Evening Star Newspaper, July 21, 1924, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY. . ....July 21, 1924 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. . Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Busivess Office. 1111 §t. avd Pennsyivania Ave. New York Oice: 110 East 42ud St. Chicaxo OMie: Tower Building Furopeas, Office: 16 itegeat St..London, Engl The Evening Star. wiih the Sunday morning raition. Iy del'versd by carritcs within the ity af 60 cents per mooth: daily only, 4% ceots per month: Sanduy only. 20 cents per month. Orders may be sent by mall or tele- phone Ma'n 3000. Collcciion is made by car- riers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Puyable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sundas.1yr., $8.49:1 mo.. Daily only J1¥r.$6.00: 1 mo. Sunday only (¥ §240; 1 mo. All Other State: Daily and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00 : 1 mo. Daily only 1¥r, $7.00:1 mo, “unday only 1vr, $5.005 1 mo.. Member of the Associated Press. for the dismissal of the courageous and thorough-going police head. The | piain fact is that the mayor has suf- | fered from pedal chill. He has lost his } nerve. He has surrendered to the poli- | ticlans. who saw their graft vanishing lunder the Butler police administra- tion. ‘When Butler took hold in | Philadelphia, bent upon cleaning up the city and enforcing the law, it was generaliy recognized that he would have a hard task. He did not succeed in his undertaking to make Philadel- phia dry and to close the dives. He made some headway. caused the clos n. | ing of a good muny places, and had he been given the support of the courts would undoubtedly have effccted u de- cided reform in conditions. But that support was not given him. Then the mayor began to 10se his interest in the campaign which he had started with S0 much publicity. An interesting suggestion ad- vanced in this connection. Gen. But- ler. it is reported. will offer his serv- Patches credited to il or not oth in this paper aud also news pub- | 1ished herein publication of | La Follette and Wheeler. When Senator Wheeler of Montana that he would support Follette for the presidency. but would not accept a nomination for Vice President on that ticket if it tendered him, thought was general that he was sin- cere in his vefusal in advance. When on Friday it was unnounced that he had been selected by the La Follette for second v the Delief prevailed that he probubly still deciine. Then announcement of curiosity arose on wouid previous has not been satis 5 fural stateme does not atiem neiliatic Burton week declared K Vi were the right committee the would came his terse and how, w e the reconcile ac- refusal ied Sonator cffect a simply saving thut atter | ceptance int of eptance That curiosity For in I Wheeler he h his to caretul consideration he bas concluded | the and further say ing that while ~ had no desive to | a the o accept hor i candidate e become that “lecause 1 = of the a e has is his d ay an hest A ot cours M o wecept ars o me that highest in Ly so doing ser n peo; s but sniall matter | has been in wiether Vhieelos con- t taking The | ed the all the hat is to sistent or what he had s that et ove to u Lerwise thus etnsed to consid having revud poin Dem¢ way has ti opposing He is now & thorough-going zone ~ay forces in out-and La K the lettee, But all so thorougi-go Walsh. Senator Demo- He 1 suppor Democrati Montana atic W nator nominee for the whole in that State. Al progressive nom is a Demo- to do all in Democratic n and ticket though takes a ination he declares that he crat. He t his power the presidential ticke: Tt is to Le noted that La Follette bas not said he publican, as M Wheeler has said he La Folleite has al- th of + does so in i he pledzes himsel to defeat thus is & Re- i~ a Demo: ready ties. ment that may dencunce d 1 Mr. Wheel the state- tance. but coupled with is a et announcement that him tro; 1 old wa phrase we the czm- He feat be- ndoned an r service. standard- cents the and who give paizn is over. ©1 am a Demecrat! party ni creat p Tected who te consigis cause i opportunity it 1n attorney s of ¥ iates all that h for hecause as Learer intere strect and ty pifie for. S0 here is the a with them. and who big business stands ¥ ticket: La and Wheel e forn aird pa an ex-Repablicar et Las been | party fou 1 at outs has sud- premonitory slipping a s his o long time. has in fact be with it for years denl and Cwith agonies of separation, broken with his | old allegiance. It is wuly a strange combination. and it makes its appeal to the country on u strange doctrine. a plea that in confusion lies progress, that in disruption lies cons The latier no is a ruction. | The farmers are represented as en | route for affluence via the grain mar- | ket. Labor is showing no great fear | that the farmer will desert to the | ——— vanks of capital so long as he can be | the difficulty of pronouncing its name, | lists | observe the work and machinery. compelled to for i ——— 1t is possible that Will Bryan derive tion from his lit in order real Democratic am Jennings jaunt to New York Tammany what leader can be like. + show a S | When so energetic a man as Mr. | Dawes is willing 1o serve as Vice | Sunday accident record has come to| President there uld be no further | protest that election to that leads only to forgetful quietudes. ———— Butler ‘and Philadelphia. Dismissal of Gen. Smedley as direcior of public safety delphia is said to be on the cards. Mayor Kendrick, who secured the services of Gen! Butler from the Ma: rine Corps at the outset of his admin- istration. has finally, it is reported, Butler in Phila- succumbed fo the pressure of the poli- | ticians, who have heretofore had full sway in the of Brotherly Love, and who have seen their control of the police vanish under Gen. Butler's vigorous and fearless command of that department, and will “send him his resignation” to take effect immedi- ately. 