Evening Star Newspaper, July 13, 1926, Page 8

‘THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Bdition. WASHINGTON, D. €. TUESDAY........ July 13, 1926 THEODORE W. NOYES. . . .Editer 'The Evening Star Newspaper Company 110 80 S Fonbarivania, Ave ° nnaylv . New Fork Office: 110 Eost 42nd 8t {'5 Chicago Office: Tows 5 | Buropean Ofice: 14 Regent St.. London, v England. The Evening Star, with the Sunday. is delivered by carriers y a cents per month: 5 cents per month: Sunday per month. Orders may be telephone Main 5000, _ Collection carrier at the end of each mont Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Bally snd sunday. aily only .. Sunday only All Other States and Canada. Baily and sunda il iy .. Sunday”only Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for renunliestion £ all vews dig- morn- ‘within only. cent 1yr., $4.00 == John Wingate Weeks. Successful in business and valuable in faithful public service, John Win- gate Weeks has passed away, sin- cerely mourned by a multitude who knew him personally and greatly re- spected by a larger number who rightly appraised him as a citizen and as a man. To the people of Wash- ington Mr. Weeks was an intimate friend, for he had served here for many years, in Congress and in the cabinet. He loved ‘Washington with an affection that was second only to his love for his personal home. -He knew it intimately and in his con- gressional service he greatly aided in its advancement. This young American was ambitious to serve his country as an officer of the Navy, and, gaining the oppor- tunity through appointment to the Academy at Annapolis, he graduated and was commissioned. But at that time there was a disposition on the part of Congress to limit the maval establishment. Curtailment was the order of the day. The personnel was congested, and young Midshipman Weeks, with numerous others, con- cluded that there was but little op- portunity for -active service and’ re. signed. Had he remained in the Navy he would doubtless have risen to high rank and have achieved distinguish- ment, for he possessed the qualities of thoroughness and steadfastness. In Jater years he turned his knowledge of naval matters to account by serving in the reserves during the Spanish- American War. Success in business came naturally to one of the exceptional ability of John W. Weeks. But success was achieved without sacrifice of principle. He was at all times strictly observant of ethical fundamentals, It was a nat- ural progression that when financial competence was gained he should turn his attention to political affairs. 1t is now known that but for a slight turn of the screws of fate that con- trol such matters he would have been the presidential nominge of his party in a year of assured victory. He served ten years in the House of Representatives with distinction, ‘and through his diligent attention to af- fairs he gained prominence and his advancement to the Senate was_ in the way of a well earned promotion. While expectation naturally polnted to his assumption of the naval admin- istration when in the Winter of 1921 it became known that President-elect Harding had chosen Mr. Weeks as one of his cabinet aides, it was to the War Department that he was as- signed. Mr. Weeks himself made it plain that he would have preferred the Navy, but that he felt that he might through his former association be in a somewhat prejudiced position respecting it. At the War Depart- ment he was confronted with a heavy task. The readjustments necessary in the post-war reductions and liqui- dstions required a steady hand, a keen business judgment and a broad vision. Mr. Weeks possessed these qualifications and his administration of that difficult situation was a tri- umphant success. g Tl health necessitated his reti ment from the public service, which he loved and in which he was so ex- ceptionally capable. It may be that his devotion to it shortened his life. Though of a tranquil disposition, he labored conscientiously over every problem that was presented to him. In addition to his immediate duties, Mr. Weeks was frequently called into consultation on other matters. Upon his judgment Presidents relied, both before and during his administrative service. He shirked no responsibility. He evaded no liability. Truly, a service such as this is deserving of the highest appraise- ment. It i{s announced that the mor- tal remains of John W. Weeks will be borne from his childhood. home in New Hampshire to Arlington, where they will be laid at rest with na- tional honors. This is meet and fit- ting, for this man gave himself to the people and he should be. interred with the others who have served their pountry nobly and efféctively. Religlous controversy usually proves {ntellectually unprofitable, but not al- ways commereially. A Taxicab of 1914. > .