Evening Star Newspaper, December 6, 1925, Page 58

THE EVENING With Sunday Mor: WASHINGTON. D. C. SUNDAY......December 6. 1925 STAR ning Kdition THEODORE W. NOYES. . "The Evening Star Newspaper Compaay Bustness Office . 11th St.and Pennsyl New York Oftice: 110 : Cnicago Office . Tower Building Buropean Office: 14 Regent St.. London, England The Evening Star, with the Sunday morn- ng edition. fs delivered by carriers within the ity at' 60 conts per month: daily only. 45 cants per montn: Sundsy only Dot menth der. wnt By mal or tolepl carries .. Editor aryland and V Sunday 1y ; A 1y Daily Ty s0.00 S0 nd I nday only All Other States and Canada. Dany S12.00 1o 1mo 1y =100 iy Sunday 1y > Member of the Associated Press. entitled for republi Tews dis. hes credited fo 1t it otherwiee cred- ted in this paper and also the local news published here All rights of publicstion of special dispat hes herein are also teserved =3 | The Sixty-Ninth Congress. regins the fi Congre Dirief special session of the March last n Tomorrow the Sixtyminth ti held i save Sens for the contiry the of e has been no meeting of the le; tors for nine | months, the longest recess in several vears. Many matters of urgent impor- nee will be debated. Legislation of sequence 1.ill and doubtless in some form enacted. Tax revision, prohibition enforcement, the Ship Board quest the World Court, farm coal strike—these but the tion sminations, ‘ be ¢ proposs aviation, relief, s’ e some f the agenda | will be the w of routine, “high spots” Iirst in spri- the At in the il asure there legislative calenda be the tax of that m no question. There is tion to press it through both houses | promptly and but little disposition at present to seek to make partisan eapi- tal out of it, although there will be | head of the House will revision i Of the passag every disposi- | | projects or accepting honorary {ing plan of org {welfare or charit ground of i | conferring unpleasantly involved in apparent pat- ronage and approval of exceedingly shady projects of money getting. The law prohibts the unauthorized use of w person’s name as indorser of any enterprise. public or private; but 5o cleverly is this game worked that ithose engaged in it are hard to catch in actual violations of the law. There jis in some positive misrepre- \sentation which amounts to fraud. The actual victim of this mis- representation is the person who sub- seribes to a fund because of the sup- posed indorsement of some person of prominence and known ihtegrity and discretion. But as a rule such a vie- Htim 1s not disposed to prosecute. He I has lost only o small amount of.mone; {The real sufferer is the pu jage 1 and yet who ha for | { 1 case: misused ground who: me has leen slight, it any 1ction against its borrowe It behooves all people whose names what be called a market ue th be exceedingly careful about indorsing money-getting pos] have iy a v approving or tions on boards or councils. It be hard to suy no to a suave solicitor for names who spreads forth an allur- nization for a seem- ingly valid and worthy work of publ or patriotic promo- the request for the as on the ma il puts 1 public a numd sponsor duty or on that But it s harde vet later (o ask (o be allowed (o with- nd, effect, to apologize to the public for having given any coun- tenance whatever to a soliciting scheme of the merits of which the v favor. it draw in himself. Every fake that is promoted on the strength of the indorsement of per- »nages of note hurts all worthy en- rprises eade al life from giving countenance to plans < in public, business and soc or enterprises that ave not positively known to be meritorious and needful. Much money will be saved to the lib- eral-minded public and much distress spared to themselves. R e The Brookland Grade Crossing. In @ letter to The Star which was printed in Fric issue Mr. Robert “Republican” and “Democratic” pro- posal | It is expected that much time will | by spent regular and special com- | tees in investigations and inquiries, | wiation and | less e the irings the Senate | urt will be the chief | early in the ses- 17 having been agreed vpon as the date for taking this mat- ter from the table for debate and, it i< hoped, early decision. It is impossible to foretell how long this session will last. There is business enough to keep the houses together for at least seven months at the usual pace of trd cting business. Some the ions highly contro- versial and the rate of progress may be tions will | take and 1 rughout conventions 1 do wotracted b the World of disey Decembe wion ques. ' ihject o on slie 1 sion n aqu e slow. Congressional ele next Novem the Summer nominating and pre-primary cam- paigns will occur, which will furnish an incentive to members of both louses to get back home as quickly as possible to look after their “fences.” This may make for an earlier ad- journment than the prospective calen- promises. There is indication now of a record volume of bill printing. The greatest pre-session flood of copy on record has been flowing through the Government Printing Office, 110 less than 2,565 bills | having sent to that Iish- | by members of the House to be printed for introduction tom To | this number will be added thousands | 15 the session waxes. Most of | these will die in committee. Some will be reported and placed upon the cal-| endars, there to languish to the end ©of the Congress. Only a few will pa In the Senate the Vice President's nroposal for a change of rules to make late less protracted will be waged, "\ perhaps some unpleasant happen- There is no doubt that Gen. has expressed a public demand irtailment of the freedom of de- in the upper house and for 1pter legislative service there. He member of the Senate, i cannot lead the fight for rule re- sion In