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8 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY June 22, 1926 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Compar Business 0! L 11Mh Stoang Pen New Vork Offce “hicazo Office Enropean Office ot Ave 1 tind St with the Sanday mors Ing sdition. 1s delivared by carciers within he city at 60 conte per morth dajly onl 45 centa per month: Sunday enly. 70 cents Der ay he sent by mail or tele 3000, Collection 1= made o carr el of rach month The Evening Siar, Rate hy Mail—Payable in Advan Maryland and Virgin Daly and sundax. .1 v £9.00 DAL anly 1 ve. 8800 ~inday only [ESER i) 1 mo 1 mo 1 mo Al Other States and Canada. S17.00 1 mo ¥ KO0 Twol 3 S100 1 mel # Dy DA ant Sunda 1 anle iy iy i Member of the Associated Press. The Associated 1" 10 the nae for renubi pateh, to it fied e niliched her All ¢ ~f perial dicpatehes heres < exelusivel tiy of all hot otherwise « o0 Tocal news Wis of publicatla Are also texere bl Sound Government Finance. President Coolidge's address last night at the eleventh meeting of the husiness arganization of the Govern-| ment was a sermon on the homely virtue of thrift. A great deal heen said about Coolidge economy and in sympathy with has some of those not his ideas have sought appear to be pennyv-pinching meny. The President made it plain that to make them parsi he has ne such conception of Govern- ! He bLelieves in liberal | ment finances. Government expenditures, so long as Auch expenditures are wisely designed | 1o advance the welfare of the people 1 is wastefulness in Government ex penditures against which he is battling, | as he sees it, m ax al And wastefuiness much a sin vernments as it ment at Washington. in State and i is in The State and municipal governments, as well as the | Federal Government, collect the money they spend in the form of taxes upon the people. Every dollar they take in taxes a dollar subtracted from .either the purchasing or the saving power of the people. and every dollar needlessly collected in taxes and wastefully expended is & hurt to pros. perity, both present and future. Mr. 1925 the Federal Government r is to Anced expenditures by more than two | billion dollars a He believes that there cannot he much further re- duction without impairment ciency, excapt as the debt is paid off and interest charges are reduced, but he demands that every Federal official he on his guard againat increasing cosis of administration. The fight to eliminate waste having been largely won, the task now is to keep it from creeping back again. The President sees no immediate prospect of a further reduction in Fed eral taxation, and he is unwilling to hold out any false hopes in that direc- tlan. 1t is estimated that the current fizseal yvear will close with a surplus of about £390,000,000 the Treasury. The prediction in the fiscal vear heginning July he reducad te $155.000,000, and, based | upon a preliminary hut exhaystive ! the experts figure that in the | following year the surplus will drop to | $20.000.000. Even the £185.000,000 esti- | mated for next vear the President be- | lieves to be too narrow a margin for | safety in so large a financial turn.| over, and he urges the utmost care | that this small prospective surplus be | not converted into a deficit. Consid- | eration of further tax reduction must | walt until the new revenue law has | had opportunity to demonstrate fts possibilities. vear. in is that snrvey e That eminent theologian and pioneer realtor William Penn might have been Inath to lend his name to the stvle of political morals for which “Penn’s Wonds" has recently hecome promi- nent. Fven during his lifetime he had difficulty in securing a loyal and intelligent administration of the af-| faire of this region so prominently aamaciated with the events of Ameri- can history. Pennsylvania states. manship might do well to study and imitate the Father Willlam of its early development instead of the Father Willlam of “Alice of Wonder- Jana.” ——e——— Somebody sent President Don- margue a beautiful piano from this country on which a considerable duty hacomes due at the customhouse. Jt wam one of those mistaken com- pliments to which fame is frequently anbfact. It would have been more suftabla to send the piano to the great Polish patriot, Paderewski. e TR Capitol Grounds’ Extension. The Capitol Plaza bill, passed by the House by a vote of 202 to 67, goes to the President and there is no doubt that it will become a law. Tt appro- priaten $1,800,000 for the purchase of property between Union Station and € street north and authorizes a fur- the Govern | ~oolidge showed that from 1821 of effi-| 1 the surplus will | ynen city blocks, not one of which is a square in the geometric meanink ! of the word, but all of which are of |irregular shape, due to the course of | Delaware and New Jersey avenues. n district the Government al- ! ready owns land, but the bill provides ifor authorizes the purchase of [xeven squs Retween the plaza {sonth of the station, ¢ street north, I east and North Capitol treet the Government will take numbered 680 to 684, e 632, which is also to i« hetween (* and D streeis and New Jersey avenue and North and square 721..also {10 be taken, lies off the southeast cor- ner of Unlon Station, on E street. and ‘ner of the square is cut by chusétts avenue, areat change impends in that of the city. The socalled Gov {ernment Hotels, most of which stand on land owned by the Baltimore and {Ohio Railroad Co.. will be taken down ! when the of that land | passes to States. The he tels sireet sanares isive he taken Capitol street. part ownership the United also on raflroad land. It was (% mistake 1o set up those structures perty instead of on land {then owned by the Government, but | there is no use in mulling over old !mistakes. The plaza plan will also do away with several rows of houses, some of which were left below grade | when streets in that part of the city !were raised on the building of Union | Station. The plaza plan has been under dise for many and Washingtonians feel a of gratification tha {will soon be carried into e L on private p ssion strong sense ect. . oom o Blocking Adjournment. Decision by the House of Represent- atives, by a vote of 191 1o 133, |refer to the