Evening Star Newspaper, March 23, 1925, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR b Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C MONDAY........March 23, 1925 THEODORE W, NOYES. .. .Editor e The Evening Star Newspaper Company Office, 11th 8t. sud Penusyivania Ave. New York Office. %-l\l it 42nd St, Chicago Office: Tower Bullding. Luropean Otice : 18 diggent St.,London, Lugland. Eventog Star. with the Sunday morning is delivered by corriers within the £ 80 centy per ‘manth: daily ouly, cents per month; Sunday ouly. 20 cent month. . Qeders may be sent by mall o Dhone ‘Main 5000, - Collection s mads by car. Tiers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and. Virginia. Sunday only.. All Other States. Daily and Sunday....1 vr., $10.00; 1 mo.. Daily enly o ..1 ye, $7.00; 1 mo. Sunday only. 1 yr, $3.00; 1 mo., Member of the Associated Press. The Assoctated Press is exclysively entitled fn the uss for republication of all uews dia-| patches credited to JU or not, otherscise credited in this. puper and -aiso the locgl mews pub lished “herein. ~AIl rights of publication of a1 dispatchies herein are also reserved. What the Farmer Wants. In William M. Jardine, the new Secretary of Agriculture, the farmer has a spokesman whose voice will be raised effectively. because it heard with respect. When Dr. Jardine discusses agricultural conditions it is not jn a_whining tone. ‘On the con- trary, he voices the unshaken belief tkat the American farmer remains an independent and self-reliant citizen who resenis any suggestion that he wants or needs coddling. ‘ In an interview in the current num- ber of the Nation's Business, Dr. Jar- dine says: “The. farmer does not want the Government constantly monkey: ing wih his business. He doesn't want to be babled or pitied by other people. What the farmer wants is just this: He wants his business to have an equal opportunity with other - busi- nesses.” And then listen to this: “The sound farmer-business man does not scek legislation to fix prices or regu- | late details. He knows that legislation canvot annul, economic laws.” That has quite a different sound from pleas in behalf 'of the farmer with which we have become familiar’ in Washington during recent sessions of Congress. An#ulment of economic laws by legis- lation, we have been assured, was the cne thing above all others the farmer wanted and demanded, and that he was in a mood to turn “re@” unless he got it. Dr. Jardine does not contend that no legislation is nesded to help the farmer to a sounder business basis and e fairer share of the consumer's dollar. The Secretary ‘calls attention 10 the fact that there are certain spe- cial statutes dealing with banking, with corporations, with labor. and in-| sisty that the legislation the farmer does want is no more specialized from his point of view than these laws are from the viewpoint of the men par- ticularly interested in them. Chiefly, according to Dr. Jurdine, the farmer wants legislation that will assist him will be! ders. Little boys dig elaborate caves] or meet secretly in abandoned shacks; thelr passwords and oaths are as awe- {inspiring as their aims and regalia are usually ridiculous. Yet the mem- ories of those doings and of those as- | sociations are among the pleasantest | things of adult life. The secret-society idea permeates, thoroughly the tribal life of primitive and savage peoples. all over the. world, the young men banding thiemseives together for pur- poses wanriike, -religlous or what-not. Even adult civilized persons have been known to enjoy “joining.” It has heen the general experience that when secret organizations are banned, some compensating outlet for the social and gregarious instinct must be eated, otherwise the evil, withdrawing still further from the light of publicity, persists. Prince- ton University, one of the few big American institutions of learning succéssfully to abolish Greekletter fraternities, not long afterward found them. replaced with upper-class clubs | wherein members had almost every | advantage and accompaniment of the { fraternity except the cabalistic title. Ilating clubs for lower classmen, which were “feeders” for the mare dignified and elaborate organizations of senior and junior years, were luter abolished as tending too much to create cliques, and the lower classes ate together at coilege commons. But he close and exclusive association of kindred spirits could not, and cannot, by these meaiis be prevented; ‘the secret close and exclusive association is scarcely less preventable. Without going into the merits of high school fraternities, which are ad- mitted, and the demerits, which are even more freely admitted, it can be said with safety that their ebsolute } elimination is a herculean task. Some | substitute, some miethod of regulating and sublimating this age-old instinct, must be found. Just how this baMing problem will be adjusted remains to be seen. Local school authorities are competent and they are also human. They will have to draw heavily on | both qualities to arrive at an adequate solution. | ——o— Congressional Medicine. Lo. the poor congressman. T'navail- ing his protest against the salary in- crease which raises his annual stipend ta $10,000. Controller General Mc- Carl, the uncontrolled, has decreed Senators and Representatives must take their full pay checks; they can- not be.paid at the rate of $7.500, the old congressional salary. But, and here is where the controller general is truly unkind, Mr. MecCarl has added a kind of postscript which says that if @ Congressman wishes he may re- turn to the Treasury any part of the salary -he receives. Why could not the controller general have settled the matter oncé and for all? Why leave a loopholé to worry those who have abnormally active consciences? Why imulate a physician who prescribes a draught which must be taken in the mouth, but need not be swallowed? Some members of the House, Sergeantat-Arms J. G. Rogers wrate Mr. McCarl. intimated tbey did not care to taks the increase in pay under | uniona already organized In the plants | profits among standing between the executive office and