Evening Star Newspaper, June 16, 1926, Page 8

) THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Kdition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY. ... THREODORE W. NOYES. .. .Edito The Evening Star Newspaper Compuny Busirass Office 11th St ¥ The Evening Star. with th tng edition. fa delvesad The ity at &0 ranta ne A cortn ‘mer month- Su per wont O ‘elenhone Main b carier 81 tha snd of each month i want by mail or |—Payabla il fand and Virginia. Lve 3000 1 1yl $6.00° 1 118300 1 Rate by M Ma Dallv and Sundar Naily aniv .. . Sondar onts mo .7 i o Al Other States and Canada. Paily and Sunday 001 ma %100 Daily aniv S Mindas” onf £5.00. 1 mo Membar of the Associated Press. The Ausneiated Poeas i vl 16 the Nae for Tenaiat maiches nadited ta 1t nr not othersise (a4 in thie maper and ala the 101 nklished herein A1l cights of vih) et A¢ anamial dlanatchen haisin Are also wa The Apportionment of Dismissals. A favorable repori has heen arderad by the Senaie committee on fdoliurs that would have to be spent |extended there shoulld be no lessen- | Lall Auire that fovernment hy reductioans of f an the hasis of appe the States. Under thia resolution, if enacted law, whenever it s neacesmary 10 1educe the force those let aut will he salecied from the States having more than their quatas, and in no case will an em- plava he dropped if his State has lass than its quota of This rely tian fram the decidedly 1| Service on a resolution to re- an departments oceasioned e shill ho made tionment amouy <epirations from inte n he sitions. logical dedue- Nogicai ap- right ihe is wn en 1 the geograph- that it that same pertionment and husinesshi Government nize foree on ieRl-ratio hasis 1 Qs right should basis. he m ined on True point ni the Civil Service Con that 1o maintain the apportior and conducive siandards, mission aut it in deplerion Lpm ment hasic s dificult emhciancy apportion 1o a lovering o Bt s ques the nt law tand 1o lowar efficiency standacds in the Go The app visio Servies | iment service jonment of offices pro vas wrdten into the Civil concession o the i heen ot the natior f ihe in fithng pubhc of- f e method <paile sy which 1 driven o survender ide Aemin tor the ey pricipis " of makinz pelitiexl cousider fres, Al a0 the merii tions. of prin- forty -nine the affeci iveness I established eple. stend one. T1 put tlon and a handicap upon ihe > with small numbers ansider: efficiency instead « prewmitm upoen populs prasent aainst the the ap) of dismis pro es of wtionmeni ki ignovin in elasire which Government garded noils of wffice Wieal aidaration m af ihe point of from posi are 1w prerogatives. The hich animaies no State shall “s<hare” tha crandard of effi his pro test e 1 be da- prived o Qs of Pcas nei that ancy i the Government service he it The mathematical rule must regavdless of all » Civil Service Commis- that when the t reduce forces there n o the trans- 1uined, he spplie aiher faeiore, ne sinn points ont comes ta may he hi points of Governmen ply qualified workers weplis who miga § advantuge. | .June 16, 1928 N ealle tion s mase by the | prointments according to | lessened | the | THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, 'tled by people educated (o tha virtue of pure water and plenty of It. They |know the danger well (water in neighborhoods that are being rapidly tiled. ‘They know the A PO that ofien res lrom service dependin: " fr of spring and atment T water liere Ar T e welis osition 1 thai Bzien Connty had to o was Lo con e ver conduit water system bullt st a cost of B tars wud without o i upen the connty of one ns ol d Cou Wote plant would hen 1 s for imponnding wter of cresks and for [ water into high 1eservoirs faisten With the | eo . e money could pay. [the The pi tor a Arowih of settlement in the Wenld he impossibie o keep Jithe watershods of the creeks free of TR ltut Art ue @ city Bt will be ne Col on County is destined to be of which Rossiyn, Clar- Fails Church and Del borhoods, as Me bia e | neighborhoods of Washington. {ing ihe foundation for water ten tha rate of popuiation will save the people | endon i Ray Pleasant and W count | Potomae i s fand rowth millions of [t & future time for water mains. Railway Merger. Letiers just made | the fallure of efforts that In progreas for some time for s v untary merger of the (wo traction companies operating In this District. {These letters are the presidents of the (wo corporations und from the gineer Commissioner, transmitting the former to the chuirmen of the District committees of Congress. It appears from thix corvespondence that the move for 4 voluntary merger hus tailed Public Utilities j Commission wus unwiiling to approve the plan of consolidation which hud i been tentatively ugreed upon by the North American Compuny snd repre sentatives of the Washington Kallway The Cspltul : Street i | public fudicat have been because the [ nud Electric Compuny. Company had been the conference at the thut the Public would not ap- ! prove the busic principle proposed for {the ger. The Kugineer Comimis- | sioner. chair ot the Public Utl ities Commission. informs Congress !that the pmission believes that the fouly wuy now (o effect the merger of {the (wo svsiems or their merged oper f#tion Is through the enactment of « Hlaw compelling such 8 uoion snd luy- ting dowu ihe fosnc basis upon L which it is 10 be effected. A merger of the Lwo truction sy ix desivable from the point the public and the 1f combined under u single agement these twu street railwuy {systems would vperute tu the best ad e of the people snd eventually udvaniage of heir present stingtion is undesirable. vesults from the materially differ conditiong of the two cor a differeace which 1 immediate dissdvantage (o Tone represenis s malerial fut \antege. The car riders of toduy are reanived 10 pay @ rate of fare which he based upon the actual and 0l the prospective earning powers of the corporation which is now the more of the two, wblish (wo rates of fare. inequituble v estab- a single which imposes 4 loss upuu vne system