1f Gen. Butler agrees not to press the redistricting of the depart- ment he may stay out the vear for which he was appointed, the year of his leave of absence. If he refuses he is to go at once. There is no expectation that Gen. Butler will yield on the point of the redistricting, for that is a vital matter in the case. Under the present dis- tricting of the police the administra- tion is difficult, if the law is to be fully enforced. With a rearrangement of | state police | the | dicate that a member of the milita | Association s | b | | ices to Gov. Pinchot and. if they are uccepted. will carry with him into the force 300 picked men of the Philadelphia police. These will be signed to his command in the job of caning up Philadelphia, which the governor. under State laws ized to undertake. than that of 4 mayor's assignment, on the scene ot his honorable failure un- der municipal auspices —or— Martial Law at Teheran. 1t would appear from later counts from Teheran relating to the tragedy which cost Vice Consul Tm- brie his life that there is more in this case than religious prejudice and superstition against photography entertained by Moslem people. One of the recently received reports states that Maj. Imbrie. who was wearing a ac- mere Persian cap. was mistaken for a mem- | ber of a sect that has lately gzained | somie political duminance in that coun try and is intensely disliked by the Mobammedan priests and layvmen. It is al%o stated that the outery against him was not raised on the score that | he photographing. but that he and companion were accused having poisoned a well. or fountain. to was is | which are attribited miraculous qual- ities. There is some evidence that the outery zainst him was promoted de- liberately. for one man is to huve started the cry and luter to have pursued the car which the vice consul and hix friend were rid ing and evoked the murderous rage of the crowd. Our of this case may a ous domestic trouble for Persia. Mar- tial law has been proclaimed to quiet political agitators. who have seized upon the incident us a reason for demanding reorganization. An in- quity has developed the fact that there was a saber cut on Maj. Im- brie’s heud. which was taken to in- -y known iuge in come a seri police. who alone carry such weapons, ed ilants. Many arrests have been made. and the Parlisment has in open session expressed its sor- ow and profound horror at the crime und ursed the government to pursue an investigation relentlessly. That underneath that affair serious pol and religious matic condition is believed by who have followed the recent course of Persian history. Maj. Imbrie may have been merely the victim of a de the lies a ical schis veloping revolutionary spirit. although | have of fa indiscretion may into the current his own brought him natical rage. mpel commu s<ts and radicals to realize that they cannot held prominence in any politi- movement he will. vegardless of results performed service in public affairs cal election valuabl Lave e As president of the American Bar cretary of State Hughes is author- | So Butler may be ! back on the b, with higher authority | those | a THE EVEN but a car going 35 miles an hour was called a “road louse” by many a driver and was passed at a 45-mile or 55-mile clip. The leisurely 25-mile-an-hour driver obstructed traffic. Drivers went by 35.mile cars on the upgrade of hills when there is constant and grave danger of a car coming over the crest. That is against the law, but when the speed mania grips a man, and the de- sire to make the run between Harpers Ferry and Washington, Fredericks- burg and Washington, La Plata and Washington or between other points in quick time burns in him, the law does not weigh heavy on his mind. Jazz drivers are in the streets and rouds every day, but they turn out in tforce on Sunday. 1 these drivers were dangerous only to themselves and those who ride with them there might be littie occasion for comment but they are as dangerous to quiet und law-keeping persons as to them- selves. The remedy? There does not seem 10 be one. The police catch a few violators, and the treatment does not cure. Only a small number of the violators are caught, and automobile recklessness is increasing | ————— The Enemy's Country. Announcement is made that Senator La Follette is contemplating opening his campaign for the presidency in New York City by making his first speech there. His running mate on the ticket will begin his drive in Bos. ton. It was William J. Bryan who, in 1896, coined the phrase “the enemy’s country” when he made his celebrated apeech in advocacy of the free coinage of silver_in historic Madison Square Garden. “Fighting Bob,” as Senator La Fol- lette is affectionately called by his de- voted Wisconsin admirers, is to live up to his reputation for feariessness by assailing Wall street and the in- terests in their lair, likewise giving proletariat an opportunity to “lotk him over” and to listen at close range to his excoriation of the forces of Mamni There will be nights on the radio when the sena torial team of La Follette and Wheeler open up their batteries and lay down a verbal barrage upon the votere of the East. The La Follette and Wheeler man agers are planning. it said. a “whirl wind campaign’ for the election. Of they will go West in their | touring hough they regard a por- tion of West as already theirs Both Senators are strong on oratory | | the i Course of the and in the lack of organization they | will have to depend mainly upon their | own efforts for a quick conversion of | the multitude | Movements such as they are under | tuking must of necessity gain momen | tum. it at all. through the eloquence | with which the arguments are pre- | scnted: an appeal to passions flaring | up like o heacon in the night. What. | ever th come of the La Follette Wheeler cuinpaign. the country for a rousing stirring up of the masses and a picturesque campaign. | | | | | | an is in Notification formaliti, longer considered absolutely sary in order to give a candidate the opportunity to make an address. The effec speech ix now promptly de- livered. regar of program. when the psy