Evening Star Newspaper, May 3, 1926, Page 8

THE » With Sunday Morning Editios WASHINGTON, D. C. May 3, 1928 THEODORE w. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Ofice nd Pennavivania Ave Office: 110 Tast 42nd St Tower Buildinz. Revent St., Londs 11th st New York hicago Offies European Office: 145 4l with the is delivered by ¢ s at’ 60 cents per mont ts per month: Sunday ém 4 Orders may be sent by mail or tslaphone Main 6000 ec at the end of eac ayable in 45 cen ‘month Advance. nia. 00: 1 mo.. 75 00 1 mo. 1 mo) d Canada. 00: 1 mo. S800° 1 mo. $4.00: 1 mo., dailv only unday only i s 1yr Member of the Associated Press. vely entitled 1 newe dis. ot otherwise crea alco {he loral news rizhts of publication ches herein are also reserved. tshed herein. o1 epecial dispa A Dangerous Road. Uis to be wondered if th of the farmer” who ave pushing for passage by the Haugen hill, providing a Government subsidy to agriculture and Government price- fixing for farm products, fully realize the per road on which they ave set They are telling the 1 v eed profits and Government-assured sperity. It has no such destination! T would lead the farmer through a morass of disappointed hopes to certal ster at the end » ills far worse than those his bad rs would have him fly from. Haugen bill is utterly un-Amer- its conception, and it is im- wssible to believe that the average American farmer, the most sturdy of ndividualists, has any wish that he should be given by legislation an un- fair advantage over his fellow citizens. Tt would be bad enough and objegtion- nble enough and dangerous enough it i+ was proposed that the Government <hould establish maximum as well as minimum prices for farm products, but there is no such proposal in the Haugen bill. Tt is intended to take $575,000,000 out of the public Treas- ury, money derived from taxes levied upon all the people, and use it as a subsidy to assure the farmer a price for his products above that which he would receive under the free opera- tion of the law of supply and demand. 1t is proposed to tax all the consumers of foodstuffs in order that foodstuffs v be made to cost the consumer more than they would otherwise. “The consumer s given absolutely no protection against extortion, except in the conscience of twelve men solely to serve the interests of the producer, and charged with no other responsibility. There is nothing in the Haugen bill to prevent the mem- bers of the proposed Federal Farm Board from using the taxpayers' money to put the prices of agricul- tural products up to any level they ire able to persuade themselves is ir and reasonable.” would be specifically charged o main- tain an American price equal to the world price, plus the measure of pro- tection afforded by the tariff, plus the cost of transportation from other pro- ducing nations. 1If, in the opinion of the board, the minimum price thus established still fell short of being “fair and reasonable” there is provided ends Congress of £ the “armer road no limit as to the altitude to which | T4er subsidized prices might be carried. And, most amazing of all, comes pro- vision in the bill that should the arti- ficial price structure threaten to break down under its own weight, the Presi- dent may declare an embargo on food- | P¢®! stuffs to prevent importations from abroad. How long do proponents of the Haugen bill suppose the American people would endure such a one-sided arrangement? Consumers of any given agricultural product outnumber the producers of it from five to twenty to one. These consumers are today ap- parently almost without spokesmen in Congress. But once they discover themselves to be the victims of such an quickly become articulate, not to say | vociferous. Once the Government enters upo: 1 leads to guar- | ollection is made Ly | it { this they do not live in W EVENING STAR|the hall nor is there a report of what happened to the base fellows when their wives heard of the affair. It was a large meeting in the Mc- Millin Academic Theater of Columbia University, New York. The discus- sion was of woman’s contribution to politics and her capacity as a poli- tician. Miss Sarah Schuyler Butler, vice chairman of the Republican State committee of New York, and daughter of Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, presi- dent of Columbla University, presided. Mrs. Ienry Moksowitz, chairman of the Democratic publicity committee, was the speaker who made the horrid allegation. According to the report “brought exclamations of amaze- ment and indignation from the audi- ence.” 1t is also reported that “There was applause from the men in the audience following her assertion.” , With a sympathetic eye the slanderaus o) Wwords of Mrs. Moksowitz, but it can ] not be that registered in the Wash- ington directory are any men who would show thelr lack of admiration for the ladies by clapping hands and stampins on the floor in jubllation at a staterent So unjust, so unreason- able, so baseless, as that made by this New Yok lady. If there are men so | Tow in the scale of etiquette as to do ington. Our men belleve that owr women, and even thie women of some other clties, are superior to any creature who wears suspenders and turns to the base ball news before reading the bargain ads. e Great Britain at War. Evidently no hope is felt in Great Britain that the general strike con tingently called for tomorrow by the Trade Union Congress in consequence of failure of a settiement of the miners’ strike will be averted. An of- ficial statement issued by the ministry early this morning calls the action of the Trade Union Congress a challenge to the constitutional right and free- dom of the nation and declares that the government before negotiations for the settlement of the mine strike can be continued must require from the congress both a repudiation of cer- tain overt acts that have already taken place and an immediate uncon- ditional withdrawal of instructions for a general strike. This statement is The board |® general strike is as rogarded by the union officials as an ultimatum and in effect a declaration of war against the unions. The “overt acts” to which the gov- ernment refers in its statement in- clude the refusal of