Evening Star Newspaper, May 17, 1925, Page 44

2 THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sund: ‘Mnrnhl Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY..........May 17, 1925 T | | | } | | ES....Editor e The Evening Star Newspaper Company | Business Office 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. ew York Office: 110 East 42nd St icago Office: Tower Building. European Office: 16 Regent St., London, England THEODORE W. NOY: H 2 ! ‘ The Evening Star. with the Sunday morn- & edition, ix delivered by carriers within % city at' 60 cents per month 45 cents per month: Sunday only per month. Orders may_be sent by mail or telephone Main 5000. Collection is made by | carrier at the end of each month. | Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dails and Sunday $8.40: 1 aily only S600° 1 Sunday only 240 70¢ | s All Other States. H Dails and Sunday 310,00 /50 | Daily anly $7.00 Ao | Sundas only =500 25e | Member of the Associated Press. | The Associated Press fs exclusively ntitled | 10 the tike.for Tepunlication of A1l news di patches cradited 10 it or not otherwise cres itad in this paper and also the local newa published herein All rizhts of publication 0t special dispatches herein are also reserved. | 1 The War Debts. Tn sending notice to its European | debtors that the time has come to set- tle their war obligations to the United | States the American Government | does not assume the role of the harsh | collector. For surely the time has, in deed. come for a practical move to- ward that settlement. Funding agree- | ments have been made between the | United States and Great Britain, Hun- | gary, Finland. Lithuania and Poland. There remain nine nations which have made no move toward adjustment. and whose debts, and interest to $7.100,9 2,293 is in 2 in acerued More than half of the entire is principal combined 69 Of this sum principal and $1 interest now amount amount total obligation 536,045, Sentiment in this countrs is decided- Iy in favor of settlement of these debts The American taxpasers are carrying | i owed by France, whose this time is $4.210.- A heavy, burden because these ad-| vances to the nations engaged in the Great War have not heen paid. For- giveness of these debts would mean a | gift in principal of more than five and a half billion dollars. It has been pr. posed to forgive the interest. Against that there is a preponderant public | feeling. The Government of the! Uhited States must act in conformity With the national belief that the debts | should be paid. Its present move is to| that end. i There the part of this Government to precipitate an un-| balancing of finances to cripple hamper any of the dehtor natios American interests require, to regard the matter from a selfish point ‘ financial stability abe d as well am at home. But leniency has In»»lli dictated by than ial reasons of international economies The ('nited has wished to see ! all of the countries, deeply - wounded | in the war recovering and regaining full national health. So now this Government asks | France, Italy, Belgium. Rumania. | Greece. Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, Esthonia and Latvia to bring the war. debt question to a solution without turther delay. This does not mean foreclosure. It is simply a polite state- | ment of account and a request for | some practical move toward settle. ! ment. None of the nations in the category | of debtors to the United States has| asked cemission of these debts. Hints | have been given that remission would | he gratefully received. One of the chief debtors has undertaken payment, und the question arises whether it would | be possible, even though the others | asked, for this Government to diffe: entiate and discriminate. Undoubtedly a cancellation of the war debts would greatly enhance the is no desire on solely of view, other comme: at { | { a prestige of the United States in “Eu-ljsave breweries unheaded. and police | rope. But sentiment in | this country is reversed that cannot | ba done. Nor can there he any dis- tinction between “political” debts and “rommercial” debts, as indicated by the French press. All of these dehts were incurred for the purpose of wag- inz the war. Had the I'mied States not entered the conflict and. contrib- uted its manpower and sacrificed itself | on the field the account weuld stand | in a different light. At least there should be some acknowledgment these debtor na- tions and some expression of purpose to pay. To that end this present notice sent to elicit the intentions of the | nine nations. . unless publ by e Trotsky is back in political harness, | but he is not expected to take tKe bit in his teeth. AU R The Upright Piano. One of America’s old and large piano factories will discontinue making up- right pianos. It was perhaps two gen- | erations ago that the upright piano | came into great favor. Till then Vhfll vare piano shared honors with family portraits in the parlor. Few persons aspired to call the parlor “the music room.” and “the living room" had not come into wide use. The square piano in its hardwood case enameled biack and called “ebony, or redwood or mahogany called rose. wood. was the pride of thousands of Washington homes. Its heavy legs and | lyre were thought marvels of wood | carving. The kevs were veneered with | fvory. “Composition” in place of ivory | was little known and used. The music stand was as elaborately carved as any music stand today. Many of the old square pianos had side brackets for | holding candlesticks or kerosene lampe. Nearly every old square piano had its cover of red-or green flannel called “felt,” with a fancy border of yellow silk. “Men began to build houses with smaller rooms and people began to live in apartments. There was talk of economizing space. and the upright piano came into great popularity. It was extensively advertised. and its mekers claimed that its merits were greater than those of the old square. Advacates of the upright began to say things abont the old square piano which, though pieasing to young peod in ! | Prohil;itit; a | sion | these sworn officers had honored ple of two generations ago, were of- fensive to those who were voung when the Civil War was on. The grand or harp-shaped piano with oversirung base hezan to be much discussed. Once the grand piano was heéard only on the concert stage, when Gottschalk, Thalberg. Joseff: Buelow, Rubinstein, d'Albert or Ca- rena came to town or when some of the Washington players, John Porter Lawrence, Henry