Evening Star Newspaper, December 21, 1925, Page 6

HEE EVENING STAR .- With Sunday Morninz Fulition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY.....December 21, 1925 St THEODORE W. NOYES. . ..Editor The Evening Business Ofc 1100 st and Pennss Nen' Fork Offiee: 110 East 440 St Chicago Office: Tower Buildmg Eurinvan Ofice 14 Ragent St London, England ' = e Eening Star, with the Sunday mern I o S Seed oy earnier; within 5 GBI 60 Stk per month: dajly’ onlr. 3 cents ‘Der month: sunday only, 20 centd P monal” drera. may'ho sent by mait or Ulephone Aain 500" Collection 1s made by Cartler Gt the end of cach month | vania Ave Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. All Other States and Canada. Sunday..1 yr.. $12.00: 1 mo., $1.00 <130 SR 1 mos 78e S160i 1mol 33 haily an anday only . Ve Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled Yo the Wise for repubiication of all news die- e radited o't or wot atherwise ored, I5i in this paper and also the local news published herein. All righta of publication of special dispatehes herein are also reserved The Appeal for the Strikers. 1 for funds for the aid of the families of striking anthracite miners is made President Green of the American Federation of Labor. No specific amount of money ed. The call is addressed particularly to union workers, and not to the public at large, and is sounded to “frustrate 1he efforts of the anthracite operators 10 crush and destroy the spirit of organization among the mine work- ers, to ruthlessly starve them into Eubmission and to tryannically dictate the terms and conditions under which Yheir employes shall live.” While the public at large is not thus asked to contribute to the fund for the maintenance of the families of the striking miners, hus a direct interest in the matter, sor the appeal is in effect for means 10 enable the miners to remain idle and thus to stop the production of coal, which is so largely a vital public necessity. President though the 1o quit b; An appe by puts the case miners had been forced the operators and were teing held out of work by them. From the public, the consumers’, point of view, the rather otherwise. The operators have been at all times willing to submit the issues in re- spect to wages to a fair arbitration. The union leaders have been unwill- Green as case is ing to vield to arbitration save upon | definitely limited terms. The miners could go back to work tomorrow, at fair wages, leaving to future settle- ment all questions of wage scale, Jours and conditions of employment. They refuse to do so. Meanwhile the people suffer, and were it not for the adoption of substitutes for anthracite 1here would be distress among them even Keener tnan that which is being 1ast by the miners and tneir families. There will be no disposition to dis parage the giving of funds in re- sponse to this call. If the members of labor unions feel that the fight of | a fight for a al prin- they will be fully justified giving money in order that it may be protracted. But there is one fair surance, and that is that if the strike is protracted into the Spring, as Leader Lewis has declared it may be, even beyond, the hard-coal con mption will be very greatly reduced and the anthracite miners will have lost in large measure the market for their Both miners the mine ciple labor. for the operators and the this strike is likely to prove a Killing of the gbose that lays the golden The public is desper- ately weary of these frequent strikes in the anthracite field, which steadily increase the cost of the commodity end cause grave anxiety on the score of sufliciency of supply. It is turn- ing to other fuels, and if this present strike is carried over until the next of warmth the ‘“anthracite " of u great majority of the coal consumers the will have and min ing will become me rather is season habi count hard-coal ely an occasional than as now a tion at high wages. been cured 2 steady occupa The Le of and going concern zue ions is a great yet not vet so au thoritative as to be independent of the | moral and financial influence of Uncle Sam. e - The f! mas it of time pi the “now-or-nev eding Christ has “Shop-early” slogan to o reduced busis, e & Mercy at the Public Risk. A man found dead from heart dis s€ in e taxicab in Philadelphia yes- terday proved to be one of the night watchmen of of that city. With hini was a bag containing a large bank cash and checks amounting to $40.000, stolen f self “an n the bank. inte That is in it tragedy of more than passing interest to stu dents of crime in America. But there is_another it which is of even This man was sting story, a spect to rest iittle more than a ago released from the peniten- where he was is greater ir . t e ary, serving a term of from ten to twelve years for man- | siaughter. He had been convicted of homicide in connection, it is believed, with a robbery. Here nother mistaken mercy. Parole and pardon boards in the States are constantly making such mistakes. Criminals being and have for some time past been released from restraint upon the supposition that they would thenceforth lead orderly lives, only to return to their lawless wa: and engage in desperate enterprises, sometimes involving the taking of other lives. The tendency toward lighter pen altics and remissions of punishment Bas been carried so far that this coun- tre 18 now at the merey of confirmed erimitnals, who, having been once con- fined, are bent upon taking toll from soctety, perhaps in revenge or, more likely, In response to a natural crim- inal urge. The Philadelphia robber had no ex use. He had found decent employ “ment. His employers gave him a po gitlop of trust despite his penitentiary is case of are tar Newspaper Company ! it mnevertheless | R s e straight. Death from natural cause alone prevented him from being caught—for his identity as the rob- ber of the bank was known—and again sent to prison for probably a long term. But perhaps in that case he would have been released before the expiration of his sentence, as be- fore, unless a change has occurred in the spirit of those charged by the law with the dispensing of merey to convic