Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1926, Page 8

lther are spread among countiess Ha- mnanswerable” It thut he an- ive manner ion EVENING ‘With Sunday Moming -— though WASHINGTON, D. C. swered it in a very effe and vue likely to leave an in SPMAFELD DR | e participunty, but inasmuch as erage citizen is not able 1o in on in simita r STAR teners " i“uum and xeem, ar N fthe 'HEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor' = {etmstarn rspect heEvening Siar Newspay ooms as a real addit 11 st " Fen a Juctivities in this New York Office 1 . i Chicaro Office T o1 jRvetine s g Ruropean Office e of the sit Bk for Mr. ¢ on e would prob fof people. credited. It s Jenemies hoped would Phe State's attorney e <tul new wnd unic e that the wide publicity fense will wet as w detervent U | use ol the ri o cust slurs on publ sed which take cognl 14 Regent St England = bly. in the minds dis. his sult. The Evening Star 5 edition. 1a deliverad by i ALy at 60 cents per B cents per month: Su r month Orde e be somewhat subtediy be many what the 1 Rate by Mail Marylan and Vieginia. Elflv and_ Sunday ! e met aily anly lindas only juay All Other States umd Canada ally and Sunday. ] v $17 00 1 ails only R S R IR RO wen, eee Clearing the Parks. Orders have been given L I Jast of the temp x Potonie A du of oops i been were ued ted Press. is exchsiels Catied ol all weww ddin | P e Mot ale e il news AN ciknis of pubbeation W e el Memb, of the A The Assoctited P 1 atchos rreditnd 1 ted tn thiv nape: phlished lrein ©F pecial disnatihes hersin ace i = tne huikdings Struclures We war for the housing tered here. After they che ing rae in hese the e ere The Last Day of Grace. This is the last day of & Income 1ax o avesmn him the offices where advive 3 re given, gratis, for the preparation Df the retiins, are hept upen tu late hours. He must turn in his Hona of revenue, expense, de exemptions, profits ana. finally by midnight, accompanied by for the amount ot due 10 U'ncle Sam ©f the total for Bustling. The enactment of an xmendment (o the tax law, v rges o the Government cases was effected in ample seas Bble all taxpavers to discharge this Ehunm-n of return s o paver s warelouses fon & i wid They had b Supplies never and the [ Hlwars suitable f they in were them Wwoits of tax ol a check | resery go and (he y ix o he fign o be | iginad condition. 1t Luildings ave bei these plins ot the accom nsually one-guarier while Su he dx| that torn duwn is unfortunate the year. fur the erection buikding for arve being drawn + substantial Fiution of motor Luurisis slopping in their south or aguinst pducing the cha I nimerons Saikion was Protest on “u such a srues has strongly Veiced, und e I St the hope that new legis i will be enacted to prevent this pass upon the park wnd r vide for the establishment of the tour ip eisewhere. ig of e last of these bar ings aguin to attention the tact that numerous buildings are stll clut the Mall, in use for the & of vurious offices. 1t the pro 1 public buildings bill is enacted 4t this sexsion. making n W fveyear proge et eveutually (hese too Wil go. perhaps 1930 or 1931, AU Lheir present rate deterioration, however, they may untit I before then. 'They vere erected hastly of quickly assel bled materials, aud, save ln the ¢ of the two greal concreie structures northeast of the Lincoln Memorial they were definitely regarded us mere shacks to be quickly eliminated. Every section of the parks of W ington should be cleared of these wi time buildings, of whatever material. The two concrete buildings near the Memorial, which have become catch- various branches of the gov- ernment and are filled pacity, should be definitely classified as “temporary” despite their more du- | rable materials. They, too, should go ax soon as the extensive public build- ing program now contemplated is com pleted. * These buildings are to be rated as unds of war which can be healed. The parks of the city, focluding the new one on Capitol Hill in front of the Unlon Station, were utilized the war emergency without for the Capital's appearance. is at present pending a bill to com- plete the acquisition of the Capitol plaza, which will effect the removal of the government hotels. Thus there is a prospect that with these two en- actments, the public buildings bill and the linlon Station plaza bill, Waeh- Inglon will be cleared of its unsightly Incumbra wih. Leen i goud season ut the habit of procrasiinati Walled to such an estent that fre today a great multitude of tax avers who are behindhand in getting g\(hvlr papers. Yel, somehow, by su rhuman efforts, they will get their neuments and checks in the mail be re midnight. There will be many turns. Some of them will be quite rnnm mistakes, the result of confu- plen over the method of calculating ghe tax when once the “net income” has been figured out to approximaie gatisfaction. 1t is the rave person who can do his own computation, 1t g# the wise one who seeks and accepts expert advice in working this prohiem. The rednetion in the surcharges will nplete re Far be it | pre there to Ist ¢ he o { teving hi up mistakes ln the P provis for 1% by of be use ot i perhaps result in a more ¢ turn of incomes this year. from any one to suggest that there has been any suppression of incomes in past returns. Yet 1t s calculated that the more liberal basis of the law will vield & return in greater frank ness. What is a “losx”? That quesx ton has been answered in the returns heretofore with great liberality to the laxpayer— by the taxpaver. Some times months later he has been po- italy asked by the nearest collect of internal revenus just how he gets ghat way, and the explanation is mot pltogether easy. “What is a profic>” 4 also asked and answered in the; pame spirit, only to iead to later fueries, sometimes to