Evening Star Newspaper, July 25, 1925, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY, JULY 95, 1995, PR .S e o A el B A0 L N P 0 O S L S b EBIEMDTS e - b B i L b St iRl e oo sl St e i 5 e, St i oo X RS - W M _ _ ___ _ m D THE EVENING »\V"_h Sunday Morning WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY.......July 25 1925 . Editor Edition. THEODORE W. NOYES. The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 11th St and Penneylvania Ave. Ney, Fork' Office: 110 Eagt 420d 55 “hicago Office: Tower Buildin Buropean Office: 16 Regent St.. London. England. The Frening Star. with the Sunday mom g edition. 13 delvered by carmgrs within the Ciry'a7 60 cents per monthe Saily only, & cenle i Bundus oniy. 20 Gentd T may be ment by mail o P4 oMection is made by il—Payable in Advance. land and Virginia. Daily and Sunday. ...1yr. §8.40:1mo. Datly only .. S115rs 887007 1 mol! Sunday only J1yr.$2.40: 1mo.. All Other States. Dafly and Sunday...1yr.§10.00: 1 mo.. Dally only ........1yr. $7.00:1mo Sunday only 1yr. $3.00: 1 mol. 25¢ 700 30c 20c Member of the Assoclated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively emitled to the use for republication of all news dis patehes crodited to it or not otherwise cred ited in tHis paper and also the local new: published’ horein. Al richts of publication dispatches herein are d A Swatting the Politicians. President Coolidge is in deadly car- nest ahout this matter of dry law en- forcement. He gave evidence of that fact at Swampscott vesterday, when he, served notice on politicians of high and low degree to keep hands off the reorganization of the forces of As stary Andrews. No one is t a job as an enforcewvent » he has a political pau, sentatives and s might as well save he trouble of seek to at ing to | s is the sensible and logical thing but it must be rather to the politicians. Federal | is sca at best, and the prohibition enforcement e of the henchmen might be easily cared for. It is true that politi has been responsible for a-lot of in efficiency and not a little graft in con- nection with enforcement of prohibi. tion, but that inevitable | where numbers of men are { sponsible influencés rather than superior The er publ kas been demc of course ce, these days unit has been ¢ ing places wher few remain a is almost ge re- to outside immediate | cement unit is not the only | where the truth of this | strated. to their rvic Andrew: have a free dlection of his assistants and is to make his own plans for war on the bootleggers, without interfer- ence eve: m the President himself. | If the Volstead act is to be enforced it will ced by a man of the type of Gen. Andrews, and he will have to be let alone to do it in his own Then, if he fails, there will be What the President evidently | 1 what the country wants, whether the dry law is So far there has been no such demon despite the sincere efforts of some of those in charge knows the Val- stead act has not been enforced, but it does not know that it cannot be en- | forced. 5 Gen off the it to with flask tot Gen hand in the be enfc needs way. libi intends no ar demonstration er forceable ation, The cou be Andrews’ program of cutting supplies of liquor and leaving State and local police to deal | v bootlegger and pocket- | sounds lJike a sensible be- STAR| land bids man as dicers’ oaths will tell it that the pawpaw to reach ambrosial degree must be bit by frost. 'Tis an accusa- tion foul. “Be thou as chaste as ice or as pure as pawpaw thou shalt not escape calumpy.” There is a time when cool nights succeed to sultry days in August and September that the pawpaw reveals its lovely pulp revel in the enchant- ment of its juice. Some sinners are among us who will say without abash that in the val- leys Ohio, Mississippi and the Wabash the pawpaw rises to the zenith of power over man. Tut! Tut! It is the Potomac pawpaw, dwelling in the shade and glens beside Neabsco, Pis- cataway, Chickamuxon, Nanjemoy, which is the queen, the imperatrix, of pawpaws. o il Fire Department Tests. 1t is comforting to know that when fire alarm rings in one or more of the forty fire stations in Washington the apparatus will have started on its dash to the fire in from seven and one- fifth to twenty-two seconds after the first tap of the gong. Twenty-two sec- onds, in fact, is slow starting time, comparatively speaking. In that the engine driver, unduly anxious to make a record, choked his engine and lost seconds which are not sted. Tests conducted in the Fire Department over the past week show the average time for apparatus to get under way after the first tap of the g0ng is less than twelve seconds. Fire handicaps are no longer reckoned in minutes. The purpose of the t just com- pleted was to find how Washington's department compared in efficiency with the departments of other cities. A re- ociated Press dispatch from Baltimore credited that city with pos- sessing a fire engine company which could get started ten seconds after the first stroke of an alarm. Tests con ducted under conditions similar to those held in Baltimore revealed that w ngton’'s Engine 23 was clear of the engine house and in the street seven and one-fifth sec- onds’after the first clang of the alarm. Three other companies set a record of eight A number of others tied Baltimore's record. Washington, therefore, may claim a national cham- pionship, although a national competi- tion has never been held It planned to the tests each Summer and to give the winning companies suitable awards. The plan is a good It tends toward in- creased efficiency. It increases morale. Its results inspire confidence and focus attention on a branch of the public service whose bid for notoriety hinges on disaster or tragedy. Washington is proud of the record of its Fire De- partment in this first test. It remains for the Fire Department to retain this confidence through an efficiency which must become habitual. a usually w Compan second is repeat one. o The Retreating Riffs. Dispatches from Fez and Paris