Evening Star Newspaper, April 30, 1926, Page 8

WASHINGTON, D. FRIDAY. APRIL 30. 1926. THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY.........April 30, 1828 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor | * The Evening Star Newspaper Company | i st ew Vork € Chicazo Of Europsan O oa© Tower 14 Regent nalind with the Sundas morn Mg sdition 1s deivered hy carriecs within A ity at G0 cents pe: month: daily onls { manth: Sunday onls, 20 cents e mag he sent by mail or Collection s made by sach month dine Thidon. The Evening Sta: Tiate by Maii—Pay Marytund and Virginis $2.00: 1 mo 3600: 1 mo. $3.00: 1 mo.. 1 1w 1ve Pailr DAl Sinda and Sundas All Other States and Canada, s SKO00° 1 1 $4.00: 1 mo o D and Snnday nix anly a3e er of the Associated Press. Proas in exclusively entitled eoabheation of all news dis 0 it or 101 otherwise crad and also the local newn ANl rights of publication hes herein ro reserved Mes | The Associatn pukliened herein PT aperial dispa A Children’s Constitution. Taday Is “Old Ironsides duy™ In the | “I'hrough permission by Duv. | <uperintendent of schools, of- | empowered schools of Washington, <pecial accorded Rallan teachers arve ises at which the glori ous history of this old frizate is told | and the campaign of the Tronsides fund” outlined. “ ficers and to held ex “Save Old 8 AU A wall known, g therized the sadly needed reconstruc reconditioning of the of the instru- | No money the very and & o old | named in hon tian fizhter meni of this Government. was provided. however, for cansiderable expense involved, n was undertaken to by of small from children this campaign is i yard. where the Rear Admiral ! commandant, national campaiz the funds contributi Headauarters of the Charleston Navy vessel up. and Thilip Andrews. the chairman of the executive committee. Dificulty was found first in en- Yetinz the sympathies of the children strendinz the of the Capital, due to an excellent rule of crandinz forbidding solicitation. | U'non the appeal of Secretary WH- | bur. hewever, this han was lifted for this special occasion. ‘The campaign was formally launched here at a meet- Inz of the National Patriotic Council | held this month. The opening gun of the local cam i if any such movement in the | ation may be said to | red last night, when | aide to the | Navy, appealed to | of George Washing- ton urging them to | trihnte on a one hundred per cent | ha sis, 1"ndonbtedly other higher in- | stiutions of learning, and private secondary and primary schools will prriicipate. The snm actnally needed is half a million dollars. From the response the first 5,000,000 youngsters: evident that if as many as 21,000,000 conld reached complete success was assured. This does not Inclnde zifis by oldsters, who, s boys and zirls, thrilled over the recital of the of the old sailing ship. Such gifis have already been headed by generous checks from President Coolidze and Vice President Dawes. | Subscriptions already total over $200.. | 000, Next Monday, May 3, is the date | anscified on which the contributions | of Washington pupils are to be heought in their teachers. That | tha National Capital will perform its | full share and more in the task is | not anly desirable: it is certain. | —— e | raise means N <chool i i< tied is | at public schools lonz paizn Capital of the be lncal A Capt. W. T Cluverius, Secratary of the the stndent body sity was Univ con- | made by it was be bhatiles | to The Capital of the greatest Nation | en earth finde its citizens votsless, | The situation is one which must be | eontemplated with surprise by advo- eater of elther a democracy or 2 mod- | ern antoeracy. ! P ) 2 7 | Tha District of Columbia has passed | hevond the time when itx most serious | problems were parking problems. | R — | ck Follow Folgeroe! Folgeroe of Sandnessjoen, Nor- way, has built himseif a reproduction of a Viking ship and, in order most appropriately to fiy the colors of Nor way at the approaching Philadelph Sesquicantennial, has started to sail across the Atlantic. 1t is hoped he | was a pleasant vovage and a safe ar- vival. Teo great efforts cannot be | made to keep alive interest in one of | the most beautiful things man has sver invented, the ship with sulls, now | fast disappearing. except in so far as | pleasure craft are concerned. at the ship of this descendant of the se kings will arouse interest at the ex-| position goes without saying. Capt. Foigeroe is not the first to do this. A modern Viking ship sailed | across the Atlantic in time to be dis played at the Chicago World's Fair of | 1803, The craft at present vovaging | westward is considerably smaller, bhut will probably have the benetit of aids | to mavigation which did exist thirty-three vears ago, not men- tion the year 1000, These include the eonstant presence of nearby ships, the radio, the thermos bottle, the pocket fashlight and a few dozen other | things that will come readily to mind. | A thousand years ago Scandinavian | senfarers got aboard ships like this and visited rmany,’ Russia, the | Rritish Isles, the Mediterranean coun- iries, Greenland, Jceland and meny other distant places. Sometimes they did mot even know where they were zoing. as in the case of the practical 1v' certain trip to the shores of this New World by Leif Ericson. There | was no preliminary newspaper “bally- hoo.” They had no compasses. They conld not tack because their craft had Jkeelsons rather than keels, and a sin- zle square sail without boom. The'| crew, however, were very classy at | the long ashen oars and it was an un- | naual combination of adverse winds and beclouded stars that kept them from getting where they were zoing. Moderns are fortunate in that sev. | eral pretry well pregerved specimens | of these Viking ships have been un. | earthed, for they were used a» burial May Leif's Lu Capt not to O | some whart of the City | tional Crime Commission in thi places for chieftaine and many of their possessions. The best is one of the largest, the famous Gogstad ship, dug up from an impervious clay mound in Sweden in 1880. She is seventy-nine feet four inches in length v sixteen and one-half feet in beam. Amidships her gunwales would be but a scant three feet above the crested waves. Those who return from Europe wigh tales of gales which