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Evening star., 1924-11-08

Cleveland Plain Dealer. France is
preparing to make an effort to COL
rect, and because of the sum involved
her effort is likely to be all the
more determined. And where the re
coVery of great sum is at stake
recognition with that end in Wow
seems eminently practicable 1t in
NoIEes no approval of Russian eco
hoiiic philosophy, but is instead a
step taken with the object in view
OF breaking down that philosonhy
and wringing from Russia racog-
milton of the right of private propery
and of the foreign Indebtedness which
is held so largely in France"
x x X x
1t may be that the Soviet will
tenoer academic recognition of its
iormer debts to France, in the hone
.hat another loan will be made"
thinks the Sprin g1ield Union. but
1t Is doubtful that the thrifty French
peasant, trusty of government bonds.
Will be inclined to view fayorably
any arrangement with Russia that
does not guarantee the payment of
every sou of the many billions now
owed, thus the fruits of the trial
marriage diplomacy do not appear
plentiful"
Nnether the recognition is to mean
anything. the New York Evening
World holds will be determined nv
the negotiations that will now begin
on the economic and financial uues-
t1ons at issue between the two coun-
tries. While the first impression
viii be that "the Socialistic prin-
cfples of the Herriot regime have
inspired the step just taken" the
world feels 'it is not at all un-
likely that the financial interests are
perfectly willing to take this chance
on the protection of their property
and investments, and the only pres
ont hope lies in the men now in
power in Moscow"
The Lansing State Journal asrees
that all depends entirely on whether
the Russian reds are now willing to
reverse their attitude on the renudi-
alton of claims against the former
czanst regime and whether, having
changed front for the purpose of
gaining the full recognition of
France. they can be trusted to carry
out the changed views"
Conceding that results in the next
few months will be largely depen-
dent on the attitude Russia takes.
the indianapolis News remarks that
at least "the way for settlement
OF differences between the two ma
tions has been opened"
Evening star., 1924-11-08
An Investment Reaction.

Yesterday records for five years
past We're broken III the New York
Stock Exchange. when 1886 100 shares
of 500 separate issues of stock were
traded. The volume of business was
the more remarkable because of the
wide range of the activity and the
steady upward trend of prices. 1t was
a boom market" yet there We're no
particularly sensational movements
The demand for stocks of many kinds
was strong and steadfast, particularly
the railroad issues.
This movement Of the standard
stocks is plainly the result of the cleo
tlon, with its clear indication of a
nationwide reputation of radicalism.
The possibility of adoption of policies
OF extreme socialism has been def
1nitely negatived.
Wall Street which is the general
term whereby the financial nerve cen
ter of the country is indicated, is
sensitive to any menace to stability of
established conditions. 1t reacts quick
~ to definite danger to the nstitu-
established. In this recent campaign
it was rather more watchful than ac-
tually alarmed. The danger was not
esteemed to he great, yet it was evi-
dent. Confidence was felt that it
would be averted Yet it could not be
altogether discounted. The conse-
quence was that during the campaign
there was little buying of stocks for
investment The majority of people
who had means to use in this manner
waited to make sure of the result.
The market was slow and some
were compelled to part with securities
In order to raise funds to meet
obligations offered them for sale.
AS soon as the election Of Mr. Cool
idge and the Republican House and
Senate was definitely assured a buy
ing movement began, not of a specu-
lative character. but Of an investment
nature. Stocks that were inactive be
gan suddenly active. Railroad shares
that had shown no particular move
ment for months began to rise The
menace Of possible Government own
ership was regarded as past.
This buying movement, which sent
price levels up several points and
added enormously to the present mar
ket values of securities-it is est-
mated that at least $100, ,00O, 900 was
added to the value of the American
railway system during the days trad
ing-was not inspired by speculative
interests. 1t was natural result of
the public reaction of confidence and
q release of the pressure of boarded
means, accumulated during the
months of uncertainty and seeking in
vestment outlets.
No surer indication could be given
OF the fundamental soundness of
American industrial and financial con
ditions than this prompt reaction in
terms of stock purchases breaking
records for the past five years. 1t is
fitting accompaniment. in fact a logi-
cal consequence, of the millions of
votes in majority given against radi-
caliSm.
Evening star., 1924-11-08
France Faces a Crisis,

