Evening Star Newspaper, September 3, 1924, Page 6

THE . EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY .September 3, 1924 THEODORE W. NOYES Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Businoss Office, 11th 8t. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 Fast £3nd 8¢ Office: Tower Building, 16 Regent 8t.,London, Eugland. The Evening Star, with the Sunday morni edition. is delivered by carriers within ity at 60 cents per month: dally only. 43 cents per month: Sunday oniy. 20 cents per moath. Orders may be sent by mail ot tele- phone Main 5000. Collection is made by car- Tiers at toe cnd of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Vi Daily and Sunday..1yr., $5.4 Daily only ... Chicago n Ofice: and Sunday.1 y1 aily only : Member of the Associated Press. The Asso-inted Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dis patches credited to it or not etherwise credited in this paper and a lished herein. All The Campaign in Full Swing. With the passing of Labor day the political campaign gets into full swing. In recent years the first Mon- day in September arded as the actual opening date of the real fightin By that ¢ ganizations are perfe chosen and assigned clearly defined. The time nominating conventions and day has been spent in prelimi Labor day was marked by by the three candidates addressed to the working men. These were vir- tually the opening guns, although ac ceptance speeches had furnished text for partisan comment. These three Labor day speeches were competitive bids. Each of the candidates sought to demonstrate that his party is the | true friend of organized labor. This competition has already led to some interesting analyses. Most notable, however, is the evidence of a dispc tion by Mr. Davis to go beyvond the text of the Democratic platform and | vie with Senator La Follette in his ap- peal for labor support. It is now announced th Smith of New York will stump for Davis and Hampshire. Massachusetts, Rhode 1s-| land, Connecticut, Maryland, Dela- ware, New York, New Jersey, Tllinois | and possibly Ohio. This itinerary has| been arranged without reference to the possibility that he may eventually be compelied to take the nomination | for another term. Democratic leaders | in New York are still hoping thus to | command his services despite his re- peated refusal. Scouts are reporting to the several | headquarters after surveving the| flelds of particular interest. In the | published accounts they are most re- assuring to their respective chiefs. | “Trends” and “waves" are described | in East and West. Of course, there are reports made to hcadquarters that | are never published, the confidential disglosures of untoward conditions. | Concealment of unfavorable reactions while reporting only favorable one: no service at all. The optimist who refuses to recognize adverse influ- ences and tendencies has no proper place in a political campaign. Next week Maine will vote for State | officers. A hot campaign has been waged there, and Demacratic hopes are high that a local victory will be scored for that party, not so much for the sake of the State offices as for the Influence and effect a triumph will have upon the Nation at large. There is still some faith in the old saying, “As goes Maine so | goes the Union.” It has not alw: been the case, but it sounds wel and is a stimulant of hupe and en- couragement. has been re; commltiee or d. nd i cakersare es ar between | Labor | 1t Gov. ke the Bryan in New | Democratic Better Street Lights. The new street-lighting program of the District goes forward. Announce- ment is made that, about 1,000 of the new ornamental electric lights lately designed for Washington will be set up during this fiscal year. The lamps that will be replaced will be set up on streets that now have only gas lamps or none at all. The schedule of streets to be immediately better lighted has not been made out, but Sixteenth street north from H and Pennsylvania evenue between Fifteenth and Seven- teenth streets have been designated as among the ways on which the new lamps will be set. The chief advantage | of the new over the old lamps is not that they ere ornamental, but that they will throw more light on the street. The sum of $75,000 is to be spent on the new lighting program | during the remainder of the fiscal year, and the Commissioners hope to obtain authority from Congress at the next session to carry out the exten- sive better-lighting program already drawn by the engineers. It is gratify- ing that we are on the way to making the Capital a better-lighted city. —_—— A campaigner may note perhaps with a shade of envy that there is never any hint of apathy with refer- ence to the finish of a base ball sea- son. ————— Epinard, though not invincible as a racer, is still accorded the honors due @ distinguished visitor. ————— The Squall. Several accidents in yesterday's storm were caused by articles blown into the street from roofs or from buildings under construction, and also by persons who, frightened by the storm, ran into obstructions. There is no way to provide against all such mishaps, but such precaution as can be taken should be. Building regula- | excitement | weath | relations ous in the past and will continue, but here is a matter that is partly within our control. Let a storm threaten and many persons will allow themselves to become agitated. There is more or less excitement expressed in hurry and heedlessness. The sky may look like rain and a few drops begin to fall. Some persons calmly take shelter and others risk their lives in hurrying after street cars and dodging in and out of traffic. It would be better that a few drops of rain should strike the old, or even the new, hat than that you should be knocked down by a street car or an auto. This pre-storm may be noted among chickens and other animals, but men and women should know better. There are automobilists who speed up and drive nervously when even a moderate storm impends. A good many per- sons when they find a small storm- pani> getting hold of them might well stop 4 make a count—say, ten— and think that storms have been com- ing and going for all time, and that the chance of being injured in a storm at Washington is not so great as being knocked down while cross- ing F street on a fair