Evening Star Newspaper, April 26, 1926, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, —_— THE E"ENING S'I‘AR a bad (hln[' for intellectual balance With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. ...April 26, 1926 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company | usiness Office and Pennevivania Ave 0 Fast 1%0d St. wer Brilding 4 Regent St., London, England 1ith St New York Office Ohicago Office Zuropeas oMo Tha Evening Star. with the Sunday marn Ing edition. fs delvernd hv o it Tha mts At 60 ernts e month: dajly only 45 cents per month® Sunday only. per ‘month - O hy m telephone Main 5000 n is made by carmier AL the end of o th Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dailr and Sunday | vr. %0001 mo. Dailr anly 1y SHOAT 1 mo Sunday only 1 Aro s 00 I me pada. <100 ANl Other States and Ca e <00 <100 Paily an Daily nls Sunday only Sundas .1 v ] 1 mo ted Press. toaively entitle of all news ¢ atherwise he 1o « af puhlication ave alan reserved Member of the Asse e her Washington Loses a Million. A made by Rusiness Bureau of Washinzton £hows that no less than $1,000,000 wa taken from in unsound investments during the year ending April 1. This sum. the director of the bureau points ont, represents £ for every man, woman and child in Woman | Government wera the largest promotion was report just residents of this city the District. it is stated, dishonest ahle money business men supposedly versed in investments. Whila this large sum was wasted in financial proj the burean was instrumental in favinz at half a millien dollars that bhut for its efforts would like wise have been lost. The hureau econ- dueted a eampaign of warning and in- formation. with a slogan, “Refare you 1t spread this ®lznificant phrasa hefors the publie 1t urged all would.-be investors tn zeek and take advice hefore putting their alluring schemes. And away. never ta he recoversd, a clerks, Tozer from £chemes, hut eonsid alzn lost by wel nnsound or frandulent erts, least invest- inves o meney inte vat F1.000.000 was swept d. in addition Jeopardized ndland promations that fail- mare than $4.000.000 was tord haw maich has or hope- Many in them, prospectus make swallow theve however may be. They 1« well as cash te al prop- or a specula- & e e never nplain chy Al and sound proposa they confidence - o iny < of an inve Advice is to he had r the advizer may n: opportunities may be missed tmen \ire the Tine conservative Tt it is bett to missz a am i than to lose every < are always il of rea- ptial investmen vield ain n. ey in richt quickly mserve nds and yield reiurn no reason do make the his fi The hie fv idle 1o th him a why 7 should aver li w o lack of such At least 31,000,000 w shington dur h invegtment nd failures people to Busi ot to the people of W the past vear throt or specnlation in to warn Avice of the Better which is the advice “Refors you ness i, common tnvestizate ense, invest A Flying Horse. mnla the “cow Lady, mare, eame Washington’ In an attempt to « that A sprizhtly vounz criefl erday amid Sunday automebile traffic. Shaking off rider at Nineteenih and B street Lady started out to see the jumped o her town car thot rfons one of those pes he Re: ing ided limitz walls, Lady chasin h tn ringes her pursuer in regard houses and to end the ahsurd chs . Gathering setting her tail plane back to earth hut unfortunataly alenlated her distance and ianded on fop of an au- tomobhile. She wa gathered together and taken to a “horsepltal” for palrs, The cause of the accident has not heen ascertained although an in- vestigation will he started forthwith, 1t that Lady has heen neglecting her fiving training of late She has hardly had her required quota of flights to keep In condition. But, unless she was trying to make up time by taking several flights the same day, the cause is stiil as obscure as ever. trees. what not together and zradual vel- “tonk off,” herse!f for mis re- ts conceded and her judzment of distance faul with the natural result of a bad crash. An investigaiion fa of course con ducted for the benefit of the publie. Tn the heat of controversy participants ars in danger of exaggerating the fm portance of thelr opinfons of each other. A Intercollegiate Foot Ball. The American Association of U'ni- versity Professors in, its current monthly bulletin makes a condemnation of intercollegiate foot ball, holding that it causes students to neglect the work which “is the fundamental purpose of college edu- cation.” It is admitted that foot ball is a sport, which, if held within the bounds of what the professors think reasonable, would help the central intellectual purpose of the college by its recreative value. The professors in their report say that “foot ball is at its worst in connection with ‘oot ball = to other institutions, eulmi- natln;_'ln‘ the yvelling madness at the game ltself and which excitement is ents 'or | Teport the Better | but was much annoyed to find | decided | e once and for | 1t this were the | case she might have hecome fatigued general | and morale The professors complain that th excitement of the game causes neg- lect of the preparation of assigned class work, inattention In class, and { failure to do the reading and writing ‘mnm for in college courses. On the good side of foot hall the profe «ay that “it affordsan absorbing rec- reation, creates n strong sense of common interest and provides a clean and interesting topic of conversation and thought.” Which seems to be a | good deal in favor of the game. | An important paragraph in “Drinking in college | least indulzed in when the students tare enzaged in their normal activi- | ties and are left to themselves. It is |ageravated by overexcitement of | any sort and in particular by the in- | vasion of ountsiders and by mass i migration to other campuses.” | a the, is is: One remedy proposed is that par- ation of students in intercolle- athletics he limited to one Another proposal is that the ! foot hall season of colleges be short- | giate -1 ened. v to understand ‘that the and excitement of the foot i n disturbs the study routine lin collezes