committee on ways and means a resolution calling for sine die adjournment on the 30th of this month not necessarily protracted session of Congress this | Summer. This vote may be taken as « serving of notice that a numerical i majority of the House, comprising a group of defands ac several m es before adjournment. It does not. however, mean that these bloes are united on the legislation on { which action is demanded. been iIndicated that the coalition in- cludes thos who want farm relief i legislation, riv and harbors appro- priation, a coal bill, Muscle Shoals power legislation and some action on reapportionment. This is a rather imluvollnnmu! program and it does not follow that all of these m ures can command a ma jority, even though the proponents of all of them together constitute a majority sufficient to block adjournment. It has been stated that this action vesterday in refusing to agree upon the 30th of June for adjournment is a defeat for the President’s program. This does not follow. The President wants no more large-scale expendi- ture legislition at this session, but does mean blues, on o rivers and harhors bill {through the House, for instance, would not discommode the Executive assuredly, for it is not assured that | the bill could pass the Senate. An adequate and safe measure of farm relief is desired by the adminis- tration, though the bill which the pass a Senate is now considering and which | in substance the House recently re. jected by a considerable majority is | not of that nature. Prolongation of | the session that the Senate might still pass. the same bill in the hope that the House might reconsider its pre. | vious action 8o that some sort of farm velief legislation might be enacted | before adjournment would seem to be A rather futlle proceeding. 1f the| House had passed the Hwugen bill, | against which the administration has | set its face. and the Senate were on the point of passing it, the postpone- | ment of adjournment in order that | the legislation might be completed | would be justified as & means of clear- | ing Congress of responsibility on this score of granting relief to the farm. | ers, however unwisely. But the action of the House in rejecting the same measure makes protraction of the ses sion on this score of farm relief leg- islation rather a mere gesture. T PO While able minds have been en- gaged in controversy about what peo- ple ought to beleve, a great deal of confusion and uncertainty has arisen In the practical relationship of man- kind. One honest day’s work is worth more than a volume of abstract opin- ions <one The Senate and Pennsylvania. Although he eventually yielded to persuasion and answered queries put by the chairman of the Senate cam- paign fund investigating committee, Mr. Beldleman, the defeated candidate for the governorship nomination in Pennsyivania, was quite within his rights when he at first denied the authority of the committee to inquire into strictly local political matters in that State. His challenge of the right of the committee to inquire into his knowledge of affairs in one of the ther appropriation if necessary. The hill reads that it is for the enlarge- ment of the Capitol grounds, “and the Vice President, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the architect of the Capitol are hereby anthorined and directed to acquire #ald premises by purchase, condem- pation or otherwise; and the unex- pended balances of appropriations herstofore made for the enlargement of the Capitol grounds are hereby re- appropriated for the above-named purpose, and such further funds as may bhe necesmary is hereby author- jzed to be appropriated.” Transformation of the area between the Capitol grounds and Union Station will be a major improvement to the ity and especially important in that 1t will improve the rail entrance to Washington. It will give to persons entering the city the sense of coming to a capital well endowed with park- Jand and will give them an impressive view of the Capitol, even though they see only the depth and not the breadth of the huilding. In the section hounded by B strest | rorth, Massachusetts avenne and counties was evidently recognized warranted, for no attempt was made to compel an answer. His response was elicited through indirection and thus an issue was avoided, the out- come of which would probably have been damaging to the prestige of the investigating committee. Congress has no jurisdiction what- ever over strictly State affairs. It has no power to probe local politics. It can with full right delve into all mat- ters pertaining to the nomination and election of Senators and Representa- tives, and Into matters likewise con- cerning the election of the President and Vice President. Upon the strict- Iy State field, however, it cannot tres- pass. In this present case the State and Federal campaigns were intimately associated, through the alignment of the factions. The names of Mr. Vare and Mr. Beldleman were connected as candidates respectively for the sen- atorial and the gubernatorial nomina- tions.- Likewise the names of Mr. Pegpeér and Mr. Fisher were asso- inclu- | % and daundry plant of the ho- | the plan | to | on | It has | | prolongation of the session in order | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. pairs. By a stretch of authority the Senate committee might delve into the governorship campaign expenses on the ground of this connection, but it could hardly go into matters relat- ing to trauds in any county without intrusion upon the purely local fleld. It Is for the State of Pennsylvania, |10 1t desives, to probe the question of | frauds in the governorship nomina- |tion canvass. Evidently, however, there is no disposition to do so. Rev- elations already made regarding the |size of the funds at the disposal {0 the various candidates, three for | the Senate and two for the govern ship, are sufficient. Whether there | will be reform in the electoral ma- chinery of the State is for the people of that commonwealth to determine. | They certainly owe it to themselves [to take cognizance of the matter, | whatever the outcome of this present | Inquiry by the Senate into the cir- cumstances attending the nomination | of a candidate for membership in that | body. | - Ten Cents. Another