in- dicate that the power of Abd-el-Krim has about been broken and that his Riffian tribesmen either are in flight or are submitting to the French! Those in flight are being shelled by French artillery and further demoral- zed by hombs dropped from air- planes. Thus again it is demonstrs that human however flesh, willing, cessarily limited as the | cement forces if | thefr time hunting down | t are, the small have ry e big rum-runners will pretty their | way. Whereas, if they cut off the sup- | plies there will be nothing for the | little fellows to peddle but homemake | hooch—and traffic in homemade hooch | carries its own cure, drastic thovgh it may be S The school book says there lived races of men much lower in men- tal organization than the present in- habitants. Fundamentalists and mod- both insist that there is room | for a vast amount of further improve- ment. things much own once | ernists FPenne a law to prevent gossip. have been tried resourcefulness method of punishment than the ducking stool ssee will next experiment with Such things but modern velop some more effectual | may When coal and operators discuss a possible strike the ultimate consumer little interest be- yond a mild inquiry as to what the in- crease of per ton is likely to be. e miners displays rice The Chinese for the present merely ask permission to bolt the door on the tnside and out their differences in their own way. Glories of the Pawpaw. This is but July, yet in some quiet, moist “far from the madding car’s ignoble strife,” where floats the | scent of dainty flowers and gas, the Not yet has it taken on the tint of sunset gold, and | the wrapper in which lies its precious meat is green. But within a month— “a little month, e'er those shoes were cld with which she followed my | poor father's hody"—within a month the pawpaw will come to such perfec- tion as makes the apples in the gar den of Hesperides, the girls of Old Man Atlas and his charming bride, Hesperis, seem as gourds. Or maybe turnips. Men who with the pawpaw are ac- quaint know that with it no other fruit compares. The pomegranate, the huckleberry, the blackhaw, the fox- grape, even the dear persimmon crinkled by icy nights, forsooth! Per- haps some kindred soul whose eyes drift along these lines of letters is touched to his artistic quick, and in sweet expectancy at the corners of his mouth he drools. Some men feel not the grace, the beauty, the splendor, the dripping sweetness, the simplicitas, the majes- tas of the pawpaw. Such are grovel- ing souls, sans all that lifts @ man ebove the plane of a carrot or potato. 'Tis only men in whose spirit art holds sway who know that on the green carth doth grow naught lusclous, naught so dulcls, pawpaw. spot not pawpaw pFrows. or as the S0 _There are about us creatures of ig- noble kind who with tongues as false cannot the ordeal of modern engines of destruction. That the Riffs are gallant fighters is con- reded, willingly by tha French sadly by the Spaniards, but when gallantry into conflict with the devilish ingenuity of scientific warfare gallantry counts for but little in determining the result It is hard not to sympathize with Abd-el-Krim and his tribesmen their defeat. They made a good fight, but the odds against them were too overwhelming. Why it w neces- sary defeat them, by what au- thority the French and Spaniards claim the right rule these sons of the desert, are questions alone endure and comes to over | which it may not be well to press too closely for an answer. If might makes right, the French, of course, are right. But y clviliza nders. French tion may be more ad one nced than that of the Moors, but certainly it is not more ancient. Ancestors of the van- quished tribesmen were highly civil- ized when of the victor: were barbarian subjects of the Caesar F perfec tion lands ancestors title Moroceo be d, o ench to may have acquiring title to the of weaker peoples, but not much account seems to have heen taken of the Moors' right to self- determination. No doubt there is glory in the achievement, and Mar- shals Petain and Lyautey presumably have added to their military laurels But, “What price, glory?” What price will France and the world some day have to pay if glory of this kind is to continue to be sought and won? If the Riffs, because they were weak, were not safe from the French, what assurance has any nation of its safe- ty in the face of a strong and cove- tous neighbor? 'But what good came of it at last?" uoth little Peterkin Wiy that 1 cannot 11" said he, But 'twas a famous victory " ——— Fortune Telling by Machine. A college student has invented a device called a ‘“‘correlation machine" which will correctly answer the ques- tions, “How long will I live?” and “Will I graduate?” The machine reads the future and no doubt writes it on a dial. Perhaps a young man can step on the machine, punch a card or ring a bell and the machine, taking a quick glance into the future, hands out its forecast. There is no use going to a fortune teller or cross- ing a gypsy’s palm with silver when a man can borrow one of these ma- chines. The dispatch says, “The machine is said to have met with the approval of the American Psychological Associa- tion.” It is also said that the machine “is credited by scientists with super- human powers.” That may be true. Some machines do have superhuman powers. There are derricks which can lift more than the best college athlete can hold out at arm’s iength and there are locomotives that can outrun the best man on any track team in the East, and perhaps in the West. ed | in | in the way strong na- | | 1 | The some machine. Many ladies will re- gret that mere mechanics should in- vade the realm of occultism. Many persons do not want that the faithful old deck of cards should be laid aside or the tea leaves in the bottom of the cup be thrown out to make way for reading the future by machinery. It is also said that this machine werks out problems in education and econgmics and goes into the field of