'.^OF THE WASHINGTON TIMES NOVEMBER 22, 1922.

Little Dead Giraffe.^1^® Poor Legless, Armless Baby.

I liilJl V . Senator Capper's "Musts."X V/vlilj A Vanderbilt's Handicap.

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(KtpriHted from Waikinuton Herald.)

A baby giraffe was born in New York's big zoo and died.William J. Bryan should apostrophize the long-legged little

corpse thus: "Never believe anything about evolution, 0 dead

baby giraffe! It is not that the long front legs, long neckcame gradually, as your ancestors reached higher and longerleaves from trees. Your father must stretch his long front legsto reach the ground with his mouth, and that hurts. But evolu¬tion had nothing to do with it. As you are, so you were created,ready made. Divine Wisdom said: 'I have mado everything.lse; I will now make a giraffe, with very long front legs, veryihort hind legs and a very long neck, and thus prove Mypower.' " The whole of evolution is in that baby giraffe.James Lebrasca and his wife, nineteen, have a newborn baby,

pitifully deformed, without legs, or arms. The father, indignantat the suggestion that his child should be deprived of life,says: "Let Providence decide what shall become of the babyIt created.""Thou shalt not kill," is the commandment.Life as it comes must stay. Those suffering extreme agony

ask in vain for death. The most hideously deformed, includingthose indiotic at birth, must go all the way through.But is it just to drag "Providence" into our miserable prob¬

lem? What would be your idea of a Providence, possessingomnipotence and omniscience, that would create a child withoutarms or legs? It can't be to punish a child, just made, thatIim done nothing wrong. It certainly could not be to punish theparents, for vilest fiend ever invented by man's unhealthyimagination could hardly be capable of that crime against in¬nocence.

Senator Arthur Capper, who writes editorials for his own

Topeka newspaper, describes the recent election thus:"The Republican party lost the Labor vote and was only

saved from political disaster by the farmer vote."Capper, who speaks for farmers with authority, tells Republi¬

cans what they must do to avoid losing the farmer* in ad¬dition to losing labor. «

Make bigger farm loans and reduce freight charges.Change the Cummins-Esch transportation act.Improve marketing and give Henry Ford a chance to show

what he can do with the Muscle Shoals power plant to reducethe cost of fertilizer.

Taxes must be lighter. Government less expensive.And to this every American will say "Amen." Senator

Capper says a Constitutional amendment must put an end totax exempt securities and tax fairly undistributed surplusesin big corporations alid stock dividends.Not a bad program. The Administration would be wise to

give it attention.

William H. Vanderbilt, son of Alfred Vanderbilt, drownedon the Lusitania, and great-grandson of William H.Vanderbilt, who was a son of the original Vanderbilt, will betwenty-one years old on Friday, and get the fortune left by hisfather.What is the difference between getting a fortune at the age

of twenty-one, after waiting for it surrounded by flatteringand scheming fHends, and getting such a fortune at the ageof ten? Not much for the average man.

How much of a handicap is placed on a son when his fathernuts ten, twenty or a hundred million dollars in the bank fornim? It's like putting 250 pounds on a young race horse.Some horses can run with that handicap, but the best can'twin a race with it.The fond father going into the grave says to his son, "Thank

me, my child. The hardest work you need ever do is to signyour name at the bottom of a check."Hard on the son, but useful in two ways. First, men work

hard and usefully that they may leave their sons money, andsecond, leaving money under such conditions makes certainthat it will soon go back to the crowd whence it was originallycollected.

These are the days of single individuals controlling men.Mussolini makes himself absolute dictator of Italy. To theallies he says, proudly, "Come to me."One man, Lenin, rules Russia.Another, Kemal Pasha, rules Turkey, and also tells the allies,"Come to me."Lloyd George ran England and most of Europe until heavyToryism, coming back, crowded him out.Now in Bavaria arises the "one man," named Hitler. His

army wears gray shirts, copying Mussolini's black shirts. Theyobey their master, marching with revolvers and blackjacks.Hitler, like Mussolini, fights radicalism. His plan is to separateBavaria from Prussia and form an independent Catholic SouthGermany. That plan, which was also Marshal Foch's planmight be made successful with the aid of the French army.

All fashions change but one.that is the gold fashion. Lenintried other things, imitation money, made-to-order money. Buthe comes back to gold. He says the bourgeoise shall get backnothing of what it has lost. And at the same time handsback its monetary system. That's a big entering wedge Alsohe invites capital to come to Russia and make all it can. Civiliza¬tion is imperfect. But you cannot in ten minutes improve one,or replace a system built up in ten hundred centuries.

