Evening Star Newspaper, June 17, 1926, Page 8

8 THE EVEXNING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C THURSDAY.......June 17, 1926 THEODORE'W. NOYES. ... Editor The Fxening Star Newspaper Company Rustness Of e 11th St. and Peansyiv N'Fmme gg(r A’Vu Shicako_Offes - Tow Furopean Offer 14 Reve Ei Ave, nd 81, ing. . London, St ith th delivered by ity at B0 conte ner miarth: dajly onle rents per month: Sunday oniy. conta may, be sent by mall or Folles tor i made by Sundar morn arriers il Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virgi DNaily and Sunday 1yr. $SR00° 1 mo. Dulr anle 1yl 88001 Sunday only 1w S300: 1 me Al Other States and Can: Daily and Sunday siroo | Daily onlx <o | Sunday only . $4.00: 1 m Be e A Ia. Lo $1_00 ) 1 e Member of the Associated Press. Tha Associated Press is + xclusisely to the wse for repuhlicaticn of all vews o atches credited fo it or no ted in thia paper and herein. Al Released by the Law. Triéd three times for his life, accusation of the crime of muf man was vesterday discharged by the Distriet Supreme Court from indict ment and set free. Thus ends a case of extraordinary interest. Public sy pathy is undoubtedly in fuvor of the former prisoner, who now goes forth without fear of future accusativ That a cruel murder was commit ted In this city on the night of Janu- ary 29, 1919, nearly seven and a hulf veara ago, is esiablished. Three Chinamen engaged in educational work were killed and the slaver, or slavers, escaped. Suspicion fell upon Ziang Sun Wan, who bad visited the mission. He wes arrested, with an other. and, held incommunicado by the police, was subjected to an in tensive inquisition, with the of the extortion of admissions that were used as the basis of his ment. Upon trial, he was convieted and sentenced death. vietion was attacked by as unwarranted by the evidence particularly upon the ground that i alleged contess, on was hased an secured through compulsion dave hbfore the date finally, several postponements, set fe tion. the Supreme Court of the United State the verdict aside on Iatter ground. On the second trisl th: fury stood ten 1o two for Acquitta A third trial was ordered and resulte on nfier execu set ac it | this | They blocked the trame. Now | red woman ov ghl 18 And with the modern d In skit:n themselves and in the ! nkness of dikplay ! ent style involves there exty in plus-fonrs and w | than in the fashionable o [ ed costumes, Dexpite the 0t equality, how Iomay be ques toned whether the women of the fu ture will wish o dress altogether like there are vccastons whes Burb in essentinl (o feminine | happi £nd there is nothin Pail beautitu! shout masculine witive. ! LU is dificuit (o imagine & fental o vasion attended by both sexes in ihe e fashions. Whatever muy be the ness mode for the women of 19it W adupt Mr. Parkington's half cen iy of predic the feminine party dress of (hat time is likely 1o In « skirt of some wort, of some lengt [RS— - More Railroad Manslaughter. Once aguin (he lack of some form antomntic train control causes loss | life on an American railvond. Nt | 14 pourly equipped Jine, but one of the | Luill and best managed in the | The accident occurred last | bt near Blalrsville, Pa.. when | (axt flying express train crashed into! the rear of another express that had | veen Lalted for the repuir of 4 broken | alr hose. At lateat accounts ftinef] people were killed, i The reports Indicate that when the (orward traln wus stupped for the re palr of the air live a sl wWent K and sel flures. Phey tell Curther more that the following express was halted by the Haves. They do not tell, thus fur, how it imppened that = fust truin wus pe tted by Al Bystem (o enier 4 block slready sccupled. Doubticss in the course of | the varions Inquiries thut will follow. there are alwuys (wo or three afler every such accident ething will be brought out 1o throw light v this question. At present the public mind the problem that be thus Why a8 not the of the Intersiate Comme ssion for (e installation of au wmatic Lrain stops obeved wud cur- vied into effect? I u surely religble | {system od that character is ol how avsilable why does ot the block sys | i work tu keep Lwo truins out of | e xune block on the su At tic b odny availubie, There ure neveril de the el Sue of theo ) have L ) pul Lo the severest seryiel testw and have proved themselves., A few of the railvoads huve adopted this method of self-protectivn againat dis- ore, { % knickerbocke, | barely noted enlly more | plen hose | de of =kirt dey nbrolute ver, for hewnty s, ny i i o | lude | the vinunl v is concerned with may order o state in control | 1 vices in i i | | | Laction on Lrun tree unloss viccingted L THE EVENIN praferences in regard to office holders Those who are elected to office proh. | in com- | Ably will not petition with relish running < In populnr Interes Ridgewomd, that yesterduy wus we the new revolved urou cinution, I dog from running st pelled ot “The new law, which won out by ¢ vote, makes ' but providex that tuted und it w0 hap an the Ume ohibited a lurge and every unlma . inocutution ol s ok sha mu Thus the seven hundred canines « Ridgewoud L will probahly hat” the du nelghboring Their stat interedted their huma friends unprecedented degr Their comfort und weltare have bee tuken I is consider probichle that o huge dog migration ( tidgenwoud will soon Where else could they uttrael s tention? Yes, Ridgewomd will s overrun with the cunine species whe vughout dogde 7 N to nn and care of, is hon the word sprends (h e * The School Budget. the value of plugruin Congress for the develo, the five-yeu adopted ent of thy Proof of construction District public s¢hools is afforded by the Bosid of Educa the adoption by ton of # budget of appropriat for the fiscal veur 1% though large in comparison those of former vears, ix still in ac cord with the schedule of unnual al rentn of Tunds, 1 the allvcation of the pre Abproprintions under the fiv plun, the Bowrd of Kduwativn, knowledge of the public schoul system, est au the growth of the population. 