houses of
the American pioneers. just enough
to cover themselves while they raced
against the short Russian summer to
produce a crop from the seed which
America provided.
The arrival of American corn not
only checked the flight of the people
into the already overcrowded cities
and towns, but started many people
back to the country to build them
selves homes and farms again.
This is just what America hoped
to accomplish by the sending of corn
to Russia.-Port Huron Times-Her-
aid.
Evening star., 1922-10-09
Apathy.

Apathy this year is almost unthink.
! able. And yet there are reports from
| several quarters of its existence.
Take this from Baltimore special
to The Sunday Star:
| II there is to be as big a vote to go
| on the registration books as recorded
1869 voters in a total of sixteen
| hours is faced. It is a big task, for
! party leaders admit there is apathy
| in the rank and file Of both sides. The
i republican apathy. perhaps, is the
| more apparent.
There ought to be a big vote thrown
in Maryland next month. Lively
scrapping on both sides marked the
| primaries, and the nominees on both
| sides are exerting themselves. Two
years ago Maryland was swept by the
republican tidal wave, then running
mountain high. Harding and Coolidge
carried the state by sixty-odd thou.
sand majority.
Take this from special to The Sun.
! day Star from Harrisburg:
I Pennsylvania's campaign is going
] into it's final month with both repub-
/ llCdn anu CeUlDCFdllC pdTlleS cHUedV-
! oring to shake off drowsy conditions
| which have prevailed for many weeks.
"Drowsy conditions" on the demo.
/ cratic side might be explained by the
record of elections in the state. The
republicans have so often put their
opponents "to sleep" at the polls, the
latter might well ask themselves the
| question, Whats the use?" The re.
publican majority in Pennsylvania two
years ago was in the neighborhood of
seven hundred thousand.
But on the republican side is the
candidacy Of Clifford Pinchot for gov.
ernor. This is highly intriguing for
several reasons, and in the interests of
| the party's usefulness in the state
should bring out big vote.
Evening star., 1922-10-09
Styles and Political Economy.

Milady in her boudoir and Prof.
Polecon In his study seem far as the
poles apart, but they are interested in
the same things, seen in different as
and prices. complies statistical tables
and writes deep articles and ponder
Gus books. which milady never reads.
But madame-or miss-helps sup
ply material for the economist 8
study. She shortens her skirts and
them down again, and the market
changes back. An inch more or less
on or of Of each skirt, and business
gets bump or boost.
Not long ago worsted stockings for
women were almost unmarketable
Short skirtsl and sport shoes came in.
and the wofsted hosiery was in de-
mand. Now long skirts and high
heels promise to return. and the man.
ufacturers look an1iously at their
stockrooms.
Perhaps this Is reason why ladies'
should study political economy and
professors take an interest in styles
or perhaps it isn't. But fashions and
the dismal science certainly do hang
Observation-Disclosures Gazette.
Kansas school teachers who are
forbidden to use tobacco in any form
by the state superintendent Of edu-
cation, are reported to have taken
to smoking the new scent cigars as
q NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Enquirer.
This "Own-your-own-ho move
ment Is to save other movementa-
Binghampton Sun.
= A loving son is one who lets father
use his automobile once In awhile
Greenville Piedmont
L Bishop Cannon seems to be q well
named member OF the church mflitAMt
Boston Herald 4,
Evening star., 1922-10-09
ssDon't Get Hurtw

Today In New York $4,000 children
will march in a parade at the dedica-
ton OF a monument in Central Park
erected In memory Of the 1,054 chill
dren OF that city who lost their lives
in avoidable accidents in 1921. The day
is known as Children's day, and it will
open q Safety week, which is to i'm
press upon the child mind Of the
metropolis the slogan, Don't Get
Hurt" Safety exercises win bs held
In all the public and private schools.
Tho mothers Of the children killed last
year, In whose memory the monument
has been erected. win be organized
into q White Star Society" and en-
Evening star., 1922-10-09
Women's Business Garb.

