Evening Star Newspaper, July 5, 1926, Page 6

6 ’]_‘HR EVENING STAR bred by the picnic spirit. People take With Sunday Morning Kdit desperate chances on such oceasions. - Old and young seem to forget th WASHINGTON, D. C. ordinary vules of vaution and run MONDAY.......... July 5. fope |IRlly visks. e & = On the roads the percentage of THEODORE W. NOYES. . . . Editor ™ISUrtunes viscs sharply at week L ends and on holi The highways The Evel 2 Star Newspaper Company are crowded with vehicle mostly b motors. Thew drivers race with death NFL)({vH~Z and | ‘x“w”\p,::lxn' Ave - and often lose. They crowd il(‘lhl- l\:nn‘[r‘m 3 “1‘,{ ""‘“2(”‘“;'“”’ h turns, speed furiously to gain little LI R St London. | gistances, as though some grave issue were at stake. They cut down their :n."’:fi.f‘:"",‘: Star. with the Sund ¥ e marging of ty 1o the narrowest the it s per mon! 1 point, and hundreds of them come to per mq telenhq carrier Dails and sunda Dail 1200 300 Member of the Associated Press, . 3 el I tod i ation hts of e are also American Independence. the As dependence day recurs for celebr: vears in tion, pass. and as it becomes more difficult to re in the mind the o ons in which the Declaration of Independence drafted and signed. the circumstances Which compelled that daring act of insubordination on the part of the sh colonists in America and which rd them to n their bhattle a vy odds, For Amer- ' independence hins become so fixed a fact, has been blished for so many vears and has so completely justified itself that it seems to have been a natural evolution, quite in ac cord with the laws of huu n institu tions. As a matter of fact. there was nothing inevitable about the sey tion of the colonies. Had there heen a wiser monarch at London, or had he leen guided Ly wiser counselors the breach between the mother coun try and the colonies would not have occurred, at )t at that time. Oppressive measures had 1} in stituted dinst the people the, colonies They were rezarded with no They were treated as sub. serving to the sympathy. Jects kingdom. The very only enrich difficulties of uncerstand ing, due to the distance that separated the New World from the Old and the lack of intercourse, that used the crown to fail to sense the true spirit of the colonies, made for the The people on this side of the Atlantic knew England far better than the the rul of England knew the colonies. Many of the wealthier of the colonists had visited the homeland. Few of the lawmakers of Great Britain had visited Amer Champions of the American cause there were, to be sure, In England. But they were a small minority, and their warnings agalnst harsh ireat ment of the distant subjects by the crown were of no avail. They were unheeded, and so measure after m, ure was employed to the end of fo ing subjection to the royal will and compelling the payment of tribute to the royal treasury. Such a situation could not now da_ velop, for there is no lack of under- standing between Great Britain and hér colonies and dominions beyond seas. Indeed, the lesson taught by the separation of the colonies and their establishment as an independent sovereign state was well learned by England. The mistake that brought about the secession of the colonies that formed themselves into the United States of America was not repeated. So the very difficulties that prevent ed understanding and which brought about the impositions which became too great to be longer borne were the making of the new Republic. The separation isolation, the distance from the home-. land, the privations that had become part of the community life in Americ were all the ment. Men| by ctors for Xxperiment the in suec self-govern. were bred to those mighty stature hardships and trials. 1 ma. 1,00 people and particularly | of | Yet | 1 the srief. and thew p: They at they nish render Novices and with them. railroad tracks mgs. only to find that 1t the trains, and fur, for to dash ,upon grade cross cannot occasion coroners’ juries s driving. swinming boating drowned. Little chil into dangerous waters e dangerous to them find themselves in m for heip and often their drowned with, them. indifferent to others’ fires to prepare their verdicts of reckle many dren venture all and when they ril sere: uers are ers Campers rights, build meals and allow the embers to remain, blown into flame and spread underbrush and destroy thou . perhaps dwellings and stock are some of the sacrifices made constantly to the great The ¢ uncountable. distress and sorrow are unmeas urable. This indeed rare wonderful civilization Fun st is is a and — - The New Traffic Law. passing n the amended traffic bill fthe District of Columbla in the closing hours of the session just ended, Congress its unmistakable over the t has shown again intention of turn- flic affairs of the ist on traffic appoint- ed by the District Commissioners. This specialist Traffic Director Eldridge, who for the past vear has been laboring under not only handi- the ing city to a speci caps imposed hy the original trathic | eriticism and lack co-operation n those District from whom he has the right to expect the he Now that Congress has again signified its con- in his administration, there should be an abrupt “about face” t n of azencies that have in the past an embarrassing | stumbling block for all efforts look- ing to tratlic betterment. in the new law makes it it intends the director to ze over all traf- inadequacy of code, but under of agencies most rmonious aid hdence these proved | Congres: plain that have exclusive cf {fic on the streets of the city, includ- ing pedestriuns, horse-drawn ve- | hicles and street ¢ No loophole is now to be found by any court to [ nullify the regulations devised by the director in his attempt to create a better traffic city. He is empow- | ered to reduce the speed limit or to | raise it, as the exigencies of the case | demand, and he is authorized to rid the streets of criminally careless drivers by the revocation of their | perm Under the law he can now proceed in his extension of the auto- matic centrol lights, the completion f the boulevard stop system, the re- uance of drivers' permits and the | general readjustment the traffic | scheme in the city that for the past | vear has been beset with confusion | caused almost entirely by unwar- | ranted friction in the very agencies | that should have striven to elim- | inate it. Mr. Eldridge, confident that the relief which has just been given could be had from Congress, has in | the meantime gone ahead slowly | with the few agencies at his com- mand. If the regulations recom- mended by him and promulgated by the Commissioners in regard to the automatic lights, pedestrian control, horse-drawn traffic and speed lmits | had not been overturned by a judge in the Traffic Court, Washington would even now be well on its way | to better things, but as it is, a start iss of must be made again almost from the | beginning. It is the hope of all Washingto- Inians that the new law will be up- held by the courts Congress in- tends it should be, that a spirit of the strange part of the matter is that | "1 co-operation between the Com- the spirit of independence, which | Tissioners, the police and the traffic office will prevail, and that every flamed into an undying torch at Phila- delphia on the Fourth of July, 1776, was spread through so widely scat. tered a people, over such vast’ dis- tances, in widely differing cir cumstances. Today words flash over the miles, the hundreds, the thousands of miles, in the twinkling of an eye. Jdeas are borne to millions of minds in seconds. Millions of people are constantly moving about on business d on pleasure bent. Newspapers are printed in countless quantities and spread swiftly before vast multitudes. of instant com- munication have been developed. But one hundred and fifty vears ago all was different. And it is because of that difference that the phenomenon of the great secession which brought a world power into being is so diffi cult for most Americans of today fully to understand and appreciate. Nevertheless, the marvel came about. The new nation was born. It has survived many trials and is now without question the strongest of the nations of the earth. It pauses today from its great activity to pay tribute to those men who, a century and a half ago, dared to set up a democracy in defiance of a powerful monarchy, and thus ereated for the first time in the history of mankind a government for the benefit of all the people and not for the benefit of a few. SR 2 It is easier to change a French cabinet than it is to change a franc on a receding exchange rate. r——— Penalties of Pleasure. Historians of later times could. by reference to the files of the daily newspapers, mark the calendar of Sundays and holidays without refer- ence to dates, by the mere notation of accidents in this country. The casualties of holiday making have become a national liabllity of serious proportions. Every year many lives such Marvelous means 7 conscientious and law-abiding motor- Jist will do his utmost to aid in the | campaign for fewer traffic injuries | and deaths. A era is to be inaugurated and the shoulders of a united ¢ must be put to the wheel in order that Washington may be ranked with the well regulated cities of the United glates. new ———————— There have heen some notable s of mysterious disappearance— | that of the lost Charlie Ross; later, | that of Dorsey Foultz, and recently that of the eminent statesman, | Thomas Blanton. o Bad Holiday Weather. Tens of thousands of people have been disappointed by the weather. With Independence day falling on Sunday and the official celebration occurring on Monday, a three-day holiday has this year become pos- sible. Saturday was fair and warm, an ideal Summer day. The prospect was good for three delightful days, a long stretch of pleasurable outing time. Had those who planned pro- tracted picnics and drives and dis- tant visits consulted the “weather map” on Saturday morning, however, they would have found there warn- ing of unfavorable conditions. A “low” of decided character would have been found looming near, in the region from which come the pro- onged disturbances. These storms develop somewhere in the waters south of this continent and sweep up along the coast, their centers located somewhat inland. They swing curvingly toward the northeast, following the shore. As | long as their centers lie to the south |and west of this region, the winds come from the northeast and east; which are “weather breeders.” THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, JULY 5. 1926. weather sign in Washington, the | vane on the west tower of the Smith- sonian Institution, which, free from all eddies and cross currents and high above all nearby structures, tells the tale of the air currents ac- curately. When the arrow head of that vane points to the eastern hemi- sphere, look for disturbances. When it swings so that the arrow points to the western zone, clearing weather due. Should the vane head swing around by way of the south the clearing will be spasmodic, with in- tervals of rain. Should it swing through the northern arc of the cir- éle it will be more positive, with a cool clearing of the atmosphere. The vane points into the northeast !this moerning The “low™ the | tore still somewhere to the south of I Washington. The winds, which flow into a storm center, coming off the sea, heavily moisture laden. The ar holiday makers are being chilled and drenched. Had the “low” been two days earlier or later in forming this e~ Independence day time would pi ably have been delightfully able and suitable for outings of all kinds. Somehow there has been lack ol co-ordination between the ments and the calendar, and hence the disappointment of tens of thousands, who thought to be happy m the enjoyment of an unusual streteh of playtime. ST Proper Postponement. Postponement Autumn of the proposal by members of the Board of to create