Evening Star Newspaper, April 14, 1924, Page 6

6 THE EVENING STA might well reciprocate by relleving R [fairly low rate ‘then the community | tions fn life, held the public links. { Hundreds of persona rode hproes, gave With Sunday Morning Fditlon. | ireot raliway tax burdens on cquite- | themselves strong exercise, profited WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY.. April 14, 1024 THEODORE W. NOYES. . ..Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Basiness Office, 11th St. and Peunsylvania Ave. N"’hl‘"‘(“’fl? gk nildly htcugo : i % Buropean Offes: 16 agent 1., Loudon. Fagland. The Breuing Btar, with tie Suaday morning ‘edition, ir del by cartlers within the ¢ity ai G0 cents per moath: daily oniy, 4T | eeota per month; Kunday valy, 20 cents per month. ONMers he sent by mail or tele- phone ‘Maln J000. Collection is made Dy car- riers at the end of each . Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance, Maryland snd Virginis. Daily and Sunday.] yr. : Daily only. All Other Siates, y and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00; Daily only 1yr, $7.00 Bunday only. 1yr, $3.00: Member of the Amsociated Press. Awsoclated Dress i3 esclusively entitied repiidiication of all néws dis. credited 1o it or avt otherwise credited pApet and aleo the local mewk pab. lished Lercin. All rights of publimation of £pecial dispatches hereid are also reserved. [ Seesa = Street Railway Equities. The proposal of the Commissioners in the merger bill now pending in Con- gress to substitute a tax on the net earnings of street railways for the Present tax on gross earnings is sound in principle. It substitutes fairness for unfairness in laxation, it ought not to be proposed solely as a tem- porary punitive expedient tending by fts confiscatory terms to compel rerger of our two street rallway sys- teme. It should be ureed on its merits, imposing after merger only & reason- able tax rate, as a permanent sub- stitute for the grossly unfair gross earr tax. This change in form of basic taxa- tion will correct one of the two ob- vious causes of existing chaos in the Street railway situation. The other cause of Ktreet railway fiscal chaos is the fixing of a flat rate of car fare on both systems regardless of the dis- iance over which the passenger is con- veyed. The term “'gross earnings” is a mis- nomer. One does not know that there are carnings until he subtracts ex- penses from Teceipts and finds & bal- ance. If one of two taxpayers with the same annual gross receipts is com- pelled to pay out to weet expenses of sccuring this revenue all of or more than the aggregate receipts, while the tuxpayer, favored by conditions and not by superior business manage- ment, se¢ures the same revenue through the payment of a fraction of the receipts, then the “gross earnings” 1&x taxes equally insolvency and pros- perity, charging a3 much against him | Who has not as against him who has. | A similaf Inequity is found in the payment of & flat rate of car fate ir- respecti of the mileage of trans- portation of a passenger. The latter does not pay as he should for what he gets. A street car system with large suburban unprofitable trackage con- veys the averags passenger over a much larger mileage of track than the car system almost exclusively com- Posed of urban trackage. If the same flat rate is charged all passengers on both roads the former evidently ren- ders more service for the same money than the latter. Also the former is eompelled to make greater outlays to meel the expense of operating this much larger unprofitable trackage. results that the same flat rate of fare | to Dboth street rallways. departing| from Lhe oniy sound principls of pay- | ing for what one gets, may bring good | dividends to onc system and bank- fuptey to another. Strect railways are in the business of transporting passengers for a price. They seil transportation, and equitably they should be paid In accordance with the quantity and guality of trans- portation which they eell. To compel one read with excessive | suburban unprofitable trackage to transport the averagze passenger very much farther than the transportation | of the average passenger by another | toad for the same flat rate of fare is as inequitable as to fix & flat rate for | lvaves of bread, charging the same “price for loaves of eight, ten, twelve ot sizteen ounces. It is a5 inequitable as it would be to chargs a flat rate | for paseengers on steam raiiroads | which, for cxampie, should be the! Same on a road which ran to New ! Fork as on a road which ran only to| Philadelphia, 1t fs impossibie to work out anj squitadle solution of the street railway froblem it these gross basic inequities drc ignored in the calevlation. ! Let us hope that in the end Con-| gress will enact a system of taxing street railways which will cure the present evil of exacting heavier taxes from a company which earns little| than from @ company Wwhich earns| much. It will be in accordance with equity if this change of basic tax is méde not in a way to punish unduly ar to confiecate from the profit-carning company in order to drive it into re- luctant merger, but in a way to re- lieve ‘the non-profit-making company of some of its burden of tazation upon ‘what it has not and some of its losses due to the fact that the lw compels it to carry the average passenger for the same rate of fare very much farther than the average mileage of the average passenger on the other ®treet railway. It is difficult to give concrete ap- plication to the equity which requires that the car fare paid shall be directly and reasonably related in amount to the milsage or quantity of service fendered. The obvious suggestion of this equity is of a simple zoning sys- tem, which shall exact the same flat rate for transportation over the paral- Jeling competing urban lines of our two street railway systems, and which #hall require the payment by the sub- urban passenger oh both systems of a #mall supplemental fare for extra transportation. But heither the local community nor the street railways desire the zoning system. The advantages of the flat- Yate system in developing suburban areas end in minimising urban conges- tion and slum conditions are held to outweigh the superior equities of the zoning plan. But if in the community