whose elevens are “at war.” but whether the report of the | professors will do much to moderate | the interest of collegiate masses in | foot ball is a question which only ilhfi future may answer. | Foot ball has been under criticism | before by faculties, or by a consid- | erable number of college professor: {but season hy collegians, jalumni and the Ather people turn ont tin soe and cheer i the pl season larger crowds fo A New Dynasty in Persia. " Dynasties are not | correlatively, they must have their he ginnings. In earlier times, hitions men regardless of family or- {igin, new rezimes were frequently |established throuzh success at arms. friumph n revolt and by intrigue. The crown was seized by the soldier or the statesman and a new dvnasty was created. “Roval blood” became <uch auickly. The ousted ruler or selon of rovalty became the ‘“pretend- er,” but iintil he could muster | strencth to regain the throne he was merely a clalmant, the actual wearer | of the nsignia of rule receiving the obeisance of the people. As the vea and the centuries passed royal lines were more suhstantially established, less easily disturbed. Few new dvna ties have heen set up within the mem- ory of living persons. or within the of the immediately preceding sen. A little more than a cen- tury agn the Napoleonic rule was ‘created by ane of the most ambitious and efficient men of whom histery Ihas a record. a rule that was broken ) defeat, and then in the relative renewed for a lives militar person of spac Now Persia furnishes an example of the founding of a new dynasty. Yes. a man was crowned as Shah strietly, he crowned himself— his vouth was a stahle bo; oldier of fortune, terday _mare whn in then a Cossack, a and finally, in a crisis of the countr: dictator and eventually the royal ruler. Reza Khan becomes Shah by his own initiative. and it was appropriate that he should. like Napoleon, put the | imperial crown upon his own head at the brilliant ceremony at Teheran. Reza Khan's action is but a repeti- tion of Persian history. He esta lishes the dynasty of Pehlevi just as Agha Muhammed in 1779 established the dynasty of civil war that lasted fifteen vears, The 1jar dynasty has remained unbroken | until the seizure of the throne by | Reza. There have heen seven shahs in this line of succession: Agha, Fath | | Ali. his nephew: Muhammed, Fath | Ali's grandson: Nasr-ed-Din, son of | Muhammed: Muzaffer-ed-Din, son of | asr-ed-Din; Muhammeg Ali. =on of | Muzaffer-ed-Din: and Ahmed. son of | Muhammed Al The last named, | Ahmed Kajar, who fs twenty-seven | years of age, s now in exile in Paris. | | The longest reign of all of the Kajars | was that of Nasr-ed-Din, who ruled | from 1848 to 1896, or forty-eight years. *According to the constitution of Persia the “Shahinshah,” or “King of | Kings,” must be succeeded by his | | eldest son or next male heir in sue-| cession. 1'nder the Kajar dynasty this next male heirship was detes mined hv the Kajar blood of hisi mother. | Reza Khan has already proclaimed | | his eldest mon as erown prince and [has thus established his dynasty in | | succession. The fact that he was ance | {a stable boy of humble birth and | that he rose through military ranks {does not lessen his right to the rotal | title which he has grasped, even as the founder of the preceding dynasty | | grasped it in 1 It was up to Agha | | Muhammed and his successors of the Kajar family to maintain the throne in their possession. They did so for | 147 years, to Include the years that | have elapsed since Reza made himself | dictator. It i3 up to Reza Khan Peh- levi and his successor to maintain his dynasty. e investment | Treatles are being negotiated in Fu- [rope with evident confidence in the | future and no fear that'a treaty will be regarded as a scrap of paper, e Insurance Denied. Operators of motor cars who have had thefr permits revoked but who wtill continue to drive their automo- hiles will have a good deal of trouble getting insurance hereafter. The tional Burean of Casualty and Surety Underwriters has just announced that no insurance will be written for per- sons who have had their permits re- voked dr who have been denied $her. mits. Sixteen States are co-operating with the bureau and extensive lists of un- desirables have been filed. A strict check-up on every motorist applying tor insurance will be made and the bureau believes that this class of driver will soon find that careleseness and recklessness are far too expensive when the bill must be met out of hix own pocketbook. Any measure which, will do its bit to eliminate the inggmpetent, unfit nd reckless from the streets of Amer- unending and, | when the ! role of ruler was the objective of am- | the Kajars after a fcan cities is laudable. There has long been a saying that the possessor of Insurance is sometimes careless in the operation of his car because of the guarafty against pecuniary loas, while the motorist who does mnot possess Insurance s more cautlous hecause he cannot afford to meet the cost of accidents. Whether or not this con- alderation will affect all drivers who operate without permits is not known, but lack of Insurance should certain- ly act as a deterrent to many who otherwise would menace traffic by thelr actions. o Remember Those Doughnuts? | The Salvation Army had a cam- paign trom April 5 to April 20 to ralse $60,000 for the war chest with which it carrles on its varied and valuable work in the District of Columbla. On the closing date only $37.000 had been ralsed. The budget to be met was based with utmost care on actual ex- penditures. The history of this organization has been a colorful and appealing one since fts inception. No agency was mora generally popular during the great war which served to bring out with special emphasis the broad spirit of humanity which underlies all its ac- tivities. During those days it could get about anything it wanted. Now the public appears to be a bit forget- ful of tHe lesson learned concerning its value, just as the same public oc- | casionally forgets the service man and | his patience and heroism. “The