made them feel insecure on giant liners might think that over. She is clinker-buiit of oak planking one and three-fourths inches thick, calked with cow’s hair. She carried sixteen oars on & side and two small ship's boats, Capt. Folgeroe's ship deled after one of the smaller cr here and there feet long by thirteen in rather chunkier and culated to be more seaworthy anmd, livable thun the Gogstad “serpent.” | No s a rine heritage surpiesing thut of the Norwegians. One envies the long, long thoughts of Capt. Folgerve ax he stands by the | handle of the big “steer bourd,” slant- ing down on one side of the stern watches the Atlantic breeze belly out his gayly striped sail, and feels his ship slide up and down the crested | rollers of what his ancestors ul_\led! Phe Old Grey Widow-Maker. His | oute is from Oslo to north of ot land. thence to the Portuguese coast, the Bermudas and Philadelphia. When his hawser is safely around a post on of Brothecly Love a mental cheer will go up wher ever in this world men Jove real ships and real sailors. must: be my foun width, & vessel one cal- | i | | i i .—oe A Chronic Criminal Paroled. Issy P as sxer, regarded York Stale’s most hebitual criminal, has been granted a parole the board of pardons. His record of law- breaking and convictions impres During the past twenty-one s he hax been arresied times, and eleven times he has been His offenses, ax charged have in sequence been ‘suspicious person,” attempted burglary, felonious wssaull, unlawful entry with burglar's tools, unlawful entry again, vagrancy. robbery—this time he was acquitted manslaughter, conspiracy to rob, con spiracy 1o manufacture burglar's tools, driving rum-runner into police boat, rum-running. In addition, he was ac of having & pistol in prison on one occasion. He had als a record of three escapes from work house and prison. Lately he hax been | in Sing Sing serving the remainder of | a senlence manslaughter which was interrupted by one of his escapes. During his few months there he seen quite independent of prison rules and has gained the title of “Crar of Sing Sing” in consequence. No explanation has been given of (his remarkable action in the granting of & parole to & man with such a rec ord. The State superintendent of prisons appeared before the board and made a statement in secret session which convinced the other members. Later he stated publicly: ““Fhe Presser parold@is open and aboveboard.” Yel he added, “It is best to keep the cir- | cumstances of his case confidential to | secure the interests of public policy.” For an “open-and-uboveboard” case | this is certainly & mystery. 1t occurs at & bad time for effect upon the pub- lic. There Is @ very pronounced feel- ing that failure of the law to work justice ix due in large part to the lib- erality with which paroles und pur- dons ave granted to confirmed crimi- nals. Assuredly the people, who are exposed to the depredations of the professional crooks, are entitled to know the exceptional circumstances of | « case which 80 shocks the reason. | Abuse of the parole law serves to| strengthen the demand for its repeal The country is beset with organized criminals, utterly indifferent to the law, ready to slay without provoca- a by is sive. ’ twelve | convicted. cused for | Nurmi | the route he the District of Columbia, must be sup- plemented by a Federal prohibition against the transmission of weapons and ammunition through the malls or by express to individual purchasers. With a permission-to-purchase law in force in the States and the District and with the mails and express serv- ice barred (o the individually ordered weapon it would be extremely difficult for a potenttal criminal to obtain a gun. 1t would not, however, be impo: sible for a citizen to arm himself for defense. He would merely he put to slight inconvenience and delay in se curing a permit to purchase. Just this week Washinglon has had another illustration of the risk that is {run by the community in the absence of an effective weapons law, when a Avink-influmed youth got u gun and carividges without the least difficalty or deluy und, in an attempt to com mundeer u tuxicab, fived und nearly Killed & woman bystander. heen a proper luw, working effectively, he could have armed himself, ut least within this ju It ing rms manufacturers ave re ate in getting uniform legislation et the good work that the ¢ to co- ix reass opel on this subject. be pressed, with thia efficient aid. r—oes A Riffian Marathoner. “Those Riffians must be sturdy peo ple. Carrying & dispatch to his chief. a special messenger ran seventy miles between sunrise and sunset, creating what is believed (o be & new marathon And that is not all. This combination of Paddock and iy sixty-seven years old and Lruveled was over rough 1g is insecure record Riffian country where the foot Delivering his message on 8¢ hedule lime aund being congratulated for his feut, the uld wurrior sat down for a light repast of coffee and volls, afte: which he pronounced himself fit to vun back again. There is ouly books which compares favorably the aged Riffian's accomplishment. 1n Saunders of New York City the with one record on 1882 one J. t G is said to have run seventy miles over & measured course in something over eleven hours. The principal difference. however, is that Mr. Saunders was a voung man when he made his record and had smooth going, while the Rif- js getting on to the age that is such fian generally considered too old for extended jaunts. —oes nay be the idealistic esti mates of the League of Nations abroad, in America %t will inevitably be valued in accordance with its effi- as a vole getter —oes Whalever ciency Heartfelt tributes are rvepeatedly paid to the old-time editors, aithough none of them, if present, could com- pete in influence with a firstclass modern ad writer. 