revisions of the tax. For better or worse, the gnust go in by midnight. &vashington there is no reason why prery taxpaver should not be squared ith the law long before that hour. Facilities for the correct computation ¢ the returns are available here ax rhaps in few other citles. Wash- gton, the voteless, the unrepresent- pd, pavs its taxes as cheerfully as it §s within human power to pay them. Jater will come the showing of how uch Washington has paid, and it il be a goodly showing of honest, | nk and consclentions reporting and f capable calculation. o now W cu returns Here in As the head of & school of Journalism Trotsky may contribute great service if he will train the youthiul reporter (o give an intelligible a nt ah instend of verg- ing into discussions urt or absiruse politie - oS tubbers using motors are slways law -abiding the extent of never | purking overtime. of a Gorgeous spectacies inspire a cer- gain amount of disappointment. Rus- fa would_be happier today if she had sen as successtul fn politics ax she as been in show business. [N Harmony among governments Is the bfeot of the League of Nations. An Emum.al inclination to introduce jazz | ” i actm is inevitable. [ Polls and Booms. Though perhaps it ix no more thau a colncidence, it s nevertheless sig- e nificant that simultaneously with the Asntagonists of prohibition are all |, L\, r 0 tye sucalled referendum uragecusly united on one point. No- | | the weldry guestion ucted E«y admits for a moment that he | y e ; iz | under newspuper aupicex, nte the corner saloon back. { Foa i Nictie 5 - = “dh'xllun'( of w verituble Smith bovm . [ strougly Democratic wus of Radio Slander. | I i & ditte early for Radio slander in the newest thing out. | candidate feago, the city that appenled to the | Yel there are unmisiakable signs that ‘ederal Govermment for uid to cure ity friends and udvocutes of the Governor lekedness, is the scene of this novel of New Yurk wre industriously at rama of present-day civilizution. Sat | work in his interext. Out fu Chicago rday night te's Attorney we | M. Brenuan, the Democratle leader Wres sitting peacefully by his fiveside | of llinois, I8 takiog the field us « pnjoying the evening paper. [lis faw- | cundidate for the senaterinl i ™ y were grouped around Lim, aud sl | ton a5 an avewed wet. e is oue of ether iU tepleal dumestic | ipul promoters of the Swith hering. Idly flpping the diuls of his | haviug staged au lupressiyve 1o the State’s altoruey Was su ik al @ plenic lmst September ul In tuning In station WBBM, which | ut which the New York governor wis s broadcasting hilarivus dance music | the chief fgure. ughout the m the Moulin Rouge Cabarel. Mr.|South It is veporied there is in prog Erowe settled back in his chalr and re- un evidently uve flected on the wo of the year|ment for the crention of “Smith sen- 4926, when citizens muy bask comfort- | timent'” in the evident expectation of @bl In their own homes and enjoy | liniug Up delegutions (o the next nom he Iatest dance numbers of the best | inuting convention in quarters that rchestras. in 1924 strongly supported MeAdoo. Suddenly, however, he was startled | Meunwhile the retu: from the But of his contented frume of mind, | newspeper “bullotug” vn the wet-dry for the anncuncer st the Moulin | quesilon are continuing 1o show an Rouge, after giving the names of the | apparent preponderance of ses nt next group of numbers, tuid Chicugo | in favor of wodification of the en and all and sundry who might be | forcement act and repenl of the prohi- listening that State’s Atturney Crowe | bition ameudment. 1t dves not follow was “with us tonight, eujoying the | (hut this poll represents public sentl night life.” In order 1o lend truth to [ ment. he drys are not accepting the the announcer's words State’s Attor- [{uvitation to record themselves. There ney Crowe was soon “with them,” but [ is nothiug official or determinative in Be took along with him a few detec: | the “referendumi.” A8 is usual in all tives and policemen, with the result |such volunteer bulloting, most of the Chat five persons were booked on va- | vollug is done by those who wish to rlous charges, from operating a dis- |change existing conditions, while thuse orderly house to carrving llguor. The | who are content with those conditions announcer was charged with disrder- | pay no attention, as a rule, to the op- Iy conduct, radio slander not being yet | portunity to express themselves. on the law hooks in even as modern a| So it may he that the acceleration city as Chicazo. of the Smith movement In conse- Mr. Crowe remarked. following the [quence of the supposed showing of raid, “that slanders broadcast over the | preponderant wet sentiment in this vedle n‘ the most viclous, becauss country may wuuatsu- reaction con sec! entlon was 8 85 vess ers ot future | ) later If. an and when, as the steck brokers sy, there should be a resl referendum or a showing of hands in Congress reflecting the actual public sentiment on the score of prohibition. e Matriarchs. Statistics published in Laly showing the registvation of women for the W[pring voting in that kingdom indi- cate that lalinn women are, to xa [ the least, lukewarm over their new | privilege. 1u Milan, for instunce, out} 120,000 women entitled to register for municipal elections, only 5,000 put down their numes, " { e [ | with o there are no heiter hers than laliun mothers: none e vespecied by Fomiliex mu Wl administrative pow- ers over houxehold. 