Evening Star Newspaper, November 25, 1925, Page 6

"8 THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. ‘WEDNESDAY . November 25, 1925 THEODORE W. NOYES...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Offies 11¢h St and Ponnsvivania Ave. New York Offica: st. Chicago Office Buropean Office 14 Rezent St.. England. The Evening Star. with the Sunday momn- Ing editfon. is delivered hv carricrs within the city at G0 centa ner month: daly onlv. 5 cents per manth: Sunday only. 20 cents per month Orders max he sent by mail ot telephone Main 000 Callaction is made by earrier at the =nd of each month. Rate by Mail—Pavable in Advance. Maryland and Virginla. Daily and Sunday....1yr. §840:1mo.. Datly anly 00 1mo. Sunday only 700 500 20¢ All Other States. Paiv and sunday. ...1vr. 10 00: aile only 1yr. §700: Sunday onfy 1y $3.00: Member of the Associated The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the uge for republication of all news dis- Patehes cradited to it or not atherwise cred fted in this paver and & iched horein All rights of ov ©f special di<natehes herein are also reserved e Washington's Crime Wave. ‘Washington seems to be in the grin of a small sized crime wave. hold-ups and robberies have been re- ported to the police within the last forty-eight hours. all of them taking place in the northwest section of the city. Although the bandit or bandits worked with great daring in a con- gested locality the loot for the three *“jobs” will hardly run over $6,000. Casualties up to this time are confined to a delicatessen store proprietor, who was shot in the side for resisting. His wound is not serious. Every effort should be made, and will be made, by the police to check the incipient crime wave before it reaches larger proportions. Rewards have been promptly offered, and Maj, Hesge has stated that the entire poliga forge, if necessary, will he as- signed to Junning down the perpetra- tors of. the crimes. Except in isolated cases Washing- ton has been comparatively free from hold-ups on a large scale. Now that the fraternity of lawbreakers and felons seems to have turned its at- tention to this city the police should polish up the barrels of their guns, see that their batons are in good working condition, take a few davs off from the arduous duties of chalk- ing cars for overparking and “dig in" for the apprehension of these des- peradoes. In spite of complaints that have been made against police use of guns, force is the only way to combat law- lessness. Each of these robberies was accomplished with a pistol “stuck in the ribs” of the victim. The slightest show of resistance called for shoot- ing, as was evidenced when the handit who held up a store fired four shots at the proprietor in retaliation for a blow on the head with a milk bottle. So the police, in seeking to collar these criminals, should be on the alert with their guns ready to defend their lives. No quarter should he given, and a concentrated drive should be started to convince the lawbreaking gentry that the Washington police force is determined to protect the life and property of the citizens of the community. Calling in of the reserves and the | men on leave shows that Chief Hesse | realizes the seriousness of the situa- tion. It is now up to the men them- selves to jump to their task, follow up every possible clue and make a con- tinuation of the criminal operations of the last two days decidedly un- healthy for the thieves. e “If any one of you sticks vour head out of the room for five minutes, it will be a case for the morgue!” No, gentle reader. This is not a title in a movie, nor a line in a detective story. It is a bona fide report of a speech made by a hold-up man to his victims, Dere in Washington, D. C. Truth is not only stranger than fiction, but is surpassing the most sensational ef- forts of imagination. e A coal strike always brings up the question of whether matters can be improved by deliberately making them ‘worse. The impression appears to be that eventually one side or the other will feel compelled to take pity on the sufferings of the public and yield. et President €oolidge is preparing his message to Congress, with an almost unprecedented number of live topics available. S PR Government and Miners. President Coolidge has been invited by John L. Lewis, president of the TUnlted Mine Workers, to say whether the Government is prepared to compel bituminous operators to live up to the Jacksonville agreements, or whether the Government would look upon steps which the mine workers them- selves might take to enforce these agreements ss “being justified.” The Federal Government, as Mr. Lewis must know. is not a party to the Jacksonville contract, even though governmental agencies used their to bring the operators and tozether to reach a working agreement. The c 't Is a private cont and if violated by either party the injured party is at liberty to - take case into the courts. As a matter of fact, the miners’ union dy attacked the problem from that angle and properly so. What Mr. Lewis ncw proposes is that the Federal Government shall move thro: its executive branch to force compliance with the Jackson- ville agreement, or if unwilling to do that, to stand complacently by while the miners strike, and seek by cutting off the fuel supply of the people to enforce the Jacksonville agreement. The Government of the United States, under the Constitution, is set up for all the people, not for any par- ticular group, of either mine workers or mine operators. The duty of the Government, in the present instance, is to do all in its power to see that the people generally—the whole peo- ple—shall not suffer illness and death and fatal limitation of their employ- Tlu-e‘ ment in the industries because of an arbitrary move on the part of either the miners or the operators. Presi- dent Coolidge may be expected to cleave to this line sharply. He will have the entire support of the people in such a course. The public interest in fuel is in- tense. It