Evening Star Newspaper, February 27, 1926, Page 6

g THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 0, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1926 acra und that every grain of corn|several tribes who had never heard of | hauled to|the Soviet government, had never THIS AND THAT ‘ m from a feed store. | heard of the revolution, had never 1 T 4 farm and o|€ven heard of the Romanoff Czars. It I | | — 1 ! ! | ich the chickens eat far; WASHINGTON, D. C. The SATURDAY. .. .February 27, 1926 | . ‘: oL R S -— |and THE LIBRARY TABLE ANSWER BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. TO QUESTIONS By the Booklover. garden is not clearly drawn | Seems that the scientists of this expe- { iy | BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL market a truck farm. A truck |farm in the t might be fifts a garden fs | dition carried to these remote people Visit the jungle with Will | Beebe, < e all its exotic beauties and | study all its varied flora and fauna, | the first news of the outside world they had received for several hundred as in Q. come e former Kaiser M. M This is the reason that they generally around Cape Horn. 1o : THEODORE W. NOYES. . . .Editor | - Dl Mary Roque was opening Ler)I made a few remarks about George o ~ muus-u-m-lqlmhwum‘sm‘nmwum' = which were springing @he Evening Star Newspaper Company Rate by Mail—] Marylar avab Advance, eV 1 1 RUE AlL Other States and Canada. Member of the Associated Press, publ | Fans Br | Distriet The Democratic Perspective oint. 1 | | | ] T | | L gentle neither ill be in the field tha Smi The 15t th tied onvention into the Madison Rock well, who mus ist, despite >4 in 15 system, disappointment of 1 an| r the better norm sentiment will bave forced th nent of the two-thirds rule t rule before the delegate n 19 one thing we be certain, and t \ wlers 8. Of na rom g in Ma hich the party two-thirds rule Square Garden ordeal in 1924 that we shall not national committee two-thirds rule that s make a clean-cut 1 do away with the unit s the is a 1 1ed for the dilemma ndon the field is of S the two-thirds rule majority rule, opened to a large n it is 1 mb rants, while e prospects of a hosen a long deadiock, eased Rockwell utly not unmindful of the possibility cha in favor ndidate, as he t Mr. MeAdoo g to was in 1924 e poiled votes out of call at Madison Squ Which is in the way of serv the national committee dark hor after wre it Mr is e nee to rtic oint out th ajority rul own p lar ¢ as he re Garden ing notice on that rule i \wandonment of tne two-th in the of the Cali fan whom he doubtiess still repre- s that is not calculated to ir 1 cha this attempt i perspective to the the 1928 convention successul. interest for crease the chances of So her altoge to the see down conclusi viot altogether n o is ————— | Efforts Catheart n to the fact hers o —————e has been a time when publicity b ccorded ihe old query, “Is marriage a failure?” e to exclude the Countess of to 1 that she is here have served only attent and er There © much oving s been recognized as| to understand undry ticket. e still conc th Radio i rain; tself with wave ler fnstead of mental shertages, L Farms in the District. Departme whict of Comnm ! e has there r-one farms in the District of | with a furm population of | ire 16,492 chick ccounts of the survey t the department made cows, horses, hogs and on District furms, but it counted six 1t might be asked information obtained, | esentatives of the Department nerce travel through the Dis- int of the farms, or et from the District as or the tracts and lots still as- sessed aa agricultural land? Tt s conceivable that there {s con- erable land in the District still as- wessed as “agricultura on which no rops are grown. The owners of the and aro just walting for a surveyor 10 I it off In bullding lots and to ave it recorded as a subdivision. That there are now eighty-one farms | n the District will surprise most Washingtonlans. There is probably some difference between the commonly of a farm and the | Irve shows that $82. On these farms ens. Tho news 116 not show th ® count of th rheer *hirty how radios. this was Did rey ot Cor rict to make t#a they st of The inference | the farms listed | < that a number | berrs | homes | single-session tota {of the operations of m has been upward. The question now is | man at a local grade crossing, a few | aicres or much less and it is conceiva il.hfl that a garden of half an acre, the roduce of which is carried to mar might assed by the depart 1t my rmer: to 4:30, or 8 to & the dawn and between the 4:30 and It be that the District's e still esboro, be ¢ a truck farm ome of our Distric 9 work in from and garden patches in whistle sunse may | number famous jtruck farms the ( bearing vegeta- in Barnaby and hborhoods, south of the but they t be wer than a few years ago. and place on isions have L settlements ken their the old st pea. ¢ The round