Evening Star Newspaper, April 2, 1926, Page 8

8 THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Fdition. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY. . THEODORE W. NOYES. Editor The Evening Star Newspaper ( T <, Rsine New Tork Ofce. 110§ Chicaca Ofes Tower Furopean Office 11 Resent Enztand. T ondon The Evening Sta g adition. i the nis a1 nd 45 cente par month: Sun iy, o8 ceote Per month Orders may be sent by mail or telsphone Main 3000 Coll iv made I earrier at the end of earh monih Rate hy Mail—Payable in Advar Maryiand and Virginia. Dailr onie e Sundar oniy 1y e 1o el Al Other States and: Canada atle ant sundav.1 e $1° a0 Kinfies "oy vl s Member of the Assoclated Press The Associated Pross fs o1 10 the vias for renui Fatehes cradited to tad in this naner and alse the | Publiched herein AT rights of 1 ©f snecial dispatches herein ace also or nét ot J The Capital's Front Yard. Visitors to Washington ave arvivin: By the thousands this season them making holiday the Capital for Al and most of Baster visits (o the majoriiy the first but a theref Washinzton portals of the Union Sta Washing time. ming by irain ave ti from the This in fAirat glimpse of on, troductory vision of far picture of incompleteness ng. 1 of unfinish present from insgl the Government hotels blot the landscape enirs of of of Interrupied wor war's emergency in m Great real estate sizns advertising land for stare the visitor face. Ragged perspectives open tlo- the Cap! The cln: ward t 1 other dived tions unkempt and frowsy A bill h has heer House from final 1 This is the bill lands s Senate and to it pass th favorably passed reported the tee whick ed eure this condition. complete the pur within the are as the Capitol a is chase of Iving denominated It of time to complete farmaliy Station pla will require” only short peric enactment and put this project in the way of eventual and early accomplish ment Tha te opment 1 be al avea needed for this deve is twelve squares lying tween No Capitol Second Dand I s hetween First siveet and streets northeast, reets, and in the northwest and Arthur place and B and D stre A half has beer he Litl now pend ing the remainde the of more little m than of this ares provides for the purchase of here is now available in Trensury an unexpended balance han half of the oney nec exsary this land yet needed t finish the At the present reck- oning a further and final appropria- of $1,300,000 will be re qnired to give the United States titie to the entire tract. work tion Cantroyersy the methods of jon and prices awarded eanused the hinckading of this project The land was taken, in anticipatlon of the con- bulldings were razed, and, title, the Government pro ceaeded 10 use the space in the erection over condemr seme vears ago. howaver demnation without of the temporary in at hostelrles for its em time. No at improvement -those cun »ns could not be called fmprove in truth- were and the better part pinyas tampis mtruct ments, for de iand has heen little more than a mon wa ier made, S0 ot le this “com * uninviting and repellant (o the The pre that House they can secure action in before adjournment this This will he fndeed a welcome For stands and as it has stood for vears. the vista spread hefore the visitor to the Capital arviving by train is depressing and disillusioning. Mosquito War. Washington 0 henefit from a mosquito extermination wa bhe waged soon at the Marine ) Quantico. Pl beginning of the airplane atiack the buzzing and biting Insects for May 30, when aviators will huge quantities of nux vomica over Chupa wamie Creek breedi ground. Tha National Capital, and all the surrounding country f: measire be liave the cessinn aetion as the situation now i expected to e al the Tentative 1S mark release a prolifie in If the campaign is sucecessful of a large percentage of the winged pests which every Summer make life miserahle for humans, Althengh Quantico 18 some distance from Washington, it has long been the theory that have heen . horne on the wind from their breeding grounds this measure which will decrease, to even a slight dagree, the Summer visitation w cagerly welcomed hy every and ao the campaign about to he un dertaken will be watched with inter est and success will plauded. will be mosquitoes to city. Any 1 e resident, be heartily ap The most eminent professivnsl pugi lista remain calm. 1f there must be fint Aighting 1t may have to be doue Ly some of the inclined statesmen. pugnaciously S A Grave Duly Honored. At last the grave of [nldier night b 18 helng guarded. an armed sentr hefore it. This, sentive order President C and agitated for some time before that, ie distinctly ax it should be. Tt may be true that nobody ever Jid use the simple sarcophagus where fes this man, unknown to «ll but typitying the best attributes of Ameri an young gzanhood, for a lunch table or & surface for craps or jackstones or a dancing platform. But som body could have done %0, and Amer- jca's prepensity fir the let us say asual, rather than lrreverent —made it likely that some day some would have done so. in fact, Y last Autumn some English visitors to Arlington expressed in the hearing of A member of the staff of this news. paper their utter amazement that the tomb corresponding the one sacred #n them chould he utterly Unknown Duy and paces slowly accomplished by ¢ o to =0 .April 2. 1926 i the | the | rid | 0 uniformed civil guard was nowhere In!hflls and other measures pleasing to | evidence. The same Rritishers, more. | the proletarint of the Empire State [over. expressed almost as much as |effect a change in the two-thirds rule {tonishment at the failure so far to|of the Democratic convention. elevate or adorn the tomb in any way.