Evening Star Newspaper, August 26, 1924, Page 6

" is the modern means of transporta- . association says, room must be made " and night. .THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. D. WASHINGTON, TUESDAY... | Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company | Business Office. 11th St. and Pennseiva: v . New York Office: 110 Fust 42nd St Ty ower Hu Iding. European Othice . Emgland. +._The Evening Star. with thr morning | edition, is delivernd Sty ‘at 60 cents aniy. 4 . cents per month: ‘Sunday cents per | onth. Orders may be sent by mail or tele- Bhone Maln 30 Collection & wade by car- ' month. Snndn Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..] yr., $5.40; 1 m. Daily only T1yr, $6.001 1 mo., Sunday only All Other States. Daily and Sunday.1 yr., £10.00; 1 mo., 85¢ Daily only £7.00; 1 mo., Sunday only . 00; 1 mi Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press in exclusively entitled te the use for republication of all news dis patches credited to it or not otberwise credited in this paper and also the local mews pub- Tisbed “berein. All rights of publication of wpecial dispatches herein are also rese Non-Parking “Propaganda.” No ground will be gained toward the solution of the undeniable ‘traffic problem of Washington Ly the po: tion taken by the Washington Auto- motive Trade Associatio: just issued a statement on the s ject of the agitation for reducti street parking and t enforcement | of the standing rules against the un- limited use of the street spaces for the free storage of vehicles. The association calls this public demand for the enforcement of the rule “hurt- | ful howling,” and speaks of it propaganda which “may as well be checked now as later.” It is in the interest of the motorist as well @s of others that an effort is being made to correct the palpable evils of unrestricted street parking in this city. There is no purpose in it courage the use of automobiles. On the contrary, the purpose is to make the usc of automobiles in ‘Washington casier as well as safer Here is the situation: As a result of inadequate enforcement of reason- able rules the streets in downtown Washington are lined with standing cars from morning until night, and the streets of the residential portions of the city are lined with cars at night. This is due to the lack of proper storage space for cars that are idle for periods of several hours during the day and idle throughout the night. It is due to the fact that proper provision has not been made - for the downtown storage of cars during business hours and the further fact that many motorists buy ma- chines and maintain them without securing storage spaces for them at night. In its statement the association declares truly “that the automobile tion,” and “soon every it goes on to say that family will own one or more cars. The latter statement may be true. It is to be hoped that it will come about, and that the motor car will be in fact the uni- versal method of transport. As the for these cars. That is the sole pur- pose of the present agitation for the enforcement of the rules that prevail, to compel, by intensifying the de- mand, the provision of proper storage spaces, not the streets, which are for moving traffic, but off the streets. where storage can be effected with- out endangering life and property. The difficulty of the present Jocal problem arises from the fact that the habit of unlimited parking in the streets has grown until motor owners feel that they have a right to these public spaces for the indefinite place- ment of their cars day or night, a right which cannot possibly be granted with any consistency of municipal administration. Other cities have not allowed this condi- tion to develop to the extent that it has grown in Washington. Insinuation that the demand for the enforcement of the rules comes from other transportation is wholly unwarranted. It comes, indeed, from many motor owners, who wish to regain the privilege once enjoyed of using their cars in the transaction of daily business and who at present cannot do so because of lack of room * for the brief parking required. It comes from motorists who are at present hampered and endangered in their use of the streets by reason of the narrowing of the travel space by double rows of parked cars day It comes generally from citizens who fear the spoliation of the Capital's streets. Solution of this problem would be hastened by co-operation on the part of all motorists and all those engaged * in the motor business, and that solu- tion will favorably. _— not affect the trade un- Fashion's arbitrary spirit has as usual asserted itself and changed the question, “Shall women bob their hair?” to “What are you going to do < about it?" ——— o Events of all kinds are creating such an uproar that Tut-ankh-Amen’s publicity staff ‘can scarcely get a ‘word in edgewise. Dancing Reform. Louis Chalif, president of the American Society of Teachers of Dancing, now in session in Chicago, says that refinement of hallroom dancing is the chief aim- of this meet- ing. Modern dancing, he says, is killing. Instead of exercising the ,,body and making it healthful, it is ‘twisting bodies out of shape and dis- placing their internal organs. It is wrecking nervous systems. So the organized dancing teachers are going to put the ban on all forms of cheek- o-cheek, shivering and wobbly phases ot the dance, and will encourage the "waltz and other refined steps. Ac- - cording to Chalif, young dancers have become too lazy to originate new and graceful dancing, and the teachers themselves will revert to the old- established steps and measures. It ‘may be doubted whether - the oung dancers of today have stopped inventing new steps. . As & matter of fact, it would appear from almost any casual observetion of & cabaret floor that the devising of new dis- tortions and eccentricities of step has progressed pretty far. It would seem that a certain, type of youthful dancer has tried to kéep pace with the jazz music makers in the pro- duction of strange and abnormal movements to match the barbaric sounds from the band. Be that as it nay, however, it is % to learn that the dancing will try to ovemome. the immodest tendencies of modern ball- room dancing. They have, s