Evening Star Newspaper, May 5, 1925, Page 6

- g THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY,. MAY . 5, 1925, M_w_;—z“__—_—w THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY..........May 5, 1825 +THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Offce: 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York (Olgm %10 E‘;l&g:g 8t Chicago ce: Tower Bul A European Office: 18 Regent St.. London, England. The Evening Star. with the Sunday morn- Ing edition, is delivered by carriers within the city ‘at’ 60 cents per month: dally only, 45 cents per month: Sunday only, 20 cents per month_ Orders may be sent by mail or “Telephone Main 5000. Collection is made by <arrier at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virgini Is and Sunday. Iy only .. Baily All Other States. Daily s ...1yr..$10.00: 1 mo., 88¢c Daity SniySunder: 13T 95900 1 mo- a0 Sunday only ... 15yr., $3.00:1mo., 25¢ Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dis- patches credited to it or not otherwise cred- ited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. — = Ambassador Houghton’s Notice. The attitude of America and Amer- fcans toward Europe, struggling out of the maze which resulted from the World War, has been set forth so that all may understand by Ambas- sador Alanson B. Houghton in his address at the dinner of the Pil- grims’ Society in London. The Am- ‘bassador, who has the advantage not only of knowing the views of Wash- ington and the American people, but mlso the advantage of knowing con- ditions in Europe, has issued a tmely warning. All the world knows what Europe expects of the.United States, and has expected since the signing of the armistice. And all the world should know what America expects of Eu- rope. Ambassador Houghton's re- statement of these American expec- ‘tations —great expectations though ‘they be—should prove valuable. Recent political events in Furope have been disturbing. An effort has been made in many quarters to look upon the bright side since Hindenburg was elected President of Germany, and the French were aroused by that election. But there has been under- lying fear that progress of the Dawes vlan for the settiement of many of the post-war problems would falter: that the prospects for further limita- tlon of armaments had gone a-glim- mering; that Europe was to continue an armed camp, only waliting the spark which would start the confla- gration of war again. The American Ambassador to the Court of St. James, in effect, declares that America, in return for her aid to Europe, expects peace—a real peace, based on faith and confidence and good feeling. If there can be no assurance of such a peace, then, Mr. Houghton says, referring to the aid which America is rendering in the reconstruction of Europe, “I fear those helpful processes which are now in motion must cease.” It is a warning spoken without heat, but In sincerity. FEurope cannot hope for unconditional continuance of Amer- fean ald and capital in reconstruc- tion. Reconstruction 1s not limited in this case to building of war-devastated areas. It means the rebuilding of trade, of industry, of markets, so sadly needed if the world is again to function. For years now America has ob- served the efforts of European govern- ments toward the establishment of | permanent peace, toward reconstruc- tion of civilization, almost wrecked by ‘war, and toward economic stability. Progress has been made, and much of it has been made with American assistance. America does not now de- sire to see this progress halted. America has grown somewhat tired of talk of peace while nations continue to arm for war. “Peace s an adventure in faith,’ ®ays Ambassador Houghton. The ‘American people are eagerly awaiting evidences that this great adventure has progressed in Europe. The Am- ‘bassador speaks with authority, and he epitomizes not only the attitude of ‘the administration in Washington, but ©f his people. ——— People who question the value of nirships in war may be regarded as intellectually related to those who defy practical demonstration and in- sist that there is no use in being vac- cinated. [ Hindenburg is an old man. Ger- ‘many at present needs the voice of ex- Derience rather than the urge of im- petuous impulse. — 1t will be impossible to start enough magazines to take care of all the left- over propaganda since the war. —t e [ New York’s 1-to-7 Chance. " According to the report of a citi- Zens’ committee, just submitted, homi- cide is not only increasing in New York, but punishments are propor- tionately decreasing. In 1924 there were 333 murders in that city, as against 240 in 1918. Of last year's murders, 300 remain unsolved. At the present rate six murders a week are being added to the list of unsolved crimes. In the seven years ended De- cember 31 last 1,909 murders were committed and only 231 murderers were convicted by juries. From the figures it has compiled the commit- tee estimates that a murderer in New York has seven chances out of eight to escape arrest, trial and conviction. In other words, the community stands e one-to-seven chance of protection. ‘While a political purpose lies be- hind this survey and report, under- taken by the advisory committee of the Republican county committee, and aimed to demonstrate the ineffi- clency of the Tammany-controlled Police Department of Greater New York, the figures presented have a deep significance for the people, re- gardless of partisanship. The fact stands out glaringly that crime is on the increase in New York and that the processes of detection and punish- ment, are diminishing in effectiveness. Whether this is due to a general social condition or to police inefficiency or to the incompetence of prosecutions may be a matter of argument. But there stands the fact, nevertheless that crime has grown appallingly in frequency and punishment has dimin- ished. It may be doubted whether any other country in the world has such a record of criminality and immunity for lawbreakers. Slow processes of