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Evening star., 1924-11-23
Freckles to Order
For British Flappers

Artificial sun kisses" are the latest
essential for British fappers.
A few months ago a freckle was a
f1aw-to be vigorously exercised with
lemon Juice and peroxide. Today il
is an asset. Dame Fashion now de-
mands a pale, clear skin, relieved
with a slight sprinkling of freckles.
the idea being that a thrush's egg
complexion super-imposed on a vamp-
ish contour makes for piquancy.
A beauty specialist in the course OF
an interview, remarked-"Yes. the
beauty spot has been ousted BY
freckles. Nature often places the
freckles badly. Art puts them where
they tell. and that is not in mass
formation on nose of classical out
line.
I'VE place the artificial freckles ac-
cording to the contour of the face
and we grade the color from tobacco
brown to burnt sienna, the shade de-
pending on the complexion back
ground"
Eve in search of a freckle does not
always go to a beauty shop for 1t.
Many of the freckles proudly borne
in London today have come out of
small brothers paintboxes, and are
painted on by Eve herself.
Evening star., 1924-11-23

OF fine innate personal qualities. and
training and service under DR.. Bow
erman have fired the members of the
staff with the same zeal for commu-
nifty service that is DR.. Bowerman's
dominant characteristic.
4; :. *
DR.. Bowerman regards his most
difficult and most important task that
of securing appropriations with which
to run the library. The use of the IL
brary by constituency of the best
educated. the most voracious readers
and at the same time the most dis
eliminating and the most diversi-
fed In their tastes, throws demands
on the library that always far out
strip the library's abilities to sup
ply books or information service. SO
that the library is never able to catch
up with itself. He contrasts "a cents
per capita of Washington's popula-
ton spent on the Public Library here
with s1.30 per capita spent by Cleve-
land on it's Public Library. What
could we not do said he, .'if we only
had such support, or even 81 per cap
ita. the standard set by the Anne rican
Library Association as the minimum
necessary for good library service"
Washington has had the benefit of
mature work after DR.. Bowerma has
ntteu himself by specialized courses
and by broadening practical expert
ence in important library work else
where. He Is 4 product of Quaker
ancestry, parentage and upbringing.
spent his early life on York State
farm. where he had hard ening
course of manual training. BY a
curious coincidence this man who has
devoted his life to books had access
to few books or periodicals in his
ear y life. especially as compared with
what boys have now. and infinitesi-
NAL as compared with the books in a
modern public library.
4 :; & i
DIR. Bowerman attended country
schools, then went to the Genesee
Wesleyan Seminary at Lima. y. Y.
and to the University of Rochester.
where he was graduated in 1892 with
the degree of 4. Il. He was obliged
to GO through college partly on what
he could earn in vacation and term
time and partly on borrowed money.
A year spent in a business office gave
him valuable experience but also led
him to seek more congenial occupa-
Evening star., 1924-11-23

labor did. because it took away their
right to fight Both labor and capital
seem to have an Unsuitable appetite for
scrapping. All they ask is that the pub
lie pay for it. They have term they
call economic pressure which. reduced
to less eloquent language, means merely
this:
There are three layers of society.
NO. ! layer-the workers-about
per cent.
NO layer-the pubIc-about 81
per cent
No. layer-the employers-about
per cent.
Economic pressure means that No. l
and No. 3 squeeze. They squeeze the
layer in between. Wages go up and
prices go up. Workers and employers
gain The pubic pays.
"One great trouble with this country
is that il has fearsome regard for or
ganized labor and capital"
Workers for the Court.
Mr. Allen picked up the telephone TO
answer long distance call from the
Associated Press in Kansas City. 1t
was his fourth and last interruption.
The editor Of Railway Age once
wrote me- he said. hanging up the re-
ceiver. that of the thousands of men
VINO nad appIleo lot WORN aIteT tiie
breakup of the railroad shopmen's
strike, 80 per cent of them wanted to
work in Kansas.
That proves better than any state
ment 1 can give you that the bulk of
the men are for our court. They are
looking for stable working conditions.
It's the leaders who cause the trouble.
Il figure if we can guarantee workers
the protection of their personal rights
and their jobs, and industries planning
to locate here the protection of their
property and their right to employ men.
then that guarantee will do more to
develop Kansas than thousand Come
to Kansas signs lining the Lincoln
highway"
Copyright. 1924
Evening star., 1924-11-23
Kaiser Is Borrowing
Money Everywhere

