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1 Tin: bkooklvn daily k.u.le, yohk. Monday, dkckmhkii 1025 ut all Important mid quite devoid of GOING WRONG I lays were mil uiie'iniiiiuii In Klizii-belhuu thigliuid. mill Hie common people of the villages took part In iliein, the rector of the parish church i.flrii directing proceedings. Yd so-clul cumlll luiis were iiit rendered iiislalile. On (he other hand, we imagine stability was increased, We are Inclined to regard the drama a an emollient, not as an Irritant iu sociology.

And whatever dreams of leveling or unsettling of tilings as I hey are may be Indulged In by 'be Urookwood facnljy or tin lirookwood hackers. II lij a reasonable conclusion thai this einollieiicy will affect Hie actors and audiences nl ilie Labor College. I'l'iiiHloiiiilly Inii'iicd at Ilie slake, most of the race me as free as the rest of is III America. Yet Mr. Harrow's advice to Ilie colored peopje lo be Independent in poll-tics and "keep the politicians guessing'' was excellent.

And he offered a very hopeful thought In, these words: Negroes, hm a reee, have been living on tips. Any" lime that one of you gets where you can givo tips. Instead of t-iklng them, you'nre help lo your nuu. Any time on of you i.ets to lie lmss of his owi business lie Is help to Ills race. Clarence Darrow has been counsel for the negroes iu Detroit who were tried for murder because the used ONE WAY I I'ODli hv Iminr Vim Aml'li III IMI Murk "KtiKlP" I MONDAY EVKMMl.

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If? v' (- 1 it liny significance whatever. Europe is cynical about the Idealism of the United Slates, and some things Jusllfy that cynicism. When uialeriHl Interests direct our policies Europe smiles. We hud a chunce to lend the world in the expression of friendly Interest in the development of the new Russian Republic We might have helped its people avoid some of the inevitable excesses that accompany every 'profound pen-iinnili; and political revolution, Wo turned our backs until bitter famine won from us a little charity. We are back In Russiu today because there is money to be made.

Recognition will follow Iu due course. MR. HECKSCHER'S FINE PROPOSAL. Willi foresight that matches his guieroslty Mr. August Heckscher has made a proposal to the city that should end the controversy over plans for a war memorial.

Many ideas for a memorial to those who died in the war have been suggested. The most pretentious plan, that of using a large area In Central Park, was opposed on the ground that the necessary land could not be spared. Mr. Heckscher has-offered to present New York wllh a carillon as a war memorial if tho city will erect a suitable tower for the carillon In Central Park. The fitness of this proposal should be recognized at once.

There is nothing more moving than the sound of great bellH. The proposal is both unique and practical aad the city authorities should accept Mr. Heckscher's. offer. This is an appropriate time to remind New York of its debt to August Heckscher.

Not long ago The Eagle's Human Treasure Hunt on Long Island led to Heckscher's door down in Huntington, He is more than a Long Island Human Treasure. He Is one of New York's most valuable Human Treasures. A man of great heart and vision, he is spending linstlutlngly of his time and energy, as well as his money, In trying to add to the health and happiness and beauty of the city he loves. His work for the poor mothers find children of New York alone entitles him to the everlasting gratitude of the community. $1,000,000 FOR L0UVAIN.

It Is especially a satisfaction to note tho announcement of Herbert Hoover and Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler that the Louvaln Reconstruction Fund, 11,000,000, is completed by an additional gift of from the Relief in Belgium Educational of which Secretary Hoover is president, because only ten days ago a special dispatch to the Chicago Tribune declared that work at Louvoin had been abandoned, Ihnt architects hud left, contractors had been withdrawn and the Library building left in a half-completed state, and quoted a Belgian newspaper as saying: enthusiasm haanielted. Things are different than in Ihe first iluys when the cornerstone was laid In 1922. The Americans Insisted on rebuilding In'a sumptuous style. Now they abandon the job, which will cost 10,000,000 francs ($400,000) to compute.

