Evening Star Newspaper, October 13, 1924, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY.......October 13, 1924 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Basincss Oftice, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave Ny York Office: 110 Fast #2ud St. icago Office: Tower Building. Earopean Otfice: 16 Regent St.,London, England. The Evening Star. with the Sundny morning edition, is delivered by curriers w eity af 60 cents per month: dally eents per month: Sunday oaly, month Oriders may be sent by mail or tele- phone Main 5000. Collcction is made by ca Fiers at the end of each wooth. cents’ per Rate by Mail—Payable in Advi Maryland and Virginin. Daily and s . $8.40:1 mo., 70¢ Daily only ..1yr. $6.00:1 mo., [0c Sunday only .....1yr. §2.4v:1 mo., 20¢ All Other States. Daily and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00;1 mo., 85¢ Daily only J1yr. $7.00:1 mo., 60c Sunday only ....1yr, $3.00;1 mo., 25¢ Member of the Axsocinted Press. The Associated Press ix exclusively entitled o the use for republication of all news dis- Patches credited to 1t or uot otherwise credite in this paper and also the local mews pub. listed Leein Al ta of publication of special disputches Lerein are also reserved. A Record Vote in Sight. “Vote November 4! Vote as you Pplease, but vote!” So runs the slogan that is sounding try, in expression of a steadily grow- ing feeling that it is the urgent duty of all Americans who are enfranchised 1o exercise that privilege to cast their ballots for Federal executives and for legislators, so that the cheice of Presi- dent and Vice President may be made by the people themselves, and that the Congress may be representative of the popular w An evidence of the effect of this con- stant ul ng is afforded by the com- pleted registration in Greater New York. Saturday was the final day. At the close of the day 1,494,150 voters had recorded themselves, a new record, 120 the previous high mark of per cent sreater than ration in that year. Other registration tigure than in New people used to the of at Jeast getting their polling lists, whether or 10 the polls on election duy. There is t that than 30,000,000 ots will be which will be the largest number and highest centage of the population eve cising the franchise in the country In 1912 the popular 15,031,340, T was the great Republican split, when partisan ship was keenly manifested. Yet there was a large stay-at-home vote o 1o the dissatisfaction of many licans with the party a feeling of confidence Democrats that the sured. In 1916 the 10 18,487,626, in a party fig b ingly close me vote was smaller, yet many millions of poten- tial voters failed to cast their In 1 there due conside sure to the adoption of the nineteenth amendment enfranchising the women of the coun- try. The total of the ballots cast was 26,70 number the largest percentage of the popula- | tion ever recorded at the pol since the organization of the Government. An increase to 30,000,000 would be due this year to an intensive effort | 1o get the people aroused to the duty | of voting, rather than to any enlarge- ment of the franchise. Many women | ‘who in 1920 were unwilling to exer- cise the newly granted privilege will | probably overcome their feeling of hesitancy and go to the polls. Many. men who have herctofore slacked on election day will be stimulated to vote, perhaps because of the possibility that, through the intervention of a third- party candidacy, the clection may be thrown into Congress, where a de- cision contrary to the popular will may be made. setting ove 1920, or 8.7 the regi elsewhere The nee names on the ot they go ork, show gains. have bee more cast exer tot. vote was year of the conditions and on the victory t that e exceed- was a increase, in > oms Parls announces that she is selling fashions in dress to an enormous number of American buyers. There are ways of helping to finance Eu-| rope which neither statesmen nor | bankers dwell upon with persistent emphasis. et A little effort may be required to ‘explain to casual investors that the new bonds have nothing whatever to Mo with the souvenir money so lib- lrally issued by Germany. ————————— Transatlantic Flight. ZR-3 is in flight between Europe @nd America. this moment. The airship sailed from Friedrichshafen, Germany, Sunday morning at 6:35, and at 9:30 o'clock Sunday evening passed Cape Ortegal on the Bay of Biscay, and turning west “headed into the open Atlantic.” IThis morning she was reported safe at the Azores. All well so far. The course of this ship is beinz fol- Bowed with interest by a large part of the world's population. There is no sloubt that a dirigible can make a long enough flight to cross the Atlantic, ®nd can cover that distance at greater ®peed than a fast train travels. It is the vulnerability of the dirigible to sgtorm that gives so much uncertainty to the performance of such a ship, fhe colossus seems to require nearly calm weather, or at least must try to evoid very windy weather. It is de- &irable also to avoid electric storms, for the bulk of the ship among the clouds makes it a target for lightning. In the case of the ZR-3 she waited in Germany until all weather reports showed the way to be clear, but re- ports cannot give information as to the weather over the whole course to ‘e taken, and a storm may develop on the way even when fair weather was previously indicated. If the ZR-3 reaches her destination—Lakehurst, N. J.