Evening Star Newspaper, October 24, 1924, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D: C. FRIDAY.......October 24, 1924 - THEODORE W. NOYES. . ..Editor The Eventing Star Newspaper Company . 11th St._and Pennsylvania Ave New York Office: 110 East 42nd St. Chicago Office: Tower Building. European Office: 16 Regent §t.,London, Eugland. Star. with the Sunday morning ithin - the only, 45 20 ceals per mail or t cents outh jers miay 5000, end of 5 month. 01 phone Main riers at the month, Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday $8.40;1 mo., Daily only Sunday only . 70¢ 50c 20c All Other States. Daily and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00:1 mo., 85¢ Daily only . e $7.00:1 mo., 60c Sunday only .... $3.00;1 mo., 25¢ “The Associated P 0 the u; Ppstehes e s 15 excl ¢ entitied on of wil news dis wise ermtited the local news pub- bts of publieation of re also reserved. r and also herein. Al i 1 d.spatches bere: The President’s Closing Word. President Coolidge’s address to the United States Chamber of Commerce last evening on the oce of the dedication of the new home of that organization in this city was notable both for its matter and for the fact that it constitutes virtually his con sion cluding contrihution to the campaign | discussion. Following his policy of speaking in the campaign only upon occasions which demand an expression from the Chief Executive, Mr. Cool- idge now closes his “appeal to the country” with this statement of the principles for which he stands, both as President and as candidate for elec- tion. Partisan opponents of Mr. Coolidge will find in the speech material for adverse comment and for criticism, dictated by their wish for his defeat, either by the direct vote of the peo- ple or by the blockading of the public will in the electoral college and the submission of the choice to Congress. His partisan supporters will find in it | evidence of a sound statesmanship which demands public support and in- dorsement and popular and electoral majorities. From a non-partisan view- point the speech is a plain, straight- forward exposition of an Executive po- sition which conforms to the general purposes and wishes of the people. Briefly stated, Mr. Coolidge holds to abstention from direct league member- ship, but friendly and helpful con- ference and co-operation with foreign nations calculated to aid them in their rebabilitation after war and by fluence and action to promote the cause of world peace; insistence upon rigid cconomies in Governmant oper: tions, permitting further reduction of the tax burden; opposition to Govern- ment ownership of railroads; continn- ation of the policy of protection as the only means of maintaining the Ameri- can standard of wages and living; a scientific treatment of the problems of agriculture, postponed until after elec- tion in order that it may not be par- tisan; maintenance of the judicial sys- tem as against the proposal to nullity decisions of the Supreme Court by congressional votes. Advocates of low tariff schedules will disagree. Advocates of unquali- fled American membership in the League of Nations will disagree. Ad- vocates of a more complete participa. tion by the United States in interna- tional questions will dissent. Support- ers of socialistic schemes of public ownership and inequitable modes of tax adjustment will demur. Eager con- tenders for immediate Government aid 1o the tarmers, regardless of economic laws, will protest. No personal platform of a candidate for the highest oflice could possibly command the united indorsement of the people. Mr. Coolidge's platform, which is now so simply and plainly stated, will not command such indorse- ment. It will challenge angry denials and arouse disputation by groups and squads and factions. But taken as a whole, upon the question of the for- eign relations and upon that of do- mestic economics, it will stand the test of public scrutiny and examination as a sound, thoroughly American doc- trine of government. ————— Communists who were repulsed by La Follette when his campaign start- ed are likely to regard references to him as a red and a radical as mislead- ing, and from their viewpoint much more than he deserve: in- e By this time the fellow prisoners of Loeb and Leopold should be resting a little easier, ‘the desperate desire for thrill at any cost having apparently subsided. ———— Thanks to motion pictures and radio, the front-porch campaign is by no means the secluded sphinx-like affair it used to be. vt Gen. Feng Takes Peking. The Chinese puzzle continues to grow in complexity. The situation in the Far East has become so difficult of comprehension that even Chinamen cannot understand it. This is attested by the proclamation issued by Gen. Feng Yu-Hsiang, after his occupation of g through a surprise strategic i, the text of which appears in to- deyis dispatches. Gen, Feng says, aft- er giving warning that rumor mongers will be executed: The republic has been at war 13 years. As & result commerce is impossible, and “the nation has been subjected to great losses in a war which nobody under- stands. It may be doubted whether a mili- tary commander ever before in his- tory confessed to a total fog regarding the causes and purposes of a war in which he figures. And there is a further differentiation in Gen. Feng's succeeding words: This year was further marked by drought and floods. Nine houses out of ten are empty. Truly we are to be pitled. I desire to stop this war and to make peace. Therefore I have returned to Peking. Responsible men ehould come forward to negotiate peace. This is not a soldler's job, but whatever peace easures are decided upon I shall ob- #erve. All my compatriote agree to zhis program, and wcbily ehoud be i | | i | which ha: | but to all the world. | ple ana wholly | cavs. afraid. Foreign lives and property will be protected. All ehould heed my words. All honor to Gen. Feng, if he sin- cerely means what he says. Doubtless most Chinamen are united in a desire for peace. Faction has kept their land in turmoil for many months—for 13 years, says the now victorious Feng— and grievous disaster has befallen. Nobody understands the war. Cer- tainly not the Western world, con- fused by the peculiar