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ntfooiviiYN duly 'eagle: yoijk. sailkdaat ajmul 7, lake power, previous contracts ex Japanese Form Fascist i Group to Stop Radicalism IFounded r.y Isaac "Van Anden In 1M1.J lnent follow i ll the news of I lie sale of the Sprin.uiield I'jimn to George von L. Meyer sen of a Roosevelt Cabinet ui'-i'iber. by Albert Perkins Lnnglrv. former Hrooklyiiite.

who hail controlled the I'nion for a third of a century, and hail been a one-cent enthusiast, probably the day of one-centers has departed forever. advantage, not only of a college situated neur a cily. but also of a college actually situated in the country, a. new campus of 421 acres was recently purchased six miles north or Die present site. Ho far as I know this Is the first time -in hjptory that a college has been transplanted in this manner, and it occurred to mo lhat it would be interesting to explain why 3.0U0 Goucher alumnae, following the example of their smith.

Wellesley. Vassar, Bryn Mawr and Mt! Holyoke sisters, are now to appeal to the friends of education for this fund. WINIFRED CALLING, Pres. N. V.

Chapter of Goucher Alumnae. riainHeld. X. J-. April 6.

1923. Baltimore lo a new campus in the suburb of Towson. To mark the beginning of Ihe campaign in this icinity a luncheon will be given at Ihe Hotel Commodore on Saturday, April 7. It is going to be necessary for us to comnlete a fund or $600,000 within Ihe first 50 days of the campaign in order that we may, berore June 1, match a girt of $400,000 from the General Education Board due on that date. This first million will endow increases of faculty salaries at 'Joucher.

The succeeding five millions will be used to move, "the college without campus to the campus without a In order that Goucher girls of (he future may have the take limine risks: ill other words, greed anil fumbling. Ignorance is also nu important factor. The committee proposes in Ihe first place to collect on a nation-wide scale, to be nuide rvailable to the Federal Reserve banks, commercial batiks mnl business generally. The Federal Reserve sysicm is to be made an agency for the control of inflation through tin' rediscount rate, and it has already shown its responsiveness to this conception of Its functions ill fixing a higher rate early this year, t'oul ml ef credit expansion by banks of the problems relating to Ihe snf-preraion or radical thought. Their organization, uceordins to President llaga.

will noi employ force but will seek to drive out movement which oppose the established order and encourage reverence Tor the throne. Toshtfchilto Sukai, Socialist leader, in a published statement says the new society only prows the progress is making in Japan and declares tlie conservatives hae started their counter-campaign too late. The conviction that the recent Kta outbreak was incited by Socialists is spreading here. Official determination not to negotiate with the Soviet if it Involve no! i i tea I recognition is unsA-erving. but it is reported In well-informed (liiarterH that the arrangements lor an exchange of consuls to facilitate trade Is progressing.

(By Cable to Tlie Brooklyn h-irile null Phila. Ledper; Copyright. 192-1.) Tokio, April 7 The fear of the possible consequences of radiral activity in this country fell hy moderate and conservative Japanese hm resulted in the formation of a Japanese fascist! group called 'The (Jreat Japan Patriotic Society." lo embrace all the empire and coin hut Socialistic tendencies. The society includes 16 similar hut smaller organizations headed by Dr. Xaichl Haga, former professor of tho Imperial University, one of Japan's foremost scholars.

The mcniher-tJiip includes many representathes of tho moderate element who are not easily swayed by extreme movements In either direction. Their support of the present widely advertised society indicates the growing Importance in the public mind Pan-American Conference Advocates Universal Law Welcome Home for Girls Doing Uplift Work in Boro piling then, but also at the rate of Not only was the Hydro-EIec-1 1 it- Com mission "half-hearted" in its efforts to sell power, as the Royal Commission put it. but It actually failed to provide facilities when implored to do so. There is no desire here to draw a comparison with the water power program ill New York. The Eagle wishes merely to urge caution and point out Ihe pitfalls into which State engineers fall so readily In the absence of direct responsibility, and the danger that a State commis sion, mi incumbered by the necessity of balancing budgets regularly, may by lack of business acumen or knowl edge convert a jiotentially profitable undertaking into a heavily losing actuality.

After four years of being tried, the fish trust profiteers of Boston actually go to jail for ten months. The disproportion of the two periods is plain to the very meanest intelligence. "Music Week, April 29 to May Such is ihe Mayor's proclamation. Those who object to "the least disagreeable of noises" may take a week's vacation out of town. They never will he missed.

It's a foregone conclusion that all the Socialists In France will stand behind the Senator who wants to scrap all capital ships. The scrapping of Capital, noun or adjective, is the Socialists' desideratum. On April 2fl early risers will begin to shave by gaslight, which is more or less of a burden at rates almost 50 ier cent higher than the State law allows. You really can't save daylight without more or less of personal sacrifice, here or elsewhere. Mrs.