At recent meeting in New York
Of the League of Business and Pro-
fessional Women-the title Is a little
alarming-considera time was put
in discussing "women's business
garb." and one or two of the speak
ers waxed a trif1e warm upon the
subject. The business and profess
sional women present were told that
they had right" to dress as they pre-
ferred. and they were warned against
the weakness of permitting what
men. 'or women either" think to in
fuence their judgment.
The business and professional
women will unquestionably dress as
they prefer, but this preference will
not be outlined for them by other
business and professional women any
more than by men. and perhaps not
as much. Business girls like pretty
clothes, and they will wear pretty
clothes when they can afford to buy
them. Many go into business and
professions because they wish to
earn enough money to buy them
selves exactly what they want.
The suggestion that business and
professional women wear uniforms
will not get far. Those who like
pretty clothes, and particularly those
who feel that they look pretty in
pretty clothes, will veto that sug-
geStion.-Louisville Post,
Evening star., 1922-10-09
YHEN the announcement was
made that Grace George.
Norman Trevor and Robert
Warwick were to appear

at the Shubert-Garrick Theater,
Washington theatergoers were de-
lighted because they recognized the
fact that here was an opportunity to
see three artists in the same cast.
but 1 wonder how many who read
that announcement realized that one
enough to sacrifice a contract that
called for $4,000 in order that he
might go to France as a soldier Of
the United States Army. man who
despite the pleadings Of some stead
lastly adhered to his purpose and
went through tho rigors Of an ex-
tremely strenuous preparatory course,
the man who afterward sailed for
France and was recognized by the
general staff as not only being a man
of superior attainments. but a brave
soldier. refer to Robert Warwick. a
star of the stage. a favorite of the
film and a late major Of the United
States Army.
4 + y \
THEY are telling a story around
J. the Racquet Club Of practical
joke pldycO upOA du oul-ol-to Y" IL
visitor who Is most punctilious in
the manner in which he draws all
the contracts for the company of
which he Is president. 1t appears
that a short time ago he came to
Washington prepared to close a deal
involving a small amount of money.
When the papers were finally typed
he scanned them carefully and when
about to affix his signature he was
asked by one of the other parties of
the deal to use his fountain pen, as
he wanted to keep it as a souvenir
Of the occasion. Rather appreciating
the compliment he did SO. and that
night entrained for Boston. A day
or two after his arrival home he had
occasion to look up the contract and
found, to his dismay. that there were
no signatures to the agreement. His
Washington friends had simply made
him use a fountain pen that was filled
with disappearing ink. When the
hoax was explained to him by wire he
sent back the following message:
Returning with my own ink. The
dinner is on me-"
DACK to the days of Caesar. back
- to the days of Rome. back to the
tallow candle and all the other things
Of ancient time. Washington, despite
the fact that it is the capital of the
United States, despite the fact that
Evening star., 1922-10-09
Lloyd George Under Fire.

Out Of the near eastern crisis may
come a change IN the British minis
teriaI organization. 1t is reported from
London that suddenly Il demand has
arisen, in quarters hitherto friendly,
FOR the replacement OF Lloyd George
as prime minister, on the ground that
he has brought England into an en-
harrassing situation, and has incurred
a heavy expense in the preparations
for possible war at the DardaneIles.
Lloyd George has now been an Office
holder for seventeen continuous years,
though prime minister for but six Of
them. He has weathered many storms.
He has never flinched from an issue
During the war, when he faced
greater difficulties than any British
premier ever faced before. he met all
crises boldly and successfully. When
the war closed he went to the coun-
try and won a following in parlia-
ment that assured him of a continued
supporting majority. He may lose that
support when parliament reconvenes.
This present crisis may furnish the
basis for an adverse vote. But that
does not necessarily mean a reverse
at the polls.
II the conservative opposition had a
leader who was Lloyd Georges equal in
popular appeal there would be greater
danger to the primo minister in this
situation. But there is no one out
standing figure. Andrew Bonar Law
is rated as a possible prime minister
IN succession if conservative COM
bination should be formed in parlia-
There is no man within the ranks OF
the coalition headed by Lloyd George
who would be at all likely to wrest
the leadership from him. unless 1t be
Curzon, the minister for foreign rela-
tions, or Balfour, CurZon's S predecessor
In that Office. One thing is certain,
and that is that If Lloyd George is
attacked he will give his opponents
hard fight. He has shown no dis
position to quit. He does not regard
his work as ended. He has never yet
failed to adjust in the face of a storm,
and he has won through many harder
gales than that which now seems to
be gathering. Yet eventually, Of
course, he will cease to be premier,
for that is the inevitable course of
history.
Evening star., 1922-10-09
Here and There in Washington
BY 1.-THE MAJOR"