nomenclature and the vagueness of purposes of group leaders and the lack of a definitive statement of policy. China has suffered for centuries from misgovernment. Enlightenment has begun to come from the Western standpoint, chiefly through the edu- cation of younger Chinamen in foreign lands and partly through the contacts established with representatives of the Western world. The great war brought @ revival of national spirit. Faction developed after the downfall | of the imperial powlr, and successive | governments have been inept and far | from cured of the old evil of corrupt | practices. If Gen. Feng succeeds in uniting the forces of opposition to the Peking ad- ministration, which will proceed to es- | tablish at the capital a government sufficiently strong to maintain order and to suppress the factions, and to resist the intrigues of the Soviet,| aimed at the communiza- | tion of China, he will have rendered a | service not only to his own country His proclamation bears evidence of sincerity. Tt is at least a definite indication of a clear- :ut purpose. - e Warning and Interval. The Traffic Bureau announces that henceforth an interval between the blowing of a warning whistle and the changing of the direction of traffic stream sufficient to permit the clear- ing of the intersection by vehicles and { pedestrians will be the rule. Whether this involves the enforcement of in- structions hitherto neglected by a great majority of local traffic officers or is an innovation is a matter of small moment. What really counts is | that assurances are given that a sim- desirable change in | iocal methods of traffic direction is to be put into effect. With thls assurance given it is well that the public should fully under- stand its responsibility in co-operating | with traffic officers in the matter of avoiding congestion and accidents at busy corners. This responsibility is shared by motorists and pedestrians. Under what may well be called the “warning and interval” system the re- sponsibility of the motorist is as fol- lows: When the warning whistle has been sounded if you are in the moving stream of traffic and back of the build- ing line, stop before crossing that line. If you are in the moving stream of traffic and have passed the building | line when the warning whistle sounded proceed on your way, halting | beside the officer if you wish to turn to the left. If you are in the stationary line prepare to move forward when the warning whistle is sounded, but do not move until the semaphore is turned to “go” or the officer motions you forward. Under this system the responsibility of the pedestrian is as follows: To cross the street only at the corner cross walks. To keep off of the two walks crossing the path of moving vehicles. To clear the two cross walks | across which vehicles are about to be ordered to proceed when the warning whistle is sounded. The responsibility of neither traffic officer, motorist or pedestrian is in- volved or arduous in the properly operated “warning and interval” sys- tem. Yet lacking the co-operation of one of the three elements concerned, neither this system nor any other can be smoothly or safely operated. With 2 steady increase in traffic pressure in Washington it is high time that traffic officers, motorists and pedes trians be required to meet their re- sponsibilities to the community. If disciplinary action is 'necessary to achieve this end it should be applied. —————————— The radio date Mr. La Follette failed to book out West gave him a topic for Interesting comment on his handicaps. 1t is dangerous to interfere with free- dom of speech. The interference may enable him to increase his appeal by. an air of martyrdom. ——o—s Muscle Shoals has had more than enough publicity to keep it from lingering as an undeveloped resource, if advertising helps that kind of an enterprize. In case the Democratic party loses the national election, Tammany will, of course, feel a grief which nothing could assuage except a local victory. —————————— Money talks, and one of its most eloquent comments on the current campaign is the offer in Wall Street of 6 to 1 on Coolidge. is Thinking of Christmas. ‘The mail-early and shop-early cam- paign will begin early in Washington. A few days ago The Star printed a group picture over the descriptive line, “They will ask Washington to shop early and mail early,” and the picture showed 13 members of the committee of the post office and Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association who met to discuss eatly mailing and shopping plans. The mail-early and shop-early slogans have not done away with the Christmas rush, but they must have had a beneficial effect. ‘With the growth of the city and Christmas gift activity there is no telling what would happen every year at the Midwinter festival if wise and farseeing men had not taken up this early-shopping and early-mailing ques- tion. The result is obvious. Thousands of perscns begin the buying of gifts, individual Christmas cards and post cards weeks before the Christmas jam. They find it advantageous in many ways. They have large and fresh stocks to choose from and more time to look things over, price all the goods in the store, take samples to see if they will match the furniture at homs etc. They get 80 many little problems off the mind that they can almost find pleasure in the holidays. They avoid the discomfort of umusually crowded streets and stores, though they have found no way to avold crowded street Porhaps the only solution of {ana aaare that difficulty would be the running of more cars, but just now it seems easier for & man to buy an automobile than get a seat in a street car. The early shoppers are not so often victims of mistakes in the delivery of goods. Mistakes of this kind happen always, but when the people in the stares and on the delivery wagons are hurrled and overworked they happen oftener. The early shopper makes life heppler for the 10,000 or so people : i who work in the stores and who are generally worn to such a frazzle by the holiday shopping trade that they have nervous exhaustion and a head- ache for Christmas. A great many persons have been educated to the early-mailing habit by the postal people, who have pointed out that