pressmen, stereo- typers and packers in the office of the London Daily Mail to print an edition containing an editorial which they re- garded as inimical to the cause of labor. This the gdvernment charac- terizes as a "gross interference with the freedom of the press.” * As though in acceptance of a chal- lenge, the compositors on three other selected London newspapers today refused to set copy which they considered as harmful to the cause of labor and went to consult with the union chiefs, the papers consequently failing to ap- pear. Arrangements have been made for the Droadcasting of news by radio. The latest reckoning of the number of men immediately to be involved in follows: 410,000 railway men, 300,000 builders, 330,000 transport workers, 60,000 seamen, 120,- 000 printers, 100,000 {ron workers, and 25,000 electricians, a total of 1,345,000 men. The estimated total membership of the unions comprising the Trade Union Congress is 5,000,000. Extraordinary precautions have been taken by the government to maintain Troops have been distributed throughout the country for possible employment, A dispatch today states ‘that 1,000 troops were landed at Liver- pool, though from what point is not mentioned. Hyde Park, in London, has n closed to the public to be used as a food distribution center. Ration- ing rules have already been an- nounced. War-time conditions are be- ing restored. It isas though England had gone back more than a decade. Only the enemy is not beyond the geas. It is, as the unions declare, a state of war and the enemy from the government's point of view is within the realm. B A general strike is threatened in inequitable program they will | Great Britain. There 1s still chance o avert a state of affairs which can undoubtedly create universal discom- n | fort and which, experience has re- the adventure of pricefixing of the | Peatedly shown, can profit nobody. necessities of life, where is a logical stopping place to be found? There has been an insistent demand, which The Fight Against Cancer. Announcement is made that John has been firmly resisted, that the|p pockefeller, §r., has given $135,000 Government should fix the prices of eeal—nat 1o keep pri them down. It has been possible to resist this demand because the great body of Americans do not believe in a soclalistic, or even a paternalistic, Government. But if Congress should Jeunch the Government into paternal- ism for the purpose of keeping prices to the American Society for the Con- s up, buttokeep | ;) o Cancer in its campaign for a million-dollar endowment fund. The purpose of this endowment is to enable this society to follow the world- wide research for the cause and cure of cancer, now regarded as the most dangerous menace to health. The present toll of cancer is estimated at up, the people are not long £oing 0 | 149 09 geaths a. vear in this country, all at paternalism to keep prices down, Are the farmers willing that the Government shall limit, as well as guarantee, their profits? 1f they are not, they will be well advised to do a Jot of hard thinking before they urge their representafives in Congress to for the Haugen bill. o Torest fires rage. Vandals who destrov dogwood blossoms are rep- rehensible, but those whose care- lessness results in wWholesale de- struction of trees are the more im- portant offenders. vote e Superiority of Women. A woman standing among a thou- sand of her sisters said that women are not the intellectual equals of men. The thousand women, almost “to & man,” disagreed with the speaker, and newspaper reporters set it down in their notes that many men at the meeting applauded the irreverent speech. One feels that those men were vain creatures and surely lack- ing in delicacy and decorum. Greatly 1o be admired is the woman who will stand among a. thousand of her sisters and say that women are lower in in telligence than men. and it is hard t vithhold disapproval of the men who applauded such a remark. It is not of which half, it is believed, are pre- ventable. The soclety’s work is main- Iy educational. It assembles the re- sults of research in America and other lands and makes this information available to physicians, nurses and the public, in the hope of leading to earlier treatment with the conse- quence of a greater chance of cure, or at least palliation. B Announcement of the gift from Mr. Rockefeller and the purposes for which the endowment fund is sought includes the following statement: “There is no probability that a med- jcal cure for cancer will be discovered in the near future, and even after such a discovery is made there will remain a vast amount of educational work to do.” This is not a note of pessimism, but rather of conservatism. From time to time cancer “cures” are proclaimed in different parts of the world, and hopes are raised thereby, only to be quenched painfully as these “cures” prove to be ineffective or still doubt- ful. Yet belief prevails that the spe- cific cause of this disease will soon be found and that with the discovery of the cause will come, if not a direct cure, at least a means of treatment | erhaps a method of immuniZation. Never before has there been such | There may be men who could read | o check the malignant growth and | !esty,” said Uncle Iiben, | estimated by cancer as is now being conducted m' practically every country in the world. are working In laboratories along this line. Steadily the fleld is being nar- rowed. Experiments are eliminating possibilities and it cannot be doubted that eventually the mystery will be solved. Meanwhile the work of the American Society for the Control of Cancer is of the utmost importance, for It is serving to arouse people to the necessity of having immediate at- tention whenever suspicious condi- tions app If it is true, as It is officials of this soclety, that half of the 100,000 annual deaths in this country are preventable, then indeed is the work of education which it is conducting one of the greatest importance in America today. A Condor Egg. Mrs. Californfa Condor has laid an egg valued at $730. She lives at the Washington Zoo, which place she has for the last twenty years. time she has laid four other eggs; three of these she broke