Evening Star Newspaper, July 1, 1924, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR *Wh Sundey Merning Edition. & WASHINGTON, D. C. -;_tvu'nAz. f .July 1, 1924 THEODORE W. NOYES. . . . Editor ‘The Evening Star Nowspapor Company S New otk Otear 11_?‘&?'31 . c : 3 E ol o s, VN 2 e s oy 5 8 contsher oy ety & s per moath: Sunday osly. 20 ceats Ordess wmay. Qo tele- Dicne Matn Eo0 Collection 14 wede e e Tiete at ibe ond of each MoRld. Rate by Mail~Peyable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..15v., 38.40: 1 mo., 70¢ Duily only . 1 3 Sunday only . the Sunday * Member of the Asseciated Press. The Aswociated Press re o exclugively catitied B T e die or mot otherwise credit g0 the locel newy pul rights of publication of bocial dispatches herein are alse reserved. T ——————— The 0il Indictments. Ingictments returned yesterday by the speeial grand jury to the District Supreme Court bring to the point of Getermination by orderly judicial pro- cedyre the questions of criminal con- duct in the naval oil leases. After an investigation covering@wo menths the &rund jury charges the former Secre- tary of the Interior, Albert B. Fall, the heads of the two oil companies obtain- ing leases, H. F. Sinclair and E. L. Doheny, and the latter's son of bribery in connection with the grant ot the rights to take oil from the gov- ernment’s reserves. If these charges are sustained on trial all four men will be subject to penalties of imprison- ment. ' This presentment has not been made in baste. The disclosures relative to Ahe circumstances in which the oil leases were made occurred more than half @ year ago. The Senate commit- %ec investigation brought forth certaln facts that cstablished financial rela- tions between the federal official who was charged with the administration of the oil reserves and the heads of the oil companies that obtained the leascs. Public opinion immediately _ Teaped to the conclusion that the trans- sction was dishonorable, was induced By corruption. The Senate committee’s inquiry was 40 such an extent ex parte that it ®ould mot be accepted as definitely es- tablishing corruption. Now a grand Jury. after a thorough examination of versons and papers, concludes that the Jmotive in the grant of the leases was gorrupt, that the loan of $100,000 by Doheny to Fall was made as a con- Slderation and inducement, and that as hetween Fall and Sinclair there were ‘secret agreements that tainted the | transaction with corruption, though ne charge is made that there was any direct or actual financial inducement. A grand jury’s presentment is mere- 1y a charge, not to be regarded as proof. It does not follow that con- viction will be had, that a jury will Jptify the accushtion: The accused will have full opportunity to defend thém- gelves, to challenge the indictment, to advance evidence explanatary of the [Felations between the oil chiefs and the farmer federal officer. ‘The case will B8 tried in this city, and will doubtless be long protracted. It will clog the local court, and will perhaps lead, if egnviction is had on any count, to ap- peals, which will yield no result for many ‘months, perhaps for several .years. But it is at least assured that Mnally as a result of these indictments the criminal aspect of this malodorous and distressing case will be deter- mined, and for that there is reason for gratification, regardless of the out- come. ———— No orator was misled by the wild cheering that greeted every announce- ment that unlees the party avoided the course he deprecated it was going down to certain defeat. On Monday each speaker whose advice happened 10 be turned down returned to:the Garden quite as hopeful as ever. Like “pointing with pride” and “viewing <with.alarm,” ‘“‘going down to certain defeat” has come to be accepted large- 1y as a figure of speech. ———e——— » The Democratic chairman at Madi- %on Square Garden has demanded & punctuality for night sessions that will disappoint hospitable local people ‘who hoped delegates would have time to saunter into a few cabarets enroute to the convention. - ——rat— Comment has been made on the lack of indication that convivialities have cbeen strongly indulged in by delegates. “As a matter of fact the *“great Ameri- o&n thirst” is more or less in the na- ture of a humorous myth. tay The Deadlock Habit. “ 'Unless the deadlock at New York is broken before this issue of The Star goes to press the Democratic party Will be for a third time in twelve years in the grip of a stubborn tangle ©of unyielding candidacies for the presi- 4dential nomination. When the conven- tion adjeurned at midnight last night it had taken 15 futile ballots, starting well along toward the 46-ballot mark of 1912 and the 44-ballot mark of 1920. There was no sign at that hour of any ylelding on the part of either.of the two leaders. There was no marked in- dication of the rise of a third candi- dacy sufficiently strong to draw the early support of a nominating number of delegates. ' - The two-thirds rule that is the basic the two candidaciés are shrewdly con- sidering what is broadly and dften in- accyrately described as the “mass peychojogy" of the eonvemtion. They are concerned to make the most dramatic of their strength. Each is watching sharply for the moves of the other side. Last evening ocourred one of the characteristic ac- tions of such en engagement. On the teath ballot the Kansas delegates switched from “Faverite S8op™ Davis to McAdoo. Promaptly, within a few minutes, the New Jersey delegmtion switched from “Favorite Son™ Silger to Smith. An exchange of . “Saops.” Great cheering, first for McAdeo, then for 8mith. . Such sudden changes are onlculated to start things moving. But Jast night nothing started. After the two delega- tions had recorded their shifts to their second-choice candidates the cenven- tion settled back to the slow process of oceasional