Evening Star Newspaper, February 20, 1926, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON. D. C. BATURDAY. THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper C: Rusiness Oftice and Pennsyivanis Mee: 1100 Fast Ohicazn OMie Tower Buil Buropean Office: 14 Regent 8. Fnga mpany Ave nd St ne Taonden, The Eveninz Star. with the Siudiy morn Ing adition Aelivered by carriers withon the mtx at B0 centa per month daily oniy 43 cents per manth Sunday onic 0 e Per month Orders may he seat hy mar telephane Main 5000 Collsction 18 made by earrier at the end of each month Rate by Mail—Payable Maryland and Vi Dailr and Sundar. . .1 ¢ Daily onlx 1ve Bundar only 1yr All Other States & aflr and Sundas .1 ovr Alle oniy Bundar oniy n \dvance, ainia. 1 mo 1 mo 1 mo, Member of the Associated Press, The Asaociated Press is exclusively sntitled 18 the lise for rapublication of all news din Patchas credited to it or not otnerwise cred 1tad in this nenar and aleo the locs) news PURlished hersin. Al rizhis of publoation ©F anAcial diapatehes herein e alo tese e = The Tax Bill Agreement. Tnsuring a net reduction of $3851.000.-| 000, the tax revision bill comes fro conference with an exp suras final enaciment in ample senxon to govern the first payments of the current tax year. ‘This has heen one of the shortest, if no of conferences on revenue meaxures in the history of legislation. The differ the House nate bills have heen adjusted with remark abla facility. and the now goes {0 the Hause and Senate for final approval in a form which is satisfac tory to the Treasury and in general to the country. The final net reduction of $381.000.- @00 is for the current tax year of 1926 The rates carried hy the hill will in Eubsequent vears effect a reduction of mbout $38.000.000 less annually. The House bill provided for a reduction of £325,736.000. The Senate bill would have cut the taxes by $456.261,000, so that the hill as it comes from confer- ence makes a reduction of $35.264 000 more than the House measure and $75,261.000 less than the Senate. The most material change from the Senate Bill is that which the on admissions, save for an exemption on tickets up o on antomohiles. Both are retalned. The conferees accepied the changes made in the surtax rates the shortest ences heiween and s measure restores taxes of these taxes by the Senate, and accept the Senate repeal of the ecapital stock tax, fnheritance tax is compromised. Senate repeal of that fax is rejected and the compromise fixes a maximum of 20 per cent, with all estates under $100.000 exempted. The Senate gets a eoncession in the matier of estate taxes, which the on 1 eatates are to he reduced retroactively by 15 per cent. There was no issue on the score of publicity the conference, the Senate’s acceptance of the House re- peal of that clause of the law assuring the end of the procedure of exposing tha tax payments to promiscuous public serutiny. N With approval of the conference re- port by tha House and Senate virtu- ally assured, and probably within this coming week, the definite enactment of the tax reduction hill hy the first of March is certain. This has heen a most satisfactory piece of work, ac- complished with a minimum of parti- ®an maneuverings for political advan- tage, carried through with & sincere wish to relieve the people of a need- Jess tax hurden and to conform to the condition of the Treasury in a manner tn maintain the established fiscal policy of the Government in respect to debt rednction. No time has heen wasted in needless dehate. Both houses have gona at the work in a businesslike The, hy rates hefore manner, and they are now to be con- | gratulated upen the performance, al- most to the point of conclusion, of a fiMcult task in a statesmanilke man- hen — e Senatorial questionnaires will not fpravent Secretary Mellon from being gemembered with popular regard as fhe man who did more than any one 5 to effect a scheme of tax reduc on, A — It waw never expected in framing Pmmigration laws that the charge of #moral turpitude” would break into figh =ociety. oo “Softening” Nationalism. & speaker before the sessions of the tenal Council of Superintendents ::d Commissioners of Education last #vening, explaining a proposed world- fride campalgn to eliminate interna tional animosities through education, #ald that the keynote of this campaign avill be the presentation in a favorable Jight of the history, life and’ aspira tions of the peoples of other lunds to the pupils of each country from the kindergarten to the university. ppeaker, Dr. Augustus O. Thowmas eommissionar of education of M and president of the World Federat of Educational As: There are two metl wching history—from the nationalistic aud the internationalistic viewpoint. proposed 1o eliminate the nationalistic Slawpoint entirelv, for that, perhap: would not be wise. but rather tu softe that viewpoint and to teach the truth about other peoples to the pupils o ne o said ®ach nation and to avold exaggerations | schich develop animosities Further about this 1= desirabl particulars i, th the menns to may he questivned by mnfany., The “softening’” of the natlonslist view- Point is a rather broad description of & procedure that may not appeal the majority of people. There has Pbeen =0 much talk of internationalism, 80 much deprecation of the nationy) Bt spivit during the past decade, espe #lally since the Russian experiment In @overnment founded upon internation- @llem, or rather non-nationallsm, was Saunched, that apprehension is felt in this country. It is, of course, desirable that the ehildren of all the world be taught tha truth about other peoples, be made te understand them, thelr natures, their their characteristics. No harm ean come through such understanding. But L SAD be dans {hroush too ire requisite ve nd of which . bt their histories, aspirations and .February 20. 