Evening Star Newspaper, May 28, 1926, Page 8

8 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morninz Edition. _WASHINGTON, D. C FRIDAY...........May 28, 1926 THEODORE W. NOYES. . ..Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Tith Stoa New Vork' Offces Chicago OMce . Buropean Office nxland ‘The Eveaing Ine edition, in deliversd by the Mts 31 60 nenca nar mon 45 centa Der month: Sunday enls Der month Orders mas, he sent br n felephone Main 8000, Collection is eArriar At tha and of each month. Rate by Mail=Pi Marsiand and Virg Narlr and Sy w0 Dailr only S0 Snany enis Aren’ 1 mo.. All Other States and Canadn. Dails nday 1 ar. 81 Daile nie « Suncas ey oo $1.000 1 Member of the Associated Preas. The Associated Drese ia sxclumvely ent ne 1A 1epunhation of all uene dis credited (0 it 6r noOL olhe:wign creil A4 in fhie pansr And alse the loeal nene Auhlighed herein Al rig bl hetein are Also ressrved The Royal Visitors. ago adventurous Norsemen cr the Atlantic and found a new that long after was rediscovered by Columbus, These ! Intrepid seafarars did not effect a per- manant settlement in Americ they 1aft memorials of which remain today. Lo other Norsemen, when this country had hasn colonized and developed into an independent nation. and they Recome a part of the body Thev have contributed much of itaf strength to the United Siat Tirey and their descendants have made the heet of citizens. Now comes a representative of that | portion of Scandinavii which known as Sweden. The heir 1o the erown is paving his first visit to the | Jand that ancient Norsemen found in their vovaging and that later men joinad. He with the princess is on his around world. 1t is meet that they should eame first to Americi and that they | should b here in season to participute in’ the caremonies of tha unvelling of the monument to John | native of Sweden who zreatly to science and i ta whom the United phrticular debt of g Crown Prince great-grent-grandson of Mareh Rarnadnatie. Prince of Ponta orve, who was electad heirapparent to the crawn of Swaden in 1810, and wh Aecanded the throne in 1818 establish Ing the dvnasty which.has haen muin tained the present. Princess the daughter Arthur England. Duke nauzht. The royal representutives of Sweden | come hara “sightaseing.” but their mission ix at the same time one of significance, It It to Attest to the Intimats relations hetwesn Sweden and the I'nited States. to the friendiiness | that has hsan alwavs maintained be. | tvasn the two countries. to the heen interast Sweden takes in American af- fairs And to the gratification that is| felt in their land at the prosperity of the adopted home of many Seandinu vians who have come here and have contributed so richly to the develop mant of the new land. ‘Making Washington their first ob- centuries ased world Many have politi Norse. | crow way, the | iesson, contributs vention States holds atitude, taf Adolt is the an o [ of The crown of Prince | of Ce "Lk there will be a consts * ping of jurisdicti { struck | Jected | ed, clarified and better measur Prni amended | move | uuder {bil, the {rraflic is inn hopelessiy dition juna | broper (o prevent these practices, and iched dfstinetly with the idea of con- olidating all charitable supervisory { functions. If properly constituted. as } It undoubtedly will ha by presidential {appointment, it can without dificnity jor embarrissment and with « ot effective " aaministration {the work which the moth [ plan will involve, i I is to be hdpedes thut on “Tuesdu) [ next this muttar will be more thor {oughly considered than at the e ning session yesterduy: that it will he dem ted (o the Senate that witi- Lout under the e b nt overlup: i st douht sop i lic rity, n recurre nditions affecting { pendent chilive [ any e i publ of aue ce, in fact, of the the care de which led more than her cause (o the creation of o welfare buard. 1t is to be be- lieved that with this fact plainly set | torth the Senate will not proceed with enuctment which is contrary to lo- cal opinion and local wish and which [ will certainly leud to confusion, de- | feating in part it not wholly the wise {purpore of (his meusure, vt Disappointment. dawas with the traftic i the Senute col Another Another d bill wetion than when it was fiest reported by the Senate Diswict committee. 1 taken up KU HigDE Al n speciui sion held o consider local affaivs, Wosuug when o Neuw 1o the “wonderful power conferred ou the tafic directo was tempornrily tuid aside. hope is that 1hi d-souniding doex not mean fix death kneli. 1L s diMcult to find logical objection (o this bill, which ix simply an nmend than was hurriedly, passed yeur and under which on s now operating. There fuws in the original code. meunure doex nothing put the Nautional Capital reusible. reasonable tratc | no nen wax nex but ob. it I e phruse the one which by Congrens lust Washin, ave many than " code., The director, under the amended no more power thun under figionl oue if the intentivas of igrens had beep carried vut by Dis- ot agencies und the courts. The Commis « wnd the courts, how- ever, the furmer Ly pansive action in has B 0 fihe face of ndverse decisions by the latter, nolnt hay wh pul the situation st the e everyihing pertuining L muddied cou- | (here can be rewediex ure up- i Chauge until vlied. Much of the amended bill concerns vecent court decisions whigh have thrown raffic enforcement into confu- sion. Cougress in certainly not, willing that horse.drawn vehicles should be immune from all trafc regulations: that henvy trucks should speed through the sireets on a pur with the pace of pussenger vehiclan: that trucks automobiles should @roceed at | (wenty-twe miles un hour uver fimsy and rickety bridges, and that | all trafe can push through alleys, in front of schools and in dangerous | places ut thin apeed. Yet by failure o act on the bill Cou- | sreas countenances these very things because une of the judges in the “I'raf- which rRStiC no n | fic Court has ruled that the director | has no authority to promulgate such | wnfety regulations ax are deemed the Cummissioners have remained si- lent in (he face of the vverturning of | these essentinl rules. | 1f Congress