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I -' I::: @3)e :: « i gJastyngton Jtrf&ld ! PibHakad Every Morning is the T«r by Tk WadMBftM Herald Campuj, 43J-4S7-4J9 Eleventh St. &. Washington, D. C. E RICK President end General Manag* ' Phone: Mala 3300 All Department# SUBSCRIPTION RATES-BY CARRIE* In Wihmgtom and Vicinity baity and Sunday, 1 Month, 60c; 1 Year. $7* SUBSCRIPTION BY MAIL IN ADVANCE Daily and Sunday, 1 Month, 65c; t Year. $7-5®, Dally Only, i Month, 50c; i-Ycar» $6.00 . Urmbtr of the Audit Bmem »f Circnlotio*> I | ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES: Tht Beckwkh Sptcial Aienc? B l ' New Tork. World Jtatlfltac: Ctil«r>. TiiboM BalMtas: St. Loots. Post-Dlepateh BulM'na,: P»; Itivtt. Ford BalWlini; K>nn> CI ty. Mo, BryaM Atlanta. Oa.. Ill* Atlaata Truat^glldta* SATURDAY. MARCH 26, tosi. ' American Ckvckmu. HIS Eminence, James Gibbons was a cardinal of the £hurch of Rome. Spiritually, intellectually, in consecration and in scholarship, he was all that this title and rank implies. Because he was the immediate representative of the Pope in America, and because of a saintly nature, he bad the devoted allegiance of all Roman Catholics in America. / But to other Americans his memory will be held with little less affection, and in the highest regard because of his unyielding Americanism of the best type. What was good for this country always had his staunch support. He was not merely a churchman; he was an American citizeri with a full sense of his joint responsibilities. On many critical occasions, his council was sought »rd was never refused. He was always J ready to do his part for his country. It was his country first, and he Vnew no other. He kept that exact balance, that serenity, that poise which made his influence an almost personal relation out of the church as well as in it During the great war, he was a tower of atrength to this government His influence was felt not alone in every State, but in every community. He placed his country first. Nothing ever changed him from that attitude. His judgment in all matters, as in this, was ruled onty by justice and righteousness, and Protestants, no less than Roman Catholics will mourn his loss. Born in Baltimore, that was the city' of his residence for all but the early years of his youth. He entered the church of his own choice. He consecrated himself, and, excelling as a student, serious in his duties, impressive in his personality, his rise in th^ priesthood was rapid, but by strict progresaion. In 1886, when but 52 years old, he was made cardinal. For many years he was the only American member of the Sacred College. It was an office of onerous duties and one which in this country required the highest qualities of tact and judgment. The Catholic Church of America owes him an unending obligation for its present place. Protestants owe him an almost equal obligation for his nationalism which was able to meet his religious obligations with no sacrifice of those to his government. Great Britain, Cermany, Italy and Japan will now engage in a great economic war over the division of the last Russian calf. Unirersity Administrator. WHEN James B. j\ngell retired from the presi- j dency of Michigan University, the regents elected a lawyer as his successor. This man hesitated to accept because he was not an educator. The answer was that that was just the reason of his choice; the university as a great business institution needed an administrator; it could more easily find educators. The authorities of the University of Pennsylvania seem to have much the same judgment in electing Gen. Leonard Wood, president. But they add to Michigan's experiment, which proved a success, retaining as provost the man who has long held that position. It is to be presumed that the two functions of administrator, and of educational director will be divided between them. , If this works it will be a precedent to be followed. If it does not prove a success, it will be something learned to be avoided. That Gen. Wood will be a success is assumed. He is not only a great administrator, but just the man to inspire a student body. He has that human understanding which makes all kin, and arouses a loyalty near to devotion. He will not be like that college president who resigned because there was not an auditorium large enough to seat all the pupils so he would meet and talk to them. Gen. Wood is the other sort, whose personality is not confined to four walls with a roof, nor has to be expresed#m words. He does ot have to express it in rounded periods, nor in scholastic phrases. It expresses itself and is its own distributer. * Moreover, if anyone can wAli in harness with an educator, he can. But there will be those who will have their doubts. Such will be interested to watch results and will wonder if special and technical training is necessary to direct the educational functions of a university, any more than a president of a -great corporation has to be trained in all the included specialties. Secretary Tumulty passed to Secretary Wilson the active end of the International Boundary wire without telling him Mt was not insulated. A Fairy Tale? ALADDIN and his lamp have come back from fairyland, or from that land of even more extreme romance. The imagination of the lady who told the thousand and one tales had nothing more fascinating in improbabilities <than what now comes from Russia via the land that once claimed so much embalmed in mythology. It is said that seven tons of gold.tons, not hundredweight.shipped from Russia, have* been minted { Sweden with the Swedish stamp and are now on shipboard on ,the way to the United States. But MM it not all. The same tale fays that ninety more tons of Russian gold are in Sweden being minted and will follow this first shipment. Susiia 'regard# this gold as safer on this side ' / K .A of the Atlantic. It comes.her* as of Swedish origin and our courts are not expected to go behind the returns. It could be transferred here into American exchange and Med anywhere. But h( bare (yesence is expected to reverse our national policy as to Russia. Which might be. If the United States could once stick its fingers into the gold pieces. . y >7 If this tale is true; if Russia still has this gold* it but shows the enormous voliime of private stores of this metal held in all great countries. Russia has n't been reluctant in her speeding unier Soviet rule. Her wealth has poured out in wr.rs, the support of armies and in world-wide propaganda. She has been quite the most profligate of nations. ' Nor can this near too tons of just gold, represent all of her icserve wefetth confiscated by the Sovift high priests of robbery. Just now Italy has taken from one of their agents in Rome stores of jewels and other valuables of enormous worth. Like loot from the Czars' treasures, and those of grand dukes, and the other nobility, have been reported at intervals as being in other lands. Nor is there reason to doubt that Lenin*, and Trotsky have failed to care for their own future should they be lucky enough to live to enjoy it But ,t is as well to .wait until the ships dock and the gold is counted. Until then the birds are still in flight. (The older members of the Supreme Court have thoughtfully decided not to add to/ President Harding's burdens that of naming their successors. " " ' . Greece Answers London. THE Greek answer to the London conference and the revision of the treaty of Sevres is an advance of its Asia Minor army. Greece has deeded to carry the war to Turkey and makes the final appeal to the sword. She will undertake to demonstrate that her claim at London, that she could defeat Turkey and end its power, was not an idle boast. ' The French generals in command of the rench troops in Cilicia, smiled at this claim. They ^ -j "p",ence