Evening Star Newspaper, July 1, 1926, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR __ With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY........July 1, 1928 THEODORE W. NOYES. . The - Editor Evening Star Newspaper Company T1en g Plninces Offe: th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd St. Chicago Office: Tower Building. ZBuropean O 14 Resent St.. London, Sunday morn The Evening Star. arriers within Ing"edition. is delivers the city at G0 cents v o daily oniy 43 cents per month: Sunday ly. 20 cents r month Orders may, be sent by mail or lephone Main 5000 Collection is made by carrier at the end of cach month Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. | P"" and Sunday 1 vr. §0.00: 1 mo. 75 Daily only 1y SE:00: 1 mo. e Sunday only 1 ¥r. $3.00° 1 mo. All Other States and Canada. Sunday 1 yr. $1.00: 1 mo.. 2100 Coa 1. $K.00 1 mo 1yr. $4.00: 1 mo. Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press i< exclusively entitled to’ the use for republicat Jatches credited to it or hot otherwise cred ted in thie paper and alko the local new: published herein. Al rizhts of publicatio of special dispatches herein are also reserved aily aily unday only . A Golden Quarter-Day. Nothing tells the story of national prosperity quite so eloquently as the tale of the dividend and interest pay ments to stockholders and investo This is one of the four quarter-days and the mails have brought to hun dreds of thousands of people all over the United States chec! the profits and interest obligations of corporations of all kinds. Istimates of the total amount thus disbursed run into record-breaking figures. The July payments in dividends and in terest will, it is computed, reach $491,- 909,000, or an increase of $53,000,000 over the payments of u year ago. The mid-year payments those in June, July and August will vleld to investors, it is estimated, be- tween $550,000,000 and $650,000,000. These extraordinary fizures result from one of the best periods of in- dustrial activity this country has ever known. Many of the corporations have declared extra dividends of a high percentage. E These interest and dividend pay ments are going to a more widely dispersed “public” than ever before. Stock-buying for investments has be- ‘come far more general in the last few vears than heretofore. The impor- tance of buying standard substantial stocks with spare cash has been stressed upon the people and they have learned the vital lesson of thrift to a degree never before known. Many of the corporations have adopted the wise policy of encouraging and aiding the purchase of shares by their own workers. Public service corporations have likewise enrolled their patrons as stockholders. A great part of the dividend pa; ments that are now being received go for the purchase of more | will stox This turnover figure is one of the most wholesome signs of na- tional prosperity. It is the truest economy. It is compounding interest in a practical manner. Of course, a certain percentage of these dividends will be spent for Summer vacations, some to pay bills, some on frivolous accounts. But the bulk of this money of half a billion or more will go right | back into investment unless the ex- perience of other “quarter-days™ dif- fers. Shrewd observers of financial and industrial conditions see no signs of | in the national prosperity, which is now definitely attested by this present golden flood. There is, of course, al ‘s the fear lest a long- continued stretch of good times may be suddenly broken. Some great dis- | aster, the failure of the crops, an international complication—any one of these occur in a degree to | destroy confidence. When great num- | bers of the people simultaneously feel | doubtful of the future and stop buy ing luxuries or semi-necessities the | tide of prosperity is checked. There | is today no indication of any such happening and the country looks forward to other quarter-days with confident expectation. et a brea may As an author George Bernard Shaw | has many critics. As a press agent every attache of print must yield him unlimited admiration for his skil! in disguising his personal opinions as news items. B - There is no doubt that we are an art-loving nation. Will H. Hayvs makes $160,000 a year in the pictures. He never could have made that in poli- tics. e Italian newspapers are to be lim ited as to the space they fill with type. Mussolini is paving the way not mere- ly for the pamphlet,-but for the pas- quinade. e Plaza Purchase. The agreement for the purchase by the government of the railroad prop- erty necded for carrving out the Union Station Plaza plan and extend- ing the Capitol grounds has been signed. The next step Senate to approve the deficiency appropriation bill carrying the sum required to pay for the land. The Treasury holds a balance of $1,798,139.27 of the original appropria- tion made for the purchase of the land and the pending bill, already passed by the House, contains the item of the additional sum of $1,331,- 458.37 needed to make the purchase. The price to be paid for the property, $3,129,507.24, was agreed on by taking the award of the District Supréme Court in the condemnation proceed- ings in January, 1913, and adding the taxes on the land to April 1 this year plus 6 per cent interest, less the amount paid to the raflroad company as rental for the land in which the government hotels stand. - Transformation: of the part of the clty between Union Station and north B street impends. The government hotels and several rows of small bulldings, some of which have sur- vived since the streets in that quarter were raised in connection with the ‘building of Union Station, will be taken down and the landscaping of Plaga Park will proceed. The rail entrance to Washington will be made A of all news die- | | representing in all comprising | is for the item in the | attractive and the impression of tra elers landed at Union Station will be i that they have entered a splendid cit: No one can estimate the disappoint- ‘n\enl which has come to millions of _ | Americans on entering Washington. | The outlook from the south front of _ | Union