Two Kinds of ReformersThere are two kinds of reformers. One kind wants to

change other people's opinions and habits. The other kindwants to change conditions. If we would keep this definitionin mind we would avoid the mistake of condemning! all re¬form on the one hand and the mistake of boosting dkry re¬form on the other. ¦The reformer who comes at vou and insists on yoM think¬

ing just as he does, believing what he believes and abilidoningvour point of view for his own is a nuisance. We A knownim. He is the professional censor, the professional uplifter,the professional regulator. He represents the unpleasant partof Puritanism.But the reformer who comes at you simply to get you to

agree with him far enough to change conditions so that peoplewill have a better chance for prosperity, health and happinessis an entirely different person.Reformers of the latter class include those who insist on

oleaning up the city, on the equal administration of laws, onthe removal of unnecessary temptation from youth and theimprovement in methods of education and such things gen-MW.

All the betterment of the world has been due to militantreformers of ooaditions.

It is doubtful if those other reformers who simply want %oimpose upon us their own egotisms and intoleranoe have everdone any good at alL

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French Telephone Service Poor andCostly, With Careless, Inefficient

OperatorsBy Alice Langelier,

International New* Service StaffCorrespondent.

PARIS..Wrong numbers, longminutes of watting for "cen¬tral" to answer, "cut-offs"

and bad connections.In a word,very bad telephone service Ingeneral are causing Parisians toturn their wrath against the"alio" girls."France has undoubtedly the

poorest telephone service In allof Europe," says l'Oeuvre. "Theslowness of our long distancecommunications is proverbial. Inall of France there are about875,000 telephone stations, lessthan one-half the number onefinds In the city of New Yorkalone.a figure almost derisivefor a country so Important com¬mercially."Americana arriving In Paris

have few words of praise for theFrench telephonists. For themost part they are insolent andextremely slow. They seem tobe busy powdering their littlenoses or rouging their lips, forvery "often one waits all of fiveminutes for "J'ecoute?" which lathe French girls way of saying"Number, please?"To receive two wrong numbers

la an ordinary circumstance, andaa many cut-offs, which are evenmore annoying; for, no matterhow one pleads, the telephonistwill not re-establish the broken-off connection. She simply closesher key and leaves one hangingon the line. In tha end It lareally much quicker to walk, andmoat Parlalana do It.While Germany la buay laying

a line of long-distance under¬ground cablea, which will have astrategic commercial Importance,France realizes that ahe haa nota single cable of great distance.Outside of public telephone sta¬tions In amall hamlets, the tele¬phone Is almost unknown In theoutlying country districts. Themayor and public officials areOften the only ones who haveever made use of a telephone Insmall towns. The cost Is prohibi¬tive for all but the comfortablyrich.To Install a telephone costs

nearly $100 In round figures,aside from the apparatus, whichadds another $26 or more to theamount. One may have an oldapparatus, which would serve aswell and cost much less, but oneIs obliged to purchase a new andusually expensive outfit from on*of the numerous companies whichare working together with thetelephone concern. If he showsany slgna of not wishing to co¬

operate ha la politely told thatthere la no available free numberfor the moment, or he la keptwaiting an eternity.#Then, onca Installed, tha tele¬

phone la a luxury, tor the sub¬scription price la not a amall Item.a matter ef $70 a year And long¬distance calls at a high rata."Our telephone eervtoe haa seat

? of many reforms," continuesl'Oeuvre. "Besides a competentand efficient management, wemust procure new and modernmachinery, and. above all, tele¬phonists who are attentive andcapable."One smart modiste in th« Rue

Duphot has found a method ofbettering her telephone service."Every season I present 'her'with a fine new hat," she says,and thus I have peace and mytelephone communications." Oh,corruption!

Lucy Lowell on Poetry in High andLow Places, With Some Pertinent

QuestionsBy LUCY LOWELL.

THE strange system of .bar¬ter and remuneration bywhich the people of this

country allow themselves to begoverned has accomplished anoth¬er startling and significant pieceof work.

It has caused a group of edu¬cated, cultured women to bandtogether In a public announcementthat they cannot have childrenbecause they cannot afford them.And the tragedy of It is that to

such women as these must beborn sons and daughters If thechildren of culture are to playtheir part In the future of America.That you may Judge their sort

for yourself, 1 shall tell you thatthe women are wives of the fac¬ulty of a famous Western unlVer-alty, and their stand haa beentaken through an article writtenby the wife of the head of thedepartment of English.

