Evening Star Newspaper, August 31, 1926, Page 8

8 THE EVENING STAR] . With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C TUESDAY......August 31, 192 ] THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editer The Evening Star Newspaper Company 11th St and Pen: New York Office: 110 Chicazo Ofice: 1 European Office: 14 1 or v, be sent lephone Man 5000. Coiiection is made by carrier at end of each month. era m; Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Datly and Sunday....1yr.$0.00:1 mo. Daily only. L1113l 88000 1 mo. Sunday’ only 1713l $3.00: 1 mo! All Other States and Canada. would begin on the 1st of September and the residents of .the bulldings that lay in the line of it must move {by that day. Nearly all of them are right where they have been for years, {With no appreciable start made to- {ward moving. Delegations have ap- {pealed to the authorities to postpone !the forced migration. Contracts have | been let for the clearing of the way. A fcw of the business concerns in the affected district have started to build or acquire properties elsewhere, but almost all of the people have trusted to luck to postpone eviction. i| A spokesman for a grouf of the pe- titioners in his argument said: This talk about razing the houses is not new. It has been golng on for nineteen vears and nothing has ever happcned. Consequently, when we were told that the city was going to tear down the buildings many of us regarded it as just more talk. This proposed extension of Sixth avenue involves an expenditure by . feat. The experiences of each swim- mer are helpful to the others. Better i training methods are developed. It is in this matter as it is in all other lines iof sport. A steady development of skill is in progress. The popular games are better played today than they have ever been before. In base ball, in foot ball, in tennis and in | golf, higher skill is shown through special training and assiduous devo- tion to the chosen game. ‘With three successful Channel swims this season, all of them in lower time than the best previously made, it does not follow that Channel swim- l:l\lflg will lose its lure, though it may slacken in noveity. Swimmers, both men and women, will continue to traim and, try with the purpose of lowering the record. Vierkoetter, yes- terday's Channel victor, has already announced that he proposes to swim the round trip another season, and No one in Washington is going to get more fun out of that giraffe, re- cently captured by Supt. Mann for ational Zoological Park, than the writer of this column. It is, in a sense, our giraffe, if we do say It ourself. Readers of “This and That” will recognize this—and also that. . On April 23, 1925, we carried a whole column devoted to the giraffe- less state of the Zoo, beginning: “Why has our National Zoological Park no giraffe? “Who is to blame for this sorry state of things?” Placing the onus squarely on Con- gress, which would not appropriate $5,000, the price of a good specimen of Giraffa camelopardalis, a_type of a family of ruminants, Giraffidae, we suggested the appointment of a joint THIS AND THAT - BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. have said too much already. Yet we love the animals; they are soi fine and upstanding, so honest and | upright, so unaffected. You will never find a snob among | the animals, whether among horses, cows, pigs, elephants, wolves, foxes, bears, cats, dogs, or what not. None! of them lies awake whining about| his duty toward God, as Whitman said. We hope that none of the children | of Washington will make the mis take of looking - down upon the giraffe, simply because he is an ani- mal. 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Later the hill wa reduced in height and the statehouse secupies its highe osition. Q. Do chigzer | der the skin? -1 T. A is only in a figurative sefis~ | that chiggers get under the skin. They are too small to be seen rdadily with out a magnifying . but it is only their feet that are inserted into the rctually burrow fin o v is drunk in the ted St 1 This can e { net _importation | ending June 426, |amounted to 98,531,814 pounds, 457, Leing rejected s below our ndard in quality. not for impurities. i the 1 yeur the imports mated f In the fi DPaily and Sunday..1yr., $12.00: 1 mo., $1.00 z y Daily oniy oo 1 Yrl T SX.00° 1 mo. his friends claim for him that he is | oRECC S noT Committee to_investi- |emulation. Think of some of the|ture and been the inspiration of the|ngland at the King's omifianty| StEndREd I quil e riti & s qua ¢ of tex would supply 9% Sunday " only 13r $1005 1 moll Member of the Assoc The Associated Press is exc o the use for republication of atches credited 1ot atherw: re also tfr‘"’ The National Gallery. Announcement is made of the dona- tlon to the National Gallery of twen- ty-one portraits notable whose names are associated with the story of the Great V These the work of an eminent artist, being, in fact, studies in oil for the large canvas which depicts the signing of the Versallies treaty in 1919, now hanging in the gallery. This is \aluable addition and in line with the development of the national collection. But the fact of moment is that there is no space in the main gallery for the hanging of these pictures, and they must be displayed in a room on the third floor of the building quite separated from the gallery proper. ‘This is the latest evidence of the need of a new building distinct from the National Museum for the housing of this important collection. The National Gallery is already rec- oznized as one