if a man wants his Christ- mas card delivered on Christmas he should mail it early. The postal peo- ple are still sticking to their work of urging people to wrap safely and mark packages with the right name and it is now believed that a number of persons do those things. ————— Deaths From Gas. Three deaths from illuminating g were reported in 'Washington yester- day. Two men were found dead in their rooms with the gas turned on, and the third man was found dead holding a rubber tube connected with jet. The last seems cle: of suicide, but in the first two cases It is likely that it cannot be known whether the unfortunate men died by their cwn will or by accident. In absence of knowledge on that mat- ter it is fair to'assume that they died by accident. In living rooms only & small thing called a “ke: in the gas bracket holds the deadly vapor in check. That key may become worn by use and age 8o that it will turn too easily. It may become lovse and unsafe from a num- ber of causes. It should be the duty of every one using gas or every one having gas fixtures in the house or room to know that the gas jet keys are safe and tight, and that some force is needed to turn them. A loose key is very dangerous, Sometimes there are leaky gas fix tures. The defect is usually betrayed by the smell of gas, and perhaps not many persons die from that cause, but a leaky gas fixture should be given immediate attention. Many fatal acci- dents have happened to people who on smelling gas sought to find the leak with a lighted match. Sometimes a leaking pipe or burner has allowed a room or cellar to fill with gas and the lighted match has brought on an ex- plosion. When one suspects anything wrong with a gas fixture it would be prudent to call an expert workman. In a great many houses elgctric light bulbs and gas burners are on the same fixture and often within an inch or 80 of each other, and it might hap- pen—it has happened—that a person turning off the electric light on going to bed touches the gas key and turns on the gas. Common sense is not to be confined to public affairs. Use of it in. personal and domestic matters will save life. y a - ——— Tt will be the business of the next generation to solve certain problems | relating to international debts and their collection. In the meantime it is the duty of the present generation to keep the accounts in as clear a form as possible. ——————————— Congress has always been a willing worker. No one should desire to im- pose further on it by burdening it with the responsibilities of choosing a Presi- dent. e A deadlock was formerly regarded as a parliamentary situation. A fail- ure to elect by ballot may cause it to look like a national institution. e Epinard will never race again. This fact may save a number of misguided turf enthusiasts, figuring that luck must change, considerable sums of money. e e’ Many Europeans find it hard to realize that J. P, Morgan can exercise 50 much power without any title what- ever suggestive of regal authority. ———————— Philadelphia is a very large town. Reforming it is a big enough job to require at least two years of any man’s time. ————————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Contradictory Interests. The people you admire the most In triumph may not rise, ‘While some whom you're inclined to roast Ascend and claim a prize. Election betting smacks of sin And causes discontent; For often, if you bet to win, You lose your sentiment. Money and the Philosopher. ‘Wealth may not bring happiness.” ‘True,” answered Senator Sorghum, “especially when it has been dumped too lavishly into a campaign fund.” Meditation. I sat before the blazing grate * In quietude to meditate; But all that I could think about Was, “Will the coal supply hold out?” Jud Tunkins says a man who is al- ways making excuses seldom catches up with his personal needs sufficiently to let him make a few for a friend. Utopianism. When each has been duly impressed By his duty to toil for the best, ) ‘We'll go to conventions , " ‘With lofty intentions _- And give the grand jurfes a rest. “Women ‘tfi exercising an enor- mous amount of. influence.” “Perhaps we always had the same influence)” suggested Miss Cayenne. ““You Fotice it more now because we insig¥ on having credit for it.” ‘ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1924 ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Off the trail in Washington there are many interesting things to be seen which the sightseer never glimpses because the Capitol, the Washington Monument, the Treasury {and the rest of the “sights” over- shadow them. 1f your gaze is concentrated on the i majestic dome of the Capitol, how can you notice the ivy green trailing over the wall of an ancient house? If the grandeur of the Monument focuses your entire attention, how will it be possible for you to notice a_dog and cat eating out of the same plate? If vou are enthralled with the millions of dollars in the Treasury valuts, where will you find time to enter into the fairyland of a tiny Washington back yard garden I can show you? These are off-the-trail sights, hard- 1y to be known to the earnest visitor who is bent on crowding as much as possible of our lovely city into his mind and heart before his stop-over privilege is up. These pleasant sights are intimate, home things for us who live here to enjoy. They are in none of the gulde books, and even Mr. Foster would have to admit himself nonplussed for once, 1t you ask him about them. | Imagine going to Mr. Foster and asking him: “Can you tell me where {there is a little house that sits under a big hill, where the setting sun gleaus red through the tall trees?” Oh, a dainty plant is the Ivy green, ‘That creepeth o’er ruins old! So sgng that versatile man, Charles Dickens, in his immortal “Plekwick Papers. Some of the ivy of old eeps today over walls here and | there throughout the National Capi- | tal, reminding many of the blood ties that bind the United States to Great Britatn. This man reading hls paper on this street car is not so much interested in the news as his fellow passengers might think. He appears to be reading, no doubt about that, but actually he is drinking in the beauty of the Ivy on that old house on the corner. What a