Evening Star Newspaper, June 7, 1925, Page 38

THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morning E‘ltlo&__ WASHINGTON, D. C SUNDAY June 7, 1925 THEODORE W. NOYES. ... The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office 11 s A Pemnaivanta Ave New York Office: 110 East 42nd St. Fnicage OMce. Tower Building Buropean Office: 18 Regent St., London, England. Tha Evening Star. with the Sunday morn- Ing edition. ix delivered by carriers within the city at' 60 cents per month: daily only. 45 cents per month: Sunday only. 20 cents per month. Orders may, be sent by mail or Telephone Main 5000, Collection is made by carrier at the end of each month Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday 1yr.,$8.40: 1 mo., 70¢ Daily only 1yr.$6.00° 1 mo’. 50 Sunday only 1yr 1 mo.. 20¢ All Other States. Daily and Sundas.. .1 r., $10.00 Daily only 1yr. 00 Bundar only 1yrl © Member of the Associated Press. Tha Aseociafed Press is exclusively entitled 1o the use for republication of all news di atches credited o it or not otherwise cre tod in this paper and also the local new: published hersin. Al rights ot publication of apecial dispatches herein are also reserved. War Clouds in China. clouds loom in China. Unless is of trouble in Shanghal can be localized and stamped out there is danger of conflict throughout the huge territory inhabited by the Chl. nese. There is danger, too, that in such a conflict the nations of the world may again be drawn into strife. In the past, war prophets have turned their eyes either io the Bal- kans or to the Far Fast. preferably China, for signs of coming confiict. Not that the Chinese have threatened other nations with war. But other na tions have extended their “spheres of influence” here and thers throughout that great country on the slightest provocation, until thers has been danger that they would quarrel over the spoils. Even now the threat of serious war which might affect the outside world lies more particylarly in the reported fact that one military leader is being backed by Soviet Russia and another by Japan. A civil war in China, it confined to the Chinese, might not have immediate and far-reaching ef- fect outside of China. But & war backed by Russia on the one hand and by Japan on the other would in- evitably draw those natfons into the struggle, and with them perhaps still others. “The United States has been the tra- ditional friend of China, striving through the “open-door” policy to see that all the nations and China herself had an even break in the development of the resources and the commerce of this great area of the world's surface. At the Washington conference on limitation of armaments and the prob- Jems of the Pacific tha good offices of this country were used to bring about A better accord between China and Japan, which held the province of Shantung as a legacy from the war with Germany. Treaties were drawn which sought to help China to help herself. For one reason or another, due in part to the play of interna- tional politics, there has been delay in making these treaties effective. Thers must in America at all times be sympathy for people who are under forelgn domination. The plea of the Chinese has been to be let alone, to be allowed to enjoy thelr freedom as they saw fit. In the last century and the present the hold of foreign powers on China, through concessions granted under coercion, has been increased. The real hope for China lies in the de- velopment of a strong government of its own. The Chinese might gain a temporary advantage by playing one powen, or group of powers, against another, In the end such tactics would leave her subservient to the nation which had ostensibly come to her as- sistance The trouble in Shanghal, according the reports received here, has War the ger i is to arisen largely because of the exploita- | tion of Chinese labor in mills conduct- ed by the Japanese. Strikes, agitation conducted by Chiness students, the Xiling @nd wounding of & number of ‘tha students during a demonstration, have featured the disturbance. Shang- hal is«one of the great treaty ports of Chinaq There is the native city on the one hand and the forelgn settlement on the other. In the latter, where *‘concessions” have been granted to the British, French and Americans, the government is conducted by the foreign element. The municipal police of the foreign settlement, under Brit- ish officers, were responsible for the death of the students on May 30. The siudents were conducting & demon- stration against the conviction of 17 Chinese workers in a Japaness mill for taking part in a strike. The entire situation demands care- ful handling 1if there is not to be a serious uprising, in which the peoples of foreign nations generally might be- ocome involved. The United States Government would be entirely justi- fied in any move it made to bring abont a peaceful solution of the diM- culty. ———— Beashore resorts are not attempting o regulate bathing suits very strictly. €omfort is the order of the day, and in order to be modest it is no longer considered necessary to be miserable. i e “The Riffs have been a trifle incon. siderate in compelling France to as- sume the attitude of a warlike nation. ——— The Conquest of Mount McKinley. This day, June 7, is the twelfth an- niversary of an event that is not kept on record on the tablets of the mem- ory of many people, and yet an event that should be commemorated as one of the notable achievements of man. On this day 12 years ago, June 7, 1913, Mudson Stuck, archdeacon of the Yukon, made the first known ascent by men of that great mountain mass in Alaska known by the Indians as Denali, but named, ‘in honor of an American President, Mount McKinley. Archdeacon Stuck had been sent to the Far North for missionary work by hi= church, & service ;which he ren- dered eagerly and effectively. The climbing of Mount McKinley was not in line of his missionary labors. It was in pursuit of a hobby, a form ofJda: recreation. He was granted permis- sion by his bishop to use a part of his vacation during the Summer of 1813 in this endeavor. He organized a party of four, taking a month in going from the camp at the base of the mountain to the summit, 21,000 fest above the sea, the highest point on the4North American continent Others bad tried to climb Mount Me Kinley but had failsd. One man had claimed ‘its conquest, and had shown photographs to prove his claim. Later, when he was