—her crew will be given a joyous reception and will be set down i~ the records as pioneer voyagers by dirigi- Ple between Europe and America. The westward voyage of the ZR-3 recalls the eastward flight of the ‘American transatlantic flyers in 1919, That was the first crossing of the At- lantic by man in any form of * mg' machine.” It aroused a greater of public interest than is manifest in 9 throughout the coun- | gl Repub- | ballots. | and | That is the report at | the voyage of the ZR-3. The Btar, May 31, 1919, printed this news: “The American naval transatlantic flight, which began at Rockaway Beach, Long Island, May 8, was completed successfully today with the arrival of the NC-4 at Plymouth, England, after a 500-mile hop from Ferrol, Spain.” That plane, driven by Lieut. Comdr. Albert C. Read, was the survivor of three which undertook the flight. The recent crossing of the Atlantic by short hops from fsland to island in the far North is fresh in the public mind, and it is possible that before many years the crossing of the At- lantic by plane and dirigible may be- come quite commonplace. Anatole France. | Jacques Anatole Thibault is dead. The statement is not significant in that form. For the man so born and | named was unknown, inasmuch it was by his adopted title of Anatole | France that he was recognized as his country’s greatest master of letters. His choice of a pseudonym was recog- | \nized as appropriate early in his | career. For it was the spirit of France that he breathed through his many works. He symbolized the genius of the nation. Anatole France was not so widely familiar to American readers as some | other French authors, notably Zola and Hugo, for the reason that he did not write in a manner to appeal great- Iy to foreigns through translation. He was not sensational in his choice of | themes or in their treatment. He was | the sincere Yterary artist. In his skill | of expression, his delicacy of differen. | tiation, his characterizations, his | depth of knowledge he was a supreme | | | master. Anatole please a * France public.” never sought to He wrote as he was impelled, by the spirit of creation. | | Steadily throughout his career he | gained larger and larger numbers of | He became recognized as the | | | { readers! | eration in his country. He was elect- | | ed to the French Academy. He was | revered in his later vears, and at 80 | | he was accorded a nation-wide tribute | | of affection and respect such as per- | | haps no other writer has ever been | given in life. ‘\ ! 1t was an unusual fact that Jacques | | Anatole Thibault was the son of a| {bookman and became himself the | | creator of books. He was born in an atmosphere of letters, his father being one of the best known dealers in books Paris. His shop was the center of | gatherings of bibliophiles and writers, | In his carliest days little Jacques Ana- tole absorbed the atmosphere of litera- | ture. He was educated for the profes- He, as have few men ever i in | sion | the history of the creative arts, went | for | work yw passes the “grand old man” of French letters, who has contributed so richly to his nation’s wealth, who | 1 & i i 2 almost from birth into that life | i THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON; D. C., MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1924. FLOWERS For the Living 80 in the Atlanta Penitentiary had no effect whatever upon his criminal character. He is evidently one of the determined breakers of the laws whom punishment will not cure. He must be an extraordinary person, gifted with arts of deception and plucky to the last degree. The accom- plice who was captured after the New Britain crime has acknowledged Chapman’s identity and has told the story of their association. They met, it seems, last July at Springfield, Mass., and later planned this robbery. They set out with a full equipment of burglar’'s tools and weapons, deter- mined not to be taken alive if inter- rupted in their work. Shean, the ac- complice, has failed to carry out this purpose. Chapman’s story remafns to be told. Labor’s Revolt From Domination. As developments rapidly occur it becomes evident that the movement in labor circles, which culminated last Friday in the organization of the Democratic national labor committee, politics. The creation of this commit- tee as an adjunct of the Democratic national committee and for the furtherance of the Democratic presi- dential campaign is a strictly partisan movement, but is nonesthe less note- worthy and significant. The important feature is that marks rejection of an attempted dom- ination by a certain group of leaders over the political freedom of organized labor. are directed to the aid of the La Fol- lette presidential candidacy the move- ment now under way in resistance | thereof will also serve to unfetter Re- publican voters in union labor ranks. while partisan in this particular case, will become bi-partisan as it spreads to unleash from the group control of a small clique of leaders the vast bulk foremost literary creator of his gen-| of organized labor. Those who wish to follow La Follette will do so, the Re publican voters will adhere to thei own party and the Democratic labor voters will go to John W. Davis. The chairman of the newly created Demo- cratic national labor committee, Maj George L. Berry. is quoted as saying that the resistance to the mandate of Mr. Gompers and the exccutive coun- cil of the American Federation of La- bor has stirred up a storm among the rank and file of the federation “from Maine to California and from the Canadian border to the gulf.” Let it be so, for it will be all to the eneral good and to labor’s benefit in the Labor quite intelligent enough to form its own judgment on political issues and, as Maj. Berry well points out, “any attempt to de- liver the labor vote en bloc as a policy would destroy the foundation of Amer- | ican institutions.” end. is ———— Great credit is due the excavators was so ardent a patriot that he en-| rolled himself at the age of 70 as a ate in the ranks of the French army when the land was invaded, who | | was so sincere an artist that no word of adverse criticism is raised against | nis taste or his work. Trul { ing is deeply to be mourned and whose | gifts to humanity are so highly to be , appreciated. | ——e———————— There may be a few shrewd in- vestors who would rather take a chance on backing the Russian bal- lets and operas than on backing the Soviet government. The correlation of art and government has seldom been intimate. ————————— It was too much to expect even Calvin Coolidge to keep cool during | the deciding game of the world series. ————————— China has at least succeeded in dis- posing of the old impression that it was a nation of pacifists. A good ball player loves the game, but, apparently, does not care much for “society."” ————————— A Bad Man at Large. A band of burglars vesterday was | surprised in attempting to blow a| safe in a large mercantile establish- ment in New Britain, Conn., a po- liceman was shot to death and one of the