Evening Star Newspaper, February 2, 1926, Page 8

8 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. — e WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY......February 2, 1926 THEODORE W. NOYES. . . .Editor TheEvening Star Newspaper Company Turopean-Oice: 14 Rerent St.. Londoo. 5 cents per mo Y e Rate by Muil— in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily ang Sunday. . ..1vr.$0.00:1mo. Daty . f 1mo Saly on 1 mo. Sunday only Al ates and Canads. Al Other States and Canada, and Sundas. 1 Iy onlv Sunday only RS Temnbe: The Associate 10 the use for patches criadited Med in thiz pap = f the Not an Executive Matter the President to take immediate ~ the resump Senator with hing be dor people « e wh ) ne i1 rectiv which wtment i3 S0 save by th no w which will anthor of a con eration ptiltty. I s i o talk g “some way” or abo only by irect @ can the nined mont Mten their sting lost on charity. *The operats e iy. Th iblic has lost even move heavily. Dusiness in the an; rmous losses that can never this situatic ne owners uminous it nd perhaps dlers, Wholesile and retail, who have antage of the condi tions to raise prices bevond reason Yer there is no way the law o end t . to compel the resumption of nz and to assure fair prices for f miners and operators continue o mieet from time to time in so-called negotiations, which onsis would seem, in maneuv ing to throw one side or the other o an embarrassin re ing the responsibility for the con- tinued blockade. [T there is a sincere effort both sides to reach the “ground of understanding it is obscured by t of “strike polities” raised ¥ hoth sides To ash President of the United States 1 lins” 1o relieve the situati s He can doj the miners and offanis {run off. it would seem that the s to hurry up and agree. and | opances were more than good for a on the point of agver |gocossful culminatio The return ment they would doubtl trip to Spain will be watched with point acted deadlock anddpjeular interest by all Americans, penly Rthatid cannot agree, Cachi g pat was the route taken by the side putting me on the other | pjeq States Navy seaplanes in the The situation is perfectiy well KNoWn | g crossing of the North Atlantic frcdngn 1 take COEMIZANCE |y uir in 1919, This route entatls of it an of its own respousibility ing sustained flights, and if the Span- A plaanliee s ish aviators are successful it will add SoTfirthere Ras Deenan €conomic iy therktriumph. feilivathan & ohy suffering in | qpree gttempts were made in 1919 consequence of the sirike. Thanks Loy, oross the North Atlantic Ocean be- the adoption of substitute fuels, the | qoq the flight of the NC-4 of the people ave getting alonz. They are| yinerjcan Navy. Two of them were paying high for these substitutes, and | for that there is small justification. But of real physical suffering there has been but litt he situation is not =0 acut 15 to dem: executive intervention, which in the ecircum stances would be no more than a gesture e Aviation has vet superseded horsemanship as a 1 accomplish- ment. Respectful admirers of the Prince of Wales the world over would any sense of obligation » take a chance on an greatly resret on his part airplane. B The Ground Hog. Mz men have spoken of the ground hog toduy. There is belief that this small animal is a better weather forecaster, at least for Feb- uary, than th cel or the gray goose, and p are men who feel that the Weather teresting md hog is a rival of ruce man’s belief in the as @ meteorologist, and it would, be found to be an tent belief with the people of North latitudes ground ho no doubt, where sunless The ground to America immigrants, s in ruary days are usual. brought Burcepean 105 theors v North W the pred b was honored © descendants, and has been ad from people who lived in latitudes vhere February had as much sunlight as May in lands about the North Sea. February in our latitude gives us much brizht weather. Perhups the Weather Bureau records show that not many February days pass without enough sunlight for a ground hog to It of climate, even as far south as Wash ington, to zive us w good deal of bad see his shadow is ulso the habit weather in February and March. But if the ground hog is perched on a certain kind of pedestal as a prophet let us not dislodge him. There is too much of that. Too many fellows are prowling about the world, going to dinners and making speeches and looking around for something on a pedestal, which they think ought to be kicked off. So, if the ground hog likes his job as a weather prophet and if several hundred thousand ‘Washington people delight to honor him, let us gy nothing that will take from his remewn ‘‘one jot or fittle™— It might be in- | Americans descended | which is a phrase honored by long use. It is believed that some persons are so skeptical that they doubt the existence of the ground hog. Many men eminent as naturalists can reas- sure them. They have studied the anatomy and habits of the ground hog and have found where and how he lives, but they have nothing to say of his skill in meteorology. Some per- sous in Washington who are speaking fluently of the ground hog might not know him if they should meet him in the wouds, but many persons In the know him. There he is gen- erully called “woodehuck.” The le ed fellows have named him Arctomys and Marmota Mopay, but the ground hog does not know it | Sonse times e ss cuttentne Amaricas murmot. Many persons living in the country have called him Pest and have sometimes used an inflammatory ad- jective before the word “pest