Evening Star Newspaper, July 9, 1926, Page 8

*! - o ey Mo B L\ WASHINGTON, D C e WAL T ZODORE W. NOYES. .. . Bditor ; ‘Evening Star Newspaper Company a R Peniiydnie Ave ow 'm@:; 10 Bagt tand 51, Buropses OBcs 14 Rereas 1. ‘London. S Eoglend. 3 " The Star, with 1) day 5 N All Other States and Canatla. 00 1 mo., $1.00 ] mo. TR o} 3 3 Member of the ‘uubt‘od Press. ", The Associa r Tumeoly ontitled o e o e T s €1 ted to it or not otherwise cred- in thi r snd also the local news blished Beroln. AT righis of pablication al hes Bl a 00 reserved. No Blue-Sky District Budget! Advocates and defenders of the Tump-sum method of Wederal partiol _‘pation in the expense of maintaining . the Capital municipality have always urged that if the Distriot would se- ‘oept this substitute for the fixed-ratio “principle Congress would, be much more liberal toward Washington and t its advancement more- rapidly the point of satisfactory develop- “ment. Apparently the lumpgsum method hgs, for the present at least, ‘bpen definitely estsblidhed, and there #§ certainly a material increase in the amount of the appropriations for rict purposes. And in antieips- -of sven greater liberality on the rt of Congress with the District’s , budgetary estimates ~have i1 been framed by the various nches of the District government [ that total nearly $50,000,000. The Oitizens’ Advisory Council has' in & r caution urged that the budget bq limited to $88,000,000, byt 'the Commissioners have decided | 1o establish the figure at §$40.000.000, Thus the effect of the demonatrs- tion by Congress of a disposition to be more free in spending the Dis- | tpict’'s money, so long he Federal | egntribution remains Bt $9,000,000, is be seen in a marked advance in iscale of expendifure by all the _sybordinate dcpartments”of the Dis- trict government. In anticipation of the sdoption of & 40,000,000 budset. ‘the Commissioners have ' determined " Wpon a tax rate for the new. year of ,80, an increase from § Had the departmental estimates been fully mfuved and adopted by the Com- " missioners and the Bureau of the “Buydget the rate would have hed to This tendency to swell the budget, | repardiess of the cost (o the takpay- | “are, 13 to be deplored. "1t is o be _ehecked hy the Commissiopers; even mere positively than' they: have .al- ‘ready indicated as thejr - purpose. ¢ rwise, in the conrse _ni & yery hort time the Distriet will be swamp- | in expenditures and burdened with ¥s to pay which will bring the ‘@emmunity to the point’ of acute, dis- tress. N With the fixedretio principle dis- ‘garded, Copgress ‘has no interest _‘whateyer in curtailing. the District ‘sppropriations. While that principle @etéd in the past as a hampering eight-hour day in the mines, o meas: ure pnp-u?:y the Congervative gov- ernment; was passed by the upper chamber. For the first time in his- tory . paern o, Biibuster, Laborite lords, riging in & vain effort to stall off acWon, addressed empty benches as the other members of the house walked ouf, returning from time to time to nete the progress of events. Members of the House of Commons assembled behind the bar and chesred the speakers. - Finally the bill was passed by a vote of 44 to 4, and then ensued the cerémony. of summoning the Commona to hear the anpouncement of the royal sasent to the measure. This was accompa- nied .by. jecrs and cat-calls, . On the Housé of Lerds a st fAight occurred in the corridors between a Conserva., tive and several Laborite: All this is making for an axtremsly disagreeable situation. Progressing c| unchecked, the spirit of deflance and contempt for tradition and rule is certain to carry the “die hards” of the fahor pariy to extremes. Hxpul- sion ' of members ‘in likely to take plaes, and. such martyrdom is ealcu- lated to ecause a political reaction. The next general election, the time of which eannot he forecast, will be probably one of .the lveliest ever held in Great Britain. BRI XA “Benny” Montgomery. News that comes from New York of the death in that city of Col. Ben- jamin ¥, Mentgomery, U, B, A, re- tired, will cause sorrow to many cf the alder Washingtonigns who re- member thet this title identifies “Benny” Montgomery, for more than two decades the confidential teleg- rapher ‘at the White House. It was In J877 when he was detailed by Gen, Mever, then in command of the Army Signal Corps, te duty at the Executive sion. He was then in his twenty-fourth year. H was a&n expert telegrapher and stenographer and was one of the sarfiest of skilled typists. This equipment made him of exceptional value in the White House service, where he remained until 1898. Dur- ing ‘the #panish-American War hp was given the rank of colonel in the Regular Army, In the course of that span of twenty years “Benny” Montgomery, #% he was afectionately known by all who had aeesalon to visit. the White House. was the custodian of impertant 6Meial confidences. He had served there under six different Presi. ‘dents. Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleves land—for two terms—Harrisen and MeKinlef. Matters of the greatest. delicacy passed through his hands, He was. implicitly trusted and, of course, he never by the slightest token hetrayed that trust. He was deyoted “tn the service and proud to maintain its highest traditions. During the period of Col. Mont- gomery's work at the White House conditions ‘were much simpler there then they are at presgnt, The execu- tive offiges re in the eastern wing of the old bullding on the second floor. The executive force was small, headed, under the President’s private seeretary, by Octavius Pruden. him ¥ g fandmark for many years. “At the door of the President's office sat Charles Toefer, knoww to multis tudes as a kindly Cerberus. He, too, was rewarded for his long services by a commission in the Army during the Spapish-American War. He passged only recently. Others whose names are yet femiliar' to many Washingtonians were Charies Hend: brake upon the progress of the Dis- ct in one respect; by causing Con: ‘gress to count the Federal pennies led out to the District and the District pennies taken to.match them, merved to prévent. eXtraVAganes. was often discourgging te find the strict’s budget. cut down below the Point of real need, because aof the. But It was at the same.time reassuring “to feel the pressure of the hrakes to % :the municipal machine . from ng ‘at & reckleas speed, " "~ “With the lump-sum prineiple in ‘yegue, the Distriet must apply itn n- brakes, and it behooves all who ti ® in the framing of the te remember that every dol- added to the next apprepriation ' bill ‘over and above the ameount car- SE',‘ by the present law wili come out t he pockets of the District tax- the Federal Treasury. It is 5 ‘write sgtimates (n large round and it is not difficult for the rict Commissioners 10 inepease 1figupe of the tax rate, but the whe pay, th difference in #f . higher lgvies do mot find &fl the fies go Jwen superseded by “Where do all tha In Winter?" has | ley and Warren Young; the former still a regident of this eity. Visitors ia° the' White Houss . on business, in those years would often see the short, pleasantly stout fig- ure of “Benny” Montgomery passing tp and fro between his nook in the northeast corner of' the bujflding and the private -offices of the seeretary and the President, with papers in his band, custodian of infarmatien of the most vifal charactar. When'] went forth upon Army duty ed. s commissioned officer the telegraph force had heen enlarged and others were at the keys. Had he béen so inclined Col, Montgomery might have told & remarkably ipteresting story of his career at the White House, but he .never: disclossd anything of his experiences there, and altheugh history iay the ‘poorer for his re- straint, the records of fidelity to & trust ave the richer for this observ- ance of the keyman's first principle. e g et President Coolidge caught & fish and anjoyed the experience. In the course u\u‘m. he will probably be . found whacking. a golf bajl over the links like 81l the vhet-ef humanity. “An in, |'@ifference to the thiil of sport is only | possible among those who have neyer tried the b A submarine has long since forfeited ennfidence. No maiter In what ocoa: Ploride. rea! estate booms go in Sum- test in Parjsian finance. The mage Who said “‘money talks” uttered axtom. AT e ) i nation of Britishera, hut they. mow Tegarded s commenplaces,. but inevitable. The ad- sion it appears, it figyres as an uf e G o d * The grip of the law ia cloaing. upor Richard Whittemere, the debopnairs ot the Labor party”into the par- | senious, return ‘of the Commons ‘from thel. Flor to the usual members.of tha-ergti: crookédness; He had somewhat of the and'the, manner of