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Botanic Garden
Needs Buildings

That the United States Botanic Gar
den is run with the smallest appro-
priation of any botanic garden in the
world. that in its main conservatory
it has the very best collection of
plants in the United States, but that
this conservatory has been closed to
the public because it is in a danger
Gus condition, was emphasized by
George w. Hess. during hearings by
the House appropriations committee.
Last year the Botanic Garden left
untouched in the United States Treas
ury $4,000, which II had been au-
thorized to expend on repairs, but
which were not made because experts
pointed out that the greenhouse was
not worth that expenditure.
Legislation now pending in the
House, for prompt consideration of
which a special rule has been asked
by the House committee on public
buildings and grounds, would give au-
thority for the purchase of two blocks
of land south of the present Botanic
Garden, on which the best conserya-
tory in the United States would be
built. and which would take care Of
eleven other greenhouses that are To-
Gated on the land which the Fine Arts
Commission is desirous of developing
into beautiful promenade between
the Capitol and the Washington
Monument
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The Story the Week Has Told

Mussolini announces in his pleasant
way that the parliamentary system
in Italy is about to have crucial
test under conditions most favorab BILE
to it. If the new chamber comes
across very well. If not, some other
system will have 10 be substituted.
Pope Plus has issued a bulletin pro-
claiming 1925 a holy year of jubilee
the twenty-second jubilee of the
Roman Catholic Church. The first
jubilee was proclaimed by Boniface
VIII in 1900, the idea, of course, be-
ing adopted from the ancient He
brews.
revision bill, as reported from con-
ference, was passed by the Senate
on May "a, sixty to six, and by the
House on May &c. S14 to 3. 1t now
appears from a new official calcula-
ton that the budget estimate of the
1925 surplus was too low by about
$3.50. 100000, a fact which consider
ably alters to the good the appearance
of the bill.
On May IS the President signed the
immigration bill. He afterwards is
sued a statement expressing regret
at the impossibility OF severing from
| the bill the exclusion provision af-
fecting the Japanese.
Discussion of the important Butler
Navy bill tuuite distinct from the
naval appropriation bilD, which has
passed the House, must be postponed.
+ X
fscellaneOas.-Mr. Morgenthau. head
of the commission, which under the
auspices of the league of nations,
is trying to establish about a mil
lion Greek refugees from Turkey on
land set apart for them by the Greek
government, declares himself firmly
convinced OF the stability Of the new
Greek republic. Whether or no per-
manent, there Is, says he, a cessat ton
or partisan strife which has been the
plague or Greece since the beginning
or the war of independence in 1921.
Inc Bessarabian question continues
OBSCURE, but the state of mind of the
nu,aaniaH annaani fro government sufficiently
called out ten military classes for
maneuvers in Bessarabia
A terrible explosion occurred re-
Gently in the arsenal at Bucharest:
not an accident, say the Rumanians
Ihe annual convention of the Com
munist party of Russia is in process.
me mossbacks. the hardshelIs, the
Catos' the intransigents, are in con-
troi Those distinguished critics
within the fold. Trotsky and Radek,
VINO nave dared to champion exten-
sion OF the nep rather than curtail-
ment thereof, have been severely TAX
en- to task. Radek, it would seem,
has been disciplined, but Trotsky gets
mand
1t is reported that the necessary
funds will soon be available for real
lztng the scheme of Harvesting the
waters of the River Jordan to pro-
vide, light. power and heat to Pales-
tine.
The Japanese government has ca
bled a protest against the Japanese
exclusion provision of the new United
States immigration act. Mr.. Hani-
hara, the Japanese ambassador at
Washington, is to return to Japan,
ostensibly for conference with his
government. 1t IL. however. pre-
sumed that he will NOT resume thp
ooAfR
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and of the Palace of Fontainebleau
and its grounds.
Versailles and Fontainebleau have
been sadly neglected since the begin
ming of the war. The gift is most
welcome, as the French government
lacks the funds for their recondition-
ing or for restoration of the >cathe-
dral.
