Evening Star Newspaper, July 21, 1925, Page 6

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The Associated Press is exclusively entitled fo the uee for repubiication of all news d natches credited 10 it or not otherwise o fted 0 (his paner and also the local mews pithlished herein ATl rights of publication ] tches herein are also reserved. Dry Law Enforcement. There are indications that the boot legger in- for a more difficult existence than he has had in the past Also there is promise that the “good citizen zoing to have more diff cufty in getting his illicit lquor. At ihe instance of President Coolidge the Government preparing to launch its vigo campaign against the ligquor trafic and determine once for all whether the Volstead act is is most ous to is enforceable GGen. Andrews, the Assistant Secre asury in charge of | has about tary of the hibition enfor Pleted reorganization of his field fc and it is announced that the drive is 1o begin on August 1. About $30.000, 000" is available to Mefray the costs of the campaign, and with a determined man in charge and with subordinates who can be trusted, something worth while ought accomplished. 1f something worth while is not accom plished the American people will be confronted with a situation of the ut- mogt gravity. If a few hundred’or a tew thousand lawbreakers can tinue successfully to defy-the Federal Government. with all its powers and America will be in a -ement, com e on to be con resources, way. But bhurden ought he placed upon the Federal Govern ment and its enforcement officers. The ederal Government is entitled to the lelp of State and municipal govern ments, and all are entitled to the help of law-abiding citizens. Prohibition enforcement has become more than merely a question of whether the Fed- sral Government can Keep enough men in the field to prevent the importation, manufacture and sale of liquor. It has become & question of whether we are to-continue to have a government of Jaw, of whether the law or those who are lawless are to govern. Once it is conceded that this particular law can- not be enforced, there will be a break- ing down of all law enforcement, and we will revert back to the days when every man carried a knotted elub and knew of.no other own protection. Opinion differ as to whether the eighteenth amendment was wise and as to whether the Volstead act is reasonable statute for its enforce- ment, but there can be no difference of opinion that they are the law of the land, and as such should be respected and must be obeyed. If they are bad laws it is the duty of good citizens to move for their repeal or amendment He is not a zood citizen who, disap- proving of the law, winks at its viola- tion the entire not to may a e Bathing Beach, Good-Bye! Time for tearing down buildings at heach near, and in a few days—perhaps a few hours—the wrackers will work. mate is that in less than thirty days not a vestige of the land plant of the bathing heach will remain But the wreckers will not be able to knock down memories of this place which thousands of the people hold. The bathing beach will be thought of gratefully, and gven if beaches on the Virginia side of the river near Ke Bridge and on the Eastern Branch be authorized by next the “old bathing beach” will have a seéure place. in local history. Thou sands of hoys and girls learned to swim in the Tidal Basin. It the best swimming hole the District has known. Many of the people of Wash ington knew watering place and no other “beach” than this, and| others who knew beaches on the lower Potomac, the bay and the tholight pretty well of the Tidal Basin beach. They found comfort there on hot-davs, and they had good times in the water. But farewell to the ole swimmin’ hole! t the Commissioners persuade Con- gress there will be bathing beaches on the Potomac and Eastern Branch for fres uge. and there will Be bathing the bathing is be at Congress session 10 other ocean poola in parts of the city distant from | the The demand swimming places is strong, the rivers are here, the engineers can meet the problem of making the places reason- ahly safe, and all that is needed is ap- propriate getion by Congress. local legislature. river, for , public D Darwin was patient, thoughtful man. He probably never dreamed ‘of the fame he would achieve nor 'of the number of lawyers he would assist in making famous. a ———rone ‘The Experts’ Affidavits. Affidavits of evolutionists in Scopes case make plain that evolution is aceepted by biologists, geologists and professors in other spheres of natural sclence, and that an evolution- ist may be a Christian—that he may helieve in the divine inspiration of the Bible and in the divine nature of Christ,: Oné of the Scopes defense experts asserted in his afidavit that evidence of evolution need not disturb ad- herents to Christianity. He said: “Not one of these facts ntradic any teaching of Jesus Christ known to me. None could, for His teachings deal with mope! law and spiritual realities. Natural geience deals with physical bad | dependence for his | The esti- | the | llnws and materfal results. Tt is evi- {dent that the book of Genesis is not | intended to be a scientific statement of | the order or method of creation. Another evolutionist, once head of the department of zoology of Oberlin | College, says: “There is no conflict be- tween the Bible and the fact of evolu- | tion, but the literalist interpretation of the words of the Bible is puerile. E infelligent teaching of biology or any | intelligent approach to biological | science is impossible if the established | tact of evolution is omitted one of the Scopes defense scien- tists held that man is descended or ascended from the ape family, and the anthropologist of Chicago University | seems to state the general scientific | theory of relationship in this way: “It | i« evident that man’s line of descent is inot through any of these anthropoids. | 1t does appear, however, that man and {other primates have a common pre- | curser, but that the anthropoids must | have branched off from the common I stock in very remote times. The testi- | mony of man's body, of his embryo- logical life and of his fossil remains strongly points to the fact that he is | related to other members of the animal world, and that