Evening Star Newspaper, May 24, 1926, Page 8

8 THE EVENING With Sunday Sloruing Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. ‘ MONDAY.... May 24, 1926 STAR [immense and instructive, industrial, agricultural and expository of the fine arts. It is a great enterprise, de- signed to make still warmer the friendly relations of the United States | with the nations of the world, which jare guests at the exposition, and at the same time to keep alive in Ameri- can hearts the spirit of patriotism and devotion country. Philadel- phia, with its Independence Hall, its &lorious Liberty Bell, is regarded as a cradle of liberty. The whole Nation will wish Philadelphia well in this, its latest great undertaking. The exposition grounds are vast and adjoin the United States Navy Yard at Philadelphia, which itself is an added attraction of interest. Already naval craft of mearly every kind are moored in the Ameri- can fighting ships which played their parts in past wars are there, too, from the famous old frigate, “the Constellation,” down to ships which figured in the World Wa [ - Grade Crossing Tragedies. The grade crossing takes its toll of life with a frequency that should stir itation against it until there will be " {no intersections of railroads and auto. mobile roads or streets on the same level. Yesterday's known dead from collision between trains and automo- biles was fourteen and the dispatches telling of the grade crossing trage. dies come from Flint, Mich.; Fort Mad- son. Towa, and Buffalo, N. Y. It is not likely that all the grade crossing accidents of the day have been re- ported to newspapers. It is useless to speculate on whose fault these iragedies were. The railroad grade crossing was a thing inveighed gainst when the ordinary roads were traveled by an occasional horse and wagon and when one short train a day passed along a railroad. Many with on its merits, without involve- |country roads carry more traffic than ment with other lines of industry, ex- | Broadway carried twenty-five vears cept in so far as other industries are |00 and demand for abolition of all affected by the shortage of fuel. grade crossings of rail and auto roads Tor wears the mere threat of a gen- | gyows more insistent. We have got eral strike has been an effective club |yiq of nearly all such crossings in the in the hands of organized British la- | pistrict, and it is believed that the hor, and so much success has attended | jast of them will be made safe soon its wielding at times that there has | by passing the auto road under or heen considerable sentiment in the |apove the railroad. In the country ranks of American labor for its im- | ear Washington grade crossings are portation into this country. Radicals |siill numerous, but in the country among American labor leaders have |pordering the District a gradual re- THEODORE W. NOYES ! The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: Pennsylvania Av o: P10 East 49nd Tower Building. London, . . Editor to 11th VK € Chicagzo Of ok European Office i1 Recent St England. ing Star. with the Sunday morn is delivered hv earriers withir ¥4t 60 ronts her mor 45 cents per month: Sunday onl per ‘month, Orders. may he sont telephone Main 5000, Collevtion is carrier at the end of cach month. great Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dails and Sunday 1ar, $0.00: 1 mo.. 7 Dasix only L1001 .L0 1 vel $600: 1 mo. e Suaday only .. 1¥r..$3.00: 1 mo.. 25 All Other States and Daily and Sunday.1vr.$ Danly - ont 1y Eunday oniy el Canada. 01 mo. $1.00 01 mo. 230 $1.00: 1mo, 35c Member of the Associated Press. ! The Associated ¥ exelusively ertit 10 the use for republication « f all news it or not otherwisa cred- A also the local news { publics 1so re Baldwin's Stronger Hand. Tn the notice which Prime Minister Baldwin of Great Britain has just served on the mine owners and K- tng coal miners there is to be found a note of confidence which was lack- ing in earlier efforts of the govern- ment to bring about an adjustment of the collieri dispute. The reason for®this is not far to seek. By the calling, and the calling off, of the general strike British labor played its trump card—and lost. There no longer is anything to fear from this Koure nd the dispute between the nd mine owners can be dealt expression. As player, as coach, as official, as rulemaker, he was admired by men even as he had repeatedly sent them head-downward into the mud, and beloved by men who had never seen him. Now comes the most interesting part. Although the gateway is to be erected at Yale, the cost of its con- truction is to be shared by every uni. versity, college and preparatory school in which foot ball is played. Could any freshman entering his chosen college close his eyes and imagine for himself a vision of the | future more gratifying than that? Walter Camp won the right to the varsity “Y" many times in a number of different spor Strip the “Y” or the or the “H" or the “I"” from the chest of many a brawn, popular fellow and nothing is left, Camp was so much greater than any broad white letter that the latter grows dim and its outlines blur. In so far as human estimation goes his spirit is entitled to wear the entire collegiate alphabet. The “campus” of every such institution, irrespective of the derivation of the word, enshrines his memo: Automobiles and Populations. A widely held belief of Washingto- nians that this city contains more au tomobiles per capita than almost any other in the United States is borne out least, when statistics are compared of the two cities. Baltimore, with a pop- ulation estimated at 790,000, and an approximate registered number of au- tomobiles of 81,400, is shown to have one motor car for every 9.7 persons, while the Nutional Capital, with 498,000 population, not only has more automobiles, with a registration of 83,831, but one of every 5.9 persons here owns a So it is small wondet' that the traf- fic problem in the District assumes the proportions of that encountered in a much larger city, especially when it is realized that the 83,000 cars here are crowded into a comparatively small space. Another factor entering the situation is the rapid