Evening Star Newspaper, May 26, 1926, Page 8

THE With Sundsy Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNDSDAT..,...ilay 26, 1926 THEODORE W. NOYES. ... Editor The Frening Star Newspaper Compans Rusi Mice o Uth St and Penosyl New Vork Gfie: | 2= Chicazo Office: T Ruitding Puropean Offive: 1% Rezcut =1, Lonion, ilana. The Fvenine Star. wi g »dition, i delive:ed ¢ e ity Bt 60 ents rar monmm- nis be:’ mantn Suniar anky. 0 can iy mai Foou ¢ i e ene of s b ate by Muil—Pavable Mar Paiy and Sundus Dailx anly 5 $indax only ANl Other States and ¢ Pailv and Sundar.1ve. $190 ils anly Tv smon 4 1 o ®innay only a £4.00 o RO Member of the Associated Press. The Aesociated Press is 18 the e for sesnnlicatic e creciited to 4 in Thiv nany oA, Derein The Building Program. The Govaren progrm at Washinsten will probably ha hegun with the least possible delay and no doubt will he executed accord- Ing 1o schedule. The President has signed rhe $165.000.0¢0 public building Bl and that bill carvies an app tHan of $50.000.100 far t ot Governmen s five raar period ar s be Heved that the apprepriation and the Prozram will bring public housing ac eommodstions Washingion 1ip (o the needs of the Govarnment. The be Waf is thai it will release the Govern ment from the necessity of conducting e wffairs offices, which in many suitéd 10 the Gevernment's ne 1t will allow the Gavernment <@ down the lempo vary builjings on the Mali and in Po temac Park scuttered offices into adequate and convenient buildings, The prozram promises im in the conduct of public and marks a progress in the Asvelopment of Washington. Thix step by the Governmant is the enlmination of effori. There has not heen a time since the #stablishment of the Government. and particularly since the establishment of the Capital #i Washington. that the Government has noi had a housing shortage. During the Civil War Gov- ernment activities wers 8o expanded that all kinds of private structures ware taken for public use. Kxpansion of Government activities duri half century following the ¢ kapt far ahead of the Governments housing Zacilities, There was steady complaim from Government vfficers. Thara wus 2n inceckant ‘eriticism that The Govermaent was paying reniul for private hen economy and efciency 1t the Goyvernment shaulc own the huildings in which it carried on its work, The <iate of affairs on (he'e of the ates in the World War s known., P buildings takan ovar and many temporas ings darion 15 fr e vear building e construction builings over Vashingion. at in rented cases ure not and bring s v vears per.y nited @ build wood structures on slender foun up on pkrk land. When the anded. the Gover- meni’s husiness ai Washingion had sv much sxtended beyond that of the pre war state tha possible to earry on all pubiic 0 prewsr buildin Vnder 000 five: n ment will creditabla situnted public busi vate wars put i was not usiness the 35004 « year program the arect wres with respec to freilit nes& and improt inz the (pnewrance of the Capitai. ‘The Government at Washington grows so fast thut Con gress should ba eareful not io let it foll azuin upon hard times in housing. v-oee Muh-jong has had its in this country and has gone out of fash fen. Chins snouid attempt a reciprocul Asmonsi navectheless and seek the relief from nervous tension such 88 hase hall affords, chance tion ¢ a0n The manner in which Bioadway tirre: s depict ingenuous wicked nes« vet cause little old New Tork 1o he regurded 85 the “Topsy” of hig Awme Tt has Le2n possibie for i teo much coafidence in the minds of the Hohensollarns, .o Sharing America's Prosperity. Not 1ng Sam a pretiy good tan ta the children of his in medixte fonnly under the only s o fa rooftree. but he | be equally sppeali THE EVENING EVENING STAR! s socew 1o the amarican market poiote o 1 rev ilip- and even return to them inte enue duties collected heve on I pine products competing with mestic inter: venue tuxed telieving Phitippine industry nod peo e of ble part of the tux urden they otherwise would have onxider plus i the n hand when the n all char tor it A be et were the nspivations of certuin Filipinos for. in e to be reulized. Were the the tull conts of Phitiy pine whle marzin rnds,ace freed G we drop i pendens slands forced (o hew nitionshiy and in addition were o tose Jt advantage they now have over otiier Importers In the America markeis thers soon would be a very differant story as to Philippine pre perity. P Passing the Half-Million Mark. Estimates by the United Stutes B reau of (he Census place the popula- tion of Washinglon well over the five I red-thousand mark by the Ist of July. the avery, rate of increase between 1910 and 1920 the Government buresu atales that the Nationa! Cupial will soon join the se- lect clase of fourleen American citien with populations of more than a half million persons. Added 1o this cheer- Ing news is the prophecy that the District will Jump into the big city class with twenty-eight thoussnd (o spare, so (hat there is nu reason for controversy among the elite regurd ing the admittance of the KNederal elty, Although the Census Buresu esti mule is fattering o the growth of Washingion and all Washingioniana are hopetul that the city will reach the high mark of considerably more than u half milion by July, the police census laken here recently does not bear out the estimates of the bureau. Inusmuch a8 previous police tabula- Uons taken at a time ent (v that of the Federul census huve wiways be siightly bigher. I in valy fuic to be. leve that the police e uren, settiug the populution of W. iuglon at the present time ut shightly under five hundred (houswud, are more accurate than the theoretivul es- timate of the census bureau. But regurdiess of whether the Na tional Capital's population is under a hulf million, an even half willion or more than & hulf million there is no discontent on the part residents here Its status as une of the select cluss of cities. Washiugion is growing aud W glon I8 prosper- ous. Congress is graduully beginuing 0 reulize