Evening Star Newspaper, June 8, 1925, Page 6

6 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY... ...June 8, 1925 THEODORE W. NOYES. . - The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office : Pennalvania 11th a 110 East New Ve e Chvicarn Office: Tower Bi European Offiee: 1% Regent S England. e Evening Star, with the Sunday morn- inz cdition. is delivored hy carviers within the cify at A0 conts per month: daily enly. 45 cents per month: Sunday only. 20 cents per month_ ~ Ordes < e sent by mail or maz telephone Main 5000, Collection is made by carrier at the gnd of each month. Rllf by Mail—Payable in Advance. Daily and v Maryland and Virginia. Daily only $8.40: 1 mo Bunday only 0001 1 All Other State: 2.40: 1 mo. Sunday. . .1 oly entitled news dis- Daper end also the local m Dublished hetein. All rights of publicat ©of special disoatches herein are aleo resery Politics and Newspapers. In a manner extremely complimen- tary to the power of the press, proin- inent Democrats today are attributing their failures in recent campalgns to the fact that “the Republicans have the newspapers.” As a rule they pro- ceed to denounce the newspapers—Re- publican, be it well understood—as “interest” controlled, “subsidized. No on ever heard of a Democratic “subsidized” newspaper—at lcast not from a Democrat. Tf this alibi really “stood up” the ‘al thing would be for the Demo- t c 48 many newspaj possible. There are Democ with money. But the alibi does not up. Without discounting the power of the press, or the influence which the newspapers have in politi- cal campaigns, attention may be called fo the fact that “you can't fool all the people all the time,” even in the news. papers, or even a majority of the peo- ple. There must be some substance behind the news stories and the editorials that are phblished if they are to be effective. Theé Democratic party today needs, far more than it needs newspapers, popular issues, strong leaders and harmony, which is not the least im- portant. The of the United States are quick to print the news. disappointed politicians to the eont noiwithstanding. If the Demucrats would remember the old saying that to get water out a well St metimes necessary to pour in a little ct accordingly, they might meet with better results. Nor .does “‘water” in this case have any- thing to do with financing or money. It simply refers to news that Is of in- tevest. Democratic leaders complain that President €oolidge has been “sold” to the American people by the news. papers. So he has, in a way, but it was only possible because the Presi- dent stood for something that the peo- ple were willing to buy. Selling fakes, whether stock or political leaders, is not possible over long periods of time. President Coolidge has stood the test of time and of office, and there is plenty of testimony today, even out of . the mouths of the Democrats them- selves, that he is popular throughout. the United States. Some of the Demo- crats repeat over end over a refrain that ““the President is colorless.” They may wish that constant repetition would make the people believe what they say. But is there any public man whom the people generally have been better able to picture more vividly in their minds than Calvin Coolidge, because of the things he has said and done vin Coolidze means some- thing, stands for something to the American people, and he will continue to mean something to them as long as he conducts himself as he has during | “the period he has occupled the White House. This may be unfortunate for the Democrats, who are out of office and who would llks to get in. If they are to suceed they must find a man | vho can be “sold” to the American | people, @ man who will stand for the things the people want and who will to their im ination. When find such a man, and such issu will find, too, that the n papers of America will help to turn the trick for them just as they have helped to give the people today a reali- zation of President Coolidge. As evidence of the fact that a politi- cal leader must have something which WArrants newspaper support, it is only necessary to call attention to some of the municipal and State elections, when the great daily newspapers have supported candidates who did not measure up to the demands of the people. In those campaigns columns of eulogy have fafled to land the pri — e Trat subsidi stand newspapers to ary Under certain conditions & bathing beach may be dangerous to health. “-Drowning statistics show that the sence of one is unquestionably so. ————— Every Summer brings a threat of inadequate water supply. Times of peace have their problems of pre- paredness. i ——— For the past week the question -of bathing facilities has been even more urgent than that of parking space. ——————— Democratic Debt Underwritten. That grand and &lorious feeling of Deing out of debt is being expsrienced Jby the Democratic national commit- tee. The committee as 3n organization is no longer responsible for the debt sincurred by the expenses of the last national ‘cai ign, which have been assumed for settlement by members of the party who are devoted to Demo- cratic principles and who have faith “in the future. ‘When the last campaign closed the , obligations of tuae national committee _.approximated $280,000. Chairman Shaver devoted himself to ridding the . “committee of this obligation, and, ac- of an election, with only the hope of party vietory, is hard enough in it- sclf, but paying the ~ost of & cam- paign that has been lost Is tragedy. But with the sting of defeat follow- ing the collapse of the high hopes en- tertained at the outset there is not much comfort in undertaking a new campaign. The situation must be comferting to Chairman Oldfield, who fs conducting the comgressional cam- paign committee in the fight now com- mencing for the capture of the mext House of Representatives by the Democrats: His troubles are still be. | fore him to raise the funds for the | prosecution of that campaign, but doubtless he will take much satisfac. tion In the success of the efforts of Chatrman Shaver to underwrite the ““dead horse™ of the national commit- tee. e A Rock for Exchange. England, for ncarly all of the past two and u quarter centuries the proud possessor of the fameus Rock of Gibraltar, long considered the world’s greatest stronghold, is begin- ning to find