agriculture. Machines are already at work in agriculture—corn planters, corn cutters, corn shuckers and shell- ers, potato diggers, reapers, binders and thrgshers. But this new machine ell the weather. It would be x months ahead how much rain and heat the crops are to have, and if the machine should show that the Summer is to be dry and cold perhaps a man could turn a crank and produce a better growing season. Al- together the preliminary accounts of this machine are interesting and per- hans a few of the inventor's friends bave faith in it. o e Men, Women and Manners. What happens when that considera tion for woman by man called chivalry goes by the board? Man gets the seat and woman stands, if the reports from New York subways can be be- lieved. There is that disadvantage of physical inferiority under which wom- an still has to labor, no matter what claims to equality the feminist sets up. Conditions in the New York sub- ways during the rush hours—indeed, conditions in the bustling life of Amer- ican cities today generally—do not make for better manners on the part of either men or women. It is difficult to be polite under such conditions, no matter how strong the desire may be. But a certain callousness is growing up in the ordinary relations of the traveling public which makes more for brutality than anything else. When it comes to being a plain, ordinary brute, man still has the edge on woman, between the sexes. The ballot has not changed this vet the later-day training of women An argument offered in extenuation of the lack of manners today is that there is no time to be polite. Polite- ness is really a matter of consider: tion for and it is futile to argue there is no time for such con- sideration unless the best and most desirable things in life are to be dis- carded. Good manners, like cleanli- sure related to god- nor others, ness, are in a mea liness. Of what value evolution, if there is to be a reversion to brutality merely because the men and women of today have not time to be considerate? A thoroughbred dog—not to mention monkey—would turn up his nose at some of the antics of the subway throngs in New York during the rush hours. On the other hand, the powers that be in American cities should take steps to see that the facilities of the traveling public are adequate, and thereby provide conditions under which good manners may not be sub- ject to such rude attack. —— It has been decided that no gentle- man will attempt flirtation on the highways, also that no lady will en courage informal and promiscuous ac- quaintance. A proverb has it that sauce for goose or gander is the same, whether it be apple or some other variety. L e American musical managers are se- curing numerous theaters in London. billboards which have been en- gaged in “glorfying the American girl” may yet resume their ancient ac- tivity in booming the British blonde. BAERES VR Statements are being elaborately cir- culated to the effect that Mr. and Mrs. Hohenzollern are living happily. The publicity is in gratifying contrast to the work of the press agent who revels in rumors of divorce. ————— If the cost of automobile tires be- comes irksomely high motorists might be impelled to join in a request that Mr. Herbert Hoover supervise the dis- tribution of rubber. e China is at least sufficiently prac- tical in her thinking to keep her con- troversies in line with an effort to pre- vent graft from overwhelming the taxpayer. e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Points of Advantage. The monkey dwelling in the zoo Bids all the public come and view His antics, and we proudly state, “As a comedian, he's great!” He doesn't have to pay a cent v way of taxes, food or rent. He rests whenever he is tired And merely lives to be admired. Who shall assert that he can trace His kinship to the human race? ‘Who shall deny, without deceit, In many ways he has us beat? A Wide Range of Responsibility. Do you think the Senate rules ught to be changed?” “One thing at a time!” exclaimed Senator Sorghum, wearily. “I haven't yet come to a positive decision in my own mind about the Teapot Dome case and evolution.” Music and Words. Jazz once caused me irritation. Now I say with grim locution, “Bring along your syncopation And omit the evolution.” Jud Tunkins says he can't take a man seriously who professes to be a modernist and wears suspenders in Summertime. More Theorizing. “Do you believe that Jonah lived in- side a whale?” “Why not?” said Miss Cayenne. “Perhaps the whales in those days had bathrooms and kitchenettes.' Casualties. Oh, tell us, when will peace begin And perils pass away? The records show synthetic gin " More deadly than the fray! I dunno how old de world may be,” said Uncle Eben, “but whatever its A device that reads the future is|age 15, 1t's old enough to know better.” THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. What are the marks of a wise man? Mr. Darrow probably wouid give one list, Mr. Bryan distinctly another. We would like to see their lists! Epictetus, Roman philosopher, drew up 14 signs, or marks, whereby those | anxious as to their progress toward | wisdom might know if they really were moving forward. Whether or not one agress wholly with his list of “fourteen point today is aside the mark: the interest- ing thing is that he had ideas of his own. To'have ideas of one’s own is what matters. Epictetus lumped mankind off into the uninstructed and the instructed, the latter being called philosophers, for in those days the mere art of living was more highly esteemed than it is now. ‘The condition and characteristics of an uninstructed person, ictetus tells us, In his Manual, is this: He mnever expects profit or from himself, but from externals. The man who blames every one else In his family and in the world for everything that goes wrong was as common in Rome about 50 A. D as he is throughout the world today. The condition and characteristic of an instructed person, or philosopher Epictetus tells us, is this: He expects all advatange harm from himself. Nk ok The 14 marks of a wise man who is “making progress,” to_ Epictetus, follow He censures no man. He praises ho man. He blames no man He accuses mo man He says nothing about himself | as it he were somebody or knew something. 