Evening Star Newspaper, June 11, 1926, Page 8

- 8 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Editic WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY.........June 11, 1926 THEODORE W. NOYES .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office 11th St and Penneyivania Ave New Yorik Office: 110° East 42nd St Chicago Office: Tower Build: Furopean Office: 14 Regent St., London, England The Evening Star. with the Sunday morn ng edition, i3 o by carriers within the city at 60 « per month: daily only. 48 cents per mo : Sunday only, 20 cen r month. | Orders may be sent by mail laphone Main 5000 Collection is made earrier at nd of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. nd and Virginia. ).00: 1 mo., 00° 1 mo. 3.00: 1 mo.. 78¢ Sunday only All Other States and Canada. aily and Sunday.: yr.. $12.00: 1 mo.. $1.00 only. } r., $8.00:1mo. B ) B Sunday only . . $100:1mo. Member of the Associated Press. "The Associated Press is exclusively etitled 10 the use for republication cf all rews dis- patches credited to it or not otherwise cred- v in this paper and also the local news d herein. Al rights of lication al dispatches hercin are also reserved Effective Child Care Legislation. A compromise has heen effected by the conferees on the children’s aid bill which leaves that measure in a shape that is entirely satisfactory to the people of the District. It provides for the administration of the bounty 1o dependent children by the Roard of Public Welfare, newly created by re- cent act of Con; in replacement of the Board of Charities, the Board of Children’s Gu ians and the board of trustees of the G Reform The compromise consists in a provision that all applications for aid nunder the new law shall be made to the board through a standing sub- committee of the board. To this there can be no objection on the part of the District, which protested the proposal T eparate board. it is to be expected that in the or- ation of the Board of Public Wel- fara will be formed, to have charge of various branches of the work that Is to be in- rusted to this body. Without doubt, even t aid law did not spec ion sheuld be ade through a subcommittee, such a subconmmit ool Ea commi would be ¢ cilitate the admini The cg the adoption of the ted b e District for pper bill, that the Commis- upon the recommendation of the Public Welfare C ion, after . long and painstaking examination of the subject, was that there was no warrant wha for the creation of a separate especially as the consolidation of public welfare organi- zations is in process as o means of simplifying all charity procedure in the Distr it was furthermore urged that aid given to dependent children should not be distinguished from that given to other persons. There has been an earnest desire that the District should effective law for the prope so far as possible, of dependent by the ents, their natu present method of children has not proved Therefore the new was sought, ith a liberal appropriation for its administration. Unfortunately, an ef- fort was made by interests concerned fn the ado 1 Federal measure which was sub; sioners mm secure an home care, dren left for such law ! derance of Republican sentiment, the tprmmms are equivalent to the elec- itions. Consequently most of the energy and most of the funds are expended in the nomination fights. Any visitor to Pennsylvania during the recent weeks, just preceding the primaries, could see striking evidences of the manner in which some of the money was being spent. On all sides enormous billboards dotted the land- scape, setting forth in vivid colors and large letters and striking text the virtues of various candidates for Senator and Governor. The least acquaintance with the cost of litho- aphic printing and the rental of ter space along the highways and ad the traveler in the Keystone State to conclude that the aspirants for nomination and their managers and backers were no pikers in the game of politics. These proc- lamations of political virtues and assaults on the opposition did not add to the beauty of the scene, but told an eloquent story of generosity. This present inquiry is academic in its character in that it cannot lead | to any specific legislative action affecting the Pennsylvania primaries. The Senate has, of course, no jurls dietion over the governorship c paign. 1t is interested in the methods employed in a senmatorial fight, al- though under the law it is conflned in the sphere of action to the matter of expenditures in the elections them- selves. However that may be, it is learning much about the financial scale on which politics in Pennsyl- vania is conducted. Russian Aid for British Strikers. In the British louse of Commons the statement has been made by a member of the ministry that the Rus. sian government has been sending money to Great Britaln, both to finance the general strike which re- cently failed and to support the strike of the coal miners. In response to a question the home secretary de- clared that the government is certatn that not oniy the third internationale but also the official Russian govern- ment is responsible for the sending of $2,000,000 s0 far received by the Trade Union Congress and the miners. Rumsay Macdonald, leader of the laborites, challenged the home secre- tary to prove that the money came from the Soviet and not from the workers. The reply was that the gov ernment is satisfied that the mones came from the Soviet. The other day a statemen: came from Moscow to the effect that Soviet officials were bitter in their denuncia tion of not only the British govern- ment for breaking the general strike, but of certain eminent laborites for contributing to the failure of the strike. There is no question that it was the desire of the Soviet govern- ment at Moscow to see Great Britain economically