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Evening star., 1923-06-12
Park Concerts.

Summer concerts in the parks will
begin this evening. These summer
recitals by government bands are one
Of the pleasures Of Washington and
thousands Of persons attend. Open-air
concerts by the Marine Band at the
Capitol and White House became one
of the institutions of Washington con-
siderably more than half a century
ago, and that great band still plays
for US. Every one hopes that it will
play for all time to come. Other gov
ernment bands have in late years come
park concerts will be by the United
States Army Band, which is a big and
highly meritorious organization that
has won distinction. The thought
must come to many Of our people that
we have lately had a mighty volume
Of free music. There was first our
third annual Music week, with public
concerts. great choruses and an event
full feature of thousands of public
school children singing at the ball
park. Close upon Music week came
Shrine week. and Washington will
long remember how numerous and ac-
commodating were the Shrine bands
Now, our park concert season opens.
and the band which has long stood at
the head Of martial musical organiza-
tions is to play for us, and another
great band which is reaching out for
laurels and the palm will also play.
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Souvenirs Of Genius.

Sarah Bernhardt's stage jewels were
sold at auction yesterday in Paris and
brought remarkable sums. Trinkets
worth intrinsically only about 10000
francs were bid in by souvenir seekers
for neary ten times that amount. Tin
sci bracelets. decorations and other
adornments associated with some OF
the Divine Sarah's" greatest stage
creations We're sought so eagerly by
collectors and admirers of the actress
that the bidding ran far beyond ex-
pectations and caused some of the
most interested competitors to drop
out long before the hammer fell.
Purchasers of these bits of stage
decoration will cherish them proudly.
They will probably increase in value
with time. A century hence, perhaps,
they will be rated with some of the
most precious museum pieces in the
world. Why? Because they were worn
by woman whose name will always
stand as that of a remarkable imper-
senator. whose genius thrilled the
world for years and who, despite the
handicap of illness. disablement and
age. continued almost unto her death
to represent the greatest traditions of
the stage.
But there is one of Sarah Bern
hardt's accessories that can never be
sold or preserved, and that is the
spark of her Incompatible genius. 1t
will remain, however, to illuminate
the history Of the drama for as many
years as the stage continues to exist
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Princess Christian, Aunt of King,
Notable Figure in Edwards Reign
( Copyright. 1923. }

resurrection" has been bestowed.
Among the recipients of the grand
cross OF this order. the highest dis
tinction in the gift of the republic
of Poland. was Paderewski, for his
services as delegate TO the peace
congress OF Versailles. and Dmowski.
his fellow plenipotentiary. The
others include ]. j. Jusserand. am
bassador OF France at Washington
ana who couple of years ago was
dispatched by his government on
special mission to Warsaw at very
critical juncture and which he ac-
complished with signal success. also
the late Premier Sikorski Skirmunt
formerly minister Of foreign affairs
and now Polish envoy i'm London:
Count Zamoyski who. ever since 1918,
mas represented Poland in Paris as
minister plenipotentiary with con-
siderable state and splendor, and
without pay: Count Alexander Skrzyn-
SKI, who up to the other day was
minister of foreign affairs. and who
prior 10 the great war was in the
Austro- Hungarian diplomatic service
and successfully secretary of the i'm
per1al embassies at Rome and in
Paris, transferring, however, his allie
glance to Poland at the close of the
great war to become her minister at
6ucharest and last, but not least,
The presence of the latter's name
In this first official "honors list" is
sued by the Polish government, has
excited considera BILE amount of at
tention in the various capitals of
europe 1t may be recalled that in
october. 1920. Poland concluded with
the republic OF Lithuania a solemn
armlstice under the auspices of the
league or nations at Geneva. accord
Ing 10 the terms of which the city of
wilma was to remain on the I,itbu-
anian side of the border line between
the two countries.
Less than fortnight later Zeli-
dowski at the head Of a large Polish
1orce. crossed the armistice line in
Vaded LithuaiDa and seized wilma. II
was no secret at the time that he was
acting IN accordance with Polish pop
uIdr sentiment, and it was alleged
that he had the secret approval of
the Piisudski government. Great
Brltaln and France, as well as most
OF the governments comprised in the
league of nations. vigorously nro-
tested against this breach of faith
and especially against the VIOLATION
VI an agreement concluded under the
auspices and with the full approvaI
OF the league. in response r. ubioh
the Polish government disclaimed aii
compilcity and responsibilith, con-
oemning Gen. Zelidowskf. ana ~
ctaimIng MIN as a rebel over whom
troll 'u no con-
BY now including the rebel rener.,
IN the nst or honors and by investing
hood of the republic, the Iattsr XII, KIT,
oe SAID to have given a tardv o.,
encouragement of it's approval or the
act of rebellion in setzinr Viin. % 'he
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CAPITAL KEYNOTES
BY PAUL Y. COLLINS.

