Evening Star Newspaper, November 19, 1924, Page 6

IE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. , WEDNESDAY . November 19, 1924 .Editor e "XHEODORE W. NOYES.. . Xhe Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Otfice, 11th St. aud Peun New York OYce: 110 East 47 Chicagy Office: Tower Bui'd Buropean Utice : 16 Kegent 8 tar, with the Sunday morning by carriers within the dntly ouly, The Evening editlon, ix delivered ity at 60 conis cauts pec month: ¥ 5000. Collection is Flers at the end of ench monih. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance, Maryland and Virginia. 1yr., $8.40; 1 mo., 70¢ . 1 mo., 50¢ $2.40; 1 mo., 20c Dalily and Si Dally only... Sunday only Member of the Associated Press. The Ascociated Press is excluslvely entitled %0 the “use for repnblication of all mews di patches credited to it or ot otherwise credited in this ‘paper sad also the local mews pub: lished ‘ereir. Al rights of publication of special dispatches hereln are a'so reserved. eoaialyy Hibood Lol 8K Raise the Penalty! The fact is disclosed that under the law, as it now stands, the maximum penalty that can be imposed upon a motorist who after striking a person end inflicting injuries speeds away, and later caught, is a fine of $40 The average fine imposed in the Po- lice Court for this cffense, apart from that may be involved, motorist should kil a m and, speeding away, should be afterward caught, identified and convicted, a heavier venalty may, of course, be imposed. He may be tried for manslaughter, and if convicted sentenced to a term of imprisonment. But manslaughter convictions of this character are ex- tremely rare in the District of Colum- bia. With but few exceptions deaths from this cause are declared to be ac- lental, and drivers of machines in- fiicting fatal injuries are exonerated on the score of the contributory negli- gence of the victims. In alnost all cases motorists who &trike persons in the street halt their and render aid. They usually take the injured persons to hospital They muke no attempt to conceal their identity, Recently several cases of the other kind have occurred. Just Wwhy there should be this veritable epidemic of criminal recklessness and cowardice cannot be understood. A demand has been voiced for the vigorous prosecution of such cases " whepever the offenders are caught. But in view of the fact that coroners’ Juri usually declare the deaths to be accidental it is hard to see how more effective prosecution can be had when all the law permits in the way of a penalty for leaving the scene of an accident is @ maximum fine of $40. A term of imprisonment surely should be imposed. For the motorist who strikes a person and runs away is 1t per in a on col cars suilty of at least a callousness of feel- | ing. He probably has a guilty con- science, realizing he is in the wrong. He will not take his chance at exon- eration for the collision. The absurdly inadequate penalty for the speeding away of a motorist who has hit a person should be in- | creased by law as soon as possible. Other questions, however, should be | considered in drafting amendments. The penalties for driving motors while under the influence of liquor should | be increased. Meanwhile the court . ©hould impose the maximum penalty now permitted for that offense. A drunken driver is a deadly menace 0 all users of the streets. He should be deprived of his license, at least, in yaddition to suffering other positive “punishment. No mere fines suffice for such a wanton disregard of the public = ————————— The example of President Coolidge &5 a man of action without needless conversation is not expected to im- press several Senators as much as it sanight. —————— The A. ¥. of L. always votes for Samuel Gompers, and declines to go much further than this in pledging pileelf to any definite program of bal- sdoting. » —————— *<Not only is Gen. Dawes enjoying a satisfactory recuperation, but, accord ing to accepted vice presidential tradi- «tion, he has a long, pleasant rest shead of him. ———————— Joseph Caillaux. Yesterday the French Senate, by a wote of 176 to 104, extended to former Premier Joseph Caillaux the benefits «©f the amnesty act which restored BNim to full citizenship rights. This ‘2iote, it appears from the dispatches, @&d not represent the real sentiment of the Senate, for many of its mem- bers who voted for amnesty did so ? under party compulsion. Some of s €Xhem, indeed, applauded the speakers “Who opposed the pardon of Caillaux. In the early Spring of 1914 Joseph Calllaux’s wife shot and killed Gastpn Calmette, edifor of Figaro, who had ude accusations of a personal na- fure in the courge of a political fight S which was being waged against Cail- Jaux as minister of finance. There “ were ugly whispers of a disloyal re- | lationship between Caillaux and “a certain foreign power.” It was strong- 7}y suspected that Mme, Caillaux killed ~Calmette to prevent him from publish- ing documents which would implicate her husband in a treasonable intrigue. France was in a fever of apprehension lest at her trial this matter should be Drought definitely into the open and the relations with that other power, plready strained, might be brought " %o the breaking point. But at the trial there 'was no such éisciosure. Mme. Caillaux was’ acquitted, epd by a @inguler zoincidence elmost simul- ~lunepwaly war oroke between France ~nd Germany. The Calllaux case be- j®ame Of secondary importance, but as 'tne war progressed Caillaux himself came again into notoriety through the growth of a suspicion that he was wotuelly alding the enemy. He was &ccgsed of various intrigues involving corraspondence with high personages and upon the edvent to @ Poemier Clemenceau he-was arrested, and after a long delay was tried for high treason by the high court of the Senate. lHe was acquitted of the major charge; but was convict- ed of a lesser offense, that of corre- sponding with the enemy, and was sentenced to impriscnment for three years, restriction of residence for five years and the loss of civil rights for ten years. Inasmuch as he had been in vrison for a long time while await- ing trial he was released soon after conviction, but remained subject to the other penalties. He was lately re- leased. from residential