a fact, been fighting them for somw ycurs. They have resolved on this subject several times in annual conwventions, and still the jazz steps aze in vogue. But there is always hope. Perhaps it those who make up the dance pro- grams could be enlisted in the-move- ment some advance could be made. Nowadays there is but one wiltz in about ten numbers on the average program. If the waitz were alern- ated, or at least made onc to three with the foxtrots, or if the now dis- carded two-step were brought back occasionally, there would be some encouragement for the dancers who prefer those forms to the presemt jiggy, wiggly types that prevail. Mr. Chalif puts the charge against the prevailing dance steps mainly on. the ground of health. It lies deeper.. however. It is chiefly a question of morals. —————————— Disillusioned. According to a dispatch from Paris to the New Y Tribune, Fannie Hurst, the American novelist, just back in France from a visit to Rus- sia, has been completely disillusioned by a visit to Soviet land. Two months ago she was an enthusiastic defender of the Communist revolution. Now she describes Sovietism as “‘a great beast, half stupid, half mad, on its back in death agony.” Fannie Hurst has had the same reaction regarding the Rus- ers. It is excellent training for the hand and eye. Jacks is a universal game, is played everywhere, and in all social circles. It may be played in the house or on the sidewalk. Probably it is more often played outdoors, and in large cities it is played on the steps of tene- ment houses worn deeply by the feet of thousanda. Tt is the most prevalent game of American girlhqod. ——————— A number of eminent Germans are dissatisfied with the Dawes plan. No situation in the past, however advan- tageous, has provented a certain type of German mentality from feeling that their country’'s position in the world should be immediately im- proved, regardless of the ideas of other nations. It was this habitual tendency of thought that brought on the clash whose disastrous effects it is sought to mollify and eventually to cfface. ————————— Hard drinking is reported from several gay liuropean resorts. The slight solace in the situation lies in the fact that the material employed for artificlal hilarity is not neces- sarily of recent moonshine vintage. —_—————————— Actor and producer announce an agrecment, but it is going to take a ,considerable portion of the season to Lenable cither to believe implicitly what the pr agent will feel in duty bound to other. Nobody objects to athletic exercises, because they cnable an individual to bacome more ‘fit in case of physical encounter. A nation, however peace- fu?, should keep in condition, and not confuse indolence with piety. . Like every other practical farmer, the President finds a few things in the cconomic system with which he is not altogether pleased. but which, sian situation that was experienced by Emma Goldman, who, deported from the United States in company with other subversive radicals. went in may expectation to the land of her birth, and after a few months left in disgust and despair and found refuge in Germany, where, according to latest information, she now re- mains. Emma Goldman found that instead of a true communism such as she advocates, the Soviet system in Russia has merely replaced the old czarist tyranny with a tyranny of brutality and ignorance. She saw no light ahead. She found on every side greed and trickery and unfairness. She saw ignorance established in au- thority. She saw principle trampled under the feet of passion and venge- ance. Fannie Hurst says that in every one's face in Russia one sees “noth- ing but fear, overwhelming fear.” How could it be otherwise? The Soviet revolution put in power at Leningrad a group of fanatical men who waged a ruthless warfare against all existing social systems. Their agents were the lowest types of the most brutal moujiks. They crushed out all indi- vidual {nitiative and compelled reli- ance upon a corrupt organization for the essentials of life. Favoritism pre- vailed. Venality was the rule. Fear after all, do not outweigh the bene- fits in prospect. ———————————— This continual agitation about the Darwinian theory begins to look like a concerted stratagem to distract the attention of William Jennings Bryan from the real issues of the campaign. ———— Alienists have succeeded in sur- rounding a homicide with a certain air of mystery because of the fact that at the outset there appeared to be no mystery whatever about who did it. ———— ‘Texas gives the woman in politics the most brilliant recognition she has yet attained. “Go West, young woman, and grow up Wwith the country!” ——— Every nation at one time or another has to take notice of the fact that its population is growing faster than the corn. —————— The Chinese are aways in a frame of mind which indicates that Con- fucius has utterly lost his political influence. . A popular prince can have almost anything he desires except a genu- was born in every heart, fear of death by violence and of death by starvation. A great people has been outraged in Russia. Wild economic experi- ments have prostrated industry. Fa- natical preachments have held to- gether a force in arms adequate to maintain the organization. The Sov- igt sustains itself not because it rep- resents the will of the people of Rus- sia, but because the people have no will, have been crushed by this ter- rible tyranny. And from time to time clear-seeing people go and observe and recognize the tragedy which has destroyed their ideals and return to bewail this failure, one of the most hideous failures in the world's his- tory. —w——— Immoderate and indiscriminate fic- tion reading is referred to by alienista as likely to stimulte morbid mental tendencies. Perhaps the old-fash- ioned parents who forbade ‘dime novels” knew what they were talking about. ———————— The heroism of real men like Locatelll should, if treated with the same literary skill as that bestowed on “best, sellers,” serve to provide youth with abundant suggestion as to thrills and adventure. —— e No statistician’ will venture to cal- culate the extent to which the propa- ganda items have figured in creating indebtedness. —_————————— “Jacks.” Yesterday medals were