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WASHINGTON, D. C. were famnillar with who were cognizant of his strict de- votion to sclence, therp could de .. July 18, 1926 question of his good faith. THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 1th St. and ¥ New Fork' AMite: 40" Kt Joba 8L, Chicago Oftice: Tower Buflding. Office: 14 Resent 8t., London, England. The Evenine Star. with the Sunday momn- Ing edition. e deliversd by earriers within §he ity ‘at 0 cens”per month: dajly” onlr 45 cente ver month: Sunday-only. 2 l‘l.lg DL month, Onders may he wnt by mall Lelephone Main 5000, Collection is made by ler at the end of each mon! Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance, Maryland and Virginia. Had not Capt. Cook been found have faked his allegéd attainment of the point of ng longitude thers would have been nd doubt ot Péary's suc- cess. Prior to' Cook's deception thers had mever in all the history of polar research been any suggestion of false: hood. All explorers weré on thelr honor and it was due tosthat fact that Cookls clalm was at first accept- ed. For it was inconcelvable that any man could possibly perpetrate a traud on this subject. Lieut. Rilser-Larsen, with Amund- son, Ellsworth and Nobile, . salled 8e | over the Pole in the dirigible Norge. No one has questioned the fact. No one has questioned Byrd's achie' ment of th¢ same position shortly beforé in an alrplane. Amundsen ¢ | himselt has accepted the Peary dis- covery as established, and it must be distressing to him—although h ) was himself recently gullty ot a tad T o published hereln: Al o | of special dispaiches 16 1t or not othe iy n Plan for a Market Center! In the consideration of areds for the replacement of the outdoor- farmers’ market, the site of which is to be oc: cupled by the projected new Internal Revenue Bullding, it will be necessary to take into account the future of the Indoor market which occuples the _space below Pennsylvania avenue be- tween Seventh and Ninth streets. For these two establishments are ailied in character and in public use. There has heen a market at this point for many years, indeed, almost throughout the occupation of the pres- ent site by the National Capital. Con- sequently there has grown up in the neighborhood a large collection of food purveying establishments, whole- sale and retail. The area betwéen Pennsylvania avente and the Mall and from Sixth street to Twelfth has become the city’s main market sec- tion. The future of Center Market has long been a matter of discussion. In all considerations of the proper treat- ment of the Mall-Avenue triangle as an appropriate site for public bulld- ings it has been contemplated that this establishment must eventually be removed to another site, and it has been regarded as inevitable that when it went elsewhere the accompaniments adjacent, including the outdoor mar- ket, would likewise be moved. ‘Now it has come about that the outdoor mar- ket is to be the first to go, and the question arises whether this is not the proper tijne for a general shifting of all the market equipment, includ- ing the wholesale establishments that have been developed in the near-by region. Plainly there must be legislation on the subject. The powers of condemna- tion vested in the Public Bulldings Commission do not run to the point of enabling it to repeal acts of Congress whereby certain-rights have been es- fablished in this area. The owners of the wholesale stores. are not, of course, protected by any laws, save that of ownership. If their places are taken for public bullding purposes - they must be compensated. But their ouster and compulsion to remove to another locality would entail serlous losses, not to be easily computed in terms of compensation, if they were required to shift to a situation far e&way from the market center. In the case of the cutdoor market, which is to be swept out of existence, there should be prompt provision of #space elsewhere, It serves a valuable public purpose. It enables the grow. ‘ers of food supplies to sell their prod- uce directly to the people. It assures & supply of fresh foods at the lowest possible prices to the conswmer. If moved to a distance, separated from the indoor market and the wholesale houses, it would lose much of its value @s a public accommodation. There- fore, in considering its future the au- thoritles charged with this matter must,’ In justice to all the interests concerned, public and private, take into account the future of ‘whole establishment now accommodated within the area of