the shop reached through the. in- itiative of broad-minded and generous employers. To the spread of co-operative man- egement may be attributed a great deal of the improvement in the rela- tionship under consideration. Dr. Eliot finds that either through the regular or by means of reorganization estab- lished for the purpose. representatives of the workers in many instances now sit down with their employers to dis- cuss in democratic fashion the prob- lems of their industry. A growing fea- ture of the improved relations between employe and employer, especially in large industries, is the establishment of insurance agalnst uunemployment, accident, sickness and death. Either jointly with the reguler unions or independently on behalf of their employes many employers have established funds to protect them trom the blows of circumstance. Many of the larger companies have taken their employes into partnership through a wide disiribution of stock mmeng the workers and by the sharing of their the customers they serve. Other employers have made what amounfs to a sharing of profits by the distribution of substantial bonuses. In Canada, Dr. Eliot points out, gov- ernment mediation and conciliation as carried on by the Canadian depart ment of labor prevented. during the vear 1922, the loss of a single working hour on the railways of Canada. Un- happily, the contrary was the result in the United States. which suffered enormous losses through strikes of i railway labor. —————ate— A literary sensation was once creat- ed by the question “Is marriage a fallure?” Divorce procedure has robbed the query of some of its romance. Yet the marriage license clerk is still kept busy and the sale of wedding rings forms a substantial vart of the jeweler's business. The sentiment that survives and flourishes is liable to be overlooked because it craves no publicity. e ——— Coronium, the mysterious element in the sun's corona, exists on the earth, accerding to e Swarthmore College astronomer, who states that it is lighter than helium and of about the same substance density as hydro- gen, “lightest known gas on earth.” Some, however, are convinced that senatorium is still lighter. ———— Chicago is represented as claiming that the impression that she harbors the most extraordinary criminals is due to the fact that she has exception- ally vigilant and determined poiice authorities, who bring to light much that might easily have been forgotten as unsolved mysteries. e While too polite to mentian the mat- ter, Mr. Charles Warren cannot fall to entertain a feeling of reproach to- ward Vice President Dawes for allow- ing a tardy mark to go up against him during one of the Senate’s most im- portant recitation e — THE - EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO D. C, MONDAY, M THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. Paul Laurence Dunbar, the negro poct, after whom a great secondary school is named in Washington, ought to be seriously considered for a place in Literary Square. The publication of his' complete nasms in one heautiful volume by Dodd, Mead & Co., gives one opportu- nity to reud the work of ene whom W. D. Howells called the first American negro to evince “nnate distinction in literature. In the introduction to “Lyrics of Lowly Life,” which forms the preface to this ecollection, the late dean of American letters explains his position at_length. To him (and may T add, to me?) the fact that Dunbar was a colorea | man had nothing at all to do with his regard for his poems. He “hoosted™ them because they were good work well done. “I think 1 should scarcely trouble the reader with a special appeal in behalf of this boek, if it had not es- peciallv anpealed to me for reasons | apart from the author's race, origin wnd condition,” Mr. Howells states. “The world s t00 old now, and 1| find myse€lf too much of its moed, to care for the work of a poet because he Is black. because his father and mother were slaves, because he WaS, before and after he bLegan to write poems, an elevator boy. “These facts would certainly at- tract mo to him as a man, it I knew him to have literary ambition. but when it came te his literary art, I| must judge it irrespective of thesc facts, and emjoy it or endure it for what it was in itself.” An honest lover of poetry read “The (‘omplete Poems Paul Laurence Dunbar” In exactly that | spirit. And with such eminent criti- | cal opinion behind him, he will have little trouble in doing so. s ¥ * The romance of Dunbar's achieve- ment, however, I am sure Mr. Howells never meant any one to forget. For any one to rise tram elevator boy to poet, from pushing levers to pushing the pen, Is a romance. There fs no ome, white or black. yellow or green (with jealousy!) who would not envy any man who could get his work published in such a beautiful book, with the poems set fn large type, in double columns. The physical layout of poetry has much to do with its proper apprecia- tion. The publishers, therefore, are to be congratulated on aisplaying these poems to their best udvantage. Few radio ‘“‘fans” there are who have not heatd. at some time or other, the following semg over the must Theu art the breath of But the Swmmer Is And the rome is Where are th fhou art tbe blobd of my Beart o' hearts, Thou arc my soul's repose. Hut my beart grows numl And my soul grows dumb. Where art thou, love, who knows, who knows? fed a Knows, who knows? Thou art the hope of my after years— Sun for my Winter snows Rut the years ga by “Neath 2 clouded xky. Where sball we meet, who Lnows, who knews? Perhaps the next best known in this volume is “The Sum.” A little dresming by the way, A little telling day hy dux A little paty, a little strife A llttle joy—aud that is Life poem l | 1 WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. TRACEWELL. A little ghort-lived Summer's mora, When joy weems all w0 newly horn, Whes one day’s sky is blue abore. And one bird sings—and that Is lov A little sickentug of the vear The tribute of a few bot tears, Two folded hands, the failing breath, And peace at-lest—and that is death! Just dreamiag, leving. dring so. The actors in the drama go— A