while vielding Lu tale return to ihe other, T'his whole ualter turns upon the question of vaineiions. vate nego- tiations tailed Bavlish a Traction broughi time of the indicatio [ Ctilities Com not int ission tems of view of huth the Lest owners, while it e ad st needy - It is un- desirable lish and rate have ) 1t is impossible to | Lextended as with & | o bl [ ings woder vave | pr county | construciion PUMPING | as the Mali-Avenus friangle between | avity | Second and ¢l remain, | Lay- | the public conveniance and for the wide | cure of unsightly | stem will probably | fect gravely upo { | | | | these figures s vehicies und { America should not be made the scape | | versed pagechats and Impressive displays. T shogild not he relegated the position bof o slde atreei this respect. B gatreel, widened proposed, lmpressive bounda for (he north fadk of the Mull, b shonld not he athihe espense of the city's famous ture whi the Veg the | brancies of the Govern- | ent ln it centitil stretch of w anile | marches, in an st thorouy lin! executive \ tive and PRI placemeat of publ ihe new law, for a broud program . it ks contemplated with#n what Is known lu ihe build- which has or | [ vided utilize sites Fifteetnth streets and B Wl Pennsylvania avenue. The Government Bow owns part of that land on the wiestern fank. Two public buildings aleady stand within | (he remalning area. Another site | Las Just been demignuted, for Archives Building. | There are build ing needs sufficient) 1o absvrb all the | % hey should be | locuied within the @riangle, both for | siveet spue & the Nativnal Cap- iditions that re- | { i be widened and | il ICB street ix to ing of the program of building | placements within the (riangle. In/ other the pider B street shouki not be regarded as the bound ry of the combined public build. | ing site und public park. oo World Auto Hatalities. Eighty per cent of the world's auto- moblle futalities for the year 1926 oc curred in the United Mates, according to figures relensed byi the American | Road Bullders’ Assoclufion. More than 30,400 persons were kitied and 368,000 were Injured in sutoraoblle accidents duriug the last year, \statistics guth ered by the associutionsshow. This envrmous toll of human life is blamed partly on roud konstruction by associgtivn officiuly, aithough it is con- ceded that rechless and lncompetent driving iy responsible for most of the wecidents. In order to formulate plans | (o wake all highways s safe a8 hu wan ingenuity will permit, a special session of (he next convention of the organization will be devoted solely to sufety measures. When it is realized that th United Stutes sre more than eighty per cent of the world’s automobiles, | e not quite as startling as they al hrst appear. Congestion of accidents are synony- mous. Therefore, although it is not a | 1 to be proud of by any words, in rec means. | Zoul iu the mutler of automebile regu- | Jativns and uccidents. | - ne, suy French wine grow- in the ney is « any- Champa ers, can be obtained anywher Unlted States if enough n planked down. Well, Is th thing of auy description that cannot? R—— kerbocker Suits Are Re. ran a recent headline. But what difference does that make with | “Kule those plus fou e 3 “The author of “Soft Little Women" | has done himselt out of a soft little Summer job. e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. A Terror. Have a care! Jt I time to be cantious and prim, Unless you are willing to yield to your fea And flee to some spot where the ! thix, ! was “then” and | { whim of silly D. O, WEDNESDAY. JUNE 16, 1926. ! THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEW ELL. We are delighted to see the ludies goIng in for large hats uguin, Anything (he xirls choose to do in the main, ix all vight with us, but we huve regretted their luck of falth t the lurge “picture hut.” Lady Guinshorough v and generutiv She kuew when u hat looked good upou her, and wore it in the portrait that has carvied her amiable face down (o posterity Women of 1926 have at last, though as late as June, put the seal of their charming approval upon Mrs. Gains borough’s choice. 2 Upou every street and wide avenue of Washington the appreciative bhe- holder may see girls voung and old walting along under large black huts, wise in her some with droopy crowns, others with | fAoppy br Men un the the changes of they used to that wome applaud them in latest fancy, realizing that fushion are what be, knowing full well e 1o longer the “sluves of fashion,” In any real sense, Fashion, while still very much alive, hus lost xome of its old tyranny. Women have discovered that they about us much brains ax most men, If not just a little bit more, and they are beginning 10 use them in their choice 1 apparel If any one doubix this, let him mere- 1y 100k over some pictures of no longer ago than 1898, ‘The fact that 1898 926 is “now’ utterly faily to explain the contrast. * oK A X 1n short, we believe that the pres ent large hat vogue is not just & mere Fashlon, but is an ex- pression of intelligence on the part of women, We are seeing a veritable revolution in women's thought in regard to clothes, an evolution going on right under our eves, in which women are evolving from creatures dictated to, to thinking beings calmly selecting such articles of wear as look best upon them. o doubt, sume reading here will be inclined to feel, at this point, that we have too highly evaluated the proposition. The large hat vogue, such doubters will scoff, ix simply an- other instance of women being led by their pretty noses. “ut the big hats in the windows,” such a one will grin, “they buy big hats. Then put the smuil }ids back, they will adorn themselves with hats bigger than thimbles.” he careful observer will note, how- that pienty of small hats are to be seen everywhere, and we have no doubt in the world that they will continue to he seen. "T'here {3 no reason why two types of hats should not be “stviish™ at the sume time. We believe women are getting around to that point In their hinking on the subject