awarded to a number of girls in New York for skill in the game of “jacks.” They were the winners of a tournament which embraced an entire area of Greater New York, under the direction of the supervisors of recreation cen- ters. Hundreds of girls took part in the preliminaries and six were final- ists. The ceremony of medal presenta- tions was formal and impressive. ‘This brings to mind the fact that the game of “jacks,” or, as some call it, “jackstones,” is one of the old forms of juvenile entertainment and exercise. So far as known it has never been reduced to writing or printing. No books have been issued on this subject. The rules of the,| game are transmitted from genera- tion to generation of youngsters, just as the rules of marbles gre passed on in boyhood. Jacks is essentially a girls’ game, though boys might just as well play it. and many of them do. But not many more boys play jacks than girls play marbles, if as many. 2 Briefly stated, the principle of the game of jacks is to bounce & ball and while it is in the air to gather with one hand certain six-armed crosses of metal called “jacks,” or, in the ab- sence of these fabricated impiements, small pebbles, and catch the ball on its descent with the same hand. There | are many variations. It is a simple game in its elementary form, but be- comes complex .in its development. Skill of the highest order is exer- «cised by the more accomplished play- inely restful holiday. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Defense. ‘We had a little meetin’ down to Po- . hick on the Crick. We passed a resolution, an’ we did it purty quick. “Resolved,” savs we, “that fightin- ain’t fur human bein’s fit— them as wants to fight we've somehow got to'make ’em quit. 80, no more at present.” All was mighty pleased to note ‘We passed the resolution without one dissentin’ vote. ‘We can’t expect to change the ways of every clime an’ race; But anyhow, we've shown our hearts are in the proper place. An’ An' A little mild persuasion often serves to change the mood Of people that get bossy and insist on bein’ rude. A little timely help will mebbe ease the state of mind That develops irritation as hard luck keeps up its grind. ‘When selfish anger gets too wild an’ reckless in its course, In order to bring peace you may be . - called on to use force. Fur human bein’s fightin’ isn't fit— to that we stick; But well still’ keep fit fur fightin’ down to Pohick on the Crick. The Mental Reservations. “Dou you believe there is anything in telepathy?” “I shouldn't like to beli¢ye anything of the kind,” answered Senator Sorg- hum. “When I am making a speech, I want good listeners, but no mind- readers.” Still' Waiting. The hope of talk with Mars had led To no results, they vow. No operator even said “The line is busy now. ‘Jud Tunkins says he guegses his literary taste is poor, because not one of the books he bought entertained him as much as the book agent’s talk. Impractical Advice. “Quit worrying,” said- the genial physician. “Go out and play golf.” “Doctor,” said the tired business man, “anybody who loses as many golf balls as I do can’'t help wor- Dinosaurian Glory. Three dinosgurs were romping gay. They never dreamed while out at play For them distinguished days would -+ come - . In a palatial mus-e-um. They ate and.drank when Nature bid, As other dinosaurs afl did.” : Their grandeur they could never So, what réwarddoes fame bestow? % “Ignorance -may. be biisk,’ said Un: cle Eben, “but dar ain’ no comfort in takin’ counterfelt money.” R T Answers to Questions BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. Please tell me when polo games are played in Potomac Park?—L. L. 8. A. Polo games are played every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at the Potomac Park polo grounds. The games Tuesday and Thursday are held at 4:30 o'clock and are practice games. On Saturdays the game be. gins at 3:30. Q. Did the Progressives ecarry Wisconsin for Roosevelt in 1912?—F. N. 8. A. Wilson carried Wisconsin, re- celving 164,228 votes. Taft was sec- ond with 130,695 and Roosevelt third with 62,460, Q. What Is the Pullman charge”?—F. E. B. . A. The Pullman surcharge is an oxtra charge made by the’ rallropds for passengers traveling In sleeping cars, chair cars and observation cars. It is in addition to the regular. rail- ;nld fare and to the regular Pullman are. “sur- Q. Will rabbits grow faster In light ‘colored cages than in dark ones?—P, J. f A. Popular Sclence says that in light colored cages animals grow rapidly, while dark paint retards their growth. Q. What was a lonial times?—D. E. A T term was applied to auc- tions, especially those held at taverns when there was a sale of the cargo of a prize ship. Q. s the ocean €st point tha high?—s. A.If Mount Everest were placed in the deepest pit of the P summit. five and one-half mi would be submerged more than half a mile. 'vendue” in co- Q. How is steel treated so that ru,hb r will stick to it when vulcanized? —R. 1 A. The Bureau of Standards says that in order to make rubber stick the iron or steel is often roughened by sand blasting, or is copper plat- ed, or both. It is difficult to get a g0od bond between rubber and iron. A rubber cement containing sulphur may be applied to each surface be- fore vulcanizing. When vulcanized, sulphide of iron is formed and binds the metal and rubber. Q. Are sunflowers fit for use as silage for dairy cows?—I. S. R. A. The sunflower has come to be an important silage crop in sections of lllinois, where successful corn growing is uncertain because of drougth and chinch bugs. Some diffi- culties have been experienced, how- ever, In using sunflower silage in place of corn silage. The quality is not always good, with the result that cows fed on the silage give less than their normal flow of milk. Di- gestive disturbances also sometimes, occur. Troubles somwhat similar to these were encountered in the early use of corn silage, but they were largely overcome by harvesting and ensiling the corn at a comparatively advanced stage of maturity. It seems likely, therefore, that the problems involved in feeding sun- flower silage to dairy cows might be cleared up by testing the effect upon milk production of plants harv- ested at different stages of maturity. Q. Please state the amount of money to the credit of the Civil Service retirement fund and how much money has been paid out—A Reader. A. In the preliminary statement from August 1, 1920, to June 30, 1924, the Civil Service retirement and disability fund had in credits $59,060,383.13. It had paid out én account of refunds, annuities, etc., $25,667,348.87. Much of the balance is invested in securities. Q. What is meant by “a normal sait solution?"