Evening Star Newspaper, June 3, 1925, Page 6

=6 THE EVENING With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY . ..June 3, 1925 THEODORE W. NOYES.,..Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Compauy Business Office: 11th St. and Pennasivania New York Office: 110 East Chicazo_Office: Tower European Office* 18 Rexent St. England. Ave. d St inie London, ;2 The Eveninc Star, with the fax edition. fa dslivered hy car: 1 GS’:{. at 60 (‘NI‘I ':r :‘nh’nlq ber month: Kundi Srdern e Twent By matl or teleAhone Main 5000, Collection is made by carrler at (he ond of each month. 'R‘lle By Mail—Payable in Advance. 5 Maryland and Virginia. r.. 8R.40: 1 mo. RS TR ner month_ i)yxuv and Sunday. ily anlv . Anday only All Other States. » Member of the Associated Press. “The Associated Press is exclusively entitisd o the use for republication of all news dis- satches credited 1o It or not otherwise cred- ed in this paper and aled the locnl newa Rublished harein. All rights of publication ©F abecial dispatches hersin — The Highway of the Air. In the great field of communica- tions which bring the entire 43 States of the Union today more closely to- gether than were the 13 original States lying along the Atlantic coast, the mail service has long been a ploneer. It Is taking the lead today in airplane communication, has been taking it for a considerable time, and with a record of accomplishment that would malke the imaginings of a Jules Verne pale in comparicon. Evéntually, the air mail will lead to a great com- mercial development of the airplane fn this country. In fact, there is réason to belfeve that daye of ploneer- ngz in air transportation are nearly at an end in this country and that stabilized and effective freight and passenger services will. soon be es. tablished. When that day arrives, the problem of the aircraft industry in America will have been successtully solved, and along with it, in large part, the problam national defense. The Post Office Department, after careful survey of the route and the service needs, {8 about to begzin an - overnight air mall service bétween the est centers of the country and Chicago. Already these cities are linked by the air mail service which traverses tha continent. The new service is in a measure but it will énable business men in New York to mail letters each évening ‘and have them delivered early next morning in Chicagd. and vice versa. The Post Office Depurtment is to be congratulated on the it has done in blazing the air trails The fostering hand of the Govern- ment has been behind the develop- ment of the science of air trivel and the building up of the aircraft in- dustry. It has expended millions of dollars toward the improvement of sir communications. The aigns now point to the entry of private capital on a large of commercial alr Poutes. Such a route {5 about to link Chicago and Detroit. If it proves successful, and there {s every reason to belleve that it will, the fteld of air communcation undoubtedly will be widely extended until many of the great centers of population and industry are brought measureably closer. As announced by the department the overnight air mail service be- tween Chicago and New York is to bégin July 1. Emergency fields have been established fn the mountain regions ‘of Pennsylvania, and beacons will mark the way of the air mall carrlers. In its thorough wdy, the department is taking every precaution to make the service a suc- cess from its start, and test flights are being made nightly to give the cempletest information. ——eon— The retivement of Mussolini must impress his followers as a calamity. In choosing D’Annunzlo as his succes- sor, they paid their old leader a trib- ute; evidently seeking the most bril. liant and aggressive flgure available. They are not likely, however, to find the great poet as convincingly calm in | an emergency as was the master poli- tician. R The possibilities of comparison are 80 numerous, 6wing to the careful rec- or@s of the Weather Bureau, that #very exceptionally warm day may be reférred to as breaking some kind of a récord. As a matter of fact, the aver- age conditions from Veyg to year do not vary to the sensational degres that might seem implied. —wons. Gov. Smith Facing Criticism. In an off-year {n politics irritations, intrinsically of small consequence, as- sume larger provortions, being magni. fied by conditions. Small “scraps” are prone to devélop into rows. Such a situation is now being presented in Naw York State politics, foreshadow- ing hard sledding ahéad for Gov. Emith in his proposition to sécure an amend- ment to the State constitution au- thérizing a bond issue of $100,000,000 over a 10-year period for funds to be expended by the State for new bufld- ings and “other public expenditures.” ‘Whether Gov. 8mith makes his next essay in national politics as a candi- daté for United States Senator in 1986, or “for the presidential nomina- ton in 1928, he is not likely to go Into the fight unscathed from wounds tn. ficted in ‘the preliminaries. The Re. publicans have entered upon the of- fensive which has been in preparation sifice Gov. Bmith last Winter forced a surplus-reducing fiscal .policy on a reluctant Legislature. Former Gov. Miller énd Represent. ative Ogden Mills, Republicans, in a joint statement, have aimed a heavy bombardment against the .proposed constitutional amendment for the bona issue. .George K. Morrls, Rebublican Staté chairman, has emphatically de- nied stetements from supporters of Gov. Smith’s park éxtension policy that enough Republican members of the Senaté and Assembly have been con- verted o the park plan to make pos- sible - enactment of legislation the Governor 15 demanding in case he de- STAR| of more adequate | splendid work | scale into’ the development | landing | | cides to call a special session of the Leglislature. The Miller-Ogden statement alleges that the $100,000,000 Lond issue, as | proposed, would be a definite aban- jdonment of the policy adopted in 1846, land steadily udhered to since then, re- quiring the submission to the people of each definite proposal for the bor: rowing of money. The statement claims that & lim{tation of $100,000,000 is deceptive. It-will be difficult, it is contended, to turn back from a 10- |vear program of borrowing for con- stantly recurring construction pur- poses. Such a program would relieve |the requirements of current revenue lonly at the start. 