The eX-kaiser Of Germany and the
German eX-princes are so confident
that they will win the pending law
suit for the restoration of their castles
and estates throughout Germany,
which are worth about $5,000,000 an
nually, that they are borrowing
money everywhere SUCCESSFULLY. Thou
sands of former friends are writing
begging letters to the ex-kaiser
preparatory to the ex-kaiser becom-
ing rich again. The ex-kaiser has
written to Herr Won Berg. his repre-
sentative in Berlin, to give money re-
lief only in cases of real distress
of former employees, but he has not
sent cash for it. Herr Won Berg is there
fore borrowing right and left on "fu-
lures" on behalf of the ex-kaiser.
When Count Westarp, leader of
the Nationalist party, last visited
Doom, the ex-kaiser asked him what
chances he had of becoming king again.
1t was hinted that the ex-kaiser fully
expected to win his law suits and
might use the proceeds in an effort
to regain the throne. Count Westarp
replied that the ex-kaiser's flight
from Germany and his. marriage to
Princess Hermione made the ex-
kaiser's return to the German throne
impossible. But, he added, mem-
Der of the house Of Hohenzollern Ger
tainly had first chance.
Evening star., 1924-11-23
Everyday Religion
BY RIGHT REV. LANES E. FREEMAN, d. D.
Bishop Of Washington.
defeat him reveals a character alto
gether chivairous and magnanimous.
Not Talk on Theology. But VI
and Right Living.

defeat him reveals character alto
gether chiva1rous and magnanimous.
Y n X
In the instance Of the text the time
had come for him to disclose his
Identity. A banquet was prepared for
his brothers., and Joseph appeared
before them. When once they knew
of his place and power they were
filled with amazement. CONSERVATION
and deep concern. II was at this
juncture that he declared to them
the means of his elevation. and he
concluded his dramatic statement
with the words, 1T was not you that
sent me hither, but God"
Joseph had a deep consciousness of
the sense of mission. He believed
.hat in some way he was part of a
great scheme or plan of things of
which God was the supreme architect.
1t IS striking to note as we study
he lives of men and women that
those who have contributed most
largely to the veal of their genera
zion have felt with a deep conviction
that somehow. some way. they were
workers together with God in carry
ing forward His infinite designs.
They seemed to carry in their per-
sons the sense of mission. and
wherever they touched life they con-
veyed the conviction that they were
definite in both their authority and
aim.
There is something splendid about
that brief passage that describes
John the Forerunner, "a man sent
from God" Aimless living is profit
less living. Desultory habits in
evitably result in failure. OF Jesus
1t was said that He set His face to
go UP to Jerusalem" One of His
greatest Interpreters made bold to
declare. ITO me to live is Christ"
Little wonder is it that the worlds
vision Is focused upon the Man Of
Nazareth. A critical student of His
life declared that the consciousness
OF supr eme authority that resides in
Jesus is one of the most compelling
attributes of His life
standing by an ancient sun dial in
Grey Friar's Churchyard in Scotland.
read this legend upon the dial:
Il am shadow. so art thou,
mark time. dost thou
The question was a searching one.
1t seemed to make its mute appeal
Tor hXity of conviction and definite
ness of objective in the scheme of
life. To feel the driving force that
comes from the consciousness that
life Is an infinite plans of which we
are essential parts. and to believe
that ultimately the thing we do is to
make this plan more perfect is to
live with an ever increasing sense of
deep satisfaction, and to experience
within ourselves that peace which
pasScth all understandings
Copyright. 1921
Evening star., 1924-11-23