of clothes, It ali resolves itself down to the one big point: “What looks good on me?" There are more women looking ut clothes from that angle today than the world ever saw in dozen generations before. It ‘Is hardiy necessary to admit that there are still thousands upon thousands who do not, of course. One sees them everywhere, over- WASHIN BY FREDERIC ever atill President Coolidge will sing his fa vorite ballad “Economy, | Love You" before hiy favorite audience, the an nual meeting of the business vrganiza tion of the Government, Monday eve ning, June 21. Executive chiefs and subordinate departmental officlals await these recurring budget parties with mixed emotions, The President embraces the occasion to tell Federal money spenders just exactly how much cheeseparing he expects from them during the ensuing fiscal year Although the budget is now a lusty youngster of 5 years, it does not enjoy universal popularity in th tional household. It cun be descr as a respected, but not a beloved, child. Some of its victims secretly cherish the hope that some day Con greas wlil realize that when it ted the budget law it surrendered fis traditional and coustitutional hold vn the Federal purse strings and will ;TON OB stepping the golden mean. ‘There fis [no need to go into detalls. Fvery | woman knows when another woman s Violating imon sense and so does ulmost every mun. ok ok ok | Phe lurge hat @s the advertisements Iwill tell you) softens irregular fea- Gures, and makes a pretty girl ook wething a flow - an angel, we don't know exactly which. What the “ads” do not tell you, |1adies, is that the secret of the hig L hat is solel Femininity. And we suspect that (he xecrel hehind the secret, the dream within & ‘dl‘l‘lflu, is that many cen ries have I put the seal of their approval upon the large hat. Though we zether get away the centuries, Hundreds upon hundre (bave left their marks upon u; ; Iy in regard to our outlooks, our Iviewpoints, our ways of “looking at | things.” | hose zirls who thoughtiessly insist (on violating the common-sense pro- | prieties in dress are utterly forgetting | this important fact. | o get back te the big hat--we }l-en«w that it might be proved that the plcture hat is not only acceptable it has the approval of the vears, but alsp because it architee- turally harmonizes with the lady. if vou get What we mean. From the viewpoints of pure mathe- MALICS, nay. even geometry, and, we doubt not, calculus also, the hig hat blends in with the scenery. It is | mathematically correct. It forms a suitable background such facial charm as the wearer pos- senses, and strikes the senses as pro- portionate, in harmony with surround- ings, at the same time toning down and softening, ERE Any hat that can do all this is cer- tainlv s headgear worth retaining in My Lady's wardrobe! So dressed the Watteau shepherd- esses, whom the ladies of France at- tempted to fmitate; and those who | have seen portraits of those festive scenes will remember the big hats. ‘The big hat is inescapable. The ladies had to come back to it. ‘The small hats are fine in their way. ‘Thelr universal adoption, despite the cries of some, was another instance of | brains ou the part of the women of | America. Women are eminently practical and logical, if vou give them half a chance (many men won't), and they chose the closefitlting chapeau be- | try, we cannot alto- from the influence of ! | because and sport clothes The little ha have quite the & however, can never of the big one; we wenn the properly selected big one. The latter has a “dressed up” look that women and men alike appreciat {1t labels & womsn unmistakably as & woman, #nd thus gives her a pleas. ingly assertive feminine character. | "Having now rushed in where !the angels might | hasten to rush out again, with just one parting word: | Don't wear 'em too big. ‘RVATIONS WILLIAM WILE. n | Atarted o, “W. W.. W., doubleo, uble 1"~ hut that's as s he got. “Oh, you go to the devil!” came from | the ‘opposite end of the line, which [ thought it was being spoofed. i ok oxox President Coolidge tells | the White House that the only kind of ! military drill he got as a school lad in Vermont was given with the aid of dumb-bells. ‘That sent an unmistak- bie titter around the semi-circle of his visitors. It is not customary on | thess occasions to engage in unseemi repartee with the Chief Executive. But more than one of his interroga- | tors was burning to ask if Mr. Cool- |1dge doesn’t find himself even in these | dava compelled to work with a goo many dumb bells. oo ox Representutive Robert 1. Bacon of New York, who wants the 'nited States to rescue the Moro provinces | | | cause It harmonized with bobbed hair | fear to tread, we | | callers at Politics at Large have been walting for and wishing for a real talking issue for the congres. Kall- an issue which Main Street, the tenement district and the farm can understand? Some of the leaders in the r expenditures Wby and for the candi torfal primaries. They Pennsylvania nominations and elec tlons to public office are sive sums of money. They a nink (o say that what happencd Pennsylvania is just what senerally speaking, in other where Republicans control. * o ox States “The Democrais helieved they had de- veloped an ixsue which would win for them in 1924 when Senator Thomas {J. Walsh of Montana dragged Teapot Dome into the light, and FE. L. Doheny and the little biack bag which y of the Interior Fall, and when the activities of the Daugherty re- gime In the Department of Justice d been ventflated by Senator Wheeler of Montana and Senator | Brookhart of lowa and others. But the issue was forgotten, or rather the people differentiated between President Calvin Coolidge and the rest of the Republican administration and pinned their faith to President Coolidge. Whether the voters will pay as little heed to the slush fund elations now being broadcast through the special Senate commit- tee headed by Senator Reed of Mis sourl, Democrat, as they did to Tea- pot Dome rema‘ns to be seen. * ox % % The