Evening Star Newspaper, September 16, 1926, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR. WAéHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1926. I‘HE E"E\Vlhd STAR Y know'how to drive a car. It was|ington House and at the St, Charles, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY . .September 16, 1926 THEODORE W. NOYES. . . .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Bueinecs Office: 11th €t and Pennsylvania Ave New York Offce: 110 East 42nd St Chicazo Office: Tower Bullding European Office: 14 Reeent St.. London. England The Evenine Star. with the Sunday morn- »# sdition. fa delivered by carriers within e city ‘at’ 60 cents per month: dafly only 45 cente her montn: il 20 cents per month. Ordera may. be sent by mail or telephons Main 8000, Collection is made by zarrier a1 end of each month Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Paily and Sunday 1rr. $0.00: 1 mo.. 730 | more or less remote one could find a would confess that he had never ridden in a horseless buggy. In days boy who had not learned to ride a two-wheeled velocipede, but a few years later one could not find & boy or girl delinquent in that art. So, those of you who keep a family air- plane or even a knockabout plane for use between the home and office should be on guard. You should see | that the hangar is locked at night after you come home from the movies and it would be a good idea to hitch an anchor to your office airplane when you park it downtown. i — s Birthday of the Constitution. Daily_only 1¥r. 8600 1 mol sunday only 157, $3.00: 1 mo.. 25¢ All Other States and Canada. Pai's and Sunday..1 yr.. $12.00: 1 mo.. $1.00 ally only SR 00: 1 mo. 3¢ unday only Member of the Associated Press. The Aseociated Press fa exclusively entitled to the like for republication of il news d patches credited o 1t or not otherwise cred- tad in this naper and alko the local news blished herein. A1l rights of publication special disnatches herein are also reserved Tilting at Windmills. More than eighteen months ago Vice President Charles G. Dawes, de livering his inaugural address in the Senate chamber, exploded a verbal bomb. He demanded that common sense rules be adopted by the Senate for its procedure, ruies that would permit the majority to rule and not leave the Senate at the mercy of the whim or personal ambition of a single Senator or a small group of Senators. Tast night. speaking at the annu; dinner of the radio industries, the Vice President returned to the charge. His plea was for half a loaf. I the whole be beyond the hounds of possi- bility. The Vice President urged that the Senate rules be so amended that majority cloture could he nvoked to prevent filibusters against appropria- tion and revenue bills in the “short” sessions of Congr These are the business bills of Congress. Without revenue and without appropriation the wheels of government would quick- 1y cease to revolve. The Vice President holds no Senator, not even one from the South with visions of an- other force bill hovering about his head, could reasonably oppose such an amendment to the Senate rules. This would be the conclusion reached by the average intelligent and edu- cated American citizen. Another less persevering and cour- ageous than the Vice President might have been dismayed by the lack of re- sults attaiped by his crusade for a change in the Senate rules. He has been the subject of ridicule, of scath- ing attack from the floor of the Sen’ ate by Senators who oppose any change which they hold would inter- fere with what they term the liberty of speech. In so doing they confuse liberty with license. Amid the guffaws of Senators the Vice President has been acclaimed a modern Don Quixote. Indeed, he has been tilting at windmills, though the windmills would be the last to ad- mit it. During the last congressional recess the Vice President carried his cam- paign for a change in the Senate rules into many States. During the present vacation of Congress he has not made ®0 many speeches, but that of last night was carried over the air to mil- lions of Americans. It was a plain, common-sense statement of the case against the Senate rules. Pithily the Vice President declared that the ter- rors of majority rule are as nothing compared to the terrors of minority rule. The latter prevails far too often in the Senate today. When the Senate reconvenes it will be for a short session, ending March 4. In that short session any small group of Senators, or even a single Senator, who so desired, could prevent the adoption of the proposed amend- ment to the Senate rules, and so they could also prevent the passage of the vital appropriation bills before the close of the session March 4, and force the calling of a speciar session of the new Congress by the President. With such power in his grasp, a Senator may bargain with those in charge of legisiation, may force the adoption of measures for his own political advan- tage, which a majority of the Senate would otherwise turn down. The pity of the situation is, as the Vice President frankly stated, that “those only can abolish the evil who benefit from it, the Senators them- eelves. S One hundred and thirty-nine years ago tomorrow the Constitution of the United States was adopted. This an- niversary will be observed in two places, at the Sesquicentennial in Philadelphia and at a patriotic meet- ing in New York under the direction of the Sons of the American Revolu- tion. Elsewhere there appears to be no particular commemoration of the event. The date is not particularly significant. A span of one hundred and thirty-nine years is not especial- Iy impressive, like that of one hundred years or one hundred and fifty. But it is nevertheless the time to recall momentous happening, as important as the signing of the Declaration of Independence, indeed one of the chief landmarks in the national history. The adoption of the Constitution was not assured when the work of the Constitutional Convention was| completed. Months elapsed before the assent of the nine States neces- sary to the complete establishment of the compact between the States te govern all was seoured. The conven- tion accepted the final draft on the 17th of September, 1787. The rati- fications came in the following order: