Evening Star Newspaper, June 26, 1925, Page 6

=PHE EVENING STAR| i~ With Sunday Morning Editien. WASHINGTON, D. C. “FRIDAY..........June 26, 1925 ~THEODORE W. N\;Ym. ... Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 11th St and Pennsyivanis Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd St. Chics Office: Tower Building. iropean ico: _18 Regent St.. ‘England. 2y The Evening Star. with the Sunday morn- Anc edition. 18 delivered by carriers within TThe city at’ 60 cents per month: daily only, 45 cents per month: Sunday only. 20 cents v month. ~ Orders may be sent by mail or lelophone Main 5000. Collection is niade by carrier at the end of each montd. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday ~atty oniy ay only . All Other States. Daily and 10.00: 1 mo ‘{»:n: o Sunday. 1353700 1 mo undsy only .. 1yr. $3.00: 1 mo. Member of the Associated Press. **The Ausociated Press s exclusively entitjed 16 the ‘tisa for republication of All news dis- Ratches wredited 0 it or hot otherwise [t in (his pADer and also the iocal news -pblished hetotn. Al rights of publication Y special dispatches herein are also reverved. Surplus Expectations Exceeded. """ The Treasury surplus continues to mount. Experts at the depastment ‘now assert that at the close of the fimcal year next week Uncle Sam _taay have all of $250,000.000 to his ruredit. President Coolidge, n few “days ugo, in his address to the “busi- ness organization of the Govern- ment” predicted that the surplus would be $200,000,000 when the books Wwere It now appears that his estimate was too low. The news that the larger surplus exists Is welcome. Not because the (GGovernment has Wrung more moucy by taxation from the people thun "was expected, but because it xhows clearly that the time has arrived when a material cut may be made _in the tax rate and because it shows _‘that the country and the people ken erally are prospering. The returns from the income and profits taxes in June have exceeded all expectations. Admintstration leaders who are planning & tax reduction program for submission t§ Congress when it ‘meets next December do not hesi- tate to express their satisfaction with the manner in which the tax pay- ments have exceeded the estimates. &ix months ago the hope was for @ beggarly £75,000,000 surplus at the élose of the fiscal year. But the economy program planned by the President and the Budget Bureau and -garried out with the co-operation of Congress, together with the ability of “$he people to pay taxes because of @heir earnings, have far exceeded ex- “pectations. The Treasury estimate of the sur- “plus for the fiscal v 30, 1926, $280,000,000, if there should be no reduction of taxes. The ‘President and the Secretary of the ~‘Treasury, therefore, in preparing a tax reduction measure for submis- “sfon to Congress, have apparently a wide and safe margin. They are in a position to recommend reductions . the tax rates that would be calcu- closed. is Tated to lop oft $400,000,000 or even | more from the taxes paid. .. The policy of economy and tax re- “auction, which was one of the major planks of the -Republican platform ~during the last caumpaign, bas been “adhered to and has born fruit. From 4. political point of view, could there be a stronger argument with which to =o to the peoplé In the congres: slonal elections next vear than the fulfillment of pledges of economy and “ax reduction? ~Naturally, the Re- publicans are banking strongly on the strateglc position they may oc- ‘eupy through the enactment at the fext session of Congress of a new tax reduction measure. The Democrats could not afford to oppose tax reduction, if they would. "Their effort will be to outdo the Re- ~publicans in the matter of reduction Tin rates on the smaller incomes and businesses, .and to proclaim to the country that the Republicans are seeking to reduce taxes on the rich s a far greater extent than on the | poor. But the tax reduction pro- posed by the Republicans will not neglect the moderate incomes. Far from ft. But it will insist in remov- ing as far as possible the penalty on <uccesstul business also, believing that such tax reduction must add to the business development of country, which in turn will benefit the people generally. The Federul Government has set an | example in economy and tax reduc- tion that the States of the Union and the municipalities would do well to follow. The burden of State taxa- tion, in many cases, reached enormous fizures in recent year: The ease with which tax-exempt _could be marketed tempted many Riates and municipalities to enter upon great expenditures, many of them good in themselv. but all of -which must eventually be paid for by the taxpayers. 4he country is still « lohg way from settlement. nthority to ’ when public posed e T The K K. will parade without “Hambrous concealments. This arrange- ment is wise in view of the fact that bear in mind this fact expenditures are pro- some of the warmest days of Summer | dre vet to come. ] A Wall Street Record. A seat on the New York Stock Ex- ‘ehange has just been sold for $118,000, the highest price ever paid for such a commodity. This sale was closely ac- ~rompanied by two others, in which the prices paid for seats were $112,000 and —$£14,000. The highest price previously paid was $115,000, in 1920, when the stock market was in its great post- =ar boom. 2. This record payment for the privi “*fege of operating directly on the ex- change is regarded as an indicatioh of sspneral -expectation that the present “period of activity in the stock market will continue for some time to come. $i4ixchange seats are at a prémium when the trading is active and prices are high and eteadfast. When the ar ending June | the | wecurities | The war debt of | and it behooves those in | “bear” influence dominates and the price range is low the seat quotations fall. Just now Wall Street is the scene of a remarkable activity in all lines of securities. It is a buying market. Investors are seeking to pun:hml stocks in large blocks for the sake of present or prospectively higher divi- dends. Speculators are looking for IS .