increase in the number of automobiles in Washington. With all these things in mind, it behooves Congress to treat the District in trafic matters as a ‘“big league” town and not regard it as belonging a agitated for the “One Big Union.” which would have such 4 grip on the |ahout, Sundry States are carrying throats of the American people that |on work of making grade crossings demands would have to be granted |gafe by eliminating them and New promptly or .the nation would De |york has had under consideration a paralyzed. Now that British labor | measure for the wholesale abolition has actually made use of the general |of railroad and auto road grade cross- strike weapon, and has found that it {inge, which calls for a very large ex- was a stuffed club, American labor | penditure of money to be paid by the leaders of the conservative school of |State, the railroads and by municipali- Samuel Gompers will have less diffi- | ties that receive benefits. culty combating the radicals within —e— their ranks. A Warning to Flappers. When the British strike was called off, the government undertook to set. | A scathing arraignment of the craze tle the coal strike along certain lines, | f the American flapper for a boyish Both the miners and mine owners re. | i6ure has been made by a prominent Jected the formula which the gov-|NeW York doctor who states that crnment advanced. Now Bremior | “Ten million girls are doomed to @ Baldwin serves notice on both that |N288ard and vinegar-visaged old age.” this rejection relieves the govern. |l @ Warning issued to “the young ment from the obligations it assumed e S ‘The craze for flat forms is ruining In the matter and that it becomes |¢he race. Young girls are swallowing a free agent to employ such meas- | poisonous drugs to prevent putting on ures as may be deemed necessary [flesh which nature intended them to % Cancet is the nemesis of the © meet the situation. His notification human race at this moment. To com- is accompanied by the warning that |pat the inroads of this frightful at the end of the present month the |scourge we need healthy bodies. More government’s agreement to continue |than half our girls, the mothers of the future, are rendering themselves the subsidy will lapse, and he makes | ynfit by their fight against flesh. By it plain that under the circumstances | the methods they use, the girls of to- it is not likely to be renewed. gay nreiin;;flll:g every ill to which a . uman is heir. Thg essential point in the govern- The drugs our young women swal- ment’s proposal was that both sides |low daily would destroy a fleet of bat- should submit to arbitration. Neither ;'leehipslbo'ihely d% not realize thl?t th; is willi o uman ly is the most complicate :‘:el ;:"_gn:r'; f"fllm:'h But with the | ) [hhicar factory in existence. They eft without a subsidy | treat their stomachs as if they were and the miners without the hope of |concrete mixers. There can be but assistance through a general strike | O result. both may soon come to take a more Although to the average person this reasonable view. warning would seem to exaggerate o slightly the actual state of affairs, there I.ong Air Trip mm_ does not seem to be the slightest doubt A flying boat set that “flapper ideas” of figure and sky toda_f ‘bound (roflx?:o;i?k":: dress, if carried to extremes, are dan- Buenos Aires. Most persons will fol. |ESTOUS to the growing womanhood of lief from their danger is being brought | low the news of this ship with inter. | i3 country Reducing for either man or woman est. She lays her course above the sea all the way to the city of Buenos Aires, one of the world's great cities, and will settle to the surface of the earth or bays at various sea- copst cities along the way for the pwpose of taking on gas and oil and delivering messages to officials. So many journeys in the air are be- ing made which would have been ac- counted almost miraculous a few vears ago that millions of persons read without excitement of the de- parture of the flying boat from the largest city in the Northern Hemi- sphere to the largest in the South- ern, on the American continent. So used has one become to wonders in aerial navigation that no doubt is felt that the present adventure will succeed. is a serious matter and should be car- ried out only under the advice of doc- tors. Drugs of any kind should never be used promiscuously for this pur- pose. Every human is different in body and in face. There has never been and never will be a medicine concocted which will turn out identi- cal figures or faces. So the flapper should heed the ad- vice of physicians and cease her at- tempt to fight nature, because in all cases the use of drugs can have but one result, ill health and a shorter span of life. —————————— Fixing salaries of the new prohibi- tion officers at a dollar a year each for the additional service would at least prevent congressional outcry in this connection against overpaid Govern- ment workers. —————— Political forecasters are compelled to agree on one point: The voting public becomes harder to guess with each passing year. ———— v An Honor Local, Yet National. Announcement comes from New Haven that Yale's group of athletic fields are to be renamed in honor of the late Walter Camp and at their entrance is to be erected a monu- mental gateway bearing his name. ————. Many Pennsylvania citizens are in- clined to regard the recent vote as confusing, owing to an effort to as- sume that it decides so many- ques- tions at once, - . Prohibition enforcement may yet be facilitated to a degree that will pro- vide a dry agent for every bootlegger. ——— The Sesquicentennial. The celebration of the sesquicen- tennial of the signing of the Declara- tion of Independence is to begin for- mally a week from today with the |His memory needs no monument; opening of the International Expgsi-nevertheless it is eminently fitting tion in Philadelphia. The exposition [that it should be preserved by one. has been sanctioned by the Federal| It is doubtful if any American, both Government and the foreign powers|as undergraduate and alumnus, so im- will be represented both officially and [Pressed his personality upon his alma unofficially through the participatiop | mater as did this man, and in this of their men of commerce and indus. |fact those who decry collegiate and in- try. Fifty yvears ago, the centen.