Evening Star Newspaper, April 12, 1925, Page 30

THE THE EVENING STAR|{ins. Dogwood is threatened with ex-l'.heory of violent competition. He With Sunday Morning Edition. e WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY.........April 12, 1925 THEODORE W. NOYES. . ..Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd St. b Chicago Office: Tower Building. Puropean Office : 18 Regent St., London, England. The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning dgition, ix delivered by curriers within the “clty at 60 cents per month: daily ouly, 43 tents per month; Sunday omly, smonth. Orders may bo sent by .phone ‘Main 5000. Collection is made by e Tiers at the end of each month. "Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dajly and Sunday. 1 yr., $8.40; 1 mo., Datly only 171, 5600 Sunday. only. 1 yr., $2.40; 1 mo., 10 50c ¢ All Other States. Daily and Sunday....1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., Baily only. <137, $7.00; 1 mo., y onl. -1 yr., 33.00; 1 mo., Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled -to the ‘use for republication of all news dis- Jatches credited to it or not otherwlse credited n this paper and also the locul news pub- Hished herain. AlL rights of publication of Economy and Lower Taxes. JTIt is disclosed by Senator Curtis, Republican leader in the Senate, that President Coolidge and Republican leaders in both houses of Congress have decided on a drive to reduce axes by $500,000,009. According to Senator Curtis, economy will be the main issue in the congressional cam- paign next year, and enactment of tax legislation will be a major part of the economy program. - To slice such a sum from the tax Burden of the people will be an un- dertaking highly commendable. It will_appeal to popular approval and should redound politically to the Tredit of the administration and the party effecting it—that is to say, po- litical benefit will accrue to the party | And the administration provided the reduction is accomplished without the loss of efficiency to the Government service. The people will hardly ap- prove a policy of lessening their taxes if they have to pay for reduction at the cost of efficiency. It is to be taken for granted that this fact will be borne in mind by the legislators, who must reduce the appropriations by Congress, and the administrative offices, who initiate the =uggested consolidations and possible reduction of an adequate force of em- ployes. Slashing the appropriations and reducing the ranks of Goverr- ment workers are well enough in their way, but Congress should be careful not to let its hand slip in the opera- tion Chairman Madden of the House committes on appropriations is re- Ported as reviving his plan {o give the taxpayers ap immediate rebate of the surplus at the end of each fiscal vear. When the income exceeds the “outgo the Treasury would be au- thorized to determine exactly what proportion the surplus bears to the amount collected, and each taxpayer would receive a rebate for that par- ticular percentage as applied to his own taxes. The Treasury ruled the plan last year to be impracticable on account of bookkeeping difficulties. Mr. Madden holds that the real merit in his proposal is that every tdxpayer would be personally inter- &sted in seeing that the expenses of Government were reduced to the low- est possible figure. The taxpaver would have an incentive to see to it | that his Representative and Senator in Congress did not pile up unneces- sary expenses for public buildings and Tseless waterway systems. The tax- maver would become an active stock- holder in the Government, hoping to Yeceive a dividend from its good man- agement in a rebate of taxes upon the savings effected. ——— — French credit among her own tax- pavers would be in no wise injured by tfie recognition of a debt as a matter of financial routine not to be disposed of on sentimental impulse. N The manner fn which the Earl of Balfour was received shows clearly that Damascus needs a few civic or- ganizations to supervise Its “welcome Xo our city” demonstrations. ———rae— It is not likely that Sénator Rorah Wl subscribe to all the Paris news papers in order to keep up with the thean little digs the editors are giving "A day or two more of will bring the dogwood shrubs into bloom. In open woods on dry slopes facing South a few adventurous trees, eager to honor Easter, have already anfolded their white sepals and put ‘ku' rather inconspicuous yellow flowers on display. But the great body of the flowering dogwoods is more yatient and prudent, and having lthowledge of the Washington climate will not put on Spring dress without feeling sure that Spring has come. With the dogwood season at hand the annual plea for conservation of this handsome shrub is going forth to the public. Directly behind the move- K nt for preservation of the dogwood are the Wildflower Preservation So- ciety and the National Capital commit- T of the Garden Club of America. h these organizations stand tens of thousands of the people of the Wash- ington region who have that fine in- stinct which gives them an interest in the blossoms of the fields and woods. Sentiment is almost universal that dogwood be spared and, of course, sunny weather tinction. A few more years of rapine and one of our loveliest shrubs will pass from the District and environs. The large trees which our fathers anl mothers knew by the roadside and in the woods are nearly gone, and the dogwoode which now light the Spring lzndscape are mostly small, struggling growths. Persons who have a real interest in or affection for wild flowers do not break them. A person who is truly friendly to them may take a specimen for ex- amination under his strong glass or for keeping in his flower album, but the lugging off of armfuls of wild flowers as trophles of the Spring jaunt s considered bad form. The naturalist, the near-naturalist and the potential naturalist, and the nature lover who is none of these, feels that it is vulgar. The dogwood asks that it be permitted to live to serve with its beauty every Spring. — e The Lowest Depths. Raids by prohibition agents recently uncovered several places near the Vet- erans’ Bureau Hospital at Perryville, Md., which had been