Evening Star Newspaper, August 2, 1926, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C MONDAY THEODORE W. NOYES. . . .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office 11th St. and Pe enneyivania Ave New York Office: 110 Eas 42nd St. Chicago Office: Tower Building. / Buropean Ofice: 14 Regent St., London, England. The Evenine Star. with the Sunday morn- Mg edition. is delivered by carriors within ty ati 60 cents per month: daly oniy. cents per month: Sunday only. 20 cent’ Per month. Orders may he sent by mail or lephone Main 5000, Collection is made by casrien at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. All Other States and Canada. Daily and Sunday { yr.$12.00: 1 mo.$1.00 Dailv Gnly " 0oo. . 1¥r. 8A.00: ) me. 7he Sun $4.00; 1 mo.; Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Pross fa exclusivaly entitled 1o the uss for renuhlication «f all news dis- atches credited to It or not otherwise cred- Dublished Rerine. AT rishin 'bf Burcation erein: s '0f publication ©f special dispatches herein are also reserved. Traffic Light Extension. District officials appear to be looking for loopholes in the law to avold carry- ing out the scheme for automatic light control advocated by the traffic office. Reports have been current within the last week or so that certain officials of the local government were in a hesitant frame of mind regarding the expenditure for new signals of the $350,000 revenue from permits. They have taken this stand, it is reported, because they believe that if none of the $350,000, or only a small propor- tion of it, is spent, a lower tax rate for next year may result. Regardless of whether the $350,000 remains unspent to reduce the tax rate by a possible one cent—this tax reduction, of course, to take place only in the event that Congress aoes not look askance at such practices on the part of the District in diverting funds appropriated for a specific pur- pose—there appears to be no reason to attempt to combine in any way the purchase of necessary trafic equip- ment With the rate of taxdtion. The tax rate and the death rate bear relation only so far as it is nec- essary to increase the former to re- duce the latter. The death rate is high in Washington. Automatic con- trol of trafiic has cut the death rate on the two streets on which it has operated. Statistics show that only one pedestrian has been injured since the lights were installed, and this person was crossing the street against the signal. The tax rate reduction idea will not hold water. Officlals, if they decide to disrupt the orderly traffic advance- ment of Washington by refusal to allow funds already appropriated to be spent, must find some other ex- cuse for not meeting the public de- mand. Automatic lights are the recognized medium for present-day control of congested city traffic. They are used in practically every community, and without exception have shown grati- fying results in reducing casualtles. They are not an experimens in any sense of the word. They are a proved success. ‘Washington in the past has been handicapped by lack of funds for the installation of this modern traffic con- trol. It has only been through the perseverance and dogged will of those in the newly created traffic office that it now has two streets on which safety is enforced with machinelike precision. Extension of the system will be a boon to Washington. The casualty rate will immediately shrink and bene- fits will accrue to the city as rapidly es installations are made. It costs money to save lives, there is no doubt of that, but the results are certainly worth the necessary expenditures. No hesitation should be evinced by officials of the local government in carrying out the law and the recom- mendations of the traffic experts who have been appointed to seek the cure for Washington's traffic evils. If these experts, when they are given a free hand, are unable to cope with the situation, then the time has come for a change ‘n traffic administration, but until that time arrives they should not be hampered in the conscientious and wise dizcharge of their duties. ——— Much of the difficulty that arises between the church and the govern- ment is caused by persons who are . deficlent in proper respect for either. .....August 2, 1926 ———— America has largely conquered the dangers of the corner saloon. The dangers of the cabaret are still evi- dent in Paris. BRSPS R Dl Tsrael Zangwill. Israel Zangwlill's “Children of the Ghetto,” published in 1892, was the first evidance of the remarkable talent poesessed Ly the young Jewish au- thor, who, son of a Russian refugee, born in London, had been for some yeans palufully winning his way In the world of letters in the British capital. He had tried school teaching, in which he found himself a misfit, and periodical publication, in which he was successful in all but financial reward. His own pen, however, was his lever for prving open the oyster of success. With the novel in which . he depicted the life of the denizens of the segregated sections in which his co-religionists were forced to abide in some FEuropean cities, he demon- strated an exceptional literary and indeed dramatic power, for the story was made into a play that made the name of Zangwill known in both hemispheres. Zangwill, who has just died in Lon- don, was primarily & protagonist. He was an advocate of his race. He dreamed of a great colonization scheme, differing from the Zionist movement, with a center in Angola. He was never reconciled to the plan to egtablish Jewish settlers in Pales- tine, and when his own projsct falled for lack of support he turned to an- other direction, and in this country sought the reliet of his fellow Jews in the crowdsd metropolitan areas by establishing them in a colony in the Southwestorn States. This plan,- ever, falled, as did that of Angola settlement. In other works