|tercollegiate athletics may find food nial of the signing of the famous doc- | for thought. Graduates of various col- ument which proclaimed liberty |leges have risen to the presidency of throughout the Republic was cele. |the United States, but as undergrad, brated with a great exposition in |uates they were not widely known. Philadelphia. That marked the first|Other undergraduates have been, for of a list of remarkable and splendid | various reasons, well known to their expositions which have been held in |colleges and to the nation at large, this country in commemoration of |only to sink later into comparative ob- historic events and their anniversa- | scurity. ries, including the World Fair in Chi-| That Camp's personality was ex- cago, the St. Louis Exposition at the | pressed largely through athletic ac- centennial of the Louisiana Purchase | tivities is more or less a detail; the and the exposition in San Francisco. | personality, the charaéter, was there Philadelphia, turning its shoulder [and it so happened that games and to the wheel, has planned an exhibis | sportsmanship, dear to nearly all per- ! thadeshmediumof thelr to a “bush circuit.” There are real problems to be solved here, and they should be tackled with the best talent and the best and most modern ma- chinery available. ——— The Scopes trial is not yet ended, but there is no prospect that it will be revived as a Summer sensation. The chief argument involved has been going on for many years, and nobody, once convinced by his personal thought and reading, has been known to change his mind. ——— oo It is possible to overdo sensational publicity. The champagne bath epi- sode which has attracted so much attentlon suggests no capacity for picturesque or clever ideas such as would attract normal patronage to a box office. ——————— It is always a relief to find an in- vestigation settling down to an ascer- tainment of facts and figures, with less importance attached to the inter- change of participants of their private opinions of one another. —————————— Discussion of naval disarmament becomes more and more interesting as a matter of economy as the diffi- culty of financing ordinary operations of European governments increases. ——e——— The fundamentalists and the mod- ernists are still waiting for a practi- cal demonstration of the reminder “Blessed are the peacemakers.” —————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Coy Jume. It's May time, the gay time, the blos- soming play time Of which we have dreamed through the year. But Winter still lingers, gray time That mocks all our efforts at cheer. But bowers whose flowers with mys- tical powers Awaken the mocking bird's song Remind us we'll soon have the sun- shiny showers If we'will keep coaxing along. a serious ‘Why worry and scurry amid a sad flurry And scorn the scant pleasure that strays, Because we can't reach with impetu- ous hurry The balmy beneficent days? The singing and fiinging of perfumes are bringing Assurances new to the throng. So, let us join in as to hope we're all clinging And help to keep coaxing along. Strangers. “It is the nature of a true philoso- pher to despise money.” “I can’t see that,” answered Senator Sorghum. “I never yet knew a first. class philosopher who was well enough acquainted with money to show it any disrespect.” Jud Tunkins says the man who in- vented the saxophone beat Tom Ed- ison in educating people to get along without sleep. True to Title. From cabarets and hallways There comes the selfsame chime. They start a tune called “Always", And they play it all the time. il S The Highly Important Laugh. “That comedian doesn't make me laugh.” “Perhaps it isn't his fault. Perhaps you are holding out on the laugh be- cause of the importance you attach to your own critical opinion.” [ Question for Question. The empty greetings we extend From quarrel leave us free. 1 say, “How are you?” and my friend Says just the same to me. “Good advice,” said Uncle Eben, “is scarce. Mighty few people have ‘enoughi Lol deixr oWn personal meedss? in so far as Baltimore is concerned. at | "THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. What a great deal one can accom- plish if one knows how! This thought came the other day as we stood admiring an old home which had been remodeled after the latest principles of the decorative art. Here was a_ frame house, not so much better than a shed, that had been seen by a woman who combined business with artistic ability. Where you and I, kind reader, per- haps would have seen an old house and nothing more, this woman saw a chance to make money while indulg- ing in her favorite recreation of deco- ration, Today her home stands as an ex- ample-—we are almost inclined to say a living example, so truly does the spirit of life breathe through the structure—of what one may do if he, or she, only knows how. We are in a position to appreciate what this woman has done with a house, because we have donme much the same thing with writings sbbmit- ted to us by others. A composition had come in. It was well intended, and had most of the facts in it, but was woefully put to- gether. One used to the (more or lesg) accurate handling of words takes such a_jumble, and out of it produces what the writer thought he had writ- ten, but had not. No with the old house. it had served a worthy purpose, no doubt, but its day was long over. Most persons would have thought it only fit to be torn down. The one able to see its possibilities, however, had no difliculty in making a modern,” artistic home arise from what the rest of us would have wrecked. 