rial mark our American criminal Jurisprudence. Rarely is a homicide brought to trial, convicted and exe- cuted within a year of the crime. New York has a notorious case right now. Four men killed two bank messengers in November, 1923. They were quickly caught and, for New York, quickly tried and convicted. One of the quar- tet secured a reversal on appeal, was tried a second time without result and has within a week been tried a third time and convicted. All four are still awalting execution. These delays unquestionably pro- mote crime. If the police force is in- efficient or corrupt—both charges are brought against the police administra- tion—the community is at the mercy of a combination that not even a speedier court procedure can defeat. And, meanwhile, the New York homi- cide has a seven-to-one chance of get- ting away with murder. ———. The “First Airplane” Dispute. The controversy between Orville ‘Wright and Dr. Charles D. Walcott, secretary of the Smithsonfan Institu- tion, regarding the disposal of the orig- inal Wright flying machine involves 0 much of technicality regarding the handling of the Langley airplane and the present condition of the Wright fiyer that the public is unable to fol- low it clearly. But there is something more than technicality in this matter. Primarily involved is the question of patriotic loyalty. In this country was first developed the heavier-than-air plane. The United States is the source of practical aviation. It should be the place without question for the per- manent exhibition of the original ma- chines, from which the present mar- vels of human flight have developed. Mr. Wright's complaint is that the Smithsonian, custodian of the Langley plane, permitted it to be used in a test which bore upon certain patent disputes, and that in doing so the plane was altered from its original condition. He professes a fear lest his own plane be subjected to similar changes. This is plainly a subterfuge. There is no danger or remote possi- bility of any alteration. The Wright plane deposited in the Smithsonian as an historic exhibit would be just as secure from change as it would be in a British museum. It is well established and generally accepted that Prof. Langley was a ploneer in the science of heavier-than- air navigation, and that his device, though unsuccessful in its first and only test, contained the essentials of successful performance. Its fault lay in the means of launching it. It was not as it stood & practicable airplane, yet it¢was later flown, after certain modifications had been made. It is with reference to those modifications that Mr. Wright now demurs to plac- ing his own plane in the Smithsonian. If the Langley plane, as exhibited in the Smithsonian now, was not in fact the first practicable airplane, if it is not the identical Langley apparatus, | s0 much the more reason for placing the Wright plane there as the identi- cal, original, first American flyer. The American people hailed the achievement of the Wright brothers with the warmest enthusiasm and | praise. They are regarded as the first practical American flyers, and there- fore the first in the world. Theirs was an actual achievement. It was the be- ginning of the science of aviation. Their original plane has therefore a significance in American history, and it would be in the last degree lamenta- ble for it to be sent abroad, to be preserved out of its native environ- ment, against a foreign background, and especially in consequence of a feeling of jealousy. Quite naturally the Smithsonian In- stitution is proud of the contribution of Samuel P. Langley to the science of aviation. It is appropriate that his device should be preserved there. ‘Whether it is properly labeled with reference to other works is of far less moment than that the historic col- lection should be complete through the inclusion of thie first plane that car- ried men in flight. Asperities should be mollified, differences adjusted and Jealousies laid aside to this end of pre- serving here at Washington the physi- cal record of the first step in ‘prac- tical human flight. ——— . Experiments are being conducted to determine the extent to which tetra- ethyl gas is dangerous. A great deal of consideration is necessary to pre- vent the automobile from becoming not only a wonderful means of ordi- nary travel, but an unwelcomely rapid method of transportation from this world to the next. e New traffic regulations are workinz satisfactorily, and it is not probable that downtown merchants will have to establish suburban stores to accom- modate customers who insist on using motors. Anacostia Park. Work of transforming part of the reclaimed marshes of the Eastern Branch into park land will be carried on this Summer. Plans are made and when the appropriation becomes available on July 1 the building of drives and the setting up of certain desirable park structures will be be- gun. That part of the reclaimed or created land first to be treated lies be- tween the Eleventh Street-Anacostia and Benning bridges. A driveway will be built around the section and an ex- tensive recreation center will be de- veloped. The plans call fom a swim- ming pool with sandy beach, a boys’ playground that by being flooded may be a skating pond in Winter, tennis courts, base ball diamonds, volley ball courts, swings, rings, slides, running and jumping courses and all things able, large I{mprovements wiil be spread over the area between Bolling Fleld and Benning. Dredging and sea wall construction are going on close to, but west of Benning, and prepara- tions are being made for reclamation and park extension east of Benning. With work of transforming into a park the new land from Bolling Field to Benning and with tkousands of people using that park it is believed that money will be liberally appro- priated for making over the Eastern Branch from Benning to the District line. The time seems not distant when the area between Poplar Point and the “licking banks” and slashes of the upper Eastern