Evening Star Newspaper, April 5, 1924, Page 6

6 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON. D. C. SATURDAY ... .April 5, 1924 THEODORE W. NOYES. . . . Edito r The B = Star Newspaper Company | Basiness Oice, 11th St. and Pennsyivania Ave Now Vork Office: 110 Bast 4ind St Puropean Office: 16 . London, England, | The Byening Star, with th, edition. x delivered Dy sity At 60 cents per mo | cents por month: Snumdas r Snonth " rteny may be ient be | Whone Main 5000 Crlection '8 made by car | Ters at the exd of cacn month i o | Rate by Mail—Payable in 1 Maryiand and Virg (ily and Sunday..1 sr. $$.40: 1 mo.. T0c | saily on 1¥7., 86,00 1 mo., 50c unday 1¥r, §2.40% o | Advance, ' | tmo. 8¢ | i1 mo. Bue | i 1mo., :".c‘ $7.00 $3.00 Member of the Associated Press. T Associated Press in exclusively entitled e it Tor republicatl news dla- s Credited 0 1t o no e crrdited | < paper and atio The lical news pob | herein. Al rights of publication of | wpecial dlipatches hetein am Al reserved. | | Injustice to Veterans. ' One pending Rress to which there has dev Opposition. which the 1at oug ) be any opposition. i3 the Hull-Wadsworth bill, fntended | 1o correct @ grave injustice worked by ¢ wervice pay The pay act provided, in higher cost living, increase pay for both active and retired officer ' of the Army, but specifically exempted | from benefits ofticers who had been retired prior to June 20, 1922, T this tion came about has never been explained, for it tmposed hardships on the men muost deserving of at the the they had rt at economy for the bulk retirement pay involved will be on ing scale as taps is sounded ns one by one. of the ated aguinst measure and to e cel 1 t not act of two years ago. «cognition of | the 1 of Just discrimi | | consideration ands of served. government s an ¢ ft was ogical one, veterans who are shows the been speciall d for gallant and distinguished In the group are medal-of-honor m d many holder of tinguished service medal. Among them are vetcrans of the In- dian wars. and even of the civil war. men whose closing years ought not t be clouded by a sense of injustice, re- | gardless of how badly they may need | | i i men who have i | eighteen | wance of which they The case of Gen ssigned to dut general of the DI militia. furnishes a sample illustration. Gen. Brett is holder of the congressional medal of tonor. the distinguished service medal and the croix de guerre, with paim. After forty-four years of service he was retired just prior to June 30, 1922, 2nd receives @ much lower retirement pay than younger men of much less service who have retired since that the increased all are thus dep ) trict of Columbi { a wholesome policy for nt, and should be prac- ticed diligently. but when economy be- comes niggardliness the government suffers more ge than it saves | Magnus’ Prediction. Senator Magnus Johnson of Minne- sota, speaking in Chicago, says: “The Tast two months in Washington have put the third party on the map, and let no one deceive you that the hopes of the movement are bound in the physical condition of any ons man who might be considered available as tho presidential candidate.” 1t is as sumed that he is referring to the in- vestigations, as he says that the whole country is to be made to understand | what is at the bottom of Teapot Dome. The thought occurs that if the ofl | and other investigations are to furnish the cause of existence of a new party, that organization will stand upon @ pretty shaky foundation. Political rarties must have a better reason for thetr being than this would furnish. To be sure the country is incensed over some of the disclosures, but is zradually getting to the point whers reason and analysis lead to @ proper weighing of the importance of #he revelations. Nothing thus far disclosed would warrant & democrat or a republican to throw over his party allegiance, with all the constructive policies the two old parties stand for, and wander Off into the desert after a mirage, ? Tn addition to advising the Pres! dent. a cabinet official is expected to tell the United States Senate a num- ber of things. The most laborious investigation of housing conditions is still being done by the homeseekers. Grade Crossings May Pass. The District Commissioners have Tot lost sight of the fact that there “emain in the city of Washington five railroad and highway crossings at grade. The heads of the local govern- ment have sent to the budget bureanu a bill providing for the abolition of three of the crossings, and have ap- peared before the budget in support of the bill. By its terms $200,000 would be appropriated for the building of bridges or underpasses at Van Buren, Chestnut and Varnum streets on the Metropolitan branch of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad in the northern part of the cit; Soon after these grade crossings took a conspicuous place in the news because of & series of fatali- ties the Commissioners conferred with representatives of the raflroad and drafted a bill calling for construction of a bridge or underpassage at each of the crossings. The cost of this work was estimated at half & million dol- lars, and the railroad was to bear half that cost. The bill was sent to the bu- rean, and returned with word that it must be modified. The estimate was reduced to $200,000, and provision made for removing three instead of the five crossings. Those grade crossings that remain are to be given all the safeguards in the way of gates, flag- men, bells and lights which the rail- read eampany can devise. The modi- fieq BTl was sent to the budget bureau in March, Representatives-of | it L man | erat get have visited the danger points in company with the District auditor, and they have a complete understand- | ing of the situation. A day or 80 ago the Commissioners appearcd before the written in the biil that half the cost of the work planned will be paid by the raflrcad company. Until very recent times ad crossings Were far out in the rural part of the District, and it was only now and then that a pedestrian a horse and wagon crossed the tracks. With the spread of the city nd the use of automobiles a gowd deal | of traffic now passes at those cross ings. In October, 19 thre were killed at the Lamond cre d last month a man crosving the cks there in an automobiie killed by a train. It is believed we shall get rid of that grade cre men a “ that g {and two others near by without much ; delay. and that elimination of the two remaining crossing; be expected in the near future. P —— The Great Falls Project. The Great Falls hydroelectric ect was discussed a fow evening Dby the Columbia Heights As ation. 