Evening Star Newspaper, July 15, 1925, Page 6

{cessions were replaced by democratic | vule, by foreign invasion. by, anutocratic veaction. Emperors built their palaces n the hilis flanking the Forum and passed. Through the centuries that little urea between the heights remain- €d the heart of with its temples, ts palaces, its arches, its relics of the nost ancient settlers "AM Sunday Morning Edition. Er’“‘,}‘WBHKNG’I‘ON. D. C. WEDNESDAY. . ...July 15, 1925 THEODORE W. o NOYES. .. .Editor i | ome, The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office | its great “way" S [to the south, with the capitol on the Euroicuge Omce . |morth and the Colosseurn on the south, uropean Oftice: 18, 1 Dr. Boni brought to his task in the | Forum a scholurly appreciation of val- The Evening Star. with the i ks g edition. ¢ delivered 1A ox | s, w patient perseverence in research A conte ed Guoonts, per month MUY cenis [and & painstaking purpose to establish carrier at the end of each month | stone and pile of ruins. There should Rate 33 Bl fn Advance,|U® @ tablet to his memory at some Maryland and Virginia | point in the Forum, so that all who Daily and Sunday 15r.SR40: 17 { visit that most interesting .place -may Daily only 1308000 1 m | Sunday only 3e0iin |appreciate the service rendered to his 5 | tory by him. All Other State: | PR e Daily and Suaday.. 1 yr.. S} 1mo | : aily only 13 mo 4 s o 153 Jeas A Billion Trade Balance. A trade balance in favor of thel| Member of the Associated Press, United States of $1,042,681,497 is re S ni tates of $1,042,681,497 is re. s exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dis- | borted by the Department of Com s g BRI R L This me ll\. that the people of this pas country sold over a billion dolla worth me»s of goods than they bought Marginal Appropriations. | | trom abroad. This is the highest rec Effort will be made by the District |ord of export excess since 1921.22 Commissioners to secure from Con-[when the balance was $1,163,077,451 gress a differential mafgin of cost of | During and immediately following school constructions in the wiiting of | the war the American outflow of goods appropriations. A case immediately | greatly exceeded the inflow. It was at hand iliustrates the need of an al- | an unusual phenomenon, attributable lowance in the cost limits placed LY | to the derangement of foreign indus. the legislature upon the authoriza- | tries and the concentration of the en. tions. The sum of §140,000 was grant- | ergies of other nations upon the busi ed for u new school at Munor Park. | ness of cumpaigning. During 1919-20 When bids were opened for this Work | the American balance was in excess it was found that t} st tender | or $2.870,000,000. During 1920-21 it was $14,000 higher than the appropriu- | dropped slightly, 1o §2,862,000,000 tion lmit. The Commissioners must | Then it fell to $1.163.077.481 in 19212 either wait priation or the plans for the construction, to bring the cost within the aliowance. In the one an modif; additional appro. and when the next year it dropped to $175,774,408 it appeared as if the tide had set definitely for a quick return to pre-war conditions, when this country case there will be a long delay, and in the other | was buying more than it sold. But & less commodious buildin | the next year, 1923.24, the favorable This is not an unusual experier bBalance rose to $767.145.472, and now Schoolhouses provided for in appre priation bills have often been delayed because ©-1it has once more reached and passed the billion mark of the excess of bids over| rhere is no reason why the United allotments of funds. Indeed. much of | grates should mot continue to com: the present school congestion is due | yang the world markets, it American to these delays in the It = manufacturers will study the needs often happened that and preferences of foreign buyers. has not been completed For everything this country produces years of the date of the appropriation. | iyere js & demand abroad. . -Its sur The present practice is-to lay before | ;1 guffices to meet that demand if Congress estimates for certa constructions. The appr committees usually cut down the li and also cut down the estimate of cost, making fewer appropriations and smaller in individual allotments than the Commissioners have requested. By the time the appropriations are avail- able nine or even twelve months have elapsed since the original estimates were made. A longer time has passed when the bids are received. In that interval the conditions in the building market have changed. Prices, accord- ing to the trend during the past dec- ade or more, have risen. An estimate made in July, is likely to be smaller than the lowest bid received in July, 1925. Lacking any authority to contract for work in excess of appropriation, the Commissioners must either change the specifications or postpone struction. They cannot make a con- tract contingent upon a deficiency ap- propriation. But if, as they now pro- pose, Congress were to grant a diff ential margin, to meet changes due to market conditions, they can go ahead with the work and prevent loss of time, which means addition to the school congestion What is needed is a system of maxi- mum-minimum appropriations for pub lic works that cannot be advertised and contracted for immediately upon the granting of authorization. That ot aorne. 