Evening Star Newspaper, May 23, 1926, Page 50

"T"HE EVENING STAR |to neighboring powers, and the good With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY, THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor he Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: Ave. A t “"‘3'{:, . ing. Furopran e 1 - London, he Evening Star. with th {h» city at'60 cents per month: dai 45" centa ‘pex munth: ‘Sunday only. pif Per month. Ondern m tslephone Main 5000. «arrier at the end of each month. Rate by .\ldl—‘l’u.ble in Advance. Maryland and virgini il and Sundas aily only . day only All Other States and Canada. 4y and Sunday.1 yr., $12.00: 1 aily only . #R.00: 1 linday only $4.00; mo. Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press ia exclusively entitled fo the use for republication of sll news di Pat-hes creditad to it or not atherwiss 224 in this paper and also the local ne Published herein. ATl i of publication of epecial dispatches herein are also reserved. Time for Action! Tn nearly all of the recent rulings made by one of the judges in the Trafic Court, which have paralyzed traffic regulations and thrown traffic law into chaotic confusion the court has indicaied that it does not hold thit the Commissioners have not the power to promulgate valid regula- tons similar to those declared void and practically invites themn to make the regulations by their own direct action. The court has held, however, that the traffic director does not have this authority under the wording of the traffic code. Congress, when it created the office -of the traffic director, specifically «tated in the code that the director +ould make regulations only if ap- proved by the Commissioners. This action automatically placed the di- rector in a subordinate position, sub- ordinate not only to the Commission- , but to the superintendent of po- ice. The director has never had and never will have power to make reg- nlations without going through the regular channels, first to the Police Department, and second. to the Com- missioners, for the approval of both. In section six. paragraph b. of the traftic code is the following significant clause: “The director is authorized to make reasonable regulations in re- wpect to brakes, horns. lights, etc. the speed and parking of vehicles, etc. Such regulations shall become ef- fective when adopted and promul- zated by the Commissioners, in ac- | rordance with law.” It would seem that the regula- ions which have been reversed in court are not regulations of the traf- fic director but of the Comthission- ers themselves. Inasmuch as the di- rector is merely an advisor on traffic matters, and has apparently no power to regulate, this inference would seem o be logleal. The court. however. has discrim- inated between the direct und formal action of the Commissioners and the action of the Commissioners on sug- gestions from the traflic offica. If this informal action of the Commis- sioners on traffic regulations as pre. scribed by Congress will not hold up in court the answer is very plain. The Comumissioners should themselves sanctify all regulations by their direct action in accordance with the police powers given them by Congress. Surely the recent ruling permitting horse.drawn vehicles to roam Six- teenth street unregulated brings the situation to a climax #d will con- ince the most reluctant that the time has arrived for the Commissioners to adopt a quick d decisive defense against these decisions. If the court will reverse all of the reguiations sug- zested by the director and promul- gated by the Commissioners, the city heads should, without delay, by di- rect action, put all of the regulations into such shape that they will be in- “ulnerable to court reverses. It is a sad spectacle, indeea! Wash- ington, a city of nearly a half million people and 100,000 motor cars, im- potent to devise and enforce regula- tions for the protection of life and property. Washington, the National Capital, in the throes of strife, con- fusion and discontent, simply because the varfous agencies of the local gov- ernment cannot work in harmony to place it on the plane it belongs with other well regulated traffic cities. ‘The Commissioners have in their hunds the remedy for this situation. Will they grasp the opportunity to bring order out of chaos in the vital traflic affairs of the city? All Wash- ngten is anxious to know the answer. S — ‘The appointment of new dry agents may result in further mentul agita- tien among members of C‘ongress who are habitually apprehensive that some of Uncle Sam’'s employes are not carning their salaries. e — The Polish Revolution. Despite what purport to be uncen. <ored dispatches from Warsaw, com- ng by way of Germany, the situation n Poland continues to be obscure. It still is not clear how serious the tighting has been, or, in fact, why there has been any fighting at all. It appears that a group of army offi- cers, dissatisfled for some cause or another, prevailed upon the veteran Marshal Pilsudski to head a revolt and by a coup d'etat to overthrow the Witos government. The world does not know ‘“what griefs they had, alas, that made them do it.” but the world sincerely hopes that the revolu- tion does not mark the collapse of or- derly government and the ushering in of & period of chaos in the affairs of Poland. Neither Poland nor the rest of Eu- rope is in any position to endure this early breakdown of the Polish ex. periment which was launched with such high hopes by the peacemakers 1L Versallles. Al the world. at least all the world cxcept those nutions feh were inunediste loser * plauded theé sentiment which prompt. ed recreation of Poland as a fation @uics more than.a.century-of bondage ' National Capiial, Duilng bis senvice * appointed man dat wanted de earthy . May 23, 1926 unday morn- {n& edition, s delivered by carriers ‘%m % m st be sent by mail or *ollection s made by mo., $1.00 wishe self-government. government of Poland is not the first to fall before a show strength. It is to be hoped there soon will be established at Warsaw a government with strength sufficlent to restore