Evening Star Newspaper, September 2, 1924, Page 6

With Sunday Morning Edition. " WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY. . .. .September 2, 1924 TEEODORE W. NOYES. . . . Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company and Pennsyivania Ave. 15 Kant 1300 St- icago Offlve: Tower Building. European Otfice: 16 Regent St.,London, England. The Evening Star. with the Snunday morning edition. is delivered by earriers within the ity af 60 cents per mouth cents per month: Sunday onl month. Orders may be sent by n phone Main G000. Colicction is made by ca Riers at the cod of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Paily and Sunday..1yr., §5.40: 1 mo., 70¢ Daily only .. 71¥r. $6.00 5 1 mo., 50¢ Sunday only ......15¥r, $2.40; 1 mo,, 20¢ All Other States. and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00 ; 1 mo,, 85c only ......1yr., $7.00:1mo., 60c Sunday only ....1yr, $3.00;1 mo., 25¢ Member of the Associated Press. ted Prexs is exclusively entitled for republication of all news dis. fed 1o it or not otherwise credited per and also the local news pub. . Al rights of publication of “ehex herein are also reserved. Daily Coming Home. Homeward bound is the watchword. September 2 has come, and thousands of desks that have been shut for month open, and a mighty strug- gle is being carried on to catch up with we The mails are heavy with a k. letters beginnings “Owing to my ab- from the city during August vour letter of the 2nd ult. was not received until today.” At thousands of work benches the sound of tools is heard. and between the knocking of hammers and the rasp of saws and files the workmen say: “Oyster Shell Beach for me! Fish and crabs three times a Sun- day. The bathing was fine in spite of sea nettles. Leaping Lena made the last 50 miles of the trip home in 47 minutes and never lost a tire.” There is a great stirring among secretari and much comparing of sunburnt arms and necks. One says proudly or vainly, “Pshaw! T have twice as many freckles as you have: you must hav spent your vacation in a hammock.” Office boys are back on the job. or as on the job as office boys can sence ¢ and chicken every a nearly be. In opening many homes there of shutters and rooms. Many women are saying: “1 will never leave this place agail John doesn't know how to take care of anything! The furniture is covered with dust; there is mildew on the frigerator and r Kitchen sink. He did not back win- dows when it from the is a great airing of re- s in the shut the Ac zavette butts. ashes and other things strewn around the place that he has been giving poker partie in the living room.” In neighborhood associations meeting on front porches there of arkable golf scores and gi; h. We are putting on the office ccat or the overalls again and geiting back to normal, which is zetting back to work. A few years ago, when the showed sizns of turning vellow, would write that “‘all coming into the Baltimere and Pot mac Depot and the Baltimore and Ohio Depot are crowded with return- ing vacationists, and all landing at the Seventh street wharves discharging capacity loads of happy and tired homecomers.” Well, now the trains coming to Union Station are crowded, and even the trolley cars are full of women and children with pet dogs,. cats and with grips and bundles. But it the main roads where one sees the long streams of sunburnt pilgrims home- bound. They are traveling in ma- chines which carry the dust of man: miles. Washingtonians, spend- ing August in the mountains, at the seashore, by the lakeside, in the lit- tle roadside hamlet and on the farm, are coming home. are stories 1t re we stories passenge is on after ————— New York press agents keep up a lame attémpt the old town as the last word in wickedness in spite of the manner in which Ch cago helps herself to first-page space for police news ——— to represent The world is justified in hoping that a European scttlement may be reached which will persuade Germany to in- terest herself in the fields and fac- tories and keep away from the lethal gas plants and gun foundries. e ree Speaking of politics, at the present moment everybody in Washington is interested in base ball. +aon—s Abandoned Pets. An automobile full of passengers was going west along the park drive that passes the bathing beach last Sunday evening. It was dark and the drive was crowded with machines. Above the noise of the motors one of the woman passengers heard the cry of a cat. id: “It is the cry of @ lost cat, a kitten. Stop!” To stop would be to block traffic and there was no chance to turn. The car made nearly a circuit of the park until it could turn east along that drive. It stopped near where it was thought the cat had been heard, znd a woman left the car and skirmisied in the dark. Then she called, “Here it is, up a tree.” Three boys were passing. One boy gave another “a foot” and he rescued the cat. It was too young to have climbed the tree, and was put there by some person who had aban- doned it. It was taken in the car, where it showed every sign of satis- faction and delight, and was carried to the Animal Rescue League, 349 Maryland avenue southwest, Main 8088. It was given supper, and if no- body was found wanting a kitten of ‘that kind it was gently put to sleep _with chloroform. It felt no pain. . Hundreds of persons abandon cats AnWrdogs. . Going off for a vacation a family will leave a pet to starve or do the best it knows how to get food and shelter. Hundreds of persons take out pets to lose them, cast them adrift in a strange part of the city or country to die or lead a wretched life, or find some good man or woman who will take them in, and most good men and women have all the pets they. can take care of. People of fine sensibility think it ‘medn and cruel to abandon an animel. The Animal Res- cup League ig open to poor and home- | affairs to be ned. and T am sure | leaves trains | steamboats | less animals. It asks, if you have a cat or dog you will not or cannot take proper care of, th® you bring it to the league or call the league by phone. The league works to save dumb anl- mals from suffering. It is a soclety which gets no public funds, and gets no morey at all except from its mem- bers and their friends. At the league quarteérs in an old house at the