Evening Star Newspaper, March 22, 1924, Page 6

THE EVENING STA ‘With Sunday ;\iornlng I‘idl!lon. WASHINGTON. D. C. SATURDAY March 22, 1924 THEODORE W. NOYES. . . .Editor The Evening Star Business Oficr. 11th St and Pennsyivahi New York Office: 110 Kast 42ud St > O + Buildin ewspaper Company Ace. fice . 16 Ragent St., London, ¥ngland, | The Evening with edition, Ix delivercd by carriers ity WE 60 cenfs pes month: dails Cents " per month Orcers m 0, end of aach month. Sundas marning “vithin th only, month phooe Main xiers at th Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance, Mauryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunda; and Sun: Daily only Sunday 3 1mo J1yr, $3.00;1mo, Member of the Associated Press. s ix exclusively entitled lication of All news dis This paper and als the local mews pub. All ‘rights of publication of aldo resery In this period of suspi aggeration any investigation, however fair, tends to slur and to distress the ! . ono investigated. . In the case of the reappointed Com- missioners, however, their vindication Ly the investigator has been so prompt and so complete that the dis- tress of the investigated may merge into the gratification‘of the Vindicated. In retrospect, this unpleasant ex perience may be discovered to be a lessing in disguise. Certainly the Commissioners enter upon & new term of office not only rendered fitter 0 perform efficiently their official duties by longer and more diversif training in the school of experience, | COrFuption exposed and the corrup- | but encouraged and strengthened by the fact that the result of their en- durance of the fire of accusation is u | terested in iegislation which is neces- | demonstration of the regard for them | Sary to the prosperity of the nzliofx la s al. of the Capital community and an. ex- pression of the continued confidence of the Pre general fitnes To be weigh weighing one is not found wanting. Not a Bryan Year. Wiliiam Jennings Bryan in an inter- view the other day modest.y suggest- t the embarrassment the demo- m to be encountering over dential timber, that while a candidate, still if the party should draft him he would respond. Thomas Taggart of Indiana, wise old owl o widely known in his party, says, “This is not a Bryan ¥ Mr. Taggart, who was in New Yo confabulati with his political “buddy,” Boss Murphy of Temmany Hgll, opined that the party will go to the middle west, which he terms “the zreat valley of democracy,” for its candidate, and prophesied that it will take S the nominee of the national conven- tion The interesting suggestion was made by Mr. Taggart that Gov. Alfred % ¢ New York might be avail- nd place on the ticket, al- could not “see” Gov. Smith place. That might, indeed, strong team, tying up two E New York and Indiana. whose sssential to victor; This ainly is not a Bryan year, as Mr. Taggart says, but what most demoerats are worrving over just now 3 whose year though he for first 3 { A Spring Tragedy. weather of the t day of spring this year lends verisimilitude to the otherwise unconvineing narra- tive of the declares that: | “The first bird of epring Attempted to sing. But e'er he had uttered & note Ho feil from the limb. A dead bird was him. The music had friz in his throa | limerick which Not only has the public learned a sreat deal about Teapor Dome, but hose involved in the deal have se- cured some surprising information ibout one another. As usual, the first days of l‘:lrlng' brought the reminder that @ man may be & 'first-rate astronomer but & poor weather prophet. ‘The tax producer is now wondering whether Congress is going to dodge its duties as a tax reducer. Control of Private Architecture. It is an old proposal thet there ahould be public authority to pass on the architecture of private buildings in Washington. Such authority well used, and no doubt it would be, would be for the benefit of the city. and therefore the benéfit of all citizens. The officer in charge of public build- ing® and grounds, and who is also a member of the Zoning Commission, #ald at a recent public meeting that the Zoning Commission should be “ling can well | Hoosier state democracy and | ator Ralston of Indiana for | stantlal, but wers to be hatmomious. ,For oniy brick and: stone were to be {used, und no building was to be higher {than forty feet, 1 on tha avenucs Hower than thirty-five feet, thus insuring ta #ky line that would be pleasing. This {atier for the first time at- the continegt of Eu- wted by Jelerson as receding fall (1790), who ftates that he was pleased with the re- Bults of such a system in Paris, n the early duys of the Tepublic the, | Bovernment. displayed good taste if Public architsciure, The Capitol, White Hous: ings arc examples. Then there was a slump in government ideals, and we lgot the pension office and the Post Office building on Pennsylvania ave { nue. nunists began to write: thefr the statutes, and the govern- ment began to set up public structures o different from. private office build- The factory bype of public build- in. The tendency toward » unwortpy buildings, monu- ments and-the like was so marked that a demar me for the regulation of such things by a qualified coramission. Thus. we have #he Commission of Finc he time has already come ome supervision of the char- acter and appearance of peivate build- ings is called for. | il 2 | views ings. puttin: ¢ Investigation vs. Legislation. President Coolidge will have ‘the support of public opinion in his ef forts 1o persuade Congress to get down to the business of enacting nec- essary logislation. and wholesome investigations now un der way may be, the conducting o }investigations is not the primary function of Congress. It is properly a legislative body first, and only an inquisitorial one incidentally to its {legisiative functions. When the in- { uisitions. which are justified at all {only as they serve to further legisla- |tion, grow to such proportions that { they cbstruct legislation, it comes to {be a case of the tail wagging the dog. .