half a dozen city blocks. In short, the time has come to plan @efinitely for a market center, at some other place than that which has been occupled for many years. This plan should be comprehensive and its adop- tion should be pressed upon Congress at the next session, in order that there may be no loss of utllity inel- dent to the taking of the openair expression of sympathy for Cook's, claim—now to have:s member of his party proclaim doubt, in truth abso- lute denial, of the Peary title as the first man ever known to have reached the northernmost point of the earth. D Radio Boyocott Threatened. . - Pirating radio broadcasting stations are killing the goose that lald the golden egg. They are cutting the throat of the huge industry that has been bullt up through the' invegtion of radio. " They are striking & blew at public confidence and are in a fair way to write “finis” to' the develop. ment and progress of a wonderful new art. predicted when the Department of Justice concurred in a ruling by & Chicago court that the department had no control over wave lengths or hours of operation of the more than five hundred stations-in the United Six New York City stations last “pirated” the. wave lengths the same condition. Regular pro- grams on established- wave lgngths at stated times were thrown into with even the most sensitive séts, were unable to separate the distorted’ jumble that filled the air, whilp those There is still, however, an oppor tunity for court action by those star tions ‘operating on their regularly assigned wave lengths against inter- fering stations on the theory that there s not only a certain property right in the admittedly legal bfoad- casting but a large degree of good will and custom. ‘Whether or not the eourts will up- hold this view cannot be decided until it is put to B test, but in the absence of Government supervision and ade quate penalties for the disgraceful either through co-operation or court action, cannot settle their differences the public will soon settle them in City to boycott oftending stations, and that 18 the first step of & general boy- cott running the gamut of the radio fleld. ; It is & serious situation that con- marked site for the new public bulld- | ing. e As a fisherman President Eonlid.le #s making a wonderful record. He is profoundly envied by the citizen com- pelled to limit his plscatorial exploits to a performance with a can opener on a box of sardines. . ———— A TNT explosion does not even wait for the perfunctofy inquiry “friend or foe?" 2 Disputing Peary’s Title, The ungraclous, unjustified”asser- tion by a member of the Amundsen Norge polar expedition in a speech at Bergen, Norway, that Peary did not reach the North Pole has, it is reported, evoked from the press of that country general expressions of ' Lieut, Rfiser-Larsen, it . has merely' made a flat laration without any offering. of oofs -or any reasoning whereon h a denial of the Peary title as i discoverer may ba based. | Peary's attainment of the polar t has bsen accepted by scien. tiflc bodies. 2t has been questioned ly by those who have some motive doubt, usually some jealous feel Government for losses ' Suffe the civilian population Denmark explosions, & of inquiry has been at once to determine to personal injuries and side of the naval.service to praise the damags to private property. This court is in addition to one that has likewise been named to. 7 the cause of the aceident, fix the E & lishment does ernment fromt It has been, of course, a mat- | of much discussion. ‘The deter- not posaible with. the of a mathematical demon- | ax tion. Peary brought back nétes 8 memoranda of his travels dnd % cases drag through the slow proce éases of judicial settlement. e el I el Now Adjust the Headlights. A speaker at a moeting of the Washington Automotive Trade Asso- eiation the other night commented sistant Director Moller, Brown and sundry others. The National Capital is delighted that the situation in regard to head- 1ights is so satisfactory to an olitiof- Now that the trafic law has been amended and plans are practically complete for the big job of re-lssuing permits, the trafic office can turn its attention to many of the evils in the trafiic of the cify which have been allowed to ulate. Principal among these ‘evils is the headlight lights en District of Columbia cars night. ‘The time has now arrived, however, for a concerted effort on the part of cause he never | to your yard n _the Amazon Valley recently and have taken a ocottage in Esstes Alley for th;’ iumln:ll;. A lence the alleylans