north- east corner of Maryland avenue and Four-and-a-half street you will see many cats and dogs that have been abandoned by thelr owners and have been found In the streets and alley and generally in a pitiful condition for want of food and water. have a cat or dog you do not w call the league. e Goldman Going to England. When Emma Goldman became con- vinced that sovletism is a fraud and wearily moved out of Russia, which had received her with enthusiasm on her deportation from the United States, she sought refuge in Berlin. There she found some congenial spir- its, but, as a rule, the German radi too busy with their own much interested in the woes of Emma, and she has lived, it | reported, rather a lonesome life there. The government has not been particularly pleased with her pres- ence, and on’a number of occasions | hints have been given to her to the | effect that her would be greatly appreciated. $ut the Berlin authorities have never gone quite to i the point of ordering her out of the { country. It would, perhaps, not be | politic to do so. Still, Emma has been | given quite definitely to that she was outstaying her welcome, |and consequently she has not been enjoying herself in Germany any more than she did in Ru; Now | | she is planning to go to London. She jhas a number of friends there and some relatives. Under the treaty regulations for the admittance of nationals of both Russia and England into the two | countries Goldman can enter England. S0 she is soon to move back along the westward track. She has told her London friends that she expects to {make her home with her “until she has found the right place {for her services” Now London is { wondering just what she means by | that. Is she planning to occupy a soap | box in Hyde Park, or mount the ped- al of one of the lions of the Nel | statue in Trafalgar Square and pr | anarchism. which is her theme? The | London police are tolerant of the | “spielers” in those places, and usually | let them talk unstintedly. Emma is a ! good talker. She niakes a red-hot speech, full of interesting matter. She could easily hold an audience in one of London’s great gathering places. | But the Labor government, if it should be in office when Emma gets there and starts speaking, if she ks, may not care for such a dem- The Russian treaties are rather s 1st at present in nglish politics. There are reports {now that MacDonald will quit office and appeal tc $h(‘ country on | the issue of the negotiation of these treaties. IEmma Goldman might be a { serious factor of disadvantage if in the midst of such a campaign she {were to hold forth in the open even | {in denunciation of sovietism, which | ! she regards as the foe of anarchism. | - | Juvenile Crime. | A plucky taxicab driver held up by | three passengers on a Virginia road {turned tables on his attackers and ! caused the arrest of two of them, one {a woman. A third member of the band | escaped. This assault for purposes of | robbery was planned by the woman. {who evidently was emulating the | bobbed-hair bandit of New York, who conducted a series of crimes before she was finally trailed and caught in | Jacksonville. This was her first ven- [ ture into crime, and likewise, so far as known, the first of her companion who was taken with her. It would seem that these young ! people, who are only 19 years old, would know that there is nothing in the bandit business but danger and {anxiety and almost certain eventual capture and punishment. The chancs { of getting away free may be good ‘in one case, but they are lessened with | every repetition. There is almost a | mathematical law that governs in this matter. No matter how shrewd or skillful the crook, every time he holds up & victim he increases his risk. Hi ace and his voice become known; even if he is masked his identity is finally established. { Crime among the young people of | this country has reached the point of | causing fear that the moral safe- guards of the young generation have generally broken down. The Chicago case of the two youths who slew brutally is, of course, the most con- spicuous instance. But running all through the accounts of criminal pro- ceedings is the note of youth. Mere boys and girls are engaging in de perately lawless adventures. In this case the young criminals have been taken at the beginning of their law-breaking career. They may be corrected. They are likely to have ample opportunity for reflection upon the foily of this manner of making a living or getting a thrill out of life. So far as his official career is con- cerned Mr. Daugherty is disposed to assert his right to be regarded as gone but not forgotten. cals were is absence understand new relatives | | spe onstration. a pot soon | Labor day is now observed by cam- paigners as an occasion for some of their hardest work. Pennant Mathematics. Almost everybody in Washington Just at present is figuring. Not about the electoral college or the State ma- Jjorities or the ratios of the straw votes. Nothing so prosaic and unin- teresting as all that. The pencils are busy with important statistics relat- ing to the national game, of which the Washington team is now the lead- ing exponent. Hely: is the problem in its simplest terms: The Nationals have won 76 and lost 56 games, with a “percentage” of .580. New York, the nearest contender for the flag, has won 73 and lost 55 games, with .570 “per cent.” Washington Las 23 games play to complete the total of 154, | M which is the season's schedule. And New York has 26 games still to play. owing to postponements earlier in the season. Should Washington win 15 and .lose 8 of the remaining 23 games it will close the season with 91 won and 63 lost, or .691 per cent. To equal that percentage and make a tle New York must win 18, while losing S games. Should New York win 19 of the remaining 26, while Washing- ton wins but 15, New York will win the pennant by 6 points, .597 to .591. Should Washington take 15 out of the remaining 23, while New York takes 17 out of the remaining 26, the stand- ing will be Washington .581, New York .584. Thus the pennant depends upon whether Washington does as well as a 15-to-8 winning for the remainder of the season, which is at a percent- age rate of .685, while New York hits less than an 18-8 pace, or .692. Both