Evening Star Newspaper, November 2, 1925, Page 6

6 THE EVE) —_— THE EVENING ST !'llh Sunday Morning E WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY..... November 2, 1925 THEODORE W. NOYES...Editor} ening Star Newspaper Company Business Office ot Pennovivania Ave New Yok Officar 110 Fast 42nd st Chicago OMcn. Tower Buldine ~Buropean Ofice’ . 15 Rezent St.. Loudon. England The Ev 11gh st The Frenine Star. with the Sundss morn- i "ol Per ORI ONiere may e sent by mail or Penhans Main 000 “Coliectian 16 miade by carrier at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Datlr and Sunday S840 1 aily only o da $8.00: 1 Sunday only . 1582400 1 All Other States. unday. .1 v 5 1sr 1er Datls and § Dailr oniv Sunday only.’. it Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Pross Ts exelusivale entitled fo the use for republicat patches credited to it o fted in this pancr and piblished Rerein ©f svecial dispatihes her s of public ‘are alen 1oserved Ttaly's Debt Negotiation. * will be the negotiations n Ttaly's “ability to pay fmportant factor in the looking to a settlement of the Ttali: war debt to the United States hegins today has come here with expressions of the utmost good will toward the pavment of the debt, an attitude that cannot fail to have srable cffect The American Debt Commission is faced with a difficult problem. In fairness to all its debtors, the United States can scarcely be expected to de viate from the principle of debt set tlement which has been established. Yet in fairness to Italy the present and future capacity of that nation to settle its debt of $2,138543.852 must bhe taken definitely into consideration With France the same question of ca pacity to pay was an important factor in the recent negotiations here. The French and American re unable to azree that ca pacity to pay Furthermore, the Irench sought “security clause’ which would have authorized France 1o cease pavments at any time @nd to seek a further review of the situation The French negotiations were unsuc cessful, and the United States offered finally a kind of five-year moratorium of the debt, with the payment of 1 per cent interest during that period, negotiations for definite funding to be resumed at the conclusion of that pe- riod. This the French have not looked upon with favor. It well recognized Italy’s ability to pay the war debt to the United States is limited at the present time. It is no secret that the situation in Ttaly is regarded here as very different from that in France Jtaly's revenue resources have been considerably lessened, even by hun- dreds of millions of dollars a year. : have been lessened in part through the loss of money heretofore derived from American tourists abroad, throuzh the loss of revenue hecause of the American prohibition 4 fan w upon a is here that is laws and throuzh the loss of money | due to the limitations now put on im this country. Today many tourists in Europe dodge into Italy and out again in automobiles instead of making prolonged stays in Italy’s historic and beautiful cities. The exportation of Italian wines for consumption in the United States has bheen cut off ce of revenue. and whereas gone by thou of Italians have poured into United States to reap a golden harvest with their labor and have then returned with American money spend in Italy, the immigration quota law now in effect has reduced this source of income greatly. The United States is no Shylock among nations. It is an to deal migration into s a sou n i sands the 1o ous fairly and with consideration toward Ttaly and France and all other debt- ors. The relations between Italy and the United States have alwavs been cordial and the same pleasant rela- tionship is expected to continue in the present nezotiations. Yet the Amer- iran Government must also look to the interests of the American people. An acknowledgment of the debt doubtless will be made. For the rest Italy’s present financial situation must in large measure be the guide. ——o— i Prohibition enforcement has the support of the general public, accord- ing to Wayne B. Wheeler. A few in- nocent bystanders have been shot The fact stands, however, that the public demands a fair trial for a law as well as for a citizen ————— Only ten or fifteen per cent of the metion picture industry is claimed by Adolph Zukor. He was popularly credited with more, but this is enough to keep the wolf from the door for several seasons. ————— Framing the Tax Bill. With the conclusion of the hearings on the tax-reduction proposals the House ways and means committee will this week 2o into executive session to consider the framing of the revenue bl It has a difficult task. It has heen told that the Treasury condition will permit a cut of $300,000.000 in the Government’s income, while proceeding with the liquidation of the public debt on the basis of a 25-year amortization period. It has been urged by repre- zentatives of various interests to make a greater reduction, entailing a larger cutting of the Federal income and a longer period of debt extinguish- ment. If every plea is heeded, if all proposals for tax repeal or reduction are adopted, the bill as presented to the House will carry a tax cut of ahout $730,000,000, more than double the maximum cut proposed by the Seeretary of the Treasury. Tt was inevitable that when the hearings opened pleas for specific tax reductions in greater volume than the plan of the Treasury would be heard, with logical arguments for such cuts. | that a taxreduc- | The announcement fion measure was to be framed was an invitation to the people to file their claims and present their plans for revision, downward. Thev have re- apcnaeo‘and now the committee 18 | AR !v-»m[)ellvd to choose f which ! The Italian commission | commissions | ltalian | m among many propositions. In the main, the raductions proposed by the Secretary of the Treasury were in the line of lowerinz the scale of income taxes and of surtaxes. In addition proposals have been made for the remission and repeal of specific taxes as foilows, in terms of millions of dollars: Automobiles, 150: capital stock, 93; stamps. 