- tionists removed from office and pun- jished, but they are more vitally in- {and the well-being of the individu | When Congress convened last Decem- | 1t in their integrity und | Der one of the things promised, and | eagerly awaitel, was carly revision 1 in the balance may |Of the revenue laws. Now we are told | be philosophically endured if in the |PY Senate leaders that there is small | lclmnre of the revenue bill becoming ilaw before Congress recesses in June !for the national conventions. In the | meantime business suffers, both from uncertainty and from the unjustifia- ble high rates of the present law. It muleted out of millions of dollars through wrongdoing which the inves- tigations have disclosed. . But the peo- ple are losing { than ever were involved in the wrong- doing because they are not given the jrelief which it is unanimously agreed in Congress can be, and ought to | bo, afforded them. In its concern over the spigot leaks Congress secms to have disregarded the much lurger bunghole losses. i | The time is ac hand, secmingly, jinvestigation and legislation. could be carried along side by sit well and good: but apparently, judg- {ing trom recent months, they canuot be. It one or the other must be sid | tracked, legislation ought to bé given the right of way. Let Congress taki up and dispose of the program | constructive legislation, from the lack | of which the country is suffering, and pass the supply bills, without whict the government cannot Then if Congress wants to come bac to Washington after the conventions it can take up the investigations again. Some of the alleged happen- ings being investigated date back two years or more. A delay of two or thres months in concluding inquiry into them could not seriously inter- fere with the ends of justice. e Nearby Grade Crossings. The people of Silver Spring, a fas. growing town and neighborhood jus: across the District line in Montgomery county, Md., have long been discuss. ing means for dolng away with the Silver Spring raiiroad and highway grade crossing in the vicinity of Wash- ington except that of the Washington- Baitimore boulevard and the Baitimore and Ohio railroad at Ilyattsville. A proposal has been pending at Silver {Spring, to have the Maryland §tate roads comthission take up the matter crossing. The Maryland legislature now has hefore it'a bill by which the Montgomery county commissioners would be authorized to issue $100,000 in bonds to be used in eonjunction climinating certain grade crossings in the thirteenth election dlstrict of Mont- gomery ‘county. It s believed that one of the grade crossings that would be cluded under the bill js that at Sliver Spring. The thirteenth election district of Montgomery county is popularly known as the Wheaton dis- trict, and includes Silver Spring, North Takoma, Sligo, Woodside, Fen- wick, Linden, Forest Cllen, Kensing- ton, Norbeck and Wheaton. There is a provision it another blil pending be- fore the state legislaturs that 'the Baltimore and Ohio ratlrcad shall iower by at least ten feet the tratks of the riven power to regulate the character and appearance of buildings as well as their height and use. He belleves that the commission shdtld have the power to supervise and pass on the pians of buildings beforc they are erected to make sure that notihg of an-inhar- monions appearance is erected in a residence section. He said that the ‘Washington which we call beautiful is %ideous in some ways, and that some dwellings which have been remodeled for commercial purposes are “atroci- ties.™ The founders of Washington had in mind - that there should be architec- tural harmony and elegance in the Capital. George Washington wrote to Thomas Jeffergon in 1791 concerning building regulations for the- federal city, and Jefferson roplied under date of Georgetowr, September 8, 1791 Fased on that correspondence i the following ' from Bryan's “History of the National Capital”: The-regulations in the iremants as to the character of the buildings to be erected were unuspal in that day. The new structures werc not oply to be sub- Metropolitan branch at their intersec- tion with the Maryland highway. con- necting Georgia avenue in the District of Columbia-and the town-of Olney, Montgomery county. That'is & specific reference 'to the Sliver Spring grade crossing. To do away with that grade cromsing would be an important step in progress. . ox ——em . It is intimated that Albert Beveridge would not be averse to a presidential nomination, This may be true, but it is no time to throw the spotlight on a perfectly g0od dark horse. il . Plight of the Deeds Office. ‘The plight of the recorder of deeds’ office s brought to public notice again Dby renewed efforts of the owners of the bullding to evict-this government office and regain possession of their propecty, . The recorder’s office i in a private building most unsuitable for use as public offices; not lirge erotugh for the too small force of the .office and entailing inconvenience of. every- patent officc and other bufld- | However desirable | The people are intcrested in having | is asserted that the people have been | many more millions !, | when Congress must choose between | If they | function. | grade crossing. It is the most traveled | of doing away with this dangerous | with, the state roads commission in|. Thody having buslness “with the land | | records of the District. This offiée had {a home in the old city ball or the courts buflding. When the work of enlarging and remodeling that build- ing wiis begun-tho recorder of decds’ office, us other offices, was moved to temporary quarters. The deeds office was moved to & tall, narrow bullding | construoted gis;an” office Luilding for lawyers.” AR 'it. is now, Idber 1 A of the land-rgbords of the District may be in & &mall room on thg left of the stairwas or' the secondfloor and Liber sometkims: of that sort, i {muy be in-o small back rdowm on the | fourth floor, The index books.may be | in another rooin’sn weothet Noars -Rer- ps When o wan finds the liber -aon- {taining the' debd he' needs there 1 ne | seat or table in thpt gpony at Which he | may examipe the dged. There may be | no spade if-that room fot a table, and 'in ‘the room. whefe ‘there is a table | men, areystanang because ihcre 48 not clbow room at thetable for them. When plans were made for the Te- | modeled’ courts biilding the deeds of- | tice was to have good quarters. When the work was nearly done it found that no space could be allotted Lo that office, The lease on the pri- { vate building expired and the District {uagreed to pay rent. The owners want- {ed their property.. Private tenants | were