person on the floor. This ibject, however, will be the theme of vigorous and may itself place H i been est: row. more a discussion serve to protract the ————— Neither “standpatters” nor “ircecon. cilables” will become extinct so long as Senator Borah maintains his pres. ent. activities. ) Names and Schemes. On several occasions recently enter- prises, perhaps of merit, hut in the circumstances subject to natural ques- | ion, have been launched for public approval and support on the strength | the names of eminent people as members of “advisory boards,” “gen- eral committees” and honorary office These names ap. pear to give the stamp of suthenticity | and genuineness to the projects, and viron the strength of them subserip- tions are solicited and obtained. In ny cases the use of these names is nauthorized, or at least the men whose names are used have given their assent 1n general terms without tully understanding the reason for the request. In some cases, 100, perfunc- tory letters of sympathy for the pur- puse of the promotion have been with- wit warrant interpreted as definite «o-operation, and the letters. which have not heen intended to be used to st end, are displayed indorses wents. Eventually questions are iaised as to the soundness or the need the sincerity of these enterprises. Those whose names are being used withdraw from all association. Pub- licity s given to the true conditions ind the enterprises fail, when they are 1ot genuine, or are reorganized on a r basis of good faith and public progel. Man§ public men have been in this jnanner embarrassed by the misuse of their names and prestige for the pro- motion of schemes that are not worthy perhaps as as soun K:Hlf‘"llnn R. Faulkner, president of the Michi- gan Park Citiz Association, calls the gmde crossing at Michigan avenue, in Brookland remaining death t ns’ as one of the the District fow s in thich should be speedily eliminated 1t 1l Zute and Ix trathi peri The only present tion s nt is the usuul crossing Recentiy o count of the at this erossing over a ten-hour howed that 33 both passenger and freight; 457 pedestrians and 1,897 vehicles had crossed the in- tersection. The marvel is that no ac- cident occurred. The so-called protec- tion of a gate and a warning bell is, as has been proved so tragically else- where on many occasions, no protec- on at all. A negligent watchman, an impetuous motorist or a trespassing pedestrian may contribute to aster at any time, The only cure for this condition is a Viaduet to carry Michigan avenue across the tracks at a higher grade. Such a viaduct has been provided a short distance south of this point, where Monroe street is carried over the tracks. The Michigan avenue crossing is growing constantly in use as the traflic increases in consequence of the development of the suburbs Iying to the north and east of this point and the natural increase of the travel over one of the pleasantest driveways in the District, which links with the road to Baltimore. Llimination of this crossing by a viaduct construetion shonld be effected through legislation at the coming ses- trains, a dis- sion o Congress, funds should be provided to cavr street over the tracks. Recently a less dangerous crossing, just above the Dis- trict boundary in Maryland, was cured by a viaduct construction. The Diss trict should have no grade cr and this remaining relic of the days of universal death traps in the Capital should go just as soon as it is possible to secure the necessary legislation and the construction of the work. It should not be necessary to wait for a tragedy at that point to insure action. o The end of the boundary quarrel in the jfreland is a brilliant reminder of the strides the peuce. world is making toward the guod example. e Mussolini has attained such distinc- tion as a dictator that the King of Italy begins to look like an honorary member of the government. ————— Prohibition enforcement should manage to be calm, though firm. One lof the advantages of abstemiousness iy its promotion of a serene state of mind. . The insistence on new rules may yet cause Vice President Dawes be known as the Mr. Eldridge of the Sen. ate. o Shad and Alewives. Not many Washingtonians buy themselves eealskin coals or sea- otterskin garters, announced from for- cign parts as the latest fad. But many ‘Washingtonians and many Americans do habitually enjoy freshorun shad and alewives. The annual report of the Burean of Fisheries, racently sub. miftted to the Secretary of Commerce, runs the gamut between these two ex. tremes and is a document more time- 1y afd interesting to the uverage citi- zen than the prominence given to it ports would lead one to believe. All through the tedious Winter the mind of Washington and of the Middle and South Atlantic States is apt at intervals to linger on toothsome shad and shad roe. The catch of shad in the Potomac, the source nearest this city, for 1924 was just 49 per cent in number and 45 per cent in value of the 1923 ch. The 1923 catch itself was less than balf as large as that of the preceding vear. The alewive catch, on the other hand, showed a 32 per cent increase. But there meems to be no valid reason why the catches of both, and of many other desirable are not necessary to the pub 1. Some have been, in fact, very fishes, should not show an annual in- ilic person- of |, protec- | Whatever the cost. | SIHKE.! | 1t Mr. Dawes can make the Vice | It should be a proud moment | for Yirin to be finding herself setting | and to many other governmental re- | and to bring about this highly sicable increase the Burcau of Fisheries exists. - “In the days of the first scttlements in this country the fisheries were in- valuable, and without them some of the settlements would have been wiped out,” Commissioner