Evening Star Newspaper, September 18, 1926, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR]ltly on the shoulders of “Vinnte” With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY. . .September 18, 1926 e e - THEODORE W. NOYES. . .. Editor The Eyening Star Newspaper Company Brisiness Office: .. 11th €t and Penravivania Ave Hew York OMce: 110 Fast 42nd St. Chicago Office: Tower Bulding Buroj ice: 14 Regent St.. England. The & 'th_the Stnday mern- e aition e gfvfi"v'-r'éhw“'nmm e |¥ city at 80 cents month: 15 onlx. et S Sk g o Y {siuphone ain 5000, Cofinction 18 mads by at end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payahle in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. 5-111 and Sunday. 0 aily only unday only All Other States and Canada. Pally anda Snnd.ys 7 vr.$12.00: 1 mo. 8190 Dailv_anly T Ir Temon: 1 ma’28e Sunday only ...l 1yrl $4.00;1mo. 3 Member of the Assoclated Press. The Associated Prens {s axclnwvelv oo l“?: tn ‘he use for republication of a s ‘n“ Paiches ~redited to it or not etherwiss cred, itad in this paper and also tha local had hareil publieasion 190 re: so tha n_ ANl rights of ¢ snocial dispatches hersin are also reserve —_———— Arms Limitation Looking Up. Recent happenings in Europe have given new impetus to and new hope for limitation of armaments. The final admission of Germany to the League of Nations and the coming of the Locarno treaties into effect have helped enormously to create a beiter atmosphere and to remove the clouds which developed at the Spring meet- ing of the League of Natio: Reports from Geneva have it that private conversations among the lead- ing countries of the League of Na- tiona on the subject of the disarma- ment conference have proceeded so satisfactorily that there is now pros pect of calling the proposed conler ence next Spring, instead of postpon Ing it until the Fall. Furthermore, the diplomatic representatives of the governments particularly interested are inclined, it is sald, to discard the work of the military experts, who for months have been laboring on a pro- gram to be considered at a disarma- ment conference. The military ex- perts, it was frankly conceded, had arrived nowhere in particular, owing to diverse attitude: Some of the na- tions at this preliminary conference of experts urged that not only the armed forces, but also the industrial, economic and geographical strength of the nations be taken into account fn limiting armaments. Others rea- sonably took the view that limitation of armaments should be made largely on the basis of the existing military and naval strength of the powers, as was done at the Washington Confer- ence in 192122 The diplomats, it now appears. have about reached the conclusion that it i= advisaple to tackle the limitation of armaments in a practical mannery not seeking to accompiish the miilen- fum in disarmament. If nothing more can be accomplished, they would Itke to see an agreement entered into that none of the nations shall increase its armaments over those of toda; Perhaps it would even be possible, it 18 said, to shave the present-day arma- ments a trif. 1f such a plan were agresd upon. at least it would prevent burdensome and disastrous races in military and naval armaments, which might be in- augurated at any time by the mere undertaking of a sing'e nation unduly 10 increase its army or its navy. It would mark a beginning of limitation of armaments to which additions could be made later. ‘The proposal for & disarmament conference originated with the League of Nations last year. The United States was invited to send delegates te a preliminary conference which should arrange an agenda for consid- eration of the general conference after its submission for approval to the governments of the various na- tions. Congress appropriated the money for the participation of the American delegation in this prelim- inary conference, at the request of President Coolidge. 1t is well under- stood that the United States has stood ady at all times to lend its aid to- ward bringing about an agreement for limitation of armaments of all kinds, even though the interest of this coun- iry centers particularly in naval arm- aments. It is well understood. also. that if finally the nations of Eunope are ready to go ahead on common- sense lin without seeking to solve all the problems of the world in a limi- tation of armaments treaty, the United States will be very willing to ald. . e — Tt has always been fashionable to poke sly fun at a Prince of Wales. The court jester is obsolete. People laugh at a man for a while and then take him with the most respectful sariousness. Witness our own Henry Ford. S - The enormous interest in the Demp- sey-Tunney fight should not permit Philadelphia patriots te become obliv- ious to the fact that there was once & War of the Revolution. vt - - The Tennis Championship. France has had her tennis revenge. Defeated by a wide margin in the in- ternational Davis Cup matches, her players have vindicated temselves in the singles championsnip now being plaved at Forest Hills, N. Y., by elimi- nating from the tournament every American etar. Thus the United States must sit back and gaze upon the un- usual spectacie of an all-French final in the American championships. Only twice before has a foreigner reached the finals of the singles. R. F. Doherty, British star in 190: ~am, but the next year his brother, H. L. Doherty, won the singles cham- plonehip for the first and only time. The French players’ accomplishment in staging their own finals in the coun- 1ry ‘that prided itself upon its tenms supremacy is therefore a notable feat. “Big Bill" Tilden. winner of the sin- &'es for six consecutive years, fell first hefore the onslaught. “Little Bill" Johnston, rated as one of America's finest, succumbed shortly afterward. These defeats left the chances of this country to remain In the tournament Ml fi d 1 Richards. He, however, was unequai 40 the task, and so Jean Borotra and Rene La Coste will fight it out this afternoon to decide which one of them will take overseas the huge bowl em- Llematic of victory :n the tennis classic for the second time in its his- tor America, however, intends to be just