Evening Star Newspaper, September 6, 1926, Page 8

S8 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY......September 6, 1026 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Busines Office: "Chitaks OMce. Fower Buldme. . car : Tower Bu 2 European Office 14 Regent St Loadon. England. The Eveninc Star. with the Sunday marn- e adition. is delivered by carriers within city at' 60 cents per month: daily only. 7. 20 cents ay_be sent by mall or Satn 5000, Collection 1s made by carrier at end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday. Datly only Sunday only " All Other States Canada. and Daily and 8 -1 yr., $12.00: '$1.00 T At £ s;noo; 1ma.~ 78¢ 1l1yr $400i1mol 3bc Sunday only Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitl to The use for republication of all news dls- natches credited to it or not otherwise cred. “ed in this paper and also the local news piblished herein. All rights of publication of wpecial hes herein are also reserved Labor Day. American labor celebrates its day set apart on the national calendar in i« honor in a spirit of loyalty to the Government and to the principles of 1rade unplon organization. These two loyalties are consistent. For Ameri- can labor is soundly American, with- vielding from the precepts of trade association. It has resisted the seductions of radicals who would swerve the unions from their devotion to and support of constitutional gov- ernment. They have thwarted the devices and wiles of the agents of <ovietism seeking domiination in this country in order to carry on the war- fare of the proletariat in the cause of communism. Seditious activity been met hy stern late Samuel Gompers, throughout his long-continued presidency of the American Federation of Labor, fought ess and with wise dis- cretion. successor, Willlam Green, is carrying on in the same spirit and with equal success. led eout by radicals has resistance. The miles, in six hours. At the same time a girl of thirteen, in her first rough water attempt at Rockaway Beach, crossed a three-and-a-half-mile | channel in fifty-eight minutes. A man | swam across Mobile Bay, a distance ! of thirty miles. For some years past American chil- “dren have been enjoined to learn to 1swim as a means of lessening the great number of fatalities In the | water. Swimming pools have been established in almost all cities. Bath- | ing beaches have been manned by life- |guards to prevent accidents, and every encouragement has been given to people to enter the water. The re- sult is a great increase In the num- ber of persons capable of rfiaintaining and in rivers, and the percentage of 0¢ | casualties has decreased. Of course, drowning accidents continue. Yester- day in Colorado four young people, ranging in age from eighteen to twenty-six, were drowned in a lake when a motor boat capsized. Such mishaps have occurred from time to time throughout the Summer, but in nothing like the number in former years. While not naturally an amphibian creature, man {is capable of con- quest of the water, and these recent performances demonstrate a marked advance in this achievement. At the present rate of progress, especlally if development continues in the estab lishment of pools and beaches for the training of the young, in a few vears the child who cannot swim will be a rare exception, and there will remain few stretches of water in the world unconquered by man. r———s An Eleventh-Hour Spurt Washington's base ball team making an eleventh-hour spurt to re- capture the gonfalon of league su- premacy. It is a tardy effort, pnrhapsr hopeless. Mathematically there re- mains a chance to gain first place, but the terms of the equation repre- senting that chance are severe. Take is New York at the head of the list with a record of 82 games won and 50 games lost and a winning percent- age of 621, while Washington has won 71 games and lost 60, with a per- In a speech at Carnegie Hall yes- terday before a church and labor con- ference, Mr. Green declared that trade inions are “idealistic and spiritual- istie” and are necessary to modern so- clety. He proceeded: rade unions direct their efforts to- rd the elevation of living stand- 11ds, toward the advancement of the cducational, moral and spiritual wel- fave of the workers. They ally them- clves with every movement orgar wd for community. social and civic tterment. The working people need trade wnions. Industry needs them, for they serve as a stabilizing force, pro- “ting employes against the evil con- sequences of greed and selfishness. Society needs trade unions, and we <k the church to give to them its as- inee and support. rade unionism on this basis is in a stvong position to aid in maintain American institutions. Its alll- with religion gives it greater to resist communism and to to the national welfare. mmunism and religion are antago- jetic. The church militant is a strong foe of the atheistic influence of sovietism. American labor is at its hest and at its strongest in such an ing ance power ribute « alllance. It the official reports from Madrid are trustworthy, the situation in Spain, which las approached the point of revolutionary crisis dur- ing the past few days, is much im- proved. At the same time, other re- ports circulate which indicate that <erious conditions prevail and that +he revolt against the administration of Primo de Rivera continues with in- creasing force. The government itself has fssued a statement which ac- knowledges the gravity of the crisis and states the cause of the revolt. This statement also carries the an- nouncement of a declaration of mar- tial law throughout the country. The regime of Primo de Rivera has for some time been unstable. It has depended upon the support of the army. There have been signs of the weakening of that support, withdraw- al of which would lead to a collapse, perhaps to a general revolution. In this crisis only the artillery appears to be disaffected. The infantry and cavalry have remained loyal to