there are no strikes to interfere with
business conditions. despite the fact
that the pay rolls are as steady as was
grandfather's clock. despite tho fact
that we prate Of our advancement In
material things. wS must neverthe-
less face the indictment that we put
up with one thing that is anything
but satisfactory. The one-man street
car.
TT there ever was a game invented
/ for boobs 1t, Is the handbook meth
cd Of betting on the horses. The rae
ing game Is not and never has been
an easy thing to beat. and II one
stops and thinks Of the numerous
plunges that have flashed like meteors
across the sporting sky he will re-
member that 80 per cent of the Pitts
burgh Phils, ETC., died without
nickel to their names. It is a. matter
of mystery why those who desire to
make q little easy money are foolish
enough to adopt the handbook method
in an endeavor to take away from
some perfectly wise individual real
honest-to-goodness money. A mem
Der of the sporting fraternity the
other day said: THE handbook game
is known in sporting parlance as the
sucker game and while I cannot
speak for all of them. do know that
in many Instances the best any
winner can get If he Is lucky enough
to pick a thirty, fifty or one hundred
also know that there are numerous
instances when horses have won at
generous odds that the handbook man
has left for parts unknown, because
there are enough boobs in every city
to keep the game going. You might
just as well try to crack nuts with
false teeth as to beat the handbook
game here in Washington"
T>HE ukuIele and its side partners,
i the flannel trousers, the sporting
skirts and the rolled hose. have been
carefully placed in the winter chest,
where upon the pungent moth balls
they will repose until the gentle rob-
in tells of the coming Of spring. In
llic lACdAtiHAC TIC 6iA 10 dilO IVY dI
arranging for the winters dances. AL
ready numerous academies have sum-
moned their musicians to report for
duty this week. Once more will we
hear the deep tones of the saxophone.
the jingling OF the bells. the clashing
of the cymbals. the beating Of the
drums and the thump. thump of the
piano; for despite the effort of those
who love music Jazz has not yet been
killed.
Evening star., 1922-10-09
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
National Customs.

National Customs.
I'm sorry for the sad sophistication
Which conquers the impressions Of
my youth.
Experience, combined with observa-
ton,
Makes obvious the melancholy
truth.
I thought, in summing up what peo-
pies try for,
That Russians danced to while away
regrets;
That Greeks wrote verse for school
boys to decipher,
And Turks kept busy making cigar
It's hard to face the bitter disillusion.
The nations don't perform as adver-
t1sed.
Their methods and their manners
bring confusion
At an expense that leaves the world
surprised.
They'd bring rejoicings and congratu-
lations,
If they would dance and sing and
smoke and sup,
Adhering to their famous occupations
Instead Of shooting one another up.
Evening star., 1922-10-09
EDITORIAL DIGEST

Independently argues, more upon
performance than promise Each of
the leaders has had one term as
governor" Smith, the Binghamton
Press independently feels. is the
"strongest man in the party" and If
he cannot beat Miller no other demo-
crat can" while the Brooklyn Eagle
Gndependent-democ believes
that the people of the state are to
be congratulated that both nominees
for the governorship represent the
very best their political parties can
afford''
Evening star., 1922-10-09

If parents interest themselves in
obedience to certain laws and children
interest themselves in obedience to
parents the dangers in the streets
will be greatly lessened.
Evening star., 1922-10-09

An eminent college professor says
the word democracy" is only a
fetish. As the word 'republicanism'
means pretty nearly the same thing
the demand for new party is OBJ
viously growing.
Evening star., 1922-10-09

Christians in Thrace would like a
guaranteed understanding that any
agreement with the Turks will pro-
vide for a complete cancellation Of the
massacre privilege.
Evening star., 1922-10-09

The police news is bringing New
Jersey into further prominence as one
Of the country's most temperamental
states.
Evening star., 1922-10-09

The Kemalists show a disposition to
agree to almost anything so long as
they are permitted to go where they
like and do as they choose.
Evening star., 1922-10-09

Advice to economic is always in
order. So far as coal is concerned it
may be offered with the fullest con-
f1dence that it will be needed.
Evening star., 1922-10-09

Massachusetts, republicans do not
complain that Mr.. Lodge Is grabbing
the spotlight. He has always had it.
Evening star., 1922-10-09

The only "tag" that Wilhelm Hohen-
zollern now discusses with enthusiasm
Is his wedding day.
Evening star., 1922-10-09

Prohibition on ocean liners may
tempt the ships doctor to lay in an
extra supply of prescription blanks.
Evening star., 1922-10-09
Early Risers.