e lives from Hudson Bay to South Caro- and from the Atlantic to the | Rocky Mountains., He digs ingenious | and «rtments in the xround Winter sleeping. of plants, fruits weakness | country rn- linu comfortuble and passe kinds and has a cle ry and respects s tarm or Kitchen He 1is from eighteen to twepty four inches | grizzle tnut red | below. and his feet and tail are black | All this, in an effort tc He eats many nd vesetubl er and ce man rde 1 abe Wi che jor very dark | prove to some scorners that there |really is a grouna hog. As to his |1 r ws @ prophet, why, let vour ! conscionce be your guide. i Spain to Brazil by Air. i | To Spain zoes the homor for the! of the South At} | tirst alluir crossing | luntic Ocean. Comdr. Ramon Franc j accompanied b relief pilot amnd | 2 mechaniciun, gracefully sid down from the sky at Pernambuco, on the | Brazillan coast, to receive the plaudit: ] of i huge crowd gathered to greet the | fiyers. nfr hops, totaling 3,584 miles, the {longest of which wes 1,432 miles, on Saturday, from the Cape Verde Is- lands to Fernundo Noronha, were suf- [ ficient to effect the epic crossing of he A Starting out from Palc overses antic win, a week ago last Friday, four {men were carried besides Comdr. Franco, but on account of the lemsth of the last hop two of them were left at Cupe Verde. The huge weighing more | tioned perfes It was Dornier-\ than thr throughout the entire the type of machine used by Amundsen on his unsuccessful polar dash and by Lieut i Locatelll on his attempte Luntic #fight in 1924 Although the two Portuguese tors in their historic trip of 19 | ceeded in reaching Brazil from Lisbon, | part of the distance was traversed by after they had wrecked two tight is that transat- steamer planes in landing, so that the honor lof the first ing must be given to the intrepid Spanish airmen Not content with this feat. Comar. | Franco, after two days’ rest, will set 1 to wid further Lurels to the fiying achievements of his native country. | Following a short visit to Rio de Ju- and Buenos Aires, he |attempt to reach Panama, Cuba and the United States and then make the crossing the Azores. an program, but stematic and skillful mun- per in which the “first act” has been | neiro will Atiantic i ambitious | victorious—the sensational non-stop | dash of Alcock and Brown and the cruise of the British dirigible R-34. | Since then, however, there have been only two successful crossings — the United State Army round-the-world flight and the dirigible Los Angeles, which was brought by air from Ger- many to this country. So it is not at all surprising that THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 0O, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1926. THIS AND THAT cern functions through divisions, each headed by a capable, responsible offi- clal. For the selection of those chiefs of bureaus the President is responsi- ble. A cabal or secret organization of self-perpetuation presupposes the complete deception of the executive as to the merits of personnel and as to policies 1o be pursued. No secrets can be held from him save through insubordination, for which those guilty may be punished by dismissal upon trial and conviction. To accuse the higher members of the naval and military organizations of maintaining a deceptive, unprogressive and nation- iey and ally dangerous concord of p action fs to accuse the President At any time Congress may, as it hag often done, examine into the workings of the military and naval administra- tions. The Senate hus the right to re- ject appointments to the higher bu reau positions. It must pass upon all promotions In the two services. It thus has a scrutiny over all changes in the organizations. [t has access to records. Tt has often been uppealed to in quarrels over precedence. There- fore, to assert that the military and naval services are ruled by self-per. petuatin fsutlicient and independ ent bureaucracles is to accuse the Con of negligence e New Hampshire Tags. New Hampshire, which manufac- tures its automobile license plates a ahead of time, has decided to 1 of un fmpression of the “Old Man of the Mountain” on the face of the tags. Following the announcement that the plates for the New England State would carry fumous protile @ Storm ot protest arosc: not f vehicle de partment. s would Iy be sup posed, but the motorists them selves, who stuted that numbers on such o tag would be hard to read and that seen from the distunce the “Old Man's” face flgure § With the country Wids clean license plates and easily read numbers, it vident that New Hampshire his made a wise cholee in abandoning the plan. Mud, dust, tar m the motor from witation for is other rowl substances collect o tugs, und one of the greatest problems facing municipalities today is that of the clean plate Viewed from this ungle, it would forces in temporary seem that the New Hampshir victery over the conservatives, who are of the oldfashioned belief that registration plates on an automobils are for the purpose of identitication. It is fortunate for the rest of the mo- toring public that the vietory was only temporary, and the State advertising proponents are now defeated, else we might soon see u huge metal sheet advertising Californfa’s climate, Wash- ingtonw’s snow-capped mountaing, Flor- ida's or Pennsylvania's coal mines on the rear of antomobiles, leaving, however, a small space at the bottom for the unimportant registra tion numbers. advertising scored real ——— When the Tennesses legislators get through with Darwin they may