sarded as at are no neces Ve ls less set hand e In the last few months Gov A Smith registered great achievement in enabling fricnds to mention him as a | presidential 1 without laugh ing The attitude of Mr, W. ward the Democracy volvi patriotic I. Bryan to. now one in affection as well as is fraternal devotion ————— Financial ingenuity may find it worth while to devise some form of ck insurance for American poli R SHOOTING STARS. may be looked to by the reparations | conterence as one who cught to help in laying down the law e The campaign slogan Xeep Cool With Coolidge” adds another thrill of hope to Washington's aspirations to becgme recognized as a leading Sum- mer resort. o The Province of Saskatchewan has voted to become wet, thus increasing offhand. s wte Third-party movements are so usual that politics is beginning to partake of the nature of the eternal triangle. ——— The Automobile Sunday. The Sunday list of local and near! | automobile accidents is long. with one { fatality recorded at this time. The be looked upon as a matter of course office ' and the public is no longer shocked. | Perhaps when it is taken into con- sideration that yesterday was a bright. warm day and that every ma- chine whose wheels would turn and | whose motor would run was on the roads and streets. there is cause for | congratylation that not more persons | were killed or injured. Among the | tens of thousands of men and women driving cars were many with detec- tive vision, defective nerves and who do mnot react promptly and properly when an emergency is at hand. Add to these the persons of immature and defective judgment, those who are in- toxicated by the sense of motion or desire for speed, and the chance that some part of a machine will break, the population did pretty, well toes- cape with the accidents reported. Of course, all accidents that happened have not been reported. Afternoon and evening congestion in streets was great, and at night, with lights of machines glaring, twin- Kling and reflecting, driving was hazardous. On every good road in saryland and Virginia were streams of autos. Washington, Baltimore and Richmond sent their quotas, and towns, hamlets and tens of thoysands of farms sent autos on the roads. It precinct lines may come a complete shake-up of assignmenis and a better hance for the enforcement of the statutes and the regulations. But this 1edistricting matter is only a pretext was @ day of heavy travel. There was plenty of speed. The 35-milesan-hour limit on Maryland roads would seem to be fast enough, BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Eternal Topics. Of Cinderella still they read. The children that we know To valiant Jack they still give heed, Who laid the giants low. ‘When they talk like us Of tariffs which seem strange. And fashions that grow scandalous. The subjects never change. are grown, they'll | Inducement to Linger. “Do you ever have trouble in hold ing your audiences?” None," answered Senator Sorghum vs announce a brief showing of motion pictures to follow marks.” 11 alwa my re- Wagons of July, he band wagon's neat and its music is sweet. The old water complete. Their charms are but slight as we sit up all night And wait till the ice wagon heaves into sight. wagon means safety Jud Tunkins says Wall street has keep open all night in order to get the reputation of being wicked. No Rest. “There is no rest for the tired busi- ness man.” “No,” agreed Miss Cayenne. “In ad- dition to seeing musical comedies all ‘Winter he is now expected to listen to politics all Summer.” The Supercilious Shopper. The lady goes shopping With haughty disdain, The sales folk are dropping Their curt'sies in vain. Her manner would scare you To bow to her worth, *Implying, “How dare you Exist on my earth! When she has departed New capers to cut, The sales folk light-hearted Say, “Ain’t she a nu “Wif a little practice,” said Uncle Eben, “a man gits 8o he can't fool his- self wif daylight-savin’ any more dan he can wif an alarm clock.” great | hological moment is re- | got Broadway beat in not having to | ING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C THIS AND THAT BY C. E. TRACEWELL. Saturday night at Wisconsin ave- nue and M strect again. Dismounting from a car on the lat- ter street, one takes up his stand on the southeast corner, waiting for the privilege of paying another full fare to ride out Wisconsin avenue. The Public Utilities Commission, in its assembled wisdom, as the result of a public hearing, recently aboliched the transfer privilege, formerly cost- ing 1 cent; at this nutural trunsfer point Truly, it ix a guestion of waiting. Minute ufter minute goes by. The bunk_clock on the opposite corner suld 7:45 o'clock when the stand was first taken. Now it is 8 o'clock, and still no car hus run either way. The curs continue to whizz by on the other line There is Willium Tyler Puge, clerk of the House. wuthor of (hut splendid bit of work. “The Americun's Creed (o onder now long he hus been waii- ng? While there is nothing else to do. let us run over those stirring words of his, that have been repeated now by countiess millions of children and their elders throughout the lund: “I belfeve in the nited States of Amer and the government of thé people the people, for the people whose just powers arc derived from the consent of the governed: “A Democrucy in u Republic: “A sovercign Nation of many ereign States; “A perfect Union able, established sov- one and inseper- upon those princi- ples of Freedom, uslity, Justice and Humanity. for which the Amer- ican patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. “I. therefore. believe it to be my duty to my country to love it. to sup- port its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flug, and to defend it against all enemies.” Over there is the man whose brain evolved that. Now he stunds here, with none to do him reverence, wuit- ing patiently as the hands of the clock go round, wailing minute after minute on a busy corner in a great city Another over, “How long have you been