Evening Star Newspaper, September 29, 1925, Page 6

"8 THE EVENING sTAR‘lhemsel\ou with many an With Sunday Morning Editien. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY THRODORE W. NOYES. ¥he Evening Star Newspaper Company | Business Office: . 3ith St. and . A fice: ~ 110 East 42nd St . Chicago Office: Tower Buildine Bnropean Office: 16 Rezent St.. London. England The ¥ g editi morn within t mont "y onty Per month. Orders ma talephone Main 5000. carrier at the end of ea Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. and Sunday s<40 ilv onlv. . sa00 nday only €240 ollection is mude by month ) 1er 1 ¥ All Other States. Dailv and Sundar s1a00 Baiiy anfyunds +2h0 Sunday only . $200 Ao 25¢ mo. Member of the Associated The Associated Pr o e BT chen rediind 10 Fa i oot RIbtgheg e b1 22 neera dlynal Press. - ed- o wr silicatior sarved The Deadlock Period. The deadlock stage in the French war debt negotiations is said (0 he at hand. This need not he as alarming & it sounds. The deadjock is traquent- 1v like the calin before the clearing-up shower. In imporiant negotiations, where both sides are firmly contend- ing for what they believe to he their due. the deadlock period may be said 1o be the usual thing. In the Fren debt case the negotiators have also t« consider on the one hand the attitude of the French people and their Parlia- ment, and on the other the attitude of the American people and the Con- greas. Each set of negotiators neces. sarily feels that it would be idle to agree to a settlement of the debt which would be unacceptable to the people whom they represent. The American Congress has made it elear, through the mouths of its mem- hers, that it is opposed 10 a settlement of the French debt which varies in any important degree from the settle- ment with Great Britain. This does not mean Congress would insist upon identical language, with every 1t crossed and every i dotted, us in the British settlement. Rut it does mean that the principle of the British settle- ment i demanded. On the other hand. the French maintain stoutly that they are willing to pay their debt, to settie their ob- ligations, but that their “ability to pay” must be considered in any fund- inz arrangement. They seek terms which shall be as favorable to the ¥rench people as possible, so that the burden shall not bear down upon them crushingly. In France the idea has been spread, too, that morally the French are not hound to pay the debt to the Unite States on the ground that they have wlready paid their war debt in blood, which does not make the task of the French commission any the less diffi cult.” To date it appears that the French wmegotiators have submitted their orig- Inal propesition, seeking the most fa- vorable terms to France, and the American commission has countered with an expression of the full demand ®f the United States. Further notes have been exchanged seeking to eluci- date these proposals, but without ma- terial modification of terms. ‘The proposal that will be accepted— #f there be one—probably will come from the American commission. M. Cafllaux will then be in a position to return to Paris and sav to the French government and the French people: “T accepted on your behalf the mini- mum terms to which the Americans would agree.” He probably realizes that if he made an offer to the Ameri- can commission which it was willing te accept, and which the American rommission believed Congress would ratify, that offer would be unaccept- eble to the French et home. Should he return to Parls after having such an offer accepted by the Americans he weuld subject himself to the criti- elsm that he offered too much; that the Americans had outmaneuvered ‘him and “snapped him up.” The Amer- fean commission realizes, too, that if it offers to the French terms more lenient than would be approved by Congress it would come in for & drub. Wing later. So it, too, must go warily, A rupture in the negotiations, with | ne settlement. would he so unfortu- nate for both nations, and. indeed. for international economic stability gen- erally, that even today it should be the unexpected rather than the ex- pected. With proposal proposal, slight modifications. dead- loek and a final acceptance of the last American offer thd logical program, the hopes of France and America and the worid at large for agreement may wtill be confidently entertained. = r——— Tabor dav has come and gone. The elimata calls for a readfustment of the date, as in the case of Inaugur: The lavishness with which brave men are called upon to risk their lives ealls for a new form of economy. c——— Prophets of the Future. Bv October 13 at the latest, barring peor weather and tie games, the fast- approaching world serfes will have been concluded. At latest estimates there are in these United States $8.- 482,388 persona of an age making them capable of trying to pick the winner. Individuals suffering from sleaping sickness, off on remote ex- peditions and in other wavs prevented from being in touch with civilization may be taken to number 330. while perhaps eight are not interested. That leaves. in round numbers, 44.231,000 gueaners, and the beautiful thing about it all is that half of them will guess right and will thenceforward rank themselves with Mother Shipton, the Witch of Endor, Government actueries and far above the Weather Bureau. They have about 2 fifty-fifty chance. The correct guessers can slap them- selves on the back end mey “I teld veu 20" A hundred times a day for weeks to come. The series will prob- akly %o & hard:fought and close sns the lns's‘um Sussaars can eamfest September 29, 1925 ‘ Tie onle, Centa he eant By mail or | in the re | and connter | and “but” and with the thought that they | bier ought (o he a happy month. No outdoor sport, present or past, lends ftself to the passionate erutiny at =0 American national game. Race thorses”and track stars run way off form. Foot ball teams sweep their sec- {tions and then fall flat [tittle, unheraided team. is short. and their personnel under goes a turnover of between thirty- |three and Afly per cent annually. In- jdividual performances gain little spe d% of preceding vears. But {in base ball move of {every substitute, record- and the upon a pen- es winner can make Their season most