Evening Star Newspaper, May 14, 1926, Page 8

2 THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D THE EVENING With Sunday Morninz Kditio WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY...... THFEODORE W. NOYES. The Evening Star Newspaper Company Rusiness Office and Peonesivania Ave Cle 1O Fat 4tud Ofice. Tower By 14 Regent ~t Fngland 1th St New Vo, Chic Buropean Offi-e st The Evening Star. with the Sunday muin Ing adition. 18 dslivared b carriers withis he miy a0 60 cents nec morth dayly only 43 canta per month Sunday only - month. . Orders mav he st by mal o Pelaphane Maim 5000 Cofletion i nrade b carier 3t the snd of cach monih Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Paie and Sunday Lyr. oo | mo Daile onl i Sindas oniy ANl Other States and Canada. Datlr and Sunday S0 1 me Dae anle SR ] Bnmdar only £4.00: 1 mo, i Member of the Associated Press. exclusively ertitie: oot Al news i nat otherwise cred to the nse natehes credited to it Do 1 Thin paper o Diihlished herein " Rf enecial dispatehes herein are also resery e i . Waiting for the Norge. world-wide &t the Concern s moment for the safety of but the air may give up one word at tick which will turu Joy. believed that il e, any elock anxiety to It ihe word will come. his men have s the world by was almost gone for their xafety flight Spitzhergen no word came froi is Amundsen tdened eappearing when hope on his previ poleward from hin When most tn eivilization in several duys. helief that he was lost nniversal he came hack. A heartless trick of fate i were 1o he lost on the Americ tinent after making the traus-polar trip. Europe to America. The prol ahility is that the ship has run into had weather and it have rixen hizher than wind or fog. 11 is a lonely irse the Nourge wi m Point Burrow to Nome is no way to learn what is along the route, but i announced from Nome that all indications point a storm in where the dirigible wax proceeding. The harometer at Nu dvopped more than half an the past twenty-four hours <till falling today. It seems not cisely what course the Norge Point Barrow <hort would bhe above land. bt one published chart of the ronte shows the laid over Arctic Sea along the coaxt from Rarrow 1o Cape Lisburn, then sonth over sea adjacent to the north end of Rering Strait and across the Renard Peninsula to Nome. ¥oz in the Point Barrow neighbo hood was mentioned in the message of the sighting of the Norge, wnd there has been much fog there, uc- g wireless messages from the Wilkina party. It be that an running into a, wide area of fog the Norge cut down speed the was 1t would be the Norge n con may 1o follow and there the weather 1 the the territory inch in to he known pre- would Nowe. the take from [ The way course the Point cor o may to May 14, 1926 | FAiled. unguestivnably, s . Editor i Feivil wa, | | 20 cents earvied 0 the lacal news A1 vights of publication I‘n. n where the strike he thix | Vieginia and the other in > | Purk ne | tunda. Wha feel that the issne of the zenernl |~m|‘p was not actually determined b, The strike means of ent of the miners’ But it was not fought “to The cost of such a fizht would have heen enor- he surrender on Tuesday. g w0 settle ievances. desire finish,” as many have led to veritable Britain heen in o no mous, 10 wisht Hiad Great with no wounds novnal n war, no problem of unemployment, trade and indus- the of heen the serious dislocation « finixh tight score unionism on might have without coercive throw inviting sravest disaste The employ Who huve refused o |reveive their former the jobs on the score of bioken Jracts vepresent the “die-hard T spirit [ thiat carried the countey through the f1a They put {somewhat in jeo that {procedure aund the maintenanee of con That they will titude the I'hey the pick the Ay partial vie | tory has been wou for orderly | stitutional government. | now yield from their present jand accept I strike ‘h-l vestoration of in likely, are conditions zov np an, and that belief that il receiving support fron muent in their refusal to the s be setied to no which ot for matters will is the N save for the conl xtrike % sus ceptible of cement . -oms Fastern National Parks. Yesterday the Senate passed (wo U parks o three stern United States one in srth Caro- Lills, crenting nat sectivns of the 1 One bill estublished two parks lina and Tenn The other estab- lished & park in Kentucky. These will be known ax the Shen the Great Smoky Mountain and the Mawm moth Cave National Parks. They will include expansive areas of country, ¥ sections of rure naturul beuuty wnd scenic wonder, They will preserve them for all Ume for e en ndoah, {ioyment of the people. ally Shenandosh National thus established by the Lill pass- receive the L the yesterday, which must fussent of the House for final enuct- ment, ix of the greatest interest and importance, though Washingtoniuns are Within comparatively N ot ull three of thexe projected reserva tions. The Shenandoah park will lle virtually at the doors of the District, within u short metoring distance. 1t to the easy ra i wlreudy somewhat familivr | peopie of Washington, many of whom huve found within its boundaries, us now defined, huppy respite from Mum- heat and discomfort. he people of Virginia have already ruised @ large fund for the purchase of @ portion of the land prescribed ax suitable for inclusion in the purk and Washington is contributing to the Other subscriptions will be nade, without guestion, sufficient to bring the total up to the puint of need, whereby all the desitable urea may be secured and thus forever pre- served from spoliation. The bill now pending, which the Senuigalias just passed, provides for the acceptance uf these thousands of ucres by the Gov- mer “ pre. TAR | reaction of thase British emplo: ok |01 ive wotitn for iwiion hondnhave heen issued in the States and munici alities actunlly requived, three years amd ® accumul; In the rebound indiscreet }n were adopted, kvery { borrowing, and there was a competi ince jdion for money. with the consequence {of high prices for cash, and the high | |taxes of toduy reflect those rates. | Representative Mills suggests that {the States adopt the budget system jand establish bureaus for the scien {tific framing of fiscal legislation, That is a practical proposal. 