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g™ THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY......October 3, 1825 THEODORE W. NOYES.. .Edltor' e Evening Star Newspaper Company 11n s B v St.and Pennsvivania Ate New York Office: - 110 Fast 45nd St. Chicagg Office: Tower Building Dean Office: . 10 Reent St.. London. istand. ar. with the Sunday morn- | 1ae edition: fivered by carriera’ within | 1ie citv at 60 canta per month: daily onl cents per month: ‘Sunday onls, 20 cents ontl) | Ondara may e sant by mail or ephone Main 3000, Coliection {s made by rier at the end of each month. The Evanine St Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. yair and Sunday. ...] yr. SR.40:1mo DAl only ™ 1358880 1 mo Sindas outy 13582800 1 mo. 700 o 20¢ All Other States. July and Sunday. ...1 sr. §10.00: 1 mo. i’ anly $7.00: 1mo Sunday only. tated Proas fs exclust == for renublication of all news d »d to it or not otherwise cre aner and_also the locul news All rights of publication < herein are also reserved. Board Defies President. pping Board is out nce of Preside g has grown be- md the limits of & row between the he Emergency Fleet Cor- caded by former Admiral The board, al members, i | | the | i » controversy by ts has re. ion which it adopt suggestion of President Cool- ing over to the Fleet Corpora: powers with regard to the he Government-owned | sident had become con the (perati £ the Gov- | ipping business could and economically be through the Fleet Corpora- tion ded by one man. The effective transaction this huge bu through a bipartisan board of seven the President insisted at the time, was not satisfactory and feasible. The President’s recommendations in this have been swept aside. The ioard has resumed full of operations of the fleet. solution throwing over the nced by the President and in © the last two years, with re- that have been extremely bene- al to the Amerfcan taxpayers and the American merchant marine, was adopted by the votes of Commis- s Plummer, vice chairman « ard. a Republican from Maine, imissioners Benson, Thomp. <on and Haney, Democrats, according to the reports. Mr. Haney, it will be remembered, 1S the member of the board whose resignation President oolidge several weeks ago demanded ecause of his attack on the Pre ent’s plan of operation and upon Ad- wiral Palmer, but who has declined to | esign. The action of the four members of !lie board vesterday was taken in the face of the appointment by the Presi- lent of H. G. Dalton of Ohio as an wartial referee in the controversy letween the board and the Fleet Cor- poration. -Congress, it is expected, will be alled upon by President Coolidge to deal with this situation, which has heen made possible because of the terms of the merchant marine act, ving the beard wide authority over the merchant fleet. The President a vear ago recommended to Congres: that the law be amended so as to sep- | arate the beard and the Fleet Corpora- | tion, realizing that a conflict of thority was inevitable under the pres- | °nt circumstances. i The President did not stand alone in | demand two ago that the | toard permit the Fleet Corporation to handle the Government's shipping ! Senator Jones of Washing- | hairman of the Senate commerce | | matte now ~ull the press ! tions lrommand of atrplane Fraternity, in its official slntemen!.‘Ben began to make us laugh in the denies the right of the Board of Edu- cation and school officials to exercise any control whatsoever over 't or its members. It claims that it is not a “#hool orgunization.” While it has some mesbers who are attending local high schoois it explains that it has other members who are not attending such schools, and who have never at- tended a public school. It Insists that its membership is not dependent on at- tendance at a high school. This frater- nity asserts that the Board of duca- tion has been officfally advised by the sorporation counsel, the legal repre- sentative of the board, that the latter has ne authority to exercise control over other than “school organiza- It is also contended that the Board of Education does not possess the right, legal or moral, to penalize a pupil for declining to pledge himself to report to school officials if he in tends to affiltate with an organized Bible class or any other organization. The Board of Education claims to be secure in its position. The fraterni- ties, at leust Sigma Deita, according to its official statement, 1s detevmined to carry the controversy to the court of lust resort, it need be, to determine the issue. It should determined, the sooner the bLetter for the welfare of the schouls. . The Rodgers Testimony. Comdr. John Rodgers, commander of the Hawalian flight, exemplifies in himself the very thing for which he contends, opposing the proposed “uni- fied” wor separate air service. He is a sailor of the sea as well as of the air. His argument before the President’s Air Board vesterday declared against the establishment of an independent air force whose personnel would be air) n and not soldie More particularly he discussed problem from the standpoint of the pointing out there is as much dif- s or sailors ference between an aviator who flies | over land and one who flies over sea as there is between a soldier and a saile “The naval av said Comdr. Rodgers, “should be trained first to . and then to the air over the uld be qualified not only to operate his ma . but able to perform duties on board his base, which is the ship. Coming from the Nav: aviator, the second man in the Navy who learned to fly, this is advice which the proponents of a separate air ser ice would do well to ponder. Comdr. Rodgers further pointed out that it is inconceivable airplanes should operate great distances at sea except with ships as bases. The unified air service plan contempiates the development of seagoing airplanes and “their farming out to the Navy in lots, as from a stable.” The commander of these airplanes necessarly passes un- der the command of a seaman in com- mand of the ship unit to which the air- planes are attached. “This seaman,” said Comdr. Rodgers, “it the united