people of Washington have al ways stood by us and we are sure that this vear will prove no exception. We would be in an embarrassing position {1f we did not get the full amount.” | states Capt. Krnest R. Holz, general | secretary. The campalgn. like so many needed balance ia in hand. If it should i tional Caplital would find"itself in a humillating position. —— tle into the was an example of the influence old John Rarleycorn ean exert In promot- ing not only lawbreaking but the violation of common decency, e “Daylight-saving time™ has heen re. sumed In a number of communities; which makes still another little thing to argue about. His vice presidential campaign in- | terrupted the political career of | Charles W. Bryan, who now announces | his candidacy for the governorship of | Nebraska. After all, “there’s no place { like home " Large amounts of counterfelt money have been put In circulation abroad. It may be something of a comfort to those who miss the paper currency | that became so abundant. . R There is a disinclination in influen | tial German circles to defer to the | {demand for a confiscation of Hohen. | i 7ollern money and estates. 1t may be I found that about all the German Em- | peror lost In the war was his title. ot Large sums of money have been lost in fraudulent schemes. A condition of general prosperity, unfortunately, | benefits the crooks as well as the hon- {est and thrift 2 i o | The submarine is r jexperts as a necessary evil. Keeping {1t In evidence may have value as a which modern warfare may lead. i —————— The use of as many simple Anglo- | Saxon words as possaible is advised hy philologists. The suggestion may assist in preserving a middle ground for X speech at a time when it seems threat- | ening to limit itself to the extremes of scieptific terminology or slang. BN SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JORNSO; A Word From the Goddess. The Goddess of Freedom who stands in her pride With a message the land must re- spect far and wide, ‘Was heard to exclaim, “Legislation’s less cruel. statesman would now think of fighting a duel. “A metaphor harsh or a simile bold Supplants the fierce challenges issued of old, And words that ahounded in bitter abuses Are quickly forgot after formal ex- cuses, “Ah, happy am T a= T listen on high To find peace prevalling, though epithets fly. Yet, gentlemen! When your remarks grow too shady, Please pause and remember that T am a Lady!” Discretion. “What do you regard as the greatest question now before the American people?” “T hesitate to express an opinion," replied Senator Sorghum. “There are a great many questions and people are very sensitive about their favorite quarrels, I'm afraid to show par- tiality.” Storage. A little song of Spring so bright Anticipated Maytime, A frost came stealing every night To chill the joys of daytime. And so T store this vernal zeal Till the demand is greater; My memory begins to feel Like a refrigerator. Jud Tunkins says it's easy In this country for a man to say what he thinks. The hard part is the thinking. Cosmetic Art.. “She has a remarkable complexion.” “That {sn't a complexion,” answered Miss Cayenne. “That's a color scheme.” Exchange. We've shifted manners mild or tough As time has taken flight, Investigation now grows rough. Base ball is most polite. “Times is allus liable to be hard,” said Uncle Eben, “foh de man t makes up his mind to do nuffin ¢yt take life easy.” { others here, is being continued till the | not be raised in its entitety the Na-| The man who threw a whisky bot- | Alexandria graveyard | Call it a weed, if you wish dan- delion is a pretty little flower just the same. It comes in the Spring, when the world {s tired of shoveling coal, and brings with it visions of warmer days and brighter skies. Its technical name is Taraxacum taraxacum, almost as pretentious as that of its cousin in appearance—the noblest flower of Autumn. The dandelion, as a matter of fact, may be (and probably has been) called the poor man's chrysanthemum. It you will take the trouble to look crit- ically. at a specimen of Taraxacum, you will realize this at once. The dandelion {s a miniature chrys- anthemum, although probably most will insist on calling it a weed and so he unwilling to give it any claim to beauty. Thus does prejudice deprive us of many delights, In all walks of life men are bound down by prejudices which they come by inherently or which are thrust upon them by others. It might aston- ish one to make a list some day and see just how n ¥ of his likes are not his r'-;'n likes, and, conversely, how mare of his dislikes are no Ny kes are not his true | Anus one might find that in actual. ity he did not hate cats, if he wn:u]d glve himself an opportunity to realize their good points, or realize that, in 1 :‘r):m‘. uhle did not ldi!“ke a certain per- . but was entlrely mista | judgment of him. i i tone walls do not a prison m nor iron hars a cage.” said the B Probably he was referring to these in- visible but none the less strong bhars of prejudice. which keep us all in a sort of prison our whole life long. Surely ft will make 1 man ashamed ito \A};‘\kn Qi in Heaven and realize all the absurd prejudices he all the absurd prejudices he held in ook The dandelion, then, is not a pretty lttle flower hecause we say it is, but simply hecause it complies with | beauty's Taws, | Growing, as it mostly does, In ! lawns, where only various specles of | grass are wanted. man ecalled the dandelion a “weed” solely, the Taraxa A flower out of place. that is all. which must suffer the fate of all things so situated. Similarly, the humble huttercup which hoasts cne of the most delight ful yellows in the flower kingdom, | ruthlessly destroyed I most persons. Children, however, much to their credit, untversally cherish It. W. S, Gilbert. In_“Pinafore,” paid indirect tribute to this Spring flow: in his song. “Dear Little Ruttercup. to which Sullivan wrote nne of his few really first-class waltz songs. waltz was not the strong point of that great composer. | Tt is always pleasing, at this time | of the vear. to watch the