Evening Star Newspaper, October 11, 1925, Page 50

o - THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, SUNDAY . ...October 11, THEODORE W. NOYES 1925 Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Oftice R Pennsvlvanip Ave 110 Fast 42nd St. Tower Buldie 10 Roxent St London. England. Chicago Office. European Office The Evening Star. with the Sunday morn tng edition. is delivered by the city at 60 cents per month 45 cents per month: Sunday only Par month, Orders may be sent b telaphione Main 5000. Collection carrler at the end of each month. daily only. cents ‘mail or made by Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. S8 4001 mo.. 1mo. 1 mo’ Dail: Datl All Other fanty and Sundas . . »aily-only Bunday oniy Member of the Associated The Ascoci 10 the uee ed Press is exclusively entitled republication of all Datches cred 1o 1t or not otherwise cred- itad in this paper and alse the local news vublished heremn. Al rights of vpublication of spnelal d al 3 = A Needed Housecleaning. The Chicago Board of Trade, acting at the urgent demand of Secretary Jardine of the Department of Agricul- ture, has adopted amended rul which, 1t is wild fluctuations in prices of grain that have given the grain exchange a vad name in the past and have given rise to charges that the prices of grain are made by the gamblers and not by the 1aw of supply and demand. Similar changes in its rules were adopted by the Minneapolis exchange, and other markets are expected to follow suit. If the new rules work out as well as they are noped to do, Secretary Jor- dine and the Chicago Board of Trade are both entitled to praise. The wheat pit has been the scene of some of the wildest gambling cver staged in this or any other country. The effect of 1his gambling on the producers of wheat has been irritating, to say the least. The charge has been made again and again that the prices of wheat are made by manipulation on the exchange, and that the farmers of the country have been more or less at that while the grain was in the hands of the producers prices were forced low, and that after it had passed from the farmers’ possession prices were shot sky high. In- deed, during the presidential campaign . year ago the followers of La Fol- lotte went so far as to claim that the increase in the price of wheat during the Summer months was merely the result of a plot on the part of “big interests” to encourage the farmers to voto for President Coolidge, 2nd that after the election the price of wheat would take a tumble. This prediction by the La Follette supporters did not turn out to be correct. But the fact that such a charge could be made in- dicates the strength of the resentment which has been felt in many quarters against the wheat gamblers in Chi- cago and other grain markets in this country. The Secretary of Agriculture was aroused by the big fluctuations in the wheat market of Chicago early in 1925, At his instance a searching in- vestigation was made of the transac- tions, and it has been declared that evidence of 2 manipulation of the mar- ket by a small group of operators was developed. Secretary Jardine gave the board notice that it must clean house, or drastic steps would be taken by the Government, even to the extent of suspending or revoking the designa- tion of the Chicago Board of Trade as « contract market. Under the amended rules, which have now been approved by the Board of Trade itself, after first being ac- cepted by the board of directors, the directors are given control of the mar- ket during wide price fluctuations They are authorized to declare an emergency and to fix an arbitrary limit on price swings. A business con- duct committee has been set ip, with authority to investigate all dealings und examine records of members. — The Clark palace on Fifth avenue cannot be sold for even a small frac- tion of its original cost. The owners, if they will wait until metropolitan development needs the property for hotel or shop purposes, can probably zet their price. The possibility of big realty profits is not limited to Florida, and the market can nowhere be count- ed on to go steadily one way forever. ————————— After an exceptionally warm Sep- tember, threats of an October blizzard compel the old kiosk on the Avenue to digplay even more than its usual ver- satility. —————— Japan admits seeking a loan in America. There is absolutely no use in being out of the fashion. A Supreme Moment. Not even the wintry wind that swept over the playing field at Griffith Stadium yester afternoon could Jessen the intensity of the emotion of the multitude when in the ninth in- 5 of the third game of the world series the greatest crisis possible in base ball occurred. The situation was one that belongs to the historic annals of the sport. The home team was one run ehead. The enemy forces had by two hits and a winged batsman filled the bases, with one man out. The heaviest hitters of the Pirate crew were coming up. A long fly would score the tying run. A single would score probably two runs, an extra- base hit would score three and a home run into one of the field stands would score four. Even the most ardent of the loyalists began to feel shaky. A batsman popped up a high fly that was neatly captured within the diamond. That eased the situation. A 1ong fly would- yield mo run. But a walk would force one man home. Any kind of a safe hit would yicld one or snore scores. The game was still in jeopardy. The most dangerous of the 3uccaneers was at the bat. The Wash- gton pitcher, giving him ‘“nothing 500d,” was in a hole, with three balls md no strikes. Craftily he twisted over @ couple of strikes. The courft stood three and two. Upon the next pitch practically depended the game. bcartridges and shells. This is the sea- | arriers’ withn | A Dball meant a tied score, a hit a foe- man's lead. An out would give the one of the moments that base il the s.eviest of all sports. The