Evening Star Newspaper, July 12, 1924, Page 6

.~ ., -three of these adverse factors. They THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY.......July 12, 1924 o SR THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor "The Evening Star Newspaper Company w/Business Office. 11th St. and P New York Office: 110 East Chicago Office: Tower Boilding. ropean Omice: 16 Regent 8t.,London, England. The Evening Star. with the § edition. is delivered by carriers withi €ty at 60 cents per month: dail crents per month ay onls cenis: per month. Orders may be sent by mail o tele- 7one Maln 5000, Collection 1S made by car- Tiers at the end of ench month Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1sr., $8.40: 1 mo.. 70¢ Daily only “1¥r.$6.00:1 mo Sunday only ... [1¥r, $2.40: 1 mo, All Other States. Dails and Sunday.1 yr., $1¢ Laily only Sunday oniy . 20¢ i1 mo., 85¢ i1 mo., 60¢ $2.00 1 mo., 25¢ Member of the Associated lead may dwindle in a few minutes. A base on balls, better known in the par- lance of the game as a pass or a walk, may bring about disaster. During the past few days the local team has been the victim of several such combina- tions, and the leadership has siipped away in consequence. A familiar phrase much exploited in typewriter circles as a test for speed comes to mind at such a crisis: “Now is the time for all good men W come to the aid of the party.” To apply this to the Washington base ball situation, now is the time for all gocd men, and women, to come to the aig of the ball team. This is the time for encourage- ment, not for criticism. It is the ardent desire of the Capital fan to see the league pennant afloat over the stadium on Georgla avenue, and even the em- blem of the world championship. So every tan should stand now firmly as 4 member of a battalion of death, to cheer the home team not only in vie | tory but in defeat. 1t is & strange reaction that causes | some spectators in a base ball grand- The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the s for repablication of all news dis. Datehes credited fo 3t ar not otherwise credited this paper and alsc the loeal news pub Tshed “herein. Al rights of publication of wvecial dispaiches horein are also reserved. Women in Practical Politics. | Warm praise has been bestowed | upon the women who attended the wreat political conventions. Tand and at New Yor ligent, work of selecting candidate iwo | . fur their intel activity at Cleve- | | co-operative in tac AU New their task was d and it may well be said that the Democratic women passed through a wying ordeal with exceptional suc When the nineteenth amendment was pending before the state legisla tures many of the male politicians ex- Tressed frankly their fear that admis- sion of the women to the active poli cal work would disarran affairs and cause complications. But that fear has proved groundless. In the primary work. in the committee work and in the conventions the newly enfranchised women have shown their capacity to deal with large questions in @ broad manuer. and to jud candidates with diserithination as k s that of the men. 1L cannot be New York, particulari cuit seriously said that York was attrib cegree to the presence of a lavge the deadloci at tuble in any ter of women as delegates and aite nates, of in adhe vorites than did th tumbered They showed no more tenaci purpose ing to th m. They emotionalism wito then manife no more did men. | the great demons tuat marked the proceeding: Stages we conducted by Those who lis New, than deed a precipitated and various mainly the men ed in to the proc York frequently 1 voices the ings at women they served nouncers petent in this r did most of this sort enunciation was a charge ofl < at rostrum s reading cierks and an were quite spect as the hey as co men whe of work. Their v and their dis of these occasional duties was ient. Pertaps the voice of th heard in the int which combinations were finally formed to break It may be delicate to the Democracy then it may ihat possibly if the wome The women was not sou the deadloc managed that | work ther their that the m of the exciusion of Bu pa selves, be Lad been in | ance and had | might have | reached a conclusion move speedily. | Whatever it is clear that the women have at last found their place in the ranks of par nianagement sittin and in will have important as- signments. They have come into their own in said majority in atte heid the power tiey the resuits in Novembe They are now on | he national committees, the campaign the as poiiticians. Ship News. steamship 2 New passenger 1 sailed | rope with its earlier and the steamship Homer| the same with om the Berengaria John W. West Virginia and New absent and on the Homeric William G. McAdoo of New York and | California was present. Had events at Madison Square Garden turned out dif ferently the ngaria would Kad its disting 1 passenger Homeric would have lacked This one the strange “turvy things in politic “point note: had anhead there. from for than port one more. Davis York ¥ of was Ber have | nd 165 oo is of the topsy- There is one matter worthy was going abroad, been booked to go time | and had engagements over In all likelihood had the con- | yention been protracted a few days | longer he would have sailed today and had the result been the same | ews of his nomination would kave teached shipboard in mid ocean. And had this happened Mr. McAdoo would have been in New York and the Homeric would have been out at sea without him. $o in- stead of a nominee being on the sca at this hour a near-nominee is afloat reping east. about Mr. the Davis some a him on e After all, the New York convention may be regarded as having taken no unreasonable amount of time to bring a tough problem to tisfactol polution. a s ————— The Lapse From the Lead. Well, it was a grand and glorious feeling, if only for a short time. To stand at the head of the American League for fifteen days in midseason was, something Washington had never before experienced, and although that iwoud position was lost yesterday, the faithful fans of the Capital have @ason to be grateful for the thrill, “The lead has