Evening Star Newspaper, April 6, 1925, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY .April 8, 1925 HEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company iness Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 Eust 42nd 8t. Office: Tower Bullding. 18 Regent St., London, England. the Sunday morni T carriers within ] rdition, is delivered by “ity at 00 cents per month: dally only, 43 ents per month; Sunday only, 20 ceats per month. " Orders may be sent by mail or tele- phone Main G000. Collection is made by car riers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. and Sunday. 1yr., $8.40; 1 Only. el 1 e, $8.00: 1 yr., $2.40; Dai, il 20¢ All Other States. and Sunday....1 yr., $10.00 Daily only U1yr, $7.000 Sanday only 1rr, Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all mews dis patches cradited tu it o not otherwise credlted T this paper and also the local mews pub lished " Berein. AL ‘rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. 85¢ a0 e A Citizens' Advisory Council. The effort of the Commi Bell opinion to sound thor- the suggestion of Col. out community oughly and systematically concerning appropriations and proposed District legislation before submitting to Con- gress their estimates and recommen- dations is in principle sound and wholesome and in the public interest. Occasionally in vears past the Engi- neer Commissioner has been accused of ignoring community sentiment al- together in performing his important municipal functions at the National Capital and criticized for this attitude the people of Washington nore is i been toward Bell has roach, Engineer Commissioner never been sub; but, the contrary, has sought earnestly to ascertain the local thought and point of view in respect to important District appropriations ind legislation and has been gratif: ingly considerate responding, as far as practicable, to representative local opinion The present civilian Commissioners | bave been conspicuous members of | representative local citizens' organiza- tions and are in sympathetic accord with local public sentiment. Sirfce it is the voluntary act of the Commissioners to constitute a citizens’ advisory committee to aid them to just decisions concerning their estimates and their recommendations of wise District legislation, the Commissioners entitled to select for themselves their advisers in the way which they onsider most effective to bring to them representative public opinion. The task which the Commissioners have imposed in this connection upon the Federation of Citizens' Associa- iions is a difficult one, and both the Commissioners and the Federation will tave the sympathetic interest and the zood wishes of the community for their success in working out a maxi- mum of community benefit in this onnection. In respect to matters of distinctly local sectional interest it is clear that the Commissioners will wisely take into consideration the advice of each sectional citizens' association concern- ing issues affecting peculiarly the area which it is recognized as representing. But the selection of a general repre- sentative council to advise concerning District issues of general concern is not so casy. A thoroughly repre- sentative council. if without elections one might be created, would perhaps be so large as to be unwieldy. An imperfectly representative council, omitting large, influential groups of citizens from representation, would lose seriously in the weight attaching to its advice or opinion. When the council of nine, created the federation in pursuance of the Commissioners’ invitation, and repre- senting collectively white and colored sectional” associations of citizens, be- gins to function, it will be hampered in giving quick and positive advice concerning important new issues by uncasiness lest the personal opinion of the individual member of the council may be that of the federation and of the sectional citi zens’ association for which he speaks. And on the other hand the Com- sioners or some of them may at- ach importance to the advice of the| cpresentatives of groups of citizens not specifically represented in the like the many influential or- nizations of Washington women, the | Association of Federal Employes, the entral Labor Union. the Board of de. the Chamber of Commerce, the Merchants and Manufaeturers' Asso- ciatipn, etc., ete., ete. In organizing the citizens’ joint com- | mittees on fiscal relations and na- tional representation, respectively, for ne purpose of massing organized Washington behind the demend for nancial and political equity, Wash- ingtonians learned the great variety of worth-while citizens” organizations whose collectite opinion was neces- sary to sustain the claim of voicing ven approximately local public senti- ment The problem is to constitute a coun- cil whose members can confidently ve advice without “referring each question submitted to them to the representative bodies which they themselves represent; and to concen- trate enough representative power n the council so that theé Commis- sioners will be justified in accepting its advice as fairly representative of general community opinion. The difficulties fn the way of suc- cess are not, however, sufficlent to render solution of the problem impos- sible on in in not m coun; £ new ——— Government Employes’ Welfare., Congress upon its reassembling will be asked to give attention to suggestions for legislation designed to | great the national legislators as well as to common justice. The National Fed- eration of Federal Employes, which is the official mouthpiece of organized Government workers, is drawing up a program for presentation to Congress next December, on which its executive committee has recently acted. Several changes favored by this official body are worthy of sympathetic consideration at the hands of the civil gervice committees of the House and Senate. For one thing, there should be a complete and final stand- ardization of working conditions. It is claimed by the federation that, al- though initiative should be encour- aged, Government positions are so standardized that working conditions | should also be similarly standardized. 