pitcher wound up, swung, the ball shot forward, the bat flashed, the hall was hit, and nearly eighty thousand eyes followed its flight. Would it go into one of the field stands? Or would it fall within the en- veloping hands of a Washington fielder? This crisis lasted perhaps three sec- ond The ball came down, a fielder moved swiftly into the trajectory, and just before it reached the ground it was nabbed, neatly and securely. The game was won. Such are the thrills that a close, hard-fought, important ball game fur- i Had yesterday’'s contest been the concluding one of the series, with the world title depending upon it, the tension could not have been greater. There were other moments of in- tensity, such as that when Washing- s right ficlder sprang into the air at the barrier and gripped with one hand a ball that, two inches higher, would have dropped safely into the home-run area, to tie the score. Or that earlier when, with the score a tie and two Nationals on base, a doughty Washington club swinger slammed out a hit that gave the margin of vie- make hes. believed, will prevent the | ‘| economic discussion. Yes, it a cold day, but there was no sluggish blood in the veins of those who braved the elements. S, A Prompt Debt Settlement. Terms for funding the debt of Czechoslovakia to the United States, agreed upon by the American and Czechoslovakian commissions within a week after the arrival in Washing. ton of the latter commission, are basically the samec as those between the United States and Great Britain and other foreign debtors of this coun- try. The settlement negotiated is in line with the policy of the United States to treat all its foreign debtors justly, and to grant the debtors plenty of time to complete their payments. The debt of Czechoslovakia, while not s0 great as that of some of the other nations, is nevertheless considerable, amounting to $115.000,000. Tt will be paid over a period of 62 years, with interest at 3 and 31 per cent. The total amount paid to the United States at the end of the 62 years, including principal and interest, it is estimated will be $300,000,000. The United States Government is paying rates of inter- est from 3'% per cent to 4% on the Liberty bonds from the sale of which the loans to European nations were made. The Czechoslovakians have in the past desired a recounting of the prin- cipal of the debt to the United States, there being some dispute over various items. But when it became evident that such a recapitulation would ex- tend over a long period the debt com- mission of that country agreed to a flat sum of $115,000,000, preferring to bring about a prompt funding of the debt. The promptness with which Czecho- slovakia, through its commission, has negotiated the debt-funding arrange- ment with this country compares very favorably with the negotiations be- tween the United States and other governments over the war debts. The forelgn nations which have already made arrangements with the United States to pay their war and post- war debts are Great Britain, Belgium, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Poland and Czechoslovakia. Cuba, which borrowed $10,000,000, paid its debt in full in August, 1922. Austria, under the terms of the so-called Lodge resolution, will be accorded speclal privileges with regard to the postpone- ment of payments. Nicaragua, which owes the United States a small debt for materials obtained from this coun- try since the war, is paying it off | regularly. The other foreign nations which owe this country, and whose debts have not yet been funded or paid, are France, Italy, Greece, Ru- mania, . Russia, Bsthonia, Liberia, Jugoslavia and Armenia. g The Rumanian debt commission, which was slated to sail for this coun- try, has canceled its salling, according to dispatches from Paris. The United States Government, through its Min- ister in Bucharest, has urged the Ru- manian government to arrange for funding its debt, amounting to $20, 000,000. B Names and descriptions of criminals wanted by the police are displayed on electric signs in Berlin. It is a new idea in street decoration, not pic- turesque but eminently practical. e —r—e— In considering problems of debt collection that of securing all the bopt- leg industry owes the Government proves entirely too abstruse cven for e Floridg is having trouble with smug- glers Who imagine they can get rich faster by means of rum than real estate. e No matter what the Weather Bu- reau may say, the base ball climate forecaster is always an optimist ——e——————— Prevent Forest Fire. Washington pedestrians (there are some left and, like the American beaver, they are coming baek) were highly amused one day last week to spgt a sidewalk sign on a downtown corner which had been stenciled there as a preliminary to national Fire- Prevention week, and which read “Prevent Forest Fire,” instead of just “Prevent Fire." i Many a giggle and jest were heard at the expense of the official or as- sistant who had used the wrong sten- cil! obtained no one knows just how, and probably intended for the side- walk ornamentation of some small town wherein the arome of newly sawn lumber shares the air with the reek of gasoline. But, on second thought, the White- washed slogan, now obliteratéd by thousands of passing feet and prob- ably corrected for urban surroundings, is not so funny after all. This is the season of the year when the amateur nimrod goes forth to his chosen haunts,e plentifully supplied with | smokes and matches as well as wnhl {in €on of the year when nights are nippx and big campfires the rule rather than the exception. ¥ This is the season.of the year when good roads, air MKe wine apd bril: liant autumnal’ foliage tempt out the owners of all cars that will run. It 1s 0 easy to kindle a little blaze over whiclf to teast bacon or boil coffee, but such a bove to make several trips from Spring or creck ‘to put it well out. It is so easy