been lost—temporarily, ,31 is to-be hoped—by a seres of what e known in base ball as bad breaks. ' That phrase covers bad pitching, bad or rather ineffective batting and loose fielding. But teams often win with all get the breaks at critical moments, #¥felding them runs when runs are not ictly earned. And it is the break in _—ihe game of base ball that determines " victory in the long run. Poor base ball generalship is some- times the cause of the bad breaks. An discreet or unnecessary throw, a fault of judgment, a mistake of calcu- tiom s to chances may open the way "o a rally by the foe. A comfortable | of the pre-nomina | entitled **Behind the 1ing stand to “boo™ the home players when the luck Lreaks against them. That is the very time when heartening criew are needed. The fans who are frenzled with joy when a timely base hit brings runs over the rubber shouid be just as cordial in their comforting words when + mishap occurs that yields advantage 1o the enemy. No base ball team can win without the encouragement of the crowd. Pennants and world champion ships are won with the aid of the peo ple in the stands, aid that is g times of misfortune as well as when ihe breaks are favorable. So. aithouzh the lead has slippe still exceedin close won in a row. fans in the siand. and the « e more be cured. Washington has a good ball team. It should have a faithful and encouraging public. continue o ven & away, A the race w sames lead may = o Brother Bryan's Logic. Brother Bryan—for William J. must henceforth be known to distin uish him hix at p maore tistinzuished « w. ing himself out of a diffi- d-time skiil He is setting himself straight on the hvis, w he nveniion, before unworthy of as wdard barsh from kinsma. arles - is mancuves h much of his « subject of Candidate denounced at the ¢ nomination, Demo He then. om the ey's choice st rather said. for that so was Mr nected with Wall street and its he not -arr; : western state nated. and he clinched the caid He mately b aver. some things example. Davis con- il in- Dussibly it nom effective fluences that could | ness of this contention. from his view- point. by adding that probably Democrat could be expected to carry a singi eastern state The battle being in the west. to zet enough elec- toral vetes to carry the electoral col- lege with the aid of the assured south- ern states. the nomination of Davis would be a suicidal mistake. Now Mr. Bryan. Brother Bryan ining that he had no personal feeling whatever against Mr. Davis, ntertaining for him a profound re- spect. His ubjection was that the pro- fessional connections of the West Vir. ¢ a handicap. raising an ad sumption such as that raised circumstantial evidence. But that circumstantial evi- no is sinian w verse pr by presumption dence, can be overthrown by a single fact. and Brother Bryan expects Mr. Davis to turnish that overthrowing fact by his speeches. So Brother Bryan will heartily support the ticket, not- withstanding what he said in the heat on tig A not unreasonable arises: Would Brother Bryan have been able 10 spin this fine web of discrimination if Brother Charles had not been named ticket? Sometimes one’s logie ully stimulated by personal that query on the 8 power | considerations. Possibly Mr. ——— = people would like Morgan express many have J. P his | exact oplaion of the presidential cam- paign at its present stago of develop- | ment, but no practical journalist wil believe there is a chance of inducing him to do so. - pe— s W. H. Anderson Bars for Ban to A book written by h- Bars” will have be censored | The warden of Sing Sing is expected to be a man of varied and tactful at- tainments. | ment of appreciation has been so fre quently expressed that it may go with- out saying. e — Democrats are so strong in their approval of John W. Davis that they are wondering why the convention hould have hesitated 8o long. SR to recuperate, Gompers wiil remain for Coney Island. Mr. Gompers is ener- getic even in his convalescences. In order muel a ————— A deadlock is like sea sickness. ve much resented but soon forgotten. et Rock Creek Parkway. Another step is being made in the creation of the Roc! parkway. which is to extend along both sides | of Rock Creek from the Zoo to Po- tomac Park. The parkway will make it possible for one to drive through,| Rock Creek: Park. the Zoo grounds and Potomac Park without passing through a street. This parkway was proposed many years ago, not only for the purpose of uniting the Zoo and two major parks, but to reclaim the lower valley of Rock Creek from its unsightly state and give direct benefit to the sections of Washington adjacent to the creek. A good many years ago the sur- veyors laid out on each side of the creek from its mouth to the Zoo a boundary which they called a “line of condemnation.” These lines roughly parallel the creek at a distance of half a block to a block from' it. From time to time as money could be used for the purpose pieces of land within the lines of condemnation have been bought, and not long ago a con- siderable tract of land on the north and west sides of the creek between P street and Pennsylvania avenue was bought. At P street and 23d, or P street bridge, the line of condemna- with the aid of the loval | toi while at | THE EVENING tion runs west, parallel to P street as far as 26th street, for soon after passing under the bridge the creek makes a turn to the west. Within the west line of condemnation, between the P street and Pennsylvania avenue bridges, are quite a number of build- ings. The land is being cleared of these structures, and a substantial part of the Rock Creek parkway will soon be brought into being. —r——————— World Flyers Reach Europe. Arrival of the American globe flyers at Constantinople brings that great adventure a step nearer completion, for the airmen are now out of Asia, which has presented some of the greatest difficulties of the entire route. They have covered 16,445 miles in an i elapsed time of 115 days. Their actual flying time from departure at San Diego to their arrival at Constanti- nople has been estimated at 220 hours which is average of a littie less than