as good a sport in losing as it is in winning. The flush of victory in the Davis Cup match has now been super- seded by the sting of defeat in the sin- gles. But America congratulates her opponents upon tReir skiill on the courts and wishes them the heartiest of good luck in their voyage home, carrying as they will the most coveted cup In American tenms champion- ships. ) e — Sites for the Commerce Building. Two views regarding the proper lo- cation of the new home for the De- partment of Commerce have been lately expressed. The Fine Arts Com- mission. the opinion of which is ad- visory and not conclusive, favors the western edge of the Mall-Avenue tri- angle on Fifteenth street. The Secre- tary of Agriculture, whose opinion is likewise merely advisory and is even less definitive than tat of the Com- mission of Fine Arts, tavors the Penn- sylvania avenue site now uccupied, in part, by the Center Market and the wholesale commission houses. Evidently the purpose to place the new Commerce Building: in the Mall itself has been abandoned. President Coolidge has expressed himself decid- edly against further use of the Mall space for building constructions. Those now charged with the duty of locating this great addition 1o the Govern- ment’s housing equipment will pre- sumably foliow his judgment and pro- ceed Lo louk elsewaere. It would seem assured that the site will lie within the MailAvenue triangle. [ The Government now owns the “five ( squares” site at the western end of the triangle. That iand s available for use on short notice. 1t is emi. nently suitable for a large construc- tion such &s that proposed for the De- partment of Commerce. In the ten- tative plans of the Public Buildings Commission, however, it has been al- located to the new buildings for the Departments of Justice and Labor. 1f Commerce s placed there those others will have to be situated elsewhere. There is ample and suitable space | within the Mall-Avenue triangle for them, 8 There is hope that the advice of the | Secretary of Agriculture on this mat- | ter may be followed and the Depart. | ment of Commerce located on the | Pennsylvania avenue site between Seventh and Tenth streets. He is in- terested officially in the solution of the market problem, which has been pre- cipitated by the necessity to remove part immediately and soon the whole | of the open-air farmers’ market to ! make room for the new Internal Rev- enue Building. He feels that the im- mediate taking of the Center Market site would compel an early decision upon the question of the future estab- lishment of the market units on a per- manent site. Furthermore, Secretary | Jardine recognizes the desirability of | the early redemption of Pennsylvania avenue from its present packward con- dition through the immediate utiliza- tion of this Mall-Avenue space. | With Commerce placed on the old | mivket site, extending westward to Teith street, and with Justice and Liloer placed on the five-square site on Fifteenth street, as first planned. thewe would remain of the Mall-Ave nui triangle but little to be acquired | for buildings not now aliocated to pos siLls positions within it. Its compleie | utilization would be a matter perhaps | of 0 a decade more. — s Washington's First Regatta. Washingtonians. for the first time ! in the history of the city, had the privilege vesterday of watching a speedbout regatta of . major propor- | tionx. Today an additional chance will be siven for observing one of the | finest sporting events held in this | country. when the world's fastest craft will compete for honors, Washington's chances of becoming one of the vegatta centers of the United States loom bright after these | exhibitions. The staging for water meets reaches perfection on the Poto- mac. A natural vantage point for spectators is furnished by the Speed- way and Hains Point. The river is wide enough to allow room for a large fleet of pleasure craft besides ample lanes for the competition. Tt is estimated that more than fifty thousand people viewed the races yes- terday, and probably more will line the banks and the course today to see the slim boats skim the waters at speeds of sixty, seventy and eighty miles an hour. It is a stirring spec- tacle, indeed, and those who miss viewing it will lose a thrill. The Corinthian Yacht Club, under whose auspices the present races are held, and the President's Cup regatta commiflee, who were instrumental in the staging of the largest speedboat regatta ever held in the United States, are to be congratulated. They have given the National Capital & view of a thrilling sport. The city will de- mand more of these exhibitions, and nothing could be more fitting than an annual competition on the Potomac for the solid gold President’s Cup. B — Mexican bandifry Is betoming too elaborate to permit it to be dismissed as merely a temporary expression of eagerness for small change. - U Hail Britannia! British sensibilities are ameliorated was | by the successful swim of an English- defeated by W. A. Larned. an Ameri- | man across the Channel as the climax of & season marked by four triumphs over that siretch of water by swim- 12 mers of other nationalities. It had be- gun to look as if Great Britain was to be distanced. aithough it was an Eng- lishman who made the first Channel swim, Capt. Webb. in 1875. Yesterday Norman Leslie Derham, a mattress maker of London, made the crossing in thirteen hours and fifty-seven min- utes. Although he did not make the record established by Michel a few days ago, he won a prize of $5,000 of- fered by a smxe publisher to the THE first British subject bettering the time of Gertrude Egerle, fourteen hours and thirty-one minutes. Michel made the crossing in eleven hours and five minutes, and that record will probably stand for the season. The year 1926 has seen successtul Channel -le ming by an American girl. a Danish- American woman, a German, Frenchman and an Englishman. has been a truly international season of successful wave-breasting. Al though the novelty of crossing has been dimmed, there is still a mark which swimmers of all lands will prob- ably try to reach next year. That is the mark set up by Michel. A ten- hour swim Is yet to be attained. If this season’s accomplishments are any indication the remaining gap will be closed in 1927. And then the swim- mers will probably keep on trying for a nine-hour swim, and even that will not content them. —— o Predictions that President Coolidge will be renominated are widely circu- lated. Little contradiction is offered. The Cleveland convention made it clear that the modern forecaster knows pretty much what he l, talking about. 