Only the carcass of the elephant Is left. America's response to such 'rather ill-natured pessimism is clear enough. Money talks. AVhitney Warren, who has been in charge of the work, will be unhampered. And a trust, fund' of $125,000 is being set aside for the permanent malnteuanee of the building.

Toward the whole amount the Carnegie Endowment has contributed $157,000, The total of the Relief iu Belgium Fund has been, including the final contribution, For Ihe rest half a million of our school children have given a few pennies each, and teachers have sent contri butions of $1 or more apiece. Big gifts have been numerous. The re construction of he Louvaln Library is a work that has manifestly enlisted the sympathy of all classes in America. Canada's government has shown that it can operate a merchant fleet We do things differently in Wash-at a profit. Certainly ours cannot, ington.

The -young men who are getting a Jhernl education free at the City College are not to be permitted lo say whether they shall have military drill or not, If thfs Is smashing academic liberty, make the most of it, What the jellow jacket Is lo a Chinese statesman, committee appointments are to a Congressman. In the present House Cooper of Wisconsin in the only radical who doesn't lose his yellow jacket for keeps, as tbe boys playing marbles. We are credibly informed that Robert P. Buss of New Hampshire, who is threatening Moses willi eviction from his snug quarters in the Senate, is no relative at all of that mortgage shark Jetluo Bass, known tu Churchill fiction. Robert and Winston were friends and co-workers In politics until that.

nanie was ihoseu, probably ns juke, by tho fktlonists for his curious hero. If on August 11)14, six days after Germany's declaration of war, Edward M. House, President Wilson's representative, wrote to the Gorman Emperor long-hand letter congratulating His Majesty on his "well-known wish to jircscrve peace," and thanking Wllhelm for Ids masterly exposition of the political world situation and his "prophetic view of the future," the reticence of that distinguished Texan suffers "A few years ago," said Thomas, "I was staying in one of ilia grandest hotels In New Orleans, one which before I'd only seen from tho outside. The waiter- came in jam' said that there was an old hit downstairs with her son who wlslu ft. to see me.

He gave me the uuuu but I did not recognize It, 'But she knows you, Sir said the waiter. So I had her shown in. When ahe came lnto.th room I still did not remember her. Then she said: 'But you surely remember, Sir Thomas; you used to say that I made pancakes like your is quite likely I did. It's the sort of thing I Would have said, it the pancakes had been good; and she had remembered after ail those years.

She died recently, and her son's letter to me was one of the most beautiful documents that I have ever read." After a couple of years' hard work In America, and careful saving, Sir Thomas returned to Glasgow to start the business of his own which made a fortune and his' name world-famous. He took back to Scotland llreiirms In defending the home of one of their number from white mob In Detroit. There was a hung jury, and the accused are out on bail. New York is making considerable contributions to the defense fund. Mr.

Darrow is looked upon, rndrightly looked upou, as a protagonist for Judicial fairness to the colored people. Whatever he says, he Is bound to get a respectful hearing from the negroes everywhere. MR. GUIDER'S OPPORTUNITY. Tho Eagle yesterday presented In some detail the plans worked out by State and city park authorities for additional parks, playgrounds and boulevards for Brooklyn.

These plans ure merely 'a part of the clty-wiSe program to be presented to the new municipal government. That program will benefit every borough and fits In with the comprehensive parks system designed for the entire State. It should be apparent to every one that the method of laying out a t'cnornl program, broad in scope and taking future as welt as present needs into' consideration, Is far better than the haphazard methods hereof ore employed. All our parks and boulevards have been acquired through local initiative. That is why the city is so badly served and explains the failure properly to link up the parks and highways we have.

The program provides for the more vital needs of Brooklyn. Merely as a borough proposition it is complete in itself. It will link up existing boulevards, extend Shore Drive, provide necessary connections with Long Island and give Brooklyn additional playgrounds, parks and recreational areas. Here is a notable civic program that should enlist the support of individuals and public welfare bodies. But the urgency of the situation, growing out of the need of acquiring the usable areas before the hind is sold for buildings, makes It necessary for Borough President didder to -act to protect the Interests of the borough.