day. Yesterday's storm was a sharp and smart one for Washington. We have had news of hurricanes at sea and tornadoes in various parts of the countr but Washington has very little to complain of in the way of We seem to live in a quiet and well ordered,part of the world. e More Trouble in China. Kipling's line that says that “East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet” receives addi- tional contirmation in the fresh out- break of civil war in China. Just what the trouble is all about is be- yond American understanding. That unhappy country has been for some vears in strife over political affairs, with armies of the North and armies of the South contending, and the Pek- ing government maintaining itself precariously in the turmoil. Then for a time peace has reigned. That is, as much peace as seems pos sible in the disordered land. Foreign brought back fairly close to normal. The Peking govern ment seemed to have been strength- .ned. Suddenly war started again at Shanghai. It was at first described as merchants’ war.” Armed forces prang up suddenly, and at the latest reports Shanghai is the scene of a bat- tle which may bring about foreign in- tervention. While these things have been going were ! on there has been an intrigue of Rus- sian influence at Peking. The repre- sentative of the Soviet has established his official status, but has been denied ‘the use of the former emba The envoys of other powers have protest- ed. The outbreak at Shanghai may have some relationship to this Peking situation. Again, it may be entirely separate. It is impossible, as far as the published news reports have gone, to understand precisely the cause of these renewed troubles. At no time since these civil compli- cations arose has the Peking govern- ment been strong enough to command the situation. It has subsisted largely by the support of the other powers. | Now Shanghai, which is one of the greatest of the harbors of the East, is likely to be the scene of warfare en- dangering the shipping of many na- tions. Naval vessels of the powers are gathering there to prevent if pos- sible a disastrous happening which would possibiy lead to a forceful in- ternational intervention. It is highly undesirable that there should be any further interference in China’s affairs by other governments, but it may be necessary to put an end to the costly conflicts which are endangering the peace of the world. e During the present month William Gibbs McAdoo is expected to return from Europe. In the meantime the Democratic orators are doing all that could reasonably be expected to make him feel that work for the party has not been slighted during his absence. — o The U. S. A. has wonderful avia- tors. A lack of airplanes can be rapid- 1y supplied, but a lack of courage and efficiency to man them would be in- deed calamitous. The Nation is liberal- ly equipped in an element of prime importance. ————————— In order to recognize all the parties who are earnestly desirous of forward- ing his interests, the farmer should be able to vote at least three tickets at once. ——————— After listening respectfully to the suggestions of the union leaders the members of labor organizations re- serve the right to vote according to individual preference. —————— Shortly after Labor day e number of Summer resorts celebrate by allow- ing the hotel rates to relax. e Economic experts hint that another war is possible, but Herrin, Ill., does not propose to wait for it. o Hopping Along. They are hopping along, those in- trepid American giobe flyers. Long delayed in the icy regions of Iceland and Greenland, they are now coming south rapidly. Yesterday they took off from Ice Tickle, Labrador, despite rain end fog, and landed in Hawkes Bay, Newfoundland. Today they move on to Pictou, Nova Scotia, and tomor- row they hop to Boston, where they ‘will drop their pontoons and don their earth-landing wheels, This means that they may reach Washington Saturday or perhaps Sunday. They are now in a hurry, these globe fyers, hastening home after the tions set it down that signs, cornices, ‘balustrades, flagpoles, scaffolding, etc., shall be secure against being blown down, but a loose plank and a table blown frem the top of a building sent two men to a hospital yesterday. A child was killed by the blowing over of a tall piece of furniture which had been set in the yard. Such an acci- dent causes grief, but we cannot so regulate all affairs that there will be no chance of death by accident. A number of persons were injured by runming into obstacles. Injuries ‘trom such .causes have been numer- worst of their long journey. Little things like wind squalls and rain and fog are not holding them back now. ‘They have flown over great stretches of the sea, over mountains and over deserts. They are back in civilization. They are making real globe-circling time, and if pressed could make bet- ter time. But it is well to proceed with some caution. A mishap at this stage of the journey would be especially lamentable. They have gone nearly around the world with no,fatalities, though two of the planes have dropped out of the race. They hope to make goal with no further diminu- i T have heard this season. tics. | hung the pennant on the dome of the | manent tion of force, and there y son to expect that they will' do se., Out of all the roundorld fiyers who started off in the Spring repre- senting various countries only the Americans and Zanni, the ‘Argentine, aré continuing. Zanni, at last reports, was at Kobe, Japan, and expected to carry on. One by one the others have dropped out, MacLaren, the English- man; D'Oisy, the Frenchmam; Paes and Beiros, the Portuguese, and Loca- telli, the Italian. Two Americans of the original four pilots have lost their places in the race, Martin in Alaska and Wade between the Orkneys and Iceland. Wade will rejoin his com. rades on the last leg to Washington as part of the escort of honor. Martin will Join them in the West when they make their final flight. oot Politics Adjourned The candidates for the presidency have almost been backed off the front page. “That speech of La Follette,” says Citizen, “was a master effort, 1 guess, but I was too busy at the ball park to read it, and 1 have other things to think.” “Yes, that part of Davis' speech where he told