Evening Star Newspaper, August 13, 1926, Page 8

8 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY........August 13, 1826 .. Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office Penpsylvania Ave MMlice: 110 East 32nd St Tower Building 14 Rewent St. Lonc Kland 11th €t New York Ohicago Office European Office B The Evening &ta ing edition. 1a delivered the city at 40 centa per 45 cente per month: Sunda; per month. Orders telephone Main 5000 carrier at the end of he Sunday mam- ¢ earriers within th daily onlv. | only. 20 cents 3 t by mail or Callcetion is made by oh month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday .. .1 vr. $0.00:1mo.. 76c Daily oniy 131 86.00: 1 mo.. B0c Sunday only 11 $3.00: 1 mo.. 25¢ tates and Canada. All Other ¢ Dafly and cunday.1ve $1260 1mo aily only My Y ee 00 1 mn unday only . 1yr. $1.00;1mo Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Pross is exclusively entitled to tha nee for renablication of all news dis- Atehes credited to it or not otherwiee cred- ted in this naner and also the loral news published herein. _All rights of publieation ©f special dispatches herein are also reserved = = Home Buyers and Cost Housing. Ono phase of the proposal for Gov- ernment-aided cost housing for Fed- eral employes and their families which 15 to be thoughtfully considered is the effect upon those department workers who have become property owners, and whose interests cannot fail to be menaced by the plan to provide ac- commodations a philanthropie basis. A great many of the Government | employes have during the past few | years undertaken the purchase of properties. Some of them were com- pelled to do so during the war-time congestion, In order to assure them- selves of housing. Some did so through wise thrift. In most s they are still paying for their homes, in install- ments, looking forward to the time when they will be owners without mortgage and depending in considera- ble measure upon the advancement in the value of their properties for future ease and security. A costprice housing project, eommodating 60,000 persons, would out the values of these home buyers, who would, in effect, be actually pay- ing for the cheaper housing of those accommodated by the philanthropic enterprise. It would likewise serious Iy affect those who have invested their savings in Washington realty securi- thes. A questionnaire is ahout to be con- ducted among the Government work- ers to ascertain the reaction to the proposal to erect a series of great apartments renting at cost at an esti- mated rate of $12.50 a month a room. Those who have already started to buy their own homes ara likely to vote in the negative. Only those who are still renting houses or apartments will volce their approval of the plan. Whose interest is to be most highly considered? If the voice of those who have no stake in the stability of val- ues is to be heedod against those who have—and the number of the latter, it will probably be found, is high—then serious injustice will be done to the Property owners. But, after all, the question recurs to the need of the project. Is there a demand for housing here which can- not be met, or is there a sufficlent supply of accommodations? Are the prices charged for housing, in rental or in purchase, unduly high, or are they reasonabla? If they are high, in the face of a surplus of buildings and rooms, are the rates being kept up by ertificlal means, by combination or agreement on the part of the owners and promoters? Should not the inquiry upon which the plan is predicated seek answers to those querles, rather than the desire of a certain class of the Government workers for cheaper housing? Let the need be demonstrated before a remedy which runs counter to the principles of economics, and which menaces the interests of a large percentage of the Federal employes, is adopted. e on ac- sible bofie of contention that may split their ranks in serious fashion. Senator James W. Wadsworth, avowed enemy of the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead act, the big boss of New York republicanism, is up for renomination and re-election. It is his hope, and that of his suppotters, that the Republicans will name a candi- date for governor who takes the same position on the liquor question. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, has already been prominently mentioned. The Republican drys, and there are | plenty of them, particularly upstate, are alarmed over this situation. Some of them are ready to cut Wadsworth in the election, offering him as a sacri- fice on the altar of their devotion to prohibition. The New York situation contains dynamite for the Republi- cans, and an unwary step at the Madi- son Square Garden convention may cause an explosion. 7 - A Bandit Pays the Penalty. Richard Reese Whittenore paid the supreme penalty last night in the Maryland State Penitentiary for his life of crime. Only twenty-four years old when he was swung off the gal- lows into eternity, Whittemore leaves behind him a crime record which be- gan at the age of se At fifteen he was sent to the reform school; then a brief period of liberty was fol- lowed by a series of jail terms which kept him constantly under the eves of the police as a ‘“dangerous char- acter.” He was sentenced to death specifically for the murder of a prison guard in his escape from the Mary land penitentiary after Buffalo had failed to convict him of participation in a bank robbery and the murder of bank guards. In the parlance of the criminal, he died “game”; unrepent- ant, unflinching and deflant. His passing marks the end of a notorious underworld character. The son of respectable parents, it is hard to understand the quirks of fate which ended in the hanging of the young bandit. With advantages that other boys did not possess, it appears that Whittemore deliberately spurned the society of decent people and embarked on a life of crime. His career was comparatively brief, be- cause much of his life was spent in the penitentiary. Records show, how- ever, that while he was ‘“outside” huge hauls were made by him and his gang. K Hanged at twenty-four, thers is nothing in Whittemore's, life to en- courage the evildoer. Society will exact its penalty from those who break its laws. Crime does not pay and never will. The bandit, the mur- derer and the thief may “get by” for a while, but it is inevitable that sooner or later the laws set up for the protection of the State will prevail to wipe out those who defy them. Think straight and act straight; that is the formula for the progress of civilization. ————— Hats Off in Turkey. ‘When Kemal Pasha, the President of the Turkish Republic, forbade the ‘wearing of the fez and himself adopt- ed a European garb and headgear he did not reckon upon the complexi- ties which that radical change of custom would cause. The fez was more than & fashion. It was almost veritably a rite. Faithful followers of the prophet were firm in the be- liet that Mahomet had enjoined them to wear nothing upon the head that would interfere with their up- ward vision. So the brimless head covering became in a way a religlous institution. Kemal Pasha, however, is not given to all the Islamic cus- toms and has banned the fez as a sign of unwarranted devotion to an outworn belief. It is now reported from Constantinople that difficulties are arising in consequence of the new order. Formerly, before the fez was forbidden, it was a mark of respect not to uncover the Head on the pass- ing of a funeral in the street. Now a police order has been issued re- quiring all men to uncover on such an occasion. There are mutterings against this radical innovation, but Kemal has a way with him, and prob. Fashion experts say that skirts will bo longer. The announcement has | been made from year to vear, but| there are no indications of change in | the general feminine apparel. No | woman couid hope to win a beauty | prizo or evon a golf trophy, not to| mention A tennis cup, clad in one of | those long dresses that used to sweep | up cigarette stubs and start fire| panics in theaters, ! The French franc is perfectly good | money. The question of specie pay ment asserts ftself over again. The | paper franc, like the German mark, is | only an 1. O. U. | e — i Polncare 18 achieving much favor- able regard for breaking the taxation | news to the French public as gently | as possible. ————— Republicans to Try Their Luck. New York Republicans are not su- perstifious. Madison Square Garden spelled ruin for the traditional enemy., | the Democrats, in 1 But does that | deter the Republicans frem staging | their convention this Fall in v York City and in Madison Square Gar- den? It does not. It is a new Madison | 8quare Garden, to be sure, removed from the old by m ¥ city blocks. But the suggestion of another Democratic | oconvention in a New York Mad Square Garden, new old, would | #end chills down the spine of almost any Democrat outside of New York | after the cyclonic affair of two years | The Republican State committes has ot September 27 for the gathering of | the clans in New York City. New | Yorkers still nominate their candi- dates for the United States Senate and for governor in convention, though the primaries on September 14 will | see the nomination of candidates for | the House and lesser State offices. ison | or ably in a short time the new-hatted Turkey will be doffing generally. The passing of the fez has removed another of the picturesque features of the world that are yielding to modernism. The new Turkey, whatever it may become politically and economically, will not be as interesting, in appear- ance at least, as the old. - sooms Efforts to make Jack Dempsey “fighting mad” meet with little en- couragement. Whatever else may be said of the champion, he has a lovely disposition. o A Jjoint debate between Senator Borah and Clemenceau would be in- teresting. But the following of each is 80 fixed n opinion that the discus- tion would inevitably result in a draw. — el The old-fushioned “tank drama” is no more. It should be revived in or- der to let the public see Gertrude Ederle in action. e —— Early Fall? A professor at Northwestern Uni- versity predicts an early Fall with plenty of cold weather. Winds fresh from the Arctic or full of Hudson Bay zip and tang will blow for us. Frost will nip the pumpkin and tomato and add glory to the fox grape and persim- mon. Grown-up boys who.believe that the pawpaw is best after frost has turned the peel black and the pulp vellow will be satisfied. The dispatch shows that the professor is not a meteorologist, but an ornithologist, and that he bases his faith on the be- havior of birds. He says: “Martins near the campus will soon start on their southward flight, and Autumn will come with their leaving.” As long-range weather forecasters martins are as dependable, perhaps, as other birds, though some scientists | hold that the robin, tanager and gold- The Democrats, in their fateful na- | finch get advance reports on the ap- | tional convention in New York City in | proach of Winter, and some profes- 1624, were riven by the McAdoo-Smith | sors feel that when the junos, vul- | conflict and by the Klan and anti- garly called the snowbird, comes :io Klan strife. The Republicans meet- | ‘washington it is the sign that cool THE faith in wild and in mal- lard, teal, redhead and canvasback ducks than in other birds, there are prophéts who stake their reputations on chipmunks and on gray and red squirrels. Certain prophets, who may be classed as botanist-meteorologists, belleve that the bark of trees is the sure weather- glass, and it is true that many have observed that when oak leaves turn brown and crisp and are whipped from the trees by howling northern gales cold weather may be expected. It may be remarked that public faith in volunteer weather prophets is not confiding. They have disappoint- ed us. Last May, when we were wear- ing overcoats and trying to get an- other ton of coal, there was a prophet roaring up and down the land who said there would be no Summer. His prophecy went something like this: “The Summer of 1926 will be the cold- est Winter Washington has known. The George Leary, Pilot Boy and Lady of the Lake will be frozen in, and the Alexandria ferry boats will be tied up because of ice. Men will be able to drive yokes of steer and oxcarts from Georgetown to Belle Haven on the ice, and people will be able to skate as far down the river as Point Lookout and then on to Norfolk, if they have breath left.” Parts of the cold-Summer prophecy have not come true, but some of us hope that the cold-Summer prophet will yet make good his threat. This professor gentleman who is forecast- ing early Fall with lots of frost is a pleasant and good-natured fellow, and the steamed people of Washington wish him luck as a prophet.