here” he is usked “1 have been here ulmost an hour,’ he repiies. putientiy Three old cronies pass on the side- walk. One of them cries out to passerby, “Hello. Bill!" Bill. « little (hin man, gruy and moustache, in a light sui at the salutation and joinx his f They are walking. Maybe that is the est WAy to get any place, after ali od exercise, und reliable. What steady old friends one's legs are, to be surc! They start uny time dexired, and never stop on the way They run more than cnce an hour gray-haired man moves | i | { ha ends | | A town Satury night has nothing Letter to offer thun Wiscon {$in avenue and M street. A hisioric point in old Geurgetown, this ¢ for vears upon its Saturday Gen rner night spectacie. tieorze Washington rode along here in his great coach, undoubtedly, when he was engaged in projects of various kinds involving opening ui the natural resources of the country Wisconsin avenue was called Now scores upon scores of automo- biles glide by. hundreds upon hun- dreds of people of thie day and age pass and pass again. The men go in their shirt sleeves over here, if they mp post stand two per- me old two." a man and She i< pretty little thing. dressed n pink gingham. las bobbed hair and A fashing smile. She fnforms the world tiat =he made the dress herself He takos a from a pape tie it in & huge blue polka-dot necktie bag snd procceds bow around her neck % A cal stops to be peited by boy How on M a little many street? inutes, car five is cars ~ou been waiting, street cars have passed Taking « test count of it discoverad that seven 20 by, counting both di- | rections. At this rate, in an hour. 54 would pass. Of course, the loop is only a few blocks west, but still some of the cars cross the Key | Briage. 5:30 o'clock—here comes a car south-bound down Wisconsin asenue: | Horray: Now all is bustle. Women bearing | great sacks of provender break out of stores, where they have been resting. The corner comes 1o life. William Tyler Puge walks to the curb. | “How long have ! Mr. Page? I ask . “Just an hour,” he replies | In astonishment, I condemn myself | to the hot regions. | “No, the compuny ‘should.” the au- thor of “The American’s Creed” re- | plies, emphaticully. “Alluboard for Toonerville.” {shouts a small boy, while the crowd surges aboard the one car in an hour. P If there is a natural transfer point {in the District, it is at Wisconsin avenue und M street. Down the lat- |ter thoroughfare, in the morning. {come hundreds of persons from out the growing sections lying along it. Fermerly, when all the down M street, a rider was enabled by paying 1 cent extra, ride straigt down Pennsylvania - avenue Then Somerset residents petitioned | for through cars. This was granted, and «t the sume time the transfer privilege at Wis- consin avenue and M street was abol ished. “A check made by the Utilities | Commission, it ix declared, showed | that 8o many persons went down to Gransfer at M street in the morning. but that a lesser number came back the same way in the evening. There- fore, the Wisconsin avenue line was {{osing money. | " Of course,’if they are only going to run one car an hour on the Wisconsin | avenue line. a transfer would do little good, unless one is willing to walit 45 minutes or'an hour for said car. But before the privilege was cut out it was not that bad. The service was good. If & merger is the only solution to this sort of service—or disservice— then the companies should be merged. 1 submit it to the world—ought a man like Tyler Page be made to wait one olid hour to get a car? to Demands Police Curb Whistlers at Night To the Editor of The Star: I have read with hearty approval vour recent briet editorials regarding distracting, unnecessary noises in this city. % Permit me to mention another thoughtless and torturing custom prevailing here, especially late at night when most people are trying to sleep. T refer to the idiotic cus- tom of loud whistling along the streets between 10 and 2 o'clock at I night. 3 I some careless “night owl” should wander about the streets blowing an old tin horn late at night our worthy olice would take a short shift on im. Then why should not the equally provoking lip-horn screech- ing be suppressed for the of the Mot e comfort of . our peace- ens: ¢ d , JOHN R. WEATHERS. . turns | vears has witnessed | cars ran| MONDAY, J ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. What does it cost the Govern- ment to put u boy through West Point?—H. D. A. The War Department says that the approximate cost to the United States Government in putting a cadet through the course at the United States Military Academy is $10,000 for the four years. This includes the overhend expenses such as repairs| and improvements to the Academ ete. The appoximate cost of main- taining and educating a cadet exclud- Ing the overhead expenses ix $6,- .84 for the four years. Q. What became given to George ington Frederick the Great’—W. L. ¢ A. Mr. Harrison Dodge, tendent of Mount Vernon, sword sald to have been Gen. Washington by Frederick the Greut is owned by the State of New York. When I last saw it, it Wwas-in the State House at Albany.” Q. Does Uncle Sam credit to profit | and loss the paper money that is con- sidered lost?—A. 8. F. A. The Government charged off a certuin wmount of Daper money s 108t wfter the Chicako fire. This Ix the only time that thix has been done. This count is not taken periodically. The Government does nut actualiy realize any profit from puper money which Is lost, even though theoreti- cally it does. The money ix still held in the Treasury vaults against out- standing paper currency, and unless Congress passed a bill that this money might be tuken out of the reserve | fund. no wctual profit would be de- rived. of the sword by superin- suys “The ven to Q. What is a good ant extermin- ator for a lawn?—W. A. D. A. To rid a lawn of ants make several holes in cach ant hill with a | stick. Pour into each hole a small quantity of carbon bisulphide. Cover the whole next with eanvas until the fumes have killed the ants. It will| take about two ounces of material to each ant hill. Q. When were bathtubs first in-| stalled?