Evening Star Newspaper, September 14, 1926, Page 8

8 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY. .. .September 14, 1926 THEODORE W. NOYES The Evening Star Newspaper Company > Oflln ennayly Fais OMce: Tomer Buiidme. - cazn Ofce: Tower Bui Buropean Offce 14 Kegent S1.. London. Fngian Busine. NP St and The Evenine Star. with the Sunday morn- Ine ‘adition. 1n delivered by carviers within {he eity at 80 centa par month: dajly only. ¢5 cents per month: $und; 1y, 20 cents rer month_ Orders may be mall or telephone Main 5000, Collact: made by tarrier at end of each month Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia Naily and Sunday....1yr. $9.00:1 mo.. Daily only A 1 wr. $8.00: 1 mo. Sunday only L1 yr $300:1mo.. All Other States and Canada. Patle and Sundac .1 yr. €17 001 mo.. $1¢ Daily onle se00 1 mo. Sunday only $4.00: 1 mo.. 1yr Member of the Associated Press. he Amsoriated Preas i exelnsively entitied o the viae-for Tenublication of wll newe i Patches eredited 1o it or nei atherwiss cred » ! oaver 3 the local news of publication 180 reserved ited 'in thia paver and niiblished herain. Al rig) of special dispatches herein are Redeeming the Avenue. Plans for the ideal Washington do net comprise merely public buildings and park developments. They include private improvements, which are per- haps of greater importance, because of their greater number and the greater space they fil. In the mat- ter of Pennsylvania avenue, the Capi- tal's chief thoroughfare and its most famous and conspicuous, there can he no consecutive and co tent private development unless and until the Gov- ernment virtual mort gage upon the lands which have heen by general assent pre-empted for pub. lic building purposes. Whether the y forecloses it ect for developing a wide houlevard on the north side of | tie Mall is carried out or not, Penn vivania avenue will remain the main street of Washington. If the Govern- ment takes all that great triangie formed | Mall and Fifteenth str side private 1t will surely come. At present, with uncertainty affect- Ing all owners of property on the Ave- nue there can be no forward move- ment. The blight sible taking affects all south side. That blight extends, as to the eastern portion of the Capitol-Treasury stretch. to the north side. The le a definition of the purpos United States in the matte areas before there vance toward the ideal of a great, dig- nified, handsomely th oughfare that by Washington for many years. The time has come to determine this question. A publie building program has heen adopted by Congres: ling for the expenditure of $30.0 this city during a period of years, Twe buildings are planned for early construetion, both to be placed within the Mall-Avenue triangle. The eit ever designed for Government use i< also on the immediate program. A site for it was chosen initially within the Mall. but the inappropriateness of that location has been realized there strong advocacy of a 'ennsylvania avenue situation. The President has emphatically expressed his opposition further encroach- ment upon the parks for building pur- poses, it and the . the north will await development. of po those on the must of the f those n be any ad improved has and is now to » matter what the plans for tment Mall what buildings cler placed there shonld office constri he fact that witure t may be, or musenm the chara are there in future, remere dapartmen tions within that area. the of Agr Incated there many yes Department was wion and by ingenions arrangement it without contemplation lirzed building wings actual an were added” to junction in of en should not now affect the zeneral principle that the park is no g for office building. By placing the Commerce Ruilding the Ay a strietly on that Atreets site most recently venth and Tenth Avenue and the Mall, the Government vill be keeping its pledge of to put the great tri wctical use and to the end v development of the Capi ieh a selection with immediately in space propa hetween the many vears zle 1o pi of 1he proy would he. » constructions now very small in tion yet 1o he uired heyond that Already built upon and that assuredly for and Purpnses in the near future ey of the ania avenue hy necessar annex extension apment south of the erection side Pennsy public bnildings will assure the attainment of the ideal of a great thoroughfare, significant in detail and in the whole. construction of It will stimulate private iowill the old husiness Washington restore balance in 1t will purge the city of an unsightly | condition that distresses tonians and shocks visitors, Washing. — r——— : The calculations pertaining to poli tics have hecome considerabiy compiicated since the foracaster felt secure in predictions on how more days when a basing his Maine voted i Diplomatic Immunity. Traffic Director Eldridge is consider- ing what action he can his control the operators of privately owned diplomatic automobiles. In a report the accident Saturday at Twenty-first and R sireets northwest, in which an aged resident of the city lost his life when his car was in col lision with an automohile operated hy the wife of a legation secretary, Mr. Eldridge stresses the need of drastic aetion to eliminate the “exempt™ clase of motorist in Washington. Five violations of the traffic regula- tions are charged against the driver of the legation car by Mr. Eldridge. The coroner’s jury has held her en. tirely to blame for the fatal accident. t she cannot be arrested hecause of “diplomatic immunity.” This condition has existed for years Washington. Drivers under diplomatic” insignia have, at on in magie | remains of the heen entertained { 000 in | larg- | he | ago, | ed. | recommend | to the Commissioners to bring under | thd | sponsibilit On the part of the local authorities it is a hopeless condition. On the part !of the diplomats themselves it is, and | has been, a serious breach of decorum. are essentially guests of the Nation, and should conduct themselves such a way that no stigma could be attached to them. “When in Rome do as the Romans {do” fits the situation perfectly. It left-side-of-the-road driving is the rule in the particular country from which the diplomat comes, right-side-of-the- road