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Sound Advice.

In the German reichstag yesterday,
speaking in behalf OF the socialists,
Herr Breitschedt urged that a definite,
concrete offer to France for a settle.
ment. Of the reparation question
should be made by the German gov
ernment. cur duty said Herr
Breitschedt, ''is to bring about a
speedy end Of the Ruhr adventure.
We have no friends in the world.
England and America win not inter-
vene.' The deputy went on to say
that the socialists were not affiliated
with the present government, but I'VE
desire to see it remain in Office to
liquidate the Ruhr conflict, which oc.
Cured during its regime" =
In suggesting that the German
government submit a definite and
concrete offer to France, the socialist
deputy gave sound advice, which the
government cannot whistle down the
wind without a measure Of 'culpabil-
ity. All the world IL apprehensive Of
the potentialities FOR disaster In the
existing situation. There is wide
spread feeling that Germany in the
end must inevitably meet the repara.
tions obligation, which now she seems
to be seeking to evade. How much
better it would be to look that inevita.
bility in the face and forestali it be.
fore the present situation develops into
sornethinR vVorSai e.
The leader of the nationaiists. DR..
Carl Helfferich, is reported rs deliv.
ering "a fiery speech, in which he de.
clared all German political parties
were united in determination to re.
fuse all reparations Internationally as
long as the Ruhr remained occupied" !"
That determination. IL persisted In.
bodes III. for the fixed determination
Of France is not to withdraw until
Evening star., 1923-04-19
THE WAYS OF WASHINGTON
BY WILLIAM PICKETT HELM

How would you feelsif you had ten
thousand candles burning within a
foot Of your eye?
No. not blinded You would be
neither blinded nor bedazzled. baked
nor blinked. In effect. you have ten
thousand candles burning within
foot of your eye every day of SUM-
shine. DR.. W. w. Garner, royal opti-
clan to the vegetable kingdom. has
measured it and knows; what he is
talking about.
II half of the ten thousand candles
we're blown out, you would hardly
notice the difference. Neither does a
plant. II the snuffer kept on snufhng
ing, you could still read or write or,
IL your hand does not tremble, thread
a needle.
So can a plant. Or. rather. it can
60 on doing twhateyer & it It's, is that
And right there Is the whole basis
of cne of the hottest scientific discov-
cries since Benjamin franklin
trapped the lightning with the string
and key on his kite.
1t is now possible to make any
plant bloom and bear fruit anywhere
in the world at any time of the year
A tropical plant can be made to bloom
in all it's glory right up under the
Arctic circle. A spring flower be-
comes a fall flower or an any other
time flower that anybody wants.
How? Two ways. One Is to shut 1t
up in the dark before the day is done.
The other is to lengthen its day by
giving 1t electric light after dark
That is where the great discovery
came. 1t does not have to have ten
thousand candles. Ten Will do, at
pinch.
"Dr. Garner" 1 said, "how did you
figure it out?'
"I didn't" he said. Then he asked
!: ure out discovery? Maybe discover
les just happen"
but" he went on. sit happened
this way used ns td6snro to nd ,, bsre
the Maryland fields. The trouble was
they never did bloom and, of course.
had no seed. We could not get any
more like them. -
Finally. I put one Of. them in a
greenhouse to try to carry It through
the winter. In the dead OF wintersit
bloomed.
out lots OF things. As nearly as I can
lteH, 1 figured out all the wrong things
there were. When there was nothing
| else left, ! had to take the right one.
I "That plant would mot bloom In
| the summer because the day was too
long for II. When 1t gotta short day
| that It liked. it bloome6"
Since then, DR.. GaTner-head' to.
! bacco specialist Of the Department OF
Evening star., 1923-04-19
Westward Ho for Harding!

