Evening Star Newspaper, May 31, 1926, Page 8

v i "8 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C MONDAY... ....May 31, 1926 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Offive N 11th St. and Penn-ylva Nev v B V10 R 1 " Chicazo Offce: | Buroptan e per month Telenhe carrier N Dails and Darlr on Sunday oo | bulitical signiicance during the next The Assaciatod ©ress 1x exclusively entitle 0 the e (o 2ot gl atehes credited to it or not of ted in thic naner o h lighed hore pacial dispatches D! Al o I — The Nation's Tribute. Fitty-eight vears ago an order was tssued to the posts of the Grand Avmy of the Republic to strew with flowers on the 30th of May the graves of the soldier dead, then freshly green. Today, with the ranks of the Grand Army of the Republic thinned 1 ta the point of vanishment tom 1s Ly the memory of the dead of three wars. Since that order was issued in 1868 thie Nation has been cemented In u closer union than that for the preservation of which the War of the Sixties was fought. It has grown not enly stronger in its unity, but capahle of the greater effectiveness in defense from the very conflict then waged, section | fon. It is today, in lts of the custom of paying respect to the men who gave their lives In three wars. a patriotic unit. countless fields, gather the American people to pay that | tribute which grateful appreciation of { valor exaets. North and South, East and West. they assemble, with cere | monies in most places, without ritual or pr elsewhere, observed which was Toda on am to the graves of the men who fou the three wars in which this « has enzazed since 1861 those tokens of jove and respect that custom has | Lieg HiAtiire. and we mmonkl suier AR lupon . period of evil times which Twothids of a century ago the|MI¥Ht seriously menace the founda- mation was riven with strife that|1on® of the Republic. It ix a rewson menaced iis existence. Today those|®Vle expectation that Irish, Itallan, Wonnds are healed. the breach o |German and other “nationality” polite closed. the nnion is cemented. Nearly |4l leaEues Would svon be formed, BT i e e e A o st \\Ixele\'erlh&xenvill'c;:m of forelgn R extraction were sufficiently numerous vrv:i;:l:-:ml:”‘,:‘..{,:;L xh(e“r-i;:m u'":‘_ they would send Representatives to dependence which had been earned | by self-development and which was te he denfed only by the exercise of #n autocratic, arbitrary power. Nearly ten vears ago it entered a great world conflict in defense of its na- tional honor and in aid of the vietims of a freedom-crushing tyranny of fatce, Such is the record of these sixty- five vears of milita sacrifice. which is marked today by the ceremanies and the patriotic rites At the hurial places where rest in their last sleep the men who fell in those wars, All these men were actuated by the same motive, devotion to the prin- ciples of American government. Those who fell in the Sixtles had two differ- fnz points of view, which were not to he reconciled save through the fssue of hattle. Their successors In the field of valor, who fell in the war with Spain and in the Great War, came from the whole countr: from hoth sides of the great schism of civil conflict. Today the flowers of memory and grateful appreclation of the highest service man can render to his country fall on all the graves alike, the tribute of comrades in arms| and of posterity. ———rm—— A young man who tries to get by an examination by stealing the ques. tion= in advance is fortunate in being found out ea The method logical- Iy pursued is one that insures a tragic failure in life, —_— el Great events are stirring, but none ©f them are great enough to over- whelm the eternal sympathy with love and youth. The report of the wedding is still the big news. et - China proceeds with her war and absolutely declines to permit forelgn entanglements to interfere with it. The Real Issue. Senator Borah's speech before the Presbyterian General Assembly at Baltimore yesterday puts the prohibi tion question before the American peo- ple in & manner to define the issue more clearly than during recent times, ‘The great question is the capaci the American people fur coustitutional government. Nenator Borash puts that question with variations: ‘ Shall we live up to und enforce that provision of the Constitution (the elghteenth amendment) until in the orderly method pointed out by the Constitution we see fit to change ft? Can we enforce the law which we have deliberately miade? The supreme test of a free government is the right of the people to write and unwrite jts congtitution and its laws. The su- preme test of good citizenship s to ohey the constitution and the laws when written. To disregard our Ce stitution. to evade it, to nullify it, while still refusing to change it, is to plant the seeds of destruction in the heart of the Nation—is to confess be- fore the world that we have nelther the moral courage nor the intellectual sturdiness for self-government. Jt is well that this issue should be #0 clearly stated in these days of di- gregsion upon detalls of enforcement, disputes about expenditures by dry and wet organizations and forces, of proposals for referendums and other means of nullification without directly facing the issue of constitutional re- vision, fhere is in existence an organiza- tion of opponents of prohibition which styles itself the “Face the Facts” Com- mittee. It holds annual banquets in this eity, at which the facts as.alleged ibition enforcement are re- ¥ remdered more than sisty 1 s may not 1 Eu.