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BRIEF NEWS NOTES i WHAT HAS OCCURRED DURING 1 WEEK THROUGHOUT COUNTRY AND ABROAD EVENTS OFJMPORTANEE Gathered From All Parte Of The Globe And Told In Short Paragraphs Foreign? | The British submarine H-42 has 1 ? been lost with all hands in the Med- 1 iterranean, says an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Gibralter. She 1 colleded with a destroyer during maneuvers. The "open threat of revolution sig- , nified by the decision of the anti-free ( staters to hold the forbidden Irish republican army convention, has created a precarious position." the London Times* correspondent here declares, in *a K T r> no nor a utofuivu ivs uio The elaborate arrangements for the capture or destruction of the anachronistic creature reported to have been seen in an Andean lake, have been made by the expedition which left recently for Patagonia under the auspices of the Buenos Aires Zoological garden. Two members of the cabinet have resigned as the result of differences in the ministry over the government's determination to eliminate three letters from the Bulgarian alphabet, which was announced several weeks ago. United States as well as central Europe must be on guard against the introduction of cholera and typhus through immigration of Russian refugees, says a warning issued by Dr. A. Schlesinger, of the German Red Cross. Hordes of theste refugees are pouring into Germany over the Polish. Letvian and Esthonian borders, and many are seeking passports to America. where they have relatives and , friends who are financing them for the journey. The conditions under which the reparations commission will grant Germany a partial moratorium were announced. They include perfect autonomy for the Reichsbank and new legislation to prevent evasion of German capital, the legislation to be reaHv for annliratinn unon a fixed rate. Ditpatches from Ireland reporting ( continued disorders on a wide scale along the Ulster border continued to pour into London, affording the house of lords opportunity for a vigirous debate on the Irish bill in which the question of lawlessness and civil war were frequently injected by both sides. A Central News dispatch from Venice says that a tidal wave recently inundated the city, the water rising to a depth of more than 3 feet in some of the public squares. Washington? An investigation has been instituted by the interstate commerce commission. according to announcement into the reasonableness of practically all rates on coal in the western portion of the United States. Release of all war prisoners servirg terms for expression of opinion and not for overt acts was urged in a petition recently presented the president signed by fifty members of the house of represeiitatives. The United States Public Health Service has just concluded a conference of physicians and health workers called to inquire into ways and means by which public health teachings can be better spread through the country. Striking an open switch near Alberat, Va., 60 miles south of Richmond.! tVia QonKnorH Air T ino'c \HHcniifV> IUC CVUWUi U O +1A*\AQ\J\A\.LA special was derailed recently, five! sleepers leaving the track and 'urnlng over. The house, passed the $4,000,000,000 soldier bonus bill. Since no amend-; ments were permitted under the nile, the measure as passed was in the same form as reported from the house ways and means committee. Despondent because of ill health, Esther Davidson, 28-year-old office employee, penciled a will on a piece of scratch paper and jumped from a twenty-third story window of The Times building Broadway and Fortysecond steet. Radical reductions in the navy discussed by house appropriations committee members may result in naval j abandonment of Atlantic waters and concentration of the fleet in the Pa-1 cific some navy officials believe. Effic-; ient training or war of the reduced ! establishment, it was explained by one officer would require such action. A nation-wide campaign, which has been talked of for some time in Washington, has been inaugurated to find ' "living" employment for the 700,000 < idle war veterans. The movement is sponsored by the American Legion . The house gave its approval to a provision of the army appropriation bill which would require the reduc-' Inn hv .Tnlv of the rppnlar nrmv on. * c?- ?. V.