driving is the rule in America, and it should be obeyed to the letter. The same thing applies to all other trafic regulations. They cannot be flouted by those who shield them- | selves with “diplomatic immunity.” In the event of failure to bring this large class of motorists directly under the control of the official charged with making the streets safe for the more than five hundred thousand Washing- tonians, strong representations should be made to the State Department for prompt and decisive action in all mat- ters involving members of the diplo- matic corps. Human life cannot be measured in the terms of diplomatic immunity. Every motorist on the street should be compelled to obey the same regula- tions, and an “exempt’ class is not only contrary to good administration, but makes it impossible to solve satis- factorily the many perplexing ques. tions relating to traffic. It is an im- portant matter and should be given earnest consideration by those charged with responsibility for the saving of life in the automobile trafc of today. oo The Speedboat Regatta. An urgent appeal for funds is being Washingtonians by the Presi- tegatta Committee in ry to a successful conclu- | sion of the greatest specdboat regattas ever held in this country. Two afternoons, next Friday and ! Saturday, will be devoted to the racing of the fastest boats in the world. The events will be held on the Potomac off the Speedway and Hains Point and will be so arranged that a crowd of upward of one hundred thousand persons can comfortably view them from the shore and from boats. This is the first major regatta of its kind {10 come to the National Capital and has bheen sponsored by the Corinthian {yacht Club { Originally the meet was to be held Lon one day only. with entries limited to Gold Cup boats. A fund of more than five thousand dollars was sub- scribed by Washingtonians to pur- chase the President’s Cup for the winner and for expenses incidental to the tta. As news of the event spread to other cities, however, entries were received from racing enthu { for boats of other classes. It was then decided the regatta and hold a affair. It is for this {expansion additional funds are needed. ven dixtinct races will be held on the two afternoons. Sportsmen from Flovie New York, Detroit and France have entered their slim craft. Gar Wood, famous Detroit enthusiast, has announced that he will send Miss | America V a specially clocked Lmile straightaway in an effort to Ihreak her own world's rd of {eightyone miles an hour. Other events will be equally exciting and Washington, for the first time in its history, will he treated to a speedboat tta. There are few made t dent's | order Cup to s one to enlarge two-day that over rec res persons who do not thrlll from watching a mile-a- [ minute hoat cut through the waters. ITwin spray spurting, bow uplitted, {life-helted pilot and mechanic and the Lroar of powerful I make motor-hoat racing a breath-tak- Im; spec Washingtonians, with this treat in e for them, should rally to the support of the regatta committee. It a civie and sporting enter- There is no profit it for lany Cups are awarded the win- {ners and all entries bring their boats {here at their own expense. fret @ cle. | { j s | {is purely prise. is in one. to deficit. 1t is therefore solely up to the residents themselves to lend their make the coming {event outstanding in the history of motor-boat racing. | have never falled to aid when the | need was great and they will not fail lv put Levent. | !nr\' call upon to make up the i is i [ hearty support to over” No amount of expert traflic super- vision can render a motor car abso- lutely foolproof. .o Climbing the Monument. Washington visit | Tourists in “the ;Mumnnrnl" as one of the great and | one of the tall attractions of The record shows that persons went to the top of the Monument in August. {sald to he the largest number of | Monument climbers in any month. On one Sunday, while the Monument { was open to visitors for four hours, 3220 persons went to the'top, and of those 1,601, nearly half, climbed the stair because the elevator could not carry all those ‘who would be passengers. A crowd was waiting at the hase for a trip to the summit when the entrance to the shaft was closed show the number of pilgrims to the top of the dome of the Capitol, but |they have not recently heen given aut. A very large number of strangers in Washington make the trip. It is a hard trip for other than young or husky but those who make 1t eount themselves as pald surely the city. 929 persons, | The view of Washington from the | !top of the Monument or the top of { the Capitol is as wide as can be | had from any position except in a| | high-fiving airplane. The plan of the city can be seen at a glance, or it can be examined at leisure. On a clear day no more satisfactory prospect can be had in the Washington region. The various times. deliberately flouted the | city, its environs, the rivers and the rnles and regulations applving te nu‘wn- ridges are under the eye, and cther motorists. They have insulted polleemen, driven recklessly through the streets and been the cause of ac / when visibllity i unusually high the mountains show in the west It is impressive to count the people N cidents for which they admitted no r‘-' | Those attached to the diplomatic corps | | in motors combine to | Washington has no municipal treas- | Washingtonians | this stirring sporting That s Perhaps there are figures to | ‘THE from the States who understand that | a trip to the top of the Monument or | the Capitol is an experience. It is be- lieved that not many Washington reside make either of those as- lcents. hey see the Monument and dome many times a day, and why &0 to the top? They think it a tire- gome trip and believe that they would see nothing they have not seen he- fore. Relatively few Washington peo- ple have seen the city from the air. Without urging one's opinion on any- hody else, it may be gently suggested that the Washingtonian who has not overlooked his city from the Monu- ment or the dome has missed an al- most matchless view. R R R “Shoot to Kill! The Post Office Department has again declared war on the underworld. “Shoot to kill!” is