herself somewhat in the situation of a primitive savage who, owning an elegant stone-tipped lance, discovers his nelghbors equipped with bows and slings. Rapid recent progress of science jslowly but surely is rendering obsolete this great natural fortress, whose owner formerly could dictate what fleets could enter the Mediterranean and could adequately protect the en- try of her own. Now it appears that if guns of proper caliber are mounted on the mainland no ships could cnter the port of Gibraltar, and, with pro- visions and munitions unreplenished for a long enough time the garrison would have to surrender. In fact, the statement that as a fortress Gibraltar is “completely out of date” was recently made in the House of Commons, followed by au- thoritative declarations that, if a con- siderable air force were sent against it, Britain would be unlikely to be able to make any use of it at all. The proposition has been made, quietly at first, for the British are rather senti- mental, of trading Gibraltar to Spain, its natural owner. Spain, however, has mighty little to trade that England, Mlewise practical, would want, and it begins to look as If the towering rock were turning white and elephan- tine. Since the days of mythology this northern unit of the famed “Pillars of Hercules” has held a high place in human estimation as to impregna- bility, notwithstanding the fact that it has, on occasjon, been taken by as- sault, notably in 4. For gener: tions British ordnance experts have concentrated on big guns for its arma- ment. But the strides of Inventive genius have been too great and too rapid. Modern great battleship guns, to say nothing of 20-inch land how- itzers, have rendered its armament, if not futile, at least comparatively harmiess. Its guns are not sufficiently mobfle to cope with long-range naval cannon; the rock itself is not adapted to tactical disposition of antiaircraft guns. Helgoland, the other great modern fortress, no longer exists as a North Scu menace. Soon, perhaps, Gibraltar, more famed in song and story, with its vast deposits of munitions and victuals and its intricate system secret tunnels, may be offered in trade for something less imposing but more uséful, perhaps island, territory, or, in the language of the classified advertisements, “What have you Or, like the Tower of London or Edinburgh Castle, it may be utilized as a tremendous memento of Eng- lish glory, a mecca for crowds of curious tourists. But no matter what its eventual status, its name will pre —_————— Even it Canada should establish title to Arctic territory she would probably have Ford to show her how to make it com- mercially practica! PR The Weather Bureau's accuracy has enabled it to demonstrate the pos- sibility of remaining popular even while bringing the bad news. Florida real estate missed a big ad when Col. Bryan's brother did not suc- ceed in being elected to the vice presi- dency. e e Hot Weather Mob Impulse. It is estimated that no less than 0,000 people visited Coney Island yesterday to seek relfg from the in- tense heat. They swarmed from New York, from Brooklyn, from all the ad- jacent cities and towns and suburban settlements. They went by electric car, by steam train, by motor and afoot. At the beach they were packed into a dense mass, and the crowd was so great that 150 children were “lost,” separated from their parents and guardians and rounded up at the po- lice stations for distribution. Thou- sands were unable to obtain bathing 2ecommodations. Most of those who se- cured bathhouses and suits were un- able to get into the sea, so compact was the thréng on the sands. When the time arrived to return the con- gestion was so intense that many thousands were compelled to wait for hours, and did not reach home until very late at night. It was a typical hot-Sunday experience. This is one of the phenomena natu- rally attendant upon the dense con- centration of population. Everybody thinks of the same method of meet- inz unusual conditions. Bverybody moves by an identical impulse. The mass movement sets In toward the nearest and most accessible place of supposed relief, and the result is a tre- mendous jam. Few stop to consider the consequences of such a general rush, Each individual or group acts upon impulse without reckoning upon the result of the mob movement. In such conditions as those caused by the concentration of three-quarters of a milion people upon a short stretch cf ocean front within a few cording to an announcement in the National Democrat, the new organ of the party, he has cleared it away. This must have been no easy task. “Paygng for the dead horse” is an un- .- gracfps undertaking, as every one knows. Collecting money in advance hours there is inevitably grievous dis- comfort and much danger. The aver- age experience Is one of stress and acutely unpleasant crowding. Perhaps half of those who packsd Coney Is. land yesterday resalved on their re. turn, never to' go agaln, and yet the of | never grow less as a synonym for im- | ive stabllity and impregnability. to appeal to Henry| THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, next time an extremely hot Sunday or {holiday comes they will obey the crowd impalse once more and make the painful pilgrimage as to a shrine. JVhat constitutes a “‘good time” is a matter of individual judgment snd taste. To some people, perhaps, pack- ing into suffocating subway or sur- face cars, riding in crowded motor cars on dangerously congested roads, milllng by the tens of thousands on hot sands, eating unwholesome food, losing children and spending hours findfng them, for the sake of a peep at a seashore swarming with hu- manity and possibly a splash in water that laves the persons of several hun- dred thousand people—perhaps this experfence is a “good time.” Certainly it must be sufficlently recreative to induce repetition, for no matter how dense the crowd, or how great the discomforts or the dangers or how painful the sufferings, Coney Island continues to draw ‘“standing room only” crowds whenever the weather is hot. et e The Disabled Dirigible. A mishup to the engines of the dirigible Los Angeles on her way to St. Paul, where she was to be a fea- ture of the Norse celebration, which opens there today, compelled her re. turn to Lakehurst, N. J., after reach- ing a point more than half way to her destiration. This