1 al 1t | - Tt is doubted by some whether Wil- liam McAdoo will Rave another presi- dential boom. There is a disposition to relegate him to the list of those who had a good time while it lasted. ————————— Aimee McPherson is not the first person to go away on a vacation and wish on her roturn that she had stayed on the regular job. S Gov. Ritchle of Maryland is at least one of those favorite sons who suc- ceed in holding the home State se curely in line. cmem e The Chinese may be inciinsd to at- tack foreigners in the hope that some one will jump in from the outside and undertake to settle a dificult dispute. ———— Speed maniacs represent a danger to lite and property which no peace conference can hope to eliminate. e —e—— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON | The Luck of Musi Johnny took lessons with patient at- tention = Upon a well tuned violin. The neighbors arose with & plea for prevention, They said that the noise was a sin. Though Johnny the classics with fervor was playing, Beethoven and Haydn and such, The friends and relations were con- stantly sayving, “This noise Johnny makes is tpo much!™ So Johnny at last made aw the fiddle And got him a banjo Instead. He ploddingly plunked it both ways from the middle. To Jazzy distinction it led. The neighbors who nagged have cur- | _tailed their complaining. with | They vow that his tunes will en- trance. And Johnny a fortune is steady gaining. ¥ They pay him to listen or dance, Decision Reserved. “Who is vour favorite author?" “Can’t say, ofthand,” answered Senator Sorghum. “I don't vet know who wrote our campaign text book.” Mystery Literature. Depart, old Edgar Allan Poe! Quit the detective scene! Avaunt, old friend Gaboriau And Anna Katherine Green! The novels that we used te read No more in thought abide, A« we in rapt attention heed That Jersey homicide. | Food. “Do vou remember when you were poor and had to eat liver and onfons?"" “Yes” answered Mr. Cumrox. “Now | I am rich. but my wife doubts very much whether we can afford them." Jud Tunkins says seme men are fond of children because they are such an easy audience. b “A popular song.” said Hi Ho, the mge of Chinatowm “is like a love fancy which is at first irresistible and later annoying.” Drawing a Distinction. “I understand vour boy Josh learning to play the saxophone. “He's takin' lessons,” answered Farmer Corntossel. “But 1 wouldn't exactly say as how he's learnin'.” “‘Dat talk ‘bout every cloud havin' a silver linin’,”" said Uncle Eben, “is un- convincin’. Tf it was true every man wif an airship could make a fortune.” e emema Success and Endeavor. From the Baltimore Sun. Miss Clara Barrett, whose attempt to swim the Engilish Channel was de- feated by fog when victory was almost in her grasp, is returning to this country as a third-class passenger saddled with debts of $2,000 incurred | in training. I had hoped to suc- eed,” she said on leaving England, nd thus to gain money to'train my voice. I was a concert singer for four years, and singing means more to me than swimming. But now I must go back to teaching to pay off my debi.” Miss Gertrude Ederle, the first woman lo swim the Channel, is now reported to have received publicity offers uggregaiing aimost a million dollars s a result. Hers was a mag- nificent achievement, but she was in the water seven hours less than Miss Barrett, is said to have swum less dis tance in consequence of better tidal help and made the crossing by the France-to-England route. instead of the much more difficult reverse course attempted by her unsuccessful rive Success in life is generally deserved. Tt does not follow that those who fail e necessarily the less deserving, though that conclusion is cold comfort for those whom good luck passes by. pems S An Objee-non. From the Richmond Ne One objection to easy mons the fellow who gets it feels uneasy. From the Boston Traveler. Now that a hundred-year-old woman has flown in a Seaplane. we are sure it ham heen a century of progress. ) | thing, a herd mind, usually bent upon ‘{once invaded Nicaragua and with a | space: { his compliments to Gen. Arguello and BY CHARLES E. “Where are vou from?’ asked the restaurant proprietor, as the tanned uest peid his check. ] “Cook County, II.." sald the stranger. with evident pride. A man of the city standing there amiled, held out his hand and said, “I'm from Harrison County, Ind.” The two shook. Thus the Middle West meets often in Washington, D. C. In this town you can never be sure whether the man over there is from California or Maine, or whether he has lived all his life in the District of Columbia. As the United States is the so- called “melting pot” of the world, so the National Capital is the place where the extremes of our own country mix. The Government personnel helps along in this good work, for it is pro- rated among the States. There are at all times, therefore, representatives of every State in the Union living in Washington. ‘While it is perhaps true that there is no large city in the country that does not contain natives of every State and Territory within the city limits, certainly there is a difference here, inasmuch as these persons are herT'tu carry on the very Government itself. *oxox ok Government, in gssence, is the peo- . The people here doing Government work come from the very fiber of the Nation at large. They represent the rank and file of the United States in a peculiar way. If the “little red schoolhouse on the hill” has func- tioned as it should. the Government workers in Washington are a distinc- tive contribution to the Capital City. Therefore, the occasional attacks made upon the Government workers, whether by magazine writers or mem- bers of Congress, are felt by many thoughtful persons to be in