OMalley states in his report. Are they any the less valuable now? His bureau, which supervises the taking of fur seals, of foxes and of sea otters; which keeps ome eye on the greedy canner and an- other on the hoggish angler; which maintains a fleet of a dozen vessels; which sends its trained scientists all over the globe, and which in the in- tervals of biz problems tukes time and pains (o give demon- strations of the Russian method of preparing caviar and to ship fish or {ekis of half a de of to foreign pendent on the 1 desir tish ountries, generosity mindedness of Congress., made of representatives who is de- nd ¢ Congress s re- e | up And the people who elect them are the people who like shad and who like berring and salmon, and who, when wealthy enough to treat themselves to Iskin ., otterskin garters and double portions of caviar, still do not lose their te for the commoner fishes. coat R Hoover on Pure Science. Sceretary Hoover touched on points trength and weakness in Ameri- 1 character in a speech before the American Society of Mechanical En- gineers. He emphasized our indus- trialism and eald that we have devel- of owner of the name has not satisfied |oped industrial research upon a scale | the chief occupations of our time. The hitherto unparalleled in history, and that in ten years we have had an in- crease from one hundred to more than five hundred laboratories en- and this fact should deter |gaged upon search for applications of | 'e&lize the infinite variety of human known scientific i, the depend ‘t and law. Yet applied science lahora which comes from the laboratories and men engaged inpure science, and that in this sphere of knowledge and effort America is behind the majority of | nations. The Secretary barbed his argument with the state- ment that “‘compared with other ex- penditures of far less importance to human welfare the amount of money annually devoted in the United States to the aid of investigators and inve gation in pure sclence is absurdly small. Tt is less than one-tenth wha | ¥¢ spend on cosmetics.” There Secretary of our weak points. He said that | we do ot spend move than $10.000,000 a year for research in pure science, vet bly expend 300,000,000 on applicd science research. Among those foundations engaged in pure sclentific research, Mr. Hoover named the Smithsonian Institution, the Car- negie Institute and the Rockefeller Institute, and gave respectful men- tion to the National Research Coun- | cil and some of our Government agen- | cies engaged in pure scientific re- wearch. he s tories on material uropean Hoover e we prol —e—s One way of adding to the gloom of a cold, dreary Winter is to figure how {little the average citizen would have {to pay in taxes it this Government |could have collected in full and:with- out delay from all other nations. — The ecxperience of Mr. Nye of North Dakota is not uncommon. Many a statesman has become just conspicuous enough to give point to a movement to ostracise him. —_— e —— If France can advance the value of the French franc by creating more of them . new method will have been discovered for evading the law of sup- and demand ! | oL | B enforcement will Prohibition make _{ihe New Year resolution a more com- prehensive and striking feature of the holiday program than It has ecver been before. - - President an active and aggressive figure in Government affairs he will be a historic figure as a tradition smasher. ——— Senators are fairly successful in maintaining party discipline, even though there are no definitely formu- lated articles of political war —————. SHOOTING STARS. #Y PHILANDER JOHNSON Work Dodger. I look for Work—though sich u sight Would fill me with dismay. If T should see some, in a fright T'd run the other way. I look for Work, just as I keep A watch where cars run free. For it would bring me sorrow deep Should Work catch up with me! Al in the World Family. “I suppose you know all about our international relations?” “No,” said Senator Sorghum. “The enly impression I get is that they are {the kind of relations who abuse you one moment and want to borrow meoney the next. Inscrutibility. We find in our affairs of state— Likewise on every hand— The more that we investigate The less we understand. Jud Tunkins says he never yet heard of a farmer who made enough by humble toil to enable him to be- come a member of the Chicago Board of Trade. Unrelated, The Winter's blustering cail Portends life’'s sorry lot. The temperature will fall. The price of coal will not. Prevalence of Wealtlt. *“Would you marry a man for bis money?” “Never!” protested Miss Cayenne. “Money is now so common that I should insist on being credited for marrying in spite of it.” ““We lose a heap o’ time,” said Uncle Eben, “tryin’ to decide who's to blame 'stid o' findin’ out who kin be help- [R flect the point of those who elect them. ! touched | EVERYDAY DECEMBER 6 RELIGION BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D., LL. D., Bishop of W' I Corinthians. siv.10: “There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification.” “Listening in" has become a prevail- ing practice today. All over this coun- try countiess men and women day by | day, through the medium of the rudio, | are picking up voices on the air. By | the slmple turn of a dial they ure uble | to shift from place to place, from one point of the compass to the other, and at their pleasure listen to music or | speeches as their will dictates i It Is literally true that the light shall be full of music und that the alr shadl be full of sound. Only taste dic- tates what shall be heard, and the ’,\\'Iu * thing hinges on the discrimina tion or caprice of the lstenerin. It | may be the rich tones of an oratorio or the cheap, unmelodious strains |h)l'.K Issue from some obscure