furnishing boot- leg lquor to insane patients at that institution. Nine persons, one of them & woman, were charged with sale and possession, and a large quantity of evidence s reported to have been con- fiscated. Stories emanating from the hospital of the awful effects of this sort of poison on the systems of the insane veterans prompted the raids, which were engineered by agents from both Baltimore and Washington. Con- valescing patients, it is said, were re- turning to the barracks intoxicated. and some of the cases are alleged to have become aggravated to the point where deranged ex-soldiers became murderously dangerou: The merits of prohibition are a moot point; o is the status in the scheme of things of the bootlegger who sup- plies & demand emanating from per- sons who know exactly what they are doing. But to create and supply such demand in the minds and bodies of men shattered in the defense of their country, with nervous systems out of tune and having the mentality and self-control of little children, would be unthinkable except that it has hap- pened. The outlaw trader who used to fur- nish illfeit “firewater” to the redmen struggling out of savagery was con- sidered beneath contempt. The own- ers of voyaging vessels which once demoralized and degraded whole groups of South Sea Islands scarcely deserved the name of men. Yet even these brutal degenerates are on a higher plane than these venders of polson to their fellow countrymen, these mentally unhinged ex-soldiers. —_— e Water Front Improvement. Congress at its late session au- thorized that a survey be made of the river front with a view to bring- ing Water stréct and the dock line in agreement with the plan for mak- ing Washington a greater Capital. Part of the plan is-that Water street shall become a riverside boulevard, handsome and well lighted, which will give a better outlock on Wash- ington from Potomac Park. The new boulevard would give a large part of Southwest and Southeast Washington a short cut to Potomac Park and @ new way to the center of the city. It might elso become a link between the city and Anacostia Park when the large area reclaimed and to be reclaimed from the Eastern Branch shall become park land. The proposed improvement of Water street and the dock line would be both esthetic and utilitarian. The Im- provement of an eastand-west street from the navy vard section to the Washington Channel would give a boulevard through a section of the city needing one. The survey will also have to do with commercial possibilities of Washington Harbor. Steamboat trade between Washington, the Potomac, its creeks and the bay has dwindled because of the shipment of goods be- tween those sections and other mar- kets and the multiplication of auto- mobile trucks. Automobils roads do not - crisscross tidewater Maryland and Virginia, and with first-class dock fagilities "at Washington river traffic might be stimulated. Cheap trans- portation to Washington and the in- creasing population here should en- courage food production tn the coun- ties south of Washington and this city is by nature or by geography the market in which tens of thousands of the people of the Chesapeake basin should sell and buy goods. ——aen. French finance has always depended on the money stored away in the tea- pot or the stocking. Private hoarding is deprecated by financiers, yet it sometimes has its national advan- tages. e People who predict another war have no consideration at all for the feelings of Grover Bergdoll. America has both brains and money. Europe frankly admits that she has need of money. Mr. Schwab’s Forecast. Charles M. Schwab, recognized as one of the most prominent figures in the industrial life of the country, a keen observer of and a deep thinker on industrial affairs, in an address before the New York Building Con- gress to an audience of 1,500 archi- tects and builders foresees that even the rapid progress of the last two decades in industrial expansion and development will be marvelously in- that sentiment extends to pinkbud, shadbush, black haw, pink azalea, Amountain laurel” and other flowering ‘shrubs and to the wild perennials that put on Spring; Summer and Fall flowers. The dogwood has suffered exceed- ingly—atrociously—because of its con- spicuous branches, because its flowers come before most trees are in leaf and because so many persons pent in the city all Winter rush to the coun- iry in early Spring. With thought- lessness and generally without malev- Bence they attack dogwood trees and break from them the growth they have been one, twe er three years in mak- creased. He expressed the wish, aft- er reviewing his own span of 35 years of jndustrial activity and the great changes that have come during that time, that he might start atresh so as to take part in the greater age he has predicted. - He said that he had witnessed the great strides which had already been made, but his one wish would be to start now so that he might see the real development which is still before the country and which will come in the next 20 or 30 years. He based his prophecy ldrgely on co-operation in industry, which is rapidly assuming the ascendancy over the old industrial \ pointed out ‘that 30 or 40 years ago steel manufacturers guarded their mills so that none could see what they were doing, and jealously withheld disclosing cost figures. When the Iron and Steel Institute was first started there was distrust among the men who came to the meetings, fearful that the others would find out about their orders and their cost figures. Now they meet as fellow workmen in & common industry. Mr. Schwab has his own philosophy of success and happiness for which he offered a formula of optimism, cheer- fulness and work well done. The Memorial Bridge. The controller. general has given an opinion that the executive officer of the Arlington Memorial Bridge Com- mission may make contracts for work on the bridge in advance of the time ‘when appropriations become available. The decision gives authority for mak- ing contracts running over a period of years, based on the estimated cost. of | the work and with the stipulation in the contract that the money is to be pald only during the year when it be- comes available by congressional