10y that this stutux, cuvefully built up @il cherished throughont | turies since (he days of the Roma i superivr in these | pinnacle of power atinin wrernge American mother, Whems that as long Ak (hey wpinions of their spouses | e tovote chil | the aetual i said that their e the be the a T s Lo oyl ficex and then they | Iranchise, l littde Voting dren . for D Leusin 1 arent thint who eventuslly aparite. (he leminine Corsican-born Nalian vuled France and all the civilized excepting Britain wnd Russin, had eleven childven. ‘The first three died in intaney. Napoleon, fourith when she as ninetern She lived to see xeven of her eight surviviog s hite e Loroyal, wus. Nhe 1y o have ks Lo every of workd her was b it veurs ald A i [ ruling ducil ¢ is wlleged on gosd wutho wei wely o adminstered sound sprnk including the Great Cup siter he she had ed the age of fourteen or ffteen. d by her glittering offspring e nnd earviex down thr e simple but universal title Jndnime Mere.” That was plenty e of them tiin himselt or R e in In feur of a loss of ftx prestige ua dictator of fashion. The ' A. hax demonsiraied that the York cloak model s quite able compete t of physical m with the Parisian nette, RSP 2 New to cha When Kansas City decides to put L turned out, wnd it was high time, for ac new Metropolitan Opera xo prano, the ot whether the young lady sings threatens to become subordinate (o that of whether money talks, oS8 @ question B A great des! of agitation Is mani- fest concerning Muscie Shoals in apite of the fact that Henry Ford has ap- parently lost interest in it and turned his attention (o old-fashioned fiddlers. .woes Ching discovered gunpowder cen- 2gu. America was the original of the airplane. It is a wise that knows how to retain the benefits of its own genius. — raoes At oue time the ex-kilher of G ny waw threatened with loss of lfe. he question confronting him now is merely the possible reduction of pacu- ry income. o e Ponzi went to Florida. liable 1o find himself classed as an amateur in the company of easy money experts, He is very - SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Faith. Friend Mocking Bird. out on the fence You've lingered since the Fall. Perhaps you have a lot of senxe Or maybe none at sl Although the anowdrifta gather white Upon the frozen ground, When other birds have taken flight, You still keep hangin' ‘rovnd. You seem to sense the flowers bright That seon will bloom once more, When stars, upon & balmy night, Wil shine, Just as before. Aud so, when NN rise anew o briug we griefl profound ¥riend Mocking Bird, 1l think And just keep haugin' ‘round. f you Silent Cogitatio What is the reason for on some of the most important to of the time?” “I'm afraid,” answered Nenator ghum, “that it 1 get to talking, I'll interfere with the jmpression that 1 am thinking.” pur silence . Lingering Shortuge. 1 used o hate 1o v coul When it was necessa now, this is what frets my soul: There ain't By Jud Tunkins says all the modern upsrtment needs is some ayvstem that will make the radiator as reliable for service s the radio. Object Lesson How du you enforce prohibition in son Guleh “BY means of exumple due. “When a ¥ tuily mussed up by licker, we let him SiUinu poker gume und tike the con- Hequences,” Evolution. The Genius Feminine astute Now calls the world to guess It Fashion's bound to evolute Into more clothe: lens. “A real s de svmeth somethin’, friend,” said Uncle Kben, un dat wants to give you 'stid o' tryin' to sell you B \ actless. From the Altoona Mirror, “The quickest way for a doctor to lose a patient in 10 (ell her it was only a minor operativn. e Henry Is Inconsistent. From the Paterson Morving Call. Henry Ford is =aid to deplore the pasing of the barn dance. And who, planted garages where barns erly stood? Uncertain. From the Rutland Herald. Woman drivers demand only half of the road. But sometimes they l; slow about declding which half. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, MARCH 15 1926. THIS AND THAT Flocking of automobilista to the | acene of fires is an extra problem which the fire department must fight against. Of recent vears this con- course has hecome a | menace. | After all, the firemen are there on busineas, not to provide a show. If those who go o firea in auto- mobllex would atop to think about the problem they create—at the time they create it —they weuld park their cars |at 1eqnt four or five hlocks from the scene of the fire, at a minimum. EEE I You are about to turn on the radio {in the evening when from afar comes | the <ound of engires Must be & fire some place” aay, cusually, ‘The siren comes near nearer. Must be xo . Wintica en the shriek heg Curioniis dvaws o the front ou upen. Stepping out . vour eve ix caught by A glare in the sky. “Come quick!” over the S hare-headed in the Winter night, vou feel the thrill of a five running through your veins. The | urge comes to run, to follow, to vell {ai the top of vour voice. City clvilization stlla the latter de. mire. but has done nothing as yvet to thwart the former. So vou rush in, grab a hat, on an overcoal, and run oul again. | Others ate doin: the sume thing. Small hoys, who crop up mysteriously from all corners, s urry AWAY. | Front doors along the block are . allowing flares of light to cut darkness. In each fllumination stands a figure— (wo or three of them Where Is it7" “Don’t know." vour hewd to reply. xome place close. You hurey on van. small in Those who have lived In u town know the most thrilling ¢ the world “Fire! Flinging through the still of the night, picked up by neighbor after neighbor, that scream struck chilla Into hearta. “Five! Fi-ur In every accent, Five!" with every ponsi- ble variation, e dread word ran through the town. It came down over the hill, acrosw tha creek. It found ita way into whera the children wer What was it? Whe CDan Kintner's The night was ce the room sleeping. i there was no five department in those | diys. 1t Dan Kintoer's place was to | he suved. the people the whole wwn muse o, Awny they went, into overconts, others erting them entively, pell-mell they all streamed up Mil nireet, down Walnut. out