is so great that the Government might well be justified in brushing aside the interests of botk. workers and operators if the need for fuel became imperative. The anthracite coal operators and work- ers today are engaged in a struggle over wages and working conditions that has caused a suspension of min- |ing in the hard coal field for nearly three months. It will be remembered that the operators have offered to submit the case to arbitration from the first, while the workers have re- fused. Now comes a threat to tie up the unfon mines in the soft coal field. The situation has an ugly look. | The people are doing what they can to meet the lack of anthracite through the use of bituminous coal and other substitutes. As it happens, the great bulk of soft coal now is produced by non-union mines—as much as 70 per cent, it has been claimed. But a strike in the union soft coal mines vould cut off a now much needed supply of bituminous coal. The Jacksonville agreement, entered into in February, 1924, sought to keep the wages at the high level they had veached. It was expected that this would force the weaker mines to close. The plan, however, has not worked out that way. Finding that they could purchase coal at lower rates in the non-union mines, the consum- ers have bought more and more from those mines, untll in some cases the union mines have closed for lack of business. In order to continue or to open again some of the union mines have abrogated the Jacksonville agree- ment, at the instance, it is claimed, of the workers themselves, who wished rather for employment than for a strict obedience to the Jackson. ville agreement. The coal problem is a difficult one. With each recurring strike the hope is expressed that some steps will be taken to prevent further disturbances. Whether the present difficulty will result in any such development re- mains to be seen. Both the President and Congress, it is the hope and ex- pectation of the public generally, will deal strongly with the matter. 1 | —r—e—— New York Hunting a Police Chief. Mayor-elect Walker of New York is in the South recuperating from his campaign. In his absence from the big clty Tammany Chief Olvany is talking with, or rather listening to, the aspirants for office under the new municipal administration. Expecta- tion prevails that owing to the late unpleasantness in which Mayor Hylan was a central figure there will be a fairly complete change in the organi- zation. So the hopeful ones are filing their claims for preference and the big chief is hearing them, preserving a judicial bearing and giving, it would appear, no promises. . One of the most important queastions is that of the police commissionership, an office that is particularly desirable | because of its power and emoluments. Commissioner Enright may not be re. appointed. TIndeed, he probably will not be. He recently encountered the mayor-elect in Cuba, but there is no jreport of a conference. Expectation is that a new commissioner will be named. Yesterday, after several score of job-seekers and patrons of Job- seckers had seen ‘“‘the chief” in New York, he was asked by an inquisitive reporter about the police commis- sionership, and this was his reply: The decision is in Senator Walker's hands. For that position we are after the highest type of man we can get. He must be efficient, honest and on the job, and we don't care whether he is a member of the organization or not. So far as I know there has been no decision to say that he must not be a military man or a civillan. It's a matter for the mayor. All we are in- terested in is a man who will keep the town clean and get rid of the gun- men and the thugs. Every city in the country is hope- | ful that Mayor Walker of New York will find such a man. For upon the effective policing of New York de- pends to a large extent the policing of the country. Of course, there are other “crime centers.” Chicago, for an instance, is not without reproach in this regard. But New,York is the pace-setter in point of public order and law enforcement, and if the police or- ganization there is inefficient, if gun- men thrive and thugs ply their trade successfully, the example is harmful to all communities. Gangs of gunmen can be broken up and their members sent to prisen if the police are capably directed. The members of these gangs are known, or can be identifled. They work with reckless openness. Thieves’ fences are known. The process of disposing of loot is patent. If the police of New York do not know their way about the city they should be sent to London for training, and acquire the skill which the policemen of the British metropolis display in the discovery and prevention of crime. If Tammany really wants the best man for the job, and will assure him support and non-interference in the discharge of his duties, such a man can undoubtedly be found. —e— The difficulties of censorship are en- hanced by the peddling of what pur- port to be “unexpurgated” love let- ters direct from the court records. The world is progressing morally and intellectually, but a few of its inhabit- ants insist on throwing into reverse. ——e— The Silver Spring Grade Crossing. Interest is manifested in the speed with which the new structure carry- ing the railway line over the highway at_Silver Spring, Md., has been set in place. After months of preparation this work is npw belng executed with remarkable facility and with a mini- mum interruption to the raflway traf- fic. The real significance of this oper- ation, however, lies in the fact that another dangerous grade crossing is being eliminated. It is for that pur- pose that the work so efficiently done in the final stage has been undertaken. ‘The Silver Spring crorsing %ar been THE a source of extreme public danger for a very long time. Now it is to be cured by an ‘“‘underpass,” which will perntit highway trafic to flow with- out {nterruption or risk while the rail- road trains are passing simultaneous- ly. Thus one more ‘“death trap” will