Evening Star Newspaper, October 14, 1924, Page 6

i EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. “ WASHINGTON, D. C. ijDAY...A..Octnber 14, 1924 ' THEODORE W. NOYES. ... Editor WPhe Evening Star Newspaper Company Susiness Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave New York Oiice: 110 East 420d St. . Chicago Oillce: Tower Building, Wuzopean Otice: 16 Regent St.,London, Kagland. e the Sunday, morning by crriers within - the @3 4t 60 cents per month: daily only, 45 wents per month: Sunday oaly, 20 cents’ per @onth. Orders may be sent by mail or tele- fose Main 5000. Collection is made by car. , Fiezs ot the end of each month, d Virginia, Paily and Sunday.1 yr., $8.40;1 mo., 70¢ Daily only ......1yr,$6.00;1 mo., £0c @anday only .....1¥r, $2.40;1 mo,, 20c All Other States. . v and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00;1 mo., $5¢ B .-.1yr, $7.00:1 mo., 60c @unday only ....1vr, $3.00;1 mo., 25¢ e Acsociated Pross ix exclnsisely entitled Lo the use for republication of all news dis- Patches credited 1o it or not otherwise credited in this paper azd ald tie ‘local hews Dub, shed herein. All rights of publication of i Senators and Popular Will. Senator Norris' statement that he will abide by the vote of his State in caso the presidential election is thrown into Congress raises several Guestions of interest, if not of acute importance. It brings again to the frout the matter of the “instru ©f Senators wh! h was once so hotly deluted many years ago. In those times Scnators were chosen by the State Legislatures, and frequently, during the first half of the nineteenth tury, Legislatures sought to con- trol the senatorial votes by adopting | resolutions of instructions. Repre- | sentatives in the House were request | €d. but Senators were directed, on the £rovnd that they were the creatures ©of and were therefore subject to the suidance of the legislators in their States, In practically every case where this issue arose the Senator refused to obey the “instructions” given him by his State. He held himself to be a free -zent. He might chance to agree with the views of the legislators “back fome” and would so vote, but usually with the explanation that he did so Docause he so believed, and not b bidden. The right of in- never established, in or in practice, though several of the upper house have suf- fored ultimate defeat because of their insurgency. In the course of time the Legisla- tures came to claim less and less juris- diction over the Jjudgment of the Sena- | tors, and when by constitutional | amendment the eclection was given to the people instructions, of course, be- eamo impossible. Senator Norris now declares for the principle of instruc. tion in a peculiar manner. He says that if the choice of Vice President is thrown into the Senate he will vote | according as his State has shown a preference. 1f Nebraska s Mr.| Coolidge a preponderant vote, and the | electoral colleze is still deadlocked, he will vote for Gen. Dawes. 1If the State | votes most heavily for La Follette he | vote for Senator Wheeler. 1f Mr, gets the plurality of the votes | he will vote for Gov. Bryan. Thus his | program is very neatly arranged in adrance, relieving the Senator from | future responsibility of choice, though | Be is by title a Republican and is run- aing for re-clection as a Republican. | Perhaps the situation would be snuch simplified if all members of both House and Senate were thus to de- clare themselves in advance of elec- tion and would give pledges to vote, in €ase of an electoral college deadlock, &ccording as their States vote for the | taree candidates. But there is no way 1o secure such pledges, and no way to kold the ¥ederal legislators to their pledges if they were to give them, The | &nswer finally seems to be that the course of safety is for the people in 1ae States to vote preponderantly for | one of the three candidates for the presidency, and thus avoid the pos- #dility of o House blockade and a | Benate voting haphazard for a Chiet | Executive for whom there is no dom! mating popular demand. ————— Mayor Kendrick has invited Gon.‘ Smedley Butler to remain in Philadel- phia. The mavor's attitude, however, makes it clear that he regards himself ®s the person responsible for running he town. struction was law e — A Generous Action. ‘Washington's enthusiasm for the ‘winning of the world championship is less demonstrative now than it was a few days ago, when the first thrill of victory was felt, but the community is still talking it over and discussing | the features of the great series of ®ames with undiminished ardor. The players have scattered on their way, ®ome ball playing in post-season en- &2gements, some o their homes to re- sume their between-scasons occupa- | tions, some to rest from their stren- | uous exertions. But the memories of their work and achievements remain. | Many reflections occur to those who | maw the games or who witnessed or Reard their reproductions by score- ®oard and radio. One of the thoughts promoted by the great climax of the series, the seventh game which decided the cham- pionship, is worthy of development. That game was as close as it is pos- sible for a base ball contest to be. The home team had made the first run, then had lost that slender lead and again had tied the score in the cighth inning. In order to make those runs it was necessary to displace the then- working pitcher for a more likely bat- ter. The pitching box was vacant. Out ‘n the “bull pen” were two men, John- aon and Zachary. The former had lost €two games in the series and the lat- ter had won two. Which should be thrown into the breach at that crucial woment? Reasoning upon analogy and prob- @dility Zachary was the “best bet.” ZSut there was another factor, senti- acent and generosity. Walter Johnson, after waiting 18 years for a chance to pitch in a world series, had failed on his two starts. The whole country mcurned his defeats. It seemed as if Wis opportunity for the supreme glory @ aMing his tcam to win the cham- Samblp el passcd. It was then that | the mountains of western Maryland | bond. Stanley Harris, master of the fleld, in | whose hands rested the decision, | showed