*? listed strength to 115000 men. Members of the senate agricultural committee, after considering the request of senate leaders that senators not absent themselves from sessions during consideration of the arms conference treaties, decided to follow the previously reached plan to leave Washington for a visit in company with house member to the Muscle Shoals project in Alabama. Stocks of American cotton totaling 1.907,000 bales were consumed by Great Hritain. France. Germany and J Italy during the six months ending January 31, according to a cablegram just received by the department of agriculture from its London representative. This is an increase of 50 per cent as compared with consumption of 1,275.810 bales during the preceding six months, and an Increase of more than 100,000 bales as compared with consumption of 1.789,302 bales during the six months ending January 31, 1921. i Prohibition officials declare that plans are maturing for a ten thousand mile wall about the United States to stop the flow of alien rum into this country. Stocks of potatoes in the hands of farmers and dealers March 1 in the fifteen leadine potato states are estimated at 90,946,000 bushels by the department of agriculture. Of this quantity 73,486.000 bushels were held by farmers and 17,460,000 bushels were held by local dealers. Of the holdings in the hands of producers 30.935,000 bushels are expected to move off the farm and 42,556,000 to be retained. All naval vessels except combatant craft arriving at the Hampton Roads naval base from foreign ports will be searched for "suspicion packages,'' unde crders issued by Rear Admiral Rodman, commandant of the fifth naval district. Business is gradually approaching normal, according to figures compiled by the department of commerce and while the favorable movement among the different industries has not been evenly distributed the improvement of those industries which "constitute the backbone of American business,'' has been "very marked" over conditions of a few months ago. Frank Piano, Sr., who killed his son "to save his soul." was acquitted by a jury at Chicago. The father testified that his son was hanging aro lid pool rooms with a gang of boys he feared would lead his boy into trouble. Domestic? The Meyer commission of New York City charges that New York City exceeded its legal tax limit by twenty million dollars in 1921 and is still running into debt at the rate of $100,000 a day. S. A. Keiler, president of District 19, United Mine Workers (Tennessee), issues an appeal for a congressional investigation of the threatened eviction of coal miners, their wives and children of eastern Tennessee and southeastern Kentucky. He states that notwithstanding the union had a signed o 1 moo o&rcciiicui iu iuu iu xviaiuii oi, the miners voluntarily, December, 1921, accepted a reduction of $2.50 per day in wages, and now the mine owners want to make a further reduction in wages. It is stated in New York that hundreds of railroads have instituted injunction proceedings against the government by counsel in connection with the rate order promulgated by the interstate commerce commission, effective March 1, which the petitioners assert is arbitrary and outside the powers of the commission. Because four young women in his congregation giggled right out in meeting, Rev. George Robertson, pastor of a negro church has hailed them into police court on a charge of breaking up a church sendee. The magistrate continued the case until he could consult law and precedents on giggling. Suspension of work by all union coal miners at midnight, March 31, was ordered by the United Mine workers of America, recently, the call being Hip first pvpr issued fnr hoth hitumi nous and anthracite workers to walk out simultaneously. Six hundred thousand men will be affected. Watch in hand. Warden Westbrook of Chicago told prisoners threatening to mutiny he would give them just ten minutes to go to their cells. All the mutineers soon disappeared, as the warden was backed up with a sufficient number of armed guards. A government cutter will probably be sent out to the wrecked sailing vessel, discovered recently bottom up near Isle Dernier, off the south coast of Louisiana. An electrical storm of severe intensity recently struck Jacksonville, Fla., but did no great damage. It is alleged that J. A. Pelt, a judge, 63 years old, has been kidnaped. He is a justice of the peace. A worthless check fbr $275, drawn on the defunct Denver State bank and signed "0. What Luck," was accepted in Kansas City, Mo., March 3, in payment fo an automobile. Xarcotis drugs, imported whiskey and automobiles values at almost $35,000 were seized by Memphis police which resulted in a number of arrests on charges of violations of the liquor and narcotic laws. Twelve were hurt, some of them seriously, when a heavily laden Detroit avenue trolley car crashed into the rear of a Cleveland and Southwestern interurban car in the downtown section of Cleveland, Ohio. Governor J. B. A. Robertson, of Oklahoma, submitted to arrest at Okmulgee, Okla., on a charge of accept ing a bribe to permit operation of an insolvent bank. Convicted of stealing $31,000 worth of assets in bankruptcy proceedings, Jacob Harris and Joseph Weiner, wholesale jewelers, were bound for Atlanta penitentiary to serve sentences of a year and a day each. Williams Simmons and Homes Johnson, sawmill workers, were burned to death while asleep at Dierks' Ark., when