Station is not as impressive as | Americans coming to their Capital have a right to expect. In most cities the “depot” district is not handsome, but the rail gate of Washington is to be magnificent. Before the Union Station was erect- it was a matter of lament with shington people that rail travelers its best, and that travelers ed 1w lid not see the city many peopie used to say | saw the city at its worst. Trains dragged through. almost squalid | streets and quarters to the Baltimore {and Ohio and the Baltimore and Po- tomac stations and the “depot” dis- tricts, though better than in most cities, were not as they should have been. In the building of Union Station | and the elimination of street and rail- | road grade crossings there came a vast | improvement. ‘Trains from the East and West now come into the city on duct and from the South they | cross the river on a fine bridge, give travelers a great view of river and park and reach the station by viaduct and tunnel. The making of the Plaza Park’wil take time, but the step which the Gov- | ernment has hesitated to take for many years has now been taken. Independence Day Casualties. Health Officer Fowler issues a timely warning against carelessness | on Independence day in the handling |of explosives. Despite the large re- | duction in casualties incident to the | celebration of the national birthday ‘efl?cted during twenty years, the list of dead and maimed is still shockingly heavy. In 1903 almost 500 children | died of lockjaw as a result of burns from Independence day explosives. | Last Fourth of July 111 persons were |killed, 148 were blinded and over 1,000,000 people were severely injured |or burned in different parts of the | country. It is evident that the re- form to secure a “safe and sane Fourth” has not been entirely suc- | cesstul. Indeed, there are signs of a reaction from the good effects of country-wide endeavors to prevent | Independence day casualties that | have so materially reduced the totals. | Many of the substitutes for the old- time violently explosive compounds |and devices which are now obtain- ! able under the laws adopted by States |and municipalities are quite as dan- gerous as those formerly exploded. Their use is just as careless on the 'part of many thousands, especially children, as in former time: | The killing of 111 persons and the blinding of 148 and the more or less severe burning and injuring of 1,000,000 people in the name of patri- otic expression is altogether too high a price to pay for celebration. To a majority ofgthe children who in- dulge in fireworks explosion on the | Fourth of July the occasion is of no | significance at all. They set off their |squibs and sparklers, crackers and | miniature bombs without thought for the meaning of the barbaric rite of | making a noise in jubilation. They are “having fun,” for it is fun to yvoungsters to cause sudden, sharp detonations. If a boy cannot get an explosive of some kind he will bang lon a tin pan to add to the din. Far ibener if all used tin pans rather than | fireworks, better for them at any | rate. Dr. Fowler's warning is addressed to the parents, for the protection of themselves and their children. It is timely and it should be observed. Parental supervision over the use of fireworks by the little folks will ma- terially reduce this year's casualties. S There is always a future for the | athletic star in the movies. Suzanne Lenglen should follow the example of Red Grange, and ease her tempera- | mental stress by cashing in under the supervision of a film director. RS- The French franc is an obdurate bit of metal which refuses to modity its commercial attitudes under political influence or oratorical persuasion. r—tems. Base Ball “Stalling.” | A unique definition of “stalling” has | been put on the rule hooks of base | ball by Ban B. Johnson, president of |the American League, who has just | fined “Bucky" Harriss manager of the Washington team, two hundred dollars for purposely striking out in a | recent game with Philadelphia. At | the same time Johnson fined Pitcher | Quinn of Philadelphia for “stalling” in taking his turn at bat. The game in which these incidents occurred was alled in the sixth inning on account {of rain. The Washington team was |ahead and was extremely anxious to | complete five innings, a legal game, | before the approaching storm broke | over the field. The Philadelphia team, lon the contrary, was attempting to | delay matters so that a legal game ! would not be completed. “Stalling.” to Johnson's mind, evi- dently means two widely separate things. ¥or Quinn it means that he delayed matters so that time would be consumed and for Harris it medns that he did everything possible, even to the extent of purposely “fanning,” {to hurry the game along. “Stalling” in Harris' case can hardly be switched around to mean the same thing as in Quinn's. But that appears to be what Johnson has done. Aside from all this, there is an- other angle to the affair. Harris main- tains that even if he did strike out purposely, there has never been a base ball rule which prohibits it. If a pitcher is permitted to walk a batter to delay the game, and this action is frequently taken, the batter has just as much right to strike out to counter- balance this move. There seems to be much logic in this stand of the Washington man- ager. All sorts of tactics are employ- ed by teams which are running behind in a'game which is about to be called. Batters are not to be found when their turn comes, fielders have trouble with their shoes, much consultation takes place between the manager and the players after each ball is pitched, and, if the team is far behind, the pitcher will purposely walk many batters in order to delay still further. Teams in the lead have to adopt | ¢ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1926. measures to meet these “stalling” ac- tions of the losers. Striking out pur- posely is a quick and efficient method of checkmating them, so that there seems to be full justification for Har- ris’ clever move. Of course, some rule should be en- forced in major league ball games to prevent “stalling.” If