Evening Star Newspaper, December 7, 1925, Page 6

THE EVE With Sunity; WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY......December 7, 1925 NG i Edition. THEODORE W. NOYES Editor Xhe Evening Star Newspaper Company ' Bustneas Ofice: Pennsylvania Ave. 110 East #Ind St Tower Building. 14 Recent St.. Londo: ‘Encland Chicago Office European Office:, n, The Evenine Star, with the Sunday morn- $ne edition. s delivered hy carriers within the city at’60 cents per month: daily” only. 45 cents per month: Sunday only, 20 cents Per month. Orders may he sent by matl or telephone Main 5000, toliection is made by carrier at the end of each month Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday 1yr. $0.00:1 mo.. 7 Daily oniy {1y €6.00 1 mo Sunday only 137, $3.00% 1 mo. All Other States and Canad: Paily and Sunday..1yr. $12.00: 1 mo.. $1.00 aily only . 1yr. $8.00% 1mol. 78¢ Bunday only J15T. $4.00:1mo. 35¢ e 0c 5 Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press fs exclusively entitled o the use for republicatic Patehes credited to it or not oth ted o thie paper and published he; ©f specinl disy s t« 0f publication 1 rich T servend. ‘hes herein are also The Commissioners’ Report. Tn their report to Congress for the past fiscal year the District Commis- sioners lay down a broad program of general legislation which they recom- | mend for conslderation. They propose, first, that Congress appoint a Jjoint committee to settle the question of District-Federal relations definitely. They recommend that the powers of the Commissioners be broadened to in- clude many municipal functions now requiring the attention of Congress, and ask that they be given more dis- cretion in expending funds by mak- ing appropriations move flexible. They call the attention of Congress to the rapid development of the suburbs, and to accumulated municipal needs re- sulting from inadequate appropria- tions during and since the late war. They stress the need for revision of the organic law of the Public Library o permit its expansion in serving the yapidly growing Capital community. They cite the importance of continu- fng the building program at Gallinger Municipal Hospital. They call atten- to the need of revisicns in the cluding a ceruficate of title requirement for motors. The Guestion of the fiscai relations between the District and the Federal Government demands attention, not in the stress and hurry of appropriation making, but with greater leisure and without complication in connection with current and pressing legislation. Joint commissions have heretofore considered this matter, but thelr con- clusions have not resulted in a help- ful, beneficial adjustment. Still the present situation calls for such a study as the Commissioners propose. The substantive law, supposedly govern- ing, establishes a definite ratio. The annual appropriations have recently been based upon the lump-sum prin- ciple. As the District budget Increases in keeping with the growth of the Capital, the actual ratio between the lump sum and the total diminishes. It will be helpful, and perhaps will, by removing cause for controversy at every spssion, facilitate the develop- ment of the Capital upon an equitable basis to have this matter settled defi- nitely. A joint commission of the two houses may reach such a settlement. Broadening of the powers of the Commissioners and of their discretion in the expending of funds is desira- ble in view of the difficulty of secur- ing attention to local matters in Con- gress, which is Increasingly congested with national business and which is decreasingly disposed to devote ade- quate time to District affairs. Revision of the organic law relating to the Public Library has become es- sential to permit expansion for the rapid development of that institu- tion in meeting the needs of the com- munity for books in circulation. Three branc established. - More | are required and, under the terms of the original gift of Andrew Carnegie | and the liberal disposition of the trust | formed by him, this expansion is pos- sible. Certain amendments to the or- ganic act. however, to! permit t ant work m! be ed embarrassing del In their tions the Commiss ture of Di administ for the factory ship over i community lion people. es are no are imp without requisite s most car, on report of physical condi- | foners present a ple- trict development, of good ation and of bright prospect future. They render a satis- ounting of th rd- of half a mi- A prudent lover would begin his let- ters with some phrase of formal re. straint like, “To whom it may con-| cern," or “whereas.” The life of a| Juryman often rendered more in-| teresting by the fact that there is sel. | dom any such thin, udent lover. e is sap Men of eminent musical talents are in high political authority. Orpheus moved sticks and stones, but a mem- ber of Congress much harder | proposition. | is a ————— Russell H. Conwell. A valuable life closed vesterday in Philadelphia when Russell H. Con- well died at the age of eighty-two. For 66 vears he had been speaking be- fore the public, with sume inter- ruptions, and probably in the course of those years he addressed more peo- ple than any other man. He had memorized for his platform work no less than 28 lectures, in the delivery of which he used nb notes. That in it- self was a gigantic mental task. His most famous lecture, “Acres of Dia- monds,” he delivered 6,152 times, the first time when ke was sixteen years old. In the course of his long career as public speaker he had, it is esti- mated, earned $11,000,000, practically all of which he spent upon philan- thropies. He founded a university ¥ | session Is fssued, the feeling increases | | ot | mistake which now glves nstruction to 7,000 students; he established two hospitals and helped finance them. Though at the age of seventy-nine he was still earning $50,000 a year, he lived in the most modest manner and was known as