« wsclves set ny provision of | tie Federal fun ntal luw, Senstor Borali’s concluding words sound a | Congress, elecled svlely or largely be- I glow of genlal appre \‘m”nfiu Breer ia 3 | staeration of the/vital faet of nullifica. [tion. Senator Borah seeks to bring | I back the debate to that vital fact of | jorderly procedure of constitution: [Rovernment. He scores the action of | [the Legislature of New York, submit- | [ting to the people of that State a | [ referendum s o in its ter :n-.u atfirniative re would he ! astitutionsd of constitu- {tional law. That vendum, cu ningly phrased in o the propositio would in case of an aflivative vote serve up forty-cight standards 1 enforccment, insteud “lia mode of hed der 1l o set of definition of the single ! ment sndient inn and which the e contemplates i nullitication, d 1 that ma become of particulur | two yeurs: | AU is perfectl 1is demunded of 1we ways, cither repeal | or its tion. with the issue, | only one w-ubid plete and shumeless viol utter nullitication, That That being the issue, there course for toand people to [ that is to live Constitution, not only ac- IR o Jts terms as it stands, but fing to the method provided for ling it e A Bad Political Move. Good intentions undoubtedly prompt- &l the movement which resulted yes terday at meeting here in the or gunization of “The John Ericsson Re. publican League of Aterica.” but the underfaking Is budly wdvized and should not be encouraged. Americuns of Swedish birth or descent are smong the best of cltizens, and they have a right 10 engage actively in support of the Republi the Demo- tie party wther legitin ical organization, but their po- activity should be us Amer- not as Swedes. A politicul league predicuted upon the national descent of its members hus no place in the Awmerican scheme of things. It is extimated that there ure about 1000000 persons in this country of wedish birth or descent, 50 concen- troted that in some of the Northwest- ern States they wre xulflclml(l‘v numer- to stitute a balance of po- Wl power. It is not Inconcelvabile that they might send to Congress cnough Representutives to constitute Swedish balance of power in the Nu- M e » liti ivans, ous it ause of thelr particular nationul de- scent. And when there came befure Congress measures affecting relutions with other countries it would be ul- w0st Inevitable that these national- istic bloes would be influenced in thei, votes Ly prejudices inherited from ather lands, A Swedish national political league ix as repugnant to the American scheme as would be a national Metho- dist or a national Catholic political leagu For a century and a half all such political movements have been discouraged by patriotic and sound- thinking Americans. ' The announced purpuse of the Swedish league just formed is to assist the publican na- tional committee. The committee vught to make it known that it does not welcome such assistance. he votes of Swedish citizens as individ- uals are, of course, acceptable, but the activities of a league of Swedish citi- zens or citizens of any other national rigin - within the organization eof either political purty would constitute a dangerous prevede c———. Even If you do not care for the radio musical program, the humorous contrast afforded by the advertising announcements must bring a gentle tion, A Texas statesman used to be ex- pected to maintain a reputation as a “fire-eater.” At present he is com- pelled to be more or less busy with the water wagon. L — Some euterprising bathtub manu- facturer ought to get a good ad out of the present New York theutrical situation, ———— Byrd Wants the South Pole. Comdr. Richard K. Bgrd is think- ing of traveling to the South Pole and it is likely thut his North Pole pilot, Floyd Bennett,*is alxo thinking of golug South. When the pole- hunting fever geis into a man’s bivod he does not seem content to rest in those parts of “the earth where the grass and trees are green and where there are picnics in Summer and warm radiators in Winter. The South Pole has been visited befos Amundsen got there in December, 1911, and Scott reached the Pole January 17, 1912, to find Amundsen's calrn contalning the record of his discovery. It has been settled that the south end of the world is covered by a continent with ice-coated plateaus and high mwountain ranges. Muny Americans have read more of Arctic thun of Antarctic exploration and perhaps there is more interest in Washington in the North than the South Pole. The North Fole being nearer, some of us perhaps consider it our local pole and of more in: terest than the more distant pole. Bold men have been traveling close to and within the Antarctic Circle for a long time. Capt. James Cook, the fllustrious English navigator,” was down in that fcy part of the world in 1772:1775 and many names are asso- ciated with Antarctic exploration dur- ing the first and second quarters of the nineteenth century. In our time there have been the Nares expedition in the ship Challenger in 1874; the Larson expedition in the Jason, 1893; the Chun party in the Valdivia in 1898.99; the Relgica expedition in the same vears: the Southern Cross and Gauss explorationa in 1899-1903; Scott’s travels in thy Discovery in footis THE 1902.06, and the Tater expeditions of & enskiold. Shackleton, ¢ Amundsen in the Fram, 1910 and the Scott exploration of 1911 There is room for exploration in the South Pole region because land s (heve—perhaps a million square miles of it. In thuse mountains and beneath ! thuse plains what (reasure may le i ath the ice, gravel and! f that man_once lived region was | Vas our gion. Going uth Pole is not a plenic. The climate there is no better than at the North P'ole, Indeed there is testh it s the worst climate Byrd, discussing in the South Pole, suid: “A Comdr, London | nout the Suuth’ Pole is 1,000 miles from any while at the North Pole | wiles from my Aying 'he trip to the South Pole will have to be in wll probubllity a non- =top fight, al the Atlantic foundland. tions will huve will be the constant risk of things Is suiil that “down vonder,” in th degree of latitude south of Squator, blizzards spring out of nowhere and last for a loig time and it is believed that the South Pole rd has no equal. ‘There are untuing ten thousand feet above level and on the top of those ains it must be very cold at midnight and not balmy at sen er noon. Mussolin §s not in favor of disar- ent unless all nations can be com- pelied