Benning, [the 1 By arn ormer trucki on the lands between urg pike and the Fastern the valley of Little nch on the west side of the have the of be districts aden ch, and in been built with people who may typewriter, but awk- hoe. - A Stock Market Reaction. Yes! ward with rday the sharpest decline of she New York The aay's tradir securities " ock ¥ g reached a the highe the month and one of the heaviest s in the history o ares, the exchar Reasons for this slump in prices are n wlvance with especia emphasis on the advance in call that fuct, however, see the has t rket nd ction m en over 4 re nd readj surprisin ock list 1at the President signed the eduction bill, which might stiffening of the mar w . They have had control of sional with brief enabling ther , but in the net ny months they They have made | raids on overadvanced held, and have set them back trend of the market essions, nd narrow reactions to cover their sale: have been the losers o stock weakly the general ther the peak of the been reached and the natural and in itable recession begun, whether this is but a temporary set huck, to be followed by recovery me day Inescapably there will be a general reverse movement in th stock market. Prices cannot continue to adv; nitely. The power of the invested dollar has its imits. The general prosperity of the country is, of course, the controlling factor, and at present there is no sign that conditions are changing. Employ- a high percent the coal strike has the boom has a has or nce inde: earning ment continues The end of up the onfy “hole eld. trade is xcellent, and money is abundant. There are no in- Qdications of wage reductions or of fail ing markets. And yet there must be a reaction sooner or later. For some time past students of the rket have been figuring on lity of a general backward turn and picking out particular lines that reactionary turn and h It may be that now will come the test of their deductions. If the investing and particularly the speculating pub lic thinks that this present backward moven ginning of the long: expected “turn of the market” their eagerness to sell may be in itself the cause of a pronounced drop which in the end will have a benefic readjusting prices to val r———— An Uranown Hero. Somewhere in Washington is a hero who does not desire the limelight of publicity and praise. Yesterduy after. att ‘ted by the screams of a little hoy near the Tidal Basin, he ran to the edge and saw a woman and a baby in the water. Without hesitation he stripped off his overcoat, leaped in and saved them from drowning. When | help came and they were taken from ihe water by others, he refused to he sted to shore until the infant was resuscitated. Then he allowed the others to pull him to shore, put on his coat and disappeared. He remains un- known by his own wish. There was no particular danger in plunging into the Basin, for the water is not deep. That fact, however, prob- 1bly never entered into the calculation of this unknown rescuer, He acted in- antly without regard to his own safety < he afterward left the scene without giving his name. Tt was just the same sort of fmpulse that Ciused Alexander Dunn, the watch- in wor Retail e stock m the po of securitie would withstand a d their own nt is a b of noon, as even weeks to rescue a small boy from the tracks, only to lose his ago to try life with that of the litt!s fellow he | ¥ tried to save. The instinct to help to save is a natural reaction, and in this case it diffe ¢ in the modesty which this unidentified man displayed in quickly effacing himself from public notice. He perhaps does not rate his action as especially herole. He makes no capital of his deed. He is content with the conscientious feeling that he unhesitatingly obeyed a primal in- stinct of humanity. - Primitives of Asia, Tt used to be said that there were people living in the United States, in remote districts of the South particu- larly, who did not know “the war was over,” meaning the Civil War. It used to be said likewise that there were people still “voting for Asirew Jackson" in the fastnesses of the lower Alleghenies. These tales may be true. Doubtless they are. Now comes a tale that is quite as strange, perhaps even stranger. It is reported that an exploring expedition of the Russian or ay be that | hours | bbage and sugar ..u-nl ! white me | found that | maintained by | vetore their coming | of | | | imn. the range of world knowledge | year: | It was thought that all these isolat- | ed regions had been reached, that all | the contacts had been made with re- imote places and groups. Perhaps this | cne is the last. It may be that these are the final aining the h | date, to be acquainted with the mar- | vels that hav during the past marvels of steam, electricity etherle vibra tons. But th 1t merely a peculation ng forth ren been developed th nd in itse century, | Travelers are g | constantly into the desert wastes and of