the “Rat: | Wype of gentleman cracksman. | Bt SRafae” was. (o alt b sing, ot Ver, that lefigth in his criminal practices s That Whittemore went- to| now, well proved. He was, it is true, | acquitted at Buffalo on a charge of murder, brought aftér his capture in | New “York, but that acquittal was mherely: for lack of positive identifica- tion and the ‘presentation of an alibi of doubtfyl chargeter. The crime f6r which he now stands at the foot of the #ellows was ‘the killing of a prison. Suard $n his escape from the Maryland penitentiary,’ ‘that he will pay the penalty of his own life. Coloring Trees. There is a story that & company has et been formed to change the eolor of the ‘wood in growing trpes by having the sap ‘carry the dye through the cell of the tree. It 15 sald that in a public experiment the inventor used birch," beech and maple trees, bored holes Jow in the ‘trunks of the trees, introduced .the dye and the coloring matter was carried up the bole and into all the branches, two days being required to.stain small trees and four days to staln large apes. The in- ventor claims that the dye does mot kill the tree, and a landscepe architect is quoted as saying that if it did kil the tree the value of the timber would not be lowered. There is the sug: gestion that the artificially colored trees. can be turned into umbrella handles, cigarette - cases, buttons, candlesticks and whatnot. Most persons have seen green carnations on St. Patrick's day. The stems of the flowers are put in a dye . which by. caplllary action passes through the minute tubes of the stalk and the veins of the flower, It is the operation of this principle by which the wood of trees may be dyed. Further explanstion is needed to make plain the utility of the process, Woods | 1o are dyed after being made into furni- ture and hundreds of gther things. White woods may be givén & mahog: any “fffish” and the cream-colored root of heather or “bruyere’” is stained to make “briar” pipes of red-brown OF moal-brown, If cabinet makers wish, they can change White birch or red’birch into blue or pink wood, andyif they want to change yellow pine to green or purple they can do it. There may. be an advantage in staining the wood before the tree has been cut, but that advantage is not plain, : 4 e “Any exploitation of Rudyard Kipling ‘have never been quite able to of a real book shop as a book. This is one Amerioanism for we have no praise, A place where books are properiy sold. (notice the qualification) ought to be termed a “book shop,” al- though it {s true that many real-ones in the United States use the word “intore.” Nolr.. on ta:uatvh“r"hn‘ will the real book shop out wherein the precious lore and enter- tainment of the centuries are shov: eled at one lllg: :a,l. A § m whieh The gentieman who sent us-the postcard suggested, before he left for Enropé, that we write a series of | p articles gn the book stores of Wash- “n. .A'l-v‘v:‘mv't write u’:u\ ::g tople au to us, we inwa immediately rejected the ided, at the same time voicing a lame ssntence to the effect "that it might be & good thing. As_a matter of Tact, we knew it would be 3 very peor thing for the writer of this column, if not for some of the book stores! We might have “pan’’ some of the shops, if ww dare call them that, and “‘panning” is not an- egercise in which we belleve, as. explained here at length from time te time. There are too many people doing it now. ‘We bad rather devote our time to a consideration of what a redl book shop ought to be; and then, if therw are any stores, local or otherwise, that can fit themselves in or put the classification, they are welcome to do so, with our compliments. - ¢ l!mr we are a bit personal, per- haps it might be well to amplify the above before we také up the ideal bogk store. This-and That has four main “rules of conduct which have been heid to steadily for two yegrs: 1. Never to_write on a tople sug- recalls many delightful bits of liters- | !ving person. ture from him; and yet it brings a re- &retful contemplation of the fact that his publishers have deemed it ad- visable to subordinate his outstanding expression, "The Recessional,” to his inferior performances. B — Bill Nys was an Hllustrious laugh maker. -His young welation from North Dakota probably hes the old family senge 9of humor in suMclent degree to ‘prevent him from falling into economic absurdities, 4 —————— Fiotorial’ journaliem Wes exerted & fascinating inflisnce on public taste. Yet it becomes apparent that what ‘People are Wiinking about s mo parent than how they look. SBOPe gt + — Every time the Prince'of Wales falls off a horse the gensral publie fs en- we have kept this column absolutely fres from. any propaganda whatso- ever, and have , we feel con- fident, to make every reader feel that, in wuau“: upon some of the foibles of man , 'we speak of what affects & thousand perwons as well as one. i H i i i i | i i ] 4z '«;”\..