1t is made to W repre 1V of citizens, busi jness men who know the value of sys [ tem inexpenditu fNuential in tex the sentative by and who be uring in their tetment of méasures t may ¢ own will bring about a better mode of m ent relief fr L X nd some I exces. ) Bright Prospects. pects of Senate action on the I District traftic bill appear bright. Yes. ferday @ conference was held between rator King of Utah, Representative nton of Texas, Maj. and | Traffic: Diectédr Eldridge and the en- tive situation was discussed. Senator . for the first time since the bill s ieported favorably from the Sen- Distriet made .known to it the amend he wishes to offer. Inasmuch the Utah Senator is the only mem upper house who has op- posed the bill, and his smendments af. Hesse his committee, ubjections and of the fect in no way the desivability of the meanure, there uppears to be un ex celient chance for speedy consideru tivn, As a fuct wiatters have reached the stage where almost uny compromise should be a than to have the bill fail of pussage at this sexsion. Washington o through the Summer without legis lutivn clearing up the traffic muddie thut hus been created here. e hundred thousand persons will be operating their without legal permits; pluns for the extension of the uutomutic signal lights caunot be carrled out; and weird court decisions will probubly continue to be given unless the measure passes. All members of the House und Sen ule should therefore co-vperate in get ting action. 1t is a vital thing and no wore delay should be tolerated thuse who have the best iuterests of the vity at heart. malter of epted rather cannot , s - Oppusition to the Leugue of Nu- tious is in a4 number of cases based on the ffct that in some sections of the country It exercises no authori- tutive Influence on & local political cumpaign, Kudyard Kipling wrote « puoem ubout the strike. Nouw that stilities have been suspended, all purties will have time to take an evening off and | reud it. | =t wee o — The Marines are a brave lot, but it { will be many a long day hefore one |of them has nerve enough to ask More | automobiles | by | The | war checked improvements for two or ed. reasures ..r; body was | i | Gen. Smedley Butler tv have a cock- | Ateri i circle FRIDAY. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWEL, “The ‘telephone is a great invention. Recently we had occasion to call up store, with the following result as in ‘elephant’—— “Did you sa ? o ‘e’ as in the word 1 said k- ‘elephant’.” “What's that about an elephant?” “I merely am trying to make yvou understand the middle initial, that is all. [ the fifth letter of the A, B, C,.D, E do you get k abet m, what did ves and say the last name ix “Tracewell,” Mreddwell “No. not I il “How's that? Tracewell LTS “Rackwel]” “No, Tracewell, “I'tace " what a bloodhound does; and he does fi well- Do you get it? “Trace,” what a bloodhound does.” you W iumphantly we hung vhone. An hour later arrived, and, after we had taken it in, we looked at the name on the tag 1 read: i CCHARLES up the B. BLOODHOUND.” ok ok x Readers will excuse this dispfay vur name, we feel sure, since it Is used merely as an example of one of the joys of telephioning Che difficulty one commonly perlences n swnd proper names over the wires I* Lol made wny easier by the at- titude often taken by the party at the other eud of the line. i One of the strange quirks in hu- mun nature is the fact thal about 5 wut of 10 persons feel offended if You du not instanty understand their last nume. “TPhis {8 Mrs. John J Bayx u yweel Irs. who “Mrs. Galoof, peuts the voice, time, “Oh, yes, you huste Not ‘Gallopo! loof, Mrs. Juhn You huve heard—— “Oh, yes, Mrv. Gu—umpt.” trail- iug the last un-understanduble wyl- lable iuiv mufled grunt' that might meun anyihing even in the largest dictionury From past experience, it Mes. Gallop, chierishes her uume highly, sud has w frm convictlon (hat every one, bositively every one, hus heard it and knows how (o spell it nstantl 1t would shock Mrs. Galoof very uiich (0 know thut vuiside her own und u row circle it s oo, If u circle can be narcow (and Wwe think §t canr—outside her own sphere ouly w few tradesmen und others have ever heard of her. Douis in at leaxt 84500 of the pre- ex- Galoof talk- voice. you inquire. Mre. Galoof,” ot %0 sweel re- this ob, yes to aflirm Mre. Gallopoff,” Gauloof, loof, surely you realize Whuever she is | Sumably 85,000 homes in the District of Columbla would remsin fast shut ul the mugic name of Mrx. John J Guloof. 1 would not be an Open Sesame aut all. | five |around its rather the article | elting others to under- | | finally | the very point! You already have both | lady | worth real money to me. One of the dearest little pests in telephony is the long-distance op- erator who calls up an office mate just after he has left the office. "This Baltimore calling,” she says. “Is Mr. Reginald Channing there?” “Mr. Channing is not here,” we say in our sweetest tones. “Hold the line a minute,” she says, disappearing from the wire for at least revolutions of the second hand tiresome dial. we hold the line. “\What time do you expeet back?” Baltimore finally inquires “*About neon. % “About what “Noon, 12 v'clock, the middle of the day.” “Very well,” she grates. Promptly as 65,000 Government em- ployes start out for lunch Baltimore rings our telephone again “Is Mr. Reginald Channing there “No, he hasn't come in ver." But you sald he would be there at 12 o'clock,” she replies, in a threat ening tone. “So we did." we rec the same time, a we gave no Kuaranie or fmplied, as o movements. We. ‘hen will he be in “Never! we gurgle, Patiently him 11, aloud. “But we remember, either express Mr. Channing's and hang up | the phone. * ok ok wen there Is the girl secretary to Mr. Oscar Blimp, the well