6. He blames himself, when he is impeded or hindered. 7. If a man praises him, he cules the praiser to himself 8. If a man censures him he makes | no_defense. 9. He goes about sons. 10. He removes all desire from himself. | 11. He transfers aversion to those things only of the things within our power which are contrary to nature. | 12. He employs a moderate move- ment toward everything. 13. Wether he is considered foolish | or ignorant he cares not. 14. In a word, he watches himsels | as if he were an enemy and lying | n ambush | Measured by the above list, the wise men are ver few, indeed! It would take a whole forest bramble bushes to produce an even dozen of them, and then probably they would violate one or more of the 14 points. Yet each person interested in know- ing whether or not he is “making progress,” as Epictetus puts it, will find it profitable to make a study of himself in relation to the above list. if for no longer time than it akes him to read this artic Most of us violate home and office probs most censuring, some of some of it not 3 Probably more persons observe than any other, but certainly for the philosopical reasons of tetus, but rather because they so greedy for praise then hate to give any to others. No. 3 is a variation of No. 1, as is No. 4, both having shades of difference in practical application, which th reader can readily distinguish himself Certainly the average man or woman | cannot give him or her self | ting on these points. | “He says nothing about him-! harm and all of one ording ridi- J like weak per- 1 daily. The v witness the it deserved, 2 a high ra | body, pro self ‘as if he were somebody or knew sotaething,” is a very interesting mark of a wise man, one upon which manry today rank high, it being an essential Christian virtue. In all walks of life there are those who refrain from praising themselves, just as there are others of more con- ceited ‘nature who are everlastingly talking about themselves, of their possessions, of their deeds. The latter never observe No. 6, either, but continually blame other: for every ill t happens to them- selves, although perhaps these ills arose divectly as a result of the con- ceit of the person involved. Mark No. 7, “If a man pi se him, he ridicules the praiser to himself,” is | rather a counsel to be understood knowledge of the which Eplictetus w Such self-abnegation has often been taught, and little followed, although some do follow it to some extent, of c se. of perfection, in the light oic doctrines, an expounder. only of of mar no defense, exemplification in Jesus of Nazareth He goes about like weak person: No. of our list, is obscure, but probably means simply quietly, with- out ostentation, avoiding rows and iarrels. Many today find it a y 1 method in our her g some world, No. 10, about removing all desire, is another counsel of perfection, which the normal individual can only men tally aspire to, rather than personally attain. s to No. 11, it hinges on the Stoical doctrine that certain things are in our power, and certain ones are not. In our power, Eplctetus said, wre opinion, desi on, our acts ot in onr vs, are the rty, reputation, office, in a ver are not our acts. But of the things within our power, should have aversion toward contrary to nature, not against censures him he had its highest the history of rrel word, what even one “He employs a toward ever means that the n are temper Golden Mean of Epicurus, ned philosopher, is held up 1 of conduct, as, indeed, it is. The wise man, according to No. 13 cares not if he is considered foolish or ignorant. Epictetus could have im- proved this, it seems to me, it he had substituted “wise” for “foolish,” making the precept read Wether he is considered nt he cares not.” word, according to the last n the ‘wise, “he watches him- self as if he were an enemy and lying in_ambush. To lie in and then, pation, an approaches the ta mind, really intent lurking defects. It is breath cover a fault in hardly suspected exis of us lose our breath It is to other to moderate prob. the movement ably wise The lig: desires of is wise or ambush for nost exciting one profitable one, tc if one with N open on spying out his now is oceu denly that How th dis- one few way! s0 e see the so0 hard find them in as Burns sald so well h pe 1 has to discover truths mself, or never discover them se they are written in books means nothing to the individual Each one of us must work out own salvation, “in f and tr bling” the Bible has at he must work it out by hi himself, of self. Many mark bec y do not k How can blame an does not vou know? America’s Friendly Feeling For China Still Is Stfongii America’s traditional friendship for|special privileges in China as soon as | T China shows no waning in newspaper | discussion of the present unsettled te of affairs in the Far East. Hope| is generally felt that the new nine- | power agreement of the Washington | conference, which finally has been| given force by France's signature,| will lead to a practical solution of the | world problem growing.out of China’s| revolt against restraints in her rela- tions with other nations. olemn pledges” are seen hy the | Seattle Times in the resolutions on | China adopted at the Washington con- | ference, and the Times welcomes the possibility of a settlement of the long pending question. Arguing in favor| of speed, the Seattle paper says “Whether the Chinese people will be won over to bolshevism depends large- ly_upon the promptness with which differences are settled.” France's fail- | ure until recently to ratify the nine- power agreement is a factor noted by the Birmingham News, which remarks: “Now that this needful thing has been done, it is fitting that the United States Government, at