Evening Star Newspaper, February 11, 1926, Page 8

With Sunday Morning Edition. | WASHINGTON. D. C. | THURSDAY...February 11, 1926 THBODORE W. NOYES. . . .Editor WheaXvening Star Newspaper Compuny Rusinass O and Pennay! 'w York Office. 110 F Chicago Office: Towe Burepean Office: 14 Recent St 1ith St e Evening Star, with the Su g edition. 18 delivered by oart 3\' ety at 60 cents per month cents per month: Sundav onl month . Orders miax he sent one Main 5000. Collectis or a1 the end af ex-h month Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. by and Sunday <000 1 mo ooty Sio0- i mo Smnday only $300 1 mo T | 1wr 1 Ve AU Other States and Canad: ly and Sunday.]l v §12.00° 1 mi only 17r. SR00: 1 m: Eandsy oniy 1yr. $4.00° 1 mo The Ansocisied Press in axclimvely o $e the use for rennhiication Pidchen sredited fo it o nor ‘uitier ted in thix naoer and also the local new DURMahed herein ATl riehia of ouhlication of special disnatches hrrin are aleo reserved | — - | | | | The Mothers' Pension Bill: Yesterdar the Senaie wetad 1o subsiitnie for the House bill | Providing for the pavment of allow ances 16 mothers the measure which representa the virtually unanimous opinion of the District people re spect to this provision of aid. The Houne bill was that which was pro posed by a group of New York peopie | Interested in sociological reform. It differs in a terial feature from the bill which was tramed by the District Commissionera’ public weifurs com mission after a long atndv of the sub. Jeact and consultation with all the local agencies of charity and reiief. The | “New York bill." an it has coms (0 be | knewn, eatablishes mothers’ pensions | or allowances with administration vested in a separaie organization. he local bill, drafted by ihe commisaion ereated by the District ere. provides for the administration of this relief by the proposed public wel fare hoard, which is to replace a nun- ber of existing and agencies Tn substitutirg which Is identical the Commis sioners’ hill. the committes gives heed to the plea for local legis Iation in accord with local wishes and Views Objection was the New York substitute. not he. cause it wax an attempt upon the people of the District legis lation promoted by other interests than those of the (Capital community. hut hecause it did not suit the situa { tlon here. 11 was put through the ! House. however, under pressure from | other souice: the Senate com | mittee prefers its own measure, and | the hope is that it will in this substitute regardless of (he po- litical infiuences which were invoked and which may ver be invoked to drive the New York proposal through to the | point of enactmeni. A principle is at stake in this mat ter apart from the specific merits of the measures that ave now under con. sideration. Repeatedly the District has been chided in Congress for fail tre to agree upon propositions affect ing the local weifare. In this case thers has heen complete agreement after painstaking research and suc- eessful efforts to harmonize the at firat Aivergent views of groups of people | concerned 1n public welfare activities, Hsd thera been a dispute, with & di vidad local opinion, the adoption of | the alien measure might have been | warranted. Now it remains to be seen | how far the forces that support this particular proposition, which bears | the signs of being one feature of a | socialistic scheme which, established | fn New York, it is now sought to carry | inte effect throughout the country, | will ba influential in directing the eourss of District legislation. ——— | commitier | in Commission organizations the with Capper bill Senate raised 10 merely to impose ow A Government worker might reply s the imputation of “clock watching’ by pointing out that millions of people | are now counting the hours until the settlement of a coal strike. — e Almsnac experts who predicied that e weather at this point in the cal- #ndar would be “unsettled” showed | hetentific perspicacity combined with Wterary restraint. e Drastic Tax Cuts A spasmodic attack yesterday caused | fhe Senate 1o do things with the tax/| gofuction bill that have not been con famplated and that it carried through ¥ the point of enactment will con | bly change the Treasury condi Wen. Unexpeotedly three cuis were fosde in tho tax Agure, amounting to| & vetal of very nearly $100.000.000. These were the taxes on admissions | and dues to the amount of sbout| $24000.000, the taxes on trucks cul.| ting off more than $6.U00.000, and the #ames on automobiles, which total over $69,000.000. As the bill came from the Senste finance committee the proposed | Letal raduction was $352,600.000. The onts made by the voles of the Senale yesterday bring the total reduction from the current law to $452.200.000. ! This total of reduction ix $126.000,000 more than that provided in the House Bl and $122.000.000 more than the suvplus of $330,000,000 estimated by the Treasury as available for tax re Bof in 1926, Tax reduction is out & hit and w matter o be undertaken in & casual ®r emotional manner. 1t munst be con @veted systematically and with refer encs to the Government's resources and obligations. The Yreasury ha estimated that approximetely $330.- €00.000 can be cut from the laxes without crippling it or rendering necessary & change in the delit refund- ing program. It is expected that in the course of a few more vears, the period depending upon the size of apnual appropriations meanwhile, an other cut can be made. The President Bas so indicated in his recent speech #t the “business meeting” of the Government. But he also clearly in- dicated that ceriain large measuces of public improvements, such as public buildings and the waterways, would be ‘dependent upon the extent to which tax reduction should’ he car- ried at ssesion. He thereby serv- Cangvass thatdt cannst | | peal tuxen, ! bi, § which fuct | will e given speedy | Congress | wccusatic Liu Gover the same time eat it in the form of public works suggested that wrge proxr b wlready changes effected vesterday SRenate in the pending bill dified or whandoned in confersnce. that when these the be in muy the comes before the In cnse context ix likely to occur conference report enate for wdoption Voles vesterdny wis very afecied of the