detected in an even greater fraud, it was demonstrated that he had not achieved the summit of Denali. To Archdeabsn Stuck, who died in 1920, has been given the honor of being the first to reach the apex of North America, and it is well on this day of anniversary to recall his achievement as one of intrepid cour- age and great skill. ————— An Insane Murderer. That one of the two youths who were last year sentenced to imprison- ment for life for the murder of a little boy in Chicago has developed insanity in confinement is not surprising. Pub- lic apprehension of a fallure of justice through his eventual release is not unnaturally expressed. The young man was undoubtedly abnormal at the time of the commission of the crime. It wem, indeed, & crime of derange- ment, of moral-mental disturbance. It would have been surprising if the slayver of Bobbie Frank had remained In prison in balanced mental state. Whether his comrade in crime like- wise goes acutely insane, as this youth has done, he is still to be rated as presumably of a paranofac tendency. Yet there was no public sympathy for these boy-killers at the time of their trial on the ground of their men- tal deficiencies. The general demand was for their punishment by execu- tion. The sentence of the court that they be confined in prison for life was widely and vehemently denounced. Fear was generally expressed that their imprisonment would be brief, that the great wealth of their pgyents would eventually provide a way for their parole or pardon and restoration to liberty. This fear is now revived in the case of the prisoner who has col lapsed mentally and is reported to be violently insane. The seizure of this lad in = par- oxysm of mania would seem rather to insure his continual confinement af one who is criminally insane. There is no place for him or any of his kind at liberty. There 18 no possible means of protecting the public from such a des. perately dangerous character other than by close confinement, whether in @ hospital for the insane or in a prison with facllities for the humane care of the patient-prisoner. That the outbreak of mania in this instance hes evoked apprehension of eventual liberation ix a reflex of the weakening of confidence in the effec- tiveness of the laws which prescribe capital punishment for murder. In numerous cases within recent vears murderers have gone free after briet confinement, having first escaped the death penalty on the plea of ineanity, then being declared cured and released on parole. This present case will be jealously watched by practically all the people of this country, lest such a course be pursued, to the complete de- feat of justice. N The accuracy of the Weather Bu- reau in its forecasts calls for admira tion and epproval, even though its an- nouncements have been discouraging. The climate expert is required to be a scientist and not a diplomat. r———— Many a small boy no doubt hopes that the discussion of what shall be taught in the schools will become so scute that by way of compromise there ‘will be no school. ———————— Chine has for a long time presented to Japanese vouth a suggestion of the desirability of going West and growing | up with the country. e — In order to placate Col. Bryan it may be necessary to create some such office as supervisor of school books and ap- point him te it. ————— This Summer will at any rate be more comfortable than that of e year ago. There will be no conventions to fisten in on. 1 ——e— Better than debt canceliation would be a system providing forgetfulness by the Old World of ancient feuds and grievances. - A disposftion asserts itself to refer almost every problem to Henry Ford, except that of traffic congestion. ——— Fried Eggs and Platform Fires. Washington takes mno ‘particular pride in being the hottest city in the country. It does not thrill at all when the thermometer records show that it heads the lists in the ‘‘maximum: The score of an official 100 degrees leaves it unmoved. No oldest inhabit- ant is inspired to come forward with a tale of a still hotter Summer away back in the past before Pennsylvania avenue was paved with asphalt. It may be questioned whether the most vivid recollection can bring forth any parallel to the culinary performance conducted Friday by a Star re. porter who actually fried an egg in nine minutes on the bare pavement of that same Avenue. Perhaps nobody ever bothered to waste an egg in such an experiment before. Perhape it was always taken for granted that the Avenue pavement under a sun suf- ficlently hot to send the mercury in the official tube up to the century mark was encugh of a stove to do ordinary light housekeeping. Nor is there any likelihood of tales that will match the burning of loading platforms under ‘the blazing rays of the June sun. Twice In as many days have such fires required the profes- sional services of the smoke-eaters. Perhaps they caught from carelessly thrown cigarettes or matches. Or per- haps they were due to spontaneous combustion in the oily refuse that gathers beneath the platforms. But whatever the cause the fact remains that these fires have occurred. No oldster can match them, however keen his weather memory. For in ‘“his, there -were no loading plat- THE forms. Street eara stopped wherever passengern gAve the signal (o enter or to 1t was unneceasary to sokregate and safeguard (he patrons of the lines. The atveet vars then did evervihing 1o avcommadate the public wave draw up (o the curh leave Washington vemaine of good cheer, dexplte the fried exg and the blazing loading platforma. 