Evening Star Newspaper, April 9, 1926, Page 8

8 THE EVEN With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY ..April 9, 1926 THEODORE W. NOYES. ... Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Busines 1th St oand F i { New York Office Caxt 4% i Chicago OMce: Tower Buildin European Ofce: 14 Regent St 1 Th with the Sunday mom by cariiers within the ot at hec month - daily oniy 43 cents per month Sunday only. 20 cente er month Ovders may be sent hy mail or elaphone Main 5000 Colinc is made by carrier at the snd of & Rate by Mall—Paysble in Advance. Maryiand and Vieginia. All Other States and Cauada, Daily and Sunday.1yi. $12.00° 1 ow. $) Dale onix Vo sK o0 Sundar only ¥ $3.00° Lm Member of the Associuted Press. < exclusively entitle Associated Pres: o the e for Pohes credite fted in this naper iihlished herein No Public Protest. 11 is represented that President Covl fdce holds that the public should be in the of the pro posed increase of the annuity scale for retired Government much as it is the public that will bear the added cost of this liberality. With the public should be horne in mind. Every proposal to add tn the eost of Government weighed with reference to the reaction of the people toward it. In this ¢ however, there can be no doubt of the puhlic feeling on the score of the scale of payments made to those who are fereibly separated from active service, wpen attaining to certain ages. Ther: can he no doubt that the majority of the taxpayers of the country, if the rase were made plain to all, would ap- prove a system of annuities that meets the person’s conception of equity The mere statement that the aver- age of the Government's civil service annuities is less than $545 shocks the sense of fairness of practically every American. That is a shade below $1.50 a day. The maximum is $720, or not guite $2 a day. Many of the an nuitants get less than $1 a day. No “jdle luxury” in those figures. “easy living” in retirement there. And evervhody who has earned money knows how difficult it is to live on such pittances. With the fullest respect for President’s sense of economy, and his sincere regard for the interests of the people who pay taxes and support the Government, it may be urged that there is not the slightest danger of a | popular feeling against the propu liheralization of the annuity When the case is stated fully fairly it appeals to the people’s gener- osity. These men and women, after working faithfully, at small salaries, for many vears, were turned out of office because they had reached a cer- fain age, though many of them were still capable of doing efficient work. Their incomes were cut down to the point of penury and acute privation They now ask, and it is asked for them. that they be given a slight in-| erease, sufficient to enable them to finish out their lives without becoming objects of charity. They will not be come affluent upon even the maxi- mum of the proposed new scale, $1,200. Most of them will merely be able to pay their bills for the baresi necessi- ties of life. 7This is a caze that rises above con siderations of public economy. It &honld he determined upon the basis of equity for a class of people who have suffered, through no fault of their nwn, separation from active serv- ice at rates of retired pay that will net sustain them decently. Nobody will object to paying the few millx from each taxpaying source annually make up the difference between governmental parsimony and the harest of consideration for old and faithful servants. o considered matter employes, inas ont question should be average the and | The idealistic outlines of Journalistic responsibility by President Coolidge ought to be an inspiration to every man who writes. But journalism ix like statesmanship. It requires all kinds to make up a soclal syst The Lo;t Charlie Ross. Another man is convineed that he in the long-lost Charlie Ross, whose kidnaping back in 1875 caused a na tional sensation and a search lasting through many years. He is a resi- dent of Shelby, N. C., and is said to be in correspondence with Walter L. Romn, brother of the ill-fated Churlie Throughout the since 1§ many a boy and man has claimed to be the missing lad, and througheut the centuries 1t has been a frequent delusion the part of and women, some of them entively sin care, that they are the greal ones, or the notorious ones of the earth, lost years on men, and found again, or credited with paving passed the portals of death only to reappear. Harold of Kuglund, defeated by William the Conqueror at Senlac und slain on the field, cropped up after | uo | brother of Ivan's childiess heir—Feo- dor. Dmitri was cavefully and thor- oughly killed in vouth by the far. | #ighted Lorls Gudunoy. This was in [ for the throne in 1603, D, who had in life been churacterized by most | unusuul physical characteristics, promptly popped up in Pol Who ever he wux, he was a frstclans sol dier, for he invaded Russia und got back the « He was over thrown by a rival, was slain and im paled W wpear. lLater, in order Lo wetile him effectunlly, he was dis interred und his axhes were fired from A cannon. nd. ral crows on Did this end him? Not @ bit. He reappeared fn Poland, was cordially accepted Ly his wife, aguin marched on Russic and again cuptured Mox cow. Next e was slain by a Don Cossick, bul reappearcd, this i in severu ival \ at once, all the phys preseu belng Iy o the original pattern, L the cnd he decided to stay dead, tions 0 ue cordi although his sons kepi up the gowd Work until the Rommne Gis repluced the House of Rurik e was probably at that period is what usually et these strange recrudescences, Charlie Ross, It still alive, would be well past fifty. In time it will be sixty, seventy and eighty years, and by that time no possible claimant will give whoup whether he is Charlie Ross or King Barbarossa himself. He will have other things (o think about. ) The Maximum Speed Ruling. It is always permitted (o take issue with a judicial decisiv though it is not permitted to ca the criticism or question to the point of expressing v contempt for the court, an offense which is properly punishuble. The