organize an intellectual attack on popular mythology and inquire b what right it is assumed thut a ground hog could evolute into weather prophet a ———— Critics of the Navy who point out disadvantages to the U. S. A. in the event of another war appear entirely oblivious to the elaborate preparations to prevent any such thing R China invented gunpowder long ago. Future chroniclers will point to this century as the one in which China discovered TNT and poison gas. It has been a hard Winter so far. In addition to the fuel bills, there are the paint and soap bills and the doctor's bills. e As events develop, it 1s generally expected that the Senate will learn to talk less and President Coolidge more. ———t——— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSO! Dreaming. “I dreamit 1 dwelt in marble halls! N Intense interest should be manifested in all portions of the globe in the ex- ploits of Comdr. Franco. There is still hazard in oceanic flying, and it requires courage of high order for these ploneers to brave the elements |in an endeavor to advance the sclence {of aviation. — e The country is prosperous, but the loss through the coal strike is so heavy that the ultimate consumer is beginning to doubt very seriously whether he can afford it. roor—s- ! Bureaucracy. | In his first statement to the public after separation from the military service, Col. Mitchell, in his capaclty as civilian critic of the Government's aviation policies and practices, makes no new point. All that he says now | has been said before, in greater detail, lin the statements whicl led to his | court-martial and suspension from ac- He stresses, however, the | bureaucracy which, he says, dominates | the Government'’s policies, which mis- tive duty. {leads Congress and the people and controls the armed forces ‘“even \zainst the action of the President | himself.” He asserts that whenever the actions of the members of this military bureaucracy are brought into question they are themselves the sole of Judge their shortcomings; that they all innovations, and that they constitute one of the greatest menaces to our free institutions that has ever occurred. Our Government, he asserts, has become one of bureau- cratic domination. This is a sinister picture which the former airman paints. If true, it is of vital consequence to the welfare of the country. But is it true? That question will be asked by all who know the workings of the Govern- ment. It is unquestionably true that the Army and the Navy function in thelr administration through bu- reaug Just as any large husiness gop: ¢ : Resplendent is the dream. Each step on silken fabric falls, Where untold beauties gleam I dreamt—and this part, let me say, Is what exalts my soul— Down in the cellar, hid away I found a ton of coal! Natural Development. “Are you afraid of foreign entan- glements?" “Not at all,” answered Senator Sorghum. “We can take care of ’em.” “George Washington warned us against them.” “Entanglements just naturally hap- pen in financtal relations, family rela- tions and forelgn relations. George meant well, but he didn’t know a thing about this radfo that has gotten all parts of the world trying to talk at once.” Political Obsession. Offhand. I ventured to declare, “John Milton’s gift for words is rare!” A boss inquired, on votes intent, “What ward does Johnny represent?” Jud Tunkins says it's a great mis- take to call attention to any man’s unintelligence. Let him keep talking and tell it himself. Trying to Seem Disinterested. “What's the sentiment in Crimson Gulch about capital punishment?” ‘We've got some rough boys here,” answered Cactus Joe. “They're all agin capital punishment, but they're afraid to say so for fear they'd be suspected of tryin' to play .safety first.’ Picture Spoiled. She sat before the fireside glow, In pensive retrospection. The soft coal soot blew 'round her so It ruined her complexion. “I don’t see why dese coal folks wants to hang on to de debate,” said neter applaudd® A Uncle Eben, “nobody ain't never BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. The poet Shelley was a bundred years ahead of Luther Burbank ip his opinion on religlon. The difference was that Sheiley wrote bls when he was but 18 years old. His drastic ideas (including those on marriage, diet, etc) were printed as notes to his “Queen Mab,” and may be read there by any one interested. Those who have been shocked by Mr. Burbank’s reported utterances ought to know that they are no new thing in the world. Let me quote a bit from Percy Bysshe Shelley “Christianity is now the established religion; he who attempts to impugn it must be contented to behold mur- derers and traitors tuke precedence of him in public opinion; thoukh, it his genius be equal to “his courage, und assisted by a peculiur coulition of cir- cumstances, future ages may exalt him to w divinity, and persecute others in his nume, as he was persecuted “The sume means that have sup- ported every other popular bellef have supported Christianity. War, fmpris- vnment, assassination and {ulsehood; deeds of unexampled and incompura le atrocity have made it what it is. * %+ Analogy seems (o favor the opinion that like other systems, ( Christianity has arisen and augment- }ed, so, like them, it will decay and perish; that, as violenee, darkness and conceit, not’ reasoning and persuasion, have procured its admission amons mankind, so, when enthusiasm has subsided, and time, that infullible con- troverter of false opinfons. has in- volved its pretended evidences in the darkness of antlquity, it will become obsolete 1f plant-wizird was correctly most the simne thin writer of this columu 1 no more from Shelley on o fon. 111s opinlons were written in his immature youth (he was but 18 years old when he wrote “Queen Mab” anud its .ttendant notes). and never published hy the poet, ex cept privately The world has long forgotten th he wrote so radically: what it lov remember s, 0 like life, t life which he “hs o de of many-colored glass, staining the white radiance of eternity.” His wife, Mary, gives the followini on her husband fn relatton to lis ‘Queen Mab ' Le nev shied When it was written d come to the decisic o voung to be a ‘Judy: und he was destrous of acquirin sobri ety of spirit which i3 the characterts- e of true heroism.’ Lut he never doubted the truth or utility optnfons; and printing wnd distributing 'Queen he should £ without oceasioning efther to others or himselt that might arize from the publication “In former editions certair portions were left out, ax shocking the general reader from the violence of their at t on relixion T myself had a painful feeling that might be looked disrespect toward glad to have storing them. printed entire the opportunity of The notes alsc ar not becuuse thev soning or lessons ause Shelley wr The alterations his opintons underwent ought to be re- corded, for they form his history Those last two sentences are of great significance to all lovers of the voetry of this poet; for his wife, Mary Wollstonecrft Shelley, in many re- are of respect vi a much more brilliant mentality thun her husband. The keenness of her intellect was what 1s “masculine; it is, when s there h a often called fore, of significance, of him ure his singiug | s |gress ordinary woman, in such a position, admits that Shelley’s ideas on religion can- not be taken too seriously as models of truth. * % % x Mrs. Shelley continue: “Inspired with ardour for the ac- quisition of knowledge; endowed with the keenest sensibility, and with the fortitude of & martyr, Shelley came among his fellow creatures, congre- gated for the purpgse of education like a spirit from another sphere, t0o delicately organized for the rough treatment man uses toward man, es- pecially fn the season of youth; and too resolute in carrylng out his own sense of good and justice not to be come a vietim. “T'o u devoted attachment to those he loved, he added & determined re- sistance to oppression. Refusing to fag at Eton, he was treated with re- volting cruelty by masters and boys. This roused. instend of taming, bis spirit, and Le refected the duty of obedtencs, when it was enforced by menaces and punishment aversion to the soviety of his fellow creatures, such he found them when collected together in socte- ties, Where one egged on the other to acts of tyranny, was joined the deep est sympathy and compassion: while the attachment he felt for individuals and the admiration with which he re garded their powers and virtues led | him to entertain a_high opinion of the perfectibllity of human nature, and he helieved that all could reach the high- est grude of moral improvement did not the customs and prejudices of so- ciety foster evil pussions, and exouse evil passions, readings wers not wways well -u; umong them wers the works French’ philosophers; as far as wphysical arguiment went, he tem- iy became w convert. At the time, it was the cardinal article his faith that if men were but | taught and induced to treat their fol {1ows with love, charity and equal | rights, this carth would realize Para. | aise i He Lo religion as it is profexsed " continues Mrs. Shelley, | “and, above all, practiced, as hostile, ad of friendly, to the cultivation s virtues which would make | men brother |7 “Can this be a7 At the | of 17, fragil nd frame. of the purest habits in s, full of devoted generosity and universal kind | ness, gl wing with ardour to attain resolved ot every personal “ 1o do right, burning with a ection and sympathy ted as w reprobate, dast ertminal, canse was that Heved the op) tulned t true, with & 1 be (s sinced ns which he d he loved he wis nd fortune &t its shrine. ided from, and . @& youth of singular | in the clv n the bistory fzed nations of Step s so e in early i true, when nd ne iin imagine, [ lteves to be true. heliaves to he rig denounced a criminal. Oh, spirit of Mrs. She ~o capably, so honestly defending the memory vour hushand, at the sume time writing an_eternal apology for the young, including the “flippers” of 19 it ®hould be i pursued Wao like the simple honesty of your lines, and also the sportsmanship dis played, when you pl: as the first poem in the volume edited by you. the {poem, “To Harriet " vour predeedssor {in SHelley's afrect Greeks Cive To At least one jaugh has come out of the war debt negotiations. Greece furnished the touch of humor and amazed the American public by pro- posing that the United States let her have the balance of a $48.000,000 loan uthorized during the war before col- lecting $15,000,000 which actually was advanced. “It may sound like 2 joke.” remarks the San Francisco Bulletin, “yet it is a seriously printed news item from Washington. ~If horrowing money from a bill collector calls for skill, the Greeks must believe they are en- dowed with genius. Their proposition reminds one of the debtor who said, ‘If you lend me twice what T owe you, 1 will pay you half on account.’ But the Greek offer {s even more anda- cious than that. We have money to lend, but not a cent to a debtor who does not begin paying on the old loan before he asks for a new.” It is “a curious case,” adds the New York Evening Post. “They go so far as to pretend an agreement has been broken, though it was certainly not with the Greek Republic under dic- tatorship of Gen. Pangalos that this agreement was made. They will have 0 convince the United States Govern- ment that it is wise and proper to make the advance at this time. They “ould do this no better than by inmedi- ately funding the $15,000.000 account they already owe.” 4% “The request that the balance be turned over before any arrangements for payments be made has very natu rally been refected,” the Louisville Courler-Journal explains. “The fact that Greece did not take advantage of its full credit does not entitle it to do 80 now. The loan was for a specific purpose, to aid in carrying on the war. No doubt the present needs of the naton are great. They were great also when Greece was prosecuting its ill-ti and unfortunate war with Turkey. But the American loan was not applicable. Furthermore, the Greek announcement of the purpose to build up an army and navy causes the Flint Dally Journal to express the opinion that “the thing for us to do is to figure whether the thirty-five mil- lions or so really ought to 5o into a navy or an army,” and that “from a country that just a short time ago got a smart spanking from the league it looks rather suspiclous.” “Were the Debt Funding Commis- sion to have granted what the Greeks ask,” observes the Buffalo Evening News, “other nations of Europe un- doubtedly would arrive with similar demands. And with nations, as with individuals, the extension of eredit depends a great deal upon the stabil- ity of the borrower. Under her pres- ent dictatorship Greece is as uncer- tain a quantity as she has been ever since the World War.” The Seattle Dalily Times, noting that “‘witheut go- ing into the question of the propriety of making further loans to Greece, the American Debt Commission stated plainly that it bad no authority to make further advances,” continues: ‘Greek finances have been in a turmoil ever since the close of the war. The country is heavily in debt and has been put to tremendous expense to pay for a disastrous war with Turkey, and for the exchange of population which that defeat entailed.” * kK & “Faultless logic and supreme nerve on the part of the Greeks “who seri- ously put forth this prvx;:sn.l"’r:g recognized by the Woroestor which feols thst “surely, Sem~ uch of Humor To War Debt Negotiation biage, the war debt offer of Greece is perhaps the most amazing of all the queer proposals that have been made to this country by various na- tions on the same general subject.” rather than hand over the additional amount to augment a debt the re- covery of which with interest may be doubtful. Were the Greeks to take steps most likely to secure the additional $33,000,000, they would agree promptly to the funding of the sum already due, and by the dis- charge of “that obligation indicate not only. their willlngness, but also their ability, to pay any further loans which might be granted.” * Ok ¥ ¥ “Rightly or wrongly,” concludes the Sioux City Tribune, “the Ameri- can Government will be likely to in- sist that it be the judige as to whether it is wise and proper to advance more money to the present Greek govern- ment. Yet there is a nice point in- volved which gives Greece some basts for continuing the arg This Government has steadily insisted that the Soviet government in Russia, hav- ing taken over the authority of the old czarist regime, also assume its obligations. On the same theory the government which replaced Constan- tine in authority at Athens might be expected to assume the obligations of the former fhgime and also benefit by such agreements as this partly funded loan. e American Saloon in Paris. From the Anniston Star. The American saloon, which Ameri- cans no longer will tolerate in their home country, thrives in Paris, and Rev. Joseph Wilson Cochrane, pastor of the American Church of Paris, says it prospers there as the “best known emblem of the United States.” Temperance societies in France— and there are many of them—find, they claim, their most difficult prob- lem to be the hard-drinking American tourist, and the American saloon In France thrives upon the patronage of Americans who will not stand for sa- loons in their own country. It's a queer situation and not very credita- ble to the American tourist in France. Burbank’s Hardest Job. From the Columbus Ohio Stats Journal Tt may be that Luther Burbank lost his religion after patiently endeavor- ufor years to do something for spin- “Naturally the position taken by |the father and mother. This fs very | the Greeks does not meet with the ‘hmm iful—not so much because it is | approval of the representatives of {there, but because it S0 unco: the United States,” says the Pitts- | Sclously there. The love for his father burgh Gazette Times. “It might be deep in the blood of Jesse Grant, better to let the sum at stake go, |#S certainly it is deep in the blood and NEW BOOKS : AT RANDOM I.G. M. IN THE DAYS OF MY FATHER, GENERAL GRANT. Jesse R. Grant. Harper & Brothers. Twice, at least, House proved to be a the White appy hunting- ground for families of lusty growing children. The more familiar of these, since It is the one nearer to the pres- s the Roosevelt family. The one s the Grant little ent, somewhat more remote family. In the first rough riders—five gayly clearing ma are four s matter of 1y a stiff hurd grave convention belonging to this historic presidentia] homestead. And { there are