Evening Star Newspaper, April 29, 1924, Page 6

8 THE EVENING With Sunday Morning Fdition. WASHINGTON,D. C. TUESDAY. ....April 29, 1924 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Lusiness Office, 11th St. and nxylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 4-nd St, Chicaxo Ofice: Tower Builling, Buropean Office: 16 Regent St., London, England. The Brening Star, with the Sunday morning sdition, fr delivered by carriers within the city at 60 cents per mooth: daily only, 45 per month: Sunday only, 20 cents’ per month. Orders may he sent by mail of tele- rhobe Maia 5000, Collection is made by car- riers at the end of each month Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance, Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1 yr., $8.40; 1 mo., 70¢ Dally only .1yr, $6.00 ; 1 mo., 50¢ Sunday only 1yr,$2.40} 1 mo., 20c All Other States. Daily and Sunday.1 yT., $10.00; 1 mo,, 85¢ Dally only . 7.00} 1 mo., 60c sunday on! $3.00; 1 mo., 25¢ Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dis- patckes credited 1o it or not otherwise credited © this paper and also the local news pub. lished herein. Al rights of publication of ispatches herein are also reserved. Return of the Experts. Charles G. Dawes, Owen D. Young d Henry M. Robinson, American 1embers of the expert commission on German reparations, d home vesterday on the ILeviathan, having finished their task in Europe. Antici- ating a bombardment of questions, these three commissioners had pre- ared a stateme iheir views on the situation, and beyond which they would not go in signiticant personal comment. The plan in the reparation of wh - have con- buted must sta reac ans more to ¢ ©conomic cond! <ume a burden rate with, of have assumed of Germany in of & plan which step taken by thus far in ates that our ion is well founded. The prompt by the repara- the alited go e that the time 1 controversy is passed, and rmany is at hand. 1t is distinctly gratifying to the peo- his country that the services of | three American economists have been dered so effectively to Europe in the situation n-political point ut preju- - it and to propose reme- | Nothing that the American experts have said at any of the matter £ the part plan of 1t it is known, never- theless, that they were chiefly instru- ntal in proposing and securing the 1doption of the present project. It has wen called “Dawes plan.” Gen. Dawes himself deprecates this desi that the report was entire committs He gen- v s Mr. Young was one ¢ best minds in its preparation. anding this medesty, it is s it is probably known the American experts 1t is impossible alue of their contribu Suropean peace and stability. wrough them the United States 95, to estimate the n to stment. 1at plan is now s received approval and is t of execution. In its execu- the United States will be called upon to contribute in terms of a loan ich American bs s sta ady nderwrite. In 1917-13 American ps went to Europe for its salvation 1 conquest b: Ifish militant . It has lately gone there through its 1omic experts for the solution of a cruelly difficult problem. It will TOW go once more to the rescue with its dollars to make that solution ef. fective. tion nzollern government was s0 b bolshevizing the to overlook the fact was being demoral: apparentl e In spite of the primary de number of eminent tesmen wiil give expressed | . | naked flames in mines are broken. Men | roadway, that on which the car line runs now, would be left for use as a street. The bill as it stands today has an item of $200,000 for the purchase of private property needed for car- rying out the plan. It proposes the appropriation of $800,600 for a con- servitory and other buildings for the garden. When this bill was under discus- sion by the House committee on pub- lic buildings and grounds, and which reported it favorably to the House, it was brought out that the Botanic Garden now has a large appropria- tion for repair of the conservatory, but that the building is in such con- dition as not to justify expenditure of the money for repairs. This fact was stressed before the House rules committee. It was impressed both upon the House committee on public buildings and grounds and the House rules committee that much of the land to be used for extending the garden is now owned by the govern- ment. The extension of the garden as pianned would griatly improve a iarge section of South Washington, would increase the usefulness and beauty of the Botanic Garden’ and would permit the removal of struc- tures appurtenant to the garden and which are out of harmony with the plan for an open park from the Capi- tol to the west side of Potomac Park. The Death Toll Underground. Another hideous mine horror has | occurred, this time in West Virginia, | where 114 miners were entombed by an explosion. Nothing is known about | the cause, and perhaps nothing will | ever be known, for apparently every man inside the working was killed by the blast or suffocated by the damp. The explosion appears to have been one of unusual force, the concussion alone being estimated to have been ent to Lill & majority of the men | precaution is taken mining nowaday ns. The air is Lested repeatedly, and when gas appears th closed for ventilation. Safety lamps | are used. Powerful fans are installed | to draw out the polluted air. Yet ex-| plosions inue. Though the evi- | dences are usually destroyed, it is rea- sonable to conciude that in virtually every case the explosion is due tosome breach of rule, to the opening of a | sufety lamp, or to the striking of a | match by a smoker. Once in a while these mine disasters arc caused by | some fault of the wiring in case of the use of electricity in @ mine, but few mines are thus equipped, and it may ibu set down that in almost all cases some human fault is the cause of the disaster. These men who go into the depths | of the earth for our fuel are at a dead- 1y risk not only because of