—M. D. B A. The first bathtub was installed in Cincinnat! in 1542. The following day it was denounced in the news- | papers us a lusurlous undemocratic | vanity. Then medical men declared it & menace to health. In 1543 Phila- delphia_tried to prohibit bathing be- tween November 1 and March 15 by In 1345 Boston made | buthing nunlawful except when pre-| scribed by w physician. Virginia taxed bathtubs £30 a year ! W | ordinanc How lonz does it take peafowl eggs to hutch?—L. B A. The period of incubation for peutowl eggs is twenty-cight days— the same ux for turkey eggs @ When was Chariie Iloss nuped and how old was he s A. Charlic Ross was abducted | from his home in Germantown. Phil- | | adelphia, on July 1. 1574 He was at | the time 4 years and 2 months cld Q W, A are Kid What are Lriar pipes made of’ (i In southern Eurupe briar pipes mude of the briar root. that is. the white or tree heath, erica ur- borea. In the United States the root of the mountain laurel, also that of smilax laurifolia and smilax walteri |are used Q. In different almanacs why are the signs of the zodiac different for a given date?—J. B. B. A. Discrepancy is probably due to one almanac glving the sign of the zodiac_and another the constellation instead. In the time of the early| Greek astronomers the signs of the zodlac and constellations of the same greed: but in the course of years each sign has “backed.' to speak, into the constellation west of it: so that the sign of Aries | |is now in the eonstel sces. | {and so on. On June Tase | | the meon is in the sign of Gemini but in the constellation of Taurus Q@ Which sex of | gives light™—W. L. T A The Department of Azriculture says that both sexes of the glow worm zive light, and that light also found in the larvae of some species the glow worm i | | Alien Influence 1 causas the revolution in | | Brazil are somewhat obscure. the | American press is inclined to assume { that activities on the part of European | | agencies as well as the internal row over Nuo Paulo's rich revenues from coffee are at the bottom of the trouble. Al of the Coffee-drinking world is in- terested. Brazil pproduces three-fourths of the world’s coffee and two-thirds of Brazil's supply comes from Sao Paulo, center of the uprising. “Accustomed as we are to Spanish- American revolutions.” says the Cleve- land Plain Dealer. “we may be prone | to dismiss this uprising in Brazil as squabble of negligible importance. But there is no similarity whatever bvvtl'een a revolt in Brazil and a revolution in Honduras or even in Venezuela. Brazil is a great nation, Sao P o is a great state, the city of Sao Paulo is a hand- some, modern cit; When a revolt once gets under full headway in Brazi} it | assumes real importance ! The Indianapolis News explains that | the Tevolt is probably due to the fact thut the “Brazilian government com- pelled the coffee growers to hold the coffee and feed it to the market grad | ually, the device for accomplishing this | being an order to the rallroads allowing | them to take only & limited amount of coffee out of Sao Paulo at a time The Louisville Courier-Journal believes the people of Sao Paulo “have felt their prosperity was being mulcted by the federal wuthorities to obtain revenue requisite to run the whole federal gov- ernment and to satisfy the greed of | political adventurers from other prov Inces in power at Rio de Janeiro.” “the latest complaint of these planters is that the export tax on is unnecessarily and unjustly high ke 1t we imagine New York Cits "revenue diverted toward developing | the remote sections of tho United States” the Boston Transcript ob-| serves, “we have a parallel to what| Sao Paulo’s role has been.” but “we may, as Americans, hope for a solu- tion which will strengthen. not weaken, constitutional rule and habi- tual order in Brazil”’” Another factor. the Newark News mentions, is that Brazil's credit has been on the de- cline ever since the beginning of the war and the present government has undertaken certain necessary re: forms, apparently in_adoption o scheme drawn up by British advisers. | “Whatever its cause,” the Baltimore Sun declares, “the rising is to be deplored, not alone for the ‘loss of life involved and its obvious futility. but also for the adverse effect which it will have on the prestige and credit of the Brazilian government and “the soomer Brazil and other Latin American nations get rid of, various foreign misiions, military, financial or economic, the sooner will they reach a stage of stable govern- ment where revoits like the present one will be unheard of.” Whether the insurrection has a national or only a state goal, the Minneapolis Tribune is sure that “it is disappointing to those of this and other countries who look confidently to ' the people of Brazil to set for Mexico, Central America and South America a worthy example of peace and-etability,” . It ls highly improb- While | | - | held and a de. Q. What is meant by the expres- sion “dining with Duke Humphrey?" —W. R W. A. The middle aisle of old St. Paul's in London, where the tomb of is Duke Humphrey is said to be, called “Duke Humphrey's walk.” The old saying “Dining with Duke Humphrey™ was in allusion to persons during dinner who time, Q. When | use pen and ink in writing, my first and second fingers ome ink marked. What will re- move these stains?—G. A A. To remove ink stains from the fingers, dampen the head of an ordi- nary match and rub briskly on the stains. Q. Who designed the State Ca at Richmond, Va.?—D. A A Thomus Jefferson selected dexign, that of the Maison Carree of Nunes, France. It in turn, was copy of an ancient Roman temple. Q. What kind of road is recom mended in the Federal-aid projec that are being administered under the Bureau of Public Roads?