10 the WAIl be recognized as a sensible, busi. | SAVe to the radiators and fenders of & requirements are suited. In the past the producers of merchandise in this ry have not adequately adapted sves to the foreign trade. It however, been brought home to them that they must suit ‘the require- ments the foreign purchaser in terms of weights and measures, in packing, marking and labeling As Europe regains industrial health the American trade supremacy will be challenged. The world market plays no favorites. The successful exporter must win through merit, cheapness and accommodation. Much has been learned profitably by the American producer and shipper in the course of these years of trade balance in their favor, and there is a satisfying pros- pect that these lessons will continue to be applied to secure for the United States lasting advantage in the. trade s over sez of co mart —— Revoke the Licenses! Last year the Long Island Railroad s of one broken grade- crossing gate daily, on the average, caused by reckless motorists smash- ing through the barriers to cross the tracks ahead of the trains. Despite warnings, pleas and fatalities this rec- ord is continuing the present vear. | Motor drivers are still banging into | the gates in ‘their impatience to get {anead. Many of them are going to | their machines. nessiike plan to prevent further de-| NG MACHESL T L lays and the construction of inade-| AW BNOUS WO LSRN el bt e ;l-vuh’\l to save him from possible - leath is @ menace to public security Prehistoric bones have been He should be barred from the road S e MBaice TiEypan > | by the cancellation of his license. It is e e, in the opinion of | o4 that out of one humdred and archeologists, who apparently are au seventy-three revec ons of. lHeenses daciously determined to go ahead with | YO LECE VO (L Cr politan thelr own scientific deductions with-} U0 Lo aue were for ases of out waiting for Col. Bryan's O. K. | o\ Vo ving of this character. ; = | There is no reason why there should Statesmen who retire to private life { not be one a day, to keep pace with carry with them a prestige which re- | the record of gate smashing news their prominence. Dayton, Tenn Watch should be at these has demonstrated that there is no | places to note the license of tellihng where a former Secr of | drivers who push across the tracks State may turn up next { when the warnings are set to denote ot the approach of trains. Every driver In the Dayton, Tenn., proceed who ignores the signs and enters the as legally formulated. Prof. Scopes | danger zone should be rated as unfit first the center of interest. begins to | to use the roads and deprived of his look like “Exhibit A.” license. This should be done in all the - ! States. The streets and roads of this The} country ave at present too fuil of fools . > at the wheel. Some of the road con- A brie! blegram from Rome | 5 4 es the death in that city of Dr, | SeStion may be relieved by the revoc Boni, eminent archeologist Hom St v e v e Discovéry of a prehistoric skull ex- cites the scientists, although the mod- ern bonehead presénts the real prob- and director of the excav Forum. Visitors to Rome wandered, gulde book in hand, thrc ions at who have the Forum will perhaps not feel a gense of personal loss, for Dr. Boni| €M was not to them an individua Yet ] £ his works were in evidence for their| lLiterary fashions change. Scientific which | may be beneficial to the human tind. enjoyment and edification. | works now become best seller: The excavations in the Roman Forum were not of the character of | Sl 4 the explorations in Igypt and Assyria. | Vacation. The period of time elupsing since the| jid.July is about the.peak of the structures were intact and in use was | ragt season. ‘Some hold that August is HotiErent, o time runs in KIstory. Alite buatest shonth tn fha vacat ot mere 2,000 years, or a little more, had | ness and the dullest in other forms of ER e sinc thas 1 was the scene | pusiness, but authorities differ on this of active life, when Dr. Boni| undertc man question, as on all others. There are no statistics at hand, and though one his researc The task in the Roman excavations| had tables of statistics some expert and restorations was to preserve the 1d come along, point the finger of greatest number of relics, in their most | scorn at the figures and say they are perfect form. Successive demolitions|not to be trusted. Whether mid-July by enterprising iconoclasts who sought building materials had destroyed much irreplaceably. Dr. Boni's work was to bring into view the n the | or August is peak time for vacation business and low tider for other forms of business, it is plain that a great many of our people are out of town. is ximum of ruins, and to establish their true rela- | The fashion of goiug to the country Sonship | durjng the “heated term” to “escape The visitor to the Forum. is at first | the heat of the city” n old one, and shows no signs of being superseded by a fashion of staying in .the city all Summer and going to the country in Winter. disappointed, perhaps, at its apparent | formiessness. There is no established sequence. Everything densed as well as wrecked. seems con the meaning of the whole comes to; The vacation business is one of the focus in the mind, the overlaying of | large industries of America, and em: civilizations, the succession of enter.|Ploys more people—on part time, of prises, the persistence of lovation, | course—than agriculture, the - steel Here was thie civic center of the capi- | trade, autorobile bullding, moving pic mortuaries. | | | } i { 141 of the Roman Empire for centuries, | tures or the radio, The city man who | has to changs joh mind about® T Summer is rare, and it is even more unusual to meet a woman who does not go to the beach or mountains or to some quiet place in the country, as the advertisements say, “fruit, vege- tables, shade and no mosquitoes.” Money spent on vacation mounts into hundreds of inillions, but generally peopie get something for their money. They' do not always get enough for their money, but they get some vaca. tion, @ change of scene, meet people they never saw before, play golf on strange courses, catch fish, get sun burnt and enjoy thrills about which they can talk to the neighbors until next vacation time comes near. Tn “the old days” there were men who said they never took a vacation. They did not say it with shame, but They thought it a merit to stick to their tools or shop till the end of life. Misiuken men! They are all dead. They missed many a good time and might have lived longer. Men, their wives and children, would not now forego the joys and the trials of vacation. Most men feel that the vacation term s too short, and as the years pass and prosperity increases men may give less time to work and more to play. as a boast R —— Darrow's Blunder. Clavence Darrow, chief counsel for in the Dayton “evolution™” trial. has committed a tactical blunder at the beginning of the case, in pro testing the opening of court with prayer. He has by this move alienated