&‘.._La‘..-( i " A leading wom 's college already rection. clearer if |1s training its young womep to gom: in|are courses announced The 1deal book shop, in the second to ba a ’MN that offers jection of all sorts of books. In other wordls, tha ‘true hook shop not impose its selections on’' you, but, has enough variety, in subject and: price, to-allow the book lover to make bis selections. We k- fain lalized oy but merely: ‘claim that, ing equal; the well stoc! better. iden) bog shop will not special- ln‘}‘: the ;:ot and semi-erotic. true Py ugh he may a sophisticate, t as lkely nol be; and. to haye L on the shelves des! only with what the latter calils medical subjects is not :My to appeal to him, and thus it s hot ‘The real book shop will let a come in, sit around, browse around, buy if he chooses, not buy if he does not care to buy. It ought to be easy for any shop to ‘those who never buy and deal with them ngly. The true book lovers ought to be left in o d s mfill shop, and certainly in be -democratic to a de- gree. have everything ‘in books, pensi: editions to good cheap ones, but it will indulge in no book snobbery, unless a cus- tomer fancies, and then it will gi him as good he sends. i e true book shop will Have in 'm employ persons vnmxlmm‘::'l and ove themselves. It will not take a tiye n and set him to| selling “The Hxquisite Perdita,” B, Barrington, or impound a natural, born seller of corsets and demand that tzgerald’ 's ‘These are but a a real book shop. And by these shall e know them WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS . " BY FREDERIC WULIAM WILE, + . .- more ap- iy srranged to enjoy working yia S couraged 1o renew its much-ridiouled | Mo faith in the humble filyver, A slush fund appears to be the last resort of the gentieman who has im- mensely more money than he what to do with. 3 SHOOTING STARS. - BY PHILANDER JOHNSOK., We're singin’ the Star Spangied Banner 3 The same ‘a8 wé. did. years' ago. ‘The words sart o’ suit'me an" Hannep As well as most any we know. The Tobin’s .a songster so gentls L Kel o golf, and wil seek a8 much.relaxation on the links 48 Tacna-Avica, Mexico, a ment. confe P e both alton, and will go fishing 5 gots the cyedit {8 inistration circles for persuading " “that life's real joy is Tound the fishing rod. e 3 | % % Louis V. Woulfe, who. has been st | the right hand of any number of Sec: o8 of Amnllu:nn lu;l'n th s |13 .or 15 years, is 1 | champion hikers. He's starting out in .':{ or two on what he calls the “Hplt Sole Limited” for one of his big ol -country constitutionals—to Pitts- :(I 04 back. In “l,nl“tht“imm ‘slkers gave Woulfe goid medal for his from Wi Chicago—1732 covered in 34 days. a while, though never very far away | from Washington. * % © - /N-v";.?h ‘Whe, never will change his refrain. | reg! The mogkin’ bird, most. sentimental, Sings everything over again.. ‘Why should we be changin’ the manner In which éur deep feslin shoW? We're singin’ the Star Spanglea | Proaching Banner The sams as we did Jong ago. r " : Multitudinous Regignations. “What ‘did your friend do when he was reminded that he is in a pesition ‘which suggests that he might fasill- tate affairs it he were to resign?”* "L pograt to say,” answered Sena tor Borghu only, ahdurats, but, slangy. ANl he| said was, ‘So’s your eld man, " . Be our ambitions great or small As tofler twe, or faker, +Of 0l friend Undertaiker. Jud Tunkine “Nin’ only objec- that it enables’ any. kind of & bum i §35550d b- | semtennial There's evidently nio antl-prohibitio sentiment in the White Mountain Senator of . H, pshire, at the outset of his tormer Gov. Robett . has just come out flat-footed or amendment. “The eight- repeal g.:‘&:‘%::’:um Y houd &nte tion odi e TR o A am t of A o _necessary to have 3¢ States in e Qnt."w)uh I believe would be g e : Every once loses an t | law; | of. of soclety. wherp slums and poor schools- and unwholesome amu t enterprises stunt the best: ent of youth. Here are same of the college courses organized to fit young women for the new solentifie caresr: Chil including nutrition; dren’s diseases, preventi after-offects; the father in' the fam- ily;. the family. in.the eyves of household technology; cookery; home pursing: horticulture; the fam- fly ‘in relation with the community. No Profit Expected. Chicago Stand on. Army-Navy Game Is Explained. 