the command that has been sent out the army of twenty-two thousand railway mall clerks. In issuing this ultimatum to the criminal class the department has made it plain that if its heavily armed agents cannot defend the malls other steps will be taken which will enforce the edict of “death to the bandits!” Fourteen major robberies in the vear ending June 30 have stirred the department as it has not been stirred since the days of 1921, when the marines were called in to protect the mails against the onslaughts of the criminal bands. Nothing will be left undone in this present crisis to insure safe delivery of the valuable postal matter, A personal reward of $500 has been made by the second assistant post- master general the first raflway clerk who kills a bandit attempting to rob the mails. A reward has also been offered to the first clerk who captures any one attempting to hold up a car. These prizes are designed to furnish a further incentive for vigilance in day and night protection. It is evident that the department in- tends to do everything In its power im safeguard the mails intrusted to its {care. Kollowing the robbery near Chi- | cago recently a hurried council of war was called by Postmaster General New. The “shoot to kill” order was the result of this conference. With the loyal body of clerks on the alert for attempted banditry and the underworld cognizant of the steps that have been taken, conditions should show rapld improvement. From now on it will take a well organized and brave “gang” to rob successfully { the United States mail. EVENING to R Kansas is still a center of meteoro- logical interest. Formerly the Sun- flower State was distinguished for tor- nadoes. Now it is specializing on freshets. o Germany has a seat in the League of Nations and should now persuade her philosophers to put the soft pedal on the “will-to-power” note that they have been hammering. President Coolidge will be here =oon. 1t will no doubt gratify him to note the reports that there is a great deal of good fishing right here in the Potomac. o The case of Almee McPherson has resolved itself largely into a discus- sion of the old question as to why | girls leave home. r—e—s With the self-confidence of the true dictator, Mussoiini regards an occa- sional bomb only as fireworks which celebrate his distinction. e e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDE Fishless Fishing. Tt's good to go a-fishing Where the waters lightly gleam, As vou listen to the swishin’ Of the gently flowin’ stream. There's nothin’ to remind you of life's disappointed wish. You can leave your cares hehind you, Even if you catch no fish. It's good to go a-fishin® Where there's nothin' to intrude, Disturbin’ the condition Of a simple solitude. When the stars come out a-blinkin’, Though you face an empty dish, { You have had a chance for thinkin® Even if you caught no fish. | Related Subjects. “Are vou iInterested in science?" “I am,” answered Senator Sorghum. “Parwinian theory?"” 'Somewhat."” Prohibition?" Ve much. The two ideas are vaguely related. A monkey avoids | aloohol like a man, and drink makes [ & monkey of a man i Why, Indeed? Oh, why have wars to thrill us With horror and dismay When motor cars may kill us In quite the usual way Jud Tunkins says the less a man knows the more anxious he is to grab | the spotlight and show off what little information he has. True Admiration. “Do you understand Einstein's theory 2" ot full admitted the Professor. “Then why do vou admire him so much?" “Because he's one man who has | backed a lot of us college birds down | an@ made us admit he knows more than we do.” School Days. 1 | Johnny's studying hard—and thus | Our fears may be abated. He'll learn to straighten out the muss His parents have created. “Dar ain’ nufin’ mo’ valuabl sald Uncle Eben, “dan a handsome street parade. It stops de argument an’ makes ev'ybody good-natured.” vt — Costly Entertainment. From the Pocatello Tribune. India has a sporty prince who hires a whole river to fish in and a whole forest to hunt in. But this probably doesn’t cost him anv more than a couple of nights at a night club, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Wa-ter Sweet . wa-ter melon!” The musical cry of the huckster recalled to our mind, so late in the season, that we had not tasted water- melon 'this year. Yet did we run to the door, call to the man, purchase a nice, sweet speci. men? We did not. R We had allowed the watermelon season to come and go, without eating so much as a slice of this delicacy— vet what difference did it make? What difference does it make? Peaches, now, are another fruit. To &0 through the Summer without eat- ing peaches would be a distinct loss. There is no taste in the world like that of the real peach. The watermelon, he it ever so sweet, mostly water, after all. It is, in essence, a delicacy of childhood. Surely the day will never come again when a melon .will taste so good. Those who have been fortunate enough to have committed trespass in this matter, perhaps to have been run out of a patch by a righteously indig- will know this to be true. Watermelon is something that one may very well do without, allowing its flavor to remain in the past with other memories that are true and sweet. e mel-on! We eat too much, anyway. Not Just we, but everybody. Perhaps there is no more inclusive charge that can be made against Americans, with cer- tainty of being just, than this. We eat too much. National prosperity has made it pos sible for us to indulge our appetites, with the result that the average per- son eats twice or three times what he needs for existence. There is no other reason for eating. To eat for taste is intellectually wrong, although it is intensely hu- man. Even the animals enjoy the taste of their food, and no doubt eat more than is good for them, if they can get it. What saves them from expanding waist lines, if an animal may be said to have such a thing, is simply that they cannot get it. Children, being essentially little ani- mals, hardly fall into our classifica- tion of creatures that ordinarily eat too much. A small boy can absorb more nour- ishment with gain than he usually can be prevailed upon to take. We leave the