fight has broken out in Chi- | cago- the city, it will be nemembered, | which asked the Federal Government | tor aid in quelling its gang wars. The | news dispatches tell of this quarrel in | pithy torm: ten men fight ten minutes |tor ten cents, ten policemen arrest ;elgm. four are sent to the hospital | and four to jail, but no one knows ;l‘hfl got the ten cents. When a thin dime will create such a | scene as this it is certainly time for intervention of some kind. The police patrol responding to the riot call used more than ten cents’ worth of gasoline | #nd the hospital care for the four com- | batants will aggregate a good deal | more than a total of two nickels. And besides that the fines for all of the men engaged in the brawl will run into a good many times ten cents. What & funny world this is! = e Long ago a novelist created a | splash in popular interest by printing |the blunt query, “Is Marriage a Fail- ure?” The questfon has now been |put in milder form, “Should Mar- riage Be Abolished?” There seems {to be no answer that will give univer- | sal satisfaction. Young people, how- ever, continue to get married and it would require a highly ingenious form of law enforcement to prevent them from pledging their devotion | according to one form of ceremonial |or another. | = & ———— | ‘Washington, D. C., used to close up |when Congress adjourned. Now the Nation’s Capltal proceeds with busi ness regardless of the Congressional Record and the weather report and demonstrates its right to rank not only as the home of the Govern- ment, but as a metropolis capable of thriving on its own resources JREER——— Critics of the Nationals, who are disgruntled over their present poor showing in the American League race, are prone to forget the thrills they enjoved from the winning of two successive pennants, Representative Madden is abetted by the thermometer in his efforts to keep Congress in session until fts work is done. But he may be be. trayed by his ally any day —_—— et Doubts are being expressed as to | whether Pennsylvania has been hav- ing an election or a game &f politi- cal freeze-out with white chips at a hundred thousand dollars apiece. - B Free use of money in an American election may give rise to a mistaken assumption in Europe that any money paid in debt settlement might be merely wasted in riotous voting. b —oma— In addition to his various other humiliations Newberry now suffers {the indignity of being referred to as a piker. ——— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Song of the Suburbanite. I'm goin’ to town in the, mornin'— S0 it’s good-by, Mary Jane, I'm givin' you solemn warnin’ That we may not meet again. For the coppers will be in waitin’ To arrest me when I park, And the taxicabs will be ratin’ A collision as just a lark. The cost of the gas has risen o whevre it is now no joke, And if 1 don't go to prison T will probably be broke. All danger 1 must be scornin’, For it's u ss to complain. I'm goin’ to town fn the mornin’, So, it's good-] Mary Jane! Trresponsible Prediction. “When I was a littls boy,” remark- ed Senator Sorghum, “my uncle told me I might be President of the United States some day.” “Do you think you have a chance?" “None whatever. Unk was simply one of those long-shot gamblers who are always short on their dope.” Melloncholia. ‘When demagogues so strangely plan And pyrotechnics whizz, What a relief to hear some man Who seems to know his Biz! Inner Conscious Erudition: “Do you understand Einstein's the- ory?” “Certainly,” few. “How do you explain it?” “It's very complicated. If I were to try to explain it, you might be tempted to suspect I didn’t thorough- Iy understand it.” answered one of the Jud Tunkins says he's still waiting to hear where daylight saving has saved anybody a cent on electric light bills. Summer Song. “Knee Deep in June,’ ‘Wrote Riley, long ago. ‘We nearly changed the tune To run, “Knee Deep in Snow!” “When Noah built de ark,” said Uncle Eben, “he missed his chance. ciated in the same manner. There was connection hetween the campaign fund of each membencot. thass two A 1f he had managed dat collection of animals right, he might have been de eriginal B T. Baraup.” i (may we not = C.. TUESDAY, THIS AND THAT TR LT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. “How to Get All the Benefits of a Golf zourla at Home” might be a good title for today's paper If we did not have a scrupulous regard for the truth. Such being the case, however, we must take another title, which shall be “How to Get Some of the Benefits of Golf at Home.” A garden, of course, is our answer. For that peculiar modern creature, the sedentary man, there is no sport in the world quite like the back-yard garden. . Doctors galore have deplored the sedentary fellow, the office worker who cramps his lungs and style over a desk all day long, the executive who orders his car to ride two biocks, the business man who never sees the sun. A variety of exercise has been pre- scribed for the sedentary man. It ranges from golf, the best of all, to morning setting-up exercises, which undoubtedly have their place. The prescription takes in long walks, which very ew indulge 1n, but which many start out to take with a right good will, only to find that the apirit is willing but the flesh weak. Thousands of men have taken up golf, with benefit to their physical and mental health. The tan on their cheeks is but an outward sign of in- ner gaine. Although we have never had & golf club in our hands, we take off our hat to the golfers. In the meantime, what are all we sedentary workers to do who, for one reason or another, have not taken up golf? ok ox % Phe answer has been given. 30 in for gardening, and get some {of the chief benefits of the golf links at_home, The two main gaina from golf, an a non-golfer xees it, are conatitutional exercise and sunshine. A close third is fresh air. The latter two are to be had at home in the garden almost as well as on the golf course. tutional exercise, ix better secured at the ancient game of golf. Yet hecause gardening ix not strenuous as the great American game call golf that?) it is iherefore hetter in some respects for certain persons There ia a type of mind which does not take kindly to traveling several miles to the links and the same dis- tance back again. This specimen of sedentary worker wants to take his exercise near the old dinner bell. To such a one. the garden has a legitimate ~ appeal. Perhaps—who knows?