Evening Star Newspaper, June 10, 1925, Page 6

— With Sanday Morning - WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY . STAR| .June 10, 1925 THE EVENING by nominating Mrs. John P. Pratt for [tacllities for recreation in neighbor- alderman freri that distriot.” "Fhs ac- (hioods not aupplied and to pre- ton was hailed with acclaim by .all |serve .certain places :of wgeaptional the Republican leaders of the clty,|natural attractiveness. -Some addi- and the mecting at which.it was taken |tions to the Rock Creek Park system was turned into a love feast. ‘The to preserve places of scenic beauty THEODORE W. NO BS. ...Editor nominee was pledged the loyal sup-|are agreed upon and wequire only. port of the organization, and she ac-|appropriations to save them from The Kvening Star Newspaper Company 11th 81 m“g 1 mh v 2 : Nex Pork J?nu:’;"‘{o’«?’su.} s, Chicams Ofcs. e European Office : 1 ”" g‘l. London, Eng tar, with the ay morn- fi I[‘M Dy l‘;’#’l‘.‘l’l ‘within 0 Tha Eveniy fifi“‘ufl:g Gents fin@'&-l{?!‘éfi?fl?fl Der month: 3 . lloction is made b: I Der mongh n y xmd‘”fig AR M end ey cnlostath Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. ‘Maryland and Virginis. All Other States. :1mo., 7§ R ER Daily d A8 10.00: 1 mo., b:fl; mb‘suf‘d.". 1 ”30{\. 1 mD..m Sunday Dflll.. pe: | 83 Daily and Sund: Daily ‘oniy oo Sunday only . A0 00 A0 T ¥ $3.00: 1 mo.. 26c Member of the Associated Press. ‘The Associaled Pross is flc!;'lli' ly inlw it or pot otherwise o ted mer a7 aleo the local o ed Detgtn Al ts of publication o7 apecial dispatches herain are also reserved. Reopen the Bathing Beach! Immediate relief from the uncom fortable, dangerous and intolerable situation in Washington, brought about by lack of adequate open-air bathing beaches, is promised in the proposal to reopen the old Tidal Basin Beach for the Summer and to oper- ate also temporarily & beach at Jones Point on the Anacostia River. The District Commissioners, the Citizens’ Advisory Council, Representatives Zihlman and Blanton and other mem- bers of Congress who have volced their approval of the plan are to be congratulated heartily in initiating and helping to carry forward such measures of relief. Col. C. O. Sherxil, in charge of pub- lic bulldings and grounds, wisely has halted the work of removing the bath houses from the Tidal Basin Beach, after discussing the matter with mem- bers of Congress. He has reached the conclusion also that the real solution of the open-air bathing problem dur- ing the Summer months in Washing- ton can enly be met by utilizing the waters of the river which flow past the city, in the Tidal Basin and in the rivers themselves. Artifical pools, which could not be operated until the additional water supply for the Dis- trict now in process of construction has been provided in 1927, at best would accommodate only hundreds whereas the river and Tidal Basin Leaches would care for thousands. Those members of the Senate and House now in Washington have with- out exception voiced approval of the ilan-to opzan up the Tidal Basin Beach and to establish another at Jones Point—in the face of the refusal by Congress (partly on the ground of al- leged pollution of the Tidal Basin water) to appropsiate for the main- tenance of the Tidal Basin Beach and its further appropriation for disman- ting the beach. Congress acted dur- ing the ‘Winter, when the sting of the hot months was far away and the demand for outdoor bathing could not be understood as it is today, after one of the longest periods of continuous heat ever experienced by the people of Washington. Hope is felt that the leaders in Congress wili, if only for this Summer, walve their objections to the use of the water of the Tidal Basin as unfit. Already the death toll is large be- cause of the entire lack of bathing facilities for the people here, and the Summer has scarcely begun. Many more drownings may be ex- pected before the Fall of the vear unless beaches with proper life guards are established. The solution of Washington's tmme- diate bathing problem seems to lie in the plan now advanced. If public funds can be found for the reopening of the beach in the Tidal Basin and the operation of a beach at Jones Point, they should be used. Needed -funds may ‘be obtained also through the operation of the beaches them- selves and through popular subscrip- tions, which will surely be liberally offered by the District citizens when the Commissioners call upon them. The real need is to open the beaches promptly and to equip them with proper guards against drowning and Against infection. It has become evident that the per- manent bathing problem must find its solution in the establishment of ade- quate beaches, using niver water, or else only a minority of the people can be cared for. The survey of the| Potomac River to determine how pol- Ition may be minimized and where the public beaches may be best lo- cated now undertaken by the United States Public Health Service in co- operation with the. public health offi- cer of the District, will be of inesti- mable value in handling this pro- lem. In a letter o the Citizens’ Ad- visory Council Col. Sherrill, who has given the matter much study, pointed out that obviously it would be impos sible to establish artificlal bathing beaches of sufficient vepacity te re- place the Tidal Bathing Beach and the beach at Jones Point. The Star last Winter pointed out the danger of ‘a complete abandon- ment of public bathing facilities on the ground of a conflict of interests at the Tidal Basin and the poliution of the water and urged that at the same time that the established old beach and the proposed new beach ware abandoned provision for public bathing should be - inade elsewhere. Fverybody must now co-operate in order that the people of Washington may have a place to bathe during the present Summer, which has opened with intenee heat and hgs already cost heavily in drownings for lack of proper beach equipment. ————eree The Weather Bureau commands re- apect and admiration for telling the truth, even when it hurts. EAE ARSI TR Rival Woman Candidates? T+ is “catching,” the idea of nomi. nating a woman for Board of Al- dermen of New York City. Several daye ago the Republicans of the fif- teenth distriet of Manhattan intre- ?