of the whole, capable of sitting in secret on for the consideration of ministrative school business, is a wise ction. And still wiser will the abandonment of the plan altogether. Those who favor such a mode of pro cedure do not realize the intensity of public feeling in the District on the core of secrecy in matters of public school management. They perhaps are not aware of the causes which led to the writing into the organic act under which the schools are now governed the clause forbidding secret sessions. They have possibly lost the memory of the more recent happen mgs which at time of in school administration caused, through th distressing school system. The law requires open sessions of the Board of Education. It does not permit subterfuge. A committee of the whole sitting secretly, its conclu sions and agreements subject to mere. to Liducation a committee s ad a crisis nvocation of secret methods, such demoralization in the Iy formal approval Ly the board in open session, would be in defiance of the law. That is so plain that it is surprising that the proposal has been made to seek by that means to in stitute a system of secrecy of school management. The hope of those who are concerned for the welfare of the public schools is that this proposition has been given an indefinite vacation. —ee A tax on bachelors is attempted from time to time by various govern- ments. Spinsters should be willing to see it abated. An unmarried man proclaims by his selected situation in life that he would make a husband. poor e e President Coolidge announces no fishing, no tennis, golf, buse ball, as features of his Summer va- cation. It is evidently his intention to make the vacation genuine and vomplete. no no i e While restricting immigration, Mussolini appears bent on bringing about a state of affairs that will render a large element of Italian citizenship more anxious than ever to move. 5 ——oe—t Pennsylvania politics has nothing to do with oldtime Pennsylvania patriotism. The thing to do in the presence of a Sesquicentennial cele- bration is to forget the present and remember a glorious past. — et Large sums of money were to prohibition orators. In this con- nection there is the assurance that they did not waste the money on drink. ¢ paid S The Fourth of July is becoming less an evidence of patriotic senti- ment and more a boost for the fire- s industry o The prosperity of the U. S. A. is great. It would be still greater if foreign debts were as easy to collect as local tax SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Farm Relief. Little bit o’ sunshine, Little bit o' rain, Little bit o' bloomin’ An’ a little bit o' grain. Little bit o' labor In honesty complete Provides life with its beauty— Ard also things to eat. Reaching an Audience. “A soft answer turns away wrath.” “Yes,” answered Senator Sorghum, “but it's a loud speaker that gets you before the public.” Jud Tunkins says a faker always has an advantage in the fact that a | large number of people cling to the fond hope that he is going to give them something for their money. Radiology. ‘When saxophones Grow too erratic TI'm grateful for A little static. , Scantiness, “What do you think of your new light-weight bathing suit?” “Nothing,” answered Miss Cayenne. “When I wear it, I haven't even any- thing on my mind. ‘Weather Note. Each hot wave leaves us glummer And hope is growing dimmer.. Is this to be a Summer Or a protracted simmer? “You is judged by de company you| keeps,” said Uncle Eben, “an’ yet it THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. More pronouncing flower names than any persons experience trouble other words. Men who will think nothing at all of “appendectomy” shy horribly at so innocent a word as “gladiolus.” “Chrysanthemum’ er-anthemum,” becomes “Hydrangeu’ rolls forth as “hy-geranium,” even such a primary “irishes."” These are typi our hearing by term as “iris” becomes al cases, spoken in persons who know better, it only they would stop and consider. The trouble arises because they will not ook at a word long enough to become familiar with it. It is impossible, for instance, for “ny one to pronounce iri “irish,” the name of a great race of people, it only they will take the time and trouble to really look at the word in print, Ther perhaps no one who is not familiar with the irls of the eve, and not a one would experience any {difficulty in pronouncing the word correctly in connection with the eye, but when they talk of the flower, irls, they become confused and blunder into “irishes!" Now, there are German iris, and Japanese iris, so-called Dutch iris, and the Florentine iris, but there ave Irish iris, as far as we know though there may be species growing in the Emerald Isle, at that Chrysanthenum, we admit, mouthtul, as the modern expression has it, yet even this is commonly handled without mistake by most, on account of the popularity of this slory of the Autumn garden The joke of it is that the word, properly pronounced, is much easier to say than s-er-anthemum,” which is no at all, prope speaking. A “hy-geranium,” we dis nothing more than the hydrangea, the amateur gardener confusing this flower with the geranium, a term fa- miliar through long usage to prac- tically every one * er Very few stop to realize any more that they are talking Latin when they say geranium. or any one of a hundred other familiar flower names. Yet 9 out of 10 persons still stum- ble over the word “gladiolus.” as if e 1 wor overed. is it were « veritable jaw-breaker. This i~ due, in part, to the snob- bery formerly prevalent, which al- lowed a person who preferred the Atin pronunciation to openly rect one who used the straight lish As o matter of fact, those who so glibly pronounced it “glad-eve-olus” were incorrect themselves, since the best Latin dictionaries give it as “glad-eye-awlus,” the accent on the second syllable, in Loth case: Those who prefer the American pronunciation stuc consistently to “gladi-o-lus.” giving the normal