Evening Star Newspaper, June 7, 1926, Page 8

Q THE EVENING STAR |8t 810,000,000, and the sum et apart With Sunday Morning Fdition. for the firat vear's work in $600,000. H — | Conatruction for the Department of WASHINGTON, D. C. | Agriculture in estimated to cost | 35,075,000 MONDAY..........June 7, 1926 eI DRh i e o | toned the next fiscul year. A THEODORE W. NOYES. . .. Editor| MAtble structure will be Lullt between the marble wings of the Administra tion Bullding. according to the plan thuse wings were butlt # xood many vears ago, and a general office siructure for the department will alwe be buijt The site of that building is not announced, but the be Hel ds that §t will be on .| fronting on the south side of B street 1 et h’r H ililtl»h and convenient to the Adminis- th tration Building Provision is made for the purchase of land fo lirge addition to the Government Printing Office and it ix thought that the property he ac | quired i on G street adjolning the | present building on the west. There doubt that the new structure Wil agree in design with the present > I bilding Two stories be added Member of the Associated Press. |, (he Liherty Loan Building, on the The Amsociated Prese 1e 1 xelysnely o 0S south of the Bureau of Engraving and ! Printing the structure will be atehae credi ted 17 this papber and Also the faced with stone. In nianlishad heremn Al new for The Evening Star Newspaper Company | Rusiness OMce 11th St a Pennexvania New Yok Office: 110 E . Chitagn O Tower Buil Eurepeas Ofca: 14 Revent St ngland approved whe H Ave ad St Srar, with the in delivered hy caviiece within 2% ity At A0 esnta pay month: daily onie &5 cents par month. Sundax oniy. M0 s Por month. Orders mar ha sent he mail Telenhans Main Collmet, o1 At the snd nom The Eveni il o adition & wquare R Rate hy Mail—Payable in Adva: Maryland and Virginia. 1yr. 89 TR 1 [RESR R A to Dulr and Sunday Daric onle Sundar onls i | | | | ANl Other States a Dajlv and & el enlv Suncas on 1 Canada. | Y i 1 mo s no 1 <00 1 400 5. will % nd of tpscaal disnatches Bevein are also v ot need for housings, (he Ar Snilding husx been given fest The Public Bulldings Comtuls hud before it rensong for the of u ball of records ut time possible. The com the dixcu the government Military Training. "'I'“’" The administrative commitiee of the "i“" Padoral of Churches has an- " ¥ <l e | construction it Couneil the recommendations adopiion of a sevies = s the earliest militar regarding such ontx misslon gave the reasons fur The docy 1o keep history straight; might result in st el against the Govern their presence in existing places nsticutes a fire hazard: the records of of America’'s goud faith to the world: they show the advance of science and serve as stepping stones further progresm; and they clitter up valuable space. The Com L mission is aware (hat agitation for | the building of & hall of recc | heen in the Capital for more arter of a century and that the need for such a Lullding has been lincreasing yvear by yveur. [, The British Liberals. David Lloyd George may, and prob colleges, o ably will, win a of foece 1 members of the Liberal purty from | e [ Parlisment, but that will | serve 1o heal the breuch thut has oc 1 in the ranks of the party the likelihoud of a permanent into two separated fac Although the lmmediate and fenlar issue is with regard »vd George's house leadership. an A thEUS AEEAngsLIes ‘ issue growing out of his attitude dur- fIOM g the recant general strike in Greut ( b the split comes from {4 deeper cause. the diffecence in policy The fol ux Mr. ning in the educational institutions oh 0 direct tra ) | structure as follows: of this conntry wi is likely to b i f lmust he preserved their appusition | ey i} means of misinterpreted to all ~fforts to estailish mili it ims n preparation fonse <ibl tien of the adminis | mil- in The o ment national de trative comm making .- itary training ed subject recommenda- now nation of these offic r In expl conneil highly training Which is not re tons th technical s e an e smys 1 the 2ainst in dx has il ng £ar i adolescent | than a « hoys Coincident witl announcement the War De. Aement show of the eouncil's aetion il e partment has issued a Ing the dazres to which milltary train inz is souzh: versities and high < on file finstesn of the h uni confidence in not = vote hools o |® t f 2 at presen feations v ’ victory & inatin estahlishment of <enior units curr or the Tesarve OMcers’ Training Corps. he Ttesarve OM (0 g Corpe, |0 high | g i wplit thirty-elx applications from widaly estabiish jun s these | i e ap- | sehonls that desire 1 v ne unite, Owing to lack of to ffty-five applications cannot which formal bean mads he pect of Appreval, These fizures show thut widespread demsand among for the institution A simple deduc that the o in the Reserve Ofcers | Treining Corps system L i tacilities under the present appropria- | | tinns, In additt sevanieen applications have we of the poor institutions not pros ain, netuully between wings of the party. of! Asquith, there ix the educa % Lord Oxford, who. W Lioyd | Liberal prewmier, are the i lowers tors of this country elded of military training Lioyd from the fact are the “left.” ‘The Asquith. the Oxfordites as they may he called, twelve of whom signed fOxford's Jetter, which in effect de. {manded the retivement of Llovd n the parliamentary chair- 1<hip. #re {0 be stvled Conservative while others of forty are more radical. They sntend that they are ‘K’N‘ only = But whatever their own definitions, the two factions which are now on the point of definite Aivision hardly contemplate the | maintenance of separate political or- | ganizations indefinitely. Such a division seems in- Lavitable, in spirit If not in fact. would lleave the Liberal group in the posi u of a hopeiess minority in Parlia and probably at the poils in the (of & general election. An effort iy be made to maintain the party wnization intact, in the hope of a later reconcilistion of views for the sake of holding the bulance of power, but the bitterness. that has been en- | gendered by the recent exchange of training should | sentiments