2 o The war ig over. Club dues and theater tickets retain tax reminders of o bygone strife. A war is not ended until it is paid for. raee—s Radio when properly provided with commercial supervision onght to have the benefit of some competent musical eriticism. America is undoubtedly prosperous, in spite of the gentleman at the stock ticker who happened Lo’ guess wrong. e 2 A “crime wave' may be contem- plated with philosophical patience un- | til it hecomes a deluge. - SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Playing the Game. Oh, let us all be good and Kind! Oh, let us all assume An attitude that's most refined, tion, adopting the munitions of war | for their depredations and their offen- | sive and defensive maneuvers. An| aroused public sentiment urges that | penulties be stiffened, rather thun soft- | ened. Yet in this particalar instance, | which i not altogether exceptional. a man is granted his freedom, after hav- | ing broken jail, in the middie of his | sentence. who has by his twenty-one | vears of crime earned life imprison- | ment as a habil incurable erimi- | nal. | Such a case destroys confidence in | he judgment of those ave | harged with the execution of the pa- role luw, and in thé wisdom of the | parcle system itself. rmos who Chicago is striving valiantly to en- able her music and literature to com- pete in popular attention with the crime waves. Arms Make At the concluding rs to Fight Crime. meeting of Na- city this week a0 was sounded when the representative of one of the largest arms manufactur- ing o in the United States anuounced thut his corporation, and by direct suggestion ull the large man- | utucturers of firearms and ammuni- ton, desired co-operale with the commission tu Gbiain 4 proper uni- form pistel regulation law. This a Heretofore difficulty has been met in the effort to secure a proper law in regulation of the sale of deadly weapons In the opposition of the man- ufacturers, Now it Is definitely stated that they ure willing and desirous of working to the end that in all the States laws of similar import may be enacted and enforced which will lessen | crin Undoubtedly, us the representative of the arms company stated, such a law to be effective must be uniform and must be in force in ail the States. | 1t should not be difficult to frame it in such terms that its honest and full enforcement will deprive the criminal of his chief means of offense and will not deprive the honest citizen of means of defense. “'he ideal law on this subject is one that prohibits, under severe penalty, the sale or gift of a deadly weapon or ammunition to any person who does not present to the vendor or donor a permit tn possess siuch a weapon, is- aned by a competent public official. Such & law, however, even if en acted {3 every State in the Union and 7 note of oud cheer ipunies (o o | 18 a welcome ouncement. | seems to have the w Devoid of any gloom. Oh, let us all In sweet acclaim Conceal each impuise rough. So long as you muts play the game Sometimes vou'll have to bluff. Modesty. “Where do you stand on this great economic question?” Where do I stand?" echoed Sena- | “Opinivns have to Solar systems move millions in an hour. Why should I as- he the one fixed point in the tor Sorghum. cha of mil sume ( universe?” Inevitable Retribution. v escape if you create evous demonstration. Lord help you If you violate A traffic regulation. Jud Tunkins says a motien picture tress who has the best press agent st husband. ac Inferiority Complex. “Huve you a competent typist?” yes,"” answered Mr. Cumrox. “She is so highly educated that I'm almost afraid 1o dictate to her for fear she'll criticize my g Those Good Old Times. Old fashions, we're told, - Were considered quite bold; And protest adverse Suid the new ones were worse. mmar."” Should fashions turn back On the long-ago track We'd shout in disma) “Pleuse take 'em away! Moder “I am going to Kur “What for?"” “Po study art.” “Waste of time. What dves Europe know about comic strips and jazz?" “A man have a kind heart,” said Uncle Kben, “but it ain’t much use if he has a bad-actin’ liver.” e Making a Hit. From the Waterbury Democrat. A driverless automobile is said to be “making a hit in the West.” One would imagine it would make several. ——oos The Lure of Haw. om the Norfolk Daily News. Neither Florida nor California can hope to rival Hawali's latest bid for tourists. may —ve—s. Advance Information. ¥rom the Worcester Evening Post. Many of the young men who are &ning to be married this Spring know about it already. ~ "4 Had theve | Rising to the defense of consclence, moral sense—"call it what you will” —William Tipton Talbott of this city takes lssue with Hervey Allen of New TYork. whose letter on Poe as a non-conforming artist was printed last week. _In a jetter just received, the Wash- ingtonian pays his compliments to “‘a comparatively small group of puerile but dangerously insidious modern pessimists” as follow ““l assume that Mr. Allen has ‘art for art’s sake' in mind when he says that Poe is ‘wlmost the sole example in our American literaturs up to very vecent times of the purely literary artist.’ Yet even Iif Poe did dveam of art for art's sake,’ the modernist school of literary artists can find no for offensive non-con- his works, which, as you t in commenting on Mr. Al mmunication, contain xcarcely or thought ‘that cannot be aloud hefore a little girl.’ It I8 true that Poe was not diductic and strongly chjected to moralizing in {#rt. But he was too much of a ‘nice | common-xeqse fellow," or at least too | logical. " to assume " that his znti didactic attitute left him free to im- moralize in art, ! _“In “The Rells' he got as far away Lromn the didactic as he possibly could and came as near to vindicating ‘art for art’s sake’ in verse as any poet ever can. In its construction there is the simplicity of genius. Yet Long- fellow’s scholarly ‘Relfry of Bruges' is surely fit to be read in contrast with it. In his treatment of sadness and zl00m in som> of his verses Poe seems to make a special effort after un un- human effect. but, to my mind, the best he ever did in that respect is not as artistically effective as didactic ‘Tennyson's simple “Tears, tale Teurs,’ * oxox % 1 should ask me, 1 would ‘art for art's sake’ has noth- ing 1o recommend it but alluring sound. It Is as flat a slogan as ever served a bad purpose. “Technique for technigue’s sake.' although not quite as_euphonious. would do as well. ““T'o the expression ‘art for beautv's suke’ there can he no objection. That was really what Poe was after. But i say t o tion to art was too limited. Perhaps it might be better to say that it was too abstract. ‘onscience. moral sense—cull it what you will—is the chief charac- teristic which