sympathy that might otherwise have been felt for his cause, for it has had the effect of emphasizing the religious issue. whereas the chief question in volved in the case 48 a strictly legul one The main question at Dayton is whether the State can rightfully pro scribe a subject of instruction from the curriculum of the public educa- tional system, not whether men de scended from a lower animal order or whether religion should be observed in the conduct of judicial procedure. That question will not be finally an- swered at Dayton. The verdict of that court fs virtually certain to be against the defendant. The jury is asked to consider merely the fact of the method of instruction adopted by the teacher who is at the bar. It can reasonably answer only that he has violated the State statute. In another court will be argued and decided the question of whether the State had the right to adopt such a statute. To protest the delivery of prayer at the opening of court was to create a prejudice against counsel and de- fendant. It the custom of that court. It is in keeping with the senti- ment and belief of the people of that community. To argue that prayer es- tablished an “unfavorable atmosphere of religion” was to affront the com- munity as well as to becloud the. real issue. Prayer has néver harmed any one or any cause. Darrow's protest agdinst it exposes him to the charge of narrowness and bigotry that he has brought against his chief oppo- nent, Bryan. Scopes ——— The monkey might have a little more respect in current popular opin. lion if there were the slightest possi- bility of any member of his immedi- ate family qualifying as @ prize winner in a beauty contest. AR DA If the present tendencles of political notoriety are permitted to go un- checked the two great parties of the tuture will be the Fundamentalists and the Modernists. ———— No man is content with his lot in life. G. Bérnard Shaw insists on talk- ing international politics and Mus- solini writes a pl ———— China has had many revolutions, and may regard the solicitude of the cutside world as interference with a national custom. ——.—— BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Intuitive Self-Defense. Oh, when T was a little boy, T rarely loved my-teacher! Twas wicked of me to annoy So kind and wise a creature. - From Darwin I would run away. 1 took a firm position *Gainst books the jury says today Might lead me to perdition. Conservative Statesmanship. “Why are you not taking a hand in this evolution trial?” “I have been fairly successful,” an- swered Senator Sorghum, “in holding the confidence of my constituents by discussing the principles of taxation and government. Why should T intro- duce new and even more abstruse issues?" Jud Tunkins says the world is sure- ly growing intellectual when a scien- tific argument can cause more excite- ment in a small town than a circus, Overtaxation. The old thermom Keeps rising In July, Discomforts are surprising; Yot we try To discuss the fourth dimension And to give correct attention To some marvelous invention That will fiy. We must study evolution And we sigh As the pages of locution Meet the eye— While all wearily we're wishin’ For a different condition, "Cause folks ought to go a-fishin® Tn July. Quicker Action. “‘Are there any moonshiners in this vieinity ?" No,” answered Uncle Bill Bottletop. “The licker producers don't stop to put up a still any more. They make the stuff in their automobiles Vocalization. An orator-should have a yoice Melodious and ringing: Some might have made a better choice If they had studied singing. “You can't believe all vou hear,” said. Uncle Bben: “und some o' whut you kin believe you finds later on you £ HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, JULY 15 EVENING _q'y‘\r\-:u: at changes occurred, dynastie suc- | does not take a turn in, the country in THIS AND THAT BY CHARLE: Newspaper men have several happy they phrases which use among themselves, such as “What do you know?" as a form of greeting, to which the invariable respjonse |s, “Nothing.* Another expressiongis “to dig up a story.” A city editor will tell one of | his most religble men, “Go out and | dig me up a good story,” and the man goes out and digs It up. | Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor, must have been ohe of the first real newspaper men, for in the book of his “Meditations” he one born to the profession: “Look within. Within is the foun tain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig." No doubt Marcus udded tence so often “heard today visitors to newspaper offices, a newspaper man myself, once,” the sen from W but | the translatc must have stricken it | out, for I cannot discover it in my | copy. Anyway. newspaper men and others | will find his advice about digging much to the point. He simply re- verses the ordinary process. He tells | us that what we seek I8 not to be found in some Government depurt ment, nor eke in the District Build ing, but simply and solely within Within each one of us, he says, is a veritable fountain of good, from which we may drink of the waters of happiness, and this fountain will con- | tinue » bubble up our whole life through, if we will take the trouble to_nourish it by continual digging. | Thus he preaches the doctrine of | effort, of something attempted, some- | thing done, which earns a night's re pose. Hix “fountain of good" would not be such a waterworks If it did not have many parts of happiness in it, for, to man, good means happiness Happiness is the universal solvent we ull seek, some one way, some an other. No one can find it for another. The only thing we may be reasonably sure of is that we will find it within, if ever, and the only sure way of keeping it going is to “dig.” * ok kK “It is very possible to be a man and to be recognized as such by no one.” There is a comforting sentence! It is generally felt that if one makes a better mouse trap than his neighbor, | as the sayving has it, the world will make the much-he divine | ded beaten path | to_his door. Perhaps this is usually so—but not always. And when we forsake the! tangible path of material inventions, | for which the world is always ready to pay handsomely, and confine