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Evening star., 1922-07-11

Mr.. Mackenzie King, and the Canadian
minister of defense. Mr.. George L. era
ham, who will arrive tomorrow morn
ing.
Mrs. du Pont Hostess to
Senate Women ON Cruise.
Mrs. Coolidge and the wives OF
senators forming the Senate women
Luncheon Club will be guests OF
Mrs. T. Coleman du Pont. wl1e OF
Senator du Pont, on board their yacht
Tech this afternoon. when the usu-
al Tuesday luncheon will take the
form Of a tea The cruise will carry
the party far down the potomac
The Secretary of War, Mr.. Weeks.
returned to Washington last evening
from his summer home, on Mount
Prospect where he has spent ten
days with Mrs. Weeks. Among tneF
guests for the week were repre-
sentative and Mrs. Samuel f. WINS
low The Secretary and Mrs weeks;
accompanied by Representative and
Mrs. Winslow, motored to Crawford
House, at Crawfords Notch. Sunday
for luncheon, and stopped at the
Mount Washington, at Breton WOODS.
before returning to Mount Prospect.
The ambassador of Italy, Senator
Rolandi Ricci. arrived in Rome yes
terday, and will make short visit
there. when he will be received by
the king. The ambassador Will re-
turn to this country the middle, OF
September.
The ambassador of Germany, DR..
Otto Wiedfeldt, sailed from New
York today aboard the Reliance for
his home in Germany. The ambassa.
dor is expected to return the lst OF
September, when he will be accom-
panied by Nine. Wiedfeldt.
Mr.. Rodolfo PeTacca OF Buenos
Ayres, who is touring this country
by motor. has arrived in Washington
and is at the Hotel Burlington Tor
several weeks.
The former Secretary of Agricul-
ture and Mrs. Edwin Meredith. who
stopped at. the New Willard for sew
eral days en- route from Des Moines
to New York by automobile. have pro-
ceeded to New York and will stay at
the Biltmore for some days.
Mrs. T. De Witt Talmage will ar
rive at the New Willard Hotel TO-DAY
and will remain in the capital Tor
several days.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Edison Bradley, who re-
Gently returned from Europe. are in
their summer home. on Alexandria bay,
where their daughter. Mrs. Shipman,
wife Of Suffragan Bishop Herbert Ship
man of New York. will arrive today 70,
the remainder of the season. Bshol
Shipnaan will join them later
Miss Elizabeth Bradley Of Birming-
ham, Ala, will arrive today for a visit
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Society
The Secretary Of State to Entertain
Luncheon Party Tomorrow for the
Canadian Premier, Mr.. King.

~HE Secretary of State, Mr..
Hughes, will entertain AT
luncheon tomorrow ir: comri-
u ment to the Canadian premier,
Mr. Mackenzie King. and the Canadian
minister Of defense. Mr.. George Z. Gra-
ham, who will arrive tomorrow morn
ing.
Evening star., 1922-07-11

Mrs. George Won L. Meyer. daughter
in-law of the late former Secretary Of
the Navy. is spending the month with
her mother. Mrs. Philip L. Saltonstall,
In her summer home a Marthas Vine
yard. Mrs. Meyer is accompanied by
her children. and with them will return
to her summer home. Long1neadow, at
Hamilton, Mass.
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Mrs. Brooke Entertained
Before Starting on Trip,

Mrs. James William DOGGY Of Capital
Hill entertained a supper party Sunday
evening at the International hssociation
OF Letters and Art. in honor of her
daughter, Mrs. Helena D. Reed and Mrs
Annie H. Brooke Mrs. Brooke will
leave tomorrow for Cincinnati, Ohio,
and New York city to visit relatives
and will return to Washington the lat
ter part of August
Evening star., 1922-07-11

Miss Sarah S. Woolley Of Washing.
ton has gone to Naragansett Pier
where she will spend the rest Of the
season at the Atlantic House. She has
not missed a season there in fifteen
years.
Evening star., 1922-07-11

Rear Admiral Cameron Mch Wins
low, United States Navy. retired. and
Mrs. Winslow have arrived in New
port and taken possession Of The
Orchards on Narragansett avenue,
where they will spend the summer.
The marriage of Miss Ellen Fitz-
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Mrs. william Tyler Page and her
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Mrs. A.. Geary Johnson and her
son, A. Geary Johnson. jr.. left Wash
ington today to motor to Beach
Bluffs. Mass. where they will spend
the rest of the summer at the Hotel
Preston. Mrs. Johnson and her son
will be absent from the city for
about three months.
Evening star., 1922-07-11