1ot Not every need cun be met at once. Rume eed of gen- neason, ently in achool o neighburhiovds, ur immediate relief from tion, must wuit for another Selection must be made. ‘The Bourd of IKducation propured Ita progiuim of constr uud site purchases, itw bu the Distriot innion sureau of the Budget adva under the five yeur plun. st be made up, and & themwork can ull urreurs i hig costs than dune for ul presen It In the confident hope of the peo- the public schools of the Cupital will be brought up to date in point of squipment und ple of the District that the op ed “high cities, be in full awing be which, with pective with eeds of the nuten for re- ements that are In keeping with having tlons t should be regurded with full considerstion by # and the ‘There I8 no tuge In cutting down in any one year below the limit of authorizatien Eventually be G__STAR. WASHINC which the pres-{but the canine question has long ngl- | ened | w teo Alley Gurden Ciub, el fs thivd anni ey this Sum “ to hid # hearty welea Al kit RUDizA o0k, | Founded by the originul setlers in the Autimn of 1923, the Fsstee ¢l hns w long vecord of nehievement, in cluding three fower show, ench ot of which lasied months, not days Ot of red cliy and rocks its mem & wrested hnowledge and hesuty. They caused green grass (o spring Lup in a desert of old shoe | Rluss, nadls and chips of wood left by thoughtless gontractors; they mad from all this, amiling little vales o bright blossoms, ¥ Esates Alley xarden wpot”of the o mambers of (he club accept tnetion humbly, slthough with prof pride. realizing that they [longer their he na RN n n imunity. The a Know (ull well that there I e mpeed in the gaden. and that is Godspeed. “Unless the Lovd winteh the house, (he watchers thereof wate [in vuin ay plant a seed. and tend it heip it much in [its progs the vdener will behind . the watching for a is gy hix N iembers of (he Kas | tee Alley Club feel but a nor mal pride in belng the Arse in their section, to walk hand in hand with God Inthe garden in the coul evening. Aok ox oA o ways than Fustee Club has no org, 7al svever, and boasts nary an officer. L was never founded, ver it exima, it has ne dues, no formal meetings, yver ima close corporation. Auy one who lives in the alley be {longs. if he wun(n (o, and It he dves uot want tu, why, he does not helon that is all. It is Just as shuple 8 that. The club i demucratic to a degree, tuu. ‘There ix no high or low | in_this club. I The spirit_of competition, the lite of most garden clubs, exists in thix on® only as a_helping principle. 1ot as “the whdle aho What oue i ber plants, and brings to perfection, other members are likely Lo grow next e ie. the 0 what Unigue | o t fle there 18 & normal interchunge apple mauce’ members feel that the highest praise is to have one's ia wnd flowers copied in another . houseliolder is u sort of investiguting connnities, muking con stant surveyw { his back porch Often w family resclves jiseif into a “walkin uittee,” and mukes an tuspection tour of (he alley. Lesa frequentiy, but often envugh wembers journey to vilier alleys, (v get pointers frowm th good work ef distant vesidents, sometimen 1o note negligence and take x warning thevefrom Sinees (liere is 1o compulsion in any of these matters, there is perhups u better spirit in (he club, us a whole than can prevail In any organization where the phrase “thou shalt” is used * * x x Thum every stands as the| this dis- | TON, D. THIS AND THAT RACEWELL. ) Wholly free from this of thing | ihe Kmsiee Alleyians rejoice that the of guvdening” in Fastee impered in spiit o Ihy any =uch resorie The essence gurdening s f ». The very of “gurden means a closed spaee, closed not only against physi- [enl but also against mental maraud- ors 1 his own garden, If 1t be wald that ch member, | « ns he please | walk down Fisstee Aliey any evening |10 see that the charge ia nct true. | An to “flower shows.’ ihe Kastes Alley Garden Club has never found any need for tearing up Itx choie bloum# and standing them in stuffy hall, to wilt oot their ) the presence of Strangers. Heginuing with the crocus in Feb v, Kestee Alley gurdens put on i petuil flower xhow, which runs the 1 of tulip, 1 mmrigokd Hyme iy, ik, paney. petunia, hibiseus, hydrangsa, althea hollyhock, spive, aster, chrisanthe um and many oihers, including thut " vund light, but, | foundation planting of wll gardens, | ne. |7 ANy pusserhy mmy enjoy the ksstee | xlley” Garden Club show free of charge, any time he wants to, at no more trouble than the mere looking. .ok Men. women, buys girls, cats, bluebirds, rebins, hummingbirds, but *ierflies, all are members of this happy |elub, which, like Topay, “Just grew | Lest some. in haste. imagine (ha L members “think they know it all, | hasten to add thal this is not | case at all. Many w tale of A woe could the members (6 of ssters | blighted by root 1 | upen properiy, | tow close croppi | "Out of all_this, however, the mem | bern of the Esstee Alley Garden Chib have learned something about gurden ing, including those cardinal viriues, | pat , trust in the Lord, the use of much intelligence as one has and the realization that gardenin it truest |and best senme, in neither fsauing coni- | mands nor Indulging in crass com- | petition. | "“An the members of thin club look in retrospect over the ihree bright | Springs it has known they see t| at every member in distinguished f | something, it for no more than & well kept lawn. Mr. and Mrs. A have had mag | nificent popples. irixes and many lothera: Mr. and Mra. B . coreopsis, beliflowers, roses; My. and Mis. ¢ | unusuaily ‘good lawn; Mr. and Mrs v hollyhocks, clematis; Mr. and Mo . roses, gladioli, uster | Mroand Mis. B pinke, salvias M [und Min. G L canims, guilen-glow {Mr. 11, bachelor's buttons, ainnlas. | tulips: M. and Mrs. | cunnar: | M. und Mus. ] ruses; Mr. and [Mis. K, castor bean; Mr. und Mrs. i e . hydrangea, chrysanthemum Mr. and Mis. M, cosnos; Mr. and {Mre. N - ,petunias; Mr. aud Mrs. 10—, roses, morning-glorie and | Mrs, P , tulips, roses, and the only Mr. and Mrs, w the by tuu late in the fact | I8, L 20T i buildings surrounding it ol xet e, | el al | romes failing (o | y | {put forth, and it must be sold to the | THE NORTH WINDOW By Leila Mechlin. It 2000 years hence, eity of Washington W and