Evening Star Newspaper, November 14, 1924, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Kaltion. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY ..November 14, 1924/ i ‘THEODORE W. NOYES. "The Evening Star Newspaper Company | Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. | Now York' Ofce: 110 Fast 42nd 8t ‘Chicago Office. Tower But European Office : 16 Regent St., Loudon, The Evenng Star. with the Sunday moruing edition, I dellvered by carriers within the city at 60 cents per mouth: daily wuly, 43 “onts “per month G conte per wonth. Orders ¥ b yhons Main 5000. " Coll Tiers at 'the ‘ed of each mon g 5 agland. | Payable in Adwance, nd and Virginia. 1yr., $8.40: 1 mo. 1yr, $6.00; 1 mo, 1yr, $2.40; 1 mo. Rate by Mail Maryl Daily and Sunda Daily only Bunday only. . All Other States. Daily and Sunday.1 yr., §10.0; Dally only.......1yr, $7.0 Sunday only. 1yr., $3.00%1mo. Member of the A: The Associated Press Is s 10 the use for rvpublication of all news dis patches creditad 1o 1t or ot otierwise n this paper s Jiahed herain spectal dispatel = nd ulko ‘the loval news pub All rights of puhlication of lerein: are o i The President and the District. When the voters of the United States very recently clected a Presk | dent they at the sam and by the same vote clected in effect a St Governor for the District of Col and & mayvor or municipa for the City of hington., Coolidge is not President idge, but also in effect D, Coolidge and Mayor Coo three in one. President Coolidge national polictes for vigorous tatlon to the National Legislature Doubtless Governor and M « dge is also due season forn mu policies for the wholesome develop ment cf the natlon's city, for equaily vigorous presentation to the District’s State Legisl the Aldermen and of Washington, Vice Prestdent Coc intelligent and interes n the welfare and upbuilding of the Natfonal Capital, fow vears ago at the r stone of the time nnbia exccutive W only, Calvi is shuping his | presen formulating. or w his \gress ture and | Common Council | dge she sympathetic His ada laying City Club re Washington we a the cor President | Coolidge” for the| material pment of the Capital | and for financial and cal ! for Washingtonians would be sound, | wholesome and Since the adoption form of government, u Commiesieners hav thority te gress, opportunit dents 1o shift the responsibili mmaking local recommendation tirely upon the Commissioner: views often Congre owever, most instances President elpfully backed Commissioners | in their most important recommenda- | o in specia project which he him as favored. Every | predecessor of President Wiison in a message to Congress indicated his in- terest in and expressed Some though! concerning the natlon’s city The President, though not a part | of the municipal corporation which di- réctly manages local executive con- cerns, is as the appointive power of | the official heads of this corporation and through his veto an important factor in the exclusive legislative power of Congress in respect to the Capital The President speaks to Congress | concerning District affairs through the Commissioners and the Bureau of the Budget, but his indirect recommenda ons8, thus expressed, need to be em- phasized and reinforced by representations. it Congress heed them. The relations of Was representatives of the ernment have as a and more cordial with the executive than with the legislative branch. With | Congress there has been too often mis understanding, reciprocal inisjudg- ment and recrimination: though all vital questions Congress has the end treated the Nation's with wisdom and fairness and nndoubtedly continue to do so the end of the chap: The President of the United Stat. can do no finer thing than to use the power and opportunities of his posi- ton to bring together the members of the National Capital partnership in vigorous, cordial co-operation for the city’s wholesome development. "There is no limit to what can bhe done in the wise upbuilding of the Nation's «ity if the national and local partners will work harmoniously and earnestly together in its interest and in fulfill-4 ment of their constitutional obliga- tion. | wtions - whi effect the in au ts given for Presi-| ! for whose carry littie weight s opportt with t. n has T heen has n generally seized, the the t dire is | gton to Natfonal rule Gov-| been closer on s m city Wi until —————— The cross-word puzzi to have doubled the arfes. Cannot some brizht something for the Bibie? ——— Senator Butler. Appointment of William as successor to Senator Lodge expected as logical, in view of the | fact that Mr. Butler had been an as- | pirant for the office as a prospective primary candidate and furthermore had just completed a distingnish~d | and valuable service for his party as | chairman of the Republican national | committee during the recent contest. | He had become the foremost Repub- lican of the State of Massachusetis, next to the President himself, by reu- son of Mr. Caolidge’s selection of him | as the manager of the campaign. T'n- less it wers Secretary Weeks, who: public service covers a ‘long period and has bean marked by an eminent success in Congress, there was mn view no other citizen of the State who was 80 clearly entitled to the honor. Mr. Weeks, however, now holds a high and important office in the Gov- ernment. It may be assumed that he prefers to remain at that post. Senator Butler will be no novice in legislative work, for he has served in both branches of the §tate Legis- lature, He has always been a close student of political matiers wpd of 4 crazg is said sale of dictiun- mind do | M. Butler was | ' of the statute work he his own [ which | which has been | ness in {ings and grounds has reported that Government problems. His qualifica- tion for the distinction which hds been bestowed upon him now is not in question. It Is appropriate that the exccutive