Evening Star Newspaper, December 29, 1925, Page 6

6 L1 EVENING THE EVENING ST 1 AR| caller has some specific line of talk m! monfous appearance of the whole ) l AR, WASHINGTON, D T, TUESHAY, DECEMBII 29, 1925. ) X 1 | | i | | NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM LG M ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. How much alcohol should T put | tates the transformation from a low in the radiator of my car in Winter? | order of industrial organization 1« RBEVOND KHYBER PASS. Lowell, _¢ 5. A | higher order did not hegin until the Thomas. The Century Co. A. Using denatured alcohol, not!first half of the nineteenth centui: Many a reader will hasten to try| wood aicoiiol, a 20 per cent solution and its full effects were nor fell unt out “Beyond Khyber Fass.” These,|—a little over three-quarters of 4 | the second decade after the Civil War ihe onex who, under the leadership | Dint of alcohol in each gallon of so- | = 0 s of this author, were with “Lawrence | lition—will withstand a temperature | Q. How docs the Belmont vac in Arabia," an amazingly spirited | of 15 degrees above zero, Fahrenheir. !rack } "-'"l'-"]" rmu "‘]7_ j_l 3’ ;“ i romance, founded upon pure fact and | A 25 per cent solution. one quart of | COUrse "'; \'\ ET e SUOIE HhU ¥ carried out also upon such basis j alcohol in each gallon of solution, |18 Tunfed. o o Lowell Thomas is an adventurer of | Will withstand a temperature of zero, | A, fhe lensih of fhe main Ao the tribe that denles the unattain- | ard will be found sufficient in most At Belmont Bk iv 10, niles 6 1 le. A region, Inaccessible—either | parts of the country. A 40 per cent |3 inches, which comparcs with i through barriers set up by nature|solution. three and three-quarters |¥nglish Derby—1 mile 881 vards itself or through the decreed exclu- | Pints of alcohol per gallon of mix- | The Derby is run. hodes alons o ftaipeople—t{hatiis thneniico) Wre sl givefaatelyfat 2t ggregs | L UIVE JE0e, RN S SR L for him. Brand-new adventure lies [ below zero. L vaGe totines s lalgong his « that w instead of the shop-worn v SCuft cathered ! from fhe popular ) . Q. How a8t wasiihe firat stean:- - roads of truvel. And rom . too, | boat?—l. & Q. Does the Governme 1 is likely to bhe hidden in these AW is said to have heen 1) e A Wit the AR Ve At i arded corners. A romantic ad-|first practical American steambont | SEC SERCRUPETE WA L L Venturer questing fresh trails, sueh| was exhibited on the Delaware Rive A R S e Is LowellThomae ‘who, looking jup [ Inf 178725% John: Fitch and muained | o 05 SEIECenaine. Bloom pof Ne and down the earth and round about | # speed of eight milex an hour in | TOVE I8 cxpected fo itrodic 5 b it. espied the forbidding Khvber | dead water laccept dnd experiment with inver Pass and beyond it—Arghanistan, ! - tions offered 1o th crnment 1 abont which sp little is really known. | Q. What musical instruments we private citizens. This hureau woul And there's a reason for the care- | used by the Egvptians D Divate cime T Loty fully hidden character of the coun- | A. The Ezypiians attained ‘wome =ive all such inven o stablished ry r many vears Russia pressed [ SKill in music. They possessed such (O CEE CEET o CEL upon it from the north and Britlsh | instruments as the harp. the pipe. the 1he butequ would probably be o India from the south. Between sucn | Suitar. trumpet and drum. The Jasc & PRI U8 SOME €ERENE GUTALH - upper and nether millstone, existence | 1Wo Inspired the Egyptian soldier on |85 (there s a growing sentim itself for Afghanistan depended upon | the march. pendent orsanizati " rigidly sustained inhospitality R —_— When. by necessity, this was over- Q. Have all the German ships sunk Q. When was the firs ¢ come by an unwelcome intrusion, the | at Scapa Flow been ratsed>—It. K. 1, 0 L (O (0 = departure of the invaders was in- A. To date 17 destroyvers have heen B . iubly accompanied by a con-|iaised. but it is stated that within AL It w layed t. Wayr tinuous ambush that, besides deplet-| the next few months the number will | o = T wa inz their numbers, acted unfavorably | RIObably be 26 plaved by Ft. Wayne and Quincy, b npon s return visit. By such meas- vne inn W s of 1% to ures Afchanistan hax kept herselr| Q@ Ix it true that thunderstorms [NAYDC WhRIng ¥ y in zood standing as a member of | Never occur at the poles’—W. B. W ¥ g, e e o e A. The British meteorological office haa W - ) has eollected much data on thunder- 1, e o e g pino ikbinis m=. and in its recent report stat- ACK Kevs instead of w Deaa R Tt is to this rezion that the anther [ ed that thunderstorms oceur about e -v_m_wy:; T in | Km);n < home and Harry Chase, “the’ fanatic pho-[once in 10 vears at the poles. In I Vienna. has black keve where othe tographer betuke - themselves (01 Java. on the other hand. they eccyy [HNOS have white kevs e hunt out new chapters in the lonz | on an average of aysiion the|ioYs gL sharps e pdng Slory of peoples and places P year. Abont 16000000 geeny anpun- 48 N0 pedals £00d equipment of these two is the v throughou the world A s - e of Ke eves, minds fitted not onhy | Q. Who was the last of the Wes S 4 ey . 7 to profect picturesque scenes n | ern emperors . Eomorimonkinots lgus e Jits Dielt- own vivid lcolors but 1o dntar={, A & 184 of 6. Romulus Augustu= [alatement _ts and advances and en ment developed peculiar custom and | ,_1‘“\:},‘ drine .,h. a ¢ ety ol orany habit. PPhysical vi i a pant of| SVOEL ";\'",.‘”" AR el A e sorinagon ihis equipment. 100, Anala ‘con | SIS TE L L ol Tttt s Dl anis o o *l‘:;"‘"m’y""‘]*’]'\ "]”‘ :""'H"" e Mosh | economic life of England in the lat- citizeas should have the bhenent of all communicable of experiences. And! e, bare of the eighteenth cen this research and studu, and can hare :‘l:'*u”.: ;:mvvv'l‘;l-m.'u::.“.