—the garden is but the pre- liminary step toward the golf course. In general, there is no question but that gardening is a good exercise of a particularly mild type for certain persons. If one goes in for garden construction, such as pergolas, ter- races, etc., the work can even become strenuous. We have in mind a certain Army man who has spent his leisure hours in his garden with great henefit. He is a troe * " a superb spacimen of manhood, who demands real exer- cise, and evidently gets it in his garden. * % % ¥ Gardening In ordinary fashion, how- ever, has many benefits for the strict- Iy sedentary person, the man or wom an who undoubtedly does not take enough exercise. This statement remains true, of course, only if the gardener actually ‘The figat, consti- | no | lkes to garden. To putter around for a few minutes each evening is not gardening, and will give no one any particular benefits. To even approach the benefits of golf the gardener must put in as much time in his garden as the golfer does on the links. Stay in your garden all afternoom, tor instance, and our contention, in some measure at least, will be admit- ted, even by the golter. In the first place, the real gardener takes on as tanned a complexion as any golfer can boast. The gardener wes, indeed, the first of the outdoor men. Sun Is a necessity in a garden, not a mere enhancer of the day, as it is_on the links. ‘The tan of the garden is as bene- ficlal as a tan acquired at the sea- shore. It means that nature has built up a fesistance against sun rays, so that future sunshine will help, not burn. Life under the sun is the best liv ing of all. Those who banish sun- shine from their lives voluntarily cut themselves off from the great source of life and health. Yet nothing s more common. Though the days of sealed parlors are gone, men and women all too often fear the direct ravs of the sun and take too many precautions against them. The gardener, as the golfer, is not afrald of sunshine. It makes his plants grow, he knows, and him, too! * kX k The air of the garden, too, is fresh The very smell of earth and growing things is salutary. Proper care of vagetables requires much manual work, while flow require more stooping and bending. The sedentary gardener will refrain from purchasing implements | will allow him to stand erect all the time. Here hix will power comes in. Such a gardener, must mever forget that the garden is. to him, a substi tute for a golf course. He does not get the same swinging exercise nor | the leg work of the golfer, but he does | secure plenty of bending at his fat walst and fine exercise for the legs in_squatting. Therefore the wige amateur garden er will not only realize the necessity for constant stirring or mulching of the soil around his plants, but also will use only tools that make squat- ting down a necessity. A small hand weeder better tool than a hoe wheel itself, or even a grubber arr: on the end of a long stick. It is true that the gardener's legs will get mighty tired. and his head sometimes whirl around, as the saying is. from #0 much stooping. but he will remem ber that it is all good for him. So he will never sit down when | he has the hose in hand. but will | stand up to his task. if he wants to | benefit himself as well as the plants. Thus a garden can be made a reciprocal affair, the gardener help- |ing the plants, and the plants, al though wholly innocent of it, helping the gardener. “Big, and hetter” plants and ier men and women result from intensive gardening. And when the | work is over, one may step into the | house for a shower and shortly there | atter be back in the garden to enjoy | the beauty which he has helped in | creating, whereas the golfer after his | game has only a memory, and often | mot a very pleasant one at that. therefore, is a or a hoe ngement Romantic Story Recalled An important and romantic chapter in the history of American develop- ment ha been rehearsed in comment on the death at the age of 82 of San- ford B. Dole. the Sam Houston of Hawali. Leader of the against the native monarchy, first President of the shortlived isiand re public and territorial governor after annexation, this Hawaii-born son of America played a part in his day that looms larger as time passes. Recollections of Judge Dole as one who “until his last breath helped in many ways to reconcile the natives with the American administration” are recorded by the Birmingham News. hat he succeeded abundantly.” savs the News, “is evidenced by the fact that the Hawailans now are us peace. able as the citizens of any State in this country—-and perhaps ably more so! * * * ble incidents of his political control was when he defied the order of Presi- dent Cleveland that he shouid relin- quish to the black Queen her constitu- tional authority. His action on this oc- casion stamped him as a man of revo- lutionary nature, but one who under- stood the temper of the natives much better than the Government at Wash- ingtol Dole’s unique position as one who “defled the authority of the United States” also is emphasized by the Bangor Commercial, which explains: “The Queen appealed to the United States, and President Cleveland ordered that she be restored to her throne, but Dole, who had become leader in the islands, refused to admit the authority of the United States to intertere. Apparently his position was regarded at Washington as well taken, for no effort was made to enforce the demand made by President Cleveland.” x % X X “He played much the same role in the annexation of Hawail” observes the Pittsburgh Sun. “as Sam Houston did in the annexation of Texas. He was the leader of the foreign element on the Pacific Isles which overthrew Queen Liliuokalani, and beéame later President of the newly established re- public. It was not until 1900. during another administration, that Hawaii became a part of the United States and Dole its first territovial governor. He was the leader in what must cer- tainly have happened at one time or another in the overthrow of the native government by some civilized power.” Of the parallel