1926 fition that ax cents, and the tax | The | THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1926. ll'l'n"‘h “‘softening’’ of natienalism. nnfi!lrem national artists in that line. lit i more than dubions whether edu-|Service with some hospitable noble- cation demands a wenkening of that man or dignitary, a service which of nationalism. which Is the |gave a free rein to inventive faculties mainspring of civilization. {and did not count the cost of pennies, | Parechinl tenching is bhad. ix re- got for a man renown during his life- unenlightening, na iz | time. sk of the educntor Is to avoid | Outstanding dishes peculiar to the line the (| United States have been in many cases young truth. the inventions and discoveries of very folk—illiterate and dark- turbaned cooks in the de- kitchens of Southern “great wites of New Kngland | spirit It | stric | The this .. w while epening minds the | bred of ignorance without weakening the to Prejudices may be eliminaied humbie the faith of the | skinned | Student in his own sysiem of govern- | tachs ment lessening his pride in the | house | nchievements and advantages of his | pioneers: often the ploneers them- It coftening” is | selves. who, with ritle, knife, skillet and Umeant such u course, there ix no rea- | hettle, concocted comestibles that were d But i “softening ™ | little heavenly: farmers’ 1o weuken national pride and | dauzhierss men handling pols and faith. then there ix no xup, pans in the pitching galleys of litte imernational edu ships. the placid and competent house- be the motives of those whe of “Pennsylvania Germany propuse it | the uborigines themselves con- “From the kindersarien to the uni- | tributed such delicacies as succotash [ Yersity" wignifiex the entire xpan of jund cornmeal mush. which the voung people, Svarcely one of these creative are heing formed in mind and spirit, | Eeniuses is known. Here and there in he taught |18 A exception. like the originator of [ANAThINE (hst cxuses them to become | Sleamed oysters, an outstanding deli exnical the of |Ile|,-]rm-_\ which the National Capital is own {proud to claim for its own. An Ameri. o eun culinary hall in selunion of rightecus aceomplish l‘«n de the half-mythical figures of.the originators of brunawick stew, of " not well that they he that other stwndards in other LDUCKWheat cukes, of terrapin, Mary- bulked planked belter than those which pre. | 14nd o vail in their own country. Their ¢ [ shud. spoonbie: clam chowder, wuffles—in fuct. of x inds | 10 the point of | Peaten biscuit e sound ressoning und clear perception, | 1008 list of delicucies which regard fol that jown country, byt son 1o less than fmeans et fo however an ation, s wives I Even cere may years during s not well that they 1o view record Lond with se o remembe vy mistukes of governme Of farie would i the | | ments, is it of bheans s sl should be developed hood | the ante-prandial reader of his news e |puper cuts short. Americaus are of Joss | Lhe opinion that could these immortals & | be reproduced in enduring marble and L shouta | Pronze they wovid form as odd-looking lx collection as could be imagined, but that in number and in caliber of com- petence they would not. fAguratively apeaking, have to bow to any other aggregation s in manhood and n with better judgment lives with untry won their own bt falth and pride That is true nut be never in the wlism, T never softened. ised Traffic Bill. e | similar the House tory. sterday, and the | before | The Ad divecto The Rev A favorable report on traffic bill was made b District committee: measure 18 expected to come the House for action on Monday. sulient features of the hill ditional power for the truflic to revoke permits of sutomobile driv ers hefore trial if suspected of serious violations of the traffic regulation and granting to the director authority over all street traffic. including street Zeviged national r—oee Trial by Tobaceo. 1 coercion by tobucco smoke % charzed at Norristown, | where three women recently sat in a bootleg- ging case, which resulted in a verdict of wequittal. 1t seems that the women favored conviction, the nine men vot ing for acquittal. The women were g oV aki Sior set in their view and so were the westivard, ‘an arterial highway; with| ™ disasiecable with tobaco mmoke £ that the women hecame ill and yielded automatic electric signals, and al- | ) o0 obtain release from intoler. low the traffic office until July 1 o '" Order to obt { able conditions. ue drivers’ permits for five vears. All revenug from this activity | is to be used for extension of the au- | tomatic lighting system. Congrexs should time prssing this desirable legislation. 1 since the trafic office was created the director has been handicapped by his inability to revoke permits of drivers who. by devious devices. have evaded after having been apprehended by the police on serious charges. Cases S Juryer are sey Capitol new the question whether rule will ow comes hereafter @ no-smoking adopted in jury especially in . |the case of mixed juries. Or perhaps M Uit much a rule is not adopted and en- " forced only women' who smoke will be | regarded as eligiblé for jury duty. 1 Th who eannot | stand tobacco smoke in confined quar- iur- but, so far as known, no | jure brought around to the rooms. lose no re are some men male trial was ever re on record showing that there are motorists on the streets of Washington i not endure the fumes emitted by the smokers. Smoking in jury rooms has Who have been arrested meveral times | (FCT Sl L tice from the for offenses that would result in convie- |y it ihe avatem and the intro- tion and revocation of permits if they y o LOE T G0 T T orristown were br < cls 5 o rl’lh’:’:’l‘f‘l‘;:: tnl ll‘lilfll;d It is this cla {case may mark a hreaking point in a er v inclin motorists at N A | « that has the sanction of lon which the bill is aimed. jpAcEes L i 1 usage. Control of street cars is essential if | the traffic director is to secure com- | S Allegation that George Washington plete harmony in the regulation of all | had a favorite recipe for beer threat- vehicles using the public thorouzh-|ans to draw the Father of His Country fares. The street car companies have | jnto a domestic prohibition antangle- refused to co-operate in the mappinz | ment. {out and enforcement of arterial and ! boulevard highway regulations, and it is only by removal of this dis element that success of this can be obtained. In the matter of permits, the bill makes it optional with the motorist whether he is ay 3 7 P e v'«: pay m:lxn Tor AVE || Loy Aridh Bis warkes o PopulAr s pos: me or Annually.