1t has been discussed by ic bodies and citizens in gen t Nebraska would ir proj ago At the meeting of t Senator Howell of of ving that hills al sseeia be the the made electric river were “harnessed” by He said that the Great n would reduce the of trieity in Washington from 10 cents to 3 per kilowatt hour. That onsummation devoutly to be wi lut there Is a wide difference estimates of the cost of coal-generated electricity nsportation™ delivery rs. It is quite confusing to laymen. A number of experts have rendered the opinion which Senator Howell cxpressed, that a government- owned river plant could produce elec- tricity at 3 or 4 cents per kilowatt hour. Other experts have said that he cost of generation plus the cost of delivery at the home would not be less, or very much le 2 now. and that having the plants “standing b would make the cost greater. And unless the present plants are held in readiness to take up the work, should in light Fal leo- eled st in river-gen: and and ‘ to c or sun for emergencies the hydroelectric plant fall snort, the | would not be safe. It would seem that a hydroelectric plant frec from interest’ and tax obligations cught sell electricity at a lower price than a private plant. The que: tions of cost, though, must be left to the experts. Whether the Potomac river and a government power plant can or can- not deliver electric current at half the price now charged, the power of the Potomae should be put’to use. The indications are that the cost of coal- steam-generated electricity will in- crease. The indications are that coal. being withdrawn from the earth at {a rate of hundreds of millions of tons a year and with demand for it in- creasing. will not be materially cheap- er and will at length become scarce The world tendency is to put the rivers to work wherever it can be done either to supplant or supplement coal-made power. There are varying es how much power the generate. There has been tes as to can t mn: Potomac talk |it would light the city for all time, run its street cars and turn its ma- chinery, Yet plans that have met with official support contemplate that the coal generating plants be “hooked up” with the water-power plant to supplement it and “stand by" should it fail to produce enough current. But, whether the river can or cannot produce all the current which Wash- ington needs now or will need in time to come, the Potomac should make ity contribution and give us such power as it ha: ——— Acquaintance with the resources of | the U, S. A. available in case of war should at least have the effect of ren- dering any inquisitive foreign nation conservative in its plans for the fu- ture. ————— About the only tangibl ment that has been,shown in the af- fairs of Germany is the elimination of Bergdoll from the population. —_—————— The “dime novel” is declared obso- lete. The price is much higher, and the story, as a rule, rather poorer. Extinction of the Horse. Another scientist sa; th horse is to be extinct, and he sets the date, a century hence. The extinction process may be at work, but whether the horse wid go to fhe vanishing point in that time one does not know. If horses wonld decremse in the same ratio as in the past ten or twenty years it might be easy to tell when the last horse would give up his stall to {en automobile and pass on to that realm where good horses should go and perhaps where old Pegasus still rears and canters throagh the clouds. But the decrease in horse population =—or in “hippolation”—may not de- crease in arithmetical progression, end we may still find a horse on a farm near Washington as we now find a white turkey, a hand churn, a muley cow, a hearthbroom of sedge or something else quaint and rare. It may be that at our Zoo there will be a corral or a paddock with the sign “Equus Caballuy” or “Equus Pato- macae' or something of that sort, with this descriptive legend: “This strange quadruped was once numerous near Washington, and was used as a domestic beast by the rude dwellers mlong the Eastern branch and Rock creek up to about the year 1930.” Perhaps the children of present lit- tle children will jump in the family plane and hop down to the Nations: Museum to see a stuffed horse hitched to a buggy and labeled, ‘“Mcde of Transit Up to the Beginning of Twen- tieth Century.” Perhaps some movie people will put out a picture called “The Saddled Horse,” and show a men trotting along at the slow pace of a mile in two minutes. And perhaps some movie fan, speaking loud enough to distress her neighbors, will say, “My grandfather, who lived on Capitol Hill when Congress used to meet in the old Capitol, and when Washington was-a little village of oaly half a mil« these rail- the Tyler | coul-generating | > improve- | lion people, used to ride one of those Antmals with hoofs and mane.” Of course, the horse may be headed for extinction as this scientist says, but there are several old-time Wash- { budget officers and presented a formal | Ington people Who fecl that they will 'armuuon! in support of the bill. It is | meet the horse out in the suburbs for { many days to come. | ———— Business Co-Operation. Business, American business of to- | duy. to sum it up, signifies to some ;nnum\g but a flat pay envelope handed out at certain regular intervals, miethodieally pted and spent; to others, it is the way to the accumu- lation of vast wealth and earthly power; to still others it is the means of exprescing an individuality; to all, { consciously or unconsciously, it is hu- man pro . It is the stimulus and the broaden- ing influences of business. the con- stant conlact with humanity, the matching of wits, the necessary com- petition, the gradual dawning of the quiet, sure realization of the golden rule, that make busi one of the dominant social forces of the ages. The most economic, factor in busi- ness is advertising. The “What-l Think - About- Washington-Advertising wiek™ s a local exp n of the fine spirit of modern trade. Advertising the window the soul of business. Today the business man ucceed knows he must keep windows clean. The principle that a business and its clientele are one large family treating cach other fairly, squarely, fran has been | firmly established. The business on its side brings the best values. t up-to-date ideas to the public. which in turn, with confidence and loyalty, supports legitimate enterprise and of- fers suggestions and helpful criti- cisms. The whole makes for @ health- ier organization, a healthier commu- nity. A city that backs its business houses, encouraging the good, weed ing out the bad, is a successtul city, with happy financial conditions, and its attending peace assured. *“What-T-Think - About - Washington- Advertising week' is a sincere attempt on the part of the Washington mer- chant (o have Washington say what it wants or thinks. that will make for better merchandising. It should do much toward insuring those pleasant relations between business and the public essential to the prosperity of any community. i | is to those e most Citizens Active and Famous. In Washington's population are many remarkable men and women. In | every issue of The Star there is some b of news that a Washingten scien- | tist has done this or is doing that dis- tinguished thing, or that in one gov- ernment officé or another is & man or woman who knows more than any- body else about the notes of birds, th wings of butterflies, the eyes of ants, the sting of bees, the footprints of pre- human monsters or the skulls of masto- dons. In this bureau or that is a wom- an who has sharper eyes than any other person for seeing counterfeit money or a man who can tell almost without looking whether @ postage {stamp bas been twice used. Then levery day or so we got a bit of news ! {that ¢ wan or t woman has | | worked longer for government 1 most persons live. and that the brother and sister workers in the oftice presented the hardy veteran with a ! | bunch of forget-me-nots. In a recent issue of The Star it was printed that Dr. ", G. Abbott, head of the astrophysical laboratory of the Smithsonian Institution, “plans to re- new this summer experiments in cook- ing by the heat of the sun.” And b will go away from Washington to do it. He succeeded in raising the tem- perature of a golar cooker at Mount Wil- son, Cal to 175 degrees. Dr. Abbott plans to produce a solar cooker which will be practicable in’ homes over a wide extent of the country. —_——— According to Mr. Harry Daugherty, a resignation from the cabinet does not necessarily impiy a retirement to private life. the SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILAND dJuzz. No more the song of sentiment Tn simple human joy may rise. The patriot hymn brings discontent As Art grows cynically wise. The simple theme of time-tried worth iives place to sound which never has True seriousness nor honest mirth— This is the awful hour of Jazz. JOHNSON i i i | 1 i i A sermon shows audacious skill. The statesrnan, with relentless hand, Strikes on a name and sends a thrill Of agitation through the land. ‘The harmonies are tossed aside With blustering “‘therefore” and As cults are clamoring far and wide— This is the awful hour of Jazz, Happy Childhood Days. “Did people ever pat you on the head and make remarks about your being a bright boy? “Oh, yes,” replied Senator Sorghum. | “They said I might be President some day. In fact, those happy childhood hours brought me about as pleasant, and also @s reliable, a presidential boom as any I have ever enjoyed.” Jud Tunkine says if the Chinese re- gard mah-jong as a wicked game now, what'll they think of it when it gets back from America? Location. When to excitement we're inclined Sense of direction often swerves. You think you've something on your mind, ‘When it is really on your nerves, Clarence, the caddie, announces that owing to the recent severe storms the spring golf ball crop is a failure. Cruelly Practical. “He bought a wonderful engage- ment ring,” said the happy girl. “Find out whether he paid cash for it,” suggested Miss Cayenne. “It may spoll a honeymoon if he has to be mak- ing payments on the installment plan.” “Dar is gettin’ to be only ‘jes two classes of people,” said Uncle Eben; “police an’ de folks dey's afte)” | Bave her all their confidences and re- | entirely due to their own charm and { moil has died I The Library Table BY THE BOOKLOVER An apotheosis of old age almost equal to Browning’s fn “Rabbi Ben Ezra,” is to be found in Susan Ertz's nevel, “Madame Claire.” “Madame Claire” was the name given Lady Gregory by her grandchildren. Some- times they dropped the “madame” and merely called her “Claire” To be sure, the grandchildren were very modern, post-war young people, but even they would not have ventured to take libertics with a grandmother who was not youthful and modern In spirit in spite of her eighty years. When she had become a widow Mme Claire had gone, with her devoted maid Dawson, to live In a suite in the Kensington Park family hotel, be- cause she valued her son's love too | much to risk living with him and a | daughter-in-law. Comfortably estab- lished in independent quarters, which she rarely left. she received frequent Visits from her son Kric and her srandchildren Noel and Judy who ed hers in return; for Mme. Claire by no means occupicd the position of the grandmother knitting in the chimney corner, with no interests ¢ cept those of the younger gen. tions. She had affairs and schemes of lier own; indeed, she had a lover from whom came frequent letters. * % % % Her daughters Millie and Connie paid her raror and more formal visits for she liad never been especially fond | of them. They were not her sort.