hu other been “islands nan may izolation the mountain-girt habitation where tor ba and there long complete fods. I that they was only years ax 1 reached Lhassi. communication had becn there This n conquest so tmportant scientifically as the lat est accomplishment, that just report- ed from Central Asin, which spans a veriod of several centurles and bring a primitive people whose concept of life the same as that which probably prevailed over two age et Demands for the privilege of dueling students It German university dismissed. the among German should not be lightly well known that university duel raay involve some phys is while lite. It 1= of ical pain, it i fear should be encouraged s a of ng vent any 15 to loss of mea instinets contbit reliev primul in ac the motto, “Safety ——— the r distinguished deserve all ting youth paths of are required to ex: ed f earnest of esteem In addition to di itors are and They in the and ordinary knowledge safe they discriminati and the Ei cise m with ref a erence to evolution nstein 1 theory. = ———————— It bootleggers go far toward able percentage ing. It legger to st the will Director Eldridge can clear from the streets ke liminating a conside of the reckless driv natural for « boot 1 the g the D« intuitive impression that somebody s | | after him _ A concession to the great American pirit economy by roysterers who drank the ne after chorus girl 2 bath in it e of was made a The moral of most Investigations is that 2 world war produces a highly state of affairs and should, be strictly avoided in the disorderly if pos: futur: 1o When engaged in reducing taxes Uncle sure of a loyal public In case it should become nec- essary to came back for more. n is alwe R A considerable loss of prestige would result if the U. S. A. should decide tb discontinue mention of the betting odds at Tia Juana. = e . on reducing the sad no Santa It taxes, susp! Cluus et Congress can g0 it may overcome sion that there is Egyptian research serves to effect a ating ion of ancient magnificence with modern publicity. fasc combi ——rate—. China suppressing newspapers with an energy that suggests the pres- ence of a Mongolian Mussolini. is ree—s The coal strike has been settled, but the average ultimate consumer’s bill for Winter fuel has not. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Truthful George. George Washington! George Washing- ton! You always told the truth! A great renown your name has won By candor in your youth. In later years, G. Washington, You roused the world, in sooth; And, as your work was nobly done, You cussed—but told the Truth! A True Politician. “Are you a wet or a dry? “Which are you?" inquired Senator Sorghum. “There is so much differ- ence of opinion that I see no reason why I should take a chance of hurt- cour feelings by disagreeing with Clothes. Clothes maks the m deed! A girl stands by to laugh. A bathing suit is all she'll need To make a photograph. n. Jud Tunkins says gettin’ arrested for parkin’ overtime makes him feel like a feeble little ripple in the gen- eral crime wave. Booming. “How {s Crimson Gulch along? Fine answered Cactus Joe. “We're boostin’ real estate values so that In a month or so some o' these building lots will be worth as much as a white chip in a five-dollar-limit poker game. coming Mental Activities. 7 That World Court moves me not at all To serious cogltations. I've thought enough when T recall The Trafic Regulations. cademy of Sciences has returned to | i.eningrad, which used to be St. Peters- | burg and was aflerward known as “Noah,” said Uncle Eben, lucky man, livin® in &« time when de ‘was a “re chicken farms and a chicken farm | Petrograd, from the Kara-Kum des- |navy had everything to ftself, ‘thout members of | an race to be brought up to | and China | the hitherto unattainable was not | thousand years | the | had morning mail. The first letter he the following, which she read with |interest, after first abstracting a | check for §500 from the envelope “My dear Miss Roque: “Inclosed please find my check in {payment for your recent services at will be pleased to know that 1 | discharged the two young ladies who | were rude to customers without my | knowing b | selt, came to was Y s 1 ought to have fired my 400, as you so tactfully inti mated, but 1 rather hesitated to do it for reasons that I need not go into “I am, however, keeping a weather n my new clerks and with suct results that sales have already picked up marvelously. “L would be forced to admit are right even if 1 didn't ‘\\hh‘h T will admit T did n. | You gave yvour dingnosis Je g thit | struck Wity | but ! your eve | sood you to you after me at first since thinking charge check truly yours J JEFFERY LOCKSMITIH President J. Jeffery Locksmith and Company your b up over [ L is corr tou. “Not bad,” smiled Mary, carefully lepositing the check, which she had held in her left hand during the read- ing, in the top drawer of her desk Jeffery,” she mused, “was not such ol as I thought.’ e next envelop heavy. Mary opened it | two nickels rolled out. She | “Dear Miss Roque ‘T have heard about y virtue machine, and as I seem to he n 1 of a virtue—or, at least, so | the critics have declured—1 in closing herewith two (2) coins of the realm, commonly termed nickels, for which please send portion of Tonesty My Washington Club, which » int felt slightly efully, wh read ur automatic broth has for its Lut superse the worl br: s in the “Ailow me to my dear Miss Roque, that your field is not so wide 1s perchance yvou might think. Herc n Zenith we feel that your endeavors are more or less misjiuided, and that vou had better stick to the ways of private investigation in which you first made a name for yourself. “Public service, my dear young lady, ik beset with many pitfalls whieh miti- gate the refulgent glory of everyd endeavor. T am not exactly sure wh that lust sentence means, but it sounds zood, so I propose use it in next speech before the club “With every best wish tn the world 1 remain neerely “GEORGE T. to n BABEITT.” M wttered this letter, as indeed she might, since she was the first person in the world to receive a personal lettr from the hero of Sinclatr Lewis' famous novel. The next was brief, but to the po “Dear Madam: “While in vour great city recently ry felt quite f it: BY PAUL } A bill is pending in the Briti Parliament to stop American desecra |tion of England’s historic buildings This does not refer to tourists’ vanity in carving their initials upon the walls of Westminster Abbey or chip {ping bits off the Irish Blarney Stone Americal who are 100 per cent Yankee would do none of those things. The bill refers to the craze of our nouveau riche which incites them to buy famous edifices, tear them down, |label the parts, ship them to the | United States, here to rebuild them. It s reported that Wi fck Priory is to be brought over, piecemeal, to bo used in a reproduction of Sulgrave { Manor, the home of John Washington, { grandfather of our country, and is to | be erected under the shadow of Mount Vernon. The rumor may be false, but the protective measure is a “true bill.” AT Mr. Charles Moore, president of the United States Cominission on Fine Arts, states that he had a friend who was negotiating, some years ago, for the purchase of Sulzrave Manor, in- tending to maintain it in situ as her English residence, but she found it too small for her needs. Now an Amerl- can soclety owns it and preserves it, but its smallness will not bar the shipment of enough bricks from the Priory to rebuild a replica. President Moore sees no reason to stop the col- lectors—it they pay cash. He suggests that Virginians might hegin nearer home in moving historic buildings. There is Libbv Prison, for example, away off in Chicago. Why not bring it back to Richmond? Not all its memories are unpleasant Therein Neal Dow used to preach tem- perance and In other parts the prison. ers conducted schools for French and Spanish. Bring it back from cago, where it is neglected and for- gotten, rather than disturb the an- cestral home of Washington, the Eng- lishman, says Mr. Moore. * k * % At the British embassy no great pro- test 13 exprossed against our import- ing old England—if we pay in ad- vance. Why should not an owner do wkat he likes with his property, if he needs the cash” And some owners in England do. But rest tranquil as to Sulgrave Manor; it is safe in the hands of a society to preserve it. As to Windsor Castle or Stoke Pogis well, Henry Ford might buy them for his collection with the Wayside Inn. * * K ahove exha the laissez Others are shocked at the bad taste. Stop them! There |is Mr. Minnigerode, director of the Corcoran Art Gallery. vigorously pro- testing over the outrage. He dis avows speaking for his gallery. for the | Corcoran deals only in American art. 1E he sympathizes with the poor English, French and Ttallan possess- ! ors of 01d masters. Why should they be tempted? Our dollars are irresist ible. Who in Furope can compete with the Metropolitan Museum of New | York, which has just received from the late Frank Munsey $30,000,000 or £40,000,000, producing an annual in- come of millions with which to import art? “The world Is ours!"