1t knows that there will be delightful weather later, and that the averame of the local ther mometer will not show the Capltal up wnoan unduly, outrageously hot town ————e—s - The Fuke Stock Fraud. A spenker i an annusl convention At Atlantle Clty (he other day. head of the legal depariment of the Bureau for Investigation of Financlal Krauds In New York City, declared that 3,000,000 swindlers were operating in the United States, getting haif a bil- lion dollars a year, and only one of every 44 is caught and convicted. He sald: The percentage In alwiys in favor of the crooks. Only 1 in 10 persons has the courage (o admit he has been defrauded and to demand resti- tution, and yet awindlers, such as fake stock brokers, put aside from one tenth to one-third of the money they gel (o refund (o persons who deqand an adjustment. More worthless stocks than ever are belng peddled today. Swindlers tuke st least $600, 000 out of Atlantic City nlone each year “‘Never buy an vice,” has been ur Ican people repeatedly during recent years. Swindlers thrive upon the folly of those who do not seek advice from competent persons regarding the nature of the securities (hey are besought to buy. The swindlers are shrewd and persuasive in their meth- ods. They hypnotize their victims into the confident belief that they are being offered an opportunity as a great privilege. They are induced to hurry in their purchasea leat the stock rise quickly in price. Tmme- diate profits are certain, profits through resale at advanced rates, or through large dividends, certain to be declared in a few days or weeks. Speed, speed, speed is the cry. This game has been exposed again and again, like the old green goods game, and the shell game, and the gold brick game, and the Spanish pris. oner game. Kverybody knows about it, but when the specific “touch” is applied the victim's judgment flees and the fraud is easily wccomplished. The fact that these fake stock swindlers maintain reserve funds for the satisfaction of clalmants who com. plain of being swindled shows the kind of game they are playing. But they know that very few of the victims ever ‘“‘squeal.” In the first place, it usually takes months for the victim to realize that he has been stung. He lives in hope for a long time before he finally is aware that he has been mulcted. Then he is apt to accept his loss philosophically, blame himself for his folly and keep his experience aecret out of shame. These swindiers are peychological game, working the ‘weaknesses of their victims. And there are just snough people of that sort always to keep the 3,000,000 swindlers profitably busy. ——— st thing without &d ed upon the Amer playving the Madison Square Garden has been torn down. Col. Bryan is evidently willing to do what he can to make a Tennessee courthouse take its place as @ controversial stronghold. ——————— Payment of debt is an ancient cus- tom among nations as well as among individuals. Jt is a formality which promotes courteous interchange and friendly feeling. — c——— Lite on the farm should be easy for Harry Thaw it he is willing to com- pensate the hired help as liberally as he is reported to have tipped the New York waiters. — e Russia shows an inclination to take | care of Trotsky, if he can be persuaded to refrain from political agitation and join & “Don’t Worry™ elub. S Reports of glimpses of a sea serpent will naturally ba regarded as reason for renewed endeavors to disperse the rum fleet. ————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSOX. Education. ‘We don't believe the classic myth. ‘We don’t believe the fairy lore Which poets oft delight us with; And yet we love them more and more. ©Our Education must net turn To any teachings that deceive; But we demand the chance to learn Just what it is we don't believe. Matter of Political Principle. ‘““Are you in favor of prohibition?” “‘Of course,”” answered Senator Sor- ghum. “Any proposition that can command as many votes as prohibition has swung has my undivided support.” The North Pole. Says Canada, “We want the Pole!™ And wise seems her selection, As day by day the heat waves.roll In every direction. Oh. lead us to that favored apot, Afar from Summer roses, Where all the year no day is hot! ‘We need an Eski-Moses! Jud Tunkins savs if there is another war i1l simply ehow that humenity hasn't sense enough to learn by ex- perience. Why Worry? “Bathing suits appear rather reck- less!” remarked the prim person. ““What difference does it make?” re- joined Miss Cayenne. “When a hot ‘wave arrives everybody is too uncom- fortable to notice what people are or aren’t wearing.” Safety First. The flivvers crowd in swift display. The fiyers fill the air. Their Boss exclaims in mild dismay; “Gimme a rocking chair.” “Dar never was a friendship so strong.” said Uncle Eben, ‘dat it pre- vented a man from enjoyin’ hisself when he says 1 raise you' in & poker | sections—office Marshall Condemns Modern Methods in Party Politics (This article is one of a series ap- pearing in The Sunday Star for several vears. Mr. Marshall, who died June 1, 1925. had prepared a number of in- ataliments for later publication. They will all be printed.) BY THOMAS R. MARSHALL. Former Vice President of the United States. Our recent primaries in Indiana for the selection of municipal tickets, to be voted on next November again, set me to thinking about this modern method of naming nominees for pub- lic office. Ours was a merry row in Indianapolis. ~ Politics and polemics were equaled only by religion and raclal questions. Democrats _and Republicans, Catholics and non-Cath- olics, friends and foes of the Ku Klux Klan battled in bitterness. © Out of the welter came some thoughts which may be worth consid- eration, inasmuch as similar con- tests are being waged in other cities and States. Separation of church and state apparently has not eliminated religion from our politics. This is a source of deep regret me. Re- ligious differences and racial ques- tions positively have no place in our political contests. But as to our pri- mary system % koK ox If there be any value in party or ganization, how is it Lo be preserved in & primary where a man may call for any ballot, regardless of his po litical affliations or bellefs? What is 1o prevent a nomination heing made by the enemies of a party striving ¢ its defeat” How is a voter ever » know that the candidate of his party was nominated by its members interested in party success? How vast are the possibilities for the se- lection of tickets composed of the least competent candidates as well as the least worthy and least honorable! Passing these questions, others of still greater import come to mind: What. after all, is the object of city government” Is it needful or wise that municipal affairs should be a part of the political systems of the State and Nation? What is there to arise in the management of the affairs of a city that would require a political de- termination? In State and Natlon great principles of government may involve contending political theories. One readily can acquiesce in the theory that progress, prosperity, peace, are to be accelerated or re- tarded by the putting inta operation of one or another set of contending theories. But in municipal govern- ment what principle ever can divide men? What can any cne of us desire that all of us do not