fire destroyed the Westbrook hotel. The lugger World, together with her crew of nine men and cargo of whiskey, said to be worth $30,000, fell into the hands of federal prohibition agents on Lake Ponchartrain, near Milneburg. Miss Elsie Smith, 19, and Alphonse Beyer, 22, were found in the trying room of the Maple Silk company's plan, each with bullet wounds in the head, at Paterson, N. J. Workers in some of the mills affected by the strike were attacked by strike sympathizers in the Fairlawn district at Pawtucket, H. I. "General" Jacob S. Coxey. of Massillon, Ohio, who led "Coxey's army" in the march on Washington in 1894. in the interest of economic legislation he sponsored, announced that he was planning to gather followers for another drive on the capital. Gwendolyn Armour, 6-year-old daughter of Philip D. Armour III., died fom a form of septicemia after a week's illness, during which the millions of the Armour family, the skill of a dozen nurses and the resources of entire city of Chicago proved unavailing. S-tOO ^OO I ' ' ?"1IIEN the world wus W young and civilization was In tlie learning-to-walk stnge of 'ts development prira't've mnn rea^7-ed a need for something which would enable him to finish the task arrested by darkness. Of that need artificial illumination was born. All through the nges they have come together, civilization and lighting. Every forward step in the progress of culture lias been marked by an advance in illumination. The way to our civilization of today lies parrallel to the way to better light. A stick from the lire was no doubt the first lighting unit, for when man in the earliest nges made nocturnal excursions into the surrounding gloom and needed illumination, he snatched up a piece of burning wood from the camp-fire. Yet there is plenty of evidence that crude forms of oil-lamps came into use long before history was begun. Shells and hollow stones, even the skulls of animals, were tilled with oil, extracted from olives, nuts or vegetables, and this oil. burning without a wick, furnished a feeble, flickering light accompanied by an unpleasant odor. In the course of time some one thought of a wick, and the eurllest form of this Improvement in illumination was a floating wick of moss or fiber. In the Orkney islands the stormy petrel, with a wick in its bill is used as u candle today. The carcass of an oil flsli is similarly used in Alaska. Candles were preceded by splints, but both were used during the same period. Gas illumination was the next step, uppearing less than a century before the electric lump proved commercially successful. In the ruins of Faru, Babylonia, 3,000 B. C., was found the earliest stone lamp of which there is any record. This was merely a crude saucer-shaped affair, about four Inches in diameter, cut frorii alabaster. An improvement over the stone lump was the pottery lamp, which could be more easily shaped, and specimens of around 300 B. C., have been found. A form culled tlie "Virgins lamp, used in Itible times consisted of a small hollow vessel, with a opening In the top for the wick, which could be curried in the hand. Within the next half century, nbout 200 A. D., these pottery lumps bad been greatly improved in appearance, for by then they bud begun to assume regular forms, with handles and some attempt at decoration. Two hundred years later bronze lamps made their appearance. A modification of this type, known as the Florentine lamp, which could be suspended by chains, followed a few hundred years later. In the early part of the fifteenth century, about the time that Columbus was discovering the Americas, the Venetian stand lamp was widely used in the Mediterranean countries of Europe. Its graceful nnd artistic utility is characteristic of the Kenalssunce during which it was in vogue. The Flemish oil lamp, 1,600 A. D., forms as sharp a contrast to tne > enetiun lamp as does the Reformation period, of which the former was a development, to the Renaissance period of the latter. Lamps of this type may still be found In use among the poorer classes of continental Europe. The candle Is reully a form of oil lamp In which the oil or grease In solid form Is melted by the flame as It is used. It was formerly made from animal fats, hut is now inude of wax from berries and paraffin. Whale oil waB the chief nominating oil for tmjiy jears. Benjamin Franklin discovered that two wicks gave more than twp*e the light of one, and this led to tne Franklin double-burners. Camphene, a patent fluid used about 1850, was a HATBANDS 1 In the story of the plain little band that circles the crown of a man's hat lies an interesting fashion of bygone days. Luring the I'luntagenet period in Englund the head covering for men wus a hood, from which was suspended the dlrlpipe or long tippet. I'icture our men walking down Broadway or Main street with sashes on their hats! In the reign of Henry vitt tho