about how the Democratic party dis- covered America was a glorious politi- cal argument, but those runs by Lei- bold. Judge, Bluege and Peck were as impressive as anything I ever saw The sound of those hits by the Mule and Earl McNeely made more impres: sion on me than any political speech It was the heard best cheering 1 have Bryan was a candidate.” “The election in November? Oh, ves. I had forgot it! It is @ matter of great importance. No doubt. The fate of the country depends on the election of each candidate. Ha! Ha! But there is a world series to be played before the election, and I haven't time to talk politics. These political leaders are noble and heroic chieftains, and all that, in their own way, but when it comes to distin- guished Americans, why there are Goose, Johnson and a team of others. Please do not ask my views on poli- Come around after we have Capitol.” ——ee—— When a presidential turns to the home town the per- residents are pleasantly thrilled as they ascertain how he has been yearning for the dear old place all these years —— e According to the recent announce- ments of Mr. Will Hays, any motion picure scandals will be left to the lawyers and will not be permitted to influence the style of the scenario writers. ————— As the Prince of Wales is over on a vacation he will doubtless refrain from any attempt to keep a scrap book containing all the referances to him. ——e—————— Bygones should be bygones, and Col. Bryan, once inclined to criticize John W, Davis, is now ready to treat him almost like a brother. ————— SHOOTING STARS. BY. PHILANDER JOHNSON. Anti-Sleep. “I do not feel the need of sleep,” A great inventor said. “I find no joy in slumber deep. I turn to toil instead.” Outside our flat the motor horn Sends music through the air Until the milkmen haste at morn Along the thoroughfare. The kiddie cars rell on by day In juvenile delight. Mechanical pianos play To jollify the night. Oh, great inventor, if you're bound To be a sleepless elf, I wish, some time, you'd call around. You would enjoy yourself. Opinigns That Count. “I am. going to_tell my audiences exactly what I think,” said the ag- gressive campaigner. “Go ahead. if you feel that way about {t,” answered Senator Sorghum. “But the safest way is to find out what your audiences think and tell ‘em that.” Jud Tunkins says he doesn't know which to be most surprised at, the grown-up people in the fashion maga- zines or the children in the comic pages. The Quest of Happiness. A rush amid the throng in search of galn— A silent walk along a leafy lane. A palace reared in splendor all com- plete— A cottage where the mocking bird sings sweet. A throne upheld 'mid deep and cruel scars— A bench where two may sit and see the stars. : Proud Families. “Who is that exceedingly cratic and affable stranger?” “He is the distinguished guest of honor from abroad.” “And who is that very haughty and forbidding person?” “He’s the plain American citizen whose daughter has been promised a dance with our visitor.” demo- Assertion. The wise and conscientious man Responsibilities will scan. ‘With diffidence; and cautious be Lest he make promises too free— ‘The romping boob, since earth began Has troubled many a trustful clan By crying, with convincing glee, “It's easy! Leave it all to me!” Rigid Revision. “Suppose ‘we include “Othello” in our list of plays,” said Mr. Storming- ton Barnes. Ny L “‘All right,” answered .the manager. “But you'll have to cut out some of the last act. I'm catering to a polite public, and we won't stand for any more of these bedroom scenes.” “De man dat succeeds in bein' his own boss,” said Unclé Eben, “is ligble to find he's picked hisself cut de herdest kind of a taskmaster® s { 1ts hangar at Lakehurst, N. J., or put- l“nK th |of the dirigibles, stated from the be- since | Scouting. | army, in which he had riscn to the {down as : i the wealth of a milllonaire, he took candidate re-| . " but IN TODAY’S SPOTLIGHT BY PAUL V. COLLINS The great dirigible airship, ZR-3, which Germany has bullt for the United States as our only “repara- tions™ for the World War, according to the Versalilles treaty, is now un- dergoing test flights. Karly trials having demonstrated the inadequacy of its engines, new ones have beén installed for another trial flight to- morrow or Friday. When ready for its voyage across the Atlantic, it will be manned by a German crew of 30 men and will be accompanied by three American officers as inspectors. * Kk Kk K As long as two Wash- ington city blocks, 656.16 feet; diame- ter, 80.7 feet. Forgetfing figures, one may concelve its size by putting the Washington Union Station inside Statistic National Capitol therein, ex- cept the statue at the peak of the dome. Neither of these buildings would crowd the hangar as much as will the dirigible airship. This indi- cates the monster whose 2,000 horse- power engines will propel it through the air at a speed of a mile and a third a minute—80 miles an hour— and whose range (without reloading either fuel or food) would take it from Washington to South Africa or China, or to either of the poles. It will outride a trade wind of 20 miles “n hour and still travel as fast as an express train, and will carry as many passengers as most Pullman cars average. . We are obligated not to use ZR-3 in war. Count Zeppelin. the inventor were not intended fighting, but only for The swifter and cheaper airplanes excel them for scouting, hence no one need fear that our fight- ing forces will slaughter non-fight- ing populatfons with rains of terror from the great ship. Jven Germany demonstrated the failure of its Zep- pelins as fighting machines. They dared not use them to attack Paris, and their several attacks on London resulted in only 131 deaths. Automo- bile street accidents in the same period killed more than 900. Count Zeppelin must be recognized as one of the great men of the age; not merely by his successful inven- tlon, but by reason of his persistence and genlus. He dared face ridicule and opposition, and the loss of great prestige as an officer in the German ginning that they for active rank of lieutenant general when he | retired at the age of 53 years. After | leaving the army, instead of settling superanuated noble with » expertments with the dream con- ived when, as military attache with