| So, despite the fact that their can- it a monu lummo ha pluce of office, no op- ment, s authorized in a recent Senate | poctunity to wanifest as a friend of { This may people. the MeAdooites are not Will come later, nor neerned over the doings of ew York's favorite son. They know [ that the fight will waged in the At | convention hall and not at Albany V| Ceriainly not at Madison Square there Wi | suck as by building over no resolution nd. | the however, is hoped, need atly o adequate monument Violate na ) [tonal ideals of simplicity. be | Tne war {first to have demurred o the milita scove that Luble nearby. the Department |goard idea on e Gerden, Was no shelter av W Prospect for Better Streets. Members of the Senate subcommit priations have in- that they will favor a sub inceense in the nt al the House for rep: of the Waushington Under the Rl Phipps of Colo- [there any shelter when (his Unknown took ds and offered it up misht 10 howr o on night jthe morning [ his lite In his ha m behalt [bave the privilege of doing ! two of seniry-go over him? None that tea on District appr of those who, later, dicated atuntiui Amo lowed by 1 cupable of protecting him, at any Jiate. We are not a wilitury Nution |, pand our Avmy is small. But there will be, cuvugh sol sireats of lershin of o by o rado, the subcommitiee ix e and always paving, and ired thou in ex Ldetailed survey of strect fices enrolled our bauner that e when the re 1t S0 lau increase of several hu {that one, at least, cun pace Thut | i diaplinse o’ upropRIKHUDS | from now uniil the t shall | pected o result hel with uf the | public ceuse o endure Linglomins will hail (hix wetion be: spinesphitting streets suldier he will maty of ol the the iy duty Whal the mind o carwreeking that they o endure. The of the ety Leen in worse con tie day over bumpy have heen compelled provided bill wus ve introdu pryvement in ull sections which hut the bugler Not within e of the call but would for nes House not has probably dition ut never for the sentry for the blowing of 1t is sagzing and falling ST uver tomb by night viug dist il a | and in places it re the cure 10 suve bolh oceupants apd automobiles o cven and rough ever person quires i driving tmost be listen 1o those bugler the better serious injury Theve is litte doubt residents of the Nativnal Capiial that will he bette vingling not a n fnithe: is of roster of the Army but soldier blown them amd o better wan for ShGie vldeiio, con the it ke but a having subcommittee Vinee wmembers ‘of - ———s Signs of the Season. the (hat imnrediale action ix necessary iy semblance of modern steeed Decuy has thorough, suftice park ditions is (0 be presecyed Wil of Exge will not ildven will roll ezes in of the White and ooy w0 g alveady i House wnd on the Monday the ter Zou next complete will [ es of the Capi-’| Weet the sit uged k Kk wade that jbe rolied on dune by & lon Sowe rep: vork hux bee the terrace Some repair work b L o Lbise depurtment the bucket he done. of but they merely accentuate highw drop L should are patches siveet aud v i s i red and from sod o nerble in the e plaint ot so's lin the Gu's con wus B omly a s | the Baster revels childien bioke | < to wh ere rere ew sod of th tevraces, | 1 s = d [ down the Capitol pay ement 1 e prounds vwere closed to them, s Disintegration piece red holes ch w Mtage that mplish the d remaining (hey marched and struggled west reached sy Lousands wud took pussession of the W 1 | When Cupitol Park was the only fin the ! White sl schools | for | baskets House grounds, ago)] ROk e park | FesUI At half million dollars addi fed immediately least a City, except that wround the al is nes o place streets again in the condition suit- "v'l";"" to the Nation's Capital. The dis- "1 | (redit of provincial highways in Wash ington should not be countenanced by of the ! steps should be taken at e it House hnd lawn e of teachers Which and ubbery led Easter of lui ster part of it lieyed that soute child plaviog on the children the ed Ly went They I an plenic. h, the carrigd egrs is be und either Congress or residents tormed ity & o remove of g5 or mischievously let un egg roli| steep sod tervace spilled a bushet . —oee 3 A for Justifiex de in feeling that his | wage of twelve doliurs a day Uther children e [ Sw that 1t was fun and let their egge ol 1t % Lelleved thut | began in thut way, There is no record o its begluning down the two terraces st shovel work the 1l worker the ¢ S uureasonable us s s the custom 2 derands on uvernment are sme of our but wen and wolmen they were litile Ik eggs In Capitol P 50, No mention | of Capitol egg rolling has been found ![II the files of The Star until the early { 70’8, and references found then indi {cate that egg rolling at the Capitol { was an old sport. | In addition to the approach of egg { rolling, there Is unxious und deliberate Iplanning, making and buying of bright | {hats and gowns. The shop windows [and the shops are gas with Jaster| A man of extracrdinary intelligence, {things, and the advertisements show |C°r@ld Chapman il ol | that & carnival of fowers and a fes. |"OP €YeR 01 #id from the iy tival of hats draws near. 2 gressmen assert. . —ome luave suid that ldren in when they rolled The show thelr wpi negotiation ing the fighting as fierce as possible and giving it the status of a national custom. Chinese present the early by on of peace mak —— When the gentle Spring returns the little lambs are supposed to be happy and plaxful, but not in Wall Street. 2 e has Some men A “All the world's & stage,” but this is in con ure contemwplating new suits, with necktied BUTLOE b no excuse for using profanity already Ik and a bus schedule hus been §r- sed in Polomae Purk that the few Who do not drive make & Jupanese cherry blossom tour. sroups of high pupils from clties » t and West are in the public buildings. They king the grand tour of the Cap This ix a practice that is fixed with many schools and is heing taken ight seeing” is as a general propo- sition, but the crowds of young peo- ple are gay, and they bear their long train trip and their tours of the Capi: tol National Museum and « hiundred other places with courage and smiles, lie 1 unusual that up. oul and crocuses ure peep- g from grass plots {gressi oz ue. ere Is cherry blossom S e . ——— SHOOTING STARS. sons cars ¥ PHILANDER JOHNSON Human Interfe A flower in & up is seen Where garish tinta are shown. How beautiful it might have heen If left to grow alon: BY wrge school streets and lare w