air service were effec- tive, would be a person totally un- trained and inexperienced in the opera- tion of airplanes.” The naval aviator can best trained. Comdr. Rodgers insisted, the organization in which he is to fight. He insisted further that the carrfers and tenders and all ships whose major duty is to serve airplancs should fall to those who have had experience in airplanes. important does Comdr. Rodgers insider the “un went o the s sea; he she over the se ‘s premier livery be in so far as to declare himseif of a single “department of national defense.” which shall include both the Navy and the Army. This in opposition to the plan for setting up of a new air service distinet from either the Army the Nuvy. He taboos, too. the suggestion emanating from some quarters that special corps of aviation be set up in the Navy and the Army, b wuold lead to jealousies and heart- or ommittee, and many other mk'n‘l‘(‘rs‘ Congress had reached the conc u- | sion that the board was not properly mstituted to tranact this executive | and administrative function. This feel. ing has grown stror The s America aunestioned off ti in 1 stics relating to crime startiing. Tt whether others, 10: n ‘[ are may be | Nation only more | conditions | this rse i di or its sure of 1st b itelligentiy dealt with . popular regret, | of hix having | that a patient and | public veeasions no s not a chanes ideas to off riminating tas not heard | | - | Fraternity Row : duption “legally” by the » District of ternity rule is | in further litigation, accord- | ofticial announcement by the | council of the Sigma Delta | raternity. Much as a continuation of | raternit ) t is eminentiy 1o, definite ourt ruling. The subje of real tance to pupils, their paren \d the themselves. The issues valved should not be confused in the yublic mind. and <barply defined. The Board of Educ tton has ruled that pupils in the loca nigh wools not hecome bers of eveanizations not approved by | sevintendent of Should they becomie of such organi- zations they will be ba 1 extra-curriculum activities, such holding commissions in the cade participation in athletics, en zaging in dramatic ntations and the like. Furthermore, all pupils and their varents required to sign pledge cards, seiting forth the organt zitions of which the pupils are mem- if any, and promising not to afliliate with any organization with- first notifying the school officials of their intention so to do. Failure to sign the card will be regarded as an sion of membership. and the of- will be The The recent Board of Bdy Columbia of its anti atin row” is to be regretted. able, for the good schools, that the matter and finally settled by desir “f the e is one por- ools in- They are clear cu may mem the s chools., member red from cer | | | i corps. imi tending pupils Cordingly . On the other penulized ac- hand. Sigma Deita | burnings, and would interfere also with the essential unity of command. The hard-headed sailor-aviator called attention also to « point that is rarely ed. the high cost of defense by A general impression has been ed. largely through propaganda defense by air cheap. Bu todgers insists that the fig- that Comdr. is ures, if brought to light, would not | be pleasant to look upon.” He did not use this as an argument against understood before they | the upbuilding of air defense, but as a | reason why steps should be ta reduce this cost. Two constructive were wdvocated by Comdr. Rodgers to meet the situation. One was the establish- ment of a separate budget for aviation, so that the costs would be easily un n to measures lderstood, und the other the establish- went of a separate promotion list for aviators. The re todgers commendations -of Comdr. er who has served on every and 1in of an of kind of craft used in the Navy. who has a long and brilliant rec aviation. As such they be given earnest consideration. T T Ben Turpin's Grief. The death of Ben Turpin's wife. told in a Hollywood dispatch, moves the sympathy of a great number of per- sons. There was much that touching in the constancy and devo tion of Ben Turpin to his wife. THe left the screen several months ago that he migit nurse her. This was widely known and the hupe was gen- eral that Mrs. Turpin would recover; that Ben might come back to us and let us look again on that grace of face and form which had broken the hearts of many lovely women. including the Queen of Anchovia; wrecked many ru- ral homes, and brought upon the hero the horrid envy of his rivals in the lage. The Hollywood dispatch says: he motion picture comedian aban- doned his work at the studios when Carrie Lemieux Turpin became se- viously il last December and the call of the camera was unheeded month atter month as he cared for the woman was { who would accept no ministration but | his * The dispatch says that the Tur- pins were married about elghteen years ago; that Mrs. Turpin worked with her husband on the legitimate | stage ‘and later in pictures, and that they were brought to Hollywood ten years ago by Charlie Chaplin. It seems more than ten years that A the | of command” that | eving that such a course | : the deliberate conclusions | doubtless will THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1925. early Mack Sennett comedies with Louise Fazenda, Billy Bevan and other 8ood people whose names do not at the moment come to memory. Ben's parts became more ambitious—more lofty—and as Rodney St. Clair, hero of numberless love dramas—heart af- falrs, desperate and reckless—a host of people came to regard Ben as a friend. He essayed high roles in drama, and one recalls with pleasure— even with glee—when Ben, alias Rod- | ney St. Clair, appeared in the town hell of his native village as Romeo. There were thoughts that Ben might take on Othello with Louise Fazenda as Desdamona and Billy Bevan as Iago, and that finally he would arrive us Hamlet with Louise as Ophella and Billy as the Ghost, the King, or some- thing. In Ben's comedy there has al- ways been that degree of intelligence and that measure of good wit and humor needed to make wise and dis- criminating persons laugh. There are a