Evening star., 1923-09-12
CAPITAL KEYNOTES
BY PAUL v. COLLINS

The United States Treasury had an
other Are last Sunday. but the on
clals give assurance that they had
no money to burn. All that caught
the flames Was 500 brooms. Since no
body can imagine that 1t takes 600
oroon1s to make, a cleanup in the
Treasury, IL Is explained that the @.
Q; T. was preparing to sweep the
country at next election. There is a
new slogan: Keep Cool-fdge,"z but
how onn yeu do that when a ton of
broomstraw is aname so close 10 the
White House? ..,,-
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Penrhyn Stanlaws, chairman Of the
selection committee of artists at the
Atlantic City beauty contest of fair
malaens' started something when he
threatened to resign because none of
the candidates for the honor of being
MISS America" were beautffui
enough 4..s.
re thinks he is safe; because he
"wssts @ scared s into Withdrawing his
rsr aee feather" and the committee
~. sHe same young lady who carried the
ulRlnctipn last year. But Penrhvp,e
IrouDiss have just begun. cViye Miss
o2iunohsr but woe to Penrhyn,
Iryva Is 70 be tempted TO come to
DE Zappc will settle5 the question at
an ad9ournedt contest to be held nv
the Washington Salon and IjntteJ
Arts Society. of which he is presi-
cent. He knows beauty with one eve
shut.his eye,.not the .beauty,s.'
II IS claimed by the Atlantic CITY
artists that the fall or winter Is the
time to hold a real contest. Then il
might attract society or college
puds, they think. who would he
typical of. real American beauty. All
such are now at summer resorts
III is wen known that this" city pos
sesses surprising advantages. not
ony IN It's feminine personnel, but
also in its artistic atmosphere.
As proof that this is truly suoh on.
Fpircnment as alleged, 1t is to be re-
membered that within a stones throw
/ of the salons the historian Bancroft
giiginated and developed that most
EEbeI,ita bboPat4r Of all roses, the "a american
nhere, then. that the feminine Ameri-
ican beauty may be checked up with
the-Fose' Mighty lax. a rose"'
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+ The announcement that oxford
Cniversity-is to send q trio of debat-
ers to America to match oratorical
swords with representatives of three
prominent colleges here is of more
than passing interest. The first de-
bate will be at George Washington
University. about October /; the sec
ona at. the University OF Pennsyi-
eyania, October 4. and the third mt
SWarthmore, October g. The subject of
all debates will be the French occupation,
OF the Ruhr The English will proba-
piy support the English position, op-
posing the French, while the Amer
policy. =
The great Importance OF the debate
depends not on which side wins but
on the interminglinE of ideas of the
two nations. This is the second visit
of the Oxford team. under the ar
rangements made by the Institute of
International Education.
The interchange of professors the
debates OF students and the Inter
change of students between nations
will do more to bridge international
preiudices than all diplomacy It
was suggested only a few days
ago. by one of the officials Of the
Washington schools, that it would be
highly beneficial il ell school teachers
might spend vacations in special
courses in Europe. While that is
financially impracticable in most cases,
the suggestion Is sane from an etla-
cationai standpoint, and of very great
value ..-- e.
just after the arnistica there was
an arrangement by which the French
government sent 10 America several