his development to {his present form has taken piace { throuzh immense periods of time.” | One effect of the case begun at Day- | ton, Tenn., and which will take its course through other courts, will be to urge men to read natural science, and it will also turn the thoughts of men to Scripture. It is unrea- sonable to say that science makes athiests. One might say that it makes beiter Christians with higher rever- for God and broader understanding of the teaching {of Christ. Many sclentists are Chris- tians and some are not. They divide on this question as plainer orders of men do. The point is that science and Christianity are not opposed. i { ence { i Il i | | | s Germany Advances Pact. Burope wants nothing so much as stability. Only through stability in economic and soclal advance through accepted channels can the weifare of all peoples be insured. This doctrine, once flouted during the era of national ism prevailing after the war when America’s influence became less felt, is more and more being accepted in 01d World capitals. tionalism, but less selfish nationalism, the weakening of hatreds, the exten- sion of tolerance. For only through some semblance of co-operation, | whether it be through the League of Nations or through long-accepted diplomatic channels, will peoples gen- erally emerge from the slough of de- spond and actively and energetically attain to settled order. It once was hoped that the League of Nations wowid be the instrumen- tality of co-ordinated effort along con- structive lines. Tt has. in large meas- {ure, but the league never has been to batten down the rampant hatreds and jealousies, centuries old. which have done much to keep inter relationships in a complex maze. As long as Germany and Russia remain | out of the league littie of definite bind- ing nature cas be realized. With Ger- many in the league, she subscribing to the dictates of its council and its assembly and being given voice in international agreements, there may be some hope of binding adjustment. at least, less fear that Germany will remain the evil banshee of European politics. ! Germany, fearing French aggression {and crippling of independent action | by virtue of French distrust, so far | has remained without fhe interna- { tionAl organization. During the period | since the treaty of Versailles human | passions and political pretexts have irun the gamut. But the great forces | of economics and social advance have | irresistibly brought onetime enemies | closer together in spite of themselves. That they are nearing early agree- ment is indicated by the note which {has just been delivered from Berlin |t Foreign Minister Briand amplifving | Germany's original proposal of a se | time rampant, has simmered down to | expressed desire that obstacles raised by the French note be removed. Mul- | titudinous reservations to the French thesis have been tempered by recon- { sideration. Nationalist housetop shout- {ing apparently has found no answer- ing echo in the hearts and minds of | German officialdom. Germany is ready | to enter the league, and is ready to { guarantee her part in the protection of European frontiers, leaving one or two | cases open to subsequent arbitral nego- | tiation. Germany is said to make some l‘reser\alinmfi to the French position to the security pact, but Germany's tion giving every ful conclusion. There are certain to be obstacles in any negotiations vet to come. are certain to be disagreements, but the one cardinal fact in regard to the security pact now would seem to be there is a desire for such agreement. Without such desire on the part of either of the larger powers of Western Europe, and particularly Germany, there could be no pact. All realize | the signing of any security treaty will | usher ‘in # new era of advance and | security for the peoples of the Oid World. Hence rapid tides in that di- { rection. | Students will regard this excitement | about evolution as an evidence of what a mistake it is to put anything really | interesting in a school book. promise of suc- ces | i 1 — e - Sxperience teaches. The drowning statistics for 1925 should insure proper bathing beach- facilities for 1926, - Britannla rules the waves! Also the rubber market. S s Beware of Cancer ‘Cure Warning has been sounded in behalf of the sufferers from cancer against the giving of credence to claims of the discovery of “cures” for that diseuse based upon the announcement from London of the isolation of the causa- tive principle of chicken sarcoma. Al ready there are indications of this cruel enterprise, which invariably fol- lows any scientific advance toward the solution of this most mysterious ailment. Cancer “cures” have deluded count- less numbers of people In the past. His works and a | It is not interna- | curity pact. German opposition, at one | osition opens up the road to mego- | There | T Plasters, ointments, unguents and doses of all kinds have been sold in great quantities, all practically worth- less and in a vital respect harmful. For they have caused the postpone- ment during the period of home treat- ‘ment, which is quite hopeless, of the inevitable operation. Nobody can ever know how many sufferers from this false hopes, only to_be plunged into the deepest “despair and the most agonizing suffering. n quite recent years there has been Iless of this mock-medicine treatment | of cancer than earlier, partly because of the Npread of intelligence regarding the true nature of the disease and particularly through the distribution of educative data regarding it among the people. Medical associations, the Public Health Service and other or- ganizations have spread broadcast ad- monitions against concealment and self-treatment of tumors suspected to be of cancerous nature, and warnings against giving heed to charlatans edles. In consequence the market for these futile and even harmful prepara- tions has been materially. lessened. Promptness in examination Is the best precaution against the develop- ment of a dangerous tumor. The mo- ment suspicion is bred medical advice should be sought. By X-rays and by radium it is possible to retard develop- tect & cure. Surgery may be effective- Iy employed in the early stages. Un- fortunately this disease breeds a se- cretive disposition on the part of