this were done there would be no occasion for the action attributed to Harris. “Stall- ing” is bad for the game. It disgusts the spectators and is unfair. The na- tional game will be well rid of it, but until it is officially banned wetaliatory moves will be made by those on the leading teams. B Boulevard Signs. Contracts have been let by the Dis- trict Commissioners for construction of curb boulevard stop signs to be erected at each intersection of a boule- vard street, Painted stop signals on the pavement have been found unsat- isfactory because of their short life, but the traffic office has had no funds avaflable to purchase the curb type. There are now sufficient funds at hand and the new signs will be made and erected with all possible speed. Installation of the new type will end a confusing situation. . Motorists at the present time are not obeying the stop edict at boulevard streets, be- cause only in a few cases are warn ings visible. While this lack of ade- quate warning cannot be accepted as an excuse for disobeying the regula- tions, it is undoubtedly difficult to re- member each boulevard crossing and come to a full stop in the absence of stop signals, so that on the human side of the question there appears to be some ground for leniency to of- tenders of this type. This very situation, however, makes the operation of the boulevard streets unsitisfactory. Some motorists come to a stop and others do not. Persons driving on one of the boulevards are never sure which kind of driver they will encounter at the next intersec- tion and the system, therefore, has not met with great success. . With the new signs, which unmis- takably tell the motorist that he i3 to stop, there will be no occasion for confusion. The police, immediately after the installation is completed, should begin a vigorous campaign of enforcement so that Washington can enjoy the benefits of a weil run boule vard system. . The “wets" and the “drys” are pain ed to find each other in the enjoyment of financial backing. The situation is at least one which calls for congratu- lation on a state of natlonal pros perit . Italy demands longer working day. The laborers who contributed to the glory of ancient Rome, which Mus- solini desires to , were in no position to complain of a sixteen or even an eighteen hour d: . et ;o Fierce epithets are exchanged in Parliament as well as in Congress. Were he alive, Bob Acres might in- ge himself to the extent of remark- The District of Columbla promises to qualify as a most interesting Sum mer resort for a number of con: sional investizatol P Harry Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit might have reached an understandin had it not been for the “publicity com- plex” to which both are subject .. - . Responsibility restored to the ex- kaiser in the management of h estates may enable him to prove himself more of a success as a realtor than he was as a monarch - et Motion picture stars might interest the public more by dropping some of the stock scenarios and filming the weddings and divorces. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON e Patience. July Comes drifting by By August next We will be vexed And then 'Tis once again The Autumntide ‘Where sighs abide. The wintry winds will blow Till we're forgetful Of all the torrid glow ‘We deemed regretful. What cheer! This message they'll deliver: The time Is drawing near When we in joy may shiver! Arts of Investigation. Are you interested In investiga- tions?" “Very much,” answered Senator Sorghum. “If you can keep a com- paratively inconsequential investiga- tion going long enough, you may be able to divert public attention from questions that are of serious and na- tional importance.” Proper Leniency. Willie had some fireworks silly. The policeman was not rough. ‘What the fireworks did to Willle He thought punishment enough. Jud Tunkins says a tennis racket is picturesque, but for honest helpful- ness not in it with a plain “fly swat- ter.” Farm Relief. “Don’'t you want farm relief?" 'Yep,” answered Farmer Corntossel, “But T don’t look to the Government. What I'm hopin’ is that some high- class realtor will come out and de- velop the dear old home into suburban real estate. Modern Liberties. “Would you speak to a lady with- out being introduced?"” “I do it every day. I'm a crossing cop.” Bathifig. Though in the river folks unskilled To swim may fail, It's safer than a bathtub filled ‘With ginger ale. “Troubles never come singly,” said Uncle Eben. “A man wif only one little trouble to worry about would feel like he was of no importance in de community.” THIS AND THAT - BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Seated one afternoon in the garden, we were weary and i1l at ease; the bumble-bees were buzzing, and the grass was full of fleas, The weather was hot and sultry, and scal seem- ed to merit God's pardon, when we droppad into a gentle slumber, and entered the Horrible Garden. It seemed to us that all was strangely famillar, yet familiarly strange—that we had been here be- fore, yet knew we had never set foot in the place in all our life. At first blush there was nothing about the Horrible Garden to distin- guish it frem any one of a hundred thousand well kept backyards. There were roses here, and the gladiolus p‘((-lnllnx its sharp green leaves to the sky. Shrubs ranged themselves along the back fence, against which stately hollyhocks held aloft their spires of blossoms. But over all that garden there was a hush. It was as if it lay growing in a gigantic vacuum whose side walls had been pushed beyond vision. There was something oppressive about the place. We (there were sev- eral of us there, it secmed) remarked upon the close character of the air, and spoke one to the other of experi- encing difficulty in breathing. Yet the extraordinary brilliancy of various blossoms made us immediate- 1y forget our personal discomfort and. we hurried forward to examine some gigantic spikes of gladiolus, just about to unfold the lower blossoms. * ok ok % exclaimed. we Wi petals “What a “It*is about to be able to see uafold, at last. A tremor of excitement seemed to surge through the