N DO not amount to anything as a
writer because of the angel sex.
BY. the time get to going good.
i Hannah, a colored woman who
works for US. appears to clean
up my room.
And when she gets through. every
thing Is disarranged.a BY the time ]
get them In order, Hannah appears
again with a broom.
Speaking Of writing, I have never
In my life written anything that
suited me. I have in mind a simple
form of expression, but before 1 get
around to it, 4 am disturbed by the
appearance of a dust rag.
have a subscriber who lives in a
distant State, and who writes me oc-
casionally that there are no WOMEN
ing to get along with a little dirt
for the satisfaction Of being rid of
women.
l intended going to see him until
learned by accident he lives with
sister and her two daughters. and
that they henpeck him numerically.
y y X
Since a kind word for the devil is
occasionally spoken (people frequent
ly say, "Give the devil his due") pos
sibly a kind word for the rich will
be permitted by the infuriated pop
ulace.
Ever occur to you how frequently
the rich relieve the needs of poor
kin? You never saw reasonably
well-to-do man who was not followed
about by a fock Of poor relations.
True, he is usually worked" into
caring for them, but he becomes ac-
customed to being robbed by them,
and in way enjoys their alteration.
When he gloats over his gold In
their presence-that is, takes them
riding in his big automobile. enter
tains them in his big house, buys
them boots, hat or coat-he must en-
joy them. Perhaps caring for poor
kin and the incense they spread along
his path is as enjoyable a thing as a
rich man knows.
But helping poor kin is not the
limit of the good performed by the
rich man. Every time he counts his
gold and builds a swagger residence
it-represents $12 a day paid to plas-
terers, SIS a day paid to plumbers, Sc
day paid to laborers.
When he buys a big automobile
with balloon tires he finds, on count
ing his gold. that he has less left,
and that the deficiency has not only
gone to high-priced mechanics, but
some of it to the Government, to
pay it's expenses.
The rich man only counts his gold,
in fact, to see if he has enough left
to employ poorer people. and who
charge him q plenty. The man who
enjoys counting his gold pays higher
prices for everything than others
pay.
The tarnished gold of the rich is
frequently purified by feeding and
entertaining poor people.
Ride over the country and every
where you will see abandoned enter
prises, ali of them financed by men
who have kissed their gold good
bye.
All the costly experiments are
made by men in the hope of having
more gold to count and gloat over,
and who frequently find they have
less.
There is actually much to say in
favor of those who love to count
their gold. and gloat over it.
Evening star., 1924-11-23

public school and many parochial and
other private schools. with which the
librarian has established helpful Coop
erative relations.
y \
But the exte ension work of the Ii
brary, large and effective it is. is
not more important than its inten-
sive work. Through its reference
service. both adult and Juvenile, the
library ministers to all classes Of
the community; through it's indus
trial division it helps business men,
engineers. farmers, and home owners;
through it's pamphlet and clipping
collections it furnishes up-to-date in
formation to newspaper men, stu
dents. de baters. on almost every sub
ject: through its picture collection of
$4,000 mounted pictures il provides
visual instruction to artists, design
ers. students of geography and many
others.
Through its careful choice of
books. almost every subject of hu-
man. knowledge is represented by
books from varying viewpoints, suit
ed to varying reading tastes and
abilities; books in score or more of
languages are supplied to the for
eisn- born and to American students
of foreign languages and literatur. {;
literature in all its forms is repre-
sented by /the best and often by the
second best.
One OF the most important achieve
me nts by DIR. Bowerman has been the
building up of staff of alert eager.
devoted assistants. we'll educated and
well trained-and maintaining their
morale in spite of low salaries-so
that they vitalize and interpret and
make available to the fullest possible
extent this collection of books, maga-
zines. pamphlets, clippings and pic
lures.
Throughout his service in Wash
ington Or. Bowerman has maintain
ed class for training assistants.
Most of the time salaries authorized
by Congress have been too small to
make possible the employment of
many graduates of the regular Ii
brary schools. Though the library
staff has in it's ranks graduates of
local and other colleges and some
library schools. most of the recruits
have been trained by the librarian
and his chiefs of divisions. This
plan has succeeded in securing a staff
Evening star., 1924-11-23
THE SENSE OF MISSION.