or. der and to maintain itself in power until its successor is called into be- ing through the orderly processes of the blallot. Both political and eco- nomiic considerations call for strong and stable governments in all the na- tions of Furope. r—oes Price-Fixing Scotohed. Deteat in the House Friday of the Haugen farm relief bill probably will put an end, at least for the present session, to agitation for legislation in- volving Government pricefixing for agricultural products. It is true that the Senate has yet to disclose its at- titude toward the various theories in- volved in bills lcoking to a solution of the crop surplus problem, but the assumption has been that the Senate would follow the louse lead, at least to the extent of permitting the House to take the responsibility of killing off a program to which there has de- veloped such strong opposition s had arisen against the Haugen bill. There wero three features of the Haugen bill at which criticism was chiefly aimed. The first was price de- termination by a Government agency, the second was an equalization fee by which it was proposed to distribute export losses among ull producers of a given commodity, and the third was an outright subsidy from the Federal Treasury to meet export losses before the equalization fee became operative. This subsidy, originally proposed to be $375,000,000, was reduced to $175,000,- 000 before the Haugen bill came to a vote, but it was the principle in- volved. not the sum of money, that was the basis of objection. With the Haugen bill defeated by a decisive vote, the way now is clear to press for sound and constructive farm rellef legislation. There are at hand, ready for consideration. the Tincher and the Capper-Aswell bills, the for- mer having the support of Secretary Jardine and many of the conservative farm organization leaders of the coun- !try. particularly of the responsible |heads of co-operative organizations. {1t is true the Tincher bill provides for !an appropriation of $100,000,000 from the Federal Treasury to be available !in the form of leans to co-operative associations to assist in the orderly marketing of farm crops, but it is con- templated that such loans eventually would be repaid. The money would be | secured by what would amount to sec- { ond mortgages on produce in storage or transit. It probably is true that such mortgages would not be looked upon as good banking security— otherwise there would be no need of Government loans—but at least the principle of an outright subsidy is avolded. And the Government has made other loans on doubtful security, some to forelgn governments and others to domestic enterprises such as reclamation projects. Defeat of the Haugen bill in the| House Friday was a signal triumph for_Secretary Jardine of the Depart-| i,y genate to do by far the most ment of Agriculture, who, despite tre- oG andng. mendous pressure brought to bear upon him, has stood firmly against | the principles involved in the defeated measure. Ife has been as eager as any one to give the farmer relief, but has held persistently that unsound legislation would be worse for the | farmer than no legislation at all. He now is ready to get behind a con structive program and use his best ef- ‘ of all liberty loving people went to the Poles as they resumed once again their efforts to achieve It probably wae too much to expect that there would be no errors, no back- ward steps, before u stable govern- ment was established. Other Euro- pean nations, with more recent expe- rience in the art of government, have had difficulty since the upheaval of the World War in finding formulas of legislation and administration adapted to their post-war needs, and the Witos of armed lough( all to investigate one another. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, MAY 23, 1926—PART 2. EVERYDAY RELIGION BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D, LL. D., Bishop of Washington. in the Senate he has given {ime and attention to measures looking to the development of Washington. His in- terest in the park system, in the im- provements of the physical appear- ance of the capital city and in its in- tellectual development has been mark- ed and legislation which he has fos- tered will have a permanent beneficial effect. - Goldstrom’s Frogress. The one-man race around the world will be watched by a great many per- sons and reports of the racer's prog- ress will make good reading. It may furnish some thrills and will cause many anxious persons to read maps of distant parts of the world and ex- pand their knowledge of geography. John Goldstrom is out to break the round-the-world rerord of 35 days, 21 hours and some minutes, made by John Henry Mears in 1813. Today he is one thousand and odd miles north- east of New York and on his third day out. That puts him three-fifths over his course to Plymouth, ¥ng- land. He will iy from Plymouth and across the south of England to Croy- don, where he plans to catch the reg- ular passenger airplane to Berlin over Amsterdam. Tt is to be a flight from Berlin to Moscow. There begins the long air voyage out of eastern Lu- rope and across the width of Asia. From Moscow, near the 56th parallel of latitude, Goldstrom’s course will be east by south to Yokohama near the 35th parallel of latitude. Ie would pass over southwest Siberia, cross the Great Alta Mountains, Mongolia and western China and no doubt fly over tha Yellow Sea, the Chosen Pen- insula and the Sea of Japan to Yoko- hama. There he will take ship to the west coast of the United States and cross this country by airplane to New York. i There is not much doubt that Gold- strom will beat Mears' record made in 1913. We are a faster people than then and airplanes may be a bit mora dependable. We may all live till round-the-world races become a pop- ular sport and contestants carrying the flags of their country will rush over continents and seas. Most of us remember the six-day walking match- es and the six-day bicycle races, but round-the-world races will make those sports seem anclent. Perhaps the time will come when Washington will crowd the Capitol