is unwilliug to pass the | amended code, which continues to give | Jertive after landing in New York, the ,eTATNR prince and the crown princess have heen received with the highest ©fcial honors. They are intent upon | covering the greatest possible amount of American ground in the course of their visit. Thev want to see all the At gzalleviex they can reach and thex will here find adequate repre. sentation of art. They want to visit Industries and great factories and here they will be disappointed, for. this in not an industrial city. Thev want to | #ae the typlcal American lite, and here | they will be gratified. ————— 5 The great question which confronts the little fellow in the face of over- whelming power has been renlized by Abd-el-Krim. It ia “What's the use! — v = The Dependent Children’s Bill. Next Tuesday the Senate will pro- ceed to the final consideration of the bill to provide home care for de. pendent children, batter known.as the mothers’ pension bill. 1t was debated iast evening at some length, but with. out final action, and by unanimons eontent it was agreed .to take. it up on the 1at of June. In the course of the consideration of the bill last eve- ning the Senate, without a record vote, Tejected the committee amendment to th® House bill, which places the ad- ministration of this system of home | care under the Public Welfare Board | instead of & separate organization. As the meagure now stands it ix in re- apect to its administration identical with the House bill, and therefore at variance with the propesal of the Dis trict Commissioners, their public wel. fare commission, which investigated this and other questions of like nature at great length, and virtually the en tire. District population, which has manifested its wish in this respect by & variety of means. Evidently there is a disposition on the part of some legislators to adopt the “New York plan” for mothers’ penafona or home care of dependent children, regardiexs of the wishes of the lecal community. An iInsistent Jobhy for the separate bourd proposal has been maintained under the direc- tion of a national organization devoted te this subject. In the course of the defate last evening only two argu- mints were advanced in favor of this position, one that the Board of Pub- Jie Welfare; new)y created, will have too much to do to attend properly to thi mothers' pension system and the other” that the recipients of this hounty should not be placed in the category of other beneficiaries of charity, the delinquents and other charges upon the community. As a matter of fact the Board of Public Welfare will not he over. burdened with duties. It was creatsd specifieally to ' replace the Board of Children’'s Guardiane, which had charge af the former system of caring | miswioners without { court, | by Congress and without further d!-[ | gram. the director the “wonderful power” of being merely an advisor o the Com- authority, let a new bill be written which wil give | the Commissioners or the courts or | somebody else power to muke regula- | tons for the protection of life and limb. Washington needs traffic regulations and traffic enforcement. It has very few of the first which will hold up in and is consequently getting very little of the second. So it is ap- parent that some action must be taken S Superbtition has been vanquished | by civilizution, Nevertheless un fn- dustrious astrologer collect a Jarger anuusl income than a palns- taking astronomer. S0 many yuestions are being argued Lefore the “court of public opinion” that a calendar shouid be provided to permit them to be argued one at a time. vt The New Public Buildings. The Puwblic Buildings Commission has under consideration the general building program provided for in the bill recently enacted authorizing con- struction of public bulldings through- out the United States to cost $165,000,- 000. Part of the work of the commis- sion will be to determine detalis of the construction plan relating to the Dis- trict of Columbin and which Is known as the five-yeur Afty-million-dollur pro- | The commigsion believes that the Arat auuual ibstaliment of $10.- 000,080 Will be curried in the deficiency bill (v be considered by Congress be- fore adjeurnment. la the conjecturer to which of the prupused buildings will be deter- mined on first it hax been suggested | 1hat the firat to be plunued and begun | should be the Archives Bullding, in | o er that public records may be made | safe and that space taken by them in numerous buildings may be otherwise | used. 1t is necessary that the plans, | cost and site of each building be con- sid separately, and the inference | has been that the Archives Building | will be decided first. It buildings for | the Departments of Commerce, Labor, | Agricuiture and State, and for the Su- | preme Court and Government Print- ing Office are to be completed in five or six vears it is necessary that work on those buildings be carried on at| the same time. The question of locations is highly important. The Government owns the 1and between FPennsyivania avemue and the Mall and Fourteenth and Fif- teenth streets, and surely that area will be used as sites for public build- | ings. As none of the buildings ex- copting the Supreme Court and the addition te the Government Printing Office may be erected “north of Penn- I | e | neknowledging that they | gan to ugitate for a cha | tip of the dog’s ear attains it. it is prohable that some of hetween Penngylvania avenu the xquares Avenue and the Mall and Second and | “Thirteenth streets will he ta teadi the “reclmatior King over of the south side \venue from Second to Fifteenth rects, | “Phe Government msljernble amount would be available for . lkely the o or 1t has hoen wleeady owns a of land that permanent number pied si n of there sites have been vccu- the war by temporary strue Oue of the s fucing the building com of docating e i quartered in these temporury buildings iU is decided to place some of the permansnt binkdings on those sites.” The sites uf the rary war buildings on the Mauli should not be used ax sitex for the new huildings. is provided the law (hat t pent of the new buildings shall uearly ax