restriction by lupse of time, and yesterday's action of the Senate restores his civil rights, which, in any case, would have been regained shortly. Joseph Caillaux is one of the ablest men in France. He is gifted with a financial acumen which is recognized by his bitterest enemies. He would have been of great value to his gov- arnnient during the supreme crisis of the war had he commanded full con- fidence, Mis involvement in intrigue, of course, destroyed his value as a statesman. That he is contemplating a return to public life is hinted. He is of the type to present himself for popular suffrage regardless of the black record of the past 10 years, which no action of the Legislature can cleanse: = Meanwhile there is hope that some day the full truth regarding the mur- der of Calmette by Caillaux’'s wife will become known. It will doubtless make one of the most thrilling stories ever told, ——r—t—— Improvement Items. Two items of District legislation, it is announced, will be particularly urged by the Commissioners at the coming session of Congress. One of these is the measure for the extension of Fourteenth street, which is urgently needed in the development of the northern District suburbs. rhe other is a bill for the elimination of several grade crossings. The carrying of Fourteenth street through the Walter Reed Hospital grounds is required to permit a street car line extension that is urgently necessary to afford tracks and facil- j ities ®o a rapidly increasing suburban section. Tt is also essential to relieve traffic congestion on Georgia avenue and Sixteenth street. Washington is growing rapidly in that direction. Plans have been proposed for the ex- tension of the street through the hos- pital grounds in a manner to avoid nuisance and danger. Some opp: has been interposed, but there i valid reason why the street should not | be carried out in accordance with the | | general city plan. The matter has| been before Congress for several | sions and is thoroughly understood. | It has been blocked in committee. | The Commissioners have a right to be heard in their plea for the exten- { sion, and the hope is that they will press vigorously for action. In the matter of the few remaining | grade crossings, there is no reagon | whatever why action should not be | |had now. Millions of dollars have Deen spent in the elimination of grade crossings within the city, but a few | remain in the suburbs, taking their regular toll of life. Their elimination would cost something, of course, but | the cost of sinking the streets or car- | no | ing them over the tracks would be | small compared with the price that | |is being paid in humanity. With the | increase of road use around Wash-| ington the danger at these crossings | s growing constantly. The District | of Columbia should be free wholly ! from this peril, and the Commission- | ers can do no more effective work | for the public welfare than to urge in the strongest terms action on this subject this Winter. e In addition to being a center of | political inspiration, California is con- | tributing some of the Nation's base ball news. As an enterprising young man, Walter Johnson could not re- I sist the temptation to go West and grow up with the countr — Mexico's objection to Japanese fish- ing concessions in Lower California | leaves it to be doubted whether the | | Japanese have all learned to fish in | ithe placid, contemplative mood of | Izaak Walton. | ——on—s The smoke screen, along with other | war devices, survives in bootleg en- | gagements to an extent to justify in-| quiry whether, after all, peace is only | a technical term. D ———r———————— Such is the perversity of the human mind that well meant warnings to be- ware the stock market merely serve to advertise the game. ——————————— i | Artists occasionaily become so con- | | spicuous for their litigations that | what they do on the stage threatens to become a matter of minor concern. | | Weather. v Thers is wide comment on the weather. It is said by nearly every- body that ‘“we must expect cool| weather about this time of year,” and | examination of the almanac shows | that those observers are right. Many persons say, “Ah! This is the weather:| | for me—acts as a tonic, and makes | the cheeks tingle and the eyes| | sparkle.” Some - persons shiver as | they say it and have blue noses. Now | and then one meets a person who says, “I llke Winter more than Sum- mer,” and then he blows on his fingers | and stamps his feet to warm them. | The Weather Bureau was encourag- | ing this morning when it issued a| forecast: “Fair today and Thursday; slightly warmer; moderate north, | shifting to southwest winds.”. In the | weather forecast yesterday morming | for the District of Columbia and sur- | rounding country rain or snow was indicated, and it is likely that snow fell in a part of the region included in the forecast. It is not probable that many Washingtonianz will make a protest to the Weather Bureau be- cause, snow did not fall in Washing- ton. . ‘Winter has its charms, There are wild ‘winds, deep snow; tied-up car lines, stalled machines, snow: plows, sleigh bells, Christmas trees, New Year "cards, Washington's birthday, green holly trees strung with ruby berries, skating on the mirror lake | been given to this new-heralded thing. | @ small motor furnishing the initial | ship.” The inventor says that his in- | ranged to replace it, weight for weight, at the Lincoln Memorial, and all that, but it is believed that a majority of the people of the District, if they could vote on the sgasons, or anything else, would cast their ballots for Spring, Fall or Summer, and that Winter would run a poor fourth. The chances are that our present cold snap will be followed by bright days that will be cool, but not shivery, and that when those days come, lighted with yellow sunshine and tinged with purple haze, we shall fall to talking of Indian Summer. Many authorities define Indian Summer in many ways, but one of the old in- habitants of the Potomac Valley has said that Indian Summer is the first warm spell following the first hard and killing frost, and another old in- habitant insists that Indian Summer is the first warm spell following the first freeze. During the warm and hazy days of October