cracksmen was captured and is now held. Another member of the band was recognized as Gerald Chap- man, notorious jail breaker and thief, who has a record of three sen- sational escapes from custody. Search for him is now being hotly conducted and his capture may be expected, for he is a marked man and cannot hope to elude pursuit indefinitely. Chapman first came to the front |in crime three years ago, when he with two others held up a mail truck in New York City and got away with $1,000,000 in cash and securities. He and one of his accomplices were cap- tured and convicted, but before be- ing brought to trial Chapman got away from the postal inspectors and was taken as he stood on the edge of a roof in New York ready to leap into the street. He was convicted in August, 1922, and received a sen- tence of 25 years at Atlanta. Seven months later he and a fellow convict, both inmates of the prison hospital, escaped. They overpowered a male nurse, slid down ropes made from sheets, went through a tunnel to the tubercular camp, shortcircuited the switches to darken the prison yard and clambered over the walls by means of grappling hooks furnished by confederates. They made their es- cape from the city by coercion of a citizen in whose house they took refuge. Two days later, however, Chapman was recaptured at Athens, Ga., after an interchange of shots, in which he was wounded. He was put into a hospital in that city, un- | who manage to draw much attention to ancient citles that had no electric lights, no radio, no trolle no | motion pictures and, in fact, none of | the really modern improvements. cars, one of | | the great men of France, whose pass- | { SHOOTING STARS. BY PAILANDER JOHNSON. Tribute Evaded. We had a little ball game down to Pohick on the Crick. Home team won the final, an’ we won it pretty slick. We got up a reception to display our great esteem An’ planned a demonstration like an Oriental Dream. But our Pitcher lives in Kansas, and he had to take the train. And the Catcher had to hurry on his way with might an’ main. Our heroes all have scattered into regions quite remote, And only just the fans are left to jol- lify an’ gloat. This Rootin®’ for the Home team is & duty that we like. The banners we're displaying gayly up an’ down the Pike. When they took along the pennant we arose an’ said, “‘Oh, Boy!” An’ when they win the series—life can show no greater jo; But when we seek to hold them for a simple village splurge, We find 'em overtaken by the home- and-mother urge. the way they did the trick— Yet we wish more of 'em lived right here in Pohick on the Crick. ‘With Him. “When you make a speech do you feel that your audience is with you?” “Occasionally,” replied Senator Sor- ghum,” I have an audience that leaves me no doubt as to its immediate pres- ence. It throws things.” Contrary Motion, ‘We hear sad voices calling. ‘We quaff no cheerful cup. The Autumn leaves are falling, But the corn is going up. Jud Tunkins says, thanks to pro- hibition, celebrators are able to articu- late “We won't go home till morning” as late as 4 or 6 a.m.” Tossing in a Thrill The agent who sees that the diners are dry May not look for a greeting that's hearty; Though at times he may prove, when excitement is shy The genuine life of the party. Superabundance. “Crimson Gulch needs leadership!” said the stranger. “You've got it wrong,” answered Cactus Joe. “Crimson Gulch has so much leadership talent that we're kind o' held up waitin’ to decide who' goin’ to be boss.” Heroes of the Hour. der close guard. Again he made use of sheets to escape and was found in the basement by his guard and a nurse. Chapman, though disabled, at- tacked, and the nurse fainted from fright and the guard was overpow- ered. Chapman took the guard's clothes and got away. Since then nothing has been heard of him un- til he was recognized yesterday at New Britain as one of the burglars. This is a dangerois man, resource- {ful and desperate. His half year or. I wonder why my Candidate Can cause me such concern. If, bat in hand, we saw him wait His chance a run to earn, I'm pretty sure he'd make a pass ‘Which did no good at all, And, sorrowing, remark, “Alas I always slice the ball!” “Patience an’ perseverance don't allus win,” sald Uncle Eben. “I been losin’ my $2 on de same hoss foh de ’ six weeka" : is to be of real importance in national | it While the cfforts of this group | So the movement now under way, | | respectfully near, | with their { the | oras, | but the We're proud of all the boys and of | "THIS AND THAT BY C. E. TRACEWELL. ‘What has become of the street plano man? Once there was a time in Wash- ington when no morning was com- plete in the residential sections with- out a serenade by the hurdy-gurdy. Little children would stand at the window: waiting for the appear- ance of the swarthy music maker, hoping that he would stop in front of their house. Innocent ones! They were the very signs the man was looking fo! once he spotted their blond heads |sticking up over the window sill he knew he had earned his dinner. Today all that is changed. Now the street piano men are disappear- ing, giving way to the phonograpn, the player-piano and the radio. Only the other day a street piano man, “the first to be observed in months, was seen plodding his way over the Dumbarton, or Q street bridge, pulling his machine after him He seemed a relic out of the past, recalling the days when street music of all kinds was flourishing here * x * % Those were the days of the so- called German bands and the wan- dering trios, the latter usually com- posed of flute, violin and harp play- ers, with their battered but good in- struments. What sweet music they made, play- ing under the trees on a hot evening, as they sat on the sidewalk, blowing, bowing and plucking their ments. Around in a ring the children of the neighborhood would be grouped. These players did not emulate the humble hurdy-gurdy man who went from house to house, although strains from his portable box could rd for blocks. The trio men camped in the center of a square and let their music saturate the entire neighborhood While they were playing the chil- dren, strangely quiet, would stand watching the flut- ist puff away, the violinist caress his instrument, the harpest