of the important Amer- assemblages of paintings. In and in range it is for its size choice. It s assured of rapid along the same lines of hi artistic standards when space is pro- vided for a proper displ Gifts to the gallery are pledged on the basis of a new structure, the need of which is recognized in Congress and provi- sion for which, it is hoped, will soon be made. There are now stored away at the gallery a large number of portraits of early Americans of different periods that cannot be identified. The paint- ers neglected to mark them, and there D at present no means of exhibiting them in the hope of identification. They are mostly works of high grade i art technique and are in all cases interesting examples of American por- trait painting of the earlier times. In a new gallery building there would be opportunity for their exhibition and possible identification. This need of a proper housing for the National Gallery should be pressed upon Congress at the next session to the end of legislation for the erection of the building without further delay. The Government's building program, now starting, should include, in at least the second group of structures authorized, a suitable home for this truly American ry of art. ——or—s A Captain’s Dilemma. »t. Barron of the ship Galileo, New York for Hull, faced a problem which would disturb most men, but he solved it, though the solution not explained in the report. Fire broke out in the coal bunkers of the ). There were 8000 pounds of gunpowder on deck and the hold was full of wheat. To pump water into the ship would spoil the wheat and to the gunpowder overboard would mean money. Not to pump water into the ship and not to throw over the gunpowder—well, the alileo might The dis- patch : The sailed S; tu of persons of are a fcan uality tndeed growth row be no more! liner which for ingland, re- sterday morning with coal bunkers on fire pounds of gunpowder on be dumped over: nger of explosion police launch offered aid, but 1 get the fire un- not want water | ain hold of the &0 of wheat. He Point for - and 8,000 went | the | down in th: 1 spotl the o wed off Nortons eral hours, and aft fire was tinguished the Galileo went to a at the foot of West Thirty-fifth street. ship The means used to put cut the fire are no: Per! steam was used. Maybe the crew turned on just enough er to put out the fire and not flood the hold. It was a neat job to save both the wheat and gunpow- der—and the sh ven N fering Miss Lderle fabulous hold uif until « few more p the Chaun:l they may be able to ne- gotiate cheaper terms. — e Greenwich Village in Panic. An illustration of the slowny which some big improvements are ad- vanced in this country is afforded by a stuation in New York. clima fng today. A good many years ago a plan was projected for driving tunnel under the North River to ac- commodate vehicular traffic. After a long time the scheme was approved and i Its execution took sev- eral years. Now the tunnel is com- pleted and will soon be ready for us As the work progressed it became evi- dent, with the great growth of the traffic meanwhile, that special facil fties would be needed at the York end for approaching it, to pre- vent congestion. It was thercupon, after protracted consideration, decided to establish a series of wide thor- oughfares converging upon the tun- nel. One of these was Sixth avenue, to be extended south for mearly two- thirds of a mile from its present | southern terminus, across a series of | angling streets. This reglon is the southwestern section of old Green- with | a weed. a :| the city of $3,620,000 for property taken and $500,000 for railroad con- struction. It will be 3,200 feet long and 100 feet wide, crossing sixteen streets which angle up from the North River. About 10,000 people, it is estimated, are involved in the de- struction of, the houses that stand in the way of this approach to the tun- i nel, and now that they are confronted lwith the actual destruction of their ;)wmos and places of business, despite the I ng-continued warning, they are in a panic, which fs merely another | evidence of the leisureliness ‘with {which civic works are executed in | Amer | e n | What 0'Clock? Thé Western Union Telegraph Co. has announced that, beginning tomor- row, it will discontinue its time-giving service over the telephone in the be- lief that the business of the company can be more efficiently conducted if it is not burdened with calls of this nature. In taking this step the tele- graph organization follows the Amer- ican Telephone and Telegraph Co., which ended its service to the public during the war because it was found impossible to dispense time informa- {tion and handlc the increasingly large number of telephone calls Callers on the Western Union yes- terday were given the time, with the following admonition: “We are sorry, but after September 1 this service will be discontinued.” So it behooves every householder to get to work immediately and make a round of inspection of his various clocks. They should be wound and re- paired and put in the proper shape so that he will not wake up some morn- ing to find his clock stopped and with the sinking feeling that he has no way of ascertaining the time. It is in the interest of good busi ness that the Western Union has | been forced to stop this service. More than eighteen thousand calls a day were received in the New York office of the company. Three special op- erators have been employed to handle these calls. With the increase in the number of telegrams by telephone, it has been found