France is feeling the effects Of the
British and American elections, which
resulted in both countries in pro-
nounced conservative victories. En-
couragement is felt by the French
republicans. who believe that if an
election could be brought about in
that country soon the antiradical
spirit of England and America would
spread to France. A republican
league has been formed under the
direction of former President Mil
lerand which it is hoped to develop to
include a mobilization of French
youth in a manner analogous to the
fascist movement in Italy. The par
ticular purpose of this development is
to fight communism. At the last cleo
ton out of 100000 voters $4,000
supported a straight-out Communist
ticket.
A move has already been made in
the Chamber of Deputies, where the
Right has opened fire on the budget
proposals of the Herriot ministry.
Herriot, however, won the first round
by securing an indefinite adjournment
of an Interpolation regarding a levy
on capital. The adjournment was
voted by 1913 against 1T. In the
course of a discussion in answer to a
challenge that the government could
not find the money to balance the
budget, the premier retorted, I'VE
will take the money where it is" This
was regarded as foreshadowing a
capital levy, which is most ad-
vanced position and calculated to
cause a shock to the pocket nerve of
France.
Recognition of the Soviet govern
ment by Herriot has contributed to
the feeling of anxiety that has mani
tested itself in the formation Of the
new republican league. A capital
levy would undoubtedly precipitate a
crisis which would make a realign-
ment of parliamentary parties inevita-
bic. 1t is obviously Millerand's pur.
pose to hold his own group as the
nucleus Of an increasing opposition
founded upon antiradical principles
and aiming at the early defeat Of the
ministry. France may soon be the
scene of a furious political conflict
Evening star., 1924-11-08
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
The Old Joke

The Old Joke.
1 heard a joke. a dear old joke,
A joke of long ago.
The youthful entertainer spoke
The words distinct and slow.
And while a few were truly glad
That gentle jest to hear,
1t moved me in moment sad
To shed a silent tear.
That good old joke-in days gone by
I heard it on the scene
Where cherished friends would deftly
ply
The bones or tambourine
I heard it in the "operette"
And in the revue" gay.
With memories it haunts me yet
OF friends now far away.
The theories by statesmen framed
Have faded from our view.
Old fashions that were once ac-
claimed
Have yielded to the new.
Our laws and customs are bereft
OF might that once was vast,
And only that old joke is left
To bind us to the past.
Evening star., 1924-11-08

their high-powered cars, their codes
of communication, virtually their pri-
vate telephone lines, their system of
espionage, their strategists and COM
manders. They are, of course, not all
under a single banner or command
There are many gangs, some large
and some small. AS a rule these
gangs are allied. Occasionally a
small gang crosses the lines Of
larger one and then trouble ensues.
The establishment of a dead line"
would seem like an admission that the
professional criminals, and allow them
the freedom of the city save in par
ticular areas. If a man is a known
crook, recognized as a professional
why should he be allowed at large at
all? If he is SO well known that he
can be recognized and arrested when
he goes inside the prohibited area
why should he not be taken up Wher-
ever he may be found as a precaution
and a preventive? If the courts will
not hold these men when arrested on
general principles wherever they may
be, it would seem that they would
hardly have warrant for holding them
because they have crossed certain
Imaginary line into a prohibited dis
trict. There is no crime in crossing
particular street. Can the definition
of a zone by the police constitute it
a crime?
Whatever the legal questions in
volved, this spectacle of the New York
dead line with the accompanying
preparations for war against crime
there, is impressive as a sign of the
times.
Evening star., 1924-11-08
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES EDWARD TRACEWELL.