the condl- tions, but because of the ignorance and | wrong-headedness of their fellows. De- | spite the most persistent instructions |and careful safeguards, rules against | in aguinst explo- | e workings are | co persist in taking chances which en- | danger not only themselves but all| their companions. No machinery for | ventilation can be devised to overcome | the hazard that lies latent in*a qoal | mine. No rules, it would {an intelligent management can impose, land not even the most diligent super- | ision, can check the carelessness that ds to wholesale sacrifice of life. The Primaries Today. Voters in both parties in Massa setts and Ohio are going to the polls | | today to choose delegates to the two | national conventions. The outcome | | promises to be a one-sided affair in | | each state. Massuchusetts, of course, | | will stand by President Coolidge" | candidacy, oniy one « | trict delegate having i to him xpressed opposi- | and he is 1 3 ¢ thirty-cight other dele- ! ; & 1 Ohio, former Gov. James M. Cox expected to receive the support of | the Democratic delegation, although William . McAdoo is in the fleld as | a candidate for the momination. On | | the Republican ticket Senator Johnson | | of California is a candidate, and has | ! made u vigorous campaign the | | stats, having deli peeches | t various interval politici | think that Ohio wi ! curred in Dlinois, w senator also made a a in Tha st | cartn. ! cratic convention discloses THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY. APRIL 29, 1924 WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE STAR transformed into garden, and one|twisted or curved it may be. The light flows through it Ilike water through a tube, with little or no loss. Some wonderful discoveries have been made by means of the electric furnace. Degrees of heat that never were before conceived as possible of development by man have been pro- duced. Some time ago experimenters were at work seeking the production of precious stones by this means, and diamonds have been actually created in these furnaces, though too minute to be of any value. This use of the electric furnace is promising of high usefulness. There is no telling how far this discovery may lead. A glass that carries light with little or no loss in all directions, around corners, in circles, in eccentric curves may find a use in illumination as well as in therapeutice, revolutionizing mod- ern methods. Cleaning Up. ‘Washington has entered on Clean-up week. Expectation is that the town will be cleaned up, especially in so far as back yards, front yards or “lawns” are concerned, and that unusual atten- tion will be given to trash in garret and cellar. There will be a monstrous carting off of winter's rubbish. About the middie of April the Commissioners issued their annual proclamation, and designated the week from April 28 to May 3, inclusive, urging all citizens to unite in “making Washington the cleanest and most beuutiful city in the United States.” Thousands of our peo- ple did not wait for the date set by the proclamation. Many did not even wait for the issuance of the official call. They heard the call of spring and fell to the job of answering it. With the coming of bright days loyal house- holders proud of home and city ap- peared in shirt sleeves or gingham apron, and there was the rasp and rat- tle of lawn-mowers whore thers was | grass enough to cut. The spade wus roused from its winter's sleep, and | there was @ stirring of sweet-smelling | There was busy planting of | seed and trimming of rose bushe: wistaria and spirea and tender minis- tration to other garden jdols. The Fevolution. war of 1512 and ctvil war | recent meeting of University of scent of fresh paint fills parts of the city. But the peak of the spring clean- | up will be reached this week. The | Commiscioners have pr ied and | the people will give earnest support | and effective answer to the proclama- tion. | | e —v————— Before naming a successor to| Charles Murphy, Tammany Hall will | allow enough time to elapse to permit somse one to develop the requisite force as a disciplinarian. ————————— { Selections so far announced indicate | that while the Cleveland convention will develop no eoulstirring contro- versy, the exercises will be most in- teresting. | s While many Germans are livi travagantly, statistics show that Amer- icans are saving money. The ant may as well be prepared for a visit from the grasshopper. ——————————— While Col. Bryan cultivates a wide range of general topics, each Demo- tho fact that he keeps posted up to the minute on political matters. — e The big picnic held by the Ku Klux Klan on Long Isiand represents a| harmless form of diversion that ought | to be encoureged. | e Expressions of displeasure a ventured by the ex-kaiser, but with serious effect. It is‘no longer @ royal displeasure. ES——— | Disarmament is a big subject. and | always worthy of serious discussion. | —e——————— ] SHOOTING STARS. - LY PHILANDER JOHNEON Leadership. He wus proclaimed a ruthless “boss.” And maybe it wa Since great ambitions he would toss Like playthings to and fro. But comrades of an earlier da3 joiced in bis command. heads uncovered now thes sa “Ife lent a helping hand.” | of | nians- may | was established on | Tork City. | common-law | water from the air. Answers to Questions BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. What is the accepted distance for a par 4 hole at golf?—G. A. T. A. Any distance up to and includ- iug 250 yards is a par 3; 251 to 445 yards, par 4; 446 to 600, par §; above 600, par 6. Q. Where do most of the foreigners &0 who come to this country?