\1:.;;:;. r”r v';-" | the ‘early part of the nin if he 1 only apply forit. Our Was | essential feature. ‘Any writer who | ¥ ganaracterized by u e sl o denteance ths. mu e ah s adle: ot eréat mechiniicall nver questions to it and secure autior efectay in oy, s0d should. be | dustev sliffed from the rusal e information. Inclose ! conts ool P ik » the large cities where labor nps for return postaas Addre ! concentrated in the factories o star Information Burcau. Fre e i | population of Ensland increased 43 eric J. Haskin. dircetor, Washinatos The face of the country itself: the ! per cent at this time. In the United 1. €, appearance of the people: the cities | fetr with their 1 baziars ustoms, dustrie 1in every arrow streets and Oriental ind curious architecture; the civil and relizious; the in the social grudes; the fanatic cainst outsiders prevailing in ol these are given here in L swift-moving fill the hook with fresh in mation and with the very spirit of life that through long ages has nditselt upon the necessity for a complete self-containment. Certainly the one who wrote this book is the very who wrote “With Lawrenc You may miss Lawrence but nothing else. * ends the N Arabis himself - YOF OF THE ROCKIE Freeman. Dodd. Mead ON THE | Le R. & An expedition 1o the America. to the field of the Ips of lumbia Rockles th ice this great Canadian I provides the substance of Lewis Free. man’s’ absorbing account. Without | thinkinz we. the average, have a way contining to a single European the term “Alps.” forzetting America. too, has its Alps. or high mountains.” And right here is n what our home-zrown variety of Alps excellent opportunity 1o find out really is. Stupendous—nothing less' Lofty peaks, fields of them. mighty slaciers. numberless mountain lakes, waterfalls leaping hundreds of feet into the foaming depths below. Every. thinz on the zrand scale here. mas nificent and tremendously On the human there is climbing, mag impressive side of the venture the hardest of hard work— fording, swimming and just iplowing alonz. Two men are the | leaders—\r. Freeman and Byron Har mon, picture man. A pack train and . A A cer. -ator can think | structure. With Sunday Morning Edition, | deliver. but the operator ucture i i = bt = only in terms of exchange names and | In the proposal that is now in con- | WASHINGTON, D. G. | numbers. templation is included a rebuilding of TUTSDAY....December 23. 1925| S0 as the vear wanes. let ns give | the dome, which is an iron structure = SRR - - ___ |thought to these young women who | resting upon its own foundation inde- | BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. THEODORE W. NOYES Editor | St 2t the switchboards and help us to ; pendent of the building itself, and re | i > transact our business by takinz our ! quiring annual painting to preserve it 1t was the week hefore Christnias, | speaker: it might have heen the sta The Evening Star Newspaper Company | calls—sometimes_ having to zuess at | It s planned to reconstruct ii of mar- (#nd all through Templeton Jones® | "",,'.h elichta a0 Dampleton: JonEg Business Offic the numters, because we ure prone to | ble. There may be varying opinions | house not a created thing was stirring, | o 1€ CCUEaLE €AF 5 LSl Bamlani Aag speak indistinctly—and making ourlon this point. The dome is one of the |0l €ven the radio. (Jones is telling | "pon't Jike that.” he finally said Burosera Ol e iR nnections. They must be patisnt | most conspicuous features of the land- !”‘,‘; Siervaonshimselt nov) | shutting off the set e’ 14 et y While we are Imvatient. They must | scape. Freahs palnted anmuliv, it i | o e, T6A%n the loud spenker wa | S e polite while we are perhaps Impo- | maintained in its whiten peren Je L e miEnet s VaIv i fnex(dhy e Sinve tube Sl st Sesmimenl o o o LI R : t ple. “There was dio. Jones | wax installed 5 da 1A ers. wihin | HLe. ¥ must give the best of serv-! njally, and ic shines inspiringly by day been tulking to his wife | W we're zoing o get some- t 60 cents per month: daily o1l | ice, and they do. So they deserve # |ang night, thanks t the special illumi- days, but could not make up his | thing,” Jones said, turning the dials. “moath. Orders may Happy New Year thought from all|pation that has been devised for the ™ hd Which receiver o buy here were dhres them, shiny and e Mat 5600 Taliecron o made b | | He read so much about radio fre- | \ p o 31 thie end Of each month Who use the phone. [ hours of darkness. A musonry dome | quency sets 1 fhis. and| ghe sotm st 1 i of each month a0 i 8 88,/ N - 4 I ia Y S L, and “dyne” this and The loc station came pounding in 4 o o—s - {would weather to a darker tone that | “dvne” that. straight line condensers | ) g00d,” said Jones Rate by Mail—| i Skating. lcould not be preventediand in time |0 audio frequency amplification, | % the matter with it—sounds Marytand This present cold snap has frozen | the dome would lose its glory. | Sl LlonmeinansIerRl T CoNTEA T 4 it n Branupied hos T g Sun, = . A glory. don’ see iy hould et tovou ear that fuzzy sound?” 4, Stnday the water of the Lincoln Memorial pool | More room is needec Gapitol | Ive-tube set™ ‘Tomile L Dt YU IEiEh ! v [ 1 in the Capitol | L Pemplecon Said, “when sound only o provide an ideal skating pond for|and it would be afforded by the pro- |11 want is local reception good.” there on the ed = | Washinzton. The ice is covered with | posed chs . But it is hoped ou sec, Jones had very fixed ideas | ‘‘Fuzzy on the edzes ST @iher Stalesiand Canada: | gayarer v anges. But it is hoped that If 145 (o what he wanted, le said h “Yes. it sounds fn2zy on the edses 1 vr. £1°.00° 1 ma. &1 an | SKALEIS of all ages. enjoving ene of | this legislation is enacted it wil be | would he satisfied with 1 recep- | Listen to t g spanded his JyiogseectmeL Gsethe most exhilarct s of all sports. | stipulated that the historic chambers | Uon if he could et it of the tone. [tonal views. “It fsn't round enough. ) G Tl aes meilestls sale Wline water