to bo physically im- ible to serve the public in tele- while “telling the pos graph handling time.” There was a time when almost any information could be obtained from’ the telephone operator. The time, the base ball score, the result of a prize ficht and interesting news happenings could be procured from the courteous operator. Finally, with telephone business increasing, the company was compelled to instruct its operators to discontinue any conversation but that devoted to the handling of calls. The deluge for time service then descend- ed upon the telegraph company and has Increased to such an extent that the company has now been forced to follow the lead of its associated or- ganization. There are few occasfons when it is veally necessary to ascertain the time from an outside source. These few occasions can be made fewer by good housekeeping. It has been too easy in the past to be careless and slip- shod about clock and watch winding. It has been a simple matter to reach for the phone and to ask for the correct time. days are over. The public “on its own” and a good lesson |in self-reliance will be taught when {there is no convenient way to impose on the good nature and service of big corporations by such trivial ques- tions as “What time is it?"” —r——————— A romantic figure, dead at the age of thirty-one, when many men are ill regarding themselves as unrecog- nized prodigies with an astonishing { future ahead. Valentino passed on the mysterious journey amid compliments he could not hear and flowers he could not perceive. Perhaps he had ceased to care for both. . Channel Swimming. Channel swimming has reached the int now of being almost a common- Three successful swims have within a short span of time, the latest establishing a re- markable new record. Two wWomen and a man have crossed the Channel, all in a lower time than ever-before made by any of the five who in the il place. been made | course of many years have stroked their way from shore to shore. The feat of Vierkoetter vesterday in cross- ing in twelve hours and forty-three minutes, or one hour and forty-eight minutes less than the time of Ger- trude Ederle, is truly remarkable. What is the reason for all this record-breaking in Channel swimming this vear? Has it been a more pro- pitious season than heretofore? Have the Channel waters been less turbu- lent? There is nothing to indicate that. More swimmers have made the attempt than ever before, and, as stated. more have succeeded than in season previously. Surely there must be something to account for the repeated record-breaking and the number of successes. The answer to this question prob- ably lies in the fact that better swim- mers sare being constantly developed. Whercas twenty or thirty vears ago there were only three or four people who ever talked about Channel swim- wich Village, teeming with population. Months ago it was definitely an- “nounced that the strest widening ming, now there are scores in all countries. They have been training @nd developing themselves for this capable of making the one-way swim in ten hours. ' Those are two high marks at which to shoot. Some day both will be attained. N ISV — The Hall-Mills cases another ex- ample of how neighborhood gossip may in the course of time develop into tragedy that commands the keen- est public Interest. Every now and then the startling fact is disclosed that somebody has been telling the simple truth. e School days are at hand. The stu- dent must have a foundation of knowledge pertaining to old historles, arts and sciences, despite his sus- picion that current news of develop- ment on these lines is more interest- ing and perhaps more important. N The airplane is regarded as an im- portant consideration in preparation | for the “next war.” A more impor- tant consideration is a candid analysis of the motives and influences which may appear to make a ‘‘next war” possible. et The ancient and evidently unau- thentic paragraph quoting President Coolidge to the effect that fishing is a pastime for small boys has been effectually disposed ‘of. Since then the President has caught column aft- er column of fish. et Fame is evanescent. Col. Billy Mitchell is still receiving ovations, but they are not what they used to be. And Gen. Smedley Butler is scarcely mentioned. S People in various parts of the map are beginning to regret th: could not have held the Fa ment to’ the limitations of local demonstration. — s e Miss Lenglen will seek money in this country. “See America First!” isa world-wide motto when it comes to capitalizing athletic or artistic dis- tinction. = e The questions arising in connection with the World Court might utilize a still higher court if one existed, in order to adjudicate them. o The Fas will improve the scenery if they ever succeed in mak- ing the black shirt more fashionable that the Navajo sweater. ~ e Reluctance of Paris cabarets to ac- cept American money ought to prove a great encouragement to New York night clubs. ————. Instead of depending on tips from tourists, Europe would like the cash as a national contribution in a lump sum. e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. An Alarming Experiment. Aunt Miranda made'a jar Of "dandelion wine. How she came to go so far Is no affair of mine. Aunt Miranda, one fine day, Was trying hard to sing And even sought, the neighbors say, To cut the pigeon wing. Aunt Miranda, how we fear For your ensuing fate! Authorities no doubt will hear Of your hilarious state. ‘When Spring returns, oh, please for- get That little jar of glee! Pick