Evening Star Newspaper, September 26, 1926, Page 42

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON. D. C. SUNDAY.....September 26. 1926 THEODORE W. NOYES.... mss Office Penner v 110 E; Tower 18 Regent < tland 1100 & Fand Now ‘Tork Offire Chicago Office Enropean Office London. The Evenine St g adition. i< the ciry a1 80 cent orad by carriers within r month: dajly onls. 45 conts mer month. Snndass only. 0 cenik per month Orders mas ba sent bs mail or telenfiane Main 8000 Collaction is made by carrier at end of #ach month Rate by Mail—Pagable in Advance. ““ Maryland and Virginia. and Sunday. . 1 yr. $2.00: 1 mo. 1€ only 15r. $6.00 1 mo Sinday only . el Dad® AN Other States and Canad: 2nd Sundar. .1 yr. §1200: 1 mo.. § iy 1yrl _SR00° | mo 1er 200001 mo Member of the Associated Press. The Associatad Pre axclnsivels entitled parches creditad t 11 or N n tha maper and aiso the Io prhlishad herein | Al rishis of pubi f snenial Aisnatches hes No Change of Venue. The State Supreme Court of New Jercey has denfed the applicatioh of | Hall. | the spacial the Mills murder case for a change of prosecutar in vemis tn permit the trial of the four | d of that crime in an- | persons e other enunty 1he homicides wers commirted. application was based upon the helisf that a fair trial could net he had in Snmersst County, that public senti. ment favored the defendants. and that justice was impossible in consequence. The court held that thers is nathing to indicate that a fair trial cannot he had in Semerset County and set aside the reasoning of the special prosecutor that there was evidence of a prefndics in that jurisdiction suff cient 1o thwart justice. Consequently the trial will ha held “on the ground of the crime.’ Courts are loath ta order a change Clear proof must he ad. public sympathy favor to the accused = suf- than Somerset, in which of venue. Auced that ahle or adve ficient 1o militate against a fair hear ing of the case. plication i made by the defense, some- times. as in this instance, by the prosecution. It is seldom granted. ©ne of the arguments of the pros. ecutor in this case was that four vearsago, immediately after the crime, influences favorable to the now ac- cused persons, two of whom had not been then brought into the case, were stronz ensugh to prevent an effective investigation. Intimations of bribery are not lacking. There is, indeed. a muystery in the legal aspect of this affalr that remains tn he cleared away. A recent investigatign has heen con- ducted along somewhat different lines and by different im those engaged in the examination in “The fact that it has resuited in the in- Aictment of four panple, whereas four years ago no indictments tiurned, would seem to indicate that thare is na real blockade of ustice in Somerset County. This decision probahls the process af securing a jury to try thess fonr detehdants will be unusual- v protracted. Every talesman will e suhjected te the claseat serutiny It will be diffieult to find twelve peo ple whn have not read about the case in detail and who have not expressed epinions regarding it, for rarely has a homicide led to 8o much publicity and to such wide ramifications of speculation and deduction. — persons f were means that The fate of Dempsay is not 8o sad, even though he muét relinquish the prize ring for A comfortable and re munarative career in the show busi- ness e raeee i money,” the old covarh, Rut it can seldom be turned .wver at the rate of several thousand “Time savs Acllars a minute, as in the case of a | prize fight. et ———— A Seasonal Change. here and the adver- interesting and Autumn ie Hsements vearly growing mare o, are under- going their Fall change. Among the features thareof that have departed far another vear are the camp fires N the fires, but the alwave anly camp camp siter and all the appurtenances | of living next to Mother Nature. Never were there such fires, uch sites! On the smooth, grasey bank of a stream that looked as if it ran through the estate of some Brit- jsh duke. with no except the one hundred per cent per- fect variety without a single dead hranch, burned a fire of sticks all \f a size and symmatrically arranged. Furthermore, it seemed to hurn with- out & trace of ash and practically no emnke. and to be perpetnual within view was there any wood. Sport was alwavs first-class some- where in the immediate vicinity. Over the well conducted flames was A frying pan filled with appetizing fish of a size fit the ntensil. never smallar, never larzer. Wearing A heatific grin. a sports- man spartswoman. clad in marulate outing zarments. hevered cnmewhere near the flames. immune tn heat, however, and apparently never even having heard of a mos- quite, a black fiv or a midge Somewhere adjacent stond a spot- Jess tent, with avery guy repe taut. One Knew inatinetively that in its floor space of turf or moss were no hummocks, N roots, no stones, no lizards or insects. In front was a talkingy machine or a radio, some- times hoth. Fishing and gunning tackle of the finer sort was propped around regardless, for apparently in hese places it never rained. Rreezes, moreaver. were always light and al- waye in the right direction. In fact, «a halmy was the atmosphere. so free the air from winged pests. that in the Evsleee Edens the man whose turn it was ta dn the camp shores wan, ae likely as not, clad only in glistening .undergarments. His hair bad had no occasion become. . exactly 10 im- to with the Sundar morn. | The | Sometimes the ap- | re. timber in sight | rumpled, or his nose and forehead | championship hea: besmudged. little and big. one-night or perma- nent, enjoy! Do not, however, for them now. and groups have come back | themselves. Thé Evening Star Newspaper Company |10 the cities and are enjoving them- [€rom his retirement tn make a match | They are | With Johnson, and ih 1910 he wa and pknocked out in fifteen rounds. . The |sedans which, it would seem, enjoy | realization of the “white hope” came |<pecial parking privileges to the ex- | With Willard's defeat of Johnson at [cluston of all ather cars, or are high | HAYANA in 1315 in twenty-six rounds. - |the longest fight in the heavyweight | selves at foot ball game: |either . seated in lmousines 11p in a stadium where, notwithstand