fitting pickdre on a.wall, Love, “death, the themes; but is that all? The poet points &« happler moral In “The Sparrow.” A little bird, with plumage brown, xide wy window Gutters down, A mament chirps its littie stral; Tan tape npon my windaw nase. And chlrps again. avd hops along, To cail my wetice 1o its song: But [ work on, wor heed It a7, T in pegloct, It fles away. So birds of peace ad Bope and lave Come fluttering earthward from abore, To settle an life's window sills. Avd ease our loud of earchly ik Bur e, ruih and din Toa deap engaged to lot them in. With deadened heart and seuse plod on, Nor know our loss till they are guoe. That note about “traffic’s rush and din” is surprisingly wedern! Mr. Howells gave preference to the so-called “dialect pieces,” declaring: “He reveals in these a finely ironi- cal perception of nesro's limitation, with a tenderness for them which I think so very rave ax to be almost quite new.” Mr. Howells continues by saying that he does not know how much or how little, in this collection, the poet may have preferred the poems in ltevary English. “Some of these 1 thought very geod, and e more than very good,” Mr. How stated, “but not distinctively his con- tribution to the body of Amerfcan postry. What F mean is, that several veople mizht have wriiten them. but I do not know any oue else at present who could have written the dialect pleces.” v In support of Mr. Howells. I quote the followine stanzas from the poem, “When De Co'n Pone's Hot.” Dey is t'mes tn life when Nature Seems to slip a cog an’ go. des’ a-ratthn’ down creatioa, Lak an ocean's overflow. 4 When der worl' jes' stahts a-spinnin’ Lak a pleanninoy’s top, An’ 50’ cup o' joy is brimmin® ell it weems about to wiop, An’ vou feel jew lak & racah, Dat is trainin’ fu’ te trot When yo' mammy says de biessn An’ do co'n pese’s het t de table, " sad When de oven do* i An’ de wmell comes po'la out: Why, de “lectric Jight o° Heaven Seems 1o settle on de spot. When yo' mammy says de blessin An' de co'n poae’s Rot. Wien de cabbage pot An’ de bacon good a When de chittlins is s-sputt Tek away yo' cake an de glocy time is comi Au’ it'a preachin Az’ you wast to jump 3. Dough you knew you's bett When yo' mammy sars de bi Av’ do co'n pobn's hot 1 have byeahd o' lots o sermous, Au’ T've hyeahd o lots o' prayers, An' I've Ustened to some siog Dat has tok me nup de stairs Of de Glory-Lan' 30’ et me Jes' below de Mastah's thione, An bave lef' my hea't a-stugin o & happy aftah tos: Rut dem wu'ds so sweetly murmured Neom to tech de softes’ spot. When my mammy says de biessin’ A’ de co'n pone’s Bot ? ARCH 23, 192 Bay Incident Recalled. Tornado and Water Spout Declar- ed to Appear in Similar Forms. To the Editor of The Star: The accounts of the recent disas- trous windstorm In Illinois and In- diana suggest to me that a short de- scription of the formation of a water spout, which Iy essentially similar in ac fen to a tornado, and which T wit- nessed, might interest some of your readers. Durlng the Summer of 1904 my old- est son and another youth and 1 were salling acrosa Chesapeake Bay from the mouth of the Potomac River in a small sloop, when we were overtaken by a southeast storm. After that storm abated, the wind where we were blew briskly from the soutnwest, and In an almost opposite direction & mile north of us, as I observed rom the direction in which a three-masted schooner there was sailing. A black, funnel-shaped cloud, with the big end above, soon after formed approximately three-quarters of & mile up the bay frem us and whirled with great velocity as it gradually e¢xtended its smaller end toward rhe_ surface of the water. The waler be- Q. Who gets the crown when a champion quits—C. J. ¥, A. In the case of resignation of the recognized champion the title is open, until one finaliy provas himself to be the undefeated champion. Q. What will reniove the sealing compoynd on a storage battery?— W.T. G. A. 1t can be removed by means of a steam jacket or a hot putty knife. Q. What is “sand sugar?—L. A to crystallized raw and granulated sugars. is > to refined Q. Does wetting coal make it give off more heat?—L. L. A. The Bureau of Mines says that the wetting of coal does not increase the heating qualities but merely lays It is the name given in Russia | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKI sal to a it boil stand ammoniac, and bring the kettle ana let the fire until ver. Wwhen fur will peel off. Afterward with water. containing sal boll and rinse thoroughiy. To pre- vent thig in the future, place an oyster shell in the bottom of the ket tle, and the lime will collect on ithe shell instead of the ketile. is a part of ¥rance called Brittany —B. I T. A. Brittany s supposed to have recelved its name from those Britons who were expelled from England and took refuge there between the fifth and seventh centuries. Before that time the country was named Amorica Q. How many islands are the the State of Michigan? L Q. Wh re in the dust. Q Did a woman ever rum for President on the Prohibition ticket?— J. € B A. Not_on_the Prohibition but in 1888 Belva Lockwood the Kqual Rights ticket. ticket ran on low it became exceedingly turbulent, as if it were dashing against hidden rocks or violently boiling. When the lower end of the cloud cons was about the height of tha Washington Monument above the bay the water beneath it began to whirl rapidly and soon a cone of it sud- denly sprang up and joined the lower end of the cloud formation, by which the smaller ends of the two cones were united, leaving one large end above and one below with a long nar- rower waist between. This whirling formation, roaring and seething at the surface of the water, moved gracefully around with the sinuous undulation of an enormous serpent and at ome time, barely missed the schooner mentioned. Finally the formation leaned so far that it broke and the .lower portion fell with & spectacular splash. 