Xander. Glaetzner, Amy Leavitt, Dr. Kimball and others played in concert at the Universalist Church, Congregetional Church, Na- tional Rifles Armory or Marini’s Hall. The parlor grand be found usually in homes which had two gas lamps at the entrance and a chandelier the parlor. Then came the baby grand. People with new ideas in pianos thought it gave more of a musical at- mospheye to the living room than an upright or the ancient squ: Pianc engineers squeezed the baby grand till it could stand i less space than the old square and could it a corner comfortably as an upright. News that the old pigno-making firm has cast off the upright may indicate that this form of piano is playing its swan song, and before many vears the upright may take its place by the side of the ancient square in the National Mu- seum. was to in O nd Public Example. Occasionally a hard-hitting crusader savs aloud what others merely think. Forest Braden, chief of police at | Louisville, who served in the war with rank of colonel, addressing the dele- gates at the International Police Con- ference in New York, eriticized the public drinking by the American dele- sates to the conference. He did not wish the foreign delegates to get an impression that there was a total dis rezard for law. the prohibition law, in the United States, an impres strengthened by the fact that the even law by vielating it. Chief Braden made a hrave attempt to which hik thirsty colleagues may have made on the visitors from other less * na- tions. But it is exceedingly doubtful that the impression was erased. Nor will it be erased as lonz as officials of the Government—municipal, State and Federal—continue to flout the law, as many of them do. Forelgners who visit the United States not infrequent- Iy ask: “But where is the drv terri tory about which we have heard They are plied with alcoholic bever- ages in many of the homes which they visit and in places of public en. tertainment. Gov. Pinchot of Pennsylvania not long ago declared that there has never vet been a serious attempt to enforce prohibition in this country, and (hat the reason it was not enforced. many Americans take the posi tion that prohibition is for the other fellow, for Bright pictures of the aid which prehibition has the® working man are drawn too (requently by citizens as they sip cocktails in luxurions surroundings. The people as a whole will never abide by the prohibition law, or any other la which is deliberately disregarded the leaders. the lawmakers and officials of the Government. The prohibition law is regarded abroad as another evidence of Amer- jcan eccentricity. Here and there, however, foreigners are thinking se- riously of the enhanced man power in industry. in business generally de- rived from prohibition. and they are wondering where American rrect an impression was not themselves. been 1o the world in the race for commercial su- premacy. —r—e——————— A thorough understanding has been reached between the United States and Mexico. All that remains is to impress a temperamental proletariat with the necessity .of being thoroughly in ac- cord with the government’s policy. ——— Smediey Butler declares that trucks have heen known to drink and to ac cept money. The general iz slowly but surely turning up the evidence in Philadelphia. g st Pulgarian rioters are evidently keep- ing in practice so as to be able, if called upon. to provide a pretext for another world war on short notice, some of our | prohibi- | tion is going to leave the rest of the | THE SU which, indeed, seems to have already started. American manufacturers are | looking forward to the very era of | prosperity in foreign trade which Am- bassador Houghton also foresees. This I'will be contributed to by the Ameri- can business men living abroad. Presi {dent Coolidge and Secretary Hoover are reported as favoring legislation re- lieving Americn business men living abroad from payment of income tax, regarding double taxation as detri- mental to the business expansion of the country. ———— Six Years of Appeal In March, 1919, & wealthy manufac- turer of New Haven., Conn., was ar- rested in New York on a charge of bigamy, he having engaged in matri- mony with three different women. The following month he was indicted. In | May. 1922, or more than three years ater, he was tried, and after a pro- | tracted trial convicted. He appealed his case to the appellate division of the Supreme Court of the State, and | for more than twe vears his case was | pending. In June, 1924, the appeliate division upheld the decision unani. mously. Although in most cases such a unanimous opinion closes the doors of appeal the defendant in this in- | stance succeeded in getting the Court | of Appeals of the State to review his case. Two weeks ago the Court of Ap- peals confirmed the judgments of the lower courts. This was the end, and now the defendant, who has been on bail for more than &x years, has sur- vendered to serve his term of from one to three years. But even now he gains time, for he bas been given a week to settle his affairs. Six vears of court procedure climax- ing in a sentence of three years at | the maximum! Somewhere is probably record of the cost of this procedure in dollars and cents, the cost to the State as well as to the defendant. But there is no record of the cost in terms of public confidence. in the efficiency of the judicial procedure for the pun- ishment of crime. True, the man in 10 the paint of punishment. But he | rame close’to escaping. for the final melsmom of the State Court of Ap- Uwal! was rendered by a divided vote | would seem. are plain enough. The | man married three different women without any intervening divorces or legal separations. He is clearly a bigamist. Had he not had means to ray the costs of appeal and to engage counsel he would have been in and out of prison long ago. It is such cases as tnis, with the al interminable delays, that ! the effectiveness. of the law, and that spread the belief that amplitude of means is the best defense aguins any criminal accusation. The right of appeal is granted for the purpose of protecting the innocent. It is invoked chiefly, however, for the protection of the guilty. most c——— Airplane Relief for Besiege A thrilling story comes from French Mo A hesieged French outpost has just been relieved after two weeks {of close beleazuerment, during which time food and ice were supplied to the garrison by airplane. The dropped from the plane to be melted for drinking water, Thus does