He has a fine opportunity to serve Brooklyn by getting behind the parks program and lifting his colleagues in the administration know where he stands. AMERICA AND RUSSIA. Russia will be recognized by the United States. The drift toward recognition is unmistakable. But having failed to Jcud wo will be slow to follow.

Recognition will not come this month or next month. There is only nn even chimce that it will be completed next year. There are official representatives of Soviet Russia in Washington today. Every newspaperman In the capital knows the friendly little house where the Russian Information Service has its headquarters. American business 'men also know the address.

More ihan one has alternated nn appointment at the White House with a discussion of prospects for Russian business wllh the well-informed head of Russian's Information Service. But the Big Business Man is a iittle ashamed of his desire to pick up profits from the Lenin-Trotzky re-gime. That is probably why tho Russian Information Service makes it easy for hlni to come to Canossii by locnting on a quiet residential street near Rock Creek Park instead of engaging a handsome suite of offices l.i the center of the city as they have done iu every European capital. They have the money. The business done by Soviet agents in the United States totals up to a higher figure than that 'lone anywhere lh Europe.

American bankers didn't want the American public to know that they bad commerce with the wicked Bolshevists. So Vice President, Schley of the Chase National Bank took good care to exclude the American press when he arranged a luncheon for the Soviet Government The Chase National Bank financed the huge, cotton purchases of Soviet Textile Syndicate in the United Slates. 11 lias been micrhty irofitable business, and the Chase National Bank wants more of It. Giving luncheons Is one way of winning favor. Particularly when you can get Charles M.

Schwab to conic and say nice lliings about your guests. The chairman of the board ol directors of the Bethlehem Steel Company did say some very nice tilings about the economic development of Soviet Russia. He didn't say anything about politics, which was tactful. Unfortunately for Mr. Schley his guests politely insisted upon having a representative of the Soviet press 1 resent at.

the luncheon. The Russian papers carried a long cable dls-latch In which Mr. Schley and Mr. Schwab and Paul Ziev. tbe president of the Russian Purchasing Agency in New York City, wre slfown to lie love-feasting.

Willi coininendnble enterprise the Associated Press had that story cabled back to New York. So now we know all about it and Mr, Schley is obliged to tell us that it was Just a routine luncheon and not POLITICAL EDUCATION. The newest progeny of the National Civic Federal Ion Is Department of Political Education of which Elllm Root is honorary chairman and Alton B. Parker chairman. The purpose ef it Is to arouse the negligent citizen who gives little attention to his privileges as a voter.

At the first meeting of die department to ne held In tills city on January 28 and 29 "good citizenship campaign" will be launched with the Idea of educating the careless ones to a livelier con ception of their duties. Among the large membership of the committee may be noted such distinguished Republicans as Charles E. Hughes, Sen ator Oillctt of Massachusetts, Repre sentative Mills of New York, Senator Reed of Pennsylvania and Senator Wadsworth of New York, and such distinguished Democrats as John W. Davis, Governor Whitfield of Mississippi, Jnmes W. Gerard, Franklin D.

Roosevelt and Owen D. Young. The need for organized a'nd persistent effort in this direction has long been apparent. It is not sufficient that the Indifferent citizen be stirred up a month or so before the November elections. Education should be continuous throughout the year.

That, we presume, is what, the new committee proposes to undertake. Its purpose is deserving of the widest support. Only 50 percent of the qualified voters appeared ut the polls in the Presidential elections of 1020 and 11)24, The showing in Slate and municipal elections Ts even less creditable. If the committee can bring about any change in these conditions will perform an invaluable public service. More power to it! THE CITY CENSUS AND POLITICS.

It may have been a mistake for a woman Secretary of Slatto make Lafayette B. Gleason, secretary of the Republican State Committee, her director of the State census. The ltimored, though not published, figures for this city 5.5)00,000 are lower than the Board of Health's estimate. The partisan motive for making a loose or partial count in Ihe Metropolitan District and a full or even swollen count in rural dis tricts Is easy to assume, considering that thejnndequate representation of tho city In Senate and Assembly is responsible for Republican control of both branches when we have a Democratic Governor. So the demaijil of Democratic politicians for a ree-ount rndcr city auspices might have been expected.

