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8 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. August 17, 1926 THEODORE W. NOYES. . The Evening Star Newspaper Company Rusiness Office and Panney'tania At Now York Offica: 110 Fast 42nd St Ohicagn Ofce Towe: Rulding Ruropean OfMce: 14 Regent St. London. Fnrland 11th St The Evaning Start with the Sundar m, Ing adition, 1a delivered by carriers wi* the Nte at (0 cenre 4B cente por Cundar onls. 20 par month ¢ falaphone Maj carvier At the Rate hy Ml"—"‘ ;uhlv in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. aily and Sunday 1y %900 I mo. 75 ally oply .. 1y %800 1mo. 80 Snnday only 13r.$300:1 mo. 25 ates and Canada. €1960 1 mo. 100 €00 1 mo . £4.00: 1 mo.. ANl Other § Daliv ant_ Sundar Fondns oty T v Membher of the Associated Preas. h’x.Auflamm r' velv sntitied Nee for re 1 news A Patches radited 1 ot atherwise oren- tad in this paper and also the locs! nnwe DubHehed herein. All righta of nublication A1 spacial disnatches herein sre alao remervad The Campaigns for Congress. The congressional campaigns 1926 are getting under way, mamentum Republican and eratic lsaders are making the prelim- Inary gastures. Statements. more less flery. emanate from Tader Tilson, from Chairman Old fald Hf the Democratic congressional eampaign commitiee and from en ator chalrman of the Demo- eratic sepatorial commitiee, Within a brisf parfed all the nominations will have heen made. Already the parties in more than half the Siates have chemen their candidates. The Republicans, in to retain control of the House and the Kenate, fa their enemy., the Demoecratic party. gruntled progressives in some of the agricultural States. The latter call of Gerry. their effort traditional and also dis themselves Rapublicans and are such, where still Minnesota, the party is somewhat except in Farmer-Labor map, though state. So far 1% concerned. the Democrats have all the better of the hreaks. Oniy Democratic Senators come up for re Al of them are in South Stat which are safely Demo. The Republicans. on the other must defend twenty-seven seals hold. two of them in present make-up of the Senate fifty-five Republicans, forty Democrats and one Farmer. Labor. "To win control the Democrats must nine seats from the Re publicans and retain all they them selves hold. Tt real job. In the House the Republicans have a margin of thirty-five seats over the and the Republican independents, ¥armer-la- Nocialists. All members e are up for re.election with the situation in the Republicans have chance win some seats in th House now held by the Democrats, ac well as (o lose some nccupied today by Republicans. The battlegrounds where the Senate fight is to ba fought out are in Kentucky. Maryland, Oklahoma, Missouri. Nevada and Arizona. The Democrats claim they have a chance too. to win seats in Massachusetts, Colorado, 1linois, Ohlo. Idaho, Oregon znd Indlana. But in Indiana the cdds favor the Republicans. The progressive Republicans look to take A seat from the regulars in Wiscon- xin. where Senator lenroot faces one of the hardest contests of his career against Gov. Blaine. If the Democrats are to win control the House, thev must do so In the Fast. There is littls appeal made hy the party in the great States of the Middie West and tha West. Its racord on agriculture is negative. the passage of the Mec. Narm Haugen bill, which the halt demanded. Tha Democratic talk of the tariff seems to be making little impression on the farmers. The Republicans are the de- fensive, in that they must hold the fort, must maintain their majorities n Senate and House. But they are planning aggressive defensive. Their leaders, instead of awalting at- tacks by the are them- selves attacking, that the minority party record in Congress and nothing offer if it be placed in power. The gTeat prosperity of the country is the principal buiwark of the Republi can defanse prespects for the Democratic party arw anything but bright. R in a seven * alection ern eratie hand which they Indiana now The is a Democ surgents. horites and of the Hou In contrasi ats Nenate, the real of prevented corn on an Democrats, claiming New Jarseyv's sensations are not Hmed for the best publicity The homicide mystery, which would earve well anongh for a Winter sensa Hem. ix permitied to interfere seriousiy with the Roardwalk beauty contests. results, - Two Crime Probes. Some progress is apparently being made in the solution of the two mur Aar cases that are now holding public Interest. one In New Jersey four yvears old. and one in Ohlo of more recent Pappening. In the New Jersey case. that of the killing in 1922 of a clergy man and a choir singer, A reopening | led to three arrests and a public which testimony is being " date appears A sfficient examination. are heimg hrought forward are relating A fairly consecutive story which points 10 the presence at the meene of the murder of the three persans now accused. Further meore, evidence is bheing adduced to Indicate that the examination four years agn was slighted and thwarted ha hearing at gven that ta earablish rand to case ry who br the exercise of influence and pos- | sibly through bribery. In a few davs this case will be brought to the point of grand jury inquiry unless the judge hefore whom the hearing is beins heli refuses to entertain the charges and Aismisaes the accused on the zround of inadaquate ullt. The proceadings are enlivened hv the appearance nn the witneas howing prohable Raining Demo- o | Majortty | the ! wobbly | as the control of the Senate | in. | It | has no constructive | to | While it continues, the | tor | Witnesses | v by the testimony of witnesses whn { four vears ago refrained from making n appearance. Documents in the case missing for a long time have heen surrendered by the brother of the deceased prosecuting attorney of __,;dimr" 1972 after an effort to sell them to a ' in order to at metropolitan newspaper. In the Ohio case an finully of p 1. Mellett, editor of a Canton paper. who was slain July 16. The < accused is described as an “underworld loader” Extraordinary ef f have been made to identify the partt in this assassination Which was obviously Inspired by Mel lett’s persistent attacks upon the vice and crime conditions in his city and upon the laxness if not the corruption of the municipal police and the ganizations. A special prosecutor has | heen named by the governor with the ansistance of State agencies not in volved in ihe Al intrigues and com- | binations. 