—the art world. Oh, the pity of it, for the Europeans who will be making pil- grimages to America to find art! % ok ok % The American Institute of Architects is very much distressed over the sit- uation. Why, if Americans don't stop importing _‘‘confections”—t.e., ready- made bufldings (like millinery), what will American architects have to de- sign? Suppose the news came that the English had “struck ile” in Asia Minor and were coming here (v buy Mount Vernon and the Octagon House to move them to Piccadilly Circus! | How would we like that? There could be no objections to hav- ing our architects produce replicas of St. Paul's Cathedral or any Scottish castle, but the imnorters are not in- | terested merely in replicas of the de- | slgns. What they want is the bricks { the stone the beams and the m of their castles. The case is like that which Dooley described to Hinnessy concerning the Carneglo libraries, up everywhersy The faire sentiment. Chi- | Washington. | “Inclosed find five nickels, for which send me some of your best Prudence. “Tt would seem that one need more {of that quality in the National Capital than elsewhere.” Mary's hand, unfortunately, rested squarely wcross the signature, so that writer, is heipless Our dainty lady turned to the vir- tus machine, with its rows of boxe: each lettered with the name of some | desirable quality. One by one she dropped the § nickels Into t priate slots. One by one they clinked onto a heap of coing She placed Mr. Babbit In the slot warked “Honesty.” | she turned to her matl. This time L beautitul smile failed to appear. did not ke criticism any any one else does, and letter was full of 1t Dear Miss S ter. O about you | you better instead of | but that | the end | Mary grinned at 1 | “silly,” she said be turned up?’ reading = two nickels Then begun the let my friends told me and all I got to say is that wind your own businese, soking into other people’s ST THes Al oG pretty, your n marty, st | bes ! hear about the ect to vou, [next t | women that { oy likes radio. irs truly “EVA EVINGTON.' 1 top.” mused Mary, got that part about radio right, way. I got San Francisco on the loud speuker, which I8 pretty | good, even if 1 do say it myself “And I will admit that my is what is called retrousse, but of my friends rather 1 trouble with you, Lva, that vou ure envious.’ |reached in he Qe it any nose most my dear, is hine, then purse and drew forth “I am going to huy you Mary D M i t ran, “you have come Into my 1 a ray of sunshin Your in spriate spped three She Is in another ar F Ie into a dark fluence for good |little know the brought, and it i ou should know, quality that los limelight “Continue to be just yourself, {you will have done a great de than most of us can, for we & every day in the whiripool of tossed here and there es and others room spreading. lappiness you 1ot necessar for goodness is flavor in the its niore uggl life, other hand, more or less, are what we might all like to be, and you d ind say what would like to do and suy t were us good sight.” That was all ro . nor did it need any ture enough Mary blushed, and the so peculiarly her own |her bright face, and m | beautiful than ever. “So shines a |good deed in this naughty world, I she quoted softly. if our hind- as our 1 was no signa- for kindness happy emile came back to de her more BACKGROUND OF EVENTS . COLLINS. | but never containing any books, at Mr. wrnegie’s expense it literatoor, Hinnessy; it's " In this matter, it isn't wrehitecture, it is “mortoor.” * % When the question was put to Mr. Kemper, business manager of the American Institute of Architects, he telegraphed to the president of the institute, in Philadelphia, for an offi cial pronouncement on the parliamen- tary qu ion Back came this reply from President Waid: ebruary 26, 1926. tagon House, hington, D. C. There may b exceptional circum- stances justifying transport of old European buiidings to Amerfca. In friendly deference to sentiment of na- tions abroad practice should be dis- couraged “E. C. Kempe “The O Wz “D, EVERETT WAID, “President, American Institute of Ar- chitects Tha impoi y ation of ancient build: ings, say connofsseurs, is no cofnter- part of our bringing over paintings and sculpture by the old masters, or cven by cotemporary artists. Art is universal. We “protect” American artists with a tariff on imported art, except when the imports are for pub- lic exhibition, The difference is that such importations are not because of anq affectation of sentiment for the materfals—the paint or marble—but they are valued for the art design, the | thought, the inspiration. They benefit American taste and American ar On the contrary, an artist points '\Ill.. an illustr on of 1mportations | which lose the original effect of the de- sign by transmigration Is the Whistler “Peacock Room.” which is exhibited in the Freer Gallery. It was intended far its setting in the foggy atmosphere of London, not in the tlood of sunshine of Washington. It was to he lighted with the soft warm rays of gas. Here it is illumined with clear glass win. dows, with flaring daylight and with cold “false light™ of electricity. No wonder it is cold! The same artist tells with gusto, as reme instance of America rob- bing Peter to pay Paul, of the buying {of 4 well at the home of Champl in Fgance, and shipping the well to Albany, N. Y.