war- oceo. { for offense, for defense and for supply. The dropping of packages of food and lumpse of ice from a plane entails some risk. But then, all warfare is risk, and evidently enough of these aerial =hots reached home to keep the gar- rison going for a fortnight. There were no alrplanes during the siege of Paris in the Franco-Prussian war, but bal- loons were used for the escape of peo- ple from the beset city. Had airplanes the siege of Ladysmith would proba- bly have been relieved with far less suffering and loss. Evidently the Riffs have no anti-aircraft guns else the planes that kept the outpost at Aculey supplied with the necessities would not have been quite so efficient. | | | | | e lating to public service can be sold to Henry Ford the old brgzhears about paternalism and plutocracy will stand a zood chance of heing revived. ————— The distinguished interast manifest- ed in the M.cent cigar ought to en- courage it to hrace up and be good. e British and American Unity. Cabled reports of twoaddresses made the other day before Chamber of Commerce in London by Ambassador Houghton and Stanley Machin, president wf the Association of British Chambers of Commerce, convey suggestions of a closer unity between the U'nited States and Great Britain in trade and world affairs. Am- bassador Houghton approached the subject from his ekperience as a busi- ness man. duction, and has the reputation of being a canny and experienced man of finance and in touch with manufac- turing. Ambassador Houghton foresees an era of great prosperity for world trade and commerce when normal conditions tollowing the World War are fully re- stored. He had asked himself if Amer- ica would be ready for the great rush of business which would follow when the doors of trade were reopened, sooner or later they would be. He foresees, however, that American foreign trade will prosper only because and to the extent that other nations find it to their advantage to make it prosper. Tt is axiomatic that when trade ceases to bes advantageous to both parties -concerned it ceases to exist. He realizes it is men such as the members of the American Chamber of Comamerce in London who will give the answer. He urged the membership to serve the United States to the limits of their strength, and felt sure they will be equal to any emergency. Stanley Machin voiced the opinion that if any two nations ever were destined to stand togther, they were the English speaking nations of Amer- ica and England. By theif united ef- forts the future peace and happiness of the world avould be secured. Singularly enough, only a short time ago official statistics were adduced in this country forecasting.an expected terial inereade In our foreign trade the American | He has always been asso- | ciated with business affairs and pro- | oo TING STARS. §noo | BY PHILANDER JOHNRON. | Ancient Altercation. Grim-visaged War we know Has smoothed his rufed front. Yet rum fleets boldly go To brave the battle’s brunt. And this old world anew Is found upon the brink Of quarrel as to who Shall pay up for the drink! Opportunities Ignored. “Christopher Columbus ended his days in povert: #That was his hard luck,” answered Senator Sorghum. “Things mignt have been different if Chris had besn as ex- pert realtor as he was a navigator.” ‘The Mournful Motorist. Out in the cold world, Out in the street, The motorist wanders In sorrow tomplete! Starting at daybreak, Driving till dark, Losing his job, ‘Cause there's no place to park! | | Jud Tunkins says a loafin’ job al- ways needs an expert conversation- alist to hold it. The Title. “It is rumored that you are going to marry a titl “I gave up the idea,” answered Miss Cayenne, “after getting acquainted with the first few chapters of the life story.” As Winter Lingers. About the “'good old Summertime" We gayly used to sing. We tear that in this modern clime They aren’t no such thing!" “Dar would be a heap more respect foh evolution,” said Uncle Eben, “if dar was any chance of a monkey turnin’ out to be a rich relatian . NDAY this case has eventually been brought | 1of 4 1o 3. The facts in the case, it d Post. | was | fare change. The airplane may be used | been available during the Boer war | It enough plants and systems re.| STAR, THOMAS R. MARSHALI Former Vice President of the United States. Recently while suffering a slight dis- turbance to my pulse I came to the conclusion that contemplation of the disturbance was not a good thing. This caused me to consider the world's pulse and to wonder whether constant contemplation of it was advisable. There is always to be noted, of course, a certain derangement of the pulse of the world. This arises from many ills which vex the body politic—envy, hatred, malice, pride, greed, selfish: ness, ambition, other evils, each of which agitates the pulse and keeps it from beating regularly and normally. After numerous futile efforts to en- able the world to lift itself up by pulling en its bootstraps, we have dis- | covered, T helieve, that Christian civili. zation is the only anti-toxin that will destroy the zerms which threaten the world. But there are so many doctors, legitimate and quacks, who are diagnosing the condition of the world, viewing with alarm every slight dis. j turbance to its life and prescribing for i the ills they discover, that, we'are kept in constant worry. As a result of my own recent indisposition I am inclined to believe that the jumpy condition of the world's pulse is'causcd. in part, by the never-ending discussion of the world’s condition. Day by day we are told that the world is growing worse, and admonished that unless something is done at once it is in for & long spell of sickness, if not for utter dissolu- tion. * % % % . These doctors may believe all they are saving about the world's condi- tion, but the effect upon the patient is not gooc It would be better, it seems to me, merely to prescribe remedies without tertprizing the patient with the thought that unless a specific remedy s tried he will grow worse and probably die. Every one knows, of course. that the world is sick, and all wish to aid it, =0 why publicly an- nounce conflicting diagnoses which complicate and aggravate. Some of the doctors may not be gompetent to make an accurate diagnosis: of this an incompetent dlagnostician is wholly unfit to prescribe a cure. So long as evil existx in the hearts of men the world lagain to be drawn into w: | Balkans now are on the verge of other outbreak if reports are | These stories of assassination. of