| chances to take advantage of the steady rise to win profits by buying and selling. There is a generally per- vading feeling of confidence that the range of stock prices will continue upward for some time. The measure of stock exchange pro- ceedings lles In the record of transac- tions. This present market is the most active for some years. From January to date this year there have been in round numbers 200,000,000 sales, as against 136,000,000 in 1922, 127,000,000 in 1923 and 110,000,000 in 1924. It is noteworthy that this increase has been in both railroad securities and indus- trials. The heaviest percentage of in- crease has been in the non-transporta- tion line of securities. In short, the country is prosperous and is confident that prosperity will continue. There is no money strin- gency. The people are earning largely und spending freely. There is no feel- ing of apprehension; causing hoard- ing. The President preaches and prac- tices economy in Government in order to secure release from excessive taxa- tion. The public is putting its money to work in the mills and factories and railroads, buying securities to supply the capital needed for continued and enlarged operations. Wall Street is merely the index of this confidence and thrift. | et — The Italian Debt. The Itallan government vesterday opened its debt payment negotiations in this city with a plea that the United States recognize all the condl- tions limiting Italy’s ‘“capacity to pay.” There was no hint of a re- quest for a scaling of the debt, which amounts approximately to two billton { doliars, nor was there any direct or even Indirect suggestion of @ morato- rium or extended period of prepara- tion. Plainly the negotiations thus far are of u merely preliminary and formal character. It is expected that at the next meeting a specific pro posal will be made by the Italian rep- resentatives It is gratifying that the Italian gov- ernment should have so promptly re- sponded the suggestion of the United Stutes that the time has come to talk about settlements. Premier | Mussolini has, as Secretary Mellon said at yesterday’s meeting. ‘‘deter- {mined that Italy has reached the stuge in her economic restoration when the funding of her debt to America can be undertaken, and has ;amed with his characteristic deci- sion.”” There is every disposition in this country to deal considerately with all the debtor natfons, to grant them the most equitable terms of payment and the most generous provision of | time. But it is due to them as well as to this Government that practical {steps be taken. Unless these debts |are forgiven by act of Congress, which alone can absolve the debtors of the i United States from their obligations, the exisfence of these debits is a fac- tor for unsettlement and derangement of the fiscal systems of the owing countries. These debts were incurred in great measure before the United States en- tered the war. They were based upon the principle of future payment in full. The allied governments of Eu- rope, fighting the ceatral powers, turned to the United States as to a private banker, seeking financial as- sistance, which was freely given on generous terms. The United States has been a patient creditor. It now, as much for the sake of foreizn ex- change and foreign stability as for its own financial welfare, asks payment., or at least arrangements for payment. | | Ttaly has promptly responded to the| invitation to discuss the subject prac-| tically and has made a commendable beginnins. RSP to | Two ex-Secretaries of State, Mr.| E Bryan and Mr. Colby, are interested in | the debate on evolution. Ex-Secretary | Hughes and present Secretary Kellogs | show a disinclination to take part in a | controversy which does not relate in any practical way to the economic interests of the country. v China has never attached great im- | portance to other nations. The fact that her present strife is within her | own geographical boundaries will not | | prevent her historlans from referring {to it as a “world war.’ | v | The automobile represents a great {advance in civilization, despite the ab- { sence of any means to prevent its use |in bootlegging. ot The Canton Tragedy. A direct conflict of statement oc- curs in the case of the tragedy at Canton on Tuesday. when a proces- sion of students on the Bund opened an attack upon the foreign settlement | and British and French troops re-| turned the fire. with the result of | 100 casualties among the Chinese. The Chinese civil governor of Canton, | !in an official note to the British con- sul general, placed the blame for the shooting entirely upon the foreigners, claiming that the procession had been orderly and had shown no sign ot hostility when the soldiers and police in the British concession opened fire, being followed by troops in the French concession, while a Portuguese gunboat fired hea¥y guns into the crowd ‘on the Bund. The British consul general has replied, placing all responsibility for the deaths upon the Chinese authorities, asserting that the first shots were fired by the march- ers, that the British and Iater the French troops only fired in defense, and that the Portuguese gunboat took no part in the affair. * It -has been the practice of the Chinese authorities from the begin- ning of the present troubles to blame the foreigners as aggressors. Elab. orate, fantastical explanations have been given of some of the demon- strations and outrages, plainly to arouse anti-foreigner feeling. So far as known, and accepting the official THE British and French reports as cor- rect, there would seem to have been no aggressive actions by ers or foreign troops. It would, indeed, have been folly without warrant for the alien forces to commit aggres- sions. There is no disposition on the part of the British or French govern- ments to precipitate a crisis similar to that of the Boxer rebellion of 1900. The true cause of these tragedies lies cleaxly elsewhere than in any ag- gressive actions by the British or French forces. It is indicated by a line in one of the late dispatch: which states that the procession of students involved in -the affalr of Tuesday was headed by a Russian. More Capital for Hylan. Now comes Controller Craig of Greater New York to add to the po- litical excitement and charges that Mayor Hylan, in