the quality that has enabled | nim to lead his team to victory. He | decided in favor of Johnson, and gave | him another chanc { Such generosity was apprectated by | the great throng, and it cheered Wal- | ter as he took his place in the box. It| cheered him cven when an enemy batsman whaled the ball to deep field for three bases. It cheered him when he passed the next man in order to j strike out his successor. And it con- | tinued to cheer him as he pitched in his old-time masterly form to the fin- ish. Its faith in the veteran was the faith of the manager, and it was justi- fied. There was something more than merely winning the game and the championship in that decision. It was a display of the spirit of good sports. | manship that is the essence of the game. The comparatively youthful Harris gave his elder co-worker an- other chance. It was that act which touched the hearts of the thousands present. Perhaps the multitude of younger | men who saw the game or who wit- nessed its reproduction will gain some- thing of value from this demonstra- tion of generosity and consideration. The men who have served long and faithfully are not to bo forgotten. In base ball, as in other lines of human activity, respect for experience and a disposition to give it a chance prevail. Let the summoning of Walter John- son in the critical hour of the game stand as a lesson never to be forgot- | ten by younger Americans. Approach of ZR-3. At 8 o'clock this morning the ZR-3 reported her position as 45 degrees north latitude and 44 degrces west longitude. Fitting those figures to the map, one sees that the airship was then more than half way be- tween the Azores and the American coast and close to the New York- braltar steamship lane. ZR-3 came in radio connection with the naval air station at Lakehurst, N. J.. at 11:10 last night, when a mes- sage saying “All well on board ship” was received from her. Earlier in the evening the Chatham station of the Radio Corporation of America caught a message sent by the ship that trou- ble had developed with one of the four engines and that she was pro- ceeding at less speed. The later mes- sage indicates that the engine trou- ble had been overcome. A few min- utes past midnight a message from the airship to a commercial ship ask- ing certain meteorological information was caught by a land station. There | was interference by more powerful stations and all the message was not caught. The ZR-3 is sailing on her record- making way, and messages between the ship and land stations in America are probably numerous at this time. Reports show that the ship is sailing | in fair weather and that atmospheric conditions on the remainder of her course aré favorable. The indications | are that the ship will reach our coast at the Virginia Capes, Charles and Henry, and will come within sight | of our coast lights tonight. From the Virginia Capes she’ may turn | northward up the bay, follow the Po- | tomac and pass over Washington to- | morrow morning. Adequate notice of | her approach will be given, so that the people of Washington may see the first transatlantic dirigible on a part of her flight from Friedricks-| hafen, Germany, to Lakehurst, N. J.| | Mistakes Girl for Woodchuck. A few days ago a boy hunting in indistinctly saw something moving in | bushes and thought it was a wild cat | which had been disturbing the neigh- | borhood. He fired. The object at which | the hunter shot was the hunter's| brother. The shot went true and the boy was killed. Hunters have made a | number of their usual errors this year and have shot other hunters for deer. An Associated Press dispatch: from | Attleboro, Mass., says that “Seeing a | bushy object, the caretaker of au| estate here fired a load of shot expect- ing to bring down a woodchuck. In- stead he heard a scream and saw a girl risc and swoon, and discovered | that the shot had lodged in the scalp of Miss Lydia M. White, without seri- ous injury. The gunner had mistaken for a woodchuck the voung woman's bushy bobbed hair.” It is fortunate that the young woman was not killed. | All manner of good advice has been given hunters, and no doubt it has had some beneficial effect, but many hunters do not.practice enough care. This hunter should have made surc that what he saw was & woodchuck. So far as common observation goes there is no resemblance between boys and bobcats, hunters and deer and bobbed-haired girls and woodchucks. —— e A number of disappointed specula- tors are sadly figuring on how many | million marks, paper money, it would | require to buy a fifty-doar Germani —_———— California is beginning to regard Hiram Johnson as a man who has a great deal of political influence with- out knowing exactly how to utilize it. — e Much ingenuity is required of the campaign orator who is trying to show the farmer how to be unhappy ’m_ spite of present market conditions. Teaching John to Cook. At the, convention of the American Gas Assoglation at Atlantic City it has been announced that the gas companies in geveral cities are going to establish cooking classes for men. Brooklyn, Chicago, New Haven and Denver, it is expected, will be thus organized before Christmas, while an evening class has already been started in St Louis. The lady in charge of the St. Louis class says that experi- ence is that “men want an’ old- fashioned, freshly served, home-cooked dinner once in a while, and if their woman folk, through lack of knowl- edge or other causes, are not willing to get it for them they will do it themselves.” . So theye we are, at last. The fem- nist movement has brought about the development fhat many male pess. | ing. | the Washington i the campaigner. { to do the talking. | We'll tremble for our country dear, | | Who never gets a surly twist, é ) M mists predicted long ago. John m[ into the Kitchen while Mary goes to work and to the polls. Such was the ) gruesome prospect of those who held fast to the old-time idea of “woman’s sphere.” As a matter of fact, both John and Mary are working and both are voting, and now, it would seem, both are doing the cooking. Taking turns, perhaps, or maybe specializ- FOLORY 5. Cooking is an accomplishment of which any man may be