—stones, hole and even Truth at the bottom, thereof. The well was duly received by Mr. John M. Clark, curator of the Art Museum of Albany, who was much abashed by Truth in her usual attire, so that he did not know what to do about it, although he looked up the success of the producer who dug a cellar and retailed it out for postholes. Finally, Curator Clark gave the well to @ monagtery In Canada, know- ing that the austere monks would keep its occupant well hidden from the shocked masses of America. (Copyright. 1926, by Paul V. Collins.) Glories of the Jewels in the Winter Skies To the Editor of The Star: How glorious are the Winter suns of night! How beautiful and br lant amid the chambers In the South Capella, Aldebaran, Betelgeuse, Procyon, Rigel and Sirius. The co stellation of Orion, containing Betel- geuse and Rigel. And the Plelades, Castor and Pollux, also the Belt stars. Sky Jjewels, adorning the darkened dome of evening. Millions of suns and thelr solar systems, trillions of miles away. Suns comparatively close to our little earth; suns so remote from us that their light-rays speed for centuries before reaching us. Stars moving slowly amid the ocean of space. Stars traveling like veritable sun-projectiles. Stars of divers colors —-small or gigantic. As through a vast window, sometimes curtained by clouds. we watch the bespangled | frmament. How glorious are Winter suns of night, amid the cham- bers in the South! CHARLES NEVERS HOLMES, e Masa, even omniscience, the right of every | the | | | ! | 5, | Days, he appro. | dense forest | | | or | Where Mary | Uf more than | her present | de | | Where else could | of lffe for another returned to | nation of life and death t night | far t i { The | hav tion of Charity, Ivi, and I hope | had pounc You | have | and that | th both by our- | fought most | his talk | | | { | | while remaining perfectly safe from tropical fevers, venomous insects and tiles and man-eating mammals. Do not, of course, attempt to join him in the flesh, for as he is plorer he probably prefers eitl tude or picked companions of b kind. But you may sately ente jungle his company through books, “Edge of the Jungle,” “Jun; " “Jungle Nights” and “Jungle Peacy u may prowl about in the jungle of British Gu “well wit s uwn the n the realm of the under among the Al e of young N niungrove ach at ebb-tide, findin evidences of teeming At night from a bungalow far from the shore you muy hear . Sonorous cry of the spect ath scream of a fre n babel of hummin and frenzled shrieks of which indicate that : < been discovered in You miy dwell for a time wit he wild life of the jungle, wateh eternal contlict that goes on 1 of jungle life,” in which the th of one animal is the condition the “eternal alter growth ebbed ndy b boos." n t Wik Illustrating this 1 &, that you are one of them | the preving of one form of life on other—Williamn Beebe, in Days.” describes the death s spectacled owl and wyou | the mud and sand for it to lift f ully to bat en churned directions howed tha nd ove just fed, had come and was pro it on the sand and mud 1 them, buth by fi wonlight."” The foolh i upon the big sna talons deep into his I “The snake, like a flush iround bird, wings ar ped these tight with The tighter er the t d ) heavy irned it with for a bird's Dl rolled w 1 have s in the 1 cond stre neck thre re driv rst had pa neither could hive swift, terrible nake could 1 the bird had no time to to play, and the the night, with the lapping wave the falling tide only 2 or 3 feet & the two creatures of prev met died darkness locked fast together. Beebe pauses for a ahout the jungle to lament what he isiders the far departure of our country today from the principles of the sig the Declaration of Independer o casion is a descript: table, on which he e microscope all his spe C and shore. The wood of the mahogany, “be her gle of British Guiana it is est materfal in the form of t owl and s moment it wa fight. The ived si Mr momer in wder a est n the jun cheap boards," | and from its rings he estimated that the tree first began to grow about 1 , “about the time when our fore- fathers were fighting for treedom, hose memory we may not toast even in wine, They had just penned a decla- ration of independence, whereas we are considering passing a law to keep | monkeys in their pause fn my table talk long enough to thank heaven that we are still al- lowed to believe in the rotundity of the earth, that the Indlans’ gift of to. bacco is still permitted us, and t tea is not yet thrown overboard:” * x x x proper place. I A Freudian complex which causes simulation of paralysis in a young girl i< one of the striking components of Fanny Hurst’s new novel, “Appassio nata.” Laura Regan has a nature in which two concealed motives war with the normal development of her life- love for her own beautiful body and a profound desire, unrealized at first by herself, to become a nun. Both of these work to make her shrink from marriage, though she is swept along toward it without apparent resistance An accident—a fractured shoulder —on the eve of her marriage saves her. The shoulder heals, but the iliness of her mind