his address to the heads of city departments the other day, demanding that they support him for renomination and re-election under pain of lose of position, has violated the corrupt practices act and is sub- ject to trial and removal. The con- troller writes a letter to the district attorney and sends a copy to, the governor, reminding the latter that he has the power of removal. The mayor counters with the comment that the controller—there is an old feud Dbetween them—is ‘“ranting again” and that he is inspired by the same wicked traction interests that are trying to get the people of New York in their grip and bleed them. Mayor Hylan would probably wel- come an attack along this line. He relishes the role of a target. He makes capital out of every shot aimed in his direction. He has a formula for every charge and accusation by which he turns them all to this credit. He shouts: ‘“‘These are the lies and the wicked wiles of the highbinders from whom 1 am defending the people of New York.” He has adopted Mira- beau's war cry: ‘‘Audacity, again audacity, and always audacity.” Sometimes audacity wins, regardiess of other matters. It is now being put to a test in New York, and the next few months will determine the result. e Advertisements are to be placed on the Eiffel Tower. This will at least bring to a settlement the controversy which has agitated Paris as to whether the Eiffel Tower is a thing of beauty. It may now assert itself in proud de- flance of artistic cavil as a thing of utility. o The song writer who evolved “The | Sidewalks of New York" died poor. This would not have huppened if Gov. Al Smith had been a musician and a poet as well as a politician. et Praying for rain has become one of the regular ingidents of the farmer's vacation. Biblical controversy cannot efface faith in the dispensations of Providence. ——————— A grateful public may yet have Presigent Coolidge to thank for an fmprovement in the food and service of the average railway dining car. et If Mussolini’s destiny had not placed him in higher lines of authority he would undoubtedly have made a most valuable traflic director. .ot Amundsen will lose no time in or- ganizing another polar expedition. Arctic exploration may be classified as an incurable habit. ———e— Among the figures involved in women’s rights” the lady bootlegger now asserts herself. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. New Fashion Center. Miss Aggie Aster of Pohick, Who never sends a dress on tick, Declares she’'ll make no gown, not she, ‘Which does not reach below the knee. They have removed, in Gay Paree, All clothing from the coryphee. | T kind o' think we'd better stick Unto the fashions of Pohick. Vacation. “Are you going to take a vacation this Summer?” “Yes," unswered Senator Sorghum. “About the only way to keep your name before the public just now is to advertise the idea that you had worked 5o hard you need a rest.” ‘The Grand Chorus. We're a musical race, after all. There's fothing that so much re- joices Our souls as a game of base ball ‘Which permits us to lift up our voices. Not Interested. “You are not interested in Arctic exploration?” “Not at all. What's the good of a Summer resort prospéctus with no hotels to accommodate tourists?" Jud Tunkins says the new idea of chasin’ bootleggers is to get the inno- cent bystander dead or alive. Amplitude. “Your bathing suit is out of style,” | remarked the girl friend. “It must be,” replied Miss Cayenne, “since it called your attention to the tact that T had one on.” Peace and War. We are supposed to love our fellow men. In spite of this, the nations now and then 3 Indulge an impulse, by ingenious means, To blow their fellow men to smither- eens. Mutiny. “What's the cause of the mutiny?” asked Cap'n Kidd. “Bootleggin’,! answered the mate. “You're savin' all the licker for sale to land lubbers instead of servin’ it out for grog. “T's ‘most afraid to read de Bible," sald Uncle Eben, “on account of its liability to git me into an argumeat "bout natural history,” |como de Martino, Ambassador to the ‘Worries have no place in a garden, yet there are many who do worry while in one. They worry because the grass has & brown spot in it; they fume because some plant has not ap- peared above ground; they wonder if some blight has struck such-and-such a flower; they imagine all sorts of troubles. Now that is missing the spirit of the garden. The garden, in the last analy- s, is the one spot where the average person can be a conqueror in his or her right; the one place where he works with immortal forces that can- not fall. Behind each amateur gardener stands the Gardener of the World, ready—nay, anxious—to help him in securing the flowers or vegetables he wants. There is an urge to grow there greater than the inimical forces that 8ather around to thwart growth. If this were not so this world would be & barren spot, indeed. It is not man’s abllity that makes the earth, in the main, a garden spot. Agricultur- ists but fulfill certain conditions. They ald. The power behind all does the rest, and no one can be o0 foolish as to imagine that he himself has been particularly responsible for the crop. It {8 true that & man may take a legitimate pride in doing his share. If there is a bare spot in the lawn it is the part of wisdom to place ferti- lizer and fresh seed there. If a certain flower needs water— and most of them do—the gardener can help by seeing that it gets it, especlally during times of drought. He can try and get the best seed and can read about his plants, so as to be able to help them help themselves. Outside of that, however, the garden is not in his hands, and he knows it. The Old Master Is in charge! * ok ok K That Old Master has been growing vegetables and flowers lo! these mil- llons of years and has it down to a pretty fine point today. Shall I go into my garden, then, and try to cheer up the flowers in their growing, as the nervous woman did with the locomotive when she sat on lh% «i'.:e of :ier seat in the Pullman and attempted to mentally pus| train forward? e In all the walks of life most of us have somewhat this attitude, putting forth a great deal more energy, men- tal and otherwise, than is actually needed to