golden buttercups, but let The dandelions be! The Intrusive Idea. “Have you any ideas for your next speech?” “None whatever,” answered Senator Sorghum, “I'm hoping to get back to the good old way of shaking hands with the crowd and letting everybody make up his ideas to suit himself.” Limitations. The torch-light procession in days long ago Its brilliance and beauty displayed. But then, as today, no great question we know Was settled by any parade. i If pageantry sheen, ‘With music by many a band, Could settle all questions, it's plain to be seen . ‘The Ringlings would govern the landt splendid in glittering Jud Tunkins says the man who never changes his mind is a moron who goes on believing in Santa Claus till he is eight. ars old. TUniversally Sought. “Has your boy Josh made himself popular in the big town?” “I'll so aver,” answered Senator Sorghum. “I never saw a man who had so many people runnin’ after him." What has he been doin’ all Sum- mer “Drivin’ an ice wagon.” Swimming. We're swimming it in wondrous style, That Channel, rough and cool, We may consider in awhile A simple practice pool. “Dar ain’ no such thing as easy money, if you count in de hard ex- planations an’' de wear an’ tegr on ( gate the necessity for a giraffe at the local Zoo. “In the name of all the children,” we said, “We rise on our hind legs a giraffe. “We kids want to see one of the high fellows browsing with his pre- hensile tongue among the leaves of trees, eating his dinner off a shelf, as it were. We want to see him amble faster than a horse, and kick the stuffings out of a lion with his strong hind legs. We want a giraffe! ERE Well, we seem to have it, at last, the first giraffe in the history of the National Zoological Park! It will be realized, then, with what personal satisfaction we extend our congratulations to Dr. Mann, and to the business men who made the ex- pedition possible. This giraffe busine: is no new thing with us. It many 3 S ago, in The Star, that we wrote a of a little girl, scarcely more than a bahy, who went to the Zoo for the first time, saw all the ani- mals and then said: “But where is the giraffe?” Upon its being explained to her that there was no giraffe, she was utterly unable to understand the matter, and kept repeating: “I want to see the giraffe: “Oh, see the, pretty bgars! parent. cried. want to see th ffe!" “See the sealions: ’ want to see the giraffe!” “But there is no giraffe.”” “But 1 want How could youngste! a fond 0 sce the giraffe!’ vou explain to the There was no explain- circus had a giraffe, but oological Park, at the center of the tion, had none. Now the giraffe is the most trancing of animals. His ngek, the words of the youns, “seream.” His elevation is There is nothing exactly like a giraffe lin the whole animal kingdom. The Zoo would never be complete without one. en- in a unique. # to think that if the new giraffe could speak it would say “My mame is Charley But the | children of Washinston are naming this giraffe, and we leave the mat- ter in their young capable hands. The thoughts of youth are long, lo thoughts, as the children's Longfellow, said. By the wa name for 8 But we say no We like what more happ affe than Lo low! more. Pernaps we and demand that Congress give us-. Doet, | things he will not do: The giraffe will not lie. He will not be mean. He will not sneak. He will not play “practical jokes.” He will not hurt other people’s feelin: He will not sneer, or laugh at others, even at the comical monkey The giraffe will not think it h duty to tell folks unpleasant things to their faces, merely for the sake of “saying what he thinks.” He will not say one thing to one person and exactly the opposite to another. He will not “yes, yes erything that is said to him, whethe he believes in it or not. He will not stay where he is not wanted, either. > 5 no eynical “grown-up,” inform you that an would not do the same things. We are not dis ing oysters, but sim- ply that dear, delightful giraffe, and he, we assure you, would not lie, or steal, or be mean. The giraffe §5 a good scout, & true Boy Scout. He believes in being manly and in doing a good turn ewery day, If no more than a turn| around his inclosure. Now here are me of the good things the giraffe will do, for he is positive as well as negative: The giraffe will stay out in the open air as much as he can, for he | knows that fresh air is good for him. | | Owing to the fact that he comes n Africa, a hot land, he will be ¢ indoore during the \Washin Winters, of cour he prete to_be outside, thank y He eat the foods that nmatur provided for him, and will not secl to eat foods thai are not good for | him | It may be stated as a positive fact | t he will refrain from using to- or spirituous liquors. These, him, are not good | more than they are | Let i chil- dren, for giraffes, & for child He will knows nothing the like, : that order he con | He will e |of his keepers. | know and be kir feeds him, after | the fright of his He will come « Washington, | for his beautiful coat, I | neck. his kindly h [and all the good qualities labove. of sleep. 