to knock out the glowing cmbers of a pipe against a rubber heel ‘and. entranced by the dis- tant view or the movements of some woodland denizen, not to notice just where the dottel falls. It is so natural to filp a still-burning Turkish cigar- otte butt from a whizzing automobite without a thought as to where the punklike danger may land. Leaves and brush are-usually .dry between’ the last hot weather und the first ENOWS, . America is still using up its forests many time fast as it is reforest- Ing. That is bad enough, but the burn- Ing over of even an acre of Woodland is nothing short of a erime. The dis play of this particular sign may have been a technical error, but it -con- tained a’ valuable warning to every city man and boy, woman and girl who ‘within {he next months or so feels the irregistible pull of the woods. —————— Britons Buying Motors. London is holding an automobile show, and it is -reported that at the opening orders werc given for between $75,000 and $100,000 worth of cars in the first half hour. In the first five minutes one British firm obtained an order for buyer, another sold 7,000 and a third 5,000. No mention is made in the dis- patches of how well the American makes ran in popularity in competi- tion with the British, though it is said that “many well known American cars are exhibited and satisfactory sales are reported by agents.” Tt is noted in the report that the prevailing tendency in the London motor market as revealed at this show is for brighter colors and gaver deco- rations. The. British motor public is £oing in to make the highway land- scape brilliant In torie. There is no similar tendency in this country, save in the cities, where the-taxicabs, for purposes of differentiation, arc the only kaleidoscoplc motor features of the scene. Private cars here are most- Iy black, dark blue or tan. A red car is noticeable for its rarity. Supply of the British market from this side is rendered difficult by the British law that requires the as- sembling and technically the fabrica- tion of all goods of a patented char- acter brought into the United King- dom. It is necessary for the American manufacturer to maintain an estab- lishment in England, which adds to his cost of production and puts his product virtually on a par with his British competitor, which, of course, is the purpose of the law. There is a heavy demand in England for smaller machines than are made here for the run of the trade. The tiny two-seaters are extremely popular. Judging, how- ever, from the sales recorded on.the first day of the Londop, motor show there 1s a demadd fory fhe higher- priced cars, and quite evidently the British buying public, despite the eco- nomic crisis that affects important industries and causes heavy unemploy- ment, is able to “hiow ltself” to motor luxuries ———————— Communists contemplate a strike in France as a protest against the war in Morocco. Such a strike may make a difference in France. In this caun- try Communists are generally regard- ed as persons who had no great lking for work in the first place. e It is being demonstrated by Col. Mitchell that some very reckless feats connection with wttempted Without the use of an air- plane. —————r———— The voice of women in public af- fairs is respected as never before. Tt would be impractical to .deny Mrs. Lansdowne her day in court even if there were a desire to do so. SHOOTING STABS BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. “Surcease.” When base ball thrills are in the air We find relfef from ancient care. We think no move of traffic cops Or prohibition knockout drops. We turn with pleasure unalloyed From Darwin, Einstein and from Freud. We o not seek to understand How leagues' of mnations should be, planried - : Nor how. the country. will control . Food, airships or.the price of ccal. It's only for a little while But here we halt to shout and smile. The zest is keen; the world is fair, When base -ball thrills are in the-air. Vanishing Influence. “Has u Senator as much influence as he used to possess?” “No,” answered Senator Sorghum. “I can remember when a member of Congress could got into any hase ball game free” Eccentricities of Finance: As values lessén or expand Conditions now grow funny. With base ball tickets in demand, Nobody cares for money. Jud Tunkins says what you don't know don’t hurt you, unless it's not knowin’ the traffic regulations. Differentiation. “What do you think of these ‘rear’ | re as different as mushrooms and toadstools,” answered “Un¢le " Bill | Eottlctop. “Near-beer is perfeclly aife, | but near.whisky is something awful.’. Recollections. Oh, lady, loud vou've boasted, sirice You danced, one cvening, With the prince. it But does that prince, 'mid pleasures new, Remember that he danced with you? Many a man dat won't look ten minutes foh work,” said Uncle Eben, “will tramp around all day huntin’ a two-pound rabbit.” 10,000 cars from a single | ation may be | OCTOBER 1 . EVERYDAY RELIGION BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D., LL. D. Bishop of Washington. The Uhderwritten Life. Genesls, xxvill.15—"T am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest. Our security as well as our pros- perity are largely guaranteed to us by the kind of credentials we carry. No matter what a man's genlus may be, his success largely depends upon his indorsers. If he is properly un- derwritten by one whom the world recognizes and has confidence in, he will go far. Throughout, the whole of life we recognize that all our plan- ning and scheming must reckon with the fact that life is Interdependent. In studying the lives of the great and the good it is interesting to note how the men and women who have achieved a place of distinction have recognized their dependence upon the supervising and superintending care of God. Their faith in God’s direct- ng ‘power may have been expressed In very simple” terms, or it may have been what