achieve the thing In hand. Eepecially is this true in the gar- Gen. whether it be large or small, whether old-fashioned or new-fash. ioned, whether it be rock garden, formal garden or informal, an elabor- ate affair of bird baths and sun dials, or a simple backyard with flower bor- ders. All we can really do, T repeat, is to fulfill conditions, then it back and let Nature do the rest. By sit back, of course, one speaks more of the i tellectual side than any other, for it is often necessary to sit down, physi- cally. to do the necessary work of the garden. The “big idea” is to cease worry- ing. The gardener who can do this is going to get a great deal more out of his plot of ground than he who fusses around over every littie seed. Only the former enters into the full meaning of the well known, beautiful lines: - One is Tearer G Fhin "anywhere ise "oabanyt SoTden * %o % In the garden it is necessary, if one is to get the most out of it, to enter somewhat into the plan of creation, which seems to consist of trying end- less combinations, with varying re- sults. The pine tree annually casts its cones upon the gzround, until in a WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE negotiators in Washing- the ablest. men in Mus- Signor Nobile Gia- Italy’s d ton are two solini's service. United States, was Ambassador suc- cessively at Berlin, London and Tokio before coming to Washington. He is an exceptionally astute diplomatist of the modern school, and onceé was gen- eral secretary of the Italian foreizn office. Secretary Mellon will find him sharp and shrewd in discussion. Sig- nor Mario Alberti is general manager of the Credito Italiano, one of the great private banks of Italy, and has been an official adviser of the Italian government on interallied finances and ‘economics since the war. He attended all the reparations conferences in Eu- rope that preceded the Dawes plan and then co-operated im its formula- tion. Once he was a member of the finance commission of the League of Nations. * % % % Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Mon- tana, who has had as strenuous a time as any man in Washington these past two years, will spend the Summer in Burope. There he will combine Lro- fessional activity with holiday mak- ing and an act of filial piety. One of the Senator’s first stopping places will be Ireland. There, at opposite ends of the Emerald Isle, both his parents were born. Senator Walsh has never visited ancestral soil. Afterward he will go The Hague, to be the guest of Richard M. Tobin, American Minister to the Netherlands, and to see the ‘World Court in action. Walsh expec to imbibe much local color at The Hague for use in the World Court de- bate in the Senate in December. Sep- tember will find the senior Senator from Montana at Geneva, s an unoffi- cial observer at the annual meeting of the League of Nations Assembly. Be- fore he returns to America he will make a jubilee year sojourn in Rome. * kK K Tsuneo Matsudaira, the Japanese Ambassador, is undergoing his maiden experience as a guest at American country houses. He is learning that a Yankee either polishes his own shoes or patronizes & bootblack, un- less he's spent the night in a Pull- man. At a palatial home on the Jersey coast not long ago Mr. Matsu- daira set three or four pairs of shoes outside of his bedrvom door, expect- ing to find them there, shined, next morning. Instead, they were as he left them, unpolished. ~After having the same experiénce over again, a member of his suite asked their host if the Ambassador could be driven to a nearby town for half an hour. It was a jerkwater place, and mystery prevailed. ‘“His excellency wants to have his shoes shined,” was the ex- planation. * ok * % Telephone conversation with Main 6400, the United States Treasury: “I want to talk to the office of the World War Debt Funding Commis- sion.” ‘Wrong number. You want the Vet- erans’ Bureau. Maybe the nymph of the switch- board thinks our European debts have become veterans. * kK F One of the best sellers out in the West is “The Dawes Plan in the Making,” by Rufus C. Dawes, a brother of the Vice President and a business man in Chicago. It is de- scribed as the first authoritative ac- count of the deliberation and actions of the Reparations Commission. The publishers call it “the inside story.” Former Gov. Frank O. Lowden of Illinols has written a foreword. Rufus C. Dawes was selected by his Wah{l and-Owen D, Young to.act'as few years a perfect carpet of them is formed, adding their fragrance to the woods of the Far North. Perhaps not one tree will result from all those thousands—but what does Nature care? % There dre billions of fish eggs laid in the oceans, rivers, likes, each year, from which will mature only their millions of fish. Most of the eggs never becorne fish, being eaten or otherwise lost to the eternal pur- Yet Mother Nature never seems to shed a_tear, as far as the records of man show, over these, her lost off- spring. She does not bemoan the fact that there is a large brown spot appearing in the prairfe; she goes ahead and spreads her green carpet where she can. In various ways and at devious times Nature makes a full garden, keeping her eve constantly on the plan s & whole. That seems to be her entire care, not only one plant, or any single blossom. So, if we, little creators in a way, hope to go at the business after the fashion of the master gardener, we must lose & large part of our regard for the individual plants, or results, and devote our attention to the grand picture, the final result, the garden as a whole. * K X * If the grass does not look as well tonight as it did yesterday, do not worry about it. Grass has a fine knack of coming out all right, especially if it be given its full quota of water. It is the camel of plants, being able to sop up an unbelievable amount. Living in a great and capable city, we are able to water our lawn every day, so that whereas nearby farms may be burnt up by the drought, our small gardens thrive through it all. This is a boon and every gardener, no matter how amateurish he may be, must appreciate it, for without | water—one of the necessary condi- | tions of plant growth, with few ex ceptions—he would