the sufferer. Many a case Is permitted to develop to @ hopeless point before i physician is sought. No known treat- ments and no surgical operation then | can do more perhaps than prolong life a little while. The universal prayer is that out of | the discovery of Gye and Barnard in England will come a cure, or at least | a preventive serum that will lower the morbidity and therefore the mortality trom this cause, which stand today as the greatest menace to human life. a ——— - Col. Bryan wanted “to drag” some | of the newspaper reporters before the | audience he was indignantly address |ing. A goed reporter does not have to | be dragged. He is on the ground ahead |of time when there is anvthing of genuine importance to be chronicled. e - There are times when the patience of Clarence Darrow evidently falters. But he never gets so far as to admit that there is any human being in | whose case capital punishment would | be justifiable. —— The restoration to the Hohenzollerns of the crown estates as personal prop- erty enable them to be among the few | prominent political figures in Europe | who are not advocating programs of self-sacrificing personal economy ———— The Vice President of the United States can have a quiet life if he de officer of the United 'States Senate can have trouble if he looks for it. ——— Whatever may be the town that en- joys the spotlight of popularity. the manufacturers of sausage and near | beer come in for the most relable benefits. s Polar explorers more confidence so long as Dr. Cook is S0 situated that he cannot possibly in- terfere with their calculations. can o v In support of her claim that she is not a militaristic nation, France might point to the difficulty she has had in subduing the Riffs. ] The Japanese and the Californians have a common ground of sympathy in the study of seismograph records. ——— Rare knees are said to be going out Not while Harry Lauder of Hves vogue. ————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. A Periscopic Protest. 1 shun all scientific talk When Theorizing zropes. fortune telling now 1 balk. T'm tired of horoscopes. At U'm weary of the little germs With whom the doctor copes I say in most emphatic terms I'm tired of microscopes 1 feel no interest, 1 vow, In Einstein’s astral hopes. T used to think him greail but I'm tired of telescopes. And when in dear old Tennessee Friend Monkey wails or mopes, T grow resentful as can be Of even Johnny Scopes. Discretion. “You haven't had a about evolution.” “I discovered., ghum, “that there are a number of organ grinders in my State. Why should 1 antagonize the monkey wi to say Contest. “Mother may I go out to float ‘Yes, my ‘daughter, dearest: But please do not forget to note The camera that's nearest.” Jud Tunkins says the world has progressed. Wealth used to be esti- mated in shells and later in tobacco. Now it's estimated in automobile tires. Fine Arts. ‘Before 1 hire you,” said the head waiter, “vou will have to take a few lessons in voice culture.” ““What for “You must learn to say ‘Thank vou' loud or soft, in accordance with the size of the tip.” The Gift of Speech. If quadrupeds could talk, things that have hovered In mystery quite clearly they'd de- clare. The North Pole has been frequently discovered By many a patient, plodding polar bear. “De Bible,” said Unecle Eben. “brings comfort to de mind till somebody hires lawyers Lo mix you up 'bout what it means.” HE EVENING malady have been thus beguiled into | claiming to have found specific rem- | ment, even in some few cases to ef-| sires. At the same time the presiding proceed with | confided Senator Sor- | | Ten rules for use in case any one offends you were framed 2,000 years g0 by Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome. It is curious how great pre- cepts go in tens. Take the Ten Com- mandments, for instance. In the eleventh book of his ““Medi- tation Aurelius drew up a regular ten-pin set, us applicable today a: | when he wrote, ‘for human nature is much the same now as then. ‘There is no man, high or low, rich or poor, but is offended now and then by something that some one does or says. If we would simply consider the ten rules of Marcus Aurelius, in each case, it would be- helpful. “Count ten, when you are angry, Benjamin Franklin said. The Roman Emperor asks us to read ten. He begins: “If any one has offended against you, consider first: “What is my relation to men, and that we are made for one anothe Examine the matter from first prin- ciples: If all things are not mere atoms, it is nature which orders all things. “If this is so, the inferior things exist for the sake of the superior, and these for the sake of one another. “Second, consider what kind of men they are at table, and so forth; and, particularly, under what compulsions in respect of opinions they are; and as to their acts, consider with what pride they do what they do. ““Third, that if men do rightly what { but if they do not right, it is plain that they do so involuntarily and in ignorance. willingly deprived of the truth, so also Is it unwillingly deprived of be- having te each man according to his deserts. Accordingly men are pained when they are called unjust. ungrate ful and greedy doers 1o thair neighbors * % x “Fourth, consider that you also do many things wrong. and (ha! you are a man like others; and even if vou do abstain from certain faults. still vou have the disposition to commit them, though either through cowardice or concern about reputation or some such mean motive, you do abstain from such faults “Fifth, consider that you do not even understand whether men are do ing wrong or not. for many things are done with a certain reference to cir- cumstances. In short, a man must learn a great deal to enable him to correct judgment on another .acts. vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and, after a short time, we are all laid out dead. “Seventh, that it is not men's acts which disturb us, for those acts have their foundation in men’s ruling prin- ciples, but it is our own opinions which disturh us, “Take away these opinions, then and resolve to dismiss vour judgment about an act as if it ‘were something srievous, and your anger is gone! ions? By reflecting that no wrongful act of another brings shame on you. | “Eigh.h, consider