expenditures of large sums of money—4n this case it will run to $2,000,000 or more, it is expected— in primary elections in Pennsylvania have been defended by no less a person than Secretary Andrew W Mellon, the outstanding figure in Pennaylvania politics and finances to- day. They have been defended, too, by Senator David A. Reed. Both have insisted that the primary svs- tem n a State which is as populous Perfnsylvania requires big ex- penditures. They have taken a crack at the primary system. Harry A. Mackey, the campaign manager for champlon of the “wels,” who won the senatorial nomination, agrees with them that money must be spent in Pennsylvania under the primary sys- tem, and that the primary law is an evil thing. But history reveals that the “sya- tem” in Pennsylvania has been long in the bullding and dates back before {the primary laws were enacted. Fur- thermore, in setting up the primary system, it has been so set up that it can be eusily avolded. In what other States are pald political watch ers at the polls and workers au- thorized by law? Watchers who re- ceive & minimum of $10 a day, and many of whom never go near the polls? in trying to prevent a change in the election laws which would do away itk “these paid watchera? It the witnesses who have gone on the stand | under oath are to be believed, it is the machine members of the Legis- lature, both from the Vare machine Philadelphia. and the Allegheny . machine in the western part who have opposed this vetorm. Apparently the primary and election laws in Pennsylvania are so framed that they play right into the hands of the men who wish to and {can control the situation through the expenditure of money. R the expenditures t campaign in Penn- Ii to remember (hat the State is as strongly Republican e Virginia is Democratic: that the | fighting which took place is between | members of the same party, and that | the prizes were the office of United States Senator, which pays a salary | of $10,000, and the office of governor, Which controls fn great measure the entire State from Harrisburg. It was no question of & Republican against u Democrat, but one Republican | wgainst another. It was a fight for control of the State. It resulted in something of a dog fall, With Vare winning the senatorship nomination and John 8. Fisher, the Mellon c In considering made in the recen | sylvania, it 1s wel By C. Gould Lincoln. | | Have the bemocrats found what they | sional campaign this Summer and | think they have found such an issue ' evelations of the tremendous | dates 4n the Tecent Republican sena- | are alveady | planning to tell the voters that in' Oclober and the first of November | made therefrom. hought | through the expenditure of exces-!new crop hegins about Novsmber 1. plan- | in happens, {in shops is spent by women?-O. B. | the purchase of 62 per cent of all i carried its $100,000 to former Secre-| { Il i Representative William 8. Vare, that| I ‘And who has been most active | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. What is an Indian equivalent for “Summer home"?—P. A. B. A. The Bureau of American Fth- nology says that the Indian equiv lent in the Omaha Indian language of the English phrase “Summer home” Is Nuge-u-ki. Q. Gl When are vranges guthered?— rida from the trees f oranges are taken | ) the Jatter part of until_April. In Calffornia they gathered all the year around are The What part of the money spent Q. They retail out of influence spend 85 cents dollar. They | hardware, 84 per cent of the drugs, {90 per cent of the automobiles, 98 | i per cent of the household suppliex, 97 per cent of the groceries, 77 per cent of the sporting goods, and even the purchase of 61 per cent of men's | haberdashery is influenced by women. | Q. Please give some facts about | the Franklin Institute? -D. H. " A. The Franklin Institute of Pennsylvania was founded in Phila- | delphia in 1824 for the promotion of mechanic arts. ried on by means of lectures, reports, exhibitions, class instruction, a jour- | nal and a reference library. A com. | mittee was formed in 1834 to report the new inventions and discoveries. Membership in the institute is open to all persons of legal age on payment of yearly dues. The offices are located at 15 South Seventh street, Phila- delphia. Q. Did John Labrador?--J. J A. Lelf Ericsson, son of Leif the Red. is the semi-historic character who is thought to have discovered Lab- rador. Q. From what stock did the Welsh | people come? W, B. G. A. The Welsh are a Ceitic people. At the time of the coming of the Romans, 65 B.C., the tribes of Wales, representing & mixture of the primi- tive Iberians, with the later invading Celts, were the Decongi, the Ordo- vinces, the Silures and the Demetas, | all bearing the general name of. Oymry. The Celtic inhabitants of Britain, fleaing before the Anglo- Saxon invasion, took refuge in the Weish Mountains, where, in time, they were merged with their native | Kinsmen. | The work was car- | Fricsson discover Why are eucharistic congresses held” F. G A. Eucharistic congresses are | gatherings of ecclesiastics and laymen of the Roman Catholic Church for | the purpose of celebrating and glori- | fying the Holy Eucharist and of seek- | | ing the hest meana of spreading its Q |2 | hallow ™ knowledge and love throughout the world. The first congress owed it history to Bishop Gaston de Segur and was held at Lille, France, June 21, 1881, Q. What is floss silk?—C. Ta < A. The term “flosn silk’ has hean fn use for a Jong time ax a nama for fine but tangled waste silk, forming the outside of the cocoon and which cannot be reeled; also, for the varn true that manv of the original settlers of this country were criminals?—J. C. A Engiand shipped many political prisoners to the United States in the Colonial times. Some of these were sent over here for life, others for a tew vears. The majoritv of these apent their sentences in Virginia L] Georgla. Q. The Q. 1Is it stop signs many of the streets. mobtles atill stop there?