Rivera. This crisis does not affect the pres- tige of King Alfonso. He is support- ing Rivera. But one dispatch today suggests that he has already selected a successor to the premier, to be in- stalled as soon as the crisis has been passed. Alfonso owes much to Rivera. The soldier saved the country from catastrophe when he assumed the role of dictator after the unfortunate Moroccan campaign, which cost Spain so dearly. A change of premiers will probably now be made only as a measure of extreme necessity and after the suppression of the present revolt. For Rivera himself, if dis carded in circumstances to arouse his resentment, might become the center of an anti‘monarchical movement. That contingency is remote. It would seem as though Spaln had again man- aged to win through a crisis and at a negligible cost in conflict and blood- shed. ———eeee Wood alcohol, though swift, has not replaced bichloride tablets as a means of ending life. The world is slow in accepting modern improve ments. | — et A Great Swimming Summer. The Summer of 1926 has witnessed some remarkable swimming. So many people have taken to the water, men, women and children, that it | would seem that natation is now the centage of 542. New York“has 22 games yet to play, including those of today, and Washington has 23. Hy winning 19 of these while losing 4 Washington can make a percentage for the season of 584. This would be a tie with New York if that team meanwhile has wononly 8 games and lost 14. In that case Washington would be playing at the rate of 826 “per cent” during the remainder of at the rate of 319 “per cent.” That would be a very hard contract for Washington and a very bad reversal of form for New York. Or. should New York do even worse, only 7 games during the remainder of the season while losing 15, a 319 pace, Washington could tie by win- ning 18 while losing 5, a 783 pace. These figures show that in order to tie for the pennant Washington must play a remarkably victorious game during these next three and a half weeks while New York is playing an exceptionally poor game. Just at present Washington is play- ing an even more remarkably suc- cessful game than the figures just given as illustrations represent. It has won eleven out of the last twelve games, nine of them In succession, or at the rate of 917 “per cent.” But six of these games have been with the lowly Boston team, the trailer of the league and the caslest victim of all the teams for Washington this season. After toda two games with the same club it must meet much strong- er teams. Descent from pennant winning to a struggle for “place” in the league race is a sad change. It has been accounted for by the collapse of the pitching staff during the middle of the season and the extraordinary spurt of the New York team in the early weeks, giving It a commanding lead, which is now being slowly whit- tled down by the advance of other teams. The local management adopt- ed the desperate and unusual expedi- ent of rebullding the club during the season, and with surprising success, attested by the recent winning spurt. Pennant hopes never die so long as there remains a mathematical pos. sibility. But thero is ground for only moderate optimism for the local pa- trons of the sport. They will, in the light of the serfous reversal of form In midseason and the subsequent restoration of morale and playing strength, be in the main quite well content with a “place” position for the Natlonals and a bright prospect for next season. it T P, The Chinese clalm to have invented gunpowder, but have demonstrated considerable recklessness in their manner of using it. v can detract from the credit of Ger- trude Ederle for showing how easy it wa: ———— The Government Personnel. It is announced that with the net reduction of six employes during the month of July the Federal census in this city on the first of August was ployed in the Government service in Washington at the war peak. During July there were 1,081 separations from the service and 1,075 additions to it. The Government service in Wash- ington is probably now reduced to the limit of efficiency. There may be offices that are over-manned, but there are certainly some that are under- staffed. The post-war reductions have been effected, a fifty per cent cut from the highest number in 1918. favorite sport, especially in this coun- Everybody is breasting the | waves. Long-distance swimming has | developed some remarkable adepts. Three times the English Channel has heen crossed in record-breaking time, | twice by women and once by a man. Many others have tried it, some al- reaching goal. In less noted ers the swimmers have achieved most More reductions may he made from time to time as certain lines of Gou- ernment business incident to the war activities are lessened or discontinued, but meanwhile other forces must be increased to keep pace with the gen- eral increase of public business. It is now the policy of the Budget Bureau to encourage curtailments in marked success. Yesterday two girls of twelve vears, twin sisters, swam down the Hudson from Yonkers to the Battery, seventeen and cnehalf the office forces, and the heads of the various departments are urged to adopt this poli by failing to fill vacancies that ceeur by deaths, resig: themselves safely in the sea, in lakes | the situation as it stands today, with | the season, while New York played | winning ! No amount of Channel swimming | nations or retirements whenever the work thus relinquished can be as- signed to other persons than the out- going incumbents. In other words, the department heads are requested to add to the duties of their remaining forces. But it would seem from the fact that in July only a net reduction lowed. Indeed, it is questionable if it can be followed effectively. Other- wise there might have been a reduc- tion of 1,000 or more morth before last. : Government clerks are not under- taxed with work as a class. There {are some cases where only light duties