little ones out of our reckoning. We speak of city men and women who eat enough for farm hands, yet scarcely walk as much as six blocks during the day, and do no manual labor whatever. Huskies are putting in oil furnaces, so that they won't even have to go to the trouble of lifting a shovel of coal. Electric refrigeration is banishing the ice man. With all the saving of labor, how- ever, there is no disposition to cut down on the daily intake of food. Not on your life! We like to eat. * ok ok oK Starch and sugar seem to he the culprits in the daily diet. Hence the modern demand for vi- tamins. A vitamin is like the God of our fathers, something which no man hath seen at any time, yet gives reasonable proof of its existence. The chief function of vitamins, as far as we can find out, seems to be that of making up, in the daily diet, for the deteriorating effects of too much starch and too much sugar. Both starch and sugar are necel sary to the human frame and its proper maintenance. The trouble seems to be that we consume larger quantities of these sterling good ne- cessities than by right we ought to. Each person is a law unto himself in_this matter. Your average medical practitioner has not much aid to give you in the matter. He may have read of the researches of McCullom and Chitten- den and others in food chemistry, but when it comes to prescribing a diet for you, if you are {ll (other than diabetic), he perhaps will not limit you in any material way. The treatment of dia- betes is wound up so fundamentally with food, science that even the most backward M. D. has to know some- thing about it to handle this disease. Yet any observing person can prac: tically prove to himself that some of his illnesses are caused by too much sugar in his diet, for instance. It must be remembered that he will not 'be able to make a positive proof, because there are so many factors entering n; but he will feel pretty well con- vinced himself. After all, a man is either his own physician or a fool by the age of 30, as the ancients said. * K ok Take colds, for instance. Modern medical science is making lamentably little headway fighting the respiratory diseases. Washington is today full of Fall colds; you see and hear people sneezing their heads off on street cars, busses and on the streets. There is much treating of colds, but little prevention. The best treatment seems that of old Doc Na- ture, whom you may aid by getting into bed and staying there, so that all the natural forces are given over to resistance and building up. We have several friends who have indulged in the chlorine gas treatment for colds, and have been told by them all that they got little, if any, benefit from the process. A good sweat, a laxative and staying in bed seem to be the best practical treatment, after all. What do these do? Thev_eliminate something from the syatei®® What? Well, every one will have his answer, but we unhesitating- ly declare that in our case it is the effects of too much sugar consump- tion. Just as sure as we go on a candy spree eating homemade fudge every day, of which we are very fond, we will end up with a cold.” This has happened so many times that we ought to know better than to eat it. We eat it, however, and get our cold. Then, for several days, we are forced to lie in bed, sweating the sugar out of us. This may not be a very scientific way to phrase it, but it adequately describes the way the process seems to us. Sugar cakes or other delicacles have much the same effect. No doubt the sugar content does not, in the exact sense, cause the cold. Prob- ably it simply puts the system in such a_state, say acid blood, or something along that line, as to make it easily susceptible to temperature changes, So, we say, we are rather glad we haven't eaten any vear! | watermelon this BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. China has not learned her lesson not to attack foreigners, in spite of the high indemnities required after the international expedition ending the Boxer rebellion and its siege of the embassies. Now the rebels and the loval troops are alternately charged with attacking the naval ves- sels of Great Britain, the Urited States and Japan. Several British sailors have been killed and our own vessels have been forced to bombard the attackers. The trouble lies River, where the sion of Hankow. The same ‘reds have captured two British vess found above Hankow. in the Yangtze River, and although Wu Pef Fu, com- mander-in-chief, has ordered Gen. Yang Sen, the commander who is making the trouble, to cease his at- tacks on the British and to make an amicable settlement with Admiral Fd- wyn_ Alexander-Sinclalr, who has ar- rived at Hankow in a crulser, the only response Gen. Yang Sen has made to his chief has been to throw into prison the messengers who brought the orders. This indicates that he has joined the rebel Canton ‘reds” against Wu Pel Fu, and is deter- mined to make more trouble for for- eigners. long the Yangtze eds” have posses x ok K K Great Britain has large commer- cial interests along the Yangtze River, and missionary interests far- ther upsiream. Yet the government policy is to use the most pacific meas- ures toward a settlement, either with the powerless central government or the province, rather than resort to & punitive expedition in a country al- ready upon the verge of anarchy. For many vears it has been the prac- tice of the powers to act in unison in all matters with China; no nation takes the initlative. Doubtless, the most exact summing up of the situation that has been made is the editorial in the North China Daily News of last week, cabled to America: “All foreign relations with China— Rritish, American, French and Japa- nese—are founded upon pretense. The policy of makebelieve, so care- fully sustained by the British and | American governments particularly, is not based upon ignorance. “They have all the essential facts upon the state of China, but they are not prepared to face them. The gov- ernment that faces facts in China will find itself at once under the burden of unpleasant responsibility, which no one wants to shoulder, so it is easier and more comfortable, particularly for the diplomatic