the “penniless millionaire.” His greatest lecture, “Acres of Diamonds,” it is estimated, netted him over good that was done by the wholesome teachings of his public addresses, which reached millions, Dr. Conwell “ided unnumbered young men and women with his benefactions. He was a wonderful force for good, an inspira- tion. He sought no offices or distinc- \ions, content to labor quietly and, wave for his platfSrm appearances, un- known to the public. A great Ameri- can, whose worth to his fellow men can never be measured’ New York Trafic Deaths. A New York bureau of safety re- port states that during the last 11 months 939 persons met death from automoblle accidents In that city compared to 968 In the same period last year. A striking feature of the bulletin is that the decrease in num- ber of fatalities is largely confined to deaths of children. While only three less adults have been kiiled during the last eleven months, 26 fewer children have been concerned in accidents. The automoblle is yearly exacting a huge toll in Amerlcan lives. New York,-the largest city in the world, | with its 6,500,000 population, is ex- pected to have the highest death rate, but it creates a sickening sensation when cold figures show that an aver- age of almost three persons a day in that city meet death through the me- dlum of the motor car. Some comfort may be taken from the report when the decrease in the number of children’s deaths is consld- | ered. Although approximately 20,000 | more children were registered in the schools and the number of automo- biles have increased from 386,000 to 447,000, twenty-six less children were killed. If this decrease was brought about through the public safety education which is being taught throughout the Nation in schools of every character, it should be an indication to educators that even more stress should be laid on this important subject. Motorists are prone to forget that children of school axe are not blessed with the traffic judgment possessed by their elders. Consequently a great many aceidents occur because children | vun heedlessly Into the street and au- tomobile drivers are taken unawar However, a steady policy of educa- | tion for the child during his school | days on the dangers of street traffic, and a similar education of the motor- ist on careful driving where children are concerned, may bring about an even larger decrease It is a tremendously important problem and one that should have the studious attention of every citizen in every city in the world. ——— . The Texas Troubles Waning. It begins to look as though Gov. “Ma" Ferguson would not be im- peached by the Texas Legislature for | alleged malfeasance in office in connec- tion with the letting of State road contracts. Although a sufficient num- ber of legislators have signed a de- ! mand for an extra session, and the Speaker of the House declares his willingness to call such a session un- der the law if the governor refuses to summon the houses, there is doubt as to the subscription of the funds neces- sary to finance the meeting. The fact seems to be that the attorney general of the State, who is emphatically op- posed to the governor and her marital power behind the throne, is doubtful of his sbility as prosecutor to prove such derelictions as to justify im- peachment. And it further appears that the Senate, which would try the case in the event of impeachment, is too strongly pro-Ferguson to promise success in the venture. So as the| days go by and no call for the extra that there will be no trial. Some| hints are given of a disposition on the part of the Ferguson family to com- promise. Gov. “Ma” will, it is hinted, not continue to take orders from near- Gov. “Pa,” and the latter has prom- | ised to be less active in the real work | of State administration. But, of| course, nobody expects the Ferguson | family to be disunited on the subjevli State rule. “Jim,” as he is best known throughout the State, will| probably continue fo occupy a desk at | the statehouse in order to “help Ma™ with her work. The flare-up has had ts effect, however. It has known to the country at large, and. | of course. intimately to Texans, mo! true situation at Austin. Many T.-x.ms] who have not been partisan on Ferguson question have come to feel, nd have so expressed themselves, that the election of the wife of the tmpeached and dismissed governor of | a few years ago was a serious political ! The next election will be | held in November, 1926, and this pres- | ent controversy, which is now waning from its acute stage. will without | doubt be a material factor in the cam- paign. made | B In order to ostracise young Mr. La | Follette successfully the G. O. P. will have to find some way to impress him with the fact that it is not he who is | supposed to be ::,uming the air of | lofty indifference. There is, in fact, a real estate boom all over the country, with all the word “boom” implies in the way of artificial or genuine values. Florida was lucky enough to be first in the spotlight. A Back Yard Coal Mine. Charles B. Zimmerman, a resident of Shamokin, Pa., being in need of fuel, decided to hunt for it on his own premises. Shamokin is in the anthra- cite district, and there is always a chance of striking coal almost any- where. So he sunk a shaft in his back vard and struck an outcropping of the celebrated red-ash vein. Now Mr. Zimmerman is “sitting pretty,” quite indifferent to the question of how long the strike will last or how high the market goes. There is one thing in his favor. It so happens that the mineral rights in Mr. Zimmerman'’s section are owned by the lot holders. ‘This is not the usual situation. Ordi- rarily throughout the anthracite re- gion the mineral rights are separate from the lot rights. A man buys a plece of ground for building purposes, with only the privilege of going deep enough for his foundations. What- THE EVENING STAR | $2.000,000 in