Evening Star Newspaper, June 4, 1926, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTO: D. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1926 THE EVENING STAR e With Sunday ?Imlnl ‘Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. ‘FRIDAY ...June 4, 1926 THEODORE W. NOYES. Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Rusiness Office: S(. and Tenuaylvanis Ave. e 110 Eant 4nd Ohicsgo Office: Tower Buildi Buropean Office: 14 Regent St.. London, aglird. The Evenine Star. with fhe Sunday wo.n fne edition, fa delivered by varriers wifhit the @ity 3t B0 cents per month: dails only 48 cents pur month Sunday only. 20 canta Der‘month " Orders may he aent by felephone Main 5000, Collection ia made by carrier at the ead of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. aryland and Virginia. £0.00: 1 mo. $8.00: 1 mo £5100: 1 mo.. da. r. 817001 mo$ <00 | mo Datte $4.00:1 mo’. Sunday on) Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Prass led | 1n the uie for renblication «f all newa dic atchee crecited fo it or not ntherwiss crad ied in thia maner and also the local nsss prhlishad Nerein Al righte of nublication of special dispatcies herein are also resersed The Dependent Children's Bill. hav vid The Senate on reconsideratiu fng udopted the District comn amendment 1o the House hill p fng home care for dependent children In Washington and passed the bill in that form. it now hack to the House in tha shape that the people of tha Capital prefer. with provision for administration of this hounty hy the hoard of public weltar ther than # separate organization. The earnest hops of Washingten is that the Sen ate amendment will be sccepied the House. Vesterday's in the was a vindieation of the District « mittee. whose chairman. Senator Cap ver. has heen painstaking and inde- fatiguble in the study of this question. Confronted by 1sed it Roes action te an opposition ar Ty A sentimental misunderstanding of | Capper has hy | the sitnation. Senator taithtul. persistent endeavor €4 in securing & substantial majority for that draft of the measure which raflects the Jocu) sentiment and which most surely meets the local needs. He has earned the thanks of Washington by this service. in which he has heen ably and faithfully sincere sup. Poried by the membars of the District | eommittes, sdvacacy District who have besn a unit of the single-hvard plan. people earnestly wish the eatablishment of this bheneficence which s desizned to maintain Aven under maternal cave. Washing- ton's own money will he expended in in meeting the needs of these dependent | lirtle ones and their ite problem and it with it in the manne: mothers. This prefers to deal that hus been lately preseribed as the most desirable | charities, | €81 producer was convicted of perjury method of handling local which i by a unified administrat Tt appeuls 10 the the House apresantatives accept the hill as it has been framed by the Senate so as to insure home eare for these unfortunate little onex withont delny. without complicatic without confliet of jurisdiction and with cartainty of full consideration for their welfare and their sensibilities oo Superfluous Car Tracks. A movement has been siarted for the ramoval of the car tracks on K strest between Ninth and Tenth .strests northwest while work is Progress on the widening of the thor- oughfar hese tracks are now merely supplementary, being rarely wsed—in fact. employed only for the shifting of cars. The entire stretch of track on these streets from Ninth to Fourteenth is indeed in this sume category, and likewise the track on Ileventh street hetween K| The question should he care- | Ny and promptly considered by the Public Utilities Commission whether these rails should he per- mitted to remain. The matter shouid | he seitled hefore the street widening | work on both Eleventh and E streets | advances. These tracks were originally of the regular routing of the st ey, but later routing hus leit them out save, as stated, for shifting at! certain hours, wnd for relief of con- | Zastion at the rush periods. 1t is for the 1Ttilities Commission to consider Whethar they are of sufcient use 1o | Ingtify their vetention. The purpose In widening these (wo streets ix to permit a freer flow of traMe in the heart of the husineas section. Flev- enth sireet. which is (o he widened | #& f5r north ax Massachuserts avenue, | cannol, of course. he entirely freed from the ralls hecause of the presence | of a trunk line north from F streer. | Inasmuch s the motor bus is (o | mome degree replacing the street cur A% 4 means of urban transporiation opportunities &et rid of super Ausus irackuge should be grasped. | Thix present strest-widening work | presenis such an opportuaity ————t College examinations- are appar- ently developing an unwholesome re. spect for “ground-floor information.” = r—ome 4 Quick Justice. A refreching example of quick Juatice is furnished in the case of #ss K. Bartlett, a township con- lstable in Michigan. who a week ago Thursday mafled a bomb to a politicul enemy which resulted in the death of three, and who less than one week latar was sentenced (o lite imprison. ment, the maximum punishment un- der the State law. After the tedious delays that are generally encountered Jn the prosecution of criminals, this cénviction and the beginning of sen- tence in such short time offers an ex- ample which could be well copied by gvery other city and State in the countr; , Bartlett's crime was atrocious. The bomb, constructed by degrees over a period of two vears, wax made be- “I thought I might have use according' to the prisoner's own story. Malled to the man who had Aefeated him in the last election now members of to [ very and to i by | chil- ¢ m. | of | in, | dict and sentence are aMirmed by the | higher court. | today s, pitiful part of the whol¢ thing was that the couple were to be married today, and both thought that the in- nocent-appearing package was a wed- ding present. In sentencing Bartlett to life im- prisonment the judge deplored the fact that the State law did not allow capital punishment for what he char- acterized as a dastardly crime. If | lite imprisonment is to mean lterally what it should mean, incarceration for the entire lifetime of the criminal, well and geod, but If 1t merely means {a tew yeurs in jull with a parole at the end of that time by a sentimental board, the entire effect of the quick and just punishment will have been lot It is to be hoped that Asa Bari- lett will spend the rest of his life | behind prison bars and that no sym- pathy can be aroused among the people of Michigun for this slaver of three innocent people. ——oeo The Walker Cup. Invading the birthplace of golf and (he sacred precincts of the Roval and Anclent Golf Club at St. An drews, Scotland. the American sma teur team has again demonstrated its superiority over its British oppo- nems. having succeeded yesterday in chalking up s h consecutive win of the Waulker Cup, the emblem of amateur internationsl team su-| premacy. Combined with Jesse Sweet- ser’s victory in the British amateur championship, scored just before the. Walker matches began, the invasion of the Ame goifers has met with complete success and the entire coun- [y proud of its representatives, | who journeved overseas to demon.| | strate their prowess. 1 ! Al credit goes to Sweetser, Von! Elm, Jones, Gunn. Gardner, Macken- 7ie Ouimet wnd Guilford, members of | the American team, who contributed | their bt 1o the victory which added new lnurels to American golf, and to | their British opponents, who fought “with dogged determination and upheld | the finest nship. Rweeiner's feat in winning the amu- teur champlonship was pacticularly mevitorious. 1t was the first time that thix historic battle had ever | been won by a native-born American. | "he Walker Cup matches were hard | | fought throughout snd were nettied favor of the United States by the close score of 613 America, therefore, is proud of the accomplishments of the little {band that sailed away oniy a short thme £go try conclusions with the cream British linksmen snd {is confident that in matches in the to e the erican team | will give & good account of itself, re | gardless of whether it wins or loses. | | is gratifying, but, after all, the game is the thing. S “An Appeal Is Noted.” A few days ago o New York theatrl- | fo o 1denin of sp |in 1o 5. to of vears con ‘win |in connection with his testimony be- fore a grand jury regarding a sensa- tonal affair in his theuter. Yesterday | a vear and | a day in the penitentiary and to pay | fine of $2,000. Hix counsel hnme. | [ diately gave notice of an appeal to the | Federal Circuit Court, bond being con- | tinued upon the stipulation that the | defense counsel would move for pref- | erence and bring the appeal befo the upper court at the beginning of its Fall term. That court will adjourn this month until October, and it Is im- probable thai the press of business at | the opening of the term wil permit argument before November. There is then customarily, says one of the | mews reporis of the case, “a lapne of | About a month between the argument and the decision of the court; possibiy a week more would elapse for the wind-up of all legal technicalities, and It may be close 10 next Christmas be- fore the case is finally settled.” This I8 not an extraordin “The matter has, in fact, been handled with unusual expedition thus far, and if a final determination of the appeal is had by the close of the current year | it will be indeed unusually speedy, only seven months ‘between conviction and penalty, assuming that the ver- he was sentenced to serve But seven' weeks would he much more in keepiug with the need for promptness of judicial action. ‘Techuicalities, complexities of the law, intricacies of argument, hair- splitting on poin(s of procedure, short gessionn of court and long eruptions of eloguence all serve to protract the trials and appeals. ln the research for modes of shortening judicial proc- esses to Insure speedier and surer jus- tice attention has been paid to this matter of the appellate jurisdiction, but little progress has been effected. The right of appeal should not be abused to defeat justice. Nor should the courts by their schedules and their own modes of procedure ald in this defeat. One of the most urgent needs It not curtallment of the right of appeal, at leasi the shorten- ing of the process to prevent this con- stantly recurring spectacie of long de- lays between conviction and punish- ment. . e — Thanks to the radio, a highly culti- vated student of music may become a prominent figure in the exploitation of some eminently useful article of commerce. It is the age of democ- racy. — e A Literary Hoax. Memory of man runneth not to the contrary, as the law hooks say, when literary hoaxes have not been perpe- trated. They have been foisted off on a gulleless public for centuries. There have been literary forgeries by the score, some of them successful for a long time. There have beem some very clever and succesatul Imitations of style that have made good until some chance has revealed their true origin. Juvenlle precocity has beén imitated cleverly and effectively. In- deed, 50 many of these young-author effugions have been revealed as adult productions that the reading public has in late years become a bit skepti- cal sbout every adolescent' literary offerin A short time ago the reading world was titillated by the appearance of a and unwrapped in tha presence of his daughter and her flance. death was flmsb}eflm to all three. The volume styled “The Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion in the Year 1764-65, by Cleone Knoz, Editeg by Her Kins- | mitted to jail for vne year. |ite alias | of clothes. | which man is capable. | universaily man and Descendant, Alexander Blacker Kerr.” It was received with delight because of its naivete and trankness. It revealed an amazing knowledge of irregular social life in Venice. It gave some comfort to the critics of the younger genera- tipn of today through a showing of sophistication on the part of the young people of more than & century and a haif ago. Eminent British crit- ics—the book appeared fiat in Kng- land-halled it as a worthy companion volume (o that of Samuel Pepy Now comes the revelation, unusu- ally promptly. The book, It has been established, was written recently by the nineteen-yearold daughter of a British udmiral living in the north of Ireland. She has been writing ever since childhood, and until the “Diary" came forth all of her work had been rejocted by the