| Millie was a conventional and dull so- | ciety woman, the wife of & man of | wealth and family, and wealth and | tamily were the only things that counted in her estimation. Mme. Clalre found a certain amount of wealth convenient and considered a fairly respectable family an advan- tage, but her final judgments were based on brains and character. She had never “outgrown a feeling of amazement at having achieved any thing as correct as Millicent.” The other daughter, Connle, Countess Chi- zozl, was temperamental and was the victim of an almost lifelong infatua- tion for a Russian musician. Mme Claire did not condemn her. even when she deserted her husband and cloped with Petrovitch. She folt that Connie could not help being what she was. but she herself did not find Con nie congenial. Mme. Claire's feelings for her children depended very litti- on maternal instinct, but a great deal on thelr personalities. “She had often een heard to say she loved Eric be cause he was Erfc and not becau: she had borne him. She declared that her affection for Judy and Noel w i H | | i attraction for her, and had nothing to do with the fact that they were her grandchildren.” * X ¥ * Mme, Claire did not chafe against old age. She did not wish she we voung again. She would not have! lived her life over. She considered that old age had many advantages over youth and was continually try- ing to impart this view to her old lover, Stephen de Lisls, who bitterly | regretted his lost youth and resented his gout and phlebitis had ~discovered many good bout old age. She wrote to St Therc is nothing like the mirth of | old age. for old age knows why it| laughs. ¢ * ¢ Staphen, would you be young again? You, thinking of | our gout and your phlebitis, would | Jast By Jdon't you see that ou would merely be invi zo answer is “No, no! And | hav Peen happy, too. and with reason, for anything would 1 ba blind uncertain, groping, feeling my ¥, wondering where my duty lay dreading the blows of fate bafore | they struck, valuing happiness to. highly. That is life. Now the tur- . . confusion is no It's sitting on a quiet Jn the light of the setting ate cannot harm me—{ have | | ention ot | Tuberculosis should have persuaded Tugene O'Neill to substitute some other disease for tuberculosis fn his play “The Straw.” The kisses that are bLestowed and exchanged by tubercular persoms in the play would horrify any physiclan or nurse engaged in fighting the disease through clinic or sanitarium, Eugene O'Neill evidently knows perfectly very communicable nature of tabor culosis and the technique of fts treatment.” Early in the play the doctor tells Elaine that she must o to a sanitarium not only for her own %ood but because of her younger brothers and sfsters, to whom she has become a danger, and that while she is still at home she must be vers careful not to Kiss them. Yet a few moments later, when she meets her fiance, F'red Nicholls, she throws ber- self into his arms and is hurt be- cause he draws back from the kies she offers him. Doubtiess Fred is too careful of his health to be an ideal Mme. Claire things | ephen : | no, { wa. mare. hilltop £un. ¥ lived.” * The Society for the Prev. | lover, but what of the love of Eiaine vhich is so careless of the welfare o the beloved? Stephen Murray, whom she meets at the sanitarium and falls in love with, has no such fear of her kisses, perhaps because he is tubercular ' himself. Never- theless, the modern individual edu- cated by newspapers and popular books and Jectures in the principles hygiene Is likely to be somewhat Tepeiled by the display of kissing in | the last scene between Stephen. who is supposed to be cured, and Elaine, who is supposed to be incurable. Even more decided is the reaction of the modernist when Elaine throws her arms about Mary, her little sister, who has come to ses her, and is grievously wounded because the child shrinks from her. But perhaps this is carping criticism. After all, Mr. O'Neill is a urecll.ll!t in emotions, not a epecialist In hygiene. * % % % Some weather maxims are wise and some are not, according to Dr. W. J. Humphreys, meteorological physicist |of the United States weather bureau. He has written a book called “Weather Proverbs and Paradoxes,” in which he chows that, although maany of the common sayings about the weather are entirely irrational, others are based on numerous and accurate ob- servations and are worthy of heed. Some of the proverbs which are based on truth are the following: “Year of snow, fruit will grow”: “A cold April tho bernswill il”; “A red sun has water in his eye”; '“Sky red in the morning is a sailor’s sure warn- ing. sky red at night is the sailor's delight”: “Pale moon doth rain, red moon doth blow”; “When the stars 0 hide, soon the rain will be- ‘When fogggoes up the rain is o’er, when fo es down ’twill rain some _more”; “The higher the clouds, the finer the weather”; “Mackerel scales and mares’ tails make lofty ships carry low sails”; “The wind in the west suits every one best”; “The wind from the northeast, neither good for man nor beast”: A high wind prevents frost”; “Sound traveling fa and wide a story day will betide" “Thunder in !grl:[‘coid will bring. Charles A. Beard, formerly director of the New York bureau of municipal research, was invited to visit Tokio early in 2 to co-operate with Vis- count Goto, then mayor of Tokio, and other members of