are assigned to or exacted from the personnel. There are other cases where the clerks do more work than is required of persons in similar private employment. The average of ernment offices is high. To carry out rigidly a policy of doubling up the work in order to effect a large reduc- tion in force would in a short time make sweatshops of the Government offices, in which the scale of pay pre- vails that compares unfavorably with the scales that obtain in most of the large private establishments of this country. ———— Another year will ne doubt find New Jersey trying to revive the sea |enough and never involves the ob- serving crowd in any such grand jury |complications as have attended the | Hall-Mills case. pld O ST | Public sentiment is deeply and sin- |cerely moved by the death of thet | charming film actor, Rudolph Valen- tino. The demonstrations by his man- agers are no less sincere, though tinged by the perfunctory methods of | publicity promotion on which motion | pictures must largely rely. S Friends of Gov. Al Smith are in- | clined to regard his wish to retire | from politics merely as a suggestion {to be taken under advisement. A | modest attitude on the part of a po- litical leader tends to endear him and | to enhance his practical prospects. | e | War between France end Germany {1s hinted of as a future possibility. Where trouble is concerned, nations, lke individuals, often show indica- tions of difficulty in knowing when they have had enough. Delays in the definite formulation of rules of procedure in the League of Nations are allowing an enormous amount of work to pile up for at- tention when it opens for actual busi- ness. ————————_ Prosperity is pointed to with pride by the G. O. P., and the Government worker takes hope. The necessity of economy in wages may not prove so exacting after all. ————————— . The United States of America in- sists on minding its own business as far as possible, even after that busi. ness comes up for discussion in the ‘World Court. —————— Suffocating odors in alcohol are bet- ter than poison. It {8 more humane to gas a man than to kill him out- right. —————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, The Ease of Authorship. {They hint Bill Shakespeare didn't write The plays that bear his name. The thought seems highly impolite, Disturbing lofty fame. Now, authorship’s an easy thing For acrobats or bards. Jack Dempsey, training for the ring, For print writes many yards. The base ball player tells his tale In columns long and wide. The swimmer writes about the gale While battling with the tides. So, why does a sarcastic smile *Mongst scholars now seem due If Bill, the actor, paused awhile To write a play or two? Prohibition Criticism. “Don’t you love the old songs?"* “Certatnly not,” answered Senator Sorghum. “They do not harmonize with the new ones. I cannot indorse a program in which ‘Little Brown Jug' was immediately followed by ‘I Will Love You Always. Popular Appreciation. Republics are ungrateful? It isn’t true at all. They pay and pay and pay, Though politics grow hateful, Rewards by no means small The jazz band claims each day. Jud Tunkins sa !a heap of music that needs the static for some sort of an alibi. Impugning Man’s Faithful Friend. “Why do they call these sausages ‘hot dogs'?” asked the peevish per- son. “I don't know. Do you object?"” “I do. I'm a dog fancier.” International Amenities. Diplomacy seemed all polite | Until, as Time kept on his flight, | He brought, " | to view, | Those simple letters, “I O U." { | We hear that every friendly debt In circles sportsmanlike are met. Yet scant is the response we see Unto our plea, “R. §. V. P.” 60,435, the smallest number since the | war and about half the number em- | | | Time and Money. i “What's your wife doing? “Putting up tomatoes,” | Farmer Corntossel. “Wouldn't it be cheaper to buy em7 “It might. But Mirandy says the | cost is worth while, considerin’ the | time you have to spend gettin’ waited 1on at the delicatess store.” answered “Reform, personal ’sponsibility dat we goes on tryin’ to turn over to custgdy of de politiclans.” " of six persons was effected that !hlfll practice is not being generally fol- | efficlency and of industry in the Gov- | | serpent as e publicity influence. The | ‘old sea serpent carrles with him a | thrill of terror, but he is harmless his radio set plays | ‘mongst ancient friends Lunch is a necessity, to most men; to others, an adventure as well. ‘Women are more happy, in this re- | spect, as a rule. Luncheon, as they call it, invariably takes on larger as- pects than that of mere feeding. There is a small group of men, how- ever, in' every city, who regard the | noonday meal in a large lght, and who derive great and unreasonable pleasure therefrom. Let the great multitude rush into { lunchrooms, throw down a ham sand- wich, swill ‘a cup of coffee. | These more fortunate brothers | make a rite out of what with others |is a crass performance. These enjoy | lunch as an achievement. These connoisseurs prefer to gather in small and select bands, preferably three or four, but two will do as well as sik. | Above that number the thing de- | generates into a free-for-all, disturb- ing to the esthetic sensibilities of the man Who looks upon his lunch as an Adventure with a big A. Lunch, properly conducted, is a fleeing from the usual,‘an attempt to take Time by the hindlock and make | him give up its secrets in advance. | Upon the perspicacity of the diners, the amplitude of the service and the goodness of the food depends the suc- | cess of the venture. | B How -longingly the old men behind the counter cast glances at the small | group at table, sitting immersed in a true feast of reason and flow of soul! Well do they remember, those old men on whose heads passing Time ! has placed a mantle of snow, as a sign that Winter has come—well do they remember, we say, the days when they, too, once sat so. | Pipe in hand, with full stomachs. |once they sat around