Evening Star Newspaper, August 30, 1925, Page 42

-4 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. L i EVEN éffect in stimulating a higher regard | variety in its shape and sizé than in HWE,‘ Sumfinl\(m u%z“_& R for the gafety 6f steamship passen-|the “satchel” or ‘“traveling valise,” AUGUST 30, 1925—PART 2. ——|sers. But, as has been proved be-|and it is less ornamental than the WASHINGTON, D. C. jfore in similar cases, these punish- ménts will not be permanently cor- rective. ‘There will stili be need of rigid inspection of hulls and boilers to insure a standard of safety, and there will still he the possibility of shipmasters and engineers taking chances—ihe engineers under orders and the shipmastera under sense of oblgation to owners—on leaky hulls and leaky bollers for the sake of the profits of a trip. Excursion boats are nearly always old craft, long in service, sometimes, as in this case of the Mackinac, {transformed. Their “seasons” are {short as a rule, and their owners seek {to et the utmost out of them with | the least expenditure. Inspection can- [not be continuous, and vet, as the Mackinac case shews. reliance can- not be placed upon the seasonal in- spection and the supposad compli- lance of masters and engineers with the laws and requirements of the in- spection service. This Mackinac case i% of concern to all the paople in this céuntry, inasmuch as water excur- sions are oceurring évery season with millions of people carried, and upon the effectiveness of the law and the penalties in case of law infraction the safety of these millions depands. ——— Railroad Valuations. An editorial in the current issue of the Rallway Review asserts that in the eleven and one-half years since Congress passed the La Folletts valu- ation-of-raflroads measura there has | been expended on the work of vaiua- tion $168,560.000. of which $25,527,543 was Government monev and the rest came out of the railroads. Despite the lapse of years and the large sxpendi- tura of money, only fAfty-eight final valuations have heen handed down, covering 3,063 miles of railroad, which 18 only 33 per cent of the 244,377 miles to be valued. Calling attention to the fact the | ‘people pay the BIIL" no matter | whether the money is expanded out of the Government funds or out of jthose of the ralircuds, the Railway | Review eriticizes the valuations made fas “absolete” and attacks the Bureau of Valuation of the Interstate Com- merce Commission on the ground that it is recruited from the ranks of cknowledged radical State commis- sions or boards.” It is, indeed, a matter of regret that the valuation of the railroads has not moved forward faster. But it would be of considerable interest to know how readily the roads themselves have co-operated in this work: roads which violently opposed the valuation at the time the La Follette act was I proposed. SUNDAY August 30, 1925 THEODORE W. 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Tt the mules are brought up out of the hard coal mines quickly after next Tuesday it will mean that the operators expect a long strike. If on the other hand, are kept below ground the prospect will he of a short strike, perhaps three weeks. These mine mules are rezarded in the anthracite reglon as industrial harometers. When they 20 up look for a long. hard storm. When they stav down look for pea For these mules Kept helow gronnd throughont period of mining. When there protracted Péace in the hard coal section these may stay undergromnd for years without ever sdeing davlight. When at protracied sus. the mules, or four are the is mles time of a pension of work they are brought to ! the surface they are dazed and con- fusad. Down In the mines they ar As far as can be ascértainad. perfectl happy They have comfortable sta- bles. short shifts of work and not particularly hard tasks. Their job i 16 haul the small cars of coal on the Jevel to the shafts. In some mines they haul to the end of the slopes, up which the cars are pulled by cable. The mules are not organized and never strike. So, when the miners walk out of the mines tomorrow night under or- der from union headquarters the mules will stay behind. together with the pumpmen and caretakers who are to keep the mines in order for re- sumption of work. Nobody really knows how long the strike will last. The operators can make a shrewd guess at the duration of & strike if they know how much monéy has heen accumulated in the union treasury as a strike fund. When the fund is a hig one the strike will last longer than when it is small. XMueh, too, depends upon the amount of coal that has been mined in advanes of the strike and acenmulated in reserve Diles. Again, there is a factor of strike endurance in the state of the ! {ronds lose sight sometimes of the rea. lsons for valuation. The law provides [that the rates charged by railroads ‘lnd fixed by the Interstate Commerce {Commission shall he just and {able. The value of the properties con- | stitutes the hasis upon which rates for | services may properly he pradicated. |in fxing elsctric light charges, strest irailway rates and the basis s the value of the proper- i Crities of the valuation of the rail ason- | charges for gas | carpetbag with its fieral designs, but it can hold a good deal, and & man and sometimes 4 woman will ‘ake rather a long trip with only a “grip.! Americans travel oftener, farther and lighter than of yore. The grip 18 eco- nomical as regards charges, and if a traveler will insist on carrying it him- self and will hold to that resolve with stern fortitude he will avold some of the tip taxes, but not all. The quota- tion from the baggage expressman seems to show that Americans are srowing wiser as they travel and net having to hand over 30 much of their income to baggage expressmen they have more money to give up to bell- | hops, waiters, porters and all others in the hotels. b Obsolete Text Books. | The changes wrought by the last |d¢cade in the map and in the history |of the world come sharply to attén- tion in the new order of the Board of Education discarding as obsolste all geographies and histories hitherto used