our-| selves to abstract virtues, the road becomes less worn Beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring glad tidings, said Isaiah, but even he did not take the trouble to record the names of the | bearers 1 So Nero, who burnt Rome, is known to more people today than Romulus and Remus, who built it more could tell you the story of Nero and his fiddle than could recount the | tale of the famous pair and their wolf. There must exist thousands of beau. tiful souls who never get their names in the newspapers. Probably there are many good writers who never get printed. and many fine painters who never get exhibited. To all such the words of Marcus Aurelius will bring their comfort: “It is very possible to be a divine man | and to be recognized as such by no one.” The world is so busy with fts daily life, it scarcely has time to| discover all. | Happy circumstance operates in| these matters as in many others, so that all who feel the world owes them not a recognition which it has | Antoninus says, e | selr. E. TRACEWELL. corded can solace themselves with the above quotation. * K % % “Think not so much of what thou hast not as of what thou hakt. “Of the things which thou hast, select the best, and then reflect how eagerly they would have been sought it thou hadst them not! “At the same time, however, tuke care that thou dost not through be- ing pleased with them accustom thy- self to overvalue them, so as to be disturbed if ever thou shouldst not have them.” Here we see Marcus Aurelius forti- fying himself against such inevitable hours as might come when he should lose those things which he valued so! This very human man set down what he feared, in order that when it happened he might tell himself I all are lik that None of us is such an incorrfgible optimist that he dares defy Time, Fate, Fortune, What-May-Happen when the average per sald once and happy thought dinary things possess over he finds it about not after all Look “ philosopher—which on is not, let that be for all—notes down a about valuing the or of life which one does the many he does not, wise to add u warning valuing them too much, about you, Marcus Aurelius in effect; think not of the expensive house you yearn for, but more of the little one thou hast Considering your little house, reflect upon itx good points—for it has them and then think how eagerly you Jvould pine for this house if you had nof Strotlarly with one’s car—if you had no automobile at all, how splendid and altogether desirable would seem that ancient vehicle parked outside the door! * X k% Here is a hot paragraph with a ki in the end of it: The gods, who are immortal, are not vexed because during so long a time they must tolerate continually men such ak they are and so many | of them bad, and, besides this, they also take care of them in all ways. But thou, who are destined to end so soon, art thou wearied of enduring the bad, and this, too, when thou art one of them?"” Ouch! Aurelius was not “knocking” his ers, it must be remembered, for iginally had but one reader—him- He simply was harping upon one of his favorite themes, the ne- cessity for putting up with malice, meanness, etc., since the world is so full of it. 1f God so tolerates them, he sa why cannot we show a little charity on our own part? g After all, “what fs badn quires, naively answering: “It §s that which thou hast often seen “On the occasion of everything which happens, keep this in mind, that It is that which thou has often seen Everywhere up and down thou wilt find the same things, with which the old histories are filled, those of the Middle Ages and those of our own day: with which cities and houses are filled now. ““There is nothing new: all things are both familiar and short lived.” These last two paragraphs have startling resemblance to those in Ec clesiastes: “‘One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth forever. “All things are full of labor; man cannot utter it; the eye s not satls fied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing: “The thing- that hath heen, it fs that which shall be; and that which is done 1s that which’shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” * he in- m- the | President Coolidge at bridge on the Fourth of July that nations of Europe ought to get to- gether in mutual security pacts fo: the preservation of peace. He cou do worse than advise St. Paul and Minneapolis to do likewise. The riv- alry between the Twin Cities is in- tense beyvond all belief and, to an| Eastern tenderfoot, not lacking in en. E tertainment. It has to be experienced | on the spot to be appreciated. The | presidential party that - visited the | region in June ran straight into the | latent civil war. When Mr. Coolidge addressed the Norse centennial at the Minnesota State Fair grounds he wa: on neutral soil. Byt when he attend- | ed the centennial luncheon at a Min- neapolis hotel St. Paul was one down Forthwith it was made urgently plain to the President that he must even up scores by gracing some function in St. Paul. So, on short notice, it was arranged he should appear at the public reception in the State Capitol @ couple of hours before starting back | to Washington. 3 e { One of the big Twin Cities industrial { corporations subsidizes a powerful | broadeasting ‘station, WCCO. In order | to keep the peace in the air, the an- nouncer one evening will lilt “This | is WCCO, Minneapolis,” and the next | evening he will proclaim it is “WCCO, | St. Paul.” There's a street car line| | | that travels between the two cities. Half of the cars have painted on them the legend: “Minneapolis-St.. Paul,” and the other half are labeled: “St. Paul-Minneapolis. Cases are on record (this is a Minneapolis allegation) of a St. Paul business concern's refusal to accept delivery of a heating plant it had bought, because it bore too con- | spicuous evidence of manufacture in Minneapolis! The late -Archibishop Ireland, whose official seat was in St. Paul, used to solve the problem dip- lomatically. When asked which- was the larger city, the archbishop would reply: “T live in the Twin Cities. Their population is 600,000.” Today Min- neapolis claims about 425,000 and St. Paul about 325,000. They are both