4 In its day U The exterior has been done over in a soft yellow stucco, which time will mellow into even more bheautiful s, There is an old doorway, k steps where the milkman wares, (M. wandering urchins never dare lift an unhallowed hand!) Green shutters of a soft tone har- monize unusually well with the wall and with the maroon roof. The ex- terior effect is colorful yet subdued, arresting vet inviting. To get this effect is given only to knowledge wedded to artistic sense. An old light depends from the ceil- ing in the small entrance hall, up from which winds a staircase in the ancient way. To the immediate left is the dining room, its windows facing in the street. We will describe this room later, golng now immediately through the hall alongside the steps to the living room at the rear of the house. Here we find our dream come true. Who is there, interested in homes, who has not dreamed of the ideal living room, large vet c colorful yet not too “‘peppy to read undisturbed, yet where a dance might be given equally well? Such is this room. One finds him- selt in a_chamber 32 by 15 feet, with a great fireplace at one side, flanked by built-in bookcases, the room culminating at_the far end (south) in three arches, through which one sees a winding staircase leading up from a sunroom. The distinction of this treatment fascinates the appreciative visitor the moment he steps through the door. The walls and ceiling of the living room are done in deep cream-colored paint, while the sunroom and stair- case are in a light blue antique paper, after the old-fashioned manner. * K ok ¥ ‘We could see ourself fleeing up those glorified backsteps from the Unwelcome Guest just as plain as If we had actually owned the home! Such s the inevitability, if one may call it that, of the entire place. One would have to flee up those intriguing steps, even at the risk of breaking one’'s neck, for there is no banister. ‘There would be no escaping falling into a seat before the great fireplace, at one side of the long room, nor, equally, from allowing one's eyes to glance over the embossed figures of the mantel. The visitor is not at all surprised to learn that the mantel has a history. It ought to have—and, by George, it has! "It was secured at a ridiculous figure in a junk shop. Legend has it that the mantel orig- inally stood more than a hundred vears ago in a place where slaves were bought and sold. Ladies of a sym- bolical nature troop across the top front, or whatever you call the sec- tion of a mantel just ‘abaft the top. On the left end, however, the lady is strangely missing. Some have sug- gested that she be restored, but our vote is against any such desecration. Let the Missing Lady be missed unto_eternity, in the same way that the Venus of Milo must go without her arms, and the great Victory with- out her head. * k% We have lingered too long in the living room, although that is exactly the result every properly designed and furnished lving room should secure. Let us go up the narrow stair, to the landing, where we find a series “of three steps leading to a slightly higher level, along a hall where a bank of three closets hits the ladies squarely hetween the eyes. These three closets have sky-blue doors, which, upon opening. give ace’ to rows upon rows of shelves. are two baths and three bed- , only one of which we have ‘e to describe, The master bed chamber evidently combination of a room and an old porch now thrown into onme. Six windows, side by side, hung with “tie- back” curtains, admit all the air and sunshine possible in this tremendous alcove, Descending to the first floor, we enter the dining room. The walls are finished in putt or, one side having two recesses, with a shell ef- fect at the top done in plaster painted the same as the walls. To the side is the kitchen, also on the front of the house, and with its own door onto the sireet. Passing again through the living room and the sunroom, we go out on the porel which opens onto a closed-in garden, where scarcely a cat might come un. invited. There is here a brick terrace, a grape arbor and arched trellises whereon ros climb and bloom in season. id, wintry night, how- ever, we would like this home best. Then we would get out a good book, is s sit before that fire and let the rest of the world go by. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Japan, it appears, has now come within the purview of the Carmi Thompson mission to the Far East. At any rate, it has become known that President Coolidge’s Philippine scout is to visit Nippon before returning to America next Autumn. Whether Mr. Thompson’s sojourn in the Land of the Rising Sun is to be purely by way of relaxation after his tour of the Philippines, or whether he will go to Tokio on some quasi-official errand, has not vet heen disclosed. The Ohjoan will sail for Yokohama on June 15 from Seattle on the United States Shipping Board liner President Grant. He does not plan to stop at Yokohama, but will proceed directly to Manila. According to present ar- rangements, Mr. Thompson will ar- rive in Japan about the end of Sep. tember, stay there two or three weeks and return to the United States early in November. X h ek The Rev. Edmund J. Walsh, S. J., Georgetown University's brilliant young authority on foreign affairs, visited Constantinople recently before returning to America from his trip through the Near East. He says that the paramount issue in Turkey today is the fez. When the Mustafa Kemal government banished the fez, the wearing of it became a felony punish- able by death. The ancient headgear of the Ottoman was abolished because it was considered an ignoble relic of the old Turkey, which had too long bent the knee to the foreign oppres- sor. Father Walsh says that about the time he was at the Golden Horn the fourteenth Turk had been exe- cuted for daring to appear in public fez-bedecked. The only Mohammedan still seen in Constantinople so adorn- ed {s the Egyptian consul, and he has been warned that he wears the fez at his deadly peril. Old Turks, who look upon modern headgear as sac- rileglous, prefer to remain perpetu- ally 1indoors, with a fez on their heads, rather than submit to the new order. Disappearance of the fez re- sulted in the dumping onto the Turk. ish hat market of 5,000,000 European hats of every age, shape, color, ma- terial and form in modern or ancient existence. * K kK ‘Who kmows that the United States Government maintains a hassock, or kneeling bench, and that it does duty regularly in the Library of