teams have their “soft” and spots in the schedule yet to be pl Washington has some particularly hard spots, St. Louis and Cleveland, which have been hope-shakers throughout the vear. Play will be re- sumed on Thursday with Boston as the foe, and then on Monday will be- gin the final tour of the provinces, R Washington's fate perhaps in the balance until the concluding series at Boston on the last four days of the month. Th A% be kept busy in the month. pencils will shington throughout Farewell, Mars! Mars still glows in the night sky, but he is now only one star among the millions, or one planet among many others. We are not talking of Mars as much as a few days ago. Not everybody 1s more or less an astron- | omer today. So far as can be gathered sent no message to the earth. If he sent one it passed over our heads or under our feet. If it landed on the carth we do not know it. Per- haps when Mars comes again to his nearest position to the earth, Which may be 100 or 0 years from now, we may have hetter applianc municating with him or he may have developed a effective signaling device. So far as can be learned from the world’s greatest astronomers Mars did not even tip his hat or wave hand to us as he passed. So far as earth interests are con- cerned Mars is something of a back number. Washington is the center of the world—everybody knows that— and at place the planct Mars has by sphere covered ehide. New York was an im- portant part of the earth games last week, but New York was more a ih ipsed a not so important as Washington. Not | by three to one. Today the world are on Washingto Mars? Why, Mars, we have almost forgot thee! Our eves are turned to some- thing brighter than thee, and not so far away. We call it a pennant. oo Perhaps an entire much to devote to a campaign. the eves of Summer is too Five | or six months represent a long time for devoted allegiance to any candi- date by the oratorical talent that earns the reputation of being brilliant but erratic. RS Summer month September :tly belong to the regu- lars, but the thermometer (testifies abundantly that it is no trifling ama- teur. r———————_ In the midst of his arduous political tasks Mr. La Follette finds incidental opportunities to be a loyal booster for Wisconsin. [ SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDE Mediocre Art. “America has had enough Of mediocre art”— Our pretty pictures are a bluff; Our dancers have no heart! The words of J. P. Morgan ring With sentiment so true, We cherish hopes that he will bring An inspiration new. JOHNSON Our orators have plunked along Upon the same old strings. Our financiers unite in song About the same old things. The comedy is growing rough Instead of being smart. Who shall deny we've had enough Of mediocre ar Sympathy for a Farmer. “I saw you out workin’ on your farm like one of us plain people,” ex- claimed Si Simlin, genially. “And how did the demonstration impress the neighbors” inquired Sena- tor Sorghum. . “It set us thinkin’ as we're all goin’ to vote fur you, because if you lose this job we don't believe you've got a chance on earth to make a livin’ at regular work.” Individual Impressions, This Government can't hope to live! Its methods make me sob. It recently refused to give My brother Bill a job. P. S.— : This Government has seen’ the light And holds a glorious sway. I got a telegram last night. My brother Bill's O. K. Jud Tunkins says he likes flowers, but never got egotistical enough to think he could harmonize with a but- tonhole bouquet. Fickleness. “Men are not as fickle as women.” “Perhaps not,” assented Miss Cay- enne. “A woman is free to change her mind, but a man after buying an engagement ring has a little some- thing to protect in the way of an in- vestment.” Overwhelming Exactions. Whene'er a politician lgnds A prominent position, The magazines present demands For lengthy disquisition. And just when he sets out to serve His country and his_neighbors He has to pause and brace his nerve For literary labors! “When a man tells me how he loves his work,” said Uncle Eben, “I can’t for com- | for four | Answers to Questions BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. How did President Harding's electoral vote compare with Wash- Ington's?>—J. H. A. Of the 531 electoral votss 404 were cast for Harding and Coolidge. Washington received a unanimous vote of the 69 electors. There were 4 vacancles in the total of 73 electors. Q. Can a man be made a full- fledged general in time of peace?— P. T. G. A. This rank is not authorized in time of peace. Gen. Pershing's rank was conferred in time of war, and was made permanent by an act of Congress. Q. What are the names of the planets in the south and southeast about 10 o'clock ?>—M. O. A. The Naval Observatory says that the planet in the southeast in the evening is Mars; the planet in the south is Jupiter, and the planet is the southwest is Saturn, Q. What can be done for chig- gers?—H. M. A. The Departent of Agriculture says that chiggers prefer shady lo- calities, and If the undergrowth of weeds is cleared off and sunshine al- lowed to penetrate, the pest disap- pears. Application of kerosene to low shrubbery along the edge of roads, in parks or private grounds will Tessen the evil. The dusting of { Persian insect powder, a powdered | sulphur, in the stockings and under walstbund when on the point of en- tering infested locations will do much to prevent attack. Q. Has the Government monument to soldiers who Lookout Mountain?>—R. B. T. R War Department says that {In marking the battlefields in and around Chattanooga the Government burchased two tracts of land—FPoint Park and what is known as the Craven's Reservation—on Lookout Mountain, and dedicated these as a memorial to the Union and Confed- erate soldiers who fought on that field. No monumental memorials, to ither the Union or the Confederate dead, have been erected by the Gov- ernment. The several States und | military organizations that took part in the hting there have, h ever, |erected State or recimental monu- {ments under regulations prescribed by the vernment to location, I text of inscriptions material to | be used. erected a fell on and Q. How can rosin and dirt be re- moved from the surface of a vielin? ~J. C. 0.:D. A. Use a soft rag to which gasoline has been applied sparingly. Rubgently and dry with a soft cloth. This will restore luster to the varnish. A slice {of onion has been used successfully | in this connection. However, its use |is not general because of the un-| ! pleasant odor. In no recumstances | | should alcohol Le used. There ar [two kinds of varnish—spirit and oil— and if aicohol is employed the whole coating of varnish will be eaten off. i | | Q. How long did it take Nellie Biy | to go around the world? What con- vevances did she use?