leader of the successful party should occupy a position of im- Washington to insure a close conmection with the Executive in whose election he has just assisted. Notable precedent for the advance- ment of Mr. Butler to the Senate Is afforded by the case of Mark Hanna, who in 1887 went by appointment to the Senate to succeed John Sherman, who lLad been named Secretary of State. Mr. Hanua's selection proved to be fully justified by his statesman hke bearing and diligent Other campaign chairmen have taken high public office upon the installa tion administrations they hav. helped elect, have rendered viluable service to the Government. ler the law of the State of Massa- chusetts the governor's appointment runs until the next bienntal election, which insures, unless a proposed test to a different re. sult, that Butler will remain until the elects in 1926, Washing ton will welcome the new member of the Senate from Massachusetts and wish him success in attaining the dis tinction which has been the fortune of a long line of eminently able states. | men from that Commonwealth. ser: and enator R Farming as a Business. cesident Coolidge, in Association of night iculture production » hefore the his addr Land Grant d me Collgees last e that stross point than | has becon is now that it The farmer t well as a producer He mus<t study and apply him- to the of vending h G n aid to son himself must e a busine must be a erchant as f self principles goods. ver the ment extent, but farmer marketer, t course stafus of the market W immediate He a to in change has come of the years farmer. Formerly at hand, with demand for his products could not dispose of his goods at for transportation was | difficuit. With the development of railroads, and latterly the | highways, the range products ed. But red turn his pass | the his close as an distance, improve ment of of the farm farmer to others to conduct U w to rost the | over th buver and allow business of final | dispe 1 sal. i far smallest whole In the evolution of Lew process of mar! fored. e Middlemen finally bas return. and profits than hav e liv- | | rer suf- | zets the and ers, their lar profits cly a b retailers, in the his The farmer's been in most cases me ing. rarely amounting to enough permit an accumulation of means e President urges that ers of the country get closer to the | final and reward for their labx suggests co-operative mar attempted in sections, as the general rule for the American agriculturist. In to the farmers he knows his subject, for he has had an experfence of his| own in farm work. He knows the toil | that is necessary the production | of cfops. He knows the slender mar- | gin on which the farmer w Direct Government aid would be of | no value as a bounty. It would merely add to the cost of products to the consumer without relatively incre ing the farmer's carnings. Far mu efective is a system of direct market ing through benefiting both the preducer and the consumer. In his speach last night the Presi dent was addressing teachers of agri culture. Through them he will reach the who ar, learning than those pertaining to the culture of the soil. They are hecoming business men, and to the extent that they combine the of tillers and sc they will redeem themselves from their present unsatis dition. take are main own. the farm consumer larger ks insure a and ri | | some | | pealkin co-operation, themselves, lessons farmers other roles tory ——————————— A sca captain recently landed at New York declares that on his voy- 5o he discovered a new fish that resembled a pear, a shark, a lob- ster. a turtle and a green pea. N it was two days out of Hamburg and nowhere near rum row. ————— Representative Hill may have of regret that he cannot on the advertising that has s own brand of home his moments capital been given to h brew ————— Ramsay MacDonald says his Labol party has really won out. Such opti- mism is worthy of a larger total of ballots. e ding Bill. actment of the | hensive Gov- Wash- of $50.- | uragins. | much dise The Government Buil The Smoot sspect for Jill for a compry ernment building ington with 000,000 in five This bill, which i at the late session of Congress, was | favorably reported to the Senate and the Senate calendar for action, 1t would probably have been passed-but for the press of other busi- the closing days of the ses- at expenditure ve an is en now on sion. The public building situation 1 Washington grave. Government offices are spread about the eity in rented structures which were planned and built with no reference to the use to which they are being put. Much Government business is carried on in temporary structures construct- ed In haste on the breaking out of the ! war, and which are pow kept in re- pair at a high outlay of public money. The superintendent of public build- is it ought to be possible to use these buildings for five vears. The Infer- ence Is that at the end of five years, notwithstanding costly repairs, these buildings will be on the point of col- lapse, Government business has im- mensely increased during the past ten years, new bureaus have been created, the work of old offices has been vastly extended and a number of Government buildings are obsolete and crowded with employes and stacked with Government records. The fire hazard is high, and the swun | taxes and to | State expenditures. [ dected a plan for a constitutional con- | [ I: | irecord breaking which | the Government spends on rentals is large. The President in his message to Congress last December urged the adoption of an adequate general build- ing program . for ‘the Government at Washington, and he stands 4n favor of the project-today, Senator Smoot has said, “There is no other place in the country where the Government needs new bulldings and more build- ings than it does rigifit here in the District of Columbia.” No private business in the country