Snglish accent on the next to the last syllable. Those with a “feel” for our language will instantly sense the satisfaction of this pronunciation. So much confusion resulted that the American Gladiolus Society, at its convention last Summer, adopted the single form “gladi-o-lus” for both singular and plural. Thus one speaks of one gladiolus or two gladiolus, ace cording to this form Since the society, however, an authority on language, is not however One of the things that will not ap- pear in the Congressional Record is the inside history of the Senate fili- buster which turned the closing ses- sion of the Senate on July 3 into a farce. The principal effe if not the deliberate intent, of the time-kill- | ing plot was to frustrate action on Senator Neely's resolution disqualify- ing Senators-elect who spend more than $25,000 in their campaigns. The resolution, which had the unanimous approval of the rules committee, was the outgrowth of the Pennsylvania slush fund exposures. The man most interested in preventing either discus- sion or passage of the resolution was Senator David Aiken Reed, Republi- can, of Pennsylvania. The day before Reed fought a bitter, allday battle in the rules committea over a single word in the proposed resolution. He wanted that word included—the word “hereafter’ whereby the resolution’s effect would not be retro: purpose was to make it non-applicable to the case of William S. Vare of Pennsylvania, victor in the senatorial primary which led to the pending in- vestigation. # x or Reed won his fight. went into the Neely tion. Thereby hangs a tale. Pittsburgher openly threatened, in case of a retroactive resolution, to move on the floor of the Senate the passage of a resolution debarring from eligibility to the Senate any man elected by a majority of less than 15 per cent of the male voters of his State. That was a deliberate thrust at the Southern States which have “grandfather clause: literacy tests and other provisions in their elec- tion laws that effectually disfran- chise large numbers of colored voters. Reed not only threatened to méve the passage of such a resolution, but de- clared he had the votes in hand, as the result of a poll, to make passage certain. The bluff worked. ‘“Here- after” was duly edited into the Neely resolution. With standpat Republi- can and Southern Democratic sup- port pledged in its favor, Reed con- sidered that Vare's seat—in the event of the Philadelphia boss' election in November—could now not be endan- gered. The resolution would apply to not t, slush funds. future, PS: b That was the first stage of the ma- neuver to save Vare's hide from sena- torial castigation. The next move in the game was to prevent the em- barrassing subject of congressional campaign funds being discussed in the Senate at all. On that issue, as it ap- peared, both® parties see eve to eve. Fach of them expects to spend money this year. One will spend more, the other less. Both will probably spend all they can lay hands on. So it was decided by the respective Republican and Democratic powers-that-be that it were best to postpone unseemly dis- cussion of slush-fund matters until the 1926 elections are come and gone. To that end the filibuster was staged. Senator Cameron, Republican, of Ari- zona, with his plaintive pleas for “dam sites,” was cast for the villain's role, which he proceeded to enact with faithful and endless verbosity. Cam- eron was still on his feet jawing about “dam sites” when Vice President Dawes rasped out the fateful an- nouncement that the hour of adjourn- ment had come. Once again a fili- buster had served politicians’ yurpous. * ok ok ok Senator Cameron is a “‘down East” Maine Yankee, who went to the wilds of the Territory of Arizona as a youth of 20 and carved out a romantic ca- reer there. He tabulates as his chief claim to fame the fact that he was the locator and builder of the famed Bright Angel trail into the Grand Can- “Here- resolu- The Senat after” WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. TRACEWELL. much it is on its queen of Summer- flowering Dbulbs, the name is still spelled gladioli for the plural prac- tically everywhere. In order to avold constant dispute with the proofroom we ourselves have used the Latin plural in this column, after writing last Summer in praise of the one form and pronunclation “gladi-o-lus” for both singular and plural. * ok ok ok The flower names almost without exception are beautiful, as is wit- nessed by the adoption by the human ce of many of them as names for Lily, Violet, Pansy, Iris— these ure but a few of the common ones. Iven those that have not been so adopted are beautiful and might well be chosen. ' Would not “Gladiolus sounding name for a e sword”—and how about ladiola for a girl? It is true there is no such form as the latter, but we could se it anyw Save the Valhalla That | Washington Planned To the Editor of The Star July 4, 1926, is our 150th “birthday.” Within that period of time we have grown to the full estate of a sover- eign Nation. Within that period of time, and it is a short time in the his tory of a nation that has become a leading nation of the world, whether ancient or modern, we have done muny notable deeds-deeds that the world acknowledges are of sufficient magnitude to call for great memorials | to the “cause” or the “man.” Few are the nations, indeed, which | in so short a period of time as 150 vears, have enunciated a bill of rights equal to our Declaration of ‘Independence, or made such a con- | tribution to the science of govern ment as is our Federal Constitution, or given to the world men compa ble to George Washington, Benjamin ranklin, Thomas Jefferson, Ale |ander Hamilton or Abraham Lincoln { And not least amoug these contribu- | tions, vet little understood and even | less “appreciated by the generality of men, is the Federal distriet in our | scheme of National Government—the | seat of Government in whi s situ- N ated our tlon's Capital City | Without giving credit to any single Q. On profe: racing automo- what pe of wheels are wire and what per cent di L. B.B. A. Disk wheels on racing autom are not | mitted on the speed. used. Only wir . Q. 15 the life span of the American negro increasing in length?