that the voting (e Not vote Oue the 4 wnd tht in nurrew, Whieh - { 36 ugwinst, sepriate admissions dues iepesl wae given Would be taken in the Senate when the BLill is reported (rom the committes of the whole. The vois the automehile showed & wider mar that the on trucks was a4 to 12 fures. how % [ ot in o 21 o aver the tanes . and repeil 1 ihis e (he Senate voie restored the bhill the form in which it came (rom the House. Ax time I o element of o e [ thit weedinzs e vester may il mili in thix case v the finul @ hill he fully rent of 1878 it for the the v Lment i sewson effective for Yesterday vear was the dite on which it wis hoped thit W fingl vote would be twhen on the There now remin just four u 4 hall weeks hefore the 15th of March last date for the firse of the veur. If the confer which is the pavment ence wnd the proceedings in the two houses over the adoption of the con ferenca report should he protracted a 1 of time will he given for the preparaiion of tay blanks aceord with (he new Haw The mutiers now in dispute relais slendar mars o measure, o mainly and not 1o the individuk) ssessn le aud institution taxes = may somewhat relieve the congestion, omoe o - A Modified Traffic Bill. Determined 1o seek corrective meas. wres for the trafiie situation in Wash ington. the House Dist committee has voied to make the trafc bill the first af meeting. Introduced early order husiness &t itx next in the pres ent session of Congress hy Represent ative Bianton of Texas, severs! items of the bill w the Distr . however thas he will sioners’ desires ha drafted 1 jor voved by M. Bl hux told the committes to the and u adified which, it attention by the e disa U Commissionars n acceds Commis will 1l « se. will be authority the traffic divector for revocation of permits of d hava fagrantiy violated rezula have, by legal technicalities, delaved conrt trials. Cases have heen cited in this city to show that this is a much needsd reform in traMc en forcement, as there aie some npe rewritien wnferved the who tions, b measure on tors of automobiles who huve been rasted than ten U major bui huve no less Viola come to trial casex of this hind. will summarily voke permits. so that the this type of reckless driver can be re- moved from the streeis. Although many of the desirable fea turex of ‘the original trafe bill will be by setion of the commitiee 1ex ¢ re. wiped o {1t ix apparent that 1t is determined 1o report favorably on Lill designed 1o tighten up traffic enforcement and one that will stand good chance of passage in Congress becuuse of its non-controversial aspect. a The sooner a start ix made on some | xort of tive taffic reguiati the sooner improvement will be noted on the streets of Washington. so that it i lmperative that both branches of tuke cognizance of the se- riousness of the situxtion. The traffic office needs not but additional funds in order (o func tion to its highest standard. When these are granted there will be litle mplaint of the wdministration of | traffic affairs in (he Capltal City, - v Lereconcilables in the lnited States Senate propose s the first siep in connection with the World Court to onstitute themselves a grand jury and indict the court. o ———— “Drones” and Department Service. Judging from the reaction of public opinion to the recent slurs upon ernment clerks expressed Ly a Repr entutive in Congress, he did not strike & popular chord. Time wus when such u fleer would awak Bul the situation with reference the Government workers is known now than heretofuse, and these men and women are recognized ax c sclentious, efficient laborers Gover ent service who praine instead of blame & worthy of larger instead of compensation. 10 in eany indict & cluss or a #roup of pevple, but hard (o prove the In thix case there are no beyond & recital of n echoes of uswent in the deserve who are reduced [ specifications hours” and leges which are fixed by law. As f the details of daily Governmeni serv- | ice, the steadfast attention to duty, | the conscientious discharge of require- ments and the willingness to do more | than Is stipulated in order 1o keep the work as mearly current us possible, this congressional oritic suvs nothing. There are “drones group of people assembled in the same em- ployment. “Theie are luzy ones and petent oues, Who rely infuence” in private ux well as went secvice. Tuken by uu lurge, the depurtment personnel is by no meuns more prone (o these churuc tervistics than any viber group of cleri- cul or technicul workers. If theve are “drones” in the depurt. ments «nd bureaus who are protected in their indolence and inefficiency by Infuential persons the fault ix that of Congrees, not of the great majority of the Government servants, who are not thus protected, but who must stand upon thelr own merits. That wires are pulled for the advantage of this or that person in the Government serv- ice is well understood. The same is true in private employment, where fa- vorites of the “bosses” and stockhold- ers are held In position regardless ot thelr merits. 1t is the inescupable fraction of the personal equation in all linex of occupation. Under the civil service upen the marit princij ment service-is oo & in every ucon thoxe upou stem, hased the Govern. plans of o8- \ Te aguins. e of the principal features of the | vers | ver | The taflic divector, o mensce of | iy wdditional power, | 0] better | vertuin estsblished privi- | THE EVENING STAR. m EVENING STAR/bave its cake of rax reduction and m:mnn_. There m: be cligues in the hureans, hut (hese must see that the 'k i« done. else those “higher up” {will demand an accounting. During {the war there was @ sudden and great lenlargement of the Government per- | sonnel. and doubtless many ineMcient | cnex were enrolled. with undeniably much overlappin; much slucking, Lefore the fingl adjustment came, idling. Bul the fsull ot Hhuons workers them- were appointed. sel to tasks and did them. It some time 1o reduce this and the Government !servies Is praciicedly down the bhed ||ulk of its nesds and the average of |nersonal eMciency and industry s ipr My higher ihan ever. w {wnd i il {ihat of the suy selves. They inadequate tinke s much was has <t now - The Bathing Beach Bill. House by a vote the ¢ “hes The terday