wrecked. Members of that government have during the past few vears made repeated declarations of their desire and intention to inter- fere in the economic affalrs of Great Britain. While the general strike was in progress contributions from | workingmen's organizations were *'so- licited” by the Soviet for transmission to the trade union council at London and certain sums were actually sent. It is obvious that the influence of the government at Moscow over the work- ers is sufficient to make such a so- licitation tantamount to a command. No indication has been given at Lon- don of what the British government of this character to make this District law conform to an adopted standard of procedure in order that it might serve as the basis for sequent national leg Extraordinary means were employed to compel the adoption of this plan. The wishes of the D people were ignored and legislators were aligned through stren- uons personal pleas without complete understanding of the issues involved. Fortu in the Senate, the Dis- trict's desive for legislation suited to its needs and to the present develop- ment of the public welfare work at the C: s heeded. To Senator Capper and his colleazgues of the Dis- trict committee are due the thanks of the people of Washington for their service in preventing the imposition of an unwelcome law upon the Dis- ‘rict, and for their wisdom in accept- ng as a compromise a wholly satis- rwctory measure, Effective child care s assured, and those who have been sly concerned on the subject, though the funds for the administra- tion of the law are to come wholly from the pockets of the District peo- ple, should be content with this final wutcome. sul islation. e ‘The relief President Coolidge has rfected in general ion has bene- ted the farmer along with the other United States citizens to a degree hich should not require special re- to make him popular wural circles e Pennsylvania Primary Finances. Revelations of enormous sums spent in the recent Pennsylvania primaries ied by charges of fraud thus far are vague and un- . There is mo question, it would seem, that v: amounts were ontributed and expended in the tri- nular senatorial nomination fight nd th ip contest. Ap- pavently there 1s no disposition to conceal the size of the chest. Candidates and their managers have freely explained the sources of their funds. Public judgment, however, quickly jumps to the conclusion that these great amounts of money could not conceivably be needed for legiti- mate expen: It has already been stated that very large amounts were spent in the western part of the State for employment of “watchers” at the polls. One witness has declared that in Allegheny County alone the watch- ers for two of the senatorial candi- dates cost $494,900. The rate for watchers, it appears, was $10 apiece. One candidate was represented by 10 t0 a district and the other by 25. This information, given yesterday to the committee, was second-hand. The wit- ness had heard it from somebody else. Naturally the Senate committee will want to hear that “somebody else” directly. Pennsylvania, being a oneparty State, in effect, with a heavy, prepon- ¥ sre accomps which war will do in the matter. Its relations with the Soviet are tenuous. There Is no diplomatic representation by either side at the capitals. So Great Britain is not in a position to suspend diplo- matic relatio It can, however, formally denounce the intervention of | the government at Moszow through | the camonflage of contributions by working men. Should it adopt that | course the situation will remain un- changed, for already the government at London is under the ban of Soviet disapproval. Any chance of recog- nition of the Soviet by Great Britain, however, would seem to have been destroyed by these disclosures of in- terference as a measure of economic warfare against British trade. ——o— New York politicians are in some cases protesting that Senator Borah ought to he as reluctant about man- aging the affairs of the Empire State as he is about undertaking to regulate European complications. e Fanatics continue to watch for the end of the world, but politicians con- tinue to insist that there is a large future ahead and now is the time to start something. —_—ne. Whittemore’s Sentence. ‘Whittemore, the super-bandit and murderer, has been sentenced to death THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1926. THIE_AND THAT ties that a fair trial can be given in the shortest possible time. It should carry on the good work and demon- strate that justice in that State cannot be defeated or unduly postponed by delays and legal technicalities. Prompt action on the appeal will close a noto- rlous case, end the career of a crimi- nal of the worst kind and reflect ever- lasting credit on the State of Mary- land. —————— Curfew Shall Not Ring at Two. Evidently the two-o'clock-in-the- morning curfew order of the New York police commissioner 1s not to be strictly enforced. Quickly following the protest of the cabaret and night club managers that such an hour of closing would wreck their business comes a statement from the commis- sloner to the effect that no such order was actually issued. Asked why po- licemen entered some of the night clubs and late-hour cabarets the other night and ordered them to close, he explains that they may have done so because of some specific violations of the law or some condition which justi- fied action. e is altogether vague and this vagueness indicates that “higher-up” has spoken. So for the present the curfew does not ring in New York. There is no limit to the nocturnal reveling and eating and drinking and dancing. The night clubs can keep open until day- light doth appear. The virtuous metropolitans may be kept awake by the sound of revelry by night and by early morning clamo The