—J. H. M. A. Nelly Bly was a reporter on the New York World, and in November, 1888, undertook to make a trip around the world for her paper to demon- strate the feasibility of the adventure recorded in_ Jules Verne's novel “Around the World in 80 Days.” She accomplished the trip in 72 days, & hours and 11 minutes. Miss Bly used steamboats, railroad trains and horse vehicles exclusively, this being be- fore the era of automobiles and flying machines. | | | Q. How many windows are there in the top of the Washington Monu- ment?—A, B, T. A. There are on each side. cight windows, two Q. Who first used the expression “Swinging around the circle,” in the political sense it has now?—W. R. G. A The phrase “Swinging around the circle” was first applied by Andrew Johnson to his trip to Chi- cago in 1866 to lay the corner stone of the monument to Stephen A. Douglas. He went West and made political epeeches in all the large cities, Q. Who Prophet?—F. T. A. Isaiah is is known as the Gospel A. known as the great | Gospel Prophet since he is spoken of So often in the gospels and be- cause many of his prophecies are re- | corded as fulfilled in these books of the Bible. Q. How did Christian names origi- ate?—B, H. B. A. Christian names usually had a | meaning &uch as John, beloved, or Henry or Harry, happiness, and were given as distinguishing character- istics. a ) Q. How many sailors enlisted the Navy during the World War? o, P A. At the time we declared war there were 62,000 men in the Navy; 499,000 enlisted during the war, and 551,000 saw service in the Navy dur- ing the conflict. Q. Please give a recipe for pickled peaches.—J. . A. One-half peck peaches, 2 pounds brown sugar, 1 pint vinegar, a few cloves, 1 ounce stick cinnamon. Boil sugar, vinegar and cinnamon 2 minutes. Dip peaches quickly into hot water then peel the fruit or rub off the fur with a towel. Stick each peach with three or four cloves. Put into sirup and cook until soft, using a few peaches at a time. Pack in jar and fill to overflowing with the sirup. in —E. Q. You state that the first aerial mail delivered in the United States was made in 1911, by E. L. Oving- ton. Did he make the trip alone?— H W. 8. A. The Post Office Department says that the post office pilot E. L. Ovington made the first air mail de- livery trip alone. Q. Has George Bernard Shaw, the writer, any brothers?—O. H. G. A. He has no brother. His sister, Elinor Agnes, died in 1876, and his other sister, Lucinda Frances, married Charles Butterfield. Q. What was the trotting record made by Goldsmith Maid? E. A. S. A. Goldsmith Maid, the famous bay trotting mare, held the one mile trotting record from 1871 to 1874, taking it ffom Dexter In 2:17 and losing it to Rarus in 2:13%. She lowered the record to 2:14 before losing it. Q. F. D. A. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, is a cigarmaker by trade. Is Sam Gompers a machinist? Q. How did the White House get its name?—E. G. W. A. The Executive Mansion was built of white freestone. From the beginning all its woodwork has heen painted white. To maintatn its purity of appearance the stone itself came to be painted. It was because of its appearance that it came to be referred to as the White House. (To know tchere to find information on a subject is, according to Boswell, as true knowledge as to know the sub- ject itself: Perhaps “your drop of ink Jalling on o thought will make @ thow- sand tMnk.> Submit yowr, perplecing gusstions to The Star I forination Bu- reau, Predevio Director, strocts morthevest. the campaign managers. that T from the Army on September 13, will be tempted to a try’'s great executive positions in pri- | vate fr | he cally, as the average man of &4, Army and the friends of preparedness throughout Congress did not see fit to accept Sec- retary the Armies | another ye Mr, has never emerged from the pigeon- holes of the House and Senate com- mittees on military affairs. an taken in the emancipation of woman- hood. has been vindicated State. Ku Klux Klan as a political force in Texas closed, at least temporari August 23, on which for the office her husband lost. and woman of Texas who has nomination State, of the country Boston “moreover,” News points out, “the plane on which she conducts her campaign illustrates hono WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. The only American gun captured by the British since the War of 1812 has just found its way back to the United State: tomatic 25, Representative Texas. best stories of the season. nally went to Europe in July as a member of the House select mittee Great Britain prohibits the importa- tions when like all good Texans, carried a gun, he disarmed. When arrived tillery troubles before the American authorities, in persuading his ernment of Connally’s peaceful tentions, name. now in Washington and awaits the Representative’s return from Europe. Connally Spanish-American and World Wars, It is a Colt au- and the property of Tom Connally ot hangs one of the Mr. Con- Thereby com- on Shipping Board matters. of fir Connally 'ms by aliens, and, confessed that he, wag promptly, though politely, the Representative in London, he laid his ar- who had little trouble majesty’ Bov- in- Gaelic sur- unloaded, is despite his The automatic, is a veteran of both the * K ok % the mimeograph are implements of the 1924 The publicity «pinning Radio and twin i not sent mi sheets. the destinations to which these of propaganda are directed Republicans burst forth every by mimeograph in a publication “Republican Daily W issued from the G. O. T. Washington. Demo- Woolley, who earned an commissioner- in 1916 with the. same Davis cause. man Assistant the Woolley's is Otto I'racger, who Postmaster General second Wilson admini- % ook Reports are current that