| When the American Legion holds Its annual convention in Philadelphia | in September a feature of its cere- monial.parade will be one of the taxi- < rabs in which Gen. Gallieni conveyed thé Sixth Atmy of France from Paris o the front to strike a flanking blow st the German forces. This i8 an It will be driven, it is annolinced, by * @ griziled chauffeur, a veteran of the first battle of the:Marne.; : P! Would it not be well if this taxicab svere kept in this country as .a souvenir of-the war? It and all’ its fellows of the celebrated drive e derful maneuver deserves. pPresgrva. tion in & war museum, preferably in this eity. x BRGNS 2 It has been said that the French won the first battle of the Marne by violating one of the’first principles |c of warfare, as understood by the German strategists. When the in- vading srmy moved southward from Belgium toward Parls, there was every ‘prospect that it would surround and perhaps ‘capture the French cap- ital. The French government actual- ly moved out, shifting tv Bordeaux. But ‘he high command decreed that in accord with the principles of war the capture or destruction of an enemy army in the fleld was more importarit than the taking of a city. The city was there to be taken at leisure. So the line of the German march swung slightly to the east, and aimed at the allied forces, still in retreat. 2 - Nobody had ever heard of such a thing as taking the garrison out of a virtually beleagured city and as- suming the offensive. The German psychology was incapable of conceiv- ing such tactics. But that was what Gallieni ‘did. He commandeered all the taxicabs in Paris and trans- ported a new army out to the north- east of the city and struck a wholly unexpected blow at the flank of Von Kluck, who held the right of the Ger- man line, Manoury, reinforced on the German flank by the taxicab army organized by Gallieni, striking demoralizing blows on Von Kluck's right and the British, under ‘Gen. French, vallant- ly pressing upon his center and left, caused the German commander to change front, to fight in effect upon two fronts simultaneously, which was also condemned by the war books as read and literally followed in Berlin. That gave Marshal Joffre the chance for which he had been waiting and for which he' was prepared. He ordered Foch, who commanded the French center, to strike. Foch did so. He pressed the charge. For a time he was held. Then he sent to Joffre his celebrated message: My right is erushed; my left is in retreat; I am attacking with my center.” And that, too, was contrary to the laws of warfare. But it won the battle. The German line was thrust back at the vital point—the center—and the great drive had failéd. The war was lost by Germany, though it took more than four years more of the most awful conflict the world has ever known to finish it So the taxicabs of Parls saved France ‘and one of them is to:be trundled through the streets of Phil- adelphia in September, perhaps on the anniversary of the day when, as one historian of the war has said, these public vehicles = disappeared from the capital as if the earth had opened and swallowed them. Amundsen’s Welcome Home. The city of Oslo is welcoming Amundsen today and greeting him as a ‘distinguished explorer of the ends of the earth. Considering Amundsen’s achievement in reaching the South Pole, passing from the Atlantic to the Pacific by the Northwest Passage and salling’ in an airship from Europe to America across the North Pole, it is fair to give him the distinction of be- ing the greatest and the most success- ful polar traveler. SN Pictures of Amundsen show him with a weather-beaten face, and some pe_rlonl!hmkofhlmllllddw; yet he is only fitty-four, having been born at Borge, Norway, July 16, 1872. He has been a sea traveler since 1893, when, after studying medicine two years at the University of Christiania, now Oslo, he entered the Norwegian navy. His name has been associated ‘with polar exploration since 1897, when he was first officer of the Belgica, the ship of the Belgian South Polar ex- n, which carried on from 1897 to 1899. . In 1901 he made scientific studies of the sea off the ‘mortheast coast of Groenland 'In his ship Gjoa, which ship has an entinent place in Arctic history., In 1903 he was making mag- netic surveys southeast of King Wil- liam Land with the idea of discover- ing the magnetic.pole, and his conclu- sion was that that pole is not a fixed but a shifting point. It was during the magnetic pole . studies that "he made the transit from the Atlantic to unreiso to - jail ‘the motorist with three charges of speeding one mile over the lmit at widely sep- arated perlods as it is not to jail the man who, in-a period of six months, is arrested three times for driving at twenty miles over the Hmit. And yet to get at the last described type and make his punishment fit the offense 'the occasional but not serious offender is drawn into the net. ‘There should be some middle ground for the handling of these cases. Per- haps a five-year period for three of- fenses