ap- propriation. This will hasten work on the bridge. The plan§ for this great bridge, which was authorized by act of Con- gress February 24 this year, will be translated into steel and stone with expedition, and it is inconceivable that Congress will not make the necessary successive appropriations as the work proceeds. The plans call for a bridge that will long be famous as one of the splendid structures of the world. It will not be so high as many other bridges, nor so long, but in size, ele- gance of architecture, sentiment and utility it will be a bridge worthy of world, comment, and will remain a monument as long as the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial and the Capitol stand. When it becomes an ancient bridge, and when many newer bridges cross the Potomac, the Lincoln- Arlington Mernorlal Bridge will be one of the historic memorials of the world. Radio. Indications are that radio is extend- ing its influence, and that the radio audience becomes larger. In Europe there is to be a radio ictator” or general manager or co-ordinator. A cable to The Star says that the di- rector of a British broadcasting com- pany will go to Geneva “to assume a unique and in many ways one of the most influential positions yet developed in world affairs—director of the inter- national bureau of broadcasting.” To this man will be given the work of co- ordinating Europe’s broadcasting pro- grams, and it is said that the way may be cleared for Europe and America to exchange programs. Another feature to be noted in radip | growth is that Washington is being brought with increasing frequency into connection, or in direct contact, with millions of Americans in other parts of the country. Addresses by the President and other men in high pub- lic office are among the radio features broadcast from Washington. Popular scientific talks under auspices of the Smithsonfan Institution are transmit- ted to distant stationa for broadcast- ing. Concerts by the Marine, Army and Navy Bands are sent over a wide reach of country, and Washington seems to be steadily gaining in prom- inence in the afr. ————— The quietude of inauguration will not entirely govern local custom in relation to public demonstration. The Easter parade will be an affair of un- restricted gorgeousness. e Exceptional congratulations are due to Secretary Weeks for his recovery within a short space of time from a serious thrombosis and intermittent resignation rumors. ———— Easter Monday enables youth to as- sert conspicuous authority. No grown person will be permitted to attend the egg rolling unless properly vouched for by a youngster. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. An Annual Coincidence, ‘When Congress leaves our little town There comes a sense of cheer. The blossoms greet us, up and down The highways, far and near. The birds sing out in glad acclaim While perfume fills the air— The village doesn’t seem the rame ‘When Congress isn’t there! Arts of Publicity. “You managed to make a few speeches that were oOf assistance to the interests of yourself and friends.” “Yes,” said ~ Senator Sorghum. “That's one advantage about the Con- gressional Record. You can occasjon ly do some very good business boost- ing in its columns without having your stuff marked ‘advt.’ " Tllumination. A pine knot flared; A candle gleamed ‘Where men prepated As Genius dreamed. Electric light Now guides the glance— So, who shall slight The merry dance! Jud Tunkins says . the original cubists, futurists, etc., were the folks who spoiled the natural beauty of an egg by coloring it for Easter. Fire Protection. “I understand you have a new fire engine house.” “Yep,” answered Cactus Joe. “And what's more, we've got it insured. It's the only building in the Gulch that 'ud represent any special loss if it got burned down.” Sunshine and Shade. Life holds a shadow of regret For every buoyant humor. ‘With each appointment now you get A resignation rumor. “De reason foh divorces,” said Uncle Eben, “is dat folks don’t attach no mo’ importance to takin® partners foh life dan dey does to takin' partnes de nex’ dance.”" THOS. R. MARSHALL. Former. Vice President of the United States. The modern psychologist, as I catch his idea, accepts literally the old statement that as a man thinketh 56 he is. He contends that life is hampered by what he is pleased to call Inhibitions. These, according to his scientific yiewpoint, are emana- tions of the human intellect. They are the things which we think. By way of illustration, he points out that a man who thinke he can not succeed is bound to fail; that one who cher- ishes hatred can never understand the beneficent influence of love; that he who constantly suspects his fel- lows grows jaundiced in his outlook upon lite. He would Improve the world and make better all who dwell therein by removing these hampering inhibitions and substituting for them right principles, right motives and right conduct. * ok ok X Up to this point I have no troversy with modern psychologls am iInciined to agree with them that when the will enters the arena and puts on gloves it can knock out any champion of evil thought or evil pur- pose. But the theory that the will may be 8o set into motion by the in- tellect as to affect the interior life of the individual is not sound. The will, moved exclusively by the intel- lect, may induce a man to act hon- estly, Inasmuch as his intellect ma: reveal that honesty is the best policy; it may cause him to speak the truth, inasmuch as his intellect may con- vince him that truth is mighty and will prevail; or it may range him on the side of all the virtues, as against all the vices, {nasmuch as his intel- lect may dictate that in the long run the virtues are superior and therefore preferable, but the will moved ex- clusively by the intellect does not change the man, In this lies the lesson as well as the consolation and hope of Easter day, which Is the cut dlamond of all the days of the year and, like a dlamond, has many facets, each of which scin- tilates sweetness and light. As burst- ing bud and epening flower swell and break Into beauty and fragrance in the sunlight of the day, se our hearts burn and swell within us at the recol- lection of the, event which Easter