would take the risks which taking today with its records In in- flammable temporary structures. The building program is the definite plan reached by the Public Buildings Commission which was created by Congress to study the bullding situa- tion in Washington and to devise a remedy. oThe remedy Is provided by the bill which is now before Congrems and it is encouraging to hear Senator 3moot and Senator Fernald, who is chairman of the Senate committee on public buildings and grounds, say that they mean to press the matteg to ac- tion in the Senate. On the House side are many stalwart friends of the measure. Constitutional Amendments. It is noted that in several States where proposed constitutional amend nents were submitted to the voters at the election last week the people gen erally refused to modify the funda- mental laws of their States 20 questions pluced on the ballots in 15 States 19 rejected and only 10 were approved. Michigan rejected three amendments, one abolishing parochial schools. another providing for a State income tax and the third reapportioning the legislative dis- tricts. Kansas rejected a bonus pro- and also a tax-law change Dakota refused to nforce a reduction of South Dakota re- were posal North vention and other propositions, Ne raska turned down a direct-primury plan. Gasoline taxes were approved in Minnesota and Missourl. Various other questions were voted on in other States. and the trend was against madification of the constitutions. Just how far thia tendency against constitutional amendment was due to the reaction against the third-party proposal for a change in the Federal Constitution affecting Supreme Court an constitutional determined, but decisions cannot be unmistakably “ollette turned against the La proposition to that effect, swayed in their judgment on State amendments. It was, in short, a bad vear for constitutional changes, -~ Those who bewailed the passing of the election excitement because it left nothing to give a thrill forgot that the three liveliest battles were yet to be fought. One of them has pas history, Princeton’s defeat of Harvard by the score of 34 to 0. The second takes place tomor row, when Yale meets Pri the third will occur when Yale meets Harvard cannot rated until the third contest h into a week later. The dall as arrtved s ended. ason be ———— - Interest is manifested in Paris n the fact that the only French persons to catch on to the base ball game were some boys, of from 7 to 12 years, ' who “got it” quickly and cheered | lustily at the right points. They even demanded the death of the umpire in correct French idiom. Trust the small boy to be right “there” in his com- prehension of sport, whatever his na- tionality ——— Wall Street continues to tempt the | investor to get in while the buying'| is fine, and the investor appears to be responding in such a degree that In transactions is now a daily occurrence. The wise one is he who senses the right time' to stop being a bull and takes on the ursine role. e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Congressional Holiday. When Congress takes a holiday A statesman’s cares will fade away. He'll don his neat Prince Albert Coat f And high silk hat, and boldly gquote | The phrases which are apropos, And yet which hold no threat of woe To projects which he may hold dear In his political career. These are the hours of compliment, Of kind and generous intent, When each is looking toward the sky And even stocks are rising high. | Idealism rules the State With nothing to investigate, T.et us be happy while we may | When Congress takes a holida: Discriminations. “What we want is a country for- ever of free people! “Of cours answered Senator Sor- ghin, “but it doesn’'t seem possible for evervbody to be absolutely free. I should like an arrangement, however, by which more of the real crooks could be locked up and not so many respectable citizens put under arrest for minor offenses.” The Inutile Anarchist. “Red" Of uselessness that is complete. It he 'mondst cannibals could go’ He might at least be good to eat. A Jud Tunkins says showy folks are not the most helpful. A sky rocket is pretty, but a match is a heap more use. The Important Pofnt. “Chemists say there are all sorts of terrible things inf bootleg liquor,” “No doubt,” said Uncle Bill Bottle- top. “But, after all, what's in the stuff aln't nigh as important as who it's in.” Facts and Figures. A lady’s dress is on display And hapless husband hollers, “How little you can buy today For several hundred dollars!” “It's wonderful,” said Uncle Eben, “to see how many people dat want $6 foh a day's work will put in hour after hour doin’ puzzies foh nothin’,” the Government fs | Of the | increase | questions i there is | ason to believe that the voters, who | of the year | nceton, and | presents a wondrous show | BY GUS. 4 ! The parking situation is one of the most troublesome encountered by municipal officers. Many suggestions have been offered as to its eojution, but no satisfactory remedy has been found. As municipalities grow and autos be- come more plentiful the pro rally becomes more acute. It is, how- ever, a fundamental principle that the primary use and purpose of a highway is for moving traffle, and not for garage purpose 1t 1s impossible to have co stantly moving traffic, ko some arrang. ments ust be made for vehicles when “at ease.” The growth of citles in such that business is concentrated ctions causes what s kn stricta” and in thes congestion uits from the park- ing of automobilea by those who hive business therein or labor there. congested dietricts of Wash | bracing some 125 blocks, it is estimated that from nine to ten thousand autos are parked during the busy hours. This is about 10 per cent of the entire num- ber of cars in the District, and in the e!imination of trucks and other commer- clal vehlcles t percentage would be greater. It