Evening Star Newspaper, January 27, 1926, Page 8

8 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDMESDAY. .January 27, 1926 THEODORE W. NOYES. . ..Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Ofe. d Pennesivania Ave. ric Giliiel 110" East $2nd. St £0_Offca Buildine European’ Office: S 11 s New Y : The Yvenin Adition. fa <"per mont Sunday only. Yhe went by mail or e Main 5000 Collection is made by ar 4t the end of each manth ble in Advance. nd Virginia. 1 e, e 00 1 mo 1yr S0 1 mo 1¥r..$3.00: 1 mo All Other States and Canada ay.1 vr.$12.00. 1 mo.. §1 i $300: 1 mo.. 1 £100: 1mos Member of the Associated Press. The Assoclated Press fa exclusively entitled o the tes for repuhlication of all news dis Dathes credited 1o it or Nt Gtherwise ored itsd in this paper and also the lo TUrban and Suburban Growth. At a neeting of the Cltizens' Asso- clation of Mount Rainier, Md., the other night a report was presented which states that a count f inhabl- tants shows o population of 3 Yederal census of 1920 gave the town 2.4 is present enumera- tion represen galn of forty-seven per cent in vears. ‘The unofficial census covered a fortnight of pairs- taki vork. This growth, upon which Mount Rainier is to be congratulated, is char- acteristic of the communities encir- cling Washington. They are all grow- ing fn population. Some of this growth comes from the District, some from farther back in Maryland and Virginia and some by naturul fnere it is probably true that the gre part of the migration is fr trict into these enfranchised ares A disposition prevails in Washing to get into a voting communit But this does not mean that Ington will be depleted in popu On the contrary, it is growing It now has a population of very nearly hialf a million, and the Federal census ' 1930 will probably yield on enu- JPration considerably beyond that] point. The District is increasing| through accessions from other parts of the count It is growing now | “on its growth'; that is, its own needs are requiring an increasingly larger number of persons. Those cmployed 1n the mercantile ces o? Lusiness are greater in number than ever before and thefr increase is at o mounting ratio. The Government forces are not increasin; are in fact at present at & standstill since the post-war reduc- tions were effected. There may be further reductions in the departmental personnel during the next four or five ) But eventually the depart- mental personnel will increase again s the Government work in Washing- ton expands. One factor of i to the oo | < 780 2 ase So t ve: se in the Capital cncy of national ations to Wblish Leadqu Already the scene of nu- mero ivities of this character the C: 1 is wnnually being chLosen by additional institutions and estab- lishments as the scene of nrganization work. While some of this new popu- wion drifts into the adjoining ites for the sake of more snace for :d in part on zecount of enfranchisement whils awuiting the bestowal of the vors upon the Dis trict, the bulk of it vem ithin the District for convenience of access. The growth of the suburban com- munities adjacent to Washington is a healthy sign and arouses no jeal ousy on the part of Washington. which is glad to see its small nefeh- Lors thrive and develop. Their major interests lie here, although they are in another jurisdiction. ‘They take in civic moveraents zffecting the Ifare of the Capital. Some of them are immedlately bordering on the Dis- Mount Rainier. for instunce, is the street.” so to speak, Park i both the District and Marylind, though main- two separate organizations. SRSV 18 orzan ters he due - ac whil ma in A practical form of cloture to which there could be no reasonable objection would be that of compelling a speaker | to cease talking when he is no longer interestir Senator Swanson might approve of equipping the League of Nations with \ts over the notice, “This way ———— The Philadelphia Centennial. lans for the sesqulcentennial of Philadelphia to commemorate the 130th anniver of the signing of the Declaration of Independence have progre to the point where an- nouncement has been made that the great falr will surely be opened next Summer and will not, as has been sug- | gested, be postponed for a year. It was thought at one time that it might be to advance the date to 1927 us was done in the case of the Columbian exposition at Chicago, com- memorative of the discovery of Amer- ica. In that case the exposition was dedicated on Columbus day, 1 the 400th annive of the landing. “Phe fair itself, however, did not open until the following spring, so that it was actually hell @ vear aftersthe | centenary It is stated in Philadelphia that the s of this sesquicentennial are tdo previous expo- re aiming to pre- necessar: a promote not striving to sitions in size, but sent a “dignified, balanced, well ar- ranged exposition, accepting for the purpose only those exhibits which rep- resent the pinnacle of achievement in every branch of human endeavor.” Particular effort, however, is being o tq secure representations by the and already appropriations have been made for six State pavilions and exhibits and others are expected. Fifty ago Philadelphia was hastening upon the first “cen- tennial exposition” and much doubt States, rs work i | | sible {tectural taste of the people and the | send no money, but let Uncle Sam il see that one of the great bridges exhibits such as had never been before assembled. It started a series of great ““fairs” in this country which have un- doubtedly had a marked influence in the development of domestic trade and industry and in the spread of Arnierican commerce. ince the centennlal of 1876 much advance has been made in the art of temporary building construction. The Chicago fair of 1883 marked a new era in this respect, and since then the use of plastic materials has developed so that rapld construction is now pos- with oppoftunity for artistic While it seems a pity that rge hulldings