to the career of Hous- ton, the Brooklyn Fagle remarks: “To be sure, Dole had no San Jacinto in his record, and he and the other sons of missionaries had no Alamo to re- member. But they had deposed Queen Liliuokalani, and they ruled for a time the islands of the Kanakas. Sanford Dole was a good administrator and a man of integrity, who tried, we think to preserve the rights of the native Kanakas in so far as that was com- patible with his ideas of orderly gov- | ernment.” As a member of the Hawailan Leg- islature, says the Springfield Union, “he instituted many reform move- ments, one of which was the so-called ‘bayonet constitution,” which King Kalakaua was forced reluctantly to sign. This,” the Union continues, “stripped the King of many of his royal prerogatives, and it was the at- tempt of Queen Liliuokalani soon after her accession to the throne, to restore the royal privileges and disfranchise the foreign element that resulted in her downfall.”” The Fargo Forum re- fers to Dole as ““one of the great figures of Hawalian history, who wrote a re- markable chapter into the record of the islands,” and describes his career as “picturesque in the extreme of the most dramatic the mid-Pacific section of the world has known.’ * kX% “Dole as Hawaiian and American revolution | consider- | One of the nota- | one| (;f Hfiwaii by Dole’s Death which believ that nent of the ploneer, Senator Morriil of Vermont, “if he could have foreseen future conditions of Hawaii and fu- ture development in means of com- ‘munication, might not have been so pronounced as his utterances show him to have been.” The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times holds that to Dole “must be ascribed the vision of the proper destiny of the islands,” for “through his efforts the ‘crossroads of the Pacific’ are under the authority the United States” and “‘the Ameri- « flag is there to stay.”* The Newark Evening News says “he lived to see his dreamn come true.”” but that “his long life also witnessed the passing of the Hawaiian natives, almost (o the point of extinction. and the making of the fslands the home of many races, predominantly vel- low.” The News observes that “‘there Hawaii stands today, still a problem that has not heen entirely worked out."” a vigorons oppo: * X % X With the explanatory statement that “Mr. Dole was pre-eminent as a law yer and citizen of respectability in the islands during the reigns of Kin, Kalakaua and Queen Lilinokalani the Springfield Republican tells of his inspiration. “He carried along the Hawafian republic llke a patriotic American outlander, awaiting the op- portunity to bring it under the Ameri- can flag. Hawaii, ax an independent state, was incapable of self-defense against any naval power without American_support, and Japan very much feared by the small white minority in the islands. Whether Mr. Dole made a_complete job of the an nexation to the United States no one can say positively even now. Hawail is at the ‘crossroads of the Pacific’ and its fate will always depend on the nature of the peace in (hat ocean or, whenever war comes, on the power that can concentrate the strongest naval force in its waters. As an em- pire builder, in & small way, Mr. Dole brought us a liability rather than a finality.” 3 “In Hawall Insate vears.” says the Detroit News, “he has taken on the attributes of A founder, and in time, no doubt, his tradition will becomg that of a sort of George Washington of the islands. He was a type neces. sarily rare among the generality of Americans, a business pioneer with a flair for colonial government. The magnitude .of his place in Hawatian annals is not readily appreciable here, In Honolulu his passing is regarded as a great loss.” THINK IT OVER There's Still & Chance . By William Mather Lewis, Srcsident George Washington Umiversits il “I wish I had lived in the good old days when America was being de- veloped, when railroads were being built and the telephone and auto- mobile and everything else was be- ing invented. There’s no chance to do anything . now"—so spoke a col- lege boy. Has everything been done? A Brit- ish periodical under the title, “What's ‘Wanted,” recéntly listed some unfilled needs. * Here are a few of them: A method of conveying speech directly and readably to paper, harnessing of the sun’'s magnetic rays, a noiseless airplane, instantaneous color photog- raphy, and so on down a long list. verything been done? Note the d traffic problem in our con- gested city streets. We need motor roller skates on which we will be quickly transported from home to-of- fice, and which we can hang on the hook with our hats. Has everything been done? One undred thousand people will die from r in America thisyear. Countless ! » JUNE 22, 1926. NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM LG M. ILLUSTRATED AFRICA. Willlam D. Boyce. Rand, McNally & Co. The first-rate news reporter has within him the possibilities of a star travel writer should he choose to turn himself in this direction. The powers acquired by the one become the prime equipment of the other. De- veloped by a long, practical experi- ence, the news gatherer and writer passes in good time from craftsman to artist. At this ripe and mellow stage he is in full possession of a keen sense of values. He is ex- pert in the art of condensation. He is alert to the dramatic highlights of the matter in hand. He is pictorial in the use of words and habitually ia pursuit of such themes as are cal- culated to excite prompt and general interest. He is of easy approach to men and events. He is essentially of nomadic turn, ready for the new field, wherever it may lie, and and alive to the fact that he must reach it first. These powers and attain- which | ments acquired in the pursuit of the top-notch of news writing become ax well the surpassing equipment of the travel writer. A familiar case in point, where dozens might be cited, is our own #rank (Carpenter, who passed out from the newsrooms into the wide world of travel, where he gained high distinction for himself, becoming as well a source of joy and usefulness to thousands of readers. The training as journalist served here abundantly and without modification in the fleld of travel writing. William 1. Boyee, another well Known news writer, in “Illustrated Africa” comes forward triumphantly in support of the claim of the pressroom as the bhest of all schools in general writing, A true news man, thix, who starts upon his wide jour- neyings under the spur of finding a scoop.” Col, Roosevelt had done some big-game hunting in Africa and, in characteristic fashion, had come away with the entire continent in his pocket. Photographers and scien- tists had followed him in clear clean-up of the situation. Some- thing new, something newer, must he thought-ont to earry across into public interest this writer's real con- ern in the African country, * 1 Look into Africa balloons from which to photograph the wiid life of jun- gles and plaing Pictures from ihe air were new at that time, and the spectacular character of the nnder taking made It excellent newspaper copy.” This copy grew into the book in lLand. Here is the entire continent embraced in a single volume and with- out any effect of crowding. Con- densed, dramatic, pictorial, the values %0 estimated as to make straight ap- peal to the reader—sauch are the jour- nalistic qualitiex that turn “[lus- trated Africa” into an exciting adven- ture for the reader and into an amaz- ing body of informatién as well. Hun- dreds of pictures supplement the text and support the title. These are of inestimable value. Pictures and maps are indispensable to the traveler who goes abroad by wayv of hooks. These added to a text that Is wholly ob- |i1 tive and tangible make of the whele a book of such good and ac- ceptable substance that one looks about for the fitting word to cover it. ““Monument.” “compendium,” come to mind—but these are so overused as to have become perverted and feeble. | Moreover, there is the trail of death ’in the former, and the stodginess of packed learning in the latter. Here is something wholly alive and some thing. besides, whose information is not stowed away, rather is it out- coming in unbroken challenge to in- tergst and enjoyment A book of splendid content and deeply expert projection. a X ok % IN SPAIN. Bv Boni & Liveright. In “Virgin Spain” the mood of the writer is uppermost. his method so subordinated as to seem lacking alto- mether. Rather has method here been converted to a new use, giving to prose writing something of the poetic form and effect. And this is as it should be, for it is as a poet, seeing visions, that Waldo Frank looks out upon the lberian Peninsula. It fs the soil of Spain, not primarily its history. that has wrought enchant- ment upon this writer. It is the land of mountains and plains and hills and streams: it is the adjacent seas, the magic of its white sunlight. the nec- tar of its atmosphere—these melting into a beautiful unity. into a com manding personality, that have pos- sessed him. Spain is the body of an inscrutable spirit that from age to age hak had its way with the peoples that !have come and gone under its do- { mirion. Such is the mood, such the | vision. under which Mr. Frank trav erses the country, gathering hundreds of swift sketches, all of which are traced back invariably to the order- ing spirit_of the land fiself. Frag- ments of history come and go—all of these. 100, not attributable to man, the commonly recognized maker of his- . but to the domination of this great spirit over the destiny of men. The Moors, who for hundreds of vears held the land in bondage to its alien civilization. The Moors were not con- quered by the Franks and the Visi- goths. Rather did they give way un- der the soft seduction of southern An- dalusia, first captured and first set tled' by them. It was thie siren of the south that sapped the pioneering strength of the Moors, that drugged the .strenuous urge of the Arab to overcome into the sluggish ease of settled dwelling places. So from point o point, whether these points cover periods of history or the life of the common people, past and present, or some of the features of the land itself, thi= writer moves in an exultation of spirit that converts the Spain of our common acceptance into a poem of appreciation into a symphony of de- riptive writing that is as novel as it is beautiful and stimulating. * ok X % PORTO RICO. Knowlton Mixer. Macmillan Company. A study of Porto Rico whose single purpose is to provide useful informa- tion to Americans on this relatively new member of the great common- wealth of the Union. A slight back- ground of history and natural re- sources gives the reader an under- standing of certain current aspects of the social, economic and political life of the island. The study is ad- mirably cledt, not only in its statement of the problems 'that are constantly rising to meet the administrators of island_ affairs, but it is equally -ad- mirable_in -its appreciation of these problems. Interesting accounts of the native element, the source of many puzzling questions, give the student and the reader a cl and useful view of the nature of the undertaking in hand. An excellent summary gives an outlook upon “Twenty-five Years of American Co-operation.” An appendix offets valuable points for the traveler —roads, hotels, clubs, cost of living. It summarizes the organic laws and gives statistics of labor and lists the cities in order of théir size. A bibM- ography points the way for further study of a subject that is clearly im- portant as information to American citizens on the mainland. A condensed and well organized body of important g‘{ormltlon on the subject of Porto ico. : VIR Waldo Frank. The thousands will die or be incapacitated by the white plague, tuberculosis. Some one must find the remedy. Young man, don't he pessimistic. Get to work. There is plenty still to be dome. . ' (Convrisht, 10289 _- ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. ered in the solar system besides the | sun and the planets?—&. C. ! A. The solar system includes the | sun, the planets and their satellit the planetoids, the comets and the | meteors. Q. Why was the Arc de Triomphe bullt?>—V. H A. The Arc de Triomphe was erect- ed to commemorate the victories of Napoleon. He commenced the con- struction of the memorial in 1806. It} was completed by Louls Philippe in | 1836. On its inner walls are inscribed the names of 96 of Napoleon's great. | est victories during his period of | glory. | Q. Was the Liberty Bell ever in| ew Haven. Conn.”