SIS PELL SORIARE Ol Let There Be Swift Justice! Surprise and disapproval were ex- pressed vesterday by many Washing- tonians when it was announced that Andrew Beckett, the store messenger who saved his employer's pay roil from robbers Saturday morning, had been “arrested” in consequence of the death of one of the men whom he shot in resisting their attack. It was felt that in such a case an arrest was unwarranted. Herein appears a misunderstanding of the circumstances and the require- ments of the law. In this case a man had been shot to death. The known circumstances, undisputed, pointed to justifiable killing. The man who had done the shooting was not only ex cused but praised for his act. Yet the law requires that he be for- mally held for what might in other ircumstances be a crime. So his arrest was automatically incident to the development of the ¢ He was held technically, being at once a only released in “custody In such circumstances release from all and no stigma attaches to the person who is thus held momentarily and in recog- nition of the requirements of the law. Inquiry by a coroner's jury follows quickly, and upon presentation of the facts the “accused” is definitely freed from all restraint or question. The pity that punitive'procedure by the law is not as speedy and cer- tain as that of exoneration and lease. Of the guilt of the survivors of the attempted robbery there is no doubt. One was caught "red»h;lnd@d"‘ and the other, taken after a brief | flight, acknowledged his participation. Yet in the course of the average handling of such cases many weeks will pass before justice is effectively dispensed. Summary courts are not held now- adays, as in earlier, rougher |l||\9§v? | Yet they are desirable, to stem the tide of crime that flooding the country and taking heavy toll of life and property. Now and then when a notorious crime shocks the commu nity promise is made of swift justice | for the offenders. Indictments are per- haps quickly returned. and the first steps for trial are taken with prompt- ness. Then something happens to| drag the cases along, and wWeeks, even months, pass before the final dispos tion. By that time the public has in {large measure forgotten the circum- stances. In a case like this, with the facts already fully established, the identit. of the offenders assured, a swift trial {and immediate punishment ould { have a wholesome effect, perhaps de- terring potential criminals from at- tempting hold-ups and robberies. Let the men whom Andrew Beckett foiled get as speedy justice as he is granted of an attorney charges follows shortly, re- is oo R e New 0il From 0ld. Announcement is made that a | learned of the Alabama Poly technic Institute has a way for re- claiming old crank at five cents a gallon. This professor of | physics is quoted as saying that oil | | does not wear out by use in a crank l'case, but is made unfit for use by ‘contamination by other substances, such as carbon and other solids and certain constituents of gasoline.” He ha: way of precipitating the for- eign matter and then draws off the oil, which is ready for again. | The process is fully described and | ! there seems to be no attempt to make | {@ secret of it. If the thing works gs | will be conservation | man case oil use, claimed, there tof a very large quantity-of oil and [some cheapening of automobile op- eration. A scientific discovery which | cheapens the cost of living by enabling | a man to use matter he thought worn {our fit for nothing stirs the in-} !terest of a great number of persons, tand a plan for renewing old crank | case oil is a discovery, or at any rate | the report of a discovery, which will | and a | ve widely read | = ———— Many will now continue |0 enjoy the unearned title of “Judge” or “Colonel” while Bill Mitchell must | {be content with the plain salutation of | Mister. a citizen S | Congress will never be permitted to arift into state of comfortable quiescence as the 50 long as it enjoy services of Mr. Blanton of Tex — 1 What of the Next Generation? | Albert . Wiggam, biologist and au- | thor, “tells the Wisconsin Teachers' } Association that American women are ] losing their beauty, and that their in- i telligence will be the next to go, as beauty and intelligence go together. tle secs a homely, dull feminine world in prospect if the present tend. ency of the more intelligent and beau- tiful women to lead independent, non- family lives prevails. This by reason of the fact, he asserts, that the more intelligent and beautiful women are allowing the less intelligent and less beautiful to have nearly all the chil- dren. The consequence, says Mr. Wiggam, will be that the next genera- tion will be both homely and dumb. Biologists and sociologlsts will differ on this point. It will not be agreed that all intellectual women are beau- tiful, or that all beautiful women are intellectual. Tt will not be agreed that the beautiful intellectuals are relin- quishing child-bearing to their home- ly, dull sisters. Biological statistics on this score will be very hard to se cure. In the first place, there is the difficulty about the definition ot beauty. A jury of twelye men passing judgment on “subjects” in such a classification would render widely varying verdicts. One of the safe- guards of society lies in the difference of male opinion on the subject of feminine pulchritude. Then there is THE EVENING course—rate book knowledge and in- tellectual brilliancy as womanly dis- qualifications. And then there is that fine distinction between intelligence and intellectuality. Many a scrub- woman has a rare intelligence without any intellectual development. Mr. Wiggam has arrested attention by his remarks before the Wisconsin teachers, but he will probably not scare anybody away from ‘intellectual pursuits or hurry many American young women into fruitful matri- mony. R Vertical Advertising. Motorists are always gratified, in touring, to find on approaching a city or town that the name of the com- munity is blazoned on the roa e, in some conspicuous manner. Advertis- ing signs often supply the informa- tion. The towns themselves, in a commendable