Delaware, December 7, 1787; Pennsyl- vania, December 12; New Jersey, De- cember 18; Georgia, January 2, 1788; Connecticut, January 9; Massachu- setts, February 6; Maryland, April 28; South Carolina, May 23; New Hampshire, June 21; Virginia, June New York, June 26; North Caro- lina, November 21, 1789; Rhode Island, May 29, 1790. The ninth State, New Hampshire, voted on the 21st of June, 1788, which is, therefore, actually the date on which the Constitution be- came operative. The first ten amendments to the Constitution were submitted to the States by the First' Congress, in a resolution adopted on the 25th of Sep- tember, 1789, fifteen months after the definite ratification. They were rati- fied by the sufficient number of States before the close of 1791. ' Recent additions to the Constitution have comprised the income tax, direct senatorial election, prohibition and woman suffrage amendments. They have exercised a profound influence on the lives of the people. One of them is now under sharp discussion, although there would appear to be little, if any, chance of its repeal, which would require first a two-thirds vote in both houses of Congress and then a three-fourths vote of the States, being the same procedure that is required to amend. It is accepted as established law that a State that has once ratiffed an amendment and thereby contributed to its final adop- tion cannot later withdraw that rati- fication. It can withdraw ratification before the completion of the three- fourths vote of the States. Just so, it can, after once rejecting, proceed on reconsideration to ratify Study of the Constitution has in the last few years been extensively carried on by the younger people ofd this country through the oratorical contests that have been promoted and now become an annual institution to stimulate the understanding of the Jjunior citizens of the United States of the great instrument of govern- mental foundation. In consequence of that study the Constitution is coday better understood, more fully appre- ciated than ever before in this coun- try. The anniversary of its adoption should be always observed, and there should now be thought upon the sub- ject of an adequate commemoration of its sesquicentennial in 1937. i o It remained for Miss Ederle to dem- onstrate that b large number of per- sons who set themselves up as pos- sible Channel swimmers were merely loafing on the job. PR Indian Visitors. The arrival of Indians at Washing- ton by airplane is a shock to persons The walop Senator Wesley Jones advocate and a “dry.” against Mr. Bullitt. wet anti-World Court The explanations which refer to drink and ¥ as confusing considera- t 1 ot be available in analyzing the result State of Washington will de- cle by opposing | & World Court a reut issue a ma .- Lock Your Hangar. wutemobile thief The his years has plave zood many the Licycle thici. Wheelmen used contrivances to thws and with chain padlock sought to make the wheel ) 1t parked. Bicycle w poty in erime him a Letore wis t him and | safe W was “accessories” Hor e and it new lam progress thief. A plane belonging contractor, of No. Perth Amboy. which was stolen yes terday morning, nd at Cer mantown, Pa.. in the afterncon, cording to the reports. It had been slightly damaged in landing and the pilot-thief had fled One must against robbers all-night curb parkers close the door or doors of the garage and snap the lock. but even then a robber wiil sometimes get away with the family car. Great care must be taken to protect the family airplane The sky tax! is very tempting to bold rascals. While it is believed that not every evilminded person knows how to drive an alrplane, that sort of learning may spread fast. Twenty years ago it was possible to meet a man who admitted that he did not was often necessary to buy a bell. Ax evidence of now ve the airplane news “An air J. Yellen Jaques street, or hi item we John [t} was 1ake the hangar safe Some of us—not the are careful to | able to persons who are children now. dian. | Their | not bring down a fiying hawk with an | | scendants who were children forty or fifty vears ago. but it may not seem unreason- To them it may be all right that In- Qiuns should drop from the o Washington with the notse of gas motors. But to the elders it would seem more natural had the redskins idden into town on galloping cayuses ind made themselves interesting with ecagle feathers, red blankets and war whoops. These present air travelers are rep- resentative men of the Sioux, a race which for sugacity has always ranked th the shrewdest Indians. and for physical strength and bravery has al- ways, within the knowledge of the white: ond above the average In- They once lived east of the Al-| legheny Mountains. The visitors have names which interest—or, as the new fad e: -ession has it, “intrigue’—us. names are Crazy Horse and Eagle Hawk. That part of the story is satisfactory. The names have the proper sound. It is possible, though the thought is depressing, that Mr. Crazy Horse and Mr. Eagle Hawk may not know “anything like” so much about cayuses as about automobiles: that their evening dress may be spike-tail | coats instead of red blankets: that they are defective in the subjects of signal fires and witch medicines; that they could not follow a man’s track across the rocks, and that they could Perhaps these gentlemen, de- of one of our very old families, never think of ordering their butlers to bring in a haunch of jerked buffalo meat The boys of old Washington knew more about redskins than the more learned boys today. They saw crowds | o!' Indians at Ben Beveridge's }Vash- arrow. leven possible to meet a man who at Third and the Avenue. Before the | Civil War James Maher, and later James Donnelly, kept the Union Hotel and Indian headquarters, at the Ave- nue and Thirteenand-a-Half street. Delegations of Indians to Washington were numerous in the forties, fifties, sixtles and seventies. It was custom- ary for them to wear their tribal dress, with plenty of feathers, elk teeth and bear claws as ornaments. Quite a number of boys, overflow- ing with a zeal for adventure, used to run away to fight Indians, and some of them would get as far West as “alls Church or one of the locks above Georgetown before they grew hungry or "before mother