ing the presence of from 30,000 to | 80,000 other wild-eved enthusiasts, they have no immediate neighbors to |®1 four and a half years, it Rurns is| cramp them, i TR & Millions for a Short Show. Official financial returns from the prize fight at Philadelphia Thursday | might are now at hand. having been | announced hy the Pennsylvania State Athletic Commission, as follow: Total receipts, $1.895.733.40: Demp- sex’s share, $700,000; Tunney's shars $200.000; Rickard's share, $500 80 Sesqui Exposition share, $170,00 State tax. $86.150; Government tax, $172.330.40." The total attendance was 732, the paid attendance being 118736, with a fres or complimentar | attendance of £.95, These figures are significant. The: show first of all the prosperity of the country. For they plainly indicate plenty of people with money to spare and spend on brief diversion. The “gate” does not comprise all that the public spent by any means, for there are to he added the railroad fares or the gasoline expenditures. the hotel bills, the food costs and the incidental expenses of going to and from the scene of the fight. I is safe to say the total expenditure by the public on the spectacle was more than $3.500,000, or nearly the amount of the “gzate.” there is in addition the money changed hands in betting no possible way to count that. No- hody will ever know how many hun dreds of thousands—indeed, how many millions —changed hands in wagers. Ta put the whole fight bill At $5,000,000 will he a conservative | estimate. and all for a forty-minute show of bruising brawn. For the crowd went to the great stadium at the Sesguicentennial to see Dempsey and Tunney fight and not to witness the preliminaries. Had the Dempsey ites had their wish, the affair would have heen over within three minutes. Those not versed in fistic may be puzzied by the fact that the loser gained half a million dollars more money than the winner. is the prerogative of the champion when he makes a new match. He can dictate terms. In earlier times, when men fought for smaller purses or stakes, the winner took all, or oc- casionally the lion's share. The fight was for the immediate monetary re- ward. Nowadays championships have heen capitalized so that the titie hold- ars are sure of their compensation even in defeat. It seems somewhat of upon American generesity that this enormous sum was spent for a few minutes of supposed entertainment, just at a time when every effort is being made te raise funds for the re- lief of the stricken people of Florida. Then that a travesty from the country at large have only just passed the two-million mark a small fraction over the prize fight “gate.” Had each of the persons in attendance at Philadelphia Thursday night given five dollars for the Flor- Cross collections would have been swelled by $625.000, nearly a third of the present total, after almost a week of solicitation. .- In spite of the prosperity showered upon him by the United State: | picions gain ground, through vari utterances, that Chaliapin does love America. Alas. as poets have often remarked, love that cannot be bought! — st | not | is something A sesquicentennial is something that arrives every 150 years. If Demp: sey could have had matters all his | own way that might have heen how |often a championship fight happen. e a The Wowld Court is a sedate topie | for international debate, but it pro- ! vides TNT as an issue in our local political campaigns S | The Wearers of the Fistic Crown. Champions come and go in the fistic arena with regularity, and some with dispatch. In thirty-six years there have heen nine recognized and one heavyweight class 1.. Sullivan, James J. Corbett, Robert Flizsimmons, James J. my Rurns, Jack Johnson, Jess Wil lard, Jack Dempsey and now Gene Tunney. This list does not include Marvin Hart. whom Jeffries, upon h ! retirement. declared to be the cham- pion, but wha was never accepted as These successive champions their titles as follows: Sullivan, two Carbett, five Fitz- {simmeons, two yvears; Jeffries, six vears. Hart, one vear: Burns, whose title was also clouded, he having won from Hart, two years: Johnson. seven vears: Willard, four vears, and Demp ey, seven vears. If Jeffries’ retire. ment is ignored and his title time is reckoned from his defeat of Fitzsim- mons to his defeat by Johnson a | Reno, the “boilermaker” will stand as the holder of the pugllistic honers for ‘OIQ\'on vears, the longest span in the sueh. held vears: vears [nistory of the world championship | | fights. | “Sullivan was American |for a long period before he met and | defeated Mitchell, the British cham- plon, in 1880, but he was o hold the world title for only | two vears. James Corbett, “Gentle- man Jim.” met him in his period of decline and gained the crown. Jeffries’ announcement that he had from the ring caused a lapse in the record. for his dictum that Marvin Hart had won the title when Hart | knoecked out Jack Root in 1905 was not accepted as determining the cham- plonship. - Hart and Burns, who in 'gurn beat him, were not in the real | stump an’ talks 'bout one another: twice | There 1s | finances | would | unrecognized world champions in the | of fighters—John | Jeffries, Tom- | champion | fated | | Every dark hoss’ neigh— retired | jJack Johnson found the “pretender” Oh, what a perfect vacation did !to the title a comparativel: the selectors of these camp sites, |at Sidney, New South Wales, in 1908. feel | The same [Johnson. but few aspirants presented L cities. loning travel time and possible post- The total collactions for this purpose | ida relief fund. the total of the Red | | | | i | {*han the average. I'the hithertn impossible and landed the | League lappreciate ! Louis populace. | belief i e - That | elie in a successful comeback an | other vear. L. “But nowadays it's always customary ight cla easy mark There was then a clamor in the sport- ing world for a “white hope” to beat Finally Jeffries emerged class since the beginning of the series. | The average championship has lan-! reckoned in the list, or a little more than five vears it Burns is excluded | and Jeffries’ title is reckoned as run- ning from his defeat of Fitzsimmons to his defeat by Johnson. Dempsey just beaten, held his title for longer Wil Tunney