saburban transportation is to furnished unprofitably at an um- | 1 { | { ble lincs by substituting o moderate tax on net earnings, for the unfair tax cn gross receipts. Thus two birds will be killed with one stone. The equities botwsen the strect rallways themselves and the oquities betwaen the community and the street railways will both be con- served, —————— Outdoor Recreation. President Cool'dge certainly bas an understanding of psychology. He could not huve picked a more oppor- tune spell of weather for the launch- ing of his propueal for federal foster- ing of outdoor recreation. Every man jack of us would like to jump right in today and help trandlate the Presi- dent's idens into sotne outdoor recred- tion of our own. Many will heed the call of the golf course; opening of the brse ball season tomorrow will afford others opportunity. Some of us have tastes ®0 €imple as to turn our thoughts to & cane fighing pole, & can of garden worms and a seat beside the river. Whatever our proclivitics may be, to all of us a roll:top desk is an “|abomination in the first warm daye of spring, when the sun shines and the cherries are in bloom. The President does well to project co-ordination by the government of recreational facilities. Discontent is abroad in the land, a vague, indefinite sort of discontent without any very tangible thing to hang upon, but a condition nevertheless which does not make for good social health. But no man is fit for “‘treason,.stratagern and spoils” when he has a golf stick in his hand o berating the umpire's de- fective viston. Nor will any man have dangerous envy for those more richly circumstanced when he can load the wife and children into the family fliv- ver and go wuyfaring where trees grow and birds sing and swollen wealth is unflaunted. Crowded eities are an evil of the age in which we live, but they will be less an evil if opportunity {is provided whereby we may escape from them and play somewhere in the cpen, if only for little whiles at long intervals. The government already is doing much to encourage outdoor recreation but, as the President says, in an in- coherent manner. There is, in fact, more or less of jealousy engendering conflict in the government's activi- ties. For instance, the forest service and national park service, which ought to be in the closest harmony; appeat at times to work at cross pufposes. There is no reason for thie except the inconherency of which the President speaks. The undertaking which Mr. Coolidge has set going i8 abundantly full of promise, and millfons of pent- up souis will watch its development with absorbing interest, Internal Revenue Investigation. The controversy over the proposed investigation of the internal revenue bureau 18 calculated to be further heightened by the resignation from the investigating committee of Prof. Thomas Adams ¢f Yale, the commit- tee’s adviser, and by Gov. Pinchot's admission that he suggested the em- ployment of Heney as special prosecu- tor. Prof. Adams resigns because he 1s dissatisfied with the proposed scopo of the work now contempiated. He insists that “‘the important short- comings of the internal revenue bu- {reau lie on or near the surface,” and | that “they are grave. but obvious.” Then he goes on to protest that to ex- ploit them gratuitously and probe for the mere eake of probing i a form of horsepiay. He sounds the warning that the bureau is already suffering demoralimtion, and ddes not deserve and cannot stand further buileting. Decisions and settlements - which should bs made arc being held up, he saye- Gov. Pinchot, for his part, claims ! that he has no sympathy with investi- sations as mere fishing expeditions. but asserts that it is ‘high time to put an end to corruption and inefliciency which ‘efist in the federdl enforce- ment service.” Thus he harps upon the note he struck in his original con- troversy with Secretary Mellon several months ago, when it was thought by many politicians that he was perhaps essaying to start a presidential boom for himself on the prohibition enforce- ment issue. The point which should be kept in mind at this time i to discriminate shatrply between necessary and salu. ta¥y investigations and investigations with an animus and for political effect mainly. President Coolidge in his let- ter to the Semate clearly defined this differentiation. In some guarters there appears to be disposition to confound this issue, but the dominant tone of the press seems to recognize the true issue and is supporting the President in his contention. ; No one in public or private life de- &ires to repress needful investigations, but unnecessary ones may with benefit to the country be curtailed. Eieven committees of the Senate a®® now en- gaged in such work, absorbing the at- tention of fifty of the ninety-six mem- bers of the Senate, some of them serv- ing on two committees each. ————— The Japanese cherry trees are again in bloom in Potomac Park, in pleasant reminder of a cordial sentiment which diplomacy will do its utmost to pre- serve. Like most efficient workers, Secre tary Mellon is inclined to resent inter- ruption merely for interruption’s sake. People and the Parks. No object lesson of the utility of parks is needed, but the practical and proper use to which the people of ‘Washington, and no doubt the people of many other cities, put their parks on Sunday, the 13th, is deeply impres- sive. Perhaps there was never a busier day in Washington parks. Of courss, in 'a way it was their spring opening. There have been balmy Sun- days in 1924, but Sunday, the 13th. was one of warmth, goid and silver sun, and grass as green as grass in parts of England—almost as bright as Irish grass. Many flowering treed and shrubs were in bigesom and nearly all of them were in bud. There was a mighty tarnout of children and moth- ers.” Armies ‘of polfers, men and womien, of most all ages and condi- the liverymen, who buy from farmers and stock raisers, and help to keep up the market for corn, cats and hay. Thousands of people walked until tired and then rested on turf or benches or sat on rocks and tree roots. The pop- ulation came from, thousands of small homes and smaler flats, sunned itself and breathed fresh air. Tens of thou- sands “motored,” but thousands park- |ed their cars and walked and rested among the