Gen. John Pershing, following his retirement ept one of the coun- life. Although Pershing passes m th ve list because he is 64, % a3 virlle, mentally and physi- The the country regret that Weeks' recommendation that services of the General of the should be retained for at least r. The bill introduced at Wecks' instigation, to that end, * ko % John D. Fredericks, Representative Will Texas Have a Woman Governor? Texas seems likely to have a wom- governor. A mew step has been The family name of Ferguson in the largest And the open season for the y, on Thus the press comments the consequences of a primary placed a wife in nomination “Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson, a plain homelike and also a spirited won the for governor of that centers gloriously the attention today,” rejo the Evening Transcript, and as the Dayton Daily s point about political principles which cannot possibly be overlooked or buried as the triumph and seeks to understand how it wa complish we used lenged tion analyzes the possible for a woman to ac- so much in a field which to think was the unchal- province of man. Particularly loud in their appaluse of the nomination of Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson of Temple, Tex., as Demo- cratic designation which has heretofore as- sured election—are the papers of the State Journal “the nominee will fully justify the confidence reposed in her” and that “her admin- istration will establish a new high record of achievement in the State's history."” continues, “there is no question but that her influence will be for good,” for she “is a fine type of woman, and she should be and full business Houston Chronicle sees it, her nomi- nation has helped serve the Klan “with notice that it is an undesirable citizen.” candidate for governor—a nost for concerned. instance, The Dallas is sure that the voting majority has And, as the Amarilla Globe must be given a of giving Texas a administration.” As the opportunity * ok *x % There are many phases to “Ma” Ferguson's triumph, but as the Pitts- burgh Gazette-Times every angle, hers is the distinction of being the first of her sex to receive such an * although still “more impor- tant is the acknowledgment by Texans that woman is qualified to be trusted with the responsibilities of executive posts of magnitude.’ goes to prove, maintains, women have not time for politics is fantastic,” since “they are finding the time, as Mrs. Ferguson has found it, exactly as men have found the time to do what they were Interested to do. from for says, “it looms large,” AAnd this all the New York World that “the notion that Before the campaign began, Mrs. Ferguson announced that her main aim was to vindfcate her husband, James Ferguson, a former governor, Wwho had been impeached. elty of the out to remove the stigma from the Ferguson name, caught the imagina- tion of the oil driller, onion grower, | cow hand and the more metropolitan Texas areas,” the Philadelphia Public Ledger _ explains. the Albany Evening News belleves, ‘was due to sloga Texas; all the sentiment attendant upon the vindication of a presumably * | wronged public official; all the im-| patience of Texans with Klane rule, moved to nominate he: Mrs. Ferguson, the woman, the 1lli- nois State Joulnal points out, “until this time she had been a quiet, un- assuming person, soclal, but confining herself to her children and to her home. “The nov- little woman® in_ politics, Her nomination, n and “all impulse and a the chivalry of taking no part in business or political affairs, * kX % But here the critics take the field. | “The nomination of Mrs. Ferguson is a vindication of her husband.” Minneapolis Morning Tribune admits. “But if the Ferguson family possesses the requisite executive abilities to conduct the affairs of Texas, that i8|who are here from all the States in Texas’ good luck and not the result it the ice of the 3 A was through | the air is sent lumbering through the mails in an endless stream of tion-typewriting ofices and newspaper correspondents are shoals The day entitled Bulletin,” headquarters in cratic publicity is being directed b Robert W. Interstate Commerce ship for having helped to elect Wood- row Wilson sort of service he is now rendering the John W right-hand was during stration. Newspaper | Recalling | of the vast Los Angeles district in the Houso, of Representatives, returned to Waehington this week from a Summer in Kurope. Capt. Fredericks—his title dates from the Spanish-American war— tried the dangerous experiment of ab- senting himself from his constituency during a bitter primary fight for re- nomination. He was opposed by a_can- didate, who raised the issue of Fred- ericks’” failure to support the Swing- Johnson $200,000.000 Colorado River reclamation project in which Los Angeles is intercsted. But the City of the Angels gave Fredericks a hand- some vote of confidence. News of his renomination reached the congress- man in midocean on August 28, * * ¥ % ongress is going to be asked one of these days to look thoroughly into the question of the upkeep of the American | military cemeteries in France. They are {not exactly in a run-down condition, but Americans who have scen them this ummer find them immensely less at- tractive than the beautiful cemeteries in which Great Britain's 500,000 dead are burled. Although there are 2,000 or 3.000 of these British graveyards, each and every one of them is main- tained as carefully as the Arlington Na- tional Cemetery, across the Potomac from Washington. We have only a few military cemeteries in France, and per- | haps not more than 30,000 graves to look after. | From all over the country word is coming that If the Senators win the Ameriean Deaguae base ball cham- | pionship the Warhington team's nu- | merous’ congressional admirers will |eh the political ecampaizn and come back to root at the first worid | series games ever plaved on the | Potomac. No team In the country is | a national team in the sense ot the | Senators. Presidents, Vice Presi- | dents, cabinet ministers, Supreme Court justices, members of Congress and Government officials of all ranks have always felt a filial interest in the fortunes of Walter Johnson and | his clubmates. If they win the American League pennant they will be cheered