«ud an- innevatiop in city politics cepted joyously and with resolution|destruction. |and hope for carrying the district in| These are some of the fundamental the election. factors in the Distriet's park devel- At that time some of the hard-lopment scheme. There are others— bolled Tammany leaders were asked if |roadways, small parke and greater they intended to put up 2 woman and | projects, such as the Mount Ham- grumbled ungraciously “nothing do-|ilton arboretum plan, which is to be ing.” Since then a change is report-|Viewed as an assured feature of the ed to have come over the spirit of |Capital's future environment. Other their dreams, induced by wstrong pnes-|items are contingent upon futurel ‘sure from Demoeratic woman voters |possible public worke, such as the that Tammany should have at least |damning of the Potomac above Chain one woman candidate for alderman on {Bridge for the utilization of the river its ticket. The Womenis ‘Democratic | Waterpower. Union pushed the claim with the Tam-| It is in respect to the park devel- many leaders, suggesting that it{opment of Virginia and Maryland would be eminently fitting that thefthat :this committee just named as STAR, WASHINGTON, On a stone in Westminster Abbey is the ou?h."'o rare Ben Jonson!” It :rm» ‘the epitaphs ever ciiten, and ‘perhaps one of the tru- :t‘»' “for this eotemporary and friend of .‘:u one of the literary He waa horn in 1513, dying in 1637, Wm. his adult life as a /layer M&“bh mother, after his father's ‘brought him wi D. . WEDNESDAY, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. spaaking people have treasured hrough ‘the centuries, taking its place with ‘the immortal actions and words of John Paul Jones, Decatur, Archie Butt and a host of others. Sidney, whom Taine describes as “a great lord and a man of action, accom- Jonson was 13 years of hie heroic end. Sir Philip hecame a great favorite with Queen Elizabath, who ‘thought o much of this ernament of her court, . |tradition ‘hath it, that she vefused to 0% t the fall o' the suow, 1l bath sucned it7 T ‘wool of beaver? over? bud o' the brier? re? the bee? fifteenth district should be the scene |# co-ordinating body will be of great<| of the proposed “battle of Dianas.” The Tammany leaders arg said now |templating public improvements .of to be listening to the words of xeason [this character. They should a by the woman leaders and finding |doubtless will co-operate with the % | some logic in their arguments. Such|District.and the Federal Government 2 contest would tend to-turn the lime-fin the matter. It is to their interest Mght upon-the fifteehth district and|to do so. “They are beneficiaries of \render the contest s spectacular &s|the park system of the District, as it would be unique. ‘It would he the | Washington would be the beneficiary first time that.a woman has ever been |of State park developments. nominated for the Board of Aldermen.| The potentialities of Washington The Democrats are at this time look-|{#8 @ park city are by no means ox- ing about for a candidate to face|hausted. They are indeed only in- Mrs. Pratt, who is prominent in poli-|itially developed. This present or- tics among the Republican women of'|Banization should facilitate the real- the city. Such names as Miss Bliza-|ization of the full possibility. beth Marbury, Mes..Charles Danga Gib- mm— son, sister of Lady astor; Mre.| Pete, the Tame Bull Moose. Re-enter the bull moose! A full- Maurice O'Connell, co-leader of the Gistrict; Mrs. Abram L Elkus, wife of | grown specimen of that zoological the former Ambassador to Turkey.|species has just been added to the and Mrs. Maurice B. Blumenthal,|New York park collection, the first mittee, are being mentioned, with Mrs. | Soclety in 17 vears. But the bull Blumenthal thought (o be in the lead. | moose has not been entirely out of - ——————— the picture in this country for that Credit as @ Business Force. length of time. It reappeared in the The assemblage here of the National|Political zoo in 1812 and was somewhat Association of Credit Men in annual |in evidence for three or four years convention directs attention anew to [theveatter. Since, sey, 1915, Dbull the great extent to which businese in | Meose—thore has always been a ques- this country is conducted on the credit | tion 2s to whether the word is both system. The members of this associa- | SINgUlAr or plural, but it may tion are the executives of large indus- | be called plural for the present— tries and commercial establishments | have been lacking in both the public who are in charge of the “suspended |2nd the politioal zeos. -Now comes payments” of customers. They are in/| this new acquisition, and he has an effect the custodians of the good faith | Interesting story. He was discovered of the buying public. Upon their |by 2 member of the New York zoo judgment depends in great measure | Park Staff on a vecent trip 6 Canada. the prosperity, even the solvency of |He was hauling a wood cart in the corporations. Rimoski district of Quebec. His own- In his address to the association ers had captured him In & cornfield vesterday Secretary Hoover praised|While he was young and had tamed the credit men for their campaign|a&nd domesticated him. They werc agaipst fraudulent business practices, | Willing to seil him for the price of a saying, “I don't know of any worse |mule. So nmow “Pete” is transferred waste than that which comes from |from the Quebec cornfield to the commercizl crime.” The three pein-|luxury of a workiess life in a public cipal methods of improving the.credit | park. Dolitical observers will be in- procedure of the country, he said, are the extension of .credit