along the pike 1o Soon / red g e place close,” you de. some siruggling % 1o die ont W hegan (o spread 1 “There's the kv 10 the nurth of oan One could see it tiom the corner, or from an upper window. "the Kintner farm house and barns were ) ng down! *onoa ok Today, in Washington, fire is fought differeatly, hut the human resction is still the same. The awful seream, e is no longer with us, but the in the h is. This iv i tundamental threat ug umanity, this fire unchecked, this Hame not under ntrol. Kven the animals, whom sonie declare 1o have no minds, have en instinctive dread of fire rampant i Our fine veneer of city life wears off | instuntly at the sound and sight of five engines coming donn (he street. Somathing of the glamos it I8 true, of the wild Ja fire engines went With the*passing of the horses. Certainly there was ne sight in & | city quite equal 1o the plunging | horses, no sound juat thrilling ax | that of the Clanging gongs. Most of that still existx, ransmuted into motor en: gines und sivens, The mud dash of | just over there!” xome one screams. the engines and trucks will cause a |* Byg “over there,” in going to fires, city (il of people (o Aop und puy | s always just a little farther away aitention, | When one comex 1o the place where Lie We have little symputhy with those | (hought the fire surely was, he finds who declave, “"The five engines have it ix not there, hut farther on. no right o g0 so fast.” That in all L 8 J Avriving the he discovers ihe bunk.” The fasier thev can go the Llaze in atill #round the next corner. hetter, and 18 hnows it so well us | | The breath begins to come auick. Bui the firemen | now vou see the Lilaze Time everything “ | Oh, pshaw!’ vou exclaim. modern city fire. A ! i |t an old shed The Washington fire department Your sentiment is echoed by those can stop any five swhatsoever it it can {around vou. Some one va, &ei there early enough. Kvery five. | thought it must be a whole row be it lurge or small, goes through a : 8 1east. from the hlaz e much resembling that of & ‘The crowd is keenlv disappointed ane. Not that it wanted others 1o lose prop- ‘There i a “alimux” (o a fire, after | . but it just desived a real fire which all the firemen can do is pre- | that was all. vent it from spreading 1o adjoining eogine s property. ‘the hig point in going to | are here, the fire is 1o get there hefore rhat time, in order that the flames may | not oniy be confined to the place of | starting. but In order that thay may be subdued. very regulation has been made 10 ide fire-fighting apparatus with clear siveets. but hundreds of auto- | mobilists still persist in gumming up thoroughtares s the engines whir past. call, ) throw nst vou eall. turning “RuL I must be proud to be in the “ - * o ox x [very une seems to be running now. he walke are full of and the streets fillad with ca however, in fighting Nothin at pumping away. there and every. nning through the crowd, shouting. The more timid of their eldera stand away up the hlock, More ambitious folk push their way {an far forward as possible, and soon return with the comment. it ain’t nothing-—just an old shed:" The last spark goes ont. Onlyv a smell of wood smoke {8 left in the air [to tell the tale of a city fire, an alarm, L& response. a putting ont. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE Indications ave utterly lacking that| vate counsel, he is pleading in support calvin Coolidge i« on the anxious weat | of action originally taken &t his off. as a result of the Senate's decision 10| clal Innl.:‘[(oni [The dispute in also ring W lona mpoy ce. inventigate hix alieged tampering with |of injernstional imporiance. Canada the Tavit Commission. The Preai:| (0K B8 Caimed tha. 1 s dent preserves an external calm of o capacity of valuahle waterpower planis on the S even more than ordinary composure.| Lawrence and Niagars Rivers, " even in the face of the threat that the inquiry is deliberately aimed at it “getting " him. Coolidge foes within| Garrard B. Winaton. Undersecretary and without the Republican party de- | Of the Treasury. who has charge of clare that Senator Norris' charges in :h. plan torvl storation of alien prop- connection with ‘Tavift Commission .’ 3 :hfllpl.\mem of American claim matters are full of dvnamite, If they "'l', "k B8 :n lnrm"_ enemy countries. can be established. men of all parties b o"'_ :I the v':lhtor,\ of the French roncede that serious damage to the an-u" on ¢ ""'f ought to hasten President’s political presiize wou'd '; ""h on Ih-_mewm occasion. Al ensie. But no one believes that Mv. | thOugh the Treasury has the money Coolidge I= going to take things lving :;' pav th ancient claims. which Town. On ihe contrary, neariy every- | 14te Lack to the time of the .Jef- body expecis that the White iouse|ferson and Adams administrations, will meet the Senate inquisition ag-|!hev remain unhonored. Presldent gressively on every point. With par. [Ceolidge in messages (0 Congress has ficular regard (o 1he allegation that | repeatedly urged legislation to enable William §. Cnlbertson, the former low | {thel settement. but. like Muscle tariff Republican member of the com. | Shoals. they drag on forever, The wmission, was eased into diplomatic | clalma have been examined hy the boet more or less involnntavily, some | Court of Claims. and their validity highesplosive rebuttal is promised. [#nd amount determined. Uncle Sam xR l:-;‘::‘:’:;l":ulh('-' l;-‘urou;un dehln;l 10 i ", ‘ongrens hax never heed- F Uk s Eolstie e et he| 84 Mr. Coolidge’s admonitions ¢ battering ram of the ited States ought to pay it tee of inquiry. White | €0t one of his numerous ohaerva ehief proponent of the | 11008 in reference to the spoliation Tnvesigation, espresses satistaction | CI8IMA. with it personnel, he undoubtedly would have preferred