desire? A muni- ‘pality is nothing more than a large corporation in which all of the citi- zens are stockholders, equally inter- ested in the output, which s or ought 10 be of equal benefit to all. The only object sought is an efficient adminis- tration of civic affairs, honest, eco- nomical, intelligent. xox o What difference does it whether the mayor of one's city make is @ Democrat or Republican &nmm? Is there any good reason hy he should be an Englishman, Irishman, Catholic, Jew or Protestant? What civic affair is to be affected by any political. religious or racial ques- tlon? We now have the sorry spec- tacle of inefficiency, incompetency, waste, extravagance and dishonesty In some of our city governments merely because we have' done one or the other or both of two things: First, ‘we have hooked up municipal elections with our great political parties and have acted as though the weal or woe of the Republic depended upon the politics of the mayor of Podunk. Our second mistake has been allowing our selves to drift toward a pure democ- racy. I recall the prayer of a hard-shelled Baptist preacher in southern Indiana. A township, which from time imme- morial had selected Republican off- cials, in some mysterious way selected a Democratic trustee. Democrats re. garded his election as the dawn of a new era in American politics. They ebrated the victory with a bonfire and speeches. The Baptist preacher was called on to open the Jjollification with prayer. Being a zealous parti- san he prayed for 40 minutes. He thanked God for looking with mercy upon the people of that township. He depicted the hope of a brighter day. The sum and substance of his prayer was the blessings to come from heaven because of the election of a Democrat as a trustee, » A in national Of the more than 125 candidates on the primary ballots in my home city, 1 had heard of six and knew only three. This caused me to wonder whether in the end representative government is not the better for the people. Suppose, in lieu of the mad scramble which marks the primary the citizens, irrespective of party should meet by hundreds, or say, by five hundreds, in their respective com munities and select special representa- tives to devote their time, ability and conscience, in conjunction with other representatives similarly chosen. to the task of selecting. regardless of their political afliations, religious views and racial characteristics, cer. tain citizens to serve as mavor and city officials? o ox % Of course, if the politics of the United States is to hinge on the poli- tics of mayors, councilmen, constables, township trustees and country Jjus tices, then no hope of changing the existing order of things exists. But If we will be honest with ourselves and frankly admit that we have not the time, knowledge, opportunity or inclination to select our municipal officers, 1 would begin to hope that the pendulum was swinging backward toward representative government, and that some day we might obtain charters whereby citizens could ap- point or select committees to choose managers of their business corpora- tion popularly known as the city. (Copyright, 1925, by 21st Century Presn.) PROPERTY OWNERS MEET BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN This week there is being held in Cleveland the sighteenth annual con- vention of the National Association of Bullding Owners and Managers To this convention have come owners and managers of buildings from all sections of the United States. In a way it is what was known among the old-time Methodists as an experience eeting. M owners of apartment houses, office bulldings and business properties are given an opportunity to discuss their problems with those who have had long experlence as owners or man- agers of similar properties. Besides the regular convention sessions there are apartment house sessions, At which papers are read on various sub- jects of particular interest to owners of this type of property. The titles alone Insure a large attendance at these sessions, some being as follows “The Efiicient and Economical Main- tenance of Aapartment Propertie: and “What the Renting Public Want. Then there are the group confer- ences, where are discussed the prob- Jlems of speclalized bulldings, such as medical buildings and garages. Such questions as typical layouts, plumb- ing requirements, rental rates and garage facilities are taken up and every one is encouraged to ask the question which has been a special bother to him. In this manner many owners and managers are able to avail themselves of the experience of some | one else, and at the same time may be in a position to assist in solving the problem of others. New Operating Devices. There is an exhibit of new operating devices where may be seen all the very latest ideas in the efficient opera- tion of large buildings. Perhaps the owner is in the market for an in- cinerator—well, here is the very latest. The National Association of Bufld- ing Owners and Managers should not in any way be confused with the real estate boards. The former draws its members from owners and managers only, while the latter are chiefly con- cerned with real estate brokers. The association is divided into three butldings, apartment houses and b ness property. Each has its own committees which study every phase of management of such properties and endeavor by co-opera- tion to essist all members in obtalning the greatest satisfaction for the least money. It is pointed out that any one can make a building attractive and give efficient service if there is un- limited money at hand. But in such an instance the tenant is the one who pays in the final analysis. The prob- lem is to make the tenant comfortable and keep him pleased at as low a rate of overhead as is possible. In this way the owner may charge a reasonable rate for his apartments or offices and still make a fair profit. Comparing Operating Costs. Many methods have been devised by this association. Every year i{s pub- lished an office building and apart- ment house experience exchange. This covers every phase of operation. Ta- bles are made showing the cost of operating a bullding of a certain type in a particular location in one city and the relative cost of operating a similar building in a different city is also given. In this way the owner of an office bullding in ashington, D. C., can compare his operating costs ‘with that of an owner of a like build- ing in Portland, Oreg. From