to good geople, the refusal of credit to unreliable and incompetent people and “jail for the Losses from bad credits are re- markably small in proportion to the. nadian owners of Pete to swap him for & mule. = TR Poison gas ought to be barred from warfare. So ought high ex- plosives, if there is to be any linger- est use. Both of the States are con-| chairman of the district county com-|one;to be possessed by the Zoological terested in the willingness of the (-1 entire volume of business which is tem, not the instaliment plan, but that of payments within a certain period. Misfortune, of course, overtakee cus- tomers. Merchants who buy their stocks on credit and who sell largely on credit are sometimés themselves victime of losses or unduly delayed payments by retail purchasers. This aesociation now in session here has for its purpose the strengthening of the credit system, which means the development of business. Perfeation of methods tor checking up the buyers of goods for wholesale and retall is one of the practical objects. Exchange of information is effected by co-opera- tive organization. Business ‘‘ratings” are utilized. Banks are consulted. Losses are made known privately for mutual information. An individual or a firm or a cor- poration with good credit possesses an asset of great value. A faithful dis- charge of obligations, a serupulous regard for promises constitutes a veritable capital in business. ¥mpair- ment of credit is a heavier loss than men's game." ———————— If Perwin hed been a good business man he would have contrived to start ithis scientific-religious controversy in full cry when his books first went on the market. ——oa—— Bandits who threatened to kidnap movie stars made such & poor job of the affair that motion picture mag- mates would be justified in reducing their salaries. i The election of Hindenburg has brought up the guestion of whether e is in courtesy bound to stand up and give one of the Hohenzollerns his seat. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. China. The tidings from Ghina grow serious. We thought that calm country was the amount directly involved. free Those who betray credit confidences | From all demonstrations delirious are not only gulty of waste, they| Arising when men disagree. {are enemies of business prosperity. Itil i is the job of the credit men now meet- | With sorrow we mark each vicissitude ing here to purge business society of | And find our opinions all wrong these people, for whom there ds no|When we vowed that their greatest place in the modern economy of trade. solicitude 3 Was revieing the Rules of Mah- Alrships have no ellurement for Aoes- Henry Ford as a meane of personal transportation. He is willing to ad- vance the arts of aviation, but sets a wholesome example of taeit protest against their reckless exercise. e Ocatory. “Why has the ert of oratory @ clined?” “‘Orater. answered Senator Sor- ghum, “is a preclous gift. Attracted by pecuniary reward, some of our ablest talkers have abandoned their careers as political speakers and gone into vaudeville as monologists.” Water; A Side Issue.. Each Summer more placidly ought to 80 by If ever the era should come When folks will contend for a water supply As hard as they struggle for rum, Canada claime the North Pole. It will be quite an enterprise to define the metes and bounds in a way to assure permanent title. | i s Col. Bryan would defy “evelution” even though it might be shown that there were 16 chimpangees to 1 man. B Park Plan Co-Ordination. Coor@ination of all the plans and planning agencies for the develop- ment of the highway and park sys- tem of the District and the adjacent | States of Maryland and Virginia is the purpese of a committee just named by Col. Sherrill, executive secretary of the National Capital Park Commission created by act of |Congress. The particular duty of this eommittee will be the formula- tion of a comprehensive park creat ing and development project with a view to systematic execution. As to the District of Columbia, there are eertzin well defined and generally accepted proposals. It is, for instance, definitely accepted that there should e a river-front devel- opment with a copnecting parkway- boulevard between Potomac Park and the Anacostia Park, now under development. It is alse planned with general approvai that the old Civil War fortifications surrounding the Capital should be linked by a park. drive. The connecting parkway be- tween Potomac and Rock Creek Parks is already in process of ac- quisition through direct purchase and condemnatign. Particular local park plats are’, Jud Tunkins says he’s got hisself persuaded into o many debts he feels like & ease of salesmanship wreck. Suspended Andmation. “What's the matter with Crimson Guleh?” “Nothin' at all,” responded Cactu Joe. “But the old town seems so quiet and subdued”’ “That condition is only temporary We understood there was an alienist in town, so we abandemcd all agtivities till he gets on his way, so’s the grand jury and prosecutin’ attormey and everybody kin operate without fear of scientific restraint.” Frozen Assets. Up at the Pole Are tons and tons of ice In eold control, ~ By Nature's strange device. When on that store A thaw at last has drawn, From watering the lawn. A friend,” said Uncle Eben, “tells you yoh faulls, But an” ent { | during the Ben Jon- Jyrics arve the ahove, and at least =2 ‘one other of ‘his songs is sung to this ;‘y):. .Drink 10 Me Only With Thine It wae as a playwright, however, that he made his chief mark in Eng- lish literature, to be outdone 'by ‘Shakespeare, it s true, but to stand yet for much that is best in the drama. With his “Every Man in His Hu. Common aente in. the Hngtish drame; nse in Eng! rama. {This play was acted by S| re's company, ‘“the lord chamberlain's servants, * ook ok, Before that time, almost anything went on the English stage. I do not mean in the sense of impropriety, but simply that of improbability. They did not