proud. Put a4 man in a camp in Summer and if| he has any degree of culinary skill at all he becomes the proudest of persons in displaying his ability. And even at home it is no rare thing to find husband taking charge of the gas range or the electric cooker when company is being entertained on the evenings when the maid is on leave and glorying in the results of his work. It is to be noted that Washington is not mentioned in the announce- ment from Atlantic City. Why? Are not regarded subjects for instruction? Or already know so much about that they need no special This matter needs explana- men suitable do they cookery classes? tion. ————— The President’s Silence. President Coolidge's reaffirmation of decision not to make a series of cam-| paign addresses will be generally ap- | proved by his well wishers. He has | given an admirable example of indus- | try in his office throughout the politi | cal season thus far, and it would be stepping cut of his role as the Chief Executive to assume the posture of lie is standing for | election upon his record during the | year and a quarter of his administra. | tive scrvice, and no better argument | can possibly be advanced than a con- | tinuation of that record in a faithful attention to the country’s business. 1 Occasion has arisen »wm time to time since the campaign started for | the President to give expression to his views on varicus questions. He has met those sions admirabl utterances that have well expressed | the direct themes. Yet in these talks have been refcrences to the issues of the campaign that have been in good taste and in zood temper. They have | not been “stump speeches.” They | have been presidential deliverances such as become the Chicf Executive to make. Comparative silence Mr. Coolidge has been no evidence of weakness or timidity. He has pre- served the dignity of the office which he holds, and has shown no lack of | courage whenever occasion has arisen | to state his views. His policies are ot secret, and his habit of thought and his line of reasoning are well un- derstood by the people. There is no call for him to take the stump, in per- son or by radio. He is well advised to remain relatively silent and to allow his rivals for the presidential office ac on the part of ———— A few students of world conditions | appear inclined to think it just as| well for the Chinese to be fighting | among themselves instead of_organiz- | ing for a show of strength among na- +ions. ———— A peaco confercnce that can ac- tually make peace sccure should call forth no controversy by the T S. A. | or any other nation as to its geo- graphical location. ——— It will not surprise California to find Hiram Johnson showing a tender | spot in his heart for the near candi- date. ————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSOX. Days of Yore. We've all observed the base ball game And cheered the winning score. | We've lifted plaudits unto Fame As in the days of vore. H The campaign speeches now we'll hear Where rhetoricians roar. As in the days of yore. | And whon Thanksgiving comes again With all these problems o'er, We'll find the country safe and sane As in the days of yore. | We seck the strange, uncertain thrill. | Yet what Fate holds in store We know will find us happy still As in tho days of yore. The Campaign Traveler. “You ought to be traveling for your health,” said the physician. “I am doing just that,” answered Senator Sorghum. “This speech- | making tour is liable to have a lot to do with whether I continue to live comfartably.” [ | The Dispersal. | We cheered them, but they could not | stay, Since duty bade them roam. ] We nearly wept to see the way i The home team hurried home. Jud Tunkins says he believes in| votes for women, but statistics show that women can't reform men by wvotin’ for ’em any more than they can by marryin’® ‘em. The Real Optimist. ‘The man who has enough to eat And hasn’t any rent to meet, ‘Who makes investments that will pay And sleeps at least eight hours Del’! day, He is the genial optimist But bids us leave our cares behind And all be gentle, sweet and kind. ‘Wealth and Purpose. “Think of the money you could earn and save if you didn’t play poker.” “Mebbe,” answered Cactus Joe, re- flectively. “But if you didn't play poker, what'd you do with the money?” Human Interest. The candidate our hearts will touch Although we must confeess, Of base ball he knows nothing much; ©Of foot ball he knows less. “De only real practical an’ success- ful weather prophet I ever heard of,” =aid Uncle Eben, “was Noah when he bafit doark™ D lA:l( | rest of the family | of the household. { Omaha Worla-H | reconcilable conflict.” | crat (Democratic WADHINGLU. D. C, fupmsDay THIS AND THAT BY C. E. TRACEWELL Now that Washingtonians are re- covering from the nervous prostra- tion and excess of joy induced by tha world serles base ball games they may turn their attention to the an- nual Winter series played in the base- ment. Starting the furnace is an annual Fall ssic in thousands of homes. The base ball diamond glves place to the lower chambers of the dwell- ing, with the famons iron monster occupying center field. Instead of base balls, lumps of an- thracite coal come into pla This conflict may not be as spectacular as the other, but of a truth “it doth come home to the bosoms and hearts of men.” There will be but few spectators at this series, and the cheerlug will be little enough, but upon the ability of the team will depend all tho cheer of | Winter. Unless the old man gets just the right curve on his shovels of coal the houso will be transformed into a sort of bleachers, where the “fans” hud- dle close together in their overcoats, Unless the furnace is fed plenty of hot ones” thero is going to bo a xreat slump in the attendance. This is one league in which tho teams play forever on the home grounds. * kK K When the first real Autumn winds begin to blow then the thoughts of Washington houscholders turn base- mentward. Already some hardy souls have start- ed their furnaces. They did not wait for the cooling house to compel them to do it. They did not hesitate until the rest of the household was nearly frozen, but buckled to it like men and surely