and early No- vember one heard many persons speak in commendation of Indian Summer, but it is believed that they were not authorities on the subject. B The Windship. Mighty claims and promises are being made for the “windship.” It has been outfitted at Kiel, and its inventor, Herr Flettner, is so much in the public eye and so much on the public tongue in Gérmany that the Germans have ceased to talk of the ZR-3 and air travel. Herr Flettner has said that within the next two months he will probably cross the ocean to America in his windship to demonstrate to Americans its “tre- mendous possibilities Note the word “probably.” Also note that its possi- bilities are to be demonstrated to us. If its tremendous possibilities are demonstrable they could be proved to the Germans. The claim is that the invention will make the steamship obsolete. The same device which drives a ship can also be used on land to drive any ma- chinery. Black coal will be in the dis- card. White coal or hydro-electric power will be out of date. The name “blue coal,” meaning air power, has One does not understand it, and one does not understand the explanation given of it.. It is said in the reports that “The cylinders are equipped with power to make them revolve, The re- vovling of the cylinders, in some way not yet disclosed by the inventor, | harnesses the air currents and makes them propel the windship at an un- precedented speed for a wind-driven vention is based on the principle of the so-called *‘magnus effect” known to sclentists since 1833. Engineers may read something in this, but non- sclentists get nothing out of it. If Herr Flettner will perform what he promises the world will salute him and coming generations will hang gar; lands on his statues in public parks. But it must be remembered that while the century has brought forth won- ders in physics a great many so-called inventions have thundered in the in- dex and petered out. In the matter of this wind power, or “blue-coal” inven- tion all America is from Missouri. The scrapping of a battleship will not seem so serious If it can be ar- by airships. In spite of criticisms as to the artis- tic aspect of the buildings in Wash- ington, homeseekers are unanimously agreed that we need more of them. e — Philadelphia authorities are willing at least to go as far in complimenting Gen. Smedley Butler as to Indicate that they bear him no particular ill will. —————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNEON. Happy Childhood Days. Back to our happy childhood days We turn with glee intense As Grandpa lifts a pensive gaze Of artless innocence, While Grandma in her easy chair Is wrinkling up her brow. We've all dismissed each serious care; ‘We're doing puzzles now. To dances rather primitive We brought a guileless grace. | To music we've contrived to give A nursery jingle pace. | We shun all thought of grief or guile. | The fashions may allow | Us A B C blocks after whilé; ! We're doing puzzles now. Specializing. { “Your speeches haven't the old-time | fire and enthusiasm.” ! .am aware of that fact,” answered | Senator Sorghum. “This is the era | of specialization, and a great states- | | man is no longer expected to neglect | I his serious duties in order to be a| | popular engerlalner i Jud Tunkins says a Socialist always | has some good ideas, but never any- | thing that would appeal to a con- servative investor. | Costume Effects. ! Not to a lady’s liking | Are gowns that swept the floor so. | What she'll, put on is striking; | ‘What she will not i§ more so. Greeks Bearing Gifts. “Them Snake Ridgers is tryin’ to revive the treatin’ habit,” remarked Cactus Joe, with indignation. “‘Out of generosity?” “No. Pure commercialism. They know nobedy’s goin’ to buy their boot- leg licker unless he's had enough drinks in advance to make him reck- less.” More Figuring., I thought the hardest work was through ‘When in severe depression I gave the U. S. Hevenue My income tax confession. More toil that might some profit earn Is wasted in the labor Of figuring ‘from the tax return The income of a neighbor. “Many a man would be improved, said Uncle Eben, “If he minded de Bible as close as he does de constitu- tion an" by-laws of his "Sociation.” ! such skilled and ready service. | charges By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. The blessings of fliness are not as apparent as the pleasures of hoalth, yet they are found easily by those who diligently seek them. Is there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself has sald, when the doctor ordered him to bed: “Well, th's could be a great deal worse.” A fellow hates to give up and go to bed, but when the old boy comes in with his handbag and tells you to do that very thing, that is some- thing else again. “Here 1 am, {ndubltably sick, all tucked in this nice white bed. My eyes water, my bones ache, I know now what it feels ltke to be sea- sick. 1 actually am as sick as a dog, and yet there are compensations.” Yos, there are compensations. One speaks not, of course, of terrible ill- nesses, the kind In which fear gives way to fear, and the inevitable re- sult is mourning. For such there can 2e only sympathy. The sort of lllness spoken of here 's just the common garden varlety of real sickness. The patient is or- dered to bed by the doctor, who says that with proper treatment and at- tendance the patlent will be on his feet “in no time.” Often this “no time” turns Into con- slderable time, of course. but it is &ood medical psychology for the doc- tor to keep his patient optimistic. It is only by kecping him as happy as the situation will perm‘t that the sick man Is in a position to realize the undoubted blessings of illness. * ¥ X % The pleasures of being sick divide themselves into three main groups, as follows: 1. Getting into @ to the world. xperiencing one's proper rela- the kindness of care. 3. Reading adventure and detective stories. No matter whether a man is an executive or a clerk, a manager or a messenger, when he gets stretched out in his little bed with a bottle of medicine by his side he becomes simply a man. There is nothing that will take the conceit out of a man o quick as be- ing sick. He has been prancing around town like a modern demi- god, all dressed up and plenty of places