1le about “parties” | Leing nothing the limd where there in appreciative of the care d will learn to to the man who tten over age, | | | | | g to like who W love him | interestin, and ways enumerated The country in general has re- sponded with some enthusiasm to the proposal of Secretary Hoover, on his Western trip, for a great and systematic utilization of the water resources of the United States. i Seattle speech, especially, has been widely commended, upholding what is described as a plan to turn river: of water into rivers of gold. The Sec- retary proposes a development com- bining ~reclamation, ribution of power and inland navigation. In commenting on the plan, Birmingham News remarks ‘Herbert Hoover doesn't deal in fine spun theories; he is not a dreamer he is a practical man of affairs, deal- ing with the world of busine: he finds it, and endeavoring to Americans the way toward I servation of national resources.” “The first use of water that comes to mind in the Pacifi t, says the Portland Telegram, - mation, for the Columbia basin project is first in our thoughts, but that is closely combined with power develop- ment, and power on the Columbia and its great tributaries is the inseparable partner of navigation. For all three of these purposes, storage is necessary, and that is the means to prevent floods. As on the Columbia, so it is in all the great river basins—the Missis sippi_and Missouri, the Colorado, the San Joaquin and on the Great Lakes. In the country as a whole, transporta- tion is held of first importance, for cost of railroad service has become a heavier burden, especially to agricul- ture, since the war, and the volume of traffic has grown so that it will tax the capacity of the railroads. New railroads would be far more costly than the old, hence we look for cheaper transportation routes, which are the waterways.” *x x X “Herbert Hoover, with his clear power to think, might do something worth while for the great Northwest that sent him out into his career. ‘Will he?” asks the Portland Oregon Journal, with the further queries: “What will be the effect upon his mind of his inspection of the lands the Northwest has to reclaim? Will he see waste fields in their relation to empty ships? Will he see sage-clothed plains that might be growing grain for the world's breadless? Will his turn for national economies cause him to ponder on the meaning of preparing this last great expansive area as a part of the great food storehouse of the American people?” “Rivers always have been vital ‘in the history of the race,” the New York Evening Post _points out. . “Civiliza- tions have depended upon them. Framing a broad and national pro- gram for their use must not be left to the politician and the exploiter. It is a problem for ‘the best brains the country, for its broad financiers, its ablest technicians its greatest engineers.” Of Mr. Hoover's suggestion in relation to in- land navigation and power develop- ment that “the Nation and the States pool their common interest and make this one vast and nation-wide under taking,” the Evening Post remarks: “There is not much danger that de- velopment will outrun the population growth. In 1950 the United States is expected to hold 40,000,000 more peo- ple than it has today. Additional population requires additional power, foodstuffs and transportation. We can use all the power we can get. L Observing that Mr. Hoover “believes the project would pay for itself through the sale of water and power,” the Rochester Times-Union avers that “practically every one who has studied the situation agrees with this con- clusion. The needless delay, with power interests pressing to snap up water rights, which should be de- veloped as a great national resource,” the Times-Union goes on ta say, “em- Hoover’s “Rivers of Gold” Scheme Appeals to Couniry a broad ns water policy of the | States should-be | Certainly We want no repetition of the Federal on by which immensely valuable | power rights at Niagara were leased | Dy the Government for the trivial sum | of cents @ horsepower per year. ! { Perhaps Mr. Hoover’s s stion of a | commission for each & drainage area on which both States and the na- tional authorities would be represented off solution.” he history of the elimination of | the boats by the railroads through rate manipulation is well known,” de the Spokane Spokesman-Lieview, in_our judgment, Secretary Hoover will not lose sight of the fact that | there is no gain when money i for developing waterways, even if the railroads reduce rates between water points, when they are allowed to C] higher rates between non-| water points to make up their loss.” The Philadelphia Public Ledger a 4 awry Hoover is right ting that “water routes in steam- t days built up the Middle West and carried civilization into the Nortk and the Ledger continue: were vital then and only a li ss vital now. Everybody agree: with the possible exoeption of some railways, that inland streams should carry vast amounts of freight. But Jjust why is it that these are not used more than they now are?"” * ok ok ok phasizes the nec tional t On this point the Knoxville Sentinel suggests that ‘“the newer develop- ments of high-speed craft designed to run in a few feet of water point to the evolution of a type of boat which would be able to carry a large quar tity of perishable freight, yet navi- gate the shoal waters of some of our Glates with safely, surety and ade- quate speed. 