Senator Downing is jus-tilied in asking: "Why have tbe New York City returns been held up for six months?" And 'one can understand the feellug of Dr. Guilfoy, Director of the Bureau of Vital Statistics, when he declares: "I have no faith In a census taken under political auspices. In 1913 the State's city census was too low. If the figure is no higher than now predicted, I believe the city should make a count of its own." Nevertheless, we think Hint the critics are only discovering what is colloquially known as a mare's nest. Precious few Democrats who have known "Lafe" Gleason at Albany would think of him as a Mephis-tophelian Juggler with census returns, and Mrs.

Florence E. S. Kuapp, the fair-minded Secretary of Slate, would hardly lie accused of 1'iiworthy plotting for political ends. When Mr. Gleason notes the falling off of immigration under the quota luw and the largely increased populations of Nassau and Westchester, he 'merely cnlls: attention to is common observation.

Congestion and high rents have driven large numbers of families to New York suburban' points and also to New Jersey. We do not 'know that the State census is worth while. Per haps it ought to be abolished, as Senator Downing thinks. But its misuse in this case for party purposes is a charge incapable of proof, and jndeed very improbable. ARE OUR NEGROES "TOO PIOUS." Speaking to an audience of Harlem negroes in a church with a number of negro ministers on the platform, Clarence Darrow thus expounded "ills iews: You are too blooming pious.

The sooner you people find out that you (an't depend on David and the Lord, 1 ut get busy yourselves, the better off you will be. If tbe Lord was going to do anything for you, he would have done it long ago. We nre told that there was a laugh from the crowd, but that the ministers frowned. Leaving taste out of the question, the logic of Mr. Darrow is untenable.

Any Roman cynic might have said the same tiling to St. Peter or to the persecuted Christians of the First or Second or the Third Century before Constnutlne made Christianity fashionable and advantageous to the believer. "If the Lord was going to do anything for you, he would have done it long It took yenrs for Christianity to triumph. And it, is only sixty-two years since the Emancipation Also though a negro Is GOVERNOR P1NCH0T AWAKENS, Governor Pinchnts recognition of I'onnsylvanlo's duly to her ulster Elates is one of the good works which hnve ridden In on the ill wind of nn anthracite coal strike, Hard coal Is A natural monopoly of his State. Regulation from Harrishurg is both logical and practical, litVolv-Ing no complications of States' rights, Federal Interference or special action by Congress.

Mr. Piuchot evolved a plan to settle the strike which was turned down tiat by tiie operators. After maklfig much ado about their duly to the public the operators indicated in no uncertain terms their distaste fur intervention from any source. vThey cheerfully Invited the public to freeze for a cause, a cause in which the public has always come off second best. Since they took their responsi bility for the consumer's comfort and good health so lightly the operators laid themselves open to regulation lor once the owner of a hard-coal furnace will look upon Pennsylvania's Governor as a man worthy of sup port if he seriously undertakes to re form willful and Irresponsible in dustry within the borders of his Slate.

The situation In hard coal is a ridiculous anomaly iu a republic. The product'ls essential. That one State should be allowed to Jeopardize the welfare of her sisters on the ground that her boundary means hands off Is in Itself a contradiction of democratic principles. But the position of Pennsylvania will be un i hallengcd If she undertakes the dis cipline of the hard coal industry. And while the State Legislature, in spe rial session assembled, struggles with the liroblom of making the anthra cite district behave, It might as well repeal the production tax which is iissesscd upon Brooklyn householders' in common with those of New England and other coal burning Slates.

The first alibi offered for high prices is this unwarranted production tax. However, the major problem to be settled is continuous mining of coal. One thing which might be. done would be the amendment of the two- ears' apprentice law, which enables another Irresponsible body, the United Mine Workers of the World, keep a stranglehold on the industry. Compulsory arbitration under the police powers of the State would prevent either operators or miners from breaking up conferences to adjust labor troubles.