the newly estab- lished institute for municipal re- search in developing their program of municipal work. Dr. Beard has recontly published a volume which is the m\llt&f.hli mm. to ‘1. pate in en se—"The Ad- ministration and Politics of Tokio, | Buddha. lis mot Leing THE EVENING STAR, VVASHIFNGTON2 D. C, SATURDAY. APRIL 5, 1924 WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE Hvery new flower of spring brings promise that 1924 will be a presi- dential campaign of unparalleled mudslinging. The Pepper-Daugher fusiilade is a harbinger that the throwing contest will be fast and furfous. Demoerats are resigmed to the probability that they will be able to conserve thelr own supply of mud because the air will be so thick with that exchanged between rival G. O. P. camps. It is certain that there will be prompt efforts to heal the schism which Daugherty's caustic rejoinder to Senator Pepper's foreshadows. With v. “Jake" Preus predicting at the White House that a third party can obliterate the republican northwest: with Hiram Johnson assalling th Stone attorney-generalship as anot surrender to predatory interests, and with Harry Daugherty branding offi- clal Coolidge spokesmen a8 cowards-— the first week of April opens omi- nously for the G. 0. . The ambulance corps and the salvage brigade fic 4 busy season * e * Ambherst Is doing y Washington, thank you. After tw two years in succession of Harvard, Yale and Princeton “domination” in the scats of the federal mighty, Amherst rules the roost. Never be fore in the country history has a small college had three of its old grads at once in such positions as President, Attorney General and Speaker of the House. Messrs. Coolidge, Stone und Gilleit are not the only Amberstians of renown at the Capital. Robert Lansing, former Secretury of State, also stands at the salute when “Lord Jeffrey Amherst is sung. So does Gilbert H. Grosvenor, president of the National Geograph Soctety And, filling amply, thoug unobtrusively. the shadow of the man ind the throne, therc is Frank W Stearns, daddy of the whole Amherst tradijion that threatens to prevail « the Potomac—well, for another eleven months, a oW, * William M. Hughes, former prem of the commonwealth of Australia, hi arived in the cast, via California, to begin his series of public addrosses throughout the United States on the treaty of Versailles an he Japancse peril.” The other day he spoke to a private company of New York busi- ness men at India House For nearly an hour Hughes dwelt cloquent upon the menace which Nippon con- stitutes _for “Anglo-Saxon civiliza- tion.” Not until he was through did Hugh: observe that there had veen looking down upon hio P place behind. the figure of a grinni “Viscount Makino, chicf the ne delegation v sailles,” said Hughes, “told he'd be shot if he came h a raclal-equality clas into the peace treaty. I retorted t1 shot when 1 came h if sded in doing anything of at enty- r me r the * &% distinguished foreigners res more or less permanently on American soil—the members of the Washington dipiomatic corps—huye not yet fallen vietims to the radic of | 1y me without hat- babit. Recently at an international bunquet in New York a microphone stood on the speakers' ta in order that their words of wizdom might be scnt spinning through the illimitable ether. When it came time for Ambassador Jusserand of I'rance |and ~ Ambassador Howard of Great Britain to address the dinner com- pany “Mike t from them with | &estures ly indicated they © not prepared to take the air. dverything clse was broadcast. The rudio craze has not yet struck France or Britain to the extent it bas taken hold in America * % % Opinions differ as to the wisdoni and eventual cffect of John W letter renouncing the democratic presidentiul nomination at the price of abandoning corporation clients. Some of the distinguished lawyer- diplomat's friends think he struck a vigorous blow for manliness, courage und statesmanlike and one {that will prosper his political tunes. Others believe he hus taken Wimself out of the running at one full sweep. Most democrats consider that the need of the hour, from their taudpoint, is andidate of such bold ‘progressiveness that he won't {mind even being called a radical. They doubt if the West Virginia-New York jurist measures up to that standard, cepceally after his frank refusal 'to abandon “conservative” business connections for the possible the-wisp of a presidential candi- | * The Viscount Rothermere, North- cliffie’s brother, is making a more or loss incogmito’ visit to the United States, He shuns Interviews, public dinners and speaking engagements. nd thus far has not left New York Until Rothermere sold his recently | acquired Manchester zroup of daily | papers, It was sald that the combined | Rothermere-Northeliffe-Hulton-Beay- erbrook circulation reached 83 per cent of the homes of the British London heard that Rotherme Delled to part with some of his Idings in the provinces in order to trate possible legislation by the r overnment against undue in- ifluence over public opinion by any |one man or group of men. Rother- | mere did much to build up his broth- £r's business fortunes as a NewWSpaper magnate, but Northcliffe was the | journalistic genius around which they {mainly rose. | Keep your eve on Dartmoutn col- h which gave Senator George Moses and John Barrett to the world. The first “American labor party movement” has just been launched at that placid little varsity town in w Hampshire The liberals of the anover College have them- ves into the “1 for Independent Political Action Their purpose is to league Dartmouth alum- ni everywhere into an “American labor part along the nes British party now in power at Lon- don. Perhaps George Harvey, who an “independent independent” now, | niay find a spiritual home in the new iar'n which Dartmouth men are build- ing E T (Copyright Vote of $10,000,000 to German Relief Not Since 1519 there