town, of course, is not “wide open.” Tammany Is not altogether without some reserves of conscience. But there is no curfew, and that fs something saved by the professional entertainers and the un- derworld. - - Secretary Mellon demonstrates that a man who knows how to handle money successfully can apply his tal- ents successfully to the public inter- est as well as to his private fortune. As a rising statesman at the moderate salary of twelve thousand or so a year, Mr. Mellon has improved a fine op- portunity and gathered a reputation which colossal cash could never buy. - R - Women clothe thems ably and with little r time dictates of so-c Men continue to wear collars, wr bands, suspenders, belts, garters and all the rest of the paraphernalia of ditional masculine costume. Is the male a silently protesting martyr in the cause of ancient modesty? B Ives comfort- rd to the old- lled propriety Public sentiment has become more liberal. There as a time when a prize fight such as is exploited to the attention of men, women and children was regarded as a form of moral tur- pitude. e Should the magnificent plans of Mussolini go wrong the King of Italy will at least enjoy the privilege of calling on the world to testify that he was onl innocent nder. e a War times developed the assertion that Americans the greatest bathers on earth. The champagne bathtub incident on Broadw: carries the idea to a fantastic absurdity. ——— are In American politics the ‘come- back” is a possibility for serious con- sideration. A statesman may show his greatest wisdom in knowing when it is expedient to be defeated. ———— It has been poetically stated that “a drop of ink makes millions think.” A congressional controversialist should not find it necessary to throw the en- tire inkwell. ——e— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Note From Pennsylvania. A little thing like money doesn’'t mat- ter ‘When ballots are sent flying through the air. ‘We haven't time for oratoric chatter ‘When the cost of voting rises every- where, The check book which in pride we are displaying Reveals a sense of sportsmanship complete. Without a word of protest we are paying A half a million dollars—for defeat! The Alphabet in the Air. ‘““Have you studied the situation in Europe?” “1 have,” ghum. “What information do you get?” “They appear over there to be spe- cializing on two radio signals, ‘SOS’ and ‘10U " Physical Fitness. Demosthenes made speeches on the answered Senator Sor- by a Baltimore court. He will pay the supreme penalty for the killing of a guard in an escape from jail. New York caught him, Buffalo failed to convict him of a bank robbery and murder, but Baltimore has closed his spectacular career by a speedy trial and sentence. It now remains only for “finis” to be written when Whittemore is exe- cuted. A criminal since a young lad, participating in scores of petty crimes, and, as he grew older, one of the out- standing underworld characters of the time, Whittemore was hunted by po- lice of many cities. Caught with other members of his gang as he was leav- ing a New York night club, he was rushed to Buffalo to stand trial, the City of New York having walved its rights to him on several hold-up charges. He succeeded in “beating” the case in Buffalo. Baltimore, however, had |put in a claim for him, and it was in that city, on May 21, that a jury con- victed him of first-degree murder, pun- ishable under the Maryland statutes by life imprisonment or death. Yes- terday the death sentence was pro- nounced and Whittemore went back to his cell, perhaps never to leave it again until he begins his walk to the gallows. An appeal has been filed by his counsel, and this appeal should be acted upon with all the speed that has characterized the trial and conviction. Maryland, in the handling of this case to date, has shown to other communi- shore And matched his voice against the breakers’ roar. Could he be here, where statesmen bullyrag, Instead, he'd practice with a punching bag. Uncle Bill Bottletop says that whether a man is “‘wet” or “dry” hon- estly depends not on how he votes, but on how he drinks. Jud Tunkins says a prizefight is now interpolated with music and trans- mitted into every home as the modern form of grand opera. New Art. “A play depends on the ‘eternal triangle.” " “Not entirely answered Miss Cayenne. “Some of the wild dramas sound as {f they had been composed by cubists,” Organization. Political devices Prove frail and inexact. But the boys who boost the prices Still preserve their lines intact. A Depravity. “Doctor Cook landed in prison.” “I can’t sympathize with him. I'd rather be in a nice warm penitentiary than anywhere near the North Pole.” “De value of strength,” said Uncle Eben, “depends on how it is used. Money has tremendous power, but so has de hind leg of a mule.” A L {and | than Wilde's .{If one approaches either ¢ t] bit startled BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. These are the books he loves the best. His other volumes stand row upon row, books old and new, large and small, in dark covers and light, and some in leather, combining to present a beautiful picture to the booklover. These books in the small case, how- ever, are those he loves the best of all. " For they represent the lterary enthusiasms ‘of his life. To date, books in general have brought him much pleasure, but these the most of all, Looking at the case, one might not suspect any system in the arrange- ment of the contents, but there is a method behind this apparent madness, one dear to the heart of the booklover. Being privileged to look over the gentleman's book treasures, w are able to bring the reader here a gen- | eral plcture, one which will no doubt | awake memories in the heart of every one who has ever had a book en- thuslasm. A book enthusiasm, it hardly need