Back in those spectacular days or
16 to I, when William Jennings Bryan
would come into the east to unlimber
the guns of his matchless oratory,
newspaper writers referred to II as
Invading the enemy's country" And
1t was the enemy's country, not so
much for Bryan the man AS for the
financial heresy which he had made
the paramount issue of his campaign
for the presidency: but when Bryan
faced hostile audiences in New York
and elsewhere and won their admira-
ton, even if he could not win their
votes, he, was displaying political
courage as we'll as high political wis
dom. If any tactics could have car
ried the east for free silver the tactics
of Bryan would have done it.
President Harding is displaying the
same sort of courage and the same
wisdom in going directly to the west
to explain those policies of his ad-
ninistration to which the west is
evidencing hostility. The states beyond
the Mississippi are not in any sense
"enemy's country" so far as Mr..
Harding personally is concerned, and
there is no reason to believe they are
politically hostile to him. but in some
vital respects the viewpoints of the
President and of the west are in con-
nict and each is bound to be benefited
and broadcned by contact with the
other.
Mr.. Harding has great adran-
tage over Mr.. Bryan in that it is as
President of the United States, not as
q. candidate for that office, that he
will Invade the enemy's country"
Mr.. Bryan's campaign was political,
pure and simple. Mr.. Hardings will
be as non political as he can make it.
He would like to forget and have it
forgotten entirely that there is to be
q presidential election next year and
that in all probability he will be his
martyrs nominee for reelection. That
cannot quite be accomplished, but the
country may feel assured that the
coming Swing around the circle" will
not degenerate into a stumping tour
Happy and suspicious as are the
circumstances of the Presidents trip
into the west, it is a very serious
purpose that he has in mind. Graft.
fieation of personal ambitions plays
little, if any, part in his plans. He
believes the, welfare of all the people
depends upon the success Of programs
he has undertaken as President, and
he is going into the west to ask co.
operation and support. 1t is eminent
ly a right and proper thing to do. He
Is convinced that western opposition
10 these programs arises from a mis-
understanding Of them, and this mis-
understanding he will seek to remove.
Certainly no one is so able as the
President himself to explain his poll
eies, for no one not in his position
10 so able to divest himself Of sec
tionalisn and view the nation and its
needs as a whole.
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Herrin Massacre Unavenged, But
Nav Point Lesson to Nation.

The dismissal Of all of the indIct-
ments returned against the men con-
earned in the Herrin riots again has
concentrated attention on the mas
sacre there. Editors, in denouncins
the apparent failure OF justice, ex-
press the hope that, while the guilty
have escaped, the outcome NAV cause
a change in state laws which Will
make any such outcome Impossible
in the future.
IF the .Herrin massacre serves as
a. beacon light to the ship OF state
suggests the Kalamazoo Gazette
pointing out in time the reefs OF
commercial rapacity on one side ana
organized mass tyranny on the other;
IL labor and capital as well as the
uublic the chief sufferer from violent
disruptions Of the American INDUS
trial machine. can be made to reor-
eanfze through it the folly or con-
t;nuins a policy of drifting. there is
hone that a rational and sane sys-
tenn of solving industrial disputes
NAV be devised and adopted, pro-
ducinr a rich fruit from the blood-
red sands of Americas most Ia
uentable and shocking reversions to
nra-eivilized customs" Granting all
this possibly might eventuate' the
Chicago. Tribune nevertheless 1eeis
"Herrin is a murderouS community.
THE courts cannot convict its resi-
dents of murder and punish them
nhv,,calIy, but the civilized opinion
NJ 'the entire United States convicts
them of wholesale murder ana per-
version of justice. and VIII punisn
them by contempt and ostracis1n
from the society OF DECENT people,
The Newark News, in IT. turn, wonders
uh.tber 1'.Herrtn's = shame" will
point q road to better justice" and
recalls .st1e have q reputation as q.
lawless people. earned because we
rarely. have been able to convict
those guifty. OF crime committed
pnder cover Of riot, .No-'nffnd in
formed on the history OF our 1uris-
prudence or aware OF the POSSIBILITY
t;a. of such q change would consider
abolishing the jury system. Imper-
feet though it is. and will remain
while humanity is imperfect, it IL
,nfnitely to be preferred to an un-
restrained judiciary, an utter abb
,ance Of the brake Of public, even
b,oadiy local, sentiment. But why
shonld not the state, II able to show
nreiudicial interest in existing local
sentiment. have the right to change
of venue? That does not require any
mitfration of the reouirements that
the law and the facts shall be pre-
.ented fully. fairly, freely 1t takes
nothins from the chances Of the man
on trial to prove his Innocence, II
innocent It does Give society as Z
whole a chance for its white alley
that it has not now in such cases
a. this one This, latter suggestions
ha. the unqualified approval OF the
New Bedford STANDARD. which insists
"the.e cases ought not to have been
tried in the neighborhood where the
crimes were committed 3
It Is in no, way accurate" points
ou. the Albany Knickerbocker Press'
TO interpret the result "as q failure
of the jury system. Aside from the
oue.sion Of the weight OF evidence
tharo wa the ,dffnoulty. Of shoFing Il
an inquiry into the action Of the moi
J that any particulag person on trial
Evening star., 1923-04-19