Dor inarticulate nevertheless it ituted a vital element in their It Is the kind of simple faith ['that begins with the child; the only Kind of faith that Jesus declared en- titles one to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Vision of the Future. The story from which the above pas- sage Is taken is thrillingly dramatic. The incident of which it forms a part concerns the life of Jacob. By rea. son of an offense committed against his brother Esuu he was compelled to leave his home and to seek refuge among strangers. While in flizht he was given a vision of the possibilitles of his future. Conditioned upon his loyalty to God the promise was made him, “I am with thee and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land.” . With d deep sense of his own unfitness for God's favor “He wus afrald and said, ‘How dreadful is this place! This is none other but the house of God. and this the gate of Heaven'" Awed by his experience, he made a vow to dedicate the bes of his life's service to Jehovah. The subsequent story of his career s in demonstration .of the fulfillment of his vow and of the promise of God. It was the ussurancg given him of God’s. purpose und plan concerning his life that renewed his courage and gave high purpose to his life, Remote in time as the incident is, we have witnessed repeated demon. strations of its fulfillment in other men and women. Now and again there com to every one of us a place where the roads seem to fork, the one leading to selfsatisfaction, the grati- fication of desire and the fultiliment of our owh pett; chemes. It “ W that takes no reckoning of God's plan and purpose. The other is a way that, while fraught with difficulties and sometimes perils, hus as its stimula- tion and encouragement the conscious. One of the biggest fights at the ap- proaching session of Congress will be over the administration of public lands, mational forests and parks, mineral lands and Indian reservation It involves the question as to what is the wisest conservation policy for the United States, which has been a coptroversial issue ever since Gifford Pinchiot, now Governor of Pennsyl- vania, became national forester under | the Roosevelt regime. Chief of the complainants agalnst the way the Government is safe- guarding the public domain are the cattle and sheep producers, who de- clare that the future of the Western live stock industry {s in jeopardy, and that the cost of living of the entire American people is affected. Meat j costs, they say, are now three times | what' they were in pre-war days, and i the consumer can look forward to still to rehabilitate the live stock industr: In general, the grievance of ti West against the East—for the con- rvation issue Is invariably a section- al one—is that the development of the ‘Western States along all lines is being retarded, if not actually set back, by u policy that would preserve the Na- tion’s matural resources for future senerations, and that it would be far Detter to have a little present pros- and less regard for the pros- pects of posterity In answer to this the conservation- ists assert that what their opponents call “development” is but a polite term for the exploitation and plunder- ing of the public domain by selfish in- terests that do not consider the wel- fare of the Nation as a whole, but seek their own aggrandizement at whatever cost in the way of the sac- rifice . of the country’s natural re- sources. Grazing Land Fees. The.11 States especially concerned in the controversy have an aggregate of. 400,000,000 acres of public lands. Some idea of what a domain this is may be gathered when it is pointed out that it equals the combined areas of France, Italy, Spain, Denmark and the British Isles. The States that could tuck away a good part of Eu- rope in Uncle Sam’'s holdings within their boundaries are Colorado, Wyom- ing, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Oregon, ‘Washington, California, Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona. Seven United States Senators— Stanfield of Oregon, Oddie of Nevada, Cameron of Arizona, Walsh of Mon- tana, Kendrick of Wyoming, Dill of ‘Washington and Ashurst of Arizona— who are members of the,Senate com- mittee. on, public lands, have toured these States during the present Sum- mer -while Congress has not been in session and held a series of hearings on various phases of the public land question, Perhaps the -most out- spoken witnesses to appear before the commitiee have been cattlemen and sheepmen and their princial complaint had to do with grazing fees and regu- ‘| 1ations. Until about 20 years ago there were na grazing fees, but that wholly sat- isfactory—to the live stock industry— state of affairs was terminated while Gifford Pinclot was at the head of the forestry service. The fees first charged were comparatively small, and the raisers of cattle and sheep insist that it was agreed that the fees were not to exceed the cost o the Government of administering the public lands. Increases were made from time to time, however, until the fees now approximate about one-half * the amount charged for grazing privileges on private lands. This, the -cattlemen and sheepmen -laim, i& rapidly putting them out of husinees, it belng stated at one of the hearings that from one-fourth to one- half of tHe cattlemen in the public lands States are bankrupt, and that nife-tenths of the others are so debt- ridden that unléss some measure of relief is accorded them, they, too, will be ruined. Accordingly they ask that the fees be reduced to the old basis, that the evenues derived therefrom should go tb the State treasuries instead of to Uncle Sam, that the ranchmen have such rights as are theirs definitely established by law 80 that they will have some standing in the courts, and hat those who formerly enjoyed free v called, ““an | higher prices unless something be done | ness that somehow, xomo wiy, we are