Washington stands midway between
the upper and neither milestone in the
proposed grinding out of the truth
as 10 evolution. Rev. DR.. Abernathy
of North Carolina offers a reward of
$1,000 to Rev. DR.. Henry Van Dyke
of New York as a challenge to him
to produce "one fact proving the
evolution Of man from a lower order
or species"
Scientists say that evolution is not
based on the dictum of "one fact
but on the chain Of evidence Of geol-
ogy. biology and physiology. Fur
thermore, 1t does not, they assert,
even tend to deny the creation OF man
or of the universe by the DIVINE
Creator. any more than the law OF
gravitation, which explains the rota
tion of planets about the sun, and or
the onward sweep Of the universe
through space, explain what was the
Infinite Power, which created all
things Men have been burned at the
stake for declaring that the earth
revolves about the sun, for to their
Judges the statement seemed IN con-
f7ict with biblical statements. Few
still believe that the earth is fiat
and that the sun revoives about II,
yet those who accept science are as
deVout as any others.
X X \ X
One of the clearest scientific think
ers America has produced was Prof.
John Fiske of Harvard College. In
his book, 1.-The Idea of God" Fiske
discusses the reasonableness and ac-
ceptability of evolution as scientific,
and ends his argument with the fol-
lowing (and will not both Revs. Aber-
nathy and Van Dyke agree?):
But of some things we may feel
sure. Humanity is not a mere local
incident in an endless and aimless
series of cosmical changes. The
events Of the universe are not the
work Of chance, neither are they the
outcome of blind necessity. Prac-
tically there is a purpose in the world
whereof II is our highest duty to
learn the lesson, however i'll or well
we may fare in rendering a scientific
account Of it.
when from the dawn Of life. we
see all things working together
toward the highest evolution of the
highest spiritual attributes OF man,
we know. however. the words may
stumble in which we try to say 1t,
that God is in the deepest sense a
moral Being. The everlasting source
Of phenomena is none other than the
infinite Power that makes for right
eousness. Thou canst not by search
ing find Him out; yet put thy trust
in Him. and against thee the gates of
hell shall not prevail; for there is
neither wisdom nor understanding
nor counsel against the Eternal"
r X
One of the most orthodox theolo-
gians of America. Rev. Washington
GLADDEN.. writes in his book. What
Is Left?" p. II, when we see what
a marvel Of majesty and beauty can
come forth from the minute germ of
the acorn or the maple seed, we get
a slight impression of the potential
tiles Of life. The evolution reveals
the miracle Of the involution. Crea-
tion is far more wonderful when we
think of all this manifold life of the
world as having been originally
packed away in few simple forms.
to be drawn forth thence in the slow
progress Of the ages. than when we
imagine each of the forms a having
been hidden into existence by an in
finite fat
The fish stories which are coming
now from Florida appear to be such
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OF reasonable mergers, under control
Of the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion. as authorized in the transporta.
ton act Of 1920. These benefits were
expected to be derived from obvious
overlapping of service and duplicating
OF overhead expenses. The Transports
tion problem Is q question of securing
the maximum Of service at the mini
mum Of cost from the existing railway
systems. The problem before the In
terstate Commerce Commission is to
get the best possible service out Of
existing plants. and recent merger
plans put forward have been made
with that objective in view.
The Supreme Court in October,
1922, had decreed the separation Of
the Southern Pacific and Central Pa
cific. After that decision the Inter
state Commerce Commission, under
authority of the transportation act,
authorized the Southern Pacific to re-
tain control of the Central Pacific by
a new lease and continued stock
ownership under certain conditions.
Judge Sanborn. who handed down yes
terday's decision Of the circuit court
of appeals, said he did not believe the
Supreme Court had considered the
transportation act in its dissolution
decree. The case is still open for an
other appeal 10 the Supreme Court,
but it is said to be questionable
whether it will be taken. Yesterdays
decision is classed as being in line
with the administration policy OF
beneficent merger of existing lines in
special cases.