known ex- ecutive. Mr. Blimp wants to speak to Mr. Channing and is 100 lazy to put the call through himself. o Mr. Blimp, of course, would not ad- wit that for an insant. But the thing is proved by the fact that while Miss Dulcie. the girl secrelary, is going through the* proliminaries he spends hix time lovking out the window In Mr. Chanuing there”" she usks, “Mr. Channing ix not in just uew,” vou tell her. Mr. Channing is never in When any one wantx him. It is a way he has “Hold the line a minute." saye Dul cle. Ax holding the line 18 one of the very best things you do, you hoid it faithfully. Minutes, hours, seem 1o g by, Why could not the girl have discov- |ered before she culled up whether or | not her boss wanted Mr. Channing to L eutt Galoof, [ Why, indeed” They never do! Per- | hups they are afraid of disturbing the reveries of Mr. Blimp, etc., ete. We wish some girl secretary would tell us #bout this. Mr. Blimp says not announces Dulcle, to bother, But that is ered bk Mr. Blimp for bis kindoess,” vou chatter, like a monkey a1 (he Zou Bul Just why couldn't Mr. Blimp have given you Lix complete tustruc- tivus befure vou called, in the first place, instead of making me wait here? “Now. my time is valuable, young not quite 8o much so as that of nor vel so expensive as bricklaver, but still it 1s o %4y noth ing of the mental and spiritual satis- tactons which 1 get out of old Father Time. Now A click at the other end of the line informs us gently but firmly that Miss :lulcle. too, has her telephone trou- lex. a plumber, that of a WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. he the very newest thing The Latin scribes who came 1o the MAY 14. 1926. British Strike Teaches a Lesson to Americans To the Editor of The S Ix Eritaln less the mother country because these United States—its off spring—has developed into the greater country? s it not rather reason to give fuller credit to “the mother’? And cannot we learn from the late crisis in England? 1t was mot a rev- olution but an evolution, dating from the time when “barons” held their sway, when “the people” found safety beneath thelr wings—castles. ‘Then came the inventions that the power of steam created and with them the manufacturing and capitalistic “bar- ons. The extremists among them virtually made slaves of ““the common people,” ‘who ultimately sought and found emancipation in their *“union.” And now the ““union” usurps its le- sitimate powers. Which does not mean that the “union” is all wrong or that the “government” ix all right. Extremisia on bhoth sides are at fault. Baldwin would have likely avolded the great crisis were it not for the extremista on hix side, while MacDonald would have done the same were it not for the extremists on his side. And so the fight wes on 1o the finish. And here we can learn a lesson from the mother coun- Iry—of fair fighting. Picture a “strike” here with the same numbers’ involved and the vital consequences entailed! Would we have had such a peaceful fight? Must we not honestly answer: No! And so the question: Why? With our language and laws and problems much alike. can we not learn one of the other? TLet us learn why the laws of England are more strictlv enforced and more implicitly obeved! And our mutual faults! Why do both nations anticipate and fail to remedy evilk instead of awaiting their vertain development? And why make- ift cures when the evils reach a ‘rigis? As with the “coul stike” hoth in England and here, why should either government have hands off? ls n. “the government” part of “the p ple.” given authority to see to it that justice shall be paramount? Shall ex- tremists in either party, the mine owners and mine workers. be allowed 1o create a situation equally disastrous to both? - 8hall not the government be made responsible for a reorganizs tion that shall mean justice and living” for both? And. if the govern- ment fails, shall it net be discharged und an adequate one established? And let it he based on the truism that no individual, corporation er natic alternately profit at the expense the other. Is not the biblical your brother's a liberally in terpreted, just that” But must we fight? Yes! Just as we have (o fight o be born, %0 we must fight te live and excel. But, let us fight fairly and with the good of othery as well as ou- selves in view! Ix any other fight- ing logical, sensible, iprofitable? whether with individusls or nations let_us fight fair, in unity Viscount Grey in “Twenty-five Yeurs,” volume 2, page 283, sava: lesson of Europe is so pla that no enduring security cau he found in competing armaments and in meparate slliances: fhere is no se- curity for any power unless it he security in which its neighbors have an equal share.” Does not_this incontrovertible truth apply to all individuals and nations? Will it not inciude the reorganization of our coal mines not less than our international laws” The establishment of such a truism will end in world unity, with the ideais of Jesus made economic facts. l.et us hasten the day! W. G. KENT. e emeee - of “on *He Retirement Annuity And Congress Pay Te the Editor of The Star can | T { | partment ”- ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC city had the first fire de. L. T. B A. The first record of what might Q. What be called a fire department is found in Rome. in the reign of Augustus attention A disastrous fire occurring called his 1o the benefit of a regular fire brigade, so he organized one con sisting { thousand of of a renl companies The first seven men each. fire engines were used in 1633 at a great fire on London Rridge. The first fire hose was invented in 16 The first steam fire engire was invented hy John Braithwalte of London, in 1829 ‘The first city fire department in this country pump good and entirely | the public within 4% 1o 7 i foot pal of oil A B are ahout able by the bonds. represemt was taken of St. built at posed to crescent has alwevs heen cons | a thing to bring Juek. It is made of {iron { up small quantitie time to time. was organized in Boston in the fire engine being a hand hought in Kngland. Q. Where will the next Army-) bull game be plaved?