Evening Star Newspaper, April 10, 1926, Page 6

8 THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. April 10, 1926 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 11th St. and Pennsvlvania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd St. Chicao Office: Tower Building. European Office: 13 Regent St., London, England. The Evening Star. with the Sundas morn ing edition. i3 delivered by carriers within the city at’ 60 cents per month: daily on: 45 cents per month: Sunday only. 20 cents per month. Orders may e sent by mail or telephone Main 5000, Collection i3 made by rrier at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday 1 yr.. $68.00: 1 mo. Daily only 1yr.,$6.00: 1 mo sunfay .00: 1 mo. All Other States and Canada. ¥ and Sunday.lyr.$12.00: 1 mo. $1.00 . 2 SR00° 1mo’." Tbe only 4.00; 1 mo., 35¢ it a Sinday Member of the Associated Press. The Aw ntitled o the use wa i ¥ the Toval 1w ts of publication ave also reserved. Traffic Bill Reported. A favoruble report the bill amending and strengthening the traf- fic code for the District was made ¥ on sprays will operate each Sunday from three until five o'clock. Last Spring and Summer, starting with early May. this beautiful and impressive screen of ecrystalline drops, compared favorably by many with the famed fountains of Ver- sailles, shot into the air at 4:30 o'clock each afternoon, and proved a magnet for thousands during the sweltering days of early June and later warm spells. People stood and gazed into and through it. Many were observed to get to leeward of the jets in order that the tenuous mist-like spray might cool heated brows and be inhaled into dusty lungs. Its very sound was comfort- ing. Motorists would puuse at the east- ern end in order that they might gaze toward the classic beauty, velled yet intensified, of the me- morial. Those who timed their ar- rival to coincide with the setting of the sun were particularly fortunate, for they then saw at = glance whence cume the name Rainbow Fountain. Others would mo to the western end and watch for the sul- den envelopment of the base of the Monument in a pearly cloud. Having the fountain play every day, however, proved to some ex- [ tent wasteful, for on rainy or cool afternoons it was enjoyved by but few. Perhaps the every-Sunday schedule will prove fairly satisfa terday by the Senate District commi tee. Incorporating the desirable fea- tures of the House bill and with pro- visions added designed to remove all doubt as to the extent of the director’s powers, the measure will now go to ‘onference for finai approval before action in the ilouse and Senate. The Senate committee showed clearly by its action that the intent of Congress in the original trattic code was to give the director the authori o reduce speed limit well s raise them where conditions permitted. This intent questioned by one of the four judges sitting on traf fie cases, and his rulings have been the of creating confusion on the part of motorists, the Commission- ers, the police und the traffic director. Yesterday, however, the Senate com- mittee added to the measure a provi- sion of which there can be but interpretation. It cleurly and concisel specifies that the director may redu the twenty-two-mile limit on bridges and other dangerous places as well it on arterial high- ways and in outlying districts When this bill is finally passed by Congress it is the hope of all Wash- ingtonians that it will be administered wisely and reasonably by the director. ice and the court. There should n between these agencies or between indiv The traffic problem in this city has reached the quire nard bring regulations uniform o« vince the reckless dx motorists that still under thorities here do mot intend to h: the National Capital the traffic laugh ing stock of the country ————s Pop Goes Another Balloon'! Gov. Donahey of Ohio v wts that he is not and w be a candidate for the Demos nomination for President. fie manded of a newspaper fe te that it desist from ci picture and labeling him a~ Ohiu's “favorite son.” A few weelk: go there was a good deal of “Dona talk” in Democratic circles. ne just about the time of the “Ri nating from Maryland, and coincided likewise with the announcement from ¢ ago that ‘Boss” Brennan had entered the sena- | torial field as a wet candidate. At the time Gov. Donahe de no protest demuy Me let the ‘“Donahey ralk” continue unchecked. Now he protests. What has happened? Twenty-six months will elapse be- tore the nominating conventions. Dur- ing that time a g booms will start and some will collapse. Many names will be brought forward and discussed and some will be dropped. The owners of xome of them will cause their dropping. even as Gov. Donahey has just stuck a pin in the “Ohio's tavorite son” balloon. Meanwhile there ave two names that continue to stand orth, those of Mr. McAdoo. now of alifornia, and Gov. Smith, always of New York That work being States in the interests of all but avowed candidates for the Democratic nomination i perfectly well known tods For despite the has been means o ar speed as increase wute stage. 1 and co-operat ¢ chaos. Uniform order out of uniform enforcement rt acti contie! atie or er. ood nany done in the these two is | for | his clent..said of the tory. It will be hard, nevertheless, on such visitors who arrive and de- purt between Sabbaths, nor must it be forgotten that Washington, re- markably fine as its climate usually is, has been known to suffer from several sloppy Sundays in a row. It is hoped that the new conduit will provide water in such profusion that the authorities can turn the fountain on at any time and for so long a time as seems destrable. 