An old man stole a twelve-pound bag of potatoes In NewYork the other day and fledahead of his pursuers up eightflights of stairs to the roof of a

building and risked his life toscramble along a cornice to tharoof adjoining."Let him go," said the grocer."Maybe he's hungry."He was. dray hair and faulty

hearing had prevented him get¬ting a Job. But gray men whohear with difficulty go on livingand requiring food, Htlll It wasn'ttill his old wife got hungry toothat he turned thief.What Is the matter with us,

anyway? Haa our greed for afew dollars driven klndneaa fromour aoulaTWhat doe* the bit we grab

here and there bring us In theway of goodT And what harm?

I won't say that all orimegrows out of poverty. Bui I willsay that a great deal of law-breaking cornea of hunger an4cold and tha human craving forbeautv.

If mr bafcy er ymm MUur' f

or your sick wife were hungryand you had no money, but achance to nteal bread, would you.teal It? You bet you would!And so would I:But man does not live by bread

alone. Life to a girl whose fttory1* running through the news¬papers today meant unjwethtnirpretty to w^ar. A wrong senseof values, of course, but she laonly "a kid."80 she went where pretty

thing* were and stole a piece offinery. And the very ones whostole her time and hop* of ad¬vancement and her youth andgave her In return about half a

living wage were those whoraised the most hue an<J cry Qverher "crime" and saw that showas thrown behind the bars.

What IS the matter?Why cannot educated, cultured

American women afford to havechildren?Why cannot old men have a

chance to earn a livelihood?Why cannot women he paid

what their work Is Worth, atleast enough to live, not luxur¬iously. but decently?(Copyright, Kit. hy King Ftsturea

flyniltcftt*, Inc.)

Business Poor in Europe.Hy CalTerwti Merrier.

The king business Is nof pickingup any In Europe, according to a

cable message from CommercialAttache Louis B. Van Norman,made public by the Department ofCommerce."The business stagnation grew

worse In Rumania during the Cor¬onation festivities," says ths re¬port. "Contributing factors In thsbusiness depression are ths shortcorn crop and ths political dis¬turbances In the Near East.

"Price quotations and marketmovements Indicate complete stag-nation, with no movement st thsports, eicept of refugees fromCftestantlnopla."

Shaw Would Put Levy on BritishCapital That Would End

Post War Problems

LONDON.Great Britain mustrlean up her domestic post¬war problems Immediately If

she is to continue an a world

power, according to George Ber¬nard Shaw.Shaw believes there are only two

possible remedies for the post-wardifficulties In England, and drasticas they are he urges that one or

the other be adopted. Shaw'a pro¬posed remedies are:A levy upon capital.

Organization of nnemployed so

that their labor may become pro-,ductive."The war debt la a complicated

business," says Shaw. "The war

has already been paid for; wars

cannot be fought on credit."We commandeered the lives

and limbs, the eyes and legs andarms and all the rest of the billets

found by the German bullets. Wecommandeered something more.

Young men had to sacrifice theireducation, and older men who had

built up businesses and profes¬sional practices had to throw theminto the witch's cauldron of thewar. They were commandeeredwithout compensation or apology."With the ready money It was

different. Take my own case. Idid not give my professional prac¬tice. I did not give an eye, or an

arm, or a leg, much less both eyes,both arms, both legs. 1 did not

give my life. I did not give mynerves! I am not shell-shocked. 1did not give my money; I InvestedIt at 6 per cent. 1 would have In¬vested it at 4, but the governmentoffered me 1 per cent extra forthe sake of my beautiful eyes; andI accepted' it."But I did not quite get It.

The Government stopped abouta third of It for Income tax andthen had the audacity to super¬tax me on the money they hadnot paid me."Why do I get so little sym¬

pathy for these Intolerablewrongs?

"It Is simply because the othersare being treated worse. Thosewho Invested their lives havecheap graves In Galllpoll or Flan¬ders, except when they havebeen so thoroughly blown tosmithereens that there Is nothingleft to bury."Those who gave their busi¬

nesses and practices are beggingfor any sort of Job that willkeep the bodies and souls of theirfamilies together."But It must not go on un¬

less two things are done. On*Is to do what should have beendone from the first.that Is toput the money creditors on thesame footing as the limb cred¬itors.