seventy-five miles an hour. The flight from Bagdad to Constantinople was of the longest omplished on any one day, covering 1,06; The American 21 8,986 miles t le the globe. They will proceed from Constantinople o Bucharest, Belgrade, Vienna, Si burg, P and London. They will then fly north to Kirkwall in the Ork- ney ldlands, at the tip of Scotland. | where they will hop off for Thorshavn | in the Faroe Islahds. xt will come {the jump to Iceland. This will give them a longer hop to the eastern coast ol Greenland at Angny They will then fiy down the ( and coast the extr th Cape Fare well m across to Indian | Harbor, Labrador, of the long- sst sea jumps of the entire flight. Once on the North American continent the will be comparatively sy by *, Montreal and one miles. i airn have now | | 2o to eir | | I | me there s at is one | v | way of Minga | Washing! No route has been set for rumr Washington to the starting point {in Califc dista of approxi- | mately 2.000 miles, which is included lin the estimate of 8,986 remaining to i be covered. The rs may be expect- some time in August. No date fr V are not proceed- lule, but are making the pussible progre with Their reception notable affair. mpletion of the nia, a e been se | fastest ances for rens in as warking the virtual co round-world flizint e emee— Afier 2 to the ration of Independence gates, though unstinted in admir: of the doubt relieved to note that it could not sug | gest any Jlications as to the bus ness immediately in hand list reading of the De dele tion noble document. we comm e r——— There | Demacra 1o the to the repertory played even in Name That's Ne That is another old song that the harmonisis, in s ion of W . Bryan of band to There's or Spoken—a Picture Is Turned Toward the Wall.’ in erence sug the be Alabama, a e 1t is asserted that both presidential tickets are satisfactory to J. P. Mor. gan. Asx a fair-minde man, the { eminent financier may feel constrained to withhold from both parties the im plied advantage of his disapproval LRl Contention has often been made that this country’s primary reliable and unsatisfactory. It reasonably be assumed that just present this is the view of Mr. Adoo. system is un- may at Me- Controversies of our own for ment took the attention of America away from the fact that France and England are still discussing the matter of reparations. a mo- ——— - Encouraging intimations are in cir- culation that W. J. Bryan does not re gard Wall street as beyond hope of regeneration if ‘given the benefit of proper influen Madison Square Garden will have a wimming pool. Tts most ¢ s that of a political nt serv- {ice wi ishing pond. SHOOTING STARS. PHILANDE Receptivity. When vou're seeking to be happy And you've heard the cheering loud iere the atmosphere grew scrappy In an agitated crowd: When you're of the measures In the haunts of song and smile, Have you ever tried the pleasures Of just sitting sti#? awhile? By JOHNSON w Looking out upon the skylands In the twilight-colored west, Through the mists that touch the high- lands As the daytime sinks to rest— If the moments that can cheer you Shun the gayety and guile, You will find them drawing near you 1f you'll just sit still awhile. An Anti-Gambler, “Do think our candidate win?" “Of course.” “Would you bet ¢n him “Certainly not. Why should I stimu- late anybody favoring the opposition by offering a pecuniary inducement?” Destinies, The steed selected for the race Forsakes his ease and hits the pace. The old dark horse that got no votes Goes back in peace to home and oats. you will said Senator Sorghum. Jud Tunkins says there may still be sea serpents, only nobody looks far enough past the bathing suits to notice ‘em. Helping a Little. We are making preparations For a European trip. If we can’t relieve the nations, ‘We can give the waiters tips. Expecting to Travel. “Are you going to spend the sum- mer in Crimson Gulch?” “ Tain't likely,” answered Cactus Joe. “Somebody’s got to make sacri- fices. I've accepted an invitation to umpire a ball game between the Guich- ers and the Snake Ridgers.” “It don’t make no diffunce how good a talker a man is,” sald Uncle Eben, i whut he says still leaves you guessin’ 'bout whut he's gineter \to Q0. Shstee e ni the flight | allow- | add | STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1924 BY C. E. TRACEWELL. Postal employes of the nation feel that Postmaster General New rubbed salt into their wounds when he caused President Coolldge’'s message vetoing the postal salary bill to be reprinted complete in the Postal Bul- letin, daily publication of the Post Office Department. The employes read the message in the newspapers first; to have to read it all over agalh was something they | willingly would have foregone. Espe- clally that sentence about “the cost of living has decreased, rather thun increased. Frankly, they would put that just the other way around.. Mr. New says he printedthe message as a matter of record, and at the request of post- masters and employes, who asked to be informed of the exact wording of the President’s message ® % ok % Postal workers of the nation, 000 strong, . perhaps the sportsmen In the government service They swallowed their disap- pointment over the veto of the pay bill, und are hard at work. as usual, sorting, transporting, delivering the country’s immense mail | Like u great river. that never ceases its flow for an instant, day or night, the postal service never stops. | While you and I sleep postal clerks are at work. Of them it can be said, almost lit- erally, with a few reservations “The height | and ke | best have by great men reached sudden flight, Were not i But they, slept Were toiling upward in the night.” night they certainly are. 2 all men. In Cleve- land women are working ut the cases. rung mail, the very mail that comes to your door. for ¢ight and nine hou ending ut midmght and 1 o'clock After that they are free to go home through the night In the National Capital the law would not permit such night employ- ment of women, 1 believe, and cer- tainly not longer than elght hours. Postal employes xay that in Cleve- land and other