publishers. With an audaclty worthy of a higher inspira- tion, she tried her hand at this imita tion and It was at once accepted and quickly became one of the best sellers of the time. It has gained a consider able vogue in the Unlted States. Re- | cent researches have brought the facts to light. The young author has acknowledged herself. She sayx she 1s “terribly glad that the world has | been entertained” by her book, und believes that it wifl see the joke that she has so taken in the solemn litera- teurs. Of course, she 18 going on with her writing. She should. She has | style and Imagination and nerve, and with these three qualifications she should make her own name In letters, even though she has laid the founda- tiona for it by a bit of deception. oo A Light Penalty. There may be some Kink in the luws of Philadelphia to justify the light sentence imposed in that city upén Frederick B. Stanley, whose real name is.supposed to be Herman Krueger and who has a long string of other alinses, when after pleading guilty to embezzling $8,000 worth of jJewelry from a confiding womun he was ¢ This man | has for some years been swindling women out of large sums. His fuvor- was “Lord Beaverbrook,” and it was s & Brilish noblemun that he mainly posed in his bigamous and swindling operations. Indictments are pending against him in various cities, but the Philadeiphia is the first in which he has been brought to trial. If he were given a vear on each of the charges on which he may be arraigned in Philudelphla and elsewhere he would spend the greater part of his remafning life in prison. But that does not lessen the polsn- ancy of the question of why for a crime of embez:ilement involving the | amount of $8,000 he should have been | given a shorter term than s usually administered to the thief of a sui It seems strange that in these days of wideiy prevalent crime case | in this country, when the inadequacy of penalties in proved cases is rated as an assured cause of widespread lawbreaking, this Philedelphia court | | should have given xo light a sentence to vne who has caused untold misery | through one of the meanest frauds of | SR Dr. Cook may after leaving his pres. | ent position of restraint decide to or-| | gunize | 1 expedition and demonstrate | that the North Pole occupies the same position that it held when he so hastily left it. - Putting & musical theatrical pro- ducer in jafl will have no detrimental influence on music. Music Is usually entirely superior to the persons who undertake to take charge of it. rveas The power of wealth has often bheen referred (0. ‘I'he grealest modern ex- emplification of its force lies in the recognized neceseity of taking Henry Ford seriousiy. B ‘The value of the franc has been re- duced to a degres that may suggest the desirability of neglecting the cur- rent French siatesmen and trusting in Santa Claus. { ————s European royaity achieves an ap- plause here fully equal to that en- joyed by American motion picture stars in Europe. - SHOOTINY STARS. WP | BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. A Desperation. Oh, Dear Doctor, tell me true, What's a sickly guy to do? Pills and powders seem to be Classified as all N. G. Psychoanalytic care Lands you in a ward somewhere, Physics, metaphysics, too, Fail. So what is there to do? Deprecated Discussion. “What do you think of the idea of a referendum concerning prohibition?"” “1 disapprove of it,” answered Sena- tor Sorghum. ““The only way to for- get a thirst is to quit talking about i Leadership. That old drum major had an air Exceeding grand. He strutted down the thoroughfare And led the band. By Personality he earned A loyal vote. Of music he had never learned A single note. Jud Tunkins says radio and the telephone and things have made mod- ern communication so Intimate that what we used to call a war looks like a neighborhood row. Forbearance. “How I8 your boy Josh getting on at college “Fine,” answered Farmer Corntos- sel. “He has shown a wonderful amount of patience with some of them there perfessors.” Purposeful Expression. When “Art"” is going on the blink ‘While Commerce grows each day more wise, 1 do not ask, “What do you think?" I ask, “What do you advertine?” “A orap game,” said Uncle Bben, “in anomer ar later de hest argument in uvogumwmnukh%f l | naro | clans declared | remedy | efficacy for THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. When Louls Cornaro wrote his original “La Vita Sobria,” or Temperate Ldte, vears, he had no intention of writing a temperance tract. Our modern restriction of the word was not known.in the Italy of 1464 to 1666. The terms ‘temperance’ 1d_“temperate” were applied then solely to indicate moderation. It is in this sense that those who read this, one of the oldest of all heaith writings, should take the meaning of the ttle. What did Cornaro do to live a hun- dred years? In ‘his first discourse (there were four of them) he set forth the princi- ples, as far as he could put them down, upon which he believed hix own longevily rested, as well as his general health. ¥ sincerely believed that others, by following in his footsteps, could go and do likewise. For most of us today the spirit of his writings is vather to be followed than the letter. Most of us eat 0o much, we eat too often, we put too much sugar in our fce tea, we violale the laws of modern (and ancient) dietetics in & thousand and one ways. We get our gall bladders cut out when what we need Is a moderate use of our precious will power to curb our insatiable desires for food and vet more food. 1t is amazing how little one really need eat. For every child who is suffering from too little food there re hundreds of their elders who are the victims of too much. x X X % Corna “two big rules,’” as they wonld be called now, were as follows: 1. Take only the quantity of food that the stomach can digest. 