"Thejr must aacrlflce part oftheir Incomes as the others havesacrificed part of their bodies, andpart of their means of earningan Income. And as It would beunfair to confine this Mcrlflcs tothoae who at least lent theirmoney to the country Instead ofprofiteering with It, the levy mustfall equally on all capitalist*."Tha other remedy Is to take

all the unemployed and organisetheir labor productively, so thatthsy may he a source of inromato tha country Instead of an ax-pease to It,"

GARRETT P.SERVISS ONMOTION PROBLEMS

How a Man Can Keep a Cart Going When theVehicle Reacts With an Exactly Equal Push

On Him.Other Interesting Questions.Hy GARKKTT P. HKKVI88."May I auk you to dlscuas

Newton's 'third la wof motion?'If when a man pushes a rartthe rart reacts with an exactlyequal push on the man. how thendoes the puah of the man out-weigh that of the I'Krt nnd pro¬duce motion In the direction ofthe man'a push?.Dully Header,Arkadelphla, Ark,"THIS la one of the moat fa-

luoua of the hard-shellednut* that students of

phyalca have to crack, and fewthere be that reully crack It.Hchool text-books are ohacure on

the subject, and, rememberingmy own experience* In college, Idoubt whether teachers are notoften equally, or even more, ob¬scure.

t'onsldered mathematically, theproblem la easily solved, the dif¬ficulty being to explain It In or¬

dinary terms. What Heema aboutthe dearest statement that Ihave Keen Is that of the Englishphysicist Watson.no relation toSherlock Homes' friend.HOW WATSON EXPLAINS IT-Watson uses the Instance of a

horse lowing it canulboat, Inwhich the elements of the prob¬lem are the same as In the rase

of the man pushing a rart exceptthat a pull *8 substituted for a

push. The forward pull exertedby the liorse on the. tow-rope is

exactly equal to the backwardpull exerted by the tow-rope on

the horse. How then can theymove?"What we must remember,"

says Watson, "is that, as far an

their relative positions are con¬

cerned, the horse and the boatare at rest, and form a singlebody (or system), and the actionand reaction between them, dueto the tension on the rope, mustlie equal and opposite, for other¬wise there would be relative mo¬

tion. one with respect to theother. (And now comes the cru¬cial point.I"The horse obtains the necessary

purchase to move both itself andthe boat where its feet touch theground. At these points the horse'shoofs exert a force which hits a

component in the backward direc¬tion. the corresponding reaction ofthe ground having a component Inthe forward direction: and It is thiscomponent which produces themotion of the horse and the boat."

Or, taking your own case of a

man pushing a cart, look at it in

? this way: When the push by theman equals the resistance of thecurt, the man'a continued motion,<1u* to the pressure of his feet onthe ground, sets both man and cartin motion.Or take Professor Franklln'a 11.

lustration of a locomotive drawinga car. There la a forward pull onthe car by the locomotive and aliarkwurd drag on the oar by therullM. and these two forcea exertedon the car are not equal when theHpet-d of the car la changing, butare equal when the speed la notchanging. At the start, the speedIs changing from xero to a positivequantity, and the pulling forceovercomes the resistance; but oncethe car moves. If the pulling forcedocs not Increase there will be nochange of H|x-ed and consequentlyno difference between the forwardand backward pulls on the car.

A QUESTION OK PRKHNL'RE."Has an electric light bulb, or a

pressure tank, equal pressure onthe outside with that of the Inside?.H. J. H., Chi-ago."

No. The tank may have an In¬side pressure much greater thanthat which the atmosphere exertsupon It from the outside, while thelamp bulb has almost a wholeatmosphere less pressure on theInside than on the outside. Thebulb Is exhausted of its aid to a

very high degree, so that it has todepend, to save Itself from btingcrushed inwards upon the strengthof its walls. The pressure of theatmosphere upon any body nearthe sea level is almost fifteenpounds to the square inch ofsurface."To set a sundial, having the

latitude and longitude, what is therule to find the compass varia¬tion?".J. C.t Luwrence, L. I.You should not try to set your

sundial with the aid of the com¬

pass. That is an utterly unreli¬able guide for such a purpoae.You must find the true meridian,or north and south line, by ob¬servations on the sun or on thestar Polaris, such as I have aev-

eral times described In these ar¬ticle*. You might, perhaps, getan estimate of the compass vari¬ations for your locality by Inquir¬ing of the department of magnet¬ism. Smithsonian Institution.Washington, but It would serveto give you only an approximatelocation for your true meridianline. The magnetic meridian isnever permanently fixed, and isnot a straight line.

LONDON MOST POLITE CITY INWORLD, U. S. WOMAN SAYS

Smoking in All Sorts of Public Places Only General HabitOpen to Criticism.