probably has been nothing like the generosfty of the American people in the whole history of the worid. But the action of the House of Representatives in appro- riating $10 00 for German relief sed with any out- pproval on the With timent burst of enthusiastic art of the nation’s pr w exceptions. the ressed is against it This i8 not due to any unwil; ness of the American people to lieve suffering and distre: wherever it exists, according to the Roancke Times, which feels “it is due to genuine and growing doubt s whether the situation in Germany is such as to actu: ¥ warran this ‘handout’ from the American govern- ment.” The Springfieid Union admits it is a dificult question, because “there is the humanitarian call that in most circumstances ; nation like ours heeds, but in thess circumstances it is question wheth- er Congress is warranted in using public money and thereby adding t precedents that have no constitutional standing and may have unpleasant consequences: it is a question whether in all such c the humanitarian feeling of the country should not ex- press Itself in private subscription rather than in public appropriatio Becausa the mones is needed, Duluth News-Tribune is icize, “yet the appropriation is wrong in principle, and it follows a danger- ous precedent which has been set up since the war” for charity and then collecting it from the taxpayers I8 not the func- tion of government, and_ once tha policy is adopted it is dificult to draw the lin The Boston Tran- seript also questions the constitution- ality of the action, and declares “there is indeed everything against this proposition and very little to be said for it.” The Transcript hopes the Senate will he found superior to the influences that have produced this vote in the House.” * ok * * If the Senate conmcurs in the House bill, The Star suggested “the Ameri- can people will not begrudge the gift, but the effect is likely to be a con- siderable stiffening of sentiment in favor of making the German govern- ment and German industrialists toe the scratch. It would be too much to expect there will be continued pa- tience with German evasion and double-dealing.” The Chicago Trib- une points out that “Germany is gen- erally recognized among all stu- dents and personal observers of Euro. pean conditions to have ample food for its children. women and men, if it will only distribute that food.” The real way to relieve the poor in Germany, the Detroit Frec FPress continues, “is to force the rich men of that country to disgorge and con- tribute. That work, however, is pri- marily a job for the Berlin govern- ment, and afterward for the Buropean allies.” To which the Columbus Dis- patch adds “a ringing expression of American indignation at the attitude of these selfish industrialjsts of the Stinnes type might shake down more money over therc than the congres- sional $10,000,000 proposed from this side. It should be remembered, the Cleve land Plain Dealer maintains, that “with the annual shortage plainly in sight, the German government has expended millions of dollars in_ the Ruhr to keep the population in idle- ness. In this campaign against ful- fillment of treaty obligations cnough money was squandered to have pro- vided abundant food for all the German people who are now facing several months of food shortage. If the House resolution is approved by the Senate, the United States will be helping to reimburse Germany for the money _ iniquitously wasted in Ruhr subsidies.” The Sioux City Journmal, further- more, thinks “it might’ surpris American legislators who have sup- ported the German relief appropria- tions to know that Germany has spent vast amounts on the building of a new war machine, that stalwart men in that country have been drill- ing in_military maneuvers instead of working in the fields and produc- ing the necessities of life—and for what except to create anew for other millions at some future time the same Referring to the reports received by the United States Department of Agriculture, which shows an increa: in production in Germany, the Little Rock Arkansas Gazette insists ica has no money to lavish upon a country that is blessed with abun- dant crops,” and “the lawmakers at Xnow ex- ng- to the 2 bumanitarian | loath to crit- | for “voting millions | t they are do- The Norfalk Widely Popular Ledi | the ur mocrats t there ix no rmany and that ind stores are full ioney to spend | distressing conditions.™ and repub the + majority 1o ra v tion to adoption, the Spokane Spokes- maun-Review is convines 'was maudlin_ emotior roa the German vo the American food hilanthropy in ermany that ny’'s wealthy eitizens und farm- will ot support, the fund should raised by private injtiative” T Wilkes-Barre Record considers vote in the House “remarkab! size of the majority, in v : feeling among a considerable nber of people that Germany Q. not done her part In caring for her own unfortunates. Except in cases of great em ency, the Muskegon “hronicle questions “whether the public Treasury ought 0 be the place of resort for relief from suffering. t the gen- crous-gouled pers of America do what generous persons world over hav o to the relief.” At an n Fran- cisco Bulletin holds thut “whoe else may be responsible for the 1 fortunes of the country. the children are innocent, and duty to help the The Springfield Republican agre “the essentiul matter is that helple: and innocent women and children ar. hungry, and that if they are to fed, America must once help. Hence it is only fair. th Capital finds, “to ascribe tives for the action particularly since h American ch t ood the House, is In harmony ¥ for the last ears in dealing with Kurope's And the official act the Cincinnati Times-Star concludes, “should quicken the gen- erosity of private donors, for every dollar_ that can be raised will be needed.” COURAGE “I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.” —~HENLEY. b mo- Iiis