caught up with them. Up-to-date boys may have their dreams and ambitions, but their bent | is not so marked for hunting and fighting Indians as was the bent of the boys of long ago. R s a— The New Jersey Murder. Indictment of four persons for the Hall-Mills murder in New Jersey four vears ago concludes the first stage of the revival of that notorious crime, which at the time seemed unsolvable. Two of those indicted were originally suspected. Two others were not then involved in any discussion of the trag- edy. The testimony upon which in- dictments have been returned com- prises mainly that of one of the wit- nesses in the original hearings, a woman of peculiar character. Her story, which in 1922 seemed fantastic, appears now to have been verified by other evidence which has been elicited with difficulty from persons who for one reason and another refrained from appearing to tell what they knew of the circumstances. There has been suspicion of a corrupt influence in the suppression of the inquiry of 1922. The case Yas revived upon discovery of significant facts through a matri- monial dispute. A special prosecutor was named by the governor to reopen the murder case and probe it to the bottom. He has conducted his investi- gation with vigor and has now se- cured an indictment. Should any of the four who are now accused be con- vieted upon trial—and trial is assured in the present circumstances—justice will have trlumphed again in New Jersey as it has often in the past, to make “Jersey justice” famous. . o Mussolini compares himself to Caesar, but very properly refrains trom encouraging any Brutus or Cas- sius talent. Caesar himself was un- able to carry the role of dictator to a personally successful finish. The bene- fit of historic observation and modern methods of organization may enable Mussolini to attain a more satisfac- tory result. s Soviet Russia would like to forget the debts contracted under the late czar, while claiming benefits under treaties entered into with the mon- archy. The Soviets were at first re- garded as visionary, but they have turned out to be pretty practical busi- ness men. ) A fine oyster season is predicted, but there is no hope that the old days will return, when a man with a shovel would sell you all the oysters you could carry away forjtwo bits. ———r————— In swimming the English Channel Miss Ederle achieved a psychologic as well as a physical triumph. She demonstrated that the feat depended mainly on confidence and determina- tion. —.——r A diplomat is frankly expected by the traffic director to be at least as cautious in motoring as he is in con- ducting state or social interviews. ————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Comin’ an’ Goin'. Comin’ an’ goin’, day by day— Troubles were not meant to stay. Joys must likewise fade, in turn, As we live an’ seek to learn. Altercations swiftly rise, Fashions strange will greet the eyes. Manners which we thought were queer As proprieties appear. Let's take cheer, O friend of mine, For the shadow and the shine Neither can forever stay— Comin’ an' goin’, day by day. Making Good. ou are considered one of the best after-dinner speakers before the coun- “Thank you,” answered Senator Sorghum. * “A dinner s an expensive affair these days. A man who won't make a good speech in return for an invitation 1s an utter ingrate.” Why Walk? Though a parade looks dandy, Hereaftér I shall balk. A flivver's always handy; So, wherefore should I walk? Jud Tunkins says other people's troubles are their own fault. Think it over. Maybe youz are the same way. Brass and String: A wreck may leave you all forlorn Unless you're looking sharp. Awhile you sound your motdr horn And next you play a harp. Early Discovery. “Who is that Indian squaw with al- most no clothes on?" inquired Colum- bus. “Be first mate. America.' " more respectiul,” warned the ““That's the original "Miss Treading Some caution he Throughout his talk to use Although his sentiments were wet His specches wore gumshoes. Apportioning the Four Bits. “Is Mayme improving her mind?” “Sure. She buys a fifteen-cent lunch and a thirty-five-cent magazine.” afely. id not forget Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, says the fool who laughs at danger whim- pers the loudest when he actually meets it. “One reason dat nobody wants a monkey foh an ancestor,” said Uncle Eben, “Is dat no monkey ever left any propetys » ! To err is human, to forgive divine, said Pope., To experiment in the gar; den is necessary, even if the experi ment is a failure, says the Old Gar- dener. Now, as Autumn is close at hand, it is easy to see the result of trials, the i outcome of various plantings, the suc- cesses and failures, which were not so apparent at the beginnins. In Spring high hopes were held out for the planting of hibiscus close in front of altheas. Now it is easy to see that the former were put too closé to the flowering shrubs, and that neither grew as it should. This year the’ altheas Sharon, one of the most likable shrubby plants) branched out. in- stead of growing._ tall, which was a commendable thing, in the situation by the back fence, but utterly failed to produce the large flowers of last season, or any way near a like num- ber of blooms. At the same time the hibiscus, al- though producing more canes, or branches, did not have flowers half as big as last Summer, or produce half as many of them. Nor was the color of the “eye” so pronounced. In short, there is no escaping the conclusion” that both altheas and hibiscus would have done better if there had been considerably more space between the two rows. Two feet is not enough—4 would have been better. The roots of the hibiscus are of a tuberous character, and by Autumn have spread out in an amazing man- ner, as any one knows who has ever transplanted one of the mallows. The althea is a hardy plant, but not suffi- ciently so to compete with the marsh plants at too close range. * Kk X ¥ Here the moot question of water comes in again. The large quant on the hibiscus, wh them good, preventing their leaves from hanging pendulous, as they often do in very hot weather, did not do gaything particular for the altheas as far as we could tell. ‘Altheas not so watered produced larger blossoms for a longer period of time. The