by more than 50868 pupils in the public schools. Another page, in- deed many pages, have been turned since 1314, when the world seemed to be on & falr way to a long period of stability and little change, except in scientific development. The students of today have much {10 learn which their parents never dreamed. These recent eventful years have made changes in the text books necessary In degree comparable to those which followed the Napoleonic wars and the discovery of the new world by Columbus and the explorers who followed him. The history of the World War jtseif is a huge study. Today's event is history tomorrow. The change in text hooks of the schools emphasizes the rapidity with which the war ara is falling to the rear. Pupils entering the high schools today were infanta when the World War broke out and had only hagun to £0 to achool when the United States #ntérdd the confiiet. The move ftor neéw ftext books it entirely proper, even though it entails a large expendi- ture of money. Gérman financiers regretfully note that all this trouble about debt ad- Jjustments would have been easily averted- if the world could have been persuaded to accept papeér marks at their face value. b Ponzi threatens to go in for Florida real estats. Some of the speculators who have been cleaning up will do well to keep a close watch on their profits. Ponzi lkes transactions in | ready money. i e Even when & voung lady fails awim the English Channel. she enjoys the cool waves, the bracing air and | the music so much that sha is per- fectly willing 1o repeat the effort. French people are historically ered {1ted with being most economical. hut {this Summer's news from Deauville 1has.nat horne out the idea. ———— Present negotiations invite an ef. to! EVERYDAY RELIGION BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D., w CONTRARY WINDS. &1 Mark, vi 48 trary unta them. A novice can sall a boat over smooth waters where winds are favorable. It takes an expert fo sall ft in rough waters, when squalls are on and winds contrary. It I8 the man who can be calm in an emergency that we trust at the helm. The wavs of the sea fur- nish an analogy for the common ex- perience of lite. There are days on iend -when life “flowa along lke a #ong.” when éverything fs pleasant, with no clouds on the horizon and every breeze favorable. It is strange how experiences of this kind render us incapable of meeting adverse condi- tions that try our seuls and test our strength. We seem to gain little from observation of the experiel others; we come te our problems all t66 frequently unprepared and with- out sufficient skill to handle our craft in rough waters. When an emergency overtakes us, we grow panicky and ook about for a pilot who understands head winds and is familiar with rougl seas. The story told in the above text re- lates to an experience which befell the disciples of Jesus. They had ven- tured forth with confldence on the placid waters of a little lake. Every- thing seemed fo guarantee to them a safe crossing to the other side. At léngth as evening came a sudden storm broke. Quickly the lake became tempestuous, and pull as they might on the oars, they could make little headway, if any. Panic selzed them and they became helpless. The nar- rative rélates that they had left Jesus “alone on t land.” Of greater sig. nificance the statement. ‘He saw them tofling in rowing.” It was their pertious position that prompted Him to go immediately to them. and when at length He reached them His frst words were, “Be of good cheer.” And “The rwind was con- ness through the subway. over the elevated or atop a bus, was startled the other morning at a litile news item. It appeared in-the New York ‘World. ‘This dispatch, carrying the aroma of romancé and légend, ap- peared beneath a réport of a society wedding, to the right of a political story and to the left of a crime story. These three companions in front-page importance might have looked askance and wondered how it happened. The dispatch had no reference to divorce or scandal. It said nothing of graft in the seats o6f the mighty. There were no passages reféerring (o brutal robberies or ghastly murders. Tt contained nothing about a careless Bishop of W ashington. f | intim; THE LAND OF LOTUS EATERS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Rlase New York, scurrying to busi- | people that lMved in a legendary land 1 driver who had run amuck at Forty- | sacond and Broadway and killed sev- | pedestrians. For story it was a little exoric. 1t was under and was an exclusive story. ried the information that a eral | i | | | submerged { the story | lsland of . land. If vou glance at » map of Northern Africa. begin at the City of Tripoli and follow tha coast westward past . said the The discove: made between was ! i of Gabes. on a line which would take a front-page | posed to have grown in | London date line | the lotus. Tt car- | treasure | Libyva. galley, laden heavily, had heen found | Meninx was peopied b ying across one of the streeis of a He went up unto them into the ship, and the wind ceased. The incident is quite illustrative of our common experisnces. Under fa- vorable conditions we are wholly self- confident. We are entirely capable of handling our own hoat. The sense of dependenrs upon the supporting and directing power of the Divine Master we are quite unconscious of. We are perfectly willing to leave Him behind while we go forth on our ways of busi- ness or pleasure. Lét some unusual and unexpected situation arise, let us experience contrary winds or head seas. and our confidence disappears and we seek the guidance and support of a hand stronger than our own. In such a situation we are ready to cry out. “Lord. to whom shall we go: 1 alone hast the words of eternal The “absentee God.” of whom Car- lyle speaks as wholly unrelated to the ahd personal things of lite, is unappealing and unattractive te us. It was not such a God.that Christ came to reveal, but rather a Father of infinite love, who, seeing His chil- dren’s distress, seeks to bring to them support, strength and comfort. In His last message to His disciples Christ declared: “Lo, T am with you alwavs, aven unto the end of the world. If we would have a satisfving and heipful religlous faith, we must have it in all weathers and under all con- ditions. We must consistently believe and trust in days when skies are bright as well as in days when clouds hang heavy and contrary winds retard our onward progress. ‘When the Great War was upon us we felt A common impulse to better thinge. Men In their hour of anxiety and distress turned their taces to God. | It seemed as if a great religious re- vival were Impending. One sometimas wonders whether in these times of pip- ing peace we remember the high re- solves of the days of strife and trouble. Do we need contrary winds to feel the greatsr need of the Divine Pilot? (Copright. 