fulfilling & destiny and achleving purpose that God has designed for us, The latter way may seem nt the first less attractlve than the other, but to pursue it means a peace and kntisfac ton that in themselve ronstitute our great rewurd. Phillips Brooks felt that his career was designed (o he that of a teacher in the classroon He undertook to fulfill this purpose in the Boston Latin School, only to dis cover that this course would lead ulti- mately to the miscarriage of his high est alms and purposes. Ultimately he gave himself to the Christian ministry, with the result that he came to be one of the foremost preachers of hix eration. What viston of his future was given him when he came to the fork in the road is not told us. hut we do know in what a singular way God blessed his ministry und made him the enricher of countless thousands Entered New Apprenticeship. Dwight Moody sought to be an ap prentice in his uncle's shop in Chi cago. Here he thought he could work out his destiny and achieve his for tune, life. From apprenticeship to man he yielded himself to an apprenticeship to God and became one of His for most evangelists of the world. Fred- erick Robertson aspired to enter the urmy service. To serve his king and country was his supreme ambition. “wiling in this pursuit on physical grounds, he was arrested in his course. substituted the ministry of peace for that of war, and so powerful did he become as a preacher that his sreat messages still carry to multitudes of readers power and inspiration. “lie being dead, vet speaketh.” We have not yet learned the secret impulses that led the late Victor Lawson, pub- lisher of the Chicago Daily News, into the career that made him one of the most distinguished and _outstanding publishers of his time. We do know that he consecrated his great gifts to the making of clean and wholesome journalism,”and his will discloses the fact that he regarded himself as the steward of the bounty God had given | hiy professto him. While he worked for himsel and his generation, he worked for God, and he left behind him a record of service nobly performed that gives him a place of the highest distinction in the field of journalism Whether we live on the higher or the lower levels of service makes little difference it our philosophy of life is right. To belleve that there is a power that shapes our ends; to fe that, from day to day, in tasks & or small, God is directir ing over our destiny, sense of ? F more satisfying than all its gifts. In duys of loneliness and seeming failure, or in hours of bitter disappointment, such an assurance restores our confi- dence, renews our hope and gives us strength to carry on, even in the fuce of insuperable difficulties. (Copsright. 19251 The Conservation Controversy BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. powered to overrule the Agriculture. Conservationist contend that grazing increased from 50 to cause grazing is which should be market value, and say that it would be absurd to grant any priority gr preference to ranchers now holding grazing permits or who enjoved free grazing years ago. Permits Are Not Bankable. Another complaint of the ranchers Is that their grazing permits have no bankable value. That is to say, they ure not acceptable collateral tn making loans for the reason that they may be canceled at any time. This i3 answered by defenders of the present system with the statement that the grazing permits must be re vocable, as otherwise it would be practically impossible to enforce the regulations that must be thrown around the use of the public lands by private individuals and interest These regulations, it is arcued, have Dbeen too liberal and too exusily as it is. One of the main attacks o tary of Interior Work wus made be- fore the Senate committee at Baker, Oreg., where there is a projected irrigation development that has not been actually started, although Con- gress has appropriated the necessury money. Some of the witnesses, Al whom represented cattle, sheep, wool associations, or irrigationists, charged that the Government’s entire reclamation program which was be. EUD under President Roosevelt is likely to be wrecked if Dr. Work is permitted to continue to hold the Interior _portfolio. The Secretary’s friends insist that he is not unfriendly to irrigation proj- ects and that he will see that they are carried out just as fast as it is reagonably assured that there will be settlers to go on the reclaimed lands. They likewise say that con- servation as a Federal policy would ®o glimmering if the selfsh interests that are out to “get” Secretary Work were successful in their efforts, and that the opposition to him is the very heute'evhmm‘e of his fitness for the Heads of the I who are wholly Secretary of s should be nterior Department satisfactory to those bent upon the exploitation of the Nation's natural resources are not, it :shmin't,:d out. the kind of officials whom the people as a whole wan: see in that job. b President Coolidge, has indicated that he has every con. fidence in Secretary Work and will back him up to the limit. — s New York “Up in Air” For Home and Business it is to be noted That New York has not reached its limit ‘of going up in the air to live and work is demonstrated by the pro- posal to erect a hotel 56 stories high on the site of the Vanderbilt home, Fifth avenue between Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eight streets. The structure will rise 610 feet above the street. There are but two bulldings on Manhattan Island that stand higher. Both of these are office bufldings—the Wool- worth at 792 feet and Metropolitan Life at 700 feet. In the Old World the Eiffel Tower alone s higher, and the Great Pyramid of Egypt is only four- fifths the helght. Judged by the plans, the new struc- ture will be the wonder hotel of the world. It will 'tower above buildings in that section whose height has excit- ed our admiration and