would seem to have been no particu
lar occasion to cut down on ones
name except as a matter Of prefer
ence.
Abraham Lincoln" would not have
taken much more room at the bottom
or state letter than the simple "A.
Lincoln"
No. it was simply matter of per-
sonal preference, and the times, with
these men. Maybe If they had been
living in this day and age they would
nave spelled out all the names they
possessed, as we moderns have to do
on our income tax returns If they
had not, Mr.. Fry would have made
them.
While one would not be so bold as
to suggest that the great Lincoln, for
instance, was ashamed of his first
name, undoubtedly it is singular
fact that thousands of men are some
what at odds with the names given
| them by fond parents
rake all these men who sign them
selves u. Russell Smithe rington," or
y. Meandering Jones"
Good old John is their bette noir
John is a grand old name, undoubt-
edly, but the average man who bears
It reduces it to the irreducible mini
world as simply:
u"
Men who sign their names &c
Laurence Manderville," for instance,
are bearing the guilty conscience,
imposed upon them years ago, when
they were christened Clarence
The late Reginald de Koven, com
poser of the greatest light opera ever
written by an American-and | make
2Scanfl0n iefn
derful musician that he was-was the
hraVeSt man in the United States
He was man after Mr.. F'rys heart
he could have signed himself "R de
koven" and the public might have
thought his name Robert, or Russell,
or Ralph. or some other red blooded
name.
From personal observation I believe
that most men-we will leave the
women out of this, because they can
change their names at will-are
somewhat dissatisfied. The man they
named John wishes 1t had been Bill
ana William would prefer the grand
old name of Jawn.
Such, indeed, is life.
Undoubtedly there is great deal
in what Mr.. Fry says.
Would you recognize n great poet
in j. w Riley?
III you saw a novel on a book coun-
ter signed simply Fl. B. Wright would
You Know who wrote it, offhand?
What would S Lewis mean to Won.
| or II. L. Wilson?
Yet James Whitcomb Riley has
peen known and loved for years, and
Will be read with smiles and tears in
long ages hence. Harold Bell Wright.
Tor all of the sneers of those who
cannot make their books sell into
the millions Of copies, as he does. is
easily acclaimed when his entire
monlcker is affixed.
sinclair Lewis, too, is no stranger
HIS "Babbitt,' l am convinced, is.the
greatest single handed tour de force
or this day and generation and will
1--we as an unforgettable picture of
| the America of this time.
Harry Leon Wilson, too, is easily
recognized, the author of Merton Of
the Movies" and creator, in the hero
Inc or that book, Of perhaps the finest
| slri in contemporary literature
10 go back a bit farther. on the
other hand, G. Dickens, p W. Emer-
son and Fl. w. Longfellow would Of
Ter no difficulties, principally be-
! cause we are 50 familiar with their
surnames on their sets
Maybe Mr. Fry is right. I am in
clIned to think so myself since / re-
ceived recently kind letter address
cd Mr. Mrs. or Miss"
Evening star., 1924-11-08
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAN VILE

itury age limit on November 30-Sr
Andrews day. This half-American
and hree-quarters Americanized Brit
on is the marvel Of British politics.
The exchequership is his seventh sue
ceSSfye cabinet post in eighteen wears
though he has had TO enact the role
of q political chameleon to achieve
that record. First, undersecretary of
the colonies. Churchill has by turn
been president of the board of trade
home secretary, first lord of the ad-
lnlraItE, secretary OF war. minister of
munitions. air minister and chanceI-
lor of the DuChy of Lancaster. His
ultimate ambition is the premiership.
Only a rash prophet would predict
he viii not attain it. Churchill now
holds the same portfolio occupied by
his famous father, Lord Randolph
Churchill in the second Salisbury cab
met, in 1886. The present chancellor's
biography of his father deals primarily
with Lord Randolph's brief but brill
liant career at the treasury. Church.
ill after the war declined seductive
inducements to lecture in the United
States. He is an accomplished orator.
< X X
What is there in nameso The new
state of Albania, baby member of the
League of Nations. derives unceasing
amusement from the fact that the
United States has sent to the Alba
nian capital. Tirana. as it's diplomatic
representatives two men named, re-
spectively, Ulysses and Trojan. Our
minister is Ulysses S. Grant Smith.
and the secretary of the legation is
Trojan Kodding.
X
+. B. Reid acting Washington rep
'resentative of the American Farm Bu-
reau Federation, says the outstanding
revelation of Coolidge's winning OF
the West is that 1.-The American farm
er is at heart a conservative" Reid
asserts that the average person for
gets that the farmer is Il near-ca pital-
ist as well as a worker with his own
hands. and is always an employer.
The able young chieftain of the farm
federation, who has temporarily ac-
ceded to the place of power occupied
by Grey Silver, believes that Farmer
Labor" party. as a political term, is g.
misnomer. Silver is now at Chicago
as an official of the newly formed
farmers warehousing and marketing
organization.
X X x
knud Rasmussen, the Danish Arc
tic explorer, who called at the White
House this week. is the man chiefly
responsible for the exposure of DR..
Cook. Rasmussen was longtime
friend and admirer of the Brooklyn
NJ. d. who made the world believe
he'd been to the North Pole. Cook got
his Eskimos and dogs from Rasmus-
sen, who knows every foot of the
Arctic Circle. But the faker of the
century had not been back from his
excursion very long before Rasmus-
sen made public his utter disbelief in
Cooks claims. Soon thereafter these
blew UP,
Copyright, 1s24.l
Evening star., 1924-11-08