thul it is legistating for u o teud of an anclent coun- town. A uoified civic spirit is manifes ilsell nud the prospects of a still greater Washington sre looming bright on the horizoh. A for #1x, a schoul of historical lore for students, and u fine place fn which to live for every oue, Washinglon 18 rapidly laking its pluce smong the foremost citi of the world. Ten vears fromi now the pres. ent populstion will seem small, and the National Capital will ‘be chimbing steudily toward the mitlion mark. And 50 it is no wonder that Wash- inglon lovks forward the future with confidence in e destiny as u great capital and a great city. Based on of over we try 3 e o [ R The Red Cross. Lu his address yesterdu ing session of the Pan Cross President high note of inter and guod will, and made ptain his be’ lief that ihe same spi wates (he Ked Cross In its humaoits rinn work might well prevail in other intercourses among peoples wud na tions. If the distr al the open- ativnal co ope spouse in sympaihy und mat from all the civilized " werld, why I should nol sulfering from vther causes 7 And us it has heen demonsiruied by the Red Crows thet putivns can co-uperate for | preventivg as well un for the relief uf. who dwell, as it were, | seams to he a preuy gzoud foster father to adopied ildren (heir homes disrant from the paternal astate. We have a zeneral realization 0f the tact, #nd it is brought home to | us frequently ples. thut the moat prosperous nation in the world. “But it wonld seem that American pros- perity is not confined to the conl /meéntal domain. A report which Go Gen. Wood has cubled to Washington Aiscloses that the Philippine Inlandx are relutively as prospe uny © #ther tervitory o\ which the American flag. Not only Malanced, but in the last calendar v * Ihere ias an excess of revenues over expenditures of 11,509,000 pesos, more than double tha surplus of the pre- ceding year. The insular administra- tion in more then paying its way and there in a cash balance in the insular freasury of 23,000.000 pesos. Not onby the government bul the people theu selves are prospering as never Lefore 1n the histors of the idluudn. In the course of his report Gen. Woud suy . During the 1 visited il parcia i(0f the archipelago and found e where contented and happy people li “ ing under steadily improviag condi- tlons, undisturbed by poltical prop- aganda from Manila. Public order was excellent. public health conditions { satisfactory, by less fortunate peo. United Stutes is the s us fies who have | is the Philippine budget | taxen better pald than ! ng from disease, it in uot Nogl- cal to believe that the way has been shown Lo co-operation (o avert the suf- feringn that come from war, by ave ing w eif. The President expressed the grati- tude which the people of the Cupital and the Nation feel that the Pan- American Red Cross melecied Wash- inglon 83 the pluce of its second weet- ing. The welcome extended the delo- gates frum American republics goes equally” (o their guests who are here from Kurope and Asia, for all en- saged in the greal enterprise of mak- ing the world a better dwelling place for all ita pevples. esmive iuntunce of the first ® ence was the offer nt forward of assistance to erers from the volcanic eruption in apan. ‘The Red Cross knows no geo- sraphical boundavies or racial distine. tions when there is suffering to be as- | susged. - g v Sume of the California politiclans | sound & warning that a dry enforce- ment budge will not be regurded as suy hero medal. Pt EE— Collecting the Dividends. Goud ruads appear (o be giving motorists more than the comfort of | smooth riding. Jist one of the ad- {vantages in the dividend returned to the motorists in the form of a better | automobile, Motorists whe contribute most to the caiise of good rosds can jown better cars. ‘Uhe Minnesoia highway depurtment puts it thin' way: “Mouey you dem’t pul into Buvd rouda in shaken vt of your car. You see™ ‘This is eutirely aside from 1he belief that the public 48 8 whole Leuefils from goud rouds and sboutd pay. fo thew. The point Geveloped by Minnesota is that even i€ it is not fair fyr the car owner to aiand all the burden of roud building he can do 80 at'a handsome profit, i, by clubblng together, vne hun- aver hefore, revenues increxsing und dred citivens of a small community #ibusinexs conditions steadily ing, the estimated increase in va the six leading crops over that of 1924 heing 45.000,600 pesos, . . That the Phidippines L] largely 10 the gen improv- lue of | ‘e prosperous | ondary sity toward 400 deadheads in t ceu purchese wodern fire apparatus {and suve themselves many tbgusands lin Ora losses, it Iy & matter of sec. { consideration whether the ‘community en- without econ- s, ! the | if the injustice to car ownpers hud heen featured and roud | wilging had swaited 2 bill of enforce- meng calling upon every zen to Teontrimte o the cost of roud bulldips Ithe Joss o cur ow ® would have | [ been stgpering 1 i Billlons of deblaes’ worth of wnto biles have heen wasted roush roudsa 1L hus kept the m e grindst enovugh or eurn el i.«»lf i the ¢ [ nE 0 suve ugh 1o keep him: us of ¢ar 10 which he {hus been uccustomed. Now he s b {rinnim; (o reap the vewards of his [ toresighi, wnd his willingness ‘o 4 M standing for what muy not be unceasonuble taxation. He inds M increasingly eusier o keep I himself* in the type of cars he Is ac stonsed (o, wnd even finds himself {able togbuy better cuin. ood* roads are saving his invest- | 1t o cars, He is nccumulating a ! plus of automobile utility, which the Wug run is u surplus of cush. | . RS, I * The Lris tukes Hts pluce us w public | show fivwer and unfolds Its petuls spreads \is periunth in its Aest an- nual exbibition at Washington. 