51; o 46; adm s and dues, 33 jewelry firearms, nearty 4; bowling and bil- linrds, 2; brokers, 2: cameras and films, nearly 11;. Fractional millions are represented pleas for works, $600.000; yachts, $350.000, pipes, $40,000. The total of specific taxes, the repeal of which is proposed. is $415.440,000, a figure greater in it- self than the total reduction proposed Ly Secretary Mellon. If the ways and means commiltee of the House should heed all pleas made at (he hearings it would bill completely altering the policy of the Gove debt extinguishment by more than _h- a century vond the time posed by the Secretary. For partisanship is not, it would seem, to in this me Both parties are agreed upon reduction. All individuul members of the House, and | of the Senate as well, ure desirous of sratifying the public demand for lessening of the tax burden, but all ap- preciate that the overnment not be suddenly denied for maintenance | operations and for ment of the debt In the framing « aleohol in art and these tiscal pro- be dominant suve. a must of ordinary judicious retire- nue nec essary a the revenue bill no reckoning will be had of the possible income from for eizn debtors present negotiating soon Lo negotiate for a settlement of their obligations to the States. That indeterminate factos not a part of the present equation. Without it there is a certainty of a verv material lowering of the tax scale and lightening of the now bearing upon the people. would now seem at or a e Two-Hour Parking. Washington motorists are united in supporting the recommendation of Traffic Divector Eldridge for the cre- ation of two-hour automobile parking zones just outside of the congested business section of the city. Not only will adoption of this plan make it pos sible for shoppers to make purchases at leisure, but it will materially clear up congestion by keeping a large num- ber of cars away from the center of both pedestrian and automobile travel. Not a great deal of time is left for Washingtonians to enjoy parking privileges. The time is not far off when it will be found necessary to sweep the streets clean of parked automobiles. Tt is evident that as the city continues to grow and the num- ber of cars increases Washington will have to follow the lead of other cities in keeping the streets clear for the great volume of moving vehicles. In the meantime, however, every possible use should be made of the available parking spaces. Liberaliza- tion of the parking regulations at this {time will aid the general situation. The Commissioners should lose no time in adopting the recommendation {of Director Eldridge. It the new rule goes into effect it is up to the Police Department to see | that it is rigidly enforced. This én- forcement should also be aimed at the one-hour parking zones. 1t will do no ood if two-hour zones are turned into all-day parking spaces, and the one- hour into two hours or more. It has been frequently stated that if the one-hour regulation was strictly enforced congestion in the downtown ction would be a thing of the past. Although this statement is an exag geration. it can be readily seen that if motorists were compelled to move promptly at the end of one hour the business district would be able to ac commodate a tremendous volume of traffic, both parked and moving. — ———— o A expedition that back all its men alive is an achieve- ment well deserving of the congratu- {lations the MacMillan party has re- ceived. In order to reach the North { Pole there must be patience and pru dence as well as courage. There are no scientific secrets to be discovered a An Aretic | lar sacrifice of men e There are no dictators in America A traffic director comes nearer than any one else to the assertion of un questioned power, and he has his ‘lruubles. e roonopolies of rubber, ni- may call for a revival of Down with the trusts.” —————— Persia’s Bloodless Revolution. Overturn of the monarchy in Persia has heen effected without revolution though with an indeterminate result as affects the form of government in that country. The National Assembly {on Saturday, by a vote of 80 to 5, adopted a resolution deposing the Kajar dynast Ahmed Mirza. The deposed Shah has been living in France for some vears, quite indifferent to the duties of his rank and office, ziving himseif to pleasure and spending freely the lib eral allowance sent him by his gov- ernment. His deposition means, there. fore. nothing 1o him personally, though it ends a dynasty which has ruled Persia for nearly 160 vears. Some question prevails as to the new form of government in Persi It was expected at the time of the de- position that Reza Khan, wno has been the virtual head of the Persian administration in the absence of the ! voung Shah, would assume the leades ship of a republic, with the title of president. A dispatch from Teheran, however, refers to him as “King” Pahlavia Reza Khan, whose first aet was the liberation of all political prisoners, the grant of amnesty to the late dynastic family and members of the royal household and the de- cree of a government subsidy to re- duce the price of bread. Persia has been progressing rapidly during recent year: distressed by its financial situation. A heritage of earlier international in- fluences and azgressions has handi- capped its administrators in their effort to modernize methods, to estab- Foreign trates, etc. the slogan, write | nment and postpon- mately | United | is | weight | i downtown brings | that are worth a wanton and spectacu- | | in the person of Sultan | though seriously | lish communications and to maintain {u completely independent position. {Reza Khan has been a strong man | capably handling movernmental affairs | during a trying period. The absence of the younz Shah has not been an embarrassment. On the contrary it has been of assistance. His deposition is merely a matier of form. Persia has great potential wealth bhut needs capital for its development. It needs railrosds and improved agri cultural meth It can produce much more than it has in the past few generations it means can be pr vided 1t has rich = oil. which proposuls by for for development president, R 10 advance Persia ma terially and 1o give that present rem. 1L of & once mig sovernment for transportation m includ are reval resources, the