will ti efore be seen wh, | it is necemsary for the munleipality t5 | imit parking to a certain definite time | %0 that all might have equal privileges | to transact business. In the congeste districts th Hmit 1s » hour, which *ouid seemi to be long enough for all strictly business purposes. Moucpoly Not It is not fair or just that any person persons shouid monopolizi public space which belongs to the whole pe pie. It is a species of favori m which is contrary to our system of Goverr ment, where ull ure to have equal rights In & block which has several office buildings housing hundreds of auto | owners, it is manifestly improper jthat one-third of these can use the space for parking to the detriment discomfort of the other tv thirds. Then, agaln, the owners of business houses have a 1d objection in their protest that custo: TS in cannot stop at their stores b {of the parking congestion. { The time may come when there will |be no parking allowed in the con- gested districts. A8 the city grows ;and autos increare it will be fim- [ possible to find parking space even for the limits of time HNowed, The {quest for parking space would be great as to create dixorder and c fusion and lead to terrific tramic § the absence of collapsible the problem is a mighty one ducive to gerfous thourht, a way in cer- gton, em- | 1 | | | and and corn Auto Apartments Favored. Underground similar to the doubt be expensi vle if made or parks somew ground public cor logtcal ~solution, would be to have | ments to care for the in advantageous 1 could be constructed ways, S0 that ingress could be had expeditio whether these should be privately or | publicly owned Is a question upon which the court docs not venture an | opinion Much progress has alread made wlong these lines in the con- struction of auto space fn the base- ments of large new-office bLuildings, department stores and apartment houses. Inst have been cited where autos been parked roofs The park | parking subwiys, in tun would although fe N fort 1 static would seem ito apart- cars, situated Those ramp run- 1 egress sly. An with recent suggzestion that public utilized for parking will adopted. The platform, “No for parkink.” would win election. Grave as the parking | situation may be, the health an { comfort of the community are also of some glight Importance, and purks or breathing spaces must be con- served. - pa Auto Parks Possible. Auto parks may be established, and obably will. through the congested districts, which could be made as at- | tractive as some of gasoline sta- | tions. But these would have to be | established as such, ther b { Governmient or by private caplta Judge Police and Traffic Courts. In the. been ! on | the | alwa TRAFFIC REGULATIONS Parking SCHULDT, Parking, however, for strictly busi- | negs purposes, for a limited time will, no' doubt, be allowed for some time |to come.” As has been sald, mer- chants in the congested districts have some rights, and thelr customers should be allowed to park for the duration of their shopping. There {s no question that the limited varking rule can be enforced by the police, but If autos are forced out of ome section, congestion will naturally follow in another, so that some pro- visions will have to be made eventually for the entire parking problem. It might also expedite present en- forcement if a driver, entering a congested dlstrict. would be obliged to glve a regulation card to the | traffic_officer on duty in the section indicating his desire to stop for busi- ness thereln. The time of parking should be indicated on the card. At the end of the parking limit, whether one-halt or an hour, if the machine not driven away, the officer could lock or impound it. Such a regula- tion, or system, would put the burden | of fixing the time upon the drivers and at the same time be a record of the cars parked. It would also avold the controversy relative to the time parked, as at present, and the burden of proving who parked the car. paces Are Essential. The regulations make provision for space of 30 feet in width in a feet in length, these spaces to be designated These are supposed to be in the category of landing places. These are esmential, as it gives cus- tomers a chance to get near their shopping places The time will also coms when all- night parking will have to be abol- ished. It s more or less of a dan- kerous practice, as experience hLas proven. Many machines have mno lights or the lghys have become defective and are, therefore, poten- tially cause for colilsions. It is also a temptation to our weaker minded {slde of his brilliant mind, [ made possible the | center of a block or square over 200 | FLOWERS For the Living - Michael Pupin BY ROBERT EDGREN. “What is ‘statio?” I asked Prof. Michael Pupin one evening when there had been much cackling on the radlo. “Static 1s an electrical instrumen- tality of God by means of which He stimulates the activity of our atmos- Phere,” he answered. The reply was characteristic of him, for he 18 not one of those sclentists who find science and religlon in- compatible, but is, upon the contrary, devout. Moreover, he inherits from & line of Serblan peasant forbears a distinct spirit of mysticism, a love of the poetic and the romantic, which contrasts curlously with the scientific Though Prof. Pupin's chief fame with the public rests upon his theory of long distance electrical wave-| transmission applled in practice by | his invention of the Pupin coil which | long distance tele- phoulc transmission, particularly by underground telephone cables, he has| made important discoveries in many | fields of sclence. He invented tho de- | vice which reduced the time exposure in X-ray photography from nearly an hour to a fraction of a second, and this vear he received the gold medal of the Institute of Radio Engineers ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Q. What is the highest mileage that the ZR-3 can make In an hour?’