they have They arc to be congratulated. But most us are craven souls, when it comes to starting the furnace in the fall. It is not o much the thought of the coal, expensive but necessary article that it is, but rathcr a shrinking from the inevitable. It was with a sense of relicf, about a mwonth 4go, we gave up sprinkling the lawn and cutting tho #rass. “Guess it can get along by itself now,” we said, glad to give up a that was becoming xomewhat tiresome, after a spring and summer of faithful duty. No sooner do we get rid of the vard, than here comes the furnace! Its demands are even more imperious than those of the lawn. Whereas the grass needed mowing but once a week, and sprinkling only every other day, the furnace insists upon being fed at least two times every day. A furnace needs shaking at least once a day, and for best results ashes oUght to be taken out oneo every day at least. There is 1o escaping these duties. * * ¥ % nce we hate to begin, for, once started. there is no let up, unloss bad coal calls a halt on its own account allowing the furnace to “go ou The house hecomes chilly. No one realizes that more than the head of tho house. He cndures it heroically, however, Murmurs arise from the but he does not attention to them. When the announcement Js made, howover, that it is necessary “to go t0 bed to keep warm,” nothing is left but to go down into the basement to start the furnace. “Where are some old papers? The papers arc produred joyfully. Anything to get some heat! Service is willingly performed. “Now where is the kindling?” The wood is indicated with gusto. Already prospects of warmth th the chilled frames of the remainder The Old Man, too, if the truth be known, is nothing loath, now that he is down to it. pay an: difference of opinion over the probable effect of Senator Brookhart's demand for withdrawal of Dawes! name from the Republican ticket do not prevent agrcement among many | Republican and Democratic editors that the lowa Senator has paved his way for a bolt to La Follette. In fact, the Cincinnati Time: tar declares Brookhart is not a Republi- can anyhow and voices the thought of other stanch Republican cham plons in adding: “By the muddy primary laws of Iot party solidarity and responsibility, hs has been thrown up like a piecs of flotsam to public view, but the tides of sanity eventually will carry Brookhart back to a deserved ob- | 1ivion.” The Democratic press hails the i cident as a demonstration of break down of Republican strength in the West. Former Senator Hitcheock's 1d_(independent), says: “Senajor Brookhart, following hfs attack upon Dawes with his at- tack upon Coolidge, has made of the | Republican campaizn a logical ab-| | surdity, not to say a logical impossi-| bility, in every Stats west of the Alle ghenies. He has made it perfectly plain that between that element o { the Republican party represented by ! Coolidge and Dawes and that clement vepresented by himself there is ir: The practical results of the Brookhart letter cannot be overlooked, the Lincoln Star (in- dependent), is sure, because “Senator Brookhart is supreme In Iowa. On every occasion where the issue has | been drawn he has whipped the Re- publican machine decisively, His let- ter can only be construed as a pre paratory step toward bolting the Re publican ticket. The net result will i be to transfer the traditionally Re- publican State of Iowa to Davis or La Follette” The Davenport Demo- , algo asserts that many believe Brookhart's charges will wreck the Republican party’s chance of victory.” P Time was, says the Baltimore Sun (independent), when prompt punish- ment would have been visited on so recalcitrant a member of the Re- publican party. “It is dus to the direct primary.” the paper adds, “that he can snap his fingers at the Re- publican leaders. They could not de- feat him for the nomination, and evidently, the Senator does not fear their infiluence with the voters of Towa in the general election.” The Cleveland Plain Dealer (independent Democrati claims letter emphasises a fact already pretty well understood; that Repub- lican affairs in the Midwest and Northwest are causing deep concern in Coolidge circles.” There is some- thing “so serious in the Brookhart charges,’ the Lynchburg News (Democratic) thinks that they call for serious treatment, “instead of a sing _spree. O hether Brookhart “comes _out boldly for La Follette, continues nominally to support the Republican ticket or is handed his hat by the Republican party,” the Louisville Courier-Journal (Democratic) insists “his letter demanding the retirement of Dawes is bound to hurt the Cool- fdge and Dawes ticket in Towa, and that ticket can ill afford Jto lose the electoral vote of Iowa” From every point of view. the New York Times (independent Democratic) also is convinced the Brookhart rebellion is an ugly business for the Repub- lican party. “It imperils Republican success in the Middle Western States,” says the Times “Supposing that loss ted, or made good elsewhere, the Towa revolt portends a condition of things in the next Congress which their reward. | , which weaken | Fortunately for him the furnace is cleaned out, everything attended to. All he has to do is make up the fire and get it going properly. But he mak#s an awful fuss about it. Wide open with the drafts—the smoke-pipe damper laid clear down —in goes a lighted match—the paper catches—snapple, sparkle, flash—the whole paper flames—the wood hegins to ignitc—snap goes the fevd door shut—so starts tho fire. Now comes much watchful wait- ing, while the smell of wood smoke | saturates the house. “Shut that door up there, the smell will get all over the house.” Some folks Ifke the pungent smell of burning wood, but others do not, 80 there is much fussing and fuming about this matter in every house- |hold when the fire is first started for the.Winter. Smoke trickles out through th top of the furnace, right through the 8 of the iron. t Now a shovel of coal comes in| Iy, unless some coal already had | been placed on - top the Kindling. | This latter method is preferable, and | usually gives best results | ‘The big secret of starting the fire in the Fall is to put in plenty of | paper