how much more Ipain is brought on us by the anger by the acts themselves, at which we re angry and vexed. - “Ninth, consider that a geod dis position is invincible. if it be genuine, and not an affected smile and acting a (pare. “For what will the most violent man All the fuss over the Tennessee evo lution case failed to get the country at large greatly excited. Public opin- fon, as reflected by editorial comment, apparently just refused to accept the view that “a fizht to the death be tween evolution and the Bible” was involved. The affair at Dayton is called by the St. Paul Pioneer-Press “an American episode, completely incomprehensible to any but American: And, the Ploneer-Press adds. “when it is all over we shall o on about our busi- | ness as usual, believing whatever may appeal to us as satisfactory and ra tional. But it is interesting stuff for the dog days.” Admitting that the case may have sclentific importance, the Butte Post concludes that “most of us will be compelled to confess that, in fact. we know less about it all than ! we thought we knew.” Advice to the | public to “read the news. stories, and intersperse them with reading of the Bible and of books on s en by the Little Rock Arkansas Demo- | crat, with the conclusion: “The read ing program pleasant hour and it will strengthen vour convietion that the ‘how’ of evo- tution may be explained, but the ‘why | never will be.” * x % of + Naturally, turns upon outstanding figure in the forces against evolution. Tribute to the fight- ing qualities of Mr. Bryan ix paid by the Knoxville Sentinel. “Always, | says the Sentinel, “he i the same in- vincible Bryan. Neither logic nor | ridicule can penetrate his armor. He has been laughed at more than any other mortal. but the weapon that most surely kills weaker men hurtles harmlessly at his feet. It is the Bryan we know who cames to Dayton, | older in years, but otherwise un- changed, save that his great jaws are more grimly set and his determina- tion stronger than ever to rule this { newest storm and ride triumphant on 1 its waves.” | Viewing the Bryan at' Dayton in |auite a different light, the Baltimore Evening Sun declares: “He has been overtaken by the fate that is perhaps | more to be dreaded than any other by a man of power. He has outlived his strength. He is now in the posi- tlon of Asquith in England. who lcannoi be elected even to a college | presidency: like Lloyd George. who {once ruled the British Empire and | now cannot muster a corporal’s guard: like Clemenceau, who inquired of a | visitor why he came to see a dead I man.” Noting Mr. Bryan's complaint much the comment standing, the New York Times asks “Dpes it not enter Into his mind that jatfeast a part of the blame rests upon himself? It has heen said that no one can write 4 man down except himself. Mr. Bryan has both written and talked himself down.” % F . “The trouble with the Tennessee case,” the Lansing State Journal con- | tends, “is that some men whose be- Mef in religious matters is too narrow to be any” constructive aid to the cavse of roligion are pictured—or possibly it should be said are picturing themselvés—as the only true defend- ers of the Christian faith.” Queries as to what has really been on trial in Tennessee brings from the Milwaukee Journal the reply that “it {s whether publtic schools of Tennessee, and of other States, too, shall be more rigidly limited by theological dogma than Mr. Bryan's own denomination is wiling to limit its preachers and its members." “Not Ingersoll, not Darrow, not-all the agnostics, atheists and scoffers in the United States,” insists the Lynch: burg News, “have ever dome or can ever do as much to turn the coming generation of Americans from Chris- tianity 4s Willlam Jennings Bryan of Nebraska, Florida and Dayton, Tenn. is threatening to do. Neither ‘the bigots of science and pure rationalism STAR, WASHINGTON, D. they do, we ought not to be displeased: | For as every soul Is un-| and. in u word, wrong- | Sixth, consider when you are much | “How shall 1 take away these opin- | and vexation caused by such ucts than | ience” is giv- | will bring you many a | William Jennings Brvan, | of nsrepresentation and misunder- | C., THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. do to you, i you continue to be of a kind disposition toward him, and if, as opportunity offers, you gently ad- monish him, and calmly correct his errors at the very time he is trying to do you harm, saying, ‘Not so, my child; we are constituted by nature for something else: 1 shall certainly not be injured, but you are injuring your- self, my child.’ “S8how him with gentle tact and by general principles that this is so, that even bees do not do as he does, nor any animals which are formed by nature to be gregarious. 3 “But you must do this neither with any double meaning nor in the way of reproach, but affectionately and with- out any rancor in your soul, and not as if you were lecturing him, nor yet that any bystander may admire, but when he is alone. “If you wlill, receive also a tenth present from the Muses, and it Is this—that to expect bad men not to do wrong is madness, for he who ex- pects this desires an Impossibility. To allow men to behave so to others, and to expect them not to do thee any wrong, is Irrational.” * % % % In our modern American language these precepts might be termed, “Ten Rules for Soothing Yourself When Some Nasty Actor Offends.” The rules 1. 1 ought to put up with this bird, for certainly men are made to help each other. 2. Pity the poor chap: he eats peas th his knife 3. He is simply ignorant 4. 1. too, do wrong now and then. | 5. Circumstances alter cases. This bird may be ill! | 6. 1t will all be the same a hundred s from now Anyway, it does, but’ what 1 hurts. Ain't it the truth! 