every i and ur-month s man, 1 [during « jed in the official wishing world ns team by <on to pick nant cotipar team. {inficld, battery by battery and man by | 1 covering as many years back as the players have heen in the hig leagues. The statistics covering the batting alone of a single playel 1y | thirteen columns. Shutouts. runs bat- | ted in. how many vifice hits were {made off @ certain pitcher and much [other dewiled and informative lave availahle. | In additio | exact statist] | traditional and | Pitcher Whoos oe data to all these formal and -8 there is a vast fund of unofficial lore. Ts likely make his | wild pitches toward the end of the [zame? Does Right Gardener usually make his three-baggers down the left-field foul line or do they travel {ll over the field? Some one has kept {1ab ang ean teil. 10s & grand old game and & grand {field for speculation | those who dope it According to it can only come out one way. but half the time it and that is one of the hings that make it great. More lead pencils will probably be used up within the next ten days than in the ten preceding the date of first income tax payment. The pencil marks of half the users might as well be made indelible for vears: those of the other half will be writ in water. But if every one guessed right the fun would be gone. out does not 1 o { e Faster Boulevard Traffic. A 30-milean-hour speed limit on in the Distriet has been announced by TraMc Director . Eldridzge. These streets are Pennaylvania avenue south- east, Bladensburg road northeast and Alabama avenue southeast. This limit will become effective as soon as the proper markings and signa have been installed. B In taking this action Mr. Eldridge is carrying out the boulevard plan to its logical conclusion. Boulevard streets of the modern tvpe are de | signed to provide quick and safe trans- portation routes from the suburbs to the city. For this reason it would seem that | the traffic director should not confine the higher speeds (0 the three streets named. but should allow 30 miles an hour on portions of all boulevard streets in Washington. Connecticut avenue from Cleveland Park to Military road. Massachusetts avenue from 8 street to Wisconsin avenue and Rhode from North Capitol street to South Dakota avenue are some of those cited as ideal thoroughfares for a higher speed limit. Washingtoniana have now become familiar with the boulevard plan. the entire project. Ade- quate markings. a high speed limit and co-operation from the motorist will bring about the happy state of affairs of fast, safe trafic in and out of the city. Motorists, should that the 30-mile limit does not mean that they can travel at this speed re- gardless of the density of traffic and other conditions which might make it dangerous: The reckless-driving clause in the traffic regulations will descend heavily on them if they drive at even 26 miles an hour when the streets are {erowded and traffic is congested. In naming only the three streets the I(rafllc director is probably intending to observe the plan for a short time pletion of however, realize to see how it works out. From ex- perience in other cities it has been proved successful, and it is expected that Washington will soon have all of its boulevard streets with a 30-mile. an-hour limit. - rship experts intimate that by the be made more terrible than ever, and at the same time less expensive. One way 1o settle a debt question is to settle the question by disposing of | the debt. 1 e | North Carolina. The request from North Carolina that Washington change fts name be- Washington. N. C., took that in received here with good | cause Iname fig a. ltemper. The Tar Heel gentleman has | ja gracious sense of humor, and the peopie of Washinzton see the joke. Notwithatanding the serious issue raised by the challenge of our right 1o the name Washington, most of the people of this city went unconcerned the Frederick, Baltimore, |and Burrattaville pik : North Carolina has enough honor without seeking to filch from us our good name. It has been said that North Carolina sometimes claims too much. In the pines of Appomattox is a monument bullt in 1905 and in- scribed: “North Carolina, First at Bethel, Farthest to the Front at Gettysburg and Chickamauga, Last at Appomattox Virginia, South Caroline, Georgia and a few other States which helped North Carolina bresk up the Union took exception to North Cavolina’'s expressions of modesty on the Appomattox monu- ment. A South Carolina wag thought North Carolina should have added the inscription, “First to Secede,” and a Virginta wit said that North Carolina should have carved on the monument: “Erected by North Carolina in Honor of Her Native Sons—Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Neorth Carelina has many lrans. Lfl‘lll qualities, but if she is allewed esburg missed the result by very little. Octo- ! of “dopesters” as does the | hefore some 1 infield by | Doe | portions of three boulevard highways | 1sland avenue | There should be no more delay in com- | use of their favorite machines war can | to church or the movies last Sunday, ! and many motored unperturbed along | THE EVENING BTAR, WASHINGTON, D. to deny our right to our own name her pride will puff to the point of denying that our pawpaws, chingua- I pine and persimmons are better than |herr. She may boast of her acupper- nongs and catawbas, but we will lay low her vaunting pride with ears of |sugar corn and rosy apples sprung pfrom the chivalvfe soil of Maryland and the sacced soil of Virginia. No- body between South Carolina and Vir- ought 10 get that is North America. Washington accepts the fragrant solace that Durham, Refdville and Winston-Salem send, Jbut we would mind North Ca o the notion Carolina w 1o give 1o other men to smok southern Mary at grows tobacea which we m but which we are happy nee and Germany. North Carolina. | Give rein to su claim that th came ashore at Ao t smoke to nd. our ware of hoa viee and Massachusetts Kitty Hawk pride! Igrims or Ocra- coke instead of Provincetown or Plym- | outh. Of old-fashioned { North Carelinians will not claim such {an honor, and will say A mis. i|2k’ that the Pilg ashor at all. Boast if you will of the French | Broad. Hiwasse and the Little Tennes- {see, but Wash ington and close upon