Evening Star Newspaper, September 10, 1926, Page 8

.8 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WABHINGTON, D. C. @*mDAY... . .Beptember 10. 1926 Editor r Company THEODORE W. NOYES. . The Evening Star Newspa, Business Oifiee "an 10 East 42 Chicago Office’ Tow Buropean Plice: 18 3 Eng.and. Londen, 1ay murn Aelivered b 1 60 cents 45" cents per month 3 per “Tond hatent by ma telephore Collection s ma _ €arrier at end of each month Rate by Mail—Payable in Advancs: \ Maryland and Virginia. afly And Sund 20.00 1 mo F A eSOt §-458 X 1 1 1 Sunday only yr. §3.00 1 mo All Other States v and Sunday..1 vr only iyr unday only ...l § Member of the Assoclated Pre«a. The Ascociated Press in excinsively et to the uee for republication of all v atches o 0 to it or not nther ted in this piner and als published herein of spee 780 50 50 A Canada. $12.00°1 mo <800 1 mo £4.00: 1 mo. rser il The Logic of an Avenue Site. Selection of a Pennsylvania avenue site for the new Commerce Depirt- ment Puilding will be justified by every consideration affecting the develop- ment of the National Capit Government has already in effect pre- empted the whole of the great triangle lying between that Avenus and the Mall for public building purposes. placing therein already two suckh structures, the Post Office Department and the District Building, purchasing for construction uses the five squares at the western end, on which two de- partments will be given housing, and lately selecting sites within the area for two more. Continuation of this process will within a few years com- pleto the absorption of the whole space for public uses, especially if in that continuation the Commerce Building 18 there located. If the southern side of Pennsylva- nia avenue were occupled by large and mportant, modern and attractive pri- vate buildings, if the entire remaining Mall-Avenue triangle were devotedhn business in housings of a character to adorn and dignify the Capital's main thoroughfare, there would be not only, no occasion for its oceupancy; indeed, there would be good reason for letting 1t remain in that condition, and seek- ing publichuilding sites elsewhere. But unfortunately the reverse is true, For many years the “dead hand” of possible Government taking has lain The !be contenders for the presidential nominations. It must not be forgot- ten that women have heretofore been |in the field. One of them, long befors i the adoption of the nineteenth amend- ment, was on several occasions an |actual candidate for the office. Mrs. ! Belva Loclwood never received any | electoral votes, but she did break into Jl!m “popular vote” column. She was a ploncer, who must not be forgotten Lin this connection. | Woman suffrage was won in- this country on the basis of logical reason- inz. In short order women began to appear in the political field and soon began to be sgen in Congress, as well 13 in the State Legislatures. Women have been elected governors of States. Some have been elected judges. They have been appointed to high adminis- | trative offices, and the day may come, | shortly, when a woman will sit at the President’s cabinet table. There is Nor is there anything grotesque in the suggestion of either a woman can- Qidate or a woman President. And a !f.u-l of moment is to be noted in this { connection. If one or the gther of the major parties does ‘not some day name a woman as candidate a wom- an’s political party is almost certain to form and to do that thing, with such success as fortune may de- termine. —_— e Another Channel Record. When ' Gertrude Ederle swam the English Channel in the astonishingly low time of 14 hours and 31 minutes there was a general feeling that the Summer’s swimming record had been made. When a few days r Mrs Amelia Corson made the swim in 15 hours and 28 minutes—considerably below the best record made previous to Miss Ederle’s performance—it was felt that the women had indeed set the pace for the men. But almost im- mediately came Ernst Vierkoetter with a swim in 12 hours and 43 min- utes, the shortest ever made, nearly two ‘hours shorter than that of “Trudie.” And that seemed to suffice for one Summer. *But that did not suffice. Though the season has virtually ended, so far as climatic conditions govern, another record has been made. Georges Michel, a Frenchman, has just crossed that now thoroughly defeated stretch of water in 11 hours and 5 minutes, the lowest time ever made by 1 hour and 38 minutes. Thus several natfonalities partici- pate in the conquest of the Channel in this momentous Summer of 1926. One woman of American birth and German parentage, one woman of over this property. The obvious ap- propriateness of its utilization foi pub- He buflding sites has strengthencd the expeotation that some day that “dead hand” would descend upon all the space, as it has already fallen upon sections of it. The consequence has been that development of the prop- erty has been checked, virthally sus- Ronded. The latest site selections within the triangle, for the Hall of Archives and for the Internal Reve nue Bureau, are certain further to dis courage and most effectually to pre vent private improvements. Is it not the duty of the Govern- ment, having thus in effect pre-ciipted this property as a whole and used it in part, to proceed as rapidly as pos- sible to take it and put It into the scheme of public building sites? Is it not more especially its duty to go for- ward with the use of “triangle” sites as long as they remain available rather than to trespass upon the park for building uses? If the twiangle were solidly and handsomely built and used for com- mercial purposes that have earned a right of permanency there would be, perhaps, though not surely, some jus- tification in going into’ the park for the placement of departmental struc- tures. In other words, if sites were unavailable ¢'sewhere park sites might in the placement of neccssaly new structures be justifiable. Dut that is not the case. Fully avallable sites, within the space best adapted to the public service, are not only available, but demand acceptance in the name of the Cupital's best development. Every consideration of public conven- fence, as well as eventual economy, calls for the immediate use of all the portions of the Mall-Avenue triangle that remain and that are necessary for the public buildings shortly to be erected o The defeat of Representative Up- shaw is attributed to several different causes. The wets naturally select the fact he is a dry as the decisive is- sue. Complexities of American poli- tics often render it difficult to select the precise issue on which a local victory was scored. Lady Astor's Suggestion. Lady Astor, American-born peeress of Great Britain and a member of the’ British Parliament, is “back home™ on a vacation trip, renewing her memories of her native land and sur- veylng conditions. After a visit to her former place of residence in Vir- ginia she was last evening siven a reception in New York, where she spoke at length on her “impressions of America” and her views concerning present-day probiems. In the course of her address Lady Astor stressed the advance made by women in fngland and the United States in the fleld of politics during less than a decade. She made a strong case for them as intelligent, progressive participants in the demo- cratic procedure of government. She pointed to & record of achievements of which she was proud, and which must elicit the admiration of all people. Perhaps it was merely in a spirit of blithe persifinge. or possibly in rlousncss, that she interjected a re- mark that will probably arrest more definite attention than any of her other observations. She said: ‘The Democratic party is said to be looking for a candidate. Why don't they try a woman for a change? I don’t belleve they will take my ad vice, but it ®ould be amuping if they would. Amusing? Certainly, if novelty is amusing. But why necessarily a mat- ter of public entertainment? not seriously? Eventually women al.l been seen much in the company, of ' inspiration out of the se- | Danish birth and American adoption, one German and one Frenchman have not only made the classic swim, but have all lowered the record of Tira- boschi, Italian-Argentinian, who swam it in 16 hours and 33 minutes. It re- mains now for a British swimmer, at the eleventh hour, to complete this extraordinary series of achievements, perhaps in the lowest time vet made. Michel's performance just reported recalls the fact that a few years ago he swam the entire stretch of the River Seine through the city of Paris, a distance of twenty-six miles, in 11 hours and 20 minutes. The Seine is not a turbulent stream. It flows steadily between its banks, and though there are some strong currents here and there, a swimmer has but to keep going to breast them, with no ma- neuvering, as in the Channel, to gain the advantage of tides or to combat them. But when Michel made the swim it was hailed as a remarkable performance. He doubtless could do it now in much less time. So the swimmers are making his- tory. They are setting new stand- ards. Next Summer will probably see many aspirants for the lowering of the Channel record. It is probable that the ordinary navigation of that stretch of water will be made difficult by the presence of natators. s Overseas Plane Lands Here. A touch of local interest was given vesterday to the proposed New York- Paris non-stop fight when Capt. Rene Fonck, noted French war ace, grace- fully landed the huge Sikorsky trans- atlantic plane at Bolling Field after a flight from New York. With Capt. Fonck, who has been chosen to pilot the ship on its epochal voyage a few days hence, was Igor Sikorsky, de- gner of the plane, and Lieut. Allen Snoddy, U. S. N., the navigator and assistant pilot. Ten others, passen- gers and crew, made up the personnel of the plane for the test flight. Thus Washingtonians have been able to view thg graceful and modern plane which may create air history before the month ends. Its perform- ances have exceeded the expectations of its designers and builders. Though powered with three engines, it is ca- pable of remaining aloft on only one. Its speed and lifting capacity have proved it to be a striking example of afreraft design. In Capt. Fonck the ship will have one of the premier pilots of the times, His war record is enviable, and it is belleved that he is about to write avia- tion history. The combination of a fine ship and a fine pilot Is expected to be the de- cisive factor in the 3,600-mile flight. 0 optimistic are French comrades of pt. Fonck that already plans have heen made for a huge reception at Le Bourget. So it is hoped that the gallant war ace will arrive on time to take part in the honor ceremonies which he will so richly deserve as the pioneer in New York-to-Paris airplane flights. ————rat———————— Germany has a seat in the League of Natlons after taking precautions against any other country’s putting a tack on it. s The Woman Told. “Cherchez la femme” has again proved its value as the factor in the solution of crime. United States postal inspectors, on the trail of rob- bers who held up the Union Pacific mail car in Wyoming on the thir- teenth of August and departed with $280.000, decided to look up all sus- picious characters who had frequent- ed Rock Springs since the crime. Dis- Edna Evans, a Rock Springs board- | ing house keeper, the inspectors | gave her a severe quiz. In her de- nials of knowledge of the robbery she ‘Inadverlenny let slip vital informa- i tion which resulted in her arrest and | «the dpprehension of six men charged with taking part in the crime. One of the arrested men escorted the in- vestigators to a deserted chicken