be sald, is distinct from the love of books in general. When one acquires a particular en- thusiasm for a certain type of book, he becomes a true lover of books, and it is not until he does acquire this enthuslasm that he can really be called a Booklover with a big B. Each such small collection upon particular tople is a reflex from the lite of the collector, so that, golng through such a library, we can see, in retrospect, the past ages, likes and dislikes, of the person involved, and be able to prophesy, to some at least, his future reading ve *ox ok & With what loving care has he kept here the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and those of Hans Christian | Andersen! The constituted his first book enthusfasm, as they have of many another person. Blessed with a good “nemory, he can recall his unvarying “Jelight at the story of “Big Claus and Litt Claus,” and how he turned the page with haste to avold seeing the pic- ture of the old witch in the story of “Hansel and Gretel.” Wonderful stories of childhood day They pass, as reading, from one iife, but the memory of them remains always with us. There was the “Ug Duckling” and the “Little Match Girl the “Lead Soldier’ and Snow Queen” and a host of others dear to memory. These are better s nir lack the note s which ories for children ales of elaborate sad- characterizes the latte imm o Andersen later, perhaps he will be « the trend of some of the stories. Let him remember, how ever, that such indifference to i experienced by others is a part of the character of children. 1t is based upon & lack of knowledge and an al most total lack of experience. Yearly we have expected some soul to bob up with a protest against these old fairy storles, on the ground that they implant cruel ideas in a child's mind. No doubt some one will do it yet! The truth of the matter, how- ever, is that all such ideas run off a child's mind like water off a d back. Viewed from the adult point, the story of “Great Claus and Little Claus” i3 quite heartless—from the child’s point of view, it is simply funny. th tand &k And here, in a shelf 1o themselves are the Henty books! They were his next book enthusi asm, one that did not dwindle until he had wheedled his parents into buying him practically every story xtent | hecause | written by George Alfred Henty, al- though in_those days he did not know the “G. A. Henty” on the title page stood for so much Some parents, and not a few critic have seen fit to deprecate the “Henty books,” branding them as inaccurate —but there have always been those to frown at everything that is In- teresting! Henty, who died in 1902, had been through many stirring campaig! himself as a war correspondent, o he knew from first-hand about war and warring men. In mere details he may have been somewhat inaccu- e, but he did paint ths spirit of great times and gave to thousunds of boys their first taste for history. He took epochs from the dull cate gory of dates and “eras” and made them living, breathing periods of living men, working, striving, fight- ing for God and country, as they saw it Reading over the titles brought back a world of memories to us, for we, too, in our day, were a greedy reader of Henty books and the proud owner, if we recall rightly, of zome 40 or more. “The Young Franc-Tireurs,” “The ung Buglers,” “In Times of Teril,” ke's Flag,” “The Lion o | “With Lee in Virginia, | “By Pike and Dyvke,” “In the lrish | Brigade,” “With Robert of Pretoria,” | “The Cat of Bubastes.” (. A. Henty ranged from ancient to modern times to allow play for his various pairs | of young heroes. The Henty books ave cle | ful reading” for voungsters understand_are as much i today as they were 20 or Henty commenced them in 1871, and wri one in the year he died ® P N, foree- nd we vogue 30 vears writing te the last At this point in our survey stopped us 1o point out & non-exist ent bookshelf. It was not there, he suid, and yet it was there, it 1 got what he meant. We told him we thought we did. “On the non-existent shelf, then,” he went on, with a smile on_his lips, vou will see a huge pile of se | books, each one clad in a flaming cover of red, green and other hues. heart happ “dime nove the host tells you, the dreade which I read as a boy. 1 wish I had kept a closet full of them, that I might turn them over to my own Ix toda, to v tothe: because ld her they @ matter were good for boys lled only h on und fact, stuce they ta bravery sad they ood 1 hers of 1 6 gone to the trou: ble of roading th dime noveis which in reality « nickel she would have seen shortly t absurd -, and EYownup person, could possibly righteous Frank e not much rath . than for stand he thought for an instant, i recesses of his manly umpire was wrong? “He most certain| | most certainly did ‘fllhm‘ heroes ‘Fred Fearnot,” ‘0ld King Brad. K | Carter," ‘The rty boys of ‘76, and [ the rest of them.” | Tomorrow we wi i s fon of the our special frie the pure would 1d s and did all the and Luck, complete our de- pecial bookcase in I's libra WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WIL Unquestionably “Newberryism” has become a revived issue at Wash- ington in the wake of the Pennsyl- vania primary “slush fund” now in progress before & committee. When these obsel were written, the e of Representative Vare's had not yet been disclose it on any scale appi the Pepper and Pinchot budgets there may be another full-fledged Newberry ¢ if and when the Philadelphia boss_reaches the Sen- ate next Marckh Meantime, debonai d smiling, Vare is an interested but apparently not an anxiou server of the revelations ‘enator “Jim” Reed's committee is draggins to light. Patriots may well bluch in the face of some of them. They are unfolding, in a matter-of-fact way, the sordid story of how it is possible for rich men, commanding millions of