wi«h «he Turk fighting qualities and. said Greece reckoned without her host. It was a show-me' attitude of complacent incredulity, influenced perhaps by the requirements of French diplomacy. In all events Greece is undertaking the demonstration. ,k The .Grfek army has two fron*S- Apparently the north front extends from ^russa at Mount Olympus, south of the eastern end of the Sea of Mamora, to the mountains forming the north boundary of Smyrna. The southern front, with its left flank resting on these mountains seems to center on Ushak, which is almost in a line, north and south, with Brussa. The reported advance of twenty miles is from this line and it brings the Greeks within striking distance of the railroad which runs south and east from the Sea and Constantinople to Aleppo, where it connects with the Bagdad route. If the Greeks can gain control of this road, which is undoubtedly their objective, they can afford to rest there and wait developments. It is highly improbable they will undertake an excursion to Angora, the Nationalist Turk capital, ! The railroad is but half way from the coast to that city. To undertake to penetrate so far would be but folly, such as an advance on Moscow. I/ the Greeks can hold the provinces of Smyrna and Brussa with control of the Constantinople-Aleppo road, they can afford to sit and wait. The next move would then be for the supreme council. Because of the topography of the western end of Asia Minor, once in possession of this line, it could be held by a comparatively small force.' Sa\e for a rather short distance, it is mountainous and difficult of attack. To sit and wait would not, therefore, be a heavy drain on Greek finances as the army coAld be quickly re-enforced from the homeland. There will be much sympathy for Greece in the United States, regardless of King Constantine. As Venizelos has said, Constantine is but an incident in Greek history, and though an unfortunate one, mdst Americans will be apt to forgive him, if he is able to do what no other European government seems to dare to.dispose of the Turk. * It has now been five* long and weary months since James Hamilton Lewis has broken out in another spot. ___ Colleges vs. Colleges. A WRITER in the current Atlantic Monthly asks: "What do college men know?"' He proceeds to show that they are possessed mainly of ignorance and know mighty little that is worth while. Another writer says there are too many colleges. Still another declares there are too few. Probably they are, right. At least they all prove their theses to their own satisfaction. Yet there still are colleges and colleges, just as there are men and men, teachers and teachers, students and students. Quite as the old fellow said: "The world is full of folks and no two of them alike," so it is of colleges, college men, teachers and the >est. But the main trouble which runs through all modern education i« that in getting a\tay from the too great concentration of the'past, it has scattered. It has gone to the other extreme. In the years past the young on through their collega period, studied but few things. They had a limited choice. Fifty years ago a boy could be graduated when 18 and , few finished their college course when beyond 20. ' Then the subjects open to him wef? counted on the fingers of two hands. Now one subject is divided into so many courses that the selection is mystifying, while the number of subjects is almost infinite. The head of the English department of a university went to his president saying he must have more assistants as.it would be necessary to add more courses, to specialize more exactly in order to compete with other universities. He was asked how many courses he then had and when he answered was told that instead of more, he would have less. Instead of ground work, excavation and foundation, colleges are building superstructures on false work. As a result, graduates are very uncertain as'to just what they know or as to jnst what they are fitted to do, save maybe in some narfow groove. This condition reacts upon the elementary schools with a like diversity, which leads to smat- tering. There are too many subjects and subjects are too much differentiated. The consequence jt an excess of overhead cost with a minimum of actual, ajnuine educational result. Colleges would need far l«ss income and accomplish much more, if they undertook far less. .......... t A man from Boston spent $3,000 in a visit of 72 hours in New York. He .got off cheap, -if he enjoyed it. . ' ~ N ' art leader says tanks brought New ideas honk. America's returned soldiers wll lead the nation to newer and hlghe ideals m art. In the opinion of Mia H. Carnell, dean of Temple Unl verslty, Philadelphia, who la herattending the tenth, annual meetlni Of the College Art Association o America. i "^,rt*dy our student, who wer and B5l*lu'" during th world war are ctlming to ua witl the_ query. 'Why are the bridge over the Selene and the Loire differ *nt from those which span th *nd ,he SusquehannaT aid Miss Carnell. haT® ",n ,h» exqulslt proportion, the line balance, th harmonious design of the Eurotfeai bridge. Miss Carnell oontinued Perhaps at the time they no realise that there was a dlffercnc between the architectural product "f Europe and those of the utillla rlan country they had left behind uut when they returned to thl country the difference was so ob vlous that they could not repres their curiosity. And so. today the' are asking ua the reason for thes, differences." ART DEPARTMENTS I* SCHOOLS CITED. Miss Carnell said she hoped tli country's universities and scripol would answer these queries *itl the Introduction of more and large art departments In the educations Institutions of the country. Ther are now hut sixty-four art depart ments in a tot,i of 40# Khoolll ,, this country, she pointed out. "It Is time that the people o this rountry were awakened to th fact that the esthetic yearnings o a nation must be satisfied, as wel as the material wants." Miss Car nell declared. "And aside from that > the utllltarlan-minded there i an argument which should be ton vlnting. The development of ar In this country will have a com a" ** an ab*tract value T"his may seem hard to beih v , but 11 trua. never the less First of all. In the manu tacturej of wares or nierchandls »iTl<Laue a,*av* cer'aln standard which the ''O'.sumer demands. Am along with quality artistic per faction If a womiR buys a vast She want]) the b»*t pr >due: iha her purse affords. In making ho Sal0 »!"*. £ '* to choose tli' vfdeV ,h ,L" b"tt,'r .»*« P'o ^d-d the two offered her are th, ame price. This is %nly one In nance of the Imp >rtlnc-.> jf «r In commerce A in APLPIIOU T«> CITIES. K,°U,r, Amcri<-an manufac and ,he - h""e " *«'hlng. and the many other objects tha use In our dally life".* X, 'he same high stand ards already achieved by foreim makers of the same produt t we can Wme"to*C K,ht W"r,d'" «, Permanently*"* 'h°re" "d Sinclair Lewis hss done the Amer ng "Main " J"'*1"!, ""vice In writ thinks 8,r",C Mi" Ca">«' ihlvl delln,'"tin<t «nd bringing fore, 'urn of »h the sordfd fea IV " f thF »ma|l town of the Mid fown an"vw:h'Cl: m'Kht «"?< he Is In«fc?ere "" Un,t'd States ak,n* "« think and thin! l»£» a.°id M,Ur 'r,h",ir -bortcm .jL. aid Miss Carnell. _ .ere « great need for ciVi In America today." Mis, Carnell .emarked, "j am a-i.rt ? see that the University of Penn SP^t^hi^rrlrur^h'' I AmJF* ®"hl" "n*w dh.T-efr, ^'^n o^nb'U' Miss Carnell was asked if she fa ofX,hFe,nerr:°n °f " Wr«me':, tative In th W'th"a represen. France! <-abl"et. as the case Ir cation y fl0t ?. "'""rtment of Edu, n tr Miss Carnell responded. 