have been eliminated, one less place i will exist where fatalities may occur at any moment. But this is only one less, whereas others remain to contribute thelr toll of death to the awtul récord of casual- ties. There is one at Hyattsville, for have been prepared and have been made the subject of controversy in the community directly affected, ow- ing to a proposed shift of highway lines. That should go, as the Silver Spring crossing is going, withcut turther delay. The grade crossing is an ahomina- tion that is becoming more and more costly as traffic increases on the high- ways with the rapid development of motoring. Since District grade cross- ings were, with a few exceptlons, abolished by the adoption of ‘a large- scale plan of track rearrangement, traffic has multiplied many times. The pity is that the process of elim- ination was not then carried out to cover the entire suburban area, in both of the States adjacent to the District. Many lives would have been saved by such a broadening of the fleld of safety. However, it is comforting to see the work progress, as one grade crossing after another s transformed into a safe intersection of traffic routes. Maryland, with its excellent system of good roads, should have no grade crossings anywhere within its bound- aries. The Silver Spring work is thus to be hailed as evidence of progress toward that ideal. It has been decided that tax-free homemade wine will be discontinued. This will prove a discouragement to grape growers who have found their business so steadily increasing of late vears. The dandelion pickers and gooseberry gatherers will also find new and more serviceable occupation. e A law requiring mention of the true consideration in a deed for real estate will be hardly necessary for the infor- mation of intended partfes if all the statements in income tax returns are made with absolute accuracy. ——————r——————— Abd-el-Krim refers to “a war which none of us desired and which is lead- ing nowhere.” One war, great or lit- tle, when candidly described appears very much like all the others. ————— The demand for soft coal means an advantage to the scrub-brush indus- try, which will promote a demand for certain lines of skilled labor and also encourage healthful physical exercise. ——————— Trotsky 18 a voluminous writer, and his jealous political rivals hesitate about going so far as to deprive themselves of his services as a pub- licity man. ————— The idea of running Red Grange for Congress is not making a general ap- peal. The congressional game is rough enough already ————— Loan negotiations have enabled a number of people to reflect very sin- cerely the sentiment of Thanksgiving. - —vo—s SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Too True. It's cheering, they tell us, to seck for the Truth, Dark thoughts of deception forsak- ing. It's helpful to age and inspiring to youth Discoveries new to be making. And vet, when some devious deeds you descry Concerning both glory and money, You are apt to remark, with a tear in your eye, “Some things are too true to be funny?* We turn to the light with a confidence strong. It shows us a maze of pretending. A well meaning person appears in the wrong. A trickster seems safe in offending. We cannot keep laughing at life every day. The skies will not always be sunny. We're forced to admit, as we strive to be gay, Some things are too true to be funny. Curious Resemblance. “How is prohibition going in your community?” “As usual,” answered Senator Sor- ghum. “It's a little like evolution. There's a great deal of argument about it and most everybody approves of it. But there seems to be difficulty in showing how it works out in a practical way.” i Down by the Shore. “What are the wild waves saying?” They murmur as you wait, “The sands on which we're straying Now sell as real estate.” The Clam, the Crab, the Oyster Near new electric lights In glee proceed to royster On costly building sites. Jud Tunkins says he wishes for the good old days when people regarded any talk about a submarine as some kind of a fish story. Striving to be Accurate. “How many miles an hour can your fiivver go?” “I wouldn't undertake to say for sure,” answered Mr. Chuggins. *“It's getting so out of repair that it never runs a whole hour at a stretch.” ‘Wings of Oratory. When we lift up a grand oratorical roar, Our speech toward mechanics’ now leans. The American Eagle we mention no more. We talk about flying machines. “Mebbe folks will allus want to fight,” sald Uncle Eben, “but I'll be surprised if we don't git so ashamed of war dat we'll at least invent a new name for it.,” example, for the cure of which plans | THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Noah Webster many years ago re- jalized that there was an American English, based upon, but different in many ways from, English English. In recent years H. L. Mencken, with his book on ‘“The American Lan- guage,” now In its third edition, call- ed renewed attention to this fact. The publication of a new magazine American Speech, by the Willlams & Wilkins Co. of Baltimore, should be interesting to all those who belleve in our great mother tongue. ‘The October number, which s No. 1 of Volume I, bears upon the title pa the names of the following editor: Louise Pound, University of Nebrask Kemp Malone, Johns versity; Arthur Kennedy, Stanford University, representing the great Middle West, the East and the Far West. hat this 1s no dry-as-dust magazi s shown by the fact that one ar Speech Tunes and the Alphabet, Robert S. Gill of Baltimore, i upon a bit of admirable foolishnes popular in the District during the past Summer. The way the thing was set down here was something iike this: A BCDBB L M N O BB O S AR BB The vietim wi this into speech, an, to read it as follow: “Abie see de bee Hell, 'em ain’t no bees!" “O 'es, they are bees.” By slowly and distinetly simply the letters one will shortly see that ‘without any effort at all he fs making pretty good sentences sense—American language