and wood, in order that' there mnay be no doubt of the first shovels of coal igniting. Once there arc a, couple of shovels of coal aglow, the rest is easy. I There is no more disheartening thing in this furnace busincss than | watching sour papar and wood burn | out and realizing that the coal has| i i | i not caught. So put in ndling, Critic plenty of papers and 8« newspapgrs ought to ) blush with shame whep they think of just two sterling functions per- formed by papers. Do they not wrap up clean clothes as sent home by the wash ladies? the houscholders of the nation to tart furnace fires? And these services ars after tho main functions of news presentation and other entertain- ment are furnished. What more would you? * ¥ ¥ * . Jt is a solemn thought to remem- ber that the furnace fire probably wiil not go out again until *way next Spring, six, or seven, or maybe cight months henee. hat is, if we are lucky. It not, we will go down stars some morn- ing and find the darn thing out! Then comes the most dismal thing of all, raking out the dead coals and ashe Even the smallest can_hold an impossible amount stuft when the fire goes cut. of Oh Jov! that in eur embers Is something that doth love. | Driving sticks in through the clinker sometimes may resuscitate a dying fire, but usually the attempt |is as futile as giving oxygen to & jdving man. ¥ The effort may help for half a day, | but sooner or later—and usually sooner—the fire will go out for zood. Then there is nothing to |rake out the coals, try to reclaim | the good coal, and start the | over again. It is a nasty job, one | that makes the vietim resolve more |than ever to perfect his furnace | technique 1] Happiness for the Old Man in Win- | ter depends upon: | 1. A good furnace Good clean coal. | % A good draft. H . Keeping the i ashes | Letting the fire “burn up” before | it is shaken. | 6. A minimum of poker “pla | grate free from 'Editors See Brookhart Paving Way to Bolt G. O. P., | would b most unhappy and disturb- | ing, becauso Senator Brookhart in | Congress, especially if reinforced by {other members like-minded, cculd easily make a complete wreck of the { Coolidge administration.” Views | somewhat similar to thows quoted {are expressed by many other Demo- cratic papers, including the New | Orleans Times-Picayune, the Atlanta | Journal, Knoxville Sentinel, Savannah | Press and the Dayton News Even @he “grinning audacity of Sena- ter Brookhart's offensive,” in the opin- ion of the Sprinzfield Republican (inde- t), “should rot obscure the broad significance the Western situation. That_situation grow more con- fused. The p cess fn the clectoral college is being more and more dimmed by the apparent endency of Towa o accept the La Fol- {lette formula under the epurring of the | lows Senator.” Turning azain to the Republican pa- pers, we find the Sioux City Journal de claring that Senator Brookhart never has done a more ridiculous thing, and adding: “His letter to Chairman Butler n serve no purpose whatever except, considers an alibi if and when he de- cides he wiH not support the Coolidge- Tawes ticket,” however, “if that is Sen- a or Brookhart's purpose, Republicans | in Towa who are Joyal to the ticket, the plaform and the party may fecl im- pelled to work all the harder for-the | success of the organization in this | State.” The American peopls, the New York | Herald-Tribune (Republican) feels, | “have little use for political confidence {men of this sort. In all his political l’m(sfinn('epllo Mr. Brookhart is a bed- }be such, but not at the same time to !ask support as a Republican. That is neither honorable nor courageous.” An arrant coward, is the way the Paul Pionecer Press (independent Republican) ‘ characterizes the Senator, because “he | wears the party label in order te obtain 1 its political advantages and campaigns for La Follette at the same time. This s an era of pee-wit politics, and Mr. | Brookhart is its prophet.” g “Brookhart's tender solicitude for the welfare of the party,” the Minneapoiis | Tribune ( blican) contends, “might better have been shown by word and deed in the recent session of the Sen- | ate, but instead of sustaining the Presi- by delegates chosen largely in primary elections, Senator Brookhart appeared to take delight in opposing numerous features of the Coolidge legislative pro- rendered | furnave | it but | fire ail | pect of Republican suc- | fellow of La Follette's. He is entitled to ! dent, whose course has been approved OULubluiv 14, 1424, NEW BOOKS JOSHUA BARNEY. The Century Co. A straight, clean dive. And Ralph P'aino is breasting the deep waters o adventure. No cautious approach here. o flexing of the body for the down- ward, sweeping drive. Instead, an in- stant of poise, a flash through the air, @ knifing cut of the sca—and he is off upon uadventure so spectaculur in its swift «uccessions of high emprize and personal daring s to point upon pure fancy, rather than upon sober fact, as the 'source and sustenance of this ex- traordinary tale. Nevertheless, oshua Barney: A Forgotten Hero of Blue Water,” is a true story gleaned out. of our own history. It is a signed and sealed document, so to speak, cover- ing the biographic facts of one man's life, a life so rich and fructifying in its essence and action to make of it a high and shining wark in history itseif. A high point long obscured, it is true. This, in part, no doubt, by the swift {and ‘momentous mareh of surrcunding cvents; in other part by the crowding and smothering trifleg of every day's doings; in large meas oo, the sy forgettings of benefits received, Except for Ralph Paine, goodness knows Ralph D. Yaine. | how much longer yet this big story of i a colonial seaman would ha remained hidden, meanwhile slowly retreating further into the blank reticencics of fading records. Once %ntered upon this gallant ad- venture, Mr. Paine cannot, even if he would, stay the impetuous'rush of the story itself. Immediately the matter moves over into the driving personality of Joshua Barney. Mr. Painc's business is“to keep his ready hand still rea cxercise his sense of drama to an alert ure of the flying high poifts in this dramatic trans And the story stands triwmphant