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The Austrian Loan.

An important step was taken yes
terday in the stabilization of Europea n
affairs when the International Aus
trian loan at per cent was heavily
oversubscribed in New York and Lon
don. Within fifteen minutes after the
books were opened in the former city
bids had been received for more than
FIVE times the amount Of the American
quota of $4,000. 900. In London the
fl ,000. 900 British quota was sub
scribed before noon. This loan Is de-
cided success.
Austria's financial condition is about
as bad as that Of any country in Eu-
rope, perhaps the worst OF all. That
country was greatly reduced in area
by the peace Of Versailles. was stripped
of it's most valuable territory and was
shut off from the sea. Its currency
fell to so low a rate as 10 be virtually
worthless. It's efforts to amalgamate
with Germany were thwarted. For a
time 1t seemed that there was no hope
for Austria but national bankruptcy
and complete reorganization.
This present loan is guaranteed by
eight Of the nations. If Austria de-
faults in payment these nations will
participate proportionately in the
liquidation 1t is therefore 10 the in
terest of the guaranteeing powers to
restore Austria's economic health to
the point Of enabling her to meet her
obligations.
A significant feature of this over
subscription of the Austrian loan is
that it occurs most markedly in
enemy countries" The question inn
mediately arises whether Germany
could effect a loan in the same man.
ner. Opinion is already expressed that
it could be done on the same condi-
tions. that is. with equally strong
guarantees. No move. however, has
been made to that end. AS long as the
reparations problem remains unsolved,
that is, while the amount OF Ger.
manys acknowledged obligation is un-
determined, nothing can be done to-
ward a guaranteed international loan.
Certainly France would not join in
such a guaranty of German liquida-
tion while she remains the largest un-
satisfied creditor of an undetermined
and unpledged debt.
Yet the Austrian loan encourages
the hope Of adjustments that will un-
derwrite peace in Europe through mu-
tuality of obligation and financial risk.
An international fiscal partnership
may effect more than a political coali
tiop
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whoppers that they indicate the effect
Of the rigid enforcement of the Vol
stead law, requiring all liquor to be
thrown overheard as soon as vessels
come within the three mile limit. So
intoxicating is the briny deep be
coming that every minnow gets a
case of swelled head. and every
sucker becomes bigger than a whale.
Last week we were regaled with a
fish story of monster that could not
only have swallowed Jonah but the
boat that Jonah dived from. Next
comes a moro modest story of
10000 pound small fry harpooned and
shot fifty times but not landed. All
Of them go 20 show the Florida Wis
itors singing How Dry ] Am" Re
member what happened to the frog
which tried to swell up until IL would
be as big as an OK. 1t busted
The Treasury officials assure the
world that the Volstead law is going
to be enforced to the letter-fsh o.
no fish. Enforcement against alien
ships began last Sunday.
Surgeon General H s. Cumming hss
issued posters full Of information as
to the medical treatment of all sailors
on duty under the American flag
Ever since 1898 the government has
maintained hospital service for the
sailors. At first the sailors We're
taxed 90 cents month TO cover the
expense. and later the tax was in
creased: but in 1883 the tax was
abolished and the service maintained
a hA IF a ~
Any American ship upon the high
seas may call the service by radio,
relate the symptoms of any cases of
sickness aboard and receive pre-
sailors who have not vet accepted the
spirit of the prohibition laws. are
asking what good is a prescription
thousand miles away from dis
pensary?
The Vincent B. Costello Post. Amer
lean Legion, is planning to build
post headquarters at cost %
$1,000 900. provided it receives sufficient
encouragement from generous con-
tributors. That will be the second
headquarters of an American Legion
post for the District, the first being
the fine old historic residence occu-
l, at 1929 l street
AS the years go by the spirit
of fraternity is growing stronger
among the veterans. as it did among the
veterans of the civil war. united in the
Grand Army of the Republic.
x x
In announcing new program for
mobilizing laborers needed in the
steel plants. brickyards and on rail-
roads, the head of the White Cross
Free Labor Bureau OF America. Rev.
Simon P. W. Drew, said that there
had never been such a demand for
labor in the United States as now.
The bureau has calls for $4,000 men
for lucrative jobs.
