Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1925, Page 6

6 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D, C, FRIDAY, MARCH 27, . 1925. THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY.........March 27, 1925 'i‘EEODOlE W. NOYES. . . . Edito: The Evening Star Newspaper L‘nn.u-‘ny B fMee, 11th St. aud Pennsylvanis Ave. e ok OMte 110 East d2ad Si. “hicago Office: Tower . copesn Ofte : 26 Regent Bt London, Bugiand. The Ervening Star. with the Sund “edition. is delivered by carrie: ity At G0 eents per mont cents per month; Sunday oaly, month. Orders may he sent Tione Main 7000, Caliection tiors at the ead of each month. E ¥ mornin Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. s Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday... Paily only Bunday only All Other States. Sunday only 1 yr., $3.00; 1 me, Z0c Member of the Associated Press. ress in exclusively entitled D A tion of all news dis- cation nerein. Al rights of publicat a1 dispatches herein are also reserved. ¥ Keepers of the Light. A lighthouse is a fascinating thing who is shown over one, ov who peruses a story or < a play the scene of which is laid often spite of the lopeli- hardships incidental to the keeper involuntarily thinks o to be the keeper of & tle while anyhow.” The veas why and wherefore of this are numerous and subject to dis- pute, but the fact remains—perhaps it is the fine sense of responsibility entailed, the “Jehovah complex.” as @ psychoiogist would call it. " There is a kind of lighthouse which @iffers from the conventional idea of @n illuminated tower on a lonely or dangerous spot which carries light and hope to men who otherwise would have none and who might never come into port, and of this light any Wash- ingtonian can be keeper for a whole day or more if his purse be plethoric Or. if it be slender, he can enjoy the privilege for an hour. Lighthouse No. 1 is the New York Association for the Blind, founded in 1915 by Mrs. Wini- fred Holt Mather. No. 2 is in Buffalo, N. Y. No. 8 is in Paris, but Ameri- cans largely enable it to care for the more than 3,000 veterans who were tinded in the great war. For every man in this country blinded in that uggle France has 45 Mrs. Mather, internationally known @s “The Lady of the Lighthouse.’ apoke in this city vesterday, and told of the aims and needs of No. 3, which she also established in Paris the sec- ond year of the war, which is sup- ported by American funds, but which is dirccted by a permanent interna- tional committee. Its definite aim is to restore to some sort of useful work brave men who were suddenly plunged into total darkness. Its equip- ment includes training schools, em- ployment and information bureaus, library, gymnasium, restaurant, lodg- ings for homeless men, looms and Knitting machines and a Braille press, the first in France. It now owns its own home, which was dedicated by Marshal Foch, and the title s vested in the Franco-American Committee. The next and last step is the raising of an endowment fund which will per- petuate the institution. " The sum estimated as needed to keep this lighthouse shining out un- biinkingly and without ceasing across the wastes of blackness for the bene- fit of those who, as Helen Keller, herself most famous and most under- standing of blind persons, points out, still have all the tastes, desires, em- A vi the Teadet one ness and a bitions and passions of the clear- sighted, is $500,000. Of this the ¥rench have undertaken to raise $75,000. A gift of $60 will make any Washingtonian keeper of this light for an hour. That is at the rate of $1 a minute. Let the reader close his eyes and keep them closed for 60 minutes. When he opens them to the glorious light of day a gift of $60 will have receded in those fortunate eves until it seems a trifiing sum ——————— Predictions of ‘“another war’ in- evitably arouse curiosity as to what ®ny sane person could possibly want with one. ———— Nothing in Exce The Coolidge administration is wi Iy practicing economy—as well preaching it. Cuts in governmental expenditures in order to get ®ack to the normaley demanded by the late ‘President Harding have been drastic. Thousands of employes have been keparated from the Government serv- ice, whose employment was made necessary during the rush of war busines: ew ventures have been laid aside wisely until more propitious times. . The ancient Greeks had among their wise sayings, “Nothing in ex- cess.” Just as expenditures for gov- ernmental purposes may become ex- cessive, it is ‘conceivable that econ- omy in expenditures for the Govern- ment may also become excessive. here is an irreducible minimum be- wond which the curtailment of Gov- ernment expenditures may not go without the couniry and the people suffering. 1t may not be amiss at 1his time to examine the situation to dearn how close to this minimum we have arrived. The appropriations for the next fiscal year are, in round numbers, $3,937,000,000. ;A tidy sum. A stag- gering sum from the point of view of 1913 and '14. But what goes into this $3.937,000,000 appropriation? Tt JAncludes not only the so-called ordi- nary expenditures of the Government, but also the expenditures for the Post Office Department, which are almost offset by the postal revenues. It in- cludes also the tremendous sums which must be paid out in interest on_the public debt—the war debt in great part. It includes the vast sums which go into the support of the Veterans’ Bureau and the disabled Boldiers and saflors and, in part, the koldlers’ bonus to the World War vet- erans. When these expenditures are pubtracted there remain in the neigh- borhood of $1,277,000,000 a= the charges for the operations of the Fed- eral Government. Compare this with ordinary expenditures of the Govern- ment in the year 1914. In that year the ordinary expenditures, deducting postal expenditures and expenditures for the debts of the Government, were about $728,000,000. In other words, the expenditures for the ordinary governmental opera- tions during the coming year are about 75 per cent in excess of the ex- penditures for like purposes in 1914. But the aityation in the United States has vastly changed in the last decade, due in great part to the upheaval ‘wrought by the war, but also in & measure to