positively to disarm. Which sounds fuir enough. Italian diplomacy ix skeptical and may be relied on to calculate the difficulties of disarma- ment enfurcement among nations belug in proportion to the difficulties of luw enforcement among citizens, R Investigatiin of the affairs of the District of Columbia invariably reveuls the fact that, for a town of its size and prominence, Washington, b, C., Is a remarkably well conducted com- munity. to - ————— Parls, once dictator of fashion, is now trying to adapt herself to the dominant creations originating In Cedar Rapids, lowa, and Coschocton, Ohlu. T Prohibition experts remain a little doubtful as to whether it is possible to make a Sherlock Holmes of the village policeman merely by pinning another badge on him. Royalty 1is always welcome to Washington in spite of the additional complications it necessarily throws into the parking problem. . —on—s After years of labor and adventure Trotsky has at last achieved the un- deniable distinction of being a really interesting editorial writer. D - Failure to appoint prohibition dep- utles would mean disappointment to a lurge number of enthusiastic badge SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Arctic Reflections. Thinkin’ 'bout the Northern pole, ‘While waitin’ for the smilin’ thing however slight of the National Capital, issomething a personal matter, phases e i EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. It Congress really wi up the question of unsightly radio ntennae on Washington house tops There are more ugly, disreputable ing antenna installations through- out the residential section than any amount of utili would warrant, As o matter of cold fact, the sightly antenna is usually the most ctficient, everything else heing equal that there i little excu ve poles, conglomeration Euy Wi liv ix such u new thing, to the cerage citizen, that ut first t might be thought the matter of u . more or lesx. on roets migh( he inconsequential, s, dndeed, iU s, if one is able to et the mission of the eity of hington to et forth the highest s « and of the xeut of Pederal there Is no reason why ashington ¢ be the finest and it uful city in the United ix s the high deie vernment, States, I inu- tlon of all thoxe who have the true interest of the city at heart, as it ever has been the ideal of those able to look beyond the minute and hour. From the idealistic standpoint, any- whatsoever that militates, against the beauty e ended. ook poor untenna installation, it be thought by some, ix purely In this we agree in the way some that vught to A iight heurtily—but not might suppose. IL 18 u personal matter to the extent that the person that owns it ought to be responsible to the rest of us for its appearance. Its efficiency 1s solely his own concer We cannot remounstrate with the owner of the unsightly antenna as to its “bringin it offends our sense of the seemly we -in” qualities, but when have a right, as cltizens of a great city, to let him know that it is an eye-sore, . The needless ugly antenna is an abuse that has grown up simply be cause the whole science and art of radio broadcasting is new, and every one has been so interested that few have stopped tu consider the various 5. We recall having seen a flag mast used as an antenna pole, the antenna wire itself thus being above‘the flag, when service regulations require .that nothing be placed above the national blem except the church pennant, el which is flown there during divine services. 1t is hardly necessary to say that this double use of the flag mast was not on Armiy or Navy territory. It wax, no doubt, an unintentional, al- though a thoughtless usage. We have no doubt there are many reading here who would shrink with horror from using the flag for wrap- ping or cleaning purposes, yet who can see no particular misuse in the case above cited. This feeling would only go to prove our contention, that the average an- tenna installer does not give one soli- tary whoop about the “lovks” of his poles, wires, ete. * * % ‘We know one pretty residence sec- tion, where the houses are small, in whi an antenna that probably carries off the prize for a radio enthuslast has erected innecessary ugliness. y front of his rather low On the ve honors at the John Ericsson memorial celebration in ‘Washington belong to Gustat Adolf, Crown Prince of Sweden. He proved Oratorical Of Summer skies that soothe the soul |a more attractive speaker than any ‘With beauty so beguilin’. Thinkin 'bout the Arctic Sea ‘Where zero always rules you; ‘Where all is cold as cold can be And Junetime never fools you. Practice. “What is your opinion of prohibl- tion?” It's a great thing,” answered Sen- ator Sorghum. “Do your constituents practice it?” “I think so. But it takes a great deal of practice to make perfect.” Art and the Camera. “Art” is a term that's now confessed To be most anarchistic, And Susan Jane, when quite Aressed, Insists that she's “artistic.” un- Jud Timkins says the “spotlight of publicity” is getting to be a good deal like an X-ray that shows painful con- ditions, Communication, “Do you think it will be possible to communicate with Mars’ “What would the object be in doing 0, It we could?” answered the weary sclentist. “People right here on earth still have the greatest difficulty in making one angther understand .pre- cisely what they are talking about.” Limiting the Outlay. T do not wish for wealth so great That folks would pause and wonder, I've no desire to agitate An interest in my plunder. My angry urges I resist, 1 can't afford the fury That needs & psychoanalyst To save me from the jury. Appreciation. “Didn’t you appreciate the kindness and consideration at the peniten- tiary?” Hide “I sure did,” answered Bill the burg. Then, why did you relapse into your old ways? “I had to do a little somethin’ to get | Longworth Offenders. . The burglar, going strong, ‘With danger safely flirts; The boob who parks too long ‘Will get his just deserts. “De future is always mysteriou sald Uncle Eben. “Christopher Co- lumbus discovered America, but he had no idea whatsomever 'bout what was in it.” back in again, ————— Prejudiced. From the Lyachburg News. Philadelphia reformer says _the world 1s ‘worse, but nobody growing living_in Philadeiphia could possibly be a disinterested ohserver. ———— Polish Pun. From the Portland Exnress. reverence. 