is one of the limitations of the lighter-than-air ships. They cannot land at any point save one that has been specially pre- pared. If anything goes wrong they must make for the nearest hangar or moortng mast. Hangars and moo masts, however, are not thickly scat- tered. A landing fleld may be avail- able with a sufficlent squad of men to handle the giant gas bag, but this requires organfzation, which cannot be provided suddenly in an emergency. An-airplane, on the other hand, can land in any open field. Forced land- ings have been made on many occa- sions in perfect safety by Government and commercial planes. A dirigible forced to descend in midflight would risk total destruction. Failure of the flight of Los Angeles to”St. Paul will prove a great disappointment there. Perhaps this experfence will result in the provislon of mooring masts at various points throughout the coun- try, where t'ese giants of the air may be brought to rest in the course of their occasional voyuges. faer s Gustav Bachholz. A keen sense of loss is felt by the people of Washington in the death of Gustav Buchholz, who passed away in this city last evening with little warn- ing. *“Gus” Buchholz had in the 23 vears of his career in Washington en- deared himself to an exceptionally wide circle of friends. His success as hotel keeper was the result of his estimable personal qualities. He was a natural hotel man, genial, generous, alert to serve to the complete satisfac- tion of his patrons, blessed with the quality of gaining confidence, gifted with & memory for identities. In the trying days of the Great War Gustav Buchholz was a stanch American, helpfully participating in works for | the success of American arms against | his native land. His success in busi- ness was achieved after he had tailed or only moderately succeeded in other lines of work in this country. He was {msurance agent, street car conductor an actor before he served as a head wait and then he became a hotel | role for which nature had richly en- | dowed him. He is mourned sincerely by this community. — No doubt Harry Thaw is now pre- pared to admit that his farmhands can absorb all his loose change, and that York to scatter tips. Washington, destined to be_one of the greatest citles of the world, is worthy of a water supply proportion- ate to its magnitude and beauty. —_— e HOOTING STARS. BY Puvu:sbt:n JOHNSON. Rough Little Playmate. The Merry Sunshine used to be A tavorite theme for tuneful glee. It romped, as merrier still it grew ‘Without a care, the long day through. It melts my collar, just to show My -itward sign of inward woe, Ana now I vow I've had enough. That Merry Sunshine plays too rough! A Gloomy Doubt. “Do you think a man who has made a reputation in politics ought to £0 into commercial life?” “1 don't know,” answered Senator Sorghum. “Publicity is mighty valu- able, and it doesn't seem right to find yourself in doubt once in a while as to whether an eminent orator is sav- ing the country or hoosting his own business.” The Schoolboys, yearning to be wise In Darwin's this-and-thats, Perhaps will have to organize And study ‘em in frats. Jud Tunkins says our sporting in- stinct is such that we feel disappoint- ed when a hot day narrowly escapes being a record breaker.” Practical Observation. “Would you marry for wealth?” “No,” answered Miss Cayenne, “I am not particularly romantic, but T have yet to see any kind of a get- rich-quick game that proved satisfac- tor: A Sympathetic Discourse. 1 sympathized with a farmer sad And 1 sald, “The weather's been gosh- durn bad,” My object being, of course, to choose The language which he himself might use. He said in a voice that haunts me still, “If the crops don't grow, the prices will. We all may find we're in so deep That nothing but sympathy is cheap.” “Fus' thing dey knows,” said Uncle Eben, “dey’ll start sech a terrible argument 'bout education dat seme o’ de small boys is gineter gt scagdd an’ play hookey.” P i G proprietor and “found himself” in a | it will not be necessary to go to New | THIS AND THAT Dun Chaucer, the first warbler. whose sweet Preciuded those melodious bursts, that fill The spacious thmes of great Elizabeth With sounds that echo still. So said Tennyson, in his “Dream of Falr Women,” giving credit to the great bard of the Middle Ages, at the same time pointing out that Shakespeare and the other poets of ’z,v':e Elizabethian era far surpassed m. It Is extremely doubtful if Henry Howard, Early of Surrey, can be said to rival Chaucer in any way, and vet it is true that this immediate forerunner of the great poets of the great age to follow is much more easily read today. Henry, Earl of Surrey, whose name is immortalized by the four-wheeled, two-seated pleasure carrfage known by that name, hus many poems in which the most up-to-date person of this very up-to-date century can take genuine pleasure. Henry was a two-fisted fighting man, yet some of his poems breathe 7 sweet gentleness that would do credit to a more refined age. Th= times of old Henry VIII were scarce- Iy _polite. That crowned monster |drew some of his wickedness from the spirtt of the age, undoubtedly. Even a king of old could not far surpass, either in goodness or wicked- ness, the sum total of the decency or evil of his own people. If Nero seemed to outdo the rest of the Romans, he probably dld not, but simply summed up, in one person, the iniquities of them all. Similarly, it Marcus Aurelius ap- pears, to our eves, to have been far in advance of his age, probably he was not, but just focused the many good points of many similar minds in_that state of Roman callure. Henry the Eighth was fit for treason, stratagem and spofls him- self not only because he combined In his inelegant person vices pecu- liar to himself, but also because he did what thousands of others would have liked to do if they had had the POWer to carry out their designs. * ok % % The Earl of Surrey, who wrote sweet love poems, was suspected by Henry VIIT of aiming at the throne, and was cast inte prison, along with his father. While there he took ad- vantage of the enforced lelsure to compose a few doleful lines. These did not save him, hewever. He was tried—at least that was what they called it—condemned—naturally enough—and executed in due time. Thus ended a curiously woven exis- tence, one that ran from battlefield