—G. N. G. A. During the fiscal year ending June 31, 1923, New York state re- ceived the largest quota of immi- Brants, a total of 130,142. Texas was second with 45,198, and Massachusetts third with 41,602 Q. T have a cement porch that is wearing off budly. Can it be covered With 4 coment coating satisfactorily? A. The Portland Cement Assocla- tion says that the only way to give the porch a smooth surface would ba to add three inches of new con- crete. This is the smallest amount that can be added on the top coat, as less than this will not hold. In using the three inches of concrete the mixture I8 one part cement and two parts sand. The old porch should be cleaned thoroughly. The mixture ment and wiler in paste form is added. Brushing over the porch should serve as an abrasive. The ce- ment mixed for the new flooring should be wdded immediately after the paste Is used. 1w, Dl any c!!‘>‘h;xénnt Washington ave under with the snowstor n April 17—A. T. C. = A. On that particular day every weather station on the cast coast re- ported the sume condition. The sta- tions reporting to the chief of the United States weather bureau were Baltimore, Philadelphia, Auantic City, New York city, Sandy Hook and Haven The 'weather burean says that the lightning and thunderstorm which occurred during the snowstorm was not an unusual phenomenon. This has ‘occurred from time to time within the last twenty years. Tn fact, it occurs every two or threc years, if not more often. One of the accasions such a storm which Wushingto- recollect was the day be- fore inauguration, March 1909, Taft's Q. When living in the country with no underground water pipes, how can one maka radi H. S o A. Such connection can be made by about six feet. Q. How muny pensioners of the are now on the pension books?—H. G. A. There are no pensioners of the revolutionary war fiow living. On the pension rolls are 10 widows of veterans of t 4 4 sol- diers of the 3 widows: 168,6 and 264,580 Indian wars T ns 1 soldiers of nd 2,828 widows, Q. When were free night schools established?—M. M. B A. The first berevolent night school aten Island, N. Y., in 1715. The first private evening school in New York state was estab- lished in September, 1720, by James Lyde in the customhouss in New Public evening schools in connection with public sehools were ver: Dutch of New this time. In New England the first private evening school was mentioned | B10Om, from the nineteenth N in the Boston News in 1724. This school was kept by Mr. Samuel Gran- ger in Boston. After 1750 privat evening schools were very common, Q. What country in South America has no seaport?—J. B. D. A. Neither Bolivia nor Paraguay has 2 sea coast or seaport. Q. Does the Irish Free State coin its own money?—J. 8. A. It has not issucd its own coin- age, British coinage is still used. Q. What are the Articles of W H. F. A. The Articles of War are the dis- cipline and disciplinary procedure code of the Tnited States Army. They were copled from_the English | mutiny _act, July 30, 1775, and en- larged September 20, . The pres- ent articles, which are practically the same as the former ones, were enacted April 10, 1806. It is the au- thority under which statutory and crimes and misdemean- ors a y military courts. Q. What l:ind of a snake Wwas the asp by means ©of hich Cleopatra committed suicide?—A. R. C. A. It is thought that this snake was the small-horned viper. Q. What called? A. The melting of salt is kn. chemistry as deliquescence—that is, the power of any salt to absorb water and actua £0 damp weather tha galt a Some < & greater power for absorbing wate than cthers. s the melting of salt Q. Are thers contain iod anas. strawberries, grapes, mea] and wheat contain amounts bf io Many vege- and fish also cont: fodine. glove makers were th under Charle- e, who were granted the unre- t magn strictes 3| a good connection for a| riving an iron pipe into the ground | wn in | | will not choose a President was in | 26 { university in Editors View Seating of Bloom As of More Than Normal Import common among the | means etherlands prior to | Congress, | i | | | more or less partisan glasses. | | determinative"; | which says |In tnis 5 | Herald-Tribune (Republican) deck Representative Theodore E. Burton of Ohio, seriously considered for key- noter at Cleveland, ranks as the most learned man in the House. Of him it 1s related that in college days at Oberlin, in the '70s, he would chal- lenge his comrades to quote any two lines of Shakespeare which Burton could not place instantly—play, act and scene. The story goes that the Kitchen, range in his bachelor apart- ment 1s piled high with books. Bur- ton, who will keynote in his home town, has himself in the past ranked as presidential timber. No man in Congress knows more about foreign affairs. There may be timely signifi- cance in the fact that, in selecting Burton for convention honors, PTesi- dent Coolidge chose the one member of the House who raised his voice in protest against Japanese exclusion. * ¥ * ¥ According to the gospel of Senator George H. Moses, who belleves in alliteration, the principal asset of the Republican party at this witching hour is “the calm and cautious Chris. tian character of Calvin Coolidge. Moses says the accent is on the “k. * ¥ ¥ ¥ What Go men of massive scientific brain talk about when they get to- gother? At the end of the dedication ceremonies of the new National Acad- emy of Sciences in Washington the other day friends were hunting for its president, Prof. Albert A. Michelson, world-famed physicist and Nobei prize winner. After some quest they dis- covered Michelson in animated confer- ence with a venerable brother suvant. Dr. Thomas Hunt Morgan of Columbia had just delivered the dedicatory ad dress on the constitution of the heredi- tary material. It had provoked lively di t Michelson and his friend e about the days, fifty years g0, W they introduced base ball into Heidelbers. * %+ s Representative Nicholas J. Sinnott of Uregon, chairman of the House committee on public lunds, has just been revealed 28 a cbampion athlete of earlier days. He turned up at the Notre ex- Dame alumni in Washington, hi pansive bosom medal-bedecked trophy bore the legend that was the ard 591, One innott of the sther dis- closed that athletic ch he won ipionship in I-around 1892. Sinnott Ordinarily the = 1% or unseating | elementare | Of & Single representative in Congress The action of | in scating Sol | v York | district, is held to be important by editors. It may have an effect on the clection of the next President.