5. My own anger and vexation at him are hurting me more than he is, therefore | am most o blame. If 1 retain a good disposition, de- spite all he does or savs, his meanness will roll off me like water off a duck’s back. 10. pect | wi { ¥ is not what he says or think about it After all, from what more can I ex- this simp? ok ox % “There ix no veil over a sta Marcus Aurelius. “The Pythagoreans bid us in the morning look to the heavens, that we may be reminded of those bodies which continually do the same things and in the same man- ner perform their work, and also be reminded of their purity and nudity.” Marcus Aurelius would be called “a cagey old chap” if he lived today. Consider the following, displaying some crafiy observation: “How unsound and insincere is he who savs, ‘I have determined to deal with vou'in a fair way.' “What are vou doing. man? Thare is no occasion to give this notice. It will soon show itself by acts. The voice ought to he plainly written on the forehead. “Such §s a man's character i immediately shows it in his eyes Che man who is honest and good ought to be exactly like the man who smells strong, 80 that the bystander as #oon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not. | “But the affectation of simplicity is like,a crooked stick. Nothing is more disgraceful than a wolfish friendship. Avoid this most of all. The good and simple and benevolent show all things in the eves, and thers ix mis- taking.” says he Country at Large Refuses To Get Excited Over Dayton| nor the bigots of Christianity will stop the onward march of th | Christian religion. Neither can do more than check it temporarily, but of the two the bigots of the Bryan type are the greatest enemies Christ, because working within camp of the followers of | Fear is also expressed by the New | Orleans Tribune that “some millions of people who would otherwise have | found satisfaction and comfort in their | religious affiliations will have been shaken in their faith. * * % “No matter whether evolution is or is not taught, Christianity will survive, and those who take the op- posite view are doing a positive dis- | service to religion,” in the opinion of the Flint Journal. The San Ber- nardino Sun, however, fears that “by his insistence upon prosecuting a teacher who has done nothing but instruct as to the theory of evo tion, Bryan has brought the Chris- tian world to a period that may be fraught with danger.” “What there is of truth in Chris- tianity and what there is of truth in evolution are equally and alike God's truth,” says «the Omaha World-Her- |ald, while the Richmond News-Leader | suggests that the case may raise the | utterly illogical issue between knowl- |edge ‘and faith, “and make the ab- |sence of reason the test of charac. ter.” On such a test, observes the News-Leader, “Mr. Bryan would, shine supreme, but the light of civilization and the lamp of progress would as- suredly be darkened.” The Jersey City Jeisey Journal be- Meves that “William J. Bryan never before got off so much twaddle in a few sentences as when he dra- matically announced that the fate of Christianity depended on the outcome of the trial in Dayton,” and the Syracuse Herald says he “goes to a | ridiculous extreme in including within his awful ban an evolutionary school that is as loyal to Christianity and its Gospel as he himself.” The Akron Beacon-Journal calls' it a ‘‘ridiculous performance. ““How feeble that faith must be that will not look at facts,” concludes the Rochester Times- Union. st Swimming Sense. Swimming is one of the easiest and | most mnatural things in the world. If people could only be persuaded of this, they would learn to swim much more easily, and become much better | swimmers, and there would be fewer drownings The greatest obstacle is fear of the | water. When that is lost. the power to awim comes of itself. The person who trusts the water, and vields him- | self to it, is swimming safely and hap- | pily before he knows it. Only—don't start trusting too soon in water over | vour head. The water is friendly only when the bather is sensibl The water is buovant. That is the second fact for the would-be swim- mer, The novice is afraid of sinking, when he can't go under and stay un- der if he tries. Let him experiment, and see how he bobs up again. As long as there is breath in his lungs, he is lighter than water. But the water will not support any one who tries to climb out of it. The swimmer must always remember to yield himself to the water. All pos- sible weight must be beneath the sur- face. Since the heagt is the heaviest part of the body, as much of it as pos- sible must be under water. Swimming on the back is easiest because in that position the back of the head is sup- DoRtad: < Most_drowninj s of swimmaers come from cramps. That is nearly always unnecessary. If the swimmer seized with ¢ramps will only keep his head and remember that he.is no heavier with cr.n‘mvr'!hm wlthoa m‘;m. nn;‘l e a floating position, be will usual- \l;kfln'd That hecan eep up until the _cramps _disappear.= TUESDAY, J ULY 21, 1925. NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM I G. M. THE WOMEN OF THE CAESARS. Guglielmo Ferrero. G. P. Put- nam'’s Son; ‘When vou are in Rome you are sure, on some Sunday afternoon. to drift along with the rest of the Sun- day world to hear the music in a room of one of the narrow streets near the Piazza del Popolo. Within the little music hall the roving eye of the newcomer catches almost at once the oddly time-worn character of its circular ~ foundation. This rounded base turns out to be an anclent ruin, in jts day the entrance to a tomb built for his family out on the Flamin- ian Way by Augustus Caesar. And straight the mind wanders away from the rolling music, or is led away by it, to thoughts of those men and women who 2,000 years ago in this same Roman setting uccepted the illu sion of human power and the dream of human happiness. A perturbing picture, one that of its own accord projects a future 2,000 years, upon whose tide individual life leaves no faintest sign of having been. * % % Guglielmo Ferrero gives here the story of the women of the Caesars as an important contribution to the his- tory of Rome at one of the critical points in its development. The author reminds us that in ancient history women play no part. “One of the reasons that Cleopatra made so great an impression on her cotemporaries und became the center of so bizarre |a legend is that’'she was a woman. This feminine apparition, upon a stage completely cluttered with men. seemed extraordinary.” But there is an ancient history thal makes ex ception tc this rule. This is the cen tury of Rome that lies between the death of Caesar and the death of Nero. “During thix period there ap. peared in