accidentally, and the fourth proved unfertile. This latest egg il be turned over to the care of an ordinary hen for hatching and Smith. sonfan scientists are hop.ful that small and healthy condor chick will take its place beside the mother. It is because of the rarity of the condor that this latest contribution is valued so highly. With the exception of three birds of this species at the Zoo here, there is only one other in captivity, u small specimen in the Los Angeles Zoo. Not more than one hundred are believed 1o be living in a wild state in Southern and Lower California. And so0 both the animal and the hu- man world will watch with interest the experiment on the Your-inch long white egg of this almost extinct bird. 1f the hen is successful in its extraordinary task the chick will be nursed with all the care for a new-born babe. It will be coddled and given every luxury in the Zoo. In the meantime Mrs. Con- dor is undoubtedly wondering what has become of her newest egg. She, however, will probably be much grat- ifled if the experiment is a success, as she will then be unique in the annals of Zoo residents—the first and only mother of a condor chick n eaptivi CIELE ar, 5. Paris telephones cost as much for the wrong number as for the right one. This places an additional pen- alty on the visitor whose French pronunciation is not accurate, How- ever, no generous American tourist s likely to complain of the slight extra tribute thus required. ———————— Pigs are not permitted by police regulations to figure in restaurant window disp! Yet it might be an advantage if all food served to lunch patrons could be reared with piti- less publicity in full view of the spectators. v Rediscovery of the North Pole re- mains a fascinating enterprise. The time is still far distant when the Arctic regions will be provided with comfortable convevances and reliable road maps, e The Prince of Wales occasionally falls off a horse; which is a matter of small importance so long as he does not insfst on jeopardizing the family fortune by betting on his own mount, ) Governmental expenditures may require an increase of taxes. The law-abiding citizen need not feel the burden if the bootlegger can be compelled to pay what he owes. rsoo s SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER.JOHNSON The Amateur Era. The dear old Public as of yore All patiently endures The demonstrations various Of eager “amachoors.” In politics Jedge Waxem spouts. In art Miss Miggs secures Attention—and we say, “Be kind, They're only ‘amachoors.’ " The legislator and the judge Our sympathy still lures. For some who did the best they could Proved only amachoors. Limitation. “T can't see the point of the inves. tigation you conducted. “You expected to get too far,” an- swered Senator Sorghum. ‘The only point you're now supposed to reach in an investigation is the interroga- tion point.” Difference in Terms. Distinctions wide attention win. ‘There is no courteous middle. The “artist” plays the violin. ‘The roughneck plays the fiddle. Jud Tunkins says a loafer always has to work harder apologizin' to somebody or another than he'd have to work at a regular job. In the Interest of Novelty. It's novelty that we admire. The dancer famed of vore, Instead of taking off attire, May have to put on more. Benefit of Education. “How is your boy Josh getting on at school?” “First rate,” answered Farmer Corntossel. “Every time he comes home he seems more willin’ to admit that mebbe there are a few things in the world he doesn’t know all about.” He Who Pays and Pays. The ultimate consumer Is anxious as can be, For every market rumor Is labeled “C. O. D.” Suspiclous Accumulation. “Egyptologists have discovered some wonderful things.” replied the gloomy citizen. “But the idle magnificence of those tombs makes the whole exploration look to me like a long overdue graft investigation.” “A man dat brags about his hon- sounds like he had been givin' sumebody grounds recorded that they were driven fromlan intensive research for the cause of | for suspicion.” 1 Hundreds of men and women | ONDAY, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Two men in white aprons came out of the rear of the wholesale house, escorting a bleating calf. One grabbed the animal by the neck, the other by its tail, and between them they slung it into a wagon at the curb, Then one man, evidently not satls- fled with putting the weight of the calt upon its appendage, deliberately struck the creature on the shoulders, knocking it off its legs upon the floor of the wagon, where it lay as if afraid to get up. The man turned belligerently toward spectators, as if to say, “Well, what are you going to do about it?” One woman started to take a hand in the proceedings, but was restrained by her companion, 'who said, “What can we say to such preliminary cruelty, when we achieve the ultimate cruelty by eating the poor little cuss?”’ Unnecessary cruelty, man toward man, man toward beast, when will you end? Not, perhaps, until that more perfect day of which the poets of all races have sung, and toward which the saints have pointed. Anger and cruelty are near ullied, yet there ar essential differences. The former is often spoken of as a distinetly animal trait, a residue in man of his primal ancestry. The lat- ter wmay be present without the former. It may be pointed out, however, that the animals show anger only when thwarted or teased, whereas men often are angry over nothing at all. As for cruelty, the animals “know not what they do,” whereas many men are mean, vindictive and cruel out of sheer wantonness, seemingly Wherefore it comes about that we have never been able to excuse our own fits of anger hy pointing to the animals. What with them is natural, with us is shameful. The works of the ancient sages are full of remonstrances against this true sin, the lack of which, if man could once conquer it, would do more toward bringing about universal peace than all the pacts ever signed. Greek and Roman authors, as well as the writers of the Habrew scripts, vied with one another in classing hu- man anger as pernicious, not only to the welfare of nations, but also to the interest of the fndividual. Plutarch, father of history, spoke