althea is a hardy bush and needs no coddling, evidently. It flourishes well in \Washington, mostly receiving no attention whatever. There are some beautiful speci- mens on Nineteenth street between K and N streets. These have at- tained the height of trees, flowering beautifully for many weeks. It is doubtful if there are any other busi- ness establishments in the National Capital with such decorations in their front yards. Evidently the altheas were planted there years ago. when the neighborhood was entirely resi- dential, and grew unheeded and un- cared for, with the happy results that grace the community taday. Nature, during a good rain, pours such huge quantities of water upon lawns and plants that it would seem hard to hurt them with a hose. The conclusion seems inescapable that, given good drainage, lack of water, rather than too much, is to be feared. The danger of watering too often lies chiefly, it would seem, in soaking foliage, especially when it will be sub- jected directly to the strong rays of the sun all day long. Gardeners, there- fore, who water early in the morning, are not imitating Nature, Who usu- ally upturns her watering pot in the sky late in the afternoon. Evening is the best time to water, and the place for the water is chiefly on the ground, not on the foliage or flowers. o N Another garden failure is the plant- ing of gladioli in a row of kochia (Rose of ities of water put ich seemed to do The Legislature of the Philippine Islands has passed the plebiscite bill over the veto of Gov. Gen. Wood, and the measure must now be decided by { President Coolidge, according to the organic law of the islands. The plebiscite is to let the Filiptnos vote upon the question as to whether they want absolute and immediate inde- pendence from the United States. Ultimate “independence” is pledged, but when it will be actuated depends upon congressional action, and not upon popular voting of ‘the Filipinos. | Tndependence will then carry with it assurance of nondnterference by other nations and peace at home be- tween the tribes. P Nevertheless, the very hunger for independence cannot fail to find more or less sentimental sympathy in the hearts of Americans, whose ancestors, while numbering scarcely more than a quarter of the population of the ipinos (11,500,000), fought a desper- ate war for the upholding of their own Declaration of Independence from George I11. When Senor Vincente G. Bunuan, director of the Philippine press bureau in Washington, was cited the long list of American grievances against the admintstration of George I1I, as set forth in our Declaration of Inde- pendence, and asked to name the par- allel abuses of the Filipinos by the American administrators, he pointed to the concluding paragraph of his own book, entitled *“Arguments for Immediate Philippine Independence.” Like the classlc Greek, Aristides “the Just,” who was opposed by voters for election to high office and banished for five years, on the ground that they were tired of hearing him spoken of as a “just man,” so the Americans are now opposed by the would-be in- dependent Filipinos, because their ad- ministration has brought so many blessings that it should not be con- tinued. When questioned further as to why the Filipinos wanted independence, Mr. Bunuan said that the chief reason was that they wanted their own men in public office, while Gov. Gen. Wood appointed Americans instead, and when their Senate refused to confirm the appointments, he made “ad inte- rim” appointments, overriding the Senate. * * k X To the suggestion that as an inde- pendent nation they would lose free trade with the United States and must pay the same tariffs as other nations now pay, he was sure that that would only benefit the Filipinos by compel- |ling them to hustle for other markets {to offset losses in the United States market. | "The United States Department of i Commerce reports that if our regular ! tariffs had been collected on all im- ports from the Philippines during 1924, the same as from other foreizn countries, it would have cost the Phi |ipinos u duty of $43.972,535. e re- ceived sugar to the value as fol- lows: Raw, $8,630; centrifugal. $36,- 7%5.240; refined, $238,565. The sugar duty alone would have amounted to 1815.247,200. Now Philippine sugar | comes in tree, in competition with our {own. The duty on tebacco, including products, would have been approx- imately $20,000,000 & year: now it free, The duty on coconuts and { products would exceed $5.000,000 a | Year; today it is free. On hemp, cordage, embroideries and hats it would exceed $5,000,000 a year; now free. Offsetting that price to be paid America on our imports from the i Philippines, the Iilipinos, under their present . schedules for other imports, THIS AND BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. THAT bushes, a “glad”’ alternating with a bush. i We have watched this planting with great interest, and perhaps planted it rezard it as a success, but it seems otherwise to us, for the fol- lowing reason: The swordlike leaves of the gladio- lus, and the lilylike flowers, beautiful in themselves, break the symmetry of the kochia hedsge. The chief charm of the kochia row lies in the round chavacter plan - uniformity, one after the other. ‘When any lower is introduced into the row, the charm is broken. This is our objection to the planting. When the gladioli started to come up we thought the effect would plgase us, but when they came into bloom we judged it not o good. Here was an interesting experiment, however, and more gardeners ought to try them. There is nothing like trying your plans out. It is one thing to conceive an idea, it is distinctly an- other to put it into effect. What in Spring would seem a won- derful garden thought, in Autumn turns out to be only “so-so.” The combined hedge of Kochias and gla- dioli, for instance, might strike some as beautiful, yet it is probable that e will not see it repeated next year, for the “good and simple reason,” as Pen- rod said, that the owners will agree with us that the simple Kochia hedze they had the year before was by far the prettier. \ Another garden experiment was the planting of a moon vine on the north side of a house, where it got little sun. The growth of the vine was luxu- riant. Today