- 1. B. 1. A. The local Trafic Burean says that the stops which had signs paint ed on streets must still he nhserved, as the regulation reads that all ears off have worn Must _ante | must stop at boulevards and arterial highways. Q. and King Edward VII as Prine Wales visit Washington? W. H. € A. King Fdward VIT when Prince of Wales visited Washington in 1560 The present Prince of Wales was in the eity in November, 1919, and in Augusrt, 1924, When did this Prince of Wales of Q. How many shut-out games has Walter Johnson pitched”—H. P. A. Walter Johnson in 19 years hin eareer, from 1907 to 1325, h pitched 110 shut-ont games. This i< the greatest number of shut-ant games pitched in either league. What hecomes of the part of 2 decays and makes a tree Mec A. The Forest Service save that the rotten wood inside a hoflaw trea decays and disintegrates and goes tn the hottom of trunk of tree, aventn ally going into the soil. Q. tree that Find out whatever you want to know. There is no room. for ig- norance in this busy world. The person who loses out is the one who guesses. The person who gets on is always the one 1who acts upon reliable information. This paper employs Frederic J. Haskin 1o conduct an information hurean in Washington for tha frem use of the public. There is no charge ezcont % cents in stamps for return past- age. Write to him today for any facts you desive. Address The Fve- ming Star _Information Rureawu Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Wash- ington, D. €. { With the opening of the Sesquicen- tennfal Exposition at Philadelphia, the country is impelled to take account of stock and to review the progress that has been made in the 150 vears since America declared ita freedom from the Old World. The exposition is regarded as an appropriate expres- {sion of the Nation’s material advance- ment and spiritual influence. | ““The cliy of Philadeiphia says the Newark Evening News, “is La veritable treasure house of Ameri- | Pean history, and it will be its pleasure | {and pride to exhibit those treasures ' ito visitors, It contains what has been described as the most significant i single structure in the United | States—Independence Hall The i home of William Penn stands in its lovely Fairmount Park. and through- out its extent thers are other ahrines of early Americanism hardly less sa cred.” Of the exposition, the News emphasizes “exhibits in plenty from countries struggling to their feet after well-nigh mortal wounds,” which have been placed “within the vast buildings dedicated to manufactures, the liberal arts, machinery, mines, metalhurgy, transportation, agriculture and other industries. itself.” * ox ok x | brates, Sesquicentennial Appeals : As Milestone of Progress tion turns from 150 years of unde- | feated valor, of unparalieled progress and spiritual leadership to a future of leadership sanctioned by the univer- sal opinion of its aged competitors, and it thus turns with all due homage 10 a sacred and holy past.”" The Pori- land Evening Express quotes Patrick Henry's words, “We can only judge of the future by the past.” and avers “it is also true that by remembering the past and impressing upon o minds the lessons therein taught, the future can be rendered secure.” he progress to be noted at ex- positions.” it is pointed out by the | Kansas Citv Post, “reflects the pace | of the world. The Sesquicentsnnial will | surpass those expositions that have | gone bhefore 1 as in turn it will be surpassed those that come after [ it The Texarkana Gazette empha- sizes the fact that “there ix reason for | thanksgiving that independent Ameri |ca came into existence.” and remarks that “the creation of the republic and | its growth and development have ex- | erted a great influence throughout the | world.” " The Topeka Capital. viewing | the progress which the exposition cele- asks, “With equal achieve- what will the life of America Philadelphia opens its bi- 1 exposition in 19767" Even ment be w centenn “It goes without saying that this | DOW. as it appears to the Elmira Star is our greatest national exposition.” |&azette. “so many wonders have according to the Cincinnati Times. | ¢rowded their way into our lives sinos Star, “though San Francisco set a | !576 that we are no longer impreased high mark in 1915 with its Panama. DY marvels and beautiful productions « of valuation which will be equi table o the public in the future. It fioped that a voluntary merger s lines could be effected. from Kilipino rule. visited the Philip- Plues 188t year aud heard at first hand | the story of the Moros' ancient hos tlity to thelr overlords at Manila : | didate, winning the nomination for governor. And now the factions have | gotten together. it appears, and W. 1. Mellon, nephew of the Secretary, has o reaneies in oiber of- move to regrasp them. CEE At the semlaunual budget meeting shadows are dim, A place where the sunlight but meldom draws near. ferrved Aces, rex orvizin, Bui 0 their States wding o the Senaie | Was d these excess he ave committee’s howere it their exraedei. The Inse the henefii the: workers idied, musi « Aropped ernmeal n experience, The be of their aualificaiions. which kept wonld ke 1o dismiss irom 1hose wnalitied whose No busi- along auperior only way in they eenld nfMees ol wha are ht aquatas 8 whe come from B not arganization these lines in creating and maiutain- inz @ working It selects the bhest available people without regard for their places of residence. the time comes the force it retaine the most efficient and lets the leas That is the sound ule of procedure. and it that be followed arnment, which, afier all, iness organiza- excecaed. neck proe force. 