Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1926, Page 6

8 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Editlon. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY ......January 4. 1926 THEODORE W. NOYES. ... Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Businass O« 11th St and Pennarivan ™ York Ofes. 110 it 4 Chicagn Dfice: Towe: Ruil Burepean Office: 14 Retent St.. Fneland. An - in A ng London. vening Star. with the Sunday maen- ing Zution. s delivered by earriers with e cits at’ 60 cents per mon v o - 43 .ente per month: Sundar enly. 20 cent ner month | Ordara mac he sent By mail or telanhona Main 8000 Collectinn is made by arrier at the end of each month. The & & o Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Nalle and Sunday &0.00: 1 ma. TS50 L e IR.00: 1 Mo 80e Sundas’ only $3.00° 1 mo.. 25¢ All Other States and Canada. DPaily and Sunday..lsr.S12.00- 1 mo. 81 00 Ially only 1wr. SRO0:1mo b day only 1yr. $4.00:1mo. 35¢ Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Prass fs axclusivaly antit! !n the ‘use for repuhlication of a1l news dfs 2t-hes crmditad to it or not therwisa o 24 in thie paner and alan the local n 1ihlished Narain. ANl rizhte of publiatic t-has harein are alan fosare Bathing Pool Legislation. Two artificial bathing pools for Washineton proposed in A bill which Representative Frederick Zihl nan of Maryland. chairman of the House District committee, will intva Auce in the House. With a total cost af $345.000. Mr. Zihiman's project would provide hathing facilities for 13,000 parsons a day. One posl will he 400 feet lons and 200 feet wide and the other 260 feet long and 190 feet wide More than 2.000 bathers could be accommodated at one time in the larger one. while 1000 would be able the cool fltered water are to enjoy n the smaller Mr. Zihlman Washington sh: nther Summer ety determined that not zo through an such as last, when a of nearly 500,000 inhabitants was totally lacking hathing facilities Auring the swelterinz days and nizhts. Advancement of the bathinz pool idea followed the heels of con eressjonal action at the last session orderinz elimination of the Tidal Rasin beach With the of the Potomac found to be heavily polluted and unfit for purifica tlon. creation of pools near the centers of population evidently the the dilemma shinzton have come action closely on waters bathing without drastic is solution only practical Roth mem of W Conzress citizens of that and ers [ realize immediate essary For find this reason Mr. Zihlman should support both the House and Senate. Althouzh the price tag on the bathing project may, at first =lance, seem high. it is comparatively low when the of establishing heach the where the \ would vequire special treatment fter heing impounded Washingt must have bathing herches or This lezislative item i one of the most important that will figure on the District calendar this session. Quick action House and Senate District commit tees should he taken so that the bill ean be brouzht tip on the foor of hoth hauses at in on Potomic, er q is considered. at by the an early date —— . A Paroled Firebug. man New York He ¢ fessed to having set fire to more than forty dwelling mostly t-ne. ments hin T weelks, #leven of the blazes havinz heen start- ed on Christmas eve. Ie is held as a prromaniac me man. who js now nine yvears e Mareh, 1923, for ar: sent to the Elmira Reformatory. from which after <ixteen monthe hé was paroled. He wag thus an adult when he was first caught. Just why he was given the mparatively light punishment reformatory séntence and why he was paroled after serving a part of his 1erm has not been explained. The fact stands that here he ix again in the toils, after starting ot fires that, while they no lives destroved property worth many thou sands of dollars and hun- areds of people. Here again is a demonstration the futility of mercy confirmed crimin: the first case. n that the man was no conce A aster was arrested in incendisry v as an house wi the past three dangerous This = twenty- of was arrested in n and A asries cost imperiled in the case of & It in rly three years ago. was was clear abnormal. There cable motive for setiing the fire for which he was convicted. then, as he is now, recognized < a4 pyromaniac, one of the most dan- zerous persons to he allowed at lib- Yet for some reason a pacole vas given to him. he returned to his fire-setting, and now again he is in the toils of the law Again and again it is thus proved that paroling is a mistake in the cases of chronic offenders. Such mistakes are costly. Society paye the bill in destroved lives, stolen property hurned buildinzs. ————— He was arty Florida offers many inducements but ie unable to compete with Wash- ingten. D. C.. at present in the mai- ter of skating faciliti ————— The Business Map. Once a month Nation's Business, _the official organ of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, prints # map showing the business situation In this country. This ““graph” shows first the state of affairs during the preceding month, then the situation of a month previous, and. finally, that of a year before. It is a most in- structive guide to the business situa- tion in the United States and recently I has been most heartening in its Aemonstration. Steadily from a vear ago the map has changed in tone from zray, which means “fair” in business ‘0 mostly white, which means *good. The black spots, which represent “quiet” areas, have diminished in 2imber and size. At present the map is almost half white. and the areas ~f mood business are spreading. There i< at this time only one black spot on the map, the northeast corner of vennsylvania, where tha coal strike almost paralyzed local industry nd trade. Were it 4 met for the coal strike is nee-| of a ot | and | | i THE EVENING there would be not a single black [be expected. Possibly within the next spot on the business map of the United