the city Rock Creek, Pimmit Branch and Oxon Run! Brag of your Yadkin, Neuse and Tar, then come here, look at the Potomac and fade awzy! Blow about Mount Mitchell, the peaks of Rlack Brother and Hairy but come here and. taking you to the top of Sugar {and the crest of the Catoctins |invite contemplation of depths to which » vaunting pride tumble. course, some it was ms got we can show you in tear, we will those » - The Submarine Disaster. Depl i the probable of 33 men aboard the submarine § off Block Isiand, the disaster is more an argument against the cgn tinued development of submarines than was the loss of the Shenandoah a reason why aerial navigation should be abandoned. There will be other hardy adventurers to take the places of those who perished heroically in the line of duty, and navigation will continue under the water, on the { water and over both land and water. The American Navy has had a run of hard luck of late, but that is not a sufficient reason for condemning those in charge of naval administration Certainly it is not just condemn them until thorough inquiry has es- tablished negligence and fixed the r sponsibility. That one disaster has followed 80 close upon the other is not of itself evidence of negligence or cul- pability. As a matter of fact, in the matter of submarines the [nited States has been morve fortunate than some of the other great naval powers. And the British, long held up as an example of naval efficiency, have suf fered losses in capital ships in times of peace that have no parallel in the American Navy. Ax a matter of course a court inquiry will be convened to determine responsibility for loss of the 1. Un- til it has made its investigations and able as no to bear in mind the advice Capt. Sigshee gave when the Maine was sunk in Havana Harbor and hold its judgment in suspension. Philadelphia has compliments for Smedley Butler, even though he did not succeed in eradicating vice. An- and no mere mortal can be blamed for not achieving miracles. Admirers of Col. Mitchell are o en- thusiastic that some of them may in- sist on bestowing the greai Ame compliment of suggesting a party presidential hoom. third A brilliant effort is made by M. Cail- laux to touch the hearts of the Ameri- can people in spite of the fact that he knows nothing whatever ahout base ball. { E— | The original plans for Washington, D. C.. contemplated a splendid city, but they lacked the vision to provide enough territory. LSRR o Any well located city which has no “housing problem™ on its hands these days is in need of a good husiness manager. N | SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. H Sentinels. lOut in the fields where all may view The shocks of corn stand forth, anew To show us that another year Shall be serene in plenteous cheer. {These are no monitors who wait To play a part in warlike fate: { Yet mute and powerful they stand. | The faithful guardians of the land. | A Reciprocity. “What is your opinion of the Euro. ‘pean situation?” 1 decline to say,” answered Sena- tor Sorghum. “People in Europe used 10 say they couldn’t understand Amer- ican politics. I now consider it my {privilege to admit that I can't under- stand Furopean politi I | Modern Improvements. The cares that new inventions bring | Our happiness disperse. I"The airship is a dangerous thing And the submarine is worse. Jud Tunkins says a man who brags that he never got arrested hasn't owned an automobile very long. A Remnant of Sentiment. “Would you marry a man for his money 2" No,” answered Miss Cayenne. “I'm not so very romantic. But [ couldn't take any soulful interest in a love letter that read like a prospectus.” Paradox. It's hard to calculate the pace Of terms in current use. The expert fiver is an ace, While aircraft plavs the deuce. “Stick to de folks you knows,” said Uncle Ehen. “It's a mistake to quar- rel wit yoh friends an' shoot craps olina that Wheeling, | Va.. sends us cigars good enough | and in | e wilt | Loaf loss | reported its findings the public should | honest effort is alwavs to be admired. |° called Templeton Jones, “Walter!” v, “this coffee s one degree tno [ shar, Yes, sir,” said the little man, who | bore all the earmarks of having for- merly been a barkeener. He knew bet- ter than to argue with Mr. Jones over the warmth of the coffee. 1l get you another cup, tinued the waiter. The well dressed, capable looking Mr. Jones carried a small thermometer in his vest pocket, { #nd would pull it out on the instant in @ of any dispute as (o the tem- perature of his coffee. “Here you are, sl bustied the little man, placing @ {resh steaming cup hefore the two men who sat at the litle table fn the window. Jones sipped the bhrew critically. “Very good.” he Maid. finally. “Yex, sir.” wmiled the litile man, well pleased, going back te the great ounter that looked suspiciously like a bar of the vintage of some years ago. The brass foot rail shone. “Templeton Jones turned to his com- panion, one Ned Forsooth, a some- what portlv. amiable fellow, whose greal distinction among his friends was that he had once turned down a $10.000 position with the words, “Any- body can get « $10.000 job.” Afier adding just the proper amount of crexm (o his coffee of precise warmth. and following it with an exact level spoonful of sugar, Tem. pleton Jones resumed the conversation which he had interrupted by calling the waiter “S0 vour wife is going to get her hair hobbed. eh?" *he queried, hix aris- tocratic features alight. “Yex,” aunswered Fu is tulking about 1" * % ox ox will look * amiably awayv. hopefully sooth. he. very nment “1 think she with hobbed hair ed Jones, stppin “You de ther. “1do. gravely | seemx 10 me that your sweei face. will loc with her hair hobbed out a leng time.” «; vou know she said she would | be last woman in the world to bob her hair——" “I_almost believe she is.” Jones quaffed his coffee with relish. Around them the restaurant life flowed. This was a cuddvhole in a great hotel, a place that formerly had seen the dropping in of many men to sample the wares in bottles out of the racks. | The bar was still there, and the rail, and the racks. Now there was pie on the counter, a fool on the rall, and nothing «t &ll in the racks. “My wife,” went on Ned Forsooth, thinking about it, but