much observe the so-called unities of time, or place, or much of anything else. 8ir Philip Sidney, in his “Defense of Poesle,” said: “You shall have Asia of the one side, Africke of the other, and so many un- der kingdome, that the Plaier when hee comes in, must ever begin with telling where hee is, or else the tale will not be conceived. ““Now shall you have three ladies walke to gather flowers, and then wee ‘must beleeve the stage to be a garden. By and by wee heare newes of ship- wracke in the same place, then wee are to Blame it wee accept it not for a rocke, while in the meane time two armies flie in, represented with foure swordes and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field?" £ Rare Ben more or less put an end to such nonsense. He wrote for 40 years -and was generally accepted in his days as one of the biggest writing men of England. Writings of that pe- riod are filled with much praise of him and his plays. One_interesting point in his Jfe is that in 1613, he acted as tutor to the son of Sir Walter Raleigh. At some future time in this column I hope to take up for consideration some of the plays of this man, whose genius has been overshadowed by the greater fame of the great bard of Avon. (The reader will notice that 1 do not shy from the ved phrase, “‘the bard of Avon.” just because it has been used before.) * % ¥ ¥ Sir Philip Sidney, quoted above, was the man whe, mortslly weounded in battle and suffering from thirst re- fused to drink when the water was brought him, but ordered it to be giv- en to a dying soldier near him, say- ing hope of convincing the world that | ing done upon the deferred payment sys-| War is, strictly speaking, a “gentle- ‘His necessity is greater than mine.” This is the sort of thing the English- The Secretary of Commerce and Mrs. Hoover have just left Washing- ton on a romantic expedition. They're bound for the wedding of their first- born, Herbert €. Heover, jr..at Palo Alto, Calif., on June 25. Young Hoover has teken a matrimonial leaf out of the paternal book by marrying a classmate at Leland Stanford Uni- versity—Miss Margaret Watson. The gether '25 and their nuptiale will be solemnized as soon as their diplomas are in hand. The Hoovers have a home of their own near the Stanford campus, and there the ‘will be celebrated. Her- bert Hoover wooed and won Mise Lou Henry of Monterey, who is mow his wife, while they were studying me- tallurgy at Palo Alto. The Secretary has been urged by his colleagues at the Department of Commerce to take an all-Summer veeation. But at Nine- ieenth street' and Pennsylvania ave- nue bets are being placed at even money on Hoover's inability to endure idleness longer tham August 1. * k k% John Barrett, former director gen- eral of the Pan-American Union, has organized a national “Vermont home- coming piigrimage,” at which the President and Mrs. Coolidge, both Green Mountain folk, will be invited to be guests of honor. Notwithstand- ing_tbat Vermont has the presidency and the attorney generalship of the United States, to say nothing of hav- ing Barrett himself, the latter fears that the State is headed for “political oblivion.” He, therefore, proposes to organize all “Vermont outlanders,” i. e., natives who have emig: other climes, into a natlon-wide “alumni” erganization, which shall boost, bolster and bulwark Vermont in some such fashion as Los Angeles is advertised by its loving friends. Barrett will launch’his “Save Ver- {mont” crusade with ‘the cordial sup- port of the 250 townships of the State, which are anxious that the President and Mrs. Coolidge should baptize the time this Summer. “the National Vermont systematically to finance deserted vil- lages and other rundown fustitutions 'which knew better days before Ver- monters went forth to enlighten and develop the rest of the world. * * x % One of the pre-war customs that enjoyed vogue In Washington—the kissing of ladies’ hands—is by way of re-establishment. The. popular new German Ambassador, Baron Ago ven Maltzan, has restered it. Washington soclety women and girls who are re- ciplents of the osculatory attention seem to be submitting to the treat- ment gracefully, and apparently Hke it. The Germans and the Austrians are Europe's most sccomphished hand kissers. The practice has held sway among them since time fmmemorial. It is said to heve originated in the court. usages of the Middle Ages, especially in Epain, but for genera- tions has been the fashfon.among the smart set in most continental coun- tries. In Vienna, the pressing of the lips against a fair lady's nd is usually sccompanied by the saluta- tion: "I kiss the hand.” * ok k% One of the big White House lim- ousines, In which Mrs. riding, put up for a few hours the executive chauffeur was away for his lunch. the vroprietors of the ga- rage, overwhelmed by the honor of ousing autemobile, jater, Y a o riece. thar TR W 10 #pecial ‘care. |a great deal of her. jaid him to become King of Poland, to which position he ecould heve been elected in one of those changeful corises for which that kingdom has ‘been noted. He was a ‘jewel of the court,” such a sparkling one, indeed, that the Queen simply refused to back him in his project with good hard coin of the meulm. One wonders about that old . 