possible harmonize with 1 of the city, and the on the Mall and ‘e repugnant to the cMillan plans and to ive s tion for im- ving the Capital, —_— Hicksville. Hats off fo Hickaville, L. LY Tt has decided (v keep itx ancient und honor able nuive despite the fears of sume of its dwellers (hat it and they will be subject vidicule. The wax named afier Iliax Hicks, Quuker lead oue of the makers of Awerican re ligious history, and for w veurs it was happy iu the enjoyment of a 16 With a deep significance. The me the vaudevilliuns and the min strels and the profexsional quipsters with jibes A “hick” or “rube” be- came an object of derinfon. Hicksville X not a rural settiement, not & town ous inton ix that bur problems AU now temy, in pluc tempornry in Potoma nfant every wutha m M [ town ny the | bullding sites, but quite a | | BY CHARLE: gentlenun by lith wax hiving beel State of Wil corn Several years u the nam of K. ‘ Necretary of Agr ppointed from [lowa, “out where rrows. With the end of the regime Mr, Meredith left Washing- ton, but hix name still comes home to the hearts and hosoms of thousin.ls of Washingtonfans, once a month, through the medium of his magazine, { Better dlomes and Gardens. The writer of this column takes particulor pleasure in recommending this publication to Hix readers, not {oniy hecause it o ne monthly it ix i That. olumn i built and founded home, and therefore hax ap- the renders of a home news- he senxationul, the “snappy -clever. we have left Jothers, and have simply tried to write about the decent und true things, as we are given the light to see them. Thi% also explainx the func Better Homes and Gurdenx. K Iby w man who believes in Americ Lome life as the true buckbone of wir Nation, the magazine is edited by Cheslu C. Sherlock, who has a | vision of & detached home for every jevican family We do not hesitate rvegurd it ux the most “homey” mingu- zine published, and, in xo mying, we | wet avound 10 itx uniqueness, ERE -ultur the great the Democrutic riodiculx, but also sense, n largec 1 in puper, the ulure ) suy that we You will find that this small maga- zine lins an honored place today iu the {affections of familles ull ovey the United Ntutes, largely hecause it gives them something in the periodical line which they never hud hefore. Thix muy seem an amazing thing to sy, when vne stops to think of the number of publications which litter the newsstands. Iave there not been liome maguzines” before, and elabo- rate onex, toc H ne, It s A . charming town, with an ur- | ban spivit. There ure two clusses of residentx, original llicksvililtes und newcomers who col . Some of the Uy felt that they were put- soclal slutus in jeopurdy by lived 1u u town with such & name und they be e. Anything but Hicksyllle! Anything without tha firat syllable thut caused them (v writhe whenever (hey gave their home uddreas, the other duy the matter Was Lrought 1o un fssue und a vote was tuken. ‘The total of the bulluting a8 1,345 wut of & votlug enrollment of 1400, Pretty goud for Licksville. ‘Those Who favored a chauge num bered 317. Those ugainat changing € 994, One ballot was spolied, four € Dblank, and twenty-nine were voided by improper marking. Again & good showing for Hicksville! So the indictment against the old town name was quashed and now there is great rejoicing there, and tomorrow night a celebration will be held under the aus- pices of the Cu ttee for Saving the Name of Hicksvilie. All Long Islund has been invited. Two bands have been engaged. A parade led by the oldest inhabitants has been wrranged and Main sireet s being washed for dancing. So hats off to Hitksville! May its name remain forever [ENES remurks are now uui- vermlly reud. It required a world up- heaval to secure this contrust with his obscurity as an editor in the Eronx. In wpite of the desire 10 encouruge literary genius the price of doing so seoms in u case like this excessive. — et A strong appeul is made by Presi- dent Coolidge to u large element of American citizenship that does not re- gard it as absolutely necessary for a true statesman to qualify as a base ball fan or a golf expert. oo ting th Epicures resent the idea of a rough! party, which permits a chorus girl in @ bath tub to spoil a quantity of per- fectly good champagne. o Summer resorts threaten to provide that in order to prevent argument Yex, there ainly have- very eluborate ones—that was the main trouble. The accomplished publishers und editors of these estimable publica- tlons did get vut wonderful magazines. In the past we bought our full share of these Leautifully fllustrated, uperfine paper periodicals. We nired the picture of Mrs. Buffington Jones' wurden on long Island, with its greut fountains, walls, pergolas, Atutues, G, fhterior of Mrs. BlufMngton- Junes’ home, too, compelled us to ad- mit that no home we had ever Leen privileged to enter could comps with it. The console table in the mag- nificent hall was utterly bevond com pure. We read with hated breath the arti cle by the efficient thterlor decorator, i which he told, with evident self-sat. istaction, just_how he had managed tv make Mrs. Bluffington-Jonex’ home a place where no child would play. Wistfully we looked at the pictures, elaborate and inclusive, showing how, why. when and where to grow the latest peony creations, costing from $10 to $50 for a three-eye root. “‘Some dayv,” we sighed, “‘we will garden so largely grand, near a beau- titul mansion. ‘Then we placed the gorgeous publi- cation in the waste-paper basket, and heartily wished that some inspired publisher would put out a home maga- zine for “just plain folks." Herbert Hoover, Curtis D. Wilbur, Admiral Sims, Admiral’ Eberle and enator lenrout contribute to the Kricsson number of the American- Scandinavian Keview tributes to the designer of the Monitor, whom Wash- ington will honor tbmorrow. secre tary lloover points out: “Our imerior waterway development, with its raan) pressing issues, has a fine link of sentiment th the name of John Kriesson. er part the Monitor played at the critical period of the Civil War. What every schoolboy does not know is the long list of inventions and engineering works which Ericsson contributed