commemorates. Joy and gladness are abroad in the land. Whether faintly or certainly, a vast majority of man- kin@ believes in the resurrection morn. It is a day of benediction as well as of consolation and hope. It makes us rejoice by reminding us that after every crucifixion resur- rection comes to every just person and every just cause. It is a day that does good to every man and woman, whether of fixed or feeble faith. * & x % To those in the school of life—and they include most of us, either in the PRIL 12, 1925—PART 2 Cites Lesson Taught and Hope Inspired by Easter Observance kindergarten or the university—FEast- er brings diverse lessons, &s each must learn his own lesson or the day. ‘But to my mind, of al] the marvelous words and_works which came from the Great Teacher of mankind, who, centurles agone, put off His grave clothes and came anew to what we call life, none has so reconciled sclence and religion as that lesson which He gave for our instruction and consolation and for our sure de- fense In every hour of doubt and trouble—"I am come to give life, and to give it more abundantly.” There is a point where physical strength ceases to be of avail. Like- wise, In the far-reaching realm of the human intellect there is a horizon be- yond which we cannot see. Moreover, there is & limit to the. powers of rea- son and to human expression. The will, gulded and controlled by the intellect, may make of one a whited sepulcher—clean without, yet filled with dead men's bones. But faith, which can change motive as well as conduct, can convert the will into something vital. Faith, after all, is the real life-giving power, of which the more that is acoumulated the more abundantly will it show, not only in conduct but in_conscience. So on this morn we taboo death; we refuse to belleve that there is any such thing as permanent dissolution. Graves and sepulcher are not sad spots today; they are gateways to a more abundant life, Hence we have our answers to the questions: Was this lesson or promise of the Great Teacher one that was to remain hazy and ‘uncertain untll death and to find its full fruition only When we pass from mortal ken, or was it a promise that we might by faith en- large the lives we live, increase the hopes we possess, beautify and glori- fy the age in which we exist? * ok ok K The resurrection morn brings the de- sire for a larger and finer life and the faith that we shall enjoy fulfiliment of that desire. It is not a mere memorial to the resurrection of the One Perfect Character in all history. It is the guer- don of not only the hope, but the desire of every living soul. It is the bursting into full glory of a new day when not for reward’s sake, nor for the eake of pollcy, but for love's sake a more abun- dant life of faith and hope and charity 18 to open up to the sons and daughters of men. Every day should be Easter to all of us. As the shadows fall and the sun goes down the sinning and the sinless alike should be crucified—crucified for their wrongs and for the good they have done—and upon the morrow’s morn, and every morn thereafter, men and women should cast aside the grave clothes of their worldly pasts and rise to newness of light and life, conse- crated and dedicated to the glory of God, to the service of the Republic and to mutual helpfulness unto all. (Copyright, 1925.) A GREAT MEDICAL CENTER BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN One of the last things which Con- gress did before adjourning was to authorize the appropriation of $2.- 000,000 for the construction of per- manent bufldings at Walter Reed Hospital to replace the temporary bulldings of Washington's famous Army hospital, These temporary bulldings have long been recognized as fire traps, and, as one officer put it, “it is only be- cause of constant vigilance and care that there has not been a terrible ctastrophe.” For several years ef- forts have been made to impress upon Congress the great need of such an appropriation. Now, when the money is actually appropriated in Decem- ber, work may be commenced on thi very important project. From time to time there has been 80 much criticism of the hospitals in which veterans are being taken care of that it seems strange that there should have been any opposition to the idea that the temporary bulfld- ings at Walter Reed should be re- placed by modern, fireproof ones. - But the congressional hearings disclosed such opposition. One of the argu- ments used. against putting up per- manent buildings was that if this were done It would be impossible ever to cut through the grounds cer- tain strests which some groups of citizens are interested in seeing con- tinued. From a realtor's point of View the extension of certain streets through the hospital grounds would be ex- tremely advantageous, but, on the other hand, the hospital authorities maintain that such a procedure is not only illogical, but unnecessary. The antomoblles constantly going up and down these streets would be 2 menace to those patlents who are able to. wander around the grounds. The noise of such traffic would be a great annoyance to very ill or nerv- ous patients and exceedingly detri- mental to their welfare. The plans for Walter Reed Hospital are very ambitious, and it is hoped that eventually it will be the great- est center of its sort in the world. At the present time the Army Medical School, the Army Dental School, the Army School of Nursing and the Army Veterinary School are located there. To Add Museum and Library. Eventually it is hoped to move to this reservation the Army Medical Museum and the Army Medical Li- brary. In view of all these things the Army medical authorities feel that the hospital grounds should be kept free from public highways, as is the case with the grounds of the Soldiers' Home. Congress enacted legislation which provides that no streets shall ever be cut through this reservation. In addition to the money which Con- greas is going to appropriate to Wal- ter Reed Hospital for the construction of permanent buildings, the Veterans' Bureau is going to use $900,000 of its appropriation for the building of the new west wing. This is to consist en- tirely of wards. It is deemed proper that the bureau should use the money in this