the normal increase in the size of the country’s population, and to the added activities which have been undertaken by the Government, including the enforcement of prohi- bition in accordance with the eight- eenth amendment to the Constitution. Standards of living, standards of wages, standards of costs of material have all advanced in this period. It is now six years since the close of the war. The country has very large- 1y returned to normal conditions. But costs generally today are 60 per cent higher than they were in 1914. That being the case, it does not appear that the total of the ordinary ex- penditures of the Government, about per cent greater than those in 1914, are much out of proportion with those of that earlier year. The country has taken kindly to the administration’s crusade for econ- omy in Government expenditures, with tax reduction as the reward for such economy. But there is a limit beyond which the country cannot wisely go in reducing Government ex- penditures, if the Government is to serve the people to advantage. 1t should not curtail, for example, the expenditures for national defense be- vond a point of safety. It must keep pace with demands for guarding the public health. It must continue the development of the country’s water- ways and highways. The tremendous jump in Govern- ment expenditures compared with those of pre-war days has its parallel in other periods of American history. 70 back to the ante-bellum days of 1860. Then the ordinary expenses of the Government were about $63,000,000 annually—less than is re- quired to run single departments of the Government today. After the close of the Civil War these expendi- tures had mounted to about $300,- 000,000. In the succesding years these expenditures were gradually reduced, until in 1878 they reached $2 00,000. Then the climb began again, as the demands of the people for greater governmental activity grew, until in 1890 the $300,000,000 mark had again been passed. Came the war with Spain, and the jump in expenditures followed anew, with a decrease after the war, but another steady climb thereafter until the first billion-dotlar Congress, more than a decade ago. As the country grows the demands for additional aectivities of the Gov- ernment increase. The Government can no more stand still than the sun, or than any other great business. These are facts which must be taken into consideration in seeking to ‘de- termine just where economy may be- come ‘‘excessive.” ————— A German musician predicts “‘opera’” without the aid of the human voice. This will not be opera, but some- thing else to be programmed along with symphony or sonata. The util- ization of the human voice in music has been a problem with composers, since it requires words and threatens @ division of fame with the poet. ‘Wagner solved this problem by writ- ing his own poetry as well as the musie. ———— Rumors disagree as to Mussolini's illness. The physician has his place in diplomacy as well as the lawyer, and a discreet diplomatist never per- mits himself any greater indisposition than that which will permit him a graceful temporary retirement from a situation which he prefers to leave to a natural course of development. ———————— Russia is only waiting for the day when her statesmen and financiers will inspire the same confidence as that accorded her musicians and dancers. s Homes might be happier, on the average, if there were as much study of temper control and expense control as there is of “birth control.” 1 e The Peach Blossom Festival. A championship base ball game; a settlement as to who is to wear the world's heavyweight boxing crown; a Yale-Harvard foot ball game and ar in- ternational polo match, are recognized Dby. the American pyblic s occasions for the gathering of great crowds. The Passion Play” at Oberammergau, the Bach music festival at Bethlehem, Pa. and once upon e time the inaugura- tion of a President of the United States have been known to-attract to the communities where they are held thousands of visitors. The love of sport or art or music or country has ever lured men and women to make pilgrimage in its interest. And today the peach-blossom festival at the little ‘town of Fort Valley, Ga., is coming to take its place with the more familiar anniversaries. Starting four years ago as & modest community gnterprise, this festival has grown by leaps and bounds until this year, on the 19th and 20th of March, there gathered at Fort Valley upward of 40,000 visitors—more than 10 times the number of the inhabitants of that small yet thriving town. Fort Vailey is situated at the heart of the great peach-growing ' territory of Georgia, and is the recognized *‘capi- tal” of that section. The festival Is synchronized with the flowering of the surrounding orchards. And from Bast und West and North and South there gathered there this year an army of visitors to pay homage to the fragrant loveliness of the burgeoning valley. ‘There was, of course, & pageant, ad- mirably executed by some nine hun- dred participants under the festival's “king” and ‘“‘queen.” There was a glant barbecue where hospitality was extended the visiting thousands in a fashion for which the South is justly famous. There were bands end speeches and dances and parades. Yet the drawing card was none of these. Down a gentle valley set in early green there stretched for miles and miles before the onlookers one of the loveliest of nature miracles, a million fruit trees decked in the pink and white of returning, vivid life—and be- yond these millions more. There is in America no extensive planting of any blossoming fruit tree 80 lovely as the peach. The festival of the cherry blossoms, held annually in Japan, is famous round the world. And Fort Valley, starting modestly, may in very truth be bullding a fu- ture annual influx upon which it even now does not reckon. . r——— The Confliot in Foreign Trade. Dangers of competition from European rivals in the leading over- seas markets constitute the outstand- ing feature of the present interna- tional trade situation in the coming conflict in foreign trade. Julius Kiein, director of the United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, told the American Manufacturers and Export Assoclation at a luncheon in New York City