§ Gy 1o leave him in doubt whether Revenue from this source, estimated | 5 at $550.000 for the five.vear period. ix | :!‘u: SR A expected to complete the electric au — | tomatic lighting system for the Dis- | trict. e s She obliged to sing the same old songs. nstruments are nwmerous. Inspira- | tions are few A new soprane is discove urhing tem e The composer who married an heir SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. —_— The Water Front Plan. “The plan of the District government for making over part of the Washing- ton water front has been approved by the Fine Arts Commlssion, and has been made public. It I8 proposed to {build a bridge from the Washingion |side to Kast PPotomac Park. the dock line from Washington Barracks north is to be made symmetrical and strong and handsome docks will be built. | They will be large enough to berth {&ny shipping likely to come to them | Wharf houses are to be buil(, and thev [are to be of good architecture ana | "“-iu be screened in some degree E st ntal - | trees and parking on the channel side ! “tf'" T e ool [of Water street. Several small parks | The free and easy pace. Unto gentle jazz I'l cling, lare planned along Wale i Whose tunes we cannot lose, Nor do a thing Except to sing 'Bout “Mammy Standardized Song. | Miltonic and Shakespearean verse We've read with pleasure great. We've welcomed rhythmic phrases terse Of a more ancient date: But when with taste that's going strong O'er classics we enthuse, There comes along A raglime song ’Bout “Mammy " and the “Blues." 'S0, wherefora should the teachar tofl wol For literary grace street, and | it is proposed to create three larger | | parks, one at the foot of Tenth und | | H. another between Thirteenth | |"rhirteenanda-hait atreet ana i . to M where Sevenih sireet jolus Water street. At a point on the | i and the “Blues." one in Moral Turpitude. ou in favor of keeping people in his-| be | | point of agreement because he could | The | It ds not | which | channel neur the bridge leading from | Water street (o East Potomac Park | the engineers have planned recrea |tion pier, The plan is important. 1t would ad | |vauce the commercial prospect of ! Washingion harbor sud uke the [docks and dock bulldings mre service 1 xive Washington broud riverside drive, furnish | uutomobile highway between | ! South and North Washington and give an entrance to Potomac Park more [convenient to the people of South | Washington than any of the present entrances, It would give a short cut | to East Park from present car . and one® of the plans for| BEast Potomae Park is that it shall become the wain public recretion res. | ervation of the Capital, | able. suother A would new Polomac In spite of various disparaging inti mations concerning George Washing- | ton, February 22 will be celebrated ss usual, e — American Culinary Heroes. The municipality of Strasbourg is to erect a statue in honor of Master Couk Clause, who is credited with the creation of “pate de fois gras” In 1767 while in the service of a marshal of France. Thiy claln to fame Is dis- puted. as ure most of such claims, nevertheless the statue is going up, The French are famous for their fine cookery, and even more famous for the high average nof ronkery in their country. They have for centuries knswn and PAMd allantipn io thalr [} | out of this country because of moral turpitude?” “I am.” answered Senator Sorghum. “Only., what puzzies me is the ques- ion of keeping people in this country in spite of it Diggings. Science now its work resumes, Diggin' in Kgyptian tombs. Liggin' In & coal mine is AL present more Important biz. Jud Punkins sav the small offender I8 easiest catch. The feller with ihe hip flask gels arrested instead of | the bootlegger. ““Phe male is still crude,” remarked Felix the burber. *“A lady says, ‘I'd h bob, but & man sl rely remarks, ‘Gimme a hair cut.’ " Overwhelming Influence. rimson Gulch seems to have lost ““roo many of the bova have been selected ax types for motion pictures,” anawered Cactus Joe. ‘“Them film di- rectors have got '‘em cowed." Reward of Merit. “It's the very best Congress the coun- try has known,” Says Gary, “in many a day. So again I'm in favor—since facts thus are shown— Of boosting congressional pay. “*Tain’ no use blamin' Noah," said Tipele Ehen: “but he might have stop. ped dis avolution argument if he had Iatt de manksvn aup'D o aT” | | Klances at {10 bustle in ahead jat |In our own city S children of a larger growth, ollege hoys grown up. | THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL, J. Jeffary Locksmith had a sneak- ing sense of pride as he walked along the street with Mary Roque. They were on their way to his store to solve roblem of lessened sales of “Hot long ago had given up the ladies. Like mont men, however, he still managed to get a thrill out of being seen by hia asso- clates with & snappy young woman. T. Lampton Bilington, president of the Oia Club, of which Locksmith wan # member, smiled roguishly as he raised his wide-brimmed hat to passing couple, Locksmith knew Billington got among the “boys" at lunch he would tell them all about seeing the popular phonograph record retailer walking along F street with # pretty girl “Gay dog!" Billington would say. The other hoys (ranging from 35 Lo 65 years of age) would pretend amazement. T. Lampton Billington, however, would declare that he had long suspected him “You can't hold that fella down.” Billington would assert—Locksmith could hear him now. The bovs would laugh heartily. Tomorrow when h Locksmith, eame to lnnch, many an varions would be the cracks at his expense. Then he that as svon = would smile an embar- rassed but delighted zrin, and in- « in such repartee as is only to be heard in two places in the world— al a college fraternity dining table or the tables luncheon elub. Women, it has been said, a only nen a often but »oxoxox “Mr. Locksmith.” said Mary Roque, gravely, as they walked along. “you into your shop first, and I will saunt in afterwvard just as if 1 were a customer. Then, after 1 confirm & few of my preseni suspicions, I will call vou inta conferance.” “Very good. Miss Roque,” answered ksmith. He no longer felt that voung woman was a child. Sy her classic profile, stolen from time to time, had shown him something more than a pretty face, Most of Mary's clients began by feeling she was “rather—er, voung.’ and ended up by placing thelr prob- lems entively in her hands. That was why she could send them bills for $500 without causing them more than & tew feeble gasps. Mary made good in her work. just she did in her appearanc “There might be 10000 girls on F street, but Mary Rogue outshone them all. Star- eved Mary was different. When she smiled it yeemed as if something new had been at last introduced into the 1. this 1 werld. Two Young men, discussing her nee. had disagreed about that smile. “1t would be wonderful.” said one, “io « from that smile at breuk the rest of vour life.” The other dissented. I am not <o sure,” he replied. am afraid it would be too much of & good thing.” Mary slackened her pace. as they neared J. Jeffery Locksmith's store. and allowed that bustling gentleman of her. the window she noticed the salesgirls the counter give the “big hoss” large and opaque smiles us he went throngh. “It_never hurts to smile &t the boss." sald Mary 1o herself, flattening her small hat against the window. * x k% Then she entered. P examining a catalogue tending to be of records, the | { a modern business men's | Through | Mary kept her bright eves on the girls, on the customers. She also watched the proprietor, as he walked up and down. Now and then Mary smiled to her- neif, a tender, wistful smile. a pale re. flection of her full-sized one, but at that enough to turn the head of any young man upon whom it might have landed. J. Jeffery was walking up and down, pretending not to notice Mary. Mary grinned. Her grin was quite equal fo her smile. having in it something at once o frank and so honest that one invariably thought of a small boy. When Locksmith walked to-the back of the atore Mary seized the opportu- nity to sidle out the front door. Some minutes later the proprietor was called to the telephone, and heard the soft volce of Mary Rogue. “Will you come to my office, Mr. | Lacksmith?" . (oWwhy. I thought you were in my sto found out what I know. and left 1o think Can you drop around”" ‘Why. | look for wanted 1o it all over, vou, then. .Just que long ago had learned | the benefit derived from making them | come to you. It was not long before the energetie step of Locksmith sounded in the hall. CWell, sirt” amlled Mary. I am| ready 1o tell you what is the matter with your old store."” * ok oxx Old store?” retorted Locksmith. “Just a figure of speech,” replied Mary. “Now, let us get down to busi ness. “Yes, let us do.” sald rather enjoving himselr. “The trouble with your store, Locksmith, is vour indifference your customers’ weltare." Locksmith stopped smiling. “You walk up and down. yes—but have you ever stopped long enough at | the record counter 1o | those girls treat | “Why, why— “No. you heve not. the girls oge-half either. In‘any e ploves take their ployer. “Because vou i Locksmith, Mr to I do not blame much ax 1 do you, blishment the em color from the em- ave basically Indif ferent 1o vour customers, vour sal girls are, too. While 1 was there I heard a good old woman asking for a certain hymn. The salesgirl snapped ai_her for the number of the record, and when the old woman sald she did not know it, the girl indifferently sald that she couldn't help her, then.’ “1 never heard unvihing like that| in my store,” replled Locksmith, red in the face. “Of course not trouble. You never heard. You never listened. You never gave a whoop how the girls waited on people. Why, they have treated me that way a score ot times, personally. And they do it | simply beciuse vou allow them to get | away with it | “You are the hoss, | “and if vou order and demand them {to be absolutely courteous and help- | | ful, at all times, they will b so. vou see” she continued. with one of her sweetest smiles, “the whole | thing is up to vou. in the final analy sis. Stop trying to b such a good fellow. Mr. Locksmith, and simply be a good salesman. “Think less of the hoys ai the club and more of the poor old woman in the shabby dress, who comes into your xtore 10 buy ‘Lead, Kindly Light. " 0 that 1s just the continued Mary BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL } A recent issua of a New York daily contained an advertisement of a man seeking emplovment “‘in a business which has a future hehind it.” To- day’s “Background of Evenis' hax (o do with a future event which has a background before it. The “event” In the dedication. beginning tomorrow. of the Jewish Communitv Center, located al Sixteenth and Q streets northwes Ite interest does not lle mainly in its half-a-milllon-dollar cost, nor in architecture, nor even in the avidence of the unity of local Jews. The Community Center, while serv- ing Washington Jews, in giving them a playhouse. a gymnasium, s school svstem for all kinds of culture—espe. cially Americanism—a forum, where eve branch of Jewr¥ may meet in friendly discussion, is the symbol for all America that the Jew has come into his own among self-respecting and honored American people. The Community Center in the National Capital is a national institution. It is partly paid for with the 350,000 fund contributed by Jews outside of Wash- ington. Pre.eminently, it is the out- standing emblem of Jewish dignity for every Jew, wherever he liv Here it atands ax conspicuous and inspiring as the noble Statue of Liberty stands to bless the immigrant seeking a haven from “a sea of trouble.” * ok K % Lincoln said that “God must love (he common people, for He made so many of them.”' There are a good many Jews in America, and they are found in every rank of society. There are 100 times ax many Jews in New York City as there are in Pal- estine. In that metropolls, as repor ed by the World Almanac, there are 1.643.000 Jew: 1l population—while in Palestine there are only 84,000. In all Asla there are 604,000, Africa 566,000, and a total in the world of 15.555.000. In the United States there are 3,600.000, sccording to the figures compiled by Dr. H. 8. Lintield of the Bureau of Jewish Soclal Research, New York. there are more than 14,000. * o ok % While quoting statistics, there are other figures which are equally quotable and significant. ‘The mtory that Queen Isabella made possible the Columbian discovery of America by pawning her jewels is now