is not likely to be allaved. But opportunity [There is less interest in this matter shonld be given to every youth to drill | regarding the future of Oxford him- and hecome part of the reserve lself, who, having passed Into the r which the United Riates | House of Lords. is no longer in & po- muset for defense in emergency. | sition of political importance, than The experience of the Great War shows | regarding that of Mr. Liovd George, | that if this country does not instill in | who short of an elevation to the peer- | the yeunger members of the national :.go, which is hardly probable, will re- community a sense of responsibility | main an active political factor, what- for the safety of the Siate and lay the |ever his party strength may be. foundation for potential military serv- | i i in case of giving the younger generation opportunities fo Avill and rudimentary military train. ing. It will always be weak and un- ready tor defense and will pay heavily in consequence. Y e Liberal purty. Those demand tien i oo ) inciusion . exceeds w The p Trainin profec ; ' i eorge 1 Corps system e not to make | ik ) hooik | Liberals pal soldiers, bat potential sol e st diere of thi onportim 1t ie not 1o ma eonuntry ambiti for military them gervice in case of national need. Inci- dentally the military which | they e in decidedly beneficial 1o | them. 1t helps them physically: it aide them in their mental develop- ment. Tt ix conducive to discipline, It srnises a sense of civie responsibility. There for military this country It may of the Fed eral Conncil of Churches againet com. drill well worihy attention It j& not necessary it desirable that the military training in the and colleges and high schnols go ta the point of highly technieal Nor is it desir- i {will perhaps L bt to prepure for | true Liber training can as now is no wish compulsory training in he that the proiest s eve bat of corractive nor is nniversities inetruction. able that the militar; be compalsory, © upon raly i need by Should Congress take its poker meta- phors seriously, it may be necessary to request Uncle Joe Cannon to make a return trip for the purpose of mery- ing as a referee. - A reconciliation between Harry Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit would again remind the great American public that it is occasionally subjected to a great deal of neediess worry. —— T 1= A matter of natural State pride to assume that every local elec- ton is highly significant as an in- dorsement or A repudiation of the na- tional administration. Nevertheless the issues pertaininz to the immedi ate neighhorhood retain their old in- fuence in dictating a decision. SO New Government Buildings. The Public Buildings Commission And the Treasury Department have | acted promptly in directing the begin ring of the Government building pro- zram at Washington authorized by Congress and known as the $50,000.- 000 five-year plan. Of the sum to be avallable for public construction st the Capital $6,000.000 hax been allotted fer work during the approaching fiscal vear and the sites of the Archives Ruilding and the new Internal Reve- nue, Agriculture and Commerce build- ings have been decided. ‘The Archives Building, estimated to $6.900,000, hus been allotted $1.000,000 for the vear and its site will be the square between B @nd (. Twelfth and Thirteenth streets, a large block with ita longer axis eust and weat, and now owned by the Gov- ernment. The wouth front of the building will face the Mall. For the Internal Revenue Building, extimated (o cost $7,950,000, the sum of $1,700,000 is allotted for the first year and the building is to be erected on the Mall on the south side of B strest, aither hatween Thirtesnth and Fourteenth or Fourteenth and Fif- teenth streets. . The Department of Commerce Build- ing will be ¢n the block hetween B and C,- Fourpeenth and Fifteenth streets Fbe costep! the mructurs is estimated S Individual Flying. _ Ever since the Wright brother duced thelr first practicable heavier- (hun-air machine the ideal of the indi- vidual airplane used us a means ot personal transporiation has been en- tertained. Now it has come. From Tondon ex & s tu the effect (hat one Col. Sempill hux a fiying fiiv- ver which he and hix wite use for week-end (ripx about Kngland. They have just completed an $09-mile jou ney, in the course of which they vis- jted several friends, landing wherever they wished, parking their machine in local airdromes or in ordinary ga- rages, and, in some cases, in farmers’ barns. During the trip forty galions of gasoline—they call it petrol there, or sometimes essence—were consumed. At the conclusion of the flight Col. Sempill sald that he believed his trip had proved conclusively the practica- | bility of the airplane for social fiying. 1t cannot be questioned that this-is the line of assured development in aviation. Alveady architects are at work on plans for bulldings with land- ing stages in the large cities. Re- cently prizes were awarded for such designa for huge offica structures in New York and It may be expected that within a very few vears such build- ings will be erected that will afford ail necessary facilities for the discharge of paskengers from the air. The personal airplane, if adopted generally, wili create new problems thet undoubtedly willgbs selved as to i | cost THE EVENING aeronautice are already heing estah lished in some of the institutions learning. Private schools of airplane pilotage will doubtless ha established. e demand, of course, will he for small planes easily housed and safe in munugement. Extremely high speeds will i not be desirved at first. Sufety rather than speed will he the chief requisite, eapeciully in the early stages of this new era of individual fiyiog. wbably - Washington's National Birthday. Only about half of the fi 1 sary to finance Washington's celek tion of the 150th a of the Declaration of Independence of the Unitad States on the bth of July next hag been provided by public seription. The budget fo the Cap- ftal's national birthday party in $3,500. At a meeting held the other day of the committes or finance