| Bloom's possession of the scat y little however. puts | is In his gixth successive term in Congress. He represents the district in which he was born. * ¥ ¥ ¥ ‘When recent cable dispatches relat- cd that J. Pierpont Morgan was being consulted in Paris about a German loan in America, this observer's mem- ory harked back to a reportorial ex- perience with Plerpont Morgan the elder in London & quarter of a cen- tury ago. ‘The news of the moment concerned China’s requirement of an international loan to pay the Boxer indemnity. This reporter, & cub newly arrived in London from Chi- cago, was sent to Interview the great financler. Morgan received him kindly and asked what was wanted. “Is there any chance of China float- ing a loan in New York?" was asked. Morgan beamed benignly upon the cub, twirled his horn-rimmed eye- glasses in a characteristic gesture. ushered the reporter to the door and said: “Well, young man, vou know I'm completely out of touch with things in New York. What do you think the prospects are? If vou hear anything, yowll yet me know, won't you?' The interview was gnded and the reporter found himself in Old Broad street. * x * J. Weston Allen, who has jugt beenPclimbed g appointed general counsel of Frank A. Vanderlip's “Citizens’ Federal Re- search Bureau,” received an LL. D. from Harvard in_ 1922. It was be- stowed In token ®f Allen's success- ful prosecution of District Attorney Pelletier in Boston. President Low- ell of Harvard, in presenting Allen with his honorary sheepskin, describ- ed him as “this Hercules, who has cleaned our Augean stables.” Two vears ago Allen aspired in vain to be Governor of Massachusetts. . ¥ ¥ x ¥ While Congress is excluding Jap- anese immigrants, the Department of Agriculture is making war on the Jajenese beetle. The latter has been declared an undesirable and ordered deported. But first has to be caught. At present the | Japanese beetle is occupying and ra ishing portions of New Jersev and Pennsylvania To drive the pest, y Wallace has or- ganized se beetle projec in co-operation with the New Jerse Pennsylvania departments of a riculture. No fewer than differ- ent species of plauts are vietims of the Japanese invader, who travels from region to region by autombbile, as well as spreading himself over the country by his wings and feet. (Copyright, 1924.) also alien e | political expediency nd made def, of the Republicans’ plans possible. * 4% “Sengible Republicans w ulate their party over seat, Walter M. Chandler, Republica according to the Detr pendent), because, “if Bloom had been | unseated, the Democratic leaders NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM THE PRISONER WHO SANG. Johan Bojer. The Century Company. Andreas Pedersen Berget—Nor- wegian. A fat, pink little boy with 2 mop of yellow hair, with his mother and an old bachelor uncle. That he never had a father meant nothing to him, nor would it even had he been of an age to realize the infamy of his mother's out- rageous neglect of so indispensable a provision. And this is a sign. For never in all of his life could Andreas be made to feel the importance of rules and regulations. That his mother was a hunchback—now, this was something different. Here was & matter of interest, even of pride. For no other mother that he ever came across carried this queer pack upon her shoulders. This, too, a sign A sign of the boy's lifelong passion for being set apart from others by any sort of difference and distinction. These two traits domi- nated his existence and set the col- ors of his fate. These three—Andreas, the uncle—lived away in the deep forest, beside a narrow road that st them up the hill and then ran down the ot side of it in search of another smiling valley like the one from which it had just com Andreus, lonely with the two old folks? Don't you think it. Jie turned the green world around him_ into playfellows, inventing a brand-new game every minute or xo. The house and the cow shed beside made out to be husband Erown ay and wrinkled from ha Ing o sit_out in every sort weather. Children? they plenty of children, these two. all the brown boulders, big and lit out among the alders and down b side the romping brook? These were their children, good f 1f they grew tiresome o to hurl a handful u the hens und Out his mother would run, “Where? Did you see h think I'did. He wa And Andreas would str arms in m ur ent, looking eager- Iy meanwhile into & sky that was wholly destitute of any hawk. The fowls” would flutter and squawk as if they could tell another story if called upon. Then the mother would bless herself and him for the of the poultry and Andreas wo away where he could not be Then he would lie down flat on h stomach and laugh, Lonely? Not in such a lively place as that * % % % A husky, muscular fellow—Andreas. Only fifteen now, but looking quite the man. Dressed in a complete outfit of fisherman’s togs that his mother had sold a heifer to buy. Walking a very smiling and handsome to join fishermen bound north to the Lefoten Islands. And the next day his mother the mother, little m, of pebbl as that” is pudgy from the top of the highest hill round- | about saw the fleet move out from t fiord. *“I shall never sea him in, |she wepl. The next week Andreas was | the entrance back. He had run aw He had sold his fisherman’s outfit. But he had in place of it a biz new watch and a splen- Iking stick. It came to him all at he sajd, that if he went with eet he would always be a fisherman. at case he could not be the shoe- maker, nor the tailor, nor any one of those others that from the inside of him were forever knocking and