un rest. of unwillingness to recognize constituted authority, naturally are disturbing. With the horrors of the great war vividly remembered, our minds inevitabiy turn to that incident At Sarajevo where a madman threw a match into a keg of powder. Because of that incident shivers creep up the spines of men and women who long The an true. from the Balkans. Yet knowing, as we all know, that evil and danger are there, we keep talking to the world about the Balkans. No wonder the world has a jumpy pulse. * % % % The World War came on at a time when *everybody believed that the peace of Europe was assured. No one dreamed that the assassination of the crown prince would lead to the world wide results that followed. But now the world knows better. entx of Europe better understand They realize fully the potential dan better for the world to assume that recurrence of serious dixaster will he prevented? Our dangers usually come when we believe we are safe. Ordi narily we avoid dangers which we know to he near. The question as to whether ethyl gas, the fuel that abolishes the “knoek™” in gasoline engines, is so dangerous that its manufacture and use by the general public should be restricted or prohibited is to be con |sidered at a nation-wide conference {to be held in Washington, beginning May 20 and continuing for several days. Surg. Gen. Hugh S. Cumming of the Federal Bureau of Public Health {called the conference as a result of the controversy that arose following the sudden deaths of several workmen in Eastern manufacturing or experi- mental plants. Pending the conclusions formulated been stopped voluntarily by nfacturers, This action nounced in a statement in which it was said that “as a controversy has |arisen among scientists as to the uiti- imate effects on the public health of Ithe general use of this fuel, and the surgeon general of the United States has issued an invitation for a con- ference at which all available informs tion will he considered. the directors of the Ethyl Gasoline Corporation have decided to discontinue distribution. At this conference the corporation hopes that a constructive program of in- vestigation may be worked out.” A Representative Conference. The conference will include repre sentatives of the manufacturers, head- ed by Dr. W. Gilman Thompson of New York City. chairman of the med ical advisory, board of the industrs representatives of the Federal Bureau of Public Health and of the health services of all the States and the four largest cities in the _country, and rep- resentatives of the National Research Council, the National Safety Council and the American Federation' of Labor. There will also be present and par- ticipating various experts from or- ganizations and institutions such as the Bureau of Mines, the Chemical Warfare Service and Columbia Uni- versity, which have done a great deal of research work in connection with poisonous gases, and a number of scientists of national reputation. in- cluding Dr. David Edsall, dean of the Harvard School of Public Health: Dr. Alice Hamilton of the Harvard School of Industrial Hygiene, who is a_ree- ognized authority on industrial poison- ings: Dr. Cecil Drinker and Dr. Reed Hunt, also of Harvard; Dr. C. E. A. ‘Winslow, professor of public health at Yale: Prof. Randall Henderson of Yale. an_expert on poisonous gases, and Dr. Wililam Howell and Dr. Mar- shall of Johns Hopkins University, A Great Discovery. thyl gas is made by adding to ordinary gasoline a fluid of which tetraethyl lead s the active con- stituent. The discovery that a very small quantity of this fluid per gallon will do away with the knock that Is especially troublesome in high com. pression motors. or when a mixture of kerosene and gasoline is used in ordinary motors, was hailed as one of the great achievements of modern industrial chemistry. Scientists claim that it" made possible the build- ing and operation of a high com- pression motor that would double: the utilization of the latent power in line. ‘The use of tetraethyl lead was developed by the General Motors Re- search Corporation after seven years of experimental work at Dayton, Ohio. The scientists of the country officially this as one of the greatest accomplishments of the year in chem- ical engineering by awarding the Nichols medal to Thomas Midgely of the General Motors organization. 1924 ethyl fluid was dfs- ted to the eonsuming public at the man- was an- WASHINGTON, Marshall Holds It Inadvisable Capital Sidelights Constantly to Note World’s Pulse we cannot he sure, although we know | of course. is lable | for peace whenever a_rumbling comes | The govern- | gers of the present: so would it not be | at 1fix gathering sale of the gax has| D. C, MAY the election of Gen. von Hindenburg was calculated to pro- duce jumpiness in the pulse of the world. I repeat some of the comments: “The flags have been run up Doorn’: “The old Emperor takes on renewed life’”: “Hindenburg is a roy- alist of rovalists’: “The monarchy may return.’ It was suggested in many quarters that Germany might seek to expiate what she regards as her gri€vances by another war. Of course, revenge und hatred In the heart of a people always may be counted on to bring disturbance to the public pulse, but too much con templation of it, Overstatements of dread and fear hecause of its possi bility and unjustified certainty #re quite likely to aggravate the situation. I have always belleved that if ¢ many had known that England would back up Belglum and France we would not have had the World War. Because of this helief 1 doubt very much ‘that Germany ever will wage a war of revenge. fiven if auch a war should he contemplated in the future it would be averted by an allfance be- tween England and France to main tain the Integrity of their houndar; I prefer ghis hopeful view to the views which hve worried the world since Germany's election. P Comment on Critice of the League of Nations say it is made up of idealists who talk and {dealize and do nothing else, lack- ing power ta do more. S according to these critics, this dream of the good men of all the ages i what a Russlan Communist characterized it | —organized impotency. Their pre- | diction now as In the past is |h>a| the league soon will go to pleces. Yet the league Is not a failure, and It is not helping the world to say that it is | If the league achieves nothing fur thar, it has inspired men and women the world around to long for the formation among the peoples of the earth of a compaect which may reduce to