should be erected for exposiifon purposes, only to be torn down at the end of the show, this ap- parent waste is not a total loss. A imulus has heen given to the archi- et loss {8 relatively small. The hove | is that the sesquicentennial at Phila- delphia will be up to the mark In its artistic setting. ——————————— Guns by Parcel Post. The need of a law to prevent the promiscuous sale of deadly weapons through the malls is noted by Chlef | Postal Inspector Simmons, in a state- ment in The Star relative to observa- tions made in these columns a few Gavs ago. The practice of selling pls- tols by parcel post, “collect,” results in putting these dangerous imple- ments in the hands of the young, the criminally minded, the irresponsible, who may think that they nead them for defense. The Government is forced into the role of a partner in this pernicious traffic, by being made the collector of the price, under Its C. 0. D. system, which was devised as a means of promoting legitimate trade and facilitating the public. As Inspector Simmons points out, the danger comes not only from the arming of the potential criminal, but in putting dangerous weapons into the hands of persons who do not need them and who are likely to commit deeds of violence with them, by acel dent or by design. The ease with which these guns are obtained, at the initial cost of a two-cent stamp. makes the trafiic espectally dangerous. | Of course, the advertisements In| which these goods are proclaimed as obtainable through the post are couched in terms of “defense.” “You need a gun for your own protection,” they say in effect, if not in terms. “Get one of ours and you are safe. hand you the gun. Your name will never be known." If proper laws were enacted, both local and Federal, every person who really needs a gun could obtain one, from legitimate sources, with little difficulty, but with recorded ldentifi- cation, and without publicity. But the voung, the mentally defective, the irresponsible and the criminally mind- ed could not get these deadly weap- ons, save by stealth and with risk of prosecution. Surely it was never intended that the C. O. D. parcel post system should be used for such a purpose. The laws at present permit the practice. En- actment of a carefully framed statute forbldding the transmission of guns through the mails save with the keep- ing of officlal records which are to be at once transmitted to the police would at least stop this traffic, which is flooding the country with cheap pistols, which are dangerous to the possessor as well as to all others and which do not meet any legifimate need of defense. — et Preparing for Memorial Bridge. Another step toward building the Memorial Bridge is being taken by engineers. - The bottom of the Poto- mac is being examined to determine the slope and pressure of the mud | and other deposits which lle between the bottom and bed rock. Tt is sald that this is necessary In order that engineers may decide whether the plan proposed by the contractor for the piers shall be approved. The pressure against the piers by the mass of matter between the water and bed rock must be computed. When this is settled the bullding of the plers will be begun. ot many days will pass before all Washingtontans and Capital pilgrims of the world and one of deep senti- mental interest to Americans is bulld- ing. This examination of the Potomac bottom is different from that made several months ago. There were bor- ings along the course of the bridge to | ascertain the depth of the material be- tween the water and bed rock and to determine its character. By means of caissons this material must be taken from the river where the piers are to stand, for these supports of the bridge rest on the basle, igneous rock under- Iying the mud, sund, clay and gravel of this region. Each step in the construction of the Memorial Bridge is of interest to a large number of Washington people. The bridge has been a matter of hope, discussion and bellef for about fifty years. Numerous plans have been proposed and drawn for this bridge and there have been many sites sug- gested. Here we have the concluding work preliminary to bullding the piers. It is inspiring to think that we will soon see the great bridge rise above the river. B Back fn his inner consclousness every Senator cherishes a suspicion that some means should be found for preventing other Senators from talk- ing too much. On to the Pole Again? The snow motor is to get an Arctic trial. One does not get much under- standing of the mechanism of the snow motor from pictures’of it, but it is a cumbrous vehicle, gas driven, which its sponsors say will go through deep snow, across broken ice and through Alaska up to the shore of the arctic Sea. A dispatch to The Star says that Alaskan road -commis- sioners and dog team mushers believe that snow motors will not be able “to make the grade.” We shall see. Tt is an experiment, and progress re- quires experiments. They are calling was felt whether the great fair would Le a success. Yet it proved to be a triumph. It was a powerful patriotic the snow motors—there seem to be more than one—“the iron dogs. Their mission is to carry supplies THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1926. ready to take off with intent to fly to the North Pole when the polar day dawns. It Is a gallant undertaking, but most persons will be cautious in predicting that airplanes will circle the pole and that iron dogs will make their way from south to north across Alaska. Underwriting Crime. A new line of insurance business has been developed by the bootlegginx enterprise of Californians, uccording | to the State insurance commissioner of Oregon. He has ascertuined thut hundreds of fllicit liquor deulers are now ‘“protected” by policles; more than 1,200 men‘and 100 women ar: paying weekly premiums of from §2 to $15, and in 1925 these yremiuras amounted to $500,000, Fees charged by one company for the protection guaranteed are as follows: Accidental death while “in line of duty,” $10,000 policy, $10 a week; $5,000 pollcy, $7.50 a week; for time spent in jall, §5 a day, at $2 a week premium; for $10 a day during Jail time, $4 a week pre- mium, and for $20 a day, $5 premium | Tn short, it would seem that #t least one Insurance company on the Pacific Coast is underwriting its patrons for breaking the law. [t is a qacstion whether these policies could be sus.