—J. A. The highest speed which can b made by the ZR-3 is approximately 7. miles an hour. The speed of the Shen- andoah is approximately 65 miles an hour. On its Atlantic trip the ZR-3 made an average of approximately 63 miles an hour. Q. Did Christy Mathswson pitch a par- ticularly fast ball’—A. K. A. Christy Mathewson was a pitcher of ordinary speed. ‘His fadeaway ball was a slowly pitched ball. Q. How did the custom of “giving the bride away” originate?—L. O. M. A. The two stages through which- mar- riage has developed are: Marriage by force and marriage by contract. In was a solemn surrender of the bride by her guardlan in the Anglo-Saxon marriage service. This ceremony is the prauung, and tha custom of “glving away the bride’” s traced to this solemn surrender. Q. Kindly name the woman members of the last Parilament—L. P. K. A. Miss Jewson, Miss Lawrence, Lady | Astor, M of Atholl, Mrs. Hilton-Phllipson, Lady Tenington, Miss Bondfield. Four were | returned. of America for his discoverles in con- nection with wave-selection and elec- trical tuning—the term ‘“tuning,” in its application to electricity, being, by the way, his own. | Prot. Pupin is in ever. | ot striking fndividualit He s tall, dark, powerfully built, and has a massive head In which a great deal zoes on. nuine, kindly, widely in- formed, he is patient In’ explaining scientlfic matters to the uninitiated unless the questions put to him are obviously foolish. “Prof. Pupin,” sald a pretty young lady who sat beside him at dinner, won't you please explain the Efn- steln theory in five minutes?” 0" sald the professor with a biand smile, “but in five minutes 1 will explain to you something much more simple which is a part of your experience every minute of your lif it is the law of fnertia.” way a man brethren, who have not sufficient of the world’s goods to make monthly payments on a car, to indulge in joy riding. It s the bane of the stolen car squad and occupies much of their time, which could otherwise be utilized by them for the betterment of traffic. | question of discrimination ly arise because it reasonably argued that if “utos can use public space for stor- age purposes any other personul roperty could also be so stored ked Mg municipalities prohibit ght parking. Cannot Park Abreast. cannot stop or park abreast The necessity for such a is self-evident, as such a 12 f tudul d in generally, would tend to block the streets. Anoth regulation not observed is the one requiring cars to be parked five feet from each other at the curb. If this section would be | obeyed there would be less humping of fenders and obviate the arduous| maneuvering to get the cars out. A vehicle is not allowed to stand | or park between a street car loading platform or safety zone. The object of this is obvious, as there must be | some way for the pedestrian to reach tl sidewal | The regulation relative to parking | within ten feet of a fire hydrant gen- | erally is observed, although the ones prohibiting stopping in such a man- ner as to obstruct Ingress or egres at any public or private alley, road- | way or driveway and the one re- | lat 1o stopping so as to prevent | the free passage of another vehicle | and street cars are often violated. | Common automobile courtesy would | {secem the natural remedy for the; parking problems, but as there is none such in the parking hog's make- Cars others, sulation | up, drastic regulations must be made. LAl parking regulations, however, muet necessarily be made for the present. What is practical now may be highly impracticable for the future. Conditions must be but it is safe (o assert that there wily be more or less of a parking problem unless there be no parking. }Popu]a_r Approval Is Seen - In Landslide for Coolidge “A political avalanche slips down off the shoulders of the Vermont hills and goes roaring from the Atlantic {to the Pacific, while the eclephant trumpets victo The people of Amerfca have answered definitely the { question of 1924 Thus the Albany Knickerbocker Press proclaims what happened in the national election of | November 4. How and why it hap- ! pened, however, are described by ed- itors in different ways, dependent largely on the political state of mind of the particular newspaper in which the editor is writing. “This stupendous victory.” declares | the Republican New York Herald- | Tribune, “is in ome aspect a triumph for a man. It declares a nation’s |faith In a great citizen. a great Amer- | ican, who by simplicity, by honor, by courage, has gained the affection an { admiration of his countrymen.” Fur- ther than that, however, the Herald- Tribune believes, “it declares, be. vond the power of bleating Intelli- gentsia or baying radicals to distort, | that the people of America are sound | of heart and mind and resoived to | keep their country free of alien cor- | ruption, whether it be in form of i non-assimilable immigrants or revo- ! lutionary, soctalist propaganda. ! The independent Republican Chi- cago Tribune sums up the result thus: “The opposition to President Cool- lidge failed to make a case. Mr. Davis | was the candidate of international- | fsm. Senator La Follette was the | candidate of class-conscious citizens. | The United States wants neither a | submergence of its own being in the world at large nor a disintegration at home. * * * It should be kept in mind by the Republican leaders | that this was not a contest between {liberal and tory Republicanism. The result is not a mandate to go ahead {along hard-bofled lines and treat them rough. If we do not want La Follette it is not a sign that we want to go back to Taft. We may not want to throw the Constitution in the lake, but that is not evidence that we want a government which exploits the whole country to sub- | sidize New England and New York.” * K Kk “Victoyy for the Republican