onto victory in the world series by friends from all of the 3% States of the Union. No series team has ever had a rooting brigade like that. * X x % American girls and women back from a visit to Rome report having had a first-hand taste of Pope Pius XI's rigorous warfare on decolle attire. Jefore women are granted an andience with the Pope, whether it be a private audience or as mem- bers of a general public audience, they are given printed instructions how to dress. These call for black from head to foot, Including a heavy veil and gloves. Not a pafticle of | bare arm or neck may be revealed. | If the instructions have not been complied with down to the smallest detail offenders are in danger of being stopped at the threshold ot the audience chamber and sent away. Vatican ushers are specially charged with the duty of inspecting women's attire before they gain the papal presence. (Copyright, 1924.) ‘Pa’ Ferguson was a good man. and the election returns indicate that she proved it by a substantial plyrality.” Further, the St. Paul Dispatch holds. the party has “chosen a woman candidate for governor in a campaign in which her own qualifications to hold office were a question of least importance,” and “it is Impossible to regard the result as a victory for any one but Mr. Ferguson." For, the Brooklyn Daily Fagle contends, “all the passions “aroused were based either on resentment of the wrong done to Gov. Ferguson, impeached as Walton was impeached by Klan in- fluence, or on opposition to the Klan as such.” The Washington C. H. Herald regards the nomination as “the entry of the squaw man into politics through the primary election door,” believing he will wield the eins of government and considers his vindication through the election of | his wife not a very valiant manner | of fighting, according to accepted | standards.” * ¥ % % On the other hand this much is| sure, the Syracuse Herald insists, “the noimnation is a staggering blow to the Ku Klux Klan” And the defeat of “the Klan's attempt to annex the Texas governorship will hearten the fighters against at- tempted Klan dictation and domina- tion in other States,” the New Orleans Times-Picayune _believe: Perhaps one of the telling factors in Mrs. Ferguson's victory, the Arkansas Democrat suggests, 1ay in the “value of a slogan.” by which her initials, M. A. were “coined into ‘Ma,” and the slogan ‘Me for Ma' became the bat- tle cry which appealed to the emo- tions of the voters. The question “Who will ernor—Mr. or Mrs. Ferguson discussed. Mrs. Ferguson, the New York Times reminds us, “expects as she says to be guided by the counsel of her experienced husband In the administration of fiscal affairs, in the reduction of taxes and in the man- agement of the penitentiary, but she intends to be guided by her own judgment in matters affecting edu- ation and social affairs and par- ticularly the affairs of the home.” Save the Capital’s Streets and Trees! To the Editor of The Star: Keep on doing your utmost to save ‘Washington's finc old trees and con- I serve its beauty effects, so that gen- | erations yet unborn shall bless you when they read “Your Fifty Years Ago in The Star.” and learn that you raised your volce in defense of these grand old emblem: Let those who desire to sacrifice the beauty of Washington betake them- selves to Pittsburgh for a time, or some other equally unprepossessing town, until they can appreclate good landscape art. & How silly for any one to believe that planting trees now on the site of those destroyed will atone for the present ruthless mutilation, when it has taken fifty years'to grow some | of these trees to their present size. The picturesque effect of lower Thirteenth street is ruined for years !to come. It is now nothing but a blare, bleak prospect. What we should do is to enchance, not to demolish, the beautiful effect, {for which Maj. L'Enfant laid so splen- | did a foundation. | The lines of the young poet who | gave his life in the World War are well worth remembering: Poems are made by fools like me; Only God can make a tree. ’ Washington streets are amply wide. It is senscless to run the “uggernaut of the craze for speed & 1 human convenience over everythinz that {s worth while in life. Vutting the question of beauty aside, the right of the pedestrain, the one does not own & car, should not be wholly vb- | scured. He has his claim to the| trees. s ‘Washington belongs to this whole country! Let the voice of the people the Union be heard in the city! Give thoss who write you a chance to be heard oa the subject. | the man of the house it is no with Pepys, turnabout toward us for proof and €o down there in minute detail and with such NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM THE SOUL OF SAMUEL PEPYS, Gamaliel Bradford. Houghton Miffin Company. To the incurious reader the Pepys Diary suggests the disarray and in- consequence of a big house on mov- ing-in day. when the belongings of hall and drawing room, of library and bed chambers, of kitchen and at- tic and cellar, hob-nob together on the ground floor in a democratic dis- regard of the set rules of class be- havior. This easily satisfied one sees only a motley of shapes and uses touched off here and there with the colors of piled fabrics and painted canvas, with the sheen of shrouded silver and crystal, with the gleam of ornaments in jade and jasper and gold. A place of fascination, though. Everybody concedes this, even though its vagarious ways more likely than not lead straight into nowhere. But, always into a pleasant and beguiling nowhere. The real appeal of the Pepys Diary Is not to the majority, not to Mr. Average Reader, highly diverting though this one may find the whim- sical honesty of Samuel Pepys with himgelf in these private daily avow- als. It is with the rarer man that the Diary takes on a genuine im- portance. This one knows, as we all do, that the heart of man is an un- discovered country of rich hidden re- sources from which any shred of truth brought back is of supreme mo- ment. He sees, too, that here Pepys has Set up an honest and free com- merce with himself. that he has laid aside the instinctive concealments in which all men hide, even away from themselves. This is the Importanc of the Pepys Dlary, that it open the way for the