1925 beyond the northern extremity of the known world and were a race of per- petual vouth. Their pleasing exist- ence undoubtediy fired his imagina- tion, as did that of the lotus eaters. Hence he mentions them together. Some scholars believe the Hyper- boreans o be the people inhabiting thé anciént Norseland. accounts of whom were probably brought back by the Phoeniclans. Their fatr hair and skin may have been the reason perpétual youth was ascribed to them. Strabo mentions the lotus eaters with more definite regard to their lo- cation than does Herodotus. and he tallies with the other accounts. The Land of the Lotus. The lotus, however, was also sup- vpt. which referred to as the land of One tree, said to have teen the original lotus, is indigenous to Many scholars believe that these anclent had moved i became involved in seeking to escape the i 1 | is often Libyans. whd. perhaps. there when Fi anclent wars ba and the African main-| complexity and bustie of rising civili 7ation. The lotus decoration by murals have flowe: 1 the Iotus was used as a Romans. Many flowers imscribed Jetara Plain until vou come to the upon them. and one villa was famous the Then cross the gulf because it had vou | on its grounds. six_lotus irees growing Trees such as these | garden and park system. Diseases of Trees Seientific Research Needed 10 Save Ornamental Plantings. Study of disease in park trees and other city plantings has been neg- lected by the States. it is asserted by Prof. Rohert A. Harper of Colum: bia University in a report to the board of managers of the New York botanical ~garden. Prof. Harper. chalrman of the scientific directors of the garden, declares that a sweep- ing attack by research on the evils of decay is demanded “It is noteworth says Prof. Harper, “that with the pressure of work on the diseases of our great agricultural and horticultural crop plants, the diseases of ornameéntals in &eneral and the diseases:of park and other municipal decorative planta tions have been largely and in many cases wholly neglected by our State experiment stations.” Prof. Harper recommends on behalf of the sclentific directors. of members of Columbla faculties, that the work of the garden be ex tended' to cover this fleld, adding: “‘While Government agencies such a8 the Department of Agriculture, State agricultural colleges and exper- iment stations have fully proved their value and justified invoking the taxing power of the State for their support, they can by no means meet the needs of the situation as it now exists. “Government institutions must aim to meet immediate exigencies in agri- culture from vear to vear, and es- pecially must devote themselves to the work of directly alding the farmer and nurseryman in the appli cation of known methods of culture, crop_feeding and the prevention of disease. Like Practicing Physician. in the control of rather that of prac- than of research pathoiogists. But we have now reached a period in plant science where further advance demands the experimental investigation of funda mental problems. extending over lonz periods of time and requiring in mAny cases costly apparatus.” ‘The plantations in Bronx Park are now in a number of caszes seriously menaced by insect pests, according 1o Prof Harper, who save that the gar- den staff needs a pathologist. Recent explorations. he reports, have enriched the garden’s stock of South American material. “The nermal activities of a great botanical garden in maintaining col- lections of plants representing ade- quately the native vegetation of the earth afford very unusua) heredity and enviroment and all the other problems whose present day importance the new science of genetics is so strongly em- phasizing,” continues Prof. Harper. “The great floricuitural collections which bring together from all over the world the latest products of the breeder's art, well as maintaining the earlier types for comparison, are not only of great service to dealers and growers as a means of certitving what Is genuinely new and distinctive. but constitute invaluable material for the studies of the geneticist. “Their service plant d es ticing physicians ‘The cost of bringing together and maintaining such collections can be met In no other way more advantage- ously than by utilizing their artistic and educational value in a hotanical We racom- mend provisions for the fuller utiliza tlon in research of the materials this fleld. . Germ Diseases of Trees. The scientific directors feel that the New York hotanical garden has a part t0 play in the development of the newer phases of experimental plant science. There are fundamental proh- lems of disease which can be more composed | MEN AND It is no new thing to read that the French Foreign Legion is bearing the brunt of the fighting in the war against the Riffs. The legion's history proves that it always iz in the thick of the fray. The legion thrives on fight. ing. 1In times .of peace it naturally dwindles away to nothing. But with the first notes of the tocsin the ranks are fllled to overflowing—filled with adventurous spirits who are willing to die for the frolic of a fight. Alwavsin| the world there are thousands of rov- |ers to whom war appears a glorious | game. Some are knights of the ros. living by their witx and willing to take | ja chance or a shot at anvthing In| | sight. | But the legion, in times of war. at tracts more than the ne'er-de-wells. | Young men just out of scheol or col-| lege are very apt to hear the call.