hold it for the same time? SRy it New Base Ball Champions. This heing a had year for cham- nions, it is quite in order that the pro- fessional base ball honors should pass from the teams that have held them for a twelvemonth. ‘In both of the big leagnes last vear's champlons are now howing to others. In the National League the crown of glory has de- scended upon the bhrow of Rogers Hornshy, leader of the St. Louls Car-! dinals, while Pittsburgh trails in third place, with the possibility of a further descent. The American League cham- pionship has heen practically won by New York. and Washington is fight- ing to hold fourth place, with a chance of gaining third. Tn the Inter- national League, Baltimore, the holder of the title for many seasonf, has heen supplanted by Torento. Thus there is an entire new line-up at the end of the season. Hornshy's vietory in the National League brings the pennant the Mound City for the first time since the organization of a second league. St. Louis is now experiencing the jov that was it by \Washingon two years azo, wem Stanley Harris performed to Nationals out in front of the American and later made them the world champions. Washington's disap- pointment this vear is keen. It can the exaltation of the St Tt will be a hystander in the world series this vear, but no longer without hope as for season after season in the old times. For the ‘next season” stuff is working effec- tively at the Capital to encourage the Next Saturday the series will start. It will be a difficult series to manage owing to the long distance that must covered by the teams’ hetween It may last for ten days. reck he. ponements due tosthe weather. Al | ready the estimators of relative | strength are at work doping out the | probahilities between the contenders. | Rut hase hall is peculiar in that the unexpectad ix more likely to happen than the expected. Witness the world series of 1325, in which Washington came to griel after a start that seem. | ed o promise an assured repetition of | the triumph of 1924, ———— A prospect of permanent amity be- | tween France and Germany will give | the dove of peace reason to flutter forth to demonstrate that he is a fine, large hird and no longer a squab. ————— Custom regulates human happiness. Various devices to regulate traffic, at first disapproved of, are now warmly commended since the public has learned to understand them. People on both sides of the Rhine | finally realize the impossibility of | -ansacting intelligent business while carvying on an implacable quarrel. i ——— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHTRON i The Fashlon Monger. Howdy, M Gentle friend of mine! Once again you've hrought ‘em— Those fashions fair and fine, Purple in the woodland, Gold in every field; Not such very good land, Yet, what a wondrous vield! Rathing suits were seanty: Walking dresses, short. Sqon we'll search the shanty For garh of larger sort.’ A touch of chill has taught ‘em That other styles are due— Howdy, Miss Autumn! Glad to welcome you! Resaervations. cou in favor of prohibition?” | answered Senator Sorghum. | to make reservationa. Symbolistic Weed. Up for a cigarette she spoke, With calm superdority. Said Father, “}y old pipe I'll smoke, Which shows strength and au- Phority. Jud Tunkins says music makes him want to dance. The music is pretty bad, but, then, he's a bad dancer. Same Old Remark. “The landlord savs he's goinz to ralse the rent.” said she. “He's a pretty nice fellow.” sighed he. “But I wish he'd learn to say something witty and original.” Voice of the Boom. Each political boom Demands plenty of room As now being passed around free, And vou hear far awa “I hear thy voice calling me!” “1 have inspected many insurance policies.” said Hi Ho. the sage of | Chinatown, “and have found nothing that pavs for a hlack eye or a bloody nose like pugilism, | contiguo ’ Bishop of LOOKING BACKWARD. Deuteronomy, vil. 2—“Thou shalt { remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee.” Chauncey M. Depew, in a recent in- terview, told of several instances in his early life that he regarded as epochal. One of them, he maintained, marked the turning point in hie ca- reer; it had made a distinct, appeal to him. “One night I was so perplexed.” he says, “that in the quiet and =oli- tude of my room I got down on my knees and put the whole. thing before God. My sainted mother had taught me how to pray. had taught me that when in distress a speclal Providence could be depended upon to guide me aright. In the name of my beloved mothere T prayed as I had never praved before. When I arose from my knees T saw the answer to my pe- tition standing "out as if in rays of fir He then goex on to tell of the inner peace and satisfaction he ex perienced In having reached his deci. sion. In all the instances that he re. lates in this interview he makes it evident that it is his deep conviction that there i a God to be reckoned with in the events of life. Probably no career in our genera- tion has been more colorful or useful than that of the former Senator. He has occupied high places in public and private concerns; he has heen the counselor of the rich and the poor: he has held the coveted place of one of America’s foremost orators. As he comes to appraise what to him are the great values in life he readily rec. ngnizer and acknowledges God's place in it all. In the language of the poet he would say, “In each event of life how clear Thy ruling hand T see.” It is Interesting to note in the careers o those who have réndered outstanding service to their fellows that, in sum- ming up the story of their lives, they inevitably see that something higher than genius or luck has governed and directed them: they have come to feel that while “man proposes, God disposes.” Looking backward across the years, they are able to see design and purpose in the scheme of life. In vouth it may not have been so clear.. Youth is net reflective, rarely profits hy either nhservation or experience. It {s only with the flizht of time that we come to reckon with real values. It is only when we galn some eminence that we can look hack and down along the pathway over which we have traveled and discover the possible mistakes or dangers that attended our upward climb. One