discovery of a man And more than one has gone into the Diary a-hunting for the man Lowell went. So did Stevenson and Thackeray. So did Walter Scott. And each came out with a part of him— a button from his coat, a ring from his finger, a smile, a bright thought, a laughing phase. Not so much to blame for the meagerness of the re- turns. For since the day of even the nearest of these a new school of man quest has risen—one that X-ray the mind and traces the blood to its far sources, and keeps a watchful €ye upon the shaping environment. Gamaliel Bradford is of the new school of up-to-date equipment and special training. Therefore, when he goes Into the Pepys Diary to get gamble to assume that he will get him, ana that he will deliver him whole. He- fore doing this—indeed, as prepara- tion for doing it—Mr. Bradford be- takes himself back to the time and place of Pepys, since the new ::ch-ncp declares a man’s environment himself. Two and a half centuries back, just when England, tired ot piety and eager for play, had traded Cromwell for Charles 1I, thereby OPening up a period of gayvety and good manners and loose behaviors and an easy denial of benefits ac- cruing from the austerities of Puri- tanism. 1t is here that he finds Samuel Pepys, a valued official ot the admiralty, a good liver in the midst of general good living. A sig- nificant find, this. An adaptable man of ready accommodations whose ap- petite for pleasure is robust and keen of edge. This is the key to Samuel Pepys—this instinct of self-preser- vation. this lust of enjoyment. Ana with the key in hand, Mr. Bradwell comes back to the Diary into which for the past 30 vears he has with studious intent ventured innum- erable times. a * ¥ ¥ * Diary Mr. Bradford comes upon Pepys time and time again with “the lining of mis soul turned outward” in open confidence about himself and about the im- mediate world which so engrossed and delighted him. An average man, Pepys, average in mind and practi- cal sense. Average in morals, too, he “indulged his passions and re- gretted the indulgence, made good resolutions and broke them and made them again. judged others severely and himself leniently and severely also, fought the old mad battle with the flesh and the devil, sometimes shamefully, sometimes triumphantly. but always humanly. In short, he was a man amazingly like you and me, and the chief among all the many interests of his wondertul Diary is that it reveals him and you and me with a candor, an unparailel- ed. direct, sincere clarity, which has never been equaled, except perhaps in the essays of Montaigne." Throughout the nine-year course of the great Diary, Mr, Bradford pursues Samuel Pepys along the intimate ways of that average existence so like our own in its quality of being average. And at every turn Pepys disclosed himself with the abandon of a child who is yet in ignorance of the supreme sin of being found out. the office, on the strect, at home, in the manifold contacts of social enjoy- ment, in his regard for money and the uses to which he put it, in his lean- ings toward art—painting, letters, music—and_ in his affection for ar- tists, in the exercise of his own brain toward one and another of the sur- rounding aspects of life—through all these does Mr. Bradford go along with Pepys, searching, discovering, checking up. co-ordinating, the sum of activities that constituted the indi- vidual, Samuel Pepys. From the process a live man emerges to give us greeting on the basis of our common attitude toward the surpassing game of being alive and getting away with it. An act of creation which has made a live man—heart, blood, body Within the and bones, feeling, action and speech— out of the patches and fragments of clear soul that one man left for the other man's finding. Some achieve- meént. A thing to make a man proud A thing, too, to make the rest of us glad since we shall no longer have to stumble around in the clutter of the Pepys furniture hunting for the man that we never should have found without such an inspired competency of aid and comfort, * k% % Let's, for a minute, enjoy the method and manner of Mr. Bradford and then his prompt identification. “Unquestionably what did most to wreck the tranquillity of the Pepys domestic establishment was the husband’s extreme sensitiveness to feminine charm. resented as a most debauched and vicious general lover, and certainly the premiscuity of his amours somewhat astonishing and very rep- rehensible.” Here Mr. Bradford brings out stancee, quite, one is convinced, as he would in the case of one of his neigh- bors across the way. on: ladies and to chat with them and fiirt with them and make lovo to them. What is attractive about the varied amours of Pepys, utter absence of vanity in the man himself. he was fascinating to women in ap- pearance or manner; whether he was a lady Killer, so thdt young and old, vlain and pretty, spond to his advances. count of the matter, he is busy only with voint treedom from coxcombry is most r ¢reshing”—and unusual. ford finds He is often rep- is certain extenuating circum- Then he goes But he liked to look at prety however, is the We have no idea whether were eager to re- in has ac his own experiences, of view. And this his own complete Mr. Brad- it not extraordinal that Pepys siould have these escapades. xtraordinary, though, that he should home to the diary and set them ‘cynical—or naive—veracity. When he is in an uncommonly reti- cent, or modest mood, Pepys has the absurd habit of enlisting the words of other language to help him out. JULIA C, GRAY, lAs in this case: “I would also re- © be a good percentage of the man | In | BY C. E. TRACEWELL. Oh, the bulldog on the hnk, And the bullfrog in the pool The bulidog cailed the bullfro “A green old water fool. What would the writers of “ktnder- garten series” and “Easy Lessons in Radio” do without the analogy of the stone thrown into the pool? The stone and pool have been doing major duty since radio first swept the country a few yvears ago, to bring entertainment and instruction into countless homes throughout the United States, “Ray ent into the air and reach your receiving set just as the waves reach the edge of a pool after a stone is thrown into the water.” Yes, sir, that is what happens! tadio writers missed a