have no garden | at all. If the sweet peas begin to get brown at the ground about this time | do not worry about them and do not try to “bring them along.” Sum- mer is all tgo short for such cod- dling. Take down the stakes, tear the vines from their supports and pull them out by the roots, after the earth { has been soaked in order to make the uprooting process easier. Then take Zinnla seedlings and transplant them to the ground for- merly occupied by the Sweet Peas, so that in another month there will be fresh. bright flowers to gladden the eyes and hearts of spectators. Do not lament the passing of the flowers, but determine next time to plant the seed in the Fall, so that the vines may make deep-root growth by Spring. thus rendering them- selves capable of standing the Sum- mer heat. Do not too anxlously scan trans- planted plants, worrving over the fact that they wilt tremendously for a day or two. Keep them well cov- ered from the sun during the time and they will come out all right. EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 26, .1925. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. A Plan to Check Speed And Motor Crimes To the Editor of The Star: Day by day press dispatches tell of fatal automobile accidents all over the United States. The automobile bank and pay roll bandits occupy consider- able space on the front page of our newspapers, and the bootlegger is ac- corded glaring headlines, the latter two being in a large measure the criminals that have brought a crime wave In the wake of their nefarious business and have dragged the good name of communities, counties, States and the United States down with a crime record unequaled anywhere in the world. The good and law-ablding citizens of the country are anxious to stop the criminal element, but seem to grope in vain for a remedy. Right here per- mit & suggestion that will bring force to law and order, protect the thought- less against themselves, and bring re- lief and security to all the people: 1. To curb the brainless speeder a law, national in scope, should be en- acted that would restrict the manufac- tures of automobiles to a gear of not over a possible maximum of 35 miles per hour for general public-used auto- mobiles. Such a limitation would pro- tect the driver and passengers in auto- mobiles. 2. With the speed limitations in the | manufacture of automobiles the bank bundits and bootleggers would be un- able to make their get-away and es- cape arrest. 3. That automobiles should be spe- clally manufactured for the law-en- forcement officers, sherilfs, police and spectal officers only, with speed capa- bilities as at present. With such a law it is obvious that the criminal element would be seriously handicap- ped. Smoke screens would avail them nothing, and they would go out of business or could be put out of busi- ness, because all could be overtaken and 'arrested. This law should con- tain a provision making possession of an automobile capable of a greater speed than 35 miles an hour a misde- meanor punishable with a five-yeur sentence in a penitentiary. Of course. the cry will go up about “personal liberty.” but we now have laws with penalty against carrying concealed weapoms, etc. The law en- forcing low gears on automobiles ould protect the innocent public, the careful driver, and would likewise pro- tect those who would otherwise be | reckless and a danger to all automo- bilists on the public hizhways. It should also be borne in mind that rum row laughed to scorn ali efforts to stop llquor imports In New York Har- bor and other points on the Atlantic seaboard, but when Uncle Sam put into service boats with sufficient speed to overtake the rum boats they de- cided to quit business. The same thing will happen if a law is enacted | compelling low gears for the automo- bile used by the general public and high-powered cars to be operated by officers of the law only. JOHN B. DICKMAN. —aoe Muzzey’s History Condemned on Text. To the Editor of The Star: In your issue of June 22 there is a letter written under the hadline **Muz- zey Is Defended.” The author signs himself Barry Thavis. I have not had an opportunity to read Muzzey's History, but I have If they do not, yank them up, and | heard considerable said both for and Summer is too short to monkey with them! Similarly, do not have a “duck fit,” as the saying is, every time you spot a new bug on a plant. One of the interesting bugs in my garden I call the peppermint bug, be- cause he is a bright pink. striped with symmetrical lines of silver. lives on a Hibiscus, which will not suffer from his presence, I am sure. try again, of the staff of eight American eco- nomic experts who accompanied the American members of the commission u} Par}!.. Mr. Dawes later held Mr. Young's power of attorney during the period the latter was agent for repa ration payments in Germany. The book is a fat volume of more than He|W against it. T had about concluded that perhaps the history was not as bad as made qut. However, if the two quo- tations given by Mr. Thavis correctl indicate the attitude of mind of the author, then I am utterly opposed to Muzzey's History. He says in one place: ‘‘Muzze: en speaking of the Revolutionar: War, writes: ‘Thousands of people in the colonies could agree with 2 noted lawyer of Massachusetts that the Rev- olution was a causeless, wanton and wicked rebellion.” " Later, in speak- ing of Garfleld’s assassin, Charles Guiteau, he says that Muzzey wrote: I committed it,’ he (Guiteau) said, ‘to rid thescountry of a traitor.’ It is an axiom in the teaching of children that they should never be told anything wrong. If you want a child to speak perfect English, speak to it always fn perfect English and it will know no' different. Of course, there were many people in the col onies during the Revolution ' that fa- vored England, but why quete phrases and ideas of people-whom time has proven to.be utterly wrong? Why, in 500 pages and is destined to bec the official record of the schemeo?c‘; stabilizing post-war Europe. * ok ox ok Senator Borah has abandoned his plans to go abroad this Summer. either to Europe or to South America, and will tour his native West instead. First he will renew home ties in Idaho and then go to the coast for a serles of public addresses on topics of the day. No man in the United States, with the possible exception of the President, gets a mail bag like Borah, His correspondence from the plain people of the country he finds to be both informational and inspirational. It gives him a far better line on pub- lic opinion, he says, than editorials in metropolitan newspapers. * x % ox Rudolph Forster. executive clerk at the White House, comes about as near being acting President of the United States in Washington as any man still left in the deserted Capital. No Presi- dent ever had a tithe of the experience at the White House that Forster's had. There isn't & rope he doesn't know. Forster has been at the elbow of all of our Presidents including and since McKinley—a record of 28 years of uninterrupted service. Keeping state secrets is his specialty, * ok k * One of the ambassadorial L that President Coolidge will di!px::fl":: next Winter, if the Senate ratifies the Lausanne treaty with Turkey, is the ambassadorship to Angora. Although the capital of the new Turkey is the world's jumping-off place, in point of primitiveness, there's aiready a lively scramble to be the American envoy there. Henry Lane Wilson of Indiana is an active aspirant for the post, and has the backing of Senator Watson. Wilson was American Ambassador to Mexico in the hectic years between 1909 and 1913, having just previously been named Ambassador at Constanti. | nople, but later transferr City by President Taft. P?{emhy:’;.l:g long experience in diplomacy, having served as Minister to Greece, Chile and Belglum. Though 68, Mr. Wilson still feels the urge andsthe capacity to be of service to his country in for- eign parts. (Copyrixht. 1925.) Blame for Motor Tragedy To the Editor of The Star: I beg to express my most hearty approval of your editorial in The Star of June 24, entitled “A Tragedy of Law Enforcement.” It seems to me utterly foolish to blame the un- timely death of Sister Cephas Becker on the law or the police, when man- ifestly it should be blamed on the outlaw lquor traffic and the law violators. % WILLIAM H.'RAMSEY. - Courts and Enforcement. To the Editor of The Star: Allow me to commend you for your editorial of June 25 on law enforce- ment as concerned with the recent bootlegging disaster. The conclud- ing sentence certainly “hit the nail on the head” in my. opinion.. More 8. PETRIE, the case of Guiteau quote the words of an outcast assassin who was either a fool of a brute for whom no doom was too terrible? If ail of the bad things in the world were quoted we would have nothing. but unmention-- able crimes and unmentionable thoughts to make up our literature. There is entirely too much of this method of damning our patriots and great men of the past by trving to prove some disagreeable thing about them, or by quoting lying words such as that put into the mouth of Guiteau, the wanton murderer of a great Presi- dent of the United States. You do not teach virtue by telling all the terrible stories of dirty things done by those who are impure. Mr. Thavis closes his letter with the sentence: as a student of Muzzey, appeal to you, give us a text filled with truth that we may better assume the most noble ambition of our lives, becoming a citizen of the United States.” he is foreign born and is not yvet a citizen. Could any worse criticism be made of Muzzey's History than that those who may become citizens of the United States are filled by it with the dark side of things, a darkness caused by the vicious, by the traitors or by the murderers of the past? Nobility of thought was never achieved by fill- ing one's head with unclean thoughts or unmentionable deeds. AMOS A. FRIES, Major General, 8. Army. Indianapolis Plar Not Like That of Capital To the Editor of The Star: Mr. Haskin is in error when he “X! in his answers to questions that Indianapolis was laid out on plans similar to that of Washington. There is no more resemblance between the two plans than between that of Prov- g!ence, R. I, and that of Richmond, va. The original site of Indianapolis covers exactly one mile square, bound- If his words are true, then | Q. .What proportion of air is there to gas in an automobile cylinder in propelling the vehicle?—K. S. H. A. An authority on automobiles says that the proportion of air to gasoline is 1,300 or 1400 to 1. In other words, for an example, the pro- portions would be a thimbleful of gasoline to an ash can of air. Q. What size in American number- ing is a shoe which is numbered 42 G.AL( A. A shoe numbered 42 in Paris | point corresponds to an 8 in this country. Q. How long do crabs remain “soft- shelled ?"—L. S. | A. The shells begin -to harden as soon as the old shells are shed. The crabs should be served us soft-shell crabs as soon as possible, although | several days will elapse before the shells have hardened to a marked de- gree. Q. In there an American actor who | was made Officer d’Academic du Thea- tre Francaise?—J. A. G. | A. This honor - was accorded to James K. Hackett during his recent tour of France. Q. What is the name of the poem which begine “The sun stepped down from his golden throne?”—D. K. .« A. This is the opening line of “The Star and the Water Lily,” by Long- fellow. Q. What acid do you put on a tree stump to bring out the rings so they can be counted?—L. L. B. A. The Forest Service says that it has not heard of the use of ackd for the purpose of calculating the age rings of a tree; however, by taking sandpaper and sandpapering the stump thoroughly to a smooth surface and using a magnifying glass you can see the age rings clearly enough to determine the age of the tree. Q. What material can be used as an insulator between two magnetic points?—J. T. W. | A. There is no known insulator for | magnetism. Q. Did England offer a bounty to men who would fight against the colonies”—S. K. A. She offered £10. Congress gave the Continental Army small grants_of land and money, but in 1780 affairs came to such a pass that Gen. Washington offered $200 to re- | tain each of his veterans, and when the Army disbanded in 1783, he in Auced Congress to give the officers five years’ pay. | | glue. | cit: |& ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. either in the United States or in the world, than the Highland orchard in southwestern. Arkansas. Q. Please give formula for Govern ment whitewash.