ital. . A melody in memory sweet Is turned to jazzy glee With joy it would remain complete 1t they would Jet it be. more schools foot-tiring jo! up by a A noble poem flls the mind. Reciters seek to win Applause with it—why must we find Somebody butting in! Adaptabilit; “A wise man will change his opinion usionully. “Whether he changes his opinion or answered Senator Sorghum, “he will know when to change his iine of talk.” Monument tel wen ure suving that an crowd is coming and tourist looking e elns und wmaples are putting aster Spring trude s leaf huds not, Euglish coal situ- ¥y ien Who study Ostentations Importance. This thing called “dignity” we find Impressive to the human mind, And they who don’t possess a lot Must take zood care of what they'y ation m uhd for those find iU difficult to see why it sh be regarded as out of the in control of the rubber the market with vantage. e wary wutput L view 1o every o munage conferences al %0 long s the dis- going there will International e - 4 Tunk gress VS 4 MAN Who wants usually careful to select the line of progress that'll keep thinga coming his way Universal Demand, what kind of relief does the want? “Name K everybody else nts” answered Farmer Corntossel, sigger profits and less work ways reassuring. kept be no opportunity for fighting. - Seed-Sowing at Albany. to be of the Cratic convenidon It may be long or it muy be short between the Smith and | the MeAdou forces fo iut ! the ation | Mage. cussion can be s 14 next “dust farmer there ix a contest ut the session national Demo- as w he preside | nowination, i | the 1 | Their while the candidute of the vppo: torum of speech or | - In uther present si The World Over. Springtime, when newed their b ung hears e H t b l'l'ht' World Court may linger in doubt i viner bave a certain ad Lin skies have sht smile with ey or dis- candidute is in o public | ik tion |y hias no particulur arens of action Words, Gov. | Smith has o strategic position iu that | hie cun muke campaign material, while | his chief opponent for Hin 1824, and prospectively lmerely a citizen in the ranks, | Yesterday Smith signed bills| effecting a 25 per cent reduction in the serves the Ten Commandments.” State income tax for the current year | ““They help.” rejoined Mr. Chuggins, nd creasing exemptions. Under “but you want to go farther and pay these bills taxpayers ar granted the traffic reguli saving of $14,000,000 for the governor is receiving the thunks of the people of New York. Not so Lad, with @ nominating Mo only little than months away. But the Income tax item only lates to New York State, and taken for granted that if Gov. “Al wunts the nomination for 1928 the New York delegation will plump for him to @ man, or a Wowun, No mat- ter what he does between now and | convention time, or what he does not Ao, short of something utter b R dalous in omission or commission. he | "IN T8 RO CUTEE ine present will get that vote if he gives the word. | cyime. wave may be Anished In time for awhile World Courting less, goes on none th nation in 1928, Qs the nom Enlarged Respousibilities. man will be all right if he ob. ov. a|some attention to “You can't faults in other ‘thout lookin' keep on discoverin’ said Uncle Eben, o right past & few of a more twenty-six re- | it is iPlulu the Rockford St Now chemists say we're going to get synthetic food from cotton. A good ['deal of the stuff we've ealing now { tastes like that. e Crime Surveys. sean &cibilsly Jor AL 1BAL. Cigasicn. ine Dol wm-.m.mmf( Angometax 'to help in combating-ihe next.oge.” paking « | ause it will mean the end | i is | 1t will be noted that'this column has | not advised any one to get out and do any gardening as yet. Spring may be here —we certainly hope s0—but the trees do not know It. You can't fool a (ree. heen 100 long on this daceived by a few mild Deep in their ancient resint the faise Springs the luring (o “colds” and warm days. hearis th deceiver e, when cértain trees put ou | their ‘leaves will the true Spring he | here. the Spring of which the inimi table W. 8. Gilbert wrote when he trolied “T'he flowers that bloom in the | Spring. tra ! ' | Perhaps Spring is here. Again, let | us say Wwe hope so. Dempite the cool | mornings. (he xignk of frost on the graws, the culting wind, Spring may | be duing her hest for uk. The wise gard however, will not {nllow himwelf 10 he “iaken in" or {1xiher vut (nto the gurden), until the leaves begin 1o unfold. He keeps hix eves on the maples. re | fusing 10 get excited about Spring un Ul the trees (el him (o, | UOnly God can make a tree.” said the poet: wnd (he gardensr, sensing the earth-knowledge wrapped up ‘in these thinge clomest to the soil. bides | bis time. in the certain knowladge that Spring. If nol hers today, Is just around the corner, Al the farthest. Spring may be just Hke, the old awing in the woode. in search of which {& man and (wo litte boys went®one I bright day recently | The woods is on an incline, and the | 1vio set L light-heactedly, plowing | #long the faini path among the trees las the <hort lege of the youngaters | would allow, The swing was not in evidence. The tariher 1t | don’t | todas { they xeemed. went “Boys Lelieve we the more hopeless said (he man, 1 can find the wwing “Mavhe §t i just on the otter side of that il piped up one of the hoyk, SWell well iry it snswered thelr suide, and they sel out. up over the [ Wil wud down in the hollow, hiiched lto a giant oxk. swunk a long chain, at the end of which was an automoblie tre. IU was (he swing! 