London,."i think that -

Londoner* are more pollt»than the people of iny

other town or country tn thoworld." In these words Mrs.Herbert Hoover, of North Can¬ton, Ohio, who lias Just completeda 2,000-mile automobile tour ofKuropo with her husband, sum¬med up her impression of Lon¬don and I-ondoners."The taxi drivers and the wait¬

ers, I think, here are the personi¬fication of politeness, and sovery smart," she told an Inter¬national N3Ws Service represen¬tative. "I think that it la ashame that Paris should spoil Itsbeautiful str<sets with those shab¬by, broken down horse cabs andtheir drivers, who look as if theyhad stepped out of a coal mine.

"I think that the English menare Juat wonderful," she continued."The average American woman

Is better groomed than the aver¬age English woman, I think, but1 do not think it Is So with themen. It appears to mo that tho

k Englishman doss not allow hlabusiness to Interfere with every¬thing else, as the American mandocs.

"I think, though, that the aver¬age English woman must be verygood natural. For Instance, theother night at the theater a manpuffed cigar smoke and struckmatc-hog in our faces ail evenljig.If he lit his cigar oncje he lit Ita hundred time*. Matches, c'K"and cigarette ends were every¬where."In America, as you know, the

club women would start a move¬ment against such a thing.andcarry their poipt."Perhaps the men behave so

because they are used to theirwomen smoking In publls. Al¬though women smoke a greatdeal In America. I have Qeverseen one light a cigarette andwalk into a public dining roomlike they do here."On the whole." she concluded.

"I think that London Is 'the' cityof Europe, lioth as regards polite¬ness and cleanliness."

Dance and Stay Young, Noted RussianStar Advises Young Women

LONDON..Dance your waythrough life and forestall oldaire.

Lydla Ixjpokova, premier dans-euse of the Russian iMllet, giventhis advice to all of her sex."There is no other way to keep

one so young and fit aa danc¬ing," the little sparkling dancersaid. "It Ik art and athletica atthe same time."Lydta has gone a long way

since her first and last perform¬ance in America. Borne eightyear* ago she went to Americaan unknown hallet dancer witha desire to become a famous ac¬tress. She had her first oppor¬tunity aa an actress with a per¬manent stock company In Pitts-field. Mass., hut her lack ofknowledge of the language was a

great drawback to her, and shereturned to her dancing to wingreat fame along Broadway.Then she came hack to Europewith her American laurels andhas steadily pushed forward until

today London, at least. acceptsher aa the greatest ballet dancerIn the world, and wherever andwhenever she appears the theaterla stormed by thoae who wish toadmire her art."You ask me If I would advise

ballet dancing aa a career forgirls." Lydla aald. "I j<ay yes,providing the girl la well made,has a certain amount of talent,and la determined to work hard"But few people realise how

hard a ballet dancer's life la. Bh^must give all of her tlm* andenergy. For years, from the ageof nine. If possible, she muat gothrough a long and difficulttraining.

"If the aaptrtng dancer doesnot love dancing for lta own sakethere are many obstacles to keepher back from perfection and suc¬cess. There Is so much experi¬ence And tradition behind It that,In aplte of Its exhausting activity.It Is In no way harmful to thefemale body."

"Mad" Baron Ungern Again AlarmingSuperstitious in Siberia

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PEKING."Mad" Baron Un-(rem la airaln operating InRlberla, according to re-

porta from frightened refugeeawho have escaped from the regionof hoatllltlea. Othera claim thathla aplrlt haa been reanrrected andla hack on earth to carry mt ltavow for the death of all Bolahe-vlkl. 9uperat|tloua villager* InRlherta aaorlba to him utrangepowera before which the liedforoea are hopeleaa. One maneven goes ao far aa to awear hemw tha "Mad" Baron e*ecutedand haa now aeen him thla aecondtlma alive.About the e*ecutlon, atorlea dif¬

fer. Rome aay he eacaped, huthla family, who oame recently toInvestigate, reached the nad con-

chialon that ha had been killed.Whit* aoUtlera also shrink atI

the mention of hi* nam*. HI*discipline w*« fearful, and hemeted out punishment* withoutmerry even to tha *ll<rhte*t of¬fender*.One of tha favorite m»tho<1»

was to compel tha aoldlar to re¬move hi* hroeohea and alt upona rake of Ira for hour* at a time,depending upon tha aariouane**of hi* alleged < line Anotherw** to put a numhar of men ontha roof of hi* houae during a¦ever* *torm and to forr* themto remain thera a jlven time. Ifthey tried to come down theywera ahot. Thoae who died fromaxpoaure had their own wealme**to thank. So read tha courtmartial report*. ,

He wa* not loved. Friend* *avthat bullat wound* reretrad tnthe Ruropean war had unbalancedhi* mind.