in ‘| peaceful pursuits over 50 vears and their profound effect upon the whole development of the economic life of our ccuntry and the world. T need mention no other than the invention of the screw propeller, which made modern water-borne traffic possibl * ® x % Admiral _Sims, American com mander in World War waters, writes about the length of bathing suits there shall be no bathing suit. s SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHN Reverned. The band iy at the microphone By night us well as day, And when I'm sieepy, all alone, 1 hear the music play. A Jband I'd follow through the street Ot yore in boyish gide, But now there comes a change com- plete. The band is following me. Demand for “Do you think an should be prolonged?” “An investigation,” said Senator Sorghum, “shouid, if you want to get your man, be made as brief as pos- sible. It you go on hammering him week after week the public begins to want to see a few of his good quali- ties pointed out, simply far the sake of variety.” velty. investigation Peddiers All ‘The weary peddier brings his puck, And Lumbly says, “What do you lack?” wortal seeks to show some worth, ‘o justify his claiin on earth. Each “We long for the loftiest possible position in life,” said Hi Ho, the Chinese philosopher. ‘“The fiee on the Jud Tunkins says the hl:uhmenlnl- ist and‘ the modernist can't under- stand each other and for his part he can't fully understand eithei of them. Sarcastic. ““What did you think of the original jazs composition?” “It didn't strile me as a composi- tion,” answered Miss Cayenne. ‘It ‘was an imposition.” That Missing Bird. There are so many kinds of fight About 80 many different things It that 'Peace Dove should heave sight, Let's grab him quick and clip his wings, in that “the modern ‘dreadnought’ is a glorified Monitor.” Admiral Eberle, chief of naval operations, says, “The American Navy. more than any other, benefited from Kricaxon's gentux and must always hold his memory in highest respect nnd esiee Secre- tary Wilbmr thinks that “the passing of time has justiied rather than diminished the high reputation and confidence which this brilliant sclen tist enjoyed with his cotemporarie: Senator lenroot, himself of Scandi- navian ancestry, records that “John Kricsson’s genius and patriotism help- ed to preserve the Union in one of itn darkest hours, and his name will be remembered and revered through all'the years to come.” . * koK K No tribute to cason can rival the sentiment expressed by himseif when, In answer to President Lin- coln’s anxious call to the engineer- ing brains of the Nation for “iron- clad steam batteries he sent the following letter to the White House: The writd having introduced the present system of naval pro- pulsion and constructed the first screw ship of war, now offers to construct a vessel for the destruc- tion of the rebel fleet at Norfolk s s o I geek no private advantage or emolument of any kind. * * ¢ Attachment to the Union alone im- Pels me tu offer my services at this fearful crisix. XK o ox The Corcorsn Gallery of Art ha just been asked (0 Supply u catu- iogue of John Sargent's works. That 1sn't an extraordinary request, but what liex behind it fs & bit weird. Miss T.ouise Owen, an English wom- an, who, when lord Nothcliffe was on earth, was associated with him in a confidential capacity, sends word to Washington that through her spiritualistic contact with North- cliffe she has just been brought into touch with the & American por- trait painter! Rargent, she says, has chosen her “to carry on his work.” He has also communicated to her his desire for a permanent building in which aspiring youn artists may exhibit their work. Miss Owen has aiready gone about the regul production of Sargents, which, she avows and avers, she is executing in every detall, at his per- sonal direction. A ERE of a throbbing industrial constituency like Rochester, N. Y., which makes clothing and cameras by the trdinload, to be an authority on farm reilef. But, by general conwent, the ablest speech on the agricultural situation made during the recent House debate on the Haugen bill came from Represeniative Meyer Jacobstein of Rochester. With “When a man is puffeckly wif hisself,” said Unele Eben, satisfed the aid of graphie charts, he held his colleaguer spellbound, not oniy for the regular time allotted him. but for three or four extensions granted will- cupies a field unigne | plant peonies of that description in a | choolboy knows the | You'd hardly expect the spokesman | THIS AND THAT E. TRACEWELL. | Detter Homes and Gardens was the | answer to our unexpressed plea. That | literully thousands and hundreds of | thousands of persons throughout the | United States felt just as we did was shown by the growth of the publica- which has been achieved montty mouth-to-mou ' recommenda- here is no-one who hus been priv leged to watch the growth and bette ment of this publication, published at ex, with its still very low hue not given it a place hups held by no other price, whe in hix heart vine. e who tuke Ietter Homes and Gurdens form the greatest fraternity in the United States, for they are ted by n commen fove of the finest things in life. ‘They require no pledge of fealty, for they gave it without asl ing when they developed, as child or “grown-up,” a love for the home and all it standx for. vuly, the readers of Better Homes and Gardens might appropriately par- { aphrase the pledge to the flag repeat- {ed by the school children of the Na- ton | pledge allegiance to my home, and 1o the Republic for which it stands, my home indivisible, with lib- erty and justice for all.” The home does stand for the Re- public. As Washington Irving sald 50 long agv, every man will fight for his heurih, but who will fight for his stove! The quintessence of home life comes in the possession of a detached hoe, although the steps leading up 10 thix have their proper places in the great plan of American home owner- ship. * * X % e growth of Better lfomes and Gardeus has not been alone in circu- lation, but alsv in quality and size. it started with a very poor title, “Kruit, Home and Garden,” or sme such clumsy arrangement. Then it