dollars, to finance their way into nomination and eventual election to the United States Sen-| ate. There are many arguments against the primary system. It's difficult to think of a better one than the tragi-comedy now being enacted on Capitol Hill. * ok ¥k There's a real flghting type of gailorman now at the head of the TUnited States fleet in the person of Admiral Charles Frederick Hughes. They call him “Freddie” Hughes in the Navy, and, now and then, be- cause of his homespun exterior and bluff ways, “Farmer John.” Hughes commanded the American battleshin New York with the British grand fleet in 1918 and, together with Admiral Beatty, took the surrender of the German high seas fleet in November of that year. One of the things “Freddie” Hughes is famed for in the fleet is his insistence upon wearing exactly the same kind of shoes issued to enlisted sailors. He says they're vastly more com fortable than the fancier sort. No harder working man wears our Navy’s blue than the new command- er-in-chief afloat. One of his ec- centricities is a habit of getting up early in the morning, sometimes to the diecomfiture of junior officers who would prefer another kind of good example from “the old man. Admiral Hughes takes over the fleet with Admiral Sims’ approval—he's a val War College graduate, a dis- tinction Sims holds to be indispen- sable in any officer entrusted with high responsibility. * ok K X No recent development in politics has attracted wider attention than the decision of Atlee Pomerene to re- aspire to the United States Senate from Ohio as the Democratic oppo- nent of Frank B. Willis. Pomerene left the Senate on March 4, 1923, with the universal esteem of men of all parties and of the country at large. His friends always attributed his de- feat for re-election to Pomerene’s re- fusal to do any eleventh-hour trim- ming in Ohio on prohibition and labor questions. The Ohio Democrat was in direct line for the presidential nom- ination in 1924 had he been returned to the Senate. He probably thanks his lucky stars that Fess beat him on that occasion, for '24 was not the Democrats’ year. If Pomerene low- ers the colors of Willis in 1926, there may be a different national story to tell about him in 1928. Pomereno is one of the scholars of our p?lltioe. He's a Princeton man, class of '84. * k k * ) Prophets who predicted prohibition wouldn't be an issue in this vear's congressional elections have taken to the woods. In four different States four outstanding men now are in the race for the United States Senate as out-and-out wets—Brennan and Pom- jerene De | inois and worth doubtedly, e others campaign season continues. 1f four commonwealths. which happen to be the most populous in the Union, overwhelmingly elect wets to the Sen. ate, it will be a demonstration re- rding which the drys will have to t up and take notice. It will not utomatically repeal the eighteenth amendment. or modify the Volstewl law, but it will show that anti-pro- hibition sentiment, like Representa |tive John, Philip Hill's Marviand home | brew, is steadily fermenting. | e Secretary Kellogg isn't g the results he wants from Pr Calles but_there’s one ico—the State of Yu friendliness and accommodation Americans are 100 per cent complete. There, amid ruins believed to be the seat of the most ancient civilization in the two Americas, the research ex- pedition of the Carnegie Institution of Washington is at work. Led by 10 American archeologists, the expedi- factlity for its explorations. ~ Dr. John C. Merriam, president of the institu- tion, speaks enthusiastically of the co-operation the Yucatan authorities are extending him. They even built 1ailroad to help things along. The expedition has hopes not only of un- earthing a civilization believed to date back to 98 B. C., but of assisting the present residents of” Yucatan to re- store, for modern purposes, some of the features of their ancient and an- cestral past. % ok ok ok Greenville, Ohio, the late Comdr. Zachary Lansdowne's native town, has decided to erect a monumental memorial in honor of the aviator-hero who was lost, with his ship, the dirigi- ble Shenandoah, last Fall. The school children of the State are to be asked to contribute funds to a memorial de- signed to stand as a symbol of pa- triotism and duty. The Shenandoah was wrecked over Ohio soil, not more than 100 miles from Lansdowne's birthplace. R % Station WCFL, the new $100,000 broadcasting station of the Chicago Federation of Labor, is going to have one more peace conference with Secre- tary Hoover before “piratically” tak- ing the air. WCFL planned to utilize Chicago wave length 491, beginning June 6, regardless of Hoover’s refusal to issue a license. But on calmer con- sideration it was decided to appoint a committee to parley with him on June 15. If the Secretary of Commerce is still of opinion that the Chicago ether is too cluttered up to justity the licens- ing ‘of another station, WCFL an- nounces it will begin operations not- withstanding, and, if necessary, ask the Supreme Court to say whether “the air 18 not as free in this country as speech.” * ok ok ok The War Department hopes the Coolidge economy program will not wreck its plans to devote $110,000,000 to housing for the United States Army. Careful surveys have shown that mil tary posts in this country and else- where—in the Canal Zone, Hawaii and the Philippines—are so badly and sad- ly in need of constructional improve- ment that nothing less than the sum iindicated will give proper shelter to our troops. Congress has authorized the sale of World War surplus prop- lerty belonging to the Army and | pradual use of the proceeds for Army housing needs. But it will be a long and tedious story if the whole pro- gram has to depend on those sinews. (Copyright. 