—T. W. P, A. In 1914 the average length of life of the negro was about 35 years. It is now over 40, Q “peopl motion picture companies?—AM. M How many people have stock in A. Almost 60,000 people own stock movie concerns, amounting to Q. What does u teardrop contain? —H. J. G A. The United States Public Health Service sa; consist that tears usually of pure water with traces of salt, but in cascs of systemic polsoning the tears may show the poison and in diabetes chey may be saccharine. g Q. What wood is used sounding boards?—M. M. H A. The wood which is most used for piano sounding hoa spruce, although white quarte ovak is also u. or plano often Is is awed d for this purpose Poppy I8 @ name sometimes heard e : " emeartd: Lindividual for the creation of this sometimes used as a name. Aster|¢redit to the “founding father ix bad, while Daisy is world- | Severally for the creation of the “s e St of Government.” one must, never- The columbine is a garden lrmnd’:‘::;{::'“ . ‘*“l:f"—'“ “"“["fl-:\';:‘:h;fi and has given its name to an old | £ to Ge ashington, L s e e tulin | the Viston and adminstrative ability : ySuct, to establish the Capital City on a vac (&t anula are et o e apata ™ 47 | more magnificent and comprehensive ‘arnation is a4 word known to |Plan than first contemplated by the every one, because the flower has '"-'\k"‘w ;-I t]n‘u Feder 1‘{«v.1.\~‘11n;1£";“:.‘”‘ had o grent and deserved vogue. | Not the least among the particy There fo too. the eineraria. the | 1ars of this city plan of George Wash- cor the delphinium. |ington was the memorial park he Gypsophila has the pleasant sub- of “baby’s breath.” Linaria plant, is another pretty s name that might well be used naming a flower of the human for family. * Why use the commonplace names for girl babies when there is avai able such a word as “Marigold” Would not Nemesia. too, be pretty? Lobelia is not bad either. Mignonette has long been a fa- vorite name among the French. Phlox is not bad sounding, although perhaps too unusual for a human name. J. Phlox Smith might shock the natives, indeed! The tufted pansies, or violas, have given us our name Violw Polyan * e thus would do as the masculine form | of Pollyanna, perhaps. And Primula, now: but hardly Rudbeckia, Scabios: r Pyrethrum! ritoma (red-hot poker would do for a modern “go-g Veronic lso called the speedwel sometimes used as 4 human n; arcissus, name of ancient is now best known as that of one of our most popular Spring flowering is bulbs. Amaryllis, the giant flowering. is often used @ name. Jonquil hath a right pleasant sound, as hath Anemone. Nor should we omit Peony, the queen of the May Among the bulbs we like crocus, a oz little fellow, and fritillari which reminds us of fritters, and the freesia, of whic one variety is named General Pershing. ely we have given enough to show that the flower names are beau tiful and easily pronounced by any one who will take the trouble to look at_them and spell them over men- tally to himself hefore he speaks bandits of every description native to the bad lands. Before Arizona was a State, Cameron represented it in Con- gress as a Territorial Delegate. His name is a household word all over the State. He told the Senate on July 3 the course of an impassioned de » against the political drive of < enemies in Arizona, that he once Ilived five months on the desert with- out sight of a human being. Cameron ars old, but as full of fight as days his name carried terror to evil-dvers throughout the length and breadth of Ariz * % * % President Coolidge has reappointed one of the Woodrow Wilson old guard to the Federal Reserve Board in re- newing the 10-y term of Charles Sumner Hamlin of Massachusetts, A Harvard man and one of the genu- ine scholars in American public life, President Wilson appointed Hamlin to the Reserve Board for two years in 1914, and reappointed himg for 10 vears in 1916. There was an inti- mate intellectual comradeship between them. After Wilson left the Whie House in March, 1921, Hamlin was one of the favored six or seven men whom the stricken statesman con- tinued to see at regular intepval Baruch, Grayson, Tumulty, the late Cleveland H. Dodge and Cyrus H. McCormick being some of the others. Hamlin was once a clerk in the Treasury Department at Washing- ton and his chief was Robert L. Owen, later United States Senator from Oklahoma and manager of the legisla- tion which eventuated in the passage Senate. The reappointed reserve board of the Federal Reserve act by the Sen- ate. The reappointed Reserve Board governor has written a couple of standard works on Interstate Com- merce Commission and Federal R4- serve subjects. Hamlin has been prominent in Massachusetts Demo. cratic politics since 1887, * K ok % A windfall equivalent to two years of senatorial salary has just come Senator Samuel M. Shortridge’'s way. ‘The junior Senator from California. re- celved word on the eve of adjourn- ment that the San Francisco sugar magnate, the late John D. Spreckels, had left him $20,000 as a token of their old friendship and Shortridge's long service as Spreckels' personal attorney. With a hot campaign for renomination ahead of him, “Sam” finds the bequest more than ordinarily acceptable, as the tall sycamore of the Golden Gate is not blessed with large means. * kK % Robert Peet Skinner's promotion from the consulate generalship at Paris to the ministership to Greece is the most notable transfer yet made under the new American foreign serv- ice law. That act, now in its sec- ond year, for the first time provides for interchangeability’ between the members of the diplomatic and con- sular forces. Mr. Skinner for years has been Uncle Sam's blue ribbon consular officer. He has held all the A-1 posts, including. in succession, Berlin, London and Paris. Skinner is an Ohioan. He yas country editor in Willlam McKinley's day and was appointed to the consular service by the martyred President. As a cub reporter, S8kinner was press agent for “Gen.” Coxey when the Buckeye hobo leader marched on Wasghington with his ragamuffin “army.” (Copyright. 