1t maken itm debut here under the patron- age of the National Capital Duhlia and Iris 'Society, in co-operation with “the American Iris Soc Washing- ton welcomes to the field of pro- tessional flowers and believes that she deserven a share of the regurd given Rose, Carnation, Cheysanthemum and Dahlia. iw i e swanger She lias been in the gurdens of these parts for two centuries. Grandma, wheri she was a litte girl, called her “Blue Flag,” but when grandma be-| gun o grow lall enough 1o put on long skirts, take French lessons and have heausx, she called this flower B i, There are wiid mewmbers of the tumily--the family Irideae —in fields near WaskAugton, but the highly cul- tured and fashionable lris does Know theur - that is, she dues not ask thew to her svirees, sulons, foles sud | teuw. Amvug those relations who live wild vutside a garden fence are yellow stur grass, whose lierury name is Sisyriuchium, aud blueeyed gruse. They are pretly and sociable, and it you louk at them in a sunoy field they | will show you smiling, shining faces. They wembers in the Iris family, their ancestry goes buck (o the da of uld Greece aud Rome. Icis hus & happy name. St tiuned by Hower and Vergil the rainbow which was a messenger of the gods (o men. "I'he butanist whe numed this herb lris hud a pretty fancy, aud so far ss known did not displense the people living on Ulym| leis i very much lmproved since you knew her in the vld gurden. Hor- Uculturists have educated her, and she hus tuken on new colors, beurs herself loftier and her form Is better. She 1s very beautiful and gay. The public gardeners of Washingion fell in love with her sume years ago und gave ber plots in the parks. A great many Washingtonians will call on Iris during her exhibition in Washing ton | i our midst.” not o P It is the opinion of Trotsky that Sovietism has not preserved hume life in Russia. Satisfactory home life has long been regarded as the great test Wt efficacy in any form of govern- e - raoee . Washiogton, D. C., hus long siuce passed the point where Peunsylvaniu luvenue wus u deserted thoroughfa on a June duy. Now it is a trafe probiew. r—v o Atlantic Coast resorts promise v assist prohibition entorcement by making Luthing suits 50 scant that none of them. will conceal & hip pocket fask. »—veo - Buth fundamentalists and modern- isls may yet be persuuded v ugree O the siimple old-thme pPropositi “he | guud and you will be happy. cavee “The bard work at Geneva is wwre or less contradictory to the reputation of | Switzeriand as the playground of na- tions. A savese Much time and energy may be con- sumed” here and abroad without de- clding when « coal strike is definitely settled. - SHOOTING STARS. BY PRILANDER JOMNSON, The Significant Word. There is one simple word Which makes “This life seem well worth while, Hach day new Interest it wakes; A frown or else a sjuile, As we propound 'mid wisdom great Or else where follies fly With ardor which will not abute The little question Wi Why do we love? Why do we hate? Why do we toll and scheme? Why do we seek for proud estate Or idly drift and dream? Why s the sun? Why i8 the night? As years go rolling by One thing wlone brings new delight: Thut ‘same old question, “Why?” Pleasures of Occupation. “Do you love your work?” Yes,” answered Senator Serghum. t has brought me a great deal of consolation; especially since the in- crease of salary,” Footwear, The fashions consequential In various forms we view. e boutleg's influential, o is the hightheeled shoe. Releasing Poteutialities. “Dinmonds are curbon crystals,” ™Any laboratory expert who can change a tiara Buck into a few tons of coal will be a help 10 humanity. Discipline Gove Astray. “He used to write in his copy book, ‘Honesty is the Best Policy.’” “Did it fmprove his morals?” “No. But it improved his penman- ship 50 that he became a successful counterteiter.” o “‘Have faith, said \'ncle Ebey | shall be known here simply as Mr. B. {through the brek windows of neigh- STAR THIS AN BY CHARLE. We desire o present today two por- traits, one of the kindest i ever known, the other of the mean he firat we shall call Mr. A; seconda very poor second, indeed A stands for Affuble and B for well, Beg—for thé gentleman has a sting inatead of a tongue. We shall present his portrait first in order not o leuve a bad taste in the mental mouth of the reader, By showing them In this order we shall comply with the biblical injunc tion that the last sgull be first and | the first shall be last Mr. B was born in a good fawily, and apparently had every Incentive to | be a gentleman. As to his en movements we have no record, but undoubtedly he must have been one | of those children who pull fies’ wings, poke out dogs’ eves and beat other children over the head with No doubt the huppy urchin hiad & slingshot with which he hurled stones | boring residences. When he grew up | he sublimated his desires, as the psy- cho-unalysts way, and has thrown ver- bal stonen ever since. I other words, the gentleman (o Iv has a nasty disposition. around the bush about ‘'hat is what all his friends and | acquaintances have been doing all his life, and that fs how he “gets away | with it. Had some spiritual adviser in a mo- | ment of inspiration hit this.carper over the head with a large mallet at the tender age of 40, say, the world would have benefited and the gentle- have been put out of his | * X x ¥ | Every oue feels sorry for Mr: B, for it is difficult to believe that he 15 any thing but a trouble to himself most | of the time. His malady might be | analyzed into eight-tenths spiritual ill- ness, one-tenth meanness and one- envy. tainly no man born of woman | could really enjoy infiicting pain upon others so continuo as he does. He seems unable to praise any one or anything. He 18 known to have spoken kind words of George Washington; but, since the Kather of His Country has been dead now for many years, Mr. bebly does nut fear he will take issue With him. Mr. B hales tv be contradicted. Mr. E was the mun d when he wrote: o the Plerfau sping. that B would admit it would immediately criticize the Queen Anue suthor, in the secret Alexunder v could write. would point out, his facie e dartng in and out and his L eves gleaming with an unholy thut Pope might have studied ar to better advantage, with a special