® ——————————— Cofton growers report a crop €o abundant that the prospect for prices is discournging. The planter has not yet learnod the moral of the ‘“seven lean and the seven fat years” men- tioned in the Bible. He sells at the market, without factlities for taking advantage of the scarcity which sooner or later must arrive. — e D’Annunzio is represented as re- ferring in all earnestness to an irre- sistible charm in his personality for women. Italy threatens to compen- sate for the tragedy in her drama by the comedy in her politics. ——oe—s Cheaper housing for Government workers 1s desirable. Better pay, enabling them to meet. the normal ex- pense of current conditions, is still more so. —— e Formerly lawmakers sought to pre- vent mergers. Now they seek to com- pel them. No generation is wise enough to foresee the practical needs of the next one. . In stirring up a contention between church and state Mexican- politicians present a startling example of rushing in where angels fear to tread. ‘There are apparently Jersey citizens who regard the Hall-Mills case as so fine a mystery as it stands that it ‘would be a pity to spoil it. B ) The attitude toward tourists has enabled Paris to claim credit for put- ting the final punch in the slogan “See America First.” ———————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. From Gay to Grave. The merryman who wore the cap and bells ‘Was often impudent, the legend tells; But as he tossed his jest into the throng He brought no serious threat of any wrong. And when he wearied of the bauble gay And in high-hatted garb went on dis- play, Diplomacy he muddled with finance. And often led the world a dangerous dance. Super-Salesmanship. “What is your idea of a spellbind- er?” “He's a sort of super-salesman,” answered Senator Sorghum, “who can talk you into doing something that later on you see no excuse for."” "Pictorial Habit. The comic pictures still I scan And while a smile they win— I never see a Congressman ‘With whiskers on his chin. ‘Why hold unto an ancient plan ‘While fashions new begin? ‘Why always show a Congressman With whiskers on his chin? Jud Tunkins says putting poison in alcohol will give the prohibition of- ficers a new hold on the boozomaniac. They can charge him with attempted suicide. 3 A Touch of Old-Time Idealism. “Henrfetta,” said Mr. Meekton, “if I run for office, you will vote for me?"” *“I will, Leonidas. In spite of my great sense of responsibility for pub- lic interest, I still believe that a woman’s first duty is to her home. Spirit of Compromise: The candidates are drawing nigh, Their banners brave to hoist. Some are wet and some are dry— And some are mildly mofst. “'Long about dis time o’ year,” sald Uncle Eben, “I don't see no sense in a man's discoverin’ de No'th Pole if he can't bring it back wif 'im.” . The Virtues of Gum. From the Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. A beauty specialist says chewing gum makes a girl's face hard. Stenog- raphers, however, think it is a great aid to spelling. New Motley. From the Los Angeles Times. Fools used to be adorned by cap and bells. But now a lot of them wear motor goggles and toot horns. el In Need of Repairs. From the Janesvilie Gasette. ing In State convention next month | weather is being enjoyed in the North have mo such problems to fear. But|and forecast ting on the Lincoln dry issue ris and | EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, THIS AN FRIDAY, D. ©C. D THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Templeton Jones could tell no co- herent story of how or why he took up pipe smoking. After a life more immaculate than that of the Seven Sisters, Jones sud- denly appeared one day smoking a pipe, to the astonishment of all who knew him. Questjoned closely, he said that it was a puff of the famous A Mixture, blown into his face by a sailor, that set him off. Some maintained, however, that it was an advertisement that did it, the one running as follows: “‘Pick a plpe-smoking man every time, says Ina Claire.” Maybe it wasn’t Ina Claire, but Gilda Gray, or some other such au- thority. Anyway, no sooner had two or three of these “ads” appear- ed, than Templeton Jones blossoms out in public with a large pipe! Then his troubles began. Jones declared that he had the only unspoiled taste for tobacco in ‘Washington, that he could tell good tobacco from poor with one whiff, that his tongue was refined and un- perverted, and that he knew exact- ly what he was after in a smoking tobacco. He stacled off with colors flylng, buying a briar and a quantity of the famous A Mixture as smoked by the sailor. A Mixture is the stuff women stop you on the street to ask its name. One scarcely dares walk down F street with a freshly lit pipe of it, as a_matter of fact. “What is it?" asks a fair damsel. You know immediately that she is asking about your tobacco, not you, 80 you give her an extra puff square on her rouge for good measure, and reply, calmly, evenly: T .