proof of the supirb col- Ilul-uruu.n set up here botween two men iwith something near two uries | standing in between to separat and | estrange them. A thwarted two cen- v And are they not used | turies, thesc, in respect to such sepa- | ration and estrangement. T The boy that is more or I in | everybody will read the first chap- ter of this story in a genuine turill of suspense and delight. And the real boy—he who: body and years are at one in boyhood—ten millions of him, will hail this chapter with shouts of pure gladness. Ob, for the grit of Joshua Barney! The grit that | every one of them has had in his dream doings but which he has never d quite merve enough to move out {into actual practice. A regular fol- low, Joshua Barney who, when he !was just 10 years old, stood up and | declared iis father and mother ! that he done with gomng to schoo 't that something And wouldn't any one of us simply tickled to death if we could only muster the spunk to make thit same righteous declaration tod: | And Joshua, inclined to be patient land reasonable with his elders, went on to tcll them that he a'ready had “learnt cverything the master could teach,” that he could “write a good hand and perfectly understgod arith- | metick." Moreover, he had chosen to follow the sea for a living. Ten years old!. Truly those were |0l day: persuasion That was away back 1n 1789. exception to the rule among fathers that austere day, the father of Joshua was inclined to vield to so manifest a call of destiny. More- | over, thers *“was no holdinz this skittish colt of a Joshua Barney at home.” There was, it is true. a slight gesture calculated to keep the { bo on land, under the pretense of some preparation for the sea. But it was of no use. A pilot boat cruising the capes of Chesapeake Bay gave the boy a first tasta of seafaring and taught him many things beside. And in less than a vear he was clamoring to Le signed as apprentice in a “real deep.water ship bound across the { western ocean.” “He was 12 years old, and it was time to cease coddling as he informed his sire” Luck- Joshua there was a mariner in Capt. Thomas Drysdale, nted to take the boy, who sailed with him for Liverpool. And Drysdale was, in a little while, given a bigger ship. Wishing, no doubt, to hold honors and wages in the fam- ily, he made Joshua, age 14, his scc. | ond_mate. iling out of Baltimore for Nice with a cargo of wheat, Capt. Drysdale was taken sick and died in midocean. to Joshua Barney! For this misad- | venture to the doubtlessly good cap- him, | tain left Joshua solitary ruler of the quarterdeck. Turn back to Balti- more? Not on your Jife—or words to declared his clear intent of getting | on with the business of deiivering a | cargo of wheat at the port of Nice, according to agreement and schedule And he did it. too—finally. There was 4 long interim, however, spent at a Spanish po th repairs and pesky | moncy troubles to test the stuff of | Joshua Barney. Such a lad as that would find friends. ‘This one did. At o Eupun the boy's minority and legal incapacity to transact business. Still a colonial, Joshua bethought himself | to appeal to the British representa- | tive in Milan. And in no time ut all the haughty merchants of Nice were perhaps, to furnish what the Scnaior | fawning upon this terrible bov who | !had the protecticn of the greatest power on earth, Isn't {hat great * ¥ * Under clear skies, himsel? a zood deal of a hero, Joshua Barney then salled the Mediterranean, homeward bound, happy and no doubt a bit puff- ed up over his truly remarkable tri- umph, the triumph of a merchant. seaman, even the triumph of a dip- lomat. _Fifteen years old! Sailing to the Spanish port of Alicante, there a wondrous panorama spread iself before the astonished eves of the oung commander. Charles 1T of Spain was about to send a mighty | expedition to Algiers against Barbary pirates. And the harbor of Alicante was crowded with craft of cvery de- ! seription and every ecafaring na- | tionality. And all were impressed to {the servico of the King of Spain. A magnificent armada under th command of Admiral Don Pedro {de Castijon! So—*Capt. Joshua Ear- Iney, instead of eailing home Baltimore, took troops and supplies aboard and received his orders from a Spanish flagship.” A wonderful sight for adventurer Joshua—"the blue sea covered with ships, 400 of them, making their way across the Mediterranean, bright pennants streaming, the sun flashing on gilded scrollwork and brass armament. And it may be claimed without fear of contradiction that Barney was the | “good * for youngsters of the male | An | Truly the gods were good ! that effect, as the young commander | there was more trouble hinging | ol to | “the Brookhart | | gram. Senator Brookhart now “can | youngest master of them all” The! take the stl.n-n (r_)r La Follette,” sug- ;end of the grand armada of 1775 was gests the Springtield- Union (Repub- |one 8f defeat and disaster. Joshua | !lican), “on the ground that his.request, | Barney was a witneks of all this hor- | preposterous though it is, has been re- ror, pacing the deck of his ship and | | fused by the Republican national com- homesick -for Baltimore . . . Andl 1mit!ee, byt it does not follow that he |late in the autumn of this year of will change the Republican complexion I 1775 he neared the home port, only to of Iowa or that Coolidgo and Dawes |find that his countrymen were in ac- will be defeated there.” For in Iowa,|tive rebellion against King George. | concludes the Philadelphia Bulletin (in- [Just in time, you seé, to open still | dependent Republican) “they must now | further the phenomenal career of | see bim clearly as a_political prop of | Joshua Barney by Way of high serv- | .Wheeler, and a friend and ally of the [ice in the Revolutionary cause and, Debses and Hillquits, Bergers and all | later, in the War ,of 1812 where, ni the other rag-tag and bobtail decriers of | our own battle of Bladensburg he in- the United States and constitutional |terposed between the enemy and our government.” ocapital the bulwark of his genuine ———eme—— °{patriotism and the gonius of his naval service in war. The whole of this The bloom of youth in that school- | sketch, except for the last, sentence, l girl complexion never ran back over |merely touches the high spots of that the ears and up above the eyebrows. ! fiirst chapter as it pictures the ro- —Sandusky Register. ° | mantic and vicissitous life of the Suspender sales are on the increase, | P0Y: Joshua Barney, up to the age The mational safety-frat movement |Of Sixteen. 