Evening Star Newspaper, May 21, 1926, Page 8

8 THE EVENI THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY. .. ....May 21, 1926 THEODOREVW. NOYES. .. .Editor _11th st New Vors Chicago Office European Office: 14 Resent $ England. sylvania Ave. ) East 49nd St Tower Building t.. London, The Eveninz St s morn- ine edition. is delivered by with the city at 60 cents per month: dafly only 45 cents per month: Sunday only. 20 cents s ‘mail or made by per month. -~ Orders may, be sent tlephone Main 5000, Collection 12 «arrier at the end of each month Rate by Mail—¥ aynipl in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday....1yr. $000 1 mo. Daily only 1 yr.$6.00: 1 mo. Sudas onts TN e All Other States and Canada. Daily and Sunday.1sr., $12.00: 1 mo. $1.00 Tty oy . 1 yr $K.00° 1m0l Fhe ! Sunday only 011115r] $4.00: 1mol d5c Member of the Associated Press. The Assoc < s cxelusively ertitled fo the use shtteation «f all news dis- patches cradited to it or not otherwise cred and ulso the loeal news Al rights of publication eserved V this paner ied herein 1 dispatches hercin are also M. Berenger's Farewell. to interna- speech Henry Ber- the tendered A tlonal good will W livered last night enger, French United St him in notable contribution the M Ambassador de- by to dinner York on the eve of his Puris After stay of this o during accomplished s task of agree- unding the French s, at a New n departure for nths i which lrief the seemingly hopels four it m period he ing on terms for f debt owed the Ambassador Government. going | vatitication of | America Berenge now i owe to help to obtai the ement by the Frenck rlia ment In his dinner speech the Ambassa Ao, sed the debt question frank d wholesomiely, stripping the prob- the misrepresentation viu of much b which its true nature has been miscolored on both sides of the At antic. France, he admitted, honestly owes the money and has so attested Ly her signature. And France, he oudly proclaimed. has never failed » honor her signature The Ambassador told his hearers that he goe e with the knowledge that he has accomplished Duty, to hi than the winning of popu- buck to I neans some thing me lar fave Statesmen ull over the world would do well to ponder and to take to heart these words of the rench bassador's: 1 knew upon coming here that the mission of set- tling a debt is not a popular one. 1 knew also that vatriotism is not to seek what pleases the people, but to accomplish what * the peo- Do Ambassador b of the debt upon the is good for the peo- | of France. g hei ¢ they | hat settiement s arrived at ple, both of Amier “Misunderstandings uboat 1one said. the may beconie the nost dangerous. They | rupt the ndships. They awaken 1 envy in others. comes to see ifi his debtor ing sport of him. cor e in his creditor ‘! who secis to despoil him.” 1 Not only will settlement of the debt { iielp to preserve the traditional friend France and the United | are not deepest, most sol in ereditor a repudiator who The debtor miser some suspicior The 105 10 s ship between States, but the Ambassador believes | delphia, the antigang sentiment #t will make possible revaluation of | Pennsylvania. But the alignment of the franc and tend to dssure future | the Mellons in the west and Vare in French prosperity “When PFrance | the east makes such a gesture on the has settled her external debt wit I part of the governor rather futile. iiar Bhitom 26 well ad Wil i | TH6 GHEh of the tatier is Hhos GBs | Tnited States” he said, “when the | Republicansdo not infend to give the | Democrats a chance of picking up a equilibrium of her budget, so bravely | voted by the two chambers, shall have ) been realized. then France will be able | to stabilize he: according to the gold standard. and she will be on the way to put an end to the difficul- ties inherited from the war.' M. Berenger is confident settlement will vatified promptly by the French Parliament. With the knowledge that he is going to Paris | to repeat the arguments he made last night in New York. the Amer people will shure that confidence. 4 it is to be hoped that when the pro- posal comes before the American Con- ress for ratification there will be a display of the same broad and tolerant spirit which the French Ambassador has exhibited. money the debt | is be Atoms are now supposed to make @ | sound that may be broadeast by radio. ! An atom stands chance of being more interesting than the average small-town talker. vt The Two-Thirds Rule. A move for a change of Democratic wvonvention rules of procedure has been definitely started by followers of both MeAdoo and Smith, looking forward to the nominating contest of 1928. An exchange of telegrams between two national committeemen, respectively advocates of the two chief contenders of 1924, indicates that the question is being seriously considered with the view of preventing another deadlock. is proposed to abolish both the two- thirds and the unit rules, leaving every delegate free to vote as he wishes, a ority vote determining the conven- tion's choice. If indeed there is concurrence be tween the McAdoo and the Smith fol- lowers on this subject, a change may be effected in season for the 1928 con- vention. It does not, however, follow that because individual supporters of these two past and prospective rivals for the nominatiori are now in agree- ment national committee, which has much to say—in fact, most to say—on the subject, will accede, and indeed it may turn out that there are many influen. a { Repul | cion that |ary vention shall be necessary to consti- tute a choice. It is to be noted that this refers only to the vice presidency, for the reason that the renomination of An drew Jackson ‘was a foregone conclu- slon. That rule, applying to both the presidential and vice presidential nom- inations, has been adopted in every subsequent Democratic convention, al- though on numerous occasions the nominees have been chosen by virtual acclamation. In 1844, when Martin Van Buren was a candidate for his third nomination against a number of other aspirants, the two-thirds rule was not adopted until after a day and a half of contention. Polk was eventually the nominee, as against Van Buren and Cass, who split the vote. The two-thirds rule has kept several aspirants out of the presidential nom- ination. 