Miles Poindexter refuses to be interviewed on Washington Society as she starts for Peru with her hus band, our Minister. The tempta tion to shoot one Parthian arrow was strong. She resisted it. The self-restraint of femininity is often un derestimated. 'No professional boxing In State armories," the edict of Adjutant General Berry, may be academically desirable but it is likely to be unpopular with guardsmen.

Which Is a disadvantage, when the Governor is so anxious to emphasize and increase the hire of the National Guard serv ice for young men. BOSTON SYMPHONY CONCERT Casals Plays for the Close of the Brooklyn Season. Mr. Mori teux saved his best wine for the end of tho feast. He opened the last Boston Symphony concert for tho season last evening with the familiar but ilways welcome "Pathetic" Symphony Tschaikowsky, one of the most moving pieces of great music ever written.

It re ceived last evening a performance which enforced hi almost infinite variety of this mighty composition. Beside the symphony, Mr. Monteux brought as soloists Pablo Casals, the best of all the 'cellists. Mr. Casals played the Schumann Concerto in A minor.

In his hands the 'cello seems really like a lower toned violin. All the clumsiness commonly associated with its bis strings disappears. They seem to have the flexibility and smothnets of a violin and you never catch a run thumping. Beyond this high technical finish, Mr. Casals has a wealth of musical feeling and a depth of poetic tenderness from which the Schumann music profited.

He also has a temperament from which Mr. Monteux apparently did not profit. Whispered directions from a soloist are not exactly in the routine of the conductor of a great orchestra and as they had played this f'oncerto the night before at Carnegie Hall tt would seem as if Messrs. Casals and Monteux might have settled tneir differences at that time. Tha or the soloist did not disturb the calm beauty of Schuniann'b music, however.

But the mountain peak of the performance was not the 'cellist, but Tchuikowsky. Mr. Monteux luxu riated in it from the first bar. The delicacy of the in the tirst movement would hardly huve been possible in a large hall, and the use of them permitted a. fineness: of shading and a variety of dynam ics which left not one dull moment In tho long first movement, or indeed in the hour-long symphony.

The third movement was triumph of orcheSLral virtuosity and the audience cailei. the men to their feet to receive an enthusiastic tribute. Then followed tiie mighty "Lament," so familiar that there is no need to linger on its tragic beauty. l-'or variety there followed 'The IJullud of tin; Xomides," by Kes-ptiiKhi. apparently a very young Italian.

For contras' it was well riough. Some 01 the gnomes cut capers on the oboe, the basses struck one note bulow the belt, and there were high combinations of and strings that set eblerls-teeth on It was goed fun, but about live minutes too long. should be pithy. The program closed with the seldom heard "Rlenzi" ovi ure. It served to remind on-, that Wagner was once young and leaned on Weber and Meyerbeer, liut.

fV'-n from the beginning he knew how to make a loud and cheerful noise. H. O. 111 It COI.LKfiK CAMPAIGN. Editor Brooklyn Dally Eagle: Mm- I call to the attention of the ri-ad'-rs of The Eagle the purposes of is uniipi'- campaign that Is lo begin April On, that date alumnae or (joucher College living In this district, and others throughout ihe country, will hold simulta.neour Itinchenris or dinners In 22 cities to mark tb- beginning of their efforts to raise a fund of $6,000,000 with which lo move their college six miles from iis pr'-sent site in the city of (Trade Mark "Eagle" Reiteroa.

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1 Tesav Xjlhrary except Almanac. tt.2ft. VTeaxvasSS Eagls Almanac tnclnded. $2.: THE Til CXEMPnON DECISION. Two points stand out strong as guiding epecnlatJon on the effect of tlie Appellate Division of the First Judicial District reversing that of Mr.

Justice Tierney and eutaining the Tax Exemption law. First, the unanimous finding of five justices has a moral prestige which a majority hmling wonld not have had. Second. it gives the Court of Appeals the op- portunity to avoid passing on the ii-sue at all. The State Constitution lays lArticle VI, Section 9): "No unanimous decision of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court that lliere is evidence supporting or tend- I ing to sustain a finding of fact or a verdict not.

directed 'by the court i shall he reviewed by the Court of Appeals. The Appellate Dl- vision may, however, allow an appeal I iipon any question of law which, in I its opinion, ought to be reviewed by the Court of Appeals." 5 Now, Justice Tierney's finding that the Exemption Law was unconstitu-; lioiuil whs not simply a finding of fact or simply a finding of law. The Appellate Division decides clearly that "there is evidence tending to sustain a finding of fact not directed the which is unappealable. But the finding of law is more irnpor-' flint, and that is appealable by consent of the Appellate Court Justices. Of course there will be a general sentiment that the Court of Appeals should supply finality in a case of such vast bearing on taxation for the next ten years.