lawns and groves. People are coming more to use pub- lic parks and they are willing to pay reasonahle taxes for their extension and upkecp. The need for city parks grows greater as our population in- !creases and as the country recedes land becowmes more cxclusive, When middle-agad Washingtonians were boys there were vast stretches of country close to Wishington. Now for miles there are villages, villas, summer homes and carefully tilled and fenced fields. Meadows and woods are fenced and “posted” aguinst trespassers. There is lifde “ffec” country and the roads are busy traficwaye, and gener- ally raceways. It is interesting that just as this spring opens the President speaks of the rise of the outdoor recreation spirit among the people and appoints a com- mittes on outdoor lNfe consisting of the Secretaries of War, Interior, Agri. culture amd Commerce and the assist- ant secretary of the Navy. He says that within the last decade there have ‘been put forward projects—federal, muniecipal, state and private—to ex- pand and comserve throughout the country our recreational opportunitiss. He names the commission “not merely to co-ordinate under federal guldance all activities in behalf of outdoor recreation, bt also to formulate & program to serve as a guide for future action.” ——————————— German comment on the report of the oconomic experts indivates keen realization that too much time and energy have already been wasted by a country whose resources are, despite the profligacy of the war, still rated as enotmous. e —_—————— Mr. Sol Bloom of New York weathered a slight blizzard in the House of Representatives very nicely | The tncident is regarded by’ Tammany horticulturists as auguring well for the summer gardeming. ————— Assurances are offercd that investi- gation duty will not prevent Congress from having time for necessary legis- lation. There is no danger that the ship of state will be delayed by & mud bank. ———— Eminent opinion indorses Mr. Fran- cis Heney as a vigorous and deter- | mined prosecutor. Yot it may be doubt- ed whether the Senate investigators really need the help. — —— A campaign contribution was once regarded as a more or less irksome obligation. It is now suggested as a gpecial and carefully guarded privi- lege. SHOOTING STARS. EY PHILANDER JOHNSON ‘When, QOne littie word conserves cur gentle dreaming While wondering on mortal men Bewildered Dby the scheming— The little word that comforts us is ‘““When.” the ways of sorrowing and When the housing prodblem finally we settle; When the taxes we have managed to reduce; When the repartee about the pot and kettle In statesmanship has quite gone out of use; When the Kuropean debfs are regu- lated; When the bootleg finds no market for his load: Vihen each person heeds the law as © clearly stated: When the highjack isn't shodting up the road. When wealth is never caught in mie- behaving : ‘When poverty hopes on, from envy free; ‘When demagogues find no excuse for raving— This world will be just what it ought to be. Although we often weary in the striv- ing, Wo never doubt that better things are due. The world will keep on toiling and contriving Tili all the “When's"” we taik about “ come true. A Spirit of Moderation. “What do you think of the discus- sion of daylight-saving?” “I'm in favor of it,” said Senator Sorghum. *These days I'm strong for any kind of an ergument that is bound to be sufficiently good natured not to bring anybody befare the grand jury.” Jud Tunkins says his wife can bob her hair if she wants to, only she mustn't get mad and apply for a divorce it it makes kim laugh. Busy Balloting. RKlections bid us persevere A higher plan prémoting. And every day in all the year Brings out some kind of voting. Mental Phenomena. “He says hie is insanely in love with you. " “That's no compliment,” replied Miss Cayenne. ‘“What's going to hap- ‘pen if he strikes a luefd, lntm." < Coamjerbalngce. “Crimgon Guich used to be the toughest littla town on the map. It -sort o' reformed itself,X com- mented Cactus Joe. “Everybody got 50 skeered of everybody else that no- body was willin' to take a- chance on startin’ anything.” “Wo all gits fooled e little 4n our pleasurts,” sald Uncle Eben. “I allus goes to de circus; even if 1 never yit aid ses one dat come up t6 de piotures o0 de billbparda™ 1 i | other end, where it sets. They dream I I f SUPERPOWER: A NEW ERA By WILL P. KENNEDY. No. 1—What Superpower Really Means We are at the dawn of a new age. Only 160 years ago Watt discovered steam power. Only 100 years since the first steamboat wus - built. Only eighty years since the railroad began to take the place of the canal boat for land transportation. .Only & little over sixty years since Lenoir £ave us the gas engine. It is only thirty years—within your life and mine—since the production and use of electric energy began to revolutionize industrial life, We, who can travel with comfort anywhere, can communicate within & world, who can get light, heat and power by the mere turning of a switch, may well marvel at the transformation since our savage an- cestors fashioned their first crude tools and literally “earned their bread in the sweat of their brows.” Proapect Is Staggering. Aithough wonder-hardened by what has burst upon us during the last 160 years, and espocially during thir- ty years within our own daily obser- vation, we cannot grasp the infinite potentialities of superpower within the scope of our own lives, and more surely within the lives of our chil- dren. The human mind is dazed and stagzered by what is opening up be- fore us. Yet there is a great deal of inis- conception as to what “superpower” or “giant power really §s. Many have an intoxicated viaw of the near fu- ture. The general Idea scems to hav gotten abroad that “superpower means throwing away all we have now and starting ail over again with huge generating stations, trunk-line transmissions and a big central lake of power that will flow freely in al directions. In_ reality {t means, first, making the best use of what we have; see- ond, building on_to that better and bigger station. The only real justi- flcation for the superpower #ystem is to got more eéconomical and effi- cient use of the plant investment. Teamweork ia Power. Tou can handls a big load if you hiteh six horses up together better than It you try to. handle it piece- meal, with each horse working sep- arately. You have something of the same thing when you get the power stations connected up. If thers {8 shortage of power in one distriot, you can bring a surplus over from Some nearby district that has it You don't have to put in extra rq\n{» ment In each individual plant in order to guarantee against accident, because if one plant is temporarily vut out of existence you cam call on other plants to carry the load. It also makes it possible to supply | ent | power uniformly ovar a large terri- tory, and the whole tendency in the areas— modern superpower system s to make | wish to call them power just a8 avallabie in the small town as in the big city, and with no material difference in prics. {couple of hours with any part of the |. 