air, in keeping with our personal feeling at having surprised the first flowers of a gladiolus in the v process of open- ing. Flower: beauty!” we open, and how the six are shy creatures. When you leave them in the eve ning the buds will be tight shut. In the morning, lo! there is the perfect flower, open to the light of day, en- ticing the birds and insects to its life_purposes. No man has seen the exact instant the rosebud opens, or the lily bursts into bloom, except it be upon occa- sion. Even when one goes into the garden for that express purpose usually some event distracts his at- tention, so that when he turns to regard the bud it is a full-fledged blossom. lere, in the Horrible Garden, we were about to see a gigantic bud un- roll. It was full 6 inches long and as thick as the fingers and thumb bunched together. The color was an entrancing pink, shading into cream. ‘All at once there was a quiver along the silklike edges, a sound of a finger rubbed along the edge of a thin tumbler struck upon our ears, and this was followed by a long h Eagerly we Jeaned forward to look into the depth of the expanding flov er, which was opening now in jer movements. A burst of glorious color dazed us for a second—and then—— We saw that the’ flower was in reality a serpent, of a terrible pink. splotched with crimson, turning to cream on its under side. Its ugly head rested at what would have been the center of the flower, and its two little eyes looked squarely at us with a most impudent look * ¥ % ¥ We shrank away, after being con- vinced that the snake was hooked se- curely by its tail to the flower spike tly we tiptoed across the grass BACKGROUND OF EVENTS . BY PAUL ¥ came to America” ) this is what s would hours “If Mussolini (with his Roman powel would happen: Laboring foll work another hour daily a4 week in place of 4 The Sunday s well as today’'s Evening Star, ¢ newspapers, would con- s only, with no supple ment unless the supplement lovked like a technical report of the Bureau of Standards; the present hotels, caJes, cabarets and dance halls would fall helrs to monopolies, for no more could be started; no more fine houses could be built for millionaires, lv\ut the Treasury would assist in building plenty of homes for wage earners at public expense for partial cost In addition to all such restrictions in aid of the wage earners directly, a modern alchemy would be utilized to “impreve the qu: ity of iron, wme_m. brick and plaster without increasing their cost No explanation as to why such improvements requir 4 Mussolini decree offered, but v bother with technical science? Whi maintain the Bureau of Standards? Furthermore, if Mussolini were in our White House, and tite roof did mot fall on him, the Government would aid large employers of labor to open canteens for the sale of foods and other needed supplies to thelr Wage earners only, hut no emplove Working for a small shop need apply. Nor any working on his own account “urely the middlemen must live. The Mussolini policies foster monopo- lies and great corporations, in oppo- sition to individual worker The fact that Italy has no iron mimes nor coal nor any other known metals is of little consequence when Mussolini decrees that the govern- ment_will help industrialists in the production of domestic metals.” If he comes to America, maybe our Treas- ury will help produce diamonds and rubles, as well as anthracite. He ap- points a committee to help utilize Ndomestic fuels” and minerals, and authorizes the mixing of alcohol he a with gasoline, for Italy makes alcohol gasoline, so and America_ supplies Mussolini desires to protect bambino stries. ‘m}x“m:mer decree provides for the sale of foods and clothing from govern- ment canteens to all state employes living in Rome: other state or pro- vincial government employes will con- tinue to patronize the middlemen. To be a Roman citizen still has its ad- vantages. Last, but not least, is the decree which makes Italy an example -for our bread trust, for the decree says all bread must contain 15 per cent of other cereals aside from wheat. That is war bread revived. It robs Américan farmers of 15 per cent of their Itallan market, just when “a feller needs a fl_‘lend." and our Con- gress is adjourning without conferring with Mussolini or anything! * ok kX The news of these new decrees is not complete in information. It is not explained whether the working- men who add an hour a day to their working time will be paid by the hour or by the day at the old wage rate. Authorities on Italy who are in Wash- ington, believe that the day’'s wage is not increased, but that the wage eacner will simply work some 312 hours extra (nearly 7 weeks) per year without pay. ¥ ‘Whether the government has in mind the intarests of the individual or of the general output for adding to the nation's wealth, it is agreed that this extra hour a day should add one-eighth to the annual products in most lines, though not all. Tt is a famillar argument of labor that a man will produce as much in an eight- hour day as he will in a nine-hour day, but that is not conceded by em- pluyers generally. At all events, Wit is alleged, Mus- solinl violates the Versallles peace to the beautiful roses, in full bloom. Here, we thought, we will forget the terrible vision of the Serpent flower. An odor as of all the mingled vile smells in the world caused us to turn green in the face. Instantly, through our mind darted pictures of decay, destruction; loathsome images were evolved by the impress of the olfac- tory organs. These,” some one said, “are the Stinking Roses. Lucky is he who is without the sense of smell, when he droops his head over these awful creatures of Nature in a ghoulish mood.” Gasping for air, we staggered back, forcibly trying to wipe out of our memory visions of mangled men upon battlefields two days old. Thankfully we spled some Canter- bury-Bells, silently ringing in blue, white and pink in a border. “Ring out, wild bells, ring out the old, the fetid pictures, ring in shy dreams of violets, of roses we used to know, bring us the smell of lilies of the valley.” Hopefully we bent over the dainty flower, when a