to court, from poetry to prose, both fig- uratively and literally. Surrey, who was the grandson of the famous earl who won the victory at Flodden (and who was created Duke of Norfolk for i), was born in 1517, and died at the hands of the execu- tioner in 1547. He is given credit for being the first to write the wo-called blunk verse in English, translating in that meter the second and fourth books of Vir- gil's “Aeneld.” Personally, I wish he had never done it! Blank. verse is one of my pet aver- sions, and I believe thousands of oth- ters harbor a secret dislike for it. Not that we would gainsay the greatness of Shakespeake, or any of the other users of this meter. Blank verse, however, is difficult to read, requiring a sort of sustaining of the mental faculties that is extremely wearying, to say nothing of belng plain difficult. If Shakespeare’s plays were printed in prose form, I am con- vinced they would be read much more than they are. A few of them of course, such as ““Corfolanus,” ought not to be printed President Coolidge very obviously has his heart set on bringing Minne- sota back into the regular Republican told for keeps. It is a long time since the Gopher State has shaken down within a period of a few months two major plums like the Secretaryship of State and the Solicitor Generaliship Doubtless the appointment of Willlam D. Mitchell of St. Paul to the place re- ently vacated by James M. Beck was timed for Mr. Coolidge's visit to the Twin Cities this week. The Farm- Labor party is by no means defunct in Minnesota. But the defeat of Magnus Johnson last vear by Thomas D. Schall, a regular Republican, in- |dicates that the organization is no {longer invincible. ‘When Henrik | Shipstead, Farm-Labor’s lone sentinel in the Senate, is up for re-election in 1928 there is sure to be a fierce G. O. P. attack to unhorse him. * % x % Herbert Hoover will have an un- officlal helpmate at his own vine and fig tree in running the Bureau of Mines. That adjutant is none other than Mrs. Hoover, who was a student in metallurgy at Stanford University when her husband was studying min- ing and engineering there in the early '90’'s. - After their graduation the Hoovers collaborated in a translaiion of “Agricola de Re Metallica,” which ever since has been a standard text- book in schools of mines.” Hoover would rather dabble in mining affairs than any of the multifarious activities that engage his inexhaustible energy. He was a mining engineer of recog- nized merit at 21. Between 1895 and 1913 he practiced his profession in the United States, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Italy, Great Britain, South Africa, India, China and Russia. * % x *x Maj. Sherman Miles, statuesque son and heir of Gen. Nelson A. Miles, who has just been assigned to the artillery school at Fortress Monroe after three vears as military attache at Constan- tinople, is the author of a book on the Gallipoli campaign. It will shortly make its appearance in England. It is a compllation of articles which have already appeared in the United States Artillery Journal. Maj. Miles made exhaustive personal studies of the ill- starred British campaign to crusa the Turks at the Dardanelles. Gen. Sir Jan Hamilton, who commanded the British Army in Gallipoli, read Miles’ manuscript and pronounced it one of the most authentic accounts of Galli- poli yet produced. * Kk K % A member of Philadelphia’s ruling family, Edward Biddle, has found it necessary to clear up a COntroversy about Washington's tomb at Mount Vernon. It appears that some Penn- sylvanians have recently been claim- ing that the designer and donor of the tomb was the architect, William Strickland. Mr. Biddle now intro- duces a communication from Strick- Jand to Henry Clay, in which John Struthers of Philadelphia is described as “the sculptor and donor” of the tomb. “It is with great pleasure that I dedicate to you,” Strickland said to Clay, “a detailed account of the re- moval of the remains of Washington from their original frail tenement at Mount Vernon to an imperishable sar- cophagus composed of a solid block of Pennsylvania marble.” * o ox * President Coolidge is punctiliously regardful of the vested rights of United States Senators in the matter of Federal appointments. A cabinet member at the head of an executive department usually has full discretion in the selection of subordinates. A recommendation is made to the Pres- ident, variably consults the Senators, if they are Republicans, from the home State but before it is formally and | which we refer gre harmful. finally acted upon, Mr. Coolidge in-| = BY CHARLES L. TRACEWELL. in any form, except as literary curi- osities. Surrey’s portrait of his wife was not in blank verse, and was all the better for it. Taine, in his “History of English Literature,” calls this word picture “the simplest and truest we can imagine.” It stands out from that crude age like a lily out of a black beg. Hope, it appears, speaks to Surrey while he is alone: For 1 assure thee, even by oath, Apd thereon take my hand and troth, at she is one of the worthiest, e truest and the faithfulest. © Centlest and the meekest of mind ‘That here on earth a man may find: And if that love and truth were gone, In her it might be found alone. For in her mind no doubt there But how she may be trie: 1 Wi And tenders thee and al thy heale, And wishes both thy health and weal: And lo thee even as far forth than A %any Soman may & man: And is thine own, and so she says: And cares for thee ten thousand ways. g’ thee she speaks, on thee she thinks ith thee she eats, with thee she drinks, With thee she talks, with thee she moan: With thee she sig! with thee she groans, With then she ways ~Farcwell mine. own When thou, God knows, full far art gon . And ‘even, o tell thes &1] Aright, To' thee she sayw full oft -Good nizh And names thee oft her own most dear, Her. comfort wenl and all her Cheer Ana ells ‘her pillow 4l the vals. How ‘thou hast done her wos and bale, And how she longs and plains for thee And says “Why are thou so from me? Am 1 not she that loves t) best ? Do I not wish thine ease and rest? Seek I not how I may thee ploase? Why art thou then so from thine ease? If 1 be ahe for whom thon chrest, For whom in torments so thou farest, las! thou knowest to find me here, ere T remain thine own most dear., :M own l‘nlll( true, !iflu! "n