evolved its present distinctive and ap- propriate name, and in various subtle ways became a firstclass publication at a third-class price. Mr. Meredith, in other words, as a man of the West might be expected to do, has played fair with his great tamily of readers. iHe had a vision of & home magazine for me and for vou, and for our neighbors—one that would help us in our average living rooms, and with our small back-yard garden. It we wunt “up-stuge stuff,” we still can go 10 the beantiful publications that abound in it, but now we have our own mugazine, properly clothed vet not “all dressed up. with a friendly clasp of the hand, and words of sympathy and advice. Much of this effect ix, no doubt, the work of the editor, Mr. Sherlock, whose (wo departments. “Across the Fditor's Desk” and “Along the Ga den Path,” are always worth while. We purticularly like the latter. A page of letters from readers has re. mained one of the most interesting features of the magazine. Mr, Sherlock's series, “Homes of Famous Americane " has been & high light of the magazine for many { monthe. Al in all, we know of no happy, honest publication to around the home than Better nd Gardens. We sincerely hope that Mr. Mere. !dith will never allow his magazine to | grow oo large, or too clever, or 100 | elaborate, or too high-brow, or too tancy, or too beautiful. We want it to stay slways the homeyv magazine of our own “Home, Sweet Home." WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WL | Haugen measure. Jacobstein reeled off his set remarks with persuasive vigor, and parried heckling questions { from all quarters of the chamber. The { young New York Democrat is not only {un economist by profession, but hap- | pens (o have been a professor at the University of North Dakota. So he has wheat-belt practice and experience with which to bolster sound economics. x oK ok % Senators Overman, Cummins, cher and Nye will face the primary guns in June. In light of recent | events, Capitol Hill colleagues tell them it's safer this vear to be his- { torians, thanprophets, of senatorial primaries. Overman and Fleicher, Southern Democrats, are not threat- ened. But Cummins on June 7 and Nye on June 30 both have Republican rivals of no mean steel. The Brook- hart shadow looms ominously over the G. O. P. primary in Iowa, while in North Dakota young Mr. Nye con- fronts the seasoned opposition of Louis B. Hanna, former governor and Coolidge campaign manager in 1924 Nye has injected the World Court isaue into the fight. He opposed American entry ‘into the tribunal. *oxox % The American Petroleum Institute, on whowe behulf Charles na Hughes yesterday addressed the Fed. eral Oll Conservation Board, is k- ing in co-operation with the Govern- ment ou the monumental task of pre- serving national petroleum resources. A sweeping survey of the whole oil industry of America. and the world-— its present position and future pos- sibilities—is to be produced. It will be the most comprehensive work of the kind ever undertaken. The board's re- port will prospectively comprise three volumes. One volume will deal with the international aspects of petroleum —a phase bristling with both economic and political possibilities. Imaginative men sometimes opine the next war will be fought for and over oil. Sec- retaries Davis (War), Hoover, Wilbur and Work, who constitute the con- servation board, have not conducted an inquisition, but a straight fact-find- ing inquiry, and the oll industry has co-operated all along the line. L) Former President Arturo Alessandri “hile, now on American soll, having rived at New York, may come to Washington as an unofficial emis- of Chilean sentiment on the Arica mess. The patriotic so- cletien of Chile requested Senor Ales- sundri to present their views to Pro dent Cuolidge, In the course of the former's private vi to the United Ntates, Alessandri igned the presi- dency of Chile last Fall. He in still a wember of the Chilean Nenate, and alxo u governor of the Central Bank of he country, representing the ghroup known as “popular investors.” A law- Flet- the strong men of South America, though he has never figured promi- nently in international affairs. Con- sultation with American capitalists re. garding Chilean iron properties brings him to this country. * ok ok X Charles Edward Russell, American Socialist, whom dJohn Bull 'has barred from British soil, was a welcome guest there in 1917. He was the first repre- sentative of the Creel ‘“committee on public information” sent to London to establish a propaganda liaslon with our British comrades-in-arms. TLater in the war he was superseded. (Copyright. 1926.) o eae— Poor Imitation. From the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat. That's really no war in China, Christian nations would kill twice as many men in half the tim R i Slow Leak. From tha Los Angeles Times. Most of the deflation that financiers talk about appears to be in rubber. ver by profession, Alessandri is one of [ W A Recipe Proposed for [ More Executive Dignity | To the Editor of The Star: ! ere are two wavs in which honor | | should he shown the National Kxecu- | tive, reflecting honor upon the whole | Nation and establishing wholesome | dignity. | One is the use of such an expres- aion as ‘““The President and Mrx, | Coolidge,” instead of “Coolidges,” will | spend the week end on the Mayflower, in headlines to personal paragraphs in the newspapers of Washington. | which go out all over the United States and, Indeed, over the whoie world. 1 seldom read more than the headlinex in newspapers, ind these | are sometimen musing, if one has | u sense of humor, as the contribu-| tions to the little magazine i’oetr published in Chicago. 