recently. There has, however, been circulated much misin formation on the subject. bordering in some cases on near panic and hysteria, iuspired in & few outstanding stances by competitors them our a in- our selves He finds that there are number of indications of a precisely compara- ble fear on the part of our European rivals as to their prospects in the face of increasing American competitive ef- forts. The foreigners are evidently seeking for some plausible explanation of the persistence of American for- eign.trade success in spite of the six vears in which Europe has had the op- portunity to regain its overseas mar- kets. Mr. Klein admonished his hearers to bear in mind that this is by no means the first instance of vigorous competi- tion overseas. The period immediately before the war, he said, was marked by an equally intense export effort, and the outstanding conclusion should unmistakably be encouraging to the American foreign trade community. He said that not only were we holding our own, especially during the vears 1810 and 1913, but in such highly com- petitive areas as countries of South America we were rapidly overtaking our two rivals. The speaker explained that the fundamental question which lies at the bottom of any accurate appraisal of the present competitive situation is not so much the problem of the rela tive strength of the leading partici- pants in the contest as it is in the probable expansion of the purchasing power of the more highly competitive markets. Examining the more alarm- ing prophecies as to the dangers to our export trade from intensified Eu ropean competition, it is found, he went on to say, that they proceed in almost every case from the assump- tion that the trade of the competitive areas has already reached a point of nearly complete saturation. and that the issue is simply one of the relative strength of the three leading con- testants @s to-which will gain a pre- dominant position. His advice to the American manu facturers and exporters is to leave the extraordinary risk of price gambling to our competitors, and adhere to those sound principles which have al- ways been the basls of successful mer- chandising at home and abroad—good quality, just terms, implicit com- pliance with commitments on delivery and development of the best produc- tion technique, and, above all, not to be stampeded by any sudden or mo- mentary shifts in the trade current. PR Count Karolyl has at least suc- ceeded in planting a great deal of popular curiosity as to what he would say if permitted to speak freely, Gradually, but surely, the American public is getting away from the im- pression that a resignation rumor goes with every cabinet appointment. s SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Cherry Blossoms. Where the broad Potomac gleams, On its way the white moon beams Radiant beauty to illume: Cherry Blossoms are in bloom. Where the Monument is reared To George Washington revered, We dismiss each thought of gloom; Cherry Blossoms are in bloom. And to modern friends we say In the Orient, far away, Gentlest thoughts their sway assume; Chefry Blossoms are in bloom. Mnemonies. “Do people always remember what you say?” “I hope not,” answered Senator Sorghum. “A statesman's prospects often depend more on what people ace willing to forget than on what they try to remember.” Self-Approval. It is life’s privilege to view ‘With pride the things we think we do. The frogs are singing in the Spring; That is to say, they think they sing. Jud Tunkins says education simply helps some people to e vocabulary ‘which helps 'em to show up their own foolishnees. Satisfled. “Are you going abroad 'next Sum- mer?” “No,” answered Miss Cayenne. *All the Europeans seem to trust and ad- mire America 80 much, just at pres- ent, that I think I'll take their tip and stay where I am.” Spring Song. The sun is bright. The air is warm. The sky is free from threat of storm. And yet I raise my customed wail. I know the fruit crop's going to fail. But I do not succumb to fear. I've heard that wail from year to year. Dame Nature's, ways are still astute, And somehow, there is always fruit. “Synthetic gin,” said Uncle Eben, “is @ form of imitation dat has done put de gold brick clean out o' busi- ness.” {covers the same as the insides. { this next one easily. “You have written about seed cata- logues, why don’t you write something about radio catalogues?’ asked a friend. “All right, T will" 1 sald; but now I can go him one better. How would a column about a seed house that runs a radio broadcasting station sult? It seems to me it will about fill the bill, since Spring is really here, and seeds are “in the air,” to use a fancy way of speaking. Practically-minded people will insist that the ground is the proper place for seeds, and, of course, one must agree with them on that 1 am not going to give the name or the location of this seed company and its broadcasting station, because, if 1 did, wome kind soul might accuse me of giving them ‘‘free advertising.’ We have got some of their seeds, etc., but have not planted any of it vet, and, of course, know nothing whatever about the quality. Therefore, 1 could not boost their stuff if I wanted to Being & booklover, however, it is well within my province to tell my readers of something good when 1 chance to run ypon it. This seedman’s 1925 seed book is by all odds the plainest looking and most interesting of the seed cuta- logues. It is just 40 pages of plain paper, As @ of art, it does not compare with f the magnificent books put out some of the seed houses . Reading i1, however, is reading a letter from the “ho Sure—the big citles are full folks!" Thousands of us Natlonal Capital, for instunce, are just as much “home folks™ as the men und women on the farms and in the small towns, It gives us & thrill right down the old spiue to pick up a business pub- lication &nd find & human belng talking o us! Sust e folks of *ho in * % % A “letter from the pace for this unusual seed catalogue He says: “I hope this may be a great vear for all of us. We most of us lived through last year all right, and if we did that we ought to get through And It's going to be a good year. I am sure of it. Bet- ter prices, betier weather and better times, “We are all getting