a table, con- | versing, now one, now another; and | today it warms the so-called cockles of their hearts to see the young men | there, with briars at mouth, puffing | ample clouds of Mohawk Club Mix- ture into the atmosphere. Expert luncheoners may have a steady dining place, or go from. place to place, it makes no difference; the | soul of their dining,is ever the same. In the most unsavory surround- ings your true diners make merry. | They can ignore the crumbs on the | floor, and yonder dirty gentlemen who insist on shaming the table manners | of a hog. | They are able to forget the soiled spoon, and the cracked mugs, and | concentrate on the true adventure of | lunching, which consists +essentially | in eating as gentlemen should, not as | animals must. There is no escaping eating. Though a man have the soul of an angel and | the bank account of a Ford, yet must he, two or three times a day, sit him- self down before platters of delectable food and consume as much thereof as is neceasary to the welfare of soul y. Your gentlest, most angelic ladies must do the same, This is one rite | we share with all created things. | Though we disguise it as much as we | Willlam Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, stresses two points as the keynotes of this year's forty-fourth anniversary of Labor day. The paramount issues, as Green outlines them, are (1) an in- tensive trade union organization cam- paign and (2) a non-partisan participa- tion by labor in the 1926 congressiona! campaign. The American Federation of Labor's goal long has been a mem- bership of 5,000,000. It is now about a million short of that objective. President Green reminds wage earners not yet affiliated that ““‘the present stable conditions enjoyed by Amer- | ican workers were not voluntarily | conceded by employers. They are the result of organization.” As to politics, Green urges all workers to go to the | polls without fail on election day and | “vote for candidates who will be loyal | to the people. | they will be loyal to labor.” ~Labor | day was born in New York City. | September 2, 1882. Amerlca is_the only country that has made a fixed | day in the year a legal holiday in | honor of labor. Both Congress and | the 48 State legislatures long ago | acted in that sense. i E Japan and the United States have set. the rest of the world an example | by jolning in a treaty for the abolition ! of passport visa fees. The agreement went into effect during the Summer. It applies to all Japanese and Ameri- | can tourists, students or business | representatives who go in “continuous transit” through the two respective countries. The arrangement is termi- nable at the pleasure of either govern- ment. The number of persons from Japan or the United States who visit | one another's country is, of course, limited, compared to the hordes of | globe-trotters who annually go to | Europe from this side and who come to us from the other side. A country | ke France, which is the banner | mecca of our transoceanic fraternity, | probably would think twice and thrice | before ‘surrendering the fat income she derives from O.K.ing American passports. * K X X They're flinging personalities with |gay abandon in the Wisconsin pri- mary campaign, which comes to an| end this week. Senator Lenroot, as' an argument in favor of having the Badger State represented at Wash- ington by a Senator who is persona grata at the White House, has just | told this story in the course of a cam- | palgn speech: k “Do you want another Senator in Washington who doesn't feel free to go to the White House on a non-business matter? Let me il- lustrate. Last Winter the Univer- sity of sconsin Glee Club came East. The President and Mrs. Coolidge invited the club to sing at the Executive Mansion. The club accepted. Then the Presi- dent invited men high in official life, and their families, to attend the concert and come to the east room of the White House and hear the club. I was invited to attend, and so was Senator La Follette. But Senator La Follette did not feel free to go, and he did not do 80, ‘alumnua of Madison though he is.” * & X % ‘Who knows what a “medical artist i8? There's been the bit of a quan- dary on that point at the Civil Serv- ice Commission. Chief Examiner H: A. Filer recently sumbitted to Chair- [man Deming and his fellow commis- | sioners for approval an announce- | ment of an examination for “medical | artist” at $2,100 a year. This is only one of the 1,500 different kinds of e: { aminations the Civil Service Commi sfon holds from time to time. That the dignified supervisors of Uncle | Sam’s merit system have a sense of humor is now on record in the “medi cal artist” file. “Would you call a | medical artist an interior decorator? |asked ~Commissioner Jessie | “Well,” replied Chalrman Deming, ‘“most medical men work on the in- terior, as well as the exterior, and some of them are real artists.” The facts appear to be that ‘“medical artists” are employed in the hygienie laboratory of the United States Public WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. 