to go. ‘The office, he realized full well, could not possibly get along without him, Who would attend to that Smith business? Who but he could fix things up right? Under his fostering care things worked out very nicely. but with that supreme example of fostering withdrawn, what would happen? Well, now he sees. He sees that simply nothing hap- pens at all. The “works” continue to grind away faithfully and regu- larly, as if such a man as he had never existed and never would func- tion any more. 1t hurts 'his pride, at first. but soon he gets into the spirit of the thing. After all, he begins to realize, no man is essential. If he has done something to help and cheer others, then that much that he has done will be his forever. But there will arise others, and still others. to take his place, and the final result will be the un- escapable conclusion that, in the final analysis, there {s no man the world cannot get along without. Death proves it. M The ministering care of women is what makes sickness endurable. The | patient may fuss and fume at a lively rate, be captious in his criti- cisims, even mean, but at the same time he is fully aware of the debt he owes. He knows that Scott was right when he wrote: 0 woman! In our hours of ease: Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as'the shade IN TODAY’S BY PAUL V. This week Is devoted to the In- structive Visiting Nurses’ Society of | ‘Washington. Humanity is growing more and more humane every decade. When one remembers how many kind-heart- ed folks there are in the world, it seems that cruelty, selfishness, greed, | crime—all that betokens hard heari- | edness—had been banished, and that | the world had entered into a new phase of * civilization in the | brotherhood of man had become a reality. Nothing goes fariher in| that direction than the activities of | the Instructive Visting Nurse Society, which visits the sick. cazes for the| poor and the neglec serves | as the tie of loving symp | telligent service betw: b perous and the unfortur the Instructive Visiting no thought of pay : vosi- | tion ever intrudes as i precedent,” although even the pros-| perous, well able to pay reasonable | costs, are now very grateful for the opportunity to avail lhcnutpl\'esp;;h marily, the work of these nurses was directed only to care for {he poor; not merely in teaching them how to care for themselves or the sick ones in their homes, but by actually giving to them the same skilled attention that the $50-a-week graduate nurse glves to the well-to-do. * ok kK It is found that with all overhead considere ith the 32 nurses and their made last year, the actual cost per visit amounted to 97.5 cents. Therefore, any one who is sick and needs only a half hour or hour's attention daily can have it from one of these trained nurses at cost—97.5 cents a visit— and there will be neither profit nor charity In the service. Profit? Yes, on both sides, for the soclety will have gained a friend whose gratitude will be a greatly ap- preclated asset, coming back like bread cast upon the waters. Some- times such service results in Interest- ing communities or churches or in- dividuals in the great opportunities for service and co-operation. Profit to the patient? Yes, for when one Is 11l the quality and intelligence ‘of the care are often the mes ing the patient from more ness, ygt the family or nelghbors may not have had the training to know what is needed, and the circumstances may not justify the expense of a nurse’s full time. Profit to those who contribute to the cost of maintaining this wonder- ful_service for the poor? Yes, for, as Robert Browning has expressed It, X poor man served by thee shall make thee A mkfl";"n helped by thiee shall make thee strong: Thou shalt he served thyselt by every seuse Of service which thou renderest. * k k% Visiting the sick is nothing new: nor even devoting full time to such ministrations. -Yet, regular training for skilled nursing is comparatively modern, and the use of tralned nul peid and supported by the prosperous to visit the poor in thelr homes is scarcely 50 years old. The order of BSisters of Charity, estab- lished in France in 1617, and today active in all parts of the world, set the first example of visiting the poor and sick without pay, and devoting their full energies to such service, but they were, and are not, neces- sarily, graduate nurses. Lord Shaftsbury, in England, and Pastor Theodor Fliedner, in Germany, ‘were ploneers in ng the need of appealing to the rich for support of nurses and doctors for the poor and which = | | who abdugt the girl, . COLLINS. | utterly ere |} |ideal of a visiting nurse—whom she | By the light quivering aspen made; When rln and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! We are back in counterpane land. Life, from being 1ived in all dimen- slons, has become principally hori- zontal. As much of the outside world as we can see through the windows comes to us‘over our toes. The bedpo:ts take on certain defl- nite functions as boundaries of the horizon; and the window curtains become interesting as well as use- ful. The wall paper design Intrigues one's fancy. How queerly yonder mirror reflects the sun. It is in this bounded world that the women move, bringing medicine at the' precise hour, smoothing the sheets, bearing the coverted drink of water, doing the hundred and one things that are necessary. Their fect are never wearied in do- ing good, or, if they do become tired, they say little about it. It seems to me that even the worst women- hater must thaw out a bit when he is sick. -The influence of nurses on men is widely known, nor does the nurse have to be a pretty one, elther. It is the kindness that touches the heart. When one returns to counterpane land for a time—and this is the only w?y he can return to it—he secs what it is that makes up the dally life of the women. The routine of a house is considerable. The sound of the ice wagon in the alley is something to be heeded if there is to be any lce in the refrigerator. All must be in readlyess for the ash collectors, for time and the ashman wait for no woman. And, above all, it is this angel who brings to him the adventure and detectve stories. * ¥ ¥ ¥ Give a sick man an ordinary novel to read he will wave it