singie-vote chengea. In this case one change counteracted the other. Perhaps the fact that in 1912 and in 1920 the convention had to atay in ses- sion for many hours of balloting is a factor at present to keep the deadlock unbroken. It may be that there is a prideful disposition on the part of partisans of the two leaders tp break the record of 1812, so closely an proached by 1920. In the case of the largest block of Smith delegates, 90 in number, they are virtually at heme and under small expense com- pared ‘with the majority of the MoAdoo delegates, who come from long dis tances. They can stand a longer siege than can the opposition. It is & merry game, in which the chief winners are the hotel keepers and purveyors of subsistence in the convention city. Probably in a day or two—unless the unexpected happens and the break comes today—the déle- gates will have tired of the stubborn contest and yielded. Who the winner will_be cannot be foretold. This is no time for prophecy ————— Government Economy. “1 am for economy,” said President Coclidge last night at the semi-annual budget conference of government offi- cials. “After that I am for more economy.” Thus tersely the President expressed the design of all the people of this country for a more businesslike and efficient administration of government affairs. The expenditure of “other peo- ple's money” is always likely to be ex- travagant. In business corporations dollars are the property of those who are charged with their use. In non- commercial organizations only pride of efficient administratien restrains from lavishness. In government there is in fact a partnership element, inasmuch as every one who serves, eyery worker in the ranks as well as every superior officer, is ataxpayer, and therefore a contributor of the funds. Mr. Coolidge, following the lines laid dewn by his predecessor, appeals to the government service to take into consjderdtion this partnership factor. The millions that are spent in support of the government's activities all come from taxes in one form or anather. Everybody pays. The members of Congress who - enact the appropria- tions and. the administrative officials who disburse them are il taxpayers, are all contributors to the revenues that are disbursed in such greit sums, Economies are always possible in the government service. President Coolidge set a mark of expense reduc- tion for the federal officials at last night's meeting, when he told them that he wants the expenditures re- duced by $83,000,000 sa as to establish a surplus for this new fiscal year, which ends June 30, 1926, of $108,000,- 000 instead of the $25,000,080 now esti- mated. This reduction of the sur- plus to $25,000,000 is the result mainly of the bonus law. The President wants to maintain the safety margin beyond that meager peint of $25,000,000. This can be done, With & budget of the present size there are many “‘eor- ners” that can be cut, many items that can be reduced, many blanket ap- propriations that can be brought te the point of specifie and exact outlay, ‘There is no digposition in this coun. try to hamper legitimate and health- ful federal activities or to lessen the useful contributions of the govern- ment to public knowledge, safety and culture. But there is a strong de- mand that the same principles that apply in business shoyld apply in gev- ernment, and that dollars should be used effectively and in a apirit of re. spect for the source from which they come. o ‘While often a venturesome theorist, W. J. Bryan is a man of acute percep- tion in practical matters, He reslizes hew detraction may eventually be turned into valuable advertising. Most people ean remember when nearly everybody spoke alightingly of Henry Ford. : ————— New candidates have been as busily engaged in throwing hats into the ring as if such & thing as a primary never existed. — v Eyen the most patient patriot ‘may find himself obliged in the course of time to figure on hotel bills and taxi fares. £ ———————— Convention Disappointments. I is reported from New York that ten theaters have béen closed shead of the dates set for their natura! darkening becayse of the dlsappoint- ment of their managers in the matter of convention crowds. It was hoped to keep these shows. running for about two weeks longer than usual with the aid of the delegates and gonvention principle of Democratic procedure in selecting candidates makes for these _Blockades. At Baltimore in 1912 “dhamp Clark reached-and actually passed the majority point, only to be beaten finally ‘'by Woodrow Wilson, “who was second in the race at the out- wvet. ‘At San Francisco in 1920 McAdoo £1ed the fleld at first, with Cox in-a ‘strong third position, and the Iatter won out through gradual advances. boday two candidates are far out in the lead qver the fleld, McAdoo leading by e large margin over Smith, byt still'a-long way from twe-thirds. There is much talk in the.dispatches of_“‘strategy” in the manipulatiod of Blocks of votes, of second-choice votes or reserves. Probably the managers of & sightseers. But it appears that the show at. Madison Square Garden has been too attractive. Delegates -and their friends and the onlookers have been surfeited with entertainment. ‘After several hours in Madison Square Gearden they heve had po wish to be treated to comedies, farces or even follies, "On their part, many of the delegates and alternates, it is reported, are find- ing the financial strain too great gnd bave gone home already, with the balloting barely started, legving thelr places filled, of course, by proxies. If there were prospect of early action they would probably stay. But-with San Francisco and Baltimore in mind, ‘with subgistence cesting the better part of & “double: sawbgek” dally, these ‘lems ‘ affuent members of the party are gaing back to the realm of leas expense. Many of them, it if re- ported, have