repre- sentatives of these governments in this country (China), to be culpably biind to the facts, and to pretend in all instances to accept the Chinese make-believe.” Another authority attributes the unrest and the resentment against foreigners to the competition of mod- ern motor hoats in coast and river commerce with the old-time native sampans and junks. It is not the first time that reactionaries have fought against modern machine: and the conditions would not be so serious without the anarchistic situ- ation due to native rebellion against the central government, and even the provincial governments. British naval patrols upon the Yangtze River have heen persistently bombarded from the shores for the last five years, and as the rebels have not been subdued nor punished they are growing bolder. Tt is re- ported that the lives of 600 British business men and missionaries, who are marooned far up the river, are in immediate danger. It is officially Americans_have been the State Department has waited for co-operation with the British before taking action. There is official con firmation of the attack upon the American destroyers Stewart and 'ope, and the vessels were struck re- eatedly, but such attacks have heen fraguent for five years. reported that two wounded, but | In order to comprehend the condi- tions it is necessary, first, to know that the great Yangste River divides northern and southern China-and is the only channel through which com- merce with the great fertile plain of the westernmost province of Szechuan finds egress to the Pacific Ocean and the world. That plain, which bor- ders on Tibet, is as large as Texas, or four times as large as Pennsylvania, and contains a population of 30,000,- 000 or more. It produces most of the tea and silk grown in China. Ocean steamers ascend the river more than 1,000 miles to Hankow; above Hankow the river narrows in mountain walls on_both sides rising smooth and sheer 2,000 or 3,000 feet and with the water rushing between these walls like the rapids of Niagara, a distance of six or seven miles. The river above the gorge widens, but no large steamers can pass through those rapids and the gorge. The river is extremely difficult to navigate be- cause of its swift current, and espe- cially because it suddenly rises or falls 150 feet in depth. It sometimes rises 75 feet in an hour. For centuries it has been navigated with the native junks and sampans, which rush down stream with the current, partly alded with sails, reaching the Pacific from Szechuan in 10 days. The sampans must be tugged upstream, with very long towlines of split bamboo. These | hawsers are hundreds of feet in length and four or five inches in diameter. They are manned by $0 or more men, skilled in the piloting of the stream, who tug together, singing their ‘chantees” in unison. They are sometimes 200 feet higher than the boat they are dragging. Along the banks of this river are a people entirely dependent upon the { business of navigating the river “by hand”—either as ‘“trackers” pulling the sampans or as owners of the boats, captains, sallors, sallmakers, carpenters, weavers of bamboo haw- sers and restaurateurs, who feed the | crews and trackers, and, together with | their dependents, these number a mil- lion or more. There is no other pos- sible vocation for them, for the coun- | try 1s too mountainous for agriculture. * X ok % About 1909 a Capt. Frank, a for- elgner, who had long lived near the Yangste Rapids, invented a special steamer, 150 feet in length with a three-foot draft, and a powerful en- gine, with which he successtully navi- gated the rapids and the upper river. By 1923 there were 40 such steamers on the river, capable of making the trip upstream in five days, in contrast with the man-pulled sampans which require a month; or downstream in three days, to the mouth, as com- pared with 10 days by the native | boats. | The million Chinese saw their oc- | cupation gone, and naturally blamed !their starvation upon the modern steamers of the “foreign devils.” So, from the mountain-high banks they showed their resentment by shooting |at_the steamers. | " "Since all China has been in internal | wars the outlawry has increased, and not only have native dwellers along the river shot at the steamers, but | solders of this faction or the other have claimed free passage on the | steamers, or, failing to get it, have | shot up the steamers so refusing. This has been going on persistent- Iy for the last five or six years. It is impossible to send men-of-war above the gorge, and, today, the two | gunboats of the British above the | gorge are stranded by the act of Chi- nese soldiers, whom they had refused passage. The Chinese forcibly boarded the steamers and drove them into the |bank. There, a British gunboat, | filled” with marines. came to the res- |cue, and, fn driving the Chinese ashore twe or three were drowned— | which complicates the diplomatic sit nation. (Copyright. 1926. by Paul V. Collins.) a gorge not over 300 feet wide, with | STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1926. l NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM L.G. M. SANCTUARY! SANCTUARY! Dal- las Lore Sharp. Harper & Bros. In Franklin Park, just over the way, I have found going on a busy daily life so little different in essen- tials from my own, from your own, as to change completely my old atti- tude of arrogance or indifference to- ward that life. Here is a tiny sanc- tuary where undisturbed, and often with direct assistance, plants and anl- mals may follow in freedom their own individual ways of life. Just a city square of green grass, just groups of beautiful trees, just a few birds and a single famlily of squirrels. That's all. Yet, as I came to see here the constant practice of a most effi- clent technic of life, developed under the same passion of self-perpetuation that possesses the human, I could not deny to any of these intelligence and ingenuity and invention and even art itself, bent upon a supreme will to live and to perpetuate their kind. In the heart of a great city this hand- breadth of natural life, so identical with the human life swarming strenu- ously about it, took a deep hold upon my