away with a sense of nausea. Hand him the latest issue of a de- tective story magazine, with a bright, lurid cover depicting some traglc scene, and he will accept it greedily. The adventure and detective story magazines, of which there are a vast number on the market, are a boon to a sick man. They constitute the only sort of reading exciting enough to combat the grip germ and win out. One has to be mighty sick indeed, to be unable to finish the mystery in which the cold-hearted “Devil Cat” functions. There are swift automo- bile rides at night, mysterious visitors shing knives with the speed of light— which the hero ducks even more speedily, of course—swift, denoue- ment, smacking words. Action, action, action. There lies the charm of these stories in three words, each word the same, yet for- ever varied. One used to “high brow" fiction of the best type, who has never investigated these “low brow"” stories, will be surprised and pleased at the “kick” they manage to pack away in 50 pages. These stories are generally very well written. Instead of long tro- ductions, or any attempt to build up atmosphere. they start right out on the story. The tale snaps into action like an airedale dog that has seen a cat. No motion is lost—there is a plot to unfold, and she begins in- stanter. Where the thrown great artists would spend pages upon pages de- tailing the mental reactions of the characters the busy boys who grind | out this adventure stuff get right down to business and give you the story. In the end they have created a most creditable atmosphere and given a picture of the characters that is un- mistakable. Above all, they have interested you. After all, are there not just two main merits in writing —sincerity and interest? SPOTLIGHT really of introducing sanitation in the homes of poverty. That dates back to about | 1822, when both Lord Shaftsbury and | Pastor Fliedner were only about 23 years of age. Florence Nightingale was then in her infancy: but in 1837. when an epidemic of fever was ravag- ing Spitalsfields, this girl of 17 years wrote in her diary, “God called me to | His service on February 7, 1837." and | the rest of her life was devoted to nursing. either in military camps or in the slums of English citles. Her oxample has been the most out- standing light of inspiration for| nurses for nearly a century. Tt was ungelfish and self-sacrificing | -as is the ideal of the visiting trained nurse today. The public has read the romantic story of Florence Nightingale, founder of the first| school for tralnipg nurses, but knows | little of the scarcely less romantle | stories of today's rounds of her many | successors in modern visiting nurses | —our “Flo chtingales.” Here is Florence Nightingale's called a “district nurse:” | “First, a district nurse must nurse. | She must be of a yet higher class, and of a yet fuller training than a hospital nurse, because she has not the doctor always at hand; because she has no hospital appliances at hand; and because she has to take notes.of the case for the doctor, who has no one but her to report to him. She is his staff of clinical clerks, dressers and nurses. | “Secondly, she must nurse the room, | as well as the patient; that is, make the room such as a patient can re- cover in; bring care and cleanliness into it, and teach the inmates to keep up that care and cleanliness, and It requires a high stamp of woman to do this; to combine the servant, with | the teacher and with the educated | woman, who can so command the patient’s confidence as to let her do this. 2 “Thirdly, a district nurse must bring to the officer of health or prop- er authorities sanitary defects which he alone can correct.” * koK % The first work of this nature in America was initiated in 1832 by Dr. Joseph Warrington, a 23-year-old | physician of Philadelphia, the visitors being volunteer ladies - without special training. Later, professiona] nurses, undergoing training, were employed to serve 84 days and nights without pay, as an apprenticeship, after which they were privileged to serve private patients, provided they would not charge over $3 a week. With the exception of Philadelphia and Charleston, no_city had visitine nurses prior to 1877. Then, In New York City, one nurse, a graduate of the first class of nurses from Belle- vue Hospital, was paid by a wealthy lady to devote her time to visiting the homes of the sick poor. She was not only a nurse, but a Christian missionary “giving Godly counsel and words of Christian comfort”; but, one of the rules of the visitin nurses of today is that they mus! not interfere with the patient's re. ligious beliefs. Nor may they di pense charity; they may report needs to charitable organizations, but they must confine themselves to nursing and to hyglen They receive no ‘presents. Today all large cities and many small communities maintain visiting nurse service, as & regular institu- tion, * % &k ¥ It is only necessary to recall the amasing fact, as shown by the draft for our Army, that one-fourth o} the,population of America was found unfit...for il therefore ‘subnormal -for- FLOWERS For the Living F. P. A. BY CHARLES HANS: He loves his job. The fact that he loves it gets cver to his readers. His “colyum” bubbles with enthusiasm, and though there are other “colyum- ists” whom we all cherish, somehow we come back to our first love, who 15 F. P. A. Much as I admire him in print, I admire him even more in those all t0o casual meetings which we have in a busy metropolls. Unfortunately, I don’t play tennis or Kelly pool—two of his favorite relaxations. There- fore I can talk books to him only oc- casionally. ) He loves books with the genuine passion of a man of letters. He does not skim a volume; he digests it and absorbs it; and he can say more in a few words than any one I know. His Pepys Diary, known now throughout the dength ‘and breadth of the land, is wittily wise, and wisely witty. His “Gothman Gleanings,” are the very cssence of brilllant satire; and his vers de societe is polished and urbane. My only quarrel with him is that he gives us far too little of it. For in this fleld he {s among the masters. He is as clever as Gllbert, as cultured as Owen Seaman, as delicate as Aus- tin Dobson. Like all true humorists, he is a profound