imploring Andreas lived | e | Vi MARVELOUS EXHIBITS IN NATIONAL ACADEMY Coolidge and Members View Sci- entific Devices in New Building. MEETING HEARS Gen. Squier Predicts Future Elec- trical Wonders. PAPERS Exhibits at the new bujlding of the National Academy of Sciences and tho National Research Counci dedicated yesterday at 21st and 1 streets, with President Coolldge at tending, today divided the attention of those attending the second ses sion of the annual meeting of academy. Those exhibits aro a dream com true, for long before the corner stone of the buflding was laid members of the academy discussed them, and ho they some day would enable “the man on the street” to see the practics bility and be of both science” and applied science. Installed in rooms around the mal: auditorium, the various scientific de- vices attracted attention along w the many highly technical papers which are being read at today's meet Zach scientific device is accomp: nied by a printed card telling plain language the purpose and his tory of the test and full direction for operating. By press key, the spectator may put the ap paratus “through its paces” and se vividly and concretely matters whict hitherto he may have accepted mer Iy as things of pure speculation Delicate balances of which the vi-- itor may bhave read, having an a! most unbelievable ability to Jeter minute differences, are made to wei infinitesimal differen ne befors them. the es as he s | Famous Vacuum Tube. On another stand the vis ses Dr. Lee de Forest's thre, vacuum tube, un rsall used in modern radio re see for himself how the *'pla | Visitors were unanimou stating that there is thing ke these exhibits anywhere else, aim as they are to both tell the lay and demonstrate themselves to him | From the swinging gold globe in the center of the auditorium, m | dence of the constant movements | the earth, to the models of dinosa | eggs in a room on the second floor, the new building is a mine of interest ting scientists exciaimed todas - marvelous view a of the ne | looking as it does mcross coln Memorial. Water is now \mr.» sm ir or ma. known anc eption, «nd heats up today iu |att in terraced pools of the Academy of Scie | harmonizing with the re | at the Mem . tific papey h of the aca | emy was_one | by Maj. Gen the vote of the New York delegation |would have becn able to magnify |him to be let out into the world once | A, retired, forr in the Democratic column should the | next election go into the House of | Representatives. In view of the pos- &ibility of a third party at this time editors look on tho result through The Des Moines Register (inde- pendent Republican) points out that| “the seating of Representative Bloom | means that in the event of election | of President by the House the single | vote of the state of New York would | probably go to the Democratic nomi- ee,” and “with the House d t now is, this might readily therefore, “i cefvably could prove to be a that made a President.” Manifestly | “the vote on this issue was controlied on both sides by a desire for political advantage,” in the opinion of the Detroft Free Press (independent), “the entirely irrelevant argument growing out of a remote possibility that the electoral coile ac cisive—par - | judicial dut siders that all this had nothing to| do with the question whéther fraud | was committed in Bloom's district. | connec the New York| es | fon_that soraid ol Bloom to the “there is no qu corruption elccted House of Represe: | “the record in the most disgraceful city has ever se than-thou radical mmanyized the holier- Republican : ts who have spent most of their | ative winter expressing horror at the alieged cor- ruption of Republicans join hands | the polls den | gress.” the case into an issue.” The News! Bous on to say, “Had the Republicans, | wielding the majority whip, been able | to vote Bloom out of office on some- | what doubtful grounds, there would have been little to prevent similar | tion, on_ no groun at all, for | wders of @ majority party in Con- gress would have been in position to cust any or all members of the nority”; action of th House in following the face of th returns in the Bloom-Chandler case disposes of s e disturbing possibilt ies.' In an: vent, the Minn Tribune (Republican) holds ing of Bloom should serve as tional spur to the Republic to make itself fully deservi confidence of the voters w in November.” fo Coolidge party of the o go to “Presi- | shouider the responsibility.” The Buffalo News (Republican) ~attaches more than usual political significance the action of the insurgents, b, in case of a deadlock in the elector: college the of President would be thrown into the House New York would go to the Dcmo- cratic candidate. In this case, the News claims, “the insurgents did not vance their cause, but merely made play for the Dcmocrats in Con- Feeling that “ev incident in Washington these d; is magni- fled in accordance with its future possibilities,” the Memphis Ne Scimitar (independent) maintains | that while *some may think the tory_of Mr. Bloom was guite a blow to the Republicans, there is not the | slightest indication that the House will be ealled on to perform its con- | stitutional function of electing a President: however, safeguards against | vholo such a contingency are in order.” COURAGE more. * Andreas at eighteen. A merchant th: time. Nothing easier than this, accord- ing to him. All you have to do is to feel like & merchant, deep within you, to get the po! w. And th tside, no time ., will begin to conform. | You not only feel the part, but you look | it and act ft. Then you go to some trade town, jus home. You look over stock. You with care and discrimination, waywi to the business, you see. You talk casual- Iy about the farm, and the m us hauls this year from.the Lofoten banks So. gradually, you come upon the sub- Ject of credits, the backbone of b Just as easy as that. To be sure few weeks in the case