Plaza or Potomac Park to watch the take-off of inter- national world-round races. As the last entrant disappears over the Ben- ning Bridge in his eastward flight the crowd will go home to lunch and then bact to Potomac Park to greet the world-round racers as they come over the Arlington hills. That sport may come to seem a lit- tle slow and we will have longer races in which one circuit of the earth will be called a lap. We may gather in Potomac Park and on the. roofs to watch the rivals go by. To see them pass we shall be fitted with glasses with faster lenses than used in any camera today. We will cheer as the signal flashes from the timekeeper’s stand far up-in the sky, “Cloud Buster, representing the sovereign State of Columbia, leads by one lap. but Sky Sprinter, representing the Republic of Great Britain, is only 24,000 miles behind and coming fast.” e Mussolini, 4f he succeeds in restor- ing the magnificence of ancient Rome, will doubtless see to it that the pres- ent King holds some dignified though not serlously responsible office. —oor—. Again President Coolidge appears perfectly content to allow the United CONTINUING PERSONALITY. St. John, z2:16: “Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni; which is to say Master.” Names come to identify to us cer- tain personalities. In the'{ntimacies of life we address one another by our Christlan names. This practice is largely limited to those who come within the restricted area of close friendship. Thereé is a circumstance in which the identification by name plays a conspicuous part in connec- tion with the resurrection of Christ. Mary, who, on one occasion, had been brought to Him by stern critics with the request that He condemn her for her sin, had been the recipient of His gracious and tender considera- tion. He had saved her from her unrelenting judges and after absolv- ing her from her guilt had sent her forth *‘to #in no more.” His gracious and chivalrous ministry to her had 80 attached her to Him that she came at length to occupy a con- spicuous place in the brief annal of His life. With a devotion that was unique she had followed Him through all the tragic days leading up to,His crucifixion and had now come to His tomb in the early morning hours, there to pay her silent tribute to one who had redeemed her. The visit to the gtomb was marked by etrange circumstances. Seeing that it Wwas open and that the sacred body had been removed, she came to stand before one whom she supposed to be the gardener. Bewildered by her great grief, she addressed Him, saying, Sir, if thou hast borne Him ce. tell me where thou hast laid Him.” There was no evident identification of the risen Christ. She had seen Him die upon the cross. She could not discern in the figure that stood before her the risen Master. Jesus, noting her confusion, “saith unto her, Mary.” The very i{dentification of her by name thriiled her and in an instant revealed to her consciousness her risen Lord. With a cry she ad- dressed Him, “Rabboni,” which 1§ to 8uy, “Master. There is something singularly ten- der and deeply significant in the incident. Here, as in all his contacts with men and women, Christ discloses that sympathetic understanding and depth of tenderness that was so com- PROT Some time ugo—perhaps but a few centuries and again, perhaps, since the time when the memory of man TUns not to the contrary—it was dis- covered that there is a sucker horn every minute. Shortly thereafter, or possibly concomitant with the orig- inal discovery, it was found that for every sucker born there was born a wise guy to take him. Nowhere in the known world is the percentage of gullibility sb high and nowhere are the efforts of those who gull the gullible so startlingly suc- cessful as in these prosperous United States. Sales of blue sky stocks that aggregate an almost incredible volume are made annually. Business promo. tion schemes of the most highly spec- ulative character ure put over con- stantly. Mining, oil and real estate ventures that haven't a thing to recommend them except the absurd claims and representations of the pro- moters find thousands of eager in- vestors. And on top of all that lambs flock in droves to the stock, grain and produce exchanges to gamble in legitimate securities and commodities at times and under conditions such that it is a certainty they will be shorn of all their wool by the pro- fesslonal trades. - Newspapers, magazines, bankers and conservative business men are constantly warning the public against this sort of thing, but apparently such warnings do the least\ good where they are most needed. The suckers, in everincreasing numbers and with insatiable appetites. are al- ways ready for those who prey upon them. Even victims of frauds and of foolish speculations seem never to learn from experience, but come back for_more. ; | Nor are the gullibles confined to { those who may be imposed upon be use of their ignorance and lack of experience. Doctors, dentists, teach ers and even lawyers are numerously 0 he found in all the “sucker lists’ hat are compiled and used by the sharpers. Business men who have B . Pennsylvania statesmen are nearly unanimous in the opinion that they e e OO e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. | e e ECTING SUCKER BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. pletely characteristic of Him. His passion for individual souls marks His ehtire ministry. We may never forget that the greatest utterances, in the main, that fell from His lips, and indeed His greatest revelations of His pur w made to indi- viduals, an quently in the most obscure places. The incident of His revelation of Himself to Mary has a parallel in the incident of His later revelation to His doubting disciple, Thomas. After His resurrection He was as solicitous concerning those who had been his companions as He had been in the tragic vears of His ministry. No single chronicle in the world’s literature has so focussed the mind of mankind as that which concerns the incidents and events surrounding His resurrection. While it has its profound teaching for all men, there is