| tained In court. They are founded upon lawbreaking, and on the score of public policy they are of doubtful validity. The policy might Just as well be written for a burglar or any other professional criminal. Of course, an Insurance company “takes its own risks” when it writes any form of policy. It ts gambling. in effect, with the chances. Its rates ure computed carefully in accordance with the visks, The question arises whether this line of underwriting should Le permitted It fs certainly of doubtful morality and it may be of questionable legality. It is in encouragement of an lllegal traMe, guaranteeing maintenance while the insured is serving time under sentence after conviction of crime. ——r——————— I The skeptical opinfons expressed hy Luther Burbank on the fmmortality of the soul bring him into attention anew as & man of searching intelli- gence whose record as a hortlculturist will hold him in respectful fame re- gardless of his expressions on less fa- miliar subjects. —— e King Tut has made it possible to understand how little wealth may sig- nify as compared with human person- ality. As a mummy he is still su- preme, amid all his lavish mummified | assets. —————————————— Penalties of fame are peculiar. Every person threatened with capital punishment now regards himself as| entitled to the sympathetic services of Clarence Darrow. ——— Cloture will enable Senators to ap- peal to the imagination of the voter be intimations of what they might have said if they had been givem a chance. ———— st Arctic exploration is scarcely to be included in the domain of ‘“art.” Nevertheless it shows strong symp- toms of professional jealousy. vt — Account has not been taken of what Bill Mitchell may have to say after he has done several years of silent think- ing. Propagandists have succeeded in elevating salesmanship almost to the status of statesmanship. —_— e SHOOTING STARS. BY PRILANDER JOHNSON. Wise Bird. Be « wise bird, oh, friend! Accept the gifts that circumstances send— Unless you are an eagle. born to rise Into unmeasured distance through the ! skies— Unless you are a vulture who can feed | On anything, with dull and tasteless greed— Be a wise bird: nor beat your wings in rage Against the barriers of a social cage. Accept the dole which through the bars is passed And sing as best you can, while lite may last. Unless you're brave where storm or stress extend— Be & wise bird, oh, friend! “What are you going to say next?" announced Senator Sor- “Do you mean to admit that you would remain silent in a national crists? “Not exactly silent. T might confide my views confidentially to a colleague. Votes are sometimes changed more easily by a whisper than by a decla- mation.” Egoisiic Critique. Bill Shakespeare was a poet fine And I regret Intensely . Blll cannot hear this praise of mine— "Twould cheer him up immensely! Observation of & Gentle Reader. “Why are you so much inclined to think there will be a next war?" “People refuse to learn by experi- ence,” answered Miss Cayenne. “In spite qf all the divorce decrees, the marriage licenses are more numerous than ever.” Faithful Admirer. “Wasn't that story you told rather riskay?"” asked the husband. “Not at all,” answered the wife. “You told it to me yourself. I was merely trying it out in a crowd In hope of seelng what was funny about it.”" Immunity. Wish I were a Congressman, A-thinkin' thoughts so great That any one who spoils my plan er, :!na\l Leen cut off in fts prime, or in its misery Upsets affairs of state! While to humanity I'd give Ideas so sublime No copper could arrest my fiiv For parkin’ overtime! “De man dat talks de loudest,” said <timulus and it was marked by the |from the Pacific Ocean north to the |Uncle Eben, “is mighty apt to turn display of national and international l Arctic Sea, where airmen are making lout to be de one dat thinks de softest.” t THIS AN D THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Templeton Jones shuddered. “You will now hear a duet,” came from the loud speaker. “Mr. Um- blah, tenor, and Mr. Um-tah, baritone, will sing ‘Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming.’ “This beautiful number will be fur- nished you, ladies and gentlemen,” continued the announcer, ‘“through the courtesy of the Ant Exterminator Company, which has engaged the fa- cllities of this station.” “Let's turn it off,” shuddered Jones, as he sat in his cozy living room listen: ing to the concert. “Let's tune in_some other station,” suggested Mrs. Jones. The pluno at the broadcasting studio truck up the melody which Stephen Foster wrote so long ago. “Now, Mr. Umbluh and Mr. Um- tah will have to spoil it all,” groaned Temp. Jones, writhing in his cozy comfort chair. The chair was a Christmas gift, Jones had said, to the house, but it was noticed that he got more use out of it than the house. When Mr. and Mrs. Jones hud se- lected the chair, they had quite u time deciding on the exact model to buy. The fine large “ad” In the paper had shown a variety of chairs, deseribed as “luxurious comfort” for $88 and rtistic comfort” at $76 and “solid | comfort” at $85, ete., ete. “Now, let me see,” Jones had mused at the time. “Here we can get luxuri ous comfort for $98 and artistic com- fort at $75 and solid comfort at $85." “Look at this little one down here, d Mrs. Jones, excitedly. It zy-comfort,” ut $60. That is | . had chortled her husband, T | guess cozy-comfort Is about our style L So Templeton Jones sat in his cozy ittle chair ax tenor and baritone started out on “Come Where My Loves Lies Dreaming. It is u Leautiful thing, one of the real art songs written by Foster, once us popular as “Sw River” or “The | Old Folks at Home.” In recent years it has lost some of its old popularity, but it iy undergoing a revival now. “And gently sleeps the hours uway " shrieked the tenor. “And sleeps the | gentle hours awuy!" roared the bari Ji es made a motion toward the set. | No." commanded his wife. “Let it on—just to see how poor it can " resigned Jones 100 near the microphone, or some thing. 