1d them are highly unpopular. ::owell within the range of probabili- Charl of the Americans who participated in the festivities, although English heir language, and Swedish that St ‘(ho future ruler at Stockholm. These observations refer mainiy to the Crown Prince’s delivery, which was resonant and eloguent. "His com- mand of our tongue is perfect. His accent is that of the cultured English- man. He says “America” as Lord Balfour or Mr. Lioyd George would pronounce it. Iven if there had been no amplifiers, Gustaf Adolf’s finely chiseled words would have rung out with belldike clearness for many hundreds of feet in all directions. The Viking Prince has an oratorical mannerism that strick this writer as worthy of emulation in the United e he referred to States. Kvery th the President, and whenever he men- tioned Washington and Lincoln, his right hand was snapped to the salute & pretty touch, and one that stimu- Jatex patriotism while inspiring * oK ox % That hanging in efigy of the Sec- rgtary of the Interior and the com- missioner of reclamation in Nebraska Jast week has a political background that is ominous. & e intermountain country are as sor!e Washington as the corn belt is. :‘the l:‘h: issues beyond the Missouri River are h‘flsai‘llon Compared to them, g ‘\;\o:'ll'}:i Court are political flea bites, The Western irrigationists and recla- tionists, i !'l':!aa othe Coolidge economy program lying athwart their path, and they don’t \Vn!hl:’lg‘on, Colorado, M‘:mm.n& have ditching and dredging chemes afoot, cal 0 :f rl:lllllon! of dollars of Federal fun The Midwest and and reclamation. things like the whose name is legion, it. States like Idaho, o Oregon, California, Utah, ‘Wyoming, Nebraska and lling for hundreds measures that with- Men and v in aid. vegions will ted ties that the disaffec! “ul e ThEth voice their indignation coming congressional election. * K kX Speaker Longworth went up to Philadelphia_the other night and told jon League, citadel of stand- St lg,:msylvama ‘Republicanism, that 25 Sen- Tor Vare for United States e r firat, last. and all the time. o n gnd “Bill” have been fellow n?::fn‘l‘mr:ol the House of Répresenta- tives for a good many years, and never deserts a.| p-l.frele! residential race Is a - g:‘:a:l’.::h:spuker will be in it, and there will be many politiclans whose friendship, in that witching hour, will be less valuable than that of the man upon whose shoulders the mantes of Matt Quay and Boles Penrose have just fallen. It is just possible that Mr, Longworth, who is a good judge of distance, thinks it isn‘t a bit too soon for an ambitious young Republican like himself to think of his future. * K XX President Coolidge’s Amherst chum, Dwight W. Morrow, has joined Evans Hughes in the leader- ship of & movement to underwrite a $1,000,000 endowment for historical re-|, search. The scheme is officially spon- sored by the American Historical As- sociation. ~ Former United States Senator Albert J. Beveridge of Indl- ana is chairman of the national en- dowment committee. Historiams, the promoters of the enterprise say. find it dificult to gather the necessary ma- terial from first and unimpeachable sources. 1t is held to be the duty Peace prevails in Poland. Or the|of the American people to provide baen from Wi “war’ has taken o.0tta &-Anelher W89, . w, | them with the ‘now lagks blush | ntx to® inves; | home, igate something, why doesn’t it take | unpain WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM. WILE. he has placed a gigantic pole, ed, which he has guyed to the eaves with at least 24 wires, sprawling out in all' directions like the web of some untidy spider. - “The leadin wire, thick and black, he hus trailed down over the front of his house, not neatly, along some perpendicularplan, but in an un- sightly, jagged loop. We have always regarded this in- stallation as the worst we have ever seen, not only from an uexthetic standpoint, which concerns the neigh- borhood (4nd ought to concern th owner), but also from the viewpoint of radiv efficiency. . In the first pluce, there was no pa Geular gain in placing the pole fmm diately on the peak of his front roof line, where it glares forth at a passershy. Hle could huve got suffi- clent ele length by placing his pole at the res has a long back ) In the second wires ave totally : at the most, woi ved all re- quirements, No doubt he desired to place his set in his.living room, and heard that a short lead-in was best, but evidently did not know that the lead-in, whatever its length, is con- sidered as part of the total length of the antenna, in which length the ground wire also figures. We could take this gentleman a short distance from his own home and show him another antenna which may be considered u model, not only from viewpoint of efficiency, but particu- from that of appearance. s second antenna post, painted white, is installed on the center ridge point of the garage, and is braced with exactly four guys, so placed that the maximum stress is taken off the forward pull of the antenna proper. This “fan’” hus used a V-shape un- tenna, which probably does not give him much more volume or distauce than a single wire would have done, but which form he chose, evidently, because he felt that his distance in a straight line was too short. Count- ing his lead-in, however, and his ground, he no doubt has sufficlent length to pick up all his set can handle, The result of his installation is an antenna of beauty, if any antenna can be regarded as a work of art. For three vears now the winds of ‘Winter and the suns of Summer have done their best to tear down this an- tenna, with absolutely no results