'Queen. She certainly had a strangle hold on her day end age—how much of it was reality how much the fawn ing praise of courtiers” ‘Taine gives an interesting anecdote {in his “History of English Litera- ture') to show the “‘go-getter” spirit of Philip Sidney. He says that this warrior-poet wrote to his father's sec- retary: “Mr. Molineux, if ever I know you to do 80 much as read any letter 1 write to my father, without his com- mandment or my consent, I will thrust my dagger into you.” This was the customer who wrote the “Arcadia,” famous but practically never-read romance, one of the very first of its kind, a strange hodge-podge of adventures, marvelous happenings, poetry and what-not. T.am afraid Sir “Philip would look a long time for a publisher today. * o x Perhaps that is not exactly fair, for it Sidney lived today he would change | his style to meet the demands of the twentieth century, and his “Arcadia” would be a tale filled with airplanes instead of dragons, flappers instead of shepherdesses. * x ow His “Defense of Poesie” and his sonnets “Astrophel and Stella” are still_recalled in all histories of “Eng. Lit.” as atudents delight to call it. His_conclusion to the former work will interest all modern lovers of verse: “So that since the excellencies of poetry may bee so easily and so justly confirmed, and the iow-creep- ing objections o soone trodden downe, it not being an Art of lyes, but of true doctrine; not of effemi- nateness, but of notable stirring of courage; not of abusing men’s wit, but of strengthening man's wit; not banished, but honoured by Plato; let us rather plant more Laurels for to ingariand the Poets heads than suf- fer the ill-savoured breath of such wrong speakers, once to blow upon the cleare springs of Poesie.” 8ir Sidney wae & “he-man” if there ever was one, ready to attack 5,000 with 300, and lose his lite, as he did, vet equally ready to do battie against those who declared poetry only for women. Whoever his Stella was, he thought Listen to him: Stella. soverai Siella, whose voice when It singeth, Angels 10 acquaintence bringeth He ende, however, by transmuting his love to spiritual heights, saying, “Leave me, O Love, which but to dust, and thou my minde as- pire to higher things.” young couple will be graduated to-| was | the Ben Jonson and Philip Sidney—so unlike, yet so alike as poets and fight- ers. Let us honor their memory. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE returned to the garage and saw the sign, he tore it off and, pointing to the gilt United Stetes coat of arms on the door, exclaimed: ““This car don't need any other teg except that dollar sign'” * % ® ¥ There was a peculiarly warm- hearted Japanese-American love- feast at Lafayette Cellege, Easton, Pa., this week when Ambassador ‘Tsuneo Matsudaira received an hon- orary LL. D. and delivered some striking remarks on the “peace of the Pacific.” Lafayette s the alma mater of Cyrus E. Woods, who Iaid dewn the American ambassadorship at Tokio in 1924 as a protest against the enactment of Japunese exclusion by Congress. It was at Mr. Woods’ instigation that Mr. Matsudaira was honored by Lafavette, the first dis- tinction of its kind to be bestowed upon any of the new foreign envoyvs. now stationed in Washington. The Japanese Ambassador made an elo~ quent plea for Yankee-Nipponese co- operation in preservation of unruf- fled waters wpen the ocean which washes the shores both of his coun- try and of our own. * ok * * Another ruling metaber of the Cool- idge family has just been in Wash- ington and bLroken bread with the President at the White House. He is Dr. Archibald Cary Coelidge, director of the university Mbrary at Harvard and one of the real powers in that an- cient citadel of culture. Once Dr. Cool- idge was in the diplomatic service, having been private secretary to his uncle, T. Jefferson Coolidge, when the latter was American Minister to France 33 years ago. Afterward Dr. Coolidge was secretary of legation at Vienna. He's bad an extraordinarily varied international experience, in- cluding the Taft expedition to the Phitippines, 2 pan-American scientific congress in Chile and an American exchange professorship at Berlin just before the war. During and after the war Dr. CoolMidge was a special agent of the State Department in Sweden, Russia and Austria, and was attached to our peace mission in Paris. In 1921 he was a member of the American Re. lief Administration in Russia. * ok K ‘The United States Treasury is go- ing to have to wear down a | superstition if it's going to popularize two-dollar bills. Any number of peo- ple think there’'s a jinx attached to them and sometimes would rather goq without them in taking . The: atrical people, sports and our colored bghtliven are among thost wie bar the (Copyright. 1925.) Expresses Gratitude For Poppy Day Success To the Bditor of The Btar: The American Legion Auxillary of the District of Columbia wishes to thank the public, th ress, the busi- ness houses, ihe policemen, and to all those who helped make our Ppoppy drive a success. © The l‘m l:d‘;l POPDY 'hh;h was sold during our drive was made in Kansas by the ex-service men, and all the proceeds go to the welfare of our boys here 4n the District of Columbia. To thank one for some kind deed is sometimes easy. However, words are inadequate to express to you our ap- preciation and feeling of gratitude in this instance. MRS. LEON ARNOLD, Department President American Le- JUNE 10. 1925. Politics at Large By N. 0. Messenger. The political gossips find these davs @ toplc of discussion in President Coolidge's visit to Minnesota and with the deep impression he seems to have made upon the public wherever op- portunity was afforded for acclaim to be given him. The prevailing opin- fon in responsible Republican quar- ters is that beyond a doubt President {Codlidge will be a candidate for re- nomination in 1928. The run-of-the- mill of Republican politiclans do nat waste their time considering “‘third- term"” objections which they declare to be far-fetched and too finely drawn. They believe that he js the man to lead the party to victory in the next presidential election and assure the success of Republican candidates for Senators and Representatives in & greater degree of likelihood than any other potential candidate now in sight. Every incident and event ‘in which the President participates is discussed by the politicians from the angle of its bearings -upon his ex- pected candldacy and its relations to the fortunes of the Republican party. LI Reports coming to Washington from both neutral and partisan observers who have recently been making a sur- vey of politics and the temper of