children | searching for huttercups. It s true i | | [ enough the dandelion and buttercun do tend to spoil a lawn, but the harm ' 1s more apparent than real. | Both these plants may I later by persistent mowing. This is | a better way than uprooting them. | for the dandelion in particular pos sesses a true taproot. which, as every | householder knows, has a hold on the earth. * % ¥ *x | Tike most interesting things (or | persons), the dandelion has habits which are npt conventional. Tts naked. ane hlossom of closely packed petals, WASHINGTO | The presidency of France i= =ald i to he the prize that awaits Senator | Henri Berenger, French Ambassador arded by naval | to the United States, who has locked | after thev | horns with the American Debt Com- mission on the four billion gold dollars b. | horrible reminder of the conditions to | his country owea Uncle Sam. The belt |18 France’s paramount fssue. If Berenger succeeds where Caillaux j failed. the Ambassador's friends hope to make him the next head of the republic. There's a lot more perma- Mnency to the presidency of France than there is to the premiership, which Gallic statesmen Rometimes only hold overnight. 1= not a professional diplomat, was assigned the debt mission at Wash Ington as a special task. When_ ac- complished, Paris has generally under- | stood fthat it was fo pave the way triumphantly back to Berenger's seat in the Senate, and fhence to the Elysee Palace—the French White House. Berenger has been a Senator for many vears. Officially he repre- sents_the fslands of Guadeloupe. in the Lesser Antilles. But his pre- eminence Is that of chalrman of the Senate's finance committee. As such he long has wielded powerful in- fluence. A majority of the Senate is at Berenger's command for any project that hears his approval. Hence, primarily. his selection for the thorny job on which he is now engaged at Washington. B Although the “‘book value" blockade claims which the United States soon will ask Great Britain to arbitrate is between $200,000,000 and $300,000.000, the total will be drastically reduced when the two gov- ernments get down to brass tacks. That always happens in the case of arbitration of international claims. It occurred in connection with the American claims against Germany, which have been undergoing adjust- ment and award during the past four vears. Originally these aggregated $1,250,000,000. more or less. When finally adjudicated. the grand total will be around $250,000.000—a slash of about four-fifths. Some weird de- mands were rejected by the Mixed Claims Commission. An American brewer wanted Germany to compensate him for the ruin of his business. His argument was that prohibition was “caused by the war;” that Germany was to blame for the war. and that she, therefore, was responsible for the loss of his livelihood. An American bank, which had to hire extra clerks to handla Liberty Loan business, thought Germany ought to reimburse it for the additional expense it was put to on that account! ERE T4 Senator Borah visit Burope in- cognito two vears ago, roam at large through Britain, France, Ttaly, Ger- many and Russia, and get back home without the lynx-eyed press of Amey- fea knowing anything about it? That's the statement circumstantially vouch; ed for by an American resident of London, recently in Washington. He avows and avers it's the gospel truth. Borah says it's the joke of the cen- tury. The chairman of the foreign relations hopes some day to cross the Atlantic or the Pacific, or both, but as yet such an expedition remains cat- alogued among his ungratified am- bitions. He was running for re- election in 1924, about the time this rumor says he was pussyfooting his way across the Old World. *kw Senator Hiram Johnson has twin aversions — international entangle- ments and Japanese, immigrants. The ‘fire-spitting Californian has just suc- ceeded in Killing in the Senate immi- gration committee, of which he is chalrman, some legislation that. was i ¥ of the In reality | The | be killed | tenacious | hollow flower stalk, surmounted by its | Berenger, who | bei D. C, MONDAY, APRIL 2. 1996, R ] R RN [T . R e e S THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. does not accord with some people’s notions of flowers. Tts root is “too darn stubborn.” and its seeds, with their fihe white pappus (commonly called “fuzz"), are branded a nuisance. It is too bad the dandelion does not amend it perniclous ways. Some one ought to speak fo it, or pass a law restraining The children, content with their by the way, get however, are well dandelions, which, the common name tooth. They go right ahead picking them, making funny whistles out of the stalk, and blowing away the seeds. Their elders, too, find use for th humble dandelion. We will pass over the misuse of the plant to make a so called dandelion wine (which we have heard is nof o bad, at that), and go on to its medicinal and food uses. The milky juice extracted from the plant is used as a diuretic and altera- tive. The root | been used to adulterate coffee. and also has heen used to adulterate chicory itself, which is the common adulterant. Speaking of the national drink (we helieve statistics give it that position). it is interesting to recall that recent dispatches from Paris declare that experts there prefer chicory, asserting that it gives a certain flavor not ob- tairhle from pure coffee. Whether this is true we are not in a position to state, Certainly any substance which adds to the bitter | element already In coffee must be viewed with suspicion. Bolled and eaten as ‘“greens” the dandelion holds a peculiar place in the affection of America 1t is supposed to “be good for what alls you.” and many persons profess a fondness for it. Once it was looked upon as peculiarly the dish of the poor, but recent studies in nutrition have given all succulent vegetahles a higher place in the esteem of rich and poor alike. ok destitute circumstances of the little famfly. narrated the picking of dandelions as showing the depths to which the family had sunk financially! That was fn 1845, Today the dandelion