wonderful thing that no one can probe our thoughts! What a naked sort of world we would live in, to be sure, if our minds were as open as the up-side of a dinner plate. Thank heaven for the inviolate sanctity of our own | brains! As affairs are, we may mentally be planning our day's work at the same time we are giving seeming attention to a joke being told by a friend. He is regaling us with a choice Ameri- canism he read somewhere recently. | “Who wrote ‘The Hunchback of Neutrodyne'?” he asks us, solemnly, and we, as solemnly—for just then we are planning the exact tone of volce we will use in dealing with a certain fellow—we drone out: “I have forgotten the author, but 1 have read ate Yes our mi morning it is good for the world that s are velled with more than the seven legendary veils worn b; [the Queen of Sheba, or Salome, or | Natoma, or some of the rest of those dancing ladies. | ok Kk Our street car rider may seem very {staid and bu like, as he sits cre solemnly the ivy, but he thinking of the romance and his- {tory connected with the vine, and | through his thoughts run visions of {Ivanhoe, and knights at jousts, and fair ladies with long vellow bralds {adown their backs, in ‘& manner all these pictures reel through his mind far excelling any motion picture film {the world has ever known or ever | will know TODAY’S Earthquake shocks startled the peo- ple of both the Carolinas and of Geor- gia last Monday morning at 3:30 a.m. Houses shook and windows rattled, | furniture was moved and panic pre- {vailed over three States, yet no rec- ord of the seismic disturbance is found upon any of the five seismo- graphs of Georgetown (D, C.) Univer- sity. Father Torndorff, the expert seismologist in charge, declares that all of his machines were in_perfect order, and if any tremor had passed through Washington it would have appeared upon the delicately traced recording sheets. Since no such rec- ord appears, he refuses to believe the reports of a real earthquake, unless the seismographs of Ottawa, Canada, should show that the vibrations reached there. That would necessi- tate their passing through this lati- tude and longitude. The quakes might have been from mere surface land shifting, he suggests. It is claimed that blasting of rocks could not have caused tremors which ex- tended over three States. The heavy, though delicate, seismographs ignbre local disturbances due to minor causes. * x % *x It has been stated repeatedly by scientists that Washington is in no great danger of ever experiencing an carthquake, hence, they say, any in- terest Washingtonians may feel in the subject would be of an imper- sonal nature, more or less academic. But when three nearby States quiver and quake and our five delicate in- struments remain mute, what are rea- sonably prudent inhabitants of this region to rely upon? Father Torndorft assures us that it would be a waste of time and energy to foretell an earthquake. Noah fore- told high water, but the people went right on with their usual vocations. When a scientist advises the masses that they are resting upon & found; tion that is in danger of giving way beneath them, they think he Is an alarmist. Father Torndorf is confi- dent that it would be folly to predict that a quake is coming at any definite time, though it is quite possible to warn of conditions which indlcate jeopardy, and to appeal for measures to forestall fire peril to some ex- tent through greater strength inithe water mains of the cities, for the damage is usually greater from en- suing conflagration than from the selsmic cataclysm. The masses will not heed warnings. Look at Mount Vesuvius. Scarcely has the crater ceased to belch forth death and destruction when people begin to rebuild closer fo its mouth than ever, eager to ggt the benefit of the fertile volcanic gsh. When the earthquakd of 1886 shook North carounadu:ielo {xeto,;ln :e]u- mographs recorded it/ Kven the tele- scoi‘a:a‘.’ of the Unitéd States Naval Observatory saw i—or saw the stars mioving backward in thelr courses. A quivering of the éarth is an awe- some sight, but when the heavens seem to sway and the stars to move the imagination of universal insta- bility overwhelms men. ERERER] Last week the first preliminary official report of the Japanese im- perial investigating committee on the great disaster of September 1, 1923, reached Washington. It was written by the seismologist, A. Imamyra, who had been an eyewitness of the quak He says: .;‘Mo)r'a than 95 per cent of the lo: of-property was due to the fire caused by the first quake. It Is my utmost regret that we, as seismologists, could take no measures Of precau- tion mitigating such disaster. But I ask your indulgence while T tell you the facts. Our colleagues, especially Lrof. Oueri, often save advice (o the England | " THIS AND THAT BY C. E. TRACEWELL - whirls on to the seclusion of the ivy, its stolld growth, and years for per- fection, and he thinks of his own life, and his callow years, and his days of work and betterment, and what he has done to help others, and what he has not done, and of the old barn at home, and the hens laying him his breakfast. Memorles cling to ivy, more than ivy clings to a wall. The vy may be what Pope said, “the creepy, dirty. courtly ivy” but it is also the ivy of remembrance, of the magnificence of a great race, a vine entwined for- ever in the hearts of English-speak- ing people. * ok Kk The little house that sits under a hill is a sight worth going miles to see, if one is interested in beauty. 