1t loyal to the people, | Dell. | THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. may, at least we must go to the din- ner table. * Kk X ‘Why not make, then, of something that must be done, an acceptable rite in the sight of the Lord and pleasing unto men? To leave the nolsy crowd, as they spread their pots of baked beans out on their plates, and go to the secluded place where quiet and dignity pre- vall is like making a journey from the torrid to the temperate zone. Here there is soft light, yet plenty of it. Conversation is steady, yet subdued; laughter pleasant, not ob- trusive, The spirit of Amity, fairest daugh- ter of the centuries, lies like @ mantle of silk over a table, spreading beauty and wit everywhere. Our smiles may be mixed, but our intent, never! We take our spirit with us when- ever we go to lunch. Here, wherever it may be, vast issues are discussed, and never settled. The works of eminent writers are passed in review, the results of tides and chance pleasurably chronicled. Optimism is given its place. Pes- simism sits at table, along with cynicism, Right thought, calm thought, ma- ture deliberation, hasty expression. one and all come dine with us. They are our guests. EE In the amplitude of our thought. soothed by the influence of food and drink, we soar with fiyers and dive with divers. We journey to the farthermost points of the earth, and as easily come back again. What to us are time and space” One we surmount as easily as the | other. For the nonce we are Caesar, | bestriding the world like a Colossu: we are Alexander; we are Gertrude Ederle, swimming the Channel; we are the brave Bettis, crawling for hours through underbrush, only to die at last. * We suffer with the sufferers, we rejoice with the conquerors. In the smoke from our pipegs gleam strange heroisms, brave attempts at victory, half achieved, half lost; beautiful pic- tures, fine dreams. We listen to just complaints, dis them gravely and go on to other topics, for we know in the secret places of our hearts that each man has all he can do to take care of himself. It is only the exceptional man who does for others what he knows he ought to do. Most of us forget. While at lunch, however, the spirit expands. The cares of the day, like Longfellow’s classic Arabs, have fold- ed their tents. Happiness is ours for the time be- ing. And though the time be brief, what difference does it make? For a century itself, viewed from the stand- point of the stars, is but little more than a passing moment; remorseless Time has in his storehouse of hours many more of them. Eat, then, and be happy in a de- cent, grave way, for to dine thus is to lunch, and to lunch as one ought to lunch. Health Service at Washington. Their duty s to reproduce in colors normal and pathological macroscopic and microscopic animal structures and to ! prepare illustrations for public ex-| hibits, * ok kK T. V. O'Connor, chairman of the ited States Shipping Board, now on the Atlantic bound for Europe, isn’t going to sell the Leviathan or any other American flag ships to Old | World buyers. His parting word on | Iraving New York was the assurance | that under no circumstances would | any vessel of the United States lines | be” transferred to anything but an | American company under a guaran- tee to operate such vessel or vessels under the Stars and Stripes for 10 | vears. O’Connor also left behind the | message that shake-ups in the tur- | bulent” Shipping Board may be re- | garded as at an end—for the indefinite future, anyhow. Gen. Dalton, the| new president of the Emergency Fleet | Corporation, who was on the dock to say bon voyage to “T. V. echoed | |the chalrman’s assertion on that | score. O'Connor began life as a long- | shoreman, and for vears has been the beloved and trusted leader of the dockers' fraternity in the United States. i * K x ox i Dr. Hiram . Evans, imperlal wiz- ard of the Ku Klux Klan, has been on ' a speechmaking tour through Ala- bama. The other night, at a Klux | mass meeting in Birmingham, Evan: told the pillow-sham knights that their | duty is to rid the political universe of Senators Oscar Underwood and! “Tom” Heflin. “We need to get away from such men!” he shrieked. The Alabamans at the meeting were not surprised at the Klan mogul's attack |on “TUnderwood, but they were not aware that “Cotton Tom" was in the |bad books of the “Invisible Empire.” It was their support of the World Court that induced the imperial wiz- ard to open up his guns against the Senators, who, he charged, “‘had voted to peddle away this country’s liberty.” | Dr. Evans hinted ghat Klan vengeance | will be ‘hurled, with fatal effect, against Senator Smith of South Caro- | lina, in the approaching primary “run off”in the Palmetto State. A Philip Pitt Campbell, Kansas Re- publican wheelhorse by origin and habit, and practicing attorney at Washington by occupation, has vol- unteered to stump the West for the G. O. P. between now and election time. Representative Tilson, director »f the Eastern Campaign, has accepted Campbell's services. The former chair- iman of the House committee on rules ireports that the West, corn belt grouch to the contrary notwithstand- ing, is safe for Coolidge and the President's party. “Our farmers,” says Campbell, “are not downtrodden, nor are they suffering under a protec- tive tariff, and they know {t.” 5 * ok ok X Senator Fess, Republican, of Ohio, was speaking In Massachusetts the other day for Senator Butler. Hun- dreds began to ‘“run out” on the Ohioan, the main speech of the day {(Butler's) having just been delivered. ‘““Here, you fellows!” shouted Fess. |“You remind me of what President Taft once sald on a similar occasion. He had just introduced as the next speaker a veteran of the Civil War. ‘There didn’t seem to be much anxiety to hear the man, and the audience be- gan to decamp. ‘Wait a minute,’ said Taft. ‘This man’s been through four years of hell for you, and I think you might do as much for him*’ (Copyrixht, 1028.) 1 Missing Essentials. From the Santa Barbara Daily News. The old-fashioned man would like to know why ham and eggs never roll out of the artist's conception of | the horn of plenty. Willing Letters. From the Flint Daily Journal. If you like to work you won't have any trouble finding some one to let you_enjuy yourgelf. iclerks of Washington through private tland will pi ithe questionnaire favorably although ffers likely to be provided by the pr !in Philadelphia, recently said {lic's schools. Herd Housing Will Not Help Federal Clerks To the Editor of The Star: It the discussion of the proposed “herd housing” of the Government benefaction had had no other result than to evoke the clear-cut statement of Mary Reid Umstead in your issue of last Thursday on the evils of the real estate loan situation in Washing- ton, it would still be worth while. Con- ditions are such as to call for con- gressional investigation. Why should loan sharks be allowed to fatten on the scanty earnings of the poorest paid and most worthy class of work- ers in the National Capital? 