Germnny.-The first meeting of the
new Reichstag was beyond question
the most entertaining legislative af-
fair to date. For complete negation
Of order Donnybrook fair or a base
ball game between Yale and Harvard
graduates would pale beside 1t. The
show was furnished by the extrem
lists of right and left. i.e.. the Com
munists and the Freedomites tthe
extreme Nationalists>. 1t began with
a singing contest, these rendering
Deutschland Ceber Allies" those the
'Internationale." With the aid of the
galleries the "Internationale" won.
After that an interchange of the Ger
man equivalent of Billingsgate-
copious and rich. interspersed with
the most hideous and ingenious ef
forts OF the human vocal ORGANS. in.
for Won Tirpitz, horse laughs, deri
sive shrieks, abyssmal groans and the
utmost variety of instrumental ca
cophony-whistles, cowbells, rattles
and the like.
Ludendorff was the target of spe-
cial amenities. Conspicuous amid the
tumult and the shouting was Frau
lein Ruth Fischer, the Communist
generalissima. and a new Communist
champion, a huge longshoreman from
II ~ lad n tar nd
smoking pipe, invited Ludendorf
ct cetera to come on and have their
noses punched.
On May &c the Marx cabinet re-
signed, but Marx has been commits
stoned to form 4 new cabinet. He
has now relinquished hope Of Nation
alist participation, the Nationalists
refusing (what the other middle
parties insist on) to pledge support
Of the Dawes plan, and insisting on
Nationalist domination of the cabi-
net, with Won Tirpitz for chancellor.
It Is probable that the new cabinet
will consist of representatives of the
Democratic. Ccntrist, Peoples and
Bavarian Peoples parties; that the
Socialists will not participate, but
the Dawes plan. Such a government
would have Il working majority in
the Reichstag. but not the two-thirds
required for certain legislation called
for by the Dawes plan.
The conference of amba ssadors has
sent note to Berlin. which reads like
an ultimatum, demanding that the
German government assent to facili-
tate a thorough allied inspection to de-
termine the extent to which Germany
has or has not complied with the dis
armament clauses of the Versailles
treaty. For a variety of reasons there
has been no allied military inspection
of consequence in Germany since jan
uary, 1928. There is fear that this note
which, unlike some other notes on
the same subject, is heartily backed by
the British-will harden German Ma
tionalist opposition to the Dawes plan.
On the eve of relinquishing Office,
Premier Poincare solemnly asserts
that German military preparations in
violation of the Versailles treaty are
monstrously increasing and that cor
rective action threatened by the al
lies is the very first necessity of the
hour.
y X y X
Italy.-The new Parliament, with
its overwhelming Fascist majority In
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shelter the people have been built.
M. Herrict admitted, but the devas-
tated regions have only the barest
necessities of life. They still lack
churches, schools, hospitals and gov
ernment buildings. We have need of
reparations money to complete this
work"
'The British" / suggested, fear
that if France receives reparations
money that, no longer needing it, she
will make military loans to the little
entente, keeping Europe in a state of
armed truce"
"I cannot speak for the govern
ment of NJ. Poincare," NJ. Herriot re-
turned, "but / know that my own
party, once in power, will counte-
nance no such loans. Loans to the
little entente have been voted in the
past, it is true, but l have consistently
opposed them. / have said on the
floor of the chamber and at other
times that France, without abandon
ing any of her rights, could rise above
the clash of interests and passions
and bring peace to Europe. Generals,
L Hldlnt DlluS NiSNoaiSS, WV -
takes statesmen to derive tasting
benefits from these victories
Cautious About Debt.
My next question. Does France eX-
pect to pay her debts?" was put with
malicious intent. I had been inform
ed that no French statesman could
announce publicly that the American
debts should be paid. To do so, was
told, would be political suicide.
I'VE want to recognize our debts"
was NJ. Herriot's cautious reply.
"And that is what we should do with
reparations money IL we had it. I'll
tell you what we'll do continued the
French deputy. with one of his good
paturadsgxius< sKeljnaX71anaas1Rllfh
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Dead Letter Mail.