the in- formation given relative to the owner in Portland he may get some pointers on managing his building more ef- ficiently or more economically. Then there is the insurance com- mittee which is now making a study of insurance rates. This committee has found that only 11 cents out of every dollar paid in premiums comes back to the owners of first class, modern fireproof structures, for fire loss. It is consequently felt that the rates are too high and an effort is being made to devise some method of reducing them. Some owners are now using mutual fire insurance at a material saving. One of the problems which have been taken up by several of the local as- sociations is the removal of ashes and trash from apartment and business properties, as well as from private households, by the city authorities. All are taxed alike and all should be given equal service. The City fo Buffalo the apartment owners sued won the decision. Both New York City and Waeshington. D. C.. are taking steps to combat the discrimination. Survey of Vacant Space. One of the most important things which the association does is to make surveys of office buildings or apart- ment houses in order to ascertain the amount of vacant space with relation to the number of possible tenants. In this manner a man who is considering putting up & new biulding may be ad- vised as to his chances for realizing on his investment. For instance, not so long ago it was found in one city that office buildings have been overbuilt. A new, expensive bullding was under construction and the owner faced the likelihood of fall- ure. On the other hand owners of less modern biuldings stood to lose a large percentage of their tenants. All around the situation was serious. There simply were not enough tenants to fill all of the available office space. A meeting was called of all the owners of office buildings n the city and it was finally agreed that each building would give up 5 per cent of its tenants to the new one. In this manner each building was 95 per cent filled and no one suffered a heavy loss. In some cities where the under- writing and selling of bonds on such properties is clearly going heyond the needs of the time, efforts will be made to acquaint the public with the dan- ger of going Yast the saturation point. Advice for New Owners. Another popular and helpful branch of this assoclation is the building planning service which was inaug- urated in 1923. It was the direct out- comse of many requests received at the office of the national assoctation ask- ing for criticism of plans for pro- posed new buildings. The service operates in thisz fashion. ‘When a request is received from some prospective buflder a committes of five or more men is provided the client and his architect at a nominal cost. These are men who are experi- enced in managing properties similar to the one to be constructed, and are therefore familiar with the problems attached thereto. There is no stand- ing committee—each bullding project calling for particular knowledge and experience. Also the committee is se- lected only In consultation with the owner. Before the meeting of this advisory committee the owner is asked to fur- nish a set of tentative plans and also information regarding local conditions. The members are In this way able to make a preliminary study before they are called together. This service is valuable not only to owner but sometimes saves the architect a lot of wasted time drafting plans which later prove unsuitable. By getting together men who have had experi- ence in every phase of managing a building of a similar type, it is pos- sible to design the biulding in the most efficient manner, and thus be able to utilize every inch of floor space. For instance, there is an of- fice building in an Eastern city which is modern but the floor plan is so poor that it is practically impossible to rent the offices. With the aid of the building planning service this might have been avoided. ‘This association, both in its national capacity and in its local organizations, is proving a great boon to owners of apartment houses, office buildings and business properties. It conductsre- search and makes avallable to its members the results to the end that they are able to put their properties on an efficiency basis and not run them in hit or miss fashion. The tenants benefit by receiving better service. It is one more example of the tendency of the age to do everything in the best possible way and to the best interests of all. Record Proves Useful. From the Loutsville Courier-Journal, A Kansas Juvenile Court judge re- cently spanked e delinquent boy with a copy of the Congressional Record. Proving there's use for everything. Human Tenacity. From the Philadelphia Public Ledger. The scientists in session at Balti- more announced that man is made of glue. That accounts for the bhuman SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JUNE 7, 1925—PART 2 Capital Sidelights BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Our great “American citizenship” drive is on, and the radio is being used as never before in a Nation-wide drive to reawaken the spirit of Ameri- can patriotism through rededication to the principles laid down by the fathers in our fundamental doct'ment, the Constitution The American Bar Association, tak- ing as their patron saint the world's foremost jurist, Chief Justice John Marshall, and who, in the words of his biographer, Albert J. Beveridge, “cling to the Constitution of the United States as the rock of our salvation, and who revere the name of Marshall as its creative and constructive inter- preter,” has declared its opinion to be that the American people are losing sight of the benefits that have arisen from the limited powers of our Fed- eral Government and the retention of rights by the States and by the people as declared in our Bill of Rights. It is believed that the spirit of our Constitution has been largely responsi- ble for the development of American character and that the destruction of this spirit will make for a different character that will not be based upon individual responsibility arising out of individual liberty regulated by law. It is believed that the American people are drifting slowly to socializing through centralizing and that they are permitting this without due vonsidera- tion of the harm that will arise there- from ‘The National Association of Manu- facturers of the United States, co- operating