beautiful and bustling communities. The lake region fringing Minneapoli is loveliness incarnate, and Summit avenue, St- Paul, is one of America’s finest boulevards. * %k ¥ ¥ ! Walter W. Heffelfinger. the famous | “Pudge” Heffelfinger of Yale foot ball | fame in the early 90s. is now a| prominent Minneapolls business man. Age has not withered his giant frame | nor the fighting qualities which made | him a terror to Harvard, Princeton and Pennsylvania on the gridiron. He is now a commissioner of Hen: nepin County and indulges in period- ical scraps on behalf of clean gov- ernment. “Pudge” practices girth control on the golf links. * %k ok * ‘While making my way West on the Northern Pacific, across Minnesota and North Dakota, T encountered Oswald Garrison Villard, son of Henry Villard. the creator of that pioneer trunk line across the open spaces. With his family, the editor of the Nation was en route to a dude ranch in Wyoming for the Summer. Mr. Villard remembers vividly the time his father took him, a lad of 12, to the then wild and woolly West to see the last spike driven in the Northern Pacific line and to travel aboard: the first transcontinental train to polish its rails. That was in 1883. Villard is deeply interested in observing the fate of thg Rrogressive mo A i sk okl ) WESTERN OBSERVATIONS - BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. | ural. | weal the West, in light of recent events. He was one of the active spi the campaign to elect La Follett for whom Villard can espy no worthy or on the radical horizon * x x x There is surprisingly little popular interest in the Northwest in the ques- tions of so-called higher politics. In a fortnight's hobnobbing with men and women of all classes between Chicago and Helena, I did not en- counter any one who could easily be stirred into conversational emotion on such issues as the World Court, taxation, our European debts, China, Mexico, the Dawes plan to tame the Senate, or even the tariff or Ten- nessee evolution. The rural reach: are pretty exclusively concerned at season with practical and ta gible issues like the crops. Ever: thing else strikes them as high- browed. On the Subject of the crops | it is possible to become immersed in animated discussion. That is nat- Upon prosperity, or otherwise, of the Western farmers depends the or woe of nearly everything between “the Great Lakes and the Rocky Mountains. The tone nearly everywhere is jubilant, with ence to the approaching harvest. wind and 1t weather give the farmer fonly an average break between now and the time grain is cut, toward the end of July, he looks forward to another bumper year. e R Automobile traffic problems push the crops closely as a theme of popu- lar debate. With the Northwest’s r turn_ to_ better economic conditions, the sales of cars aré mounting by leaps und' bounds. ’ The motor, busi- ness is at present almost the banner industry in these parts. It is an un- failing barometer of the times. Every community, ‘big or little, has a more or less sefjous traffic situation on its hands. How io grapple with conges- tion and- make - the streets safe for democracy is puzzling the Northwest, as it is the rest of the country. Where to park and how to dodge_is ever: where a paramount issue. Minneapo- has adopted a novel miethod of bringing careless drivers to their senses. Here and there you'll see signs reading: ““One killed here.” * ok ok ok “The American Farm Bureau Fed- eration, which holds its annual co vention at Chicago in October, is la: ing wires to secure Mr. Coolidge's at- tendance. Its officials will try to make him understand that it will be good business for the fafmers to have the President in thelr midst and good poli- tics for Mr. Coolidge to be there. Of course, they want him to make a speech. Millions of ruralists Kknow him by radio and like his microphone style. * The federation is a non-politi- cal institution. Within its ranks are Republicans; Democrats, Non-Parti- san Leaguers, Farm-Laborites and representdtives of all the other ills that political flesh is heir to.. * (robyright. 1925.7" Brevity in Madness. From the Baltimore Sun. There never wili be a revolution in America. The people can’t stay mad long enough about any one thing. Golfing Ally for Parking. From the Shoe and Leather Reporter. Ittis gettipig so taat (here is wmore parking space in the office than in the refer- | 1925. Politics at Large By G. Gould Lincoln Connection between the “evolution” trial at Dayton, Tenn., and the sen- atorial race in Florida next year is suspected here by political observers. ‘Willism Jennings Bryan, the greatest “fundamentalist” of them all, has been a resident of Florida, the State of his adoption, for about six years, and it is reported he has his eve on the seat in the Senate now occu- pled by Senator Duncan U. Fletcher of Florida. Mr. Bryan has made no formal announcement yet that he will be a candidate for the Demo- cratic nomination against Senator Fletcher. But word has recently been received here that he has told friends in the State he is prepared to make the race “if the people want him." At present the limelight is turned strongly on Mr: Bryan—us it has been quently in the past. He is getting tremendous publicity that may or {may not help him_if he enters the lists in Florida. With all due re- rd for the modesty of Mr. Bryan, he has rarely been of the opinion in many years that the people did not want him—certainly not until the { day after election. | Ie may seek to make “fundamen- talism” and evolution {ssues in the Florida campuign, it he throws his hat in the ring. Perhaps he would get not a few votes if he did. On the other hand, if Mr. Darrow, coun sel for the defense in the case against evolution, succeeds in ‘‘mak- ing a monkey” of Mr. Bryan with- out regard to his ancestors, the situ- ation will not be so bright for Mr. Bryan K W ould Mr. Bryan become a candi- date, as it is now expected in Florida and here that he will, he will have a tough opponent in Senator Fletcher, who is popular in his own State and has a record of achievement during his three terms in the Senate. Twice the people of his State have returned Senator Fletcher to the Senate, show- ing thir approval