that in it that has a distinct bear- ing upon the more intimate and fmmediate things of our individual lives. There is a natural yearning in the human heart for the persist- ence of identity. We think of apne another tn terms of personality. We identify: one another by those marks or characteristics that are peculiar to each one of us. We cannot con- ceive of a continuing life apart from those things that mark and dis- tinguish life here. There is that in the resurrected life of Christ, us, indeed, there is that in His teaching, that warrants us in believing that those identification marks that distinguish us here and now shall continue in the future. Apart from this conception we can- not concelve of immortality, Un known to her at all, He addressed her tenderly by her name. Mary beheld in the one whom she had mistaken for the gardener her risen Savior, In one of His great parables, in which He described Himself as the Good Shepherd, He declared that “‘He calleth His sheep by name.” In all His teachings before and after His|Menting school resurrection He emphasized the value of individual worth. By implication at least He suggested ihe unfailing continuance of that which mar] distinguishes our personality hold to such a belief is indispensabie to our peace and happiness. it is only such a belief that can adequately and satisfactorily interpret to our con- sclousness the meaning of life beyond the grave. 1 Why should important money—and to the sharpers $10,000 or move is al- ways termed “important money’ —be permitted to remain in the hands of such a boob” So great have become the annual losses of American gullibles through stock frauds of one kind and another that Secretary of the Treasury Andrew J. Mellon has been moved to advocate the enactment of & Federal law which will check or put an end to such operations, and Mr. Mellon is recoy nized throughout the world as a finan- clal genius at whose feet all men may well sit and learn. “One of the most important prob. lems confronting this country is the prevention of the sale of fraudulent securities,” he says. “The State gov- ernments are doing what they can to combat this evil. The Federal Gov- ernment itself is exercising the full power of its regulatory organizations to lessen the perpetuation of fraud through the mails. Tn spite of all thi more than five hundred million lars, it is estimated, is lost each ye largely small investors. In mus instances” this could have been pr vented if the investing public had been fmpressed with the necessity for investigating the security or asking the opinion of some competent ad- viser.” Secretary «Mellon is of the opinion that the situation could be met most simply and adequately by a law un- der which such securities as appear to be fraudulent could be brought te the attention of the Federal Depart ment of Justice through proceedings in the nature of an information. The Attorney General could then be au- thorized to investigate such securities and if he found evidence of fraud, to issue a summary order forbidding their further sale, under heavy nen- alties, - h a law.” says the head of the Treasury Department. “would not in terfere with the flow of legitimate in. vestments or the prompt sale of se- curities. which is %o essential in the investment bLusiness. The great ma jority of investment bankers are hon- est and scrupulous men who investi- gate with extreme care every issue sponsored by them. Only a small forts to. make it effective. —————— Aside from his unfavorable influ- June. When June comes a-smiling and birds are beguiling i been shrewd and modestly successful| number are actuated by a desire to in their own lines are frequently easy | defraud and in trying to protect the picking for the promoters of ques-|public we must not harass and inter- tionable enterprises. And it is not to|fere too much with'logitimate opera- ence on health and personal behavior, old John Barleycorn has a historic | The hour that was weary, the thought record as an exceedingly mean poli- tician. —— bt By way of interesting paradox some judiclal mind is always displaying ingenuity to demonstrate that some’| Forgetful of sorrow, we wait for the parts of the Constitution are uncon- stitutional. N George Wharton Pepper. One of the tragedies of politics was the defeat at the polls of Senator | The bee finds the honey, nor bothers George Wharton Pepper, seeking re- nomination to the Senate. The senior Senator from Pennsylvania, recog- nized as one of the leaders of the American bar before he was appointed to the Senate to fill the vacancy | When June com caused by the death of the late Sen- ator Penrose, has been one of the most hardworking and efficient mem: bers of the Senate during his four years of service. No man in the Sen- ate today is better qualified for mem- bership in the upper house of Con- gress than Senator Pepper. In edu- cation, in character and ability Sen- ator Pepper ranks high. He has the liking and respect of his colleagues, with whom he has been personally popular, and his going from the Sen- ate chamber will be sincerely re- gretted. Having accepted a call to public service, Senator Pepper put his shoul- der to the wheel and gave that service to the full. The legislative work of the Senate by no means consists in making speeches, popular bellef to the contrary notwithstanding. The work in committee, familiarizing one with legislative procedure, the work of drafting in proper form legislative proposals, is the work which puts the heaviest burden on a Senator, if he is willing to be a wheel horse. Sen- ator Pepper gave his attention {0 [y, ryypper of becoming grace that kind of work. although he fre- | quently took his full share of the de | bate {n the Senute. 