spoke.” by based asked to translate . failing, was told “‘as she is * o ok ok In the article in the new magazine the autnor says: “Sidney Lanier, as long ago as 1850, directed attention to the tunes in English speech. * * = Lanier would, I am sure, have been delighted with a striking example of galned currency Baltimore (and United Sta form, orall lllustrates to a nicety his contention that tunes are not only available in speaking, but frequently are sufficient in themselves to express thought.” Mr. Gill points out that one the sense of the seeming fumble of letters by putting rising and descend ing “tunes” upon the letters, the proper hesitations and accents, par ticularly upon the letter L and R ‘As a viclous example of wh: happen in slipshod speech, th men may i1l us with horror, goes on: “But as a superb example of idea-conveving power of speech compel our profound in his own o elsewhere over in longer or y of the shorter spect. Mr, Gill It can be seen from this sample that the new magazine does not propose to confine itself simply to profound schol- arship, in relation to American speech, but is willing to take in the lighter side of this work, in which a busy body of scholars is engaged throughout the country. All of us read more or le o and all of us write there is an ampl fleld for such a ne_as th newcomer to the Words things, as it has often been said. Any one who heips us to handle them with understanding is a benefactor. English is a broad, expansive me- dium, one worthy of the best study any man or woman can g - if one is satisfied with a limited vocab- [ulary, declaring, “I can make myself understood, all right,” he ought to be BY FREDERIC Vice President Dawes expects to reach Washington on Thursda: cember 3, and be on duty in th presidential chamber for four days before he calls the Senate to order on December 7. The mansion on the heights of Sixteenth street, which Mr. and Mrs. Dawes have leased as their Washington home, is ready far their occupancy. It will be the first time in more than 12 years that the Vice President of the United States has lived at the National Cap home of his own. Both the Mars| and the Coolldges lived in hotels circumstance necessitated by the fact that neither Mr. Marshall nor Mr. Coolidge was a man of sufficient pri- vate means to maintain an establish- ment in keeping with the social dig- nity of the high office to which he was elected. Vice President Dawes is a rich man. He is reputed to be once or twice a millionaire. Mrs. Dawes is an accomplished hostess and her home probably will be the scene of repre- sentative hospitality. Music is sure to be in the forefront of the entertain- ing there, because of the Vice Presi- dent’s melodious predilections. Ak Edward M. House's book of mem- olrs, his friends understand, is to be entitled “The Intimate Papers of Col. House.” The memoirs, for the present at least, will lift the veil on the activities of President Wilson's confidential man only up to the time of our going to war, in 1917. Col. House's collaborator in the prepara- tion of his book is Charles Sevmour, professor of history at Yale Univer- sity. Dr. Seymour was chief of the Austro-Hungarian _division of the American peace mission at Paris and the United States’ delegate on the Rumanian, Jugoslavian' and Czecho- slovakian territorial commission: House and Seymour were jaint edi- tors of a peace conference publication called “What Really Happened at Paris.” x ok kK Wilbur J. Carr, Assistant Secretary of State, is back from his native Ohio after an experience that threatened diplomatic complications between the State Department and the Buckeye State. Carr went rabbit shooting the other day with a brother of his, who is a_farmer near Hillsboro, where the Anti-Saloon League was born. The Carrs had just bagged their single bunny when a burly chap, also garbed in huntsman’s togs, drove up and, ad- dressing the dignified Assistant Secre- tary of State, asked him to produce his hunter’s license. Carr said he had none. Whereupon the stranger vanked back his sheepskin coat and displayed a star revealing that he was the coun- ty game warden. Things looked seri- ous for a moment until Carr disclosed his identity and his brother explained that they were poaching on his own farm. That, in the language in which Secretary Kellogg's adjutants are ac- customed to speak, closed the inci- dent. * K k% His friends in Washington rejoice in the assurance that M. Emile Daesch- ner, the Ambassador of France, is not' to be retired. Unauthorized re- poffts a few weeks ago alleged that M. Daeschner was soon to make way for Senator Berenger, a member of the recent Caillaux debt mission to Wash- ington. Just how the tale originated the Ambassador is at loss to explain and refuses Yo guess. When the Call- laux party was here, there was a sug- getlon that Berenger, who is a great power in the French Parliament on financial questions—a sort of Gallic edition of Reed Smoot—aspired to come back in the capacity of French Ambassador and settle the debt ques- tion. Whether his ambitions in that direction are at the bottom of the Daeschner retirement rumor can only be surmised. French diplomats, like our own, are subject to the caprices of Hopkins Uni- | reading | and | tunes in English speech which has ! or in print), and which | gets | is | n | interested in learning something about Noah Webster. * k X *x The first number of this really dif- ferent magazine devotes considerable space to the maker of the first Amer: fcan dictionary, as, by right, it should. Noah Webster casts a long shadow, He was a voice in the wilderness of early America, crving loud and long for the country to wake to the coming of the new language. He is mentioned 1 cle in the new n tism in American S by Prof. George H. McKnight of Ohio_ State University, and considered at length by Prof. Malone of the Johns Hopkins University, in an article properly en- titled “A” Linguistic Patriot.” Webster's great work, which ap- peared in 1828, was called “An Amer- ican Dictionary of the English Lan- guage.” Prof. Malone remarks that Webster might not inappropriately have called his work “A Patriotic Dictionary of the American Lan- guage.” ome of the things the intense Web- | ster fought for have come to pass, | many of them have not, nor ever will | The spirit of the man, however, de | serves only praise. He was the ear- [liest of the spelling reformers, and | many of our spellings common today re his Our use of “color” instead of colour” s due to him. His spelling books sold into the millions of coples. It may be Interesting to give some of Noah Webster's own ideas of “re- | formed spelling,” as quoted in the magazine. | “In the e: | yeer a consid the leading arti- zine, *‘Conserva- eech s ritten within the last able change of spelling iz introduced by way of experiment,” | wrote Webster. “This liberty s | taken by the writers before the age | of Queen abeth, and to this we are | indeted for the preference of modern | spelling | Chaucer. | he man who admits that the change of housbonde, mynde, ygone, | moneth into husband, mind, gone, month, iz an improvement, must acknowledge also the riting of helth, | breth, rong, tung, munth to be an { improovement. There iz no alternativ!” cried Web- ster. Ty possible reezon could ever be offered for altering the | spelling of wurds still exists in full force; and if a gradual reform should | not be made in our language, it will proov that we are less under the in- | fluence of reezon than our ancestors.” Time has proved, evidently, that the American people, in their writing and talking, are infinitely more under the | influence of custom than of reas We still write nd “words” and they did in W spell of the mother country remained over America, despite the Revolution, today the charm of our ancient tongue still works its will with us. Yet the sturdy pioneer work of ah Webster remains. It is to be hoped that the magazine will, from time to time, tell us more and more over that of Gower and | | nd as the [in the United whom the ave | prisingly little. In this very direction, it would lies much of the value of such To confine it solely to to render fits drticles of technical, but little human interest, would be to miss a real opportuni: That American Speech is deter- mined to maintain a proper balance between popular and scholarly mate- rial seems evidenced by the material in the very finesinitial number. May it continue so. tates, and yvet about ze person Knows sur- WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS WILLIAM WILE. domestic politi Jules Jusserand broke all records by surviving them for nearly a quarter of a century. Daeschner will complete his first in Washington o 1926. He has alry won his spurs among Washington officials, American and foreign, as a diplomatist of the first rank. year on January 30, * % ok ox The Americanization of Japan pro- ceeds. This observer is the repre- sentative in the United States of, the Japan Advertiser, an American-edit- ed and American-owned daily news. paper in Tokio. A few days ago he recefved cabled orders to report the results of all important American foo ball games until the end of the sea- son, including especially the activities of “Red” Grange. Japan long since became a nation of base ball fans. The Advertiser last month published “late extras’ on the results of the world series. *x kX % President Coolidge is putting the finishing touches on his next speech, which will be delivered at the seventh annual convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation in Chicago on December 7. It will, of course, be strictly argicultural in tone, as his recent address before the New York Chamber of Commerce was of strictly business character. The White House is gratified that Mr. Coolidge will have had opportunity to speak out his heart to Big Business and Big Farming on occasions so close to- gether. At Chicago the President is expected to ‘“sell” the Coolidge-Jar- dine co-operative marketing scheme to the bucolic brethren. They are not particularly enthusiastic over the mouse which the presidential farm- commission mountain brought forth last Spring. Many of the farm ‘co- ops” fear that Government control, even though sugar-coated, is in pros. pect, and they’re not jubilant about it. Other speakers at the Chicago convention will include Senator Ar- thur Capper of Kansas and Owen D. Young, chairman of the board of the General Electric Co. Mr. Young will hold forth on *“Making the Load Lighter by Electricity. * K ok ok Filipinos have made their debut in Pullman cars. The innovation was recently tried in the West in connec- tion with club cars on special trains {carrying crowds to the big foot ball games at Chicago, Ann Arbor, Notre Dame, Urbana and Madison. Uni- formed in white as distinguished from {the traditional sllver-buttoned blue of the Pullman porters, the Filipinos proved exceedingly popular attendants. Some of them are now on duty on the | limited trains running between Wash- ington, New York and Chicago, and if the traveling public likes them, more will be placed on other trains throughout the country. For several years the dining room attendants on the presidential yaoht Mayflower have been young Filipinos. (Copyrigat. 1925.) Justice for Nero. From the Nashville Banner. A Boston man says he can extin- guish a flame by drawing a violin bow over a tuning fork. After all, maybe old Nero was trying to put Rome out. / A Deep Sea Bubble. From the Vancouver Daily Province. It is proposed to organize a com- pany to extract gold from the ocean. Investors would be a little suspicious of watered stock. The Auto Age Limit From the Meridian Star. In spite ‘of the way some look, no auto is more than 25 years old. l A that | M. | . i EVENING. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY,. NOVEMBER 25, 1925. — e e Politics at Large By G. Gould Lincoln The big battle over the tax bill is coming in the Senate, in the opinion of Democratic leaders who are now re- turning to Washington preparatory to the opening of the new Congress December 7. They take it for granted that the bill will go through the House practically as it has. been framed by the ways and means committee. There will be some preliminary skirmishes in the House in all likelihood, but the ways and means committee has acted with a considerable degree of harmony in_framing the bill Democratic Senators, however, are whetting their knives for the bill when it reaches that body. Senator Sim- mons of North Carolina, ranking Dem- ocratic member of the Senate finance committee; Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippl, past master in the art of sticking verbal darts in the Repub- lican opposition; Senator Swanson of Virginia and others, will take the po- sition that in limiting the tax reduc- -fon to $337,000,000, as the House com- mittee bill ‘provides, full justice has not been done the American taxpay- ers. They will urge that the reduc- tions be increased until some $500,- {000,000 of taxes have been lopped off |the Federal tax burden. Their con- |tention is that it is unfair to the American people to tax them 5o as to pay off the public debt, due to the war, in about to 20 to 25 years, while the " foreign debtors of the United States are permitted, under the terms of the debt settlements so far made, to take 62 years to pay. Why not spread the public debt—which must be paid by the American taxpayers— over a similar long perfod of vears, and permit the taxpayers of today to shift some of the tax burden from their shoulders to the shoulders of {the taxpayers of tomorrow? * ok % % The Democrats are planning to neutralize, as far as possible, the credit which the Republicans are ex- pecting to obtain from tax reductions by telling the people that the Repub. licans are remiss since they do not lift the burden still further. Some of the members of the “pro- | gressive bloc,” found on the Republic- an side of the Senate chamber, are| | also ready to attack the tax bill when | it reaches the Senate. They will tackle | |ft from a different angle, however. | They will seek té increase exemp- tions so that incomes less than $3,000 a year will not be taxed, and seek to retain some of the higher rates on the bigger incomes. Their argument will | be that the burden should rest on the shoulde better able to bear it. Some of them are not inclined to join with the Demiocrats in increasing the total amount of the tax reduction, believing | that it is better to pay off the pubiic | debt us rapidly as possible, and fear- ing, too, that If the reductions are| made too abruptly there may come a Treasury deficit and the necessity of | again increasing taxes. The effort to | opposition. | * % & % | Take it altogether, the Senate leaders will have their hands full to get the tax bill “out of the trenches™ in time for the new tax returns, which t be filed by March 15 next. Particularly is this true, when it is| rememberad that the World Court | protocol, proposing adhesion of the| United States to that tribunal, is slated to come up for consideration in | the Senate December 17, and no date | has vet been fixed for a vote on it. The Democrats are prepared to sup- port the World Court proposal, they say, provided the administration does | not agree to compromise proposals which may be advanced to satisfv the | “irreconctiables.” Under such circum- | stances the Democrats are prepared | |to take to the woods. The required ! | two-thirds vote to agree to the pro- I tocol without Democratic support is an impossibility. * K ok *x Republican leaders are occupying [the few remaining days before the opening of the Senate with studies of several knotty problems, among them | exact degree of Republicanism -of | | Senator-elect Robert M. La Follette, jr., and also the authority or lack of authority of Gov. Sorlie of North Da- kota to appoint Gerald P. to the enate in place of the late Senator | Ladd of that State. Senator Watson of | Indiana, chairman of the Republican committee on committees, is going over the speeches made by Mr. La | Follette during his campaign Jast eptember. He has ascertained that | Mr. La Follette ran on the 1922 plat- | form of the late Senator La Follette |and not the 1924 presidential platform o1 the senfor La Follette. In the | meantime Mr. La Follette is maintain- | |ing_a complete silence regarding p | sible committee assignments. It is probable that he feels that if the |regular organization turns him down as a Republican, it will help rather than hurt him with the progressive | Republicans of Wisconsin. |, Should the Senate finally decide to |seat Mr. Nve, it will be up to the | organization to decide in his case, too, whether he is to be regarded as a Republican in the matter of commit- tee assignments or to be thrust into the outer limbo along with Senators Frazier of North Dakota and Brook- hart. Nve was a supporter of the La_ Follette-Wheeler ticket in and is a Non-Partisan Ledguer. * Xk X % In their studies of the Nye case, Re- publican leaders have turned frequent- ly to the case of Frank P. Glass, the Alabama editor, who was appointed by the governor of his State in 1913 to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Senator Johnston, and who was not seated by a vote of 34 to 30, on the ground that the State Legislature had not authorized the governor to fill vacancies in the Senate as provided by the constitutional amendment for the direct election of Senators. It is said to be on all fours with the Nye case. Of the Senators who votad on the Glass appointment only 17 are now in the Senate. Of these § voted against seating Mr. Glass and 9 voted to seat him. The Senators who op- posed seating Mr. Glass are Senators Borah of Idaho, Cummins of Iowa, Jones of Washington, McLean of Con- necticut, Norris of Nebraska, Smoot of Utah, Walsh of Montana and Over- man of North Carolina. The Senators who voted to seat him are Senators Ashurst _of Arizona, Fletcher of Florida, Pittman of Nevada, Ransdell of Louisiana, Robinson of Arkansas, Sheppard of Texas, Simmons of North Carolina, Smith of South Carolina and Swanson of Virginia. Some of the progressives who were in the Senate at the time and voted against seat- ing Mr. Glass were Senators Bristow of Kansas, Crawford of South Dakota, Clapp of Minnesota, Gronna of North Dakota, Kenyon of Iowa, La Follette of Wisconsin and Poindexter of Wash- ington. 