1t prevented Martin Nan Buren's choice in 1844, and that of Cass in 1852, It, in effect, prevented the selection of Douglas at the Charles. ton convention in 1860. It kept Chainp Clark out of the nomination and prob- nbly the presidency in 19 It be doubted seriously whether there will be any change, however desirable it may be from the point of view of those who seek an easy road to a choice. The Southern Democrats will not readily relinquish their present veto power over the nom- may very ination which the two-thirds rule rants them, ——te—— Getting Together. Announcement that Secretary An- drew W. Mellon of the Treasury De- partment and Senator David A. Reed will support Representative William S. Vare, the Republican nominee for the Senate. the coming election, will fall with : kening thud on Demo cratic hopes that their candidate, for mer Secretary Wilson of the Depart ment of Labor, n because of dissensions in Republican ranks. Senator Pepper, defeated can- didate for the senatorial nomination, announced his intention of supporting the regular nominee of the party dur- ing the campaign. It is evident that after their hair-raising and vivid cam- paign, factions in the Republican party of Pennsylvania are planning to get together. T¢ the latest reports from Pennsyl vania are correct, John 8. Fisher, the Mellon candidate for governor. will receive the nomination of the Republi can party over Edward E. Beidleman, Vare's running mate. In view of the prompt assurance given by Mr. Mellon and Senator Reed that they will go to the support of Mr. Vare in the sena torial election next fall, is it not to be expected that Mr. Vare and his Phila- i delphia cohorts will fall in line behind § Mr. Fisher if it is that Fisher has won the nomination? What could be more satisfying, from a point of view, than this lying down together of the Melions and Vare, of the dry candidate for governor und the wet candidate for the Senate? There has been more than a suspi- Gov. Pinchot, the militant candidate for the Republican sena. torial mnomination, would announce himself & candidate on an independent ticket in the event of the nomination of Vave at the primaries. [f he should make such a race it would be in the liope of arousing the entire dry senti- ment of the State against Vare and also those voters who are opposed to the machine brand of politics in Phila- can Senate seat in the Keystone State any more than they intend Gov. Pinchot, who has been un enemy of both Mellon and Vare, hance to occupy again ‘“the seats of the mighty.” A strange picture, from the dry point of view. will be Secretary Mel- lon, charged with the enforcement of the prohibition laws, supporting a wet candidate for the Senate. But no less strange from the point of view of the wets would be the support of Fisher, dry candidate for governor, by Vare, whose wetness made possible his nomi- nation in the three-cornered race just concluded. The prompt decision of the leaders to get together in Pennsylvania and the support accorded Vare by Secre- tary Mellon, one of President Cool- tdge's chief advisers, is calculated to set at rest the talk that the adminis- tration sustained a severe defeat at the Republican primaries in that State. Does any one seriously believe that Mr. Vare will oppose the adminis- tration policies when he enters the Senate? e r————— Investigation of campaign funds seems liable to proceed to an extent which will leave many a man blessed with comparatively recent wealth in doubt as to how he is going to enjoy his money. e Even the introduction of a grand jury fails to take the life story of Harry Daugherty from the ‘“once- upon-a-time” cla: > o The Accident Report. Traflic Director Eldridge will make a1 intensive study of the monthly Po- lice Department accident report in order that regulations may be promul- gated which will, to some extent, cut down the alarming total. Full reports will be required from each policeman concerned in an accident and Mr. Eld- be found whereby a reduction can be effected. For the first four months of the current year the report shows that, Lt squeeze through | e 1 of finally determined { Thomas Hdison on this score the Democratic |ridge is hopeful that some means will | your money effort to remedy this situation and has issued orders for policemen to write a detafled report of each mishap. A thorough amalysis of the charts will undoubtedly bring many interest- ing Muets to light and in some cases it will be possible to devise regula tions which will efther lessen or en- tirely eradicate evils which have here. tofore escaped notice. Of course, it is impossible to legis- late good common sense and judg- ment into some of the motorists in Washington, and so skidding and reck- less driving casualties will doubtless continue to pile up, but if it is found, for instance, that a large percentage of accidents is caused by another epi- demic of glaring headlights, plans can be worked out to attack the problem. Washington streets are daily becom- ing more congested and it behooves every motorist to drive with the ut- most care and onsideration. It is probably a little vealized fact, but the word “consideration” tremen dous hearing on the smooth and fric tlonless traffic that is the ideal of every Consideration, applied to traffic, means primarily that no motoris should act the part of a road hog; that no motorist should refuse to give way to a passing vehicle and that every motorist should purteous and respect the rights of the other users of the street. There would be fewer accidents if the motoring fraternity adopted “consideration” for its slogan. There would be less