Mr.. Rodolfo Peracca of Buenos
Ayres, who is touring this country
bv motor. has arrived in Washington
and is at the Hotel Burlington for
several weeks.
Evening star., 1922-07-11

Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Hertle motored
up from Gunston Hall on the Potomac
yesterday and entertained informal
ly at luncheon at the Shoreham.
Evening star., 1922-07-11

Mr.. and Mrs. G. H. Johnson and Mis-
Dorothy Johnson are at Gloucester
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Mrs. T. De Witt Talmage will ar
rive at the New Willard Hotel today
and will remain in the capital TOT
several days.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Jerome Napoleon
Bonaparte will entertain at dinner
Saturday evening in their villa at
Newport
Evening star., 1922-07-11

Miss Annette Steel of Mechanicsburg
and Washington Is the guest Of Miss
Hazel Dunn in Akron, Ohio. Miss
Dunn and Miss Steel were graduates
of the class Of 1920 at National Park
Seminary, Forest Glen, Md.
Evening star., 1922-07-11

to her sister and brother-in-law. Mr..
and Mrs. Alexander D. Bell, at 1855 Co
lumbla road northwest.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-10
Help i'm Time of Trouble

Fortunately for suffering human
ity, Nature has not been on strike
this summer. Bumper crops this
fall are assured. There may be a
shortage Of fuel and difficulty in
travelling from one town to another,
but there will be plenty to eat, and
it was because our forefathers had
abundance at their tables that the
last Thursday in November was set
aside as Thanksgiving Day.
The government farm report fore
casts three billion bushels of corn,
a white potato crop that has
been exceeded only once, more than
twice as many apples as were grown
IN 1921, tobacco ten million pounds
in excess of last year and the great
est hay crop ever known in the
country. Crops are wealth, and
when they are unusually abundant
the country prospers in proportion
To harvest farm products in the
South and West will insure employ
ment to all who apply for it. Mar
keting them will bring great sums
of money out of banks and put it to
work, to the profit of the farmer and
the banker and the investor.
Such crops as now seem certain
are of far more value to the country
than the discovery of new oil or gold
fields.
Capital and labor may wrangle
over wages and working conditions
normalcy may be slow in returning
to some industries because of mis-.
understandings and disinclination tc
make common sacrifices, but with
foodstuffs piled up in every granary
the country will scarcely suffer from
hard times during the winter that
is to come.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-10
Tennis Galleries

Gerald Patterson, the Australian
tennis champion, complains that
English galleries are not so sports
manlike as they should be. Some
visitors have felt the same way
about American galleries. 1t has
been customary in this country to
think of British sportsmanship as
above reproach, as an example to be
followed by the Americans.
The nature of football and base
ball encourages noisy bleachers. Or
ganized athletics and organized
cheering go hand in hand. A gain is
always enthusiastically cheered, with
out regard to the fact that in many
cases the gain is the result of an
opponents error. The team is con-
sidered as a machine rather than as
an individuality, despite the applause
for favorite heroes.
In tennis, however, the entire game
Is a matter of personalities. This
in itself makes the players more SEN
sitive to applause. The further fact
that the court is small and the spec
tators close increases the players
consciousness of onlookers. Under
these circumstances it behooves all
tennis spectators to be more than
usually considerate.
Whether or not Mr.. Patterson's
criticism of the British galleries is
altogether fair, it should at least
serve as warning to American gall
leries. Sportsmanship in applause
is essential for good tennis.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-10
The Finders Reward

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: One can hardly agree with D.
P.'s letter in this mornings Tribune on
THE Finders Reward" For instance
if package lost by D. P, containing
$500, should be found by little girl
honest to the degree of the whole of
5000, would D. P. become grateful only
to the degree Of 25 cents?
AS for the other cases referred to-
saving mans hat or handing one a
dropped pocketboot would come under
the category of good manners. AS for
saving the life of drowning person
and the reward Of gratitude. case is
known of where a brave young fell
low risked his life in saving young
girl, and his reward was nothing less
than her own self for life.
If honesty is the foundation Of char
acter, certainly gratitude is it's needed
ornament.
Where there is conspicuous alb
sence of gratitude there is also apt
to be deficiency in affection and SYM
pathy, for the three seem to travel to-
gether and their acquaintance is we'll
worth cultivating. Is it not so?
MARY LODGE.
Brooklyn, Aug. 8, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-10
Dime Novels as "Old Stuff"