house, fourteen les south of Salt Lake City, where“the loot had been cached. All but $500 was recovered. “Find the woman,” therefore, in this case, as in many others, proved the key to the daring robbery. The woman was unable to stand the bom- bardment of quest®ns hurled at her by post office agents. Many another has wilted under the same strain and divulged information leading to the solution of a puzzling crime, This weakness probably lles in the fact,| that the feminine mind is unschooled in concealment of crimes of violence. Their subterfuges take gentler ccourses. It is, however, a fortunate thing for organized ‘soclety, that this is the case. Otherwise ‘“unsolved” would be written opposite many of the notorious crimes of the past cen- tury, —————————— Abusing the late Dr. Hall of New Jersey is easy. He leaves no friends behind him on earth. His only hope of forgiveness is in another world, where judgment is passed in the light of infinite knowledge of human frailty. R A true sportsman is capable of for- getting ordinary cares. Even the clouds of suspicion created by the Hall-Mills case do not prevent one of the most prominent figures in the case from going fishing. —— vt The entrance of Germany intc the League of Nations gives assurance that the war is really over; with an accompanying apprehension that a new kind of argument is about to start. o Atlantic City has speclalized on the “beauty contest” idea. Pennsylvania avenue or I street on a bright Autumn day can reveal as much com- petitive talent in that liné as the Boardwalk. e Mexico has in contemplation a press censorship. A state of acute disturb- ance frequently induces a country to undertake a large number of the hardest problems of government. — et Germany is obviously fortunate in the fact that Hindenburg is too much concerned with matters 6f national welfare to engage in a personal strug- gle for the spotlight. et Another arms conference will de- mand extraordinary competence in managing traffic. The police should begin early to hold rehearsals. A Thanks tg Jack Dempsey, Philadel- phia’s Sesquicentennial is now enjoy- ing abundant publicity of the most ex- pert description. e raeee Every big city has a disarmament problem of its own. Relieving the gunman of his gat will be a step to- ward peace. R N China Is evidently disposed to invite trouble. Confucius neglected to in- clude in his teachings convincing .warnings against foreign entangle- ments. ———— A swimmer who fails to get across the English Channel is now mentioned as a distinguished exception. . President Coolidge not only caught several fish, but landed some big ideas as he thought matters over in solitude. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. \ Economy. As Granddad sits beside the fire ‘Where brews the homemade licker, His idle fancy seems to rove ‘Where memorles faintly fiicker. Says he, “I'm tir-d of all this crime, Which law so vainly follers— I wish we'd get back to the time When men wore paper collars. “Them was the simple days, I'll say, ‘When life was broad an’ breezy. The laundry is the cause today Ot many hours uneasy. We labored with a sense of pride And saved our hard-earned dollars. I wish the dealers would decide To bring back paper collars. “A disposition can’t be sweet With all the irritations Of keeping neck adornment neat By patient preparations. I don’t pretend to lead the way Like statesmen or like scholars. I'm simply wishin’ for the day ‘When men wore paper collars.” Knowledge. “A statesman has to know a lot.” “He does,” agreed Senator Sorghum. “And one of the things he has to know is that there are times when he can’t tell all he knows.” Jud Tunkins says one way to get the reputation is to use big words and make a simple matter hard to under- stand. Hi Ho says China was the discov- erer of many things, including the original jazz music. An Urbanite. “Have you taken any vacation this year?” “No. I never vet saw a Summer resort where the base ball was any good.” Wakefulness. Paraders never sleep, “tis sald, While wearing in thelr playtime ‘Their pillow slips upon the head And nightles in the day time. .“Shootin’ crap foh fun,” sald Uncle Eben, “often leads to de discovery dat it's hard foh a loser to take a joke.’” Astriders. From the Baltimore Evening Sun. “Go to the ant” is good advice for Why | covering that an unknown man had|most men, but politicians get more l!.rld?. bug. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Those who love tuneful music, yet music that has in it more than the ability to set the feet a-going, are re- joicing these days at the increased es- teem in which the comic operas of the late Victor Herbert are being held. Radio broadcasters and others are finding in his works a perfect melodic gold mine, one from which one may extract hours upon hours of perfect tupes, vet so musicianly and scholarly that the student as weli as the man on the street is enthralled. Victor Herbert was a 'brother of Strauss, the great waltz composer; of Mozart, of Haydn, of Schumann and a host of other great composers who loved a tune and made no pretense otherwise. Some of the so-called “art songs” of today. would have made Beethoven positively ill. He, too, loved melodies, and crammed his great symphonies with them. The well known fifth symphony is running over with little tunes that begin but never end, Beethoven was so full of melody. He put into the fa- mous fifth enough melodies to have made the fortune of any modern “fox- trot” tune writer. In the symphonic method, however, they never end, hardly progress, sim- ply begin, then fade intd the major measures of the broad pattern of the larger work. The composer had no need to make the most of his melody —there were more of them where that one came trom. * ok K K Victor Herbert had melodic gift, in one way less, in an- other greater. He never imitated