than those that per- tained to Is own race and religion Zangwill achieved a marked success. | He possessed the dramatic quality exceptionally, Whether he wrote for print or for the theater he was his- trionic. The record of his works is a long one. He made a fortune out of them, and lost some of It In unsuc- cessful theatrica! ventures. Despite his vigorous views on the subject of the treatment of the people of his race and religion, Zangwill was a gentle epirit. He was kindly and considerate. He did not seek personal encounter, though he threw himself unreservedly into controversy when his principles were at issue. Greatly beloved and highly respected by all who knew him, his passing at the ‘|early age of sixty-twd, with his work Jjust reaching the point of ripeness, isa tragedy. iie scored a remarkable rec- ord, and he undoubtedly contributed richly to the welfare of the Jewish people, Coolidge Economy. The wall of the Democrat is heard throughout the land: “Coolidge econ- omy is no economy.” The publicity bureau of the Demo- cratic national committee has issued a statement showing that the cost of the Federal Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, was $55,344,427 more than in the preced- ing year, and that the session of Congress just adjourned appropriated $470,886,681.15 more than did the one which adjourned March 4, 1925. These figures, says the Democratic state- ment, are taken from reports made by Chairman Warren of the Senate appropriations committee and Repre: | sentative Madden, who heads the House appropriations committee, both stanch Republicans. The devil can quote Scripture for his own purposes, said William Shakespeare. Without attempting any invidious comparison between the Democrats and his satanic majesty, it may be sald that the Democrats can use Republican figures for their own purposes. The truth of the mat- ter is that the bald statement of figures for expenditures and appro- priations given by the Democrats falls to present a correct picture. No mention is made of the fact that taxes were reduced by the Republi- can Congress, acting at the behest of President Coolidge, to the tune of nearly $400,000,000 a year. No men- tion is made of the fact that Presi- dent Coolidge insisted upon having some $251,000,000 of surplus revenues applied to the retirement of the na- tional debt, when the Democrats strongly urged that this sum be used for other purposes and for the fur- ther reduction of taxes. No mention is made of the notable achievement of the administration when some '$400,000,000 of short-term certificates were retired by the Government out of surplus revenues and no new issue was made to take their place. The cost of government is on the increase in this country, due to the expansion of the Government to meet the needs of the people. What of the increases required for the air services? What of the in- creases demanded for the more ade- quate pay of postal employes and others? No mention is made of such matters by the Democrats seeking to discredit Coolidge economy. Nor in discussing the appropriations do they speak of the fact that for the first time in fifteen years a public bulld- ings bill was put through by Con- gress authorizing the appropriation of $165,000,000. Such little things are alry trifles. The truth of the matter is that under the direction of President Cool- idge a record for economy and ef- ficlent handling of the country's financial obligations has been made that has not been equaled for many, many years, if ever before in this countr A ) Feeling is so tense in Eurepe that no American citizen can hope for an ovation unless he is a motion picture star. e New York’s Stagger System. New York is working on a traffic cen- sus to determine the possibility of a stagger system. Many thousands of cards have been distributed seeking information as to the hours of arrival at and departure from work. Tabula- tion of these returns has begun and will continue for some weeks, the cards then being put through ma- chines such as those used in the Fed- eral census. When the statistics are all tabulated it is proposed to put the facts before groups representative of the employers. Broadening of the rush hours is thus sought. At present a million or ‘more of people seek transportation within two hours each morning and evening. If this load can be spread over three hours, or four, great relief will be felt by all who use the various Unes of transport. ‘Washington tried the stagger sys- tem during the war, when the city was greatly congested and the existing transport lines were Inadequate to carry the loads. It did not work out very well. Assembling and dismissing the department workers at different hours had little effect upon the crowds that sought to move into and out of the center of the city simultaneously. Yet there was a better chance to es- tablish this mode of distributing the burden than in most other cities, in- asmuch as the great majority of the daily patrons of the transport.lines were under a single employment, that of the Government. Habit is a determining factor in this matter. Domestic arrangements cannot be easily changed. The serv- ant problem is difficult at best and is rendered more dificult by a change in household hours. In New York, with widely diversified lines of employment, there is still a relationship between groups of workers. Business require- ments demand some measure of coin- cidence of activity. New York's transportation problem is one of the hardest in the world to solve because of the peculiar confor- iy ___THB EVENING &TAR, WASHINGTGN, 5. B i ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN, uated population center. Manhattan is steadily becoming & business rather than a residence section. Trade is steadily crowding the people upward and outward, and tens of thousands are yearly moving along to greater