four of the Grant children, none of whom 1s wholly playtime of childhood. and delight Inexhaustible a playground, Personal recollections, supplemented by the published letters of Mr. Roose- velt to his children, supply to many a full and vivid picture of the young Rouseveits at the White House here from the hand of Gen. G voungest child stands an equu like portrayul of the Grant children in the same delectable situation. Happy children, all uround! And their outside the In equal gusto both groups explore the resources of so unique outstanding happiness is source deeper than the accident of a tem porary living pluc much this glves charm to their young davs. Clearly here are two families where sympathy and understanding are mu- tual-—parents and children in an even exchange of freedom und contidence and trust. A tinely wholesome and inspiring thing, te even a White House! i When Jesse « Loy went to 4 President Grant | &l iy U that ! from Lafayette dren—boys, especis bovs ! only real democrats in existence Jesse, in no time found way to some really interesting folks bout the place o the Furnace Man, | and Albert the Coachman, and the Horses, and s crs. 1t appears | that « week the Furna M. ! was not easily distinguishable He | seemed then to melt into the general | lundscape of busy Wworkers round- about But on p Sunda morr ing when he in to light th tes, then, e splendent being o the « Josse ( Dressed breasted frock coat ettt a golden massive watchehain i ing a shiny plug hat and a gold head- | ‘ed cane—of anday that | Man was tr | - was Albert the Conchman, with | whom the boy spent many contented i meanwi Holdi Alhert Cincinn. dls yere ne would take the e other was Cincinnati stall and fmy . ther and t i N i from Albest ¢ the sugar we | mouth. And <o on_down i And all the time Rosie i flat upon the floor i wering from Albe ! ted her tu t| ack-and-tan dog, with no ped; | ever “Rosls knew n | That's | + * i And it is the boy talking all thel time. This is the distinguishing mark lof the delightful book throughout. | jesse Grant her woes back | into his bovhood direct and, stmple expedient of taking off and laying aside the intervening years. So, | when he arrives at boyhood. there he 1s, clean, the complete boy. The ma jority of writers distort and tndeed soil { pictures of the early davs by loading | | "You may read auything, anywhere, | | but nowhere else will you find a more | passionately tender love for another than comes out here on every page | in the love of these Grant children for | breath of all the Grant children. And no wonder. The world knows Gen. Grant as man, as President, as great soldier and great commander. But it rests with this story of the Grant household to reveal a father so tender, £ kind, so friendly, xo wise and companfonable as to give this great man his greatest of all claims to the admiration and affection of the world itself. There are other days sketched hera —those of Jesse Grant's littlest hoy- hood, when nobody had ever heard of a “White House.” The locality changes, to be sure, but the spirit of kindness and joy that broods over this household does not change, A g little plcture—just u small boy han ing on the fence waiting for “father to come home. As he appears x shrill little voice c: . mister, do you want to fight?” “Well, I'm a2 mun of peace, but I'm not going to he hee tored by a man of vour size.” And| thereupon would follow a gorgeous battle, the “Mister” worsted, spent, and lving off on the couch to rest. Not for many vears did any suspicion arise as to the prowess of the little boy himself. Then. of course, the vears go on with what to some are more {mportant things—but many of these *“more important” things can be read elsewhere. So we like the early years best. And we hold as a treasure the pictures of “my father” that here give to all of us a further illumination of the life of a greatly kind and patient man—silent under hardship, silent un- der reproach, impassive under misfor- tune, but always great in his patient self-containment, always great in just being kind. Great in his strength, too. R The story sees all the children in college or out of it and at the work chosen by them. 1t teils many an in. teresting thing that the most of us did not know at all, or only half knew. There is the story here of the con- spiracy that includedy Gen. Grant as well as President Lincoln in the Ford Theater assassination. There are many intimate pictures of Lincoln himself, Wwho—anybody can see— would be on the most friendly terms with this little Grant boy, so obvi. | ously his warm friend and stanch | follower wherever a following could be set up by the young one. There are quick close-ups on many a war. time scene, on the coming and going of this or that great one during the White House days, on Gen, Grant's ANSWERS " TO QU STIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. Who said “Put none but Amert cans on guard”?—J. J. M. A. The phrase Americans on guard” mottees of the Know-Nothing controversial in regard to it: is some ascribing it to Do they J. N. C. A. The Weather B e but of the arty. It origin, Putnam, Put ne was on Gen to George Washington. have severe storms in ireau savs th severe storms of the West Indian hur ane type oceur at frregular inter- 1s during the late Summer and early Autumn months over our south ern districts, Aside from the: 56 f storms of other c! quent. haracter are in Q. What is cardoon”— . M. ¥l A. It {s a salad plant, grown in much the same way as celery, ro cultivated in the United States, popular in Europe. Q. Who owns the Union Stock Yards in Chicago?