astonished our visitors. Rising from a limestone base, in the form of a tower, the Italian Renais. sance shaft of brick promises to be a splendid examplo of what has become the distinctive architecture of Amer- ica—Old World forms carried to heights never before believed possible. Besides their utility, these lofty build- ings serve as monuments to the spirit and daring of their projectors. And there will be other such hotels. The daily study and contemplation of this edifice when it is completed are sure but God had other plans for bis [ wone drug or left to b m the other hand, | Pquestion. T tremble at the | than any one ef Capital Sidelights ' In the days of: keontinen- tal highways, which have linked w3 all communities in thix Nation untif| the farmer isx no lon; ed annually hundreds of th Amerfeans motor from Houth, it seems inc n few brief v warked out taxes helping Airt ronds near thelr own Hepresentative Wil Hull of | Hiinois, delegate to 1 n-Amer- | feun Congress in Buenos Alres, hoasts of the first-hand knowledge he has of | rond bhullding, because s a boy of 14, in 1880, he was obliged to work | on the highways near his farm home | to pay the poll and rond tax assessed | salnst his father In those ® all roads were built ind maintained under the direction of a road commissioner ele d every two years, consequently a change in admintsteation mi a change in the system of struction detrir to the roads. | Road bnllding in those days, sayvs| Repre tve Hull, was very prim- it It consiuted of plowin fur- rows on each slde of the road. The| loose dirt was then se ped into the center by an old-fashioned dump seraper drawn by horses or oxen. The loose earth thus thrown into the mid dle of the road was flattened out by a beaten down by travel. For two decades this was the principal and universal system of road building in North Americ The multiplying numb mobiles been responsible for the farmers and urbanites alike de nd - ing hard-surfaced roads for tri The late President Harding summed up the situation briefly when he safid: “The motor car has become an in able inxtrument in our polit- al and industrial life.” building within the life of men now in Congress has become a high sclence and we have more than 3,000,000 miles of the best highwiys I the world available for all th people everywhere throughout the land. oung _men to bulld homes. * % B enator William Cabell Bruce Maryland has had a busy Summ of er. with - his routine duties as Senator,| the local claims of his constituency 1 interests, his private ffairs and a literary task to which he has set himself—besides rather in tensive study of many que: will engross Congress when it re: sembl ! 1 P height of con- | me ! Somehow or othe Road | tions that | MEN AND { Visitors 1o the 'world series ball games at Pittsburzh found th chief point of Interest, outside the ball grounds, of course, to be tary Andrew Mellon's magniti e ‘Treasury, or as the und possibly not naise of France, the Mellon 1 nevertheless, is one of the gorgeous finuncial institntion. the world. built with most and ol most | in alll The exterior of the } entirely no imy rugegedness one’s mind to the Pyramids for compari- The interfor is thing of gli tering beauty. In the cathe lil the muin banking man sinks into the role of my. It must h heen quite o wrench for Mr. Mellon to tear him- self away from the shimmering ma ble glories of his nk and hide hiinselr anite musti- ness of the gray In its architectural beauty and im- | pressiveness the Mellon bank out- { strips anything in the financial « trict of w York. It could swiallow up the offices of J. P. Morgan & Co. and never have a pang of indigestion. to see tha after day and to realize ius which made it possibk one added respect for the s | Yon feel as if ongress onght to go {to Pittsburgh and have a look. Mayvbe | it would have a higher opinlon of | the Secretary of the Treasury after| that, for the Senate is getting ull ser| | already to sink anv tax plans whieh may come from the administration, | | regardless of whether they bear the | Mellon label or not. Senators think | | they know more about finance than| the Secretary. But one thing is sure,| none of them such a finan- | | clal palac he can. Mr. Mellon | i resigned as president of the Pitts-| burgh institution when he entered the | cabinet. His brother Richard is at| oresent the directing genius 1 * %k % | i i |, Speaking of cabinet members, Mr. | 'Mellon’s wealth is so great—he fs| | assuredly the first Government offi- | ver to pay more than $1,000,000 | in es—that the countrs | got an exaggerated idea | in its day A day or two ago he was asked for his views on some 13 public ques- tions. His reply was: “The number is an unlucky one to begin with and when I recollect that as great a man as Henry Clay lost the presidency when he attempted to answer one what mizht happen to as small a man as myselfl were I to endeavor to answer 13. “Disraeli the xoul ing s jus: o such That's the pleasant sort of way enator Eruce has of turning down statement seeker. c Secretary Weeks, after a President Coolidge th this little story. It of the week end ru: matchless big men—Thon “Irestonc and Henry ad tire trouble, stopped at a rural ace Yes, they had some tires. d a Firestone tire of the p . they would put it on prompt- hen Mr. Firesto found that he getting low on funds, and as] would take h check. Yes, would. and he went inside to write it while the man in overalls started to put on the new tire. While he was thus employed Henry Ford chatted with him. “Do you kno who the man is who bought this tire?’ he asked. “'No,” was the laconic re Sps “Well, he’ the man who makes these tires, and do vou know who that other man is who just got out of the ¢ 7" he conti d. again came the reply. “That's Thom Edison, the g inventor, and do you know who 1 2" Ford continued his catechism. R yet a third time was the succinct answer. ‘'m Henr; Ford, ho