Branch, once a dismal stretch of shoal and marsh, will become one of the fine parks of the world and a worthy companion of Potomac Park. ————————— The War in Morocco. With the possibility of & “holy war" growing out of the campaign of Abd- elKrim against the French in Mo- rocco, the situation gains in acute in- ternational significance not usually acquired by the military activities of the North African tribesmen. Abd-el- Krim has set himself up as the head of a Riffian republic following the de- feat of the Spanish forces. He has de- nounced the Sultan of Morocco as @ creature of France, and now proceeds to wage war upon him and hence upon the French. He has assembled a force variously estimated at from 8,000 to 20,000 tribesmen, well armed and fired by fanatical zeal. He has undertaken a weakening of the French forces by appeals through agents to the Moslem troops serving under the tri-color. Hostllities have opened with a repulse for the Riffs, who undertook to en- velop and destroy a number of out- posts near Fez. The French succeed- ed in repelling the attacks with heavier losses to the Riffs than to themselves. The situation is regarded with con- siderable anxiety, not as_to the imme- diate outcome of this campaign, but with regard to the possibility of a gen- eral uprising of the Moslem tribes of North Africa. From a military point of view Gen. Lyautey probably has the advantage, in numbers, in equip- ment and in position. He has, how- ever, been denied reinforcements by the government at Paris, and may eventually find the advantage in num- bers overcome. French superfority in weapons, especially in the use of air- planes, will undoubtedly cost the tribesmen dearly, and it may be that they will waste themselves in futile attacks against Fez to such an extent that Abd-el-Krim's boast of ability to drive the French from that position will react and prevent success of his appeal for a general “holy war” up- rising. One factor favoring the French Is that Abd-el-Krim is not recognized by the North African Moslems as com- petent to lead in a religious crusade. His success against the Spanish gave him prestige which may easily be dis- sipated by failure against the French. ———— China invented gunpowder, but neg- lected to arrange a practical monopoly of it. America invented the airplane, | which has been more exploited abroad | than here. It was Theodore Roosevelt who said something about the China- fication of America. The Hohenzollern family cannot be expected to be enthusiastic about a re- publican form of government. In the ! case of Hindenburg they will respect the man though disapproving of the office. r————&— Prohibition authorities naturally have their own ideas as to the reason for the popularity of Havana among United States tourists in Winter and that of Montreal in Summer. — e A number of prominent legislators are insistent on the right of the United States Senate to preside over the Vice President. Most of the French comment on the Hindenburg election can be reduced in substance to the old remark, “I told you so.” e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Unusual Appeal. 1 do not care for music much. My taste it doesn’t fit. And poetry that used to touch My heart, now makes no hit. Yet sentiment is all aglow— With joy 1 want to shout— I met @ man who seemed to know ‘What he was talkin’ ‘bout! His volce was sweeter than the sound Of harp, or clarionet. His language was so profound, But I shall not forget How what he said appeared to show A light, 'mid shades of doubt, That man who really seemed to know ‘What he was talkin’ *bout. Question of Intelligence. “Do you think your constituents ap- prove of your accepting a raise of salary?” “Ot course,” answered Senator Sor- ghum. “They'd regard a man who de- liberately refused a raise of salary as altogether too foolish to represent their interests in Washington.” Cultural Preponderance. The intellectuals 'mongst mankind Outnumber other lists. For every moron you will find A dozen alienists, Jud Tunkins says some girls insist on dressin’ like they thought bow legs was beautiful. Overwhelmed. “Crimson Guich used to be con- sidered a tough little town.” ““We lost our reputation,” answered Cactus Joe. “We're too close to Chi- cago to compete. Closer Interest. I care not for the words they bring About the League of Nations. At present I am studying Our traffic regulations. proper as adjuncts to a public park. For the present the park work will be concentrated in the area between the Anacostia and Pennsylvania Avenue bridges, but as money becomes avail- “De man dat wants to talk about hisself all de time,” said Uncle Eben, “kin be relied on never to say an un- kind word.” Free to dress as she pl The Common-Sense Girl. If the Common-sense Girl “independent” would be, At the same time enhancing her charm, Let her show independence of Fashion's decree, Wear raiment enough to keep warm; Not ape Mother Eve in her scanty attire, Who had nothing else she could wear— So while we excuse her, we cannot admire, And fig trees don't grow everywhere! Bare knees are not pretty, nor modest, nor wise— Rheumatism stalks ciose in their wake; e And arms bare to “shoulder straps” need some disguise, If only for artistic sake. Let her lengthen her skirt, and widen it, too, To ladylike measure, discreet— So that medical students no longer may boast They “anatomy learn on the street!” Let her be “independent” and flatly refuse To do what she knows is not right— By wearing in Winter thin, low, satin shoes, Pneumonia and flu to invite. A thing inappropriate never is “smart,” Though in itself “stylish” it be— So rain, snow and “slippers” should keep far apart, As Common-sense Girl well may see. Let her summon her courage to aid Common Sense— Give attention to Health's wise decree, And she'll need neither “lipstick.” nor powder, nor rouge, When once she declares herself free— ases, to suit her own style; ‘With modified fashion comply, Be of all ultra fads independent meanwhile— Independent as Fourth