easier to get along with than the government, and they paid better. The j District could neither move the deeds offica nor pay Cohgress | dir | building in Judic ! recorder’s: gffice, and & bil | appropriation for r | building has been passed by jand is pending in the Hol There | has been great delay all along the line. higher re ¢ ing The: deeds office of the District is self- | i supporting, and has a large and fast { growing surplus to its credit in the Treasury. The landlords threaten if, and it carries on its important busi- ness in crowded and otherwise unsuit- iable rooms. —————— | Wireless communication still has a {long way to go before it can be de- pended on to meet emergencies when srm blows down the telephone | pol —_————————— About the only form of culpability binted at in the course of congres. al investigation 1is disregurd of speed limits and parking regulations. —_—————— Bergdoll is willing to come home and take his sentence, But he fears | unofficial demonstration, and does not to bite anybody in self-def ———— The fact that racing is known { the sport of kings does not convince the English public that equestrianism ! i3 essential to the Prince of Wales. | n —_———————— | It is safe to predict that no French |mtatesman will discuss ideas of ioan wancellation in connection with mon: {advanced by J. P."Morgan & Co. —_————— | A number of politicians would | glad to find Mr. la Follette so inter- ested in the summer campaign as to forget his spring housecleaning. —_——— In his efforts to close the Philadei- | phia sloons Smedley Butler s cheered | by the assurtince that he has the full { moral support of Gov. Pinchot, i — e Events have taken a turn which jcalls upon Will Hays again to stand | torward patiently for a little heekling. The Dempsey-Carpentier fight proved lons, hard legal battle. ————————— SHOOTING STARS. i | Y PHILANDER JOFINSON. ‘The Crocus. Hello, Yallerblossomt Peekin' through the snow! Haven't you got sense enough, When the weather is so rough, Not to try to grow? | i When the world s weary, Why should You appear In 80 very small.a way Strivin' for a bright display Of ‘persistent cheér? i | Hello, Yallerblossom! Winter is not don Yet your way seems. kind o' wise, Smilin’ at the changeful skies, Trustin' 11 the sun. Research Wark. ' ““There is a skeleton in every closet,” remarked the gloomy person, “I don't know about that,” snswered | Senator Sorghum. “But in these days | of dark suspicion I should say there's a skeletoni key for every man's desk.” Jud Tunkins says try, try again-is @ good motto, but it's what made him waste a good deal of his precious youth in an effort to learn to play ; Completed Task. Asin ;ho happy school days long gone g Itry to cut a caper, And hope the fax collector's pleased with my Examination paper. The Start and the Finish, “Marriages are made in heaven. *“That's.whero they may be mad | rejoined Mtss Cayenne, “but some of them don’t wind up there.” A OneMan Job. . 'Why-don't. yeu-turn in.and help eriforce prohibition?” T'm doin' my share,” answered Uncle Bill Bottletop. “I quit drinkin’ riypelf, and if every man would do the sarhe the argument would all be over.” “I's.in favor.of de saxophone,” said Uncle Eben. “Even if a mdn don't play it #0 very good it may ‘keep f'um talkin’ too much.” Many Uses for Gas. From the Birmingham Age-Herald. - In Nevada.gas is offieially employed to punish murderers. In many.other places political spellbinders :.use - it freeiy- to ‘ puhish "perfectly imnecent people. y AR s ‘From_the Baltimore Sun. 4 If the judges had beén clergymen, somebody might hay 00 b, sending in the ten co: was | ted that a plan be drawn for a: e for the! making an | that | « Senate | be | “There's a tremendously interest- ing néw democratic dark horss in the running. He is Gray Silver of West Virginia, the power behind the'throne of the farm bloc, ‘Tepresentative in Washington of. the ‘American. Faim Bureau. Federation. = Silver's friends declare ‘that the “‘ovement” in his favor is “unorganized and wholly spontaneous. It.comes from “the aticks.” Though practical farming has been Sliver's lifelong occupation, Ne has had many years of experience and tralning in politics and public e, Once he was presidant of the WeNt, Virginia state senats, which corresponds to the lieutenant gov- ernorship. Sllver .was the real or- ganizer of the and the agricultural community c¢redits him | with chief respousibility for the pas- i nage of twenty-seven woparate pleces of farm leglslation at Washington in recent years. His bucolic activities cover & wide range. It extends from apple “orchards in the Shenandoah i villey of Virginis to cattle ranches farms in Ilinols and Ar- lvér is. youngish—ffty- aid to be in receptive | mood. * % % Senator Teed Smoot of [tah has & grand passion that fsn't listed among his recreatfons in “Who's Wha 18 the game of solitaire, He plays it inveterately, and it has to be.a mo- mentous affair of state that ie per- mitted to intrude upon his favorite fme. Like most solitaire ad- 106U rasorts to it as a balm of overtaxed nerves and a banisher of wor Some of the astutest | potitic legislative strategems u are sald n Stiwot's | the to have Mad 1 solitaire table, Herbert Hoover has just been im- mortalized at his alma mater, Stan- i ford University, in California, by the formal opening of the Hoover War Library, of 125,000 volumes. It be- comes one of the four biggest collen- tions of its kind In the world, worthy counterparts being only those install- ed in the Imperial War Museum in Lendon, the World War Library at Leipzig and the Museum of War in Paris. The Becrstary of Commerce has financed the immense work of re- search and assembling, extending since 1914, which has resulted in & compilation destined to bring to Stan- tord futurc generations ol historians { in search of first-hand data on Arma- | keddon. Ephraim D. Adams, profes- | 8or of history at Stanford, has been elected chairman of a board of ten directors who will - supervise the | Hoover Library. | *oxoxox i { One of America’s most restless re- i formers of another day—the late Dr. Wilbur Fisk Crafts of Washington— would have taken & lively interest in | the Daugherty investigation develop ments, [t was Crafts who, as super- {intendent of the Intcrnational Reform Burcau, instigated the law forbidding | transportation