Iy |0t ihe elbipuliaine bwiiibaot e aiteren. |04 vl Al wolime g desired. | M |ickioeantt ound (apline 2iie aruped - it : Seine) had no 4t all for “distanee,” he |for fizures sonnds mushy <o shallow that “/ the ice breaks noth- | The Supreme Court room. once the | declared e H1e tolea Tanins In‘some BULoL town nz worse can cesult than a wetting. | Senate. and the present Statuary Hall. | 1 don’t want much, but 1 want it | stations without risk 1o life once the House of Lepresentatives. | 5000 iheyicams Iny il tighil DIt sounded It seems ruther odd that the €apital | should be forever preserved as me. | wpion. SALIDLL L g ishlersthan Gl i should have better sk acilities ; g which. at least, he was echoinz the | panied by so ul statie, crisp Tl hve etter skating facilities | morials of the early days of the repub. { overwhelming desires of the majorits |ing and snappin ) than public bathing means. Indeed. it Jic, whatever may he the external |of et buyers throughout the United | “Don't like thix set at all.” Jones { has no ol er at a e | 4 | States ¥ ended p. W try that first one Fedestrians, Obey jBos one af e ak(er 1l at the | form of that portion of the building | S14LeS this ve: | oo fentetin, WAL |present. Time was when the Tidal| which was ; : S two or three vears ago |again. 1 thought distant recey Tnstruction davs are B i s o t S0 many vears the Cap- | radio “fans” put stress on getting dis. | was all bunk pupils n now 1 Byt long ago used by skaters.|itol of the United States, ptant stations, this vear the clamor o the next day one of the three el i i » *‘v'”; on “m\n‘..n-mxm similar facilities for Sum - | bas zone up for quality reception tubers was brought out .«‘.;.Alln el destrian regulation in Wash- | mer bathing. But that time has gor > e : The vounz man was as pleasant as Sl il iy = At tme has gone London’s Ameri A few years ago he was u bold soul | The youns man was o8 pleasan meton becontes a reality. Walkers a5 and the Basin fs now useless excent 1n | g oo 1y | CAMZALON. | | o kiuod ont for auality. It was |€Ver: the stor s accommodatis well us motorists must obey traffic | the most extreme cold when the ice s '(':n -5 hecol n& Amerloanized e ”'H"’"’,’{‘ It. the average | “pp o n Sones decided the trouble was nd hoth are liahle to Police jon it forms a safe thickness o e Bk o i e nolee, Sy e Idvalwpedlier -eoine)tiried|several S jon ! i . could induce from his loud speaker : ishment for disobedience I There are probably many Washinzto. spaner ollowing & visit tofiye happiar he was Bl THE el SRR Washinston's new pedestrian rule is| nfans who recall skating on the poo! nilish metropolis. “London is| “The veal radio addict would siand "rl::»hv‘:« e e ne o180 b1 fe1 0435 018" Tuinasitouna manvisun | Herin GriinS e e |ccepting, America’s intellectual de-| haif u block from hie honse and lisien | (TR, yANe IR M B8, 100 B orters and tew opponents. ember & Tenc T - but not her initiative: she ix | With & pleased wrin to hix set roaring nf the < Ctio; B « who ve vi i - oo lazy for A, opines # 1 " he instruction squad, who have{which was drained after the Monn. | " thal™ he opines in an[pear his set for # hock felt he had the . heen tcuching walkers how to walk [ment was completed. lest the seepase |“TUCe entitled “London's Torper.” | vers lesi veceiver in the neichhar | JONes s ina quandiy. At husy dovy o erset ne < = H New Yo and >y e savs, ve o M e s v o ! ntoNnIAtevsections| e - Of 1ts ayaters BRI chaceithe irouny (- 020 actandiBacis helmye) ne At continued. “Now. if [ had an e port that the public zenerally has en- | dations of the zreat shaft. After that | (" °Mistripped England's zreatest | + like some of these chaps, who don’t deavored to co-operate. | was 1illed up and skating was u..“"'] ”: “--;nu-nm-_ and financial affairs B -_.,.\-n.“,.."l. »\';I‘;‘\ x‘ . »“- }.l'r:; h:.;‘-;‘ Q.‘,:‘.‘lffir.',”’,'h',MK] in. every S Populss Aducencepiion of fhe siew | lcer posils, (e Dls M pendsl . TS G kel | TR T R R e L W o that such folk < developed durinz the | northwest of the Monument were usea[/he “amexican Junioc partner-t This|idcn' v muke ot with: hix old one-| orobably ret enjoyment out . flod. however. which | when it was not quite safe to venture | T1¢"4" ©f the English has nothing | tube set that squealed terrilly every of ragio than others e mediate cotrection if Wash- | upon the river. Then the Tidul Basin |S°°0 10 #2¥ about art in thit country. | time he removed his hand from th g syt Ui s ing iSO Inl e ranikat o S| emr i e {He. however, concedes that the | C°Ndenser dial. but which did zive him Jones, with a sweep of hix left hand et 5 i [ ofe Lhe wetaining wall wasiy ¥ A 2 { auality reception over the headphones. “But what is & chap to do if- he hap ttamed trafic cities. This mistaken | built, furnished a skating field for the | Mericanization™ process has at] sfter much consideration he nar | pens to have # zood €ar? Now | hear idea seems to be that if the police { People. until u serious accident oceur- | '*2St Siven London some very modern | rowed his choice dow n o two well ad: | all xorts of thins T wish T didn.” #quad fs not on duty at the four cor-|red thro el ua jhotels and some good sodu fountains, | VErUised sels one of three tules. the t might be the station.” sugzes 7ot on duty at the four cor- | red throush the concentration of a S od soda fountains. |t o ive. ~We'll find a dealer|ed Mrs. Jones. "It sounded fine the ners walkers can proceed as of vore. | &reat number of skaters at one point | ® not expected that this “frank { who will let us try them out in our | other night. It is evident that many of the pe- | of entrance, and for a long time shar. | *XPOSe” of English gnation” will [ own home.” he said. “That s the only | That evening a technical friend destrians are under this impression. | ing there was prohibited, e e e e e e e e A shat they @o mot regard) the po-| Skatlng on the river has always| Cetman's eves, civilization fniother | nojea (o Be 4 mos: accommodating| Gavernment bureaiis which have to do liceman with a semaphore as the sole; been possible in the colder Winters, | CUNtries probably seems 10 have | <oul. Jones is willing t admit now. | with radio, althouzh his ywn vork is . | i auth This misunderstandins | BOUSh With consiierable risk. The |MARY Gaults. London. however, must | in the lisht of whathappened that not divectly concerned with it must be cleared up if the regulation |Current and the action of the m»!"' congratulated on its Americaniza. | DI man i '{'\’.,f‘)\l‘,““.