80 Spring may be “Just on the other side of that hili". s, indeed, may be @11 our hopes, our precious aapirations all on the oiher side of the hill Walk on. then. ail vou whe heavily laden: do not give up the search becanse vou cannol sasily come 1o What vou seek: keap on, for “may be it Is just on the other side of that hill. | # B ‘'here is much that the amateur gar- dener can do. even if he refrain from venturing into the garden for a few weeks. He can be taking stock of his inten tons, for one thing, and planning a better garden, for another. The duve of “Areside gardening” are over. In the clear light of the season | in relation to the number of fowers (o be put in In Winter the gardener sees his door- Within ® day or two the State De- Pariment expecis 1o make public the American Mexican diplomatic corre spondence conducted Incessantly from tha Fall of 1925 to March, 1926. It will reveal Secretary Kellogg's cow teous but vigorous efforta to secure adequate recognition of American property vights south of the Rio Grande. While we have not obtained everything we ask, it will that Mexico's concessions denote real lations with the Calles government. American policy toward Mexico has consistently aimed at results by firm. ness devold of brusgueness. While standing fast for the rightw of United States citizens, we have studiously re frained from an attitude of threat Conditions are by no means ideal Fhe new controversy over interfer ence with American religious activities complicates the sitnation afresh. Secretary Kellogg i% convinced that a policy of patlence and perseverance eveniually—if noi once—will st bilize American-Mexican relationa all along the line. * Keep an &ve on Representative John Q. Tilson of Connecticut, Republican foor laader in the House. *'Cal” calla him “colonel.” He is the lixison offl- cer bet n the lower branch of Con. gress and the White House. No man on Capitol Hill hi the e of the President move confidentially or of- tener. Col. Tilson's intimacy with Mr. Coolidge dates from the 4 cam- T'he Conunecticut Represen chatrman of the speakers Republican national head- By common consent, the spelibinding sirategy of the campaign was one of the factora of victory, and Tilson was its prophet. e I8 only » Yankee by adoption. Tennessee in his native hesth. Representat ‘Tilson i8 no governor's staff colonel. He w. a lientenant in the 2d United State Volunteer Infantry during the wa with Spain; served for the succesding 16 years in the Connecticut Natlonal Guard and wound up as ita colonel on the Mexican border in November, 1916, Col. Tilson (Yale, '81) is serving his eighth term in the House. 5 * k% x Matters of plumbing, decorating, carpets and furniture-—not minor is- sues like European politics—formed the subject of Ambassador Houghton's parting talks at the State Depart- ment this week. He saila for Fng- land tomorrow. ‘The farewell con- fabs concerned the new London em bassy, of which Uncle Sam has hea gradually taking possession since the Spring. of 1920. After six years of combined British and American red tape the two old mansions froniing Hyde Park, presented to the United States by the late Pierpont Morgan, at leugih give promise of being ready for occupancy by the Fall of 1926, Congress voted $150.000 1o provide the property, which was avistocratically dilapidated. with open-faced bathtubs und other modern furnishings, in which the Yaunkee note is 1o be dis- tinctive. While the finishing touches are being put upon the houses, now knocked into one palatial establish- ment, Ambassador Houghton wili camp ont at & place in Scotland. out- side Edinburgh? which his family has taken for the Summer. * ok ox % There's a mid-West member of the Tlouse, serving his first term in Con- e8«, who claims to have robbed Speaker Longworth of the reputation of being the best dressed man on the Hill. A master of epigrams, who probably is jealous of the sarterial glory of ‘the Beau Brummel from the peach belt, recently observed: “Such time as the gentleman from - doesn’t waste on. the adornment of his person he devotes 1o the neglect of his duties.” * oKXk DLr. Altred P. Dennis, the Demo- oratic vice chairman of the United States Tariff Commission, who smote that inharmonious body hip and bureau ut committee, was one of the President’'s cronies in Northampton 25 vears ago. He was a professor of history and European politice at Smith College for alne years o the days whan. Coolidge BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. now at hand one mav find it necessary | to alter & few of his ideas. especially | be found | progress in the normalizing of our re- | But | thigh before the Senate investigating | THIS AND THAT yard blooming with a hundred va rieties. (loing through the seed cata logues, he is unable (o resiat the lure of thin or that ssed. He jots down one flower another, another, until he haa a list distinguish ed by length more than by any other one feature. His eyas. as so often is the case, ave larger than his stomach, as the old saving has it. (We have refined upon the saving a bit, for the purposes of cold_print.) | When Spring actually seems just over the next hill the gardener prob. ably will flnd it highly advisable to sliminate about hulf of his varieties. Seeds perform such grand expansion acta that a small packet of them will cover aquare yards of ground later on. Fepecinlly he who has but a back- 'd garden, narrow and none 100 ng. will do well to cut down on the number of his varieties. in order that he may have envugh of those selected & garden of a hundred different plunts would be interesting, certainly it there were but one specimen of | each. but musses of half a dozen va rvietion would give a better effect. | ax o ox | ers plan better gurdens, too. | This may ofien he done simply | endeavoring to dispose of plants In proper relation 10 their settings. In othér words, haphazard planting, es- pecially in heds. may he changed (o orderly horder planting. The grass. the setiing of any garden can be improved by judicious resead- | ing. with special atiention to portions where ii_never has grown well, and by n suclent application of ground bonemeal o1 othar good grase food. In many vards rocks grow so close (0 the surface that zrass can scarcely et a foothold, und. if it dues. cunnot survive the hot Sumger months. In A1l wuch cuses it is neceasary 1o take L up such turf as is there and (o remove the stones heneath. Fill in. then with earth tha old turf biack. not [in some seed. 1 " | mpace will be thic on | "1 do not Know vhxi iz the m [ with that wpol, but the grass al | die there.” in @ sontence often heard | & concealed vock is often the answer |te this problem. and itk removal is one way (o a hetrer garden. Careful inapections must be miade weekiv. now. of the mhrubs, notshiy the aithess and ihe spireas, in ord to sprav them for aphids at the firat sign of that gleen pes: A 40 per cent molution of tobacco In soapy vater is the proper spray which &hould be put on at the first appearance of the lice This prohabl will be ahout April 15. it not earlier. | "This note applies particularly 1o rose. | bushes. As an experiment might be put in by and place failing to put month the old peted, gladiolus bulbs tha ground (a1 least 5 inches deep) at this tima, although | probably it would be betiar to wait until the laat 10 days of Awril 1t will be noticed that we have quali ‘flnd most of our statemenis with “prob. {ably and perhaps” since there is | no sure vule in Nature. so varving are local conditons. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM W ILE. |was & briefless Jawyer battling his | Way up the public ladder in local pol itics. Roth Coolidge and Dennia were shining lights in the circle of yvoung intellactuals who foregathered regu larly in the town tavern to decide the fate of city, State and Nation. Above ! Dr. Dennin’ deek at the Tariff com mission hangs a presentation photo graph of Coolidge. vintage of taken a couple of vears after |callow Vermonter settled down | Northampton to wait for a law tice. The vice chairman of the Tariff | Commission describes himself a | theoretical free-trader who belleves in protection. It isn't generally known that the original suggestion for the snate investigation originated with Lr. Dennis, the at prac- % Mrs. Avthure R. Robinson, wife « the junior Republican Senator from Indiana, has left Washingion to take & hand in her husband's campaign for re-election in November. She ha been officially designated his assistant manager, with the women of Indisna as her particular fleld of activity. Politics has long been Mrs. Robin. son’s hobby. Few women in country Khow its rough-and-tumble 80 well. been vice chairman of the G. O. P. city central commitiee at Indianapolis. and her political contacts ramify all o the Hoosier realm. The Rob- [ * studenta at Ohlo Northern versity and wer Christmas holidaya following the Joint graduation in 1301. Mrs. Rob- indon is u mother as well as a poli tician and ham @ son who will cast hix firat vote for his dad this vear. ‘The Senator's leading lady is a slen air, rousing stump speech. R There are few mor ures in the Federal service thun John B. Randolph, 84-vear-old assist a0t to the chief clerk of the War Department, who is completing his fAfty-eighth auccesaive vear as a Gov- ernment employe. He is a member of the famous old Virginia family whose name he hears. but incurred ita undying hostility by casting his lot_with the Northern cause and ac cepting a lieutenant's commission in the Union Army during the Civil w Later he resigned to ent® pri- makes u In the War Departmemt. Lieut. Ran- dolph haws served under 24 Secretaries of War. Dbeginning with Toren Thomas 'in 1868 and continuing un interruptedly up to the regime of Dwight ¥. Davis in 1926. Under a atrict interpretation of the civil serv- ice rules Randolph would have been rvetived vears ago. But no one has ever thought of condemning so gal- lant a gentleman to the mniggardly pav Uncle Sam allots his superan- nuated faithful. Xk ox ok Some of the young men ai Lhe State Department have christened Senator Harrisen, Democrat, of Mis- siasippi “‘Pestering Pat.” That's a reprisel for his allegation in the Sen- #te on March 22 that American for- elgn poljcy Is conducted by “a tri- umvirate consisting of Cautious Cal, | Nervous Nellie and Gloomy Gus.” (Copyright. 1926.) ——— Annuitant Forced to Subsist on $36 a Month To the Editor of The Ster: I thank you for publishing my let- ter in The Star and I hope it will erve a good purpose. In reading it, however, I realized that it lacked the very point 1 had tried to emphasize, since | had left oul the statement of amount of annuity 1 receive. 'This amount s $36 & month, & sum suf- cient te keep hody and woul togethe It Judiciously expended ou the plainest kind of room and food, but can soarcely be siretched by strictest aconomy to cover other necassities of dscent. ifving. Unfortunately it is now And has heen throughont the year since retirement my sole source of regnlar and Adependable incoms. ! e e This Spring 1t will bo well if gurden-| 1898, | the | For several vears she has| insona met and wooed while fellow | Uni-| married during the | and! omuntic fig- | vaie life, but in 1868 became a clerk | .. FRIDAY, APRIL 2. 1926.. Retirement Equity .Demands Action No Te the Editer of The Star: Ave we (o witness the spectacle of adjournment of Congress 1t decent provision for the thou- nd helpleas Federal { employes ears of age or thereabouts upon the princely aver age annuity of $545 a vear—that is. | practically $10 a week? Probably a third of thess involuntarily retired woukers receive leas than this average. When it is reculled that, in the largest class of Federal employes in Washing- ton (the clerical) before the World War. the average salary was only $1.300 a vear, the virtual impossibility of the vast majority “saving some- thing for @ rainy day” may be realized. Shockingly low salaries had prevailed for half & century. The small “bonur” paid during the World War did not | %0 much meet the increased cost of Jivi Morally speaking, the pay- | ment by the Government to these in | { voluntarily retired emplovea of an an- | | naity sufficient to insure a decent | maintenance during Auch span of life | A% remaing 1o them ix not pensioning them; rather is it an &il too tardy | award 1o them of what should have |been in their pay envelopes during the years they rendered ill-requited nervice. Even a casual reading of the re [ tivement act should make 11 clear to the dullest that the aci contemplaied | thut the cost of retivement of thoxe who had already reached retirement age should be borne hy the Govern ment, and, in varving proportions. some part of the cost of retirement of those in the