schooling ended when he still was a boy, Henry L. Doherty had to teach himself, and having no money Ine was compelled to make his way Juphili to afMuence - Born in Columbus, Ohio, to grammar school. and at twelve sold newspapers. He bullt up a large trade and then found additional work in the city gashouse, There, while watching the furnace fires. he read equipment catalogues. He studied his job, and at twenty was gashouse en- Igineer. At twenty-two he was mana- ger of the plant. The Wall strect concern that owned the Columbus franchise found that its Madison, Wis., plant needed reor- ganizing, and offered the task to Do- herty. Without Waiting to pack his baggage, he took the next train for Madison. He succeeded, and S0on was presi- dent of the company there. Soon aft- erward the New York organization had him traveling from eity to city— twenty-eight in all—putting its plants on an_effective basis. In Denver, a competing company started a cut-rate war, hoping to force a purchase {rom the syndicate Doherty represented. He fought it with good service and bought it out at his figure, Now thirty-four, he Henry L. Doherty & Co., bankers and operators of public utility corpora- tions, with offices in New York. Pub- lic utility financing had all been done in this country. but after he had been in business three vears, he went to ingland to interest the Englishmen. Older and better known financiers called him “that upstart” but he arranged with London bankers to handle public_ utility securities to the extent of $5.000,000 a month. By the time he was forty, he con- troiled an immense corporation and now. at fifty-three, he is a real power in Wall street, a leader in America of the gas and electric arts and indus- tries, the patentee of many devices and ‘the originator of a number of standard practices used in those fields, And onc of his mottoes is, “Don’t worry, make play of your work and let nothing be impossible.™ organized Davis' | for- | of the | bid for | £ it is up to! al the | be | Topeka | thus | he went, Answers to Questions BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. Where w moored when it goes to the coast?—0. N. It A. The mooring mast I8 now under construction at the naval air station at San Diego. 1t will be used during the time that the Shenandoah is at- tached to the Pacific fleet as a scout and will also serve as a western terminad for transcontinental flight 1 the Shenandoah be Q. Why can without water? —B. A. In thefr paunches are numeroas | side-pockets with narrow openings which can be sed by circular muscles and these become filled with fluid. When needed, this is absorbed {by the system. | mels go so long Q. My cherry troes have scattered cherries cach year, but {follage is very heav What make them bear?—F. P, The Department of Agric £ays that the cherry fng too fast. You should cultivation and let grass grow around the base of They should recover years. Q. Does fow the 5 ulture trees are grow top or we the trecs in about two land send del the English parliament?—s A. The Irish Free S send delegates (o the ment, but repi called in any In which might be held ! heads of the British the Free part ates to \ does T snglish parlia- sentatives to perial by Apire self. of which tute | Q. What did for the United States?—1 A A. Stephen Girard (1750-1521 an Americun merchant and phil thropist, born at Bordeaux, France. He was greatly interested in the United States Bank, which he one of the soundest financial tutions in America. During the war of 1812 he was the chief finan- cial support of the government. the rechartering of the second United States Bank, 1818, he became one of its principal stockholders and direc- {tors. and exercized a dominant {trol over its policy for many | He st hi r 187,500,000 in public benefactions, ct of which was Girard College, in the regulations for the control and man- agement of which he incorporated his fdeas as to freedom of though and religious belief. Q. Why did the Begyptians mu their dead”—A. E. \ A. The Egyptians believ after the soul departed from th was judged ju the Hall Truth, before Osiris, the dead. After it had und transformations it would retu by any chanee ; destroyed. it would be for the dead to enjoy in ¢ ‘Q mothballe should 110 keep out moths A, About two qv shavings or two pounds uf are required ordinar trunk, or small | moths, ete. Ste first nade in On left al entire fort ot ife world edar shavings b @ tr alls n un clo What This t d ligous cun speaking pur Al tribes aro believe i1 which nt Indian They preperty They various AS TARite erious element spoken of 15 all the land that has been re {claimed by irrigation sultable for ag- {riculture”—P. §, B. { A. It is estimated that on {the irrigated iands of our states contain an amount salts that is detrimental About 1.500,000 sents this problen. of 1o aika crops Q. What is the size of Moy non?—W. J. B. | A. The house at Mount Verno feet long by 30 feet wide. iporeh is |feet s inches ! it Ver- 0 is 96 Q. Who eald “God reigns and government at Washington lives'? L. A. James Garfield sion in a speech in 18 g an excited crowd of Lincoln’s assassina used the expres- 5 when address- n the occasion on. Q. What States are in the cotton belt?—L. A. . A. States in the cott Virginia, North Caroli lina, Georgia, Florida, Alab: ippl. Tennes Arkal , Oklahoms, Texas and Misso Q. How a luxurious A. Usuall They arv maid, cook, and chamt and valet arc of servants. Sumel works with the bi nd a gardo and #TCOm are necessary zrounds and horses are inclu the establishment Q. 1 South Caro- Mis- any scrvants are necded in American home?—W are emplo. But) chauffeur, laundress, nurse rmaid. A person: dded to t i soven Can more than one radio iving set be attached to one an- s. {ce {tenna?—s. A. One of the newest radio deve ments Is the result of esperimer made at the naval experimental lul ratory. 