The small boy who stole around
behind the corn crib to gloat over
such passages as ."The sharp crack
of a rifle rang out on the midnight
air and another savage bit the dust"
vanished from this country fully
twenty years ago.
To the modern youth the dime
novel is "old stuff" 1t doesn't inter
est him and he refuses to read it.
Indians know nothing Of airplanes
or submarines or seventy-fives. Con-
sequently they are dull people whose
annals are beneath notice. An ex-
perimental collection of Beadle's
dime novels, including "Deadwood
Dick" languishes in the Public
Library for lack of young readers.
Recently a parent who had been
thrilled in youth by Harry Castle
mons Crank in the Woods" and
Frank on the Prairie" hunted out
these volumes in secondhand stores
and bought them for his progeny.
They were never read beyond the
first few pages, the youngsters
vastly preferring Treasure Island"
and "The Jungle Book"
The fact that only boys of another
age who had read the Beacle books
in their youth so much as glanced at
the collection has persuaded the
Librarians to take them away and re-
place them with two-foot book
shelf which will contain the works
of Kipling, Mark Twain, r. l.. Ste
venson, Hans Christian Andersen,
Mary Mapes Dodge and Kate Doug
las Wiggin among recent writer's
and Dickens, Defoe, Cooper, Lewis
Carroll and Hawthorne among
writers of earlier generations. In
cluded also is "The Story of Man
kind" by Van Loon, and "a BOYS
History of Lincoln" by John G..
Nicolay.
These books will be read. No
matter how or where reared, the
child OF to-day has better taste in
literature and less tolerance fox
New-York tribune., 1922-08-10
A Persistent Educator

The persistence of the Department
of Agriculture in advocating the inn
provement of the breeds Of livestock
and poultry is rarely appreciated by
the readers of metropolitan papers.
They do not realize that, week after
week, the department distributes
throughout farming communities
items for the readers of country
papers designed to develop better
methods.
These items are sometimes subtle,
sometimes bold. They may be didac-
tic or wheedling. They may give
facts or appeal to the imagination.
They may arouse the sense of cupid
ity or they may point a moral. Ap-
New-York tribune., 1922-08-10

turn the Junkers patent over to the
Chemical Foundation, and it is con-
sequently demanded that the trans
fer be declared null. and void, and
that there shall be an accounting
of profits made or to be made"
The principle at stake is impor-
tant. If a precedent can be estab-
lished showing that the Alien Prop
erty Custodian violated q treaty
with Germany the entire work of
his Office will be undermined.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-10
No More Bridges
Editor of The Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The cost of new bridge over
the East River would be, say, 25 per
cent more than a tunnel for the same
transit efficiency The maintenance
and operation of the tunnel might cost
shade more than for a bridge, but there
must be added to the cost of the
bridge 80 per cent for its approaches
plus 3 per cent perpetual loss of taxes
on the latter, and destruction for all
time of taxable realty values, where a
tunnel would increase taxable values
The increase in the latter would prob
ably pay for the debt service on the
cost of the tunnel plus it's approaches
Mayor Hylan has properly said we
must have no more elevated tracks, and
that in time all "elevateds" must come
down. The objection to the elevated
applies equally to bridges. They both
destroy property values instead of in
creasing them.
STEWART BROWNE.
New York, Aug. 7, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-10
Himalayan HEIGHTS

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: l was much interested in your
view of the Himalayan K-2 peak in the
issue of Sunday, August 6. My
mothers brother, Colonel H. II.
Goodwin Austen, was the first white
man to see this peak He was at
tached to the Trigonometrical Survey
of India in the SOS and assigned to
Kashmir for part of the time. He
brought back a large number of
valuable water-color sketches of what
was then, and largely is now, a terra
incognlta OF awe-compelling grandeur.
Photography in form portable
enough to use on such expeditions had
not been developed in his day, and I
shall take great pleasure in sending
him this photogravure.
BY the way, as one who has himself
taken part in Himalayan expedition,
am interested in the caption under
this picture. This says "the Peak of
K-2-the highest land elevation ever
reached by man" This seems to
imply that some one has stood on the
summit of K-2 Is this so? So far as
L know, the highest point to which any
climber has attained was reached this
summer by the Mount Everest climb
ing party and that they reached a
height of 27,oo0-odd feet. I have not
the exact figures by me.
MY uncle takes great interest in the
scenes OF his early work, and though
eighty-six or eighty-seven years of
age still works long hours each dav
at his microscope. He is one of the
leading authorities in England on the
fresh water mollusca.
B. H. w. HEWETT.
New York, Aug. 8, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-10