'Education is the biggesl The km' Vlt>1 thinK ,n 'helfeo looklnV T T,he °thpr > wen! looking for Dr Claxton. United Whir" Commissioner of Education Where did I fl.,i him7 Tuckpd ot ,hes »U-al "thf^'iTnii ^l8" r»rnell continued should n States governmeni great factn T" ",ltnlion thll h»^V f«<-tor for prowess than li which h ,the Past' U is a mattel tPnn 8h®u|d have the careful at I do H ?f.the federal Department k° n°t 'ear the Invasion of th« of U States by the creatior tiv!UK * department in the Execu . ' branch of the government. Edwo I1?" woultl be standardised anti SiT1" " healthy Impetu. .u h. regulation. In my oplnJon the Smith-Towner bill would have passed at, the session of Congress Just closed, had it not beer lor the opposition aroused by th< various riders attached to the hill.* F. W. G. PACT MAY BRING ' CHINA ENVOY HERE Simn.AnNaHsI'i M®rch 25,.Ijennoj iLvfr »dvlser to the Chines, government, will leave here Aprli « for the United States and Eu co"fer w,th the American fni ,*1"' Fr'nch government! "-'he league of nations represen .U"er*t*rtll"r the Chinese demand for abolition of extra terrl torlal rlghtsr In China. d«i2t.^,U .al*° a<Jvl»« the Chines* , " ,n a«"«va regarding mattroversy^ t0 the sha"tung con V,?;^ Interest has been manifesl lik R , J. conclusion of the Brit wm indV ? ^ ® agreement and II t^ fonl t that ,f Ch,na decided '°Mn,ol fw En''«nd'« example and ?,.r* aUoB" w,th Russia Simpson will vUlj^toscow Mexican Cotton Doty Raised wiD'hlf*! lmport dutl" on cottor M tht '~rea»«d 14 9** cent Aprl was -1-Dy*rtm*nt . of Commerc. M omclally advised yesterday. V " .i. Wl>«t d'you lay, let'* g ywu j, f s 1 : ' m ' ' l\ : v ; j *- ' " ( I ~r . - ^ ~.. f THE HE :: REVIEWS k . THE ROOK TREE. by Charles Neville Bilrk (l>oubleday, Page and t Company). t A novel with a background in tlae . Kentucky mountain* muit surely 1 contain two things.the strange dla. lect spoken in those part*, and a > feud. This novel contains both and I in addition a generous amount of romantic love-making and personal violence. The feud In thls^case is a resurrected one which haj its beII ginnings in days of Washington, but which during the intervening . years has lost none of its original . vigor. Feud fiction- has a kinship . j to cowboy Action. It is more InI tense and somber, perhaps, but ex. otic and dependent for its success tjon a proper mixture of sentiment and crime. With "The Call of the Cumberland*" and "The Temperr ing" to his credit. Mr. Buck must , be recognized as the leading ex, ponent of this particular variety of . Action. Those who have enjoyed ( this author's earlier books will not . be disappointed in this one. THE RECOI.I.KCTIONS OK A FOR. BIGK MIMSTER. by Alexander Iswolsky Translated by Charles. Louis Seeger (Doubleday, Page I ana Company). t It often happens that men who I have played an important part in , great events are the most unreli, able and uninteresting commentaI tors on those events. Mr. Iswolski 1 Played an important, but compared with his great contemporaries. Witte and Stolypin, an inctonspicuous. pari in affairs in Russia during the critical days just after the Japanese war. His accounts of the attempts ^ of the 'Kaiser to involve the Czar in a coalition against England; the , famous secret treaty of BJorkoe between these two emperors: the meet. Ing of the Arst Duma and rhe char. acters and policies of Witte. Stolyt Pin and tie Csar are particularly f Informative and interesting. Th*t former minister of foreign affairs I is obviously very anxioWs to present a fair and unbiased estimate r of the men and events of which he 1 Is writing. Mr. Seeger's translation is excellent. 1 BOOK MOTES. t The next volume in the series of p Leonard Merrick's novels, which are being brought out In a uniform edi. ti»n by E. P. T>utton and Company. ( will be "A Chair on the Boulevard. 1 a collection of short stories with an Introduction by A. Nell Lyons. The limited edition will appear, probably ' "fly April, and the popular 1 edition, as usual, a fortnight later. I Francis Lynde. author of "A Girl A Horse and A Hog." etc., and whose , new novel. "The Fire Bringers." will be published shortly by Charlea Scribner s Sons, has many Interests beside that of literature. "Wideview," rtie novelist's home In Chattanooga. Tenn., was built by himself and his two sons. The house , which is located on the old civil war battleAeld, is constructed »of stone Quarried and laid by the novelist 1 f .. ^,s ""i*1 who did m°st of the ( building. On the completion of the instal, ">ents of Intimate personal memoirs , from The Book of Jack London," by Oharmian London, which are beIng published In the Centurv Maga xlne. a book la to be published which will be the unique Jack London biography which only his wife could have written. In this connection. It Is interesting to note that Jack London Is beginning to have a rogue In France which will rival that of his ^vorks In Russia and In England The new Revue de France. In its initial year, is to publish a translation of "White Fang" under the title "Croc Blanc." Andce Tardleu, In his "Truth About the Treaty." says that Uoyd George became "thoroughly alarmed ' by the consequences either or a re. [ fusal to sign a treaty, or a crisis In Germany and suggested unthlnk> able concessions oa almost every point." He add* that: Those were « o over in the old pasture By Darling // jT* |H^HK9EVVP^ RALD BOC ;.iifXi. atrocious days, in which the work ol months was threatened with ruin." Mr. Archibald Rutledgt. whom Plantation Game Trails" has Jusl been published by tha HougMo« Mifflin Company, says that he has had some amusing experiences wit* collectors of stories and anecdote* about Lincoln. A part of hi« regu lar correspondence consist* in letters. concerning Ann Rutledge. th« supposed sweetheart of the Ores' Emancipator. Probably authors an<! artists have contrived to cast an un wonted glamour o\cr this affair concerning the real rfuture of whicl little that is authentic is known But Mr Rutledge has not said what if any. is the blood relationship be tween #iimself and the famous Ann Joseph Conrad is starting almos at once for Corsica. writes th. Pookman's London correspondent The journey is to be a "holiday oi saturation" m the aimosphere of th* new Napoleonic novel which r.« plans to write. This is a darin. theme for one to attempt who hr? made his reputation in other fields says the correspondent and yel those who know Conrad will feelj i ertain that it will be unlike an> other similar novel. Frederic C. Howe, formerly Fnit t-d States Immigration^Commissioner at the port of New York and director of the Peoples Institute of New York City, makes a plea in h new book. "Revolution and Dfwscj -acy" (Heubsch) for a settlement of the world's problem* that shall bdemocratic, not revolutionary. M flowe is sanguine as to the future co-operative movements. He poin.s i< their growth in the European countries and to the co-opera* iv» societies of Minnesota. California and other States. "Nc single movement," says Md Howe, "has gr -wn v.ith such raoidity since th« war o-ooeration."