States at this time. If that controversy can be settled as a result of the negotiations that are about to be resumed in New York afier a hol- iday New Year recess, the industrial “graph” of the country will be for the first time in a great many months totally free from black spot r Arens of quiet. which means poor. business. Unless. of course, some untoward con dition develops meanwhile. A gratitying feature of the situation is that these maps have lately been showing A steady improvement in the agricultural regions. The spread of the white zones has occurred in the Middle West and black <pots have al- together disappeared from the )egion which depends for business activity upon the prosperity of the farmers. For many months pas: this tusiness map has shown a white southeast cor- ner. Florida has been uniformly clear for a long time und its influence a center of proxperity has spread steadily northvurd. The white area of Florida h extended throughout Georgia -and Alabama and into the greater part of South and North Car. olina. Tennessee, perhaps from some other cause, has cleared up com- pletely and there is now an unbroken white stretch from Key West to the boundary of South Dakota, this space constituting the largest area of good business in the country. ———————— Check-Off and Coal Strike. According to an article in the Amer. ican Coal Journal. published on the eve of the resumption of negotiations (o0 end the anthracite strike, the check off svstem operated in the bituminous field. though not in the anthracite. is the root of the whole trouble. Tt is alleged that last Spring the check- off. whereby dues are collscted by the operating companies from the men and turned over to the union, falled 1o vield a normal fund becavse a 2004 many of the bituminous niires were closed, owing to overproduction in that field. It was then, according to this publication. that many miners went into the non-union soft coal field. where the check-off is not in effect. | and it was recognized by the United Mine Workers' organization that something had to be done to stimu- late bituminous production and there- by increase the revenues of ihe =zanization. This. it is chiarzed. the true reason for calling the sirike in the hard fleld in September. 10 cut off the production of & tons of anthracite 2 month. in where the check.off did not In order increase bitumin duction by an equal amonpt It this the schewe, surely a bad piece of reasning it was hoped that the stril: would he of brief duration and that the drain the strike fund would be less than the inflow the opened soft coal mines. cite men have lost mor four months in wages and have hausted the strike fund production has undoubtédly been stim- ulated, perhaps permanently to some ! | ten weeks, which will cover the nor-| mal range of Winter, there will be | stretches of abnormally low temper tures to give color to the French as- tronomer’s forecast. but certalnly at present ihe outlook is better for the comfort of the people in America than for the confirmation of Abhe Gabriel's gloomy prediction. e Daniel Murray. Daniel Murray, for four assistant Hbrarian in the Libr Congzress, whose death occu week and whose funeral took place | yesterday, had spent more than half A century in the ser of that in- | stitution. Joining the force in an humble capacity, he proved his worth along special lines and was promoted 10 the post of assistant librarian forty | vears azo. In that position he dered an invaluable service, not to the Library, but to his own race by his bibliographical researches Three vears ago he was retired from active duty with the highest prafse from the Librarian ‘for his faithful and efficient service. In the meantime | Mr. Murray had become active in civic affairs and was a helpful member of various organizations working for the advancement of Washington. His knowledge of publications pertaining to the colored people of Americs was | [ unequaled. In his work at the Li brary he contributed during his many vears of duty there greatly the advancement of his race. and in his death he is mourned sincerely multitnde, with regard for color. | dee of | ed last | ven- | onty | 10 in by a Still Writing 1925 One of the most frequent resolu- tions for the New Year i« that in no | circumstances will the resolver write | the numeral of the old year after| midnight. December 31, and no reso- | lution is more regularly hroken than this. Huving written 1925 for twelve months—barring perhaps a few days at the heginning. due to a holdover hubit of “1924"—the fingers of the typist and the penmun from an irve- elstible automatic impulse write the | old date. Sometimes (He mistake is discovered at once. and sometimes it is ignored. I usuully tukes about three days 10 get the new date “set.” Inusmuch as evervbody does there 18 no real confusion due ta this slip of the pen or the tvpe. Of conrse, the writers of history might be puz- zled shou'd misdated letters up in the course of time. Perhaps, | p: indeed. some of the problems of his- | 'l torians about dates have heen due to 21 st such slips around New Year time No matter how firm the resolve to remember the dats or in- tent the person may be upon observ- ing the shift of the calendar, these | slips nccur. For hubit is stronger then rewson and mare memory. The human system is & “fearful and won- | derful thing.” and when it geis to! workinz automatically. as indeed it works in all physical and most so- cial functions, such arbitrary things| as dates are negligible and impotent. = e : turn coal in 10060 2 1 naw how was it unless very, on from ve The anthra- than ex now Bituminous {from i | | i canes and flooding rains have visited A Japanese prince 1s visiting the | | photoplay studios in Hollywood. The | experience is Interesting, though cal | culated perhaps to give him a rather | eccentric and exaggerated' impression of the Ideals of American culture. e v The