n$ contemplate places. When Carlyle
wrote his "Sartor Resartus" he ex-
torted from the lips of Teufelsdrockh
profound pronouncement on this sub
ject: "What meaning lies in Color!
From the soberest drab to the high
flaming scarlet, spiritual idiosyncrasies
unfold themselves in choice of Color:
If the Cut betoken Intellect and
Talent, so does the Color betoken
Temper and Heart" Precisely. Color
can be, it has been on occasion, the
emblem of a heroic personality, the
sign and banner Of great cause. What
was the orifamme Of the young
romantics who rallied round Victor
Hugo at the first performance of
Hermann" nearly a hundred years
ago? A red waistcoat, worn provoc-
atively and proudly by Theophile
Gautier, acolyte of beauty.
But would not leave the defense OF
this august principle to the possibly
tinedrawn distinctions Of the philos-
opher or to the emotional impulses o1
the poet. I would assign it rather to
the man of action, the man of courage
the man, in short, who wore color as
boldly as he drew steel. Turn to "The
Three Musketeers" and look with D'Ar.
tagnan upon Porthos in his glory:
"The center Of the most animated
group was musketeer of great height
and naughty countenance, dressed in 6
costume SO peculiar as to attract gen.
eral attention. He did not wear the
uniform cloak--which was not obliga.
tory at that epoch of less liberty but
more independence-but cerulear
blue doublet, little faded and worn
and over this a magnificent baldrie
worked in gold, which shone like waite,
ripples in the sun. A long cloak Of
crimson velvet fell in graceful fold,
from his shoulders, disclosing in from
New-York tribune., 1922-08-10
trash than his father and grand
father had, the same being true of
girls. 1t is hopeful indication.
Calls TO Brutus

Into the windows Of Brutus, when
Rome was about to see grievous
days, huttered the message:
"Brutus. thou sleep'st. Awake and
see thyself.
:. Speak, strike, redressl
Brutus, thou sleep'st: awakel"
So far as we are aware the an
cestors of Senator Borah drove out no
Tarquins, although they may have
chased Piutes. Nor does the mighty
bulk of the Senator's contributions
to The Congressional Record indi-
cate a heavy sleeper. The mass of
his information and his willingness
to impart it suggest rather burner
of midnight oil who agrees with
Franklin that time spent in bed is
lost and that six or less hours a
night is enough.
Yet the Senator's mail is over
whelmed, the public is told, with ap-
peals to him to awake, to grid on his
armor and to sally forth as the or
ganizer and leader of third party
He is exhorted to throw his SON.
brero into the ring. What issues he
is to inscribe on his banner are not
described. The idea seems to be that
something is wrong and that some
thing should be done about it, and
that Bill Borah is the lad to mix the
proper medicine as he goes gallopine
along.
The petitions are scarcely neces.
sary. Senator Borah has long been
a third party, and while he remains
in public life may be confidently ex.
pected to continue to be one. II
there were three major parties he
would at once become fourth; il
there were four he would be a fifth
He is centrifugal by temperament
and non-cohesive by long practice
This unconquerable habit of go-it.
alone and refusing to be regimentec
is probably the reason why he is the
most interesting of Senators.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-10
Nothing the Matter With Kansa,

Either because of climatic or
statutory aridity, people live longer
in Kansas.
The, average span of life there is
nearly two years greater for men
and women than it is in other states.
These figures are of course based on
recent years. Kansas in the days
Immediately preceding the Civil War
was not at all a healthy state.
Few men will begrudge the Sun
flower State this advantage. One of
Kansas's chief products is philosophy,
and philosophy is of far higher quail
ity when turned out by men who are
on in years.
William Allen White and Henry
Allen and Ed Howe and Arthur
Capper have already enriched the
world by their reflections on life and
manners and customs. It would be
a pity if such men lived in states
where their expectation Of life was
brief.
In Kansas they will be spared like
as not to tell the grandchildren of
the present generation why there
were so many strikes in 1922, how
people happened to be frightened by
the Ku-Klux Klan and the candidacy
of William Randolph Hearst and the
motive that moved William j. Bryan
to get his hair cut.
Of course even these sages cannot
now solve such mysteries, but in the
fullness of years they will be able to
do so. How fortunate for the world
that they live in Kansas!
New-York tribune., 1922-08-10
parently whoever prepares them is
determined to employ every possible