whatever, for it stands there as firmly and as trim as it did the day it was put up. Any one who has seen this instal- lation knows that there is no neces. sity for an antenna being ugly. x ok k% Yet within plain sight of that good antenna, a householder has nailed a piece of unpainted scantling to the side of his porch, facing down street, He might have placed it in a posf tion where it would not show so much, but for some reason choose the conspicuous point. If one can not exactly hitch his antenna to a star at least he can get a suitable pole, and paint it some proper color, perhaps white, or a dark green or gray. He can see to it that he cuts down his guy wires to the minimum, and above all, he can take pains, for the sake of the neighborhood, to think of the appearance of the street as a whole, In the rear of houses there ought to be some latitude m this mat- ter, but from the street nothing should be done to mar the appearance in any way of Beautiful Washington. of a million dollars is desired for the purpose. * oxE George W. Norris of Philadelphia, formerly well known in Washington as a member of the Federal Farm D. C., MONDAY, 1'\{AYA 31, 1926. Retirement Maximum ] Compromise Proposed To the Editor of The Star: Although both houses of Congress passed the. bill Jiberalizing the an- nuitles, ita fate is still in doubt. We know the President would not be opposed to raising the maximum to $1,000, and as both houses of Con- gress thought it should be more, and passed it at’ $1,200, there should not be much difficulty experienced in reaching a compromise. Make the maximum $1,050, using $1,400, Instead of $1,500, ax a basis for calculation; all ' salaries above $1.400 to be rated $1,400; then multiply the average basic salary for the last 10 years by the number of years of service, not exceeding 30, and divide by 40, this will give the annuity thu Now Present Annuity. Annuity, $1, [ 450 From this it will be seen that all classes of annuitants would get a sub- stantial raise, and although it is not as liberal as either the House or Sen- ate would like to make it, yet, fnas- much as it meets the President's views and satisfles the annuitants, Congress should not hesitate to pass it, especially as failure to do so will leave a number of retired Govern- ment employes in a very distressing situation, EDMUND MURPHY. - Nothing Vulgar in Use of Hotel Name To the Editor of The Star: In reference to article published in The Star of Jast Friday, I cannot for one see where there is anything vul gar in naming the Hotel Mayflower Just because our Chief Executive uses & like name for the American yacht he s0,delights in cruising upon. The Mayflower Hotel probably was named in commemoration of the ship by that name which landed on our shores vears and years ago. We should look into such things before casting such aspersions as the vulgarity of such. There is the Hotel Lincoln, called ®uch in honor of our fllustrious Presi. dent. There is the Hotel Dewey, the name of which was taken in memory of one of our greatest admirals. Then again In the City of Philadelphia, the oldest hotel, the Bingham House, in honor of Maj. Bingham. I might go on indefinitely. J. H. ALLEN. B — Yachts Across the Sea. From the New York Herald-Tribune. 1t is a surprising and disturbing fact that the only sport of impor- tance in which there is not a com- mon basis of rules between America and Furope is yachting. In this country yachts are measured for racing under a rule misnamed ihe universal rule.” It is followed in no European countr: “interna- tional rule” was devised in London in 1906, and 1t has been adopted by every European nation. One feature of the American rule has had a serious and damaging ef- fect upon the design of large yachts, and upon racing for the America’ cup in particular—that is, the fact that no scantling requirements are laid down for yachts above 31- feet rating, or the I’ clars. This means that size and sirengih of thn- bers and other items ¢f construction are unregulated. The result has been increasingly lght cousiruction, end- ing in the pathelic spectacle of the last cup races, when two great 75-foot vachts were unable to face a thrash to windward in a moderate Sandy Hook blow. This was a reduction to absurdity of the Amerlcan rule, and it is good news that the New York Yacht Club has at last appointed a committee of experts to prepare scantling rules to prevent a repetition of this fiasco. The decision is a credit to the seamanship and sportsmanship of the yacht club and will be applauded by vachtsmen everywhere, B But the hope will be added that Loan Board, is out with a novel sug-|here is the preface to the creation of gestion about the United States Sen-|& truly international rule. ate. He was called upon the other night to pinch-hit for Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania at a Phila- delphia meeting addressed by Gov. “Al" Smith of New York on State|serlous issue remains. government. Mr. Norris advanced the theory, in explaining Senator Reed’s absence, that each State should have a third Senator, whose duties would consist solely of filling|!deal =ought at, London when the in- the speaking engagements of the The two vstems are not far apart. If neces- sary, a_compromise could doubtless be reached. Now that scantling regula- tions for large yachts are in sight no The development is in line with the whole wide movement for ocean yachting and long-distance racing. “Habitablljty with speed” was the ternational rule was devised. Stanch- other two. In all seriousness, Norris|Ness and long life are additional quali- proposed that the Constitution should be amended accordingly. It's been one of the tricks of the sena- torial trade for statesmen in demand as public speakers to accept engage- ts, bug all the publicity advantage ainable from advance announce. ments of their appearance, and then be A. W. 0. L. and without notice. LY Mary Roberts Rinehart, Washing- ton’s most distinguished litera per- son, has succumbed to the hobbed- hair epldemic. Some of her admirers think that the creator of “The Bat" and other romar clusion that she couldn’t idealize the heroines of whom she writes with- out looking as much like them as possible. 