fees. In addition to the |ever lies below belongs to the owner of the minerals. In some parts of the anthracite district the householder is not even guaranteed against submer- gence if a mine extends underneath his property. There are certaln cove- nants in many of the deeds, however, which stipulate that “pillars” of rock or coal shall be left in the mines be: neath bulldings. But these covenants are often violated unbeknown to the bullding owners. Sometimes the coal s mined out in what is known.as “robbing the pillars,” and timber up- rights substituted. These .however, are apt to decay and yield to the pres- sure, and then comes collapse. It is sald that there Is only one surely de- pendable pillar of coal left underneath the City of Scranton, and that lies be- low the chief church of that commu- nity. In the case of Mr. Zimmerman of Shamokin, he, with his ownership of mineral rights, has nothing to fear trom sappers and miners, unless his rich vein of red ash is attacked from Lelow by a trespasser. Mine robbers have been known to ignore property rights and lines, going boldly out in all directions beneath the surface, fol- lowing velns and trusting to luck to get away with their operations. Just at present Mr. Zimmerman of Shamo- kin is probably not worrying about trespassers so long as he can keep his stoves going throughout the strike with coal from his back-yard mine. s Policemen's Guns. A New York policeman saw a group of men standing alongside of a parked car zalking in 2 manner that indicated the possibility t:ut they were engaged in a questionable enterprise. Think ing that perhaps they were about to steal the machine, he walked over to- ward them, merely to investigate. As he approached the gang opened fire upon him and he fell, with four wounds, from which he will probably not recover. le had not drawn his gun. Those who hold that a policeman should not shoot lest innocent persons may be injured or killed will perhaps argue that this ofticer of the law should not have undertaken to investigate the actions of the gang. He should have marched along on the other side of the street, uttending strictly to his own business—whatever that may be. A veritable state of war prevails today in the larger cities of this coun- try between the crooks, thugs and thieves and the law. The police are enlisted in this war as soldiers. They are in danger at all times. If they use moral suasion only they are marks for the guns of the enemy. Of course, they must not shoot at random, or on vague suspicion. But they must shoot w self-defense. A dead policeman is 4 heavy loss. A live one who kills a law-breaker is contributing to the pub- lic safety. A live one who for the sake of personal security sheers off from suspicion-breeding appearances and ignores the evidence of criminal designs is of no use whatever to the community. Policemen should be trained to shoot quickly and effectively, to use good Jjudgment in the use of their weapons, to discriminate promptly, but to save themselves by getting the law-breaker before the law-breaker gets them. Such tactics would help greatly in lessening crime by adding to the risk. ——— Discoveries of ancient clvilizations reveal much ornamental wealth and | very little in the way of useful mech- anism. The comparison is invariably in favor of the civilization we enjoy at present. e The “aside’ by courts-martial critics even more than by those of the drama. r————— Varjous Senators may feel it desira- ble in self-defense to draw up rules to curb a presiding officer, ——— e e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Intangibility. “If 1 today should venture out,” Said Santy, with a sigh, “I'd have to wend my way about Through airships in the sky. “And if a path on earth I traced, The motors would be worse. Upon a stretcher I'd be placed And say, ‘Good Morning, Nurse!' ‘onditions that arise today Cannot be tampered with. The only safe and proper way Is just to be a myth!" Drawing Distinctions. “Are you in favor of limiting de- bate? “Certainly,” answered Senator Sor- ghum. “For my own part I feel no need of limitation. But when I have made something perfectly clear I in- variably find that there is altogether too much latitude for discussion on the other side.” Happy New Year. The tax will be reduced, they say, That brought 50 many a vexed year, Just now, as I prepare to pay, = T wish this vear were next vear. Jud Tunkins says in a few million vears their won't be any coal. The situation won't be very comfortable, but at least there’ll be something less to fuss about. Explorations. “Do the-ladies use slang now and then?” asked the explorer into society. “A few do," answered Miss Cay. enne. “But many dislike so mild a style of speech and prefer plain pro- fanity."” Education of Mr. J. Wolkker. I never was a student great; But, thanks to a policeman neat, I'm candidly allowed to state 1 now know how to cross a street. No Chance Whatever. “Do you think the old saloon will ever come back “Never,” answered Uncle Bill Bot- tletop. “What chance would a saloon have, with bootleggers peddlin’ the stuff on every street corner.” “Dissher Charleston dance,” said Uncle Eben, “is shakin’ down build- ings same as if it was a hang-over f'um dat old earthquake.” STAR, WASHINGTON, D. € THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES “That's gratitude.” exclaimed the kind-hearted automobillst, discovering that the man and woman he had taken downtown, after he had picked them up in the rain, had walked off with the brand-new $5 umbrella he had left on the back seat. In this column recently the writer thereof presented at length the prob- lems of the man who would much rather ride to work in bus or street car than be gathered in by a well meaning automobilist who takes one only half-way. There s another side to it, of course |- —as witnessed in our first paragraph above. And also by the following letter: “In re vour good plece