1 | | the This ability to get vower anywhere within the * territory makes it: no longer necossary to orowd our indus: tries imto the big cities, - - Industries for Small Towas It is anticipated—and, in fact, ‘al- ready @ssured—hat there will be quite & marked movement, when the superpower wystem has been de- veloped, toward the establishment of | industrial developments in small towns where housing conditions arc better &nd whers crowding can be avoided. This will wipe out the slum evil, It is only a few years, as the life of man runs, since human needs were supplied entirely by handoraft, and now modern civilization could not exist without mechanical power. Our earliest findustrics were built up around tho mill sites of New Eng- land, progressed through the steam plants of the early perfod and pro- ceaded In that way until about thirty yeurs ago because there was no means of sending energy any. dis- -tance, even from one side of a city to_another. The characteristio feature of this early development was the isolated power plant. Each little factory or hill was self-contained, generating its bwn power by water or by steam, with a capacity only large enough to supply its individual needs, but it had 10 be large engugh to meet.the maxi- mum requirements. These units, whether watcr-wheels or sfeam “en’ gines, were small and-necessarily in- efficient Reclprocating, non-condensing en- gines and ready-made water wheels were the -fule. Even yet the aver- |uge Ktcam engine in our factories pro- duces per unit of fuel less than haif energy output that Is capable of Leing produced in the best of our steam-driven central stations. The =team locomotivo produces only onhe- third as much. Group Operation Economies. As soon as we found out how to develop eloctric energy and to tie these stations together with trans- mission lines, then we got amazing economies through operation in groups instead of each station by itselt. Superpower development means build- ing onward from what we now have. It means interconnection of ex- isting stations to a greater degree than we have done before, and as new stations are built or old ones aban- doned, we shall construct in larger units of higher efficiency. Neighboring systems will be o con- structed that as they expand they will be in & position either to inter- change power or to be connected and operated as g single syatem. The characteris®c feature of our future power development will be sys- tems of interconnected, interdepend- operating stations with their transmission network covering lary “superpower” syeten so—as contrasted with the isolated stations supplying only the needs of the individual fac- tory of of the immediate locality. IN TODAY’S SPOTLIGHT BY PAUL V. COLLINS If the makers of automobiles were turning out 48 per @ent of their ma- {ohinés on a par with Richard TIT { (sowroe half made up, and that so lameély and unfashionably that “dogs {vark at them” as.they honk by them {on the road), there would be Indigna- tion meetings and violent resolutions unanimously adopted. American autemobiles are better constructed than those who ride in them. The physical wrecks who go through life Lalf invalids or half de- formed, ptruggling always against handicape and costing American in- dustry more than $2,000,000,000 & year | because of preventable imcapacity, are far short of the effieiency of the veri- est flivver. They count in the census of Americans, yet the public never realized the enormous weakness of American defense until the war draft Acsts sirted out- the sound Americans from the weak omes. This sifting applied only to these of draft age. It did not even include the cancer zone, much less “old men” of forty-five years or grandfathers of Afty years. Forty-eight per cent of our young men in their prime are more or less incapacitated when they have no right to be unable to run, jump and climb mountains. * kot t Some of ns have béen incredulous when told that one out of every four Americans of draft age was not “raised to be a soldier,” because he can- not read enough to know what is meant by the simplest printed bilitary order—cannot read -even & newspaper and could not write & letter to' his home folks. ® % ¥ ¥ Then, too, there are boys with bright minds, quick and alert, with good schooling, but whosa horizons have been bounded by the end of Main street, whera the sun rises, and the of some day taking a journey to the big world about which they read They wonder what sort of people in- bhabit the great cities or even the oth- er towns in the next state to their own. They need contacts which they cannot get at home. How such chaps do expand when they “take distance’ and keep step with a thousand like them, only differing by reason of dif- fering environments! Watch their chests when they learn that “atisn- tion” is good English for standing on both feet, with the heels together, chin up, shoulders down, eyes straight ahead and the hands where they ought to be according to what is in them! They have always known that they were “just as good 8& anybody,” and to prove it they had slouched and stood first on one foot and then on the other, and leaned against a doorjam with a pipe in their mouths, no matter who came along. 