19826.) ¢ | They * | Holyhead, 1 that the he | tion is belng accorded every possible | THINK IT OVER Do You Want a Job? By William Mather Lewis, President George Washington University. A successful Chicago banker, in ing to u graduating class, ‘said 5: “The youns person who is seek- ing for a soft place can generally find it-—under his hat.” Perhaps that statement is a little severe. Many young people leaving school to earn a living seek a soft place because no one has suggested to them the differenco between a job and a care One authority cent of the pupi states that 85 per in high school are hoaded toward commerce, toward the change of goods, and an almost negligible number toward the produc- tion of goods. Such a situation ean lead only to artificially stimulated de- mand and inadequate supply with at- tendant abnormal prices, When we consider for & moment the teeming and increasing millions in New York and Chicago and San Francisco and all the other great centers who do not produce one ounce of the food they eat or an inch of the clothing they wear, we realize that some of our youth might well con- sider devoting their attention to sci- entific agric 3 re were in the United States 00,000 acres of forest. X iy the 5 000 acres, and this is being cut oft three times as fast as reforestation is carried on. Perhaps some red-blooded boy would prefer the woodland to the o There are a thousand other neglect- {ed flelds of opportunity offering | chances of personal prosperity and | national service. We should not be | too busy to discuss these things with pur chiidren. i (Copsright, 1 E e . . | That Little Welsh Town With the Very Long Name ‘ ) | To the Editor of The In a recent issue of your paper, | well written arti appeared about Llanfairpwllgwyng vllgogeryvehwyrnd- | robwll-landysiliogogoch, which is ab- | breviated L ; lin Anglesea, North ter known by th i tell a good story there about [ this very pretty village, situated as {it is on the London 1d Northwest fern Railwa about 5 miles from through which the Irish mall runs fre 1 to London. When t this n the guard ( nlways yan Englishn n the plat | form and people in h . this is it!” The next Llanfairmati arneith Ve reach Menai orth Wales is “All you Bridge. you sée th many odd » born no more diffic than Wash-ing-ton. D. J. ROBERTS. . R Plea. | | From the Schenectady Gazetts Indifference on the part | Tuited States Senate to the welfare 1 Islanders means thei s under our control will be un- d for the present. The Ho | has gone a step furthe of | been reported giving them | nent government, but witho, lin the other branch of Congr | ing can be accomplished. | Nearly 10 vears ago were purchased from Den: | then they have been sub; | trol of a naval officer, named by the | President, possessing _all jeivil and’sudicial powers. Authorits has been centralized, but it has been of the wrong kind, for governors have changed frequently. often two new | ones holding sway within a year. | When the islands chansed hands the people lost their Danish citizen * They did not become American sens and hence are men and women without w country, unless the far-fetched view, however. ¢ are not independent but !4 possession of the United States. The Islanders have a just griev- {ance. They have been anxious to be- | come good citizens of this country, | just as they were of Denmark. The: have waited patiently for nearly a decade. Meanwhile they have had to be con tent with a government anything but satisfactory. While they may have had good naval officers to direct their laftairs, the system in itself, espectal- {1y with constant changes, has had a | bad effect. And no one with a fafr mind can disregard their plea. for simple justice. : o Polar Forces in Life. From the Indianapolis Star. 1f scientists continue to discover facts that verify old superstitions, we may cease ere long to blush over our superstitious ancestors. There was o reason, it seems, for planting in the “light of the moon” and the “dark of the moon” and reasons for other ways of doing things, ways which were fol- lowed although their followers could give no definite reason for so doing. One theory of the past, belleved in by some and scoffed at by others, was that of sleeping with the head to the north and the feet to the south. A recent news item from Paris carries the information that French scientists have been making experiments along this line since 1908. They now declare that human beings sleep more soundly in this position and that in this way insomnia may be cured. “Polar forces influence the body even when eating,” advise the French physicians. This may seem easy, to the scien- tist; what can be easier, indeed, than to turn one's bed to a north and south position? The practical minded at once pe ve the difficulties of the situation. In the days when peoplo lived in houses and houses were built with large, square rooms, with at best only two or three windows, there was no trouble in finding a suitable corner for the bed and in placing it in any position. Today a large percentage of the population lives in apartment houses, a species of dwelling in which the bedroom is the least important consideration, being small, with little wall space and_that filled with doors or cupboards. Even the modern house presents difficulties because of the multiplication of windows, closet and room doors. If the French scientists’ views are accepted, their simple statement may bring about great changes in modern life. Apartment houses and homes will have to be remodeled if tenants refuse to occupy them unless their sleeping places can be made adjustable to the compass. The compass makers will be compelled to enlarge their fac- tories if people are to take this mat- ter of sleeping directions seriously, and we shall have to have compasses ke those of the polar explorers, which are not affected by other