servics before the pas sage of the act. How otherwise could tha iotel of all deductions, with inter #st. he assured to all required to con- | tribute 10 the retirement fund” One |ean’t save his cake and eat it too ‘There Is one aitarnative. but that ia {the “wild cat”” one of having the cost | of retirement of one generation borne by a succeeding generation - a | credited pian. | Are not und | tion being given to the fiscul aspect of retirement, or, if riot, could not the dir eeds of those retired be relieved (during the interim, by temporary ap. ‘VI’ODI’IIU(III. &% in the case of ihe World War bonus? What would we | think of the preparation of eishoraie | tables of cost of the upkeep of life. {boats while persons were drowning, or percentages of lifebuoys lost in | affecting rescues’ it in devoutly 10 be | hoped that this session of Congress wiil_not close without the enactment | of some legislation embodying where relief is so sorely needed JAS. W, WITTEN. P relief George Washington | Would Favor the League To tha Editor of The Ntar | | Tlose who oppose our couniry en tering A league of peace with foreign nations frequenily quots Washing- ton's warnIng to heware of foreign entanglemants. When a business man, who has grown too old to con- tinue in commercial pursuits, turns his business over (o his son, he warns him (0 beware of business entangie vienis. In this sense Washington evi dently meant his much-guoted warn Ing. for in hix remarks on the Brotherhiood of Man' he said: ‘AW the member of an infuui emn pire. 3% a philanthropist by character and. if | may be allowed the expres sion. ax A citizen of the grest repub. lic of humanity at large. | cannot ! heip turning my attention sometimes (0 this subject, how mankind may he connected, Iike one greut family. in {fraternal ties. 1 induige a fond. per haps an enthusiastic, idea that as the world §8 evidently much less barbar- ous than it has been. its melioration musi atill be progres#ive, ihat nations are becoming m humanized in their policy: that the subjects of ambition | and “causex for hostility are daily diminishing, and. in fine, that the | period is not very remote when the benefits of a liberal and free com merce will pretty generally succeed | to the devastation and horrors of war. 7' From these wionx by the | Father of Our it 1s logical {initial Q. If all the people in the world were put in the State of Texas, how | much room would each person have” | —W. D. W, | A. The area of the State of Texas | in 265,896 square miles. Assuming | that the population of the earth ix approximately 1,748,000,000, the ares allotted to each person. if the whole tion of the earth were inciuded | xan, would be 42.3 aquare feel. | I Q. Are dates sugared or put in sirup | or is their sweeiness natural?—A. | s | A. Dates naturally are very sweet, ' as 70.6 per cent of their chemical analysis is carbohydrate. Q. 1% there is & special meaning to the name Camev? ). K. . A. It comes from the Celtic word cath, meaning soldie Q. If a recipe calls for sweet milk ¢ must it be changed in order 1o we sour milk?—- M. M A. 'The Bureau of Home Kconomic says that when proportions are given in terms of sweet milk and baking powder, an equal guantity of sour milk may he substituted and enough soda used approximately to neutralize each cup of sour milk. In the case of thin hatters the soda and sour milk generally furnish enough but for thick batters or doughs bak ing powder is usually nesded in #ddi tion. \When sweet milk is to he used in_place of sour, haking powder ix substituted for proportion of four teaspoons of bak Ing powdar for one teaspoon of soda if no other acid ingredient, such as molasses, is used. If such an acid in gredient is used. as in ginger hread some %oda 16 required Q. Why i« Cupld pld7-«. . de B A. The titie Dan ix one of respect and of honor, corresponding to master sr. It is upplied. for example. 1o pid and to such a poet as Chaucer called Dan Cu What is the CurtisReed bill” M. A. The Curtis-Reed Lill, which i of tered in place of the Reed-Sterling bili of the Sixty-eighth Congress would create a Secretary of Kduca {tion. with a place in the cabinet of | the President. and would make a total appropriation of $1.500,000 maintain the new department. of the Western the most flowering Q. What Hemisphere plants/—S A. Costa Rica. about the size of West Virginia. has the richest variety of flowering plants and ferns of any srea of its size in this hemisphere Ita known flors includes more than 6.000 species. The I'nited Stares and Canada. 130 times the size-of the Iit tle republic. has only 16.000 species. Orchidn are so common in Costa Ricx that they thev ‘almost fill the role of weeds, according to a botanist. whe is bringing back 1300 specimens of this flower, part has Who first Jker's re suggested O semblan A tiger?—P. . A. A cartoon by Nust. published in 1892, first sugzested this Q flies over seen @. What is the bird that the Pacific Ocean that does not to move its wings? —H. H. Il ‘A, The Hiologieal Survey savs that Q. Why do people prefer white esgs?—A. D, L. A. All people de rot prafer i« known to poultry dealers some cities prefer white egze. while brown eggs sell berter in othjr places. The color of the egg does ne derermine its food value. KEgge of chickens that are properly raised and fed have the same food value Q. What ie a cereal grass - A. A cereal grass is any vield- ing farinaceous secds suitable for food, such as wheat, rice. maize. etc.: aleo the seeds of grains so produced them. It that A to conclude that he wouid be in favor | of his nadive land joining with foreizn nations in behalf of world peace. F. §. HODGRON Poll Shows Sentiment | Of Country Is “Dry” To the Editor of The Star Why all this talk about a national referendum on the Volstead acr when the poll. taken by the newspapers, was #0 conclusively in favor of the Arvs? “What!" some will say. ‘“The ma- jority of thoss voting favored a re- | peal of. or a modification of. the | amendment.” True. but let us look at those figures a lfttle. “There were approximately 1.700.000 votes returned. The