Agriculture-and his associates have
done wonderful things with many
plants: In the departments expert
mental grounds they rugged up a lot
of dark houses and lot of houses
with electric lights in them.
They took two stalks of tobacco
Two punches of violets, two clusters
of asters. two of everything, nearly.
as Noah did when he pushed the ark
off from its moorings.
one cluster of aSters they would
push into a dark house sometime be
fore sunset. The other cluster they
would leave out in the sunlight ALI
aay and then put it in A house witt
electric lights at night. The ono thai
was given more than the natural
number of hours of light grew as higl
as the ceiling without sign of bloom
| The one that had its daylight choked
on never got any taller than a lead
pencil, but it produced an endless
profusion Of flowers.
Other plants behaved Just the othe~
way If their light was IenEthened.
themselves nearly to death. If their
light was shut off. they grew TO beat
a field full of gargantuas, but epro-
duced no flowers.
The upshot of ii all was that they
worked out the right light period for
all the plants they tested and viii.
sooner or later do it for all plants
| that anybody cares anything about.
Still the story does not end
II have no doubt" says DR. Gar
ner. that there has always been
something in that old superstition
about planting potatoes and other
things in the moon. Maybe the moon
light does not have anything to do
with 1t. but the difference in day
length between new moon and old
| moon does.
"Understand," he cautioned. "we
have not worked that out yet, and I'm
not saying anything for certain"
Another Garner guess is that the
/ length of day and not weather Is
what makes a bird leave it's coy
roost on the equator and come wing
ing northward to freeze to death in
ington, as lots of them probably did
the other day.
He guesses. broadly, that THE law
runs through the animal kingdom
just as 1t does through the vegetable
kingdom.
"The chicken folks were applying
| it," he said before any OF us know
what it meant. You have read about
their making a hen, lay. two eggs a
day by lighting up her bedroom so
| that she thinks night Is day, That is
the same principle, though for long
time we thought it was because she
ates more by being kept awake
| Theresis no telling where ,ittJwiIl
| end. But;as far as we personally are
1 concerned. We can see all sorts of
labor trouble ahead If anybody tries
| to make two days out of one by slip
ping midnight sintws the place now
] teEanted by noon,
Evening star., 1923-04-19

Archaeological attention is now di-
a new statue of Chac-mool. the Tiger
King Of the Mayas, has been found
in the ruins Of Chichen-Itza. Those
who have learned to pronounce the
name Of King Tutankhamen have a
new task to keep up with the times.
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some measure Of satisfaction Is oh;
tanned. ~ s..
AZ long as the two nations maintain
their present respective positions the
world will be uneasy and .etabiliza-
tion Of Europe will be retarded. It
would be well for the German gov
ernment to take under consideration
the suggestion Of the spokesman for
the socialists.
Evening star., 1923-04-19

Ford enthusiasts insist that their
man will be a candidate. Meanwhile
Henry has just told Wall street he
has 5000, ,oo0, 900 in cash in hand. No
connection between the two state
ments is limited, but there are some
who will, nevertheless, detect rela-
tionship
Evening star., 1923-04-19

The fall in German marks to the
point where $4,000 are needed to buy
one dollar might by the suspicious
be interpreted as an invitation to
American bargain hunters to cross
the Atlantic in search Of goods made
in Germany
Evening star., 1923-04-19

At the present rate Of record-break'
ing in so-called dance contests, it will
soon he necessary to adopt a rule to
lengthen the steps Of the dance
otherwise the spectators will be ex.
hausted long before the participants.
Evening star., 1923-04-19

Sun Vat Sen is reported as again in
fight from Canton. That city has
changed hands about as often as some
Of the ground along the battle line in
France during the great war.
Evening star., 1923-04-19

Paris midinettes are striking for a
80 per cent wage increase and their
boulevard parades are now adding to
the sayety OF that lively capital with
out bloodshed.
Evening star., 1923-04-19

1t is a travesty on history to call
the shuf1ing contests now in progress
in this and other cities dance mara
thons." The real marathon runner
did not stop to change his shoes or
to eat a sandwich.
Evening star., 1923-04-19

