Evening Star Newspaper, June 25, 1926, Page 8

8 THE EVENING S'J",\ijem Department With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY....... THEODORE W. NOYES. The Evening Star Newspaper Company Bustness Office _ATth Stoand Pen New York Ofice Chirage Offie tropean. Office Ave T 14 R Foeland The Eveumg St ng” edition the aty ut 60 45 ce v only ix made by carier at the end of «ach month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. aryland and Virginia. Daily and Sundas <0.00° 1 ma Datly ol 300 1 mo Sunday ouly 33001 mo 0 =8¢ 1s T All Othe | s States and Canada. S1 00 X .00 $1.00 1 wo [T Tmo Datls Daily S'inday <100 only ABe Associated Press. ss 15 oxclusively enttiled 0 the use for renubication of 'l news dis- atches credited to it or not otherwise cred- red in this paper #rd also the Jocal news published herein Al rights of publication of speclal dispatches lierein are also reserved Member of the The Associated P The Farm Relief Defeat. Now that houses of Congress have rejected the Haugen farm vel bill, the naving prac tie: by vote majority further maneuvering sirable, President there is no majority for a farm subsidy means hot Senate vesterd; v shelved asure a si there is no oceasion for this unde the o p unsound project before It is now evident in the two hot law. Not even by of concession to the cotton growers of the South could the Senate | proponents of the bill secure enough votes to put it over jections to the unsoundness of its fun- damental principle of price-fixing What the political effects of this measure to solve the farm relief prob- lem by pricefixing will be is problem atical. The two parties were fairly evenly divided in the Senate yester day. The vote for the bill on the final test comprised twenty-threg Republi- cans, fifteen and Farmer-Labor The against the bill comprised twenty-four tepublicans twenty-one Demo ts favoring the bill were from the Middie West, the West and the South. Thus sectional lines rather than party lines druwn The West, aided purtion of the South, demands this form of farm re lief. Insistence upon it to the exclu of other measures and mo port, tailure of ct, Democrats one Senator. vote and cr Those have been by« n tive ain of country-wide sup more consery s ce has resulted for the present all legislation on this and the immediate prospect that Congress will adjourn wi action. With legislative ative, thers adjournment of Co the farm rvelief item of the ogram settled in the neg v early recent is reason to lovk f The ferring to the ways and means committee a sine di ress action of the House adfourn esolution was the result Dproponents vivers and harbors ap reapportionment and pending. With the prospect of farm relief action de- cidedly dimmed. it is likely coalition will lose its cohiesion Adjournment without action on subject ead 1o« realignng political in the keenest w agricuitural W act that terday’s vore in the Nenate of a coalition farm relief, propriations, other comprisin measures now that this this may of factors area of intere: this was in cord with the views and wishes of the rdministration may canse repercussion now and in 1928 In the congress.onal Fail certain to iw o of culture is the « elections of next this subject is ding i Where <ue that part the conntry agri Vet of pmizant industry strength 1 relief s character 1= to e expected 1o ve I f L. The from chamnged no me m, u B elections next ¥ not tuaiion w in the I certainly present Congress, Whateve Coessor may do with a view t o the presidential contest of two vears hence Deruands 1 in large degree on natural desire toiler 1 the essent \ tinancie Tor finan toiler is ab held to entirely s would be impractical financier may e of great so hods of produces i forminiating distribution, | neither Civilization is still iting a correct co-ording- tlon between the brain and the hand > - Dork nor potatoes aw Wihen the public is fo; issues cost sibly of foud jumps the reminded that there be cansidered of more fmportance than the wet and dry is - Free Sites Will Be Too Costly. In planning the location of the new public huildings program consideration under the five.yenr 1 he given recently voted Congress <hould to the future needs of the Government. To this end sites should be selected (hat will per tter extensions. An op, portunity itself in the Mall- Avenue triangle. which may be taken Aas a whole and treated as a single area, within which the immediately required structures may be set, with ample space for additions as the de partments and housed in them require. A start was made in the develop ment of this principle when, a long time ago, the five squares at the western flank of the triangle were taken, to be treated as one space. Had the process been continued during the years of waiting for actual build- ing provision to bLe made the land could have been secured at much lower cost than at present. But precious time lost, and the ex- pense of buying this land. which is =0 obviously suited to publie building purposes, is now certain to be greater. This consideration, however, should not prevail. The Government should nat proceed to despoll the public parks because of its own default in making proper provision, and because of the need to obtain sites within which proper opportunity offers for later extensions. A The plan for a.new gigantic Com~ it of offers bureans was .June 25. 