along about as usual here, all well, all busy, eating three meals a day, and getting as much else s is good for us. Not making very much money, but there's lots of us in that fix.” Yes, they sell pigs too, the reader is informed bottom of this page is a fo =t in" on the station “1 hope you are all listening to our radio station,” says the chief, “for it is the best way in the world to Eet acquainted with us. We believe in the ‘home-folks’ type of music, and ¥ou may not get a whole lot of jazz and classic, but I believe you will like it anywas “You will also hear a lot of pretty good talks on gardening, flowers and seeds, and such topies. We use the 266-wave length, and our schedule at present is as follows “Concerts daily, §:30 to 9 p.m. “Sunday, religious services, 3 p.m. and 6:30 and & p.m “armer dinner concerts, p.m. each day. Class A, 500 watts, 266 meters.” According to what T have read about this station in radio publica- tions, practically all the broadcast- ing Is done by the big chief's family, which 1s a large one—11 children, | believe—and the employes of the company. If you can tune it in—T have never been able to—you probably would be able to pick up something brand-new * boss” sets the and chickens. At the invitation broadcasting except Tuesday, in Indiy “Teddy" Much of the wild country and the East, over which Col Roogevelt plans to hunt and roam, was traversed 23 yvears ago by Joseph C. Grew, Undersecretary of State. Just after leaving Harvard in 1902, Grew started for the other side of the world and spent more than a year tm its jungles. His thrilling experi- ences later were embodied in a book called “Sport and Travel in the Far East.” About everything the Orient boasts in the way of big game, except elephants, was laid low in the course of the young Massachusetts’ man ex- pedition. Tigers and bears and mark- hoors, the latter a species of large wild goats with huge spiral horns, were Grew's principal booty. He hunted afoot for 600 miles across the Himalayan range in India, traversed the Malay Peninsula, rambled through Johore and Cashmere, and tried his aim in China, Australla and New Zealand, before he finally entered diplomacy In 1904. * k¥ ¥ Reports of Benito Mussolini's grave iliness recall the condition in which this observer found the Italian dic- tator at Rome in the Summer of 1924. The Fascist czar was suffering from a midsummer cold when he received the writer in his ornate office in the Palazzo Chigi one hot day in August. Two colored silk hankerchiefs were in constant action for the purpose of keeping the premier's head clear. Mussolini was in unmistakable dis- tress and correspondingly bad humor. 1 recalled to him that President Cool- idge, not long before, had succe fully used chlorine gas to kill an un- seasonable cold, and suggested that Mussolini might find relief by mobil- izing the Itallan Chemical Warfare Service. “Was your President a sol- dier in the World War?” the premier asked. 1 said he wasn't. “Well, I was,” the dictator snapped back. “No more gas for me.” R David H. Blair, commissioner of internal revenue, made a practical suggestion the other day at a birth- ‘day luncheon in honor of Dr. William Mather Lewis, president of George Washington University. Commis- sioner Blair said he doesn’t under- stand why we celebrate only the birthdays of men who have departed this life. He thought the party given for Dr.'Lewis ought to inspire men to get together on the. birthdays of their friends while their friends are| still alive—the “fiowers for the V- ing” idea in another form. e il (athan Hale, Revolutionary hero, wl’l‘! be imimortalized-in the new x-u’ of United States postage stamps pres. ently to be placed on iale umorh.t]!: Jevised postal rates. It is a half jssue in sepia, w variation of the buffalo brown shade ru;: he portrait of the 22-year- ::,'v.r‘;:tl ohom the British invaders hanged in New York Cily was sug- Zested to Postmaster General New by George Dudley Seymour, a New Coan., lawyer, who has writ- Haven, ten several works on Nathan Hale, including “Hale's Last Words De- rived From Addison’s -Cato” - and “Hale's Alleged Betrayal—the Evi- dence Examined.” P Nearly everybody was surprised on March 24 to learn that Andrew W. Mellon fs 70 years old. He is the daddy of the cabinet, although Secre- tary Kellogg 1s nearly in his class, being on the verge of 6Y. Secretary Weeks and Secretary Work are each 65. Dr. Jardine, the new Secretary of Agriculture, 18 the baby of the cap- inet, with 46 years to his eredit. See- retary Hoover. .is approaching b1. President Coolidge himself will be only 53 on the next 4th of July. The - THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. in the radio music line. T doubt if 1d hear the Meditation from at all, which would be a blessed relief, now, wouldn't it? * kK * 1 get all “enthused” about water- melons and cucumbers, even cabbages, when I read this man's catalogue, which was written, every word of t, by himself, or T miss my guess. This is good reading, this cata- logue, just for that very reason. Here you have a man who has worked with and loved his seeds for many vears. He gets as enthuslastic over a new cabbage as an artist does over his latest production. When & man has enthusiasm and takes his pen in hand to talk about something he loves, the result is very likely to be worth reading. All “literature,” of course, is not confined to Emerson and Longfellow and the rest. A man is turning out some real writing when he makes popeorn stand out, as follows “A couple of boys I know had a va- cant lot planted to Baby Golden pop- corn, and they raised 500 pounds, which they spld at § cents & pound clearing them just $25. Now, wouldn't you like to do that? “Baby Golden is the daintiest, pret- tiest little ear you ever saw. It is not only pretty, but it pops fine. There are no hard hulls and every grain pops. It has the sharp-pointed grains just like Little Giant—in fact, it is just like it except in « out & snowy white.” Ax for watermelons, I have an an | bition to plant some seed in the cor- r. Both pop ner of my back yard, after reading wbout the Colorado Kleckley Sweet The scedman writes: “I happen 1o have a failing for melons and 1 lieve I can spot a patch of good me! quicker than any one else.’ As for flo this man loves them too. “I believe if I were limited to just one flower for my own growing, 1 would choose the gladiola in pref- erence o anything else,” he says. “It has absolutely no insect enemies @nd no diseases. It I8 beautiful, | either growing or picked. It blooms for three months steady, and, best of all. it will grow and bloom in any s0il, any weather and for any one I have never known any one to fail with it if they had good buibs to start with." he- ns U Higher mathematies is abstruse, but so0 Is higher farming. Listén to what |he says. advocating the planting of sweet clover this year: . “The land 1s ip Winter wheat now and we ure going to sow this alfalfa and sweet cloyer right on the Winter wheat, along in March, just the same as you would seed red clover f we get a good patch, as we are | practically certain to do, we will pas- ture it with hogs this Fall, and then next Summer we will pasture the sweet clover until about the first of June and then take the hogs off and cut a hay crop or a seed crop from the sweet clover and plow it under in. the Fall, to be followed by corn. tThe alfalfa we expect to keep permanently for hog pasture, but we will pasture it light enough so that we can also cut hay off from it, which will keep it down short for the hogs.” That is almost Greek to me, be- cause the nearest I have ever come to @ real farm was a railroad train; but 1 like to read about it. anyway It makes us city follers feel the big, stable foundation of this country, agriculture, is in good hands.” Once in & while one hears some Y&D in a city speak ill of the farmers, but most people In cities have enough sense o love the men and women on the farm. From the Capital of the Nation, folks, we take off our hats to you and envy you your spotted hogs and the baby chi we miss. that average age of the cabinet. which has l;ahn.( msiderably increased by the addition of Messrs. Kellogg and ar- gent, is a fraction over 60. We seem 1o be getting in the Japanese class, wherein age is the virtue chiefly e teemed in statesmen 3 * ¥ ¥ ¥ Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas, the newest recruit to the foreign relations committes of the Senate, decided to lose no time in equipping himself for the duties presently to devolve upon him. I!F is going to make a maiden trip to Europs during the Summer. Senator Borah, the chairman of the committee, has not fully abandoned his foreign travel plans, but South America, rather than Europe, may be his first objective. American public men going abroad for the first time, especially if they are not familiar with foreign languages. never garner anything very deep about the conditions they purport to be studying. But they do come back to \}'llhin!lnn with an atmosphere they ld not have before. Woodrow Wilson, during the Paris peace conference, took a flin, which they never forgot or for- gave, at United States Senators who knew nothing aboyt Europe. A fellow member of the American mission, dis. cusging Fiume, opined that the Senate “would be very much displeased” with Wilson proposed handling of that affair. “Yes,” e o 1o oy_the_President saia, I s e it will—when it find e s out where £ %% Many members of Congress will barn- storm “on chautauque circuits during the long recess. Some of them, like Sen- ator Pat Harrison of Mississippi or Sen- ator Frank B. Willis of Ohio, who are old favorites in the big. brown tents, make more on a Summer lecturing cam- paign than their annual salaries on Cap- itol Hill Besides feathering their nests in a financial gense, spellbinding states- men claim that chautauqua work makes them better public servants by bringing them in close contact with what Mr, Bryan calls “the plain pee-pul.” As for the people themselves, they are eager to meet and hear “in person” the men whom the rotagravure sections, the news public eye. have “me; hearts. Occasionally the c ssages” that appeal (Copyright, 1925.) to rural Sweetmeats of Spain. i Spain fe no country o traveler, especially if a sweet tooth. Every vmu':.h.v:: to have its own brand o one better than the make: unknown elsewhere on earth, from the simplest ingredients. and crughed almonds von famous turrones of Andalusia. mixed with sugar goe: Valencia and s to make the impossible to imitate, recipes are the jealously secrets of wise 6ld nuns. liele g special manner | and the tecadas) of Asturias! noted for their good white testh nation that loves sweets. The ex. planation perhaps fs that they eat them as dessert, not betwesn meals. ———— One on Time. From the Bosten Transeript. - The Dawes whe rode to Le: arrived in time. ks and all the other things | sepragean Best luck! reels and the daily papers keep in the must be allowed to cross which is somewhat remarkable in a |them again? THE PUBLIC LIBRARY 13. Armchair Travels, “Half the charm of a new country 18 lost if one only nibbles at its custom represents the attitude of many travel- ers who prefer, therefore, to live quietly with the people of strange lands rather than to get their impressions from rail- road trains and hotel lobbies. The travel books this week are written' largely by persons who shared this opinion, and fol- lowud their own fuclinations instead of gulde books. William Henry Hudse author of “Afoot in Bngland” (G4 HS63) was by his own confession not a modern, efficient, poor walker. energetic hiker, but a Accompanied by & panion “slower than the proverbial snail or tortol whom he frequently left half a mile or so behind while he fol- lowed enticing paths or stopped to con- verse with the birds and creatures of the woods, he found something of in- terest at every turn in his. walks and cyeling trips in rural England “To your true rambler one of the first and most important essentials is to live, 80 far as is possible in the course of a brief visit, the life of its inhabitants,” writes Harold Simpson in_his “Rambles in Norway” (G51- SI56r). Accordingly he made the best of the 14 different cheeses, smoked fish, fresh fish and cold meats which he found on the Norwegian breakfast table, traveled lightly in case he should find himself stranded at some inuccessible place without any vis- fble means of leaving it except his own two legs, mingled with the Nor { weglan peasants and everywhere