speeding to “get by on narrow streets, less argument at tersections as to right of way and less fast driving out of alleys and interfer- ence to legitimate through traffic has a person. a be in o Life-Saving Parachutes. Parachutes have again saved the lives of aviators who crashed in mid- air. Flying high over Langley Fleld. Va. recently two Avmy birdmen were performing intricate maneuvers when at 3,000 feet their planes came together. With perfect judgment both men jumped pulled the cords releasing their parachutes and floated gracefully to the ground. Thus. instead of a frightful trag edy, the crash resulted simply in an other demonstration of the advances out, that are being made in aviat fe- ty. A few vears ago both partici pants would have been killed: today both are saved. Parachutes have now taken their place as essential equip ment for all fiyers, and, as time goes on, countless aviators will owe their lives to the seemingly frail ‘“‘um- brella” which folds up neatly into a small pack - e o The first speechi over the by radio very brief not particularly pointed. The facili- ties of air communication are not yet developed to u degree thut serves the purposes of a rapid-fire yuestionnaire. ——o—— was and English miners admit that they do not wish to quit work, but still insist that they will have to see some pecu- niary inducements to remain ut home instead of coming over to this country as bricklayers or plasterers The Hohenzollerns d@emand their estates. ‘Their success in avoiding loss of property as a result of the war will probably be equal to their success in avoiding loss of life. et Baltinore has had a fire costing million five hundred thousand dol- lars. In view of Baltimore's historic record in such matters it must be re garded as a minor incident PR a Money wasted in ful political drive naturally regarded by some of our legislators as a viola- tion of some of our most cherished ideals of economy e — o an unsuc: is Legislation is now engaged in a con- sideration of insane patients with a view to establishing a guardianship over guardians. ) Russia has yet to disclose s man who can be as influential in political thought as Rimsky-Korsakoff is in music. e Pennsylvania decided to shift the great economic issue from soft coal to hard drinks. B SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Always Secure. ““The country is in danger: 1 hear it every year; But I am still a stranger To all distrust and fear. With every agitation, ‘When all the votes are in, T hear the grand oration ., “The country’s saved ag'in!” Leadership. ““Are you a leader of public opin- ion?"” “T am,” answered Senator Sorghum. “At least, if I can get an idea of which way it is going, I'm several laps in advance of it. Lack of Facilities. The Arctic sea out there is still Beyond our common reach. It won't amount to much until It gets a bathing beach. Jud Tunkins says a great man is one whom posterity judges by what he did and said and not by the pic- tures and statues of him. . Art. “Why do you go to Europe to spend o “I want to study art.” “What particular art?"” “The art of salesmanship.” Queer Stuff. tial followers of McAdoo and Smith | the total number of accidents was I cannot sing the songs that wuz who do not agree to the change. The two-thirds rule is a long-stand- ing, almost a fundamental, principle of the Democratic party. It was adopted first at the Baltimore convention of 1832 in the following language: That each State be entitled, in the nomination to be made of a candidate for the vice presidency, to a number of votes equal in number to which they will be entitled in the electoral colleges, under the new apportionment, in voting for President and Vice Pres- , ident; and that two-thirds of the "hole number 1,451. Skidding and reckless driving ‘With sentimental slant; caused 28 per cent of this number. In And when I hear the folks as does, 76 per cent property damage was done, this damage ranging from 23 per cent amounting to less than $10 and 10 per cent more than $100. I'm sort o’ glad I can’t. “De bootlegger,” said Uncle Eben, “4s mebbe de magiclan dat trans- The significant part of the report, formed what we used to call ‘tangle- however, and the reason for the new | foot’ into de Charleston. policy of the traffic office, is that in more than half of the total number of Turn About. cases no cause for the accident Was | prom the Portsmouth Star. given by the police. Maj. Hesse is = of the votes in the con- copperating with the director in an dum, Now that we've had a wet referen- how about a dry -relmmhgn‘! NG _STAR restaurant term in “in- He came a condition ebriated.” “Give me $20 worth of scrambled eggs,” he said, with a calm utterly at variance with both his present state and his extraordinary order. “No man can eat that many scram- bled eggs, Mister,” soothed the coun- terman. Don’t want to eat 'em—don’t want to eat 'em. T just want to see what they look like.” Although this announcement slight- 1y altered the case, removing it from o digestive to an optical status, the counterman did not_fill the order, it hardly need be said It was just anothe happenings of the allnight restau rants, small places in the dowrtown streets of a great city, where trafli never c Just slows down from 1 to 6 The any big city i into the which some f the curious e . number of night workers in large, despite the best o keep such labor efforts of society down to a minimum. Various uti ities, public and otherwise, demava attention while the rest of the city sleep: Those who do this night work nust eat, usually from 11 p.m. on inte what are called the “small hours of restaurant peculiar the has Hence open the night that remains clientele The small hours of the night! Just why they should be called “small” is rather hard to understand, since any one who kas ever worked from mid night on knows such hours are any thing but little Surely the lon, t hour in the whols “ 24 is the first, midnight to 1 aan. It stretches