I don’t | know —I don’t know." “You don’t know what? “Whether she will look good.” ertainly she will.” Jones cheered him. “She has thick. heavy dark hair, exactly the kind that looks the best bobbed. You know, I am some- thing of an expert on this subject.” “You like bobbed hair? “Immensely. | know just how you feel about it. When my wife got hers bobbed, I was ready to condemn. T scarcely had the heart to look at her when she came back from the beauty parlor. “Now, converted dred women, bobbed hair. on the woman. them more feminine.” * koK ¥ aueried went on Jonex. “It wife, with her She has held however, I am thoroughly Ninety-nine out of & hun- Ned, look better with It is cleaner. and easier Besides that, it makes ¥ | halt-way 10 his lips tore feminine?" he inquired. %.' replied the imperturhabie Templeton Jones. “You see, it is this way: Women are at their sweet- est when they stand, as Longfellow Phrased it. at the river’s brink, where childhood and womanhood meet. [ | “Musicians are born—not paid.” the laconic retort to the protest of the “music trust” (alias the Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) against the proposed liberalizing of copyright law protecting modern mu- sic from reproduction for profit with out compensation to the producers. The artists and their publishors claim that, while there is more truth than postry in the retort, there fs still less justice. At a_meeting held last week in Syracuse. N. Y., by some hun- dreds of composers a demand was made that Representative MacGregor {of Buffalo should lead their cause in {legistation which will protect their proprietary rights against the “pi- rates—the broadcasting rldlnn'lnd the movle plcture orchestras. Where MacGregor sita there is the head of the orchestra, for the society aforesaid controls 90 per cent of all the popular music copyrighted in the United States. i * ok ok ok Just what the MacGregor bill will cover has not vet crystallized. The Perkinz bill, which has already been befdre Congress and which is fathered by the Authors’ League of America, provides for a complete revision of copyright law. It was lost in the last sassion, largely through the opposition led by Representative Sol Bloom, who is one of the leading music publishers. * K K K s The Perkins bill enlarges the pro- tection to writers and artists and ex- tends the protection to allens who produce while they are bona fide resi- dents of this country. It also gives to all holders of American copyrights full protection in all countries of Eu- rope without further action, in recl- procity for similar protection for for- eign copyrights in our own country. It will cover all books, periodicals, newspapers. lectures, dramatic and musical compositions, maps. works of art, drawings and plastic works ef a scientifie character, motion pictures, scenarios (unpublished or published). etc. This protection extends for 28 years, with the right of extension an- other 28 vears. * Kok % The contention Ix the growing prac- tice of orchestras employed in motion plcture and other places of amuse- ment or entertainment, including { hotels and radio broadeasting stations, { of plaving copyrighted music without the license of the composer or pub- | lisher. The so-called Music Trust penalizes all cases of such infringement by col- lecting the legal forfeit of $250 for the first offense and $150 for each sub- sequent offense, or requires the offen- der to procure a license from the “trust.” It is alleged that there are agents who listendn at places of amusement, and even set traps to in- duce infringement, in order to collect the penalties, or force a license. Recently a Masonic band was threat- ened with the penalty if it played a specials arrangement of “The Star Spangled Banner” and “Lead, Kindly Light,” written by Walter Damrosch and Mr. Sonneck for the United States Bureau of Education. It was not argued that the band was to charge admission to its music nor that the music would be played without the purchase of the copyrighted sheet music published by the holders of the copyright. The music of “The Star Spangled Banner” is more than a century old; it was a German drinking song before Francis Scott Key used it for his patriotic inspiration; ‘“Lead, Kindly nou copyrighted. ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ There are new principles of law In- very well indeed | L|;ht." is half a century old, and is the ! | convinced. | to bring his heavy well | BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. “The women who can carry over into their womanhood something of that little-girl look are the women that win the hearts of men. If you will notice the winners of most of the so-called bathing beauty contests, you will find that practically every one of them has this sweet face. “The little-girl look is what does it. my boy, and there is nothing that will give a grown woman the littie- girl look %0 much as bobbed hair— that ix, provided she will take care to remember that she must still keep her hair feminine. “orsooth looked a question. “These freaks you see going around now with their hair cut like a hoy's have forgotten that a woman ought to look like a woman. The beauty of properly bobbed hair is that it is intensely feminine. You would never mistake a woman with the right sort of bob for anything except a girl. ““These girls who are getting their heads trimmed close, to ape boys, are making the mistake all do who de not know where the dividing line is,” continued Jones. ‘““The ability to let well enough alone s not' pos- sessed by all women—or men, either.” And vet 1 am not sure I would like my wifa with bobbed hair, even the proper feminine sort you so elo-! quently praise.”” said Forsooth, light- ing @ cigarette. “Have one?’ Thank vou, I will. merely for the society of the thing,” answered Jones. “Personally. T the “after- taste they leave in my mouth.” ok ox two men smoked in ailence. finished cups of coffee pushed Forsooth still did not look Jones saw he would have artillery to bear. A puff of smoke heralded their un- limbering. “Since I have become converted to hobbed hair,” spake up Jones, 1 have The their back | come 1o look upon long hair on wom- | | | is | volved | en | the old days, but now sooth halted his cup of coffee | Kind. as merely %0 much—what shall we call it”—well, superfiuous hair, if you please.” ed Forsooth looked ot only that,” continued the amiable Temp Jones (who is rightly regarded among his friends as the kindest-hearted man in Washington). “Whenever | see a woman with a mess of hair coiled around on the top of her head it strikes me now as Ve almost obscene.” surprised. : " protested Forsooth. “You don’t mean exactly that.” “Perhaps not exactly,” tempered Jones. “But almost that. But T seem to know now what the church fathers meant when thev forbade a woman to come into the congregation with uncovered head. “That ban always puzzled me in that 1 have become converted to the intense little- girl femininity of bobbed hair, 1 see better than ever that the long coils of woman's hair possess charms that are not strictly—"' Jones broke off to take hi Anyway.” he resumed. “I belleve the old fathers were right. And I equally believe, now that most wom- en have their hair bobbed, all such foolish restrictions should be re- moved, for the reason for them no longer exists. “We no longer wish to sport with (he tangles of Neaera's hair, as Mil- ton said. Man thus has lost one of his ancient temptations, and both men and women are the better for ft. “Alexander Pope, who Byron said ought 1o be the national poet of man- was a prophet, indeed, when he forsaw the role the shears would play in_modern American life." Templeton Jones smiled quotes “The meeting points the sacred hair dissever the fair forever.” ast puff. as he From head, forever and ‘ BACKGROUND OF EVENTS' BY PAUL V. COLLINS. in the controversies between composers and rudio broadcasters and orchestras. The first case in court involving the new conditions was that of M. Wit- mark & Sons vs. Bamberger & Co.. In ersey, 1923. Bamberger & Co. large department store, and were broadcasting radio entertain- ments as a means of publicity. They gave the song “Mother Machree,” and the penalty was $250. The court held that since they were broadcasting to advertise the store it was for profit The next case was in Cincinnati— Jerome H. Remick & Co. (music pub- lishers) vs. American Auto Accessories Co.. a company which makes acces- sories, also. for radios. They plaved “Dreamy Melody,” and awoke from their dream to confront a bill of §250. The district judge ruled that the defendants had not infringed because the music was played in a room whence the public was excluded. and that the fact that the ether carried that music some thousands of miles outside of their locked room did not make them vesponsible for that broad- casting. This strange decision was re- versed by the Circuit Court of Ap- peals, and, thereby. the fundamental principle was ruled that the broad- casting is a part of the act of the orchestra, if the performance is linked up with broadcasting apparatus. The third case is still pending: it involves some principles not included in either of the others, It is Remick vs. the General Electric ,Co. It is charged that the orchestra of the New Kenmore Hotel, Albany, N. Y., had permission from the owners of “‘Somebody’s Wrong.” to play the music, and that the General Electric Co., without license from any one, established a microphone in the hotel and broadcast the music. Since the broadcasting company had nothing to do with the employing of the orches- tra, the defendant contends that it has not infringed, and that its broad- casting of whatever sounds came from that”room was a free and inde- pendent act, with no responsibility to any holder ‘of a copyright. At least the peculiar title will be sustained: Somebody is wrong. When the present copyright law was acopted in 1909, there was no radio broadcasting, hence the law does nbt specifically cover it. and there are no direct precedents in the courts ¢overing its principles. * X x x The chief contention of the Ameri- can Sobety of Composers, Authors and Publishers is for their protection under the strict terms of the present law, wiiich entitles the composer to 2 cents:on each phonograph record sold. Sciiea contends that the law has cut down his income seriously, for prior to' the passage of this law in 1909, he veceived 15 per cent, where now he .is limited to 2 cents. George M. Coheh received $50,000 for his song “Over There.” E * ¥ X % What effect will the restrictions on “popular tausic” have upon the renais- sance of classic music? was asked a high avihority. The answer: ‘None; that mu®t come through education. A public which demands ‘bananas’ could not 4l sirloin ‘chateaubriand,’ but must convinced over and over again tKit ‘We Have no Bananas To- day.’ Np ‘copyright enforcement will force =mi.ch an appetite. (Copy¥ght, 1025. by Paul V. Collins.} =y +oee Why 5 it that a red-headed woman Invariab’y marries a meek man. The answer ‘s: She doesn’t. He just gets tnat wai:.-—Roanoke own a T NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM ‘1.G. M. ROBERT E. LEE, THE SOLDIER. 8ir Frederick Maurice. Hi hton Mifflin Co. This study of one military leader by another one carries upon its surface an implication that here is a techni- cal work designed for the use of the military student alone. Such is not the fact. True, this is a deeply critical examination of the military career of Gen. Robert E. Lee, by Gen. Sir Fred- erick Maurice, chiel of operations on the British general staff during the World War and military writer of high standing. It {s at the same time, however, a study so free from the pure technic of military operations and terms as to furnish the lay reader a plain relief pattern of the essen- tials of the Civil War, in so far as these were demonstrated by the ac- tivities of Lee on the one hand and those of his successive opponents on the other. Realizing that the special student, the expert, becomes in any sense gen- erally useful only as he translates the technic of his science into the cur- rency of common speech, Gen. Mau- rice presents the military leadership of Lee in terms of one plain war problem or another, a business prob- lem in effect—this thing to be done, this way of doing it. Touching the man under the soldier for a moment of necessary fllumination, he shows Lee dominated by hatred of the war and ardor for its speediest termina- tion. Such is the mental and emo- tional complex