1t was pointed out that the needs of the past have been met out of current revenues. The State has never borrowead money prior to the adoption of the $50,000,000 pro- gram of hospital construction. That was a definite project submitted to and upproved by the people. [t Is now proposed to add to that program a . 10-year $100,000,000 gen- eral construction program with the difference that whereas previously the people were permitted to vote on that ! project, the present proposal is to give the Legisluture u blank check to spend $100,000,000 as it will. It is quite evident that the Repub- licans of New York State are in an aggressive and militant mood and bent upon making trouble for Gov. Smith, calculated to impalr his polit- fcal prestige. ! ! ———— e The Annapolis Movie. President Coolidge has with entire propriety prévented any utilization of the graduation exercises at Annapolis teday for the purpose of promoting a motion picture “drama,” in which one of the participants appears as a naval cadet in correct uniform and is depict- ed as receiving his diploma as a gradu- ate from the hands of the Chief Execu- tive. It would have been highly im- proper for such a scene to be enacted in the course of the formal ceremonies. Other features of the projected film, however, will be permitted. Indeed, al- ready during the preliminaries to graduation much sensitised gelatin has been exposed at Annapolis in the de. velopment of the theme of the film play. The chief actor has been min. | sling with the cadets, taking his place |in line, and the cadet corps has been | drilled and paraded and reviewed to | turnish the “atmosphere” of the plc- | ture. To this end the heavy dark uni- | forms of the corps have been required, . greatly to the discomfort of the cadets | in this warm period. The soclal affairs jat the academy have been regulated ! by the requirements of the film pro- | ducer, and much dissatisfaction has | been caused in consequence. { Ttisto be hoped that this is the last { time any such performance is permit- | ted at the Naval Academy or at any other institution of the Government, | Use of Federal establishments as-‘“io- | cations” is permissible &0 long as the ! personnel is not made directly a part jof the picture and not put to incon- | venience or discomfort thereby. Cer- | {tainly the cadets of thé Naval Acad. | | emy should not be used as supers in | any commercial film. It has been urged that such a mo- tion picture would be of gréat service | In advertising the United States Navy. To what end, it may be asked? For re- cruiting? For inducing larger appro- priations? Surely Congress is com- petent without such & stimulus to de- | termine the size of the naval appro- priation bills, and if thé ranks of the Navy cannot be filled by diréct reeruit | ing methods, no motion picture that | shows the life of an Annapolis cadet will stimulate it to the point of main taining the personnel. ———. Tennessee is not inclined to compli- | cate the issue by undertaking to de-! fine the distinction between an atheist |and an agnostic. This hesitancy may cost the State the distinction of being the scene of one of the brilliant and daring demonstrations characteristic ! ot Clarence Darrow. ot ‘The Hohenzollern family is naturally wishing Von Hindenburg would show a little more sentiment in talking about “the good old times before the war.” . | | i R Confidénce in polar exploration is gréatly strengthened by the fact that Dr. Cook 5 just now so situated that he cannot by any possibility break out and garble the reports. N —— Hot-Weather Advice. In other times advice was fresly given to newspaper readers how to bear themselves in hot weather. When weather such as this came upon the city people were told to keep cool, and there are those who believe that that advice, §00d 60 years ago, may still be good. In the hot weather spells of long ago there was less oriticism or complaint about the weather. Cit- izens were advised not to hurry. Theré weére not so many hurry folk as now. It was urged that people should not run for a street car, and few did. When Mrs. Smith a square away heard the bell of a car horse of the Washington and Georgetown line or the Belt line or the Metro- politan line she would wave her um- brella to the driver, who would stop and wait. If there was a° conductor on the car he did not say “Step lively,” | and reach for the bell cord as thoug! short of temper, but said, “Good morn- ing, Mrs. Smith, take your time."” Those Wwers: other dayvs. There used {o be learned discussions a8 to.what to drihk in hot $veather. ‘Washingtonians were admonished that | in very hot weather they should net drink too much beer and some writers 2ald they ought not to drink beer ot all. It was heating. Then some con- trary-minded fellow would_counter in reply that cool beer was cooling: Per- haps it would be out of place now to urge Washington people that they should keep out of beer gardens ana saloons and that geéntle beverages like lemonade and Potomac wateér are | valuable in hot weather. There w: a good deul of hot weather advice against mint juleps, rickeys, sherry cobblers and sour smashes, now quite outdated. Not-everybody thought to get away from town when the weather got hot. Theré was no kiosk on-the Avenue to frighten them. Someé weaithy peopie £k ! THE- EVENING who lived in the fashionable sections, C street, Four-and-a-half street, In- diana avenue, Missouri avenue and F and G streets would go to spend a week at Long Branch, Cape May or Saratoga, but most Washingtonians sat under the peach and apple trees in the back yard and took an outing at the Bladensburg Spa or a trip on the Mary Washington. There were no efclency experts who Insisted on everybody punching a time clock, and S0 many persons brought their own lunch there was no noon panic at the ple counters, Perhaps one might say that by tak- ing certain precautions a heat wave may not make us fll. We can drink plenty of fiitered water, take cool baths, mix a little common sense with our food, refrain from chasing a trol- ley car to save a minute and take life @8 though today Is not our last on earth, ——————t Commissioner Fenning. In the selection of Frederi “enning to be Commissioner of the! District of Columbia President Cool- idge has made an admirable choice which will be warmly seconded by the community. The President sought for 4 representative, capable man to flll the vacancy caused by the death of Commissioner Oyster. He made a painstaking canvass of all possibilities, listened to recommendations, exam- Ined the civic records of all those pro- posed and gave the District the bene- fit of his best judgment. That his cholee has fallen upon a man of such high qualities as (‘ol. Fenning, a na- tive of this city and a lifelonz resident, is gratitying to =1l Washington. Participating In civic activitiss con- stantly during many years past, Col.