Robert D. Carey of Wyoming. who
has been named as chairman of Presi-
dent Coolidge's Agricultural Commits
sion, is an irrigation expert. Hls
other claims to distinction include
graduation from Yale tclaSs of l9oV)
and incumbency of the governorshIp
Of Wyoming from 1919 to 1923. Mr.
Carey is a Republican who left the
reservation with the Bull Moosers in
1912. He was Wyoming national COM
mitteeman in the Progressive organl-
zation during the ensuing four years.
Stock growing and highway building
are among the numerous rural ac-
tivities in which Mr. Carey has taken
interest in the West. He brings to
the craftsmanship of the Coolidge
commi ssion a peculiarly wide range
of experience.
President Coolidge faced his first
semi-w eek1y audience of Washington
correspondents following his election
and sent them away with convlc-
ton on their part that victory un-
precedented had made no change in
Silent Cal" Quite particularly, these
trained observers noted, events OF
the week have not affected the Presi-
dents modest demeanor. Those who
larity or vainglory left the White
House offices disappointed Mr.. Cool
idges Mona Lisa smile is a little
more in evidence than usual but he
does not overwork it. Now and then
his face is overcast with some of that
wistful sadness with which Frank
McGlynn has made us familiar when
he depicts Lincoln in moments of
mingled triumph and deep response
bility.
IF there is an American painter who
wants to bequeath posterity an al
legorical masterpiece on the theme of
the cat that swallowed the canary,
page him and bring him to Washing
ton. His subject awaits him-Frank
Waterman Stearns, now and then OF
fremont street. Boston, but more Of
ten, in latter-day times of 1900 Penn
'sylvania avenue. Mr.. Stearns be
strides the environs of the White
House, modestly, as ever, but with the
mien of man to whom no more
fields are left to conquer. Since
Warwick made kings, no man has
been entitled to greater personal
glory and satisfaction than the YAM
kee merchant prince who gratiffed
lifetime ambition by making Coolidge
of Amherst, President of the United
States. Stearns can have anything he
wants from the Coolidge admnistra-
ton, and will get it. 1t is exactly
nothing. Incidentally, Stearns was an
important factor in the nomination
and election of Speaker Gillett to the
Senate.
X X X X
Young Winston" Churchill becomes
chancellor of the British exchequer in
the Baldwin cabinet at the threshold
of SO. Hewill cross the half-cen-
Evening star., 1924-11-08
Would Have Teachers
Aid Clothes Distribution
To the Editor of The Star.

To the Editor of The Star:
1 noticed in your paper the request
of the social branch of the Salvation
Army for clothes for poor children.
1t did not say that the clothes were
given to the poor children free,
which is not the case.
Everything that is given to the
social branch is repaired and sold,
and those clothes that are beyond
repair are torn up, washed and sold
for rags.
Magazines are not given away;
they are baled up and sold to the
papermakers and everything that is
worth anything is sold.
Now, in view of this fact, would it
not be a good idea If the Board of
Education would set aside a room
or closet in the schools where the
clothes could be left by charitable
people to be given out by the teacher
according to her judgment Of the
clothes wanted by the children?
MARY A. FRANKLIN.
Evening star., 1924-11-08

The daughter of Jack London, the
famous fiction writer, is asking a
divorce because her husband objects
to her using her maiden name in
literary work. If she has the ability
herself without bothering over one
that is ready-made
Evening star., 1924-11-08

cigarettes, pipes and campfires of
careless trampers and hunters. With
the experience of the past few years
it is probable that people in the
wooded sections and those persons
who own large woodland tracts will
adopt measures for the better protec-
ton of the woods.
Evening star., 1924-11-08