About 100000 letters pass
through the dead letter branches of
the post office in the United States
yearly because they are undeliver-
able. This is at the rate Of 3,500,000
fifteen minutes for the sender to
write each Of these letters, they rep
resent a loss of 10,500,000 hours.
which, converted into working days
of eight hours each, would mean
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after sundry mishaps. was stalled for
a. long time somewhere in the desert
east of karachi, India, waiting for a
new engine, at last took to the air
again and reached Allahabad. whence
he expected to hop off on May 10.
The chapter Of accidents must have
continued. for he did not reach Ak
yah. Burma. until the Gath. In taking
the machine (under what circumstan-
ces does not appear) was fatally
smashed. but without injury to the
occupants. And now follows the
record of a very pretty piece of
sportsmanship: A duplicate machine
was awaiting MacIaren at Hakodate,
Japan. Be it observed that Mac
Laren is, in a manner of speaking,
competing with our birdmen for the
honor Of being the first to make the
aerial circuit of the globe. Appar-
entity by permission Of Washington,
cabled in response to a cabled request
from our naval attache at Toxic. the
United States destroyer John Paul
Jones appeared at Hakodate on May
%. took on board the duplicate plane
and steamed off full speed for Hong
kong. At Hongkong the machine will
be transferred to anbther American
destroyer. which will convey it to
Akyab. So MacLaren will still have
a fighting chance.
France.-If the dispatches speak
true, Pelletier D'Oisy. the flyer, was
delayed for several days by a bizarre
and truly celestial development. II
will be recalled that in the landing
at Shanghai, in Ikiangsu Province
China. his machine was smashed to
smithereens by collision with golf
bunker. Thereupon the tuchun OF
Kiangsu and the tuchun of Chekiang
each offered him q new machine.
DOisy accepted the one offered by
the tuchun of Chekiang. Now the
tuchuns of Kiangsu and Chekiang
are not exactly friends and the for
mer was very wroth that his rivals
offer should be preferred. Therefore
he told D'Oisy that he might hop
him, but should he land anywhere
in Kiangsu the gift of that scoundrel,
the tuchun of Chekiang, would be
confiscated, a threat sufficiently dis
concerting. since a landing some
where in kiangsu to refueI would
be necessary.
But, whether the tuchun OF
Kiangsu swallowed his choler or
yielded to representations from the
French authorities, or whatever the
explanation on May 29, D'Oisy hop
ped off, landed and refuelled at
Suchau, in Kiangsu, and reached
Peking that evening.
I again postpone discussion of the
political situation in France. By the
end of another week that situation
should be considerably clarified.
Paul Cambon is dead. He will
chiefly be remembered for his great
services as French ambassador at
London for many years, in which ca
pacity he contributed as much per-
haps as any one toward the creation
of the entente cordiale between
France and Britain. There have
been few more astute or successful
diplomats.
Mr.. John D. Rockefeller, jr., has
given a million dollars to the French
government, to be applied to recon-
struction OF the roof Of Rheims
Cathedral and repair Of the palace.
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the world for the seven days
ended May 81:
The British Empire.-A pleasantly
malicious Conservative resolution was
moved in the Commons the other day,
proposing that the salary Of the min
lister of labor be reduced on the
ground that, having failed to accom-
plish or propose anything worth
while toward relief of the upemploy-
ment situation he was overpaid. The
resolution sounds bizarre. but it is a
fart that the true raison d'etre of
the Labor government is its promise
to relieve the unemployment STU
alton. and the Commons were pleased
to take the motion seriously. 1t was
defeated by vote of 800 to 252, the
Liberals having decided, but only
after much deliberation, to save the
government. Mr.. Asquith, however
contemptuous language that it sur
vived only by Liberal sufferance and
that the Liberals proposed narrowly
TO scrutinize its procedure in future
The King and Queen of Italy and
their daughter. the Princess Mafalda
made a brief visit to the King and
Queen of England in the week just
passed The Prince of Wales knock
ed off steeplechasing for the nonce
to act as escort for the charming
princess, wherefore gossip all a-buzz
Several members of the Russian
treaty delegation now in London have
been invited to King Georges levee
tomorrow. One hears that they were
in blue funk about their costume
but have devised something very
nifty" This is pleasant and removes
man loquacitS as to their being hu-
man at all.