reference to the derivation of the word Grammar 5 5 Words fascinate him, a= they dv muny another man, but, instead of ®0ing on to thelr use in groups, com- monly ‘termed “ideas,” as other Mr. B vields his whoie sonl to B's fet | prehend the quality itself. | tertile | of nono D THAT TRACEWELL. He knows how to conjugate the Latin “amo.” but he does not know how to love. He can tell you the derivation of our word “kindne to the letler, but he does not com- He does not want to comprehend it. He had rather sneer at it. * X ok % Mr. B's chief fault, however, Is h inability to restrain’ the movements of that organ called the tongue, or stinger, as it Is more properly termed in_him. Whatever (hought springs into his mimd must immediately out by the ald of the tongue. Wherefore he is constitutionally u: | able to refrain from wounding friends and foes. Like a mad dog running smuck. Mr. B bites his way through life. The solaces which those bitten upply llke plasiers to their . wounded feelings are regarded by him as badges rewards of his own inesti- mable merit. The strange fact of his nature that all which he suys is mean. The uniformity of his product is sta Uing. He never fails, and, in this re. apect, at least, is a suce " Women say that he never deigns to mention them as human beings, but ly save that “a man thinks so or “a man does so and so.” He never refers to “a. person,’’ even nor uses the word “one.” for thess in definite expressions might allow one 1o infer that & woman might have a thought or do a good deed. As women are the foreguard of civ- ization, and without them the would be nox we might as well finish r portrait of the lamentable Mr. B, with the addition only of the following stroke, In paraphras Owning_his weskness. il ‘We have but small place left for our portrait of Mr. A, but his features are so suffused with sweetness and light they shine as well from a lim- ited space as from a large one. The goodness of Mr. Affable haa painted itgelf into the hearts of all who know him. If st times his u formity of characier strikes one almost too much of a good thing, it is quickly esteemed at its proper worth. ‘The sun may shine too strongly st we love it bright ray: s the heart of man, Even the dogs run and hop up at him, glad (o feel the sunshine of his smile. He iIs a sort of medicine of the soul. If you board a crowded street car with vour wife, and a gentleman gets up and offers her his seat. you may be sure that he is Mr. A, for he is the only man in Washington who does it, we believe. He hus a keen eye for the happy and good in life as he sees it. and most loudly puints it out to those of us who fall (o do so. He dispensea “applesauce” with a liberal hand, and e lop it up greedily, and ask for more, so acceptable is his brand - of praise. His wavs are wuys of gentleness, and all his paths are peace. He is not perfect, but he is not mean. Let us thank God for the good Mr. A. He study of words as words. He conien { plates each one as a Separate Entity. does not need the aid of our brush; for Kindness paints its own portrait. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM. WILE. President Covlidge this week .had, | aud embraced, another opportunity to exhibit his characteristic calmness un- - fire. tle the verbal brickbats fiving at him on Capitol Hill in connection with the now famous pro hibitlon executive order, the President was vindicating his position 16 White | with coolness and von- | One conld imagine him ta xuctly that attitude g hituself ju Just that way the Americau system required the Chief Execulive 1o defend himself | ugaiust attack on the flovrs of Con- gress. If, an wome preiended suthori tlen sugges, Mr. Coolidge feels that he blundered fn issuing the Andrew. order, his manuer in discussing it gave no such indlcativn. He stood utterly aud ubsolutely pat. He creuted the impression 1hat he would do it again, it necessary. Obylously the tuunts of Senator Bruce, Democrutic wet, of Maryland, that the executive order| was akin to “the ukase of a Russian | czar, the firman of a Turkish divan script of a merciless Roman leave the, wmmu fr ver- | the Green Mountuln | th emperor, wont as cold a. snows. LRI ) I he can delach biwmself for a while from fuunctions und sociul vbli gations in Washiogton, Crown Prince dustat Adolf of 3weden is certain to want (o dabble a Dbit in archeology | at the Nutional Capital. Prehistori antiquities are his roval highne: hobby. It ix that, lndeed, which is Juring hlm vn his present trip around | the world. The Unfted Ntuies Na-| tional Museium lLas a very extensive archevlogical collection, especially rich, of course, iu early North Amer- jeun relics und curioy. Gustaf Adolf has arcanged lu spend part. of one of his Washingion days louking it ov Not long a0 the Crown Priu took the initiative tu create a fund with the alm of sending ovut one or more archeological expeditions to egions in eastern Kurope and south- west Asla, where tra may exist of the clvilizations or (ures th flourished at the end of the Stone Age and the beginniug of the Metal Ag 1 is in connection with recon- noiteriug expeditions (v be sent out from Sweden that the future King of that country Is now headed for the orient. Their basic prohlem is (o trace the route of (he aucient east Kuropean culture through the whole of Asia to the Middle Kingdom. xxox K Nicholas Longworth, Speaker of the House, will be commencement oralor | at New York University, Ne City, on June 9. 