—M. D. A. It will be played in the Munici jium in Chicago, in the Fall 1926, Q. How many wells are producing this country at present ) A. The hurean of Mines savs there 300,000 French in Q. What “rentes"? GV, A. The are “rentex” are interest the French government on consolidated debt and also on shares, stocks. etc., which this indebtedness. pay e A. This 14inch square piece of tile from the anecient Church John the Divine, which was Justinian, emperor of Rome, b A.D.. over the sup f the grave of St. John, by Ephesus, site Q. he A Why s a herseshoe supposed kv ?— M. S Anything in of a ered the shape and since early times fron has been & good luck metal and. Knglish mythology having always held the horse to be a lucky wnimal, the com hination of the crescent | the horse has become a lucky emblem. the iron and manufacturers plentiful, make put it tn cold At a Ume?—M fce cream while it is cream and months Q o buy fruit their ice storage for W D, A. The Burea that it is not contrax sions of the Federal food «nd drugs act 10 allow fresh fruit to stand in cold storage -if the material when used is wholesome. Several manufacturers sayv that it im to set the ice cream to hours after it is made. I preservatives are usad ce cream may be kept for a month or more. 1t kept « long time. ice crys tale form and make (U gritty. so that it is unsalabie. but not unwholeso Manufacturers often bhuy the while it i« in season and preserve it for use during the Winter and make f ice cream from of Chemistry savs to the provi- ice cream is thelr Q. Czeche What language s spoken in wakia?— L. K & rman ix spoken. Fohemian which is the official language, is of Teutonie origin Q. How was the number of stars and stripes in our flag determined”. 8. C. A. On June 14, 1777, a congressional resolut was adopted which pro- | | ; | nearly Q. What is the significance of the | red tile or plate in the floor in front of the altar of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine?—N. fruit ! J. HASK | vided “that the flag of the 13 United tates he 13 alternate stripes, red | and white; that the unlon be 13 stars, white in a blue field, representing t. new constellation.”” After Vermont and Kentucky had heen admitted to the TUnlon, Congress decreed in 1794 that after May 1. 1795, “The flag of the United States be 15 stripes, alter- nate red and white, and that the union be 15 stars, white on a blue field.” On April 4, 1818, Congress passed another resolution reducing the number of stripes to 13 again, ia rep resent the original colonies, and pro viding that a new star he added fo the field each time a new State was admitied to the Union. Q. Will lights aitract weevil? G, G. T. A1 Qs not attracted by lights. the hall Q. How far ahove hedrack s Arinity Chureh bhuilt7—1. D, A. Under Trinity Chureh it is only 26 feet 1o hedrock, and under the City Hall, 50 feer Q. What 1= the diamelor of the nni verse in light vears”—F. T. A. The Naval Observatory save re cent estimates give the diamster of our stellar system as approximately 300,000 light years. The spiral nebulae are regarded as other stellar systems widely separa 3 the presumably nearest a milllon light v Q. About how many Government forest rangers are there?’—C. § A. Ahout 1060 are emploved presen at Q. How far a tiger mp?—T. W A. A well known animal trainer, Miss Mabel Stark, savs that a riger has been known te jump almost &0 feet at a spring. while a lion has heen known to jump almost 50 fesr there ever statie Washington In the Cay If s, where is it no: can a lion or D. Q. Wa a af George Grounds A A. For many vears a statue of George Washington stond hefors the east front of the Capitol. The figure 1 now in the Smithsonian Institution. Q. What _is the Sweden? - G. B. A. The capital of Sweden has not been changed. It is still Stockholm ¥ou probably have in mind the capital of Norway, which became Oslo on January 1. 1 On that date Christiania resumed its ancient name. Q. What caused the vellow snow which fell in Minneapolis in Fehruary? —A. de €. A. The Weather Burean savs that we sometimes have snows more or less ed by dust carried from distant vegions. The snow ta which von refer was colored in this manner,—that is by seil particles carvied from a con siderable distance away. new capital af Gowrument statistics bring out the fact that the uneducated wan has anly owe chance in 366 1o attain dis- tinction. There is no reason why an one showld live under such a handi- cap in these daus of free schools and free information. This paper supports in Washinaton. D. €. the largest free intormation bureau in eristence. It will procure for yew the answer tn any question pow may ask. Aveil yourseif of its facilities for your self- improvement. Inclose a T-cent stamp for return postage. Address The Bve- ning Ktar Information Rureaw. Fred- eric 1. Haskin, director, Washinaton, Ve inn.{«- 4 It came into existence al ‘Washington oo May 10 during the | bsence of the biggest show on earth {den and women from all over the | United Siates, he savs, will now be- |come professional lecturers on the ixuh]flil of “The United States as 1 Saw 11" Hach of the 3 Uniled Ntaten, many of thein eminent. | with him the. handsome eloore o0y are wmons the charter wembers.|flags of the American republics as & | "Beller und cleaner clrcuses” ix the [souvenir of the Washinglon congress object and slogan of the sswociation. | —yu idea for which Adims was main { Anvbody can belong who admits o Iy responsible. | e likes 1o go o the circus. The found & " {ing fathers include United States Seu- | e ators Jumes . Watson, Representative Tilson savs, “We have been working hard on the prob- | lNa‘tion Loves Mother’s Day I s ot covcotinre o o Second Only to Christmas “Our expenditures?’ “Our pockei- - - book?" Since when has the $33.000 08V of the Government employes' re- | tirement fund—since when has it heen 10 the amount of a single penny “our expenditures” and “our pockethook o the United States (ongress? minimum, and, being unable to get her hearings, is drifting off her course. There are many possibilities other than asier. Diffeulty in tion reported. Government wireless Taland of the Pribilofs, in Bering Sea, ernment and for the administration | uil. of the park when it hus been extub- g R g fact that there ix no land at the North Pole should avert a thiee uf thnse aiens siderable amount of dixpute amuang United States are now Included in the | o % L0 enltors, peunding bills. There is no contlict | 5 valry for recok lished. By a sulisfuctory The wrrangewent all the Eastern con- wireless in There is a St communica- Mother's day ix hecoming. next to! household.” continues the Jourpal and Christmas, one of the Nation's best ' Courier. “The wife is more and m loved days of observance. Through- coming to he recognized as 3 worke 0t the land tender thoughts are entitled to remuneration as a share- aroused and ideals revived on the sec- | holder and as a sharetaker in the it strong on "auly ) Ietween thew, no L The average investigation reveals . . The average | g Bdwin E. Slosson, author of .. ten degrees, or seven hundred miles. southwest of Nome, and there Government wireless at Nome. 1 the Pribilof station which rancht the words, “Norge bound Nome, Alaska,” and which was taken message from the ship. It is <uggesied that the signals may heen sent hy wireless stations to get an answer from the orge. There has been much static, messages tell of interference from private stations of canning companies. The air within the Arctic Circle and eight or ten de- grees south of it seems perplexed Nome s waiting for word from Amundsen, Ellsworth, Nobile and the adventurous crew, but not with anxiety than Washington other cities, whose people the importance and romanea of the fiight. A S . Europeans d to declare that they conld not understand U. S. pol- Americans are rather frank in asserting a elaim easy compre- hension of European politics. 3 r—. Flving ever the North Pole will anem he a common experience. The Fckimn will doubtiess develop a soft Arink-and sandwich service for the henefit of tourists, ahant 1= a as a have sreate and arstand un- the to = R 1t requires tact to mettle a strike tn a manner which will prevent an- other from following at close an interval, & - The British Lockout. A situation pre- valls in Great the cancellation of the general strike v 100 of great delicacy Britain following der. Many of the employers have re fused to receive their former workmen hack on the jobs on the ground that they had broken their contracts ohayving the strike order, Some of the workmen refused return unless guaranteed against future reprisals. Consequently, there was far less newal of industry and transportation than the public had reason to expect upan the announcement that the gen- aral sirike had been ended. A disposition to adjust these differ- ences appears on the part of the gov- ernment officials, and it Is to be be- lieved that in a short time they will he settled, with the result of a general retirn to work. The resentment of the employers at the summary walk- out of their workers in response o an order, without any grievance on their part, is likely (o be allayed, and on the other hand the resentment of the nunionists that members of their anizations who oheved the strike order should be punished for their re- sponse will probably he modified as avidence is ziven that the present lnek part of the zovernment's in to re- ant 1x not program This partial lockeyt isthe zatural nition. 1t is to the interest people of all the eastern purt of the country particularly to have all three parks established. With them set apart as public reservations, 10 be preserved always, and with provisions to make them availuble and accessible by means of roads and paths and ac- commodations for rest and securit the Eastern States will possess attrac- tions for millions of visitors who now fail to find on this side of the Mis. sissippl River any token of the Gov- ernment’s wise policy of conserving the natural wonders and scenic sple dors of this country. e Mennis s sl popular, “Ay swatting” Is again asserting it- el ux prevalent pustiwe. State and Municipal Taxation. Of what avail is it to the taxpuyer if, coincldent with the reduction Federal assessments for the mainte- pance of the Nativnal Government State and municipal faxes are although in creased to absorb all the savings ef-| fected? That question has been put into definite form by Representative Mills of New York in his address be- fore the United States Chamber of Commerce at jte annual meeting in this city. He showed by figures that despite two material reductions in the Federal charges taxation constitutes a greater drain upon our national re- sources today than it did in 1919, im- mediately followlng the close of the great war. In the reaction from the war the Stutes and municipalities of this coun try engaged in an orgy of expendi- Lure: They ruised enor us sums of money by bond issues, which were Lax free, und, therefore, attractive as investment issues. They weut In heav- ily for elaborate public works, some of Which were necessary, some less than esseatial at such a time. Re- peated admonitions failed to check the course of liberality with which the money of the people was taken to ef- fect works that shouid, in all pru- dence, have been spread over a con- erable period. Bond iskues require taxes for ligui- dution. Posterity pays for present- day improvements, but in this situa- tion the present generation Is also paying heavily. Amortization plans that generally prevail place an undue burden upon the taxpayer, who may merely witness the beginnings of these works of public use and benefit. Were it mot for the reduction of Federal taxes by means of two suc- cessive enactments by Congress, the plight of the taxpavers of the States and the cities Would be extremely se- rious. And the mischief of the matter is that there is no immediate remedy short of A curtailment of programs of public