it goes ‘“over the house,” and its leaves are glossy and green. There is, however, not a sign of a flower bud and it does not ap- pear, at this writing, that it ever will bloom. It it does not, lack of sun will be the reason. Bush hydrangeas (Hy- drangea aborescens) planted on the south side of houses commonly throw greenish-white flowers, instead the pure white blooms which the plant its popular name of “Hills of Snow.” This is an instance of the contrary effect of sun. Lack of sunshine offen causes honeysuckle to fail to bloom. If a plant does not bloom often, this is the cause, either that it needs sun and is not gefting enough of it, or that it does mot need so much of it, and so is getting too much, even in an ordinary situ- ation. There are so many factors enter- ing into the growth of plants, as of human beings, that it is often hard to pin the thing down to the real cause of success or failure. The best the amateur gardener can do is to he watchful and keep a garden record. The latter is necessary if one is to secure results from hi: watchfuln. Only by knowing what he did and what results he got from it can he guard against like failure again, or secure an equal success next vear. If one dces not know, for instance, that he cut his grass for the last time on September 6, last yvear, and that it killed out on him during the Winter, he will blithely cut it late this Fall and have it Winter-kill on him a second time for his pains. Knowing, however, the date of his Jast cutting last vear, this season he carefully refrained from cutting his grass after August 15, with the result that his lawns are going into the Winter, the expression is, with a long coat of grass to protect ‘he roots. Also, by allowing his grass to go to seed in the growing Autumn. he automatically reseeds his ground. * % ok K BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. would have collected only $9,551,125 on all the imports we send to the is- lands—cotton cloths, prepared food- stuffs, machinery, books and paper and other manufactures which they are unable to produce. That would be revenue to their treasury, but added costs to the individual consum- ers, so long as the islands have no means of producing in competition. Deducting the offsetting revenue, the price of independence would re- main the difference between $43,972,- 535 and $9,551,125 a year. The Filipinos have indicated a readiness to reimburse the United States the due proportion of the $20.- 000,000 we paid Spain at the close of our war for the liberation of Cuba and the Philippines, but that would he a small sum in comparison with the tariff loss of some $35,000,000 net every year. Inversely considered that $35,000.000 is the annual “rent America is paying for our occupation and responsibility for the Philippines. P When the danger of invasion by Japan was suggested, Mr. Bunuan declared that that was but a bunga- hoo, for the Japanese could not stand the tropical climate of the Philippines, except in the southern parts where the altitude modified it. As proof, he pointed to the statistics showing thac in 1918 there were in the Philip- pines only about 5000 Japanese, in 1924 about 7,000, and “now the num- ber is decreasing.” yet there is no Japanese exclusion law; while in Hawali, where the American Japanese exclusion law is in force, there are 140,000 Japanese, and in the Conti- nental United States 120,000 more. In reply to that, it is pointed out by a Government official that the Japanese cannot meet Chinese com- petition, and as there are many Chi- nese in the Philippines, the Japanes keep away. They come to Hawail prior to American ownership and American laws, and there never has been a Federal American law of e clusion of Japanese—only a ‘“‘gentle; men's agreement’” as to the laboring class. While today the Japanes kept out of the Philippines by “Chinege cheap labor,” if Japan ever got possession of the island, she would exclude the Chinese and open its opportunities to her own people from her overcrowded land. Dean Maxima M. Kalaw of the University of the Philippines pro- poses a round-table discussion be- tween representatives of the islands and the Upited States, with a view to arriving at a compromise arrange- ment, similar, perhaps, to the adjust- ment between England and the Free Irish Republic, or for an Amer protectorate similar to that Cuba. ten. Aguinaldo has issued a state- ment: I do not care if my enemies accuse me of treachery to the cause of my country, which in vain they have been doing these several months. I shall support the governor to the best of my ability, because I am con- ! vinced that he has the interest of the | Filipino at heart.” * k% K The greatest factor in the present situation is the effort of great capital | from America to gain a modification over creat rubber corpo 1 W00 or 200,000 acres of land for the cultivation of rubber. This would provide employment for thousands of | Filipinos _and _develop natural re- ources which now lie dormant. But |the Filipincs passed through bitter | experiences when the friars held all | their agricultural land, and they are vigorously opposed to admitting any more landed monopolies. President Quezon of the Senate points out that under present laws a I those who | of the | f the laws of the islands, so that one tion might secure | THINK IT OVER Foreign Languages and Peace. By William Maiher Lewis, Prosident Georee Washington University. The vaunted “American sense of humor” often exhibits itself in laughter over the speech of foreigners. Mark Twain gives us this dialogue in Huckleberry Finn: “‘Is a French man a man?" sald Nigger Jim. ‘Yes. said Huck Finn. ‘Well, den! Dad blame it. why doan’ he talk like a man? You answer dat! said Nigger Jim." Too many Americans regard lan- zes other than their own in the ame way; and consider the manners, customs and speech of those from abroad a huge joke. Protestations of friendship for foreign nations are only empiy until this attitude is gen- erally abandoned. Compiete interna tional co-operation can never be real- ized until the language barrier is leveled. When there is knowledge of foreign peoples based upon a real ac- quaintance with their life and thought, understanding will follow. The greatest step to this knowledge is familiarity with the foreign lan- guage and through it with the foreigner’'s newspapers, magazines, books—history in the making. Goethe said, “The man who know two languages is worth two men. This is true both from the standpoint of the individual concerned and of his country. 