of eizn capitalists W hether Khan is likely King or hiy empire a stable ——— New York Votes Tomorrow. New York City votes for «nd other municipal offices, and the Staté votes on certain propositions the finances, Interest ters in the mayoralty election, though the result is virtually a fo sone conclusion. Out of a tremendous pother pre-primary disturbance has come # placid two-party align- ment, with a straig Demoerat candidate confrontin straight-out Republicun 1t the trouble- some job managing the A potentiul by the disappointed incumbent averted, and Tomorrow mac cen- al of h-out g & aspi for of bolt has city been has indorsed the Democratic and has Leen echoed by his powerful The end guestion nominee publisher-supporter. I majority. sured is oniy a of the Tammany leaders terms hundreds sands Yelt, true to tradition publican candidate and talks about the “silent vote” as the factor of victory. At the same time he malkes mention of insufficient funds for campaigning and of certain racial schisms unfavorable to his candidacy, thus preparing an alibi for defeat. Any Republican mavoralty candidate in a two-party fight in New York must have an alibl ready before election day. Tomorrow’s will not fing in of! of thou the Re expresses hope election in New York even be interesting on the score of its effect upon the political future of Gov. Smith. He won his fight in September when the primaries were held. He established himself then as the leader of his party in his State and city, and thereby assured himself the “favorite son” support of the New York Democracy in 1928 ———— = Geeat Humanity.” “That captain, he Is very great humanity,” said Anfello Lauro, master of the steamer Ignazio Florio. to the “ship news” reporters in New York Harbor as the President Harding steamed into port with the twenty seven survivors of the sunken freight- er, rescued at sea by Capt. Paul | Grening. *He did it for humanity only He is a real American hero. 1 like him. Capt. Grening did for the men on the Florio only what every sea com- mander does and will do in a supreme emergency. He stood hy. delaying his mails, hazarding his own ship in the moéuntainous seas. risking dssperately to save lives. As he laconlcally re- |ported upon arrival, through a “miracle” the seas abated for an hour after the Harding had been circling {about the doomed ship for many hours, land it became possible to approach the partialiy submerged vessel with a liteboat sufficiently near to receive a rescue line and to pick up the twenty- seven men. It was perhaps a “‘miracle” of the sea, but the whole affair was just an- other bit of rescue work. Capt. Lauro calls it heroism. He “likes” Capt. Gren- ing. Who would not? Who does not? Galla\t seamen, both of these men, true io their traditions. “A Very The co-operative movement give the farmers an opportunity to show that they are better business ————— ———— The Shah of Persia has been in vited to retire and no longer subject himself to the temptation of allowing business to interfere with pleasure. — SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Inquiries. Leiters into words we weave And words we set in line To make our neighbors laugh or grieve O'er thought rough hewn or fine. But when the times are out of jaint As parts of speech we scrawl, The old Interrogation Point Is greater than them allt i Candid Appreciation. “What is your opinion of the Ein- stein theory “I admire i, Sorghum. “I don't 1 take off my hat licity.” answered Senator understand it, but to its expert pub- i More Reguiations. | The motorist murmurs forlorn As he plods through the perilous night, “Oh, give the jaywalker a hor Compel him to carry a light! i Jud Tunkins savs the interest in Halloween is g0in" to grow less as people realize that they're ruinin’ the prospects for a pumpkin pie to make a false face. Cosmetically Speaking. “How do ¥6u manage (o keep your girlish complexion?" “I don’t keep all of i, answered Miss Cayenne. “My maids purloin at least fifty per cent of it Abundance. 1t is a yéar of thankfulness For many things; indeed. For instarce, young men no¥ possess More trouser than they need. | “Avound our settiement,” suid Uncle Eben, “de problem of supply and de- mand is gettin’ sumpin’ serious. De huntin’ dogs is gittin’ mo’ an’ mo’ nu- ‘merouser an’ de rabbits is gittin’ an’ mo’ scarcer,” he ! will | men than they have been politicians. | ! Shaving Uncle And Saving BY WILLIAM Ediiors note: This is the first of xiv ar- ticles by Mr. Heim showing how by innum- wierable uail economies Auge sums have een xaved of 1hs 101 pavers money The second ariicie will be published tomorromn Calvin Coolidga’s money-sav to whom he has intrusted the leadership hi: economy mpaign. number Iy at the present time 300 per- sons, of whom more than %0 per cent are men of some authority in the evervday routine of the Government scrvice, They e been o nized, partly within the past vear. into 1 oureau, 11 Federal boards and 7 area commanders, each of whom has heen siven a geographical district in which 1o effect mvings. These high priests in the Temple of vernment Econumy hold frequent 'vices. Their rites ure held in the name sident. It is 2 name With which to conjure at Washington and in the field, and it is used freely. with his authority, by the chosen lead- of his economy campaign. Bureau, vested with blanket uses the Coolidge name daily, alwaya with his gen : . but more often without his knowledge, perhaps, than with i(, ty i i * ox ok % It is being used todav. perhaps at the moment vour eye falls on these lines. by officials of the hureau from the director, n. Herbert M. Lord, a retired Army officer, down. For this is the season of the year when . Lord and his assistants are whittling duan the prospective spendings of the Government departments for the com h": fiscal vear. Hearings are in order They are being held daily, and all of official Washington, taking ‘:‘-nwt arzni tirn, i3 fockin Treasury, where sit the lord of finance and his lor A MI l'rffll chieftain for comes before the Budget Bureau wi cavefully prepared estimates of whos he hopes to get in the way of spend. Ing money for the coming year. His accounts ‘are placed on the table—a bare table