nomi- nees,” declares the Los Angeles Times (independent. Republican), “has been achieved on a straightforward and clean-cut appeal to the intelligence and while the victory is a Republican victory, it is likewise a personal tiiumph for Coolidge, whose person- ality, qualities of leadership and policies of Government were submit- ed to the country for approval or re- jection.” The Seattle Times (inde- pendent Republican) believes: “The people of the United States admire greatly the homely virtues of Calvin Coolidge—his quiet forcefulness, his sound common sense, his abhorrence of display and ostentation, his stal- wart honesty, his broad American- ism and his wise economy. His char- aocter was the best platform that his party could devise. It gave the peo- ple a feeling of security and unlimit- and reason of the. American people, | | ed confldence that the affairs of Gov- erument were in good hands.” Comparing the result with the Harding vote in 1920, the Spokane Spokesman Review (independent Re- publican) suggests that Harding's was largely a vote of dis- | satisfactlon and protest against the | Wilson administration, and adds, “Evvlidge’s victory is a mighty ex pression of confidence and approval. While the Pittsburgh Gazetto Times (Republican) declares “the people have reaflirmed ir faith in the American principles of Government that are exemplified in the practices and policies of the Republican party they have emphasized their confidence in President Coolldge” The out- standing lesson of the overwhelming victory in the opinfon of the Kansas | City Post (Republican) “is the indls- demand representative majority Gov- ernment and not Government by classes or blocs—and especlally not { Government by radicals.” While in | the view of "the Buffalo Evening News (Republican) {t {s “emphatio 1repudiation of those who appealed to | p form of Government under which this country has developed—a repudi- ation of those who planned a march { toward a Soclalist commonwealth.” | “The people have looked through and beyond the faults of a few un- | faithful Republican administrators declares the Grand Rapids | (independent Republican), “to the probity and the reliability of |an erstwhile Vice President who aced emergency with calm courage, who never failed a rendezvous with duty, who does the day's work, and who represents those higher qualities of heart and mind which reflect true Americanism at |its best” To this the Des Moines Rogister (independent Republican) adds: “All sorts of reasons can be | given for what happened at the polls, {but when all has been said there |remains this foundation fact, that the people have confidence In Cool- idge.” The Minneapolis Tribune (Re- publican) believes “it {s the judg- ment of the people that a big, safe, sane man abides in the White House; |that when he spoke for retention {of the Government as the fathers passed it on he spoke as one might speak Who was inspired.” * ok ok x From the Democratic press comes rather a different story. The New York World, for Instance, after re- viewing what it calls the blunders and mistakes of the Democratic party, declares the Republicans “had all the good luck and left all the Dlunders to their opponents,” and adds, “If to know exactly what vou want and where you are going is the prime virtue in politics, then Cool idge and Dawes deserved to win { From the Omaha World Herald of former Senator Gilbert M. {Htch- cock comes this view of Coolidge and his success: a wise old owl who whe nothing he can say doesn’t say it. ® ¢ ¢ The people are entitled to the kind of see or| generally | | popular ret as they arise, | putable fact that the American voters | ion and projudice to destroy the| and conscience | Had our recent Immigration law been In force when young Michael Pupin, then 16 years of age, landed from ‘a steamer in New York, he would have been sent back, for he had no relatives in the United States and his entire fortune consisted of a cent plece. This he promptly spent on a section of pruneless prune pie, after which he got into a fight with some street boys who jeered at the red fez he was wearlng on his head his Amerfcan education Lega Last June when received an honorary degree from Princcton Uni- | versity, he polnted out to President Hibben the tree on the Princeton campus beneath which he rested when walking to New York in 1875, after raving worked for a year on farms in | New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland In New York he painted wagons b day and went at night to lectures Cooper Union, and in 1878 entered Columbfa University, where he Is now professor of clectro-mechanics His autobiography, “From Immi- grant to Inventor,” {s among the most of recent American blog- raphles and fs one of the most fascl- nating books I have ever read, for much of the philosophic wisdom and intellectual charm of the author have found ite way into his pages. Prof. Pupin’s house at Norfo Conn., in the Litchfield Hills a Serbian castle of stone, as unlike any other house as its owner is unlike any other man. Besides a fine pip organ, the house contains sculptures nd mural decorations emblemiutic of Serbian life. and no experience counld be more int ting or more stimu- lating to the mind than to visit that picturesque establishment and listen | to the conversation of its master, re- | gardless of the i | | | theme on which he | talks, for Michael Pupin is not o a great scientist and a man of great intelle he is a man of great soul (Copyright, 1924.) {Farming Chemistry | Has Long Been Studied | To the Editor of The Star: 1 notice in Mr. Collf interest {article in your paper of November {he states that “Agricultural |try—like Paul Jones—has just begu {to fight.” Still it has been a long {time preparing for it. judging from |an article in the Philadelphia b- {lic Ledger of 1843, in which Robert |Surall Wood, a corresponding mem- iber of