8 R Swift Justice. New York courts ure speeding up in an effort to cope with crime. March 21 a gang of young men, known lo- cally as the “Cake Eaters,” ralded a restaurant in Jamalca, Long Islund, and left the proprietor dead on the floor when they departed. Iivi captured and within short time the eighteen years, wa terday he was convicted of murder in the first degree. le acknowledged that he had fired the shot that caused the death of the victim. His defense was that he had been drinking, and that when he was under the influence intoxicants he “‘did not know what he wus doing.” The court in its in- structions to the jury held that in- toxication not regarded by the law as un excuse for the commission of a crime, The jury was prompt in rendering its verdict. On Monday the prisoner will be sentenced to death, three weeks and a day after the slay- ing a leader, w youth of put on triul. Yes- There are two encou ng The first is the speed with which justice hus been udmin istered. The second is the sweeping away of the defense of irresponsibility on the score of intoxication. Counsel the accused youth, pleading for gang: “They were just 4 bunch of kids gone wrong. taking rides, drinking booze und Jjust raising the deuce generally therefore asked for i modified verdict. Had it been rendered there would have been miscarriage of justice. These youns men. like a great muny others of these were ut indifferent to law. There are thousands of their kind in the large cities. Many of them are “getting away with it," as they say themselves, headed straight for professional carrying guns, thinking to m: living by loot and not by working. The punishment of this gang, whose leader has just been convicted, will perhaps be a deterrent. In any case, it hus been shown by the course of the New York couri that the game they are playing is u deadly one, and the hope is that some of those who are thus defying and flirting with death will be sobered into reali- zation that they are risking their1 in their criminal pastimes. oo —————— When the Post Office Department refuses to carry a magazine that has already sold out the edition, it vindi- cates governmental morals without de feating public curiosity. ——— Mussolini might well ease off on press censorship and devise more practical laws to prevent weapon carrying. in law fact that two years and more will alapse before the assembling of the delegates at the chosen city—not New York—this is recognized as the season for the gathering of strength. Has Ohio been tilled by the pioneers 1o the point of causing that State's favorite son—for the Ohio Democracy %0 regards the Governor, despite his present demurrer—to doubt his ability to command an undivided delegation at the meeting place? Or is this pres- ent gesture merely a warning to his admirers that there is danger in pre- mature promotion? Two years of varying political weather may bring new crops. Today's cherry blossoms will not grace the landscape of 1928. —_— et For the present the *Charleston”™ should be retired and a few expert tango dancers introduced into the fes- tivities. — ———————— The Rainbow Fountain. Greatly to be regretted, although apparently based on stern necessity, is the decision back of the announce- ment that the new, yet already fa- mous Rainbow Fountain, spectacu- lar feature of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. delight of both resi- dents and visitors, cannot play every day, but will play only on Sundays throughout, the approaching Spring and Summer season. %his fountain, unlike the one in Dupont Circle which uses the same water over and over again, consumes filtered city water at the rate of some 200,000 gallons an hour. In view of the fact that the new con- duit is not yet finished and in opera- uon and with a possible maximum burden on the old one in case of a protracted hot spell, those in authority feel that the best they can promise is that the giant towering S Art and “Sport.” idently the artist who made the sketches for the sports bay of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Morningside Heights, New York, ought to subscribe to and read Field and Stream, Forest and Stream, Out- door America and some half a dozen similar up-to-date sporting publica- tions. He seems to have been living in the past. He did not know that “sportsmen” no longer shoot live pigeons at their gun clubs. Halt a hundred or more years ago a strong sentiment against that brutal- ity and waste of life set in, until to- day trap shooting with live birds is a crime in most States. It might be well to scrutinize this artist’s other sketches, lest he perpetuate modern Americans of today as indulging in bear-baiting, bull-baiting, prize-fight- ing with bare knuckles or engaging in butting contests with rams. These would be fine scenes for antiquarians of the future to uncover. Americans—even American ‘“‘sports- men"—still do many things of which they ought to be and their posterity will be ashamed. They catch too many fish; they catch them too small, and by unethical methods and out of sea- son. They bring species of feathered game almost to the point of extinc- tion before some drastic law steps in and saves the inhabitants of marsh, field or meadow. They hunt deer with jacks and run them with dogs. They fight good constructive laws tooth and nail in order that they shall have a tew more days’ fun with rod and gun. But, thank Heaven, they have cut out live-bird trap shooting! The president of the Association of Audubon Societles made protest in factors | He { THE as well founded and erased the figure of the flying pigeon in the trap- shooting scene. It would be well if America could erase from her memory those days when her gunners stood in u row and slaughtered dozen after dozen of little live birds released by keepers for their ‘‘benefit.” ———rees ‘Washington’s Crowning Glory. Though slightly behind schedule, the cherry blossoms In Potomac Park are now here, glorifylng the landscape of the Capital with their delicate beauty. They have become nationally fumous. Great numbers of tourists time their visits to Washington according to