exceed- ingly bad taste, to say nothing of being essentially unfair and untrue; This thing of attacking a class is absurd, for in doing so the attacker creates in his own imagination a com posite monster that does not exist. and utterly overlooks the component varts, the real human beings. each with his or her many good points. as well as some bad ones. Attacks upon whole classes of per- sons seldom, if ever, have much status in the intellect, except in the one in- stance of the unfettered moh. The “mob mind" is something that de- serves o be condemned. In huge physical aggregations commonly known as moba the individual mind lost, and in its place arises a strangi but one objective, the wreaking of bloody vengeance. Even the individual members of this sangulnary mob are men. each one with a home, and little children. and some portion of love, at least, in his heart. How much more so. then, may we | say the same thing of members o the zood classes, such as ‘“the Goy- ernment workers,” Put in this light, is it not absurd to attack men and women in the mass, when each is a eitizen of the United States? | * ok K X Thank heaven, the individual still rules in America! We are still individua numbers in a procession. We still have pride in ‘‘where we came from.’ The-man in the restaurant says, “I . mot_merely | no fare in his pockets, TRACEWELL. am from Cook County, 1IL.." and the tranger. though no stranger in citizenship, replies, “I am from Har- rison County, Ind.” The pride of community, the pride of home, is larger than the stultifying influences which would make a huge, however well erganized, mob of this land. The National Capital, then, is per- haps - the best place in the United States to study Americans as they are. Nor is one confined to the clerical class, if he shies from regard- ing these earnest workers as repre- sentative. Here one sees, every day, in hotel lobby, on the streets, in the various eating places, in the theaters, in pri- vate homes, the men, women and children of the States, who come here all Spring and Summer to visit their Capital. Thousands here have forgotten with what reverence, amounting to awe, the people of the States regard Washington, B. C. In the States a trip to Washington means something. It is held out to school children as a reward. . Never forget that, easy-going citizens. as vou see the boys and girls trooping along Pennsylvania avenue. Of course. they are baving a good time! But do noy make the mistake of thinking thef fail to “get” the National Capital. They are not missing a thing. They stand at the tomb of Wash- ington and a thrill passes along the backbone that will never be forgot- ten. The peak of the Monument is burned into their memory, the great dome of the Capitol becomes theirs to have and 'to lt‘lol:l‘ p “Phix is your city,” we tell them. We mean it, and they believe it The sentence is no mere empty phrase, something that mounds well but, signifies nothing. 1t is an essen- tial truth, for this-is the Federal City, founded by the people as their seat of Government. Those who come here, then, come to their own. The community, a8 & community, however, has a life of its own, with its own peculiar problems, since the Inhabitants thereof are in- dividuals, too. ‘This twofold Washington comprises one of the most interesting metropoli- tan areas in the world. Visitors to Washington are beginning to find this out: the result will be seen in future years. On our streets parade men and women, like ourselves, with the vir- tues and vices of humanity. It will not do for any group to sneer at any other group or to do aught than to try to understand the other fellow's viewpoint. ‘This country was built on attempts to understand, and upon intelligent compromise, and the pathway of greatness still lies in that direction. Tolerance is the watchword, as given by the President. As for us, we feel reasonably sure of the destiny of the United States. n incident on a street car, a trivial hing, perhaps, but fine In its way, makes us sure. A prominent man from one of the States got aboard with an unknown Washingtonian. The latter could find In this di- lemma the nationally known figure forked for a dime, dropped it into the box and smiled. “Thank you Washingtonian. “Don't mention it, of Pennsylvania. very much,” said the replied Mr. Vare BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. . COLLINS, It has long been the fashion to | make light of Latin American wars, as of the opera bouffe =ort. A American fillbuster named Walke: few gestures made himself ruler, dic- tator and grand poohbah of the coun- Later. he was captured and shot it that's another story. His was as great a feat of bluff ax was that of Cortez when he and 500 followers captured the Montezuma Empire of 15,000,000. It remains, however, for the Nicaraguans themselves to c the climax of absurdity—if any w can be 50 lightly treated—when they right aroand El Bluff, and—but here is a paragraph from yesterday's As- sociated Press story about the Big Bluff. It is condensed into Anglo- Saxon with Latin circumlocution des- iccated out of it, for consideration of Gen. Jose Marie Moncade, leader of the revolution in eastern Nicaragua (the Liberal party), ha been hombarding the Bluff, on which Gen. Gustave Arguello, Congervative, is intrenched. Gen. Moncade sends invites him to surrender. Gen. Arguello. not to he outdone in tesy, veplies gently suggesting that Gen. Moncade cease firing. jen. Moncade explains that his courteous offer to accept the surrender of his opponents is due to the alleged triumphs of the Conservatives else- where. and Gen. Arguello proposes that they each verify the stories of each other, and “if the revolutionists have conquered on the Pacific Coast, I will surrender El Bluff, and if the revolutionists have not been victorious on the Pacific Coast, you will sur- render.” It sounds almost like betting which one is_El Bluff—the Conserva- tive or the Liberal general. ‘After you, Alphonse!” * Kk kK politely The chief point of interest to the United States—and to all America— is that thete is a prospect of immedi- ate peace in Nicaragua, without intervention in force by any othed count: And peace is always such