forces as are the compasses in general use today. Graduates. From the Wall Street Journal. June is commencement month, re- minding us that even the best of men get education by degrees. b Smith Statisties. From the Louisville Courier-Journal. “The one man in a hundred” has ?ee:nhdlsco\'ered by a. statistical hound n the Consus Bureau. Ilis name s Smith, x g the | I military, | i BY FRANK H. SIMONDS ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. How many children are there in day nurseries”—N, D. A. At least 28,000 children, mostly of working mothers, are enrolled in the 600 day nurseries in the United States. Q. How much power was generated | by coal and how much by water last yea e B, A. The power generated by coal during 1925 is estimated at 44.5 €84,900 kilowatt hours. That gene; ated by hydraulic power is estimated at 22,733,076,100 kilowatt hour: Q. Why does an elm tree always divide into two branches”—H. T. B. A. The United States Forest Service says that the dividing inte two branches of the elm tree is a peculfar- ity of the American elm and merely a course of nature. | Q. How many Mexicans live in the United States?—H. A. O. A. There are 478,383 Mexicans in the United States; 17,624 have full citi- zenship and 2,746 have first pa The greatest Mexican population is found in Texas, : Arizona, 60, 325; California Colorado, 19.- 906; K Q. How much honey is produced in Manitob: BB A. Beekeeping in Manitoba grown remarkably in the past vears. In 1925 there were 2,000 r tered beekeepers owning 27,370 hi Over 4,000,000 pounds of hon produced, worth $616.068. few Q. When was the Liberty Bell in Washington, D. C.7—L. W. trip from the xposition the bell | week of June, { Q. Is there any tes where the tion?—F", (. | A. The Coast an t there is a line of 1o v {compass which passes through western South thence fn a general {NNW. Along this i needle points in the ¢ North. The line is as may be noted 1 its isogonic States for shown. compass las no Geodetic Survey n the United riation of the t present olina and direction of rection of true quite frregular, an inspection of Q. What {a_ hedgehog e N | A The hedgehog and porcy {entirely different fum hedgehog does not oceur in this {try.” The porcupine is found in 1 the Old and porcupines ar {sorial, while the s hemisphere are a i - found in this pecies ¥ nd not fos § Q. How is the word acclimated ac {cented’—G. R. A. Acclimated i accented | second syllable. on the How did the expression originate? —K. D. W A. In the later middle uges bands of knights bearing lanc at arms went from state to state seil- ig their services to any lord whe was willing to pay for their aid. The were free from allegiance to any one i country. Q Psalm . A, A. The Penitential Psalms are the “free What ar “Penitential Within the last few days several in- teresting reports i come to me {from Parls foreshadowing the even tual defeat of the debt settlement. W too early to fore by the French Parliament, it is & least fair to say that these reports are quite in line with all T could gather when I was in France in the early Spring. At the outset one must t the settlement, any which undertook to collec from the French, would recognize large sums | em to all political affiliation, as entirely unfair and immoral. The very simple but universal formula is that Fran ing borne the brunt of the battle, hav- ing lost 1,500,000 s and having had 10 departmen raged, not only cannot justly be asked to pay, but ac- tually is the creditor, not the debtor, of her allies and associates. If there were no guestion save that {of the real or alleged obligation in- volved in the debt transaction there would not be a single chance on earth for any debt settlement, whether that of Berenger. that of Caillaux or any other negotiator. From the French point of view, any debt settlement is merely to be explained as a transac- tion made necessary because the finan- cial position of the United States is such that American loans are essen- tial to the stabilization of French cur- rency. e e e If the debt settlement is finally rati- fled by the Irench it will be simply because the nation believes it must money it must comply with American terms. At the present hour, however, the nation, as contrasted with certain French banking and business people, not only does not believe that foreign money is needed, but is inclined to re- gard new loans as a source of grave danger—in a word, as likely to place a lmit on the actual freedom of France. From the French point of view, the American Government and people are undertaking to dominate the world by means of their wealth. You have in the French mind a real similarity in result between German effort to domi- nate the world by steel and that of the United States by gold. There is a profound fear lest once France had accepted new loans we should then un- dertake to regulate French affairs, and particularly to restrict the means of defense of the country. But the immediate obstacle to the ratification of the settlement which has been made provisionally lfes in the present state of Krench politics. ‘There is, of course, no such thing as party government in our sense. The French chamber is divided into a dozen or more groups, of which at least six are considerable. Briand, who is premier, took office backed by the more or less definite combination of parties of the Left, that is of the radicals. He has had, however, to govern in practice now by getting votes from the Right, now from the Left; that is, alternately from the conservatives and the radicals. He has fought the Moroccan war with conservative sup- port and he has carried through Lo- | carno by the aid of the radicals. His latest test, over a commission to con- sider the French financial situation, gave him a majority through votes almost entirely derived from the