under which the South- ern leader’s most notable military movements were made. For instance his ateady withdrawal from Rich- mond, seat of the Confedera: toward ‘Washington, the Federal Capital. For instance again, his determined will to push of these moves were made to weaken the hasic strength of every fighting country, its morale. Let the North see the slaughter and the starvation and the wreckage as the South was seeing it—a tremendous blow this would be to the fighting spirit of the North. So, in every phase of his work, doe. this author make good use of the rea- sons underlying the various war plans of Lee. With these made clear the movements themselves—campaign and battle, strategy and tactic—become intelligible and illuminating to the av- erage reader, as they become also substantial material for the military student. For 20 vears has lLee's leadership of the Confederate armies been a sub- ject of study with this author. The World War ftself served to estab- iish further the clarity of Lee’s mill- tary insight, the soundness of his plans, the true quality of his general- ship. This book, therefore, rounds to a discriminating and appreciative studv. It is, besides—and this is one of ity fine features—a study that is quite within the reach of every read- er to whom it gives fair setting forth of a momentous chapter in American history. It closes in a eulogy that goes back to the advice of Napoleon 1o his generals that they study the camapigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederick, as the only means of becoming great leaders and of master- ing the secrets of the art of war. To this Sir Frederick adds, “To that se- lect band of great commanders the name of Robert E. Lee must be add- ed. His exmct precedence among them I will not attempt to determine, but that they have received him as a soldier worthy of their fellowship, I do not doubt. * xowox AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONG- STREET. John Donald Wade. The Macmillan Company. A rich find indeed—for one to come upon a man ofegifts so varied, of personality so compelling. of activ- ities mo many, of influence so wide- pread, as to illustrate. and in a sense to embodyv a period in the de- velopment of soclety ftself. Such, however, is the discovery made by this author in the person of Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, whom “so great became the noise of his superlative faculties that before he died legend had taken hold of and declared him to have been of prodigious birth.” Longstreet—lawvet, politician, orator, judge, farmer, business man, patron of medical education, teacher, schola college president, ~author, edito preacher, musician, naturalist, car- penter, artisan and sportsg: “And whatever he did he did well"—the au- | thor talking—''not with the greatest distinction, to be sure, but with some- thing far above mediocrity.’ It is within this field of bewildering oppo tunity that the author keeps a level head and a steadv mind as he pur- sues this amazing Georglaralong the muitifarious paths of his career. A most spirited performance, this study. No other kind would do at all in this particular case and situation. The wonder is that in a field so tangled with diverse activities the author is able to lay out roads and paths for any secure following. But he does, and he does it with a zest that is eedily communicable to the reader who trails this astonishing man-of- many-parts if he were pure ad- venture. A point to mention here is the point of John Wade's purpose In writing the biography of Long- street—that is, he makes it clear and to a certain extent believable that Augustus Baldwin Longstreet does embody and project the cultural State of Georgila in its passage from colonial life to the feudal state of slavery and the great plantations. Both from its authoritative quality and fits con- tructive excellence the study becomes valuable as it is clearly interesting. * ok % % JEFFERSON AND MONTICELLO. Paul Wilstach. Doubleday, Page & Co. Having spent d part of the Sum- mer “‘along the Pyrenees” with Paul Wilstach I knew what to expect in “Jefferson and Monticello” by way of easy friendliness of manner. The best of men to go about with, this Paul Wilstach, since to good knowledge and sound information he adds the gift of being the good companion. Not far into this adventure of Monticello you will come to feel that this is more than a journey to Charlottesville and a looking about the beautiful Italian palace from Andrea Palladio’s design- ing. It is, instead, blography, history and poetry. It is the story of a dream mountain, one whose wooded heights were in the course of time to take on the fair proportions of a palace and to serve thereafter as the refuge. of a great man from the stresses of politi- cal strife and the perils of revolution, from the hazards of reconstruction and the weariness of leadership and the trials of public abuse. Here in a clear genius of feeling and workman; ship is the story of the man and the mountain. Here is the life of Jefferson reflected from the white walls of Monticello. Here, too, is the mansion itself redolent of the rich. days that mark its best years, days that look back to its beginnings in the mind of a boy and days that look forward to the present shrinelike character of this house on the mountain top. One can hardly think of a more interesting adventure than to go with Paul Wil- ‘lz‘cl: .luhotfl soft Autumn days, to icello for a pert of its' uty and for l.w mfi of the character and quality and career of the man through whose dream Monticello came true. Clarence Darrow, who has a repu- tion for being for the “under dog,” wants to do something now for the hard-pressed monkey.—Omaha World- 1 the war into the North. Both | | span ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]J. HASKI, Q. What is the seating capacity of | the “New Chicago” Theater’—G. J. B. A. It has a seating capacity of 5,000. Q. Why do sailors wear such wide clumsy trousers?—H. J. D. A. All seamen wear trousers which are unusually- wide at the bottom in order that when they are cleaning decks or landing in shallow water the trousers can easily he rolled above the knees. Q. w How many miles of electric rail ve are there in New York State?