majority of these favored the wet point of view. Not many more than 300,000 were dr firsl glance this looks like an over- whelming argument that the Nation wants the act repealed. Hold your horses a little, Mawruss!' Not many more than one-tenth of the population of the United States voted. Haw about that other nine-tenths who | didn’t All out the baltois? If they had. | what would the vote have been? H We may safely sav that all those | who did not vote are dry. The wets | are the ones who are trving to get the act repealed. They, of course. voted. trying to give their cause all the atrength and publicity they could. The drys. on the other nd, being satis. fied with the law it stands, have, | generally speaking, ignored the new paper ballot. ! Rut when it comes ( a straw, vote, then we shall see the strength of “the silent majority.” This | hue and ery of thé wets is the dying song of the awan. Let them have their referendum and realize that any Aght against progreas is vain. MARIE. DASHIELL. & real. and not i Approves Stand for ' Law Enforcement Te the Editor of The Star It seems (0 be human nature to complain when things go wrong and do not_please us and (o suy nothing wheu we are salisfied. Wish to that myself and niany other of my acquainiances are in the heartieat accord with vour attitude | and editorials on the proper punish- | ment for crime and of criminals, Also vour stand for the enforcement of the prohibition amendment ax well as all bther lawa, P Am heartily in favor of making it a capital punishment when a. burglar or | bootlggger in found to be armed. Have been reading The Star ever since I came to Washington 19 vears ago. T. H. BRADEN. | D Move for District Flag Progresses, But Slowly To the Editos of The Star: [ have just been reading that de- lightful editorial in Wednesday's Star on “Flag-Making” and, alas! it Is too true. “Our Flag"” Chapter Is still inter- ested. You, of course, know that we had the bill reintroduced this vear and | that it passed the Senule again: I(! was not immediately Killed. as report- ed. in the District subcommittee on indiciary, but it may he smothered there, / We are hoping to get a little further every season. and the Interest The Star has taken lo & | helght never exceeded | opinion |a force du; BY FRANK It lies bevond of any pen to descrihe what were the dave of turmoil, of tragedy. of comedy. which separated the beginning from the end of the session of the League of Nations at Geneva. Secret diplomacy at ita very EVA, April of the great powers. The Big Four and the Big Five at Patis were hut hardy pioneers hy comparison with the Big Four at Geneva. From the heginning to the end there was no such thing as a league in the American sense. There was no body which. possessing authority of its own, speaking for the public of the world, could bring pressure upon France or upon Ger many to moderate their claims in the interests of world peace. iInstead. there were the prime ministers of the great powers directly affected. who were also members of the coun- eil, who talked, argued and acted, not as wembers of the league. but as | representatives of their own countries and as agents of the national policies of each. As for world opinion. which again in € public men of Furope and force them | to make concessions, not exist, but in Frane for example. the press and public opinion passionately demanded of their respective prime ministers that they refuse all concesaions on penalt of political extinction. At all time not only did it and Germany, | Ktresamann, Luther and Briand were vastly more reasonable than their peoplea and in more than one case were checked in making concessions they belleved essbntial by home conditions, e 1 wish I could make perfectly clear the real significance of these two facts. In America there has been a steady belief ‘that the league is an in- stitution possessing authority of its own, able to act upon rival nations and influence quarreling nationalisms. ‘There has been a tendency to think of (he league as an entity outside of the foreign offices of member nations. But the outsianding fact has heen that members of the council from frst to last have acted, not us. members of & league, bui ax representatives of their nations. The league has never been able to act: it has not even existed ax ik any lime suve the last fatel moments when Brazil making use of the machinery of the league, blocked the whole adjustment. Thus the breakdown of the lsague hax been utter and complete. Thix ix not the aswertion of ita critics only; it ha= been the sorrowful admission of ita friende. How many Germans. for example, have sald to me that, having for a long time fought within their country press for German entrance to the league, they now find them- seives utterly stupefied and helpless in the presence of reality. wholly nun- able to see how they could meet the inevitable reaction in Germany itself. * ok x % ‘The abertive solution reached in the first crisis consisted simply in the sacvifice of the small powers to meel necessities of (he great. Because France had promised Poland a seat in the council and Germany had opposed ihe creation of a new seat, Sweden und Czechosiovakia had to become vol untary sacrifi to the necessities and the presiige of the I'rench and Ges man ecabinets. This transaction In it- self is a total violat‘on of every hit of justice ar aven of decency, and it will have repercussions within the league for an indefinite,period of time. Of course, it is an absurdity that one | end the acid. or a scant half teuspoon for | leavening. | all of the soda in the | the activitfes | - | heory was expected to act upon the | ANSWERS' TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. elther In their original state or coms mercially prepared. he habit of moving the wings only occasionally is a characteristio of gulls and albatrosses. It is believed that the bird you describe is one of the albairosses. Q. Please identify the figures in “A Reading From Homer."