with the American Bar As- sociation, has induced another great industrial agency, the American Tele- phone and Telegraph Co., to broad- cast a series of addresses on “Ameri- can Citizenship” through their con- nected-up system that covers practi- cally the entire United States. This series began last Tuesday night with an address by John W. Davis, recently Ambassador to the Court of St. James and later Democratic candidate for the presidency. public men, such as Charles Hughes, Elihu Root, Nicholas Murray Butler, Bishop Cook of the Episcopal Church, Bishop Wilson of the Metho- diat Church and a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, will speak on Tuesday nights until the Nation-wide drive ends July 7. This is one of the most notable series of speeches ever made in this country and it is the figzst time that such a series on the fundamental spirit of our Government has been made direct to all the people of the country. Many great national associations, such as the American Bar Association and the National Association of Manu- facturers, have urged all their mem- bers to “listen-in” on these whole- some, patriotic talks. * x o2 x “Let your imagination pick your future,” Dr. H. Foster Bain, who has just resigned as director of the United States Bureau of Mines to become chief secretary of the American Min ing and Metallurgical Institute, advises the youth of the land just coming from college with no very definite and positive vision of their own future. A mere suggestion of the infinite pos- sibilitles that lie before each one of them, he believes with a belief based on his own experiences, will salvage many a life from the routine rut of environment and inspire the vouth to climb to enviable heights from which he gets a larger view of life. Some years ago while traveling fo South Africa, Dr. Bain noticed on the ship a French quotation, of which the translation is “All the vears of one's life are dependent upon one dav.” He recalled that Autumn day, back in the 80s, when, in the dismal chemical laboratory of the old college building, Prof. H——, answering some expres. sion of interest regarding chemistry made by young Bain, then a fresh- man, suggested casually, “Why not be a chemist?" “It opened up a new field to me," Dr. Bain said. “My thoughts before, responding to environment, had al- Ways run to commerce, and to be a chief clerk at $75 a month, in a retail hardware store seemed a quite suff- cient ambition. To be @ sclentist of any sort was unthinkable. Scientists were born, 1 thought, not made; and no scientist had ever, as far as I knew, been born in any circle that 1 touched. The professors in our small college were a class apart. T felt privileged to know but not to emulate them, “And so, when that casual remark dropped into my life, it set new thoughts racing through my brain and awakened unsuspected ambitions. I played with the idea, ate with it and slept with it and day-dreamed over it —and 1 resolved—that 1 should be a scientist.” mained so through college vears | Then, when he had run into a blind alley, came another significant day, {when Prof. M-—— explained how it |was possible for him to go to |Johns Hopkins. “It seemed too good |10 be true, and there were anxious days of planning and speculating be- fore 1 was actually on the road.” Dr. Bain recalled. “T traveled over the C. & O. from Cincinnati. I carried a lunch in a ?aper bundle and slept, as much as could, in a crowded day coach. There was little time, though, for sleep, since for the first time in my life I was going south of the Ohlo and east of the Alleghe- nies. For the firat time I was getting out of the great prairie country in Wwhich I was born and over which 1 had traveled as a bo, Since then Dr. Bain has traveled all over the world and is as well, if not better, known in China, Russia and Africa as in this country.” He has investigated the mineral deposits and other natural resources of all the great countries in the world. “‘Johns Hopkins and the men T met there profoundly influenced my life— S0 the day that sent me there was truly significant,” says Dr. Bain. ‘There was another day of fate, when he received a telegram from Wash- ington offering him the job of making a reconnaissance survey of the Joplin district. He worked hard at that through a hot, sticky Summer in a country where insect pests were more numerous than the bullets from ma- chine guns in Flanders. Late in the Fall came another gala day, a fine Autumn day just before Thanksgiving, when he realized a Summerlong ambi- tion by traveling from St. Louis to Chicago on the Alton Limited. All that long, hard Summer in the crowded, dirty hotel lobby had hung a magnificent colored visualization of the famous ‘“Red Train,” and Bain, condemned to local freights and smoky accommodations, with an occa- sional hot night on a sleeper, used to stand in front of the picture and envy the imagined passengers. Dr. Bain's advice to young men to- day, out of his own fim-cumhln‘ experiences, is “Carpe diem"—the old Latin proverb, “Seize the day" of op- portunity. * X ok % There is a map of the I'nited States in the office of Carl W. Lawson, chief of the Bureau of Dairying of the United States Department of Agricul- ture, adorned with 782 stars. Dr. Lawson explains that these represent the number of cow-testing associations now throwing light on the milk and butter-fat production of 307,078 cows, which is only. 1.2 per cent of the dairy cow population. Newaygo County, Mich., Association represents ‘““The Evening Star,” which is the first to come out—this assoclation having been the first to organize, in 1906. The entire Milky Way is depicted by a great group of cow-testing assocla- tions extending In a long and graceful curve from the Dakotas through the upper stretches of the Mississippi and St. IAm'lotu:cl Vl'j’l-}’l. then 1.4:0- t}: Alleghenies to the eastern shores New England. e Other distinguished | E.{ Biology was his ambition and re. | MEN AND BY ROBERT The suite of rooms at the Willard Hotel, Washington, where Thomas Riley Marshall died is an historic one It has known its heights of gladness and sorrow. It was the same .'