— . M. . In 1922 there were 4,854 miles of electric railways on which were operated 18,737 cars. Passengers car- ried numbered 3.314,046,35%, A. Are the magnetic poles station- ary N. D. A. Because of the observed changes in the direction of the magnetic needle from year to year, it is believed that the magnetic poles are not stationary, but their motion is undoubtedly slow. Q. the United State A. There aye 18,572 bakeries employ- ing 127,498 people. About 60 per cent of the population depends upon bak- eries for bread. Q. What aw of primogeni- ture?—G. N. A. It is a law of inheritance by which the eldest son takes by descent the real property of the deceased an- cestor. This rule of descent. due to the feudal svstem, has long since dis- appeared everywhere except in Eng- land. of the common-law system into the American colonies, hut was abrogated and abandoned by them at an early period Q. Where is the of bridge”— M. K. A. The Quebec Cantilever over the St. Lawrence River of 1800 feet the greatest span of any completed bridge in the world. How many bakeries are there in -B. A. R. is the gest xingle span Q. Was there a battle at Princeton during the Civil War?—C. R. A. The “Battle of Princeton,” ) was a famous engagement of Revolutionary War, January 3. 1 Gen. Washington commanded the American forces, and Col. Mawhood and Gen. Leslie, the British. During the Civil War, there was an engage- ment at Princeton, W. Va., in the Spring of 1862. Gen. Cox commanded the Union forces and Gen, Marshall the Confederates. Cox was obliged to retreat. 3 Q. How does the cricket produce the sound known as chirping?—B. B. A. It is produced by rubbing a file- like ‘ridge of one wing over a scrap- ing surface of the other. Only the males have these organs and it is gen- erally agreed that the sound serves to call their mates. Q. How much do we as & Nation spend annually for food?”—A. R. R A. Basing an estimate on the aver- age vearly income of the families of the United States there is in normal times in the neighborhood of $7,000,- 000,000 spent annually for food in the United States. Forty per cent of this figure is spent for meat. fish, poultry etc.; 15 per cent for grain products, T It was introduced with the rest | Bridge | with a | per cent for milk, 7 per cent for butter and other fats, 7 per cent for vegeta bles, 7 per cent for sugar, 6 per cent for eggs, 4 per cent for fruits, less than 1 per cent for eheese and nuts. Q. What do the initials F. 1. D. A. C. stand for’—F. K. ¥ A. They represent an organization known as Federation Inter-Allies des Anciens Combattants. Translated into English it means Internatioh Allled Federation of War Veterans. The aim of this organization is universal peace. Q. T am interested in dental hygiene. Can you give me some information about’ this occupation?—H. E. V. A. Among the occupations which have arisen in connection with the development of preventive medicine and public heaith work that of the dental hygienist, oral hygienist, or dental nurse, as it has been varjousiy called, is perhaps the most recent. Dental disease is the most common all human aflments, and seems like to remain so for some time to coms. The public school offers an especially fine fleld of work for both prophylactic and educational work, and the dental hygienist is emploved by the depart ments of education in a considerable { number of cities, towns and rural dis tricts. Dental hvgienists are well paid considering the time spent in training | The salaries range from $80 to $200 a month. Q. What part of a vessel ix known as “the eves'7—G. ( A. “Eyes of a ship” is a term ap plied to the foremost part of the bow, so called from the ancient practice which still obtains in parts of the Mediterranean and elsewhere of paint ing a large eve on each side of a ves sel's cut-water as an emblem to avert the evil eye. Q. 1= it true that gold can he pro duced by artificial means?— W. B. N Prof. Miethe and Dr. I1. Stamn two German sclentists, have, it nnounced, produced gold by arti ficial means. While making special experiments they were struck by the unusual behavior of a mercury vapor lamp which would become premature- ly “‘aged,” its Inside walls being cov ered by a black deposit which reduced its flluminating power. The maker of the lamp was unable to ascertain b: chemical analysis the composition of a certain residue left by the mercury coating. Thereupon Prof. Miethe and Dr. Stammreich conducted another series of experiments, the invariahle result of each of which was that the presence of minute. though perfect measurable, quantities of pure gold could be found in the due, though the original mercury had net con tained the smallest trace of it. The quantities of artificial goM so far oh tained have been very small. and the cost has been far higher than the natural metal. res (We are sure tha! each reader of The Star could be bencfited by the service offered by our free Washing- ton information bureau if he knew the scope and resources of this bureau Give us a _chance to be of help in your problems. ichether they he household, school or social. We are here to serve you: it is up fo you to see that we ore kept busy. Send your inquiry, together awith 2 cents in stamps’ for return postage. to The Rureau. Frederic . Washington. D. €, Star Information Haskin, dire, tor, Everybody on all sides of the ques- tion seems to find a measure of sat- isfaction in the report by research ex perts of the Federal Council of Church- es on a survey of prohibition enforce- ment. The outstanding fact is gen. eral acceptance of the report as an honest presentation of the which the New York Evening World calls “a powerful indictment of an un- reasonable experiment” and from which friends of prohibition expect stimulation to more effective endeavor. The hope of the Federal Council that a still more thoroughgoing survey will result is echoed by the Newark vening 'News, which charges that both the proponents and the opponents of the dry law have twisted facts to support their own ideas. continues the Evening XNews, “lies somewhere In the realm of the ascer- tainable, @nd the individual or founda- tion that dispassionately found it out and then told it to the country would be an undoubtedly public benefactor.” The report is described as “an honest call to face the facts,” by the Water- loo Tribune, which recognizes that “the council has confidence that the defects in prohibition enforcement will be remedied: that an awakened public ee to it.” or_the first time," World-News says, “a responsible com- mittee of supposedly ‘dry’ people has sought, fairly and intelligently, to face the facts of present.day prohibition,” and when, according to the Pittsburgh Sun, “any individual or organization has reached the point of recognizing as clapirap most of the utterances of wet and dgy aglitators, he or it is on the high road to truth.’ “Let us have more unbiased reports, and we will be better able to discover just what is the matter with prohi- bition,” declares the FErie Dispatch Herald, and the Asheville Times con- tinues: “Evidently it is time for the country to ask ifself what it is going to do with prohibition. The people seem to be agreed against the return of the saloon, but they must decide whether prohibition shall be respected and far better enforced, or shall con- tinue to be ridiculed and evaded.” * % * % The Cincinnati Times-Star, which proclaims that there is dishonest prop- aganda for and against prohibition, and that “lars are liars, even if they think they are battling for the Lord or for ‘personal liberty,’"” finds in the church report “‘a sincere effort to fur- nish the facts.” The investigation by Churches, according to the Spokane Spokesman-Review. “will rally the friends of prohibition to renewed zeal and reorganization” and that paper suspects “it was intended to have that effect.” The New Orleans Tribune algo finds in the attitude of the Anti- Saloon League toward the report ‘“as something to be received by all friends of prohibition as ‘a challenge to re- newed activity." " “We are too close to the early phases of prohibition,” in the opinion of the Harrisburg Telegraph, “to Judge fairly of what has and is hap- pening, but such survey as this helps to establish facts on which our more mature conclusions will be established. ‘The findings are by no means dis- couraging to friends of prohibition.” “On the whole it seems clear that there is an economic gain” from prohi- bition, says the Duluth Herald, and further, as stated by the Willlamsport Sun, if the report “serves to awaken the church people to more determined efforts to secure enforcement every- where, it will have accomplished a good result, even though some of the alleged findings are denounced as an attack on prohibition.” The Lansing State Journal also thinks that ‘‘one chief consideration may be deduced from the report, and that is that a person who questiens the present situ- ation is not necessarily an emissary of the devil.” A new policy {s demanded by the Frenton Times. with the query. “Will the Volstead act be permitted to be- come a dead letter or will it be modi- fled into a workable system, as in Canada?" * % ko “The sinister vndluon portends s the Council of | which truth. | he truth,” | the Roanoke | Church Counecil Pr(;hibiti;)ll Report P]eases Everybody revolution of our common morals.” according to the Manchester Union points out that young people drink in Europe as well as in prohi- bition America. On the other hand, the Wichita Beacon believes that “the hip flask and society bootlezger phase will pass, and the fact that it typi fies defiance of law will eventuallv wear itself into the conscience of the people.” “More than ever before,” suggests the Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman, the liquor question has become a_home question, and more than ever before the churches and other forces should carry their fight into the homes." Tyranny in legal measures is deplored by the Morgantown News-Dominion, with the comment: “Everywhere thera is too much legal and a sad lacking of moral force about this great re form." “The most remarkable document on the subject that has been issued” is the verdict of the Hartford Times, which expresses the opinion that “it is | high time that the country was con | sidering whether prohibition as we have it is the best means of handling the liquor problem.” The church body is congratulated by the Detroit News. “As long as the fate of prohi bitlon depends on facts, it will do its professional proponents no harm tn know what the effect of the law has been to date,” savs the News. “Hon- esty” is seen in the report by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which contrasts this quality with the hypoerisy of “blind propagandists.” “The plain truth of the matter is that ultimately the question of proh: bition is a matter for local determina tion,” is the conclusion of the Phila delphia Xvening Bulletin, ———— Visit of U. S. Fleet Pleases Australia To the Editor of The Star: We think it may Interest you to hegr first-hand from Australia that the recent visit of the U. S. A. fleet hag created a profound impression in this country. The behavior of the personnel ashore has been remarkably fine, and there is no doubt that a wonderful feeling of brotherhood has been created by the general intermingling of the sailors and marines with Australian families in their homes. We trust that this basis of friendly intercourse will result in a better gen- eral knowledge of the potentialities of Australia, and would remind you that only 100 years ago the popuiation of the U, 8. ’A. was the same as that of Australia_today. EDWD. WATERS & SONS, Patent Attorneys R Salt Water Bathing Held Accessible to District To the Editor of The Star: Regarding as most interesting and important the suggestion, said to have been made by President Coolidge, to the effect that instead of making turther efforts to utilize the Potomac water for bathing purposes we should consider the practicability of provid- ing salt-water bathing places, T desire to point out that our city {s within 25 miles—in a direct line—of Chesa- peake Beach, where there is excellent salt-water bathing and entirely safe, as there are no treacherous holes and for about half a mile or more from the shore the depth will not exceed 4 feet. Were an electric line established from our city to the nearest point on Chesapeake Bay not more than 30 minutes would be required to make the journey, and 1 believe such a line would prove hoth popular and profit- able. WILLIAM SMALL.