'In training camp they discover that they prove a lot better than anybody they knew at home, when they learn to salute an officer or salute Old Glory, for it is an absolute impossibility to pay due re. spect to a superior without an uncon- scious thrill of added self-respect. * % x % How often the lout has been laugh- ed to scorn because when asked in a gay company, {f he could play the piano, he answered meekly: “Dunno, never tried!” That is exactly where most of the boys are today in knowl- edge of themselves and their untried capabilities. Can George stand up and face the big fellow who threatens to knock him cold? Can he defend himself? Can he learn skill in boxing, develop self-confidence, alerttess, quick ob- servation, instant decision of charac- ter? “nun:s};‘ umwn gets cm:; at a t. ning camp e now . what. it means .to be a That does mean to be a bruiser, nor a pugilist nor a tough. It means to develop his manliest abilities to defend himself and those who are under his Tespon- sibility. It means to know that he is not at the mercy of the brute or of the enemy of he is count or his home. It makes. for 1 ty in placs of .tha s that this Tt means um—llm tered, Fencing, too, ix a great limberer not merely of biceps but particularly of nerve and “gray matter,” *x % ¥ The colleges and schools fail short of giving their students a chance to “play the game.” They make not &ports, but sporting men and women out of fans, applauding or betting on the nine or eleven representing their school, while none of the other 900 or 11,000 fans ever have an opportunity to “be a sport,” and develop his own quick eye and nimble legs. In mili- tary training camps the athletes sit in the bleachers and the student body is out where sport is—out where a | “man’s & man” and gives and takes what is in the game. “Fall in! Right dress! Count off! Right by fours ! They don't whisper ich go way back and sit down while nine shavetails will show you the ‘lefts and righ: * % When a boy arrives in camp he is scored as if he were a prize animal 8t a county fair seeking the blue ribben. He is examined by special- ists in all the organic diseases known. 1f the has any physical weakness which can be easily improved his handling while in camp will be with that in view, and when he returns home, a memorandum will be given him, pointing out what, if anything, is weak, 80 that his homa physician can take him in hand whers the Army surgeons left off. Last year a boy with hook worm gained twenty-three pounds in three weeks in camp, in spite of his drills and marching. A group of 120 men added 547 pounds in their first week ©of training. Theso men gained 1,442 pounds in three weeks. They learned how to stand up, too. They never knew before. Their eyes began to flash with healthy snap. When they marched their chests ar- tived at their objectives quite ahead of their stomachs, for the chests stuck forward like 2 race horse's nose. Can a man, by taking thought, &dd a cubit to his stature? No, but soldiers can add an average of ten- hundredths of an inch in height in three weeks of standing at attention, and can gain in every measurement. They zain ability to breathe right, expanding chests fifty-eight-hun. dredths of an inch. * k% % Eoldiers learn to shoot, to camp, to cook {n camp, to break down caste, to discover good in others, to love the institutions of thix great country, to realize the marvelous rhythmic power of teamwork which is needed In every walk in life and business, They learn that it pays best to “play the “game” like a man and a_real Tt and be patriotic citizens. What e they will learn and do can best be discovered by writing to the War Department, Washington, and asking bow to get to camp July 1, with ncle Sam paying all expenses. May- there will be 40,000 Dy thered others there. (Gopyright, 1924, by Paul V. Collins.). Writer Says Frederick = Is City, Not Vingge To the Mditor of The Stas In the Evening Star of the 10th instant, The Star Information Bureau advises an inquirer that “Francis Scott Key is buried in th cemetery at Frederick, Ma." 0 © 28 As a native of- Frederick and a long-time resident there, may 1 state that this classification shomld be cor- rected. Of course the “village” mis- nomer will bé obvious to a t mas Jorit: “A}f ::plah‘mr‘m om visit e by “n n b - &on of ita unique historie characiar a8 (among other things) the birth- ‘place of cls Scott Key and the soene of Star Spangled Banner” flag incident of Whittier's poem, “Bar- bara Fritchie.” * Some there be, however, who know nothing of Frederick except as ‘“a local habitation and a name” Im- pressions mistakenly conveyed to Dhiately Chrrseted, and It 1s Witk bach co! , an s suc] P g 14 ‘communication is Front! v X-Ray For Cancer. Writer ' Cites Instance Where Relief Was Afforded. To the Kditor of The Star: Less than Afty years ago no one knew just what caused tuberculosis. Koch’s discovery of the tubercular bacillus has ®ince resulted in such successful control of that disease, once the chief destroyer of tne hu- man race, that its -death toll mow ranks below that of cancer. Who in going to find out the cause of can- cer—perhaps a simple thing, after all —and Melp us get rid of 1L? It is swld that Celsus, a Greek physician, treat- ed that dlscase 2,000 years ago us sucocessfully as it Is treated today. | Extraordinary ineasures. must be taken to cope with such a bafling malady. The writer, who is only a layman, takes much interest in this subjeot because a lady relative is a victim of this dread disease, and ho feels that there are certajn circumstances of hor casé whigh sHould be made known for the public good. Had she known two years ago what she has since experfenced the would have been spared much suffering and expense. We have been taught that nothing but eatly discovery and removal by knife of the cancerous prowth af- forded any hope of cure. Some still claim cures through lgcal applica- tions or internal doses, Meauwhile the mortality still keeps steadily going on. Perhaps one-third of those operated upon by the knife live five years longor. Where the surgeon fails to cauterize the lymphatic ves- at the time of operation the malignant malter escapes and gets into the general circulatign quite often. The man who operated in this case evidently did not know that he should have touched the main lym- phatic_vessels with a wire heated to whiteniess by the cléctria cutrent to seal them against such epoada of the {virus, for 1t did e e ‘and it was like fire in & dry stubble. In May, 1922, the lady noticed that | her fefi’ Lreast was enlarging, als, sign of hardening of the flesh. Her family doctor fold her his fears and sent her to a well known surgcon, who, upon_examining:the breast, sqid he saw no sign of malignant growtih, but told her to return three weeks later. The family doctor told her by all means not to delay,.and she went to another surgeon, who said: “No human being can say that there is a malignant growth in that breast, but the retracted nipple is a bad sign. The breast should be removed.” 