| Other voung men. irked by ronfine. | ment to a high chair in an office, flock every day to the legion. But there is no barrier of age. The le-| glon has its graybeards as well as jts | down-lipped youths. More aliens have fought for France through the ages than for any other country in_the world. It takes its men where it finds| them and it asks no questions. It is| tvpical of the spirit of the legion lhu.[ at the moment, it should be so largely | composed of Germans—trained men at | arms who a few short years ago were fighting the French tooth and nail. Some of the Germans are youngsters not old enough 1o have fought in the World War. but anxfous today to have their fling at the game of war Perhaps the thoughtless will be con vinced that France seems ever ready to let the Foreign Legion get into the hottest part of a battle, but that is the onlv place for the legionnaires. Take them out of the fighting and | they would all deseri. News dis paiches from the Rifflan froni say that the proportion of deserters 1o the enemy is no grealer among the Ge mans in the legion than among th other aliens. all of which goes to show that the legionnaires don't seem par- ticularly to care for whom they fight, | recalling again the story of how Gene | Houghton, afterward machine gun off\ cer of the American 1st Division. organized A machine zun company for the Canadian expeditionary forces. Gene had fought in some of the Cen tral American “affairs” from time to time and had many cronies among the soldiers of fortune. He was a_suc- cesstul member of the Winnipeg Grain FExchange when the World War broke out. But he. 100, heard the call. He sent telegzrams (o his old pals asking them if thex would join him in going | " AFFAIRS BY ROBERT T. SMALL. to war. The first answer was tvpleal of the rest “Sure thing, Gene," it sald, “which side? * ok ox % The “fighting marines.” with their proud record in the World War, are deeply chagrined that two men wear ing thelr uniform should have heen found asleep at their posts of dutv in guarding the President of the T'nited States. Thiz duty is regarded in the corps as akin to that of war Of course, in war time a sentry asleen generally faces the firing aquad at sunrise Thére is no thougnt that the Swampscott snoring fusiliers will | meet any such fate, but “fer the gond of the service™ the punishment meted out to them is likely to be heavy, no matter what the excuse may be The z00d name of the fighting marines must be cleared In the serviee circles of Washington there is a disposition to attribute the incident to the “‘soft life” which duty abeard the presidential yacht May flower means. To be an officer aboard the Mayflower is to live perpetually in a pink-tea atmosphere with never a care nor a worry in the world. To be a bluejacket or a marine aboard the vacht is only slightly less delectable. During most of the vear the yacht is moored to the dock at the Washing- ton Navy Yard. Occasionally thereara week end strolls down the Potomac with the presidential party aboard, but Mr. Coolidge seldom takes his wacht more than 40 miles awav. While tiad to the dock the Mavflower is used much for entertaining by the officers attached and sometimes by other off cials of the Navy. The secretaries nf Presidents have at times given din ners aboard. The Mayflower has come 10 be regarded as a social rather than |a strictly naval institutio Duty aboard the yacht i lated 10 make a bluejacker * a marine any too alert at linto it.”" Mavhe next dential guard may where. snappinx vear the pres be recruited else P New England continues 1o he the firm bedrock of American conserva tism. At the convention of danecing teachers in New York the past week [there was a valiant effort among the !#ld masters tn resist the encroach ments of the newest jazz creation, the | “Charleston.” New England led the | fight against the new craze. Neaw | England wanted tn go back to the | 800d old waltz. When the final vote | was taken. the Charleston won. but the New FEnglanders diad at their | suns. > (Coprright. 1875.) = In The Star { < 1 | In The Star of August 23, 13 a notice of a mew play about to be et produced which became | “Almighty ¢S 04 for several * seasons heid the boards Do e A s stage. greatly to the Interest of the peopie this city, which was the scene of | the action “At last . is The paragraph follows according to the theatrical to have that i often-promised long-looked-for and essential to our na- { rional happiness. a frst-class Amer {ican drama. It is written by a Mr | Woolf, and is to be brought out by Florence. the Irish comedian. in New York next week. It is entitied “The Almighty Dollar.” and the scenes. we are informed, are laid in and around Washinzton, while the plat and in- terest Fifty Years Ago ! papers of New York. ihe country is| in| This and That By Charles E. Tracewell. | Jack spratt, | with fleas. Now there are some people going around declaring that cat fleas will | not leave a cat. This may be true of fleas on a dog, hut it is not true of fleas on a cat Certainly it fleas. | Not thai I helieve Jack is the proud possessor of a new brand of Ctenoce phalus eanls. (This so-called “‘dog {and cat flea” is the common flea in America, not the FEuropean human | flea ) | Jack, disdainful of all dogs. never- theless bears upon his tiger-striped person numerous specimens of this nasty fellow labeled in all the books ‘dog and cat flea.” The fact that cats share them, ax well as their name, with dogs is nn solace to Jack Spratt, the cat, was covered is not true of Spratt | affectively attacked on plant materials | {than on any others “The zerm diseases, whether Iplants or animals or man. form who fought retail food supply market in the an- ities. Ts there any particular reason thracite region. When the retail deal- j why the railroads should he treated ers there enjoy the usual credits from | differently trom other publie service whalésalers they can stand the strain | corporations? Nor are these gas, slec- of a protracted period of selling on tric and transportation companies al- credit to the miners. If. as happened |lowed to Ax thelr own valuations. The some years ago on the eve of a [public utilities commissions here and of the play turn on the char.