of July! Now, dear Modern Girl. all we ask you to be Is modest, and healthy, and ladylike—see ? V. C. M. (age, 89 years). THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. First we read that the President said fishing was only a boy's spori and then we read various statement: by various spokesmen for the Chlet Executive, who declared that what he really had said was that nobody ought to go fishing except boys! ‘Whatever it was President Coolidge saild about fishing—or did not sa: we strongly agree with him. We never have been fishing, and we are proud of it. Personally, we always believed that murdering little fishes In the name of sport was a mighty poor way to spend one’'s time. As for us, we would much rather be honest, and loaf, pure and simple, than sit on a bank all day intriguing innocent members of the piscatorial tribe, and call it “fishing.” Maybe we are wrong in this at- titude. Perhaps, after all, fishing is a sport. When the bass catches the bait and makes a mad dash for its liberty, and the angler works for many minutes landing the fish, after all there may be something noble in t. When the great tarpon drags a boat and several fishermen for hours through the water, until, exhausted at last, it gives up the struggle, may- | be that, too, rightly comes under the name of sport. We cannot say, since we have never been fishing, as stated. And if one takes the word of the followers of the immortal Izaak for it, all this is simon pure sport, of the very first water. But we, able to sit on a bank, as it were, and watch the antics of the anglers as well as the lashings of the fish, wonder what it is all about, and just why the business of trap- ping fishes must be called “sport. Our idea of a “sport” is base ball, or a good prize fight. A sport is some game or endeavor in which sides or individuals are more or less equally matched. Our great na- tional game lines up two opposing teams of men, all about the same age, all experienced in what they are doing, and tells them to go to it, under equal rules and conditions. What goes for one side goes for the other, and men called umpires— sometimes ‘“empires” alas—are paid big sums to see that the encounter throughout its nine innings remains true to the name of “sport.” The prize ring offers a good exam- ple of a true “sport” reduced to its elemental proportions, in which not a number of men engage, but in which one man opposes another. Despite the popular outery against boxing in its essentials it remains a very good sport. When two men, trained right down to the minute, enter the squared circle against each other there are prospects of tall doings. Sweet ladies may call the set-to cruel, and others inveigh against so- called “prize fights,” but in reality there is not much cruelty in the aver- age bout between husky fellows who are making a life business out of the thing. Were the average citizen jolted on the point of the chin the blow might snap his head off, but your pugilist has well developed neck muscles, so that when the K. O. comes it does not kill him. As a matter of fact, the Il:mckout scarcely can be said to hurt m. These, then, seem sports to me. Stack fishin’ up against them, where is it? * ok k% Personally I would just as leave butcher hogs as fish. I do neither. I leave the pig-sticking to the profes- sional slaughter house men and the hooking of fish on prongs to the— fisherman. Perhaps there is no occupation in which there is more “bunk,” pure and adulterated, than fishing in this day and age. It is one of the old traditional oc: cupations, along with hunting, that have come down to us from thé ages when men were forced to hunt and fish in_order to live. Today fishing is more or less of a myth. It is true that there are en- thusiastic fishermen in every commu- nity. The amount of talking they do, too, 18 notorfous. The tales of a fish- erman about his fish are proverbial. Taking your population as a whole, however, there is only a very small per cent that goes fishing.” Their right to do so0, of course, is granted, Every man to his taste. As a matter of cold fact, fishermen are such enthuslasts that they have bulldozed the remainder of us into silence, on pain of going counter to a race tradition. So it takes some moral courage, if you will permit me to say so, to fly in the face of the fishermen. Very few men will admit that they do not care for fishing, and practical- ly none will admit that he never has indulged in the sport. Yet if one can catch his specimens off guard, he is very likely to sur. prise a majority of them into admit- ting their non-interest in the “sport,” and maybe he will wring from them the truth—they never have been fish- ing in thelr lives! I remember one night, amid a party of friends, where a fishing party was being planned, I had the temerity to declare that I had never been fishing. “What kind of a guy are you?” spoke up the fisherman of the group, the man who was getting up the party. “Say, do you mean to tell me you have never been fishing?" The remainder of the party eyed me with scorn. Such an attitude, you know, s quite necessary, if you would avoid being impaled, like a fish on a hook, on the sharp scorn of your fisherman friends. “No, 1 have never been fishing,” 1 ‘eplied. “And what is more, it would interesting to know how many sthers here are in the same boat.” Faced thus with the question, three )t the other four present admijted they had never been fishing in their lives. After the party two of the three told me privately that they never were going again, either. ”I can’'t see anything In it,” one man said. There you have the attitude of the non-fisher to old Ike Walton, immoral —er—immortal fisherman who wrote a book about fishing that few fisher- men have read. We who do not fish simply do not see anything in fishing to get excited about.” “Ah, you simp!” blurts out the fisherman, “That is the very point! Fishing is'a gentleman's sport. You sit in a boat and enjoy yourself.” Yeh, I know. You get dp with the milkman, and