wired for mare funds. There- bave been ts that New York has been di ted with the convention on the business gide, and there are even more pasitive state. ments that the delegutes are grievous ly disappointed with New York as a men has been quoted in The Star's -special on the metropolitan experience. ‘The bitterly criticiged ws both partisan and inefficient. been almost submerged by the audi- ence.” The proceedings have been marked with the utmost confusion. Hours have been wasted in cense- quence. These hours mean money to delegates, many of whom oan ill afford te spend. Fifty-six years have elapsed between New York's two conventions. If the present temper of the Democratic party, outside of the metropolitan area, is an indey, it will perhaps be as long, if net longer, to the next one. ——————————— Fiscal Year. This is the first day of the fiscal year, a New Year day in @ way, In a number of ways. Appropriations for is fiscal year, July 1, 1924, to June 20, 1925, becaume avallable today. Why the figcal year should be different from the calendar year is not piain to most men, and the matter might be enter- tainingly explained by a financier or historian of taxes and tax methods. In seme countries the fiscal vear agrees with the calendar year, and in some countries the fiscal year begins on one date and on other dates in other coun- tries. Unless there has been a recent change the fiscal year in Great Brit- ain and Germany ends on March 31 and begins April 1, and in France the fiscal year ends December 31 and agrees with the calendar year. In this country July 1 is the New Year day of the flacal year. The federal legislative warrant for the beginning and ending of our fiscal year seems to be in the act of Congress establishing the Treasury Department, but perhaps a search 'back of that period would show that it is of carlier origin. Our | adjective “fiscal,” as all schoolmen know, comes from “fiscus.” In the oldest' written Latin that has come to us the word meant a wicker basket. Later it came to mean a money basket and then a purse. When Cicero was speaking about half a century before the birth of Christ, and when the poet Junius Juvenales wes writing in the first century ADe “fiscus” had come to stand for the state treasury. —————— After paying a tribute to the new republic of Greece, a few of those present at the convention seemed in- clined to revive the traditions of the Trojan war. —————————— The situation wi quite grave enough to warrant the ministers who open the convention proceedings with prayer to call for assistance from vol- unteers. —_———— It bas been brought to the attention of Chairman Walsh that there mgy be even harder jobs than that of presid- ing over a Senate investigating com- mittee. ————— The donkey may be the emblem of the Democratie party, but Tammany did not hesitate to play up the tiger as the emblem of this convention. ——— As heard from afar, there were mo- ments when the galleries appeared to regard the delegations on the floor merely as among those present. ———— A platform arrived at with great dis- sension runa the risk of being remem- bered largely for things that did not get inta it. At almost every party convention there are suggestions of obsesaional emotion. . But the elienists ero never present. B e —— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Expeeting Too Much. “The platform doean’t seem complete,” Sald Heaekiah Bings. “To points I thought thet it wonld meet No reference it brings, T hoped¢hat it would plainly show ‘What Finstein's theory proves, And maybe help us all to know How evolution moves. “I fancied it would point 2 way To regulate the atyles Of bathing euits put on display Along the shore for miles. Our present statesmanship must meet Demands for novel things. ‘The platform doesn’t ssem complete,” Baid Hesekiah Bings. “Why don’t you point out the mis- takes our opponents are making?” “They wouldn't notice me if I did,” answered Senator Sorghum. “And be- sides, I want them to go on making Until the Wee Snma’ Hours. The delegates heard music play ‘Where animation filled the hall. Yet what veracious soribe can say, “A pleasant time was hed by all!” Jud Tunkins says it's wise to hold ventions when the weather is warm and when the hotel bills are high; otherwige they might linger indef- initely. Not Marching. “Were you -among those Wwho marched around the convention hall?” “No,"”. replied Miss Cayenpe. “The ladies took the affair seriousty. Omly the gentiemen tried to turn it into a promenade concert.” 3 Afraid to Come Homs. gloom is mad tz note. The orators controlled him And meds him quite forget to vote The way that mother told him. correspondence in commenting | marshals flitting ¢ CONVENTION.HALL, NEW YORK, July 1.—These are the hours When the Napoleons of polities get in thelr fine work. “Floor strategy” is Bow the thing. Many a man has convention city. “Never ssain,” one|peen nominated for President be- cause he had alert, able fleld back aud ~ forth ameng the delegations ready to take management at the Garden has been |instant gdvantage of an opening like a general in battle. James M. Cox The convention has |triumphed at San Francimoo in 1920 mainly because he had Ed Moore of Ohlp as his flopr manager. Moare seemed able to defeat that ancient physical law which saye it is im- poasible for a person to be in more than one place at the same time. He appeared, to_ be everywhere; alwa: McAdoo and Smith “are well suyvlv plied ith Moores in Madigon Square Garden. The business of floor man- agers is to know whers reserve strength lies. to drum it up if it doesn’t lle anywhere and to trot it out at the psychological moment. ok oxox Comparisons with San Franciseo are the order of the hour. Cox was nominated on the ‘seventh day of the cenvention and on the forty-fourth ballot. On the first ballgt Cox had 13¢ votes. McAdoo had 286, MoAdoo achieved