—A. H. D. A. In Lourens Alma - Tadema's painting, -a professional Greek reader and interpreter looks up from his scroll. A hunter lies on the floor. At the extreme left mands a traveler, The man With the harp is Phaon. The beautiful woman iw Sappho. The lex- concerning the latter two hAs been incorporated in the painting. Q. 1s the tobacco crop increasing or | decreasing in the United States?— L. R. D. A. The tobacco produced United States for the year: was as follows: 1921.22, pounds: 1922.23. 1.246 nds; 1923-24, 1,615.110.000 25, 1.242.628,000 pounds. For | in the [ 1.22 | 2.006 P 19 | $37.000 | pounds | Q. What Is the Tle de France? | what s it awarded? 1. F. | AL It is not an officikl decoration. 1t | i an inscription. on a guidon carried ‘ at the head of a troop of cavalry, indi cating that that troop had serviee in | ihat province in France Q. What American magazines have | the largest circnlations in the British Inies®—W. L. L. | "A. The Ladiex Home Journal heads= | the limt with a eirculation of 20850 | then comes the Saturday FEvening | Poat. 7,923: following are the Pictorial Review. McCzll's Magazine, Literary Digest, (‘osmopolitan. Waman's Home | Companion. Red Book and Good Housekeeping. Q. Why are matches so called? "he derivation of the term mateh ax used in ite present sense is ohscure. It i oy bly from the Gresk and Latin myxa. meaning a nozzle of a lamp. In 1337 we find reference in literature to matches, the name heing applied to the wick of a candle lamy The earliest reference matches in thelr present sense found in 1530 Q. In what vear did collapre?— W. K. F A. It collupsed June 9. 1883, at 9:30 la.m. Twenty.two people wers killed or fatally injured. The building was purchased in 1888 hy the Government and housed a governmental Aspart ment at the tima of the accident to [ Fard's Theater | Q. Will the Government turn ore into money for individuals?—R. E. € A. Gold is the only metal which ! made into coina by the United Srates | Government for any one who deposits bullion at the mints or assay offices Al other coine are made from metal purchased from time to time for that purpose g« Congress may direct Q. What country i A. The largest single country in the world Is Ruesia. having an area of £.166,130 square miles is the larzest?—P. D There is ather agene the World that can ansiwer as many legiti- wate questions as our Free Informa- tion Burean Washington. D. €. This highly organized institution has heen buiit wp and is under the per- sonal direction of Frederic 1. Haskin Ry keeping in constant touch with Federal hureaus and other cduco- tional enterprises it is in o nosition 10 pass on 1o you authorita’ mation of the highest order. Submit your queries to the staff of erperis whose services are put at wour free disposal. There is no charge except ? cents in stawips for return postage. Address The Evening Star Informo- | tion Bureau. Frederic J. Haskin, di- | rector. Washington, D. . WHAT HAPPENED AT GENEVA H. SIMONDS. ! South American state should be able Ito veto the general European peace Arrangement But at least this smaller evil. capable of amendment ‘The real evil which stands out with appalling clarity is that when the zreat powers disagree the whole ma® chinery of the Jeague is instaniiy paralyzed. And when the great pow sre agres. the small powers can nev | artheless intervene to prevent hens |Acial actfon If their own selfish or llegitimate aspirations, which have no direet relation 1o the question at fs. sue, are not realized, oo France and Germany foughi here a baitle over prestige: Sweden. Spain and Brazil fought here a battle grow ing out of their respective conceptions of the rights of small nations. their own rights to dictate policies or ob tain profite Sweden, perhaps not by design, biocked all solution favorable to France by declining assent to a new seat for Poland. Brazil served |her own ends by blocking German admission, since no seat could fall to | nerself. Spain in the critical hour an- nounced that she would leave the |league if she did not get a permanent seat Fir the American, there iz no' r mote possibility of comprehending the sxtent to which European national- ms behind the scenss hargained, | traficked. manipulated and manen vered. Phe question directly at issue was | always the admission of Germany. hut the fortunes of the Lattle Entente | were involved. The battle between Germany and ltaly, recently joined by Mussolini, exercised an enermeus, | it concealed, influence. Rivalries he. tween France and Italy in the Near East appeared. Of a sudden, one had the impression of opening a Window to look out into a clear atmospher and, instead, gazing upon an enor- mous, active factory, where wheel belts and machinery all were whirling with an enormous noise in rapid revo- lution, * % * % When the battle was over the first thought in all minds was not the blow which had been dealt the league, not the effect of the battle upon the cause of world appeasement. but a wonder un to whether the burden of profit had lain with France. with Germany or jwith Italy: whether, as a conse { quence, cabinets and prime ministers of various states would fall he strengthened. Just as the conference to make peace in accordance with the 14 points was transformed into a con- fict between rival nationalisms to the | utter disregard of the principles in- voked, so the meeting At Geneva, | which, in the spirit of the league. wa | to consummute a great Kuropean ad- | justment, became yet afother bat- tleground for exactly the same Influ. ences and forces conducted with the same disregard of all the avowed prin- ciples. Given this situation, one is forced to ask the question, What possible achievement could be expected in any present time through reference to the league of the question of disarhament, a question at last as certain as that of the German admission to provoke {# new collision of ull the forces re. arraved against each other At all events, it must be said that every competent authority js agreed in the judgment that after the recent experience the arms confer. ance must be adjourned indefinitely Thongh expert commissions may - d hate. serious negotiations are uttarl absurd.