of prize fight pictures | {ip interstate commerce. Before the | i Dempsey-Carpentier encounter Dr. i | Crafts was actively engaged in wa:s and means to prevent exhibition of | {the films outwide of New Jersey. He| told this observer’ that attempts to | { smuggle the pictures out of that state | were certain to be made and that ex- treme vigilance would be neceseary to checkmate them PR Huston Thompson, president of the Federal Trade Commission, thinks it | might better to decorate Settle | { { The suggestion that the question of Philippine fndependonce should be “thrashed ott on the floor of Con- grees” comes from a large number of | aditars who discuss the latest de- { valopments in this situation. There is as well o general discussion of the attitude taken by President Coolidee and, In this direct connsction, there comes a demand that all of the facts be placed at the disposal of the peo- ple, inasmuch as independence is cer- tain to be an issue in the coming presidential campaign. “The people of the United States have no other will than to deal justly with the PHipinos,” asderts the Ai- dany Knickerbocker Press (independ- ent republican) “but the practical de- cisions must ba in the hands of the officers ‘of this government” The | Gooliame "poticy [a sane. continucs the 'New ¥ori Timen (independent | democratic) whilé his announcement is “a just disillusionmont." adds the Brookiyn Eagle (independent demo- cratic).. But the Springfield Republican (independent) fesls “the President's | tetter 18 not likely to command seri- ous public attention in this country. because “results aiready show that 1if the last administration went too {far in encouraging Filipino aspira- tions to manage their own coop; the present administration has embraced a polley of too much repression. * ® k% 5 The Louisville -Courier-Journal (democratic) ts convinded that “the laws adopted by the Filipino legis- lature may stretch the Constitution, but they form the foundation of liberties - whigh tha 1sland . oltjzens esanot be expected to give up with- out a fight””' To which the Portland Express (republican) rejoins that “we took posssssion of the islands because the war with Spain has made us re- sponsible for them and we are keep- in® them for the same reason.” Agree- ing to this argument, the Albany News (independent -republican) feels -“re- cent -devélopments have -given ev}. denoe that the time:is pot ripe for i dependence,” bocauss “it would mean -oniy that self-seeking Fillpine politd- oinns- would gaim control and the. ad- vancement that has been made might be sot back for years." The Spring- fleld Unlon (independent) adds that the . administration "views expresses aptly what {s commonly felt in the United States and it is time the agita- tors in tha Philippincs came to realise & Sy At & the Cleveland Plain Deater (in- dependent demooratic) views the out- Took, “no American néed apologise for his country beingin possassion ol the Philippines though it would have been far betté# had BR8 never under- takén this -aclonising experiment. “There would be occasion for apology, Bowaver, if in yiplstion of solemn pledges. the ited States remainéd ™ the islands indefififtery.”” — Th New York Evening World (indepent- | ont) Insists -“less acerbity and more fact would have beén in keeping with the occasion’ 'bechuse “few people are grateful for tho questionable rivilege of bolng mubjects.” Yet the | iz Tribube . (Fepubljcan) e i o 1R e engistas may as wll. put. aslda:thelr dream of complete political detachment from the United States” while the Mil- waukee Journal (Indopendent) sug- gests “if President Coolldge wishes | to ald the Filipinos he might try| sending. m: some other governor | general; some one.who has more of a Knaok of. co-operation. than Maj. Gen. Wood -has ever shown.” - il &R | 4 I are an essential econdmic, asset t0 the United Btates,.as well: as & strategic point in the Pacifla,” says the Norfolk Ledger- Dispatch- (Independant. demo- critic), but the Royernment owes a duty te-the Pilipins which must, xiot be ‘overlooked, and: that: fs. their lift in- practical’ commonsense *! that will fit.themifor 'aqfl-tb&x | Justice’s burcau of investigation, has |ter, {for Insurance of some type. | tuaily | Representative Julius Philippine Issue ‘ In Congress, Editors Say | the | sists | must develop, and | Suppress the American rebels in 1776 | MAR members, of t'ha{-iynu'od-sfixa clvil vic ;aystemat! < ore or Investigate tham. in i o | Washin; the other day Thompson said, ‘cof ting on the | of the non-living wage paid and patrfotic civil “Supposine. Langles, physicist, 'lag - invented ying machine: or Clarehce King; Arst di- rector of the keological survey; of lexander Bache, who- developed the ! cofist and geodetic survey, hefore | theie ggiing hed Deon sumpigHeNon a_day %ot dside annually, and ih ‘the presence of thd Congress and the Sg- preme Court had had their ce and gacrifice: rewarded by ' distih. #uished decoration at the hanmds' of the i President of the United States. Catrrany one imagine that this.would not send a thrill throughout the whele civil derviee?”. A P o *hx % P b As Attorndy General Daugherty and | his counsel think the Senate fnvesti- gution & “anomalous from eVery | standpoint; - they ‘are themselvées re- sorting to unusual methods of rébut-* tal. Every time a Brookhart-Wheeler witness wanders into the realm of! fietion—from Daugherty’s point of | view—the Attorney General makes a | statement to the press. Willlam J. Burns, chief of the Department -of | en hitting back In the same fash- ion. Mr. iraugherty's communlques are not always vitriolic. A recent | statement commended the fairmess of certain witnesses. Doheny has heen issulng broadsides to the press for w month. 