n. Grant in our Civil wWar, he watched the observation balloons in the Federal army. on after the war he made his first ascent in @ bal- loon at a Minnesota State fair. In the early 9s he began his | building of rigid dirigidle airships. His first four were destroyed in their | test flights—a loss which ruined him | financially and left mw nothing but @ little cottage in which to live. Yet| he refused to give up. With his fifth ship, built with his wife's fortune, he was so successful that he was hailed as the greatest man in Ger- many, whom the people and the na- tion were eager to finance, The United States will possess two of the greatest Zeppelin airships in the world. What will be accom-i plished with them not even the officers of the aeronautic service will predict. No practical use has yet| been made of the Shenandoah, though the Navy has been enthusiastically ready to send it scouting the Arctic, | to reconnoiter an area 1,000 miles in diameter which has never been ex- plored. The ZR-3 cannot carry | mails as cheaply and swiftly as do airplanes. Its greatest speed corre- sponds with that of express trains, is less than half that of air- planes. x % k% What is the limit of the possible in aeronautics? Within the last few | weeks the well known Washington Bedlam Breaks Loose } In Staid Washington | To the Editor of The Star: I wish to protest most vehemently against the seeming disregard of all of the laws of the land by the citizens of your city. I stopped in front of your office the other day to view a large green board on which were a number of electric lights. 1 heard a bell ring and immediately one of your citizens, a_rather portly but where- withal a dignified gentleman, slapped me on the back, at the same exclaim- ing Attah boy, Jo “Come _ on, Goose!” “Oh, you Peck!” and such like. I gathered, after rectiperating from the blow that one Joe had stolen a goose and then obtained a peck of some food. On a former visit I had learned that there was a famous in- stitution that took care of citizens be- reft of their reason, but little did I know that they went around at large and were allowed to congregate in front of newspaper houses. I had hardly gone a block when an- other citizen came rushing out of a prominent hotel, holding his table napkin in his hand and with his mouth showing the sigas of black- berry pie, yelled in my ear, “What the score. buddy! what's the score! Now., T was not his buddy and I never saw him before. It is true, I had been playing checkers with my wife the night before, but L had forgotten the score. As I did not answer, he gave me a black look and rushed on. 1 proceeded calmly on my way but was stopped by a policeman, who grab- bed my hand and yelled, “Four to three in the tenth!” This protector of the| weak almost broke the bones in_ my band as we parted. As I turned| around he had his arms around a| brother officer and I do believe they were kissing one another. The thought came to me that possibly 1 was slck or dreaming. Now, I will take a little drink, now and then, when I can obtain it. So in order to calm my. nerves, I inquired very quietly of a taxi driver, if he had just little dope, to which he velied, ‘Sure, four to three in the tenth.” This was too much, indeed. I pro- ceeded at once to your District Build- ing to complain to your mayor or Com- missioners, as I afterward learned. They would surely put a stop to all of this” unrulyness. Presenting my card, I was ushered into the Commission- ers’ office. To my surprise, the three of them were sitting at a desk, smok- ing big black cigars. Each of them had a pencil and they were labor- iously working out some great prob- lem for the District citizens. They paid no attention. whatsoever to me, 0 T decided not to, disturb them and sat down and waited. I gathered from their talk that they were comparing the averages of some particular citi- zens of the city of Pittsburgh (which they dubbed the Pirates) and certain members of thelr own municipality, which they referred to as the “Nats.” They seemed to be getting along jolly well and even referred to one an- other as “oyster.” This latter appel- ation was hard to understand as the one dubbed “oyster” more generally seemed to be doing more of the talk- ing and gesticulating whenever the oppertunity _arose, which seemed quite often. Thelr stenographers were busy studying the stock market from the colored sections of the newspapers. There seemed nothing for me to do but pay a visit to the White House and place my grudge before your Chief Executive. I had not passed the por- tals of the White House office before three wild men came rushing at me with that same exclamation I ieard down on the boi she Peansylvanja, “Four to three inventor, C. Francis Jenkins, has discovered a law of physics which has hitherto baffled science. This law threatens to revolutionize flight. Applying the new law, he has con- structed an “artificial bird” which files against the strongest wind of an electric fan, and would plunge directly Into the fan if not restrained by a cord. The stronger the fan's Wwind, the stronger does the grtificial bird fly against it. It has long been observed that an eagle and certain other large birds, without a perzeptible flutter of their wings and can travel against strong winds by such motion- less “soaring.” How the soaring birds can thus defy gravitation and oppose mlmost hurrlcanes, has puz- zled seiencé. Mr. Jenkins seems to have discovered the principle in- volved. His principle has been sub- mitted to the United States Bureau of ‘Standards and there recognized as something new in physics. It has been submitted by the Bureau of Standards to the Hoston Institute of Technology, which has not explained it. ‘The Bernouille theorem and the “ventura tube,” familiar to experts in aeronautics, do not cover the phenomena, declares Mr. Jenkins. He thus expresses his principle: “Any object free to move in a fluid will. move toward that part of the fluid having the swiftest motion.” ¥or example,.if & chip be thrown into a swiftly flowing stream it will quickly 0 to the center, where the water flows the most swiftly. If grain be poured upon a_rapidly moving carrying belt, | such as is used in grain elevators, the loose grain will heap itself up in the middle of the belt, and