million persons who would express to this good comedian their sentiment of sorrow If they could. — S Sportsmanship in Adversity. Considerable dissatisfaction has hecn expressed over the distribution tickets for the world series games by the Washington base ball club. Fans who claim that they have attended games throughout the Summer are loudly lamenting the fact that they were giverl tickets in the pavilion when they asked for grandstand or | that they received only a polite rejec- } tion slip from the club. | This situation is as unfortunate as {it is inevitable. Practically every per- son in Washington would like to see the series. There are approximately 36,000 seats in the park. With nearly | four applications for each seat it is | obvious that only one applicant will be i satistied while the other three will | feel with varying degrees of intensity that they have been discriminated against, The club has announced that no blocks of tickets have been sold: that tickets have not been furnished the hotel news-stands; that it will conduct 1 steady campaign against scalpers and that in so far as pos: two | tickets per person have been granted. | |1t has also stated that applications { have been filled in the order they were recetved. On these assurances, and on ti logic of the conclusion that the club i would under no circumstances de- | | liberately alienate its steady custom- | | ers. it should be fairly recognized that | {the best that could be done has been {done. Mistakes have undoubtedly | | been made fn the rush and bustle and confusion which surround issuance of es ible only of | tickets for a world series. There is yet time and opportunity for the remedying of just complaints, and it may be safely assumed that wherever possible the club authorities will act. But to the tens of thousands who, | proud of the team and eager to cheer | {it on to the culmination of its second | { victorious season, and for whom there | {is, physically, no room at the Clark | | Grifith Stadium, the club can afford {no balm in Gilead. The best that can { | be done for them in enabling them to follow the series play by play through l scoreboard and radio announcement | i i {will be done by The Star and others. ! | | | | | Fairness, rising above natural disap- | pointment in the case of those thou- | sands, will pre and the cheers that resound along Pennsylvania avenue next week will bespeak loyalty to a | team and club that have both done | their best in a hard jot | i | £ e | The bathing season is over. and the | beauty contest is hindered by the ne {cessity of hiring a hall and meetin the high cost of fuel. ———————— i SHOOTING STARS. ! | | | i | BY PHILANDER JOHN=ON Bone Heads. All heads of bone are partly We point to them with pride And vet we wonder, half afraid | 1‘ Just what may be inside. [ We seek ‘mid pleasure or ! To teach or to be taught. | The X-ray cannot help us guess The mystery of a thought. made. distress i { Each head's a casing so secure Its contents rest unknown We are not even wholly sure i what is in our own | | Safeguarding Popularity . “Your constituents are enthusiastic in your support.” | “I know it,” answered ghum, “and I am grateful. “They are clamoring for a speech.” | “All right. But I'm not going to risk | saying anything that might be un-| popular. Get a jazz band ready and | I'll introduce the numbers on the pro- | gram.” cnator Sor- | Finance Wizardry. | The wizard of finance must fret O'er ways of getting out of debt. And then to fret he must begin O'er ways of getting deeper in. Jud Tunkins says he believes in |evolution because if there was any- I thing wrong about it the Bible would have had something (o say against it | Eloquence. “Would you consent to run for the “Why not?” 1“1 can't afford it. and my feller citizens. But any elo- quence I am master of has got to be used just mow in persuadin’ some griends not to foreclose the mortgage.” Not for the Amateur. The actors are compelled to say Such words as fill us with dismay. If I should go into the street And what T heard just now, repeat, Police would run me in. no doubt, And friends would have to bail me out. How frequently I'd like to swear! We now demand a studious In speech of objurgative thrill. Profanity we deem a part Of polished Histrionic Art. “Friendship ceases in u poker game,” sald Uncle Eben, “but it be- | formi | backward to the fare tany | Knickerbocker Press, | inspiration for the I like to make | WOTK in a very humble capacity. speeches for the Lenefit of my country |road was as Hin 1871, | emphasized by the Kansas But such a thing 1 do not dare, | | gins over again when you finds you's got to borrow.” & THIS AND THAT S AND THAT ||| ™= msmmresis ||| ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS | BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Do _merchants and bankers, butch- ers, bakers and candlestick makers read good books any more? A correspondent expresses doubt, as follows: “Dear Sir: “I have not the .pleasure of being acquainted with you, but permit me, in a brief manner, to say that many of your articles appearing in The Star are much appreclated by the reading and thinking people of this city. “It fs, however, needleess for me to inform you that, sad to say, this class is distinctly in the minority. I refer, more especially, to vour strictly literary articles, such as the one which appeared .on the 7th instant re the immortal Lord Tennyson. “Your last words in_ this writing, ‘But who reads them? struck me forcibly, I am a reader, and some- what of a thinker, and it is distress- ing and disgusting for me to know, as I do, how little the rank and flle of the people know about the writings of the grand old literary masters, and this condition s by no means con- fined to the hard working, or humble classes of society “We find it exists with the mer- chant, the banker and elsewhere where one would not expect to find it. There is a vast, presumptuous crowd to he found everywhere. “Robert Burns, the Scotch poet once said when something had gone wrong with him: ‘It is enough_to make a man flee to drink.’ We know he had the reputation of taking too much, no doubt, on the slightest provocation. Thomas Gray of ‘El- his sect of Eton College’ (I put e formi: Why should ince sorrow hever come: happiness fon swiftly flles ould destroy their paradise Where ignoraiice. in il ¢ 18 they know th wlly to be “Referring to my foregoing remarks, and the bud conditions generally all over the world, I beg to inclose some lines written by W. Wordsworth, ‘Lon- don, 1802 [ know these lines will interest veu very much. They confirm “There is nothing new under the sun,’ if correctly quoted, and your very weil put interrogation, ‘But who reads them’> With the highest considera- tion, T am yours faithfully, “RE. L.” ng and high thinking are no more,” sald Wordsworth, in the sonnet which my correspondent in closed, and which runs as follow O friend’ 1 not which way For comfort. being, as [ am. oppre o think thit now our life is o For show: mean handy-work of “Plain liv know I must ¢ drest aftsmau, Or groom' ' We must run ghtte: g like & nblest best Dok Cxpens e Ad sdolatary Plain livinz and hy The homely beaut: Is goe And more old Tespondent capable up a ble case ag selety: and vet I am not entirely sure that either of them is entirely right. In any age it Is possible to bemoan the state of affairs. In every period of it has been done by some one or other. Around 2,000 vears for instance, Titus Carus Lucretius depicted an aged plowman stopping in his work to lament the times, a good old s The truth of the ement ~that ill may be found in every age is no bet- ter illustrated than by the simple fact that every age inveighs against it. Conversely, that much good is to be Words- worth’s histor; d ook | found, too, 1s proved by the same fact, for, behind the conditions thinking men lament, lies—and this is our strength—a. silent stream of ‘good. “Still waters run deep,” says the old saying. It is true. The men and women who appreciate and love the better things of life— “the flowers of the mind,” as Alice Meynell so beautifully phrased it —are not the sort who take the muffler off life. Rather, they put it on, preferring to glide along peacefully rather than at- tempt to attract the vulgar attention. It is well to remember this, when one becomes pessimistic, as we all ,must, at times. Despite all the un- favorable conditions around us, the seeming complete obsession of the peo- ple in trifles, there “vet are 5,000 who have not bowed the knee to Baal." I am sure that if R. L. could look with me into my letter file, he would be encouraged, as L am, ut what he | would find there: Scores of letters, isuch as his own, most of them of such a purely personal nature that 1 |can never print them. Each one, 1 | believe, is the voice of many . They show, he md peradventure, | that the Jove of 1 books is alive {and thriving, t papers on poetry still make wide appeal, that eats and dogs are as much loved as ever, that we are all ke r own human natur and appreciate the little things of * B Yet the general thesis of mains unchanged just it was Wordsworth's duy Undoubtedly there are too many persons who strut | through life, encouraged to thin {of themselves by the reflected | of fine clothes. One may go into many homes, and | find bouks “conspicuous by their | sence.”” in the well worn phy can meet men who « in the “writing game, ho have {not « single book in their well fur | nished homes, if such a home can be sald to be well furnished | You will be able to discover men | Wie think nething at ail of spending 1210 on a new pipe, who would think 11t outrageous to purchase a beautiful volume upon pipes for onabic sum of $7, considering the limited ap- veal of such a work. The investigator will be able to find Imany men who are perfectly willing 1to spend $20 an evening on’ the th ater and supper, who w v us KTOSS extravagance to a look. 1 ab . You r living it $2 buy Despite 1] at the it schoolhou: our hix ools private institutions, colleces wnd uni versities have done to make gooc writing the friend of ! s has been of some) vast contempt in some books and ail things hooky A #il this runs rh: am_ of literary appreciatic ve of wood books, that de faction and honest pride i them, of which I have spoken. These people believe in “plain living high thinking as the poet put = they regard a good book as i good friend, and are not put out of coun tenance hecause one of their quaintances spends all of his spare time rvlling around the lundseape in his car They know that it tukes n to make a world, and that every mian in his own way, seeks for happiness. Fortunate, indeed. it seems & those who have not vet b | knee to all our modern Buals, | who have kept firmly in their | hearts—us many do, let us ne | get it —the love of good books, g | friends, good deeds. | | [ there cireles is sorts but own |Rea’s View of Railway Future Held Significant by Press nt uel Rea, retiving at 70 as prest. the tmammoth Pennsylvania 1 systen lafms to the nsportation great future the rail lines of the United States lis optimism is accepted by the pub- signiticant in vi of the doubts that have been heid by less experienced men in his profession who troubled by rapidly developing motor competition An example to others is found the career of Mr. Rea by the Phila delphia Public Ledger, which that “by no means the least achievements is the proof he given that the railroad is the broa highway to success for a man who is willing to start with the humblest duties in the determination to per- form them thorough Of his suc- cessor, G W. W7 Atterbury. the Led that he will “wield enormous powers for good or evil for the company and for the communities that it serves. The system road which n of both M de R: tr: 1 I in of promotion on de possible the ca Rea and Gen. Atterl by the Frie Dispateh-Her- h the comment: “Like many another officer of the road. Mr. Rea is a Pennsylvania System man born and bred. So is Willlam W. Atte bury, who will succeed him as presi- dent. It has always been the policy the Pennsylvania to pick its offi fuls from its own ranks. Today the son of a trackwalker S an oppor- unity to become president. With such opportunities