1t was a terrible shock to the poor woman. To know that such a thing is fastening itvelf upon one's vitals is enough to depress the stout- est heart, but she was brave and at once submitted to an operation The breast was found to be full of cancerous growth, wiich extended even into the armpits, whence the glands were removed. The surgeon said the chances of recurrence of the disease were about even. The surgical wounds healed, but in March, 1923, the right breast had to b removed. Again the wounds healed, but in the meantime, and previously, the patient had been suffering from a skin trouble. In January, 1924, ulcers appeared on the wounds of both breasts, which a skin specialist assured her was the usual result of an operation of that kind. When he saw the breast at the end of Febru- ary, however, he said: can do {nothing more’ for you. There is no no hope for you except in treatment by the most powerful- X-rays and three vears ago your case would have been absolutely hopeies: He called up a surgeon at a_hospital and told him he was sending him a case of “carcinoma en cuirass i | An X-ray examination was made |at the hospital. The surgeon a big, |kindly man of magnetic presence, took "the lady's husband aside and £aid to him: “There is in your wife's left lung, which is involved by metastasis from the cancer of Lreast, and 1 fear there I6 no hope for her When asked how It would have been if she had been brought here 8&ix months earlier he said: ‘Ah! that might have been a differ- | ent fatter™ Phe lady had been suf- | fering from a severe cough and shortness of breath and thought she had asthma. The cancer was not suspected s the cause of the lung trouble. Exposures were made of fifty min- utes each, every day, twelve in all | with a current of 200,000 volts at five mille amperes. The treatments weré suspended when out that the powerful current was upsetting the stomach and were dis- continued for thirty days to awalt results, which today, three weeks later, are as follows: The distreseing | cough has practically ceased, the uleers are nearly all healed, the skin {trouble is almost gone, the patbent's | appetite and strength are increasing and she sleeps well for the first time in a long while. If metastasis does ot $et up in spme | other internal organ, she .may get wall. | The cost was not more than that of & knife operation, and_wus. without' any pain, and bloodiess. W the final | outcome may be, i porary relief has been given. is remembered that Roentgen's djscov ery of the X-ray was made less<than twenty-eight years ago, and that the present high-powered appar: has but recently been put in use, there is much to hope for when further im- provements are made in methods and machinery. Let us find out the predisposing causes. of cancer. No surgeon asked this lady any questions abou her past. life or family history to the diseases from which suffered. l When T t o had Perhaps in her clinical his- tory a key may be found to the origin af her cancer. There should be rag- istration of all cancer cases, and a questionnaire prepared so thgt in each case the patient's history’ may be secured as to treatment for @ diseases and other pertinent facts, 1 88 now generally believed, cancer is neither contagious nor inherited, it though there was no pain and no'; | —3E 1L ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. What are the ashes that are used on Ash Wednesday?—B. N. G. A. The ashes employed In the blessing on Ash Wednesday are those made by burning the palms used in the services on Palm Sunday of the proceding year. Q Aro e&gs as nutritious as meat? A. Eggs have almost the same nu- tritive value as meat, but are rela- tively richer in fat and poorer in protein. The white of tho eggs i 85.7 por cent water, 12.6 protein and .25 per cent fat end .59 per cent min. eral matters, while the yolk contains 50.9 water, 16,2 per cent protein, 31.75 por cent fat, .13 per cent other non- nitrogenous matter and 1.09 per cent mineral matter. Q. How long did Tersnes Mo- Swiney fast?—J. . J A. Terence McAwinsy, lord mayor of Cork, fasted seventy-four days. He commenced his fast August 12 and died October 25, 1320, in Erixton jail. Q. What waa the meteor that went oyer West Lo east?—i A. The Naval that about 9 p.m. 1 a meteor pass. “atwart over t states ‘of Kansas, Missourd, 11 Indigba and OLio, the length o observed track being from 1000 to 1,100 miles. In various parts of its track it threw off fragments accom- panied with the usual rumblng noise and commotion In ths Decemntar When crossing Indiana body was followed smalier bodies, man the main them of the hardly currene Q. Wi a gridiron P. A. A foot ball field s frequently so-called from the white five-yard lines that cress it, which make resemble a gridiron. Q. What kind _of sandwiches should be eaten with the finger C. E. A A. Most sandwiches ars held in the fingors. wich or a large chicken sandwich a equaled of t 2 foot ball field calicd ployed if neces: Q I cal know tw Spindrift.” mean?—FP. M. H. A. The word is sometimes spelled “spoondrift” and sometimes drift.,” and is applied to the blown from waves during a gale. Q seaside What does What is meant by.chauvinism? A. Chauvinism is blind and absurd devotion to a failen leader or obso- lete cause. Nicholas Chauvin was a veteran soldier of the first republic and empire whose attachment to on came to be ridiculed by Chau- comrades. Q. How wern goose pared for use pen 8 A. Except to be sharpened to a fine point goose quills were not su jected o special treatment prior their being used as:peBs. One occa. siorally sees an old-time quill in present use. Q. What is the price of a seat on the New York Curb Market?