—C. J. H. A. They are owned by the Unlon Stock Yards Co., Ine. T are held by a number of Al one time the mea § ned congtderable proportion of “he = t t the present time this Is not Q. How much do foxes purposes cost?—R, P. M A. The prices of breedl range trom $500 to $2 price being dependent ity of pelt. Brecding gh as $34,000 a g upor Q. Where did the first dramatic perforn u Washington take place?—M. A, According to the Procecdings of the Washington Academy of Sciences he first theatrival performance of vhich there is any re in 1801 in Blodget's ur near the the formes Departme Rough bhoa i v sents for th ¢ are soups nutactured Rosir t 1 Ronps; tled, half-ho ; varieties; BACK( let sonps or laur udin, A and vaps, medica ine opies >R( BY PAUL V. COLLIN estimate as can be made has fixed the number at over 30,000,000 copies a year. This in-ludes all Bible So- cleties and an estimate of the number circulated by the commerrial houses. The number of languages and dialectm into which the Bible has been trans lated is over 800 | @ What is meant by remote con trol in radin?—A. R. L. A. The Radio Division of the De partinent of Commerce says that the i term “remote control” s usged at a broadeasting station where the broad casting transmitter is in one location and the operator, by means of electrie switches, operates from another loca tion. @ How ure proper names pro nounced that begin with “Bj"7—G. E. A. In the case of u Scandinavian name, fuch as Bjargson. the Iatter 3" | 18 pronounced as if it were two letters | | 6 and y—Be-yarg-son Q Are practicing physicians in this | country increasing or decreasing?- P A. Within the last two vears there | has been an inerease of 1,044 in the | profession, the tofal number 147,010. . ng Where did the exp originate?—A. R o practice of permitting Jcompetent person to sue b fend originated in Engl S first authorized by the statuts inster, passed In the refzn { of Edward 1 high rega regarded e | re- rather od cult power. Among & Stop a wonute and think about 1 | fact. You can ask The Evening b Information Burcau any question o, fact and get the answer bacl sn & It is a great educa nto the lire personal let tional {dea introduced | of the most intelligent prople in the world—American newspaper readers It is @ part of that best purpose of | @ newspaper—SERVICE. There is v return posta (Gt the habit of ash ing questions. Address your letter f Tie Evening Information Bu reau, Freder llaskin, directo Washington D¢ The Lars Hoover, appeared Secr 1o Chicago. unning up the Miss neapolis, up the Mis: the green fields of K Irikotas, and up Pittsburgh the * There has been more between the ad t of the M supporti a ship wrence and the Gr Hoover urzed should neve ousy developme and those o, of 1 pre as competitve, nor and 6,000 miles of with the lake svstem nels from Chicago and other ports on the through which ocean 7 feat draft w uld ta Min- issippt_to souri River to sus. lowa and S to he isstssippi via st Lakes. Sec t these two considered nated so al laterals. This river system would coordinate | chan Duluth and all Great Lakes, vessels o1 5 to ke on through of deep cargoes to all ports of the world, or bring in cargoes to their lake terminals in the center of the contl nent for distribution via the river routes. i The immense economies of such trafiic via water are shown by the of hauling wheat 1,000 miles by rail or Railroad rates ¢ miles while the same Lakes costs only $20 t amount to from n 1.000 bushels £130 to Great via t o 230, But that is not the whole story. The present means of reac market with wheat do Iy so great hardship a flour and most Wheat is now loaded Duluth, transferred to nd transf t New York Thesc other rred again from rail to s making transfers are made by suction, hing the export not work near- < in the case of conmodities, on a boat at rail at Buffalo ip six handlings. through mechanical elevators, at @ cost of $2.50 a handled. must b ton. When it i Flour 10t be so it can nsferred handled by manual labor at double the cost of handling the wheat * k¥ The milling industr: vy, which made Minneapolis the greatest flour-produc- ing center of the world, and moving eastward New York City. While that tenden: is declining to Buffalo and takes the mills a long way from the grain fields, their export it bring: markets, the greater domestic markets. 5 them nearer nearer, also. to But it brings the by-products of the grain, also, far from the prairies and thus strikes down the live-s the Midwest. It tends congestion of the East sion of production in stock feeding of toward further and the depres- the richest pro- ductive area in the world. The outcome of thi: shown in the decreas: in the Midwest and farm bankrupteies. A report of the Federal of Minneapolis the valuy in Minnesota, the twa Montana has I 1920. The present va cent that of 1920. rupteies in those four st $2.500,000,0 The s tendency has of farm values the increase of ceording to the Reserve Bank e of farm lands ) Dakot: lue farm States in 1910 world tour and the home-coming. The story ends here, at the public career. These teresting as they are close of Grant's ter points. in have an ext value, too, depending on their intimate source. Still it is the the Grants, the famil passionate regard for home picture of v devotion, the the father, the tender love between parents and chil dren—these are the parts of the story that give to it a charm and a value that cannot fail, is f food produc to th tlanti 1er to embarrass in