1 Senutor Pepper’s retivement the Senate next yeur will be regret ted particularly by the citizens of the from And hath more fakeup on her face | The day that goes drifting along, be forgotten that the story of the banker who goes wrong through spec- ulation, gambling or biting at a sure- thing proposition is a familiar one to all newspaper readers. Quick and Easy Money. Students of the problem say that it is the very great prosperity of the United States that is responsible in a large degree for the high percentage of gullibility of the American public. Everybody wants a share in this pros- perity, and in far too many instances the desire to get that share quickly and easily becomes €0 strong as to overbalance caution and sound judg- s m’;f' man accumulates a little money, perhaps by the hardest kind of work and the most rigid economy, and he sees his neighbors prospering more rapidly or hears of strangers ‘who make fortunes overnight. He decides that he wants a lot of money, too, and wants it in a hurry. He tells hlmso!f that what he has accumulated isn't enough to do him any good and that he'd rather lose it than continue to be a plodder. When he gets himself in that frame of mind he is an easy mark for the first salesman of a get-rich- quick proposition who can get to him. And this potential victim, whose name is legion, seldom waits for the temptation to come to him. He goes to meet the tempter more than half way. Frequently he rushes into the stock market and gambles on ‘margin in securities that he knows nolhlnq about, usually buying at the top or gelling at the bottom of whatever market movement he may catch. Not infrequently he inquires around for some ‘“Investment” that promises large and immediate profits. There is scarcely a newspaper of any size that does not hear daily from one or more of this type of sucker who has from $1,000 to $15,000 that he wants to place where he may be assured of larger returns than he could expect from any legitimate investment. Of course, these easy marks always ask for something that is safe as well as profitable. Every one I familiar with the youth in “Get-Rich- Quick Wallingford,” who went to the promotor and begged him to take $10,000 and invest it in one of his schemes. “As I understand it,” said Walling- ford, as his hands closed on the | bundle of currency, “what you want {is an absolutely safe investment that i will pag you about 10 per cent a month.” “Yes, that was deary, Give way to the sunshine and song. The work #nd the worry, the hap- hazard hurry, Grow gently and steadily less. morrow And vow this old world’s a success. The delicate flower that waits for the shower Shows faith in the future sublime. with money, Yet feels well repaid for his time. ‘We creatures of Reason distrust every season. ‘We timidly grope and we guess— es in beauty with generous duty. We know the old world's a sticcess. Pure Politics. “‘Are vou in favor of prohibition?” “‘Absolutely answered Senator Sorghum. “Out my way the boot- legger vote isn't sufficlently influen- tial to be worth going after.” ‘Value Received. The gasoline provokes a sigh Of weary discontent. ‘With every gallon that I buy They give me scent for cent. Jud Tunkins says one of the wise provisions of Nature was putting in a few warm Summer months to en- able a man to save up for the Win- ter’s ‘anthracite. Propriety. “Is it proper .for a young woman to go to the theater by herself?” “Quite proper,” replied Miss Cay- enne. “In many cases she may prefer not to have it known to her friends that she has seen the play.” The Promenade. Doth never show a lack Mr. Wallingford." sald the cleting, “T don't want {0 lose thi manc, hecause G all 1've got. bt 5 T i {1 do want to make just ax much as 1 A baby cryin’ foh de moon.” wuid {0 Yng 10 per cent a month will Uncle Eben, “grows up to be de dis- | pg perfectly satisfactory to me.” Teo, get cent & monih, and safely. Than garments on her hack tions. “The investment banker plays an important part in the country’s de- velopment. It is for his protection, as well as the public's, that a sound national policy should be established whereby the sale of fraudulent secu- rities can be prevented." Mr. Mellon also suggests an educa- tion campalgn that will inform the public constantly as to the folly of investment without investigation. However, he and other conservative leaders in the financial world realize the difficulty of teaching those who are not blind, but will not see, and who are not dumb, but will not learn. The Toll Gate Passes. From the Lynchburg Advance. The death knell of the toll gate in Augusta County has been sounded by the board of supervisors. On Novem- Der 1 this ancient system of collecting revenue with which to both build and maintain good roads will go out of existence. There is some opposition to the ac- tion of the supervisors in approving the recommendation of the county finance committee that the toll gate should be abolished. Farmers living on dirt roads are said to feel that the toll gate benefits them and with its removal they will get no more funds for thelr roads. 2 As a general rule, toll gates in all sections of the United States have been abolished. Perhaps-the Augusta County gates are the. only ones re- maining in Virginia. They have been found inadequate to the meds of high- way financing and new and more mod- ern methods of raising revenue have superseded them. The gasoline tax is the new toll gate. There is no more popular or more expedient method of securing money for highway construction. The old toll gate served a useful purpose and ‘no doubt by making use of it the Valley of Virginia today boasts of a fine network of improved roads. But it is entirely out of.date. —o—s Faiigue. From the Dallas Journai. There are occasions when the head of an ambitious household grows tired of writing his own name. — —eoes Differentiation. From the Wail Street Journal there s sound distinction between pacts and pax, May be small sound difference, nuxl Well, thus the irony of g under other owne BOOKS AND LABOR President Green of A. F. of L. Urges Support for Libraries. That the American Federation of Labor recognizes the importance of the public library in workers’ educa- tion is shown by an editorfal by Wil- lam Green, president of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor, appearing in the May number of the American Fed- erationist, which urges labor organiza- tions and espectally local committees on education throughout the jurisdic: tion of the