We do not think the tribunal of last resort in this State is inclined to dodge its responsibility. It It were to do so now, it might have to act later on. Conceivably in some other judicial department. In a case coming up from some other municipality which had accepted the Tax Exemption permission offered by the Stale might make just the opposite ruling. Then the clash would have lo be settled by the Court of Appeals.

The delaying of finality would be unwholesome, even pernicious. The opinion written by Mr. Justice Dowliug is clear in Its English, clear in its reasoning. Its crucial point is. of course, the decision that tt law which any part of the State free to take advantage of Is not a "private or local" law.

Such dele-; gatton of legislative powers by the Senate, the Assembly and the Gov-; eruoi is sustained. It is held that the measure did not offer a "bonus" to anybody, merely made a bargain offer to investors to encourage the creation of new housing on vacant land; that it was a proper exercise of the police power to meet an emer-ffney, and that to a great degree it the emergency; also that it has done no harm and much good. If the Appellate Division's decision is sustained the Siate as a State will I not be guilty of bad faith to its eiti-, zens. It would have been guilty of bad faith, whatever the proper in-i terpretation of the Constitution i' might be, if the law had been wierl out. Investors cannot be expected to be constitutional lawyers.

For reasons which The Eagle has explained, the Court holds that the New Jersey decision voiding a State-Wide tax-exemption law has no bear-; Ing on the New York case, been use New Jersey has constitutional provi sion for uniformity in taxation, Which we have not. Also, the theory that the Fourteenth Amendment to the Butted States Constitution was violated is held to have no substantial basis. It is fair to Justice Tierney to say that lawyers have been about equal ly divided on the issue between his view of constitutional limitations and the view taken in the Dowling opinion. Law has never "been and never can be an exact science. Daniel O'Connell once said: "The Whole British Parliament cannot draw up an act that I cannot drive a coach-and-four through." Cut our courts have established one general principle that Is invalrcjble In its practical wisdom, (bat where doubt exists the benefit of that doubt tniust be given to the validity of any jregularly enacted law: under which jthe Appellate Division's decision is absolutely justified.

All Springfield. newspapers have dropped the one-cent experiment in which even the slaid old Republi-ptrticii aicd. This announce- A PRIVATELY FINANCED JUBILEE. Regit rilins his jubilee celebration the Mnyor lias lit tasl taken the course which ought to have lieeu taken In the beginning. Finding that the courts stand in the way of a spe cial issue of revenue bonds and that Controller Craig blocks the use of other public funds, Mr.

Hylan has culled upon business interest, and the announcement is made that the necessary half million will be forth coming. That is the best way out of the predicament into which the Mayor thrust himself by assuming that the taxpayers' money could be speut on what Justice Million characterized as "a gigantic entertainment." A pub lic show privately financed is another mutter, and one against which no legal objection can be urged. It is to be hoped that some of the half million dollars which has been pledged will be used to give a really intelligent and impartial survey of municipal progress since consolidation. New York City as it stands today ts the pnxlnct of many minds, and some of its public servants, now dead, are entitled to full recognition in any ju bilee celebration. BEYOND HUMAN WORDS.

Professor Einstein is mistaken if he hopes to gain immunity from bother ation by describing his new theory as Indescribable. He rid himself of one annoying corresondent by telling him that his latest scientific discovery is "too deep for human words," but his troubles have only begun. The professor may not know it. but the chief occupation of the race is trying to understand the incompre hensible. First class euigmus are always popular.

Nothing whets the appetite for un derstanding like mystery. If Professor Einstein really has an inexplicable theory be should go into politics. He could use his theory as a platform and vote-getting generator until election. After which it should serve alternately for domestic and foreign policy. So long as his policy remained enigmatic his success would be assured.

This idea is fully demonstrated in American politics. When the Republican party wanted a candidate for the Presidency it selected Mr. Hard ing because he hud a set of policies too nebulous to invite analysis. All Mr. Harding hud to do was to keep the country guessing.

This was particularly true of his foreign policy. After assuming office, Mr. Harding rightly concluded that it. wnnld only cheapen his policies if he explained them. Besides, people lose interest in things once they un derstand them.

So far, this plan of keeping policies a mystery bus worked beautifully. But now it is said the President is determined to take the stump and try to explain the Administrative enigmas to the curious populace. It is a dangerous experiment. When the secret comes out he may find the voters turning to some other Mystery Man, with policies too deep for words. A man like Henry Ford, for instance, whose ideas of government are as inexplicable as Einstein's new theory, would have a big advantage over Mr.