* The Century Co. announces the publication |n March of "flhnsts" by Arthur Grabh. and ''Wind Along the "Waste." by Gadys E. Johnson. « A yarn of the sea. which seem? likely to take its place beside the great books of ocean literature. Is a vivid story of adventure on a sailing vessel during a trip from gow to San Francisco around the Horn, which E. P. Dutton and Company are publishing about the enfl of March. Its author is Capt. Pavld W. Bone, who knows the o<-ean and the ships that sail on it as the shore man knows his office and his desk and its title is -The Rrassbounder.That to the landlubber, enigmatical term means a ship's apprentice, who while he is learning to be an able seaman, does a man's work and gets no pay, sometimes even his parents pay for the privilege of thus learning his trade during sea voyages, under the fond belief that his is to be a life of gilt braid and bras? buttons.hence the name. It is one of those rare books which read better than fiction, full of adventure of the most thrilling sort, always widely convincingW. Somerset Maugham, who hap a habit ol writing startling books, has done something extra startling In his new book, '"the Magician. Juat published by George H. Koran Company. He makes no compromises with credulity in this book Juat as he made no comprtnttM with morality In "The Moon and Sixpence." Oliver Haddo. priest ot Black Magic. Is as striking a_ character as Charles Strickland. Iht unique hero of "The Moon and Slirpence." , , Albert Payson Terhune s new novel. "The Man in the Dark, will be ready tor publication about the end of tfcla montti by E. F. ajid Company. It Is a story of the struggle upward of a poor boy In the hills of West Virginia whe grows to manhood in an environment of moonshinlng and nightrldIng. There is a young district attorney in it who keeps everybody guea«tng. Including the reader, un- and hoot blackbirds? N A >' 1 I ..-- : )KSHELF Iji IOOKNOTES :: y =====^==i=I=Z=I til the la^t pape. And "f eourw. !1 the author being who he is. there is a fine collie in it. Hut (his time the human being* make the story and ' the dog: merely incidental. Mis* Amy Lowell, whose new vol* 1 urr.e, "legends." is announced for early publication by Houghton. | Mifflin Company, is lecturing this spring on Walt Whitman and John 1 Keut*. besides giving many authors'ir ' readings. *11. »T. ' An English rose spoiled in repay- | , ment for a broken Chinese lily. » .Such is the theme of "Mr. Wu," 1 written by Louisa Jordan Miln from j the play by H. M. Vernon and Harold t Owen <F A. Stokes Company). To h the swift movement and strong ® ..climax of the play are added manyi1 gorgeous word pictures of China. f Wu Li Chang, master of men and 1 tong chief, is the father of Nang Ting, slender and beautiful as a r young bamboo. Into the lotus and | fineries of her walled garden come* Basil Gregory, a young British "waster. * Developments are along the standard lines until the point \ where Wu conceive^ the disconcerting idea of making ynu'nc Gregory's ' mother pay with her own virtue for ® her sons dalliance. The working ' out of this rather crass if original ' revenge supplies the latter paces of i the novel with a full battery of thrills In a flux of Justifiable homicide, machine-made strikes and r untimely "take-offs." a vociferously ? just if not A-er felicitous ending is reached. The reprehensible Basil is w.-dded to the rosy English girl o£ his choice but. wo are informed, will be haunted for the balance of his 1 life b# the blossomy face of the ! wronged Nang Ping. "Mr. Wu" is written with good ! craftsmanship and while there Is , not an ounce of humor in the book. the frivolous-minded will run across certain quaintnesses that serve the i same purpose. 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M1SCBLLANBOVR. . t EUROPE'S MORNING AFTER, by Kenneth L Roberta (Har- * per.). ; THE LURE OF THE MEDITER- , RANEAN. by Albert Blgelow r Paine (Harpers). ACROSS AMERICA WITH THE r KING OF THE BELGIANS, by I Pierre Goemaere (Dntton) c i Peasant girls In Franco. Belgium c and Italy Mil their hajr at regular c periods to dealer*. =^=s=-rrrr U Pi I jV Saturday. Marefc M» fttffi. Hit.pMfl »wi»t|, C«uM Oak, this even ins. I:li o'clock. "Authali Latitude, a Cartographic Expedient." by O. 8. Adams; "A Chronographir Recorder of Radio Time Signals/* by * A. fcckhardt *nd J. C. Karcher. moblleim or chkiiical 'ariff kxpla1xkd. How the United States Tariff Coma is* I on aids Congress In Its work tt framing tariff legislation and he principal points of chemical nriff legislation were explained at he Chemical Society meet in* last Icht by C. R. DeLonc. chief cbea* »t of the commission. Preparing tariff Information gurry* that give in Isnguage the laynan can understand the Importaat sets regarding chemical comraodlles is one of the Important funeions of the commission, he said, 'hese reports give a description of he article, tell Its grades. usea. processes of msnufactura. domesIc availability and tho raw maertals utilised, and give other necsssry data. -In addition to the direct competiti offered by Imports of tho ame chemical, it is necessary to onsider the importing of articles f slmilsr nature.** said IVLnnr trlking examplra of Indirect com etlti are those of the soys-bean nd peanut oils that are substitute* or cottonseed oil. vegetable oils hat offer competition for the dsirv »roducts in the form of oleomarrarin and butter substitute*, and o-called aago and tapioca flours hat can replae* corn starch Adjusting duties so thst the-e rill be the ssme effect produced >n the importation of both remind manufactured nrticles Is an>ther problem, he said An e»imple of the necessity of composting duties is thst of alcoholf.* ^rfumerv that would evsdc th* turden of the Interns! revenue tax in grain alcohol If no dutv were evled. A **A large number of cheml<-a rm« lo not keep adequate cost records, ind for thst reason cost* of produoion of vsrious chemical produces, specially in *Vie dye and barium hemicals industries wer* hard to btain." De I/>ne declared. In telling low the commission's Investigation* »ave caused manufactures* to Invesigat and study their costs. Inrtsnces of how chemicals and ther articles are classified und'r he tsriff laws were cited. Many 'nemicals are specifically name 1, ind in certain cases by mistake they lave even been named twice in tho aw. once In the free lists and again mong those dutiable "One method of classifying chemcals whi'h is probably unfamiliaro most laymen. Is by the |iw cf« limilitude." sstd TV Long If «n aricle is not mentioned by name and s like another dutiable article in natcrial. quality, texture snd use., t is dutiable st the same rate an hat article, be *-xp1alned By this ule. artificial silk has h*en class**' is cotton, venison ss beef, while fro* egs were a?s-ss a ax dressed poulrv Rutvl alcohol has been classiled by similitude as fusel oil. »oth arc used as solvents In tho nanufarture of pvroxyline plastics. In an attempt to eliminate obso. *te fh"mi« al terms snd conflicts % anruage which have caused' lltigaion an*1 take care of chemicals that lave become important since 15»13. he chemical division of the Tariff 'om rains Ion is'engaged in a r«*elassiicat of Schedule A and the chemral free list. *pVBin*T* \% OKKIXG 0!f rrXDAHRKTAL rROHI.IMa Producing important scientific report by the foremost raen in their espective lines at a cost not cr«ai«r han that of the«average thesis nuh. nitted for the degree of doctor of ihilosophy is one of the achieve, nents of the division of physical iciences of the National ReseartH .ouncil headed by l>r. Augustus "row bridge Over a hundred of the best phvst. iris, astronomers and math»-matlians of the country are «r<rkin? hrough the twenty committe, c that fiav# been formed since October. 911. A wide range of fundamental problems in physics, sstronorry and mathematics is being cover#d In the field of physics work is being* lone on acoustics, atomic structure, lectrodynamics of moving media, luminescence. magnetism. photo, electric effects, physical method® and technique, quantum theory, spectroscopy, thermo- and magnetoelectr effects x-ray spectra, .and r>hysiologicsl optics. In astronomy, >rbit theory and parallaxes are b«-Ing studied, while slgehraic numbers and statistics are receivlnc tha attention of the mathematicians "The committees have been formed for the discussion of the larger outstanding problems only.- said [>r. Trowbridge "Thev have had in mind the formulation of plans for %o-operative attack on these problems. the publishing of their conclusi for the purpose of sssisting those Interested in the problem s-ho may not be members of th* ommittee. and the presentation of the problem to workers who may t>e engaged in work of less fundament character." k'ATI RF.