nnv one, hot even himself. It was only during the last years of his Lie ih.t the melodic well even began to run dry, and those who loved his works caught him using the same melodic pattern over again. But it was his own, o why not? For a long time some musicians thought it fashionable to sneer at Herbert as a tune monger and noth- ing else, but today all see what the discerning saw all along—that Victor Herbert had in him something of the quality we call divine. “Divine” is the word we use, for we know nothing else to call that which, in any work of art, speaks of perfection, the inevitable something that, once created, cannot be chnged without hurt. Who, having heard the “Gypsy Love Song,” from “The Fortune Teller,” would wish a single note elided? Could the greatest musician now alive change a note to its better- ment? We doubt it. Henry Hadley, we are sure, would not even try it. The same inevitable q that one finds in most of the works of Herbert was what distinguished “The Beauti- tul Blue Danube” and the countless other musical masterpieces which the world will not let dle. Since childhood the author of these lines has felt convinced that Herbert was among the music immortal hence it is naturally pleasing to him to find that there is scarcely a pro- gram broadcast on the air now that does not include at least one number by Herbert. The service bands of Washington for the past two decades have made a selection from Victor Herbert a part of almost eyery program. The leade have recoghized, what any one with a “feel” for music must recognize, that in Herbert's works lie all the essentlal qualities of greatness. * ok ok K In other words, Herbert delivers the lis to the holler-than-thou musicians the same ; who pretend to look with horror upon a tune. We suspect such musiclans are in the class ,with most of the “free verse” . poets—they do not compose real melodies because they cannot, just as the “new” poets do not in- dulge in rhyme because they cannot handle it. There are two classes of melodies— the trite and the perfect. The trite tune f5 the obvious thing that beats its way to success with African drum accents in the hundreds of fox-trgts ground out by, dance orchestras every year. | | ‘ment of the reindeer-caribou meat in- Occasionally one of these -fox-trots | forgets itself, and achieves the dis- tinction of being a real melody. It has something more to it than beat. | It has pattern. The pattern of a song Is the architecture, as it were, the picture. Great melodies have great patterns. They are not obvious, yet, when once heard, are inevitable. ‘The perfect melody is more than the combination of musical sounds, ing to certain laws of the al art as worked out by men over the centuries. It is a pattern in notes, using the staff as the ground- work. It is not something that “just grew,” usually, but is the working out into sounds, intangible things at best, of even more evanescent thought. A true melody comes about as near as man can achieve to putting into definite form the vaguest longings of the “human _ heart. That is why it is best to listen to music with the eves shut, or in a daikened room. To receive the studio program of the Capitol Theater over your radio Sunday night with ail the lights out is to get a new conception of musical enjoyment, if you have never tried it before. To hear a good soprano sing thus a Herbert waltz song is to be wafted to great heights, to be elevated on the wings of songs, as Mendelssohn so well said long ago. * K k% Melody is essential to great music, it yet td listen to some talk one would | think it a poor relation of time and harmo As a matter of fact, melody holds first place at the musical feast. It occupies foremost place, and al- ways has, and, in so far as we are given to see, always will. Composers may come and composers may go, but it is hard to sce how the works of the great German music masters will ever be bettered. One comes back to them every time. It was the glory of Victor Herbert that he wrote in their spirit. A piece of music was not musical to him, un- based upon a melodic pat- . a structure of dreamns and in- spiration, yet tangible as a well built hou He knew music in theory and practice and he wrote tunes because he loved them himself and knew that v one else does, in his heart. We would not give any one of the numerous waltz songs of Victor Her- ind and one tuneless and worthless songs about some lit- 4 sitting on a branch and calling to its mate, or any of the other stuff 1d nonsense that masquerades art,” and bores countless million: radio listene: Victor Herbert was a very human man; perhaps that is why he knew how to win the heart of his chosen countrymen with melodies that will never die. Where one has loved his music in the past, 10 will love it next year, and 10 more the next. e spoke in musical idioms we can understand, yet his themd are mnever common- place, threadbare, worn-out. He was a well of musical invention, and the only word we have to describe it is “geniu: Perhaps it is enough. of WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. George Washingts tomb at Mount Vernon broke all rec- ords for visitors last month. No fewer than 75,000 patriots, mostly of the automobile-touring variety, pass ed through the turnstiles of the estate once inhabited by the Father of His Country. That is several thousand over the highest number ever record- ed in any month since the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Assoclation of the Union became the possessor of the establishment in 1853. As visitors pay an admission fee of 25 cents—'‘a shiil- ing” is what H. H. Dodge, the vet- eran superintendent, calls it—a hand- some annual revenue is derived for the upkeep of the estate. Income is devoted to no other purpose. Mr. Dodge, who has been the custodian for more than 40 y gives Mount Vernon’s