the people toward the Coolidge adminis- tration, agree that President Coolidge still holds the lead in popular estcem which he attained by the tremendous vote of the last presidential election. He still is ‘'ace high” with the people, they concur. One investigator, now back in town, who represents one of the largest independent newspapers of the Middle West, asserts that his in- vestigations show that the President and his administration have not lost ground since he assumied office. He says that they admire the sincere and modest attitude of the man, and have unbounded faith in his motives and in his course of action. They like his isimple and unassuming ways: are ! thoroughly convinced of his devotion | to economy, and approve it heartlly. Even some of the partisan Demo- cratic observers are forced to admit that the President's position with the people is at this time unassailable, and that this reacts to the benefit of the Republican party at large. * % x % Democratic hope, they find. must rest more upon individudl candidagies for the Senate and House than upon Democratic principles and policies. The natural reaction to be expected between presidential elections also onstitutes a strand in the Demo- cratic rope of expectation. * % ¥ X President Coolidge's visit to Minne- sota is counted upon by Republicans to add to the further undoing of what is left of the third-party movement in the Northwestern Stafes. Far-seeing Republican leaders claim that the Minnesota visit in all human prob- ability will resuit in completely de- molishing the La Follette movement in those States and affords a fighting jchance for bringing back Wisconsin into the regular Republican column. For many vears the hold of Senator La Follette upon that State has been | phenomenal, but now it is hoped that it will be materially loosened, i not | shaken off. * o ox The decision of the Unlted States Supreme Court a week ago last Mon- !day in the Maple Flooring and Cem- |ent Association cases has caused a great deal of comment in both com- mercial and political circles of a di- vergent nature. That decision firmed the legality of the gathering and dissemination of trade and prc- duction statistics. The Democrats are charging that the decision “pulls the teeth of the Sherman law.” The Na- tional Industrial Conference Board of New York contends that business throughout the United States should &reatly benefit by the decision. The Democratic view is put for- ward by the National Democrat, the new party organ which began publi- cation in- this city two weeks ago. This paper, speaking for the Demo- cratic party, insists that the decision ‘“has apparently thrown the whole question back into politics and per- haps. furnished an outstanding issue | for the next campaign.” This view is | important if it represents the purpose of the Democrats to inject most un- expectedly another issue behind which the party can rally in 1928 The majority of opinion of the Su. preme Court, with Chief Justice Taft, Mr. Justice Reynolds und Mr. Justice Sanford dissenting, made it legal for trade associations. or combinations of persons or corporations to openly and fairly gather and disseminate infor- mation as to costs, velume of past | production, prices In_ past transac- tions, stocks on hand and freight rates, to meet and discuss such infor- mation and statistics so long as they do not “attempt to reach any agree- | | 1 spect to prices or production or re- straining production.” ‘The lower courts in the original trial of the case decided against the associations, “guided as they must have been,” says the National |Democrat, “by a decision of the Su- preme Court in 1321 in what is known as the hardwood floor case.” To reach Monday's decision it was necessary for the Supreme Court to reverse its decisions in the hard- woed floor case, as well as to re- verse the decision of the lower courts. * k% x The National Democrat quotes one of the counsel for the cement m: ufacturers’ association saying that “Monday's decision legalizing meetings and discussions which have heretofore been prohibited as a re- straint of trade and competition is probably the most momentous de- cision on the anti-trust act since the famous Btandard Oil cese in 1912." ~The Democratic organ as- serts that “most people would agree that it is momentows in affording the trusts the greatest liberty they have had in recent vears and the Zreatest opportunity te resume their former practices.” * ¥ ox x The threat 1o reintroduce trust questions as an issue in the next campaign is definitely made by the Democratic organ, which says “that the people will not let the trust ques- tion rest under this decision is a foregone conclumion.” tendency of the administration, the National Democrat charges, “has been to let big bustness do much as it pleases. On the other hand, there have been frequent demands from sufferers at the hands of trusts and combinations in restraint of com- petition to put more teeth in the Sherman act. The people are defi- nitely committed against any trust policy and if the present law is not strong enough to reach the evils, Congress can easily make it more drastic.” v e Democrate are very much encour- aged over the announcement that the Democratic national committee through the efforts of Chairman Clem Shaver, has succeeded in underwrit- ing the committee’'s debt of $280,000 coming over from the last presidential election. made members of party party’s future and resolution to help it carry on. Chairman Oldfield of the Demo- cratic congressional n_com- mittee is _said to be de- mmt The time is drawing near 8 Chairman Oldfield muwt begin ment or any concerted action with re- | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Q. What day was it that was so| hot when the Shrisers marched?— | W, 8. ¥ | A. The day of the Shriners’ parade. | which proved to be an extremely hol one, was June #, 1923. Q. How old is Rock Creek Ceme tery?