1 was| one of those workers for many years | and can bear witness to the high character and intelligence of most of them with whom I came in contact. Many of them do not receive 1 per cent of the value accruing to the Gov- ernment from their services. The Department of Agriculture, for exam- ple, has men in its employ at less than the present pay of a good mechanic, | whose services are worth millions to the country. It is ridiculous that men like this should have to live in rented | rooms with their families or. be skin- ned out of more than half of their earnings by those who hold out the bait of home ownership in order to exact usurious interest from them. Six years ago the writer told the readers of The Star about a Govern- ment clerk who put his savings into suburban land near Washington un- til he had secured 60 acres, some of which increased tenfold in value in 20 years. Nothing can stop Wash- ington from becoming more and more a world center of business and useful knowledge, and so nothing can stop the city’s growth into one of the world's greatest capitals. Therefore. the possession of acreage near th city may be ranked among the safest and most profitable investments that one can possibly make, and Govern- ment workers who buy such land judi- ciously, without paying too much for| it, are sure to win out, and such| rovide the best of security | for loans. In the article published in | The Star in 1920 the writer also ad- vanced the idea of a co-opert:tive home loan assocfation for clerks, but thus far co-operation does not seem to work well with them. Perhaps if the Home Club had had regular management by salaried officlals instead of the free services of clerks in their leisure | hours, it might have lived longer and worked better. It is stated that 20,000 clerks have put their O. K. on the housing scheme. We all know how easy it is to sign one’'s name to a paper, but it is a question as to how many of these ap- | proving signers of the questionnaire | will rent rooms in apartment buildings | erected for them. If half of them take rooms at an average of $35 a month, that will provide an income of nearly 81 per cent a year on $50.- 000,000. That amount of money will provide 20.000 clerks with a loan of §2,500 apiece with which to start | homes of their own, and a very good | suburban home can be built for twice | that sum. With a lot paid for and a | loan of $2,500 at 5 per cent, a clerk | who is worth helping can own a good home within a few vears. A plan of amortization or extinction of the debt can be worked out to save the home buyer a lot of money over the present | ruinous rates for second trusts, etc., ! and give the clerk the satisfaction of soon owning every shingle on the roof that shelters him and his fam Clerks have told me that they signed | they own thelr homes. One home ! owner told me he favored the “herd- | housing” proposition because there | are so many clerks who have no fam- ilies and can live in one or two rooms. Doubtless many of those one-room men or women are supporting their families in some other locality, whom they would be glad to bring here if | they could buy their own home in or | near Washington. The expression “rental barracks” is not original with | this writer, but is taken literally from the German word “miethekaserne.” The lady writer of the letter above referred to may ‘‘start something” by calling a meeting of her fellow clerks to consider the formation of a“hage,” or home association, of Government employes. With a substantial initial fund provided by some henefactor like the millionaire whose worthy plans for helping Government clerks are spon sored by the Secretary of Commerce, many clerks, both men and women, would very likely put some of their own money into the scheme, especially if the Government were behind it. Twenty thousand additional _home owners would be worth more to Wash- ington and to the owners than three times that number of cubby-hole quar- posed ‘“‘miethekasernen.” L. PERKINS. THINK IT OVER Leave It to Teacher. By William Mather Lewis, President George Washington University ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Q. Do as many people own their own homes in .the United States as there are renters?—N. G. P. A. According to the 1920 census slightly less than 11,000,000 families in this country owned their homes. while almost 13,000,000 families rented their homes. Q. Name the towns that are on State lines and take their names from this fact.—N. H. A. Some such towns are: Arkana. La.; Calexico, Calif.; Arkoma, Okla. Kentuck, W. Va. Tennga. Ga. Georgiana. Ala.; Texanna, Okla: Tex- homa, Okla.; Kenova, W. Va.; Mason and Dixon, Pa.; Texico, N. Mex.; Tex ola, Okla. Q. How did Spirit and Okobofi Lakes in Iowa get their water? They are higher than the surrounding coun- try.—O. E. C. ‘A. They are of glacial origin. Their water supply is probably derived from the water creeping along under- ground, along layers of sand and gravel to the lake bed. by commercial canners>—C. P. A. One way of peeling them Is to steam the peaches and slip the skins off. Another is to dip them into lye which eats away the skin, after which they are washed in water to remove any trace of the lye. Still vay is to peel them by hand with a cnife; but that is a slow method. Steaming is the hardest way, and re- quires the most care, but canners think the result is worth it. Q. Where was st this country?—S. H. A. James Logan wrote that there were four furnaces in blast in the colony of Pennsylvania. —Colebrook- dale furnace, built in 0, and Dur- ham furnace, constructed in 1727, were two of these, The manufac- ture of steel in the North began in Connecticut in 1728 with Samuel Higley of Simsbury and Joseph Dewey of Hebron. These men claim to have been the first in America to convert bar iron into steel. eel first made in . B. Q. Are_there more men or women in Ireland?