who like birds rejoice, for the addition of a of ruby-throated humming birds dlstinctly worthwhile. Straight from the tropics the pair flew, probably induced in their selec- tors. “You will find Il Alley,” sald bold m‘hdlfi.llllll Prasina, first of to find this delectable spot in i m, D. C, U. 8. A. “What, plenty of gladioli in Esstee lley—are gtocuth..nnmt to Washington, iwiftly they the Potomac River, and stood still in the air, fa: ning their green wings with t! #peed of light, producing the slight humming sound that gives them their name. There was no human being near, however, to_hear them hum, and no \human eye keen enough to see them, 89 they hung suspended on nothing, eagerly looking with their little black eyes for the -y:n'm:y‘-ounz. “There it js!” crled Mrs. Colubris, who has no gorgeons ruby gorget, but possesses wonderfully keen eye- sigh was due to those fine eyes that " sl first Trochilus himself, sporting the flash- ing ruby throat that sparkled in Southern sun. “Sure enough, there' is Esstee Al squeaked the male bird, dart- ing y, straight as an arrow, his tiny body aquiver with excitement. Everywhere they found the gladi- olus, flaunting the big flowers the hum- ming birds love best, the six petals Mr. and Mrs, hilus , ki as ruby-throat humming birds, de- cided to build them a nest. - Somewhere in a tree they have built it, but no man knows where. Undoubtedly it {s a small cup-shaped 8ffair, like a tennis ball cut in two, but much smaller, and covered on the outside with lichen, so that it exactly resembles the limb of the tree on which it is placed. 1t it does not balance well in the wina probably the Old Man will carry up a few small pebbles to weight in down on one side. There will be two very small eggs in that nest if they are not there now, pure white in color, ¥ ‘When the littls ones are hatched they will be no larger one of the burly humblebees that dispute with the parents possession of the gladiolus blossoms. The baby hum- | infe ming birds will be quite naked and |t absolutely blind, but will shortly take | (Trocl on feathers and acquire the use of their eyes. ‘Will any one In Esstee Alley be fértunate enough to see the brood? F v kRS gladiolus fs the one sure-fire baft for attracting humming birds WASHINGTON OBSERVATION BY FREDERIC WILLIAM. WILE. Very few hours before President Coolidge left Washington for White Pine Camp on July 6 one of the most influential men. In the Republican party was at the White House. political situation—past, present and future—was canvassed. There was managed to spoti It cup-shape ‘liked various shades catching the birds' eyes, si; gladiolus has no/fragrance. Minute insects feeding on, the nec- tar of the flower are the prey sought by the humming bird, and in their search he spends practically all day flashing in and out of gardens, ing motionl in the air before & flowe dipping into one, then another, darting from this flower- spike to that one. Generally the humming bird, some- times called the ‘“‘gem of the air,” on account of the iridescent feathers, is in motion, or polsed in the air, fan- ning his winga quicker than the eye can see. Sometimes, however, he pests on. fence, or a telephone wire above gladioll. 'l‘m“ 3 glasses or a fleld ), one u;mlm thou‘llulo fellow in ot ‘hrough the glasses there no doubt of the identification. He the common ruby-throat of the After driving from Capitol HIIl ?| up North Capitol street, then into Q street to Connecticut avenue, and the | put to Tilden street, I went into my home and read The Evening Star, and on page 2 found an article headlined ‘Hfllllllr in'D. C. Re- ported Better.” During my trip home I can say without exaggeration that twe out of every five auto lights I mot were'un- adjusted. The glaring lights on these autos are & positive danger to every motorist going in the opposite direc- tion. In the article Mr. Eldridge him- self is quoted as saying “that of all cars sent to the Traffic Bureau for inspection, not more than 1 per cent are found fit.” AR ‘What is the cause of this? Efl East. ern United States, Trochilus Colubris, | be adjusted officlal . of Latin name, a member. > y In flight the ruby collar S E i on o Ing it . Small_scales on the feathers a: responsible for the sheen of thi which makes it resemble metal, or enamel. -The creature scarcel to_belong to the tribe of different an appearance has. it. . If one will sit motionless near & spike of gladiolus, the humming bird after a previous inspection, will usu- ally fly down ag if the watcher were not there, and lower itselt up and