might be incorporated in the law. If a motorist is convicted three times in five years, it is apparent that he is an habitual offender, and whatever punishment is meted out to him he deserves. But if he is ar- rested only once in five years, it should not be chalifed against his life- time record and he should be able to start clean on the next lap. 1t is well known that there are many different factors controlling a speed case, just as there are individ- ualities in both policemen and courts. Twenty-five miles an hour late at night far out on Connecticut avenue is certainly not a heinous offense, yet a policeman would be carrying out his duty if he arrested the motorist and brought him to court, where the judge would fine him, with the result of the conviction standing against his lifetime record. This motorist, who had endangered rio one, and had probably never figured in an accident in his life, would thus automatically be placed in the bame category as the potential criminal who drives his car at twenty-five miles an hour in rush-hour traffic. In lieu of change in the law which| would protect the careful driver, who under’ propitious circumsfances occa- sionally drives above the speed limit, and at the same time deal out swift . | When it gets dark, ‘perh: who have charge of extensive arsenals. B I It Dante could have known of some goes after as easlly as he did those fish in the Adironfacks. @oes orie do on a hot night? the countryside to find the world and pitcher while others, with less knowledge 0f food chemistry, Imbi freely of quors. Electrie night, ‘Wwhi ‘warm breeze, which cannot be mus cooler than the air itself, just as the music you get from a phonograph can be no better than the record. here there is’an attempt b k& in the getting and enerous failure in an the keeping. et 1 N Man goes to the south side of the house, and then to the north; he und, kicking up a ch | public, he says: solely to us for transmission to the “When 1 drink fced tea T am willing cool, and everywhere | 08 comes again back to the south, and | thence again to the east, but there is no coolnes: it, nor the ear hear ft. Yet welcome would be the roar of a thunderstorm, bringing healing moisture and cold in its wings, af! the fashion long kmown to the Na- tional Capital, o favored citfes swelter throughout the Summer, but Wash- ington, trees and great parks, held in the embrace of the Potomac River, and not so far from the great ocean, has the boon ¢f a “break” ‘The hotter it get: “break,” usually in the form of thundershower. Sometimes, how- ever, there are no particular mani- festations of the,change, but a sim- ple, cool breeze sets in, blowln{ away the heat, replacing stagnan! hot air with molst wind laden with oxygen and o:on:. 4 ‘nmlt\lt. however, there is no heal- ing breeze. The boasted coolness of Arc¢adla, our community, is a thing of the past. There 1s no need to hold a molstened finger in air this night. There_is no_breeze, There is nothing but heat, though plenty of that, oozing in uncomfort- able waves all over the place. The heat is the one topic of conversa- tion, - “Is it hot enough for you?” is the question. - ° 5 - It is so hot, to be frank about it, that the prevalent question arouses one’s ire, especially after he has been asked it for the twelfth time since es, we have supper in Arcadia. An Arcadian supper, during. hot ‘weather, consists y of ice tea, or skould it be iced tea? Perhaps the latter, but we normally say “ice tea” In Aludh., ‘What do we care about grammar Let those who will, rig themselves , D, C., with its avenues of | 2! the skin cannot feel | ! “Belleve me, boys, it is more a mat. ter of intellect than anything else. Let those who will call it swilling. To be able to drink eight glasses of tea sitting is a feat, and if you don’t belleve it, try ‘lt‘yo:r-:m" Iced drinks have been decried as a bad American habit, as, no doubt, they are, but they do cool a fellow off for a sive, competitive goal, there is no time at all left for the arts of lelsure. No and think, to 10‘!‘;&4 ng nses. there is. no such thing at all. Nine hundred pages of book are many for this burrying world. But were it not for its plain misfit with the surrounding headlong this would bel short time, if not for a long one. And | those whose any relief, on a hot night, is worth | other while. Cold baths, too, have their place, which, if they do not make one cooler, at least make him cleaner, which is something. The splash of a shower down one’s spine, even on the hottest night, is guaranteed to make one for- get the weather for at least 10 seconds. The average person would be much better off in hot weather if he would cut down. the consumption of food to about half or & third of normal and increase the water | co! number of glasses of . h There 18 a large demand for water | his by the entire system in'very hot weather. On sueh days even the birds go.around with their bills open, and in