bet, how- ever, when they overlooked the bull- How much more interestin: would have made their writing= if they had used the live bullfrog s stead of the inanimate stone! A lively bullfrog, plunging into the {center of the pool, would send wawes, to the edge in quits as efficient o manner as the stone, while his re- sounding “ker-chunk” would set up a set of sound waves in addities Future instructors in radio are o spectfully urged to investigate the bullfrog. *x the average radio fan at the hands and brains {of the faithful radio writers, who { have labored earnestly to instili into his head some of the “first principles” I of this latest art among the sciences? | "Hopefully he takes up the latest | “easy lessons.” Here, at last, he feels, !he will find the unadulterated truth {abour this mysterious thing that he has taken into his house and bosom. He opens the pages, reads carefully, sighs, puts them down again He has been reading radio books and magazines for a year, yet he | understands as little about radio as he did when he started. Somehow | he feels that the writers are to blame | for this state of ignorance, although he admits they have struggled man- fully, in season and out, to make him { understand impedence, wave lengths, frequency, the difference between kilocyeles and kilowatts, how “audio { differs from “radio,” the use of grid {leaks and Inductance and a hundred other matters of importance. All he gets out of it, at last, is a headache and the knowledge that a grid leak Is often not necessary at all in his set; that there is a good deal of pure “bunk” in much of the theoretical advice that the radio im- pulses will continue to hurtle throug the air and into his set, whether he { knows anything about their astonish- ing progress or no. He is grateful to the faithful au- thors of radio literature. hut wishes sometimes that they would let him alone. He cannot resist the latest “simple lesson.” It has a fascination for him akin to that of the lamp | for the moth. But knows when | he begins that he will understand no more when he ends. * % Why wives do not like radio is one |of the mysteries to which the radio authors might devote their attention with profit Women, as a rule, do not eare to listen in. There may be a few who do. just as there are some ladies who enjoy plaving chess. but the number is not large. Probably there are not 1,000 women in Washington who really enjoy listening in on a radio concert or other broadeast event. Just as there is not one woman in a mil- lion who will read Walt Whitman's “Leaves of Grass.” there is scarcely one girl in a thousand who reall listens to radio. Any woman knows she would rather be reading the advertisements. or darning or roller skating out on the sidewalk, or admonishin little Johnnie for banging littler Susie over the head with a board, or | doing any one of the hundreds of things a woman can find to do. / If there is a “loud speaker” in the home she must listen per force, bu just let Mister go down town, an no sooner is he off the block than the radio goes off the air. o5 oy Being utterly unable myself to ex- plain the mystery, I took it up with some of my friends. “Why is it that women do not like radio?" T asked. “Because it gives them a headache.” said one man. “Because they can't talk,” declared a second. “You see, when the radio is going there is nothing to it but |listen. especially if vou are using headsets. That is the real reason women do not care for radio. “Jealousy.” was the laconic reply of a third. “They are jealous of radio. that is all, just the same as a dog is when it sees you pet a cat.” X A radio set to a man, however, is {1ike the fascination exerted by hi first love. I think women would be) wise to recognize this, regarding it as the old love returned in a new form. Love me, love my radio. Tho man who is home with his radio set| will never be found beneath the white lights fooling around with other women. Men have a keerer appreciation of mystery than women, and their taking to radio like ducks to water proves it. To a woman, a “radio”}is just a practical article, mostly com- DPosed of messy wires, sort of brother to the phonograph. To a man, a radio is the sister to lightning, a cousin to clectricity ahd youngest and fairest child of Applfed Science, Ph. D., B. §. and M. A. To him a radio receiving set Is a thing to wonder at, first of il Wherever vou find a man tinkerijig with a radio you will find. grown 8p, the child who thrilled over fafry tales. i It takes imagination to apprecigte radio. This fair layout of bright wires and curious instruments, housed in a little box, is greater wonder than Aladdin’s magic lamp. Had that lamp been placed upon the famgus magic carpet the combination wogld have been far short, in essential wan- der, to the simplest radio set todgy * * % % With political campaigns befhg conducted in ether, women bro: casting messages from sea to fire de- partmént to go and turn out the gas| left burning at home, and dealgrs preparing for the Fall, radio {in America_enters into its most intér- esting phase. Political speeches might be n ether with good effect; but the sgrt of ether used in radio simply spreads| them out for all to hear. Those interested in radio can sec nothing in prospect but continued betterment and good. Retail dealers, however, should stick to their guns during Summer, and not fill up their| windows with electric fans. This, id] bad psychology, and I doubt if it is good salesmanship. H When dealers make proper instal- lation of sets their first thought, rather than sales, and so do away| with antenna worry, the greatgst] bugaboo in radio to the average pgr-| son, radio will come into its own u: never before. What has | not suffered he member to my shame how I Wa pleased yesterday to find,the right cous maid of Magister Griffin sweep. ing of nostra office, elle con the Ro man nariz, and bonne body, which I did heretofore like, and do still re fresh me to think que elle is to como) to us, that I may voir her aliquand Aaron Burr had that crazy method concealment also. “If that fs not psychological curiosity”—Bradford talk ing—“I should like to know wha! is. Strange ties linking humanity”- referring to Burr and Pepys In thi absurd idlosyncrasy—*in its vices in its virtuea” LG M