d clsion recently rendered in the Truffic Court that the director of trafiic for the District hus no right under the law to prescribe rates of speed luwer than twenty-two miles an hour chul lenges the public sense of © law explicltly states that the spee hour, save on such streeis or high- ways as may be designated ax arteviai houlevards. The decision of the court is that this in effect Is a minimum rather than a maximum rate of speed, save in the cases noted. Iy an extraordinary interpretation. may be reasonably questioned whether it would be sustained on appeal. In interpretation of courts are governed Ly the principle of guldance by the evident purpose of the act. "I'ne evident purpuse of thix 4ct of Congress was (o prevent exces sive speeds on the xireels of Washing: wn. To that end & maximum speed rate was established with an excep. tion in e of certuin streets that might be designuted as arterial high- ways. The director of traffic, an office created by that act, was empowered to write regulations subject ap- proval by the Commissioners, provid- ing for the smooth and safe flow of statutes o traffic in the District. Surely the power to write regulations includes the power to specify speed limits. In certain cases the director, with the approval of the Commissioners, has specified certain lower rates of speed than the maximum in places where there ix particular danger. This the court now holds cannot be done. Of course, the luw might have been more explicit, 1t might have specified that in the writing of the regulations the director, with the approval of the rates of speed than twently-two miles an hour in particular conditions, u reasonable inference to the xame ef- fect is to be had from the statute as it runs, In the prescription of penalties for felonies and misdemeanors the law usually places Hmits as, for instance, imprisonment for net more than five imprison more than six nor less than two, ment for not nor lexs than ten days. vear o In the maxi- the minimum, Law Eo below cuse of the tramic only u mum s fixed. It would be pussible owing Lo a re sonable interpretativn of for the director the statute o prescribe « five wile Wwlt on certain streets and certain conditions. Whetl that able or ot might be prelatiog Bat for that the lmposition u, with power of writing would be fur Judicial the of w maxim reas. 1nte to say | resulations subject to that maximum, precludes any lower speed than that maximum imposes a strain upon the xense of logic, and it is to be hoped for the sake of public safety and for the suke of & more profound respect for judictal Judgments that an appeal will be lmmediately tuken and expe- dited to higher courts to obtain a final ruling upon this vitally lmportant question. v o s = Markets announce (hat Spriug veg- framed by & subcommittee of the House ward to the satisfaction of many of hix countrymen and the annoyance of the Normans. Learned hooks have been written to prove or disprove the claime of several different persons who announeed that they were the Danphin, Louie XVIT of France, who was slain in prisori. There have been similar cases in many nations that will come readily to mind. So far in Russia the matter has progressed only to the point where widespread helief has existed that Nicholas 11, the murdered Czar, stll lives. No actual claimant to that personality has appeared, but doubtiess one will. Rasputin, the murdered “Mad Monk,” has come back once or twice, not- withstanding the aMdavits of the young noblemen who shot him down and stuck him under the ce on the River Neva. Russia has apparently always been pecnliarly suseeptible to these magic reappearances and probahly to her history must be awarded the palm for the wmost spectacular and incredible Thie s the case of the Prince Pmitsl, wha was & son of lvan thy 1\ . and will be luid before the full District mittee next Tuesday for considera- tion and action. It is Washington’s hope that this measure will' be prexsed for passage and will be finally enacted at the present session. When the public utllities act was passed by Congress the Board of District Commissioners was utilized for the purpuse of instituting this principle of municipal control over the local utilities, as it was felt that (he heads of the District governments could best inaugurate and in the first stages conduct the system of supervi- sion, Experience, however, has proved that this is not a satisfactory method of administration. The District Com- missioners are wholly occupied In the digcharge of their administrative du- tiet nd must of necessity divide thelr attention belween those duties agd the public utility jurisdiction to the disad- vantage of both. Control of the public utilities of the Distriet is a quasi-indicial function, the commission sitting as court as well as administrative body. Full attention to all matters pertaining to the utili- tas, including study of conditions alse A (A% 1591 and Boris maude u successful grab | thne when | he would have been an old man, and | shall not exceed twenty-two miles un | This 1x sure- | It the | Commissioners, could prescribe lower | But | months | Tu such cases | the court cunnot exceed the maximum | The mintmum is nil. | in | etables ure cheaper: not, of ¢ e, as | compared with prices ten or fiftee veurs ago. e e A Public Utilities Commission. A Dbill to create a public utilities col isslon distinet from the Board of District Comumissivuers lias been THE T | Terrible and the only surviving | where that will guide to proper action i ING ST! | here, imposes A heavy obligation upon | the mupervinory body; transportation, power and fllumination questions are constantly arising, with a conflict of interests. ‘echnicul detalls must be studied. The fullest scqualntance with | the sdministration of utilities is neces- sury on the purt of the commission. Une feuture of the bill which is now awaiting wetion is especially gratify. {Ing. It provides for the appointment of & people’s counsel to represent the | Ihllblic in all matters before the com- jmission. The need of such an officer | of the court, s to speak, has been re- peatedly demonstrated. The