the country you will see the old hens ‘wings raised. out in a dress-suit for a dinner on| Co a night such as this—we can go in for nothing more than 'a clean shirt, aps we will shed our collar, who -knows? . Ice tea! ‘ The unofficial record for the con- sumption of iced tea in Arcadia is held this Summer by a short gentle- man weighing exactly 169 pounds (he is much too fat), who. claims to have drank (drunk)—8—eight—8 (count 'em) glasses of tea for supper one evening. His title is disputed, however, by a tall gentleman who weighs 180 pounds (not counting his stomach). He is willing to admit in public, he says, to drinking three glasses of tea, giving to ignore an unpleasant because it is' unpleasant. hot nights-of Sum- itelligence as cool are cooler outside So why complain? Was President’s Personality The Real Force Opinions differ has been made b: tual during some he is declared by others All a farmer would ask by way of | zette-Times, the Pacific through the 'Northwest |~ Passage. In 1909 he was in the North in the Fram, for the purpose of drift- ing over the Pole, but’that plan ‘was abandoned, because Peary had reached the Pole and Amundsen was ‘short of funds, In August, 1910, Amundsen started for the South Pole, made his Winter camp on the Great Ice Bar- rier of the Antarctic and. the South Pole December. 16, 1911, one| | month ahead of Capt. Scott, the Eng- lish explorer. Amunhdsen’s feat ‘with the Norge, in company. with a‘gallant American and Itallan and & crew of Northmen, is 6till fresh in mind, and it is Amundsen’s triumph in the Norge that the people of Norway’s capital A dramatic figure in Ttallan politics ‘must not be surprised if his public, so eager to applaud his successtul scenes, is equally ready to resent him actor. carrying speed regardless. ‘must be.| {saved it from mnmmum.;m* Post (independent) asserts: “the credit for this ‘record it House, whose committing some griev-. 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Address The Evening Star Informa- tion Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Di- rector, Washington, D. C. ’ BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. tape; can . When disaster comes, like the terrible explosion of mu- nitions in New Jersey last Saturday night and since, the very"detonation sets going, automatically, the ma- chinery of the most ubiquitous and There is no “passing /of the buck” in Red Cross relief, while are in distress, for, organization has a motto or mnot, every official, every member, seems to upon the injunction age!”—"Do_this™” “Get busy! it and don’t talk about it.” < Yet there is seldom any confusion, any duplication of effort, and while the immediate initiative toward an {8 taken without hesita- local chapter, the tarts | cussed. experts ‘chanced d Cross fleld representative, was I;l New York wbo( ‘2 ncwlnmoun.me of a: lowing up of e mul ns ne West Morris, N. J., and, without wait- ing for any orders, she reached the scene within an hour to direct the work of the local chapters of West Morris and Dover. There she soon found Messrs. Evans and Storey, from Governors Island, working with ‘Army and Navy personnel, and pres- ently they were joined by other of cials. - By first train from Washing- ton came Mr. T. R. Buchanan, division assistant director of disaster. relief; it chanced that Director Baker ‘was absent on annual leave. While the explosions’ were continuing, the lef was working sys- tematically to provide shelter for the homeless and medical aid for the ‘wounded. LR nitions osion is a._good oo n“mfln‘:‘!’:fi'mflw giég s5E ‘what is required to set the victim on his feet and put him in the way of re- covering his own ability to “carry, ‘The emergency workers quietly as-' certain and record what actual con- ditions exist. If the victims are farm- ers, what implements do they lack? Do they need plows, or horses or cat- tle? Do,they need clothing or food or shelter? Medical care? Then appears an official who re- ceives these data from the emergency . workers and he talks with the victims as to how best the needs be met. Per- ‘haps a barn is needed. Perhaps a house must be built to sheiter the ‘family. Maybe the Tarmer has long: thought of a better site for his home and barn than just where they weres before the hurricane; all that is dis- If livestock is needed the Cross} caravap—50 to 80 men, equipped withs tools and skill and- n. Inad 2 ‘compl by’ this ‘trained com , and marches on to the next beneficiary. . *xw® There are mnearly 6,000,000 boysi and girls in the Junior Red Croes. ‘When the hurricane destroyed Lo-. rain, Ohio, in 1923, the juniors saveds the community from an epidemic, for) the boys immediately took upons lef. ‘work n few “minutes after the storm, Chairman Pond of the local chapterw broadeast a call by radio for his com-; mittees to meet him immediately his_office. The organization was al- ready formed; it went to work with inaries. Within two orw % i