found much that delighted hin His journeys took him to fjords glucler-capped mountains, waterfall | and rugged peaks | Another type of travel book is written with the idea of presenting a thorough study of the country visited, both its present and past history. Such a book is “Egypt Old and New” (GT1-Mitde) by Perey F. Martin, which has been called a “mine of facts on every phase of modern and anelent Egyptlan life.” Among the attractive features of this book are 45 excellent reproductions of photographs in color and the many half-tone illustrations. “These sketches may serve to per- deser} and the lands along the Medi- An equally enthusiastic and feeling writer is: Robert Chau elot, who. in ~“Mysterioys India” (GB9-C398m), sketches various as- Tpects of the India of the past—its mysterious customs and rites, its {4emplos and dead cities, its rajahs, {®rahmans and fakirs ames are often misleading. so it may be best fo state at the outset that “Persian Miniatures,” by H. G. Dwight (G636- DI84p). is “collection of sketches H- {lustrating #n their random way but one smail signed not the serious minded,” thor. Lightly and w with the social Mfe apparatus, Persian and imported corner of Persia and de- t all to catch the eye of I to quote the au- msically he deals in Hamadan, home rugs, “high local dignitaries, merr. homey stores of evervday life of foreigners in Persia, and incidents of adventure and misadventure.” »——— Wants Streets Made Safe. Autos Menace to School Chil- dren, Reader Declares. To the Editor of The Star: I share the delight of thousands of other people who rejolce that the magnificent Memorial Bridge and its attendant improvements are really under way, but if the far-seeing Lin- coln could voice his thought, would it not be something like this: “Yes, make Washington beautiful, but first of all make it safe, especlally for the children, so that they may live to enjoy its beauty along with other citizens of this great Republic. It seems to the writer that it is a great mistake to leave children un- protected as they are in the vicinity of many. if not all, of our school One of these on Massachusetts ave- nue near the Union Station, is some- thing of a death trap regarding its approach, located as it is on & tri- angle between two streets. Little ones of tender years cross the wide avenue with no guarantee of safety, where an adult has to be on the alert avery second of time. Having fre- quent occasion to pass that way, I have noticed only a very few times an ofcer there to protect them from the swift auto traffic to and from the station. If there are mot sufficient funds to pay for pelice protection at this point, thare could at least be a passageway marked with broad white lines with the word school be- tween th and large traffic signs giving positive warning that children in safety. elebrities | Many of these signs state that 90 sons were killed during the vear 1924, but nothing is sald about the little sufferers in hospitals and homes,. many of whom may never be well again, or may be maimed for life. Tt has been the subject of remark that the majority of children show remarkable judgment In crossing for the dyspep- | streets, but sometimes after having nee started across, théy haye to run, we older ones do oecasfonally. ¢ sweetmeat, | What if one of them should trip and last, whieh it|fall right in the path of approaching according to a secret formuia | machines. Yet | motorist pause and beckon to chil- these wonderful concoctions are made | dren to cross over and that time I Only once have I seen a mentally thanked the man from the make the world | bottom of my heart. The children have a right to live, The yolk of a fresh egg | and they have a right to protection i going to and from school. Also, delicious yemas of Segovia, mext to|the mothers who send them out each Many of the|day have a right to alleviation from guarded | the strain Incidental to the dangers| 3 Oh! the|of these timgs. ” Starting for school een oranges picked in a very |in the bright, fresh morning should in a convent in Galicia, | De & happy, jovéu icious butter-breads (man- | can it be to the mother who-realizes Spaniards are | that her little Opes may walk into thing, but how the jaws of deith before she: sees DRICKSON McCARTY. . - Its Share, - MRS.'J. HE! Fhen Some, From the Boston Transegipt. ° New England is doing its share in making life sweeter. Ten thousand tons of maple products will prob- xington | ably be produced this yemr in' the |above the law.” The pape three North: r}lmu. Q. What oceasioned the opening of the White House grounds for Easter Monday egg-rolling?—W. O. A. According to tradition the egg- rolling took place in the terraces be- low- the Capitol. Congress finally stopped the practice because of the effect on the grass. A kindly Pres- ident then permitted the use of the grounds south of the White House. Q. Do people ever through disappointment in E go crazy love?—G: A of New per cent of the cases of imsanffy in- In a survey. made in the State York it ‘was found that 1.4 vestigated were due ment in love. to disappoint- Q. How old is the scholarship fra- ternity, Phi Beta Kappa?—D.*F. A. This fraternity will celebrate its 150th anniversary on December 5, 1928, Willlam and Mary College of Virginia, where this first Greek-let- ter fraternity was founded in 1776, is planning to raise & fund of $100,- 000 for the erection of a building in memory of the 50 men who effected the organization The auditorium is expected to be a replica of the Apollo room in the old Raleigh Tavern at Willlamsburg, where it is belfeved the society was started Q. Where did the negro melody ered physical luws, radig transmission and reception have a #arked differ- ence in behavior during the daytime and the night. The fact that the re- cent solar eclipse gave reception conditions similar to those experi. enced in the night, seems to indi- cate that it is actually the rays of the sun which ere respousible for the decreased efficlency oM the daytime signals. A radio recefving set is an insignificant affair, compared to the immensity of the laws of nature de- termining reception conditions. sumde the leisured traveler that he —— has not exhausted Athens and At-| Q. Ts handball played in England? tica when he has seen the Acropolis| A. There the game is know as and the museums, writes Mre. R | “fives.” C.,Bosanquet in the preface to “D. s iv Attica” (Gr2A-Bes2 A thorough Q. What is meant by 4 power master of her subject and a close ob- | in speaking of telescope?