of Representatives yes. £ 219 10 145 rafused of ihe proposed ovided for hy @& of the reve The bill haa when & motion o for bathing pending -bill of the VI lly passed recommit with instroeti Liamend 1o thut effect wax made and it wax on th ion that tuken the result ihe nitely the pal For this there i occa- gratitude. ‘The Districi suf ustantly in such impositions in this case at leunt there will he - R inpt attention the auth iy .t T wholly Distric heen o ns 1o the vote nas stated. Thus declared iikelf of such a wholly on with House axuinsl imposing neesseary muni cont work the Districr sion for fers Bt no “This bl havy should receive p that work anongh inw onstruction Spri 1t expedition ix had in | Senate this can be wecomplished lenches should he esiablished by nning of hot he great ‘ahole cost sed the Hous in the Seanate s smtio Start this 1\ be ziven o . This the The the public suffering and doubt lese much loss of life as pa tiewlarly the juveniles 0 unsafe places to swim. o i Cooking schools sh of Irusts seel of b products ild hasten to the that mav fAnd control not onlv the hut of @1l other coli nary An orzanization of | home.cooking experts misht help check the threatenad n polies affectunl resistance would moral determinution. Manv jare angaged in business is perplexing and wiessen life is most «lluring [ rescua a posteri ne t output a o Yol require women the servant deli hill | i expected, | problem the oe - It has baen intimated that Mussolini though & man of forceful nnd far-ses ine personality. is 100 Impetuons ! iploma. His apparent dasire for new worlds to conguer might have baen more discreaiiy led had he waited until lralv's monetary sirange ments had a definite point of settlament. rev reachad mare Thare tulk mude is of having all availible in print. A decision as 10 whether a play is il 10 be ad mitted to the mails. if extended to the exclusion of forhidden material from | the theatrical hooking offices, would bhe Il the censorship the drama could | possibly need. plavs R At th pecial moment thers is no use of trving the average citizen in a blizzavd.swept region in a discussion of Arctic exploration 1o interest e The local authorities ara command ing general approval for not tollowing | !the ancient cusiom of allowing snow plows to park o me. r-.—o— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHRNSON. No Comfort Whatever, You will frequently note In the posts we quote, Life’'s sunnier side we should see. 1 admit the advice Sounds exceedingly nice. IL is not any comfort to me. Just under the snow Wait the bloasoms we know: 1U's no place for a hiossom to be. Sweet words huve their use; When & blizzard turns loose, They are not any comfort to me. Relormations. “Why don't vou make an old-fash- ioned speech advocaiing some of these much-needed reforms?" ir,” answered Senator Sorghum. “my praciice of making long. ardent | speaches, regardiess of the clock, is one of the matters for reform that have been most conspicuously alluded Too Much Realism, ety Chi mas Card, come her you brought us gentle cheer, With scenes of white and slittering snow, Whose beauty set our hearts aglow. But now I toss you to the blaze, Where things unyalued go their wiva. Since this unhallowed blizzard struck, Kriend Christmas card, von're out of Iiek! Jud "Punkins says most arguments are conscientious but painful efforts on the part of two people to explain something that neither of them knows {much about. { Teonidus Defends Himself. “What makes vou think I have no ense of hum asked Mr. Meekton. “You never laugh at anything, | Leonidas.” | ““Taat is an indication of a sense of | humor under control. I couldn’t go through life snickering at all the fun: ny make-ups now 10 be seen on the street.” Safe Indoors. A passing sleigh, with merry chime, Brings memory of a distant time; And vet, O friends, who gayly speed Atsr, with your swift-stepping steed, Out in the tingling atmosphere I'm glad vou're there and I am here. The sieigh bell song is sweet, I know. 1'd raiher have my i “De man dat ca anid Uncle Eben, “ix one o' dem folks dat ix hound 1o find out snoner or later Aat money won't always bring ha Ifl- » weather, else there will | for | WASHINGTON. growth of better thinking on the part of the mass of mankind better evinced than In our ideas about women Not 200 vears ago Lord Chesterfield, the mirror of good manners in Eng- land, wrote to his son: omen are only lavger growth." When one thinks of & woman today he in un likely ax not to think of & friend. & “pal,” & comvad Not only have women—at least In America-—been removed from the classification given by the German pre-war writers, but also from that of Lord Chestertield and Schopenhauer. Yet, since there will always be |those’ who secretly refuse to give women the status which their supreme place In creation merits, the thoughts of the Earl of Chesterfield will always be of interest. Writing (0 September i, ~aid “As women are a considerable. or Al lewst w pretty numerous, part of company, and as their suffrages go A great wav toward establishing man's cheracter, in the fa-hionuble purt of the world, it ia necessary to [ please 1 I will. therefore. 1po this subject, let sou into certain arcunu t(hat will be very usetul ior you to known, but which vou must, svith the ulmost cave, conceul. and never seem 1o know. ‘\Women, then, are only children of 4 larger growth; they have an enter- taining tattle, and sometimes wit: but for solid, reasoning good sense, I never in my lite knew one that had it, or who reasoned or acted consequentially for four and twenty hours togeiher. ““Some litlle pasxion or humor al way eahs In upon their best resolu- tons, Thair beauty neglecied or con troveried. their age increased. or their supposed nnderstanding depreciuted instantly kindles their little passions and cvarturns un\ system of conse quentix] conduct that in their moat reasonsble momants they might have bean capable of torming .o ox o “A man of sense’' continued Lord Chestorfield, “only trifies with them. plays with them. humors and flatters (hem. us he doe« with & aprightly. for ward child: but he neither consults themn about nor trusts them with serious matters: though he often makes them beliave that he does both, which is the