its tiresome length over three full hours, in the ordinary reck the worker long to em curse the hour oning, ma ulate We not here of those who thre stimulants of varfous kinds | manage to while awav the hours rather greeably, bu solely of the worker tied to his post by various so cial conditions Lvery second of that “zero hour seems a minute and every half an hour, s that by 1 o'clock tb waiter ix either killed or cured. If he can manage to stay awake until 1 o'clock, the rest of the night is ea; The. lnncheon period such la- borers is the one agreeable event in an otherwise unexciting night. Whether one should call it “luncheon” or “lunch” or “breakfast” is not an fnportant matter. The blg question is what to eat and wher Usually one has a some holein-the-wall where “men that are men’’ congrega ! to satisfy the demands of hearty di gestive tracts and at the same time in dulze in that social gathering which the life of civilization Usually there is a crowded period in most such places, when business is brisk. but before amnd after this inter val the diners drift in and out by ones favor plac dairy lunch, and twos and sometimes as trios, at tendin; strictly to the business in hand. | It the mother of many a wandering boy 1ld see what he eats tonight, she would no doubt be quite upset about it. Certainly crab salad at o am. is not recommended in any work on dietetics will one find the med ical pro nited in support of sausage and hot cakes taken freely an hour We have witnessed strong men eat ing sauerkraut with utter noncha lance at midnight who would have shrunk from the encounter at noon- 1 i Guessing at the ultimate conse- quences vania pastime for many a day limitless. As Senator “Dave’ per and Pinchot. 2eed pointed out in the Senate, if elected, will probably have no op. portunity to vote for light wines and beer during his term in Congress—if he ge one. That means that, in teed’s judgment, Volsteadism unde- filed is safe at least until 1933. But what Vare now in uny event can and will do is to rule Penn State G. O. P. politics with autocratic power. He has mounted the throne that Matt Quay left vacant and picked up the scepter that Boise Penrose laid down. * Whether he is sent to the Senate in November or not, “Bill” Vare has be- come the Republican boss of Pennsyl- vania. He will control the Ke: delegation at the next Republi national convention. He will dictate its choice for the presidential and vice presidential nominations. He will name its representatives on the reso- lJutions committee, which writes the party’s platform. ery time Penn’s great delegation of 76 is polled it will echo its master’s voi 1t will doubt- less go to the jonal convention either instructed for Vare's favorite for the presidency. or uninstructed— whichever the Philadelphix contrace tor-boss finds most useful for his pur- poses at the time. That is the Vare way. He has already declared his in- tention to demand a wet plank. potent in Re- Penr is perennially not only the publican affairs. It most rock-ribbed, utterly dependable, thick-and-thin Republican State in the Union, but since time immemo- rial has been the great war chest rom which campaign sinews have been most generously drawn. 1In 1924 it rolled up the prodigious plu- rality of 992,000 for Coolidge and Dawes, What Pennsylvania asks for at a Republican national convention proverbially commands respect. No man at Cleveland or Chicago or wher- ever the next G. O. P. pow-wow is held will be in greater strategic posi- tion than Vare. At Chicago, in 1920, Boies Penrose, from his bed of sick- ness in Washington, gave the Penn delegation its orders from ballot to ballot. He held his 76 votes in line for Gov. Sproul until the psychologi- cal moment. On the eighth ballot, when Penn cast its full strength for Warren G. Harding, the “hreak” for the Ohioan set in, and he was nomi- nated on the succeeding roll call From now until June, 1928, “Bill” Vare will remain the cynosure of Re- publican eyes to the exclusion of any whole other single leader in the country. * % % ¥ The Democrats are going to -put forth a herculean effort to capture the Pennsylvania senatorial seat. During the past 63 years they've only elected a Democrat to the Senate twice. Charles R. Buckalew sat in that body from Penn State from 1863 to 1869. Willlam A. Wallace, another Demo- crat, was a United States Senator from Pennsylvania from 1875 to 1881. So for the past 45 years no Democrat has come to the upper house from the commonwealth of anthracite. This time, with Willlam B. Wilson, Secretary of Labor in the Woodrow ‘Wilson administration, as their sena- torial nominee, Penn Democrats be- lieve that victory may perch on their banners. They pin their hopes, of course, on the fratricidal strife which the Vare-Pepper-Pinchot feud has WASHINGTON, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWEL { | [ \ | WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Vare's victory in Pennsyl-[are confident t will be Washington's politicai ! h he possi-| chances superlatively good | | D. (., FRIDAY, d: The night Is a magnifier and gives even ordinary men delusons of grandeur. Many strange things happen o' nights! * ok ok K In the night the reporters at polico headquarters cool their heels on the tops of desks, waiting for what has not happened, but which inevitably will happen. It must happen. Tt always does. At 6 o'clock on a aturday evening the sufest prophecy in the world may be made by any cub reporter who has been assigned to headquarters “By midnight," with ev LT he might declare, nee of being right, “there will be o many persons run ove v hurt by automobiles. “There will be two alarms of fire, neither of which will amount to any thing 1 o'clock there will, in all likelihood, cutting affair some where, and we will have to comb the City Director to where Maggie Tulliver lives. “By the time 3 o'clock rolls around, no doubt the city will have seen sev 1 other strange happenings, which may