their blooming, in order to enjoy the unequaled spectacle. In the same way pilgrimages are annually made in Ja- pan by the beauty-loving people to cer- tain places where the cherry blossoms are abundant. These trees that are so rich an adornment to the American capital came from Japan, the gift of that government, as u token of amity, and it is meet that the American peo- ple should show their appreciation of the gift by their visits to the park when the announcement goes forth that the tender buds have finally opened and the great picture of in- effable loveliness has at last been painted. Springtime visitors to Washington who miss this spectacle always feel cheated of one of the rarest treats that are in store for travelers. This city can show many wonderful things to its guests, noble buildings, broad and beautiful parks, the workings of the Government, rare treasures of art. Once a year it preens itself in its fresh colors, its foliage tukes on the soft tones of new life and its flowers begin to peep forth. But the cherry blossoms are the best, because they come at a time when theve is little else of greenery and of tint, and furthermore they occur in a setting of exceptional beauty The great natural monuments of the West, the canyons, gorges, geysers, cataracts, colored landscapes, moun- tains, glaciers, giunt trees, are all mar- vels which are visited annually by vast numbers. They are perennial, ever present. Washington's cherry trees bloom only once a year, and for a very few days. Compared with the Western wonders they are but mentary. But while they lust constitute one of the glories of Amer- ica, and they are worth coming early to see, worth waiting for, and when finally seen. as they may be seen just at present, create u memory that will } never fade. st A dash to the North Pole is alw interesting. The Pole remains us h to rediscover as it was to discover i the first place. mo- they { i | . ‘The District of Columbia may proud 1y boast of having done much for the world in helping to put Texas on the oratorical map. A victim o of amnesia misses a week or so of news horrors that make the interruption ordinary consclousness like i i sometimes | ma; of seem « medul anthropological h, but arks whatever for spelling reform for no R ] | Efforts to suppress explanations of | the evolution theory will only serve to stimulate interest. Even the school | books will probably continue to evo. | lute | | i Observance of the law is a duty of every citizen if observance is only in the nature of a fair test to determine | whether the law is a good one to be preserved or a bad one to be gotten rid of. { One of the indications of great dis. cretion on the part of the King of Italy is his consistent refusal to um- pire any of the close political plays. EEEEE——— - An oil field blaze two miles long in C'alifornia represents an enormous de- struction of precious fluid. For once the ultimate consumer will see a glim- mer of excuse for the next increase of price, e = | The night club pace in New York | has become so swift that'it is doubted whether even Harry Thaw could suc- ceed in a resolute attempt to keep up with it. r—e—— Archeological discoveries continue to reveal magnificences, indicating that even in the old days the humble tax- payer was getting rather the worst of the deal. ———— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON The True Song. Singing—not hoping to rally The crowd to a mood for the fray. Singing—contented to dally In tune to the mocking bird's lay. Not in a selfish endeavor To fashion the thought of throng, But singing, as Life sings forever, Just for the sake of the song. the Inseparable. “Statesmanship is the art of govern- ing. It should be separated from poli- tics.” “The thing can’t be done,” answer- ed Senator Sorghum. “If you want to exercise statesmanlike influence in governing, you've got to know enough about politics to hold your official job.” Learning Not to Laugh. The caddie’s education Is helpful, for a fact, For, in his occupation, He learns a lot of tact. Jud Tunkins says children are some- times a great disappointment; but so are parents. Windmills and Crossing Signals, “Don Quixote tilted at a windmill.” “He was one of those impetuous persons who refuse to be checked when they get started. If Don were alive today he would continually be getting arrested for running past a traffic cop. “A man is wise,” said Uncle Eben, “if he can realize dat he has made a | that still ja | them { improve. Tobacco production has dou- { Journal | lower cost than any EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. Test your knowledge of books on the following list, and do not be dis- appointed it you have never read more than one or two! “Powhatan; a by Seba Smith. “The Sacred Mountain Headley. “Poetical Remains of the Late Mar- garet Miller Davidson;” by Washing. ton Irving. “The Hawks of Hawk Hollow.” a tradition of Pennsylvania, by Robert M. Bird. Vakondah, the Master of Life,” by Cornelius Mathews. “The Wigwam and the Cabin,' Willlam Gilmore Simms: “A Fable for Critics,” Russell Lowell. ““The Poets and Poeti'y of Americ: Rufus W. Griswold. Tortesa,” a play, by “The Spanish Student, Henry W. Longfellow. “Ballads and ~Other H. W. Longfellow. “Alciphron,” a poem, Moore. “Wyandotte, or the Hutted Knoll," by J." Fenimore Cooper. “The Drama of F beth Barrett Barrett “Orfon,” an epic poem, Horne. Metrical Romance,” " by J. T. by by James b; P. Willis. a play, by Poens by by Thomas e, by Eliza- by R. H. LR s The above were some of the books reviewed by Edgar Allan Poe, chiefly in the Southern Literary Messenger and Graham’s Magazine, which flour- Ished sotus time before Poe’s death in 1850. With what hopes and longings they were sent inw the world by their authors, with what atteapts to get at the truth we:e they reviewed by the reviewers of thu. day, with what speed hus remorseless Time sent