1 also like tke majesty of mountains, the grandeur of ‘an approaching storm, the high | achool stadium crowded with a peoplé joined in a Fourth of July celebra-| tion, and the utmost respeci to the | ones chosen to represent the highest | of our national and sacfal jife. | Having mentioned the Mayflower,| has any one else been struck with the | fact that it was a rether vulgar thing | to do for the' management of the hotel of that name to use that name, seeing that it had heretotors been | sacred to the President’s vacht, and | that confusion would resuit in social | converse? If the President, intent on other matters, has not requested it, it doss seem to me that Congress should insist that the hotel change its name, and all the more because a hotel by some other name would not be so popular. Does it tend to make “‘Americaniam’” and “honesty” syn- onymous? OIGA W. CAMPBELIL. et we— One Good Reason Is Enough From the Kansas City Post. A month ago & number of scientista and explorers, the most celebrated of them being Capt. Donald MacMills were agreed that the airplane and the balloon were of little value in Arctic exploration. Captain, the first to criticize the use of aircraft in efforts to reach the Pole, was more temperate than the others. He did not regard the airplane or the balloon as having much value in such undertakings, and considered ships, siedges and dogs much more dependable and much safer. Perhaps they are. And yet two expeditions have flown to the North Pole, Lieut. Comdr. Richard B. Byrd and hin pilot in an airplane, and Roald Amundsen, Lincoln Ellaworth and thelr subordinate personnel in a bal- loon. A month ago the opinion that ships, sledges and doge Were better suited to Arctic ezploration than aircraft seemed unquentionably sound. It still jay be mound. Yet it is an eatab- | lished fact that one can go o the Pole in an airplane or a balloon. And it is further established that one can get | back to civilization, or to the outposts of civilization, a lot quicker than when he tre by dog sledge and walts for the melting of the ice to liberate his ship. The achievements of Lieut. Comdr. Byrd and of the Amundsen-Ellaworth expedition emphasize a truth infinitely more important to the world as a whole than anything it may learn abont the Arctic. It is that most per- sons can see 10 reason why any given undertaking cannot be carried out successfully to one for its succeas. One should view most proposals criti- cally and keep his feet on the ground. But it is the man who sees Why a given thing can be done, rather than why it can't, who carries a project through to execution. Byrd, Amund- sen, Ellsworth and their associates, in the words of Mr. Edgar A. Gnest, “tackied the thing that couldn't be done, and did it.” oo = Here’s to Lillian. From the Champaign News-Gazett. From the rocks of Cape Gris-Nes to the cliffs of Dover stretch more than 20 miles of rough and treacherous water, 3 The English Channel, conquerer of hundreds of hardy swimmers who have pitted against it their strength and stamina and nerve. In 50 years or more of trying, a handful of plen have succeeded in swimming it. They are very few— something like a half dozen. They the immortals. ‘Women have tried it, to0—scores of them. But not one ham succeeded. Last Summer Gertrude Ederle dared it, and it was thought that if any woman could do it Miss Ederle could. But she failed—not so much because of waning strength as the nausea that overpowered her. g And now comes Lillian Cannon from Baltimore. Since 1915, when she was a girl of 12, Miss Cannon has had vi- sions of some dayv seeing her name in print as one. of those who had made the channel crosasing. fhe is on her way to France now, where she will train for eight weeks before slipping off the rock of Gris- Nez and setting out for Kngland. With her will awim two dogs, Chena- peake Bay dogs, regarded as the greatest swimmers in the world. Miss Cannon thinks she can do it, hecause she is young. strong. canfi- dent, a superb and unt Moreover, she swam across peake Bay, a distance of during a severe squall. She knows something of the shift- | ing tides of the channel. Knows that | the slightest breeze sets the chann in motion. Knows that she ix con- fronted by one of the most difficult tasks a girl ever attempted. And atill she ix confident. They raise swim- mers down in the Chesapeake Bay re- gion, and the old bay itself is not the easieat thing (o swim in when the wenther is rough. “Bring on vour old channel!" she cries, and every Amerioan with sport- ing blood in his veins hopes she will conquer it, hopes the honor of being the first woman to swim the famous channel will rest on the shouiders of a fellow American. vt Commendable Forbearance. From she Seattle Daily Times. Press dispatches from London b {he information that Will Roge American comedian, wan received at St. James Palace by the Prince of ‘Wales. The conversation, which lasted two hours, touched upon a wide range of topics, such the British strike, prohibition, American and Canadian ranch life, President Coolidge, Mus- solini and Russia, but no comedy lines introduced. ‘Believe me,” said the comedian afterwards, “l tried to cheer him up, but kept off the joke stuff.” One must commend Mr.Rogera’ tact in not attempting any funny “cracks” at & time when indigo-colored clouds of gloom hung over England. No doubt he had many jokes designed to keep the prince’s mind off the 5,000,000 strikers and the unpleasant prospects that the country might g0 to the bow- wows, but clearly the time was not propitious for fuffy humor. The tact displayed by Mr. Rogers is the same as that of the man who for- bears to discuss tube roses and floral emblems when calling on a friend in n hospital. Or that of the sympathetic soul who refrains from saying: “Easy come, eany go,” to the man who has just lost everything in the stock market. The Princé of Wales has a fine understanding of American humor. Occasionally he uses Americal lang. However, it is doubtful if he would urat into laughter over quaint re- arks about the strike or the prospect of the lion getting his tail twisted.. On | the whole, Mr. Rogers risex in public | York. | Gr esteem. It I8 not _sv'r‘bdy ‘Wwho | Union. and “it will be ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. What is .the derivation of the word “botulism”?—W. G. 8. A. It is derived from the Latin word “hotulus.” meaning a sausage, and was probly first applied to cases of food polsoning originating from eat- ing sausage Afterward it was ap- plied to other forms of food poisoning | having the same characteristics. Q. What is the source of Creek and its course?