10 reduce out efcient niy is The by the ia meraly a big uon. vule should b : - TeafMe Divector Kldridge has figured oyt that if all the automobiles in the Pletrict were placed end to end and twenty feet apari .they would reach hevend St louis. He might have added that foree of habit would make them Aiminish this distance to twenty inches and that every horn line would he honking. RS TLudendorff made his reputation as quartermaster general for an army of several million. Yet when it comes io dealing out cigarettea (o Frau Ludendorff he falls flat. P Arlington County Bond Issue. Arlington County has voted m s one in favor of a bond issue of $760.000 for connecting with the Great Falls. Washington wat stem at Dalecarlia reservoir and laving maine in Ariington County. Near the full veting population of the cou tv cam ballois for the bend issue, and The aize of the majority, 3,694 10 275, showa the temper of the people on the water question. Kach of the three Aistriets, Arlington, Washington and Jeflerson, turned in a majority and the returns show that all the towns- Arlington, Rossiyn, Clarendon, Glen carlyn, Fast Falls Church, Cher Asle, Virginia Highlands, Del and the others —cast a majority for the water honds: There was little doubi that Arling- tom County would appreve the hend nropo: That eounty. containing m‘ ‘Washington suburbs, is set- vote When ! in the | i a millionaire Chicago packer “at first | Lupon | Now it appears that this is lmpossible. Congress has the power to establish basis of @ merger by legislative Ynetion. and o compel the union of the | two systems. 1t cannot go so far as | to require a combinatior® that would | destroy or confiscaie values, Any law | compelling merger would, of course, i he subject review by the courts. {Such a review would certainly be isought in case of a compulsory mer- ! ger enactment that in the judgment | of the stockholders of either corpora- | tion menaced them with an inequi- table loss of property right. A review by {he court would necessarlly be pro- tracied, Gelaying for a long time the of he plan for con solidation. 11 i= therefore the Dis. trict's hope that, voluntary werger having falled. us altested by the let- ters just made public, compulso merger will be directed by congres- sional enactment on such terms that it can be put into effect promptly. e - | the nsummation That queer nofse one can hear on still nights may be Cyrus, Darius and Xerxes having a good laugh at the new “Shah-in-Shah." v oo An opera singer swears she loved sight.” that. Possibly even a little before Pennsylvania Avenue. While it Is highly desirable that a (hrough way be established between the heart of the city and the new desirable that such s highway should replace, as (he principal thoroughfare {of Washinglon, Pennsylvaniu avenue in its stretch between the Capitol and the Treasury. The plan to extend and widen B street from the Capitol | Grounds to the bridge approach meete with general approval. It essential that & street of width equiv- #lent o thut of the bridge should be created o insure the free wovement of traMe crossing that viaduet. How- ever. it is not to be supposed that in ordinary circumstances all the trafic flowing over the Memorial Bridge will pass into the city by one route. or pass from the city by a single route to the bridge. It is the natural (rend of trafe to diverge at a point of exit and to converge from various directions 1o a point of approach. Penneylvania avanue has fram the beginning of the higtary of Wash- ington “been the- retrtes. igion Memorial Bridge, it is not | i {“I am lonely, but I am afraid mar- | seen any trouble 50 bad dat de dunger If your coat dossn’t fit or your knees are not straight Or vour facial expression fs harsh in its play, ‘lake heed, lest the world know your sorrowtul state— The man with the camera’s coming this way. He loves to creep up and catch un- awares That grin so inane that you some- times assume; He will wait at the foot as you tum- ble down stairs, And snap you in transit, to lessen " lite's gloom For all who behold his malevolent art. Seek not (o defy him: escape while you may; Don't pause for tarewells. smart yowll depart! I'he man with the camera’s coming this way. Modern Housekeeping. “Of course,” said the bachelor girl, it you're riage would be out of the frying pan into the fire.” “It is more likely,” answered Miss Cayenne, “to be out of the chafing dish into the gas stove.” An Artist's Confession. “There's just one crittc whom I hold In favor. "Iis myself so free In criticizing critics bold Who have been criticizing me. ‘ne been hearin’,” sald Uncle “dat dar's trouble ahead foh dis country ever since I'se been old enough to listen. But | never yit didn’ all 'pear to cl'ur away right after 'lection.” Not Yearning. “Don't you wish you were a care- less, huppy boy back on the farm?” “No,” unswered the prosuic person, ‘[ never dared to be careless while 1 was on the furm, and I fail to see | the happiness in stone bruises and prickly heat.” A Useless Effort. “No," said Farmer Corntossel don’t cave R great deal for travel.” “Aren't you interested in foreign climes?” “No. 1Us like the Arctic Circle here one part of the year, and like the Kquator another part. What's the nse of movin' around whan you can have the foreign climes broughy; to lo January Gen. Herbert M. Lord, di rector of the budget, called upon Gov erninent officials 1o joln the Oue P'er Cent Club—i.e., to exert themselves to save | per cent of their estimated ex- penditure. been a Two Per Cent Club. On June 21 the country will learn how cess- fully or otherwise the One Per Cent Club has operated in response to Gen. Lord's appeal. The master of the bud- get 18 a poetical soul and runs to verse now and then to bring pressure to bear on reluctant Government officials. Whenever one of them pleads that "It cun’t be dope,” Lord recites at them this rhvme, labeled “Author un known'": There are thousands to tell you it nnot be done; There are thousands to prophesy fallure; Theres are thousands to point out ovne by one The troubles that 'wait to assail you. But just buckle in with & bit of a grin; Just take off your coat and go to it, Just start in to sing as you tackle the thing That cannot be done, and you'll do it. * ok K K Nobile Giacomo de Martino, the Italian Ambassador 1o the United States, is an ardent motorist. day last week he started out for an incognito spin through Virginia in his roadster, unaccompanied and a com- plete