his high-water mark on the fartieth ballet, with 467 votes. Cox had now taken the lead and in the sucoceding ballots ran steadily and irresistibly away frem McAdoo ta finul victory. On the forty.third ballot, the one before the Jast, Mc- Adoo had 412 votes to Cox's 568. Throughout Monday's balloting in Madison Square Garden MecAdoo's garly ballot strength at 440-odd was considerably heavier than anything he achieved early in the fight at San Francisco. ok ox % The crowd's attention in the open- ing stages of the ballot battle was riveted exclusively on the two lead- ers—McAdoo and Smith. No other candidate reached a total ef three figures. It will not be leng—It may be before these observations are published—when Madison Square Garden will begin to thrill with o\"ry mention of the dark hormes. Unless all convention prophets of authority are mightily - mistaken, names like Davis, Ralston, Glass, Ritchie or other favorite sons pres- ently will stir the emotions of the sensation-hungry mob beneath the Garden’s canopied ceiling % % x % A well knowf politiclan ran into Tex Rickard. the lessee of Madison Square Garden, and, being friends of long standing, their greeting was hearty, “Anything I can do for you?" asked Tex. The politician lamented he was without a badge admitting Bim to the speakers’ platform and explained that the steps leading thereto were therefore barred to him. “Come with me,” said Tex. “I'll show you a secret passage.” There was then a twisting and a turning through the subterranean depths of the Garden. a climb up a ladder, a lifted trapdoor, and the politician found himself on the platform. X ¥ x ¥ There age 557 varieties of badges extant at the convention. It is a poor and lowly soul who dodsn't wear at least two different kinds. Sergeant- at-arms or assistant sergeant-at-arms | tion. COURAGE “I am the master of my fate, 1 am the captain of my soul” . —HENLEY. After winning her parent's consent, Lucrezia Bori studied and struggled until she earned success—then lost her voice and did not know whether she would ever regain it. Music was a stranger in the home in Valencia, Spain, where she was born. She studied singing while at scheol in London, but she knew prac- tically nothing of opera when she re- turned home from school at the age of seventeen. Enthusiastically assured that she had a voice, she became filled with & deaira to be a grand opera star. Her PATents were prejudiced against the theater, and only after much persua- sion did she win their consent to try for the stage. ot 2o Studying in Milan and Rome, she made her debut, at eighteen, at the Adriano, in Rome, singing the role of Michaela in “Carmen,” and her voice was deelared to be one of the most beautiful sopranos in Italy. Then came engagements at San Reme, Genoa, Naples, London, and other musjeal centers, all of which praised her voice. ‘When the Metropolitan Opera Com- pany gave its series in Paris in 1910, she sang the title role in “Manon Lescaut,” won fervid applause, and was engaged to sing in New York. After appearances -in Milan and Buenog Aires, she made her debut with the Metropolitan Opera Com- any, in New York, in 1912, appearin n . ‘“Mapon caut,” and now, al twenty-four, won the unstinted ap- probation of Americans. For three years success smiled—then her voice falled her. Medical specialists could give® ne promise that it would return, the pain in her vocal cords grew severe, and nothing seemed to help. A sur- geon in Milan removed a small nods fyam the first vocal cord, and for & menth ghe had to remain in & room, ‘was not permitted to speak, and her suffering became almost unbearable at_times. ‘When she tried her voice thers seemed to be possibility that it might return. She went home¢ to recuperate, and her mother died soon after her arrival. After four years af rest she made five appearances in the following sea- son, fifteen during the next, and in 1921, after an absence of six years, she returned to the Metropolitan, and critics said her voice was better than Roh (Copyright, 1924) and ants,” “officers” and “special ofcer: “informatiol and “active pres adges; B “doorkeepers” ssistant keepers”; for delegates, altarnates, chairman, vice chairman and assist- ant chairman. Every color in and out of the rainbow prevails among the ribbens, to .which bronzed, gilded, nickeled or eopper m are at- tached. But there is one badge that, once a person ls inside dison Square Garden, takeg him almest any- That's a Smith bytton. Na New York policeman would dream of saying “Thou shalt not pass” to any man.d woman or child thus embla- zoned. * k¥ % Our overseas dominions, as* John Bull- would call them, vault into a mighty eminence at national conven- tions. Even so, the humble District of Columbia, the Philippines, Hawali, Porto Rico, Alaska, the Cangl Zone have six delegates aplece here, but the residents of those territories do not vote for President or figure in the eleetoral college. Oceasions, nevertheless, can easily arise where their votes at a convention may be decisive. The sex- tet from the Philippines virtually decided the issue on the Klan reso- lution. The Canal Zone delegation achieved the distinction of being polled on Monday to decide whether the unit rule beund it to plump for McAdoo. ~ After reversing himself, Chairman Walsh deeclded that it did, to the chagrin of the Smith gallerjes, who had just cheered the Pana- manians for splitting their vete be- tween McAdoo and New York's idol. * K ¥ ¥ A woman delegate was assigned the honor of announcing California's vote on one of the early ballots. She supplied the femini toueh, “Cali- fornia casts 2 votes,” ahe said, “for its first and last love, William G. Mo- Adoo.” She sat down amid a volley of cheers from her brother and s delegates. S Tinisr ¥k % % Why didn't somebody have the bright idea of putting up an electric scoreboard, such as is used