midwestern manufac- turing cities clerks are hard to get, owing #o better wages paid In com- petition, so that it is necessary to take women, who are willing to work at the wages paid in the postal service the * x | Postal employes are such zood that some of them ad- of hearts. that wus right ill at this | sports, indeed | in their President the mit heart Coolidze vetoing stal salary laborer is worthy of his Bible that hire ought to be were not so much their salaries un- * mays the trouble ix what the teachers Jught up about during the war thes bricklayers were makins | money than they were Advanced employers have recos- tized that to pay decent wages, so that a may have some of the | better things in life. makes for more {and better work. and also satisfies that craving of the human heart to | do' something outside the mere | tine of “earning a living' | It is hard for some folks to recog- | nize, and still harder to admit it, that mpolyers are human beings much ike thems Really, there employers like to do decent things and get a real thrill und feel- ing of elation. out of doing them ok % Now the postal clerk’s “boxs” is Uncle Sam, « mythical vet very real sort of personality. an old party plc- tured with white whiskers, and a most henign countena judging from the cartoons, anyway Unele Sam wants to d thing but he has to do it through his agents. His biggest agent. Presi- dent Coolidge, says Uncle Sam has told him that “government extrava- gence must stop.” and that was the main reason why he vetoed that bill Does any one represent Uncle Sam { mere than the President? I do not think 0. Nor do the loyal postal employes, who have suffered thelr diseppointment in silence. with- out even a thought of a strike, such as Canadian postal workers em- bloyed to get increased salaries. The men in the ranks. feel Postmaster General New was misled, ix opposition, to the bill, by some They' mention rames. and declare emphatically that they Lelleve Mr. New is now in doubt about the whole matter. x % % it a lot more the right Certainly no man in public employ gives more constant service than the | countless others who daily handle the “messengers of love” throughout the nation. The carrier comes tact _with all of us. Maybe we see the President once a year, if we live in Washington, or once In a lifetime if we live in the states. Cabinet members, to most of us, are merely names, for all we see of them or have anything to do with them. Not the postman. He comes to our house two or three times a_day. He knows our first names and we know his. On the “workroom floor” of count- less post offices thousands of other men work as faithfully and steadily, sorting and handling letters and par- cels. On great acrosg the country more, the railway mail clerks, work- ing away that we may not have to wait a minute longer than necessary to get our mail. Now they are roar- ing through the air in the night on the same service. These are all the servants of every m, into daily €0 No postal employe can ever say, as did Grotius on his death bed: “I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.” The postal employe spends his life laboriously. it is true, but he spends it doing something big in a big way. His compensation should be in keep~ ing. ——or—s : In a Few Words. Democracy is a folly, as is shown by the fact that it is discarded at once when the nation is in danger. When the supreme interests of the people are at stake, even the most democratic governments take care not to submit them to the judgment of the people. —PREMIER MUSSOLINI. In this country nothing has gone on at such a pace in recent years as the determined organization® of amuse- ment, Keeping peoble entertained has taken its place as the foremost industry of America. —CHARLES MERZ. War is only indirectly the result of national aggrandizement or of ag- gression or national envy. Directly it is_the result of overpopulation. This biological fact will be found at the root of all of the wars of the twentieth century. —GRINDELL-MATTHEWS. 1 cannot reca!l a case in the history of the last 100 years where any im- portant nation deliberately set,out to provoke and wage s war of *a sion. Wars are provoked by d envy ahd nderstandings, but the efficient cause is never a deliberate design on the part of a responsible government to create war. —JUDGE EDWIN B. PARKER. As a rule, intelligent men and women: are the most moral. Fine minds and fine characters go to- gether. mpanions | forming in: | brown difficult learned that | rou- | are | that | mail clerk. the letter carrier and the | 1 con- | actually | trains roaring nightly | stand thousands | | pathy The following lines are respectfully dedicated to President Coolidge fomily in memory of Calvin Coolidge, jr. The Heart of the Nation The nation mourns with thee, brave father heart, ‘That in thy sorrow cares of state enhance; There lives and gnaws deep in thy silent self The grief that finds no vent in utterance. and The nation weeps with thee, oh, mother love, ‘That thou dost mourn thy son of tender years, ‘Thy cherished hopes for him in manhood'’s prime Thus blighted and now hallowed with thy tears. The nation pleads For thee, boon And fei ign would lift this Thi grief, before wa: But list, oh, father, mother, brother love; God speaks through nature with divinest breath: "Tis but the outer form that changes thus— ive on; there is no death! The life and soul ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. How many calls do the fire de- partments of a city like Washington answer in a day’—G. W. H. A. The chief fire engineer's office says that the average number of runs made by fire engine companies is eight u day. This would probably prove true of other cities of this size. | Q. Did Waiter Johnson ever pitch | a no-hit no-run game?—S. W. P. | A. Walter Johnson hit no-run game against the Boston| team in the American League July | 1, 1920 The score was 1-0. Q. What_is ordinary made of?—E. G. A. The bureau of standard: that “tin_sheet” in ordinary comm cial use is a base of iron coated with tin by dipping in the molten metal. Real sheet tin is ingot tin rolled down to sheet form. Q. What will keep in a_flour bin cabinet?