fonnd to be as mythical as Tell little apple or Washington's cherry tree. Instead of that gueenly sacri fice, according to Frof. Herbert B. Adams of Johns Hopkins Universily, two Jews, Santangel and Sanch vespectively chancellor of the royal household und controller general of Aragon, supplied the ready money. John Jacob Astor got his starl to fortune by beating furs for a Jew, Hayman lLevy, for which he was paid $1 w day. When Robert Morris ral- Hed te the rescue of the Revolution by soliciting funds to supply an empty treasury, it was a Jew, Haym Salomon, who saved the day by loan- ing the Government $658,007.13. He also paid the personal expenses of several delegates te the Colonial Con- gress, including Jefferson, Madison, Lee, Steuben, St. Clair, Wilson, Mon roe and Mercer. Without his aid these statesmen could not have served. He sustained for two yearsa & secrel ambassador in France. None of this indispensable financial aid was ever repaid. He was captur by the British and languished for vears in prison, finally dying, impoverished, and leaving four children and a widow to face poverty. Was there ever greater patriotism? There were 4,000 Jews in our Armv to fight Spain in Cuba, and there were 5,000 more eager Jewish vol- unteers offering in New York alone. The first man to volunteer in that war was a Jew and the first to die on San Juan Hill was a Jew. Spain had persecuted the Jews for cen- turies. its | —29 per cent of the to- | . COLLINS. | tveen 260,000 and ewish sol diers from the United States. While the Jews constitute 3 per cen: uf our population. thay were 4 ver cent of our American expeditionary forces, and onefifth of them were volun: teers. They won 1,100 citations for bravery—723 from the United States, 287 from France and tha r st from other countries, * x % ox ‘The Jews have won distinction in American politick—in Congress, in diplomacy and in _the upper courts. Senator Judah P. Benjamin ef Louisi. ana was offered a seat on the [nited States Supreme bench, which he de- i him only | past {each April. but the pressure of offi- clined. Justice Brandeis is recognized ax one of the ablest members of the present Supreme Court. Many others have served with great distinction in both branches of Congress and in dip- lomatic missions. In commerce. the Jews are lead- ers evervwhere. In New York City they own $870.000.000 of real estate and a billion of wholesale business. Ther control the theaters. of the United States. In music and paint- ing thev are eminent. Henry Mosler, # Jew, was the first American artist to sell a piciure to the French Luxem- bourg. The Jews ara law-abiding, as was testified by Gov. Vance of North Carolina. when he pardoned the only Jew serving a 10-vear term for man- slaughter, ying the pardon was “in part in recognition of the zood and law-abiding character of our Jewish citizens.” " Judge Briggs of Phila- delphia. in sentencing a .Jew for burglary aaid. "‘Yon are the Arst Israelite I have ever seen convicted of crime.” Other judges and eminent lawvers have testified similarly. The Jews take care of their own poor. In New York City they con- tribute $1,000,000 annually for that purpose. A movement {8 now active 10 raise $16,000,000 for the relief of oppressed Jews of Russia, Poland and other parts of the East. and one Jew, William Fox. headed the fund with his contribution of $250,000. and upon his becoming chairman of the fund he announced that he would expect New York to increase its quota from £4,000,000 to $6.000,000. Henry ittle- s0n promptly subscribed $40,000, al- though the campaign s not to open nntil next monih. L In his speech on the occasion of laying the corner stone of the Wash- ington Community President Coolidge safs commu- nity of the United States i not only the second most numerous in the world, but in respect of its Old World origins it Is probably the most cosmo- politan. But whatever their origin as @ people, they have always come to us eager to adapt themselves to our institutions, to thrive under the In- fiuence of liberty, to take their full part us citizens in building and sus- taining the Nation and to bear their part in its defense, in order to make # contribution to the national life, fully worthy of the traditions they had inherited. (Copyright. 1926, by Paal V. Coilins.) All Is Vanity! From the New Orleans Item-Tribune. “Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, vanity of vanities; all Is anity. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Jour- nal of the American Medical Assocl- ation, agress with the preacher. “‘America’s beauty bill,” he told the Des Moines Federation of Women's Clubs, “is $60,000,600 a yea And he attacked vigorously plastic surgery, coametics, “beauticians” and ‘“‘cos- metologists” who share in this great vanity fund. The doctor finds no merit in rouge or avan heauty creams. Venus didn't have any, nor Cleopatra, he said tri- UBDLaBUR 3 THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover., The foreign relations of Great Britain from 1892 to 1916 form the! chief substance and interest of “Twen- ty-five Years,” by Viscount Grey of Fallodon, as first undersecretary at the fq ign office and later mecretary of state for foreign affairs. Rut other side of lLord G ihe politician and atatesman vealed continually throughout autoblography. The key to this side of hix character is to be found in the third chapter, in which he says: “We had, neither of us (Lady Grey and himself), ye; made much trial of town life, and the firat Spring did not pass without our becoming aware that it was intensely distasteful to us.” Love of the country hegan in Lord Grey's early childhood. which was passed at hix grandfather’s estate of Fallodon, in Northumberland, where his parents made their home. A country dweller he was until 1885, when he was elect- | ed 1o Parliament and was obliged 1o live in London. His further comments on this firat season in London: “If 1o an incompatiblity of hahit and tem- perament with town life there be add- ed exile from the home. not only of manhood but of boyhood. with all it familiar rooms and furniture and sur- roundings and interests. it is inevi- table that town life must be very un- congenial.”" I During all the vears of Lord Grey's public lifa London was