the excavators should chance to upon the newsstand in the | Unlon Riation, we today may trembie |10 think ‘what their inferencex would | be concerning the artistic sense of our i‘mu generation. Often one hears it {suid that the dark ages of ignorance lare past, the age of the fringed tidy, | the gilded clothespin made into a bui- | the 2ncient 1] . exeav; { come Lroken | this bs « xelfish spivit, one has but to | 1on.hook ruck, the tumbler pincush. imn, much heribhoned: but really noth (Ing could he more awful or more a | part of that same era than one of the ! of Washingion conspicu- ously displayed for the delectation of the incoming traveler. Thix takes the form of 4 wquare of light. sea-green Lautin, 18 inches in diameter. surround- jed with a 3inch d silk fringe | and displuying In the center a view of | the Capitol with views of other public Lurid sun as hackgronnds into the sea of effccis are used and melt_away gently green. There are patches of deepest [ blue and wavy white clouds dotted | here and there. But this s onlv the heginning. [ one has time or inclination to linger. one will discover little lead capitols gayly gilded, which, upon examination, may prove thelr right to existence through use as inkstands. Then there are the silver slippers to he used am { pincushions, and the little monu- ments of no use at all If we must have souvenirs of Wash- ington, why should not we have good souvenire, reul souvenira? Is not there | some philanthropiai, some lover of art, who will come forward and Inatitute | compatition for an inexpensive, suit- able Washington souvenir? This in- congruous junk which is dispiaved fo gayly must be aold or it wonld not be | | ignorant, whose ignorance it will en- Rance. *rox o { It is true that the art displuved in | the souvenira is approximately parallei to that discernible on the covers of most of the magazines on the same stand, and these, it is supposed, repre- sent modern tendencies. When the eve passes rigidly acrosa the rows of covers it comes to rest with satisfac- tion on a few without pictorial adorn- but artistically wearing their ntents on shirt fronts at lenst an actistic une of Lype and an appeal to the intelligence of the would-be buyer. ‘There was a time when magazine covers offered a real opportunity for | llustrators, desiguers, genuine artist | but if one may judge correctlv by the current outlay there 1a very litye art employed in this fleld at the present |time. It 1s the sign painter of the | lowest order whose wages are most in evidence, dnd if the extel dress in | such, what can the Internal contant {be? "One would hesitate to look be- yond the cover. It is a little amusing, however, to {fAind that the « acceptance of {an educatio that which makes a fetish of degreea and a col lege course an educational require- | It | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. the duties of the drum major an hand master when an Army band is marching?—M. V. &, A. An Army bsnd drum major leads the hand in all parade forma- tions and conducts all marches. He has full charge of the hand in all drills and parades. He does not play any instrument. The Army band- master marches to the right of the hand with his conducting baton. He does not play any instrument. Q. Q. What are What is meant by “persistence time" 7§, T, P A. This expression is used in the movie world to signify the trequency with which the mind can receive m- pressions. It 18 known that this time in one-sixteenth of a second. Pictures presented at the rate of sixteen to & second, therefore, produce the effect of continuous motion. Q. How does the size of the Norge compare with the Los Angelea?—M. E. A. The dirigible Norge is about half the size of the los Angeles. Q. What were the “wears” of Eng- land referred to in the Magna Charta?—C. N | "A. The Wears, or Kydells, were {dams bullt of stone extending out |into the river in a slanting direction, |and were anciently used to force the {fish in the waters to awim into a narrow inclosure, where they were most easily caught. They wers pro- | hibited in the Magna Chsrta because | they were clearing the rivers of fish nd acting as an obstruction to navi- wation. They also prevented the float- i BY PAUL In 1925 thers were oniv three cases of vellow fever in all of North, Bouth and Central America. and these three oceurred in northern Rrazil. wher in former vesrs, thousands of cases were continually taking victims. Yel- low fever has been exterminated from the world except in western Africa | among 30,000,000 natives steeped in | superstition and ignorance and suspi- cion of the white man. Malaria, which in the last genera- tion and since the beginning of time had claimed its victims in many parts of the world. waited for the in vention of the airplane before sur rendering to science. Now, from the airplane there 1ains a gentle showe: of paris green. and malaria ceases 10 trouble mankind, for the poison, which formerly had been used to kill potato now slays the malaria mosquito. Ninety-nine per cent of the “rain” is Just road dust, which serves as the vehicle carrying the 1 per cent of | varin green tou weak a dose to in- jure men or animals, evean though they feed upon the crops which prove fatal to the larvae of the deadly car- rier of the malaria. At insignificant cost the pest is practically eradicated wherever the experimental- treatment |In& downstream of logs which were tne only fuel with which the Fnglish | people were acquainted. Q. Have scientiste perfected any betitute for glasa to nuse for ante- wobile windows, atc.?—E. E. A. Cellon, patented in Germany by vr. Eichengruen and brought for ward by one of the largest mant ers of explosives of the world, |used on many foreign antomobiles ax A substitute for glase. It ia unbreak able, bendable and fireproof. Cellon ix now used for telephones, switchboards. toflet articl for automobiles, airplanes and Airig! bles and is & perfect isolating mate. rial for all electric apparatus, can he cut and trimmed with an ordinary knife, in impervious to water, line, petroleum, oll, turpentine and gas. I Gen. Rodert E. Lee said: “The | thorough education of people is the | most efficacious means of prometing | the prosperity of the Nation." These worda of the distinguished Rowthery | general are none the less true mow | than when he apoke them. Our Wash- |ington Information Bureau iz ome of "the greateat agencies for the diatri- | bution of free infbrmation and educa tional data in the sworld. 