toil over the roads 50 miles to a place supposed to be reek- ing with bass; and vou jolly each other into thinking the soggy bacon and vile coffee are “great”; and you float around in a boat in the brofiing sun, and wish you were back home; and you get the cook to broil the fish, and talk about the fresh air giving one a great appetite; and you jolt back over the 50-mile stretch, and your sunburn hurts like the devil— and the next day you brag about what a glorious time you had. But we “fight fans” are onto you. You have been attempting to turn the centurfes backward and revive an occupation which mankind once found essential in the business of lv- ing, but which has no present appea! in need, like fighting or poker play- cannot do it successfully. Times have changed. We get our breakfasts out of boxes now, not qut of the water. Women and Homes. House Drudgery Is Found Mostly Lack of System To the Editor of The Btar: While we are “rolling in wealth,” the high cost of living, the little worth of the dollar, is proving a_menace in only too many homes. The average housewife has to bear the brunt of it because servants here are now such that only the great minorit; the wealthy, can afford the luxury. And so the saying ‘“a woman's work is never done” suggests analy- sis, and the query, “Does the woman have overmuch work or does she lack system and thus creates overwork.” The writer, a man of mature years, has had practical experience, has seen the: exhaustion and nervousness that result from woman's overwork in the home, and has to sorrowfully claim that lack of system rather than the work is much the cause. And, too, should the man of the family be bold enough to suggest that “system” might help her finds that he “piles coals upon the fire” and is apt to be termed “a brute” rather than “a savfor.” It may be because so.many women with business capacity are now enter- ing the business world that house- keeping is looked upon as unworthy and drudgery. But should not house- keeping be rated & most important NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM LG M 1 THE BELGIANS: First Settlers in New York and in the Middle States. Henry C. Bayer. The Devin- Adair Co. In this very month of May, 300 years ago, the New Netherland sailed into the harbor of Manhattan. On board were 32 families—fathers, mothers and children—come to make a home in the New World. These, the first settlers' that, in Manhattan ltself, on Staten Island, at Albany and all} along the Hudson, gave to this locality | those qualities of frugality and thrift from which sprang much of the subse- quent industry and wealth and power of the Empire State. The governor of the State has by re- cent official announcement set off the present month of May for celebrations throughout the Commonwealth com- memorative of the landing of the New Netherland and the settlement of New York 300 years ago. Under the | inspiration and direction of the State Historic ~ Society, in schools and churches and among other organized bodies all over the State the old story will be told over and over again this May month, the oid scenes will be re- acted in play and pageant and song, that these siurdy and stanch forbears may live again in the hearts of an ap- preciative people who will now re- fresh themselves for a worthy future from the source of their own present well-being. The governor's proclamation carries with it formal Invitation to the King of Belgium to partake in this festival of remembrance. Why to the King of Belgium rather than to the Queen of Holland? For the very good reason that the Belgians were the first set- tlers of New York and the Middle States—not the Dutch, as certain i“mlnor historians” have led us to be- eve. * ok ok ok Mr. Bayer's study, designed as a part of this memorable May day in the State of New York, stands also as a souvenir in pure metal of the historic celebration. In substance, here is a body of evidence bearing down from every relevant point of view, from every relevant angle of research, upon the vital fact that Belgian homeseekers —and not Dutch traders—were the first settlers both of New York and the other Middle States as well. These settlers were Walloons from Southern Belgium. That they safled from Am- sterdam s the fact, no doubt, that gave to less exacting stude: than those of the present an impression | that these were Dutch colonists, and | so they set them down. ‘Walloon refugees, instead, in quest of religious liberty just as so many French Huguenots were, and English Puri- tans. Holland was hospitable to the Protestant, and here many of them gathered often for further flight, as did these Belgian ‘Walloons. i *x % % The story drawn from this superb | body of evidence is one of keenl in- terest and deep import. A true knowl- edge of origins is vital to self-knowl- | edge, whether it be the individual or| the group that seeks to understand a thousand aspects of fts present and | 1o gather a fair promise of its future, So one reads a new and important story here, a story that illuminates | more truly and clearly old w s of life, old = customs and habi of thought, old prepossessions rightly rooted and giving way to change on | the basis of that native rootage. Place ;hames are Walloon home-songs. Fam ily names, today, persist in their Bel glan flavors. An element of fresh ro-| mance stands in this story of old New | York and the Middle Staies. Now, for the student the book is of rare value as a method—exhaustive, comprehen: sive, conclusive. A method, this, that | includes much more than the bare question involved, Important as this is. For it goes back to gather the | great period of exploration and dis. | covery that narrowed, finally, to one| or another of the special aspects of ths tremendous enterprise. In this case, to the single point of the set- tlement of New York and the adja. cent region. * x % % THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN. | By Jacob A. Riis. The Macmillan Company. fade in America,” is the label by which at