| S d financial and social in.|them back with long. red tongue. of { trig which are said to abound at| Hours he spent licking himself, in one|the National Capital. We learn | 2D altempt to rid his fur of the crawl | Gommon group in many of their fun-| further that its anthor is a Boston |iN& things ihat made life miserable | damental relations the living or-| journalist who =a@b up his profession | fOF him. In Summer, when vou ses |Fanism. Such problems as those pre-{ 1o become leader of an orchestra:| YOUr dog or cal suddenly make a dart sented by individual immunity and its{ that he has never before written a{at some portion of jts anatomy, know inheritance: the problems of epidem-i play. and that so far as any one here | (DA it is a flea he is after. are helieved (0 have heen imported from Northern Africa in the dave of Rome's early maritime entures. The discovéry of the galley and the ¢ have enthused ihe d's emi nent archeologists. Count de Prorok. the French explurer at Carthage. has left his work on the ancient Queen of Citles 10 spend three months at Jerba. through the City of Tunis and vou will| stumble over Jerba. alde known as| Gerba, Gerbi and Djerba. Then. If you are further interested, you will fnd in the éncyclopedia that Jerba | is 423 square miles in area. is level and has fertile sofl: that the natives | are engaged in the cultivation of dates | and olives and the manufacture of | jfort to mingle persuasive eloquence with higher arithmetic in a manner requiring some versatility. e — | acters For many a desk chair occupant Labor day marks the end of a vaca- threatened strike, the wholésalers re- fuse credits to the hard coal region retailers the latter pass the word to the miners that they will not do busi- ness “on tick” if a strike occurs. This has been known to prevent striking. In the anthracite field, which is fully organized, striking miners do not go to other places of employment, as a rule, but remain on the ground awaiting resumption of work. They are specialists in hard coal mining and find it dificult to get johs else where. the and most pendent entirely thing azainst strike “rainy day of them are de- upon the dao from the strike fund. The caretakers and the pumpmen and the mules alone are in luck. The miners and the peo- ple who have to buy coal to keep their food, and who m evary t pay the price of wage increase and avery strike. out of luck. For the miners, however. the public feels but little sympathy. for the strike Is their own action, through their organization representatives. The consumers are not arzanized and they are therefore less Tucky than tha mules. Russians insist on having their vodka full strength. In order to be popular a government may fnd it necessary to give peoplée what is not good for them in the hope of per. #uading them from rushing into great er dangers. Nothing requires so much tact as government. ————— The Mackinac Findings. Federal investigatora have raported te the Department of Commerce on the Mackinac disaster in Narrangan- sett Ray, charging the master and the e#nginear of the stéamér with negligance in taking the cratt service, knowing that her hoilers ware A dangerons con- diffan. They are summoned to appear hefors the hoard of local in- speciors af steam vessals at Provi- dence next week for trial, and, It con- victed on the charges brought against them, their licensas as nuvigater and enginaer will he ravoked. That is the extent to which the Federal Govern- ment can proceed. The State au- thorities, however, may prosecute for responsibility for the death of 52 persons and the injury of many more. In this case is illustrated one of the eddities of the American systém of law enforcement. States licenses steamships and holds them account- able for their performancés. But in into in Few of them have saved any- | of al houses warm and o cook their | elsewhere are charged with this duty, and if the corporations are dissatisfied with the valuations so found, the courts are the final arbiters. The Principle of rallroad valuation for a basis of rates and earnings is sound. 1f it has been made a farce in execution, as is now declared, the principle is still the same. It is a huge task, for the railroads had heen {constructed and were in operation for !years hefore it was undertaken. But it should be humanly possible of ac- complishment. r———— | Much wearisome arithmetic might | e avoided {for collecting foreign debts were as |simple and direct as those for collsct- {ing the income tax. ———— | The operatora eall it a strike and | the miners call it a lockout. The mat- — o The naw traffic regulations call for a little police lenieney toward the motorist who has gottén brain fag |trying to learn them al. e Baggage Express on Strike. The strike of New York baggage | transter workers, called at a time when it woéuld put the greatest num- ber of peoplé to inconvenience, seems to show that American travelers are ‘tarrylnl less baggage or fewer trunks than formerly and are less dependent on baggage “expressmen.” An officer {of one of the New York haggage | transter companies said: “We have | baen losing business for some vears | bacause of taxicabe and the lighter waight of women's clothes which en- [ables them to use suitcases instead of !II'an‘. and this situation has precipi- |tated a erista whieh wae hound to | come. Our oniy hope is that the |strikers will realize that if they per- | siat in staving ent they may not have any jobs whéen they want to came | back.” The local and independent | their first blow with the formation of a ratlway express making delivery from a House in one city t6 a héuse in another city. The taxicab also gave A Bl6w to the historic baggage trans- fer business because the cab will take half a dozen suitcases or a moderate sized trunk. The number of trunks which the American woman used to take from a joke text for humorists. Her dresses are thinner now, much shorter; the if Uncle Sam's facilities | L of technical designation holda out | |no comfort to the uitimate consumer. | baggage transfer companies suffered | tion and the beginning of a long sea- son of repose. —————— Just for old-time’s sake Sir Thomas Lipton should by this time be throw- ing out suggestions about another yacht race. ———— 00TING STARS. BY PH.LANDER JORNSOX. SH Remorsetul Desperation. once was a person all happy tree, But now I am covered with shame: 1 4id not suspect that I evar could he 8o frequent an ohject of blame. 