—D. s A. The only remedy is to keep the sur cool and dry. in summer time buy only hali the quantity at a time that you would in the winter Q. What causes brown =pots to appear on steel engravings and what will remove them?—J. C. The brown spots that are found ste«] engravings are often due to ir in the paper which becomes with age. We do not know | any method by which these spots be removed sheet tin bugs from in a kitchen suly Q. When Benjamin wered electricity did key up in the air with did he hold the key W. C: A. In ma clectricity up a kite, Franklin dis- he send the the kite or in his hand?— | with sent his experiment Benjumin Franklin to the string of which he had fastened a large metal key., and to the key he had fastened a short ribhon of non-conducting silk. which he held in his hand. The silk w wpioyed to prevent him from receiving any shock Q in What is the value the United Stat W. A A. The bureau of census gives fiz- ares on value of drugs manufactured, but not on drugs soid. There would probably be a close relation ‘hetween supply and demand. In 1 the value of manufactured drugs was $340,222,847 Q. 1s Pawnee Bill still alive?—E. A He 11 living. His name Gordon W. Tulley and he is sixty- four years old. Q of drugs sold in a year? Z. one be L. P. The bu that an eiectric ce called a bat- u of standards gether, although the word baticry is often appled to a single cell Q. How long have “author's read ings" heen popular’—B. N. G A. It is impossible to say definite- | iy when this custom was established, but history records that Herodotus ave “author's readings” in Athens about 446 B. C. Q. 1Is there a tribe of Indians that is not under the government of the United States?—L T. R. A. The Croatan Indiane in the ate of North Carolina are not under the control of the United States gov- ernment. They have their owm t-ibal form of government. They are lo- cated at Pembroke, about seventy miles west of Wilmington, in n County Sympathy of Whole Country or Coolidge ympathy without distinction of class or party goes out from the nation to President and Mrs. Coolidge. Aithough death has visited the White House be- fore, editors recall that this ond time it has come to youth. The first occurred when “Tad” Lincoln passed away st the age of twelve sixty years ago. The apparently trivial orig- in of Calvin Coolidge, jr.’s illness and the suddenness of of his passing make this a particularly poignant tragedy over which the world bows fts head in grief and sympathy for the father and mother in the White House. “The low, prolonged mqan, almost a sob, that filled Madison Square Garden when the announcement of the death of the. President’s son was made to the Democratic_convention told of some- thing deeper in the hearts of that mul- titude than partisan feeling,” which suggests, the ew York Times says, “not only the kinship of all in an hour of sorrow, but also the nearness of the White House to every American home, and of the solicitious regard in which all the people hold their Presi- dent. The appeal to the public’s sym- is_heightened by the fact that he who died was a boy with the world before him. As such he personified the hope, the promise of hundreds of thou- sands of American households. The parents of every one of the others lost in imagination their own.” “Many of the problems of a Presi dent we cannot really understand. continues the Milwaukee Journal, “‘but this is something we know.” Not so much ‘“‘because he was the President’s son, and therefore entitled to more than ordinary distinction,” suggests the Dayton News, “but because he was his father's and his mother's boy, whose future was a prideful thing for them to plan—all America bows its head nor attempts to hide back the tears.” * X X X “This is not the first time that death has come to youth at the White House, but never heretofore has it struck so suddenly and so painfully,” according to the Baltiimore Sun, “nor could it have come to any man labor- ing under a greater burden of re- sponsibilities or facing greater de- mands for public activities than Mr. Coolidge; but, after all, it is not to Mr. Coolidge that the widest and deep- est sympathy will go, but to his wife,” is the sec- deenest sympathy e companien, brother mate, pitched a no- || lo | without difficulty for “the excitement of the coming campaign will prove to him helpful, if not healing, but what every woman knows is that there is nmo anodyne for a mother’s heart.” In fact, the New York Evening ‘World declares ‘“‘the whole nation is just a neighbor, wishing with all its —Dr. FRANK P. GRAVES. |heart it could bring some siight com- shadow from thy youth, reached man's full estate. NELLIE E. DASHIELL. Q. B.C. A. Can water be compressed?—W. Liquids are almost imcompressi- ble. A pressure of 100 pounds to the square inch compresses water only 00033 of its original volume, and on the removal of this that volume is immediately restored. Q. Do locuxts lay their eggs on ber. ries and fruits. thereby poisonin them?—H. H. D) i W A. The Department ys that locusts nches (o lay exgs poizoned in this manner. Q. How much did Germany realize from the saje of paper marks in for- eign countries at the time there was S0 much speculation in marks?—E. H. B. A. Estimates have been made run- ning as high as $4.000.000,000, but conservative computations indicate a total of not more than half that amount. Whatever the exact figure, it is recognized that tne sale of paper marks was a great ald to Germany both in meeting reparation obliga- tions and in paying for foreign im- ports during the years 1919-22 Q. Has railroad comsolidation such as has been proposed here been tried in any other country?>—C. O. N. A. Under an act passed in 1921 the 120 railway systems of England have been consolidated into four large geographical systems, with a total mile- age of 19510 miiles and an aggregate capitalization of about £583,000,000. Q. wri A name Q hedg, A of Agriculture bore into the Fruit is not Did James Whitcomb Riley ever under a psevdonym?—D. J. W. Ri one time used the pen of jamin F. Johnson.’ When should an _arbor be trimmed?--D. P. B. The Departmenc of Agriculture says that the proper time is soon after the hedge begins growth in the epring. vitae Q. What ix the rank of Methodist bishops?—L. S, P. A. Methodist bishops are the high- est preiates in the Methodist Church of America. 1t is their dfity to preside -r the Methodist conferences, held once a year, in the dierent districts. One layman from each district and the minister of each Methodist church in that district attend thess confy ences. There are forty-five Method bishops in the United States Q. When was ironstone china first made?—M. F. C. A. It was made in England in the eighteenth century. Q. Was there really a gate in Jeru- lem~ known as “The Eye of the edle?—T. €. L. It ix a fact that there is in the of Jerusalem n small gateway It for the use of pedestrians a known by a me which is transiated as “The Needir's Eye." Through this gate it is quite possible for a small undernourished camet, divested of all s equipment, harness, ete.. by kneal- to work its avay. though not The gate is still in existence. (Any reader can get the answer to any question by writing The Star Information Bureau. Frederic J. Has- kins, director. 21st and C streets northwest. This offer applies strictiv to information. The Bureau cannot give advice on legal, medical and financial matters. It does not attempt to settic domestic troubles, nor fo undertake any erhaustive research on any subject. Write wour question plainiy and briefly. Give full mame and address and inclose two cents in stamps for return postage. All re- Pplics arc sent direct to the inquire Shown in Press! fort to the sorrowing father and mother at Washington.” Another thought occurs which the Boston Transcript hopes may bring consola- tion to the parents, that is, “in a very direct sense. the boy Calvin Coolidge has died for other children. since the conspicuousness of his position, and the centering of the attention of a whole great people upon his tragical case will be sure to serve as an ad- monition to parents to guard their children against accidents similar to that which befell him." The Springfield Republican recalls that Calvin, jr., was working on a tobacco farm ‘at the time his father was elevated to the presidency, and “when the farmer said to him, ‘Well, I see your father is President of the United States’ he simply answered, | ‘Yes, 1 suppose he is. Where do you | want me ot put the tobacco? To | voung Calvin's way of thinking there | was nothing extraordinary in his fa- ther becoming President of the United States,” which illustrates “the beautiful simplicity and sterling di- rectness of his character, together with the essential democracy of his breeding that gave such a delightful touch of the best American_tradition to his youthful reaction to the sudden change in the family fortunes. The Pittsburgh Sun_ adds, “it did not occur to him that he should give up his job because of the exalted po- sition to which his father had been ralsed. There was no thought in his mind that he was ‘too good' for rough labor. and this freedom from snob- bishiness and conceit remained with him. We liked him the better, per- haps, on that account.” * ok ox x “It is a national loss,” the Cleve- land Plain Dealer believes, “when death takes such a youth, whether he be the son of a President or the son of a humble citizen who has trained him to future useful service; no na- tion has 80 many boys of the promise of Calvin Coolidge, jr., that it can spare a single one.” The Savannah Press agrees “it is a tragedy at all times to lose so fine a boy as Calvin Coolidge, jr., was. The sons of the President were typical, manly Ameri- can boys, reared in a home typically American in the best sense, boys in whose training parental love and par- ental wisdom were ideally mingled,” and the Philadelphia Bulletin adds that “it 1s always a cruel thing when death invades such a home. The Cincinnati Times-Star also notes that “it has been the old-fash- ioned American family relationship which the American people, for all the inroads of modernism, still under- stand and like best; and it is because the Coolidge family is what it is that the sympathy of the people for the President and his wife i3 today so NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM Interest in neurology, and especially in a moderate form of psycho-analy- sis, shows in Ernest Poole's last two novels—“Danger” and “Avalanche.” The center of the latter novel is a young neurologist, Llewellyn Dorr, Who is a thorough scientist in meth- od, but has the temperament of a mystic. Since eerly in his boyhood, a majestic mountain near his New Hampshire home has exerted upon him a mysterious influence. It has meant to him adventure, spiritual power, infinite life itself. From it he has always been able to draw strength to build up inner re- serve on_which his frail body de- pends. The mountain has never failed him: it has always yielded to him its secret force; and finally. when the great adventure of all his life comes, he meets it with the help of the mountain. “On he climbed, im- patient now to reach the hut—in time to see the sunset—and then to rest— and to be warm. ® * ® And he did reach it, just in time. Panting still, and trembling with weakness from that desperate climb, he got there just in time to see, through the opening in the trees, the warm, glor- ious flood of light which was moving like something alive, swiftly over the tops of the hills. 