-C. K. H. A. Rock Creek has its mource near the Patapsco River. It flows west of Colorado avenue, crosses and. takes a straight course to the Pierce Mill road. It then twists to the east and @ain meets the Plerce Mill road. lis course is again straight to Klingle road, east in the Zoological Park, to form a question mark: south parallel with Belmont road to Oak Hill Ceme- tery; then east to Twenty-second atreet and straight south to the Poto- mac River, which it joine at Twenty- eighth street. Q. How does real Satsuma look?— JE. V. ° A. A rea! old Satsuma at first sight looks like .lvory, and the designs dis- play infinite care, the colors being low in tone, while the gold is penciled with such a muititude of minute lines as to be truly wondertul. is sometimen enameled in yellow and black. Real old Satsuma may be identifled by the mark of a string on the bottom or by the fact that the spiral in the paste goes from left to right. No real Satsuma is marked except for these two characteristics. Many imltations of Satsuma which are very luable, especially Kioto and Awats, are marked in Japanese letter or signs. Q. Is the Ericson whom Prince Giustavus & to honor on May,29 the one who discoversd North rica? —C. A. D. A. Leif Ericson. the discoverer, ix not to be confused with John* Erfes- son, the Swedish inventor. Prince Gustavus is to attend the unveiling of the memorial to his countryman. Q. What size airplanes carry pas- sengers from London to Paris?>—W. B. A. Airplanes are used of various capacit. Some accommodate only two passengers, while others take as many as 12. Q. Will American wild song birds breed in captivity?—lI. R. The Biological Survey says it is e difficult to induce the American wild song birde to breed in captivity; furthermore, in most States it I8 against the law to have wild birds in pousession. Q. What is the origin of the word Socony’—G. K. A. It is the combination of the in- itials of the Standard Oil Co. of New Rock Q. Is the Sesquicentennial Fair und in North or South Philadel- phla?—&, R. A. The exposition site covers 1.000 acres in South Philadelphia, incinding l)adxub Isiand Park and the navy vard. Q. What diseases ace treated with radium besides cancer?—R. M. C. A. Radium is used in treating the following conditions and diseases: Re- moval of hairy and pigmented moles: warts, eapecially those on the hands of X-ray_workers: ulcers, goiters and various diseases of the skin. Q. What are the magnetic poles?— K. C. W, A. The magnetic poles are the points on the earth’s surface where the linen of magnetic force are verti. cal. They are the ends of the axis of the earth’s magnetic polarity. The glaze | ously above the horizon at the Aretic Circle for about a month in June and July. Q. Why can't a eating grase?—S. W. A. Jn so far as diet is concerned. the fammalia are divided into three asses: The carnivora, the herbivora and the frugivora. The frugivera, to which group man belongs, exhibit their superiority by their clevernees in obtaining food in concentrated forms: consequently the digestive an- paratus is too small to digest suf ficlent graas to sustain life and is not fitted to assimilate it. n sustain life by Q. How many panics have wé had in the United States?—H. M. &, A. In the United States the most notable crises, sometimes termed pan- been those of 1819, 1837 1873, 1884, 1893, 1907, 1913 Q. Will ice again cover thiz country & it did in prehistoric times? -0, .J. D. A. There is no way of telling whether the ice age, o called, will | return or what changes in the climate | will occur in the future. It is known that the ice sheet invaded the north- ern part of the United States four or five times, and between these several invasions there were long intervals. during which the climate was as mild a8 now. and in some cases milder than it is at present. It is also known that the length of each of these inte; glacial stages was longer than t time which had elapsed since the ap- pearance of the last ice sheet. From this it may be inferred that it fis auite possible, at least, that another | advance of the great ice she@ mav | oceur. | Q. How long have been :I'x\\‘n’,’~fi. H. A. The loganberry ix a hybrid pro Auced from raspberry and hiackberry. It was named after Judge J. H. ‘bolx:;l‘ of California, who produced it n : Q. What 1. K. A. The Kodiak hear attains the largest size of all known bears. and is the most hulky of carnlvores, speci mens not regarded as the heaviest having weighed 1,200 pounds. Many, however, are comparatively small. This huge species was discovered tn sclence about, 1895 on Kodiak Island. Alaska, where it is said to be numer. ous, but hard to get. loganherries I8 a Kodiak hear? . Q. Please give the length of the water troughs from which New York Central traina take water “on the fiv."—R. P. McK. A. They are are lald in the Q. What does —H. A. Mortician is defined as funeral director. 1t is derived from the Lat- In “mors,” meaning death. 000 fest long and ter of the track. ‘mortician” mean? Q. Please give a recipe for jerked beef?—W. D. A. It i simply heef in long. thin strips dried in the alr, with or with out being previously immersed In i brine. The original jerked bheef was | unsalted. The word “jerked" comes | from the Spanish-American “‘charque- ar.” The industry originated in Uruguay, where the hesf w0 pre- served is tasso. Q. Was Virginia a roval | from the time the frst was_established at P, A. The settlement At Jamestown was made in 1607 by coloniste gent out by what was known as the London Company. On Jung 26,.1824, the charter of the London Company colony seltlement Jamestown?