'We use the word “thril- | ler” lightly .and a bit amusedly. eipaving somo effect.—South Bend|ggyceze’ the word dry of evervthing eXcept its power to picture the real Rufe Hoskins says that most men|thrill. Then apply it to the whole of begin as poor boys and never really | Ralph Paine’s story of the historic get over it.—Oklahoma City Times 'fgure, Joshua Barney. LG M Q. What is the longest on record?—s. 1. I, A: While we find no official data on ithis, it is Teported that the Willert cass in Massachusetts, a trial now ir its eleventh month, is one of th longest in the annals of the world's jurisprudence. The trial commenced carly in Notember of last year and stil continues great trial | Q. What is the value of the Trinity ! Churth property, formerly the Anveke | | dans tarm>—GU k. Q A. According_ to a | Rider's “New York,” {lished, the Trinity Ch valued at $17,600,000. Q {libgaries A. The E letin says | many more ) el tement in ently pub- | property is s the most public ureau of Tdu that Massachusetts libraries than any 1 jors to the over precodence the members ~M. . K. Cathiviie o bassadors of the Pope have the pre- | cedence that vou mention. The FPope ranks as the first of Christian princes Lody? Al Q. Give me some information con- cerning the Corps uf Royal Eugineers lin the British Army.—L. E. F. i | A. The Corps of Royal Lngineers in | the British Army was organized in 11763 and has always had its head- | | quarters and training school at Ch; am, nexr the Sc In 181 its strength was 1,051 office i non-commissioned office ed men. The latter are r. Imen who nave scrved app: trade, proferably tricians, machinists. | corps has alw ferent basis from other bra | the army. First appoint commissioned officer through the Royal.Mil lat Woolwich open examinations. | heen on n obtained Academy principal product of Kentucky *—R. S. A. Coal is the principal mineral product of The State con- tains areas belonging to the Appa- lachian System and one in the North- west to the Eastern interior field. Q. When was ¢ ticed ?>—C. i _A. Jt was first suggested during the { Napoleonic wars. Near the end of the | cighteenth century a prize was offered | {by the French government for the {most practical method of preserving {foods for sea service | ¥to! . AL Nichol | beguan experimenting in 179 a { 1503 submitted @ treatise to the g ; ernment for which he received a pr. { ot 2,000 fra The canning in jtry 'was cstablished i the U tes in 1519 by Ezra Daggett, Q. Who is Henri Spahlinger?—V. M. A. Spahlinger is mous Furopean sciertist. His speciaity is bacteriol- ogy. At his Institut Bacteriothera- | pique at Carouge near Geneva, he is to combating tuber- uning first prac- | Q. Has a woman cv the opening of the er presided over Colchester, Eng- A. For the first time, this centu i { old ceremony has been conducted by a }woman councilor, Catherine D, Ale derton, Lady Mayor of Colchester. Q. How many persons are cmploye in the automobile industry>—L. N. A. The 1923 st cs show 2,897 370 employed divectly and 3,105,350 | employed indirectly 1 | Q. How many farmers’ co-operative | ! associations are there in the United | | States?—G. E. A, i | A. The Department of Agriculture | | says it is estimated the total| number is approximate 009, | { QDid Y {made up of N K. { A. The | made up o bridge oars. a crew | Lea former Oxford and « This crew was a cham- as beaten by nes July 17, Q. Which is the longest road that -d with asphalt’—W. H. W A. The Asphalt Association of New York says that the longest completely ! paved road in the world is the Pacifi | highway, running from | British Columbia, to Mexican border |ana paralieling the Pacific coast. The | total paved length is 1,476 miles and| f“ is mostly of asphalt. The longe { asphaltio concrets road (gravel, sand | WASHINGTON Democrats lament unceasingly that | “lucky Cal” gets the lion's share of campaign “breaks A couple of weeks ago Mr. Coolidge had a chance to be uncommonly attentive to the Roman Catholic hicrarchy and has just been publicly thanked for it h_\[ Cardinal O'Connell of Boston. Thcnl | Washington won the world series and | the President eftectively availed him- ! self of the opportunity to join the mrand army of base ball fans. Now his Amherst chum and close adviser, | Dwight W. Morrow of J. P. Morgan | & Co., triumphantly engineers a bi on-dollar oversubscription to the jerman reparations loan. Tn June | last this observer, reviewing the | Cleveland convention, foreshadowed | the German transaction, with Morrow | prominent in the picture, and re- | ported G. O. P. hopes of winning | the German vote in conscquence of jit. long comes the loan, a success beyond all expectations. three weeks before election day. It remains to {be scen whether La Follette's mortgage on the Steuben Society vote can be undermined. | The Japanese hava just won a sig- niticant victory in Hawail, where they are the overwhelmingly predom- | inant element of ‘the population. They have induced the territorial depart. ment of education to introduce the study of Japanese as a regular high | school course. It is the first time on record that an Oriental language has been offered in any public school under American. jurisdiction. Dr. Harada, professor of Japanege in the University of Hawaii, will teach first | and second year high school courses covering a full period daily. They will be on the same basis as any other lanwuage course and afford the same credits. The teachers’ salary will be met by private subscription, as there are no territorial funds avalilable for the purpose. There arg already cnough enrollments to asture largely attended classes. The | student body at McKinley High School, Honolulu, where the courses | will be inaugurated, consists largely | of American ' citizens of Japanese blood. k%% ! Two prominent Western members of