in Friday's Star, let me say that I picked you up the other morning because I knew you—on sight. I had a subconscious hunch that I might be making copy for you, so I didn’t introduce myself as a good neighbor should under such conditlons. “I got & bit of mean joy out of the quite evident fact that you dldn't enjoy the ride, and particularly, on turning south from the Avenue, when it became quite patent that there flashed throuxh vour mind a suspicion that I might be the ‘Blond andit’ and bent on pulling a joke on The Star and its readers. for no sane bandit could expect to get anything else out of the kidnaping of a news paper man. “T agree with vou about half-way carrying. Before a man wished an old car on me I swore that I'd never be guilty of that and many other offenses common to folk who operate | motor cars. But I learned that it can't be { avoided except by doing no vicarious carrying. Another offense I was go- ing to avoid scrupulously was of let- ting something always be out of fix when some friend asked me to take one somewhere. But I found that that ond me. It ever is the case as it ever was when I was on the other side of the question e “Between the driver and the ‘non’ there is an unbridgable gap,” con- tinued this automobilist. “maintained, I think, as much by fate as by ex: plainable circumstances. I am usu- for 1 walk a great deal are wholly on that side. “But as to this picking up folks you don’t know; it's an awful probiem When I first ot the rattler that serves, sometimes, as a car, I lived far out near an avenue. I came in often by street car. which nearly alway: was jammed to the point of suffoca tion “Frequently while waiting for it 50 or 75 automobiles would pass, half of them three-fourths unoccupied. Not once in a blue moon did any one offer me, or any others waiting with me, a lift “I resolved to do differently when ever driving in alone. On the first morning thereafter that I did so I saw on approaching my corner two ladies of seasoned vears and looks. They were not the sort that I prefer to flirt with, but I took a deep breath and said to myself heroically that I'd play the game squarely by taking the first ones I saw. “I slowed up. waving my left arm as usual, tipped my hat and suggested they hop in. Their faces became taut and thefr heads weng up in haughty manner as they said coolly in uniso ‘No, thank you! They evidently thought that I was worse than a ‘Blond Bandit.' I persisted in my ef- fort to do as I would be done by, but other experiences were almos un- satisfactory. * x x ok “In the last three vears, done much long distance having driving for total strangers several thousand miles of transportation. In only one | BY FREDERIC When President Coolidge took reau Federation at Chicago today, he was served with an all.co-operative menu. His hosts Invited him to par- take of a practieal application of co- operative marketing, for all of the foodstuffs for the luncheon were fur- nighed by farm co-operative organiza- tions. To that end, arranagements were made for a supply of ezgs from the Atlantic Coast Poultry Producers Association and the Utah Producers. Chickens werg furnished by the same concerns. Bacon and ham came from the National Live Stock Producers’ Association. The | Dairymen’s League, the Stephenson (I11) Co-Operative Milk Co. and the Quincy (IlL) Co-operative Producers sent the milk and cream. From the | President’s native heath the Vermont | Farm Bureau Federation contributed { maple sirup. A Wisconsin co-opera- | tive supplied cheese, the Idaho Pro-! {ducers’ Union potatoes, a Minnesota o-operative butter, the California | Walnut Growers’ Assoclatibn nuts, Florida and California citrus fruit | growers lemons and oranges and Kentucky tobacco co-operatives cigars. In every case top-notch quality was the rule. * * * ¥ A member of the foreign diplomatic corps stationed at Washington has | becoming a reporter. The author of the innovation is a young woman— Miss Laura Bryn, daughter of Helmer H. Bryn, since 1910 the Norwegian Minister to the United States. Miss Bryn has joined the staff of the society department of a Capital newspaper. Her father having been accredited to this country for more than 15 years, Miss Bryn was brought up in Wash- { ington, and four or five years ago was one of the famous debutantes of the season. A tall, slender brunette, she is of the Scandinavian type of beauty with which the world is familiar. Miss Bryn has taken naturally to journal- ism and developed a bent for writing that may induce her to adopt it as a profession. Among her other talents is great skill at tennis. She is re- gatded the best woman player in dip- lomatic society. * ok ok % Current quip of the season: The War Department preferred charges against Col. Mitchell. The court-martial placed the general staff on trial. The verdict convicted the judge advocate gen- eral’s office. * kX ¥ Woman politicians, both Republican and Democratic, are about to descend upon Washington in_droves for the World Court fight. On December 16, the night before discussion begins in the Senate, 250 Republican women from all parts of the country will dine under the auspices of the Woman’s National Republican Club, and pledge support of the Coolidge plan for tak- ing America into the court. The presi- dent of the club is Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, who was a dinner guest at the first official White House function last week. Mrs. Sabin inherits her politics. Her late father, Paul Mor- ton, was Secretary of the Navy in the midst ef the Roosevelt administration. Mr. Sabin is chairman of the board of the Guaranty Trust Co. of New York. His vivacious wife is sometimes heralded as the first Republican wom- more than I drive and my sympathies | alone, T guess I have provided gratis | Poultry | just set an interesting precedent by | TRACEWELL. instance would I go out of my way to repeat the samaritanlike perfor- mance. “I* was coming down Sixteenth street one night and I saw a man and woman stagding nervously by a bus stop sign. I drew up to the curb and offered to bring them down town. They accepted eagerly because, as [ learned, the woman, recently having become a mother, was hurry- ing to a hungry baby. “I thought up a pretext for taking them within two blocks of their apartment, which was off my route. 