\thur(-‘.; * * * Jones thought that his tobacco was settled for life, as he puffed his first pipeful of the mixture—and the var- nish in the new pipe. Ile was mistaken. “Whew!" said several. that stuft?” “Don’t smoke that around here, said another. Temp Jones insisted on smoking it, though, until his tongue was raw. “You will get wise,” said an Au- thority, after awhile. (All pipe smok- ers are Authorities, when they are not Experts. Ask any one of them.) * “How is that?" asked Jones. “That is good tobacco for the other fellow to smoke.” Jones had to admit there was some truth in this. He had begun to get fed up on A Mixture already. It takes a hardy, seafaring life to fit a man to smoke A Mixture. The puny breed of the gities is not virile enough. “A man's smoke!” was the way they advertised A Mixture. Sadly Jones knocked out his pipe. He was going to give up A Mixture. He was going to try something else. He was not a Man! “Don’t knock out your pipe-on your heel,” advised another Authority. “It is bad for it. Poke the ashes out with a match.” “Never put a match into your pipe like that,” warned an Expert ways knock it out on your heel o s ‘Two more Pipe Authorities appeared. 'You don't pack your tobacco in firm enough,” said the first. “Let me show you.” ““He doesn’t know what he is talk- ing about,” said the second, as soon as the first was gone. “Nobody can “What's smoke & pipe with the tobacco cram- med in so tight. Here is the way to do it—-"' “Only fill your pipe half-full at first, otherwise you will never get a ‘cake’ at the bottom.” So said a third. “‘Bun advised the fourth. Fill her all the way up.” nes soon gaw that on the much- charted sea of pipe smoking he would have to set his own course. Having definitely given up the fra- grant A Mixture, although with re- gret, he passed to B Mixture. “A perfect blend for the discrim- inating smoker,” said the writing on the package. “That's me,” grinned Jones, with more appreciation than grammar. One puff of B Mixture and Jones was through. He tried to give it away to a friend, who viewed the gift with such suspicion that Jones finally threw it into the waste basket. The next he tried, the C Mixture, had been on a lengthy sea voyage, having been born in Virginia, shipped to London, mixed and shipped back again. One had to pay for all that traveling, of course. Jones cut the lid off the fancy can, filled up and puffed with satisfaction. “Pretty good,” he said—and then the famous . Mixture began to bite his tongue. He had a sensitive tongue— a topgue he prided himself on. So he turned to the famous D Mix- ture. “This is a perfect blend for the discriminating smoker,” said the wrapper. Jones still admitted it, so he filled his pipe, by this time having the vestiges of a ‘“cake” in that im- portant implement. “Not bad,” he said, but at the same time his sensitive tongue knew the worst. - It bit. They all bit. Tobacco is tobacco, no matter under what fancy name one sells it. So Jones thought to himself. Somewhere, he mused, there must be a perfect tobacco, how- ever. At the end of the nicotine rainbow, he said, will be a tobacco jar, and in it will be the true perfect blend, fragrant, tasty to the tongue, yet without a single bite. So Jones persevered. He tried an- other London mixture, B Mixture, this time. It was worth its weight in gold, and was good—but was not kind to the tongue, either. Jones decided to try a popular brand at a fourth the price of the nglish “‘manufacture.” He smoked, gave his verdict, “Might as well smoke hay.” Perhaps Jones was not fair to the F Mixture. However that may be, he purchased a package of G Mixture. A perfect blend for discriminating smokers——" Tempetation Jones thought, for an instant, that he might be too diserim- inating. Yet he knew that all pipe smokers went through the same trials and tribulations. He got some H Mixture. It was O K, not as fragrant as A, but bit less, and stayed lit_better. And yet Jones had a fair “cake” in his pipe by this time. His tongue was getting healed up, and his coat pocket smelled. The cat looked at him In astonish- ment every time he smoked at home, as if asking the world, “Has he any braing?” Jones had learned two things, how- ever. First, that it doesn't make much difference what tobacco you smoke, since they are all “perfect.” Second, that the “old-timers” can't taste anything, and that newcomers only find that—tobacco is tobacco after all. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS Death seems to have attached itself to the coveted chairmanship of the powerful Senate judiciary committee. ‘When the Republicans regained con- trol of the Senate back in 1919 Sen- the “old Viking” from Minnesota, succeeded to the chair- manship of this committee. Nelson dled in 1922 and Dillingham of Ver- mont, who took his place, served only a year before he, too, was overtaken by death. Then came Brandegee of Connecticut, who was chairman only for another 12 months before he end- ed his life by suiclde. Senator Cum- mins was serving his second year at the head of this committes when he passed away so suddenly at his Iowa home two weeks ago. Now who next? * ok k¥ Borah as ranking Republican mem- ber of the judiclary committee on seniority basis would be the new chairman, but since this would mean relinquishment of his chairmanship of foreign relations, a place of no greater honor but more pleasing to the Borah temperament, the Idaho Sen- ator does not figure in_discussion of Cummins’ successor. Next in line is Norris of Nebraska. It must make the old guard Republicans heartsick when they contemplate their beloved judi- committee under the direction of Norris. The latter startled the Sen- ate in the last day of the session by quitting the chairmanship of the com- mittee on agriculture on the plea that it imposed too arduous duties and that he wanted to be freed of the care of a busy chairmanship to devote his time and energy to other important public problems. So the Republicans are hoping Norris will continue in the same frame of mind and forego the ator Nelson, judiciary chairmanship. If so, the mantle will fall on Ernst of Ken- tucky, who is next in line. Ernst is 68, and just completing his first six- year term in the Senate. If the Demo- crats should be able to organize the next Senate, the judiciary committee chairmanship would lie between Lee Overman, Senator from North Caro- lina, and “Jim” Reed of Missouri. So there is plenty of available “timber” on both sides. * K K K The National Woman's Party is out of luck with its plans to erect on a historic site, which it owns on Capitol Hill, a magnificent building to house its activities, and to stand as a memo- rial to the feminist movement in gen- eral and the National Woman's Party in particular. The site which the women bought and now occupy is the first choice of the Capital Building Commission for the location of the new building for the Supreme Court, and the present owners have been in- formally advised not'to go ahead with their building plans as, if Uncle Sam wants to build there himself, he can seize the property by right of eminent domain. The location is across the Capitol Plaza, just opposite the main entrance to the Capitol and adjoining the Congressional Library. For a cen- tury the building now standing there has been known as the “brick Capi- tol.” because Congress back in 1815 held its sesslons there. President Mon- roe was inaugurated in this building in 1817, and John C. Calhoun died there in 1850. During the Civil War it served as a prison for captive Con- federates. * ok ok ok Mr. Coolidge in public continues to live up to his reputation for economy in the use of the spoken word. This observer culls the following tid-bit from accounts appearing in Vermont newspapers narrating the President’s appearance at Rutland, Vt, while en route from White Pine Camp to Ply- mouth: “‘President Coolidge spoke just one word during the seven-minute stop of his special train st #land | today.” That is the way the reporter | starts his story. He goes on to de- scribe the cheering assemblage of citi- the crowd, as they expected the Presi- dent to speak. When he did not do so the crowd, smiling, yelled ‘Speech! The President smiled also, but shook his head. The people looked at those tightly closed lips and knew it was useless to beg words which Calvin Coolidge was not inclined to utter.” Then, according to the account, the women and girls in tte crowd rose to the occasion and began to sing “Cham- plain,” official song of the University of Vermont, and “Mrs. Loolidge joined in the singing.” Thé veracious re- porter concludes his story with this detail: “President Coclidge noticed a number of photographers hovering about the car and inquired, ‘Picture’'? This was the only word spoken by the President. He then touched Mrs. Cool- idge on the arm and they posed for the photographers.” S Framed and_autographed portraits of Calvin Coolidge and “Al” Smith hang side by side above the desk of Jefferson Myers, Democrat, of Port- land, Oreg., the newest member of the Shipping Board, who arrived in Wash- ington this month. “Fine men, both,” says Myers, “and both my good friends.” The new commissioner de- clares he is strong for economy and believes that with economy the Gov- ernment can operate its fleet at a profit. “But I favbr higher wages to American seamen,” he adds, “‘and the preservation of the American standard of living on shipboard,” and he stands for “more brains and less bottles in the captains’ cabins.”” At present he is devoting himself almost exclusively io a compllation of the navigation laws, which he describes as an im- portant and monumental task never before undertaken, and which he hopes to have completed before Con- gress convenes in December. e John Marrinan, another son of Massachusetts, and a former news- paper correspondent, landed the post of executive secretary of the newly- created Railway Mediation Board. The extinct Railroad Labor Board, which the Mediation Board succeeded, maintained its headquarters in Chi- cago, but the new board proposes to make Washington its base of opera- tions and has installed itself in: a downtown office building here. Mar- rinan_ owes his selection to his_long- time friendship with Samuel E. Wins- low, former Congressman from Worcester, Mass., who is chairman of the new board. For the past ‘half a dozen years Marrinan has been in the Department of Commerce—first in the foreign trade division here, and then in South America. More recently he served as personal alde to Secretary Hoover. (Copyright. 1926.) R Credit of Surplus to Annuities Urged To the Editor of The Star In connection with the story of how a large number of Government erh- ployes will lose from 4 to 8 cents a year, appearing in your paper of August 11, 1 would like to suggest that if such is the case I should think the amount instead of being turned into the Treasury should be applied to the retirement fund. I am sure that would meet the approval of all Gov- ernment employes rather than have the amount a loss from the small salaries now received by some em- ployes. In that way the day may come when the old retired employe may get sufficient to help live better than now on the small annui J. ERWIN LATIMER. G s The Texas 'l'u;no:c;r. From the Springfield (Ohio) Daily News. Now we ought to be able to get back to the days when a politician did his AUGUST 13, 1926. THINK IT OVER TIME. By William Mather Lewis, Prosident George Washington University. Wa are in a period when the ama- teur is in the ascendancy, when every one feels qualified to assume leader- ship in any fleld, to pass judgment on any system of philosophy, to pre- sent a panacea for the world’s polit- fcal and economic ills. We are, In other words, in the era of self- expression. It matters little whether we have an idea to express or not. ‘We must be vocal. Standing in the presence of all the noisy agitation of our time, there are those who have the temerity to be- lleve that there are not as many great statesmen, writers or philosophers as were produced in an era when the current of life flowed more slowly. The natural superficiality of a ma- chine-governed age has been increased by the cataclysm of war which left the world in a state of nervous excite- ment, which has been slow in subsid- ing. To do something quickly, to obtain results, to change the old or- der—these are the waves which strike us in the backwash of a great con- flict. We dread being classed as con- servatives. We spend our lives, like the Athenians of Paul's invective, either hearing or telling of some new thing. From collega rostrum and from pulpit and from' soap-box the clamor arises. History—away with it! Ethics—it is superfluous! Togic—It must not hamper us! This is the ery of the multitude. But above the clamor, more and more, there is aris- ing the small still voice of sound scholarship and calm thought, calling educated men and women back to habits of reflection and research. And when the call is answered, when the imagination is Again tem pered hy the wisdom of experience, we will_appreciate how surely the world proceeds along those lines of orderly evolution which have ever marked the advance of civilization. (Copyright. 