1t appears that the day after the killing a man was taken Who i regarded as the key of the case. He has turned informer and hus named seversl people, including one MeDermott, for whom lucted for more than a fort- night throughout the country. The Tarrest of the underworld leader at Canton is apparently due to the dis- closures of this witneas, Determination to run to earth the eliett has been expressed The State Conditions arrvest has of Canton. or pants or search has | been « slayers of ) i by the Ohio authorities. rexlly on trial in this case, at Canton were unquestionably and Mellett attacked them. The had become rupted the point where vice crime reigned rather than law order. His crusade was unaided by the | public authorities. He challenged them and was definitely warned that his fizht wonld lead to his death. He per- | wisted notwithstanding this threat Whether the assassins were men hired for the purpose or were those who were themselves implicated in the charges of graft and corruption which Mellett had made Is of secondary im portance. Now that a specific charge heen brought the truth may be learned. nicipal government to ' e Complete the Job! A judge in the Trafic Court has Isuspended sentence on a second-of: ifense speeder because hoth arrests were made in the outlying sections of the District, where traffic is light, houses are few and far between and intersections are open and easily visible. The judge, by his logical and reasonable action, hax earned the com- mendation of all conscientious motor- ista. Both (‘onnecticut avenue and Masea- Chusetts avenue, where the arrests were made, are “stop” streetn for all Ccrossing traffic. Add to this fact the physical conditions which allow for Increased speed with perfect safety and it is hard to understand why “thirty-mile speed limits have not al- beer installed by the traffic ready {ofce | raffic offic | fact now that automobiles on certain laections of these highways exceed the [ twanty two-mile limit. It is perfectly Ipafe to do so. The present limit fa un- ! roasonably slow for such streete. The !irafic office has repeatediy announced ‘that as soon as adequate signs were | speed limit would bhe |erected the | ralsed [since the first announcement of this |kind was made. It is now time, re- | gardless of whether the signs are ever |installed, to establish a thirty-mile {limit in the outlying sections on all top” highways. The trafic office, if necessary, «hould lay aside its other work and complete the boulevard gvstem that was so hopefully entered into more {than a vear ago. It shouid hasten the erection of signs in all parts of the {city, but first of all it should remove the ridiculous restriction on speed in the suburban areas. ‘I'here ia no sense in making a law- breaker out of every motorist who traverses these streets which are per- Ifectly safe now for a speed of thirty miles an hour and which will be doubly safe when signs are erected. | By all means complete this job before | other experiments in traffic are started in the National Capital. U Farmers in many sections are sad- Iy declaring that the only genuinely successful agriculture they expect to mee this vear will relate to the sward on the adjacent putting greens. o As & fighter Mr. Jack Dempsey s | areat example of the gentle influ- | enca of modern pugllism, which sup- | preases the angry word and reatrains the impetuous blow. e v b The Kitchener Body Hoax. | Opinlon that the “Kitchener body" | find was an absolute hoax Is generally ! axpressed in London, though it is not | ivet offcially announced. Power, {the man who claims to have found the hody in Norway, professes to be astonished at the discovery that the cesket which he savs he brought from | that country was empty. He offers { no expianation whatever, but sticks to | his assertion that he brought a body |back to England. 1f he has been | faking from the start he has a slender | chance to prove his case that is, to ! prove that he brought a body from | Norwav. which he believed to be that »¢ Kitchener. There seem to be no witnesses whatever to the contents of the box which he imported. He to the official mortuary. He says he was informed that his presence at the examination was not destred. This, it true, 8dds to the mystery. Just why !he was not admitted to the party | conducting the examination of the casket is not ciear. It would seem that Scotiand Yard would above all things want to have the “discoverer” on the ground when the box was openad. Thus the whole affair be- comes more mysterfous. It Power thought to gain notorfety his exploit he oertainly took the mute 1o that end. But it was |2 notoriety of & very [ charset He has amised anger by [ ntilizing the name of Kitchener for a ghoulish performance, if, indeed, he | W <hort been made on a direct charge | ticipation in the murder of Don | news. | s may as well face the| It has been more than a year | \was not present when it was removed undesirable | THE EVENING tions of him now bheing sharply uttered by the press and people of Great Rritaln. Reputable journalism in that country is indigi that a “pressman’’ shouid have trifled wiih nt |the patriotic sensibilities of the people : 1in briefly an eminence | of public notice. i R The Lot of a Princ An Oxford profess teaching {in an American university gives the iinformation that “the Prince of Wales never worried about when he [attended Oxford University.” In ex- | planation the sid: “You couldn’t examine & man who will be ur King,wou know. Resides, one might he found who was better than his highness, and that would he | very embarrassing. There are some reasons why nearly {every young man would like to be the Prince of Wales and there are reasons many young men would side- step a fob of that kind. 