Congress face unexpectedly stiff fights for re-election to the House. One is Theodore E. Burton, Republi- can, of Ohio, and the other is Arumri B. Rouse, Democrat, of Kentucky. Burton’s troubles spring from the candidacy of Albert F. Covle, Pro- gressive. who edits an _influential labor paper. . With the backing of | the La Follette contingent, Coyle | threatens to make heavy inroads on the majority of 37,000 by which Bur- ton won his old Cleveland district in 1922, Although La Follette cohorts generally throughout: the country | but i that { for the use of mercury alcohol wit | tem? | gressional campaign committee. ANSWERS TO QUESTIGNS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN and stone tie A cemented wit) cansus-Louisia 111 milex. "The longest cadam - voad (asphalt spread oves macadam basc 2 to 3 inches thi is tho Harding hizhway from ¢ to Van ~110 nile tinuous asphait) asphaltic m« 1. on A The t ste pressu ximum prese automobile U to 1,000 po been used on racing car me Q. How far is it from Londen by air and what docs the trip?—H. ¥, L. A. The distance from ris is approximatel time taken alrplancs perfal Airway, Lid, i 2 hours, Ten to twelve carried. T « shillinze, This throuzh the three trips to London 0 miles, Tt of the Im Anproximate passengers 6 pounc Th oy ire vear one on Sunday Q What i countries whe freeze”—M. R A The Burcau of Standards in climates which are 100 e use thermometers nereury v ome red coloring is used. The frec ing point of mercury is —329 degrees } Q. hanc AL It e oo when me How did the om of shak W11 2id to be trac the part of mes t ing that they a proy t Is the Lardwand cana) i o ehitta e classified a Q. When dees Florida Leaviest rains?— A. They usually Spring. How near did the Germans se R H A On September 5, 1914, the Ger man line ran through Meaux, and there wore outposts in fromt of t main linc which came as near as 1( Q. | miles to Paris Q. the Is it true that certain phases of moon affect the mervous E. M. There i< no foundation f that phases of the moon have cffect on the nervous sys th of individ A bel any 0w the for the hea dls @ tury 1 read that in the fifteengl he fingers were often m #ta ith saffror for this?—s. W, A Saffron was a iment use in sauces and soups in the fifteent entury. People at that time usual asped pieces of meat in their fin gers, which custom resulted in the stain to which you refer. Q. Please give a formula for ink for stamping embroidery patterns?— E. W. A. Dissoive 2 drams ounces benzine, tritura ounce of zinc white in the Tiquid, to a Smooth paste, ten add mainder of liquid. The ink must be shaken often to keep the: pigment If yellow * wanted vellow for the zinc . if blue, use ultramarine. rosin in 4 one-half a portion of Is it true that toads survive er being buried for long intervals in solid or rock?—C. K. . A These stories are usually un- worthy of belief. Experiment has shown that no toad can long endure deprivation of air, water and food, though in porous stone or moist soil they might remain alive for some time Q. Where do bananas come fromand how do they grow?—G. T, H. A. Bananas are importe from the West Indies America, although some are produce: in Hawaii, California and Florida. The banana is a great perennial herb. 1t £rows from 10 to 30 feet tall and pr duces a_bunch of fruit, after whic! the stalk dies or becomes weak. It the meantime suckers have ariser from the root stalk to take its place and bear in thefr turns. A strons sprout should bear when 12 to 1% months old. chiefly €If you have a question you wont on- swered send it to The Star Informatior Burcou, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Twenty-first and C streets northwest The only charge for this service is cents.in stamps for return postage.) OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLI: are dates, n chairman supporting Democratic _cand! they picked out a shining ex in Representative Rous: of the Democratic con The third party has put a str n the field against Rouse in his River (Covington) district. e A cool hundred thousand dollars and a little more, filtered into tie United States Treasury as the Feder tax on admissions to the world hase ball series. It more than pays tho salary and traveling allowance the President for a vear. As a budget proposition, Gen. Herbert M Lord, director of the Budget (who happens to be a fan of fans), enthusiastically of opinion that ng man i Oh base | ball pay Tk Timothy Al Smiddy, free Treland's first Minister to the United States, is a college professor by occupation and a diplomat by accident. A native ¢ | County Cork, he still holds the tituls rank of professor of economics ard dean of the faculty of commerce Cork University. Dr. Smiddy cori- pleted” his university training in France and Germany. He has been in charge of Irish affairs in Washing- ton since 1922. Now that Egypt and Ireland. in turn, have achieved inde- pendent diplomatic status in the United States. Canada is not expected to be long in following suit. Aus- tralia, New Zealand and South Africa have longings in the same direction. B Senator Irvine L. Lenroot of Wis consin, emerging from political hermitage at the wind-up of the cam- paign, has taken the stump vigor- ously against his arch foe, Robert M. La Follette. There has been no iove lost between the senior and junior Senators from Wisconsin for a sood many years. Their names adjoin on the Scnate roll-call, and they usually vote in opposite directions. times senatorial business them to take notice of each other's existence, but otherwise they do not snea? as they pass by. One of La Folldtte’s remalning ambitions is to “get” Lenroot if and when he aspires to a third term in the Senate. * % ¥ % Gen. George W. Goethals. construc- tor of the Panama Canal, has de- cided to join the unceasing pil- grimage to Los Angeles and make that city his future home. The | Angelenos, who overlook few tricks thereupon determined to utilize Gen Goethals' eminent engineering tal- ehts. They want to make him chier eéngineer of the harbo: some miles from the heart of that bustling com- munity—which Ios Angeles cxpecty to convert into the biggest. best and busicst on the Pacifie coast. Copyrighe, 1224, J