for advancement, is it wonder that the Pennsylvania road is one of the greatest systems in the world?” the ers * % % % anuel Rea's name is writ large in America's greatest era of ruilroud building,” according to the Albany while the in dispensable character of his services is recognized by the Philadelphia Bvening Bulletin, with the comment: “His retirement impeaches the desir- ability of a system so inflexible that it removes men whose mental vigor is unimpaired, whose judgment is ripe and whose physical powers are still adequate. Mergers are in the alr. They and the new air plans across Pennsylvania vitally concern the Pennsylvania system. The Phila- delphia terminal s just beginning. To all these the wisdom of Samuel Rea could contribute valuable aid Pointing to Mr. Rea’s career as “a; American boy the Pasadena Star-News credits his advancement to pluck and persever- ance. “He came of a poor family.” ates the Star-News, “and he began s first work for the Pennsylvania Rail- chainman and_rodman with the surveying forces. That was From that year to the pres- ent he has been continuously in the service of the great Pennsylvania Rallroad system and has risen steadily until he hecame president of one of | the greatest transportation corpora- | tlons In the world.” |of the truth that Demonstration “application and also 1s ity Post. muel Rea could write a moral essay every day for the next 20 years.” the Pittsburgh Sun remarks, “and not more than begin to tap the w that a busy life has stored away the young man just starting out, who hera observes the triumphant conclu- sion of major tasks by a man whose only creed was to do his job as best he effort are the keys to succe: lcould. has all the essay that he needs.” “The wholesome optimism radiated by him in connection with railway de- velopment,” adds the Burlington Free Press, “‘can well be shared by the pub- lic in general. He says the opportu- nities for young men in rallroading are better today than ever before. He thinks a higher class of mental and physical leadershi than o0 years ago i the for new and better methods tantly making itself felt i required now a necessity Few men portunity t have Mr. Re o study idations. re marks the Springfield Daily News { which explains that “since in tl course of his serviee with the com puny he has consolidated 130 com Danies, so that the Pennsylvan, tem of 600 original companles has b merged into 10 active corpor: with the process still under way Special significance is see: Providence Bulletin in Mr. | that the locomotive and vehicle should be worked and the Hulletin observes that Rea has had long experience in traffic nd that he can see ahead f ithan the majority of people knowledzed by 'n who know |thing about transportation | views, as discussed b the ! Daily News, “are shared hy leading members of the National Automobile }Chanber of Cornmer, 1id there is no reagon why sellers of transport; | should limit themselves to one r kind.” he Quincy Whig-Journal suggests that “a great many vounger | men in railroad service who have grown faint-hearted and dismay |might take cheer from the words of 'ourageous veteran who is opti- fc at 70." The Norfoik Ledger- atch eredits him with large influ- ence in changing the attitude of the rallroads. “That the ideas of many of the old-time railroad executives us to policies in dealing with the were wrong,” the Ledger-Dispatch says, “is admitted now by virtually every man of prominence in the trans portation world. Mr. Rea been one of the leaders of the new school of thought, and what he has done as the chief executive of the Pennsyl- vania is ample evidence of the fact.” had en hy somie His Chicag Dobbin Urged for Honors Add another horse’s name (o {he equine hall of fame. that of the cab horse in Alicante, Spain, which w. hurled, despite his decrepitude. into the frantic bull ring. The bull-fight ing club of that city will preserve his hexd in their clubrooms, for did he not develop a pugnacity and whip o many bulls that all the matadors wept in envy? It took six good bulls to kil | this steed. He thus won renown. e |and a shed to creep under when it drizzled. There have been many famous horses. There was Pegasus. How he would have gladdened the heart of Col. Mitchell! And one must mention Rosinante, the bony nag of Don Quix. ote: and Bucephalus, the broncho which often bucked into battle with Alexander; and Aristides, the “little red horse” that won the first Ken ¢ Derby in 1875; and Clover, “the | oldest horse in the world.” He died in Catawissa, Pa.. at the age of 5I. Perhaps one may include Dapple, the obese donkey of the gentle Sancho Panza. Famous horses all. that is true. But if the average mun were asked to name a steed for the hall of fame, he {would remember rubber-tired | days: he would recall the i | blessedness of the buggy on rainy | nights, when side-curtains were tight, the lines hung loosely through slit in the storm curtain: and he would recollect the horse that he would nomi- nate for the hall of fame—Prince or Nellie or Queen, always to be relied upon to keep the road—Richmond News-Leader. { manufacture of Scotch snuff. By the Booklover. A doctor of philosophy, C. IL Charles, has considered it worth while to write a large volume on “Leve Letters of Great Men and Women.” He begins with the eight- centh century, because he says that modern loveletter writing did not exist before then. A chapter on “The Ideal Love Letter” reaches the con- clusion that there is no ideal, but that there are different types found in youth, middle age and old age. In youth love letters are of the heart, not the head. and are such as to make “sober people shake their heads and smile when, in after years, a fuded packet of these early protesta- tions falls into their hands;” in mid- dle age love letters are more practical and express an established relation of comradeship and helpfulness: in old age love letters reflect the weariness and the desire for peace and presence of loved ones which precede the end of life. Dr. Charles asks: “Which of these epist can considered the ideal 1o letzers? There is some- thing