will not spill off the eides. If a bird wing is given a certain shape, with correct stream- the swift stream of air it meets ight against the wind will divide above and below the wing, and that which passes above will “suck” the wing upward with from two to three times the lifting force of that which puehes it up from below. The sustain- ing power of the air above an airplane WiIng is far greater than of the air be- low the wing. “Suction” is not merely opposition of air pressure against a vacuum. What is it? * % x X Take a common spool and clean off the paper pasted across the ends. Cut a bit of cardboard, the eize of the end of the spool, and stick a pin through the middle, letting it lie loosely in the hole in the spool, 8o that the pin will keep the card from slipping sidewise. Blow through the hole in the spool, without blowing outside, and it will be found impossible to bio off the spool. The stream of air thus blown is swiftly moving, and so the cardbeard will “move toward the fluid having the swiftest motion,” and press the harder against the epool the harder the blowing Mr. Jenkins explains that it does not account for the phenomenon to say that the air pressure above the card holds it against the “reduced air pressure in- side of the spool,” for the air ineide had the same pressure as the alr above, be- fore the blowing, and whatever pre sure within is added by the blowing— an ounce or pounds—is just that much | pressure against the card. | additional Whether a steady blow or a sudden PUft it does not dislodge the card, It is { not a caseof vacuum and air pressure. | | Opposition thus creates power of re- sistance, and when that principle is properly apphied to aviation, the glider, with proper streamlines, will fly strong- est against opposing wind, and do so without any self-propulsion from gas engines, even though heavier than air. The soaring birds are heavier than air, and they soar with apparently motion- less wings, because “any bird, free to move in a fluid—air—will move toward that part of the fluid—toward the point from which the fluld—the air—has the swiftest motion.” How soon will dirigible lighter-than- air_bailoons be out of date? Whera is Darius Green, who might exclai ‘The birde soar high, So soar will 11" (Copyright, 192 1 V. Coll; tenth!” This was too much. I in- quired immediately where I might ob- tain lodgings in a hospital. They called an ambulance and took me to the Emergency Hospital. It was a short distance, but I do believe in that short ride I heard the driver and the physician say fifty times, “Four to three in the tenth!” It was too much. I do not seem to understand this outburst of rudeness and lawless- ness which for so many years has been one of the noblest traits of vour citizens. Since writing this, I have learned that this condition will remain until about the second week in October and that then every citizen is going to assemble at a certain park within the boundaries of Seventh avenue and the State of Florida street to celebrate the winning of a certain flag. Mr. Editor, if your citizens get any worse, which is hardly possible, then there is one citizen of England who is going to be on a boat bound for dear old England. IRVING M. GREY. P. S—A kind friend of mine has just influenced me to play a thousand pounds on what he calls “The Nats.” As he has very good judgment I have decided to remain a few weeks longer. The Study of Man. Here is a youth who killed his father because he was “tired of his swearing about the house,” and there fs another youth who killed an aged hermit be- cause he thought the latter had accused him of stealing chickens. A Los Angeles young woman passed hundreds of dollars’ worth of bogus checks in San Francisco “because she hated the town."” A Minneapolis young couple, 19 and 17 years, abandoned their 10-day-old babe to unknown hands because “it was the baby or the automobile—we couldn’t take caré of both.” An overgrown Maryland boy killed a man so that he could get possession of 3 cents the lat- ter had. Mary MacGuire, once rich, but now old and infirm, dies alone and penniless in a Kansas City basement after 29 years of fighting loyalty to four sons, all of whom were criminals and des- peradoes. An old, bent man goes each day to the office of the Indiana Su- preme Court clerk to pore for hours over the transcript of an alimony case that was decided against him many years ago. A Minnesota couple buys an old gruesome and discarded auto-hearse and will change the curtains and win- dows, put in a regular bed and employ it as their home during a 3,500-mile auto trip. A West Virginia Republican, piqued because a neighbor named his new-born babe after Davis, responded by naming his twins “Hell” and “Maria. Hundreds of visitors daily visit the grave of young Calvin Coolidge and | they have literally hacked a nearby stone fence to pieces and carried the broken rocks away as souvenirs. “Comanche,” Gen. Custer's famous war horse and one of the two living things to escape the Little Big Horn massacre, now stands stuffed in the University of Kansas,-and “Comanche” has had sevén. talls since his death, be- cause souvenir hunters have robbed him, a hair at a time, all thinking they were securing hairs from the original tail. ‘The most interesting study of man- kind is man. View your newspaper of the day from that angle and you will, as 18 here set down, find the things to straln your logic, syour philosophy and your wonder.—Kalamazoo Gazeite, | the Literary Digest, writes: THIS AND THAT BY C. E. TRACEWELL., Should it be written “bob-haired,” “bobbed-hair,” or ‘“bobbed-haired” girl? Next to the ladies getting their hair bobbed, the question of how to describe the result is the most press- ing’ In countless newspaper _offices ceaseless argument has gone on for the past six months as to the best form of word combination to state the | case in relation to a girl with bobbed halr. The argument has spread into hun- dreds of homes, where those interest- | ed in the proper use of the English language have discussed the ques- tion. Like most arguments, there is something to be said on both sides of the matter, or, in this particular case, upon all three sides of the question. Most persons, however, are mot grammarians either by instinct or training, so that their efforts to elu- cidate this question, either to their own satisfaction or that of others, are not very illuminating. * ¥ % % It is interesting, therefore, to know that ong of the leading lexicographers of the world and the “referee” at the Government Printing Office both are in favor of the use of bob-haired” to describe a girl or woman who has succumbed to the latest decree of fashion in hair dressing Dr. Frank H. Vizetelly, managing | editor of the New Standard Dic-| tionary and famous lexicographer of | “Why there should be any discus- sion on three perfectly good ex-| pressions 1 do not know, unless it be that we are all suffering from some form of complex that will not enable us to see things correctly. “In the sentence ‘A bob-haired| girl' the term ‘bob-haired’ is used a: a compound adjective qualitying ‘girl.’ Here the word ‘bob’ is an adjective which has been in use with the sense of ‘cut shory for more than 200 years—'bob’ is a synonym of ‘bobbed’ which antedates it, for ‘bobbed’ for ‘cut short’ dates from 1658. Just as we speak of ‘a short-horned cow’ we may speak of a ‘bob-haired girl’ The | that bit of cardboard | | West-African buffalo is commonly { known as ‘the short-horned buffalo.’ We have also a ‘short-horned grass- | hopper’ and ‘short-sighted persons | | and policies’ we have had with us for years. | “As to the second form of expres-| | sion, ‘bobbed-hair girl,” this is an in-| version of the expression ‘a girl with | bobbed hair.”” Now, inasmuch as ‘bob' |is an adjective and may be hyphe-| |nated with ‘haired. ‘bobbed” also be- | ing an adjective may be hyphenat with ‘hair and the two expressions | remain perfectly good English: but I am free to confess that I prefer the first to the second. Neither of them, however, is wrong. By the same token, if ‘haired’ is permissible in the first sentence, it is equally permissi- Ible in the third sentemce, ‘bobbed- | haired girl { *The adjective ‘haired’ dates back | to the Chaucerian or late middle lish period of English literature. We had had ‘black-haired,’ ‘brown-hai ed’ ‘golden-haired, ‘long-haired, | 'short-haired’ damsels, even as we| have had ‘one-horse shays' when we | really meant ‘one-horsed shays.' Of | | course, you remember the old squib |about the word ‘unique'—unis, one: | equus, horse, and ‘one-horse towns'! we have spoken of idiomatically for years. “It we follow the analogy of the| word ‘bob-tailed, a form¥that dates | from about-1600, then we would use | the plain adjective ‘bob’ in preference | to the longer form ‘bobbed.’ " | * ¥ X X John A. Cotter, referee of the proof- room at the Government Printing| Office, says: “In answer to your letter regard- ing the correct form of ‘a bob-haired girl, ete, I am writing to say that 1 believe that ‘a bob-haired girl' is the correct form, for the following reasons: “First. The definition of the Stand- ard Dictionary for ‘bob’ is' “To cut short; as to bob a horse’s tail or| mane’; and its meaning of ‘bob-tailed’ is ‘Having the tail bobbed, or cut short, as a horse.’ “Arguing by anilogy, therefore, a| girl who had her hair cut short would | be called a ‘bob-haired girl’ “Second. While 1 have given the determining reason for my opinion, it is strengthened by euphony, which in the end will decide the form used. You eliminate the ‘ed, which in con- Jjunction with the word ‘haired’ mars the smoothness of the expression. Of course, it is unusual to use the in- finitive or indicative form of a verb as an adjective. Since the Standard uses it in connection with ‘bob-tailed horse' it is not obligatory for a lay man to defend it." * X ¥ ¥ There you have it, first from a man who probably has the largest vocabu- lary in the world, and second, from an official who deals with mooted questions and fine points for the| great Government print shop. i As far apart as New York and| Washington, it speaks volumes for | good usage that both are in favor of | the expression “a bob-haired girl.” | Women, of course, will be more in- terested in the question: To bob, or not to bob. Naturally! Women and girls are ever practical, so the debate as to usage will not interest them as much as the selection of the proper beauty parlor or barber shop. Yet usage, in this as in other mat- ters, is of intense interest, for the way we speak of a thing often de- termines our like or dislike, and our way of regarding the whole question. To me it always seemed that the use of the petty term “flu” for a serious and insiduous disease was a great mistake, as it tended to minimize the affliction in the minds of many, and thereby prevent early treatment. There is this much to be said for high-sounding names, that they do lend a certain dignity to any subject. “Oh, it's just the flu,” wasa flippant mistake, both from a psychological and medical standpoint. Never should this illness be spoken of, either by word of mouth or in print, other than as “influensza.” Thousands of husbands would wel- come their wives as bob-haired beau- ties (to use Dr. Vizetelly's choice) if the controversy were taken out of the subject. One of the ways of doing this is to settle, once and for all, this thing of usage. : But when the public is faced daily by three different methods of spell- ing, the whole matter becomes troublesome. Recently in a newspaper article about a girl with bobbed hair the term was spelled in the three different ways. In the article itself the phrase “bobbed-hair” was used. In the head- line the term “bob-haired” appeared and beneath the photograph of the girl were the words “bobbed-haired.” That certainly was playing safe! And, it must be admitted, none wa strictly incorrect. Certainly euphony, the sound of the thing, will in the long run have mach to do with the phrase which will be adopted universally. The people rule, in therend. The term that- trips off the tongue easiest will finally be the best English. To my way of thinking “bobbed- haired” is the easiest to say, and at the same time is perfectly correct. As Dr. Vizetelly points out, if “bobbed” is permissible in ‘bobbed-hair,” and “haired” is perfectly proper in “bob- . Q. Please publish the preamble to defend the Constitution of the United States of America; to maintain law |supposed to live from one to nine says that a cream testing 40 per cent temperature | Cream whipped at a low temperature | {pedoes and which caught fire when lon | of March 15, 1924, from 629 to 584. | tude ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. Ts the base ball diamond used by the National League clubs the same size as that of the American League clubs?