visitors a clean bill of health for respect and reverence. ~Vandal- ism by souvenir hunters, he never takes place. Not everybody knows that it became necessary for a private association to take over Mount Vernon after the Federal Govern- ment and the commonwealth of Vir- ginla successively evinced no inter- est in preserving it as a national shrine. * X % ok The heavens around Aberdeen, Md., and all points adjacent will reverberate with the thunder of 16-inch guns on October 8. The occasion of the sham barrage will be the eighth an- nual meeting of the Army Ordnance Association at the Aberdeen proving ground. Guns ranging in caliber from our gigantic coast defense weapons té Springfield rifles will be fired off in exhibition tests. Airplane bombs, including the sort the American Army was ready to drop over German towns and cities had the war gone on a bit longer, will also be exploded. They contain two tons of TNT. The 16-inch guns will be shown in action, hurling their death-dealing projectiles a dis- tance of 30 miles. Modern anti-air- craft guns will blaze away at‘targets towed by airplanes. In the evening there will be a series of night firings. Soldiers and civillans from all parts of the country are going to Aberdeen to witness the first-hand demonstra- tlon of Uncle Sam's preparedness in the realm of artillery. * ok ok ok Senator George H. Moses has been renominated in New Hampshire and beaten a rival who was an outright Coolidge man. But Moses resents be- ing labeled an anti-Coolidge Republi- can. One of his proudest claims to polltical fame is the patenting of the banner 1924 campalign slogan, the bur- den of which was that the G. O. P.'s strongest asset was ‘“‘the calm and cautious Christian character of Calvin Coolidge.” Moses, as an {rreconcil- able, sees red every time the World Court or the League of Nations is mentioned, but on most administration policies and Republican party meas- ures he's @s regular as they make ‘em. One of the inside cogs of the Coolidge machine in Washington, “Jimmy” Reynolds, has grown up with Senator Moses. They were born In the same month, roomed next door to each other at Dartmouth, and were graduated in the same class. They remain bosom friends. * K ok K There'll be a pretty race in Nevada now between Senator Oddie, Republi- can, and Raymond T. Baker, Demo- crat. Between Oddie and Baker there's a feud that dates back to the days when the Senator was Governor of Nevada and BaKer was warden of the State prison. It became Gov. ©Oddie’s painful duty to remove Baker from the penitentiary job, and, while they have continued to recognize each other in Washington, there is a cer- tain quality in their relations that can properly be designated as a straln. years ago. The Adonislike formerly w a u Brummel, who director of the mint, triumphed over a trio of strong op- ponents in the Democratic primary. Baker's strong talking-point was that his long residence and wide acquaint- ance in Washington made him an ideal man to “get things done” at the National Capital. Nevada Democrats evidently came to that conclusion, too. * ok ok K Senator Pat Harrison of M and other homecoming F tourists are loud M their prais ave the sense und patriotism to travel on ships of the United States lines. One and all agree that the service on our Govern- ment liners is superior to anything they’ve ever experienced on the high s. From the captains down, there's a successful effort to please and accommodate. The skipper of one of our biggest bo recent addressed a group of first day out of New York. “This ship belongs to the American people, said. “It’s manned jav a crew that is well pald for its ®services, every mother’s son of them. There's no necessity on your part to pay big tips for the right kind of treatment. It's for the asking, and I think I sure you it'll be forthcoming.” e One of the diverting yarns of the more or less blithe political s concerns Miles Poindexter of W ington State, who has been Ame: Ambassador to Peru since Poindexter became a lame-duck Sen: e-trotters who ts ator after the election of 1922, and | President Harding balmed his wounds | with a diplomatic appointment. ports ave current that Poindexter hankers to return to the political realm and is coming home next year | |Garbage Collection to launch his campaign for re election | to the United States Senate in 1928. He is reputed to think he ¢an over- throw Senator Dill, the Democratic incumbent, who laid him low four HAE B Ever heard of “aviation medicine™? It’s the newest branch taught at the Army and Navy medical schools. As a result of the lessons taught by the World War, the surgeons general of the two services came to the conclu- sion that men who fly, or want to fly, need to be treated from an en- tirely different point of view than men who ply the military trade on land or sea. So both the Army and Navy are training a special class of medical officers in the science of han- dling aviators. The psychological note enters into the make-up of our | birdmen almost as conspicuously as the purely physical factor. « Some aviators are so constituted that they cannot be permitted to fly above a certain altitude. Men’s breathing ap. paratuses differ. what is now officially known as “aviation medicine,” as distinguished from internal medicine, surgery, pathology and the other things a service doctor has to know. 7 ¢ * ok kK Maj. Gen. John R. Brooke, U. S. A., the fine old soldier who has just joined his comrades in the Great Beyond, took liberties with the former Kaiser long before the American doughboy did so eight vears ago. Just before his retirement Brooke was assigned to represent the United States Army at the imperial maneuvers in Ger- many. One day William II asked him it he'd ever been in Germany before. “Not in this part,” replied Brooke. “Well, what parts have y visited?"” the war