in charge of th subscription it was disclosed that contributions at that thme amounted to only $1.778. It Ix necessary to make the plans for the affalr well inadvance wnd 1t I only due to those in charge of the program who are giving of their time and their energles to make the vecasion worthy of Washingtou that the funds be fully ussured. Orders must be given for the pyrotechnlc dis- play which slone will 31,500, Other expenses must be fncurred i anticipation unless (he program is to Le sklmped wod limited & worthy de, necea. niversury sub. cost an u Washington's budget for the 5th of July 1% fur below those of many cities of amaller size that are now arranging stmilar celebratio Sl it win possible with this amount assured to give Wushington & national hirthda Party that will theill the communiis and set a high standard for patriotic afMairs of this character, contribution from each person wit; meat this requirement. The fuil suwount should be fu hand within th present week so (hat the work of prey arution can procesd with confidence, — o seeks no quarrel with rell belng willing (o ascribe to an All-wise divinlty the suthority for the svatem which regulates this und (he universe. The controversial. ist cannot be ined from assert Ing himself in & manner which tends 0 complicate a matter which to fatr- minded reason should simple envugh, be A very small Sclence glon earth restr; seem ————tte—— A fallacy that must eventually be exploded s the persistent iden when & nation is In financial diffic itx troubles m issuing that Ity v be solved merely by more paper money. It has been tried mo often and with so little success thut old Vox Populi is justified in demanding u lttle originality. & - The enforcement of prohibition ia rendered slightly more difficult by the fuct that it excludes a perfectly good agent from participating in those al luring convivial gatherings which close with the chorus, “He's a jolly fellow good — 1t ix not likely that the corner saloon will ever return. All the desirable Corners are now permanently ressrved to lines of business that are lucrative and entirely unobjectionable, oo 'V conversution reverts to the Mc problem. This proves the case even in a congressional investigation of District of Columbia affairs. 5 s The Naval Academy finds it neces. sary to deal with a new kind of bunco game which consista in securing a highly valuable education under false pretenses, -— . = Abd-el-Krim is another of those stutesmen who create enormous trouble and then retire and leave the difficult details of settlement to others. —v—oes Hints are offered that debts may be- come historic traditions inatead of tangible obligations. r———a SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Refuge. I wonder why 1 can't know more. To learn I try As folks explore The various facts That appertain To recklean acts Or greed for gain. My mind goes lame, It’s in & buzz. Oh, base ball game! Oh, cross-word puza! You bring mid noise A comfort great When Congress boys Investigate. Open-Minded. “Are vou a fundamentalist or a modernist?” “I'm both,” answered Senator Sorghum. I believe what 1 was taught in my youth: but I'm not going to assume that there i nothing more to be learned.” Crude Conviviality. Ol hospltable grace We must dismiss, instanter. The bootleg takes the place Of the sedate decanter. Jud Tunkins says the genuinely pretty gals are getting the worst of it by being compelled to disgulse them- selves in the ordinary fashionable make-up. Tyranny of Attire, “Women have asserted their su- periority “They have,” answered Miss Cay- enne. “The men are still wearing tight collars and” suspenders.” Summer Prediction. Weather experts leave us glummer As their prophecies we note. “It will be a long, cold Summer And,_you'll need your overcoat.” “Shootin® crap,” sald Uncle Eben, “allus encourages a man to holler at de bones. One of the advantages of de game is dat it's an outlet foh oratory.” o Inside Base Ball. From the Saginaw News-Courfer. ‘There must he something truly secret in that “inside base hll" ot Ir's aever sesd an 124 S6ld STAR. WASH THIS AND THAT | | l BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Ambitivus bakers desirous of selling | among the vari 10,000,000 more loaves of bread this vear thin Iast ought 10 be acquainted With Louls Cornure’s second discourse i which the “Staff of life” ix praixed to the skies, Cornuro krows so enthusiastic that reading, one lmmediately wants to go to the corner grocery and purchase a loaf, und come home munching it as 1€ it were cake. “1 never knew the world was bean tiful until I reached oid age,” declared the venerubie lLouls, writing at the age of 86. “O truly Happy Life! Thou, besides all the uforesaid manifold blessings thou grantest to thy old disciple, hast brought thisx stumach to so good and perfect u condition that he now relishes plain bread more than he ever did the most delicate viands in the yeurs of Bis youth. “All this thou dost Lecause thou art reasonable, knowing that breud is the proper foud of man when accom panled by & healthful appetite. Thix natucal company, so lung as a man follows the temperute life, he muy be sure will never full him: since, he eut ing but little, the stomach ix but lght Iy burdened and has wlwiys, within a short tme. a renewed desire for foud. “For this veuson plain bread is s much relished. This 1 have proved by my own experience to be true, and | declare that | enjoy bread %o much that 1 shguld be afrald of dncurring the vice of gluttony, were it not thut I sm convinced iU is necewsary should ent of It und that we partake of o more natural food.” X ok ox o Cornare’s second, third and fourth discourses, which Addison mistakeniy declared {0 be editions of the first are productions much in the sume veln aa the original “Temperate Life,” the first und besi of the four. The third discourse was written at the uge of 91 vears, and the fourth when Cornaro was in his ninety-fifth vesr. The wuy the old man marvels at himself is delightful. He sincerely believed he had hit upon the true way to u long life, snd. since lie lived to be a hundred, and