of Andreas, the creditors were upon him tearing th hair for moners due. A minor matte What really did count was that Andreas had had the time of his life, so far. turn- ing out a new role in a fashion that de- lighted him. Tremendou . while it lasted. To be sure, Aud: went_to Jafl. A lucky outcome in @ way. for it gave him leisure to summon and get Teady to project another of his mul farious selv * * By this time Andreas had become famously infamous to an enlarging area and audience. To him, however, life was a joyous thing under this obsession to transform himself. to take on this and that new being with increasing facility and aplomb. The great mystery of the world, to an unsolvable one, was that any human could endure being the same person vear in, vear out. That any one could il to Lofoten and back again winters on end. That anyyone and inventor of d in conngction with work. Great Cable Speed. ¢ predicted mately a “speed and accuracy thought of at present’ ta through ocea! the adoption far enough away from | lect | hearing the z stepping into vacu fu » side room od, by ¥ i resulted in gT worle has been ca connection with the Se: e kan Army cable. Much of t | nas been carried on in the 1 | tory of William M. Bruce, | Springfield, Ohio, and by tl of standards here. George R. Putnam, commissione lighthou read a paper on “Radi: | Fog Signals for the FProte | Navigation.” Frederic geologist, associated with the | Refie” Institution, told of a purt | gravity meter which would b | in measuring the vibration of } tre emors. W. B. Greeley, chief forester | Tnited States forest service, will ess the academy at 8:15 o'cloc! glrgm on a scientific background for the forest policy of the country Other addresses will be made | H. Breasted, John C. Mer t Alex Hrdlicka an airfield Osborn. ) F e fina) secsion will be leld o'clock tomorrow sl - Aerial Disarmament | Seen Hinging on France | It is not &0 expensive to bulld air- ock paign which proved um A right of hunting in return | the voters went to the poils. i A the Ohio pr | could work hard on the same farm, with the same wife, vear, as Le will do a doze from now. That he Men came to him for aid. ! He sought flattering applause maries is| Yot battled undismayed. “I am the master of my fate, ‘this | planes and dirigibles as it is to con I am the captain of my soul.” years|struct cruisers and battleships, but - | the aerial armament race has assum. for making gloves, girdles and book | to indorse and protect this proven | covers from the tkins of the deer|cage of Democratic corruption.’ they killed. 1 IR their support to dage “It is th unexpected that happens.” e After all, it is a fortunate nation t confidently expects a tax reduc- tion instead of facing the possibility of an increase. e One of the few peopla wh ceeded in making statisti convincing but interesting Dawes. have sue- es not only s Mr. Gov. Smith is getting at least enough ‘backing to insure him a favorite son ovation at the New York convention. An Enlarged Botanic Garden. The prospect brightens that a bill for the extension Botanic Garde consideration by this Congress, and udvocates of the measure believe that the action of Congress will be affirma- tive. The Holise rules committee has given favorable consideration to the bill, and the chairman of that com- mittee has said that he will endeavor to have the measure brought up at the earliest possible date when it will not interfere with more important general legisiation. In enlarging the Botanic Garden it is proposed that a commission shall be named to purchase squares Nos. £77 and 0580, the first of which is bounded by 2d. 3d, C and Canal streets southwest and the second of which is bounded by 1st and 24, C, D and Canal streets southwest. The commission would be given authority to close the south roadway of Canal street from B to 2d street and from d to C street. The District property yvards have occupied the middle of this broad street from B to D street for many years, and there is a paved roadway the width of an ordinary street along each side of the property yard. The space covered by the prop- erty yard and one roadway would be will receive final of the site of the| the candidacy of former Attorney Gen- eral Daugherty for delegate. opin- lion is said to be that his candidacy | | will not affect President Coolidge's | | tortunes. When these two states have | ! spoken there will e little left of in- erest in the primaries except next | | week in California, Senator Johnson’s | own state, where he has been making | a fight for the delegation. | — The immigration bill has been se-| {lected for demonstrating that Congress | can occasionally proceed to action ina | | conspicuously prompt and decisive manner. ———————— - | Tne chter pront from German | paper marks is now belng realized by | | the manufacturers of wuste-paper baskets. : It is declared that any man's place can be filled, but Tammany Hall frank- Iy admits that it will take time. ! B A New Laboratory Marvel Announcement is just made of a | discovery through laboratory ex- periments at Lynn, Mass., of a sub-| stance known as cleared-fused quartz, which, looking like ordinary glass, has remarkable properties that may make it available for invaluable uses in science and probably in the treat- ment of disease. This quartz, which is produced in clectric furnaces at ex- traordinarily high temperatures and under tremendous gas pressure, is an excellent transmitter of heat and ul- traviolet light rays, as well as ordi- nary light. By means of the fused quartz it is believed to be possible to apply the ultraviolet ray, which is that element in sunlight which pos- | King Solomon was very rich. sesses a curative quality, to internal parts of the body hitherto fmpossible to reach, for a rod of this quarts will carry @& ray of light however Unto his pow'r a foe deferred And could not understand. A friend explained it in @ word “He lent a helping