There are any I'limber of remedies which cotijd be applied from Harrishurg. It Is to be oped that the legislators of Pennsylvania are as awake to their responsibility as their Governor is, at lust. BR00KW00D GOES IN FOR DRAMA. In the good old days of the City of Brooklyn, an Eastern District theater found a fine advertising line in "patronized by the elite." Brook-wood, the "Labor 'College," on fifty-Jhree acres of land, near Katonah, might use the same line without hyperbole. For the wealthy M.

Tos-an Bennetts of Hartford and the Garlands of Boston, and the Rev. Nevin Sayre (brother of the late President Wilson's 'son-in-law) hnve been there, and the founders were the Rev. William Fincke, formerly pastor of the East Thirteenth Street Presbyterian Church, and Mrs. Fincke, a sister-in-law of Seth Bliss Hunt, treasurer of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. Students of the college have beeii recruited from many races.

They aspire to skill in many trades. Also they have other aspirations. Their latest enthusiasm is for the drama. They have staged eight one-act plays, every one of them aimed toward a reorganization of our society, and put on and acted with verve worthy of Moscow at its best. The underlying object of this effort, as described by Dr.

A. J. Muste, president of the faculty, is "to develop the writing of plays and pageants by ihe workers themselves and to nwaken the students who will go from Brookwood to work among their own communities to the possibilities of the drama for the workers Hiid for the world." And he asks: "Cannot the workers in dramatizing the labor movement bring home lo their own consciousness the scope and possibilities of the movement?" Frankly, wo do not know how that iiiestlon can be answered save by experiment. Pageants Riid fm eclipse in tho imagination of Americans. Einstein has never studied the relativity of reticence, verbal and epistolary, as it deserves to be studied.

Iu Manhattan a woman bookmaker has been convicted. The woman beernittker feels the rigors of the law everywhere. However, the woman brendmaker is safe. As St. Paul remarked, "against such there is no law." But also there are precious few woman breadmakcrs.

Democracy's organization will not suffer In the choice of Thomas J. Spellncy to succeed Homer S. Cum-mings as National Committeeman. Connecticut, we are sure, will be always on the quarter deck wlin the uleoring of a great party is. being considered.

MUSIC OF THE DAY I -By EDWARD CUSHING was evident at Carnegie Hall yes- I terday afternoon that Nikolai has made a great many Irlends among New Yorkers during the past few years. Mr. Sokoloff.ls the conductor of fhe Cleveland Or chestra, and has, in a sort of casual and unostontatious manner, been paying us annual vlsK for som seasons back. Is generally conceded thatJNew York has quite as many orchestras as It Can handle, without being called upon to pay attention to the bids of musical strangers. I don wondor, i hough, that Mr.

Sokoloff has been able 'to prove this vule by being the exception to It. It must be admitted he has a first-rate band and that he offers attractive programmatic bolt. IT it isn't an adroitly spited program of Brahms and $trauss and Loef(lfr, it Is one of Gretry, Sibelius ami In fact, Mr. Sokoloff cem to have reduced the making of programs to a very satisfactory formula. Yesterday he balanced Ihe rarely beard First Symphony of Jan Sibelius with the moderately encour aging Gretry ballet suite, "Cephale et t'rocris," and the popular-priced I'olowetslan Dances from Borodin's "Prince Igor." Resplghl's "Fountains of Rome" Was thrown in as a ijonua, Sibelius' First Symphony is almost not quite so cnaracierisiic or us composer as the Fifth.

All the Stbo- lius trademarks are on it the Jagged themes, the sentimental themes, the riiKBed orchestration, the fine feel Inir of space and openness which the 'iiuslc evokes. But it had yes'erday the effect of awakening me to the fact that Sibelius was not above a sly trick or two: he could and did ite down tunes of devastating triteness, knowing very well that his critics would find In them not sentimentality but suggestions of simple tolk tunes. Very often when h- dons tbe bardic beard, screws up his face and leans passionately'on the 'cellos, he is not being epic, he is merely being lazy. Never for very long. The Innate distinction of his temperament and Inspiration usually check him in time.