1In Bri Judicial practice, which i to be the corner stone of o h and | all of these recours § probably | i { be considered infractions begause d in with sub-judice matters nd somebody might suddenly find him seif in contempt of court * % % % Representative Me. Jacobstein, who sits in the House for the Roches- Y., constituency, has been tak- Ing a great and solemn referendum there on the bonus. Iie sent out & ballot to every ex-service man he could reach in Monroe county, many of whom are not members of the American Leglon. To the question, “Do_you want adjusted compensa- tion?" 3,890 answered ves, and 71 mo. To the question, “What kind of sd- justed compensation do you prefer™ 1,786 aeked for & cash bonus, and 2,104 | Some of | Jacobateln's constituents were not | content with simple voting, but eag- | erly expressed their opinions. One who voted against a bonux said: “In case of another war, it will be handy | for the United States to have a littia luose " "A pro-bgnus chap wrote: sarvice in the Army ac- sst me $2,000 in loss of pay. 1 feel that even a small part of this would be acceptable, without in any way impairing my patriotism. * % ox % Postmasterships, while lomm!m»s! they allow a member of Congress to secura a good position for some help- ful friend, are for the most part the bughear of exiatence for congressmen There are two notable exception owever, tn the present House. Rep- esentative Charles L. Underhill of Massachusetts claims that he and Kahn of San Francisco are the only (wo men in (‘ongress who haven't & postmaster | in (helr disteict. All of the subeta- tons in Representative Underhill's district come under the Boston post- maste: (Copyright, 1021.) The | if not for in ~ e Now | pendence. Preaident was just! d. s th York Post (independes “dissolving the fasa hope” which the | Filipinog are cherishing. This is also view of the Boston Transcript (independent republican), - which 4n- | in this matter, as in others. President (oolldge evinces a dispo- | sition to do his whole duty as he sees | it without fear or favor” HIs posi tion, -however, the Youngstown V i dicator (democratic) Insists, “is tr- ditionally republican,” .although the Lansing Journal (independewt) sug- | gests it is difficult to say when any | Deople arc capable ,of self-gavern- ment, if ever.” A | Tt e the belief of the Des Moines Register (independent) that unless | independence is granted a revolution “probably when | The revolt comes, as It will. we shail ! send over a great army and shoot off | the Filipino ‘rebels. It is " mhch easier now to sand great armies than it was when King George ‘tried to | The FIlipinios are out of luck in ths century their struggle 18 staged in This suggestion is rebuked by the Co- | lumbus _State Journal (republiean), i which feels “a considerable part of the clamor for Filipino independence is manufactured by a well organized publicity department that 18 operated | in Washington,” but Post-Dispatch - (independént) feels | that by refusing independence the “moral influences of . tha United States” are hampered. There also | Seems danger, in the opinlon of the Baltimore Suri (democratic), that the | threatened boycott of American goods by the Filipinos will result In serious trouble later, because “there are the makings of another Irish problem in the Philippines.” But the Kansas City Journal (republican) atgues “the letter of the President has a ring so frank and kindly that if the Filipihos are neither rash nor blind it will en- 1ist, their loyal co-operation with our | governmant-'in its efforts to fit them for complete independence. Asserts U. S. Buildings : Mar ‘Beauty of City ‘faghington, &5 all. Americans are praug to know, is gme of.ihe most. beautiful cities in the womld, but it has fallen: short of what'it might be through the negligence of Congress in ‘failing to ‘adhere strietly: to the plahs prepared for it-py “the first President. e government itselt has been an offender In. erecting’ public buildings without regard. to -their situation 48 teBpecis. their. .relation to” each othef and to the plan as a whole, . The.fine perspedtives dciign- éd have thus Deen shut off.in-many places, and vannct now be fully re- storell.”’ " Pennaylvania ' avenite” “ts broken by tha Treasu und: this Street,- which “should have ‘been nob!’u!h on"_the " continent,” now. lh,: ‘built up in fts most important wec- tion—between the Capitol and ‘White House'-with unimposing struc- tures that-should not have béen per- mitted on it. - - This sort of growth can be checked ‘elsewhere, f various committees fhlmnn thlr n::na lc:.h"nh ‘:‘. riot -matters can. o1 - 10-- G0~ operata ofi' & uUniform pn&...fi.‘ is the purpose of the Americah ' Ciyic Anrcu, ton and ite committee. - if 1¢-1s to be effective, the eo: Tust have .the h -operation of Agencies sverywhero and of sif zens- clvic ho: desira:sto see Wi keep iie place.among the cnglln " the world. - v e Ty - @ongréss, whick is the. city council re#pons . o Capital: s not to rhrng!epwc( the District atone, but to all the peoble-of:-thé United States. ~if Congress can be made to teel “that -through an’ lett and. re- Sponsiyeé public opirfion on the sub- m: & finer ‘Washington, muem eht plans will receive the alte in-that bady, which they desérv From the Kansas City Star, s 2 v 3 | has led to the. publication of oultline: | “An - Outiine {a iural promoter and booster and almost las scon as he is through college he 1% CH. 22, 1924, _The Library Table \ =, x £ £org Humorf,has -been philosophizéd about, desigibed and dissected, .but this has usually been done with Teu- fonlg ( thuroughness - by German writers, with rather fugubriotis fe- sults. Carolyn Wells has_ aljogether too keen a-sense of humorito try to analyze and classify humor, But notirg the phénomenal vogue of “The Outline of History,” by the English Wells, the novelist turned.bistorian, ‘whose bonk has achleved perhavs the greatest sustained g suecess of @Y work . published in Yhis century and 5 of _solence, literature and art, Caro- 1y Wells has also gone Into (he out. 1lne business on her own account and has edited “An Outline of Humor.” Deseribad in a subtitle as "belng & irue chronicle from preuistoric e 1o the. twentieth century,” this. book contains the- minima of ‘introductory and explanatory connecting Para- raphs necessary’ to hoWl it together. ts pages, numbering nearly 880, are devoted to & well selected anthology of humorous ‘passages, prose-and po- atry, from ancient, medieval and mod- ern 'writings, arranged chronologi- eally and by countries -or 'oOfigin, all_made usable by an author, title and sublect fndex. The Lrief general irtroduotion. to of ilumor” consists largely of extracts from previous (writers on the humorous elements in litorature, It excludes the Germans, who have glven, the editor says, “pro- found if. unimportant opinions,” but inoludes writors who discuss the dis- tinetion between humor