1t is along this line that future development of waterways must come.” The question is raised, | however, the New London Da: " and the “there is grave doubt as hine: present.” The <. S SULS ever, that “plans for the work should | be laid now, as Mr. Hoover sugge: and the project be excuted ds increa: ing demands hall warrant the penditure.” “He was not talking about today- Louis Pc but not so v far ahead. River development mus be undertaken in order to reclaim the lands, estimated at 30,000,000 acres, now idle. Reclamation, ! but one phase of river de- velopment. The first utility of the rivers is transportation. Because of high railroad rates, the farmers are at a disadvantage with competing countries that enjoy pre-war rafe: The rivers will give the farmers pr war rates. The prospectus, in its con- ception and the methods proposed for carrying out the stupendous enter- prise, embodies the visiop of a states- man in which the rivers of water be- come ri of gold. i o The Really Great Problem. From the Little Rock. Arkansas, Democrat “Distribution is the great problem | of the times.” Yes, indeed, especially when you're trving to make the pay | check go 'roun —or—s Devastating. From the Nashville Banner. White lightning also usually ruins a house when it strikes there. PSSO {of knowledge? oyster |y lat th Whle I man who had sought pleasure in every highest poetry. Jouse 10ld and at a thousand public | pointd of pause it lies ready to the hand of the passing traveler: Every- body res It has place in every | without a trial?—] A. This cannot be done. Q. Does the Peking Union Medi with the other impedimenta of the| [ g body knows. And the charge con- tains 99 per cent truth: * h o huge Wl of special guch, open .avenues The reason.appears to rgely, in the fact th at the R|)l|e s a part of the ceremonial of religion whose formal observance is set off to one day out of the seven. It belongs with the other impedimenta of the pious life, with churches :Ln(! ca- thedr whose twilight gloom, tinged with the rose and azure and gold of stained glass, is heavy with the stale athings of last week's, of last congregations. The Bible, « with these houses of worship, along with Sunday clothes and Sun- day faces, holds aloof from the six struggling secular days that do actu- ally turn the trick of iiving. So, while everybody reads the Bible. It remains, Dest, little more than a body of moral precepts, projected in noble and beautiful speech whose cadence and rhyihm and balance alternations of thought give a deep Sensuous enjoy- ment. There are lovely pictures here. There are poignant dramas after all, this is the Christian's Book ‘Why this ignorance befor along A. 14 Q. A. Ocean vari The salinity of There 3.70 to per cent. two areas the salinit about 3.40 per cent tow tor and the Poles. Q. _ Cuba called, and for term are they elected?—] A. The Congressmen of Cub: known by that name, the Senators years, the Representatives for four yi What language do the native A being elected for eight Q. Irish speak?—DM. A. The native Ir lish or the Irish s row being used by In 1920, 3f a teaching s 31, the Chines® numbered per cent; in Q-tober centage of Chinese was ty now numbem. § . The facul- | with 46 Chines ro ds this Book. Yet, here it is| ollege have any Chinese professor al | ¢ ff of | 00 of our inhabitants with @ | pound of tea a ye ince this num would 10 include many chil 2 [dren, it is reasonable to suppose that | number of tea drinkers is less than 95,000,000 the annual per 9 | capita consumption more than « pound the per- | apiece. What s th® percentage of [ yn the recor salt in the Atlantic Ocean?—A. W. M. | o0 o0 s the Atlantic are two om What are the Congressmen of how Tons % 3. W Af religion and must therefore main-( (S ERE e Of T \in its sacrosanct character, separate from all other hooks—separate, indeed, constructions having to do with common currents of daily life. * ok Kk ok Pruce Barton comes with Book Nobody A sweeping wind of a book <hut-in chambers of v superstitions A a hook, good ziness that, shuts off any the line of re- king book that alive in spirit Vong Knows." that briskly stir stale thought and mus and false reverence. cleansing sunlight of for the fatal maiady of in the name of thinking at all aln, on. A forward finds the Bible with the gener and tomorrow. ing the Bible a of the literatu of the world subject, therefore, to such examina- tion and appr as other bodies of iting receive. Best of all, is here translated into the n current life, illumi- ting th it its high points its low one: this is the hones of all the books that have been writ- ten about the human. Interesting? More than that. It is quite too ab- sorbing to set aside, except to reach for the Bible itself in a new zest for its disclosures of people no different from ourselves. * ok ok ok the Bible terms of cor fr. Barton shows us this Book as ‘history and drama and poetry and philosophy, where, hitherto, it has been mercly ¥ books, innumera- chapters, countless verses. No can be grasped un- anized. Under such treatment the basic outline here is clear and imwpre: , its nous and confusing details solved away from the supporting and vital A greatly helpful plece ation, this. And here in aight progression we stand face | to face with the development of a nation, with the growth of law and order within it, with the progress of | rious industries incident to the life this pcople, with domestic meas- and foreign policies, with suc- and defeats such as befall na- about us today. And here, most nt of all, we see the growth of God from a deity of fierce angers and harsh vengeance to a God of un- derstanding and love. A golden thread of revelation running through the history of the Jews of the Bible is this expanding conception of the Creator of man. The Proverbs and the Psalms take on new beauty as they take on life and reality here. The stories of the prophets are great ories. The procession of great women is an inspiring one. I'vefound | a new Bible, as every one who reads this Bruce Barton book will find one. fr of st impli of ures * % ook Let's listen to Barton himself. “And David reizned in his stead. If are