in a hare room furnished with. the cast-off furniture of other Iviflmrllnpnlt ‘The board. over which presides an official of the Budget Bu- veau. scrutinizes the items and que tions the applicant as to each one “Now, Mr. So-and-So." savs the chairman, “vou are doubtle: familiar with the President’s policy with re- spect 1o expenditures. On Jine 18 last at a meeting at which vou were pres. ent. he announced that policy. He said. ‘I purpose holding the ordinary running expenses of the Government to——'" and then follows the citation from the President’s speech. The chairman resumes You are aware, therefore, of the necessity for economy. How, then, can You reconcile vour figures, which call for $132.000 more than vou spent last vear, with that policy of the Presi. | aent> President’s lings. * %208 The burean chieftain sq | self as Dest he can, and the Budget Bureau attends to the paring-down process 1o make his estimates conform to the general policy of retrenchment. it the figure of the President has come squarely before the buresu chief- tain and without the immediate knowledge. The leston sinks in, Hour after hour, dav after day, week after week. the process is much ‘the same—the tall, lank figure {of a stern-taced man ever lurking in !the Lackground. pointed out as au- thority for this, that and the other necessary reduction. But there aré at work other agen- cies than the board which sits in daily | judgmeht on the proposed .&pendings. of the Nation. Theee agencles have | nothing to Ao with the eompilation of the tens of thousands of individual |ttems that go into the annual esti WASHINGTO RY FREDERIC es him- Davis. the new Secre- will make his first public that capacity at Philadel- 27. The occasion Dwight ¥ tary of ‘Wi ad s in plia on November % ] will be the annual “Founders' day dinner of the Unlon League, Penn State's rock-ribbed Republican organi- Zation. Mr. Davis is expected to make a timely announcement of the Cool- lidge administration’s military polic: in view of the retrenchment program to which the President has committes { himself with regard to expenditure on !the Army and Navy. The Mitchell | court-martial by the time of Secre- tary Davis' Philadelphia speech will belonz to the ages. He may be relied upon to deal with that subject, too. and probably with the general topic of the air service besides. The Union League feels a special lin entertaining the Secretary of War. The orgzanization was founded during the Civil V originally as a great | patriotic society. But in modern times it has mainly been a G. O. P. bulwark. Almost every President of the United States during the past 60 vears has been ils guest * ook Although protesting that he has be- come a tarmer and ceased to be a poli- tician, Frank O. Lowden is putting in effective work for himself as a 1928 presidential candidate. His friends are particularly and openly active in his behalf. They are making a lot of capi- tal out of Coolidge “third-term” talk, and exploiting it to the advantage of the former Governor of Llinois. Low den’ and the President are- nominally friendly. But the Westerner, who somewhat curtly refused to be nom- inated as the Coolidge running mate at Cleveland in June, 1924, is not _be- lieved to-be averse to taking the field against the President in the 1928 pri- maries, if Mr. Coolidge should aspire to succeed himeslf. Western politicians drifting mto Washington for the con- gressional season insist that the Low- den boom fs to be taken seriously, and that it will be increasingly in evidence as 1025 approaches. Lowden's main strength is with the farmer | svstematically educating them to be {lieve in his ideas of co-operative mar- keting. * o ok ox Judge Edwin B. Parker, umpire of the American-German, Mixed Claims Commission, "is the reciplent of an honor belleved to be unique -in inter- national relations. ‘The governmert of | Austria has just requested that he be | apponted the sole arbiter of var claims requiring - adjudication beiween that country and the United States. Since i time immemorial it has been the cus- tom for twa countries to mame sepa- rate commissioners and for these to choose & nsutral as the third com- { missioner. Germany in 1923 set a | precedent by inviting Judge Parker, who was the United States' repre- sentative on the Mixed Claims Com- mission, to become its umpire. Now Austria, apparently having acquired boundless faith in Judge Parker’s fair- ness, has paid him the compiiment of asking him to it in soiz judgment on American-Austrian claims. Parker is a Texas Democrat. He was a dollar- a.year man on.the War Industries Board at Washington. * ok K E Breckinridge Long of Missouri and Washington is organizing a Nation- wide celebration of the 150th anniver- sarv of the sfgning of the Declaration of Independence and the 100th arni- versary of the death of Thomas Jeffer- son. The year 1326 will-be the period of both commemorations. Long is functioning .in the capacity "of chalr- man of the national Jefferson cenien- nlal commiitee. In preparation for the The | unrufiad | to the | instance, | President’s | ppropriateness | He is | \ING _S8TAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, NOVEMBER Sam’s Dollars His Dimes . P. HELM, JR. mates and thence (o Congress. They are linked by blood relationship with the board. these agencies are: indeed, are part of its very bone and sinew. But they function after the money is appropriated ) They escort the dollars from the| Treasury to the spenders and stand hard by during the spending process to see that every minted coln. every engraved bank note works fo its full capacity. There are, as stated. 