a novelty in that country that it is as great a bit of genuine news as if “» man bit a dog,” instead of the dog hiting the man. So the United States charge d'af taires, Mr. Lawrence Dennis, at Ma- nagua, is acting as peacemaker, using the good offices of the American Government to develop peace as the end of a one-month civil war. But that peace apparently will leave, as President Gen. Emiliano Chamorro, who, in 1923, achieved the chief mag- istracy by a coup d'etat. overturning both the Liberal president and vice president, through military usurpa- tion, and he therefore cannot be recognized by the United States, nor by the Federation of Central Ameri- can Republics. Peace with the usurper in power, arranged- by a government which refuses to rec- ognize him, is a strange situation. Stranger, indeed, than that which the prophet of biblical times described as ‘‘Peace. peace, when there is no peace” We exercise no protectorate, and the Monroe Doctrine does not apply. * kK x It is an auspicious circumstance, perhaps. that the mutual willingnes: to surrender came on the very d: when a new book concerring. Ni aragua and the other four states of Central America appeared on sale in the United States. It is called “Rain- bow Countries of Central America,” written by a Washington author and journalist, Mr. Wallace Thompson. Nicardagua 1s one of the rainbow ends where lay the pot of gold in former days, where, according to conditions described in the book, may still lie barrels of treasure. when ightly " found. ' But prosperity de- | pends on peace, *and peace depends | on a prosperous and enxmnmm; people. : The author has traveled much In Central Amerfca and studied fta problems. He sums up the situation in these words: _ “The present policy of the Amer- ican Department of State has been expressed as follows: “The encouragement of independ- ent, orderly constitutional govern- ment, enabling these countries to stand as equals amongst the nations of the world, enjoying political peace and economic prosperity. The method of achieving this excellent ideal of peace has included, and apparently still includes, the enforcement of a policy of holding the recognition of the United States as something given a government in Central America only if it has come to power without stain. political or moral.” And, according to the State De- partment, under both Secrelaries Hughes and Kellogg, that lets Pres- ident Chamorro out. Yet he is sl in, x X The perpetual wars In Nicaragua have heen waged belween the in- habitants of two rival cities— Granada of the Conservatives and Leon of the Rkiberals. i issuies have heen involved, except the zeneral one of personal or party rivalry for office. For 30 after the independence from the Conservatives were in powe include the landed proprietor merchants and the clericals. The Liberals are the workers. But the Liberal headquarters are in Leon where they claim to cultivate learn- ing and produce the lawyers and the few other professionals—the high- brows of the country. Conservatives point to their Catholic University in Granada. : hey and * X ox % From 1893 to 1910 Dictator Jose Santos Zelaya, as president. was not content to rule his own country alone, but needs meddle with his neighbors of Central America and even of Mex- ico. He was a disturber of the peace and an international nuisance until the United States, at the request of the ~ Conservatives, intervened ‘and supported Conservatives in overturn- ing . Zelaya. That required some .000 Marines, and subsequently, at he request of the Conservative gov- ernment, a force of 100 Marines was left to preserve order. At first they weré expected to stay only a few ‘months, but as expressed by the au- thor of he Rainbow Countries,” ‘then a peace settled down upon Nicdragua; a peace unbroken for the next 13 years.” American rookles who had gone there in 1912 came out in 1925 aged and experienced veter- ans, but there was Nicaraguan peace while they were there: that's why the people urged them to stay. It took 100 American Marines to control the 708,000 Nicaraguans—such fighters are those Latins! * ook ¥ Nicaragua was the innocent hy- stander when Secretary of State Knox invented the phrase “‘dollar diplo- maey.” ‘The “délar diplomacy" consisted, so far as Nicaragua was congerned. in our inducing Great Britain to with- draw her claims to a right to meddle therewith, under the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, and our paying Nicaragua $3,000.000 cash for the exclusive right ever to build ag interoceanic canal across her territory, our ald in reduc- ing _her interest rate on foreign bonds to 5 per cent in place of 6 and our lending private capital to the amount of $1,600,000 to establish a bank there and encouraging other capital to in- vest in internal improvements. Nica- ragua has given no: other special concessions aside from the canal right, which is well paid for. We have had no Marines there for a year—nor any other force—and we sire to with- draw that “army” of 100 doing police duty, just 1213 vears earlier than the Nicaraguan government would con- sent to undertake its own policing. (Covyright. 1826, Ly Paul V. Colline.) THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover. Sir William Osler, great physician, is revealed by Dr. Harvey Cushing in his “Life of Sir William Osler” a always a bibliophile and In his later vears almost a bibliomaniac. When a student in Trinity College, Toronto, at the age of 17, he first made the acquaintance of Sir Thomas Browne's “Religio Medici,” the book ‘which was to exert upon him the greatest influence throughouthis life. The first book he ever purchased was a Globe edition of Shakespeare, lhfl'_!e('» ond was the 1862 edition of the ‘Re- ligio Medici.” In his student period he also formed what became a life. long habit of a half hour’s reading of general litegture in bed before put- ting out his light. Appended to his volume, *Aequanimitas and Otl"Er Addresses,” i3 a list of books, A Bedside Library for Medical Stu dents,” which probably contains much of his own bedtime reading. His nephew relates that in later ears, when he was living with his Yncle’ in Baltimore, he used to read aloud to