Thus in the First Symphony he gives us two and a half superb movements against one and a halt that are scarcely nieiitlonable. Mr. Sokoloff and his Dunn did very well by this music, as they did by the preceding Gretry. A little less Impressive wu the Rosplghl piece, whieh is growing old gracefully. In tbe Borodin dances there, was some stunning wrong notes from the wood and brass wind.

But every orchestra, like (very violinist, 'must slip occasionally on that well-known tonal banana peel, the false Because we only hear the Clevelandcrs once a year is no reason for us to expect more from them than we expect frotp orchestras with which friendly relations have been more firmly established. AT the Town Hull Mr. Bodanzky yut' over i concert for the Friends of. Music without 'the aid of so much as one vocalist. There were present not even those rows of distinguished ladles and gentle men In black and white seated behind the orchestra nnd making wry faces and sometimes wry sounds to the tunes of Bach, Biahms, Men delssohn, -or Mahler those rows of black and white clad ladies and gentlemen who pass in musical cir cles as the Friends of Music chorus.

Mr. Bodanzky and his orchestra were assisted only by chree gentlemen who played various musical Instruments: Mr. Flesch, the vMlnlat; Mr. Salmond, the cellist, and Mr. Salzedo, the barplKt.

'Ihe perform ance of the Brahms Double Con certo for violin and cello was marked by a continuous and anxious exchange of glances between the two soloists," who through the device of this mute conveisatlon managed to gum things up a bit in the first and movements. Mr. Sulsedo played the Dubussy dances with polished skill and Mr. Bodanzky contributed a first-rale accompaniment. The preceding- part of the program a suite by Hermann Hans Wetzler and the Bach violin Chi- conne I did not manage to hear.

1 HE other day I was impetuous 1 enough to compare a recently famous foreign singer, with Mine. Elena Gerhardt. The comparison, of course, must stand, It served its purpose, But WheYi 1 again beard Mme; Gerhardt at evening I real ized that she is, in many ways, In comparable. In Aeolian Hall she made her last appearance here for two years, singing wltJi the most staggering outlay of her interpreta tive genius a program of Schumann. Erich Wolff, Tschaikowsky, Wolf and Strauss with encores in Eng lish and many of them.

There were bravoa mixed with the applause which is a rave occurrence at a vocal recital. But. -Mme. Gerhardt easily deserved a standlmr cheer from the entire audience. She Is a consummate artist, a Metier singer un-equnled.

PvflU.N'U the day variety of other concerts an recitals were given. Mr. Mengelbeig offered a popular confection of Ulmsky-Kor-sakow and Wagner to the Philharmonic patrons In the Metropolitan during the afternoon hours. The house was, as Mr. Mengelberg kneiv It would be, sold but.

At the Auditorium Mr. Kochanski played his first recita-of the season. The novelty of his program wus un arrangement of the Kreuuer Sonata made by Mr. Damrosch, In which the accompaniment Is scored for ctring orchestra. Mr.

Kochanski was additionally magnified by having the Illustrious Air. Damrosch as an accompanist in one other number. Ciitta Gradova, pianist, gave a recital In Aeolian Hall, thus making it a five-square afternoon. Tradition Hartford No mutter what is suld about the attractions ot tho new Mudlson Square Garden in New York, it will never have tho history ot its predecessor, for there will never he another Democratic national convention like that of London's Men -Br JOHN (Special Correspondence of The Eagle) LONDON, Dec. 2 -There is talk of the Earl of Granard becoming Governor General of the Irish Free State when f.

Healy retires, although nobody can believe that Tim will ever, really retire. Indeed, a story is being; told that he will direct the policy of a group of Irish newspapers which rumor says that his Iriend, Lord, Beaverbrook. has acquired. The Earl of Granard would probably restore the splendors of the Vice Regal Lodge In Dublin, for be is a rich man, and not only has a country seat In Ireland, but a magnificent town house in London, and a palace in Paris. When quite a young man he held high office at the court, being appointed Muster of the Horse when Sir Henry Campb'ell-Bannerman became Prime MinisterThereby hangs' a tale.