1 didn’t take them all the way, be use, that being done so rarely and they protested so considerately, T was afraid, if I did, they would suspect me of ulterior motive. Yet T'Il bet they feel as you do—and, in fact, as 1 do—about the part-way lift. “A code of manners for use between car drivers and casual ‘nons’--who seem to be natura] enemi ould be developed. Why no for example, make it proper for an ne, when desiring it, to raise a hand in token for a lift by a passing motorist, a boys do, and adults, too, on country roads? ““This really would make it for the accommodating driver. ever others feel, | know th re- quently I like to get a free lift and would much rather take the burden of asking for it than the embarrass- ment of refusing it “My allegiance is with the ‘nons’ of whom I “mostly am, but, despite herculean efforts—as seve 1 ot neighbors, ke u, might attest—I1 make no pre s, as a driver, in establishing the Kind of unde anding 1 propose. . “*Nearly easler every time T offer to pick up il T swear that I'll never do it again—and I swear it most violently, when it is evident that one accepts aguinst one's will or con venience. “Then when 1 see the ks thrust at me—as I take up 10 times the street space I am entitled to in driving in to work—by shivering hurried appearing persons waiting corners for crowded busses or street ars, my renunciations go by the board or my conscience taunts me for not trying to be accommodating and helptul in this all too callous world. And when the casual ix one T know but I know doesn’'t know me, 1 can't resist the temptation to play anony mous but knowing host, as I did with | you. even though I get in return one Of those rare glimpses of meself as another sees me—and for which 1 thank you “ordially, “A B3 * ok o % So we have presented now in thi column both sides of this matter, which is an important one simply be cause it is part and parcel of the whole great “automobile pre with its trafic and other ramific The mental entente cordiale between automobilists and pedestrians is some- | thing that must bLe strengthened ie days go by. A thorough under ta & becomes more necessary, as he number of cars increases, and the population of our great cities grows by leaps and bounds It is a duty which every owes his city—in our case ton—to try and understand the ps chology of the other fellow. The man who drives a car can help out if he tries to think of the man on the cor | ner, and the pedestrian, in his turn | can’ lessen the problem a bit if he will | try to look at the thing from the view | point of the man who drives an auto- moblile. |~ All men do not citizen Washing- drive cars, but all | automobilists are je.sstrians, now | and then. We are ali i=destrians by | mature, and it is upon this unversal pe- | dest —which means every one us—that the problem falls he: the car owner realizes when he to walk from the place he h: his car! WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS WILLIAM WILE. |an to be a cabinet officer in President speech is reprehended | y;ch with the American Farm Bu-|Coolidge's regime. ey | | Although the World Court discussion, | according to the calendar, will start on | December 17, a vote is not likely for | several weeks afterward. Congress { will adjourn for the holidays two or three days after the court spellbinding sets in, and it will be January before | the orators turn loose their batteries | of eloquence again. If the ayes and noes on the court proposition are called for as early as February 1 | those mostly concerned will be very hi President is serenely i Y. The | hopeful that the adhering resolution { will be safely in harbor in time to | celebrate the third ann| ry of | the court's birth as a Senate meas- ure—February 23, 1926, * ok ok ok | Maj. John Q. Quekemeyer's | pointment as commandant of cadets West Point puts a Southerner in that coverted post. “Queck,” as his cronies have known him for comes from Senator Pat Harrison's | bailiwick—Mississippi. He will be one t gfficers ever to occupy piace, - M. Quekemeyer, who | went to Tacna-Arica with Gen. Per- shing, served the commander-in-chief of the American expeditionary forces as his aide throughout the World War. Up to the time we entered the fray, ‘Queck,” in the capacity of an as- sistant military _attache at London, was attached to British “G. H. Q.” ag American liaison officer. His sturdy breast beribboned with about ail !the decorations and medals of honor our allied comrades in arms had t distribut “Quek” is onme of the L'Inlled tates Army’s crack polo play {in Washington society. * Kk x Now that she's about to become “Mrs. Speaker,” it will be interesting to observe the social role plaved by Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. “Princess Aljce,”” during her distinguished hus- j band’s political career in Washington, { has systematically eschewed the stereotyped ways of official society. She has done little or no formal en- | tertaining, and has concentrated on accepting only that brand of hospi- tality which she found interesting rather than necessary. Mrs. Long- worth's salon is probably the most exclusive and coveted at the Capital. She insists that her guests be worth while and not merely politically valu- able. As her adored “Nick” hence- forward will sit in one of the seats of the mighty, “Princess Alice” may de- cide to take a more active hand in the dinner and dancing doing of the Capi- tal soclety than hitherto has been her wont. The new Longworth home on the Massachusetts avenue “extension’ region lends itself to functions of the more elaborate sort. * ok ok K Count Coudenhove-Kalergi, a young Czechoslovakian nohleman, is a visitor to Washington in th® course of a first- hand study of America’s attitude to- ward world affairs. He calls Locarno a long step toward “Pan-European Union” and a *“United States of Eu- rope,” but does not think that either the new security pacts or the pros- perity of the League of Nations mean that war has been banished from the Old World for all time. It is the arti- ficlal, unnatural and danger-breeding frontiers that today abound fn Eu- rope—"halt a dozen new Alsace-Lor- raines,” he calls them—that contain the seeds of new war, the count thinks. or | ers, and one of the foremost beaux | 1925, ‘World Court Reservations Held As Innocuous. To the Editor of The Star: I was very much impressed by the communication, published in The Star, from R. Parks, Little Compton, R. I It is by such utterances as those to which Mr. Parks gives voice that much, perhaps most, of the support for American adherence to the Perma- nent Court of International Justice is, as it should be, “debunked.” The pro- posed Hughes-Harding-Coolidge reser- vations are, as Mr. Parks says, quite innocuous. To favor adherence to the court with these reservations and, at the same time, to oppose such ad- herence without them or even to op- pose full-fledged membership by the United States in the League of Na- tions is entirely inconsistent. All true friends of the league, who favor Amer- ican membership in the league, should and do, therefore, support the pro- posal to join the court with these res- ervations, for we all know, or ought to know, as Newton D. Baker has siad, that when we have entered the court we shall next, by the very force of logic, enter the league. Any advocate of American membership in the League of Nations who cannot hole-heartedly support these reserva- ions, it seems to me, is not conscious f how re innocuous they are. As for the independence of the league court, Mr. Root, whom Mr. Parks quotes, is quite right. The court is independent of the league in the same way that the United States Su- preme Court is independent of the Government of the United States. No one will or n deny that our Supreme Court is absolutely independent of our Govern ent, and t in no way is | it subject to control by the Govern- ment. " It is dependent only upon the Constitution and the law of the land The e » court is dependent, not upon the league, but upon the cove- nant of the leigue and upon the statute under which it was created by the league. In adhering to the court, the United States does not set, adhere to the leagy to the covenant of the league a statul upon which the life court res But membership league the logical and inevitable {next step, and pro-league Amerlcans who are disposed to quibble over so innocuous a thing as the Hughes- | Harding-Coolidge reservations do not well serve the cause of American par ticipation in the affairs of the league. A. HOUZFORD. r——— 1y of the in the Bring Army-Navy Game To the Capital City | To_the Editor of The star ecently my attention has been h the newspapers to the prices prevailing during me in all that h the pernicious ou York In of s been done to prevent | practice of overchare for their amusement occurrence in that been stopped As former aware of th It o end of annoyance to young men 1t the academies 1o find that, instead of enjoying diversions aft the game they are almost prohibited from do ing so because of high asked, Inasmuch primarily shipmen. it derive the proper adv: ges there- om. To this end the game should e brought to W rington. Here they would be able to have the game under ossible, for they pital City under I know from is @ now annual city, and has not the as the Army-Navy for the ¢ ems to Fame mid hould uld see their he best conditions. ereonal experience that few of the 1 men of the academies, espe- j cially those from the Military Acad emy, have ever seen Washingfon. The { educational advantages would be enormons, and entertainment more within the m, men. the same time, they’ come wn (€ ans of the young ni foot ball fans | prices | prices | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. What is the total value of the property belonging to Indians?—D. T. A. The total value is now fixed at $1,656,046,550. This estimae includes both property of individual Indians and that held by tribes. Q. For how long a period in the Winter time is freight service inter- rupted on the Great Lakes-St. Law- rence route?—M. L. A. Over a period of 20 years the length of the closed season on the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence route has been ag follows: At the “Soo,” 141 days; at the Welland, 128 days; St Lawrence River, 150 days. Q. Is there any difference in the rate of growth of male and female chicks?—C. P. A. The Department of Agriculture says that male chicks grow faster. Q. Who introduced long trousers in America?—H. L. A. The Haberdasher says are comparatively young things, hav- ing come in about the same time the jast century did. George I1I was the Iast Inglish monarch who wore knee breeches as a regular thing. The change from breeches to trousers was not a studied one, however, for there was a period of transition. During that time men took to tights and gaiters, and these were the forerun- ners of trousers proper, that is, th straight-up-and-down loc cut mod- els we know today. We cannot say who first introduced them to America, but then, as now, our countrymen over here followed the fashions of | England very closely, and it is quite iikely that they made their appear- ance simultaneously in England and in the States. Q. How much money wis appro- priated last year for new post office | buildings?—D. J. | A. The Post Office Department | that Congress made no appropriation | car for new post office buildings. Q. When was the great fire of Jacksonville, Fla., and how much was the property loss?