of the tragedies of life is where we grow into maturity or ripeness of age with BY FREDERI! New York now has a new trading exchange in the form of a grain futures market. Hitherto Chicago has heen the great grain market of the U'nited States, but it seems more than likely that New supersede the Western city because of its greater wealth and ater numbers of traders. Trading in futures, whether of grain, cotton, or any other commodity. has heen much eriticized axa form of gambling, but economists defend the practice as tending to stahilize the price and inure to the benefit of hoth producers and -consumers. The theory -on which this is based is that the traders are willing to carry the risk of holding the product, at least contracts calling for deliver: it the liability. This system provides a marke( and takes from the farmer the hurden of financing hiz crop Were it not for the futures market it would be necessary for the farmer to advance much more money than now is required of him. In view of the impoverished condition of many farmers this would be out of the ques- tion. Under the prevailing system of trading in grain futured the farmer need assume no risk whatever: the risk of finding a market is horne by the traders. The new wheat pit in deal not only in domestic also in the Canadian crop. are to he made at Buffalo, which has capacious elevator facilities and is # convenient shipping point both for the American and the Canadian wheat fields, The American wheat can come down the Great Lakes to Buf- falo and the fields of Canada alko are Buffalo is an important milling point, where wheat may he ground into flour, and also it is ad- vantageously sitnated for export. The St. Lawrence River and the Erie Canal afford access of the sea. Canadian wheat will he brought in in bend. Under existing law it is pos- sible to bring commodities into United States without payment New York will wheat but Deliveries of Canadlan wheat ported. Thus, the ew grain may he traded in on the futures exchange in New York and ac tually delivered at Ruffalo. there (o he milled inte flour and re-exported, without payment of duty. Buffalo has elevator capacity for the storage of thirt grain. The city also has a milling capacity equal to that of Minneapo- lis, for many vears the leading city of the country in that respect. Trading in Futures Intricate. Trading in futures is a rather in- tricate business, but there are certain fundamental rules governing it. Hedging is one of the more important A cotton spinner, - a cargo of cotton a profit. However, igencies of business, he recognizes the possibility of the price of cotton and. therefore, of eotton cloth. declin- ing. huys cotton futures: that is. -cotton for future delivery, If. by the time he has spun his cotton into cloth, the ‘price of bulk cotton has declined, he can sell his future: contract and re- coup his losses. : Dealing in any sort of futures is somewhat artifiefal. A trader will buy 100 hales of cotton without motest idea of ever having it ered. There doubtless are many deal ers in cottén and wheat who never have actually beheld a bushel of wheat or a_bale of cotton In their lives. What ecotton. What he sells when he is ready to is not the wheat or the cot ton but the slip of paper. But h operations establish the market price and. in the long run, doubtless de much good to the producer. If the farmer had to depend on the cross- roads store to buy his wheat he would the Chicago and the New York wheat pite in operation he can be assured that there always will be an active market for hit product and organized facilities for handling it. An interesting feature of the New York grain pit is that all grades of wheat helow No. 2 have heen harred. This simplifies the trading materially. Grades have been established by “De reason some of us thinks poli ticians is so wicked,” sald Uncle Eben, “is de way dey. gits out on de - 7~ TUnited States Department of Agri- culture and are enforced by law. The grades below No. 2 are of inferior qualits and are uniikely to be .ac- cepted by flour millers or by forelgn, York will | They put up the money and assume | the | duty, provided they are to he re.ex- | million bushels of | for example, will | to spin into | cloth. He will pay for it a price which | |he thinks will enable him to realize knowing the ex- | S0 he goes into the market and | the re.| deliv. | the purchaser has is a slip of paper! eaying that he owns certain wheat or | live in considerable uncertainty. With | the | BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D, LL. D., Washington. out any adequate consciousness either of the hand that has guided and led us or of the evident purpose and plan, of life itself. To look back on a lite lived without purpose, in which there seems to be no plan or design, and to think eof it solely in terms of | the mere acquisition of things, is to come to its close with a sense of dis- | appointment and defeat. Even if the enator’s early political hopes were by his own will brought to unfulfill- ment, his many vears have been char- acterized by a life of sunny cheerful- ness, and he has the satisfaction. in his lingering sunset period. of know- ing that he has brought smiles in stead of tears to the thousands to whom, in one way or another, he has ministered. When Gladstone lay dyving at Hawarden. stricken with a terrible physical affliction, he doubtless mused | over th v of the past, and that | which brought solace and comfort to | him in the daye of pain was not the emoluments of office or the praise of men, but the peace that comes from a life of service well performed. What a contrast Napeleon on lonely St Helena suggests! Stripped of honors. forsaken of friends. shattered in| health. he mourned the days of lost | opportunity. In one of Scott’s im mortal novels he puts upsn the lips | f one of its characters these words: \When vou come to die, as die you must, it will not be what vou have Aone for vourself, but what you have | on most pleasantly.” ‘In one of the Psalms occurs this passage: ep in nocency. and take heed onto the thing that is right, for that shall bring a man peace at the last." We have seen this demonstrated in countless cases. It is a profitable thing for s now and again to take a