Roman politics a certain number of feminine figures, differing greatly among themselves, but all in teresting; and all of them, like Cleo patra, became the centers of legends that were always bizarre and some. timea dramatic.”” = This book is an at- tempt to disentangle whatever truth there is in these romantic outgrowths of that period L With the tool kit of the modern historian ready to hand, the author here digs up and spreads out the full sum of political life for the century in question. ancient tomb on the old Flaminian way, evoking its men and women, set- ting them again in their nccustomed temporal places; prepossessing | power to be expended for the public welfare on the one hand, for individual aggrandizement on the other. It is in the midst of this revived political complex that the women of the Caesars are to be found, political part In effect, he opens that | them | anew with the old thirst for political | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Q. Under the alien contract labor law is it lawful for a church to en- gage a minister from Great Britain or any other foreign country? — H. V. M A. This question was decided in 1892 in the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of the Church of the Hyly Trinity vs. the United States. Mr. Justice Brewer rendered a decision reversing the de cision of the Circuit Court of the stated that while the strict letter of the law prohibited importing labor of all kinds, there was conclusive evi dence that it was not the intention of the framers of the law to restrict services of a religious nature. Q. What is the Industrial consump tion of gold?—T. K. B. A. The value of the gold consumed in the ipdustrial arts during the cal endar year 1923 is estimated at $69, 292,245, of which $40,013,175 was new material. Q. Are you supposed to push your chair under the table when leaving the table’—E. T. A. Most authorities suggest that it is in better taste to leave one's chair where it is when one rises from the table. Q. Is there a ruling or “The Star Spangled Banne: law that should ley but the close?’—R. M. H. A. It i8 not customary to use the melody of “The Star Spangled Ban ner” as a part of a medley, although there is no law regulating this. Q. What American colieges are the most highly endowed?—P. B. A. Harvard is the richest educa with an endowment of $52,031,769. Co lumbia is second with $41,300,909 Yale, Leland Stanford. jr.. Chicago. Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Carnegie Princeton. Rochester and Pennsylvania come next in order. Q. 1s a crab a fish . K. A. A. A crab and a fish are not same. A crab is an animal.of the clase crustaceas which class has ring shells and hard backs. A fish ix an animal of the vertebrae class and has a decide; spinal column Q. D. B. A. A fig bush and a fig tree do bloom, but the blossoms cannot be seen without cutting into the fig. It is probably for this reason that some people have the impression that they do not bloom. | & | wage of a farm | States.—J. A. L. | 'A. According to a Government re | port this is $46.01. If board is.inctud | ed. the average monthly salary is $33.15. . The average daily wage of Does a fig bush aver bloom?— What is the averaze monthly band in the United ners with their men—fathers, hus bands, sons. In the truth which Fer. rero extracts from its surrounding of fiction. the figures of Livia and Agrippina stand clear in the aura of greatness—one the mother of Tiberi- us, The two Julias and Messalina repre- ent- the lesser women—those around whom legend and fiction have plaved in devastating effect. emerging from this modern outlook upon @ certain period of ancient his tory is that women exercised an ac tive and acknowledged influence in the political life of that time. is derived the fact that each of these famous women reacted to this condi tion of freedom and opportunity |cording to the quality of her own {character—as Livia reacted mobly on |the one hand and Messalina ignobly on the other. “The Women of the Caesars’ sums as a vivid picture of an important era projected along lines of calculated simplicity that run identical . with those of the political genfus of that |time and place. Lines, these, tha lat frequent intervals alons their icourse deepen in sharp emphasis of | woman's_part in the public life of This plcture becomes one of interest _and appeal— {chiefly. by virtue of the author's obvious plan of giving to it an at- mosphere of the present while at the same time sedulously, holding it in fact and sequence to its own period of Roman history. The effect of this combination of purpose and plan is that of living drama, of actual con tact, of history moved forward alive into the present. * %ok ¥ | 1In addition to its interest {liant narrative and to its worth as authentic history “The Women of the Caesars” serves also the purpose of offering to the great woman question of the present a certain means of counting progress ax well as opportu- nity to contrast the conditions under- {lying that old day of triumphant omanhood and this new day. In no time at all one gathers the funda mental difference between the two pe riods.” In the former the Roman state stands supreme. In the latter it is the individual. The Roman woman was from childhood dedicated to the state by way of the family. The fam- iy substance and perpetuity of the state not back upon its individual member: as holds in our own day. Laws were made for the family as a whole, against luxury and extravagance, against infidelity, = mgainst barren unions, Divorce was easy—as it is now—but only when it offered public advantage through more powerful al- Hances, or opened the prospect of a more numerous Roman progeny. Girls were affianced and married as children without any cholce of their own. Good marriages, 100, many of them proved to be, an intelligent partnership d voted to the common weal. Interest- ing, all of it, yet of small practical ac- count to the modern woman of politi- cal bent, since her point of view is, in accordance with her times, that of the freedom of the individual; is that of the family pointed back upen its in- dividual members and mnot forward upon the concept of the state. How- ever, despite its differences from the present, this is a most interesting study of one of