| Fenning hus bécome thoroughly ac- quainted with’ the .administrative probléms affecting the District. e has served on numerous citizens' committees in the course of his volun- teer ofganization work, and has al- ways manifested a keen and intelli- gent grasp of the District's fiscal and | municipal affairs, his office at the capacity for He will bring to District Building a prompt understanding and for assumption of responsibility. | During the war he had an experienca | that will-be of value to him now administrative work. it is a matter for congratulation that President Coolidge has persuaded a man of such eminent fitness to leave his professional career for the arduous role of District Commissioner, a sacri- fice for the public welfare which is gratetully appreciatéd by the people of Washington. in R The Supreme Court decision that it is perfectly legal for representatives of corporations to get together and ex- change ideas and opinions will permit the banquets and after-dinner speeches to go on as usual. —_— et Summer wear “for women is con- spicuously comfortable, A man is sup- posed to be serenely impervious to warmth if he has on a straw hat and white shoes. a subject demanding consideration. o Secretary Hoover has gone fishing; thereby demonstrating that a ceértain presidential remark that fishing is a | pastime {or small boys was not intend. ed to be taken seriously as a matter of public policy. ———— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOKNSON A Practical Beginning. Oh, bring along the Trafic Regula- tions! 1 read 'em with a sense of much re- Met, As practical and lucid demonstrations Of how to get away from human grief. / I'm weary of the talk of Evolution, And Astronomic Problems, so ab- struse, And movements to Confuse the Consti- tution And turn our Soclal System on the looge. From PolysylMbles T flee in terror, Derived trom Latin, Greek or dider speech. 1 want a few remarks quite free from error Ana well reach. 1 find the controversial obseérvations So difficult, they nearly break my heart— So. bring along the Traffic Resulativns! Let's study something easy for a starf. within my intellectual Unruly Situation. “Do you think it will be easy to arouse interest in the idea of changing the Senate Rules?” “I'm fot sure,” answered Senator Sorghum. “Some of the proceedings last year have had a pecullar effect. When 1 mentioned Benate Rules to several of the tolks out home they sald they @idn’t know- there were any." —y Jud Tunkins says even reading the Bible won't stop & man with a trouble- some disposition from starting some. thing. Other Customs. “Do you obsérve any difference in the courtesies since women have as. sumed their proper independence. “Yes." replied Miss Cayenne. ““The man who used to say ‘Do you object to ‘Kindly give me Economy. In Fashion's cares Vre still ave lost. The lees she wears, ‘The more the cost! Optical Uncertainty. “Would you.llke to see an old-time one-ring circus?” 2 "No," answered Uncle Bill Bottletop, “I can stand three rings now. But the first time 1 looked’at & two-ringed cir cus I got scared and signed the pledge. I thought I was seein’ double,” “De man dat belie hears," said Uncle Eben, “ia:liable to have to keep changin’ his mind mo’ or less every time somebody meks h. « r went home to dinner that! Dress reform for men is | everything he ; STAR, WASHIN Many a curious glance was cast at the professor as he 8t00d on a down- [town corner walting for his bus to come along. He was 80 unconscious of it all, too, his blue eyes looking amiably out over the tops of his half- glass spectacles. The professor wore an ample black suit, black hat bordering on the shovel varlety, stiff white shirt, with pear! studs, a spotiess wing collar, circled with a black tie that had all the ap- pearance of a ribhon, the bow was so small. Around his shoulders he wora a black rubber cape of a style weldom seen on the streets of Washington or any otheér city. In his hands he held a black leather notebuok, large, capa- vle, Of the sort that allows new pages to be put in at will Against & tres leaned a large—and hlack—leather bag, filled with books |and papers, although it seemed in- tended for groceries. Thus accoutered, and thus surround- .|ed. the professor took from his pocket sky-blue penctl, surmounted by a remendous eraser of red rubber. Then he swung back the front cover of his book and proceeded to correct a few examination papers, Utterly unconscious of the traffic, of pedestrians, of bullding operations go- ing on across the sireet, he devoted the few minutes before the arrival of the bus to checking up the mental status of his scholars. It was while thus engaged that he received the curlous glances of pas- sersby, some of whom even went to the extent of turning around as they {walked to get & better look at the man. * % ok o To mfe he seemed a great deal more than « differently dressed being on a |streot filled with light gray suits, short skirts, and other garments a la |mode. Beneath that cloak and that | hat, inside those garments, was an individual, # man devoted to the in tellactual life. | Well may you stare, thén. curious passerby, for this man i& not as you are. He cares little for the “movies or the base ball games or the thou. sand-and-one happenings that intrigue your gaver fancy. The jovs of the mind re all his