and the sense of humor, which the editor points out aré by no means tnseparable. - “Humor and the semse of humor need not necessarily lie in the same brain,” she writes. Just as one may be a competent musical or art critic without créative ability in those fields, so one may have a eense of humor without _being humorous, and _vice versa. SRe relates that many gréat humorists have littie or no sense of humor. She suggests trying to tell a joke to an accredited joker and not- ing his blank expression of uncompre- hension. “It is because he hag no sense of humor that he takes him- self seriously,” she says. But “the man with a sense of humor 8 a joy to know and to be with. The man who posscsses both s already an im- mortal"” The temptation to cull and guote from this joyous book are too strong. Out of the many old friends that urge their claims . the Booklover will chooss only this one from Oliver Her- ford (after Herrick): “Gather Kittens while you may, Time brings only Sorrow And the Kittens of Today Will be Old Cats tomorrow. Here is another short one from Thomas Moore that insiets en being quoted: “'Come, come,’ said Tom's father, ‘at your time of life, There's no longer playing the rake. It is time you ”mum think, boy, taking a wife.’ Why, so it_is, father—whose wife shall T take® * * Two brothers as opposite in type as If they had bgen descended from en- xcuse for thus of jtirely different lines of ancéstors are the. chief characters in Booth Tark- ington's novel, “The Midlander.” Both Dan and Harlan Oliphant are by birth Midlanders, for both are natives {of Booth Tarkington's favorite In- {diana city, of which he has iraced the development in several novels. 1t is to Dan, however, that the title of Midlander is applied, for Dan is the true son of the middle west, whose hopes and ambitions all center ut his home city. Dan is & nat- concelves the great idea of the Or- naby Addition. He sticks to the idea in spite of the warnings and the ridicule of nearly every one in town. and slowly, contrary to all prophe sies and with many finahclal crisex. the idea Ainally succeeds. The frony of It ll!"h that the optimistic, per- sistefit; Jovable Dan lay< the founga- tions and - boilds ths struéturs, but it is the cultivated, superior, ovnical Harlan who occupiés the mansion of sucosss. After all, Dan has itved and { as had ‘the fun of it, temperament that alone while. As Harlan say Dan’s been too busy to be much both- bootr my judgments. T've been nothing; but even if le fails, at least heen a branch, of the growing tree, though we don't know “Yhere it's growing to, or why.' * % % x > 12 Queen Elizabeth had lived in the twentieth oentury Instead of the six- tetnth and had Been the victim of all the discasés aftributed to her by Frederick Chamberlin in. his -book, “The Private Character of Queen Elizabeth,” she would almost certain- Iy not have w aEo of aixty: AfVotax sIxty of Queen Elizabeth and concludes that she Was & most interesting med- ical case. He liste chronological all her ailments and gives the date of each and her age at the time, as well as all avallable details of each dis- case. After this itemized acoount he and to his is worth ins. Mr. Chamberiin the St.” Louis | quotes & number of pages of “Opin- ! ions of Medical Experts,” which in most cases are wisely cautious. Most of [the experts, although admitting that the distinguished patient peoba- bly did not The Dbest -of! health, demur that scientific tp ¥ender ‘a diagiosls on scattered hitterieal data after th lapse of moré ‘than . 300 years. One physi{cian says-it (s possibie that a sarioua Hligess which FElisabeth suf- fored At the mge of eightesn was nepheftis, or perhaps agute endocar- ! but e sees an objection to &.Is in the -fact that ither of hesk diveases would hardly Rave W(t!'fl ber to live ‘to be wearly’, Vi Another physiclan, of the’-Réyal College of Surgeans, thinks af sHe had anemia, stomach and liver disordérs, septic gums and teeth and rheumatism. It seems 10 be cer- tain that Queen Klizabeth once had smallpox, but then nearly every one in the sixteenth century had small- pox and those who recovéred were not often permaaently injured - in health and were theréafter immune from the disease, which was a deci ed advantage in the days of fr quently recurring epidemics. Alto- gether, one is inclined to believe that if Queen Elizabeth were a lifelong in- valid, Mr Chamberlin contends, she endured the same type of Invalid- ism as Jonathan Swift, Thomas Car- lyle _and, Florence Nightingale—the type whiéh Is not incomputibla. with longevity. Altis: ther- di S Ak The childgen of Dallas, Tex, to the number of over four thousand, recent- 1y voted Tor thaft favorits, books. | Each child sent in a-1i8t of ten booka. The: gombination list made from all the lists submitted was_ gs"fallows: “Little Women,” ‘“Treasiire Igiand, “Tom Sawyer,” “Robingon Cuso “THide Men. “Black Beaaty: Moty e Men,’ ach oly- annat and iwThe Gall of . the Swid" The list |6 & xod one, byt the Book- lover wishés the children-had'shown enough love for poetry so that Stev- enson’s “A Child’s Gardén of Verse” might have been included. It would be interesting to see:a list selected by the children of Wakhington, ER “Privateerifig- 'wi¥ “Piracy in the Colonial Périod! ia thi¢ title of a vol- ume just,publshed,.under the aus- tional Soclety of Co- riericd, by Pr: John Frankilh “ganvewon “of the Carnegle Institution of- Washifgton.~ Dz, Jame- Toom 138 LT from. 1638 10”1783 e, mi; ant thered through tor tha | pages to the pathology | th diffcult dnd un- | BY. FREDERIC J. H. ! - Q. How much salary are the at- torneys receiving who are represent- ing the government in the oll lease cases?—i. S. D. A. Noamount has been designated | as compensation for the attorneys. An appropriation of $100,000 has been made to carry on the case. Q. Did. Abraham Lincoln ever stop at the Willard Hotel?—H, B. I A. Abmlam Lincoln was not a fguest of the New Willard Hotel. On the site of the New Willard there | was & low red brick building which bore the name Willard's Hotel. lL. was here that Lincoln was a guest.; Q. What latitude?