least two outstanding citi- zens of the United States designate themselves in evident satisfaction and pride. Jacob Riis, the Dane, and Ed- ward Bok, the Hollander. And thou- sands of foreign-born Americans, be. sides, take pride in their new allegi- | ance, just as America takes pride in them. There are enough of another | sort, however, to suggest that “Made | in America” is but half truth in re-| spect to this country's generally fine | immigrant population. To suggest that, | ion the contrary, the actual making of the man was in the grain before ever America had entered the dreams. And as one goes along here with Jacob Rlis—a man throughout—he is more than ever sure of this. Not only sure of Rils in this respect, but sure of many another. There is another side to this story that steps out here in a poignancy of | attack upon the reader, as it certainly | did upon Jacob Rils himself at the time and upon every other new imm: grant. That is the terrible lonelines of the immigrant, the appalling | strangeness. No word that he can un. open tain are invitation tournaments. compete; it may require that any out- business, a science if you will? If | derstand, ways that are alien to his drudgery” results it comes largely |ways, nobody quite alone, but him. from lack ef system. self, every one busy about familiar and Of course, the writer knows that | companionable kinds of work or play, housekeeping is part of the public|no sense of where his own work may schooling—he has vivid memory of a yourg girl friend visitor to his home boasting of her knowledge acquired. Being questioned she of- fered proof of her skill in making “fudge” if we would supply the in. gredients. Her other knowledge of cooking proved all fudges. Ask the young wife as to the cost and use of the varfous sections of the animals classed as meat—the ignorance of the majority is apparent. The butcher assures you he has to charge high prices for certain *‘cuts” because others are not asked for, seemingly not known or understood. As with cooking, so with house- work, does the young or even the older housekeeper acquire “a sys- tem?” It would seem not or would the expression, “a woman's work is never done,” be as true today as in the past? Why should not house- keeping be made “a business’—the income tax returns will tell you that millions of women have need for knowing how to economically and systematically “run the home.” Such knowledge would mean less work for them, the peace of mind that comes of understanding, and would it not mean happier homes? W. G. KENT. Good and Bad. The beautiful and the ugly, the healthful and the deadly often come from the same source and substance. The coal-tar group, for instance, yields to the chemists beautiful dyes, valu- able medicines, dIW:IQ'. Pel;f\lm;n‘nld deadly gases and chemicals. owl- edge {x!mcll them all alike, (he good and the bad, from the same su.stance, which, in its crude- state, is not beautiful. Knowledge, too, extracts from life the good and the bad, the beautiful and the deadly. Working with the same “life” we get different products. It is not enough to have knowledge alone. We must also have ideals and a desjre for the good and the beau- tiful that our knowledge may extract these from life, and not ‘poisons.-- Nsw Orleans Tribune. lie in this monstrous strangeness, no money on account, no home place. Reading here this frightful load slips down over the -reader to his misery | and dismay and his sure sense that it is all, all, quite wrong. The plainest of men, Jacob Riis in this writing was not working for this effect. He was merely telling what he himself did | when he landed in America. But the effect is there, one that ought to work mightily, if it is not already doing so. * ok ok x Your will read here about a youth with no particular training and no special aptitude trying to make his | way in America. A persistent fellow. | Yes, an obstinate one. Without this | quality he would have gone under, It takes just that, and more, to stand a goodly number of years that count up nothing more than keeping body and soul together. To be sure, a thousand impressions and as many points of knowledse come in these years. But these are slim living ma- terlal. No stomach at all to them. Obstinacy and persistence did it. Finally Riis became a newspaper writer—a. reporter. And he is sure that this is one of the greatest of callings. No, not to be editor or manager—those are piffling jobs. But to be a reporter, on the contrary, is to get right at all the life there is and to -get all the drama that life holds so abundantly. And he was right—right for him. This business | of living down where the most of the news of the world is made proved to be the key to the nature of Jacob Riis, the key as well to his surpass- ing service to America. Out of this work came the knowledge that went into “How the Other Half - Lives” and into the “Story of the Slums” and into many another story and speech and importunity for the ben- efit of the “other half.” A true American, Jacob Rils, a man whom God made and to whom America merely gave opportunity for the flowering of his beautiful humanity. A big story, whose plain simplicity Q. Can a golf club that is holding what is supposed to be a tournament to all the amateurs of a com- munity pluce any restrictions on en- tries, limiting them to, players of cer. rdicaps?—F. E. W. ub tournaments for amateurs A club may invite any and all amateurs to sider entering must have an Invitation from a member of the club, or it may extend an Invitation to all members of local and distant clubs who have a certain handicap or less. There is nothing in the rules of golf to govern the limitations which a club may im tose in connection with a club event. Q. How many more licensed drivers are there.in Washington than there are licensed cars’—E. A. M. A. The number of drivers’ lecenses issued in the District of Columbia is approximately 200,000, while there are about 85,000 registered cars, Q. When will the municipal swim- ming pools near the Monument Grounds open?