4 To the Bditor of The Star: ’ Referring to the article of Wednes- day, June 9, in which it is stated that the City of Chicago. will sell 49, 000 tickets for the Army-Navy feot ball game at $10 aplecs, that the ré- turns will be $400,000 and the cost bringin, ts ‘midshi; o Glicage 1a 300,000, %0 that Windy on 'I'I.I £ ity” will make $180,000 on in ¢ bedy which is officially assuming the Scott | Snanciel Tesponaidllity tor the game. No price has yet been established for the tickets, In addition to the trans- of | State , | Frim aehievernent in walking | m to President Coolidge’'s excellent speech at the opening of the Sesqui- ver Exppaition atrikes a timely note of spirituality as oppesed to Stk il B " when we consider that the of our Western clvmn‘:'ln is undreamed of in countries. ?n“i- hobtiatos o' qus misex’ of the Ehe R s resylt of the wu.' the pl'.fil. " but oyld overlosk influences of Paine, o not & i Mot even & chdqt'l'm”";r': de is re: wi . His the eonelu. great outline of ity f of ely we e, - | Church the | available. Washingt H “printer's juk ba- Aovar “the contalner ek bosn ould be well Another method is to cover the sur- face of the ink with water, which will rent the air from reaching the ink. Q. Why is ‘the term exchequer used?—M. B, D. it A. It is an Anglicized form of the Preneh word meaning checkerboard and refers to the checkered cloth on which accounts were kept. Q. Is the figurehead of a vessel an entire figure or merely a bust?’—C. E, A ure or image may be a Q. What is the difference extinct birds and fossil birds?- i Various birds may extinet rather than fossll, hecause their species have expired sines the present geological era n, or in some cases since written records’ were kept. Q. To settle a friendly argyment, H n{‘y 2 descendpnt * of between T. D. cou veyor, colonel and judge of a county court. His mother was of Welsh descent. - Patrick Henry belon, 1o the Church of England. ruton in Willlamsburg, Va., econ- tains a pew with a silver marker bearing the patriot’s name. Q. -How do prices in France com: pare with pre-war prices?-H. D. K. TA. It is estimated that prices are now seven times as high. Q. Juat what does sesquicentennia} mean?—C. L, D. P » A.__The word sesqui is derived from the latin words semis, - meaning ; l’n’; and qun,“mnnlu, “and.”” Cen- means of or.pertaiffing to a hundredth ‘anniversary; ' therefore, sesquicentennial refers to a hundred and a half, or & hundred and fiftieth |versary. Q. What did “playing both . ends againat the m.lldl:" originally refér to!—:_'..n T8, A. expression playing hoth en against the middle had reference ls‘: system of trimming cards for dealing a brace game of faro. . E Q. What was the country that is now Liberia formerly called”’—R, J. A, Liberia is a negro republic on mclt C;n-t :'fyAlefi a B.‘I;ll" wan forme, n pper Guipea. It extends .mrx'fo miled alor(g the coast, and its area is 43,000 square miles. ‘ — Q. How have there been State- (ned forestsI—N. F, .dolly for lbout.‘i years have American _ conmmonweaiths . aequired g River below Washington, ‘D. bri i ?—J. R. % ‘st Washingt: & res for 1034 are the lafest: nmnh 1”; 1‘0‘}'5: 1 b‘n' ‘was 2,i02, “tons, v 235,445 valye, 536,106 L At Washl 1,442,880 tons, $15,263,380 value, 434,315 passengers. Is there a statue to the Pilgrim Fa in land?—R. R. . | there is an obelisk erected by the: ‘was/ {A: At Immingham, near Grlml::‘ s the Pil- 609 top 'Ofll!{, “From this creek the England in 1 in search of religious liberty. | dayt Q> What is the traffic.on the Poté-|" of the iobelisk s of granite Prought from Plymouth Rock. — t the’ Besquicentennial ‘on_Sunday. Was ¥ elphia in 18767 Give some- h soai Now. Tork " atate mors than §125.000,000, To a lesy and irre. Rounainla Rabacan Do in' 1920 are more’ than 1,200 perpons in , fons, including about 200 ‘whe m: into the family. Of these 300 died fn infan 310 were onal nnunc?’