11 of these agencies. They are captained by & colonel, H. C. Smither, who is designated chief co-ordinator. Bureau of the Budget. Each of the agencies- they are termed [ederal boards chairmaned by a Government official. Euach board has a membership, gen- erally drawn from all departments, running up to 35 men. They get together at least | month to plan new wavs of saving | money. There is a round-table dis cussion of every plan. I is either ap. proved, disapproved or deferred. If approved, it is “recommended” for! adoption to each branch of the execu- ! tive government. The ‘“recommenda: tion 1s made in the name of the| President—and it had better be at-| tended to, or there’ll be trouble by and by. once a A& b Ak Three hundred men or thereabouts with a sprinkling of women thus con stitute the ways and means of carry ing out the Coolidge campaign for | more business and more saving in | government. These men and women | have been worth, on the average, $1.000,000 aplece to the President and the taxpayvers, for have they not, by united effort carried out in the Presi | dent’s name, made possible $300.000,- 000 in surplus, out of which is to come the next cut in Federal taxes” Some of the President’s erities say |not. They sav that the surplus is due to a combination of a high tax rate and a tapering off of war-time activities. But the workers themselves point to the facis and the savings and let it got at that. They can show. | and do, & record of proposals adopted | almost without number. each looking | forward to the saving of a few dollars | or the saving of many dollar | Whether the savings wounld havel | been made anvhow—that is some. {thing else. Apparently it does not | concern the 300. They only say the | suvings have been made. They are not “if” men: they do not attempt to say what would have happened If * 0k * % The business of the Federal ernment has been split 11 ways and over each fraction sits one of the | saving boards. Their activities dove. | \tail into a_perfectly fitting and func- | tioning whole. They have cut red| tape and thrown it out the window. | Formalitles of other davs have i appeared: What one board has other can have. What has been done in the way of spectacular savings already has been told. With the big savinzs the pub- lic is familiar. Of the litle savings It knows little. Yet there were thou- sands of these little savings within the past 12 months. They are as im- portant, in their wav, the large | ones. They help swell the Treasury surplus and make possible a larzer measure of tax reduction than could | be had without such savings. | A hurried estimate of these savings places their total at not less than $25.000.000 a vear. What they are and how they work vut. as related in this series of articles, has heen taken from the records of the boards | themselves and of the Bureau of the! Budget. Hence there is no guesswork about them. They are presented as part of the record. for what it | worth. i | i W little (Copsright. 1935 OBSERVATIONS WILLIAM WILE. anniverxaries more than 1.004 1ezlonal Jefferson centennial commit'ees have been formed throughout the country The schools are beine - specialy ganized. At Monticello. on April 1926, Jefferson’'s 183d birthday will celebrated by the dedication «f bis homestead as a national shrine for the school children of America. Governors, | mayors and civie leadsrs cv where | are co-operating to make efferson year” a triumph. Fin | Henry L. Sweinhari, president of the National Pross Club, congratulated Franklin Adams, counselor of the PPan American Union. on having been spe | cially mentioned by President Coolidge the other day at the unveiling of the statue of Gen. Jose d& San Martin | “Hadn't heard a thing about it,” blush ingly pleaded Adams, who said he was at the ceremony and had his earz wide | open. Why. Coolidge talked abou Franklin and Adams halt dozen | times.” said Sweinhart. “and we alll thought he meant vou' Dr. Rowe's | right-hand-man of tha Pan-American Union is named after no fewer than| three distingulshed Americans, his full name being Franklin Pierce Adams That is also the name of *F. P, A." | famous coiumnis: the New York | World. * k% ¥ Herbert Hoover now has alongside | him at the Department of Commorce, in the capacity of “assistant to the :Secretary,” a’ native son of Cali.| fornia—former Representative James Henry MacLafferty. Ever since leav. ing Congress last March MacLafferty has been contributing his long ex-| perience as a practical business man to the Government's big business de- partment. He is one of the few men California sent to Congress who isn't a lawyer. MacLafferty was brought up in the lumber trade and then became one of the coast’s big whole- sale paper dealers. He represented the bustling Oakland district in the House in the Si eighth Congresses. Hoover sends him all over the country. making busi. ness talks to business men and “sel ing” the Department of Commerce’s service to the commercial world. * ke | i 1 * "There's aiready talk about tentions of Col. Mitchell and his coun- sel eventually to carrv the ‘“free speech” issue to the United States Supreme Court. They are said not to be disposed to take lving down the verdict of the military court that the “free speech” provisions of the Constitution do not extend to an of- ficer amenable to the axticles of war. Lawyers concede :he proposition raises a pretty polsit in constitutional law. They diffz as to the construc- tion the Zapreme Court, in a test case, might put upon it. They are also at variance in their views as 1o just how a_controversy which arose directly under military law could be plloted thraush the civil courts to the Supreme trivunal. (Covsright. ! the in 19251 Lucky Signs. From the Flint Daily Journal. Finding a horseshoe or doing a little extra work at night are both considered signs of good luck. ————— Prompt Payment. From the Bristol Herald Courier. Sometimes we pay for our mis. takes on' the spot, a5 in the case of thar North .Carolina. n whe.: mi took « wildcat for a e§n. 5 ! | with asphalt { 1o be dispen 9 1925. Street Conditions Near Farragut Square To the Editor of The Star A short time ago it was proposed (o widen Seventeenth street from H to K and to expand the necticut avenue from K to Dupont -, which woull necessitate the sacrifice of all the trees on the west side of the avenue, which would pro- duce a very lopsided app which would be suggestive « zoing about with on- side of shaven and the other in full growth. As for Connecticut avenue, the pres ant condition of the pavement beiween the rails is far from what it should be. Necessarily there are a greal many manholes, traps, and plates in order 1o have access to the electric conduit, byt there is no reason why the pavement between the outer