voice issued forth. It was a composite voice, which our now supersensitive ears told us made up of all the nagging women'’s voices that had ever torn the air of earth. There were the shrewish accents of Xantippe, berating Socrates, mingled with a million tongues harping for- ever on some one old theme, never knowing when to stop, scolding, quar- reling, weeping. “This is worse than the awful gladi- us, the terrible ,'* some one said. #t us hasten on.” * kK % We came to a bed of nasturtiums, the leaves green and healthy, flowers of a light pink, but the stems coated with white worms, which kept up a constant wiggling. The sight ; we hur- ot dreading what next we might see. A bushy shrub blocked our path. For a wonder, a pleasant fragrance smote our senses; we stooped to in- hale and, so doing, allowed our eyes to take in the white flowers. Each flower was formed in the per- fect image of a human skull, blanched twigs crossed beneath as in the con- ventional skull-and-crossbones design. We stepped back and nearly trod on a row of small plants, which, upon | closer inspection, looked for all the world like the People We Don't Like. In a corner we saw some bright | birds, solemnly looking at one another. Cpon our approach they burst into song, which exactly embled the composite noise made by the worst { phonograph and the worst radio | speaker we ever heard. The time had come for the Grand Blight. Before our very eyes every plant and shrub, every blade of grass, began to turn to a sere and yellow leaf. . Waves of worms spread over the ground toward us. A sickening odor thickened the and the serpents unhooked their tails and writhed for- ward. We sereamed and ran—and-—— We woke up in the sunshine of our own garden. Roses nodded on their stems. A fresh breéze had sprung up and waved the althea bushes to and fro. Gladioli, with petals like stained glass, stood stately before us and a dainty humming bird poised in shimmer of green wings hefore a blossom. “What a beautiful world!” we said the little humming bird, and he ked back an answering “You to squ bet . COLLINS. pact by returning to the longer day than eight hours, also the agreement of the International Labor Confer. ence, held in Washington in 1921, when the eight-hour day was stipu- lated as standard for all countries. Italy, however, never really accepted that standard, except with so many | reservations and exceptions as to! make it a farce. Overtime not exceed- ing 2 hours daily, or 12 hours a week, | was authorized in Italy by the decree of “providing the parties agree on it,”” the overtime to be pald at 10 per cent above normal time, al- though the Washington conference had stipulated 25 per cent extra for zes on overtime, and the American custom is 50 per cent extra rate. Prior to the Washington Interna- tienal Labor Conference of 1921 the usual labor day in Italy was 10 hours, and the conference stipulated that reducing the day to & hours must not permit eniployers to reduce wages pro rata, but the Mussolini decree of 1923 failed to include that prohibition. Nor did the 1923 reform in_the day apply to any of Italy's colonies, possessions and protecto- rates. = k% y's foremost econ- omist, is authority for the statement that in the last three years wage in- crease has not kept pace with the rise in the cost of living. From the Monthly Labor Review of the United States Department of Labor (October, 1925) is quoted the following summing up of the Italian labor situation: “Assuming that, all things consid- ered, the Italian worker has succeed- ed in raising his standard of living, as compared with the years before the war, the question arises as to his relative position in comparison with the workers of other countries. When this question was put to a well known Italian labor leader he imme- diately replied that the Italian worker was_infinitely worse off than the worker in Great Britain, and that, according to the information at his disposal, was even in a position in- ferior to that of the worker in Ger- many at present. * * ¢ “The chief problem in Italy, if the standard of living is to be raised, ap- pears to be that of increasing per capita production, in order that a greater amount of wealth may be available for distribution. Ttaly is not suffering from unem- ployment, in spite of overpopulation, but from export markets for her products. Mussolini cannot decree export markets, and, obviously, say economists, the question of overpro- duction and overstocking of her ware- houses may quickly result from his speeding up output without increas- ing exports. N Last October the Fascist govern- ment decreed the abolishment of ‘“col- lective bargaining” by trade unions, and established the Confederation of Fascist Corporations as the sole rep- resentative of employers, while the workers were obligated to transact all their business with the employers through the local unions, called “sindi- cato locale.” -Against that order, the General Confederation of Labor strongly protested that “The Italian employers are now endeavoring to paralyze the freedom of, trade union- ism in Italy.” The law provides courts for com- pulsory industrial arbitration of all collective disputes. According to the United States De- partment of Labor, the cost of living in the United States December, 1924, was 70 per cent higher than in 1913. In Italy, in the first half of 1914, the index (compared with 1913 as 100) stood at 286, and in December, 1924, it was 573, and in April, 1925, it was 600—six times as much as before the war. (Copyrights 1926, by Paul V. Colling.). | ing houses; ye PROHIBITION A Moral Issue. By Bishop William T. Manning of New York. It would be a sad day if the church should stand silent in the face of a great moral issue like prohibition, though I know how deep the feeling is upon the subject and how widely opinions differ in regard to it. In view of the situation mow confronting us, it seems necessary to speak. To quote John G. Sargent, Attorney Genera! of the United States: “In this country the will of the people, ex- pressed at the ballot box, creates the of the citizen upon the subject voted upon.”” The Attorney