hard-hitters of Reed or “Tom™ Walsh ale 1o the more suave Willam ¢ Bivace bhrand. Viee President named the commiftee of five without nsultation with leaders. An a member inistration he would naturally he constrained te ap- point the most “judicially minded™ op- position representatives available. ‘Phe difference hetween the kind of probers selected and the kind that might have heen chosen—as far as Democratic Senators are concerned is about the difference Tetween -ounce and Sounce gloves. But men have I knocked cut with Sounce Wi, (o * * antiCaol Senaté Senat *oxox ok 1t 1an't evervbody who can‘get the President of the nited Staies to hooRt a new book. But that I8 what's happened to a volume recentlv pul lished. which deals with the Coolldge mental processea and in tabulated form with the President's principal olities! utterancen since 1928, ecently enlightening the newspaper corr ondents on eventa of the hour, mended that their employvers ought to buy the Coolidge hock for am a4 well indexed and handy worl of reference! A scribe piped up and anked if (he President would auto- &raph everv volume mo supplied. Whereupon the White House spoken- man, with @ wonderfully lifeilke imi- ion of the Coolidge smile. drawled. Yes, I'll do tha * ok ok W Hin friends are thinking of present- ing Senator Caraway, Democrat, of Arkansas, with a pedometer for use on the floor and in the cloakrooms of the Senate. Caraway spends fa more of his time walking about the Henate than occupying his seat in 1t 4 han plunged deep in trou 6, head howed on hreast and & half-cvaical smile usually chasing across his face, ‘‘the meanest and keenest man in ‘ongress’ ahout the chamber, or in and vut of it, almoat incessantly. [le neems to be able to follow & debate better while he s in motion than when he in static. Frequently he hresks in with a typleally cutting Carawayan sally in the midst of his promenade. The Avkansan (like Herbert Hoover) hardly ever wears anything except a double-hreasted blue serge suit. * ok kX Representative Maurice E. m- packer of Oregon. w has just been ising on the Mayflower with the President, is one of the up-and-coming voung Republicans of the country. He has the making of a successful politician in him—he's a native ¢f Indiana. and his father was a Con- gressman before -him. mpacker took his A. B. at Michigan and law degree at llarvard. He came the State of 1llinois and the Sanitary | out of the World War a captain, and District of Chicago. Baker is counsel | tor the commonwealths that meek m"‘:.‘a"';‘ “""'hbl: '::'"P‘::lrl;n%“l e vestrain diversion of the waters of | }_] e U tarto_and fluron to the Missiasinpi, ((#¢ ‘P' e N watershed. Missourl, Tennessee, Ken. | 40- T1e sings bas i pin. tucky and Louisiana obtained permis- (Covyright. 1926.) sion to Intervene as defendonts, in| S ing Them L B Kvery once fn & while Washington hears @ speech that ia not only un- but immensely more atimu- lating ! the average politician sutgivings. Such an address has just | heen delivered hefore District of Co- lumbia lite insurance men hy Dr. S. 8. hner, professor of insurance in! e Wharton School of Finance at the siversity of Pennaylvania. Dr. Hueh ner produced mome astonishing fg-| ex 23 to the relatively small amount | life insurance ca by the Ame u people. While the Nation's aggr gate wealth in estimated at $332,600 WH0.000, he said that there in about $72,000.000.000 of Kife fnsurance in f Dr. Huebner reckons that (hat i only some > per cent of the' “capital value” of human Iife in thin | country, wherefrom he deduces that Unele Sam's sons and daughters place | an amazingly low assessment en their | own worth. * ok * % Two of (the country's legal Titans— James M. Beck, former Solicitor Gen- eral of the United Steies, a1d Newton D. Baker, former Secretary of Wa have just locked horna hefire the Su- preme Court. Th nlront h other in the long standing « ontrover sy between States bordering on the Gireat Lakes (Ohio, Michigan, Pennsyivania #nd Minnesota), on the one hand, and tilinols and the Minsissippl Riv States, on the other. Beck represents { 1 order to support Illinois. Thus nine of | our soverelgn States are involved. M Beck a couple of vears ago, when ing as Attorney General. gave an opin- ion to the Secretary of War authoriz- ing the water diversion it is now sought to restrain. So today, pri- Spotti From the Texarkana Texarkanian. The sad thing about a good mem- ory i when veu see a movie you know what the plot was ealled last time, = Shucks, | While | the White House spokesman recom- | them | atrides | Brooklynites Do Know | Their Way About Town To the Editor of The Star: i The amusing story, quoted in vour editorial of March 4 entitied “The Great Maze.” ahout a new or “green’ motorman losing his wuy on a night trip through Brooklyn with trolley car and passengers, can hardly be used to, support your contention that ve few Brooklynites know their wa their own town, Because #o little is known about | them, Brooklyn and Hoboken have | been favorites with the vaudeville cir- cult and humorous writers for putting theater and newspaper audiences of | other communities in a pleasant frame of mind. That Brooklynites do know their way about their home town would be convincingly demonstrated to any visitor (o Prospect Park, Brooklyn's | largest playground containing some 00 ucrex and located in the geograph. | 1 center of the borough. During the skating weason young- ters living within & milex or more of the park experience no trouble fn find- ink their way to its ice-covered lakex within record time. In the good old Summer time it would seem that all Brooklyn has managed to assemble of 4 Saturday or Sunday sfiernoen 1o listen to the splendid hund conceris given in the vast tree.shaded amphi theater located in the park. And what Brooklynite, though