out strongly on the subject. Those inter- ested are referred to his ‘'Morals,” which may be secured in several good translations. A handy volume is that in the Everyman edition. Seneca, best of Roman writers, has several pertinent thoughts upon the subject. The aphorisms of the Bible on anger are many and well put, and are more familiar to most readers, Wise and true savings, however, do not end evils. If they did, the world would be a better place to live in today than it is, for the sins of human na- ture have always been recognized, and have always been inveighed against. It is not for want of talking and writ- ing that men wage unnecessary wars today, that cruelty exists on every hand, that otherwise good fathers work' themselves into rages upon the slightest provocation, that children still delight in torturing animals. Seemingly these traits arg inherent in human nature. With all our prog- ress—and it is rge—the essential human traits remain much the same. Mass thought has forced “the fear of God” into thousands of hearts, but at bottom they are as evil as ever. ‘What is to be done about it? In the individual conscience of man { back | Then it has its place. lles the solution. There alone can any- thing be done about it. It is to reach this individual conscience that Isaiah wrote almost the finest poetry in the Bible. It was to reach it that Jesus lived and died. The great and good of all races and times have recognized this fundamen- tal defect in human nature. Tt is in- teresting to speculate on what im- proved condition the race would find itself today if it had extirpated anger. In the first place, the world un- doubtedly would be a happler place to live in for literally millions of people. There would be no angry fathers, no harassed, petulant mothers, few screaming children. In industrial and business fields there would be more and better work done, because employes would not have to save part of their strength and ability to meet the attacks of out-of- humor employers and others in po- sitions of authority. With all these individual angers wiped out, it must not be forgotten that the causes of many of them would equally vanish. The ill-natured store clerk, the mean employe, the worker that takes every advantage of the ab- sence of the “boss” to “take it out” on some customer—these, too, would be of the darkened past. Without the sudden, blinding im- pulses to anger which have made so much misery and woe in the past, the world would find that it has gone a long way toward taking wars less liable, and individual life safer and happler. Anger, in all its forms of meanness, rage, fury, irascibility, ire, has caused more woe in the world than alcohol, even. The orrows in its crown are more than seven, and its paths are ways of uneasiness and terror Aok ko The practical thinker always gets to the point- from which he ted—the individual. he individual is the center to which all matters tend. ,He is at once the problem and fts solution. FHe is the effect and the cause, also the o lution and the end. If anger, per se, is ever to be wiped off the human slate, it must be eradi- cated one by one, one Ly one, rather than by the adoption of unanimous resolutions, acts of legislation, or other ipse_dixit. We would say nothing, in all this, against righteous anger. This has its place, as demonstrated by the Man of Nazareth. when he drove the money- changers out of the temple. There are times and occasions when anger must well in the human heart. Even the Cre- ater has been pictured at times as a Being of wrath. It seems essential, in the make-up of created things, that some anger must enter. This need not militate, however, against our general thesis, nor the argument for the individual fighting the good fight against this foe to man's happiness. The fndividual must resist. The forces of easy tolerance must be fought to a standstill. In this as in other affairs, there are not wanting apologists to uphold the “easiest way.” These are the apostles of retrogression. Civilization is a forward and upward movement, ‘not | t an hour, not for just a day, | just a year, but always.” by every one striving the best he can will it be possible for all of us to get to where we would go. The | individual s, after all, the true and lonly solution of life's problems. st Chauncey Depew’s Good Cheer Again Warms Editors’ Hearts Chauncey M. Depew has had an- other birthday—his ninety-second— and again his friends the editors ar commending to their readers the w dom and good cheer radiating from the veteran’s anniversary jinterview. “At 92 Mr. Depew is able to survey the world secrenely and declare that its health is good, like his own,” says the Manchester Union. “We have So much of the other sort of thing, so much of the insistence that everything is going to the demnition howwows, so much walling that the clouds are getting thicker and thicker, that the cheeriness of this veteran is all the more refreshing. ©Other people may despair of the republic, but not this highly qualified server. As he nears his century mark, he still finds it a good world and a’ mighty good coun- g Mr. Depew’s personal qualities cause the Little Rock Arkansas Democrat to describe him as “an American in- stitution, the warp and the woof of our social and commercial fabric. Other natlons have their heroes,” continues the Democrat, “but we can recall none who have won the esteem of the peo- ple and held it through the hours of both peace and peril as has Chauncey Depew.” The Louisville Herald Iso, after referring to the fact e has spent many years close to the powerful of the earth.” declares that “with the single exception of Dr. Fliot of Harvard, he has been ‘promi- nent’ for a longer period than any other living American.” * ok ok K The famous old gentleman's advice to those who would rival him in age is received with interest. “To follow Depew is to live long,” remarks the Charlotte Observer, “but one must ad- Just himself to strict regulations, some of which are hard of accomplishment to the average man. First is the admonition to ‘think about cheerful things.’ That is not so hard. It is also easy to be an optimist, bat it is ‘not to be angry Then, one should laugh always and make others laugh, and the searcher after long life should ‘pick out his own grandparents It is a good prescription to ‘cultivate the young people’ and to be ‘moderate in all things.” Depew gives a simple pre- scription in dieting. If you find your diet is wrong, ‘give up the thing you like best, for that's the thing you eat most of.’ And if Depew had rounded out his advice with a state- ment that the dining table sends more people to the graveyard than the auto- mobile does, he would have had it down about right.” * kK K Commenting on the injunction to be moderate, the Salt Lake Deseret News says: “He has had ample oc- casion to put this doctrine to the test. Few men, perhaps, have attended more social functions than he; few have been brought face to face with greater temptation to eat and drink to excess, vet through it all he has exercised the wisdom of moderation.” The New Orleans Tribune also views the advice in favor of moderation as the feature of the ‘‘customary birth- day interview,” and adds: “Why, it seems only a few months since Chauncey Depew had a birthday. Did you think that as you read the an- nouncement? Thousands did. 1f vou did, if these annual interviews seem to appear every few months, then that is a sign that you, as well ag Chauncey, are growing old.” ‘With commendation for the nonage- narfan as one “who can either take it or leave it alone,” the Omaha World Herald winds up its eulogy with “In practicing his policy of moderation and with a firm reliance in God, the United States, the Republican party, the tariff and the World Court, he_hopes | and expects still to be here dispensing the pearls of a genial and optimistic philosophy at the age of 100.” * ok ok ok Mr. Depew's statement that he thinks his age is due to the fact that he has “been on gocd terms with hu- mankind” and has ‘‘made strenuou efforts to be calm, to be tranquil’ that he “has cultivated people” all his life because he “liked them,” is quoted by the Christian Science Mon- itor, with the suggestion that “‘perhaps the inquisitive investigator may find to his long career. The Depew record is cited by the Monitor— “United States Senator, active for three-quarters of a century in the councils of his political party, head of a great raflroad corporation, which he still serves as chairman of its board of directors,” and a leader in civic affairs. ‘The Boston Transcript finds that his statement he has been on good terms with humankind means that human- kind has n on good terms with him; he has had a sunny voyage—a good time.” Mr. Depew’s rule that “no young man starting out in life can afford to ignore religion unless he wishes to be a failure,” is especially commended by the Portsmouth Star. His suggestion that “it is much worse to rust away than to drop away'" is much discussed, especially his belief that too many Jjudges retire at the age of 70. “He is declares the Buffalo Evening ‘'salvation is to be found in orward, not backward. When a man ceases to issue promissory notes against tomorrow’s performance, he is done for.” e No Longer a Hick Town From the Bay City Times-Tribune. The city hall in Detroit will never carry a “Welcome™ sign again. At the age of 225 years Detroit has reached a point where it belleves it can get away from hick town stuff. In this grave announcement there is ample food for regret. Who of us ever went to Detroit who has not had flaunted before him that soul-stirring word suspended from the front of the city’s pile of soot-colored stone? For years it has sent the blood tin- gling in one’s veins. It was as much of a landmark as the city hall itself. It gave one the feeling that his pres- ence in the City of Straits was offi- cially acknowledged. He was made to feel that he was no trespasser, no transitory wisp of uncertainty, no mean denizen of the backwoods, but a real, honest-to-goodness citizen of the great peninsylared State, who, coming to the metropolis, felt as if the glad hand of the community had been offi- cially extended to him; as if the keys of the city had been placed in his hip pocket. Those days are gone forever. The community greeting of cordiality is no more. Detroit has grown so volumi- nous and holds its head €0 high that guests from up-State will no longer occupy a space in her facial lamps. Oh, well, what we will miss in De- troit, we will find in Hamtramck or Springwells, so what's the dift? rase— The Inevitable. From the Waterbury Republican, Every time our American ego gets on the scent of higher things some- body draws a Red Herrin across the trail. ——— o Possible Solution. From the Omaha World Herald. But after all this fuss about it, perhaps they couldn't give Tacnae Arica away if they tried. ot The Dean’s Advice. From the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. The dean of a New England wom an’s college who urged the girls to look forward to mairiage must have thought her charges singularly um- {mindful of the inclination of the sex. MAY Restore Their Pay to Veteran Retired Officers To the Editor of The Star: The military committee of the House has favorably reported H. R. 5840, which aims to restore to the older offl- cers of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard, retired before tho 1st of July, 1922, the retired pay prom- Ised them by the act of July 15, 1870, That act of 1870 is the basic law governing the pay of retired officers of the services mentioned; it is a posi- tive assurance that they will receive 76 per cent of the pay of their rank. In the act of June 10, 19: a limit- ing clause was inserted, the effect of which was to deprive the older officers retired prior to July 1, 1822, of the full compensation promised them by the act of 1870. The following cases illustrate its effect: About a year ago there passed away a retired lieutenant colonel of the Army, the last survivor of the Fort Sumter garrison that bore the hrunt of the first attack on the Union. At that time he was an enlisted man, but he won a commission during the war. At the end of the war he was selected to return to Jort Sumter and restore the Stars and Stripes where they had flown more than four years before. During the last three years of his life he received 