distances to find satisfactory dwellings. Perhaps some rellef can be secured from a staggering of the hours. The cost of constructing new lines of transport is so great as to be almost prohibitive. Eventually, however, they must come. Meanwhije this ef- fort is being made to spread the load a little, and everybody who has ever been caught in one of the daily rushes will hope for its success. Is the Walnut Poison? A professor is reported to have dis- covered that the black walnut tree is polsonous. He says: "It is a matter of common knowledge that tomatoes and potatoes will not grow In the vicinity of walnut and butternut trees.” There has been delay in mak- ing this charge. Walnut trees were common in this country on the com- ing of the whites, and for three hun- dred and odd years they do not seem to have been thought of as the enemy of crops. Americans have chopped and sawed these trees because they esteemed their wood for paneling houses, for furniture, gunstocks and other uses. The wood is of unusual color, has a close grain, is durable and takes high polish. Not many black walnut trees of good size survive. Most of these stand In woods, the companions of other hardwood trees, and they do not seem to polson their companions or the shrubbery that is abundant near them. A large walnut tree growing in a meadow. or on an open hillside may shade a considerable space, and In that space potatoes, tomatoes and other vegetables will not thrive. Whether the vegetables suffer because of the shade or the ‘“poison” of the walnut s a question. Vegetables will not thrive in the shade of an ok or other tree. It may be recalled that the potato was thought poisonous a few centuries ago, and within the memory of the elders the tomato, or love apple,” was belleved to be dead- ly. And the potato and tomato do, in fact, contaln in minute quantities a poison, that which is in nightshade, to which the potato and tomato are re- lated. Once a belief prevailed with some persons that black walnut wood Wi unlucky. This superstition was rather common among Potomac boatmen, who feared the use of any walnut wood in the construction of a boat. Some were so strongly superstitious that they would not carry walnuts as cargo. It is thought by some that thls superstition was because walnut wood was often used making coffins. It will be deplorable if the “dis- covery” of the professor results in cutting down walnut trees, but it is not likely that any of the relatively few remaining will be felled because of their poisonous quality. When a man cuts down a walnut tree it is general- ly because the wood has considerable value in the market — et Henry Ford has made millions of flivvers, but has not made a single suggestion of valus as to finding parking space or avolding collision The mechanical mind is, after all, in- clined to be single-trackish. R s — Discourtesies to American visitors appear to be based on the idea that tips and exorbitant profit bring the money in too slowly to be worth con- sidering as a matter of governmental finance. o - Farmers have complained since the first fleld was plowed. The complaint does not end until the farmer changes his title and becomes a great agricul- tural land holder, —_— vaeee SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. L Trip Canceled. Alrships new we soon will greet, Marveling at their speed; ‘Wonder if they're going to meet Any present need. Every day that passes by Brings new words of woe From afar—and so we sigh, ‘Where is there to go? Here's a sky serenely blue. Here's a hope serene. Yet we long to start anew For a distant scene. Angry echoes of distress Yon are heard—and so I shall stay at home, I guess. ‘Where is there to go? Judgment Required. “Do you think wealth brings hap- piness?” “Yes,” answered Senator Sorghum. “But not if you spend too much of it in a primary campaign.” Disputation. Alas! Around us there must lurk The germs of discontent, Till everybody goes to work And stops the argument. Jud Tunkins says if any American tourist startin’ for Europe just now gets seasick it serves him right. “Alcohol,” said Hi Ho, the Chinese philosopher, “has often served as an excuse for thé follles men' long to commit when sober. Without it they commit them just the same.” Glad Surprise. “Your wife looks fine in her new bathing suit.”: 2 ‘She does, indeed,” answered Mr. Meekton. “When 1 first saw her photograph in the paper she appeared so serenely symmetrical that I mis- took her for a perfect stranger.” Words and Music. , My Radio! My Radio! My heart it seldom reaches. 1 wish ‘twould stop the jazzy flow And start the campaign speeches. My Radio! My Radio! Reveal a wild oration, In ragtime politics, and so Relieve the syncopation! “A man dat owns up to a mistake,” said Uncle Eben, “at least shows dat he has Intelligence enough to switch when he's on do WrODg. 0., MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1926 THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES B. TRACEWELL. This is the month of garden bore- om. Normally the days are teo hot for much work, so that one is forced to de the major part of his mulching, and 80 on, either In the early morning or late afternoon or evening. Then, too, many gardens are mere or less at a standstill, in so far as flowers are concerned. There may be plenty of bloom, but it is beginning to decline. The hand of Autumn rises, now and then, on the horizen, as harbinger of what will be. And the soul of man is becoming tired. Even the ardent gardner finds himself becoming b?fll‘ in August. Tired of the flowers! Can it be pos- sible? Yes, it is possible, as every honest gardener will admit. Not bored to distraction, of course, but simply bored slightly. Enuui, which lurks for all and sundry in this way or that, catches the garden- er In August, when the “dog days” come. ’ There are, of course, many flowers to hold his