1926.) R Against Market Change. Present Site Declared Best for Public and Farmers. To the Editor of The Star: It would be a great mistake to at- tempt to establish a retail market on any extensive scale in any outlying section of the city. You can locate a market any place you please, but you can't make people go to it. When a competent retail merchant picks a site for a_large department store he does not choose one alongside of some railroad siding or wharf in some out- of-the-way section of the city, because he knows the people would not go out there to buy from him. Every business man knows that people like to buy where they can have a wide selection at competitive prices; also people save time and car- fare and gasoline when they can do their shopping within a limited area. It is for these underlying economic reasons that in every large city the large retall stores are found grouped comparatively close together. The same principles that govern the marketing of other forms of mer- chandise apply also to the marketing of provisions. The Center Market, the retail provision market on Louis- lana avenue and the farmers’ market have grown and prospered very large- Jv because of their location near the business section of the city. If they are moved to some outlying section the result will be that the trade that now goes to these central markets will be split up among nelghborhood stores or will go to some new mar- ket centrally located, which will be established by private enterprise to take care of it, and both the buying public and the farmers will lose in the shuffle. If the Department of Agriculture is a real friend of the farmers here- about, it will bestir itself to see that they are not forced out into some out- lying section of the city, where they will have plenty of time to twiddle their thumbs, but will make few sales. We have a municipal fish market now, which is located on the river front, and I doubt whether one out of twenty housewives who buy fish in Washington ever know the place is there, The relocation of this central re- tail market group is a matter that concerns the interests of the people of Washington more than the loca- | ment tion of a building to house a govern- bureau. The location of the latter concerns at most the conven- ience of a few bureau chiefs and a few hundred clerks, who could be taken care of just as well on a score of other sites which the Government owns and which are now occupiéd by temporary wooden buildings. Bet- ter let the market stay where it is and reserve additional space for ex- tensions and move the Government building. P. BOLSHI. ———— Holds Wars Are “Made.” Writer Declares Conflict Is Prod- uct of Ambitious Politicians. To the Editor of The Star Your recent columns tell us that Gen. Foch is among the prophets. He has sounded the alarm, “War may ,come at any time, unexpectedly from any quarter!” One might suppose from this that war fell from the skies, and was as unescapable as are cyclones, tornadoes or thunderbolts. And, if we permit war to come, it will doubtless partake of the nature of all these three; for it will be chiefly fought in the air, with every devilish device for the wholesale poisoning of peoples and holocausts of cities that modern science has made available for military purposes. That this is no imag- fnary picture, let it be remembered that in the report of our own Chem- ical Warfare Service it is recorded that Congress in 1918 had allotted 48,000 men and appropriated $100,000,- 000 for the use of that Chemical War- fare Service. Sixty-three different poison gases were used in the late ‘World War, 26 classed as ‘“lethal,” or deadly. “Lewisite,” a gas discovered later, is about three times deadly as any used in that war. But if, instead of being an alarm- ist, to magnify his calling as a mili- tarist and induce increased expendi- ture of hard-earned cash on unpro- ductive militarism, Gen. Foch would inform the world of how, whence and why wars ‘“come” he would do poor humanity far greater service. Over half a century ago an American, Abraham Lincoln, did the world a far greater service in setting forth war in its true colors, thus: “You cannot fight always, and when, after much loss on both sides and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are still upon you.” Wars do not “come” until crafty politicians, ambitious of power and prestige, send for them, and fool the people into paying for them by death and taxes. Each return of war spells heavier harvests of death and debt. Let us say by the “Never again!” of 1918, and let them that make the quarrel be the only ones to fight EDWARD BERWICK. ———— The Big Pull. From the Anaconda Standard. There will always be more or less crookedness in the bootleg industry 89 lo the-corkscrew retains its} ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. How many children has the Crown Prince of Sweden”—W. C. F. A. The Crown Prince Gustaf Adolt of Sweden has five children by his first marriage with Princess Mar cession by Wade Killefer, August 1910, is the record. In a game played in Washington, D. C.. he sacrificed four times in succession in the first game and followed it by making his saret of Connaught. They are Gustaf | fifth sacrifice in the first inning of Adolf, Sigvard, Princess Ingrid, Bertil | the second game. 