trickle his fingers across his strings. Many children undoubtedly got their first love for good music from these wandering musicians. They played mostly the best compositions, with now and then a popular p sandwiched in. Even these latter they played with true feeling Those were the days before called jazz music. and the rhythm of the fox-trot had captivated the land The old “coon songs’ had given to a better brand of popular mus in which the waltz and two-st rhythms predominated It was in the playing of the old Vienna waltzes, however, and in simi- lar music that the street trios did their best work, bringing the lilt and poetry of those compositions right to the homes of the National Capital. Those were the days, too, before the concert and recital business made a real go of it There was not much music to be sccured at any cost. The phonographs were just being put on a musical basis, although they had been a mechanieal marvel for some vears. Into the streets, then, came the tric soft strains. For music o' an evening, nothing can quite equal the combination of violin, flute and harp. Something there is about it that suits evening mood. The combination is one of the most popular on the re to0. it is to the eternal credit of thes wandering minstreis that they played mostly good music. Unknown they were, music they played was classic. It was melodious, but high class, most of it taken from the works of the old German masters. Right here 1 want to say a word for the German music masters. It scems to | me that if aly the rest of the music of IN TODAY’S BY PAUL ¥ This week the great Zeppelin, ZR-3. is expected to appear upon the eastern horizon in its transatlantic flight from Friedrichshafen, Germany to Lakehurst, N. J. It s than the Shenandoah, having a gas capacity of 2,472,000 cubic feet, while the Shenandoah’s capacity i 2.115,000 feet, though the latter 24 feet longer than ZR-3. It is con structed for commerce and not for war | use. It can carry bombs but has lux- urious quarters for 20 passengers, and fittings for mail and freight. % e At the clase of the war Germany possessed many Zeppelins, but she destroyed all but seven before the allies could interfere. Two were as- signed to each of three countries— England, France and Italy—and one to Japan. The United States was not asking for war reparations then, but later put in an application for one modern Zeppelin, which was granted in the treaty of Versailles, on con- dition that it should be constructed solely for commerce. While awaiting its delivery we bought from England one that had been built by the British after the war, but. inflated with hydrogen, in its trial flight in Eng- land, it exploded and fell in tragic destruction. * ok K X The practical usefulness of the monster airships is yet to be demon- strated. They failed to meet expec- tations in the war as bombers, but| partisans of lighter-than-air ships claim that they will prove invaluable | as long-distance scouts where air- planes could not serve. When the ZR-3 will have demon- strated its success as a carrier of commerce, Great Britain will under- take to use similar ships in a regu- lar line of subsidized traffic between London and India. Spain is planning a route between Seville and Buenos Alres, and France a line from Paris to her African colonies. It is said that for such transatlantic flights there will be ships two or three times as great as any Zeppelin now existing, which involves engineering problems of construction not vyet solved, for securing strength and rigidity in such long reaches, with- out sacrificing buoyancy. What use the United States will make of the Shennandoah and ZR-3 is not yet announced. The present experimental trip of the Shenandoah from Lakehurst to California and re- turn—9,000 miles—will doubtless lead to definite plans of usefulness. The North Polar voyage of discovery of the unknown continent in the Arctic is still under consideration in the Navy; it may be made next Summer. In war, scouting the ocean to detect submarines is counted practicable. In some conditions of the water a submarine at great depth is clearly discernable from a height above the sea. It has been scientifically computed that a rigid balloon of the Zeppelin type, having a capacity of 10,000,000 cubic feet of gas—four times that of ZR-3—with a length of 1,100 feet and a diameter of 135 feet, would provide a 1ift of 303.6 tons gross, or 200 tons available for cargo, including fuel. It would have an average speed of 45 to 50 miles an hour, maintained without replenishing supplies for two weeks of continual travel, which would take it almost around the world. With favoring winds it would go 80-to 100 miles an hour and would encircle the globe with- out stopping. Airplanes must re- plenish fuel and oil every 500 or 600 miles, and cannot cross the ocean except by short leaps from island to island. The most ‘radical difference be- instru- | the | larger | the world were lost to us we could get along very well on the compositions of Beethoven, ~ Schubert, Mendeissohn, Mozart and the rest of those old com- posers. Vhen it came to melody the heart and soul of music, they had it, and they will have it forever, for time in no way ages an immortal melody. The most absurd thing that came out of the World War was a book on famous composers from which the great German musicians were omitted. It was as if you had written a history of the late world series base ball games and left out the names of Stan- ley Harris, Walter Johnson and Roger Peckinpaugh. *x o n Then there were the monkey men. As far as one can tell now there is not a single monkey man left in the District of Columbia. Once upon a time no day went by without an organ grinder and his falthful monkey pleasing scores of children and their elders. It was not the music, of that turted the trick. The was the center of attraction. in his neat uniform and red cap, the little beast did his best to please a hard master and a thoughtless crowd One remembers even now that often one felt sorry for the monkey, as the organ grinder walled awax with one hand and jerked and jolted the monkey on the string with the other. Up on the ledge the creature would climb to get the nickel or dime held out for him. His furtive, scared