—M. L. C. A. The preliminary report of the . Irish census shows that in the Free State there are 973 women to every 1,000 men. In northern Ireland there are 1,066 women for every thousand men. Is candle light the form of illumination?—A. M. A. Candles are in reality very ex- pensive when considering the cost per unit .of lighting, since 1,000 candle hours obtained from them costs about $2. Kerosene oll lamps are more eco- nomical. Q. How high do orange and lemon trees grow on Mount Etna?—N. B. C cheapest to a height of 1,500 feet mountainside. a zone which rises 1,500 feet. Vines, olives and figs flourish here. From this extends a zone rising to a height region. Here are oaks, birches and chestnuts. bare mountainside. industry been established in United States?—R. C. p A. In 1880, the industry was intro. factorles costing nearly $100,000.000 and producing annually 700,000 tons of white sugar. Q. How long should window cur- ns hang?—C. E. P. A. Glass curtains always end at the sill whether used alone or with side hangings. The latter may either end at the bottom of the window casing or continue to within an inch of the floor. They may hang in straight, loose folds or be looped back, and the side casings may be covered or left exposed, according to individual con- ditlons. Q. Who composed ““Ca Ira"?—B. N. A. This was a popular song of the French Revolution. The words are ably being the composition of Ladre, a street singer. lar carillon by Bucourt, and a favosite of Marie Antoinette’s. say that Benjamin Franklin, in speak- ng of the American Revolution, often used the expression “Ca ira,” which means “Tt will succeed.” was caught up by the French. mercial quantities?—N. E. B.~ mustard used in this country. Q. Where is the “Rainy Sea"? - M.T. Q. How are peach skins removed | | another | his A. Lemon and orange trees Brow | up the | p Above these trees is | hour? of about 6.000 fegt, which isa wooded | 1924, straigh beeches, | Above is the | . How long has the sugar heet| e 7 . lhe‘ duced. Today we have about 80 huge | of uncertain origin, one version prob- | The air was a popu- | \Mandalay?” French writers | BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. it is visited by almost constant storn.s accompanied by violent lightning and thunder. E Q. What is mear solution? ¢ v A. The Bureau of Standards that the term “per cent solution i used loosely in_two or three wavs For instance, a 5 per cent solution of calclum ~chloride means, to Some chemists, a solution made up by dis solving 5 grams of the salt in 10t cubic centimeters of water. It mun also mean a solution made by dis solving 5 grams of the sait in enough water to make 100 cubic centimeters In the strict sense, & per cent sole tion is one of such strength that 6 parts by weight contain 5 parts In welght of the salt. Who determines the size, i stamps’ AL CL N are des ned 1y the Bur ngraving and Prin ing. subject to the approval T Postmaster General, at by a 5 per cert Q. and color of pe A._ Pos shaps Did Lincoln refer to his stepmother when he that 1 am or hope to he, I owe t my angel mother—blessings on hei memory "W, W. H. A. Lincoln reference was cy Hanks Lincoln. At the time stepmother was still alive. Q. mother or d. “An Q. What ac that has turne back its former lu A. The tarnish on br carbonate. It miy friction, or it may disse weak acids Oxalic id solution buttermilk or vinegar, espec when warmed. quickly dissolves tarnish on br All traces of thes cleaning age must be removed however, or the metal again very quickly. Was metal In water, drying it and ru' bing it with dry whiting is the be way to remove the acid Q. Who Ithe sea A. The Grant's. Sherman bl: be ren conceived the “March ¢ was by original It plan modifled Q. Are women more particular having their sl perly fitted th A thousand people amined at the Wisconsin i A survey of the machine, with the following resuit: Men had good fits in 40 per cent « the tests, fair fits in 46, poor fits i 14; women, 14.07 per cent it per cent fair fl cen fits; boys, fair fits, per cent go 49 poor fits, or 05 32.09 it Q. Has a man ever driven an air lane at a speed of miles ar J. D, A. The maximum record is held by F named Bonnett, made taway record ¢ miles per hour. Army Air Service holds the re: the 100-kilometer course of miles per hour. Q. What country has the most su | cides?—W. A. D. | A. Saxony, with 100,000 of population a rate of 33 How { honey nmerc A. There ar Comb honey is the comb, just as it comes Virgin honey is that which flows fron the combs. Strained honey is tha which b been extracted from the combs, strained and put up in bottle or cans. It forms about nine-tenths of all the honey sold. Cundied hone is the honey that has heen allowed t stallize into a kind of su Q. are kinds of hones product in_ the ‘om the hive four Q. Whati: A. He is one who is of a hospital but rece from it. Q. How far is it from Rangoon ! A, M about 410 mi! miles from the ay s ngoon, Irrawaddy Rive The phrase | yjere some Q. Where is mustard raised in com- | there something ‘A. This is a region between latitude director, Washinaton 4 and 10° N. and longitude 18° and | close 23° W. With short intervals of calm, postage. | What do wou neci to know? I« point about wour busines: | or personal life that puzzles uou? 1 yow iwant to know | without delay? bmit uour question A. California supplies most of the | !0 Frederic J. Haskin, direct | Washington Information Ru s employed to help you. Address you \inquiry to The Evening Star Infor mation Bureau, Frederic . stamps and in 2 cents in for retur: rere_1m o mors zome e omss COMMent on Krishnamurti to the effect that a Florida real estate man withdrew his boy from school | because he was not being taught sub- | division. Many subjects which have little or no educational value have | been fastened upon the public schools by those who were in no way familiar