t>nt snnerseded the hood CREDIT ACCORDED LUTHER One story ascribes the Oft Chrlstmas tree to Martin Luther, who conceived the rather pretty idea that the dark branches of the young spruce, gayly illuiniiiated with colored candles and hung with its bright ornaments and gifts, would suggest to the children the dome of heaven with it.' Innumerable stars, ana, perhaps, thoughts of praise and gratitude to Him who Is the (tlver of all .food things around them. KM Lighted Lamps ??T}COC/.4?0.25. +J (SOO . : mixture of turpentine nnd alcohol. It ' i gave a much brighter light tluin whale i oil, but was dangerous on account of 1 Its explosive nuture, nnd consequently : t wus never very popular. j * Kerosene was first procurable in commercial quantities about the time of the Civil war, and the ordinary kerosene lamp Is still the chief llluminant In territories where electricity and gas are not as yet available. I In 1879 came the "Incandescent" electric lamp Invented hy Thomas A. ; Edison. In the uutumn of 1877 Edison J announced his Intention immediately to devote himself to the problem of i producing ;i commercially practicable ! electric lamp. Ills triumph came on October 21, . 1879. On that date, after persistent ! labor, Edison succeeded in carbonizing u piece of cotton sewing thread bent i Into a loop of horse-shoe shupe. This j ; be sealed In a glass bulb which had | been exhausted until a very high vacuum was produced. For forty hours ; | after the circuit was closed, the bright- j ly Incandescent filament remained ini '?? ; Not being satisfied with this form of 1 filnment Edison began to carbonize everything in nature that he could ; ihink of. He wanted a material that, j when carbonized, would he uniform and homogeneous. As he looked i | NEW MEMORIA 11 ? M ^ " & +!? ^ y*""?"'??*? Kyyry^PT4r~'^'r;y"'M \ ' V. _ APRIL 27, 1822. Ulysses Simpson oni mont county, Ohio. The one hundi observed In Washington by tlie unveiling There will he elaborate ceremonies. Vic clpal speaker. The photograph shows th In the background. The completed memorial is the rest signer and sculptor, Henry Merwln Shr Gebrge F. Shra.ly attended President Gr The work ts pyramidal In outl.ne, v sweeping up to the central character, G( In the center 0/ the memorial. A: the ' cuvulry detail going Into action, and the 1 j Each group fuces the central figure and the long tippet took the form of < the hat band. This was wider than j those now In vogue and was gradually ( ! narrowed down. In fact, the bunds { | which men now wear on their hats ( . ...1..... |n inntirnlmr nrp Identi- I ? i wiit-11 uir^ IUV ? cal with the very first Imtbnnds. ( I Giant's Causeway. t The most Interesting wonder In the t world Is Giant's Causeway, which t si retches for four miles along the I coast of County Antrim In Ireland. It s is a collection of huge rocks which go t LAZZARONI OF NAPLES ; i 8 The lnzznroni were a class of vagn- I bonds In Naples, Italy, which formed c a distinct caste in the Seventeenth v and Eighteenth centuries. They an- t Dually elected a chief, called Capo e , I.nzznro. who was recognized by the n | authorities and frequently took an ac- Jj tlve part In political affairs. In 1(517, <1 headed by Masanlello, they overthrew ^ tlie government and held possession of r j the city for u few days. In 17'JS, instl- 4 u laoo isso o I b. rOOOJ3.C. i \ 81 - p S00jS.C1 C s<^a:d- s -ZOO A Z>. ^ AJX 1 I * IS AD 11 P iround his laboratory one day, he saw \ in ordinary palm leaf fan upon a ta- u >le. After a study of the texture of he binding, he asked one of his as- t( dstants to carbonize filaments made t, 'rorn the rim. He was so impressed n vith tlie result of this experiment that ^ ie sent men all over the world to se- r ure specimens of bDinboo. A certain g urlety of Japanese bamboo was final- ? y adopted, and for nearly nine years jj ill Edison lamps had bamboo fila- ^ nents. b In 1007, the pressed tungsten lamp vas placed on the market, but sclen- 31 * 1' 1 * ffAfll U'flQ ists uiu not stvp iicic, me gvui ??*luctlle tungsten. Tungsten Is not n 1 are inetal, but It was not largely used J >\vlng to the fact that no method had )een discovered by which Its naturul lard and brittle state could be changed. Tungsten Is no<v produced In a ductile 'orm and can be drawn Into a wire vhlch has a tensile strength varying rom 400,000 to 500,000 pounds a square noli. In 1911, the wire-drawn lamp with vhlch we are all familiar made Its ippearance. This lnmp, which gives liree times as much light as the car- ! ion lamp, contains a filament of drawn ungsten wire within a bulb of clear 1 rlass from which the air has been e.xlausted. In 1914 the gas-filled lamp v vas produced. e b L TO GRANT J \ E5ESZSZSZ5ZSZSZSHSZSZ^SZSHSZSES-cS J ;30GGQQC200nL ^ int was oorn in point Pleasant, Cler- s, edth anniversary of his birth will be rc : of a statue In the botanical gardens, j, e President C'oolldge will be the prlne Grant statue, with the eapltol dome lit of twenty years' effort by the deudy of New Yorli, whose father, Dr. ant up to the time of his death. I'lth all the minor figures and groups J( ?nernl Grant sitting astride his ho/se n] opposite ends are two groups, one a o; other a field buttery going Into action. si 3own into the sea, and many reach p i lelght of 30 feet. Legend says thai * he stones were put In such a neatly ir?anged posltlou by an Irish giant Iri n*der to Induce his enemy the Scots rf?.it to come over and fight him. Anitner belief Is that giants hurled these luge stones at one another. The Idea L..i /?