1t will be the eLy- fourth annual graduating function of the institution. From it “Nick™ will | probably enierge honoracy L. D. and his cronies vn the Hill are o #00n 1o begin to dub him *“Doe. worth is u Harvard man, but to date has never adorned his.name with any initiais which betoken culture xcept the A. B. he got at Cambridge in 1891. New York University has a student body of roundly 21,000 and & facuity of 850. The Speaker is in bubbling good humor these days over the, renominaflon of his newest congressional buddy —— Representative Morrls E. Crumpacker of Oregon. Music is-the tie that biunds them. *ox o ox Former Represeatative Suuiuel E Winslow of Massachuseits, Who used to be the fattest man in Cougress, blew into Washington this week u! mere shadow of his one-time rotund | self. When they the corridor | of the White House offices, Postmaster | General New told the Worcester skate | manutacturer he looked like & young | gazelle. Winslow concedes that he’s | shed about 60 pounds in recent vears. | Cutting out bread and butter at meal- time, he says, is the deflating process eacellence. It rid him ot 23 pounds in three months. Winslow says it's too early to forecast any- ‘thing about the Massachusetts sena torial battle of 1926, The State is neither thinking nor talking polities as vet. and there is a corresponding @earth. of stzaws o show. Row--the | diplomats, haviug been i | work. wind will blow in November, as re- sards the President’s friend, Senator Butler, and the latter'’s prospective val, “Duve” Walsh, * oxoa % It uppears that wembeis of the diplumatic service, like members of Congress, past and present, have the { privileges of the flvor on Capitol Hill. | lobnobbing with Senators thix week is Robert Wouds Bliss, American min- ister to Sweden, home on leave for the visit of the Swedish Crown Prince and Princess. Mr. Bliss is one of our younger generation of car the foreig secvice unintertuptedly since he began ux a yvoung clerk in the office of the secretary of Porto Rico 26 vears ug American diplomats have not alwa taken the United Niates Senate seri ously, althuugh their fates are some. times in the hollow of that august body's hand. Now, when in the couns, try on visits, ministers and ambassa. dors muke it u habit of brushing shoulders with the wutocrats of the upper house. - LR IR O Former Tariff .Commissiouer Lertson told_the Sena Cul- inveatigating jcommitiee that lubbyisis have rights und should be permitted (v present their views to Congress. Wisconsin legalizes lobbyists und provides for their activities at the State capitol in Maudison. They are aliowed to ply their irude openly during sessions of the Legisiature, provided that before- hand they have registered with the secrptary of stule, made valh to the pacticular legisiation in which they're interested. (old who their priucipals are, sud later give an ac- counting of how, wnd how much, ol was spent. ¢ £ xoxx Guessing when Congress will ad- Journ 18 of Lhe favorite pastimes of the waning Spriugtime in Washing- ton. Pessimists think House and Sen- ate will be lucky if they get away by August 1. Farm legislation, prohibi- tlon legislation. KFrench debt ratificu- tion, Muscle Shoals and half-a-doxen other more or less major issues are still vu the unfinished busin dar, Any one of the items tioned suggests opportunity unlimited. Night sessions will co to be resorted tv. But under the best of elrcumstances Congress seems bovked for at least another six weeks’ It is within the range of possi- bilities that President Coolidge's plans 1o be away from the White House by the Fourth of July m be wrecked by the continued presence of Congress. BN Maj. Gen. Hanson K. Ely, wandunt of the Aviy War C was leading the 28th Infuntr sction st Cuutigny eight y this week—the first batile in which American troops in France foupht as an independent unit. *‘Cantigny day will be celebrated in Washington on May 28th by the Ist Division. Ely always recalls at this season hix run- In with a brigadier who had en- sconced hlinself in the best chateau of the reglon as a headquarters. Ely, his superior officer, requisitioned the place, but the brigadier evinced no inclination to be evicted. Then Ely went a more peremptory message. The brigadier replied: “I'he major general & L. b Ely about to order u drumbeud court-martial, when t| brigadier explained that ‘‘can g. t. h.” meant that the major general “can get the house, (Copyriglt. 19%6.) ) Multum in Parve. rom the Nashville Bauoer. Those who go in for dress reform are to be numbered among the brave- | Iy optimistic souls who believe that a great deal can be accomplished with a very little. —ves Proposed Change. Oregon Journal. signs changed ight “No Pa read “No Sparkin problam of to the Politics at 'Large y G. Gould Lincoln The batting average of Senators seeking renomination has not been very encouraging up to the present time. Out of an even half-dozen who have gone to the polls in the pri- martes in five States three have heen renominated and three have failed. Senator Norbeck of South Dakota and Senutor “Jim'" Watson and Senator Robinson of Indiana were successful. ‘The three who have falled were Sena- tors McKinley of Illinols, Senator Pep- per Stanfleld of Oregon. Senators wers Republicans azd all #ix have supported most, if not ail, of ths sdminisiration measures which cume before the Senaie for considera- tion at the present seasion. In some quart Democratic -the effort has been made to show that the defeat of the three Senators men- tioned was a blow at the administra tion. It must be sald, however, that the men who have won the nomins tiona over the sitting Senators are all reckoned support of the Coolldge administration. They have sald so themselves in their campaigns. Col. Frank L. Smith, although his cam- paign was mnade in large part on the World Court, which he announced himself again: is a regular Repub- lican. He has been State chairman of the Republican party for vears and worked like a beaver for the election of President Cooligge in 1924. Repre. sentative Willlam 8, Vare of Pennsyl- vania is as regular a Republican as they come. And Frederick Steiwer of Oregon, who defeated Senator Stan- fleld Friday, is reported to be even more regular than Senator Stanfield himself. If these nominees are suc- cessful at the elections in the ¥all there will have been no loss to the Republican control of the Senate. * Kok % local issues controlled largely in each of the primary fights where ting Senators were defeated. nnsylvania Vare waas elected be- csuse he stood for modification of the