8o off came her brunette tresses the other da The result is that she has difficulty in persuading people that the stalwart young man she introduces as her sof is a man of 25. Mrs. Rinehart is off for her annual Summer life in saddle and knickers on her “dude” ranch in Wyoming, not far from the Sheridan oilfields. * K K X M Alvin T. Hert of Kentucky, vice chairman of the Republican na- tional committee, has gone to the Blue Grass region to help re-elect Senator Richard P. Ernst and some more G. O. P, men.to Congress, Then &he will pitch her tent at Mackinae Island until the campaign is fn full swing in the Autumn. Mrs, Hert in- herited all the political tHair of her late husband. She is not the mas- culinized type of politiclan {nto which suffrage has turned a good many of her sisters. Indeed, Mrs. Hert seems almost too much of a grand dame to be a successful party man- ager. But those around her au- thorize the statement that, when the occasion demands, she can ‘“pack a wallop” as stiff and sturdy as any man. * kX X Queer country, ours! At the John Ericsson ceremonies in Washington a handsome, middle-aged, - dignified woman in black mounted the grand- stand for invited guests, unaccom- panied. There seemed to be some mix-up about the number of her seat. She took her chances and had it strickened out as anybody would. No special attention was her lot, for she was modest and unrecoygized. She was Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. If our one-time first ladias of the land received the consideration Europe be- stows upon dowager queen-mothers that sort of thing wouldn't happen on state occasions. (Copyright, 1926.) Civie Duty. From the Watertown Daily Times, - ‘The Detroit woman who started to serve on a jury and forgot to turn oft the gas realizes that citizenship has its responsibilities. — o A Reverse Token. From the Springfield Dai)y News. The horseshoe does not bring good ap aut s . r long tles that mean much in these days of high cost of construction. If a truly universal basis of measurement and scantling can be agreed upon, the whole sport of yachting is certain to be stimulated. No considerable sacri- fice iri speed is necessary. The gains in economy, safety and comfort would be great and yachting would join the other great sports, from polo to golf, which know no international boun- dary. e Great Expectations. es came to the con-|From the Fort Worth Star-Telpgram. Some homely philosopher of bucolic habit once expounded a formula for avolding disappointments in life. It was simply, Don't expect too much But since application of this formula imposes an appearance of humili which i not compatible with modern ideas, the usual procedure to meet the situation caused by the inevitable- ness of disappointments in life is to build on each disappointment even more vaunting expectations of the future, Our amiable and retiring municipal neighbor, Dallas, supplies a recent case in point. Upon the fact that the new Federal public buildings bill provides at least a possibility of an expenditure during’ the next vear of as much as $5,000,000 in a single State, the hope springs up in Dallas’ breast and is succeeded in a few minutes by certainty as far as Dallas is concerned that $5,000,000 is to be spent In that city for a new post office. The Dallas News of Thurs- day points mysteriously to the fact that “it would be within the discretion of the Secretary (of the Treasury) to uge all of the first vear’s allotment of $5,000,000 in the erection of a new post office bullding in Dalla: This, in the Dallas view, is sufficient to set at naught the claims of other Texas cities which have had the audacity to look forward to new Federal build- ings while the expectations of Dallas ‘were unfulfilled. How quickly figures go to one's head! Under the new public bulid- ings law, the sum of $100,000,000 is appropriated for a term of years, with the provision that no more than $15,- 000,000 may be expended in any' one year, A further provision stipulating that no more than $5,000,000 shall be expended in a single State in one year is designed merely to keep one State from hogging all the year’s available appropriation. With 48 States, a few > ‘territories and the District of Colum- 1 opportanities historians | luck when picked up from the street | than An g't-n from s fusd by togonile bia clamoring for public buildings, it is hardly probable that so much as $5,000,000 will ever be allocated within a single State during a single year, Yet Dallas not oyly accepts such an allocation as accomplished, but forth- with appropriates the whole sum to one city! In all probability Dallas will have to be satisfled with considerably less than $5,000,000 this year. Fort Worth and Houston are mentioned as other Texas citiea needing new post offices, and there are reports hy post office inspectors on file in Washington showing that the housing facilities at Fort Worth are less adequate to needs t any other poiat In the United Q. Why wasn't a sea-level canal bullt across the Isthmus of Panama? —M. D. W. A. The possibility of a sealevel canal at Panama was discussed, but deemed” unwise. The sea-level canal projected would have been a narrow channel winding in and out the hills, too narrow for half its length for the largest ships to pass. Currents caused by the Chagres River and by the flow of other streams into the canal would have made navigation somewhat dangerous. Q. In what States are to serve on juries A. According to the records of the National Woman's Party, States in which women are.impaneled as ju (compulsory in some States, not in others) are Arkansas, California, Delaware, Indlana, lowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Michi- gan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, North Dakota, Ohlo, Oregon, Penn- sylvania, Washington, Wisconsin and Utah. Q. What price stamp will the Sesqui- centennial Exposition issue be?