Washington long ago banned wire.
carrying poles from the street, but is
quite willing to lift the prohibition to
provide great white way for the
Shrine week of unparalleled brilliancy.
Evening star., 1923-04-19

Ex-Gov. Bflbo Of Mississippi got
thirty days in jail for contempt of
court. Had he lived a few centuries
earlier he might have gotten thirty
in his namesake.
Evening star., 1923-04-19
SHOOTING STARS.
BY-PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Dissatisfied.
The city man worked hard all day
In hope Of future joy.
He dreamed about the rustic way
He trod when but a. boy.
Sometime" he said, I'll take my
Among the flowers and the trees.
And leave the garish lights that blind
The weary townsnan far behind
The countryman exclaimed. 'I,ll make
A fortune from the farm;
And then my pile Of coin I'll take
And learn the city's charm.
I'll have steam heat and fancy fare
And. travel swiftly everywhere.
The old shack and the weary grind
Forever I will leave behind" -.
The artist strives, mid dreams of
E. gold, =.
To clutch the rich mans prize;
The rich man struggles to behold :,
Life through the artists eyes, .. :.
And 20 We keep, with strange unrest,
The envious and eternal quest -.
DESTROYS of another's state,
Which he cannot appreciate. -.
Evening star., 1923-04-19

The ID. A. r.. presidential contest.
though brief. is quite as exciting as
q national affair while it lasts ---~
Evening star., 1923-04-19

More regulation Of marriages would
lessen the need for more regulation Of
divorces. 4
Evening star., 1923-04-19
In Few Words.

Temperance is our goal, conscious
control of appetite. not prohibition.
Prohibition is a means, not an end.
Like ali revolutions, it Is but an epi-
sode in an evolution.
Evening star., 1923-04-19
Rate by MaiI-Fayabie in Advance.
MaryIaHd and Virginia.
All Other States.
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The Personal Critic.

AA&O bToOuos SEAt1Cs
Oh, pass along the battle ak. -. ,
Bring forth the dynamite
And load the shotgun full Of tacks, -
And leave it here in sight.
That CHEEKY Ounce is drawing near
: Who dearly loves to shout
So that the neighborhood may hear,
''My boy. you're getting stout!
To show him mercy is not wise,
"Twere well to end him here.
Zen IL you turn to exercise
And face starvation drear,
He'll look you DER and leave you giuu
And say, with dendish grin, -
'-Go to z nnitartum.
My boy; you're getting thin
Evening star., 1923-04-19

Never has mankind faced difficulties
Of such varied character on 30 huge
a scale. The destiny of the race, the
future of civilization, seems to de-
pend on our finding an answer. and
on our generous, broad-minded ac-.
found. president HARDING.
Evening star., 1923-04-19

When the woman of today discard
ed the corset she also discardedr.
symbol. 1Ae Victorian woman bound
net only h0F kody. but har soul.
BARONESS DE HEDEMANN. :
Evening star., 1923-04-19

In the German reichstag yesterday.
speaking in behalf OF the socialists,
Herr Breitschedt urged that q definite,
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know, because I've seen. I don't mind
running a little risk with human life
To get my way. and know several
things, short of actual killing. that
so toward enforcing obedience and
quelling mutiny"
Lenore, staring wildly at him,
caught her breath in a sob you
don't mean
Doomsdorf did not look~at ner. He
still smiled down at Ned You We
never felt knout, have you, on the
naked back?' he asked sweetly. II
found out what they were like in
Siberia, and with the shope of show
ing some one else, [ took one out-in
my boot. It's half-killed many a
man-but l only know one man that
it's completely killed. He was a
guard-and 1 found out just how
many blows it takes" The man
yawned again. But your request is
granted-so far as Lenore Is con-
cerned. You can leave her here for
me to entertain. Bess has spirit
enough to work"
Continued in Our Next Issue)
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He turned to them snarling like a
beast.
"One day the chance came to
escape. While more cowardly men
would have hesitated, 1 pushed
through and out. On the way I
learned a little lesson-that none of
the larger creatures Of the wild die
as easily as men. 1 found out that
there is nothing more to killing a
man that is in your way than killing
a caribou l want to eat. 1 didn't feel
any worse about it afterward
II had to come across here. I
couldn't forever escape the hue and
cry that was raised. Ultimately I
landed on this island-with Sindy and
few steel traps.
I'm this climate we can trap almost
the whole year around. We can start
putting them out in a few days more
keep them out clear till June. Every
year a ship-the Intrepid, that you've
likely heard of-touches here to buy
my furs-just one trip year-and it
leaves here supplies Of all kinds in
exchange. But don't take hope from
that. Hope is one thing you want to
get out of your systems. The captain
of the Intrepid and the Japanese crew
are the only human beings that know
live here, except yourself-that know
there's a human occupant on his is
land. On their yearly visit I'll see to
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t that none of them get sight of