At the Invitation of Premier Mac
Donald, Premier Sir James Craig OF
the Dali Eireann, are spending the
week end at Chequers. Court for a
three talk on the Irish
boundary question.
The expedition to scale Mount Ev-
crest has had a serious reverse. 1t
had been hoped to make drive for
the top starting from the Alpine base
(North Col, or camp NO: 4, 22.OO0 feet)
about May II. (The first assault in
1922 was started on May 2O.) But the
attempt to establish the North Col
camp was foiled by sudden develop
ment of frightful weather conditions
thermometer % below. violent bliz-
yards. On May IL a general retreat
to the Rongbuk (base) camp was or
dered 1t was evident that the route
up from the North Col would be inn
passable for a week, and precious hu-
man energies were being sapped.
Fortunately the supplies for that and
higher camps had been carried up to
No. 8 camp. and thus establishment
Of the Alpine or No. camp on clear
ing Of the weather made easy.
In the frustrated attempt one man
died of cerebral hemorrhages, one
was badly frostbitten, one broke a
leg and two contracted severe bron-
chitis-all Tibetans or Gurkhas. We
learn the above from q message from
Lieut.. Col. Norton, dispatched from
the Rongbuk camp on May IS, on
the eve Of a fresh start for the North
Col.
Squadron Leader MacLaren. the
British aviator, who, with two compan-
ions, has been flying eastward in q
Vickers-Vimy amphi bian. in an at
ttNnnnf tou,CiUn2e thnroa 1nR& ,Rk01
Evening star., 1924-06-01
BY HERBERT COREY.

course, the finest rural
scenery in the world Is to
y be found in Kentucky. Or,
in Difference to the sensibili-
Ties OF the other states, the rural
scenery in Kentucky is just as fine
as can be found in the world. But
II didn't register with William c.
Deming. He looked at blue grass. the
ONO River. the Old Pepper distillery
and the Hargis clan and remained
cold. Then he went to Warren, Ohio,
and fell in love with an old fashioned
square set round with hitching posts
SO he became the president of the
United States Civil Service Com
mission.
That isn't as foolish as it sounds.
Deming's father was lawyer in
Kentucky. Sons have a way of fol-
lowing in the fathers footsteps in
the southern states. and young Will
nam {. was packed up. Grated and
duly delivered to the law. He prac-
ticed for few years and liked il and
was forging ahead and the elder prac-
titioners We're getting SO they did not
snort when he came around on the
shady side of the courthouse. He even
got so that he had clients.
Journalism in Kentucky.
All this time it had never occurred
to him that he might abandon Black
stone and go into journalism Why
should it? Journalism in Kentucky
was occasionally practiced through
an overcoat pocket in those days.
During campaigns editors carried
shotguns
II wish you'd go up to Warren
Ohio, and take a look at a little paper
were thinking about buying" said
one Of his clients. His client prob
ably called Mr.. Deming Bill" He
naturally would. Mr.. Deming isn't
the clustering Bill sort, but he has
a kindly, likaDle manner and a pleas
| ant expression and candid, gentle,
straightforward blue eyes. Now
adays his brown hair is getting gray
at the ends. He may never have
been Bill to the general public but
he must certainly have been Bill to
his friends. So he went to Warren.
Ohio, and fell in love with that fine
old residential western reserve town,
with its wide streets shaded by over
hanging elms and hitching posts
around four sides of the city square.
Buy it, he advised his client. The
client agreed on condition that
Deming would become the editor. II
was good thing for both, for steel
mills were struck in the neighbor-
hood a little later and Warren is now
the fourteenth town in point Of
business in the state and has been
practically ruined for resideI Iial
center. But the hitching posts are
still there
Editor Deming made Il fight for
them when the progressive element
wanted to turn the streets over to
fiivvers. He said that horse had
his rights.
of the United States Civil Service
Commission, which presides over the
conditions governing the employment
"f more than 100000 persons in the
classified civil service?
Not 50 far.
He made a success of his editorial
venture in Warren. Then Wyoming
called him.
Buys Wyoming Newspaper.