0¢ | This contention is worthy of being recognized and supported by Congress. Among the changes recommended is the liberalization of the funds allowed Government employes while away from base on Government business. There is no question that the exist- ing law and regulations devised thereunder work gross injustice upon the emploves in many instances. Every department can cite instances In the Department of Justice no change has been made in the law and regulations governing witness fees and traveling expenses of wit- nesses and deputy marshals for 40 vears. In the meantime traveling conditions have changed and expenses attendant thereon have increased. Another question which should be taken up is that of the 30 days' an- nual leave which employes are sup- posed to be granted, but of which, in many cases, they are unable to avail themselves by reason of condi.ons of work. The contention of the federa- tion is that the 30 days' annual leave is either right or is not right, and their status in this respect should be es- tablished by law and maintained in practice. ey The Naval Flyers’ Turn. fiyers circumnavi- American Naval American Army gated the globe. fiyers are going to explore the un- trodden wastes of the frozen North. He is a sluggish-blooded citizen who cannot get a thrill out of today's big news story. Our military aviation services may be handicapped by lack of equipment and by meagerness of ap- propriations made, but when it comes to enterprise and cool daring we are not required to doff our hats to mny nation. When the time comes, as it will, that these services have equip- ment to match their personnel, Amer- fca will have no need to fear rivairy in the air. What a stirring adventure it will be! An area of more than a million square miles of the earth's surface never before expiored, a region which has held its secrets inviolate since the beginning of time. It is not likely that MacMillan and his ven- turesome young associates will locate the fabled tropical island in a frozen sea, but it well may be that they will plant the American flag on a new land which in coming years will add untold wealth to the world. There is every reason to believe that lands within the Arctic Circle are rich in mineral resources which in time man’s necessities will make available for his use. MacMillan on his previous trips, and other Arctic explorers, by great labor and cruel hardships have been able to progress with their dog teams at the rate of 20 to 25 miles a day. The naval planes will wing their way over the ice and snow a hundred miles or more an hour, and with a cruising range of more than a thousand miles they will do in days what their prede- cessors were unable to accomplish in weeks and months. And if the theory proves correct that thé upper air in the Arctic is much warmer than at the frozen surface our naval flyers will accomplish their tasks without that bitter,suffering we always have in our minds associated with Arctic exploration. And then there is the radio to keep us in daily touch with what the ex- plorers ere doing. MacMillan will take with him the very latest equipment, and expects never to be out of touch with civilization. It goes without say- ing that all the world will “tune in" when he is on the air. Congress may be in recess and politics adjourned, but that does not mean it is going to| be & dull Summer in the U. 8. A. ———,—— A few Soviet plotters are alleged to be confident as ever that they can wreck capital if they can succeed in getting financial backing for the en- terprise. ————— The frequent embarrassments en- countered by a so-called ‘‘master mind” may result in arousing a cer- tain respect for the average intelli- gence. . . ———— A grand jury may have as much difficulty in holding a perfect execu- tive session as the United States Sen- ate itself. —————— The Easter Campaign. The Easter campaign of the As- sociated Charities for members and funds is an appeal to all charitably inclined citizens of Washington. It deserves success in the utmost degree. It will measure, not alone the kind ness of heart of the people of the Capital City, "but also their intelli- gence. Modern charity work is a task, requiring organization and a corps of trained and volunteer workers, as well as funds, if it is to be effective and constructive. The Associated Charities of Wash- ington ae an organization has dem- onstrated its value very many times. Hundreds—thousands, indeed—of men and women and children who have come on evil times because of sick- ness, accident, unemployment, de- sertion, crime or extreme poverty, have been assisted through it. Here, as in other modern cities, the realiza- tion has come that disorganized and individual charity does not and can- not meet the needs that arise. With- better the working conditions of em- ployes in the Government depart- ments, and calculated also for the zood of the service and improving the officlency of the great Government workshop. It is a subject which ought to appeal to $he practical sense of ! out organization and a system wasté of endeavor, overlapping of work, neglect because of lack of responsi- THE EVENING and him that takes.” To those who become members of the Associated Charities and to those who aid by their contributions the work of char- ity—no matter how modest the con- tribution—this truth cannot fail to come home. During the last fiscal year of the Associated Charities items of material ellef distributed through the organi- zation, including the funds of the Citizens’ Relief Association, aggre- gated more than $40,000. Funds were distributed to 568 families. But this material relief, while of tremendous aid, meaning in many cases saving of homes from utter destruction and disintegration, was, nevertheléss, the smaller part of the contribution made by the Associated Charities to the poor and the unfortunate of the city. Through its employed and voluntary workers practical and tangible serv- ices have been given which represent a huge saving of money and, at the same time, represent relief of suffer- ing. Tt is in these services that the or- ganization