the National Institute for the | Promotion of Science, the forerunner {of the Smithsonian Institution, takes issue with a sclentific writer for the ‘ew York Sun of April of that vear |relative to the nutriment in foreign ‘und do stic wheat, In which he !savs: “It is the gluten, the albumen {and caselne as well as the soluble | sulphates and phosphates which con- {tributes to the maintenance of our | | tiesues in perfection.” Climate, he | thought, had much to do with the {production of these constituents. But | they wera clearly feeling the need for obtaining them. E. BERTHA CHI Government they want, and their vote for Coolidge leaves no manner {of doubt as to what they want.” The Baltimore Sun (independent | Democratic), which had been one of orters of John W. Davis. declares: “The result means that 15,000,000 citizens or more cast | their votes for the Republican candi- dates,” and adds: “It is inconceivable that they meant thereby to express | indifference to the character of lead- | ership that is shown in the White | the leading supp: | House or to buttr: influence of special privilege in the | halls of Congres: The Loulsvilie Courler-Journal (Democratic) holds | that the people voted to keep Presi | dent Coolidge in the White House | “because many of them who would wore afrald to risk a change." That tear, the Courier-Journal adds, was not for John W. Davis, but “because the ridiculous bugaboos of La Fol- lette and Bryan were raised before | them and, befuddled by thelr fears, | they wers not sufficlently in com- | mand of their wits to appreciate how ridiculous those bugaboos wers.” The Dayton News of Mr. Davis' pradecessor as Democratic nominee, James M. Cox, declares, “The move- ! ment which carried Mr. Coolidge on the crest of a great political wave was born of and maintained by the Qesire to keep the commercial aftairs of the country on an even keel and not take any chances in the disquiet- ing possibilities of a change.” Whil> the New Orleans Times Pleayune (independent Democratic) sees in President Coolldge such a close Te- semblance to the average man that “in promoting him to and sustaining him in the greatest offi¢e in the world, ‘Average America’ promoted and sus- tained an imagined other self, con- sclous of a subtle self flattery that ®uch a man could rise to such helghts and there face and outdo the great ones of the world.” * ok x ok To the Cleveland Plain Dealer (in- dependent Democratic) “the outstand- ing fact of the eleotion is the per- sonal strength of Calvin Coolldge.” It continues: “The President is Vastly stronger than his party, stronger than his spokesmen, strong- er than his administration as a whole.” While the Richmond News- Leader, from rock-ribbed Democratic Virginia, belleves “the country wants nelther great men mor great reforms; it wants to be left ne.” s the power and | | not ve Vi for him otherwise| Haorsq | not have voted Q. Which flowers are used the most in the manufacture of perfume?— K. G. G. | A. At the present time the principal flowers utilized for perfumery are roses, violets, jonquils, narcissis, jasmine, mond blossoms, cassla, hellotrope geraniums. While the call for c individual scents is still prevalent, s bouquets, such as Orilental #rench bouquets, are made through | ombinations. . | Q. What Is “halr seal’?—H. 5. W. A. Hair seal is the term appiled to animals of the sea dog family. It { in extra tropical portions of along temperate and colder i portions of the globe. Only the varioty known as Greenland seal of significance to the fur trade. The two-month-old cub of the Greenland meal has a skin used In the tra and is known as white coat seal. According to age this animal passes into grades known as small spot seal, meddling spot eeal (two years old). Later it becomes spot seal, and, when finally full colored, harp seal. Q. When were nickel 1 cent pleces with Indlan heads made?—C. W, B. head nickel 1 cent ed from 1859 to 1864 dividing such words as ship should the hypen com Tu for th s €& OF. rules of syllabication to the effect that when at the end of a word ore suffix * beginnl 1, th st consonant m first syllabie and th marks the begi Lle. Thu pieces were col Q In ping, wher iy Is there a A. The clude one conson doubled with a vow t end of th peated consonant of the second s: Q. What will from cracking in the A. The best way to prevent a siik umbrella from crack g in the seams 1i8 to open it while drying and leave it with the folds as loosely shaken out as possible when not in us is ® re ng 8. De o a slik umbre! 1ds?—J. F. M. vent gophers from E. B. urvey suggests gs in the run- art and place spoonful of lime. If this sful, traps should be em- Q. What will eating_tulip bu The Biolo make ways about theretn a te is not succe ployed can a be disin- A most convenient nfecting by Steam under pressure N TODAY'S BY PAUL ¥ mattress and efficient ttresses is n a central War {s declared upon ugliness. The General Federation of Women's Clubs has spoken softly, but s ready to wield a big stick—or rather several tI be—against pest. Mrs. S. Berry, chairman of the fi mittee, declares, on behalf of that Americans m beauty e arts cor the fe mar the walls of or our furniture, our s, where 10,000,- travel past sign- g rooms iawns nor our highw: 600 automobiles now { scarred landscap In strong support of the Fe | of Women's Clubs, the Art Socief Washington 18 to feast tomorrow during that repast it will symposium of esthetics, wherein artists and connoisseurs will pronounca the | Mast word” on how to find beauty i Washington. To the ma art idea is hopeless—it can be under- stood, they think, only by the ultra- | esthetic and not by practical pe How many general readers apprec | the beauty of a Constable—n with a ellver star on his boson one duly incased in m gold frame? Yet artlsts s I that ferentiutes savag It makes the hut a “sweet home. it Inepires the