quastion of woman's right to vote has long since been answered in the affirmative. The question of her | right to smoke cigareites and wear | short skirts is in the hands of the | social arbiters. | degre But there i& no likelibood that increased dues collections field have heen equal to strike doles in the the that the demands for hard coal district. Whether this charge is true or not. il accents two facts: First, that there is competition between bituminous and anthracite minins. and vet the union workers of those two fields are wnited one ni: despite the fact their interests ave diverse: sec. that the check-off svstem, where- the em accumulate tunds tor strikers, Is a false economic meth- od of maintaining the union organiza- tion. The publication of this charge in a periodical that is recognized as affiliated with. if not the organ of, the mine operators, may cause friction at the strike conferenc It may indeed | effect a break. and consequently a delay in settlement. But at any vate, it throws an interesting Mgt upon the strike situation, of value 1o the public. enabling it 1o realize how its interests are ignored in the matier of fuel production. o th: ond or tion —— Prosperity Is predicted for the vear 1926, but not with a degree of con- fidence that promises anthracite at the prices of five or ten vears ago. e by lovers With a free hand and a group of marines und his direct orders, Smed. Butler might have told a differ- ent story in Philadelphia. i o SHOOTING STARS. PHIL BY DER Thin Tee. The ice is thin S0, have a care When you begin To gambol thers. The skating seems To promise ease Like that of dreams= Which lightly pl i The <tatesmanship of Hindenburg Yet as we glide | Inspires confidence. Few men in his In merry pace position would have been able to keep Through haunts of pride the Hohenzollern family in And gilded graca, the background. Let us beware PSRN 'he Joyous din Street cars are to be banished from And have a care Rome. With the courage of a 1rue The fce is thin. dictator. Mussolini attacks, first of all. the traffic problem. . s Bad Weather in Europe. Whether Abhe Gabriel's prediction of a Winter colder than any for many decades proves true or not. Kurope is now suffering from one of the most devastating series of storms it has ever known. There is cold throughout the continent. Recently ice formed on the lagoon In Venice, and the Riviera has heen shivering. Violent hurri- JOHNSON. and many Furope has influenced the art the customs of America in ways. For instance, not many years azo an American contemplating din- ner at a restaurant did not know the meaning of the phrase ‘“cover charge " == ] w0 long Discouraged Eloquence. | “Your speeches remind me of those {of Cicero.” “Me, 100, answered Senator Sor- ghum. I seem to have just about as much influence as oid Cle would have if he were to come to life and make a talk Barred. Society’s devices, Alas. to me seem pallid. 1 do not care for ices, I can't eat chicken salad. many countries. According to a late report, 1,000 persons have perished in floods in Transylvania. In Belgium inundations have caused a damage of more than 150,000,000 francs and over 250,000 workers have been thrown out of employment and will be kept idle for some time by the damage done to factories and the flooding of mines. These are but the latest of a series of disastrous visitations that have given all Europe cause to regard the Winter of 192526 as one of the most distressing periods ever known, save, of course, the years of war. In this country there have been no untoward signs of abnormal weather. October was a disagreeable month, with much rain and a low range of. temperature for that season. Novem; ber and December, however, were de- lightful in this vegion and generally throughout the country. The coldest spell of the yeur occurred at just about the close of December, but lasted only a short time and was for- tunately not marked by snow. At this season of the year disturbances may Jud Tunkins says the farmers who burned corn in the Middle West at least had the satisfaction of knowing where their next shovelful of fuel was coming from Exhausted Genialit; “Have a merry Christmas at Crim- son Gulch “Some,” answered Cactus Joe. “And a happy New Year?" “Rather. But from all the fights that started durin’ them holidays, I'm inclined to draw the conclusion that St. Valentine's day is goin’ to he con- siderable of a failure." Another Dawes Plan. The influence of Senators today Our hearts mizht win | 1f, with refinement, they wouid Tearn to play The violin. “Don’t worry too’ much ‘bout what other people think-of you," said Urmcle HEben. “It's what you think of .yoh- ‘self @at counts:” Lot | past has treated his foreign service | helped | State that another Republican revolt. | count” of AR, WASHINGTON, D. €, MONDAY THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. The man without guile—who hus nothing up his s'eeve—no axes (o grind—zenerally iz misunderstood. That is the price he pavs for being different. i The world is afeaid of nothing <o much ax the different man—unless it the different woman. Willingly the mass of mankind ns- siumes the accepted cloak, both in physical and mental appearance, in order that it may have that com- fortahle feeling which comes with | conformity. The man who differs from the run of the mill more often than not is visited with the scorn of his fellows, or with indifierence. Tn many cases he is killed Lecanse he will not be like the rest of the pack He whose birthday we celel recently was the most illus the band of brave men wh mariyrdom i this world. an outstanding case. Most of those, however some form of ated | rious of have won His was who suffer | non-acceptance In life would be dear to the heart of the Master, for they comprise the Down- trodden | If there shall them a new ! deal in a new w s we all trust | —that fact does not mitigate against | their unhappy fate in this world | where they miss the suciety of their fellows. and the satisfactory feelin | of esteem which comes to those wh fAind themselves swimming in the popu- lar_currents of thelr time. | These thoughts avise as the result of the receipt of several letters from vouns men whao feel they are not “popular.”’ They are not uccepted so the gist of their letters runs—bhe- cause they are regarded as “ton 2o0d." and this feellnz against them comes whout, in itx turn, hecause | they do not indulge in certain forms of umusement. siuch as smoking. pluy- ing various games of chance, otc oo . What is to he done ahout it? Such is the zeneral trend of the in quiry, for they want 1o do something | about’ it Even the misanthrope is gregurious at heart. We all love to | have the approval of our fellow he- | ings. even when our s intelligence tells ux their not worth « whaop. | Mun is “made that wav.” and. until «ome revoluton ts worked in his make. | up. will continue to seek the approval | of his fellows and lament any fallure to secure it As to what s one has the choice of two o1 can either he vourself or be like somehody else The second rond i< the most trav eled. It enjovs the distinction of huv ing a trafMe problem. ax twofe lem. for not only are the there bumping into every other pei son, but each is continually bumping | into himself, | The way to travel this road I« to do what others do. Plav their games, | eéven if vou think them uninteresting: accept and loudly talk about their likes and antipathies, even if you re- | gard them ax almost invertad: go on | the general plan summed up in that 0ld maxim. “When in Rome. do as the Romans do.” Laugh heartily at the latest liquor joke, although it may be a very poor speciman of that lowest of all forms of humor, the pun Never accept an invitation to lunch from a comrade without forcing him | 10 “toss up for it." thus satisfying | the divine instinct toward the whesls of_chance. | Then get what satisfaction vou can out of the thought that these men 'WASHINGTON he done ahont it rses try to [ tind that TRACEWELL. who act this way are truer natures than vou are to yonrst X onow ¥ hey are acting frie to themselves, What if they langh at you for heinz true o yourself? Let them! #or the conclusion is unescapuble that if they can be true to themselves in doing and talking s they do, you must he none the true to yoursell in refusing 1o and talk as they do. You must talk what you think—or keep your mouth shut. "You must act as you want 1o act—or refrain from acting. But do not do not do what they d you. Bo, youns man. if you will take nd e- remember vou wrote for it there ix none of & ancient or nobler thun Be thyselt 1t antedates the words enrved over the Greek temple. “Know thysell It comprisex the whole duty of man Be yourself. in the long run vou will there is an even chance of those who now refuse vou acceptin vou. It may be a pretty le run, indeed —longer than life lastx Lut there whl be satisfaction in it in the end. and peage. You will not your own xoul to their net LA it ix not in have 1o apologize to which ix n form of apology more to be dreaded than anv formal statement orally of one’s sore row at having offended some precions wight with an guerated ego. If—the biz “If" of Kipling's poem- yvou 1 be true 1o yourself, vou will he he who is wit it znile. who has nothing np his slecve, who has no rind u Wil tind that onls will understand vou Aoes o (decidedly) with zufle, darkly. have plenty cret cards stuffed np their sleeves are well provided with axes they want vou to grind for them P Your so-called seldom tells the r Then » cernin: majorit the dis for the thin “man on the street’ 1 reason he has for such and such a course If he adve cates n certain action. a vear later he mauy 1ell vou that the reason he worked for that cause was noi the ause ftself, hut the resultant t ing of property values. He shrewd fellow He has =0 many cards up his sleeve that he ix simply tunable 1o pictire an empiy interior to any other man’s arm ering. Therefore, he rezards with intense suspicion philanthropy and other forms of unrewarded doing of good. If he happens to be in # posi tlon of authority he may attribute to emploves the tricks which he would indulge in if he were in their tions. Yon ean't fool him! No. indee As for his axes—this fellow has o grent and superfor collection of them. some old and rusty. others bright and shiny, but all of which need grinding And vou are the very feliow 1hat cun do it best in the whole wide world Sometimes the kindly man f< amused as well ax startled at the number and variety of these private axes that are thrust at him from all sides. If they could cause physical wounds he would he In dunger of bleeding worse thin stuck g “Grind my ax-or Do whai I want 1o de are a fine fellow Don't do it will visit you with my divine ure.’ Surely ¥ou are an ass nd oo and 1 displeas my voung friends. it is noth Inz hut the numbers of these bearers, these ax-toters, thut apps you snd all of us, at times. Remain true to yourself as Emer son besouzht you, and vou will have i | certain satisfaction, after all 'OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. (Congress Is about to have presented | to it in appealing form the niggardli with which Uncle m in the; ness officers, Representative Ogden L. Mills, Republican of New York, has| introduced a bill providing for a grant, of $9.000 to the widow of Edward Bell. the brilliant young American diplomat who died at his post in China in 1925.