11e service is free to readers of this paper. All | you need to do iz to send in your | query. together with % centa in atampe | for return postage. Address The Evening Star Information Rureau, Frederic 1. Haskin, Director, Wash- lington, D. €. BACKGROUND OF EVENTS . COLLINS. include ‘infants under 1 year, mueh s Infants under 3 months of age. Intelligent American mothsrs can | hardly appreciata the eustom of Portugness mothers of feeding infants a few hours old & meai of softensd crackers, nor the practice of Italian mothers of binding their newhorn babes in tight swaddling clothes so that they cannot move their limbhs. Nor can Frenchmen and Germans un- derstand why American husbands fail | to_have their wives pitch hay or Ao other heavy fleld work which “would make the women strong and healthy.” | " Each nation hes its own prejudice | and practices in connection with in- | tants, but the resulis show in sta- | tistics gathered in the registration dis- tricts of the United States by the cemsus, which reporis: | “The mortality rates for the sev. {eral groups of infants, classified sc- | cording to color and nationality of | the mothers. were as follows: Jewish | lowest), 53.5: native white, 92.8; Ger- | man, 103.1; Ttalian. 103.8; other for- eign born, 126.6; colored, 154.4; Polish, 167.2; French-Canadian, 171.3; Portu- | guese, 200.3. The United States assumes the highest general atandards of ctviliza- successful sweei-peus; Membern »of the Esstes Club feel Q roses and various vines. that the two enemies of gardens, iu ¥ the human sense, are the idea of con We have given enough, we believe, jmand and the idea of competition. ' 1o show that the ksstee Alley Garden Some garden clubs. they know, use|Club lives up to the two unwritten such phrases as “Members shall carry |jaws of its “constitution,” namely, to out_orders given them by the hoard | further the happinesa of ita members, of directors,” and ““Members shall ex- (and to make the alley and the com hibit &t the annual flower show munity a better place to live in. Bor;ah’s Rt;féljeiul;m Stand Awakens Friends and Foes in in a disagreement, nine f¢ ! s * ister, and find it satisfactory. Othe nequittal and thres for conviction. It{ 50 CHE PR T ERCS existing, or som- was evident that a conviction couid ! e RN {plving with, the orders of the commis- not be secured and yesterday's actiorn e = the result of this belief S e N granted o some of Ll But these any that has faited thix case does not imply that the man ting in hym who was yesterday freed from night more cusation was in fact guiliv. Bt ficed. has failed, nevertheleas, he tril ument uguinst the murder stands unsolved and the per |90 ol system uned 1o be petrator is unpunished. Whether jtUL it spendable, that (e fault lies at the doors of the “’ Signul SN wan more ust worthy, who employed unwarranted measure : Vet aguin wnd aguin (e SR Gkaiisine, e Visuul systen fuith, trugicully. Train evime | ! crowded < ur zoes now into the record ux a rowded, signal lights are | | tion, including medicine and sanita- tion, vet the death rate of infants in the United States is 1033, while These vital facts transpire in the |in New Zealand it is only 30.1. Why dvance report of the 1975 work of |should American mothers and doctors he Rockefeller Foundation, which re- | have 1o cross the Pacific to save the ort has just appeared. | bables? “'he report further speaks of how b the Foundation had co-operated with| Aside from fatal terminations of and the magazines and the souvenirs L8 governments in fighting the hopk- | disease. the economic loss from pre- sesm all one. 18 it possible that this worm. and in preventive measures véntabie cases is enormous. Prof. represente (he (aste, the appetite. of ainst the disease, by which 1,500,000 | ['isher of Yale University estimatés the traveling publie? lieaven forbid! | people were proiecied. | that there are 3000000 persons sick *aoxn | " he Foundatlon expended last vear | In the United States all the time and | more than a million dollars a month ' that 42 per cent of this illneas i« What & contrust i presented to the | in”"making the world safe for (he de. Preventable. 1f all fweventable ill. thoughtful traveler from abroad who . pgeracy of good health, nesses and accidents were avoided vecalis the stands in foreign ruiload | 5 {hat would add another 15 vears 1o stations— amall, inconspicuous sffairs. - oaw our average “expectanc Thix es 1t ix stated by the authority of the Setting. forth modestiy litile: handy | limate is practically confirmed by T» Eugene I. Fisk. who estimatex that has heen followed. 2 k% housing by means of the five year programn of intensive and extraordi nary expenditures. 1f this is done the annunl additions to the school plant will be easily pruvided, keeping the it up (o date without strain upon iis revenues and permitling no further Inpres such that huve led to the present deficiencies. .—oe - hel Dule, ment, has penetrated the conscious- ness of the public to which these lurid gaveties make appeal. Quite a | | number of the magazines of the least | scholastic sort, et it be said, are en- | | titied 'he College Girl," *Colleg Life”” or something similar And what eof the novels in gay bindings with boastful blurbs? ‘I'h sion. Time o nstice in lelays wre « heavily lifleen e o lives, lives we st or | wl as those aulo- wain o = The legs of Mins b out of 3,000 entrunts in u tont, were udjudged the verfect aml huve been selected by v munufucturers us the stand n givls. Do not crowd Was win visy ’ Senutor Boral's attack constitutio and suggests that “ad- upon the vocates of prohibition and supporters reterendum 1 mys- | not seen o which the courts have not heen e ignured. If fog prevails the specds are not diminished L w wure view of light oecur, and the coren ary ahle to unravel. The “third-degrea’ process, wherel, W per ecticut avenue