look backward over the trall that we have followed. It may bring back days of bitter disappointment and de feat: it may recall hours of disillusion- ment, and again it may disclose to our vision more of cloud than sunshine. ,Even 8o, the practice is profitable If. out of days of shadow and dieap- pointment, we can discover the deep | ening of our convictions and the fixing | of our ideals. the very shadows and and it | disappointments themeelves may seem | but stepping stones on which we rose | from our dead selves to higher things | After-all, to grow old gracefully, hope | tully and optimistically is a rare ac complishment. but let it be remem hered as an accomplishment to hit alone who is able to see God's han |in all the events and circumstanc ot life. “Thou shalt remember al the way which the Lord thy God led | thee.” THE NEW YORK WHEAT PIT C J. HASKI importers. Therefore the restriction adopted by the New York exchange sliminates the possibility of delivery of a poor grade of wheat. 1t will be an interesting experien« 1o see whether New York will taks away Chieago's prestige as the p mary wheat market of the world. New York has a habit of arrogating im nartance to herself, but, until now | *hicago has horne the palm so far a vheat is concerned. Cities seem to have a sort of per | onality to distinguish them. Chicago has for many years heen famous for ite wheat pit. Naw York has hean fs mous for its Stock Kxchange, the Consolidated Exchange. which is call ad the big hoard, and the Curb. T | C'urh probably is the more interest ing of the two. The traders have curious vstem signalling the | prices they are prepared to affer. It resembles the guage of the dumh | heing gestured ont by rapid move ments of the fingers. The Consolidatad ather exclusive place. Membershij | costs thousands of doll but mem hers usually make enough to pay for their pinces New Orleans and Galveston both. New York and Chicago so far oncerned. The | Xchange is x | | trading in cotton is c New Orleans Cotton Exchange is the largest in the country and Galveston is the principal exporting port. More cotton mo out of Galveston (al though it comparatively a small city) than out of New York. YOUR CHILD IN SCHOOL | By Dr. Frank W. Ballou, | [Ruwerintendent ot subtools. Wasthingtor No. 2—That First Day at School. 1t's like entering a new world, that first day in school. In fact, the world does materially change for the child. Naw experiences are passed through and they continue to increase in in terest and importance as the task of developing the child progresses With the arrival of that first day in school the days of exclusive home care and special parental solicitude are at an end. The father and moth- { er now share with the school the de- | | velopment of their boy or girl. While tge transition s unconscious on the part of the child. it s certain that when the youngster who has spent that first day in the classroom goes home he has undergone a change that may be understood fully only after | the lapse of vear Tt is expected that parents will look with grave concern on sending their firet child to school. They realize that thers must result a daily separation of parent and child, a readjustment of home life to make it supplement the school life, and shat the child i of the first five vears can never again he the same, although for a few vears it may he outwardly little changed. Much depends on the teacher dur- | ing that first day in the schoolroom. She it is who now steps into the place of parents for a goodly portion of the. child's waking hours and holds that position for the remainder of the hoy's or girl's early vears. That first | day. it unpleasant, may develop a dis- taste for school that will become more and more pronounced. To guard against such an unfortunate eventu. ality is one of the teacheris first and important duties. Every real teacher is everything to the little child just beginning attend ance at school. It is to the teacher ! that the small. boy or girl looks for direction for virtually every action in the day. He recognizes the authority land the solicitous care that reposes 1in the person who is in charge of the | elassroom. | One of the first duties of the kin. dergarten or first-grade teacher is to | gain the confidence of these new pu I pils. They come to her for their first great experience outside the home. and, in a small sense, for their first real contact with the world. They come from such varied home sur. roundings that the little personalities may be as varied as their numbera. The teacher's success in gaining their respeet and confidence will be in pro- portion to her abllity to fill. to a lim- ited extent, of course, the place of the parents. The human factor in education looms large-on this first day and con- tinues to eall for -particular emphasis throughout the kindergarten and first grade. During these vears -in -the child’'s life there is the greatest op- portunity for forning the friendshii { I i | done for others, that you will think | excend | | Capital Sidelights [ Tobogganing and sledge riding off |the African coast in “Good old Sum- mer time” is the unseasonable sport |enjoyed by Representative Ernest R. | Ackerman of New Jersey. the most traveled man in Congress, whose usual recreation is making trips to most unusual places. He has confirmed again and again the truisms that “‘what is flesh for one is poison for another” and what |ie “pleasure for one part of the earth’s inhabltants is serious busi- nese for expectant profits by another and much larger part of humanity.” Speaking of his visit to Funchal in the Tsland of Madeira, off the coast of Africa, Mr. Ackerman says: “We read tales of dog sleds in Alaska and on North Pole expeditions in the | {world can you enjoy a ride on run- ners on a place which has never known snow or ice? The monotonous character of the island is responsible in part for this seeming anachronism. but the sleds run on the level with but little more dificulty than when they are descending a toboggan. They hold four persons. The seats are not more than 12 inches from the ground and have a canopy top | zaudily -ornamented with trappings of bright eolors which would not be out of place in a first-class circus parade. They are drawn