—E. A. H. women drawn P. B. ¥;: P, 'A. Tt 1s & two-cent stamp. Q. What does it cost to go from Lon- don to Paris by air and how many people travel in this fashion?—B. W. A. In 1924 the number of passengers traveling by the British air route he- tween London and Paris was 13478, Fhe fare one way is 40 francs or {5 5=, ‘The round trip is 75 francs or £10. Q. When a man has a fur farm, are the animais he raises considered do- mesticated animals?—G. E. T. A. Fur-bearing animals bred and raised on- fur farms are considered wild animals in captivity and not do- mesticated stock in the ordinary use of the term. Q. When was the word sweetheart colned?—P. E. N. A. The term sweetheart was orig- inally written in the form of two words. It is found in literature as early as 1290, though there is no rec- ord showing by whom it was first ut Q. Wh called ?— 3 A. For Platt R. Spencer, a penman of such excellence in his time that he was selected to set the copy in school copy books. z Q. Does is Spencerfan writing so A.N. an eel have scales?—M. A. The eel does have scales em- bedded in its slimy skin. They are arranged in little groups set obliquely and at right angles to one another. a debt before it Q. Ts a_debt real is due?—W. W. A. A. A debt exists when a certain sum of money is owing from one per- n to another, and a debt is not the owing hecause it is mot vet due. Q. How many people die in the world every vear?—H. W. R A. The world's death rate is esti- mated at 68 a minute, 97,920 a day, or 35,740,800 a year. Q. How did hollyhock get its name? A. Hollyhock is the garden mallow (Anglo-Saxon hoc mallow). It is called hollyhock or holvhock, from the Holy Land, wkere it is indigenous. Q. Where is the “Roof of the World"?*—E. S, A. The Pamir Plateau is so known. Q. Was the tomato ever consid- ered to be poisonous?’—P. O. D. A. This plant, because of jts rela- ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. and gardeners it was very sparingly cultivated and when grown at all was used chiefly as an ornamental plant. Q. What are the minarets on Mo- hammedan mosques for’—R. G. A. The minarets of Mohammedan mosques are the towers from which the officer whose business it {s, issues the muezzin, or call to prayer. at which signal all true Mohammedans face toward the east and.engage in devotion. Q. What will ki from bursting easil A. It a few drops of glycerin are added to the soap and water the bubbles will have a more brilliant color and will last much longer. Q. What are the national flowers of the various nations?—J. R. A. The national flowers of the dif- soap bubbles P. T. B. ferent nations. so far as they are offictal, are: England, rose; Ireland, shamrock; Scotland, thistle; Wales, ; France, lily (fleur-de-lis or Japan, chrysanthemum: Italy, marguerite; Germany, cornflower, or bachelor's button. Q. What _is meant by Vehm- erichte?’—E. A. W. B. A. The German word means bunals of punishment. Weatphalian courts of justice, which had consid- erable influence in Germany during the latter part of the Middle Ages. were 80 called. When they had ached their fullest development the Vehmgerichte included a vast hody of free judges who constituted a secret society scattered all over Germany. Their importance was due to the fact that in the time of tur- moil and petty courts, controlled by robber barons, the Vehmgerichte were tribunals which at least made an effort to render impartial judg- ments. Q. What was Charles Dickens’ first book? Was he married when it was published?—H. A. Sketches by Boz appeared in two volumes the year before Queen Victoria’s accession. On April 2, 1836, Charles Dickens was married. A few days hefore the marriage, and juat two months after the publication of the sketches, the first part of the Pickwick papers was announced. Q. Where and when was Clarence 8. Darrow, the criminal lawyer, born and where was he educated?>—B.T.F. A. Clarence Darrow was born in Kinsman, Ohlo, in 1857. He was edu- cated in the Ohio public schools and gained his legal education largely by working and reading law in various lawyers’ offices. Q. Is palsiey the name of a wea of a shawl or of a particular pattern” —R. C. O. A. The reason the name paisley applied to a shawl is because the manufacturers of the shawls imitate the famous shawls of Indla and Cashmere in Asia. which were firat manufactured in the town of Paislex. Scotland. Indian designs wera closely copied. ‘and a very fine grade of shawls produced. For many years the industry was the leading one of Paisley, hut the manufacture of them in late years has greatly fallen off. aithough they are still manufactured. The keynote of the times is eficient service. In supplying its readers rwith a Free Information Bureau in Wash- ington The Evening Star is living up to this principle in deed and fact. We are paying for this service in order that it may be free to the pubdlic. Sub- wit your queries to the ataff of er- erts whose services are put at your tion to the nightshade family. was for a long time held in disrepute by gardeners and people generally. For at least a century after the tomato was more or less familiar to hotanists disposal. Inelose 2 cents in stamps tn | éover the return postage. Address The | Evening Rtar Information Rurean, Frederic_J. Haskin, ‘director, Wash- sngton, D. €. Haugen Bill De Echoes of the defeat of the Haugen agricultural relief bill in the louse come from every part of the country. The corn belt regards it as a betrayai of the farmer, while observers in other sections generally hold that Congress merely has blocked an un- desirable piece of class legisiatio “However anybody may regard the outcome of the agitation for farm legislation in Congress,” according to the Des Moines Evening Tribune (in- dependent Republican). “everybody must see that somebody has blun- dered. Either so much time should not he taken