manifestation of civic pride, sometimes furnish the fact of identity. Occasionally they couple it with warning against too much speed and too long a stay in the local jail. In any case, the motorist is well in- formed and kndlks “where he is at.” Not 8o with the aviator. He cannot read the roadside signs. He cannot irecognize the landmarks of even the sprightliest little city unless he chances to know the place through previous passage. This lack of information is a handicap and sometimes a source of | extreme danger. Forced landings in unknown country for the correction of bearings have on numerous occasions resulted in crashes and fatalities. The St. Joseph, Mo., chapter of the National Aeronautical Association has | lately been busy in this matter and | has induced a number of towns of the | Middle West which lie along the “air- | ways" to paint identifying names on the roofs of buildings, and its services have elicited the formal praise of the | Army Air Service. This practice should become univer. sal throughout the country. Airmen | are flying in all directions and there | is scarcely a hamlet in the United | States that is not flown over now and then. The day may come, very soon, | when there will be a distinct commer cial value in this sort of identification. No town can afford to remain unknown to the fiyers. So, let all communities, large and small. proclaim their identity to those who fly as well as to those who travel by road. [ With Fasc control for Rome's leading journals the aggressive intel- lectua of Italy will have more time to devote to music and pictur and less temptation to meddle in poli- tics. Mussolini may be the means of bringing about a magnificent revival lof art. D Brains and personal appearance re main unrelated. None of the ladies who have become eminent in politics possesses the superficial and rather in- significant attributes which would qualify them as winners in a beauty prize contest. ———— France cannot be unaware of the proverb “Money talks and is natu- rally annoyed to find the franc only whispering. e The idea that an anthracite strike benefits nobody must be modified. It helps the bituminous coal producers a little. ———— Italy has not proved sufficiently in uential to make the black shirt fash- ionable among the white-collar of this country. boy Temes o California is pleased to note that her earthquakes are diminishing in size even though not in frequency. . Result of the court-martial apparent- Iy leaves Bill Mitchell no position whatever save that of a good listener. ———. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Feet How do you ride nd Wheels. As we discuss | A social status, this or thus, It's necessary to decide This question first, how do you rids Can you afford a flivver neat? Or do you royster through the street And roll along in proper pride? The question is, how do you ride? In vain we set the Charleston pace And demonstrate athletic grace. Footwork ghtly set aside. The question is, how do you ride? Inclined to Temporize. “Are vou in favor of prohibition?" “Heartil; answered Senator Sor- ghum. “But the wets are kind o' in- fluential out home, and T realize that 4 man can't expect to have his own way about everything.' - | sam. new fc aintly Example. Old Santa Claus has whisker: And fur-trimmed quaint. In fashion you'd go sadly wrong If you should imitate a Saint. Jud Tunkins says old Santy ought | to bring along something special for the traffic cop who works mighty hard | and gets no than long trousers rather | Riddance. “Do vou expect to get rid bootleggers?"” “We sure do,” answered Cactus Joe. “‘After the'Christmas holidays Crim- | son Gulch will be so broke that a boot- | legger wouldn't notice us.” of the | | | Thrift. | “There have been a remarkably large number of arrests in Crimson Gulch.” “Yep,” answered Cactus Joe. “We have just built a fine new jail, and all the taxpayers seem anxious to get their money’s worth | Power of Conversation. The League of Nations bids us all be gay And while its purposes we are recit- ing We hope that argument will bring de- lay To obviate the need of real fighting. “Predictin’ de weather,” said Uncle the question of what really is dumb- ness. Some judges—male judges, of ) Eben, “is at least entitled to respect as one o’ de forms of idle gossip dat don’t do no particular harm,” | couraging men ships upon deserving p | States Mar STAR, WASHINGTON, 1Is there any Washingtonian who has spent every Christmas in 50 years with a favorite brother or sister? One local resident has passed every Yuletide ‘except one in the past half century with his sister, and that sepa ration was caused by events bevond their control. The Christmas they missed being together was in 1914, when the sister was caught in Cairo by the war. Even then, however, they exchanged cablegrams.” By way of coincidence, their messages were received, it turned out, during the same hour of the da It wWould be interesting to know if any other brothers and sisters, or brothers, or children and parents, or old friends can equal such a record. There is a common belief that near relations “fight like cats and dogs,” and sometimes no doubt they do, so that such stories of everyday affec- tion are wholesome beyond compute. _ The corrosion of the ucid of hatred is corrected by the milk of human kindness. At this season of the year we need all the stories of love that we can | find to turn us from s and | Sometimes too extravagant glving of Rifts” which some indulge in to the sreatest gift in the world. Those are happiest at this time of the vear who find love in the home, There can be only pity for those Who have to go out of the home circle to find the affection which every human being needs. Christmas! What memories it bLrings each one of us, whether been fortunate enou holiday with the I It is a who back to we have gh to spend every home folks or not! ome thing to do, rig now, to review one ot Chipiaions season, to see if there i 101 Ered (|€’$\l to be thankful for. R e Thanksgiving ought not to be con fined to one day only. There is no law o restricting it. Fvery day ought to be one of thanksgiving, and