} After 16 years in the consular and diplomatic field, Bell had achieved the highest rank in the foreign service below that of minister. The Milis bill plans to give Mrs. Bell the amount of her husband’s last annual salary. ward Bell, although only 43 when his career came to an untimely end. had left his impress upon our foreign re- lations. Fe was one of Walter Hines| Page's chief adjutants in London dyr ing the World War. In 1821, as charge d'affaires at Tokio. Bell con ducted the delicate negotiations which finally led -to Japan's acceptance of the Washington armament conference. At the conference itself. he was Secre- iary Hughes' right-hand man on Far Hastern affairs, and. with John V. A. MacMurray, now minister at Peking, to bring about the Sino-Jap- anese accord over Shangtung. Mrs. Rell and her children are understood to be in circumstances that make the proposed congressional grant more than useful. * ok o X One of the things about the “farm revolt” that send Arctic shivers down G. O. P. backs is \:vu it hl'n its seat mainly in Jowa 1t was from the insurgent soil of the Hawkeve of painful memory. sprans. Dolliver of Towa it was who in 1910 blew the lid off the Payne-Aldrich tariff barrel and started something that did not come to.an end until William How- ard Taft and his party found them- seives outside the breastworks on a eold and bleak November morning in 1912. ‘The ominous business about the present “farm revolt.” with its helligerent Towa hackground. s thaf, like the Dolliver uprising. the tariff bulks heavily in the picture. A ‘noses. in both House and Senate, 1& =aid to have assured €ool- ldge leaders that tariff revision is an impossibllity at this session. But they dolefully concede that it mRy he a horse of another color in Decem- ber, 1926, after a congressional elec- e * K x % There's a new Senator on Capitol Hill from one of the Southwestern States, who, not a little to his own surprise, found himself victorious in November, 1924, in consequence of the Coolidge landslide. 1In the inter- vening 12 rgonths Senator 50 the story goes, pretty well convinced himself that Coclidge had carried the State on a landslide, instead of the other way about. At any rate, he hadn't been in town very long, last menth, before he went to the ‘White House to pay his respects. The President was glad to see him. “Come In some day soon and have lunch’ with Mrs. Coolidge and me.” the Chief Executive said. “Oh, that's all right, Mr. President. That's all rejoined the. Senator. “You uirider any social oblizations to *x o ¥ Public schools of the District of Co. lumbia are. fn a very peculiar sense, national public schools. Children from virtually every State in the Union attend them, and have done so for several generations—the offspring of Government officials and members of Congress domiciled in Washington for varying periods. So the whole coun- try ought unsolicited reached tendent reads: From time to time 1 read criti cisms of pur pullic schools, which are. no doubt. well meant. Very rarely do I see any words of praise or commendation. This letter then. is an appreciation of what 1 consider a wonderfully efficient pullic school svstem. 1 have two children attending the Force Adams School and T am amazed at the number and variety of the subjects covered. I assume that the same conditions exist in all our schools and this can only be due to ver high efficiency on .the part of teachers and their super For this very gratifying condition 1 take it that yon. sir, are re sponsible. and T most heartily congratulate yon ok % % The Fellowship Forum. organ of the Ku Kiux Kian, has ceived some _exceedingly news from Rome. It hears “rumors persist’’ that the Pope plans a visit to the United States, a triumphal tour of the entire continent. and a whirlwind campaign in aid of Al 8mith's designs on the presidency! Although Pius X1 is approaching 70, the Fellowship Forum points out: He is & man of robust health and extremely fond of outdoor life and travel. He was an ardent moun tain climber. is inured to physical hardships, and is heartily tired of the Vatican gardens, gior they are. 1f'the Roman hi and the K. of C.'s put up a of sufficient proportions. every reason to lLelieve Pope will come to Americ o ox % 2 to he interosted testimonial *hiat Dr. F. W. Baliou of the District in an recently superin schools. It Washinzton that urse’ there that the Somebody asked assistant to the President. whether it is true that Senator “Jim" Reed. the Democratie scourge from the Kaw ountry. once was a Republica “Well. if he was." said Mr. Coolidge! chief of staff. “he's fully recovered!" * o oxo* verett Sanders, James €. Davis. wha has just re tired, laurel-crowned. from the direc- tor-generalship of the United States Railroad Administration. has thrown all precedents to the winds. He's going home, to Towa. and not hangz out a law-office shingle in Washing- ton. An attorney by profession, and one of the country's foremost au- thorities in transportation law. Davis might have settled down at the Na-| tional Capital and bagged railroad corporation clients by the dozen.with a commensurately Mellonesque in- come. But, although he and Mrs. Davis are enamored of Washington life, they've decided to spend the rest of thelr days in Des Moines. where folks are folks and where the Davises have a charming. old-fashioned home. The master mind who liquidated a billion dollars’ worth of rallroad busi- ness for Uncle Sam without a nickel of litigation. says there are enough Davises in Washington anvhow. with two in the cabinet and any number of other near-Welshmen all over the place. * o ko William Allen White on an im- mortal occasion told the country what was the maiter with Kansas. He's coming to Washington on January 16 to explain what's the matter with newspapers. The occasion will be the annual meeting of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. “Bill' theme is Interrogatively entitled, “Have Editorials Lost Their In- fluence?” Willmott Harsant Lewis, distinguished Washington correspond- ent of the London Times, will discuss O1d World political journalism. (Copstizht. 