'This note about will cause many a collegian to wish himself the Prince of Wales. To pass through a famous university without having been pes- ‘tered with “exams” has a luxurious College life to tens of thou- {sandy of voung fellows is the finest {kind of life. Base hall, foot ball, {tennis, rowing, hops. mandolins. col- {leke giris, checks from the Old Man, all are delightful. ‘The only flies in the molasses are the “exams.” Dad {may not be blind to the human traits {of the voung man, but Mother is sure that her darling boy_is the lead- 3 r now ‘exama’ professor some why “exams” sound. . |Ing scholar at the university and that | he shuns the follies and pleasures of the place to sit up late and talk Greek | with Prof. Socrates. But the “axams” ave apt to show that Jake is not spending all his time at hooks. The Prince of Wales no doubt had a pleas- | ant time during his university course. There are other princely perquisites hich make some young men's mouths | water. To be in request for swell | house parties and to have every girl itching to dance with you is some- thing to think about. The average voung man likes to pick out his own [girl. of course the lovelieat in the room, and spend the evening with her. The Prince of Wales must find it hard to sit out a dance, or have a {quiet chat on the back porch, or take the loveliest girl for a atroll in the garden to hesr the fountain and watch {the goldfish. S e His reliance on poetry as a politi- cal influence may induce Mussolini to estahlish a system of poetic license, which will restrict the privilege of metrical expression to those who have obteined permits from the govern. ment. e Clemencean is beloved by hia nation and admired by the world. He is, how- ever, purely a local patriot and in no sense an expert accountant. Kentucky 18 studying the question of whether woman is purifying poli- tica or oniy putting a few new kinks into the old game. | e S SRR In spite of prohibition the same old {"dont” with reference to alcohoiic drink egerts itself am a Summer pre. cautfon, i vvons S5 The Mexican government appears inclined to question all obligations whether related to this world or the i next. S SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Slippin’ Along. Slippin’ along to September, Through the warm and weary day, When at last we will all remember Only moments blossoming gay. Slippin’ along through the flowers, And the perfumes soft that sigh A greeting to rainbow showers, And the tints in the twilight sky. Slippin’ along through the worry ‘Neath & merclless August sun; Bravin' the heat an’ the hur For the duties that must be done. Autumn will still the sorrow And we'll only recall the song. {So, with welcome for each tomorrow, ‘We'll just keep slippin’ along. Novelty. ,"Do vou favor the use of money in politics?” “No," answered Senator Sorghum. “Money is so plentiful that it no longer contributes the touch of novelty re- quired to command popular interest. I'm thinking seriously in my next campaign of dispensing with money entirely and experimenting with a lit- tle brains.” Dame Fortune. Dame Fortune, smiling gayiy, Led him through primrose wavs. He made the circle daily Of clubs and cabarets. And now Dame Fortune hollers With raillery intense, Though I could hand yon 1 could not give you sense.” dollars Jud Tunkins says a conscientious ! proofreader is about the most patient and long-sufferin’ man he knows of. Appreciation. ou enjoy the motion plcture?” much,” answered Miss {Cayenne. “If you are tired after vour shopping. there's no place like a nice, ! dark picture theater for a brief nap.” From to “Down with the Trust say. we used to | The only question asked today Is “How About the Dividends?" Hi Ho, the Chirlese philosopher, says another as the invention of face pow- der. Attenuated Attire. “Come on,” said Adam. “Let's leave Eden and find a place where there's more water." “What for?" inquired Eve. ““fhe only excuse for wearing that fig leaf is to call it a bathing suit.” “Puttin’ pizen in alcohel.” smald I'ncle Fihan, “dan’t seem reasonable, ronsiderin’ how deadly alcohol has al the invention of gunpowder never did; as much to upset one civilization after | i {colars, in well known shapes and i | STAR., WASHINGTON, D. €. TUESDAY. AU THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Consider the pestering store. You entered to huy a collar. home vou had perhaps 96 ass At ed of immaculate names. You had so many collars, as 12 watter of fact, that the dog chewed 1 | fen brand collar in the style c: | young fellow them without » qualm, econscions that he wonld not he rebukes as he rely would have heen had he pled those new $15 shoes, for in- u knew exactly what you want- -just one—1—one—count it—Oxy - led “Mar- ad some Tons.” You had seen the Marvellous col- r adorning the bull neck of the unknown euphuiat, and had wondered how it would look i Upon your own manly connection he- But Time his changes always sends, |- { hom tween head and shoulders. One collar was what Certainly yo direct enough, as vou entered the pestering store and faced the clerk. ‘Glve me one of those Marvellous collars,” yvou directed. “What size?” asked the clerk. So far, so good. It was necessary for the clerk to ask vour size. “Fifteen and a half.”" Deftly the fellow whipped the neck- wear out of the.hox, wrapped it up, handed it to yvou, accepted vour money—and then hegan. in the best vie of the true pestering store | clerk: “Anything else?” * ok ok ok “Not today, thank vou.” teel yourself ‘smile. was coming. tering store before. “How ahout some socks?"’ “Got too many now.” “Mayvbe vou'd like a tia— No, teg." “How about a pair of shoss?" the pesterar continued. You struggled to escape, in the grip of words and yet more words. “No, I don't need any shoes.” How about a suft?” “This time you only grinned feebly. “The fellow was too much for you. As fast as vou could think up reasons for not "buying something else. he would switch to some article you had not_thought of before. Nonplussed at socks, tles, shoes and suits. he hopped deftly to underwea; “We have some nice underwear, Just come in,” he breathed, confiden: tially. “Maybe you would want a suit or two- 3 No, I— “It's the very latest thing, let me Just show it to vou, anyway, I am sure you will like it, it just came in, made by a big New York manufac: turer. just the thing for this hot weather, everyhody ought to have a sult or two-— " “1 don't believe- “See how the buttons are put on. You couldn’t pull these huttons off, could you. Mister?" Hopelessly vou admlit that you could not pull the buttons off. By this time. however. you have edged your v to the door. The so-called sales- man. with & pitving look at your nig- gardly purchase, tight clutched in your hand, makes one desperate at- fempt to sell you something else. You poor tightwad, how he pities you! “How about a pair of rubbers?" One day, however, vou got your revenge. You knew what nice neck- . I have plenty of nica neck BACKGROUND BY PAUL} “The standard of ilving does not as a usual thing include a8 generous a provision for housing as it does tor food and clothing.” says Prof. Richard Ely of the Wisconsin Vniversity, a director of the City Housing Corporation of New York, and possible promoter of a similar glgantic corporation in Chicago. Opinion is divided as to such an expansion for Washington at present. In an elaborate discussion of the housing problem, published in the Journal of Land and Public Utllity Economics, Prof. Ely, who is one of the foremost economists of the country, outlines the limitations of mortgage companies in financing construction of homes—lending only a certaln perceniage of the value - and he adds: “Rut there are other alternatives for those who wish to do something to improve the housing conditions of peopla of limited means, and espe- cially to do so by increasing home ownership. One method is—the method followed by the City Housing Corporation—-to subscribe for stock with limited dividends, and let the stock make up the difference hetween what the purchasers can pay and what somebody else muat pay to secure the construction of homes. In other words, the company may, with its stock, replace the second mortgage.” The City Housing Corporation of New York, capitalized with $5,000,- 000. hought 1,100 lots on Long Island in 1924, and has already housed some 600 families in up-to-date homes, 80 bulit that the “service” is carried on upon an enormous scale. This is within the zone of five-cent fares to the city. The cost ranges from $9 to $12 a month per room, after a firat payment of 10 per cent of the pur- chase price, and it is claimed that the price is what the construction cost. The New York Legisiature passed | special laws giving such an enter- prise the right of eminent domain, to enable it to protect against un- reasonable sale cost of lots within the district to be built up. Secretary Herbert Hoover of the United States Department of Commerce, ‘Who _i& making investigations as to the de- sirability of such a development in Washington, declares that no such apecial legislation would be needed here. 1t is not proposed to erect homes for all the 60000 Government em- ployes of Washington, many of whom already own their homes, but simply to start the enterprise upon such a scale or unit as the immediate demand indicates. There is no monopoly of the project, and it is open. therefore, {0 local buliders to study its feasibility and adopt “quantity production,” {if they find economies therein not now available under present Tnlimited capital at 5 per cent is of- fered by an insurance company, in a article published Jast week in Collier's Weekly. * X X % It has transpired that there stiil exist in Washington some 2.400 alley which have been made fllegal by act of Congress; ihese are doomed, and their occupants wiil be forced to ompete for street dwellings. In ad dition, all "Government hotels,” so called’ because they were erected dur- ing the war to house the sudden in- flow of Government employes, are { listed for early demolition, since they occupy ground taken over by the Gov- ernment for a grand gateway park between the Union Station and the Capitol. The Department of Commerce is ! now investigating the local situation and demand by means of a question naire mailed 10 all Government em- | ployes, of whom thére are now in the Capital in excess of 60,000. While rentals vary according to the quality of the house and its environ- ment. the replies to the questionnaire indicate that a room of four walls and stand ‘! pieturesque characters and has perpetrated a hoax. Denuncia: lus heep considered in de fust ph{o." & roof and floor, yith no special con- s in the street car “ad.” | you wanted. | request was plain and | You could | You had heen in a pes. | practices. { The proprietor himself you. He, surely., you thought. would zive you knowing what you wanted. ““How about some sock as he handed nocently | credit | asked the | proprieto vou the ~hange. our entire bodily content of blood n 1o boil. “See here,” you frothed. fixing the | proprietor with a glittering eve Don’t you Imagine that a man knows what he wants when he comes into your store?” |7 “Why—why— “The poor proprietor was dumfound- ed. Kvidently the hicks he was ac customed to selling never dared talk back “The last time darn store.”” you go on. pestered me to huy ever: shop. trom socks down t chewi gum to rubbers. | "“And now here you are heginning | the sume thing. 