Some young West End cldb-men "borrowed" a sheet of note- fjaper from Downing Street and sent a letter to Lord Granard, purnorting to. come from the Premier and offer ing hi in the post of Master of the Horse. Lord Granard called, the Premier saw through the scheme, and defeated conspirators -by appointing Lord Granard then and there a good stroke of statocraft as well as an admirable illustration of pawky Scottish humor. Soma years after Lord Granard marriod Miss Beatrice Mills, the daughter of Ogden Mills, the well-known American millionaire. Lord aiiiliiiiirnc Wchim Myrtle ns Mourning for Wile.

SOMEBODY', the day, win curious to know why Iird Luni-bourne ulways weal's a spriir of myrtle In his buttoaho.le. It was then disclosed that he bad never worn a flower since the death of his wife, and that the myrtle Is cut from a tree which was grown from a piece of his wife's wedding bouquet. Sir Thomas Llplou tjunics Ribald American Couplet. IR THOMAS LIPTON. who is perhaps the best known Britisher in the United States, was asked th other night at a party In Mayl'alr what be considered was the secret of successs in life.

He said it was courage and opportunity coupled with advertising. He laughingly suggested that one of the best lyrics In the world came from the I'nited States: Karly to bed, parly to rlie. Work 1lka ami Bdverllaa." His own motto is: "There is (no fun like work." It Is recalled that the age ot 17, Sir Thomas, who was born In Glasgow of Irish parents, went tu America in the steerage of an old emigrant ship to try his luck in a new country, lie lumled near the Battery, where many years later he was to land from a ship called the Kir Thomas Liptou, amid the welcoming scream of sirens. He lodged In a boarding house down Washington and during ihe first fortnight, until he got his first job, he was boarded for note. jug.

He per-, auaded the landlord that he had great influence with the passingers who had come over with him us a matter of fact lie had written l'jtlerx home for many of them and he succeeded In getting 13 of his fellow emigrants to become patrons of the house. He Worked In Virginia, and New Orleans, making friends who years after were proud to recall those early days. about JjOO, a sack of flour and a locking chair for his mother, a Hauglilcr of the Author Of "The Rosary" to Wed, EVERYBODY who has read "The Rosary," one ot the worst "best sellers" In the world in my opinion, will be interested to hoar of the en. gugement of the author's daughter, Miss Angela Barclay, to Mr. Whit-, combe, R.F.A.

A beautiful brunette, favoring in looks her mother, Florence Barclay, euthor of "The Rosary," she' is not merely connected with the well-known banking family of that name, but Is a daughter of clergyman who lived at Overstrand, Norfolk. Ilere Mrs. Barclay wrote her novels, often dictating them to Miss Angela, who was the heroine of Mrs. Barclay's last book. Mrs.

Barclay was a marvelous swimmer and would often swim for miles on the East Coast. Her daughter lakes after her iu this, and may also emulate her mother with her pen. Try La Marseillaise (Whan M. Rakovaky, Moacow'a Ambassador, meet Prenldent Dnumergue of France, he get.a only ft flourish, on tba bul Inalead of havlnlt hla national air ptnyeil by the band. Doumergue will not loleraia a "Red Hymn." Parla News.

If Ihe Russian Red Hymn can't be played by the bund When Doumergue gives his hand to Rakovsky; There sill! is a plan for a compromise stand Which no one would meet with a scoff-sky. Every Bolshevist plays the superb Marseillaise, Which La France gave Its primal start-off -sky; I cannot Bee why any French band should shy At offering thut air to Rakovsky. All aristocrats, hate that old song, concede, for tliem means a mob's "Treat-'em-Itjapgh-sky;" But never Doumergue would this 4 argument plead The then, Is the stuff-sky. It Is nonsense, of, course, when tho. diplomats force (n issue that's only a both sides, I'm sure, would find restfulriess pure In De L'Isle, played lo solace Bit kovaky.

A. I.