—A. S. R. A. Slake half a bushel of unslaked lime with bolling water, Keeping it covered during the process. Strain it and add a peck of salt, dissolved in warm water; three pounds of groun rice put in boiling water and boil to a thin paste; half a pound of powdered Spanish whiting and a pound of clear dissolved in warm water; mix these well together and Jet the mxi ture stand for several days. Keep the wash thus prepared in a Kettle or portable furnace, and when used put it on as hot as possible with painters or whitewash brushes Q. How slowly can an airplane travel and remain in the air—H. D. A. This depends upon the plane Roughly, it would be from 40 to 50 miles per hour. The lowest air speed is that speed just above the stalling point. The. stalling point is at the point where- the air lift on the wingg is less than the weight of the airplan practically little above taking o speed which is 40 to. 50 miles pes hour. Q. What is the best known cross town street in the world?—H. E. A. Forty-second street, New Yorl City, is the most famous. This Fall will mark the 100th anniversary of itg official existence. Q. How does popped corn compara in food valne with other corn prod- ucts?—G. L. C. A. One pound of popped corn has practically the same food valie as a pound of dry corn meal or hominy. Q. What should chameleons be fed Do they drink water?—J. B. A. When live flies are not available chameleons should be fed sugar, fruits, moistened candies and meal worms. Water should be given once a day. A chameleon should be kept in a large wooden box in which is placed a small amount of dry sand and some dry ss. (Frederic J. Haskin is the name of the man who answers more questions than any other person in the world He is employed by this paper 1o | handle the inquirics of our readers | and you are invited to call upon him as freely and as often as you please Ask anything that is a matter of fact | and the authority will be quoted you | This information bureaw. iwhich he | heads, is maintained in Washington thawing Q. Is it the freezing or process which causes pipes to burst i—R. M. D. A, The Bureau of Standards savs | that it I the freezing process. The bursting is due to the expansion the water undergoes when changing into ice. Q. Where is the Jargest peach orch- ard?—0. W. H. A. The Bureau- of Plant Industry knows of no larger peach orchard. La Follette as | The death of Senator Robert Marion La Follette has been followed by words of praise from both friends and foes in the political world. The com mentators are universal in their rec- | ognition of his courage and honesty. | his self-sacrifice in his devotion to | ideals” which he believed would ad vance the welfare of the common peo-. ple of the country. He is generaily credited with a great influence upon political history. The Portland (Oreg.) Journal goes so far as to declare that “because of his relentless courage to follow_through the principies that he believed would bring about equality of opportunity and justice. he was never petmanently defeated..’ ~ Outapoken praise of la Follette's service is voiced by the Emporia Ga- .zette, which believes: *he used his tal- ents well,” and “no.other man of his times has had more constructive leg- islation to bis credit than Robert M. La Follette. He has been a good and' taithful servant to the forces of right- eousness, which are rebuilding Chris- tian civilization somewhat along Chris- tian lines. How he has worked! With what pains and with what loving care he has put his life into the betterment of mankind, has spent himself freely, passionately, usefully upon good causes! We shall not see his like again for a generation.” The Janes- ville (Wis) Gazette finds no other such figure in American history. and declares that while “he was not a Danton, nor yet a Robesplerre—still there was something of the revolu- tionist in his make-up. He was as sure as Napoleon and as confident in himself as Caesar. So Wisconsin miration to this dead warrior of the forum.” Concerning him the Gazette continues, “Not in the present will there be ability to write, as_history shall eventually be written. of Robert M. La Follette. One must be for him or against him. And it will be the ob- server, a capable Voltaire, an analyst of superb vision, who shall some day tell the story of Robert Marion La Follette.” * ook x ““There is but one La Follette to a generation; the world would be bet- ter off if there wére more." is judgment of the Memphis Scimitar, and the Wisconsin State Journal describes him on the stump as “a tiger, dramatizing his theme with an intensity that at times cre- ated a sense of awe. Relaxed amon; his confidants, he became exceedingly human. A towering figure passes, disappears. * No stature like his in his wide domain. ‘Who'll lead " they ask on every hand. Men look at one another. No one answers.” “He who would remake the world and who perseveres in the attempt makes possible a small but_helpful change; that is Robert La Follette's contribution,” in the opinion of the Passaic Herald. “A crusader who never dipped his colors,” is the ver dict of the Newark Evening News. “History will record him as a statesman ahead of his country's ed by North, East, South and West streets. The streets are all absolute- ly straight, intersecting each other at right angles, and each 1 mile long. They divide the city into blocks each a_perfect square. There are no jog- offs in Indianapolis as in Washington, and the blocks are all uniform size and shape and not irregular as in ‘Washington. In the exact middle of the mile square, both ways, is a street, the intersection of the two being the ex- act center of the mile square. At that point is a circle, like Thomas Circle in Washington. In that circle is the only resemblance between the plans of the two citles. At equal distances from this center of the city four diag- onal streets or avenues run in straight line to the four corners of the mile square. As I have said, every street is perfectly straight and runs in a correct line