imagination, and, indeed, upon my affection. And I pictured the thousands of such places springing up all over the country where trees and animals are claiming sanctuary and safety. " * ok ok % This is the time of the year when mind and heart turn happily upon such points of refuge. For Nimrod, thousands of him, is broad in the land seeking to dramatize himself in the role of Jackie Horner, “See, what a great boy am 11" This is the season when the picture section of the daily paper will project rather fatuou looking heroes, each draped in hu dreds of birds or squirrels or fish or what-not of the defenseless world. Each of these is proclaiming himself as more artful than a flock of decoyed ducks, or as a huge shot among black clouds of birds, or a mighty hunter, who with other hunters and trailing hounds, runs a lone little fox to its death. You recall, clearly, the only time when the Prince of Wales looked anything but royal—that time when a splendid lion or tiger, much more real in appearance than himself, lay stretched full length at his feet. The famous smile of the prince looked a bit sick in that picture—and that helped, a little. * K K K Did you ever see Three-Arch Rocks? No? Well, there they are only about a mile out off the coast of Oregon. Truly an impressive plece of archi- tecture, carved in cavern and tunnel, in arch and turret, by the unending wash of the Pacific upon what was once, maybe, a bare mountain of rock lifting out of the sea. With fleld- lasses you could easily see upon it herds of sea-lions sleeping on the reefy ledges, the long lines of black cormorants crawling by their wing tips over the heaving sea, the colo- nies of white-vested murres in stuc- coed patches up the rugged walls, the gulls like pearls against the basalt brown, and now and then a tufted puffin, a mere ball of black, hurled for some mark from off the rocky peaks.” On October 14, 1907, just 19 years ago, “President Roosevelt set aside this small_group of unsurveyed is- lands as the first wild-bird reserva- tion on the Pacific coast for the especial protection of sea fowl.” It was Finley and Bohlman who stirred the President up to make a sanctuary of Three-Arch. Rocks, “the beginning of a great work for the saving of wild life in the Northwest.” And here Mr. Sharp tells the thrilling ad- venture out of which came this issue. These young men, under difficulties and dangers hard to believe, finally reached the Racks, explored their amazing wild lite and left them with a solemn promise to see what could be done about it. That adventure is worth reading, just to find out how much of the zest of real hazard may- be enjoved without killing a thing. To go on—this promise took one of the boys across the States to Wash- ington. He went to the White House with his story and with pictures to back it up and make it real. The multitude on Three-Arch Rocks could not see that eager man Theodore Roosevelt, ‘‘all teeth and eyes, pound- ing fists, whanging about and bellow- ing ‘Bully! Bully!” just like an old bull sea-lion. But Finley did. They did not see him study the pictures and vow, ‘We'll make a sanctuary out of rch Rocks." But Finley did. ngress did.” *x Xk X X There are stories here, not so-ex- citing as this one—storles of the wild life around home—just down the road, over in that vacant lot. Even the | “Wildness of Boston” has place here and becomes believable, too, under the evidence so carefully submitted. The author's home town of Hingham comes in, naturally, for special experi- ences and stories growing out of these. There are stories of the birds of Santa Barbara as well as of the birds in the st and around home. Adventure plenty swarms around these familiar creatures. Thelr life histories reveal characteristics and habits pretty much as our own life storfes do. These creatures have skeletons in their closets, as we do. An occasional one has a past, much like the occasional human. They are selfish and quarrel- some, sometimes, like us. They take care ‘of their children, and so do we as a rule. Then, heing so much like us and so much more helpless than we are, they deserve our protection. They really do and you will say so, all over again, after reading this under- standing and human interpretation of them, * % K X top killing and start creating. Stop cutting and start planting. Stop wasting and start saving. Stop hat- ing and start loving. These are the 10 commandments of conservation for each of us within his own dooryard and neighborhood. over his own ranch and farm; a sower of seed, a planter of trees, a nourisher of life, where heretofore we have each plucked and burned and slaughtered.” “We still need legislation for the saving of wild life. Yet salvation is not in the law. It is in love . Both right and wrong bear the name of the law. Love runs ahead of the law, requires no law, and not only protects but plants and makes alive.” “Tet us enact conservation legisla- tion at Washington. Meanwhlle, in every schoolroom up and down the land. and across from shore to shore, 1k about birds and beasts and trees be started, let tramps afleld be taken. and =o, in every school- child’s heart, let love be planted, till knowledge of conservation be next to reading, writing and arithmetic, and love of nature next to love of God and nelghbor.” “For the imperiled present what am I doing? And what is my town doing? You and your town? Hing- ham has a 3,000-acre Wild Life Sanc- tuary, & Town Forest, an After-Church Field Club, a Garden Club, a chapter of the D. A. R., making conservation a major theme, and bee-keepers and bird-lovers not a few. And I have a seven-acre woodlot"—you must for vourselves read about that “seven- acre woodlot.” For it is not only achievement for Mr. Sharp himself. It is inspiration for vou as well. So, read it, and read the rest of thiz hook of fine and thinking and telling. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. Q. Who originally owned the land onrwh!ch the White House was built? —G. P. A. Davy Burnes, a Scotchman, owned a farm where the White House and Monument now stand. ‘Washington had considerable difficulty in persuading Burnes to sell, and the latter insisted on a proviso that the site of his own cottage could not be taken and that no lots should be sold for private buildings in the vicinity. Q. Does Russia have almost all commodities within its borders?