1926.) . JANUA Ik as they talk, ! exclusive | Y 4, IJackson Used Cotton 1926. | In New Orleans Battle. i To the Editor of The Star The iconoclastic spirit of histori ! eriticisin - which regards nothing {too well established for its invidious | detraction has not {1ezend of the use of ture of the defensive “l\' Gen. Jackson in the lthe City of New Orleans the battle near that city 18 Mr. Vincent cotton 1 one « was ens | remar Al defense of hefore and E in Janu- jar Nolte. who was merchant in New Orleans the volunteers in that city ged In the battle, able autobiography gives {very thorough and interesting {count of the circumstances connected {with that campaign. The fighting commenced on the afternoon of De- cember 23. 1511, at Villeres plantation about twilight. The succeedinz night was very cold and fires which wer made by the Amerfean forces were extended so far that it gave the Brit Jish the Impress n that at least 15,000 American tro were encamped there, whereas there were not mor than half many. Mr. Nolte t of the conrageous and determine aspeet of Gen. Jackson under all cir cumstances, and that in selecting h line of defense he was governed 1 fthe advice of Maj. St ene. who when ien. Moreau, the victor of Hohen Linden visited New Orleans a few vears Lefore. discussed with him the lest arrangements for the defense of the city. The Macarty Canal or Chan nel was accordinzly selected the hest of defense of unpracticed [tronps. of which Jackson's troops were lurgely composed P principal defect in ion thiat the s marshy., and at the depth three feet revealed soft water, which rendered it practically impossible 10 find an earth founds tion for the platforms for the heavs nnen. Nolte at that time was the Lowner of a cargo of 245 hales of cot ton on a ship named the Pallas. then {lying in the Mississippi River short distance from the line of de. fense. This and about 60 bales more dackson seized and used as a found: tion for the cannon platforms. Among the first of these hales which reached the redoubt Ne recognized his lown property. His sense of economy was shocked the fact that thev w nsing ton. which wa worth from 11 cents pound while there plenty that mi have been obtained in the city T or 8 cents a pound. He made that objection 10 Gen. Jackson's chief taff. who replied with caustic humor. Well. Mr. Nolte, if this is vour ton, vou. at least. will not’ think any hardship to defend it Nolte also tells of the remarks i ¢ of the fire of the 1.500 e riflemen whom Jackson had in his command, who had taken their stations in the Cvpriers, which were How woods which hordered the shores |of Lake Borzne. through which they | had cut narrow openings so as to zet a hetter sight at the enemy They were so troublesome | stroving the Enzlish pickets that those pickets had to he several times replaced The results of the hattle are a mat ter of common history which it would be tiresome to relate a D 1 N as ne The this posi soft and of 1wo o mud hy hix o 10 to was cot ne He says that the only missiles that | Gen. Juckson dodged were the con zreve rockets which eame in showers from the British camp #nd which were particularly abundant on the morning of the Sth of January the benefit of predestinarians. he lates t while one of the men in hix company. who was standinz ex {actly in front of another. leanad down to light his pipe from one of the men who was sitting down. a cannon hall {went over his back and cut in half | fhe standing man in the rear rank Tobgeco usets wilk mot he ap a. loss | to pervert this Mcident into a moral in their defense After the excitement from the hat tle had subsided. Nolte made a claim to be paid for his cotton. for which he received only 6 cents a pound. and in response to his protest was told Gen. Jackson “('ome, sir. take a glass of whisky and water; vou must be damned dry afier all vour argument.” WILLIAM TINDALL. e — Annual Health Seal Sale Reported Successful.| To the Editor of The Star I am sure that you will he clad to know that the various disease-pre- ventinz and health-saving services of the Washington Tuberculosis Asso- ciation are now assured of con tinuance through another vear. 1« very largely credited to the now almost universal custom ur Christmas seals in connection with the sending of gifts and greet ings for the holiday season | We naturally attribute the success of our Christmas seal sale in no small degree to the general publicity which the press of the clty has ziven to it {and in which your newspaper has so | zenerously shared. On hehalf of the [ officers and directors of our associ | tion. T now wish to express our thanks to you for this helpful co-operation and to wish for you and members of your staff a hap and prosperous GEO. M. KOBER, Washington ~ Tuberculosis Association. o Some Night Parkers Own Their Garages esident | To the tor of The Star: In reply to an article which 1 read in vour valuable paper in rezard to the ban on all-night parking. causing many poor families to lose the family flivver. I would like to state that it does not seem to be that class that park in the streets. as in my square alone there have been home owners with garages on their | own premises who rent them out and park their own cars in the streets. As for a man being 0o poor to hire a garage for his car, T would say that in that event he would also be too two order. and it would therefore be a blessing to humanity, as it would get many wreck& now running off the streets. JOHN T. HECK. e French Walkers Organize | From the Shreveport Journal : A pedestrian’s union has been form- ed in Paris, the idea being, we pre- sume, to strike when they're struck. o A Reversal of Rule. From the Anaconda Standard. are concerned, few die but many re- sign. ——.—s Lives Somehow. From the Kalamazoo Gazette. One-sixth of the world's population lives in America, in one way or an- other. T SRR Some Stories! From the Lafayette Journal and Courier. “Smed” Butler sure has got a lot of stuff to tell to the marines! et The Sl.;;‘est Disturber. From the Bristol Herald-Couriar. Mosul reminds that the xurest way to trouble the waters these Aayvs iz to pour oil on them, then | na In his | within | For | This | own | poor to keep his car in good running | As far as French cabinet members Q. What s weight that a 3 in a foot ball game?