according to the compass. ‘The plan of Indianapolis was the work of Christopher Harrison, the first Lieutenant Governor of the State, and whose remains now lie a short distance from Annapolls, Md. As he gave it himself, the inspiration of the plan came from B8t. John's descrip- tion of the New Jerusalem, & ‘“city four square.” Thereé was a romance in the life of Christopher Harrison thought, a valiant fighter, a stern hater, an ardent believer in the peo- ple and in popular government,” savs the Detroit News. The Lafayette Journal and Courier calls him “a leader who possessed courage and ability in an extraordinary degre Declaring that “his mistakes are written in the sand,” the Raleigh News and Observer concludes that “his courage and vision will endure.” Estimates of the value of La Fol- ried Jerome Bonaparte he went West to Indiana. There he built for himself a cabin on the banks of the Ohio River, living for several years as re- cluse in that cabin. Later he removed to the little town of Salem, erecting a more pretentious house. He sur- rounded his house with a flower gar- den which was long the wonder of the young State. To this garden children were permitted to roam at will, and men were welcomed to the house. but no woman was ever_ peérmitted to see the inside of his cabin on the river. or of his town house at Salem until after his death. He was a man of superior education | and of high order of ability. Had it not been for his solitary habits and 1 pays the tribute of memory and ad- | because of the great wealth of infor- | mation obtained there. The average | individual has no conception of the extent of this tremendous accumula- tion of data nor of the channels | through wwhich it is reached. There lis no charge for this service. Ask \wrhat you want, sign your full name |and address and inclose 2 cents in stamps for return postage. Address | The Star Information Bureau, Frederic |J. Haskin, director, Twenty-rirst and | C streets northwest. Crusader Won Many Admirers Ilette’s contribution to the- world are | generously made. According to the | New York Evening World, there is found in his career “a list of things accomplished more extensive than that of most publicists who are pop- ularly credited with things actually brought to pase.” “He was one of | those who shaped the history of hix times.”” says the Rochester Times. Union, while the Flint Journal, ad mitting its opposition to La Follette during his career, says: “Unquestion |ably he was a ' leader, influencing thousands who honestly believed in | what he was teaching. Political his- tory, written by unbiased histerians, will place him among ‘the politically 'mi\‘a Américans of this generation, historieally in ‘his t{ue setting.” A standing refutztion 9f political pessi- mism may be found in his life work." states the New York Tines, while tha Springfield, Ohio, News hoids that *it. is very doubtful whether he would have been an unsuccesstul President.” “In a sense he won one of the great political triumphs of our time,” as. serts the Des Moines Register. * k% ¥ “He has beeén a factor with which both of the great national parties had |to account, and whose dicta changed | the course of poiitical history,” in the view of the Knoxville Sentinel. “He was happy enough to set an unusual number of programs promoted by him become the accepted method of the country,” according to the New |Orleans Item. to which the Kansas | City Journal adds that “he wiil loom large in the political history of the country.” The spirit of hiz campaigns is re {flected in numeérous comments. “‘He | fought,” in the judgment of the Read- |ing Tribune, “for about everything |that was fair. and his survivors can probably turn to his record with pride but the bulk of the reforms he fought for are reforms which the older parties believe in.” Furthermore, according to the Duluth Herald, “his bitterest enemies must vield to La Follette the itribute that he was brave, tirelss. | honest, and however mistaken at times {he may have been as to methods, his efforts were aimed at the welfare of the common people.” “What of the estimate of history?" asks the Milwaukee Journal. and to its own query it replies: “The fight against privilege will always o on, and La Follette had a great place in that fight. His war attitude will re- main hard to condone.” The Balti more Evening Sun recorde that “his shortcomings were those which seem inherent in the man who plays poli tics for a living in this count; His virtues were the fundamental ones of courage and consistency far bevond | the average.” ““He made men and he made them think,” observes the Morgantown New Dominion, which ranks this as a serv |ice performed “by relatively few men |in public lite. * x %o La Follette was “a public servant of unexcelled courage and spotiess purity of purpose,” to the Omaha World-Herald man of big mind and sublime courage,” to the Houston Chronicle: and one whose place will not immedately, if ever, be filled,” in the view of the St. Louis Post-Dis. patch. A someéwhat different point of view is presented by the Portland Orego- nian, which says: “It seems that his detestation of the undoubted evils that he saw so magnified them in his estimation that he could not see them in due proportion to the undoubted good that existed”: while the Chicago Daily News concludes: “No other American public man has had & career more dramatic and passionate. or at the end more ditappointing to personal ambitions.” The Cincinnati Times-Star comments in similar vein: “There was a difference between his ideals and his methods. He may have been wrong, but he thought he was right. And, after all, a man must morally be judged in politics by his ideals.” The Atlanta Journal esti mates his career as a ‘“burning. though not always shining, light.” In reply to these the Seattle Times notes the “extraordinary devotion his followers,” and the Oakland Tr bune recognizes the deyotion of his that is worth telling. He was the first lover of B Patterson. of Baltimore. When she turned him-down and mas- disposition .he would have reached. the highest place in the State. . W. H. SMITH. political life “to the ideas which he believed represented the cause of the ‘people. %