has particularly demon- strated its worth. It is these services which show particularly the value of Intelligent and organized charity work The workers of the Associated Chari. ties have been able to obtain for the needy and the suffering medical atten- tion free of charge: they have been able to find employment for the down and out; they have found homes for the evicted; they have acted as media- tors in cases between employes and employers where the umstances have not been clearly known to the employers; they have obtained legal advice for those who needed it and were too poor to pay the price. They have known where and how to obtatn assistance without delay for the in- digent. In fact, they have been the great co-ordinating force in the cha itable work of Washington, acting in | conjunction and through the many organizations devoted to charity in the National Capital. The citizen who be comes a member of the society, or who makes his contribution to it, has the clear assurance that his aid could be given in no more helptul way to the unfortunate. et o If Col. Bryan, his brother Charle: John W. Davis, Newton D. Baker, Gov. Al Smith, William G. McAdoo and several other distinguished Demo- crats could be persuaded to get to- gether for a reconstructive program, recollections of Madison Square Gar den would cause radio fans to be all agog. i S R The Russian Soviet government has had its propaganda, but nothing to compare with the work of the press agents for the Russian theaters. Poli- tics represents economic power, but art is still supreme in the utilization of publicity. S After seeing whit happened to Ger- man marks France is disposed to ob- serve greft caution in currency ex- periments. It is possible to learn from a foe's mistakes more than from the advice of friends. i An abandoned launch not far from Havana held nearly a thousand bot- tles of liquor. Treasure hunting in the West Indies is not entirely dependent on the legends of the old buccaneers. elpb sl Young Mr. Osborne Wood says he is never going to speculate in Wall Street any more. His decision to quit would, as usual, have shown more sagacity had it been reached earlier. —_—————— The custom of dueling is still pre- | served among Italian statesmen. Even | the sentiment of conservatism has its aspects of sensational agitation. ———— None of the political parties in Ger- many has been in the game long enough to learn how to construct a perfectly reliable steam roller. — . Bad as the typhoid germ is, even its reputation can be injured by associa- tion with a Chicago murder expert. o SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Popular Interest. There is a man who is correct In most of his transactions His fam'ly he does not neglect He never stirs up factions. He seems @ marvel, as we view His nature so forgiving. And yet, on earth, there are but few ‘Who know that he is living. Therefore in irony we laugh, Although the thought is solemn. Good folk get scarce a paragraph A bandit gets a column. Prepared for the Worst. “1 understand you are going over your old studies in parliamentary pro- cedure.” “I'm doing more than that” an- swered Senator Sorghum. “To provide for emergencies in which parliamen- tary procedure may not avail I'm also taking a few lessons in boxing.” Culprits All. We'll have s0 many laws some day That very few can budge Without a fear that he must say Ere long, “Good morning, Judge!" Jud Tunkins says wealth may not bring happiness, but he doesn't see many people havin’ a good time for nothing. Mercenary Considerations. ‘That man is a notorious bootleg- ger!” “We'll get him,” answered Cactus Joe. “We've got our local interests to look after and we're only waitin’ till he runs up a good sized garage ac- count and a hotel bill. As soon as he settles them, let him beware!” Vanquished Authority. Down by the sea, the sheriff sighs In evident distress, “In vain we've tried to supervise The Summer bather's dress. Obedience we cannot compel Unto our legal text. If we provoke her, who can tell ‘What garb she'd favor next!” bility follow in charitable work as well as in other lines of endeavor. Charity—as well as mercy—is twice blessed. It “blesseth him that gives “A work dodger,” sald Uncle Eben, “allus tries to hide his inefficaciousness by talkin’ toud and actin’ upty.” | champion spinners indulged in “out- | STAR, WASHINGTO THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. The fine art of top spinning has sone into a decline, The other day I watched a couple of small boys in- dulge in all the motions incident to this glorfous old sport of youth. They thought they were spinning tops. ’ But compared with the way the small boys of my day used to spin ‘em, the lads of this age no more spin tops than a rabbit! It Is true they have a wooden article called & top, wind ‘a plece of string around it and make it land on its point. All this is the mere mechenism of top spinning, however. There is a great deal more to the art than just making the top spin on its metal end. Even the girls could to that when I was a boy. Then we had top spinning that was top spinning! Compared with the spineless, so- called spinning of today, the spinning of yesteryear was an art and a science. It was an_ art, because it evoked the poetry of motion, motion 50 quiescent that it seemed a verita- ble imitation of the spheres as they choired together. The old top spinning was a science, too, because it involved trajectory, an almost correct calculation of distance and placement, with markmanship that was precise and effective. The old top spinning not only call- ed for “in-spinning,’ but also an “out-spinning,” utterly unknown in this effete day and age, when small boys no longer know the art and science of spinning top: 3 Those terms, “in inning” and “out-spinning,” for instance, will need some explanation in 1925, when boys fondly imagine they know how to| spin, but in reality know little about the art and nothing about the science. The former term afplied to throw- | ing a top into a circle, in order lo! knock the opponent’'s spinner out of the ring. The latter was more com- monly known as “whipping.” | Boys of today only use “in-spin-| ning,” whereas in the old days the spinning” in order to clinch their title to supremacy May I modestly state, at this point, | that I was one of the champeens? Since top spinning was the only out-| dbor sport at which I ever shone, I recall my ability with top and cord with espe 1 veneration. Belleve it or not, 1 could whip a top for a block through the air with | as much certainty as merely plugging | it down into a ring. 1 This “into-the-air” form of whip- ping was the favorite, there being| several boys in my nelghborhood who could whip ‘em farther than I could, and send 'em higher. To Whip a top aloft as high as a three-story house was nothing unusual As this whipping was done in the streets, a boy had to know how to send the top In the right direction, not only to prevent it from Ial’\dlnxi on a roof, but also to be sure that| the whirling wood would not go| crashing into a window or hit some | startied elder upon the old‘ bean A favorite sport was to spin our downtown, each boy seeing how few spins he could make the distance in. It was essential, of course, that the top land on its point, apd not only that, it was necessary that it continue spin- ning, after landing, for a certain length of time. This was, in effect, a sort of top golf. 1¢ the whipper failed on a whip he had to go back and whip over again from the point from where he had failed ame would be impossible today, with the growth of automo- bile traffic. It simply could not be done. But in those daye there were compara- tively few cars, and vehicular traflic was mild compared with the bustle of wheels now. way The writer of this column based his claim to being a “champeen’ top spin- ner upon a method of whipping entirely his own. As I remember it 1 was the only boy who whipped a top under- handed. To comprehend the magnitude of this feat it is necessary to get firmly in rpind the curve traced in air by the over- handed whipping just described. In that form the top was loosed from the string in an ascending arc. My form of whipping was done by gliding the top on its point along the street with sufficient impetus to carry it half way down the block before it stopped, there to continue its spinning. This underhand whipping was not as showy as the overhand, but held a de- light to the discriminating not found in the other. This was the sensation of watching the top run along the street as if it had legs of its own. The top was thrown down just as 1t it were to be spun in a ring, but, as it landed, a flip was given it with & motion of the arm, which, by means of the string, imparted an .intial velocity in a horizontal plane, which carried it many yards before it stopped. When its forward motion ceased, the top continued ‘to spin. As I remember, my whipped tops always outspun the tops whipped through the air. This is easily accounted for today, although we had no reason for it then. Every one who owns a phonograph knows that the angle at which the needle rests on the record, together with the motion of the turntable, ounts for the fact that the disc whirls around exactly the same number of times per minute when the needle is resting on it as when the soundbox is raised If you have never tried this ex- periment on your phonograph, you will find it a very interesting one. The angle aund the speed practically nullity friction Underhanded top spinning involved the same principles. The top struck the pavement at an angle of about 45 degrees and the impetus forward drove it over the asphalt barely touching. Friction finally, of course, stopped its forward motion. Upon this peculiar brand.of whip- ping I rested my claim as a champion top spinner of the District. This “champeen” was a user of the upside- down method of ordinary spinning, too. Most top spinners threw a top point downward. This spinner heid the top point up, 50 that it was necessary to swing the arm over and twist the wrist as it descended in order to make the top land on its point What tops they had in those days! “Old man Knorr"—peace to his soul —had the best tops in town. They were 3 cents aplece, smaller than the ordinary top, with a balance that was a delight to the expert These tops, elther in green or red, were sturdy beyvond the average, and the points were of the best steel. It was not often that they had to be put back in with the glue peculiar to the sport. The boys of yestervear had an af- fection for those old tops. Perhaps in_many an attic today there rests a battered one, smaller than usual, with a string still wrapped around it The green has faded, but the dents of many a ring battle are there yet To hold up one of those tops, and recall the old days, is to want to take it out on the street and try the hand once more. But peace! Boyhood comes but once. Let us wind the string around the top, and close the drawer on it, much as time has shut us out for- ever from boyhood. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. 1t Vics President Dawes is caught afternoon napping hereabouts, the siesta henceforward will be under his own roof and not in a hotel room. Inquiries are being made on the general's behalf for a rentable resi- dence in Washington, which the vice presidential family would like to occupy before the convening of the Sixty-ninth Congress. Mr. Dawes has expressed some preference for the fashionable new Massachusetts ave- nue “extension” region, which one day will be adorned by the magnifi- cent new embassy of Great Britain. If he pitches his tent there he will have his fellow-Chicagoan, Repre- sentative Martin B. Madden, for a nearby neighbor. * X K * Chief Justics Willlam Howard Taft has launched ap interesting crusade against the word “drive” as applied to campaigns for fund raising on be- half of worthy causes. The other day, when opening the “drive” for the Hampton-Tuskegee fund at the John Hays Hammond home, Mr. Taft expressed undisguised dislike of the term. “Drive,’ he pointed out, too much suggests being “driven” to be palatable to those who are asked to give money. It was the World War that put “drive” on the American language map. _ Liberty