stranger to the Old Dominion countryside. In order to do in Rome as the Romans do, the Ambassador stripped his car of its * iplomatic license tag and prepared for the worst. In a day Signor de Martino made Fredericksburg, Charlottesvil and Staunton and, eschewing the services of & gulde, made a thoroughgolng and sujoyable inspection of the regions as sociated with Jeffersonian, Revolu tonary and Civil War and W shing tonlan traditions. Mussolinl’s envoy ut Washington thinks the Shenandouh Valley as mugnificent a strip of nat- ural beauty as there is in the whole world. | X oK R K D. L. Chambers, head of the Bobbs- Merrill Co. Indianapolis, and a son- inlaw of Tom” Taggart, llofl'nrlnr Democratic big chief, brings to \?nh- ington a glowing account of Evans ‘Woollen, Democratic candidate against Senator Arthur R. Robinson for the junfor senatorial seat from Indlana Chambers, who has reversed all In- diana tmaditions by being born where and moving to Indiana, savs that the State will have a scholar in the Senate If it elects Woollen. A Yale man, banker and lawyer by pro. tession, Woollen came under the eyve of Woodrow Wilson during the World War and was considered by the Presi dent one of the up-and-coming Demo crats of the country. Woollen’s father was a well know! ndianian, with the alliterative name of W. W. Woollen They atill tell in Tndianapolis the ator; o; his attempt to give his ng;n?‘ n;n the telephone eme day. “'Spel thepasty=as the othereend. He. In previous vears theve's | One | Not muny people know that Moro 18 Spanish for Moor. “The Islands that the race inhabits were found to be peopled with natives of the Moham- medan faith, so when ook possesslon of the Philippines many vears ago they christened the residents of that group “Moros,” or Moors, because of the Mohammedan religion of the denizens of northern Africa. The Moros, when they sur- rendered to the Americans in 1899, sald that we were the first ones who had ever conquered them. The Span- fards never subdued then. So from the moment we placed the Moros at the mercy of the Filipinos theyv mained resentful and rebellious. They ask only to be placed exclusive- Iy under the voke to which they bent the knee in 1899. ‘Fo accommodate them is the purpose of Representa- tive Bacon's bill Introduced In the House last week. ok oK % Representative Oscar Kelier, Prograssive Republican, of Minuesota, says the Harry Daugherty forces are pursuing him and determined to pre- vent his renomination in this vear's congressional primaries. it was Keller who made the first move look- ing to Attorney General augherty's impeachment in 1922. The House committes on judiciary. then headed by Representative Volstead, of prohi- bition celebrity, did not act upon the evidence submitted by Keller. But the gentleman from St. Paul thinks he has proof that the ‘reactionaries’” who sympathized with Daugherty are after him and, if he succumbs in the Gopher primary on June 21, his friends will be inclined to attribute his defeat to their opposition. Keller was trlumphantly re-elected in 1924, But this time two candidates have heen placed in the fleld against him and he in admittedly in danger. Or- ganized labor, especially railroad labor, has gone heavily to bat for Keller. (Cupyright, 1926.) o " In Canny Scotland. From the Hamilton Spectator. A few days ago Premier Baldwin received the freedom of the city of Edinburgh, this being one of the few times on record anybody ever got any- thing for nothing there, R Competition. 1 the Boston Transcript. No one can deny that Mussolini is magnanimous. He iz very friendly with Americans, in spite of the awful strides the United States is making in spaghett! production. oo The Social Scale. From the Fort Worth Record-Talegram. A desivable neighhorhood s one where & $30 house rents for $100 and it coste twlee as much as it is worth to keap up with the swagger of the neighbors oy Fr the Spaniaras | been chosen chairman of the Repub- lican State committee. ~ If anything, the Mellons have the lion's sh: of the political spoils, but Mr Vare has shown himself a factor that must be seriously reckoned with, because of | his grip on the Philadelphia organiza | tion. xR x Senator Reed of Missouri asked a moat pertinent question during his ex- amination of Joseph R. Grundy, presi- dent of the Pennsylvania Manufac- turers’ Association and “angel” of the Pepper-Fisher campaign. Having pic: tured both Senator Pepper and. Mr. Vare as’good regular Republicans, and Mr. Fisher and his opponent, Edward E. Beldleman. as equally good Repub- licans, the Missourl Senator wanted to know why there should be “a milllon dollars difference” to the voters of Pennsylvania between these candidates. ‘The reply of Mr. Grundy was en lightening, so far AL least as the manufacturers are concerr He pointed out that the law in Rennsvl- vania does not now levy a tax on the capital atock of corporations engaged in manufacturing, that the manutac- turers believe in this system and do not want to be so taxed. and that Reidleman was suspected of an inten- tion of lifting the tax on production of anthracite corl. amounting to some $265,000,000 a vear, and placing it on the manufacturers. KEnough said. for, the Philadelphia machine and Beldleman? Included among them were the regular politiclans in their sections—minus the Pittsburgh organ- ization, which seems to have been somewhat split between Fisher and Beidleman and Pepper and Vare T'hese wanted the jobs and the pat- ronage, with some 25000 appointive employes, and the control of contracis in city and State. It may be remark. ed in this connection that in Phila delphia at the primary election there was balloting on - proposals for $54,000,000 bond Issues for improve ments to-be made. ERE I The opponents of the direct elec- tions of Senators and of the prima system have already begun their at- tack on primaries, basing their criti- cisms on the expenditure in Pennsyi vania. But whether the primary sys- tem is to blame or the laws which it operates under &nd the men who operate it