Harding if the latter goes so far at to put his policies into words. C0NTR0LL1NG HARD TIMES. Wall Street suffered a peculiar hys teria a week ago, comparable to a case of which was concerned chiefly with the possibility of an ad vance in the rediscount rate by the Federal Reserve Board. Now "nerves" at an advanced stage of a business cycle are by no means uncommon. but the recent attack came in a period when speculative excesses had not jet been committed.

It was prob ably the effect of warnings against peculation, against inflation of com modities, against undue business expansion. Whi the business world is cautious, neither an unwarranted boom nor heavy losses are possible. Since the report of the Committee of the President's Conference on Unemployment, dealing with business cycles, has been maile available lo the and since its recom mendations for control of tile cycles fmphasize control of inflation by the Federal Reserve system, by the banks ami by inilivi.iual brsincss men, there particular interest in the recent analogy. Stock anil bond prices moved lower, cotton and copper de-ilineil. r.inl in prices generally the Irend was avay from inflation, anil that without mediation of external Hicor'c and cures tor llie period- Ical ebb of tismess prosperity are The report of ttie committee oners little thai is new.

but it is tlr, r. cu'h in its analysis ami so a campaign that if is not loo visionary to expect Hint in the course of a few years this peculiar phenomenon of the modern industrial sfem will be brought under ontrol. not by government al agency rcit the forces of education. Modem conceiitr-ite on the isolation of ihe bacillus or bacterium of disease: then-after ihe cure is relatively simple. When tin-lauses of panic and ilepre--inn are fully know control should ui-o be easy.

In the final analysis. huMpe-s depression may be traced to the characteristics of making as niiuli money as possible and willingness to anil individual recognition of fundamental conditions is more difficult, anil in the absence of complete data well-nigh impossible of achievement. It follows therefore that the need for facts is imperative. Service of this kind Is now given by varions private agencies, but the conclusions are often erroneous, because their basis is not road enough. If, through the agency of the committee, a sy.

lem of nation-wide collection of business data relating to prices, demand, supply, stocks and so on. can be established and made available early enough for use it is a failing of much of Ihese data that they come too late to serve as a preventive Hie first big step toward control will have been taken. The causal bacillus will have been discovered. ON ANSWERING QUESTIONS. The public speaker who answers questions from thefioor.briefly.adroit-iy, genially, adds immeasurably to the ffects of his message.

Lord Robert Cecil is such a man. He invites pieries at the conclusion of his more important addresses. Because questions are often asked by those who disagree and because Lord Robert's answers are always apt. courteously phrased, and packed with pertinent information, the question period becomes one of the most interesting and useful parts of the proceedings. At the Pro-League Council lunch eon the presiding officer sometimes found it difficult to rephrase a question which had not been clearly stated.

The ease with which the distinguished British visitor caught the inquirer's drift even when the chairman or audience did not, indicat ed that he knows what anti-Leaguers are thinking better than they know it themselves. Lord Robert's experience as Under- Secretary for Foreign Affairs when, in the course of a aifflcult period of the war, he the keenest minds of the Opposition during the question period in the House of Commons, is standing him in good stead. Britain's public men generally have more ex perience in the ready give-and-take of heckling and debate than our own. They are trained for it in their col leges, and on the stump they meet it all the time. No British audience cries, "Throw him out!" the moment some one in the gallery interrupts a self-satisfied orator with a pertinent query.

Every speaker who discusses debat able issues should permit questions. Not to do so reveals a lack of faith in himself or in the cause he advo cates. American audiences huve a right to insist upon playing a part in the proceedings. Their participa tion must be organized and controlled, but on proper occasions it should never be excluded. ONTARIO'S POWER DEFICIT.

There is much food for earnest thought concerning the water power development of New York in the report of the Royal Commission authorized by the Ontario Parliament on the "Nipigon" enterprise of the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of that province. The report is a triking upon some of the weaknesses of governmental ventures in business and of the fallacy of "cheap" power. The promised address of Governor Smith dealing with the development of "white coal" in this State is eagerly awaited, and it is to be hoped that this report will come to his attention. Proper de velopment of our natural power resources is so fruitful of good, and, conversely, its neglect or decline into such impracticallties as the Ontario venture referred to, so costly, that The Eagle recommends close study of this report by the Royal Commis sion. Briefly, the lure of cheap power was too strong to be resisted anil the revenues were too little by half to defray costs.

Probably the residents of Port Arthur are getting their current for lighting and heating very cheaply, as well may be at a cost to the municipality of $20 per horsepower, but the actual cost to the commission ---which naturally involves the Province of Ontario as signatory to the bonds was approximately per horsepower. In Hie final analysis the cost will have to lie borne by the province. It may be contended, of course, lhat no venture of this nature can be maile self-supporting in a brief span of time. Tlie province bus advanced upward of for capital and construction. The engineers of the Hydro-Electric Commission calculate that approximately an equal amount will be required to complete the work.