1 and |1 get an confused by the “Stop” and the “Go." I commonly park overtime. 1 stap on the gas when T ought to run stow. I'm a Consciencelass Creature of Crime! The Fickle Multitade. “Aren’t you going to have a brass hand in attendance when vou address the mass meeting?"” No." answeéred Senator Sorghum. “The last time I did that the crowd quit listening to me and started dancing.” Jud Tunkins sava the advice not to build your house on sand was written before Florida real estate was dis- covered. The Gentle Stranger. This world is full of danger. Never trust a gentle stranger. bricks, Before he's through. He will -offer a téemptation To disastrous speculation For the gentle stranger knows a lot of tricks— TNl say he do. | But, epeaking just hetween us, The worst of all the genus 18 the one who comes and grests you on the siy. Your talth he'll mar. He says he needs some licker, ‘Cause he's ill, and growing sicker. The worst of all's the agent for the Dry— I'll sy he are. Selecting Talent. “There's talk of runnin’ me for th The United | home for a two-week stay at Gréen|Legislature,” said Farmer Corntossel. the operators of | Suiphur Springs or Clam Beach was|“If they 4o, our boy Josh'll have to run the farm.” ‘I don’t Dbelieve he knows how,” case of an accident for which they |skirt is not 96 “full,”” and theéré 18 no |said Mrs. Corntossel. may be blamed it can only go 8o far as to revoke their licenses. It cannot prosecute for the consequences of thelr negligence. The punishment of these men by the revocation of their licenses and by their conviction an some such charge a8 criminal negligénce amount- padding in the bodice. Her hats are smaller and thére aré no trailing, Arsoping ostrich plumes to take care of. It may be that A& weman has more Aressés than she used to have, but they pack smaller. Thé “dréss suitcasa” of twenty-five year# g0 has become the “‘suitcase.” | *He knows as much about it as 1 do about tbe Legislature.” “Y But farmin’s more particular. Tou stay homé and let Josh do the runnin’ “A réligious argument.” said Uncle Ebén, “mighty scon geta to be mo’ inz to manslaughter will have a good | or simply the “grip.” There is less jargument dan religion” ¥y t | ailk and woolen fabrics: that it is a (As the galley is Iying across one He will try to sell you oil, or gilded | large spongé market and a large fruit exp‘M p:olnl and that the population is about 45,000, consisting largely of Berbers. The chief town of Jerba is Haumt-es-Suk, possessing about 3,000 souls. It has been occupied by the French since 1381 and there are Ro- man ruins and an oid Spanish castle 10 be found on it. Not of Great Importance. But Jerba. fust Jerha as is little or norhing 1o the world. ommerce is not enough o hecome ascited abeut. and its military posi- tion i= not overly imporrant. True it does command. In » measure. the Gulf of Gabes, but it conld be reduced easily in these days of mighty slege guns. There seams to have heen a massacre there at some time during means i | i hrochure by a Spanish anthor. little. In ancient times Jerba was called Meninx. Meninx was the land of those apostles of idleness. the Totus eaters. It Is strange that nothing has heen written of Meninx. A to reveal mention aither of it or Jerba. But. from what s given by Greek writers about the lotus eaters it is almost definitely established that this is where theyr idled away their lives. These people, whoever they were, famed in classic myth and epic poem, lived a life utteriy tree trom worldly care and strife. Their haleyon ex- visit them became addicted to the mode of living and never left. They ate the fruft of the lotus, a genus which is confused in the classifica- tion of plants, thére being no definite information as to what it was. There are several trees and plants which are sald to be the ancient Jotus. These people made wine from.the juice of whole. Tt is sald to have been sweet after once tasting it the individual cared no mors about the world with- out, but was eontent to lHve out his life in indolent pleasure. Thers was no property. no tutions, no_government, no organized sociéty. Everything was free and peaceful. No laws hampered the habits of the lotus eatérs. Surrounded and laved by the beautiful azure waters of the Mediterranean. lutled hy its warm and gentle le and soothed to indiftéréncs - the juice of the delicious lotus, theéy plaved and Areamed. Some Truth in the Legend. That theré must have been some truth to the legend is evinced by its récurrence in the accounts of various Greek writers. Witness the “Odyssey."” wheréin Homer describes the visit of Ulyssés to the island. Forewarned, the wary Ithacan wanderer would have nothing to do with the lotus fruit and neithér would most of his saflors. Two of them, however, par- took of it, and at the taste were straightway overcome by its effects. ‘They were bound by the rest of the crew and conducted to the black ship, weeping violently because they were compelled to leave, but offering no resistance. Herodotus knew of Meninx. Al though his geography is often obscure and inaccuraté, his aceounts of the land of the lotus reveal that it was the same place déscribed by Homer. He refers 1o it and the land of the Hyperboréans at one point in his glt in 08t the 'same breath. ) perusal of vecords of antiquity fails| o istence was untroubled by outside in-; terference, for any who chanced to. the lotus or ate the fruit| and palatable bevond description, and | insti- | | ments may Its | the later Middle Azes, but there is lit ’ tle written about it, save