differentiates civilized man from other animals. The great authentic works of art are those the beauty of which more or less indi- | rectly reflects the growth of that | moral sense in the human animal. The art which runs counter to the moral sense is. let us say. more ov less divectly unhuman, its beauty is more or less sinister. ernnyson in ‘Tn Memorian i | i ! speaks of: heauts such as lurks Doet when he wor 'a conscience or an A Fantastic In wome Witho “That is th> kind of heauty which at times beset Pos and In which his artistic strivings were too likely 1o be wrecked. Fortunately there was | suMicient common sense. sufficient rationality fn his mental make-up to produce a limited but magnificent out- put by virtue of which he still stands ax the most original literary genius America has produced. o oww Regarding Poe's personality | | | WASHIN his conception of beauty in its rela- | | the | | | schoolhouse on | the Poe question and will t, leaving 1o the reader, there | issue. alwaya will be differences of opinion. |mecessarily meuns moral writing. GTON OBSERVATIONS | probably gr | today. | know THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. As a literary divertissement, it may be interesting and profitable to con- sider it as related to his works. But, as Hervey Allen says, ‘it is the tunes which he heard and reproduced which alone make him important. and not what kind of a man he was as a citizen ‘or journalist or critic.’ “We do,not consider it a matter of supreme importance to discuss the structure of the violin hy whose cos- mic volce our souls have heen strangelv stirred, fascinating though that'discussion might be in relution to the magical effect produced. Then why become unduly analytic in the case of Poe because his music of the soul has filled ‘and thrilled us with emotions never felt before” “As w matter of fac analytic clinic over Poe's pe, which haw been going on for quite a spell, now is old stuff. ‘There have alwayvs been those to insist thut the brains of geniuses are awbnermal. Long betore Poe's time Dryden penned the sweeping assertion that ‘trie wits ure sure to madness near allled,’” and in Shakespeare we find reference to ‘the poet's eve in a fine frenzy rolling.” while James Russell Lowell. in Fable for Crities,’ pictures Poe him. self as coming with his raven, like demented Barnaby Rudge. ‘three Nfths of him genius and two-fifths sheer tudge.’ “Let me add that I think Mr. Allen is at fault so far as Poe is concerned when he says that because America is ‘an incurably moral country and the home of the happy and conventionally minded * * * it most admires as a human being some characier type which approaches the ideal of its own moral mediocrity.’ and when further cn he declares that because of his unique personality ‘beyond the realm of morals, religious, political,” Poe ‘became (0 America that mysterious and wholly-to-be-condemned personal purely individualiatic person, Far from being a ‘wholly-to-be-con- demned personality,’ In his day Poe's popularity. owing largely to ‘The Raven.' ‘The Bells,’ ‘Annabel Lee.' wax ter than that of any American writer before or since. Only the popularity of Byron equaled it. “and it lasted and became a cult which s not e Before 1 was old enough what it all meant. nearly vears after Poe's death was fasci- nated by ‘The Raven' as the black- haired. dark-eyed village elocutionist reclined on the parlor sofa in the role of Poe's doleful hero. Subsequently, in a number of small towns as a hoy 1 became more and more familiar with the ‘purely individualistic person.’ ‘the creative artist,” known as Kdgar Allan Poe. “And everyiwhere, from the old red 10 Washingion as a 17-vear-old stripling. it was the same Poe recitations. Poe parodies, dis cusslons of Poe's personality worship on the part of callow and hovs and quite a following « ventional men and women. in of their ‘moral mediocrity.’ ™ So we have presented both sides of allow the 10 matter to the pleasure of awarding the verdict to the side h he believes meri the golden crown. n making this award esch reader will be swaved by his own personal beliefs upon the major question a whether or not great writing BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Heber 1. ( | Mormon Church, Is a visitor to Wash- ington. Even though he is « Demo crat, he and Senator | Republidan, first apostle of the church are bosom friends. [very morning since Grant came (o town rhey have {been at work the links of the [ Rock Creek public golf course be | tween the romantic hours of five and {seven. Although the chieftain of a |great religious organization, Grant is ‘e-eminently a business man. He is a director in many Western corpora tions, inclnding banks, an implement house. a theater company. & large department store, and two or three insurance companies, one of which i\wfir\' his own name. CGrant assisied in organizing and promoting | Utah-Tdaho Sugar Co.. 8nd is now Its | president. He is also president of | Zion's Savings Bank and Trust Co. at Salt Lake City. Brigham Young's successor started his business career as 4 messenger boy in an insurance office. President Grant is 70 vears old was ordained # Mormon apostle ai 5. and succeeded the late Joseph F. mith as head of the church in 1918 | e is in Washington for the Hoy Scouts’ meeting. ‘The Mormons have ! their own Scoul organization. * x % x Secretary Mello emerges with enhanced reputation m the long series of foreign debt ne gotiations terminated with the French ugreement. Others considered. col- laborated and concurred. bBut the master hand in all the settlements was that of “Uncle Andy.” as the chancellor of the American exchequer is fondly known in the Pittsburgh vegion. ~Mellon, despite his uge, shy- ness, silence and passion for self- effacement, Is as shrewd a politician as Pennsylvania In many a day has produced. He eschews the strong- arm methods of a Quay or a Penrose, but his velvet glove on occasion en- cases an fron hand no less potent than the kind those imperious bosaes wielded. Mellon would grace the United States Senate, but has no hankerings in that direction. He is |content with having triumphantly |conducted the most colossal financial transactions in history. The Secre- tary of the Treasury sometimes looks tired. 