of his work In that body. There are only two Demo- cratic Senators in the Senate today who had longer continuous service than Senator Fletche They are Simmons and Overman, both of North Carolina. Only four Republicans outrank him_in point of service, Warren of Wyoming, who is the “father” of the Senate today, and Smoot of Utah, Borah of Idaho and Cummins of Iowa. Seniority means much in the Senate. It rules in a signments to the standing committees of the Senate and Senator Fletcher is in line for important assignments, in- i cluding the chairmanship of the Sen- ate committee on commerce, which handles all river and harbor bills and ! merchant marine legislation, should the Democrats win control of the Senate. If Mr. Bryan were elected to the Senate he would have to go to the foot of the committee lists under the senfority rule. In other words, it may be more to the ad- vantage of Florida to retain Senator Fletcher thau it is to put ,Mr. Bryan in his place. P Floridians point out that Senator Fletcher has made an excellent Sena- tor, and is a resident of Florida of long standing, going there from Georgia, his native State, and begin- ning the practice of law in Jackson ville in 1881. Mr. Bryan, on the other hand, is a comparatively recent addi- tion to Florida. Some are unkind { enough to suggest that if he desired to |enter the Senate he should have made |the race in his old State of Nebraska. | _The * Democfatic nomination in | Florida~or any of the other dyed-in- i | wool Demoeratit States of the South— is tantamount to - election. If Mr. Bryan epuld win thé Democratic nom- {ination he would not have to.fear a Republican ‘opponent. - Some of the Florida real estate boosters are re. ported to feel that Bryan in the Sen- ate would be a good advertisement for the State. But Mr. Bryan ,could be expected to speak often of Florida real estate on the floor of the te, no matter how much some of prospective constituents might de- sire him to do so. P In the event of his candidacy for the senatorial nomination, there are a number of questions which Mr. Bryan |may have .difficulty with in Florida. First, there is the question of the child labor amendment to the United States | Constitution, which Florida turned {down, on the ground that it was a matter which should properly be regu- lated by the States. How would he stand on this issue? Secondly, Mr. Bryan has preached far and wide his advocacy of the cancellation of the war debts owed the United States by European nations. If he came to the Senate would he continue to strive to {have the war debts canceled, and I how would this appeal to the people 1of Florida? Not so long ago Mr. Bryan was strongly advocating Government ownership of railrcads, a doctrine | which” is_scarcely likely to appeal cither to the long-time residents of the State or to those more recent who have come from the North. The Bryan doctrines, from 16 to 1 down the line, have not proven overpopular, except prohibition. He espoused the cause of woman suffrage, too, while | Senator Fletcher was opposed to votes for women. Last year Mr. Bryan made a cam- {paign throughout the State for elec- | tion as delegate to the Democratic na- tional convention and was successful. But election as a delegate to the Demo- cratic national convention in Florida is not a matter that is closely contest- ed. Even then it was suggested that I his campaign was made with a view to {the senatorial election next year. At the Democratic national convention in New York Mr. Bryan, to put it mildly, had a rough time. He was unable to stampede the convention, and in the énd he was forced to swallow a nom- inee for President, John W. Davis, Who only a few days prior he had de- nounced as a minion of Wall Street, In many quarters Mr. Bryan's change of attitude, ascribed to the fact that his brother was given second place on the ticket, did not sit well, particu- larly in the West, where he went to campaign for the Democratic candi- dates last Fall. * Kk %k Xk Like Mr. Micawber, -Mr. Bryan has been something of an opportunist—in politics — waiting for something to turn up, and if it did not, he has lent a helping hand to turn it up. ' The evolution question in Tennessee has given him an opportunity to appear as the great defender of the Bible. Religious questions have entered po- litical controversies in the past, and Mr. Bryan may bring “fundamental- ism” into the race next year. There are seven Democratic Sen- ators who must stand for re-election next year—a small number compared to the 25 Republicans who have to fight for their seats. Besides Senator Fletcher, the Democrats who are to g0 before the electorate are Senators Broussard of Louisiana, Caraway of Arkansas, George of Georgia, Over- man of North Carolina and Smith of South Carolina. Senator Underwood of Alabama has announced he “ywill not be a candidate to succeed himself. Already four or five candidates for Mr. Underwood's seat have appeared in the field and the prospects for a brisk contest are bright. So far as I BY FREDERIC HASKIN. Q. Would it be possible for milk to be carried across the continent by air- plane without souring?—A. M. P. A. Such an experiment was made during a recent national certified milk scoring contest held in Atlantic City N. J. During this contest milk was recefved in Atlantic City by air mail from a certified dairy located near San | Francisco, Calif. The milk was drawn from a cow in California on a Friday evening and recelved in Atlantic City on the following Sunday morning The container was well insulated, and no material change in temperature or quallty was noted | Q. Would wearing a wrist watch while typewriting cause it to lose or | gain time?—L. P. A. Many jewelers claim that the typewriter injures the works of a| wrist watch. In some watches the | constant movement tends to make them gain. while in others it causes them to lose. Q. What is the origin of the super- | stition that breaking a mirror Is bad luek ?