1928 | Princivle. . Editor ) cents | sent by mall or | that | in the face of ob-| in]| | back itx | Building, with a i of space, to be {located within the Mall, offends seri- ! against the park-preservation If it ix located there the | temptation will be incessant to add to i as the depurtment grows, until it will spread far over the area, crowd mg toward the center, extending on voth fanks. Those whose official duties cause {them to see only the immediate need new truction for department bureau requirements are apt 1o lose sight of the greater consideration Cupital development. Every de { partment is at present congested and | scattered. The public work is ham- ! pered. Tmmediate relief is required. | But there is a factor more important {ihan the prompt cure of these condi- {tions, and that is the permanent wel tare of the national city. If this matter of bullding emplace ment is not settled right now, condi- tions will develop in later years that will demand correction at heavy cost. If the parks are filled with buildings the characteristic that distinguishes | Waushington from all other Amevican cities and gives it indeed the lead in | the world will be destroyed. i No such urgency for building sites | that cost nothing at present exists as to justify the further invasion of the parks and the neglect of an obvious {duty to correct a bad condition along | the Capital’s principal thoroughfare, |the historic Pennsylvania avenue, which can Le redeemed from its un | sightliness only through the use of ! suthern side by the location there {of the structures which the Govern- ] vequires in its proper and effi- i million square feet ously of e and of its ment ient housing - Bathing Pools. Washington's hope of splashing in the cool waters of municipal bathing pools the latter part of this Summer were ended yesterday, when the House appropriations committee dropped the item from the final deficiency bill be- cause the divector of public buildings and public parks and the Park Plan- ning Commission could not agree on | either the sites or the number of the | pools. The wuthorization law, passed by Congress last month, provided for two pools at w cost of §345,000. The loca tion was left to the director of publi- {buildings and parks. with the .ap of the commission. Contro- developed between residents here, the director and the park com nission. Finally, despite the specifi- catfon of the law for two pools. the commission approved a plan for sev- leral pools. located in various sections proval versy |of the city. In view of these developments the House committee very properly fused to make appropriations for the construction of the pools. And there the project rests. If Washington is to have municipal Lathing pools. which is clearly the in tention of Congress and the desire of the residents, there must be unit: of ction. The commission. in working out its own plan. without regard to the provisions of the law. has pushed the project hack into its preliminary stages, because if this new plan is to prevail, the whole matter will have to be taken up again by Congress It is conceded that there are many difficulties in selecting the sites. But with all the difficulties encountered in this phase of the matter, it seems superfluous to court additional worries delavs by throwing the wroject into Congress for the enuction f a new authorization law Washington must have pools for the | preservation of the health and safety | and for the enjoyment of its residents {Congress has shown a sympathetic tude und has authorized ti of the pools. { need for u new law Washington asked for two pools and | supposedly procured two pools. That Uis ull there is to it i re- jand by con is no | | { | The various agencies charged with {carpying ont the wishes of Congr A the people should not cause fur- {iher del It is impossible now to secure appropriations to begin wg the present Summer. But | k | during THE EVENING cation in its present form. It I8 con- trary to the public demand that all the proceedings of the Board of Edu- cation save those relating to person nel, which are by the organic act spe- cifically permitted to be discussed be hind closed doors, should be held in the open. Secret sessions of the Board of Edu- cation under the guise of committee meetings would be certain 1o lead to distrust and dissension. The Board of Education is the representative of the community in the administration of the public school system. It should be as open in its procedure as any mu- nicipa! legislative body, such a bourd of aldermen or a common coun cil. It should be as open in its work as Congress. which only its doors on extraordinar, sions in the consideration matters ap- pointments and treaties, Secret sessions breed suspicion and distrust. They are contrary to the spirit of American institutions. 1f there are factors of disuzreement with- in the organization they will be inten- sified rather than corrected by the closing of the doors. Outside of the question of personnel there is no con ceivable occasion excluding the public from observation the pro ceedings in person or by the proxy of newspuper representatives. ‘The Board of Mducation will be ill- advised to adopt this suggested niode of transacting its business will well proposal as closes o of of for of be advised to dismiss this contrary 1o the spirit of the law of organization and the spirit the public’s keen and rightful intevest in all details pertain- ing to public school administration .o to o of Caillaux has again been offered the position of finance minister. His ex- perience has not demonstrated any eplsodes of distinguished success, but the main requirement seems at pres- ent to be the ability, so abundantly shown by Caillaux, to stand punish ment ————— The Ku Klux Klan puts up a good street parade, but even the street pa- rade has to be scrutinized under sus picion of prepaganda. One of the ad vantages enjoved by the circus is its freedom from all hint of insidious per- suasion. political, scientific tarian S Oratorical contesis have been pro moted with most encouraging results 1t contidentiy a statesmanship of the future will not be measured by its in throwing ink wells is expe proficiency The Government evidently bases re tirement figures on some abstruse cal culation in support of a mysterious of the cost creases living automatically de- S — It is a wise f 0 a general fireworks display instead of intrusting tie celebration of Inde pendence day to a group of small boys In the backyard — ree—as Prohibition authorities at least hopeful that means will be found to prevent ordering champagne by the bathtub instead of by the hotile | e the | are Prices made store a problem to trade it back corner grocery a for the corner ] PPenns ed no dignity whatever centennial prepara e, vivania's politicians have add qui 10 the Sel A crime wave has so far disappoint ed the hope that it ehb of it own accord will e SHOO' TING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Phlivverph