—A. F. D, A. They will be open the middle of May. From 7 to 9 a.m. they will be open for mixed bathing; on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. for girls, and on other days at the ‘same hours for men. Q. How tall Is Douglas Fairbanks and how much does he weigh?— @. T A. He is 5 feet 101% inches tall and his weight varies from 143 to 150 pounds. At present he welghs about 145 pounds. Q. I have an Hawafian ukulele, which bears the inscription Ua Mau Ke Ea O Ka Aina I Ka Pono. What does it mean?—J. N. L. A. This appears on the Hawatian coat-of-arms and means “The Life of the Land Is in Righteousness.” This motto s used on many Hawaifan products and as a closing phrase in writing letters. Q. To about how many does one postman deliver P. 8 Office families matl?— A. The' Post Department says that the average number of fam- ilies served by a carrier on his route 50 in a day. Q. Does thunder cause milk sour?—W. R. R. A. The Department of Agriculture says that although a number of ex- periments have been conducted, it has never been proved that thunderstorms in themselves cause milk to sour. The department belleves, however, that temperature conditions immediately preceding a storm may cause milk to turn. Q. Why is the international date line out in the Pacific Ocean?—W. H. A. The 150th merdian in the Pacific Ocean was selected as the interna- tional date line largely for the pur- poses of convenience. It is theoretf: cally the opposite half of the circle of the meridian of Greenwich, which by to ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN l‘Q. How can beeswax be bleached? —H. Z. A. It may be bleached by running in thin ribbons thrcugh a machine and allowing it to remain ir the sun light. Some beeswax bleaches more readily than others. It will take several weeks to bleach it. Q. Does the Free City of Danzlg have to pay part of the German war reparation?- W, € A. The German embassy says that the Free City of Danzig, according to articles 108 and 254 of the treat Versaiiles, had only to assume a por tion of the debt of the German em- pire as it stood on August 1, 1914, but did not have to pay part of the German war reparation. Q. What is meant by the “Ameri can system”?—H. A. It is defin as “that tariff policy which aims to promote national prosperity by stimulating and guard ing home industries by means of u high protective import tax.” Q. What is a person’s temperature?—H. De B. A. For practical purposes the nor mal mouth temperature is 95.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Violent exercise may in crease temperature in the normal sub ject to as much as 104 degrees Fah renheit, while hot vapor baths in cer tain individuals can produce one of 107 degrees Fahrenheit. Diathermy can cause very high local tempera tures; ordinary exercise, warm baths, the act of digestion, nervous states, et cetera, may cause slight tem. perature elevation. In general, a normal temperature may be said to vary trom 97.8 degrees 1o 99.5 degrees. Q. What kind of frijoles, used largely 7—W. K. F. pefi’?le'rhe word frijol in Spanish connotes almost any variety of culti vated beans, but in Mexico it is ap- ¥ to the brown known in Eng lish. speaking countries as kidne) beans. Q. How much is a Columbian half dollar worth?—G. C A. There i3 mo premium on this piece of money—it is worth its face value. Q. How many nightingales’ tongues did it take to make a pie?—H. M. G A. A tradition has it that as many as 500 nightingales’ tongues wers often made into one pie by the an clents. Q. What was the Indian from which Bi Sing was tak 1G. B, A. The real Indlan word is Ossing sing. Q. What is the name of the place where immigrants land at San Fran cisco?—G. D. A. The immigration Angel Island. normal foodstuffs are by -Mexican station (If you have a question you want answered, send it to The Star Infor- common consent of the navigators of the world is the earth’'s prime or first meridian and is used as the common standard for reckoning time and measuring longitude. The recent meeting of the National Academy of Sciences stimulated so much interest in the progress of knowledge—either as “‘pure science” or “applied science”—that its effect ap- pears similar to. that of .the newly invented sound-amplifier for the stim- ulation of the ears of the deaf. This new amplifier not only enables the deaf to hear while under its direct in- fluence, but theé increased power con- tinues for some:time afterward. So even laymenare: still ‘breathing the atmosphere of pure sciente many days after the “disagreelng doctors” ha gone back to their microscopes and re- torts. The National Academy is 62 years old, and a review of the progress of science suggests that most of the things known before the academy came into. existence were discovered v to_be' contradicted or explained by later developments, for the most important discoveries date with- in the three-score years aforesaid. R In olden times—when some were be- ing taught that the most exact of sci- ences was mathematics—one did not hear of the ‘“‘theory of probabllities,” nor wonder over the “theory of parti- tions.” But now if ong knows all that may be figured from the aforesaid erudition, he may discard Euclidian geometry in accounting for the aws of space. * ok % ok One of the famous scholars of Eng- land, Arthur Dendy, D. Sc., F. R. once "exclaimed how _delighttul would be if we could have a sociel wholly devoted to “useless investiga- tion,” and Prof. Caley of Cambridge (England), in speaking to friends about his brilliant mathematical work, hanked God that he had. never done anything that was or would be of use to anybod: it scientists were joking, though volc- ing the popular idea of the useless- ness of “pure sclence.” There is no new bit of science which may not become the very foundation of in- | valuable knowledge in the future— not merely affecting the laboratory but the salvation of human life. What “pure scientists” refer tc as being “useless” knowledge is