has by no means been set- tied. There was a primary in lowa about 10 days sgo. Col. Smith W Brookhart was seeking the senatorial nomination against Senator Cummins. The expenditure of money in this campaign was probably ~negligible when compared to that expended in Pennsylvania, although oharges were made by Brookhart and his followers that considerable sums were heing spent in the intereat of Senator ¢um mins. Now lowa is net as populous as Pennsylvania. It probahly has one-third as many people as Pennsyl- vanla. Pennsylvania is a_large State in area, but o is Jows. The interest in the- lows. Drimavy was- verx gveed ‘What was the other side fighting | Pacific. ‘Those who attend will see { the representative art of the world { manufacturing processes skillfully ar- rayed so as to bring out the drama | that is in them: the noble, if ephem- eral, architecture of the exposition | of all nations.” The Huntingion Ad-| vertiser believes that “the celebration should be of imense value to the citi- zens of the United States. It does any people good.” continues the Adver- tiser, “io be reminded from time to time of vital moments in the histor: | of their country. to have thelr atten tion fixed upon the beginning of nationhood and the herolc men fin whose hearix and minds the struc- ture wan conceived.” “On July 4 Philadelphia will be- come a sort of Mecca for hundreds of thousands of Americans,” observes | (he Birmingham News. Referring to the Declaration of Independence as a | pronouncement which “was a great | spiritual event in the life of the| world,” the News suggests that those | who will remain in their towns and cities on the anniversary should hold local gatherings “in some simple | fashion to hear (he reading of the American Magna Charta.”” The Co. lumbus Ohio State Journal speaks of | the boy and girl prize winners of its State who will be taken to the expo- sition, and remarks: “There is vaiue and importance in bringing the boys and giris near the historic things and places of the Nation. An interest in cliizenship {8 aroused and the young become more fully informed concern. ing American history.” adds the State Journal; “the State will reap a real advantage, have something of value and importance for the money it spends in co-operating with the position.” * X ok % ““Ihat which was done at the open ing of the Sesquice * declares the Erle Dispatch-Herald, a new world movement. A S S — with twe factions of the Republican party struggling for victory-—just as in Pennsylvania. Both were primar: elections, but there was a vast diffe ence in the manner in which they were conducted. Why should the primary system be denounced be- cause it has brought about an evil { condition in one State, when in other Statew It has not, but has permitted clearly? The remedy fpr the situa- tion appesars to be in Pennsylvania and with the people of the State them- selves, If they wish to tackle the job. * ok oKk The defense of the expenditures of the Pennsylvania primary election by Secretary Mellon, one of the chief ad- visers of the President and a strong | influence in the administration. gives the Democrats A chance to tle the whole matter in a measure up with the administration. Politicians are asking themselves it Mr. Mellon would not have been politic if he had said nothing about tis matter. building groups, and the amusements | the voters to express their will more | of human skill and invention.” Sueh “a tourist trek as none of our Eastern cities have ever xeen” is predicted by the Morgantown New Dominfon as result of the exposition. * o owow The San Francisco Bulletin, recall- |ing the great Pacific Coast exposition | of 1915, expresses its wish for the sue- (cess of the Eastern enterprise, and declares it is “a creditable undertaking to celebrate in this manner the 150th anniversary of our Independence.” The Atlaniic City Daily Prese pays | the tribute that “Philadelphia did her- selt proud in the ceremonies that launched the Sesquicentennial and opened the way for a temporary mi- gration of half of the United States tn one focusing point.” A visit to the exposition, the Syracuse Herald ad vises. is “‘a pilgrimage that no patri- otic _American should fail to make." “A century and a half," concludes the Philadeiphia Bulletin, “is but a little while in an era of civilization. Only tne first cantos of the epic of America have been written. Rut in that time there hax been here a con- ception of national life, a continuing. progressive development And achiev ment that are without parallel in tory. 1t has made ita impress. with lasting henefit, upon all ecivilization.” THINK IT OVER nee and Religion By William Mather Lewis, [President George Washington University The greatest Teacher of all time once sald. “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make yvou free. He despised thoughtless formalism and dogma. Today certain zealots re trying (o create an issue which does not exist in fuct. ‘There is no conflict between science and religion: only between certain men in the fleld of ‘sclence and certsin ones in the fleld of theology. , Whether the earth was created in six literal days or in six ages should be of litile spiritual concern to him whose religion is a personal and a living thing. The problem of whether | his ancestor was an amoeba or a rih does not engage mich of the time | he devotes to religlous thought. He ix wise if he accepts the hand. writing of the Almighty on the strati- fied rock of the eternal hills, it he deciphers_alike the papyrus record and that first autograph written when O'er the wet sands an insect crept ‘Agen ere man on earth was known. And patient Time. while Nature siept. "The slender tracing turned o stone. He will attempt to learn the law of nature rather than attempt to re- press such knowledge by man-made statute, knowing full well that one might as well attempt to sweep hack the Atlantic with a hroom as to hlack mental independence hy legislation. “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make vou frea, (Copyright. 1926.)