‘v: mmordatin | The man, however, s an expert in IS to he successful | 1end to weaken the ice, and it is only i“"" prosress, especially in rezurd 10| vou nu zood 1o tell Templeton Jones| the first in Washington to build a Cross only with the siznal! That is|rarely that the river is s lthe hotels ana soda fountaine now that there ix mo such thinz as | superheterodyne. commonly known as | Miiciently | unes the rule to follow. This siznal may | {rozen to justify its use for Winter | St | Brlce i Washington e e b S he ziven by a policeman o ay be | sport & knows betier e spoke favorably of the three- he ziven by a policeman or it may be | sport. | Shops and Shoppes. | Hemming and hawing over wur- tube set. xo much so. indeed, that he iashed by the new traffic control bea-| The Memorial Basin is the most sat-| Is the word “shop” hecoming obsa | chase, Temp Jones had the three-tube | decided Jones cons. In the latter case there may |Isfactory skating place that Washing Iluo' The question is prompted by the { *€! €Nt out. A vounz e t o thi 0 . To = e whale outfit out a 0 s fri dlv store. rot be a policeman within blocks, but, | ton has ever had. It freezes readily. {aphearance of husiness sizns o P2 it gt oo i oy IO L S nevertheles: the siznal must be | the waters being perfectly still, and is | sides in which establishments for the | speaker after all.” he said oheyor auickly available after the fall of tem. j sale of food or for the improvement of | That eveninz the local station on' “Why. certainly.” said the kindl Serious accidents are bound to oc-| Derature. It is perfectly safe. and |natural lineaments, o the vemtine of | the #lr came in so well that Jones| propriet, | " 1 ng of | made no attempt to zet anvthing out Ax shadows were fallin the firsy cur unless the great mass of walkers | Will accommodate a multitude. While [a wide variety of articles, are pro-| of town. . tie © Clet Cer rip” and eiving set went ain. and the in the Di become familiar with | it was desizned as an ornamental fea- | claimed as “shoppes.” This is a return | was well pleased same type of loud speak-: nd obey zulations f ture of the Memorial approach. it is|to an anclent English spelling of the| CIf the other station comes in this| The dinner music came in swes 2 nal at an | proving to be of great service 1o the | Anglo-Suxon word which came from | Vo, he stated. “we'll zet this set.” | and clear > 53 canw e | ‘The next evening the b test came. hat's W said Jones ve the right of way, ;wv-nls in such conditions as the pres. {the old German. It was first used )nl Matte did not turn out so well “Mpite v ar”? asked Mrs. Jones neral speeding up of trafic it|ent modern times as an affectation of wn.| About 8 o'clock a rattle crept into re A fellow’s =ot to have a good ea. ves the pedestrian to keep clear < oo tiquity to attract attention, to give a | S°PUON. 1t mizht have been the trans. | to enjoy music.” placidly replied Ten 3 { Pl B : % | formers: it might have been the loud ' pleton Jones s movement is in progress. | A Gold Strike in Mexico. {3avor of quaintness to the title of the | i . ffic control is.emers-| Raports come from Mexics. Cits .4"""‘"“"‘"""' Fhe pevcholusicnl sux om its swaddling clothes. There % : 2 4 at goods bo i ) W 5 - e here | (he discovery in the state of Oaxaca |° yetaUd hbacds bousnt dn iy THE PROBLEM OF THE RAILROADS e mome veading of PADOIS| of the greatest gold vein ever found L e ieaper, OF ——— il e e o e | the World. A rush has already startea | TS than | ”";h'”"’hl' ki BY 1. C. DAVI, i slovisis ave boundibe o sirietisctisn] s belamall xillage SHVALL feast A0ic YDHES SRiENS SIE0 S DiceaaoniGererilio/iRailromdag s itis UpitadlSthics o ne strict set off which the gold was found, and it is | ¢ 3 ed for sale, oedes! geulations Pedestrluns must obedprobable ‘that mnless: word Comes LR oalli ltaell: almply o tatiop't1x od it T o e TR oee | promty tmet e o9 i of Buc "_"f’,‘"""“’{ that & slgn bearing th Il—Automobile Competition romuleted for them and for (helt | smaller value than now appears great | oo it l""”"’”'"’""' while | protection ks - “shoppes” have become so numerons | numbers of peo 0} pro- | ral | 2 il R ek L S R commonplice | In the commercial and mechanical ] certainly a sound proposition of law g G | cession in the hope of staking profit 5 i ym. in all| and app to sood business jud The co ive exerted a moral in- | 5 i LAl e L world. in the animal kinzdom. in a 1sin i 3 | able claims \ | human activities and In the competi.