Early Risers.
"Josh and the hired man have got
to be regular early risers," said Farm
or Corntossel.
anxious to got to work." .
mo. Anxious to get their game
started before the golf course is
crowded.
de way some babies kin holler
louder dan others, fust try" said
Uncle Eben, 'shows dat mebbe we
isn't all born A. equal a. We thinks
ne las I. -.....,...u.
Evening star., 1922-10-09

Perversity.
Those dreadful stories Of divorce,
We do not need them.
They're very likely to be coarse
And yet read them.
Those tales Of homicida1 force,
We should not heed them.
OF no good thought are they the
source
And yet I read theni
Evening star., 1922-10-09
The Call.

Remember" said the serious
friend, your country is calling you"
II know that" replied Senator Sor-
ghum; 'but there's not the unanimity
I'd like. Different parts Of the country
are calling me different things"
Evening star., 1922-10-09

Jud Tunkins says boarding houses
used to keep hash and prunes under
cover. Now they advertise 'em.
Evening star., 1922-10-09

Bishop Cannon seems to be q well
named member OF the church mflitAMt
Boston Herald -,
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-03-13
HOOSIER BIRD
LIFE PICTURES
TO BE LOANED
Free Lectures Planned for
Lovers of Feathered
Tribes.

Audubon societies, civic organizations,
ornithologists and children interested In
the study of bird life, will welcome the
announcement of Richard Lieber, direc-
tor OF conservation in Indiana, that this
State department has just procured
ninety-one colored slides to be shown
with a lecture prepared on the birds
of Indiana.
The slides will be exhibited in con
nection with a lecture prepared ty A.
A. Allen, PHI D., assistant professor of
ORTHODOXY, Cornell University, and will
be loaned, free Of cost, to societies, public
schools and clubs wishing to display
this work to stimulate interest in our
feathered friends Lecture and slides
may be had by writing the conservation
department. Mr.. Lieber says.
Last year ever $4,000 children were
enrolled in bird clubs or bird study
classes in this country. They constitute
an expression of the love and interest
that mankind bears toward birds, ire
spective of the love of their economic
value.
Indeed the bright colors OF birds,
their cheerful songs, their many fasci-
mating little ways seem so apart from
life that we have to look upon bird study
and bird protection as having little bear
ing upon tre economy of our existence"
says Professor Allen.
Speaking Of the economic value OF the
birds of Indiana, DIR. Allen Classics them
into the following five groups:
Those that destroy insects.
Those that destroy weed seeds.
Those that destroy small rodents.
Those that serve as game birds.
Those that serve as scavangers.
The value of birds as destroyers of In
sects, is so well recognized that nttle
need be said, according to Professor Al
len. Indiana has long recognized the
need for encouraging insectivorous birds
and passed laws giving them absolute
protection. Other States, however, esps-
cially IN the south, have been slower in
passing needed legislation. 1t was be-
cause Of this procrastination that Fed
eral statutes for adequate protection
were instituted.
The conservation department slides not
only show all the native birds OF In
diana but likewise those that migrate to
Indiana each season. Much Of the IL
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-03-13
BATTLE OAK'TO
GET PLACE IN
HALL OF FAME
North Carolina Tree Marks
Site of Last Fight in War
of Revolution.