1t permits an unlimited 1 ber of receptions over one anten that all receiving in building can be connected mon aerial. The system has been in- stalled on the new battleship Colo rado, One antenna Serving a lurge number of recciving se | Q. Will dogs eat ‘possum?—W. H. A. The Outline of Science say dogs will not touch opossum 1l Q. HMow much fat and milk sugar i there in a Guart of milk?—R. E. A. A. A quart of milk_contains about 1% ounces of fat and 3 tablespoonfuls of milk sugar. in what is it soluble?—H. M. A. A. Menthol js a colorless crystalline substance obtained from official oil of | peppermint or from Japanese or Chi- nese ofl.of peppermint. It is but sparingly soluble in water, but dis- |=olves in considerable quantities in alcohol, ether, chloroform and other | organic liquids. Q. How did the idea of an cagle as an cmblem originate? When did |America adopt it?—L. B. W. A. From the most ancient times the |eaglo has been universally regarded {as the emblem of might and courage. |1t was associated with Jupiter in {Roman mythology and its figure on the standards of certain Roman le- glons has descended to the national ensigns of the United States, Ger- many and Russia. The eagle was adopted by the United States in 1783. (Readers of The Evening Stor should seud their questions to The Star In- formation Burcau. Frederic J. Haskin, direotor, 1220 North Capitol street. The only charge for this service is 2 cents in stamps for return postage.) Q. What country first granted in- ternational copyrights?—B. B. R. A. Prussia was first to take action in regard to international copyrights passing an act iu 1836 which gave the protectign of the Prussian stat- thwriters of all countries ute to shich Pacifie | governing el belt include: | cond man | Q. How is menthol produced, and | COOLIDRE POWER BECOVING EVIDENT President and Congress Are Getting Closer Together After Parleys. 1Y DAVID LAWRENCE. Congress and the President have {been getting closer together this jweel. DBreakfast, luncheon and din- s some republican leaders at White JTouse discussing the |1esistative program. Mr. Coslidge i~ beginning to exercise his inBSuemce on Capitol Hill. First and foremost { President’s intervention in the tax tuaj The Senate finance com {mittee virtually is rewriting the tax {bill passed by the House. And thers been o many changes that the leaders have found it desira {b1e 10 consult the President constaat His decision against the levy of forms of taxation is significant ner s the has been the Senat Must Reconstruct Plan. House Se repealed several taxes Mellon did not rec r modification at this time a the House bill wil iion of Treasury ex he necded revenue. This the scheme has to was sug- able source of rev interfered ate finance commit- tho tax on telegrams messages, which wers f the House bill, but which Indeed, many sance taxes will , as the cutting of the in the House turned the wn, and the rehabilitate 1 pla to at in summon- conference he their getting to ng the day be- impor While the interested in they must be th democrats into cam sking questions that neadlines and fur ammunition for the 1l and congreseslon of them have meetings, bt ves, make nish da found that about he can get « Congress into the morning heen numer 1 be one of dge adminis n in Congress Spirit Better. sress at this = legislative pro erned, is much better t the in investigations oerats, who point tr for the publican party rats are pai as to keep going but at the upon legislativ responsibil 1y aggres the repub for delaying making: repub inuch progress In fact, he = vccasion into a t eve know egun wing that the 't made in_ handling legislative program thus far. Legislative Jam Seem. for a legislative t of the me s want to get away rolitical conventions. t of the session over cen bill providing an ort eorporation under ision yet to bloc is almost solid- the millers and = interests are fighting and nail the idea have for switched their taotics 1 to get the bill through the At Week. s0 that when the lie bill can shortly there. tiie President for signa- supporters of the Haugen sure it will the House difiiculty. are nof certain what the | President will do when it comes to hLim, but, at the moment, it represents the ‘outstanding piece of agricultural liation for farm reiic There have been als made me ational is sonie calternative tor Curtis of r a federal mar ite all the co and arrange marketing and_dis- untii the McNary-Hau pproved or rejected no agricult propasals wiil get attention Hut zen is other much $10,000 Salary Asked For Head of Schools Ta the Editor of The Sta The salary the superintendent | of schools of the city of Washington should not be less than $10,000. The { morale and effectiveness of the sehool system will never risc above their source. Much is said—and worthily sald—of the importance of making Washington the educational model for the mnatio I'he indispensable first feature of a worthy &chool sys- m_is the superintendent. Washington should have the best superintendent to be had. If we are to command such a man, we should { be willing to pay for him. The sin- erity of our culture in Washington is faced with a major test in this atter of the salary of the superin- :ndent of schools. A superintendent of schouls worth less than $10,000 a year is far too expensive a luxury for us fathers and mothers of Wash- ington. ARTHUR D. CALL. { j te Return of Examination Papers Is Advocated To the Editor of The Star: Professional examinations in the District consume from three to four days of a student’s time, besides some of his hard-earncd cash in the form of un exorbitant fee. Candidates who have fafled are Justly complaining of examining boards who are giving varfous ex- cuse r not returning examination man rises e s in the scale of intel- ligence demands evidenee of thi What better evidence of honorable dealing cun any examining board display than a willingness to rotgra these papers_to these earnest stms 2 S, PHILID AES. P, _LLERT,