1t i3 probable that the reason why such manifestations are more violent when they occur on land thap when they occur on water, is thaf, as they cannot draw er force up the land, they continue to get narrower and to inerease in velocity of rotation in proportion as they decrease in diam- eter and approach the surface of the earth. WILLIAM TINDALL. ————————— Old Romance Realized Autos and Airplanes in Land of Arabian Nights. Even Scheherazade would have paused in her enchanting tales to hear the news of the automobile that stopped in the heart of the S Desert to aid & fallen airplane bound from Caire to Bagdad. “Speaking of winged horses and magic carriages,” the witty queen would have caid, “be- hold From Beirut on the Syrian cc on to Damascus, and thence ac the sapdy waste to the green shores of the Tigrls and the city of the good Haroun al-Raschid, runs a moter line, 600 miles In length. Where once the aravan labored from oasis to oasis, the gasoline genie now speeds lightly, accomplishing in 28 hours a journey that aforetime required weeks, and bringing Mesopotamia, us & current repart of the enternrise obsarves “within 10 days of Western Lurope. instead of almost & wonth takeu by the old route throygh the Red Sea and Persian Gulf to Bagdad.” It appears further that the moter line in the first years of its operation carried 35,000 i Q. How often there eclipse of the sun?—T. F. A. There are gbout ten total eclipses of the sun in every 18 years. one place a total eclipse of tha sun 1s visible on the average of about once in 360 years. There is no uni- formity of interval in either case. a total Q- Where is the largest collection of hooks In the world?—E. H. A. The largest library in the world is the Biblotheque Nutionale, Paris, containing 4.500.000 books. The Brit- ish Museum ranks second with mor than 4,000.000, and the Library Congress third with 3,178,000, Q. Who was the last soldler killed in the war?—J. D. E A. The War Department says it bas never been determined who was the last American soldier killed in the Warld War, as men were being killed along the line and it would be im- pvossible to say just who was the mz} one killed. Q. For whom did Longfellow write “The Hanging of the Crane’—G. T. S. | A. The poem was written in 1867 for a fellow poet, Thomas B. Aldrich. Q. How long will eottage cheese keep?—I. A. Cottage cheese is quite as per- ishable as milk and, therefore, can mot be kept for any length of time without the aid of refrigeration. Cot- tage cheese is sometimes kept for six months when put in cold storage where a temperature of 0° F. is main- tained. Q. Please tell something about schools in the Philippines—H A. There are 99 school districts in the Philippine Islands. Among the special government Institutions are the Normal! School, the School of Arts and Trades, the Nautical School and the Central Luzon Agricultural School. There are provincial trade schools and ships. In 1922, in the | public schools, thers were 1.070,235 pupils in the 7,639 schools with 352 American and 13,528 Filipino teachers There are 384 private schoals with 30,650 pupils and 1.220 teachers. The state-supported University of the Philippines i 1921-22 had 4,718 fdents and the Dominican University of Santo Thomas (founded 1811) 701. Q. A. Soil may be made artificiaily: that is, rock may be ground to ke soll. Rock with additional nitrates and moisture produces seil. It is very commonly perimentaily and bas he used ex- At any | of | | 1s it poss'bie to make Soil arti- an artificial | proved success- | A. Off the shores of the two pen insulas that form MiciNgan there are about isla willyn the S boundari largest being Royale in Lake Superior ds Is. Q A grav the s Q D ~C. F. A try slave What Mezzot M process R a mezaotint > is & r which dates th centary. en from venteer Quaker: ever own slaves B n the there early davs i numerous Latéer, hov came generally to oppose slavery Q | 1aw this cour Quaker Have men ever been required b to accept p office?—V | A, It was difficult_in earlier to induce fill ‘minor put places and laws were passed in Rhod | Island, which remained on the statut books for many years, providing alties for refusal to accept office Q memb. AL S A Webster { ntil his Q tre was Charies Sum: United States S | How g - of the T Charles Sumner succeeded Danie nator in 1851 and se eath in March, 1874 Will mistletoe injure an oa R. R A. Mistletoe does weaken a {and in some cases trees have | frem the burden died | How have | existed?=C. B. | A. Hospitals early times. Arabia had long hospita were founded in ver India. Persia, and hospitals supported b | their Kings and rulers before the {Christian era. There is good evidence | that King Asoka of India in the t} utury B. C anded the esta | lishment of hospitals and that the | hospitals were flourishing seventh century A. D. Q. Dies the [—A s | & 1 § to Draper of Harvar University the following faets ha been observed concerning the apy growth of hair after death: “Ir cidentally in identification, the que tion may arise whether the hair o: {beard grows death. A | ties differ somewhat, but the weig | of aut favors the view t hair, £ the bear grow death. Haller parent growth by the shrinking the soft tisst round each ind ha wth of hair after burial of the body may and does oc- cur in excaptional cases appears to |demonstrated by authentic cases | record.” A hair grow after dea ceases explains on Q. | side British ¢ How 1 izenship?—L. ! A. The British embassy us that to become a British one must show that he has in British territory five out st eight vears. infor - i { pounds of mail and some 1.500 nas. | {4l in those cases. Jating of international traflic in the | sopgers, without accident and withe Aways and brwars of the globe, with | oyt one serious delay. Interd 33 & view to seeing that it keeps movidg | too, the tribesmen Of the in orderly, peaceful and systematic | traversed by these cars, though usu. fashion. That doesn't mean militariem { ally hostile to European en or war. It would mean brotherhood, | ments, have been well disposed to the common sense and general welfare.” autemobile. The new mode of transe * on o port evidently has established itself in these ancient seats of civilization, and Goubtless will work many a won- der. The airplane has not been so fortu- nate. Its service between Bagdad and Cairo was imaugurated by the Bri ish