In other words, the province appear- to have embarked upon a project with tremendous possibilities on the debit side, and no bright prospect for anything but heavier defi- In in lining tlie deficit the Coitiniis-ion had but two cuioiners. no the city of port Arthur, the other a paper company now defunct. Apparently there was no effort to secure other customers, for. nlilidisgh the capacity of the de-M-iopmont ITi.ilOO horsepower, sales were less titan half that amount. In It'iii the City of Fort William will (By Cable lo The Brooklyn Eanle and Phila.

Ledger; Copyright, 19SS.) Santiago. Chile, pril 7 The most important thing the Pan-American conference has accomplished so far is its approval of the project of Aleiandro Alvarez for codification of American international law and resuscitation of the commission of Jurists to study the question. The project includes declarations of the inviolability of American nations, no intervention in the affairs of another, and similar treatment of the national of all the Americas. The entire proposal, published in book form, fs being studied by the delegates and is making a good impression. The Alvarez idea Is two-fold.

First, to set down the basis of a universal law which, if accepted, would simplify and enlarge the duties of the Pan-American Union, enabling it to establish relations with the League of Nations on humanitarian questions but limit it on political questions. Alvarez Is one of the best authorities on the Bubject having studied It for 20 years. He has been a delegate to most of the Pan-American conferences and regards this as his crowning work. The New Plays By ARTHUR POLLOCK MRS. FISKE ACTS UP Mrs.

Flake came back to New York Thursday night with a morphine gun and shot up the National Theater. Tt was very amusing. After the second act she gave a little talk on current events, and though Mrs. Fiske's old habit of talking as if she were sworn to keep a secret still clings to her, we did catch some son of intimation that it Beemed to her that, while she was away the New York theaters and Luna Park had become synonymous. But perhaps she said nothing of the kind.

She may merely have been what was very clear, that she was bringing Luna Park to New York. Hor new play is "The Dice of tho Gods." Lillian Barrett wrote it and it is ridiculous. But Mrs. Fiake's role lsa rare and racy one. And how she does act it! We haven't another actress in the country who can translate hokum into art half so dexterously as she.

She had a wonderful time. 'n writing "The Bad Man," Porter F.merson Browne allowed his Mexican bandit hero to wax cynical and satirical at the expense of a number of American institutions and people. Since the hero was Mexican, he could say things an American would have balked at. Lillian Barrett's heroine is a morphino-maniac and, deriving courage from the drug, the author has allowed hf addict to act like very much the same sort of sensible person as the bad man. And so the play, when the heroine is speaking, is often ex ceedingly sharp of edge.

Paddy Baird, the unprincipled old morphine fiend of "The Dice of the Gods." is the only intelligent per son in the play. It may very well bo that this is an immoral drama. teaching that deadly drugs give their slaves more sense than is discoverable in most abstainers. An extremely muddled and ama teurish ploy of mother love. The mother has had a despicable husband, a hard life and an illegitimate daughter.

The hard lite led to the morphine. The worst of her sins seems to be the daughter, who is a prig, a saintly ninny und precious doughnut withal. She falU in love with a nincompoop who paints. Possibiy we misinterpret the author a trifle. At any rato, the mother, sweeping ruthlessly along the road to hell, pauses Ions enough now and 'then during two acts to do her best to force thu dainty daughter into marriage with a rich bounder.

The mother is as eccentric, witty, comic, unconventional and lively as morphine can make her. But the daughter will marry the sappy painter. Mother is a very devil, plain-spoken as Nietzsche or any one else of bad reputation you may name, and when a first act curtain is needed she says harshly to her daughter, "Very well, you shall know the facts," and openly-gives herself a shot of morphine in the arm. The daughter had been entirely innocent of any knowledge of her mother's vice. She had just supposed she was set in her ways.

In the second act they are living in poverty and a dirty studio in Greenwich Village. The old ladj is still Incorrigible, still intent on having millions for a son-in-law. But an actor happens to mention lhat tt looks like rain, so a terrific-thunderstorm comes up at once and does the mother a great deal of good. She decides to reform. Slow music from a hand-organ without.

Curtain. Here Mrs. Fiske animadverts upon Luna. Next act, Italy. The morphinomaniac is teaching th poor Italians English, geography, physics and differential calculus and seems to be happy and free from sin, though still amusing.

But some one has been stealing money. She's been buying the awful stuff again! The woman is hopeless. A good fellow, brainy to a degree and ail that, but hopeless. The stodgy artist happens in. asks her to give up her daughter if not the drug, and at last slip turns noble.