1f not, he would not cross the street to see a Turner painting, so why worry? It sits there, solid and four-square to every wind that blows, hunching its roof up toward the biuff behind it, the friendly bluff that protects it from the biting northwest wind of | Winter. If the hill could be humanized, all of a sudden, it would take on the semblance, I am sure, of a stout business man with a stout gold chain across his stout vest, a Rotarian, or eke a Kiwanian, who Imagines he is hard hearted. but who, In truth, can lunch with the boys and “act the tool” better than his son. The small house, under this same matamorphosis, would become a fair girl, ready to be sheltered and pro- tected from the rough winds of the world, and do just as little in return| her What therefor as possible. Is not beauty enough? I do not know. do you think about it? L I Here is a sight more beautiful than any to be found in the Botanic Garden. Step In from this prosaic alley into this typical back yard, and you find yourself in a fairy garden. Washington's back yards, with their high wooden fences, have been the butt of song. story and play, but here is their vindication. There is no high fence here, but otherwise it is long, narrow, hard to landscape. The owner has done it, however. Here Is a bird bath, with a bronze figure holding out its hands. Here is an arch, with two Dr. Van Fleet roses climbing over it. Here is a pergola with a floor, @ pleasant place to rest, vonder are gayly painted bird houses ock walks, with grass growing be- tween, invite to exploration among the crysanthemums and hollyhocks. A thing does not have to be as big s the dome of the Capitol to be worth looking at. See that single pink rose there! Elbert Hubbard picked the wrong flower when he said if he had but two loaves of bread, he would sell one and buy white cacinths to feed his soul. He should have bought a rose. * X Xk ¥ Now here 1s a sight far more un- usual than the Washington Monument sticking into the sky like a glant klansman, peaked hat, eves and all. This dog and cat calmly eating out of the same plate—Iis not this an off-the-trail sight worth seeing? Wouldn't it knock you silly, to sea Jack Spratt, alley cat, and Buster, oy Airedale, eating dinner amicably side by side, as if no such thing as the historic quarrel between canines and felines ever existed? This eating together is more star- tling than the lion and the lamb lying down together. And if a dog and cat can forget their differences, and be good neighbors, why on earth, and in the name of all that is holy, can- not the varlous families of men do brick From Scott’s famous novel his mind | as weli? SPOTLIGHT BY PAUL V. COLLINS. citizens of Tokio to improve the con- struction of the water pipes, which had often been proved to become in- efficient even in case of a moderate shock. In addition, I announced in 1905, through the journal Talyo, that there was a possibility that Tokio might be visited by a destructive earthquake in the near future, to be followed by a general conflagration should the system and equipments of fire protection remafn unimproved, when we might experience a loss of lives to the extent of 100,000 or more 1 discussed this view in detail, but people refused to belleve me. There was even an eminent scientist who ridiculed my opinion, once at that time and again in 1915, as nothing more than a rumor which might cause a panic.” The official records of the result of that earthquake in 1923 show 99,331 deaths, 103.735 wounded and 43,476 missing. Also of property loss, com- pletely collapsed bulldings, 126,266; half “collapsed. 126,233; burnt up, 477,128; washed away, 868. Probably never befpre has a prophecy of ca- lamity colme so close to the facts which ensued, yet even Dr. Imamura could not claim to know when his warning would be consummated. He simply warned of the dangerous con- ditions of the earth's strata, but not just when the momentous siip would oceur. * x ok X In the October number of Serib- ner's Magaine appears an interesting and informing _article, “Predicting Earthquakes,” written by Dr. J. A. Jaggar, who s in charge of the Hawallan volcano observatory. The writer states that the losses of lives through 11 earthquakes in the last 21 years have averaged 30,000 a year, with a property loss of half a billion dollars per year. Six of these dis- asters were In America, three in Japan and two in Italy. “And no one can say that New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore or Washington is geologi- cally immune to such happenings as the Charleston earthquake of 1886,” says Dr. Jaggar. ‘“Martinique de- stroyed perhaps $50,000,000 of caplital, San Francisco $500,000,000 and Tokio $5,000,000,000. Classifying the regions of the earth according to their liability to quake and scaling them as from 1 to 10, 1 being the quietest and 10 the most shaky, Dr. Jaggar reports: “What about the United States? Michigan is very solid and quiet—No. 3 of the scale. Ohlo and the Missis- sippi Valley are No. 5, North Caro- lina and eastern Canada are No. 6, the district from Washington to Philadelphia_(east of the Alleghenies) is No, 7, and comfortless emerge the relentless figures that show New York and New England to be in the same category (No. 8) with southern and central Californla, Cooks Inlet in Alaska, and Parts of New Zealand and Mexico. The seismologist points to the need of great observation stations deep underground, with instruments low- ered in shafts 1,000 feet down, to be located in many parts of the world and to be in intercommunication. By these stations volcanic radiation could 'be measured dlectrically or radially, so that the rising surface of lava seas far beneath volcanoes would be measured and conditions presaging eruptions would be de- tected long in advance. Discussing such underground labo- ratories, he say: “The job that the world sets be- fore us is to harness the globe. No sovernment or single institution can possibly do it. Indeed, a League of Nations could not finance it. But New Orleans and New York can each finance her own laboratory. Each is interested in her own piece of ground. and | r.cords. FLOWERS For the Living Charlie Paddock. BY ROBERT EDGREN. When Charlle Paddock was born, in Pasadena, Calif., Lis father went out into the lot beside the house and be- gan the construction of a 100-yard running track. Charlle’s first Christ- mas present was a palr of spiked shoes. As soon as he could toddle his father paced him on the home track, and the old gentleman could show Charlie the way to the tape until the boy made the Pasadena High School track team and began running the hundred in 10 seconds flat. After that the senior Paddock did his rac- ing with Charlie on the sand beach at Santa Monica, and Charlle admits that until four or five years ago his father could beat him running 50 yards In soft sand. In his younger days Mr. Paddock was known as a pretty fair quarter-mile runner. Perhaps it was his running in