way, though will be kept at by Burgeas' well known bureau, not | New Yurk prohibition | plan made both friends and enemies for the Tdaho leader. He hus been the storm center of vigorous debate, in | of the Constitution could not consist- ently recognize it or participate in it, | and the wet advocatea would have the | poll substantiallv to themselves. ! volumes, well printed on good pape: of the classice, the works of the gréat novelists of that nation, the great poets, unbound and of such size that United States Public Health Rervice. headed by the surgeon general. that in the World War more soldiers were killed by the ceotie than by tha opera- there ave 2,400,000 ill. of which num her 50 per cent of the cases are pre- ventable, The two authorities coin cide as to the actual numher of vie- acknsed persons are forced by mental, and even at times by physical, tor one can sllp them eastly Into one'd (jan4 o the military enemies, although The Charlotte Observer (Democratic) | . | tur handbag! And, for the most PAaIt. seence had made great progress es bring in verdicts that leave the oo e | furthermore contends that ‘‘prohibi- tims of preventahle cases. which there are no party lines. Many diseases are no® traced di ture to make self-accusatory revela- tiens. has been properly condemned by the courts and by public opinion. | Even if this method were the only one whereby be deter minad, it should not be tolerated. It in a reversion to the inquiitien, with all its horrors and its opportunities i for tyrannical injustice. Since the judgment of the Supreme Court was rendered in this « set ting aside a verdict of guilty scors of compuisory methods employed 1o secure evidence, this practive s haen abandoned by the District polive. Fvary prisoner is given a fair « 1o Asfend himself. 7f the man released yesterday, after nearly seven and a hall years of imprisanment, with the agony of im- minent death during the greater part of that peried, is actually innocent in fact, as he has now been declared te he In law, he has suffered beyond reparation, He cannot be compen- sated for his confinement and hls torment of soul. He now goes forth, a tres man, with the hest wishes of all members of this community, who hopa that his life henceforth may be placid and fruitful. et guilt could | on the Mr. Mellon's letter on the Haugen farm relief bill more elfective than his recent indorsement of a can- didate for the Senate in Pennsylvania. ——tos was A Skirtless Future? Roath Tarkington, talking at & Maine Snmmer resort, savs that fifty vears from now skirts as an article of wamen's apparel will have disap- peared antirely. This I8 hix thesin: The akirt, or what passes for i, i meraly a velle, & vestige. ‘There i o rasl reason why it shotid continue fo exiat. 1 expect to mes the iim when all women will habitually wea garments approximately the sime an those worn by men. The element of medeaty does not enter intv it at all Women are now determined to he o an equality with men in every pur tHeular. The Hoosler State's fuvorite novel ist will not need to live to be 107 he will be 57 in July- (0 gee (he pass. ing of the skirl in & large degree, for the greater part of the women of this country. Nor probably if he shauld live to be 207 would he see America completely deskirted. - For there weuld remain groups adhering to the traditional feminine garb de- spite the dictates of fasbion and com- fert, and there would be regions where #uch new fashions would never penetrate. But Mr. Tarkington is right ahout the passing of the skirt. At present the tendency is upward rather than outward, but that is a matter of style and not of ew tion. Anothei season may Ree skirts of those who cling tomary costume of wemen lengthened appreclably, though probably again will they reach the gre even pass helow the shoe tops, Jt I easy to remember the sensa ton by the first appearance in 1he _0f women ia knickerboek- public still wondering why wholesale manklaughter is still permitted by the law when it is committed by trans- portation compunies, and punished when it is committed by individuals. Jumediate obed 1o its mandate should be required by the Interstate Commerce Commission, under penal- ties that will prompuly bring action. A Novel Escape. A novel story of excaps is told by pri who returned volunturily o the Mommouth Connty Jersey after Leing st liber night and a day. The pr seems, while languishing in his cell began This is how he tells it: You see, it was like this: | couldn't sleep last night. 1 was worried about my mother, 1 hadn't heard from her in’ two weeks and I got to studying abolt her and figured she might be | got up from my cot and started walking n the door yv.cell wax optn and 1 stepped out, thinking us how 1 might take « little exevcise in the tier. And then [ saw that the tier door was un 1ocked, (oo, 80 | slepped out of that to nee what wus Wrong. And there was n big hwle in the ceiling uod | {elimbed up through it a0d | suw that the burs were missiug from the attic window and (hat there wus a rope hanging down. Then | got o werrylug svme sboul my mother and thought 1 had better go xee how she was weeks Is a long time without hearing from home, enpecitlly when you are in the jail house, so 1 just slipped {down the rope and went to Philadel- i phia. She was all right, 8o here 1 am back aguin, And the funny part of the whole {thing in that it 1s a true story. Just | before the prisoner made his eas | walkout five other prisoners had eut j(huh' way out of jail by the route he | tovk. He was not in the same tier of | cells and was not involved In the pre- | meditated escape. His mother ac- 5 panied him back from Philadel | phin aud (pld the warden (hnt whe had ! weitten him for more than twe { weekn. S0 hin story fits tugether and e will probubly escape with light | punistment for his unauthorined o | curnio a buer w ore 10 ybe not vt No sclentiat han yet advanced the | theory that the present cool weather currents by the airships that have {lately been traversing the poiar re. | gion, but such a guess may soon be i advanced. ——rate A Heavy Vote. Ridgewood, N. J., titizens are evi- Gently more Interésted in dogs than era and