. 130 were con- Not one had a common school education and but 20 learned a trade, 10 of these'learning it in prison. = Q. How long has the value of ::l)".l‘ \él‘ll( rays been known?— A. Research shows that light in the form of rays of the sun has been employed therapeutically from earli. est recorded time, Aristotle wrote of their value as early as 350 B.C., and medical men prescribed them for thelr patients, Herodotus said that light was {o be regarded by the phy- sician who knew his busineps as a means of repelling iliness. Q. What State prodyces the most cantaloupes? . Which State . produces the best?—L. R. MeC, A, California produces the greatest number of cantaloupes of all the Btates in the Unfon. Large commer- cial producing areas are located in California, Colorade, Arigona, Georgia, North Carolins, d, Néw Jer- Arl any one of these States will be of good quality, Q. Is it true-that an electric fan operating In a files?—A. M. E. A A. This is practically true, since flies avoid strong winds. Q. .In there a pretender to the throne of Iceland?—E. G. A, Iceland never had a separate throne; hence thers is no » r to it. - Until 1108 Jceland belonged to the province of the Archbishop of Bre- men, later to that of Lund. In 1262, Norway induced Iceland fo join its fortunes with that ef Norway. In 1280 bothk came under the crown of Denmark. t p Q. What other plants belong te *"Th otats belnnss. o, the fam: , e potato ngs e fam- fly Solanaceas, or tshade family, which also includes tobacco, ‘temate, eggplent, pepper and ‘beliadonna. Q. Does an aute tire welgh mere after it is pumped up?—C. J. A. Air _has weight. and. a tire's weight increases -ccm'dm!t to the amount of air pumped into it. Q,*Why are moths and millers at- tracted by & light?—%. L. A. Scientists have never been able to ascertain why moths and millers are attractéd by a light. This is doubly hard to understand because of the fact that these insects hidé them- selves away from the light during the e and seem to be attracied only by griificial Tight. e - Whed u’ Houbt—ask Haskin. He offers himsel as o target for the guestions of jour readers. He agrees 1o furnish facts for all who ask. This is: a. large contract—eone that has wever been filled bejore. It would he possible only in Washington, end enly fo one who has spent a lifetime in loeating sourcea of information. Hes- Kin daes not knesw all the things that people ask him, but he knews people who do knrow. Try him. Stete your tion briefly, write plainly. and in- jae - 2. cents _in ;‘nuu for veturn postage. Address Frederic J. Haskin, Director, The Evening Star Informa- tiow Bureaw, Washingion 0. Byrd’é Honors Won Worthily, . Press of Nation Declares ° Nayy by the Unived Staton Gavoem: - and the National® Geographic Aopre try, as that Howed -'::mnl- .uhm. ,;thn on his home: ng f ‘the Nerth. Praking note of Dr. Byrd now.”. and “qoctor of latitude and celves an. - titly “wan created by the National® Geographic Soclety for his Qb“?l:u . adorn- ment,” the Omahq World-H re- : “The world knows Comdr. as the man who first ':'un North Pole. apecialized study Bechuse of that he wasn't content to know what ether men knew, but mi invent new knowledge ot the polar flight was made o , - Byt w important " his llwl:‘th nat n tor latitude study, for. safer a1 ‘whe follow him. ? yis e + Anneuncement that a commit 4 found that the Vi ireled t) Byrd Jan air- e BT -| ven than his record: acl v:% 24 plloted an m‘,....;-fl&" et e g pliot, th.m great adventure might =i g Pittaburgh. Chrontate Holestabhy '-to learn that is plann n. air m -breaki hie There has been nMM: more 1 of American dash and enterprise, of doorway will keep out . ¥ \ unflinching cou: and triumph over. . ? explolt gbatacies, than of May 9. Older heads would counspl a resting on- layrela bravely won, . s not the way of youth to-be gontent | with, achievements, and that is Wwhy glorious new chapters are con- ¥ ress manner,” but it feels Byrd probably has given little thought to material rewards for exploft. Jyst now,” it con- o mind is turnping toward sth Pole and the conquest of ntarctic itinent,, That enter- should net “the the “grim land’ behind ti ice is ' “His_exploit will live in history." Rfil:hl-hnd Argus, ks ] | The ain commende Gomdr. con ‘he undertaken lightly. e mArrior o