sand that gave Charlie Paddock the tre- mendous strength that made him in- vincible on a heavy track, and the world's “fastest human” on any kind of track at all. Dean Cromwell, coach at the University of Southern Califor- nia, says that Paddock has the fin- est legs he ever saw, and that the first glimpse he had of Charlie’s mus- cular limbs induced him to make Charles a champion. This isn't in- tended to be embarrassing to Pad- dock. It ig put forward merely as a point of scientific interest. A young- ster with powerful legs, properly coached, can do wonders in athlétics As Dean Cromwell says, he needed only to show Paddock that he could go faster by lifting his knees higher, and he was a world's record breaker. Of course, there is more than that in being a champlon. Paddock has great determination, grit and ambition and he has as clean a mind and clean a body as any boy in America. Charlie was entering college when the war came along, and was only 18. He at once volunteered and worked his way to a commission in the artillery. After the fracas he ran in the inter- allied games, won the hundred and two hundred meter races and broke the world's records. Coming back to the University of Southern California, Paddock began breaking all sorts of world’s sprint He has run the hundred in 9 3-5 several times, has twice run the two hundred and twenty in 20 4-3, and has established other records and won many championships. He won the 200-meter race in the Olympic games four vears ago. After leaving college Charlic want- ed to stop running, as sprint racing is a severe strain and training take: much time. He writes and lecture and Is kept rather bu But he came out again this year for the O! Running a record century Drake Relays, with too little train- ing, he strained a muscle in his leg, but shortly afterward qualified for the Olympic team. Lawson Robertson, the Olympic team coach, tells a story about Pad- dock. Abrahams, the great English sprint- er, startled the athletic world by winning the 100-meter sprint from team of American sprinters that had been thought invincible. Abrahams is a tall, rangy fellow with a tremen- dous burst of speed. There was con- sternation in the American camp and it was thought that Abrahams would almost surely win the 200-meter event. But Abrahams and Paddock met in the semi-final heat. The two could have run without much effort, and both qualified for the final. first and second men qualifying. But Pad- dock went out fn that heat to run Ahrahams off his feet, and did it so effectively that the tall Englishman had nothing left for the final. There Scholz won from Paddock by a few inches. Paddock might have saved himselt for the final, but he gave ur his personal chance for the good of the team. “For that” sald Roberteon, “I con- slder Paddock entitled to fully as much credit as if he had won.” Coming home, Charlie wound up his athletic career by competing in the rational championship at the new Newark A. C. field, where he won both the 100 and the 220 yard races, equaling his own world’s record and proving to the skeptical East that his home State records were not the re- sult of “western timing.” (Copyright, 1924.) Get Fun Out of Life! Sinclair Lewis is right; a lot of Americans do not get enough fun out of life. The young intellectuals challenge cotemporary life and thought be- cause it is regimented and standard- 1zed. Davenports are put in front of fireplaces, not because the owners want them there, but because other people have them there. Mr. Babbitt installs a cigar lighter in his car, not because he thinks he gets fun out of a harmlessly glittering automobile accessory, but because he thinks it gives “class” to his machine. Doing things because other people do them, or doing them insincerely to impress other people, is one good way of lead- ing a dull life. Fun comes by being one’s self. The exterior act should reflect the one within. The davenport Is in its prop- er place when it is where you want it as a belng living your own life and not giving a fig for artificial mass standards. Golf is a good game if you play it because you like it. But it is a poor pastime when you find it but another way of doing what other peo- ple do. You might rather play mar- bles or hop-scotch, if marbles or hop- scotch better releases your fun in- stinct. The remedy for much of which the young inteliectuals complain lies in questioning ourselves more as to Why we do things. Have our opinions come to us ready-made from our parents, or from our environment, or have we thought things out for ourselves? Do we put cigar lighters on our cars for the convenience of clgar smokers or to acquire a sham “class”? Why not do more things, think more things, feel more things, that are really our own? That's one way to have fun. Men want to make things and do things that reflect themselves They want to create, in the spirit of play, things beautiful or odd or Interesting. They get fun out of life to the extent in which the things they make or do reflect what they really are. But as long as the chlef business of life lies in coming out better than our broth- ers In the competitive struggle the brighter business of making life in- teresting and creative must walt— Atlantic City Evening Union. By comparing notes they will bulld up a profound science.” * ok * % Perhaps we have been mistaken in visualizing the earth as solid and firm, swinging, bumpless, through immeasurable space. It is quivering, vibrating, bumping like an airplane over “air pockets” or rather pockets in the ether, or jarred by cross cur- rents of radlo activfty. Inwardly it is bolling and storming and bursting. ‘There is no mooring mast in the skies to which this great dirigible earth can anchor and be safe. ‘“Watchman, what of the night?” * (Copyright, 1924, by Paul V. Q. Is Nippon the name of the main island of the Japaness Empire?— R. N. K. A. The name of the chief island of the empire is Hondo, or Hon-shu. Nip- pon is the name cf the entire Japanese Emplre. Q. How are W. B. M. A. The primary use of the avocado Is as a salad fruit, to be served with salad dressing. It may also be eaten as a dessert, with sugar and cream or with lemon or orange juice. In troplcal countries it is frequently eaten in soup. avocados served?