interest. The altheas are heyday, thelr lavender white and pink blossoms appearin, each morning, closing In the late a ternoon, glving way to fresh ones the next dawn. The hibiscus (rose mallow) is doing its best this month, and many bushes look absurd with their huge flowers the sige of dinner plates. A bush with 20 or more flowers almost makes one laugh. The gardener can still get a “kick”. out of his garden if he will wear a hibiscus blossom in his buttonhole on lnf’ public vehicle in the District of Columbia. This 18 guaranteed to attract more attention than almost anything he can do. Once upon a time & man could create a furore in Washington by wearing no hat, but that day, hap- pily, is over, Now one must resort to hibiscus flowers. The wight who dares to wear one of these big blooms on his lapel will have Myrtle turning around at every block, giggling to herself every time she sets eye on that flower. ' Rk K Roses take a new lease on life this month, many of them producing the best flowers since Spring, and only to be duplicated in September, if the weather is propitious then. Sturdy marigolds hold up well dur- ing August, as do the zinias, if one has been fortunate enough to have good plants of the latter. Observation shows that this has been a poor zin- nia vear. ‘When most of the zinnias seen this Summer are compared with the glant plants and clear toned flowers normal- ly grown three years ago, it will be seen that this flower has known bet- ter days. Those who made late plantings of gladiolus bulbs will be rewarded dur- ing August. It is remarkable what a show can be made in a garden with a few bulbs, if one plants them at intervals, so that the blooming period is prolonged. As few as 20 bulbs, if they were planted from the last of April through June, will enable the gardener to have one or more in bloom from July to September. Most of the generally sold bulbs bloom in about 70 days from planting, so that the thing is almost mathematical. The gladiolus blossoms stand up wonderfully in hot weather, but do not make as good cut flowers commonly believed. Any- way, flowers look better in the garden than in vases, and most of them ought to be allotved to stay there, in our opinion. * kK K \ August is reputed to be a good month to give the lawn a dressing of bone meal, particularly if this can be done just before a good rain. The hot weather is hard on the grass, and previous care will be re- flected in its condition this month. He who has a thick swarg will reap the profit, for the close-growing blades will shield the roots from the het sun. 'The big growing months, June and July, are-aver. The householder who mowed often, to spread the grass out, instead of allowing it to grow into the air, and who watered often, ought to have a lawn by this month that will stand the heat. By this time the grass ought to have practically run all the weeds out of business, and most of the ants, too. ‘Weeds and ants are the double trou- ble of good lawns. The best way to be rid of both banes is to get plenty of grass, more gra and still more grass. ‘The thicker you can get your grass to grow, the fewer weeds you will have, and the fewer ants. Ants will throw up their hills overnight, and absolutely spoll the appearance of a fair lawn if there are plenty of bare spaces scattered around, although each one may be only a few inches square, If grass occuples every possible square inch, however, the ants are disconraged, despite their rated intell gence, and go over to your neighbor’s yard! oo ok ‘We have a pleasing garden theory, all our own, that bone meal is the Breatest discourager of “bugs” of all kinds to be found. We have never seen this mentioned in a garden book or magazine, nor have we ever been told it by an old gardener, but our own experfence points that wiy. Our theory is that bone meal is a sort of ground antiseptic, in which insects do not thrive. Use plenty of bone meal, in your borders and on your lawn, and you will not ‘be troubled much with bugs of assorted varieties. ‘This is the month, too, to raise the lawn mower blades somewhat, so that the grass will not be cut so short as during the previous months. Some secure much the same results by cut- ting the grass not more than every two or three weeks, instead of once l. week, or every five days, as former- ly. Autumn must be kept in mind. This year we do not intend to make the mistake made last season, when we mowed the lawn too vigorously too late! From now on we will slacken our mowing fervor, and by September will be willing to allow it to go into “a long coat of grass,” as they say. After we made our last cutting last vear, the grass did not grow but an inch or so thereafter. so that much of it Winterkilled. This season we intend te allow our lawn to go into the Winter with a patriarchial beard a foot or so long. The present season has not been an especially good one, everything considered, counting in its lateness, its coolness, and its very hot spells and lack of normal rainfall. Garden- ing has been pleasant, however, and there vet remains something to be done, even if we do find ourselves bored, now and then. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS Ex-Gov. Frank O. Lowden of Iili- nois, who, his friends claim, still cherishes presidential aspirations and whose name is most frequently mentioned in connection with 1928, is just back from & two-month sojourn abroad. He is emphatic in his pub- lic assurances that he is out of poli- tlos. He does not add “at present,” but others, supply this qualifying phrase. He has been visiting in Ger- many and Denmark and says he was much impressed with co-operative marketing methods in vogue in the latter country. He is going to tell the American farmer about them-— not by a speaking tour—but by the more leisurely and dignified method of a series of articles from his pen. ‘When he finishes Lowden and co-op- erative marketing Will be pretty well linked together in the farmer’s mind. * oK K K The interesting' thing to watch will be how the Lowden co-operative marketing plan will differ from the Coolidge co-operative marketing plan. Incidentally the Illinois ‘‘gentleman farmer’”’ is quoted as saying on his arrival in New York that overseas countries have found a way to make a protective ‘tariff serve agriculture equally with industry and that “we must find some way by which that can be accomplished in the United States.” Surely there wiil be no dis- agreement between him ang Mr. Coolidge on this score. * k X ¥ Assistant Secretary of the Navy Edward P. Warner, head of the newly created aeronautics post in the Navy Department, will do more cross-country traveling these next six weeks than any other official in ‘Washington—more traveling, because he will be traveling faster and will be able to cover more grpund. Xe expects to do it all by the air route. He set out a week ago and his itin- erary takes him all over the North- eastern States, south to Florida, then through the West to the Pacific Coast, up and down between Seattle and San Diego, and back to Wash- ington September 21. Just as radio has annihilated distance when 'offl- olal talking is to be done. so the air- plane has annihilated distance when official inspection tours are to. be undertaken. ~Secretary Warner, vi- sions the day when évery cabinet of- ficer will have at his disposal his per- sonal airplane, just as he now has his personal automébile, to take him about the country on Government business. * ok K X The United States Patent Office is one Government bureau which knows no dull season. New patents at the rate of more than a thousand a weel are now being issued, with the total output climbing steadily. Radio, auto end airplane devices by no means monopolize the weekly lists. Wheel- barrows and rubber boots, egg-beaters and bathtubs, ironing boards and toothbrushes, fly ti and umbrellas, clothespins, rattles for the baby and ‘Other familiar household articles are still being patented by hopeful in- ventors. * ok k% Here is the recipe for a newly patented hair tonic, for which the Patent Office gives credit to Mike Kulicky, Kenosha, Wis.: 12 ounces of melted salty bacon, 10 ounces of pure lard, 3 ounces of grain alcobol, ounces of powdered lilac blossoms and 1 ounce of perfume. The dig- nified and judicial recital of the spec- ifications of the tonic contains no statement of the precise virtues which such a tonic might , eand the patent decree carries with it no guar- antee of the tonic's efficacy—whether it be intended to prevent falling hair. to cure baldness, or as “slickum. Anyhow, it may fairly be suspected that Mike Kulicky is a tonsorial = > i * ok ok partment to employ Italian marble instead of American granite for the headstones on the graves of the sol- dier dead buried overseas, the com- mission which {s charged with the building and equipping of American embassies In foreign lands has de- creed that none but American furni- ture shall be installed therein. An exception, however, is to be made in favor of Oriental rugs, and foreign manufacturers of silks will have a| chance to compete when it comes to draping the windows. The embassy at London presented to the Govern- ment by the late J. P. Morgan, sr., has been awaiting the time when it should be furnished in order to be come usable, and the commission’s first act was to allot $120,000 for this purpose. Charles C. Hart, former Washington newspaper correspondent, a Coolidge appointee as Minister to Albania, with headquarters at Tirana, was in luck, for the commission au- thorized the bullding of an official home for him there to cost $35,000. Under the law passed at the last session, $10,000,000 was provided to start the program of housing our diplomats in Government-owned build- ings, with the stipulation that not more than $2,000,000 be disbursed an- nually. Furnishings for the London embassy and bulldings at Tirana and Amoy, China, are the only items so far approved by the commission. It will meet again in Octeber. % X X % What, if anything, is the matter with New England? New England business interests recently organized the New England Council, charged with the duty of finding out. The council is 'Investigating the funda- mental economic conditions of its ter- ritory, discovering reasons for some apparent commercial decline, and en- deavoring to formulate remedies. Agriculture there is waning and New England seems: to be losing her tex- tile industry to the South and her shoe industry to the West, Now at the request of the council, Dr. Jullus Klein, director of foreign and do- mestic commerce in Secretary Hoover's department, will conduct a thorough survey of New England commerce and industry. Recently Br. Klein's bureau made a commercial survey of the Philadelphia: marketing area, and the results of its survey of the markets of five Southeastern States will shortly be published. Dr. Klein expects the New England sur- ivey will occupy six months., * ok %X To make Washington the most beautitul city in the world will be the work of Charles Bliot, 2d, grandson of Dr. Charles W. Eliot, the president emeritus of Harvard University. Young Elfot, who is still in his 20s, has been engaged in_city planning work ~ for - various New England cities since his graduation, a few years ago, from Harvard, where he specialized in landscape architecture. Now he has been nameéd to the post of Washington City planner by the National Capital Park Commission. He will have the assistance of Fred. erick Law Olmsted, another Bosto- nian, who is a noted American land- scape artist and & member of the com- mission. (Conyright. 