hand.” No Spelibinder. i “You used to be a spelibinder und | sway the masses.” “I've quit that,”" answered Senator Sorghum. *I try to keep my constitu- ents convinced, but unemotionalized. Once you start 2 mass swaying, there's | no telling when some fellow will come aleng with a punch and sway it away across in the opposite direction.” Jud Tunkins says he has lost faith in this idea of horseshoes being lucky ever since he got bumped by a flivver while trying to pick one up. ‘Wealth and Wisdom. He made a wondrous record, which Permitted him a vast estate ‘With nothing to investigate. | If you at present should aspire To wealth that makes the world ad- mire, You'll find you have to be, my son, Almost as wise as Solomon. ' Gain and Loss. ““At least we have at last established a safe and sane Fourth of July.” “True,” answered Miss Cayenne; “but. think of the number of other days that seem to be getting more and more doubtful” Empty Musion. “You say your friend's new radio outfit disappointed you?” “Yes,” answered Uncle Bill Bottle- top. “It looked from a distance like a cellaret.” “Hoss racin said Uncle Eben, “gits you out o' doors, an’ if you ain’ keerful how you bets it's liable to keep you dar.” « to play ‘hen did money bes! wHen affair an important part in world BV A. While coins money used to some not until Rome be world power in the cenlurie: preceding Christ's birth that money became fluid and took en important place in affairs. It was also at this time that soldiers were first paid for their services. Q. How long dv cats liv extent. it was M. L. T, A. There are no authentic statistfes | available in regard to the average longevity of cats, but they often live from ten to fifteen years. Q. How is the name of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch pronounced?—H. J. A. Quiller-Couch is pronounced Kwiller-Cooch—thg double o with the same sound as in “food.” Q. How many kinds of wolves are there in this country?—E. N. A. Although systematic naturalists have named numerous species and subspecies of wolves, there are prac- tically only two very distinct kinds in America—the large gray timber wolf and the prairie wolf or coyote. (Frederic J. Haskin is employed by this paper to handle the inquiries of our readers, and you are invited to call upon him as freely and as often as you please. Ask anything that is o matier of fact and the outhority widl be quoted you. There is no charge for this service. Ask what you want, sign your full name ond address, and inclose ° cents in stamps for returm postage. Address Frederic J. Haskin, Director, The Star Information Bureau, 1220 North Capitol street.) In a Few Words If life is & journey one must imag- ine himself to be like a locomotive which by its good work may become a flying machine, or, on the other hand, a wretched old push-bike by the time it reaclies its destination. —CANON SHIMWELL. Within seven years defense against aircraft will have been contrived which will make bombing planes use- less against civil population. ~COMMANDER CARYLON BEL- LAIS, M. P. One sound man sent to Congress is the meral equivalent to & Aty converts to the church. = —DR. CHARLES H. PARKHURST. ad been made and | | | Since this newspaper has not been sued for libel, the Grand Rapids Her- ald (Republican) assumes it must have “stated a fact, yet in the face of that fact, Sol Bloom is accepted into the companionship of Congress which is supposed to be particularly keen about unhorsing corruption”; furthermore, “'a majority of the House elections committee, which heard the evidence and inspected the record, de- cided against Bloon all of which leads to the conclusion that “the con- gressional popularity of assaults upon corruption seems to depend entirely too much upon whose ox is gored.” The Grand Raplds Press (independ- ent), however, suggests that “if ac- tual corruptien is proved to have oc- curred in the election of Sol Bloom it is rather remarkable that he has not been convicted in the courts,” be- cause “there has been time enough to bring a case,” and “If the horrendous practices_complained of gre not ex- aggerated, surely Mr. Bloom's oppo- nent can still obtain his seat by plac- ing Mr. Bloom in jzil.” But Congress- man Bloom, the Savannah Press (Democratic) is confident, will “stay where he is. As the New York Eve- ning World (independent Democratic) sees it, “the bragen Dartisan conspir- acy for the unseating of Representa- tive Bloom has falled because the Re- publican insurgents insisted upon vot- ing on the evidence,” and “the radi- cals in_ this case ‘were the reaction aries of the dominant party who had planned a partisan lynching for g col- league; perhaps this was to have been expected, but it was not to be expect- | —HENLEY. | | | Frank McManamy wanted an edu- | cation, was too poor to it | otherwise, so went to work that he ! might carn a living w studying. | First a water boy fo onstruc- | tion gang on the Pennsylvania sy tem, he then joined a section gang, worked at track-laying and sought | a way to supplement his common school education. While firing a lo- comotive on the Chicago and West Michigan railroad in 1891 he made a freight run of 150 miles every day and attended a business college at Traverse City. Then he studied law for two years. After six years as a| fireman he was promoted to engineer. Resigning in 1599, he became an air- brake instructor for a correspondence school and soon was assistant mana- ger of the railway department, then engineer of tests. Entering the service of the Inter- state Commerce Commission in 1808 as inspector of safety appliances, he won higher positions rapidl pointed chief inspector of lo by President Wilson in 1913 the position until Secretary McAdoo made him assistant director of opera- tions for the United States Railroad Administration. When the war camc he speeded heavy repairs on freight cars, 73,000 a month; persuaded 250,000 shopmen to toil seventy hours a