way in view of the fact that the hospital reserves 500 beds for bu- reau patlents, out of an approximate total of 1,000. These are filled almost all the time. There is no discrimination between the bureau’s patients ahd those who are actually connected with the serv- ice. If anything, the bureau's pa-. tlents have a little the better of it in that they do not come under quite so strict discipline as those still in serv- ice. And, for the most part, they seem satisfied with the treatment accorded them. ‘The main building 1s largely used for very 11l patients, or those who must undergo operations. This is be- cause the facilities/ for giving prompt and special attention to patients are greater and more centralized in this bullding. Also this buflding is more qulet. The fact that a patient is from the Veterans' Bureau, from the rank and file, an officer’s wife or an officer himself has nothing to do with his being given a bed in this main build- ing. The only thing that determines that he should be housed here is the seriousness of his condition. When his condition permits he is moved to a ward in one of the temporary build- ings in order that éome other urgent case may take his place. - 3 Since most of the staff of the hos- pital live within the grounds, or very close by, it 1s possible to get quick service in an emergency at any time. There are on duty at the hospital at all times a certain number of doctors. If it was found at 2 o'clock in the morning that a patient needed an im- mediate operation it could be per- formed at once. If a consultation was deemed expedient, the chlef surgeon and any others of the staff needed might be telephoned, and they could be on hand within a very short time. Officers Subject to Call. The officers on duty at the hos- pital are always subject to call. The fact that they may have some per- sonal engagement makes no differ- ence If an emergency case is brought in. Not 80 long ago a certain young officer attached to the oral surgery department Invited a party of friends to dinner and the theater. During the afternoon of the appointed day it was decided to operate on two avi- ators who had been In a serfous auto- mobile accident and had been con- siderably broken up as to faces and jaws. About 6 o'clock, when his guests were putting on the finish ing touches to their tollets and were beginning to look forward with an- ticipation to a niee, thick, julcy steak, with all the trimmings, he telephoned that he had finished with one man and was just starting into the operating room with the other. He finally reached the theater by the middle of the first act. Which shows that duty is the first consideration with these attached to the hospital The Army Medical School is not an undergraduate school. It conducts only post-graduate courses, with spe- clal emphasis on serum therapy, Roentgenology, preventive medicine and epidemiology. As a clinic they have the entire Walter Reed Gen- eral Hospital. After graduation stu- dent officers are sent to the Medical Field Ser\;lce School at Carlisle Bar- racks, Pennsylvania, where they are instructed in military drill, taught to be soldiers and familiarized with the medical department fleld units used in peace and war. The Veteri- nary School and the Dental School are conducted on the same principles. The nurses attending the Army School of Nursing receive much the same training as those in civilian hos- pitals, with the possible exception that they perhaps have stricter dis- cipline, since they must conform to military practices the same as other officers and men serving in the Army. Particular emphasis is also given to public health training, and as a method of obtaining practical train- ing the hospital each vear detalls nurses for a specified period to work with local public health and welfare organizations. Walter Reed Hospital, of course, is not the only Army hospital in which Veterans' Bureau patients are being taken care of. Army hospitals in all sections of the country are being utilized for this purpose.. According to a recent report of the Veterans' Bureau the Army reserves 2,837 beds in their hospitals for such patients, 2,256 of which were occupled at the date of the report. It is true in all of these, as at Walter Reed, that no discrimination is shown between bu- reau patients and those from the Army. Clemenceau’s Little Joke. ‘The Tiger strokes his grizzled mus- tache, the wrinkles of his old face con- tract and he smiles grimly and says, “Ten years after I am dead they may know what I think of life.” For such is the dictum of Georges Clemenceau. The book of his life and philosophy has been written in three large volumes, but not before he has passed on and a decade followed may the book be published. But the world will wait, and will be as eager when the time comes as now to know what Clemenceau thinks of the world in the affairs of which he has played so large a part. In all he has written and in the countless addresses he has delivered Clemenceau has taken his countrymen surprisingly little into his confidence, and there long has exist- ed in France and elsewhere curiosity as to what really was in his mind. No man in modern times has lived a more romantic, picturesque, adventurous life than Clemenceau, the Tiger of France, and few in anclent times had so colorful careers. His book will_be worth waiting for.