—.J. A. The greatest lo: of know is that of Rill Edward ) pounds in A Princeton-y He was all- Americ v the plave, Toss in| rienced B. which sreatest has e we 1o e red wibhon tied slgnify? does the huttonhole Q. What throuzh WwW. K A The War Dey plain red ribhon buttonhole signifies | of the French Legion | higher grade being | rosette of red ribbon | tment savs that tied throuzh the the lowest grade of Honor. the indicated a Q. What kind of a place ix Romnes Marsh in Kent, England?—H. H . Iomney Marsh is protected by eawall of great thickness and the uardianship and drainage of 1he swamp is in the hands specii {ancient corporation. Fhe T {afford pasturage for ks sheep which form the indu try of this secti fur of level vast prineipal What 13 ) A. Pahmi fur is obtained from an {animal of the weasel family, found in {Central China. 1t has a heavy pelt Lof light vellow underfur. with top {hair of grayish brown. A white line | yung down the back from thae neck 1o {the tail It ix improperly known under the name of Chinese stone mi | ten and gray marmot kind is pahmi” How silk daes n Auea? 1 AL The Jap mately 5R.179.000 nese silk comes States Q heen are J mueh il Q pro nese crop is appre winds. The Stly to the United vieling k Antonins he How many made by Known Wi to have tradivarins o in existence M A | hrothers lan ex | «ome learth Q. How manv kinds af Christmas {holly are there?—W. W. M | A There are four kinds of {mas hollv, two of which reality a true holly Amer n holly Brow eastern and southern from Cape Cod to Texas 50 10 100 miles inand ropean holly (more slossy leafed). grown in Ore; m; decoration Th holly: this is not a trne ho forniz hollv is known Christmag herry. The leaves nearer like the mountain laurel, and the plant is grown alonz the const of California and in the foothills. Fourth Orezon holly. or Orezon zrape: the {teaf is similar ta the trie holly. hut it is not a holly. It is.the native b | berry The famans Londoa Hill. some ves tive search zennine the experts . ma traced the and at Strads over Christ not ir tive alonz the Atlantie Coast st as | in de ! Q. How lonz | iament had a cloture rule” t A Cloture did not exist in the Brit ish Parliament until 1882, debate he {ing unlimited. About 1872 Tsaac Butt leader of the Trish Home Rule pa: began the policy, but it was not until 11582 that a “cloture rule” was passed | whic v mllowed the Speaker, on request of 40 ‘members, to pronounce the de | bate closed and call for a vote. In 1902 the present rule rdapted i providing that upon the of |4 question 4 member might move that | the question be put. and if the rules the not abused by such a motion and {the rights of the minority be not in | fringed. then the question should he | put at once and decided without fur- her dehate or amendment. Q. Have Fngland, ¥ and Japan unified air services A. England and Italy have unified | air services. Japan has an alr serv ice on the order of the ['nited Stytles The army air service an arm the army; the naval aviation is iary to the navy The experimental work and manufacturing of the | French air service is unified: the navy [ has iis own =ervice, and the army has }its alr force under an air communder There & alzo an air service under the !nrmy. However. all are under the Iauthority of th rmy zeneral staff. | Q@ When wi econamics taught as o separate suhject in Ame E.J. 8 Confer has the Rritish Par w M was lican colleces? | of buying | ! 1f the public was sueprised by the news that Col. E. M. House had been the guest of President Coolidze at the White House, surprise quickly gave ay to & generally e that after all it was a most natuyal thing for the President to call in the man who for so long was Woodrow {Wilson's right hand in foreizn affairs. As the La Crosse Tribune (independ ent) explains, “Probably other American is so competent as Col House to supply the hackground of judgment and information on world affairs and the men of forelgn coun tries who are guiding the course of the “ther nmations.” The Tribune believes that “those citizens to whom a just snd clearly defined foreign policy seems one of the most important problems of this Nation will be glad that President Coolidge taken Col House into consultation. The Republican Pittsburgh Chron cle Telegraph recognizes the po: of Col. House ag an expert on fa affairs and observes: "It is not s that a man of such an open mind as that of D'resident Coolidge should oh- < opinions on foreizn 1estions that possess rect interest or our own country. * % x % The Indianapolis |also feels that {which the presidential have taken is a tribute to the open I mindedness of Calvin Coolidge. and to Ihis eagerness to be thoroughly in | formed and=well advised on a matter of so great importance. “Because .of his special role in the arafting of the covenant of the | League of Nations. under which the | World Court has been established.” {the Columbia Record (Democratic) ““Col. House is able to provide the star (independent) conferences iabuul the court. We congratulate the President on his good sense in going | beyond petty political expediency on a vital question of public welfare. also the Rock Island Argus (inde- pendent) declares “the hope of the American_public Is that President Coolidge has listened attentively to the words of wisdom that. it is h lieved, he received from Col. House. Referring to the * ‘disinterested ad- vice' so often praised by Woodrow Wilson,” the Albany Knickerbodker Press (Independent Republican) sug- gests that “it 1s Quite likely thdt the chief value of Col. House to the pres- ent administration lies in his fund of “disinterested information’ regarding the three major developments now bearing on the American. foreign pol- icy—Locarno, World Court adherence and the League of Nations disarma- ment conference. * % * ® “Manifestly the colonel. heen around a bit and way.” says the New York Evening World (Independent | Democratic). would not have “chosen this particu- lar time for a ‘personal’ visit. He was evidently summoned- for a purpose-- and this fs promisinz apolozy or explanation.”