— T. A The Bureau of Public Roads 3 that no particular type of is indorsed. The legal requirement is that they shall Le “substantial in character The initial selection of a part cular roud will be made by the State highway department. The Burecau T Public Roads makes an independe 4 consultation sion is reached. walked there pitol the Why is & cotton plant more apt t(rljvkl_m lightning than ulhfr A. The Weather Bureau savs that to the best of its knowledge the cotton plant is neither more nor less likely to be struck by ghtning than any other plant of equal height, Q What or corresponds A Santa nicknamed West.” Q. Are foods containing injurious to the health?—Ww. A. Gelatin, although not a life- *ustaining food. i« used in consider- able quantities in hospitals and is recommended Ly physicians as an article of diet hecause of quality of making other food more palatable or more easily digested @ 10 b plants city on the 1o Atlantic City?—G. S ‘ruz, Calif.. has been tlantic City of the western coast the gelatin ACF Il right”” be written as one alrigh A C ie old English form “alright” buolate, i the uccepied form ia right” These words do not fol- low the reasoning advanced for the words ireadv” and “altogether. These have meanings quite distinet from the words when separated the words “all ready” and “all gether to- Q. When we games held in A The first B« the reece” first A was Oiympic B Olympiad held in Flease tell small tree that diate effect in ground sereen Q me of a shrub or a will produce imme- summer for a back- and will be quick ETowing. be at lewst five or six feet tall, evergreen if possible, and not attractive to' goats and cattle as food”—A. M. . A. The Department of Agriculture says that the mountain laurel comes nearer to filling your requirements thau «ny other plant they know. water —N. G A. The watermelon is water. 90 per cent called N \. What away star A. Thix name Groombridge 1830, star in Ursa Major. 1t has the ex- ceptionsliy large proper motion of annuali ts real motion in space is about 200 miles per second. (Frederic Haskin ix employed by this paper to handle the snquiries of our readers. and wou are invited to call upon Jim as frecly and as often as you please. Ask anuthing that is_a imatier of fact wud the authority will be quoted wou. There is no charge for this service Ask iwhat wou want. sign your name and address, and inclose tiwo cents in stamps for return postage. Address The Star Information Bureau. Frederic J. Haskin director. Twentu-nrst and streets northivest.) and Coffee star 7N ‘the run- n given a 67 to Blamed for Revolt in Brazil able. the Portland KExpress main- tains. “that the revolutionists will succeed in overthrowing the gover ment. but in the end the govern ment may have to make some con sions to them.” The Philadelphia | Bulletin suggests “if Rio Grande joins | | Sao Paulo to make against the government of President Bernardes. the future of Brazil. may hang the balance.” The Albany Knicker- bocker Press agrees “it is easy to understand that in a rich region with an alien population that almost outnumbers the native, and does co trol the native commercially, there are possibilities for real trouble.” G joint cause the future and perhaps “The government of Rio de Janeiro has acted with decision and judgment and shown its capacity to rule,” in the opinion of the New York Lvening World, and “the business interests of the country have become too exten- sive and important to permit of dis- turbances on other than the gravest grounds”" In case of serious trouble. the Brockiyn Eagle points out “the Rio government could easily | cut off the port towns. including S tos. make coffee shipments imposs and starve out the malcontents, hence, “the cards are stacked in s favor, and the ‘revolution’ is almost certain 1o be a flash in the pan.’ To us in this country the Lansing State Journal says “Brazil seems far away, and we may manifest slight interest, and feel that there is no concerh of ours, but you would know how it could affe You just glance into your coffee cu Protest Against Grides Declared Unjustified To the Editor of The Star. The recently published complaint of A. F. Trappe concerning his treat- ment the Capitol misleading: therefore it is unjust. Mr. Trappe says that he and his granddaughter were listening to the explanations of the “guides of the big touring cars.” There is no guide “to the touring cars” that can make any explanation in the Capitol; the state- ment, therefore, is unintentionally a false statement. Authorized guides in the Capitol are permitted to receive a fee of 25 cents from each individual receiving their services; and those services are well worth that fee or more. Very frequently when a Capitol guide is conducting a party of tour- ists there are onlookers and listeners- in, like Mr. Trappe. They are not in- tentionaily intruders. Neverthele “hey are intruders, receiving the serv ‘cex of the guide. Usually they are silling_to pay for those servives ahen informed of conditions. Mr. Trappe says: “I put my hand in my pocket,” with the intention of paying for the services which he was re- ceiving. Just then a meddler inter- fered. 1t was not the guide. doing his authorized duty, but the meddler. who deserved to be rebuked and criti- cized. That the Capitol guides are amen- able to criticism, just eriticism, is undoubtedly true. “But quite often they are unjustly assailed, as in this instance, SMITH D. FRY. road | into | Q. What part of 2 watermelon s.