happiness, which, pur- suing, give him the gayety which vou |ret in other ways. The professor stood there, it seemed to me, a warning to a_more jovial gen- eration, a verituble signpost, saying to all who had eyes to see: “Walk not too long the primrose path of senses, but turn, before it is oo late, into the philosopher's walk, where the joys of the intellectual life call with sweet voices. Follow me, bright children, and I will show you the true way to happi- ness, which, for man, comes through the proper application of thé mind to the intriguing studies set here by God for us to solve.” With such an fnvitation and because 1 had nothing else to do, I decided to get aboard the bus with the profes- sor and sit, if not exactly at his feet, at least across the aislé from him. Whatever he taught at hix educa- tional institution—one could not imag- ine him calling it a_ ‘“school"—would make no particular difference on this moving observation car. My guess jwas that he was professor of the romance language French, 1 de- decided. was hig sphere. i T felt temped to call him tha “Old Professor,” but a glance from his clear, bright eyes made me hesitate and finally drop the adjective. I would put his age at 50 vears, not a month older. His hands were chubby, yet some- WASHINGTON a Mrs. Coolidge was the recipient at Mercershurg Academy thia week of a heautiful memento of her younger son Calvin, Jr.'s sojourn at that school. | The class of 1925, which has just been | graduated, comprised little Cal's mates. It f¢ the custom at Mercersburg for sach outgoing class to leave a me- | morial of some kind on the campus. The lads of '25 decided, instead .to honor the memory of their departed classmate by bestowing upon his mother a magnificent platinum wrist watch set in dlamonds. The watch was given to Mrs. Coolidge on her visit to Mercersburg to attend the unveiling of a portrait of her boy, pre- sented to the academy by the student body. Mrs, Coolidge is beloved at the school, which both of her boys at- tended. She used to go there fre- quently and ontered into the academy lite with all her native zest. Lieut. Comdr. Joel T. Boone, O of the White House physicians, is an alum- nus of Mercersburg. He wooed and won Mrs, Boone while she was a boarding school girl nearby. * ok k¥ Thomas R. Marshall was Vice Pras. ident when the salary attached to ths office was only $12,000 & year. It wa raised to $15,000 last February. Mar- shall complained ceaselessly and vehe- mently because Uncle Sam paid his second in command so niggardly a wage. Discussing hig financial embar- rassments at Washington with this writer in 1920, Marshall sald: ‘““The Vice President of the United States has the choice of thres alternatives. He can live above his means, he can graft, or hs can make money on the side. 1 eke out my official existence by lecturing and writing.” Then Mar- #hall lamented that he'd never been abla to aiford an automobilé and that his entertaining expenses in a single month that Winter ate up nearly a third of his annual salary. * % ¥ % President Coolldge's advocacy of more governance of their own affairs by the people of the States gives time- liness to a controversy over the origin of Lincoln's ‘‘Govérnment of the peo- ple, by the people, for the people. James D. Law, a Pennsylvania his. torfan, avers that the phrase was first used by Daniel Webster and Theodore Parker. Now comes Philip Kerr, who used to be David Lloyd George's sec- retary, and says that the maxim was coined by Robeéspierre 70 years before Lincoln fmmortalized it. That is not the worst of it, for Sir Hall Caine, an. other Englishman, is to the fore with a elaim that almost 500 years hefore the Gettysburg address John Wyclif, in the first English translation of the Bible, has the following passage in his preface: “The Bible is for the govern- ment of the people, by the people and for the people.” Caine is certain that the ‘“greatest of political democrats ‘wes inspired by the preface written by the greatest ecclesiastical democrat to the most democratic book {n the world.” P Mis. Woodrow Wilson will find she is not forgotten when she revisits the scenes of the war President's triumphal tour through the allled capitals on the evé of the peace conference in 1918 and 1919. This observer was a member of the extensive newspaper party thatac- companied the Wilsons on that hectic expedition. It was common in London, Paris, Rome and Brussels to hear Buropeans say that our then first lady of the land comported herself as it she ‘were ev. inch a queen. On occasions to-which Wilson was & complete stranger the instinctive talents of the American Wwoman of breeding .rmever fafled to serve her. Hverywhere and always the descendant of Pocahontas jacquitted herself with e and dig- rtx.l:y. ‘(’1::: at le.‘:t} she t:ugz lom;'\ol above royalty. Tha s when King Vieter innn;nl ot Italy led her into a gala at the Cap- ftal in Rome. Though Mrs. Wilson is gy D. WEDNESDAY THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. what gnarled. and white, as the hands of a scholar should be. Let the tanned hands of the world belong to the mariner, the farmers, the lumberjacks, the thousand and one who work be- neath the sun. There is room and to spure for a white-hanced scholar, now and then. LR The professor sank into the wide, rear seat with avidity, the depth to which he sprung the cushions testify- Ing to his solid bufld. He removed his wide-brimmed hat. He was bald from the top of the ears up, his naturally high forehead being augmented by several more Inches of “brow."” As he mat there he seemed to be wearing a halo of more or less gri hair, which, beginning at the back and top of his head, dipped down be- neath his cars, being transformed into sldeburns and trimmedbeard. A bit of his whiskers seemed to have jumped across his mouth and at- tached themselves firmly to his up- per lip, where they k with a de. termination which set at defiance the safety razor “ad” in the car cards. The capacious black bag the pré- fessor leaned In a corner of the bus, and his hat he placed upon it. His big notebook opened he then, and his bright blue pencil hauled he out of his pociket. Lowering his eyes, until they fo- cused through the glasses