Osler every night during his bath. Osler's recurring attacks of bronchitis, .which confined him to home and bed, were always taken, and almost enjoyed, as opportunities for g. So great use did he make of his reading in his own writ- ing that his friends remarked that it the references and quotations which helped to give such a literary quality to his addresses. * kK Ko Osler was devoted user and sup- porter of librarles from his filudsnl days. In his address entitled '‘Books and Men,” delivered at the dedication of the Boston Medical Library ‘Bulld- ing, he said that he could hardly speak of the value of libraries in terms which would not seem exagger- ated, as they had been his delight for 30 years. He never lost Interest in the librarfes of the institutions with which he had: been connected, and all his life sent frequent packages of valuable, often rare. books to the Me- Gill Library, the Library of the Col- lege of Physicians in Philadelphia. the Library of the Surgeon General in Washington, the Johns Hopkins Medi- cal Library and the Library of the Maryland Faculty. It was through his backing that the Medical Library Association was founded, and he was for some time its president and often the chief speaker at its meetings, After he became regius professor of medicine at Oxford, he was a curator of the Bodleian Library, which grew to be one of his absorbing interests. He was a generous subscriber and se- cured other large contributions to the fund for purchasing for the Bodleian the original copy of the first folio of Shakespeare, which had in the first place belonged to that library but had been lost. * % * Osler was also a keen book, collector on his own account. After he reached a time when his finances permitted, he regularly received Sotheby's KEng- lish auction catalogues. from which he was a frequent bidder, and on {each visit to London one of his first activities was a round of book shops and libraries. Mrs. Osler gave him rare editions of Keats and other fa- vorites for his birthdays. His dearest bibliophilic _quest was the gathering of a complete set of all the editions of the “Religio Medicl.” When, on January 1, 1920, his body lav in the Lady Chapel of Christ Church, Ox-|%y ford, the casket was covered with a plain black velvet pall on which lay Dia favorite copy of the “Religio Medi- . "{he 1862 edition which had been his second book purchase. * k k¥ In a recent number of the’ Theater Magazine was an article, “What I Do With 24 Hours a Day,” by Grant Mitchell and Helen Gahagan. Mrs. Corra Harris evidently has no need of the information conveyed by this article. She is said to be an expert in the art of flling each day with hard work. At 5 o'clock she has her morning coffee and at 6 is at her desk, where she works steadily until noon. She allows herself the afternoon for vecreation and rest, but works again all evening, often until nearly mid- night. She must be one of those for- tunate or self-trained persons who are able to drop work from the mind the moment application to it is over. * k X X The laws of heredity work out in- axorably not only in life, but in real- istio fiction in these days of the twen- tieth century. The Forsytes, that strong famlly created by John Gals- worthy in “The Forsyte Saga.” are characterized by acute materialism and acquisitiveness. Each generation shows these traits from youth to old age. So in Mr. Galsworthy’s most re- cent novel, “The Silver Spoon,” we find Soames Forsyte drifting stoically through old age, the passions of his youth dead if not altogether forgot- ten, but devotion to his daughter, that treasure acquired in his middle years, become the chief motive of his ex- istence. Relying on the longevity of all his Forsyte ancestors, Soames, in his 70s, says “I'm not so very old.” but when he looks at his handsome if somewhat too fleshy French wife Annette he reflects bitterly that when { he is dead she may vet be under 60 and will not mind his absence. The possessiveness of the Forsytes is still his, though he has ceased acquiring, except an occasional example of the early English school for his picture collection. But his country place, his cows, his melons, his vegetables, his pletures, his daughter and his grand- son all have exaggerated value be- cause they ave his. Annette he has never felt so sure of; she scems sin- gularly her own and makes him feel very uncomfortable at times. Fleur, his daughter, is also a genuine For- syte, with only a trace of her French mother. She reaches out greedily to acquire what she wants—admiration and social position chiefly, because she already has whatever money can buy—and when she falls to get what she wants she is not as good a sport as her father. Michael, her husband, has value for her, not because she loves him, but because he belongs to her life. Her baby Kit commands the best that is in her, and her political philosophy, her interest in KEngland, are summed up in the belief that '‘so long as Kit had cake it was no good bothering too deeply about the rest: though, of course, one must seem to.” * kK K Much has been written about thy mind of the criminal, ranging from treatises full of statistics proving that he has no mind to other treatises, perhaps not so full of statistics, prov- ing that he has a ‘“master mind.” “The Mind of the Millionaire” is now discussed by Albert W. Atwood. The millionaire, according to Mr. Atwood, is a delightful person and not at all the cold-blooded. tyrant of finance that popular imagination pictures. He is rich because his abilities are such that he could not help becoming rich; and, now that he h: irrived, he cannot trdo the ‘work, he would. 5 ok K K 5 “Ladies Fair and Frail” are some- times _condemned, sometimes sympa- thizged/with, sometimes excused. some- times reluctantly admired, by Horace Bleackley in his book of that title. The subtitle is “S8ketches of the Demi- Monde During the Eighteenth Cen- tury.” The author never excuses vice, though he recognizes thar sin- ners are not always completely black. Some of the subjects of his book are Fanny Murray, Kitty Fisher, Nancy Parsons. Kitty Kennedy, Grace Dal- rymple Ellot and Certrude Mahon. Q. How many Jersey Cities are there in the United States?