of the Promethean spark in them all.” i [ The cighteenth century love letters selected for comment include those of many famous persons in England, | Germany and France. The letters of Pope to the Blount sisters are full o extravagance and sophistry and also show the melancholy caused by his_perpetual ill health. He writes to Teresa: “You are to understand, madam, that my violent passion for your fair self and your sister has been divided, and with the most wonderful regularity in the world.” Swift's let- three women, all of whom he le very unhappy, Miss Waring (Varina), Esther Vanhomrigh (Vane =0 and Esther Johnson (Stella). are already famous for their brutali Sterne also wrote love letters to three | different women. His letters to Eliza- | Leth Lumley, who became his wife, | are very different before and after | marrfage. Before, he writes would wish to steal from the and live in a little sun-gilt cottage on the side of a romantic hill"; after, he glves careful directions ahout the Other eighteenth century English letters in- red | | hir | Othe tion | public | {of it. fto M salvaged for $60 from his vehicle and | seious | would have preferred a clover field | bugsgy | the | cluded ure some of Richard Steele, Dr. Johnsen to Mrs. Thrale, the Duke of Marlhorough to his wife, Horace to the Misses Berry and TV to Mrs. Fitzherbert Eighteenth centu GGermans were very sentimental | writers. Less -*to Eva Koenig, whom he fterward married: T love you above erything, and embri vou daily irn my the the nd - times. Schill handsome, had man irs. ¥ ote to Lotte von later wife: M ervthing that lives | vthing, m most youso Goethe hts @ aff Lengefeld Q. Is there a tree known as the! tallow tree?—G. E. A. The wax myrtle is sometimes so-called. Candles are made from its berries, as are soap and sealing wax. Q. What is the American Institute | of Co-operation?—C. T. B. A. It Is a new organization which | recently held a session in Philadel-| phia. Students are enrolled for the meeting and lectures and addresses are made before them by men experi- | enced and versed in the varlous phases of co-operative buying and selling. | Such organizations now have 2.000.000 | members and will transact $2,500,000,- 000 worth of business this year, ap proximately onefifth of the total' agricultural busin P Is paprika as strong as black V. B. It is not so pungent as black | or white pepper or cayenne. | Q. What word means “of or per- talning to a river”?—A. £ D. | A. Two such words are “riparfan” | and potam t Q. Are forest fires decreasing in| number” ! A. The Forest Service says that | forest fires increased to an alarming | extent in 1924 In that year 92,000 | fires gecurred, sweeping 29,000,000 | acres of land. Compared with the calendar year 1923, the 1924 figures | represent an increase of 24,000 fires! nd, compared with the nine-year average, an increase of 45,000 fires, o nearly 100 per cent. In acreage| swepl by the flames the 1924 figures are only siightly larger than those ! for 1823, but are almost double the | wcreage figures representing the nine- | year a Money damage in 1924, estimated at $35.000.000, is| £10.000,000 above the 1923 estimate and $18,000,000 higher than the nine- | year average of $20.600.000 Q. In what is the water that| plants use held in the soil>—J. The Bureau of Plant Industry says that water §s hela in the scil by capillar: attraction $s a film on the soil particles. Q. Tow long Las the tam-o’shanter | been worn’—F. C. B. | A. It was worn as early as 154050 hy the Scoteh plowmen. About 1889 it was modMfled as a headdress for ! girls and young women. Q. What players on the Washing. ton and Pittsburgh teams are clig 7 in the world series?—W. | Washington the follow eligible: Pitchers—Johuson, Cove- leskie, Ruether, Zachary, Fergus | Marberry, Dallou, Russell! catchers | Ruel, Severeid, Tate; infielders— Harris, J. Harris, Peckin- Bluege. Adams, Scott, Myer Goslm, MeNeely Judge, | paugh, outfielders—Rice. imerous and varied tated Ly his theo was to follow one's inclination in spite of conventional trammels. Some of his letters to Kaetchen Schoenkopf. Charlotte Kest- ner, Frau von Stein a tiane Vulpius are ted The French have always been con- red the artistic of letter writers. Their historic love letters usually been characterized by sparkling feism and super- ficiality S ception, show ungovernable feeling. Voltaire “never allowed love of woman. or indeed love of anybody excepting to interfere with his self obfectives.” His Jptters are and brillian? as his Diderat’s letters to his Sophie Voland. discuss the working classes and the of democracy that wa rng royalty and aristocrac cighteenth century French let- rs mentioned and quoted are those Ninon de I'Enclos, Mme. du Barry XV, Mlle. de Lespi du Deffand to He Walpoie, which sic most centere satirical tide is asse, ac beginning era. Gen. Bona unknown wrote idst alarums and excursions love-lett 10 Josephine. the charming creole. to whom he owed his ance into polite society.” Later. as the great Napoleon, he wrote divoreing her and she replied humbly, wishing him all good fortune. Lord Nelson wrote to Emma. Lady Hamil- . just before his victory and death afalgar. Field Marshal Bluecher ibed the Battle of Leipzlg in & letter to his wife Queen Luise of Prus; wrote to her weak-willed hus. band. Frederick William | him not to yield to Napoleon anything In the 1 th the young and which would destroy his sovereign in- | tters in Age pro : them let- Seott to duced many interesting love lependence. The Romantic England and France, am ters of Burns. Sir Walter Charlotte Carpenter Brawne, Shelley to Byron Countess Hugo to his wife Countess Hanska and Flaubert to Louise Colet. The Victorian Age is epresented by some of the letters of the two famous literary couples, the Brownings and the Carlyles. and let- wife. Mary Guiccie Adele. Balzac to to to A chay musicians to C T on love letters of famous includes some of Mozart's ze Weber. Beethoven's to his mortal beloved.” Schumann's to Clara Wieck and Wagner's to Ma- thilde Wesendonk. Another chapter, entitled “Modern Politiclans and Gread Men,” includes