coroners. In a vote yeaterday on a new dog ordinance vne hundred forty-four more.votea were regia- tered on the regulation than on ail the cfndidates in the primary election. f the (wo the nd seven hundred citizens who toted fgr or againat the “mutt law” only thousand five Uncle Sam took revenue tazes and spent $3 in debt reduction the other da the same nonchalance that the aver- age perton cashes a five-dollar chec paya a bill and pockets the change. i + ot Arlingten popular referendum without evokin & congreasional ingu SHOOTING STARS. JOHNSON, 'Bout the things For instantanevus reitef From every pain an' ache, No matter what the trouble, They will cure it, safe and quick. The expense I jest a trifle, What's the use of being sick? And in the nest-door column The fAnancial folks explain How ten dollara is invested To bring thousands, all clear gain. They show you calculations Which aie absolutely sure Wo lead the way to fortune, Where's the sense of being poor? P mighty glad 'm living In & lucky time like this; The chances are s many That 1 't tell which to miss, Aw I want the world to join me In my gratitude intense. We can all be rich and happy At a nominal expense. One Danger Averted. “So that college proféssor spok favorably of our son?” said the fond mother. “Sort of favorably, father. anawered th thing except what they get in books. An Impression. “I'm kind o’ discouraged 'bout that new boarder,” siid Mrs. Corntossel, “Cheer up!” answersd the fa him, He's one o' zines.” The College. It is an institution great, in due to the disturbance of Arctic | Where wisé men love to congregate, And vainly do their best to tell How to translate a collegs yell. Feminine Logic. “fo you are emgaged to Mr. Blig- gine?" “Yen," young woman. “I theught you said you wouldn't Congressmen, assemblymen, freehold: | marry him if he were the last man on earth.” “l wouldn't.. But he isn't the last man on earth, is he?” iz e The Taxi Feeling. From the Wall Street Journal. 1t's worth the taxi fare to f don't ears what happens in $400,000,000 in County gets by with a into expenses, “He said there was no dan- ger of his growing up to he one of those pedants who never know any. er. “Phers &in't no use o tryin’ to sult these fellers that write political articles for the maga- answered the Vivaclous X “Much encouragement to the hone cys” is meen by the Birmingham News (independent Democratic) in the position taken by Senator Horah, “Some of the Waushington gossipk, auyvs the News, “ure inclined tv believe that in his deliverauce tu the Presby teriuns, he. is beginning (o groom him seif for the piesideniial cundiducy in 1928, But others are convinced that he is tuking the advanced position be cause of his it Western uency, which s the very strox of probibition dryer even than the theoretically dry Seuth.” The Man chester Union (indepeudent Kepubli can) finds confirmution of ita owh be Iief thut the next Republicau national convention “would not be found din posed 1o punder (o nullification sen t." and declares thut “the Senn ech has made this beliet practical certainty. A great service tu the public,” continues the Unlon, “has been performed by Senator Borah. to have the cmse set forth in un- mistakable terms, and that has bee done courageously and convincingl: * K K K Indorsing Senator Borah's inclina- | tion to "kick any referendum into the wastebasket” if it should “com- promise either in letter or in spirit| with the execution of the prohibi- amendment the Lexington | (Republican) remarks: “It (hat fan't Americanism, nothing It i® the expression of the soul of A greut Natlon.” ‘The Salt lal Desxeret ews (independent) udds: | “'here is a tendency to ascribe (v | public u generally a certain de- gree of insincerity which is chargsd up to ‘political expedien but in this matter we have no reason to suspect that Senator Borah is other than what he appears to be. May success attend his courageous atti- tude!” As the Pittsburgh Sun (independ ent Democratic) views the matte “There is little hope that the quea- tion will be settled until there s a knock-down-and-drag-out fight on the one question that is now first In every conversation in the great cities and to & larger extent than most admit in the smaller towns. In inviting such a finish fight, Sen- Borah renders a good service.” he Seuator's speech, as pointed t by the Harrisburg Telegraph (Republici , “puts him i center of the prohibition posilion fn_which hix fighting pro- clivities will enable him to make n brillunt showing” The Pockford Star (independent) states that hin rin stand in suppert of the Vol- ct is more than signific roic,” und that “he ca the ald of the s When t appeared to he seiting agalnst them.” The Knoxville Sentinel (in dependent Democratic) also recof nizes that he “has certainly quali- fled for the leadership of the div sentiment of hix party by the atrongest and moat uncompromising stand yet taken by a Republican in the prohibition cause. EE The Christian Science Monitor (in- dependent) says: “I'he Nation owes the Idaho Senator a debt of gratitude tor this vigorous utterance. It stands like & rallylng banner in a struggle in which too many public men are skulk. ing in the rear.” ‘The tribute of the Ithaca JournaFNews (independent) is that “his blasting speech left the pro- ponents_of so-called referendums o the Volftead act like that proposed in this' State, little to stand on.” The Spokane Spokesman - Review (inde- pendent Republican) adds itz judg- ment that the referendum plan ax ~ | sondemned by Senator Borad is “un- . it i It ia eminently worth while | &eles “Times (ine | tion sentiment over the country s too strong to invite active opposition by sither the Democratic or the Kepub- lican party.” | v interpret Senator Borah's op- | position 1o the socalled national liquor referendum as a bid for leade ship of the drys according to the Dayton Daily News (independent Democratic), “would be to credit him {with a complete reformation, for | there ix nothing in the past record to indicate that he would ever seek t | be the leader of anvihing.' ‘The | News, however, hoids that he is questionably right in the atand he has taken in regund to & national