2, Make only the kinds that agree with it In his case he ate only 12 ounces of food & day, together with 14 ounces of wine, and after he had accustomed hiniself to this limited diet he found that merely increasing the food by 2 ounves aud the wine by 2 ounces made him L. His daily sustena consisted of some bread, the yolk of an egg. a little meat and some soup. The details of this fare he did not go into, nor the number of meals he took a da 'he’food from which & nan ab stains, he belleved, Is of woure bene- fit to him than that which he has eaten. It 18 interesting to note that Cor- was not a rebel against the medical practice of his day, as many of the so-called “health crank of today are, but freely saccords to his physiclans the credit for leading | bl into the temperate life He had a “weak stomach” all his lite, he tells us, declaring: After every knowsn means of cure had been tried, without affording me any relief, T was. between my thirty- fifth and fortleth vears, reduced to %o infirm a condition that my phy there was but one left for my llis--a remedy which® would surely conquer {hem. provided I would make up my mind to apply it and persevere patiently | in fts use. “That remedy was the temperate and orderly life, which, they assured me, possesmed as great strength and the accomplishment of good results as that other, which was completely its opposite in every way ~—1 mean an orderly life - pos: harm.” ¢ intemperate and dis- sed for doing * x ok X Cornaro happened to be one of those fortunate ones who, adopting of find that it Many there are who have ppointed In the reaulls se- cured by following In the footsteps of the successful ones, but that only argues against the cure in the indi- vidual case, not in its general appli- cation, The Venetlan nobleman aiso was fortunate in the possession of will power 1o the “nth degree.” He did not have to read u book about it—he had it. When he decided to cut down on his food intake be cut down— and then stuck to it for the remain- der of his life, Only once did he weaken, and that was af(er numerous assaulls were made upon him by weli meaning but mistaken relatives, who feared that the old fellow would kill himseif. | ‘They prevailed upon him to increase his amount of nourishment, with the | rexult that Cornaro had a deuce of a time of {i untll he went back to his 12 ounces of food wnd 14 of After thut no power could have prevailed upon him (o de. viate a jot from his appolnted 12 and | 14 formula. Not only that—he wani- ed 1o “tell the world” all about it, mi he wat down and poured out his heart in his first discouise, that occupies 37 pages in the William K. Butler tion, published at Milwsukee in 1905, that ook ok that if he went Into detail as to his method of living he others vaiuly he did. Now that was not desired - and if any one today thinks he cun get healthy by cutling his f00d 1o exactly 12 ouuces, combined with 14 ounces of water or other drink, he wili fall utterly to Cornarv, The man stmply prea perance, 'T-E-M-P-iiR-A-N of the hardest qualities for human beinga to realize in their dajly lives. The “golden mean” of the unclents was what Cornare taught, and which he loved so much that he wrote, or, rather, sang: “Divine sobriety, pleusing to God, the friend of nature, the daughter of reuson, the sister of virtue, the com panion of temperate living: agreeable, contented with _little, derly and refined in ull her opera tons! ¢ * * Her beauty attracts every noble mind. * * ¢ Sobriety purifies the senses: lightens the hody: quickens the intellect: cheers the mind: makes the memory tenacious the motions swift, the actions ready and prompt. “0 most holy sud most innocent So- briety, the sole refreshment of nature, the loving mother of human life, the true medicine both of the soul and of the budy; how much should men praise and (hank thee for thy courteous &ifts! Thou giveth them the means of preserving life in health, bleasing than which it does not please God we shonld have a greater in this world—life and existence, so natura Iv prized. so willingly guarded by every living creature ‘This essav contains one of the greatest thoughts in llierature, when Cornaro speaks of “this beautiful world, which is indeed beautiful to those who know how to make it so for themselves." WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. 2eal anxiety exists in the highest officlal quarters aL Washington over the Tacna-Arica deadlock. Secretary Kellogg's efforts to compose the an- cient controversy by amicable means have borne no fruit. Chile insists upon the plebiscite condition of the Coolidge arbitral award and appar- ently will conslder no other form of settiement. What is going to come out of the acrimonious row nobody in authority here cares to predict. There is sald to be & war party in Chile v to fight and persuaded that it itself Lefore the world if there Is recourse to arms. How far the big North American brother would be disposed to go to prevent another Chilean-Peruvian clash is a question When Panama in 1921 was invaded by Cot Rican forcex, in pursuance of an arbitral award handed down by Chief Justice White, the United States Government insisted that Panama must cease her resistance to Cpsta Rica's action. The battleship Penn- sylvania was sent to Panamanian wa- ters to ses that the award in Costa Rica's favor was not upset. Central American_diplomats in Washington are wondering whether what was sauce for the Panamanlan goose five vears ago wiil tu out to he sauce for the Peruvian gander in 1926—and it not, why not? * ok ox % Rumors persist in London, accord- Ing to advices percolating through to Washington, that Ambassador Hough- ton's days at the court of St. James are numbered. No confirmation of such a suggestion is forthcoming in State Department quarters. When the celebrated Houghton interview episode stirred Congress and the country in March, predictions were freely heard that the glass manufac- turer turned diplomat would not long remain persona grata in Downing street. But nothing has happened in Washington in the interval to justify reports of his recall. Houghton's lot on the Thames at the moment is not a happy one. It has become his pain- ful duty to remind Jobn Bull that Uncle Sam expects arbitration of the World War blockade claims, upon the satisfaction of which—for principle’s sake—Senator Borah Is gently in- sisting. LR There's a full-blooded Sioux Indian on duty as a policeman in the Capitol building. His name Is Whirlwind Soldier. He comes from South Dakota and 18 a friend and constituent of Senator McMaster, Republican, of that State, who is responsible for Soldier’s appointment. Not .long ago Whirl- wind was approached by one of the most famous women in