down the spike, not missing an open | fo, blwoln. ‘e _have seen otir humming bird peer into a bloom, only 1o M g Insider positivey lore 3 ng _inside, ly drunk on pollen, unable to get loose. L are: said to be lg:clu of humming birds, which have their origin mostly in_the and Orinoco Valley. The bl onunl{ Arwflmn, m"mn SMsnar migrating north, even of Alaska. southern ing about most of The striking thi: them, and of all the mo be seen ‘This iong s e body, 1f not longer 0 s ., th:t{r:dpok-ln a flower, and darts declared to bé of wonderful construc. tion. It is with this latter instru ment that he driws in the minute insects, th and others which i idea that’ this nectar” is nlnhbn. o eve X n, m Fovocst < biled, curve-blll, harlequin (T. muiti-color). ‘:(u(‘:.hrynhmw ‘:::“““E w"%% must be a tiny fellow, | On the other hand (or should ft. be wing?) there is one humming bird, Patagona , sald to grow more than 8 inches long. spect, but I doubt if they would prove helpfol.” ' e will begin his Hoover vacation” during the current ing into the Mid- entire frankness on both sides. What | tarnational ‘was sald was not intended for publiea~ tion, has not been divulged, and prob- ably never will be. But the visitor came away with the distinct impres- sion that the President is a candl- Am perfectly certaln he has not, ly n 3 reaches decisions that | 4y, the appalling facts and figures of mo- tor fatalities that were brought out at the of Commerce’s safety in Washington, Next day, July 20, Hoover will speak in the Twin Cities, n:: Minnesota, be- the District of Columbia, under con- trol ot the Commissioners. Then the White House police, thi trol the streets looking for head- ts not in keeping with the regu- astos 10 Washingion, 6. et cont,of ‘ashin l, per cent of which undoubtedly are in operation’ at night, with but one officer cover- :lhl{ all !hl:u urru W’lrl{hlf wmmdnlom regul lon r. ridge admit that he has only one officer to catch unintending offen ring parking? If so, that 3,000 persons before the Trafic Court parking overtime and only 35 for having glaring headlights? It goes it ® | figures for 1925 are the latest which is | the on the boulevards. Any officer with any kind of sight can sée when an auto is coming toward him whether' the lights are reflecting up or down. would find at least two out of ‘Evolution and Religion. Writer Says Divine Hand Is Seen i of Growth. ing steadily for ward, with a definite alm and inten- tion, and that and intention was quite clearly. and undeniably the production of the human race upon the earth. From the first manifestation. of life upon our net—the first mi. nute globule lving endowed with life ':o knew no:' how, moving place to place exe tension and retraction of its sub- stance and mmfly:nl v Pat Harrison of Missis- | world had who adorns the ratic nority committee on foreign, rela is going to Europe later in the Sum- s |mer. Pat confidently expects that Demccral the ts are going to organize the Senate in the Seventieth Democ: membership of the Senate |u ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ], HASKIN. A, feath cate white feathers obtained fromi under the wing of the marabou stork, a native of West Africa. Q. How long do trees lve?—F. A. A. The Bureau of Forestry says that the average age of trees is be- tween 200 and 300 years. There are trees in existence over 2,000 yearsold. ngineer s engine. The front wheels of an en- ‘lm are the guide wheels and the Q. What does “U. 8. B. A. I,” found on a‘' cow’s ear tag, mean? —A. BE. A. It stands for the United States Bureau of Animal Industry; usually found on thé right ear of a cow, which tes that at one time the tested for tuberculosis and passed the test satisfactorily. . Q. How much mail comes from and goes to Mexico?—J. § W. The Post Officé ment says , since the 1926 official statistics aré not yet complled, the totbvl# 2 3 of all kinds of mall United States to total number matter from determines the direction taken. | - ‘were ‘when the Q. Were the Limoges potteries stroyed during the war?—C. B. B, A. The potteries were not during the war, but have latel burned mmmmhuuvnbln& your gquestion plainly . Give full nome end address Vigorous Defense Is' Offered Of Words of National Anthem lowing & _clash at a patriotic meet in New York in the course of favor of leaving the anthem un- changed, although some newspapers would permit the lines which have been assailed to be omitted in gen- eral use. “National' songs are writl u:n 3 all the m congresses and multi- ::gnd ! eritics cannot erase The San Antsnio Evening News