thing in the world that {they wre proud of for thev love mightilv to be dabbling in business iwhich. by the way, they wiways epoil) und being jusily distrustful that men in generai look npon them in a trifling {light they almost adore that man who jtalka more xeriousiv (o them and who Aesems (0 consult d trust the wayv. who seems—fo1 weak man v do but wise ones onlv seem 10 do it . seriously, the norlily wise sarl { gets his spleep against women out of Ihis system, along with s tremendous | sentence that required all his ability as w writer to restrain from wrecking itself againat manv paranthetical ex pressions! It ix a tribute to his ability that. despite itx length. the sentence i easfly undersiood by anv readsr evan the ladfes. Flatter ‘sm—ihat in the gist continuing sentences ““No flattery fs eithar 100 high or too low for them. Theyv will greedily swallow the hizhest and gracefully sccept of the lowest: and vou may safelv flatier any woman. from her | undersianding down 1o the exquisite tasts of har fan. “Women. who are Dutably beautiful or indisputabiy are beat flattered upon the of thelr understanding: but cho are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their heauty or. at least, their grace: ry woman who Is poi absolutely ugly thinks heraelf handsome. but not heat ing often that she is an. iy the mor grateful and the more obliged to the I"I\‘ who tell her 50: whereas. « de children of = son. under duie of Lord hix 1748 -1 Iy of his either indis Teac American radio fans didn't have much luck this vear listening for Eu ropean programs during International Test week, but the tests are believed 0 have served & useful purpose in disclosing shortcomings of equipment | and emphasizing the necessity of fur. | ther regulation of the air. This “talking to the world” moves the Buffalo Evening ws (o specu late an to the time “when Macaulav'a New Zealander will apaak into & mi- | crophone and be heard clearly and distinctly the shadow of l.ondon Bridge.” Believing that the world is perfectly confident such a time in com: |ing. the News continu With this confidence there 1w a growing 78 {tion that the world is small. Oceans. | mountain barriers, ancient prejudices | of languuge, mentality, psychology— a1l these may still separate peopies, but acience is providing bridges in- numerable. A shot fired at Concord may soon sctuslly be heard around the world. For if today. there is only expectation. tomorrow (here will be realization. in * % ox ¥ ‘The Milyaukee Journsl observes that while Lo the listeners—the grea bulk who just buy instruments that are supposed to work—the tests were disuppointing, in & year or two, or ten. that disappointment will be a memory : they will hear Europe. prob- ably as clearly as thev now hear the neareat station.” The Journal sdds: “The lesis suggest legisiation—more of thai theoretically undesirable but practically necessary control by Gov- ernment.” With half the population setting entertalnment, inatruction or Information by air, the air no longer may be rent by any careless flash or crash that men mey wish to loos “Interference—the 1adio listeners’ bugaboo. Antonio Evening News, with the com- ment that “some means should he found to break the annoying habit of continually shifting from one wave iength to another— that is, the Golden nid be applied te radio. ‘The h Gazette Times holds that “if the major benefil of international tests in to hasten bstterment of radio sets or reasonable use of the ai credit for public gain of immen: worth will bave Lo be accorded.” The Santa Barbara News adds its belief thet “possibly the most important lesson that (hese broadeast taught is the necesaity of close lation of the air.” * o % x “Ohservance of the week.' & viawed by the Youngstown Vindi cator, “made possible through sgree- ments s» to use of the air. will bring the world closer together and make for larger interest of communities in each other, though widely separated.” The Vindicator recognizes that ‘el forts to broadcast and receive o such long distances will prove profita- ble in the end, for it Is by con- tinuous experiment that dafects are detected and vieas ‘perfected to overcome them.’ In another five vears, the Norfolk Daily News thinks. at week will “tell an entirely dif- ferent atory." The effect of radio development on the world {s emphasized by the Chicage Tribune, which offers the commen “Today it is & stunt and temorrow it will be reutins. We have siumbled upos s kind ef internationalizm which Chesterfield | upon | Perhaps in no one direction is the, cided 1 B. 0, THURSDAY, and conscious heauty tooks | upon every tribute paid to her besuty only as her due, but wants to shine und nsidered on the side o her understanding; and a womun, who i ugly enough o know that she Is 80. knows that xhe hus nothing left for 1t but her understanding. which In consequently (und probably In more senses than one) her weak side. “Rut these nre secrets which you must kesp inviolably, If you would not. like Orpheu by the whole sex. A man who thinks of living great world must be gallant, 3nd attentive 1o please (he women. They have. from the weakness of men, more or I they absolutely stamp every man's character in the beau monde make it either current or ery it down. &nd si0p it in payments “IU I8, therefore, absolutely neces ®aly to manage. please and flatter them: wnd never (o discover the least marka of contempt. which Ix what they . naver forgive: but in thix the ure xingular. for i1 ix the same with men. who will much sooner for give wn injustice than an insult o ow o Yel in another letter, dated two yeirs earlier, Lord Chestarfield wrote “Bafore long. 1 am of opinion that you will both think and speak more favorahly of women than vou do now. “You seem to think that. from Eve downward, they have done a great deal of mischief. As for that lady. I give her up to vou: but, since her time. history will inform vou that men have done much more mischief in the world than women: and. 10 say the truth. 