Congress? It is part of the marble shrine erected three or four years ago, in which the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States are incased. The hassock is made of the same gray marble of which the glass and gold-bound shrine itself is com- posed. Library guards on duty there are authority for the statement that every once in a while some liberty- loving, Constitution-reverencing pa- triot comes along and uses the hassock for the purpose for which it was de- signed. = * % kX William G. McAdoo, 'whom the Democrats of California are talking of nominating for the United States Senate, gave his opinion of politicians during his recent visit to Washington. “I've got an avocado (alligator pear) tree growing on my place at Santa Barbara,” he sald, “which has reso- lutely refused to bear fruit. So I've named it ‘Politician’—something lo: on promise and short on production! * %k %k X Benito Mussolini is combating a chronic malady by adhering to a sys- tem of diet and living prescribed by a celebrated American doctor—William J. Mayo of Rochester, Minn. When Dr. Mayo went to Italy four or five months, ago. it was stated that he was bound for a private pleasure trip. The facts are, this observer is rellably in- formed, that he was summoned to a consultation with Mussolini’s own physicians. The result of § rigid ex- amination of the Fascist dictator was Mayo's decision that if Mussolini fol- lowed a certain diet regimen, which the American then and there pre- scribed, welle Hin dangerous, and his condition such that an operation was not needed. LR Brother Senators who have had ac- cess to the undiplomatic correspond- ence that recently has passed between Hiram Johnson and Thaddeus Cara- way pronounce it a model of plain speaking on both sides. It refers to the possession of Calvert Manor, the colonial estate which Senator John- son inhabits just over the Maryland line. The Californian has a lease ex- piring March 4, 1929, but that didn't prevent Caraway from buying Calvert Manor, over Johnson's head and with- out the latter's knowledge, last Win- ter. According to Senate cloakroom gossip, Senator James Couzens of Old Ironsides Tale Appeals to Patriots. To the Editor of The Star: Ever since T was a boy, reading Colonial History, 1 have wanted to visit those places of such historical [ Q. How many men and women are import, endeared in the hearts of |there in colleges?—J. R. H. W. every American. A. There are 334,226 men and 187, Two years ago, my dreams and [528 women enrolled. i ealization. From — m:hi?m:e?;l‘:: &f:m ‘Washington, Q. At what time of day are fires motoring to Boston and environs, we | most frequent in New York City?— ed over roads connected with [G. A. D 3 iy and_porpetuating of this | A. According to a report to the fire Nation. And. too, they were roads |commissioner, there were in 19254.13 Which, to me, were mext to sacred | fires from 6 a.m. to noon, 7886 fires ounds, having been traveled for-|from noon to 6 p.m., from 6 p.m. to e ieh heave and valiant men | midnight, 7709 fires, and from inid- in_such a great and mighty cause. [ night 10 6 am., 3,117 fires. ‘While there is much which I could write, having made notes on the trip, this shall be-confined to the “Old Ironsides.” “Old Ironsides” as we know, is a name given the frigate Constitu- tion, not from its structure, as it is bullt entirely of wood, but from is o s career, having never met defeat. Not | or u drawn game?—W. that it was indestructible that it has| A. Hoyle says th survived, but that it was manned by | game. God-fearing, brave men, fighting in the cause of right. But, sad as it is| Q. to say, one enemy—the r‘lemenls—‘—”‘ !U'\\. s fomis o Vb ¢ ‘\n'mu of the istlof‘;,;f'v':lmo“ HperSptiaine 1o body, causing it to rise to the surface Not for its intrinsle value that it |after drowning. The length of time a | should he saved, but as a memento | Person will stay under water s de-| of the patriotism for.which it stands, | pendent upon the individual. Some-| fnstilling into the hearts of every girl | times it takes from three davs to| and boy a patriotism equally great. ccord to the chemical At the time that the United States temperature of the water. launched the frigate Constitution, at Hartley's shipyard in Boston, on the 2d of October, 1797, our Navy consisted of three 44-gun frigates. }United States, Constitution and Pregident. The number of men was 4,608 with 1.500 marines. The British navy consisted of 830 vessels, of which 230 were larger than any Aremjegr vessel: they had 15,000 sea- mew wpd an unlimited power of im presitiz sajlors. To withstand such a force of navy power, is it any wonder that it got the mame of “Old Iron- sides”'? “Old Tronsides" of $302,917, having a displaceme: 2.200 tons. It is 175 feet in length and 43.6 feet in width, not being much larger than a private yacht. The depth of the hold is 14.3 feet, having a storage capacity for provision to last six months and 48,000 gallons of | Walter Pater, water. Its complement, consisted of | Leonardo da Vinei, 450 officers and men; its log-hook | Cecil Rhodes. Ger showed that it had a speed of 13.5 the Youn | knots per hour. N g { “Old Ironsides” participated in | about 40 engagements and never suffered defeat. The most notable { was off the coast of Tripoli. having been sent along with a squadron by President Jefferson to stop the depre- dations committed by the pirates. Other engagements “The Famous Chase,” July 17 to 20, 1812; Constitution and Guerrier gust 19, 1812; Constitution and and Levant, February 20, its escape off Porto Praia, Cape Verde Islands. March 12, 181 Q. How do airmen warm when flying?—( . . A. Aviators when flying in high al- titudes wear electrically heated cloth jne, suits which are wired with bat- teries. 1 re also fur jined, cep themselves RSB Q. In chess, How long w fer water?—J Q. How many candlepower & cast off by the sun?—1I. S. The late Camille Flammarion ric measures of it is equivalent > 1.575,000,000,000,000,000,000 wax | candles i Q. WA C. A. The fact that foam generally | appears white is due to its being composed of tiny bubbles which re- | flect the light from their surfaces. | When white light, such as sunlight, | shines upon them, the naturally appear white. am look white?