go even so far as to include a murder, cither of the first or second class.” ser The older men might term him a conceited fool, but a check-up later probably would reveal that he was as near right as the Weather Burean is 1 its predictions. For at night men and women think differently than during the day. The sunlight has only an antisey effect on material things, but exerts a llke beneficial on the minds of human be Crimes, the inevitable crimes which result because human nature is as it hecause heredity functions mong humans as it does among roses. because social conditions have not undergone the amount of amelio ration the most erin maturity at nig phets have predicted have their genesis and t. when the restraints and iuhibitions are lowered, and the "vil impulses of the animal called “man” go bounding forth to their work until morning In this darkness the windows of the restaurant shine like « light house on a lonely shore. beckoning the mariner to comfort and rest The mugs may be dirty around the rim, and the spoons none too clean. There may be tobacco juice on the floor, and traces of ez on the Knives e muy be littered with the dishes of a previous diner, platters which the n iid to remove them is much too to do, since he, 100, has been af Ly dark impulses. Yet the allnight restaurant still stands for as much of home us many W man knows. If this strikes vou, gentle reader, as a shameful condi tion, we can b agres with yvou. We are not preaching today however, but simply detailing conditior Light and alimenl we have the restaurant, and sorie steps fowird | that free coradeship which has been the aim of the world of men these thousands of years. The faults of such places may be overlooked: their merits shine forth unto all mer We can forgive the grimy mug for the stewming brew that greets us from its depth. There has been many a tired and worn sou! refreshed by a hot roast heef sandwich on the subject of night restaurants we feel | as Hood did about his unfortunate one, “Owning her weakness, her evil behavior, and leaving, with meek- ness, her sins to her Savior!’ caused in Republican raniks. They bad blood enough to make Wilson's Senator been caused bilities are literally What | Peter Goelet Gerry of Rhode lsland mauy happen in 1928 is the thing most | chairman of the Democratic sena politicians are trying to figure out al campaign committee, informs It transcends in interest the purely writer that the committee will wet aspect of Vare's defeat of Pep-|keep a weather eye peeled in Penn's direction from now on and give the State’'s Democrats every possible aid that their national confreres can supply’ % - Alexander P. Moore of Pittsh . former Ambassador to Spain, who was a White House guest this week, has just come back from a continent'wide Survey of political conditions. e has visited virtually every section of the country, including the Pacific Coast The understanding is that he toured the Union as a scout for President Caolidge and the Republican national committee. Moore's friends in Wash- ington have received the impression that he brought back reassuring tid ings to the squire of the White House. He found Coolidge sentiment still running at high tide. There are sore spots I the farming country and in the irrigation-reclamation re- gions clamoring for doles that the Soolidge economy program withholds. 3ut business and the common mian and woman everywhere, Moore re. ports. are still rooting for Cal. If the President were aspiring for an other term this week, the Pittsburgh | er thinks, he would be invincible. But King Alfonso’s late chum is, of course, too wise a political owl to discount the indefinite future. - . | When the Amundsen-Nobile air-fthe ability to hurl it 90-odd feet! {ship Norge started out on its dash|7The Journal is not a matchmaker, for the Pole, it went, evervhody will| nor does it conduct a matrimonial remember, by way of Russia, and department, but the eternal filtness tarried in the clouds above Moscow | o' things appeals overwhelmingly at and Leningrad. American aviation | a1 times, and never more than fn | authorities have recently learned the | i< jesue. The day Lillian ,com; fle""‘A“fv'h“‘ ,g“‘“;‘k 'l;”"‘ Italy h’” her great victory in California. Gyp e Arctic. he Italian d le 2 New Jersey boy, e i1 one of these days to be a considerable purchaser of airships for military and ivilian purposes. So they decided how the red rulers what they have in the way of a sample. The Norge, by the way, is pronounced as if it were spelled At least that's the way a Norwegian would say it. The word means Nor way. * % X Former Gov. Stickney's intention to contest the Vermont Republican n- atorial _nomination with Senator Porter H. Dale has eliminated from the arena a man well known in Wash- ington. He is John Barrett. long- time director general of the Pan American Union. Until Stickney en- tered the race, Barrett was an avowed candidate. But he thinks that the one-time chief executive of the Green Mountain_State so satisfactorily per- sonifies Coolidge policies that Bar- rett's own candidacy has become un- necessary. A mistaken impression prevails that Senator Dale “anti- Coolidge.” His friends recall that there wasn't a_more effective stump- speaker for the President in 1924 than Dale. He placed himself at the disposal of the Republican national committee and proved an effective campaigner. One of his specialties was to rouse the rabble with the story about the lamp-light oath that Cool- idge took in his father’s Vermont {z;rmhouse in the dawn of August 2, 23. (Copyright. 