—A. B. W. A. The areas controlled by Russia comprehend nearly every material natural resource.of modern civiliza- tion—minerals of all kinds, base and precious; every varlety of timber. cepting tropical: every charact cereals, vegetable and fruit lands—be- ing as near to self-contained as any other power excepting the British Empire. Q. What should be used to polish pewter>—A. D. A. A. Pewter is a soft metal, and only very fine scourers, such as fine whit- ing, rouge or fine rottenstone mixed with oil, should be used on it. Q. Did Alexander Graham Bell demonstrate the working of the tele- phone before the /ruler of Great Britain?—M. P. A. The diary of Her Majesty for January 14, 1878, says: ‘“‘After din- ner we went to the council room and saw the telephone. A Prof. Bell ex- plained the whole which is most extraordinal Q. While in New York City I was surprised to see the great number of horses used instead of automobiles for hauling trucks. Are there more horses there than in most large cltles”—C. E. §. The Department of Agriculture | that New York City uses more other city in the say horses than any United States, Q. To what extent are hospital facilities used in the United States? 8. T. H. A. There are 6.896 hospitals of all kinds, with 80 beds, of which 629 stantly in use. In ad dition to these there are 34,511 bassi- nets, or bal ibs, for new-born in fants. Thus 66 per cent of all hospi tal beds in the United States are con- stantly filled. 1t has been found that there is_one hospital bed for every 1415 inhabitants. The five States having the largest hospital facilities are New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, California and Massachusetts. At the end of the list are Delaware and Wy- oming. Q. What is the greatest number of people who have seen a prize fight in the past”—S. E. G. A. The largest crowd that ever at- tended a prize fight was estimated at 100,000 and that was the gathering at the Dempsey-Carpentier fight. Q. I have been informed that you have the statistics of a number of persons who have passed the 100- vear mark or more. Will you please Eive me some information on- this? A. There have been many reputed instances of persons living to a great age, but authorities are of the opinion that such reports are not entirel liable. In regard to persons living in three centurles, we would say that it 18 recorded that a peasant named Petraz Czarton died in 1724 in the village of Kapros, Hungary, at the age of 185. This man, therefore, must have lived partly in three centuries. In America, Noah Raby died in 1904 Piscatawny Almshouse, New Jersey, at the reputed age of 132. Mrs. Sarah Bosworth Bradway of Fastford, Conn., was 107 years old in 1925, and John A. Stewart, a banker of New York, was 103 years old in 1925. Q. Can materfals be bleached in the sunlight more rapidly in eold than in warm weather’—R. G A. Bleaching in sunlight is gen- erally explained as being due to oxi- dation, which is hastened by the chemical rays. The Bureau of Stand- ards has not noticed that bhleaching is more rapid In cold weather. If so, it may be due to the greater clearness of the alr, 30 that fewer rays of short- wave length are reflected away from the earth by dust particles. Q. Have two presidential candl- dates been nominated from the same State except Harding and Cox from ©Ohio?>—J. X. O. A. 1t has happened twice hefore that two presidential nominees have heen chosen from the same State at the same time. These were Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas from Tllinols in 1860, and Theodore Roose. velt and Alton R. Parker from New York in 1904, Q. What distinguishes an “internal combustion™ engine from an “internal explosion” engine?—M. A. G. A. An important difference is that in the case of an internal combustion the fluid fuel is injected into the eyl inder after the air has been com- pressed, and ignition is then obtained through the heat generated by the high compression of the air, instead of by an electric spark. Q. Where did St. Peter and St. Paul die?—E. C. A. It is believed that hoth were martyred at Rome. but the source for this belief can be traced no far ther than 180 A.D. Q. What is the oldest building in New Orleans?—V. L. W. A. The oldest of which the data of erection is certain is the convent on Charter street, buiit for the Ursuline nuns in 1730. Q. What will remove stains from white marble? J. P.C. A. In order to remove stains from whi‘e marble, cover the soiled part with a paste of quicklime moistened with a strong solution of sal soda for several hours. Then remove the paste wash the parts thoroughly and polish, it necessary, by rubbing vigorously with a dry cloth Q. 1 have a coin with “Sultanate of Brunei” engraved on it and would like to know if there was ever a country by this name.—K. R. A. Brunel is a British colonv lo- cated on the northwest coast of Rer- neo. Q. What kind of machine is the garrote, such as is used in Cuba for executions of criminals condemned to death?—I. B. W. A. Formerly the mode of capital punishment known as the garrote was by means of strangulation by a cord. which was passed around the neck of the condemned and twisted until the jugular vein was broken. Condemneéd persons were usually emploved as ex- ecutfoners. In the modern garrote the neck is inclosed in an iron col- lar containing a point or blade, which by the turning of a crank is forced into the spine at the base of the brain. This mode of capital punishment is practiced in _Spain, Portugal and other of the West Indian islands be sides Cuba. So far as we can ascer. tain, it is still operated by man power. Stop a minute and think about this fact. You can ask The Evening Star Information Bureau any question of fact and get the answer huck in a personal letter. It is a great educa- tional idea introduced into the Mves of the most intelligent people in the world—American newspaper readers It is a part of that best purpose of a newspaper — service. There is no charge. except ® cents in stamps for return postage. Get the habit of ask- ing questions. Address