most of them into the oblivien which they no doubt deserved! de from Lowell's “A Fuble for Crities,” which is included in all edi tlons of his poems. “The Spanish | Student” und the “Ballads,” carried | in all modern collections of Longfel low's work, and ‘“The Drama of Exile,” included in the complete poems of Mrs. Browning, it is doubt- ful if any of the above could be se- cured at the Public Library. with the possible exception of Cooper’s “Wyan- dott All of the great W course se in s of the Library of Congress, where bad books as well us good books, the good and the in- ifferent altke, find everlasting harbor. Yet Seba Smith, whoever he w chose u good mame for his poem “Powhatan,” and it i interesting 1o note thut he used (he simplest | spelling. | “The Sucred Mountains™ was the Rev. Mr. Headley “Washington and Ilis Gene “Napoleon and Iis Marshals,” works remuin in general circula- tion, and are very good in their way Bird's tradition of Pennsylvant “The Hawks of Hawk Hollow.” has an interesting sound about it Maybe it anticipated the Ku Kiux Kla Just as the present his child poets, culmin: the genius of Nathalia C w0 Poe's lifetime had its sisters, Margaret and Lucretia. Davidson, who died at 16 rs of age. heir poems were of such merit— at least so it seemed then—that no les: man than Washing n Irving thought it worth his while to edit | From the specimens P in his review, however, they s terly commonplace. It must be remen bered that the early ‘formative diys of the United States were an attempt then stac its true |ix little bet | graph, arlses TRACEWELL. to get away from the rough (neces- sarily o) colonfal life, and that poetry was regarded as the quintessence of culture, Accordingly, more poetry was pub- lished and read than any other form of composition. Every one wrote poems, especially the ladies, Who came out on the title pages with t title “Mrs.” No one was ashamed of being married then. Poe’s opinfon of ¢ s in- under- “If he not to r a man intends to ¥ stood, or he does not,” he sa write a book which he intend be understood, we shall be very happy indeed not to understand it; but it he write a book which he means to be understood, and, in this book, be at ail possible pains to prevent us from un derstanding it, we can only say that he is an ass—and this, to be brief, is our private opinfon of Mr. Carlyle, which we now take liberty of making public.” They were frank in those Are not books made. as razors, to sell”’ Poe asks, those old reviews, and the stands today In a criticism of George P. Morris, Poe made the statement: “For my own part, I would much rather have writ- ten the best song of a nation than its noblest epic."” In his review Hawk Hollow well as in of qu of “The Hawks he has a pertinent suggestion concerning “Aip” writers He speaks of “treating the whole nar rative in a jocular manner throughout (nasmuch as to say. ‘I know I am writing nonsense, but then you musi excuse me for 1 know it.)" Surely the writers of sciously or great art handles a humble. above applies fo many today, who either unconsciously belittle the in which each man who pen has his part. however Most of today will share Poe’s opinion of Lowell's “IFFub Crities” and Longfellow's play Spanish Student.” As to the versification of the mer, Poe said: “It might have better—but we are quite sure that it could not have been worse.”” Of the other he declaved: “A man of true genius (and such Mr. L. unques ably is) has no busi with these hybrid and paradoxical compositions, Let a poem be a only; let play be a_ play. and nothing As’ for “The Spanish Student.' its theme is unoriginal; its incidents are antique; its plot is no plot; its char acters have no character: in short, it v than a play upon words, 1 pliy L Cooper’s Por applicable readers for been to style it In’ reviewing dom read today) servations stili (sel- oh. novel gave some 10 novel es of ircu- great cl and widely are two fiction popular lated class, read with pleasure, but without admiration, in which the au thor is lost or forgotten; or remen- bered, if at all, with something very nearly akin to contempt. and then, a class not poy nor so widely diffused which, at every para listinctive and highly ureable interest, springing irom appreciation of the skill d the genius evinced in the composition. After perusal of the one cluss, we think solely of the book —ufter reading the other, chiefly of the author. The former class leads to popularity—the latter to fame.” in |Country’s Eyes South in “Dixie’s Golden An extraordinary share of the coun- try’s attention is turning to the South ern States in this Spring of 1% which the Winston-Salem Jourr claims as Dixie's golden sge. “Prosperity is not unknown to other parts of the country,” says the New York Times; “all the States have been Keeping step in a grand march for- ward during the last vears, but the development of the South. industrial, agricultural and educational, has pro- ceeded at an umazing pace. The $ outh is rapidly diversifying crops, owing to the ravages of the boll weevil. In the cereals her showing will continue to | Of the 1,747,000 the country in Virginia, Ken- bled in 20 years. acres cultivated in 1925, the States of tucky, the Carolina Tennessee and Georgia cpuld claim 1,348,000 acre: iy Expressing the faith of the § ern newspapers, the Winston-Salem ntinues: “They know that , for the first time in history, the South wrested from New England the crown of textile supremus They know that it is now admitted by tains of the steel industry th can be made in a Southern Si where else in the country. They know that the hills below the Oblo offer the richest min- eral treasury to be found in any equal area in all the world.” * ok kK “The Federal Reserve Bank's busi- ness review for March,” the Anniston Star notes, “voices the same optimism that has characterized previous re- views of business. Apparently the South