music hall. It may be the eloquent voice of xome acknowledged leader in the s the coarse and unrefined utter: some vulgar comedian. To the ear of the “listener-in,” each according to taste, the other conveys that which | he desires | is more responsive o his | 1 that which the radlo sup- | ~. One wonders, with such 1d 1o draw upon, what tastes wo disclosed were n record to be 1 n the millions who, night by night, | listen Perhaps here, as nowhere | else would discover the mental | and qualities, the aptitudes | and of the people over the They can practically have wart, and they get it. Listening in” has become one of N wish i thins i | ald | t | i we responsibility of those who transmit their messuges through the sensitive microphone is incalculably great, nor can this responsibility be properly weighed, unless in u sense they can minds to which they are addressing i themselves, and the infinite variety of human needs that are clamorously ap- | pealing for satisfaction. We in | new miracle age, und one that culls for more discrimination und a better understanding of human values than any that has gone before. “Listening in” suggests to us the large wisdom of %0 training the human heart and mind that they shall be sensitively respon- sive to the finer and better volces, whose messages contribute to mental and epiritual enrichment. One feels impelled to ask the great multitude the question, What are you listening in for? What do you want to hear? The answer would disclose richness or poverty, strength or weukness, refine ment or coarseness. It is striking how our tastex muy be lifted or lowered { simply by listening in to the voices on the air. One can rendily imagine how {the daily habit of listening in might | contribute to the development of the {mind and the refinement of character, * % * tible to the forces t play about us.| we feel the im-| We are and influencex Every day we U1 susce thi live The United States has had the most rapid growth of any nation in the world. Within 150 years it has ac complished that whici has tuken other nations hundreds of vears to accom plish. It has built, and built 9, and where its only other rival in rapid growth—the (Gierman _empire —was welded imperfectly so that Its unity | proved to be specious, the United | States has shown that its solidarity is | permanent. Aside from this feature of its growth | America proves interestng when its present civilization i studied. Tts rapid development caused its settlers to move to the centers of greatest eco- nomic advantage. That is, fertility of soil. presence of minerals, all the nat- ural resources which make for good 1 livng and sound economic conditions attracted them. This, however, in no wise differed from the mettling of ! other countries, save in one instance. The rapid development carrled with 1it an excitement and haste which { caused the familiar hoomn, so promi inent in Awerican histors. The inher fent enerzy and rapidity action of the American acted as a power ful im petus to the wave of development. With new fields of economic activity the Oregon rush. the California rush, the Oklahoma ofl boom and the Flor- ida land boom are instances—people rushed pell mell 1o join in the general exploitation and as a result certain definite communities prospered, while others langulshed. Haphazard Exploitation. Where in other countries the ex- ploftation of natural resources was gradual and more or less studied, in America it was hurried and more or less haphazard, although in the end it proved stable. But now the Natlon faces a new sit- uation. Where before there seemed to { be no limitations upon the activity of i exploitation, there is now. Where be- fore there was room for every one and the wild booms in gold, oil, gas and land were morve like mad games, there |is now a limiting factor and develop- ment must be more careful. The | energy and the rapidity of action of { the American are vet present, but the field is not unlimited. With this in view the Government, a vear ago, launched a new policy. This bolicy is the new conservation. With America still riding the crest of the wave of rapid growth there is danger that its resources—although they are ) yet enormous—will be wasted. During ! the hectic development people rushed to the obvious places and in the rush overlooked many that were just as good. These places are now being dis- covered and it Is with these in view that the Government is practicing the new conservation. st Against the West. Fifteen years ago the Nation was disturbed by a hot war of words over conservation. This was between the East, which had cut most of its tim- ber, watched the rapid depletion of its oil. and was abandoning exhausted farms, and the West, where the land's fertility had been demonstrated, where the great forests were yet un- touched and the mineral deposits de- scribed as inexhaustible. The East sought, by legislation, to lock up the wealth of the West for succeeding generations. The West, belleving that its riches should be expioited and put to wise use, resented what it termed strong-arm action by the majdtity. Not since then until the present day have the President and the three departments of his cabinet which administer the Government's activity in this fleld had the same conception of the word conservation. But four of the present cabinet are from the West. Therefore, conservation of a definite sort has been agreed upon. Conservation now means use with- out waste, and intelligent distribu- tion as to time. The future expan- sion of the United States will de- pend upon a more thorough and in- telligent conversion of the remaining natural wealth into industrial and economic materdals. Intelligent Use of Resources. According to the new policy, con- servation should no