At least we think she does. Into a glass of water she puts some morphine, opium, laudanum, cocaine, hashish. betH or paregorie, drinks it without a whimper and lies down upon a Another project before the judicial committee is an American court of justice along the lines of the world court, which has been proposed by Costa Rica. The United States delegates asked for a translation to study the project which Is not generally favored since It would rival the World Court. Costa Rica Is not a member of the League of Nations because her government was not recognized when the League of Nations was formed.

The conference disarmament commission held its first meeting yesterday and adjourned until Tuesday in order to give the problem more study. It Is the general belief that tho A. B. ('. nations cannot agree and will refer the matter to a special committee after Ihe conference.

Henry P. Fletcher is the chairman, but the United States takes no part, considering the problem solved at the Washington conference. The lack of free discussion Is having a bad effect, so a group interested in the prestige of the conference are working to bring about full discussion even though there is no agreement. divan. This is suicide, we presume.

But she had done a deal of kidding throughout the play and possibly is only a siesta. The star offers a fine show. Robert Strange gives his usual heavy performance as the painter, and Kr-nita Lascelles, a beautiful woman, acts the daughter like an overtrained child actress. Miriam Bat-tista would be an improvement. Defends Secretary Davis Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: As a reader of your generally fair paper for 50 or more years, the writer was surprised to read your cynical and irrelevant criticism of our secretary of labor, James W.

Davis, under the caption "Synthetic Citizenship," and in regard to the case of Isadora Duncan, the dancer. You sneeringly stated that Mr. Davis was an iron puddler', a director in the Order of Moose, and as these crimes were not enough, you cap the climax by stating that he was born in Wales. To save the time of tho court and Jury, which in this case happens to be Uncle Sam and his hundred million or more citizens (not all synthetic) and in view of the weight of evidence being against him, no doubt Mr. Davis would acknowledge his guilt, and throw himself on the mercy of the court in the hope for a mitigation of the punishment.

It is generally conceded that to the iron puddlera and rollers, together with the coal, iron and steel industries, the greater part of the enviable prosperity of our fine country is attributed. These facts ought toi and we think will appeal to the fairness of the Jury, large and varied as it is. The second count is ulso true and here is a confession of the facts. Some years ago a non-political and beneficial organization was founded, and called "The Order of Moose," not the Bull Moose of politics. This order was made up mostly of iron, coal and steel workers, including puddlers, of course.

A few years later the order met with reverses, and its numerical una unancial status was reduced to a very low ebb. In the emergency, Mr. Davis was urgently requested to become its secretary and manager, with the following results: From a few hundred members, Mr. Davis and his assistants succeeded in rebuilding the order so that now the roll counts some four hundred thousand mem-bers. The lest and most serious count In the indictment is that Mr.

Davis was born in Wales. Perhaps the fact that quite a number of men quite prominent in the history of our country committed the same crime, i. e. of being born in Wales, and while we do hot expect a complete acquittal on that, ground, the mentioning of their mmes may have some weight. When the Pilgrim fathers had made up their minds to cross the ocean to see what America was like, they hunted up a skipper who, like themselves, was not afraid of the wintry storms and the rolling billows, and they found one who measured up to their requirements in a Captain Jones.

His vocal ability came in very handy when they drafted and signed that immortal document called the "Mayflower Compact." He led them in sinking that inspiring Welsh military ilr. "March of the Men of Harlech," which Gladstone pronounced the most Inspiring and thrilling of all military airs. Later, a man named Roger Williams (considered rather errotie and eccentric by some of the foob of those days) got ashore not far from the same landing as his countryman. Captain Jones, and the Pilgrims. He was quite liberal In his religious views, and went so far as to preach that a man's conscience belonged to God and himself, and not even a Massachusetts magistrate held any proprietary rights in it," at lefjst.

not tn his. This new idea got him into a peck of trouble, so that he was politely asked to leave Salem and move on. He did, and found more congenial neighbors among the Narragansett Indir.ns, who helped him to start a new village which they called Providence. Such a hold on tho country, and we ma say on the world, has Uoger Willie ms' novel idea of practical religious liberty obtained, that tho millions who have visited his sacred grave in Providence, have never onee thought the less of him because ho was born in Wales. Later still, some 15 or 17 of the r5 patriots who signed the Declaration of Independence had the temerity to say.

they or their ancestors were born in Wales, but that fact has not as yet lessened the high regard und esteem that America and the world hold their sacred memories. The untque and marvelous 'vork of Lloyd George during the World's Armageddon was not marred by the fact that he. too, was borti In Wales, nor did that fact prevent him becoming nominally England's Premier and in reality the World's Premier. The history of Wales in the formation and building up of our country, even up lo and including th of music and dances, those participating being Lucy Padllla. CJeorge I'llisafer.