—T. P. A. A level tablespoonful of salt to a pint of water is considered a normal salt solution. Q. How much water is passed into the atmosphere from a iarge tree?— L. T. A. The evaporation from a large oak or beech tree is from 10 to 25 gallons in 24 hours. Q. Was St. Patrick the apostle to the Highlanders as well as to the Irish?2—W. P. C. A. St Columba, a Celtic mission- ary, founder of the monastery St Tona on the island of that name, was known as the Apostle to the High- landers. > Q. When was Central Park, New York City, opened to the public.—L. D. F. A. An act authorizing the acquisi- tion of Central Park was passed by the New York Legislature in 1853. Work - was begun in 1857 and the park opened to the public in 1860. Its area is 840 acres, about 400 of which are wooded and include speci- mens of nearly every tree and shrub that will grow in this climate. Q. Where do the martin birds win- ter?—E. J. C. A. The Biological Survey says martins migrate early, but do not make the entire journey ai ome time, going part of the way and forming roosts before setting out to finish their trip. The birds winter in South America. Q. What is animal sugar?—M E.T. A. Glycogen or animal sugar.is a carbohydrate of the same chemical composition as starch, but with dif- terent chemical properties. Q. Does a copyright hold good in foréign countries?—W. D. L. A. A United States copyright does not. There is an international copy- right association which includes in its membership most of the countries ot Europe, also Japan. If one secures a copyright in, for instance, Eng- land, it automatically applies in all the countries in the copyright asso- clatibn. Q. What were the denominations of the paper sorip used during the Civil War?—J. C. A. The fractional currency issued during the Civil War was in the fol- lowing denomination: 3 cents, b cents, 10 cents, 25 cents and 50 cents. Q. What was the value of the widow’s mite?—J. W. P. A. It is recorded in Mark and Luke, authorized version of the Bible, that the widow gave two mites. The mite was a Jewish coin worth about one-éighth of a cént. This would make the widow's contribution amount to about one-quarter of a cent. Q. Was the Roma Acta Diurna printed or written in long hand?— D. Q. ‘The first newspaper, .Roma Ac Diurna, was written in long hand and was a daily largely de- voted to the activities of the Roman army, the data for which were fur- nished by thé generals. It also con- tained, however, news of feasts, scrifices and trials, and was a small sheet which was posted in a -con- spieuous -place on the city walls or buildings. (To know twhere to find information on o subject is, aocording to Boswell, as true kmowledge Gs to kwow the sub- ject itself. Perhaps “yowr’drop if ink Jolling on o thought will make a thou- sand think.” Tflw‘n‘:t' your pmwx:: auestions to E v B reat, MW"JU' Haskin, RUSSIA SINCE LENIN The truth ebout that country as it is today, in o series of uncensored articles by an observer who spent months in Russia studying conditions. BY SEYMOUR B. CONGER. ‘Three grandiose plans constantly under discussion in Bolshevia, name- 1y, the electrification and tractoriza- tion of Russia and the general re- placement of depreclated factory equipment, would seem to offer big openings for American manufacturers of electrical, agricultural and {ndus- trial machinery. Tractorization—in other words, converting agriculture in Russia, the most primitive in Eu- rope, into the most advanced in the world by the general introduction of tractors and other motor equipment— is at present the idea most in vogue. I mention it not so much to expose the hollowness of the tractorization talk as to {llustrate the bolshevist disregard of property rights in pat- ents as in other property, and the ceytainty that the American manu- facturer will have machines for which Russia may develop a need copied and manufactured as soon as bolshevist mechanical skill is up to the task. When 1 visited Russia three years ago Kameneff gave me a talk about tractors, which were to revolutionize Russian agriculture within a decade. When I arrived this year I was In- formed that the tractorization pro- gram, though unfortunately failing to keep its appointment three years ago, was now in full swing on a big government rubsidy, and that the Russian factories were about to start quantity production of tractors—2,000 during the current y, The truth, as I finally learned it, as follows: The government during _the last three years imported a few hun- dred tractors of various types, studied their adaptability to Russian agricul- ture and conditions of manufacture, and - picked ‘out ‘four forelgn ma- chines—the Fordson, Holt, Mogul and a German machine known as the W. D.—to pirate. The four types Were assigned In 1932 to four of the big steel concerns to manufacture, the Fordson, as the type most in demand, going to the Putiloff works at Lenin- grad, the Krupps of Russia, and his- toric in’the old days as the scene of Father Gapon's activities which led up to the massacres of “Red Sunday” in 1905. German Machine Reproduced. None of these plants is in produc- tion yet, the work of pirating the foreign machines proving more diffi- cult than anticipated. The Harkoff Locomotive Works produced the first tractor, an imitation of the German W. D, in April. It is much heavier and clumsier than the original, will cost about $4,900 to produce, and will be capable of plowing, according to factory - statemerits, from 30 to 40 acres a day, turning the customary seven-inch furrow, for deeper plowing is not yet contemplated in Russia. The plant hopes to produce, not thous- ands, but ten in all during the current year (I have not heard of the ap- pearance of the second), and the as- sumption that it can go to a 500 per annum production basis from October is highly overoptimistic. Nothing has been heard from the other three face tories nor from a mysterious plant at. Yekaterinburg, which was to produce a light-weight marvel, weighing 1,000 pounds and costing $125. (Page Mr. Ford!) The urban proletariat in the bol- shevist party might believe from reading the large talk in the daily papers that the. Russian peasantry was already equipped with thousands of tractors of imported and domestic makes. As a matter of cold fact, the Soviet ministry of agriculture .re- ported on January 1 just 302 tractors in all Russia, a considerable part of which were imported before the war. They plowed last year 312,000 acres— only a small proportiont of which was peasant land. A large share was rep- resented by Frau Bertha Krupp's 65.