this moment when the lives of foreigners in Asia are jeopar- dized, should insist that the Western powers keep faithful agreement with the Orientals.” ik e A compromise “between what the Chinese want and what the foreign powers would do” is regarded by the St. Paul Pioneer-Press as a_logical goal, and that paper declares: “Ameri- can resistance has apparent put an end to the wild talk in many foreign | capitals about joint action for the restoration of order.” The present movement is called “an American pol icy for China” by the Pueblo Star-Jou nal, which believes that “the position taken by this Government should be in favor of permitting China to man- age its own affairs to the same extent that other nations do. “The charter for a new era of Chi- nese progress” is the Indianapolis Star's description of the nine-power treaty, and the Star is convinced that “the United States cannot hope to ac- complish much in that field by playing a lone hand, joint action being prefer- able even at the expense of some con- cessions to sentiment of the other pow- ers.” In this connection the Indian- apolis paper fecognizes that Great Britain and Japan “have opposed any early steps looking toward the aboli tion of extraterritoriality.” The Al- toona Mirror, however, contends that “if China is to have a fair chance to administer her own affairs and main- tain order, the heavy hand of outsid- ers must be lifted, and she must be given the opportunity and the power o bring order out of chaos. * ok Kk % The long-established American pol- icy, according to the Sioux City Trib- une, is to go “a little farther than anybody else in friendliness to the Chinese people.” Nevertheless, the Tribune feels that “ail that America and the other interested powers can do is to make such concessions as will encourage China to progress and yet not endanger international peace.” Similarly the Dayton News points to the policy of America as “tradition- ally friendly and considerate toward China,” and goes even further by de- nouncing “the hateful extraterritorial rule which has continued all too long. American influence is even held by the Cleveland Plain Dealer to be so strong that “Washington may, in- deed, be more influential than Peking in influencing something like the res- toration of normal conditions.” Chinese conditions for us to give them up, whil ing the security of our r such interests as would be recc by any civilized government.” The American desir to uphold a conf ence n br i problems of Chine rights” is applauded by the Provi dence Bulletin with the statement The national policy looms up as one of firmness and fairness, which should do much to relieve deplorable condi tions in the O make it y e respect 1ls and ized Complete ratification of the Wash ington agreement, in the judgment of th argo Foru is in itself evi dence of 'good faith,” and “it should also do away with much of the Chi nese antagonism which has been the outzrowth of delay.” As to the prob- able results of the present efforts to settle the Chinese situation, the Wis consin State Journal holds that “prob ably no complete solution can be reached in a stroke,” and it states fur- ther: “To reach an agreement that will safeguard foreizners in China and at the same time give China her com- plete independence is, in the present disordered state of the nominal Chi- nese Republic, a task to keep diplo- mats awake nights."” The United State performed a real service in dispelling some of the, obscurantism which en- shrouds the®foreign powers’ relations with China,” declares the Philadelphia Public Ledger, but the Bristol Herald- Courier dubiously remarks: “It is well that our pot on has been made clear to the other powers, but the American people are more interested in knowing whether anything more will come out of the proposed confer- ence than has come out of other inter- national conferences on Chi; ———— Scientists Here To Weigh Earth periments are under way at the Bureau of Standards at Washington to weigh the earth. ‘Write down the figure 6 and place 21 ciphers after it. That's the ap- proximate weight of the earth—six thousand million million million tons. The Bureau of Standards, however, hopes to get a more accurate figure. Pioneers upon the last frontier— the frontier of science—await the re- sult of the work with eagerness, sincg a knowledge of the weight of the earth helps in solving many problems concerning the structure and compo- sition of the earth's interior. The apparatus to be used at the bureau is extremely delicate, What the bureau does is to meas- ure the force of attraction which two large steel balls exert upon two tiny gold ones. We know that the attraction ex- erted by the earth is the force of gravity. Therefore, the ratio of the force of gravity to the force exerted by the steel balls on the gold balls must be the same as the ratio of the weight of the earth to that of the steel balls. All that is necessary, then, is to welgh the steel balls and from that figure calculate the weight of the earth.—Greenville Piedmont. Government has Exemplary for Nations. From the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Latvia tells Washington that she wishés to pay our country what she owes. To some larger nations that *““We ought to x‘léike it clear to China,” asserts the'Chicago Tribune, “that’we sincerely wish to give up are laggard debtors that announce- ment sounds almost as startling as & declagation of war, in | sible | THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover. Eden Phillpotts has chosen the Dar moor district in Devonshire for the scene of most of his novel Here characteristic masses of & nite known as “tors” crown many of the hills there are many rapid, clear, pool: filled streams, and cattle, sheep and semi-wild Dartmoor ponies roam over the moor. The wild scenery is made more romantic by rude stone remains of a primitive population, as _stone crosses, menhirs rows nd circies, So vivid has Phillpotts made this | country that to read