tolerable to through frequent escapes from i1, Fallodon was too far awayv for week end journeys, though he always spent longer holidays there. So he put up « small cottage in Hampshire, on the Itchen, where there was fish- ing, which “in the atress of office be- came a sanctuary.” In the Spring and Summer he and Lady Grey would leave London Saturday about half- 5 in the morning without bag- gage, and would reach the Hampshire cottage in time for breakfast. “The start from London each Saturday morning was one of rapture of antici- pated pleasure, and week after week the Saturday and Sunday fulfilled an ticipations.” Lord Grey would fish till about 2 o'clock on Saturday and again from 7 to 9 in the evening. “Sunday was now a Ashing day then on that part of the Itchen, and we apent it reading great or refreshing books. go- ing long walks in some of the most beautiful country in all the south of England, watching birds.” For 25 vears this cottage was cared for by one woman and afrer her death by her sister. They lived in a cottage nearby and their duties at the cottage of Lord Grev were not arduous, as the refugees from London wanted little hut quiet | and the simplest food and attendance. “Life at the cottage suggested a defi- nitlon of luxury—that of having evervthing that we want and nothing that we did not want.” The grea: diffi- Ity was to keep away from the cot- tage when rk demanded presence in London. “We had to determine how many daya we could from time to time spend with # good conscience a1 the cottage.” In January, 1923, the cottage was burned down. but after 1918 lLord Grey was unabie fully to enjov the outdoor life there hecanse of his failing sight. * x * % After the death of Lady Grev. Lord Grey continued 10 go frequentiy to the cottage. but he also found other places of retreat. In the Autumn and Winter he often spent week ends at a qulet hotel on the edge of a heath in the New Forest On Sun- dav morning he would walk into the forest, eat a pocket luncheon in one of the wilder parts. later have tea at Beaulleu or Lyndhurat and return in the dusk or by moonlight or star- light to the hotel. where the evening was apent in reading or on officlal papers. “Farly on Monday morning 1 retutned to London with all arrears of work done. lungs filled with fresh air. limbe stretched. mind and body refreshed.” For several vears lord | Grey on a Scotch river during a fortnigh cial duties again and again made it impossible for him to he away trom London at the time. =o finally it was given up. During the war the country holidays were of neces- sity so curtalled that often for months together his only escapes from the city were for & hew hours on Sunday afternoons in Richmond Park or Kew Gardens. * x x x An anecdole told by Lord Grey illustrates best of all his desp love of nature. “There are a few davs' he sa “in the first parr of May when the beech trees in young leaf give an aspect of light and tender beauty to English country, which is well known but indescribable. The days ure very few, the color of the leaves seen darkens. their texture becom: stiffer: beautiful thev are still, but ‘the glory and the dream’ are gome." So it was his cusiom alwavs on the second Sunday in May, which he called “Beech Sundav,” to bicvele about 9 miles from the Hamp- shire ccttage to a beech wood. where he lunched at the foot of a certain tree and spent the day. “The wood was entirely of beech the trees atanding far apari. the gray boles grew up stralght and clear and smooth for some distance above the ground. High overhead the hianches touched and made a canopy: the blue #ky just visible here and there: the sunshine coming through the tender, light-green leaves.” On Mey 5. 1906, an ultimatum had been sent by the British foreign office to Abdul Hamid. rented a small salmon nminu ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. Q. Which anthors lead as the “hest sellera”?—P. T. F. | A. The list of favorite muthors is | too long to admit of complete repro. | duction. One recent compilation namex Winston Churchill as leading. followed by Harold Bell Wright. Booth Tarkington, Cutcheon, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Zane Grey, Gene Stratton-Porter. Eleanor H. Porter, William J. Locke. Phillips Oppenheim, Gilbert Parker and Rex K. Beach. in the order named. Q. Is the hardening of copper a lost an’—K. C 1 A. The Bureau of Standards says that hardening copper is no secret from present-day metallurgists, any of whom can produce an edged tool of hardened copper as good as any made in prehistoric times. Copper is not used for such lools because of the zreat superiority of steel. Q. How many species of hirds are there’—H. B. W. A. The Biological Survey savs that there are 800 species of birds and 1,200 subspecies. Q. What ix the lowest temperature ever actnally measured?—RB. W. A. It appears to the reading of a temperature of 133 degrees helow 7ero. Fahrenheit, obtained with a reg istering balloon at Batavia, Java, in 1913. The height at which this tem perature wax recorded is uncertain. Q. Why is the pool In a poker same called & Kitty?—M. E. H. A. The probable origin of the term is the old-fashioned kist from which we zet our modern word chesr. A money box was a Kisl, so came the pool in & poker game to he called the kist, then the kit, and, finally kitty Q. What were the Presidents Johnson, Cleveland ?—AMM. A. President Johnson wax times spoken of ax “Sir Veto.” Arthur, “America’s First Gentleman” and i Chet.” and Cleveland, the “Man Destiny.’ Q. How many there’—H. A. R A. There ave 19. with a total area 11.372 square miles, including Hot (Arkansas), Yellowstone, Sequoia, Glacier. Grand Canyon &nd others. There are 7 national mili- tary, eic.. parks under the jurisdic tion of the Secretary of War, in- cluding Chickamauga and Chatta- nooga, Getiysburg, Shiloh. Lincoln's birthplace and others. Also a large number of so-called national monu- ments. including Devils Tower (Wyoming). Montezima Castle (Ari- z0na). . Petrified rest (Arizona). Chaco Canyon Mexico) and others, Q. Ix it unlawful te employ the symbol of the Red Cross in connec- tion with articles of merchandise P. H, T. A. It is unlawful for any one other than the American National Red Cross, its employes and certain uthorities of the United States tn use the emblem of the Greek Red Cross on a White ground or any sign or insignia made or colored in imi- tation thergof. or the words “Red Cross” or “Geneva (ross”” or any combination of these words. for the purpose of trade or as an advertise- of and sobriquets Arthur some- of national parks are prings F (New George Barr M | men' 1o induce the sale of any article whatsoever, ar for any business or rharitable purpose. The only excep- tion i< in favor of persons. ete. tha | actually used the said emblem. sign, | Inxiznia or words for any lawful pur- | pose prior 1o January 5, 1905, Q. What are the extents of the coast lines of the United States and Alaska?