of his half- spectacles, he began anew to correct papers. Now and then he would raise his eyes to cast a look at some new- comer, but would soon lower them to his task. Hfs firm mouth was ready to break Into a sympathetic smile upon the slightest provocation. It did when a | littla child entered, and then again when another little one boarded the | vehicle, Yat, 1 imagined he was somewhat of a martinet in his classroom. “Miss Smith,” I could hear him sav, “did vou not study vour lesson?" Mise 8mith was forced to confess that she aid not. ““Then, how, Misg Smith," | came the volce of the professor, “do vou expect to recite?” oor Miss Smith was overcome. ‘omorrow, please know your lesson,” advised the professor. x % * % Fach of the two children aboard the bus had a bag of candy, into which each dipped assiduously, bringing up from the depths, at stated intervals, various lollypops of hues more star- tling than nature ever dared produce, Passengers shrank back into thelr seats, away from those sticky, menac- ing fingers. Proud mothers looked littie fingers. The professor smiled. Johnny—go was his name—suddenly dropped his bag, its contents scatter- ing upon the floor. Immediatel Johnny set up a howl, whareupon the mother of the other child bethought heraelf of Mary's training. “Give Johnny some of your candy,” beamed Mary's miother. But Mary grabbed her candy tighter than ever and began to howl even {louder than Johnny. “No! she | Bereamed. “No! WWhile th's drama was being enacted several girls with booke boarded the b They smiled sweetly at the pro- fessor. “Good morning!" they gurgled. “'Good morning, yvoung ladies,” said the educator., in w deep voice synchronized with the rest of him. He removed his black bag and hat from the seat, then went back to his task of correcting papers. Thus 1 left the professor, keeping, however, these pleasant memories o him. OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. not éspecially tall, he towered inches above the Italian monarch. . £ 2% Katharine F. Lenroot, acting chiet of the Childréen's Bureau at the De- partment of Labor, is the daugQter of Senator and Mrs, Irvine L. nroot of Wisconsin. S8he is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and an acknowledged authority on sociologi- cal affairs. With a woman colleague in the Children's Bureau, Emma O. Lundberg, director of the social serv. ice division, Miss Lenroot has just completed an exhaustive report of American juvenile courts. Conditions were investizated in Boston, Buffalo, Denver, Washington, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New Orleans, 8an Fran. clsco, Seattle and St. Louls. The con: clusion to which Misses Lenroot and Lundberg came is that the average city needs better facilities for acien- tific treatment of the child delinquent and larger, better trained and better paid probation staffs. President Cool- idge thinks Boston has the best juve. nile courts judge in the country—a Cabot, Frederick Pickering, who pre- sides over the Judge Bawer Founda. tion, a private organization for the special study of juvenile offénders, x ok ox % The Department of Agriculture has launched a crusade for the exclusion of a new type of Japanese immigrants. They are known as Oriental fruit worms. These undesirable aliens are 80 firmly established in certain East- ern, South and Middle Western States that thev threatén to becomé one of America’s most serious fruit enemies, The pest 'attacks particularly the peach and other stone fruits, but also the apple and the pear. No efficlent antidote has been found. The Secre- tary of Agriculture foresees losses which may soon total millions of dol- lars annually, He blames the coun. ;try’s impatience ta border driveways, riversides and parks with Japanese flowering cherries, It was during the period of stimulated enthusiasm for that glorious trée a few years ago that its importation was unduly rughed. With it came the Oriental fruit worm. B A “faithful reader,” who evidently fears decapitation and therefore re- qpests anonymity, submits the follow- l:‘. #olace to prospective fellow vic- ‘tima: Hush. eivil servant, don't you cry, Youll be at leisurs’ first of July. (Copyright, 1925.) Honor to E. A. Paul Is Long Overdue To the Edifor of The Star: While the publie is s0 much interest- {ed in the High School Cadets and their competitive drill, it seems ap- propriate to call attention to the ap- parent neglect with' which the school authorities have treated the man to whose interest and efforts the cadets largely owe their existence. To Mr. Bdaward A. Paul, the first principal of Washington high schools and for some time acting superinténdent of the District of umbia publie schools, and only failing to become superin- tendent because of his declination of the office, is this credit due. Notwithatanding this prominence in the school life of Washington, which was brought to an end by his sudden and tragic death, not a single school in the District has meen named in_his honor. His services as the head of the Central High 8chool in its initial years should have been rewarded by naming the new bullding for that school in his honor, but as that was not done it is hoped that he will not again be for- gotten in the nan of some of the ALVIN 7| GREGORY, with approval upon those same sticky, | that | JUNE 3, 1925, - T Politics at Large By N. O. Messenger. _President Coolidge’'s Memorial day address continues to furnish the poli: ticians in both parties with subject for discussion and comment. It is recog- nized as a state paper of prime impor- wance, That it will continue to at- tract increasing attention and free discussion is froely predicted as its analysia proceeds. In'some quarters it is suggested that the speech in support of local selt- government and the differentiation be- tween the functions of the Federal Government and the reserved rights of the States was an attempt to ap- propriate the principles of the Demo- cratic party. 