parently whoever prepares them is
determined to employ every possible
appeal.
So, for example, he heads one
little item destined for local papers,
"Scrubs bring thirty years of re-
gret." The moral is at once obvious
-pure-bred cows bring thirty years
of happiness. Some COW! But, not
content with the expression of this,
the departmental author embodies in
single paragraph history, tragedy
and optimism. He describes an aged
farmer, now in his seventy-sixth
year, admitting that his life has
been failure because thirty years
ago he did not buy pure-brod cows.
The man confesses that he has only
himself to blame because he has to-
day nothing but "a lot of nondcscript
animals" in place of the stately kline
that might have been his.
But in order that the tragic lesson
may be driven home the author
chcerfully points out that even at
the age Of seventy-hve it is not too
late to make beginning, and that
this disillusionized farmer is now a
firm believer in pure-bred stock and
is remaking his herd.
The country can no longer afford
to continue the old, unscientific
methods of farming and stock rails
ing. Thanks to the governments
campaign, great improvements have
been made in recent decades. By
constant hammering headway has
been made, and the department con-
tinues to hammer with great vigor.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-10
Restoring German Property

A movement that bears the ear
marks of an attempt to under
mine the validity of the work of the
Alien Property Custodian in admin
istering the property of German
nationals seized during the war has
just been inaugurated in a suit
brought against the Chemical Foun-
dation by one Junkers, appropriately
named.
In public statement warning the
world that it is idle to dismiss the
charges by raising the cry of "pro-
German" it is claimed that this
Junkers was the inventor of "a GER
tain new and useful improvement in
airplanes, its appurtenances and ac-
cessories," which invention was duly
-satented in Washington, and that
Siiis patent was seized by the Alien
Property Custodian and turned over
to the Navy Department, which in
turn handed it over to the Chemical
Foundation.
Reference is then made to "a
treaty" between this country and
Germany (which by its terms pro-
vided that in the event of war being
declared between the contracting
parties, if either government seized
property of it's subjects or citizens,
the same should be taken and paid
for and said citizens or subjects
compensated for the seizure of their
property"
1t was violation Of this treaty,
says the plaintiff, for the Navy De-
partment without compensation to
New-York tribune., 1922-08-10
A Bloc-Made Tariff

The embarrassment in which Sem
ator Smoot has found himself since
the publication of his letter to Cen
eral Crowder furnishes further evil
dence of the unwisdom Of the course
being pursued by the Senate tariff
makers.
In his letter, which was to be laid
before the President of Cuba, Sem
ator Smoot amiably suggested to
Cuba that she cut down her sugar
crop 2,500000 tons; said that pend
ing a reply he had postponed a
writing of the sugar schedule, and,
finally, his language is susceptible
of the Interpretation that he init
mated that if the Cubans did not ac-
cept his advice with respect to taking
the specified sugar tonnage from the
market the duty against Cuban
sugar might be raised from IA cents
to It's cents. Cuba's President did
not effect the reduction, and on Tues
day the Senate voted to increase the
duty not to 1.75 cents, but to 1873
cents.
Passing over the question whether
Senator Smoot has authority thus to
carry on negotiations with foreign
government, and also passing over
the equities of American sugar con-
sumers, the incident discloses in a
most emphatic fashion the evils Of
the bloc system of tariff making.
No one who would be fair has
any disposition to accuse Senator
Smoot of corruption. His motives,
it may be assumed, went no further
than to advance the financial in
terests of the beet sugar producers
Of his state. But it may be truth
fully said he shows little considera-
tion for the welfare or the desires
Of the country as a whole.
He reveals himself not a Senator
of the United States, but solely
Senator Of the State of Utah. He
gives solid justification for the
charge that by conspiracy and COM
bination a group Of Senators, each
concerned about particular duty,
have pooled local selfshness and
would jam through an agreed-on
program. A hard and fast "bloc"
which openly adopts log rolling is
obviously a most sinister organiza-
tion, and no tariff coming from it is
! likely to command public confidence.
z Postponement of the passage of a
permanent tariff bill is in accord
with the implied pledge Of the Re-
publican platform. Trade and pro-
duction throughout the world have
not become normal and no one can
tell what duties should be imposed.
This is argument enough for post
ponement.
But the uncovering of the "bloc'
system in its full enormity provides
4 an additional reason. Protection is
3 put in jeopardy by the "bloc"
/ Senators.