4t is a patriotic service of the highest importance to prepare one's self to serve one’s country—and humanity in general—by interpreting fairly and without prejudice the life, culture, history and ideals of one race to anocher. This is an important reason for foreign language study. It con- tributes another sound argument to the contentlon that the way to pe manent peace is through wise educa- tion. (Cobyright. 1926.) Women Are Human. From the Baltimore Morning Sun. In her comments on women Lady Astor goes far as to express her belief that they wil. make the world safe for democracy. This is an ex- treme doctrine. The basic fact that women are human has been so often borne out by their attitude on divers iesues that it is unjust to expect them to achieve the healing of the nations— that is, alone. With men they may get somewhere; and the political gains achieved by men and women together may perhaps be what Lady Astor meant to predict. Of course, if women made the grade alone, the outcome would be mot democracy, but gynoe- ‘racy, a very different thing. Who started this doctrine that women are of a different spiritual race | from men? It is true that heroines without number can be brought fo ward as evidence that the female sex is loyal, brave and utterly fine; but there are heroes to the -men's credit, too. And there are non-heroines, like the new Soviet Ambassador to Mexico, whose appointment was being made public while Lady Astor was speaking in New York. She is not making the world safe for the kind of democrac that Ladyv Astor has in mind. And the new Russian sea captain of whom yesterday's news told is no Grace Darling, nor has she been put in com. mand of a transatlantic liner because of her moral superiority It is not easy to generalize about women. They are too much like men | to make it safe. They are not unan- imous about anything in politics or morals—those two realms which en- thusiasts pretend to unite. There have been indications that in elections th: vote about as their lesser halves do. They contributed “Ma Ferguson to Texas and Nellie Ross to Wyoming, | thereby following the male habit of electing some bad governors and some good ones. So when Lady Astor com- prehensively praises them in America she is about as convineing as when she praises the Conservative party in a British election. Some of what she says is true, and some isn't. St r Personifying the Earth. From the New York Times. lof Tibet, In their enthusiasm over mew the- | BY FREDERI Q. Where is the world's concert hall?—F. O. _A. The Cleveland Auditorium. seat- ing 12,500, is believed to be the largest concert auditorium in the world. It was opened April 15, 1922, Q. When reference is made nowa- days to the “South” just what part of the country is meant?>—S. N. I A. The South is generally unde tood as including the following ates: Alabama, Arkansas, Fle Kentuc isslppi. M largest Georgia, land, Mi Carolina, Oklihoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virsinia and West Virginia, and the District of Colum- bia, which have a total area of 96 7 square miles, about one-third Continental United States. By some, Maryland, the District of Columbia and West Virginia are not included in the “South.” BY others, Missouri also is omitted. Q. How can wood be treated it will not absorb any water? seems to be a_property of the wood substance itself, and any modifica- tion, althoush it might change amount_of absorption, does mot move the absorptive property tirely. Q. re- en What Herman peace prize?—G. R. A. Raphael Herman of Wa ton offered 000 for the best edu cational plan caleulated to maintain world peace. The pri awarded in 1924 to Dr. David St Jordan, chancellor emeritus of 1 Stan- ford Universit, Q. be Sprin was the hing- rr land sons of the year capital lette -D. G. ilization of the nam: of the year is sanc- some authorities. @thers that, inasmuch as the names of the seasons are COMMON nouns, they should not be written with the initial capital lette Q. conquer W.N. N A. Plans to r h the summit of this “top of the world” are at pr disarranged, owing to tHe Dalai Lama who has issued warnin to American, English and i peditions not to set foot in Q. T've seen meats at market that have small purple stamps on them Why have they been stamped?—A. B. A, Little purple stamps are used for marking meats t ed the inspection of the T inspectors. It is your a any meat which has that ma me from animals that passed a thorough inspectlon, given by trained experts. Q. W ful during during 19237 ters?—S. C. A. The MacMillan the polar regi only means of communication low power and short wave len; the Bowdoin communicated with eral stations in the United while the ship was frozen in sands of miles awa Broadc concerts from the United States tions were heard during the long nights of the Arctic Zone. The call letters were WNP, the slogan w: Wireles North Pole, and the powe was about 500 watts. Q. What is the ‘name of the chem ical which when held in contact with will cause the gas to Should the s Will there be an expedition te Mount Everest this year? irance that s MacMillan's radio success his trip into the What were his call let- expedition to cadio o thou sting sta dark It is spongy platinum. Q. What is the most importa bearing animal?—J. F The Biologica the silver fox is the most valuable individual pelt. The marten brings the highest price for the size of "the ANSWERS TO The property of absorbing water | the | Aretic | 1 Survey says that | QUESTIONS C J. HASKIN. pelt of all North American fur-bear- ing animals, while, taking into constd- eration the total annual catch, the | muskrat brings the greatest returns. Q. How does the debt of New York City compare with that of Chicago?— . M, According to the last available the total gross debt of New was $1,895.011,525, while that of Chicago was $218,218,616. The il net debt, which is funded and ting debt, less sinking fund nssets of New York City was §1,105.336,446 and that of Chicago $126,151,114. Q. Is it advisable to transplant tree in the Fall, and what month?