—P. C. G. A. It was ineorporated In 1872, but a portion of the ground adjoining »m} St. Paul's Church has been used for interment since 1718, in which vear | Col. John Bradford donated a “glebe’” | of 100 acres to be held in perpetuity | for church purposes. | Q. Will the new patrol boats of the | Coast Guard Patrol exceed the old | ones .in speed capacity?—R. G. W. | A. The new boats will be faster. | Q. 1Is there a highway bridge across | the | Hfid-zn River south of Albany?— | A. The only one is 3% miles north of Peeksklll, and extends from An thonys Nose on the east side of the | river to Bear Mountain Park on the | west shore. The span was opened to | public. trafic on November 27, 1924./ Total length of bridge, 2252 feet; length of span 1,632 feet; diameter of cables, 72 inches. Width of road- way, 38 feet; width of each sidewalk, | 5 feet; unmber of wires in each cable, 7,252; helght of towers, 350 feet; clear height ebove river, 155 feet; steel in | bridge, 12,552 tons. The suspended | span is the longest in the world. | Q. When was the balk rule in base ball introduced?—B. B. R. A. The balk rule was introduced in 1899 to stop a pitcher feinting to throw to first without throwing. Q. Is blood a tissue?—M. P. A. The blood consists of a fluid| plasma, in which are suspended BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. mercantile ‘or_ agricultural class, the Sundras or servile class. Q. Way repenthe an actual deng W. N. D A. There is no actusl evidence this point, but the nepenthe of lite ture is supposed to have been opium or some preparation of hemp wt banished the remembrance of griel and cheered the soul. Q. Is the Constantin railway now completed?” A. The railway is and Arab raiders fre such portions as have structed. le to Bagdad L been Q. Will snakes’ plate themeelves tracted.—W. F. W A. The Smithsonian Institution says that the fangs of a reptile will soon replace themselves: however, if the glands are cut out no poisonous 3acs reproduce. Q. Has the hotel that hurned Lake Louise last Fall been rebuilt €. N A. The Chat been rebullt and was opened for season on May 30. fan be poison after ) Lake Louise ha Q. Did Congress ever make ar propriation for the Wright brothers if they would stay in the air for certain length of time?—B. F. O A. The War Department offered 25,000 as & normal price for the Wright airplane which was scheduled to make a flight from Fort Myer Alexandria in 1908. There was bonus to be given if the average rate of speed exceeded the contract spee of 40 miles per hour. For each add tional mile an hour they would he celled blood corpuscles. It may be regarded as a tissue of which the| intercellular matrix is a fluid. but be of a character sufficiently practical to warrant its adoption, and that a necessity for such an article is its greatest asset @s a commercial proposition. Q. Is it possible for tourists to visit the Bank of England?—C. E. A. A mote written a few -days be- forehand will make it possible for a tourist to visit this bank and see its stpre of wealth in bullion and notes. Arrangements may also be mede in this way for visits to the Royal Mint, Egyptian Hall, the li- braries and chapels of Lincoln’s and Gray's Inns. The House of Parlia- ent can be seen only on Saturday, unless one presents an order from a member. ©O. A recent article savs that ‘a certain star loses trillions of tons a second. How can matter leave the tar in opposition te the force of {gravity 7—D. D. A. The Naval Observatory savs that until recently it was cénsidered firmly established that matter can- not be destroved, but, according to |into energy. ' Matter does mot Jeave ja star as matter, but it is changed |into energy and’ the enmergy leaves | the star. Q. How far has glider traveled D.D. R A. The distance airline record is held by France, made by Lieut. Thoret, made with Bardin glider at 1923—26,568 feet. Bauville August Q. How many there?—L. K. A. Hinduism is divided into_four hereditary castes. They are -Brah- mans, or sarcedotal class: the Ksha- triyas, or military class; the Valsyas, { Hindu castes are President Coolidge's Memorial day speech at Arlington on State rights land duties has been received gener- jally as a notable effort. The plea for | greater local self-government meets with a cordial response from many States, but the contention that the Federal Government should step in where the States fail in their duties leads to_inevitable conflict of opinion. The President broke away from the stereotyped Decoration _day talk, says the Birmingham News, “and proceeded to go to the heart of the subject—which was the cause S0 many of those soldiers died for.” The News adds that “he plead- ed for better local self-government as carrying out the idea upon which this country was founded and for which principle #t has been defended.” He has gone “to the very foundation of the matter,” asserts the Lansing State Journal, which continues: “We glory in our freedom as a Nation, but there are too many of us who do not seem willing to acknowledge that the maintenance of that freedom starts right back with the individual.” Ample ground for the concern which the President expressed over the ab- sence of local respomsiblity is con- ceded by the Hartford Times, which remarks that “it was not distinctly a Memorial day address, but there was justification for it.” Quoting the President’s view that the American people are not a lawless people, but @ careless people, the Kansas City Journal-Post says: “The President's picture of America and her problems is not pessimistic, but realistic. He has faith in the ability of America 10 solve her problems. * ok % % i i i A prediction that the speech will go down in history as ene of the strong- est declarations of a sane and safe President is offered by the Harrisburg Telegraph. “He minces no words,” states the Telegraph, “and indicates that, unless we manifest more ability to govern ourselv?s. the liberty we now have may be Jost in a more cen- tral and