1926.) A True Index. From the Deiroit News. If he pays $6 for a hat that he leaves at hoi he is 18 next October and his parents do not appreciate his inner nature. : The Rarest Delight. From the Columbus (Ohio} State Journal. Probably the best way for & man to to the utmost is Higher Rates for Them Than _Heads of Families Favored. To the Bditor of The Star _Have ourr::fllihto;n fia’r c;n':z_er'e; at what, d in life o those s‘m’: earn less than $2,000 a year to pay taxes? At the present time taxation rests teo heavily on the already burdened shoulders of our family men and wemen. Meanwhile at the same time many ndpnfllnt-, single men and womén, and married Shildless people, whom the State and Federal Governments have educated free, and who enjoy all the rights and protection of our 'nment, hardly any taxes. p“hey earn from $900 a year up- ward and except for a lowering scale of income tax they are not reach- ed by taxation. Their entire earn- ings are frittered avay on themselves and for luxuries. Many do not even, out of gratitude, aid struggling rela- tives in return for help they have re- celved. Many young people in poor homes, though no longer minors, evade even paying their board. They lay nothing aside for a future home. Then comes marriage—the state of selt sacrifice. Those who have become mercenary-minded terminate this state through the divorce court. Many, once tasting an easy life, are averse to entering into the life of worry, mainly financial, which marriage brings. Why sacrifice financlally for a whole year or more just to pay the expenses of bringing a new American into the world? Therefore the fami- lies of Americans become smaller. One wonders why we are not edu- cated up to realize that we should meet the heavier burden of taxation during our years of single blessed- ness. We would not feel taxation nearly as much during the years when we fritter our cash away as ‘would during the first sacrificing years of married life. State governments by reducing proportionately, on a set scale, taxation on the homesteads of families with growing children, ac- cording to the number of children the family had under 16 years of age, would thereby put a premium on par- enthood. Heavier road taxes should be levied on those who have time to wear out the roads than on those who have to spend their time earnihg enough to feed, house d clothe a gang of young Americans, and who are at the same time trying to own a little piece of land or a home. More of the school tax could be paid by all before marriage. Speakers at the graduation exercises of schools and universities could present to our youth the issue: “Now your govern- ment has éducated you. Therefore, it expects you, before the burdens of married life come upon you, to pay school tax out of your early earnings. When you become parents and hap- pen not yvet to have arrived finan- cially, the Government will reduce pro rata your taxation for school pur- poses, in order to aid you in meeting ‘your then higher family expenses. Let us endeavor, as a Nation, to keep the low-salaried fathers and mothers younger, their faces less lined with worry, their shoulders less stooped, by making taxation easier during the difficult years of service when a young family is being reared. Let us have heavier taxation placed on us as citizens as a whole during our earlier, free-lance and less burden- ed years, if this is possible. F. M. DAVIDSON. Reverence, Patriotism And National Anthem To the Editor of The Star: I once knew a man in church to stand while the first verse of “Amer- ica” was being sung, sit out the next two verses and stand again while the last verse was being sung, which be- gins “Our fathers' God, to Thee.” The method of his “madness’ was this: He stood while the first verse was being sung to show that he loved his coun- try, and that in regard to this pa- triotic sentiment he was in harmony and unison with the rest of the con- gregation. He sat out the next two verses to indicate that he did not wor- ship his country as he worshiped his God, and therefore made a differ- ence between a patriotic hymn and a hymn sung purely and entirely to the praise and glory of God. He stood again while the last verse was being sung because this verse is addressed directly to God. I wonder how many persons in that congregation under- stood the intent of that man. I think that the minister may have under- stood, for later on he declared that only one flag waves above the Ameri- can flag, and that is the Christian banner. Would that the example of this man were followed in all our churches, and that & fixed custom be introduced that whenever “America’ is sung in @ church (whatever the custom may be when it is sung in other places) people stand while the first verse being sung, sit out the next two verses, and stand again while the last verse is being sung. Nothing could show bet- ter than this custom the relative places we assign to love for God and love for country, and how these two loves are joined together in singing the one grand hymn. First, love for God and then love for country, or, as Christ expressed it: “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great com- mandment. And the second is like unto it: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two command- ntents hang all the law and the proph- ets.” 