prohibition laws and his two R - lican opponents spiit the dry vot the State. In Oregon the entirely local. If the showing made at the pri meries in Oregon were sn exact cri- terion Steiwer should win in a walk from his Democratic opponent. Bert next November. The vote in the Republican n thet State wi great as the vote polled in the Democratic prima Oregon is a Republican State, part register as Republicans part in the primariex of that part) But the party voke sils more lightly on the voters in the West than in the East. For that reason the elec. tion next Fall may be far closer than the primary votes would indicat The Republicans believe, howeve: that with Steiwer as’their candidate for the Senate they will win handily. that they mav pick up an’ additional seat in Oregon in the coming elec- tions. Some of them st least hoped that Senator Sianfleld would be re- nominated. believing that dissensions in the Republican ranks over Stan- fleld would aid their nominee. With Stanfield out of the race, however, they have to revise their estimaies of strength. Steiwer is a State Sena- tor. He kas been a district attorney and is well thought of in the State. He i likely to make a strong candi- date. o ox o The decision of the Republicanus in New York State to hold their conven- tion in New York City instead of in one of the up-State cities has aroused no little comment. The probability of the adoption of a moist plank in the Republican State platform looms. Democrats, who saw their own party 20 on the rocks In New York their nationa! convention in 19 prepared to sit back and Republicans get into deaperate wran- gles at tl convention next Sepiem- ber in that city. In New York the nominations for governor and fo United States Senator are made at the pariy convention and not at. popu- lar prima The renoml of Senator Wadsworth is a tdvegone con clusion, It I8 sald, notwithstanding the | efforts of meny of the dry Republi cann of New York to veat it. L drys ave reported (o be beut on the defeat of Nenator Wadsworth even at the cost of the election of a Democrat. 'Phey realize that & Demo- crat likely would be just as wet as Senator Wadsworth, if' not more so. It looks llke a ca of cutting off one's nuse (v spite one’s face, at beat for the dey Republicans to force the defeat of Senator Wadsworth. But Aary organizations are hunting fev ishly, It is reported. for a candidate who will run independently against Kenator Wadsworth and the Demo- cratfe nominee, whoever he may be. at the eiection in Novembe: It such a candidate 18 put forward it will meéan a hard three-cornered race for dsworth. The Senator, extremely strong in the Empire Stat notwithstanding his opposition to the prohibition and the woman sulfrage amendments to the Constitution. He 1s resourceful and bis friends insist (hat he will be re- elected. o ox There 18 at present a drive on in tavor of abrogating the two-thirds rule which has governed so long in the nominations of the Democ: national candidates. Incidentall) may. be mentioned that most of activity in the interest of the abr tion of this rule is located in York, where the friends of Gov. Smith are hopeful that he will be selected as the Democralic standard in 1928, How much easier to bout the nomination of the President at the next onal convention If a majority instead of a (wo-thirds vote is all that is requived! ‘The candi- dacy of Gov. Smith doubtl will play its part in the determination finally s to the fate of the (wo-thirds rul fwo vears ago it was the follow of William Gibbs McAdoo, controlling a large number of delegates at the Madison Square Garden convention, who looked with favor on an abroga tion of the two-thirds rule. His of bonents, who used Gov. Smith as a club to beat down McAdoo, were op- . The fuctor which may disrupt the plans for dolag away now with 1 two-thirds rule is the group of Southern States which imvariably cast their electoral votes for the Democratic - nominee, “The two- thirds ruie operates as a veio power for the South in case the North and the West, which in the last half cen- tury have rarely cast electoral bajlots for a Democrat for President, shonld urge a candidate looked upon with disfavor in the Southern States. If the two-thirds rule should be abro- gated. and the nomination of a candi- date for President shou)d be forced throngh the convention which the South could not stomach, might not the *‘solld South” at last be broken? tion of the two-thivds rule say that it has worked n¢ real hardship in the past and only on_a few memorable occasfons has it given rise to & pro- longed struggle in the Democratic national conventions—once in Balti. more, where Woodrow Wilson finally triumphed oveér Champ Clark, and ntore recently in New York. where McAdoo and Smith fought each other like a pair of Kilkenny cats. Wilson was _elected following his nomination in and was re-elected. T'here 18 & great deal of work going on at present to make the nomi- nation of Gov. Al Smith more pala- table to the Southern States. The Sralth bent.on making k Democra(s who oppose the abroga- | of Pennsylvania and Senator | All mix of these | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Q. What building in' Philadelphia {18 famous as an exsmple of Greek chitecture?—R. T. F. A. 1t has been claimed for Girard i College that it is “the most perfect Greek temple in existenc: | Q. How much tax do the various States collect from sutomobiliats xes collected from car ewners the States last year aggregated ! the gasoline tax. Q. Is there more than one flying field at Dayton?—H. W. | A. Eight fiving flelds are located in or near Dayton, including the McCook 1r;d‘°(hp Wilbur Wright, Government “lelds, : Q. Who was the I the Revolutionary War?