in bage ball parks er at foot ball gamea, to show every phase of the balloting® Such contrivances, placed at either end of Madison Square Garden, would enable the crowd to follew each bal- lot’s progress without having te fuss and squirm in crowded quarters with pencil and paper as amateur score- keepers. At ome time on Monday two dozen candidates were being voted for. Even a practiced hand finds it difficult to keep accurate tab. A mechanical scorekeeper would do the trick for everybody. . * * x % Franklin D, Roosevelt, Smith's cam- paign manager and a New York del- egate at large, is one of the idols of | th, the convention. He sits In & special armehair with his delegati ‘When he moves, he uses crutches. He re- mains, despite his inability to get about actively, in minute touch with every phase and development of the convention, and gives or: like a fleld marshal. His lieutenants are devotion personified. Roosevelt's nom. inating speech for Smith, with the single exception of Bakers paasion- ate league of nations plea, was the best oratorical effort of the conven- Proposed New Calendar Would Have an Odd Day To the Editor of The Star: The Cotsworth or Marvin plan for putting thirteen twenty-eight-day months in the year would be all right if it wasn't for the day remaining. The odd day is what is going to complicate matters if the plan is adopted. They may make that day a national holiday or an intermational holiday, but it will still be a day just like any other day, and people who work on the day-—and there will be plenty that will—will have to he paid. People who have money in the bank will have to be pald intepest on the money for the day. People who work by the month and who do not have to work on holidays, but get paid for them just the same, will want to be paid for this holiday also; they will prefer to work rather than lose the day. But how can they be paid for 3 day that will not belong to any week or month in the year and does not exist only as a holiday, if they don't work on the day. If they do put thirteen twenty- eight-day months in the year, the remaining day will have to be a month by itself and it will only make matters already complicated worse to make the day a national holiday. If the Cotsworth or Marvin plan is adopted the year will end on the midnight between the 364th and 365th day. e 365th day will be the “nonentity” day and 'liuday will have to be called Monday. JOHN ANSCHUTZ, Pull For the Pennant! To the Editor of The Stay: Please allow me a little space in your paper that I may express my great joy in seaing Washington on top of the Amarlesn League race. The Nationals may not win the pen- nant this year. I am not saying they will, but the joy that Manager Harris and his fighting team bave brought te the hearts of Washington fandom, a8 a result of their magnifi- cent fight, is beyond me to express. I was éne of the many present on Thursday, when .the conquering heroes returned to engage the Athletics in combat. If the fans continue to back the team as they did on Thursday, then I can without fear of contradiction ‘Washington will unfurl to the breeze her first pennant next October. LAND F. JAMES, JI ' ON A DICTIONARY. Dedicated to the N, E. 4. These are the quarries whence brave thought shall build Truth’s towering templés. On this palette curl - The colors for all pictures. In this grove The songs of ages wait, like sleeping birds, The coming of the sunrise. Words are here That will make lightnings in the eyes of men, Escaping the right hand of some new Jove, B Whose left hand throttles the thunder. 'Tis the arsenal Where rest old blades new battles will make bright. It is the granary whose hoarded seed, . . Sown by some broad-armed Nile, will burst the bins Of Egypt. Here are words that drudged for men And shall be kings. hereafter—ermined words That shall wear rags. This is the unbent bow Ulyssses’ hand must supple; ’tis the ynswung-sword ‘Whose hilt proclamms:. “F wait for him who can.” The atoms of all thought are whirling here; Out of this chaos let a werld be born, “Again the morning. stars will sing together, And all'the sons of God will shout for joy. ey t < ~—WENDELL P. STAFFORD: DEADLINE BY LEMUEL F. PARTON. Ne. 11—The Batik Baby. C. H. Breder, sclentist of the Am Museum of Natural History with Darien expedition, hal confirmed the report of Robert O. rsh that he has discovered white lans, If, later, more detailed studies = should _finally establish a new racial differentlation of the arien peoples, it may also produce an ecxplanation’ of the puzzling phe- nomenon of the piebald peoples, or “pintes,” as they are sometimes called. The general color gcheme of the Matives of thig region is, to put it mildly, crratic. Anthropologists have confessed that they have no adequate solution of this problem of strange body markings. One theory s that it is due to conmanguinity—these peo- ple have been isolated from the rest of the world and there has been much in-breeding. Village of Plebalds. 1 became eapecially interested in the phenomenon of the spotted peo- ples, in {ts bearing on the transmis- sion “of acquired characteristics. While there is not a shred of sound evidence to show that this peculiarity of pigmentation is heritable, and, while my observations were not ex- tensive enough to have any scientific Yaiidity the fact remains that Tucuti is & village of piebalds and that in many instanoces there {s an astonish- Tng similagity of marking in single families. 