The motors crash! windows siash’ The traffic 'hat uny driver slightly Gets thither mixed with hence! And =4, when through the city street My way | have explored i o dense rash Congress convenes again the director the park commission 4 be ready o submit immed Iy plans for the two pools authorized by law. If this is done work can he started and Washingtonians will be able to enjoy safe bathing at the he | ginning of next Summer. should be when and s te- Dressmakers forewarn- ted. Electric-lighted swimming |threuten 1o establish the | bathing suit as full evening costume. " No Secret School Sessions. A proposal has been made in the | Board of Education to create in addi- [tion to the present committees through Iwhich the organization functions a committee of the whole, the purpose | being to permit procedure in executive session. It has been suggested that by jmeans of this new comittee the oard can transact its most fmportant [ bustness behind closed doors us a com- mittee of the whole and then in epen { session merely ratify the action taken. The organic act which created the Board of Fducation in its present form specifically provided that all ses- {sions of the board should be public, this provision of the law having been adopted to prevent secret sessions, {which had been previously conducted and had caused trouble. At the outset of the reorganization under the new pools one-piece I sav with emphasis complete I'm down on Henry Ford! No doubt his mind is sweet and Kind His vehicles bring pelf. I notice he is not inclined To ride in them himself. T like the man who wins the game With billions safely stored Through foresight keen—but just the same I'm down on Henry Ford Demonstration. “How did vou come to take a hand in this investigation”" “I felt it necessary.” answered Sen- ator Sorghum. *“to do something to show the folks out home that while in Washington, D. ., T am not lutely idle.” abso- Decline of Letters. Our a b ¢'s we used to learn As we prepared for traffic, But our attention now we turn To methods photographic. The movie star works day and night To win approving clamor. 1f she can get her make-up right, She need not mind her grammar. Jud Tunkins says there's no great harm in these short dresses so long as the girls use enough face make-up to render it impossible to identify ’em. Pernicious Precocity. “What kind of licker is this?" law a disposition prevailed on the part of the board to evade the statute by | holding “‘conferences” behimd closed doors, to be followed, as is now pro- posed, by open sessions for conclusive action. These efforts were resisted and the board proceeded in accordance with the statute to hold all its sessions in the open. A few years later the “con- ference” idea was revived and for a period some of the mcest important transactions of the Board of Kduca tion were conducted in executive se: | sion, much to public discomfiture. Re- fcently the Board of Education has met and conducted its business with open doors. Now comes the ‘‘commit- tee of the whole" proposal to the same end of sccret session and subsequent formal ratification in the open. No such program should be follow- ed. It is contrary to the spirit of the erganic act creating the Board of, Edu “It's known as ‘Infant Prodigy, answered Uncle Bill Bottletop. “It lacks refinement, but at the age of a month it delivers more kick than the pre-war product.’” Annual Ordeal. Little Willie is complete As to face and hands and feet. Wonder if he thus will last When July the Fourth is past. Bad Matter Made Worse. “Whisky is rank poison.” “So it is,” agreed Uncle Bill Bottle- top. "It was so bad in the first place, I sometimes think there was no use of i | {uture STAR, WASHINGTON, D. G THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Yerhaps the reader finds himself In the following condition T would like to take up garden- ing.” he ay say, “but I can't get interested in it Similarly, Charles Darwin lament- ed in his later years that he had not devoted a certuin portion of each day to listening 1o good music. Gardening is the music of out-of- doors. It is beauty to the mind turning in that direction: it s hard work to the muscnlar; it is food on the din- ner platter to others. Gardening is almost anything in reuson that the individual chooses to make it specially the modern gavdener has the whole world to choose from, so varied and inten sive has been the search for new plants during the recent yea The best way we know of to be- come interested In gardening is to ctually begin the work. As it is rather late to begin this season, per- haps it will be well to defer the start until next vear. Let these notes, then, be u sort of jog to the memory, an incentive, we can but hope, to him who would garden but who cannot get inter- ested in it Psychologists long ago pointed out that “the best way to learn to like a thing is actually to fall to and do it, It was noticed in pedagogy that children might hate a given subject with fervor. but that most of them fter studying it for a certain length ! time would come to like it There would of course, reconcilables An extremely mathematically incline vouth might not c for the study of grammar and vice versa the child with a leaning toward liter- might shy from algebra geometry u Sy Lecame quite apparent to that 80 or more per cent Yet. educat of a class, if cially if the members were giv an opportunity to use their muscu- lar systems during the work, would become tolerant, it not actually enthusiastic There is, therefore, dear children, a great deal more method than mad- ness in the daily classroom life. Learned men and women studied out what is good for you and are attempting to zet you inter- ested in wonderful things not, then, too harshly of them® It the man thinks he would like to garden, but somehow other cannot work up @ proper in- terest, he should begin to apply this elementary principle, when he would find it to work out very well, in- deed The principle is simply that of the it the | proper pride (call it conceit if you will) of the average human being in what he does. The important word in the foregoing sentence, be it noted, is the