not only is holding its own in a business and industrial way during the most uncertain portion of the vear, but it is advancing substantially along all line: The Columbia Rec- ord adds that “world markets for our surplus products are already a para- mount necessity,” and, after quoting Secretary Hoover as to the United States’ “chances of world supremacy in trade,” the Record adds: “The South has long needed world markets of its very own, but we have never won them, because we have been con- tent to let others reap the profits on our special produce. The South needs a business organization in every com- munity to foster and market system- atically the products of the locality.” Statistics are quoted by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram to show that “the South is now producing 100 per cent of the country’s bauxite, 100 per cent fuller's earth, 100 per cent tur- pentine, which is 65 per cent of the world’s production; 99 per cent of the country’s sulphur, 99 per cent phos- phate rock, 97 per cent carbon black from gas, 92 per cent crude barytes, 90 per cent aluminum, 75 per cent natural gas gasoline, 73 per cent com- mercial fertilizers, 60 per cent graph- ite, 59 per cent petroleum, which is 38 per cent of the world's production; 50 per cent lumber,” and similar large percentages in mica, quartz, asbestos, lead, zinc, asphalt and other mineral products. The Star-Telegram reviews the achievements in agriculture, in- dustry and banking resources, and continues: “These figures indicate something of the great advance that is taking place in the South. Expecta- tions of natural acceleration, sup- ported by knowledge of the move- ments already under way, indicate that the progress of the South has just begun. The next 10 years prom- ise a greater advance than the past 50.” * ok K K Competition between industrial New England and industrial Alabama is discussed by the Birmingham News, which _quotes a warning letter of the in 1 the matter to the cathedral authori-|mistake. He is still wiser if he can | New England Chamber of Commerce ‘ties. The latter accepted the protest A keep de Information to hisselt.” to {ts own members as worth easily a | Alabama Turn Toward % Age million dollars in adver “It puts the * the News, te forward ntinue vest and who are seeking a coming section, a rising market, as it a place where values are advaneing and where foundations are economical Iy sound The Charlotte Observer comments on the current term, “The Electrical South.” with the declaration that “the United States leads the world in elee- trical pro; and the South has led the Nation in electrical development the ve vears dnd a ably industrial future.’ prophecies from wise men th a generation ago as to the de: v of the South are recalled by the ville Banner. Quoting John Bantry's declaration that “in the next decade the most remarkable migration of men and money in the history of the country would be seen from North, East and West to the South,” the Banner adds: “The country is seeing this great movement already under way." of the R The Knoxville Sentinel, analyzing census figures, states that ‘“‘the population of the South today is over half of what the country reported 25 years ago.” The Norfolk Ledger- Dis. patch sees significance in relation to migration in the fact that “the North is just finding out that south of the Potomac lies one of the healthiest as well as one of the happiest, most productive and sunny lands to be found on the globe." Not only railroad and industrial ex- pansion but also progress in higher education in the South are declared by the Springfield Illinois State Journal to be deserving of attention. The Illinois State Journal refers es- pecially to Georgia and vs “‘other States have entered the competition to keep pace with Georgia.” The Lynchburg News finds cause for satisfaction in Virginja's educa- tional advancement, for figures show ‘“‘that public school property in the State was valued at more than $50,000,000 in 1925, as against $8,600,000 in 1910; that there are 247 more ac- credited high schools in the State than in 1912 and more than four times as many high school graduates as in 1913." e The Asheville Times points to the new Southern literature, with the comment: “Nothing is more important and significant for the South than to find and encourage these leaders of sane liberalism.” The Roanoke World- News agrees with Dr. Shaw, editor of the Review of Reviews, in the judg- ment that ‘“‘the developments in the South at the present time are of na- tional significanc ‘The Tampa Dalily Times calls attention to the statement of the same writer that, as to Florida, her “natural resources have hardly been touched.” N ‘The Oklahoma City Times, speaking of its own State's “opportunities and natural resources to attract the Soutkzrn drift of capital, industry and population,” observes that “with these advantages it will be our own fault if we lag behind the other Southern States.” Briand Is Discreet. From the Quincy Whig Journal. Briand's denial of the rumor that he is about to be marrled might Le taken as an indication that he has trouble enough as it is. e Have Another! From the Morgantown New Dominjon. Now that ‘we’'ve had a wet refer- endum, how about a dry referendum? of | for | | Phe n its true light | before people who have money to in-| were; | i 1 +j tacking what wrried as | | Bernarr o, [ f the ultra nod | the | had | these 1o business until he APRIL 10, '1926. THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover. There are at least two ways to com- bat evil conditions. One of these is laborfously to marshal the arguments and set them forth as cogently as pos- sible in tae hore t the world will read, be convinced and turn from er- ror. Another way is to satirize, ridi- cule and laugh at in the hope that the world will laugh with vou and at the evil and eschew it. The latter 