'HARLES HOOPER, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. e Muzzle Law Obedience _Again Urged in Capital To the Editor of The Star: Replying to R. A. Harman's criti cism of my letter as published in your valuable paper in regard to the en- forcement of the dog muzzling law, T wish to state that the article to which I referred appeared in The ' Star. This article states that “sixty-one persons were bitten in this city in 20 days,” which is quite a number con- sidering the statement of R. A. Har- man that dogs are harmless and do not need muzzling. i I do not question the merits of the dog, which are many, but I do criti- cize those dog owners who do not co- operate with the police and the efforts of Maj. Hesse to enforce this dog muzzle law which Is now in force and which was made by the proper au- thorities to protect human life from ‘the terrible menace of rables, which any sane person knows any dog, good or bad, is’subject to and which is communicable to human beings. I did not make the dog muzzle law, but 1 most heartily approve of it. 1 have owned several valuable dogs ‘myself, of which I was very fond, but 1 did not allow them to run the streets nor e a menace to mankind. Two of my dogs were bitten by stray and unmuzzled dogs who came on our and caused my dogs to be shot for rables, therefore I think I know of what I s) . I see no harm to any dog in.the wearing of a muzzle It it must run the streets, and I cer- tainly put human life far above ani- mal life of any kind. MRS. J. T. HECK. Too Much Here. From the Oklahoma Daily Oklshoman. g. DW’ho is the fastest bricklayer? A. For laying up brick on & bufld- ing, J. Gordon Powers ef Knoxville, Tenn., holds the record. On August 1, 1925, he laid 996 bricks in one hour. Q. Why are sharks eften found fol- lowing & school eof perpeises?—C. P. M. A. Killer sharks follow porpoises because they feed on them. - %v How can beets be kept red?— "A. Leave on at least 1 fnch of stem and all of the roots while cooking. This will prevent bleedin Q. Where was it that a woman said she heard the bagpipes vhymT and foretold the coming of the sol- diers to lift & 7—J. L. D. A. During the slege of Ludknow at & time when the prospects for re- lief were the gravest, & maid in the employ of one of the English women in the city insisted that she heard bagplpes playing the anclent martial alr ‘The Campbells Are Comin'” According to the story, the pipes were actually playing this tune at that moment, but were at such a great distance from the city that under ordinary mstances no one could have heard the musio. Q. What candle power is used to Iight the tower of the Wrigley Build- ing in Chicago?—O. A. T. A. Twentytwo million candle power is used. t Q. What was club was the Forest City of Rockford, . Q. How do the resources of the 12 Federal Reserve banks this year com- pare with last year?—A. D. M. A. According to the report of the Controller of Currency for 1925, the resources of the 12 Federal Reserve banks amounted to $4,980,428,000 Oc- tober 28, 1925, and e: the amount October 29, 1924, by $63,164, 000. Q. What is meant by a dry wine? —B. J. A. Wines are referred to as dry when completely fermented, only 0.1 per cent of sugar remaining. Q. Which of the children’s diseases is the most prevalent?—M. McC. A. Usually measles takes first place. Q. How is the Baltimore oriole’s nest made?—S. N. A. The nest of the Baltimore oriole i the bird's greatest claim to dfstinocs tion. This edmirable structure i9 woven into the tip of & branch, . T. A. Sea and bey ducks can dive doeper than those of the fresh-water They have been knownm, so- cording to Chapman, to descend to & depth of 150 feet o more. Q. How .many reindeer could bé raised in Alaska?—O. W. H. there for 4,000,000 on land worthle: for agricultur Q. Is the author of “The Kentucky Cardinal” still living?—C. D. A. James Lane Allen died in New York City February 18, 1925. Q. What proportion of the world's business in diamonds is controlled by the London syndicate?—A. T. A. Estimates indicate that of which the London Diamond Syn dicate is sald to control as much as £10,000,000. Letters are going every minute from our free Information Bureau s Washington telling readers whatever they want to kmow. They ere in answer to all kinds of queries, on all kinds of subjects, from all kinds of people. Make use of this free serv=- fce which The Evening Star {s main« taining for you. Its only purpose {8 to help you end we want you to denee fit from it. Get the habit of writing to The Evening Star Information Bue reau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. Tightening To Safeguard The report of a committee of the National Crime Commission to the American Bar Association recom- mending changes in the administra- tion of criminal law 1 received with favorable comment throughout the country. The discussion reveals a general recognition of the claim that the criminal has the advantage under present conditions and that changes should be made. “Reputable lawyers and discerning citizens,” in the opinion of the Kan- sas City Post, “will sense the neces- sity for some processes lifting the criminal practice to where it may be- come more efficient in attaining the ends of justice. To the layman, much of the law is mystery, but realization is compelled that, under the present code, crime and its punishment are far from being regarded in an equi- table ratio.” The Columbus Ohio State Journal takes the position that “the thought that too much is being done for the criminal has been growing in this country during recent years”; that “the public should have a fair chance in fighting crime, and it does not have a fair chance under conditions and laws in force today.” The Little Rock Arkansas Democrat asserts turther that criminal procedure today makes the criminal bigger than so- clety.” “There is no mistaking the interest of the people in the subject,” accord- ing to the Atlanta Journal, “and it the legal profession itself does not-| unite in securing the reforms, the voice of the people sooner or later will bear fruit in our Legislatures, State and National. The people are deter- mined that the methods of criminal prosecution in America shall be made swifter, surer and more direct, and indifference to this reform isn’t going to excuse our Legislatures much longer.” The New York World adds that “our courts are hampered by many technicalities and forms which are anachronistic and unreasonable, the barnacle g;owth‘ot‘decudes." * “The Crime Commission’s outline of a code of criminal procedure,” ex- plains