one of his novels is like a r across I t moor. Some of this best novel e “Children of the Mist,” “Sons of the Morning,” *“The Portreeve” and “The Secret Woman.” The scene of death of Miles Stapledon on Watern Tor in “Sons of the Morning” is thus d scribed: “His road of the previous evening he found quite impassable and it w nearly 9 o'clock before he fairly escaped from the labyrinth of deep waters and greedy -bog now spread about Fur Tor Sl T unnecessar to describe the many turnings of a tortuous way followed at mercy of the unloosed waters Chance ultimately willed the man to Watern—a_craggy fastness familiar enough to him, yet somewhat removed out of the direct course he had planned. o avold those mo. rasses heneath Sittaford he had tended northerly, and found himself not far from the tremendous and strati- fled granite ledges that oach the magnitude of cliffs on Watern's crown.” In this wild place urs what Phillpotts calls “the cl of th record."” of Pl max * | Switzerland,” by Frank Fox, beau tifully illustrated in color, treats th history and the people, but is mor concerned with scenery and sports For many v Switzerland popular fc sports as immer Alpine climbing and travel. In the year 1913 the Swiss Alpine Club celebrated its jubil The object of the club when it was founded was “to { explore the Swiss Alps, to study them more ly from every point of | view, ke them better known {to access to ther {object has been interpreted and has been made to inc truction, furnishing and nance of huts; the tr ce of guides, the ties and the publication o aps, an an two the and French and There is a_great the national sport the sports of Swit are rifle shootir rustic d hunting, other differen of the erland gymnastic eling and c t of ct ract Alps in Winter Th 1de ing, the tobogganing, gh skating, ice sailing. hock ing. Of all the Winter sports skiing |1s most useful. With ski the explora tion of the Alps in all kinds of weather ible. They enabl i en st Jobsl s {1s poss! countr eat speed ski runner can reach a pace iles an fiour and 1 leap ghts and great inces with d of the momen * * Down n ex [ | he | Towns a 1 is a good hot-weather fascination as well as t rwegian Medill, Tk | Robert | book the Noi nor detail of t ape, life at Hammerfest, mq v inhabited town in the wor life of engineers and mi ergen. When vas coal were discovered some ye: Ago, an cate was among the to under mining operations. The mine was | taken over by a Norw n syndicate The chief engineer of the mine, ques I tioned by Mr. Medill, seemed to unaware of hardship in 5 bergen life, but expatiated cellent food made possible thron the vear by t dant frigeration, the ter hunting parties the light of illlant Arctic moon and the health ulness of the bac {Medni recommends i view™ into the Arctic | west and north from th | platean of the North Ca to be reached only by scaling the almost perpendicular s more than thousand feet high. of the gaunt and precipitous headland. X % % % The motorist who ha already off on his Summer camping tour v find suggestions for this vear or Motor Campaign on Western Ti " by Melville F. Fergu {son. It is an account of the experiences {of a family party who motor-camped over nearl .000 miles of Western territory, including Hawaii. The party was composed of the author, his pedi- greed Airedale, his wife, three daugi ters, his mother, who was almost S0, and both his wife's parents, who were well along in the 70s. This ex ample and many others that we all know abcut show that cld people en- joy motoring at least as well as the young and are often as adventurc { Mr. Ferguson's family were not n: ural gypsies, but, on the contr were city people who “abhorred bugs, jsnakes and wet feet.” Nevertheles they spent a whole year camping along the road and enjoyed every bit of it. Th2 caravan c ed of two cars and two trailers, besides the wicker house of the Afredale strapped beside one of the engine hoods. The trailers were equipped so that they could be turned into bedrooms when amp was made and were furnished with closets and many other -con- veniences. Mr. Ferguson gives much practical information in his book for the benefit of other motor campers. He tells which are the best roads, where g00od camping places are to be found and the equipment needed for such a trip. The story is told with much picturesqueness and humor. * ok X ok, A card catalogue of candidates be- fore proposing marriage to any one of them seems a cold-blooded way of approaching romance, but that is practically what Paul Popenoe sug- gests in his “Modern Marriage, a Handbook.” He insists that, although love should be a condition of mar- riage, a young man should also have his wits about him. If he would list all the girls of his acquaintance and then assign them grades for different desirable qualities, he would be pre- pared to fall in love intelligently. For example, to each of the following headings a value of 10 points might be assigned: Health, Intelligence, Ap- pearance, Disposition, Comradeship, Vivacity, Age, Family, Homemaking, Motherhood. Any candidate failing to score at least § points under each heading should be discarded from the list. Mr. Popenoe seems to believe his system would work for more eugenic marriages, but it seems to us that a young man in love (and he might fall in love even with a card index in his room) would be likely to give his be loved a 10-grade for everything. Pr sumably young women would also keep card lists and give ratings on probable adequacy of support, gener- osity in the matter of pin money, handiness about the house and equa- bility of temper in domestic crises. * K ok % That real pirates were often not as black or as romantic as those of fic- tion seems to be shown by two recent books, “Under the Black Flag,” by Don C. Seitz, and “The Reign of the Pirates,” by Archibald Hurd. Colonial governors often gave letters of marque to these old sea dogs so that their high-sea robbery was semi-legit- imized. Some of the most famous pirates were Henry Morgan, Edward Teach, called Blackbeard, and Capt. Kida, 1 { the Spitz ea to the east broad, rocky s not jm another one in Q. What the United bers?