1t° will easily be under- stood that, if it could be shown that this Is & biological factor, instead of & mere matter of surface pigmenta- tion, it would acquire profound sig- nificance. While ‘it is true that the Darien, isolated as it s, has been an ideal laboratory, in which nature {ilght attempt gome daring “sports,” t is difficult to predicate any re; racial differentiation on the facts in hand, on account of the virtual im- posaibllity of ascribing any survival value to the erratic pigmentation. My observatiens covered several in stances of children apparently copy ing their parents' designs. g Marked Like Mother. When I was down there Greenwich Village had not yet flaunted its Batik banner to the world, but there was one baby in Tueuti which would to- day, 1 am sure, be known as the “Batik baby.” It hore a print, cov- ering Its entire body, astonishingly like ‘the batik, which'one associates with samovars and free verse, The baby's father was Hoe Gow, a Chinese. ' He went to on once every five years and brought back a Boatioad of aguadionte (cane whisky) and trinkets, which he traded to the natives for gold dust. Its mother Lari a tall, beautiful piebald Wwoman. Her design was amaaingly like that of the baby, especially the dotail of a charming zig-zag compo- sition on her back and shoulders, Fhe batik effeet, in the baby's make-up was accentuated by the yellowish Chinese strain. 2 It was a happy, healthy little baby, with snappy black eyes, like raising atuck in & pan of yellow cake dough. Bhe wauld be about eighteen vears old now. If Marsh should bring her to New York 1 am_ sure she_ would be the belle of the Greenwich Village ball—and with the cheapest costume. My notes contain records of several other children whe were marked like eir parents, but the data are nsuf- ficlent to justify any formulation re- ing heritability. Protective Celoring? We deeided to try out a possibly far-fetohed hypothesis that the color variants constituted protective color- ing., and in this we would find the element of survival value which we sought. We chose Tulio, a tall, strikingly marked native, for our ex- periment. With him we took Gaston, a shiny, black Martinique boy, our interpreot and went inte the deep jungle. e chose a spot where stray shafts of sunlight shot threugh the trees and broke up the masses of een into eccentric patterns, like a uturist drawing. Here we stoed Tulio and Gaston a few feet apart. Then we withdrew to a spot about 100 vards away and awaited another member of our expedition, whe knew nothing of our experiment. We met him and blindfolded him and then led him to an opening between the savannahs. Lifting his bandage for a second or two. we asked him what he saw. He repiied that he saw Gas- ton. He did not see the native. In seven out of twelve trials, in differ- ent places in the jungle, he saw Q. T have friends who want ‘to drive to Washington this summer. Will the tourlst camp on the Speed: Wi e open?—] . ) ok X “The office ‘of public buildings and grounds says that the Spasdway tourist camping grounds ~will be maintained this summer. q. 1s the North Cogst EAmited the peme of & treln ar-8f.a Bervic A. The North Coast Limited, op- erated by the Northern Pacific Rail- way Company, is not one train—it is ten trains. When two traina are ar- riving and departing Mn the Chicago zards two are passing en the North Dakota prairies, two in the heart of the Montana Rockies, two are near Puget Sound andtwo are in reserve, one ready to start In each direetion. Fifteen locomotives are needed to pull each one of these trains between Chicago and the Pacific Ceast and the operation of each train for the run requires sixty-one skilled em- ployes. . Can you fish fer- full-grown frogs in the sense that you fish for fish?—F. M. A. The bureau of fisheries says that it is possible to fish for frogs. Many people do this by using a plece of red flannel on a regular fishing hook and line. Q. How does the sale of Ford cars compare with cars of other makes?— G. K. A. The American Aytomobile Asso- ciation says that twice as many Ford cars are sold as all the other makes combined. Q. What year, month and day was the big freeze in Ohio that desiroyed the wheat crop and other vegetation? —¥. C. A. The big freeze in Ohio occurred on June 5, 1§59, Q. What places in history were occupied by the following characters: Razi and Hugbald?—G. C. A. Razi or Rhazes was an Arabian physician who lived from 852 to 932. He is noteworthy as being the first man to describe smallpox and measles in an accurate manner. Hugbald or Huycbald was a Benedictine monk and writer of music. He was bern at Tournai, France, about 840. He later started & school of music and other arts at Nevers. He was the inventor of the gamut. The only work posi- tively asoribed to him {s the Har- meonica Ingtitutio. He died in 930. Q. Why s a soap bubble roynd?— L, McC. A- A soap bubble is round because it has a aurface tension whieh eauses equal pressure in all directions. The soap bubble is covered with a film and the tendency of liquids covered by sueh a film is to assume a spherical shape. Q. delier from tarnishing?—I. A. After polishing it lacquer it with white shellac. The metal should be absolutely dry before this process is begun. Q. How is Oxford University gov- erned?—E. W. . The constitution of the Uni- versity of Oxford may be most easily explained by comparing it with that of the United States. It is a federa- tion in which the colleges, with their own internal organizaton and laws, are as the several states, while the university, with its separate officials and legislative bodies, represents the What will keep a silver (‘};\an- E. national government. Its nominal head ia the chancellor, who s usually some nobleman or officer of state. The best colleges include Merton, New Magdalen, Christ Church, Queen’s, All Bouls, Corpus Christi, Jesus, Balliol. Maughan Flight Enthusiastic editors commenting on the success that crowned the efforts of Lieut. Russell L. Maughan in his dawn-to-dusk flight acresa the conti- both Tuylio and Gaston and in remainder he saw Gaston first. Question of Time. In conducting this experiment we realized for the first time that the plebald markings are, in the dense jungle, astonishingly like vegetation mottled