- 000-acre farm in south Russia; much of the remainder by beet sugar es- tates established and cultivated by the government sugar trust, which has found the truih of the old ex- perience that only large-scale agri- culture produces large results. This year, it is asserted, 200 Ford- sons have been imported, knocked down, to be assembled at Novoros- sisk, that others are on the-way, and that small consignments of Ameri- can tractors have been received through Vladivostok. I-have not been able to check up on these figures, which are quite possibly correct. 1 came in from the frontier with a Ger- man engineer who was shepherding six tractors through from Germany. When I read about them in the Mos- cow papers they had mysteriously in- creased more than tenfold. - Uhaminted Talk.” An item recently went the rounds of the bolshevist press saying: that the Soviet ministry of agriculture had ordéred 1,000 tractors from the Russian factories tor distribution to the peasants. Just talk—and not the kind that money utters. The gov- ernment has promised the four se- lected establishments big subsidies to convert their plants and get into quantity production, but of the pre- liminary 800,000 ruble appropriation promised the Harkoff works for this purpose in the 1922-23 program only 250,000 rubles materialized, and so far not a kopeck of the millions promised for the current year. This was largely accountable for the de- lay in turning out the first experi- mental tractor. The same was true of the great subsidies promised to Vandalism in the Capital’s Streets To the Editor of The Star: I have been since May in three other world capitals—Athens, Rome and Paris—and, returning to Wash- ington, 1 am impressed anew Wwith its loveliness as a city, one of our very few American cities that can stand comparison with any beautiful place abroad. When I talk with cos- mopolitans whom I meet abroad or on the ocean they all agree with this and inform me that it is one of the few places in the States in which they care to sojourn. Invariably they express especial admiration for ‘Washington's handsome shady streets and its beautiful trees. To my amazement, upon returning after this absence, I find in progress an extraordinary campaign of van- dalism to destroy this noblest and most valuable asset of this city, its trees. I am utterly unable to un- derstand how. such barbarism can have been initiated or how it can he tol- erated. I am told that the sidewalks are being narrowed and -the . trees slaughtered to provide parking spaces. This seems to be the case on Thirteenth street. But at Fif- teenth and K some noble trees, with which I have long been acquainted, have been butchered in ‘érder te widen the sidewalks. Whatever the policy is, there seems to be little consistency to it and certainly no foresight. Looking at the matter solely from the most practical and commercial viewpoint, and quite apart from the feeling for beauty and, sentiment, I do not see what the “Hotel Keepers' Association, the Chamber of Commerce and other civic bodies are thinking.of to tol- erate this ruthlessness. It is just as suicidal for Washington to-&llow her trees to by “destroyed: - as it would be for Bwitserland to pollute her water streams or level the Alps. ‘Washingtonw's: o312 K great asset to ventions here. The present policy apparaatly, ta finance the manufacture and sale to the peasantry of other agricultural machinery, How badly traction, not necessar- {ly motor, I8 needed for the Russian peasants may be shown In Soviet statistics on the number of peasant holdings without even a single draft animal to haul a plow or'pull a farm wagon. In three typical -provinces of the central Russian grain belt, which were not affected by the re- cent, crop fallures and famines, the percentage of peasant farms without a draft animal increased from 30.2 in 1920 to 37.7 in 1923, while in the 1921 famine area the percentage increased from 25.5 to 44.2 in the three years. ‘Which perhaps accounts for 'dimin- ishing crops despite claims of in- creased acreage under cultivation. Lgst yvear, for instance, the official statistics showed 20 per cent more acreage planted to “grain than in 22, but 4 per cent less graln har- I mentioned two other bolshevist visions to make Russia the modern agricultural and {ndustrial Utopia— the electrification program to cover 1l Russia with & network of electric stations, using either hydraulic power or lignite deposits, and supply elec- trio.power universally to city, vil- lage and farm, and the replacement program for the depreciated equip- ment of Russian industry. Factory equipment, according to a report of the Council of Industry and Com- merce, had depreciated 30 per cent in capital value under bolshevist ad- ministration between 1917 and 1922, due to abuse, poor raw materials and failure to keep up running -repairs. The depreciation in plants of the metal industry was even greater—is per cent during the same period. Take into consideration the run-down condition’ of industrial equipment at the end of the war and. the 18 months’ 2dditional depreciation since the date of the report, and it will be seen that the machinery in the Russian factories is now badly in need of replacement. To Ratse $36,000,000. . The bolshevist administration, how- ever, has heretofore failed to make any provision for replacements or calculate depreciation into its esti- mated costs of production. Itd- ex- perts have now tardily awakened to the necessity for replacing the out- worn machinery, and have evolved a plan to raise 70,000,000 rublés for this Purpose—50,000,000 by . raising - the Dprices of industrial producte gnd N 000,000 by dipping into various insur- ance and other funds. Sevemty mil Hon rubles ($36,000,000) worth, of new factory machinery to bé&, purs thased every year would seeni td pro- vide a great opportunity for. Ameri- can manufacturers in Russia; = The plan to finance the replacements is, however, entirely on paper.’ Pricesy- of industrial products are 59 Dprohibitively high that it is,qaite out of the question to work in the exti 50,000,000. The funds, too, Whence is proposed, to transfer the. fur{héf 30,000,000 exist.only on paper, the er- terprises having been unable to-lay By the prescribed amounts in reserve. In addition, the government two months ago required all the industrial syndicates to invest any surplus funds in government bonds to help meet the 400,000,000 ruble deficit in this year's budget. Hence only those American manufacturers can sell ma- chinery to the Russian statg indus- tries who will accept bolshevist prom- ises to pay-in exchange and wait, for, their manéy till it is earned. by the enterprises. This applies, 0o, to the alleged intentions of an American syndicate to undertake the moderni- zation of .the Russian textile indus- try, about which Moscow papers re- cently have been talkirg. s The electrification scheme, too, has no cash money for American manu- facturers of ~electrical equipment. This was one of the pet projects of Lenin, appealing to his sense of great achievements to be accom- plished by bolshevism. For a year or two, while bolghevism was in funds from the impertal treasury and Rumanian gold and other sources, the electrification plan was pushed with some energy, but funds and en- thusiasm are now forthcoming in much smaller measure. The biggest electrical project, known as the Volk- hovstrol, Started in 1918, which is to réplace 180,000 tons of coal and sup- ply the Petersburg district with elec- tric energy derived from lignite, was all-but abandoned last year, owing to bolshevist fiiancial difficulties. The project was finally saved and com- pletion is now promised by .1926. Several smaller enterprises are com- ing into operation, and much is made every little while of the fact that the huts'in this or that village are now lighted by electricity. Firther de- velopment of the electrific \tion pro- gram “has ceased, howevei, and al- though the budget estimates for 1924-25 contain an item of 35,000,000 rubles for electrification, only part of this “probably will be actually turned over to complete the Volk hovstroi and other plants in ¢onstru- tion. The rest, like major parts of appropriations for distributing ma- chinery, subsidizing new industries, spreading education, etc., which regu- larly appear in the Russian annual budget estimates, will be cut out, owing to treasury embarrassments, when the time for payment comes. (Copyright, 1924, by Public Ledge Syndicate.) and unique asset and try to make of it one more tenth-rate Pittsburgh or Detroit, _To butcher trees, then, is the best constructive thought available to solve the traffic and parking .prob- lem. And it takes 50 years to make a tree and 50 minutes, I believe, to make an automobile! When all the trees have been slaughtered what will be the next misinspired “solu- tion” of the problem? To paraphrase a familiar couplet: “Cars are made Ly fools like me; Only God can make a tree.” I look to an aroused public senti- ment, led by the newspapers, to see that this shameful indignity be stop- ped before irreparable destruction is carried any further. THERESA H. RUSSELL The Wrong Aurora. To the Editor of The Star: I beg to refer to the article in The Evening Star of, recent date:called “Just Folks,” giving a.sketch of the Hon. Edwin Vernon Morgan, United States Ambassador to Brazil, in which it was stated he was born in Aurora, N.'Y.,, famous as the home of Fra Albertus Hubbard. It is re- spectfully requested that you correct the latter statement. Fra Albertus Hubbard brought fame' to the little village of East Aurora, Erle County, N."Y;, a few miles southeast of Buffajo. . . ‘The beautiful village of Aurora is located in Cayuga County, N. Y;, upon Cayuga Lake, midway between Au- burn and Ithaca, and is noted as the home of Wells College, from which Mrs. Thomas H. Preston graduated in 1885 (then Miss Frances Folsom); the Walleourt School for: Girls and the former Cayugs Lake _Military Academy, the cadet corps of which was given the honor to guard the box of the -President and Mrs. Cleve- land at the military review held in ‘Washington in May, 1887. ‘nome. 11} Hon. Edwin Vernon Morgan. NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM THE LAKE SUPERIOR COUNTRY. ‘T. Morris Longstreth. The Cen. tury. Company. Even yet the most of us are place bound. Despite the releasing mod- ern facts of train and flivver, of fly- ing machine - and swift ships, the great majority must still gather in its world through hearsay and re- port. These speeding lines thrown out over land and air and sea, net- ting up the vast world into a single neighborhoo@ of common oconcerns, have bred a new order of traveler, a new kind of reporter. With the ac- tualities of any corner of the earth within hand's reach there is no long- er excuse for the half truths and complete falsities that padded and embellished the accounts of earlier travelers, no longer toleration of these. So, whether these modern ex- plorers be adventurers seeking far places to bring back to us or simple ‘wayfarers loafing along through less remote regions, both are committed to clearly authentic deliveries. pledged to something else, of equal importance. They must all hand over their facts alive—heart pumping, blood racing, muscles responsive, movements prompt and free. Be- sides, these must be steeped in their own flavors, soaked in their own at- mospheres. The body of the place, of the locality, must be animated b its own spirit. Morris Longstreth is one of these modern wayfarers through places that lie only a little way over the borders of our own fa- miliar comings and goings—the Adirondacks, the Catskills, the Laur- entians. We went with him through