2 The question now raised by the ap- pointment of Mr. Nye to the Senate is expected to bring action by the North Dakota Legislature and the Legisla- ture of Kansas, the only other State besides North Dakota which has fail- ed so far to legislate regarding the filling of vacancles in the Senate since the adoption of the constitutional amendment. The credentials of Judge George H. Williams of Missouri, appointed to succeed as Senator the late Senator Spencer, and of Arthur D. Robinson of Indiana, appointed to succeed the late Senator Ralston, will be presented to the Senate along with those of Mr. Nye. Both Indiana and Missouri, however, have legislated, giving the governors specific power to appoint to fill vacancies, In conformity with 1924 | burned means the creation | from the gasoline and oxvgen of tk ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. How long has soap been used?— W.C. A. A. The use of soap dates back to antiquity. A soap factory was found by the excavators of the ancient City of Pompeii. Historical records of Italy and Spain show that it was in com- mon use in these countries in the eighth century. It was cmployed by the French in the twelfth century and in England a little later. Q. What does “hoot mon” mean?— D. E. G. A. Hoot i3 a Scotch interjection e pressive of dissatisfaction, and may be regarded as equivalent to the Eng- lish tut or pooh. Mon means man. Q. What s being done in the United States to decrease illiteracy?— C.S. M. A. Since this country is led by sev- eral others in the per cent of literacy active steps have been taken to de- crease the number of illiterates before the next census is taken. The Na- tional Illiteracy Conference was con- ducted in Washington, D. . from J‘unuary 11 to January 14, 1924. Every State in the Union was represented in the attendance of several hundred members of the following organiza tions: National Education Association, General Federation of Women's q]uhs. Americag Legion and the United States Bureau of Education. .Q. How much money do we as a Natlon spend a year on candy?— H. M. C. A. We eat almost $200,000,000 worth of factory made confectionery in a year. We export about $1,500,000 worth and import $150,000 to $250,000 worth. Q. Do all the big ball parks have grass dlamonds?— B. A. All of the major league ball parks have grass dlamonds. Q. How many troops are now sta- | tioned in the Philippines?—J. B. A. On June 30, 1925, the troops stationed there were 4,601 Army and 6,683 Philippine Scouts. Q. Was the drought in the late Summer and early Fall caused by heat from automobiles?—J. T. C. A. The Weather Bureau says that such a theory seems untenable. If 14,000,000 pounds of gasoline were burned hourly in the Unjted Stat under most favorable conditions im. inable—not actual—the air would be warmed only one degree Fahreenheit in a little over six years. Then the | burning of gasoline produces water. Roughly, gallon of gasoline thereby every alr, of a gallon of water, which added to the atmosphere and thus in creases the absolute humidity Q. Why are certain words through out the King James version of the Bible italicized?—J. H. J A. Ttalics in printing the Bible are used in cases where it was necessary s ety in. | to tns I words to make the about this man whose name is famil- | repeal tha publicity clause of the in. | to insert additional 2 | far to every man, woman and child | come tax also will meet with strong|translation from the original manu- script intelligible to the readers of the English text. Q. What causes blue stain on lum- ber’—W. C. Q. A. The Forest Products Laboratory says that blue stain on lumber Indi- cates that the lumber has not been properly dried or rain. It does not interfere with paint, but does with staining, var- nishing or oiling, depending upon the use to which the treated lumber is to be put. It is found in the sapwood, not in the heartwood. Q. T have been told that children in Czechoslovakia attend school on Saturdays. Is this true?—C. M. A. The school vear in Czecho- | Regular | It is caused by fungi, | small plants whose spores or seeds | are carried through the air by wind | slovakia comprises 230 days, accord- ing to the schedule recently fiy b the ministry of education. Sunday {s the only day of the week on which the schools are closed. Q. Did Dred Scott die in slavery? J.E. S. A. Dred Scott and his family were inherited by Calvin 8. Chafes of Massachusetts and conveyed by him to Taylor Blow of St. Louls. The were emancipated on May 26, 1857 Q. What effect did the embarg act of 1807 have on American trade —J. F. ATt trade. created havoc Sxports fell fr to $22,430 in Amert m $110, ) in 1508, Sor destroy M. B. A. It it a pun United is not unlawful to mutilate or destr United States money provided such is not put into c lation again. Q. Who first took professor of sity of Pa | eral experimen ph | fit, having i to enanle bottom | must be prot |erings. Leyden | barrel surme which s prov: *The la ich a magnes the usual The photographs are ntaneous f attering into the flame th the T a puff o and carries § lens flute is doubtless one ical instrument he primitive cz £ leg-t people of a mation vin the province of that na government, and our Govern with everything that a eople. It maintains the and far-reaching m e that the world hc is in Washington a first rank on pra question touching the well being of humanity. There are magnificently equipped laboratories for the study of every problem of the | Natiow’s daily life. Our Washingtor | Information Bureau is in a positior 1'to" draw on these vast voirs | knowledge and let you