59 per cent of the pay of his rank instead of the 75 per cent promised him by the law cited. There is now living In New York a captain of the Coast Guard, whose age is fourscore, an invalld and conflned to his room, and who as a lad entered the Civil War and served from '63 to '65. lLater he was commissioned in the Coast Guard and on that morning in May, 1898, he electrified our Nation by that heroic action at Cardenas, Cuba. The Winslow was aground and helpless, but in the fuce of a heavy fire from the Spanish batteries that captain of the Coast Guard went in and passed a line to the Winslow—the line parted, the captain then backed in and passed another line. Lieut. Bag] was killed, but the Winslow was towed to safety. That Coast Guard captain was awarded a gold medal for “intrepid and heroic gal- lantry.” and is the one and only offl- cer who received the thanks of Con- gress during the Spanish-American War. Vor the past four years his re- ward has been the receipt of a retired pay of 62 per cent of his rank instead of the per cent promised him by law. The above is a brief portion of the captain's record. What is the record of Congress” The Fifty-sixth Con- gress si The Sixty him of onesixth of the pay of his rank, The Senate in the Sixty-eighth Congress unanimously passed a bill to remove that discrimination; the House | military committee twice favorably re- ported that bill, but the leaders of the House were too busy with politics to give a few moments to the bill and permit it to come up for a vote. The deprivation imposed on the two offl- | cers above mentioned has enabled our Treasury to save about $4,000. Will the leaders of the House in the Sixty- ninth Congress permit this bill to come up for a vote or must the dep- rivation continue? l.et us hope for early favorable action. P. W. THOMPSON. ———————— Campbell Is Town With Church-Going Record. To the Editor of The Star: Under date of April 1926 you carried a news item under the head- ing. “A Religious Town.” Some good friend of Cape Girardeau, who lives in Chicago, read the item and has sent it to me. The only mistake that I notice in the article is that it says “Cape Girar- deau” instead of ‘“Campbell, Mo."” We are proud of the distinction we have won, but, are not satisfled with the population. which the article ac< credits us with having. Cape Girar- deau has -a population of bewween 17.000 and 18,000, and, we are not claiming that all but 90 people in Cape Girardeau went to church last Sunday. but we do claim that a goodly number of the 17,000 or 18,000 1 are not t ng to take the credit from Campbell, Mo., to whom such credit is due. JAS. A. BARKS, Mayor. o R;ll Estate Bubbles. From the Atlantic City Evening Union. Charles Ponzi, known as the great “financial wizard,” until his $5,000,000 bubble. collapsed in 1920, has been sentenced to one year in the Florida penitentiary at hard labor for fraud- ulent manipulation of real estate. A guarantee of 200 per cent profit on the sale of lots was the bait used by Ponzi to catch the suckers. “The way of the transgressor is hard,” as Ponzi will likely find out in | the Florida jail. Ponzi’s sad plight should serve as a warning to others who might con- template similar fake land schemes in Florida or other parts of the country. Atlantic City has been remarkably fortunate in this respect. Tt has always been free of unprincipled real estate operators. Fake schemers have never been tolerated. They have known better than to come here. Real estate operations here are run on a sound basis. A close watch has been kept on newcomers who open up real estate offices. Any scheme to tnulct the people of their money on false promises would be nipped in the bud. Ponzi made the same mistake other gamblers and plungers have made. He lost out in New England and was sentenced to jail. He tried to make good his thefts by another gambling steal. Men often embezzle from‘their employer's money in some gamble which plunges them deeper in debt and lands them in jail. No Mussolini for the United States. From the Oklahoma City Times. Dictatorship for America is forecast by Dr. Shailer Mathews, if the people continue to look to the Federal gov- ernment for the solution of local prob- lems. Some Mussolini will gain con- trol of our Government, he fears, unless this centralization is checked. This grouping of power and authority lends itself to one-man rule; to a despotism that might even be de- manded by many whose faith is shaken by the bungling of representa- tive government. Tt need not be said that the warning is wasted, and yet the development suggested is unlikely. Dr. Mathews’ admonition is but a part of growing propaganda against centralization. When even a Republican President warns against a top-heavy Federal machine, we may expect the pendulum to swing the other way. The Demo- cratic party takes increasing interest in its basic tenet of State rights, and the last proposed amendment to the Constitution was defeated decisively, largely because it abrogated the sove: eignty of States. The Dyer lynchihg bill has failed of passage for similar reasons. These are hopeful signs. Nor is this Nation in the straits that made Italy desperate and gave fascism its opportunity. Faulty as our Gov- ernment is, widespread prosperity modifies the voice of protest. en, too, American tradition and American conceit are against autocracy; each man feels qualified and entitled to a voice in government, and this would prove no health resort for dictators. S R S S The Traffic Cop’s Function. From the Glendale Evening News. One wonders at times if the cop is placed at the intersection as & warn- ing or a witness, ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. How are the police apportioned in the larger cities”’—B. D. . A. New York City has a daily popu- lation of 7,000,000, and on_this basis has one guard for every 556 person In London there is one for every 3 in Rome, one for 129; in Berlin, one for 225, and in Parls, one for every 276 persons. Q. How old is Ethel Barrymore?— K. 0. M. A. Miss Barrymore was born August 15, 1879, in Philadelphia. Q. Where is the original copy of the Constitution?