week: recondi- tioned thousands of locomotives, and placed 4,500 new. locomotives in serv- ce. Besides educating himself in all lines of railway work, he had learned the name and location of every im- cquire ed that President Coolidge would at- tempt to interfere in the decision of the House.” The Scranton Times (Democratic) also mentions that the charge was openly made that Mr. Slemp, private secretary to President Coolidge, was active in urging Re- publican progressives to stand by the party by voting to unseat Mr. Bloom, and the Times asserts “the New York Evening World fittingly describes Slemp's activities as natural to him, but beneath the dignity of a Presi- dent of the United States.” Though it can readily be seen, continues the Lynchburg Advance = (Democratic), “why the Republicans made every ef- fort to oust Bloom and secure control of the New York delegation; but hap- pily, the fairmindedness of the west- ern ' progressives prevailed against ortant railway ~ terminal in the Tnited States, and was able to organ- ize the total 'shop capacity with i credible swiftness, so that each lo- comotive needing repair could be sent to the nearest shop, irrespective of ownership, thus making it possible to operate every shop at its maxi- hum. When negotiations for a standard wage agreement with the men was on the verge of falling through, Mc- Manamy was chosen to prevent fail ure and arranged the understanding which is the basis of the present na- tional agreement. By these and many other salient achievements he won the recognition of President Harding, who named him o his present position. (Copyright, 1924.) | fulfillment of his own many ever being merely K nothing_ else. Unsp. Unendurable child, so the e had been content simply But now hig growing pas- sion was to put on another man's being—Peter today, Paul tomor- he had own the of many transforma- Already he had been a be @ farmer, a shop! r, D pauper, jaflbird. Not so bad—with life yet in its early morning hours for Andreas. Out and away into more and fuller adventures for the selves! Out and away to the shocked amaze- ment of the whole human herd, e one imprisoned in the narrow of his own dull and unchang being! monot: When I Andre s able * ¥ % *x But, like everybody Andreas had his own Nemesis. Unluckily for him it was a modern Nemesis, intol- erant of broken laws and hostile to offenses against the accepted pattern of current life. So, alas, poor An- dreas! A great character. Great in the sense that Andreas is every man —or everybody is an Andreas in the realization—now vague, now clear— that he is in and of himself a Lost, a multitude of personalities clamoring for precedence, for domination, for expression. Much of the confusion of life, the most of its ineptitudes, rise out of this common multiple person- ality of the individual. Johan Bojer else | does openly, pointedly, purposefully, what the human does sécretly and un- willingly out of these urgencies of warring Individual existences. In the person of Andreas he projects and follows many of these personalities out into the world of men and on to the fate of each, to the fate of the whole outer man as well. In the per- son of Andreas—natural man, ther fore unmoral and socially irrespon, ble—Bojer has objectified this com- mon inner life that with everybody is so confusingly compound of old blood and new, of old impulses and later ones—tho whole an inharmonio flux, surging up to the complete mys- tification of all outer existence. From this touch of universal kinship An- dreas Berget is, one takes it, headed upon long life and a wide acceptance. A great character—no, no, not great in its nobility. Great in ifs truth in- stead. A convincing allegory of the human, prefegied [ a simpitcity of \ . 1 and | imitate | such large proportions that there is a general feeling that it should be halted as the naval construction race was halted by the Washington co | terence. This feeling had been | mirably voiced by Prime Minister | MacDonald, who had officlally stated | hts willingness to co-operate in any | movement for the calling of a new disarmament conference. He refrains from taking the initiative because he s uncertain as to whether or not his suggestion would be favorably re- ceived. He a receptive mood, and would w no any opening Which would lead international cconomy and same timo strengthen the peace. No one doubts that the “next war —if thiere is to be a “next war'—wil be fought largely in the air. The de«. velopment of aerial warfare durivs the world war and the subsequent advance in aviation and in struction of serfal fighting mac leave no room for guestion. ¥ limited by the Washington ugr ment to an Inferfor navy, has bec: seeking to make herself the foremos® aerial power. Great Britain has be forced to spend large sums in meet ing this French advance. Prime Min ister MacDonald, who is an ardent advocate of the Anglo-French entent and who believes that European Se- curity is largely dependent on the maintaining of this entente, deplores anything resembling a warlike com petition France should be willing to_meet MacDonald half way. And if France and Great Britain are desirous of general agreement it is far from likely that any other nation will fee impelled to interpose objections. principle the folly of aerial comp tition is as great as the folly of nav competition, and if naval disarma- ment is wise aerial disarmament i equally commendable. — Clevela Plain Dealer. to form, in a fidelity to local conditions, in a straight, ever-climbing line of action, in the logic of its own sub stance—a sum of delight to the re er. These Norwegian writers—this one in particular—are like the French. to whom they are, without doubt, re lated in blood as they are in their clarity of mind, their unemotional, unsentimental conception of art, as of life, in their sense of proportion—un- like the English, who have from their Gorman ancestry wathered o «n:m;Leh