rails rhould be in such abominable con dition. In some places it consists of wood, stone blocks, brick, patched up and all in very crude condition and very unlike the smooth surface of H street between Kour- teenth and Seventeenth Now as for public utility, it might be a great if the H street cars could to Eighteenth street, thence north to P street, and over to Dupont Circle, from which puint they could be routed to Mount Pleasant and Georgetown as usual An excellent plan would be for the Washington Rallway and Electric to continue its line of wuto busse Seventeenth street to Mount Plex and on. These busses should be dou- ble deckers, like those in use by the Washington Transit. By the way, H street west of Seven teenth street is 10 feet narrower than 1t is east of Seventeenth street. It should be widened to the extent of or 10 feet. Even this expansion of the street wounld leave ample room for an adequate sidewalk or pavement Necessarily the hedgerows would have with, or ser back were on Fifth avenue York, when the avenus was wid ened some Years 1t seems that the curve at Seven teenth nd H streets is a hoodoo. The track is constantly undergoing re pairs and it not an _uncommon thing for 8 or 10 cars to be hung up on Seventeenth street at great in convenience to those who are on their way to the Union Station or their places of business. It seems that on this corner they have a drag rope or cable in case of the failure of the cars to operate and round the corner. For Some reason or other the cars operat ing on this line are exceedingly noisy, which is very disagreeabl: they cannot be operated in more auiet manner, as on other roads in the city, is a puzzle FRANKL Bulgarian Spokesman Says Greece Offended To the Editor of The Sta In saying that the Bulgs the augressors in the rec on the Greco-Bulgarian frontier Mr. B. P. Salmon, director of the Hellenic Information. Bureau, simply repeats statements emanating from Athens. These statements are officially con- tradicted by the Bulgarian govern- ment and by Mr. Walter Collins, your orrespondent, who has personally visited the frontiers, and in his cable, published in The Star of October 24 distinctly says: “Reports that Bul garian troops advanced into Greek fer- titory have absolutely no foundation.” Mr. Salmop calls the invasion of Bulzarian territory by Greek troops. whereby thousands of people have been driven from their homes and made miserable, a “little fracas.” Exactly so. and one naturally asks if this litle fracas could not have been quietly and amicibly settled by A Greco-Bulearian commission as the Bulgarian geyernmént proposed Yaving the matter before the councii if the League of Nations and let them investigate it and fix the responsihility. Was it necessary for this little fracas to move whole regiments of Greek troops, invade a country which, owing to the lmitations imposed upon its military forces is helpless to defend itself adcquately, hombard and bomb open and defenseless towns and vil lages? S. PANARETOFF. League of Nations and the Will for Peace. To the Editor of The Star With the results of the ference. the last horn ue of Nations. assuring th +nd likelihood of o new era of ind good will, does not the ¢ eriticism of Soterios Nicholson, lished in The Star of October 30, seem untimely and cruel? Your correspond- ent belittles the late bow to the leazue on the part of Greece and Bule sneers: “Apparently only when K nations are involved settlement seems secure. And quotes the earlier Corfu incident when Italy—its dicta tor—successfully blustered for a while. His conclusion was: “If that is justice, according to the League of Nat then the American people were right in voting ainst the league.” This “leazue’ oniy lately came into being, bor: amidst the strife of mations, when blind prejudices made logical thinking seeminzly impossible. The ad surprise that this “league’ lives, and is provinz a vizorou IS not “the will for peace v established in the glorious re- at Locarno and cannot the League of Natins be given credit for this vision of world salvation? W. G. KENT. — - Chemistry in America. ‘The assertion of a visitor to the chemical industries exposition in New York that “‘chemistry in America as no quarter and acknowledges no rior,” v fairly approximate: high estate this science has reached here in the present century. We had a wonderful heritage from the preced- ing two centuries in the development of chemistry and physics. But there were times when we lagged behind and the subsidy and reward of re- search were left largely to Europe. In recent years we have changed all that, and much of the change may be ascribed to the war-time discovery that we were dependent upon Euro- pean laboratories and patents for many of the essential processes of our industrial life. We were not long in taking the lesson to heart. and under the lash of war we evolved new and intensive activities which have carried us forward with almost im measurable speed. Whether we have undertaken or surpassed Europe and particularly Germany in chemical seience is still a moot question. Perhaps we are only nosing her for first place as yel, but our advancement is founded on substantial ground, and the gains in a few years have been so great as to guarantee a brilliant future that shines the brighter because of the support that chemistry is receiving from busi- ness and governmental agencies.— Philadelphia Inquirer. -t Financial Philosopher. “Those who dance must pa the piper,” and “Never put off until to- morrow what vou can do today” and a lot of the other old adages appar- ently have a strong appeal for Secre- tary Mellon. He seems to think in such sententious terms. He himself has come through with “Pay your debts while you can.” Here is a di- rect saying that ought to be knighted or sainted or embalmed or whatever is done to pat sayings to make them permanently serviceable. : The Secretary of the Treasury h: Just heen making reply to those whe complain that we are paying off the rance, a man same as they New STEELE. ians were nt incident Locarno rping pub- is width of Con-! his face | the | Just why | or by | Q. Why does Halloween alwavs come on October 317—T. € A. It is a festival celebrated on the evening hefore All Saints’ day which falls on November 1. Q. Hearing of the amazing prices paid for some of the undeveloped | land in the South moves me to ask what the United States pald per acre for Florida and for the Louisi- ana purchase.