espe cially Christmas day. for if one. is not “grateful now it is hard to see how he ever will be, ; This is the season for happines For this reason, the foolish giving of useless gifts, which every one de. plores, even the merchants, cuan be for Elven, since the gift given who does not want it and does not deserve it, brings amount of happiness, it sima When one thinks of the misery that rmankind causes, and which ceives, it N be seen that (h s 2 wonderful sort of safety v Most valves let emotions escape, but this one huilds them up! Like an am. plifying tube in a radio receiving set our Christmas augments the flying waves of love, and lets them loose on_one particular day. How fa they. shall fly whose ears they may bring’ can say Much as t¥ on the air, he knew not whera. but iter was found in the heart of a friend, so the emotions of Christmas time work wonders both knc unknowr Who knows b wonder-workers * is to one perhaps certain or into iope, none s song fell poe and what the unknown greatest? Laughter, insep: from Chri mas, will be present Friday, too. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC Calvin Coolidge just indulged in his maiden frivolity since he became Presi- dent of the United States. It con- sted of going to a musical comedy at Washington theater—a regular, rollicking Broadway “girl show™ of the kind known in the profession as a T. B. M. attraction. i. e., something for the Tired Business Man. Mr Coolidge’s attendance was noteworthy for an®ther reason A thousand or two of his fellow-citizens now have eyewitness evidence of his ability to laugh and enjoy himself. Not a wise crack during the whole evening failed to extort b presidential gr and, now and then, an honest-to-good- | ness giggle. Once when a comedian handed 2 wad of meney to a fair gold digger and told her to “blow it in on anything—bet on a Democrat,” M. Coolidge not only laughed, but nearly rocked with glee. A serious play or two and oceasional Visits to a vaude: ville performance hitherto have been the President’s only theatrical diver sions. Now that he has clapped his hands the capers and applauded n tuneful jazz melody Mr. Coolidge is on the way to becom- ing a full-fledged amusement-lov But only superoptimists think he will ever be a Follies fan. * ve scor se who are professional diplomatic serv- The appointment of Ogden H. | Hammond, w o Jersey real estate operator, to be American Ambassador to Spain_is a patronage appointment, pure and simple. It was made over the heads of at least two reer eligibles, Irwin B. Laughlin of Penn- sylvania, now Minister to Greece, and tobert Pett Skinner of Ohio, consul general at Pari Senator Edge, d another victory trying to e a the Hammond appointment, wh a reward for meritorious service in that State. As to Mr. Hammond's equipment for the Madrid | ambassadorship. nothing _derogator can be said. He is a Yale man, a | suecessful business man and possessed | of the check-book requived of his for- | efgn envoys by niggardly Uncle But the policy under ign service law—that of en to devote their lives to the service in the hope of some day achieving major posts—i dly crumpled by bestowing ambassador- artisans. * * Some extraordinarily interesting correspondence recently took place be- tween the War Department and the German military authorities. Count de Chambrun’s book of French war memoirs rated how a. United ne, tgken prisoner by the Germans in 1918, was asked by his captors to explain just exactly what sort of military theory is drilled into the American soldier. The leather neck, according to the published stor straightened himself up to his full stature, looked the semi-circle of grim German officers straight in their eves, and replied, “Kill or get killed!” The episode was so impressive that the War Department’s historians de- cided to check up on it. The German war office, after searching their in- telligence service files, located the in- cident. It was true in every reported detail. As evidence thereof, the G mans gave our military attache in Berlin a photostat of the_original cross-examination of Gen. Lejeune’s hard-boiled understudy. % %k kX It's fitting that a Japanese Ambas- sador serving at Washington during the Coolidge era should recall the “historic ties” that unite Nippon and New England. When Mr. Matsudaira addressed the Japan Socicty of Bos. ton the other day, he recalled that New England educators, diplomatists and seafaring men were among the ear- liest of American pioneers in the my tic Eastern realm that Admiral Perr opened to the world. President Cool idge sent a note to the meeting, in which he observed that “New Ing- land’s early and continued contacts with the Far East in trade, scholar- ship and_statesmanship make. it-ap- propriately fitting that a society in THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. . | the C: of a beauty chorus | ng theeuffs. D. MONDAY, The world needs as much honest fun as it can get. Most of the troubles of life are caused by the too serious folk who have no sense of humor. The World War would never have 2ot under way if there had been a couple of good jokers in the diplo- matic corps. Take a recent happening in Wash- ington that reaches from last Christ- mas to this. There was a gentleman who thought he would buy his wife one of those littlo sewing cabinets called the Pris- cilla. This type is simply a small box on legs, with two lids, hinged in the center, and with a handle on top. Properly designed, it is at once a raceful bit of furniture, and very handy, since it s easily portable. The man found one he liked, and decided to lug it home with him. Re- member, this was Christmas a year ago. Much against the protests of the clerks, he started out with his paper- wrapped article. ]}0 maneuvered it on and off strect cars, and at last solemn- Iy strode down his street. As luck would have it, his wife was downtown shopping. That was how he managed to smuggle the cabinet into the house. Everything went well mas eve. It was about 9 p.m. There came a ring at the door. The wife an- swered it. “Did_you buy a se she called sweetly. from —” Utterly dumfounded, the husband