looks belied his gay dress. We are xlad the monkey man is no longer {among us. Monkeys belong in the zoo, anyway. course, monkey Dressed * ok ok ox One snowy Christmas eve an old, bent man, his gray looks vying with the covered ground, stood outside the window playing upon a violin. His violin was a poor execution was even worse, but the combination of Christmas and snow had its effect Frostily gleamed the gas lights along the street, throwing long shad- aws over the crumpled surface of the whitened ground, where here and there foet had broken through the otherwise unmarred surface. Tree branches awooned with the burden of the snow, while from afar |came the creak of wagons and the groan of strect cars trying to carry on, as usual, against the unusual con- ditions prevailing. It was a cold. snowy eve in Wash- ington, a traditional Christmas ev the kind that has been written and sung about for centuries. No one thought much of it, except the sensi- nd they said nothing. t can you say? My God to Thee” played old man, he stood with his in the wet snow, and his old eyes oking up to the glittering stars, where lay the mystery of worlds without end % ox The scene cha es rapidly. Tt Summer and darkies are gay. Ak Seventh street passes a colored musi- eclan, with an instr *nt such never was seen before on land or sea. It is an old soap box, across which strings are strung, and attached to which are various bottles, tin cups and other articles now doing dutics for which their manufacturers never destined them How could a tincup maker dream that his strictly utilitarian article wias to become a sort of cymbal fo an accompaniment to “Alexander Rag-time Band?” Then we had the guitar strummer, nothing loath to attract a bit of at- | tention on the streets. T |the occasional ukulele player’ | Always we have with us that peer of all street musicians—the lad with a mouth organ. is SPOTLIGHT ’. COLLINS. tween the flights of American Zeppe- |lins and those of all other nations omes through our monopoly of he- lium, the only safe gas known. Hy- drogen is so treacherous that, with all possible precautions, it is liable to explosion through the tinjest leak. In battle a single incendiary bullet penetrating the huge target of thou- sands of square feet will instantly destroy the ship and its helpless crew. But when the gas bags are inflated | with helium, it would be necessary for bombs to tear the whole envelope before the ship would fall. Fire and explosion are impossible, for helium is no more combustible than water and is an excellent fire extinguisher. A demonstration of this fact was given last Saturday at Langley | Field, Va, when a bomb in Army practice exploded underneath a small | non-rigid dirigible balloon of the Army when the balloon was 150 feet |above the ground. Five occupants | were injured because the struck bal- parachutes, but this was the news | report: “The blimp was filled with helium, the non-inflammable and non-explo- sive gas, to which fact Air Service officers here attribute the saving of lives of the crew. If the bag had been inflated with hydrogen, they de- clared, no one would have escaped instant death, even if the ship had been on the ground.” £ EE ! The discovery d development of helium is one of the most interest- ing romances of scientific research. It is the result of spectrum experi- scientists working separately—Jans- sen, Frankland and Lockyer. They noted in the spectrum of sunlight pe- culiar lines which were found in no | spectrum analysis of any gas or light of earthly origin. They therefore as- sumed that it was peculiar to the sun and so called it helium, after the Greek name of the sun—helos. In 1882 Palmier found that the helium spectrum could be produced from gas of rocks taken from Vesuvius, and in 1890 Hillebrand of the United States Geological Survey obtained a gas from mineral uraninite which he thought was nitrogen, but which the spectrum later proved to be helium. Since 1895 it has been recognized that helium existed throughout the world in many kinds of stone, but nowhere has a sufficient quantity been found to make it of commercial use, except in the natural gases of certain Texas oil fields. Not until the spring of 1918—the last vear of the war—did the world possess more than three or four cybic feet of this rare gas, and it was valued at $1,500 a cubic foot; now it is produced in Texas at a cost of $82 a thousand feet, and the pre- diction {s made that it will soon be made for $30 a thousand feet—but only in America. Reports have been circulated that we have not enough helium for the two great Zeppelins, but that ‘is officially contradicted. The supply is so precious that great care is taken against wastage, but no one knows the limits of the natural storage. Congress will be called upon at the next session to prohibit any export of hellum and to Insure its Government control and conservation. Helium alone may some day decide the fate of the world. * K X % Jmportant discoveries have recently added to the economy in the use of helium. The gas expands greatly with the rise of the ship and con- quent lowering of atmospheric re. When 2, ship is filled at sea level to 95 per cent of its capao- one, his | ay we have | loon was too near the ground for| ments which began in 1868 by three | Nora Bayes BY GEORGE ADE, Some seasons ago Will J. Davis, tht Chicago theater manager who specialized on discovering talent for the singing stage, took a small group of us out to a summer garden to hear a_young woman from Milwau- kee. He said she had a voice and a certain individual charm and a pleas- ant stage presence. Will wanted us to look and listen and then tell him whether or not he was right in pre- dicting for her a career. Out at Sunnyside, which was a pretentious vaudeville establishment without any roof over it, we sat back, rather gkeptical, and waited for Nora Bayes to make good. She came on, demure and youthful, attired som what like a sweet girl graduate. She was unrufficd and evidently sure of the rendition and the general de- meanor were simply corrcct and con- ventional. She impressed the audience but did not hand out many thrills. |Her number on the bill was a serious effort. Not by the wave of an eye- lash or the twiddle of a finger did