improvements now contem plated, Where lies the relief for which all ers aze pow-cifnorips? Most of the | £ a man who found things coming his way so fast that he was unable to stop them. v —_— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Days. Father's day and Mother's day! Sister’s day and Brother's day! Days for sentiment serene! Days for being neat and clean! Days for speeding to a crash! Days for enterprises rash! Gentle days soon disappear; Rough stuff’s with us all the year. Mental Stress Avoided. you understand the nstein theory “I don’t have to try to understand it,” anxwered Senator Sorghum. *“Ihe scientific vote I8 not sufficiently nu- merous to be worth guing after."” Clowning. When & circus comes to town, Kind o’ wish 1 was the clown, Makin' people laugh with glee, Never knowin' I am me. Joinin’ in to chase away Every thought that is not gay— ‘When a circus comes to town, Kind o' wish I was the clown! Jud Tunking says a threering cir- cus s the only business he knows of {at present that honestly tries to give people too much for their money. Good Listener. “It Is a great thing to be a good listener.” “One may carry the idea too far,” answered Miss Cayvenne. “In the course of time you are liable to ac- quire the facial expression of a micro- phone.” Fair Play. “I glve exclaimed Farmer Corn- tossel. “I have done my best to keep my boy Josh from wastin’ his time on “It's all over the county that you walked right up to the bandstand at the strawberry festival and busted his ukulele.” “I did. Next day he came home with a bass fiddle an' dared me to tackle somethin’ his own size.” Frigidation, In polar exploration A Summer hope we see. ‘With propee transportation ice should He almost free. Realtoristit. “Isn’t there some ‘bull’ in the real estate business? “There i8,” confided the salesman. “I sometimes feel like a realtoreador.” “Fyvolution,” said Uncle Khen, “ix a zreat suhject for debate. De monkey not hein' ahle ta talk always enjovs hisself an’ hasz de hest of de argu ment.” 53 1 i cireux fan Concord, secretar tion will meet annually in some town during circus week. jthe entire off to feed the elephants. and print { the Sesqui gold pleces for $3.50 eac Mosex and Frank 1. Greene, ¢ Smith of New York, form E. Lee ikle of Virginia. Jesse 1. Lasky, Albee and Wells Hawkes Marshall King of Washington, D. C., was elected the first president of the Robert 1'. Johnston of N. Il vice president, and K. Knecht of Evansville, Ind.. and treasurer. The associa Karl it began opera tions at & banquet in Washington, and membership then burried *ox o % Uncle’ Suw will mint special coins pecial postage in honor of ntennial at Philadelphia this year. The coins will be in two denvminutions silver 50-cent pieces and gold $2.50 plecex. The silver colns will sell for a dollar apiece, and the Both ure being minted at the Philadelphia int, the design of John K. Sinnock, chief designer of the United States hard- money coins. The “Nesqui” stamp will be « 2center, the subject belng the Liberty Bell, and will be a red issue the same size as a special delivery stamp. Plans have been made to place in fm- mediate circulation, as fast as produc. tion permits, 300,000,000 of the speci issue. . e o Auy number of matrimonial unions in congressional life have romantic packgrounds, hut none more interest- ing than that of the senior United States Senator from Arizona and Mre. Henry Fountain Ashurst. Mrs. Ashurst was a voung widow named Elizabeth McEvoy Renoe, daughter of Erin, when she was wooed and won by the rising young Flagstaff lawyer. Her first husband was an emplove of (he United States Weather Bureau at Washington. When he died his widow had to shift for herself. She applied for a position in the Weather Bureau service, though confessing complete ignorance of the science of meteorol ogy. There was nothing that could be given her except a place at a lone | station, near Flagstaff, Ariz. She said she’d take it. IU was & tough, ardu- ous Job, and rough work for a young woman, But she made good. Ashurst fell in love with her. They were mar- ried in 1904. Eight yvears later he in- troduced his wife into the senatorial circle at Washington, which they now have sdorned continuously since 1912, ’ * ok X X President Coolidge isu't playing uny favorites at his senatorial breakfast parties in the White House. Among the 11 solons who ate New England flapjacks sprinkled with Vermont maple sirup this week were Senators Hiram W. Johnson of California and James Couzens of Michigan Johnson has been an inveterate foe of major administration foreign policies this sension—the World Court and the big debt settlements—and Couzens never ceases fire on the noble pillar of the Coolldge official household, Andrew ‘W. Mellon. Throughout history the cooks of Tulers have been valiant po- litical adjutants of their august mas- Bismarck, in the days when he running imperial Germany, fre. quently brought hostile politicians around to his way of thinking by in- viting them to dinner. s EE anklin Adams, counselor of the Pan-American Union, has sailed away for a holiday in Spain. It's in the na- ture of a vacation after his arduous and triumphant labors on the recent congress of pan American journalists. Adaps s copvinced that the good George H.