—H. L. P. A. Florida cost $5.000,000, about 62 centx an acre. while Louisiana purchase cost about § 000,000, or a little over 4 cents an acre. or the | Q. is the proper time to gxercise K A. According to the Public Health Service better results are obtained from exercise If taken about three hours after meals and one should preferably not eat again until an hour has elapsed after exercixing. Q. How long have textiles been bleached €A A. ‘The scouring and hleaching of textiles 18 one of the oldest technical e. Authentic records date 0 B. C., at which time the Greek writer, Xenophon, records the | wrecking of a ship near Marseille | the cargo of which was raw linen and the lime necessary for its bleaching. Q. there O. P When | | many lobacco leaves are “hand of tobacco” How in a — The Bureau of & that the number tobacco in hand var but nsu 20 leaves or Plant of of t Iy from more, depending {the tyvpe and grade of the and the size of the leaves heaviest tobaceon and besi usually contains a small number, the dark Kentucky tobacco. for in- | stance. The welght is variabie algo. | From three to five ounces s fair | average for a hand. but they may | run as high as 6 or § ounces. Q many railroad there to 2 mile on the Pacific7—T. McC. The Southern ('0.. says that the trom 2,464 to 2,880 Industry ves of uy tohac a runs ' tios South are ern How Railway varies Pacific number How nev do tourists much from the United Canada?—A. T. S Tourists _from the United took $150,000,000 in ve.nue lo Canada in 1925, according 1o esti- mates of Canadian governmen. ofi-{ cials. This sum is equal to a quar- ter of the value of the Dominion’s wheat crop and approximaies the value of the annual mining outpui of Ontario, Quebec and british Co- lum combined. More than 2,000 - 000 American automobiles, it is esti- mated, have crossed into Canada this Fall. They carried approximutely 4,000,000 people. or a number equil to the tofal pepulation of Canadu. | Q m spend States | cities have Q. How man; in their schools’— the platoon plan {H. M. C. iy A Njnety-nine cities in thirty-two States heve one or more schools or-| ganized according to the work-study- play, or platoon plan. During the past year the Department of the In terior, Bureau of Education. has re celved requests from every State in the Union except three for informa tion about the platoon plan Q H A. There are a number f narasites which are probably annoving to flies. {but nbt espectally destructive. and there are also certain mites which at- tach themselves to these Insects for {migratory purposes. Worms of. sev ]eral species Invade their internal or {2ans. Adult flies are subject to Dé flies have diseasesi—)] 1 IR H | | | | fect_ventilation | would probably give the most effective ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. least one disease “which makes serl- ous inroads upon this insect popula- tion. Q. How much should a jockey weigh? Must be get a license?— I3 A. A jockey usually weighs between 95 and 120 pounds. All jockeys ere licensed by the Jockey Club, New York City. Q A, The Lesser Doxology, or “Glory be to the Father and to the Son, etc, seems to have come into use in the fourth century. The use of the Greater Doxology, or “Gloria in ex celsis” (sometimes called the angelic hymn. from its belng an expansion of the song of the angels, in Luke, 1i.14), can be traced back to the fourth century. It appears in the Roman liturgy at the beginning of the sixth century. The last stanza of the hyvmn, written by Bishop Thomas Ken (1637-1711), beginning “Praise God from whom all blessings flow is commonly called “the Doxolog: Protestant churches Who A wrote the Doxology?— in he swe Q. What will prevent ing of windows?—J. G A. The sweating of windows is due to imperfect ventflation, and if per could be obtained it cases openings are top and bottom %o at a current of cold air may cover the interior side of the glass. 1In some 1 nees, where the sweating of is 7 bad rams dissolved in 1 liter of . to which a little As soon as it he the results. In many made in the sash add; = mive av surface of window with a_chamois or linen A thin of pure glycerin applied 10 hoth sides of the glass will prevent mais t thoroughly rubbed on the inside 1 September in N. L. M of the State of the Legislature Q. Why does Maine her tion for Conzressmen stead of November” A. The election day Maine was fixed by at time when transps ation factli ties were much poorer than at pres By Novembe: in the State of many roads were closed to travel and it was exceedingly difficult for people to reach polling centers ent Maine Q. What is the musical instrument called a hullroarer?—M. P. The bullroar an Indian in- Tement for producing rhythmic sound, consisting of a narrow. usual Iy rectanguls of wood, from about 6 2 feet long Vs sus slat inches 1o to 2 inches one end to the often being provided with wooden handle. ~ The bullroare which is often painted with symbolic designs, is whirled rapidly with ur m motion about the head, and th ion of the air agains = characteristic wh wide, e + cord reason ail thinas se is 50 constructeo (There is a This great unive | that there must be a reason or cause for avarything that takes place. It often difficult for the average persos to 7ind out the why of things. Hv Jknows that certain things are so. bu he docs not understand why they are s0. This paper supports a free infor- mation bureau in Washiagton which will answcer any question of fact yor may wish to asi. Whenerer yow are in donbt about anything write to the Burcaun. The hearty co-opecation of its experts in answering your queries is assured. Inclose 2 conts in stamps for return postage. Address The Star Information Burcau. Frederic 1. Has- Kin. director. Twenty-first and C streets northiest.) Locarno Pa Genuine Surope has at last raised at Locarno great and lasting bulwark against war, in the opinion of American com- mentators. Permanent peace is pre ted by many as a result