'rhe record of mak- and Carl Johan. ing four sacrifice hits in one game Q. Why is the International date | held by J. Beniiey Seviiour. Aon e bert, Brookiyn League. sec A. The so-called International date [per IHOORITE T axd: dobi 3 line’ was designed to remove certain | Bt ®AMp SURUS O LE Tg objections to the meridian of 180 de- 'B“‘\"g“u;t 2 %e; Ray J. Chapman grees west, the most important of|cyeyejand, "‘American League, August ‘1‘(’:‘:,}" atout this Broupe o aimeand® 131, 1919; William W. Hallman, Phila date by a day, although only a few |delPhia Players' —League. = sec 'l,';"" miles apart. Several farms have been | 8ame, June 7. 1890, and Wade Kil suggested. ‘These generally agree in |lefer, Washincton, American League. retaining the meridian of 180 degrees | August 27, Lot in the mid-Pacific, with a bend in| ¢ pgafore the Gutenherg Bible the north in order to make the Aleu- | (& SO (I T T Ribles pro. tlan Islands and Alaska of the same |4, 03 fn which both sides of the leat time as America, and also in the south | Al e G ; were lettered”—E. M. L. 20 as to bring certain of the South| ;" mpe American Tible Soctety Sea Islands into a line with Australia | 8 0t NCUN0 the Gutenbers and ew Zealand. Bible, printed about 1430, many man uscripts of the Bible were produced in which both sides of the leaf were lettered. Writing materials were so expensive in the Middle Ages that it was the exception rather than the rule not to use both sides of a leaf Q. Is brass dust injurious to the health>—J. J. K. A. The Public Health Service says that if brass dust is inhaled it is in- jurious to the health. Particles of the dust blowing into the eyes have been known to impair the sight. We have in our library at Union Seminary four Latin biblical manu Q. How can I determine whether my | geripts of that tvpe. It was quite safe is fireproof”—P. S. B. A. A safe manufacturcr informs us that there is actually no such thing as a fireproof safe. All so-called fire- proof safes are rated by the Under. writers’ Laboratory, Inc.. Chicago, TIL. according to thelr ability to withstand fire and are so labeled by the manu- facturers. You ehould note the label on vour safe and ask the firm from which you purchased it how it is rated by the Underwriters' Labora- tory, Inc. possible to write the entire Bible in manuseript in a single volume. though the handwriting which had * be employed In that case was t be so small that it was very hard 1o read. Three of our biblical manu seripts mentioned above contain in a single_volume both the Old and the New Testaments, so it was quite fea sible."” Q. Which was the most expensive lto construet of gest ew York City's bis bridges”—A. R. L The Manhattan Bridge cost $31 5, which figure includes $14 Q. What countries compose Czecho- slovakia?—M. C. J. formed ({uL of nll.or parts of {hfl ohi total cost of the bridge was greater Al Hanevria sovermientsof Ho: than that of any of the others. hemia, Moravia, Silesia, Slovakia and Q. What is a cloistared nun?- Rithenia, on October 28, 1918. The | 5“7 frontiers, delimited by the treaties of | "4 “'sha fa in absolute seclusion Versailles, St. Germain and the Tri anon and the ambassadors’ conference of July 28, 1920, affecting the Teschen district, had an area. of 54,877 square She knows nothing of what the out side world is doing. Q. How can blackbirds be kept miles and a population, by the census | . S © 0 ° N g in shade trees along of February 15, 1921, of 13,611,349, city streets?1I. A. T A. The Biological Survey says that Q. What is the origin of the word ft knows of no way that blackbirds “Derby”" as applied to horse races?— J. B. S, be stopped from roosting in A. It is named for its founder, the |trees. Sometimes a fire hose is used twelfth Earl Derby, 1780. to throw water on the birds. This has proved successful. Q. Give some information concern- ing the French Academy?—G. B. 8. A. The Academie Francaise, or French Academy, was instituted in 1635. It is a part of the Institute of France, and its particular function is to conserve the French language, fos- ter literature and encourage genius. Q. Ts the French Legion of Honor civil or military?—C. M. B. A. The Legion d'Honneur in France is an order of merit, both military and civil. As at present organized it con- sists of five classes—chevaliers, of- ficers, commanders, £rand officers and Q. What State has the greatest|&rand crosses. The President of the acreage in national forest LR republic is grand master. In ordinary e California leads, with 24,283,128 | circumstances 20 years of military. acres. naval or eivil service is necessary for eligibility to the rank of chevalier and promotions can be made only after definite service in a lower rank. Q. Who is the patron saint of inn- keepers?—G. C, A St. Theodotus of Ancyra. Extraordinary service admits to any = k. The word “chevalier” Q. What is the size of the Charles [[ATIC | The word “chevalier” means Macaleste: J. H. F. A. Tts length is 195 feet, width 54 feet, with a capacity of 1,560 persons. Q. Is there a goose known as Can- ada goose?—F. J. A. This is the common American C‘fgid,}:,‘,wfi '";"R. does the Panama| .. oooge, grayish with black head, R paving about 3 per cent. |neck. feet 'and tafl, and white cheel patches and rump. It is often do- mesticated. Q. Has the Lord's Prayer been engraved upon the head of a pin?— R. C. A. The Lord’s Prayer, 69 words, 397 letters, counting punctuation marks, was engraved in 12 lines on the head of an_ordinary pin by Charles Howard Baker of Spokane, Wash. Raker is now an inmate of an institution for blind and insane. The engraving cannot be read with- out the aid of a powerful magnifying glass. Baker was at one time an em- ploye of the United States Govern- ment in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. He spent 3 vears and 11 days completing this work. Q. What is the greatest number of sacrifice hits in succession?