authorities, primarily to expedite mails. But there have been frequent delays, the trouble being ascribed to sundry circumstances, notably to “the increased strain put on the machine by the severe climatic conditions existing over these vast expanses of the desert sand Lngine failure caused the breakdown of the airplane, 1to whose rellef came the automobile ferew, with a spare engine that en- abled the aviator to ge reinlcing on | their flight. In time. no doubt. the the now famous law of 1925 Mr. Rogers wanted to know if he could pay them léss than the $10,000. Mr. McCarl has replied with firmness that they must be paid the full amount But after a Congressman has received the sum, he mway do with it as he will, even to returning part of it or all of it to Uncle Sam. It will be interesting to observe how many members of the Senate and House restore to the Treasury the $2,500 increase which the new law allows them. There is no obligation so to do—none, unless perchance the clinkers to fo R. C. Bureau of Mines savs tha having low melting *Ting WD, fire bed This may be avoide having high up the f ashes fire to get reasonable credit on sound ©escyrity, and legislation that will heip him build wp-machinery for mlrL‘w:-; ing his products succedsfully, to (he‘ mutual benefit of the producer and the consumer, all this being merely legislatich to put him or'a par with| other business men. That represents a program which ought to be gut through Congress| without the least difficulty or opposi- tion. And it will be-put through with- out difficulty if professional “friends of the farmer” will discontinue their | efforts to give the farmer something | he does not ask and does not want, | Congressman has protested so vigor- and which tbe people as a whole cusiy against the increase he may run would never consent that he should | the risk of hearing from his enemies have. | the charge: “Methinks the gentleman | | did protest too much.” When the salary | increase was debated in the Senate— Evary citizen can contribute in some way. either as motorist or pedestriun, toward waking the administration of the new traffic director a success. Watch your speedometer or your step. as the case may be. When the Secretary of State and) | Ars. Frank B. Kellogg were young people in Rochester, Minn., 30 vears| ago, they lved through many a o | clone and tornado such as those which just devastated southern Illinols. Blizzards and other violent freaks of wind and weather were as regular as the seasens in those days in our ‘. 3 g KellogB™ | cigar. Gov. “Al" Smith crrs T oot Northwestern country. The Ke .| S e b “an remembar a cyclone that not only [ tic question of the day is where to parl Gemolished towns, but swept men and | your car. Golf Illustrated, the principal Somen off their feet and carried them | organ of the American golfing frate Nandreds of yards away, rippiaz off | Dity, is now to the front with the para. their clothing In the process and| mount iseue in international poitics It Sonding them limb from limb. No-|calls for the creation of an “interna. | Tody In Minnesota in the roaring| tional board of golf." to regulate com. 905 was ever sure that he'd come | troversial issues on the links, and sug. home at the end of the day and find | "s<ts that the Roval and Aneient ( his house standing where it was| Club of St. Andrews, Scotland, and moored when he left it. When Frank | United States Golf. Kellogg came out of the East to carve | be the parents of such {fame and fortune out of the North- . west he found a eceriain pretty girl Q. What organization makes scheol | building studles and maps out a prac- tical bullding program for cities™ AL B F | A. The Bureau of Education, ! Washington, D. C.. has made a num- ber of school building surveys at a |point ash. Do very small cost to d stricts. In the |not-try to burn sl Portland, Oreg.. survey, a 13-year |decrease efficioncy ! building program was recommended, | and accepted, which made a saving to that district of $18.000,000. | ask him, but he knows people who o Q. What will do away with the | kuotw. Try him. State pour questio crust formed inside an enamel tea- | briefly, write plainiy, ond kettle?—W. 0. J. | conts in stamps for return A. To remove the furry deposit|Address Frederic J. Haskin, from the inside of a teakettle, fll | The Star Information Burean with water, add a large spoonful of | first aad € n {World Court Discussions Linked With Disarmament in a A point ash or cause clinkers selection of m a ey- st ————— 2 As April approaches the climate tends to revive a discussion of chang- ing the date for inauguration. How- ever, if inaugurations continue to quiesce, the weather will be a slight incidental consideration. e ————— The Japanese citizens who desire their Ambassador to this country to avoid any spirit of concillation ap- parently have some new and original ideas as tu the precise duties of a diplomat. Fornier Vice President | shall once said that sue in American politics is a good 5-cent i “Tom™ Mar- e paramount fs- (Have you ¢ krow all things thaf peop'- as He dor | no | { postage Twent; the Assoctation should i & body. * k¥ ow After fire or éarthquake the rebutld- ing usually leaves the devastated area better provided for and more sightly than it was before. Many vears must clapse, however, before these siderations preseut themselyes as sug- sestions of solace to those who bear the brunt of misfortune. R e Washington i$ now enjoying an off-season. “Iourteen Oppartunities.” That ‘number of colored children were rendered homeless by the recent au- thorized burning of the. smalipox germ-infested frame house - occupied by two colored familics, ——— A state of lawlessness in this coun- try has been charged by Senator Borah, and this in spite of many laws. And in spite of many rules Mr. Dawes is Inclined to attribute to the United States Senate a disposition o be most unruty. . r———s Another demoustrafion of ‘how a man of prominence may still be active though retired is expected from Gen. Pershing in South America o B S S ‘conomy is always more interesting as a general sclence than as a per- sonal custom. - Secret Societies. With.the disbarment ‘frori- desirable extra-curriculum activities of nearly one hundred studen{s “of Washing- ton high schools because . of ad- mitted membership® in - forbidden Greek-letter fraternities and sorori- | ties, the school authorities’ are ‘up against a baffting problem. one which zoes far back in history and. has its roots deep in the psychology of man- kind. S , Washington's ‘public schools - have been confronted therewith off and on for a long period. Several times it has been considered settled. but the difficulty breaks out afvesh, just as it did recently with the discovery that, in spite of a writtén pledge. to the contrary, a’ group of high school boya . bad accepted membership in one of the forbidden organizations and had had a group photograph taken, the display of which in a show window brought about retribution. 