-gTf I>V H A MHl.Fft * rAKK 91'WD AT H1KK*. There is a group of lovers f utdoors wha t-ke Sunday hik«s ind discover as many of natur- s serets as they can This ;,roup. mown as the Nature-Study ram>lers will welcy.»»e those ir.tere-t. d f they wish to join them in t*»rir talks Ewing Rummer*, leader --f he hikes, describes la**t Surd.iv'a jip along the canal near Cabin John is follom-s: "The cow parsnip, a coarse o'.int ;rowlng as large as a garden sunlowe was considered ex; met in his region sines about 1905 Mi! a rear ago we fruod a little ps*ch of t near the tow-path of the canal iearlv a mile above Chain Rrilge. ^ast Sunday we tour.c a new crop here thriving viiforcisly.** "The walking f?rn has been c<nlide extinct on Cabin John "un ilnce 1JM, when a vandal botanist voasted of having taken the la*t pecimen and onbi'shed an account >f his 'grursome' exploit 1n a boanic magaz'ne. accompanying his eport with a picture of the >Unt. -ast Sunday we found a little pa-ch >f it on that rui.. Rut we #n Ml vant the vandal !»otanista to know >f It, and I fefra'n from dercribin* ixactly w Iters we saw It.** W. XX I
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American Ckvckmu.HIS Eminence, James Gibbons was a cardinal
of the £hurch of Rome. Spiritually, intellectually,in consecration and in scholarship,he was all that this title and rank implies.Because he was the immediate representative of thePope in America, and because of a saintly nature,he bad the devoted allegiance of all Roman Catholicsin America. /
But to other Americans his memory will be heldwith little less affection, and in the highest regardbecause of his unyielding Americanism of the besttype. What was good for this country always hadhis staunch support. He was not merely a churchman;he was an American citizeri with a full senseof his joint responsibilities.
On many critical occasions, his council wassought »rd was never refused. He was always Jready to do his part for his country. It was hiscountry first, and he Vnew no other. He kept thatexact balance, that serenity, that poise which madehis influence an almost personal relation out of thechurch as well as in it
During the great war, he was a tower ofatrength to this government His influence was feltnot alone in every State, but in every community.He placed his country first. Nothing ever changedhim from that attitude. His judgment in all matters,as in this, was ruled onty by justice and righteousness,and Protestants, no less than RomanCatholics will mourn his loss.
Born in Baltimore, that was the city' of hisresidence for all but the early years of his youth.He entered the church of his own choice. He consecratedhimself, and, excelling as a student, seriousin his duties, impressive in his personality, his risein th^ priesthood was rapid, but by strict progresaion.
In 1886, when but 52 years old, he was madecardinal. For many years he was the only Americanmember of the Sacred College. It was an officeof onerous duties and one which in this country requiredthe highest qualities of tact and judgment.The Catholic Church of America owes him an unendingobligation for its present place. Protestantsowe him an almost equal obligation for his nationalismwhich was able to meet his religious obligationswith no sacrifice of those to his government.
Great Britain, Cermany, Italy and Japanwill now engage in a great economic war overthe division of the last Russian calf.
Unirersity Administrator.
WHEN James B. j\ngell retired from the presi- jdency of Michigan University, the regents
elected a lawyer as his successor. This man hesitatedto accept because he was not an educator.The answer was that that was just the reason of hischoice; the university as a great business institutionneeded an administrator; it could more easily findeducators.
The authorities of the University of Pennsylvaniaseem to have much the same judgment inelecting Gen. Leonard Wood, president. But theyadd to Michigan's experiment, which proved a success,retaining as provost the man who has longheld that position. It is to be presumed that thetwo functions of administrator, and of educationaldirector will be divided between them.
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If this works it will be a precedent to be followed.If it does not prove a success, it will besomething learned to be avoided. That Gen. Woodwill be a success is assumed. He is not only a
great administrator, but just the man to inspire a
student body. He has that human understandingwhich makes all kin, and arouses a loyalty near todevotion.
He will not be like that college president whoresigned because there was not an auditorium largeenough to seat all the pupils so he would meet andtalk to them. Gen. Wood is the other sort, whosepersonality is not confined to four walls with a
roof, nor has to be expresed#m words. He doesot have to express it in rounded periods, nor in
scholastic phrases. It expresses itself and is itsown distributer. *
Moreover, if anyone can wAli in harness withan educator, he can. But there will be those whowill have their doubts. Such will be interested towatch results and will wonder if special and technicaltraining is necessary to direct the educationalfunctions of a university, any more than a presidentof a -great corporation has to be trained in all theincluded specialties.
Secretary Tumulty passed to SecretaryWilson the active end of the InternationalBoundary wire without telling him Mt was notinsulated.
A Fairy Tale?ALADDIN and his lamp have come back from
fairyland, or from that land of even moreextreme romance. The imagination of the ladywho told the thousand and one tales had nothingmore fascinating in improbabilities <than what nowcomes from Russia via the land that once claimedso much embalmed in mythology.
It is said that seven tons of gold.tons, not hundredweight.shippedfrom Russia, have* been minted{ Sweden with the Swedish stamp and are now on
shipboard on ,the way to the United States. ButMM it not all. The same tale fays that ninetymore tons of Russian gold are in Sweden beingminted and will follow this first shipment.
Susiia 'regard# this gold as safer on this side'
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of the Atlantic. It comes.her* as of Swedish originand our courts are not expected to go behindthe returns. It could be transferred here intoAmerican exchange and Med anywhere. But h(bare (yesence is expected to reverse our nationalpolicy as to Russia. Which might be. If the UnitedStates could once stick its fingers into the goldpieces. . y
>7If this tale is true; if Russia still has this gold*
it but shows the enormous voliime of private storesof this metal held in all great countries. Russia hasn't been reluctant in her speeding unier Sovietrule. Her wealth has poured out in wr.rs, the supportof armies and in world-wide propaganda. Shehas been quite the most profligate of nations. '
Nor can this near too tons of just gold, representall of her icserve wefetth confiscated by theSovift high priests of robbery. Just now Italy hastaken from one of their agents in Rome stores ofjewels and other valuables of enormous worth. Likeloot from the Czars' treasures, and those of granddukes, and the other nobility, have been reported atintervals as being in other lands.
Nor is there reason to doubt that Lenin*, andTrotsky have failed to care for their own futureshould they be lucky enough to live to enjoy itBut ,t is as well to .wait until the ships dock and thegold is counted. Until then the birds are still inflight.
(The older members of the Supreme Courthave thoughtfully decided not to add to/ PresidentHarding's burdens that of naming theirsuccessors.
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Greece Answers London.