enjored every minute of his long vears, we of today can but lMaten to Bl with the deepest reapect. Throughout the ages men have lived and centenurians always have besvught 1o tell the secret thelr jongevity. The late Alexander Gruh mude an intensive study of ihe sub ject. coming 1o the conclusion. We believe, that loug life was hereditary in x sense. Every vear been m o Bell newspapers crop up in varlous sections of the country with storfex of old men verging on the contury murk, many of whom seem to have violated all the rules of heaith, vet wax hale and hearty. We, personslly, fn vounger days interviewed old soldiers stationed at various homes in this city, und found them much given to tobacco and toddy. whence we came to the con clusion that they lived long despite rvather than because of theme nar- Cotics, “Oh, how profi (v eut but littie:” accordingly, who knowledge of this what is enough to and my food is as follows “First, bresd: then bread s light broth with an egg. or other nice little dish of thix kind: of meats, | eat veal, kid and mutton; 1 eat fowls of all kinds, as well as partridgges and birds like the thrush. T also partake of such salt-water fish As the goldney and the like: Id I the only itfe: ble it im to the cried Cornure m filled with truth, eat sustain my WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Vice President Dawes enters a vigor- ous and vehement denial that his in- terest in farm-relief legislation has 1928 presidential ambitions in view. I am not a candidate for any office, nor will I be a candidate for any office at the expiration of my present term s Vice President,” 18 the text of a de- menti issued by Gen. Dawes. It has not quite the frrevocable ring of Gen. Sherman’s I-will-refuse-{f-nominated. and-not-serve-if-elected ukase. But Dawes snaps it out in accents that ound like business. 1f 1928 is to be a Republican free-for-all, instead of a Coolldge closed shop, Tliinois 18 sure to trot out her favorite son of 1920—for- mer Gov. Frank O. Lowden, Perhapa the Vice President thinks one favorite son is & State’s full quota. £ ox ok x It is not generally known that Brig. Gen. Charles A. Coolidge, retired in- officer, who has just answered the last reveille, was related both te President Coolldge and Vice President Dawes. A native of Boston, Gen. Cool- idge was one of the links in the un- nsual genealogical line through which both Mr. Coolidge and Mr. Dawes are kin. Mrs. Sophie W. Coolldge. who was & Lowry of Philadelphia. and who survives her late husband, was= a dele- ate to the Republican national con- vention at Cleveland in 1924, repre- senting a Michigan district. She had the unique distinction of casting her vote for two relatives on the same ra- tional ticket. ERE Curtis D. Wilbur, Secretary of the Navy, probably has been considerate toward Midshipman Zirkle, who tried to renounce a naval career at the Annapolis graduation. because of the Secretary’s own academy recd Wilbur was graduated from Aunapolis with the class of 1888, but restgned from the Navy durlng the same year. Apparently it was not incumbent upon midshipmen 38 vears ago to give any specified period of service in return for Uncle Sam's naval education. America today is full of prominent men who quit the Navy more or less soon after Annapolix days. John W. Weeks, former Secretary of War, wus graduated in 1881 and left the seivice n 1883. Homer L. Ferguson, presi- dent #nd general manager of the New- port News Shipbuliding and Dry Dock Company, got his diploma at Annap- olis in 1892, left at once to ftake a course in ship construction at Glas- gow University, and in 1895 became a naval constructor with an fron works in Baltimore, . * o x % John Ericsson now stands immor- talized on the banks of the Potomac in more or less enduring form, but dis- cussion of his life and achievements still rages. The “American Associa- tion for the Advancement of Atheism is on the warpath against those who acclaim the inventor of the Monitor as a “Protestant Christlan.” Charles Smith of New York, president of the aforementioned society for the spread of Godlessness, in a public disavowal of Erlcsson's religious profession, says, “Robert G. Ingersoll sald of Ericsson (Works, vol. 7, page 319) that hé was ‘one of the profoundest agnostics I ever met.’” ok K % Andrew Furuseth, the hardy Norweglan-American sult, Who president of the International Seu- men's Union of America—and “the smartest man in the United States.” according to Henrlk Shypstead —has gone (o Geneva. The proposed new international code for seamen was set Aown for discussion at the League of Nation's international Iibor confer- ence this week. Furuseth hurried te ‘Bwitzerland te take part In the dle- cussion and to rensw bis 8sht for old is of | | { heavenly and, [ will be!” | easter by Kending all his energy 1po | international seamen’s code. | Ing himselr felt and heard at all times, | like Reed, | distrust his motives concede their ad- & fresh.water kinds, the pike and others."™ PR In the third discourse, Cornaro mude the following good statement “lLength of dayvs is the real founda- of true knowled, one must imagine that Cornaro | had ah easy time in cutting down on hix food supply. *“In ovder that 1 might be able to follow the tempernte life, T prayed to God that He would grant me the virtue of self-vestraint knowing well that, when a man has firmly resolved to realize w noble en- terprise and one which he inx con- vinced he can socomplish - though not without dificulty {t i made much tiu i doing It and actually setting to work.” | Cornuro sald he enjoved two lives ut the same time: “One, the earthly, which 1 possess in reality; the other, the heavenly, which 1 possess i thought.” 