—B. W. A. ‘These seats are sold to the highest bidder and a recently pur- chased seat cost between $6,000. A seal entitles its owner fc the privilege of trading in sto, The decision of the federal court in finding uncorstitutional the Oregon school faw, which makes it manda- tory on parents to send children over | eight and under sixteen to the public it was found . scl ols, has met with the unanimous approval of the nation’s press. The law has attracted country-wide at- tention because of its revolutionary character. Editors agree that it is not in harmony with American prin- ciples and traditions, and they belicve, furthermore, * that the United States Supreme Court will confirm the de- cision recently handed down. In the opinion of the Omaha World- Herald, the law “amounted not only to.ardenial of the freedom of educa- tign, including religious education, but to a destruction of the property rights of all privato and parochi schools of grammar state.” The Buffalo “this is entirely wrong because suc sehools are regulate must hold to established s education.” a best to send public. & private or a parochial school should be a matter for individual judgm Indorsing this . view. the Transcript decla; he the country can i isfled with the dis law, and satisfied witk beoause it fitting rebu trusion into the field of legislation of secret act as It they wers animated by special object.” At least no good cause “was ever served by the spirit her it is this more must-be the result 6f certain prodis- posing causes, and the ®ooner these causes are learned the better we will be prepared to fight it. It bears hard- serving, the mothers and w the race, and is distinetl of civilization practically in the wilds of Africa A leading surgeon, Intorviewed mfllls subject, recently by the writer d: “One death in every ten of women and one in every fifteen of men is caused by cancer. The Increase of this disease is more apparent than s of 2 disease unknown lengthening, and as cancer preys principally upon the old, moro cases are reported. ~ Then, ‘100, we have sure means of diagnosiz and cmses of cancer are reported where former- Iy other diseases would have been suspected. Millions of people have died of cancer in the past and no- body knew what ailed them. Here- tofore, there has been no recorded case of cure of cancer en cuirasse, which the malignant growth appears in several places at onoe, but the powerful X-rays give hope now, even in such cases. One of the main things | i8 for surgeons to determine when a case 'of cancer im inoperable. To ocut out infested glands is like pouring gamline on freit spreads 'the trouble -throughout the body, by s or through the blood stream. Only one case in twenty- five recovers entirely from an oper- ation’ in which _the armpit glands are removed, Registration of can- cer ceses and dinical histories of patients may help if intelligently oarried out.” ‘The hospital above reterred to now has all the cases of cancer and allied diseases it can take caro of; and the surgeon in charge of the X-ray de- parment says he couid use doute_the present. equipment if he had it.. Per- haps when the hydro-clectric 'davelnlx‘;; ment at Great Falls, just sanctioned the Seaate, nas been completed ‘thers will be ehough ‘cheap electric current available to warrant the government in aiding the establishment of a great skin and cancer, hospital' here, -equip- ped with the latest and most power- ful radiation apparatus and managed by the most skilled opérators avail- able. The same current that Kills can- cer can also cause it in the hands of the unskilled, as well as other injuries to the sufferers who rely upon it for relief, and scientific, careful handling s necessary fa its application. LINDSAY 8 P est upon the noblest’ and most de-. | Says further, real, for two reasons: Human life is | of bigotry, and no Americanism is impressive’ which stri very spirit_of the Constitution,” continues the New York Evening World, which “the people of Oregon ue of vital impor- u well to have have raised an i tance and it i it settled now. / * The New York Times finds no precedent for this law in the statutes of other American states and it sug- gests *the nearest analogy to this policy is to be found in Ru under the present regime, and in Turkey | under a bill which proposed specifi- cally’ to prohibit attendance upon other than schools conducted by the governthent—the law partook also of the spirit and method of the Prus- sian educational system.” In this connection the Wichita Times claims “if Prussian economy and efliciency in our educational sys- tem were desired we would have to admit that the proponents of such a imeasure would have the best of the argument, but the foreing of the iron hand of the law further into the education of the vouth will surely put fetters upon that spirit of ind pendence and freedom, which is, per- heps, as essential to free government as education itself.” The Houston Chronicle agrees to this, and insists further that “it is far more socialistic { than government ownership of public utilities, or even the railroads, be- cause it strikes at the very stomach of personal Ifberty. It would, if de- clared constitutional, set us a prece- dent which might justify the wildest invasion of constitutional rights. There may have been provocations for this law in Oregon, according to the Portland Express, but “the law was dangerous in prin; iple and in another Commonwealth might b employed to, defeat the: very ~#ndd which the Oregon law #ought to accomplish. * % ¥ % Whatever may have been the intént ‘of {the law, the Indlanapolis News maintains, “it was a drive at all edu- cation except that provided by the public grade schools. ‘It was an in- terference with family life and the management thereof.” The issue in its essence, the Newark News holds, was, “whether the child belongs to the stato or its parents, buf, fortu- & - B atmosphers | common 1o the Might of thess Godies, | or Jupiter. | it In the case of a club sand- | fork is used and a knife is also cm- - | 6l —RS0, listed with that association. Sests om the New York Stock Exchinge bring from $30,000 to $100,004. Q. How should “Lucia de Lammeer moor” be pronounced?—E. G. B. A. The Donizetti opera i3 given the Ttalian pronunciation—Lu-che. (ac- cent on second syllable) day Labm- mer-moor. Q. Was the Mr. Mills who made the famous statue of Jackson on horse- back an Indian?