longer be lim- ited to sealing up hermetically the resources of nature, but should be interpreted to mean the intelligent use of what nature has provided. [eave conl | sary to adopt the: shington. pact of those things that impinge on our lives. While we may not wholly determine our careers or fix our des- tinies we do play an important part in the making of them. The privi- lege of selection is largely accorded w each one of us, and what we choose to hear plays no small part in what we elect to be. We Httle realize how potential are the voices that en- ter being through the medium of hearin: Some ons wrote, years s L ook entitled “In Tune With the Intinite. The design of the hook was to set forth the importance and val keeping the mind responsive to higher spiritunl influences. It wag an ap 1 for a practical recoznition of those more subtle and s t forces th, play about our lives day by day. Nothing is truer than “that spiritual things are spiritually discerned,” which ix bul another way of Keeping the soul In tune with the infinite There are great and mighty voices all about us that are seeking to he heard. To deny to ourselves the privilege of hearing and seeking to understand these volcés is to put surselves a from those diviner influences by which God is, day by duy, appealing to the humun heart. The apostle’s contention that “there are wo many kinds of volces in the world sud none of them without sig- nificatlon” implics the need of large diserimination us well as of o des understanding of thefr relative im- portunce. & Aok e If our ears ure only ready to re- ceive those messages that have to do with physical and material things, the finer qualities of our nature are impaired, and we lose our capacity to approximate at their true value the things of the spirit. Say what we will, the exhilarating experiences of life come from a sensitive respon- siveness to things unseen by the physical eve and unheard by the . The great artist, Turner, 1 in his work by a curious who made the observation s2e the thing you are paint- ing” unswered, “Don’t you wish you could!” To the great artist thej were forms and colors tou elusive for the untrained eye to see. One ‘wonders from whal sources Beetho- ven caught the rich tones and meas- ures that he translated in his im- mortal scores. Shall we not believe that to each one of us may come hours of ri freshment and Inspiration when the soul is “listening In,” and when it receives finpressions that determine and fix the finer things of character Tesus sald to Hix wondering disciples, I have meat to et thut ye know of.” It was His consclousness of an unfailing supply that sirenzthened Him for mikhty tests of His mi Istry. To cultivate the habit of “lis- tening in” for those higher and viner volces, thut are ever secking be hieard, means to put ourselves tune with the infinite. (Copsright. 1075, t 1o in THE NEW CONSERVATION BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Water power should be harnessed to supplement man power in order to Oil should be located and from its urs e with relation immedlate necds weiched a future necessities Ripe timber should be harvested and the young forests protected. But the new policy, although nouncing the above as important believes that the fertilitiy of the s0il Is of far greater moment. No other single product compares in value to the farm crop. Other na- tions have blindly exhausted their soils of the inherent fertility caused by ages of sunshine, rain, and de- caving vegetation. Now they must feed their soils each year in order to grow anything. = In Eastern United States it has become neces- : processes. where wasteful agricultural _developmen: sometimes has prevailed. The Wes has this priceless fertility of soil and t should be preserved Old Policy Destructive. The old policy of conservati not declare for the ubove tionary measures, It udvised cutting of ripe timber, which stroyed much that was growing. compelled the drilling for oil if a neighbor found it. It did not warn against exhausting the soil by ten- antry, which threatens to cover the West, like the East, with abandoned farms. Perhaps the most pressing study of the Government at this time is the larger conception of conservation, as’ herein explained. While it is too big for any one department of the Go: ernment to develop fully, it probabl$® will have centralized departmental authority. An advanced step already hay been taken by the creation of a conservation branch in the Depart- ment of the Interior. This will, more than likely, serve as a nucleus for a larger organization. whose duty will released stor: i wcan- tie de- be the protection of the public estate | from wasteful development and the conservation ‘of every mnatural re- source in the country. Lands for Recreation “Linked with this new policy of con. servation is the policy of withdrawing public lands for recreational purposes. This found its inception in the Presi- dent’s national conference on outdoor recreation. The commissioner of the General Land Office wae requested to report upon recreational opportunities in unreserved publc lands. This survey, which now is in prog- ress, has uncovered many tracts of historic and sclentific interest which are recommended for withdrawal for recreational purposes. To date 15 of these tracts have been withdrawn in accordance with the Covernment's outdoor prograni. These are: Fairplay, Colo.. where there is a partly explored cave of more than 40 rooms: u site on the scenic Redwood highway in California suftable for a motor camp; Took Lake, Fla., for camping and fishing; Palmer Lake, Wash., for bathing and fishing; St. Lucle County, Fla., for bathing; Kane County, Utah, on Great Salt Lake, where there are cHff dwellings and natural caves; another tract in St. Lucle