the r miils her i | » Last, though & | story 1 tuld bevond the mas | row 1 it is that se | tionalisr tary Hoove: sotests, hurts a section i | its exports hurts the whole country American grain raiser is i vith the farmer of not k: bis competi Argenting aud ducing regions s tixed in the rough world of Argentl: of the ocear iser lives 1,500 his expor ja! = price « market ompeti I rerage of | Tt costs the Arzen rmer 22 e 2 Tt e e Wi la, be constracet |icents e i R S = r‘?ilntrl]xlr-:lv\‘ rn.,- there ix no | oy e RS - repodl L L or here is the boy Joth have to do with main: nee of Ptk = atoriSmicot-and/the others on the com: | Bk, in those White House daysiand | oo -0 neve 19 00 Wh eiRterines, o | b o bl expirc iRl mission must have sincerely admired” | other davs. clean us i« whist oM | oe yroduction in the Midwest | cents a bushel carer compet: those qualities. The Telegram sug- | the accumulations of succeeding vears. | © \PTOGRERER B SHERESC o O iberta, ¢ sent_his wrain gests that Greeco in effect says:|And so he gves on with the story in oo SOWVE BOEL 0 iation [t Livery Do s “Surely you will agree with us that |its many ¢ tutes—up on| SLAESE 05 8 SR increase | bushel; toda costs him 32.3 cents & promise o mitieais loen sl s oot e father” try- |G 066,000, and the railroads will be | The leSser rise in Canada than in the sacred as @ promise to repay a loan. |ing out the at some one| AL A0 o8 e tamic of the | United States 1s due to the Canadtan So we feel we are reasonable in ask- | had 1 ‘him, driving with, ‘mpjunable to: tanes tae | can i1 | Eovernment ewnerehip and. Cortrolior ing the United States to advance us |father” lehind the swift horses that [Production of "T‘_“" een “"a |the railvoads. While the United that $33.000.000 before we make ar-{Gen. Grant loved, collecting stamps | Alleghenies and the CRies e e reaieiy e s rangements to pay back that $15,000,- | with a hoy's wild zeal of acquisition, | urged the development of the svstem S i e p Blping ‘ tiutved of erways, from Pittsburgh via ith the surplus and what taxes 000 and Interest {helping to form a club that survived YL {to reduce, Canada, with its govern As viewed by the Nashville Ban-{away past the boy's carly manhood, | Calro to St. Louis and Kansas City— | [ Jeitce, Camuda, with It govern. ner the fncident “goes to prove how |going here and there with “father’ a4 stretch of 1600 miles—and from | FEC QWRed faiiroads | and - lowe closely Uncle Sam Is associated with |and meeting many a one whose name | Chicago to New Orleans via the | S A = it s Sunta Claus in the minds of many |is now history, but who, to Jesse | Drainaze al. the Ilinois er of our foreign cotemporarfes,” and, |Grant. was cither great or small In the | 4nd the Mississippi her giving o “stripped of all its diplomatic ver- |degree to which he cared for “father.” | i system of w0 nk lines » OUr increase last 25 vears—fre lion ton-niles to 338 billion ton —and he predicts that within the next 25 vears we shall handle double the present volume. T that, we must more than « esent facili either ur water. If ise be in railroads, the ex 1d be enormous; besides, it to congestion of terminal pense would citles. add If it be upon water, the whole aterfront will be available for termi nals. Land routes would cost three times what water improvement will cost. Yet, there will always be cer tain sses of trafl rail rather than water, and the im provement of waterwa does mot mean depreciation of present rail fuci! itles; it means only that further ex pansion should give preference to Waterway improvement as more eco nomical for the great bulk of traffic. Army engineers have demonstrated that 30-foot canals are feasible from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic— either by the St. Lawrence or by the New York Barge Canal. The Barge Canal, if deepened to 5 or 30 feet, would cost $400,000,000 to $500,000,000. which will go by Mr. Hoover asks for $100,000,000 (to be spread over five vears) tor the completion of both the St. Lawrence jand the Chicago-Mississippl projects. That improvement would pernit all ibut the greatest ocean Iners to dock at any port of the Great Takes. In the calendar vear 1022, there were 8,526 ships passed through the Pan- ama Canal. Al of these except 1,057 could reach Duluth, Chicago und al other lake ports if the St. Lawrence Cunal be deepened to 2§ feet. It i hoped to restore the great river traf- fic to its pre-war importance, when it amounted to several times all our coastal commerce, even though the channels had not been dredged as now proposed. The Great Lakes commerce always has been greater than our coastal commerce. ¥ ¥k ¥ X are several projects whicl have been talked of in connection with the maintenance of the water level of the Lakes. Canada complains that the Chicago Drainage Canal is taking more water than is legal, and is thereby damaging Canadfun inter ests. Some one proposed to create a lake between Hudson Bay and Lake Superior, as great as Lake Huron, which would flow into Lake Superior and so keep up the level That scheme s denounced as chimerical. Another plan, which would dam the Albany River and back it Into Lake Nipigon and thence to Superior, pronounced practis It is contended [that instead of robbing the Great es to feed the Mississippi River the river should be dammed to h back its flow and maintain the leve desired for navigation. All that is a detail for engineers to decide, but the dominating question is how to create greater water transportation 4Copyright. 1926, by Panl ¥, Collina) There