corpora- tion counmel, constantly occupled in & multitude of duties pertaining to the icipal @dministration, cannot de- e the thime necessury for a full and Ladequate study of matters relating to | the uiility services. Under the law [ EY wsed to aimend he hus nomerely part-time utilities com- ivn Jaw officer, with the result of vitable deluys udjustments ANy questions, A utilities commiss | the District beople's co ! in of 1 sepurate from sioners, with sel us its law officer rep. | vementing the public intevest, will, ax. suming careful selection of the pe: inel, be o decided improvement over the present system, and aetion at this =ession would be gratifying to the Dis trict, Cor a P - New “Newspaper Row." Newspaper Row has e, an of the men who made it. The of o lay and another day Im‘-‘ most were awn time, the United States i the corner sione of u | { bullding which, in a way, is (o succeed | b Both were famous in their The President of | vesterday Newspaper Row. 10 will provide of fices for men who reprexent news | S the world over. It will be | | the finest stone. lis equip- ment will exemplify the latest devel- opments in office siry | be modern in eve 1t und has tures, It will sense of the word. symbol of the solidity osperity which (he press ed ¥ince the days of News. becomes « » the achie at the same. time | The psychological view of Kdgar Allan Poe, as outlined in Joseph Wood Krutch's stud viewed in this col- umn yesterday, explains neatly our idea as o the poems of this genius. It will he remembered by those who have been intereated in the articles on poetry printed here from time to time that w year ago we considered Poe's poems, expressing our conclusion, tollows: “One lingers over them as he might over a casket of rare jewels, which belong to some one else, bul which one would ike (o keep. “The reader enjoys the word music, but he cannot call it his own, although he loves it. Do you know why? “Because thexe poems belong to hese poems are more peculiarl his than the pa of any other writer arve that writer's. The magle he put in_them ix his alone. “Only from a dark, brooding soul h ux Poe could these poems have and, although he gave them to 1d, he kept them fast . him- It forev Perhaps no real lover of but feels this. He reads with delight, vet he goes st com the wo P away dissatisfied. Other poets sur render themselves to the reader. They seem to say, ‘Here are my poems, they are yours.’ “But Poe ix diffevent.” ‘'he above was our unscientific way of expressing what Mr. Krutch says sclentifically, that Poe was not nor mal, but was a psychopathic case, * ook o Ju other words, it is not strange that & normal reader feels the ab. normal quality of Poe's writings, even in his poems, and realizes, although he may not know how to express it, the wormal minds, but Poe, expressing the fantasies that beset him, giving rein to his inhibiti his sublimations, etc., the prychologisis say, falled to reg- ster. No he repels, at the same time he uiiracts, In a world where so many factors enter, both physical and mental, it is strange U there ix as much ner- maley as there is. Despite the insane asviums, the sanitariums, the “skele tons in the closet.” the vast majfority of men and women are more or less normal. In reading 'oé, therefore, they have @ definite mense of loss of something that stands between him and them- spoke (o the men who are to occupy this building, the successors of those men of vld Newspaper Row. Among | them <tood other newspaper men who hive come us the representatives of the press of twenty separate re o L each other and themselves wa making their common f As rey the blies me to di means cuss wmong fu best and | | | | | profession | the new ! materia! | serve building { hearers yesterday in journal WPty a new spirit . The men of old Newspaper Row be. queathed Covlidge @ press whi i President | characterized | “une of the corner Their followers | upon this vesterday stonex of liberty, must seek 1t build vorner stone not only lib. truth and understanding 'hey may well keep before them the | President's appeal the finest and highest ldesls of fournal- ism—love of country, resard for the rights of others and reverence for the things that are God's, ” - erty, but yesterday to Oue of the reforms which Mussolini muy have to undertake ix a suppres. | sion of any lingering vestiges of the | vendetta, R —— Washington just now is hospitably engaged in speaking th giving | | ee languages preference as far as possible to Spanish and Portuguese, | - 5 | Many volumes of memoirs are is {sued which to the casual reader ap pear to contain very litle worth re- membering. | - “There 15 still hope among the own {ers of brewing plants of preducing { some kind of a medicine that will taste like an alcoholic beverage. E [ SHOOTING STARS. BY )'HIA.ANI'HI(JUH,\'.’«!N' The Soclal Life, | | Had a litte party down to Pohick on | the Crick Jour orat wade speeches, kept coming fasi and thick. | Singing by the village cheir! Music [ | | which | by the band! | With eversbody shaking one another | by the hand. 1Us Kind o' goud Lo get in touch with all your fellow men. 105 helpful to u¥ all to hold a meeting now and then, New friendships have heen made and maybe some will stick, | And we'll have some further parties | down to Pohick on the Crick. Recoguition of Ability, Do you admire the Greek philos- vphe i “Ver Sorgu Ltheir opinions as relating to modern affairs, but the fact that they could understand Greek inspires me with respect.” Perpetual. Bull Market. In u stock market slump Prices drop with a bump, But some things stay out of the game. Though the miner may quit Or resume us seems fit, Coal prices go up just the same. wuch,” answered Senator . “1 don't get much help from | i Jud Tunkins says a bootlegger is | liuble to be the only sober and indus- trious man in his circle of acquaint. anceship. Vauity Obliterated. “A musician will be self-forgetful und sucritice much for the sake of his art He will?" answered Miss Cayenne. “Did vou ever notice the facial ex- pression of a saxophone player?” Recriminations. The player does as he is told. Some of his lines