by sunlight. It is obwvis that adaptations such as this do :2: of time which these people have had for such & differentiation, but is it not possible that there is an adventitious survival valus in_these markings? ® n_the drafting of a ro Mendelian chart of some of the fu“‘nh- ilies of Tucuti with a view to get- m IBBLC‘ data which might be h while. but eur plans = were wrecked by a fortuitous combinatien of a bottle of l'ol'l'ih. red whisky, a beatload of yams, the batik baby ‘and other factors, which sent us hur- (comshent, oaeT % meri t, 1924, by the North A, Newwpaper Alliance.) - Gaston only; in two or three saw the A New Dream. Last week the first photogra; transmitted by rn::iopi:“l”‘nnz:"!: followed closely the successful trans- !:;JA::I'OH b‘h‘":hg pictures in this . Thou, ¢ process has been ?lulued. it is said !ohbe -:!t the same principle as that applied o the telephone. The French in- venter after his initial success—the plfiure wn‘- tnnllmltted from Mal- maison, a few miles outside of Paris, to the ‘office of Le Matin is makims ::::h:?r f mors, ambitious teat, the of pictures from Eiffel Towér to New York City. S5 The development may be of seme value in furnishing newspapers with pictures of news eovents in general. The growth of the pictorial sections Phasisad " the -spmal thet mens b3 e_a) ne - tures have. DIIP et ission of {ahotoxrlphn it may not be too much expect that news picturization will synchronize with news. But Edouard Belin, the Freneh in- ventor of the radio process, is not content to stop at smending pictures through the ether. He predicts that “television,” or long distance seeing, will soon be accomplished. He fails to go. into details, only indicating that the radio may be utilized to send to any part of the world views of any other part of the world. Surely this is ‘“television™ itself. It transcends comprehension, but 50 does radio, so does the transmission of pictures by wire and by air, so does electricity, In this day of seis tifis discoveries nothing' would much surprise the world already surfeited 'l“g surprises. — Louisville Courier Journ: & In a Few Words. In a3 general way T found that Americans have come now regularly to regard '.h.:nl:?h'u l&:; :t!:e”cno?:: e om people living in it i olals T TR 5 SRS "'-s'lt'ilmw-l_-_xgm ANGELL. WEDS e A5 gy 2% 228 S ot A ST " HDGE KENESAW LANDIS.: 1 don't ‘care to ride In sutomobiles is some i myself, but the: in lh:m. f it wasn't for Henry Ford and hi; t{uttcr;o brua wov‘;:glho cost. al cents a loaf. ,ln‘ ey —JOHN E. ANDRUS. Jtealion 18 Tather s dan i MARQUIS COREON. " nent predict that within a fow years overy man may be a modarn Aladdin, who can wish himself in a jifty from New York to Peking on an airship carpet. The press generally points out that this flight demonstrates not only the practicality of the airplane for transportation purposes in times of peace, but also as a more than ever effective weapen of war. Az the Baltimore Sun sees it: “The peaceful and commercial aspects of the Mrrlule space-killers are more leasant to dwell upon than its war- rik- implications. Yet that is one of the suggestions from Lieut Maughan's achievement which must ®ive us pause. If we can fly in less than a y from New Yerk to San Franeisco, a foreien airfleet of the future might in the same time from the Pacific to the Atlantic. The east is no longer so far away from the west that we can feel no concern in ita troubles. Science is making us all next-door neighbers, and is em. phasizing the necessity of interna- tional harmony and understanding, it the peace of the world is not to suf- fer by reason of its very advance in knowledse.” * % ok “This remarkable aceomplishment of Lieut. Manghan's centains several ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. Is “Wang" one of the Gilbert and Sulltyan operas?—J. T. E. A. This'opera 15 often mistzkenly Bttributed: to Gilbert and Sullivan, i-;t"‘(_; ,wu, written by Theodore Q Wil a fifty‘mile gdie uproot tr and Hui‘}p‘e honues S Tt trees A: THe weather bureau says that winds of forty to fifty wiles per hour should not “meriousfy”. damage weit :lrl;lpl"houseu OF uproot trees having root system, partigularly i+ devoid af foliage. S Aoy Q. What stat, great lakes?—T. A. iichigan borders on four e , five great lakes, Superior. ) Huron and Eric. *No other st ders on more than two., borders o wawe w Q. How many other 'children were 2;‘"}1‘" Benjamin Frahklin's family? A. There were sixteen other chii- dren in this family, Benjamin being the Pfteenth of tha Franklin chil. dren. Q. Tn poker, is it a good practice to hold up a side card when drawing to a pair?- A. This is u bad habit, since it les- sens the chance of making threo of 4 kind, Q." I5' the United Typothetac a labor unfon?—A. M. W A. The United Typothetae Franklin clubs of America Is an ganization of employing printers, and or Q. Who discovered oxygen?—1 W ered oxygen?—¥ A. The American Chemical Society 23y that Joseph Pries lishman who came 1794, diseovered not only oxygen, also ammonia, hydrogen chloride sulphur diexide and nitrous oxide In the course of his various manipu lations of vapors, he isolated chlorine Which is now extegsively used in ti arts and in the manufacture of mil tary gases as a cure for colds Q. What is beet siry HE L i i but d for? A. The Department of Agriculture #ays that beet sirup is used prinel- pally as a table sirup, but it may be used for all purposes for which other sirups are used, as in making candy, sweet breads and dark-colored cake It may also be used in place of part of the sugar used in jam making. Q. Do rattlesnakes shed their skins more than once a year? Does e rattle signify one yvear which the snake has lived?—R. W A. Well fed rattlesnakes mav shed their gkins threc or four times year, and as the rings sooner or later beoome detached, it is cvident that the popular. belief that the number of joints in the rattlesnake indicates the years of the snake's age is un founded. Q. What was the first vessel in the British navy?