—N. D. R . Among the ancients mirrors were regarded as divine instruments and used as objects of divination; hence | the breaking of a mirror was believed | to bring misfortune upon the indi vidual. Q. What are the five largest fr ternal orders in the United States M. N. W. A. The five largest fraternal organi zations are as follow 2 417 members; 0dd Fellows, (North American continent); Woodmen of - America Knights of Pythias, 908.454; E tween 800,000 and 960,000, and Kr { of Columbus, 800,000. | Modern 1,056,000 Q. Do any animals or birds live be 1007—H. D. 4 A. The elephant lives to be 150 or 200 yvears old; erocodile, 100. and 1 toise, over a hundred. The eagle crow, raven and swan are birds which sometimes live to be a hundred or more. | | | | Q. When did evening schools have their origin in America?—W" A. It is impossible to say exactiv. In a contract made with the sch master of Flatbush, N. Y.. in 1682, the | evening school is mentioned, but it is probable that allusion is made to the | afternoon sessfon of the school whicl | began at 1 p.m. It is certain. how- | ever. that in 1773 evening schools | were conducted as private ventures in Salem, Mass., especially for instru tion in the mariner’s art. although ome poor boys were taught to ypher and to write.” What s the botanical name of the ew Orleans as the J shrub known in cry-baby plant or Christ tear?— A. The botanical name of the | | | | A. known as cry-baby plant or Chr tear is Ervthrina cristagalli. Anoth common name for it is coral-tree. Q. Is there such a thing as a sting- | ing snake?—W. J. W. ? A. The Biologleal Survey savs that there is no such snake as the sting- | ing snake. The rainbow species, which is often referred to as the stingi: snake, Is perfectly harmiess, but | | g | is Seek to Wip “New Vigilantes of the West,” as one newspaper calls them, have arisen to wipe out the epidemic of robberies. The outstanding feature of the move- ment is an offer by the Chicago and Cook County Bankers' Association of | & bounty of $2.500 for each bank rob | ber killed. There is some difference of opinion as to the desirability of | this method of dealing with lawless- | ness in frontier days fashion, but many observers think it is likely to make the robbing of banks less popu- | lar in Illinois. While recognizing that “it ought not to be necessary for any private association to establish patrols and | offer bounties for the slaying of rob- | bers,” the Chicago Daily News points | to the need of drastic measures, and | adds: “No bandit who starts out to Tob a bank is entitled to any consid- | eration. His life is properly forfeit. He undertakes robbery with drawn zun and he is ready to take the life | of any one who interferes with his | plans or imperils his safety. - It is much to be hoped that whenever in future there is a bank robbery in Chi- | cago the Bankers' Association will be | called upon to pay a 0 reward for every member of the bandit party.” “There are no good bandits except | dead bandits,” says the Peoria Tran seript in_approving the bankers'| action. *Nevertheless, the fact that the Chicago bankers have placed a | bounty of §2.500 on the head of every person attempting to rob a bank o evading arrest after having commit- | indicates a rotten the Democratic side of the chamber, | will have no opposition for the nom- ination it is predicted by politicians | from his State. Senator George is | well liked in Georgia, and, while it has been rumored that the governor, | Clifford Walker, might like to take a shot at the senatorship, it is very | doubtful that he will oppose Senator | George. Former Senator. Hoke Smith | has renounced political aspirations, | and former Senator Hardwick has | been snowed under so completely in | his last two campaigns that he is not | likely to stage a comeback politically | for a number of years. | AR . Senator Ellison D. Smith of Soutir] Carolina_apparéntly has his nomina- | tion pretty well sewed up. Incidentally, | he holds the unusual distinction of having been chairman of an important committee, the interstate commerce cemmittee, during Republican control of the Senate. He was elected when the Republican insurgents, led by the late Senator La Follette of Wisconsin, refused to support Senator Cummins of Towa, the ranking Republican, be- cause of the.Esch-Cummins trans- portation act, passed, at the time the railroads were turned back by the Government to_their private owners | after the war. Mr. Smith §s well liked in the State and in the Senate, and ipso facto, will be re-elected. There has been no serious hint yet of opposition to Senator Overman in North Carolina, and his re-election is confidently expected. The Republicans haven't a Chinaman’s chance to win any of these Democratic seats. Representative _Willlam - Oldfield chairman of the Democratic congre: sional campalgn committee and an indefatigable worker in the cause of Democracy, has recently returned from the Middle West, where he attended a number of Democratic meetings, in cluding those in St. Louls and In- dlanapolis. He _expresses fidence that the Democrats are reviv- ing from the defeat inflicted upon them in 1924, and will be ready to meet the issues in 1926. Later in the Summer he plans to go to the Far ‘West, where the Democratic party went “decidedly on the rocks in the the other Democratic incumbents. are concerned, there seems little prospect of serious opposition to their renom- ination. Senator Broussard apparently has a strong hold on his people, as did his brother, the late Senator Brous- sard, before him. The best advices from Louisiana are that he will be renominated. Senftor Curaway, who j during the last Congress blossomed ‘nut as one of the keenest, most sar- o' last campaign. and seek to bring the party together again. Among the probabl %uctor the Democratic nomination the seat of the late Senator Spencer of Missouri are Harry Hawes lnl} Representative ‘Thomas L. Rubey. In Indiana, former Representative Lincoln Dixon, who | had charge of the Democratic head- | quarters in Chicago during the last campaign, is being mentioned as a candidate for the seat of Senator [ultimate reds his con-| given this nume because of the fact that it has an unusually pointed tafl It is supposed by same. people that the so-calied “stinger” js found in the tail of this reptile Q. Is there much of a future in 1 | brary work? A. There has been a marked exten 1 of library service in recent years. census of 1910 listed 7,423 829 women and 1,594 men nber In 1920 was 15,297 of whom 13,503 were women and 1,795 were men. In spite of thi rease in the number of librarians, all reporta indicate that the demand for well trained workers still exceeds the sup ply. Graduates from library schools are quickly placed. The shortage is particularly noticeable in the public libraries Q. What is the meaning of T ium"?