are bad and bold. ! With such he gains applause immense Because they please the audience. The player says he'd rather quote Kine words such as Bill Shakespeare wrote. : The stage, we say in accents wise, 1s seeking to demoralize s The public—and the players say The public taste has spoiled the play, “Profanity is never convinein’ said Unele Eben. “If it wag, It 'ud give a poll parrot de best of ‘most’any argument.” Browth of the press, so the President’s | | professor {ple of Spanish printers, Eataban Mar I tin 1 selves, @ something which we tried to express by saving that Poe's poems belonged to him alone. In this regard we have discovered, in an edition of Poe’s poems, a poem 'wiled “Alone.” printed as the last bit verse in the hook, at the end of the poems written in youth, It follows: ur 1 have - not seen 1g not br My Dussions [Fom a cOmMON svrANG. the wame source 1 have cow: 1 could o rt to Aud all I loved. I loved alone. el d. in the davn of e wun drawn ¥ sod and 111 The mystery which binds me stll * ok ox x Certainly if the above had been written to order, it could not better fit the case! Nince this poem is not included in the aversge edition. there is a pos sibllity that it may not be genuine. but ax written hy some one to “explain’ their swarthier complexions outh and Central American new men in Washington for the Coy But for the # of n-Amerje Journalists might easily be m for u con- | {clave of Yankee seribes. 'They are. in other w an exceedingly prepos- sessing ot al active, good-hu mored. well groomed and strikingly keen-witted. Our Latin colleagues put us to shame in one important respect hardly any of us know Spanish or Portugiiese, while nearly all of them speak Inglish. They have the tradi tional courtliness of their race. 100. Some of the delegates have brought thefr black-eyed wives, whe yield no palms to their North American sisters in respect of bobbed hair, short skirts and modern chic generally ‘he visitors are entering with zest into the strenuous program arranged for them. Naturally they find the soil & bit arid. But as they scan front-page news from Capitol Hill this week they wonder when prohibition is going to hegin! *ox ok x Williams, president of jcan Congress, only re- pleted a month as “guest at the Mexican National (v in Mexico City. Journalisin at the University xouri delivered 12 lectures, and at end received the degree, granted rare occasions (o distinguished of “professor extraordi- nary.’ Dean Williams learned to hin ustonishment that the first printing press in the Western Hemisphere wax set up in Mexico City in 1534 by & cou- niver: on foreigners hey W and Ju Vi brought to Nerth America by one of (he early Spanish viceroys, It wasn't 1l a century later that printing was common in oui own part of the conti- hent. Willlams found that a printing <hop still stands on the spot where Martin and Pavios ploneered. He placed an American wreath over the door ing cards struck off for : premises. historic pr g B Baron de Cartier de Murchienne (he Belgian Ambassador to the United him on the | States and active doyen of the Wash- ington corps diplomatique, is the only allled envoy on duty during the World War who Is ‘still stationed here. In the interval he has seen a whole battalion of British, French, { Itallan and Japanese colleagues come and go. Baron de Cartie arrived in A A ca the day the Illlllod Btates de- “lared war—April 6, 1917 - so that he hus just entered upon his tenth year in Washinglon. ness de Ci jor s an Americ Mrs. Hamilton Wilkes Cary of New York. She was married to the Belgian Ambassador while he was on duty at the peace conference in Paris o The bareness has The - seven Years ago. the unique distinction of being the only ambassadress who ever entel tained on her own native soil the King and Queen of the country to which she owex officlal alleglance—the occa- sion when she was hostess (o their Belgian majesties at Washington in 1919, * K ¥ X Wallace R, Farrington, governor of Hawail, who is making his annual official visit to Washington, has lived in the Territory since 1894, He halls from New England, whence came the first_Americans to explore the Hawal- ian Islands for trading purposes early in the nineteenth century. Mr. rington has been a working newspa- per man all of his life, dating from cub reporter days in Bangor, Me., 3§ veurs ago. He is now the controlling spirit in the Star-Bulletin, the leading daily of Monolulu, having trained his son “Joe” in Washington to be his understudy, while dad rules Hawaii. Gov. Farrington ia the author of the standard treatise on the Hawailan up- heaval which culminated in the revolt of 1895. He has occupled Queen Lil's palace at Honolulu uninterruptedly since appointed governor by President Harding in July, 1221. With sugar, pineapples, coffee, climate and tourists as its foundation, +, Ferrlngton wide gap that separates the two, Other poets, writing with normal brains, send their messages home to | The dean | of | and now carries a batch of visit- | | | WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. (‘! FRIDAY, APRIL 9! 1926. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Yet it has the genuine ring. ‘With a foresight which reached into the newer psychology, the poem traces Poe's troubles back to his very birth, to the hidden hormones of life, to something deep seated. Poe, according to this lat view, was not so much mysterious as lii; he was not to be judged properly except by the physician, and then only by medical man who had probed the deep recesses of the soul. Since psychology, in_the modern sense, was unknown in Poe’s day and zeneration, it Is not (o be wondered at that some of his cotemporaries regarded him as mad, others a u particularly wol the finest type of a veritable angel. nge man, one that would have tested all the powers of analysis of Dr. Freud himself, or Dr. Brill, or of our own Dr. White. He locked up in his own soul the men, looked upon him forces that moved him, but left glimpses of them in his strange stories. Although we cannot proper- Iy disassociate his lite from his works, in regarding him as & “case' the happy thing is