American Federation of Labor to “do their utmost to promote generous appropriations for library purposes.” The editorial is based on an article in the same fssue by Dr. George ¥. Bowerman, librarian of the local Public Library. entitled “The Free Public Library—Its Possluilities us u Public Service Agency.” The article states that “a study of the official literature of the American Federation of Labor “hows that from the outset organized labor in America strongly supported the public schools and throughout its history has chum ploned every forward movement in the development of the instructio part of our system of public edu tion. During all these years, and unt very recently, this same official liter: ture has practically ignored the ex fstence of the public library. Recent- ly, however, there have been frequent marks of recognition of the public library in official addresses and reso Tutions, in which organized labor has been advised to urge hetter support for public libraries, to seck participa- tion in_their administration and to secure the co-operation of libraries in plans for workers' education and other parts of labor's educational pro gram.” Three Kinds of ice. i The public library which labos asked to support is described hy Bowerman as furni¢hing three ¥ pal kinds of service: Community in telligence service, furnishing up-to- fluu-_ facts on all questions of human affairs; an educational agent supple instruction, and a storehouse of cultural and recreation al reading sulted to all stes and needs. The modern public library is a dynamle, aggressive institution, which seeks to draw the entire com munity within the range of its influ #nce through contacts with the schools to help teachers and pupils, with labe colleges and unions, with classes, night schools, university ex- tension classes, women's study clubs and similar groups. Such services in- clude advice and assistance in plan- ning courses, furnishing books for reference and study, and, if practi- cafle and desired, providing meeting places in branch libs fes. “The problem of the part that the public library may play in the adult education movement is at pregent the #ubject of study of the commission on the library and adult education of the /\n_ crican Library ssociation. In this study the commission has had the close co-operation of ommittee on adult education appointed by the Ameri ederation of Labor and of the Workers’ Education Bureau They American Li ry Assoclatlon js is suing a bulietin entitled *. It Educa tion and the Lib . une number of which devoted to ‘Industrial Educa tion," a direct result of the co-operi tion with organized labor. The library association has also brought to the attention of librarlans the list of hooks on ‘Labor Problems prepared by the Workers' Education Bureau.” 3 P 2 the gen stock ¢ staff. Th vEtem congists of ry, br ch libra subbranches and statigns, so dis tributed as to furnish library service and books convenient to all, with a staff that shall be educated. trained. experienced, secure in tenure and properly paid. Staffs Are Insufficient. “In too many libraries the staff is sufficient only to record and receive books, with little or no margin left for the advisory work now coming to be recognized ‘us a necessary part of library work. Library staffs must be strengthened in numbers and must consist more largely of ghose fitted to do the consultative work? which is the essence of the library's educational | function.” To carry on their work and to ex pand it. the public libraries need more adequate support. “The latest infor- mation ia to the effect that less than half of the people of the United have any kind of public library ice whatever. and with respec minority who have some libr: ice, in ‘many cases the lik wholly inadequate. That is, they are meagerly stocked with rather poor books and are badly run by incom tent_librarians. f Am. can Library Association set up a mini mum standard of $1 per capita of the is Dr i e ¢ needs adequa 3 a carefully selected and a competent ideal _public libr a céntral lit phys | sery- to the serv aries are MEN AND To use a familia the Senate’s proposed investigation into senatorial primary nditures was 100 hot for a couple of Senators | to handle. It was machiavellian cun- | ning on the part of Vice President Dawes to name Senators Reed of Pennsylvania and Deneen of Tlinois | on the select committee to conduct t) inquiry into the alleged hundles hoodle which were unstrapped some of the recent unpleasantne The two States which have been | under fire in the Senate's discussion | of unseemly primary expenditures Pennsylvaniaz _ang Nlinols Se) or - Reed nor Senator cared to be involved in th of their own Htate leade reluctance is natural enough. of these Senators kept out trenches during the bitter and neither was personally conece base ball phi of in of the expended. Yet it would decldedly embarrassing for act as Inguisitors on the home., and it i not surp: failing_to relish such Vice President tried them, they promptiy resignatio; Up to the time sing % the dered their the Pennsylvania squabble got finally under way, the Iliinois fight between Senator Mc Kinley and Col. Frank Smith, former that | ipon | AFFAIRS BY ROBERT T. SMALL. place of Penrose, of Cameron. Representative Vare. who in vember will be elected to Senator. assumed the role of State dictato Whether he will be able to hold remains to be seen. He does measure up to any of his predecess. Mr. Mellon soon may. retire to pris Perhaps he will bhe that the mant v leadership did ndt fall upon him is an uneasy head that wears Keystone crown of the G. O. 1" of Quay and No Under the brief ing. “Race Track Official Dies was told in the news dis ches of Thursday the stor: the Pussing of a true Southern gentlemi f the old school Andrew Venni cunie v il Downs here on Saturday week L {hud superintended all the arrange | ments for the running of the fifty-se. nd Kentucky Derby The colonel hud not been as hale and hearty as usual for some time but Derby day he told all of his friends he never had felt better i his life. These friends had come fron the