1 would not advise vou to trust either morve than is absolutely On the contrary, this 1 will in. naver advise ta 1o aitack whole bodies of any kind. for. besides that all general rulex have their escep tonx. vou nnnecessarlly make vour ne!f & great numher of enemies by at tacking u corpx collactively “Among women. as among there are good as well as had may be full as many. or than among men “This rule holds ns (o lawvers. soldiers. parsons. courtiers. eftizens ete. They are all men. subject to the mame passions and santiments. differ- ing only in the manner, according to their several educations. and it would be a3 imprudent as unjust to wttack any of them by the lump. “Ingividuals forgive sometimes but e« &nd mocietise never do. AManv voung people think it vers senieel and witty to abuse ihe clergy in which thay are extremely mistaken winy in my opinion. parsons " verv lika other men and neither the het ter nor the warse for wearing » hlack gorn . n tions nien. and it more. 500d senerul efect i upon na “nd societies are the trite threadbare jokes of thoss who sel up for wit without having snv. and so have recoursa to commonplace. Judge of individuals from vour awn knowl edg of them. and not from their sex, profession or denomination Those who todav find plessure in “lambasting Congress. for insiance in the mase. ought to read their Che. terfiald. and keep still. In this dav of the Charleston «hes terfleld’s reflactions are intsresting Dancing in in jtself a very trifiing, sillv thing. but it i« one of rhose established folliae to which people of wense * somelimes obliged to con- form. and then they should he able to do it well. * * * There are u thousand foolish customs of this kind, which not being criminal mus he complied with. and even cheer fully. by men of sanse. Dingenes the cynic was a wise man for despia- ing them. hut a fool for showing it. Be wiser than other peaple if vou ecan, but do not tell them s=o.” International Radio Tests h Important Lessons will dwarf in significance the League of Nations, the Third Internationsle and the World Court: twilight for the mandarins and their soiemn pow- wows and the dawn of a ceai inter- national understanding. With the diplomats out of the wiy Americi is likelv (o get away with the lion's share. We have more broadcasiing than all the rest of the world o gether.” v - aox At any rate, the Syracuse Heruld sevs, “it was more than simple curi osity that inspired the air vigil." and the Harrisburg Telegraph adds: “Radio fans get all the thrill out of ‘hearing Europe’ thal came to wireless amateur= only « few vears back when they zieefully fold friends they had ‘picked up Arlington last nizht.” mean- ing they had heard the faint Moy aignal indicating it was 10 Washington. Now we may ‘zet' & voice trom London or Berlin or Paris —and a lot of folks are 100 sleepy t t up and listen. so blase have we become concerning what a few vears ago would have attracted an audience of cientists from the uttermost parts of the earth.” The Jersey City Journal calls at- tention 1o the fact that “on the second night of the test, America's sending hour wea sacrificed to clear the air for the SOS of a foundering ¢ e, and it declares “it tacular veminder that which is giving pleasure every day, in atill quietly Iy fulfilling its first duty ice at sea."” ““The events of International Radio test week,” the Davton Dajly News concludes. “showed further how puny are the efforts of man when exerted gainst the elements at the tim when Nature is not in a friend mood. The record of the preceding year has not heen surpassed. This is not due s much to the fact that discovery hax not been advanced as it is because, when the elements as- sert themselves, man is powerless." ———— Alabama Indian Names Easy From the Apniston Star. North Alabama has given names to many of is some of its rivers and sev. eral cotinties, and (hey are names that are not difficult efther to spell or pronounce. It is different in Orggon, where an attempt has been made by the Oregon Historic Society to supple: ment common names for towns witn old Indian names peculiar to the tribes which once inhabited that section. Oregon's Indian names are almost hopelessly unpronounceable. Among those auggested for the historical so- clety to use were ‘Shikeldsptikh,” “‘Hifluseltschlikh, “Chalaltgelit,” Nayakkhachikh,” “Shageth,” “Tsapk; hadidlit” and “Waginkha . Very much more ean and much more easy to spell are the North Alsbama. Indian, names of Choccolocco, Talladega, Sylacaugo, Tallapoosa ,Etowah, Coosa and 2. score of others that have been given to o towns, rivers, creeks and countie in 10 thousands and efficient rescue werv- Indian towni Each of the Alabama Indian names is | TEAs an acho of the days when Indians roamed the hills and valleys of this part of Alabama. e e Good Reason. From the Warceater Gazatte. be' torn 10 pleces|getting anjoyment in the | opinion, fear polite | monition is Courage! and| fites 1A | i i { ! | undoubtedlv THE NORTH WINDOW By Leila Mechlin, | “When you see peopie in galleries pictures and ex- wagging thumbe at changing glances, vou they are communicating out nsing words, and compe being studied and criticized.” So sa'd Prof. Leigh Hunt of the College of the City of New York in @ radio taik Kiven recently. His sibject wan, fHow to Gel the Best Out of Ple- fures,” and hig exposition was one of the most enlightening that the writer haw heard. He holds that fear pre vents 80 per cent of the people from out of pietures—- fear of being wrong. fear of another’'s of ridicule; and his ad may know ideas with ition 1x The three most important elements in a picture to look for, he stated, ® influence in all courts;|are color, subject and composition. these he adds truth to nature. ! truth but semblance of truth. Wisely he recalled for his hearers Corot’s saying, “Sit before my picture until (he mist rises: when it rises vou will be pleased.” And. above all. he counseled those who wish to get en Joyment out of pictures not to anniyvzA them (oo carefully. “A piciure.” he suld. “is 10 charm you. often to charm vou unawares, and if its color. com nositlon. drawing or subject should not be pertect charm for yon will compensate.” wise this is! greal many pictures have glven much pleasure, not because of what they are. but on account o what they suggesi. ‘There are xome who opinion that those who know most find least pleasure in art, because only the best to them makes appeal: but they are wrong. The most know- ing are. as a rule, the zentlest crit- fes. It is the ignorant who condemn wholesale and unaparingly * %% o= are of the Ona of the best tests of the merit of A work of art is whather or not it retains its charm upon scquaintance: whather or not it makes a good com panion in one’s home. Hersin. 