They were singing a more or less
rugged song in Wyoming at the time
which alleged that they play their
aces high. in Cheyenne. In Cheyenne
along with a number of other irrele-
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Largest known Fish.

Fishermen in the Seychelles Islands.
in the Indian Ocean. are troubled by
the whale shark, the largest known
fsh-sometimes seventy feet long.
but not because the fish is hostile.
He merely tries to rub the barnacles
off his back on the catamaran or
canoe of the fishermen. The whale
shark is beautifully spotted and mot
tied. and strains his food such as
jelly fish and crustacea, through a
meshwork of gill rakers" inside his
thCoRt,
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Real Workers in the National Capital

president Of the United States Civil
Service Commission. as heretofore
stated, and occupies the state office In
the neat six-stery building on street
which has been given over to the COM
mission. He is sold on his job or, more
properly, on the Importance of civil
service.
More than half q million men and
women are required to carry on the
governments business, outside of the
armed forces. Each year a quarter
Of a million people apply for Jobs and
the commission certifies applicants
to fill the annual $4,000 vacancies.
During its life 100000 applicants
have come before it. There are $500
local boards before which applicants
may go for examination. The idea
is to discover fitness rather than
scholastic knowledge. Still, the man
who thought that bazaar is the fem
mime of czar probably got the gate.
as did the lady who hold that the
plural Of solo is duet. One man re-
piled that:
1.-The fappers Of the country are
it's flora"
Regarding IncOmpetents.
But he may have passed the exam
ination at that. A sense of humor
is not wholly detrimental. His ex-
perience has convinced Mr.. Deming
that the civil service examinations
procure for the government service
the best possible material. Political
pressure, he says. has never been
brought to bear on the commission
in any way. He resents the often
expressed theory that the commission
holds incompetents in jobs.
"As a matter of fact" said he. 1.-The
retention of an undesirable employe
is wholly up to his superior officer.
Every clerk who loafs can be and
should be fired"
1t has been charged that the Civil
Service Commission is desirous of
setting up sort of supergovern-
meT, through which it could assert
authority over the personnel of the
various departments by compelling
their retention in office or their pro-
motion against the will Of their su-
periors.
Nothing could be farther from the
truth" said the president.
Thinks Average EmplOye Underpaid.
He believes that the average gov
crnment employe is underpaid, on
the basis of modern costs, but has
not committed himself to the precise
rate of increase which is advisable.
Contrary to the assertions of some,
he believes that in the mass promo
tions go TO the right persons in the
government service. 1t is, he thinks.
fine preparation for the competi-
tion of private business life, but he
suspects that many of those who re-
main too long are unified for the
struggle outside On the whole he
praises the industry of the govern
ment clerk, although admitting there
are exceptions to this rule of toll.
I'VE are especially proud of our
research department." said Mr.. DEM
| ing. Our aim is to keep abreast of
the requirements of business life in
fixing the terms for admission to the
government service. To pass the
civil service examination now has a
real meaning"
But if he had not fallen in love
with that fine DID, htching- post sur
rounded, tree-shaded square in War
ren, Ohio. he might never have heard
| of the United States Civil Service Com
mission.
Evening star., 1924-06-01
BY HENRY w. BUM.

n HI; following is brief summary
of the most important news of
the world for the seven days
ended May 81:
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Italy.-The new Parliament. with
its overwhelming Fascist majority in
fhar charahaEA EaA onapedr-nn- -daa6,2<.
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A committee is now selecting, how
ever. a site for a national park in the
southern Appalachian Mountains
which would be representative of
that part of the country and might
be available for a national park. In
1t, he said. the flora and fauna of
that section will be preserved in it's
natural state. 1t will be the, first
national park representative of the
section, and he held scant hope for
the use of the other lands mentioned
in Congress as national park areas.
In these vast areas, however,
speakers declared, there are vast op-
portunities for creating state parks
that in future years may be the sole
means of saving posterity from the
danger of the ever-encroaching tree
famine. Not only would the people
be provided with needed, natural, out
door Fairgrounds, but they would
make ideal sites for the establish
ment of tree nurseries, where trees
could be grown to replace those that
,REn beipRokalle6 kQ1 commercial pur-