. The silenes wha knows his | President with invaluable information | has| Lof its development 1 xpressed feelinz | | pendent) the breadth of range | {the Binghamton Press | suspecting ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. A Eeonomics tanght at first in the United States, ax in BEngland. by incumbents of the chair of philosophy. but no special attention was paid 1o who lost | the study and no dffferentiation of the | subject-matier | professorship The first of which mentio was made. in the title 1 s distinetively wias that fnstituted at Columbia ol (2 New VYork. where John Me Vickar, who had previously lectured on the subject under the head of shiloaophy, wax made asor of moral philosophy and Al econ omy in 1519 the guhje in the Santh The second professorship tited States was instituted at s «. omis Cooper, professor of chemistry. had the subject of political ny added to the title of his cha A professorship of similar infiue whs that in polith nomy, hist nd_metaphysics the Wiiitarn and 327 hy Thomas 1t Dew professorehip of pol ever, did mot com | War. Harvard es alitical Johns 1§ sertio 4l e ok n lege ¢ i un after the Civi lished 2 pre economy in 1871 Hopkins in 1876, Pleave give shert sketeh ahout L. B “Customs of Mankind sistor W pirtm deaf o evie - Q fans.- A fans have an interestin frst fan was probahly <ome other natural ted by man to \1%, perhaps even ed hrow in know that in fashionahle host nd hehind din th_buge papyri nee the fan reached thre under L “Fans are invar feminir are of rare and . mounted on v painted wood Jrved ivory or gold 500 makers of fans savs that y ool the fover climate them In Ky We read that aly companiments and that they quisitely painted of carved Mf-peur! aver sticks ¢ motier There 2 Taris and Q. Where was Chief Justice Tanev buried™—F. 0. M A, Hi rave Chiet Just it the tim. rd Jce the oat when who inistered to Abraham Lincoln e President sion adr were the chamy hace cities Which first two in a Q hall meet .1 A nd firet 5 The T of 31 tc October r s A The & The fr mp am won me ms estimated me 1 1 a0 1866 i it was persons saw this ind ourside the inclise difference hetween and wW. K They toxic A o 100-inch telesce tory ?—C A 1t tends on Mars, known lar markinzs that these straizht lines ¢ resolve the markin into irregt no indication i< canals There ires sense Q. 3 ennsylvania Duteh?—A 3 A. This ectly térmed “Penn sylvania German.” The lanzuage is A lezitimate dialect of goyth Germany which. says William Beidelman. has suffered and hecon rupted Iy the introduction of words and at langu: 2 (Have we had the pleasure of serv- ing through our Washington In- formation Bureau? Can't be of 1p to you in your daily proh- Our business is to furnish wou awthoritative information. and wou to ask ws anu question onr inquiry to The Washington Star Information Rurcau 1. Haskin. dircetor. Was furn postage nou s with of Send fact wou_are Frederic inaton for » enéé Wlth Col. Housc Strikes Public as Wise Step ahout the matter in official circles also impels the Huntington Advertiser te “the colonel was not a sual but was there at the express invitation of the President and o remark that “if there is am: man in America more disposed to silence alimmng his mo ments or wha is on his mind than President Coolidge he is Col. House.” Admitting further may mean little or enpo Democrat (Democratic) n cludes that “the man who spoke for Woodrow Wilson in some of the most important negotiations of those vears of stress when he was President at least has the ear of a President who might. if he would, conform to the same high ideals and aim at the same goal which had Woodrow Wilson's passionate adherence even at the cost of his life.” S that the visit much,” the Da tisfaction that Presic has taken into his counsel who was Wilson® soundest in this field” is expressed by ison Wisconsin State Jo with the comment may go far to wipe out the ctisan division over fo which has marred nd much of our participation intercurse since the war.” “Thé real thing in the way news.” i the Rutte Daily publican) reaction to the Col. House's visit. and the viewing past history, decla “the Texas colonel was literally the whole thing in the F le office in the Woodrow Wilson foreign-war polic, that “the binet was com- pletely in the dark about it: the pleni- potentiary diplomats representing our country at Europe's courts were. in fact. not at all plenipotentiaries; Col. o was the inside. confidential spokesman for our President at Lon- don and Paris and Berlin and Vienna and Rome and all over the map.” And (Republican), an “attempt to line up Democratic support for the Warld Court,” believes it to be futile, but adds, “Still these quiet men some- times fool you. and he may have more influence than has been generally sup- posed.” M Conlidge the man adviser the M; rnal (inde- that stultified . 0 in warld aof live (Me of re- that report Post kK “A man is come to court,” is the quotation of the Louisville Courier- Journal (Democratic) from the play, “If T Were King." express its im- pression. ‘‘DispatcBes transmit the intelligence,” says the Louisville and ealls for noltn paper, “that the National Capital has been ziven an unexpected stir by the anpearance of mild-mannered and soft-spoken gentleman known ughout the world as a highly civilized person with a gift for doing things in the rizht way. The wide- spread interest awakened at Wash ington by the arrival there, as the President’s guest, of Col. House may be explained the words from the » In a very real sense, it means L o man has eome to the Natian b N