Genesis. 45.s-"It ,ods not you that
sent me hither, but Cod
r IFE'S fairgrounds are largely
determined by its back
grounds. Believing in what
IL is behind we clearly and with
assurance project ourselves
into what is before. Too many of
us attempt tasks beyond our powers,
and experience failure because We
have no sense of preparedness or
fitness to prosecute them to a sue
cessful issue. A young and inexperi-
enced member of the British Parlia-
ment once undertook to join issue
with the greater premier upon a
s--:astion of public policy. After an
impassioned appeal that lacked bal
anced judgment the youthful mem-
Der hurriedly left his seat, and as he
retired through the door Gladstone
arose and, pointing his finger at the
retreating figure, said:
There goes a young man with his
future behind him." What the great
statesman meant to imply was that
The youthful member had essayed a
role that disclosed unfitness and lack
Of background.
Occasionally some one comes into
the public view and with scintillat-
ing wit holds attention for brief
space, but when the stern tests are
applied he fails of both recognition
and approval. because he lacks that
supreme essential that we commonly
call background
Two things are indispensable to
efficiency and success. The one is
that definiteness of conviction that
grows out of the sense of mission
the other is that fixity of aim or
objective that impels one to say, in
the language of st. Paul. This one
thing ! do"
The words Of the text were spoken
by a man whose career occupies a
conspicuous place i'll one Of the
earliest books of the Scriptures. The
circumstances under which the words
were spoken are exceedingly dra-
matte.
Joseph as a youth had been sold
hy his brethren into captivity. When
they. for reasons of jealousy, had
given him over to Midianitish
merchantmen they felt that they had
made an end of him. Carried down to
Egypt the youth came at length to
occupy one of the most conspicuous
places in the large concerns of the
government.
At length his brethren. hard
pressed for food, came down to Egypt
to replenish their stores. Without
knowledge of their brothers distinc-
ion they were brought in contact
with him, and the story of his treat
ment of those who had conspired to
Evening star., 1924-11-23
The Story the Week Has Told

organization Of the Patriotic Union
that is. the new political party which
is to carry forward. under a restored
regime of constitutional normality,'
the program of the military director
ate. Alas, "the road of publication
stretches far ahead" but great i'm
provement has been achieved in the
domestic situation, The national cred
it was never better nor unemploy-
ment less. Educational reform pro-
ceeds apace, etc.-again, this is as it
may be.
The Spaniards are suffering heavy
casualties in their withdrawal from
Sheshawan Zone of the three sacred
towns') of Morocco. including one
general officer killed, and one badly
wounded
x x x K
China.-A Dawes plan for China is
the latest thing in ideas.
Sun Vat Sen, until the other day
president of the Canton or South
China Republic, has taken refuge"
in the French concession in Shanghai.
We lack information as to what Is
doing at Canton.
On November Is, Wu Pei Flu arrived
at Marking on the Yangtze with
1000 troops. the remnant left to him
of his large army of several weeks
ago. He at once got into consultation
with representatives awaiting him
there, of the provinces of Kiangsu,
Hupeh. Chekiang. Kiangsi, Flu
kien, Nganhui. Honan and Shen-
81. These provinces have issued a
declaration of temporary independ-
ence. to hold good until a satisfactory
central government for all China has
been established.
Egypt.-On November 10, as Mai.
Gen. Sir Lee Stack. governor general
of the Sudan and sirdar Of the Egyp-
tian army since 1919, was riding in
an automobile through one of the
streets of Cairo, group Of seven, or
more Egyptians attacked the car;
first with bomb and then, the bomb
failing to explode, with fire from
automatic pistols. The sirdar was
wounded in three places, including
the abdomen, and died the next day.
His chauffeur, an Australian, though
wounded in two places. drove on
coolIy to the British residency. The
assailants escaped in automobiles, but
have since been caught and i'm
pounded.
One may allow sincerity to the ex-
pressions of horror and regret from
Zaghlul Pasha, the Egyptian premier,
but Zaghlul is largely responsible
for the state Of mind of which such
crimes are the expression and the
flower. Zaghlu1. by the way, resigned
the premiership on the 18th, but the
next day he withdrew his resignatio
in response to frantic demonstrations
by the thousands of students of the
Evening star., 1924-11-23