/* tt Hoallv HIH nilCO OY. iiui nit; luuacM uj ?va??j u*u vuw v? end to Scotland Is strengthened by 4 he fact that in Flngal's cave. In the sland of StafTa, off the Scottish coast, (tones esnctly similar in appearance ind arrangement are found. rated by Cardinal Kuffo and led by ^ illchele Sforzn, they successfully re- m isted the attucks of the French. The sc uzzaroni had no homes nor regular ccupatlons. They wore ragged clothes, 'n core filthy In their habits and slept hi he open air. They got their name Ither from Lazarus, the beggar, or nore probably from the hospital of 'n 5t. Lazarus, which served ns n place f refuge fur the destitute of the city Tl >onie authorities say the word Is de cfl Ived from the Italluu luzaro (lepet r pauper). ni * m Washit Vhy Congressional 1 r< A WE Must m JpTA, HAVE THE fg-a publicity ti r< X7ASIIINGTON?There Is Just Ir * * enough justice in the complaints n eard In Congress from time to time ci f the failure of the American press v dequately to report its proceedings ei ) Justify them as a matter of ah- u tract truth. That the newspapers do tl ot tell what is going on in congress i a statement which cannot he sus- II lined; that the newspapers do not d ?11 all that occurs at the capitol day f< y day is a self-evident fact. Sub- n tantlally a cross-section of the proc- n sses of legislation In the making is n resented to the country with every e [sing sun, and there are fundamental bl supreme Court Uphol "* ONSTITUTIONAL1TY of the wornnil's suffrage, or nineteenth, mendment was sustained by the uprenie court In u unanimous decision endered by Justice IJrandeis. The challenge came from the state f Maryland, where Oscar Lester and thers sought to prevent the reglsrntlon of two women aS qualified oters in Baltimore. Lester and his ssocintes contended that the consti- A *tion of Maryland limited suffrage ) men, thnl the legislature of Mary- a ind had refused to ratify the worn- si n's suffrage amendment and that tl he amendment had not become a n art of the federal constitution. The b iaryland state courts sustained the tl mendment. f< The contention that an amendment a o the federal constitution relating b > additions to the electorate canot be made without the consent of ri lie state, the court disposed of by V eference to the fifteenth or equal c uffrnge amendment, declaring that tl one cannot be valid ami the .other h lvalid." It pointed out that the va- c dity of the fifteenth amendment had r een recognized for half a century. n The suggestion that several of the tl 8 states which ratified the nineteenth b Economy May Strik< tl A ; V ^EARS that "attempts to curtail ap- o * proprlatlons for the remount serice" may be made In congress are " xpressed In communications received r y the War department from horse tl reeders. Work formerly done by the s lepartment of Agriculture In connecion with Improvement of the farm a ryses Is now handled by the remount li ervlce, and the farmers' representa- a Ives have filed protests with mem- tl ers of congress against any slash of he military budget which would In- t! erfere with this activity. $ The remount service has 200 stal- f ions valued at more than $500,000. c nd has mapped out a program for F heir employment in 40 states during F Navy Is Getting Dot SECRETARY DENBY ordered 50 ^ additional destroyers and nearly hree-score auxiliary naval craft placed ut of commission to conserve fuel, 'he destroyers are In addition to the DO ordered out of commission reeentr, and will leave In the navy 76 estroyers in full commission and 40 ith heavily reduced, complements board. ' Among other vessels besides destroy rs ordered out or commission are ve oil ships and one collier, two tore ships, four mine layers, six t< line sweepers and Eagle boats and a 1 tugs and towing vessels. 