Coffee costs more than ever before.
So do cream and sugar. And for the
matter of that, there is no telling
when the water tax will go up. The
gentleman who wrote Drink to me
only with thine eyes" was an econ
omiSt.
Evening star., 1924-11-08
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Hitherto Calvin Coolidge has been
distinguished as a silent man. Every
effort has now been made to assure
him that he is among friends and can
speak freely.
Evening star., 1924-11-08

That remark by p. T. Barnum
THE public loves to be humbugged, y
has encouraged an appalling number
of crude amateurs
Evening star., 1924-11-08
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Evening star., 1924-11-08

Ii may as well be admitted that
politics does not at present exert
the same appeal to popular interest
as art. The Bryan brothers have not
nearly the hold on public attention
that the Duncan sisters enjoy.
Evening star., 1924-11-08

The election should not disconcert
Mr.. Theodore Roosevelt. A defeat now
and then in no wise discouraged his
illustrious father.
Evening star., 1924-11-08

The New York theater is much per
turbed by objections to the assump-
tion that art implies the right to
require young women to undress
themselves in public.
Evening star., 1924-11-08

Congress cannot be relied on for
effectual support for anything or any
body unless it can conquer that tend
ency to split up into blocs.
Evening star., 1924-11-08

When discussing slogans that in
f1uenced the election, people should
not overlook the good old line, Safe
ty first
Evening star., 1924-11-08

AS matters turned out, Mr.. William
G.. McAdoo was not placed in a posi-
ton where he might be expected to
congratulate anybody.
Evening star., 1924-11-08

sway the election was that of Henry
Ford, Coolidge is a safe man.
Evening star., 1924-11-08
An Economic Theory,

What do you suppose is making
the price of beef so high?"
Competition" answered Cactus
Joe. "All the cowboys is figurin' that
they ought to get just as high salaries
on a ranch as they do in motion
picture studio
Evening star., 1924-11-08
Positively Unpatriotic!

Home industry we should protect
And to that end we struggle.
Yet plain corn Ticker men neglect
And buy the stuff they smuggle!
Evening star., 1924-11-08
Starting Over.

The past has made sorry show
We fear.
The question is, Where do we g
From here?'
Evening star., 1924-11-08
CdEODORE w. MOVES. .Edltor al
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Evening star., 1924-11-08

Q. Who was the first British eccle-
siastical writer " p
a. The name of this writer was
Morgan.
Evening star., 1924-11-08

Q In the early days did painters
have pupiis?-G H X
A. Two documents dated 1882,
1294) list q F1orentine pa-inter-mas-
ters, all OF whom were teaching pu-
pills.
Evening star., 1924-11-08
A Deserving Public.

"The country is prosperous and
happy"
''It is" said Senator Sorghum, land
so far as my State is concerned it de-
serves to be- The home folks showed
the good sense to send me back to
jority."
Evening star., 1924-11-08

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Evening star., 1924-11-08

Q. How large an estate did Martha
Washington have when she mar
ried C w
A. Mrs. Washington owned $4,000
acres of land, many city lots, 200
negroes and money.
Evening star., 1924-11-08

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Evening star., 1924-11-08

Jud Tunkins says amateur actors
are a heap better than some Of the
professionals he has met when it
came to payin' board bills.
Evening star., 1924-11-08

"You's gineter git along all right,
sensible when you spends yoh money
as you was when you was workin'
for it !"
Evening star., 1924-11-08

@. What part of England is known
as the Garden of EngIand?-P. T. Q.
\. Worcestershire has been given
this name on account of its fertil-
ity and beauty.
Evening star., 1924-11-08

faTa0OX.
In paradox the voting goes,
And we have just discovered that
1t took 'landslide'' to disclose
The fact that we are standing
pat
Evening star., 1924-11-08

Q. If 1 marry an Italian, not a cit
izen, Will ] lose my vote?-M. r.
A If you marry an Italian now
you will not lose your right to vote
provided you are at the present time
an American citizen.
Evening star., 1924-11-08

Q. What is the official name of the
new Georgetown bridge-E. NJ. NJ.
\. II is officially known as the
Francis Scott Key Bridge.