— Why does f M was built at a cost Q. Please name some famous bach- clors of history?—T. A. T. Cowper, Pop . settled? Prairie du Rocher was founded about 1722 by a few French families. It was given this of its situation at Mississippi blut Q. What were the hizhest and low- est voting percer n presidential electinns?—3W A. The h t of eligible voters v the foot voting pereentage st their bal- was 84 per cent. when the number was 50.9 per cer The lowest before the suffrage w g 62.5 per cent. | Geoph ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREbERlC J. HASKIN. lot as far as there is accurate record 1 1880, when the percentage was The lowest was in 1 anted to women was in 1912 with Q. How are the elements distrib. uted througkout the earth?—T, G. T. A. Dr. Henry S. Washington of the cal Laboratory says that iron is the most abundant, consti- tuting 40 per cent of the whole, foi. lowed by oxvgen, silicon and mag- nesium. These four elements comprise about 91 per cent of the whole earth. Q. What is the largest artificial de- fen structure on the face of the X . A. The Great Wall of China is the greatest barrier built by man and ex- tends for about 1500 iniles in_ the north of China proper, of which it partly formed the boundary. Q. When did people begin making soup from meat?—D. A. T. The art of soup making is one the oldest forms of cookery of h we have any knowledge what ever. It denoted distinet step forward of the civilization of the world when man learned that game which he trapped or killed might be re a process of “'stone boil- him a broth and a of the charred product he had cooked over the hot coals. The skin of the animal was his soup kettle in which he placed the meat and covered it with water. Then the improvised stock pot was A of | hung in some convenient spot, and stones, heated in the fire, were placed in it, one after the other as they be- came cool, until finally, after hours of toil, the broth was ready for servi Q. What section of the country has he highest average of cremations M It appears that the growth nf most rapid _on the nd it is stated that in asadena the number jons has equaled 50 pe: cent of the number of deaths Any reader can get the asswer to anu question by writing The Eveninag Star Information Bureau, Frederic 1. Haskin, director, Washington, D. €. This offer applies strictly to informa- tion. The bureaw cannot give advice on legal, medical and financial mat- ters. It does mot attempt to settle do- mestic troubles mor undertake er- haustive research on any subfect. Write your question plainly and bric!- Iy. Give full name and address and inclose 2 cents in stamps for return postage. The reply is sent direct to the inquirer. Address The Evening Star Information Burcau, Frederic J. Haskin, dircctor, Washington, D. € Coolidge on State Rights Arouses Differing Views The Gun Chest which is now on the | frigate was presented hy Elbridge (. Brown. Marblehead, Mass., in 1816. Tn 1906.7 during the restoration of “Old Tronsides” at Charlestown Navy Yard, the hand-carved, wooden billet head' was removed from its former position and is now stored on the frigate. When we were on the deck of “Old Ironsides,” the hold was then in such a bad condition that visitors were not permitted to go below the main deck: therefore, In order to restore and preserve this famous old frigate, every school girl and boy and every man and woman should give o that it may remain intact. not in memo allowing posterity to have an oppoi tunity to see it as it was when it proudly sailed the seas. OSCAR M. MILLER. A Needed Reformation. From the New York Times. At last there has been a real be. ginning in the needed task of rescuing the fingerprinting system from the too close association with crimi- nality, which for so' long has pre- vented the full benefits which that system always has offered. One of the big bonding companies has persuaded the brokers down in the Wall Street region to insist that the fingertips of all their messengers be printed and that the records thus created be made available to all in- terested. Shrewdly, but honestly, too, the company emphasizes, not the fact Support for the idea of ghts, which was the outstanding feature of the address by President Coolidge at the sesquicentennial observance in William and Mary Coll Williams- burg, Va. has been variously inter- although the prevailing opin- that the Executive's p n es with traditional Democratic doctrine. Criticism of bureaucracy met with general response in the country. There has been a_tenden. s the President maintain lotte Observer (Democratic), up the Federal Government with du- ties which the States should assume. The States have been running to the Government and the Government has been responsive in absorption of rights the States have dodged. in evasion of a_responsibility belonging to them. The situation has been largely brought about by a willingness on the part of States to surrender the management of their_own affairs, under mistaken belief that the Government could handle them better.” The New York Herald Tribune (Republican) similar- 1y holds that “the States, through their Senators and Representatives, continue to ask for too much as ance from the Federal Government— * agrees the C o 1 ent) says of the present that “the States have lost much of their old ed American self-reliance. In & " continues the Ledger, “they come running to Washington for help. There has been a steady breaking down of self-government.” The Hxecutive’s words also_are de clared by the Yakima Daily Republic (Republican) to have been “timely and needed: they ought to be carefully read and highly treasured by all citi- zens of this Republic.” 