—Los Angeles BEx- press. Capital Sidelights That old adage “There's nothing new under the sun” has been dis- proved by Col. E. Lester Jones, chief of the United States Coast and Geo- detic Survey, under whose direction charts of the greac delta of the Mis- sissipp! River have been made from photographs taken while fiying over this region. Heretofore engineers have done this work at a great expense of time and physical misery, by wading about these fever-infected places, battling mosquitoes and the deadly moccasin spake. Often they have worked all day in water up to the hips and camped at night in a damp, clammy flat. But—enter the alrplane—and the scene is changed. The marshes and swamps become no more than small puddles crossed via “the highway of the air” Flying at 10,000 feet above the delta, photographs were taken every five seconds. The control point was first snapped and then the pho- tographs taken so that they over- lapped each other. There was no chance for possible error; every out- line was perfect. ‘The Navy furnished the planes and flyers and the Coast Survey has done the rest. The time consumed was a little over 30 hours of actual flylng as against months of labor that the same work with a planetable would have necessitated. In this time an area of 500 square miles was charted. Details were obtained that would have been possible in no other way. Chart making from the air opens up an entirely new subject and Is an tdeal method, Col. Jones says, out of his extensive experience, of mapping coastal lines and rivers. Since the discovery of the secret of flight the possibility of the airplane both for construction and destruction has steadily increased, Its supporters will now find in the charts made by the Coast Survey another argument as to its usefulness in peaceful construc- tive pursuits. ek Thomas Riley Marshall, erstwhile Vice President and now a speclal writer for The Star, Is a dyed-in-the- wool Hoosier and a great admirer of men who have made their own lives. He likes to search them out and pin a flower in their buttonhole while they are yet alive. It is in such a spirit that he says: “Whenever I grow bilidhs and pessi- mistic and wonder whether the high- ways of life in America are not about to end in a cul-de-sac, I look around me to see whether opportunity has fled with no hope of anybody ever putting salt on its tail. And whenever I do 50 the pessimism disappears even if the billousness remains. In nearly every walk of life 1 can find & man who has fought his way from the Natlon's pov- erty to at least the Nation's temporary pantheon. And by way of fllustration he points out one of the most sincere, hard work- ing, friend-to-man fellows in the Capi- tol press gallery, when he says: “In that fine galaxy at Washington there shines out for me the features of Louis Ludlow, a tall, gaunt Hoosier, who, when I first knew him, did not know where he was going but did know he was on his way. He seized opportunity by the forelock, and with a nose for news and a conscience for justice, he firmly es- tablished himself s a great writer. Who does not read his books of recollections has lost much of interesting reminis- cence, but he has lost more in not be- coming acquainted with & real man— the author.” Ludlow has just gotten out a new book, “In the Heart of Hoosierland,” illustrated by Clifford K. Berryman, cartoonist for The Star and originator of the “Teddy Bear.” gk Consider the humble pen point. The Teesnt announcement of the Post Office Department that it was purchasing 6,000,000 of these nibs for its year's sup- ply 'brought the subject up, empha- sized by a revival of many anclent whees: Then Postmaster General New came to the defense of the post office pens declaring them to have as many good points as those used in banks or schools. In these days of the typewriters ascendancy the pen has suffered some relapse from the days in which it was “mightier than the sword,” but it still serves where no typewriter dare to fol- low, and holds a place in the hearts and confidence of men and women that's all its own. In the fleld of romance the type- writer may click and clack oft thrillers, but what are they: The visionings of a Paul Pry, a third party peepster who recounts all in one gob the beginning and consummation of one romantic epi- sode, and generally of one stereotyped pattern. The susceptible young maiden may day dream over a romance that trickled forth over the typewriter, but she will insist that her own love letters be hand-done. She wants no machine work on her billet-doux. Unlike the romantic novel thrown open to all, she ‘wants the closer clandestine pr ey of the confidences and endearments from only one to his only one. He may-ink- blot with an unaccustomed pen, but these are but ‘rose drops on the i of loving,” if he properly pours out his “grand passion” in individualistic chi- rography. Abas the typewritten novel that delivers the romance in bulk, com- plete, it lacks the sweet, delicious tor- ture of spasmodic heart fluctuation and trepidation. So, we must still retain the humble pen for tramsmitting the thrills of a Hfetime, Who would accept a typewriter- signed check on a bank? Where con fidence in the will and intent of an individual is required, the autograph is required, no matter how clumsy or disfiguring’ the signature may come from beneath the pen guided by an unaccustomed or ungraceful fist. Mil- lions of dollars pass from one owner- ship to another in a large city in one day, because the pen wielded by hand leaves a trusted if not infallible rec- ord of individual intent in a world that is daliy growing more mechan- ical, more standardized, more jig- made, all alike. Think again—each act of Congress must be pen-signed by the highest authorities before it becomes a la It is individuality that makes char- acter; individuality of thought and persistent action, human initiative that has made for great deeds and progress throughout all history. The pen has recorded these visions and essayals, and handed the record on to posterity. The pen has thus been the instrument of the men who have made their marks. Long may it flourish, though from lack of con- stant use it has lost much of its or- nate cunning. Our greatest communications sys- tem needs 6,000,000 pens for one year. . May every one of them be used in sending a message of love to some mother, sweetheart and wife. May each signature written by them be as honest, true and sincere as though it was to .draw millions from the bank Mey each hand that wields a pen up- hold our laws. * %k X Xk Secretary Weeks feels today, on entering his 66th year, that he is getting to be “the last leaf” on the political tree. One Yyear ago his birthday anniversary was celebrated royally by an unusual birthday club, of which he is now the sole remain- ing member in public life. The others have quit high political ofice—Charles Evén Hughes, until recently Secre- tary of State, and Col. Samuel Wins- low, who has just retired from Con- gress. This trio were all born on April 11, but Hughes and Winslow are Secretary Weeks' juniors hy two years. It was their custom to