confessed that he had, but had brought it home some days ago! “Those lunk- heads,” he growled, “sending me an- other ‘one The tale of the two sewing cabinets has been a favorite one in this family since. Now for the sequel. Perhaps it should be said, at this point, that the store where the cabinet was purchased is one of the very best in Washington. A few days ago the wife went to an- other store, of equal merit, and bought a small Windsor rocking chair, just as a sort of gift to the home. In purchasing it she told the clerk of the funny but regrettable incident of the two cabinets and cautioned him against a similar_error. The clerk smiled. “We never could do such a thing,” he said. with a very superior air. he chair was delivered at 4 o'clock the next afternoon. Every one, includ- inz the cat, pronounced it a good pur- chase, The wife recalled to the husband the | story of the two sewing cabinets and how she had warned the clerk this| year not to repeat the performance of | the clerk in the other store a year ago. There was many a laugh over the incident. (Every one knows how such family adventures are recounted over and over again. Every home has its standard jokes, which to outsiders may not seem funny, but alwavs stir | mirthful recollections in the particular 11.\uul\' concerned.) Tt was exactly 4 o'clock that evening hen the door bell rang. At the door stood the same man who had deiivered the chair in the after. noon. “Here's another chair for You,” he | said. | | Honest, this is a true story. until Christ- ving cabinet?” Here is *one [ WILLIAM WILE. | Boston should interest itself in the | |task of cultivating good international |relationships and understandings with Japan * x % ) G. Bernard Shaw, Arnold Bennett, { 1. G. Wells and other stars of British |intelligentsia head a committee which wants to organize an international movement to acquit Germany for- | mally of responsibility for the World | | War. James Montgomery Beck, for- | |mer Solicitor General of the United | States. was asked to comment on the | plan, as author of “The Evidence in | se. That historic brief on the ‘«vanln ak of the war, written and pub- |lished by Mr. Beck in the Autumn | of 1914, became one of the classic {documents of the era. Beck prefers not to be drawn into any new con- | | roversy, holding that the world has | peace problems of surpassin® magni-. | tude 10 engross its energies just now. | If he had to do “The Evidence in the | Case” over again, he doubts if he'd | have to uncross a ’ or undot an “1."” * ko % 1‘ On January 25, 1926, an interesting |interstate controversy will engage the attention bf the United States Supreme Court. Pennsylvania and New Jersey | ave at loggerheads over the new Del- |aware River Bridge that is to link | Philadelphia and Camden. The bridge is nearly completed. But the last | rivets cannot be driven until Penn {and Jersey mutually agree whether to be a toll or a free bridge. Jer- sey contends that she borrowed the millions to build her share of the span on the guarantee that there'd be tolls. She insists that Pennsyl- vania pass corresponding legislation. | | Penn declines and this month filed a | bill in the Supreme Court designed | to compel the Jersevites to finish the bridge, regardless of what Pennsyl- vania does. The court has summoned Jersey to file an answer by January Protracted litigation is in pros- pect. x ok ok % Senator James W. Wadsworth, r. Republican, of New York was ad- dressing a dinner company of G. O. P. ‘omen here for the World Court fisti- A preceding speaker, Miss cace Abbott, chief of the Children's Bureau of the Department of Labor, had observed that her most suc- cessful single piece of work there was the nance of a circular to mothers on 'he Care and Feed- ing of Infants.” Previous to that, Miss Abbott explained, the champion Government bulletin was one entitled The Care and Ieeding of Horses.” Wadsworth said he'd like to issue a bulletin that he wa certain would outstrip either of those in popularity, | He'd call it “The Care and Feeding of Debutantes.” (Cony ht. 1925.) ———. i Let Time Determine ‘ Our National Heroes To the Editor of The Star Generous—impulsively so—is perhaps the ‘t marked characteristic of Americans”! Admirable as is this | type, is not the addition of discretion | tan imperativé attribute, if perennial safety is to be assured? A case in point: The present some- what impulsive demand that the late { Theodore Roosevelt and Cabot Lodge shall have monuments so costly and so conspicuously placed! _ Are not time and hisfory to be the judge and jury, to proclaim those most fully worthy to be assoclated with Lincoln and Washington? Some are like comets, of wondrous | brillilancy; others like the fixed stars. | The stars to glow forever, in conjunc- {tion with Lincoln and Washington, ineed to be selected with utmost dis- | cretion. Let us pause! W. G. KENT. Permanently Altered. From the Altoona Mirror. Hunter in Alabama looked down & rifie barrel. He will recover, but will never look the same again. | that the great Democratic lin | and ai ! tion therefor, that needs to be exalt | the Chr DECEMBER 21, 1925. Some Facts About Judiciary Square. To the Editor of The Star: Please stand by, as they say over the radio. Here are some facts in regard to Judiciary Square. This square originally embraced all the| space between D and G streets, Fourth and Sixth streets northwest. It was evidently in the L’'Enfant plan, as a space designated as Ju- diclary Square may be found on all old maps and charts of the city; as far back as 1800 it appears on the map. Unfortunately, the original plans of L'Enfant were lost. There were never any buildings of a per- manent nature built on this square until the City Hall was erected, the corner stone of which was laid in 1820. The east wing was erected in 1846 and the west wing in 1849. In 1815 they were casting about for a suitable site for a city hall and they finally decided to locate it on the south side of the square, facing D street, at the intersection of Indiana and Louisiana avenues. There was some question at the time as to how to defray the expense of constructing