-— B. server of both the people of toda A. It meuns that the image Is @nd the relics of ancient times, her | magnified 4% times I‘:r‘x\k is -‘\'-.-u.\m for the student as| o o g sosiiia e n &s the generual reader, ‘ a2 DOy X pUrateee Returnjng to. her native City of | COmMIssion in the Lnglish Army? Constantinople after an sence of R ¢ 20 years, Mrs. Demetra Vaka Brown| A The purchase system of ap- had a hard time reconciling the pres- | POintment and prom of oficers ent with the past she had known. “Tne | Prevailed in the I i old system was broken to bits —gone ' ‘ st d never to return: uud I, who have | RN it Was abolished by royal war- been accused of being its troubadour, | T" had come back to the new syst . . A Q. At what temperature does an :«n'h clectricity instead of candle-|jrcn har become red hot?—M. M. ight and the mysterious figures of | A. Inciplent red heat of a metal Stamboul replaced by unveiled | har j n ¢ 5o = it o i Pk s ar has a temperature of 625 degrees. e ue, 0| Centigrade, and ch y 9 e- women who sat befind ‘desks, took | gresabit o ® Shkmiiine down dictation on the typewriter from men they called infidels and| sold goods behind th ounte “Un- 1 veiled Ladies of Stamboul (GasC - - i i tar e s o | OUZENS=IViellon the new regime Turkey's attitude toward other countries and the pres- ence of foreigners and the way our attempts at uplift are taken by the Turks are presented in the frank statements of Individuals to Mrs. A = i Brown. Charmingly written, largely | 517 00a0y ot Afsessment of nearly conversational in sty the book is 311,000,000 leviad by the Treasury B % aty) against Senator Couzens on his in- entertaining from cover to cover. ~ In “North Africa and ,he Desert”|cnme for 12 Daa besu conisd by (o aaany Africe and cthe Desert”|the press with the Senators attack D) 3 g > bury TibeS | on Secretary Mellon and on the treat- in begutiful prese-poetry style tha|pent by ithe latter's department of variogs income tax cases. It hgs Te- vealed wide differgnces of opinton as to {he megits of the controvepsy, and las brgught out some suggestions as to changes in the law and in tice “One bad prov ion of the Federal income tax law,” declares the Sioux Falls Press, “a continuing source of troutle, is the theory of treating ordi- nary valuation gains as income taxs able as such. That provision has been « drag on normal progress in the n. tional life and should be repealed.” The Buffalo News calls for general reformation in the tax bureau and of- fers this criticism: “If tax mssess- ments are to be opened and reopened, business is going to be kept in a state of doubt. A case once closed should remain closed, unless clear evidence of fraud is brought to light. There is no evidence of anything of the kind in the Couzens case. It should be the fixed policy of the tax bureau mot to bedevil the taxpavers.” The Spring- field Union ndds its suggestions: “The courts have several times reversed the judgments of the Internal Revenue Bureau on the grounds that the law was oppressive. and Congress has | vainly attempted to clear up some of the ambiguities. Senator Couzens could contribute to these needed re- forms were he possessed of less per- sonal and partisan bias.” “The worst feature of the whols matter,” states the Saginaw News- Courier, “appears to be the legality of a Treasury policy which keeps the taxpayer ever in doubt as to whether he has acted rightly. In this case Mr. Cousens appears to have taken every step imaginable assuring him a good sale and securing to the Government its tax income on a basis approved by the Treasury. What more could be done it is difficult te imagine.” * % %5 The Scranton Republican condemns the Senator's charge of discrimination by the Treasury Department and adds: “By making an arbitrary assessment the department has forced the Sena- tor's hand, for hé will be compelled to ask for a hearing-or else pay the onormous amount charged against him. Tt is difficult to see what ground he has for alleging discrimination.” The position of the Portland Oregon Journal is more favorable toward the contention of the Senater, whose career it reviews, saying: “He {s not a small caliber man. He is not the kind' knowingly to make wild and unsupported charges. He rose from nowhere to a high place in the Ford company, made millions of dollars for himself, became a highly successful mayor of Detroit, and was from there elevated to the United States Senate. His record of accomplishment is one that would ordinarily classify him as thoroughly reliable. ~ His charges are serfous. They come from & substantial source, and they call for a very thorough investigation.” “Why assume,” asks the Charleston, ‘W. Va.) Mall, “that Senator Couzens’ tax return for 1919 was correct when h¢ save“the retyrns of so many others avere”incorrect? Why assume that he has virtue and other pérsons are ras- .eals?" The. Hartford, (Conn.) Courant asserts that the Senator “is trying to make a sort of Borah out of himself,” and savs of the assessment: ‘“If Cougens. js all_right he can walve immunity and let the Government case run along. If, however, he does not do that, it is:gretty.near a confes- sion.” The Savannah Press considers the political phase of the matter and refers to Couzens’ opposition to the confirmation of’ Warren as Attorney General, together with reports to h Senate committee” “that individua and corporations saved maty millions in income taxes through Treasury rullngs.” Its concjusion is: “So the effort seerhs to be to get back at the Michigan Senator and break h flience” The Toledo Blad political side. from another angle: “Congressmen, and particularly Sen- ators consider that laws and regu tions and governmental practic which govern the ordinary run of citizens, do not govern the members of Congress. In short they are de- veloping the motion that they are would have them taught that they have no spe- ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN come from?