3ut, having applauded the Presi- dent,” laments the Asheville Times (independent Democratic), *‘many of the visitors went home to lapse back into a pelitical inertia which in the past several decades has seemed to make inevitable the building up eof that bureaucratic central Government in Washington which the President deplored.” As a remedy for the exist- ing conditions, the Reno Evening Gazette (Republican) suggests that he dangerous trend of the times to- ard centralization of government and bureaucracy could not be pointed out in stronger terms than those used by the head of the Nation."” The Daven- Democrat (Democratic) says, as should appertain to the States, he declared. the States should retain and exercise—which is Michigan was impressed into service | that thus the messengers will be more s a mediator. Caraway is said to have | easily caught if they try to run away been offered a chdnce to resell the|with the securities intrusted to them, property to Johnson at a profit, but | but the other fact that the messen- the Arkansan 'lowed he wanted the|gers will be protected from having house and not the cash. So Couzens|their identities stolen by men and has retired from the scrap, leaving | boys who only by doing o are able to senatorial courtesy to vindicate itself |get within the breastworks of the as best it can. financial army. * ok ok ok None of the, Wall Street runners i can refuse to submit to having his ‘The Romance of World Trade” is|very distinctive “mark” put away for nce in building State road: ation and in other undertakings h are within the State domain.” “The lesson of it is,” in the opinion of the Milwaukee Journal (independ- ent), “that government is mot safe when people, ceasing to look after it intimately and in pers appeal to a far-off federal authority as somehow all-wise and all-powerful, though, in fact, it can be no wiser than they themselves have made it in choosing edu 5 very good Democratic doctrine, and we thank him for it."” In defense of the present tendency, on the other hand, the Norfolk Daily News (independent) remark: “We don’t expect as much of our State governments as we used to, and new problems are constantly being taken to the Federal Government for solu- tion. Both of the tendencies are natu- ral to a growing country in which dis- tance is gradually being all but ob- he would become completely. edlmentHasProneunced: nok- the title of a. new book just off the press, from the pen of Dr. Alfred P. Dennis, vice chairman of the United States Tariff Commission. Dr. Dennis has contrived to tell the story of in- ternational business almost in the language of romance. He analyzes, in brass tacks fashion, the agricultural and commercial conditions of the sev- eral countries of Europe, depicts dis- cerningly the genius of American business and shows in what products Europe is either our customer or com- petitor. The Maryland Democrat, who was a comrade of Calvin Coolidge’s youth at Northampton, is one of America’s most experienced authori- tles in the realm of world trade. He has seen official duty in London and Rome, and was one of Secretary Hoover’s earliest assistants at the De- partment of Commerce. Dennis de- picts John Bull as our principal busi- ness rival. G * ok kX Representative Edgar Howard, Bry- an Democrat, of Nebraska, i conduct- ing a one-man campaign in the House against the practice of congressional committees meeting in secret session. Howard is a member of the House committees on Indian affairs, public lands and coinage, weights and meas- ures. He has attended only one closed session in the present Congress, and then on the understanding that he was at liberty to discuss publicly any- thing that took place there. “A’lot of people smile and think I am a nut,” Howard says, “but that's their priv- ilege. I believe secret sessions of con- gressional committees result in the pubn.c obtaining much misinforma- tion.” (Copyright. 1926.) ] Tile Poor, Old Pole. From the Lansing State Journal. Let us all be frankly sorry for the North Pole. The Pole is no lo; what it used to be. The Pole not long ago was a dream by night and a vision by day, and now look at it. An airplane may start out, whizz along a ways, turn and loop about the Pole, wave it good-by and leave it by its lonesome. The North Pole was once the lure of the world's bravest. It was a veri- table monster that lured ships, and treasure and men to their doom. It was worth column after column in the newspapers. The choicest magazines could not ignore it and our greatest libraries have shelf after shelf de- voted to it. But now with airplanes flving about the North Pole, it is no more than the inner shrine of your favorite se- cret order. Getting there wad the whole thing. Once attained it is noth- ing but a geographical point on the map. There never was anything worth while at the Pole, but it was so for- bidding that men gladly gave their lives to seek it. - future reference, for by doing so he the men who compose it.” In fact, |literated by the progress of transpor- would confess to entertaining evil purposes. And the more that honest folk come to have their fingers printed the sooner will disappear the absurd notion that in doing it they necessarily suffer humiliation and are rut in a sort of rogues’ gallery. That s true é"‘"{ l‘!’o !‘ongt :s of{xly criminals will mind it at all, and the number | Democratic) believes that *‘unquestion- of mysterious disappearances and | 4PV it is through the diversification of oS v Snd | opinions, through State governments, disputed signatures will be vastly cut | ong Yhrough their withholding to themselves as nearly as possible the right to mind their own business, that we have established a_ democracy which may well become a bureaucracy unless State legislatures check them- selves up sharply. Which does not It turns out that the statement cir-[ mean to say,” adds the News, “that culated some time ago that the bottom | limited co-operation between the had fallen out of the American baby | States and Washington is not the part carriage—or, rather; of the business | of wisdom, but that complete surren- of manufacturing American baby car- | der would be exceedingly dangerous.” riages—has no foundation. The President’s denunciation of bu- “as President Coolidge points out, according to the New York Times (in dependent Democratic), “we have had many painful illustrations of the tend- ency of the bureaucratic system, and of government by commission, to be- come offensive to individual right overbearing, inefficient and corrupt. The