the building and it was sald at the time that they should organize a lot- tery in order to raise the fund. This method was not unusual in those days. In 1817 when the building was un- dergoing repairs and renovation the court was temporarily removed to other buildings. During the 60s it was quite cus- tomary for the circus to exhibit in Judiciary Square. It is related that George Washington on several occa- sions” attended the circus while in this city, and likely enough, the great show of the English circus exhibited in this square. The inauguration ball, March 4, 1861, took place in a huge building erected for the pur- pose in the square quite near the courthouse. Tt was on a grand scale, and while the exterior would suggest the tabernacle of Billy Sunday, the in- terior was most elaborately decorated, and the illumination was very bril- liant. A few years ago a large building was erected near the northwest cor- ner of the courthouse, an annex for the court officials. On’ the north side of the square, facing G street, is a huge pile of red brick, the Pension Bureau Building. J above the windows of the first story there is a girdle of terra cotta, and on this, in high relief, shown a string of marching soldiers: in fact, an attempt was made to represent every branch of the service. The designs are re peated a great number of times around the four sides of the building. The building is anything but impos- ing, but the interior is very attrac- tve, and. we might say, artistic. It was in this building, March 4, 1885 inaugural ball was held; it was incomplete at the time, being covered by a tempo. rary roof. The building was finished 1887. The ball, on this occasion, was well attended, there being pres ent many prominent Democrats and istocrats. One of the conspicuous figures atending the ball was recog nized to be that of William ¥. Cody, “Buffalo Bill,” with his ambrosi locks and drooping moustache and everything. He certainly was a noble type of a man and attracted quite much attention as did the Presi- dent on this occasion. FRANKLIN s Legends Are Written In Sands of Time tor of The Star nds of time men write their | legends, Some read like this: “On the altar of my emotions, I dedicate my- self to the erection of grand displays for the edification of my poor self before all chance onlooke Now, traveling the roud of the ess, we come upon this headline ‘ongress solicited for $50,000 for monument to_ Unknown Soldier Having made little progress in this bog, where many a flower is seen to shed its worth on desert air, we com to this sign post: * in flower and $10,000 coffin for slain gangste Despairing of the reading, we turn to reflection, but find little refresh- ment in our memory of mummies and kings, buried wealth and hidden tre ures, some of which, not yet pilfered, tell of the folly of man. There was once a hereft son buried his miother and sought the | counsel of a man of wisdom as to| how he might best honor her. -“Go | a well, that the thirsty might \ TEELE. To the In the s who | drink But drink of the cup of wi while this might be said: scored for dodging duty: shifting heir burdens to school teachers.” | >resident passes buck to Religion. When flowers are given to the liv- ing, when memorials to the dead, whether unknown or acclaimed hero with famous name, consist in their deeds handed on for pedestals upon which other models may will not be so much br because of lessons too often learn Their memorials will survive by me and_require no ostentatious displ 'Tis the battle of life, and prepara ed above its present state. MARY B. GRAVE e — Keep the Salvation Army Pots Boiling To the Editor of The St We regret that any obstacle should | be placed in the way of hundreds of | the poor and needy and helpless little ones which would hinder their enjoy- | ing Chri with a little of | tmas 1 We regret that the Salvation Army should be classed as a common begga seeking alms when they are asking nothing for themselves, but seeking only to give the thousands of kind. hearted people an opportunity, which they would gladly avail themselves of, to help the Army do the work they feel sure God wants them to do. We regret that Commissioner Cuno F. Rudolph, who says that he knows of mo organization more worthy than the Salvation Army, should have felt it his duty to class that organization as beggars, while the horde of sure- enough beggars who infest the stree of Washington, sometimes hid behind a couple of lead pencils or a box of matches, and often in the open, are al lowed to operate unmolested, and this to the certain knowledge of the Commissioners and every policeman in town. ‘We regret that Mr. Rudolph should attempt to excuse himself by saying that the police regulation which ‘“pro- hibits the begging or solicitation of alms for any purpose on the public highways was adopted due to the ac- tivities of several women who solicited funds fraudulently last year under the guise of charity, and when ar- rested the court ruled that there was nothing on the statute books under which they could be prosecuted, and this regulation was adopted primarily to prevent a repetition of this case.” Why would it not have been just as easy for the Commissioners to have made a regulation for this class of soliciting, requiring a permit, and to have refused a permit to any organ- ization or person deemed unworthy after investigation? BENJ. B. F. GRAVES. Mount Rainier, Md. R e P The True Friend. From the Portland Evening Express. Bituminous coal is another example of the truth of the old saying that a friend in need is a friend indeed. | orders of 1919-1921.” ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. Why are evergreens used for decoration at Christmas?—M. C. S. A. The custom of hanging ever- greens in the house at Christmas time originally had a purpose beyond deco- ration. In olden times each kind of evergreen was supposed to confer spe- clal blessings on those who passed beneath it. To pass under holly in- sured good fortune for the coming year. Q. At what speed is the earth travel- ing toward the star Vega’— G, A. As far as the earth is concern- ed, the course is not a straight line, but a spiral, composed from the mo. tion of the earth around the sun and its motion with the sun. The rate of motion is about 12 miles per second. Q. What is the “fifth estate’?