have a birthday party together, which was usually attended by many prominent Federal officlals, including the Presi- dent, MEN AND BY ROBERT The f{dea that touring American once’ they land in a *“wet” country spend all their time at the bar is all wrong. There is the highest author- ity for this statement. It comes from men prominent In industry and Gov- ernment who recently have returned from Bermuda and from Havan the nearest ports of callfor the thirsty from the great American Sahara. And it stems that aboard steamers | fiying foreign flags there is only a| mild rush to the bar the first day out. | After that all is calm and quiet. . Even those among the “benighted” and “unenlightened” who smack their lips the loudest at the thought of get- tipg away from the land of liberty | 50 that once more they can place their | feet on the third rall, are quick to| Jose the novelty of unrestrained and | unprohibited drinking and lapse back to an aperative or two at the cock- tail hour and to a bottle of wine with | dinner. Perhaps they end up the day | with a pony of brandy or a sweet liqueur. Recently the papers were filled with the non-drinking pledge entered into by Samuel Vauclain, head of the great Baldwin Locomotive Works, and some of his associates. They were not to | drink “on American soil.” Whereupon | Mr. Vauclain hied himself away to Bermuda. The inference was that while in the British isles he would not be a teetotaler. It transpired, | however, that Mr. Vauclain had gone | with his daughter-in-law and five | grandchildren—hardly the sort of party for a real wet outing. The Amer- | ican captain of Industry attracted much attention at Hamiltor and when accosted by newspaper corespondents | and asked about his “pledge” he| merely begged that he be reported “clean and sober” as they rate the sailors {n the Navy The Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Mellon, is one of the returned trav- elers from Bermuda. Mr. Mellon does not desire that he should ever be known as a “dry.” But he took with him to Bermuda his young son and the latter's boy chum. The former Secretary of State, Mr. Hughes, when he quit public office, salled immediately for Bermuda, tak- ing his family with him. | There have been many other dis-| tingujshed Americans in Bermuda the | past scason. All report that it is a great relief to get away from the| discussion of prohibition. _Prohibi- tion is not a problem in Bermuda, therefore no one pays any attention to it. Fifty Years Ago In The Star Frauds were discovered In the Post Office Department half a century ago | that were forerunners of the more celebrated “star route” Postal frauds of nalt a dozen| years later. In The Star Frauds. 5¢"pri 6, 1 is the following: “The Postmaster General has just conclued an investigation into “the matter of mail contracts, it having been discovered that there was col- lusion between several clerks and certaln contractors in order to @ive the latter an unfair advantage in putting in their bids. The investi- | gation has resulted in the discovery that just before and since the last letting, in February last, four of five clerks, whose names are for the present withheld, have been using their positions to advance the inter- ests of certain contractors, the sup- position being that they have been under the pay of said contracto On the day the blds were opened each one was stamped With a stamp hearing the initials of the First and Second Assistant Postmasters Gen- | eral. The contractors in question, | through collusion with the clerks, ob: tained a counterfeit stamp, and, learn- ing through the clerks the amount of the various bids, were enabled to put in lower ones, which, being stamped, were made to appear reg- ular and as put in before the day of opening the bids. It is understood that a number of awards were made on these fraudulent bids, but such as were made will be immediately can- celed. The clerks, it is to be pre- sumed, will be dismissed, and those against whom the proof is conclusive ‘will be prosecuted in the courts.” * * * Democratic hopes for party in the national elections in 1 steadily cess were paign, as scan- Significance of dals affecting Spring Elections. \1,." yaminiatra: tion arose and evidences of a reaction from the long-continued Republican dominance developed. State elections were held early in April, 1875, and gave some encouragement to the Democrats, though the results were somewhat mixed. The Star of April 6, 1875, says: “The Connecticut election fsn't a decisive sign that the Democratic tide is yet on the rise, though it will no doubt be held by that party as a sub- stantial success. The Democratic wovernor, Ingersoll, is re-elected by a reduced plurality, and the Democrats probably gain two Congressmen. As the Republican platform in the State canvass contained a plank in the indorsement of the administration, it will no doubt be claimed by the ‘in- dependent’ opponents of the latter as specially an administration defeat. But as Congressman Hawley, anti- Grant Republican, has been defeated in the Hartford district, while Con- gressman Starkweather, tion Republican, has been re-elected by a handsome majority in the New London district, this sort of reason- ing doesn’t seem to work out log- ically. In Michigan the Republicans seem to have dammed the Democratic tidal wave to some purpose, while, on the other hand, the local elections in Ohlo afford some encouraging ‘straws’ for the Democrats.” * * % “Newspaper Row” was a famous lo- cation in Washington half a century ago, the stretch of buildings on E A street between Practical Jokers on Thirteentn ana Fourteenth and Newspaper RoW. o rourteentn street between E and the Ebbitt House. Herein then and for some years later were established practi- cally all of the correspondents of out-of-town papers. In The Star of April 8, 1875, is a news item telling of pranks played there by practical ! Jokers the night before: “Some one or more inclined to be waggish, having arrived probably at the conclusion that Newspaper Row was not embellished with a sufficient number of signs to designate its im-' portance, contributed at a late hour last night an additional number, without regard to the ‘eternal fitness of things.’ Those passing the Tribune office had their attention directed t a flaming red placard conveying the intelligence that the Steamer Arrow left daily for Mount Vernon, and that Frank Hollingshead was captain. Further on the office of the l"hilarlel-l phia Press and the Chicago Times | was adorned with a sign, mammoth | in proportions, inscribed, ‘Widdenich, Hunderling & Co., Cincinnati Lager Beer.! The Associated Press came in for a solemn embellishment, and was given an undertaker's card. The World office was blockaded in the en- trance by a Theater Comique bill- rising during the year pre-| ceding the cam- | administra- » AFFAIRS T. SMALL. Travelers returning fom Havana have all reported -that drinking w4 ght in the Culan capital. No ona “pestered” them to have a drink a then another. But once they “back home —back to the dry shored of America, their hospitable friends showered liquor upon them morning, noon and night All of which or con as to the tion, but shows merely of human nature. he very thing it And who today grown up? argues nothins merits of prokh the pervers ry child w told not admits 10 When time famo Lawrence an ago to Roosevelt O. Murrus Secretary of Cor among the “missing being that had like Twal to th sistant reported inference beyond.’ Murray port of his death gerated Friends of the White House tennis player gave « dence to the report, for he had droy ped completely out of the life the Capital and of the country As a matter of fact, howeve Murray, long a stalwart President Roosevelt, still the “strenuous life either in the wilds of Afr near them, stalking hoping to bring home to the f who prematurely had mourned hi some very fine specimens of tige skins and other trophies of the hu in the jungles Mr. Murray ha where he recently completed at the Institute of Higher tional Law. In planning I hunt he had hoped at the Roosevelt trails of fore departing from ti ital announced a change which will carry him equally hazardous to limb. Lawrence Murray was one of who always contended that played an excellent game c This alway a disputed pc point of strenuousness, how Murray once said t A in it with Gifford Pinchot than often was the President's p ner in doubles. Gifford “flun self into the me with boundl vigor,” said Mr. Murray (Copyright, 1625 he Mark say t slight ie ab at ad ame and s bes Pariz, n livi who THIS AND THAT By Charles E. Tracewell. ling pup, with long flop ears Budd big was a skinny legs, and g brown eyes. He enjoyed I to the full. He w happy all day long, running around with the chil dren and dogs His favorite pal was Mary, who to the first grade in the school wh they do not admit dogs. That is ¢ of the tragedies of dog lif barred out from the school buildings Dogdom hath its sorrows no than mankind. Perhaps every specic of created thing has them, too. Who knows but that the humble bugs, in their nd beneath the old rock, shed tears? Buddy was “wooled” about a by Mary and her friends. The school was out Buddy would ning up the street tress. It was ‘“Hey, “Here, Buddy." The dog was ha on¢ and scooter: roller skates, dra by his forepaws, by his tall, He grew thirner and thinner. Now, this is a poin dog ¢ that the children ought to know, bu never do—that puppy can only stand so mu handling. There have been more Innocent dogs sent to the happy hunting ground by loving little children than by any other ag ¥. perhaps, wit the exception of poison. The little children ar only “seven times one.” Heming’s poem has it. Y W no better. Surely some elder should tell them they are killing the dog by kindness ® * % % It was a bright Spring day Buddy, all and legs, tered children. snapped. That nig upon Mary's them thrash Buddy. A decision was 4og not some less Buddy his when s he some He bit an aroused father called father, and the two of out the problem of dog reached. Was sort of a nuisance, any- What was the matter w him, that he did not look fat and healthy like other dogs? Maybe he was mad® en, when they differ calfed “nuts. Dogs are lumped off under the cate- gory of “mad” Nobody knows just exactly what it means, or whether the dog really had rabies, but it sounds terrible AR, rabies, what crimes are com- mitted in thy name! Many an inno- cent dog, suffering from nothing but lack of water, has gone to the &v topsy chamber bacauwe Ar Whs “mad dog.” This is a mad world, a hard world for litfle dogs, and cringing cats, poor old moss-eaten horses and many other creatures So Buddy found it. A big biack wagon drove up that Spring afternoon. A man sat on ti curb and another went into the hous. In the pound wagon already wers half a dozen dog They looked out from the meshes of the wire, awed into silence by the novelty of their 1 ride. It was into their company that scraggly Buddy was introduced B Just as the door clangd shut on Buddy Mary came home from school. . are they taking Bud- med, running forward. " stammered her father. “Buddy, Buddy!" “Oh, they are just taking him for a little ride, Mary, a little ride with the other dogs.” Sweat ran down the fathers face “Taking Buddy for a little ride? Oh, look at Buddy in there with the other dogs! Where will they take him?" “They are taking him to the hos- pital, to see what is the matter with him, dear. See how he will enjoy riding around the city with the other dogs.” Cold, black meshes separated tha two creatures of God, one a child, 6 years old, the other a puppy, 6 months old. The driver got aboard. Bill,” he said. Then wagon drove off. “See, Buddy has gone for a ride, Buddy has gone for a ride,” cried little Mary, happily. much, are =3 my masters, “Come on, the pound Wreck.! The Sun office did not fare well in the sign business, but got two barber poles, having enough striped paint twining around them to shame Tom Ochiltree’s head in the matter of brilllancy. The jokers left at the office of the Cincinnati Gazetts a huge lager beer barrel, but as Gen Boynton and Deacon Smith are not drinkists, the joke must have been almed at the wicked and dissolute partners. Added to all this transition in the natural order of thi wera enough empty champagne bottles e n} here and there to supply a glasshouss board, the most prominent and notice- able letters being ‘Saved From the for threée months running on short time."