THE Greek answer to the London conferenceand the revision of the treaty of Sevres is an
advance of its Asia Minor army. Greece has deededto carry the war to Turkey and makes thefinal appeal to the sword. She will undertake todemonstrate that her claim at London, that shecould defeat Turkey and end its power, was not anidle boast. '
The French generals in command of therench troops in Cilicia, smiled at this claim. They^ -j
"p",ence wi«h «he Turk fighting qualitiesand. said Greece reckoned without her host. It wasa show-me' attitude of complacent incredulity, influencedperhaps by the requirements of Frenchdiplomacy. In all events Greece is undertaking thedemonstration.
,kThe .Grfek army has two fron*S- Apparently
the north front extends from ^russa at MountOlympus, south of the eastern end of the Sea ofMamora, to the mountains forming the northboundary of Smyrna. The southern front, with itsleft flank resting on these mountains seems to centeron Ushak, which is almost in a line, north andsouth, with Brussa.
The reported advance of twenty miles is fromthis line and it brings the Greeks within strikingdistance of the railroad which runs south and eastfrom the Sea and Constantinople to Aleppo, whereit connects with the Bagdad route. If the Greekscan gain control of this road, which is undoubtedlytheir objective, they can afford to rest there andwait developments.
It is highly improbable they will undertake anexcursion to Angora, the Nationalist Turk capital, !The railroad is but half way from the coast to thatcity. To undertake to penetrate so far would bebut folly, such as an advance on Moscow. I/ theGreeks can hold the provinces of Smyrna andBrussa with control of the Constantinople-Alepporoad, they can afford to sit and wait.
The next move would then be for the supremecouncil. Because of the topography of the westernend of Asia Minor, once in possession of this line,it could be held by a comparatively small force.'Sa\e for a rather short distance, it is mountainousand difficult of attack. To sit and wait would not,therefore, be a heavy drain on Greek finances asthe army coAld be quickly re-enforced from thehomeland.
There will be much sympathy for Greece in theUnited States, regardless of King Constantine. AsVenizelos has said, Constantine is but an incident inGreek history, and though an unfortunate one, mdstAmericans will be apt to forgive him, if he is ableto do what no other European government seemsto dare to.dispose of the Turk.
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Colleges vs. Colleges.A WRITER in the current Atlantic Monthly
asks: "What do college men know?"' Heproceeds to show that they are possessed mainly ofignorance and know mighty little that is worthwhile. Another writer says there are too manycolleges. Still another declares there are too few.
Probably they are, right. At least they allprove their theses to their own satisfaction. Yetthere still are colleges and colleges, just as thereare men and men, teachers and teachers, studentsand students. Quite as the old fellow said: "Theworld is full of folks and no two of them alike," soit is of colleges, college men, teachers and the >est.
But the main trouble which runs through allmodern education i« that in getting a\tay from thetoo great concentration of the'past, it has scattered.It has gone to the other extreme. In the years pastthe young on through their collega period, studiedbut few things. They had a limited choice. Fiftyyears ago a boy could be graduated when 18 and ,few finished their college course when beyond 20.
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Then the subjects open to him wef? countedon the fingers of two hands. Now one subject isdivided into so many courses that the selection ismystifying, while the number of subjects is almostinfinite. The head of the English department of a
university went to his president saying he must havemore assistants as.it would be necessary to add morecourses, to specialize more exactly in order to competewith other universities.
He was asked how many courses he then hadand when he answered was told that instead ofmore, he would have less. Instead of ground work,excavation and foundation, colleges are buildingsuperstructures on false work. As a result, graduatesare very uncertain as'to just what they knowor as to jnst what they are fitted to do, save maybein some narfow groove.
This condition reacts upon the elementaryschools with a like diversity, which leads to smat-tering. There are too many subjects and subjectsare too much differentiated. The consequence jt anexcess of overhead cost with a minimum of actual,ajnuine educational result. Colleges would need farl«ss income and accomplish much more, if theyundertook far less.
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art leader says tanksbrought New ideas honk.America's returned soldiers wll
lead the nation to newer and hlgheideals m art. In the opinion of Mia
H. Carnell, dean of Temple Unlverslty, Philadelphia, who la herattendingthe tenth, annual meetlniOf the College Art Association oAmerica.
i "^,rt*dy our student, who werand B5l*lu'" during th
world war are ctlming to ua witlthe_ query. 'Why are the bridgeover the Selene and the Loire differ*nt from those which span th
*nd ,he SusquehannaTaid Miss Carnell.
haT® ",n ,h» exqulsltproportion, the line balance, thharmonious design of the Eurotfeaibridge. Miss Carnell oontinuedPerhaps at the time they no
realise that there was a dlffercncbetween the architectural product"f Europe and those of the utilllarlan country they had left behinduut when they returned to thlcountry the difference was so obvlous that they could not represtheir curiosity. And so. today the'are asking ua the reason for thes,differences."
ART DEPARTMENTSI* SCHOOLS CITED.Miss Carnell said she hoped tli
country's universities and scripolwould answer these queries *itlthe Introduction of more and largeart departments In the educationsInstitutions of the country. Therare now hut sixty-four art departments in a tot,i of 40# Khoolll ,,this country, she pointed out.
"It Is time that the people o
this rountry were awakened to thfact that the esthetic yearnings o
a nation must be satisfied, as welas the material wants." Miss Carnell declared. "And aside from that
> the utllltarlan-minded there ian argument which should be tonvlnting. The development of arIn this country will have a com
a" ** an ab*tract valueT"his may seem hard to beih v
,but 11 trua. never the
less First of all. In the manutacturej of wares or nierchandls
»iTl<Laue a,*av* cer'aln standardwhich the ''O'.sumer demands. Amalong with quality artistic perfaction If a womiR buys a vastShe want]) the b»*t pr >due: ihaher purse affords. In making ho
Sal0 »!"*. £ '* to choose tli'
vfdeV ,h,L" b"tt,'r .»*« P'o
^d-d the two offered her are th,ame price. This is %nly one Innance of the Imp >rtlnc-.> jf «rIn commerceAin APLPIIOUT«> CITIES.
K,°U,r, Amcri<-an manufac
and ,he -h""e " *«'hlng.
and the many other objects thause In our dally life".* X,
'he same high standards already achieved by foreimmakers of the same produt t we can
Wme"to*C K,ht W"r,d'"«,
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ak,n* "« think and thin!
l»£» a.°id M,Ur 'r,h",ir -bortcm.jL. aid Miss Carnell._
.ere « great need for ciViIn America today." Mis,
Carnell .emarked, "j am a-i.rt ?see that the University of Penn
SP^t^hi^rrlrur^h''I
AmJF* ®"hl" "n*w dh.T-efr,^'^n o^nb'U'Miss Carnell was asked if she fa
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W'th"a represen.