she attempt to put over a comedy effect, She was as dignified as a church soprano up in a choir loft We told Will that he was right and that the Milwaukee girl did have that indefinable something-or-other which made people sit up and pay at- tention but not one of us suggested to Will he had shown us a future queen of comedy Our jury met Nora Bayes that eve- ning and learned that when she was not in the glare of the footlights she had a ready senee of humor, a quick wit, a most amusing vocabulary and {a practical and sensible view of | things in general. S was an in- teresting combination of debutante and wise cracker | For one so bles | which are needed by the professional |entertainer, Nora was some little time in deciding to get away from “The Last Rose of Summer” and win Iher encores by singing “Hooray- | Horray! My Fathers Hung he seemed ambitious to be a successful singer instead of a comedienne. Finally she found out that she could be both at the same time and after that her rise to fame was rapid and unchecked. Be assured that her continued pop- ularity has not been the result of accident or luck. She worked and persevered and when she had achieved a success which would have \tisfled almost any ambitious singer gave up her engagements an went to Paris and studied under the bLest teachers and learned new secrets of techuique and delivery. She never with in intelligent public in wudeville, concert or musieal comedy, because her reading of lines and songs is perfection. Her enunciation would atisfy any Shakespearean actor. The on the top shelf hears every word t Nora speaks or sings. Her voice has a quality which this poor scrib- bler will not attempt to define, but it mets to the emotions of the listen- ers. She wins them. And her comedy is always quick-fire and well pointed. When she first appeared in London he was either too far ahead or the nglish were too far behind. Any way, she didn’'t seem to score. In due time she went back and conquered London, just as she had conquered all of the big towns back home. Wherever Nora goes she leaves a trail of smiles and gigsles, for she is an original—wise, cheerful, snappy |and observant. She has adopted a | cluster of intcresting orphans. Ier long-time friends are those who are active above the shoulders. She is | quoted and admired in and out of the | dramatic profession, adored by the | balcony patrons and supplicated by theatrical syndicates. | She has climbed a long we saw her that evening side. More power to her! (Copyright, 1924.) (U. S. -P;l;'eigu Policy ? Applied to Base Ball To the Editor of The Star: May I suggest an application of our national foreign policy—if we | have one—to the base ball situation ! of today? | Al good Washingtonians rejoice in the splendid fighting spirit shown by their ball team. But must not those who believe it our duty to assert { our independence by staying out of | the League of Nations regret that our sed with the gifts way since at Sunny- to the dominance of a powerful base | ball league? They have had to spend |half their time away from our city. | They have had to play, at times and | places not selected by themselves, |teams not selected by themselves, | and have had to submit to the de- cisions of umpires not of their own choosing. In a word. they have not been free to act, on every occasion, as they may have thought best. How | much better it would have been if they had developed their game quiet- ly at home, playing only among themselves for our benefit and their own. We would not discourage indi- vidual Washingtonians from assisting players in other towns by generous gifts of money or by instruction in playing the game, but our motto should be, The Washington Team for ‘Washingtonians. A league means ‘the organization of a number of individuals for the ac- complishment of something which they as individuals could not achieve. This involves some sacrifice of free- dom of Individual action, so far as the particular aim is concerned, for |the sake of the greater effectiveness of the larger organizations. America does not stand officially for this league idea at present, and it is in- appropriate that leagues of any kind should be attracting public attention. MAUD G. SEWALL. ity, by the time it reaches an alti- tude of 2,000 feet the expansion of the gas fills it to 100 per cent, and if an altitude of 4,000 feet is desired, it has been necessary to valve out and waste 5 per cent of the precious gas, At a cost of from $10,000 to $15,000. Now it is possible to start up with a much wider margin for expansion, through a device which condenses the exhaust gas of gasoline com- bustion, so that the water in the gas is recovered in equal weight with the gasoline burned. As ballast, that water maintains the welght of the ship stable at its starting weight, hence it is possible to start with the helium bags only 80 per cent full, al- lowing for a wider margin of expan- sion as the ship rises. So no waste of hellum is necessary even in ascend- ing over a mountain 7,000 or 8000 feet high. The Shenandoah is so equipped. Further experiments enable oper: tors to utilize the expansion and con- traction of helium, through its own temperature. Cold helium, filling the bags 80 per cent, at sea level, may be heated temporarily 8o that its ex- pansion will fill the bags to full capacity, increasing the lift 25 per cent. Then it may be cooled by a refrigeration, and the rise or fall of the ship becomes a matter of temper- ature of the gas. The superheat of the Summer sun has a great effect on the expansion. * X Kk X When the ZR-3 is taken over by the United States, it will be renamed. “Shenandoah” means the “Daughter of the Stars.” The new ship may be called “Nokomis” the “Daughter of the Moon,” but there have been thirty other names suggested. (Copyright, 1924, by Paul V. Collins.) herself, but her vocal selections and@ g ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERI Q. Which was the firet club to win a National League championship?— DT A. Chicago won the first National League championship in 1876. They won 52 and lost 14 games,'ending with a percentage of .788 Q. Where are centers located”—N. S. G. A. Forecast centers have heen es- tablished at Chicago, 11L; New Or- leans, La; Denver, Colo, and San Francisco, Calif., at which both morn- ing and even forecasts are prepared Q. In my stamp album there is a white line drawn through the pic. tures of stamps. What is the reason for this?