makes more automobiles e in the world.” Then the tire fitter straightened up and gathered up his wr don’t say,” he fellow driv Economical right in cash for 1 nee said that knowledge of eloquence, and the as true when applied P I _supposs z the car is Cautious, well, I'm going ‘that fellow pay which he did Dr. Charles F. Marvin, chiet United weight of an inch d somewhere that s of water to the acre,’ " said the other, “T am the correct weight ainfull. it is 101 t said one. positive that 113 tons. The Weather Bureau declared that both men were right. The rainfall in the first instance was reckoned by the long ton of 2,240 poun the common ton in Great Britain. The long ton is used for many purposes in this coun- try, but the short ton of 2,000 pound: which gave the second result, is more usual here. is * ok ¥ ok Samis_some “movie” pro- ducer. epartment of Agriculture alone has motion pictures, a large number of which have been prepared peeially to interest and instruct the women and children. while there are a great many designed especially to encourage and enthuse the hoy on the farm. k *x x % Now again, we have the chain-let- ter season with us when some friend (?) mails you a copy with instruc- tions to make 10 or maybe 25 coples and send them to your friends to keep the merry-go-round moving, and with the threat that bad luck will fall upon vyou if you break the chain. Congressmen and public oflicials are particularly plagued by this nuis- ance and generally they have the good sense to laugh at the threat and throw the missive into thelr waste basket. It seems that the Rordies among us have so rapidly assimilated our way: and our idiosyncracies that they have taken up the chain-letter scheme o esentative Clarence McLeod of the baby member of the is one of those who was I soed by the chain-letter lariat, and he sent a copy to the writer, which is intended to wrap this old earth three times around with good luck. Here it is, but don't try to reaa it aloud without practice: “Alexander Pantages thinks that good luck should continue with all our friends, so do not break the chain his one. ‘omdr. Hermelin to Comdr. Graef, Comdr. Graef to Ch. T. Castile to Emile F. Conlon to Joseph Drottler to Frank Sawyer to E. E. Schera to Admiral Code, Mura, Japun; to Ad- miral Y. Yammoata to Prince Schi- madza to Admiral Tokeshita to Capt. Ande INJ to Capt. Sakenli INJ to Comdr. Kabajahi to Capt. T. I. Uju to Capt. Fugi Haschi to Capt. E. K. Fin to Capt. K. T. Zu to Vice Admiral H. Hushilda to Capt. Chon to Capt. Hedeschana to D. Comdr. E. Kamaji to Licut. Col. Validivia to Capt. Giron to Compt. Lilllenbakk to Capt. Aker- blom to Comdr. Hermelin (1) to Comdr. Graef, to Comdr. Weeded to Comdr. Gofberg to Capt. Schaffelinsky de Huackadell to Dr. A. Sferson to Sven Lundquist to Konsul Bertil Seder- blom to Rev. Sekr Seve Ekberg to Revisot Herman iden to Station grazing be conceded ploneer rights.[to lead zmbitious architectural stu-!spektoren J. V. Simonsen to Comdr. ‘They also urge.the creation of a dents to lay plans for going still <! beard of -appeals ‘Which would be em- . higher.—New York Evening Post, Warfling to Maj. H. Hobr to Capt. von Vogesack to Lieut. Col. E. Ed- thought of | statement as vou ask for.” | | places, d | 1 | found by obsery ealth of the other membe {of the “millionaire official 1amtl { which surrounds President Coolldge.| | In some Instances it is asserted the iwenl:h of cabinet members has been | { multiplied by tens and twelves in the | public estimation. One result of this | wide conception” of the “Coolidge| AFFAIRS | BY ROBERT T. SMALL. flaod of so-calle “h pours in upou of the rtments “Foesiae ging: NI s a mail” wh defenseles and bre o1 mone cause stum in [ memibers of Me Mr. Metlon cabinet " ave suppos Hoover e job Messr and Wilbur icher mem conld possibiy it s it of the Feder: hecks stopy Leing public ve to T mount o n part with oft e, the they from < the Jinet of them ington 1 1o quit the drain It i3 a bis sery ‘ of what he e the open n 4n 1o ex and give in « services in 1t it is something <t him to zive and give S A queer t Ohio of possib die a violent death world series story pec Thur drama ranrky the It Wee happe base mosphere of the St fes of ington having thre nobudy out. Leav the pa crew men on bases and time me, but d with the trair minute or two tu get ing to the te wait - and the ong afte there was before the innin: finul seore flashed the train had re W Not v sumed it grade crossing, n e driver of the m chine hing his ear splinters. for the b been the f would ther hav t the cr 2 {Fifty _Years Ago In The Star | Fifty years ago the cause and the means of transmission of malaria | were unknown. The disease wus attributed to miasma arising from | i stagnant water,/ swamps, marsh and the like. The dise in fac but not through minsma. | mosquito-bearing of the ma germ had not heen covered, not, indeed, for nearly u quarter of a In The Star of October % an article which_illustrates earnestly the people of thi i ! Sunflowers as a Malaria Cure. great numbe “Mr. T. Serle Jerrold writes to i Public Opinion a letter recommena- | ing the cultivation of sunflowers in marsh 4 protection ag: { larious influences. He savs that Gen.| | Sherman recommended the use of | i sunflowers for this purpose several | vears ago., and that he tion and experiment Iv have a benef tmosphere. He gives | | that they r jeffect on the | several instances where the sowing of | tel, 1 in|1 | the sunflower seeds has re { the protection of a communi miasmatic fevers theretofore common. His explanation of work which the sunflower does is that during its rapid growth it ab. sorbs great quantities of nitrogen and evaporates as much as a quart of water di [ “In this some years ago| malaria from the flats in the Potomac | P dge caused fever| il ulted from | quite | the | and azue 10 prev {#nd about the las it still does to some exte | believe, in that locality. referred to the family of the officer in charge of the observitory—Lieut. Maury, if we mistike not—suffere from the disease, and a large qua tty of sunflowers were planted tween the buildings and the river. The effect, it is generally understood, was fot perceptible. 