1o a #real extent, lies the difference he- iween an original painting and a4 e production. The painting. if it is really good. is &n endless source of pleasure: the print. while it may charm at firet. Is api to grow weari some. Just why this is it 18 hard to explain. In some mystarious wa the artist seems o put'a part of himself into hix original work. In every new light. under varyving conditions. aspect changes. A great work of art is an inexhaustible source of pleasure. It was this that Willlam A. Chase 4 in min if he could he door of every that the words, eriticism. ant would place ovi art museum the your enjovment, not vour He himself knew what 1his none bett His flrst o he alwave loved to tell. wa chromo. bought with few hurd earnad dollars. When this was out grown he hegan huving orizinsle. |la was one of the comparatively few painters who purchased his colleagues works, and in the successful schievs ment of 2 vounger painter he took nuntold dalight. He had a great love for art. He was a born teacher. and more than many today realize, Ameri can art pwes a debt 1o his teaching. Willlam M. Chase was no friend of the modernists. \Visiting one of the *nrliest axhibitions of post-impression fstic art held in the Natlonal Arts Club. New York. vears ago. he was heard to exclaim “How awful ft would he it we old fellows, from Rem brandt down. have heen all wrang and these voungsters ara really right! oxxow The interesting thing ahout the works of some of the adventurous voungsters” is that apparently they are bezinning to turn back to tradi- tlori. After a period of decidadly in ing almost traditional of definition of form. This is strik- fngiv fllustrated in the exhibition of cotemporary Itallan painting bronght to this country recently by the lialy America Society and given « first showing in the Grand Central Gal ler! New York. In this collection in the matter {one find< <ome of the most axtrems | cnbists and futurists using still sim- plified expression, but drawing with | the accuracy and the positivenass of o Holbein or a Durer. “WhY worry ahoit ar?” For more then 2.006 vears it has gone its way. *hanging now and then in aspect. hut retaining always certain character isties, reflecting invariably the eivili zation, the ideals of the time in which it was created. going to nature for its source. Interpreting beautv. We have the art of Egypt. of Syria. of Greac of Izome. of the far East. of the Mid- dle Aces and the Renalssance -all bused on the same fundamental prin iples. a1l adding besuty 1o the world Why <hould we feur that it «ill not continue? ~And. what in more. we are produc ing grest art today. Only last week four superb murxl mosaics by a (o temporavy artist. Edwin H. Blash. fleld. president of the National Acad- emy of Design. were completed in 1. Matthew's Church in this city, works essentially in the spirit of our day And ver comparing fuvorably with the great mosalcs produced in Italy tnrfes ugo. the glorions possession of the great cathedrals. Despite the fact, #s some one has said. “all the world today is on wheels.” ari not only lives but ‘thrives, and. what is more, the Old World in today turning hopeful eves 1o this country in the belief that here a renaissance of art has already begun. : B renaissance of art * ox % Obviously a is the artists, and whatever progress is made is attributable. as a rule, to the influence of a few who naturally as- sume lesdership. In reviewing the de. velopment of architecture during the past 50 vears, Reyal Cortissoz lately called attention to the part that per- sonality plays in this record of prog- ress. “When White designed the Goelet house at Newport,” he says, Under the new regime instituted by McKim. Meade & White. American architecture gof a point of view.” He mentfons others—Richardson. Hunt, Burnham, Llovd Warren, Cass Gilbert. Henry Bacon, Goodhue. He enumerates & number of striking examples where- in individual genius found satisfactory play. Among these he mentions Bacon's Lincoln Memorial and John Russell Pope’s Scottish Rite Temple. both in this city. When it comes to the matter of American style, he ex- claims, “American fddlesticks!” and quotes Whistler, “Art is art: mathe. matics Is mathematics; architecture is architecture.” But American architec- ture; as he sees it, is “part and parcel of our civilization, saturated in our na tional taste, aspiration, vitality.” It is this which makes It. as he puts it “'so0 exciting. at it seen men.” n the pant or in the preaant, one in the foreground a group of to pronounce |8, * ok ok ok Apropos of the opera and tax reduc- tion. topics of commanding interest cally this week. the following stat ent of Otto Kahn ma lled: *'It ix no copy-book maxim. but sober truth, to say that to have appreciation of, and understanding for, art is to have one of the most genuine and re. ur | munerative forms of wealth which it s, |is given to mortal man to possess. I ire my words when I say that not the most profitable transaction of my business career has brought me re- sults comparable in value and in last- ing vield to those which 1 derived from the investment of hearing. in my early youth, let us say, “Tristan and lsolde. or seeing Botticelli's He zatia pace chat litle by liftle be: | &1L the work sone may Buots Shels came canonical in the U States. | sPeare. ou; LIk rieo ot Unite Sinien &nd. in the disposition of many Ke- | But any way you look 4 | hen he sald | articulate expression they are becom- | Q. H, did the controversy he tween Virginia and West Virginia to West Virginia's debt o the « State, turn out?-—J. B A. In April, 1919, Virginia brought suit against West Virginks for her debt to Virginia, which $14.562 R67.16 on April 1. 