ml&fl Just, he own vei thec stitl, am : Thine own that cares alome for thee U As thou. I think, dost care for me: And even the woman, she alone, ‘That is full bent to be thine own. Surrey gave a tremendous title to that simple expression of u woman's love, “A Description of the Restless State of the Lover When Absent from the Mistress of His Heart.” It was the fashion in his day. Taine calls it “the exact picture of deep and perfect conjugal affection.” such as yet survives in England, such as all her authors have represented, down through the line of Greene, Beaumont, Fletcher, Webster, Shake- speare, Ford, Otway. Richardson, De Foe, Fielding, Dickens, Thackeray. He might have added, on this side of the Atlantic, Cooper, Longfellow, Hawthorne, Holmes and many others, who have held true to the picture of married affection. To hear some talk and write, old and young, through the centuries, one might imagine that all marriage was a stormy sea, all divorce pro- ceedings, etc. Happy married life, be- Ing quiet. has not attracted the atten. tion of those seeking the spectacular. Therefore, it is with some joy that we turn back through the centuries to Henry Surrey and read his happy poems of married life. If he ended beneath the headman’s ax, it prob- ably was the fault of the age, not hi Surely the real man shines forth from his poems, that fe, the best part of the real man. Maybe he did not act as he wrote, but who can? Ah, that is entirely a different story In this glad vernal season, let us leave Surrey giving us his “Descrip. tion of Spring, Wherein Every Thing Renews Save Only the Lover.” The eoote season, that bud and bloom forth brings, With €reén hath clad the hill and eke the The nightingale with feathers new she sings: The turtle (o her mate hath told her taje. Summer is come. for every spray now “Dring; The bart has fung his old head on the ale: The buck in brake his winter coat he flings The fishos flete with new repaired scale: - e ‘adder all her slough auay she sings The swift swallow pursucth the flise atrale: The busy bee her honey now she min ter is worn that was the flowers: bale And thus T see among these pleasant thing Each care decay and yet my sorrow WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE of the person In question. If there happens to be no Republican Senator from the State, the advice and con- sent of Republican members of the House are usually sought. * % % % John B. Stetson, jr., the new Amer- ican Minister to Finland, has just paid his respects at the White House, prior to leaving for his post at Helsingfors. Mr. Stetson was a combatant aviator with the American Army in France, s0 the vicissitudes of diplomacy will have no terrors for him. Finland stands high in American ofiicial favor. She is one of the select few European nations that have funded their debts to the United States Treasury. The Finns owe us $8,910,000. The original debt was $9,000,000 which was reduced by a $80,000 payment on account. Fin- land also has paid us $850,000 in in- terest. The President is sure to have entrusted Mr. Stetson with a message of American appreciation and good will to the government at Helsingfors. ¥ ¥ ok ¥ Ormsby McHarg, who was a factor in Washington polities in Roosevelt days, is now grappling with the prob- lem of pure milk in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Backed by local capital, he is at the head of a dairy products com- pany, which owns the largest pure. bred herd of Holstein-Fresian cows in Minnesota. McHarg, who was a con- frere of Willlam Loeb, jr., and Frank H. Hitchcock, was an Assistant At- torney General and later Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Labor in the second Roosevelt administration. R Edwin Sheddan Cunningham, the American consul general at Shanghai, who is now figuring conspicuously in the news from that port of unrest, is one of the veterans of our consular service. He began his career in the mystic East 27 years ago as consul at Aden, Arabia, and since then has served successively in Norway, South Africa, Indla, the Straits Settlements and China. No one in Uncle Sam's employ knows the strange ways and means of the Orient better than Cun- ningham. He is a Tennessean, a graduate of the University of Michi- gan, and is 57 years old. (Copyright, 1925.) Greece’s Charge for Vise Is Only $6, Not $14 To the Editor of The Star; On page 17 of Friday's Star was published a dispatch from Sofia over the signature of Junius B. Wood, with reference to the charge for passport vise by certain of the Balkan states. In this dispatch the following sentence occurs—"“Greece charges $14, and the traveler must pay every time he crosses the border. The Greek legation authorizes us to say. that this statement is incorrect. The charge made by Greece for vise on an American passport is $6 and the vise is given for a period of 6 months, which is shortly to be increased to 12 months without additional charge. There is also in force a special ar- rangement for the benefit of students, teachers, etc., desiring to visit Greece, under which passports for a party of 10 or more traveling on the same ship are vised at a charge, which at the present rate of exchange, comes to only $1.45 each. Greece, at the present time, is do- ing everything in its power to facili- tate and encourage a tourist trade, and misleading statements like the one to We, you will give thi: Icity. Sincerely, P. SALMON. therefore, trust thi communication pu! l MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1925. Need for Half-Cent Coin By Frederic J. Haskin. With wheat at $1 a bushel, taking into consideration freight and present operating costs in the baking indus- try, bread should wholesale at § cents per pound loaf. With wheat at $1.55 per bushel, the wholesale price of | bread should be 9 cents per pound. Or, to state the problem in another a barrel of flour ylelds on an 200 one-pound loaves of bread. With an advance or a de- crease in the price of flour of $2.90 per barrel, the baker can adjust his business by a corresponding advance or reduction of 1 cent in the price of a loaf of bread. Smaller fluetuations in the cost of wheat or flour cannot be offset by similar changes in the price of bread because the latter must be at least 1 cent, it being impossible to fix a price with a fraction of a cent. Should the bread