—P. J. A. This term has recently been ap- plied to that body of persons who are engaged in the preservation and advancement of the organized knowl- edze we know as science. meant by Q. When was it discovered that silk could be made from the web of the silk worm?—D. T. S. A. It is the general belief that the great importance of the silk worm was discovered by Seling, the wife of the Chinese Emperor Hoangti, who reigned about 2637 B. C., and that she invented and taught the art of silk spinning and weaving. The great centers of this industry are China, Japan, India and southern Europe. Silk worms have been successtully raised in California, Ohio, Kansas, e: Tennessee, northern Georgia, tucky and some parts of New Jersey. Q. What is the leading distinction between a rifle and other guns?—G. YT A. A rifle is a gun in which, b ns of grooves in the bore or othes i wise, the projectile is forced to rotate This rota- before leaving the barrel. tory motion, maintained during flight, lessens the tendency to depart from a straight line, and in a measure over- comes atmospheric resistance. Q. Is rubber produced from the sap of plants>—N. D. The milky juice or latex yielded by a number of different trees, shrubs and vines from which through coagu- lation rubber is derived is not the sap, on the circulation of which the nutrition of the trees, etc., depends. Its exact function in the plant appears not to be fully understood. sh?—0. A Q. What is a pilot. i A. It is a fish of the open ocean, of the family of horse-mackerel, attain- ing a length of about 12 inches, hav- : a peculiar habit of keeping com- pany with ships and lagge fishes, espe- cially sharks. Q. Does the wind blow at the north and south poles?—C. L. K A. The Weather Bureau says that wind does occur at both poles of the earth. Q. What are the p towns touched by rail from Chicago M. i A. Milwaukee, St . Selby. 8. Dak.; Bowman, N. Da on, Billings, Livingston, Butte and ssoula, in Montana; Wallace, Idaho; Spckane, Walla Walla, Yakima and Lllenberg, in Washington. neipal cities and the Yellowstone to Seattle?—D. Paul, Minneapo. Q. Can a man pushing against an orainary brick wall move it even in htest degree?—W. P. There would be some deflection. An instrument recently constructed at the: Bureau of Standards, Washington, can measure the amount of deflection of a brick wall 40 inches thick under tie pressure of one finger. This in- strment is so delicately adjusted that one person looks into the eyeplece while another walks acro the floor tha deflection apparently so great that the whole building seems to be swaying back forth as though made of cardbe : Q. Are any of the Eskimos Catho- liesT—W. J. M. A. There are Catholic Es many missionaries of that church ha iniz worked in territory occupied by these people. Q. What is the national language of Switzerland?—H. H. G A. The principal languages of Switzerland are German, spoken by 71 per cent of the people; French 21 per cent, and Italian by 6 per cent. Other languages are Romanshe nd Ladin. By the federal constitu- tion of 1848 and 1874, German, French and Italian are recognized as patione: anguages, so that debates in the Federal Parliament may be carrie on in any of the three, while fed eral laws and decrees appear a in three languages. The old dialect of Romanshe and Ladin do not have any political recognition by the con- federation. Q. By whom was the safety pin in vented >—H. 1. B. A. Many forms brooches found by archeologists tombs, ruins and elsewhere, y similar to modern s: ibulas are among the earliest tallic objects of antiquity. It pro! libly is correct to say that no one knows or ever will know in what ve. fibulas or so-called safety pins wers invented, or by whom, and at be. it can only be inferred that the fir inventor was a heathen, or rate non-Christian. - In recent t one form of safety pln was patel 10 T. Woodw under date of 7, 1842; another form to I. W. rt, under date of August 16, ind another form to W. IH. Hocke: smith, under date of August 29, 187 of fibulas o i Q. How is sweet made ?—. N . It is made cream that has been pasteurized an. then churned without ripening ing. It has a milc et. crear flavor and does evelop stron: nearly butte from cream buttc from fresh swee: not qui cream sour How much ground is thers the piece that 1s to be occupied by the new National Press Building.- LN A. The building will occupy the southeast corner of Fourteenth and 1 | streets, fronting approximately feet on ¥ street and 150 feet on Fou teenth street. It will cover abc 42,500 square feet. Aside from the theater which will occupy the lowe: interior and rear portion of the build ing, there will be 200,000 square fe of rentabie area Q system A, T What is meant by traffic?—M. W secretary of the Nation: Conference on Street and Highwa Safety says that the boulevard systei is simply another name for arteria highways. In some cities they arc known as high-speed highways, wher the rate of specd up to 35 miles pe hour is permitted and the highway controlled by traffic police matic signal devices. Q. Where is the tallest smoke made of reinforced concrete?