1919, The S Court declared West Vir and the debt has since been funded as o and Sankey British Isles” Moody of the Q. When did make their tour M. A. The zreat Dwizht Moody Great tain 187 Q. What State is most densely popu lated '—C. . s A. Rhode Island leads in density of population per square mile with an average of 5664, Massachusetts fol- lowing with 479.2. The District of Co- lumbia outstrips all the States with 2929 persons 10 the squire mile. The for the whole Pnited States ix of in 10 evungelical 1our and Ira D. Sankey R took place in 1873 een i ity Q. What is the ditfercnce be a Kingdom and an empire?— M A A kingdom s a political ent vuled Ty a monarch called a king. An empire i u gronp of kinzdoms and distinet states all of which are under the vule af a monarch called an em peror. Q. What per cent of the population of the world I= Hebrew? . J A. Only six-tenths of 1 per cent are of this race. Q. What is the meaning of the word “Noel” used in Christy music?— - “Noel the Engzlish JN AL for Q. H munity carr A i« the French equivalent word “Christmas people must 1o have mail A w many aein w th order B. requirements for vil « delivery is that it shall have a population of 1.500. The others are that the receipis of the office must he at least $3.000. receptacles provided for all houses. the streets named. the sdewalks paved e Q. Which efty is the larzest. Maline Rock Tsland or Davenport?— A. The populations the 1. One ot of three citien mentioned in 1920 were: Moline 1., 33.910: Rock Island. 111, 40.073: Davenport. lowa. f All of these are fast-growing cities Q. What is the position for the { for a tona 1ime I A in tiresome lor | with the weight bearing foot t comfortable when standing toe in Q. When a lightning stroke hits a rodded building. is there a report or is the shock carrled off silently?— S.M When # ake ocours lightning s on a rodded huilding, thund will fol 1 However. at least 95 per ceni of i the value of a system of lightning rods lis in the function of allowing the elec trical energv 1o fus off from the i points of the lighining rods, thus pre venting the high electrical tween cloud and earth, and when this is prevented the stroke is prevented Lizhtning rods allow the current pass or fuse off from the points, leav- {ing the building in » normal electrical { condition. ver there is a possibility of a lightning stroke which if it should occur would he much lighter than without anv means of protection. and {the rods should carry this siroke the ground o Q. What per cent of the citrus fruit and raisins of California is controlled by co-operative societies”—0. L. A. The Bureau of Agricnliural Fco- nomics savs thaf 85 per cent of the cen- | i California raisin crop is controlied by stress be. | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. [eooperative societies: &0 | the civens fruit produetion Trolled. per cent of is %0 con Q. Are ny Indians employad hy the Bureau of Indian Affair<? . M A. A total of 1.70% Indians ave em ploved with ananal salaries amount 1o almost $2,000,000 Is there a new rule in auction Ige which provides for a credit of 00 in the honor scoresif seven is hid nd made?—F. B, L A. The scoring of 1000 in honor column for a bid of seven and of 500 for a bid of six when successful ix an experiment that i Leing tried in some localities. Some players use a rule that the bid must he an original one { while others permit the score eves { when the hid ix & final one, having | started with a smaller hid Milton C Work, chairman of the card comm: tee of the Whist Club of New York. savs that, in the 1920 code, 100 i< al iowed for a grand slam if made, re gardless of what the size of the hid muy have heen. and that it ix not Jike- Iv that the 1926 code will alter this provision b 1 | @ How does the | with daily news manenvering '—F. W A daily news hulletins (he comminder-in-chief on quency schedule at £ p.o [of naval communications Bellevue laboratories Q. By whom is New .Jersey repre- sented in Statuary Hall?—J. 0. G A. In Statuary Hall in the Capitol in { Washington each State of the Union i« permitted to contribute two Statues | of its favorite xons or daughters. New Jersey is represented in Statuar by Philip Kear Richard ton while at sea durinz sent 1o ich-fre by the office throvzh and naze of fodine 171D Q. What is the in une galion « A, The g water varies ¢ have heen made Jersey which none up to &0 jodine are in water with the depth of the well and with | different waters 17 per billion | would be one grain in 1000 gallons of | water. There ix not enough known | about this 1o say where the percentaze {is highest. In seneral way it ix | hizher along the Fastern coast and in he Southern and Southwestern States in Studies Naw tha m hillion of would vars Michie o et parts ix of mail ear How the many post Q through Yo A ment pleces oft In 1823 the Offic found thit %31 1 were hundled during that vear tics have not been com hus been estimated that ) pieces of mail were han the fiseal vear endi <t dled June 30 Q V. G A. Shoes were commonly worn the Romans. Senalors wore s Specis style reaching 1o the middle of the les colored red and hearinz a silver cres cent just above the foot. Men of Rome nsnally wore except the case of one hold publiec officr In this case the nenally were red ring 1925 Did the 1 shoes mans wear shoes Letteis are going ¢ aur free Information Bureau tn Wash ington telling readers the want to know. They are in anyicer o all kinds of queries—on all kinds of subjects—{rom all kinds of people Maice use of this [ree service which | The Evenina Star is maintaining fov pou. 1ts only purpose is to help you and e want youw to benefit from it | Get the habit of writing to The Eve ning Star Informatic Bureau. Frederic 1. Haskin, Director. Washington. D. ¢ whaterer | BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL trimpets of the kv FAnE oer the felds the whited air The Tver o Announced he all the | Arrives the <ot aod Seetns DO hote 1 AhERT | Fides Dol and woods { heatan Farmers lars becavse the man's fertilizer.' Isleds and sturdy hands. make with the white snow and frisky gumes of sied-ridin battle. Rut what of the owner whose sidewalks lie huried ool deep when no shoveler seeks « of removing the cold incumbrane What of the patriotic resident who {loyally clears his own walks, but looks with dismay upon the snow barviers in front of ihe neighboring hou houses vacant. hearing signs tent” or “For Sale' Their owners are. perhaps. hasking in Florida, and their agents disavow any responsibiliiy