that which is not related apparently to applied science of the past, but which may become the opening door for knowledge of unimaginable value for future application. * ¥ ¥ ¥ Of what “practical use” is biology or zoology or embryology? Charles Darwin recorded that in New Zea- land clover grew but never seeded. Years later a traveler saw that there were no bumbie bees in New Zea- land, and so, of course, clover could not bear seed. Like the urbanite who " proposed to move to a farm where he could keep a cow and have buttermfilk, and perhaps keep a bhee and have all the hz;?ey he needed, so the traveler imporfed some bum- ble bees to New Zealand, and now the clover seed there is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. The bees made the clover to fructify, for they carried the pollen upon their wings and legs from blossom to blossom, and it could be carried in no other way. Vegetable and animal nature are interdependent, and there is di- rect connection between “cabbages and kings.” * K K % Two American scientists, Guyer and Smith, have proved the muta- bility of species in a way that would have delighted Darwin. They call it blophysics, It was known that injected into the blood of an animal it ‘would incite an agency known as an ‘“antibody,” or “lysin,” which would dissolve and destroy the for- eign substance. They experimented with an emulsion composed of the lenses of rabbits’ eyes pounded up It transpired, however, that both | if the blood of a different species be | mation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Twenty-first and C streess northwest. The only charge for the- | service is 2 cents in stamps for retus» postage.) BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. became more pronounced with each generation. It was inherited only | through the male parent. How anti-vivisectionists would ex- |claim! But the experiment becomes the basis of the modern doctrine of | immunization. While the experiment {came later than the discovery of vac- |cination or of Pasteur's preventive |ot hydrophobia, it demonstrates the principle of both, and, above all, it | demonstrates the evolution of animal |nature as affected by environment {and extraneous influences. Hen the proof of the reasonableness of the doctrine of mutation of species. | * % % x | Paleozoic seed found plants in Scotland in 1 that ferns once grew from seeds | within the last 15 years petrified ses- weed found near Rhyni gave the connecting Ii |sea and land plants. Scienti |it “ecology"— a science about 30 vears old—a study to the effect of en vironment upon vegetable life. * ok % % in fossil | Microscopists have long studied ce |life, and recognized that all | made up of microscopic grow by subdivision and repeat | division. But the idea that that divi is simple is no longer held. It is now 'known that there are ultra-micrc scopic organisms, so small that microscope is powerful enough to dis cern them, vet their influence is dem onstrated by their effects. They are £0 fine that they pass through porce lain filters which stop all bacteria, and they cause the foot-and-mouth disease in cattle and infantile paralysis and yellow fever in humans. Little is known of their nature, or what activi- ties go on in that realm too minute for our greatest microscopes. Is it there that will be discoveref the borderland between the organie and inorganic? Will science find thers that mystery of spontaneous or creat ed life? Vain has been the search fct life in bacteria or torulae. * ¥ % x Uselessness of “pure science’? the Jate war much was said_abou shell shock. Self-sufficient doctors who could not explain it denfed its existence and called it cowardice. Scientists found that due to the shock of high explosives injury was caused by congestion of the capillary system, 80 that blood rushed into the capil: laries and glutted them, became stag- nant and toxic therein. Circulation was' decreased by this loss of blood held in the capillaries. Infusion of blood from others was impracticable in the armies, for the in- fusion must be of related blood. In- fusion of saline solution was of but temporary - relief, for the solution leaked out before the patient could create new red corpuscles. Dr. Bayliss. had been studying “col- loids"—gluelike substances—and he found . the remedy for shell shock by mixing a colloid with the saline solu- tion;. so that it “glued up” the leaks in the capillaries and held the salt water long enough for reai blood to be created by the patient. * % ok Much has bebn written recently about the importance of vitamins— minute elements unknown 20 years ago, Lut indispensable in enabling food to_give nutriment to the body. Every physiologist grows enthusias- tic in" discussing the recent dis. coveries of the usefulness of the so- called “‘useless” ductless glands of the body—especially the thyroid gland and the adrenal glands. From the thyroid gland—located In the front of the neck —comes a tiny drop of thyroxin which is indispensable to digestion. How? Dr. Kendall of Chicago, asked Armour & Co. to supply him with the thyroid glands of 6,000 cattle, and from them he extracted 150 grains of thyroxin. A pound equals 7,000 grains. Another doctor in Chicago studied the adrenal glands, which are connect- n in normal salt solution and mixed with the blood of fowls. The result was a lens-sensitized serum, capable of dissolving the lens substance. This serum was injected -nto’ pagent rab- 'bits, and the young rabbits when born were found to ‘be defective in is such as stamps all greatness of life, all beauty of writing. their eves. This lens defect persisted through at least six generations, and A 9 ed with the kidneys and secret adren. aline. If they fail to function Addison disease follows and soon comes death, Yet a dose of a few drops of one unit af adrenaline to a million of water in- jected into the arteries stimulates the heart and blood vessels. Where is the dividing line between “pure” and “applied” science? (Copyright, 1025, by Paul V. Cotitasd