5 oo W Such a stanch Democratic organ as the New York World refutes this charge, pointing out that the princi- ples of local self-government and per- sonal liberty have not been claimed by anyv particular party for such a long time that all property rights have long gince lapsed. “If Mr. Coolldge,” contends the World, “can find & home for them and treat them a little kind- ly for a while no Democrat can possi- bly object. The original owners have Alrhoat forgotten whiat they looked ike."” The World contends that the Demo- cratic party stands today as the spon- sor of the greatest invasion of States’ rights and local self-government which hus occurred since the adoption of the Constitution. The World charges the Democratic leaders in the West and South with furnishing a very large proportion of the force behind the eighteenth amendment and the Vol- stead act and having within the last year “paltered with its heritage of re liglous freedom.” * x x % Pity the sorrows of the perennial candidate, Mayor Hylan. He surely has been bymping the bumps in the past few weeks on the road to re- nomination by the Democrats of New York City for the mavoralty. Affairs have not heen breaking ording 1o hig liking at all. The severest blow he has suffered was the repudiation by his own board and organization of his subway plans. The other day the board having them under con- sideration rejected them as unfeasible and calculated (o Increase the cost of transportation in New York City if carried out. Of course, it is well known that Mayor Hylan's great po- litical aim and object is to maintain the 5.cent fare and provide at the same time increased faciifties of trane- portation.. In it he moves, breathes and has his being. He says it can be done, while this board, producing facts and figures, says it cannot. And there you are. And now comes the unkindest cut of all. The republicans are setting out to appropriate ‘the mayor's pet campaign cry. Believing |that the mavor's dream of a great ! municipal subway is nothing now but a punctured balloon, they are pre- {paring to advocate the retention of |the 3-.cent fare by a unified system {of transit. They propose to revive | the recommendation of former Gov. | Miller, Republican, made in the spe- {cia] messnge to the Legislature in Jan- juary, 1821, of a munlcipally owned and unified systém of subwa Ivated and surface car lines, operating |at a single fare. The Miller proposal called for a thorough reorganization |of the agencles handling transit in {New York City, the squeezing of all water from the stock and their sub- regulatory agency to have aweeping powers of revision of the present 5.cent-fare contract nd the right to fix temporary rates pending apneal of the traction com- panies for a higher fare. Republican leaders in all five bor- oughs are urging this week that the Miller plan of transit reorganization bé examined again in the light of pres- ent conditions and the changed cir- {cumstances of home rule. They are convinced that the recent report of the transportation board on top of the ble construction plan to be substituted for the Hylan special a * ¥ Mayor Hylan and his friends are {reported as being highly indignant over this undertaking of the Repub- licans to take his campaign candy away from him right in the beginning lof the campaign. Conferénces of Re- publican leaders have brought about an agreement for concerted attack lupon him to thus despofl him and leave him to the tender mercies of his opponents in Tammany Hall, be- reft of a policy. L Reports come to Republican na- tional leaders in Washington from Towa of a vast improvement in party harmony in that State. It is indi- cated that radicalism of the Brookhart variety is on the wane and that the Republican factions are coming to- gether in support of President Cool- idge’s administration. The Brookhart- La Follette combination is reported as rapidly losing strength. Chairman Butler of the Republican national committee intends to visit Iowa in September to help along the harmony work now in progress. One of the most favorable signs of progross is reported in thé abandonment of the La Follette-Brookhart organization by Dante Pierce, Des Moines farm news- paper publisher, who is expected to support Senator Cummins in his con- test for re-election. Y o % % One of the fmportant side lines of olitical activity is récognized in the et-out-the-Vote” movement. Washington man, Simon Michelet, the president of the National “Get- Out-the-Vote Club,” which is expected to cut an important figure in the next campaign. He has recently made a Statement summarizing the statistics in other countries compared with those of the United States on how the people use the right ot franchise. Mr. Michelet was seeking an answer to the question, “What nation holds the world voting record?” He declared that country is no longer the United States. “Forty years ago,” he says “when 80 per cent of the American voters went to the polls, this country was in the first column in point of voting efficiency. But in 1920 and 1924, when only 50 per cent of Amer- ican votérs took interest enough to vote for President, the United States dropped way down to. the tail of voc- ing nations. ‘Great Britain, from whom we re. belled in 1776 to establish a govern. ment based on the American vote, ap- pears to be making a much bétter record at the polls today than Amer- jca. At th 24 election to the House of Commons 76 per cent of the British electors voted and in the preceding slection 82 per cent of the electors of England and Wales went to the polls, %0 the British are in the running for the world voting record, and this coun- as fallen back among the ‘also The Irish Free State does not yet poll a full vote becauss of fac. tional conditions, and yet in the last election polled a vote of 60 per cent of all Irish adult men and women, which {8 better than half the Amer- ican Btates can show.” Mr. Michelet points out that Ger- many stands a close compétitor of Great Britain in getting out the ropulu- vote. In the first election for the Reichstag under the consti- tution of the German Republic, 76 per cent of all Germans 20 years of age and over, voted. In the 1524 elsctions the vote reached 80 per cent of the electors, while in the recent 5 dential election of lnttAn.r‘ll the Ger- man r’erunnu rose to 82 per cent. Mr. Michelet's statement goes into interesting detail a8 to the statistics of the vote in Australia, New Zealand, Northern Canada, Jurope, France, ANSWERS TO BY FREDERIC Q. Huw aid a certain type of music come to be called “blues’'’—J. 8. W.