-—-D. B. A. The Liberty Bell, mounted on a passenger truck with passenger plat- forms at each end and surrounded with railings of iron and nickel, passed through New Haven in June, 1903, on | its way to Boston in celebration of | the anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill. | Q. How long have shepherd dogs heen known to live in the Rhine dis- trict>—C. M. T, A. Cornelius Tacitus, the historian, refers to the “wolflike dog’ of that district. The breed has been known in Alsace for 1,000 years. Q. What fs the total circulation of all the newspapers in this country and Canada?—T. L. P A. The estimated aggregate circu lation of all daily newspapers (United States and Canada), 1926, is 33,000,000, Q. How can sealing wax be made at home?— K. D. A. Fqual parts of shoemaker's wax | and resin make a good sealing wax. | It will not tempt mice and insects as | paraffin does. Q. What is the difference between sherbet and musse?—G. A. A. Sherhet is a waterice to which | a small amount of gelatin or egg white has heen added. Frappe is a water-ice frozen to the consistency of mush. Mousse is made of heavy cream heaten until stiff, sweetened, flavored and frozen. Q. What fs the vield of crops in the Rio Grande reclamation area”—A. D. A. The Department of the Interior the total gross yleld of crops during the past vear on the Rio Grande reclamation project in New Mexico and Texas, including lands ir- rigated in the Republic of Mexico, totaled $12,605,000. Based on the an nual crop report just completed the Elephant Butte and El Paso districts produced crops last vear valued at $10,680,000. This ix an increase of approximately $1.000,000 over crop re- turns of the previous year in spite of a $500,000 crop loss due to floods along the Rio Grande. sa | @ What percentage of doctors in the United States live in citie B F A. The United States Public Health Service savs that, taking the country {large spot I Q. Are any heavenly hodies consid- | sicians are located in citles and towns of 5,000 or more population.: Q. Are raiiroad cross-ties made of anything except wood?—R. 8. M. A, he Bureau of Rallway FEeco- nomics says that there ars various kinds of substituies for wooden cross- tles being tested daily. & and other substitute ties are wused in Uganda and other parts of Afriea where wooden tles cannot he used on account of ants and other insects. Q. How long has SOS heen the universal distress call?—A. B. A_Tt replaced CQD in 1911 Q. How does the number of banks comprising the Noaw. York Clearing House Aseociation compare with last year?—B. B. A. The number was reduced from 40 to 36 In the vear ended Septemher 30, 1925. Q. Ix pure | tain pen points A. The division of mineral tech nology of the Bureau of Mines sayva that pure iridium, as far as it knows, is not used on fountain pen tips. The exact percentage used ix a trade secret with individual manufacturers some may clalm to use a very high percentage. However, it is mostly used as an alloy. It is emploved in combination with platinum and pal- ladium. dinm used LB for foun- Q. How and how soon does a sun- spot affect the earth’—E. D. A A. The Naval Observatory says the fact has been established that some connection exists between sunspots and magnetic storms on the earth, such storms generally, though not always, occurring when there is a near the central meridian of the sun. These storms frequently recur at intervals of 27.3 days. which is the period of the sun's synedic revolution. The average time of the commencement of a magnetic storm is about 30 hours after the passage of the spot over the central meridian of the sun. Q. How long has the Western Union berne that nams B A. It was originally the New York Mississippi Valley Printing Tele graph Co.. having been formed in | April, 1851. In November, 1855, an agreement between this company gnd the Erle & Michigan included a change of name to Western Union Telegraph Co. On April 4, 1856, the New York Legislature passed an act changing the name. Letters are going every minute from our Free Information Bureau in Washington telling readers whatever they want to know. They are in an- suwer to all kinds of queries. on all Kkinds of subjects. from all kinds of peo- ple. Make use of thia free service which The Evening Star is maintaining for wou. Its only purpose is to help you. | and we want you to benefit from it Get the habit of writing to The Eve- | ning Star Information Burcau. Fred eric J. Haskin, director, Washington, & as a whole. 63 per cent of the phy- BY PAUL ¥ Germany has just passed through her gravest crisis since the fall of the Hohenzollerns. The vote upon the question of confiscating all the real estate of the Kaiser and other Ger- man kings and princes lacked 7.000.- 000 of the 20,000,000 required to effect the purpose of the plebiscite, but, for | in the minds not only of rovalty but of supporters of stable government in the German republic Under cover of Kaiser's property, confiscating the there was, accord- of the Sociallsts and Communists toward the confiscating of all private property. affecting stability of all na- tions, since that is the ultimate hope of Communism throughout the world. Therein lay the real seriousness of the event, rather than the possibility of the royal loss of property value at & total of $300,000,000. The voting aroused intense conflicts between supporters of the republic and the radical Socialiste and Com- munists, on the one hand, and the re- actionary royalists, on the other. Mil- lions of anti-royalists, however. voted agalnst the confiscation on principle. objecting to taking any private prop- erty without compensation. even under pretense of devoting it to the support of war vietims. * k%% Confiscation is a very different act from expropriation. by right of emi nent domain. in case expropriation is sincerely and honestly conducted. Mexico. under the present regime. professes to have merely expropriated the large landholders’ estates, com- pensating therefor with bonds on a valuation 10 per cent higher than the tax assessment had been on the land. The Mexican seizure of the land ostensibly is for the henefit of the peons. to whom it fs being sold on long terms of crop payments, so as to make them