General no doubt recognizes, as I certainly do, that a law might be passed by a human tribunal so impious in its na- ture, so contrary to the law of God and of right, that it would be our duty to defy and resist it to the death, but this is not such a law. If we are ever to resist the law in the name of per- sonal liberty, I hope it will be in a higher ciuse than the right to buy and drink intoxicating liquors. Those who disapprove the law have the right to say so and to work in lawful ways for its modification, but no citizen of our land has the right to disobey it or to encourage others to do so, and no one can do this without reflection upon himself and injury to the life of our country. e All this 1 have already expressed in a sermon preached in the Cathedral. To what I said then I want now to add the following statements: First—I doubt if opinion has been changed to any appreciable extent by the somewhat heated diseussions, the nd counter assertions, which we have recently been hearing. Probably the only effect of these has been to intensify convictions previ- ously held. econd—It ought, I think, to be pos- sible for us to deal calmly with this subj without personal feeling and without violence, or exaggeration of, statement. Third—In enacting the prohibition laws our country has entered upon a great social experiment, which should be given full and fair trial. It is too s00n to say that an effort of this mag- nitude has failed. We may rather, I believe, be surprised at the extent to which it has succeeded. Most of the evils complained of as resulting from prohibition result, in fact, from lack of sufficient effort to enforce the law. Fourth—The true appeal in this matter to all Christian men and women is the moral and spiritual one. £ ox While the moderate use of intoxi- cants is not a sin, we all know that their abuse has been one of the great- est curses of mankind. In view of what our race has suffered from the drink evil, in view of the sorrow and suffering which it has brought upon fathers, mothers and children, in view of the fact that its suppression means the reduction of poverty, misery, disease and sin, ought we not to be willing to make such surrenller of our personal liberties as may be necessary, and to see prohibition fully tried? St. Paul does not hesitate as to his position. “If meat maketh my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I make not my brother to stumble’; that is the teach ing he gives us. Can any of us doubt that we are following the Christian principle by obeying these laws for the help of our weaker brethren? Is anything more certain than that it is the Christian principle to deny our- selves for the sake of the common good? I wish that the people of our own church would join with Christian peo- ple of all names all over the land, in a great united movement for the full observance of these laws. Who can doubt that this would be for the moral and spiritual good of our coun- try? (Copyright, 1926.) THINK IT OVER Man Wanted By William Mather Lewis, Prosident George Washington University Emerson, in his essay on the Amer- ican Scholar, tells us that ““the planter who is a man sent out into the field to gather food is seldom cheered by tany idea of the true dignity of his ministry. He sees his bushel and his car and nothing beyond, and sinks into the farmer instead of man on the farm. The tradesman scarcely ever gives an ideal worth to his work but is ridden by the routine of his craft and the soul is subject to dol- lars; the priest becomes a form; the attorney, a statute book; the me- chanic, a machine: the sailor, a rope.” What our civilization needs is man on the farm and man in the count- and man in the pro- fessor's chair. And if the search is not to be in vain we must have cer. tain clear-cut ideals relative to educa- tion. The student will gain his impres- sion of how to contribute his share to soclety, how to enjoy the life more abundant, by obtaining a broad view of the steps which have led the uni- verse to the period in which he lives. This is the background for balanced thinking. This is the foundation upon which he can build a well ordered itffe. And this foundation will not be scarce if #t made up of dis- connected units. That teacher who instructs as if those in his class were all to be Greek scholars, or chemists, or poets, as the case may be, fails to recognize the mission of liberal culture. The development, its struggles, its defeats, its accomplishments, its aesthetic yearnings, its religious expression, all these are part and parcel of the in- dividual. And he must know these things before he can understand him- self. And self understanding is an essential quality in man. (Copyright, 1 From the Portsmouth Star. ‘This gives promise of heing a great fish and crab year in the waters of lower Chesapeake Bay. There are fruit years and off years in prolific fruit crops. Just so it seems there are big fish and crab years, with off years, when flsh and crabs are more than scarce. Already there are re- ports of fish and crabs in great quan- tity in lower Chesapeake Bay, and, if the signs do not fail, lovers of the sport of fishing and crabbing, as well as those who are fond of these sea foods, will have no right for com- plaint this season. It would appear, too, that with fish and crabs running in such great numbers as are now re- ported, the price on these sea foods to householders will be much more rea- sonable than in many Summers past. _There is nothing more healthy than sea foods, and especially is this true in the Summer ti Sea foods are light, easily digested and are far less heat- ing than meats and heavier foods of the kind. It would seem that this may be a good year all around for seasonable Summer foods—fish, vegetables and fruit. 3 e Leg-Conscio;;;; From the Muncie Star. The feelings of a boy in his first long pants are now rivaled by those of the elderly gentleman in his first knickers, e ANSWERS. TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. Does it take more power to drive a vehicle weighing 300 pounds by a propeller or by traction power?