a minimum the chance of war. Others there are who hold that only way to prevent war is to | international law and set up a world urt. his is wholly desirable If it ean be done. but the world must not he assured that choas and black nizht re hand unless this is ac. complished Law comes efther from a law-giver who has the power to enact and to enforce, or from repre sentativ whon have heen gzranted | such power by the people whom they | represent. International law always has worked well in times of peace, but never has there heen effective iInter. | national law in the midst of arms. To | create a body of international la de. | sirable as this is, would be one of | the Aify the most difficult tasks of law-making the world ever has seen. It was tried | at The Hague tribunal, vet interna tional law fell to pleces in the World | War It would be wonderful. indeed. to have a real code of international law | | universally agreed (o, to have this | code adopted by the legislative bodies of all the nations which enter into the | agreement, and to have a guarantee that the decisions of the world | will be enforced, but let us not dismayed if eutoplu Is not discovered within our lifetime. Rather let us | each strive to get nearer the right Idew. As we grow in numbers we may | feel sure that we are helping the world toward peace. Let us not minimize the dangers of our the other hand. let us not allow the doctors to make our pilse so jumpy that we shall lose faith in the ultimate triumph of Christian etvili- | zation. i (Coprrieht. IS ETHYL GAS DEADLY? BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN | filling stations from one quart steel bottles attached to the gasoline | pumpe. Motorists could have it put |into their gas or not, as they pre- ferred. At the end of the vear more |than 10,000 filling stations had been | equipped to supply the ethyl fiuid and | over 2,000,000 gallons of ethyl gas had heen consumed [to put the fluid in the gasoline at | the refinery and distribute the product las_ethyl gas | Ten fatalities occurred among | workmen in experimental plants, but it is claimed that they were all in connection with the manufacture of tetraethyl lead and that there have been no casuaities in the distribution of the ethyl fluld or gax. Danger to Garage Workers. | However, it is recognized that the new discovery presenis a three-fold | danger to garage workers—first, from {inhaling motor exhaust: second. in handlinz engine parts covered with lead. and. third. from spilling ethyl gax_on the hands and clothes. “Tetraethyl lead is a remarkably active poison, taking first place among the metallic poisons.” says the New York Industrial Hygiene Bulle- tin. “It was first made by chemiats in 1854. The symptoms are both sub- |jective and objective. The patient | first complains of persistent insomnia and usvally of more or less nausea with vomiting. He feels restless and nervous and tired. He loses all ap- petite and hegins to lose weight. Subjectively. one of the first symp- toms noticed is a marked drop in syatolic blood pressure, whigh fre- quently falls below 100 and sometimes below 90. There may be some diml nution in the pulse rate and in some cases a_subnormal temperature. Con- siderable anemia develops. although no paralysis. In the extremely severe cases there is acute delirium of sud- den onset of the type familiar with delirium tremens. Death ensues from exhaustion Lead-poisoning by inhaling exhaust from motors using ethyl gas is said to be a remote possibility, comparable in probability to the chance of carbon monoxid poisoning in the same ex- haust gas, and the maximum possible quantity of lead dust in the-air would offer less hazard than the carbon mon- oxid hazard that exists in every ga- rage at the present time. There is mueh more danger from the deposit of lead inside the motor and exhaust passages. as an average car would prebably use 500 gallons of ethyl gas in a season. which would | possible that nearly two pounds of very finely divided and poisonous lead would be found in the small space oc- cupied by the cylinder and exhaust gas passages, and this would consti. tute a very real hazard to garage me- chanies and repairmen. The Greatest Danger. The third danger, that of absorption through the skin, is said to be the greatest. Filling station attendants and customers as well will spill the motor fuel over their hands and cloth- ing. Tetraethyl lead is an oily com- Ipound, readily absorbed by the skin, and being less volatile than gasoline it remains on' the hands longer. ‘However, scfentists are by no means certain as to the extent of the haz- ards of using ethyl gas. “That i3 what we hope to learn.” says Dr. Lewis R. Thompson. who is assisting the Surgeon General in ar- ranging the conference, “and it is our purpose to ascertain what safeguards should be thrown around the manufac- ture, distribution and general use of the gas. If there age no known safe- guards, then we shall endeavor to evolve a program of needed investiga- tive work.” 3 | One warning may be issued to the general publie at this time: Don't do cleaning with motor fuel, 17, 1925 at | time: on | Then it was decided | contain 3.3 pounds of lead. Thus it s | —PART 2. In these brooding days of com- mencement exercises it is opportune to consider how great debt the Gov- | ernmeht and country owes to one col- | lege, which is within a day's easy ! automobile ride of the National Cap- ital—old Willlam and Mary College, at Willlamsburg, Va.. which is today en-| joying a renaissance unparalleled in | the history of the world. i It was the first royal college in America, there the Phi Beta Kappa Soclety was founded 149 years ago, there also were instituted the first eleciive system of studies and ihe first college honor system. It was the first American college to establish a school | of law, & school of modern languages, #a school of history and a school of po Itical economy. It old main build- ing, still in use, was erected In 1697,/ rafferton Indian School building 3 and its president’s house in 1732, Thix college has given the Nation 3 Presidentx — Thomax Jefferson. Jamex Monroe and John Tvier: 4 justices of the United States Supreme Court—the great John Marshall. John Blair, Bushrod Washington and Philip F. Barhour: i signers the Dec- laration of Independence—Gaorze | Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, Carter | Draxton and Renjamin Harrison: 15 members of the Continental Con. gress, including its first president. | Peyton Randolph: 4 Secretaries of | States 4 Attorneys General, 12 for- elgn ministers, 21 United States Sen- ators and 3 Speakers of the House of Representatives. 