Right. * k% %k ¥ | In this confused and changing situ- ation, however, there is not a party @ a group which wants to assume re- sponsibility for saddling France with a huge obligation covering two gen- erations. The mass of the French people regard the settlement as no | more than blood money; they are, moreover, traditionally suspicious of foreign influences and see the whole ¢ place in the United | and men | ttlement | Frenchmen, without regard to class or | , hav- | have new money, and that to get new | seven psalms in which repentance is expressed and pardon asked of God In the Authorized Version they 102, 130 and 14 It is Augustine when dying 15 to be written out on the wall facing his bed. The most deeply penitentiul is the 5ist Psaln | known also as the Miserere. caused these 1 re the separate pl -B. L Q. How large tures on a motion picture reel . A. They are one inch wide and three-fourths inch high-about the size of a postage stamp laid sidewise Q. What kind of the Magna Charta? A. The Magna Ch was i constits hits and privileges which the glish barons forced King John to sign, June 15, 1215, at Runnymede. The charter, which was more truly treaty, was based upon a previous charter signed by Henry I about 1000 A.D., but amplified it and included rights and principles which had late: come into existence. It laid the foun dation for the security of English p litical and personal liberty document wes g rig Are the Black Hills rich The Black Hills of the richest gold minin; the United and have vield over $100,001 Silver, coppe: and iron o oceur withi limits, besides coal, | mica, " gvpsum and About one-third of ered with dense, d ence the s are abunda salubrious, t} the area is cc forests of pin by life insur «d in real estate mortgages?— The amount invested in real e tate mor e flres nine months of largest life the United S anies L admi * the compass |3 | surance | 000, Thi 160 per ce the difference hetween | PheSrhon 000 ou The persom who 1o guesses. The ways the one busy world. | loses out is th person 1who gets on is who acts upon reliable information This paper employs Frederic J. Has Kin to conduct an information bureau in Washington for the free use of the public. There is no charge exce cents in stamps for return | Write to him today for any f Z desire. Address The Evening Star 11 formation Burcau, Frederic J. Has director, Washington, D. C. France May Reject Debt Pact | transaction as the selling out of the ¢ of France to foreign banke: argument that a debt h America insures a ration of the frane i s dov 3 espit tlement with us has jus > crash relativel h. There is the: peopls to doubt that i % e would certainly bring an end to the frane degringolade. has got to find some way Jtes to pass the settlement. The Left is notoriously opposed to it, and as now broken with the L pretty completely. But the Right i stance the other day ex- warned him that the aid would not go to the extent of supporting th debt settlement. Therefore unless he ¢an win a great majority of the Rigl to the Mellon-Berenger agreement is doomed in advance. But even if he can hope some time in the future to get this aid, at the moment his own fall would come almost automaticall; if he attempted to force it through. immediate res » value h. gone th worse than the Frer Trance is un: sly agalnst any ettlement which involves payment of the war debts save as that payment is balanced by German reparations. Even then the French view is that the American and British debt pay ments will in practice take all repara tions due France and that there will | be left the huge burden of war costs and reconstruction of the devastated area. We are asking from France 5o per cent of our loans in principal and interest. But the French bondholders have already seen the value of their loans to their government shrink from par to one-sixth. Why should the foreign creditor get more? I never found a Frenchman who be- Heved France would or could perform under the Caillaux agreement, which fell through. The later Berenger pact demands more from France, and therefore the opposition must be greater. The feeling that France can- not carry the load and the people cannot be made to carry out such an agreement is one of the main obsta- cles to the ratification. Also the French feel that our bankers and our public men know that the agreement is & mere pretense, that it never can be carried out and that it is being in- sisted upon simply to provide a tem- porary political advantage for the Coolidge administration. * K ok X When 1 was in France in March 1 was told point blank that no debt set tlement on terms such as the Call- laux agreement could possibly pass the French Chamber. I was told that the French people would never con- sent to pay at a higher rate than had heen asked of the Italians. 1 was told that even if by some political combi- nation the Caillaux agreement were accepted—that is, the best offer made by Caillaux—it would never be carried out, because the French people would never consent to continue year after year making relatively enormous pay- ments to the United States. My recent advices from Paris are that so far from changing or dimin- ishing, the opposition to the debt set- tlement has grown and spread, and that the present prospect is that if brought up the Mellon-Berenger agree- ment would be rejected, and that M. Briand himself is so well aware of the fact that he will not attempt to press an issue on which his fall would be inevitable. Favorable terms for private loans or a new franc crisis may change the situation, but on the other hand stands the t that many French people regard the franc crisis as made in America for the purpose of compelling a debt settlement. a cir- cumstance which does not tend to make opinion more friendly either to the set! nt or to us. (Copyright, 1026.)