by sturdy bhullocks. Part of the time the sledge proprietor bus himself greasing the runner by allowing it to pass over a piece of burlap inclosing a lump of bullock fat. “The slelgh-riding effect is heigh aned by the fact that the bullock: have bells hung around thelr necks | and when they are in muotion th! | sound fs like that of sleighbells. A vou procesd at a rapid pace over the herringbone stone pavement with a grand panorama of scenery, a riotous display of tropical flora and amid the sound of strange tongues and almond- eved, coquettish Inhabtants. you wonder if you are not enjoying in the flesh a journey with ‘Alice in Wonderland'." Describing the descent from the peak of Hongkong. Mr. Ackerman | savs: “Where else in the wide world, !in" the Summer time. can you slide | down from the height ¢f over half 1 mile, in a descent af several miles where ‘the force of gravitation alone supplies the power? You ride in a donble-seated wicker chair like those on the Boardwalk at Atlantic City. 't equipped with runners instead of wheels. The thrill of the trip ex- ceeds that of an airplane ride. Tt A pathetic sight to see the sledge ~wner painfully and slowly return- |inz to the summit. carrving the | sladge on his head in order to ohtain 1 second fare.” * o ok | Now that we have our National Parke and Planning Commiission. our Public Bufldinge Commission and our “ommission of Fine Arts all confer- ,rogram. the writer of this column has heen asked to explain how the | anee. and its purpose | "In 1896 the Public Art League was | \rzanized for the sole purpose of hav- Arts Commission for the future de velopment of Washington along the zinal plans of Maj. L'Enfant. who | vas employed by George Washington ! 'nd Thomas Jefferson in 1789 to plan he Nation's future Capital, the only ‘itv in the world ever planned before ts construction. and today conceded ity rrade offered suggestions to Con- ress concerming the future develop- ment of Washington. The same year. hrough the Public Art League. the \merican Institute of Architects or canized a conventinn and presented wiggestions on the hent of Washington, which were pub- ‘i<had by Congr In 1900 the celebration of the Na {ion Capital Centennial went far to adurate the people of the country as “a the fnture of thair Capital, and as | permanent memorial a park develop- nent plan was projeet In 1901 tha Senate autherized a mmission, commenly knewn as the | \eMillan Park Commission. to study Nlans for the future development Washington. hat_commis L | on is still considered as pment. As a result of that study ‘he Senate in decided on 2 \rn to the orizinal L'Enfant pla and that the part of the District not covered in the L'En . he developed in harmony with them. osrder, appointed the Fine Arts Coun “il, which reported in favor of plac ing_ the proposed Lincoln Mem: fhe Mall. in keeping with the Park | Commission’s plans tead of e ‘ween Union Station and the Capitol. In 1910 Congress considered it wis ‘0 create 4 permanent Commission of Fine Arts with an annual appropria | tlon for ite expenses. £ In 1911 Congress, in creating a Lin coln Memorial nitial appropriation of $2,000,000 erecting the Lincoln Memorial. cected that the Lincoln | Commis advice Commission. Tn 1910 and 1811 husiness organizations. eration of Citizens' Assoc! 3 1% individual citizens’ assoclations | took concerted action in support he Park +f this grew the permanent (‘ommittee of One Hundred on the fu nre development of Washington. * % * X for di with the Fed The recent' experience of ane iov | ernment department in spending $2: 000 to repair A temporary damaged by termites, | precaution in constructing the bi ing would have prevented the pos hil uild i partment of Ag nation-wide campaig | by ants. | ™A small model building is to erected on the Department of Agricul ture grounds whiel | damage. Practically all of the 4 species of the house-wrecking ant ars of subterranean habit. he points out The Federal department ix also urg | ing _adoption by city ant invasion, that which has not heen treated | laid on or in the earth. All un cement umderneath and separating ‘rom the earth. —————— which must exist between teacher an: pupil if the lessons of the classroom are to be impressed successfully. That first day at school must be kept as simple and happy possibie It is all new to the child—the large | other | room where he meets with children, the pictures on the walls, and, last but not least, the introduc: tion to the routine of school work There will be songs, games and exer. cizes that will enable the child to de. velop gradually, to cultivate imagina tion, to learn color harmony appreciation of music and al other things that go for ph well as tellectual mastery tasks that form achool life. { The program must be unfolded grad. | the greatest care to see | the little tots do not tire of their first light tasks, since their minds are being® transferred from a v and make-believe to a ity in_which preparation nally with to it that world of pl: world of r tor the arduous toif of adult life grad | vally-tooms larger and larger. ¢ (Oovyright. 1928 ) Summer time, but where else in the | “ing on the $30,000.000 public building | “ine Arts Commission camg into exist- | ne the Government create a Fine | by all nations to bhe the hest planned in 1599 the Washington Roard of | future develop- | of The published report of he New Testament for Capital devel- re- fant plans should In 1908 the President. by executive ial . Commission with an Memorial jon should avail itself of the of the permanent Fine Arts the Washington fations and of mmission’s plans, and out lance bullding < where a simple of attack by ante, has prompted Snyder, entomologist of the De- | riculture, to make a n of information to prevent wholesale house-wrecking | he. h will demonstrate various ways of preventing termite engineers of | building regulations to hlockade the no floors, sills, beams or- wood with a erensote preventive material may bhe treated wood, even if 1ald on conerete, must have at least one inch of .