price be increased or decreased a full cent the baker will get too much or_too little. Thus the arguments showing the need for a half-cent coin are summed up, and the prospect is presented of another drive on Congress for legisla- tion re-establishing the coins of small- er value, which have not been minted for almost three-quarters of a cen- tury, This drive, if it materializes, will be led by the baking industry. S. 8. Langendorf, a prominent £ cisco baker, has taken the lead in the movement and is sounding out his associates in the basic food busi- ness to ascertain whether they be- lieve it worth while to bring their troubles to Washington. Under existing conditions, he sa the baker is forced to be either a profiteer, a speculator, & philanthro- pist or « goat. His average net profit on large volume production is one-half cent per net pound. An advance in flouy, prices of about $1.35 over his basié flour cost practically wipes out the baker's profit. He may add a full cent to the bread price, thus get- ting too much and laying himself open to charges of extortion. or he| may do business without a profit for «u time, gambling on_the chance that | there will come a drop in the cost| of flour that will enable him to re-| coup his losses or make up the profit | he has foregone. | * ¥ ¥ X “We are of the opinion,” continues Mr. Largendorf, “that the introdue- tion of a half-cent denomination of coin would be an aid in adjusting bread prices whenever conditions war- rant a change, and so work to the better satisfaction of the public as well as the baker. “Under the present coinage, retail bread prices can only be increased or decreased in units of a cent. Flour may fluctuate as much as $2 a barrel, | and bakers are often prevented from raising the price of bread because of the fear of being accused of profiteer- | ing. Few commodities are so cheap now that It is necessary to split pen- nies in fixing their value. The price | of butter or of eggs blithely jumps a nickel at a time, and the housewife is s0 used to the changing scale that she never bothers to check up her grocery slips. But let there be an ad- vance of a single cent in the cost of a loaf of bread and everybody is ready to go gunning for profiteers. That is| why, with an advance in the price of flour of from 50 cents to $1.75, the baker usually absorbs this increase at a great disadvantage to himself. “With a half-cent coin the baker| could adjust his price of bread one- half cent per pound with an advance or a decrease of $1.00 to $1.50 per barrel in flour prices, which would offset the prevailing increase or de- crease in the cost of flour and reflect itself to an equivalent amount in the retail or consumer price. Tt is declared that under present conditions, in order to protect himself in a fair profit, the baker must be a flour speculator. He eannot adjust his bread prices frequently as can other industries such as flour milling, sugar refining, coffee and the like. | Flour mills can adjust their prices daily in accordance with the increase | or decrease in the price of wheat. For every cent advance in wheat flour is! advanced 5 cents. With a certain | number of points advance in the raw | sugar market the price of refined | sugar is altered daily, if necessary, to| conform with the price of raw sugar. Very ftrequently inharmonious re. lations existing between bukers in a given community are due to the fact that one group of bakers has been fortunate in making flour purchases on a low market while another group was purchasing on the current higher market. The successful speculators are thus sitting pretty, as the slang of the day puts it. * * ¥ % The difference to consumers in a| change of 1 cent in the retail price of | bread, it is pointed out, amounts to only 82 per vear to the individual. On the basis of the average family, which economists have decided to con sist of 3.3 adults, this would mean less than $7 annually, and the bakers think that, comparatively speaking, this is nothing to get greatly excited | over, so far as the public is concerned, while it spells prosperity or ruin to their industry. "The Government ceased the coinage of half-cent pieces in 1857. The coins continued in circulation for many vears after that date, however, and many of them are still out, although it has been fully half a century since their existence was reflected in com- modity prices. Most of the half-cent pieces now out are in the hands of coin collectors and are heard of only in their transactions. Periodleally there comes a revival of the demand that Congress direct the mint to resume the production of the fractional coin. There was no bill to that end introduced at the last ses- sion of Congress and no measure is now in the hands of committees of either House or Senate, but with the bakers Lestirring themselves it is re- garded as probable that the fight will be on next Winter. Whether there is a real need or a formidable public de- mand for the coin of small value is al- ways a debatable question. Opposition to the proposal always comes from the manufacturers and users of slot machines of varlous kinds, for none of these machines has a slot that will recefve a new coin. This opposition is of the most vigorous kind. Other objectors to the innovation —and the half-cent plece has been out so long that to restore it is the equivalent of an innovation—include the manufacturers and users of cash registers. These machines, as they are constructed today, have no keys to_reggrd fractional cent sales. In “some lines of merchandise, where bargain sales are featured the half-cent coin is viewed with favor by a few dealers. For the most part, however, it is clalmed that those who like to advertise articles with frac- tional cet prices prefer to use that as a bait to effect sales in multiples rather than of the single article— two for 25 cents, rather than one for 12% cents, and so on. Intérestingly enough, one source of opposition to a coin of smaller value comes from people who hafle to look after the business affairs offhurches. Too many pennies now are dropped into collection plates, it is said, and to have half-cent colns would mean a material shrinkage in church re- ceipts. Thus is the price of worship linked with the cost of bread. The Happy Medium. From the Birmingham News. It is presumed that the spiritual- ist who took down the $1,000 reward by leading the police to bandits who had robbed a bank is a happy medium. ———— . Let your lght so shine that it will not blind the other driver.