philosopher. He may poke fun at some “lsm"” or political hokum. Analyzing his satirical shafts, one will find in them an innuendo biting in its pointed and well deserved criticism. He is unafraid. He doesn’t care what s0-and-so thinks; he never follows the herd. He just goes his own merry way, and nine times out of ten he is solidly right. And he is always just. He has done much for the cause of proof-reading. Small business? Not at all. He s fussy over semicolons and the misuse of common words— and he wants others to be, also. Noth- ing is too infinitesimal for nim to at- tack—if he belleves he is right in at- tacking it. He loathes carelessness and shiftlessness, and the easlest way round. He thinks every artist should be a good craftsman, and he pounds his bellef in from day to day. He has coined phrase after phrase which is a penetrating and flluminating com- mentary on this false cause or that. Once in a while he makes a slip; and then he is quick to acknowledge his guilt, and beg the world's pardon. He likes good clean sport, and he hates the shams that try to conceal their falseness under the guise of vehement virtue. When something is wrong, either in politic or re- liglon, literature or art, F. P. A. pro- tests with all the vigor that is in him, and he has a way of hitting from the shoulder—a slanting blow, let us call it—that knocks pretense and insincerity into the ditch. In the -enforced and often trying intimacles of a house party, one gets to know people better than anywhere else—unless it be on a desert Island. F. P. A."is a delightful play-boy, but the moments when I have liked him best are thosc spent in a corner, while others frolicked, and he talked quietly of the world of books—and people. He always has an original point of view, a large charity, an enveloping understanding that is shot through with gleams of laughing wisdom. He knows that humor and pathos are closely’ allied. If we weep too much, we laugh, and, conversely, if we laugh too much, we weep. The barrier between the two extreme emotions is no barrier, after all, but rather a hyphen connecting them, Ridicule has killed many a pompous politiclan, and ¥. P. A. knows how to ridicule the wrong thing rightly. In short, he is a fighter who fears no foe, however menacing. His dear- est enemy would be the first to shake his hand. His cap-and-bells are for the mul- titude, but hidden behind his mask of lightness one may discover that other F. P. A.—as real as the tears of Harlequin. A few of his friends are forever asking him why he doesn’t do something “big." As if he hadn't! For to add to the sum of the world's joy Is no small achieve- ment, and if we all know that the initials R. L. S. stand for Robert Louls Stevenson, who is there among us who doesn’t know, too, that F. P. A. stands for Franklin P. Adams? (Copyright, 1921.) Scores Pedestrians. Reader Declares All Who Disre- gard Signs Should be Fined. To the Fditor of The Star: In your paper of November 13 1 was much interested in an_article gned Willianm H. Dall, on the ever interesting subject of automobile traffic laws and on the police regula- tions regarding same. I, too, am situ- ated so that I walk about the busy streets of Washington much during the shopping hours, but I also was situated once so that I drove my car, the habit of which has long since been abandoned because of the utter lack of the usefulness of a car in & city where only taxis and dellvery wagons, going at high rate of speed, seem to have the right of way. Taxis parked everywhere, by the hundreds, red, white, blue, pink, yellow and green, in front of shops of all kinds and especially near all the downtown hotels. It would seem to'me that one or two taxis parked near a hotel could do all the hotel's business that was necessary, now that telephones are so handy, both public and private, and also where there are so many “cab stands” in different sections of the city. Now a word, not for but against the pedestrain. It is my humble opinion that while the autos have the right of way and the pedestrian crowds as they so often do into the middle of the “go” traffic that they ought to be hit and hit hard. Only yesterday, while at the corner of Eleventh and F streets, I saw just this very thing happen. FEleventh street traffic was *go,” but the peo- ple moving up F street kept right | on their way Into the middle of the | street. I think that if everybody that steps off the curb at such a time should be arrested for violating the | law, and if a policeman was kept there for the express purpose of col- lecting a fine from each violater, the Police Department would collect enough money to add more officers to its now too small force, and give to us all, both drivers of cars and pedestrains, a little more saftey in travel, both on wheel and on foot. MRS. F. C. BILLARD. —ee the great need of skilled direction | brew Psalms.” |an even greater figure in literature.” | { The toward health among the masses. This is the prime work of the visiting nurse—teaching cleanline: ne diet, fresh air, sanitation, and rrect care of sick in the early stages of disease. It is a public ice—a service In the interest of the great public, truly as of the individual patient. Epidemics begin where there is insanitation, rather than in the homes of the rich. Ef- fictency in labor is measured by the average health of the employ rather than that of the office man- ger. 3 A century ago physicians thought only of curing disease; later, pro- gressive doctors talked of prevention. Today the thought is directed to- ward maintaining positive health conditiona. That is the mission of " (Copyright, 1024, by Paul V. Collius.) ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. What would happen if every- thing In the world became 10 times its present size?—G. S. C A. The Bureau of Standards says that if the increase involved a pro- portionate increase in mass, there would be &n increase in apparent welght out of all proportion to the increase in strength. We probably could not stand erect. If the increase were in dimensions only the opposite effect would occur. Q. What are the names of the late- blooming roses grown in the park- way of Maryland avenue northeast?