Ii ing in the remotest corner of the big | horough, would not know instinctively heaches by meveral routes, if it were a | Summer's day with sea and sand and Coney’s multitudinous attractions beckoning Rrookiyn has a system of arterial highways and parkwaya that affords sasy access 1o Manhattan, Long Island’'s famous res the ity heaches, Prospect K and other principal points and ativactions, The «rk 1% the hub of the svatem, for | from ite drives radiate Flathush sve- nue and Bedford avenue. broad | thoroughfares running in a straight line to the Brooklyn termini of the ihatian and the Williamaburgh hridges and affording divect routes Manhattan: Fastern parkway, furnish ing @ direct conyection wiih taland’'s principal highways MErknav, 8 5-mile concourse terminat- ing ai the breakwater overlooking the | Atlantic at Coney Island: Ocean ave- nue. a suhurban houlevard running straight through Flatbush 1o Sheeps. head Bav: Fort llamilton parkway linking h the Shore drive which skirts the ridge overfooking the Na rows of New York Fay and from which mav be secn New York's pie turesque sky line. Statue of Liberty Wadsworth on Staten Island. and Hook at Jersev's northern tip. £ marine views that well re for here may he had close. ups of great transatlantic liners an chored Al quarantine or strings of them ma iestically outward honnd th Eastern parkwar and Ocean parkway are thoroughfares of areater width than Pennsylvania avenue, Washington. each heing divided into three treelined highwave separated by ornamenial rarkings suggesting the plan of Paris’ famons Champ Elvsee or Heosevelt boulevsrd, Phila- delphip. Brooklyn has lzheled ner in the horough with the names of the intersecting mireets in a man- ner that he who walks or drives may read. something that cannot he said of every city. The trolley cars and the elevated and subway trains dis- play maps of the transportation sys- fem enabling one to chart his course or determine his position. Conductors and guards are as well posted as fe how to get from point to point as are trainmen in other cities. Pocket maps may be purchased at newsstands at elevated and subway stations. Modern transportation has done much to make all parts of Brooklyn easy of access. In the old davs it was neceseary (o take a car to the ferry or bridge, cross the Kast River on an- other conveyvance and then take an- other sireet car to one’s destination in nhattan. Such a journey cosis 13 cents one way, or 26 cents the round trip. Today one may travel from almost any point in Brooklvn to any point in Manhattan or the Bronx for a 5-cent fare without change of cars, the round trip costing 16 cents less and requiring far less time than for- | merty. i Brookivn is only part of the sreat | maze, for it is but one of the fou boroughs of eater New through which one may L on milea-minute subway expresses with no other landmarks than e trically illuminated street names pla carded on station walls and posts to determine whether he is in Manhat- tan_Brooklyn, Queens or the Brons, A Brooklvnite, like any other New Yorker, must possess a vocabulary of street names that rivals the number of geographical names a I every street c—oes {Cheerfulness Ne;d;[ ] In Philosophy of Life To th tor of The Star: We hear much these days about pavchology”™ and many of its expo- nents travel from city to city hlazing their trails with extensive advertis. ing and hailing from the ecity's hest | hatels. They make a handsome lving from the more or less struggling pub- ilie by shrouding in mystery the plain |tact that the Lord loveth a cheerful | disposition. | which we from | course? ‘o summar we must right thinking and le: laws that.govern mind. Ah, how al- loring Is that word cret”! By right thinking, to put it into every. day clothes, they mean we must keep perpetually in a hopeful state of mind despite all appearances to the con- trary. Has not the optimist from all time vaised the ire of his more pessimistic brothers by insisting on seeing the silver lining to every cloud? It_seems (o me we would get along much more rapidly and understand euch other belter if we agreed to have as a foundation for our psychology « ' cheerful disposition. Cheerful at all | times! Cheerful inside as well an out- | side! For how can a grouch thi that Is, think construet pay $10 0 $30 a practi 'n the “secret’ K right— hopeful thoughts about life that our friends call us optimists? From general observation it seems to me that we would save both time and money if these pavchologists would tell us that with all our getting 1o get a cheerful disposition as a necessary foundation upon which to build successfully any philosophy of life. M. F. FOREST, e Prosperity for 1926. From the Champaign News-Gazette, Questionnaires answered by 150, 000 business men in 45 States indi-| cate that the business forecast for | 1926 i= a bright one. This survey shows, however, that there is need for | caution in extension of credit through time payments. Only one out of every fourth man who reported favors a liberal credit plan for this vear. The great ma jority belleved that further exten- slons in 1926 would be harmful to ! their business. his_survey information encies for the remaining 10 months of this vear. ‘The prosperity or disanter of more than one company will depend upon the wise applieation of this infor- matien. the lightest of all fo how to reach Brighton or Manhattan | ¢ What are some of the vital facts for | 1an't it when we express health(ul, | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. a floor of & room be|dustrial and textile flelds. This makes than the walls?—|a grand total consumption of 2,500, | 060,000 pounds of soap and soap prod- darkest | ucts, the value of which at today's r tones should be used for floor and floor | 1ail prices is approximately §312,000,.