—B. W. T. A. Both leagues use a diamond 90 feet square. the constitution of Legion—M. N. A. “For God and Country, we as- sociate ourselves together for the following purposes: To uphold and the American and order: to foster and perpetuate | a 100 per cent Americanism; to pre- | serve the memories and incidents | of our association In the great war; to inculcate a sense of individual| obligation to the community, State and Nation; to combat the autocracy | of both the classes and the masses; to make right the matter of might; to promote peace and good will on earth; to safeguard and transmit to posterity the prigeiples of justice and democracy; to consecrate and sanctify our comradeship by our de- | votion to mutual helpfulness.” Q. How much butter fat must cream contain in order that it may be whipped?—E. F. G. A. The Department of Agriculture butter fat will whip, but the suc- cess of the whipping qualities will depend entirely upon the tempera- ture at which it is whipped and the of the utensils used. will take longer to attain its full state and if the temperature is too | Warm it churns rather han whips. Q. What was the chemical used in bombs which were made fast to tor- they came In contact with water’— H M L i A. The chemical used in the smoke bombs wkich causes them to catch fire immediately upon contact with water is calcium carbide. Q. Please give names of scented teas—H. M. S. A. The tea investgation section of the Department of Agriculture says that two popular scented teas are China Jasmine and scented Orange Pekoe. some Q. How many kings of France were not crowned at Rheims?—T. T. A. Only three French monarchs, Henry 1V, Louis VIII and Napoleon 1 | were not crowned at Rheims. | | Q. Please state the point from | which Ezra Meeker started, in 1%54, | his famous ox-team journey. which landed him in Oregon in five months.—A. S. A. Ezra Meeker started four miles out of Indianapolis on the National road. He has written a book on his Jjourney entitled ‘The Ox-Team or ©Old Oregon Train.’ Q. How many of the chemical elements are found in Ssea water’— W. S. F. A. Thirty-two of the ninety-two elements known to exist have been found in sea water. Sclentists be- lieve that most of the others are| there, and await merely the develop- ment of new methods of chemical analysis to bring them to lignt. | These chemicals have been wasned | into the sea from the rocks of tne | land. Every year 500,000,000 tons of | salts are carried to the Sea by the American rivers alone. Q. When did John Wesley begin to | preach?—W. O. 8. A. John = Wesley communicated | publicly his opinions and commenced | his itinerant preaching May 24, 173%. | The Wesleyan Methodisy Society as such was founded in 173. | Q. Who was Mrs. A A. This is the name of a character in Sheridan’s “School for Scandal” who slandered people under the guise of frankness. Candour?—R. G. Q. How many members has the French Chamber of Deputies?—A. G. H. A. The number was reduced by law | Q. What meant by saying that 2 pergon has a complex—E. T. S A. Complex is one of a number of psvchological terms which have not been standardized as to meaning. In his “New Psychology” Tansley uses the term complex to mean any group of associated ideas which is bound together by an emotion of “feeling tone.” Any one of the ideas belonging to the group calls the rest into consciousness through the me- dium of the feeling tone that is com- mon to the group. An individual's occupation and all the words and thoughts which suggest his work to him would make up one of his most marked complexes, and the feeling tone would be pleasant or unpleasant according to the individual's atti- toward his work. Organized knowledge of any sort forms a chain system of ideas in the mind, but un less the system is bound together by | & pronounced feeling toward the| ideas there is no complex. Freud Double-Entry Account Of Human Health Virtually the' dynamic address of Sir David C. Bruce before the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Toronto offers a double- entry account as between human health and modern civilization, in which the latter has both credits and debits. Among the credits are bathtubs, saner living, shorter hours of work, serum safeguards against bacterial diseases, safer milk and water sup- plies, the X-ray and more efficient surge: Among the debits are pol- ished rice, whitened flour, tinned beef, tinned vegetables and the unrealized poisons incident to sewage disposal. Dr. Bruce, chairman of the govern- ing board of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, declared: “The untutored savage living on’ the nat- ural fruits of the earth and the chase knows no deficiency disease.” Civilization, partly because of these debit items, has not been very suc- cessful in keeping down disease. Ac- cording to Dr. Bruce, illness among insured working people in Britain represents idleness and economic loss equivalent to having 376.000 toilers out of work the year 'round. He fig- ures the money loss there as $750,- 000.000 a year and the loss in the United States at $3,000,000,000 an- nually. Science Is discovering things all the time. We know something about the need of vitamines—what used to be called a “balanced diet” was an un- conscious acknowledgment of their existence. We know something and may scon know more about the part that the glands play in human health and human growth. Most of us will agree with Sir David's conclusion: Medicine in future must change its strategy. Instead of awalting attack it must assume the offensive. It must no longer be said, “the man was so sick that he had to call a doctor.” But the philosopher will note that in this attitude of the “offensive”. mod- ernity will only be going back to Confucian common sense. The China- man pays a physician to keep him and the psychoanalysts use the term in a more restricted sense. To them a complex is an abnormal condition resulting from an individual's at- tempt to repress his attitude toward a group of associated ideas and to drive the whole complex out of consciousness. This congests and raises the potential energy of the complex and results in a ‘trouble- making mental twxist. Q. How long dc bees live?