X X
There will be a conference held AT
Continental Hall next Thursday and
Friday, whose special object will be
TO formulate rules for civilians in re-
lation to the American flag. 1t will
be addressed by the President ana
other distinguished speakers. The
conference will he of delegates rep
resenting several patriotic societies
Copyright. 1923, by p. Y. CoIlins.l
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time. The old fellow revived ou,cL,v
Wnen a drink of water was aiVan
him. He had fallen, weak siyen from
neran,1v nangeI: everybody stood about ap-
ma man % led, nripress or resSsr while aI the army
the old bum" into one Of thosa
morse drawn wagons used by tbe SCI
Tation Army for gatherine nid
CONES and papers. The fiippish
and pna ~ haa nghted cigarette
1 foIiowed the case. 1 learned that
tne oid fellow was just another nna
OF lies unfortunates; that. fie,,rn Une
.Iyey speaking. he had been swim
could not find any sort of wnsl 'ine; me
nad FALLEN, weak from hunear and nd
fatigue, looking for emplovmsn. aIo %
was absolutely penniless and nhvse
ieaiiy low when he was taken into
the salvation Army's Hotel for his
kind on street. There he was fad
nursed and put on his feet u,,thtr
twenty-four hours. " WITHIN
Ihat was two days ago. He is still
there, know, because I am Inter
the army hotel. while work ontsjds
Is being found for him. And thare
hell stay, I'm satisfied, getting three
wholesome meals q day and bed to
sleep In until he Is strong and well
new job. III
l happened to be near when the old
man crumpled on the sidewalk,
nao read much of the Salvation
Armys campaign for funds. fol.
lowed out this case. And then I made
out my check for every cent | could
spare. ] wish 1 had more to give
hope my experience will promnt
others to help, for I understand the
army needs funds badly and they're
not coming in very encoura9fnriy
0EoRGH-1kToI6EHXs
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ny THE MARaUIsE DE FoNTENoY.

Schomberg House, on Pail MAIL
where King Georges oldest aunt, the
kindly Princess Christian, is now re-
ported to be dying-indeed, she may
have breathed her last ere this ap-
pears in prints one or the historic
mansions of the British metropolis
and was built during the reign OF
Charles II for that Duke of Schom-
berg who was in turn a German
prince, a Swedish and a Dutch gem
eral, a French field marshal. a Portu-
guese grandee and count. a Britisn
marquis and duke, commanoer-ln-
chief of the armies OF the Hohen-
zollern sovereign elector of Braden-
burg, and who was killed hghting 1or
King William at the battle OF tne
Boyne in 1890 and buried In 81 faL-
rick's Cathedral at Dublin. beneath
a handsome memorial inscribed with
an epitaph by Dean Swift.
Princess Christian shared more
than any one of Queen Victoria
children the pronounced leanings OF
her brother. King Edward. for every
body and everything connected with
known as the Providence OF the
Americans. hundreds Of whom she
sponsored in Englinsh society. In
deed, there was no royal parsonage
in Europe who had longer American
visiting list than Princess Christian:
She had much of the geniality or
King Edward and absence OF anecta-
tion, keenly enjoyed her popularity
and it was a source of great sorrow
to her that during the war her nus
band, very much her senior. who had
spent forty years OF his life in Eng
land, was subjected to manifestations
OF nti-German prejudice and even
of suspicion in the land of his adop-.
tion by reason of his German title or
Duke of Schleswig-H -Holstein. 1t broke
his health and his spirit. He did not
survive the war.
After his death the princess gave
up the home of her married life at
Frogmore, within the domain OF
Windsor Castle, and established her
residence in Sohomberg house. Pail
of Schomberg's death and her own
occupancy had sheltered William.
royal Duke of Cumberland. and
number of other notable people. In
deed, the preat painters. Gainsbor-
ough and Sir Joshua Reynolds. dld
much of their best work beneath its
roof. The late kaiserin. owing to her
fathers death and her mothers in
sanity, was brought up at Frogmore
under the guardianship Of her aunt,
Princess Christian.
Poland, on the occasion of the re-
cent celebration OF her national day,
published the first list of those upon
whom her new order OF "Poland's
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There was some plain speaking at
William and Mary College in Virginia
today by John w. H. Grim. assistant
attorney general of the United
States. Addressing the alumni Of his
venerable alma mater. Grim charged
that "the crooked politician" has to
be combated virtually every time
the federal government moves In the
courts to enforce the law. 81 can
count on my fingers said Grim.
the professional politicians in my
rendered substantial aid in law en-
forcement." Crim's address was a
frontal attack on the archaic sys-
tenn under which the Department of
Justice is conducted. He declares
that IL needs renovation from top to
bottom like an old house that long
since outgrew it's usefulness: One
of Crims recommendations is that
the Attorney Generals office should
be taken out of the cabinet. and the
post turned into a non political one,
with a long term. IL not permanent.
incumbent.