— | G T P. i A. Horse -latitude is the name given to the belt of calms in the North Atlantic ocean between the region of westerly winds of the higher latitudes and the region of trade winds of the torrid zone. Authorities differ in regard to the origin of the name, some claiming that- {t was derived from the fact| that vegsols with & Gargo of horscs were often o delayed on aoccount of the calms that the animals per- ished from lack of water. Q, Who {s the poet laureate of England?—B. C. B A. Bir Robert Bridges has held this post since 1913, when he succeeded Alfred Austin. Q. What is white pine blister rus! and how can it be controlled?—F. S. A. Blister rust is a fungous disease imported from Europe and is very de- structive to white pine timber. It has two stages, one on White pine and one on currant and gooseberry bushes. Tha method of control is to! destroy all currants and gooseberry | bushes within about 900 feet of the | ine trees to be protected. This has Peon found entirely praciicable and the value of whife pine timber is| high enough to fully justify the ex-| pense. The cultivated black currant | is the most dangerous carrier of the | disease and should be entirely de- stroyed throughout the pine region. | and its production in nurserics should | cease. Q. What Is a weicher?™—E. It. 5. | A. In race track parlance, a| welcher, or welsher, is one who makes | Dbets Or receives betting money and | then absconds, not paying his losses or returning the money of those be ting. In card games a welcher is one whe refuses to pay a mouth bet Q Was (31;"1 Barton a lover of music?—A. M. IL A. On the contrary, Miss Barton is said to have had little if any love for music. Q. What are the characteristics of | ‘Washington bent grass?—A. G | A. This new grase for goif greens| is of fine texture, durability, uni-| formity of surfaoce and has a bright] green coloring. This variety was, introduced by aceident with mixed bent seed from Germany and was dis- covered on the golf course of the Washington Golf and Country Club. It is a true creeping bent grass and the Department of Agriculture ex- perts who discovered it removrd, enough of it to the government »x-! perimental farm to develop seed plots, ‘All the Washington bent! grass.in America can be traced back | to this beginnin, Q. What is the difference hetw skilled and unskilled laborersi— a. A A. Skilled laborers are those re- quiring such training in a partioular | is horse Sees ““Insult” in Bonus. World Wor Veteran Opposes“Ad- justed Compensation” Measure. %o the Editor of The Star. May 1, as a former member of the District of Columbia unit in the Rainbow (42d) Division of the Amer- fcan expeditionary forces and as a constructively active member in the | George Washington Post, No. 1, of the District of Columbia Department of the American Legion, be afforded sufficient spage in which to express briefly & few of my present thoughts lapropos of the proposed scldiers’ bonus? In the Ameérican Legion Weekly's issue of ¥February 1, 1924, there ap- péared an article, running over sev- eral pages, captioned “National Ex- ecutive . Committee ‘Directs Dri Obtain Compensation Objective.” | fact, this publication has been lite | leraily overflowing with pro-bonus {articles during particularly the past| iwo and one-half months, Having | | read in the press that on the 1 |instant the proposed soldiérs' bonus I pill was favorably reported by the {House ways and means committee, | | 8uppose that the national officers of {the American Legion are now cons | ducting grand pow-wows by way of | rejoicing over their first victory dur- ing the current session of Congress on this matter of national importance 1 am pleased fo note that Con- gressmen Mills of New ¥ork, Tread- way of Massachusetts and Tilson of Connecticut, all republicans, voted against this, to the vast majority of the World War Veterans, insulting measure. Chairman Green éstimates that this bonus bill will cost §$2,119,000,000, It is not difficult for me to recall having recelved a $60 discharge bonus and 1 recall rather easily the taxes and_higher cost of living incident thereto. Thorefore, realizing that what comes,out of our Treasury must he returned (unless we, as & govern- ment, are to become bankeupt), 1 what benefit the proposed “adjusted compensation” will amount to? Wil we, thg veterans and the other tax- payers, hot have to repay the cost of the wpidiers’ ‘bonus, and will it not cost thé indiyidual veteran many times more than what he individually will receiyve by way of “adjusted com= pensation”? -1, for one, have paid out in taxes ncident to the dlscharxe bonus meny, many more than the paltry 360 I recelved from our De- partment of the Treasury. Furthermore, is not this proposed | soldiers’ bonus a grandstand political move on the part of .certAin mis- guided members of Congress timed to come up for thelr consideration just before elections? And are not the national officers of the American legion betraving thelf members by | ublfcly -demanding the proposad go ? . T sincersly believe that an i Atlve answer would be: correct to otk of my inguiries. ~way of concluding, 1 desire to! ERS TO QUESTIONS |States Vet I am rather curious to jearn of just!l oceupation as would Involve material and industrial loss in & transference to other occupations. Any laborers who do not have to serve an ap- prenticeship to learn a trade are un skilled Igborers. KIN Q. How much did the Mayflower COSL2—A. M. E. A. The Maydower, owned by government and kept for the u the Presiuent, cost $430,000 Q. In automobils racing i« there such a thing as an Invisible tow- line?—1J. A. A. This so-called tow exists only on the board tracks in speeds of bet- ter than ninety miles an hour. It is the suction of the machine in front caused as It travels through space and can be likened very much to an inverted funnel, If the car back of it can keep within the space which would be equivalent to the spout of tho funnel it Is taken along at the same rate of speed as the car which 18 creating this vacuum. This method of riding is used quite often by the slower cars, Its dimdvantage i8 that the motor pioking up such & tow has 1o means of cooling and the motor I5 inclined to overheat very | auickly. Q. How can ons be kept from | drying up?—G. A. AL A. If lemons are put in a glass jar which is sealed they will keep from one to thrée months. Q. In what state are there the most people who draw pensions from the pension bureau?—D. T. A. Ohio leads the list with 51,206 pensioners who recelved a total $24,498,4%0 during the yedr. Q. Do they hLave kindsrgartens i: pan?