1t Is just within the range of possibilities that the day when he thinks he might lay down his burdens with dignity has been brought nearer by the supreme achievement of his career. | | H e One of the most conspicuous mem- bers of the party of pan-American journalists now touring the country is a somber, black-bearded Mexican editor named Manriques. He wears hirsute appendage that trails down his bosom in jet luxuriance., In one of the industrial towns the pan-Ameri- cage visited this week a factory pre- lsented them with souvenirs in the | shape of safely razors. When Senor Manriques passed down the gift line tand his hair and whiskers darkened the horizon, the man who was hand- ing out the razor souvenirs ejaculated: ““Fake Three!” Manriques did. x k% K Kentucky’'s Democratic white hope, Representative Alben W. Barkley, has pitched his hat into the senatorial ringeas a rival of Semator Richard P. Ernst, Republican, in the 1926 campaign. Barkley is one of the yvoung Midwest Democrats in.whom party leaders see future presidential timber. Not the least of his qualifica- tions for national honors is his high standing with organized labor, espe- cially the raiiroad brotherhoods. He Is joint author with Senator Howell, Republican, of Nebraska, of the rai road - labor bill. Barkley has vepre- sented the Paducah River constitu- ency in the House for 14 veara. Rail road men and other union men are al- ready organizing throughout Ken tueky on his behalf. Never befere teed Smoot, | the | undoubtedly | not only a shock of ebony locks, but & | | | | | | oratorical masterpieces nt, president of the|the present time has the State heen ‘humiliated” by having two Repu licans resent it in the Senate. Blue grass Democrats are confident that Barkley is the man to redeem it from the “ignominy” under which now suffers, * ox Two great claim that stealing their National League of and the National Civie The glory, of which they despoiled the wake. campaign nitlated by the President before the recent D. A. R congress in Washing- on on the subject of vote slacking. For several vears past hoth the League of Women Voters and the Civic Fed- eration have bcan hammering away on that uninspiring issue. The league during the 1924 campaign conducted an intensive drive to bring out the vote. On the negative results of th effort the Civic Federation in 19 based a nation-wide publicity crusade aimed at pointing out the stay-at-home evil. Last vear the San Francisco au. thorities ordered the local golf courses closed as a means of promoting big vote on primary day. Men and women are about on a par vote slackers. Some politicians advocate a money penalty for people who don't do their duty at the polls. Australia has Such a system. national P'resident stuff. organizations Coolidge ix They are the Women Voters Federation. have heen * %% Farmers and lubor have locked arms lowa to elect Smith W. Rrookhart to his ,ld place in the United States Semate, Maj. Frank ). Lund—like Brookhart, a soldier, farmer, lawyer and progressive Re publican—will manage his campaign. and J. C. Lewis, leader of the lowa miners and president of the State Kederation of Labor, will be chairman of the Brookhart finance committee and cumpaign treasurer. Maj. Lund was long associated with former Sen- ator Wiljam &. Kenyon in’ the lowa progressive movement. Lewis sends word {o Labor, the railroad men's scrappy official organ at Washington, that “Brookhart I8 making a_ winning fight, but needs funds for necessary campaign expenses. One of these davs, if Representative Edgar Howard of Nebraska can have his way. all of the speeches of William Jennings Bryan will be immortalized in the Congressional Record. On every provocation, and sometimes twithout any, Judge Howard, who still burns incense at the Bryan shrine, obtains permission Lo insert one of his hero's in that bot- tomless pit_of politicul exuberance. fiverybody likes Howard. respects his trank idolatry of “W. J. B.." is amused by his Bryanesque haircut, and con- siders his autobiography in the Con- gressional Directory that handy vol-| ume's choicest bit. Howard therein sets forth: “Once member of the Ne- braska Legislature and lleutenant governor, holding cotemporaneously the higher office of editor of a coun- try paper, and still in that estate, marrled at lawful age to Elizabeth Paisley Burtch, a native Nebraska girl, still married. Started in religion 88 & Quaker, but of late year’s in the Episcopal fold.” (Copyright. 1926.) o l’.l"int Offenders | Against the Dry Law “To the Editor of The Star: Your editorial in Sunday's Star entitled “A Reign of Terror” was one of the best I have ever read on laws and law enforcement. [Please give us more of this type of edi- torials. All good citizens want the laws enforced, so let us strengthen the Volstead act to provide compulsory Jaill sentences for first offenders. This is just to let you know some one appreciates the stand your paper Ja tak More power to your pen! F. W. GOODMAN. 4 | | irely outgrown even | | i +little | cowaras A Woman Protests a BillI to Stop Military Training Te the Editer of The Star: ‘Fhere now comes hefore Congress & | bill known as the Welsh bill, designed | to abolish all military training in the schools and colleges of this country. Now, it is commonly understood that bills of this kind have the unqualified support of the women of the country. In view of this, 1 wish to correct an error by making known that there is at least one female citizen of thea United States who ia unalterably op- posed to this measure. In the early days of 1917, when every one knew that we were about to become involved in the World War, | and the citizens who realized what | that would mean to our tiny Army | were urging the passage by Congress of a universal draft bill, I volunteered to do what 1 could to aid the cause of preparedness. My fist job, under the auspices of | the National Security league, was a canvass of a New Jeraey town in an effort to obtain signatures 1o u pet tion urging upon Congress the pas. | sage of such u bill. Duving that can- | vass I learned a great deal about the | whys of the anti.preparedness, anti Army, anti-Navy, anti-National De fense people. No matter how high sounding. how holy, how pure. how | peace loving, how aitruistic their mo. | tives seem, the noise they really make is of quite a different timbre. With- out one exception those who refused to sign my petition did so with a Ger- man accent or with the admission that they did not consider the United States sufficlently important to go to war for, or because they had son: who would. in case of the draft, be taken for soldiers. The first was th noise of a traitor; the second, ditto, and the third, a cowars And when I remonstrated they in-lone.sixth an acre to a sheep to variably asked me these questiona: ‘Have vou seen with vour own eyes what war is?" “Have you a son?” To both of these I had to answer the negative, whereupon [ was v rudely ordered to cease polluting the s with my vile suggestions. | Nine vears have gone by and once more I rajse my voice on behalf of the | youth of our land, on behalf of my | country’s wecurity. This time I ean | answer the questions of traitors and | in the affirmative. 