—P, ‘| wan declared nuil and void-and Vir- Q. Is it correct to say. “I eat soup™ or I drink soup’ TP A. The idiom in general use is “I eat soup.” In a literal sense. one does not drink it. Soup is sipped either from the spoon or the cup. Q. When the sun reaches its north- ern_solstice. how long is it above the horizon at the Arctic Circlef—C. T. N. A. The Nava] Observatory says that allowing for the effect of refraction ginia became a royal provinee. ! Did you ever write a letter to Fred- {eric J. Haskin? You can ask him any | question of fact and get the gnsicer in | a personal letter. Here is a great rdii- | cational idea introduced into the lives | of the most intelligent people in the world—American newspaper readers It is @ part of that best purpose of a_newspaper—aservice. TRere is nn charge except ® cemts in stamps for return postage. Address Frederic J and the sun’s semidiameter, some por- tion of the sun's disk will he continu- | Haskin. director. The Evening Star Information Bureaw. Washington, D.C. Recovery of British Pound Lifts the Like a ray of sunlight through the clouds hanging in the wake of the general strike. news that British sterling had reached par for the first time since the war pleases and en- couragex the world. Credit_for the achievement is given by the Utica Observer-Dispatch to well known “English economic tenacity and sense.” Why are not other Ku- ropean countries in the same happy position? This paper thinks “the dif- fleulty upon the wontinent is due largely to the fact that the govern- ments will not balance their budgets. ‘The English assessed the severeat of taxes,” continues the Utica paper. “and the people paid them. The politiciang on the continent do not dare to do the same. 'The people will not pay taxes as the English will." The Columbus Dispatch is impressed by the. fact that “just when sta isticilans are figuring the enormous losses alleged to have heen sustained by British industry as a result of the eight days’ general strike, the pound sterling ‘surprises the pessimistiy by rising above par,” and this in spite of the fact that “‘six vears ago the pound sank as low $3.19." The Dispatch is of the opinion that the retu@ to a gold standard played its part?in the rise of the pound. saying in tids con- nection: “Only a year or so ago. with Britons of the John Maynard Keynes school shrieking against the move- ment with all their might, the chan- cellor of the British exchequer calmly announeed the résumption of the gold standard. Since then, the variations in the exchange value of the pound have been confined within limits so narrow as to indicate the absolute confidence of the financial world in the stgbHity of the British position. ‘The whole world would be the loser if that confidence were werivusly and conomic rehabiMtation -water mark of Brit- is the tribute of the Loulsville Courier-Journal. “It is character that has achieved this re- markable victory,” continues the Courfer-Journal. “While other nations have ‘gone the easy v' Into inflation and bankrupte: nd repudiation, Great Britain has kept faith with the British tradition of commercial in- tegrity. Its people have sacrificed and suftered and worked their way out of the financial welter wrought by the war. Their“charecter has commanded credit when credit was needed. On a scale never before known, the. late J. Pierpont Morgan's dictum that the basis of credlt is character and mnot capital—that men worth millions may t prudently be lent a dollar and that men without a doMar may very prudently be lent millions —has been exemplified."” John Bull is pictured by the Man- chester Uniun ax having “‘made good in his long fight against obstacies which well might have deterred a lens determined man of business, nd considers that he has =at an example worth following. *The French have the opportunity te study Rritish finance at close range.” suggests the a pity indeed if Ahint from the . World’s Spirits Islanders’ stout determination maintain national solvenc: . England has taken the wind out of the sails of her detractors, in the opinion of the Chicago Daily News, which say: ‘Whatever some pessi- mists may _a rt to the contrary. England is“not ‘done.’ It is facing she future with confidence. British faith in the gold standard has been vindicated by the course of economic !and financial events.” The News be- lieves that “‘the recovery of the pound sterling should encourage other na- tions to take up in earnest the ques. tion of returning to the gold stand- ard.” Such action, it affirms, if taken | by France. would assist in the “stahili- | zation of the franc.” and “economic questions. ineluding the cost of living and the flight of capital, would he | much simplified * o ok ok “A new mile-post along the road of world post-war reconstruction was passed when the English pound ster ling exchanged at gold par in the New York money market," says the Sacra- mento Union, as it notes the impor tant fact that “this is the first time any country involved in the World War or any European country neigh- bor to the war area has seen its currency and credit reach par in international exchange.” The Union states that “it is significant that at the same time .sterling exchanged at gold par the French franc went to a new low level of 3.01 cents, compared to pre-war parity-of 19 cents, and that Belgian france and Italian lire con- tinued to respond to the French influence."” Discussing the recent British strike and the still moure recent rise to gold parity of the pound sterling, the Phila- delphin Kvening Bulletin thinks the latter “so largely follows the collapse of the general strike that one is tempted to try to trace a connection between the two.” In its analysis the Bulletin adds: “The strike itself set Great Britain back financially and in- dustrially, increased unemployment and taxation and made a hudget deficit possible. These are all favorable factor the general wi bubble of labor radicalism. It showed that the nation in general not only resented the attempt to take it by the throat but had the power to prevent it. For Great Britain’s tuture, the strike. by clearing the air, may have been Worth all it cost. That is gerhape the omen of the pound at par.” Convinced that “there must be a great reserve force concealed in the British Empire,” the Chattanooga ws expresses the judgment that its vitality is entitled to a place among modern marvels.” The Bell- ingham tHerald. observing that France “has practically no unempigyed but its finances are demoralised.” while Great ain, “with its ffnances in perfect shape, constantly faces eco- nomiic trouble that has résulted in an army of nnemploved of more than 1,000,000 for " suggests that War-debi negotiations wili heip ¢8 tam n p to thefzane.