- coveringy, lighter tones for walls, and 006, -eiling. e Q. What is the ignition point of erosene” Of gasoline’—H. E. P Q. Should lighter or darker T. 0. R. A. When practicable, the ! Q. What good are eyebrows? A, G. |k A. Eyebrows protect the tissus| A. The flash point of kerosens ix above the eves and have a greal cos- [ 100 degrees Fahrenheit or over; the metic value in being an agent for soft-| flash point of gasoline starts at zero ening hard facial features and by con- | Fahrerheit. trast enhancing the beauty of the - . skin. Kyebrows are said to create a| Q. Does a swing in a canary cage proportionate cosmetic value for the | Eive the birds gout? A. RB. nose, brows and forehead and accentu-| A. A SWIng in a canary cage I8 at» the contour of the face. very essential and healthful to birds. | and will not cause the gout or any Q. Where tle of Neusch- | other disease. wanstein? | A. IUis sftuated near Hohenschwan-| Q. Who arranged the tournaments P Bavarfa. | of the middle ages?—C. D. It was built in an early Roma A. A tournament was usually held by King Ludwig 11 of Bavaria. at the invitation of some prince. The derth of Ilenry Il of France in 1559 following the lose of an eve in a tour fowl? | nament, led to the abandonment of A. The Poultry Division of the De. | the sport in France, and soon after- partment of Agriculture says that the | ward in other countries. hest way to kill a fowl (o make i | ensler to dress Is to cut the jugulur | Q. How dos vein and let it bleed, and the most fm-| on the tides compare with portant of all is to stick the point of | the moon?—M. M # sharp knife in the brain. This re The tide. iaxes the fowl and tends to loosen the feathers style is the bhest way to kill a the effect of the sun that of ising force of the ir-fifths of that of the 4 cedar cheats made from from Oregon and California?— NS A. The this cedar be used e, Q. What are the propertles in th: earth that cause glass o turn a lav ender hue when left out in the open for a few days?— H. H A. The Burean of (‘hemistry '\' that 2 lavender hue is the effec r the light on the glass due ta the manganese which is put in the glass 1o srreet the green color from the ire and steel Forest Service savs that i too soft and knotty to | the manufacture of furni- mimercial cedar fn the north- west is not used In furniture: the | eastern cedar is nsed almost exeln sively for cedur chesis Q. tsighted wear glaswes’ A. Myopia correcied by the lenses, which diver in this way preve a focus too soon. - n nsed Why s H. or nex peaple York men in New farmers? " Q. How State are United Siate L F. [ A, Omt of o population of 202 i New York State 1 9 are farm- | ers on general farme. Ot of a toral population in the [nited States of 112,000,000 there arve £004580 ers on general farms Q. Please describe the church flag and give the salute to it.— F.F.P. A. The Christian flag has a white ground with & blue field in the upper corner and a ¢ 1{,\« l'l'h1|~ ‘fl\ag' i cal repo of one of the | flown ahove that of the “nited States "M..:—,L .Iun.;.\" th |'|y:;-. The onlv salute which we find is the + xoap by blowing |one written bv Rev. Lynn Harold hubbles while it is | Hough and first used in the .\Hn.vla' invisihle to | school of the Third Methodist FEpis copal Church. Long Isiand City, New York. Christmas sie, 1905 It reads “1 pledge allegiance to mv flag and to the Savior for whose kingdom i1 stande, one brotherhood. uniting all mankind in service and love” W Did ceive a salary” \. President Washington at first re fused & salary fu servires hnt Fureau of Circulation. and such state- | miye it diffienl fo o ighi mente are sworn te by the publishers | 0" coive zratle 10 assumé the office makfrz them. he consented to receive a ;nm ‘zd_- ot his expenses, fixed at $23 Q. 1% the incubator & modern inven. | 41&1e far b v tion”—\". R. T. '\, Devices for the ariificial hateh ing of chickens from eggs were known lo mankind from the early ages. | Pliny xays that the Eszyptians thus atched 100,000 chickens in a | The first patented invention of the |’ e il rerer medern incubator was in 1847, ence is made to the individuals practicsl success with such machines | (U™ ML tective noun not met with until 1533 instance: A committee has heen ap | pointed: the committee are all of 1he many el In sightedness, s nse of concave e the ravs, and t thelr coming 1o Q. What ix meant hamstrung > Z. AL term denotes the cutting of the large tendon at the back of the hind leg, thus crippling an animal. Q M. What mukes . At Government quality fe give it (il of tine air still hot. The bubbles he naked eve. Q. How many saloons were { husiness hy prohibition” A. The AntiSaloon Leazue that there were 1 0 saloons hreweries and distilleries in United States. float?—A. soup put_out w. Savs 1,090 the resident -D. ¥ 3 W hington re Q. What is meant by anh A. B, C. statement?—1. L. T his Q. Are collective nouns singular or plural?—R. M A collective noun may he either al. as commitiee, com ngular form requires wa Q. What ts the largest weed known? | Polmied: the A The kind of seaweed known as| o A —— Kelp. said to be the largest. or At ot GO0 L e Al L S least the longest, in the world pmm!-l 4. Tdo & i A artificial {imien attaining & length of 1300 tect. | 1 A 190 AES K n D s be i « in ! that the vocabulary of Ida is made Jash {up by adopting as reot words thai & Jan | form of word most readily seces i ry . v were | able by the greatest number of x \\|..ru‘:;1h 1 e, I eal T, | ropeans and not merely L emi Sehmefer. 1. Blsten. I1. Stuits. K. Noe. | selection. as in Fsperanto. b arvey. 