| A. One musician explains that the term ‘“blues.” now given to combina- tions of major and minor chords with | lapses into sevenths, was applied by | trouping musicians to unintentional discordant sounds. A musician who played too many blue notes was dis-.. charged. Nowadays, the more notes of | this kind, suggestive of cat, dog, COW or train that he makes, the more valu- | able he is to a musical organization. Q. Is the art gallery in the Grand Central Station, New York City, open every day?—T. W. A. Tt is open daily cept Sunday. This is the only one devoted exclusively to the sale of the works of living American painters and sculptors. Q. Do the inmates of the Federal prison at Atlanta wear stripes?’—P. AW A. The stripes. ¢ from 9 to 6 ex- prisoners do not wear Q. What is_used to dope a base ball to make it curve? . McA. A. -Anything which roughens the surface of a base ball tends to make the ball curve. Sandpaper or rosin will do this, Such balls are not per- mitted in the major leagues. Saliva also tends to make a ball curve. There are a few spit-ball pitchers left in the major leagues. It is against the rules for one to enter. Q. What is pomato? e iy A. The pomato piant white- fleshed edible tomato-like fruit, pro- duced by tomato scions grafted on potato roots by Luther Burbank. [ = d contri- | toration | Q. Our pupile wish to ma bution to the fund for th r i of “Old Ironsides.” To whom should | it be sent?—F. | "A. Rear Admiral L. R. de Steigue commandant of the Boston Navy Yard | has charge of collecting the contribu- tions for the fund for the restoration | of “0la Tronsides | I | Q. In the Adirondacks the bark is often strippad from the white birch trees for souvenire. Does this harm the trees?—I. M. C. A. The Forest Service savs that stripping the bark from a tree does hurt the tree if any sizable amount be taken off. If the gash is not too large the tree will replace the bark; how- ever, if girdied the tree will die. Q. Who patented the process of making white gold and what metals compose it?—B. L. F. A. The process of making white gold patented by David Belais of New | York City. His first patent was grant- | ed February 10, 1920, for a ‘“‘composi- tion of matter, a white gold alloy com- posed of major part of gold and lesser | | proportions of nickel and zinc." A} later patent granted September 20, 1921, clalms “a_composition of matter a white gold alloy composed of a ma- jor part of sold, lesser proportions of nickel and zinc and a minute quan | tity of platinum adaptod to make the | | alloy gufficiently ductile to be drawn ele- | mission to the jurisdiction of a single | This agency was | revelations of the McAvoy investiga-| tions show the necessity of a worka- | ssment plan. | into seamless tubing.” Q. Was the tax pald on the tea ithat the Pegzy Steuart brought to | | Annapolis7—W. 8. | ! A. Anthony Stepart paid the tax jon the tea that the Peggy Steuart| {brought from England, and to ap-| {pease the wrath of the citizens set | |fire to his ship and burned it on Oc- | tober 13, 1774. Q. How many men who have be- come chief of staff of the Army rose from the ranks? Was Gen. Miles chief of staft—H. 8. B. A. There were five officers who at- | {tained the office of chief of staff who | {came up from the ranks: Lieut. Gens Samuel B. M. Young, Adna R. Chaf- fee and John C. Bates, and Maj. Gen: !Leonard Wood and William W.| | Wotherspoon. Gen. Miles was not [chief of staff. The staff was estab- lished by act of Congress February Gen. Miles retired Ausust! | Q. How many ships are included | in the merchant fleets of the world iand to which nations do they be- tong?—A. T. T. i A. On July 1, 1924, the merchant fleets of the world included 26,923 steam vessels of 59,464,900 gross tons and 952 motor ships of 1,654,546 | groes tons. The rest were sailing | Of the steamships, there Campaigns to drive obscene publica- tions from the news stands of various cities of the United States have been | widely applauded. There seems to be no audible defenders of the lurid magazine, for all published comment | reflect¥ unqualified demand for its suppression. | 8pecial attention has been attracted | by the actfon of the Commissioners of | the District of Columbia in barring | the sale of certain specified publica- tions in the National Capital. “The Washington Government,” says the Rock Island Argus, “could do no more helpful service to future generations |than in suppressing the salacious pub- lications that are now crowding the newsstands of the cities. of the | United States to an alarming extent.” The Ann Arbor Times-News explains: “In the District of Columbia 10 so- called popular magazines have been orderad withdrawn as ‘obscene and indecent.’ So the indecent books ought to be prohibited, lfkewise, but only after careful selection. One of the! deplorable aspects of the case is that such actions are necessary.” This indictment of the pervenedl taste of some readers is touched upon by the Martinsburg Journal, which says: It is claimed that 50,000,000 people are reading immoral magazines in this country. That is pernaps an exaggeration. It is hard to believe that there are so many who wish to! cheapen themselves in that way. 8till such publications are having too wide a circulation and they should be re. quired to clean up or quit business.” The Wichita Beacon belleves “it is for the protection of susceptible minds that soclety is forced to adopt some measure of censorship when the stench of literary fiith becomes too| apparent.” £k The remedy for present conditions sought by many editorial writers. sufficlently active public con- sclence,” says the Omaha World-Her- ald, “armed with existing laws, should be all that is necessary to re- store comparative decency to the newsstands.” The World - Herald urges the parents to scan “finel printed and illustrated” periodicals, adding, ‘“these magazines cannot thrive if they are successfully banned in the homes. The OkKlahoma City T — ing at the polls as Florida and Mex- ico, in its last presidential election, delivered at the polls more than twice as high a percentage of its total adult population as the average for our Guif States. Some of our Southern Stat have a colored population with per cent to 20 per cent of {lliteracy, jbut Mexico has to wrestle with 30 per cent mlu;u;n . * Political leaders throughout the Btates are hecoring interested in the | “Get Out the Vote Movément,” which will undoubtedly recelve greater a tention by the nagers in the next elections, 5 | manutacturing of coin | that cit; | atating QUESTIONS J. HASKIN were: American, 3,892; British (Unit ed Kingdom), 7.902; German, 1,758: French, 1.480; Japanese, 1.811; Nor- wegian, 1,438; Dutch, 20; Italian, 831, Q. What did the charges for the for foreigi Rovernments amount to last year?