with the debate or something should be done. One way or the othe: ess has foozled.” The Sioux City Tribune (independent) thinks that “backe of the Haugen bill held their ound well in view of the subtle efforts made to break their morale and undermine their program.” The Tribune also observes that there was “a well financed lobby on the ground appl; ing all of their arts toward over- coming the most promising political showing ever made aj Washington iln behalf of the farm States.” * K X K To the St. Paul { pendent) it appears that the bill, Congress on more has turned its back on agriculture” and that it has “refused to provide agri- culture with the machinery it must have if it is ever to get the same advantage from the tariff as other economic interests enjoy quite simply by the imposition of straight impert duties."” “What is the significance of this?" asks the Little Rock Arkansas Demo- |crat (Democratic). " “Simply that Con- gress has not, and never has had, anv intention of passing any kind of bill which actually would aid the farmer.” Dispatch (inde- “In defeating e ‘The Arkansas Democrat feels .what “is going on in ¢ empty polit gesture “Kurthermore, we notice that nothin, has been said about lowering the tariff the farmer.” The Davenport t (Democratic) offers the fur- ther judgment: “The death sentence passed on the Haugen bill long ago and carried out last FKriday night ought to elect a number of Democratic Senators including one from lowa, farmers of the corn bhelt realized that they hold a weapon in their hands that will gain them recognition, if they only have the intelligence and backbone to use it.” Referring to the attitudé of the United States Chamber of Commerce, the Springfleld Illinois State Journal (Republican) contends “it is about time that the agrarian elements were ng themselves heard” in the National Chamber of Commerce, It is wholly out of order in its opposition to the legislation that the farmer is asking so that his industry may be preserved from destruction.” * ok ok % On the other side of the picture, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram (independ- ent Democratic) declares that “‘the failure of the bill in the House serves notice to politico-agricultural econo- mists that the country gemerally is not ready to permit harmful tamper- ing with the economic system in the interests of a single group of farmers. That is what the Haugen' bill amount- ed to. It is well disposed of,” continues the Star-Telegram, “and no farmer who has an understanding of the true nature of the farmers’ prohlem - will regret itz timely demise, “Subsidies " are, un-American.” in- ists the Atlanta Journal (Democratic), ind heretofore_the people have ap- the effegrive opposition which surprisingly | feat Echoes | direct subsidies have encoumtered in Congress. It cannot be serlously urged that in a ‘republic like ours it = a proper governmental function to tax one class in order merely to relieve or reward another.” Comment from the Springfield Republican (independent) on that phase of the question is that “even agricultural interests in the East were in opposition to what was regarded as a subsidy for the ‘corn belt.’ If the Western agricultural in- terest as a whole should ever reach the desperate state of the English coal industry,” continues the Republican, “it is conceivable that radical schemes of direct government relief would be justified as emergency measures. but the future does not appear so dark as that.” “The demand for extreme meas- ures,” says the Duluth Herald (in- dependent), ‘“comes almost entirely from a small part of the country in the Middle West, including Minnesota. Towa. Wisconsin and the Dakotas. It is opposed by all the older farming sections from Kansas and Nebraska South and East to the boundarles of the Nation.” As it appears to the Wichita Beacon (independent Repub- lican), “If the farmer in lowa. who {4 just now planting corn. is given to believe that the Government will guar- antee him a high price on next Fal crop, he will increase his acreage. That means an increase in the sur. plus. The disease i= aggravated and i not cured, for the surplus is just what makes the low price of corn.” In expressing the hope that the “proposition has been disposed of permanent]; the San Antonio Ex- press (independent Democratic) con- tends “it is hardly conceivable that in this country the general public opinion ever would approve so radical a step in paternalism.” Nevertheless, the Santa Barbara News (independent) expects Novem- ber to “bring the echoes from the roar back home unless all signs fail. Although opposition to the farmers’ plan is probably sound,” the California paper adds, “it will be difficult to con- vince the men who for two genera- tlons have been paying tribute to big business through the protective | tariff that they have been justly | treatea.” * o x % . ““The necessity for Government aid mains,” in_the judgment of the Youngstown Vindicator (Demoeratic), which points out that this “is shown by the depressed condition of farm- ing in the West for the last five or six vears,” acompanied by the “fail- ure of thousands of banks, bringing financial ruin to whole communities and State. ! Objecting to the Haugen bill pa tioularly as a “price-fixing, subsids and dumping measure,” the Chicago Daily News (independent) at t! me time draws the conclusion that “the need of enlightened discussion and wise treatment of the problem of American agriculture should be recog- nized by all,” and warns that “the farmers’ demand for justice and equal opportunity cannot be ignored, the farmers’ problem should be regarded as the Nation’s problem. a scientific solution of which is essential to the genaral welfare.” Significance is seen by the Dayton Daily News (independent Democratic) in (he defeat of Senator Stanfleld of Oregon, on which. its comment is that “the dissatisfaction of the agrk culturista was t as in I nois” and give ‘the politicians pause it it does not lead them vity,