— L S, Deciduous plants are ordinaril moved when dormant, or from a little be the leaves drop in the Autumn until wth starts in the Spring. Who preached the funeral serv- Q. ancy Hanks Lincoln’ o A The funeral service for Abraham Lincoln’s’ mother, which was con- ducted some months atter her death, ached by the Rev. David El- @ Baptist clergyman fipm Ken- Among the Kentuck: aptists it was not then, nor is it now, cus- tomary for a burial to be accompanied by funeral services, This was the rea son for the delay In such services for Mrs. Lincoln was cins, | tucky Q. Why is a cardinal’s title written and spoken between the Christian and surname willlam Cardinal 0'Con nell? Why not Cardinal William O'Connell?—J. ¥ A. William is the cardinal's Chris- tian name, distinguishing him_from other O'Connells, bu ‘ardinal O'Con- neli” is his official title. Q. Did any Jewish merchants sign the protest against the stamp act? Although mo list of signers has seenn found of the New York agrec ment of merchants to make all pas and future rders for Brit mer chandise cont’'ngent on the repeal of the stamp act. it is believed that the Jewish merchants of the city of that day joined with their fellow business men. zinal agreement entered into by Philadelphia merchants, how ever, shows that the leading Jews of that city were among the signers | They were Mathias Bush. David | Frank Joseph man Mos Levy s Mordecai. Q. To what school was the Duke given?—M. B. A. The Duke bequest established a | trust embracing _property having | value of at least $40,000,000, which in cludes approximately three-fourths of | the holdings of the Southern Power System. The trust is to be admin istered 15 trustees who will con stitute a self-perpetuating body. The trustees are directed to spend a sum not “exceed 100,000 in acquiring | land and erecting and equipping a building for the establishment institution of learning in South | lina to be known and operated as the | Duke University, with the provision that if Trinity College at Durham, N. (., sees fit to change its name to Duke University, such sum may be { spent in extending Trinity College. | money Take advantage of this free sert ice 1f vou are not one of the thou sands who have patronized the Bu- | reau since its establishment, we want | ou to start now. This is a service | maintained for the benefit of the readers of The Evening Star and we {aant you to get. your share of bene | fit from it. Send your questions to | us.” Inclose 2 cents in stamps for return postage. Address The Eve | ning Star Information Bureau, Fred | eric J. Haskin, Director, Washing- | ton, D. C. Receding War ories about the original formation and subsequent physical development of thi ogists fall into a trick about the earth as if it were a per- son. The earth has done this will do that. it lacks perfect symmetry, it endeav- ors by earthquakes and upheavals to shake itself into perfect shape. No doubt scientific truth hind all this, yet there is often in these writings a subtle implication that the carth has a kind of self-con It almost seems as if it were thought of as standing before a mirror to see if its hat is on straight. Or, in its assumed efforts to better itself, it recalls a man or woman hastening to a doctor to be examined or seeking the services of a plastic surgeon ‘This kind of personification, if tended, certajnly makes for a v impression., If it is unconscious, merely shows how the author has be- come deeply absorbed in his subject. He has dwelt with it so long that it comes to have for him a separate and veal identity. Thus it was said that Gibbon studied the Roman empire so long that he aseribed to it a person- ality. But it was added in his case he finally confused that personality with his own. e The Penalty for Murder. From the Chicago Daily Tribune. Hinton Clabaugh, the new superin- tendent of paroles, says Leopold and Loeb will be eligible for parole afte having served 11 years and 3 months in prison. They were sentenced to life imprisonment, but under a State v they can be paroled after 20 vears. (Good behavior the 20 vears to less than 12. The minimum sentence for murder in Illinois is 14 years. ( reduces that to 9 years and 3 months. Thus it appears that the law which murder must be punished by hanging or imprisonment for from 14 vears to life really means that mur- der, unless punished by hanging, is explated after imprisonment for from 9 to 11 years, provided the convict be- haves himself well and has sufficient influence in the proper quarter. Juries which hesitate to impose the death penalty because it is too severe may well ponder the fact that any other penalty they impose is likely to be too lenient. Eleven years and three months for the perfect crime! i corporation, can buy 2,500 acres, and Jense another 2,500 acres, for 25 vears, vith the right to two renewals of 5 vears each—a total of 75 years. He says there could be a holding cor- poration controlling and financing any humber of these smaller corporations, so there is no need to change the law The Filipinos would welcome the com- inz of American capital: they would furthermore grant coaling stations for the American Navy, which they recog- nize would give themselves incidental protection. Practically is in Mindanao and other islands, con- trolled by the 350,000 Moros, who de- sire American regime to continue, but | the Filipinos are strongly opposed to a separation of the Moro land, al- though they have never held jurisdiction over the pagan Moros. American capital, like ail capital, is timid about investing under for- eign governmental control, even under the shadow of a protecting treaty of amity and commerce, for such treaty is liable to be abrogated and laws may | be changed prejudicially to the safety of foreign investments. Yet the lead Jors want more offices! (Copyright. 