1926.) oo An_Agricultnral Need. ' From the Toronto Daily Star. A non-rusting wheat has been de- veloped at Winnipeg. Now for a yon of the Colorado in Arizona. For more than 40 vears Cameron has lel the two-fisted life of a ploneer in the desert country. His story would make a movie scenario into which Bill Hart would fit. . Cameron was sheriff of Coconino County for three terms, and put in weeks on end hunting down are destroyed through carclessness /There is at least one dependable'ain't falr to judge a dog by his fleas.” "mall-coach robbers, horse thleves and bugless potato. e Pr—omoles Circulation. From the Nashville Banner. One thing the primary does is get the boodle money into the hands of a great many more persons, say what else one will about ity vided for extending from the west front of the Capitol building to the Potomiac River—generous in width phroximating a mile in length & to be, as he conceived it, @ —the Valhalla of a mighty Nation built v endure for centuries on the found on of equity. adly has the ) neglected—or, |shall it be said, forgotten”— this Val ! Neglected or forgotten, which lever it may be, in the vears that | have passed—even within a few davs {of our 150th anniversary—men, good men, proud of the country, have |often attempted, and today attempt, {in the name of mistaken economy {or for the sake of immediate {ciency, 1o make this Valhal'a “emporium of busin 5 The records in the archives of the Government are full to over Lwith projects and schemes to nd there on this Valhalla o market | SO, un armory ‘. . A factory which planned L railr private dwellin evervthing save that for Father of His Country Too often have these thoughtless men succeeded in atternpts. And today, while are celebrating our 150th annivers much of this at was to he our business 1 the but their we Valhalla is red with Chinese joints. dilapidated tenements, vari ous kinds of 1 and wholess ablishments running the gamut from insanitary, dingy, makeshift poultry killing concerns and a whaole sale coflin establishment, (o tionee! markets where evervthing from broken-down amutomobil pedigreed horses and mules On this same sacred grovnd Washington Monument | Lincoln Memorial at one end ar the other, the impressive G Monument. In between are various other memorials—mostly memorial like buildings serving practical ends, but not simon-pure departmental | buildings. Yet it is now proposed to |erect a monumental (in s { ment buflding on a part of tl | halla_still preserved from pe building projects. The sole ex that it will save the Nation money a grievously small excuse, all things considered Here is the richest N: face of the earth—rich three nations put together | with a little plot of ground espe: laid out by the Father of the Coun the any m on than {try for a Valhalla—a Nation tc celebrating the 150th anniversary of the real beginning of the Nation, “thinking"” about using a part of that small plot of ground for a depart- ment. building built for the use of at of tomorrow? What of alhall On this Valhalla, within the com | paratively short period of 150 years, |we have erected several gr me- o Others are projected under consideratfon. Al this in | yvears. What of the next 15 and the other 150 ¥ | follow after? Has not po ! rights which ought to be respected— | some right to parts of this Valhalla |on which to commemorate its deeds? Have we in this first 150 vears done all the great deeds our Nation is to do? Let us hope not. Then, if not. why not preserve the sacred right of posterity if only in honor of the Father of Our Country, to some small part of this Valhalla History tells us that which has risen to true greatness has, generally speaking, held its pre- eminence for several hundred years. We have just reached our pre- eminence. Save this Valhalla to future genera- tions of great Americans—and we can prove our greatness of this generation by buying a few hundred square feet of ground now occupied by dilapi- dated buildings near-by this Valhalla sold by careless or thoughtless Amer- icans who preceded us. GROVER WARREN AYERS. RN, Who Can Sing the National Anthem! To the Editor of The Star The Star of July 2 carries an edi- torial, “No Hatred in the Song.” After reading this with much inter and being struck with the truth of the statement “that very few .meri cans know more than the first verse of “The Star Spangled Banner, ” T re- called that in my hook “Scraps of Paper,” which contains clippings from here, there and everywhere, I have the following, which was written by John Radameyer of the Akron, Ohio, Rotary Club. It might be of interest. Oh. say. can vou sing from the start to the What % proudls you stand for when or- When the whole congresation, in voices that Strilg up-the grand march, and then tor- 3 and sl o How they. bellow and’ shout. when they're first starting_out. 150 a nation ? But “the dawn's early 'light" finds them ng _about. “Tis fle Star " Spangied Banner” thes're ine fo, s But they’ don't know the words of the pre- Glous old thing. Hark! the “twilight's last gleaming” some of them stont But the valiant survivors press forward serenels o the ramparts we watched” where some others are dropt. And the loss of the leaders is manifest keenly. e The “rocket's red glare” gives the | scdre. And there's but few left to face “the bombs Tirating 1n ai "Tis & thin line of Leroes that manage to The lu&'?{ the verse and “the home of the rave. EDWIN F. HILL. has To Matrimonial Boom. From the Saginaw News-Courier. Preliminary estimates indicate that June weddings made serious inroads on the bachelor crop. A | A Heavy Blow. From the Hartford Times. > 4 Eastern sympathy for the agricul- tural States is hard hit by Minne- sota's nominatlon of Magnus Johnson for governes, L Q. What are the boundaries of the Great American Desert?