1 don’t care how good a set you have. or how fine u loud speaker, it would sound terrible.” sme things don't sound very goc over radio.” commented Mrs. Indeed. there wus a weaith « ing In her remarks for studio ugers and program fixers. the talk during the past ye “tone” the emphass still iy p distance reception. Every morning your average radio “fan” arrives at the office with tules of the distant stations he receive Never once does some come n Wwith the announcement. “Last night I got WRC (or WUAP) absolutely per- fectly:™ “ “Got them Jones % switch, % % “Push Jones. There was a soft plop in the speak- and the music died. The duo the Mary,” said whichever to regard it. “Some bright boy a_sort of radio per pleton Jones, with a wonderful thing : one cared a smile. it would be, for | drums | not geem 1o be twould instance, if every bum tanor could be made to sound like Caruso at his best!" “That would be an invention for you, all right,” agreed Mrs. Jones, with her customary enthusiasm. Mary Jones was always enthusiaste. “The perfecter, now, would make everything sound perfect,” con- tinued Templeton, warming to his idea. “It wouldn't make any differ- ence, then, whether Mr. Um-blah, the tenor, and his friend, Um-tai, bari- tone, could sing or not. “They would just stana them in tront of the microphon= and start the generator, and say, ‘Now hoys, your best,’ and then. without letting them know, turn on the perfecter. “When ola Um bluh siarted the lit- tle perfecter would tuke all the blah right out of his voice. His squeak on the hizh note wonld be smcothed into a pure, sweet ‘one that woyld win the eternal gratitude of every hard-working loud-speaker in the United States and foreign countries. “Then every ham violinist would be made to sound like Fritz Kreisler in disguise. Every cowlike con- tralto would blossom into a !{omer, a Braslau or a Schumann-Heink. “Every soprano would ®ng sweet- Iy, a veritable Gorl. Harsh tcnes would be ironed out, and the inis- erable vibrato, a common fault, made to sound as the fall of the water broo No more would our ears harassed with the iusic of son perfectly good band comins over al and brass. The lttle per fecter would do for the rudio browd casting station what the hurdw ing gentlemen who conduct the to do for be ) do them- ves, he perfecter, which would have 2 brain of its own, would realize that In radio the best transmission and the best reception are secured from a small group, not a large one “Of course, broadeasting stations could secure much the same result, with band, If they would allow 47 of the players to home, and just k for the of the other o Certainly well as the trios. nothing comes over so Give me piano, cello and violin trio. for real enjoy. ment, every time. The studlo mana- zers know this, of course, but some- how they forget it when the big bands show up. Our little radio perfecter, how- r, would do the trick for them It would have to be in the nature of some sort of resistance device, that smething like a grid ss of nofse “With t noise taken cout ) erformer, whether singer or talker d every organization. whether band jazz orchestra, would hroadeast one and musical ability, not rasp or sour, off-key notes en the gentleman who gargles when he talks would sound lke De. mosthene There uld be no ocea sion any more for letters such as the one printed recently, ‘Don't them ladies sing any 1, It must hurt r something ew day would Think thing positively perfect Templeton Jones was radiant. as he locked into the future perfect state of things. “1 am afraid perfect, Jones. Too perfect?” Jones asked “What would you have about then, Templeton?™ leak. the e dawn in radio it—every- it would h wouldn't 12 a t00 Mrs. “Whyo to kick WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. 1 America emerges from the late | unpleasantness on Capitol Hill a mem- ber of the World Court, it will not be | because the best debaters in the Senate favored the proposition. The orator- fcal big guns were all in opposition. Borah, Johnson, Reed (of Missour!)| and Moses are four horsemen not | easily matched on either side of the | chamber when they are harnessed to- | gether in attack. Robinson (of Ar- kansas) and Walsh come nearest to | being their equals in forensic skiil As & presenter of a sheerly legal as. pect of an fesue Senator \Walsh prob- ably is without a peer in Congress. “Joe" Robinson, the Democratic lead- er, is a speaker of the old-time school, prodigal of gesture and lusty of lung. But no one advocating the World | Court ever scaled the helghts of elo- | quence, force and invective that the | irreconctlable quartet ascended. Al | of which may prove that when a ma- jority of the United States Senate has made up its mind on a given sub- Ject, spellbinding s of small avail. * % % President Coolidge has definitely adopted the policy of attending to his executive knitting while Congress is in session. He has told organizations all over the country that as long as House and Senate are transacting business at the legislative end of Penn- sylvania avenue he considers it his duty to be at the White House and not” gallivanting up and down the Republic making speeches. Mr. Cool- idge loses no occaslon, when making known his stay-at-home program, to indicate that it isn't because he wants to bestride the congressional scene that he dislikes leaving Washington in midsession. Indeed, the