— Q. What does the average lion and tiger weigh?>—W. H. P. A. A 10-foot tiger will weigh about 500 pounds, while a 9%-foot lion weighs between 400 and 500 pounds. Q. Which form of currency, paper or coin, is the more expensive for the Gov- ernment to maintain’—J, H. D. A. Paper currency is more expensive to maintain, as the life of a one-dollar bill is less than one year. Q. supposed to have been cut vears ago’—D. O. W. A. The Forest Service says that the blazes which are put in trees never grow out, provided that the blaze {s put in properly. One of the members of the | Forest Service oites an instance of a | blaze that was made in 1861 and states that it Is possible to stand 15 feet from | this blaze and distinguish it clearl | Q. Who owns Bedloes Island on which the Statue of Liberty stands? |—L. s T. A. This land was ceded to the United States Government for tk | purpose of harbor defense and wa once occupled by Fort Wood. Q. Where can I get English and French time tables?—H. W. B. A. Time tables are not given awa: by the French and Fnglish railroads as they are by those in America. The time tables are sold and pub- lished in book form. The English time tables are published in a volume called “Guide Official,” and it is pub- lished by the International Sleeping Car Co., 281 Broadway, New York City. The French time tables are published in book form by the Com- pany International of Grand Europe, 40 Rue de 1’ Arcade, Paris, France. Will a tree show a mark that is on it 50 Q. What kinds of wood are used for railroad ties?—R. B. A. Railroad ties are made the following woods: Oak (prefer- red); Eucalyptus, black locust, cedar, walnut, cypress. pines of various kinds, fir, larch, spruce, redwood, gum, ash, beech. Q. When a British citizen becomes naturalized in the United States is his former country notified>—A. F. N A His native country is not noti- fled when a British subject becomes la citizen of this country. Q. When were wild flowers do- mesticated ?—W. T. A. It Is not possible to state defl- finitely exactly when wild flowers were domesticated. The ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Assyrians, R mans and Chinese cultivated flowers for use and pleasure and propagated many plants. One of the most an- clent examples of cultivated plants < a drawing representing figs, found in the pyramid of Gizeh in Egpy Authors have assigned a date vary ing between 1,500 and 4,200 years be- fore the Christian era. The first no- tions concerning gardening were in- treduced into Japan by the Koreans in 604 A. D. In China 2700 years B. C. The Emperor Chennung instituted ceremony in which every vear fiv specles of useful plants were sown Q. How large do snails grow?— E. R. A. Species of snail found in East Africa, grow to be 8 inches long Their eggs are about the size pigeon's eggs. Both the snail and the egg are used for food by the na- tives. V. Q. Are there any wild tribes of Indfans in the United States?—G. K. A German loan in the United States set- tles, at least in the minds of many American editors, the question of whether a genuine start has been made toward the restoration of many's credit and the stabilization of conditions in Europe. As expressed by the Hartford Times, “Rehabilit tion recovery should not be far behind.” The way the loan was absorbed, de- clares the Chicago Tribune, “discloses not only confidence that Germany can and will be restored to financial, eco- nomic and political health, but alse the will to help her practically and substantially,” for “it brings definite- 1y to her side investors directly con- cerned in her welfare, as well as the great number of people in trade, in- dustry, agriculture, who have come to realize that German restoration is a factor in our own return to nor- maley.” In fact, the Topeka Capital is sure “the loan to Germany is of great interest to this country, par- ticularly to farmes and miners and all producers of raw materials. The loan will be of benefit to the United 5 v arations plan States, whether the rep: s plan | LA€ CO0T ultimotely succeeds or requires fur- ther amendments. The loan will start German industrial activity. In fact, the Lincoln State Journal forecasts such a stimulation of trade, travel ard mutual understanding with Europe as eventually will draw the United States into the League of Natlons. “A condition will arise,” {| says this paper, “under which an in- creased foreign demand for our farm products will be maintained. Our op- erations abroad will become so im- portant that we will not only join the world court, but in time will enter the League of Natfons. This loan is the entering wedge. ERE “Whatever the attitude of the tax- payer, who eventually must assume the burden of Germany's foreign ob- ligations,” the Cleveland Plain Deal- er is sure “the present government is to be credited with nothing but the best intentions and a desire to see Germary not only make reasonable reparation, but to recover economi- cally and industrially at the same time.” Then, too, the Charleston Post points out that “all the re- sources of the German nation are pledged to its support, and it is a first lien upon them, prior even to the reparations awarded by the treaty of Versallles.” Material security behind the German loan, the New Orleans Times-Picayune agrees, “is ample, and the single uncertainty is, and long must continue to be, whether the German government, as contrasted with the German people, will hold firmly together and carry out through the years of self-denlal and self-dis- oipline the promises that have been extracted from the defeated nation.” ‘What has happened, observes the Memphis News-Scimitar, shows “the direction in which business is headed, and, what is more, it shows conclu- sively that there is a universal dis- position to put Germany on its feet and make it possible to overcome the economic depression in Europe.” Noth- ing, the Nashyille Banner adds, “is more indicative of the World War's end and gives so great assurance of | their bables in India | |is from | | before | says |s. of | Immeédiate oversubscription of the | the stabilized world condition 1wl has at last begun and economic | | cent | continent BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. says that there are no wild tribes of Indians in the United States at the present time. The Indlans are en- goged In activities similar to those of the white people, namely agricul ture, commerce and business of all kinds. The Seminoles of Florida do not live on a Government reservation and have no regular ‘agreement or treaty with the Government. They are very peaceable, however. Q. What part of the avallable 'ufi'"yls used for candy and drinks A. It has been estimated that ove one-third of our sugar is used by candy, sweet drink, and other manu- facturers of non-essentials. Q. What Is a petroleum engineer® —A. W. A. A petroleum engineer is a gr ologist speclally versed in the orig! and occurcnce of petroleum and fa millar with the methods of determin ing by fleld examination places where drilling is likely to result in the pro- duction of petroleum. Q. Why doesn’t the Post Office re rlu\lm postage stamps for cash?