1le continues: For thought truly has the power of impurting happiness when it s krounded upon something we aré con fident we shall enjoy, ux | do firmly hope und certainly believe | shall en joy an eternal life through the in Aulte guudness und mercy of the greut God. 1 enjuy thix eurthly existence through the excellence of the orderly und (emperate life, which 18 xo pleas ing (o Hix MuJexty becuuse 1t s full of virtue and the enemy of vice At the mume time 1 rejoice in the one, which God has given | me now (o enjoy In thought: for He | hax taken from me the power to think differently, so sure am 1 to possess it some day. “And I hold that is our departure | from thix woerld not death, but merely a passage, which the xoul makex from this earthly life to the heavenly one, immortal and infinitely perfect a belief which I am sure can not but be the true one, ook contlnues Cornaro, with perfect faith, “my thoughts are raised to helghts wo wublime (hat they can not descend to the consideration of sueh worldly and common occurrences ax the death of the body, but rather ure wholly absorbed in living the heavenly and divine life In this mEnner it comes pass that, as 1 nald befure, [ incessantly enjov twe lives. And T shall not feel anv regret on sccount of the great happiness | have in this eurthly life, when that life shull ceuse, for then my jov will be boundless, knowing, as I do. that the ending of this life is but the be. ginning of wnother, glorious and im- morial. “Whoe could ever find wearines« in a lot 2o truly blessed and happy as the one | enjoy’ Vet this happiness would be the porilon of every man if he would but lead a life similar to the oue I have led. Aud, assuredly. it is fn every man's power to lead such a life; for 1 am nothing but a man and not a saint. only & servant (fod, to whom the orderly life ix well-pleasing.’ The life that Louls Cornaro prac d and preached has proved and ought to prove an inspiration to every one, even if he does not confine his diet to bread soup, The fundamentals remuin unualterably one, msn. Woman benefiied even by “Ilence,” | | { of his t true, and every or child, will lv’] merely knowing of them. Good words and good lives | have a power not always to be re. | duced to dollars and cents, We can close our consideration Lonis Cornaro with no better words than his own: “Oh. what a heantiful Jife ix mine, and how happy my end chings { of “the freedom of the seamen of the world.” He is opposing in particular | any international action that would | deny to American sailors the benefits | they obtained under the La Follette seamen’s law. “Andy” Furuseth has alwavs insisted that the American | law should he made the basis for any A= the United States is not in the League, Furuseth has no offical status as s delegate. Rut he has a habit of mak- ook % Senator “Jim” A. Reed of Missouri was at his oratorical best during last week's dramatic Hare-up in the Sen- ate over the Dawes-Underwood clo- ture plan. EKven colleagues who dis- fear his ruthless lash and mivation for his forensic skill. *Sir,’ xald Reed, “I know it is pdpular to attack the Senate. So many an ase has stood and bLrayed at the lions. He who would claim for this body perfection would prove himself a fool. But the more imperfect we are the more we need to counsel and to take advice, As long s we can keep this forum free, as long as a vigorous and dotermined minority can prevent the passage of a statute, so long this country will be safe, reasonably safe, at least, for no great act of treachery can ever be consummated where there are brave souls to stand in re sistance to it, and stand to the end.’ Reed disclosed during the same speech that the late Henry Cabot Lodge once admitted to the Missourian on the floor of the Senate that the filibuster which Killed the force bill was in re- ality “a blessing 16 the country.” oKk % One of our grievances against Mex- fco. though not formally at issue in pending negotlations, is the sisal mo- | nopoly of the Mexican provinee of Yucatan. Within the confines of Yu- catan s virtually all the good sieal | there is in the whole world. The pro-| vinclal legixlature, taking a leat out | of Moscow's book, converted sisal into a state monopoly. None cun be sold except to the state, which thus exer- clses a monopolistic control over it, such as Horbert Hoover alleges that | Britain wields over‘rubber, Chile over nitrate and Brazil over coffee. The | United Siatex takes practically all the sisal Yucatan produces. It i a vital necessity of our agricultural in-| dustry. Mexico can make us pay for | it through the nose. whenever she Ppleases—and sometimes does. (Copyright, 1926.) ————— - East and .West. From the Philadelphia Public Jedger. East meets West at the Sesquicen- tennial in the spectacular display of porcelain, textiles, bronzes, jewelry and all manner of native fabrication in bewildering profusion. A single day has brought in a consignment of pearls and rubles valued at $5,000,000 —the pearls from Japan and the rubies representing part of a consign- ment of jewels from India worth twice the mentioned sum. Milton’s phrase connoting the ent—'‘barbaric pearl and gold comen at once to mind; but the differ- ence three centuries after he wrote is that many of the princes of India are highly cultivated aristocrats, making use of all civilized contrivances and inventions for the welfare of their subjects. The Oriental countries that are sending here the product of their ri- workmen will in_turn import from us whatever we have to show them that they can use to advantage. In this meeting place of n:e !wrc'n‘h:v‘m. spheres there will be an important in terchange of uchnlurxnom and | davotion 1o the welfar | fear, to failurs. | stately NGTON, D. €., MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1926 A Plea for Funds for the’ National Training School | To tue Kditer of T Star I have been plensed 1o see the friendly attitude which The Stur has taken toward the “National Training School” for Colored Girls ai Lineoln Heights, 1. €', of which Miss Nannie Burroughs In the fourder and gead ing spirit. 