1 see. now, that you are the fellow who taught him his Don’t you know that this has gone out of into your “the clerk thing in the sufts, from 1 came manners. style of salesmanshi; | fashion in the citl “Kvidently you do not. As a mat- ter of fact, it never was salesmanship. You got ahold of some wight from the alfalfa flelds and thought vou could bull him into buving a lot of | stuff he didn’t need. “Maybe he did need It. were a public benefactor. But the |times have changed. Mister. Wear- |Ing straw in the haiv went out long | ago and vour type of store is a surviv- |1ng nuisance.” Men nowadayvs know Maybe you exactly what they want when they enter a store, and the real salesman | glves them dit for it. Get hep to | vourself and stop pestering your | customers.” N Of course. you never reslly made any such speech as that! That was just the way vou would have liked to talk. What you did do was to walk out, and ever afterward shun the store. | e clothing industry. he it said. | was not the only offender. By no means! If his clerks were oversolicit- ous as to the state of your outer wardrobe, barbers were equally pestif- erous as to your appearance. Perhaps the barber was the original offender. Is there & man with beard so tough who never to himself has said, “No, I don’t want a singe, blast i Y How would vou like a nice singe?” asks Dan, the harher, after he gets ou strapped down. ®” ‘It's good for the hair. ‘mph!" ‘How about a shampoo?” “Don’t want one today."” “How about a shine, Mister the colored boy-of-all-works. “‘Better let me give you a massage?" pesters the barber. Tobacco stores seem to he the latest offenders in this regard. Tha tobacco industry could easily afford to give away good pipes, simply to hoost the sale of tobacco, but what have we? “How about a pipe?” asks the clerk. as you demand a 15-cent package of tobacco. “Got five now “A man can never have too many pipes,” he says, sententiously. The next time you come in, he hands you your tobacco, and you fly out the | door, but not quick enough to escape | the inevitable: | “How about a pipe. Mister?" OF EVENTS asks “. COLLINS. veniences, rents for $15 a month “up,” and that an average rental for “de- cent” guarters amounts to ahout $30 to $35 a room ‘‘up.” This situation of scarcitv of home accommodation is not peculiar to ‘Washington, but applies to all grow- ing cities. Owing to the retardation of building during the war and through the two or three vears follow- ing the war, it was found in 1922 that the United States was lacking 1,000,000 houses in comparison with its normal condition. That represented three years' arrears of normal construction.’ * ok ok k An economist of national reputa- that in manufacturing, the v “‘quantity production”—an automobile per sec- ond, for example-—can maximum econ- omy be possible, but that in the bulld- ing of homes there has been practi- cally no application of the principie of quantity production.” aside from sash and door factories or “ready- cut” trame houses. It ir that Idea which s today at the base of the projects such as have materialized in New York with success and which im- pel capital to offer itself for similar enterprises in Washington and Chi- cago and wherever conditions appear especially favorable. * ok X X This idea must be differentiated from the charity of multimillionaires who leave their wealth to bs adminis- tered by “‘foundations” and from gov- ernment subsidiaries, as in England. In New York the City Housing Cor- poration was organized in March, 1924, mot for charlty, but as a busi- ness dividend-paying company, with its atock limited to 6 per cent divi- dends. It announced its purpose to be as follows: “To develop better plans and meth- ods for home and community build- ing and to demonstrate the advan- | and quantity production of houses. “To bulld the tvpe of low-priced houses that are needed by self-re- specting citizens in New York. “To show home-seekers of small income that they can own first-class {homes for what they are now paving in rent for second-rate places. “To demonstrate the value of am- ple outdoor play space adjacent to homes."” EEE The buildings of the New York en. terprise occupy only 28 per cent of the ground space, the rest of it being developed in play grounds or what the Spanish would term ‘patios,” within the inclosures of the wings of the buildings. It is called “Sunny- side,” and every room actually faces a sunny side of daylight and air. By the first payment of 10 per cent of the total cost, fthe subsequent monthly pavments, including insur ance, amortization, taxes and every thing, amount to from $10.50 to $12 a | room, and at the end of 22 vears the home is pald for. The bathroom is | mot counted in this calculation. | (Copyrighs. 1026, by Paul V. Colline.) ; -t | The Boomer's Patron Saint. | From the Duluth Herald. Our off-hand guese is that Ananias | Fot & living by writing resort litera- | ture, S —— He’s Not From Mis souri. for tages of large-scale purchase of land | JGUST 17, 1926. NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM I G. ted upon THE e CHURCHES OF Robert K. Ludy. Co. HISTORIC W n. Siratford | The zreat cathedral lof Kurope are move or I'to raveler and tourist. to artist and | | student. Tt is these famous and en- ! during monuments which so cleverly {evoka that golden span of the Middle \zes, the 13th century, herald of the | ominz Renalssance, when { trade guild entered info a partnership | whose effect upon industry and poli-| i tics and art was no less than wpon religion ifself, It was the medieval guild that. with the aid and protec- tion of the church. raised craftsman- (ship io its highest estate, that for the Arst time gave dignity to labor, that despite the handicap of class distine- | tions and lowly birth opened avenues of ndvanes ta workers skilled in va- | rious crafts, that gave rise to a sense of brotherhood among artisans and created organizations which not only | protected labor, but gave to it a po- litical significance as weil. The guild held in its nature the seed of democ- racy. Under its stir, ambition awoke | and imagination took wing. These | became potent in a new art that| sought 1o embody the spiritual asp tions of the period in a fitting arch tectural form. It was this fresh im- pulse that rejected, in a large meas- ure, the solid maserial Romanesque effects, substituting instead the Goth- ic form, that triumph of effort by way of which the medieval architect united loftiness with lightness, fitting em- blem of Christian aspiration and vision. and churches | less familiar | | | EE Such historic churches now spread throughout Christendom. Not, fo be | sure. in the massed splendor of the European medieval cathedral. steeped in the traditions and atmospheres of 200 mellowing vears. but momentous | structures, mevertheless, deeply sig- | nificant to the spiritual and material | histoly