that we can so0 read hix works, In writing, one stands or falls on the writing. Although there will always bhe a desive on the part of readers to know what manner of man a writer is, what the man writes is what he must be judged by. In other words, if the devil were to write a boeautiful, powerful sermon the fact that the devil wrote it would not detract—at least, it should not—from the beauty or worth of the writing. Therefore we have never had much sympathy for those who sneer at Os car Wilde's works because the man himself was not entirely mor On the other hand, there is little doubt that the real man will finally show forth in his writings. This s easily seen in looking over the collect- ed “works’ of any of the great writ ers. Oue cannot read Dickens, for in- stance, without either consciously or | subconsciously coming to a realization that the man who wrote these stories was a hearty eater, who enjoyed the good things of the table. Dickens charaglers are alwayvs eat ing. There is not & book of his wherein | are not innumerable pictures of eat- ing and drinking. Joe, the fat boy, is really typical. With his interest in alimentation, Dickens combines a huge | which sometimes | and brooding pity, leads him into sentimentalism Joseph Coniad had an obsession of | duty. He has scarcely a story that not_swing around this is its culmination y story of his ever ends either, 50 he must have been the vietim of inhibitions such ax ruin- ed the life of Poe. If one will forget, howaver, the life | of ou lected works he will he amazed this late date. at thelr worth. F his criticiems, dealing as they did with the ephemeral writers of early Ame fea. contain many & solid reflectin. His essavs. if one may call them so. contain much of worth. His tales and poems are the property of the world and have heen acceptad as such since their writing. As 10 his common sense. we hope to present examples of it from time to time in this column, merely to show that he was not all fantasy. savs Hawalian prosperity jm the hest bet in the world for American invest- ment capital, £ %% ‘The Pathfinder. sprightly ton weekly, the courtly Washing- of which David 8. Bari sergeant-at-arms of the United States Nenate, is the spiritus | rector. has just wound up & contest for the best definition of “What is & Democrat?’ Three men who ought to know —Senators Robinson. Harri- %on and Edwards—will announc © winners on April 13, Jefferson’'s hday. Here are some of the defi submitred b p birt nitions of a Democrst contestants: 1. A gentleman. A good loser. A mad Republican, An old-time Republican. A moss-backed biped that stays with the ticket, 6. An undaunted spirit of leyvalty and faith, shining as a sunflower among a garden of weeds. A person too radical to be a Republican and not quite redical enough 10 be u Socialist. 8. A voter who is convinced that it costs more to feed the slephant than it aces o feed the donkey. 9. A trial horse used in a presi- deptial race *for the sole purpose of enabling Republican candidates to break former G. O. P. majority o Ew Nobody should run away with the iden that Uncle Sam isn't doing much for the farme, 12 district. Federal land banks have Just been holding their annual pow- wow in Washingion. While the: were here, it was announced hy Rob- ert A. Cooper, ‘Federal farm loan commissioner, that in 1925 the hanks closed loans to 3 borrowers total- ing $127,355,451. The peak demand for farm mortgage money was in 1923, when loans aggregated $381,830, 738. So ruralists borrowed in 1925 just a third of what they horrowed in 1923, To city folks that has a ring like better, times down on the farm. Since Kederal land banks were es. tablished in 1916 37 borrowed a total of $1,169.356.000. Mr. Cooper contends that no other institution devised to serve the farm- ers can present so unique and dis- tinctly successful a recqrd. Farmers’ ability to liquidate debts, as shown by Federal land bank returns, shows unmistakably that agriculture as & whole is on the upgrade. LR Franklin and Camden are the most popular names for American towns, according to the National Geographic Society. ‘There are 31 Franklins in 31 States of the Union, placing the surname of the immortal Ben at the top of the list, with Camden trailing as the name of 21 towns. The mayors of all the Camdens have been in- vited by Camden, N. J, to attend the dedication of the new bridge which spans the Delaware between Philadelphia and sey, Camden, like Franklin, commemorates a revo- lutionary hero, though he was an Englishman, end not an American. Charles Pratt, a London lawyer, who was ennobled and took the name of the Earl of Camden, became so ar- dent a champlon of the American eolonists that they christened tgwns and countles galore in hi (Cooyright. 1026.) s Th: Descending Scale. From the Duluth Werald. ) Everybody s useful. Those who soorn inferiors would be miserable if they had nobody to acorn. : bR A Chance. From the Wichita Beacon “Since parliamentary government spems 16 have broken down in France, it there |s some other pretender tv the throne sticking around this is the time to do his best pretending. theme. | Edzar Allan and read his col- | the | The governors of the | 876 farmers hlvli Prohibition Can Be Enforced by Present Law To the Editor of The Star: Comparison of our “drunk” statis tics with those of Great Britain and France does not prove that those coun- tries are making greater prog to- ward “temperance” than we are. In the absence of law, there is no pen- alty, and it is reasonable to suppose that where the manutacture and sale of intoxicants are permitted the laws regulating its use are more tolerant than where it is forbidden. Probably & drunk that would pass unnoticed over there would be classed as a fla- &rant violation of our laws, hence the percentage of arrests would be much greater over hi the cases being equ ‘There Ig nothing the matter with our prohiblition law; what we need is set of officlals who will see that it is obeyed. This is no sweeping charge | against our chosen seem that some of them put the cart before the horse in their efforts at law ‘enforcement. Not long ago a