||H9‘ in which Mr. Marshall lived during his | eight years ax Vice President. It was the same suite which Calvin and Mrs Coolidge occupied when they came to | Washington, the former as Vice Presi dent. When President Harding dfed | the Coolidges were far up in the Ver-| mont hill. But they hurried back to Washington after Mr. ‘Coolidge had | taken the oath of office as President standing in the fiickering light of an | old oil lamp. | Mr. Coolidge re-established himself | as President in the old suite, and for several weeks it came to be known ax\ the tempo v White House while Mrs. Harding remained in the Execu-| tive Mansion arranging her personal | affairs and packing up her own and | her dead husband's papers and longings Then came the big transfer. The | Coolidges took possession of the White House. Mrs. Harding returned to| Marion, Ohio, but the life of the old | home place did not seem the =ame to | her and she decided to move back to | Washington. Rumor had her taking | this and that apartment, but when she | actually reached the Capital she was| domiciled in the suite that had been | the home of the Marshalls and the | Coolldges. Little dreaming he was on his last | mission to the Capital, Mr. Marshall arrived in Washington some three weeks ago. The old suite was open to him as usual, and there the brief | funeral services were held for him, | President Coolidge and Mrs. Cool- | ldge and members of the cabinet at-| Ilendlnx. Vice President Dawes i= going to |live in a house duriny the time his duties compel him to be in Washing- | ton * oxox % The Britons are great literalists. When you tell them that under the new order of things women are the equals of mere men, the British strick lers for exactitude, say in nautical fashion: “Make it so.” Therefore the literal Britons are Boing to pass a series of laws relfev- ing the husband of all responsibility for his wife's debts or crimes or other misdeeds Except that he shall share a proper amount in the maintenance of the children, it is to be provided that a husband need not pay alimony to divorced wife; unless it also be prc vided that a wife, when at fault, shall pay alimony to the unerring and loyal husband. Things must be equal, the British declare, and they are not going This and That By Charles E. Tracewell. Mr. Jack Spratt, popular cat-about- town, stood at the garden gate, twirling his fashionable striped tail. { The well known club cat hesitated. Should he strike south, or should | he go north? Should he investigate | the alleys to the east, or the more| populous thoroughfares to the west? Judging from the depths of his round eyes, Mr. Spratt was in ex treme doubt which section to favor with his elegant presence tonight. He glanced up Estey alley, he looked down it, he gazed back at the house, he peered across the way Jack’'s white shirt front, together with the pure white ruff around his neck, gleamed like ,silk under the light of the gas lamp. His white paws, fore and aft, were immaculate. His gray and black striped body glistened as it bathed in oil. Certainly the alley had never seen a more spick-and-span fellow. He fairly oozed feline satisfaction. Con- tent mantled his starched whiskers, reeked from the set of his ears and dripped from that restless tail. What a delicate, sensitive member a cat’s tail is, to be sure! The cat's whisker lie, but the cat's tail, never! Even fhough a cat purrs, his tail will give him away, iIf he is de- ceitful. When you pet a cat, keep your eye on the tip of its tail and if the caudal appendage is agitated, beware! Never trust a cat that wiggles its tail when it purre. ok ko | Back in the vard {owner lolled comfortably on a snappy $having | new piece of garden furniture. a bench made out of wood with the bark on {1 smay ‘‘so-called owner’ because no body owns a tomcat of the alley breed. | | Such a cat owns itself. ; “I am the master of myv fate,” sings | the alley cat. whether wild or domesti- | cated. Henley's famous poem is the national hymn of Catdom. Each cat is the captain of its own soul and calls no man master. Such a cat accepts meat, housing, petting, attention, warmth, catnip and other delicacies as his by divine right. He is grateful for it all, in his quiet, well bred feline way, but he Is not | your slave because of it all that he is your equal and is deter- mined to remain so. The house cat Ppays no taxes, yet enjoys the best that the city affords. “I catch mice,” he seems to say, 1f any one questions his right. “Look me up in the encyclopedia and you will find that eminent authorities de- clare American agriculture would not exist without me. Yes, decidedly ves. Therefore Jack Spratt, standing by the back gate, could go or come as he pleased. Tonight he seemed about to duplicate his customaryeevening per- formance of seeking adventure afar. “Come back, Jack, tomorrow morn. ing,” 1 called after him. The cat did not seem to hear. He continued to look down the alley. He twirled his tall vigorously. Then, in his peculiar way, he gave a hearty meow, turned around, and ‘walked back up the path. “If you don't mind, T guess I will stay home tonight, mister,” meowed Jack. “‘All dressed up, d no place to g0, you know how it is.” * x x %, Spratt's determination to stay was greeted with enthusiasm by those on the bench. Here was an opportunity to introduce him to the new place to sit. As yet Jack had mnot deigned to notice it. He had looked at it from the porch with huge scorn, but had not condescended to make a personal investigation. The new bench arose to the im- portance of & back-yard event, how- ever, in our eyes. We wondered if rain would hurt it, and decided In the negative. Nothing could harm that bench, we thought. It had the bark on! “Come over, Jack, and sit down on the nice bench.” . “Meow!" Old Spratt sauntered over and rang up on my lap, eyes wide open in the gathering dusk. He stretched out his paws, and they touched the bench. No sooner had his paws hit the: bench, than he pricked up his ears, stuck out his claws and began to sharpen them on the bark. “Hey, stop that! You'll ruin this new bench.” But Jack Spratt, following an in- stinct centuries old, continued to vigorously whet his claws at the | bench’s expense. No doubt he will keep on doing it, too, all the rest of the Summer.