thrilled by Napoleon, the penniless voung leutenant, leaping to throne of an empire; if yvour imagina- tion is warmed by the rise of the gaunt, homely country boy, Lincoln. to the White Ilouse, then there is a real treat for vou in David. What a romantic story of succe: The simple shepherd lad, tending eep and playing his lute, receives a sud- den summons home. Saul, the King, who is passionately fond of music, has sent out a call for a musician. The | boy goes to court and by his modesty | and quick intellizence becomes a fa- vorite. The blustering Goliath affords his courage a golden opportunity. In a_single hour he wins the gratitude of the nation and with it the jealous hatred of the King. Jonathan, the handsome crown prince, - loves him, and between the two bovs there springs up one of the sublime friend- ships of history. Compelled to flee the court, a rebel not by his own wish, but because of the insane envy of aul, he lives for vears by his wi urrounded by the rag-tag and bob. ail of insurgency. At length Saul dies and David ascends the throne.” From Adam to Jekus Christ Him- self a procession of the great files by one here in the flesh, or so it scems, for the look of life is upon them all and the attitudes of human nature possess them. The New Testa- ment is indeed a. new book under its advent here upon our own thoughts and aspirations, upon our own per- plexities and besetments. New in its beauty, too, since understanding illumines it. A startlingly cotempo- raneous Book is the Bible in the hands of this writer. Listen to this, taken at random, but illustrative of the method that has so vitalized the whole: “Whenever some one recom- mends that you buy a current novel which claims to be ultra-modern in its cynical appraisal of life, save your nd take down your Bible and read Eecclesiastes again. You will find_in cervthing that the Greenwich Vil- have ever said, and much bet- said than they ever thought of ng it. It is the book of an old eenceivable form, but had nowhere towd satisfaction.” Lathusiasm is one emotions to turn on. One hates to be an enihusiast for this reason. Never- thelese I'm brimming with joy over this orieinal and electrifying “Book of the easiest One Sure Way. From the Baltimore Evening Sun. Ah, well, turning professional when you're amateur champiog keeps one title intact} % Nobody Kuoows.” And I can think of nothing be¥er calculated to turn all readers towasd an ‘ntelligent study of the ~Fible, the growmst Book in the | warming, | decline in use of I eightcenth centur was gradual lish until 1901, when only 46 per cent, of the speak Irish. in schools learning Irish the increase. Q. Can a ca people The number language. But, | frich is a Celtic language, which i greater per- nd. The | tion an in and the lang uperseded by cor ¢ pupi is still on o tried by cour d in a civil court?—U » tried by offens: A ca: tary ervation cannot be appealed to any other court. sec- | tions of greatest salinity, one in the | North Atlantic and one in the South Atlantic, where it amounts to from these aua- | them of 1 are and I g Q. What is | A, Nofle pros | nolle prosequi pros? whigh the prose | T declares that he iprn red no ean liter g a volunta cuting attor on A parti not ¢ withdra pros wal to| Q. What is the new national an- A ed a viet a | sung Russ new 1y adopt m. The So. ernationale.” s ierings Q. the How is e~d by tics the United S cities of 80,000 popula- over in the United States A total net debt in excess of 0,000,000, |54 There is mo other agency in the | wo i that can ansicer as many legiti- | mate questions as our free informa- burcau in Washington., D. C This hichly org «d institution has been 1 under the per. sonal « “rederie . Haskin By leeping st touch awith Federal hureaus 4 r educational Lenterprises it position to pass {on t jou auti rmation |of highest B hinit wour {queric the staff of experts whose i are put at gour free disposal. turn p tage. Ad fun Star Informa Haskin, Di C. up an tion |7 BACKGROUND OI" EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS Shall the Monroe Doct the foundati pan-Ame lished? ould to the wor the doctrine centu the United States, Monroe doctrine now & or to the power of the enforce it? Some ‘We do not discuss the M trine; we enforce it. * K ok ok According to Dr. Leo S. Rowe, the tor of the Pan-American Union, st week of the doc table of the Wil direct in his discussion I trine at the round liamsburg political confe: of the objections ad misconception_of what and what it does not cove He said: “The Ameri n; 1 o v anced in multitudi- | American countries are based upon the doctrine n o hecome | alliance, noune a back -, has been supported only by Waould =uch an s liance and pan-Americanization of the to its force United State one has aroe m L nce, which have been made to masqu under the name of the Monroe Doc- s for the mis original d trine are the chief bas givings regarding the trine in the countries of I jca. * * * The United not restrict its entire for to the Monroe Doctrine, American principles must justification, not in the M trine on which are as valid today a time of their promuleatio These principles are: F tion against further zation on the Americ and, secondly, a declar on t, states of these continents i be controlled in their interfered with by any power.” EE From time to time, Latin American resentment rded as an powerful United States of its overlordship, lim- iting their independence and reflect- ing upon their ability to protect them selves. They have expressed fe brother ed ,. mor countries ha exp! at what