15 the method employed by Dr. Morris Fish- bein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, in at- e calls “The Medical of the past and especially of sent. The eurliest of these “follies” ridiculed in the book were the tractors of Elisha Perkins, who flourished in Connecticut at the end of the eighteenth century. Made of brass and iron and costing a shilling o manufacture, the curative virtues actors— could draw dis- the body—made ihem a pair. Among the . e Washington and Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth. By 1511 tracturation was “one of the fol- lies of the past.” The other features on the bill of Dr. Fishbein's include homeoputhy. osteopath cetic Dr. Abrams’ oscill ntrol, rejuvenation, anti-vivi- fon and the “physical culture” of Macfadden and other “big muscle boys.” ! The author also has some good fun over the fuds in health legislation and the medieal mistakes of the press. There is much good fool- ing, but the purpose of it is, of cou not’ to wound sensibiiities, but to ¢ rect evils. With # good broad pen, rather than a battle axe, the author chumpions the cause of scientific medi- cine. * % % The muchabused Victorians | again held up to contempt by one modern suc s ¥ “Intellectual gy for the Int ns himse for thos have become it The li century mean intelligentsia their has little p whom most of tomed to call g the nineteenth the twentieth almost nothin patronizing words ar d coural " love suty, but most of his appreelation served for literary creators of his own period. The feeling about nine teenth century Hterature commion to most of the yvouth-of today I8 e pressed thus: “It was an intrusion pist into our lives it was so hing » be respected. tolerated tured—but it v + nuisance our own lives to and all classical utterances of the nine entury had no relation to our "hey were a bore. Brown we teenth lives be divided acquisition ry human life shoul periods, one of and the other - distribution. This is the conclusion of Fdwnrd Bok after several vears of retirement, following an active life of money making. In his book “Dollars Only” he set forth the not very new philosophy that life should not be all made up of getting mone There are other things, he says. There are the arts, for example. There is also philan. thropy. Municipal politics might with profit eive u little tention, 100. The who has devoted himself 55 or 36 should uit and give cal the benefit of his ripe wisdons for the remainder of his life, while having @ very good time himself. Bok's theory is not strik- is it likely to h: y. The great m: men have not sufficient pr sans to stop work in the middle fifties and enjoy the diversion of phil- inthropy and patronage of the However, Mr. Bok's program for Tast 10 or 20 vear: lite is an al- truistfe - one—much more admirable tun that of the man or woman who setties down to u discontented old : without resources for pleasure fulness, into two ve man rom 1 wen: pui pli th o w When a critic says of ¢ g value to) 1S more education in in a college course every wvhether he has or has not had & col- lege course, feels that he should acquire this large amount of educa- tion offered in the space between the two cpvers of a book. This is what Arthur Somers Roche says of George A. Dorsey’s book, Behave Like Human Being a book which discusses many of the modern scientific discoveries applying especially to human beings. FEvolu- tion is the thread on which all the significant facts are str Heredit and other human instincts. Freud: janism. rejuvenation, the chemical basis of 1if he emotions of fear, love and hate, fake psychology, the benefit and danger of habits, morbid mental states and itualism are some of the topics which secure attention. x k% * Lillie Langtry’s “The Days I Knew” . anecdotal record of the of one of the spoiled darlings of society. Irom a romping childhood in the Channel Islands, in clerical home—her father was a dean—she came, while still a girl, to be the reigning beauty of London. Her stage career began only after her fame as a beauty was world wide. She was painted by Millais and Watts and Burne-Jones. Among the figures of his painting, “The Golden tair,” Burne:Jones included her twice. She set the fashion in hats, in shoes, in hairdressing. Then, when her ex- travagance and her Irish husband's improvidence had brought them to bankruptey, she made her debut on the stage in Goldsmith's “She Stoops to Conquer.” From that time her se ond and more durable reputation was assured. R0k b The bearing on the problem of evo- lution versus fundamentalism is not hard to find in the book “Almost Hu- man,” by Robert M. Yerkes, professor of psychology in the Institute of Psy- chology of. Yale University. Prof. Yerkes describes a colony of apes at Havana, the property of Mme. Rosalia Abreu. The first chimpanzee which ever grew up in captivity was born at Quinta Palatino, her Cuban estate, in 1915. Her collection has now grown to over 80 monkeys, including a dozen or more varieties. The gorilla, largest of the monkey family, is not repre- sented there. In 1924 Prof. Yerkes visited this colony with three assis ants, under the auspices of the Car- negie Institution. In his book he tells many anecdotes illustrating similiarit of the mental traits of anthropoid apes to those of man. One story is that of a chimpanzee mother who ap- plied first aid to her supposedly still- born baby and brought it to life. Mme. Abreu told Prof. Yerkes that she be- lieved chimpanzees have souls, and gave an instance of what she called a ‘“vision of death,” when a favorite female chimpanzee took her hand and kissed it long just before dying. Jimmy, another chimpanzee, gave a terrible scream at the moment of the death of his companion and ‘“kept looking and looking, with lower lip hanging down, as if he saw something that we could not see.” The book is dedicated to “all who love truth and seek it diligently, irrespective of per- sonal cost.” o There is comfort for mortals every- where in these recent wowds of Dr. Richard C. Cabot, whose best-known book, “What Men Live By,” has re- cently been published in a popular edition: “I don't know any greater nonsense than there is in books that say that great men take little sleep, and_ that only gross, earthly people need sleep. It makes no difference what a mythological account of Na- poleon says. If you don’t want to get up in the morning, you haven't had enough sleep.” ANSWERS TO QUESTION BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. How long was the Countess of Catheart married to the Earl of Cathcart?