1t has given to the State of Vir ginia 21 governors and 21 judges of the Court of Appeals. Today it has an enroliment of more {than 900 college students, as many more in its extension department and more than 750 attending its Summer school. On the letterhead of this col- lege is printed the apt quotation from | Ruskin—"Our duty ix to preserve | what the past has had to say for it self, and 1o say for ourselves also what shall be true for the future.” Ax may well be expected, thix vet eran and unique college has a price- less collection of historical manu- scripts and records, including the minutes of the first ‘meetings of the Phi Beta Kappa Soclety, which are housed in a modern library bullding, and in the custody of K. who is well known as an authority on | historical research. Though living in such historic ciation, and with daily access 10 o nal chronicles of the most atirring and eventful davs in the entire history of this Nation. written hy hand by the men whose nipies today are revered | as “fathers the ecountry” and |“framers of e Constitgtion,” the! {nearly 1,000 s@idents in William and | Mary's todax are kept in close touch with the histogy and politics of tod: Dr. J. G. Polrd. one of the ablest | men the Stat® of Virginia has pro duced in the Ist century, whose for- bears took leading parts in the foun- dation of George Washington Uni- versity, who recently served as Fed- eral trade commissioner, is in charge of this course at the college, having sacrificed more fattering offers else where o devote himself—as have | other brilliant men including Dr. J. A. | 1. Chandler, the president, and Rev.| Willlam A. R. Goodwin. D. D.. the fiscal manager—to the marvelous | restoration of this pioneer educational institution - | * x % % | delightful MEN AND BY ROBERT When young Col. Theodore Roose- velt sailed away for big game in India he left behind him a manuseript on fishing. The colonel, who had served under Mr. Coolidge as Assistant Sec- retary of the Navy up to tha time he made his ill-fated run for Governor of New York, had not heard, at the time of salling, of the President’s dictum that fishing was really a sport for small bovs only. Col. Roosevelt de- livers a perfect’ panegyric on the art of angling, and it is plain to be seen that if ever he should join issues with the President in public debate he would easily get the verdict. The colomel's article, printed in the May Scribner. declares that fishing was recommended by Canon Lawt to the clergy of England in the olden times as “favorable to the héalth of their bodies and specially thelr souls.” He further relates that Dame Juliana Berners. an established prioress. to ward the end of the fifteenth century. wrote: “If the angler take fysshe, surely then ix there no man merrier than he is in his spryte.” After con fessing to his love of the sport since he was a “rather dirty, thoroughly sunburned and much scratched little hoy on the end of the pier at Oyster Bay.” the colonel continue: Fly fzhing, like fishing in zeneral, ix one of the oldest sports the world affords, lived ini the River Astreus, in the hol low Vale of Tempe. which he describes ax speckled and living in swift waters. This fish, he says, is caught with an imitation’ insect. Unquestionably we have here our friend the trout. and here we have, as far as I know. the Aelian speaks of a fish that | AFFAIRS T. SMALL. there may perhaps he a revelation in a reminiscence of the late President unearthed by the writer in some all but forgotten notes of association with Mr. Wilson on his trip to the Pacific coast after the conference of Paris in 1919. Mr. Wilson was relating som ©0i the experineces in the French cap! tal. ¢ “I apent most of my spare time. said, “receiving delegations from ends of the earth, from places 1 never heard of hefore. 1 do not think they were in my geography when I was at school. If they were, I had forgotten them. Did you ever hear of Adjur-Badjan? Well, & ve digni fied gronp of fine iooking men came in one dav from Adhan. 1 did not dare to ask them where it was 1 | did not dare to ask them what lan | guage they spoke. 1 looked 1p Adhan secretly afterward and found it wa a_very prosperous valley. lying sonth ( the Caucasus, and that it had &reat and ancient eivilization. “They knew ahout us if we did noi { know about them. They knew what | America 8tood for and they had come to me figuratively speaking with nu stretched hands and said. "‘We the guidance. help and advice America.’ And they said other things until my heart grew fearful and 1 | had to beg them nat to expert the impossible.” he & * | Card sharpe. Wwany of them driven from the seas, are infesting the more exclusive trains of America, and. sad 1o relate, are findinz plenty of “poor fish” willing to swim into their ners The fleecing goes on almost dafly, de s first reference to artificlal flies, of which, incidentally, he describes the manufactur Martial also alludes to it. Our .sport. therefore. is not only and ever new, but it ix sanctified by time and tradition. So none of us fishermen needs at any time apologize for our beloved sport.” Col. Roosevelt tells of meeting in Wisconsin last Summer Judge Jacobh M. Dickinson. who was Secretary of War in President Taft’s cabinet. The Judge was born well more than three- score years and ten ago, but when the colonel last saw him he was rowing | his grandson. who was trolling. Here was a first and third generation of fishermen, equally eager, equallv en wrapped in the spori. The colonel ends his story by wishing good luck tn all fishermen and exclatming in the words of Izaak Walton “‘thev he snch honest. efvil. quiet men."” A true pen picture of Calvin Cool- idge, one would he inclined to say. if already the President had not declared his thorough lack of interest or sym. pathy with the sport. 