they jealou: assumption by the the aggressive big north had an ulterior moti ing off European aggression, der to clear the field for Unit aggression, to end in somc Yankees with altruism, the Monroe Doctrine, our own leaders, is mnot of Wi on, it its declaration pean aggre: Latin Ameri but United State: pendence of Central and can countries agains gression, because would ultimately such involve powers in further aggression, which o v and s interprete me| truistic, but, though international in rning to primarily g tional in protecting the safety, not of | i first, ind the new | find th added | princip! it in a dec uropean coloni- nents the | > not destinies nor wre their political institutions to be an Furope of in t in e of ope would be sure to lead to war with United States. Jus entering the World forehanded protection against a probably of sion of America, the Kaiser, o, at the time jus ing the famous Monroe declaration, all on continental | America had revolted and the Holy was formed the purpose of counter attacks upon | colonies the Spanish Alliance in Europe 4 as our motives in | War w the struggling colonies to restore th to their European tyrants such restoration under mili we had twice fought would have been again Jeopardy. Hence our of protection. Aok [ Some historians have ascribed the | initiation of the Monroe Doctrine to foreign Lord Canning, British bloo and w ary pow er our own independence for which |a similar policy. i wars | does placed announ deflance was a measure of s tary, who was jealous of the H Alliance of Spain, France and Au tria, fearfud that if the Holy Alllance | o o regained the American colonies some | % would be given to enhance the mercial power of F ning did propose roe, under the advice of h is & ance, with wh England was chronically at odds. Can- | n Anglo-Americ Alliance to oppose the Holy Allfance, | [owe but it was declined by President Mon- | ances 1Y | additiol v of State, John Quincy Adams, and, stead of the Anglo-American Alliarn independent | to maintain’ orderly governments in a policy of absoiutely American oefidifve of all Europe was | America. e iy o 840RISA—Lho Mogroe Dwjtrine. afl Wi tin policies Doc- but in the new world conditic that have developed in recent year the | 1823 r that the in warn o 1 State of pr tectorate. They refused to credit the fact | Euro: th the ind; outh Ameri European ssion | th America victgrious - many, which would have led to inva as openly avowed by | preced for ment | eign “It is no! the previous need the if such it 1 all future American conti iy unacceptable to my and to France. This ex principle will be com nment with all its rote swernmer ordinary # t of t husinsti “an republics, newly leir independence, but 1 vacillated since then from exaggeratir rdianship which they infer I | to_resenting ti 4 protection. If we defy nd-forbid it to coMect its just zing a port or a bit ¢ i their wont in Asia i rica, how far will we toward pelling Amer i tor to ions? dly the A ernment told Burojx ations > did_not 're in lectir the + doctrine, approval st a has tend to intert Jjust debt: Maximilian_intervention deo wis besun by England, {France and Spain, they invited the | United States to in them, for we, {too, had claim the Seeretary ward replied that we had no obj n to their collecting their debts. We K then engaged in our Civil War, We did not, however, sent to their settin up a Mexican npire with European puppet, Emperor Maxi- milian, and immediately after the sur render of Lee we patched an ulti- {matum which caused France to with draw and soon led to the capture of { Maximilian, deserted by his European support. = our Mexi | | th 1M ir i t summ. action, backed hy victorious Union Army upen the uld not have been Doctrine had * an alliance with America. doctrine, an revie suth a Ameries cerning ¢ terventior “Had in- » Doctrine been an ement, the United S ould ve been in honor pund to have made a vigorous pro- st and to ) one at onge to the d of a public in distress. 1t would have come in the midst of own Civil War, in which Europe for an excuse to in- tence of such an on could have in excuse for s the Gov- Today one what such a situ- vived. Certainly the Confederacy. Union wo - been destroyed, Mexico we wave been doomed to emain a vassal s The remainder i would have offered r Old World aspira by | n | he * ok complication was avolded a national, and not . relation to the Mon- > discuss it with no snforce it how and in our own protee- The estabiished poliey through rinistrations since 1823 has decline alliance with Latin v regarding it. But that does not prevent Brazil or Chile or Ven- uela or Mexico from each adopting similar policy, nor prevent all Latin Amer if it sces fit, from entering into liance tually to adopt United States® not atterapt to limit thelr in dependence nor prescribe their for- policies, beyond insisting that they shall complicate American independence with European intrigue and, so far as our own tranquillity 1< |affected, they must maintain orderly | governments. The latter has nothing {10 do with the Monroe Doctrine, but 1 nuch to do with the peace of I ca, for which the United States is most responsible, in the measure ramount interests. ive enforced the Monroe Doc- inst Austria and France in sainst England in Venez n in Cuba, agains {9 lombia, against Japan n lifornia—all without alli Latin America. And in 1 apart from the Mon- Deetrine, we use our influence, id at times our Navy and Marines, | tion n an in | 1t~ not We | trir B | Mexi ain 1| mans wi (Copyright. 1926, by Paul V., Celitnaly