1 huve visited the school u several occuslons and have nlwaye been impr 1 by its emphesis on courteny, cleanliness. chaiacter straight thinking and vital prepais tion for self-support in the phere of a Christian home. Miss Burroughs, whom | have | Known for many vears, is 4 woman of the highest character and great good sense. She deserves tne #up- port of a'i philanthropically minded citizens who &re interssted in the col ed ruce Indeed. I know of no one wEite or black. who has shown more of her people, *pirit in the Aifficult matier a1 adjuxtments. The school Is particularly significant as the success: 1l effii1 of colored women | 1o help their own race and sex n teuching vounz women to be home makers. teachers, practicul nuixes dressmukers, soclul service workers, boukkeepers, efc. ‘The recent fire. which destroyed the upper part of the main building. is a very serious matter for the school. The luwer part of the bullding cun be rovfed over temporarily, but the in surance will not cover the necessary repairx, while n bitck bullding, which Will cost about $100,000, ix exnential. Ax the wchool I wn incorpursted one with & respousible board of trustees id w very remarkable principal, and S At ix located within the District of | Columbla and helpx 1o meet & national need, I hope that many people in the city may send Miss Burroughs at this time their contributions, large or “mall, ax an evidence of sympathetic interest I showld perhaps add that 1 have no connection with the school, and | that | am writing this letter on my own inftiat ANSON PHELPS STOKES. P atmos or a fine: of inter | heen | the first settlers at ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKI Q. Are there any unlocated graves | and at other times not”- of American soldfers on French bat- tlefields? G. H. A. There are still on the battle fields of France the unlocated graves of 1,458 wsoldiers. When was the State inheritance taken off in Florida’ . ¢ A. The voters in 1974 amended the State constitution to prohibit Inherit- ance or income taxes 3 tax . low can a long har of pure soap be cut in cakes without hreak Ing it to plecea” W. A A. I£ & string s put around the bar at Phe place a cut in wanted. the enda crossed and pulled, the siring will cut the bar neatly. Q. Who I8 the man whose likeness is heside that of Robert K. Lee on the Stone Mountain Memorial coins G.R. P A. Gen companion Q. What ix pipes” W hat pipe be given” (T A. Brier pipes are dved with a hurmless dye, similar to that used for dyelng Inster eggs. The zloks Is obtained by polishing after the pipe hax been dved. In smoking pipes. the tobacco should be taken out after sach smoking and the pipe left dry. It ix exsential that the pipe be sllowed to rest a day afier being mmgked. A person should have at leust two pipes in order that he can allow the one to remain unused for a day. What is mnemonics’—FP. R. This nane is applied to the old methad of rendering mrtificial aid the memory. It is sald 1o have invented hy the Greek poet Si- monides, who lived 500 1. Q. What was the duration of what wa# known as the starving time for Jamestown F. O October, 1608, to_June, M coloniste 60 sur- Jackson is the lee on the coin. Stonewan of Gen. lor brier such # used to ¢ care should 9. A ent o A 1610, or om about | vived. Sir Wm. Leishman Relics Preserved in To the Editor of The Star In The Star of June 2 on page 17 Is the notice of the deaih of Nir William Leishman, noted physician, doctor to the King of England. It i& w curious colncidence that ouly the day hefore this notice ap- peared | was shown his autographed photogiuph which Hangs here in the farmhouse of one Dr. Henry Fbling near Annapolis, Md.: also an album containing the photographs of hix wife i chiidren and many of his reia Hvex And laryland they got- there Lecause his uncle (hik mother's brother)., a br Drewar, with his Irish wife, bought the place in 1872 and dfed and are huried here, having willed their prop- | erty to Mr. Ebling i The romance of how D Dreva and his wife came to settle just here intriguing. judging by a very old photograph in the old velvet family album. She had the most enormous w1 heautiful “evem of Irish grav. Alone on # hillside here sleep Willlam's uncle and aunt. Their re mains are about to be reinterred in Annapolis because of the sale of their original farm Can any one say the report is true that is Balfour's uncle? riainly the evidence of the relics left hare is that they were aristo- highly connected. FRANCES G. A. COULSON. P Sir whether, br. r not Drevar Elegance in Fashions. From the New York World The movement to restore elegance | to feminine fashions, just inaugurated | at a luncheon in Paris, is doomed, we It is no accident that fashions are mo longer elegant, by which the dressmakers mean elabo rate, requiring plenty of cloth and pro- viding work for many seamsiresses. Since the day when women went about in corsets. with plumes on their | hats and dresses that reactied to their | feet, much water indeed has run un- | der ‘the mill. Such dresses required lelsure and disinclination for activity The modern woman is determined | above ull else to do something. Such | dresses required a taste for formality, for traveling in stately coaches, for | dancing of stately quadrilles. | Democracy has put an end to such thinge. “'he grand manner has given wav 10 easy informality. Men no longer wear thelr openfaced soup-to-fis dinners are no longer conducted with the rigorous etiquette that once was thought obligatory. There has been | a breaking down of strict rules at| every point. Evem a formal ball has become xo rare that few people know what to do when they attend one. The ‘result of all these insidious changes ix that elegant attire is not only in the way but it actually has no place to display itself. Suppose a woman laya in one of the wardrobes which Paris is preparing for her. | Where is she golng to wear it? Sure. Iy she cannot come walking down Fifth avenue looking like a character out of a Chambers novel, A.D. 1910, “Tea, as it i served now, is no place for such robes of state, and neither i= dinner, nor the theater, nor the night_club. About all she can do is don Her finery and parade up and down in front of her own mirr Kew women care to spend monsy 1o glitter unseen. The movement is thus without sound psychological basis. And what ix the purpose of it Simply commercial, so far as we can xee. D — A Growing Industry. | | From the Seattle Times. Kxpurtation of purtable and “ready- cut” houses turned out by Western Washington