independent farmers. The complaint against that act lies in the questioning of the real value of the bonds. Many claim that since the bonds are unsalable the transactio amounts to a confiscation or rohbery of the landed estate. Lincoln “con fiscated’ the slaves as an act of war. Government and public highways and vailroads have power to confiscate, but only by paying full values. In the case of the roval castles of Ger many there was to be no compensa- tion whatever, the argument being | that thev really belonged to the coun- try—not legally nor technically, but morally—and the Kaiser's govern- ment had brought so much suffering and loss upon the people that they had emple justification, they claimed, in taking over the luxurious castles and other property for the benefit especially of the wounded and pov- erty-stricken soldiery and other vic- tims of the war. The election occurred on Sunday, and the partisans rallied the voters with a Bible text (Isaiah. 1.13): “Thy princes are rebellious and companions of thieves; everv one loveth gifts and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatheriess, neither doth the cause of his widow come unto them.’ R While the effort falled, it leaves be. hind a bitterness which will not im- mediately he forgotten in German pol- itics. The whole undertaking ix lik- ened to the end of French feudalism at the outbreak of the French Kevo- lution. The defense of the Kaliser concerning his legal title to the prop- which he had inherited or had acquired in his private caacity, reads almost. parallel ta the defense of the ] feudal lords -and of the church hold- ers of great estates under the attack of the Revolutionists. The ¥ b movement eventually went far beyond what the instigators originally had intended or hoped for. On the day before the real out- growth of the confiscatory uprisiag in the French Assembly a resolution was introduced deprecating the disturb- ances of % peasantry, including' the burning and robbing of feudal. castles and declaring “that the ancient laws still stand and ought to be carried out till the authority of the nation has abrogated or modified them.” I that resojution had , say historians, it ¢ have made a between Assembly and the a while, the crisis caused uneasiness ing to the cables, an aggressive step | D.c. BACKGROUND OF EVENTS . COLLINS. masses, who were incensed azainst their tyrant feudal lords. Bui it was postponed, and that evening 'August 4. 1789) Vicomte desNoailles sprung into the limelight by proposing a measure that would abolish all dis- crimination or privilege in taxation of classes. In the intense excitement of | the debate which followed. a member aroused the people to frenzy by as cendinz the tribune in the costume of a Breton peasant and defiantly aseert ng: You might have prevented the burnings of the chateaux if vou had been more prompt in declaring that the terrible weapons they contained. which had tormented the people for centuries. were to be annihilated by the compulsory purchase vou had or- dered. The people. impatient to ob tain justice and weary of oppression strive to destroy the title deeds, those monuments of the barbarism of our forefathers. * * * Which of us in this enlightened age would not make |an explatory pyre ol these infamous parchments’ and would not bear the torch to make a sacrifice of them upon the altar of public good?" * ok %% In the height of the debate, the Clericals of the French Assembly | undertook to procure a modification. |to save the tithes of the church, whereupon Buzot. the future chiefl of the Girondins. took up the re- |bound againsi that reaction by de =laring. “The property of the church belonged by right to the nation.” That phrase at once became the keynote of the Revolutionists until they had effected the confiscation of church property, upon the ground of moral right and title. In the same spirit, the German advocates of con- fiscation have sounded the note that the property of the princes is, by right, the property of the nation which the rulers had ruined. And so the French feudal system of ill-gotten wealth for the lords. and serfdom for the peasants, came 1o it= end through confiscation. in a movement which, on August 4. 178 | had begun as a measure to purchas upon a 30-yesr pavment plan. It ended Aug 11 by seizure without compensation, when public excite- ment had carried the leaders hevond their original purposes. The essen- tial clauses of the measure as finally passed within a week, were as fol- National Assembly entirely vs the feudal system, and de- crees that the feudal rights, which are derived from real or personal mainmorte and personal servitude, and those which represent them. a I aholished without indemnity. * ¢ * Al feudal jurisdictions are sup pressed without indemnity. * * * Tithes of all kinds and dues, which take the place of them. under what- ever name they may be known and levied * * * are abolished.” * x * % Conditions are not entirely parallel hetween the feudal peasants of France at the outbreak of the Rev- olution and of the citizens of the Republic of Germany today, in that the French prior to their uprising were still under the official power of their lords, while the Germans now are out from under the Kalser's scepter. But the financial conditions are nearly alike, since the Kaiser and the princes and minor kings hold vast property which the Republicans claim “by right belongs to the na- tion,” and which is paying no taxes to the national treasury, nor afford- I ing hospitalization for the victims of i the “Kalser's War." The antipathy of the rench | against the feudal lords increased as i the Revolution progressed, and whén the reactionaries persisted in at- tempts to undo the acts of the Na- tional Assembly of 1789 and 1790. the Legislative Assembly of 1792, through its feudal committee, formulated a decree, passed June 18, confirming the confiscation. In the debate at that time, Dorliac declared that all feudal “rights” were “due to the sov- ereignty which the lords had ac- quired by force.” In that debate it was clear that the national interests were In conflict with those of & privi- teged minority—and the majority in- terests ultimately triimphed over technica) titles to the vast estatan. (Copyright, 1926, by Paul ¥, Cotiss)