restricted government.” ““Whenever a people becomes too weak to take charge of its own mo- rality,”” adds the Salt Lake City Deseret News, “then it is ready to have au- thority asserted.” The News advises that communities and States ‘“must enforce the law and govern themselves without dependence upon Federai au- thority.” The revival of an ancient principle impresses the Fort Worth Star-Tele- gram, which, viewing the “default of the States,”” charges: “The South must take to itself a greater share of the obloguy than any othter section. It furnished rights in the days when a genuine as- sault was being made on them. Where are those stalwarts today Not one of them raises an honest protest in the South. It remains for a New Eng- lander and a Republican to speak the words that ought to have been spoken by a Southerner.” From Buffalo, how- comes the statement by the by who have confidence in the |= to “pass the hat” for contributions to the congressional campaign fund for sinews of war to conduct the vig- orous drive he has in mind for the election o candidates for the next Wouss of tatives. must not only accomplish its object, | recent theory, matter can be changed | the stalwarts of States’ | paid $2,500 above the normal price « | the airplane. The flizht showed average speed of 42.6, giving ther ol 5,000. Q. Why mre so many inventions | bonus of §5,000 commercial failures?’—H. W. F. A. Many elements enter into this. One inventor bas said an invention | @ What caused the I'r triun War?—M. G A. The immediate | Austrian-Prussian War. also | the Seven Weeks' War, Schieswiz-Holstein question sulted indirectly from the lon | between Austria and Pru i | conflict was the culmination of the plan of Bismarck to force Austria ¢ | of the German Confederation and make way for a new Germany unde | Prussian leadership. knowy Cor s A | Q@ When was the National | sumers’ League organized”—D. n 1598 | A It was organ | order to identify factory-made articies la “Consumers’ Label s adopte | which can be placed on goods made |in factories maintaining certain ditions. The National League | provided far the education of p | chasers through lectures, the dis |tion of literature and organizations |@ne of the most noteworthy achiet | ments of the league has been the fi: |ing of the attention of {upon the overwork from employes of stores suffer Christmas. (There is mo other agency in the world that can answer as many | legitimate questions as our free formation bureanw in Washington D. C. This highly organized institn \tion has been built up and is wnde | the personal direction of Frederic { Haskin. By keeping in constant touc with Federal bureaus and other edu |cational enterpriscs it is in a positior to pass on to you authoritative info mation of the highest order. Swbmi | wour queries to the staff of experts whose services are put at yowr fres |disposal. There is mo charge ewcept cents in stamps for return postage Address the Information Burcau Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washins ton, D. C. Coolidge Plea for Better Rule By States Finds Indorsement step of the |the Federal Gover | finds some critics 2 | dfference,” in opinion | Lynchburg News. “between caNing tention to the tendency of the State to surrender their rights, to seek aic of the Federal Government, to negik their own duties in the belief that 1 Federal Government will undertake them; and justifying Federal usurps tion of power because of that tend ency. President Coolidge is right in the one, but he is not altogether righ in the other. It is the duty of those who hold to the principle of local se government to see to it that the neg gence of the Stat is not such lend support to those who demand 14+ surrender of vital rights on ¥ ground that they are not exercised P The Reading Tribune also ohseres that “Mr. Coolidge is admittinz th the States have rights, but he show a willingness to rob them of thoe rights if they do not employ them 11 the way the Federal Governmen wants. Another point of criticism is raise: by the Portland Oregon Journal, whic objects to the pesition taken on ex penditures by the Federal Govern ment for roads within the vario States. “The assault on the policy « Federal aid for roads is not broad, a very narrow polic declares the Journal; “‘the same policy of spe advantage and special power alw: demanded by Northeastern Am over the rest of the country Journal balances against this greai “tariff subsidies to New England, New | York and Penmsylvania manufactu jers.” Viewing the matter from the same angle, the San Bernardino Sun asser that “the hope of President Cooli i that there will be no more increase in Federal Government, nd even thal the States will take greater dic tion, probably will never be realized New York and California are now too near each other to permit of com merce or relations on other subjects to be governed by the varying ideas of 48 State: | Freed of Drudgery. he Women Have Been Relieved of Many Household Tasks. To the Editor of The ¥ it is encouraging o note how suddenly women take interest ahen household_questions come up for dis cussion. 1 refer to the recent letter< on cookery in your columns. Domestic science is a highly spe |cialized subject, but it has not heen attained bx woman, but for her. | suggest that your correspondent re ‘'view woman's household progress how she gets the rug man to clean her rugs; how science furnishes her a special milk for babies; how laun dties relieve her from the much dreaded wash day; how the baker delivers the hot bread to her door (she no longer must burn her face baking cakes); how a phone call . {will bring the whole market basket and how the ice man faithfully sup- plies her with ice so the food won't What next, then? Prepared Yes, she can get it, and often does get a whole meal “canned.” Doesn't this prove that woman has |rébelled against cooking? The restaurateur came about 1o supply & home f6r those away from home, but the restau: now eneking