—3. R. A. The law requires that pictures of all postage stamps have a line drawn through them to prevent counterfeiting. Q. Where was the word rst used?—T. T. D, A. Isaac Landman, writing on the subject, “We Jews,” says that the term entile” was first used in the Vulgate edition of the Bible to trans- late the Hebrew word “Goyyim Q. Why is it that in citics where s0ft coal is burned and there is much coal dust in the air, all trees suffer, and evergreen trees in particular find it very difficult to live?—A. S. ( A. The Department of Agriculture says soft coal deposits a coating of carbon and coal ash upon the leaves of trees, which interferes with nat- ural functioning of the breathing pores of leaves. Smooth-leaved trees such as evergreens suffer most be- | cause of the deposit that lies in close | contact with the leaf surface. The | hairy or wooly leaf coverings of some other trees prevent the forming of a compact coating over the leaf sur- faces. Such trees endure a smoky weather forecast “Gentile” Going to Be| atmosphere much longer. |, Q. Who were the Kaw Indians?— & | A The Kaw Indians, or Kansas In- | dians, were a Siouan tribe, speaking a dialect of the Osage language. They | formerly lived in several villages on the lower Kansas River and were estimated, about a century ago to number 1,300. In 1846 they were re- moved to a reservation west of the | Osage in the present Oklahoma. At present the tribe is nearly extinct. Q. What is broom corn?—B. E. F. i excellent players have been subjected | | A. Broom corn is & plant of the jorder of Gramineae, generally re- | garded as a native of the East Indies and cultivated for the manufacture of broom the cpen-rayed panicles. | Q@ By whom were forks first intro- ! duced into Englan D. K. W. | "A. Into England forks are said to | nave been introduced by Thomas Cor- yate; but as late as the revolution of (1658 ' few English noblemen owned | more than a dozen. |+ Q. Did the Pope ever nominate his | successor?—B. P. | A History records that Benedict II meditated upon nominating a succes- | sor, but decided that this was un- | wise, and burned the document which he had prepared on the subject. | Q. Where are the Laramie Moun- tains?—A M. E. A. The Laramie Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains southeastern Wyoming. It the south bank of the North Platte River in Natrona County, somewhat southeast of the center of the State, and extends in a southeasterly di- rection across Albany and Laramie Counties, being cut by the Laramie River. The range is mostly a broad { upland from 7,000 to 8,000 feet ele- vation with no outstanding summits. Q. What Rail?”’—G. M. A. The general foreign—particu larly London—name for the United States railway shares. As a_rule, however, the railway shares referred to are those traded in upon the New York Stock Exchang; are a in is meant by “Yankee When a spokesman of the Steuben Society recently promised six million German-American votes for La Fol- | lette, he simply “was talking through his hat”* according to the Minne. apolis Tribune, which thus expresses an idea rather generally held by the American press. “Historically speaking,” the Minne- apolis paper says, “the German vote in this country has been a conserva- tive vote, standing for sound money and sound principles and practices in the general conduct of the Amer- ican Government. It is unbelievable, in the light of this fact, that the vote of German naturalized citizens, plus the vote of native citizens of German descent, can be mobilized at the polls as a body for La Follette. The purpose of the Steuben Society is not unifying, but dividing, declares the New York Times, which explains “In German affairs the main interest It overrules the decision of the Reichstag, condemns the Dawes plan and the German loan. It sides with the reactionaries and destructionists in Germany. Here it seeks to create a solid political racial bloc. It prom- ises Mr. La Follette mythical mil- lions of votes,” but “the vast ma- jority of men and women of German descent in this country have nothing these separatists from the united composite American people, sprung of many stocks, each proud of its overseas traditions and inheritance and of its share through peace and war in the common American achieve- ment.” * X % ¥ In fact, the Worcester Telegram believes the loyal Americans of Ger- man descent “must hate the Steuben Society even more than the oldest American-descended persons, because it puts their own loyalty under un- deserved suspicion.” The Hartford Times believes also that “the great body of Germans in this country are sensible and loyal and will be guided by what they be- lieve to be the best interests of this country,” because “Germans have tak- en a conspicuous and notable part in the making of America, and they will make a mistake if they permit the opportunist, La Follette, to capitalize their grievances into a racial revolt that puts the interests of Germany first and of America second. The Steu- ben Society seeks to perpetuate, not to eliminate, the hyphen.” There was a host of “citizens of German blood who lovally supported the Govern- ment through the war,” ®ontinues the Spokane Spokesman-Review, ‘“but they will not vote for La Follette next November. It was the other kind of Germans—those who put the Kaiser above their adopted country—who will applaud and support La Follette now, just as they applauded and sup- ported him in 1917-18.” The Milwau- kee Journal, which takes note of dis- patches from Berlin that indicate the society’s support of La Follette causes misgivings there, but the journal adds: “To pretend that they will vote for him solidly is just as absurd as the pretense that the vote of organized labor will be cast solidly.” Referring to Jules Nehring’s recent announcement that he intends to vote for Cooligge and appeal to his fellow members § do likewise, and his further charge tiS( the indorsement of La Fol- lette was not given by the general mem- and whisk brushes from ' begins on | of the society stands with junkerdom. | but contempt