representative of The Star set out to investigate conditions at the District jall. His account of the adventure told us that he could not find a policeman in Georgetown, though he ch driving and a fake drunk. And so in other sections. Where were the Ruardians of the peace and dignity of the city that night? Has word gone out that we are xo i righteous that no police protection is needed” Have we no hootleggers? Do our officials know of none—none who atand on atreet corners, day after day, seemingly without occupation or vis. ible means of support, yet always well &roomed, debonair, smiling? Is there no luw that calls for inquiry into sus- picious cases? \Where there ‘is drunkenness some | body is selling whisky, and the place to begin reform Is at the root of the evil—with the bootlegger. Instead of eniarging the jall to furnish more commodious and comfortable quarters for the hootleggers’ customers, our officlals should go after the bootleg. gers hard | True. that is a dangerous thing to do; every bootlegger is also a poten. | tal murderer; push him and he will | Kl (Remember the colored gentle- {man and lady who killed the nun?) | But surely some means can be devised to capture them if those who are paid for this service will go about it with determination—and strategy If there is no law at present to em power policemen to arrest a man on | ®uspicion of bootlegging one should be d, and the suspect should he for_observation until his_inno- nece is proven. or until his customers i betray him. or he betrays himself. It the is guilty he should be sent to prison for « long term. There should be no fine as a penalty: the official who im- poses one, though according to_law, is only one more of vicious circls. The | bootlegger is an ontlaw and should be Itreated as amuch. i Does he sit at u brass-bound. ma hogany desk and pull strings to mampulate « set ignorant negro {agents? Does he slink along sium- {ways and allevs, peddling poison of {his own make? What Ix the differ. ‘| > None. Bootleggers are on a {dead level and all should fare alike {If caught, a long-time prison sentence nothing off for good behavior. Really, judgment should begin with i the “high-ups.” How can we hope to see the prohibition law enforced with- out fear or favor when bootleggers {are so bold as to approach even mem- | bers of Congreas with strong drink fo {sale? ¢ Is it possible that there are !others besides Blease who are on such |intimate terms with the bootlegging fraternity that thev can “get what they want,” even If it is unlawful? ! Women, 'your influence in politics | has done much: vour ballots may he | made to count for more. Set your {selves the task of clearing our leg lative halls of men (and women) who would compromise or side-step the prohibition law. Whisky has already {cost this country enough in blood and tears and ruined lives. Down with it! A. E. HUTCHISON. B = 2 Bring Pan-American Flowers to Washington | To the | Nation, with Japan of a lovely floral | bit_of plant lite, and many thousands lenjoy vearly the Japanese cherry | blossoms. Last year ifl March, when {it Is Autumn in the Southern conti | nent "ot South America, 1_was i | Chile. There the national flower of ! Chile, the copihue (pronounced ko- | pewa). was in bloom. The copihue is u bell.shaped flower about $ or 4 inches in length wnd about an inch comes in the Editor of The S {or more in width. Tt brilliant red that is in ot fag. and {also in the white of our Easter lily and in golden brown. The consistency ' 1of the petal is like unto the petal of « magnolia. The copihue grows on a sheltered. damp ravines and thrive in such beautiful spots as Rock Creek and other ravines in Washington afford. "I'he copihue grows in Chile from the Central Valley south- {ward. At ne all the railroad ations grow men and boys come to trains and sell the fowers for 10 to 50 cents a bouquet (Ame vine in would in Chile where the flowers the {monex). The center of the bouquet lis of the copihues and the outsi of the bouquet is surrounded |fern leaves. But the Chilean women iin their homes take the flowers and let the pretty bells hang face down- ward. They arrange them in hang- ing baskets and over chandeliers. For | decorative purposes—especially for patriotic and pan-American celeb ! tions—the copihue would be very beautiful. Now that the pan-American editors e here, perhaps there may be some among them who, seeing the beauty of the Japanese cherry blossoms in Washington, may wish their nations to exchange with ours so that our Washington may be more beautiful by the introduction of pan-American na- tional flowers in our soil. My grandfather. a Civil War vet- eran from Michigan, is buried in Old Chillan, Chile, havirg died, 1884, while on a visit there. 1 decorated his grave with a houquet of blood-red copihues, 24 inches in diameter, surrounded | with ferns. It was lovely, M. . DAVISON. oo Taking Out the Thrill. From the Abilene Reporter, Some of the coaches who defend the new rule imposing & §-vard penalty on foot ball teams which attempt the for- ward pase and fail assert that the forward pass “marred the beauty of the game.” That is a peculiar viewpoint, indeed. Nothing in the game of foot ball is more thrilling than a well executed forward pass, nothing is guite so beau- tiful. Certainly nothing in the game 1S & greater weapon in the hands of & skillful opponent. But the claws of the forward pass (or the wings, rather) have heen clip- ped. Hereafter the team on the .of- fensive is entitled to try one forward pass involving fallure without penalty; thereafter for each incomplete pass a 5-yvard pensity will be ansessed. It's going to take u lot of thrills out of the gam Nothing Doing Th From the Lima Morning Star. We can’t eite chapter nor anote verse, but we've got a notion that somewhere It 8t the knocker will knock {8 valn ‘at pearly grte. | { | We ‘have made an exchange, as a | silver coins | E. 8 ar 1925 they | | Q. How much money wax made luxt year?— A. In the calendar {amounted to $19,875,000. | Q. Why do frosty nights and warm | days make good weather for maple | sirup?