—C. H. H. A. Vera Cathcart was married to the fifth Earl of Cathcart in 1919 and divorced by him in 1922. She is the daughter of John Fraser of Cape Town, Africa. Her first husband was Capt. de Grey Warter. Q. Should grapefruit” sugar be served with 0, A. P. A. To obtain its full value grapefruit should without sugar, but the addition of sugar adds to its palatability. The grapefruit is decidedly anti-scorbutic. Q. How ment get from W. L A.The annual receipts from in- ternal revenue for this one product is more than $300,000,000. Q. Of what value is cotton seed —C. 0. 8. A. For decades cotton seed was a waste product. Today cotton seed is one of the country's foremost food and feed products, furnishing vast quantities of meal for enimals, with a result that cotton seed alone, apart medicinal be eaten much does the texing tobacs from cotton lnt, is exceeded in valuc ' by only seven American farm crops —corn, cotton lint, hay, wheat, white potatoes, oats and tobacco. Cotton seed has greater value than the com- bined barley, rye and buckwheat crops of Ame: and twice the value of America’s apple crop Q. Which the longest A. The greatest traveler Arctic tern, which travels 11,000 miles, both Sprin, or a round trip of 00 miles vear. It nests as far North as land has been discovered and the trip South is commenced as soon as the young are able to fly. It has mor hours of daylight than any animal known. At the time of its arrival in the Narth the sun does not set during the entire *breeding Season. bird makes E. is at migrator flight ?—S the least Q. How many ways may foods be preserved” Please give example WG P A Food may be preserved by freezing, such as fish and poultry; by refrigeration. such as meat, er, milk, eggs: by canning, such as fruit: by sugar, such as fruit fuice and condensed milk; by exclusion of air, such as eggs in lime water: by s prunes and peack . such ax beef ex moking. such as ham, beet and i by pickling, such us cucumbers; by ofl, such sardines Q. Wiich is the oldest family in the world?—A. M. e, e Emperor of Japan the "und Autumn, | other | but- | 1| the 122d of his line, which, according to Japanese history, reckons back i 660 B.C., when Jimmu ascended tie | throne. ~ Japan has been ruled b an unbroken dynasty ever since (he beginning of her history. Q. What is the basis of represen!s tion in the Australian Parliament? N. K. % A Federal representation in Aus- t starts from the constitution:{ allocation of siX Senators from 't state despite their population. awa House of Representatives must heva twice as many as the Senate and their term is one-half as long. Tua- mania has_the same number of Sen ator s New South Wales, whici has eight times its population. | Q. What test can be made in or- der to tell platinum from tungsten’ | 9380 AL A. When heated in u flame plati- i num will be unchanged and tungsten 1 will oxidize 1o a yellow powder. Q. If the imm {anended to adm Inited States on th man ration law were Apan same b b could |1 how cou M / Japane slightly above 100 opeans, would 1« ! G Where iy t | Ireland 7—O'D. G. | A. There is no | mint at present { office , the mai London, Perth, Wester Canada, and Pretoria, S toria, Ottawa, Africa. ©. What is the M A. One versh were usually extemporan sitions and parties in Ireland in turn, while the er | in singing a choru words 1 3 From this { ord I rick eric the specia t is suppo P Any reader can get the answer ¢ | any question by writing The Evenis Star Information Bureau. Frederic Haskin, director, Washington. D. ¢ This offer applics strictly to informa tion. The bureau caunot give advice on legal. medical a nancial ma | ters. 10 does mot mpt to settls domestic troubics undertake e haustive re Write your question plair Give full name and addire close 2 cents | postage. The vepty is inquirer. Ade \ Star Information Haskin, director, at nor and bric s and in stamps Burea Washington Frederic n.c BACKGROUND OF EVENT ieager to invest their million BY PAUL V. COLLINS. Chicherin, foreign minister of the oviet republic, has issued a 3,000- word Warning to the effect that Amerjca’s millions of dollars loans and investments may dominate the world; hence the proletariat is worried, Even worse than Chicherin’s is the rm of Trotsky, for he writes books es five-hour discourses e the terro of Americ which are “subjugating n loans the world.” That is their justification. fore, for Russia’s refusal to disarmament conference. The late William T. nent British jour the same id vears ago, in a book, nization of World." his review, not on accumulated dollars, but on initi- ative, efficiency and enterprise, hut his book roused only wrath in Eng- lund. In o Histor there- Stead. emi- expressed I by Mr should (ttractive recent number of appeared an article Trotsky, arguing that Rus: be considered especiuily bankers and investd but in Russia he talks differently, since there is no apparent reach from sovietistic repudiation of former debts which will draw American credit Russiaward. to American * x ssia is not alone in picturing the swollen with wealth, oated bond- holder.” ropeans have pointed fingers scorn at our al leged selfishness and purse-pride. and demanded that, because of our ultru- prosperity, we cancel the