for these intriguers,| C J. HASKIN. Q. What is the difference between wet-fly fishing and dry-fly fishing for trout’—C. L. A. In wet-fiy fishing, the way com- monly used in this country, the fly is merely a bunch of feathers tied to a hook and somewhat remotely resembling an insect. It 15 drawn across the water, the motion being relied upon to attract the trout. Dry- fly fishing represents perhaps the highest developement of the art of attracting fish by artificial baits The fly is made of feathers in such a way as to resemble a real inseet almost exactly. It is oiled so that it will float always upon the surface of the water. It must be cast with great exactitude and allowed to float over the place where the trout supposed to lie. This method was perfected in England where fish are more scarce and wary than in Amer- ica. Q. Why does the moon appear to be the same size as the sun, when the latter is so much larger’—P. B. H A. The sun is about 400 times broader than the moon and also about 400 times farther away, so that the perspective of distance makes it look 2bout the same size 122 | Bay?—G. | _A. According to the “Handbook of | Meterology,” by Julius Hann, the average minimum temperature at | York Factory, Hudson Bay, is 43 |degrees below zero, I, while the low- | est recorded temperature for a num- |ber of years was 52 degrees below i How cold does it get at Hudson T zero, F. Q. How much does sweet milk weigh?— A gallon of mi 8.6 pounds. a gallon of W. M. < weighs about | Q How much money was spent on {the Air Service during the war- |R Pw. | The s penditure Compilations n usually quoted for this has been §1,500,000,000 show that the entire cost of the Air Service during the war, including the building of air- planes, the accumulating of material and the maintenance of the service abroad, amounted to $722,000,000 | This did not include the pay of of- ficers and enlisted men. Q. In what proportion should silo be built>—T. E. H. A. A silo should be not less than 30 feet high, the height being two d a half to three times its diam- er. Q. How many e Pueblo flood property damage The Pueblo flood occurred on June 3 and resulted in a loss of about 0 lives and property loss of $20,- 060,000, lives were and what W. W lost in was the Q. Please give a recipg for making pepper_sauce.—La P. A. Wash small cherry or Chile red and green peppers, pack into bottles, cover with good cider vinegar and cork. It will be ready for use within a few days. As the sauce is used, more vinegar may Le added to the ppers from time to time. Q. What is meant by “a dagger or pistol pointed at the heart of Engiand by France”’—J. H. B A. It refers to the loss of the port of Calais, which was a British possession until 1558 Q. Who was “Akbar’?—A. H E A. Akbar was an Emperor of Hindu stan, by many regarded as the greatest Asiatic monarch of modern times. He lived from 1542 to 1605. His full name was Jalal-ud-din-Muhammed. i | o ioents it yavee not know all the things that people ask | him, but he knows people who do know | Try’ him. State your question briefly | wnite plainly and inclose 2 cents in | stamps for return postage. Address | Frederic J. Haskin, director, The Stor | Information Bureau, Twenty-first and | streets northwest.) Editors Discredit Promise Of German Vote to La Follette | bership of the society, the New York { Evening Post declares the indorsement | “has proved a boomerang, for in their | endeavor to give the impression that heir members are unanimous for La Follette these overzealous officials have only succeeded in proving the opposite The 2,600,000 or more votes which the La Follette managers were coynting ir the Steuben basket have shrunk to number which is too uncertain for co fort.” i The split is no more than w: been expected, adds the S | Gazette, because it repres the determination of the vast body of loyal German-Americans not to be stam- peded into a condemnation of Americar institutions and traditions by a minority of members, like George Sylvester Vier- ick, whose loyalty now a ring the war has not only been open to ques- tion, but has been, and is, a matter of general suspicion Until absolute to have Jose; conformity and the slave philosophy gain a much greater hold upon society than they vet have until _independence of thought has ceased to become a common and praise- worthy attribute,” the Springfield Uni concludes, “it would be well to reserve credence from these statements that the woman vote will definitely go this way the labor vote that way and the Ger- man-American vote another way. If, according to the old saw, women are | people, then so are union working men and German-Americans, and they may be trusted to act like people on Noven ber 4 and not like machines.” North Pole’s Ice Cap Seen Growing Larger Capt. Donald B. MacMillan, noted Arctic explorer, brings back from his latest journey into the Polar regions word that the ice cap about the North Pole is growing steadily larger, and that glaciers are moving steadily southward. This information, while intensely interesting to the layman, is of tremendous importance to the scientist. That the earth has undergone four great ice ages and one period of pro- longed chill there seems to be no doubt, if we rely upon an abundance of geological data. The last one, which some geologists says ended about 35,000 years ago, left its mark about St. Louis and all the northern part of North America. But between each of the so-called ice ages that antedated the last one, the ice caps and glaclers entirely disappeared, leaving the earth tropic and temper- ate over its entire surface. This probably accounts for the coal forests, the tropical flora, that have become the bituminous deposits Mac- Millan found 500 miles from the North Pole. His observations seem to substan- tiate the opinion of some scientists that the period between ice ages is shortening, that the Polar ice caps and the glaciers of the world are the shrunken remains of the last great north Polar ice cap and the movement of its glaciers is the begin- ning of another era which eventually will be thousands of feet under huge glaclers. But the scientist has a word of en- couragement—it would be many geny erations before the new era arrives ~—=St. Louls Post Dispatch.