the high points in the progress of woman from complete ob- I scurity to an honorable public recog- nition. | Rome. immediate i % & THE SPECIMEN CASE. Ernest Br mah. George H. Doran Co. There is no KErnest Bramah, man is a myth. Somebody said i ing to the name the Jure of m: and the glamour of a long lost past, where the gods and mighty men of valor live. Not so bad a legend to gather about one’s self, however, from 4 purely practical point of view. But Ernest Bramah Is no myth, for to his account are given the Kai Lung books, those two volumes of gorgeous humor —clear Western brand of wit done over in the elaborate ceremonial of Chinese technic—an amazing and de- lightful performance. It is also this John Doe of an Ernest Bramah who created Max Carrados, the blind de- tective, using his remaining senses to more sure and subtle pursuits than the rest of the breed could approach even with all of their five powers in ‘working order. In this book of short stories one comes upon glimpses of Kai Lung on the one hand and Max Carrados on the other. In between are incidents leaning toward the one of these or the other, and some that go off upon independent excursions into human nature, where with the fa- miliar easy sophistication .and the laughing ironic touch this writer pro- duces “The Specimen Case” as evi- dence that he can write at least 29 different kinds of story, each original in plot and uurfl-‘lnlng in turn—ail of them, despite their variety. clearly of the. artistry of the inesmparable Kai the other the mother of Nero.| The basic fact | From this | ac- as bril-| was all in all, pointed upon the { harvest hands is $3.01; if beard ix tn | cluded, it is $2.45 | Q@ Were any of the Presidenta of |the United States uneducated’—A iT 8 A. None of the Presidents can be sald to have been uneducated. Many were self-educated lo an extent, in cluding Lincoln, Garfleld, Grant and Cleveland. Andrew Johnson in earhy | One sometimes wonders it Fiamlet had the City of Washinzton in mind when he exclaimed Tis the wport to have hoist with his own petard, Eut, then. Hamlet spoke befo ! Department of Agriculture had {any reference to the insanitariness of | permitting meat and other foods to { the engineer dust and microbe-laden breezes of the | markets. { | The Department of Agriculture is- ! sued a bulletin which exposed the ter- rors of the air. It showed how many | germs of typhoid, of tuberculosis, of |dysentery and other diseases were | ever present in the air, and how very dangerous was the practice of ex posing meat, berries, bread, pies and cakes upon the market stands. Dr. Fowler, city health officer, took um brage—shade—at that accusation by | inference that our markets were not sanitary. The charge, he assumed, re- flected upon his administration and he called for a bill of particulars. | Then the Department of Agricul i ture itself went into the shade to cool {off. for several days—while Dr. Fow ler is out of the city—there has been | no more discussion of the microbes {In fact, the silence is becoming o | pressive, like the calm before | eyclone. An inspection of any market in the city discloses that hardly 1 per cent {of ‘the food offered to the “ultimate { consumer” is guarded from flies and other pests. visible and invisible. by the protection of refrigerated slass cases. It transpires that that bulle- tin of the Department of Agriculture had aceidentally slipped out without going through official channels. The Department of Agriculture is in full control and resnonsibility over Center Market—the largest. market in the city—and there are no more glass | cases therein than there ave in other markets. The department's market has leased its stands to the dealers for a term of vears, with a proviso in its leases forbidding the dealers from putting in any permanent ments. That is meant to prevent any objectionable dealer from blocking the cancellation of his possession on the ground * ok x % | { | a All such improvements must be put in by the Department of Agriculture, and to so equip the Center Market with refrigerating pipes to all stands and with glass showcases would cost about $75,00" Where iz that money to come from, with Congress six months away? A petard is an ex- plosive to blow up something. | * ke i The hulletin aforesaid | intended for the public | port of & committee {ducers for the henefit of the trade and came into priny threugh the trade papers”devoted e propaganda in the interest of more meat eating. Its statements are scientif will it encourage the publi more meat by pointing out tary market conditions? The department officials concede that a Government owned and co trolled market should comply with the latest precautions against dis- eases, as shown by its own depart- ment of chemistry, but what can be done unless Congress gives the money? The Bureau of Chemistry has recently published # book, by Drs. Thom and Hunter, entitled “Hy- glenic Fundamentals of Food Han- dling.” That book contains even stronger statements than did the “‘petard” bulletin. In a paper read by Dr. Thom be- fore a scientific body discussing the qu’?tlon of food handling, the writer said: “The same regard for the public interest justifies such restriction upon the whole system of handling perish- able products as will prevent spoil- age from the organisms already pres- ent or from the activity of organisms accumulated in transit from the producer to the consumer. The ex- i perience derived from the food poi- 1soning outhreaks of recent years amply warrants the food official in foreing the adontion of satisfactory methods -of election, packing. trans- ortation and s was never It was & re of meat pro to eat insani- e - | youth was {lliterate, and | quired a fair degree of cultural edn | cation United States, New York district, and | tomb, | Q not be plaved in any part of a med-| tional institution in the United States, | siae | gather germs by being exposed to the | improve- | that his permanent im- . provements give him vested rights. | but how ! Almfl which will in- "% (€ BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. up to the time of his marriage had great difi culty in reading and writing. His wife devoted herself to his improve ment. and in his later life he had ac Q. What is the Welsh name for | moon and one for tomb or grave’ |G.o. J The Welsh for moon is “illeuad bedd,” and grave, “difvit A What is the game of “jong kee and whe can I obtain the rules 8. B. W A. This Chinese game is similar to |the American game of chess. The hoard and pieces may be purchased from any dealer handling Chinese im!rfhl"dl!