—J. F. C. A, This disastrous fire, which origi nated in a fiber factory, started at 12:30 on Friday, May 3, 1901, and raged through the bu and resi- | dential section for over seven hours | before being checked. One hundred ind forty-eight squares were burned and 9,000 people rendered homeless through destruction of 1,600 building: Property loss approximated §10,000,000. “Trousers t o scum form- colate’—H. A. | an egg beater reachied a jieat that | forms a scum will cover %he liquid with a foam and thus prevent the forming of scum | Q. What is of d hippodrome Q ing on A. hefc What will preve and cho ing it h Be: it the meaning —W. M. T. The word is from the s hippos, a horse, and dr e course, and at first w inclosed smooth track What dmount was by various sessions of C: the eighteenth PiC amount_appropriated gress for the fiscal vear enforcement of 19: 500,000 ”$9.500,001 000,000, Of this last sum not than $1,329.440 is available for forcement of the narcotic law total amount appropriated by Con- gress to July 1, 1926, is $30,546,338.58 Q. appropr; N e amend- more What the Stone M. In A. Mr. Lukeman's braces a proce ng the cc s Mountain the new Memorial design em- Confec on the to Washington the \West Pointers showld be allowed 1o visit the Naval Academy. I am fully aware of the di which, for the cadet and mi prevents him the liberty acco: college man. Howeve; stion T have offered which would put a stop to the ridiculous competi- tion between cities for the game, at the same time giving the young men something to see besides extravagant entertainments R. SERRELL W. WALKER. = T Lansburgh’s Manhood | Typical of Brotherhood ipman led t this is only To the Editor of The The wo | modern 1 and scurry incidental to is apt to create selfish- |ness and prompts the question: What |was the secret of the extraordinar | spontaneity of the t {Henry Lansburgh? { Was it because he was a merchant of repute and a Mason of high order, or was it because his was a manhood most typical of brotherhood? The “biblical command to be your brother's keeper was faithfully = fol- lowad by Henry. is passing em phasizes the fact, in the glowing trib utes of Gentile and Jew, white and 1, in all walks of life. His ex- {ample is worthy of emulation of record in The Star. W. G. KENT. {Proposed Retirement ! Legislation Unfair. To the Editor of The Star ! Should the proposed Federal em- | ployes’ retirement legislation become a law, great injustice would result to i that large class of Federal employes ! between the ages of 60 and 70 who ave served over 20 but not 30 ears. Much younger employes, who ave served 30 vears could retire, while these decrepit workers would be obliged to continue in service until they accomplish 30 years of service or die. A uniform retirement age ‘with the amount of the annuity to he governed by the years of service would result in the greatest equity {and permanently settle the retirement iquesllon. Legislation resulting in yotinger and more efficient workers being retired while older and less efficient employes must remain in Federal employ would lead to the necessity for further remedial legis- lation. DON BISCOE. I The Loearno Treaty. To the Editor of The Star: Do you really believe that “the peace of Europe is now assured’? Do we believe that the allies will be able to keep Germany permanently disarmed by land and sea? De we be- lieve that Germany signed the Lo- carno treaty willingly, and not under pressure? When Germany signed the Locarno treaty, she was in a condi- tion of complusory disarmament, and her frontier fortresses on the Rhine were hold by her former enemies. “Sign! and we will withdraw our troops,” said the enemy. And Ger- many signed. The “peace of Europe” (most unfortunately) is not vet ‘as- sured.” It is only diplomacy which makes_that assertion. BERTRAND SHADWELL, Chicago, IIl. —pr——————— . Too Little Loot. From the Saginaw News-Courier. A New York young woman admits she stole $500 “for finery.” But, bless the girl, what could she expect to get for that? ipline | ributes to the late | ericy reviewing the army march. It will spread itself across | the northern face of Stone Mountain | 1\ a column a thousand feet high. | The central group contains lossal mounted figures of Jeffer- { son Davis, Gens. Robert E. Lee and | Stonew Jackson. Two flag-bearers | and four other Confederate generals complete this group, which is to be one-fourth of a mile in length, with the figures 153 feet high. Sixty-fiv men_ of distinguished service i Confederacy are to,be included e from each Southern State. The marching hosts, through receding vistas, merge into the surface of the great boulder. Q. —A! A lac, What is the origin of shellac? 5. M. Shellae is which is ¥ an insect as a co igs and young branch various trees in India and ne boring countries. The term is the same as the Indian meaning a hundred thousand ative of the myriads of which make their appearance every successive generation. encrusting the twigs as gathe called stick lac; the resin cr to small fragments and washed hot water to free it from woods particles and color m: known as seed lu 1in this when melted, ined thick canvas and d layers, is know Q Is TR A. Night air, in spite of the theor of our grandparents, s just as he ful as day aid. It is even m fying, for it is I den and humidity. Cold air, moreove according to recent experiment been found to be even more hea giving than warm al Q. When is Dominion da?—W. A. A. July 1 is so-called, b upon this day in 1867 that C came into being as a_self-gov Dominion within the British er its constitution resting upon British-North America act of Q. Does supply from Nev. A. Los Ange water by an aqueduct which carries water streams, particularly River and O 3 wholly within t The latter part the drainage area Ina in Nevada. a modified form a resinous substa insec with Lac ed is shed str spre n as out lac, night air unhealthful in Can se it wi A Los Angeles g ts water da?7—W. W. H is supplied 1 miles 1 from the Ows Q. What is meant by often appears in wanted cc operators, stenographers, ete.’