refery endum.” i ERE I A8 to Borwh's possible candidaocy for President the Duluth Herald (i dependent) feels aure that “many of | the Republican States will strongly oppose the naming of & radical dvy as | their standard bearer,” and the Flint Dalily Journal (independent) adda that “Mr. Borah is hardly of the type de- sirable for President.”” The Los An- pendent Republican) observes that, “judging by the re- for the presiden his politics are in no class whatevi From New York comes vigorour de. nunciation. “To talk disloyaity be- cause the citizens of New York wish to vote upen the leaving of the defini- tion of ‘intoxicating’ to the Hiates,” asserts the New York lerald ‘Ivibune (Republican), “is tu talk Antl-Naloon League twaddle. It is a pity that a tor Borah should descend (o such a level. pendent Democratic) adds that bringing up again the inveterate dry fallacy that the Volstead act in the eighteenth amendment, Senator Borah 18 but a doclle follower in the steps of the dry apoaties.” The New York World (independent Democratic) takes the stand, “Until Mr. Borah comes teenth and fifteenth amendments we shall not be in the leant disturbed by his high-sounding but fundamentally hollow tirade against the States which do not agree with him."” ‘“The opponents of Volsteadism are too numerous and too sincere to be Ignored,” i the judgment of the Bos- vanscript (independent Repub- lloan), while the Baltimore Evening Sun (independent) offers the comment: “Apparently the occasion is drawing near when the Senator will have v begin to wade through blood und five. And 1t 18 curious to think that all this wading will have to be done by a ‘liberal’ to prevent the people of the States from saying what they think about a law.” The Fort Wayne News- Fentinel (Republican) is ‘“‘unable to #ee much ground for Senator Borah's fiery attack,” and saye of the oppo- nents of the New York referandum that “they do the cause of honest, efficient liquor regulation much harm by their bigoted opposition to an ex- pression of popular preference.’ ——raee No Kitchen Co-Eds. From the Muncie Star. The fact that the colleges will soon clos¢ does not necessarily mean that, other will have some help with the dishe: luetance with which anybddy of prom- | inence is advocating his nomination | good conatitutional lawyer like Sena- | The New York Times (inde-| “in | what kinds of souvenirs are sold in France and Italy along the tourist's trail? Simple little things, but well designed, well made, objects typical of the country, of its art and its manufacture. On the Island of Murano, across the lagoon from Venice, has been made ! for centuries some of the finest slass {in the world. An American traveler, discovering in one of the factories | some very ugly, Inartistic { marveled and made inquiry, to which (he gulde responded with s shr Oh, those are made for (he American - | (ourist; they like that sort of thing!” but why continue the we are trying to up- bulld & besutiful city -the most beau- Uful clty In the world. We have a Comminsion of Fine Arts to safeguard | uw from errors in the department of architecture, of sculpture, of civie decoration; we have a lately appointed Park Commission to see that our parks are Artistically laid out: we have & ralirond station which is one of the sights of the world hecause not only of its size but its magnifi cent architectural design: and at our {very galewAy we offer souvenirs of all this in the form of deplorably inept, inartistic, catch-penny articles without merit, without worth. x X X X TH: has been A movement AmMong the art-loving citizans of several cities to secure more artistic.souvenir post carde, of post eards which reproduce draw- ings by some of Philadelphia’s most fainoun actista. among them the late Juseph Penmell. 1t ix not necessary tu do as much as this, perhaps. In the hands of an arti photographs can be made of great artistic merit: some are a0 madi fome of the sou- venir Views of Wasnington made by R. B. Clark of thix cify are easen. | Shame ! tradition? e | tially worka of art and admirvably in- terpret the Beauty of Washington. We should have more of theme. ‘Think how lovely And satisfactory as sou- venirs are the pictorial post cards ta be had in Edinburgh, in Switzerland | out for the enforcement of the four- | i Venice, to name only a few places Our post cards are improving. Why, now, should we not turn ou ttention to our souvenirs. parucularly the sou- venirs of our National Capital? It may be said that the public desires the banal, the inelegant. the trifling, but it is only fair to zive the public a eavery instance where the public has been given & chance it gives preference to what is good. At any rate, the experiment is worth tiy- ng. oK That the travellug public is hot im- mune to things artistic, but to the con- trary does react to that which is real- money that railrond companiex ex- trains. One of the roads coming into the menu i a description of the st: of the ori entation and the. fur- nishing—Adam, Heppelwhite, Shera- ton. Not only is this well done, but well paid for, and the traveling public likes it. As Senator Root said in ano- table address a few years ago, “The people of America are beginning to see that it is not necessary to be com- | monplace in order to have common sense.” But what would he say of thoke mouvenirs! * From the Des Moines ‘ Years ago there nsed to he much eomplaint of citizensywho voted “early and often.” Nowadays it is hard to got many of them-0-vete-at-all B Law and Ethies. From tha Chattanooga News. A cotémporary insiats that scholar- Ship atandards in law achaols are en- tirely too low. No opinion Is ven- tused-on the standsrds of .ethies. objects, | Philadelphia can boast a series | chance, and the fact-is that fn almost | voluntarily | Iy fine, is dvidenced by the amount of | pend. and think it wise to expend. in | tHe decoration and equipment of their our Union Station has on a certain | train a dining car in colonial style. On | against that little pest. Fifteen years ago typhoid fever in | washington annually took 35 lives |out of &very 100.000, and physicians boasted of Washingion as ultra-sani- tary, for other cities of the