hevond their commission to sell or {rent | farm e with merry invite to and snow- vouths snow and the vouths joice the and sedate property jol * ok ox % Last Winter, the city suthorities e criticized by public sentiment for the snow for antome vear they were pre. adwavs. But along side of the Di juilding. wherein sit and ponder the District Comm sioners and all’other District officials there Is a path of only & feet clear- ance. when the congressional emact- ment demands that all residents and others in authority over property shall clear the sidewalks to & | taiting 1o el i bile traffic: this pared as to the' brought about through the medi et e medium of | (€ same law declares that all own- | tenants or managers of private property frontfng upon a street shall clear snow or ice within eizht hours after the said snow ceases 1o fall. The corporation attorney intimates that. judging by past experience with laws to compel privaie persons 1o work where the courts have ruled it to he the obligation of public officlals to do all the work. one may quote Shake ers. taw.” such citizens, the words of Sh apeare again appear expressive. “This being done. let the law go whistle.” Many large cities have had 10 fuce litigation 1o demonstrate the right to legislate for citizens and other occu- piers of property to keep the snow off of the sidewalks. The courts have held that the City of Washington, having no local government with anv power to legisiate beyond police regulations. is quite different from*a city of local councils and aldermen. vashington has had four laws re- quiring private persons to clear snow and ice from sidewalks in front of propériy which they occupy, control or own. Three of the kiws, in turn, have been declared by the District Court of Appeals to be unconsitutional: the fourth one is vet uncontested, but is serfously questioned by lawyers the same grounds which against_the previous laws. The Corpo- ration Counsel. Mr. K. H. Stephens, an- nounces that the law will be enforced until some violator is found who is ready to contest it. and then the (est will be carried not only through the District Court of Appeals. but to the United States Supreme Court. in der to define the limits of the Dis trict Comimissioners’ jurisdiction o even the power of Congress to legis- late upon’ the subject. * x ¥ x The prgsent law fixes a penalty re- co\'eringfi‘h. outlay necessary when the authdrities clean the sidewalks for a_delinquent owner or tenant. plus 325 for each offense—and each da delay constitutes a new offense prisonment may be added. The thorities are limited in cleaning wall:- ‘Primavera.’ Moreover, the dividends by the failure of Conzress to make Mr: Lasky says the public won't |which we receive from the apprecia- | appropriations to cover the labor. but %o to aee a good mpvie. opportunjties are not # many. art are axempt.” But the [tion of beauty :I: the. cultivation of | that does not pregent arrests of prop orty owners, <3 widty of & | V. COLLINS. “The law penalizes the chief engineer of the Army. also. if he fai the sidewalks hefore any pithiic ing. except the Capitnl and sionat Library wn crews tend 1o the buil W hose \ ik o+ test case previons by been any mder made result There has never under this law. but laws, fest cases were estate agents with the |ing the laws The efforts nngress requi owners. tenanis manazers of any property ahutting upon a street within the ity of Washington Georgetown to clear snow within four hours after it had ceased to fall in case of e. to cov with sand or ashes in the same The test of the law was made v three real estate de; Holtzman, Wagga man and ¢ the United States My Justice Morris the Districi Caurt of Appeals that the 1 | wits vold. Tt was void as to George since no snch eity had existed | for 1wo vears prior 10 the enactment 11 was fonnd unreasonable since it equired owners of property find wdust or other substance to spread on ice. and no provision was made 10 supply against absentee owners Furthermore. the owners of the resl estate do not own the streel an the law undertook to compel priva‘e individvals to clean property ir which the District holds the fee simple. There were many other faults found by the appellate con with that law. The next Congzress in began in 1865, when passed an azents or o it ith- it sleet sawdust time limit o laws were adopted by 1897 and 1904 and tried in test cases. Justice Morris, in the case of MeGuire vs. the Distriet Columbia. in writing the adverse apin ion of the court, said of the 1904 law “\We find onlv ane section in it —that which repeals 1he of 1897—which does not in the same Wayv eoantraver the principles of common right and fundamental law He further sald “Thix class of lezislation is un doubtedly an attemp! on the part of the municipality to shift to the shoulders of the individual citizen the burden which it is primarily cumbent on itself fo bear. namely. that of Kkeeping the streets and thoroughtares in proper condition for the purposes for which they were in- tended. That this duty is primarily upon the municipality cannot rea- sonably be questioned Justice Morris pointed out that the act required each tenant In apartment house to clean the & walk or g0 to fail or pav a fine. he was jailed he conld not eomply with further requirements. each day heing # new offense. * ox ok Commissioners attempted to make & law. under the gulse of a police regulation. hut the Court of Appeals ruled it as hevond its powers. Congress lem and 1922, vequl managers Tater, the District gain ftook np the pro assed the present law in ing all owners or tenanis, r agents of property ahui - ting on streets having paved side- walke to clean the walks within eight hours after snow ceases to fall. Scores of arrests will be made and cases tried, but it is not exnected that any private individual will test the case by appeal until a group of large interests undertakes to do so. prepared to face the United States Supreme Court. And in that connec- on comes a quotation of A remari aid to have been made by Chief Justice Taft some hefors he hecame x member of the court of last resort. which. he said A “eourt with facility. horn of lonz practice, in evading ihe issus. (Cooyright. 1926, by Paul V. Collins.) ' is