loans, the Red Cross, the “Y” organizations and the Salvation Army were fts joint progenitors. _ “Camouflage” having been pretty effectually relegated with the passage of the years, the Chief Justice seems to think it is time to embalm “drive.” * % ok % The Coolidge administration, new style, has been in office barely a month, but such is the news famine in Washington that 1928 presidential prognostications are already rife. Long distance prophets, immune from official denials at this early stage of their dreamings, put forth these line- ups as likely nomination contestants: Republicans—Coolidge, Dawes, Borah, Stone, Hoover, Pinchot, Wadsworth, Willis, Bingham and Kenyon. Demo- crats—Smith, McAdoo, Robinson, Ritchle, Owen D. Young, Huston Thompson, Franklin Roosevelt, Baker and Silzer. Mr. Bryan will be only 68 in 1928. R Radio, all-conquering, has scored its first victory in the realm of political plums. Representative William E. Hull, Republican, of 1llinols, who has just been appointed by President Coolidge to represent the United States at the Pan-American High- ways Congress in Argentina, was in charge of radio activities for the Re- publican national committce during the 1924 campaign. All of the air that was given to Coolldge, Dawes, Hughes, Hoover and other G. O. P. stumpers was allotted and arranged for by Mr. Hull, who was on duty at Chi- cago headquarters. The President thought highly of the work Hull ac- complished in that particular field. Mr. Hull, who once was a distiller, is a ploneer good-roads man, and helped turn Illinois from a swamp into an automobile paradise. * K Kk John V. A. MacMurray, the new American Minister-designate to China, edited the work that was the “bible” of the ¥ashington armament conference. It is called “Treatles and Agreements With and Concerning China, 1894-1919,” and consists of two fat volumes crammed with dip- lomatic facts about that distracted country. To “MacMurray, on Chin: | Betting inside. the Far Bastern section of the con- ference turned as if to the last word on that subject, as, indeed, it is everywhere regarded. = The young American_diplomatist, who will re- turn to the Orlent where his career beg: in Siam, 18 vears ago, is & Princeton man, and studied political economy there under Woodrow Wil- son. * Kk % His admirers find it characteristic of Calvin Coolidge's courage that he's chosen the Minnesota State Falir grounds as the forum for his first post-presidential speech. The Pres- ident is going to address the Norse centennial audience thers In June. Three years ago, during the 1922 con- gressional campalgn, Mr. Coolidge, then Vice President, had one of the most disconcerting experiences a public man can endure. He was mak- ing a speech at the Minnesota State fair, which s the biggest in the country, and talking about the pros- perity which Republican tule at Washington had bestowed upon the country. Now, that was the year in which the Minnesota farmers, embit- tered and embattled, rose up and slew Frank B. Kellogg and elected Henrik Shipstead to the Senate. They didn't like the Vice President's prosperity arguments. Also they were more anxious to watch some horse races than to hear him. The net result was that Mr. Coolidge ‘“cut the cackle” and stopped his speech. His return in June will savor a bit of bearding the lion in its den. Senator Ship- stead will be in Minnesota to assist in welcoming the President. o o Warren F. Martin of Pennsylvania, special assistant to three United States Attorney General in succe sion—Daugherty, Stone and Sargen 18 leaving the Department of Justice in August. He will resume the prac- tice of law, from which Philander C. Knox snatched him when that dis-| tinguisshed jurist entered the United States Senate. Martin's job outside of the Attorney General's office in Wagh- ington is to keep the wrong men from He learned the gentle art of not making enemies while serving as Knox's private secretary. A good many people don’t know that “Barney” Martin is a lawyer. A cer- tain United States Senator not long ago had reason to question that fact and asked somebody how much of a lawyer Martin is. “Well” was the reply, “Philander Knox had him draw up the Knox will, and it recently stood the test of an attempt to break it through all the courts of Pennsyl- vania up to the Supreme Court of that State.” * ok ok K Baron von Maltzan, the new German Ambassador at Washington, who seems likely to go further than any of his post-war predecessors in re- habilitating his country's prestige in the United States, has a claim to dis- tinction that Teutons since time im- memorial have envied. He is a mem- ber of Germany's most aristocratic and ultra-exclusive college fraternity, the Corps Bosurria of Bonn Uni- versity. Te be “ein Bonner Borusse’ is almost the equivalent.of being of the blood royal in Prussia. The ex- Kaiser, the ex-crown prince and other Hohenzollerns, von Bethmann-Holl- weg and numerous power-wielders in pre-war Germany were “Bonner Bo- russen.” Membership in the corps used to be the unfailing passport to high official rank. Apparently it still is. (Copyright, 1925.) Need of the Hour. From the Memphis Appeal. The shortage of parking space has created the demand for &n automoblile that can be folded up and put under the back seat. The influenza seems about the only thing in Italy with nerve enough to attack Premier Mussolini. — Lynch- Defend Agencies. Soroptimists Believe Employ- ment Bureaus Great Aid. To the Editor of The Star: The Soroptimist Club of the District of Columbia, an organization of busi- nei and professional women, regrets the impression created in the mind of the public by the indiscriminate criti- csm in The Evening Star news col- umns and editorlals of employment agencles which limit their work to the placing of clerical, stenographic, technical and professional help. Employers seek the services of an agency that can sense their wants and put them in contact with the right party. They do not wish to Interview an indiscriminate mob of unemployed seeking a position. Bm- ployes seek an agency that will find them employment with persons of good personal and