France! <-abl"et. as the case Ir
cation y fl0t ?. "'""rtment of Edu,n tr Miss Carnell responded.'Education is the biggeslThe km' Vlt>1 thinK ,n 'helfeo
looklnV T T,he °thpr > wen!looking for Dr Claxton. UnitedWhir" Commissioner of EducationWhere did I fl.,i him7 Tuckpd
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which h ,the Past' U is a mattel
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I do H ?f.the federal Departmentk° n°t 'ear the Invasion of th«
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' branch of the government. EdwoI1?" woultl be standardised anti
SiT1" " healthy Impetu..u h. regulation. In my oplnJonthe Smith-Towner bill would
have passed at, the session of CongressJust closed, had it not beerlor the opposition aroused by th<various riders attached to the hill.*
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PACTMAY BRING '
CHINA ENVOY HERE
Simn.AnNaHsI'i M®rch 25,.Ijennoj
iLvfr »dvlser to the Chines,government, will leave here Aprli« for the United States and Eu
co"fer w,th the American
fni ,*1"' Fr'nch government!"-'he league of nations represen .U"er*t*rtll"rthe Chinese demandfor abolition of extra terrltorlal rlghtsr In China.
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Mexican Cotton Doty RaisedwiD'hlf*! lmport dutl" on cottor
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k. THE ROOK TREE. by Charles NevilleBilrk (l>oubleday, Page andt Company).t A novel with a background in tlae. Kentucky mountain* muit surely1 contain two things.the strange dla.lect spoken in those part*, and a
> feud. This novel contains both andI in addition a generous amount ofromantic love-making and personalviolence. The feud In thls^case isa resurrected one which haj its beIIginnings in days of Washington,but which during the intervening
. years has lost none of its original
. vigor. Feud fiction- has a kinship
. j to cowboy Action. It is more InItense and somber, perhaps, but ex.otic and dependent for its success
tjon a proper mixture of sentimentand crime. With "The Call of theCumberland*" and "The Temperring" to his credit. Mr. Buck must
, be recognized as the leading ex,ponent of this particular variety of. Action. Those who have enjoyed( this author's earlier books will not. be disappointed in this one.
THE RECOI.I.KCTIONS OK A FOR.BIGK MIMSTER. by AlexanderIswolsky Translated by Charles.Louis Seeger (Doubleday, Page
I ana Company).t It often happens that men whoI have played an important part in, great events are the most unreli,able and uninteresting commentaItors on those events. Mr. Iswolski1 Played an important, but comparedwith his great contemporaries. Witteand Stolypin, an inctonspicuous. pariin affairs in Russia during the criticaldays just after the Japanesewar. His accounts of the attempts
^of the 'Kaiser to involve the Czarin a coalition against England; the
, famous secret treaty of BJorkoe betweenthese two emperors: the meet.Ing of the Arst Duma and rhe char.acters and policies of Witte. StolytPin and tie Csar are particularlyf Informative and interesting. Th*tformer minister of foreign affairsI is obviously very anxioWs to presenta fair and unbiased estimater of the men and events of which he1 Is writing. Mr. Seeger's translationis excellent.
1 BOOK MOTES.t The next volume in the series ofp Leonard Merrick's novels, which are
being brought out In a uniform edi.ti»n by E. P. T>utton and Company.( will be "A Chair on the Boulevard.1 a collection of short stories with an
Introduction by A. Nell Lyons. Thelimited edition will appear, probably
' "fly April, and the popular1 edition, as usual, a fortnight later.
I Francis Lynde. author of "A GirlA Horse and A Hog." etc., and whose
, new novel. "The Fire Bringers." willbe published shortly by CharleaScribner s Sons, has many Interestsbeside that of literature. "Wideview,"rtie novelist's home In Chattanooga.Tenn., was built by himselfand his two sons. The house
, which is located on the old civil warbattleAeld, is constructed »of stoneQuarried and laid by the novelist
1 f .. ^,s ""i*1 who did m°st of the( building.
On the completion of the instal,">ents of Intimate personal memoirs, from The Book of Jack London,"by Oharmian London, which are beIngpublished In the Centurv Magaxlne. a book la to be published whichwill be the unique Jack Londonbiography which only his wife couldhave written. In this connection. ItIs interesting to note that Jack LondonIs beginning to have a rogue InFrance which will rival that of his^vorks In Russia and In EnglandThe new Revue de France. In itsinitial year, is to publish a translationof "White Fang" under thetitle "Croc Blanc."
Andce Tardleu, In his "TruthAbout the Treaty." says that UoydGeorge became "thoroughly alarmed
' by the consequences either or a re.
[ fusal to sign a treaty, or a crisisIn Germany and suggested unthlnk>able concessions oa almost everypoint." He add* that: Those were
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RALD BOC;.iifXi.atrocious days, in which the work olmonths was threatened with ruin."
Mr. Archibald Rutledgt. whomPlantation Game Trails" has Juslbeen published by tha HougMo«Mifflin Company, says that he hashad some amusing experiences wit*collectors of stories and anecdote*about Lincoln. A part of hi« regular correspondence consist* in letters.concerning Ann Rutledge. th«supposed sweetheart of the Ores'Emancipator. Probably authors an<!artists have contrived to cast an unwonted glamour o\cr this affairconcerning the real rfuture of whicllittle that is authentic is knownBut Mr Rutledge has not said whatif any. is the blood relationship between #iimself and the famous Ann
Joseph Conrad is starting almosat once for Corsica. writes th.Pookman's London correspondentThe journey is to be a "holiday oisaturation" m the aimosphere of th*new Napoleonic novel which r.«plans to write. This is a darin.theme for one to attempt who hr?made his reputation in other fieldssays the correspondent and yelthose who know Conrad will feelji ertain that it will be unlike an>other similar novel.
Frederic C. Howe, formerly Fnitt-d States Immigration^Commissionerat the port of New York and directorof the Peoples Institute ofNew York City, makes a plea in h
newbook. "Revolution and Dfwscj-acy" (Heubsch) for a settlement ofthe world's problem* that shall bdemocratic,not revolutionary. Mflowe is sanguine as to the futureco-operative movements. He poin.si< their growth in the Europeancountries and to the co-opera* iv»societies of Minnesota. Californiaand other States. "Nc single movement,"says Md Howe, "has gr -wn
v.ith such raoidity since th« waro-ooeration."*
The Century Co. announces thepublication |n March of "flhnsts" byArthur Grabh. and ''Wind Alongthe "Waste." by Gadys E. Johnson.
«A yarn of the sea. which seem?
likely to take its place beside thegreat books of ocean literature. Isa vivid story of adventure on a sailingvessel during a trip fromgow to San Francisco around theHorn, which E. P. Dutton and Companyare publishing about the enflof March. Its author is Capt. PavldW. Bone, who knows the o<-ean andthe ships that sail on it as the shoreman knows his office and his deskand its title is -The Rrassbounder.Thatto the landlubber, enigmaticalterm means a ship's apprentice, whowhile he is learning to be an ableseaman, does a man's work and getsno pay, sometimes even his parentspay for the privilege of thus learninghis trade during sea voyages,under the fond belief that his is tobe a life of gilt braid and bras?buttons.hence the name. It is oneof those rare books which read betterthan fiction, full of adventureof the most thrilling sort, alwayswidely convincingW.Somerset Maugham, who hapa habit ol writing startling books,has done something extra startlingIn his new book, '"the Magician.Juat published by George H. KoranCompany. He makes no compromiseswith credulity in this bookJuat as he made no comprtnttMwith morality In "The Moon andSixpence." Oliver Haddo. priest ot
Black Magic. Is as striking a_ characteras Charles Strickland. Ihtunique hero of "The Moon and Slirpence."