—Louisville Times. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. Before prohibition, was more alcohol consumed in beer or in dis- tilled spirits?—D. P. A. The Board of Temperance of the Methodist Church says that much more alcohol was consumed In the form of beer. Q. How many eggs are in the roe of & Chinook salmon?—G. C. L. A. The Bureau of Fisheries says that a Chinook salmon weighing | about 20 pounds will carry from | 5,000 to 8,500 spawn. Q. How many home runs did Ty Cobb make in 1922, 1923 and 19247— P. 8. 8. A. In 1 , 4 home runs; 1923, fi] home runs 1924, 4 home runs. In 1921, Ty Cobb made 12 home runs, which is his top record. Q. When should an announce- ment of an engagement be made?— C. M. A. It should be made upon the day that the bride-elect chooses to wear her engagement ring for tie first time publicly. Q. How many Confederate soldi are buried at Arlington?—H. L. C. A. Up to May 1, 1925, 397 Con- federate soldiers had been interred in that cemetery. Q. Does it hurt sugar cane to ir- rigate it during a drought A. S. A. The Bureau of Plant Industry says that irrigating sugar cane dur- ing a drought is very beneficial. Sev- | eral districts have been irrigated with | #ood results. Q. Has any than natives?—M A. No State in the Union has a greater percentage of foreign-bprn than native American population. | The States having the largest pro-| portion of foreigners are New York. | Pennsylvania, Ilinois Massa- | chusett; Q. How should fiz to avold shrinking?—L. V. E. | A. The water should be lukewarm, | the soap being dissolved in it. The rinsing “water should be of the same | temperature, and the garments should | be dried in air nearly of the same | temperature of the water if possible. Avold cold drafts of air or intense heat. Q. “Ariel” contains a reference to| the “Monads of Leibnitz." What it mean?—W. A. A. A monad is one of the elements containing within themselves principles of both substances and the combination of which _is constituted and by ies its changes and de- velopments are explained. According | to Leibnitz, they are non-spatial, self acting forces, or im material each one representing the same uni. verse. but representing it from a dif- ferent point of view, and each attain- ing its activity through the will of God, in Himselt simple actuality and perfection. Q. Do churches other than Roman Catholic use incense?—T. J. L. | A. Many other churches do. Ea: ern Catholics and some Protestants, particularly some branches of the Anglican Church use it. Other re.| ligions, notably the Buddhists and | Hindus, employ it in their rites. Q. Shoud ‘“good-b; “Z00d- and good-night” be written one word, two words or hyphenated words? | T. A. B. A. The correct forms are “good-| " and “good night.” | | Q. What is the value of all dlamonds | compared to gold?—C. M. 1 A. The dlamonds of the world are said to represent u value of £5,000,000 000. and it is likely that the te more foreigners M. C. washed | the What does | guinea cow is not a the |bles the Jersey, | units, | mounts to some 00,000. Q. What great books were written during imprisonment?—W. G. B. A. The best known inchude Bunyan's ress” and “Grace “King’s Quhair,” or the “King's Béolk,” by James i; “The Review,” by Daniel Defoe and the “History of the World," by Sir ‘Walter Raleigh. Q. What is the most solid known?—R. M. A. The General Electric Co. as re cently perfected the most transparent solid known—fused quartz. It is said to have qualities which will make it the standard for length and pitis, e placing the metals now used. II is S0 clear that there is no obstruction in passing light and heat rays throvgh a tube of it, and a meter of fused quartz transmits 92 per cent of the light passed through one end, a4 against 65 per cent for the best optic glass and 35 per cent for ordinar glass, and it does not shut out ultra violet r: The light even passes through tubing which is bent or twist ed, proving that light, which is sup posed to travel in a straight line can be made to turn corners. Q. I have heard that there has been an increase in the consumption of milk in the United States in the last few vears. Is this due to prohibi tion?—D. Q. A. A. The Department of Agriculture says that the increase in the consump. tion of milk is due to the improvement in the quality of product, delivery in sanitary containers and in a general increase in the knowledge of the lue of milk in the diet, the result of milk campaigns and special advertising. Q Is universities?—F. A. The only that have such aeccumulated gold what less than $8,000, oy Abounding trapsparent dentistry taught DG universities abroa a course are Univer sity of Melbourne. Australia: Eccl Dentaires, Paris: Universi Lo don: University of Bdinburgh, and the Universitie de Geneve. Q. Is Government insurance subject to the claims of creditors?—B. F. A. United S es Government term insurance and United States (Govern ment life insurance are protected from the claims of creditors for debts Q. What is.a guinea cow?—K. C. ¥ A. The dairy division of the De partment of Agriculture says that the inct breed, but {is a type of dairy cow originating in | southern Georgia. It closely resem though it is only | about 314 feet in height. Q. Where is 1 Light of the World A. It is in St. Paul Q. in foreign Iman Hunt's ?—J. L. H London “The How great are the coal reserves of Canada?