—J: | _A. According to the Catholic | Book and the Federated Council of | | Churches, the number of people be- | |lonzing to all religions in the United | | States in 1924 was 38.8 of the total| | population. [ part of the population of States are church mem H Year | | Q. What are the | of Labor Dav | present immigration ls | A Secretary Davis | following changes: First, that wives {and children of citizens be given pref- | erence on all quota lists, disregarding {the long wait until their number reached. Second, that { mothers of citizens who a to bring them to this country able to provide for them with be given preference, without » to their numbers on the quota list Third, that a selective method be instituted whereby skilled artisans, | for example, baa eded in certain localities, can to_ the United States without ¢ Q the world? A ch wishe: ecretar ke in the | B. B. will urge the| home gard ni What are the largest islands in L. P. B. Greenland is the largest with an area of 827,300 squa miles. The t four are New Guinea, 330,000 square miles; Borneo, 250,000; Baffin 000 and Madagas with « ir What is the meaning of the Okeechobee, and how large is he lake by that name?—M. P. W. Okeechobee is the Indian name “Big Water. Lake Okeechobee | in Florid: rs an area of 696,320 | acres, is 3 es wide and 34 miles long ' with rage depth of 20 feet. an What was the the well known Q. first na of N humoris! W as “Bill” N Wilson Nye. A rly knc was e was famil his name Who_originated the chaln idea?—G. T. A. The fdea of a ch ler one management George H. Hartford s engaged in the_hid business in New York and added tea few ye York and Brooklyn he died, the Great Tea Co. was ope re | in of es | originated He and At in 1917 when lantic & Pac Can Pre: vou of the and visited?7—A. D Quincy Mansi ss., former) m 1 me Quin Mrs omething of Hous: | recently A. Th | Quinc tree. Wil Codd ginal house, whick e kit L livin chimneys. Coddington |aft > erection of the | successor, the first Quincy was the first of tk cys. In S ed the | the chamber these rooms 1 study and bedroom w lded e many noted guests enter e were Laf nsisted room and died sho: Bon th of i | ade Jrese Later | Among tained ANSWERS TO QUE BY FREDERIC ). FASKIN. {a visit, sent a | return’ for Aegus at $3.33 of $3.42 | erie TIONS Benjamin Franklin. The latter, after “Franklin stove” as a hospitality offered him Q is the origin of boxing? L. A ‘What 8. G. It is sald King of of boxing tic boxing that Athens, 600 began Thesus, son of was the in- years ago. in England ventor : Systen n 1740 Q W crops? A Q at percentage of the land United States produces 2 R. About 19 per cent. Is Germany the only country as used the mark as a measure money value?—G. W. A. Mark was an old English term for a money of account, originating fn the twelfth century and being valued The Scotch mark or merk the nineteenth century was worth The mark was also used as a weight in several parts of Europe, be- ing divided into 24 carats. Who first called the nd in Amerlca, Indians?—H. C. L A. Columbus, 'thinking he had found the Indies which he was seek- ing, named the natives Indians. The correct name for residents is a ot question. Q savages Q rubber Can a = L& boot?—C. R. J. The Biological Survey says that rattlesnakes are capable of biting thre h rubber boots. The lower part of such a boot is thick z a fair pro- tection against however, the upper part is no prote Hn. Rattlesr wbove the knees through a suc es; About pefruit how does ear? It is estir Q many oranges and the average person 5. 0 A in each per- the United States eats on an 58 or <, 5 grapefruit and This is twice as much of ts as were consumed in (verage 6 lemons. hese citrus fr years ago. What ive Q are .. ¥ 3ashl-Bazuks*—C, They are J0ps, natives worst reputatic ing men in th ang turbulent kill at Turkish {rregular pashalies of possessing any of and n of (The child chance in 150.000 inguished service: tary education he has four times the with high school education has 87 times the chance; with col- he has 800 times the every one, young and wcated or ucated, has the ity of benefiting through the un rsal school of information hich is being conducted in Wash- naton by this newspaper. Here is a great organization of experts in the gathering of information whose only purpose and desire is to serve All you meed to is submit question and inclose 2 cents in sta to cover the return postage The Star Information Bureau J. Haskin, director, and C streets u no schooling has of performing with elemen- chance ; sc leae education chance; but ur s ress Fred- Twenty-first northwest.) BY PAUL V. wratiiful. Winter with his That is just Shakespearean poetry n July; it will be realism before Christ s, when we shall hea Fom’s a-cold! O de, arren nipping i do de, do Even his majesty may then respond: | “How dost, my b Art cold? I am cold myself.” There are now going and E ween alts of those | start or stop the wheeis of produ | hout Europe and America. | | Every two years we have the cold| | shivers down our spines at the fear | that the miners ana operators may not | ree, and the “innocent bystanders™ ! our helpless selves—may need extra blankets and longer hours in beds as | a result of the economic arguments of str on President Coolidge, through his “of- | | ficial spokesman,” gives out the cheer- | |ing intimation that the con-| ferees get together vernment | may et | Franklin said about th | Declaration { must of ndence: hang together or hang ately,” Whether Coolidge mind a Rooseveltian act of taking oy { the mines and operating them, r: than let the people suffer throu vate greed of mine nd operato or whether he would arbitrate with moral | suasion, is not vet apparent. The bien nial crisis in coal supplies is upon us, and the fact that it is simultaneous in England and the United States makes it more serious than usual. * % ok % There have been many suggestio for eliminating the biennial hazard of | our fuel supply and for s andardizing | {eoal mining. "It is undisputed that most of the trouble comes from there being t0o many miners, so that they 11 work too few da vear. Yet, the obvious economic law which would equalize the labor supply and | demand appears neutralized by the strange fascination of mining, which | holds even the excess miners to the | trade, instead of sending them into other channels of industry offerin; steadier employment and better re. wards. One plan for standardizing coal mining proposes to license all mines doing interstate commerce, upon condition that they keep their miners busy a certaln number of months a year. Some miners do not find mining employment three months out of the year; vet, a rule, they refuse to work at other trades during the intervals and base their claims for pay upon their yearly incomes, demanding a_ “living wage” which will support their families, even with | their short periods of activity. { There are special conditions sur- rounding certain mines, due to their transportation problems, which make it impossible for them to pay union wages, and, with their extra transpor- | tation expenses, meet the competition of more favorably situated mines. Hence, many mines are closed and their miners idle, yet the union man. agers and agents refuse to consider any conditions except the demand for uniform wages. No laws can force a business to continue operations under persistent losses, but Federal laws might forbid such mines from oper- ating at all, unless they can work a certain proportion of full time. In Illinois there are 600,000 miners working only two days a week, and doing the work that 200,000 might do, working full time, like other pro- ducers. According to Secretary Davis of the Department of Labor, $§ jines in Illinois, if properly organized' and worked 300 days a year, could pro- duce 5,000,000 more tons than the 1,034 mines now produce—77,000,000 tons, with one-third time. EE The miners are demanding a 10 per cent increase of the present wage scale, while the operators assert that even at the present wages much an- thracite last year was marketed at a | electric | Connecticut loss, and that the public will not pay higher prices than now charged for| * anthracite but will turn to other fuels BACKGROUND OF EVENT . COLLINS. —soft coal. wa il or gas. The operators wages and reduced nereased ut “If v S. D Anthracite Ope: shall have a r pursued s’ Conference, petition in the anthra cite industry of the conditions in the bituminous mines. * Vhen the wages in t industry were to, some 66 per cent af ituminous coal was produced nfon miners 2nd 33 per cent by union Today, 1 am 1 hat per cent of produced by ahout 3 other 3 says ariner, 5 = non. formed bitum- on abont 70 i v 1 mion fields t re entirely sh than 200,000 1 r re % the ope: that me t down a n miner ilar employment d In ¥ acec don T A Sey is threatened, in spite nd is un competition, ngland nes, Z to the Ion- er coal stri of the fact that to meet E becas of ex- cess cost of The coal mine owne offer continue the proportions in cividing ceeds of the sales of per cent to go to per cent to the ow This_co-operative proceeds is re who demand a less of whether it wiil stop the export marketing of all products of English mines and so curtail the demand their nploy nt. Yet the leade the miners’ association exclaims: * hundred and eighty pit ve closed in the last 18 months who want work are walking the 1 demented and demc a)— he miners s name! and and handlers. division of g t he mine nimum wage re; of There is an adag tuppence earned.” At least, part f the problem confronting the pub- lic and statesmen of America in con nection with fuel is the possibility of better methods of using what we have. In Logan County, W. V has been demonstrated that under ordinary methods of producing power 4,000 horsepower were used until, some six or elght vears ago, a central station supplanted the old tfit, and 500 horsepower did which had required e much. A prominent cons engineer, W. S. Murray, told the Chamber of Commerce electrifying of the New Haven Railroad had _demohstrated that if all power in the region 100 miles from the Atlantic coast, i steam o the wor times as ing that the | Boston to Washington, were ele fled, it could be produced with one third of the present coal used, and at a saving of $300,000,000 a year. It takes 37,000 tons of coal daily to suj ply the machinery of New England New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. That means S00 cars dally Yet, all the electric plants in Am ica, engaged In public service, u only 95,000 tons of coal in a year less than three days’ requirements of the steam plants of these Eastern States. ook ok The world’s demand for coal has doubled every 10 years throughout the last century. Scientists estimate that there is enough coal still in ex istence to last 6,000 years, but theyv say little about its distribution and accessibility. Practical estimates of losses in handling and in inaccessi- bility and thin veins make the actual supply only a quarter of the above. The United States has the greatest supply and England the least. There is no substitute for coal which is as economic in power production. Water- falls (white coal) are only 60 per cent as economical as coal. To utilize the winds, the storage batteries of elec- tric power, installation as to be uneconomical, as a general rule. Eventually, the solar engine, operated with mirrors focusing the sun’s heat, may become a success- ful rival of the coal mine. After all, there is no power on earth which is not derived from the sun. Coal is vegetation of ages past, which stored up the sunbeams of its growth and then became coal. So, it we learn to utilize the sun heat of today, we shall but be taking short cuts directly to the universal source across the field of the millenntums. 5 (Copyright, 1036, by Paul ¥, Collins) requires such expensivel L] ’