Country Safe. From the Elmira Star-Gazette. Positive statement is made by those | reaucraey as setting up “the pretense engaged in the business that the|of having authority over everybody manufacture of baby vehicles has not | and being responsible to nobody,” the declined. On the contrary, that it has | Indianapolis Star (independent) sug- shown increase year by year, and is | gests, “might well be incorporated in still increasing. a special address to Congress, where Styles in baby carriages have |the highly organized minori tation. As the American people be- come unified in thought it is to be ex- pected that they will look more to the general Government as their most ef- ficlent agent.” The Springfield Repub- lican (independent) indorses the sug- gestion made by Newton D. Baker for “direct contact between Congress and the departments,” based upon World War experience, and believes that “more alert interest in technical ad- ministration on the part of Congress and the country will help to correct the avoidable evils of bureaucrac “Right now, every hour and every day,” according to the Butte Dally Post (Republican), “the country is within full view of glaring illustra- tions of the evils due to this tendency to centralization. The wrong use of it resulted in writing the eighteenth amendment into the Constitution of the United States—the prohibition section. That relates to a matter which, beyond dispute, is the legiti- mate business of each State and not a proper Federal function. Woodrow Wilson and_others tried to impress fact when the booze issue was ts start, but their opinion was ignored.” The Peoria Transeript (in- dependent), however, states that changed, although babies are the same democratic, unconcerned, independent little creatures they have been in all ages, caring not at all whether clad in purple and fine linen or a calico slip, and as happy to ride in a wooden box cart with mismated wheels as with their demands for approp: on the wasteful and injurious dollar- matching plan of State aid. This pro- gram,” continues the Star, “originally devised for road building, has been perverted to such an extent that a small army of bureaucratic meddlers Tger | eral use. they would be in an elaborate affair | now usurps the functions of the sep- of rattan, silk upholstery and lace |arate States.” The President’s idea edgings, with patent shock-absorber | of State rights, however, it is asserted springs and ball-bearing axles. by the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times (Re- The modern baby carriage is a small | publican), “is not that of the South affair, priced reasonably. The gon- | before the Civil War, but it is the doc- dola or perambulator, which some- | trine as interpreted in the light of the times served through three genera- | result of that conflict. He would have tions and was a sight to behold and | the States accept their full responsi- a horribly inconvenient thing to store | bility instead of asking the National in the front hall, has gone out of gen-{ Government to do what is the duty of the States to perform.” The Greens- It is true, perhaps, that many babies | boro Daily Record (independent Demo- are taken out in automobiles, al-|cratic) adds its testimony that the though it is a hustling, nervous, dis- | President’s position means that turbing sort of experience to impose | “whenever the attitude of a State upon the youngsters. But still, they | ‘does not accord with the great body must have carriages of their own. of public opinion of the Nation'—and ‘What would the little girls in the | the dominant element is to be the sole neighborhood do if they couldn’t bor- | judge—then ‘the National Govern- row the Smithers baby and take it | ment will be crowded into the position dut for an hour or two of a pleasant | of enlarging its own authority at their afternoon? And what would Mamma | expense!’ Stated a bit less bluntly, Smithers do if baby didn't go out for { is not this virtually the reiteration of these airings and thus give her op-|the kaiseristic doctrine that ‘might is portunity to catch up with the house- | right?’ It seems.so to us.” work, or perhaps take a much needed | Paying special attention to the his- nap? E torical background of the President’s Baby carriages going out of use!|address, the Springfleld Daily News Nonsense! (independent Democratic) quotes the Not until babies themselves disap- | statement that those who helped to pear from the earth. establish the Nation “broke the power D e of Parliament because its actions did not represent, were not benefiting the Silence. 3 American public,” and offers the com- From the Philadeiphia Evening Bulletin. ment that “they were neither inert nor selfish, as the President implies British strike is-the first topic ever | we are nowy: and ! = hich Berpard Sha z “President Coolidge always has been an advocate of local self-government. and therefore his Willlamsburg speech cannot be construed as a slap at Fed- eral prohibition.” Urges Christianity as Foreign Policy. To the Editor of The Star: This is not a sermon (I am not qualified to preach one), or even a moral lesson; it is an appeal to reason. I am not an enthusiast or a visionary. I do not advocate universal disarma- ment—at least, not yet. I am not writing of Christianity as a creed (a creed for which I have the greatest respect), but as a logical solution of a dangerous situation. For nearly 2,000 years the so-called “Christian nations” have ignored the doctrines of Christ. In their blindness and folly, they have systematically practiced toward each other the exact opposite of the teachings of the world’s greatest thinker and leader, whose followers and disciples they yet claimed to be. Their salvation (I mean in a ma- terial and not in a spiritual sense) now lies, not in leagues, or alliances, or standing armies, but in a practical tapplication of the doctrines of Chris- tianity to their foreign policy. Our statesmen, rulers and poli- ticians must learn to know that Christ was right, that He was an accurate reasoner In a darkened world. The reign of force and violence must end. We must have “peace on urt.hl uomfi%mw