caused by the secret con flict continues and manifests itself outwardly by an apparent paralysis of her legs.” Specialists talk wisely her bed, but she is stil unable ymething—an act of her lover s her to herself. She knows t her mystical love of Christ is the eat force in her life, that to it erything else must yield. In an ec- stacy she accepts the rvevelation and— cle of religlon or of psychology— she walks. e acceptable addition literature of tion is muel C. Schmtu hook, entitled “Man’s Life on In clear, concise, understan guage he tells what Is now known of prehistoric man. The book does not claim to be original, but drawing on the recognized research authorities, It successfully summarizes their work for the general reader. A striking note in Dr. Schmucker's book Is the answer he suggests to the question why we cannot now see the process of evolu tion in operatlon In the case ot the body of modern man—why there Is now so little change. Part of his an. swer is as follows: “When man had evolved a thoughtful brain and a skill ful hand, he introduced a new method into the world. Now, when he wants to fly, he does not convert his arm into & wing. He constructs for | self a flving machine. This he can use when he is flying, and it is better than wings. But the very best pa of it is that in gaining this new power be has lost no old onet His hrain und his hand remain. Indeed, the brain is more fertfle and the hand more facile . . . but with a larger scope for both. ~ When he wishes to hasten across the land, he does not lengthen his legs and feet and drop most of his toes, as did the horse. Me jumps on the horse’s back and makes him ¢ him. When thelr speed fajls to isty him he vaults the tea kettle and beats the horse. When this method proves to be trammeled he seats him- self astrido a gasoline can and beats the tea Kettle. And still his brain and A very rapidly hand are ready for any of the old| tasks or for the devising and execut ing of new.” The author goes on to say that although there has come to be extreme stability in man's physical makeup, the evolution is not in abey- ance. Now his evolution Is that of his implements and of his group.” And the group is growing larger con stantly, with the expansion of man’s sympathies, to include now his allies, but soon to be a world-wide agreement among nations. Will-Less Brooklynites. From the Saxinaw News Courfer. A city paper notes that 4,108 Brook- Iyn peopls died without wills fn 1925. ‘;'en, perhaps they also 1ived without them. An Incomplete Definition. the | From the San Bernardino Sun A woman writer says that the Amer ican beauties rival the Greek god desses, but she falls to say whether it o in Ggure or in clothes, na, through the | ingle | A |claims as the him 300,000,000 { 180,000 of liquidating mer King, grante )Id marks in_cash, lund, three Berlin palices veteran ex- | r soli- | | Q Ha | made o in New the 1 York City e published | < Edison Co. shows that on and the of Manhat- 35th street are 12,- s 1,121 rest there signs ng ants lead {n the num ollowed by harber | Vs haten 228 electri | lamps. Restau ber of signs, shops. Theaters Q. What is the pur the dollar at pre o pre-war dollar M » human body thun endurable spee degree 1} tor- | Q. Why doe A. Ofl smokes partially hor noke? —W hen !t ts being that the constn which ich numbered 1 when the ol to be exceeded that e | began agair Hence 2 the dirt ore. Q. Wha largest ary 1 An bringing adult « | with 1ib Ates and tution advice, and of 85 anidc nistrators nal ins n or system tives of Ala 3,912 pupil | | Q. Why do ve Horn instead of tak the Strajts of Magel A Though M generally free from sh obstructions, fts west jeet | rough and squa | the passage u ministers P an sailing Strong S .upp.m'l Organization i i | Enthusiastic the press general organize th ational Governme: ir January fustead Mar D away with » “‘lame-duck $ of Congress. Certain questions are rafsed however, in connection with tor Norris’ resolution for a constitutional umendment. The Kansas City Journal | (Rep lican) sugeests that “weather conditions in Washi in January | > certain to be more rigorous than | on March 4. The Dayton Datly News (independent Democratic) thinks “the arguments advanced against a_ short session of Congress to pass appropria tion Dills aro not so well founded! other points made in behalf change. Most of the papers are emphatic in their objection to the existing practice of having a Decer °r sessjon of the old Congress following the Noveml elections Whatever the outcome at e polls next F e Atlanta Jour- nal (Demacratic) points out, “the pres. { ent membership of Congress will re. turn in December, clothed with full legislative authority, even though the have voted to turn them Of course, such a condition is ab- d, and the wonder is that the Amer {ican people have tolerated it as long us {they have.” Lack of sense in requir in 13 months te ‘before a new