|Ment, that when the earnings of n Puence in Chicago by suppressing the | © . i The effort to col 1 amamn act = particular piece of road fall far short R he underworld erows| THE state of Oaxaca lies on the| el momentomeat| doni ot indiviauamiann nations therel ToE S5 E S0 OF HoRd (1L i(ar ehior vearly more solicltous as to matters | SOUtHErR shore of Mexico, being ai. NS #Kirts and quit smoking eigar- | is always going on a fierce and selfish | freiont and passenzer trame. heir 3 lci as n rectly south of the port of Vera Cruz. |11 Will. if successful, save the feel. | struzgle for existence. resulting in the | carried by other means of {ransparts of comfort whether in ar out of jail. | ;e ywn chiet port Is Salina Cruz, |IN% of any Rip Van Winkle who hap- end in the survival of the fittest. A |1, this is evidence that the road i 5 E The entire region is mountainous, the |P€NS 0 be waking trom a twent review of history shows many once| oL an essential public necessity. and Hope is sironzer among leading citi- ik = & al an hecessary devices and Unnecessarily hizh rates on other Sher: pos ; fis ysleep. As a rule others have essential and necessar ens of Lu han it would be if in. | NiEher peaks reaching an altitude of | hods long since in the scrap heap. | PATts of the system should mot be | i over 6,000 feet. There is 2 rail line|U%d to the styles and are no longer | Meth ng sin . maintained to pay the operating ex stead of cxpecting financial relief from = In the evolution of transportation. Fvisl L i € nse: f those i S i s . from the city of Oaxaca, the capital of [#2itated by them. { animals, wagons, stage coaches were | Loty of ihose e on b ot Sle Saitihey were ibdinag or h f Oax ! a {animals, wagons, sta aches receive sufficient public patronage 1o I | the state, to Vera Cruz, with connec. | e S | to some extent successively succecded | pay their way. Definite vales mysorn o ois {tions 1o Mexico City, the latter beinz | o8 congrasman TS by steamboats on canals and rivers:|ing this situation. which must ecen 1€ the mers of the Midwest have | 200Ul 200 miles distant by air line |framing his correspondence 18 10 | hoth have been largely superseded by | tually ‘:m.\: i" many plices. must he heen Iurning enouzh corn to keep | !NVUER # much greater distance [ = much personal credit as | steam railroads,.and now the siprenn formulated by the commissions and | € PERE RS A (possible for the reduction in income | acy of the steam railroad is threatened Fr them wm the drop in temperature | zall [tax. Knowing when to z ! ‘,(,m )"} ‘yl“hi'lg\- propelied by line. OPIHiERE S1925:) iy have an importint effect on the < &0ld rush to the state of Oaxaca | *™ grones Loegon board o | o e surnnibuea T = PO SR would be attended by zreat dmcum-;l""d h“"r""""l © e ioporand ;‘;: s e e The Rail d G L by SR i \e | branch of political erudition. AN ST SR ailroa Y . ping) ir ris dn(lllmwh danzer. It v\:uld |‘ | Y 1 e o than e atioag entenary. e comparable in some ways to the rush 250 e i AT any instances sub. — The Phone Girls. Va s rebcions dn | can furnish. in many instanc Girl to the Yukon, thouzh with & totally arlous ~expressions dropped by | o) (4 the personal convenience of the | Fram the Houston Chronicle A< the n 1 sht Y ISmedley Builer indicate a disposition | i b " As the ycar wanes and thoughts re- | gifferent climate. Fortune hunter i v Builer indicate a disposition | gwner, and with a ;‘iwv;':lwvl‘n)mi"fl"ll:zv When we consider what railroads | vert to matters of the past twelve|,uiq not suffer from the cold, but on ko “':?" vride to the special | R s o] Were aihuriared) vears ago an what mounihs, soon to become “just another | e contrary would be smbjected to]”T2 © P me R e en e 3 | they are now, and what a factor they dte in life.” it is well to recall those | yyica] heat, Salina Cruz lying on the |€OUNtered in Philadelphia. | "Phe growth of the automobile in-| h;“l‘ been in promoting the progress ho have heen help T e 111 4 ¢ A s g - v cA v ibed 4 ar- | of anki a i = o Nolarcheen nen ‘”l‘l There ure many | 15 meridian of longitude. It would | e TR R i i e ;::|"‘l;l:‘d§h']"] wenlng up virgin them—some well known. some|pe wild work indeed for the hardiest | SHOOTING o e | =ius (o ehue of (hefeazerimil ntimate friends, some comparative | = 2 =0 s ,§TARS‘ { trucks registered in the United States | Jions who have sought to better their : % 2 V€ | pioneers. | { aggregated 17.591,981, an increase of| congition, we canmot fail to see trot stranzers. sume even unknown. Ver-|' rhe possibility of a gold rush Inte BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. [ Some 2.500.000 machines over 1923, IGO0 WG fannop fall o see that Iv. unknown, for there are some peo- | g, ol o | and an i ase of about 5 06 over | T ' & juce Bie who ent A T i | oo Nekles evolies Gmselts of | New Year Resoluti L A ihe saturation point has not | and the train to an extent which is 10 enter into the daily life of | pe poljtical contingencies likely to | : ation, = § < estimated | absolutely incalculable oot : . y | v “The words our lexieon di vet been reached. It is estimate: A Mmest eveny person in a helpful man- | 4pige. A swarming into that region of A exicon displays | that there are some 27,000,000 families| In 1525 there were only 25 miles of ner whose names are never heard. | ;yeqi numbers of Americans intent on | "";‘"“”“' us to be grateful. |In the United States. There is an|railrouds in all the world; now there whose fuces are mever seen, whose | ave a char il mase: eutcme * truck now se for | are 700,00 = fles ! are never seen. Whuse | pnding precious metal would almost | SO Ve 4 charm that will amaze |automobile or truck now in wuse forfare 100.000. enough miles tn circle voiccs only reach the ear. These are | gurely precipitate trouble. The hope is| AN Some are rather hateful. considerahly more tha the earth at the equator nearly 30 he vounz women i hanzc the telephone ex | | that the Mexican szovernment will promptly and effectively take precau- As through the vear we trudge along We'll try. of self forgetful. commenplace has the telephone ! yiong against an indiscriminate inpour- | To choose the noble words and strong. hecome that the user of it rarelvii - of fortund hunters, heedless of | And shun the language fretful. hinks of the means whereby the voice | . oparty rights and prejudices, and | rried to the car of a distant friend | gu;. more likely to hecome embroiled Discretion. L l"w':’"jfl”‘" The re-|\jih the native population than to| “Did von send Christmas cards to ceiver ken off the hook, # voice responds. @ number is called, verified ind a buzz indicates that a bell is