1 Maihen. G. | claimed that Ido is the simple hnson and E. Bay 1w and that it an practically o — ead at sight by any educated Fure Q. When was the last grest erun | pean. tion of Fujivama. the sacred voleanic mountain of Japan. and how far is it from Tokio®—W. A. A, Fujivama is 60 miles west of “Tokio and according te fradition rose from the plain in a single night. The | Jast recorded eruption began Novem- 7. and lasted until January vear. A hump call- cei-zan (9,400 feer). noticeable on the south side, then produced. Q. United States?—F A. In addition pounds of soap and soap produets used in the home in 1925, there was an additional 500,000,000 pounds con med hy commercial laundries, | otels, office buildings. and in the in- Who were the leading jock A. B Considering *he races from It ois of the C. Allen. W. e There is no other aoency the | world that can ansiwer as many leaiti- mate guestions as our freq infarma- tion bureau in Washington. . €. This highly organ titution has heen Built up and is under the personal di- | rection of Frederic J. Haskin. By keep- ing in constant touch with Federal bu- reaus and athereducational enterprises. it is in a position to pass on 1o you au thoritative information of the highest order. Submit -your queries to the staft of experts whose services are put at pour free disposal. There is no charge except 2 cents in stamps for return postage. Address The Wash- inaton Evening Star Information Ru- reau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington. D. €. How much soap i used in the | L. B. i to 2.000,000,000 | Miss H;)lley,_ i)éad, Is Called Greatest Woman Humorist In the ne century that [the pe ¥. ‘Saman has passed s samantha Allen” | ha' was quoted evervwhere. bhegan enterta the public her|Allen's Wife' was known to millions quaint sayings and homely phil up and down America. In the mid have lost none of their freshnes 1880s it was said that she was the best the minds of those who were young in paid woman writer in Ameriea.” the 0%, and the death recently of her | ok ox % -reator, Miss Marietta Holley, avoused | Though Miss Holley's work is little « Naod ‘of pleasant recollections. known to this generation. the Hart unger generation doesn’t | Dafly Times explains that her v much ahont Miss Marietta Hol- | nee went to editions of thou- says the Waterbury Republican. . were transiated into many for- “hut many an older person will be re- | ejgn jJanguages and brought her a minded of the hours of plexsure he has | corld-wide fame.” and the Manchester had « . philosophical ) [ eader declares “Marietta Holley was and hing writings of {4 well known as Mark Twain, : In an appreci- | Opinjons expressed by the Holley Holley's work. the 2| hayacter had an influence on the s she was probably | hought of the day. in the estimation America’s foremost woman®humorist. | of the Buffalo Evening News. ®In and that “her strictly humorous chap- | {housands of homes.” savs the News ters, written without intent to point .. iah Allen's Wife,' just ‘visiting' a moral, will never lose their fresh-{.poui her household affairs, her fami- nes: lly caves, her neighborhood interests, ‘The Philadelphia TeRrelS | changed the mental atmosphere so that there will he tha 8| pa new ideas could live in it. That. the sesqui” and reminds fts readers: | atl B IOt S o the very sur- "he dexth ey In UhiS | (i) of literature sexquicentennial vear rvecalls the (ACU! "D "eouniain of Samantha’s inspira- that the 1876 exposition in del | 4o i svously for vears. The phin was the insy | Journal records - that the her 3 ¢ three vears, he Samantha u#t the Centennial g E i appeared in 1877 and Kl (0 i elight the friends AMiss Holley's Rohbett.” the rding (o the ‘plain, common- a “lack of the public tween Holley appeare of Samantha and Retsy former of whom, & | State Journal, was a and the latt: femals n, ¢ thousands adaisical. romantic | clinging-vine type. * ok ox & secret of M itinerary of w vi here the coming Summer. * % ¥ ¥ The fame that came to Marietta Hol | ley through the creat { those | One great widely different but extremely human | popularity. observes the Muncie Morn characters, Samantha Allen and Betsy | ing Star, was that “she understood Bobbett, did not rest entirely on the | human nature and she knew ihe humorous “twiste and turns” of her | faulis and foibles as well as the vir- stories, as the Cleveland Plain ' (ues and amiable traitz of men and Dealer’ points out, “Miss Holley, | women. Best of all, she had a keen though she wrote with lightness and | sense of humor." appeared on the surface to give her. Though the Indianapolis Star con- pages no serious purport, worked. cedes her work “was not high-class nevertheless, with constructive aims | ljterature,” and that “the critics never in mind,” with the result that “wide | considered her worthy of their seri- vecognition was given to her work for | ous attention.” it saya: “Neverthe. Justice to women and children.” {less, her books were best sellers @ “In political thought she was con-| their day and contained clever ann stantly at the heud of the line.” re-|amusing portravals of village — nay, marks the Watertown Daily Times, as | numan character, in the guise of a it recalls how “she was advocatlug|yather unsophisticated and simple- woman suffrage 40 ye: and she | ning hrewd folk. on whom it was writing of tempe: o put things over books. She auick t ngor ¢ mercial enjoys sensible view public question. | (he “th of alder people who and she wrote cefully on political | have laughed over the adventures of subjects.”” Of the populavity of her| Samantha Allen at Saratoga, the Cen- hooks and the hold ta'en on the public | tennial, the World's Fair and else. mind by the charact in them this | where,” and the Dallas Journal won- paper further says: “No other woman “ders if it may not “prove (o be a case author of the 50 years had a that ‘Tosiah Allen's Wife' will outlive more extensive redding public during most of the best sellers of our time." Holley's not eusy srasp the |