- M. W. A. The division of public buildings and grounds says that they include Red Radlants, Ophelias, Pink Radi- ants and Alice Stanleys. Q. Who wrote the old song, “Take Me Out to the Ball Game?'—G. T. A. A. It was written by Jack Nor- worth and Albert von Tilzer. Q. How large is the throat of a whale?—W. F. G. A. The blue whale, the largest ani- mal alive today, reaching a length in excess of 80 feet, with a mouth so large that 10 to 12 men could stand thereln, has a throat but about eight inches in diameter. Q. What is the oath taken by cab- Inet members?—J. B. C. A. The oath taken by cabinet mem- bers before the appointment clerk as they are about to take over the du- ties of the office is: “I (John Jacob Jones) do solemly swear or affirm that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United State: against all enemies, foreign and do- mestie; that [ will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithtully discharge the dutles of the office on which T am about to enter. So help me, God.” Q. What kind of a book “Book of the Dead?"—E. A. A. The title “Book of the Dead” is regarded as an unsatisfactory trans- lation of the original for the reason that the book s not a single book dealing exclusively with funcral rites, but it is a collection of books and chapters treating of psychostasia in the “Double Hall” before Osiris, the peregrinations of the Ka in the “Val- ley of the Shadow of Death” and the Osirian doctrine of resurrection, etc. Sir Peter le Page Renouf said: “It is not a book in the usual sense of the word; it is not a literary whole, with a beginning. middle and end; it is a mere unmethodical collection of re- ligious compositions (chapters) as in- dependent of cach other as the He- is the Q. What will take white spots off mahogany furniture?—L D. A. Camphorated oil will often re- move such water or heat marks. Q. What was the name of the brother of Commodore Perry, who fought in the battle of Lake Erie?— W. S. A. The brother of Commodore Per- ry who accompanied him during the battle of Lake Erie was named Alex- ander. Q. Is if true that some savage tribes file their teeth?—G. S. A. It is one of the many forms of mutilation which primitive peoples adopt, and is referred to by many travelers. J. 1. Weeks, fn his book on Kongo canuibals, written in 1913, de- scribes their chiseling of the upper incisors to V-shaped points. .jome only had two out, while otlers had all of ‘tas upper incisors ground away. They bejieved that this operation made them look more beautiful. Caldez, wnu describes the customs of the Mad goes, who live in Cenfral Africa, say that when a man and woman are about to be married a smith is called in to sharpen the teeth of the persons be- trothed. Q. When was the monument over the grave of Mary Washington dedi- cated?—D. A. C. A. President Cleveland dedicated the memorial on May 10, 1894. Q. Why did soldiers in the World War lose more right arms and right legs than left ones?—P. D. T. { A. A logical theory is that wHen the troops were in actual combpa the men wou'! ie using rifles dud would stand with left foot and left arm advanced. A shell exploding in front of them would kill rather thar maim. A shell falling and explodin behind would find the right side of the body exposed to a greater degree. Q. Is sea island cotton still pro- duced in the South?—M. M. J. A. This famous varlety of cotton has practically passed out of existence in the South, owing to the advent of the boll weevil The Department of Agriculture introduced a new kind, Meade cotton, to take itz place. This new staple, named for the man who produced the variety, is certainly as £00d as, 3 ¢ are inclined 1o be leve bette Q. What is the and the ezg?—A. A. This story rests on the authority of Benzonl, an Itallan historian. He relates that while Columbus was at a banquet in Barcelona, just before his second voyage, a jealous courtler agked it Columbus thought any one could have discovered the Indies. Columbus made no reply, but invited each of the guests to see if he could make an egg stand on one end. All tried in vain. Columbus took the egg, struck it gen- tly on the table to break the shell, leav- ing it standing on the broken part. In this way be illustrated the fact that it would be very simiple for others to follow the path to the New World now that he had pointed the way. tory of Columbus Q. Can you give us a plan for ii- lustrating the comparative sizes of the planets?—L. P. A. Sir John Herschel's fllustration of the relative size of the planets follows: Taking a globe two feet in diameter to represent the sun, a grain of mustard seed will represent th relative size of Mercury to the sun, a pea will represent Venus and a pea will also represent the earth, while Mars is designated by a rather large pin's head; Jupiter, a modern slzed orange; Saturn, a small orange; Uranus, a full sized cherry, and Nep- tune, & good sized plum. (Let The Star Information Bureau Frederic J. Haskin, director, Twenty- first and C streets northwest, answer your question. The only charge for this service is 2 cents in stamps for return postage.) Passing of Henry Cabot Lodge Brings Variety of Comment The death of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge brings a wide range of opinion from the editors of America upon the service that veteran public servant rendered to his State and the Nation. His_great fight in his latter years on President Wilson and his League of Nations ideal is the outstanding event in the life of Senator Lodge and the comment of many editors is directed to that feature to the exclusion of all his other services during 40 vears in the halls of legis- lation in his own State and the Con- gress of the United States. Whole-hearted tribute comes to the service of Senator Lodge from his home State through the Boston Transcript (Republican), which says: “The fiber of his American patriot- ism, his pride and his devotion to American ideals were not surpassed by those of any man who ever lived. This pride and this devotion were the consuming fire that burned in his heart from the days of his| earnest vouth to those of his grave| and reflective age. Henry Cabot Lodge never allowed any passion or any interest to eclipse for a moment the pure light of his American pa- triotism. His name is worthy to stand with the Commonwealth's