lord persisted. ‘“Cincinnati, Milwaukee St. Louis,” explained ‘ ssengers the | Re- | | with All these kinds, and | a_hundred others, are comprised in | | territory. | but uninhabited and usel FOOD FROM SKY ‘BEING PRODUCED BY DREW PEARSON. Reindeer meat and food manufac- tured from the air will supply, the future food of the world, preventing the “inevitable” famine which Sir Dantel Hall, eminent British/scientist, has just predicted. This is'the be- lief of several Government scientists who have long studied the possibility of a World-wide food shortage and al- eady have taken steps to prevent it. One of these steps is the develop- dustry in the Arctle, which some day may become the chief source of meat for the entire world. Alaskan slaugh- ter houses and refrigerating plants already have been established in co- operation with the Department of riculture, which states that the rel deer industry of Alaska may even- tually yield more profit than all the gold, copper and other minerals in the Around the entire rim of the Arctic sea runs a great belt of tundra which in the Summer blooms with luxuriant vegetation quite ca- pable of supporting millions of rein- deer and caribou. Chemists Making Food. Another step which the United States Government has taken to pre- vent a food faminine is to experiment in the manufacture of foods by syn- thetic chemistry. Already chemists have been able to produce sugar and starch from certain elements which they have takén from the air, accord- ing to Henry D. Hubbard, secretary of the Bureau of Standards. This bu- reau has also perfected a process by which sugar can be made from the common artichoke, which will grow almost anywhere. Experiments in the Standards and in other chemical labo- ratories have led Mr. Hubbard to prophesy that foed shortage and crop failures” will be made impossible in the future by conducting farming in tactories, with every inch of soil sifted and tested, the air strained free of the insects which cause damage, and the temperature kept at the most fa- vorable point. Iven the length of the shining day will be regulated on the farm-factories of the future, accord- ing to Mr. Hubbard, who says that certain forms of lights already have been perfected which stimulate plant growth. Can Laugh at Droughts. There will be no frosts or droughts in the farm-factories, the crops be- ing grown almost autom: Automatic machinery will p| tivate and harvest then “Chemists have produced both s h and sugar directly from the air,” Mr. Hubbard continues, “by the synthesis of mo ure, carbon dioxide and ultra violet ligl of suitable wave leggth. When the factory and farm have become one, power-driven continuous starches and sugars ma: pour forth from the factory to feed the world. Man has olved the migrate problem. Can he not assure the food supply of the world by placing it among staple actory products, freed from the vicis itudes which beset the outdoor farmer?” . The reindeer industry which is already suppl Seattle and other large citi inception in a rather intere ner. The Bureau of Educ Department of the Inter the care of the Alaska, and in 1891 ackson brought 10 reindeer: from Siberia for the purpose of giving the Eskimos draft animals. These 10, with a few more which were brought over the following year, now have populated Alaska with nearly half a million reindeer. At first the animals remained chief- Iy in the hands of the Eskimos, but now one-fourth or more of them are in the hands of white owne one large meat company ow! head. At present the Biologica cey, which ishdirectly in ch: moting the reindeer indu: concerned with cro: deer with caribou in order to improve the vield of meat. The caribou is considerably larger than the reindeer and when crossed yields about 300 pounds of meat, as compared to 150 from the reindeer. Experimenting With Caribou. An_experiment in mixing the two breeds is now being conducted on the Island of Nunivak, off the coast of Alaska. Ten young caribou bulls were_brought about 700 miles down the Yukon by barge and on the bu- s schooner Hazel and turned e on the island among about 409 female reindeer. All the reindeer bulls were eliminated from the herd, so that the bureau will be able to observe the specific advantages of crossing the two breeds. Two years will be required before the results can be studied. Meanwhile, Lawrence J. Palmer of the Biological Survey remains con- ' n the field studying the for- age available for reindeer Throughout the wide belt of Arctic tundra he reports a growth of luxuriant mosses and other vege- tation furnishing ample forage. This climate, contrary to popular belief, is extremely hot in Midsummer, producing a” dense quick growth of vetegtation. During the Winter it Is cqvered by snow, but is not lim- ited to Alaska, except so far as the United States is concerned. The belt of tundra extends around the entire Arctic Circle, rich in vegeti- tion during a few months of the s except for the production of meat. This great belt of unused land, it is be- lieved, will be pressed into use to furnish the meat of the world in ths not distant future. C (Covyright. 