of the -t pledging France, Germany and Belgium not to invade one another's territory, while Great Britain and Italy promise action in case of any | future \violations. me '\”""'.L\" is expressed at the speedy conclusion of the negotiations. “The consummation work for peace and friendship in Burope.” declares the Salt Lake Deseret News, “meets the enthusiastic indorsement of the Washington ad- | ministration and the approval and Dessing of the American people The News views it as “a change in spirit, a revision of feeling of gr promise than anything that has come to Europe for generations.” The sig nificance of the achievement is made the greater through the facts. noted by the Birmingham New: that torce has heen used; no coercive | of this at the agreements in perfect accord.” while the Philadelphia Evening Bt |letin also says that “the important thing is that all parties are strongly possessed of the will to peace. * ook x “How was it that an agreement was reached so completely and promptly 2" is the query of the Charleston Eve- ning Post, to which jts own answer is that “Europe has tried the other wav hopelessly for seven years and no it is going to try to realize peace The Schenectady Gazette sces dra- matic force in “a formal consent of {any sort on the principle that there shall be no more war between certain most important nations,” and that “the most fortified border in the world never again shall have forts or soldiers.” Credited as the “fruit of English diplomacy,” the Roanoke World-News sees in it the beginning of a ‘‘new chapter in European af. fairs,” written, as the Manchester Unlon points out. by the nations of Europe, “weary of war.” ‘Germany is going into the league on one condition only.” the (‘,har!q{le Observer remarks, “and that condition is that only the league shall he re- garded competent to interpret the covenant. Germany will enter into the league family under the terms and the only terms President Wilson would have indorsed. As a result, the Sioux City Tribune predicts that “the present-day Ger- many can develop into a prosperous — war debt too fast. Secretary Mellon does not resort to a lot of financial gibberish that would go over the heads of most of us. He stated: “The country today is exceedingly prosper- ous. It can afford to pay off its debts without undue burden upon the tax- payers. Its history has alwavs been prompt _extinguiehment of its war debts. It is ready for the next emer- gency when it comes. The time to repair vour roof is in good weather— not when it is raining. The time to pay vour debts is when vou can. The world turns awful fast these i He would be rash. indeed, who would attempt to say what the na- tional problems of 50 vears hence will be. It does not appear that this gen- eration s leaving the generations that come after as great a heritage as we have received ourselves: but this we can do—we can leave the coming gen- eration out of debt. But, anyway sound governmeéntal” vhilasophy s Aummed up in #Payv your dehts when you can."—Lansiiz State Journal. “no | tactice.” and that “these peoples enter | ct D_eclaredfl Peace Bulwark nation within a few years. if it will [ treat the pact as a closed _incident |and make a new start on a basis bef ter adapted to German thrift and con- | structive ability [ “At { equals,” states the Springfield T News, “and, in fact, at the susges tion of the vanquished. Results were bound to follow as they have. And helpful to the cause is the growinz American participation.” It was a dded advantage. according to vracuse Tlerald that Germa ‘maintained an earnest desire fortify European peace at all poinis and, as viewed by the Louis Times. she is “no longer rezarded the victim to be exploited bnt as the collaborator in the work of upbuild inz.” The Boston Transcrint fine cause for satisfaction in that “olive branches have not heen wranpped ahout a club. while the San Fran cisco Bulletin credits the result “changes in German thought duiine the past vear. “The spirit of conciliation.” ac cording to the Detroit News. “whict has been kept alive and made artive by the League of Nations, is working toward tangible results.” and, as em phasized by the Omaha World-Herald “the League of Nations philosoph and the Leazue of Nations methods are scknowledged and accepted as the one feasible plan for salvaging European civilization.” The St. Jo seph News-Press adds that “the suc cess at Locarno may open the way toward freer co-operation with tF United States in general limitation of armament projects.” The Mil waukee Journal sugzests that “we may follow where we might have led but we are not going to block the wav, or even stand by as cynics and let them try it alone.” = * % % ¥ “Every friend of peace | ress will devoutly hope.” declares the { Utica Observer-Dispatch, “that FEu rope is on the brink of a new order while the settiement is resarded by the Providence Journal “a_turn ing point in European politics. not. indeed. in Furopean history and the Lit{le Rock Arkansas Demo crat predicts “a revival of confidence. @ revival of hope for everlastinz peace. and, we hepe. a revi tolerance.” The judgment that pact will go far toward removing sus picion and competitive armaments’" is uttered by the Wichita Beacon, but With the added thought. however that “it is a lonz step toward the mutual guarantees of safetv which idealists wish to impose upon the world at once.” “The Locarno document.” says the Kansas City Journal-Post. “is the most sincere and substantial move in the interest of peace since Europe burst into flames in the Summer of 1914, and the New York Herald Tribune sees “full justification for the surprise and jubilation of the press and public in every country The Indianapolis News observes that the spirit of distrust seems to have vanished.” The Hartford Times be. lieves that “history may record that the World War did ‘make the world safe for democracy.’ " The Oklahom City Times avers that “greater s bility in Europe will strengthen con fidence throughout the world,” and the Buffalo Evening News predicts that “the ideal of peace which the nations have set up at Locarno will nof he easily shaken from ita pedestat.” * «ocarno the ions met as and prog