County, Fla.; Shoshone, Idaho, where there are several glacial caves; Inyo County, Calif., where there are interesting Indian hiero- glyphics near Coso Hot Springs; Mo- have County, Ariz., at the northern end of Hualpal Range, for camping and recreation; on the main highways near Los Angeles, for motor camps; ‘Wayne County, Utah, where there are two natural bridges and a cave; Tulare County, Calif.. for camping and fishing; Clam Beach, Calif., for bathing, and Gooding, Idaho, known as the “City of Rocks,” comparing favorably with the Garden of the Gods in Colerado. Governor Ma Too Polite. From the Pittsburgh_ Chronicle-Telexranh. Texans think Gov. Ma Ferguson is too polite. “Pardon me,” a convict says, and she does. Big Jobs and Short Names. From the Baltimore Evening Sun. It is estimated that 87 per cent of the big jobs are held by men who once lad atrocious nicknames. [ ] of | It ! Capital Sidelights There is one member of the Pr dent’s official family, whom we'll not mention by name but he has held two cabinet offices, who is uddicted to the tobacco chewing habit. ile frank dunits that on some oceasions it has gotten him into serious difficulties, even thouzh he has achieved consider able fame as an acenrate shot in dis posing of the supurfluous deep amber unto nut-brown flud. The doctor himself told this story of one day when he occupied his earlier cabinet post and a very im- portant woman, dressed in the height of fashion, called upon him and they engaged in a rather lengthy conter- ence. In her carnestness the woman kept edging closer to the official desk {until finally one of her feet and the { sKirts of her gown shut off access to I the cuspidor which occupled its accus- tomed place to the left of the desk. or more than an hour I nearly ‘hoked to death in my efforts to con- ftrol the flow of tob: 0 juice for which there was no outlet,” xaid the doctor, “but I've never been caught that way since.” he chuckled, “for see—I am doubly prepared for a similar siege now,” and he pointed to a second cuspidor on the other side of his desk. * X Xk x Government specialists have been noted for many years for their r ch work—in fact for the entire 1 vears that we have had these spec! ists employed at the seat of Govern- ment; but few persons appreciate the fineness of their erudition and how there are outcroppings of ancient lore in some of the most modern activities of Uncle Sum. Take, for example, the origin of the word “sirloin’ plied to a particularly luscious cut of be The researchers have found one ro- mantic legend to the effect that King Arthur, pleased with the flavor of his favorite cut of beef, arose from his dinner table, drew his sword, and in regul manner knighted the meat, dub- bing it “Sir Loin.”” With zeal for help- fulness fired by this romantic legend this scene has been re-enacted into a motion picture film which is one of the Department of Agriculture’s educa- tlonal features. Under the caption “8ir Loin of T-Bone Ranch,” the film s of the production of good beef is enlivened by some stirring range scenes. Secretary Jardine, him- self a former cowboy and ranger, attests the reality and true-to- quality of these cutins and members of Congress by the dozen from West ern States have commended the word of the department screen direct . on this particular feutur * & ¥ x Friends of forestation and forest conservation, who gloried in the zeal of the late Secretary Henry C. Wallace for timber preservation while he was Secretary of Agriculture, are { particularly pleaked t the action just taken in naming a mountain peak 110,600 feet high in Pike County, Mon | tana. und considered one of the mems 1of the Absaroka Range. in the mer € Necretary Wallace si- A las-relisf of Willlam 1* . Whe durin 1 active participant tion affecting the National Capitul has just been placed at his grave in Elmwood Cemetery, Kansas City, | Where unveiling exercises were held on Armistice day. This memorial is the work of Jorgen Dreyer, the sculp- tor, who was commissioned by the widow of Representative Borland, now Mrs. Frederick W. Haverkamp. who was for years prominent in Washing- ton society. Representative Borland is best re- | membered in the Capital as father of { ‘he “Borland_amendment” which as- | sesses one-half of the cost street | improvements against abutting pro Jerty owners. The Citizens' Advisory i Commission th District recently rec imended eff s to have this legislation repealed. Mr. Borland was in years and died of bronchial pneu- inonta on Februar 1919, in Ge many, where he was representing the Masonte Grand Lodge of Missouri in Work among Missourl Musons then overseas. He was first buried in Ger- many but his body was later brought to this country. On the granite slab under the bronze basrelief is a fac simile of Representative Borland's signature. e late nd Pori of ¥ City in legisk ngress for 10 ok K x | - When the coul problem comes up for consideration in Congress ederic Moseley Sackett from Loui {ville, Ky.. can give first hand informa {tion beciuse g hes been engaged in mining coal for the last quarter of entury. Besides that he is a law president of the Louisville Gas L Co., and tha Loulsville Lighting Co., was Federal fu administrator {for Kentucky during the war and for five years member of the State Board of Charities * ox * One of the youngest Senate in recent years is Senator Sam Gilbert Bratton of Santa Fe, N. Mex., who was 36 years old at the time he qualified. He had previously served five years as a district judge and two years as associate justice of the Su- Preme Court of that State. * % ok * A new Democratic member of Con- gress, graduate of two universities in | Washington, formerly secretary to a { member of Congress, who has mas | special investigations' for two Federal | Gepartments, will take an active part when the administration's progr for farmers’ relief is under considera- tion in the House. This is Butl s. ¢, devoted the last 15 years to a study of economic phases of agriculture. Mr, Hare took aun A. M. degree from George Warhington University and |LL. B. from Georgetown University He was a special agent in woman and child labor investigations for the Bureau of Labor in 1905. Later he filled the chair of history and eco- nomics in Leesville College for three years. lc was assistant in agricui- tural education, editor of rural eco- nomics and agricultural statistician in the Department of Agriculture. In 1912 he propared an outline plan for @ system of rural credits in the United States which was made a Senate docu- ment. wrrivals in the . Hare of Saluda, * * % A hog raiser has come to Congress— Representative Charles J. Esterly, new Hopublican member from the four- teenth Pennsylvania district. He is exceedingly proud of the Ayrshire cattle and Berkshire hogs he raises. Ho runs a knitting mill and a_number of other big industrial enterprises, and is director of the Reading Base Ball and Athletic Association—but finds his greatest pleasure on his farms, at Spring Valley and Sally Ann Furnace. his _latter is an historic charcoal fron furnace, the property dating back to 1791. He is the second Republican to represent this Berks-Lehigh dis- trict in 68 years. * Xk % X The distinction of having initiated the plan for comprehensive develop- ment of the harbor on the east side of San Francisco Bay is claimed by Albert E. Carter, the new member of the House, who defeated James IL. MacLafferty. * x Xk ¥ Senator Charles §. Deneen, the new Republican Segator from Chicago, was graduated 43 years ago from McKen- dree College, Lebanon, I1l., with which institution his family has been asso- clated for four generations. The new Senator's father, Samuel H. Deneen, was professor of Latin and ancient and medieval history in that college for 30 years. ok ke We have with us again Representa- tive James P. Glynn, Republican, from Winsted, Conn., who previously served eight consecutive years in the House, but who took a vacation from legislative dutfes for the last two years, fe | honor of | Representa- | nator | ¢ | insulat m lawyer and farmer, who has | BY ROBERT Army life these days is just one| arn thing after another. There is lic now of turning all the officers, | aind the privates 4s well, back into blue uniforms. It seems that olive drab is a fighting color and nobody | wants the Army to fight any mor unless Col. Billy Mitchell does. It| is kaid the United States will never be back on & peace footins until the Army is in blue, with the officers and soldfers wearing long trousers, or lacks” as the British call them. in stead of breeches and puttees which suggest active service and the ficld of battle. Nice blue tunics and nice long blue trousers are fine for swivel chs a; t hen, toc gestion that high standiz there is the cternal sug the Arm give up collars d zo 1o the Engiish or civ n cut abour the neck Already a large proportion of the flv ing corps officers adopted the English style of tunic. Col. Mitchell has emphasized and popularized it during his trial by court-martisl. Some fiylng officers, however, still| cling to the stand-up collir, for the pertectly good old style uniforms and | new blue ones The Navy used to wear the stand up collars, too. but got into the Drit ish double-br juckets several years ugo, € the “midshipmen jt | Annapolis follo ng suit But if this uncertainty s form bothe the Army offic is keeping the cloth manufacture and military tailors also owake night. They don't know wheiher go ahead with new stock of olive drab, or to hold off for some final word as to the peaceful blue. They want the Army to take its stand one way or the other T. SMALL. ting up the cry equipment from who suy it is all ilroads to furn b the Pullman peon! very well for the hoa otive a bag L] ar and then call w them to furnish the trains de lus which are so widely advertised. With all their expenditures, how eV the rallroads and the Pullma people continue to_ overlook the #am that women form at least 40 pe of the s ho tra t with the possit excepti transcontinental truins whatsoever is made for followers of Lady N and sm trains. T 1o th tine W smoking cars ments on a forced to occups ed quarters ev Iraxg raflroads were m: provision for their man smokers b sufferi up at had nr nd the transportati ' ut_ of st better the ere are but to high sty doscopic course of u Washington miles by | aay, same | same from | 16-cent Jerse life, g the tr: road and touri SRR Taking its cue from the Democratic hosts who assembled there in natlonal convention « little more than a year ago, the famous old Madison Square Garden tn New York is fighting to the last ditch. It i3 resisting the ittacks of the wreekers with a ten: ity which evokes the admiratior he pusserby but irks the engineers W ull measure. The buile ng has had to 1 art Jiterai hrick brick. M bise the historfe tower may have to be 1 dynamite. The garden withstand the ages It was one of the first great works of Stanford White and it was tower that he had ome of h turesque studios, which often were the scenes of gay revels. It was on the Madison Square Garden roof that Harry Thaw shot the fanous archi- tect to hix death. The old garden seems reluctant o and the sym pathy of many ime. srker goes out 1o it iy is a new garde av off on Eightt avenue. They t “Madison Sq Garden.” too, roery Eighth avenue amed old so at Broadway T y-third str Fifth i | | It has been announced from Chicago that during the past vear the Pull man Co. has spent more than $20, 000.000 solely to gratify the Amer- fcan passion for luxury in its trains. Rallroads the country over are set. the | pic- | in Maryland. Th cluded, of course on motor fuels there was Aif allon in 200 miles sufficlent this, but the thes provider to “doll he xame facturers ha roduc 1 well as jazz, and fixin's a ca pre: age of spe i Fifty Years Ago In The Star Fif Thomas *An Electrician i { 1 | | was b known this country, and in the {ollo wing of New Jersey.” | 0.