—D. M. A. Five sacrifice hits made in suc- There is mo other agency in the world that can answer as many legiti- mate questions as_owr free informa- tion burcaw in Washington, D. C. This highly organized institution has been built up and is under the per- sonal direction of Frederic J. Haskin. By keeping in constant touch twith Federal bureaus and other educa- tional enterprises it is in @ position to pass on to you authoritative in- formation of the highest order. Sub- mit your queries to the staff of cxr- perts whose services are put at your free disposal. There is no charge ex- cept 2 cents in stamps for return postage. Address The Evening Star Information Burcaw, Frederic J. Has- kin, director, Washington, D. €. U. S. Press Still Is Divided In Its Appraisal of Shaw George Bernard Shaw, upon whose merits the world has never been able to agree, continues to be a subject of controversy, inspired largely by the British censorship on his speech when he observed his seventieth birthday is delightful,”” says the Beacon, with the further comment: “And so Shaw admits’ that he is not great. The world will g0 on calling him great. over his emphatic protest. He has used abundant material for making himself great. But he has &o depre 5 2 cated the idea of greatness that he anniversary. American newspapers|has insisted upon ' undermining his are to bo found on both sides of the|own structure of greatness by a wor question of Shaw’s greatne: Bernard Shaw has stimulated and invigorated even those he has shocked,” in the opinion of the Rochester Times-Union. - which cords him the distinction of being ship of cleverness. And go his public will just have to permit him to have his own way about it."” The Kansas City Post advises that the Government would better have al lowed him to rave on. No mere gov ac “a healthy force in literature and in the [ ernment can prevent G. B. £. from intellectual life of his time. That his|raving,” that paper believes. The philosophy has mellowed and sweet-| Lynchburg News regrets that Mr ened, become kindlier and more sym- pathetic with the years,” adds the Times-Union, “was to be expected of every one but Shaw, and yet it has happened with him.” Referring to the author as one who is “described as the world's wealthiest literary man,” the San Antonio News acknowledges that “he boasts perhaps its most famous set of initials. To countless readers,” continues the Ne Gk B. 8’ can mean but one thing—the master among cynics—but there are many other evidences that Shaw ‘ar- rived’ long ago. The average person, and even many a successful author or great statesman, freely will set forth his opinion on any subject under the sun, and generally feels flattered when asked his views, but Shaw is more canny. He offers to tell the reporters what he thinks, for a pric “Shaw stands high as an earnest thinker who, for all his mischievous wit and saturnine delight to shock,” remarks the Norfolk Ledger Dispatch, “deals conscientiously in the stern stuff of human life.” The New York Evening Post declares that “he has been one of the greatest forces in our own time making toward open-minded tolerance, a willingness to face the truth wherever it may lead and a recognition of the many-sided aspect of matters which had too long been accepted as fixed and finished.” The ‘Waterbury Republican adds its tribute that “times have so changed that thousands nod assent when Ivor Brown writes in the London Saturday Review that ‘Shaw has done more good for the British name than the foreign office and the young Etonians in the embassies have done harm. Brown adds: ‘We have no more valu- able export than the plays of Shaw. And in_all probability we shall hear from the playwright himself that Britain's tardy appreciation of him is the most trying experience he has had to endure.” Shaw, in acknowledging German felici- tations, “should be stupid enough to lay bare to the world the hurt to his self-pride, and intolerant enough to lash out ‘intemperately at those who cannot accept him at the value he places upon himself. A few years ago,” continues the News, “tfe dis play would have been dismissed with & shrug of the shoulders as a bid for publicity, but today it is almost im possible, so much publicity has he re ceived, to grant him even that meed of charitable extenuation for his out- break.” * e “He has the supreme qualification of the critic,” acknowledges the Spo- kane Spokesman-Review—"the ability to shoot shafts of ridicule at men and women of infinitely greater under standing angd ability, who bear grave responsibilities, and in the bearing of necessity make mistakes, or to the uninformed appear to make mistakes that are later seen not to be mistakes after all.” | The San Francisco Bu tin maintains that for his wealth “he must credit his genius for advertis ing; in his own and graphic words, he s never hesitated to stand outsid his own tent, ba the big drum or blowing the bugle.” The Kalama Gazette finds that “the nervous cen sors at London” contributed to the Shaw advertising, for “they have caused his birthday witticlsms to be read by any number of persons who would never have tuned in on their receiving sets that eventful evening. and have given his speech the most effective international advertising pos- sible.” Perhaps the British Broadcasting Co. has given the humorist a good laugh as a birthday present,” sug- gests the Loulsville Courier-Journal, while the Pittsburgh Sun calls atten- tion to the fact that ‘their action only made the public more curious,” d the Chicago Tribune recalls that xperience has shown that it is neither necessary nor wise to forbld speakers and editors to enter upon controversial matters.” The St. Louls , Post-Dispatch concludes: ‘It was the abatement of his energies. Appar- | master dialectitian who. charged the ently he may continue for many years | government with insulting me by pro- yet to dellght-rt multitude of Shay-|posing that 1 should do a thing which ian adherents ¥ith his own inimitable | no Englishman can do without betray. brand of mental food.” The Wichita |ing his country." TI Beacon, however, . & tively take | EE “It is gratifying to a large part of the world,” testifies the Providence Journal, “that he reaches his seven- tieth hirthday with no perceptible