—J. A. M. A. The only Jersey City in this country is the one in New Jersey. There are, however, three cities named “Jersey.” These are located in Arkansas, Californfa and Georgla. Q. Please explaio to me how some IAI. %"erl obtain the title of “colonel."— A. “Colonel” is often a compli- mentary title, the origin of the use of which is not definitely known. We have found nothing to indicate, however, that lawyers are more apt to be given this title than other men. Q. Are growing plants in a bed- E‘oom injurious to one's health?— A. There is a theory that growing plants absorb certain elements from the air and for this reason it is not considered advisable to have them In a sleeping room. The effect would probably not be seriously detrimental in a sick-room, provided the flowers did not have a heavy odor and there were not too many plants. Q. Please give me Rudolph Val- entino’'s name under which he was admitted to the United States. H. C. 0. | A. Rudolph Valentino’s name was Rudolfo Alfonso Raffaelo Pler Fili- berto Guglielmi di. Valentino d’An- tonguolla. He was admitted into the United States as Rudolfo Guglielmi. He selected Valentino from his list of names when he started his career as a dancer. g Q. TIs it correct that the Emperor of Japan after he accedes to the throne is not permitted to leave the country?—M. M. A. A. The Japanese Embassy says that although it may be difficult for the Emperor of Japan to leave the country after “his accession to the throne, there is no law or regulation restricting him from going abroag. applies to the heir appar: 3 Q. T would like to know the num- ber of clerks and mail carriers em- ployed in first or second class post offices in the United States—H.G. M. A. The .Post Office Department says that there are 67,898 clerks em- ploved in the first and second class post offices in the 'United States. These offices also employ 48,645 city carriers. . The labor turnover ha been small since the new scale ol salarles has gone into effect. Q. To settle me if & fork is way?—C. E. A. A fork Is not always used in the same way. For example, when a plece of meat fs conveyed to the mouth, the fork is pressed into the meat with the tines down. On the contrary, if one is eating peas, the fork is uned with the tines turned up- ward. Q. Wil you please tell me some- thing of Lake Ndépissing?—N. Van H. A. Lake Nipissing is between Lake Huron and the Ottawa River. It is irregular in shape, its greatest length being 55 miles and the maximum breadth about 28 miles. It ‘con numerous islands and supports many different Kinds of fish. te will you tell used the same Q. Is Fire-prevention week to be ob- served this yea H. W. A. Fire-prevention week is to be ob- served nationally from October 3 to 9. Q. Who was it said that “the only good Indian is a dead Indian"—L.. A. The expression referred to is sald to have originated about the time of Grant's peace poliéy toward the In- dians. In the enlisted personnel, a great number of the men were against this policy, because the Indians’ man- ner of killing was so harrowing. A statement was made to the effect that among the Indians there are some good Indians, and a reply that was repeated from one man to another was that “The only good Indian is a dead Indian.” We find no record of the person who first made the re- mark. Q. What Is the Danzig Corridor?— P.T. C. A. The so-called corridor fs a nar- row strip of country extending across Germany to the Baltic Sea just west of Danzig. It gives Poland an outlet to the sea. It is one of the chief ob- structjons to peace in Europe and not long ago a member of the French cabinet described it as “A drafty cor- ridor, singularly apt to give states- ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. if not fatal men bad colds, monia.” pnen Q. Ts new-moon_hay perfume acti ally made from the oil of grasses’ - K A. In the preparation of this per fume the compound “coumarin’ is largely employed. This is formed by the action of a ferment on the con stituents of the plants. 'The proper tone is obtalned by adding to the coumarin©a certain quantity of laven der and bergamot. Q. Can yvou give me any informa- t&nnvlbo“! the Conners Foundation? — A. This is a fund of $1,000,000 do- nated to the city of Buffalo, N. Y., by Willlam J. Conners to be used to re lleve distress “immediately, without red tape and without regard to race. religion, or anything but need.” 1t E's said that Mr. Conners’ motto is ‘Relleve first and investigate after- ward: . How many aliens were nat- uralized last yea R. G A. According to the annual repori of the Commissioner of Naturaliza- tion for the fiscal vear ended .June 30. 1925, there were 152457 naturali zation certificates issued. Q. What was the first historical f!l;)‘mpmade in the United States?” - A. WHI Hays savs the first his toric films made were those of Presi dent McKinley's inauguration. Q. How is hydr 2 RUM ydrogen obtained? A. Hydrogen is produced commer, clally principally by one of two meth ods: (1) The electrolytic process by which water is decomposed into twa elements, hydrogen and oxygen. and (2) the steam iron process by which hydrogen is prepared from steam hy the action of fron. © Q. 1s the sliver preduction nf Can- Ada Incregeing ‘or derreasing” A. Sllver production in Canada for the month >of July amounted 1o 665,000 ourites, the high of the vear. as com s with 1510000 in May and 1,126,000 in January, low of 1926 The aggregate output for the first seven months was 11,776,000 fine oynces, an average of 1682 ounces, compared with 1395000 in 1925, 1,412,000 in 1924 and 1,418,000 in 1923, Q. Will you please tell me the rlntlnin!f of the word “leprechaun.™ A. A leprechaun in Irish mythol ogy is a dwarf or falry who Is suid to know the secret of wealth, which he must reveal if captured. Q. Please tell me what will clean spots off of cement. This oil got the driveway sidewalk from the in pings of the engine oil from my aui. mobile.