—H. G. T. A. Official estimates |logical Survey place the {of Canada at 1, | Q. w customer the | M.V, A. by the Gen 1 reserves 239 million tons country is the leading 1924 in motor vehicle exports for United States and —C. Australia_is the leading |tomer, with 39564 passenger trom the United States and from Canada. cus care 10 (The Star Information Bureau 117 answer your question. This offer ap plies strictly to information. The bu- reau cannot give advice on legal, medi cal and financial matters. It does mol attempt to settle domestic trouble no undertake exhaustive research or any subject. Write pour question plainly and briefly. Give full name and address and inciose cents in stamps for return postage. All replics are sent direct to the inquirer. Ad- dress Frederic J. Haskin, director, The Star Information Bureaw, Twenty-first and C strects northwest.) Honors for Tom Sawyer And Huck Finn Acclaimed Once more the boys of vesterday | welcome an opportunity to ar‘t‘l:limi‘ Tom Sawyer and Huckelberry Finn. | It comes in the news that Mr. and| Mrs. George Mahan of Hannibal, Mo.. | who several years ago presented Mark | Twain’s home to Hannibal as a me-| morial, now are financing a monument | to the immortal youngsters. *“Tom and Huck are foremost among | the few American literary characters who could fittingly be honored with a commemorative monument,” is the en- | thusiastic comment of the Waterbury | Republican, for they “are in all prob- ability the most widely cherished | household characters that American literature has created.” The Repub-| lican 1s also pleased with the proposed location of the memorial on Cardiff | Hill, which it says wa¢ “their chosen | sanctuary of repose from the burdens | of being educated.” It was there that | “The Widow lived and Miss Watson of | acid memory; Tom Sawyer's fearsome gang of robbers started from there for its rendezvous in the recesses of In- jun’ Joe's cave By the Mississippisbe- low the town; it was on the Cardiff Hill that Tom and Joe Harper thril- lingly enacted the duel of Robin Hood and Guy of Guisborne with wooden swords.” * ok ok % ¢ “Cardift Hill is now part of the city and Hannibal's principal business street leads up its gentle slope,” ex- plains the Anaconda Standard. “It is a place of romance and adventure no longer. Urchins of the size and age of Tom and Huck frolic no more on its grassy sward, emulating in childish glee the heroic deeds of Robin Hood and Friar Tuck.” This paper de- scribes the location as it was in the days of which Mark.Twoin wrote— ““Cardiff Hill," back of the schoolhouse on the way to the mysterious and beckoning woods, flanked by the teme- tery, where terrible deeds of blood were perpetrated at midnight in the dark of the moon, what a wonderful place it was. “Otf course, Huck and Tom will be immortal without a monument,” says the New London Day. ‘“They repre- sent American boyhood and no num- ber of memorials will take precedence in the public mind over the mental images that were built by Mark Twain. Still it will perpetuate the atmosphere of realism which the pub- lic likes to see even in romantic books about boys."” e The erection of suci monument s an_attractive idea declares the Erie Dispatch Herald, for “there ure characters of famous nuthors who continue to live in the minds of read ers quite as much as do the mem- ories of real people.” The hold these boyish charac- ters have on the hearts of Americans is emphasized by the editorial de- scriptions of them. “The ingenious and lovable deviltries of those im- mortal scalawags,” should be sug- gested in the pose chosen for the statutes suggests the Elmira Star- Gaze! The Jersey Journal thinks that “if the cold marble under the taps of the chisel catches the spirit of the cynical Huck and the schem- ing Tom, it will be a work of art in- deed, care free, buoyant {rrepressible, irresponsible, and frankly joyous. For laurel wreath the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin takes leaves from the whole world, as it says: “Huck and Tom have circled the globe In gaining the delighted suffrages of universal boyhood, and are as well be- loved In England as in America, in Ttaly as in Awstralia, in France and roiany as Tn. Canada. To the Louisville Times eomes the thought that the characters will out live the statue itself, for they have “the exuberances of the youth of the ages and are vet entirely native to the soil of the New World." The Memphis News-Scimitar sees in the monument not only a tribute i« two important characters of fiction but to “boyhood, to youth—care free wholesome, mischievous and happy “‘Hannibal, Mo., is going to erect monument in honor of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.” concludes the Nashville Banner, “that'll please Tom immensely, but we imagine Huck will be more than a little embarrassed over it.” Suffrage for Women in ltaly is Lauded Italy’s grant of the municipal fran. chise to women may seem a moderate concession to feminism, but it is note- worthy because of the slow progress of the cause on its political side in the Latin_countries of FEurope. The French Chamber some vears ago passed a Dbill conferring the parlia mentary franchise on women, but the Senate sidetracked it. In Spain where parliamentary institutions have been shelved for the time being, the franchise is still exclusively, a mascu line privilege. It is significant that the start women’s enfranchisement in Ttaly comes from the Fascist or « tive element. Europe's radie: | fact, are extremely lukewarm regard Ing the enfranchisement of women because of the fact thag the bulk of the feminine vote goes to the con servative parties and to the estah lished order. In Germany it went largely to Hindenburg and the anti republican Nationalists. The recent Belgian government was upset be cause both Socialist and Libera fused to accept a measure propos by the Catholics giving women the franchise in_ provincial elections Women have had the municipal fran chise in Belgium since 1921.—Phila- delphia Bulletin. ———— Bl'ill-lin Would Lessen | Peerages and Titles | There is to be a lessening of the nting of peerages and titles in England if the British government has its way. It js to introduce a bill in Parlisment to make the wholesale granting of titles impossible and to put an end to a situation which hax |become more or less of a publi scandal. Lilovd George was the chief offender. It appears. While he was prime min ister there were created 91 new peer ages and 25 other advances in rank. which was a little too strong for con servative England. This freedom in creating new titles is said to have been very distasteful to the King, bu: there was the excuse of the war and services rendered. There s a sus piclon that generous contributions to the Liberal campaign chest may have been a cogent factor behind the rec- ommendation of Lloyd George, hut in any event it is proposed that in tho future peerages shall be more duli cult to obtain. Another factor in the movemen: is said to be a desire to make the House of Lords a more important bhody in matters of legislation; which, it is ar gued, cannot be done by coustanly adding Inferior members to that bady. |