your letter to The Evening Star Information Bu- reau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. ; LET THESE CITIZENS BE HEARD From the Philadeiphia Record. Among the special events incldental to the Sesquicentennial, District of Columbia day promises to be by no means the least interesting and lively. Not only may a notable gathering on October 6 be expected, but it will be, it 1s*hoped, the occasion of an impor- tant and appealing demonstration in behalf of civil rights too long denied. The residents of the territory which has the distinction of being the seat of the Government of the United States are demanding rellef from the fantastic disability of being forbidden | to exercise the primary right of citi- | zenship, the right to vote; and their | intention is to associate their cause | with the celebration of the establish- ment of natlonal self-government. ‘The limitations of the officlal mind are fllustrated by the fact that this perfectly reasonable aim has been dis countenanced and obstructed. The president of the Board of District Com- | ssioners advised that the proposed iscussion would be ‘‘unbecoming’ and probably distasteful to Philadel- phia as host of the Washingtonians, and the committee in charge of the arrangements submissively ruled out all references to the movement. But it is unthinkable that this policy of suppression will prevail. Disfranchisement of the people of Washington dates from the founding of the Republic, when the District was created and placed under the exclu- sive jurisdiction of Congress: the citi- zens were deprived of the ballot in order to keep the Federal Govern- ment free from any State authority or local influence. But this safeguard imposed upon the residents an arbi- trary rule of “taxation without repre- sentation,” and nearly a century ago President Jackson urged that the sys- tem be modified. It was confirmed, however, In 1871, when the courts ruled that Congress could not dele- gate its constitutional powers, and a legislative assembly that had been set up had to be abandoned. Now that the District embraces a metropolitan city of 450,000 popula- tion, the voteless state of its citizens is an anomaly that works serious in- justice and injury. They are quite aware that their civic rights must be limited. They do not aspire to state- hood, which is impossible because it would create a dual sovereignty; nor THINK IT OVER Healthy, Wealthy and Wise. By William Mather Lewis, President George Washington University . I am not one of those who believe that every weakness of character, every mental deficiency, can be traced to wrong diet, or to adenoids, or to astigmatism. I am not yet ready to grant the domination of matter over mind, and I am not sure but that undue hopes are being held out hy this, that and the other plan for the development of supermen. But I do know that concentration, alertness, correct judgment—qualities which are today at a greater premium than ever in the history of mankind are qualities which are far more f quently found in the individual pos- | sessing a fit body than in one whose life is a constant struggle against weakness. Robert Louis Stevenson did not achieve greatness because nf his infirmities, but in spite of them We have never taken serionsly the |assurance of the Declaration of Inde. pendence that among our unallenable rights are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Life! We throw it away with prodi gal hand. When the death rate of children between hirth and 1 year of age Is brought down to 40 per 1.000 fn one community and is allowed to reach the appalling total of 245 per 1,000 in another, it seems evident that in the latter type of city the citizens are participating in the slaughter of the innocents by falling to provide essen. tial safeguards. The Ignorant savage governed his sanitary arrangements in such a way that he secured pure water. At more than one lake today water is pumped but a short distance from the place where sewage is poured into it. The Indian did not die of typhoid nor did the Eskimo have decayed teeth until our great_civilization reached them and they learned the easiest way to live—and ta die! ot only do we disregard life, but we do not pay much attention to lih- and the pursuit of happiness. who starts in the economic sStrug- ithout the proper physical equip- ment is not free. He is limited In his cholce of life work and in his ability to reach the top. The aposties of good health are ous most valuable citizens. (Copyright. 1026.) e do they insist upon local self-govern- ment in place of rule by (ongress through a commission. What they do demand is some measure of national representation—the right to vote for presidential electors and for members of the Semate and House of Repre mentatives. This limited enfranchise ment will require an amendment to the Constitution, a change which has been strongly indorsed by the commit- | tee of Congress which deals with the | District, and by influential leaders of thought throughout the country. There is no valid reason for defer- ring the submission of this amendment to the States, and there could be no more appropriate occasion for popu- larizing it than a gathering celebrat- ing the birth of democratic representa- tive government. The people of Phila- | delphia do not make the best use of | their own privileges as voters. But | they would be the last to object to| this expreasion of a just grievance by | their fellow citizens of the National Capital. To hecome the means of ad- vancing a cause so just would be for the Sesquicentennial an historie dis- tinction. Channel Motto. From the Indianapolis News. «Evidently the new motto for the English Channel should be: What % woman had done, women can do. s —e— — Quite Enough. From the Little Rock, Ark.. Demoerat ‘The man who wants but little here below should be satisfied he doesn't get any more than that. ——e— Sure of a Job. From the Bangor Daily* Commerei A good looking girl who can cook doesn’t have to pick a career. o e Sliding Seats. From the Pittshurgh Gazette-Times. The nine new non-permanent seals in the League of Nations Council ap pear to be the kind that may be pulled from under wheever risks sitting tn them.