| | conveation. | reindeer ative Chemistry” and director ¢ ence Service, at Washington some striking statements wt the cent disarmament round table of the Carnegie Peace Endowment at Bria ¢liff Manor, N. Y. He declared thai fighting nowadays is carried on with chemical formulas, and that the na- tion which invents the best one wina, | “That Germany was able to hold ou 50 long against encircling. enemies said Dr. Slosson, “was due less io Hin- denburg than to Haber, who disco: ered how to extract nitrogen for ex plokives from the air and thus blow over the blockade. Waur has been vir- tugily a branch of applied chemistr ever since the invention of gunpow der, or even from the first forging of the' steel sword from the ore. The auesiion now pending. therefore, ix 10t the ehimination of warfare, but its limitation to the older and less effec tive forms" I Juck MeCord. Alaska’s booster-in chief, wax in \Washington as “the dele- gate from farthest North” at the United States Chamber of Commerce He represented the Chamber of Commerce of Anchorage and Seward, and was given the priv- ilege of the floor at the group meeting dealing with natural resources, Kol lowing his enthusiastic recital of Alas- ka’s weulth, the meeting unanimously indorsed McCord's proposal that it should express its interest in the tection, development and utilizai n of Alaskan public lands. . It'a the great a herds, over which the air- ®hip Norge's engines have just been purring, that McCord has mainly in mind. If the reindeer are fo be pro- tected in their ranges’ Uncle Sam must enact laws enabling grazing grounds to be allocited and leased. Appropriate legislation is now pend- ing in the Senate. Twenty-five vears ago the United States imported 1,300 reindeer from Siberia. There are 350.- 000 of them in Alaska now, capable of | nourishing a great industry in meat, hoots, horns, hides and by-products. * oK ok ok Au inmate of St. Klizabeth's, the eral hospital for the insane ai Washington, recently asked a rather plain-faced nurse if her atiff white cap was a crown, because, he said, it made her look like a queen. “First time a man ever called me a queen,” she la- mented to her comrades, “and he was crazy!” (Covyright. 1926.) e Let the Buttercups Grow Without Mowing | To the Editor of The Star: e buttercups on the Monument grounds in recent vears have become almost as much of an inatitution to the children of Washington as are the cherry blossoms to the grown-ups. Children come in groups from far up- town to gather them and ca them home and to school. They not o love the freedom of the lovely grounds but every little girl everywhere has a special love for butiercups. Usually some humane-hearted pow- er, among those that be, leaves the | buttercups unmowed during the great- er part of the blooming period, but last year they were cut several times while in bloom, disappointing dozens of children who came downtown only to find the flowers relentlessly mowed and fading. In the name of hundreds of children of Washington, this plea Is written. just as the, gay little flowers are com- ing into blosm. Please don't mow the buttereups! €. B.,SHERWOOD. 000 for their own retirement fund. : jof t The United States has never con tributed one single penny toward the retirement pensions of its employes’ The Government employes out of their own salaries have raised every penny of that pension fund of $53.000 - nd the statement of Representative Til- | son quoted above tarce! Did Congress “work hard on the problem of Atting” Government ex penditures to Government pockethook when they took an additional $2.500 per member cut of that Government pocketbook ? Did Congress sk whether it was willing 1o give that $2.500 per man increase out of the public’s tax-paid Government moneys? Never! Congress just took! How many Congressmen are there” Multiply that number of Congressmen by that $2.500 and see just how many millions more were thus taken hy Con- gress for Congressmen out of the pockets of the peoplel The hitter is A grotesq the public i tarce of it! “We have been working hard on the problem.” says Representative Tilson. ANl right. Put back those unauthor. ized millions taken yearly--without the consent of the public—from the pocketbook of the public, “to make a congressional holiday" before foiating such twaddle upon the public. Every penny paid to a retirad Gov ernment employe is paid by the Gov. ernment employes to themselves out heir own individually earned sal ary-wages called the retirement pen. sion fund. . Not one penny has ever come out of { who love silently ever i ) inday in May. A poet once sang his lay about God being in tHe Heaven, making afl weil with the world.”" savs the Middle. town Daily Times, “but Heaven is s far. and mother's kitchen is xo near’ God ix some ups 0 many-named to even grown Is it any wonder then that the child is not so concerned ahont being in his Heaven. making all well with the world. as that mother i in her kitchen ahout the homely ritual of everyday living. which means that the child's world is well. indeed? We wonder sometimes if these mothers cond of their lives, asking little word-spoken love in return. know of this childish faith in & mother-ruled world. this childish horror of a world without mother at the helm”" Recalling_mothered days of child- hood. the Roanoke Times speaks of how “when we were little we ran to her wiih our childish tribulations and she never failed to ‘kiss the place and make it well.” " The xame thought is expressed also by the Elkhart Truth: “We grown-ups, casting back through the years, find one unfailing memory this memory of a radiant. jovous, all- well world, when mother was at her post, of a world out of joint and fallen upon evil wave with mother away or ill or gone frem us.” * o ox % “One of the finest concepts of hu man relations is back of the Mother's day observance.” in the epinion of the Hazelton Standard Sentinel. while the Harrishurg Telegraph finds “some. thing heautiful and touching in a the pocketbook or the money of the [ whole Nation turning on a single day publie! Not one single penny! MRS. L. D. GOLDSBERRY. - e Protest Against Unpaid Public Welfare Board To the Editor of The As your paper always champions whatever in for the betterment of the District, 1 beg to call vour attention to what 1 consider an oversight by the Senate and House committees in re- gard to the Board of Public Welfare. 