-—D. D. 8. A The pure negro melody is | traced to foli gs sung in Africa [by the cars of the modern negro. Q. Why won't o work as well | |in daytime us at night M. W | A The Loomis Radio College says [ that due to more or less undiseov- Q. Please explain the small piece of Minnesota which extends Into Canada—E. W. W. A. The northern boundary of Mir nesota was settied by the tremty of Ghent terminating the War of 181 By it the Lake of the Woods was to be the northern boundary. At t time is was supposed that thers w many rivers flowing from the lake eastward, and the Inited States was f to' have the land drained by the i When the actual survey was made was found that there were np river flowing eastward, and 50 because of the Intention and after many Surveys had besn made and a commission ap pointed to settle the matter. the | small piece of land called the Nort ern Peninsula was ceded to tb | United States in 1873 znd the quer » || tion finally settled by the Unlte | States and England in 1877. l Q. Is the importance of an indus | try measured by the value of its | products?—C. R A. Experts say that the best meas I ure of the importance of an industr | from & manufacturing standpoint the value created by the manufar turing operations carried on withir the {ndustry, which js calculated by deflucting the cost of materials used from the value of the products. This is called the valus added by manu facture ! Q Who wera the Ada ites?—A | A The ere a relig Its pretensions were that the i dam and are, therefore, ubir dispense with marriage and to & | without clothing at their meeting I which are called paradises. Uj ; each appearance it has been pr scribed, the st attem at rejuvena tion having been in 184849 Q. What 1s the oldest republic? N B | A. San Marino, in Ttaly, is the old est existing republic in the worlc dating from the year §85. It em braces five villages with & populatic of about 11,000, ’ Q Is the heart | side of the body the rig prac- | A. Tha medical authorities we ha consulted sav that it is possible for human beings 1o have their he L on the right side of their bodies [fact, it is known that there are some { people living to who have bee | found to have this orgam on the right side (To know where to find informat on a subject is. according to Boswe {as knowledge as to know the st jeet itself. Perhaps “your drop of faliing on a_thought will make a th questions to The Star Information B rea. Frederic J. Haoskin, diresh Twenty-first and O strcets morthutes: Scnd a 2-cent stamp for a direct reply 1 Dispute Held | Evidence of Tax Reform Need cial liberties, immunities or pr leges. ’ The Bellingham (Wash) Her forecasts a “long legal contest which two prominent fizures in t | Government will appear, each bearing a feeling of hostility toward ti other.” The Topeka Capital emphea sizes the point that “it is a strang« attitude of Secretary Mellon that | defends all the instances of under payment and rebates of i brought out by the Couzens committee, so far aggregating ward of $85,600,000, bLut ward with an instance ¢ that he doesn't defend nati. Times-Btar, however, charges a effort to “get” Mellon and says th Michigan Senator has held up and many ways interfered with the work ! |of a department which is trying tc enforce a ‘“tremendously involved law.” ncome tax uy f adjustmer, The Cinc Deplores Suffrage Issue. Reader Wants Advisory Board Considered on Own Merits. o the Editor of The Star: The article by George A. Rick er in The Sunday Star on the proposed “advisory board,” composed of Dis trict citizens, to assist the District Commissioners, was interesting. There are honest differences of opinion on the need of such a board There are also honest differences opinion on how a board should constituted and how it should be es tablished Whether one be for or against “advisory board” the argument or con should be on the merits the board, and not whether it Is step toward suffrage or away from suffrage. Either the board is ad visable or inadvisable separate and apart from the problem of suffrage or the board should not be considered 83 a subject to merit our attention It is a fact too well known t mention at length that here are var ous and decided opinions on the kir of suffrage that should be established in the Di —even' there are those who are quite opposed to of suffrage in the District As between establishing an visory board” and establishing frage of any kind or degree in the District, naturally the lutter is by far the more important and engross- ing subject. Should the two sub- jects continue to be discussed as one problem, the subject of suffrage I will naturally overshadow the sul ject of an “advisory board.” Hence the “advisory board” will be lost sight I of in the fight for or -against suf- trage. Many who are In favor of an R ‘advisory board” of some kind are entirely opposed to suffrage. Many/ of those who are in favor of some form of suffrage are themselves split into various camps—some desirins certain minimum degree of suffra and some the maximum enjoyed by the States. Then there are the s eral political parties, even they & composed of minority and majorit: not to mention the independents and i “renegades.” These various elements | exist In a dormant state in the Dis trict of Columbia. Why diverge into discussion of t} vital problem of suffrage .with all its pregnant possibilities for controvers: when the sole object of those who proposed the “advisory board” was to form & “board of coneiliation” and good will toward all, for all, by all hoping thus to expedite business. To press the question, and ft s 2 question, that to erect an “advisory board” is a step toward suffrage 1= 10 invite the lack of co-operation of the Commissioners, who in their of- ficial capacity miay not give hearts sympathy to the furtherance of Dis trict suffrage. If the entire sympath: of the District Commissionérs be not had the “advisory board” is a futile thing, and will and must inevitably become the road to discord. And dis- cord fathered by the Pederation of Citizens' - Assoelations 1s the seed of its own destruction—no good citizen wishes that. May we not—iu’fact. had we nof better—discuss the merits of the visory board" by itself on its own merits in the simple form presented - to the citizens by the Commissioners? GROVER WARREN AYERS an pro any a