the Philadelphia’ Public Ledger, “limits the privileges of the accused, but it proposes safeguards against forcing confessions by ‘third degree’ methods and tries to assure the ac- cuged he will have capable counsel. The code goes about as far as such reforms dare go in giving more power to the court and changing the jury system. The New Haven Register hopes that many if not all of the recom- mendations made may find their way into the statutes of the several State: of the Union,” while the Kalamazoo in their favor that mended are new’ have been urged from time to time by various judges and laymen anxious to speed up the wheels of justice and remove the numerous obstacles in the law’s path.” “The Crime Commission has done well,” the Dayton Daily News be- lieves, “not to be diverted to discus- sion of crimes and their definitions, nor to be led astray by sentimental considerations. It has taken things as they are, seeking the evils in pres- ent procedure and suggesting reme- dies; and every remedy suggested has been tried in some State and found good. Therein the Crime Commission has made & genuine contribution to sane considerations. The Raleigh News and Observer offers the judg- ment that “plain common sense is be- hind the important recommendations of the commission,” and the St. Louls Post-Dispatch directs attention to “the task of applying the remedies,” argu- ing that “the reforms must be driven through the Legislatures and the courts.” “The recommendations will accom- plish the purposes sought,” asserts the Baltimore Sun, “only where there is an aroused, intelligent and forceful public opinion, earnest in demanding adequate police protection and detec- tion of crime, orderly but businesslike procedure in the courts, and elimina- tion of red tape and interposition of technicalities which serve to make trials in many jurisdictions a game in cunning and dexterity which works almost invariably to the advantage of the criminal and to the disadvantage The Indianapolis News goes with the contention that “one of the greatest menaces to the public today, and to law and order and sound mor- als, is the criminal lawyer,” with the viewed by the St. ng: less turther | of Criminal Laws Society Favored opportunity for “tricky practices’” also is demanded by the Charleston Daily Mail. * k ok K “Something apparently is wrong,” says the Yakima Herald, “when only 10 criminals out of 100 are jailed, and only 2 or 3 of the 10 are con- Victed and sent to prison. Delay in trials is one of the reasons why there are so few convictions.” The report is commended by the Providence Bul- letin, in view of these figures, . guide to forward-looking communities which desire to tighten the screws on their enforcement machinery and make an honest effort to see that guilty enemies of society are pun- ished.” = *The Crime Commision is wise,” ob- serves the Seattle Daily Times, “in trying to obtain the endctment of uni- form pistol laws in the respective States. Make it as hard as possible for the thug to get a pistol and then make it impossible for him to keep it.” adds the Times. The Grand Rapids vess finds merit in the proposal to permit the judge to comment upon the evidence and upon the defendant's refusal to testify in his own behalf, citing the practice in all other countries. “The outlook s favorable for reme- dial legislation in the near future,” the Pasadena Star-News belleves, while the Albany Evening News states that “the American Bar Association has an opportunity to correct conditions that have been denounced by its own com- mittees.” The New York Times con- cludes that “if certain measures of law reform and of change in judicial pro- cedure are indicated, it will be a duty thrust chiefly upon American lawyers to see to it that such measures are en- acted.” The Oklahoma City Times declares that ‘‘not until they make the practice of law an effort to secure justice rather than acquittal can we hope to be rid of practices that make this the safest of nations for criminals. THINK IT OVER What Is_The Matter With Teaching? By William Mather Leuwis, President George Washington University. Frequently one hears the follow ing question: “Why do so few of our people, particularly our young men, choose the profession of teaching as their life l‘:’Qv.)rl(’!" Many times the query can be answered by ask Shh questio “You are a pmna“ you suggesting to any of your chil- dren the idea ‘that they would find success and happiness in the fleld of education?” At this point the conversation us. ually will turn to another subject. We wish more bright young people to devote thelr lives to teaching, but we desire them to be other people's chil dren. Obviously, teaching is not one of the preferred professions in Amer- ica, as it is in other nations. And until we magnify teaching as & ca- reer, it, urge our own chil- dren to consider its advantages, we will continue toi.bemoan the fact that so few of our talented youth elect it. ‘The ambitious parent at once as- sures us that the teacher’s pay is so low that the work is unattractive. Truly it is not an overpaid profes- on, but the salary averages have shown a mtlfyingtincmn in the last few years. rhaps a survey would demonstrate that on the aver- age, for a few years at least, the educator's emoluments are not great- ly below those of people in other professions. But it must be granted that if riches is the thing one craves for his child, he should never turn him to- ward teaching. If, on the other hand, he recognizes something besides money of_his offspring not. seem §o repul again, if the average citizen feels teachers' salaries are too 1 should exert his influence to have them raised. We usually get what we really wish in America. The teacher works in wholesome ; he greatly mflumh that and study, he can he is in a profession that is sure to come into its o;l;n before many years