billions which Lurope owes us. Even Americans are prone 1o fancy that we profited inordinately from war conditions, and to picture the un imaginable wealth represented Ly our holding in the Treasury two-thi all the world’s gold. and, seeking eagerly for opportunities, lend hun- dreds of millions of idle money abroad, because there is no need for it in America. They are protesting that our “international bankers” are so abroad I United Stztes as a world u. that they lose their sense of p: ism, and overlook obligations to finance home industries and enter- |, sible that both of such contentions can b what are the answes ® ok % % In the March issue of the Banker's Monthly. appears an article by Mr. George E. Roberts, vice president of he National City Bank of New York, n which he analyzes “war profits” and the existing Luropean loans. He says: 5 “Inasmuch as prices have gone up all over the world, without creating & general state of prosperity, that par- ticular count in the indictment (vs, the United States) is not well sup: ported. The producers of the goods which were sold at high prices paid the production costs on the same basis, and whatever profits they real- ized were diluted in purchasing power at the same rate. There i¥no instance in the world's history of any people’'s getting rich by mere depreciation of the money by which values were measured. A champion of labor replies that high cost of production is the reflec- tion of higher wages, which means a better equalized or more generous dis- tribution of wealth among the pro- ducers, even though it does not enrich the whole people, but in a measure tends to make the wage-earner richer and the employer poorer. . Ex Banker Roberts continues: ““The profits made in business in the country during the war were not all made on export goods, and to the ex- tent that they were made on goods of home consumption they were made at the expense of our own people and cannot be counted as increasing the net wealth of our country ut the ex- pense of BEurope. Moreover, these profits, to a great extent, never ex- isted except temporarily on paper. ‘While business was being done on a rising market book profits made a Jarge showing, but when the slump came heavy losses were incurred, wip- ing out the paper gains. * * * “The grand total of corporations of every kind reporting to the Bureau of Internal Revenue for 1921 was 336, 397, of which 171,279 reported net earnings aggregating $4,336,047,813, correc upon_which the Federal taxes were $701,575,432, leaving a net of $3,643,- 472,881. The aggregate deficit of the r;malmn; companies was $3,878,219, 134" Mr. Roberts shows that farm in- ‘vestmentsJost 25.7 ‘per cent in that year (1922), and he continues: joln a | the | is of | riot- | If the national we: { ed on a per capita 1 | during recent years is st | able. The population of ing to the oftl the Census Bureau, v | making the wealth $1,950 pi In 1922 population had i | | | tual decrease | Mr. Benjamin M D.. economist of the | Bank of New York, said. in a speec before the St. Louis Chamber of Cor merce Anderson cign business to our as grown t domestic bus a me: . - dome | ssir | holding and promot i busir | Mr. Anderson poir “the percen f (sold lust veur | was only 14.5 ties 835 per Mr. Grosvenor | finance and in Department fore the ade Conve | sume idea of reign investmen essential to the manufactu The develop ving indus | point at which, to be fully an certain proportion | must be exported [ portation in many tucilitated by country industry mor diversified that it must dr lingly upon foreign count - wide rang aw material ( There is a g says Mr. Jones, hen a forei e loan is f the Ur xpended her | ties. | ket the fact th an secu and dome M. Jones tment div nisapprehensio € o what happer for products d not been the case. “‘we should have had great outflow of gold. wher bas been a great net inflow that has been not a little e ing to our farsichted financ well as to those who control destinies of our currency and credi system. * * * he question 1 it prove wise i long run export capi doubt. 1 believe, of years the be " advantag within _proy turaliy profitable United r can W the arises, in tates be 1 for a number of capital would it it were kep limits and if it were covered by sound loans to stable Bov ernments and reliable enterprises, or by reasonably safe investments Mr. Jones argues that by aiding in developing new countries, rather than Europe, and especially tropical coun tri which produce what we ourselve: cannot produce, we will create new markets not only for American goods but for the goods of Europe, and thereby assist” urope in becoming able to pay her debts, without depend ing upon invading the American market at the expense of our own wage-earners, ok k% Before the World War, the United States was a debtor nation, American capital invested abroad amounting to 2.000,000,000; today our forelgn in vestments and loans, aside from the $12.000,000,000 loaned to the gover: ments, amount to $10,500,000,000. Prior to the war, foreign inve ments in American securities amoun: ed to about $6,000,000,000; now on| half that. A book by Robert W. Dunn, entitl “American Foreign Investments,” fu hed, contains this paragraph vear 1024 established a new record in foreign financing. Accord ing to the United States Department of Commerce, foreign flotations public- ly offered here during 1924 amounted to $1,209,786,484. Of this amount $332,268.000 was for refunding pu poses, ths balance, $877518,454, ¢ stituting new cap subscribed 1o publicly offered foreign loans, both governmental and corporate. When it is remembered that the total nominal foreign capital flotations du ing the previous vear, 1923, amounted » to only $338,315.500, it will be secr that the year 1924 witnessed a more than 100 per cent increase n wapita. subseribed for foreign securities.” (Copyright. 1086. by Paul V. Colline.)