be. runz. Then comes the answer, or periaps there is merely a series of rhyvthmic buzzings that to the prac ticed ear means “line bus It is reully quite simple. and, when the zreat volume of telephone calls sound 1 during the day is considered, re markably efficient The vounz women who sit at the exchanze switchboards and plug in for connections and siznals. who enable ne 10 speak o prompuly to our friends nd to transact se larze a part of our husiness are hizhly o expeditiously, | strike rich claims and return weizhted { ciding with the north-and-south lines ! stherwise to conform its architectural | desizn to that all the people who voted for you?" “No." answered Senator Sorghum. “If some of those old-timers suspected me of trying to be poetical or pictorial they’'d think I was trying to be over- refined. I'd have to go home and eat with my knife in order to square my- with wealth from the Sierra Madres. ————— Skating on thin ice is a matter that cluims especial care in Washington, not only outdoors, but in the United es Capitol. S e selr.” The Capitol Extension. - A proposal originally made some Limitation. = 5 Money is a strange affair twenty years ago to extend the cen- tral wing of the Capitol to lines coin- hich naught 1s able to control. It's good for land and jewels rare, Yet . : of the House and Senate wings, and cannot buy a ton of coal. Jud Tunkins says it Santa Claus weren't a myth there might be a revived at this present session of Con- | chance now is to be of the win; trained. They make mistakes occa- | e and then to persuade him sionally. Dut so do we. Now and | Sress in the hope of securing the nec- |4, have a heart and think of the Janu- then they call the wronz number, or | essary authorization and appropria- |ary bills. set the w xchange. But so do we. | tion. Y g Perhaps some statistician of teleph The original desizn of the Capitol{ 5 Historic '_m"“' nv has fisared out how large a|hesbeen changéd several times. The| “Are Jou in favor of the old ony has figured o ow larz s g s per cent of the “calls in error” are | present dome was not a feature of it, |fashioned de'mces'-_ S ue to the uperator and how many to | and were it not for the addition of the ertalnly not,” answered Miss Cay- v.h; Galler Tt tainate b say that the | wings which house the Senate and the |enne. They were so harshly criticized callers make as many errors as do the | House of Representatives, the dome operators, perhaps more. Consider the conditions in which the telephone switchboard operators work. From the time they put on their head- <ear until they lay it off, several hours tater, they are hearing little else than numbers. Fxchange names and num- the dozen, the score, the hundred, even the thousand. exchange names and numbers! There is little ~hanee for imaginative work. little op- for amy mental activity. The hers! By rtuni by our grandmothers that 1 should be very reluctant about being associated ould be overpowering and dispropor- amne with them.” tionate. It ls, however, in the judg- ment of architects, now nearly in ex- Andithie: World Goss On: act proportion. The proposed exten- |, pappy New Year we'll acclaim sion of the central portion of the bulld- | Though problems vex severely. ing would complete the balance. {The kids are laughtng just the same In its present state the Capitol is ar- | Anq their mothers love them dearly. chitecturally an incongruity, the style of the old central portion being differ- ent from that of the wings. The pro- “Habit is so strong,” said Uncle Eben, “dat it’s hard foh a man to sa jected alteration- would unify these |anything original in a New Year reso. sectione and effect a much more har- | lution.” [ + ¢ | the families in the country. and if it sible to assemble all of the gasoline-driven vehicles and our entire population, men and women and chil- dren, by a little crov all be moved at one time. This unprecedented growth of the production of gasoline passenger and freight cars has heen made possible by the improvement in public hizhwa and it is one of the ironical features of the situation, so far as the railroads are concerned, that they have been re quired to contribute, in the way of taxes, large sums to construet and extend the national system of good roads; in other words, give material assistance to rivals who are taking away thelr business. The construction of good roads is just in its infancy. On January 1, 1925, the total mileage of public high- ways, as certified by the Agricultural Department, was 2,866.061 miles, and the United States, through the Agri- cultural Department, had approved, as the “Federal aid highway system,” 174.350 miles of road, and the Federal Government had contributed to the system an aggregate of $345.944,756. The construction of new paved or graveled roads is going on at an astonishing rate, and increased mile- age of hard roads calls for a corre- sponding increase in the use of motor vehicles. While T am not sufficiently expert to lay down definite rules by which this competition by new and modern methods must be solved by the rail- roads, it seems to me that the situa- tion should be met by encouraging long-haul tonnage. and a careful in- spection and analysis by each rail- road system, with a view of determin- | ing the extent of unproductive mile- age, where service can be reduced or the mileage abandoned. To bring about this latter result helpful and constructive assistance and co-opera- tion from State commissions and the Interstate Commerce Commission is ential. - A reduction In service or the aban- | donment of mileage always meets the opposition of those who do not own automobiles or those who desire the assurance of railroad service on rainy days or exceptional occasions. It is ling they could | | line for every 80 squ: i road. | How far would her fronticr he east times. and approximately one mile of miles of the land area of the