—J. H A. Working bees and drones are months, while the life of the queen bee is rarely more than three years. Q. Who was Chief Standing Bear? —J. F. M. A. Chief Standing Bear was a Pon- ca chief. The Panca tribe of Indians is now located in Oklahoma and Nebraska. Q. In what foods and what is its function A alcium is found in the following foods: Cauliflower, celery, buttermilk, spinach, cheese, milk, cabbage, string beans, carrote, blackberries, strawber- ries, onions, figs, tomatoes, lemon juice, dried beans, eggs, beets, fresh peas, oat- meal, prunes, raisins, potatoes, whole- wheat bread, white bread, lean beef and cornmeal. Calcium heips to build bones and teeth. Q. When s culled ?—W. C. A If a single systematic culling is made it shou!d be done in August or ptember. At this time it is easier to estimate the relative value of a hen as an egg producer and to weed out pc ones. It is best, however, to cull out any hen which is which is very thin, or which shows eyidences of non-production, weaknees or poor vitality. calcium found F. R hould a poultry flock be Q. Wat will take paint spots off linoleum?—P. R. O. A. To remove paint from linoleum saturate the spot with equal parts of turpentine and spirits of ammonia, then wash with warm soapsuds. BQ\.,Whal star is the most distant?— A. The Naval Observatory says there is no one star that is known as the most distant. Prof. Harlow Shapley of Harvard College Observa- tory has recently discussed a nebu- tous area in the skyv in which are some exceedingly faint stars; and these stars, according to Prof. Shap- ley, are probably distant from the earth something like 1,000,000 1i yea A light year is equal to 000,000,000 miles. Q. How many people were Killed by automobiles last year?—L. Y. K A. The National ~Safety Council says that the number of automobile fatalities for the vear 1923 in the United States has not vet been ac curately determined, but the latest estimates place it at 15,700, with an additional 1.750 which occurred at grade crossings, making an appro mate total of 17,450. This avera between 47 and 48 per day. Q. What animals furnish the most food to man in proportion to the feed they require?—A. M A. The Department of Agzriculture says that considering the amount of fo0d for hum.ns produced by the mals from the food raised on an of land, the dairy cow leads all ers. Next to the dairy cow in production from the vield on an of land comes the hog. Q. How man; meetings in M; —F. H A. The seating capacity of Madison Square Garden, set for boxing <con- test or meeting. is approximately 14,000. When it is set without floor chairs, the capacity is approximately people can attend son Square Garden” Q. Was there a time when preachers were opplauded’—E. G. T. A. Eusebius s that Paul of Sa- mosata encouraged the congregation to applaud his preaching by waving linen cloths, and in the fourth and fifth centuries applause of the efforts of popular preachers was customary The reverential spirit of worshipers however, gradually led to the aboli- tion of applause. Q. When founded?—W. O. H A. Samuel Cunard in 1339 joined with George Burns and David Mclver in founding the British and North American Roval Mail Steamship Packet Company. From this the present Cunard Steamship Company was evolved. The first ship of the company, “Britannia,” made its first voyage in 1540, was the Cunard Line _ (dre you ever hampered for want of information? Do you wonder gnd biun- der through misinformation? This col- umn was instituted to serve @ very ap- parent meed of our rcaders. and its popularity is atiested by the thousands who scek information daily. Use this service and learn its possibilitics. Ad- dress inquiries to The Star Information Buregu, Frederic J. Haskin, Dircctor Twenty-first and C strects northwest Inclose a two-cent stamp for a direct reply.) The Passing of the Human Affections Listen while the bride introduces her man. “This,” she savs, “Is my husband.” 1In her tone is a vast pride. It is the tone emploved by the man who caught an 8-pound bass and the man whose walls are adorn- ed with antlers spreading 6 feet. It means that she has traveled a long and weary way and at last has ar- rived. It means that after long travail she has captured a knight a hero, a god. a male who is flawles in all ways and can do'no wrong But the months pass. as momths will. and she observes him in hispa- jamas without a shave and With rumpled hair. She discovers thatjihis knees knock. She discovers thaf he won't walk under a ladder. She is- covers that he cusses unbeautifRlly when a rear tire explodes. She @is- covers that he pouts and that. he thinks his mother in many ¥s superior to her. ‘Things happen that way. And now hear her when she introduces her husband. “This” she savs, “is BilL" Her tone is the one she would use if confessing that the milk was sour. that the children had the measles. that all her decent frocks were at home, that the mole on her left cheek was inherited. 3 Bill doesn’t mind especially. ' He has learned the philosophy that comes to the rescue of all husbands He knows he never can hope to he a credit to his wife. but the “fellers still think him alright. He is “good old Bill" who pays when his time comes. And his wife isn't to blame. Kvar=- body is that way. Little Bab's new doll becomes a bore in a week. She wishes to dissect it and remove the sawdust from its tummy. ‘The hat Mabel adores in.the shop window tortures her soul each time she puts it on a week later. Mary has it bobbed and within a fortnight weeps into her pillow for her long tresses The clipping you tossed into the waste basket a week ago would b almost invaluable now. The bit of furniture that was to brighten your living room resembles something the cat dragged in Our affections won't stay put. 1t they would all of us would die of well and stops paying him if sickness comes. Psychologically that is a tre- broken hearts when the people and the treasures we cherish are taken haired,” then “bobbed.haired” vomlnendou- advantage.—Brooklyn Dally from us. What a blessing it is ta secem to solve the question best, Bagle. forget!—Baltimore Evening Sun..