—0. 1. P. A. The boundaries are e. The outer limits are the Rockies and the continuing ranges in New Mexico and Texas on the east; the Sierra Nevadas and Cascade ranges on the west. The north and south limits are British Columbia and the Mexican boundary. Only a part of this area is actual arid waste land, comprising approxi- mately 550,000 square miles. Q. When the British evacuated Boston, did Washington Howe come to an ag was not to be A. Some historians shortly before the evacuation of Bos ton by the British, Gen. Howe threat- ened o burn the city if any attempt of bomberdment were made. Unoffi cially and informaily a sort of agree- ment cred into_between the opposing [ that if the Britich were not attacked on embarkalion, they would leave the town substan- tially as it was. There was no formal communication between Washington and Howe, but this was an under- tanding. Washington also from mmunition his artillery w obliged to sparingly. Q. What per cent of people of pre American stock have light-brown hair? ALQ S A. Dr. Hrdlicka savs that one-half lof such males and over four-tenths of the females have medium-brown hair. Q. Who coined the expression, “The ew South”? Henry credit 1t the Manu R During the Civ S0 we have been inf « often scord savs: t' Royal wa i1 of Union {troops, some of soldiers estab lished » little paper at that point and called it “The New South. That. we think term.” Q phobia Equato M. A. The Public Health Service say that hydrophobia_ oceurs in all parts the world. There is no truth in the statement that it does not exist below the Equato What is meant by “honky tonk” the name?—G S A “Honky tonk™ is the expression used to describe a restaurant which has the characteristics of those of the bly the origin of the t Is it are true unknown cases of hydro- south of the Q Wh limehouse district The expression « inated from the words given to the type of music usually played in is Chinese deep drum beats used as b wailing mel- ody. 1f one stretches his imagination he can almost hear in the drum beats The music b; these plac and characteriz is ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. What kind of a lever is a row. boat car?’—D. . A The var of a rowboat is a lever second class. The fulerum is | n rde of e« car vwhich remains approximately at rest in the water nd the pressure on the row-lock is the “weight." the words “honky tonk, honky tonk The cafes were of the lower class, icing girls and opium being two of the attractions. The expression w used during the war to describe Paris- @n dance halls of the lowest class, Q. What doe “aloha” mean A. Aloha may be translated in many ways, as welcome, greeting friendship, love, brotherhood, mutual understanding and good-by until we the Hawaiian word M. P. meet again Q. Please explain what the “walve: rovte” in base ball is.—A. M. A. When a big league ball elub wishes to send a plavef to the mino lcagues it is obliged to obtain fre the other clubs in the league a wait lof their rights the plave [ therefor is called th route.” Q. Is George Bernard Shaw Fnz lish or Trish”? F. W. I A. George Bernard Shaw wag bory in Dublin, Irelund. and spent the firer 20 years of his lifs Sfnee tha | time he has lived in ngland Q What is the difference betwee: the lifting capacity and the car i capacity of an alrplane”—M. A. T A. The lifting capacity of an i plane is fts maximum flying load. It- CAFTYIng capacity is the difference be tween this load and the dead load o t. which includes structure power pluit and edsential accessori Q. What are the altitudes of Eagle- Mere, Pu.. and Lake Placid, N. Y.” agles Mere, Pa., iz 2,280 feat above sea level. Lake Placid, is 1,564 feet above sea level Q. Has the Sesquicentennial name that corresponds to the “Whire City” which sed the Columbiar | Exposition at Chicago?™—P. A. 1. A. The Philadeiphia exposition known as the ““Rainbow Citv.” The buildings are tinted in pastel shades laid on the stucco Q. How old an fnstitution is the eir cus’—P. F. R. A. circus may be traced back to Roman times. At that tine it wax & bu'iding for the exhibition of horse: and chariot races and other amuse | ments e oldest huilding of this kind in Rome was the Circus Maxi | mus. The civeus in modern times, «i | though having the same nane, real | has little in common with the institi: n of classical Rome. The popul: ity of the circus in England may he traced to that kept by Philip Astley ir | London at the end of the efghteenth 1 | century. Astiey was followed by Du | crow and later by Hengler and Sanger. In America a ecircus actor | named Ricketts is said to have per med before George Washington n 780, and in the first half of the | nineteenth century the establishments | of Purdy. Welch & Co. and Van Am | burgh gave a wide popularity to the | circus in the United States. | g Q. Did George ¥V ashington wear a 4 Cortelle® Hutchins, say that Washington never wig. His own hair, carefully sually powdered per. portrait painters itting that George | fec | speaks of an early Washington zave him, at which he |saw his hal disarranged, having | touches of brown where his morning ablutions had taken off the powde: The sitting was given before the hai:- dresser had arrived. Q. Why is it especially important 1o clean the teeth at bedtime?