—H. ¥. A. The first war vessel of the British navy was the Great Harry, a three-masted veasel built in 1503 at o cost of $734H, the first double decker to be built in England. (Tha Star Information Bureowu iwoill answer your question. This offer appiics striotly to information. 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Held to Show Importance of Planes in War strides “must be made before ihe achievement is completed,” the Read- ing Tribune. ees that “the impetus given to development of aircraft Ly such events achievement, the Louisville Courier- Jau‘ml.) 2130 nates, “will no doubt have mueh te do in the:development of motitr transpartation.” “What his demonstration of speed for the nationa! fepse can eaxiip La sconjectured,” the Detrait Free ‘ess centends, be- eause “with a fleet of 20,000 planes, each accommodating feur men, the United States could fling an army of 80,000 bayonets from the Atlantic seaboard te the Paelfic in an emer gency, all_in less than twenty-four hours.” The Lincoln Star is also convineed that “it settles for all time the questign of American security frem attack in the interior of this country,” beeause “the great inter regions of America are easy prey fo the squadrons of airplames of enem. nations,” hence “the fact is an adde: lea for American participation i the world effort to end war.” The Minneapolis Tribune concludes that “Gen. Patrick does not oversiat the case when he says Maughan has added to the prestige of the govern ment air service and of his countrs and that his flight is epochal fron both a military and commerciai standpoint,” because “the Army lieu- tenant has given a clearer idea of what it will be possible to do hence forth in times of emergency.” sosslbum“ means ef points of outstanding intrest,” in the opinion of the Nashville Banrer, be- cauge “it furnishes a startlingly em- phatie commentary on ‘the progress which has been made in the manu- facture of airplanes in the compara- tively short time they have been seri- ously regarded as fsotors in the scheme of things; it is lkewise a tributs to the courage and determina- tion. of the pilot, and it puts another feather in the cap of America apd sets another record which is likely to be at once the admiration and de- It be- kal when one considers that Lieut. Maughan had to fight {llness as well as fatigue,” ob- msorves the Chi Daily News, but “only exceptional pluck and endur- ance, coupled with well-nigh perfect mechanism, make possible such as- tonishing feats.” All honor is due “the valiant bird man, his nerve, his skill, his physical and mental ability to endure the test,” asserts the Lan- sing State Journal, which believes “a @aily passenger service across the continent may be expected as the eventual development—speed is the symbol of America, and Lieat. Maughan s'mo is the outstanding exponent i Even this,speed will be improved upop, the Duluth He contends, and “presently, no doul men will ly breakfast in New York p in San Francisco, with little note taken of it by the public,” The Milwaukee Journal sees in Maughan's flight & new era of transportation “four times swifter thin any we have known,” for, “it says to the man in New York, 0U ean open an office in San Francisco and spend two or three days a week there and th time at your home office the whaole nation “You ar one com- aflnlty bound by the span of a single v * % k¥ “In this succassful flight the sig- nificant fact is that the engine and the plane performed without mishap,” points out the Hartford Times, which feels “it was almost a foregons con- clusion that the pllot would prove | oV equal to the test.” Recalling .that success came after two failures due to mechanical flaws, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch suggests “his final suc- cess proves the need of lan;: perfection and th ibility of its means and the dovelop- “ment of the plane,” While tremendous A Givers and Getters BY JOHN CARLYLE. (Copyright, 1924.) Here is a lesson for givers ani getters. A man who likes figures has brought together the facts about 100 business institutions and 100 educa- tional institutions that were in exist- ence'in this country 100 years ago. He finds only seven of the business concerns are alive today. Ninety- five of the i.“ edueattonal institutions orl Most of us who manage buainess eencerns are always thinking about taking something qut. Most of those Who are engaged in educatiopal work think about what they gre patting In. The taker goes quickly. “Te.endure you must giye. ‘When the right spirit animated the workers of the world, whether {hey run colleges or hardware stores,|the lives of institutions, whether business or educational, will be longer. They will not fall away in the lifetime\of a man. The essential weakness of all of engaged in this business or that lack of visian. It is lack of perspecs tive. It is lack of the power to fore- cas ‘We strive to get ag far today as we can and to take a8 much out of our business today as we can get The man Wwith real vision is thipking of the inatitution, the business He,is building for his children and for his children’s children and for the world. ‘The man with Vision I8 everlasting- Iy putting into his business. He s building reputation. He is building, the power of name. He is bu‘{l‘dln: character into his under- takin He is content with & little less im- mediate profit for the sake of the long years to be lived by those who come after him. e. ur will be dependent upon Four will be well-to-do. Five will be working for a bare liv- Ing. Thirty-six will be dead. The few who survive the test of time ~ are in and build up, 2 As with_men, so with institytions, For, s Emerson “An Institution is_but the length- ened ow 2f 3 man." those who put