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Albert Payson Terhune s new
novel. "The Man in the Dark, willbe ready tor publication about theend of tfcla montti by E. F.ajid Company. It Is a story of thestruggle upward of a poor boy Inthe hills of West Virginia whegrows to manhood in an environmentof moonshinlng and nightrldIng.There is a young district attorneyin it who keeps everybodyguea«tng. Including the reader, un-
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til the la^t pape. And "f eourw. !1the author being who he is. there isa fine collie in it. Hut (his time thehuman being* make the story and
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the dog: merely incidental.Mis* Amy Lowell, whose new vol*
1 urr.e, "legends." is announced forearly publication by Houghton. |Mifflin Company, is lecturing thisspring on Walt Whitman and John 1
Keut*. besides giving many authors'ir' readings.
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An English rose spoiled in repay- |, ment for a broken Chinese lily. »
.Such is the theme of "Mr. Wu,"1written by Louisa Jordan Miln from j
the play by H. M. Vernon and Harold tOwen <F A. Stokes Company). To hthe swift movement and strong ®
..climax of the play are added manyi1gorgeous word pictures of China. fWu Li Chang, master of men and 1
tong chief, is the father of NangTing, slender and beautiful as a ryoung bamboo. Into the lotus and |fineries of her walled garden come*Basil Gregory, a young British"waster. * Developments are alongthe standard lines until the point \where Wu conceive^ the disconcertingidea of making ynu'nc Gregory's '
mother pay with her own virtue for ®her sons dalliance. The working '
out of this rather crass if original '
revenge supplies the latter paces of ithe novel with a full battery ofthrills In a flux of Justifiablehomicide, machine-made strikes and
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untimely "take-offs." a vociferously ?just if not A-er felicitous ending isreached. The reprehensible Basil isw.-dded to the rosy English girl o£his choice but. wo are informed, willbe haunted for the balance of his 1life b# the blossomy face of the !wronged Nang Ping.
"Mr. Wu" is written with good !craftsmanship and while there Is ,not an ounce of humor in the book.the frivolous-minded will run acrosscertain quaintnesses that serve the isame purpose. (
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sets regarding chemical comraodllesis one of the Important funeionsof the commission, he said,'hese reports give a description ofhe article, tell Its grades. usea.processes of msnufactura. domesIcavailability and tho raw maertalsutilised, and give other necsssrydata.-In addition to the direct competitionoffered by Imports of thoame chemical, it is necessary toonsider the importing of articlesf slmilsr nature.** said IVLnnrtrlking examplra of Indirect com
etltionare those of the soys-beannd peanut oils that are substitute*or cottonseed oil. vegetable oilshat offer competition for the dsirv»roducts in the form of oleomarrarineand butter substitute*, ando-called aago and tapioca flourshat can replae* corn starchAdjusting duties so thst the-e
rill be the ssme effect produced>n the importation of both remindmanufactured nrticles Is an>therproblem, he said An e»impleof the necessity of compostingduties is thst of alcoholf.*^rfumerv that would evsdc th*turden of the Interns! revenue taxin grain alcohol If no dutv wereevled. A**A large number of cheml<-a rm«
lo not keep adequate cost records,ind for thst reason cost* of produoionof vsrious chemical produces,specially in *Vie dye and bariumhemicals industries wer* hard tobtain." De I/>ne declared. In tellinglow the commission's Investigation*»ave caused manufactures* to Invesigateand study their costs.Inrtsnces of how chemicals andther articles are classified und'rhe tsriff laws were cited. Many'nemicals are specifically name 1,ind in certain cases by mistake theylave even been named twice in thoaw. once In the free lists and againmong those dutiable"One method of classifying chemcalswhi'h is probably unfamiliaromost laymen. Is by the |iw cf«
limilitude." sstd TV Long If «n aricleis not mentioned by name ands like another dutiable article innatcrial. quality, texture snd use.,t is dutiable st the same rate anhat article, be *-xp1alned By thisule. artificial silk has h*en class**'is cotton, venison ss beef, while fro*egs were a?s-ss a ax dressed poulrvRutvl alcohol has been classiledby similitude as fusel oil.»oth arc used as solvents In thonanufarture of pvroxyline plastics.In an attempt to eliminate obso.
*te fh"mi« al terms snd conflicts %anruage which have caused' lltigaion.an*1 take care of chemicals thatlave become important since 15»13.he chemical division of the Tariff'omrainsIon is'engaged in a r«*elassiicationof Schedule A and the chemralfree list.
*pVBin*T* \% OKKIXG 0!frrXDAHRKTAL rROHI.IMaProducing important scientific reportsby the foremost raen in their
espective lines at a cost not cr«ai«rhan that of the«average thesis nuh.nitted for the degree of doctor ofihilosophy is one of the achieve,nents of the division of physicaliciences of the National ReseartH.ouncil headed by l>r. Augustus"row bridgeOver a hundred of the best phvst.
iris, astronomers and math»-matliansof the country are «r<rkin?hrough the twenty committe, c thatfiav# been formed since October.911.A wide range of fundamental
problems in physics, sstronorry andmathematics is being cover#d Inthe field of physics work is being*lone on acoustics, atomic structure,lectrodynamics of moving media,luminescence. magnetism. photo,electric effects, physical method®and technique, quantum theory,spectroscopy, thermo- and magnetoelectriceffects x-ray spectra, .andr>hysiologicsl optics. In astronomy,>rbit theory and parallaxes are b«-Ingstudied, while slgehraic numbersand statistics are receivlnc thaattention of the mathematicians"The committees have been formedfor the discussion of the larger
outstanding problems only.- said[>r. Trowbridge "Thev have had inmind the formulation of plans for%o-operative attack on these problems.the publishing of their conclusionsfor the purpose of sssistingthose Interested in the problems-ho may not be members of th*ommittee. and the presentation ofthe problem to workers who mayt>e engaged in work of less fundamentalcharacter."
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rAKK 91'WDAT H1KK*.There is a group of lovers futdoors wha t-ke Sunday hik«sind discover as many of natur- s seretsas they can This ;,roup.mown as the Nature-Study ram>lers»will welcy.»»e those ir.tere-t. df they wish to join them in t*»rirtalks Ewing Rummer*, leader --fhe hikes, describes la**t Surd.iv'ajip along the canal near Cabin Johnis follom-s:"The cow parsnip, a coarse o'.int
;rowlng as large as a garden sunlower.was considered ex; met inhis region sines about 1905 Mi! arear ago we fruod a little ps*ch oft near the tow-path of the canaliearlv a mile above Chain Rrilge.^ast Sunday we tour.c a new crophere thriving viiforcisly.**"The walking f?rn has been c<nlideredextinct on Cabin John "un
ilnce 1JM, when a vandal botanistvoasted of having taken the la*tpecimen and onbi'shed an account>f his 'grursome' exploit 1n a boanicalmagaz'ne. accompanying hiseport with a picture of the >Unt.-ast Sunday we found a little pa-ch>f it on that rui.. Rut we #n Mlvant the vandal !»otanista to know>f It, and I fefra'n from dercribin*ixactly wIters we saw It.**
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