Washington, who has a husband with designs on a certain nomination in 1928. ~What she wanted to know from Soldier was (1) whether Coolidge is as: well liked in the Dakotas as he used to be; (2) what the “Indian vote” numerica amounts to, and (3) whether there is any likelihood that our noble red man could be interested in the ambitions Whiriwind's reply is not Representative Mar! Democrat, of Ohlo, where his party has just been milling over the two- thirds rule {n national conventions, is for abandonment “of this disturbing influence.” Davey, who is a Buckeye Democratic white hope, whom his ad- mirers have picked out for national Hampshire, is chairman. and Arthur B. Rouse, Democrat. of only other member. L Lieut. Comdr. Wells Hawks, began life as publicity man for the biggest show on earth (Phineas T. Bar- num's aggregation), is evidently one of those sailors who can't keep awa from the ship. During the World Wa Hawhks directed publicity for the Navy recruiting service. and after the w was in charge of the pressroom at the Navy Department. Since then he has been press-agenting Broadway shows and Mary Pickford. Now the Navy has recalled him to “active service" and put him in charge of the Navy in- formation office at the Sesquicenten- nial in Philadelphia. The fleet will ex- hibit a modern battleship, the latest type of destrovers and submarines and | a fine group of our best-looking sailors at the big show just opened in the City of Brotherly Love. * ook ok How many Americans outside of the exclusive company of autograph col- lectors could tell offhand who Button Gwinnett is? Yet his signature re- cently sold for $22,500, and a book is shortly to leave the press dealing with the life of that signer of the Declara- tion of Independence. The author of the blography is Charles Francis Jenkins, editor of the Farm Journal of Philadelphia, one of the notable au tograph collectors of the United States. Button Gwinnett. one-time “president of Georgia,” speaker of the Georgia Assembly and principal au- thor of the State's first constitution, was killed in a duel less than & vear after signing the Declaration. There is no authentic likeness of Gwinnett in existence. His grave in unknown and unmarked. Yet he was a real man, a vigorous, able personality and one of the genuine builders of the Re- public. Mr. Jenkins has gone to un- limited paine in reconstructing Gwin- nett's figure and has made of him an American of impressive stature. * | ‘The next monument to adorn Wash- | fugton’s ever-growing \Walhalla may | be that of Count de Grasse, the gai- | lant French admiral who commanded the fleet thai helped Washington to bring about the surrender of Corn- wallis at_Yorktown. Unvelling of the John Ericcson statue has caused attention to be drawn to the fact that no monument to De Grasse has ev been erected on American soil. Philip R. Dillon of Red Bank, N. J., has put himself at the forefront of a move ment to see tardy honor done to De Grasse's memory. Mr. Dillon, who is an editor and naval writer, holds that “De Grasse's contribution to the American cause was greater than that of Rochambeau, greater than that of Lafayette, far greater than that of Ericsson or any other foreign-born citizen, yet he is utterly forgotten.” ‘The Iatest French transatlantic liner to take the sea is called the Admiral de Grasme. (Copyright, 1926.) EM e T ol Another Matter. From the South Bend Tribune. Chauncey Depew has told the world how to grow old, but what the world wants to know Is how to grow voung. honors some day when he grows up- he's a. political babe of 42—says the two-thirds rule was “born of personal animosity and petty rivairy, and has plagued the Democratic party ever since its invention.” He hopes that Ohio Democrats’, opposition to it will “strike it a blow that will help to kill it forever.” ok ok The House of Representatives main- tains a committee, which is numerical- Iy the smallest in Congress, consisting of but two members, and to which political wets think the Coolidi “nkase” on employment of local er forcement agents ought to be referred. , e The Pilot. From the Lynchburg News. Mussolini says Italy's future is on the sea. There are those who believe Mussolinl is certainly leading Italy into deep water. Nicaragua Bachelors. - | Bennet(, thei Congressional Medal | Not for Pole Flyers To the Editor of The Star: Your issue of June 2 carries on page 5, at the top of column &, an Associated Press release which 1 n part as follows: retary Wilbur has advised Con-, of his approval of the proposal| of | to confer congressional medals honor on Lieut Comdr. Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett for their ai plane flight to the North Pole.” What a travesty would be on the high purpose for which this spiendid decoration was riginall; conceived! To soldiers, sallors and marines alike, fo any ful blooded American, there can be no possession s0 sacred as the congres- sional medal of honor. In the past, with a minimum of lamentable excep- tions, it has been awarded only for . conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty in actual conflict with an enemy. It ix a medal to which the march of time and the glorious history of our coun- try have aitached an unumua! reve en IL 18 not in any sense anala- gous to the decorations bestowed upon members of the French Legion d'Hon- neur. No precedent exisis for the award of this coveted emblem in ap- preciation for simply “distinguished” services. ‘'he medal of honor stands for a life risked ov lust; for burning cause, in -the defense of comrade, home and country. In the hall of such fame there ix no place for a Hight to the North vle. Daring uk wus (he conception, courageous and brifliant the execu. tion, honored as may ever be the names of Richard Byrd and Floyd achievement yet la supreme patriotism of motive and necessity for which a chosen few ” | now wear the medal of honor. Cornaro was wise encugh 1o know | | modest, |7 or- | that | Are we 10 tear down In a moment of hasty enthusiasm the sacred tra would have | ditions of a century? Have we neither trying to do exactly as | geabili what he | nor sense of proportion in such vial concerns? 