stands higher in respect. No one can excite sym pathy now by going out on the fow. lot and picking themselves a “mess of dandelion “sreens, To us. however. the heauty of this flower ix Its hest excuse for heinz. Al little things that lle close to the earth are friends of ours. That fs | one reason why we like the grass, the most heautiful thing in the garden. | The color of the dandelion is glow. Inz. a reflection of the sun. Good vellows are none ton common fn | flowers— it hehooves us to cherish the dandelion, and even more %o the but- tercup, whose vellow is more glow. ing. with its velvet sheen. Proud on its flower splke shall | faunt the glodiolus. sought of many |a winging humming hird. The rose | shall nod on its stem. and the violets | lie lke reflections of the sky In the green mirror of the grasa. In the horder the noble zinnias. friends to man. shall poise their red. orange and pink beauties in every swaying breeze, as the morning glories swing on the fence. Fvery thing of heanty shall loved. but at the same time the humble dandelion shall not he forgot. “I would give all the wealth in the world for one touch of human na ture,” sald the dwarf. with flowers, ' 8o be it OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM i"")}. | intended to restore American citizen | ship to 378 Japanese-born. These | men were naturalized by a Hawailan | court—all but six of them in 1919 | had served creditably in | the armed forces of the United States | during the World War. Their nat- | uralization later was declared illegal by the Supreme Court. The Hawaiian | court granted maturalization to the Japanese under the assumption that the law of 1918, intending to permit | speedy naturalization of " all allens who served under the Stars an Stripes, was applicable to persons [ not eligible to become American citi- | zens, as well as to all other aliens. Japan probably i= heginning te think | there’s “ton much Johnson™ in fmmi- | gration affairs in Congress. The chairmen of both Senate and Ho immigration committees are .lohn- sons—respectively, Hiram of Califor- | nia and Albert of Washington. * ¥ ko Andrew Carnegie's “iron men" keep on working in various and sundry ways.” More than a million of them, | payable in installments of over $100,000 effort to ‘restate the law” in the United States. The Carnegie Cor- poration made such a bequest to the American Law Institute, founded in 1923 and about to hold its fourth annual meeting in Washington, its birthplace. By ‘“restatement of the law” the instiiute means the setting forth of the fundamental principles of law—primarily of the common law. The hope is that when the insti- tute’'s researches In that direction are complete, they will not only com- mand the rvespect and attention of the courts, but eventually be embodied in codes by State legislatures. For- mer Attorney General George W. Wickersham; Dr. Roscoe Pound, dean of the Harvard Law School; Judge Frederick E. Crane of the New York Court of Appeals and Judge Floyd E. Thompson of the Illinois Supreme Court will be among the speakers at the forthcoming session in Wash- ington. Attorney General Sargent heads the committee on local ar- rangements, of which Col. George T. Weltzel, former Minister to Nicara- gua, is the secretary. * ok ok William Darius Jamieson, who once was a member of the House of Repre- sentatives from Iowa, and now prac- tices law before Government depart- ments at Washington, amuses him. self, as a sideline, by writing a sprightly weekly review of natfonal politice called “The Window Seat.” As an incorrigible Hawkeve Demo- crat, he naturally welcomes the ar- rival in the Senate of Daniel F. Steck, the first of the breed to sit in that hody since the Civil War. “But he'll have to withstand power- ful influences that will try to keep him from being Democratic,” accord- ing to Jamleson, “and he'll have to he guided by the Jeffersonian stand- ard. and be cautious.” Jamieson points out in “The Window Seat’ that “‘several things happened quickly in Steck's case the same evening he was voted into Brookhart's seat.” One of them was that “Mrs. Hanford MacNider (wife of the Assistant Sec- retary of War) rushed up and kissed him.” Jamleson seems to think that so affectionate a greeting from the consort of a member of the Coolidge administration is a sign of danger that Steck may be a “MacNider Sen- ator, instead of a Democrat Senator.” * K K K The wet side of the prohibition ar- gument suggests that there must. be something in names. The leading wet in the Senate is Edge and the leading wet in the House is Celler. ‘The intellectual leader of all the ‘wets is a Butler. A misprint was re. cently responsible for dubbing Balt! more’s ,moist renresentative in the House “John Philip §tin.” . (Copyright. 1020, from the Krench, dent de lion, lion's} A blographer of Poe, detalling the | he | Make Retirement Benefit¢ Optional To the Editor of The Star: I would like to know whether there is any good reason why a provision should not he Inserted into the retire- ment bili for Federal employes which would give the employe the privilege of keeping his full salary by renounc- ing his right to any of the so-called benefits. If the scheme were thus made optional, it seems to me that then no employe would have any com- plaint to make regarding any kind of blll Congress cared to pass. If it were not to his advantage, he could decline to participate. I, for one, would not voluntarily become party to any heme that 1 have heard proposed so far. The present law, it iz true, benefits a lot of old employes, but it works an injustice ta the vounger emploves. 1 will show by a few representative ex- amples just how unst the law is in some cases. T shall make computations on a basis of 6 per cent interest. 