of their vaiious settinge. Ca- thedral, church. synagogue. secret | underground crypt. meeting house, | miss'cn, altar and shrine—these pro- | clatm the religicn of the Christian world. and by way of these greatly important chapters of the world's history invite the attentlon of the passing traveler. Today everybody Is a passing traveler. Everybody is going some- where, nobody staying at home. If. as somebodv has sald, travel is the best of tutors, then education is on its way to possess humanity. In time to come, when lists of great educators are being made, the name of Henry Ford may not, like that of the good Ben-Adhem, lead all the rest, but it will of a certainty stand high in this roster of benefactors. Wherever the hurrying motor muititudes go, there they gather up fresh scenes and catch glimpses of ways somewhat different from their own and snatch bits of local historv—a happy and useful ex- pansion of every one of them. And everywherea one constant feature greets them. Everywhere the church tower or spire beckons and invites them. The most of these are mere neighborhood landmarks, not impor- tant to outsiders, except as a bond of common brotherhood. Some of them, on the other hand, pelong to the his- tory of the country itself, some of them are a vital part of the forward movement of modern life. It is such notables among the churches that Dr. Ludy has gathered up here in a method definitely calculated to be of good service to the modern nomads that nowadays are turning every highway into an endless unbroken caravan and every steamship into a crowded moving city L “Historic Churches of the World" separates inlo two parts, one cover ing the churches of the Old World. the other dealing with those of the New World. Greater emphasis ix Dlaced upon the second group, a wise point of stress since the churches of the Western Hemisphere have, as a single and separate theme, received less consideration at the hands of trav- elers and writers. Pictures, that abso- lute essential to a bhook of this sort, stand here in a full abundance in a | surpassing excellence of quality. These objectify the text, moving one his- toric edifice after another into the actual eye range of the reader. The text itself is a model of economy. Short, substantial chapters give to each structure its place in history, its part in the life of its own community, the fashion of its architecture, the model from which it was derived, its special tradition and atmosphere, its | abiding influence on the varying times in the midst of which it stands. | * ok The New World churches congidered | here embrace both continents of the Western Hemisphere. Mexico, Can- | ada, South America, Cuba, Santo Do- | mingo, are represented here no lesa | than the United States itself. In | every case the soldier and the priest followed hard upon the trail of the explorer and discoverer. Therefore | Spanish churches and missions arose | speedily in South America, Mexico, in anr own Southwest and in Callfornia, | In Canada and down the Mississippi in the laborious tracks of vovageur and priest the French wavs of setting up shrines and placés of worship are most in evidence. Within our own borders there are historic meeting houses, simplified from English meth- ods of church architecture. But, whether the style be Spanish or French or English, it is in the church itself that some of the most mo- | mentous history of the New World | was made and is there still perpet- | unted. Lacking much of the grandeur | and beauty of many an Old World | cathedral, these churches of America, | with the | ensence of old heroisms and oid hard. | | ships and old achievements that con- | stitute America’s most precious heri- | tage. The Old North Church in Bos- | |ton and the Old South Church there | together tell a vivid story of the | struggle between liberal and conserva- | tive. _Christ Church in Philadelphia | is redolent of the trials and harass. | ments of the- Continental Congress. St. Ann de Beaupre, out from Quebec, is to this day a place of miracle and constant processions of pilgrims. The Alamo in Texas, fort and mission com- bined, said to be ‘“noted for history rather than sanctity,” is reminiscent of the massacre of heroic ‘“‘Davy” Crockett and a group of -other Texas heroes in 1836. California. is rich in missions and in_the story of Spain exploiting the New World in the name of God and her King. Indeed, all over this country there are churches innumerable without whose stories the history of American set. | tlement would be lacking in some of | its most vital and picturesque mo- | ments of breathless suspense and climax. There are others, however, | whose history less dramatic than that of these outstanding ones, is essen- | tial, nevertheless, to the full account of the growth of America since its discovery in 1492, and to the story | also of an America older even than that found by Columbus. A painstaking and beautiful book, built to & definite purpose by a com: | petent and highly intelligent author. | I | | i nevertheless, overflow still From the Lynchburg News. One person who finds it easy to be- lieve that there are 20,000,000 auto- mobiles in the United States is the pedeatrian, i e i Good Currency. | From the Omaha World Rerald. | Fngland s going to change the de- signa on her coins as not artistie ]-v\ou h. Ours are crude enough, but they’ll pase. 4} A Lesser Evil? From the Duluth Herald. Buying an election is vicious, but perhape it causes the people less suf- fering than oratory. R A Great Hit. Fort Worth Star.Tel a 1, tar-Telegram and From Son | line and | Caesar, nis teacher.” | her.” ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. Q. Wh the maost city in the uth has| treet’ cars?—L. M. N. | A. New Orleans has the greatest number. 