—T. G. A. That distinction is claimed for John Gray, who died March 2 t survivor of well, Ohfo. On his tombstone he is described as ““The last of Washing- ton’s Companions. Q. What vear and by whom was bese ball originated’— A. F. originated with the Knickerbocker Club, organized in New York City in 1845, e first person to prepare a dlagram of the plaving dlamond was Abner Doubleday ~of Cooperatown, N. Y., in 1837, Q. What is the gauge of the rall- road which carries passengers to Darjeelin; M. M. A. This railroad has a twe-foot gauge. Q. Who started using cartoons or fanciful pictures to fllustrate titles in moving pictures?—L. M. . A. Harry Myers is credited with the innovation. having drawn such car- toong to fliustrate titles for movies of which he was both djrector and star. Q. What police first used the sys- m -.;f l’:munuflon by fingerprints? A. The svstem was first used by the police in the Province of Bengal. ndie, st the instigation of Sir Wil llam Herschel. Q. What is the wave length of the human voice? - N, A, A. The wa duced by the human voice usually are from 1 to 8§ feet. although some sing- ers have produced notes having wave lengths as great ax 18 feet and others $406.648,861, of which $146,028,789 was | Tiramsburg, near Cald. | A. The modern game of hase hall | lengths of sounds pro. | BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. have reached notes so high that the wave length was only ahout 9 inches. Q. Where and when was the first Mormon church built?>—W. T. K. A. The first Mormon temple was bullt at Kirkland, Ohlo, in 1834, It in atill standing and ix used as a houss of worship by a branch of the Mor. | mon Church, | Q. What was the origin of the word explanation perhaps mast accepted is that the word !tobacco 1w derived from ‘“tobago.” | which was an Indian pipe. The Tsiand of Tobago. contrary to the helfef of meny. did not furnish the name for tohacca. ‘The island was given that name by Columbus hecause of its re semblance in shape to the Indisn pipe. Q. A Q. Which is correct | sideburns”— M. H. | The name descriptive of a style | of whiskers is burnsides. They were | worn by Gen. Ambrose Everett Burn- | side and his name was given to them. Q. Why was a costermonger sn called?—1.. E. V. | A. The name is a corruption of coatard monger, or costard eller. cns tard heing an old English name far the apple, Q. Is the Si. Lawrence. River naw | open for navigation?- . €. | A. Tt opened to navigation April | @ Who is now e { A. Egypt has heen an independent | kingdom since February 28, 1922, when the British protectorate ferm! nated. The present ruler is King Fuad 1. who was proclaimed king March 16, 1922, How many egge does a queen About 2.000 a day. burnsides or sler of Fgypt? Our Washington Information Ru- reau does not take a vacation. It ia on the job every day during the yeer answering quastions for our readers. Its special service is to answer any | queation of fact on any subject far @ny reader at any time. 1t is impos- aible 1o make a complete enumeration | of aubjects giving an adequate idea of the acope and range in 1which the hu- reaw can aerve you. Ite activities con | only de summed up in the phrase. 1chatever you want to know.” Rend in your question and get the right answer. Inclose a 2-cent stamp for | return postage. Address The Evening | 8tar Information Bureau. Frederic J. Champions of The possibility that observance of Defense day may not continue to be an annual feature of the national life has directed attention to results of the custom in the past and has bought forth suggestions from its ad- vocates as 1o methods of making such an observance & more effective con- tion to nationa! safety. he muster dav idea purely | patriotic,” the Philadeiphia Evening Bulletin explains. “It is traditional, inherited from the old-time custom when the duty of every citizen to bear arms, if necessary, for fense of his country, his State and his community and their several govern ments was recognized as one of the normal and essential provisions againat the necessity of maintaining a great sianding army. No ominous clouds are at the present moment threatening our blue skies of peace. But that is not permanent assurance | against the storm of . and prepa- tion against that possibility ought not to be neglected.” While deploring objections to the dayv, the Kansas City Journal savs: “Undoubtedly there will be less oppo- sition to the suggestion of a quadrennial which will int less widely with the normal activities of citizens. The marvelous success | with_which the Nation mobilized for | the World War hax tended to lull the | country into a false sense of security. i There is every sound reason for tak- | ing stock of what the United States has with which to handle an emer- sency. Details a not of such impor- | tance, however, as the attainment of llho paramount purpose of being ready and of knowing ju be depended .upon in the event of an emergency which may come at any time.” * X ok % . “It is 10 be hoped.” cbserves .the Lynchburg News. “that the War De- partment has not been influenced by (he propaganda and protesis of paci [ o abandon test day. 1o grealer enemies of the Nation than those who oppose any sort of prepara- tion, and to permit them to block the plans for one patriotic movement is to encourage them to further dan- gero and already Officers’ Reserve Corps. the Summer training camps and military training in schools are the targets of attack.” For the future the Miami Daily News advises that “definite should be made, with legislation by Congress, if that seems essential. De. fense tests should not be abandoned.” continues the Miami paper. “An oc: casional day for emergency training does not ‘m a natlon militaristic, | but no preparation at all handicaps ® {a nation mightily, as we have reason member.” “The plan of a defense test at stuted times' should not be aban- doned.” in the opinion of the New York Timee. "It the national defense sct iz not to be allowed to become & dead lecter, the Regular Army should be maintained as a nucleus for ex- pansion, the National Guard kept up, the citizens’ training camps _heid every vear and the Reserve Officer Corps systematically reinforced from collcges and military schools. At in- tervals there should he a defense test seriously carried out to demonstrate