benefit throug) | them. ATl you need to do is to submi: | your questions and inclose 2 cents i 'flmnzn to cover the return postage 1ddress The Star Information Burea: | Frederic J. Haskin, director, Twenty- first and C streets, Washington, D. C. tion's ment deals fects the most efficient chinery of servi ever seen authority tically every Accepted as Since “the world has become one room,” as the Topeka Capital puts it in commenting on the new radio re- strictions, “parliamenaary rules” for broadcasters are necessary, “so that everybody does not speak at once.” * This sentiment seems typical of the comments on the recent efforts to solve the problems of the air, for the majority of editors agree with the Capital that “only one at a time, or as many at a time as there are se- lective wave lengths, can speak, and there must be some one to supervise the order of it.” Jp to the present time” it is pointed out by the Newark Evening News, “we have had a policy of ab- solute freedom and untrammeled operation, resulting in 578 stations, which fully occupy all the air lanes. Conditions, Secretary Hoover declares, absolutely preclude increasing the total number of stations. The ether, he argues, is a public medium and its use must be for a public benefit; it ought not to be occupied for selfish purposes. Se he would have the lanes assigned to the stations which serve/ best the listening public. That seems like sound sense, but to lay down the principle is not to solve the problem.” The Evening News, however, views the original suggestion by Mr. Hoover in favor of local determination as one that “ought to assure better broad- casting.” *i% ok The Madison Wisconsin State Jour- nal finds that the radio conference “passed the buck to Mr. Hoover, who is now termed the ‘Judge Landis’ of radio.” As a result of the action by which the delegates “side-stepped Mr. Hoover's proposal that regional advisory committees be formed to assist the* Secretary,” the Lansing State Jourmal says: “If Herbert Hoover were always to remain in his present position, we believe we'd be for him for sultan of the air, or high keeper of the ether, whichever title suited best.” “It is to be hoped that the growing opposition to extension of Federal au- thority, commendable though it is in most cases,” according to the Kala- mazoo Gazette, “will not stand in the way of necessary legislation to govern | activities which are obviously 100 per cent interstate. We can adhere to the main principles of local self-govern- ment without holding dogmatically to absurd extremes.” Similarly the Erie Dispatch-Herald holds that “it is as important to clear the air for radio users as it is to establish the traffic laws and regulate the viewless path- ways for aviation.” * ok ok ok Indorsement of Mr. Hoover's view that “to divide the time of the present stations and limit them to certain days and hours would produce a de- generated service,” is given by the Indianapolis Star, which comments: “The average radio owner learns that a half-dozen of the more important stations will provide the best and most varied entertainment and has little use for the majority. The hook-up of groups of stations has done much to improve the reception of programs having a national interest.” So also the Brooklyn Eagle belleves that “‘an increasing amount of important edu- s the constitutional amendment. The credentials of Mr. Nye probably will be referred to the Senate committee on privileges and elections in order to look thoroughly into the law in his case. A1 Don’t Speak Out of Turn Rule of the Air cational, ment is b ticularly stations,’ ing pu from and th fronting the Dep: is how to make overcrowded air stations eager the class of material. Whatevar t public best serves the radio tion” of the p; ¥ the New Y e discovery of sc aking §9 number of . we must look to science and the radio pionee: he conference was and &onstructive in sp! Chicago Daily New ly advanced the policy settlement of radio ques could not well 1 tives of so new dustry.” To this th News adds that “It is note that so much intell manifested in t monious says the and unde £ en the Stz tinues, ured th ing will be put upon a cry and that there will be no co | impairment of air service. gram approved by the c the opinion of the Racine ' “‘represents primarily the the radio industry, and is intended for | their own safety 'and convenience,” | while at the same time “it seems fo | represent pretty well the interests of | the radio teurs and the general | publtc.” wishes of iMexico“s Great Curse Is Lack of Education Mexico desires the world to know that radicalism, that has in recent years overrun the country, has been toned down and that there isa greater | welcome for participation by foreign | nations in the commercial affairs of | the republic. On October 30, the City of Mexico | will celebrate the six hundredth anni- versary of its founding by the Aztecs According to the fables of the Mexlcans it was in 1325 that the race in travels south came upon the om foretold for the site of their new city an eagle on a cactus holding a pent in its talons—and on that s they built Tenochititilan, later looted by Cortez in his conquest of Mexico Mexico will make much of this anni versary and will hold an international fair. Many countries will participate While Mexico, however, may believe that the worst of radicalism has pa: ed, travelers have not recelved that | impression. The affairs of the country are actually in the hands of agitators | who promised so much to the workers | that it has been necessary to seize land to give them. The workers in turn are not equipped to cultivate the soil and the mext harvest in Mexico will produce far less than during the years of Mexican prosperity. The great curse in Mexico s the lack of education. The peons, who have slaved for so many generations, need something else besides land; they need to be equipped mentally to rely upon their own initiative in farming or enterprise of any kind.—San Ber- nardino Sun.