Josephine Kicker, Rosalie Cohen. Kleunnr KHtor, Genie Met-tusai und Ruth Johnson. Hopewell Society. The managers of Hopewell Society ill give a house warming on May lo celebrate Hie official opening of the society's new home at IMS elates ave. 'I he eni ire building will he thrown open for inspection.

A musical program bus been arranged and tea will be served from 4 to Ko- over 40 years the Hopewell Society, formerly called the Society for I lie Aid of Friendless Women and Children, was located at 20 Concord st. Alterations are now being completed in the new home on Gates ave. which the society purchased last spring. Free Kindergarten Society. The annual Parents Club convention of the Brooklyn free kindergartens will be held ol St.

Mary's parish house. 230 Classon on Thursday evening. April 12. The play, "Pat-sev." will be given by the Hoagland Mothers' Club. Kdith Connor, harpist, whose music always delights her audience, will furnish Ihe musical part of the program.

A most cordial invitation to attend this meeting is extended to all who are interested in Parents' Club work. Miss M. Louise Porter, director of the Hoagland Kindergarten, is chairman of the committee for Ihe convention, assisted by Miss Caroline H. Ciane and Mrs. (Iretchen Brown.

Salvation Army. liadio instruction for boys und giris has been Incorporated in the routine worker the Young People's Department frf the Salvation Army. The Young People's Department is tho equivalent of the Sunday School organization ol' a church. It is maintained for the instruction and guidance of children and adolescents, and Its program includes a varied assortment of educational and recreational activities designed to attract and stimulate the youthful Imagination. Radio is the latest activity to be Included and already Is proving lo be one of the most fascinating.

In several plares an elaborate receiving set has been purchased and installed by the children themselves. licnefll Cripples. A special two weeks sale of arli. eles made hy the crippled will held at 170 Livingston beginning today, under the direction of the committee on handicrafts of cripples of the Brooklyn P.urcau of Charities. Among the many articles to be purchased are hooked rugs, fancy candles, baskets, toys, linens, purses und painted novelties.

The store, which bus been donated for this purpose hy T. Kelly. will he open from II o'clock in the morning until 0:30. The proceeds of the sale will go to the crippled people who have made these things under the direction of he bureau. The first sale of this kind was held at the same place Christmas and more than $1,500 worth of goods were purchased.

It is hoped lhat Ihe total Hiles at this time will exceed $2,000. The committee on handicrafts Is headed by John B. Creighton. chairman, and Mrs. Thomas .1.

Riley, vice chairman. The members are: Mrs. Henry R. Beguelin. Mrs.

Owen N. Brown! Mrs. Oliver G. Carter. Mrs.

William p. Knrle, Mrs. Morris Ml v. Mrs. Robert H.

Goodwin. Mrs. Walter Hanimitt, Mrs. O. Paul Humpstone, Mrs.

G. V. II. Hunter, Yrs. Ralph Jonas.

Mrs. Pnbert B. Lea. Mrs. tleorge W.

Menrs. Mrs. A. t. Scharman.

Mrs. Waiter M. Truslow and Mrs. Kugene Widmann. Miss Anna Robert Stanton.

Harry B. Pryor. Charles R. Stevenson, Miss Olga J. Rebrend, Miss Elizabeth S.

Shipmun. Miss Jean II. (i l'ton. William Martin and Walter It. Hare.

CONCERT FOR SCOUTS Hempstead, L. 1., April 7 A large and enthusiastic audience heard the Hamilton Glee and Instrumental Clubs In an excellent program of music, given tor the hencflt of the Boy Scouts, under the auspices of the Club of the Presbyterian Church ut the Hempstead High School Auditorium, Thursday evening. Hyperbole. I til-f net only Kings nnl llli-nns. but KfiflK IVople run drt'nni (Irt-iinis ami nf visions, but 11 the pre-M Is airainjJt Ihnn run no nothing sreat.

Rnnisny Mm ilora'tt. I goilde.ses tickled may be. Smug cub reporters may chortle with glee: Sober eld ncwapuper men are afraid Ramsay Mai-donald is guying their trade. Never Olympua their lough Irnots have trod. None of them wishes to pose as a god: in tiKr 111 iiiiiiitmi juuin Simply to paint the fair fratures of Truth.

Other men's visions und other men's dreams: cither men's doings, and other men's schemes; Virtue's devotion or shame with Its blush. Models are these for journalist's brush. Gods? Why. they joke on their own feet of clay; Neither Ikons nor Buddhas are they; Sunken is Self in a namelessness tin Vowed unto Fanielcssness; blest is their shrine! J. A.