samples of letters, writ- en to their wives by Von Moltke, Bis marck, Heine, Bjoernson and Tolstoi, and letters written to women other than their wives by Ludwig I of varia (to Lola ontez Louls Napo- leon. Alfred de Musset (to George Sand). Nietzsche, Ibsen and Maup nt (to Marie Bashkirtsefh. In Bis- marck’s letters he described to his devoted Johanna many of the great events of his career, such as the capit. ulation of Sedan and the fall of Na- poleon TIT: with equal detail he often told her what he had for dinner, and expressed his approval or disapproval The letters of de Maupassant nd introspective as Bismarck’s letters are robust and objective. Tol- stol’s letters to his wife are full of his philosophy of poverty and non-resist- ance and show plainly her lack of sympathy with his ideas, as in the fol- lowing: “T know that what I am here saying is often unbearably tiresome to you and to the children—but I must always repeat that all our hap- piness or unhappiness does not de- pend one hair's breadth whether we make money or %pend it, but only on this, what we are ourselves.” * ok % The South Sea Islands are not yet exhausted as literary material. Robert Keable, tring of South Africa, per. baps, is trenching on the ground of Somerset Maugham in his latest novel, Numerous Treasure.” An English youth, fresh from Cambridge, visits an unconventional friend who has re. Jected Western civilization in favor of resldence on an island in the South Seas. Ronald Herrick loses no time in plunging into the native entertain- ments provided. Before he has been many moments ashore he becomes in- fatuated with a half-caste girl named Numerous Treasure—so christened by her drunken white father after a brand of Chinese cigarettes. Needless {to say, after a period of hectic tropical | life, Ronald returns to England and { English proprietie: s At the rate finance is going we will soon be on a platinum basis.—Rock- ford Star. artillery | 11, urging | Keats to Fanny | Ba- | rie Bashkirtseff are as self-con- | Lethold. ' For Pitts- larilge, Adams, Cramer, Yee, Morrison. Oldham, Culloto: catchers ch. Spencer: infielders Melnnis, Moore, Wright Ens, Thomy ders—Carey, | Barnhart, Haan. ! @ o Pluy @ whole season without losing a | i 8ame? B, A. In ach, Reds ! BY PAUL V. | | The | nessed jto & ors, lantic Ocean is to be h the Bay of Fundy and set ng the mills of its conquer s did Samson for his masters. as man! d endeavored to su 1o strength of the seas. Will t become blind and tractiv | due jat slave? t I | 5 | This is an age of mechanical power Manual lahor is no longer the means | . Since James Watts' vention steam hammer. in 1784, the ev which is to take over the “whit n's burden” upon {the shoulders of the mechanical ser ants of man has been continued | development of levers and ensines When the centennial exposition ul «brated the centennial-—or near .ntennial—of steam power, by Jling the possibilities of the gr rliss engine, it was assumed by v that almost the ultimate of {labor-saving machinery had leen { achieved. But, behold the progress since that {celebration: Steam has been largel superseded by gasoline and electricity | Without these more modern means there could have been no aviation ne \utomobile. Yet they date back | ihan three:score years—in fa | tically less than half that period and have almost completely elimi | nated even the muscles of the heast of i burden. and upplanted them with the sinews of Vulean. | But, with either steam or gas. there { is combustion of natural fuel stoved { from the energy of the sun through millions of ye . and now being used | taster than continuing solar sto | maintains the world supply. Even | tuaily. therefore, the fuel for s 5 ! internal gas combustion or electric power will be exhausted, and the world must look for other sources of j energy Effort ma less prac have heen made to harness sunbeams und utilize their heat and power, but such a source has not proved practicable except in very lim- { fted localitles, where clouds do not in ! terfere with a constant supply of sun- shine. Wind, too. proves so variable that it no longer competes, even in pushing sails over the ocean. W - falls have been used from the begin- ning of history, but the expense of i installation of necessary machiner: i often out of proportion to the ho: power produced. and floods and droughts are serious such a source. Will man ever succeed {in his agelong efforts to utilize * ocean’s gray and melancholy w: Men see the tides rise and fall and lies power in unmeasurable surplus to do all the drudgery of mankind and that it is forever inexhaustible. Yet who holds the key to the means of utilizing it? * ok x % Dexter P. Cooper. who bhuilt the Keokuk Dam across the Mississippi River and who has had much experi- ence in connection with the Niagara and Muscle Shoals dams, has declared that he will harness the Atlantic at the Bay of Fundy, where there is the highest tide in the world, and he will there produce more power than can possibly be utilized in the State of Maine. Before his project could be financed it was necessary that the laws of Maine, which forbade sending out ¢ the State any power produced within its boundaries, should be so amended as to enable the surplias energy of the Bay of Fundy project to be marketed. That authority has been accorded within the last fortnight by a popular vote. P As the international boundary be tween Canada and the United States lies in the Bay of Fundy. it will be necessary to obtain sanction of both governments: but there is believed to be no question as to securing such authority as soon as Congress and Parliament convene. The financing | advertist | of | tons | ped wit handicaps to | [ know that in their ceaseless motion | BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. played the entire 81 games withou! sustaining a single defeat. Q. What crooked 7—M. « A. The following are some of the most _crooked railroads: Darjeelng- Himalaya, in India; Tamalpais Rafl- vay, in California; Oroya Railway of 4. The Tamalpais Railway has to have a hinge in engine and short length cars to take abrupt turns in Q railroads the most are at is the largest number of converts received fn one day by Bill Sunday?