far corners of the country. The had come with the knowledge tha Col. Vennie, with the hospitality o on chairman of the State central com mittee, was regarded highest mark of senatorial expenditure since the tor Newberry of Michigan But recent reports have heen the Pennsyivania fight has tilted t lid off a political jackpot which 1 have ranged all the way from $2.000 000" to 000,000, ator Reed in sists that this is a wild exaggeration. But it was the report which the Senate to act. Dlinois, the has to play second fiddle for th being. although the revelations fr ate may be decidedly contest esting When it is ¢dnsidered that « is elected only for six years ut E of $10,000 a vear, the prima xpenditures, even if they do not *h into the millions, certainly are entirely out of propertfon to tinancfal worth of the job. The prim system may hrought reforms in some direc Jut o far as the use of mone: campaign i€ concerned, the pi in a mary rule has let down the Lars to expendi- | woul ce been un tures which a ge dreamed of tion ugo. The claim that mar these enormous penditures are of an entirely legiti- ate character is true enough, but that does not lessen the fact that the money is spent and that a poor man, running for the Se y hig States, must tance from virtually any qua which it may ¥ od. independence is broken b; tom. Just as many ators listen ay to their mas voice. vé heed in the old days of sel - the party leaders he vast sums expended in the Pennsylvania and Tllinois primaries ally we beyond the 1l conte: ate tership the Republica within the State was at stake was particularly true in Pennsylvania where Secretary of the Treasury Me lon, who long has ruled the tion” in Pittehurgh the Mellon influence from one end of the Keystone to the other. “Mellon machine’ ut the Western the < heen just s stron i} bt are machine outvoted the Mellon ‘hine on Tuesday and the Se * may not try again to take the setting the | | 1t - | Col. sought to extend | { the old South, would greet them wit kind words and kind deeds. Tho Who knew him best were aware tha no trip to Loulsvilie would he col plete wit e - home foned m of Kentucky's of pre-war Bo b ‘ol. Vennie t il ceremon was the highest Sometimes the julep req {in the making. to zet the right and to get the prope of frosting on the g {libation to be approa Tt breathed of ‘ky days. To soetion w apid ishing stoci . e mixing of thi- To his frien: nplin s an ho the - removed guzzling ctar is from ne: with ind g ucky vice preside: of the Kei - two colonels were insep: nd both w part and pa {entucky racing and all that is_bes: day American racing was 3 with ample means, | could have led a retired and peacefu! life, but he loved the crowds : . | thoroughbreds and the excitem: | the turf. Louisville on Derby day will | not seem the same withour him. I: Vennie there has passed w Kind |1y, gentle soul which cannot { placed. | The w recalle that, on Derb day, Col. Vennle, gazing in wonde at the vast crowd at Churchill Downs wars immensely ainused at one racine enthusiast, who literally had hanged { himself in’order to be sure of getting an unobstructed view of the fames Kentucky racing classic. The ma Irought a looped rope with him to the ck. He had passed the loop unde his arms, hail tied the loose end of the rope to the mezzanine balcony o | the grandstand and deliberately hac susperided himseif over the heads « | the spectators on the lawn. There b dangled. swinging to and fro in th | breeze, with a_pair of field glasses i lone hand and a racing program i | the other. In all his years of racing e avowed he never hefore 'n so desperate an enthusiast (Copyright. 1026 This and That By Charles E. Tracewell. EXTE JACK SPRATT CATCHE HIS FIRST ARROW BIRD TURNS ITS BACK ONCE TOO OFTEN, ALAS! "HOT DOG “BUT IT TOOK Mk Star Spratt, well known alley his first bird vesterday. vears spent stalking blue- birds. sparrows. humming-birds and butterflies. to say nothing of a mud- turtle, The event came unexpectedly, most great turns in life do, following population for erdinary library service —ly no means the best. With every book costing double or more what it did 20 years ago; with the multiplica- tion of titles necessary for purchase: with a rapidly expanding reading pop. ulation; with every form of library ex- pense mounting; with a need for larger and better paid staffs, it is clear that the public library must have very much larger funds to enable it to measure up to the standards of serv- ice that the public is increasingly de. manding.” " * Fi Eighty Thousand Dollars From 140 Acres. From the Anniston Star. Strawberries, that can be grown as successfully in Alabama as in Missis. sippi, are proving a money-making crop in Lauderdale County, Miss., ne- cording to a report from Meridian. This_season, the Meridian report says, 20 carloads of strawberries al- ready have been shipped from Lauder- dale County by the Strawberry Grow. ers’ Assoclation, and twenty-five car- loads more are in sight for shipment. The president of the Strawberry Growers' Association, J. (i. Hobgood, is quoted as saying the members of the association * will realize $80.000 from their berries this year, most of the berries selling thus far at $6 a crate. The entire crop was ralsed on 140 acres. To what other crop could 140 acres be planted to bring the farmers $80.