Congress can organize and get down to the work it is elected to do™ is seen by | the St. Paul Dispatch (independent Re- | publican), which adds: “The ‘lame duck’ sessfon gave the members of the retiring Congress a chance to clean up their desks and get out—and that was | about all it did. Abolishing ft would | put the old Congress out of its agony more quickly and make our legislative system more immediately responsive to| the will of the people, which is highly desirable.” pproval to the ts given proposal to of the | | | elapse “Logic and common sen the Norris amendment, ace the St. Louls Post Diso: pendent). “There is nothing it except selfish politics mental Inhibition agatnst changing an old_prastice. Of these two factors, selfish _politics s far the more potent.” And the St. Louis paper as salls the “practice by which defeated | congressmen trade their votes for fat Government fobs.” The Charlotte Ob server (Democratic) suggests that “aside from escaping the usual dis advantages of March weather, there (inde- agalnst | nd a sentl lend ! ta 1s the more substantial reason of a saving of expense to the taxpayers in | the doing away with the short ses. | slons of Congress that follow elec. | tlons,” and that “propesitions for the | change of date have met with cordial | response by the people.” The proposal is of # “defir con structtve charncter,” in the opinlon of the Rock Island Argus (Independ ent), which cites among the benefits “the elimination of all confusion in the choice of a President and Vice | | Prestdent by Congres case of | failure to elect on the part o | toml college.” The Duluth Herald (independent) adds that “it is absurd to have four months intervene between | the election and fnauguration of a | | Prestdent, and it is still more absurd | to have the old Congress meot | month after election, when it may | have been utterly repudiated by the | country, and is certain to_contain | many members who have been re- | pudiated.” I . % | ““There 1s much to be gained by an early session of Congr says the Charleston Evening Post (independ ent Democratic), “when the {ssues upon which the election has turned are fresh in the public mind. There is hardly a difference of opinion as to the desirability of this change.” The Chicago Tribune (independent Republican) refers to experfences which emphasize the need of a change, stating: “The delay in in- stalling the new administration hes had serfous consequences, greatest when Lincoln was waiting to take up | the administration, with the Civil | War impending, while there was an | other embarrassing period when Taft | was waiting to turn the Government | over to Wilson and when Mexico was ' meking o eorious cemplication n . Indian tribes cultivale beards?—W. T. S The Bureau of Ethnology says is no tribe that cuitlvated 2 In general, Indians had smc In highest civilization, as § u sxico, razors bronze ard, Tace Pe of 1 Mexico flakes of obsldian jescribed &5 1sed. voleanic glass, are hein ters is He n ¥ s borr ttsbur studied Parfs he It there | F h achleve » Club. n 1875 hi H the a ning Star Iuf J. Haskin for Earlier of Government son by t suceessor o ent) rea the it H A duck i velopment, Evenin News desire t com it The Delioves the pleasure frov uld merelful 2 TR € dent Hepuhlica h wune (Indepe dicting that mean e A cony The pendent in good rea i amendment would nate filibust spedient rdvan with proposed do with s throug natin ville P that “abalf would put * and (epub. re Hted dependent) tion of the a crimmp hust the Buffalo Evening lican) holds that ref move the “opportunity and disgruntled members to fil and indulge in other stuptd also short session George Washington’s Orders to His Troops The Sta ely in the Interes lty and truth, and marks which were o public gathe aecter and founder of this greatest ot —Gen. George little spuce widely read following Harper's January “In V New Monthl 18 shing ' B 6, $ust after the D the follo give: the the Magnzine fo Flor having been g to each commandir directed to cordingly; persc acter and exemplar and to see that all inferfor and soldiers pay them a speet. The blessing and pr Heaven at all times ne but espe. in times « distress Th hopes and ev and man will ends act as becomes a defending the dear erties of hia country “A month after this, In the order ¢ the day, Washington fssued the fol lowing notice to the trovps. ‘The gereral Is sorry to be In- formed that the foollsh and wicked practice of profane cursing and swear- ing, a vice hitherto little known in ar Amerfcan Army, 18 growing into fast fon. He hopes that the officers wil! by example as well as by inflaence, en deavor to check it; and that hoth they anG the men will reflect that we car have little hope of the blessing of Heaven on our arms if we insult it b - impiety and folly. Add to th iptation, that every man o character detests and de o ahe gress @ chary regimen Christian rights and b sen spises it