President at such times as the World Court snarl in the Senate is ostentatiously on the sidelines as a mere observer. But he is not a disinterested observer, and that's why he believes his place is at the Capital from now until further notice, instead of at the ban- quet table hither and von. * ok k% Floyd Gibbons, who is probably America’s most experienced war corre- spondent of the era, i3 a visitor to ‘Washington, in which fair city he first | saw the light of day some 39 years ago. After having reported our earll- est brush with Mexico in 1914, Gib- bons campaigned with Villa in the Mexican revolution. Then he accom- panied Gen. Pershing on the American punitive expedition into that country. Almost everything that could happen 10 a newspaper man In the World War befell Gibbons. He was a passenger on the steamship Laconla, which was torpedoed and sunk 200 miles off the Irish coast in February, 1917. Rescued after a night in a small boat, he cabled a 4,000-word account of the disaster, in which Americans lost lives. Later a correspondent with the United States; Army, Gibbons was wounded at Cha- teau-Thierry, losing one eve. He is now editor of the European edition of the Chicago Tribune and director of that paper’s foreign service. One day this week Gibbons lectured before the offl- cers of the intelligence section of the general staff on military conditions in Europe. ® k% % Some near-sighted Westerners were being conducted through the Senate wing of the Capitol. “Bless my soul,” exclaimed a dear old lady who evi- dently was from California, “if there isn’t a bust of Hiram Johnson!" What she saw was the bust of the late James S. Sherman, who was Vice Ptesident of the United States In the Taft ad- ministration. Sherman’s bespectacled countenance was usually so wreathed in smiles that he became known as “Sunny Jim.” But no one has ever thought of depicting the morose Hi- ram in anything but the guise of in- vincible solemnity. Sir John Foster Fraser, the British journalist who once looked down upon the Senate from the press gallery, described Jol as “u disgruntied Buddha." e ¢ Washington. said, is about to be l-eq\vjfiul»hed @ new daily newspaper of | distinctive character. It will not con.|into the Le taln ordinary news, either local, na- | Dot dismay at all tional or international, but c ine ir- self to reports of governmental activi tes. Plans are understood 1o reached the point where publication is Imminent. Although concentrating upon the doings of Uncle Sam. the new paper is to be strictly non-official, non-political and privately owned and edited. It will seek its clientele throughout the o ther than in lhf:_nis(rit-( of What the White Ho . Congress and the de- partments do from day to day--<o the story goes—is o be reported in news. per style rather than in the garb of unimpy med official language. Verbatim ounts of so-called de- bates in House and Senate—inciuding even what Mr. Blease of South Caro- lina s—are 1o be published. Once upon a time Willlam Jennings Bryan advocated some such project, but his proposal called for an out-and-out Gov- ernment newspaper. which the enter- prise herein mentioned is not 1o be, * % % There seems (o be nothing in the theory that the personnel of the pres- ent administration gives Massachu- setts all the national advertis it wants. Mr. Coolidge's home comtion- wealth ¢ way of passing a bl lature providing for an expenditure of $250.000 dur next three years to spread !roadeast the possibllities of the Bay business and residence, especially as a Summer resort. Massachusetts is patterning after the example of Maine. Gov. Brewster announces that Maine's advertising expenditure of §$50,000 has brought in at least $1.000,000 of new capital that might not have been otherwise attracted. RN e The Woman's National Democratic Club in Washington occupies an old- time stone-front house on Connecticut avenue, with a number t me of the daughters of hap» who frequent it think is of good omen. ‘The number is 820. On the outside of the huilding let with the boldly display- ed upon it, and some of the more ¢p- timistic Democratic sisters say that it stands for “Twenty eight,” the vear of destiny for their party! iMrs.Vood- row Wilson is honorary president of the club. In anticlpation of a whirl- wind campaign two years hence the club s buslly affiliating itself with the organized activities of Democratic women throughout the country. x ok ok Anybody who looks like Theodore Roosgevelt looked when he orsanized the Rough Riders In 1898 can get a good job in the movies. One «f the great producing companies is prepar- ing to screen the life of the colonel and bulld the story largely around the cavalry regiment he took to Cuba. Herman Hagedorn. director of the Zwosevelt Memorlal Association, has left for the Southwest in search of material for the Roosevelt filin, in- cluding some plainsman who resem- bles Teddy closely enough to be cast for the title role. (Copyright. 1926.) Strictly Cash. From the Worcester Evening Gazette. About the only thing you can't buy on the installment plan nowadays is character. Passing the Buck. From the Atlantic City Daily Pre It is so much easier to dictate let- ters. You can use fine, big words you haven't the least idea how to spell. A have | ! 