- 000? Five hundred and seventy-one dollars is a pretty good income from an acre of ground. Another thing noticed in the strawberry report from Missfesippi is the way In_which the berries are marketed. The Straw- berry Growers® Assoclation looks after the shipping and marketing of the berrfes. Here is co-operative selling in a practical way. and it evidently is paying. as co-operative selling always does when handled in a business-like manner. v—em s The ‘World’s Richest Man. From the New York World. Such is the paradox of our Ameri- can scheme of things that the richest man we ever produced was unaware, at the time he was in possession of his wealth, how rich he was. ' This sounds strange, vet it is a fact. Leon- idas Merritt, who has just died, at one time held title to ore lands in the ‘West which have already vielded dig- gings worth $2,000,000.000. But at the time he owned them he had mo idea what they were worth: until he lost them in the panic of 1893 they looked like o many mountains to him, and { it was not until they were aeve hip (hat he I- 'sus he once had been. man kind. had no d what a Cre Until he had a sfesta spent by Mr. Spratt on a rustic bench in his back yard. It wi the same bench, the same yard and the same sun of the past three re—but not the same sparrow. The quarry, in an insuiting manner, turned its back upon J. Spratt, which was more than an honest cat could tolerate. Who could blame him? He went forward in his best man ner, displaying the most sterling tech- nique in creeping ever seen in this vicinity. Not a blade of grass rattled while edging forward past the honeysuckle vine. His style was beautifully cramped as he rounded the dwarf nasturtiums. ‘Now or never!” his eloquent tail emed to say. * % ok K This writer is pleased to report that the bird was a member of the English sparrow family. This point has been settled beyond all dispute, so that lovers of Bluebirds. robins and other ornamental and useful birds may rest easy. For all too many years, now. the sparrows have been making some- thing of a nuisance of themselves, in varfous purts of Washington. o that even the fire department has had to get after them with a hose. 1t will be' realized, therefore. that Jack Spratt merely followed in the trail of the civic authorities, and no doubt deserves a vote of thanks, his friends say.' But_we left the interesting feilow waggling his hind quarters prepar: tory to the spring. His head was low in the grass, his green eyes shining like comets, his white breast gleam- ing like a cake of soap, his symmetri- cal body poised as if on the brink of nothing. The sparrow, intent on a conversa- tion it was having with a pert voung miss, did not see the hand of doom that held itself suspended for an in- stant over its head. There was a flash of stripes, a whisk of whiskers and a white paw struck the sparrow to the earth, to rise no more. If there are friends of spar- rows reading here, let them weep now, for it was not exactly a pleasant sight. * ok kK We, who hud championed the right | of every cat to catch at least one bird, failed to get any “kick” what- ever out of the proceeding. The mys- tery and sorrow of death is the same, in immortal -essence, whether it in- volves a sparrow or a man. Yet no man may justly blame the cat nature, when men have carried on organized murder for thousands of years, culminating in “the greatest thing of its kind" after 2,000 years of Christianity. There was 10 sorrow in Jack's eyes as he brought the bird into the living | only pride “The little better, they roomn ation. shone in Tumbs play. are.only one times one.”, So, when he carfled the dead bird ta the kitghen, dropped It on the our thehr the | as| ifty Years Ago In The Star Shortly hefore the Republican na tional convention of 1576. a_charge . was brought in Congress The Blaine against James G. Blaine Inquiry. {F i | i | | one of the leading candi dates for the presidential | | nomination, regarding his_connection with the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad Co. of Arkansas. A sub committee was appointed by the i House judiciary committee to invest | mate 1 . _In The Star of Ma: 15. 1876. 18 the following account of t session of the subcommittee Harrison of Indianapoils was sworn. He testified that at | meeting of the board of directors o the Union Pacific Railroad Compan: Mr. Rollins, the secretary and treas urer of the company. had asked him to prese an examination as to how the honds of the Arkansas road were acquired by the company, for the reason that it would involve M: Blaine and injure his chances for re election to Congress. He stated tha the interview printed as having been had with him by a representative of the Indianapolis Sentinel was correct fr. Millard, a government dire: tor of the road. corroborated Harrison but said his understanding to Rollins objection to the investigation was that it would involve a prominent man and that Mr. Blaine's name was not men tioned. “Hon. James T. Wilson. anothe: government director, testified that he had never told Horace White of the Chicago Tribune, or anybody else, that Mr. Blaine had ever made any state ment with reference to the matter other than that made by him publicly from his seat in the House of Repre sentatives. “F. H. Rollins, the treasurer of t company, said that he had heard th» Blaine would be involved by an in vestigation because he had heard fron: some source, which he could net now remember, that he would be. He de nied, however, that he drew Mr. Harri son aside to make the statement, be cause the raom was a. small one, and he could not weil have done so. 1le also denied that he told Mr. Harrison that Blaine would be injured in his congressional election by an investi ion and for the reason that he could not have done so because Mr Blaine had been triumphantly elected {in his district three days before the meeting of the board of directors took place. “Mr. Rollins further testified that. to satisfy his own mind in relation to the hearsay that Mr. Blaine would be involved by an examination of the matter, he made a thorough examina tion of the books of the company, and every other source calculated to con firm” or dispel the charge, and he long since became satisfied that the rumor was a mistake. and that Mr. Blaine had nothing to do with the transaction, in the most remote or indirect manner. Witness was long since of the opinion that the charge was a cruel slander on Mr. Blain v —. A Chance. From the Muncie Star. _The British strike should enable some who have been living on doles to do a little honest work. | not Air Traffic Signals. From the Santa Barbara Daily News, When an airplane driver holds out his hand. it will take two more guesses to avoid hitting him. ¢ 500" ind looked up eloquently at the grinder we had no heart blame him. He simply had something he had been tryis for three run. it M Men call that Success, | floor