-nud‘ it il 4 States are here d an the dal as of the the substance of MEN AND AFFAIRS BY ROBERT T. SMALL. ‘sausage’ its great stadium Gifford Pinch: R ure as he appeared in the v throng. He was given a great ova tion. not anlv as governor of his 8tate {but as an ardent supportar of the big fight. Discipie of Theodore Ronsevalr much of Gav. Pinchot's public life has heen guided by reflection as ta what “T. R.” would have done in the cir cumstances, When ther were pro. teats against the fight the Governor knew T. R. would have stend to his guns-and so did he. Wearing a big black felt hat of tha Roosevelt typs. the Governor waved it to the crowd in acknawledgment of his greetings. | It was a gala night for him. (Coprright. 1028 1 Gene Tunner, new heavywelght|across the ring at times like a blanket champlon of the world. proved true | °of foF. to the traditions of the Marine Corps,| And then the rain. Oh. what s rain, of which he, was a member during the /MY countrymen: It wae a downpour war. One motto of the fighting Ma.| *hich easily might have caused a rines Is: | panic in so lacge a throng on an oot “First_to land: last to leav: et et DG AL Gene Tunney was first to land on | 130:000-044 souls were engrossed witt Jiek: Dt e wandjem | Put & _single purnose. with thoughts ac psey’s ja e A%t | and eves rivetad on two tall gladia: to leave the champlonship ring st |stripped for o b the Sesquicentennial—and he left with P d B Senlle that wodlIIL conR O | e ciead The Marine Corps is proud of Tun- 2 "about their Fall honnets, thair ney and has a right to be. Tunney gowns and wraps. They refused to be served with the 1ith Regiment nf|h..lh".d with expedients of vi protec- | “Devil Dogs.” He fought all through | tion. They did not want to miss a {the war as a private. moment of the fight. Always thers ‘That's where they thought I could | was the tense expectancy that a flash ‘do the most good.” sald the new|ing blow from the Manassa mauler |wearer of the fistic crown, “and I might suddenly change the entire guess they were right.” complexion of the fight. Dempsey ad | Tt is eminently fitting now that| herents in the crowd, who could Tunney should be commissioned a acarcely beliave their eyes, kept eay first lieutenant in the Reserve Corps. ing, “Wait—wait until he hits him! and news that he passed his exam-|But they waited in vain, and the eager ination for the rank will cause grati- spectators who would not seek cover fication through all branches of lho‘and who would not be bothered with |armed service. The Army and the wraps or with the slender protection |Navy. teo, have claimed Gene as a!of newspapers spread around the | vateran of the war. The American |shoulders waited also, and got soaked | Leglon always has held him in high- | to fhe skin. st estaem. During his training daye| How many cases of cold and pneu- tor the “battle of a century and a|monia may result from that wetting half” he raceivad by mail and tela | will never be known. How much dam- graph felicitations from virtually age was done ta human raiment will avery post in the Legion | never ha correctly estimated. Tt was. | however, one of ‘the big costs of the | Some of the scenes in the qui- | most costly and stupendous athletir | centennial Stadium on the night of |ghow aver given in the history of the the Dempsey-Tunney imbroglio will | world. 5 live forever in the memory of thofe | In gize tha crowd must have dimmed | tortunate to view them and imagina- [the greatest thronks the circuses of | tive enough to look beyvend the narrow |ancient Rome could ever have known | square of light called the “ring.” The |In ferocity. too. it was a flareback (0 | lighting effects were quite marvelous. | the gladiatorial davs. Thumbs wers | During the actual fighting periods the | down for Jack Dempsey from the verw vast stadium was in complete dark. |start of the battle. ness save for the floodlights beating | “Kill him, Gene!" they shouted in down on the fighters with the artifi- | the first round. clal intensity of a noonday sun. AS| “Put him to sleep, knock him out, each round ended, the whole scene whang his heezer off"' they shrisked flashed once more into color with in the ninth and tenth rounds when great batterfes of searchlights pIAY-|ft was realized tha old champlon was ing over the waves of billowing hu-|en his way. The crowd knew thar man faces which rose and rose and | Tunney was the winner when the figh: rose in succeeding tiers until ther was half aver. but it would have In seemed to fade into the to see the failen champion groveling clouds which scudded ov in the wet rosin which smeared the immense observation or floor. balloon swung far in the sky Mob pevchology hasn't changed bulk appearing when all th much with the passing of a couple f hte were burning. thousand vears In the days of the war in France the observation halloons looked after the interests of the soldiers afoot. Tt seemed a good omen that the big halloon was there as Gene Tunney | Devil Dog, stepped Into the ring, wear- ling the heautifully embroidered and | lustrous silk dressing gown presanted to him by his old “huddies” in the carps One of the most amazing effects could he witnessed during the perinds of darkness. Matches lighted by smokers among the 130.000-0dd spec- tators in the vast stands glowed here and there as if numberless fireflies filled the air. Smoke from the smokers drifted This and That By Charles E. Tracewell. Fifty Years Ago; ~ In The Star Rear Cat rolling down alley like a small cask on legs One see Rear she is such an Washington was getting many came visitors 50 years ago as people go. ing to and from the Philadelphia Centannial stopped here tn see the . . National Capital. The Centennial &tar i its issue of Sep- 2 a2 temher 20, 1874, save of Visitors. ;0" “This centennial Summer has most L agroeably, and somewhat unexpected [T, hrought te us great numbers of | visitors to view enr ecity and public hutldings. It is deuhtless a manifes tation of love of country and it iz an encouraging sign of prosperity and zond feeling 1o find persons from avery State visiting the ¢‘apital of | their Nation he time was when | most of the public offices in Washing {ton were filled by clerks chiefly from the States adjacent to the Distriet of Columbin. The changed condition of the population and society in Wash ington has brought here to reside many persons of note from every State. =0 that visitors from the re motest parts of the