—J. V. R. A. The Portland Cement Asso tion says that from a 4 or & cent solution to a 20 per cent tion of muriatic acid may be tsed upon the concrete to remove moi and engine oll. If the oil has pen: trated ome-half inch or more in the concrete. nothing will remove 1 stain, but the use of muriatic will remove enough of the il enable vou to paint the surface | a 20 per cent solution of mu acid is used, care must he tak to allow the acid to touch the hine or clothing. Q. Which is going to come ahead—human intelligence or the | sect world?—L. A. A. It is estimated that the tot damage every vear in the [ni States caused by a few specics o insects amounts to more than §! 000,000, notwithstanding our increi- ing knowledge of the habits of ins . and investigations of new methods « controlling the injurious species economic loss due to insecis seems 1. be increasing, In spite of the It gence of man. Letters are going evern from. our Free Information Fur in Washington lelling readers i ever they want to know. They aie answer to all kinds of queries. on ol kinds of subjects, from all kinds people. Make use of this free seri which The Evening Star is maintaiu ing for you. Its only purpose is | help you, and we want you to hene it Jrom'it. Get the habit of iwriting ¢ The Evening Star Information Iin reaw, Frederic J. Haskin, direclo Washington, ). €. Nebraska’s Bread and Water For Bootleggers Discusse A judge in the Township of Te- |that a fudge shonld visit this wrai kamah, Nebr., who sentenced convict- | 1Don one class of criminals who o after all, entitled to humane treat ed bootleggers to a prison diet of bread and water for 40 days, raised an issue which has been taken up far be- vond the borders of Nebraska. There is some belisf that the punishment may have the effect of reducing viola- tions of the law, but the press gener- ally seems to regard it as a flareback to old-fashioned cruelties. “The conflict over this alleged cruel penalty,” according to the Cleveland News, ‘‘reveals less of opposition to an individual than a conflict in views on prison reform and prison discipline. Men with scientific training expre: themselves elther as opposed to the odd penalty or take the attitude that further experiment is necessary he- fore judgment can be pronounced on the judge's conception of justice. That is, we feel, the soundest attitude. Bizarre decrees may prove effective, although the entire history of man's treatment of offenders offers little solace to the advocates of stunt penal- en.” General interest In the Nebraska case is observed by the Winston- Salem Sentinel, which points out that “fines and road sentences do not seem to stop déalers in booze": that they “do not mind & fine of a few hundred dollars, nor do they mind serving a short sentence on the road: the liquor trade is too profitable. They pay their fine or serve thelr sentence,” says the Sentinel, “and start out all over again, generally with a comfortable wad In their pockets from former illegal trades. When man finds the dis- comfagt of hunger combined with work in prospect he will think twice before taking a chance. The combination of bread and water with the rock pile for 10 days might have a whdlesome effect it applied to speeders, traffickers in whisky, and driving while under the influence of intoxicants. The bread- and-water sentence is worth trying out on a larger scale.” ek K Emphatic disagreement with this view 1is expressed by the Hartford Times, which declares that “except as an extreme disciplinary measure the diet of bread and water in American prisons is & relic of the harsher past. The Supreme Court of the State has upheld this sentence as constitutional and not ‘cruel and unusuval'' con- tinues tpe Times, protestin g what medieval standards of cruelty the learned judges were gulded, it is difficult to understand. since it would not be necessary to consult more than one or two physicians to get an idea of the ruinous physical possibilities in siuch a restgyted diet. Tt s a pity ment as much as are murderers forgers and burglars.” “'A little man can go a long way on bread and water; If he doesn't sii about too much he can go two weeks or more on the water alone, oby serves the New Orleans Item, but that paper also is reminded of medieval methods as it comments: “The sen tence is a return toward the erim nology of darker centuries. Today not even Murderers are placed on hread and-water diet, except for flagrant vio- lations of prison discipline. And tie theory that such punishment will ter crime was discarded decad Adopted in its entirety, carrie logical conclusion, it would bring the stock and the wheel, the lash and the undergrotnd cell. The Binghamton Press also re hiad marks that such treatment “we always supposed was reserved punishment for upruly prisoners. if flogging drlsoners,” adds the Press “is mot considered A ‘cruel usual’ punishment in Delawa; ing 'em bread and water wouldn't he s0 considered in Nebraska. Yet if svery convicted man in Dela flogged and every prisoner in braska were fed on bread and water, public opinton would put a speedy stop to both practices. They are only tolerated now because they are applied. i wach State, to a class of men whom the public’ likes to think of as enduring physical suffering.” x % % & The probability that no permanent injury will be inflicted is conceded by the Chicago Tribune, which, however, contends: “That does not in any way alter the fact that the punishment ix intended to 1 e &0 terrifying as to dis courage other violators of the prohi bition law as distinguished from all other aws. Thousands of men and womeniwho stjil beflave with all their hearts that llquor i8 & curse,” con- tinues the Tribupe, “have deserted thw prohibition cause in alarm the spread of at 1 fanaticlsm in its train Tekamah may serve to bring other thousands to their senses.' “Would not the judge proceed more logically,” asks the Loulsville Conrier- Journal. “by sentencing such convict ed bootleggers to drink their own liquid? That might at least have the merit of killing the lawbreakers quick ly instead of by the tortures of 40 days' starvation.” A comparison with other crimes is made by the Columbia Record with the statement that “at By |the same ilme, prisoners who have stolen thousands of dollars from the poor, or committed mayhem. lated any other may be fed on fried ch pound cake, or one may even &o_one: to see his girl, while serving u sen- tence.” 4l