1if sunflowers were really any protection against malaria, the “people of Council Bluffs, on the Missouri River, ought | to be fever proof, as they are sur- rounded for miles by probably the most luxuriant growth of sunflowers known in the country, the plants rising almost to the dignity of trees in height and amount of foliage; but we believe that druggi: of that favorite local- | ity sell quite as much quinine as do| those in places where sunflowers re unknown.” Proponents of the sunflower theory of protection against malaria were on the right tra though uncon- sciously. The planting of sunflowers in marshy ground was beneficial, but only to the extent of drying the soil and not through any emanation from the plant, cither of nitrogen or o moisture. ' The suntlowers planted be- tween the nal Obsgervator and the river wero doubtless ineffectial ba- cause they were sown on solid ground and not on the marsh itself. Had they been planted in the swampy sofl a Dbit farther south they would have | been helpful to the extent of reduc- ing the area of stagnant water in| which the mosquito larvae were de- | d | be- | — | lund to Lieut. Col. Costa Drakc to Gen. Tennison to Lieut. Col. Rd igirst to Oberatoor Pakammandant ‘Wildholz to Oberst von Giese to Gen. Count Heniholdven Rosen o : Ernest Linder to Capt. Trygra Aker- | land to Capt. Count E. C. Lowen.| noupt to Capt. Count Carl Gronstedt to Licut. Col. O. Tragardt to Gros-| seier F. H. Treschow to Godweir Wetve Egeberg to Dr. Juris Herman:| Hall to Pianist Edv. Sylvon Kreutz to Composer Herman Sonshy to Alex Simonson to Adolph Tondler, music: director: to Fred W. Blanchard to Sid Grauman to Harold Lloyd to Joseph Schenck to Hiram Arams to Dennis! O'Brien to A. C. Berman to Arthur S. Friend to Jules E. Brulatour to Herbert Yates to L. J. San to Hddie Mannix to Joe Goldberg to Bill Jen- ner to Alexander Pantages to John P. Mills to John H. Burke to Roland G. Swoffield to Thorley J. Lord to R. H. Green to Stanley S. Stonaker to Axel F. Jerner. Axel F. Jerner to E. A. Cason, E. A. Cason to Joc G. Curry, Joe G. Curry to John A. Renoc John A. Renoe to Representativ Clarence J. McLeod, Representative McLeod to Will P. Kennedy. “Copy this and send it to nine peo- ple whom you wish good luck.. The chain was started by an American officer and should go around the world three times. Do not break the chain, for whoever does this will have hrad luck. Do it within 24 hours and count nine days and you will have some great luck. Wish success for you to let us go smiling through 1925.” At the tme |} { the door open This and That By Charles E. Tracewell. . whom we left of the mantel catnip mouse 1 the room whe 1 but he had fie His eves ~ en the mantel The chance pi. of a small table one end wave tt the oppor unity he ha = for. Now sat had hardiy Now all w the tabl dared s eas and Al On hidd 1d say? uck out his deft right the much-worn mouse. time he was planning He zave himself a few his tongue. His mind < up on the mantel. ' a large vase re; in the cen pa but the ek At the of Eng te v vase. filled with end of the man s of a lad on than the law ng down on his haunches Tack gathered himself for the spring. hen leaned upward, landing on the le with the grace of his t whether vou tind them in the house or in the jungle. Once there, the cat stood on his hind legs, peering up on the mantel his gleaming eves on u level with this lane, the oniv place in the house e hird not explored. * ¥ ' is a term: that los its place in our language v it _is applied by some elde: ome child with an investigating turn of mind. . Certainly the ordinary house cat is one of the most curious creaturs in the world. lic pokes his noss into everything, and never rests sat isfied until he has discovered fof himself what is on the other eidt of the door. Closet doors, in particular, arouse his inquisitiveness. = A cut will spend minutes at a time attempting to in sert his paw between the frame and the door. Unlike the laby, he cannot say “Open—deor! Opan—door: The cat must depend upon his own paws, or opportunity. If the door ever left much a quarter of an-inch open he wiil discover it. Then he will push in a claw, widen the breech, insert his paw and pull Friends of cats who witnessed this procedure wiil to its ceftness. cat sighs for new worlds to Once having mounted to tp of the Kitchen cabinet, he no longer has any particular desire up the t looks around - some new high ‘place. * %ok oK sters T have testify It was so with Jack Spratt Softly he lifted his 15 pounds to the mantel. He brushed against the big ausing it to teeter but righted it Ja first at in with sat in it k sniffed bright, es, that front picture, cking his he cked up, behind there of the d on one side, his 'k Spratt inserted ling picture. mouse back the was paw Maybe there Crasht sh! opped the ith it the small g iilled with : o the 10,000 pieces containing jured. As for the 1 unhurt in a j eyes gleaming at crouched under the he had fled. S S— As the fat man in the grandstand sees foot ball, the boys on the team are all to the good because they don’t have to worry about keeping down their weight.—Lansing State Journal. — e A good name may be better,than riches, but muny a- widow is able to :apture. both.—Yonkers Herald. - The best thing about an expensive rutomobile is the upholstering.— Jacksonville Florida Times-Union. = ————— carrying . and the asters in water. The sicture smashed into at Jeast, but the vaso the flowers was$ umn tle glass dog, it lay of water, its bright Jack Spratt, who enport, where There are pages in French history that seem to be all dashes and ex- clamiation points.—-Anaconda - Stand- #rd. 4y