— B A." More power is required to drive a vehicle weighing 300 pounds by pro- peller than by traction power. Q. Can one estimate how far away a flash of lightning is”—W. T. S. A. One can tell quite accurately how far away the flash of lightning is by taking a watch and noting the number of seconds which elapse be- tween the flash of lightning and the time when one hears the roll of thun- der. 1If as much as 5 seconds elapse it is about a mile away, since sound travels only about 1,100 feet per sec- ond, and there are 5,280 feet .n a mile. Q. How long has the New York ‘World Almanac been published?—A. C. A. It has been published for 41 vears. A permanent staff revises, cor- rects, cuts out and adds to the in- formation from year to year. Q. Why are the Cold Guards_so called”—M. A. The Cold Stream Guards were orlginally_the Lord General's Regi- ment of Foot Guards. Their popular title became their official designation in 1670. The regiment was raised at Cold Stream in 1659 and was part of the army with which Gen. Monk re- stored the monarchy. This army crossed the River Tweed into Eng- land at the village of Cold Stream. Q. Who is the author of the quo- tation, “I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again”? A. The author of this quotation is unknown. General proof lies with Stephan Grellot as author, but this expression is not found in his writ- ings. The same idea is found in the Spectator, March 1, 1710. Canon Jep- gon positively claimed it for Emerson. It has been attributed to ward Courtenay, Carlyle, A. B. Hageman, Rowland Hill and Marcus Aurelius. Q. When is cotton ripe for pick- ing?—E. D. A. It is harvested from about Ju 10 in Texas to September 10 in Ten- nessee. Q. Is the little darky Farina in the movies a girl or a boy?—H. B. A. Farina is a boy. Q. Has a memorlal ever been ded! cated to the author of “On the Banks of the Wabash”?—A. B. P. Dresser drive, which skirts the Wabash River in Terre Haute, Ind., is named for Paul Dresse who wrote “‘On the Banks of the abash,” this being known as “Indiana’s song.” Stream Q. \(’hm color is an Airedale ter- rier’—A. R. V. A. The color dale is as follows? sides, black, and limb an Q. rate of a_ purebred Aire- Crown, back and face, throat and s Sir ¥ R. W A. Many of the exploits of Drake were looked upon as piracies, but for the most part he had at least quasi- official sanction from his government for what he did. ncis Drake a When was sugar first used?—J. ugar is supposed to have been known to the ancient Jews. It W found in India by Nearchus, admiral of Alexander, 325 B.C. nation in alliance with Pompey used the juice of the cane as a common Let me not defer} pi- | An’ Oriental | beverage. medicine by Sugar Asi. It vated in | Portuguese it jnto Amer refining was was prescribed as a len in the second cer brought into Europe in large quantities in 625 was attempted to be culti- ng, the ards carried 5 Sugar to the netian in 1508 and first pract land in 16 is not known when su {duced into England, but it is thought that this occurred many years before t Henry VIiIl. The first £ grown in the United Q. Is the United States the oldest Republic7—W. M. A. San Marino claims oldest existing republic. 10 centuries of to be the It has had uninterrupted exist- “rose win Tt is circular window, es pecially one which is divided into compartments by mullions, with trac- ery radiating from the center. These windows were featured in the churches of the thirteenth and four- teenth centurie Q. What was W | and height ?—X. A. Washington's weight in his best never exceeded from 210 to 20 In rime, Washington inches, but measured ely 6 feet when his body was d for burial re prec| -prepa Q. Is there sickness "—A A. Two r discove drug may take the sleep out of sleeping sickness, acce announce | ment by the Amer cal So- ciety. The drugs, and proparsanol, both cont; showed great promise in combating the always or almost always fatal in experi nts conducted by ! A. S. Loevenhart at the Uni- v of Wisconsin for sleeping Do plants give off oxygen’— In the process of photosyn- in green plants the absorption arbon dioxide is accompanfed by a release of oxygen. Q. Do fish live in the Dead Sea”— C. A. On account of its extreme sa linity, fish cannot exist in the Dead Sea C. st fraction of ured?—M Q. What is the smal an inch that can be m P. S A. The Bureau of Star | that in high-grade tool and gause shop | measurements are regulariv made to ten-thousandths and hundred-thou ndths of an inch. At the Bureau of | Standards preci gauge blocks are tested to an m one to five millionths of an inch, by lizht | ference methods. The “ult | micra - ble of detectins s of one ith of an inch rds says The answers to questions printed here each day are specimens picked from the mass of inquiries handled by | the great information bureaw main- | tained by The Evening Star in Wash- iiny!lm, D. €. This valuable service is for the free use of the public. .Ask of fact you may want to know and you will get an im- mediate reply. Wtite plainly, inclose 2 cents in stamps for return postaoe and address The Evening Star In- formation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. | any_question Press Applauds the Spirit Of Eucharistic Congress Many observers look upon the mighty Eucharistic Congress of the Catholic Church in Chicago recently as more than a mere ceremonial event. The spirit of devotion mani- fested is tend to produce a religlous revival among churches of all denominations and affect the modern trend toward materialism. The incidents of the Bucharistic Congress inspire the statement by the New York Herald Tribune. “We are a deeply religious as well as a practi cally minded people. It is only when we drop our practical routine and turn to the other domain that we realize how truly religious-minded we are.” The Herald Tribune believes that the congress “has profoundly impressed the country,” and that “all other American religious groups have been moved to sympathetic admiration by the fervor of the religious spirit shown and by the unity of devotion to the ideas which lay behind the cere- monial.” The Chicago Tribune refers to the gathering as “the first of the kind ever held in this