«; magnitude | in | what happens | “I am the master of my {ate, I am the capuain of my soul.” —HENLEY. Although he was deeply interested in his studies, Henry . Wallace had to leave college to take charge of a furm. He married and then had to face one of the hardest times of agri- cultural depression known in this country. Wallace was born in Rock Island IHL the son of u minister, and was 9 vears old when his father was forced by ill health to give up the Pulpit and took up furming near little Winterset, lowa. There the lad helped in the fields in Summer and jAtterded school in Winter, learning in spare moments the printer's trade in the office of a country weekly | At 19 he entered the lowa State ! Agricultural College ut Ames, and. deeply interasted in scientific farm- ing. he became engrossed in his tudies. He had been there only |little more than a year when he was called to take charge of one of his father's farms, which a tenant had abandoned suddenly. _Within a few months he was mar- ried to @ voung lady he had met in college. und s0on after they had es- tablished themselves on the farm there came the hard times that drove corn down to 10 cents a bushel and pork to $2.75 a hundred pounds. The & hard. but by employing methods Wallace won out he wrote articles about scien- tific farming that attracted the atten- tion of leadirg agriculturists Mectings with these men arcused his desire for furtier education. and after five years of farming he re- turned to Ames and_completed two years' work in onc. Then he was ap- Dointed assistant professor of agri- culture at the college, and to spread his teachings he Legan the publica- | tion of Creamery Gazette and Farm |and Dairy. Later his father and brother joined {him in the establishment of Wallace s Farmer. and at the age of 23 he was avsociate editor and manager, holding {hese positions for 20 years until the eath of his father. Then he became Jaeati W he becam SUIl interested in scientific farm- inZ. he 100k a leading part in or- ganizations for the benefit of the farmer. his publicatien continued to prosper, and at 34 he was appointed Secretary of Agricuiture in President Harding’s cabinet. (Copyrignt. 1924} | i | —— Scores Rent Decision. i | Lanier Declares Congress Speci- fied Emergency Still Exists. 10 the Editor of The Star There is a saying in the legal pro- fession that “a strong bur makes a strong bench” Whut is meant by this is that the judges have neithe the time nor the inclination to muke independent investizations the cases they decide. but of B | must rely greatly upon the argu- | ments of the Taw; who | them, and that the worth and ability | of the judge's decision is usually on @ par with the arguments of counsel While Chief Justice Marshall |one of the worid's greatest judges it is 4 fact, well known to the pro- n, that somm of hi¢ most cele- brated opinions reflect the arguments of the great lawyers who appeared in those cases. It is not Infrequently the case that the reputation of many judges for learning and ability is thus made by the lawyers who argue | before them { . There’are reasons for the decline in { the quality of judicial decisions and {for the many weak and often crrone- ous deci rendered by the courts namely cadence in the {and « of the legal and the fact that. with rare tions n of superior ability who used to enter the legal profession no longer do so. but have gone int business and become our captains o industry: the enormous increass litigation and the subject-matter controversy. and the expansion o legal principles appiicable thereto {and the lack of time for the-proper study. and research on the part jof the ablest luwyers of the they argue. i | in | neces ers | ! was ty profession of cases P It seems manifest from some of the | decisions recently rendered by the { courts here. including the Supreme | Court, that the questions involved j were not as ably or fully presented | to the courts they should have | been, and also that the cqurts within | the past few years have been show- ing a tendency 16 usurp more and more legislative functions instead of confining themselves to the judicial questions involved. which accounts for the dissatisfaction and critical attitude of the public toward the courts,.and not without justification. This would seem to be the case in some of the decisions recentl§ ren- dered by the courts involving the action of the Rent Commission and the rent act. In the Block case the court very properly held that it was within _the constitutional authority of the Congress, in the exercise of its police powers over the District of Columbia, to regulate the renting of houses and apartments to meet an | emergency existing in the housing ons within the District. But in the Chastleton case recently bafore | the Supreme Court the case was re- | manded to the lower court upon the ground that the evidence in the ree- ord did not show to the- satisfactio: of the court whether or not the emer- still existed, thereby intimating if ‘the emergency had ceased to it wouid hold that the rent law s no longer in force. When (on- gress extended the rent law to May . 1925, by an act approved May 1 1834, it .provided.” with other things. a follows: | i is hereby declured that the ibed in Title 11 trict rent *act still xists and continues in the District of Columbia, and that the present houging and rental conditions therein require the further extension of the provisions of such title.” e Congress. had it seen fit, could have devolved upon the courts the ascer- tainment and determination of the existence of the emergency at any given time, but it did not do so. On question, which was, is and remains exclusively a legislative and not a judicial guestion; and yet the courts have undertaken to usurp the func- tions of the Congress and pass upon and determine the existence or non- existence of the emergency. It would seem manifest under this law that the only proper function of the colurts is to ascertain and determine in a given case before them on ap- peal from the Rent Commission whether or not the rental fixed by the commission was confiscatory, or yields a falr and reasonable return to the owner on the capital invested in the building. Under this view of the law, tenants are fully protected, and no injustice is or can be done the landlord, for law or no law. he should not exact more than a fair and reasonable retu on his investment; a Congress is thus left free to exércise its legisla- tive authority in the premises by re- pealing the law upon a showing that the necessity for it no longer exist in the District i# analogous in prin- roads and the fixing of their rate thbugh the power of Congress in re- ect to the railroads is derived from a different provision of the Constitu- tion, namely, the interstate