these. Let's go along with him again, this’ time toward the Lake Superior country, where it is his purpose to apend half a year “drifting about.” * % % x To catch sharply the difference be- tween this new order of place pur- veyor and those who have dealt out— still are dealing out—dry-as-dust geo- graphic stuff over which along the way of learning children strangle and which they never do succeed in swal- low, let us, before joining Longstreth, review what we ourselves gathered from the sames arid source about the Lake Superior region—*largest body of fresh water in the world,” ‘“rich natural resources,” “highly important to com- merce.” These points sum, in the main, the inspiring nuggets of pure knowledge to be derived from this scholastic reservoir of geographic fact. No, let us not stop any longer here, lest we fall into a long and futile. wondering over the causes of the deep conspiratorial unity that makes the average text book on any subject—and they are all average— the dryest and most depressing as- | semblage of words that ever broke into print. * % x Rather let us board the Assiniboia with Longstreth and walk its d serted deck with him wondering, as he does, why the several hundred passengers have flocked below to a chattering soclability, turning their Backs upon the very thing they have come to see. Queer fish—folks! Let us listen in as Longstreth and Capt. ‘McCannel talk—rather as the cap- tain talks, easy-like, about his years of sailing the big water which, ac- cording to him, is a tremendous force, sentient as the human is senfinent, against which men who follow it must set courage and cunning to meet its passions of fury, or the deep quietude of its warier plans. And there are days on days when in its languorous iridescent swing it is a miracle of shining beauty. The captain moves away and we stand in the purple dusk of a réluctant night while Longstreth poinfs to our westering course and speaks of the racial instinct that has ever driven the Anglo-Saxon out along -the course of the setting sun or toward the glittering ice fields of the North. * % x ¥ . “If you go ba# a bit from the rails you'll find thag things have not changed so v much from those stupendous days of the Jesuits.” “But the Indians are fewer?’ “There are rather more of the Ojibways, more than. 20,000. “Primarily hunters, roamers, liberty-loving, good-natured and flliterate. Lalemant would turn in his grave to know how short a dis- tance he and his black-robed associ- ates had carried the redskins on their apostolic way.” And in no time at all we are in the midst of the proof of this assertion. Woods and lakes and tangled streams ring with In- dian names like the soft clang of chiming bells—Nipigon, Michipicoten, Pawatiniki, Nazotekaw, Kakabeka. Full-breed and half-breed and white man come together here in these backwoods of the Superfor country in an accommodation of race to race and man to man that reduces pagan religion and Christian belief, primi- tive custom and civilized habit to the common denominator of mutual ad- vantage and respect. In these stories and stories of the Indian and the white man there is a hint of Arcadian peace and simplicity. To be sure, Longstreth is a poet, but this is not all poetry. Even poetry must have at least a thin layer of fact under it. Here the layers are thick and con- vincingly substantial. K X % One hates to hurry along past those splendid men of the mounted police, with whom this traveler had so many a sturdy experience and whom he has set out here in a grateful and appre- ciative “An Idyl of the King.” And one hates to pass up the forest rang- ers and a certain “sky pilot” and the guides, and the fishing and & host of other _things so completely worth anybody’s while. But we are hurry- ing on to Pawatiniki before space closes it out. “I now took a step and was swallowed up by the gloom of firs and towering birches. It was like looking into a book of folklore. Each step took me nearer the heart of the dark forest and into the presence of adventure. < “The gloom of spruce dwindled into a twilight, the twilight was rent with shafts of sun, and 1 emerged upon a Here he came upon a log cabin, home, so beautifully set within the grand scene that it might have been the habitation of a domestic witch conjured up for private use.” And coming up the beach Longstreth saw a huge reddish wolf. Behind him were two boys and with them a young ‘woman. These are the Devlins, moth- er and sons, to whom, right here, we pay admiring homage. Homage se: soned with envy. And the mother said: “We call it Pawatiniki, the House of Our Dreams. Here comes my fellow gambler.” And thé young man went on to tell how it came about—the dream house, the seclu- sion, the freedom, the simplicity—all from the fascination and enchant- ment of Lake Superior. After a day or more of which -he talks here in an enviable delight Longstreth took his leave, most unwillingly, of this happy family of Pawatiniki—a sane and contented family. ‘The boys saw me out on the trail, climbing like ibexes, talking of Winter's pleas- ures, ‘the while I thought of their father and mother. For three days 1 had lived with Adam toiling and Eve spinning, talking the poetry of Mere- "dith and 'getting their reactions on Robért Frost. Enthusiasm, joy, am- bition, suffused the hours. Whatever of hikh’ things thefr breeding had 'begotten their ‘life had accentuated, and the bush had not broken them to lasiness or low ends. -They who enjoyed music, who kept posted on politics, and l::.r; .d:temlned to see ir_sons" wisel ucated, were’ no gg’llmnr-"or soctety. oy “had decided to know life first-hand, that is all; not I‘Aflfll it vicarioualy as I~ THIS AND THAT BY C. E. TRACEWELL. One approaches Ninth street with something of the caution feit by a cartoonist who has to make a draw- ing of John W. Davis. There is 50 much here, and yet_so little to seize upon, so many geod points with so few of the bad, that nothing stands out to make a ready mark, It the Democratic candidate for President, fine man that he is, only had very outstanding ears, or wore a cowboy hat, he would be pie for the gentlemen who draw the car- toons of the nation. If Ninth street was anything but what it is, it would be easy to de- scribe. Its