1s there within uk 4% a people no auch thing as dis- crimination and enduring respect” When Gen. Pershing prepared in report of the American Force his estimate of the United Ntates had played in winning the war was inter- preted by a London paper, in flaming headlines, ax “America’s Insult to Brifish Dead.” However unjust this implication, let us bear it in mind. Let us be guilty of no such similar affront to the memory of our own heroes. H. R. HARMON Major, Air Service, U S. Army. A S 5 rucks Are Cause of Georgetown Vibrations To the Editor of The Star: A news paragraph in The Star of June 1 hints that the vibration of buildings in Georgetown (West Wash- ington) and the cracking of plaster. while auto trucks are passing, are due 10 the poor condition of the roadways. Maybe and maybe not. But it looks a8 If the desire was for a new roadway or the continuance of the use of superheavy tricks. Brief I¥, to “whitewash" the T have lived here a ha had bad roads but ne motor tr when 1 was a boy, and even the fire engines didn’t crack the piaster. Recently I lived for four years on a strest with a brand-new concrete pave ment, only one vear old when I moved there. The pavement was in perfect condition. ‘The street became popular and the heavy trucks shook the build- ings all along the strest and brought down the plaster. I have lived since on a “quiet” street, i.e.. quiet before coal and dirt Grucks made a habit of tearing down- hill at 5 a.m. and uphill at & p.m. shaking the buildings. substantial as they are, and occasionally stopping the parlor clock, a trick of earth- | quakes. 'he committee is entitied ' Disposition of Useless Executive Papers.” Ea- | ward H. Wason. Republican. of New | users will continue to increa From the Portland Evening Exprea ‘The bachelors of Nicaragua. who are to ba taxed $5 a month for the support of spinsters will be getting off at that. , | houseowners. | plaster, nor the way it is put on, nor who Oh, no! Don't let us be fooled into belleving it is the roadways and not the trucks. - The truck makers and the size, it they can make or save a few entucky, the | dollars for themselves. no matier how many thousands of dollars it costs the It isn’t the new-fangled the condition of the streets. although that may contribute to a minor de- gree, but the size. weight and opera- tion of the trucks that do the damage. We can’t rebuild our nhomes with con- crete and steel, but we can stop the speeding of heavy trucks. When a man has paid out his good monex for repairs he doesn't need to ‘investi- gate” or theorize. He knows! What we want is to be permitted to live de- cently and safely in our homes, not annoyed by artificially produced earth- quake: W. E. ALLEN. N Protest Against John Ericsson Republicans To the Editor of The Star: It is astonishing that people can he found with the hardihood to promul- gate, in their sober senses. such s viclous scheme as the “John Ericsson Republican Ieague of America.” Tt is insulting and a slep in the face to every voter of Swed descent. John Ericsson was never out for peif or piace and neither did he en- tangle himself with leagues or engage in so-called moyal uplift work. He confined his activities entirely to his profession, and tnerefore to associate his name with politics is silly and fan- tastic. This whole vicious scheme is the old time-worn pianning of the cheap pelitician. The little coterie who conceived it fall té6 take into account that American citizens of Swedish deacent are possessed of ordi- mfi intelligence. is “‘Ericsson League” proposes to form natlonalistic blocs in politics, and the candidate for office is to be voted for, not on account of personal qualification or the merit of the cause he espouses. The sole question is to be, Is he a Swede or of Scandihoovian descent? Of course, fair-minded people of other races will not sulicribe to such a procedure, it being whelly un- American. Supposing other voters were to follow suit, anybody but a | moron can perceive the disastrous ef- fect on the country. ‘That a Representative in Congress from Illinois shoiild have committed the faux pas (o countenance this malodorous mess is regrettabl AXEL DAHLGREN, — et Pittsburgh’s Job. From the Pitteburgb Chronicle-Telegraph. Taking a three-year look ahead, Ma j. E. L. Daley, head of the United States Army Engineers for this district, savs the completion of river improvements will make Pittsburgh “absolutely the monarch of the steel industry.” Maj. Daley is not a steel expert, but he is an authority on engineering problems not only in their practical but their economic aspects. He has studied the relation of water transportation to | freight rates and knows when river improvements will yield dividends. “‘When the Ohlo is completely canal- ized 1n 19294’ he says, “no other city in the United States and no foreign country will be able to compete with Pittsburgh in steel because of the lower freight rates the river transpor- tation will afford, The United States Government and’ the people are an- nually saved $150,000,000 on freight rates by the use of the Monongahela River alone. Therefore we are out to make the Monongahela and the Alle- gheny capable of bearing still more traffic.” Maj. Daley did not say so, because it was not part of his job, but Pitts- burgh will have to do its share if it is to reap the full benefits from the river improvements. Plenty of busi- ness for the new barge line is assured. Completion of the wark on the water- ways should find Pittsburgh ready with ample for accommodat- the trafe knocking at its deors. such an award | Hapa ANSWERS TO Q. Give some brief information on the agricultural industry.—B. B. A. The National Industrial Con- | ference Board, in its report en “The ' Agricultural Problem in the United | States,” published last month, says: {“I'he agricultural industry execcises | normally a purchasing power of nearly $10,000,000,000 annually for goods and services produced by oth- | ers. It purchases about $6,000,000,600 woith of manufactured products an- | nually, or about a tenth of the value | of the manufactured goods prodnced. It supplies materials upon which de- pend industries giving employment to over half of our industrial workers. | It pays indirectly at leaat two snd @ half billion dollars of the wages of | urban employes. 