WASHINGTON, March 13.-Do you
know that the first battle Of the Revolu-
tiOnary War and also the battle that
wen hat war were both fought In North
Carolina? Wednesday is the anniversary
OF the Battle Of Guilford Courthouse, y.
c. The LATHE was fought al years ago
Q7SI. and the American Forestry
Association announces the Battle
ground oak is given a place In the
Hall Of Fame for trees with history
Il is in the same grounds marking TINS
battle that stands a shaft calling at
tention to another, the first battle or
the Revolution" in Orange County y. e.
May 16, III.
The association received nominations OF
the battle-ground Oak" for the Han OF
Fame from Mrs. Dorian II. Blair, OF the
Daughters Of the American Revolution
OF Greensboro. n. c., by Prof. Mark c.
Mills OF GuiIfOrd College, and by Paul
c. IfndIey Of Pomona, y. c. The oak,
also called the Liberty Tree" is the one
To which General Greene tied his horse.
The oak, a beautiful speciment, has 4
spread Of more than 100 feet and is
twenty-one feet in circumference at the
base and fifteen feet at the smallest
part.
SHADES GRAVE OF
CANNON 5 ANCESTOR.
The coming retirement Of Uncle joe
Cannon from Congress makes another
Hall Of Fame award Of particular inter
est. This IS the New Garden Oak in
the cemetery near Guilford, beneath
which the grandfather Of Uncle joe
is buried. Congressman Cannon was
born in Guilford May Z. 1886. 1t was
after this battle the Quakers cared for
the dead and wounded on both sides at
the meeting house near the New Garden
Oak" about four miles from the battle
field. Prof. Mills made this nomina-
ton,
at the Battle Of Guiltord Court House
CORVALLIS had three horses shot from
under him. Gen. Nathaniel Greene, for
whom Greensboro is named, was IN com
mand Of the American forces, which con-
sisted Of Huger's Brigade Of Virginia
Williams Maryland and Delaware Brig
ade, Continental Regulars, North Caro-
lima Militia, Virginia Militia, Light
Horse Harry Lees Legion, Col. William
Washington's Dragons, Lees Dragons
and Cavalry.
All North Carolina can show this was
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-03-13

the battle that decided the war. and,
while CORVALLIS was victorious at first,
Fox, speaking Of the battle in the Brit
ish Parliament, said: Another such vic
tory would mean the destruction of the
British forces in America" Corvallis
retreated into Virginia and surrendered
at Yorktown the following October. The
Lafayette Elm, planted in front Of the
Yorktown headquarters by Lafayette
when he visited this country in 1924
is also in the Hall Of Fame.
NATION OWNS
GUILFORD BATTLEFIELD.
The GuilfOrd Battlefield is now owned
by the Nation, after an association.
headed BY Judge David Schenck. in 1887,
started plans for preserving the site
One shaft reminds Of the first battle OF
the Revolution" in Orange County. n. c.,
May Is. 1T71.
The Kentucky Coffee Tree, in front of
the Yer Planck mansion, at Fishkill-on
Hudson, nominated by Cora June Shep-
pard Of Shisch, y. J., is today given a
place in the Hall of Fame. The tree was
planted in 1904 on property acquired by
the Yer Planck family during the reign
of James II. king of England. in 1888.
The property has remained with the fam
lily ever since. Baron Steuben occupied
the mansion during the Revolution, ana
under this tree the first meeting OF the So
ciety Of the Cincinnati was held. The
tree Is a magnificent specimen, with two
trunks seventy-five feet high.
Adopted" by the Boy Scouts, at Eliza
bethtown, Pa, a prone juniper is also
given a place in the Hall of Fame. The
tree is so years old and forty eight feet
In diameter The limbs lie on the ground
and do not take root. The nomination
was made by the Hon. George B. Orlady,
presiding judge of the Superior Court of
Pennsylvania. The tree is at the Masonic
Home, and the Boy Scouts have built a
fence around this remarkable specimen to
protect il.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-03-13
Yankee Circus Plans
Well Under Way

National. State and municipal celebri-
ties will make brief speeches preceding
each act Of the Great Yankee Circus,
which will be given under the auspices
Of the Marion County Council of the
American Legion to be given at the Coli
scum April S-15, the management an
nounced today
Charles E. Scott, director general Of the
circus, has inspected the lighting ar
rangement in the building and pro-
nounced It excellent for the exhibition,
particularly as to facilities for installing
food and spot lights required by some Of
the more spectacular stunts.
President Harding, General Pershing,
Theodore Roosevelt. Jr., and other noted
men are to be invited TO visit the city
during the circus engagement.
Business men and frate-nal organiza-
TOMS are cooperating with the legion
council in presenting the circus.