with educational problems. Emphasizing this point, Dr. Edwin C. Broome, superintendent of schools “To be sure, the public schools are the pub- So are public hospitals the public’s hospitals. But does the public attempt to decree what surgi- cal instrument and medicine shall be | used, and how or when an operation shall be performed and how tient shall be treated? No. The p lic sets certain standards which must be met before persons may practice as doctors or nurses, and then holds the practitioners responsible for ex- pert service."” But, you say. the situatiohs are not analogous, because we require high technical training for those who are to look after our bodily welfare and little for those who are to guide our mental development. Don’t be too| sure. Scan the requirements which public school teachers must meet in the more progressive States and vou will find that high standards have been set. Note the great army of teachers in attendance upon normal schools and teachers’ colleges and you will realize that education is really a profession. No profession in the United States has raised its standards more in re- cent years than has the teaching pro- fession. The public will get good re- sults when it leaves technical educa- tional problems in the hands the outside. (Copyright, 1926.) No Vote-Stacking There. From the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel. Chile knows how to ‘get the vote out,” if we may judge from the fact that {n a recent election down there of | trained educators; it will not get such | results when pressure is exerted frr,'mi Many points of view have been dis- press on Krishnamurti, by Dr. Besant, leader of the Théoso- dent followers as a new Messiah. s the San Francis nearly every Hindu lec come to America to s co Bulletin puts it, urer that has ive our souls rattling the collection plate.” Others are impressed favorably by Krish- namurti's message, which is quoted, in part, as follows: ‘In America you have supreme ma- terial development. You have extraor dinary well being. In India have neglected the ph to attain extraordinary spiritual de- velopment. Each is in error. [ am for an equal growth of body and soul, for a harmony of physical and spir- itual. What makes civilization great? It is its refinement, its spir- | | ering in art and thought.” “Krishnamurti {8 no ordinary young man and here no shallow preachment,” says the Cincinnati Times-Star. “This teacher out of the Fast comes very near stating the ideas that America needs as it needs nothing else.” The Lynchburg Indian does not belie the reputation of the East as the home of the wise men, whatever may be thought of the absurdity of some of the claims made for him.” * k% X But to the Harrisburg Telegraph | it appears that “Krish is a nice young man self-hypnotized with the assistance of Mrs. Besant, and ready to admit that he is really a great man. Telegraph suggests; “we are inclined 1,709 voters cast 2,109 ballots. A Wet Lyric. From the Los Angeles Daily Times. The most popular song of the wets | is “Nobody knows how dry I am.” Then why don’t they call themselves “drys”? S T Here to Stay. From the Baltimore Sun. Among the aliens who act as though they owned the country are the darned En;lish sparrows. | told of ourselves, especially if they | point toward a life of ease and plenty, | with the spotlight handy in case one | becomes bored and in need of a lit- | tle_recreational excitement.” The Winston-Salem Twin City | Sentinel observes that Krishnamurti | “does not appear to take himself as | seriously as he is taken by his wor- | shipers.” and quotes the Hindu as | declaring: “It’s all nonsense, that | stuff about me saving the world and all that. I am just an ordinary fellow.” Concluding that “Barnum wai right,” 1Ry Jersey City Journal says: “Krishnamurt! will be-photograplied, closed in comments of the American | he is through here. he w the young | nice old India with | Hindu brought to the United States | phists, and hailed by his more ar- | Press.G Some observers cannot forget that, | ples and lighten our darkness has been | we | ysician in order | itual power and creativeness, flow- | News also thinks that “the young | Most of us are like that,” the | to believe the pleasant things we are | Discloses Many Viewpoints dined, feted, petted and exalted. Whe ill return account and pleasant the United States.” ette also thinks Theosophist doubt w ant visit here.” but helieves will not be a howling success a as converts to Theosophy are cerned od Journal, “that messiahs come that permits t the true Me rfed fignre of 1l v of the L« more » spoke a L e “Perhaps it | the Milwaukee | self-announced 4 For { Other. Out of it we sk abiding faith in the Man wt no other.” And the Okl Daily Oklahoman the that “as the stoic hmin mo stward on his journey, h. was never out of sight of the spire that honor the Jewish carpenter never out of sound of the bells whos. mellow chimes forever suggest the comradeship and poverty of the Mar of Galilee.” Expressing the hope that the visito will be accorded the toleranc and politeness which are in accord wit] the best traditions of the Unite States,” the Pittshurgh Sun notes thas “freedom of worship is one of rocks on which this count founded.” The Asbury Park Pr siders that “this young serves a hearing for his in courtesy and frankness and the valu that there may be in a forcign view point, well expressed.” “The visitor, who is learned bevon: his years,” the Birmingham New: says, “strikes a welcome chord whe he advocates the study of things spir |itual and expresses the regret tha nations have bound themselves s strongly to these materialistic thing which are just a part of our shor span of life on tiis planet.” Commenting on Kris ported statement Herald concedes desideratum religion are “Krishmaji' can let him go to it.” The St. Louis Post Dispatch is impressed with his “warn " and the Des. Moines Regist feels that “undoubtedic e hae tha quality called- ‘spirituality’.