globe. and a mile for every 2.400 members of the human race. The history of every 100 years since the dawn of time will be searched in vain for a parallel to such achieve. ment. S The increase in milage is not the only remarkable feature of railroad de- velopment. There are readers who can remem- ber when a freight car had a-capacity of only 12 tons. Today freight cars carry upward of 50 tons, and a modern freight locomotive can pull 80 of such cars. The time was \When the rails were iron, lald on small crossties. Now the rails are steel, and stone ballast sup. ports the rails. Couplings were made with link and pin, and brakes were set by hand. Now air brakes put trains under ab. solute control. If there had never been a railroad in Amer; ditions here be now? Texas in 1870 had 711 mil line of . what would con- < of rail- Suppose she had no more now. of where it is now, when she has over 16,000 miles of railroad lines? Her far-flung plains would be vet the hunting grounds of savages and the feeding grounds of buffalo. It would baffle the most vivid im- agination to picture what conditions in Texas and all the United States would be if there were no railroads. ———— Lively Times Ahead. From the Omaha World-Herald. No extra session in Texas. but the next regular session will probably be extraordinary. < e Some Solace. From the Dea Moines Tribune-News. Anyhow, we won't he bothered by bees, mosquitoes or flies for a while, |animals zuides 1 1ke up the rest of the party To study these gizantic formations and to zat picte such is the ject of the enterprise. The reader's part in it is a hizhly informing and deeply interesting travel hook, hy way of which he again comes into con ciousness of some of the natural ‘vonders that lie waiting on this con tinent for the student and the tourist. This book is as rich in picture as it is in stor Indeed. hardly will yvou come across such fine and beautiful illustrations as you will see here. The chronicle itself a plain one. It ob. would have heen a hardy person, one | who would attempt fine writing, or anvthing else but Ving to tell the plain truth about arvels met in this great Colum- bia icefield of the north. A splendid account! ok ow o MESA. CANYON AND PUERLO. Charles E. Lummis. The Century Co. Do von know that thousands upon thonsands of vears ago the southern end of California was a tropical jungle—such as parts of Asia and Africa are today? This is one of the stories that science is just now push- ing into the open for evervhody to read. And the record goes on to tell that in this American ‘ungle zreat lived—huge elephants and tigers, the bison and the camel, the siant sloth and many another crea- ture of enormous size. And gradually, so0 the tale runs, there came a great change. The jungle dried out. The lakes and rivers disappeared. Then came thirst—the cruelest enemy of man and animal and plant. And many of the creatures died of it. But, at a certain place, there was a deep pit of asphalt through which oil bubbled to the surface. There it gathered, a waterproof scum, upon which the infrequent rains fell and stood. This became a water hole, to which the thirsty packs from far and wide came down to drink. But—a step too far and the animal was caught in ‘“the strangest trap in the world.” His feet caught in the sticky mass of asphalt and oll, down and down he hegan to sink. No hope of zetting out from this “trap” no mat- ter how fiercely he thrashed about and called aloud in rage and terror. And other animals preyed upon this me. And they too, were caught and “bogged down. This pit became the burying ground of numberless trap- ped animals—great creatures utterly strange to the America that we know. And there it remained, age upon age, in slow changes up to the present time. Then sclence and fndustry be- gan to explore the asphalt pit. In- dustry gathered ofl from this center of the great California ofl output. Science found the bones of hundreds of those strange animals caught in the asphalt trap. These they have rebullt into the skeletons that, in life, sup- ported the bodies. And these recon- structed forms are the basis of the kreat story of an ageold day when America was the home of animals that have long since passed away. Just one of the stories out of this completely ing book written by a man who for 40 years has lived picture \hoxe snappy | a humble honesty | BACKGROUND OF BY PAUL V. m ot the n The common aceeptat ation in t Orient is th China is a conflic more rivals for pro i major rivalry Japan for control ove [not Siberia. Such an i camoufiaze the sity or of the diplomacy. | The true conflict lies {viet Russia and Great Britain jother characters involved Lawns in the great chess dominance. That this hased upon authority is best indic by review « the situation !wWithin the last month over the si ture of Zinoviev, the Soviet foreiz minister, written primarily for the |Red Flaz, published in Germany. and translated and published in the Livin A rving of world conclusion ted made ni In this outline. “Russia's Policy,” the minister disc rivalry and enmity betwes and Russia, and what effect the situa tion in China will have n the masses in British India. The kev to the Oriental situation. therefore, is be lieved by some of our bestinformed Government specialists in Oriental af fairs to be the Soviet intent to stir up unrest in India. with the view to mak ]lnu serious trouble for Great in, Zinoviev savs ‘The claim of the imperialists 1 Moscow fomented the China rally false. Nevertheless, there is certain logic in that opinion or the mere existence of the Soviet Union is @ constant menace to imperialism in the Orient. Even the first Russian revolution, althouzh it failed to end irism and only scotched it. had a iprofound influence in awakening the ! Far East. The leaders of Enslish im {perialism learned a good lesson from {the Chinese last May and June { “One of the