— Adhesive postage stamps not redeemed in cash because th no authority in law for so deing. is a measure of protection against the use of stamps for remittances which use Is contrary to the inter- ©8ts of the postal service. Since i diverts the postal revenues from proper channel, causing the mailing post offce to do the work | while the selling post office gets the revenue. Another objection to re- demption is that it would afford opportunity for post office burglars t realize upon their plunder, What is the death t —I. B. R. A. The Infant death rate for India more than twice as high as that of England. Almost two millior babies under the age of one year die each year, and at least half of these deaths are preventable. Great effor is being made to help thess India: mothers fn the care of children, since many of these deaths can be lald at the door of ignorance and poverty rate Q. A claims there were a number of vegetarian regiments in active service in the German army and that they were recognized as the best sol- diers. T 1t you might be able to furnish some information?—B. H. A. The war departments of the different countries take issue wi the statement that the Germans who were vegetable-fed made the best soldiers. Scientists show that meat- fed soldiers had the most initlative Q. nned goods be boiled opening?—G. N. W. A. The Department of Agriculture that it is not necessary for canned gods to be boiled be being open if Government direc- tions for canning have been careful- 1y followed. Many canned puddings on the market, however, are meant Should | to be bolled in the cans, such prepa- rations having the instructions print- ed on the labels. Some soups bear | directions for heating before open- ing. Q. What causes earthquakes?—— M. E. A. The origin of earthquakes has been traced to two principal causes the first which is tectonic, and the second, volcanic. The former refers to movements in the earth’s crust known as faults, possibly caused by the shrinking of the interfor of the earth by reason of cooling. (Frederio J. Haskin is employed by this paper to handle the inquiries of our readers, and you are invited to call upon him as frecly and as often as you please. Ask anything that is a matter of fact and the authority will be quoted you. There is no charge for this service. Ask what you want, sign your name and ad- dress and inclose 2_cents in stamps for postage. Addrvess The Star In formation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Twenty-first and C strec i The Bureau of Indian Affairs sorthwest.) Press Believes German Loan Step to European Recovery Herald-Tribune the can now go into of the world o she could not have raised a cent, and raise $200 000,000, *is an unforgettable testimon to the effectiveness of the Dawes plar 1d to the reality of the service which Mr. Dawes performed not on for the jes but f all rope.” Declaring that “very few even of the superlative, last ditel 110 y An ican: look with disfavor on the the Richmond News-Lead er adds, “some raucous voices wil croak w nin that the allied and associated governments are present ing iany with a club she w use cracking their heads a few hence However, most Ameri- are agreed that the loan Is nec- essary not only Germany, but for stabilizing economic conditions on the as a Along the line, the Ne Times con- cludes that when all is said about the varying aspects of the loan, “the su- premely important constderation will be its part in rendering effective the plan to settle the reparations dispute, terminate the long post-war feud on the continent and open up a period of recover throughout least the Baltimore Sun notes significantly, the titude in financial circles * that the loan is a very desirable investment. The Roston Transcript sounds a note of caution: “The success of the loan should by no means be regarded as a positive assurance of the success of the reconstruction plan as a whole. By far the most difficult phases of the task still walt to be wrestled with But the public confidence expressed in the loan is at least a good augury of Europe's successful triumph over the difficulties to come.” the New fact that the money re six months York Germany markets in vears n same rope.” At Bishop Asbury’s Horse One on Him, Wile Admits To the Eiitor of The Sta With veterinary counsel I have just revisited the Asbury equestrian statue, on Sixteenth street, and find that my friendly monitor, §. Reese Murray, is right. The bishop's horse is, indeed, nipping his foreleg, as Mr. Murray's discerning eve discovered, and not rubbing his nose thereon, as my cursory glance led me to believe. Mr. Murray, as it were, has a horse on me, and, in a manner of speaking, I have lost by a nose. The late Charles A. Dana, defining news to a cub reporter, once : “Young man, if you should dog biting a man, that wouldn't be news. But If you should see a man biting a dog, that would be news.” As a_zealot for accuracy, I rejoice that I at least did not depict Bishop Asbury himself in the act of nip- ping his foreleg or rubbiug his nose against it, for that would, indeed, as I am sure Mr. Murray will agree, have been an even more unpardona- ble lack of careful discrimination than the ome to which, with punc- tilious courtesy, he drew my attem- tion in The Star of October 21. FREDERIC WILLIAM WILB.