For the past few years a home which Is In no sense an Institution has tilled a unique place in the lite of Brooklyn. This is the We'come Home for Girls at 629 Throop of which Dr. Mary V. Klecklcs is president. There is none other like It in this boro.

It gives temporary shelter, protection and help to young women in distress. Here a misguided or an unfortunate girl has an opportunity to regain her footing and make a new start. The work thus far has been maintained through the efforts of a small but devoted board of managers and subscribing members and through voluntary contributions. On the ways and means committee are Mi's. M.

K. Southwick. Mrs. E. D.

Kntwis-tle, Mrs. C. C. Smith, Miss 1 reibus. Mrs.

R. C. Talbot-Perkins, Mrs. May Kavanaugh, Mrs. L.

J. Lang and Mrs. Thomas Burkhard. The policy of the home is absolutely non-sectarian. Kach and every girl admitted ts persuaded to adhere and worship strictly according to her teachings, the' atmosphere ol the home being that of uplift work cnly.

and the managers realizing that this can best be accomplished by urging the girls to adhere to their hiRhest ideals. Nearly 400 girls and babies have been cared for in the few years that the home has been in existence. The home fills a long felt want. It Is indorsed by many of the judges, as well as the Rev. Dr.

S. Parkes Cad-man, the Rev. Father John L. liel-ford, Rabbi Alexander Lyons, and Chief City Magistrate William Mc-Adoo. Contributions toward the work of the home may be sent to Miss Mabel It.

Danneman. treasurer. 80 Jlon-ice st. They will he applied directly to helping girls become better wom-in than they otherwise would he and no matter how small the contribution It will be gratefully acknowledged. Another Appealing Case.

The cai-r" family, living In the Rod Hook section of Brooklyn, has appealed for help to the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities. Mr. "Carr" is just recovering from a severe attack of pneumonia. For a long time his life was despaired of, and even tunc it is feared that the disease from which he suffered for many weeks has so weakened his lungs that ii may require months of rest und nourishing food to restore him to health. In addition, his wife is In poorr health and in need of an operation.

There are live young children looking to them for support, the youngest only 3 years of age, and both mother and father are in desperate fear that their home will be broken up during their sickness. The bureau plans to keep this good family together by providing a weekly allowance for food, rent and other living necessit'es. Contributions of any size even $1 will help necessary fund of $HO0 ure appealed for. Dykcr Heights Home. The blind babies at the Dykcr Heights Sunshine Home, of which" Mrs.

John Alden is president, enjoyed a merry party the day before Kaster through the generosity of Robert," the beloved philanthropist whose gifts to the blind and crippled children of the city have endeared him to thousands or youngsters. He is Robert Ppero of Manhattan, and he visited the home like an l-Juster Santa Claus last week Saturday, scattering rabbits, eggs, chicks and other gifts in all directions. The blind youngsters showed their appreciation by rendering a program present administration, needs no apology, and we will not Insult the intelligence of your readers by further comment on the last count of the indictment. Since writing this we nnd that Miss Duncan has solved the problem of her citizenship. We think I'ncle Sam and the rest of us will survive the shock of not having Miss Duncan amongst us again.

GOMEK. Brooklyn, March 20. 1923. Judge Smith Describes Children's Court Work Mineola. L.

April 7 County Judge Lewis J. Smith spoke to members of the Women's Club of Farm-ingdale at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse F. Merritt, Farmingdale, on the children's court work being done there, how It functions, ftc.

He told of the need for correction of children to prevent crime, the treatment of the child by physicians or otherwise, to overcome, if pc-slble. the physical and mental conditions that had a child to crime. Ho told of a lad, who had ear trouble, nnd always pleaded this malady when caught In the act of some depredation. Judge Smith declared that the results of probation have been entirely satisfactory. PILGRIM l.KAGUK Fl USTIYAL.

The Pilgrim League of the Church of the Evangel at Hawthorne and Bedford of which the Rev. A. E. Roraback is pastor, presented a "Festival of Springtime and Romance" last evening. Three playets "Gretna Green," "Counsel Retained" and "Ashes of Ro3es." written by Constance D'Arcy Mai-Kay, violin solos played by Clara S.

Payor, sung by Miss Edith Sanders and two original danc arranged by M'ss Theresa Adele Miller were among the enjoyahle number of the evening. In Miss Miller's original dance of the Nymphs were tlv Misses Josephine Carrick, Marie Giant. Gertrude Grn-ban. Alma Anderson. Idn Krouse, Marguerite Noble, Genevieve Smith.

Elsie Schoenewall. Roth Rhode. Eleanor and Dorothy Borosch an I Florence Anderson. Others on the irocram were: Mrs. Edna I.lghtce.

ellist; Mrs. Heien Paor Gellcrt. pianist- Miss Mary Brown, dancer:.