1 | ®fates out of the court. Politics at Large By G. Gould Lincoln If the World Court has not figured largely in American politics hitherto, it promises to do so from now, if some of the opponents of the ad- herence of the United States to the court are correct in thelr surmises. They are contemplating a campalgn to got the United States out of the court, even before this country actu- ally has gotten into it. ~Whether they will be able to get the country interested in the court as a political issue remains to be seen. Senator Hiram Johnson of California tried it out in 1923 and-1924, when he sought to win the Republican nomi- nation for President largely on the issue of keeping this country out of the court. Apparently the issue did not make much appeal to the Ameri- can people. He obtained only a handful of delegates to the conven- tion and finally withdrew from the contest. Calvin Coolidge, on the other hand, recommended the favorable consid- eration of the Senate for the pro- posal that the United States adhere to the court, with reservations. He was nominated and elected by a tre- mendous majority. It is perfectly true that the Democratic candidate for the nomination, John W. Davis, was equally committed to‘the entry of the United States intq the World Court. The late Senator+La Follette 15 the only one of the three prin- cipal contestants for the Presidency who was opposed tu America's entry into the court. * k¥ As a matter of fact, however, the court issue did not figure largely in the last campalgn. It was rarely if ever mentioned in the campuign speeches of the candidates or of their supporters, although the Republican national platform pledged the adher- ence of this country to the court, with the llarding-Hughes-Coolidge reservations. Senator Borah of Idaho, Senator Johnson of Illinofs and other Sen- ators who have bitterly opposed the court ure credited now with the in- tent of making it a real issue in the campaign for the election of one. third of the Senate membership and of the House next Fall. But whether they will be able to do so rematns to be seen. In the first place, the Unit ed States will shortly become a mem- ber of the court, unless a miracle appens to prevent it. The vote opting the resolution of ratification is about to be tuken In the Senate. There plenty of assurunces that the other nations members of the court will agree to the entry of the United States on the terms latd down in that resolution. The issue, there. fore, must be made to get the United Unless the court should perform in some atro- clous way within the next few months, it will be rather difficult to st the people excited about with- ing from it immediately. Mil- lions of people, particularly those who louk with faver on the interna- tional court, will be anxious to give it ance, to see if it cannot prove an aid to international peace. Furthermore, if the court is made an issue in the campalgn, it will make strunge political bedfellows. Senator Boruh and Senator Johnson, for example, will be expected to carry on with the Senators from Indiana and Senator Means of Colorado. Practicaily the only large organ! tion which has declired its opposition o the court is the Ku Klux Klan. The Hibern also has pronounced against the court. It will be an un- usual spectacle if the Klan and the Trish-Americans are found in line. ¥ & ox o= The opponents of the court, of course, have a far brouder fssue in mind than merely of getting the United States out of the World Court afier it has gotten in. They see in the entry this country into the court—the league court they call ft— an entering wedge which will taks us hnson | more and more into the affairs of Furope, an abandonment of the tra- ditional polic this country with regard to foreign entanglements. They see it also as a_ step toward entry cue of Nations. ny of the Demo- crats—in fact, a very large proportion of them. * P Possibly the attempt to make a com- paign issue of the World Court will helpful to the Democrats, epiitting is does | This does |, Cited to Abraham Lincoln through-| ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. How Plaisance at J. W, K. A. The Midway Plaisance w: a strip of land 600 feet wide and seven- eighths of a mile long, between Fifty- ninth and Sixtieth streets, containing 80 acres and connecting Jackson and Washington Parks. In this section of the exposition site were located all the amusements and other attractions of the fair outside the main exhibi- tion bulldings. large was the Midway the Chicago Falr?’— Q. Are fabrics of one colorgmore likely to fade than those of other col- ors?—F. B, A. It is a common fallacy green, lavender or some other ¢ less fast than blue or pink. Fastness depends on the chemlical composition of the dye used, not on the color. Dye- stulls are grouped into various classes according to thelr composition, and the dyes in some classes are more fast than those in others. A dye that is one of the poorest of its class may have been used on one of the fabrics, while the other may have been dyed with one of the best. Green, lavender or any one color is just as fast as an- other if similar dyes are used. Q. Could a bird fly Everest?—A. M. M. A. The Biological Survey rays that geese have been seen migrating over the Himalaya range at an altitude es. timated at 35,000 feet Q. In what part of the United States does it rain the most?—I1. L. R. ‘A. The records of the Weather Bu- reau show that the lirgest average annual amount of precipitation & United States proper is received points near the Pacific Coast in Wi ington und Oregon. The Weather F reau station at Glenora, Oreg., shos an average annual fall of inches for 25 years. Larger rainfall are recefved at many polnts outside o: the United States. A pumber of Weather Bureau stations in the Ha-| watlan Islands have an average of | over 300 inches a year. The one re- ceiving the largest fall, Mount Waia- leale, with a record of sever shows an annual average of 476 inches over Mount Q. and board W. K. A. The Forest Service there are approximately ucres of forest in Mexico an b ui0 additional acres of scrubby wood land, not commercial timber. A ve; rough estimate of board feet in Mexicc has been made at 275,000.000,000, Q. How much has the length of hu man life been increased since 15007— TSR A In 1800 the average length of life was 33 s, in 1855 it was 40 yea and fn 1920 it was 3§ years of the large insurance comp. port that within the last 50 span of human life has been leng ened 10 vears. The great d the death rate is due primari] better preservation and care of infant but the actual longevity