1t supplies about | an eighth of the total tonnage of freight carvied by our railroad sys- tem. Its products constitute nearly half of the value of our exports. It | pays In taxes about onefifth of the total cost of Government. Our farms | and farm property represent one-fifth of our tangible n wealth, and agriculture has tributed in receat vears about sixth of the natlonal income.” 1s it true that the folkiore of | certain people s preserved on joints | of bamboo?—-A. R. C. | A. Prof. H. H. Bartlett of the Uni- versity of Michigan spent « vear studying rubber-producing plants in | Sumatra and became Interested in {the folkiore of the Malays. and par ticularly in their custom of writing it | on joints of bamboo. These manu- scripts contain their faiths and legends, descriptions of magical and | | medicinal uses of plants. The writ- THE GENEVA ! formation of the highest order. QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. ing 18 done when the bambao joint= are green. Afterward they are dried and thus pres indefinitely. Q. Is there a train erossing Can- ada from the east to the west coaat? —C. M. 8. . A. The ‘Trans-Canada_ Limited of the Canadian Pacific Rallway re- sumed its 1926 service on May 16 and will remain in operation until the latter part of September. It offers through service heiween the Atlentic and Pacific coasts in hoth directions. This train has a fast schedv From Montreal it makes the run to Van- couver—2,8%5 miles—in %% hours 15 minutes, and from Toronto to Van- couver in 85 hours. Q. What is osmotic pressura? - DK, T. A. Osmotic pressure in the unhal- anced pressure which causes osmosix that is, the diffusion of a waaker solution into & more concentrated one, There is mo other agency in tha world that can answer as many legiti- mate questions as our free informa- tion burean in Washington. D. €. This highly orgamized inatitution has been built up and is under the per- sonai direction of Frederic J. Haakin. By lweping in constant towch with Federal hureaus and other educa- tional enterprises it is in a poaition ‘0 pass on to you authoritative in- Ruh- it your queries to the staff of er- perts whose services are put at your free disposal. There is no charge er- cept ® cents in stamps for return postage. Address The Evening Star Information Rureau. Frederic 1. Has- kin, divector, Washington. D. €. CONFERENCE BY FRANK H. SIMONDS Judging from first impresaions on re- turning from Europe and from the more or less officlal utterances of our Government at the moment of the opening of the Geneva'conference 1o consider the question of limiting arma ments, the American view is still miles | t from the Europea ence muy be summed up in the state- | ment that in America there ix lively hope and even expectation that some thing definite can be accomplished af-| firmatively at Geneva, while in Eu rope not only is there little or no hope of progress, but great apprehen. | sion less evil may come rather than good. Furope, speaking broadly, does not | believe that the present hour is pro- | pitious for precipitating a discussion | unmistakably fraught with grave pos- | sibilities. The Furopean view is that | armies will be reduced onlv when the | state of mind is such that fear and | suspicion are diminished. It does not believe vou help peace by undertaking | to reduce armies. but that with the de- velopment of an atmosphere of peac armies will be reduced. In a word, it does not see armies as an evidence of militarism, but as a proof of interna- tional distrust, * * * ¥ There Is, moreover. une ubvious | danger at the outset. Gerimany is very | largely disarmed as & consequence of the peace treaty, and the increase of | German military and naval strength sre rigidly prohibited. All this repre sents the effort to give security 1o Germany's nelghbors in the peace set- tlement. Since she cannot arm again. however, nothing is more inevitable | than that Germany should seek to| bring about the reduction of the | armlex of her neighbors, and she has | a good case in the language of the peace treaty itself, which in imposing | disarmament upon_ her - definitely stated that this was to he a step in general disarmament. Looking to the futur knows that Germany will ne armed If her meighbors retain large armies, and that it will be impossibie 10 impose such a condition upon Ger many. But for the moment it i equally clear that insofar s Germany can promote the reduction of the | armies of France, Poland and Caecho- slovakia. she will in effect destroy the security these peoples obtained through the peace treaties. And | despite the general improvement in | the German situation abroad—that is. the diminution of fear among her | neighbors—the moment is still distant when these neighbors are ready abandon their own means of defense or see German strength increased even reiativel R Obviously the United States at Ge. neva is In real danger of fAinding Itself rather awkwardly aligned with G many on arms ouestions, because Ger- many has patent practical reasons for wging every reduction In the arms of her former foes. Each reduction im- proves the situation of her relativel inconsiderable armament. Germany. like the United States. can stand squarely for every sort of land reduc- tion, for Germany and the United tates are both to all practical pur- poses disarmed on land. But while the United States has no ulterior motive, the German purpose must be plain. every one | It is only a matter of time untll | the neighbors of Germany will have {o face the practical question of choos- ing between seeing a great increase in German military strength and a subs stantial reduction of their own. But it needs a few vears of peace and reviving confidence before they are ready to make the inescapable con- cession and accept reductions for themselves. Meantime active German campaigns for disarming her recent opponents, perhaps supported by American public opinion and official action, could easily arouse Furopean eseniment and suspicion that we were being made catspaws. * x x % Again, as the ‘British have in- dicated already, both Britain and France have peculiar problems, mili- tary and naval—problems which go | with great colonial empires. Apart | trom their Furopean. army, which |1s certainly cut to the bone, the British maintain a considerable force in India and other contingents in | their colonles, as econtrasted with their self-governing dominions. ‘The army in India alone is nearly 240,000, with more than 50,000 British troops. This is apart from the home army 1 of 150,000. France has well over 200. 