great- est Senators.” ek In the opinion of the Chicago Dails News (independent), “He is certain of an honorable place in the history of American statesmanship, while the New York Herald-Tribune de- clares: “No living colleague rivaled him in the accumulation of honors which had come to him in the Sen- ate. Possibly the most difficult task that ever fell to him was to conduct the Senate majority’s fight in 1919 and 1920 to secure ratification of the Versailles treaty with adequate res- ervations. In that long struggle he maintained the Senate's position to the end. Mr. Lodge's career reached its climax in that orable contest—one having an inti- mate bearing on American policy and destinies.” To this the Chicago | Tribune (Republican) agrees, and adds: “In the contest to save the United States from violation of its birthright of independence, from de- parture from the advice of its farthest-seeing men and finest states- men and patriots, Lodge was &, leader. “The clouds of asperity and of | pereonal animosity.” in_the opinion of the Cincinnati Times-Star (Repub- lican), “that hovered over the last years of Senator Lodge's life must not be permitted to obscure his great services to party and Natfon. He was a great figure in politics. He was | Wichita Beacon (independent | Republican), belleves that “as the| vears go, he will probably be re-| garded with less hostility by the Wil- | son group, for his sincerity was evi- dent and his determination was most eftective.” Stranger things might happen, the Beacon adds, “than that| future historians may accord to| Lodge at least an equal, though| dlametrically opposite, postion” to | Wilson. i * K kK According to the Minneapolis Tri- une (Republican), Senator Lodge never was of the ‘plain folks' and| had no desire to be such. That he served his country loyally and long matters as nothing against the fact that he was not a cordial handshaker or a political acrobat able to main- tain & semblance of balance on any political bandwagon. And yet his very out-of-tuneness made him highly useful to his country, which always is in need of restraining hands to avert a too great list to starboard.” The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times (Re- publican), thinks “Senator Lodge con. tributed mightily to his country’s well-being,” and that his place in history is secure. Hint of waning power Is expressed in the sentiment of the Philadelphia Bulletin ° (independent Republican), which _ observes “Sgnator . Laedge ‘would have beén less a national fig irring and mem- !V | that fought them ure during the next four years at Washington, had he lived to fill out his term, than it had been his priv- ilege to be in the past.” On _this point the Democratic New Yorl Times goes further and declares hout saying he was happy i the opportunity of his death, it stil may be held that there is a certai significance in his quitting the stag just after the election had placed i1 power an administration with wh Senator Lodge could not have been i full sympathy. A new era has opene« in Massachusetts and in Washingto with which he could not but hav felt a little lonely and neglected.’ * k% % In contrast to the tributes, par- tially or wholly generous to Lodge's character, the comment of the Omah: World-Herald (independent), stands out. This is the newspaper of Which former Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcoc is the head and Senator Hitchcock. the representative of President Wil- son on the Senate floor in the treaty fight, was Lodge's direct opponent The World Herald says: “Lodge Wwith all his exceptional equipment and opportunities, never rose to the lofty and supreme helghts of statesman- ship. He gave his country no endur- ng service. Scholar and leader though he was, he never said any- thing, he never did anything, to in- spire the souls of men; never said or did anything to endear him to his fellows. The world's precious stora of idealism recefved no enrichment at his han Lodge lived to see the memory of Woodrow Wilson en- shrined in the heart of the world Almost as bitter, perhaps, as that he lived to see Calvim Coolidge, whom he despised, elected President by an unprecedented majority—gaining in his modest and obscure way three glitter ing prizes upon which, for a quarter of a century or more, the eyes of Henry Cabot Lodge had been fixed in ntil six years ago,” declares th Louisville Courler-Journal (Democratic) “he had the respect, and in some d gree, even the admiration of many of his opponents; but the record made the last six years leaves hi the most hated name in America Never a man to inspire love, he wa peculiarly a man to provoke hatr Not even his death can obliterate the scars with which the hearts of mi {lions of his countrymen are scarred. o “There was so much excellence in observes the Baltimore Sun, (independent Democratic), “so much strength, such fine aspirations and ideals in regard to public service it is with reluctance that Wc dwell upon his defects, his fallure to reach the height which he well might have reached. But, like Woodrow Wil son, he was a born fighter, and now that he has joined the company of men of militant convictions and of notable careers, even Southern men will not withhold the tribute that the brave pay to an adversary who has in the open and who never lowered his flag.” “He had an extraordinarily fine mind,” say Birmingham News, which adds, “the only thing that prevented him from being a great statesman was his in- tense and bitter partisanship The ever recurring comparison of Lodge with Wilson and the oppost parts these men played, which ruos through almost all the editorial com- ment is climaxed in the following statement of the Knoxville Sentinel (independent Democratic): “To the shrine of St. Alban daily and annual pligrimages will be in- creasingly made in the years to come to pay homage to him! who, whatever may have been his failings and his limitations, was inspired by one con- stant and Increasing purpose that clung to him even in death to do a great service to human kind—to win the verdict of history for his every purpose and act. What hearts will turn to the tomb at Nahant or wend their ways to that shrine in earthly gratitude we may not say, but it will not be kindred and fdeals tnspird