of man been advanced. According to Mr. o the virility of man has aiso been ended over a longer period Please give the timber ac: measure in Mexi | Q. Why was the eagle changed on American money >—A. T A. The fathers of the Republic de- cided upon an eagle as an emblem, 0 them was the sea or bald eagle, | feathered only to the knees, and a “'pi- ratical parasite of the ospre The golden eagle, to which a change has been made on the coins of the country, | porated it and unfortunately the species known ! and Lincoln Memorial; also at London and Edinburgh. Q. Can nuts be called fruits’—C. T. A. In botany the fruit of a flowering plant is the matured seed vessel, and its contents together with such acees- sory parts become finally incor- porated with them. Thus in a botar cal sense not only apples, grap: but all berrles, nuts, grains, pumpkins, cucumbers, etc., are fruite. Popular usage has becomé much rar rower. The grains have been drop ped, and the tendency i to drop nuts alsg, %0 that a frult is now generals understood to be the fleshy, product of some plant which ripe is edible without cooking a ted to use dessert. and Q. Where was the podrome built, and how it?—G. B, A. The ret modern Lip lurge was irst indoor circus of modern times was built at F s in 1843. It was built entirely of wood, the arenau was 108 meters long and 104 wide, and it had a seating capacity of 15,000 per This was destroved by fire i 1870. Q. What ie¢ the national forest per cent fund’—1. H A. The act of August 10, 1912, gave 10 per cent of the national forest re. cefpts to the Forest Service for the construetion of roads and trails withi the forests. T amounted to $497. 181.57 for the fiscal year 1925. To the present time the 10 per cent fund ha amounted to $5,085.3 Q. Did survive R, H. W there are ucted dur 2 » remains o organs cons! g the me dieval period to the gener he tij ceptio organs durin 4 per cent, and if n in a di itor L pus 1 of g ? to hetween grade to 4 p Jlded into bl a pressure « per which is = pacted t o ton srted 0 or 15 Q. When the World be held azu A. The Third Conzre: of the World will meet next Septem ber in Ge The firs meeting was held in San Franciseo i 1915 and the second in Honolu ongress of R, f the Press . What pas ana is white?- ALt is feathered to the toes. Q. How should ocil be applied to a| base ball bat?>—H. N. A. A small amount of natural oil should be applied to a bLase ball bat| and rubbed in with a bone. After it| the bat| is thoroughly rubbed in, {should be put away in a cool, dry place. If it is boned once a weel from now until Spring, the be in u good condition should | there memorials ham Lincoln?—J. A. W. A. There are innumerable merr out the United States and also in other parts of the world. The most note- worthy include those at Brooklyn, Cin- cinpati; Tllinois Universitr, Lincoln Hall: Springfield, [l Muskegon Mich.: Newark, J.. and Washing ton, D: C statues at the National certain extent the Kepublicans, while the Democrats are content to support the court. Out in Illinois, where Senator Me- Kinley is running for renomination and re-clection, will come the first test. His opponent, Frank Smith, for vears chairman of the State central Repub lican committee, is on the anti-court side of this issue, while Senator Mc- Kinley has voted for the adoption of the cloture rule on the World Court debate and will vote for the final adoption of the resolution of rat- ification. It may be that the present action of the Senate disposing finally of the World Court issuc so far as getting us into the court is con will have the effect of removins the court as a real issue in Illinois that is just what the ourt Sen ators do not want to have happen. It will not be strange if Senators opposing the court should turn up in Illinois in the next fe weeks to make speeches for Mr. Smith nd against Senator McKinley. The primary election comes early in April. If McKinley wins it wiil put a con- siderable damper on the hopes of the court opponents, and if he loses it may throw a scare into soma of the senatorial court supporters. It would seem, in spite of the court issue, that McKinley had a good chance to v:in. He is popular in the State and has campaigned it thoroughly since last March. * % ok ¥ ‘The favorable action of the Senate on the World Court, forecast by the big vote in the Senate applving the cloture rule, is another feather in the cap of President Coolidge. very largely belongs the success. It he had not advocated the ratification of the World Court protocol, beyond a doubt it would not have been rati- fied. It has been a byword on Cap- itol Hill that few of the Republican Senators were actively in favor of doing anything about the court. In fact, many of them would have been content to have allowed the court matter to sleep indefinitely. This is not true, of course, of Senator Len- root of Wisconsin, who has had charge of the court in the Senate de- bate, nor of Senator Willis of Ohio and several others. But the President put his shoulder to the wheel and has brought into line enough Republicans, jolned with the Democrats, to put it across. The President has almost pro- verblally the lucky touch. Whatever happens to individual Senators as & result of the action on the court, the favorable action of the Senate on the court probably will redound to his credit and strengthen his leadership. * ok ok X The distance from the White House to the Capitol and from the Capitol to the White House entered the dis- cussion of the World Court in the Senate last week. Senator Reed of Missouri, criticizing the President for not sending some of the documents relating to the World Court to the Senate, said: “The White House is about 1 mile from here, and with reasonable ex- pedition a man can travel from that immediate vicinity to the Senate in less than 15 minutes, as the Vice President well knows.” There was a laugh at the expense of the Vice President, whose desperate rush