1 know that we are allowed only 4 per cent on the amounts that are taken from us each pay da {only 4 per cent when we could get § per cent by investing this money our: selves? In the particular section in which 1 work are four men. Of these, three owe money borrowed on life insurance is paid. Moreover, two of us are t ing to buy houses. We pay between 7and 8 per cent on the money we owe on our houses—about 7 per cent on first trusts and about 10 per cent on second trusts (when discounts are fig- ured). Why should we borrow monev on which we must pay 6 per cent or more and be forced to loan this o the Government at 4 per cent? 1 shall bhasis of 6§ per cent. | "Case 1 i that of a friend of mine who ix 33 vears old, but who already has $300 in this retirement fund. By consulting an interest table, T find that $1 will amount. at & per cent in terest, compounded annually. to $3.64 Yin a7 years. Therefore. when this { man Is 70 the $300 he has already paid Lin will amount to $4,320. The maxi mum annuity he can receive is $60 per month. At the age of 70, where, ac cording to the American experience | table of mortality, the average future | litetime is 8.48 years. a $60 per month for 1ife annnity is worth $4.680. again figuring 6 per cent interest. ‘The: fore. if this man should pay in only ahout $40 more and at the age of 70 recelve $60 per month annuity, wonld he getting nothing that he had not fully pald for. Yet the Govern. | ment proposes to take 213 per cent of | his salary, or $100 per vear, for the next 37 vears aver and ahove what is necessary 1o pay for his annuity this man's salary incgeases, amount will he more. Case 2 is that of a voung man 24, whose salary is $2.400. He has been in the GGovernment service five vears, and has had about $25 from his pay. At the age of 70 this $250 will amount, at & per cent, to $3.650. -or almost enough to pay for his annuity. gets a raisa and remains in the serv- ice until 70 vears of age. the $60 per annum to be taken from his salary will amount at that time to $14,400. than $18.000 of this man's money. for which they propose to give him an annuity worth less than $5.000. Ae cording to the Government figurt fthey will have only $8.300 (hased on per cent interest). Any increase in <alary for this employe will. of courke | make the injustice done him all the | greater. since it increases the deduc tions without increasing the benefits. but why should we gel ! policies, on which 6 per cent interest | If this emplove never | Then the Government will have more | Q. Who s the actor who has imper- sonated Abraham Lineoln in the movies?—S8. T. G A. Frank McGlynn appeared as Lin- eoln in the Drinkwater play and mo- tion plcture, ‘“Abraham Lincoln.” | George Billings impersonated Lincoln in the picture, “The Man Without a Country,” and Char Edward Bull played the part of Lincoln in the mo tion picture, “The Iron Horse.” Q. What is a dendrologist>—E. V. A. He in one versed in dendrology— that is, in the history and perhaps even in the care of trees. Q. Where is the cambrum laver on wood?—C. B, A It i® the lving tissue which I= just under the bark. Q. 1Is there a noiseless rifle car- tridge?—P, T. W. The National Rifle |says there i¢ no nolseless rifle car | tridze. It 1 possible to silence some | cartridges by the nse of a Maxim silencer attached to the muzzle of the rifle. This silencer is in no way con nected to the rifle cartridge. Q. Are Ford's Theater and Ford's Opera House the same?—J. E. M. . In Lincoln’s day it was custom al to term a theater an opera house. Ford's Opéra House was the building ir which Lincoln was assassinrted It now is frequently referred to as Ford's Theater. Q. When was the vacuum cleaner invented?—W. W. L. A. The domestic vacuum cleaner was patented by 1. W. McGaffex on June 8, 1569, Q. Ts the atmosphere ever dust Jews?—R. M A. Experiments made hy Dr. Aitken therefore, make computations on the | indicate that there is no dusiless at- | mosphere. Alr with less than 160 par- ticles of dust per cubic centimeter is rarely found. In most country places the numbers rise to thousands and in | citien to as high as 100.000 to 150,000 particles per cubic centimeter. Q. What was the first organization of emplovers in thig country”—C. S. M. A. The first employers aseociation of national importance, which was formed to bargain or deal with work- ers, was the United States Potters Assoclation, organized in 1 The Stove Founders’ Association. in 1886. stimulated the organization of <imilar groups. Q. What is the length of ‘the Tan- ama (‘ana'”—RB. R A. From deep water to deep water the length of the Panama Canal is 50.5 miles, while on land it measures 405 miles. The average depth is from 140 10 45 feet. Q. Which of Dickens' novels con- tains the much-quoted phrase, “Barkls fs willin’ "?—V. S. - A. Mr. Barkis is a_hashful carrier in’ “David Copperfield” who marries | Pegzotty. He conveys his intentions to her by sending | David that “Bar | Q. Where is the Balkan Quarter in | New York City?—-D. E. A. This section is at Fourth street. between Avenue A and the East River, Third street, Second street. First street. Q. How do the fresh fruite of the United States rank in value of ex- ports?—A. G. N. A. According to commerce reports: Apples, oranges, pears, grapefruit, grapes, lemons. peaches and small fruits. Total value of export of fresh fruies in 1925 was §42,220 Q. Does lightning go up or down?- W. o M. A. The Weather Bureau says that is willin®." Assoeiation | formed | her a_message by | The twn cases 1 have cited are not | at all unusual. In fact, hoth were | taken from the small group of four men who are in the same section that [ Tam in. In this group the maximum | age i= 35, and practically the same | figurer apply to us all. Not one of ut | will ever get back as much as one-half | of the value of what we pay in under | any retirement plan that has been | seriously put forward. |71 do not believe the average Govern- { ment employe is looking fdr something when lightning is ahout to accur be tween a cloud and the earth (it usual Iy occurs between different parts of the same cloud) there is a great ac- cumulation of electricity of one kind. usually the negative. at the surface of the earth. and of the opposite kind in the lower portion of the clond. This imposes an electric strain on the medium between the two. The break or discharge, consisting essentia of a flow of negative electricity electrons, towards the positive charge. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. may begin at any point in midair along the path, and progress (this break progress) in both directions at the same time, or it may begin at either end and from there prozress towards the other Q. Why i= pin money so called” N. V. 6. A. The expression originally rame from the allowance-which a husband gave his wife to purchase pins. At one time pins were so expensive that only the +ealthy could afford them. The manufacturers of pins were per- mitted 10 sell them only on .aruary 1 and 2 of each year, and W those days came around the women whose hushands could afford it s cured pin money from them and went | out and got their pins. | Q yawning infectious or “eateh ing?"—C. K A. A peculiar | process of vawnin, son in a room thing about the is that one per wning will quite likely set all or most of the others in the room te vawning also. The only explanation for this is that when several people are in a room and one of them begins to vawn the others |do s, not because they have per ceived or are affected by the firat vawn. but because the air in the room has become so poor that there i®= not enough good air for all the people in it, breathing normally, and | many of them are forced to vawn lat about the same time. Q. 1s a train harder to stop than to start?—A. R. A. 1t takes more power to stop 2 train than to start it 1 Q. Are motor busses used in Can ada?—D. C. A. The use of them is increasing { rapidly. There are more than 2000 in operation. The street car and inter urhan companies are nsing buse eonjunction with their services. | Q. How long agn was the Linecoin statue unveiled in Lincoln Park, Chi cago? . A. M. A. The eceremonies October 22, 18 Q. What tell Panama Canal last vear’—FE | A. The gross revenue from ithe Panama Canal for | months ending June 30, 21,400 52351, oceurred on was collected at H. the . of 1 was the 192 ate and what rity have number of negross? Q. the g . H A. The negro United States in Georgia had the negroes, having City had the negroes, having What test population of the 1320 was 10,453,131, largest number of 1,206,365. New York greatest number of 52467, Q. In playing a hand af crihbaze | will a run count if a card not in the run interferes’—M, L. H A. A card which does not belong to the run blocks it and the run cannat be counted bevond such card. Q. Are divisions given battle cred- its?—H. L. C. A. Divizions are not awarded battle credits, The hattle participation credits are decided by regiments. Q. Is_tin lelement >—J. 8. A. It is an element. a compound or an Q. Haw much ground must he de voted 1o cemeteries in cities in propor- | tion to the population®— 1. M. G. | AL 1f 4,000 corpses are crowded into an acre. and a mortality rate of 15 per 1.000 be assumed. then neariy four acres per 1.000.000 population are re quired annually te hiry the dead Take advantane of this free gservice 11 yow are not nne of the thousands 1ho have patronized the bureau since its establishment we iwant you fo start now. This is a service main tained for the benefit of the readers \ of The Evening Star and we want you to get your share of henefit from it Send yonr questions to us. Inclose 2 cents in stamps for return postase Address The Evening Star Informa- tion Rureau, Frederic J. Haskim, di rector, Washington. D. €. | for nothing. On the other hand. he ! should be given the privilege of indi- | | vidually staying out of any scheme | ["h(l‘h i= to his disadvantage. i H. T. WENSEL. | v Greater Mutual a year, are now being spent in an| Pl » |Crocodile Tears Shed { For Prohibition | e o SO | To the Editer of The Star: Lately the wets had a great palaver over the terrible effects of prohibition. | No onder the “sidewalks of New York" are dripping with tllicit booze when officials from Al. Smith down openly sneer at the law and do every- thing in their power to make enforce- ment difficult. One of the New York wets who sald liquor flowed so freely had to go 3,000 miles to get a glass of English ale. His actions were more eloquent than his words. The labor leader who spoke of whole. some beer never read Ben Franklin's estimate of liquor while a printer in London. This so.called wholesome beer did not step intoxication in pre- Volstead times. All old soaks are graduates of the Tlight wine and dark heer school. A Senator thinks hooze sold under regulations hett than hooze sold from a speakea A chauffeur filled with Government booze is just as dan- gerous as one who got his liquor from a speakeasy. In the first instance the liquor seller has the protection of the law. while in the other he is a hunted criminal. This same Senator professes 1o see great danger in exposing to the innocent children the criminal in. stincts of the father in making illieft hooze and wishes to ramouflage the father's aleoholic appetite hy legisla- tion. On this theory, would the Sena- tor prefer legalized oplum dens, so the dope fiend won't take narcotics at home? The liquor traffic never cared about regulation befcre, and this ery for Government control is made be- cause this salutary law is making them lose money, and not hecause of thelr concern about the children. The former Attorney General of Canada has shown that bootlegging still flour- ishes in spite of regulation. Where are those wets who formerly said they could take It or leave it alone? Here {§ vour chance to leave it alone and obey the law. The writer knows the taste of heer, but when the jaw was passed had enough backbone to quit drinking. The charge that Americans shave so little will-power that they can't stop drinking is an aspersion of the law-loving citizens of our country., When your thirst is stronger than the law, see a doctor to get vour spine atrengthened. Volstead forces no man to take a drink. Get busy and choose the right course. On the last day some walling wets who are so unfortunate as to find themselves numbered with the goats will be blaming their predicament on the Ten Commandments. F. JOHN BESSON. I e The Squarest Place. From the Huntington Advertiser. The only time that