commerce clause. Congress devolves upon the Interstate Commerce Commission the authority to fix the rates, etc.. to be charged by -the carriers, and present | the contrary it reserved to itself this | th | ' | | | ofr. excep- | even | | i | This question of regulating rentals iupon the value of jtot CODBRINGSFAME TONEWFOUNDLAND Canada’s Sister Colony Owes Debt to Fish Abounding in Its Waters. AMAZED DISCOVERERS Rivalry Among Three Nations to Capture Rights to Territory Once Keen. Newfoundland, Canada’s sister col- ony, has a new chief executive cording to reports from St Johns “Contrary to the snap judgment of most Americans, Newfoundland. the DIUg to the mouth of the St. Lawrence and rocky labrador the Dominfon of not part « nada. 5 {1etin of the Nutional Geograph ciety from its headquarters in Wasi ington “Despite fact that color Newfoundland and if they were one dominion. the first discovered mainland bit of North America i as rigidly independent of the Maple Leaf member of the monwealth as Fiji or New of Aust v the o « ost maps ada as ’ com- The Home of the Cod. “Newfoundland plaint to half of Boston's title, home of the bean and the cod.” If ever a pluce owed a debt to fish and that fish cod it is the scagirt 42000 square miles of North nearest to Enzland means cod to a Newfou other marine inhabitants take names, but are scarcely enough to merit name fish “One asked if in & certain e replied, ‘nothing but trout Johm_ Cabot. when he touched Newfoundlund five vears after Colum- bus landed in the West Indies, re- ported to the Enzlish King that cod were <o thick they could be literally , bailed out with weighted hampers. ven in modern times they are said to have been so numerous dogs could rush into the water and drag them ashore. 8o thoroughly is Newfound- land reconciied o cod that dogs, cows and bears cat them when the Newfoundlandar is not eating cod he consumes vegetables and crops grown on ground fertilized with cvd can lay just com Ame he diand fi<h All proper word mportant native were anv fish was thera stream. Bait Caosed Contention. “Cod, however, have this in With certain other fish: they are stickiess for bait. It is the bait question, chiefly. which gives Newfoundland the reputa- tion of being the cause of many Dear- wars. Europe's fishermen began sailing the banks fis off Newfoundland the year after Cabot ptanted the flags of England and Venice side by side, and contention over fishing rights raged til 1810, when The Hague court decided against a plea of the United States “Herring. caplin and squid successive eerve for cod bait as the season ad- vances. Squid is highly considered as bait, but commands such a high price that it i used chiefy midsummer. when the herring and caplin catch falls Squid is & member of the cuttlefish . whose most widely heralded son octopus. When attacked it en to deceive its pursuers shermen common - rie is mi is the k and of the Caught Without Bait. “The sentatives of fres with a call the and down vietim of fts.own spect the new 1 one of its ter At first tions—England Portugal—saiied cat d and @ Newfoundland was discovercd Burope. where b, The value ngland to p f island _in 13 ale W early planned. and on one witempt company for which Sir Francis Ba con was either press azent or promo- tion manager pushed the idea. Bu con's rosy pictures did not insur success. The venture failed partly because the ‘fishinz admirals’ who monopolized the fisheries did = not ish the island colonized. These dar- ing profiteers arc said to have ob- g tained an order to burn houses of fishermen. und Scotch finally nglish, Irish did come to the island and their de- scendants make up the great waj ity of the 259,000 population ¥ight for Fishing Rights. “The international struggle fisheries control finally narrowed to Englend, - France and the United States. France once mude ef- fort to capture St. Johns, tie nal port and capital. wid many lomatic quarrcls became the flash Through of the tiny islands St Miquelon, France hoped hold trade. but an embargo on bait from Newfoundiand and other coastal ter ritory enforced to destroyed the republic’s trade “Innumerable lakes are notable feature of inland Jand. One sportsman r fished in 40 different lakes within a half-mile of one camp. They i among old _rock formations and cover one-third of the entire island Newfoundland's climate tempered greatly by the ocean, hut usually now is on the gnround until lat Spring and winter clothes are often Worn® through Junc. Snow remains on the 2.000-foot ridge. which bears the picturesque name, ‘Topsails’ un- August. “Of the exports, whic more than $20.000.000 in § or dried cod represented $13.000.000 This product goes to England, Italy. Spain. Portugal. France. the United States and the West Indies. In warm Climates it is a food which will not Spoil and vet is relatively cheap. Much of the paper for some of Engz- land’s greatest ~NEWSDADers Colnc from Newfoundland, where it is mav ufactured in a plant built by the late Lord Northcliffe. lIron ore. seal and cod oil are other major products.” squid baitiess process o n th curiosity fish Frar hoo cod twas £t 1ai knawn < ~toch he fisheries led right to t an princi- din 1 possessio Pierre t point to i he letter has nearhy the most New found reports _he totale h 23, ‘hare e terms and conditions upon which the rutes so fixed are to be predicated When the action of the commission in a given case comes before the courts they do not pass upon the reasons methods of the commission in fixing the particular rate, but selely whether or not the rate in question is confiscutory, or will vield a just, fu and reasonable return to the carrier < proper! Want of space precludes any exten- ciple to the regulation of the rail- |sive argument in support of the fore- goinz. And to discuss it technically and at length. would be of little i terest to the general public. The &0 purpose of this communication is sim Ply "to° call attention 0 this phuch of the matter, which seems to have ( Been overlooked by the lawyers uml’ the courts. EX \EY LA ’ ’