gentler, ,sublimer one but and | cepts of life, whether it be expressed in | color or ex- are inter- inter- { musical tones or in rich | quisite form. All the arts related and their ins | changeable. Every connoisseur concedes that the worst possible environment of pictures or etatuary is where they are huddled togther in galleries or sepulchral mu- seums, jangling unrelated emotions ideas. Yet whenever art is referred tc such a Tower of Babel comes to the mind of the unartistic. Art belongs | primarily in the home, where it may cover a multitude of what the great | Napoleon evalued as “worse than a | crime—a blunder.” * k% % In a letter from the federation art chairman {s this message: getting art into the home, We are working upon that this vear for the first tim Yet she interpolate amused when one happens to dis- cover the General Federation of Women's Clubs and imagines he can do us up in a sentence or two. Our art division is one of the largest, it not the largest, in the United States. We have 400 clubs doing nothing but study art. We have 7,000 clubs put- ting on several art programs Shall a mere man be laughed at, “I am always in the mighty interest in art by the with all jts exclusive art study of the past 30 years, it has just now un- | dertaken to teach that the place of art 1s in the home? Have not these clubs been “doing us up” by substi- tuting profound essays on the history of Grecian sculpture or of the Italian renaissance or the English pre- Raphaelites, in place of giving us beauty in our own homes? Is it any wonder that we who are hungry for true grace and beauty should resent with arms or head fractured? Good! The federation’s clubs. are “working on that this year for the first time.” Why—oh why, this haste? EE The art chairman brings this charge, which, without bias, may be submitted to.tomorrow's art sympo- sium: . “America has never been artistic since it cut away from the Old Coun- tr: pewter cups and handmade period the latter stage of development there | {iss Wintringham, the Duchess | 18| As to | then, for discovering encouragement | federation—the four hundred—when | =0 hard a stone as the antique art,| Ts that a covert suggestion that for | BY FREDERIC J]. HASKIN and stationary, or a movable plant designed for the purpose and operated by an expert. If this is Impracticable gaseous disinfection and exposure tc the air and sunlight wili probabl ki1l any germs which may exist. Q. How many bo of Rome did Livy write?—J. IL S A. Livy originally wrote 142 books of a series of a possible 130 on the subject of “The Hostory of Rome. Only 35 survive, These mre books 1 to 10 and 21 to 45 n the histor. Q. How many colored captains are there in the United States?—S. B. A A. There are two—Capt. Alexande. W. Thomas ard Capt. Monroe [ Cover Please name a |nas & column on gen Eazine which ogy.—E. R. T magazine, the the Daughters Revolutic pub. has « departmer Y. Amerion | Hishea « on the | Q. Pleass give the | meaning of “thumbs down."— | A. The expression arose from the | custom of Indicating the desire of an |emperor at the time of a gladiatoria! combat in Ror When one the fighters la ostrate the successfu adlator looked at the emperc raising his thum the life of tl | spared. If th were turned gladiator s an M. origin A should the h the colors commended, and water colors are The colorings are pentine and a plication. Jap, cured in a var Q. On what road -aid locom: run?—L. J. D. | A. Locomotive 49, !for the New York was used on tr press, In May, 1 run during wk of 11212 tive h ice. This tained by any hough it could he if des by the powers Q for ma pri Washingt A. The “y This { miscible 40 per cent the excey which c of the above e are proc 1 that they req water with s0ap In th rections tain > a letter to Fred r i of fact onal lette wose o, There id you ever eric J. Haskin? furmatio and get the ans: This is a ¢ (D no charge « return postag: cstions of Frede Trenty-first SPOTLIGHT . COLLINS. and s wo s tion of Indepe 1 repeal the Declara- 2 The fleshpots vise an arti 1 Chir last is with at museums sgest masses than have The Federation's art ther discloses th ronaissance General 1 K | sch it to the Amer hild which is p sing ou of collecting, nd terest painters.” For the first cry, sure to echo, ' that “fads “three Rs tion has ha the victions, all throy {did it let us “grown the grades, ignor was not a cipher That federation living down its pa tive” would ha it the federat art-brave as it now pro | With higher geometry, even learn appreciation of * * % % However, with all the Tory regre that we have never heen artist since the tea party, the federation |art champlon encourages America |artists with this: 3 “America has that it has good | discovered that the American |tors are dolng work that the en (art history of the world hae neve |done bofore. * ¢ * 1 should s {that the great painters in Englan number perhaps 12; the great ones in Spain, maybe 10; the great omnes of Italy the great ones of F great ones | Sweden ana 10. Of tha lass in Amer| 1y believe w e ould match min as to o cllence in standard. T mean that % have as many fine painters in | Unitea States as has all Europe cor bined. But who knows it? Here again is revolut IHCH’_\', on behalf of the ‘AB)'S I wi time the i ) thro at has fut great ) ‘lv n had always to b bist discovere It has n not yet painters. I s N federat “We want to banish the sllver cup rom the face of the earth, and place in its stead a small bronze or a good painting. There are lovely things by our Amerfcan sculptors, ranging fronm $20 to $500, that could serve this way. Under the elghteenth |is not the silver cup p | the symposium will |row—in acbate only, of cc | We nope that the artistic discussion of the fede amendment Perhaps tomor- jof this ation's {campaign will be recognized as Pick- | wickian. Who began the “laughing?” Cest rir: (Copsright, 1924, by I'aul V. Collins.)