business moral fiber, that will place them In con- tact with healthful and agreeable surroundings. To serve well both the employer and the applicant for a position, the manager of an employment agency must know a lot of things about the party seeking help—not only as to the nature of his business and of the kind of work to be done, but of his personal peculiarities, integrity and private morals. The manager must be an excellent judge of persons, must personally Interview the applicant, as well as study the references, and must have formed a judgment about the kind of place the applicant could fill satisfactorily to all parties con- cerned. This means that the man- ager must possess insight, imagina- tion, good judgment, tact and a keen sense of the fitness of things. The services of such a person are worth paying for The Soroptimist Club numbers among its members some who serve in the capacity of employers of the type of help in question, some Who have served as employes of this class, and some who have served in' both capacities. It is the consensus of opinion of the members assembled at a regular luncheon that a commis- sion of 20 per cent to 25, per cent of the first month's salary is a very fair price for the service rendered and the benefits obtained. The employment agency is an insti- tution that business firms could ill dispense with. It is often a minister- ing angel to the person seeking em- ployment, and its services are well worth paying for The Soroptimist Club does not question that there may be employ- ment agencles of dlfferent grades of business integrity and eficiency. If the final result of the interest of The Evening Star In this matter shall be not to create a feeling that the serv- ices of @ reputable, dependable agency are not worth all that is asked for them, but shall serve to eliminate inferlor agencles and give proper estimation of the real value to the business world of good agencies, then The Evening Star will have proved a public benefactor. Otherwise harm will have been done. MRS. ETHEL K. POLLARD. President the Soroptimist Club N Recalls 1790 Census. Only 44,273 Irish in U. S. When 0ld Georgetown Was Young. To the Editor of The Star- In your answers to questions there was a very interesting answer in re- lation to the proportion of the num- ber of residents of Irish origin in the District of Columbia in 1816. It would be very interesting to g0 back further, before: there was a District of Columbia, and to dook over the United States census of 1780, and from it see the then total population of the United States and also the dif- ferent nationalities of this population s divided among the different States. This census of 1790 gives the pop- ulation of the United States for that period as 2,810,248, and, according to this census, those born in the differ- ent nations were numbered as fol- lows: English o Sceteh ... Trish . Dutch - French . Germa Hebrews .02 All other nations. Maryland ranked seventh in the size of its population, which numbered 208.649, and was divided by nation- alities as follows: English ...... Trish L2000 Duteh "% French German Hebrew All othe: To show in which States the differ- ent nationalities predominated, the 1790 census gives as follw: 2,345,844 188,589 44,278 wn 175,285 13,562 5.008 1.400 2,810 English in Virginia Scotch in Pennsyivania Trish in Penngylvania Dutch, New French in Virginis German in Pennsylvani Hebrew in Maryland. Please remember this, that when this census of 1730 was taken there was no District of Columbia or Washington, and old Georgetown was then only about 40 years old and liv- ing in Maryland. s 7 A GEORGE-TOWNIAN. | Patrick Henry’s High Art As Orator Exemplified Patrick Henry's most famous speech is being repeated on many platforms during the observance of the 160th anniversary of the Vir- ginia convention of 1775. It has lost none of its appeal, and when it is rendered with any Intelligence at all, its fiery flights explain its effects on those who heard the revolutionary in St. John's Church. Of course, much is lost because few men in any generation Have voices as clear and as musical as Henry's must have been. Still moré is missing from the illusion by reason of the fact that the “forest-born orator” was an actor who could stand on the floor of a crowded little church and, without @ single trapping of the theater, produce results a Garrick or a Booth would have applauded. His facial expression musj have been astounding, as one may easily imagine from the flexible lines that appear about the mouth in the Sully portralt. His gestures were pronounced, but to the accompaniment of his magnifi- cent voice and his impassioned man- ner, they did not seem exaggerated. There is little reason to doubt the accuracy of Judge Spencer Roane's description of the gestures Henry employed in the peroration. He pre- sented himself as a hopeless bonds man, laden with fetters, when he asked: “Is life so dear or peace 80 sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? He lifted both hands, clasped together, as though he were shackled, when he cried, “Forbid It, Almighty God.” He' turned and Jooked at the weak- kneed members of the convention and by a stoop of the shoulders and a further darkening of his countenance, showed them weighted with new shackles “I know not what course others may take.” And thereupon He raised his hands again as though he were tugging at his chains. “But as for me, glve m&”"—he pulled with all his might until the Ilinks were broken and he cried joyfully—"Lib- erty or’—and he dropped his left hand slowly and struck his breast with his right as though he were plunging _a in, ' “give me death.”™ News-Leader. P ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKI Q. Are the shad caught Potomac the same as those from Chesapeake Bay?—E. C A. The Bureau of Fisheries savs that the shad caught in the Potomac River are the same as those of Chesa- peake Bay as they come to the Po- tomac River to spawn. Q. How many building permits were granted in the District in 1924, and how much was the money ex- penditure?