to the Capitol from the Willard Hotel last year, when he was too late for I the vote on the nomination of Charles To him | ! Capitol, the City Hall, Lincoln Park | practic \quiry by per to! The total population of Havan b The ohiect of The Evening Star 1 formation Burcaw is 1o tell you, 1t out charge, whatever yow may twant to know. The bureau endearors 1 answer questions in such a way th the information is of the gre 1t repiies to 3 omal letter, treati signatures as confidential. You ed to consider the possibilities retation to your o nal, household or bu ur fricnds who hare | called on tive bureau for scrrvice a lits vatue. They are its best ac | tisers, Send in your question and ! close 2 cents in stamps to co return postage. Address The I Star Information Bureau, Frederis | Haspin. director. Washington, D. €. o el 7 Public Lauds Gu | plendid Gift to Aviation | 1] Daniel Guggenheim's outright gift of two and a half million doliars for the development of aviation encour- ages the press, to hope that at last a | way will be found to put America | ahead in the science of air navization. As the Providence Journal exvres: it. *‘there is a business briskness” in announcement of Mr. Gug- program that foreshadows ng that aviation is gaining new friends who are willing to aid by substantial gifts, the Boston Traveler notes that *“the same benefactor had already donated $300,000 to New York University, for the founding of a de- partment of aviation in that institu- tion,” and comments on the new fund as follows: "His latest gift seems to be without strings—a fund to be ad- ministered by trustees wherever and however it may aid civillan or com- mercial flying. Mr. Guggenheim's gift is both generously and wisely given. America has touched only the fringes of what aviation may accomplish, once let its initial difficulties be overcome. its values demonstrated.” The Watertown Daily Times thinks one of the important points is the fact that “it is not an endowment, it is an outright gift, the principal to be expended over a period of ten years, this being sufficient time in the do- nor's estimation to cover ““the period of necessary study and experimenta- tion.” Continuing, this journal says, “Aviation needed an outright gift of this kind. It has reached a stage where large sums are required to car- ry_the work on.” Love of country as weil as interest in the development of aviation are seen by the Asheville Times in the generous act of the ‘“‘foster parent of aviation,” who, as the Times explains, wishes “‘to see America in the lead at the time of the expiration of the ten- year period he allots for the execution of his ideas.” Other countries have forged ahead of America through the fact that in many of them government subsidies have aided the progress of commercial aviation. Commenting on this fact, the Danville Bee remarks: “‘Because of our unwillingness to subsidize aerial transportation lines other than by paying them for carrying malls, com- mercial aviation has made far greater B. Warren to be Attorney General, was recalled. A moment later Senator Heflin of Alabama_sald: “The Senator from Missourl said that the Vice President knew how long it would take to come from the White House to the Senate. I want to ask him how long it would take to go from the Vice President’s chair to the White House.” To which the- everready Senator from Missouri replied: “That depends entirely upon an act of God and the fortunes of politics.” 25 S goenheim =t progre: genheim aims at e clal aviation on a He hopes to assist in plac | foundation | out Government itself by its own merits, The Union is th ie venture enheim will be and that “it will its fol that Y Mr. Gu, from politic ‘fundament 3 concern."” ims to be expe will, in this way, the comment contir lues’ “not always be subject vicissitudes of discussion on the floor of Congress ¢ the anxious pruni of appropriation mmittees.” * * As outlined by the A Teaco Journal, the purposes of the gift are as follows: “To promote aeronaytic education in both institutions of lear ing and among the general public; assist in the extension of fundamentul aeronautical scien o assist in the development of commercial airer and aireraft equipment: to further the application of aireraft in busine {industry and other cconomic and s | cial activities of the Nation But is to be und ). the Beacon Jou nal goes on to say, that “the donor | of the gift does not want these effor fin behalf of aviation te {any of the Gevernment's fact, as the Rochester points out, military requirements aireraft differ consid from r quirements for comm use “the Army and Navy Departme: have even been criticized for expe ing money upon experimental wor instead of building larger fleets.” Even the generous Guggenheim has given not far to finance anything so costly experiments in aviation, and the doubtless is no belief in his mind tI it will," observes the Forf Wavne Journal-Gazette. “It is, however, the beginning of something important. Perhaps other wealthy men will :ct likewise to the same end with this most generous example to illustrate :t once a need and a method.” The e troft News also estimates the new fund as “generous but insufficient.” stating that it is “a fraction of the sum that Europe will spend for sin lar purposes within the next decade. and the Detroit paper joins with those™ who hope for further gifts to tkia science by “other rich men.” “The general publi travel in the air as a gamble w Iife,” observes the Decatur Revicy setting over against this opinion the fact that “it is a tribute to the flvers that go on day and night over moun- tain and plain that the deaths in this service (air mail) have been only two or three in the last two vear: The Newark Evening News, speaking ou this phase of the problem, fomdludes that “the education of Leg public mind to a habit for alr trave: and air carriage of goods will be one of the fruitful fields of effort.” up still looks upe~