0( Secretary Denby said the ships or- r< ered out of commission today and si le hundred destroyers previously re- h red as an economy measure were in ildltion to other ships of the navy p, laced out of commission since he a] >ok office a year ago. The depart- 0( lent In that time, he added, has sold w >7 obsolete or auxiliary naval craft ai ad now has on sale 02 additional sj dpi. | m \ National Theater 1 in YOU HEED A j bi RATIONAL THEATER jjj 17ASHINGTON should have a; cI great national theuter such as (" ost of the European capitals possess,! er i says Grattan C. Kerens, of St.! Mils, a visitor. He says "Washington vc this respect does not compare with her world capitals. There Is no W| enter In Washington that can be I el en remotely compared to the opera | he l'nrls or to the state theaters In sn prlln, Vienna or even I'etrograd. <,fl Ills situation should not exist in the ,ie ipitnl of the richest nation on earth. K*1 "Representatives of foreign govern- 'n ents coming to America on dlplo- te atlc missions, us during the recent | of ^H'orv Record Has Beats >asons why considerations of relavity of Importance must he borne la ilnd. It Is no longer possible for the ewspnpers to give full reports of the roceedings of senate and house, and le operations, Investigations, Inquiries ad conclusions of their various committees. In the Sixty-sixth congress no less ian 16,239 public bills and 481 Joint esolutions were Introduced In the jgislative grist mill of the house of jpresentatlves, and more than 5,000 l the senate, of which 401 of the forler and 69 of the latter class beiime laws, In addition to the 124 prtnfe bills and resolutions which were nacted. Not even congress itself Is hie to visualize at a single sweep of io ovo n lni.or so vast in scone. A follow-up system of federal pubcity, probably through the executive epartments, to keep the country In>rmed, might be desirable. No single ewspaper car. report adequately every ew act of congress and every lnterlediato step taken In the process of onvertlng the twenty-odd thousand Ills Into the five hundred-odd laws. ds Woman Suffrage mendment had provisions In theft tate constitutions which prohibited le legislatures from ratifying, could ot be entertained, the court stated, ecnuse the state legislatures derived lelr power In such matters from the ?deral constitution which "transcends ny limitations sought to be imposed y the people of a state." The remaining objection that the ntifylng resolutions of Tennessee and ^'est Virginia were Inoperative, beause adopted in violation of legislate procedure In those states, may ave been rendered "Immaterial," the ourt declared, by the subsequent ntlfication of the amendment by Conecticut and Vermont. The conten [on was disposed, however, on a roader ground. i Remount Service tie year in co-operation with farmers, s it has been found that the most eslrable type of horse for array use i exactly the type best fitted for irra work. A message to Col. F. S. Armstrong, blef of the remount service, signed y representatives of more than 40 orse breeders' organizations in the iew England states, New York and 'ennsylvanla, said the work carried n by the service is "of Incalculable nlue to the horse-breeding industry f the country." "We especially protest," it 6ald, against the proposal to abandon the emount depot at Front Royal, Va., lie only remount depot in the east or outh." The Utah Cattle and Horse Growers' ssociation transmitted a resolution tidorslng plans of the remount service nd urging congressional support of bis work. / The service was allowed $150,000 in tie current army bill, a reduction from 250,000 the year before, and plans or the coming fiscal year contemplate ontinued operation of three depots? 'ront Royal. Fort Robinson, Neb., and 'ort Reno, OUla. Am to Brass Tacks a tk The American navy will continue ) function, effecting ull the economies Iready instituted until and unless a angresslonal mandate Is received, dl?ctlng otherwise, Secretary Denby lys, in connection with action in the ouse on the navy's fuel estimate. Without a record vote the house assed and sent to the senate a bill pproprlating approximately $108,500,X) to meet deficiencies. A provision hlch would limit to ,$6,300,000 the ruount the navy department would lend for fuel during the next four lonths remained in the bill. for the Capital? ternational conference, are likely to ise their opinion of American culture id civilization upon what they sea the capital of the nation. They are customed in their own countries to e magnificent structures for the pro1 of I on t\f thn /Irn mo nn/1 I# thoo si /\ IVltUll VI llic Ui UiUU( UIIU II liicj UU it find similar fnclllties for the enniragement of art In the United ates, they can hardly be blamed If fey give some credence to the old under that America's is a 'dollar vlllzaiion' and that Americans excel ily in the mechanical arts and sclices." Mr. Kerans believes that the de'lnpnient of a national drama Is one the best posslMe forces tending to[ird the Americanization of the varied etnents of our population. It can made a medium through which the Dent. Inspiring facts of our history n be brought home to the consclous ss of the foreign-born citizen. The vornment would be justified In taker up the project of a national thear as a means of combating the spread insidious radical doctrines. i