word “he.” What you do, what vou take up. what vou put yourself on record as attempting, is far more important, in most cases, than what the other fel- low does, or takes up., or attempts theory that when a person quits work | to_do. It is an axiom of human behavior that 99 44-100 per cent of men (and | who contributes | | | | { | | | i | ! i | trampled upon it in 19 perhaps 90 per cent of women) do not willingly back out of an under- taking if the eyes of others are upon them e Wherefore it may be see readily that the best way to learn to become and | kept at it, and espe- | have | Think | interested in gardening is actually to take up the worl You can have only an academic regard for this ancient | pastime, “so long as you only read |about it. Next Spring get a packet of seed, say of dwarf marigolds, and follow the instructions on the packet, plant ing them in a row along the side- walk in the back yard. Regard ttem as a test of your determination, your will power, rather than a bit of gar- dening. What you are after now is to work up enthusiasm as well as flow- ers. The blooming of the flowers will, in turn, pep up your enthusiasm, if you are at all normal, and we feel confident that all readers here are so. Especially when some neighbor com- pliments you upon your marigolds, will you puff out your chest and begin 1o regard yvourself as a gardener. The joke of it, of course, will be that one can scarcely fall with mari- golds, but you will not know that. A well known instructor upon the man- dolin once declared that he could teach a monkey to play that instru- | ment, but that, of course, does not | militate against the proper pride of |the animal in its unusual ability! So it is with gardening We have seen hard-boiled guys, as the phrase 1s, who scorned the (so it seemed to them) effeminate business of growing flowers, become the most enthusiastic gardeners of all, as the result of bemng forced to take care of their wife's garden for a time. * * This leads us to 4 practical for gardeners to induce other members of | their fumilies to get interested in their hobl There is human spirit, way the to residue of good in suy what you will { the contrary. Take the average hus band, for instance. He is not a bad | sort of chap, ladies, and if you treat | him gently, as the song says, he will | do you no harm. | On the contrary, trust your flow [garden to his tender mercies while }_\‘uu are away at the seashore, you may be surprised to find him a full- fledged gardener when you come home. | Perbaps the sweet peas will have | withered at the root, and the canary | bird starved to death from lack of | seed, but Friend Husband will point with de to some wonderful asters and insinuate that they are solely the work of his helping hand. This is your chance! Tell him without a blush ti i never in all your life saw such flow- ers; that the grand old man of horti- ; culture, the late Luther Burbank, {rever achieved such results in all his | long and usef fe. | Do not be afraid to lie, lady, for you are creating gardener, adding another to the long list of those who like to dig in the soil. Let us remember that city men and womep. in thousands of instances, have been divorced by the tyranny of conditions from sunshine and fresh air, the feel of the soil, the splash of rain It is not easy, in all cases quire these race heritages, but can be done along the lines we have suggested. If you are not interested in gardening, but have a secret hankering for it, begin to garden, in no matter how ciumsy a fashion, and he chances are that you will evoive into a gardener, even if some will not grant your claim. to ac much WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. a glut- eat in the The McNary-Haugen bill ton for punishment. Its de ut nobody Wants | gepate yvesterday is the third succes. loon. | sive knockout the scheme has suffered the past three Con <mushed time in 19 8 again in 1 during years, the proposition the 31924, kicked it to 1425, and has now The meas we always bobbed up in different form. Bui its bone and Sinew re mained unchanged. Fver it was the axpression of the farming West's dis content with the existing economic order. Under Senator MeNary's stub horn leadership fari relief, on corn belt lines, this week came nearver to vealization than on any provious oc- casion Only four votes of Southern Democratic Senators stood between victory and defeat. Had they heen cast for the bill, instead of against it, the vote would have heen 43 to 41 in its favor. The McNary-Haugenites counted on the Dixie quartet to the bitter end. But when the show down came they were aligned with the enemy * ¥k Secretary Hoover, at the head of a delegation of distinguished Washing- ton officials, including the entire per- | onnel of the United States Shipping Board, v % atiend tomorrow’s launch ing of the steamship Malolo at Cramps’ shipyard in Philadelphia. The Malolo is the largest and fastest high powered passenger vessel ever con- tructed on this side of the Atlantic She will displace 22,000 tons and have a speed of more than 22 knots. Built for the American-Hawalian Steamship Company, for service hetween Francisco and Honolulu. the Malolo will_cut the round-trip time between California and the Hawailan Islands a full four days. Although designed for firstclass passenger and cargo traffic, she is convertible readily into a troop transport. alrplane carrier or armored cruiser. Gun foundations are part of the Malolo's styucture. It will be practicable to install a battery of 12 sixdnch guns and four 3-nch or 44nch anti-aircraft guns aboard her. The new queen of the Pucific will enter service fn the Spring of | Ry Comdr. “Dick” Byrd. 1 N.. afr- plane conqueror of the North Pole, will win the lecture audiences he is about to address throughout the country, not by eloquence, but with his captivating modesty They'll forget all about his platform shv- ness, halting speech and unfa- miliarity with the arts of the spell- binder when they hear him shower praise on “those great fellows’ who, according to Byrd, really did the historic trick farthest north. Comdr. Byrd’s moving pictures of his prepa- rations at Spitzbergen