000 troops in North Africa and Syria | in other colonies, notably Indo- . Although the situation in India bas improved, it is unlikely that | food supplies for the homeland. tably both of them. once she got | For, aft | horsepower with manpower or fac- stay dis- | to! the supreme fleet in Europe, hecause it in for them the protection of their lines of communication with their colonies and the single guarantee of But should Britaid be able to claim for ite fleet and at for the redu: why such supremacy the same time arg tion of French and Italian armi And will not France and Ital many as well for that matte that British naval strength he 1im- ited if land forces are alsa o he re- stricted? * x » Back of this lies the even greater problem just rising to view. Britain, Germany and the United States are great industrial nations, and Britaln and the United States have vast re- sources in raw materials. France. by contrast, is still mainly an agricul- tural state, while Italy is destitute of all raw materials as France is lacking in coal. With a larger populatien and an enormously greater industrial ma- chine, Germany, for example, conld overwhelm France or Italy, and proh- her industry transformed to a war hasis. “Therefore, the French. the Tal- ians. the Belgians and other people in the same situation insiat that ather factors than hayonet strength must be reckoned in the considers- tion of limitation of armaments. “Thin is at once logical and invelves the incalculable—that is. in a word. it makes for argument. met action. - all. how can You halance tories with regimen At the moment. too, Ei:vope is in a singularly bad position for making any considerable decisions. While the British strike is over, this afte math and the great sconomic prab- lems which continue are honund to absorb all national attention. Franece is faced with the collapse of the franc. Germany. France, Peland and a number of other nations have no- torfously weak ministries. which might fall at any moment. and mast sily in case of some action in a ! foreign conference which aroused na- | tional opposition | - x oo | Speaking In general Eurone 18 in | its most peaceful atate of mind sin 1903 at least. Also. it is fair to sav | that in general international rel tions are better than at anv moment since the Kaiser went to Tanger on | the morrow of the hattle of Mukden. | but what is most feared in Europe Ix that the discussion of armaments at Geneva wlill rouse still recent pas- | sions. promote new divergencies. lead | to manipulation and maneuver and | postpone the very thing the confer- ence undertakes to accelerate. And it goes without saying that. d4e | apite outward appearancee. Furope | resents the American presence and | activity. becanse it helieves that the nited States. while promoting dis- armament, will undertake no respon - sibility to support a nation which suffers later from reducing its armies now, and suspects that our real oh- Jective is to insure debt payments to us by reducing military expenditures. In the hope of new loans and credits the European powers may. on the surface, pay attention to what we say, but in reality we appear more generally distrusted and detested than at any moment in our whole history. When 1 left Europe the expect: tion for the Geneva affair was end- less discussion. covering perhaps ane vear. perhaps 1wo. and amounting tn some plous and platitudinons decla- tions. but te no more. Europe {s not ready to disarm or he disarmed by conference. and it regare the present meeting as premature and possibly pernicious. since it may bring on so many quarrels. (Cor 1926, THINK IT OVER What We Owe the State Today. By William Mather Lewis. President, George Washington University. H. G. Wellx has defined education as “the preparation of the individual for a willing and intelligent participatie in the affairs of the world.” A state or city which provides opportunities for the education of itx vouth has a right to expect such participation n its affairs; has a right to expect re turns on ite investment in the form of | intelligent and devoted citizenship. It is the shame of a Nation dedj- cated to the principle of universal suf- frage that we lead the world in stay- at-home voter: Reliable statistics there can any reduction in the British military forces at present. As: for France, she has trouble hoth in Syria and Morocco and will have to! keep large forces there. Of the 600.- | 000 troops carried on the French rolis | with the new legislation, one-third | are native and 40 per cent are nor- | mally employed in the colonies, leav- | ing 350,000 for France and the army | of occupation on the Rhine. But both | in the case of Britain and France, na- | tive troops from Asia and Africa can in emergency, be transferred to Fu- | rope. On the other hand, Germany | and Jtaly, without considerable col- onies, do not need large colonial arm- ies. But since British and French cb- lonial armies can be tranaferred to Europe, Italy might naturally claim 2 larger home establishment, which would again disturb the balance, be- cause larger home establishments would be more promptly available on mobilization. 3 France and Britain then must stand together on the issue of colonial & l | founa in the best show that at the last two national elections only 50 per.cent of the Amer- ican voters expressed their choice for President at the polls, while in Great Britain, at about the same time, 76 per cent_of the electorate voted, and in France 70 per cent voted. The ci zens of Canada exercise the right ftrage much more generally than we. And in rhe United States' the largest proportion of non-voters ia dueated group. If the republican form of ‘govern- ment is stll an experiment. it is in great measure 10 the fact that those who can best understand its pos- sibilities and dangers take no interest in its proper functioning. We have stressed the thought of what higher education offers the indi- vidual. What the educated individual offers the community which has made his opportunities possible is quite as important. An enduring republic cannot be rected on the mire of indiffarenca. -(Conyright. 1926.)