— H. A. 8. A. The charges for the manufac- turing of coin for foreign govern- ments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, amounted to $88,518.14 This coinage was done at the Phila- delphia Mint Q. What is an organ bird and why was it 5o named’—D. H. L A. The name is given to two differ ent «ong birds, whose clear, war notes suggest the tones of an or One is a wren of the Amazon Va the other a piping crow of Tasmania —D. A. 8 . Charles Kdward Jeffersor writing in “The Character of Paul, says: "It is casy to say that & man was an epileptic after he has been in the grave several hundred years. 1t is often asserted that Julius Caesar, Mohammed and Charles V and Crom well and Napoleon I were all epileptics but there is no solid gronnd for such assertion. There is no satisfactory rea son for thinking that any one of these men was an epileptic.” Q. Where is the earth’s crust thin nest at the present time?—F. N. A. The shell of the earth beneath the Pacific Ocean is relatively thinner than it is in any other part of the world. The Nero Deep, near the lsland of Guam, is 5,264 fathoms, or approxi mately ¢ miles deep. This depth of water, of cours reduces the thickness of the earth’s crusi by just a miles as the w is deep. Q. 1s the Declaration of Indep: ence on exhibition in the Library Congress the original docume R.8. F. A. This is the original. Al care p ible has been taken to preserve g vel expose it to view. Q. .What is the time of the longest flight of an airplane without a 1otor —D. D. R. A. The duration record for a glider is held by France. The record was made by Alexis Manyral with a Peyr glider at Bauville J y 3 hours 4 minutes 5 How do the te . nals compare with that of A. As a rule normal temperatures of animals are found to be higher thar those of man. The horse ha perature of 99.5 degrees: 1 101.5 degrees: the sheep. 104.5 the pig, 102 degrees; the dog bit, 102.5 degrees; . 102 degrees; the comu e2; the perch a ter degrees 101 de th the the new T g to trad Harold founded in 104§ eastern part of the present Christiania, to which he g name of Oslo, a name never explained satisfactorily. In 1626 it but although incorporated with City of Christiania, the old Oslo ver been altogether given up, the izens retaining their ancient priv fleges and their anclent coat-of-arms th had Q. Where is the largest suspensior bridge®—A. 1. E A. The bridge over the Delawar River between Camden and Philade phia which is now being built is = to be the largest suspension bridze the world ren need . H Bureau of that about 10 per ce such poor vision as to need spectacles It is e ed, however. that onl 0 per o ve ever had their tested Sducation t of them have (Let The Star Informatioa Frederic J. Haskin. director. Airst and C streets northwest. answer your question. The only charge for this service is 2 cents in stamps for return postaoe Bureau Twent War on Obscene Magazines Is Given Hearty Support Oklahoman concurs in stating with emphasis elsewhere, the home becomes the most important factor. A taste for clean reading is not acquired by ac- cident: it only comes as the result of this beliet “Here, !cnrpf\ll and patient direction. * % The Topeka Daily Capital comes to the defense of the young people of quoting the newsdealers as is not the young people who ask for this extreme class of magazines.” “We can readily be- lieve it this newspuper continues “Young people who are not mentally disensed cannot ordinarily stomneh extreme grossn On the other the New Evening World say “It is rather startling to find the student publi cations of two of the leading Ameri- can uniyersities suppressed or denied the use of the mails because of the sacrilegious or obscene character of their contents. Two of the periodi- cals of Harvard were recently giver some unenviable notoriety, and now & Princeton publication clalms atten- tion.” “The movement against the suli- clous magazine is not a sporadic one, the Watertown Times declares “From one end of the country to the other there is a demand that the 50 publications go from the news- stands.” The Charlotte Observer also finds that “the movement against circulation of indecent literature seems to be spreading,” and see hope in the fuct that ‘now thut Washington has started a clean-uy campaign, we may expect the move- ment to become general over the The Casper, Wyo.. Tribure t-is good news to the read ing public that hostilities have alreads begun.” ““Trouble is brewing magazine publishers,” according o the Asbury Park Press, which insists their real stock in trade “Is vulgarity and indecency, however they may try to disguise’” the fact. ‘“There ix much talk of censorship,” the Press continues, “but a better way is that adopted by some newsdealers them selves. They simply refuse to han dle magazines which they and many of their patrons consider morally ob Jectionabile. The method of procedure contem plated in Norfolk, Va., as described by the Ledger-Dispatch of that ecity includes “a list. of thé publications barred from the mails because of the class of matter that they print and notifying the dealers that the han- dling and sale of such will not be permitied.” Business men are called on for aid in the fight by the. San Bernardino Sun. ““The notable successes in the pro- duction of plays and the publication of literature have been the really great worke-of art,” the Danyille, Va., Register observes, while th® Cleve land News lays the jash-abont the shoulders of the “‘writer 0 dips hix pen in filth and the artist who feeds his brush with obscenity hand for a lot