—E. L. M. A. Clark Mills was not an Indian. He was an American sculptor, born in Onondaga county, N. ¥ . December 1, 1815. He did January 12, 1883. In 1848, when he was on the eve of leaving for Europe ta study the art of sculpture, he received a commis- sion to erect an equestrian statue of Gen. Jackson. According to the story, Mills had never even seen an eques- trian statue. He, however, set to work, designed his model and then | found itmnecessary to learn the art of bronze casting, inasmuch as there was 1o one in_ this country prepared to mold his figure in bronze. The statse of Gen. Jackson by Mills is in Lafayette square and a replica is in New Orleans. ‘Q. What & the oldest hook in the| world’—E. E. P. A. The oldest volume Known to ex fut is the Egyptian papyrus knows a the “Papyrus Prisse.” Q. What wa¥ the namé en Ge Pershing by tbe Sigur Indiemer— A. The Sioux Indians nave ferred the name aof “Brave Pagl upon Gen. Pershing. The name decided upsn at a council of the ne at Rosebull Reservation. ng of an Indian name is consi ered by the Sioux as the highe honor that oan be econferred. Brave Eagle” in the Sie s Wanbl-Ohitika. Q. Ts there such & thing as banana ¥ A. The bureau of chemistry says that there is no eil manufactured from the banana itself. There is a aration known as y1 ace. which = used for gllding, o It has the odor of the banana uad I {often termed “banana ofL” side saddles first T, addles were introduced as as the twelfth century. They were developed from the pillion or pad on which a lady rode sidewise be | hind her escort and steadied herself h"m"‘g | by holding on to his beit. Q. How can emoke be prevented when taking a flashlight>—W. E. P. A. Arrange over the spot where ig- nition is to take place a large flat pad of damp wool lint. This will absorb most of the smoke. What are some of the new citrus fruits_that have been developed?— LLB 4 A. The tangelo, the limequat and citrange are some of the most prom- ising new fruits. The tangelo is a cross between the tangerine and the grapefruit; the limequat, a cross ba- tween the lime and kumquat, and the citrange, a hybrid of the swect ore ange and trifoliate orange. (4ny reader con get the onwer o any question by writing The Star Infor- mation Bureaw, Fredemc J. Haskis, Director. 1220 Norih Capitol strect. This offer applics strictly to informa- tion. The bureau cannot give advioe on lrgal, medioal and financial mast It does ot aitempt (o seitle domestic troubles, mor to undertake ezhaustive rescareh on any subject. Write youws guestion plainly and briefly. Give fwll 000 and | name and address and inclose comts in | stamps for return postage. are sent direct to the inquirer.) Oregon School Law Decision - Upheld Generally by Pres nately, Amerdca is still so fa: the opposite poles of socia i autocracy as to leave no doubt the answer” Tha Grand ¥ Press considers “the state h more right to choose the teacher and the school than ft has to chooss the grocery store and the clothing honse.” The Press hopes, furthermore, that the federal judicial verdict “will spell the return “of mutual consideration | and sensible tolerance throughout the country. as well as respect for Amer- ican rights as old as the Constitu tion.” The Louisville Courfer-Journa: is gratified that “the decision of t Orezon judges is in thorough accors with the spirit and ideals of t American repgblic,” while the Deserct News thinks® the decision “will b quite generally supported by t¥ American people” To which t Hartford Times adds “the decision mMay or mAY not pass the test of the ultimate tribunal, but it will win approval of every citizen who regar this as really a fres country and b | lieves in the principle of tolerati But should the higher body over- rule the decision of the lower court. the Duluth Herald is confident states will be plunged into politic strife—that in which religious ani mosities and intolerances play leading part.” Although the Gra: Rapids Herald regards the Amarican | publio school as the greatest singl institution in the land, it insists =it | cannot be strengthened by more de | structive tactics aimed at those whosr consciences prefer church schools or private schools. Such efforts are not only negutive; they also are uncon- stitutional, and the Oregon case should settle this moot matter for keep In any event the Duluth News Tribune says “one can be a firm believer in tha superiority of the pub- lic schdol system over all other means of education and yet feel the decision is a victory for individual libert: As far as the public schools are c cerned, the Jersey Journal is con- vinoed' “thelr position is not weaken- ed by the decision,” for “the public school system is a fundamental part of the life of the country, and wili continu# to be so until something far more serious than tho existemce of private and parochial scheols chal- lenge it” The Portland Oregon Jour nal calis attention to the 8.500,080 people over ten in America who can- not read or write the English lan. zuage and it concludes that with such a responsibility we cannot afford to lock the door of any schoolhouse.” In a Few Words A new war between France and Germany may be only a few months distant. We need the united front of France, England and the United States to insure prolection and peace for the whole world. —GASTON LIEBERT (French en- voy). The Dawes report may be compared to an injection against typhoid—a very good ing if the person with typhoid submits to the injection, but otherwise not so effective. —FRANK H. SIMONDS. I would be glad to sink in the At- lantic ocean all the shops and ma- chinery in the great Bethlchem steel plant devoted to manufacture of war equipment if it would assure world peace. —CHARLES M. SCHWAB. College_students ould read five hours a day. The established literary works merit the greater part of the young mah's aftention. However, no one enjoys a. book of E. Phillips Oppenheim ot . any myétery or de- tective story more thana T do. —DR. HENRY VAN DYKE. A nation in the shadow of war and invasions is very easy to govern. It doesn’t ask for social reforms. 1if it did the wise men who govern would be quick to reply: “We must think of nothing but manufacturing guns.” ~—ANATOLE FRANCE. The English labor party has learn- ed the lesson that it cannot produece rabbits out of a top hat. ~—EX-FREMIER, BALDWIN