5 * ok ox % To those who always have pictured Woodzow Wilson as a sort of super. man. who believed he knew avery. thing of consequence in the world This and That By Charles E. Tracewell. If you want to see one of the most Four great institutions of the Fed leral Government in Washington are | | now engaged on a great humanitarian | work in behalf of those afflicted with | blindness, und hundreds of Govern-| ment emploves are devoting spare time to help the work. Columbia In-| stitution for the Deaf. under the De-| partment of the Interior. with Presi. | dent Coolidge as patron (ex-officio), and | supported hy Federal appropriations. | lis the only institution of its kind in| |the world educating bovs and’ girls | whovare deaf or dumb. 1 The American Red Cross is engaged | in a nation-wide effort in behalf of the {blinded soldiers and civilians. The {United States National Museum. in | the Smithsontan Institution. has just | instalied an exhibit covering the his- tory and the methods by which the blind have been furnished with read- | ling matter. This main exhibit is sup. | plemented by traveling exhibitions | |circulated throughout the country. so | that all the people of the country will | | have an opportunity to better appre- | clate the help that can be given to the sightless In the blind roem of the Library of | Congress sensitive finger tips are {moving with meticulous care over pages of Braille duplication done by Government_employes and submitted by the Red Cross | Mrs. Gertrude Rider is the national adviser in Braille for the Red C The return of the blinded soldier hrought forth country-wide offers, par- | ticularly from the women of the Na- | tion, and methods of duplicating the best in literature. =0 that the hlind may read through their sense of touch. Fven the imperfect iranscriptions rejected by the experts in the I i | amusing developments of modern eity life journey down to F street this afterno There, find progr new f the day ix bright varfous curbstone par . Thisx tendency. s in Washington. seems 1 will in mewhat to_have jreached its zenith this Spring At various corpers, or along the street. or on streets intersecting and near the corners, you are very likely to_see big automoblles drawn up In them sit jaunty vounz men, known as “sheiks. voung fellows from 18 to vears old. who wear their hair tremendously slicked hack and sport the lightest of light-gray suits. Some of these dapper vouths loll on the sidewalk. It goes without saving that they are hatless. How eise less coiffure, so-s0? What chappie would go to all the trouble of applying Makeitstay. faith- fully if he had to cover it all up with an old hat? So the boye stand bareheaded. ad miring their own beauty in the shop windows. Each man of them is torn between the desire 1o spend hix time looking at the drape of his own trou- sers and keeping an eve open for Betty. Betty generally wins. Secure in the helief that his own appearance is perfect. thix F street laddie manages to miss few Betties as the latter amble. stroll and vari y walk adown the paved way. *ox o % every hair lving just The game seems to consist of imag- ining that one is perfect, at the same time attempting to make the zirls feel the same way about him. brary of Congress who are themselves Dblind, vet fill a great need and are sent to individuals all ower this land | for their entertainment. It goes to the blind who, il and dispirited, are denied access even to the very limited | literature that has heen tvped or! printed in raised points. They are| the blind with tuberculosis or other | contaglous diseases whose would infect the books for general readers. To them in their isolation and loneliness. even the poorest ex- amples of Braille are a blessing. The copying of masterpleces of lit- erature into Braille is a task that brings the transcriber a double biess- ing—in the conscfousness of having done a deed of charity and in becom- ing familiar with our classics in a way rot to be erased by time. A new land of delight is being opened up in this way to ‘those who dwell in darkness. Ceimes | | | Out of a railroad tunnel being built under a river eomes a long file of workmen—their day’s labor- done. BAt passersby observe that each wears pinned to the lapel of his coat a white ecard This informs the public—particularly policemen and prohibition agents—“Do not arrest this man if he is =seen to reet and stagger in a drunken, unaccountable matiner. > The reason is that the man has been working in high-air pressure underground, which, if suddenly re- {leased leaves him flighty and un- steady. If he comes from his subter- |ranean labors too suddenly. death may result or he may suffer from a ainister disease known as the “bends."” This is an illustration of thé inter- esting and valuable information on industrial accidents contained in the new industrial edition of the Amer- |ican Red Cross text book on First Ald. This book is jointly edited by Col. Charles Lynch, Medical Corps of the Army, and Lieut. Col. M. J. Shields, Medical Reserve Corps, U. S. Army. This book has been welcomed and is being widely requisitioned from the Red Cross headquarters by American industrial establishments. * % ¥ % Training of sound bodies as well as active brains is on the upgrade. John J. Tegert, the United States commis- sioner of education, points out that this is shown in studies made by the Federal Bureau of Education. To give & nearby example—physical education is a required subject in all public ele- mentary and high schools of Vir. ginia. To stimulate interest in the matter, especially in rural sections, the State Board of Education offers special financial aid to countfes and cities empl physical directors conducting ocourses in ‘henith l Now to helieve that one combines perfection In one perfect form must be a wonderfully satisfying feeling. No wonder the F street “cowboys.” some call them, regard themselves with admiration akin to worship. Reing perfect, imperfect Betty needs must “fall” for the glorious creature. As far as the casual observer can tell. lowing of acquaintances. The boys eve every girl that passes. but break into gladsome smiles when a couple of ladies whom they know come along. The comraderie fits this so-called ‘“‘jazz age.” Climbing into the automobile, the | two giris take out cigarettes, light up talking and laughing cach girl wears tight little and puff awa with the boys. dress, light-colered stockings, hat. Each has hobbed hair. which, it must be confessed, becomes her very mucl The outery against this style of hai dressing—or should it be called hair- cutting?