Republic now find here friende and neighbors. \Vash ington is hecoming in fact. as it is in | theory, the national eity—a city in Which the whole country has and of Hght ought to have an’ interest and ride. This feeling is now. we believe. Manifesting ftself in the great in- fnx of visiters who come to spend & day or twe in Washington and in visiting Mount Vernon. Congress of late takes this gview. and is more liheral and natiohal in her treatment of the District and in the assistance he wives for developing and fmprov- ihg the Capital of the country. Every A\merican citizen should feel at home in Washington and every ene has & claim npon all officers and dignitaries who reside here. “\e see in these of national pride, patriotism and good Wi which are certain to exercise vast influence in pepularizing our city with the mass of the people and assist in its future development. Tt would have heen a considerate and thing for our cltizens or city a to have appointed a commit- me of visitors has to Cat to preciate her. looking animal Her.coat is striped gras after the fashion of general—it is her whale that makes her Sha ix twice as lang, thick Her log f and b tiger cate appeara nnisnal high and twice as as erage the new and long car two ce times size legs When first time, one Bear the he is likely te that something has got loose National Zoologi Uy from the second thought, that few creatures. if any, ever get away from ou Zoo, the onlooker realizes that he is looking at a speci- men of Felis domestica auite out of the ordinary Hear Cat takes care of herself very or pawly, perhaps—in ther cats, nd with doge she shows no f whateve We have on anuthe that Rear never heen licked by a dog Y managing to make them N a few deft swipes with that strong right foreleg, armed with great claws Mrs. Rear (‘at needs ne chaperan M n realizing s quite a fighter. She handfly— ps with of whom ser us this hig the time, Like a per haonse cat, lady stays at home most ¢ guarding the back porch She is to be seen almost any time, | hunkered up in a great hall of fur on the top step or fn a2 window These are favorite cat positions All aver town. cats sit on top steps and in windows The v sits evidences step gives Tandscape. fe tee to welcome the str from the States which every dayv pour in to Washington and ive them all needful Information of how to reach the Capitol and the different public bulldings. and how most con- Ventently to visit the various places of interest In and around Washing ton. It is not teo late to remedy, in | part. this omission. and we would | suggest that the officers in charge of the Capitol detail a number of persons, wearing appropriate hadges. to show visitors how to reach the different halls and places of interest in the building. Two or three females might. in propriety. be temporarily emploved to direct iadies in the Capi tol. which would add much to the comfort of such visitors “Maj. Richards. ton, could do much to relieve the anxfety and add to the | comfort of visitors if he weuld place officers at the rallroad station. wear ing an appropriate hadge that would at once point them out as parsons to give information. If he could spare the men. one could be emploved ad vantageously at the Smithsonian In- stitution. anether at the Patent Office and also one at the Treasury Depart ment. The various State organiza. tons having reoms in the city might extend to the visitors from the dif | ferent States invitations to call. and I hen large d-legnn'nhn‘l‘_fr'r'-'ra;v(m::r:‘ T i v [ enee teevisan: foc: tnamat twice as large as normal, sa p ticular hours of the day. | out was her f A wild eat conld | they might recefve letters look no more fearsome. The dog and information on various | showed gond sense when it paused | of interest to them. in its forward rush. Swish! The “"These hasty suggestions are thrown S\iped foreleg descended. but missed |out that others may think of them. ‘woof' Woof "ked the Alredale and, if approved, take such measures , Bear Cat cocked iis head to the a8 will ‘welcome and make as agree. | 16ft. in the guarding manner of it Able as possible the visita of all our | ribe. lifted its terrible right, and held | friends from every part of our great | it &1oft ready for another right hook By thid time, however, the dog country =4 b saw something down the alley that P TG G 5 | interested it more, or. at least, It so Mosquitoes can he discouraged from made out, accordingly it took itself | squeezing their wayv through sereens off without one glance behind. by rubbing the screen with oil of cedar | Bear Cat allowed her fur to sink or oil of lavender. to normal. She settled down com- | fortahly on the railing She was satisfied. She purred. . evor enemies Then, for esc FEven on constant no police may see friends f 1 all directinns. chances sy to w from too. re ample of need anim. n ilization guard. For them department protective agenci Life elemental. Every cat is pol force, {ts own army fense, it8 own column in retreat. On “the force of fts legs and the hite of its teeth depends its safety Through long centuries of racial ex- perience our cats have discovered that facing a dog Is by far the hest position. To turn tall on a dog is A last resource. to he used in desper ation only. Roldly fronting the foe is_hest. To face s dog. and at the same time he above it, gives opportunity for a | downward pass of the paw, securing a raking motion of the claws which has intimidated a million dogs in the past, and probably wiil take the fight tout of a millien more. Rear Cat Is mistress | tactics, Once she was pursued b an Airedals. an ideal dog for cat hunting.. He, tee, fights hv the slash- |ing mathnd. Rear Cat hotfooted it {to a porch rafling. and thera staod. back humped up. fafl like a hallron pe in cas live thare other i sl ite own of de- is which would specify i of all these matters Elephants used as beasts of burden in Tndfa and Siam must almost alwas he canght wild, as the captives rarely breed. = P A [ aking Up Time. e P From the Cleveland News. nd of fiy imported fram Europe | Man- accused ving: - to help fight the gypsy and brown:tail | second -time |h:-' M" \moths i3 found to attack 32 diffsrent him for speedt epecies of insecta. - - make up the time a the ~ 4 = S |