one small| The street rallway company of Port Other | grthur, Tex.. rafused to move a ear than this incident Jarba has offered | ¢ ite barns last Friday night. and | | | | | ety of the streets of the submerged city, it probably sank centuries after the latter had disappeared. Several vases have already been recovered and submarine cameras are being used to take pictures of the site. The little news dispatch gives rise to the speculation that the city is ancient Menins. Future develop shed more light on the subjéct and revesl the secrets of the lotns eaters. a secrat that would prob- ably be welcomed by many in this hurly-burly age of go.cetwrs, speed industrialism 1 - ind of Strike. A New K There is a new kind of strike it atill sticks to It8 refusal. Its com- | plaint it against the bus lines that the authorities have permitted to iology and many others are the same | throughout the plant and animal king- | {dom and can be attacked more directly in many cases on plant materials. “There are fundamental long-time problems as to the growth and re. production of trees on which the sue- cess of forestry practice and reforest- ation must depend. which an endow ed institution like the garden with its continuity of organization can especial. Iy _well attack.” Plans to develop the garden's re. search work are now under way, it was said. as a part of the $7.000.000 expansion program of the beard manaz Do You Know That— In proportion to weight, codfish con tain 10 times as much ‘of the tissue {from which the diabetes cure, insnlin, | (e Sioux ix obtained. as do mammals, Ashestos. shredded stone. valuable as non-inflammable and chemically re. | sistant substance. is imported into the | Nature. knows he has never been in Wash-| 1 was not particularly solicitous as ington for any length of time. if at|i0 Jack's fieas until one of them Jeft all, and is therefore impartially 1. | their host and decided to make his of | | { acqualnted with the city, its peculiar | people and its striking characteris- | {ties. In view of these facts we do not see why the new drama should not be a great success.’ H . P A Federal commission was enguged | vears ago in an examination of . »ndition in the ! Inquiry Into ioux Indian i iti reglon to de. Sioux Conditions. (2500 10 e | of the dissatisfaction of the tribes | which later, despite the inquiry | caused a war and much bloodshed. in The Star of August 25, 1875, i an account of some of the proceedings of the Investigation “The speeches of ihe Indians hefors investigating commission are very similar to those they deliv- | i ered when in Washington, overflow ing with verbosity and not embracing | any complaints of a really serious Red Cloud. for instance. 50 compete with the rvegular street car|l/nited States mainly from Canada | talks more like a child than an In-| lines, operating under a franchise. The action taken by the street rail. | way company of Port Arthur throws | into relief the zreatest question that disturbs urban transportation teday. | Street railways are almost alwavs glven a monopoly in a eity. Econo- mists recognize such a monopoly as “natural.”’ just as it recognizes the ! natural monopolies of gas and elec- | tric . companiés and telephone com- panies. Competition means -duplica- tion and waste. It {s far better for a community to grant a monopoly and then regulate that monopoly than to permit the waste of competition. Today the trackless and wireless bus has upset in effect the application of the practice of natural monopoly. Street railwvayr companies that made their contracts with cities on the basis of monopoly find themselves subject to sévere competition. The econdi- tion cannot last. If cities are to re- ceive street railway service, ther must recognize the principle of natural monopely. If bus service is partially to supplant stréet raflway service, the street rallway companies must be per- mitted » monopoly of bus service. In the long run it means cheaper and bet- ter transportation both by bua and by street car. The experience of cities with competing street car lines proved that many years ago.—Cineclnnati Times-Star, i i | c——om—.—— Farmers Are Advertising. Farmers and others who offer their products for sale at the farm markets of Trenton are wise to ¢hnduct adver- tising campaigns to acquaint the corf- suming public with what may be ob- tained at such places. Of what use is it to offer buying opportunities un- less buyers are informed? There is only one way to attract new trade. Tell the public about it. Advertising by Trenton farmers is being watched with interest by food producers and dealers in other places. They sée what can be accomplished in way of increased trade hv sys- tematic use of Trenton Times pub. licity and will doubtless follow the ex ample through the columns of their| respective newspapers. | Big merchants eéverywhere attest} the value of printers’ ink as a trade! stimulant. Advertising is the one way | to bring buyers and sellers together, for the mutual benefit ‘of both classes. —Trenton Evening Times. |and South Africa. and anly 300 tons ! dian warrior and statesman. of it was produced locally in 1924. The ancient Greek meter at Selinus in Sicily. which col- lapsed in an earthquake. is to be re. built by the Italian government. There are now 1 use_in the Philippin: A Red Cross nurse cently visited distant tients by airplane. 