and his encirclement of the Pole, shown *for the first time before a Washington audience on June 23, are thrilling beyond all description. Unforgetta- ble is the arrival of Amundsen's Norge at Spitzbergen, just on the eve of Byrd’s hop-off for the Pole. Equally splendid is Capt. Amund- sen’s sportsmanlike, unaffected and Jjoyous welcome of Byrd, when the Young American returned with the laurels Amundsen first hoped to gather. “The Conquest of the North Pole” is incomparably the last word in motion pictures. No staged movie is conceivable that can rival this actual epic in human courage. * % Kk June university ' commencements contained much of interest to Wash- ington. Andrew W. Mellon, Secr tary of the Treasury, waa thrice “doc- tored"—first at Amherst, olidge alma mater, then at Yale, and again putting something into it to dena-|at Harvard. Another Washingtonian, ture it.” bearing & worthy name, Joseph Pat- rick_Tumulty, jr., won the coveted “Dis world owes you a livin’, son,” | Phi Beta Kappa. for scholarship at the said Uncle Eben, “but you may have to hit it wif a hoe or a shovel t0 re-| once presided. p— SO0 Of mind $h.0f de obligations” university over which his father’s celebrated chief, Woodrow Wilson, Dana Yung Kwa# the counselor of the Chinese San | | legation at Washingion, received the Russel Henry Chittenden pr awarded annually at Yale to the B. S, candidate of the highest scholastic rank. Kwai's father also a Yale man—class of ‘84 Prince- ton made Dr. William 1. Wilmer, world renowned Washington eve surgeon, a doctor of science, Among | Dr. Wilmer's many elaiins to emi- {nence is his rescue of Earl Grey of | Fallodon from hblindness six years ago. * ¥ B. Clark * % Col. - Edward Waushinglon newspaper man, birds most next to journalism. He's been worried for the past six weeks about a robin which built x nest in some White House shrubbery The [nest. with its precious confents of ee epgs, wWas so conspicuously in sight that Clark was atvaid some of | the thousands of yvoungsters trooping | through Washington this season veteran loves tation robbing the nest. The other day. 1o « indescribable Joy. he observed that mother robin and three offsprings were scampering around the bush as blithely as you please. He thinks it « wonderful demonstration of the respect of the vesident Roosevelt alse bird Ife. Onece Clark tervened with President Roosevelt also a bird lover, to prevent workmen from lay- ing sacrilegious hands on an ever green tree about to bed {removed from the White House roof. Clark told T. R. that some robins were nesting in the tree and that removal would be fatal to them. Feddy” stormed out of the executive offices and personally prevented the disaster. * % e 2 What is said to be the ouly certi- fied copy of the Declaration of Inde- pendence known to be in existence is shortly to be exhibited at the esquicentennial in Philadelphia. It s the property of the well known Philadelphia collector, Dr. A. 8. W. Rosenbach, and is valued 0,000, { The document is not a replica of the | original Declaration, enshrined in the { Library of Congress at Washington, but is one of two certified coples made at the order of the Continental Congress. One copy waus sent to King Louis XVI of France, and has b lost. The other was sent lo Frede k the Great of Prussia. is the copy now owned by bach, who obtained it two vears ago from’ the descendants of Baron von Scholenberg. one of Frederick's crown ministers. The original signers did not affix their names to the copy, but it is autographically certified as a true copy by Benjamin Franklin and Silas Deane, commissioners plenipotentiary. * Kk ok ¥ The proudest stenographer in the United States is Erwin €. Geisser, President Coolidge’s personal short- hand writer. Geisser has been away from the White House offices for a spell, weathering a slight operation. The first day he attended the semi- weekly press conference recently the President called attention to Geisser's return, rejoiced at his recovery, and spoke of the high value he places upon his young lieutenant’s services. Geisser has been at Mr. Coolidge’s elbow ever since the latter's vice presidential days. He learned steno- graphic discretion as an attache of the quartermaster general's office in the War Department. Gelsser is dis- tinguished among his fellow-Ameri- cans in one interesting respect. He hears more talk from “Cal” than all the rest of the country put together. (Copyright. 1928.) ——— Sport and Punishment. From the Duluth Herald. Motives are mixed, and it is prob- able that many a small boy merely because the vhltw eam won, FRIDAY, JUNE would not be able to resist the temp- | 1926. 25, Chile Blamed for Tacna-Arica Failure To the Editor of The Star To those familiar with the now fa mous ‘Tacna-Arica dispute and know the underlying conditlons that led up to it, and have some acquaintance with the crafty methods of South American politicians, they are not at all surprised by the news from Santi ago, Chile, to the effect that Chile has decided to dynamite the plan she was supposed to have favored and the scheme she and Peru made to submit to arbitration that agelong dispute and asked the good offices of Presi- dent Coolidge as the arbitrator Those who have watched the dif- ferent phases of this question know that Chile, when she entered into such an agreement with President Coolidge and our State Department, considered that there was only one side to the question, and that sne had everything to gain and nothing to lose. To her it was as in a' game In which she would be playing with her own dice and which she had carefully loaded. Now, at the real opening of the game and when the arbitrator pushes Chile's londed dice back to her and rolls out upon the table dice that are fair and honest. as well as square. Chile jumps up, grabs her hat and suvs she will not proceed with the game. It can be assumed that Presiden Coolidge and our State Department would not have even discussed the Tacna-Arica trouble with the two dis- putants had they not believed and felt sure that the proposed arbitration would result in an early and long-ago termination of it. There is reason o believe that