—has been futle, as such clamors usually are. Bobbed hair. along with short skirts, has come to stay among the feminine contingent. We make this prediction boldly. without any modification what- ever. The return to long skirts has failed miserably. and 9§ out of 10 wom- en have hobbed hair. 1t is the new freedom about. you read o %o Dr. Inge. the “gloomy dean.” dis. tinguished visitor to the United States, probably will heartily deplore these Sunday afternoon gatherings on F street, if he should visit the Natiofal Capital. He will be told that last vear F street was as quiet as a village on the Sabbath. Yet why need one worry ahout this manifestation? It is merely the froth on the cup of city life, sound and fury signifying nothing. Yonder young man. smiling so superiorly, ‘a8 he eves your terribiy unfashionable topcoat, makes $20 a week jerking soda, and feels better the whole week long for standing out here Sunday and aneering at you and the generai populace. Who would deny him ation? It being fashionably garhed makes one feel the equal of A man who has done something great in the world, well, is not that a very easy way to come into a comfortable feeling? The little jar of Makeitstay does more than slick the hair, evidently. It slicks up the old inferiority com- plex, and allows one to look out upon the world as an equal with 41l who pass. As an aqual? Bless your heart, Sec- retary Mellon would feel abashed at this sidewalk company! Mr. Hoover, wonderful man that he is, would sud denly realize that his trousers were not cut along just the proper line. There is no great or good man that this recre- spite the fact that the Pullman (a | his regarded the swindlers as enough lof a menace 1o post plainly worded | warnings in ail their ‘Do not plav cards with strangers,” the signs admonixh, hut evidently P | T. Barnum spoke for all time wher he said there was one born every min ute, and two to take him in | On a trip from New York 1o Lounis ville the past week the writer oh served a trio of sharps at work. Their vietim was a Cineinnati man who was traveling with his wife. He had agreed to “make 4 fourth at hridge with exceedinzly small stakes. Then came the old. old siory The game was transformed finte poker. Ten cent limf1 Whe wonldn't take o chance. The victim gzot wonderful hands. He azreed tn table stakes When he complained later in conductor of the train the latter fered to have the men arreated. he said he would have to prefer charges against the complainant = well for participating in an unlawful game. Needleas to sav the omplaint wasn't pressed. The card plave alighted during the night. The vic: had to horrow tips and taxi fare from his exasperated wife. (Copyright !F ifty Years Ago In The Star Appeals to the public to spare the verdure and the flowers in the Distrigt Apnead fons 2= oot entirely mod. ern. They were heard Shrubbery. h#!f # century azo. a< in 7 <hown by the following he Star of May 11, 1875 “One of the first favorahle sions upon the mind of a stranger when visiting our city is that made by the prodigality of space reserved for |1andscape and floral decorations, and which fs availed of in a manner alike creditable 1o the zood taste and lih eral spirit of the people. Large sums of money are annually spent in setting ont and keeping in order trees, deco. rative shrubbery and flowers which are not onlv the personal property of ‘lh' individual but are held in common by the entire community, whose pride huy impres icould one properly display his faults | they are. and whose bounden duty it |18 1o shield and preserve them. Thix | spirit should animate all. and there {fore it is a matter of surprise to know that there are persons in our midst | who are so lost 1o the properties of | taste and of common deceney as to | wantonly cut and destroy what all should reverence. Trees are hacked. grass is unnecessarily trampled upon | plants and shrubs are trodden down and flowers-are mercilessly dug up or euticre % It is not necessary that one should be one of the oldest Washingionians to The Washington remember 1 he | white.coated or | Light Infantry. ganization that 50 vears ago w: | the pride of Washington as its eitizen | soldfery. Trf The Star of May 12. 1575, is a reference fo the Washington Light Infantry as follows “Tt will not be altogether rreditahie to the District of Columbia if it i not represented at the Runker Hill celebra | tion next June. when all the States, Territories and municipalities of the country outside of Washingion are to send military or civic delegations. It would be especially derogatory tn our =elf respect should it happen through our remissness that the military or touch | each curbstone group has its own fol- | ganization of some other citv—Ralti more, for instance —should step in and carry off the honors of escort duty the President of the Inited States, taking with them at the same time our Marine *Band. The natural inguiry | would be throughout the country. if | the District of Columbia has no citizen soldiery, or the people no patriotic ipride in the national demonstration. | A= a matter of fact we have a good, | well-drilled military organization, the Light Infantry Corps, which, headed by soldierly Col. Moore, will do no dis credit to the District amidst the best of the military bodies taking part in the display at Boston. The members have already equipped themselves at heavy expense and would, no doubt, cheertully spend more money in order 1o be present in creditable force and condition at the celebration, but they could not he expected to shonlder the whole outlay of the trip. In other places the citizens of means 2nd public spirit have promptly raised the monex to send military delegations to Roston and we doubt not onr citizens will readily do the same if the apportunity were presented 1o them: Who will set the ball in motion?™ . - . x Fifty vears ago, until an order was issued by the District Commissioners g o c- Cattle in prohibiting the pra tice, it was_permittad | the Streets. ' drive "livestock | Washington through the streets of and Georgetown. Ac- cording to The Star of May 15, 1875 this practice had resulted in serious damage to the city: ‘Some of the parks are disfigured, the fences broken and shrubhbery de. stroyed. The order ig not intended to prevent the leading of cows and other stock by halter or otherwise when under the control of keepers or the | necessary exercise of stock properlv guarded to prevent trespass. This order will have the effect of doinz away with one of the principal nui sances complainad of by the property holders on Virginia and Liarvland ave nues, the cattle pen: on thoae thor- oughfare: these curbstone boys would not' laugh at, no sweet, gracious woman that they would not look at. no =aint that they could not find some fault with. Their little lives are rounded with | this Sunday afternoon jauntiness, so why should any one say them nay Time, faithful old Time, will set them right at last.