immediate results was |the zranting of trivial concessions to |the bourgeois native upper class in tIndia. which was agitating for inde- pendence. But there are times when |concessions to the upper classes mere. I\ increase the demands of the masses That will surely be India’s case “China’s revolt in 1925 did not win an immediate victory. but there is jevery indication that it stirred up the country throughout its entire breadth and to its depths: that this experience {has been an education for the Chinese {masses. and that a_new spirit sure to that hear fruit in further movements of still_greater compass has taken pos. |session of the whole Orient. * * { Regarding Soviet policies. wise fools overlook the following trifles: Weste imperialists with whom it is su iwe ally ourselves look upon the ot Union as an ‘Orient’ more dangerous than China. Tt is impossible to remain nentral {in respect to a movement involving hundreds of millions of people, even if [we would. Such policy these crack-brained fellows advise would not really be neutrality, but would be jtaking sides with Western imperialism spirit and avowals running throughout Zinoviev's entire confession of “Ru sia’s Foreign Policy.” Soviet bitte ness against England is further {pressed by Zinoviev in the same ar- { ticle: get an advance of from two to three hundred million gold rubles from Com- They failed. in 1925 a liberal ‘loan’ from Comrade Harvest, on far more liberal terms. We shall therefore be able to spend about 970 hundred million rubles industrial improvements during coming fiscal year. * * * All the last wonderland of painted d in that great Southwest where the seribe the charm of this book. of it lies in the subject itself. appreciable part lies in the writer—in his intimacy with the suhject. in his loving sympathy with it, in his gift for telling the tale A zested | against the Far East. We should be merely helping those imperialists to lerush” in succession first China and then Russia. The principal hope of the awakening Orient is the Soviet | Tnion > e ‘The above quotation ix typical of the % {gone from China “Our experience with the English Conservatives during the last few months _reveals a direct attempt to break off relations with us and to pave the way for war against ns. Why | were the English Conservatives such a hurry to do this? ** * authorities made great concessions to e | | enchants one, where the canyons hold | Feng Hu Sy Part | Manchuria, The Christian gener And an | his R VENT COLLINS, ingz s \merica o come But her v manswered imperialists Vitier ener that oper hostility to Th was Western and What has e and are per- ¥ _express Ingland activity i ably sy with China? he ihere is the iy sary the Soviets 450,000, Chinese order to contest powers In Zinoviev's annu in's Forei, conver Sovietis with Al veview of he hardly re 3 Policy fers to Japan. while he concent recorded by in B W er nember of the faculiy ¢ National University at Dekir 4 says Mr. Bouchet, “Russiar Bolshevism was A 19 it is triun n China. an threatens the s b Sl taneier s T ictive the Russinn Reve tion, was ser he taught Russian the university " I} dent of the “Afl Chinu Students' Ass ciation™ sent letter to the » at. Moscow Sovie m and addressinz students as “hrothers n ter he proposed that " tween China and should_be scrapped <n tang Party, headed Ly Sun Yai ent a similar letter. Whether thes letters - were inspired by Ivanov o were of Chinese initiative n known. They were cordially receive in Moscow, whence reas response in' the forr tion well supplied with money. led by a Bolshevik named Iurin (or Yourin who came under pledze not to er gage in propazanda: but his b was discovered filled with vropaganda in the Chinese lan He was ordered ou 1 before leavi Russia would relinquish the b demnity money—which was not to be paid to the avernmer This offer hezuiled vounz and turbulent Linssian Iurin who | was the Chinese. into espousi anse. was succeeded hy comphlished little. lle, followed by Alexander viteh Joffe. an experienced who had already made i Berlin by inciting a Communi surrection. Joffe was accompanied by wodin, and. upon discoverinz th ina had fwo rival zovernments Peking and Canton—Joffe staved ir Peking, while Borodin went to Cantor and hoth worked to spread Con | munistic propaganda. Joffe was sne ceeded a year ago by Karakhan, whe continued the me policie: adding special attention to students. He even spoke in Tsin Hua College, es tablished with the American Boxer indemnity funds. where he stirred the students into wild e‘nlh\lsl.l\n\ for Communism Sixty professors and students had 0 Moscow in 1922 1o study Marx and they had returned filled with enthusiasm. Karakhan gained a stronger following than had the Chinese government itself. Com | munists in every part of China are | supporting him. Karakhan demanded the return Russia of the Russian lezation pron. erty, and, against the protest of those nations which refused to recognize the | Soviet government. he finally got the }legation. which is located within the fortified quarters of foreign legations. Pogadin in Abrame: diploma® record to dor, where all other are but ministers highest rank and representatives That gave him made him dean of on | the diplomats. Borodin has organized s companies |5t Chinese Reds to spread Communis propaganda throughout &l China Far tic nd all other West countries. | Russia has rega absolute control of the Chinese 1 Railroad. She | suppo! the “Christian general,” ang, whose army marches him in awe, where the ancient life 'to the song. “Onward. Christian Sol has left traces of a civilization new | diers,” while Japan supports the and strange to us. One cannot de- |bandit zenersl. Chanz Tso-lin, lord of Tand ussian allies talk of an allianea of Rus (which denounces hris- tianity) with Germany and China, for the wofld revelution. (Copyright, 1925, hy Paul V. Collins.a A ) { {