when Chile and Peru first proposed the arbitratipn plan to Washington, they were not acting in good faith, and that tney had a secret understanding that the question was not to be arbitrated at all, but it was intended, at a certain stage of the pretended arbitration, to hand to the arbitrator a cutand-dried award, which was to give to Peru Tacna and Arica to Chile, and 10 ask President Coolidge to sign on the dotted line, Exposure of that scheme and mock- ery of arbitration was made in Buenos Alres very soon after those two coun- tries had submitted the dispute to President Coolidge, and the exposure, published in the newspapers of both Chile and Peru, caused an instan- taneous uprising of the people in both countries, and who made their protest to their respective governments so violent that the Presidents and cabi- net members of both countries were compelled, in order to save themselves from personal vielence, to declare, and some of them to swear, that there was no truth in the alleged conspir- to settle that question in any such way. The nationals of each country demanded an assurance that their Bovernments, under no circumstances, would consent to a settlement of that affair that would award any part of that territory to the other nation It was then that the arbitrator took up the question of the plebiscite, which, at the beginning, was not con- templated. Indeed. the scheme of the political leaders of those two countries was (0 avoid holding the and to fasten the blame of the sald award upon the President of the United States. und that they, the very ones asking for the arbitration, would join the mob in thefr respective coun- tries in howl of protest and de- nunciation of award when it would he made ‘This background is absolutely neces- sary in order to have a clear under- standing of the situation as it has now developed might be well for v o also know that for 40 vears or more 40 per cent of Chile's national income has been derived from the nitrate beds in the territory she wrongfully took from Rolivia. The point of exhaustion those beds is now in sight NS are at their wits' end o know to what resource she can turn when that fateful point will be reached. She has nothing eclse that would support such burden. For the last several vears she has had {her envions and rapacious eyes on the rich and exhaustiess tin deposits of Bulivia, the world’s futur which are in the southea Bolivia and adjacent to that Bolivia which Chile for from her 48 vears ago. Chile knows great national aspiration of Bo. Jivia % to get an “outlet to the sea a port on the Pacific—and she dulges the foolish hope that sooner or later she mayv be able to starve Bo-| livia Into trading a part of that valu- able tin-hearing territory for Tacna and Arica, which front on the Pacific, and which has alwavs been and will continue to be only an expense and trouble to her. Very properly. Chile prefers to try to get some of Un deposits in that way before taking to provoke her to war peating the shameful ope 1878 That is why Chile intends to hold out against any arrangement whereby | Bolivia wiil be enabled to reach the sea. It a most discreditable atti | tude for her to take. and 1 hope the cleverness of our diplomacy and pub. lic opinfon of our country will induce or compel her 1o recede from it. | It appears that Peru, influence largely by the expressed wishes of Washington to bring about a speedy and lasting settiement of the Tacna- Avica affair, is disposed to recognize the righteous claim of Bolivia to an “outlet to the sea.” and is willing to {an adjustment or settlement of that question on that basis. She has indi cated that she would agree either to giving Bolivia a corridor 1o the sea through those two provinces. and which corridor include the present Arica-La ilroad, and probably enough more of the Provinee of Tacna to include the city of Tacna, provided. of course, that Chile would part of efully took under- on of be equally generous by giving to Bo- | livia as much of the Province - of Arica, including the city and port of Arica. Peru deserves great con mendation for taking this position and evidencing her disposition to co-oper- ate with our Government in effecting such a settlement. It is to be regretted that Chile, thinking she occupies an advantageous position. now seeks to not only hold up the only settlement of that dispute that seems possible Lut to greatly embarrass Washington and to cause our State Department and President Coolidge to regret that they permit- ted themselves to be drawn into this unfortunate and disagreeable affalr. The present attitude of Chile will cer- tainly serve her no good purpose and will not soon be forgotten by those who have been both striving and hop- ing for a righteous and lasting settle- ment of the Tacna-Arica trouble. Any disagreeable developments in that af- fair from now on can, very properly, be placed at the door of Chile. In a study of and report on the Tacna-Arica question that 1 made to our Department of State, 15 years ago, 1 said there can be no settlement of it without calling in the good offices of Bolivia. Without war there can be no settlement of that question without the aid and participation of that coun- try. Secretary Kellogg saw that some- time ago. Peru now realizes it. It is only Chile that stubbornly resists it. More than a year ago, in a public address, broadcast by and from one of the leading radio stations, I pre- dicted the fallure of Washington’s un- dertaking to settle the Tacna-Arica question, and said that the time would surely come when our Government land people would regret that we had | become involved in that sorry affair. HORACE G. KNOWLES, Former American Minister to Bolivia. New York City, e A Correction. From the San Francisco Bulletin. . No, Birdie, the Coalition party in strike, plebisclte | livia's | and re- | ‘| ANSWER «@. What is the Union Jack Club?