country,” and de- seribes it as “marked by superb pageantry, couched in symbols which were old when Father Marquette first set foot on the site of Chicago. To the non-Catholic,” continues the Trib- une, “the congress offered an un- usual opportunity to observe the blending of faith with esthetic appeal to which many of the world's greatest scholars, mystics and artists have con- tributed through the centuries. Chi- cago, the youngest of the world’s great cities, should profit from this contact with the venerable institu- tion which gave birth to universities and cathedrals, and has fostered all of the arts and sciences since the dawn of our era.” * ok K K “Sympathy with and interest in the congress on the part of those not belonging to the Roman Catholic Church,” says the Springfield Union, “may be thought one of the most sig- nificant features of the congress. Car- dinal Mundelein, in whose archdlocese the congress was held, has several times gratefully referred to the co- operation of non-Catholics.” The Trenton Times is impressed with the thought that “an exhibition of belief in the most profound mystery of re- ligion such as Chicago sets before the world will have a steadying influence on Christian worshipers of every de- nomination. In the way,” adds the Times, "not alone Catholics, but all devout people, will be benefited. Human nature is governed more by example than precept, and no rea- sonable person is proof against the influence ‘of a soulful uplift move- ment.” “There are’prophets in America,” observes the Pittsburgh Sun, ‘“who are even now proclaiming the on- coming of a recrudescence of the re- ligious spirit, who believe that we are at the eve of a spiritual awakening without parallel in our history. It may be that the Eucharistic Congress wiil contribute mightily to_that trend.” The Buffalo Evening News also be- lieves that “the coming of these car- dinals and their mission are certain to stimulate spiritual interest, not only among those of their faith, but also among the people of all other creeds.” “These vast throngs_indicate,” ac- cording to the New York Evening Post, “that in an age so often assailed as materialistic and worldly the multi- tude is capable of being stirred to a mighty. demonstration of faith and worship. In the heart of each of us abides that instinct of reverence which only requires the occasion to call it forth; and the open-air serv- ices at Chicago have meant a su- preme manifestation of the universal and ineradicable instinct whereby men reveal %'lr faith in an Infinite hailed as a force which may | Power that rules our finite lives.”" The South Bend Tribune says of its force “The strength and vitality of this movement, which in le: than years has grown to be one of the largest and most spectacular of all assemblies, especially attract the world’s attention because the aim of the congress is purely a spiritual one Equally remarkable stands the fact that the greatest influence in creating and promoting the congress has heen the Catholic laity.” *x x ok x “One of the most remarkable re ligious demonstrations that Americans have ever witnessed,” is the estimate | of the Providence Journal, which feels that “it has enlisted the particular ir terest and enargy of many who are no of the Catholic faith,” and that “in this way there has been an eneouras ing manifestation of Christian broth erhood. In commenti upon the extending influence of the spirit manifested at the congress, the Day ton Daily News calls attention to the general Catholic students’ sessfon in its own city and recognized their pur pose “to advance the welfare of hu manity by leading humanity in right eous W while it declares tha. “these Catholic conferences are mnot without interest to Protestants or to non-Christians, nor can they be view- ed by those who say they have no re ligion without helpful effect, for even the non-believer must be helped when he sees how much religion does for those who do believe.” “When 170,000 women gather for one ceremo * says the Fort Worth Record-Telegram, “it is something more than a news item. It is the largest gathering of women recorded in histor: It is good for us to have such colossal evidences of the spirit of the worship of a Supreme Being. The ceremony is one of the outstanding events of this generation.” Compar ison with the Crusaders is made by the Akron Beacon-Journal, as it re calls the knight of armor, and con cludes that “the purpose of the pil grimage is still the same—a greater spirituality and the spread of know! edge.” The Brooklyn Eagle, viewing the events as of world-wide im portance, holds that “there is no single force for sociological conserv atism stronger than the Roman Cath olic Church, standing for the main tenance of the existing social order.” wiki Citing the present-day conflict “‘be tween revealed religion and a newer form which, in the last analysfs, it seems, makes reason the judge or what supposed divine revelation shall be accepted,” the Asheville Citizen ob serves that “the demonstrations at- tending the congress serve to em- phasize the contrast between the lat ter religion and that of which the Ro. man_Catholic Church is ome of the chief exponents.” “One million pilgrims coming to Chicago,” says the Chicago Daily News, “bring great benefits to the city. By far the greatest of these are spiritual. They are bestowed at a time when a true religious awakening is especially needed. Other faiths have been unreservedly earnest in their expressions of welcome and in their co-operation. Visitors from abroad say that only in the United States is such a fraternal demonstra- tion possible. Certainly it shows the fraternal spirit of Chicago.” President Coolidge’s message of welcome to the religious gatherings is commended by the Los Angeles Ex. press. “It is such a message,” says the Express, “as Thomas Jefferson might have written, when he, insisting the original Constitution lacked the essence of personal liberty, caused the first amendment to be written, thus insuring for all time the religious free- dom which President Coolidge assures the country’'s distinguished guests shall always be found here.” L)