—L. R. W. A. The building inspector's office says there were {ssued in 192¢ 8308 Izmlldlng permits, valued at $39,403- 07. : in the taken Q. What does the Public Health Service think of the Mollgaard cure for tuberculosis?—E. W. §. A. The Public Health Service says that the tests now in progress rela- tive to the Mollgaard preparation are being conducted only on calves, this being considered a necessary prelimi nary to the employment of the treat- ment on human beings. Q. How does the largest park in an American city compare Wwith the largest in a European city’—H. W. F. A. Fairmount Park in Philadelphia is the largest municipal park in the world. Tt comprises, 3,242 acres Abroad, the largest city park is the Bols de Boulogne, Parls, 2,100 acres. Q. What is the war-time and peace- time strength of a company?—F. M A. The present-time strength of a company 1s 5 officers and 200 men, while | the war-time strength was 6 officers and 250 men. Q. Why K L. K A. The wérd “hooch” is a contraction of the word “hoochino.” This is an Alaskan word which is applied to rum distilled from sugar and flour. *“Hooch- ino,” in turn, is derived from the name of the native makers. is whisky called “hooch™? Q. Why was the sphinx built’—B. C A According to the eminent Egypt- ologist, Ernest Budge, the Great Sphinx at Gizeh was built to protect the neigh- boring tombs from evil spirits. Q. Why doesn’t the level of the Med- iterranean ever rise when water rushes in through the Strait of Gibraltar’— C.AF. A. The statement that the level of the water of the Mediterranean Sea never rises is not quite correct. In some places, such as in the Ionian Sea. the Adriatic Sea and on parts of the African coast there {8 a rise of more than 8 feet. The surface waters of the Atlantic Ocear flow inward through the Strait of Glbraltar and assist in making good the water lost by evaporation. Both at the Strait of Gibraltar and at the Dar- danelles dense water under the surface makes its way outward along the bottom of these channels, the outlying currents, however, being less in volume than the inflowing. Q. How does a person with an auto- mobile arrange to drive it into Canada? —R G. A. Upon entering Canada in an au- tomobile an individual is required to register at the port of entry. This registration admits of a free 30-day touring permit. If he stays in Can- a more than 30 days a bond is placed on the car. Q. What —A. W. F. A. The Doomsday book was a book containing a digest in Latin of the re- sults of the census or survey of Eng- land taken by order of William the Congqueror, and completed in 1086. was the Doomsday book? Q. Is thers more than one Rubaivat of Omar Khayyam?—F. L. K. A. The word rubaiyat is Arabic, and is the plural of ruba’i, meaning a quatrain. The word applies to the collection of Persian quatrains. Ed- ward Fitzgerald translated 100 of Omar Khayyam’s quatralns. It is not known how many of these were act- ually written by Omar, but about 1,000 are found In differsnt works and manuscripts ascribed to him. | vard dash harder to run?—b. | missionary | were made | the Q. How can I obtain membershin the Lone Scouts of America’- D A. The Lone Scouts of America was erged with the Boy Scouts of Amer ica on March 1, 1924, without, how ever, losing its separate identity The national officers of the Boy Scouts are now the national officers of the Lone Scouts’ organization. In formation concerning membership, uniforms; etc., can be obtained from the secretary at 200 Fifth Avenue, New York City in J. Q. What is Man o' War worth? A G ¥ A. Man o' War was purchased by Samuel Riddle for $5,000 (in 1913 o 1919) at an auction sale at Saratoga Q. Which of the elgners of the Fed eral Constitution were not born ir this country?—W. K A. The eight men of foreign birth who signed this document were: B brid erry, who was born in Eng land; Francis Lewis, Wales; Robert Morris, England; James Smith, Ire land; Matthew Thornton, Ireland George Taylor, Ireland; James W son nd John Witherspoon Seot an in has been J. K A. An incandescent exhibited by and said has a t Q andesc bul L. lamp recent the General Electric Co 80 be the largest ever made bulb 12 inches in diameter and 181 tes high and is rated at 100 000 lepower. It is 1,280 times a large as the average household lamp The current required to operats such lamps would run the average street car Q rge nt Is a 440-vard dash or an 350 B understood tha such as the 440 yard dash, is harder than the longer race, such as the 880-yard dash, the contestant cannot fall back on I endurance, but must malintz t greatest speed from the start A. It is generally the shorter race Q. When did the fir go to India?—M ording to tradition Christianize Ir Christia A. Ac S attort most 3 came into e records of Thomas, one visited India Q. How can himself what he should win mutuel betting machine horse comes in first?—A. B A. Each horse a race is repr. sented by a numbered ticket. As eac) ticket is taken from the machine registers automatically at the top o machine, showing at all times just how many tickets are sold each horse. The bettor can, therefore figure just what amount is in pool, and after deducting the 5 pe cent (the club’s commission) and d viding by the number of tickets solc on his horse he will know just hc much he stands to win if his horse comes in first Q. Of the number dicted to drugs, what heroin?—D. G A. It is estimated that of all drug addicts who are committed crime 98 per cent are users of heroir It is said to be the most ins and harmful of all the habit-for: drugs. Q. Who is considered American poet?