getting even may be considered a virtue is when it is with your creditors. - - That Tickled Sheriff. From the Athens Messenger. There’s nothing finer, in its way, than professional pride, and a fellow heart sort of goes out to the sheriff who's just tickled to death with hia . mew Jjail. : A long step in furtherance of closer relations and greater mutual appre ciation among the natiens of the Western Hemisphere is seen by the press of the United States irthe Fan- American Congress of Journalists held at Washington. i “South of Panama.” the Wichita Beacon observes, “one of the favorite diversions has heen to pan the United States. A fext book used by Argen- tina until recent times described the typical Yankee as rude, uncouth and crazy after money-makin The tend- ency has been changed by such con- gresses, and the new spirit is being re- flected in South American newspaper: The interchange of ideas should con- tinue. We of this country may be as gnorant of the genius and ideals of South America as we have accused the South Americans of being in regard to the United States. The importance of “really to know one another” is emphasized hy the Rochester Times-Union. which feels that “in the sphere of interna- tional politics and in the great work of promoting and buttressing the edi- fice of international peace the two Americas ought to labor side by side. As a means to this end. the Time: TUnion suggests that “a wider undes standing and a more sympathetic view of Latin American probiems and tem- perament are well worth while.” ok % % fr. Blaine, while Secretary of State.” it is recalled by the Louisville Courier-Journal, “‘used to unroll the map of the Western Hemisphere and, pointing to Mexico, the West Indies, Central America and South America, exclaim, ‘Here is our future’ He Wwas hardly more than a voice erving in the wilderness. But that voice has since become the voice of millions of his countrymen. just as similar voices, heard in Latin America, respecting the importance of cultivating closer rela- tions with the United States, have been taken up and broadcast by a great many statesmen south of the Rio Grande.” The promotion of mutual prosperity is one cutcome of the fournalists’ con- gress which is considered by the Lowell Evening Ieader with the ment: “Happily, very encou progress in this direction has been made already. That it may he devel- oped further to mutual advantage and to the benefit of the world in general there is no douht whatever. Certainly the assembling in Washington of so many men in touch with public af- fairs and political development in their respective countries should stimulate a closer accord.” According to the New York World, “American indifference to Latin Amer- fcan life is being replaced by a keen interest.” The World is sure the vis- itors found “that an increasing multi- tude of American children are taught Spanish in the schools. that year by year more Latin’ American books are read here, and that tourist travel to South America is growing fast.” *ox % % . “Out of the visit of these represent. ative newspapeggmen," suggésts the Roanoke Worl we, “there should ome a whole-hearted dezire on our part to seek their getting | friendship,” and Appreciation Of American Nations Foreseen the Portland Oregen Journal ==Lm- that “it is within the power of the newspapers of the United States and other countries to build for a greater future and to aid immeasurably in bringing understanding out of mis understanding, in converting injustice |into justice and in substituting far suspicion and strife good will and ee. | operation.” | ‘The Oakland Tribune speaks of the surprise which awaits travelers from the United States paying their first visit to Latin America. “Great thea ters dedicated to the people present the hest of drama and opera: munici | palities comparatively small hoast art galleries superior to those in elties four times the size in this_country the Tribune continues. “There are agencies for the encouragement of the artiste in all fields. there are people with the same ideals, the same mn. tives and same problems as we mest with in #his country. The hetter nn erstanding which iz evident in recent | vears will be furthered by these jonrnalist The Lansing Capital News alan de clares that “drama. the arts. poetry. fiction, eriticism. political ting and seientific research have reached a high ate of development in the Latin American republics.” and that “some tof the South American newspapers are among the foremost papers in the world.” The Christian Science Mon- itor, furthermore, points out that sev- {pral Latin American papers “have for | some time maintained special represent - :atives in the United States,” and that “today the Southern countries are much hetter informed about U States happenings than In former | st iOnly One Class Clamors i For Prohibition Change To the Fditor of The Star: From what source come the com plaints against the eighteenth amend ment and demands for modification of the Volstead law? Not, apparently, from people who want fo buy beer. light wines and hard liquor.” They seem to be ahle to got what they want and to pay for it. Why should thay complain? Certainly not from the people living on Main street. Tt was they who amended the Constitution when the eighteenth amendment was adopted, and they are standing solidly behind it and the Voistead law today. There is really only one class which is making all the noise and tryving to change public opinion—the men who formerly, under cover of law, made and soid beer, light wines and hard liquor. Shall we allow them to have their way? If we do. the door will be opened for other malefactors. Bur- glars and firebugs will ask for their day in court. There are still some cave- men left, and they will demand that the ancient personal right to beat their horses and dogs, their wives and chil- dren be restored. To the people living on Main stre there is very little, if any, difference hetween the caveman and the liquor dealer, . Just as miich can be said in favor of changing the law for one as for the ether. CALEB 8. MILLER,