876 automobiles in in Alaska re. influenza pa- Exports of graln and grain products from the United States have increased 23 times since pre.war davs. In Auckland. New Zealand, a city of 160.000 inhabitants, street cars are not pérmitted to carry more passen- zers than can be seated. One of the earlier returns of Hal- ley’s comet to the earth was in 1066, the vear of the Norman conquest, and it is recorded on the Rayeux tapestry Tobacco is one of the principal prod- ucts of Persia. the annual production being estimated at 23.000.000 pounds. Pneumonia is the only bacterial in- tection of which the isolation of the causative organism has not resulted in finding means for appreciaably re. ducing the mortalit: An English woman sciéntist has de- termined that 55 degrees Fahrenheit is the best temperature for metal work- ors, Spinacin, a new protein. has heen discovered in spinach leav The United States pflhucefl about 2,500,000 troy ounces of zold a year. One of the most noteworthy develop- ments in oil prospécting last year was the application of the seismograph and torsion balance. ‘The United States and Canada are the two most important surplus apple producing countries in the world, and supply from three-fourths to nine- tenthe of the import needs of the-other countries. . The Hit-or-Miss Man. From the Detroit Free Press. If the individual who sits tro close to ths side of the canoe and peers over the edge lives long enough, he will ly tall ov‘utrt;!l l.n' airplane i nw;r and trying to see svery- temple of De. | He savs he ix jealous becanse he has been down to the Spotted Tall agency and | finds Jumber there and several build- | ings for the chiefs. As to Agent| | Saville, Red Cloud Is reported as say- | ing that he has no complaint against | him except that Saville raised an| American flag at the agency last vear against the wishee of his, Red Cloud’s, | people. “The speech of Sitting Bull, to whom the President gave a_ hand-| some vifie in recognition of hie ef-, forts in behalf of peace, was of a| similar trifling character. He want- ed the agent to distribute rations every 10 days instead of every 7 days. because he thought they would last ionger, and closed by saying that he did not like the vellow sugar received from the agent; he wanted white sugar, and the commission must look to it that they send white | sugar hereafter. Great frauds may | { have heen perpetrated at the Red! Cloud agency. hut it is plain to see | that the members of the commission must invoke the aid of somebody | elre besides the Indians if they wish | to unearth them.” | In a later issue, August 27, | Is a paragraph casting light Sioux shrewdness: “Spotted Tall imitates the pale m-] In the matter of giving dinners. A late letter from the Sioux count) states that at the time it was written | he was preparing to give the Investi- | gating commission a banquetand that | his bill of fare would embrace but ! | one article, viz.. a dog. Indian etiquette | requires that guests shall eat all !hl.l‘ is placed before them, or else hire some one to do it for them, by giv-| ing them a blanket, a shirt, or soms- | thing of the kind. It s quite likely | that the members of the committee ate by proxy on the occasion in ques- | tion." | “‘Spotted Tail" says The Star of | August 28, 1875, “is getting quite a | reputation as a financier. The cor-| respondent of the St. Louis Demo- | ! 187 upon | { crat with the Sioux investigating committee tells a good joke on a Herald correspondent who wanted to | interview 'Old Spot.’ The chief told him that he could not talk for the mere sake of talk, but must be pald for it, and agreed to talk for $10 and $5 to his interpreter. The reporter agreed to the terms and handed over the $15. He then put about half a dozen preliminary questions, which were answered, and thereupon ‘Old Spot' told him ‘T think you've got enough for $10,' and refused to an- awer another question.” ’ home upon the writer of this column Immediately I “zot a flea in the ear.” as the saving is. This was a horse of a decidedly different color: “You are.” T told myself. “a superior antmal to your cat, 6 vou ought to ba able to catch a flea where he cannot.’ * ox ox % Thin writer immediately superior human brain to c0on proudly nipped the between his right thumh finger The flea was howl of water. rejoicing down You see how I do It. Jack.” 1 said But Jack was husy. with one leg hoisted up in the air. attempting to kill a few fleas on the tip of his tail o evidently did not hear me. Despite my success with the first flea, othar members of the Ctennce phalus family left the cat. as was avidenced by various hitae distributed around my anatomy. ack. old fellow. we have got 1o do something about this.” 1 said Armly. Riub-bluh.e cally “IVell just try & little sulphur on you.” I retorted. hauling out a news paper clipping. It read “Sulphur will rid your cat of fleas and at the same time will he zond for him if he licks it off.” Succiner was that clipping. So we got out a nica big hox of powdered sulphur. and lured the cat down into the basement. where we stood him on a large sheat of paper Perhaps it should he stated here that we would just as léave trv to bathe a tiger as Jack Spratt. A hath was out of the question. Applications nf powder. however, ha will stand for somewhat. With much kicking and bucking Jack endured the rubbing In of the vellow meal. He =0on took on the Appearance of the strangest lonking cat in the world. Hix eves grew rounder and more indignant. while his gray and black watermelan bedy became a sickly vellow-gredn From the tip of his tail to the end of his nose. Jack Spratt was showared with sulphur. Not a hit of his hide nor a one of his fleas ascaped. “T'll bet those old fleas are all dead now,” we triumphantly chortied. * ok ox o The nld fleas, Indeed, gave na sign of their presence. The victory sesmad complete. Jack Spratt. on the other hand seemed wonderfully Adapressed. Par haps he caught sight of himsalf in a mirror. Each time he puts his work, and festive flea and fore then drowned and sent on its the drain in a licked Jack. frant! gave himself 2 vigorous shake, a cloud of vellow dust flew up. We visioned him shaking off dead fleas at every vibration. Then Jack began to lick, as usual we said to each other, “It wen't hurt him, it will do him g00d.” That was what the clipping said. Alas for clippings, hooray fer fleas’ Ctenocephalus canis simply reveled in that sulphur. He ate it and grew fat. on it. He thrived mightily ulphur is what T don't like nothin else but.” Jack's fleas seemed to mar (Evidently thev had besn reading Octavus Roy Cohen,) Reader. never let anybody. or any clipping. fosl vou into trying te kiil fleas with sulphur. Tt wen't do it. Ask Jack and me—we know! oo Difference in Songs. From the Boston Herald e While the old songs used ta ge to the heart the new songs go to the feet,