—E, H. A. Many critics consider Edwar Hill Robinson as the uul»‘!and‘l‘:g co- temporary American poet. Euro peans usually so regard Amy Lowe Other notable cotemporary poets a Dr. Henry Van Dyke, Veachel Li say, Edna Millay and Sara Teasdalc as soon of the apostles of Christ as early as A. D. 31 a person figure a pe when his of poeple ac per cent use the (Readers of The Evening Star should send their questions to The Star I formation Bureau, Frederic J. Haski director, Twenty-first and C atreets northwest. The only ocharge for this service is 2 cents in stamps for rety wostage.) : Tacna-Arica Plebiscite Wins Editors’ Approval President Coolidge’s decision that Chile and Peru shall settle through a plebiscite their old quarrel over the possession of the Tacna-Arica terri- tory is viewed by many newspapers in the United States as an important step forward in the peaceful settle- ment of international disputes, even though it remains to be seen how the arbitration finally will work out. “President Coolidge’s award in_the Tacna-Arica case ends a dispute which has. clouded Latin American relations for more than 40 years and at many times threatened the serenity of pan- American diplomacy,” observes the New York Herald-Tribune. Summar- izing the situation, the Hersld-Tri- bune says: “The provision in the An- con treaty of 1883, calling for & pleb- lscite in Tacna and Arica provinces, taken from Peru by Chile after the war of 1879, is now to be belatedly executed as the result of conciliation and arbitration.” “In his decision as arbiter of ths Tacna-Arica_dispute, President Cool- idge has added another chapter to a story that has been interfering with the peace of mind of the paople of several nations for more than a gen- eration,”” says the Pittsburgh Sun. “Let us hope that his contribution to the narrative will permit the writing of “finfs’ May it be ‘the last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history.'” The Grand Rapids Herald thinks the decision was “a very great diplomatic achievement and & far step forward in judicial pacifism when these two belligerent peoples agreed to take the Coolidge judgment upon this long-time quarrel over an ares nearly twice the size of Michigan. The Herald continues: “It was a highly wholesome display of South American confidence in the United States—the sort of confidence vitally prerequisite to pan-American solidar- ity—when an agreement was reached that President Coolidge should judse this age-old controversy.” * ¥ % X The Louisville Post says Pershing ‘will encounter the hostility which formerly had Chile for its target, now directed against the United Stdtes. But his presence on the scene will assure a fair election, ac- curately reflecting the pleasure of the people affected.” 5 “While the plebiscite fair method suggested for settlement, it is actually unfalr” thinks the Schenectady Gazette, because Chile, having owned the disputed territory for over 49 vears, “has had ample opportunity to colonize the country and gain control of the voting popu- lation” Naturally “the Peruvians feel that with all the transplanted Chileans on hand the voting will go against them,” says the Worcester Gazette. “But they should be re- assured by the hint from Washington that only those who have dwelt for a sufficient period in the provinces will be permitted to vote; that the squatters will bo barred. Certainly any other course would not. be Justice.” “Just what Peru objects to in the decision is not made clear, except that she inslsts that Chile has been favored in the matter,” declares the Salt Lake City Deseret News. “The administration at Washington under- took the adjudication of the contro- versy rather than to have it go to the World Court. 1t is to be re- gretted, however, that other nations is the most Wwere not asked to assist the Uniteq States in the work of arbitratior The verdict of a joint board wo at least have divided the respons bility and avolded embarrassment 1c the United States.” Commenting on the probability « Peru losing the territory throuz! the plebiscite the Philadelphia Publ Ledger says: “That is Peru's mis fortune, just as the war was Perus misfortunte. Besides, few will doub: the fairness of allowing the peopie whose destiny is Immediately at stake to chv'wous between the two. Self-de termination can easily be carried too far. In this case it is simple justice * % The Philadelphia Bulletin thinks that tHe settlement finally reached Will be acceptable to both Chile and Peru, “for its fundamental justice must be recognized. The declsic rests solidly on the treaty agreements made by the two countries, a neither is likely to attempt evasior Friendly and impartial service of this sort does much to strengthen the good feeling betwsen this countr: and its neighbors to the south.” The Newark News suggests that the settlement of this problem by arbitration may establish a precedent or future oocasions. The News asks “If as deep-seated and serious a con troversy as this, one in which each side could evoke the sentiments of national honor and Integrity, can be settled by arbitration, why ehould not the same method be applied to all countries, particularly now when we have a world court? here should not be one rule for the smaller cour. tries of Latin America, and another for the greater countries of Eurppe and North America.” Tailors Plot on Fat Men By Raising Clothing Cost Men whose girth is mors than 43 inches will have to pay 10 per cent more for their suits, the Parisian tai- lors have decided. It is a bold stroke, and, like all such efforts to equalize the stout nt, may recoil on the heads of those proposing it. On the face of things, the gentie- man whose avoirdupois attracts notica seems to get the most of everything. He overlaps theater seats, takes up trunk room on street cars, and, as the tallors point out, uses a surplus of material in his suitings. The layman always supposed that tailors fixed a grand average for humanity, some- thing on the principle of the life in- surance companies, whereby what was saved on the skeleton was lav- ished on the faf man: the short man contributed to_the tall man's pants, and =o forth. But one thing the tai- ors clearly overlook—the more there 15 to a fat man’s suit the more there Is to wear out, the more places te grow mirror-like, while the straln on seams Is notoriously prodigious. However, alarm may not be justi fled. It is not a hew story; every season some one gets up and starte something against the fat man. He goes right ahead, eats his three meals a day, and beams on the world, and it anything, puts on welght. He prob- ably will figufe that it will be as difficult for the taflor to put 10 per cent on as fof himself to take 10 per cent off. —Defraft News.