1t is one of the hardest things in the world #o keep people, *especially young people of a common age, skni jar surroundings and similar tastes, from creating and felning secret or con- | [ lafter it had been agreed to—and {some of the Senators raised their | volces in opposition to the added pay. immediately. they were charged with assuming a “holier than thou” atti- tude. So the man who returns his increase now—if any does—may be criticized for playing to the galleries. A member of Congress is entitled to bis $10,000 & year or he is not. 1If he | is to devote his whole time and at-} ikemian to the Government ser e, undoubtedly the old $7,300 salary is too little. If he is to devote only a modicum of his time to his duties here then his old salary was too much. Congress, passing on the matter it- self, decided that the salary should be advanced to cover more adequately a { year-round service to the Government The aiternative was to reduce the salary—perhaps to the size of the compensation of a member of the Brit- ish House of Commons, who.receives {1400 a year, about $1,900. But if the member of Uongress is to re- ceive & year-round salary it is not teo that he’stay on the job. o Immediate sympathy was sent with ! reterence to the Tokio earthquake, and Japan is no less prompt in simi- lar expression concerning this coun- try’s tornado. Such interchange js in some degree formal, vet the amenities have their value. L e —t——— Occasionally the French Chamber of Deputies doubtiess yearns for some comparatively orderly and entirely re- poseful demonstration, such as a fili- buster? ————— TIndustrial Peace. Dr. Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of ' Harvard University, in celebrating his 91st birthday last Fri- jday, finds his intevest in public affairs and the national welfare to be as vital and as intense as ever. He made his lanniversary the occasion for contrib- uting to the American public his. eb- | sewr-;ations on a question that has been {much ~ discussed recently—industrial relations. The venerable publicist be- lieves that “the United States is on the road to industrial peace.” Dr. Lliot sees an increasing number of developments which augur hope- fully for a new era in the relations be- tween employel and employe - the United States and’ Canada. Much of i 1 ' this happy state of affairs is being brought about through better under-/ J Teapot Dome affairs are still under consideration, but the proceedings that once boiled appear to be simmer- ing along. ST SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Rjvalry Removed. Congress vauished .from il The flowers all serene Began to blossom on the Hill And dominate the scene. When the The feathered songsters lift a lay b says the mocking bird, “There is. since Congress went away, A chance of being heard!” Even Busier Days. “I suppose vou will enjoy a vaca- tion, now that you have adjourned.” “I'm not sure it's going to he a vacation,” answered Senator Sorghum. “The home folks don't hesitate to de- mand explanations and make critical remarks, and there isn't any such thing as senatorfal courtesy to stop i A Practice Out of Favor. With now and then a bit of bliz Old Winter seeks to bluster. Quoth Gentle Spring, “It’s time for biz. Don't try to filibuster.” Jud Tunkins seys put your best foot forward. but dou't depend entirely on your dancing for your chance in life. | E | Stationary Moterist. “What will you do when gas is 50 | cents or even a dollar a gallon “I'll still find some interest in life,” answered Mr. Chuggins. “By that time the old flivver will be so far out of re- pair that I can pat in all my time fixing i right in the home garage. Versatile Conversation. That Money talks we can't deny. It has done thus for years gone by. Sometimes it lifts a generous voice And bids the world hope and rejoice. Again it takes the master's tone And makes the serf in terror moan; Or else it laughs with hearty zest As if existence were a jest— With moments frequently to spare For bits of scandal, here and there. “De man who is always thinkin® ‘bout his own self,” said Unele Eben, s liable to find he has made a long study of purty uninterestin’ subjects.” | the President to remove a Federal ML | Witson, | eral was an uncompromising and bit- : fought under the supervision of a | states. | diplomatic register is that of BEdward | chief claliz to fame the fant that Secre- | seal of the United States to the treaty mamed Clara M. Cook, the belle of | Rochester, where he had arrived, a lad of 5 She is now the wife of the American Secretary of State and chief hostess of the Washington diplomatic corps v ow o Fortbcoming proceedings in the preme Court, involving the right of official without consent of the Sen- ate—the Portland, Oreg., postmaster case—will present some amusing per- =onal angles Counsel for the Gov- ernment is Solicitor General James Beck. Mr. Beck will defend the tawality of action trken hv Vrosident of whom the Solicitor Gea- ter foe. The right of Congress. and particularly of the Senate, to prevent presidential removal of a Senate- confirmed official will be defended by Senater George Wharton Penper of Pennsylvania. Within the fortnight Mr. Pepper has been a vallant advo- cate of presidential prerogative as against senatorial pretension—of the theory that the