1 saw | war with my own eves, saw the; slaughter, the horror, the ruin, and; for that reason | urge that we "'fl)ni our vouth in the military arte that | there may never he a recurrence of such & calamity. I have two sons and for that reason | their | I desire military training in chool curriculum. 1 desire it because I know that there is no other training that so quickly eor so thoroughly teaches obedience, respect, self-reli- ance, self-restraint, precision, loyalty, democracy—manhood, to say nothing he physical development it accom- own two sons, of course. are safe. Whether the pernicious influ- ences succeed or not, my own two shall have their military training. But I am speaking for the sons of others, of those who have not had the oppor- tunities for going to the bottom of this matter as I have had them, who may not be arewsed in time to prevent a thing, which. if it does 1ake place, will result jn a catastrophe. DOROTHY POTTER BENEDICT, PR How Gen. Lord’s Scale of Annuities Would Work | To the Editor of The Star Readers of The Star may he inter ested to learn how the retirement an nuity scale proposed by Gen. Lord of the Budget Bureau would affect the annuities of the Government em. ployes now retired. The following is. therefore, submitted, based upon the retirement roll as it stood June 30 1925, the last fiscal vear: There are now on the 10l 3,689 retired employes, whose av- erage basic salary for the 10 vears next preceding retirement was $1,200. These now receive s maximum an nuity of $720. provided they bave served 30 vears before Under the plan proposed by Gen. Lord he maximum annuity would be raised to $750. or about § cents w day. Sim ilurly, the class whose average sal ary at retivement was $1.000 now re. ceive a maximum of $660. Under the Lord plan they would receive $627. a over 7 cents a day increase. ‘This class. on the date above men- tioned, numbered . The $300 sal ary class receive a maximum annuity of $540. Under the Lord plan thi raised to $362. an increase of a little less than 50 cents a week. This class embraces 508 persons. The 494 em ployes who on retiring had salaries of $800. who now receive a maximum an nuity of $480. have this raised. under etirement | the Lord plan. to $500, an increase of l 1 j cents a day, respect | tirement. | a little less tnan 6 cents a d. The increas of those whose salaries upon retirement were $700 and $600. re- spectively, are even les: The em- ployes retired upon salavies of $1.400 and $1,600, respectively, now receive, 2 maximum, $720 retirement pa 'he maxtmum for these s raised. der the Lord plan, by $155 and 0. respectively, or 43 cents and 7§ ely. These two epresent, in round per cent of retired Substanually two- Federal employes basic salavies of classes, however, numbers. but Federal employe: thirds of retived were retired upon $1.200 or less, according to the re. tirement roll of June 30, 1925, Expressed in percentages, the em- ploye retired upon a basic salary of $800 (who now receives a maximum of $480 a year) receives. under the Lord plan, an increase of 4 per cent. or $20. while the employe retired upon « basic salary of $1.600 (who may now receive A maximum annuity of $720) receives. under this plan, an increase of 39 per cent, or $280. In the Lord plan no provision whatever appears to have been made for voluntary GEORGE A. WARRFE) r—vee Praise for Editorial in Star on Prohibition To the Editor, of The Star: Doubtless you have often heard the sweeping assertion that ‘“‘one cannot get the truth concerning prohibition from the papers, they are all with the wels. I have been a shutin for all the! 801 o Copaper copy, and it wa weeks of the hearing before Congress, or 4 committee thereof. on the Vol steud law. My only infor the subject came from ‘e Sta I failed to read hetween the iines of its report any sympathy for defying wets. 1 have every reason io believe that The S'ar reports were ct, and T believe that this paper ves it the duty of every Amer- ican citizen to obey the law, whether personally convenient or not. My belief is confirmed by the edi- torlal in The Sunday Star under the heading, “A Reign of Terror.” As a long-time reader of The Star, as a loyal law-abiding citizen, as a lover of obedience, as a thorough prohibition- ist and a_member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 1 want to thank you for that editorial, and | for many evidences that you stand for good citizenship and law observ. ance and fair dealing. LOUISA 8. WEIGHTMAN. —— Of Course. From the Martinsburg Evening Journal. One of these times American mag- nates will control the world’s rubber supply. And then, of course, rubber will be cheap. —— e An Amendment. From the Loniaville Courier-Jouranl. Perhaps the modern version of the old uynk' , When in Rome, make & noise ke an evation. | pletion | | i retirement. | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERI Q. What is the Hungarian mone tary unit?—C. J. T A. The new unit in Hungary is the pengo, worth about 17 cents in Amer- ican money. The use of the new cur- rency in accounting. etc., will be obligatory after January 1, 1927. The National Bank of Hungary has pub 1926, and the budget ap- propriations of the government are likewise drawn up in pengos for the year 1926:1927. Postal stamps based on the new currency are to be issued on May 1, 1926, and the currency hitherto in use (Hungarian crowns) will graduslly he exchanged against pengos at the ratio of 12,500 paper crowns to 1 pengo. Hungarian financen are placed on a gold basis #ince the promulgation of the ahove law, ax the ratio of 12.500:1 is not subject 1o fluctuations of the market. ‘The natianal bank ix empowered by law 10 iseue hank notes ik crowns even after January 1. 