'And yet it was strange—for he could not tell * * ¢ whether or not this light were real— this fresh, astounding radiance which now came stealing into him. Into his body or Into his spirit? Mysterious: He could not know! But now he did not care to know. He was so ab- sorbed in feeling it grow. He in the past when he was a boy—but never as he felt it now. Warm and clear, it scemed to fill himself and the whole world with light!” * % x x In contrast to this sensitive idealist is the woman he loves—brilliant, hard, self-centered. always in search of some new sensation: a vampire, not in the sense of the joke column, but in the sense of Kipling's poem: Ob, the years we waste and the tears we waste. And the work of our head and hand. Belong to the woman who did not kmow (And now we kpow that she pever could know). And did Dot understand. Apd it Ian’t the sbame aud it isn't the biame That stings like 3 white-ho. brand, ‘s coming to know that ahe ever knew why ceing. i last, she conld never know why) And never could understand! * %ok ox a reformer inveighing against system, but as a dispassionate scientist investigator in search of knowledge does the author of “Boss Platt and His New York Machine" approach his subject. Dr. Harold F Gosnell's book is further described as “a study of the political leadership of Thomas C. Platt, Theodors Roosevelt and othe In it the author outlines the social background. the personal qualities and the technique of a typi- cal state political boss at a period in the late nineties, when the boss system was in a particularly flourishing con- dition. Although Senator Platt is not without interest on his own count, the chief Interest in him to- day i< due to the fact that Platt was Tecognized as the leader of the Re- publican party in New York State at the time when Roosevelt was coming into national notice. This book studies their political relations for about twenty vears. It also analyzes Platt’s control over legislation and his contacts with the press. By his impersonal, cautious, objective meth- od, the author has produced a book of great value to students of politics. * ok x Philosopher’s Stone.” by J. Anker Larsen—the novel, which re- cently won a 70,000 kroner prize in Denmark—is a many-sided tion of the them’ that a religion of mysticism is again taking hold upon the world. The two chief characters are two boys who have from the start unusual religious sensitiveness. As Jens Bahl and Christian Barnes de- Velop and grow to manhood they be- come differentiated until they repre- sent two distinct types of religious mind. As a child Jens Dahl has the gift of seeing things “open” or in their inner significance: as a man he does not lose this gift and becomes a tireless and worshipful seeker after cstical truth. He has, like all my. his illuminating _experience: The whole room lay in radiant light, which cast no shadow, and which penetrated tables and chairs so that he seemed to see through them. He could not determine whether this all- pervading light was the divine love itself or something belonging to it, as man's body belongs to his soul Christian Barnes, the pastor's son, is also a boy who has glimpses of un- seen things. While lying on a hay- cock lookini up into the blue sky, he feels united with the heavens,’ or “blue inside.” When his mother dies and he sces his father composing a funeral eulogy for her, he hates h father: but when he sees his father break down and weep, he loves him for the first time. At the university Christian studies’ theology quires the rather disagre of analyzing other people’s religious feelings and motives. The mysticism cf Jens Dahl leads him to mental frenzy and a tragic end: the religion of Christian Barnes takes a more practical turn and he finally becomes a teacher in his native town, content with a simple labor and simple hap- piness: N a “The * ok xx I wonder how many readers of this column were familiar with the publications of John B. Alden of say thirty or forty vears ago? This question is suggested by the recent publication :n handsome form of “Sam Slick” by Thomas Chandler Halibuton, edited with a critical es- timate and a bibliography by Dr. Ray Palmer Baker. The Booklover's first acquaintance with Sam Slick— that is, with “The Clockmaker, or the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville'—was gained through an Alden reprint of that Nova Scotian classic. That edition was only moderately well printed; it was issued in blue paper covers, like many other reprints of impor: tant books published by Alden and 4old for perhaps 10 cents a copy. His cheap books were a boon fo many readers of his day and the memory of them is by contrast evoked by the sumptuous edition of the humorist. who, according to W. D. Howells, dominated for three gen- erations 'the humorists of the United States. The first series of Sam Slick was originally published in Halifax in 1836, and many subsequent edi tions of it and of “The Attache. “Wise Saws and Modern Instances and “The Old Judge” show that the dispenser of “soft sawder and human natur’” was a best seller. In the present volume will be found the best parts of the homely philosophy of one who has often been called ‘the father of American humor.” * X X % Cosmo Hamilton's career as a pla: wright-novelist began when he was vet in his early twenties, and he w. thrown in contact with many of the leading lights of London's literary and dramatic world. In his “Un. written History,” a volume of remi- niscences, he_tells this one on Be nard Shaw: “Always in the highest spirits, and the strangest clothes that might quite easily have been made at home, bilious in color and in pattern vegetarian like his Wiet, his red hair and beard crackling with electricity, his quick wits sparkling like running water in the sun, George Bernard Shaw was then, In_middie age, the ‘enfant terrible’ of London, who put his fingers to his nose a all the stodgy critics. ® ¢ ¢ RBarrie, going one day to speak to Bernard Shaw at a table in the coffee room near the window (at the Garrick), looked for a moment at the curious mess upon which the master was browsing, and sald, {n his_rolling Scotch, ‘Oh, tell me, Shaw. Have ve eaten that, or are ye going to? "™ had | felt it so many, many times. up here | | der illustra- | and ac- | able habit | RECLAMATION ADDS VASTAREATO .S, Barren Wastes of West Turned Into Productive Uses. BY EDWARD F. ROBERTS, Little known and little heeded by the public at large, the work of re- claiming the vast deserts of America bas been going on over twenty years The result of that mighty labor is that today huge stretches of for- merly arid and desolate lands have been converted into fertile farm lands, with a total crop value in 1922 of more than $50,000,000. Among the New England states Maine was