—T, B, C A. The tallest in America of whici we find record is one at Trail, British Columbia, 400 feet in height, built for the Consolidated Mining & Smel Co: a bouleve or (Education makes a people casy to lead, but impossible to ensiave. Ou Government knows how true tl statement is and advances and ¢ courages in every possidle way ti education and well being of its citi- 2ens. It spends millions of dollars ir opening new fields of information an: knowledge—maintaining hundreds « laboratories, thousands of specialisi and many great libraries. The citizens should have the benerit of all this re search and study, and can have if the will only apply for it. Our Washiny. ton burcau is in @ position to procure all Government data that avail able for public use. Nend in your ques tions to it and secure authoritative i formation. Inclose 2 cents in_stamp. for return postage. Address The Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Has kin, director, Washington, D. C.) are That old friend of once more man, Status Quo, proves its efficacy as a harmonizer of disputes in the Irish boundary settlement. America, well as Great Britain and the rest of the world, looks upon this develop- ment as one of great import not only to the disputants, but to mankind in general. as Calling the settlement ‘“one of the | vietories of peace more renowned than the most brilliant and memorable triumphs of war.” the Baltimore Sun ces in it a “wise and benevolent agreement to let the dead past bury its dead and to look forward to a new era.”” The terms of the agreement are briefly described by the Buffalo Evening News: “The Ulster boundary s it was in 1921, when the treaty was signed. The tate is released from obligation to share the burden of the British war debt. In return it assumes lability for all ‘malicious damage' done to property in Ireland during the dis- These arrange- constitute peace in continues the New achievement for ments, great Ireland.” important part representa “Perhaps the most the agreement is that | tives of the Ulster government and the Free State government shall meet whenever necessary for the considera tion of matters of common interests, says the Watertown Daily Times, pointing out that this amicable ar- rangement belies the age-old_opinion that “an Ulsterite and a South of Ireland man could never meet w llht_iu'. fighting.” In this same connection the Fort Worth Rrecord Telegram re- marks: “Things are surely reaching 1 state of general peace on earth. The Germans are at peace with all of Burope and the Irish are making friends with each other!” The Charles- ton Evening Post thus expresses its happy astonishment: “Veritably peace §s the order of the day. That Sinn ‘einers and Ulstermen could asree on the frontier between the two divisions of Treland looks astonishingly like a miracle.” But the fact is that they actually have agreed, as the Rochester Times Union relates: “The Irish Free State has accepted the London agreement as to the boundary dispute. The Eng- lish House of Commons has approved the pact. The Ulster government also has signified its approval. * * * It is believed that the last serious barrier to continued and permanent peace in Ireland has been swept away.” o e Referring to Great Britain's act in absolving the Free State of all share in the payment of Britain's war debt, the Erie Dispatch Herald says, “Can- cellation of this obligation turned the trick in the boundary negotations.” In similar vein is the comment of the New York Times, which sees “Ire- land's boundary crisis exorcised by a zolden wand,” and finds in the efficacy of this concession “another illustra- tion of how exacerbated nationalism in Europe is vielding to the argument from - practical advantage.” But Britain’s was not the only con- ciliatory spirit shown according to the Syracuse Herald, which believes “the Free State authorities made a grave sacrifice through their consent to the temporary .'uienilvn of the two coun- ‘New Prospect of Amity In Ireland Is Recognized | ties of Tyrone and Fermanagh, whose populations are preponderately in sy pathy with the Free State.” The | Brooklyn Daily Eagle refers also {the Free State’s oncession to U |of a boundary line bringing districts with a prependerant Catholic pop tion under northern control,” and finds in the spirit thus shown the best of indications t'at “Ireland may soon begin an era of peace such as it has never before known How imminent was serious and even bloody discord just prior to these settlements is recalled by the Lo ville Courier-Journal in its discussion of the situation. Refes boundary commi: m created v the Anglo-Irish treaty, the Loui paper says “Ulster remained adamant and would not appoint a representa tive to the commission,” and that later, when “the British governmer named a representative for Ulster be sides one of its own, while the Ire State appointed Eoin Mac Neill on the boundary board, at no time did the North Ireland recognize the body.” | Then, continues this journal, when ‘an unauthorized repos of the con mission was given premature publici tion, the Free State became the ol jector,” the report having .*predicted that a part of Donegal would be taken away from the southern sec tion and given to the northern. Mu Nelll resigned from the commission and the Free State intimated it would not abide by the verdict.” “And yet,” says the Columbus Dis patch, touching on these complici tions, “the ink had had little nfore |than time to dry on Commissioner {Mac Neill's resignation when the news went out to the world that the insoluble had bLeen solved and an agreement reached and offi sign led The Dispatch sees in this tachievement “a new day arising fo. Treland.” The Schenectady Guzette rejoices that after “jealousy between the two sections has retarded progress for centuries, ill feeling gives way to a desire for co-operation,” while th Fort Wayne Journal-Guzette considers “the settlement of the boundary ques tion has removed the specter of what in all of fits aspects and conse quences threatened to become a civil war."” ster ok ke This danger, according to the Utic Observer-Dispatch, “has been re- moved. The two may go along as peaceably as the provinces of Ontario |and Manitoba, or the States of New | York and Massachusetts.” Says the Yakima Morning Herald, speaking paradoxically, “It 4s by no means un- likely that the fixing of a definite boundary which seems to divide Ire- land may be the first step toward a truly united Ireland.” The Providence Journal agrees with many cotemporaries in the statement that “the new Irish treaty, like the Locarno instrument, marks a fresh mile post on the road to Iuropeun tranquillit The Kalamazoo Ga- zette, too, marks the settlement as an “aftermath to that larger world understanding” consummated at Lo carno, whilo_ the Springfield Union finds “both the Locarno treaties and the boundary agreement indicative of a_state of mind-desirous of peace and of arbitral settlement of disputes.”