699 passenger cars: Atlanta, Ga.. has 420 passenger cars. Q. Who was the last soldier killed in the Wor —I. F. M. | A he War Department says 1t has never heen determined who wax | the last American soldler killed, as Were being killed ail along the it would he impossible te who was the last. | men say Q. How fast do radlo waves| @ravel>—I. T. B. | A. According to Capt. T. J. J. See, | Government astronomer at Mare Island Navy Yard. San Francisco. | an authority on the theory of ether. | radio waves travel round the earth | at a velacity of 165.000 miles per second. They are therefore con- siderably lower than light. which travels 186,600 miles per second. Q. What great armies have crossed the Alps”—M. M. A. The Alpine Svstem covers nearly the whole of Switzerland. a | great part of northern Italy, sev- | eral departments of France, and a large part of Austria. The historical Just | passages of the Alps have been those Great: Julius the Helvetians; Hannibal; Napoleon, who crossed he Alps into Russia only to find hat the retreating Russians had left Moscow in ruins. The greater part of the Krench army died in recrossing the Alps into France. by: Alexander the to attack Q. How large a mirror will the tele- scope have that Prof. Ritchey is con- structing?—J. S. A. The telescope that Dr. G. W. Ritchey is building for the French government will have a mirror. Q. Where was -H. H. A. Tara Is the name of a hill in County Meath, Ireland. It was here that the triennial convention of the Irish kings was establithed by Ollam Fodlah, about 900 B. C. According to tradition the H. H Palace of Tara was 900 feet square. containing 160 apart- fents and 150 dormitories. The early kings of Ireland were sald to be crowned here, and tradition further states that Tara, at the time of the advent of St. Patrick to Ireland, was the principal seat of Druidism in Ire- land. It is said to have been aban- Adoned through the curse of St. Rua- dan, 450, on account of its idolatry. Q. How many gallons of water does it take to produce a ton of ice?—G. 8. M. A, About 240 gallons. r still observed? Q. Is the Passo MW okLC A. The Feast of the Passover is still observed in all orthodox Jewish families. Tt occurs on the recurrence of the full moon after the vernal equinox. Q. What is fhe demand for rallroad ties in this country?—A. M. T. A. From 100,000,000 to 125,000,000 ties are used each year. The usual size 13 7 inches by & inches by 8 feet, although some smaller and some lar- ger ones are made for special pur- poses. Q. How many inches does a wom- an’s hair grow in a year?—A. T\ 8. A. The length of life of the hair varies with the age, sex. character of hair and individual peculiarity. Fach hair has its determined length of life, and this is not the same for svery hair of the same sort. The rate of growth, especially fn young women. Is from 2 to & millimeters. or aheut one-eighth to one-fourth inch during after first plercing the it three-eighthe to three. ourths inch a month. When it reaches a length of 10 to 14 inches ita rate of growth ix reduced one-half. and later toward the end of fta normal life its increase is hardiy pereeptible. Q. Where was Virgll born?--M A. Virgil was born at Brundisium, Italy. He was buried near Naples. Q. Will celluioid hurn without com- ing in_ direct contact with fire” W. T L. A. Celluloid is very inflammable and can he ignited by hot steam pipes. sic It should. therefore. he handled very carefully. Cellulold may bhegin 1o burn at temperatures not far abheve that of hoiling water. & A 3 communique - - W. F. A. The term is applied to a state- ment Issued officially. Q. When was Fort Winthrep estab. lished”—H. R. A. Fort Winthrop was erected on Governors Island by the Government in 1808. The island had been sold to ‘he Government for $15,000 by the Win throp family for the purpose of erect ing this foit. The fort was at firat called Fort Warren in honor of Gen Joseph Warren, but it was afterward changed to Fort Winthrop. Q. How was Greek fire made?” W.E.S. A. Greek fire was a composition which the Greeks of the Byzantine Empire used as a means of defense 240-inch | It fx supposed to have been composed {of niter, sulphur and naphtha as prin cipal ingredients. Tt was highly In flammable and was sald to have the power of burning under water. It was projected either on blazing tow tied to arrows or through a tube, and wherever it fell it made great havec, ow'ng to I's inextinguishable nature. At Constantinople the process of mak ing Greek fire was kept a profound secret for several centuries. At tha time of the discovery of gunpowder it formed a recognized defensive eale- ment in most wars from western Europe (o Asia Minor. Q. A. foot ball dled on March 14, the age of 65. Is Walter Camp dead? —P. F. This widely known authority on 1926, at Q. How does a buzzard sail againsi the wind without flapping its wings” —A. D. A. The Biological Survey says tha! the buzzard is able, by mora or less imperceptible movements of different parts of the wings. to take advantage of minor air currents. (Any reader can get the angicer to any question by 1writing The Fue- ning Star Information Bureau. Fred eric 1. Haskin, Director, Twenty-first and C streets northwest, Washington, D. C. This offer applies strictly to in- formation. The bureau cannot give advice on legal, medical and financial matters. It does not attempt to set- tle_domestic troubles mor undertake exhaustive research on any subjec! Write your question plainly and briefly. Give full name and addresx and inclose 2 cents in stamps for ve- turn postage. The reply is sent direct to the inquirer.) Suzanne Lenglen’s Decision To Turn Professional Amazes America's sport world—including most of the newspaper-reading pub- lic—was amazed at the decision of Suzanne Lenglen to commercialize her fame on the tennis court and now walts with interest the first profes- onal venture of the French star. There is speculation about the possi- bilities of professional tennls, many regrets over the loss of the spectacu- lar Suzanne's amateur status and a feeling on the part of some observers that it is only falr that the pre- eminently skiliful amateur should turn her great asset into money. “It is absurd,” in the opinion of the Binghamton Press, “for a tennis star to go unpaid, as Lenglen has had to do, while other people rake in the shekels which the public contributes to see her work. The game would be better for it if the leading pl: followed the French girl's