1977, pending com of the issuance of the new bank notex Q. | have heard that the Indians method of shaving was to burn off the halr. I thix ir L P A. The Bureau of American Kthnol 0gy sayw thal before the introduction of shears, a greased stick was lighted in a fire and nsed to hurn off the hair of an Indian Q. How much room must he allowed for each sheep in pasturage?—C.S.T. ‘The Bureau of Animal Industry sava that the average upon which one can pasture varies from onehalf to ten acres, dependent upon the location of the Jand and particularly the kind of grazing in the vieinity. Q. What denominat Church Around the Corner? A. This ix an Eplscopal Church the real name of which is the Church of the Transfizuration. p ix the Litile ?—T. W. D. Q. Can a Ge he garnisheed? A. The Civil Service Commission says the sal.iyv of a civil service em ploye cannot he garnisheed. name ment clerk’s salary J. R. Q. Why the H. C. A. One explanation is that Mah was the name of a distinguished Chinese military commander who lived cen turies ago. The jonz merelv means general. Gen. Mah commanded troops guarding the remote {rontiers of the empire. He invented the game to give his ldle soldiers something to do to keep them out of mischief. Since his time it has been elaborated some- what. notably by a Chinese lawyer of Ningpo, who added more pieces, making the present total of 136. mah-jong? M Q. Why is air saturated with vapor lighter than air?—E. M. O. A. Water vapor is lighter than dr air. Water vapor in the air displac some of the oxvgen and nitrogen. and therefore makes the air lighter. Q. At the time the Pyramids were built were the Egyptian plains desert or under cultivation?— L. R. R. A. At the time the Pyramids were buil west of Memphis. running parailel with the river was a barren Was Cas | e Agai The country's interest in the de- cision of the court-martial that found Col. Alexander Williams of the Marines guilty in a drinking case centers about the question whether Gen. Smedley Butler was justified in bringing charges against his host at {a social function. | art a discussion on the subjec almost anywhere and one may draw two opinions.” the Bangor Daily Commercial explains. He may learn from one that Gen. Butler had but fone proper course to follow and that 118 commanding officer been derelict in his duty reported the alleged act of an officer under his command. On the other {hand. one is certain to receive the in {formation that Gen. Butler in taking | the action that he did violated social lethics and teok an unnecessary actien s the Hartiord ‘he popular feeling that when Gen. Butler had he not Times sees it | i {thing that was not which did not help cipline of the service. The presump. tion is too strong that a really man in Gen utler’s position as hon- ored guest could have tactfully re. strained o uation I before it scandalous developments. ward look martinet hiding his own fault behind the masquerade of an exaggerated sense of duty. which brought sadly Unforiunate consequences to every interest concerned.” . o necessary sustain the dis ‘The out a similar to duty taking Fidelity The Muncie Star. position, remarks. is an admi and is the first consideration in Army and Navy circles. While some may admire Gen. Butler for having per- formed his duty, even though it was a disagreeable one, many will feel there were other and better ways to do the right thing in that case. standpoint, is primarily for the good of the service. It would seem as if the incident Invelving only one col- onel might have been handled effec- {tively and discreetly without making a national seandal which all in the service regret.” » Commenting uvon Gen. Butler's complaint that many newspapers had not given him a square deal. the Seattle Daily Times declares “the re markable thing about that statement |is that Gen. Butler thinks it is true.” The Seattle paper continues: “Called suddenly from the military service to take charge of Philadelphia’s police department, he became a national figure. His spec a dull day, indeed. that he did not xe notices on the front page. Like many others who have been suddenly thrust into the limelight, he was dazzled. rather than to his unique position. The newspapers of the country were circumspect in _reporting the cour martial proceedings at San Diego. | No doubt he missed the strong tonic 1 of favorable publicity. In his latest role Gen. Butler cuts a sorry figure. Many will believe that, under the circumstances, the marine commander jwonid not have committed a great fault had he failed to give official notice regarding Col. Willlams. Voicing an opinion held by many papers, however, the Topeka Daily Capital declares: “There is more to the Williams case than the question of drinking, and Gen. Butler so_indi- cates by his notice to the under his command that drinking will be suppressed. There are no com- plaints of insubordination in sense among the private soldiers and non-commissioned officers. Drinking among them Is not countenanced; but discipline by the very nature of the organization is subject to special privilege in the Army. As a privi- leged class many officers hold the prohibition law in contempt. and it was the pecnliarly contemptuous con- duct of Col. Williams In this respect that added insolence 10 an offense against the law and against Army regulations.” “What was Gen. Butler to do?" | he would have will always he instituted charges zgainst his host, he did some- and | big avoided the convivial sit- threatened of the thing is that of a cable thing in civilian life The | rule against dvinking, from a military | acular exploits made | He began.to think that the publicity | he law- | s due to his own inherent qualities officers this C ). HASKIN. platenn. The elevation was 100 feet above the level of the Nile and | stretched north and south for many miles hetween the verdant vallev and the Libyan Desert. It was on this | plateau that the 2yramids were built. Q. Who were tne Sabines?