the only one which reported a greater number of farms than are found on these irrigated projects. Each of the states of New Hampshire and necticut contained only about third as many. In other words through reclamation the American government has practically added a forty-ninth state to the Union. A comprehensive survey of the whole operations of the reclamation service since its inauguration some twenty years ago has just been com- pleted by the special advisory com- mittee which was appointed for that purpose by Secretary of the Interior Work last fall. To find out just wha reclamation means 1 went to a men ber of that committee, Clyde C. Daw son of Colorado, distinguished American lawyer who has been deep ly interested in the development of irrigation law and the reclama of waste lands for more than a quar ter of a century Reclamation’s Benefitx. “What has reclamation done and what may it still do?" was the dou ble-barreled question which I put to Mr. Dawson “The answer to the first part your question is fairly simple,” replied, “but the answer to the sec ond part is not quite so simple. What has been done I can sum up for you very briefly “The reclamation service has wrested from the desert to date ahout 1,200,000 acres of arid lands whicn have been restored to fertility by ir rigation and are today producing ar crops valued at from fifty to seventy-five million dollars. Besides more than a million acres of land are receiving a partial water supply. the terms of the Warren from the federal irrigation projects and producing greatly increased crops therefrom. On those reclaimed dcs- erts thousands of happy American families are growing up in the open country under those influences which have always fashioned men and won en of strength and are giving to America the kind citizens who sinee our history began, have proven the backbone of the republic “What has been the cost fo the American taxpayer of reclaimin these deserts Con one- P nually un No Cost to Taxpayers. one cent,” was the surprising That is one point,” tinued Mr. Dawson, “which 1 would particularly like to make clear, be cause 1 think there is a very general misunderstanding in regard to it The reclamation service is almost unique among the activities of our governmert. The original fund out of which the projects were built derived from the sale of public in the states in which the proj were thereafter built; and while t government has spent on the varic projects which have been put eration about $156.000.000, that mones is all charged against the reclaimed land and_repayable out the 1 wealth which it produces in the forn: { of erops. though, of course, there have |been and will be some I as in {any great business undertaking | This, however. will come out of the fund contributed by the states ben fited and not out of the general tax payers of the c ry | " How many le areactually sct | tled on these reclaimed lands > ‘About half a million, one-third of | whom are engaged in actual farming and two-thirds who live in the merous small towns and villag | which have naturally grown up a | the farm lands were settled upon. Of | course, the varibus f fairly {widely scattered, Delng n fif teen western states ranging from | Washington to Arizona and east to | Nebraska. One of the largest inc Vidual projects is known as the [ {Grande and stretches from 1l Paso County in Texas through three coun- ties in New Mexico. Not answer. co in o Vast Area Reclaimed. This reclaimed land amounts te a | total of §9.589 acres at present with | probably another 60008 or 70.000 |acres which may be reclaimed in the future. It gives an excellent illustra tion of what reclamation of arid lands can mean to Amertca. Here where for centuries there stretched hostile and barren wilderness, there < today a population of 120.000 pec ple living on_prosperous farms and in thriving villages, with a splendid road system serving the entire terri tory: forty-nine public schools. 119 churches and every facility and en- couragement for the development of the finest type of American citizens The total cost of the reclaiming of this desert was about $13,000,000. the settlers who nave located { today own in the thirteen banks which have been established to serve them. deposits amounting to $3 000, Not all of the projects have. of course, been so successful as this one but there are many others which are relatively as prosperous and give an excellent demonstration of what re- clamation means to the American na- tion.” “What is the total amount of desert land which it is still possible to re- claim by irrigation” Future Possibilites. “It is impossible to give an exact answer to that question.” said Mr Dawson. ‘There has never been any accurate survey of American arid lands that T know of and the esti- mates of the best authority vary widely. One authority has placed it as high as 50,000,000 acres, while more conservative estimates are around 30.- 000,000 acres. But that does not mean that all of this land can be rendered productive by irrigation. That is a matter which depends entirely on th availability of a water supply and th. cost of irrigation as compared with the probable value of the crops which could be raised on the reclaimed land There have been many cases where irrigation has been abandoned be- cause it was found that the land would never produce suflicient wealth Yo pay for the water. 1 would not at- tempt to make any definite estimate as to the amount of reclaimable des- ert land, but it undoubtedly runs into several million acres.” “Where do you get your settlers from? Are dhey usually native Amer- ican farmers or immigrants?” “In_the very great majority of cases they are native Americans. The proportion of American-born settlers on all the projects is nearly 90 per cent. On some of the projects ther is an equally large percentage of ve fine type of Swedish and German farmers. But speaking in general, the man who is most likely to take up an allotment is the American farmer who has already had some ex- perience with irrigated land. This is the type of farmer, also. who has the bost chance of making the venture a success