—A B. L. A. This is in the mouth uight. What do you need to know? Is there some point about your business | or personal life that puzales you? Is there something youw want to knew without delay? Submit your question to Frederic J. Haskin. Director of our Washington Information Bureau. H. ts employed to help youw. Address your inquiry to The Evening Star In- formation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin Director, Washington. D. ., and en- close 2 cents in stamps for return postage. because proceeds fermentation rapidly at Recent discussion in the press of the country of the value of military training in educational {nstitutions indicates widespread appreciation of the benefits of the system. The de- bate as to the character of the drill desired has been enlivened by a state- ment from President Coolidge favor- ing the body-building features of drill rather than those of a purely mili- tary ch cter. From the President's remarks,” says the Indianapolis News, “it is clear that he wishes to avoid the crea- tion of goose-stepping school and_col- lege military organizations.” The News calls attention to the fact that the 1926 camps are larger than those at any time since the beginning of this movement, and declares that “the ad- ministration is not misled by the anti-preparedn: forces which are seeking to have these camps abol ished, to eliminate all Government support of military training in schools and colleges, and to do away with the organized reserve by cutting off its source of replacements.” “Willing testimony” from college men who have “intimate daily touch with the problem"” is quoted by the Little Rock Arkansas Dgmocrat to the effect “that Reserve Officers’ Training Corps training makes an enormous contribution to the meaning of disci- pline, the power and reward of confi- dence, the value of self-control. the requisites of leadership, respect for authority, the need of morale, the care of the mind and body and the rewards of promptness and obedi- ence.” The Democrat, nevertheless, feels that “‘compulsory military train- ing is a highly debatable subject.” * ok ok The Lynchburg Advance contends that “America must be reasonably prepared, and the military schools and military camps are serving that pur- pose without causing other nations to become alarmed.” ~Action taken at Boston is commended by the Atlanta Journal, which records that “with but one dissenting vote, the school com- mittee there decided to continue the traditional drill and discipline which give the city’s youths a deal of self- control, along with physical training and respect for their country's flag. call it ‘militarism’ if you must strain at gnats and swallow camels,” adds the Journal: “certainly it is patriotism and common sense.”” The Grand Rapids Herald also states that “the Boston exhibit is particularly eloguent. Six- tythree years is a long time in which to test a system,” continues the Herald. “Our observation is that high school military training in Grand Rapids has been wholly useful in its limited application. Those who oppose if—from thoroughy earnest and consclentious motives, no doubt— are not consulting reality. They are taking counsel of idle theory and vain trepidation. We recommegd to them a Boston inquiry.” The Grand Rapids paper emphasizes the “testimony of 90 out of 92 College presidents who have answered a questionhaire to the effect that they consider military training of benefit “to the students, the college and the country.” Military Drill in Schools Approved by Many Editors “Tt now appears that the inferences drawn from the President's state ments,” says the Indianapolis Star. “‘were other than those he wished to conv 1t is insisted that he took, no unqualified stand against coms pulsory training, but only remarked that. in his opinion, such training should have for its purpése the bet- terment of mind and body, and not the inculcation of a military spirit.”" This paper further states that ‘“the President's attitude is that of every patriotic citizen and it is chiefly be- cause of the physical exercise and the important factor of mental discipline that the military training is so highly commended." Touching on the history of military training in colleges. the Milwaukee Journal remarks: We have had com- pulsory military courses in colleges for 60 vears without producing a mili tary spirit. Military training came into these schools through the land grant act of July, 1862. Tt was es- sentially a war measure, dictated by the state of the Union that then was in the throes of civil conflict. Con gress, in granting thousands of acres of land to found schools for the pro- motion of agriculture and the me- chanical arts, specified that these schools must give courses in military training. Tt was thought of as just one means of promoting national de fense,” the Journal concludes, as it noted that “we have now progressed far bevond that point. We have a plan of natlonal defense by which citizens, coming of their own free will into the Officers’ Reserve Corps, the Natfonal Guard units and the citi zens’ military training camps, are pre pared to take part in national defense." ok Says the Memphis News-Scimitar, ““The person who attends one of these camps is not necessarily more mili- tant.' but he should come out of the intensive training more efficient, stronger and better poised than when he went in.* 1In the judgment of the Janesville Daily Gazette, “to have the riage, the upstandingness,the pre- cigion of movement of the soldier and the slouchiness removed and a good physique in its place never hurt a hair on the head of a single vouth of the United States. i As to the instruction given at the camps the Seattle Daily Times says, “It is likely that the purely military side of the training will be forgot- ten long before the young men are needed to defend the country, but the lessons in citizenship, in patriotism and in athletics will remain with them always.” Comment from the Appleton Post-Crescent is that “military train- ing bullds self-reliant character, and certainly this country and the world needs a. good stiff injection of that.” Declaring its belief that the train- ing of youth for citizenship should in- clude the rudiments of service in the national defense, the San Francisco Bulletin says, “There is no deflance in the spirit of the American people, and though we should be better abld to defend-outselves we should not be any more deflant if every boy in the country knew how to carry & rifle and every girl how to use a bandage."