1926.) A Polar Convention. From the Lowell Evening Leader. Seemingly this would be as good g year as any in which to hold the an- nu]nl convention of explorers at the Pole. MAY 21, 1926. Defends Taxicabs ! In Street Accidents | Tu the Lditor of The Star 1o kome years pust the Police De- | partment has colleoted statisties on automeblle accidents In the Distr the helief that the accumulated could be used to correct some of the| trafle problems. The director of traffic has now made w superfic analysis of the accident figures has arrived at the conclusion thi drivers of taxicabs and comme: vehicles commit more than their fair share of the accidents. This would be A serlous situation if true, for if ex perlenced drivers, constantly practic ing their craft, are unable to avold little hope for th Fortunately, ro such ted by Mr. Eldridge’s 't, the evidence i accidents ther owner-operato condition is indic figures, and, in quite the opposit Mr. Bldridge finds that taxicabs which number but 2 per cent of the | regcistered vehicles, are involved in §| per cent of the accidents, while pri- | virte cars, comprising some 80 per cent of the registered vehicles, are in only ! £ per cent of the accidents. To the { incxperienced the case would seem complete against the taxis, but a mo- mient’s thought will convinee any one that the basie premise is wrong The number of registered vehic! is not the proper base from which to ealeulate aceident correlations for variety of reasons. Perbaps the hest approximation would be given by t ine into econsideration the hours dif- ferent classes of vehicles are used, t¢ gether with the miles traveled. Even such a base would fail to A true picture when tax; pared with private vehicles, since every one knows that taxis are calle into service when street conditions at their worst, and also that for H“'i ot part tasis are us the con gested thoroughfares, while hundreds of registered private vehicles never enter the congested sections. Any one seeing the thousands of private cars parked from 9 to 430 can ciate that for that part of th those cars can use no aeccidents, Mr. Eldridge overlooks even such ob vious evidence. There can bhe no iestion that in hours of street oc- | cupaney the taxis and commercial | vehicles | preportior exceed their 16 per cent of the total registration J. H. KEMPTON. e Jrges Better & At Racing Parks The Star that acing season is on wwain, 1 would like to call attention to the frame sheds at Arlington Park, wd other firetrap stables, where va horses are stabled, and beg of the lers of these creatures that they smand and see that fireproof quar Now | ters ure given them | Rurely"when vou reason from a| standpoint of economy. leaving | Wl humanitarian principles, it seems | natural that the owners thes d horses would have long ake made | some effort alonz these lines | -ear we read of the de stiful, intellig Year after n of these b reatures, most of them being own ed by pe of wealth and pro nence, and vet little is done | « ently the sheds at Arlington | burned down and were immediately ! .placed Ly the same wooden sheds, | | whereas hollow tile would cost but ittle more, he cooler for the horses | d also tireproof. 1 ARY E. CLARK ! !Air Association ] " o . | Thanks The Star To the Editor of The Star I beg through vou to convey to Evening Star Publishing Co. the high appreciation felt by the National Aeronautic Association for the generosity of The Fvening Star Publishing Co. in giving four wrist watches to the winners in the rour asses of competitors in the Curtis marine tropy race, which came so successfuily on Friday last. It is such gifts as this that foster and | increase the air-mindedness of the| American people and enable us to keep pace with the rest of the world in air achievement. We beg that you will publish letter so that the general public know that we are not um such encouragement to the tndustry which it is our bus; promote. GODFREY L. CABO' President, National Aeronautic Association of the United States. ————— A Happy Match. From tie Atlanta Journa! It grows daily more evident that o field of endeavor hitherto held acred to masculine exploftation is to v safe from feminine invasion. Those of us who have witnessed the efforts of girls to throw a ball have had little cause to suspect that a girl would ever enter the ranks of the discus hurlers and set a new national ma But that is just what Lillian Copeland, a coed of the University of California. has done. Lillian, apparently but 18, a husky. wide-eyed schoolgirl, danced on her toes and sent the discus on a journey of 94 feet § inches. In all probability she will be mar- | ried some day. Tt is to be hoped that | the hero who takes the chance will possess what the story writers call | charmed life. Think of an angry ; woman, stove plate in hand, and with his may, indful of | art and | to 1 world Life has clearly answered its own question. _There is no reason why Mr. and Mrs. Gyp Locke should not survive a marriage experience for many a year. Or at least as long as Mr. Locke can hold a stove lid an even race. ) Why Canada Is Interested. From the Vancouver Sun, Every few days this newspaper re- ceives letters from good friends ask. ing why we are so interested in the morals, manners and relationships of United States. reason the Vancouver Sun the in is people of The interested and why Canada are interested American events is because United States’ rapid- Iy growing population points to an ever-dnereasing _American influence upon Today the population of United States estimated at 117,135,817, Last year's growth is fixed at 1,757, 723. Over a period of six and a’half years, this population has increased 11,425,197, This means that United States’ population is increasing to the extent of nearly 2,000,000 a year. Tywenty vears from now, the Amer- jcan people will probably number lit- tle short of 160,000,000. Unfortunately, Canada’s population for the past 10 years has remained practically stationary, and, because of that, Canadians are mnot fully con scious of the leaps and bounds by which Americans are increasing, their population. They are not fully con- scious of the tremendous national force that is growing up just beyond an_imaginary line. For weal or for woe, the 117,000,000 of United States are bound to have a stupendous influence on the 9,000,000 of ‘Canada. tables | { tation & | “Will it withstand storms in the open | vessels having equal « | what ANSWER BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. Are the shells used in the ar !deseribed as vight o left. hand, going tillery timed? If so, will they explode | down stream is assun upon hitting an object before the | T timer works?