@. It is understood, how ever, that directions printed in Eng |lish ‘4o not come with the game. It is necessary to lsarn to plav this game from some one already famillar | with the rules. | Q Has any State adopted the goldenrod as its State flower?—1. H | A. This flower is recognized as the | State flower of Alabama, Nebraska | and North Caroli | @ wil you information regarding the distanc |run between urel, Md., and Balt | more, Md.”—C. E. 3 A. The Marathon from | Baltimore is an annual | 1925 it was run on March 28 and | scheduled thereabouts on Saturda | each year. The distance of a regula- tion rathon is 26 miles 38 Albert Michelson won last year hours 48 minutes 44 4-5 seconds was affiliated with the Signet Athle lub of Fast Port Chester, N. 3 "his event ix held by the Maratho committee at Baltimore, Md., and under the supervision of the Sout Atlantic Association. Next will be a national championship ever Q. Has the use of creased in the I'nited States A. It would so appear since ihe imports of perfumery and cosmeiics bave tncreased over threefold since | the World War. Eighty-five per cent lof these came from France during 1924 Q What progress is made with the refugee problem in Greece? N. D A. The Near East Relief pc that in two years the zovernm Greece has found homes for £00.000 out of the 1,350,000 refugees. It is expected that during the next vear the remainder of these will be settle on the land. More than half of the refugees are now self-supporting a are gradually becoming an tactor in the life of the country please give me Laurel event He cosmetics it k(e econon; (The keynote of the times is efficient service. In supplying its readers it @ free information bureau Wash ington The Star is living this principle in deed and fact. We are paying liberally for this service i order that it may be free to the pub lic. Submit your queries to the staff | 0f experts, whose services are put vour disposal. Inclose cents stamps for return postage. Address | The Star Information Bureau, Freder { 4. Haskin. director. Tiwenty-nrst C streets northivest up BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY FAUL V. COLLINS. | sure the deli condition ho “He should demonstrate that household | the final responsibility for the wholesomeness of the food consume: rests directly upon know leds | and discretion of the person who pre pares it for the table. It has more and more evident that food po | soning outbreaks are not visitatior of Providence but evidence of carelessness on tha part of those w handle the food i v of products in psumer s o still furthe: * o+ * It is incorrect 1o azsume that n are more dangerous through improp er handling than vegetables and fruits, savs Dr. Thom. In the bool | above mentioned. it is stated on page {99 “The following observations are signiricant. The temperature of the { spinach as rathered was about 35 F. | The initial load of micro-organisms. bacteria, yeasts and mold spores demonstrated by culture. was half three-quarters of a million, including fabout 100 heat resistant anaerohic { bacterial spores to the gram. Witn | cut attaching significance to the par ticular ficures. asparagus beans and herries wou:d show ilar load of contamination “After standing in a laboratory ai 70 to S0 F. for 24 hours the spinach showed & temperature of about £5 I which in every case is higher than | that of the room. In that 24 hours the number of bacteria jumped about 100,000,000, The spinact and crisp as received, showed wilt on the surface of the mass and wet in the center “In other samples, which were in cold storage over the first 1 1o such changes occurred { In 48 hours at room tempera the bacterfa fisures jumped to nuniber between 500,000,000 to 000,000—according to conditions i sample. A test of the air distributel | through the mass showed a high pe centage of carbon dioxide. The terior of the mass of spinach had be come slimy with a definitely off odo: A third day merely added to the of fensiveness of the condition. Together with the rise in the general bacterix count there was a progressive ir crease of heat resistant spores, which would add tremendously to the diffi culties of sterilization. What hap pened in the experimentai spinach is typical of the general course changes in perishable foodstuffs hel: under unfavorable conditions. * * “The whole series of plant activ ties and of agents of spoilage ar- slowed down by chilling. In this way it is possible to lengthen very mreatly the period within which handl safe and practicable. * ¢ * It is% Ito say that there are products | neglected in which such control | worth serious consideration hy | { producer and manufactnrer.’ | * o ox % 1t is indisputable that the air ever filled with bacteria. including both beneficent varieties and disease producing kinds. Any beam of sun light in a dark room displays it filled with -floating dust, and this dust is prevalent throughout all air. ‘In the closing pages of the official book above quoted, from the Bureau of Chemistry is found this summing up: “The retail marketing of quickly decompogable products, such as fresh meat and fish, shellfish and milk, de mands adequate refrigeration to stop or delay bacterial or enzymic changes. Products of this group ghould not be exposed in trays, on counters or racks at ordinary household temperatures Fowls, carcasses or Darts of carc should not be hung outside the doors of markets. posures of all kinds should be reduced to the minimum necessary for the exhibit and sale of the product. The requirement that display cases be glass-covered and iced is becoming more and more zen- eral. The exclusion of flies, vermin of all kinds, reduction of contact with the air, the hands and other sources of dirt and bacteria contamination ix amply justified by the evidence that all of these may reach the consumer in such food produets. Prompt re- moval of refuse of all kinds is impera. tive in’ the ‘ il % rigive . by Paul' V. Collfns.). 4 = peas | { | T gl N