—M. H A. Ilium is the Greek name of the { ancient City of T Q. When playing mah-jong should two players, both waiting for the same tile to mah-jong, call for it st the same time, which one has the right to the tile? The one who has the bigge score or the one next, in turn?— K In a case such as you cite the next in turn has the right te Q. In which d should the fork be held?—E. T A. An American who is right-hand ed uses the fork with his right hand If. however, he is left-handed ha finde {it less awkward to hold it with the |left hand. Americans are conspicuous in Eu becau of their ohservar of the custom of changing a fork f the 1 and to the jeft Q. Will you please tell me what opta is’—L. K A. Copra is form in wk the product of the cocoanut is exported of the dried kernel of the cocoan u and also for cocoanut s It extracted by boiling and pressing Q. Where arc the largest stock yards in the world?—L.\D. S A. he Union stock yards at ( 480, 111, are the largest in the world (The great information plant main taimed by Frederic J. Haskin in Wash- ington, D. has been described as an wunofficial branch of the Govern- ment. It carries the results of mil lions of dallars’ worth of Federal in vestigations to the people the moment they are ready and without expense to either the people or the Govern ment. Newspapers maintain this or- ganization and give its services free to their readers. Only a few of the | questions and ansiers are published The great volume of information is sent direct te inquirers. The bureau's research is not confined to the Fed eral departments. Its field is the world and its erperts can answer any question of fact that wou ask. You are entitled to the service Use it. Ad dress your inquiry to The Star Infor- mation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin director, Washington, D. C. Inclose $ cents in sta vs jor return postage.) “New Vigilantes of West” e Out Banditry Legislature, its Jast session, failed to establish State police, Nothing re mained for the bankers to do but to protect their pro; 1 trust funds. as the oneers protected their sheep by plaeing a bounty on wolves.” * k% The Philadelphia _Publip Ledger speaks of “the New Vigilarkes of th W . hunting robbers in Illinois. Indiana and Iowa, and ‘“recalling the ays of 49’ and the necktie artists immortalized by Bret Harte.” The Ledger sees spreading over the Middle West the movement to fight organized crime and thinl ‘there has been nothing quite like this in America for a generation.” “An industry that needs encourage- ment gets a boost in Chicago,” says the Worcester Gazette, which contin ues: “Ordinarily a bandit isn't worth a plugged nickel to a , but ban dits have a market cago. The death penalty does not prevent murder, says the sentimen- talists, but the Chicago bankers are ng on the theory that a dead a menace the in- stant his carcass is neatly drilled with a steel-jacketed bullet. Some may dis pute the ethics of this proposition. Its ow in Ch: | loj is irrefutable.” Commenting upon the reward as seemingly a cold-blooded proposition, the New Haven Register reminds us that: “Bandits armed to the teeth enter banks for the purpose of rob- bery and they are prepared to kill if thwarted in the effort. or if ham pered in their escapes. Yes. the Chi- cago bankers seem hard men, but, on second thought, they are not 86. They, |are merely custodians of the prop- erty of others, over which they are morally bound to exercise great care “If bandits would give advance no- tice of their operations,” the Burling- ton Gazette sugeests, “collecting these rewards would be easy. Unfortunate- they have a habit of performing without previously notifying anybody. They -are liable to swoop down in the dead hours of the night or at midday and shoot their way. through to safety. However, the incentive of garnering $2,500 apt to give folks additional courage. It is not a bad move, and if it increases bandit mor tality it will be money well ex pended.” is * Kk * The offer of a reward, according to the view of the Cincinnati Times tar, is “an effort to enlist citizens ip an informal auxiliary army of law and order.” The Times-Star thinks the action of the Cook County bankers probably will be followed in other communities.” “This much is certain,” argues tr Grand Rapids Herald, “if extrs capital punishment is right, legal ¢ ital punishment can't be wrong. The mption value in a live is problematical; but the lack menace in a dead bandit is an absolute and final certainty. We need a few ‘certainties’ in_our dealings with capital criminals. They need ‘em, too.” The Canton News also holds it is “quite likely that the mere fact that an outlaw knows he !will make himself the target for a {man who shoots to Kkill will cause him to mend his ways,” while the Toledo Blade credits the hankers with a belief in the “revival of the anclent ‘fear of being killed.’ On the other hand, the Nashville Banner believes that the Chicago action encourages “lynch law of a kind under legal auspices,” wWhile at the same time {t agrees that ‘it the variety of argument the bandits will best understand.” Opposition also is voiced by the Roanoke World- News, which asserts that “in all probability the very desire on the part of these bankers for law and or- der awill lead to more lawlessness.” The Roanoke paper holds that “pass- ing sentence of death upon a criminal, no matter how guilty he may be, is the function of juries and courts.’ Branding the bounty action as ~a $2,500 reward for murder,” the New York World maintains the stand that “there is no way short of a trial at Jaw to determine whether a man is a bandit or not,”” while the Louisville Times, conceding that “dead bandits are superior to live bandits,” declares that “for permanency the bounty syss tem Js pol advisable or practicablest bandit of soci