that mobilization of the resources of the country in men and material is | practicable. to ok ok oA What really has takén pluce {viewed Ly the St. Paul Dispatch, is “relaxation of ihing like a ne- tense and preparedness.’” while Amer. ing material ease to give a thought to unpleasant possibilities in the fu ture. Defense day has not been sup- ported. We may some day pay for this heediessneas we did in 1917, and next time there may he no allies ders into shape. “We have but recently counted the cost., in ny voung lives, of unpre- paredness,” warns the Bangor Daily ‘Commercial, which continues: “As a Nation we have the smallest standing Army in the world in comparison (0 our national lmportance. wealth and resources. We are relving need upon a skeleton standing Army |as a nueleus to be sweled by the Na tional Guard and volunteer' and, if ineed be, drafted enlistments. We live |in no fear of a foreign foe, but it is well and necessary to take such ad vantage as we can of the very Inade- quate preparation that the Nation has for war, and one of these is National —————————————— it sure that the sentiment in t South will not be 8o strong in opposi. tion ‘to their candidate as to cause any of the States to bréak away from the Democratic column In the elac- tion of 1928 if (he governor be nomt- nated, P Favor More D the de. | t what can | T'here are | the plans as ! tional interest in the question of de-| ica is “too busy creating and enjoy-| to hold the line while America blun- | case of | ! Haskin, Director. Washington. D. €. Defense Day efinite Plan | Defense , da bandoned.” which shenld net he * x % % e way to accomplish the purpose of such a day {a set forth by the Rin | hamton Press as follows: “The Gav- | ecnment haan't worked out a plan of military preparedness which provides | a place for the individual citizen who s not of military age and subject 1o comwpulsory serviee. When it gets uch a pian. and can provide citizens with specific duties. it can call upon them to take part in a test mobilizs- tion with some assurance that fhey will respond intelligently.” In sim- ilar vein the Wichita Falla Record- News holds that “the law authorizing these muster days should either he made more specific or that clase of the national defense act should he re. pealed.” while the Brooklyn Fagle feels that “with so large a force of veterans available, the War Depart- ment might well find some means of | keeping a string attached to them." The helief that Defense day. “al- though put forward as a national test of readiness to respond to the call of war, 8 not and cannot be such a test.” is voiced by the Des Moines Evening ‘Tribune. while the Detrelt News asgerts: “It proved nothing at all. It added nobody to the military rolls. It did not show that factories | were ready to be turned aver at once to the manufacture of munitions and equipment.” The Charleston Fve- ning Post also is convinced that the | War Department found the Defense {day tests of ‘‘doubtful value. and |savs that “to have any real signifi- cance it wonld requ that there should be some greater incentive to respouse than was given in the mere | eall for patriotic expression.” | Simllar comment from the Okla- homa City Times is that “such a ges ture is no help toward formidabie pre- | paredness: whether a civilian signs | up for a day or not has no bearing | on his worth in an emergency. As to | our organized military atrength.’” adds the Times, “that still will be as efi. j cient as ever.” The Morgantown New | Dominion also concludes that ““having | Intrusted the matter 1o Governmant departments. citizens are content with | reminding the Government frequently of their interest and checking up on the defensive activities of Congres omons | Those Repudiated Bonds. | From the Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman. | 7The many labors of Hercules wer easy compared to the task of one whao ‘V would try to answer the argument of the British chambers of commerce that the repudiated bonds of certain American States should be pald. The outlawed bonds were issued in a legal way by sovereign States, the States | received approximately face value f: { the bonds, the innocent purchase: | paid for the bonds, and then the d | linquent States coolly refused to pay their legal obligations. But the argument for pavment ap- | plies only to such bonds as were in | sued prior to the Civil War and were | repudiated prior to that war. No such | argument can be made for obligations | Incurred by the seceding States. The | foreign investors who bought the obli- gations of the Confederate States were taking a gambler's chance and {they lost. The American Government certainly is wot duty bound to pay debts incurred by its armed and war- ring enemies. These obligations should be charged off and forgotten. { Nor will the argument for full pay- | ment apply to the bonds issued in the 8 of carpet-bag ascendancy. The in- tolligent iax-paving citizens of the Southern Statem were mot responaibia for the bonds iseued in the dark dava of reconstruction. Those honds were issued againat the will and in spite of { the protest of those who were expeet- ed to pay them. Civil government at the South had ceased. { 1f any unit of government is under worul obligations 1o pay the bonds of | carpet-bag issue, it is the Government of the United States. under whose au- thority the carpet-bag governments | wore vrganized and by whose soldiery ; carpet-bag governmenis { maintained. If'any one pays those re- ip-ndlnud obligations, it should not he the only parties té the transaction who were entirely blameless. But it {s impossible to find a single reason for not paying the honds ixsued and repudiated in the antebellum era. The debts incurred wera honest debts and were incurred In a legal way. Just now while America is so insist- ent on the pavment of the debts owed her by foreign nations it is doubly important that the stain of dishonest repudiation be lifted from thé name ot the delinquent American sommaon- ‘wealths.