—A. M’ H ¥ A In 1919 thers were about children in the 612 kinderzartens re corded in the official statistics of Japa Presumably there were between three and four million children of kindergur- ten age. Q. When was the purchasing powsr of the farmers dollar at its highest and when at its lowest?—R. M. A. A table prepared for Congress by the joint commission of agricultural i quiry shows that the purchasing power of the farmer's dollar reached its high est point, 112 cents, in 1618 and 191 and was at its lowest, 81 cents, in 1845 Q. To whom did Dryden refer in these lines: “With leering looks, full- faced and freckled fair, two left lezs and Judas-colored halr and frows rorgs that taint the ambient air”? A Dryden thus described his pub- lisher, Q. What is the membership of the house of lords?—T. H. J. A. The membership of the house of lords varies aceording to th umber of peers who are qualified by age or otherwise (o take their seats. At the present time there are about 730 peers, of whom 20 are women. The women who inherited seats have not at the present time been permitted to oc- copy them, the seats remaining in abevance until the advent of males in the familics. (Hove you asked Hoskin? He does not Enow all the things that peoplo ask hin but he knoics people twho do know. 1 | him. State your question briefly, wriic plainly and inclose 2 cents in stamps for return postage. Address Frederic J Haskin, director, The Star Informativi Burcau, 1220 North Capitol street.) Veterans’ Bureau Funds. Errors Charged im Article by John F. Sinclair. To tle Editor of The Btar: In your paper of March 14 there ap- peared an article under the captioh Can Your Taxes Be Cut?” by one John F. Sinclair conserning the United ans' Bureau, which pur- ported to set forth facts and figur concerning the cost of the Veterany Bureau. This article s full of misleading and crroneous statcrments throughout ‘The opening paragraphs says (the Veterans' Bureau) activities are confined strictly to the veterans of the last whereas all veleraus of all wars of the United States re ceive benefits {rom the money appro priated to the Veterans' Bureau and are properly chargeablé ae an expensg of the Veterans' Bureau. However, there are Several anpro- priations which are charged tn the Veterans' Bureau by Mr. Sinclair for which the bureau is, in fact, age only. These Include $4,460,000 for “national scurity and defense,’ 000,000 “military and naval comp sation ana famtiy allowance. $5 000,000 1 on war risk insurance on Americ vesselr, their cargoes, etc”; $126,000,000 military and naval insurance and $25000 soldiers’ and ailors™s and civil relief claims. Mr. Sinclair ignores this fact in computing his enormous total of §2,122.283,000, as ho does likewise the $67,000,000 profit on war risk insurance, the §87,000,000 re- turned to the Treasury Department and the $397,000,000 unexpended bai- ance which he certainly must have known to be the case, or he coyld not have known the other facts sef forth by him He likewisa ignores the $465,000,000 taken from the pockets of the soldiers and sailors to pay government losses which, according to all workmen's compensation @cts, was a proper charge agalnst the government in stead of the soldie He likewise falis to take cognizanco of the $95,000,000 used by the Treas- ury Department Lo bolster the marke: on liberty bonds and other Treasury securities. Paragraph twelve of Mr. article reads as follows: of.the fiscal vear 1933 ininely-one governmen| operation, with & tola of 25,714, Jt was mecessary Veterans’ Bureau (o utilizs 1. Bospitals, where an additional 7, patients wers cared for.' This state- hospitals in bed capacity for the yment might well leave the impression that the Veterans' Burcau hospitals were meant, whereas the Veéterana' ‘Bureau had only fifty of those ninety- one hospitals and their bed capacity waus nowhére near 25000, and at tha same time there were nearly 25,000 I patients recelying hospital tréatment. ‘This is the reason for the present bill in Congress appropriating $11,000,000 to_construct new hospitals. . Now, if . Mr. . Sinclair .will pleasa abandon his attack on the hospital program of the Vetérans' Bureau and subtract the amount of ‘the agents’ funds in the amount of $1.154,900,000 from his total cost of ¥2,123,293,000 (which is not, corréet) he may per- haps find the true cost of the Veter- the E"“‘;""f’a"&!‘" A mlj- onys League, -as nd myself in horengt. atcord. therawith and be- lieve thag the4deas contained therein (¢e, more__representative of the flkflm ‘orld- War- Veterans than "tHo public ufternndes of the na- tionkl -exasutive committes of the Am ‘Lagion: # *.% & Opposed to the 8% of .any . form of a bonus to able-bodied” ex-service men on the groumds. that to' serve one's country in time of war is a privilego a8 well as 4 duty and that to Beek & material reward therefor is an aot repugnant to ®pirit of trus Y. trotiem and a violation of {he fundamental principles of American citizenship: pledges jtself to support the cause of the disabled and injured veteran with the same vigor and de- termination with which it opposes a bonus for the’able-bodied.” 1 do not believe that this proposed congressional measure can ever be passed over a presidential veto. In meantime had not the American on bettér rénder assistance to quéats & feéw lines from a pamphlet feved By éns Bureau and the henelits accruing t eterans. Tl . © the Vel ovD W, WOORLEY. Stuart Walcott Post, No. 10, Ameri- can Legion. Hard to Deliver:. From the Birmingham Age-Herald. There are already indioations it some of the mid-western. statesmen who went to Washington under cam- paign pledges to reorganige the gov- ernment may soon find it a bit em- barrassing to explain why they didn't make good. L —_—— Best Government. From (he Albany Jouraal, That nation has the best govern- ment whose individusls do not look ‘to government to' @0 for them what they ought to do for themselvea Passing of Sunday. veterans whp, -as_the result of war service; are mentally and phys- fcally in need of aid, and bury. in quicklime thelr “adjusted compensas tion” propaganda? " Respectfully, J BENTLEY MULFORD. From the Chicago News. Somebody asks where the old- fashioned ~“Sundal suft” has gone. Possibly 10 join~ the old-fashi Sunday. E—