example and left the rulers of amateur tennis to sit and twiddle their thumbs while the crowds went over to watch the professionals. “The tennis world will look to the plans of tha great French player,” suggests the Oakland Tribune, test whether or not established as a professional sport. If any one could do so, it would be this same Suzanne, with all her ac- complishments, temperament and pub- lcity; and vet the tennis fans have doubts. The amateur game to many will remain the only one worth while.” The New York Herald Tribune is con- vinced that “Lenglen’'s hopes of cre- ating a profession overnight seem quite too sanguine. Her prospect at nrlenm appears to be a game of soli- taire.” “te ook “What we think about such a de- sertion of the amateur ranks.” says the St. lLouls Post-Dispatch, “we re- fuse to say until Suzanne actuallv serves the first ball in her first pro- fessional match. the world's first woman tennis plaver has a way of changing her mind. In the mean time,” announces the Post-Dispatch, “we should like to whisper to Suzanne | that it is not true that American streets are paved with gold, and that nuggets of brilliant vellow hang from American trees. Lenglen's course with the statement that “now, at the height of her fame, when her name will bring thousands to see her play, no matter where she goes she is offered a chance to make her fortune through the thing that she does best in all the world—play tennis. Can she be blamed for taking advantage of such an opportunity?” asks the Sentinel. To the Lvnchburg has been more frank than some other amateurs. 'he Providence Bulletin while skeptical, also asks: “Is French girl a pioneer in a new and undeveloped field of professional sport or merely a pald entertainer on tour. whose appearance will have no effect at all on the future of American ten nis? Let time and public taste an swer the question, for prophecy avall eth nothing.” “It is quite within her states the Indianapolis Star of her decision 1o become a professional, but that paper Is convinced that “‘never theless, the sports world generally will regret a decision which will piace the champion on a lower level * ok ko The Milwaukee rights,” Journal for the French rules “allow almost anything,” and “Su zanne, it hax often been reported, is not unfamiliar with the role of a ten “The public will he interested in predicts the Waterloo Tribune. “not alone hecause she is the best woman tennis player in the world hut hecause Suzanne is tempera The most popular after dinner speak- er is father when he =ays, “Well, let's all go to the moyles” mental: becange she howls. pra around, gets headaches. quarrels with herself, with- the ‘ball, with the y tennis can be | News it seems that Suzanne simply | | needs. racket. with her opponents; because, after the match., Suzanne recalls her composure and, especially if she wins, is most gracious. condescending and has a smile for evervbody. “It was assumed that the virtue of an amateur would be impaired by consorting with a professional across the net,” recalls the Memphis News- Scimitar, “but that. doubt has been removed. There is nothing in the rules against playing with a profes- sional. There is no reason why any one should reject the opportunity to be defeated by Suzanne out of fear of having one’s amateurishness im- paired. Suzanne will make the best of them look Ilke amateurs If they are not.” Summarizing the possibilities, the Loulsville Herald-Post states: “Doubt- less Suzanne will draw big crowds in this country. She is the mistress of her field. But afier the ‘American tour, what then? A tour perhaps through Europe, but unless tennis is turned Inside out that time, she will be through. There will he no place for Suzanne. She will be harred from tourneya except against profes- sionals.” THINK IT OVER . Fires and Sausages. By William Mather L President George Washington University Some day among the various de partments listed in university eata- logues vou may find a fire depart ment. and it will Aot refer to those officlals of the institution who expel students. Neither will it be the or ganization, volunteer or paid. which extinguishes conflagrations in waste paper baskeis and elsewhere. It will he a department devoted to training firefighters. A progressive fire marshal recently complained to a nuniversity executive that & certain city fnatitution of high | er learning was not offering a courss | The Knoxville Sentinel defends Miss | - firemen. The executive could not see how ladder climbing. playing the hose and similar activities were fit subjects for a university eurriculum and therefore asked the marshal to explain his point of view. The fire man said: “When I send companies into an auditorium they should know something’ of construction, how the building is put together, in order that they may work effectively. There fore they should have certain courses in engineering planned to suit their When my men go into a gas the ! suggesis | | that “she has long been at least judged by Amerl- | | what call will come next. filled hasement thev should.have the knowledge enabling them to tell whether the zas is inflammable or non-inflammable. whether it i pof %onous or harmiess. Here ia where a course in chemistry would come In handy.” And so he went on into the various situations which firemen have 1o face, making out a case that the university executive admitted was sound and reasonable. So. when such a course is anriounced. be prepared to see the newspaper humorists describing a fire university commencement, and the cartoonist deplcting the firemen hur rying up a ladder in cap and gown Be that as it may, the need for such training as the fire marshal sug gested s evident, and the university will answer the need as it has an wered hundreds of others in our apidly changing life. We never know President Penniman of the University of Penn vivania recently said, “Thanks to | university research, a frankfurier sausage. now on the market, is pro vided with a vegetable casing said to he 1asty and digestible." 3 And sausages’ Science and | #ducation, consider them both, (Covyright. 1908.)