lumber manufacturers is becoming a large business, with pros- pects for expansion. ‘This unusually large amount of West Washington lumber is g eign markets in this mun partly manufactured form. For stance, a schooner sailing from Se- attle for Point Barrow a few days ago carried ax part of her cargo six cot- tages, a church and a store building that will be assembled and erected at the most northerly trading post in Alaska Another little trading schooner soon to leave Seattle for the Far North, it is reported, will take in her cargo a small hospital in knocked-down form that will serve another Arctic trading post. Within a few dgys & big ship. ment of portable and ready-cut houses will go from Puget Sound to Neow Zealand, where there i a housing shortage and also a shortage of car. penters and bulldings. Which is to say that the market for these Wash: ington mill-buflt houses is extending almost from Pole to Pol Lumber manufacturers will do well to cultivate and extend this varticu- lar branch of their export trade. It will increase their pay rolls and give more employment in this section's largeat industry. And there should be more profit in producing and ex porting & manufactured product rather than a raw material. LR ———s A Nation of Scribblers. From the Waterhury Democrat. ‘The report that a billion lead pen- cils are used each year in the United State - in- auery, | involved L3 that he the tiEsue paper invitations 10 Should the with angraved went with the invitations gueats”—B. J. C. A. Tissue paper should not be fold ed in with the invitations. @ comes Q. What color is the Statue of Lib erty? R. I A. The Statue of Liberty on Bed loew Taland in New York is construct ed of bronze. A long exposure to the elements. however, has resulted in the formation of a deposit on the statue, which gives it a gravish green appearance. Q. Where Ix radium found in the United States and how much is there in the world?—A. M. M A. The Rureau of Standards savs that there may he & or 10 eunces of radium in the world today. hut it has no definite figures. Practically all radium produced in the United States comes from Colorado. Q. Why s there an odor of lin seed oil mometimes when it is used |ington. 1. . Great Principle | | brier | | firat_prepared for Fdward VII of England 5; Fon A. Raw linseed oil leavas an odor for some time, while hoiled linseed ofl i odorless. \ Q. What is gelatin? -A. M. ¥ A. Gelatin in a purified, dvied, in odorous product of the hydrolvsie by treatment with boiling water of cer taln tissue, Such as skin, ligament< and bones, from sound animals. 1t containg not more than 2 per cent of ash and not less than 15 per cent nitrogen Q. Where s the prevince of “Sval bard"? . K A. Svalhard i the new nama for Spitzhergen. which was formallv pro claimed Norwsgian territory on Av gust 14, 1925 Svalbard, which means “The Coid Coast,” is the old nams of the province v that Retsy Ross made the first American flag heen disproved” H. N. T A. Dr. George K. Hastings of the University of Arkansas in his hoek ‘he Life and Works of Francis Ho credits Hopkinson, a signer aration of Independence having designed the Siars and While examining the pap Continental Congrexs, in tne of Congress ai Washington tings found Mr. Hopkinson designing the flag, which was adopted by the Continentsl ‘‘ongress fn 1777, The claim was never A board which passed on the acco Wwas of the opinfon that “Tha pubii in entitled to those litle assistance given hy gentlemen who enjoy a ver considerahle walary under Congress without fee or further reward Q. Hae the ste with Stripes of the Libdary br il “ehicken & R. N this dish Q. How dia la king come to he so called? A. 1t in claimed that nas King 1o his ow recipe. and sihsequently hecame vers popular. About 20 years age the College Tnn Restaurant fn Chicago in troduced it o thi country 2% a ey elty, according Q. How mwneh time per dav Francis Parkman devete to his writ ings?—N. A. When a voung man Parkmar spent a Summer living a life af ox posure and hardships among the In dians. Thix brought on a wasting i1l ness, which permanently impaired hie health. Parkman's Sight was alsc seriounly affected At the hest. the doctors allowed him hut a hrief werk ing day. Sometimes he had hnt threa or four isolated half hours in which t¢ work. At times months passed with out his belng Able to continue his study and dictation The resources of our Free Informa tion Bureau are at your serviee Tou are invited to call upon it as often as you please. It is heing maintamed hy The Evening Star solely to serve yau What question can e answer for you? Thevg iz no charge at all er cept 2 cela in stamps for return postage. Address your letter tn The Evening Star Information Bureau Frederic 1. Haskim, director, Wash s Is Uphel(i When Hicksville Stands Pat The little long Island town Hickaville hag won Nation.wide pu lieity and much good will by refusing to change its name for something more euphonious. From miles away comes the chorus of approval. Some nhservers siggest that the resuli of the referendum in Hicksville marks a turning of the tide awav from a modern tendency to adopt “gaudy’ names for settlements which attraet commuters, Two sides to the question are re- cognized. however. by the Pittshurgh Sun. which finds paraliels in other American communiti The con- servative group.” says the Sun, “which consists of the older residents. clings tenaciously to the o name. Sometim historical import. as Bloody Run, which, as the judge re- minded the petitioners for a change of name in his . marked the s »f one of the fiercest encounters with the Indlans in the history of the Ntate. Ilicksville commemorates the name of one Ellas Hicks, whose fol lowers settled there in 1836: it is per- sonal or biographical rather than his torical In fts reference. But as the town has borne its present desizna tion for 80 vears, some reason should be demanded for the proposed change. On the other hand. the newer resi dents, mostly commuters, do not want to be known as a ‘hick frem Hicks ville," in the * X ok ok In support of the latter class Lowell Evening Leader remarke “They may seem supersensitive, but as one of them points out, there a ctical objections to he considered. | he name prevents possible new- comers from settling there. to which the town fs fairly entitled As a general rule there is little sym- pathy here with the tendency to change names that have a historical significance, but the plaint from Hicksville will seem much more rea- sonable if we picture ourselves in the position of these people. <till there is another remedy. “If the anti-Hicksites are not satisfied.” declares the Watertown Daily Times, “there is one thing they can do. They can pull up and leave the ‘hicks' in Hicksville and seek a living place in « town of more euphonfous name. | them go to Bellechair, Brookhaven. Malden-on-the-Hudson or some other pluce, a place of which they will not be ashamed. We admire the Hick ites who stood pat. Elias Hic founder of the town, was a man parts. He must have been well thought of or the place would not have been named after hin.” * ook ok “A historfeal background. a treas- ured tradition” fires the imagination of the Baltimore Evening Sun. which exclaims: “Thank goodness, there -is one community deaf.to the strident whoopinga for gaudy names. Ilicka- ville is, not particularly euphonious. Current slang might well give its in- habitants an_inferiority complex. But to the everlasting glory of lHicks- villians, they have decided to cling to their history and traditi than masquerade under an meaningless blumage as Bryn Manor- ites or Nassau Parkites. Perhaps the actlon of Hicksville is the begin- ning of a revolt. The people of that town had sense enough to real- ize it would outlive the comic impli- cations of hicks and Hicktown of humorists’ invention. It ought to be patent to the people of any com munity that. elegance cannot be im- parted to neighborhoods or their in- habitants by vainglorious nomencla- ture. The hicks in this world are the people who fall for that sort of thing.” “We do not believe that any desir- able development will be checked b auch conservatism.” states the Brook- yn Daily Eagle. The Eagle records that the change of name was defeated by & vote of oclaims t it does “not believe that any de- rable residents among the 400 ‘cons nuters will move Indeed, sel tling_in Hickaville. “ought to he -)ncmlnrueadh¥ the dem. onstration of loyalty and local pr! in this sete. 1In the list of ty’s asgets local pride, just- of |1y | ginal | this name has a | case of ! the | This{ would seem to constitute a real bar- | rier to the growth and development | | | considered, other advantage.” outranks every * ow e ¥ The Syracuse Herald expresses its “eneaking sympathy for the Hicks cause” and throws up its “prematurs straw hat along with thase of the vie tore,” with the observations: “There are individuals who were afflicted at birth with fearful family names, and occasionally they ask and ohtain legal permission to adopt borrowed plumage. 1o speak. More commonly. zentle men of the criminal persuasion revel in aliases for obvious purposes. But | communities have no excuse for shed |ding the title with which fate has adorned them.” Belief that ‘“such thin-skinned eiti zens do not deserve to live in Hirke ville" is expressed by the New York Herald Tribune, which helteves it wonld serve them right if thev were forced to mova to Cloverdale. or Val ley Lake. or Lovelylea. or some other place with a name equally lovely. “The people of Hicksville should he | proud. as no doubt most of them are. continues the Herald-Fribune. “of a name that derlves from and keeps in | memory Elias Hicke. the Quaker 1aad- er, one of the makers of religious hi tory. Keep the old names. ane an. Al They will wear well long after | the infantile jokesters have ceased to | wag.” The Alhany Evening News in dorses the action of the town with the conviction that “there will he more respect for the folke wha aren‘t afraid of the cheap laughter of the crowd than there will he for those that wince when folks laugh.” * e The Waterbury Republican hails the Hickavilleites as people wha have “shown themselves good sports.” and expresses the view: “Most important of all, the very fact that the name has quired a -humorous significance is he best of reasons why Hicksvilleite should stoutly stand up under the fesats and jibes and refuse weakly to alter thelr fown's name merely to escape | the merry ha-ha. One must be able | to take a joke in this life.” The New York Evening World refers to other names that te communities tware | “#ood enough for them.” and ohserves that “Hicksville it is. and if the high hat commuters hang their heads when the brakeman calls out in strident ton :lekl ville," the old-timers are THINK IT OVER The Kind of Thrift to Follow. By William Mather Lewis, ident Georgs Washington Univer On the office wall which in flaming red letters said, “Work and Save.” A visitor with | some sense of humor said to the hoss, “That is certainly an inepiring mes- sage! What more stimulating ideal can you hold bhefore vour employes than that? Work and save-that 1 getting life down to its drabbest ton Thrift, It misinterpreted, leads to stinginess, penuriousness and nar- rowness. The most thriftiess man in the world may be the one with the largest bank account. The thriftiest may he he with the smallest. ‘The teacher who has spent her last cent for a trip to Europe or for beau- tiful and stimulating books fix far thriftier than she who saves every penny and dries up the stream of life. The business man who glories ir saving a nickel or a dime usvally misses making the dollars. He Ta late to an engagement in order to saw taxi fare: he seldom asks his businer friends to lunch. In short, he < “penny wise and pound foolish.” The thrifty man spends for the things which make life abundant, o education and wholesome entertaln ment, for travel and recreation ané for the pleasure of his friends. Hae puts aside the murgin for the rainy day, but_he does not let that margin distract him from the business of Jiv- Nohady sells him gold bricks: he s worth and he ieaves gonworld ‘richer becausa he haa lived was a poster (Copzrieht, 1086.)