1926.) Bureau of in Alaska, tion of the r is charged kimos of Dr. Sheldon i chiefly System Is Faullyl To the Editor of The Stai The new system of garbage collec- tion, which is being given a trial here, has many disadvantages. For two weeks we have had filled and empty wagons parked at our very door for periods varying from 20 minutes to more than 2 hours. Sometimes they are brought up filled, with tdps up. Seepage is left in their wake, and flles multiply in the neighborhood. During this time the odors which find their way into our homes make eating almost impossible. ‘We have repeatedly protested to the proper authorities for an abate- ment of this nuisance, but the con dition has not been remedied. Even the children kngv that in | this case the laws of health and sani- | tation are being violated and that a combination of garbage and flies breeds disease. We would not like to see any neigh- | borhood designated as a garbage col- lection station and especially a thick- Iy settled one like this. The situation here has convinced us that there is only one way to handle garbage—to keep it on_the move until it reaches the place where it can finally be disposed of. B. C. DODSON. Law Enforcement. From the Buffalo Evening News. Stern sentences might take the ro- mance out of life on the rolling crime / ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS * BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. Does the Smithsonian Institu- tion have an observatory In Califor. | nta?—N. D. | A. The Astrophysical Observatory i of the Smithsonian Institution ha | observing station on a plot of ground | leased from the Carnc servatory on Mount W Q. Is daybreak in Palestine rapid or gradual A. Ohe writer says: “In Palestine, the sun seems tg leap over the horiz at daybreak. There Is no long | of dawn with increasing lig a fiery chariot: the sun spri from the darkness, and it i Q. What dog was the first kind domesticated?—L. B. A. Shepherd or sheep dogs are re- garded as the most ancient breed of domestic dogs and have existed J prehistoric times. Darwin s that all of our domestic dogs have descended from a few wild forms, namely, wolves, jack and possibly dingoes. fe on, Calif. Solar Ob- | Q. 1Is the cost of living increasing or | decveasing fn the United States? T MEC A. The seml-annual survey of the Bureau of Labor Statistics just com- pleted shows that the cost of living in the United States decreas per cent between December, 1 June, 1926. Q. Are there poorhouses in every State in the United States?—A. T. N. A. New Mexico has no almshouses. Q. How many cigars and cigarettes are manufactured in the United States yvearly?—W. L. A. Based on the stamps necessary for the sale of tobaceo for the flscal vear ending June) 1925. there were manufac- 00,751,954 large clgar 613 ‘small cigars, 13,032,83 | ale of revenue small amps werc also bought pounds of snuff and pounds of tobacco in of Q. Did St H.T.S. A." It is not known. That he de- sired to go to Spain is evidenced in the New Testament. Q. How can I plume?—B. W. A. A writer ‘pseudonym. connected wi Paul vislt Spain?— obtain a nom de assumes a no formality simply here is h the agt. What are some of the by of the meat industr; A. S. More than 80 kinds of drugs are products of the meat industry Rennet, best known as an e: Q. s, strings rackets, ghte, butto! cerin, gelatin, candies, soap, beef extract, wool, dice, hairpins, coml perfumes and oleoma Q. Ts it against the postal regula-| tions to inclose a card with a personal eting written on it when sendi vy parcel post?—A. D. ragraph 4 of section 1 laws and regulations sa riptions such as ‘Merry ( * ‘Happy New Y ‘With Wishes,” and the lil on matter of the fourth-cl a card inclosed ther | for tennis Q. What per c of Maine is in fores A. About 6 forested. A great part of the lumber which is cut now is used in the manufacture of pulp and paper. Q. 1¢ there any food that is cheaper now than it was before the World War?—P. T. A. Figures compiled by the United States Department of Labor the years 1913-1924, inclusive, no ordinary article of food that wa cheaper at retail in 19 i in 19 and none that was as as in 1913. : i oil wells are W. A. there were wells in the Q. How many active there in this countr, A. On Janu; T 100 producing oil United States. Q. Who was the first to conceive of the tramsmission of pictu electricity?—D. H. 3 A. Although this remarkable dis- covery is comparatively new to the public, the initial step in the trans mission of pictures by elect s made in 1524 by Alesander English physi | ining | (from the & | story of his reses | French Annals | the Teutonte | British | valentino pim | dividy | sur | run very fast. v correct th mentation is Q. Mow lonz has pectin been rec- ognized in jelly-making?—D. A. L. A. One hund s ago Bracon- not, a_ French while exam. various frults, tiscovered th ple of fruft juices. med pectin Kk word pe meaning Bracoinot hed the hes that led to the n in 1825 in the Chemistry. t present-day ex- following his steps. vegetabl jellifying is he 1lum). scovery of Q. What peoples are_included tn W, M A. The 1 those popul the Teutonic the Engil<h Isles, e speaking ages and include people of the \an-speaking iy, Austria, Hungary the Flemish of Bel- candinavians of Sweden i practically all the 1 Denmark. includes those seople in ind Switz: gium, the and Norw inhabitants Outside of ple of the : t have tmmigrated to Africa, . Australasia, ete. it Did Pola Negrl and Rudolph zether in any ple ture and if €o which cne?—A. H. H f: ire able to learn nd Pola Negri ed the same Q. hav picture. in Q. How long have college-boa examinations been in general use W. W. In June, Examinations Bo: the standard of admi leges. Q. How is the avoc it known by any ot A. There s no other foo which has be of names as the avocado or al pear. It is known as the mavi i the custard apple. Spanish, stec, sh, Carib, Ge itin all have hid special v it. The avocado is a f chlefly as a salad, but is treated m like & cucumber than a fruit. It peeled and eaten with salt, pepper and vinegar, or served with salad dre he taste for this fruit is usua *quired perivips riety in the Un and t tirim ey cisars of the Q. Is there States th the nicot E.J. 8 Th E that & far a present time. a nicotine is an impossibility. It content of tobaeco that 1 ferent from ¢ ny ted Agrieulture it the 55 tobaceo + nicotine es 1t dif nt of Knows o i a widow, - two chil ctively, and from her oldest killed overs with troops. would still re- pension if she moved to »—J. J. D. many people ates who m the I Q. Would yon living in ¢ P nsion m, who w the Canadian nat + United State There the 1 rvice pe government. & recelve ish ited sions Indian blood must to put in a claim other ets - Q. Tow mt one have in or for Indian lands J.W. L . The Indian office says that the ent of Indian blood that an in 1 must have to make a claim r land or money depends entively on tha tribe, the treaty and the general circumstances. or pe Q. How fast can a bear run?