—W. B. | Q. What did Shakespeare mean It A Shrapnel explodes in the air | b3 allusion to u precious jewel found and s regulated by f time fuse. A |in the head of the ugly and venom shell explodes upon impact. How- [0US toad? 1. L. S , if the shrapnel hits the object | A- Rolfe in his notes on “As before the time fuse has exploded, it | YOU It” s ‘Better natural will explode upon impact. ist Shakespeare believed in the it stone, the ‘precious jewel’ of Q. Who is at the head of the the text. Fenton, in his Secrete American Red Cross? -R. Z. | Wonders of Nature, 1569, says that A. The president of the American | ‘there is founde in the heades of old Red Cross is Calvin Coolldge. The |and geeat toades, a stone which the vice presidents are Robert W. De call borax or stelon; it is most com Forest and Willlam ioward Taft. | mon'y founde in the head of a hee “The chairman is John Barton Payne. ' toad, of power to repulse poysons and that it is a most soveraigne medicine A8 HIRRBE by an 6Ye AR | o A e e H [ frequent in the fiterature of that da A. The movements of the eye when 2 reading are injerrupted by distinet| Q. the first King of Eng pauses or fixations. The amount which | fand” can be read in a sweep is called an| AL 1 ho reigned fgom 827 t eve full or an eye span. The number | 839, 3 first King of a'l England of eye fixations det the speed - of reading. Slow re is character-| @ Is our export trade in autome ized by many pauses or fixation| " points. & & the develos o { ments of the iss the fact thu Q@ What constitutes u rational so. | COUBtries abroad hought more than a rorityron 3 | haif million motor vehicles, a gain o A. The Inter-Sorority Conference of | 3 PPF cent ¢ 1905 defined a national sorority as| e B e one having at least five chapters, all| ese ,\,\,, (ot gty ‘h,,,'.’,],wf,‘lr" of them at institutions of collegiate| A, [, O, o rank. Q. How long have the lepers in Hawaii been segregated? J. M. A A. There has been rigid segregation for more than 30 years New York experienced a mew sen. sation the other day when the crowds lined up along parts of the water front watched the Baden-Baden slip into her berth. According to the New York World, the ship “looked like a Burbanked product of a steamship a ferry boat, a vawl and a merry-go round.” This new arrival was the Flettner rotor ship from Germa whose novel and original means of propulsion aroused Interest on sides of the Atlantic she has so cessfully crossed. “The famous n por here 2 succ Atlantie, !the New Lond, 3 more than 16,500,0¢ 1| eZES cach were re New York City, Ch mnd San Francisco same T thes I am told that there were only | ed poultr ters in t L ahort — 50 years ago. ! . P.| Q@ What materials did the Indiar Abot 1900 the niti use w tish hooks J. A. G. people adopted Igyptian svmbols. A materials used for hooks b Cadm of Egyptian descent, int dians were wood. bone, she duced into Greece from Phoericia an | SRS coppr alphabet of 16 letters. Additions were| ¢ what = S i { made to these later by the Greeks, @ Wh gdolie ¥ 4K intil in about 400 B, they had 24 |57G, Cihicazo fire’ letters. The other two were added in [, % 1o FGat fre of cbicage. © the thirteenth century B v i s Q ow did Charles Goodyear fnor be controlled hecause thes wers cover the process of vulean anned by a sequently the abberB A B jfire raed f < over un area A. He expended all his means in | CLfi il experiments with various mixtures i buildings vere nd _processes which should remedy |destroved Wk L el the fatal defects of India rubbe its jrender 1 70,000 homeless natural state, since it is brittle in cold | Proert he v of $180.000.0¢ ther and sticky in warm weather, | Wits desiroved great secret of vulcanizing. i pre e ess in which the two substances, sub. ke Swornl mitted to a. high tempe veried into elastic, end st Hbrary in fhe wosti 4 is the k sque Nationale in Pari vear while by a stove and|ie it dssceintions. e T idly fxture of rubber | %7 SEEEEE E hur 10 its heat, ! Find out whatever uou iwant t o ochinston who sald|%#0w. There is mo reom_for iomo e O ol ag | TAnce in this busy world. The person .v').;” A ‘\\” Wv“‘n a 'm. 18 U8 Laho loses out is the one iwho guesse A o latter ‘siah Quiney, | The person who gets on is alays the genjamin TFranklin used the expres. |21 1ho acts upon rcliabie informa sion, ““There never was u good war or | (0% This paper cmploys Frederic 1 » bad peace.” However, Samuel But | Haskin to conduct an information b r is also or d with @ similar say- | 7€9u in Washington for the free use Ry e with a similar Sa¥\of tie public. There is no charge ex { peace is tarred hefore o just | SoDs cents in stamps for retury | war 1 postage. Write to him todau for an i . facts wou desire. Address The Eve Q. Which is the vight-hand or left. | ning Star Information Bureau. Fred hand side of a rive €. M | eri I Hask director, Washington A. When the shores of a stream are | D. (' Public Willi . o ublic ing to Accept Usefulness of R Shi seifuiness o otor ll]) n Day h calls a tention to the facts the rotor shin i ost alt lacking in machinery; perm! 1 greater Stowage capacity th possible in power.driven | and _that ws are reduced to a minimum necessary for mavigation The Raleigh News and Observer considers combination h of rotors and g engines, 1s the Baden-Baden car ries, “‘muty v beneficlal. for when the wind blows it will aid in movinz the | the shfp instead of delaying. as witl \ across the is an interesting scientific experiment. whatever it may prove to be asa factor in practi »al ocean transportation,” is the greet ng of the New York Herald-Tribune. which considers that the economic value of the device will depend upon | the answers that time and experimen e to the following questions o will its steamer costs compare or of sailing rgo tonnage”” Above the decks rose for 45 feet might appear to he two great oceun” How with those of funnels, were it not-for the closing of the upper ends, the caps thereon extendi tward like the brim of a hat.” This is the description given chich, con- by the Boston Transcript, tinuing, says: tures, the rotors, have in appearance to seag: as may he seen by the f man; a barn, and are provided, with motors which cause them to revolve at a rate of nearly 100 revolutions a min ute “These towering struc- been likened such Analyzing the method by the rotors propel the ship, the Quincy Whig Journal refers to “that naive reply made by the spirit in the An- clent Mariner, who. when asked by his companion as to why the ghostly | ship drove on fast without wind or sail, replied, ‘The air is cut away before and closes in behind.” That i about what occurs when the alumi num stacks or rotors are set re- volving,” explains the Whig Journal. The Unfontown Herald points out that “the principle involved is the Magnus effect, so called after a Ger- man physicist who discovered it a¢ long ago as 18 Anton Flettner. the inventor of the rotor ship, and already a distinguished marine en- wineer, has merely applied this well known physical principle to the prob- lem of ship propulsion,” says the Herald. Discussing this same ‘“Mag- nus effect,” the Nashville Banner quotes the explanation that has been given as follows: “Magnus found out that a eylinder revolving in the Wind exerted power at an angle of Approximately 9 degrees to the di- rection of the wind. The amount of power supplied can be to a degree controlied by the speed of revolution of the cylinders.” The statement is simple, but the fact puz Banner acknowledzes, : opinfons and reactions of the crowd were well summed up in the remarl of the pilot, who said: ‘Before I it do this I didn't believe it possible, but now 1 sure do.”” and its own conclusion is that the rotor ship possesses decidedly interesting possi- bilitles.” The lack of speed shown by the ship is one of its drawbacks, accord- ing to comments in the press. Says the Saginaw News-Courier: “Thesé are the days of speed and more speed, and a ship that takes five weeks to make the trip between Ham- burg and New York can scarcely be expected to be given serious consid: eration as a competitor for traffic.” The Springfield, Ill., State Journil, also, notes that “the ship’s progreds was slow, being at an average rate of 168 miles a day.” However, in the period taken to cross the ocean, the Springfeld Union observes that “the best day's run, 207 miles, was made by rotor,” and is of the opinion that “important improvements will be ef- fected on this original model to se- cure increased speed. ‘Beonomy of operation s noted by which | | motor power alone, and often the can we in conjunction.” To the Buffalo Evenir ews the “questior to be determined ix whether the sistance given by the rotors, w cosultant economy of fuel, will jt v the cost of installation and the \crifice of deck and hold spuce ne essary to contain ther * % « Lover of the beautiful and majest: sailing vessel. the Waterbury Repub ¥ be lican s “It ma treason the age to hope thaj Anton Flettner's strange ship will not prove its ec nomic worth, but its ugliness inspire the wish more interesting the Dallas Jo! isw't likely that the soon displace the type has be stiy never nardly fail to the rotorship i practical,” wt remarks: It rotor ship will of vessel to which the world come accustomed, but it is int as a possibility of e future thai theless.” In the ovinion of the Dn ham Sun, “the achievement in the success of the rotorship is greate realizes,” and the is interested f1 than the world vet Akron Beacon-Journal the claim of the inventor “that his device ix going to tevolutionize the | application of wind power land s well as on sea. If this primitive force can be restored to the service of humanity, all hail the inventor who does not lack skill and res to know how to do it paper. A Deserved Tribute. From the Houston Chronicle Nineteen vears ago the Chronicie called editorial attention to a tribute paid the lawyers of the United States by the great law book publishine house of Bancroft, Whitney & Co. and there has been received from thas company the same tribute printed in a form suitable for framing That was done because of the muri: calls for it. It is entitled “A ateful Acknowledgment to an Honorable Profession.” When the earthquake and fire or curred in San Francisco on April 18 1906, the legal fraternity owed the publishing house over $200,000. Its books and accounts were utteriy destroyed. It had no memoranda of any kind whereby it could locate or identify any lawyer who was its debtor. It was obliged to trust entirely to the honor of those who owed it. Of the $200,000, about $30,000 was owed by lawyers in San_Francisco They having lost all their libraries the creditor company released them entirely from their obligation That left owing by lawyers else where about $175,000. Having no list of its debtors, the company sent let ters to lawyers avhose names appeared in a widely used legal directory, ap. prising them of the condition in which the.fire had left the publishers, and inquiring whether they owed any bills for books. In response to the letters the firm speedilv received over $150,000. and when the acknowledgment, now re- published, was first made public, in January, 1907, letters were still com- ing from debtors asking for state- ments. Some of the San Francisco at- rneys declined to accept the can- Zellation of their indebtedness, and paid in full. The card of acknowledgment con cludes with these words: “Let it be known that the legal profession is made up of men of the highest honor.” Most assuredly the facts justify that statement. The tribute is richly de- served and the grateful creditors most gractously paid it