— A D A Great Britain where soldiers, sailors and airmen can go when on leave or passing through London, a place where they may deposit their kits and valuables, where they may obtain at moderate charges good meals and comfortable bedrooms to themselves and where they find the usual ameni- tles of & club, including library and writing room, billiard room, baths, barber shop and also a club shop in which articles of everyday use and almost everything that service men require may be purchased. The club is open throughout the day and night. The Union Jack Club was erected by public subscription as a national me- morial to those who had fallen in the South African war and other cam- paigns, and was opened on July 1, 1907, by his late majesty, King Iid- ward VIL. Q. To whom do we owe known saying “Watch your step” R. N. ‘A. The late Theodore Shonts is re- garded ax the author of this expres- sion. Q. How fast mitted by cable? A. The new transatlantic cable completed st Sennen Cove, Land’s End, England, will be the fastest in the world, transmitting 2,500 letters per minute, against the previous fast- est of 280 letters Q nna of Mexico die a natural death?—J. L. A. Santa Anna died in Mexico City 1 obscurity on June 21, 1876, He had been condemned to die, hut wus spared on the ground that he was in his dotage. e died a natural death the well are messages trans- -M. E. C. the United States?—T. I, A. The Bureau of Animal Industry says that the first mule bred in thi country of which it has a record is one bred by George Washington. The first jack brought to this country was presented to him by the King of Spain Q. How many William Smiths are there in the Navy?’—S. S A. The Department of the Navy says that there are approximately 500 in that service. Q. What is “guavule’’—A. G. M A. Guayule is a resinous rubber which is secured from a Z-foot shrub that grows on the arid plains of Texas and northern Mexico. Q. Why did Foster Swanee River as the song” M. T. D A. The composer needed a name of a Southern river which was limited Ito syllables. “Yazoo" was suggested, | but rejected as not suitable. Swanee, | che name of a Florida river, filled the rcequireme Q. Is there a market for the tracks prehistoric animals?—R. L. M. A. The Smithsonian Institution savs that there is no market for prehistoric lanimal tracks unless a museum makes a personal examination of such tracks and is sure that they are en- tirely different from any that have I been collected before. Y. Who wrote “Stay, stay at home, my heart, and rest, Home-keeping hearts are happiest”’—R. R. A. ‘Chese ure the first two lines of Longfellow's song. The following lines complete the stanza: “For tho: wander they Know not where, Are full of trouble and full of care To stay at home is best.” Q W nally for choose the subject of his jot was the price paid origi- the land on which Wilming- ton, Del.. is built D. A. Scharf in his History of Dela | ware says that the 200 res of land purchased i and which com- prises the City of Wilmington at the present time, was a part of a larger tract called “Brothers’ Portion.” econ- taining NS00 acres, which John and This Is & national institution of | Q. When was the first mule bred in | 'O QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Richard Walker took up under a war. ant in 168 id on the 20th of Fe ruary, 1682 they purchased the Indian right to this tract of Christinn alias Petogogue, owner of all the land between the Murther Kill and Duck Creek, for 3 matchcoats, 12 bot- tles of drink and 4 handfuls of pow der, Q. What kind of a choir may be called a capella choir’—S. L. G. A. Capella means robs or mantle. Any robed choir may be called a capella chofr. Q. How A. There was an international movement of 950,000,000 pounds of butter in 1925. This exceeded the world trade in butter for 1924 by 28,000,000 pounds much butter is exported” 1 Q. Why do gasoline wagons always have a chain dragging at the rea of their tank wagons’—G. W. W A. The purpose of the chain is o carry off and ground the static elec tricity which may be generated | the gasoline flowing from the tank into underground tanks. or which muy he generated by the motion of the trucks. Q. How long will & motion picture film last”—G. M A. It is thought that a roll of nega- tive filmi, kept at proper temperatu with a certain degree of humidity would be in good condition at the | end of 200 or 300 years. It might last indefinitely. Q When did as we ow it originate A. Of the eariy ing practically nothing is known. From the works of Leonardo of Pisa it appears certain that the merchant of Ttaly, France and Spain practiced Systematic boukkeeping for some time prior to the thirteenth century. It i, however, to the Italian traders of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. (ko enterprising merchants of Genoa, Florence and Venice, that We owe tha system of bookkeeping which takes the lead at the present time. Tn th vear 1494 Luca Pacioli, or Luca Burgo, Tuscan friar, published a work which contained & treatise upon | double-entry bookkeeping. This is the | first systematic treatment of the sub | ject of which we have any record, and it is worthy of remark that the more complete system of double-entry was {perfocted and brought into general lse considerably before the system of the single entry- Were the republics of Central América_ever united in one govern ment’—D. W. M A, In 1523 the five Central Amer; can states were united into & nationa federation, which subsequently adopt ed @ constitution modeled after th of the United States. The federatio Was partially ended by 1833, pract: cally dissolved in 1839, and pletely dissolved in 1547 sookkeeping -G. M. N orms of o k ke Q. com What is the church flag of the M. S A. The Navy church flag is in the shape of a pennant and is a blue cross white field There are | flags of three sizes, the s nnliest‘ _r-' which is 6 feet long and 2 feet wide. The length of the cross is feet. The width of the cross at the base and top is five inches and the cross bhar 14 inches The head of the cro ot the church flag should te placed toward the flagpole. What do you need to know? s there some point about your bumness or personal life that puzzles vou? Is there something yow want to knov without delay? Submit your question to Frederic J. Haskin, director of ouw Washington Information Bureau. He is employed to help you. Address your inquiry to The Evening Star Informa