'he bill as passed says that the members of “the board shall serve without compensution.” Do they expect the Commissioners to appoint on the board persons of means and leisure? For only such couid avnly free the time that would be necessary to look after the proper conduct and efficient management of the many institutions coming under their supervision. Or, are they only expected to mest once a month, listen to reports, tuke it for granted they are correct and O. K. them? Such would not seem to be the need or purpose of such a board. Just as well go as it is. could not entirely fill the bill, and it would resolve itself into a one-man government, after all. Such a board to function properly should be in close | touch personally with the inside work- ings of the various institutions in or- der to know at first hand the running condition of them. A very bad condition existed at the jail, and a very vigorous aund inves- tigative reporter on The Star wanted first-hand information, and what has been the net result of your fine investi- gation? An appropriation of $300,000 for improvements of the jafl. It ix Arat-hand, personal touch that counts. Ry all means pay a decent salary to such a hoard and 1st them function properly and eMeiently and then hold them te strict aceount. Unpaid super vision fs ne supervision. W. SCOTT. A director’ to pay tribute to its mothers.” The Connellsville Daily Courier sees in the observance of Mother's day “an appeal that is more universal than in any other occasion when people are called upon. by custom, usage or otherwise, to take part.” The spread of the observance of the day iz described by the Trenton Times-Advertiser ax follows: “Mother's day, as a national ohservance, gains in favor year by vear, deservedly so. 1t s about 15 or 16 vears si it first began 1o win widesp recognition. On May 10, 1913, a reso lution passed both houses of Congress commending the observance of day by Congress and the executive de- partments of the Government. In the same vear Nebraska made it a State flag day in honor of the patriotism of Nebraska's homes. Congress, in 1914. authorized the President of the United States to designate by annual proe- lamation the second Sunday in May as Mother's day and to display the American flag on Government build- ings and private homes. * ok ok K The Hartford Dally Times reminds us that “Mother's life needs easing and assistance every day In the 365 and on the 366th of leap vear. She has no eight-hour day. There is no union to insure her higher wages or enforce her holidays. Give her also mome things practical and, above all, consideration.” “Motherhood is a gift from the Creator of the universe,” says the Rochester Times-Union, as it sug- gests that “it will be good to remem- ber this as we honor her who always thinks of first things first and in whose keeping, after all the laws are made and all the necessary institu- tions for human welfare thought of. | And | which sum has heen proven to be am- | ple to meet all dgmands. And the ldes bstantial as well as sentimental | that the Government will ever have in is the destiny of the race.” mother and’ motherhood “are entitied to vecognition.” the lafayette Journal and Courier urges. “There is s grow Ing movement for a fairer status for mother as a fagior In the home and remote, so strange, so awe. | the | domestic income. We are sound sen timentally on the mother proposi tion.” contends this paper: “ler ne 11y o he fair and square scomemical Iy toward the mothers of men. ™ o owow Speaking te those to whem Mather's day brought poignant regrers over having caused their mothers’ heads to dreop in sorrow and sname over their misdeeds. the Rock Island Arzis asks them to “live the balance of their lives as thelr mothers wauld | have them.” A further thoughi from the Anniston Star is that “the lave which gets beaten behind the dam by the feverish pulse of rushing every day life gushes forth fe ite little hour today. telling mothers that thex are loved always even as today.” The Morgantown New Dominion finds that the day “stimulates a new reso lution, & new promisge. a new dedica tion and a new consecration to the things she taught and the ideas she sought to inculcate. “That 1= the dav.” observes the Fort Worth Record Telegram. “when we see ourselves as we are, whether we: want to or not. For good or had, we check up our account with aur selves and the stock we spring from. more compleiely on that day than any of the others of our lives."" Rut in the apinfon of the St. Paul Ploneer Press. “the ohkervance of tha day tm | 2 pathetically fnadequate recognitize of the love born in woman whiel W‘enflmu to the end” and through whicn she Is “willinz to zive up life | freelf in order that her children may | live.™ o A Plea for Higher Retirement Pay | To the Editor of The Star 1 cannot understand. nor will 1 sver be able to understand. the Govern ment’s attitude toward (he retirement bill. ‘There is now a sum of over $5 000,000 to draw from. and vet they sa: they fear a deficit if they increase the maximum annuity from $720 to $1.200 When vou consider that on .June 30, 1925 ('he latest avallable report of the commissioner of pensions), there was in the fund. after $8,949,252.32 had heen paid out to annuitants that fiscal vear, the gross sum of $44.665.778.56: when you consider that the fund has grown from $9 2,03, Jdune 30, ‘19‘.’1, to over $44.000.000 in four re, |after a1l annuitants and sxpenses have heen paid. why eannot the brains of (Congress figure out that if they even |double the annuity for every one of |the 11,689 annuitants on the voll the fund. being %o much more rapidly |increasing than diminishing by the paid out annuities, will never cause the Government any more trouble” But, of course, if the bright mindx in Congrese load up the bill with a lower age limit, which is ridiculous, and put in a lot of other new features, they could soon dissipate any sum, Ino matter how large. 1 hope no mem- |ber of either Senate or House will vote for a less maximum annuity than $1.200, especially when every penny is taken from the employes’ wage (in many instances a pitiful one), and even if they cannot be just enough and fair enough to do that let them at least be merciful enough not teo take a larger percentage than the pres. ent 213 per cent from the employes, put in anything. in view of present facts, 1s pure fiction, and is bound to tloud the iseue. LUCIA BORDEWE,