United Ktates showed a record of 100 to 120 fatal cases per 100.000 population Today the Nation's registration area averages less than 5 fatal cases per 100.000 population. The United Htates has had no | cholera since 1873, scarcely any small- pox. ln former years smallpox some- times attacked half the population | of cities and county. Scarlet fev | and diphtheria have been reduced 8 per cent. and pulmonary tuberculosis 50 per cent. In the registration area the mastery of disease, a8 compared with A genéra- tion ago, saves the lives of 400,000 people annually. and an average of 15 years i= added to our longevity. It may aimeat be aald today that men | | reach the acme of ahility now at the age when Dr. Osler is reported to | have sald men had pased their u | tulness. (Dr. Osler disclaimed ever | having said so, but he is hest known |among laymen for what perhaps he never really said.) * ok X ¥ dates within the lives of ten yet liv- ing in active vigor. found living bacteria in the air. but it was 10 years later hefore there was any bacteria meant to life. were bucteria found in water, still later, in milk and other foods. Science was groping. where today it worke with clear vision of cause and effect. When the water of New York City was first fiitered the curve upon the chart of vital statisticx made a radical change of angie. Tater. when sani- tation of milk was first enforced. an other astounding echange of the “eurve” upon tha chart showed how lives were being saved by clean and pasteurized milk. x ok k x It is true that as far back as 1639 Kircher found living organ s in blood, but he had no idea of their functions. Not until two centuries had passed—in 1863—was the first dis- covery of the connection between hacilli and disease. Ten vears later— --the bacillus of fever was found. in 1875 Pasteur isolated that of malignant odema. Not until 18 when Koch discovered (he tubercie bacillus, and in 1884, the baclilus of choler dla science recognize fully ihe tmportance of bacteriology as the foundation ef pravtically all disease. 1n our Civil War, 65 soldiers out of every 1,000 died. annuslly, of disease: aven in our Spanish War, 30 out of 1,000 died of disease, but in the World War, éven with the terrible epidemic of influenza and pneéumonia, the mor- tAlity from disease wes only 14.8 per 1,000. Out of the 4,000,000 soldiers in the American Army%on both sides of the Atlantic, only 213 died of tvphold fever, while in the Spanish War our force of 107,973 men 16st 1580 by typhold. This improvement is at- tributed to preventive inoculation which was introduced into army prac- tice in 1909 by Maj. F. F. Russell, Marine Corps. LI The fact that average “expectancy’ of life in America has heen extended 16 years, compared with that of hailf & 20, I8 famlliar to moat read- extension, however. is he maving of children #ars and over 1 yvear of ¢ I8 somé extension for va. but not s as in child life. Rt owever, -does _Hot- and, { muen i < Toe typhold | The whole science of bacteriology | In 1860 Pasteur | systematic effort to study what | Not until | veetly to foeal infections of tensils. teeth and adenolds. These infactione cange rheumatism. which leads to heart disease. Only recently have doctors traced the connection hefween decaved testh and heart disease Dr. George Martin Kober, pro- | fesmor of hygiene of the Georgeiown University Medical School, sayvs in « paper pubiished by the United | States Public Health Service: | "I have already siated that the |average of human life in this coun- try hax been lengthened from 41 | yeara in 1 6 vears in 3 a_galn of 15 vea in the opinion of the American Public Health ciation it will be possible, even with Lout further additions to lfnr.\\ edge of the causes and prevention « | disease, but simply hy the application of knowledge alrendy gained and as Vet unapplied. 1o add ai least 20 vears to the span of life. within the next 50 veart. | am sufficiontly on | timistie to helieve that. provided we | maintain onr pressnt high standards | of civilization and correct living, the | average span of life reach the hiblical _threescore and ten by 1950." When the average is 70 vears cen | tenarians will be youngsie (Copyright. 1824, by Paul V. THINK IT OVER Why Edueation? . Colline. By William Mather Lewis, President George Washington Unive once the xelfiah inisller tual ach L Ix now recognized ar standard equip ment for the entire ciizenry of the Repuhlic. Iliteracy. once prevalent, I= now In the eolleges and univ hut a genera tion ago one out of every 1.000 of aur population was found, new register one out of 200. This situation exisis hecause the progress of modern civilization de pends upon education. The amazipg development in soclal and economic | lite during the past generation would have heen unthinkable had not onr schools and colleges expanded and re- organized with marvelous rapidity to meet an unprecedefited need. The people of America. once farm- have become city dwellers. Tn 30 vears our population has increase 50,000,000 Land, which in the da the abundance of natural | was robbed of its nitrogen and potas sium and phosphorus, must be brough | back into production if the hungry are to be fed. Waste materfal must he converted into fuel if the wheels of traffic ave to continue turning. A people using threa-fourths of the ruk her in the world and not producing a pound of it must find an aconomical synthetic substitute. The dread rav- ages of cancer and tuberculosia muat be eliminated. The prablems of gov- ernment and of social relationa muiti- ply with the increase and congestion of population. Adjustments must he made here. All these and a thousand other ele- menta upon which the orderly devel- opment of civilization depends must be fostered in the halls and laborato- ries where thoughtful and.intelligent atudents set themselves seriously to the task of finding truth. For, after all. it i clear, calm. unprejudiced thought that the world needs today vthing else: clear. calm. unprejudiced “thought by men and women who will face the truth and follow Its implications. Only th e fruly educatsd, only these will ad- vance civilization. = et < (Covyright. 1996.) Kdueat