Homer Cummings of Connecticut.
formerly democratic national chair
man, held forth as today's commence
ment orator at the University of
Virginia in Charlottesville. He had
some caustic things to say about
United States policy at the re-
cent pan American conference in
Chile. Our refusal to submit the
Monroe doctrine to discussion. with
O x.in IN ah hr1iG Of no
Latin republics as partners in it's
maintenance, was excoriated as 'pO-
litical perversity. or worse. Cum
mings told the faculty and students
founded that America. under its
present national leadership. is suf-
fering from the complex of in
volvement."
The fascist have at length invad-
ed Washington and are now repre-
scented here by a personally appoint
ed emissary of Mussolini. This is
the way it came about. william
Atherton Dupuy, well known Wash
ington scribe. was recently in Rome,
attending the International Women's
Congress. AS all journalistic roads
in the Italian capital lead straight
to Mussolini. Dupuy availed himself
of an opportunity to meet that
benevolent autocrat. The premier
is not exactly a shrinking violet in
the presence of dispensers of print
er's ink. and Dupuy encountered
warm welcome. While II was at its
efusive zenith. Mussolini decorated
the American with the official badge
of the fascist. and for the moment
1t has displaced the American Legion
button in Dupuy's coat lapel.
~
Senator william E. Borah is due in
Idaho this week for a protracted visit
destined to be OF decisive influence upon
his political career Borah comes up
for reelection in 1924. His renomina-
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EDITORIAL DIGEST

Weems School" should not be ac-
cepted "in place of historical accu-
racy," but at the same time. the
Cleveland Plain Dealer contends. "in
order to do away with our jingoistjc
tweakinG OF the British lions tail il
is not at all necessary to belittle
the good Americans of Bunker Hill
and Valley Forge and Guilford Court
House Moreover, the Pittsburgh
Post contends. "'there is nothing cold
in American history the
history of America is too romantic,
too full of fire and too great in ac-
complishment to be told in a mere
statistical way"
This point of view. however. ap-
pears to the Waterbury Republican
to take too seriously 'the patriotic
legend that by a special dispen sation
OF Providence all American patriots
were Supermen in virtue and with
out the customary emotions and
''jazzy little turn on the public stage
would hardly deserve notice at all"
In the opinion of the Baltimore SUI,
'if it were not for the lamentable
tendency on the part of a few ex-
citable citizens whom it represents
To them every effort on the part OF
educators who seek to replace the
traditional f-glorification of history
with an outlook of broad understand
ing is 'unpatriotic'. Every attempt
as something more than a series Of
heroic battles. sounding slogans and
righteous wars is insidious propa-
ganda. The only serious element
In the Hirshfield report. to the
Springfield Republican 'is the as
sumption that truth must be suhordi-
mated 10 jingo patriotism. and that
patriotism means sedulously keeping
alive an ancient grudge." Flaying of
silly Americans who prefer Eu-
ropean countries to their own and
lightly adopt foreign nations" tho
Schenectady Gazette regards as a
good thing, but narrowing tho
American mind and cutting of
knowledge of the true history Of our
origin is dangerous" The long and
the short of it. as the Hartford Times
sums it up. lis that if we are teach
Ing history and not mythology We
want our children to acquire criti-
cal capacity which shall enable them
TO appraise the world they live In
by an Intelligent application of the
knowledge of the past If a
child has been trained to believe that
between the years 1875 and 1885 all
Americans We're supermen the an
pearance of a Hirshfield must come
with something of shock"
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related to a word meaning trade" +"
and a caravan was a company Of
traders or merchants who treveled In
q body the better to protect them
selves against bandits.
Outside Of Shrine circles little has
been heard Of caravans in late years.
We have used wagon train" fleet
Of autos" 'cavalcade." procession. )"
escort" convoy" and other words.
but now when two market wagons
travel together we may hear them
spoken OF as a caravan. The old hotel
at Four Corners, which was first
called the Scythe and Sickle Tavern.
later became the Drovers' Rest and is
now called Rose Leaf Teahouse may
become a caravansary.