—G. O. A. The Sabines were ancient and important people who lived in the mountains northeast of Rome. from the Mons Kiscellus and borders of Plcenum south to the Anio and ¥i- | denae on the Tiber. Th were of Umbro-Sabellian stock. allied to the Oscane, and the Samnites were their | descendants. Reate (Rieti) was their chlef town. The “rape of the Sahine women” in the légendary history of | Rome is famous. ‘The Sabini were finally subjugated by the Romans un- | der M. Cirfus Dentatus (ci 200 B. C.). | They r ed the lloman franchise in 268, and after the Social War of 90 he- ame amalgamated with the Romans. Q. What was the largest silver nug- get ever found?- M. F. . | ".A. A mass or nugget of almost pure | silver weighing %00 pounds was found | in_Peru, and it i claimed thai one of | 2700 pounds was extracted from a | mine in Mexico. | @ what he is the most valuahle owl | to farmers>—A. M. N A. The barn owl is generally so re garded because it lives almost entire | Iy upon the small rodents so injurious | to crops. Thie is said to be especially true in the South, where it subsists on the cotton rat and_th man® harmful mice, and in the West. where | it catches gophers, ground quirrels | and rabbits. ! Q. Who composed the song Back to Erin"?—L. O | A, Mre. Charlotte Alington Barn ard, an English composer of songs and allads nunder the pseundonym “Claribel,” who was born in 1830 and died in 1869, “ streteh™? T, T A. The nec streich comes “Come makes 2 ity W hat person or desire 1o hecause certain parts of the hody are noi receiving the proper amount of blood eireulation and stretching is an instinctive actiny to accelerate ihe cirenlation. Q | milk Does thunder sour?-—T. C. D. A. It does not. However, milk will sour in any kind of warm and meist temperature, and hecause just be | tore and during a thunderstorm the |air is generallv quite warm and moist milk will sour more quickly than under normal conditions. canse Government statistics bring out the fact that the uneducated man has only 1 chance in 800 to attain dis- tinction. There is no reason 1hy an | one should live under such a hand | cap in these days of free schools and free information. This paper sup- ports in Washington. D. C.. the | largest free information bureau in existence. It will procure for you the ansiwer to any question you way ask. Arail yourself of its facilities for your self-improvement. Inclose a 2-cemt stamp for return postage. Address | The "Evening Star Information Bu- reau. Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington. D. nst Williams The Only Course for Butler? aske the Omaha World Heiald. “If he did nothing, then or afterward. on the wings of the wind the story would have spread. The stern and severe champion of the law was neither stern nor severe when a brother of- ficer was the culprit. He who en forced the law so mercilessly against civilians enforced it not at all against an officer of the military service. What would the country have thought? How much lonzer would Gen. Butier himself have heen per- mitted to hold up his head? His fault was in making that initlal slicht com- promise with lawlessness and breach of discipline—at the time the first cocktail was served.’ * ox ok ok ‘The Bay City Times Tribune adds that “if he had not made the com plaint he would have heen placed in the position of giving silent approval to practices ta which he has heen na tionally opposed.” while the Los Angeles Express holds that he “per- formed bravely a disagreeahle dutv | “Gen. Butler was placed ‘n an un | enviable position.” ebserve< ihe As- | bury Park Press. “but did his Juty a< [ e saw it. He did it because he saw that his own prestige as an officer | would suffer and the general toue of the American ‘military sertics decline, if action were not taker Replying to the eritics of Gen. But ler, the Winona Repuolicin Heraid complains that “we have social Jaw )in\'oked against civil and military law: an infraction of the social cods |is regarded as more xerious than an intraction of the law Hf the 'and and of a soldier's oath. arev his i ciple to its logical limit i | the Winona paper. “aml we cuse any_crime in the civil or military code.” The Janesville Czzette also say Perhaps it is 102 much to ex pect that the verdict will have a ral utary effect on drinkinz in the Marines, Army or Navyv. hut it s notice to the public that it 2 man in the service does get iniaxicated he is likely to face disgr Drinking is no longer a game. It is an offense.” The Jacksen Citizen Patriot goes fur- and asserts that the military & estahlished a precedent of which Congress and the administra. tlon will do well to take note.* e {Dr. James Craik Was Not Medical Head of Army To the Editor of The Star: In an article concerning the old cemetery at Alexandria, appearing in The Sunday Star. statements are made to the effect that Dr. James | Craik was at the head of the medical 'department of the Continental Army. and \hat he held a position equiva- ent to that of the surgeon zeneral of ‘Ih' present Arm. This is an e sDr. James Craik an excellent man. one of that numerous band of Scotsmen whe gave such great service during the | Revolution: but he was never at the head of the medical department. When the medical department of the Continental Army was reorgan ized October 6, 1780, Washington rec- ommended Dr. John Cochran and Dr. | lames Craik (two Scots) for the high st plac At that time Dr. William Shippen was re-elected (hy Congress) to he medical director: Dr. Cochran. | chief physician and surgeen. and Dr. “raik to be one of three (first) chief hospital surgeons Early in January. 1781. Dr. Shippen resigned; Dr. Cochran then became medical director. and Dr. Craik be. came chief physician and surgeon This status obtained until the end & the war. Tt afterward developed that Dr. Cochran himself had recommens. ed to the Congress that Dr. Craik he given first place. When war with France seemed im- minent in 1798 Dr. Craik was made | physician general of the Army, and. |as is generally known. he was called in Washington's last fllness. I do not desire to detract from the |honor justly due Dr. James Cralk, {but only to set the facts down right. T trust his last vesting place may be more properly preserved. LOUIS C. DUNCAN, M. B.