—A. S. S. A. On the second floor of the Li- brary of Congress the originals of the Constitution of the United Statesand of the Declaration of Independence are on permanent exhibition. Q. What animal has no gall”—N. (G A. The Smithsonian Institution sa: that the deer is not affected by poisons and this apparently indicates that it has no gall. Q. How did the custom of touching or clinking glasses when drinking originate?—M. C. D. A. Roman gladiators were accuston- ed to drink a glass of wine before fighting. Two glasses of wine were brought by friends of one or the other gladiator, and to guard against treach- ery through the poisoning of the wine in one of the glasses the gladiators would pour the wine from one glass into the other until it was thoroughly mixed. Later it became a mere cus- tom to show a friendly spirit between aged the Santa Maria, supplied twa vessels and contributed a considerab's portion of the funds necessary for their equipment and maintenance. Q. At what time must one go 1o post office to get a money order W. H. H. A. Money orders are issued betwee the hours of 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. and a. such other times as it may be cor venient to the postmaster. Q Why is Starved Rock so called” {—R. R. 8. A. ‘Starved Rock is a high indented pinnacle between Utica and Ottawa, TIl. Its name indicates the fate of the last of the Illini Indians who were besieged by the Iroquois Indians unti! their supplies gave out. Q. How can one obtain the glos appearance on chocolate candy” E. P. A. Chocolates derive their glossy appearance by careful control of their dipping temperature (about 80° Fah- renheit) and quick cooling at 50° to 65° Fahrenheit in a relatively dry atmosphere. 1s there much fu culture in the South?— A. While 95 per cent of Iowa’s tota area is devoted to cultivated fields only 23 per cent of Virginia is so used: 21 per cent of North Carolina; 30 per | cent of South Carolina; 33 per cent of Georgia; 5 per cent of Florida. o | cent of Alabama: 22 per cent of Mis: sippi; 20 per cent of Arkansas; 28 pe | cent of Tennessee, and 15 per cent of e for agri persons drinking together, and when | the danger of poisoned wine was p: t | the actual act of pouring the wine from one glass to another was changed to merely touching the glasses to. gether. Q. been practiced?— I A. The folly of growing the same crop on the same land for several successive vears was noted by the How long has rotation of crops ¢ A Romans, but the. attention was first | called to the value of crop rotations n 1777 in a treatise by Dickson of Edinburgh, Scotland Q. In Weather Bureau what does it mean when the amount of precipitation, rain or snow, ;@un"':l hours is recorded as A. Precipitation of less than 0.005 of an inch is recorded as means “trace.” * which Q. What is the difference an oboe and a. bassoon” . A. The bassoon is a wooden reed instrument that forms the natural bass to the oboe. serving as a con- tinuation of its scale downward. It was formerly used as an accompani- ment to_the oboe, but is now suscep- tible of being played solo between Q. How much America cost?—G. A. A Chicago antiquary has ascer- tained that the famous first voyage of Columbus cost only 36,000 pesetas, or $7,000 in the terms of our present cur- rency. Isabella did not bear the whole or even the greater part of the ex- pense. Martin and Vicente Pinzon, who respectively commanded the Pinta and the Nina while Columbus man- the discovery of reports, | dast of the four . Bosworth. writing in the Life of Jesus, The Gospel according to Mark generally thought to be the oldest o our four gospels.” old | Q. Why do we refer to the northern regio Arctic™—C, A. M. A. The word Arctic is derived from the Greek “Arktos.” a bear, the refer ence being 1o the constellation he Great Bear. Q. What does the t power” mean’—B. P’ A. It refers to the theory that no | state or group of states must be allowed to become o strong as to menace the liberties of other states In accordance with this principle the countries of Europe, especially in the seventeenth and efghteenth centuries | ranged themselves into two opposing ie Triple Entente France and Russia ar | iple Alliance of Germany tria and Italy 'm “balance of | The answers to questions printed | here eacl. day are specimens picked | from the mass of inquiries handled by the great information. bureaw main- tained by The Evening Star in Was) ington, . C. This valuable service for the free use of the public. Ask any question of fact you may want to know, and you will get an immedi reply. Write plainly, inclose 2 cents in stamps for retura postage and ad dress The Evening Star Informatio Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC “Self-government in Business” is to be the basic subject of the four teenth annual meeting of the Cham- ber of Commerce of the United States in Washington from May 10 to 13. The captains of trade and finance will try to arrive at some definition of the Government’s position iwith re- gard to regulation of business. the relation between the States and the Federal Government and local and State taxation and budgeting. The trend of consolidation in American business is also to receive extended consideration. Names of country- wide fame figure on the list of those who will tackle these big and burn- | ing lssues. They include lerbert Hoover, Edwin T. Meredith, Julius H. Barnes, Gov. Albert C. Ritchie, Dr. Jullus. Klein, Fred I. Kent and John W. O'Leary. president of the national chamber. The woes of the farmer will be sympathetically considered at the forthcoming conclave of big busi- ness. “The Agricultural Qutlook, and What of the Corn Belt?” is one of the agenda topics. Another is entitled, “Industry’s Stake in Co-operative Marketing." : %ok ¥ ‘When the Shoreham Hotel, cele- brated Washington caravansary, closes its doors June 1, one of the Capital's well known - characters will auto- matically retire from business. He's a barber named Ralph Young, who has been cutting the hair, trimming the whiskers and shaving the chins of national and international digni- taries in the basement of the Shore- ham for more than 30 years. An occa- sional President of the United States, several Vice Presidents, Supreme Court justices, members of Congress galore and a whole dynasty of for- eign ambassadors have passed through Young's hands. Col. Fitz- hugh Lee, on his return from a pre- war inspection of conditions in Cuba. reported to Young before he saw President McKinley. A United States Senator once asked Young, be- tween latherings, for a talking-point in a speech the solon had to deliver that day on the merchant marine. “Say that the United States is the biggest department store in the world and has no delivery wagons,” sug- gested Young. The Senator did so and made a h|:. " . Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler remon- strates with this observer against the use of the words “drys” and “wets” to designate prohibitionists and anti- prohibitionists. The president of Columbia thinks the terms are “yulgar,” and meaningless, besides. The cultured leader of the modifica- tionists evidently is of the opinion that many citizens opposed to the elghteenth amendment are, in their personal habits, dry, and therefore should not be called wet. There are, of course, thousands of teetotalers who are against prohibition on consti- tutional grounds. Senator Edward I. vards, Democratic wet, ‘of New Jersey, comes prominently within that category. Dr. Butler is one of the world’s “acknowledged masters of English. But his protest against the use of “drys” and “wets" probably comes too late to purge the American language of them. They are bright, brief and breezy idloms, and are unmistakably here to stay. Wayne B. Wheeler, grand kleagle of the drys, used both terms frequently dur- ing his impassioned final plea for pro- hibition before the Senate committee. * % x K ‘Washington's most celebrated prac- tical joker—he once wielded great in- fluence in the White House—had great fun the other day witha dignified member of the World War Foreign Debt Commission. The personage in question had a weakness for high so- clety. While one of the big debt settle- ments was before the Senate his hotel- room telephone rang, and a voice simulating that of a certain foreign ambassador agked if the commissioner “and Madame” were free for dinnerat | the embassy the following evening. “Certainly, with pleasure, how charm- ing!” ejaculated the delighted Ameri- can debt-negotiator. “At what Lour does your excellency dine?” he queried. Thereupon the “envoy,” again in un mistakably native accents, said he would have to phone again with that 4 WILLIAM WILE. | information, as the “ambassadress who looks after such details,” was n }z\z hand. A little later, in an apologetic tone, the “plenipotentiary” called up to say that hé was “extraordinarily sorry,” but circumstances now re | quired indefinite postponement of the | dinn At lunch the mext noon th | practical joker and the debt con | missioner met. The former mimicked | the previous day’s conversation in de tail. There was tension, then screams of mirth that echoed through a whole {hotel dining-room. | hets | President Coolidge’s delay in seleet ing a Summer White House is giving rise to lively real estate speculation in a score of communities East and West that have been “mentioned” as his possible choice. Such sharp prac- tices were brought to the attention of the executive offices in Washington that it was decided to shut down on public discussion of the various sites proffered and under consideration Mr. Coolidge has been offered some thing over 100 places ranging all the way from Cape Cod to San Diego. | In one case, after offering the Presi dent a magnificent estate for the Summer, a real estate firm went to the millionaire lessee and told him if he wanted to keep the place he must consent 10 a 23 per cent in crease in rental. Iaving agreed to the increase in rent, the millionaire was notifled that the offer to the President would be withdrawn. An other trick i3 to offer the Pres dent a big estate and then try to rent places in the vicinity at a. high figure to people on the representation that they will be Summer neighbors of Mr. Coolidge. A score of resort places have offered houses purely and simply as an advertising proposition. with the advance knowledge that the President would fiot accept the houses under any circumstances. In some cases Congressmen have aided the ad vertising schemes. But the 1id is now clamped down, so far as the White House is concerned. The President strongly objects to being exploited by real estate “sharks.” although he s glad to consider the bona fide offers of various communities. Republics and political constitu encles alike seem to be ungrateful. Not long ago Senator Samuel M. hortridge, Republican, of Californis by dint of long and finally successful effort, induced Congress and the Presi- dent to assign the people of the Santa Barbara district a_strip of oceanside land known as Golita Beach. It had long been used as a popular recre- ation and bathing resort, but was in danger of passing into private owner- ship. Senator Shortridge cleared for action and secured the passage of : bill which perpetually presery iolita Beach for the people of Santa Barbara. No soomer had “Sam’ con ferred that hoon upon the Sant Barbarians than he received wor that a “Clarke-for-Senator” Club had just been formed in the city! Robert M. Clarke, a_los Angeles judge, is & contestant for Shortridge’s seat in the California primaries. The Sen ator's friends seem entirely confident that he will be renominated and triumphantly re-elected. * % ¥ Death apparently doe: hand of the Ku Klux has a grievance to avenge or an enemy to punish. Last January the friends of Judge Ben B. Lindsey of the Denver Juvenile Court were noti- fled that following the death of the Klan- candidate who opposed him at the bitterly fought 1924 election the contest case instituted against Linde sey had been dismissed. On April 19 the Supreme Court, by a vote of 4 to 3 judges, granted the application of the widow of the Klan candidate to reopen the case. Final action is ex- pected during the Summer. (Copyright, 1926. | . Trimmed. | From the Torento Daily Star. | A atspatel: says that Ra Ma Donald has been trimmed by the b: ber as neatly = clty stockbroker. Brokers a1 | pollticians are not only fellows who get trimmed. not still the Klan when it