tion Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, di rector, Washington, D. C., and inclose 2 cents in stamps for return postage. t the When the country heard th; President and his fanilv must vacate the White House for sis months to permit repairs of the rouf at an ex pense of $350,000. u lot of folks were amuzed that a roof should cost so {iueh and more still wondered why lihe Government allowed the presi dential home to get inta such @ con | dition. “The touch 1 of the Government in delaz,” rve- Sun. “This is engineers and business is the touch | marks the New York la country of great {builders. They tunnel rivers, dig a huge siphon under the Hudson. bore subways without disturbing the pave- ment above. and send a Woolworth tower shooting toward the sky with |a speed that amuzes the rest the world. But the American Govern ment is so ineticient in business that it cannot keep a two-story building 170 by 88 feet in good condition. and the result is that the President of the United States and his family mmst {vacate the White liouse for six months in order that repairs may be made which should have been made when and as they were needed in the vears gone by. Even now, the Charleston be in this ecase. uas everything., that a stitch in time saves nine.” The Mail observes that ‘the work will be done despite the President’s reluctance.’” for this re pair work “will cost $330.000, and in the Coolidge scheme of economy. julthough Uncle Sam pays the Dbill this is # tidy sum to spend on a roof.” The (Utica Observer-Dispateh sus gests that “It will seem rather strange for the President to be lodged auy where else than in the White House.” but adds, “Washington is a city of nmodious and magnificent man ons, and it will not be dificult to secure a suitable place as a temporary White House, which would thus o into history and win renown. ety “One is justified in doubting.’ observes the ‘I'renton Evening Times, “that the White House is in such a condition, especially as to roof, that it will require at least six months to make the building safe. To believe that Congress and its committees have been so slack in looking after the President’s residence will be a serions reflection on the efficien of the natfonal lawmaking bod: The San Antonio Express is struck by the thought that the $350,000 ve quired “to cover the President’s house and otherwise renovate it is probably more than the entire structure orig inally cost, but this job will cause change in its appearance, inside o out, which the casual visitor might natice.” The Express concedes, how- ever, that as the outlay has been ap- proved by the President and the director of the budget it ‘“may_be considered good economy.” The Lin- coln Star declares “the question might logically be asked if it would not ba better to build a new White House.” ok There are other complications which inspire comment. ““The White House e is shaky, the President’s political fehces are being damaged, and now the President’s church is ordered closed, as menace to life and limb! Wotta life!” exclaims the Lynchburg Advance. But the Charleston Eve ning Post believes that “he will prob- s according to Mail, “it may usually in however Daily it is ts licked | England was not named after the coal [ably have little difficulty in finding a place in whiciggto stay and a church Country Amazed at Expense Of Repairing White House <hip,” though it sees iculty with “political foun The Camden Courier, taking of superstition in , suspects that “some fol will wonder if the skies aren't gei ting ready to fall on the President | The Lowell Evening Leader adds that with both the White House and his church un: the President on Sun duys will be in the plight of the mav who s all dressed up and nowhere to go in w | ereater di lations.” !uecount | matt Presi State blame busy the Linc Journal. “if inz the misery of a Sixmonth housecleaning, they cried ‘After us the deluge” and turned the reckoning over (0 posterity Presl dents, as we do our war debts? The willingness of Mr. Coolidge to be the finul goat is botnd, meanwhile, i« revive anclent suspiclons concerning |plans for more than a paltry two vear and three months in a good-as-nev White House.” The Savannah Press alls attention to the fact that he is put out of the White House, not by ihe votes of Pennsylvania, but by tha house cleaners, who are remodeling the executive home.” And the Buffalo Evening News refers to the fact tha -ports of a White House in seriotis state of disrepair have not noticeab reduced the crop of presidential cari- didates as vet.” [THINK IT OVER How to Ruin a Meet By William Mather Lewis, Presidont George Washington University Who dents,” can : Suggestions as to how a meeting may be ruined are obviously super- fluous. 1n hundreds of banquet halls and auditoriums on this very day the process will be illustrated beautifully. Nevertheless, for fear there are some new program committee mem bers who do not know how to obtain the desired results, there are recorded here certain infallible rules. Always have at least three speak- ers, and warn the first one that he must consume not less than 45 min utes. he chairman, by watching the audfence carefully, can determins whether or not the anesthetic is tak ing hold. 1f at the end of the pro. gram there are still signs of life among the auditors it is always pes- sible to call on some local humorists for a few words of greeting. There should never be a specific toplc for discussion. This restricts freedom of thought and estops the distinguished speaker from those flights of eloquence which invariably are punctuated with applause and laughter. A chairman has slight consideration for his opportunity who feels that he has done his duty when he merely introduces the orator. It is his duty to deilver himself of every vagrant thought he has on the subject next to be discussed and to anticipate with all the Ingenuity at his command everything that our next speaker has in mind. Care should be taken, particulariy where the usual brand of banquet cigars have been distributed, to have the room hermetically sealed. In this way the outdoor air will be kept purc and invigorating. (Copyright. 1924.)