—S. M. M, | A The extent of the tidal shore line of the mainland of continental United States. excluding Alaska, s 7.314 miles: that of the adjoining islands ix 5.563 miles: that of the mainland of Alaska is 6,542 miles. and that of the adjoining islands is 8,590 miles. Q. Are all white Persian cats deaf? O. W. H. | _A. All white cats are deaf provided they have heen hred from white stnck This is #lso true of many other | animals and albinos. Q. When a storm has hlown down a fruit iree in March. can it he put hack in the ground?—I. M. A. The Burean of Plant Industre |#avs that fruit trees mayv he raised |afier a storm has blown them dawn. if |they are well anchored and if the sail ix well packed around the roots | white | Q. Did Kre, actnally serve in the | Waorld War?— M. A. Fritz Kreisler, the great Austrian violinist, served four weeks in the |trenches durinz the World War. What ix meant by | Q 2 . b, A. Days of youthful inexperience are sometimes so designated Q. Does cita smoke affect trees and | plants T W ¥ A. The stuy in one efty 10 the | conclusion the smoke and gases |emitted by power and heating niant chimneys had a harmful effect npon trees, shrubs and other vegetation Q. protec salad davs v of the smoke pro led the investigator that lem Are cedar & effectual on from moths for as a wanl gar menty’~A. ¢ A. Chests made of heartwnod of red cedar. if in gnod condition as regards tightness, will prevent damage from | moths if clothing is beaten. hrushed and sunned before heing placed in The |chest. The ndor of red cedar will nor | destroy adult moths or millers nor the |eggs. but it will kill the voung larvae Jor worms. Q. Can a person be compelled (0 ac- cept #n office to which he has heen elected”—N. A. L. A. There is no such law in this coun try, but under the common law all eiti- zens in peace, ax well as in war. ow their services 1o the xtate when re aquired, hence, after heing duly elected, |may be required 1o take oath and |qualify themselves as public officers The only defenses are illegal election or appointment. legal disqualification 1o hold office or proof that the office is incompatible. What you meed to knows Is there some point about your business or personal life that puzzles yon? Ie there something you want to know without delay? Submit your question to Frederic J. Haskin, director of aur | Washington Information Bureaw. Hr is emploged to help you. Address your inquiry to The Evening Star Informa- tion Rureau. Frederic J. Haskin, di- | rector. Washington. D. €. and incloss 1 2 centa in stamps for return postage. o i‘arll-_(k of VTl:easuryr Deficit Failed to Excite the Public battle in confer- House and Senate over the tax bill public opinion has concerned ltself chiefiv ahout the prospect of having the measure in effect before March 15, when 1928 taxes From the moment the Senate passed the hill with levies cut hevond the House reductions newspaper comment disclosed general the certainty that the represented the mini mum of what citizens could expect in the way of relief, and little di position 1o worry over the Treamury's Durinz the final ence hetween the are due. satisfaction at House figures predictions of a deficit. Discussing the action of the Senate. the Knoxville Sentinel (independent Democratic) deciared “the Mellonit started it. “Mr. Smoot had to nibble off some few score millions more for the big fellows,” the Tennessee paper continues, “and it was too late to cry ‘ruin. destruction.’ when the lit- tle fellows get their turn, as Norris said. The mischief was done. Every- body got what he wanted. Some got more than they wanted.’ Similarly, the Utica Observer-Dispatch (inde- pendent) remarked: Smoot took care of the rich. He should not be sur- prised that the Senate then broke away and voted to abolish those other taxes which weigh more heavily upon the average citizen than do inheri- 1ance or estate taxes. The Charles- ton Evening Post (independent Dem- ocratic) predicted that it would not be easy for the administration to re- store to the tax bill the items which had been eliminated in And said: It the appeal these eliminations make 1o large sections of the public—the automobile tax directly affects nearly which was (o expire Mav 13. Lord Grey anticipated that Abdul Hamid would give way, but not until the last moment—and May 13 was ““Beech Sun- day.” Things turned out as he an- ticipated. Abdul Hamid's reply did not arrive until May 13, too late for him one-fifth of the whole population of the country and perhaps 30 per cent of the taxpaving element—will shake the solidity of the House and hreak the administration strength theve. * ok ok K The Des Moines Evening Tribune- the Senate | is not impossible that | to go to Hampshire. "I had now to|News (independent Republican) criti- wait another 12 months o see the|cized the program in Washington to great beech wood as I knew it in its|cut off the taxes on wealth on the greatest beauty.”’ Lord Grey expressed | theory that the war is over, this pa- his feeling of keen disappointment (0 |per contending that “the war will not a high official in the foreign office, who | be over for the taxpaver until that listened civilly, but, ax he told him | $20,000.000.000 of war debt has been years afierward, with almost scornful The question is. Shall wealth astonishment. Those of us who reel scripted until that debt is that something of value has been lost from our lives if for one Spring we miss wseeing the cherry treex in bloom lent) thought that “‘under the about the Tidal Basin will have 1o | oereme o ntitons. which have hesn scorn but the deepest sympathy fol| enected in some other legisiative af- Lord Grey's feeling over hin loss of | fgipg (he Democrats and insurgent one “Beech Sunday publicans in the SNenate should L have made the tax bill less of a rich Again the war in ancther novel by [ man's document.” ©On the other hand Philip Gibbs—“Unchanging Ques the Hartford Dally Times (independ- The murder of the Archduke Ferdi-|ent Democrat) contended that the nand of Austria introduces horrible | bill carried tax reduction a long - change into a fairly happy family. The | tance for earners of salavies and younx men ave all awept into the war | wag “Hundreds of thousands of and most of them are killed. The[yuch persons who enjoy excellent in- ‘mistice comes and those who remain | comes and who live in comfort will alive try to adjust themselves to new | pe entirely relieved of any Federal conditions. It is all very realistic— | (ax burden,” the Times added. “Tax and journalistic. Mr. Gibbs’ ideas on | yequction cannot be carried much the uselessness, waste and wickedness | r,;ther for their benefit without de- The City Daily Tribune (in- of war, the desirability of international co-operation and the viciousness of the treaty of Versailles, famillar through his former novel, “The Middle of the Road,” and his post-war journalistic book, “Now It Can Be Told,” are all present in this lateat novel. * % ox % Modern life is becoming so compli- cated, rapld and artificial as to be very unwholesome for young people. ‘This is the 'opinfon ‘of Mrs. Jessica G. Cosgrove, mother of a daughter and head of a school for girls. In her book “Mothers and Daughters” she triex to tell mothers what they may do to protect their daughters from the prevalling influences which tend to destroy real youth before the vears of youth have fairly begun. "1 am sure.” he seyi e lify the lives of eur children delfb- eraialy” stroving the fundamental theory of the income tax. If exemptions were ‘made much larger the income tax would become entirelv a tax upon the rich.” a * 5 ok % As 10 the difference between the two houses of Congress, the Indianapolis News (independent) said: “‘In the ad- justments that will be made in con- ference both sides are expected to make concessions. On many of the issues presented. it is not a question of the desirability of the reductions or eliminations, but of taking no final action that might risk a treasury def- icit.” The Buffalo Kvening News (Republican) considered that the coun- try was well satisfied with what the House bill promised and the measure.' “public | ‘that we shall have to aim- | opininn strengly urges the adoption of | The Lensing State | “if the Senate ix going ton far, It ought not to find encourazement in applauke from the home constitu ency.” The Birmingham ws (independ ent Democratic) commended the reduc tion to afford “relief to pavers of in come taxes in the smaller brackets {and the Morgantown New Dominion | regarding it ax assured that the law {would be on the statute books hefore | March 15, observed “This is good news |10 millions of more or less grudging contributors to the Government's in | come.” However, the Oklahoma City | Oklahoman (Democratic) warned Its | readers to remember that “the puh- | lie knows that much work promul- | gated on the Senate floor with a blast | of ram’s horns is quietly undone in closed committee rooms with chloro- form and knock-out drops. The pub- lic knows extremely well that a vast |Tot of this taxcutting talk is the political gesturing of 30 odd Senators stripping themselves for the Summer campaign.” * o ox ok Explaining that the House bill car- ried a reduction of $352.000.000 the amount the Treasury Department said could be spared without creating « deficit. while as passed by the Senate the measure provided for a reduction of $451,000,000. the Topeka Capital (independent) forecast that the fin. reduction would he between these 1wo amounts and concluded that in making its reductions ““the Senate went on the reductions “the Senate went on the theory that the Treasury Depart ment underestimated revenues two or three times hefore and might make |the same mistake this time." The Philadelphia Bulletin (inde- pendent Republican) characterized those Senators who vored for the fur ther reduction as 38 Senators voting in obedience to the demand of ihe people and forgetting party lines. while on the other hand the Seattle Dally Times (independent Renublican) declared “that partisanship influenced the Senate decision hardly cin he doubted. 1t is obvious that if the tax reduction were greater than sound business principles warranted. there could be no further revision for sev- eral vears. Instead of a surplus, there would be a deficit and the Republicans could not point 10 a fine record of ac complishment. The odd part of the enate is that 16 Republicans were found who voted with the solid Demo- cratic line-up.” The Providence Bulletin (independ- eni) suggested that “perhaps the in- tention was to make the hill ridicu lous und thus pay off old political grudges against the secretary. But,” continued the Bulletin, “the taxpayers are not interested in the personal quarrels of any of the Senators; what they want is the passage of a rea sonable tax bill in time to enabR them to file their statements withony inconvenience hefore the iM% of March, S — Superfluity of Investigations. From the Charlotte Observer. There are visible evidences that the thinking people of America—and this portion of our population is constant- ly and rapidly increasing—are hecom- ing impatient at that section of their National Congress which seems to seize every possible opportunity 10 play politics, attempt to create class prejudice or use their Position to exer- cise rank and unreasoning prejudice. ‘The creation of bureaus and commis- sions and committees (o regulate or investigate this, that and the other business, department of Government or official 1s not regarded by the citl zenship of our country today with the same complacency with which it wa regarded even a few vears ago. The Federal pay rolls have been swelled 1o an astounding degree. r——— Crusty. From the Norfolk Ladgsr-Dispateh This_two-billion doliar hread com- bine strikes the average citizen as belng & right crusty propoaltions