\ iph. print ed in The Star of December 2. 187, he is referred to as “an electrician ¢ New Jersey': “The Good Book is authority for the statement that there is nothing new under the sun, and yvet we are continually having inventions, d coveries, etc., which to all appear inces possess the merit of novelty An electriclan of New Jersey now jclaims 10 have discovered a hitherto unknown natural force in connection | with electricity and by actual experi ent has demonstrated the possibility Lof sending ges over cables {wires not insulated. Poles and g are done away with by i discovery and ft is only | necessary to make an atiachment the railroad track, or to a wire laid jon the earth, and the message can | be as readily transmitted as by the present process. Should the entire practicability of the new process be established ‘much of the cumbrous und expensive apparatus now in use in connection with telegraphy can be dispensed with." In a subsequent issue, December 4, is more on the subject. with the of the “electrician of New Jer disclosed: ‘The discovery of the new ‘etheric force,’ referred to in Thursday's Star, is attracting much attention, for the { reason, first, that the experime dy made have been. to appear . entirely successful. and prom- ise important results, and, second. be cause of the character of the discov- erer, Mr. T. A. Idison, who a practical telegrupher and the inventor of the quadruplex system by which four messazes may he transmitted simultaneously the sar wire. Unlike t motor ma he does not hide his light under bushel, but he makes his experiments before any who may desire to witness them and be convinced of the novelty of his dixcovery. As stated, the new force is not affected by the contact with the earth, but performs its oper ations independent of Insulators, and herein consists its Immense practicai value. “To give an idea of the remarkable character of the experiments, it may be stated that on Sunday, . mes sages were sent from the laboratory at Mr. Edison’s house over ihe sireet gas pipes, the only means of com munication, the wires being attached to the burners at each end, and there being no circuit. sent, by attaching wires to the Wes ern Union lines, to New Brunswic thence to New Y and back 1o Newark, over ind an in complete circuit, the spark being strong a# that shown by the battery circult. If the wire on which the etherlc purrent is conducted be at- tached {o a xas fixture every other fixture in the house is instantly charged and emits bright, sparks on the application of a knife blade or other metallic substance. Experiments also demonstrate singular fact that the human body is a good conductor of this mysterious force and that the person through whom the current passes experiences no unusual sensation as in the case of electric shock. It is further asserted —and those who witnessed the ex- periments seem to believe it—that by this force messages can he sent under the Atlantic on a single unin- sulated wire, or, to put it more strongly, messages can be sent over the iron wire sheathing of the pres- ent cables, and that without the knowledge of the operators of the cable. “Should all that is claimed for this discovery prove true, messages, it is thought, could be sent to lurope at a cost of less than a cent a word, for a single wire would be all that fs necessary to transmit them. Preési- dent Orton of the Western Union Telegraph Co., on being approached on the subject, is sald to have dis- missed it with, ‘Oh, yes; I guess Mr. Al this new is Messagos were also | peculinr the | This and That By Charles E. Tracewell. i last way the her aw a milk wag tles rounds. A sudden creak in and the cat opened up its ears, wide stant. It ned. further sound. The little and looked toward the bed Then, rising forward over coverlets softly the human he out of the coverin Looking down into the cat gave quiring mew, and then by his side, hand head Pl s stroked The after “What asked the half-daze iker el There was his mind that the furry usked himn something There was no questioni tion. The rising inflectio eyes, the up-held 1 plain, even to a I the cat was as “What did ¥ “ In the night fat al surd | epeech. W1 i do 1 fwell as we ner? It i i printed note m L question dia ¥ % sleepe when nie that is | | rs, had b L questic the [ o, it believe ¥ du i eir more fluent in is searcely reasonable (o 1 . that our dogs and cats, after livi jour side for these thousands of vear and listening perforce to the of conversation we have pour in all that time. do not have some cor ception of speech, as such. Surely they try, in their way understand us, and to make us unde stand them What was spoken? the word the cat 1 ke e Slowly, with caution and effort the doze state made it), the m: thought out what it was his litt fries bad said to him there in tl dars At last there came a flash, an il mination, such as one experiences dreams. Suddenly there was no longer doubt in his mind as to what the ¢ had said to him. What else could | have said, with that strange digni of animals, except: “Friend?” he had ro you there?” asked. “‘Frier | Edison has discovered an asters but his electriciun was more car in_the expression of his opinion “The discoverer is working unr | mittingly to ascertain some way which the new force can bo put arness and made to do duty the as steam and clectricity. be applied to telegraph tQ be no reason to doubt s