—H. R. A. The reason that sap flows better in a climate where the nights are cool and the days warm is because the cool nights check the activity of the sap, and the warm days stimulate both the growth of the tree and ths flow of the sap. Q. Who named the 42d Division the Rainbow Division?—H. V. P. A. The author of the term “Rain bow™ applied to the 42d Division is Maj. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who is now commanding officer of the 3d Corps Ares, Baltimore, Md. At the time this nime was given to the 42d Division he was chief of staff of the 424 Division, with the rank of colonel. The 42d Division was called the Rain- bow Division because of its composite character of selected groups from all over the country. Q. What is the correct name for white rabbits with red eyes?—A. . A. The Blological Survey says that the rabbits you describe are albinos, and do not belong to a distinct breed. For Instance, albinos occur in angora rabbits, Flemish rabhits, etc. Q. What language Is the most per fect?—H. D. A. It is & matter of opinion. Many authorities on philology have claimed that the ancient Greek is the most perfect language that has ever existed in the world. Q. What colon is pure essence of peppermint?—E. 1. B A. It is colorless. In making the essence of peppermint, bruised pep. permint leaves are used to give it a green color. Q. In it hetter ping in tea or coffee?—J. T. The tea stain i more permanent color lace by dip P. than coffee stain Q. What Is meant by grain alco- hol?—R. L. B. A. In commerce eihyl alcohol which is made from malze or other grain is called grain alcohol. Q. Please give the Indian name for Sleepy Hollow.—A. B. W, A. The Bureau of American Eth- nology says that the Onondaga expres- sion for Sleepy Hollow is otahwihista oya teh. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASK | plylng under designate windows made of colored glass, whether the color be produced by metallic oxides in the melting pet: coating the surface with a film of colored glass, thus making flashed glass, which is ground or etched away where the color is not desired; by ap fire a solution of #ilv. (yellow stain), which turns vellow th surface of crystal (colorless) glass, ana of the ground-away portions of flashet glass, and by which light blue glass is turned green: by painting the surface with colored enamels that are aftef- ward fused into the substance. so-called American glass is an en- tirely different product. From east sheets of opalescent glass, with en- amels for the modeling of faces and hands only, John La Farge and Leuts B. Tiffany developed an art that is abrolutely and completelv original. ‘The iridescent effects are extraor- dinary, and the colors are rich, hut are apt to be too opaque. Q. How can rust be removed from the inside of a bread box?—H. F. F A. It ix rather difficult to remove rust from the inside of a bread hox It is advisable to paint it. Twn coats of flat white paint should he used with one coat of enamel. Q. What interurban electric won the speed contest Jast Fall7—W. 1. 1. A. The Galveston Houston Electri Raflway Co. was the winner with an average speed of 40.3 miles per hour on it run from Galveston 1o Houston. The award was made in October, 1925. Q. Why does snow erunch when walked upon on a very cold day? A. The Weather Bureau savs that on a very cold day the snow part! cles are hard. frozen and dry vou hear a crunching sound in ‘wa ing over it hecause the particles a rubbed together and broken. On the ather hand, when the iemperature is | at e freezing the particles of sno re soft and packed together a ou hear no crunching sound Q. What does A. It is an old Secottish elan narce meaning the “son of Edward ‘This name can he traced back tn the early eighteenth century. McKeever mean® b Q. What part of the population of the United States is rural’—M. A. According to the 1920 eensus 4 per cent of the population was an: rural population, 456 per cent Q. Why do people vawn? 0. A. K. A. Yawning is an involuntary and wide opening of the mouth and inha weariness, intense absorption caused by an tnvoluntary interruption of full breathing, or by an inclination to sleep: sometimes by hunger, etc. In some instances by the frequency its recurrence it ease. Persons suffering from heart disease may be iiable to vawning fits When yawning is troubiesome, deep respiration irawing in |air &t long intervals, relieves it. the | Q. How should a club sandwich he {eaten?—H. M. G. A. A club sandwich is eaten with & fork after the toast and other ingredi ents have heen broken. one uses a knife and fork. | Q How ~-R.8 A. Stained technically is stained glass made” glass in the term used as well as popularly to tion of breath, generally produced by | of | becomes a real dis. | long. | In doing this | Q. Is there more wonl or mare silk produced >—Y. A.In 1923 there were produeed | 2.604,911.000 pounds of wool: in the ne vear there were A7.288,000 pounds of silk produced Q. When was standard time adep: - ed in this country?—N. H. A. Standard time was adopted in the United States in 1883, and by act of Congress. March 19, 1915, wa made legal throughout the United States Frederic J. Haskin is employed by this paper to handle the inquiriea of our readers and you are invited fo call upon him as freely and as often as wou please. Ask anything that is a watier of fact and the authority will be quoted you. There is no charge for this service. Ask what you want sign your mame and address and in- close 2 eents in stamps for return | postage. Address The Evening Star Information Rureau. Frederic J. Has- kin. director. Twenty-first and © streets northicest, Washington, D. € Arguments for | i i ! S | Discussion of the World Court tan- gle continues, stimulated by plain in timations from the White House that President Coolidge does not look with favor on the League of Nations' invi- tation to a conference for considera- tion of American reservations. Asserting that “we can best our sincerity by acting reasonably,” the Kalamazoo Gazette (independent) {argues that “we don’t want one coun ty to think that our reservations mean one thing and another countr to interpret them in an entively