Executive i% entitled to unassailable precedence over Con- gress in the matter of choosing his advisers. Still another personal equation in a legal battle involving ‘White House rights is that it will be former President—William Howard Taft—now Chief Justice of the United | The oldest name’ on the American Augustine Savoy, @ negro, who on May 5, having reached the age of 70, will be retired under the statute. Savoy has been the doorkeeper of every Secretary of State since Hamilton Fish filled that office tn 1869, and functioned in the same capacity for 18 succeeding Secre- | taries, including the present Incumbent, | Mr. Kellogg. “Eddie.” as two genera- | tions of State Department inmates and | visitors have known himy- hode-as- his tary Sherman sent him ta. Palo de Barnabe; the Spanish Minister; ‘with the envoy's passparts and our ultimatum when we went to war with Spain in 1898. The eame vear Secretary Day took “Eddie” to Paris for the peace | conference and let bim affix the great | theve cigued. Savoy is a spry septu- agenarlan, and hopes to be retained for the extra two years permitted under the civil service rules ,to one who has! reached the retirement age. i ; > e x | President Coolidge's Congregational pastor, the Rev. Dr. Jason Noble Pierce | (Amherst '02), was a chaplain_in the | 24 Divicion all through the Chateau | Thierry-Belleau Wood-Argonne cam- | paign in France. Thera's nothing about | Dr. Pierce that remoteiy sugmests thez pacifist. He's a fightin’_parson, though 2 poace advocste Dis ‘told a 2d Division reunion the. night.that the role of the United - States - Army, Navy and air force might: weil-be- of trafic cops thro the world. ‘Our job,” he said, “should be the regu- | irreconcilable i I I Alleged Statistics The late Marquis Curzon of Kedl ton married two American women in succetsion and always maintained cordial social relations with Ameri- cans. But United States Ambassa- dors to Great Britain during the past 12 or 15 vears never regarded that “most superior Curzon” as par- ticularly friend'y to this country in a political sense. He was one of the ories who angrily doprecated our “tardiness” in enter- ing the World War. Walter Hines Page. our war envoy in London, bit- terly resented Lord Curzon's anti- Amerfcan spirit, born, as it s, as an inherent beliof in our national in. feriorit: When Mr. Page heard that Curzon was to be the chief British representative at a function organized to mark America's entry into the war. in Apri), 1917, the Am. | bassador volubly protested. ons else was finally put Curzon's place * k@ Eleciric signs carrying 4-foot let- ters, reading “Government Printing Office.” now blaze from the roof of that big establishment on two fronts. The signs were put up just before inauguration day and are designed to be permanent. Since the layoff of G. P. Q. printers there has been some curiosity as to how the publie print- Some er recauci'es economy with the elec- | trical dieplay. Mr. Carter informs this observer that the cost {s trifling, vonly a couple of dellars a night. The installation, he says, was in pensive, having been made by print- ing office electriclans from stock on hand and in disuse. - “Our shop needs identification,” Mr. Carter explains. “and is always being confused with the Bureau of Engraving and Print- ing. Mauny people don't know what or wheve it is—inc uding an Assistant Attorney Gemeral of the United States, who recently had business ere.” £ (Copyright, 1925.) in Lord | climatic difficulties will somehow be overcome and Bagdad will behold its skyey mavies moving in full ease, while radio and the X ray, to say nothing of telephones and telescopes, bring all the rest of “Arabian Nights” romance to pass.—Atlanta Journal. Makes Position Clear on Study of Negroes To the Editor of The Star May T ask the courtesy of your col umus ta co-rect one ar two misstate ments which occurred in your report of the talk concerning my research on negro-white crossing which 1 gave at the meeting of the Washington Anthropological Association? I real- ize that it Is diffieult for the untrain- ed listener to accurately report a technical address, but some of the points made in your account all un- wittingly do the negro some injus- tice, and somewhat distort my posi- tion. Tt is not true that can survive better’ under our civili- zation than a negro is the reason why the negroes as a group in this country are lighter than the Africans. The simple fact of racial mixture is quite. sufficient to aceount for this { lightening of color. While it seems to be true that in marriages among negroes the men are somewhat dark- er than the women, T did not say that “the average boy™ toid me that “his ideal of a sweetheart was a light- er nesro girl.” While it would be interesting to know if this is the case, at the same time T am in no position to testify, since it is manifestly possible to discuss questions of such intimacy with large numbers of stu- dents. as vyour report indicated, that the characteristics which a given couple will pass on to their children can be “a_white man Few Vassar Girls Smoke Misleading, Student Assembly Says. Jt is explained by the Student As- sembly of Vassar that the statisi widely published recemtly concerning the snioking habits ef the young women of the college have deen gen- erally misinterpreted. The fgures themselves, it is pointed out, do net represent the real status of nublic opinion, because in their anxiety to be fair every young lady who has ever taken a whiff .f a c'garctt> has evidently listed herself aa a smoker. Furthermore, the qusstion as (o whether smoking was disapproved by parents was eonsclentiously answereg by many of the girls in the negative merely - hecause -their faihers ure smokers, % - The offfelal publication of Vasiar change has taken place in the student attitude in recent years The self- “figured with mathematical certainty" or anything approaching it. - T shall appreciate 'very much, in- deed, this oppertunity to correct these statements, which, 1 recognize, are almost bound to be made where an address is not reported steno- graphcally, or read from a prepared manuscript. MELVILLE J. HERSKOVITS. —— s e [governing body has made a stringent rule against smoking eithur-on or off the campus.