/ it that none of them get a sight of
you.
Once 1 was used to working all
day from dawn to dark, with an
armed master on guard over me. 1t
is 1T going to be that way from now
on. I'm going to be the armed mas
Ter. The next few days you're going
to spend building yourselves a shack
and cutting winter fuel. Then each
of you will have a trap hne-a good
stiff one, too. Every day you'll go
out and follow your line of traps
batting, skinning and f1eshing, drying
the skins when you get to the cabins.
You'll know what it really is to be
cold, then; you'll know what work
means, too. With you three 1 expect
to triple my usual seasons catch,
building up three times as fast the
fortune I need.
All my life I've looked forward to
a chance to give society the same kind
of treatment it gave me-and when
that fortune is large enough to work
with there will be a new dynasty arise
in Russia.
When I said to abandon hope
meant it. You have no boat, and I'll
give you no chance to make one. The
distance is too great across the ice
ever to make it through: besides, you
won't be given a chance to try.
Even if your doting fathers should
send out a search party, they will
overlook this little island. 1t was just
freak of the currents that you landed
here-I don't see why you weren't
blown to Tar Island, Immediately
east OF here. When they find you
aren't there, and pick up any other
lfeboats from your ship that in all
probability landed there. they'll be
glad enough to turn around and go
back. Especially if they see your life
boat floating bottom upward in the
Water'r
He paused. scanning their pale,
drawn faces. He turned to Ned first,
but the latter was too immersed in
his own despair ever to return his
stare. Lenore didn't raise her golden
head to meet his eyes. But before
his gaze ever got to her, Bess was
on her feet
Don't be too sure of yourself she
cautioned. quickly. He looked with
sudden Amusement into her kindling
eyes. Men like you have gone in the
face of society before. You're not so
far up here that the arm of the law
can't reach you
The blond man smiled into her ear
nest face Go on, my dear" he
urged.
It's got y0r. once. and it'll get
you again. And 1 warn you that If
you put one indignity on US, do one
thing you've said-you'n pay for it
in the end-just as you'll pay for
that f1endish crime that you commit
ted today"
AS her eyes met his, straight and
unfaltering, the expression of con-
temptuous amazement died in his face
Presently his interest seemed to
quicken. 1t was as II he had seen
her for the first time. searching eyes
resting first on hers, then on her lips,
dropping down over her athletic form,
and again into her eyes. He seemed
lost in sinister speculations
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The public schools at Union City
have an enrolment of 604 pupils, fifty
short of the number last year.
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NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY

"n UT really must get down to
x essentials. It's so long
LII since I've talked to the out
side world that I can't help being
garrulous. To begin With came
here some years ago. not entirely by
my own choice. OF course, not even
the devil comes to such a hell as
this from his own choice. There's
always pressure from above"
He paused again, hardly aware of
the Mortified gaze with which his
hearers regarded him. A startling
change had come over him when he
spoke again. His eyes looked red
as a weasePs in the Swallowed room;
the tones of his voice were more
subdued, yet throbbIng with passion.
II remember gray walls, long ago,
in Siberia" he went on slowly and
gravely. ST was not much more
than a boy, a student at a great uni
Versity--and then there were gray
walls IL a gray. snow-swept land,
and gray cells with barred doors,
and men standing ever on watch
with loaded rifles, and thousands of
HUMAN cattle in prison garb. 1t was
slznost straight west of here, far be-
yaTld Bering Sea; and sometimes in
spectors would come, stylish people
Ike yourselves. except that they
we're bearded men of Petrograd, and
look at us through the bars as at
animals in the zoo. but they never in
terfered with the way things were
run! 1 was an enemy of society,
they said-so I became an enem yof
sEctety in reality. Right then I
learuv%y hate for society and a de-
sire to, burn out the heart of such
weak things as vOS"-