differ nt way.” The Lynchburg News Democratic) adds that “to most nor- mal persons it has seemed to he a very natural thing that the members of the prove | | the San Francisco Bulletin (independ- ent) holds that “there is no that we should he représented at any discussion of the terms submitted’: that they “are as plain as the traffic signals and call for no interpretation. The Wichita Heacon (independent R publican) would consider that “se ing delegates to explain these reserv tions would be like gilding the lily the Manchester ('nion (independent Republican) favors “rveminding the Geneva statesmen that the conditions are not subject to change,” and the Seattle Daily Times (independent Re. publican) suggests that “if other na- tions desire interpretation it may be he Chicago Tribune (independent Republican), after contending that “it is not consistent with the dignity of the country to send a representative to Geneva to explain what is meant,” suggests, the proposal, that “it is the apparent purpose of the more important nations to keep some frrespongible kid from heaving & brick at the rich uncle just as he 1s about to drive up and alight “The suggestion that “what some of the nations of ope would like to have, no doubt, would be. explanations thet would interpret the reservations differently from the plain implications of the words used” is made by the Charteston Dally Mail (independent Republican), while the Charlotte Ob- server (Democratic) and the Water- town Daily Times (independent) look upon the whole matter as “a State Department job.” The Butte Daily Post (Republican) calls attention to the fact that ““our deal is with the tribunai at The Hague,” and not with the league. * ok ox % The Kansas City Post (independent) warnse that “if Eurcpe is disposed to dicker over our offer, a revulsion of feeling may cause America to recon- sider and to withdraw her offe, The Trenton Evening Times (independent), opposing the conference, believes that Hurope will continue ‘‘to make ami- able gestures with a view to entlcing the United States into the league,’ whils the Salt Lake Deseret News (in- dependent) emphasizes its opposition to going to Geneva by remarking that “Argentina, Brazil and Chile are one with the United States in regarding the court as merely a tribunal tp which they may voluntarily submijt their differences, to accapt or reject ita flidings as they may see fiL.” * kK % “The President’s motive in refusing | to be represented at the Geneva con- ference,” according to the Springfield Republican (independent). “is to ap- pease the Senate irreconcilables.” and the Republican expreases the further opinion _that _“President Conli achievement in taking the Unl World Court should have curlosity enough to wish to inquire into t {conditions an applicant for membe ship in their organization had laid | down, Against these and similar views i much strong opposition. For instanc reason | {obtained by reading precedents | stretching back over a period of vears.” * x ok a plausible explanation for | and Against Conference on World Court '-"lfllil into the World Court is plainly | S)ipping away from him.” The Sprinz | field paper asserts that *‘take it or leave it’ is not the language of good iplomacy.” The Roch rimes-Union (inde- pendent) also states that “we onght I not to adopt a rigid and unyielding at | titude on the question of reservations we ought to be ahle ta find a basis of | common action.” The Youngstown | Vindicator (Demoeratic) makes the turther suggestion that “it could cer tainly do no harm 1o send such a man |as Elihu Root to Geneva to tell the | representatives of the nations what we have in mind." “Splitting hairs” is condemned hy the Providence Bulletin (independent). which holds that “a conference may well be the most expeditious means hy which all details of the problem can be adjusted.” The Philadelphia Eve- ning Bulletin (independent Republi- 1 can). furthermore, feels that the neva communication, “rightly in terpreted. does mot in any way com- promise the World Court's essential independence.” In fact. the Chatta- | nooga Times (independent Democratic) | point€ out that “it was even indicated | abroad that the conference might en- deavor to redraft the constitution of the court in conformity with Ameri- fcan ideals of what it ought to he.” P ‘e so insistent.” says the New York Worli (independent Democratic). “that the simplest proposition laid he- | fore us by Kurope must he explained from A to Z with charts and diagrams. and must be approached with infinit precautions, shudders and suspicions, | that It shaws poor grace (o say that we will ourselves explain nothing. If the decision of the administration is final, it shew!é feel the propriety of doing evervthing possible, in separate | communications with the 48 member nations, to make our position clea ot {Commandments Stand Despite Many Violations To the Editor of The Sf Another fine. sensible editorial in The Star, that headed: “Faithless Prohibition Agents.” The Ten Com mandments should be repealed he- cause they sav, “Thou shalt not steal” or ““I'hou shalt not kill. ‘eople have stolen and Kkilled and—committed adultery. but o far I can't recall any one in later days who has suggested the giving up of those laws of Moses as inoperative heeaise some peaple don’t respect them. 3 Your comparison of the percentage who demand the repeal or revision of the prohibition law is abant right. WILL €. BARNES. v Light Penalties Are Root of Crime Evil r To the Editor of The Star: Please allow me to congratulate you on your superb editorial, “T! End of an Evil Lite,” in Tuesday’'s Star. Especially commendable are your words of condemnation of the present-day condoning of crime and criminals by pardoning and paroling judges, governors, etc. The law will never be fully respected as long as the flasco of “suspended’ sentence and superfluous paroles is perpetrated by careless or conniving judiciaries, REV. NOEL ALLEN, ——— A Plethora of Pretenders, ¥rom the Huntington Advertiser. France has a new pretender, hut has nothing on us. for we have mil 's ' lions, sometimea referred to as “four- ushers.”