—C. W. 3 United States Biological that the hear canne At the most it would : to run 12 or The b 15 mi Government gtatistics bring out the fact that the wneducated wan has only one chance in 990 to attain dis- tinction. There is no reason why any one should live under such a handi- cap in these days of free schaols and free information. This paper supports in Washington, D. (., the laruest free information bureau in ezistence. It will act for you the duswer to any question you may ask. Avail yourse of its facilities for your setf-impro ment. Inclose a 2-cent stamp for 7 turn postage. Address The Evening Star Information Bureau. Frederic J Haskin, director, Washington, D. (" Enthusiastic Approval Given Will Hays’ Plan to Save Films The suggestion made to President Coolidge by Will H. Hays, head of the motion-picture industry, that section of the Government archive building be devoted to the preserva- tion of important films, as an aid to the study of history! by pesteri emphatically approved b The importance of su universally recogniz and suggestions are made to how should be put inte execution. As a matter of caring for the fu- ture,” in the opinion of the cisco Bulletin, “it is even more portant for Washington to stor historic piéture nd picta ve historie value in the cour of time, than it is to > every new | book In the Congressional Librar For one thing, a film s a picture ol the | and the people. and not a| more of less distorted reflection of a | wril impressions; and then, while | therd are thousands of public libraries and millions of Look collectors, the: are not the same facilities for serving reels. A national flm library | such as that proposed is a national oblization to posterity “The. Government nucleus *of such a pointed out by the Philadelphi ning Bulletin, “in the films that it took during the war, pre: ng for future generations the vivid cinematographic record of countless phases of the| American effort overseas., All the most conspicuous world figures of the | past two decades have been saved, al- though the earlier prints are scanty | and technically far inferior h a im ready has the to the| abundant film records of the men and women in the public eye at the pres- ent time. Posterity a century and many cehturies hence will see mov: ing the great’ figures of the past. Going to the movies will be reading | history in vivid form that will far| eclipse the most successful efforts of the most brilllant writers.” * Kk k% uch films will settle many con- es,” according to the Peoria Transeript, “which otferwise would | be left to more or less prejudiced wit | nesses, The films will disclose manj thing® o future generations which are n\mnsmm-d of little im- Moreover, it portan would be de- sirable to pregerve typical films which - the)flux and temper of the History s not confined to mere histor] events, so called. It is broad-based upon the. customs and wave. The High Cost of Hats. From the Canton Daily News. About the only overhead expense some fellows know very much about comes in the shape of A habits of the people. e Pittshurgh Sun remarks upon the “tWg methods of recording history when combined, will form way of teaching it. It has usually deen | declares that remarked,” continues the Sun, “that an actor’s reputation seldom survive his_generagion because he leaves no the vase of Valentino. So of a i we may yet have more W dull records of deeds, sbody would the ering up of the G with says the New Y ; @ithough Mr. Will 1 would mako n exception of a historically i iive picture like o - Covered gon' and the simulation of Abra- ham Lincoln. It would be unfortu- te if the few creen ‘class alled, which illustr te in humor and days were to be should be preserved som though not Fede The pietures that should aved are th ne r Brooklyn Eagle, referring oldest preserved filin as that 1e dancer taken in 159 at “there exist films show- ation of President -y, the flving of the first air the operation the firs and other notable events, “the value of such p tures cannot be overestimated.” - where, a keer, surely &t “What would we not now give claims the Harrisburg Telegraph, »r a moving picture of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, or W at Yorktown, or Lin- burg, or Grant at Ap- such scenes of Cvil s are mirrored In films which the daring photogra- phers of the A. E. F. brought back from Francs The Binghamton Press also remarks that “if it were possible for school children to see the tual record of wuch events as the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, or the meeting of Appomattox, the spectacular occur- rences of history would be made at once more vital and vastly more true an any written history can make them.’ The W: pom or War happenings terbury Republican la- ments that o few should be worth preserving out of the 25,000 miles of films shown in this country every year. If posterity looks in vain for adequate pictures of events which 11 loom large in retrospect,” save the Republican, “it will not be tne only indication posterity will have of our immaturity. What a lot of pot-shots will be necessary to catch the boyhood of the future Presidents.” observes the Providence Bulletin 'he prospect pens on broad vistas filled with f: tasy,” the Bulletin adds, noting that the proce of filming “history in the making” will call for an army of lert historians who can evaluate ‘hqmm 'ltloul_tha aid of a long record. is evidently untrue in' pergpect