—J. AP BIX term applied to : telephone switck rd and means p; vate branch e Q. How used at“the F. OB A. The contract 410 incand yower and 6 power. The contract price was $39% red furnish § m lamps an ofl of fc »hol?—J tained 17 is a unique pub tell you may wan in your Government ru There s no wes you n vice. It rendered, as promy th to k «t char Star invites you h sortunity tian on any question or is puszling you. Address s Burea Washin The dire cents in Christmas Savings Clubs In New R The of the United States have never been accounted a thrifty but according press, there is a little leaven at work | which in time may “leaven the whole lump” with this desirable character This is the “Ch v Club,”” now an established insti peaple e, | is istmas “Christmas savings club trated that a streak of thrift is to found in Americans and needs only 2 slight urge to bring it to the surface” the Charleston Daily Mail. The particular form of “urge” referred to here has been ap- plied with growing success for a num- ber of years. As the Portland E ning Express states: “This vear is the tenth anniversary of the Christms club idea, which started in 1915. The idea of the man who first thought of the Christmas club plan was to pro mote saving throughout the year for the Christmas budget. But it has grown into a movement of much greater magnitude than the mere sav- ing up for gift buying. Speaking of the origin of this plan, the New Haven Evening Register de- clares that “the thinking out of the Christmas club idea was one of the best inventions of recent years. It saved hundreds and hundreds of thousands of hearts from annual pangs of remorse occasioned by in- ability to give some little token to those near and dear. It was an in- vention comparable with electricity and what not; it was a wonder."” * K ok x “The savings for this current in these Christmas clubs amounts to $314,154,800, announces the Asbury Park Evening Press, “and is a gain of about 25 per cent over the amount of last year's savings.” The plan is “sponsored by 6,800 banks through- out the United States,” says the Knoxville Sentinel, which believes that through the plan “the habit of regular thrift becomes implanted in people who never before had any ide: of a systematic saving of money.” That the habit Is a beneficial one is shown by the Memphis News-Scimi- tar, which states that ‘‘more often than otherwise no argument is neces- sary to induce a continuation of the practice, once it is fairly started.” “Of more interest than the amount of money saved is the number of de- positors,” according to the Shreveport Journal, which places the number of these at “seven million, an average of one to approximately eves sixteen persons,” and declares that “blessings are sure to follow the practice of thrift thus represented.” To the Wa- tertown Daily Times, the plan *is par- ticularly valuable in training children most | a says in the habits of thrift,, as some of the | classes are for small amounts, be- ginning with 1 cent a week. In fact so popular have these savings clubs become, that, as the Salt Lake Deseret News points out, “in many cities and towns of the United States Christmas to an optimistic | have dem- . ole, Says Press savings have bec munity life.” benefits of the re th; he d The Rockford is at the same This is because the jlan reach out themselves. Nation's chil isfaction to financial instity cording th: Herald. which Ch the ntown Morr wkers tell 1as club plan b ddition of many their banks through a tanceship developed through ti ar visits of members for deposit their ‘memberships in the Christ mas clubs.” Elmira _Star-G. zetie makes of the fact that | “through ‘th: 1ence of this plan, hundreds of thousands of people have become regular savers, and no doubt | many have secured their first start in lifa through the medium of ic saving | These depositors, as the Wilkes er puts it, “have ething more than the mere sum that is cres d to them, and the nice things that can be bought with it Many of them have made a new discovery.” this paper continues “They thought previously that it was | impossible for them tp save money, | but they have found that they can do it, and nog suffer any unhappiness or deprivatio®, either.” * Xk %k X But there is another side to action that comes from member. ship in these clubs, a side that widely commented on by the edi of the country as the holiday s opens and that is well expressed b the Portsmouth Star: ‘“There are many benefits that will accrue to the individuals who receive Christmas checks. Among them will be the ability to bestow happiness upor others at the Christmas season and 10 thus derive the greatest joy from the season of gifts and giving.” In this tone also is the comment from th Warren Tribune-Chronicle, which says: “Perhaps the larger portion of the Christmas fund savings is ex pended for gifts. The economist might point out where great benefits would accrue to society if the Christ- mas savings fund in toto was rein- vested at interest. Being a theorist,” concludes the Tribune-Chronicle, “the economist cannot know what usurious interest in the joy of giving and shopping s extracted by the recipfents of Christmas savings checks.” This re sult of the Year’s thrift is also referred to by the Sandusky Reglster, which notes: “Without the Christmas savings clubs, a very large percentage of those who receive checks this year would face Christmas virtually’ penniless. They have been helped to save and can enjoy the blessedness’ of giving, the pleasure of Christmas shopping and, if thrifty, the satisfaction of re- investing all or part of their Christ mas savings checks.” To this observa- tion the Reglster addd the invitation, “Join a 1926 savings club now."”