™ | world | a national policy ve- | | the sketch | some at the new legislation through pique | He informs you, with delicate grace, | AFFAIRS T. SMALL,. or a spirit of retaliation. They are Just literalisis In the debate in the House of Lords it has heen pointed out that the xisting laws dealing with the respon- ibility of the husband are almost entirely obsolete in view of woman's new position in the affairs of the “Men’'s rights,” is the new slogan of the embattled British hus- bands. Relievelng husbands is to he of the Baldwin gov ernment Certain of the *“lords and gentle men” have chided the ladies, telling them the reform in the unfair law be tween the sexes should have emanated from the feminists themselves, The old British law, it is said, as sumed that a man wife had much the same status as his horse or his dog. If the horse or dog did any damage or acted in a disorderly man ner, the man was held responsible And so it has been with wives, und the British law. The time for the emancipation of the British husband apparently has arrived. It has been assumed in the House of Lords that the modern ladies will not oppose the changes. for they would not want » be joined any closer than possible to their husbands. The Lucy Stone League in this country should surely applaud the new trend, for its members will not even take their husband's names, aithough in some cases, il is reported. the Lucy Stoners do permit the male end of to provide food, lodging and raiment American men are likely to clamor day for the liberty a British monarchy provides, o The chance remark of one of his Se. cret Service guards may have had as much to do with President Coolidge's {decision to use special trains in his |further important travelings as the- anxiety of the rafiroads about having such a distinguished “private passen- ger’” on one of their regular trains The Secret Service men wers mich | concerned over the President's desire to occupy just a stateroom sleeper and |eat in the regular dining car on his proposed trip to Chicago some months ago. According to the little birds that {gossip a great deal around the Cap {ital City, the President was walking down town with one of his guards on |the eve of the departure for the Windy City. Believe it or not, Mr | Coolidge was in a talkative mood “Do you think we are going have a good time in Chicago?" querisd |the President, intent upon conversa tion “Yes, sir,” replied the agent, some. | what dourly, “but we are not going | to have a good time going Here, o far as the littie birds are informed, the conversation ended somewhat abruptly. Fifty Years Ago In The Star From the beginning Grant's second term political, gossip was busy on the subject of a possible third term for him. The Democratic press harped upon Gen. Grant on the topic in order a Third Term, 0 _2rouse the country 1o the “danger” of a self-perpetuating ad ministration. Gen. Grant himself kept silent on this subject, as on most all questions. Finally, however, he was compelled to make his position known, and he did so in a letter ad dressed to Gen. Harry White, presi- dent of the Pennsylvania Republican State convention., which had declared in favor of the President’s renomina- tion. The letter, published jm The Star of May 31, 1875, follows: “A short time subsequent to the presidential election of 1872 the press —a portion of ft—hostile to the Re publican party and particularly so to the administration, started a cry of ‘Caesarism’ and the ‘third term,” call- |ing lustily upon me to define my position on the latter subject. T believed it to be beneath the dignity of the office which I have been twice called upon to fill to answer such a question before the subject should be presented by competent authority to make a nomination or by a body of such dignity and authority as pot to make a reply a fair subject of ridi- cule. But a body of the dignity and | party authority of a convention to | make nominations for the State off of President Spratt's so-called | Cers of the second State in the Tnion considered deem it not now speak. this question. 1 improper that 1 should . . “In_the first place. T never sanght the office for a second. nor even for a first nomination. To the first I wax called from a life position, one created by Congress expressly for me for sup- posed services rendered to the Repub- lic. The position vacated I liked. It would have been most agreeable to me to have retained it until such time as Congress might have consented to | my retirement with the rank and a | portion of the emoluments which 1 so | much needed, to a home where the balance of my days might be spent in | peace nd the enjoyment of domestic | quiet, relieved from the cares which | have oppressed me so constantly now for 14 years. Bui | was made to be- lieve that the public good called me to make the sacrifice. “Without seeking the office for the ‘second term.’ the nomination was tendered to meé by a unanimous vote ‘|of the delegates of all the States and Territories, selected by the Republi- cans of each to represent their whole number for the purpose of making their nomination. I cannot say that I was not pleased at this, and at the overwhelming indorsement which their action received at the election following. But it must be remem bered that all the sacrifices—except that of comfort—had been made in accepting the ‘first term’; then, too. such a fire of personal abuse and slander had been kept up for four vears, notwithstanding the conscien tious performance of my duties, 1o the beat of my understanding—though I admit. in the light of subsequent events. many times subject to fair criticism—that an_indorsement from the people, who alone govern repub lics, was a gratification that it is onlv human to have appreciated and en joyed. “Now, for the ‘third term.’ T do not want it any more than I did the first. I would not write or utter a word to change the will of the people In ex- pressing and having their choice. The question of the number of terms al- lowed to any one Executive can only come up fairly in the shape of a proposition to amend the Constitu- tion, a shape in which all political parties can participate, fixing the length of time or the number of terms for which any one person_shall be eligible for the office of President. Until such an amendment is adopted the people cannot be restricted in their choice by resolution further than they are now restricted as to age, nativity, etc. It may happen in the future history of the country that to change an Executive becauss he has been eight years in office will prove unfortunate, if not disastrous. The idea that any man could elect himself President, or even renominate himself, is preposterous. Tt is a re- flection upon the intelligence and patriotism of the people to suppose such a thing possible. Any man can destroy hia chances for the office. but no one can. force an election, or sven nomination.”