—W. A. S A. Mr. Sunday official record of the converts received in a single day. He states that in New York City 7,437 came forward on ome occasion, and 729 in Baltimore, but that he has no actual knowledge of these being the largest numbe ays that he has no rgest number of Q. How is the allotment of national guardsmen given to a State?—K. C. B A. It was determined by a general hoard which convened for the purpose of allocation of those units. The allot ment, although primarily based o population, took into consideration other fuctors us well. se give a short history of H. H. B. Advertising, says one writer on subjeat, was empiayed in the of the Cuesa On the walks what were presumably the mod. frequented thoroughfares were ad- vertisements of gladiatorial shows and notices of plays. In Kome at this perfod « daily gazette called Acts Diurna contained public notices and advertisements. Among the Greeks, ic crier was emploved to an nounce the wares of the shopkeeper ‘The public crier. or belim: persisted through the Middle Ages. The first English newspapers contained no uc vertfsing. but a journal published the middle of the seventeenth cer tury. the Mercurius Politicus, small advertisemenis of the wanted” type. From 17 1533 a varying revenue tax was it posed on advertisements. The estab lishment of the London Times in 1755 may be regarded as the commence ment of the period of modern adve: tising. Q. Q. P A the time Which of Queen Victoria's (i dren are still living?—A. V. F A. The living children of Quee: ctorfa are Princesa Louise, Duche: . and the Duke of Connaught «Education makes a people easy to lead, but impossible to enslave. Ou Government knows how truc this statement is and advances and en courages in every possible way the education and well-being of its citi zens. It spends millions of dollars in opening new fields of information and Knowledge—maintaining hundreds of laboratories, thousands of specialista and many great libraries. The citizen should kave the benesit of all this re search and study, and can have it he will only apply for it. Our Wasi ington burcau is in a position to pre ure all Government data that are available for public use. Nend in your questions to it and sccure authorita tive information. Inclose 2 cents i stamps for return postage. Addres The Star Information Bureau Twenty-first and € streets northicest.) BACKGROUND OF EVENT . COLLINS. e of the promoter 1l backing. cessful. it will mark world industry and o : the Suez st on| s the Bay itself greater in | duction than Niagars and als combined, but the successful demonstration of the ability to couple up the ocean tides in industry will carry with it other projects of like nature beyond the dreams of am previous mechanical or engineering achievement This is ects, an 1d-making pre is sanguine of project The tide in the Bay 49.2 feet, and by buil | turbines it is into power, both us it is rising and it is flowing out The dams will be the largest in America—one is be 4,000 feet inother 2. fee the main one Laving a depth of 175 feet. Such dams will never suffer fron droughts or fluods, for the flow of the ocean tides can be measured years ahead. The engireers compute fron 500.000 to 700.000 horsepower v of Fundy tide 1 these dams will be two ural reservoirs or “pe A of 100 square miles, t large The great ar * zives a continuous tween tides, with an immense volume of water. The total potential he {our inland waterfalls st of which is not developed, snd will not be utilized for many genera tions. The horsepower of the Bay of Fundy alone is calculated at about one-efehth of that possible total in land power. Tt makes Niagara and Musecle Shoals small in nparison The mouth of the t is closed by a group of islinds. They will e n the amount dam cor struction. There an abundance of granite nearby suitable for the dams. The proximity of population and in !'dustry will constitute u market fo the electric power to be produce which is an essential factor of such an enterprise. f Fundy rises ng dams equip o be translated n esepower of al 54,000,000 nost ok ok * in southern Aluska feet, which would al. be a feasible tide to harness, excep for the absence of any suitable rock for dam: nd the wence of marke! for the produced power. Davis Stralt with its Frobiesher Bay tide of 43 feet would offer a site for a dam of equal power, but the coast is not attractive, and the vital factor is the absence of population in that Aretic region. The same applies 1o Ashe Inlet, Hudson Bay. with u tide of feet, and also the Strait of Magel South Ame: 1. with fts tide of 40 fee The Bay of Fundy, therefore, fx in a class by itself in possessing all the elements for such development, 1o gether with the interest of the one nation in the world which s the necessary capital and enterprise | Along most of our coasts, hoth Fas: and West, the tides are less t 4 feet. Cooks T a ude of 33 France has a tide of 43 feet al her north ceast, and has made abortive attempt at harnessing it ne Brest, but lacks the capital now *i these piping times of (alleged) peace’ to_develop the project. The west coast of England has tide of 41.8 feet, but her finances and especially her political and labor situatlon, make any effort to develon it into power ditficult. The plan to harness the tide of the Severn has been abandoned or indefinitely post poned. Great tides, ranging from 25 to 3G feet, exist also in Australia, China. Korea and Brazil, and while in none of the countries named is there any such project now contemplated, the demonstration of feasibility at the Bay of Fundy will tend to encourage sim ilar efforts in other parts of the world wherever the tide exceeds 20 feet. The far-reaching future possibilities of the Bay of Fundy demonstration required will be stupendous, and the labor of construction, employing 5,000 men, will cover at least five vears. are thus suggested in similar works in other countries. (Copyright. 1025. by Paul V, Colltns.d

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