picture in words would glow with color, and it would take its place easily in the gallery of our streets. As it 15, one ‘has to be content to draw Ninth street as he finds it, with- out trying to do the far-famed stunt of attempting to gilding the lily. * % % % It is curious how o many of our Streets seem to limit themselves. ‘When Ninth street iz named, for instance, nine persons out of ten will think of that portion lying between Pennsylvania avenue and the Publio Library. That much of this thoroughfars is “Ninth street” to thém and shall be to us, for outside these limits in some blocks it is just the same sort of street, or half-and-half business and residence, without any particu- lar leaning toward one or the other type. : Within its self-appointed limits, Ninth strcet i a typical. Washington business way, with the usnal run of stores, more than the usual number of small movie theaters,-and per> haps a heavier pedestrian traffic than to_be met on the average street. Even here one has to hedge a bi% for Seventh street would dispute this, pointing to its thronged sidewal its well fed walkers of all ages and types. Yet, all things considered, perhaps more persons walk along its sister street. Ninth street is a 24-hour street, where nighttime brings on increased activity, luring forth beneath the lights certain types that seem to pre- fer the nocturnal. Nithttime is dif- terent from daytime—on Ninth street. Night sces sedate Seventh street aglow but lonesome. The women that thronged it but a few hours ago are gone. He who stops to look into a shop window has small company. * X * X Nof so Ninth street. *~ YWhen the dusk comes down, and the lights flare up with increased brilliancy, up and down this way Ninth street puts on its glad rags for another sessiow of frolic and business. It is during the daylight, how- ever, that the street stretches away as the thoroughfare that most people know. Then it is the parade ground of the sub-flapper. The sub-flapper, it may be explain- ed, is the adolescent girl who will be called a flapper tomorrow. She wears short skirts by right, and has as fashionable a “shingle bob,” or perhaps “straight bob,” as any older girl in town. z The philosophically minded often wonder just why these sub-flappers throng Ninth street. It is impossi- ble to stroll along this street with- out wondering where they come from, what they are doing here, where they are going. Perhaps that Greek priest over there, with his heavy gold crucifix on heavy gold chain, might answer. He shakes his head. But I am not sure he is right. There i8 rio harm, per se, in: bobbed heads, or short skirts, or a bit of rouge or powder. The trouble comes wheh thée preda- tory night hawks fly by. * % x % Ninth street is the home of the tamous two-eyed white cat. Most cats have two eves, of course, but few have two eyes like this fellow. One eye is bright green. the other is bright blue. Sitting in a store doorway, the big creature Surveys passersby with equal gaze. Passers often wonder what it isthat attracts them, without noting the two-colored eyes. Oftem it is mnot until some one points it out that they realize it. This blue-green combina~ tion is not a rare phenomena. exactly, but sufficiently scarce to merit notice. * % kK Curbstone loafing is a character- istic of the entire street. Groups of men and boys always are to be found along Ninth street, standing by the curbs, engaged in hot argument or just idling the time away. The Ninth Street side of a bank building has sheltered, in winter,-thousands of ill- clad and ill-fed men, while in sum- mer it does duty still as a prop to tired spines. Here the old-time movie show holds forth. Of recent years the picture palace theaters, with their grand auditoriums, pipe organs, nifty ush- ers, programs, multj-reels and the rest of it ran the little theaters off many a street. But it flourishes still on Ninth street, with its small lobb glaring posters, Wild-West cowboys, thrills, chases, all the ap- peal that the old-time movie ever had, preserved in these little places lest we forget the old times amid tho glitter of big ptetures named out of a dictionary of suggestive words. That lithograph there, is it mot downright honest, With_ its brawny lumberjack choking the life out of a fellow? Undoubtedly, in the film, he lets the under dog up before the vital spark goes out. And ooh! See the last stand of Alkali Bill, as flames two yards long spurt. out of his smoking Colts! * *x k * Automobiles pass in constant pro- cession. A fuel oil wagon, a hearse, a florist wagon, an automobile with two nuns inside. There rides Old Jowls, with Young Jowls driving him. The old man, topped with a straw. sits proudly in the back ‘seat, while- Young Jowls puffs a cigar beneath his cap. Twenty years from .now Young Jowls will be Old Jowls, aud a mew Young Jowls will sit in front at another wheel in front. To the north stretches the thin line of small green trees. Small but worth while, if they never grow another inch, with their roots vainly trying to suck sustenance from asphalt. It must be a hard job to be a tree on Ninth street. * ok k * Nighttime, and with the lights the predatory males. -They stick up like sore thumbs. They have lantern ja They wear straw hats set at a care fully calculated angle of 45 degrees They are tall and well made, and have red faces and long, red hands. One would rather meet a pterodactyl in a dark alley than one of these birds. Do they think or do they merely show automatic reflexes? Do théy eat or merely feed? They must be left to the psychos analyst. The philosopher and the avs erage person prefer to let them strictly alone. o L L trom a grandstand, but to live wholly, and the fundamentals fire8 Such add clear waters to the streani of race. . 2 “I followed my ibexes up that trail, trying to simulate a youth like theirs, and renewing my youth a dittle in 80 doing. Only once did ‘' kit down Wwhile they continued aloft.” Quiet fell. I glanced back and saw, &Mning far below, the dazzling,-iimitable lake. My mind built up an instant's pic- ture of the log houses, the precipice, tie~cove. "I visusitsed~the activitics beneath-the pines, the pines of- Paw- atinikf. And I believe the solitude was broken with a sigh.” L G. M,