Azhar University of Cairo, far and
away the greatest university of the
Moslem world.
Some rare spirits crowned the
demonstrations by the exploit. above
recorded.
United States OF America.-1f the
California authorities regard with
a certain nonchalance the action of
the ranchers and business men of
Owens Valley, there seems no rea-
son why the rest of the world should
worry. 1t appears that in 1907 the
city of Los Angeles built an aoue
duct, which carries the waters of
Owens Valley 200 miles to the city.
Result: The valley people ESQ they
allege) are deprived of the water
they need for irrigation; moreover
ESQ the allegation goes). the Los An
geles authorities have steadily turned
deaf ears to proposals of compensa-
tion or for reasonable supply of
water to the valley. So the other day
the valley people remembering the
forty-niners) proceeded to direct ac-
ton with vengeance. They seized
one of the gates of the aqueduct and
diverted vast flow to waste. At last
reports the gate was still open.
A commission of nine members, ap-
pointed by the President for the pur-
pose of evolving program for per-
manent sterilization of agriculture"
has begun it's labors. 1t will consider
every aspect of the great problem, as
the character of new agricultural
legislation required; the administra-
tion of existing laws relating to aeri-
culturej jco-operative marketing; rail-
road freight rates, water power. The
cattle industry Is to receive special
attention. 1t is reported that the
President hopes for legislation re-
lating to cooperative marketing and
the cattle industry in the coming
short session.
The Philippine legislature adjourn
ed about fortnight ago. but reas-
sembled on the 18th as THE Philip
pine Independence Commission" and
in that capacity unanimously passed
resolution demanding immediate,
absolute and complete independence"
The League of Nati0ns.-The inter-
national opium conference now TAX
ing place at Geneva is of peculiar
interest to Americans for two reasons;
one that the narcotic evil is SO rife
among US; the other that our Gov
ernment is officially represented at
the conference. though the latter Is
under league auspices. The American
delegation has submitted proposals
looking to gradual deracination of
the curse by cooperation of all gov
ernments. and by restriction of pro-
duction to the needs Of medicine and
science. Not only would cultivation
of the poppy be narrowly restricted,
Evening star., 1924-11-23

many. But review of Malvy's case is
probable. He claims to have been
made a scapegoat for others Offend
ing. A review of that case would be
very interesting.
The bonds of French loan of
500, 100000. payable in 25 years and
carrying interest at Z per cent, will
be launched tomorrow on the Ameri-
can market. under the auspices of the
Morgan and allied interests.
Spofn.-From his safe retreat in
Paris, Blasco Ibanez continues to spill
his venom on the reputation of King
Alfonso, accusing the monarch of
treacherous pro-Germanic acts dur
ing the great war, while he professed
to be Francophile and of responsible
ity for the terrible Moroccan disaster
of 1921; and intimating other worse
things, to be nameless for the pres
ent, but to be disclosed all in good
time.
Primo De Rivera, the Spanish die
tator, was happy in his selection of
Admiral the Marquis De Magaz to
hold down his job in Spain while he
is directing operations in the Span
ish zone of Morocco. The admiral
turns out to be master of the art
of logomachy. He writes letter to
a Paris newspaper concerning the
revolutionary and aspersive activities
of Senior Ibanez. After intimating
that Ibanez is less concerned for the
vertise himself. he thus continues:
Having been away from Spain for
many years, Ibanez knows of what
is going on here only through the
reports of his friends, who are poets
of hyperbolic minds. If he could per-
sonally observe the present quiet in
Spain, how infreQuent are political
arrests, the absence of party strife.
he would perceive that the Spanish
people are not in need Of impro-
vised salvation" This is as it may be,
but at any rate the expression Is neat.
Miguel De Unamuno, the Salaman-
can professor, whose exile from
Spain, because of his attacks on the
directorate, has aroused so much
sympathy throughout the world, con-
tinues l(like 1banez from safe re-
treat at Paris) to revile the King and
dictator, in language of almost in
credible ferocity and not infrequent
obscenity. Quite the mildest thing he
has to say of the King is that he is
"a DeauviIle King, a nfght-life King"
Unamuno's books, which prior to his
election from Spain were little read,
now yield neat little royalties.
On the eve of departing for. Moroc-
co, Primo De Rivera issued several
manifestoes. He expressed regret that
the moment had not yet arrived for
restoration of Constitutional nor
mality." It would not arrive prior
to complete liquidation" of the
Moroccan situation and satisfactory