- -Only 20 cases of ro- ported violation of the smoking :ule have been reported dyring the pres ent mcademic year. The authorities of the college add that the ertire matter has been overemphasized and that on the whole smoking isx nn roblem at all in the munagement of he coege, ¢ ~ The same notation "s usunlly made by Western . universities when tiray are 1sked to say how mwuch they are bothered Dby the smoke problery among the young ladi 17 s we < N0 maritad | miner a matter that they hardly take | tlement of all | In the establishment of this the troubl it.—Lincoln State Jour @ collect statistics on im- | Finally, it Is not at all possible, | Utierances of President Coolidge jand & resolution passed by the House of Representatives favorable to the World Court have impelled Ameri- can mewspaper editors to analyze ! national sentiment on the subject of adherence to the court. It recognized that such action would bear a close relation to future dis- armament discussions. A single group In the Senate is held to fur- nish the chief gpposition. The Kansas City Star. while {dorsing the President’s program in | general, states that “there is one instrument urged by the President which the Star believes is unneces- sary, and for the United States would result in harm. That instrument is the Permanent Court of International Justice. The court is a Eurepean tribunal, dominated by European na- tions. ' The European prejudice in. reaching. 1In the second place, {court is an adjunct to the League of | Nations.” The New York Evening Post helds jan entirely different view: “America jand & great part of the world want another disarmament conference. Ac- tion by the Senate should come as jone of its needed preliminaries. For ithere should be a judicial body dy {'xo interpret agreements and make decisions upon problems that may grow out of a second series of arms treaties. With America as a mem- ber, the World Court would be such a body. There is no international politics in the World Court. Its | buginess is with the law.” | The Topeka State Journal points ta { the fact that nominations to the court are made by the nations represented in the Hague court and that this provision removes the possibllity of Qomination by any nation or group of nations. “The present judges sit for nine years and, according to. the statute, may be veselected. As thers is_very little prabability that they will not be re-elected, the question of future elections will come up. for years to come, only in case of fi Such vacancies as may occur.” The Minneapolis Journal states that “President Coolidge has a bac ground of knowl:dge for urging that the United States get behind the Waorld Court. His words should tuken seriously, for they compre- hend the fu'ure as well as the nres. ent.” deolares that the importance ot the position taken by the House cannot be exaggerated and argues that “the function of the House is not to guide | public opinian. but to reflect clearly fand in a responsible manner the will of the people. This branch of the National - Legistatore is convinced, as s President Coolidge. that the American prople have spoken on the issue at the clection. It ther is any traditional - poligy. of the United States, It is to seek un amicable set- international quos- | i tions. court of justice no adhcrence to the is | | against America is too deep and far-| the | ing | be | The Salt Lake Deseret News | League of Nations The Des Moines cites the fact Evening Tribu: hat the House gave | majority of 301 to 28 for the cou as “giving warning to the Senats | that the great ¥ af the peop | favor the cou demand, at t | very least, Le. debated and | decision | The W Regi. finds tha despite the wishes of President Coo idge. the Senate Republicans are de i“'f"lii"ed to prevent action on the {court for the next two years And the worst of it that the ebjectio comes from those who are suppos o stand firmly behind Mr, Coolidge Any declaration to the contrary must be taken with a grain of sait The Kansas City Journai feels that nate’s failure to act en th | court proposal is “due largely to fear lef pubic misunderstanding. The Senators do not themselves confuse the court with the league, but t fear that the public may. The time for that fear is past. The proposal has been before the enate for little more than two years. The pub lic gemerally understands it. 1t | time a resolution providing for' Amer |ican adherence was adonted.” The Lyuchburg Advance asserts tha “many of the Republicans are favc ab'e and some others, unfaverad | will not oppose it. ‘A mere handfu {of Republicans are frightening the | majority leaders o an attitude o | hesitation and delay.” Fitness of American participatior is argued by the Knoxville tine which reviews the history of the tr | bunal: “That the World Court a | conatituted is operative withaut prej udice to the United Statds is guar anteed by the fact that to ID'ihy Roeot an sminent American statesman and jurist of unquestioned lovalty to his geuntry, As ‘due the lien's Share of the credit for having framed the ju- |icial machinery of the World Court and alded in organizing it for bus mess. And this absence of prejudice to eur American institutions has been recognized in the recemmendation of the court by two Republican Presi dents.’ The Detroit Free Press question as to whether or not Semate was guided by a fear that | last-minute business would be tied up If the court matter wore taken up. “It is not at all clear,” states | the Fress Press, “that the refusal of the Senate to pass a motion to consider a resolutian providing fo American adherence to the Interna tional Court of Justice roflacts th temper of a majority or even of a considorable minority of the members The. resolutioh was intreduced sud denly On the last day of the regular sesslom” The Pittsburgh Chronici Teicgranh helieves the Housc Droval was in mecord with ¢ i meut of the country.. The S: Bar bara Daily News predicts the ulti mate adoption of the President's rec- ommendations. and that it m be s is raises