1926, by Paul V. Collins.) says and | Having discovered that | lies be- | would reduce | hod, behavior | all of the rubber land | real | As Germany planet, some of the modern geol-| of writing | New strength for both Germany and of Nation foreseen | by most American observers as a re sult of the admission of Germany to membership in the League. Hop& and | uncertainty as to what the future may bring forth are mingled in the composite opinion of America as re- flected in the press. | “The spirit of the applause with which Germany's entrance into the League was greeted at Geneva,” says |the Louisville Courier-Journal, “should find a ready response throughout the {world. It should mark the real end of the v with all its surviving pas | sions and animosities. To the extent th: it does this, it will clear the way for the League of Nations to work its | mission of universal peace.” T | Pittsburgh Gazette-Times, also recog zing the mmportance of the action, expresses the judgment that event at Geneva that should September 8 one of the 4 dates in history marks not the attain ment of an end, but the beginning of the movement toward an end. “The fact that German membership was obtained with the full assistance of France and Great Britain is sig nificant,” according to the Lincoln Star. “It means that awakened in the World War has worn itself out: that the most powerful na | tions of Murope have a new goal and new ambition.” Thix result, as viewed hy the Lexington Leader, has “real significance’ in the fact that “it seals the Locarno treaties and makes { them at last valid and effective.” The | Ledider also concludes that “now that | Germany s a member, the League is {more than ever Furopean. Its work | will lie there and not elsewhere.” The | Charlotte Observer calls it “most sig nificant of all that France was the first to vote membership for Ger many. | the League the result, how Akron Beacon that “the test Some doubt ever, is raised by the Journal, which states will come when the German repre sentatives give over their ring oratory, and the allied spellbinders cease theirs, and Germany calls its expected new deal. In that the confirmed ‘peace of Locarno’ v be another story. The holy allfance more than a century ago, that was to aintain Europe's peace forever,” the Beacon sted only until son |imagined that they were not getting their share at the ple counter.” But_the Knoxville Sentinel is con- vinced that “this great scheme to pro- mote peace Is making itself felt in the s of the nations.” The admission of ( League Council,” in th Des Moines Evening as to opinion of the Tribune, “does of the League than anything else could | unless it might be the admission of the United States.” The Harrisbur, graph, observing that the League © traded Spain and Brazil, two loyal al lies during the war, for Germany, which sought to lord it over all Eu- rope,’” suggests that “whether or not this is a pr nsaction for the League only ti 1 tell, but it § certainly a good t for German in her herculean campaisn to regain her lost place of prestige among the great powers of the world.” The Rock Island Argus adds that “Germany takes that place to which her power and importance entitle her.’ “without Germany th never amount to a gr Charleston Evening Post feels that the bitterness | for | Journal, | f the brethren | many to the | more to insure the future Importance | Tele- | Spirit Seen Enters League “it is sometimes easier for the loser to get back to condition than the win ner of a great struggle.” Admission to the League,” decla the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin {“means that Germany, seven years \fter Its unparalleled humiliation at the hands of the allied and associated powers, which found expression in the treaty of Versailles, shakes off its lost | vestige of subordination to its cor | querors in the European system and [takes ite place on equal terms witl Ithem.” The Bulletin, however. fears Hhat “Germany's presence is certain to <o issues which will apparently make for agitation and dispute rather than tranquillity in Eur Never theless that paper feels it well for world peace that they will be yaised in a form in which all par ticipants under moral and ever written co to settle them with out recourse to arms."” “If unive 1 peace and good wi were not the highest spiration of the world,”" av the Birmingham News, “this entry of Germany might be regarded as scarriage of jus tice. And yet Germany in these later vears seems to be living stralght paying her debts, coming clean, keep ing busy \e deserves whatever she may win fairly in European and do mestic trade, * * x % “Germany, it Is said, now is eco. nomically the soundest country in Eu vope,” remarks the Albany Evening News, while the St Louis Post-Dis \teh points out that “she has gone about the business of rec onstruction | with the industry and zeal for which her people are has met the «tern obligations of the D: without whimpering stabilized, her fact her fields are being tilled. By this display of character she has won the right to sit on the principal gov erning hod of the League of Na tons,” concludes the Post-Dispatch Of her right to equal footing with | France, Great Britain, Ttaly and other [ members of the League, the Passalc Daily Herald affirms “there can be no_dispute.” Seattle Times, nevertheless, 15 that “undoubtedly the entranc Gierm to the International so will glve new confidence,” al though it admits that “whether the net result of the deliberations at | Geneva will be to make world peace more certain or whether new embrofl- ients will be the outcome, no one | is competent to say. Our part is that of the interested spectator only,” as- serts the Time tenewed encourngement for the League's future,” i3 the verdict of the Houston Chronicle, while the In napolis Star feels that “the League may be expected to wield increasing | influence.” Of the record of the League, the Lynchburg Advance states that it “has done valuable work, has | settled troublesome questions and in more than one instance has prevented minor flicts.” The Rochester Times-Union predicts that it “will emerge from the meeting of the seventh Assembly stronger than it has ever been before,” and the Jack- »n Citizen-Ratrio recognizes that “in reality it is asserting its strength | at last.” The Columbus Ohio te Journal concludes that “it is gratifying and promising to see the bitter enemies of | less than eight years ago gathered in friendly counecil, if it can be kept frier * The Christian Sclence | Monitur hails the admission of Ger- many as “evidence of good faith and & source of strength.” a are strain | n ries are smoking, | ety gl